Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 September 1903 — IN THE PUBLIC EYE [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

IN THE PUBLIC EYE

We have had a crown prince here and the brother of an Emperor, but we have never experienced the ineffable ecstasy

of having a real Sultan “in our midst.” However, we are not long to be without that pleasure, for the Sultan of Johore has announced that he will visit us in 1904 for the primary purpose of making a tour of the United States and incidentally “taking in” the St.

Louis world’s fair. The Sultan is the ruler of the remnants of the old Malay empire. He is. in fact, the only independent ruler in the Malay peninsula. He has been the Sultan for about five years. One of the results of recent events in Wall street is that the Bock Island system has in two years become the see-

ond road, as regards mileage, in the United States. It has nearly 18,500 miles of track. This result was due to the purchase of the Seaboard Air Line system by the St. Louis and San Francisco Railroad, which belongs to the Rock I&land system. In connection with the Seaboard and Terre

Haute deals, Wall street has found time to wonder at the methods of President B. F. Yoakum of the ‘Frisco Railroad, when it is a question of buying railroads. Within two years the silent and self-con-tained man who directs the ’Frisco affairs has bought four railroads, and in' every case has begun and cloced the transaction within twenty-four hours.

Gen. Luke E. Wright, whom the President has appointed governor of the Philippines, to take office when Gov.

Taft becomes Secretary of War in January next, is now vice governor of the islands and a member of the Philipp i n.e commission Gen. Wright is 54 years of age, a *mitlve of Tennessee. He fought throughout the Civil War as a private in the Confederate army and ha* been a

Democrat all his life. He was educated at the University of Mississippi and is a lawyer of national reputation. In 1868 he married a daughter of the Confederate admiral, Raphael Semmes. He was made a member of the first Philippine commission and two years ago became vice governor.

Mrs. Russell Sage, who has written in protest of the growing tendency of American young women to marry for-

eign titles on the ground that it is humiliating to American pride, has devoted most of her life to philanthropic and charitable work and has spent more of the famous financier’s money with her right hand than she would care to have her left hand know about. She is especially interested

in self-supporting women, and has done much in New York to make their lives pleasanter. Mrs. Sage lk" the guardian of her husband’s health and dictates how he shall live. She has been married to Russell Sage for thirty-five years.

Arthur M. Beaupre, who has roused the ire of the Colombian government and

the anxiety of the Ui ment by his remarkable course «rt Bogota, was ap pointed minister to Colombia early in the present year. Minister Beaupre waa born and bred near Aurora. Snioe he waa 21 years old —be is now juat 50 —he has almost continuously held office. President McKinley in 1897 appointed

him first secretary of legation at Guatemala, and he was subsequently made consul general at Bogota.

Rev. W. B. Leach, the Methodist minister of Wicker Park, Chicago, who preached a sermon attacking women’s

clubs, has lived on the South Side for many years and has led in the movement to eloee the saloons in Hyde Park. He formerly lived in the Nineteenth Ward, and said that ward “was nearer heaven than any other part of Chicago.” He has been active in the Civic Federation, the temperance

leagues and law and order movements.

SULTAN OF JOHORE

B. F. YOAKUM.

GEN. WRIGHT.

MRS. SAGE.

ARTHUR BEAUPRE.

REV W. B LEACH.