Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 39, Number 102, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 August 1907 — IN THE PUBLIC EYE [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

IN THE PUBLIC EYE

The crown prince of Korea, who succeeds to the throne because of the forcible abdication of his father, bears

the name Yi Syek. He is a son of the late Empress ■Min, who was assassinated in 1895, and was born on the 25th of March, 1874. Little is known of YI Syek except that he given what ifttle military training the country affords, and that he is not a man of strong opinions.

This would seem to be obvious when the Japanese are willing to place him on the throne.- It is alleged that Yi Syek never recovered from the shock he received at the tjme his mother was slain, because of the brutality attending her murder. She was first cut down with swords, then taken to a courtyard, wrapped in silk and borne to a grove, where, after wood was piled on the body and kerosene poured over the mass, it was set on fire.

Sir Hiram Stevens Maxim, whose company have been instrumental in forming a huge Iron and steel combi-

nation in Great Britain, is a noted civil, mechanical End electrical engineer. He Is an American, having been born at Sangerville, Me., in 1840, and be is of Puritan descent. Sir Hiram is the inventor of the Maxim gun and of

an automatic system of firearms, and also of cordite, a smokeless powder, and he has devoted much time and invention to aerial navigation. In 1901 he was knighted by the late Queen Victoria, and he also is a chevalier of the French Legion of Honor. Sir Hiram Is a member of various technical and scientific societies, and he has a hindsome residence at Thurlow Park, Norwood, London. He has lived in England since 1881.

Congressional investigation of the American Bible Society, which controls the price of Bibles in the United States,

has been urged by religious papers throughout the east and a strong effort is being made to shed light on the business dealings of thecorporation. The American Bible Society was without a president for some years when the venerable Dauiel Coit

Gilman, formerly head of Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, took the place. There are twenty-one vice presidents, many of whom have never attended a meeting. The resources of the American Bible Society are said to be at least $200,000, but the annual report sets the assets at $712,412.75.

That it is only a short time before it wilj be possible to have dinner in America one day and breakfast in Europe

the next morning is a statement credited to Dr. Alexander Graham Bell, the inventor of the telephone. Dr. Bell has great faith in the future progress of aerial navigation and says that he expects an airship to be built that will

make 175 to 200 miles an hour. He also believes that one of the next steps in the progress of navigating the air will be tbe construction of aerial battleships.

EMPEROR OF KOREA.

D. C. GILLMAN.

SIR HIRAM MAXIM.

ALEX. G. BELL.