Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 101, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 September 1901 — IN THE PUBLIC EYE [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

IN THE PUBLIC EYE

Captain Frias Rhodes,- who command* the yacht Constitution, the new cup defender, comes from a long line of sailing

masters. He is a tpa of that famous south shore of Long Island which ha» been the cradle of most of the captains of the cup defenders. His father, a white bid veteran -of 73, was a famous sailor man in his day and he gave the present captain his first les-

sons in sailing a racing boat. Since he was 12 years old ’Rias Rhodes has practically lived on the water. He’first commanded an oyster schooner. That was when he was but 16 years old. Later he wns the skipper of an excursion yacht/ in which capacity his skill attracted fche attention of a member of the New York Yacht Club, who gave Captain Rhodes his first command of a racing boat. He piloted the famous Lasca to many victories and took it to Europe in 1894, making the trip across the Atlantic in fifteen and one-half days. Captain Rhodes is 49 years old, in the prime of his strength and skill. Willie English of Jamaica Plain, Mass., has long been famous as the possessor of the finest crop of freckles in the State.

His entire face \fras covered with brown blotches as thickly I as is the hide of a leopard. recently his freckles have been the least of his troubles. The other boys called him “Spotty” because of them, but otherwise he did not consider them

worth a second thought. The other day, however, a complexion doctor who has just discovered a “sure cure for freckles” happened to run across Willie and looked upon his freckled face with envy. He started by offering Willie SJO a week to submit one-half of his face to the freckle cure and to serve meanwhile as a living advertisement of the efficacy of the remedy. It is said that this offer was multiplied by five before Willie finally consented to serve. Since that time he has sat ten hours a day ia the window of a Boston department store with one side of his face freckled and the /other half blooming with the unmarked roses of youth. By the time his contract expires his freckles will have earned him several hundred dollars. One year and six months ago Harry Cochran was a 14-year-old boy living on a farm near St. Louis. When his father

was good-natured Harry sometimes got hold of a hardearned quarter and on other occasions he earned a little change in one of the ways open to small boys. Now Harry Cochran, who has yet to celebrate his sixteenth birthday, has a guaranteed salary

of $15,000 a year, with the further certainty of enrning enough in addition to make his total annual income $25,000. Of course young Cochran is a jockey. He has been riding horses less than a year and a half, and has made a record which far eclipses any made in their youth by the famous “Tod” Sloan or the Keiff brothers. His greatest hit was made on the Lakeside track in Chieago, where he rode fourteen winners, eleven second horses and thirteen thirds in exactly ten days. As a result of the criticism which has followed the concentrating of the families of the Boers in so-called concentration

camps, the British government has appointed a committee ot ladies which is to go out to South Africa and •make a personal investigation. At the head of this committee is Mrs. Henry Fawcett, one of the most interesting of living Englisli-

women. She is the widow of the blind Postmaster General of England, and until his death was his constant companion and his greatest aid in political and other work. In politics Mrs. Fawcett Is a Liberal, and she has been long one of the foremost English advocates of the higher education of women. Charles E. Pickett, the newly elected Grand Exalted Ruler of the Order of

Elks, is a native of lowa. He is only 86 years of age and a lawyer by profession. He has been prominent in fraternal orders for years, both as a Pythian and 'an Elk. As a Republican he has been prominent, aud his friends declare that he may yet become the successor of Speaker David B.

Henderson from thd Third lowa District. Lind Reynolds and wife, of Linn, Mo., accused of killing an orphan child aged about 4 years, which they procured from the Christian orphans’ home in St. l*oui* and adopted .as their own, were Indicted by the grand jury for murder in the second degree and put under a bond of $2,500 each. Rosa Lee Johnson, aged 10, arrested for theft, jumped from the second story of the courthouse at Houston, Texas, and unstained fatal injuries. She was crazed by a fear of being sent to the penitentiarf.

CAPTAIN RHODES.

WILLIE ENGLIBH.

HARRY COCHRAN

MRS. FAWCETT.

C. E. PICKETT.