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BRITAIN'S NEW LORD. ST. JOHN BRODRICK LANS DOWNE’S successor. fie I» the Son of Viscount Middleton nnd Ha* Been In Public Life Since 1X80— Only Forty-Pour Years Old—Served as lluder Secretary Once. Mr. W. St. John Brodrick was one of the “clever young men" of the Con servative party in the “early eighties.” Though not, perhaps, a brilliant ora tor, he is a keen debater, and has more than once shown that he can state a case as clearly as any of his colleagues on the Treasury bench. Eldest son of Viscount Midjeton, Mr. Brodrick is in his 44th year. He re ceived 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 which he became president. He a’so helped to found the Canning club, which has long been the center of the new Toryism cf the university. It was his good fortune to step straight from the presidential chair to a seat hi !he House of Commons, being re turned unopposed for West Surrey at the general election of 1.S80. Both in and out of Parliament Mr. Brodrick was exceedingly industrious and pains taking. and it is affirmed that he was one of the few members who really mastered the intricacies of the Irish land bill. On the passing of the Re distribution act, Mr. Brodrick was elected for the Guildford division of Surrey, ar.d he still represents that constituency. Often it has been said that Mr. Brodrick came of age. sat for his county, and got married all in one year, but the statement is er-1 roneous. True, the two latter events occurred in 1880, but that was nearly three years after he had attained his majority. In June. 1885, Mr. Gladstone resigned, owing to the memorable do- ; feat on the Budget bill. Ere many j months had elapsed the Conservative government were vanquished upon the amendment of Mr. Jesse Collings to the Address, but. the home rule pro posals of Mr. Gladstone speedily in stalled' Iyord Salisbury again in Down ing stre-'f. Then it was that Mr. Brodrick began j Sils apprenticeship by serving as under I secretary to fhe war office, and he re I mained at that post until the Unionists | were supplanted by the Radicals In 1S92. Finding himEelf 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 nr) the Rosebery government in June,lS!l5. At once the queen sent for Lord Sails 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 successful!}' did he perform the duties of the position that no surprise was evinced upon his transfer to the foreign office on the promotion of Mr. Curzon to India. As lieutenant to I^ord Salisbury, the member for Guildford has acquitted himself with complete satisfaction. WANTS AMERICAN WIEE 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. Hi3 father is president of Uruguay, and is anxious that his son shall make a ! good match in the United States. The minister is young and handsome, and SENOK CUESTAS. will soon open a house of his own and entertain lavishly In Washington. JOURNALISM FAR NORTH. first It Was All Cots and Afterward Whole .Sent mi cos. One of the most amusing skippers visiting Philadelphia is the g^ial commander of the British bark ( aici um, one of the fleet of Greenland cry olite traders, which has just dis charged her cargo here and loaded coal for Demerara. A fine specimen of the real old-time sailor, ('apt. Smith possesses a fund of knowledge gath ered through years of rough experi tuce; the record of which would form the groundwork for an up-to-date s a novel. For years this picturesque skipper gained know led ged of the high latitudes that has been of great bene fit to him in his present trade through service aboard one of the old P ter head whalers, a fleet once famous, but now almost extinct. Capt. Smith has been one of the most successful of the arctic traders, his only mishap being the loss of the British hark Argenta. which he commanded In the fall of 38S?ii This vessel was actually crushed to atoms by the arctic floe Ice. All were rescued after a thril ling experience, and made their way to Frederlcksshaab, where they were housed and fed by the Danish gover nor. Capt. Smith has a greater knowledge of Greenland than any other man in the merchant service. say3 the Philadelphia Press. When he can be induced to tell of the bleak set tlements surrounded by the polar ice his stories are always appreciated and he is sure of a large and greatly inter ested audience. Several days ega, just before his departure for Demerara. the skipper told a most interesting story of Journalism in Greenland. Journal ism In Greenland, he said, is repre sented by a single paper and to Its 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 is a Dane and ha3 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. Tito P.lcgcst Pair of Tusk*. In his report upon the trade and commerce of Zanzibar for last year Acting Consul Kestell 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 4»re obtained was shot by an Arab <fear 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. They were, however, diseased to some extent. Cooking In Imlli. 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 s.re not like the Chinese and Japanese, alien from our race. They have all the mental ca pacity of Europeans, and only ne"d the same religion and the same opportun ity to shine on an equality with us. Purchase Waterloo Hattie Uround. Henri Houssaye. the French Acade mician and authority on Napoleon,has purchased for the Paris Sabretasche, the French military association, the exact spot of ground where the Old Guard made its last stand at Water loo, and upon it M. Gerome, the sculp tor, is to erect a monument. C’lipup Htiiln for Wood. A cheap and simple stain for wood is made with permanganate of potassa. A solution of it spread upon pear or cherry wood for a few minutes leaves a permanent dark brown color, which, .after a careful washing, drying and oiling, assumes a reddish tint upon be ing polished. New Ships for Na.vy t Pla.ns for Five Im mense Armored Vessels. Hon. Joseph G. 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 everybody in Washing ton for a score of years, and while regarded as the fiercest fighter in the House he has done more kindly 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 be known as “Uncle Joe.” Was Onro T>i»feat«»»l. Mr. Cannon was once defeated for Congress. He went down with the Re publican crash in 1890. after the pas sage of the McKinley hill. 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.’H McKinley. Thomas 13. Reed wrs elected. McKinley became chair man of the committee on ways and means and Cannon became chairman of the committee on appropriations. 1 “UNCLE JOE" CANNON. Ill every Republican congress since then Cannon has been chairman of his old committee, and as such he has had 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, “Cncle Joe" said little on either side. He be gan making a few figures, and one morning he 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 ized world. During the Spanish CrUls. The bill was unique. It had no I precedent. It appropriated 150,000,000 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 I poker players than to other men. He j tests the opposition with a bluff. Mr. Cannon was born in a Quaker settlement of North Carolina. When j he was four years old his father, Dr. Horace F. Cannon, emigrated to the t banks of the Wabash at Bloomingdale, i Parke county, Ind. Dr. Cannon lived in that town until his 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 he started out for himself, his first work being as a clerk in a i country store. He was 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. Mihm to Illlnola. The next year Mr. Cannon moved to Tuscola, 111., 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,) SIX FIERCE LIONS. A Strange Thing That Happened at a C'lrcaa. Show people dread a timid lion, tiger or leopard, not only because in its 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. The chief feature of the exhibition was a “turn,” consisting of the casting of a young woman, securely bound, into tic cage of lions, heralded as being the fiercest and most bloodthirsty of man eaters. Unfortunately, the woman who had the "thinking part” of the victim was taken ill, and a substitute was found in the wife ol one of the train ers, herself a trainer of some experi ence, but without any acquaintance with these particular six lions. As she was somewhat nervous, she carried a sion arise. Amid the breathless si lence of the spectators, the ring-mas ter explained the ferocious nature of the iions and the terrible risk of the woman, and she was thrust in at the cage-door. In the excitement of tho occasion the door was not spcurely shut after her. No sooner was she fairly inside than the six monarchs of the jungle, seeing that a strange per son had been forced upon them, raised i a chorus of shuddering terror, bolted for the cage door, clawed it open, and, with dragging tails and cringing flanks, fled through a r. ar entrance and found refuge in a cellar, where they were dislodged only after a great dif ficulty. It was a week before the "ferocious man-'at-rs” were sufficient ly recovered from their terrors to re appear in public.—McClure’s Magazine. New York, it is said, has an annual murder record of 500, Boston of 348, New Orleans of 215 and Chicago of 220. THE YOUNGER PLATT In his endeavor to establish the New York stabulary bill, Senator FRANK H. PLATT. Thomas C. Platt has the act've co operation of his son, Frank H. Platt. Indeed, it is claimed that the younger member of the family is the origina tor of the idea, and that by its pas sage he hopes to make himself a power in state politics. He Is credited with an ambition to st«p into his father's "hoes when the man from Tioga re linquishes the state leadership. Some people who are close to the senator say I that the older man leans considerably I upon his son for advice and that he would he pleased to see him become the party leader eventually. As the junior member of the great law firm of Tracy, Boardman & Platt, from which Gen. Tracy retired after his de feat. for mayor of Greater New York, young Platt was well trained. He Is an aggressive and shrewd young man and, even though he fails to reach the goal to which he aspires, is certain to be a more prominent figure iu Repub lican politics of the Empire state as the years pass. NEW SUITS FOR NAVY PLANS FOR FIVE IMMENSE AR MORED VESSELS. Speed of 19 Knota—TSiree Are to lie Shentlieil and to Have Suporpoeed Turrets—Work tireatly IH-liytiil by Armor CoutrarU When congress in March, 1899, ap propriated money for three sea-going coast-line battleships, carrying the heaviest armor and most powerful armament for vessel* of their class, it was evidently the intention to provide for vessels more powerful than those of any other nation in the world. The unfortunate provision by which the contracts for the vessels were made subject to an agreement us 10 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 five vessels, has fully carried out ""W ' n 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. Mieatlicil and Coppered. The vessels appropriated for in 1899 are required to hr* sheathed and cop pered, whereas those of the later ap propriation have been held b/the 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, 435 feet; i 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 the unsheathed vessels are: Length on load water line, 435 feet; breadth, ex treme, at load water line, 76 feet 2V2 inches; trial displacement about 14.600 tons; mean draught a trial displace ment, about 24 feet; greatest draught, full load, about 26 feet. *pretl of Nineteen Knot*. In the 15,000 tons represented in | each of those vessels, the many an- j tagonistic qualities essential to a per- j feet fighting machine have been com promised and incorporated in propor tions which expcr'ence 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 any 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. The steam necessary to this pow er will be supplied at a pressure of 250 pounds a square inch by twenty four Babcock ft Wilcox straight water tube boilers, placed four in each of six independent water-tight compart ments. Four Itlc <«un* on Each, Each ship will carry four twelve inch guns, forty calibers in length, mounted in pairs in Hichborn 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 he mounted in turrets of the Hirhborn type, super posed upon the twelve-inch turrets, and four in two turrets amidships, having an are of train of 180 degrees, and In the two unsheathed vessels all eight eight-inch guns will be mounted in four independent turrets, having an arc of train of 145 degrees, placed two on each side at the ends of the super structure, thus forming a quadrila teral. In each vessel there will be a broad side of twelve six-inch rapid-fire guns, fifty calibers in length, mounted six rm each side on the main deck, each with an arc of train of 110 degrees, and each will also have twelve four * tern pounders and twelve three-pound- p ers mounted In commanding posl tlons, and haring very large arcs of fire. In the two lower tops there will be four automatic one-pounders, and in the upper tops four single-shot one poundera. MANS POCKtTS. ' At I«o»t Woman Hai* No Mor» PorfceU than Ha* *h» Kangaroo. Man is a perfected marsupial. He is a creature of pockets. With him the 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 pooeb, fastened to ills belt. Now look at him and compare him to woman, for whom —In his chivalry—he is truly sorry. She, in her helplessness, Is usually be hind the kangaroo, and at her best only equals him with the one pouch fastened at her waist. She has not evolved through the law of 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 fingers 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—an exact score in ali. 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 he picking them up—except for the women. He made a pocket for his knife and a [KK-ket 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 he needed them. Women. In their help lessness, 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 his clothing. He Is kind and lends, for he Is sorry for them in their arrested de velopment.—New York Herald. THE LATE CEORGE W. WILSON. George Washington Wilson, late 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 IS 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 1869 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 the bureau. Commissioner Wilson was considered the most thoroughly informed man pks 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. the llpvlval of Tatehon Foretell FawhlonH of Fong Ago? Nobody can tell you just how or why it happened that moth patches—those little circles or crescents of black court plaster which are now worn by up-to date girls just at the corner of the mouth, or under the temple, or close to the ear, or in the middle of the cheek or chin, or on the shoulder— have come into favor again. Lint that they have come back is very evident. She who thinks that her efforts in this direction are limited by squares or cir cles 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, loz cngcr-shaped patches, rtar-shaped patches, heart-shaped patches, patches shaped like the ace of clubs, patches shaped like the ace of spades, flower %aped patches, or even patches shaped like chubby little Pierrots, or like lean little tragedians. If the wearer of these beautiflers 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 wnether these patches are to be used as an entering wedge to open the way for the return of the other marks or the age of the “Grand Monarch.” Will the little men begin to wear tall, red heels on their shoes to make them taller, as the "Grand Monarch" did? Will laces, satins, brocades, for men as well as women, come in fashion again ?—Stray Stories. Motormen Strike for Stool*. At Pensacola, Fla., the motormen on street cars struck for stools on which to eit while the cars are in motion. They had the sympathy of the people with them and won out.