Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 97, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 August 1899 — IN THE PUBLIC EYE [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

IN THE PUBLIC EYE

In view of the present strained relations between Canada and the United; States ever the question -of the Alaskan! boundary, the accompanying photograph' is interesting. It was taken at the ex-! treme summit of the White Pass, at the; point where the boundary line between

the possessions of Canada and the United States is at present fixed. On either! side the line is erected a tall staff. From one floats the Stars and Stripes and from the other the Union Jack. The men grouped around the flags are officers of the famous Canadian Northwest mounted police. Congregational Church circles are considerably stirred up in the West over the alleged heretical writings of Rev. Dr. G.

H. Gilbert of the Chicago Theological Seminary faculty. Dr. Gilbeit is esteemed most highly as an earnest, scholarly and highminded Christian gentleman. He occupies a chair at . the seminary and ; draws a salary from th? church as a professor of New Testament Greek. Dr. Gilbert sets aside the authority

of the Old Testament, and claims that its writers were imperfect men, incapable of reflecting the divine mind. He claims that we have, by our acceptance of their writings, reflected their views, and that, as a consequence, we now have a religion of rejection. Boston has a new crusade and a new crusader in Miss Lillian Jewett, who is 24, rather above the medium height and

of very magnetically attractive ways. She is fighting against Judge Lynch. She has been referred to in Boston as the new Harriet Beecher Stowe, sent by heaven in answer to the prayers of the colored race. The colored people of Boston simply

adore her. They think she Is the first person who has taken up the cause who is gifted with the divine inspiration. The Rev. Mr. Ferris of the church in which a mass meeting was held, in introducing Miss Jewett, said that when God had some great work to perform he touched the heart of a woman. One year ago Mrs. Bloodgood, a noted contralto add stage beauty, the wife of W. D. Bloodgood, an aristocratic broker

of New York, startled society by appearing at a children’s fair in St. Louis and with an avowed charitable intention, Belling her kisses to the highest bidder. The 'prices ranged from •SIOO to SSOO. Her 'husband remonstrated with his wife and the numerous quarrels that resulted culminated

in a suit for divorce In the New York courts. Mr. Bloodgood was, however, unsuccessful in his suit, the complaint that his wife sold kisßes in public being deemed too trivial. But the South Dakota judges have taken a different view of the matter.

Captain Greene is the army officer whohas acted as press censor under Gen. Otis. It has been his duty to read the

reports of newspaper correspondents and to see that nothing was forwarded which might hamper military operations in Luzon. He has charge of the signal division, and is the controller of the Manila cable to Hong Kong. It is said he has made

more marks with a bine pencil daring the last few months than the dty editor of a big newspaper would make in as many years. ft

ON THE BOUNDARY LINE.

REV. DR. GILBERT.

MISS JEWETT.

MRS. BLOODGOOD.

CAPT. GREENE.