Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 August 1901 — IN THE PUBLIC EYE [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

IN THE PUBLIC EYE

George Kennan. who lias been ordered out of Russia by the Czar's police, is the greatest living American student of the

empire of Rntaia. He was boftt in Norwalk, Ohio, in 184 and began iif« as a telegraph operator. He was in northwestern Siberia in 1895 and 1890 as a superintendent of t onslrti - tion of telegraph, and in 1870 ,'i» llsited Russia to explore the mountains of the Eastern Caucasus. Mr. Kennan made extensive explorations on horse-

hack in Daghestan and Cheehnia, crossing the great range of the Caucasus threetimes in different places, and returned to America in 1871. In 1885 and 1880 he made a journey of 15,000 miles through northern Russia and Siberia sos- the purpose of investigating tho Russian exile system. He was admitted to all the con vict prisons and mines, and exploded the wildest part of' the Russian Atnl. He wrote and lectured extensively of his experiences.

William M. Beardshear, who was elected president of the National Educational Association, has been connected

with . educational movements in lowa for more than twenty years. He was born at Dayton, Ohio, iu 1850. He was a farmer's son and got little education until after the war. He was a big boy when he was 14 years old. He had climbed up to five feet eight inches, was

of big frame, and so persuaded the military authorities that he was so much older that they enlisted him and he joined the army of the Cumberland aa a private in 1804. He served until the end of the war. Then he started in to get some schooling. lie worked hard and got two years at Y’ale University. His progress was so rapid that at the age of 29 he was made president of Western College at Toledo, lowa, and was the youngest college president in the country. He was. appointed superintendent of public schools of Des Moines in 1888, but two years later he was elected presid-nt of the college at Ames. His school work has been wholly of a supervisory nature. He stands 0 feet 3 inches in his stockings.

Perry S. Heath, one of the directors of the Seventh National Bank of New York, which was closed by Comptroller of the

Currency Dawes, was formerly first assaant pootmaater general, and one of the many newspaper men who have graduated into business life through political odices. Mr. Heath was some years ago the general

manager of the Cincinnati Commercial Gazette, and afterward went to Washington as a correspondent, where his brilliant work made hint interesting to the various statesmen with whom he came into contact. He served ns first assistant postmaster general during the first administration of President McKinley. He has been a dost* student of hanking systems, and has long been considered an authority in that line.

An addition to the Allied Women's

Club of the University of California, established by Mrs. P. A. Hearst, is tha department of parliamentary law, which will begin its first courite next term, with Mrs. Urquhart Lee of Chicago in the chair. Mrs. Lee is one of the most distinguished parliamentary ten hers in this country, aud has given courses of lectures upon the subject in nearly every city iu the United .States,

John A. Hiusey was at the head of the Endowment Runk. Iv. of P„ until the recent financial troubles entne. For

twelve years, until last January, he was president of the hoard of control of the Endowment Rank of the order, with practically unlimited control of Investments. Mr. Hinsey is 05 years old, and so deaf that, lie cunuot hear anything thut is not shouted into

his ear. He got some practical training in Wisconsin politic* bctl>s he went to Chicago. In Milwaukee, where he lived until the offices of his railroad were moved to Chicago, he was known as “Bos*” Hinscy. Abdul Hamid 11. has beaten the British average of decorations for service in Houth Africa. There was f fir,. In the hnrem nt Yildis kiosk recently that was put out quickly. The Kultan has already liestowed <IOO medals for life saving on that occasion. William Dorsey Jeuks, the new Governor of Alabama, is u luwyer by profession and has made a for: 11110 by his practice. Improvements to coat $75,01K) will soon be made in the St. Joseph, Mo., custom house.

G.P.O. KENNAN.

W. M. BEARDSHEAR

PERRY S. HEATH.

MRS. UNQUHART LEE.

J. A. HINSEY.