Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 38, Number 85, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 July 1906 — IN THE PUBLIC EYE [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

IN THE PUBLIC EYE

Dr. William T. Harris, who has just stepped out -as Commissioner of Education for the United States after sev-

enteen years in the office, is a leader in affairs connected with the public school system of the nation. He has rounded out fifty years of service as an educator. As a writer on educational topics he holds.a : high place and is considered an am

thority in the editing of text books for school use, having done much of this work. For twenty-three years Dr. Harris was connected with the St. Louis public schools, being superintendent for thirteen years. He represented the United States Bureau of Education at the International Congress of Educators at Brussels in 1880. Dr. Harris became Tlnited States Commissioner of Education Sept. 13, 1889, and has since resided in Washington, lie is the author of a number of books.

Mrs. Sarah Platt Decker, who was re-elected unanimously at St. Paul as president of the General Federation of

Women’s Clubs, is a woman of great magnetism and charm. She has lived in Denver. Colo., since- 1887, and is the widow oi Judge Decker. She is one of the leading club women of the country and is an ardent advocate of] equal suffrage. Mrs.

Decker was born at Holyoke, Mass., and lived for a number of years on Long Island before moving to Denver. plie has served ns vice president of the National Federation and also lias been at the head of the federation in Colorado. She is described as ample and hearty, and with a-direct, positive way of saying what she thinks—a typical western woman, with a jolly In ugh and H firm grasp—a woman who naturally jvould expect to take the short cut of 'ommon sense to any conclusion.

W. 11. Timlin, who in a commencement speech at Itipon, Wis., advocated the placing of a limit on the wealth an

individual or corporation may acquire and the barring of rich men from the United States Senate, was elected a member of the Wisconsin Supreme Court at the recent election and wil take his seat in the fall. He ran as a nonpartisan can-

didate at the request of the members of the Milwaukee bar, who supported him almost unanimously. In the campaign stress was laid on tlie fact that he lias never been a corporation lawyer and lias never taken part in politics. The justice-elect is 54 years old, was admitted to the bar in 1877 and is the head of the law firm of Timlin & Glicksman, of Milwaukee.

Dr. Edward T. Devine, who was placed in charge of the Red Cross relief work in San Francisco, is professor

of social economy at Columbia University, general secretary of the Charity Organization Society of New York, editor of Charities, director of the New York School of Philanthropy and is the author of several books on

sociology and philanthropy. lie tv as born in lowa in 18G7 and is a graduate of Cornell College, lowa. lie studied also at the University of Pennsylvania and at the University of Halle, Germany. . General Julian S. Carr of North Carolina was chosen recently as commanding of the Veterans’ Association

of tbo Blue and the Gray and Their Sons. He was an oicer in Wade Hampton’s corps during the Civil War and walked borne from Appomattox without a dollar in bis pocket. He has prospered greatly since that

time and is now worth several millions. General Carr is famous for his generosity and tor his efforts to restore good feeing between all sections of the Union. t «*.

Prof. L. Gaurrigue, a prominent French physician, who has recently mad* some important discoveries in the treatment of tuberculosis, will shortly visit New York for demonstration purposes His anti-toxin is the juice of a certain kind of ant. t J “ ~ 7 f*"' • r >44 M. Pollard of Paris, not aat'sfied with the usual grafting by floricnllurlata, hai started to transform vegetables. It' it ■aid that he has succeeded in turning • radish into a potato

DR. W. T. HARRIS.

MRS. DECKER.

WM. H. TIMLIN.

DR. E. T. DEVINE.

GFN. CARR.