Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 38, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 January 1906 — IN THE PUBLICEYE [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

IN THE PUBLICEYE

Herbert' H. D. Peirce, who has been selected by the president to be the first United States minister to Nor-

way. has for several years been Third Assistant Secretary of State a t Washing ton. His most recent Work that came to the noticeof the public was as representative of the State Department at the Portsmou t h peace conference.

As Third Secretary, the consular ser-' vice has been under his immediate charge, and in 1904 he made a trip around the world inspecting- United States consulates. The results of this trip, which are found in the recommendation for the improvement of the consular service, are regarded as of great ,value. Mr. Peirce has held secretaryships in the diplomatic service, including that of first secretary at St. Petersburg, where he was charge d’affairs. In the absence of the Secretary of State he has frequently been in charge of the State Department. Dr. Plehn, who was a speaker at tha recent German colonial conference, attributes the brutal exercise - of certain German and Belgian officials when sent to govern black men to “tropencholer,” or tropical frenzy. Ex-Governor William It. Taylor of Wisconsin, who has become an inmate of the Old Peoples’ Home near Madi-

son, was the - famous -Farmer Governor” who, in the years 1874-76, compelled the railroads of the State to obey the law, for the first time in their history. He was born in Connecticut in IS2TT, came to Wisconsin in 1848 and settled

at Cottage Grove, Dane County, where he has lived on a farm ever since. Though a Democrat, in a strongly Republican district, and in a Republican State, he has been elected to nearly every office in his village, county and State, from school director to Governor. The pathos of the old man’s retirement to the “home” comes from the fact that he lost his parents when only a child and was reared wholly by strangers, so he closes his loug and useful life in loneliness and among strangers, as he began it.

When Dr. Nansen goes to London as Norwegian minister he will take with him material for a new book he is to W-rite on antarctic exploration. Francis Hendricks, who took his turn on the rack before the Insurance Investigating Committee in New York

the other day, has been Superintended^.,of insurance of the State since Feb. 11, 1900, by appointment of the then Governor Theodore Roosevelt. Prior to that time he had served two terms as Mayor of Syracuse, two terms in the lower

house of the Legislature, three terms in the State Senate, and from 1891 until 1895 was Collector of the Port of New York. He was born at Kingston, X. Y., in 1834, had a meager education, because of the early death of his father, and for many years was engaged in mercantile pursuits at Rochester and Syracuse. From the inception of the insurance inquiry he has been under the severest criticism for alleged laxity. M. Rostand is said to have declined an offer of $20,000 for a single magazine publication of his new play, “Chanticleer.” He believes lie can get a larger amount from the play in book form. James R. Garfield, the star witness in the case against tlifc beef packers, has been commissioner of corporations

Id the Depirrtmcut of Commerce and Labor since February, 1903, and hns been a member of the United States Civil Service Commission for several years prior to that time. lie is n son of the late President James A. Qarfleld, was. born

at Hiram, Ohio, In 1803, and was edtfcated for the law at Columbia Law School. As a partner in the law firm of Garfield, Garlield & Howe he has ' maintained his offices at Cleveland. •s—l* 'Dr. Adolph Fritzen, bishop of Strassburg, has again issued an edict forbidding priests within his diocese to use bicycles. Col. W. H. Michael, who has just been appointed consul general at Cab cntte, served in both army and npvy In the wer of the rebellion with distinction. Jojmfhs N. Hill, a son of James J. Hill, the esilrond magnate, is said to be slated for the presidency of the Northern Pacific.

H. H. D. PEIRCE.

W. R. TAYLOR.

FRANCIS HENDRICKS

JAMES R. CARFIELD.