Jasper County Democrat, Volume 9, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 August 1906 — PEOPLE OF THE DAY [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

PEOPLE OF THE DAY

The Life Innnrance Fight. Richard Olney, chairman of the committee of eminent men representing the Policy Holders’ association, has for years been a prominent figure in National affairs. The association is preparing to overthrow the present managements of the Mutual and New Y6rk Life Insurance companies by electing trustees who will act in the Interests of the policy holders alone. In the call recently issued by the committee all policy holders are ihvited to nominate men for the trust and to

contribute money for the campaign. The balloting for the election will begin Oct. 18 and last until Dec. 18, and every policy holder will have one vote regardless of the size of his policy. The policy holders’ nominees ,will not be announced until September, after all the suggested names have been considered. Mr. Olney is a native of Massachusetts. a lawyer by profession and a Democrat in politics. He was a member of President Cleveland’s cabinet during the latter’s entire second term in the White House, serving first as attorney general and later as secretary of state. Beveridge’s Cigar. Seuator Money’s physician advised him to give up smoking a few days ago, putting him in the same class with Senator Bacon, also smokeless after twenty years of it. Senator Money’s physician happened up at the capitol one morning and went into the Misslssippian’s committee room to pass the time of day. As he entered he observed the senator tipped back In his chair with his feet on the desk and a huge cigar in his mouth. “Here, senator,” he said, “I thought I told you to quit that.” “Quit what?” asked Mr. Money in mild surprise. “Why, quit using tobacco.” “Tobacco! Why, my dear doctor, I am not using tobacco. I am merely smoking a cigar Senator Beveridge gave me.”—American Spectator. Kllen Terry’s Wit. Ellen Terry stories are going the rounds apropos of her recent jubilee. The fair Ellen has a ready wit. At a party recently a young officer remarkable for his extraordinary height was one of the guests, and Miss Terry, being struck by his appearance, learned upon inquiry that, though now in the army, he had been originally intended for the church. “For the church!” exclaimed Miss Terry. “Rather for the steeple!”—New York Globe. Vindication ot Dreyfne. The recent decision of thp supreme court of France annulling the condemnation of Captain Alfred Dreyfus acted as a complete vindication of the accused officer and restored him to the army. The chamber of deputies made him a major. Major Alfred Dreyfus of the French artillery, a member of a wealthy Hebrew family of Alsace, where he was born in 1859, was on Oct. 4, 1894, arrested on the charge of communicating

French military secrets to a foreign power. Two months later Dreyfus was tried by court martial and found guilty, and Jan. 5, 1805, he was publicly degraded and deported to Devil's island, near Cayenne, French Guiana. On June 3, 1899, a fresh court martial of Dreyfus was ordered, and the prisoner was brought back from Devil’s inland to be retried, and after a long and sensational trial Dreyfus was again convicted and sentenced to ten years’ imprisonment in a fortress. Later he obtained a full pardon and was set at liberty. The friends of this unfortunate captain were not contented. They kept hard at work hunting, for fresh evidence in his behalf add finally got the case before the supreme court.

RICHARD OLNEY.

ALFRED DREYFUS.