Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 21, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 March 1900 — IN THE PUBLIC EYE [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

IN THE PUBLIC EYE

Among eminent men to aid the British in South Africa is Dr. A. Conan who is the latest noted acquisition to the

service. He be- ~ heves it is a crisis where every Englishman is expected to do his duty and says he cannot sit by while there is so much to do at the scene of the struggle. He is a noncombatant and will organize a surgical

corps to maintain a field hospital wfrh accommodations for 100 soldiers. Dr. Doyle’s praiseworthy act is evoking much encomium from the English press and people. His title to fame rests upon authorship and the writing of plays, but this act advances him more in the estimation of his countrymen than anything he has yet done to win their approval. On a farm near Fairfield, lowa, live Mr. and Mrs. Reuben Hunter, who have just completed the seventy-first: "anniver-

sary of their wedding. Both Mr. and Mrs. Hunter are still in good health. Mr. Hunter, who is 91 years old, still shaves himself with a steady hand and takes long walks daily. His wife, who is'a I year younger, is not yet'

willing to leave to her youngest daughter, &2

years old, the care of all the household arrangements. Mr. Hunter marriedTMiss Sarah Reed in 1829, and in 1853 removed from Ohio to lowa, where they have? since lived. Twelve children, were born to them. Six of the children are still living, the oldest being now 69. years Of age.

William Alden Smith, the Michigan Congressman, admits that he once .’stole a ride on a train of the railroad of which

he is now general attorney. He went to work as a page in the Michigan Legislature after that» memorable ride. To-day t hq is but 40 years df age and is serving his third term in’ Congress. He was born of American parentage in .'Dow-

agiac, Mich., May 12, 1859. lie has crowded into his busy life the eXpeflences of the newsboy, the messenger boy, the page, the reporter, the lawypi;; the'politician, and that of the newspaper owner:

An American woman who married Count Canavarro of Portugal and deserted him and her daughter to embrace

Buddhism in Semtdmber, 1897, and has since lived in a convent at Ceylon. Recent cable dispatches state she has now deserted her chosen faith and is now destitute, and has written friends in San Francisco for aid. It is claimed by her husband ' that she was hypnotized by

Dharmapala, the Buddhist priest, and while under this influence was prevailed upon to desert her family

Mrs. Josephine C. Woodbury was adjudged guilty of contempt of court by Judge Bradley in the Superior Court at

Boston, in connection with the case brought by her against Mrs. Mary Baker G. Eddy, head of the Christian Church, for alleged criminal libel. Mrs. Woodbury was fined SSO and paid it. The alleged contempt consisted in making public the substance of her • . « ff.N 1 .1

declaration in the suit against Mrs. Eddy and in submitting to interviews on the suit.

James F. Carey, a member Massachusetts Legislature, has published a bill that would do much to eliminate lob-

byists. It provides that all agents of corporations be forbidden the use of the rooms commonly used by members of the Legislature. No agent will be permitted to enter the premises of the State House who does not wear a budge furnished by

the sergeant-at-arms and worn conspicu ously, on which the words "Legislative Agent,” or "Legislative Counsel,” are printed in large letters.

Mrs. Martha Johnson Patterson, a for-

nier mistress of the White House, the only surviving daughter of President Andrew Johnson, is dying at her home in Greenville, Tenn. When Johnson was I’resident i his wife was an invalid and at all social functions Mrs. Patterson presided, sometimes assisted

by her sister, Mrs. Stover. Mrs. Patterson is 78 years old. By a strange coincidence this is “mouse” or "rat” year, according to the Oriental zodiac, 'had ruts, ns a cause of the spread of the bubonic plague in Japan, are at the same time being killed by the hundreds. A gbod price has been “set on their heads.” The plague is raging chiefly in Osaka, whore it got a good start in the factories; but Tokio, Yokohama and other places are adopting strict precautionary measures. Pennsylvania railroad practically agrees to elevate its tracks in Chicago. Th* cost will be close to SU,UUU,UWU.

CONAN DOYLE.

MR. AND MRS. HUNTER.

WM. A SMITH.

COUNTESS CANAVARRO.

MRS. WOODBURY.

JAS. F. CAREY.

MRS. PATTERSON.