Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 January 1901 — IN THE PUBLIC EYE [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

IN THE PUBLIC EYE

Sir Ernest Mason Satow, the new British minister to China, began his career in the diplomatic service in 1865 as inter-

preter of Japanese at the Japanese mission. Three years later he was made Japanese secretary, and in 1876 he was promoted to la- second secretary of legation. From Japan he wept to Bangkok as British agent, and was knighted about that time. After a few years of service in the British mission

at Montevideo, Sir Ernest was appointed minister to Morocco, and in 1885 he returned to Japan as plenipotentiary. The new emissary to China is one of the finest living Japanese scholars. He is a master of the literature of that country and is thoroughly familiar with Japanese social institutions.

John A. Johnson, a manufacturer of Madison, Wis., has offered $40,000 to the Board of Supervisors of Dane Connty, Wis.. for the purpose of- erecting and maintaining a homo for aged people. In addition to the regular method of entering the home, by the payment of not less 1 than S2OO, Mr. Johnson has conceived the idea of issuing admission policies similar to insurance policies, which may be taken out by people in-youth or middle age, to provide for their support and comfort in old ago, or which may be taken out by any one for the support of a friend.

It is not generally known, perhaps, that Senator Pettigrew of South Dakota has a son who has been fighting with the Boers. He arrived in Savannah a few days ago' and at once went to Washington. He is a lad of 20 yea rs of age, who joined some 400 volunteers for service in the Transvaal. They were driven into the Portuguese territory ami there disarmed, and the Dutch government paid their passage home. Nellie Grant's daughter is soon to become a bride. For some time past .♦(ttyfWWV, Mrs. Sartoris has been residing in Washing ton, where as Nellie * jPtf Grant she was exceedingly popular .W 1 during her fath- -• er’s two terms as President 'of the United States, g*. Miss Sartoris - made her debut in ‘ Washington socie- *- W—ty four years ago. Ulss BAnTORIB . She is highly accomplished. a linguist and a brilliant converagtipnalist. Her fiance is Timothy Nichols, a wealthy young resident of New York. The ex-Empress Eugenie is now almost too infirm to go about at all. She has endowed and entirely supports the Benedictine monastery at Farnborough, Surrey, and there two monks are always praying for the souls of the Emperor and the Prince Imperial. Should a bill pass Congress for a cabInet officer to la* known as Secretary of Commerce and Industries, it is thought that Senator Nelson of Minnesota will be first man to hold the office. He is author of a bill favoring the creation of such a position.

Mr. Stout of the Wisconsin Senate is giving to bis town—-Menominee —a *60,000 public club house, gymnasium, natatorium, bowling alley, etc., all under one roof. Among the candidates for the presidency of the D. A. 11. is Mrs. Charles W. Fairbanks, wife of the Senator from I’u-

mrs. Fairbanks.

diana. In her own city, Indianapolis, Mrs. Fairbanks is accounted an allaround club woman. As the vicepresident general of the Daughters of the American Revolution in Indiana she is conspicuous among the patriotic women of

the country. When in Washington with her husband she affiliated with the women's clubs in the national capital. In appearance Mrs. Fairbanks is unusually prepoMMsing, having that undefinable stamp of a gracious and refined woman.

Chief Porter, who rules the Creek Indians of Indian Territory, is a rich man and welCvdiicated. He is a full-blooded Creek, but few would guess him to be an Indian to see him on the streets. Hoke Smith of Atlanta, Gn., has given traveling libraries to fourteen counties in Georgia. The books an- intended for the school children, aud are to make the circuit of the schools. Itichnrd T. Ely, professor of political economy in the University of Wisconsin, is reported to have refused the offer of tho corresponding chair in the University of California. Mrs. Annie Hay of Oakland, Cal., who lately filed suit for divorce, appeared as her own attorney and prepared the necessary papers herself without the assistance of a lawyer. The Baroness von Ketteler has been invited by Emperor William to become mistress of the robes in the official household, at a salary of *6.000 a year. She is the granddaughter of Lewis Cass. The late Arthur Sewall's sons have presented the city of Bath, Me., with *15,000 for a memorial of their father. Sarah Bernhardt must have her pay of *I.UOO after eadh performance and will accept no checks.

SIR SATOW.