Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 37, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 February 1905 — IN THE PUBLIC EYE [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

IN THE PUBLIC EYE

Because lie is chairman of the Committee on Interstate Commerce Congressman William P. Hepburn will be

a conspicuous figure in the House of Representatives if the rebate question is threshed out thoroughly. Hepburn has been publicly described by Democrats as “the big gun of the majority,” and as “the Long Tom of the Republican side.” The most profound

respect is paid to his ability by Republicans and Democrats alike. He is an old man who does not look old, with a clear eye and a ruddy cheek and hair rather gray than white. He is bigbodied and strong of frame. He has a homely wit, much like that of “Uncle Joe.” He is a sledge-hammer of dedebate, but liis talents do not stop there. He is a giant in committee work, iu party councils, in all the subterranean fields of action which make up the real work of the House, as distinguished from the obvious surface of debate. Judge Thomas.J. Ilumos, former Alayor of Seattle, who dropped dead recently, was a Mark Twain double. He was something of a humorist, too. 11. M. Felt has been elected president of the New Hampshire Medical Society, recently organized. Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, who read the decision of the Supreme Court in the beef trust case, has been a

member of that tribunal since Dec. 4, 1902. Previously he had been Chief Justice of the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts. Justice Holmes is a son of the celebrated poet and essayist, Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes. He was

horn in Boston in 1841, was graduated from Harvard in 1801, and from the Harvard Law School in 1800, serving meanwhile in the civil war, and being wounded.at Ball's Bluff, Antietam and Fredericksburg. After the war closed Justice Holmes engaged in the practice of law at Boston, and for a time was editor of the American Law Review and also professor in the Harvard Law School. The Rev. T. C. Edwards of Kingston, Pa., is considered one of the greatest of Welsh poets. He is known ns their cynoufardd, or poet laureate. Murat Halstead, veteran editor of Cincinnati. has assumed editorial control of a monthly magazine. Minister Yerrnoloff, who is said to have extorted from the Czar a constitution somewhat similar to the Magna

Clta rt a wrested from King John by the English barons at Runnymede June 15, 1215, has been known for a long time to possess liberal tendencies and a qualified repugnance to bureaucratic rule. This arises in part front the fact that he is Minister of Agri-

culture and State Domains, which position brought him into touch with e.iystmg conditions, more especially as they affected the peasantry’. He also is an actual privy councilor, and has held office since 1593. Out. in Colorado they still remember Guv.--elect Douglas of Massachusetts. When a young man he conducted a little cobbler shop at Gulden. Charles Dickens’ full name was Charles John Huffant Dickens.

Grand Duke Sergius, nnCfq of the Czar and head of the war party In Russia, is declared to have induced

tlie Czar to take the course which resulted in the killing or wounding of thousands of Russian working people. He is also held responsible for Trepoff, for the wholesale arrest of writers and others, and for tin* posting of bulletins in Moscow, blaming Eng

land for the riots, which has brought a protest from England and is giving the Russian foreign office much embarrassment. Tlie liberals call him Russia's evil genius. Col. D. B. Dyer of Augusta. Ga., has presented his collection of Indian relics to the Kansas City, Mo., public library. T. A. Elit of Vishiha, Cal., harvested 170 tons of grapes from ten acres of viges last month, thns breaking the Calh fernia record. J. \V. Ivey of Alaska is in Washington to interest national legislators ia widening and improving trails, tasking of a district for the Yukon, and extension of the lighthouse service.

W. P. HEPBURN.

JUSTICE HOLMES.

MINISTER YERMOLOFF.

DUKE SERGIUS.