Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 38, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 December 1905 — IN THE PUBLICEYE [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

IN THE PUBLICEYE

Herbert John Gladstone, the new Secretary of State for Home Affairs tn the Campbell-Bannerman Liberal cab-

inet, is much more than the son of the “Grand Old Man” of England, for in his own right he is accounted one of the sturdiest statesmen of the United Kingdom, and since 1899 has been recognized as the best “whip” of either party in many

years. He was born at “12 Downing street,” the famous ministerial residence, and was educated at Eton and Oxford for the career which he has pursued with such consistent energy and honor. For a time after his schooldays he was a lecturer at Keble College, and then entered political life as his father’s secretary. He held successively the posts of financial secretary to the war office, under Secretary to the Home Office and President of the National Recreation Society. As Liberal whip he was noted for courtesy, and stories are told indicating his honorable demeanor toward Salisbury, leader of tjie Conservatives. S. S. Wertz of Altoona, Pa., is the proud possessor of a watch once owned by Lafayette.

Congressman James A. Tawney, who has been promoted to the chairmanship of the Committee on Appropriations in

the Fifty-ninth Congress, has served the First Minnesota District in the House since 1893 and had previously served two terms 1890-94, in the Min nesota State Sen ate. The son of a Gettysburg (Pad blacksmith, he worked at his father’s anvil for sev-

oral years. lie went to Winona in 1877, where he worked as a machinist, while studying law, and was admitted to the bar -in ISB2. He first attracted attention during the passage of the Dingley tariff bill, by having inserted a provision placing a tax of 10 per cent on all bonded goods shipped through Canada to the United States, thus cutting off a most productive line of railway traffic from the Canada railroads and giving it to the American lines. He is 50 years old.

King Carlos of Portugal, who for a week was the guest of the Count and Countess Casteliane in Paris, is a royal

personage in more ways than one—he is a royal hunter, a royal sport, and, above all, has a royal appetite. It is said that he eats four regular meals a day, has a lunch every hour, and eats enormous quantities of the richest food. It

•?osts something to entertain such a guest, and it has been heralded that the Castellanos spent Anna Gould’s entire annual income last week, amounting to $200,000. King Carlos has many gifts. He is said to be the most accomplished linguist, the finest shot, the most eloquent speaker, and the most royal “liver" in Europe. As the Duke of Braganza, before his accession to the throne, it is said that he used to go “incog’’ to the bull fights in Lisbon, and that on more than one occasion he actually donned the toreador’s attire and went Into the ring. He Is a huge man, weighing nearly 300 pounds. Andrew Carnegie never smokes, and no one dares light a cigarette in Skibo Castle.

Daniel C. Gilman, of Baltimore, Md., who has been re-elected president of the National Civil Service Reform

League, Is prominent in educational and scientific fields. He has been president of Johns Hopkins University for many years. He was born at Norwich, Conn., in 1831. From 1856 to 1872 he was professor of physical and political geography

at Yale and from 1872 to 1875 president of the University of California. He has been an officer of the American Oriental Society, Archaeological Institute of America, Educational Fund Societies and of many Important commissions. He Is an author of repute and Is well known in foreign scientific circles.

Tolbert von ( Watson, who recently enlisted in the regular nrmy at St. Louis, is n cousin of Austria's military attache at Washington, and his father la an officer in the Austrian army. Private von Watson speaks and writes nine languages. Dr. Bven Hedin is on his way to Persia, where he propose* to explore thoroughly, from a scientific point of view, the salt deposits of Daslit-I-Kavlr and Dasht-i-Lut, in the eastern part of that country.

H. GLADSTONE.

J. A. TAWNEY.

KING CARLOS.

DANIEL C. GILMAN.