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A SELF-MADE MAN. ONE OF THE UNUSUAL PROD¬ UCTS OF GREAT BRITAIN. l.ord Strathcona Has Lately Been Made a Canadian Peer—Sketch of a Self Made Man Who lias Risen to Wealth and Power. An English-Canadian baron, peer of her majesty’s realm, chancellor of Mc¬ Gill University at Montreal, resident governor of the Hudson Bay Company, and also claiming the interest of the United States as president of the Bank of Montreal, Chicago, Montreal and London, and as a director of the St. Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba rail¬ way and the Great Northern railway, of Minnesota, is Lord Strathcona and Mount Royal. His recent prominence in connection with the governor gen¬ eralship lends additional interest to the new member of the house of lords, .whose projects have been almost as intimately identified with the United States as they have with Canada. Since the tempestuous days of ’37 no uuch interest, in the governor general¬ ship has been shown In Canada as has been manifested the past year. After the departure of Lord Dufferin the ap¬ pointment of the queen’s son-in-law to Rideau hall seemed a nearer drawing of the dominion to the throne of Eng¬ land. It amounted to little more than a deserved compliment, however, and things jogged along after the same old • —_ 3 1 j 111 nV IT! £ 4) ill In V: [j j M ty V f < [$m mk ii •bTr 1 4 4, I y 111 yfflekm -3 iv i (f) '/y r ■■ §g LORD STRATHCONA. fashion until a Freneh-Caqadian lib eral gave promise in his election to the premiership of making radical chang es. Would the mother land give Can ada a successor to Lord Aberdeen from among the representative men who had wrought out the destiny of the young nation? If such a departure from British conservatism had been made it was an open secret that vice Tegal honors would have fallen to Lord Strathcona and Mount Royal. The time for such home rule has not come in the dominion, however, and Lord Minto. military secretary to Lord Lansdowne during the Riel rebellion, has received the approbation of Wind¬ sor castle and Canada! as Aberdeen’s successor. But it does not alter the fact that in London as high commis¬ sioner and peer of the realm, Lord Strathcona stands as one of the strong est factors in Canadian politics. His lordship’s latest project in rela¬ tion to colonization which, it is said, will shortly be submitted to the gov¬ ernment, is unique. It is >to establish agricultural and colonial schools where youths from Great Britain will be trained in farming, mining and ranch¬ ing, coupled with a military education. These schools will be established at Brandon, Winnipeg, Calgary and else¬ where, in buildings erected at govern¬ ment expense. At the end of three years those government proteges who give satisfaction will receive diplomas, in addition to donations of eighty to 160 acres of land. It is not generally known in the United States that Lord Strathcona, as Sir Donald Smith, participated largely in the early “development” of our own northwest, and that he has much capital invested with us, whether we like it or not. When the decree to create the “first baron of Strathcona and Mount Royal” was decided upon as a jubilee tribute to Sir Donald Smith it was judged appropriate to confer upon him the title of Mount Royal— “Montreal"—In remembrance of his princely donations to that city. It was likewise deemed proper to per¬ mit the new baron’s use of the beaver —Canada’s heraldic animal—the em¬ blem of perseverance, as a charge on his escutcheon. But when it came to combining with Mount Royal “Glen coe, ” the name of Sir Donald’s high land estate, as was first intended, that was quite another affair. Glencoe was an acquisition by purchase, neither conquest nor inheritance having any¬ thing to do with it, a fact that consti¬ tuted cause for annoyance in the breasts of some of the sensitive de¬ scendants of the lairds of Glencoe. The future laird of that estate, how¬ ever, was equal to the emergency. Glen and Strath are said to be syno¬ nyms for small ravine, while both coe and cona mean stream, making Glencoe and Strathcona to mean vir¬ tually the same thing. When as Donald Alexander Smith, the adventurous son of a Scotch gen¬ tleman, he preferred the dangers of a pioneer’s life to the ease of a civil ser¬ vice existence at home, he tramped from Montreal to the grim shores of Labrador, voluntarily exiling himself for fifteen years, where supplies even from civilization reached him but twice a year. This experience ulti¬ mately resslted in his appointment as the governor of the great. Hudson Bay Fur Company, the oldest company en¬ gaged In business on earth, having been incorporated by Charles II. in 1670. Lord Strathcona"’s Canadian home is one of Montreal’s show places. Its huge granite pile, with conical towers, was built a few years ago. Its gallery of paintings contains one of the most famous collections of old masters and modern originals in America, The history of each canvas or curio and the rare specimens of oriental art that adorn the Japanese and other apart¬ ments of this princely home would each be an interesting theme for a story. The windows of the great din ing hall bear portraits of the succes sive presidents of the Hudson Bay Company, and are surmounted by the monogram “H. B. C.” FOREMOST OF THE YOUNGER POETS. If ., Richard r,. , „ Hovey TT were an English man he would probably he exploited m a number of our magazines. As he is an American, his boom” ,s small; but he can afford to bide his time. From an article in the December Book man some facts about his life are gamed He was born in Bloomington, in.. 34 yearn ago, but he spent his boyhood ,n Washington and in Andov er, Mass He was graduated from Dartmouth college, and for the last twelve years has divided his time be tween New Tork and Washington. Two years he spent in Pans, where he was Maurice M 1 M.ieteriinck. nebT the H Belgian , - rme mys- an " tlc ’ He traDS,ated Maeterlinck’s plays and , his version was so faithful that it reproduced much of the charm of the original. Hovey s best work ,s the trilogy on Launcelot and Guinevere, V-: ■fM ^|gA\ iMllli WV ^ mm / m m*. -. lit it : rv v r i RICHARD HOVEY. hut he has also written “Songs from Vagabondia,” in collaboration with Bliss Carman, and a new volume oi his short poems is just out, entitled "Along the Trail." READS LIKE ROMANCE THE LIFE STORY OF THE LATE SENATOR BRICE. A Man of Terrific Energy Who Never Could Do Things on a Small Scale— Some Anecdotes of His Career as a Financier. The iate Calvin S. Brice was horn at Denmark, O., Sept. 17, 1845, his father being William K. Brice, a Presbyterian minister, and his mother Elizabeth Stewart Brice. The family remained at Denmark for three years after the birth of Calvin, when they moved to Columbus Grove, Putnam county, in the same state. When 15 years old young Brice entered the preparatory department of Miami university, at Oxford, O. At the outbreak of the war he enlisted in Capt, Dodd’s Uni¬ versity company, one of the first to he formed at the outbreak of the war. His company remained at Camp Jack son, Columbus, O., until the fall of 1861, when he returned to college, only to re-enlist in April, 1862, in another university organization commanded by Captain McFarland, which later on was merged into the Eighty-sixth Ohio in¬ fantry and known as company A. He remained in the organization during its summer campaign in West Virginia and then returned to the university, where he was graduated in 1863. After graduating he taught in the public schools and later on received an ap¬ pointment as auditor of Allen county. In July, 1864, he again joined the fed¬ eral forces, having received a commis¬ sion as captain of company E, One Hundred and Eighteenth Ohio infan try. He served in the field with the Twenty-third army corps in Tennessee, Virginia, the Carolinas and Georgia until the close of the war. He was ap¬ pointed lieutenant-colonel, but never mustered in. He then took a course in the law department of the Univer sity of Michigan at Ann Arbor, and was admitted to the bar in the spring of 1866, when he began practice at Lima, O. His first experience as a railroad lawyer was in the legal de partment of the Lake Erie and Louis¬ ville railroad, in which corporation he acquired a moderate share of stock and played an energetic part in construc¬ tion of extensions of that road. Brice Certainly had a remarkable career. It is no time at all since he hadn’t enough to flag a bread wagon. It was in Governor Foster’s time as chief magis¬ trate of Ohio when Brice, then a poor, hard-up lawyer, managed to get into Foster’s debt to the extent of about $2,000. One day Brice came to Foster and told him the law business didn't pay, and asked him to appoint him to m SSlt^ W'M^\ A. l ii i ; ' W. IS, mm, Hi w 'A m 'dr''/' l. CALVIN S. BRICE. a position where he might make a liv¬ ing. “Can’t,” said Foster; “you’re a dem¬ ocrat.” "I admit,” replied Brice, “that I am slightly a democrat, but if you’d give me a position I’ll guarantee that no body will notice it.” “Can’t do it.” said Foster, “To ap point a democrat would ruin me” " B ut you’ll never get your $2,000,” Kaid Brice. “You might as well ask me to make a star as to make that $2,000 with m Iavv practice.” -m tell you what I’ll do,” said Fos ter. “I am all tangled up with Hock ing Valley on the New York stock ex change, and I want somebody i’ll to go there and look after things, send you • if you -n go Brice jumped at the chance. Foster gave him ?50 0 and’a lot of direc tions, and impressed upon him solemn tbe necessity of doing just what he was told _ If Brice ha(J b jt ho wouId have take n your order and lhen brought you anyth i ng ;„ he J please d. He wonld bave used bis o j gment . That>8 wbat he dld wlt h Foster’s Hocking ValIey deal but he clawed off a $40,000 profit, whereas, if he had done as Foster told him he would have lost all. Foster was delighted, and, like a good old man in a story book, he gave the young man $20,000. Then Brice went back to Wall street and plunged. Brice’s greatest play was building the Nickel Plate. He put in every dol !ar he coubl Set. and from any source. There came a time, too, when to save himself from utter ruin, if not from something worse, he had to sell. He went to Vanderbilt, whose road the Nickel Plate paralleled. Vanderbilt gave him what low natures call “the laugh.” He wouldn’t buy the Nickel Plate. He said he could afford to wait for the first mortgage foreclosure and buy it from the sheriff, “If you don’t buy it Jay Gould will.” said Brice. “Oh, no, he won’t.” said Vanderbilt, and then he gave the anxious Brice a second edition of “the laugh.” Brice then went to Gould. He knew that Gould didn’t want the Nickel Plate, but he had a beautiful scheme to propose. He wanted to let Vander¬ bilt in for the road, and he knew he would buy it before he would allow . Gould to get it. Here came Brice'b 1 strategy. He told Gould that if he would sit silent and not contradict neither affirm nor deny any newspaper article to the effect that he was going to buy the Nickel Plate, and after this clamlike silence had continued for a week, if he would then slowly ride over the Nickel Plate in an observation ca-, Vanderbilt would buy the road and he would give Gould $500,000. Gould didn’t care for the $500,000, but he was a jocose speculator, and it struck him that the whole thing would be a majestic joke on Vanderbilt. And that was the story of it. The papers came out and said Gould was going to buy the Nickel Plate. Gould, when asked, kept mum and looked wise. At the end of a week he meandered, snail like, over the Nickel Plate, smoking cigars from the rear end of an ob¬ servation car and had all the air of a man who was looking at a piece of property. Stories were wired about Gould’s trip from every water tank and way station along the line, and before Gould had reached Chicago Vanderbilt., in a fit of hysterics, wired Brice that he would take the Nickel Plate. Van¬ derbilt took the Nickel Plate and Brice was saved. YOUNGEST CHAPLAIN IN NAVY. Chaplain Frederick C. Brown, United States navy, who is on the Iowa for % m ^7 / J it y 7/ ///r i REV. FREDERICK C. BROWN her long cruise to Manila, has the dis tinction of being the youngest chaplain in the navy. There being no chaplain on the Oregon, Mr. Brow will be the only chaplain of the fleet. Chaplain Brown was appointed to the service last April, being at that time pastor of the Unitarian church of Middle boro, Mass. He is a fluent speaker, never using notes of any sort, and having a rapid and forceful delivery that always makes his addresses inter¬ esting. He is about 25 years old and a native of Brooklyn. He graduated from the Meadville (Pa.) Theological seminary. During the war he was on the United States steamer Columbia, where he was very popular with the men. WILHELMINA’S BETROTHED. The long-talked-of betrothal of the youthful and interesting Queen Wil helmina of Holland has at last been virtually decided, the happy fiance and future Dutch prince consort being his highness Prince William of Wied, a kinsman of her majesty. The queen, as is generally known, was 18 at her accession, Aug. 31, and Prince William will be 23 March 26. He was born at Neuwied, the capital of his father’s domains, situated in Rhenish Prussia, and is a lieutenant of the Prussian regiment of the corps of the guards stationed at Potsdam. He belongs to the evangelical church and the queen to the reformed. The prince’s parents are H. S. H. the reign¬ ing Prince William, born Aug. 22, 1845, a Prussian general and hereditary member of the house of peers, and H. R. H. Princess Marie of Holland, born July 5, 1841, only child of the late Prince Frederic of the Netherlands and Princess Louise of Prussia, sister of Emperor William I. The prince has a younger brother, Victor, born Dec. 7, 1877, an officer in the Prussian regiment of Uhlans No. 3 of the guards, and two young sisters, Princess Louise and Elizabeth, respectively 18 and 16 years of age. His aunt is the queen o fa s 1L "■tv K kJM % I s A l , v\' l\ v H. H. PRINCE WILLIAM OF WIED. of Roumania, “Carmen Sylva,” and his paternal grandmother the Princess Marie of Nassau and the Netherlands, born in 1825. The family is a very wealthy one and is connected with some half a dozen royal houses. Go to Sleep Good-Natured. Now, one word of warning. Try to keep your face as reposeful as possible when sleeping. This is the time that nature repletes the waste of the day. And if you would be pretty you must help her. She cannot do it unassisted. If she wants to fill up the tissues of the skin at night try ’to remember that when you go to sleep you must do so with a reposeful smile on your face. Afraid to Come Home. It is said that Dewey, the bravest, of the brave, acknowledges frankly that he is afraid to come home and face the American women.—Griffin Daily News. Onr Policy of Territorial Expansion. Extreme annexationists arc advocating the nddJtioi > or Canada to this country, and think It. can be accomplished in a peaceful manner without^excitinp: Such questions a call quarrel for the with wisest, England. states, grave mansliip, and pist as dyspepsia, constipation, liver htomT^Lne^ kidney diseases and malaria call tor a be done with untried medicines when an old established preparation is to be had. If a man sits on a bent pin he is apt to rise suddenly and speak briefly and pointedly. TSTo-To-Bac £©* Fifty Cents. Guaranteed tobacco aabit cure, makes weak tnen strong, blood nuVe 50c. Si. All druggists. NVe can touch tlie hearts of others when onr hearts have been touched by Christ. “Evil Dispositions Are Early Shown. ” Just so evil in the blood comes out in shape of scrof¬ ula, pimples, etc., in children and young people. Taken in time it can be eradicated by using Hood's Sarsaparilla. In older irregular] pe'tole, the aftermath of living shows it¬ self in bilious conditions, a heavy head, a foul mouth, a general bad feeling. It is the blood, the impure blood, Irien'ds, which is the real cause. Purify that with Hood’s Sarsaparilla and happiness will reign in your family. Blood PO!OOn-“I lived in a bed of fire for years owing to blood poisoning that fol¬ lowed small po;. It broke out ail over my body, itching inf Jisely. Tried doctors and hospitals in vain. I tried Hood’s Sarsapa¬ rilla, It helped. I kept at it and was en¬ tirely cured. I could go on the housetops and shout about it.” Mbs. J. T. Williams. Carbondale, Pa, Scrofula Sores-"My baby cheek at two and months had scrofula sores on physicians’ arm. Local applications and medicine did little or no good. Hood’s Sar¬ saparilla cured him permanently, He is now four, with smooth fair skin.’ Jjr.s, S. S. Wkoten, Farmington, Del. Ifood'A Si •er;D Hood's Pills cure fiver ills; non-irritating and the only cathartic to /alee with Hood’s Sarsaparilla. Carried Off by an Eagle. “Did you ever see an eagle carry off a baby to the skies?” said a Broome : County drummer, who is in New York for the sights. “There's a fanner named Vandewater living near Cas¬ cade Valley, in the County I come from. Last summer he caught a big eas . te in a tr|lp . Tbe blrd grew tame and became a. household pet. A few mornings ago 5Jrs. | Vanclewater went a neigihbor - B 1 0 borrow some salt, leaving her small children with the eagle. When' she returned the eagle was sitting on a 1 shed with the baby in its talons. “A hunter -ame along with a gun. Before he coqld shoot, the eagle flew away with tHe baby. The child was heavy, and it was impossible for the bird to rise for more titan twenty feet above the ground, It appeared an easy mark, Il'ut the man was afraid to “After shoot on chasing a|-count the of eagle the child. and its prey for a quarter of a mile, the hunt¬ er shot at the bird and broke one of its wings. The eagle beat the air furious¬ ly with its remaining wing for a full minute and then began to fall. “Mrs. Vandewater rushed for her crying child, and soon had it in her arms. The eagle continued to fight, but it was soon killed with the butt of the rifle. It measured seven feet from tip to tip. The child was not hurt much, but when it grows up it can prove that I’m a truthful man oc¬ casionally, even if I tint a drummer.— New York Press. [tEIIEX TO JUS. TINKHAM NO. 29,602] “Two yea f rs ago I was a great sufferer from womb trouble and pro¬ fuse flowing yach month, and tumors -P- would form Another Tumor in the womb. I had four Removed by tumors in Lydia £> Pink- two years. I ham’s Vagrefa- went through treatment hie Comitotund with doctors, but they did me no good, and I thought I would have to resort to morphine. could “ The doctor said that all that help me was to have an operation and have the womb removed, but I had heard of Mrs. Pinkham’s medicine and decided advice, and to after try i|;, taking and wrote her Vegetable for her Compound the tumors were expelled and I began to get stronger right along, and am ad well as ever before. Can truly say that I would never had gotten well had it'not been for Lydia E. Pinkham’s Compound.” — Marv A. Stahl, Watsontowk, Pa. What Mrs, Pinkham’s Letter DM. “ Dear Mrs. Pi.n kham— After follow¬ ing the directions given in your kind letter for the treatment of leueorrheea, I can say that I have been entirely cured by the use of Lydia E. Pinkham's remedies, and wilt gladly recommend them to my friends. “ Thanking youifor your kindness, I am gratefully yours, !y.” A. B. Davids, Binghamptox, N. EUS Best Cough i^yrurt. Tastes Good. Use in txme. SolH by dmegists. CONSUMPTION A ITER VOLUNTEER^ OUT -| m - Orders Have Been Issued Froi i the War Department. THEY ARE VERY SWEEPINf Three Georgia Cities Selected A S Mustering Out Points. The war department issued the fol¬ lowing statement Monday: tlie ‘ ‘Orders have been issued for muster out of the following volunteer regiments: “At Savannah, Ga.—Third Georg batteries A, B, C, D, Maine artillei yi 202d New York volunteers. “At their present camps at August a, Ga., and Greenville, S. G.—Third Al¬ abama, Third Connecticut, Fifth Mns sachusetts, Thirty-fifth Michigan, F if¬ teenth Minnesota, Fourth New Jersey> 201st New York,203d New York, Tet th Ohio,First Rhode Island,Second West Virginia. vol¬ “This order discharges all the unteers remaining in the United States.” The orders will muster out about 16,000 volunteer troops, including ah such troops now in camp in the Unit ed States and the Third Georgia, at Neu vitas; the Two Hundred and Second New York, at Gnanajay, and four bat¬ teries of Maine artillery, now at Ha¬ vana. They will be mustered out at Savannah, Ga. This will reduce the army strength to 110,000 men, of which 30,000 are stationed in Cuba. All the volunteer troops in Porto Rico have been previously discharged and the only volunteers still in the service are either in the Philippines or in Cuba. No action will be taken w/itfi regard acts to those the pending troops until congij Ifor ess upon measures the reorganization of the regular aniLY T he enactment of the Hull bill, the war department says, will result 111 *he mus ter out of all the remaining volunteers. They will be given the first opportunity for re-enlistment m the regular service, however, and it is the expectation and hope of the war department that a majority of them will avail themselves of this privilege, there being a strong desire to secure the benefit of their services. Regarding the order a Washington special special says: The order for the muster Thlrd Georgia came as R surprise to the members of the Georgia delegation. Some time muiiter (igo there was talk of the possible out of the regiment, but nothing hals been heard from that since the regi¬ ment got to Cuba. tlie The present order is due both to policy of the department to must* out all volunteers not very mucp needed, and to the desire on the part of the department officials to put an end to the importunities of the soldie: s f° r discharges. These applicatioi 18 have been coming in steadily, much ' o the disgust of the adjutant general arjd other officials, and the desire to gjet free from them was doubtless instru¬ mental, in some degree, to the rnnstpr out order of Monday. SCORES BOOK AGENTS. Atlanta, Ga., Methodists Want Barbee and Smith To Resign. An exciting meeting of the Metblo-* dist ministers of Atlanta took place Monday morning in the basemeiit.of Trinity parsonage. The subject jof discussion was the present difficulty in tlie Methodist Publishing House matter. The ministers passed resolutions asking the hook committee to demand the resignation of Barbee & S>niih, agents of the Methodist’ Episcopal publishing house at Nashville, Ttenn. ABERNATHY GOES TO PEN. Private Found Guilty of nanslau'ghter Gets Heavy Sentence. A Washington dispatch says: Private Hampton Abernathy, Compank A, Third North Carolina volunteer in fantry, having been tried and Ifouud guilty of manslaughter by a general eourtmartial convened at Camp Has¬ kell, Macon, Ga., has discharged been sentenced from to be dishonorably the service of the United States and to be confined in Leavenworth peniten¬ tiary for fifteen years. NEGROS ISLAND SURRENDERS. The United States Flag Run Up and Natives Are Greatly Pleased. A Manila, special says: White the guns on the city walls and thpse on board the ships of Rear Admiral Dewey’s fleet in the bay fired a salute in honor of Washington’s birthday, four commissioners from the island of Negros had an interview with Major General Otis and informed him that the American flag had already been raised over that island, and that fits inhabitants were ready, anxious And willing to accept any proposition the Americans might offer. The insur¬ gents have been driven front the island entirely. MR. HITCHCOCK INSTALLEDj New Secretary of the Interior it For¬ mally Sworn In. A Washington dispatch srys: Mr Ethan Ellen Hitchcock, of Missouri, recently United States ambassador to Russia, took the prescribed oath of office Monday and entered upon his duties as secretary of the interior, as successor to Mr. Bliss, who sent in his resignation some weeks ago.