The San Francisco call., 1906-06-21
IN THE EYE OF
THE PUBLIC.
-PITTSBURG DISPATCH.

The Empress Eugenie has just given
to the Swiss canton of Thurgau the cas-
tie of Arenenberg, where Napoleon III
passed several years of his youth
queen Hortense, on the fall of the first
empire, fled to Switzerland and in 1917
purchased the castle, which is delight
fully situated on the shore of Lake
constance In the castle are the EN-
press Josephines harp, Queen Hor-
tense's harpsicord and a camp bedstead
of Napoleon III.
j. r. Booth. the Canadian railway
magnate and lumber king, began life
as millhand. Now he possesses 5000
square miles of timber land and is the
largest owner in his own right of rail-
ways in British North America. As he
drives about Ottawa in an old fash
Toned buggy and simply dressed he
would be taken for comfortable farm
er rather than a prince of industry.
However, the close observer cannot fail
TO look second time at the, forceful,
self-reliant and energetic countenance
which looks out from under the soft
felt hat
Judge A. W. Benson of Ottawa, Kan,
appointed United States Senator to fill
the unexpired term caused by Burton's
resignation, was member OF the State
veloped into a leader while there. but
refused to serve again in that capacity
Later he was elected to the district,
bench, where he remained for twelve
years, retiring to practice law He has
been leading citizen of Ottawa for
thirty-six years and today is without
an enemy in the community. He is
believed to have a fine chance of elec-
ton to succeed himself.
Champ" Clark. the Missouri Con-
gressman, never writes his full name.
James Beauchamp Clark. unless on i'm
portant occasions. You never have the
newspapers saying Representative
Clark of Missouri when they want to
say something nice about me-" observed
the Missourian. They say Champ
Clark because it is easy" Mr.. Clark
adopted this name because at one time,
when living in Lexington. KY, seme
letters sent to him by a girl acquaint-
ance were delivered to another James
b. Clark Now. as he declares. he
wouldn't trade with William Hohen-
zollern. Edward Victim, even with
Franz Josef Hapsburg Lorraine"
Senator Pettus, the ancient Alabama
statesman, makes it his business to
learn something new every day if pos
sible, though sometimes he refuses to
avail himself of the knowledge thus
obtained The other day he and a much
younger colleague were waiting for an
elevator, which was rather slow in
making its appearance. You know"
said the impatient young man. you
ought to ring three times. That is our
signal, on hearing which the elevator
man comes at once" "Oh, that's a
Senator's ring. is it?" said Mr.. Pettus
Looks to me like waste of energy
when one ring will bring the man with
out much of a wait. Besides, I'm never
impatient
1t is not often that an American poll
tleian gets sick of seeing his name in
print. Yet Senator Albert j. Beveridge
of Indiana got more clippings a few
days ago with his name in them than
he cared to see. This is the way it
happened. Beveridge has his share OF
vanity and the day he introduced his
meat inspection bill he telegraphed an
order to one of the New York press
clipping bureaus to send to him all
clippings on the Beveridge meat bill.
Every paper in the country printed
something about the packers and the
Beverdge bill The first day following
his order Beveridge received several
thousand clippings and an enormous
bill. The next day the clippings and
the bill were trebled The third dav
brought Senator Beveridge's finish and
gasping over the amount of his indebt-
edness to the man with the shears he
telegraphed as follows: Cancel my or
der; have had enough"