Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 65, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 November 1909 — PEOPLE OF THE DAY [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

PEOPLE OF THE DAY

- Noted Mountain Climber. With the ad vent 1 * of spring it is believed the moot question as to whether Dr. <3oo k reached the crest of Mount McKinley will be definitely settled. Herscbel C. Purker, professor of physics at Columbia university and a noted mountain climber, has signified his intention of leading an expedition to this much discussed peak. Professor Parker attempted the feat before and was with Dr. Cook shortly before that explorer made the successful ascent, as be claims. * Professor Parker tuts bad vide experience in mountain climbing and has

scaled Mounts Goodsir, Hungabee, Deltaform aud Biddle, ail situated in British Columbia. /These mountain peaks bad defied tbe efforts of notable climbers of the world until conquered by Professor Porker. The professor will be accompanied by Bel more Browne, a member of tbe second Cook expedition, and a Msrps of experienced mountaineers. W Professor Parker is « native Nev Yorker and is forty-one years old. He was -graduated from the Columbia School of Mines in 1890 and has since been an instructor at the -university. A couple of years ago he ipade g stir in the scientific world by tbe invention of a new incandescent light.

Dr. Glynn Not Rsoi||rooal. Turn about is fair play, as was discovered not long ago by Dr. Carr Glynn, the bishop of Peterborough. He is an enthusiastic motorist as well as an eatbusiastic prohibitionist. One day he was out in his car, and the chauffeur ran out of gasoline. They went to a pnblic bouse for some more, apd the owner came out. Seeing the episcopal dress of the bishop, he said, “Yes, I have got plenty of gasoline, but I don’t sell It to the likes of them tfiat never buys my beer.”—London Times.

, L«dy <4Bok, Suffragette. Lady Frances Cook, who recently came to America to aid her sisters on this side of the water in their fight for woman suffrage, had an interesting experience the other day. £ndy Cook, who before her marriage was Miss Tennessee Claflln. visited the Ludlow street jail, in New York city, and took a look at the cells in which thirty-seven years pgo Lady Cook and her sister, who were then two militant young American suffragettes, were confined. In cell 3. on the ground floor -of the jail, the party fomffl the following inscription, which time had almost effaced, scratched on the stone wail: “Tennessee Clafiin and Victoria Claflin Woodhull. We will not come here again.*- 2 - The two sisters were detained there in 1872. “My sister and I In 1872 were publishing a suffrage magazine of our own

here in New York, which we called Woodhull & Claflin's Magazine.” said Lady Cook. “We dldnVUy anything In It which would now be considered very harmful. But on Nov. 2. 1872, we were arrested on a charge of publishing ‘obscenity’ and were locked up in the jail for two months. “Next year we advertised that we would speak on ‘Women’s Rights’ at Cooper Union. The authorities for* bade us and threw a cordon of police around the building. We got through the line and Into the bnilding dressed as s Quakeress and a flower girl, but we were discovered and lodged up in the jail again. We wece locked up In 1874 for a third time. “Then my sister and I touretKEngland. speaking on suffrage. During our tour we met ttyo men who sympathised with onr viewpoint. One of these became my husband. The other was John B. DnlT Martin, and my sister became his xile "

HERSCHEL C. PARKER.

LADY FRANCES COOK.