Show c w ba PUBLIC EYE prophesies A revolution dr W J mcgee the distinguished d eth nOlO la is the secretary creten and main in gist gistand and geologist who ld commission pre spring of the inland waterways it if the rail ra dicta a revolution within a few years ways are allowed to continue grabbing athe riparian rights throttling navigation and depriving 5 the single source of wealth country of its greatest 40 its waterways and dr Is no wild but a cool headed scientist and investigator ile points A out that with the exception of vicksburg there e st paul and M new between is not a single town orleans whose river fronts and bridges have not been grabbed by the railways with the kind as sl si stance or of the legislatures the doctors idea Is that by redeeming the river fronts and developing waste water power the whole cost of improving the rivers would be paid for in a few years dr mcgee Is a self taught scientist while he was working on a farm rara he was studying latin higher mathematics astronomy and surveying no bad had charge of the bureau of ethnology from 1893 to 1903 resigning to become chief of the department of anthropology at the st louis position exposition tte he y VIP was the first president of the american anthropological society ana and laier later c was president of the national geographical society he ile has done some valuable exploring work himself his topographic survey of northwestern 10 iowa being the most extensive ever made in america without public aid eia Is now sec secretary detary of the inland waterways commission which has in charge s K the deepening and improving of our inland navigation to together t ether with ine the reclamation 1 cla mation matlon of land and the development t of water power A dr rt mcgee was born in iowa v in bof 1853 TT he ile Is a known among bis his friends as 0 a o 4 1 V no period I 1 mcgee tor for he be never uses periods after his initials he ile maintains I 1 t that everyone calls him W J and that that has become his ii name ana and onri y A j ceased to be initials 4 NEW MAYOR OF ROME P ernest nathan the new mayor of rome Is an israelite by descent english by birth and edu cation in religion jewish freemason by tion journalist by profession and in politics a staunch adherent of united italy for most of these reasons be he Is persona non grata to the vatican and the romano the principal organ of the vatican declares his elect lo an indelible stain upon the eternal city nathan received his first lessons in italian politics from Blass lul who spent the last years of his life in the nathan home carefully nursed by the mother of the new mayor inspired by the old man mans s accounts of the struggle for italian unity nathan warmly espoused the same cause in the troublous times the nathan family had gone to live in england and it was there that ernest ernet nathan was born he ile was educated in oxford university but when the family returned to italy be he spoke better italian than the vast tast majority of his compatriots for the language he spoke was the written language of Is I 1 italy the language of tho the great writers and not the mongrel dialects spoken la in so many parts of the country today to day nathan became proprietor of the liberal organ dovere and used to lecture at times the king heard him and warmly thanked him he ile has several times been called into consultation on national topics bv the king v and his band hand is seen in the new scheme for the unification of national tax atlon in the peninsula and the steps that have been taken to lessen the them agricultural burdens of the south he ile made rapid advancement in the masonic order and soon became grand master of italy the clerical party in the city council of rome by their policy of standing together in every emergency had exercised a greater influence than their numbers warranted and to offset that combination all the other parties combined the result was the election of nathan b by Y a VO vote t 6 of GO 60 to 12 the mayor being elected by the aldermen and not by the people FIGHTS BLOODLESS DUEL J dr alexander premier of hungary recently fought a bloodless sword duel with a man who accused him of political dishonesty this man Is ex minister of justice polo polonya n YI and the accusation was made in parliament instead of punching the head of bis his accuser as would I 1 probably have happened in the american congress or telling him in courtly phra phrase 0 that he was not within the limits of those who who speak the exact and entire truth as an englishman would have done under such circumstances dr applied to emperor francis jose joseph ph for leave to fight a duel and got it his ills reason for making the application was that the duello Is forbidden in hungary and the representative of ot the people takes the ground that the imperial will can sweep aside a law passed by the senta tive of the people a theory which Is of course inconsistent with representative the constitution of 0 which dr has shown himself so scy enthusiastic a supporter dr by being the better swordsman proved to his opponent that he was not politically dishonest it Is alt all so very simple and logical dr was selected as the head of a compromise cabinet during tho the recent hitch between francis joseph and hla his hungarian realm the magyars magyari insisted oa on having the word of command given in their own language in the hungarian regiments although fully half of the population la is not of the magyar race the germans slavs and other races that the polyglot population protested to the emperor and he refused to compose sanction the change thereupon the magyar parliament refused to vote the supplies the emperor responded by dissolving parliament and threatening to manhood suffrage by royal edict thereby taking the supremacy from establish the magyars magyari finally the trouble was patched up temporarily by the selection of a coalition cabinet in which andrassy and kossuth sons of former rebels were given portfolios the premier Is a protestant although tho the masses of the people are overwhelmingly catholic he be Is of plebeian birth in a country where aristocrats are all powerful he be Is not even a magyar being of german the parentage he ile Is to all that the masses of the populate population I 1 0 a are not and yet ha he people has succeeded in passing several bills in the past enlarging the liberties of tha the WOULD TEACH DUELLING Duell dueling ng is the exhilarating germ gerni of a col leplate education U which bich produces men able ablerto to go out into the world to fight battles where quick perception quick action and quick determination are necessary 02 Z this Is the statement of prof C 1 L de do of the electrical t engineering department of the U of M at one time erster first munich challenger of his corps in the polytechnic at though born in brooklyn N Y most of hla his life has been spent in the schools and universities of the old horld after graduating from tho the zurich polytechnic roi eight years ago he returned to america hla ills specialty Is heavy electric power transmission and trunk line traction ork he lie has been employed by the united states ment under several contracts for lovorn power plants in the navy yards he also consulting engineer on the development of the water waa was power at the soo prof has had fought three duels in a single week and has three bears scars entirely across his left great cheek where once the sword laid tha the open to uie the bone t |