Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 39, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 January 1907 — IN THE PUBLICEYE [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

IN THE PUBLICEYE

Mohammed All Mirza, who has arrived at Teheran, and who, because of tfis protracted illness of Shah Muzaf-

fer-ed-din, has assumed control of Persian state affairs, is the eldest son of the Shah, and is 32 years of age. He was proclaimed crown prince it 1896, and until recently was the governor of the province of ’Azerbaijan, the military

res. urces and strength of which he has greatly increased. During the absence of the Shah from Persia, Mohammed AJi Mirza has acted as regent, and has made himself popular in the Persian capital. He is thoroughly familiar with Arabic literature, speaks French fluently, and is said to have a fair grasp of modern science. On his mother’s side he is the grandson of Mohammed Shah, who was the third occupant of the I’evbian throne under the present Kajar dynasty, which wa3 inaugurated in 1794.

William Alford Richards, oommismisioner of the general land oifice, who was accused by Special Inspector MyendorlT of irn-

peding the- lnvesti-j gationinto_Jthe coalj land frauds in Wy-i oming, Colorado, and Utah, was appointed to his present position on Feb. 2, 1903. Pre vious to that time he had been assistan t commissioner for four years. He' was appointed

from the State of Wyoming, where he had been surveyor general from 1889 to 1893 and governor from 1895 to 1899. Recently he resigned his office, and his resignation was accepted, hut since the opening of the "'present inquiry he has been requested by Secretary of the Interior Hitchcock to make an explanation.

Lady Susan Townley, wife of a former councilor of the British embassy at Washington, whose influence at the

British court is said to have caused the retirement of Sir Mortimer Durand as, ambassador to ton, is noted for her “keen observation,” as an English biographical sketch puts it, and her writings for British periodicals show certain ehar-

acteristics in their criticism of persons and things which instantly indicate their authorship to those who know Lady Susan. She is a daughter of the late Earl of Albemarle, and was Lady Susan Cecil until she married Mr. Townley in 1895.

In his latest London lecture on the “Masses and Classes,” G. Bernard Shaw advised that any one talking on

this subject should never assume that the classes have anything to do with the masses, and especially so the poorer the audience addressed. He said it was always the other fellow who belonged to the masses. He said, further, that- Socialism had opened the

way to happy conditions, but that it was stopped by the weakness of the people’s will, and the middle classes deserved all they ww suffering because of their snobbishness.

Th*> Russian minister of education, M. Kauffman, has submitted to the cabinet a plan for the reform of the

primary educational system of Russia, which, next to the agrarian reforms, is recognized as the gravest problem confronting the Russian government. He recommends that the central government aid zemstvos and private bodies In si>reading elementary education, and that the allowances made to existing educational instltu-

tions be increased materially. »» George Hughes, the only son of Thomas Hughes, famous as the author of “Tom Brown of Oxford.” is the owner of a large ranch in Kansas. Dr. Wiley of the Department of Agriculture has placed 150 chickens in cold storage and aft<*r six months he will see what has happened ,to them. * A memorial tablet recently wa* placed in the house in which Henry Fielding and his sister Sarah lived in Bath, England.

ALL MIRZA.

W. A. RICHARDS.

LADY TOWNLEY.

G. B. SHAW.

M. KAUFMANN.