Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 38, Number 81, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 July 1906 — IN THE PUBLIC EYE [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

IN THE PUBLIC EYE

Colonel Henry Algernon Du Point, who has been elected United States Senator from Delaware, is distinguish- — 7 ed 1° the business

I aitfl political world. He has been President of the ' Wilmington and Northern railroad, is now a director of the Reading, and is principal owner of the famous DuPont Powder Works. Colonel Du Point, who is a descendant of an old French fam-

lly, was born in 1838, and in 1861 was graduated at the head of his class! in the West Point Military Academy. He fought with distinction in the civil war, receiving a congressiunal medal of [ honor, but in 1874 resigned from the army. In 1895, after a long legislative deadlock, he United States Senator, but the Democrats tested and the matter went for settlement to the United States Senate, where the Conwnittee on Elections decided in his favor, but later by.a strict party majority of one the Senate dej dined to seat him. "Colonel Du Pont j would have been elected at the . last session of the legislature, had it not been for the compromise position taken by the two factions which eliminated both Du Pont and Addicks. He has represented his party many times in Republican national conventions and has been honored with positions on important committees.

The new President of the Russian Douma, M. Muromzeff, is a celebrated professor of the Roman right, who aban-

doned his post in 1884, when the new reactionary statute of the Moscow UnP versify was published. M. Muromzeff devoted himself since that date to the profession of law and has distinguished himself in the most brilliant way. Many of the

most difficult trials were submitted to his consideration and many of his interpretations of the law are used by the Senate. Serguey Andreevich Muromzeff is beloved by the students and highly respected by all the friends of liberty. He enjoys the reputation of Ideal honesty, although he has many enemies among the barristers, envious of his big revenues (atraut $50,000 yearly). M. Muromzeff belongs to a very noble family, but has a sincere aversion to the privileges of birfli. Norman E. Mack, Democratic national committeeman for New York, is said to put butter on his pie. Congressman Robert Adams, of Pennsylvania, who committed suicide in Washington, was one of the best

dressed men in Congress, and was noted for his aristocratic bearing. He was a member of an old Philadelphia family, was born in 1849 and received his education in the University of Pennsylvania. Under President Harrison he was minister to Brazil, and he was

chairman of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs when war was declared against Spain In 1898. Mr. Adams was conspicuous in social and club affairs and was very popular in his circle. He was a bachelor, and for this reason was ehaffed good naturedly when he advocated the whippingpost for wlfebeaters. Mark Twain is fond of collecting odd obituary poetry, and has a scrap book, which he is extremely proud of, containing 3,000 specimens. • . v. Henry Louis Reginald De Koven, who is now In a sanitarium at Claremont-on-tbe-Hudson, Is famous as a compos-

er and is the founder of the Washington Symphony Orchestra. Mr. De Koven was born at Middletown, Conn., in 1861, and was graduated from Oxford University in 1880. He studied music at Stuttgart, Florenoe, Paris and

Vienna, and sponunnrxLD de kovek. bls return to the United States served as musical critic on various New York publications. In 1884 he married Anna Farwell, daughter of the late Charles B. Farwell of Chicago, who was United States Senator from Illinois. Prof. Lombroso, the Italian criminologist, •when asked to put on evening clothes, dons a lounge suit. His indifference to money is proverbial. When he goes out he'puts bank notes in the sine pocket with his handkerchiefs, and when he draws out the latter the bank notes are lost. ——- As an interesting memento of bygone days. John Ward, labor M. P. for StokeonTrent, still keeps in the back yard of uis house st Wadsworth the old pick with which he once worked as a navvy.

HENRY A. DU PONT.

M. MUROMZEFF.

ROBT. ADAMS.