Harrison press-journal. (Harrison, Nebraska) 1899-1905, December 27, 1900, Image 6
f S NEW LORD. T. JOHN BROORICK LANS DOWNE'S SUCCESSOR. Boa of Tkcoaat atiddlatoe mad to rabll Life Uaee lase a! Forty-Four Yean Old Served at Peder KwnUrjr One. f Mr. W. St. John Brcdrtck was one of the "clever young men" of the Con ' eervatlve party in the "early eighties." Though not, perhaps, a brilliant ora tor, he U a keen debater, and has moro than one shown that be can state a case as clearly as any of his colleagues oa the Treasury bench. Sides son of Vlrcount Midleton, Mr. Brodrick Is in his 44th year. He re ealTed his early education at Eton, and later on at Oxford. Like so many oth er men who have shone in the politi cal world he took a prominent share in the debates of the Union Society, of I wiles he became presidsnt. He also 'helped to found the Canning club, which' has lone been the center of the new Toryism of the university. It was his good fortune to step straight trom the presidential chair to a seat In the House of Commons, being re turned unopposed for West Surrey at the general election of 1S80. Both in and out of Parliament Mr. Brodrick wae exceedingly industrious and pains taking, and it Is affirmed that he was one of the faw members who really nrastered the intricacies of the Irish lid bill. On die passing of the Re distribution act, Mr. Brodrick was elected for the Guildford division of Surrey, aad he still represents that Constituency. Often it has been said that Mr. Brodrick came of age, sat for his county, and got married all 3 one J'cnr, but the statement is er Honeous. True, the tiro latter events occurred in loiO. but that was nearly -three years after ho had attained his majority. In June. 1885, Mr. Gladstone resigned, owing to the memorable de feat on the Budget bill. Ere many .months had elapsed the Conservative government were vanquished upon the amendment of Mr. Jesse Collings to 'Stae Address, but the home rule pro--posals of Mr. Gladstone speedily In stalled Lord Salisbury again in Down ing street. f Then it was that Mr. Brodrick began ' WANTS AMERICAN WIPE ' The Minister from Uruguay to Washington came to this country specially with a view to securing an American wife, and he does not hesi tate to say so, adding that he is a great admirer of American women. His father is president of Uruguay, and Is anxious that bis son shall make a good match in the United States. The minister is young and handsome, and. SENOR CUESTAS. will soon open a house of bis own and entertain lavishly in Washington. JOURNALISM FAR NORTH. Fife It Waa Atl Cata aa Afterward ' Waal Seateiieee. One of the most amusing skippers visiting Philadelphia is the g-ial commander of the British bark Calci um one of the fleet of Greenland cry olite traders, which has just dis charged her cargo here and loaded eoal for Demerara. A fine specimen of tao real old-time sailor, Capt Smith pSaaYasees a fund of knowledge gath ered through years or rough experi ence, the record of which would form the groandwork for aa up-to-date sa aval. For years this picturesque Upper gained kn'owledged of the high latttadea that has been of great bene fit Mi him In his present trade through aarrfee aboard one of the old Peter fcacJ whalers, a fleet once famous, but extinct Capt. Smith has of the most successful of the UGSe traders, his only mishap being C lata of the British bark Argenta, r"a .he commanded la the fall of V-Tato veaeel. was actually 1 ... f:rtJ to atoms by the arctic floe Uit-"iX were rescued after a thril I' Csmtmt. aad made their way . V y Dajrkasnbssn, where they were r "af fed by the Danish gover VP 'Crr Ha ku t greater ' at Greenland than any t C3 ii the merchant service, 7ri2aMphia Frees. When be : Jaef to ton of the bleak set iczmnM by the polar Ice 1 an always aapraemtoi aad zt kmst aai greatly later 'n. Cmral days ago. Jaat " Trtsna gar Dtnaorai, the S cr ktmnOH etory r .iTp1 FHatiaaaSOPdssj t ti KZL to - tZZ aai at Its his apprenticeship by serving as under secretary to the war office, and he re mained at that post until the Unionists were supplanted by the Radicals In 1893. Finding himself in the shade of the opposition, the member for Guild ford turned his attention to matters other than military. As the eldest son of a peer, he got Into "revolt' against the idea of men, on , succeed ing to the title, being compelled to forsake the House of Commons for the House of Lords. He assisted in promoting a bill to change this state of things, but without success, and he is now the only one of the three mu tineers now left in the Lower Chamber, Lord Selbourne having been called to the Upper House on the death of his father, and Mr. Curzon having become as an Irish peer, viceroy of India. It was the hand of Mr. Brodrick that fired the cordite mine which blew up the Rosebery government in June.1895. At once the queen sent for Lord Salls- HON. ST. JOHN BRODRICK. bury, who accepted office and appealed to the country. The noble marquis started his third administration with a huge majority, and Mr. Brodrick was appropriately appointed to the war office, as second in command to Lord Lansdowne, and so successfully did he perform the duties of the position that no surprise was evinced ujn his transfer to the foreign office on the promotion of Mr. Curzon to India. As lieutenant to Lord Salisbury, the member for Guildford has acquitted cimoelf with complete satisfaction. proprietor, Mr. Moeller, is due the cred it of educating a large number of the natives, because he not only printed the paper for them, but also taught them how to read it. This wonderful ly energetic man performs single handed the functions of editor, report er, proprietor, printer, distributor and business manager. The entire paper, which is printed in Godthaab, is the product of his own pen. Some time ago he set up a primitive printing es tablishment, and every two weeks he performs a long Journey on skates to dispose of his journal. Originally it contained only a few crude illustra tions, but gradually other matter was introduced until now it contains arti cles on the affairs of the day. This man actually taught his subscribers to read his paper, first introducing words, then sentences, and now articles on the topics of the day. Mr. Moeller la a Dane and has lived in Greenland for many years. He takes a deep inter est in anything calculated to make lighter the burdens of the natives and Is beloved by all who know him. Tba BIcsMt Pair of Talk. In his report upon the trade and i commerce of Zanzibar for last year Acting Consul Kesteil Cornish states that the finest tusks on record in East Africa, and probably larger than have ever yet been obtained in any part of the world, came through Zanzibar last year. The elephant from which they Are obtained was shot by an Arab jear Kilimanjaro. These tusks, which consisted of perfect ivory, without a particle of disease, measured over ten and a half feet from top to base, and weighed 224 pounds, and 239 pounds respectively. They were sold for $5,000. The nearest approach in bulk to this pair were found about ten years ago, and weighed 180 pounds each. Tbey were, however, diseased to some extent. Ceoklng to ladla. Every man in India is a good cook. The women cook at home, but in trav eling the women are not allowed to show themselves, and so the men do the work. No Hindu will eat food on which any man's shadow has fallen. All Hindus are great ceremonial legal ists. The Hindus are of our own Aryan race. They are not like the Chinese and Japanese, alien from our race. Tbey have all the mental ca pacity of Europeans, end only need the same religion snd the same opportun ity to shine on an equality with us. ParchaM Waterloo Battle O roe ad. Heart Houssaye, the French Acade mician and authority on Napoleon.hes purchased for the Paris Sabre tasche, the French military association, the exact spot of ground where the Old Guard made its last stand at Water loo, and upon it U. Oerome, the sculp tor, Is to erect a monument. A cheap aad simple aula tor wood to aaav with permanganate of potaaaa. A solatloa of It spread apoa poor or eheny wood for a few mlaotea leaves a psrmaasat dark brawn color, which, after aarafsl washing, srytag aad oCax aatwaes a roaSah tint upon be ing polished. , Blew Ships m vT mouav Armorea for N3Lvy ; vesi Hon. Joseph C. Cannon has been elected to congress four teen times. That Is several times more than . any other member of the present congress. He Is, therefore. the father of the house." He has been Uncle Joe", to evervbodv In Washinc- ton for a score of years, and while regarded as the fiercest fluhter in the House be has done more kindlv acts for other members and outsiders than any other man in congress. "Uncle Joe" fits him better than "father of the House," and he will continue to b known as "Uncle Joe." Waa Oaeo Defeated. Mr. Cannon was once defeated for Congress. He went down with the Re publican crash in 1890. after the pas sage of the McKinley bliL McKinley was defeated the same year. So were scores of Republican leaders in the west. Mr. Cannon was also defeated for speaker in the fifty-first congress. So w;s McKinley. Thomas B. Reed wa elected. McKinley became chair man of the committee on ways and means and Cannon became chairman of the commfttee on appropriations. "UNCLE JOE" CANNON. In every Republican congress since then Cannon has been chairman of his old committee, and as such be has bad more power and responsibility regard ing appropriations for government ex penses and public works than any other member of either House. When the battleship Maine was blown up in Havana harbor, "Uncle Joe" said little on either side. He be gan making a few figures, and one morning be quietly dropped a little bill in the box, which, when found, created a sensation, not only in Wash ington, but in every city in the civil- trriA wrttaal A During the Spanlth CrUU. The bill was unique. It had no SIX FIERCE LIONS. A Stranre Thlas That Happened at a Clrroa. Show people dread a timid lion, tiger or leopard, not only because in lt3 panic it is likely to Injure the trainer, but because it Is unreliable, may take fright and spoil a performance at any moment from the slightest causes. An Incident at the Porte St. Martin The ater, in Paris, has become part of the annals of the show business. Tho chief feature of the exhibition was a "turn," consisting of the casting of a young woman, securely bound, into thy cage of lions, heralded as bfeing Ihj fiercest and most bloodthirsty of man eaters. Unfortunately, the woman who had the "thinking part" of the victim was taken ill, and a sii'tatltute was found in the wife oi one of the train ers, herself a trainer of some experi ence, but without any acquaintance with these particular six lions. A she was somewhat nervous, she cerried a THE YOUNGER PLATT In his endeavor to establish the New York stabulary bill, Sn:tor FRANK H. PLATT. Thomas C. Piatt has the act' re co operation of bis aoa, Frank H. Piatt. Plans for Five Im- e a precedent It appropriated 950,000,000 for public defense and placed that sum at the disposal of the president It meant that the nation would get ready for war and It directed the president to take steps to that end. It was passed without a dissenting vote by the House. There were speeches, but they were all for the bill. In the Senate there were no speeches, but it passed by unanimous vote there also. Uncle Joe does many things in this way a way that is more familiar to poker players than to other men. Ho tests the opposition with a bluff. Mr. Cannon was born in a Quaker settlement of North Carolina. When he was four years old his father. Dr. Horace F. Cannon, emigrated to the banks of the Wabash at Bloomingdalo, Parke county, Ind. Dr. Cannon lived In that town until bis death. In 1851. and there his boy Joe received his early education and training. He was 14 years old when his father died, and at that age be started out for himself, his first work being as a clerk in a country store. He wes so employed until he had attained his majority, when he began the study of law, and was admitted to the bar at Terre Haute in 1858. MoToa to Illinois. The next year Mr. Cannon moved to Tuscola, III., and in 1861 he was elect ed district attorney. He subsequently was elected to the Forty-third, Forty fourth, Forty-fifth, Forty-sixth, Forty seventh, Forty-eighth, Forty-ninth, Fiftieth, Fifty-first, Fifty-third, Fifty fourth, Fifty-fifth congresses, receiv ing 21,484 votes to 14,176 for John M. Thompson, Democrat, and 682 for Samuel S. Jones, Prohibitionist. Keep your chin up. (If you are a woman, you won't have to be told so.) s!on arise. Amid the breathless si lence of the spectators, the ring-master explained the ferocious nature of the lions and the terrible risk of the woman, and she was thrust in at the cago-door. In the excltermcnt of the occasion the door was not securely shut after her. No sooner was she fairiy inside than the six monarchs oi the jungle, seeing that a strange per son had been forced upon them, raised a chorus of shuddering terror, bolted for the cage door, clawed It open, and, with dragging tails and cringing flanks, (led throi'gh a rear entrance and found refuge In a collar, where they were dlBlodgcd only affr a great dif ficulty. It was a week before the "ferocious man-eaters" were sufficient ly recovered from their terrors to re appear In publlo. McClura's Magazine. New York, it is said, has an annual murder record of 500, Ikwton of 348, New Orleans of 215 and Chicago of 220. Indeed, It is claimed that the younger member of the family Is the origina tor of the ld?a, and that by Its pas bige he hopes to make himself a power in state politics. He Is credited with an ambition to step into his father's shoes when the man from Tioga re linquishes the state leadership. Some people who are close to the senator say that the older man leans considerably upon his son for advice and that he would bo pleased to see htm become the party lesder eventually. As the junior member of the great law firm of Tracy, Boardman A Piatt, from which Gen. Tracy retired after his de feat for mayor of Oreater New York, young Piatt wss well trslned. He la an aggressive snd shrewd young man and, even though he falls to reach the goal to which he aspires. Is certain to be a more prominent figure la Repub lican politics of the Empire state as the years pass. NEW SHIPS FOB NAT PLANS POR PIVE IMMENSE AR MORED VESSELS. peed of IB Kaeta Three Are to Be sheathed aad to Bare Hupe rawed Tarreta Work Uraattjr Delayed by Armor Contract When congress In March, 1899, ap proprlated money for three sea-going coast-line battleships, carrying the heaviest armor and most powerful armament tor vessels of their class, it was evidently the Intention to provide for vessels more powerful than those of any other nation in the world. The jnfortunate provision by which the contracts for the vessels were made subject to an agreement as to the price of armor, while it delayed the work, served one good purpose in making it possible to combine with them the two battleships provided for by the act of June 7, 1900. The bureau of construc tion and repair, In the designs for these Ave vessels, has fatly carried out sr. I .1 41 COMMODORE PHILIP HICHBORN. (He Has Charge of the Construction of New Naval Vessels.) the evident purpose of Congress, and the plans now approaching completion represent five of the most powerful battleships ever projected. heathed and Coppered. Tbe vesscfls appropriated for in 1899 are required to be sheathed and cop pered, whereas those of the later ap propriation have been held bthe Navy Department not to be covered by the provision as to sheathing, and the bu reau has, therefore, designed two classes of vessels, one sheathed and the other not sheathed. The designs have been further complicated by the decision of the board of construction to fit three of the vessels with the su perposed turret, similar to those on the Kearsarge and Kentucky, and to provide the other two vessels with what has been designated the quadrila teral arrangement of the eight-Inch guns of the main battery. The gener al dimensions and chief characteristics of the sheathed and coppered vessels are: Length on load water line. 425 feet; breadth, extreme, at load water line, 76 feet, 10 Inches; trial displacement about 15,000 tons; mean draught at trial displacement, about 24 feet; greatest draught, full load, about 26 feet. The general dimensions of tbe unsheathed vessels are: Length on load water line, 435 feet; breadth, ex treme, at load water line, 76 feet 2V4 inches; trial displacement nbout 14, W0 tons; mean draught a trial displace ment, about 24 feet; greatest draught, full load, about 26 feet. Speed of Xlaeteea Know. In the 15,000 tons represented In each of those vessels, the many an tagonistic qualities essential to a per fect fighting machine have been com promised and Incorporated in propor tions which experience seems to have pointed out as the most desirable and efficient. To begin with, they will have a speed of at least nineteen knots, which compares most favorably with any battleships under construction abroad, as well as cay in the projected stage. As all the vessels previously designed by the bureaus have shown excess of speed over that called for It may be expected that this figure will be exceeded by from a quarter to a half a knot. , The vessels will be propelled at this high speed by twin screws driven by two four-cylinder, triple-expansion en gines of about 19,000 Indicated horse power, having a stroke of four feet, running under conditions of maximum speed at about 120 revolutions a min ute. Tbe steam necessary to this pow er will be supplied it a pressure of 250 pounds a square inch by twenty four Ilabcock & Wilcox straight water tube bollera, placed four In each of six Independent water-tight compart ments. roar Klg Oaoi on Each. Each ship 'will carry four twelve Inch guns, forty caliber In length, mounted In pairs In Hlchborn balanc ed turrets, having an arc of train of 270 degrees, one forward and one aft. In each vessel. Of the eight-Inch guns, forty-five calibers In length, which will be carried on each of the three sheathed vessels, four will be mounted In turrets of the Hlchborn type, super posed upon tbe twelve-Inch turrets, snd four in two turrets smldablps, bsvlng an arc of train of 180 degrees, snd In the two unsheathed vessels all eight eight-Inch guns will be mounted In four Independent turrets, having an arc of train of 14S degrees, placed two on each aide at the ends of the super structure, thus forming a quadrila teral. la each vessel there will be a broad side of twelve tli-lncb rapid-fire guas, fifty calibers la leagth, mounted six oa each side oa the main deck, aaeh with aa are of trala of 110 degrees, and each will also have twelve four teen pounders and twelve three-pounders, mounted Is commanding posi tions, aad baring Tory largo rcs of Are. In tbe two lower tops there will be four automatic one-pounders, and in tbe upper tops four single-shot one-pounders. MAW'S POCKaTS. At Beat Woatan Has Mo Mare Fackata Man is a perfected marsupial. He is a creature of pockets. With him tbe necessity of a pouch simply develops one. This is the law of evolution. The first we read of him as a pocket bear ing animal he was on a level with the kangaroo. He then had one pouch, fastened to his belt Now look at him and compare him to woman, for whom in bis chivalry he is truly sorry. She, in her helplessness, Is usually be hind the kangaroo, and at her best only equals hlra with the one pouch fastened at her waist She has not evolved through the law or nature, but under the sterner decrees of the dress maker. What a difference between no pockets and a score of pockets! The first is woman; the other man. Wom an is literally fettered for want of pockets. She must carry In her hands whatever Is not a part of her clothing, while man's arms, palms and flngerii are free free to help his unfortunate sister. Think of five pockets in trous ers, five in vest, five in Jacket and five in overcoat nn exact score in all. Some men have more than this. When man took up the handkerchief habit he made a pocket for that convenient article. He don't have to be picking them up except for the women. He made a pocket for his knife and a pocket for his watch; a pocket for his keys and a pocket for his letters; a pocket for his tobacco and a little pocket for his car tickets; and he kept on making pockets as fast as be Iesnes, envy him. They reach out to him to borrow his knife, to borrow his pencil, to borrow a bit of string, and to borrow a dozen articles that h! usually has stowed away about lils clothing. He Is kind and lends, for he Is sorry for them In their nrrested de velopment. New York Herald. THE LATE GEORGE W. WILSON. George Washington Wilson, lato commissioner of Internal Revenue, who died In Washington last week, was 57 years old, and a native of Ohio. He entered the Union army when 18 years old as a private In the Fifty fourth Ohio Volunteer Infantry and served throughout the war, coming out a first lieutenant In 1866 he took up the practice of law, and in 1809 entered the internal revenue service. He serv ed In various capacities, rising from one important position to another, un til he became the head of tbe bureau. Commissioner Wilson was considered the most thoroughly informed man on GEORGE W. WILSON. Internal revenue subjects who ever en tered the government service, and was consulted on all measures affecting the revenues that have been before con gress In many years. BEAUTY SPOTS. Dora the Itnlral or Patenee Foretell Faehloae of I,oas Ago? Nobody can tell you Just how or why it happened that moth patches thoso little circles or crescents of black court plaster which are now worn by up-to-d&to girls Just at the comer of th mouth, or under the temple, or closo to the ear, or in the middle of the chek or chin, or on the shoulder have come Into favor again. But that they have come back Is very evident. She who thinks that her efforts in this direction are limited by squares or cir cle or crescents Is much mistaken. The Parisians have taken care of that At the fountain head of such fancies It has been decreed that a girl may wear circles In two or three sizes, loi- enger-shaped patches, rtar-shaped patches, heart-shaped patches, patches shaped like the ace of clubs, patches shaped like the nee of spades, flowcr- aptd patches, or even patches shaped like chubby little Pierrots, or like lean little tragedians. If the wearer of these beautlflers does not care to ask for them by the ordinary name of "patches," she may use the more aris tocratic sounding French name. mouches." It's a matter of conjec ture among a large class of people whether these patches are to be ussd as an entering wedge to open the way for the return of the other marks of the sge of the "Orand Monarch." Will the little men begin to wear tall, red heels on their shoes to make them taller, aa tbe "Orand Monarch" did? Will laces, satins, brocades, for men as well as women, come In fashion again? Stray Stories, Matarana Striae far ateala. At Pensaoola, Fla., the motormen on street ears struck for stools oa which to alt while the cars art la motion.. They had the sympathy of the people with than and woa out