Jasper County Democrat, Volume 9, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 December 1906 — PEOPLE OF THE DAY [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

PEOPLE OF THE DAY

Disestablishment In France. M. Georges Clemenceau, premier of France, whose rigid enforcement of the separation law disestablishing the Roman Catholic church has aroused Catholics all over the world, was at one time a resident of the United States. During the last four years of the second French empire Clemenceau lived here, and iu the city hall. New

York, he married Miss Mary Plummer of Greenwich, Conn. The marriage was not happy, and after living apart several years Mme. Clemenceau secured a divorce. She returned to America and died here several years ago. Premier Clemenceau has had an extraordinary political career. For years he was called the Warwick of France. He fought for Dreyfus with tongue, pen and the dueling pistol. Clerueuceau has been a member of several cabinets and last October became premier. Newspapers Kind to Secretary Moody. The new supreme court Justice, William H. Moody, Is coming in for no end of chaffing, both here and at his home In Massachusetts, over the publication in two Philadelphia papers of some remarkable photographs. Mr. Moody was snapped by the photographers while at the army and navy game in Philadelphia. When the pictures appeared in the papers one was labeled “Attorney General and Mrs. Moody,” and the other was “Secretary of the Navy Moody and daughter.” Inasmuch ns the new justice is an eligible bachelor, the photographs aroused loud laughter. Mr. Moody says the trouble arose over the fact that he happened to be sitting between two chnrmlng ladles, and the newspapers presented them to him, one as a wife and the other as a daughter.—Boston Post Little, bat Ob, My! Allessandro Bond, the new tenor of the Manhattan Opera House, New York, is the smallest singer who has ever appeared before the public. With high heels and every other aid to increased stature be is barely five feet high. In spite of this drawback Signor Bond is one of the two most famous tenors in Europe. The other is Caruso, and the extent of the rivalry between them may be understood from the fact that Signor Bond, who had booked his passage on the same steamer with Signor Caruso, refused to sail when he learned that his compatriot was also to be a passenger. Signor Bond says that, “although the Americans have big ships, there never was yet built one big enough to bold me and Signor Caruso.”

The Bellamy Storer AOalr. Mrs. Bellamy Storer, wife of the former ambassador to Austria, whose recent controversy with President Roosevelt excited wide interest, has been conspicuous in Catholic circles for some years. The interest which Mr. and Mrs. Bellamy Storer have shown in the advancement of Archbishop Ireland is explained by the fact that the prelate converted both to his faith. Mrs. Storer was one of the leaders in the movement to establish the Cath-

olic cathedral in Cincinnati on the hilltops. Bhe offered Archbishop Elder her beautiful home for the church. The agitation following the offer was such that the archbishop decided to remain downtown. To the friendship of Archbishop Ireland and the Storers Is said to have been due the hearty support given to President McKinley by the prelate. Mgr. Ireland’s service for the Republican ticket In 1890 made President McKinley anxious to show hla gratitude. and the prelate Is said to have asked for preferment for Mr. Storer, which resulted In bis appointment as minister to Belgium.

M. GEOROGES CLEMENCEAU.

MBS. BELLAMY STORER.