Jasper County Democrat, Volume 8, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 April 1905 — PEOPLE OF THE DAY [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

PEOPLE OF THE DAY

The Sew Raaalaa Commuter. General Llnevltch, who is now chief In command of the Russian land and sea forces In the far east, has already passed his sixty-fifth birthday. He Is therefore half #,• decade beyond Dr. Osier’s dead line. He has seen extended service, having been In the army since he was twenty-one. He took an active part In the Russo-Turklsh war of 1877-78 and sfnce then has served In all of Russia’s Asiatie campaigns. General Llnevltch waa also prominent In the relief of the legations at

Peking, succeeding Admiral Alexeieff In command of the Russian troops in August, 1900, aud was congratulated by Emperor Nicholas for his services. For a time in 1904 General Llnevltch was governor general of the Amur territory, but later assumed command of the Russian forces at Vladivostok under Alexeieff and is understood to have placed that fortress in a state to resist a siege. During the Manchurian campaign he has been In charge of divisions in the field, and is said to be one of the few Russian commanders who possess Hie absolute confidence of his troops. Measured by the usual army retiring age standards, General Llnevltch is well along in years to conduct such an active campaign as the Russians would have to wage In the far east to stem Hie tide of Japanese advance. Still, there have been other commanders who have made military reputations after they passed the threescore mark. General Llnevltch, like the earlier Russian commanders, will probably find that campaigning against the Japs shatters rather than bnllds up military reputations.

AadMi Vermont Custom. Senator Bailey recalled a little ancient history of Vermont the other day that moved Senator Proctor to a correction. “When the lawfully constituted authorities of New York state sought to enforce the Judgment of her courts in what now constitutes Vermont,’’ said Mr. Bailey, “they used to meet these officers of the law, bounden to be free, and lay the laahes on their bare backs. They used to call that administering the ‘beech tree seal’ to titles In the state of Vermont” “I wish to set the senator right” interposed Mr. Proctor. “It was called administering a ‘beech es>—they left oat the word ‘tree’—with the twigs of the wilderness.” *T am surprised,” retorted Mr. Bailey, “that Vermont left out anything that was to be added on that or any other occasion.’*—Washington Poet middles. What is better than presence of mind in a railway accident? Absence of body. Why is a good soldier like a fashionable young lady? Because one faces the powder and the other powders the face. ▲ gardener, seeing four blrls destroying his fruit fired a gun at them and killed one. How many remained? None. The others flew away. VmiUi piars. To wean pigs before they hgve been taught to eat will give them a cheek for at least two weeks. j t An arm-load of old papers for n nickel at The Democrat office.

GENERAL LINEVITCH.