Jasper County Democrat, Volume 7, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 March 1905 — PEOPLE OF THE DAY [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

PEOPLE OF THE DAY

General Grant'* OnaMnchter. Mlsa Rosemary Sartoria, whose engagement to J. M. Nelson, a prominent young broker of St. Louis, was recently reported, is the youngest daughter of Mrs. Nellie Grant Sartoris and granddaughter of General Grant. This is the third time that rumor has announced her to wed under romantic circumstances. Four years ago, only a short time after her coming out in Washington, fashionable society of that city was interested by Miss Sartoris’ reported engagement to Jack Hibbert, a handsome young Englishman whom slie met on the shores of the Mediterranean. Miss Sartoris at last formally denied the truth of the report. Shortly thereafter it was rumored that she would wed Lieutenant John

Wright, U. S. A., the son of the late General Marcus Wright, who had fought her grandfather in many a bitter battle during the civil war. This engagement, too, was promptly denied. Miss Sartoris is a beautiful girl, an accomplished musician and a talented linguist. Her debut in Washington five years ago was one of the most brilliant of the season’s functions. Young Nelson is related to Lewis C. Nelson, who is a brother-in-law of former Governor Lon V. Stevens of Missouri. Bonrke C'oekran'a Yarn. While Bourke Cockrau has few equals and hardly a superior in this country as an extemporaneous speaker, a great majority of his apparently impromptu utterances have been carefully prepared and memorized for days in advance of their delivery. “In dictating one of my recent speeches, subsequently delivered iu Tammany hall,” Mr. Cockrau confided to a friend the other day, “there was a sort of climax in which occurred the words. ‘This argument furnishes every kind of fuel that eloquence needs.’ "But on sending to my stenographer for a transcript of the speech imagine my emotions on seeing my climax transcribed. ‘This argument furnishes every kind of food that elephants need,’ meaning the G. O. P., I suppose.”— New Y ork Times. The Ruler of Saxony. Frederick Augustus, king of Saxony, is having considerable difficulty in getting possession of the youngest child of bis divorced wife, the former crown princess. The princess, now called Countess Montiguose, lives in Italy and refuses to surrender her daughter. Princess Anna Monica Pia. Princess Anna Monica Pia. who is twenty-one mouths old. was born after the crown princess eloped with Giron. But the laws of Saxony, considering all

the circumstances, compel King Frederick Augustus to recognize the little princess as his daughter. Lately the king sent Dr. Koerner. a Dresden lawyer, to demand the princess from her mother on the pretext that the ex-princess is unworthy to have the care of an innocent child. The king threatened to stop the ex-princess’ allowance unless she complied, hut without avail, and it is said he will take action iu the Italian courts. Frederick Augustus, who succeeded to the throne last year, was born in 1865. Some years ago he was. married to Princess Louise of Tuscany, but their domestic career was unfortunate, and about two years ago the princess eloped with Andre Giron, the tutor of her children. Subsequently she war, divorced by the king. Friends of the cx-prlneess maintain that her husband's harsh treatment was responsible for the scandal.

ROSEMARY SARTORIS.

FREDERICK AUGUSTUS.