Show PERSONAGES IN INTHE THE THE PUBLIC EYE I Mrs Joseph Cook has Just JUS presented a a. large bust of oC Scipio to Oberlin colle college e. e John W. W Abercrombie a a. native c of Alabama and ely a young man has been elected t lb ti the presidency of oC the State university Sir Sir Wilfrid Laurier the Prime Minister Min Mm- lInIster ister of oC Canada will be the recipient of special f honors at the hands andR o of King Edward lie He is to be made Earl of Athabasca William Watsons Watson's poetic C feet et might be considered as swifter wlter than those of ot the English h laureate Alit Alfred Austin The former po pot poet t had hod his coronation ode oda published first Frank Strickland of Atlanta poet author and musician sa says s 's In an Interview interview Inter Inter- view Jew In the Journal of ot that city I Iam Iam am nm as thankful ful t to God Goll that he made me mo blind as I am thankful for tor the air airI I breathe or the tho water I drink Gabriel Gabriel Harrison of oC Sterling place Brooklyn retired actor and teacher of or elocution aged 8 85 used to run lun errands for Aaron Burr Durr and is believed ed to be bethe bethe bethe the last surviving close acquaintance of that former President VIt-President 1 Oscar McClellan a n. printer Inventor and bosom friend of oC Edgar Allan Poe died at his home homo In Philadelphia re recently recently re- re a at the age of or 82 years Ho He was w-as an Inventor and by an Improvement on ona ona ona a machine for Cor perform performing lug operations in shoemaking he received in roy roy- alt ies Dr Dr John Clifford the famous English English En En- I glish preacher began life In a a. lice lace factor factory fac fac- tor tory when 13 years cars old He worked at first as an ordinary hand and when I 16 was a manager In the lace mending lace mending department Later Latel he lie was made a a bookkeeper by his employer and this gave save him his first opportunity of oC rising Dr Hepworth who died a few days as a's n ago o was a preacher in Boston at the time limo of or Lincoln's n assassination b by John Wilkes lIkes Booth At once a hue huo und and cry arose a against EdwIn Booth and Mr Ir Hepworth with voice and anel pen denounced denounced denounced de de- de- de any t audi uch acclaim stating on his personal knowledge that Edwin Booth was waa a loyal man an excellent citizen and antI an ardent admirer of Lincoln Lin coIn coln for whom he had hud voted oled twice These utterances and nl wilting more than thin anything else perhaps stemmed the tide of or unreasoning denunciation |