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i tLtflf) lilt Pages 9 to 16. 1. OCTOBER 7, 1900 SIXTY-EIGHT PAGES. where the men employed In armor plate LIBERALS GIVE UP HOPE OF GAIN RIVAL BRITISH LIONS. A CAMPAIGN CARTOON ISSUED BY THE CONSERVATIVES.

LORD SALISBURY SOLVES PUZZLE. by Claude Terrasse, was produced at the Theatre des Mathurins. The music is charming and contains two or three captivating airs, but the attempt to utilize the Old Testament for opera bouffe has disappointed the expectations of the critics. At the first night's performance was Henri Rochefort, and the venerable iconoclast, whose opinion on such new plays and operas is considered as almost infallible, said the idea was undoubtedly brilliant, but that the opera was not likely to have a long life, owing to its want of backbone. He said he thought that before long the Old Testament legends adapted to opera bouffe would make a decided popular hit in France and in America also.

Other Novelties Offered. Among the other theatrical novelties Is a frisky little ballet called Cadet Roussel," brought out last night with considerable British Premier Gets Credit for Straightening Tangle Over China. THREE NATIONS UNITED. United States, England, and Germany Have Identical Interests in the Far East. SETTLEMENT NOW ASSURED, TSpecial Cable to the Kew York TritinM The Chicago Tribune by I.

Fori.) LONDON, Oct. 6. The distinct Improve-j ment in the Chinese situation is attributed by well informed men mainly to Lord Salis-j bury's astuteness In that he did not follow 1 the advice of the English press. Every Lon-j don journal except -one assumed that hi would accept the German proposals In their- original form, but he considered the main feature of the scheme Impossible and offered the Foreign ministry at Berlin a chance tov amending it. Europe, America, and Japan, through his intervention, have maae a ciosa approach to a preliminary understanding', and Germany has not been affronted by the( blunt refusal after her own spirit of deter--mination in regard to south Africa.

The diplomatic processes are tedious, anT there is now a bewildering array of protocol and counter protocols and counter but a settlement of some kind Is exDected. In the London embasslea th worKs were kept busy by the Admiralty. These contrary Instances, however, do not really vitiate the contention that the down right man has fared better than the other, even in London. Election System Not Fair. Elections are lotteries in this country, per haps, more than anywhere else, and the rea son why an enormous vote secures such small share of the representation lies partly in arDurary subdivision constituencies Small boroughs and petty districts retain me right to return one and sometimes two members, when they should be merged io larger constituencies.

Then, our resristra tlon system Is such that the wealthier voter Is at an enormous advantage always, but particularly when the poll is. taken on an old register. The register of votes In England is made up each year on the 2(th of July. Owners of real estate, under all the forms of tenure prevalent, must have resided six months In the constituency previous to that date to become qualified. Renters of dwellings and lodgers must have been twelve months not only In the constituency but in the particular dwelling occupied by them when the register is made up.

Once finally adjusted by the revising court, the register comes into force on the succeeding 1st of January, ana remains in force for twelve months. In i Irge towns a great proportion of the work ing population is migratory; therefore, when an election takes place, as in the present instance, on a register made up nearly fifteen months before the date of polling, great numbers of the lower ranks of voters, par ticularly in larger cities, have gone away. -rj. actiuis me noi aisrrancnised in a technical sense, because they remain for a whole year qualified to vote in the constituency where thelr names were put upon the roll. One Man Has Many Votes.

One man in this country may have twenty votes, provided they are in different constituencies and If the pollings are judiciously distributed he can career about the three kingdoms and support his candidate in every constituency where he Is qualified. But not so with the workingman. He has only one vote, and frequently can't use it, because he would lose perhaps a day's work if he traveled the distance necessary to reach the constituency where he i qualified. Hence, ia a practical disfranchisement of thousands when the register is old. Liberals Are Disorganized.

The best thing, therefore, that the Liberal rarty can do is to put its household in order. It Is not only divided against Itself on the main question of the day but is split up into fragments of all sorts and kinds and is ridden to death by faddists. Tins sectional warfare mars unity, and when we add the local interests and pulls it is not difficult to understand why immense energy and much polling should often produce so much futility. It is generally admitted that the wants of the government are too urgent to admit of delay. It has exhausted all Its borrowing powers and is in further debt on every hand.

All forecasts of the cost of this war have been falsified, and instead of asking for power to raise another 1.1,000,000, Sir Michael Hicks-Beach should have obtained the liberty to raise another 30,000,000. The War office calculation, upon which he based his demand, was that the troops would be on their way home by the end of September. We are on the eve of the anniversary of the Boer invasion of Natal, with all our army except a few colonials and volunteers still in the field. "War Is Wot Ended. It is all well for the leaders of both political parties to declare that annexation is irrevocable, and that, once Incorporated within the sacred limits of the British empire, there caa be no giving back, but the annexation is not acquiesced in by the inhabitants.

Their leave has never been asked, and they are persistently saying no cfil over both states. Of course, everything Is being kept beautifully quiet, and Lord Roberts has been proving a most excellent special correspondent during the present contest, but before annexation can be an accomplished fact we must fully occupy the an nexed territory. Affairs in China No Better. We are once more saying smooth things to ourselves about the accord of the powers in China. Germany has modified her demands and come into line with the temporizing potentates.

Yes, but Germany has also obtained from Russia the control of one end of the Tien Tsin-Pekin railway, built mostly with British money, and Germany is not a free tracer. MAY BUY LONDON TIMES in British Elections Leave Them in Same Helpless Minority as Before. WORK WELL PLANNED. Members Returned Do Not Show Relative Numerical Strength of Parties. SYSTEM DECLARED UNFAIR.

Special Cable to tho New York Times and The Chicago Tribune by A. J. Wilson. LONDON. Oct.

6. All hope of a Liberal victory was abandoned from the first, if anybody indeed ever entertained it, and after the borough pollings were declared yesterday morning the talk of a reduction of the present majority has also ceased. The Liberal party may think itself fortu-' nate If It escapes a worse fate than befell it lrf 1895. Then the outcome of the ballot boxes put it in a minority of l.lli, and today, with all the Knglish boroughs polled, it ia In a minority of fully UK). From many points of view this is a hard fate and does not In the least form the relative strength of the parties as shown in the numbers polled.

Had the seats secured in 1 been in proportion to the strength of the parties as revealed in the number of votes recorded the Unionist majority would have been only 11 instead of 152. On the present occasion the polls were often exceedingly heavy on both sides, and had the seats been distributed according to the numerical strength of the parties the Unionist majority would not have been much bigger than that of Ave years ago. Unionists Have Working Power. An academic sort of consolation may be found in these comparisons, but for practical purposes we can only deal with the broad fact that the Unionist working majority Is today overwhelming and may by the end of next week, when all the counties have been polled, reach a figure quite as high as it did In 1895. All sorts of explanations and excuses are being given for this (to the Liberals) disastrous outcome.

They none of them really explain away the fact that with the great urban population war is still popular. These look at it purely from a prize ring point of view; an enemy is to be fought and downed, and we back our own side in the fight. At the top this passion has been most dili- gently and unscrupulous-! fomented by the government, and even Gerald Balfour has stooped so low as to issue a placard with tho legend, Remember that to vote for a Liberal Is to vote for the Boer," and to have the ludicrous spectacle of Captain Lambton, an Imperialist' Liberal and the real hero of the Ladysmith defense, turned out of New castle as a pro-Boer, for even such Rose-beryites as he was do not escape that opprobrious nickname. Positive Stand the Best. It Is a noticeable fact that the men who have stalwartly taken a clearly defined position of hostility to our whole south African policy, and to the present war in particular, have generally fared better at the hands of the electors than those who tried to sit on the fence and shout Tory sentiments while promising to vote Liberal.

Look at the markable fight made by John Burns in Bat-tersea. That constituency was intensely hostile to him and his outspoken condemna-ilon of the war. He himself said that he auite expected to be defeated, but he persevered doggedly day toy day and week by week and in the end even a rich and popular brewer was not able to cash him out, but igainst his victory, Bryce's, and Sir R. Reid's may place the defeat of Phillip Stanhope, Burnley, and Maddlson at Leeds. The latter, however, had to -fight in a constituency A.

HARMSWORTH, WHO 1 This raging beast is the lion or "Greater England" BEAT'PARNELL BY TRICK. OPPONENTS OF EATE LEADER'S BROTHER WORK SCHEME. Nomination Being: I'nanimous, He Pays Only l'neon tested Election Fees, anil When, at Eleventh Hour, J. Carevr Enters Field, He Is Disqualified Chamberlain to Become Ministerial Honse Leader, Balfonr Goins to Lords Cornwallis West Forgiven. Special Cable to the New York World and The Chicago Tribune.

LONDON, Oct. 6. The most extraor dinary incident of the general election was the trick by which J. II. Parnell, the late leader's brother, was deprived of his seat for South Meath which he held in the last Parliament.

He was unanimously chosen by the Meath Nationalists, and, there being no opposition. he only paid the election fees for an uncon tested return when he was nominated. But at the last moment James L. Carew, another Nationalist, formerly a Parnellite, but now a Hedlyite, was also nominated. His friends at once put down the full fees for a con tested election, and.

Parnell being unpre pared, was disqualified, Carew being- forth with returned as the member for the division. This trick, perpetrated at the expense of a fellow-Nationalist, has aroused the fiercest Indignation, but if Carew chooses to retain the seat he is legally entitled to do so. He w-as thrownout of his own former seat for the College Green division of Dublin because he had been presented at court this year. illlam Bnen scored an overwhelming victory in Cork City, defeating the sitting member, Maurice Healy, by a bluralitv at three to one. 'Tim" Healy, though opposed by a com paratively insignificant politician in North Louth, only got a plurality of and his followers throughout Ireland are being wiped out.

Reconstruction of the Iliniitry. Lively times are expected when the new Parliament meets. Rtimors are rife of a reconstruction of the Salisbury Cabinet after the eleciieii. The latest information in ministerial circles Is that Lord Salisbury will retain the Premiership, but will invited Lord Cromer, British agent for Egypt, and a the Baring firm, to accept the Foreign Secretaryship. Arthur Balfour 13 expected to go to the House of Lords, with the title cf I.orl Wl.it-tinghame, after his Scotch estate.

Joseph Chamberlain becoming- l'lrst Lc -l cf the Treasury and leader in Lhe House of Com mons. As the present election was oncetved r.d executed by Chamberlain, it is considered impossible for BaKour to sit beside him ag-ain in Commons as the nominal leader of the party really returned to support Chamberlain. The Cornwallis 'K'ests Forgiven. A grand reconciliation has taken place between the Cornwallis Wesus and their eon's bride, better known as Lady Randolph Churchill. This happy state of affairs win bs known at a shooting party which the Wests have arranged for next week at New-lands Manor.

Young West and hi bride arc-to "be present, and several imlmut friends cf the family, but the daughter's family have refused to overlook Randolph's capture of their only brother. When the shooting party was arranged Princess Henry of Pless. Sheelach Wesr, and their aunt, Miss Fitzpatrick. left England for Silesia, refusing to grace the reunion with their presence. Mr.

and Mrs. George VS est were in town success at the Casino de Paris, in which an attractive feature is a military quadrille danced to drums and fifes. The music, by Henri Cieutat, contains some spirited and catchy compositions likely to become quite popular on the boulevards. Still another new ballet, called Wat-teau," by Jean Lorrain and Edmond Diet, was produced at the Olympia. It is a glittering bit of nonsense, containing some pretty Louis XV.

plastic tableau. It furnishes a pretext for trotting out before the Parisian public Mile. Liane de Pougy and a flying squadron of high-stepping professional beauties. Passengers for America. Among the passengers for the St.

Paul from Cherbourg are: Mrs. William Alexander, Miss Alexander, Mr. and Mrs. G. W.

Balch, Miss Balch, Mr. and Mrs. MacGrane Coxe, Mrs. L. E.

Clark, Mr. and Mrs. B. B. Clark, Mrs.

Lewis Emery and family, A. W. Green, the Misses Green, Mrs. Griswold Gray, Miss Ethel Irvin, Mrs. R.

O. Giddings and family, Mr. and Mrs. L. C.

Hanna, Miss Hanna, Miss Fanny Hanna. J. S. Hanna, Mrs. Alfred Harrison, Mrs.

George Harrison, Mrs. C. E. Hastings and the Misses Hastings, Mr. and Mrs.

H. H. Haines, Miss Haines, Mr. and Mrs. C.

C. Hubbard, Mr. and Mrs Wade Hampton, Mrs. J. Laurence Lee, Miss Lee, Mrs.

C. A. Moore and family. Mrs. C.

L. Perkins, the Rev. and Mrs. J. Mac-Naughton, Mrs.

A. B. Parrish, Mr. and Mrs. W.

H. Parrish," Mr. and Mrs. O. T.

Paine, Robert Treat Paine, John W. Paine. John Paine, Mr. and Mrs. J.

Hopkinson Smith, Miss Hopkinson Smith, Mr. and Mrs. T. A. Shaw C.

E. Syms, Mr. and Mrs. Louis Sherry and family, Mr. and Mrs.

Charles L. Taylor, Miss Lilian Taylor. Mr. and Mrs. J.

H. Valle, Mr. and Mrs. H. L.

Van Wyck and the Misses Van Wyck, Mr. and Mrs. William W. Whittier, Miss Addie Walsh, Miss Anna Young, the Vicomte de Santa Cruz, Benjamin F. Trlgblood, and Louis Nethersole.

Passengers on the Lorraine from Havre are: Mr. and Mrs. W. Nelson Cromwell, Mr. and Mrs.

Albert Smith. Mr. and Mrs. S. E.

Morss. Miss Morss, Mme. N. Chapiu3, Mile. Phillipott, Mrs.

William M. Brown and the Misses Browrt, Mr. and Mrs. Albert Smith, Mr. and Mrs.

Henry Hatton. Mrs. Kellog, General Abbott, Miss Abbott, M. Hutin, Colonel A. Gross, M.

de Koutkourky; Jules Boeufoe, H. Gourd, Mme. Harbeson, M. and Mme. Deckert de la MeiUale, Theobald and Mme.

Chartran. G. G. Howjand, George Pollock, Russell Sturgis, F. MacMonnics, R.c!and Knoedler, Charles Ivnoedler, C.

H. Hutchinson, Edward Spencer Pratt, Dr. F. E. Eeckwoth, Henry E.

Gourd, Charles and James Gordon Bennett. Among the passengers who sailed yesterday on the Fuer: from Cherbourg were: Mrs. R. Hall McCorrr.ick and the Misses McCorrnick, Mrs. C.

C. Christie and the Misses Christie, Mrs. G-orge Lord Day. Mrs. F.

S. reabody and. family. General and Mrs. Clinton Paine and the Misses Paine, Robert McCormick.

and J. H. Aronson. who have left Paris to sail on the Lucania are: Mr. and Mrs.

Mai Oppen-heimer, Mrs. J. C. Hammond, Miss Hammond, Mrs. Eugene Thomson, Mr.

and Mrs. Jacob Stern. Mrs. Henry Wilson Hart, Miss Hart, Mrs. Harold Peck, Miss AnnaC.

Peck, Miss Haroldine Peck, Miss Josephine Peck, Mrs. Effingham Maynard and the Misses Maynard, and Mr. and Mrs. T. L.

Caldwell. The following are booked In Paris to sail on the Majestic on Wednesday: Mrs. E. C. W.

Griffith, Miss Griffith. Mr. and Mrs. Nathan Seeley, Mr. and Mrs.

J. B. Bourne. Mr. and Mrs.

J. R. Jones, Miss M. L. Chauncey, Mrs.

Robert Goelet, Mrs. G. II. Warren, and James Parmelee. G.

VON L. MEYER, NEW George von Lchr Ieyer of Boston, who has been appointed Minister to Italy, is the Massachusetts member oi the Republican National committee, and has been Speaker of the Massachusetts Legislature. He was born on Beacon Hiil, Boston, on June 24, 1858. lie graduated at Harvard in 1879. After three years in the Boston City government he Pi its animal is alleged to be of the Radical or "Little England" prty.

the WIS WOMEN'S GOLF GOP. MISS MARGAP.ET AEEOTT LEADS PLAY NEAR PARIS. Some Interesting: Contests Uccidcd at Conipiofjne inks tJfillery Interferes with Some of the Players Xetv Tenor Makes Soccessfnl First Ap. Iea ranee in Opera Exposition Attendance Falls Off Several Thousand for the Week Xovelties at Theaters. Special Cable to the ITew York Tribune and Tlie Cliicasa Triiuse hy C.

I. Barnard. PARIS. Oct. (j.

There has be-f-n a slight failing off in the exhibition atUmiance, the daily average paying entrances blng as against for last week. Numbers of well-known Americans continue to arrive, many of whom attended the international golf matches given under the auspices of the exhibition on Compiegr.e links. The women's championship attracted the most attention. Among those present were Mr. and Mrs.

Marshall Field Mr. and Mrs. Amcry Lawrence, Mr. Caleb Curtis and his two daughters, Mr. and Mrs.

John R. Diexel. Mr. Drexel.Paul and Miss Paul; Mrs. Whitney Warren, who is visiting her father.

Mr. C. C. Tookcr; Mrs. John Whitoomb Cotton, Miss Cotton, Mr.

and Mrs. Edward Blair, Mrs. Levi P. Morton and daughters, Mr. and Mrs.

H. O. llaveir.eyer, Mrs. John Sargent Cram, and a smart Parisian contingent from the Faubourg Saint Germain. There were ten entries for the women's event, Anions whom was Miss Margaret Abbott, who a cauple of years ago belonged to the Golf club, and played with Mrs.

ChaiueU-Taylor and other Western players on the Wheaton links. Large Gallery for Women's Contest. Miss Abbott's round with Mrs. Hugfr Pratt attracted the largest gallery of the meeting, and the crowd frequently put them off their stroke and had no t-ruall influence on the somewhat poor returns. Mrs.

Pratt had more than one bad piece of luck in getting bunkered or hitting trees. Miss Abbott's score of 47 being good enough, however, to win. Mrs. Pratt's return was D3. Miss Polly Whittier, who has had some play this summer at St.

Moritz, took only two more strokes for her round than did Miss Abbott, who won the bowl of old Saxon porcelain mounted in chiseled gold, the othor two prizes for women going to Miss Whittier of Boston and Mrs. Huger Pratt of New York. Mme. Froment Meurice was best of the French women players and Mme. Fournier anoveze and Baroness Fain showed promising form.

Mrs. Henry Ridgway played in excellent form, her return being oT. To the stewards of the tournament. Count Jacques de Pour-tales and Lieutenant Fournier Varlovcze, tho credit is due fcr making this the test golf meeting held near Paris. IJew Tencr Appears ni Paris.

There is great satisfaction among the habitues of the grand opera at the debut last night of a voting tenor named Rous-seliere as Samson in Saint-Sacna opura of Samson et Delilah." whom the Parisian musical critics this morning do not hesitate to accord a high rank amor.g the best French vocalists. Rousseiiere studied at the Conservatory of Music, where he did not secure the highest honors, but after the reception he was given last night his success seems assured. His voice is warm and sonorous and also of great pow er, owinsr, perhaps, to the physical training of his luiigs. for the new tenor only a few years ago was a professional bicycle racer in his native town of Carcassonne and made several records on the velodromes of southern France and Algeria. On Tuesday Tristan He-rnard's opera bouffo, La Petite Loth," music 4 of the Unionist party.

This modest symbol this week, constantly driving about together. The honeymoon 15 evidently t-tin in full swing. General James Favors SIcKiniey. General Thomas L. James was interviewed regarding his views on the Presidential campaign before he sailed on the Umbiia today.

The ex-Postmaster General said: President McKir.ley will be elected hands down. He is the best man. The issue which will rule the election is right and and right will most assuredly win. The trust question is not calculated to turn voters to the Democratic side. There are Democrats in the United States who are interested in trusts the same as Republicans are.

The conquest of the Philippines has been already settled. We hold the islands so far and intend to continue to hold them against all comers." ESCAPES DEPORTATION BY RUSE Cambodian Prince, Seeking Rights for. His Country, Gives French Officers the Slip, Fleeing to Belgium. TSpecial Cable to the New York World and Ihe Chicago Tribune. PARIS, Oct.

6. The best joke perpetrated upon any government for a long time played upon President Loubet and his Cabinet when Prince Inkanthor allowed ail the French official world to accompany with royal honors one of Ws servants to an outgoing steamer at Marseilles, while he himself skipped incognito to Brussels, where he has been creating all sorts of trouble for Colonial Minister Decrais. Inkanthor is the eldest son of King Norodom of Cambodia, who sent him to France to obtain redress from the protectorate officials for oppression. The King claims that France's representatives, allied with native women of ho character, treat Cambodia as a conquered country, robbing the public treasury and private citizens and abusing the old King as though he were a vassal. At first the French government showered kind attention upon the Prince and his numerous suite, but finally, the press having been aroused in defense of Cambodia's rights, sought to smother the excitement, ordering Inkanthor to embark forthwith and return home.

Eut the crafty Asiatic gave the best French detectives the slip and convulsed France with laughter. It proved the best possible way of advertising the protectorate cause. It seems that France has now obtained Inkanlhor's expulsion from the Prince going to London with Jean Hess, a famous young explorer, who is managing the campaign of opposition and announces a searching interpellation as soon as the Chambers meet. This may bring to light a great colonial scandal. BUYS MRS.

POTTER A PLAY. Lady Iileux, "Who Is a Warm Friend cf the Actress, Purchases Cne of Sidney Grundy's Creations. Special Catle to tiis i7ew York World and Ths Chicago Tribune. LONDON, Oct. 0.

Lady Meux. widow of a millionaire brewer, whose munificent to Essex have been recorded, has now taken up Mrs. Brown Potter, the nctress. and bought her a play from Sidney Grund y. When Mrs.

Potter went to visit Lady Meux at her country house. Whiteweb. she found the bedroom intended for her use redecorated ia Pr.ri.in white, which Mrs. Potter had once mentioned v. as her favorite bedroom color.

Lady Essex takes Mrs. Potter about a good deal. Frank Oarcir.er, who is a close friend oi" Lady Meux. has bought from hc-r her dead husband's racing stud. Lady Meux has i.Oi so a year and the right to name a ul-rector for Mcux's famous brewery.

It is believed that Frank Cardiner will be her next choice for the place. 54 'tit iftV i Kr 1 i continental but the diplomatic methods which it condemned as impracticable have been abandoned by common consent, -The best informed veteran of the civil service whom I have met In England tell4(. me that he is convinced by protracted ex-j perience and a long residence In China that' the Empress would never have surrendered the guilty Mandarins at the dictation of the powers, and that the conditions of anarchy? and warfare would have been prolonged! for an indefinite period if the original Ger man demand had been generally approved.) What is likely to happen Is the cooperation; of America, England, and Germany in ef-v fecting a settlement on a practical basis When that result is brought about Germany may still be free to present special grievances of her own, and possibly claim province in compensation. America, however, will be In a position to enforce the? principle of the open door. Germany.

England, and Japan will welcome her continued championship of that polif and there Is evidence that Russia will close Manchuria, against American or European Two Ziections Declared Alike. The American elections are now discussed more intelligently by the English press, but-without any partisan bias. Several Journals point out analogies between the American! and English contests and lay stress upon the 1 coincidence that both branches of theEng-; lish-speaking race are called upon, almost simultaneously, to decide between broad and, narrow policies, between the well considered; action of a strong and successful government! and the vagaries and risks of an Irresponsible)! opposition. The general electorate here has decided that there must be no steps back-J ward in the imperial policy or In national: I obligation, and that the government which AMBASSADOR TO ITALY-' entered the Lepislature, serving with dis tinction for five yt the last three as Speaker of the House. Governor Wol-ott appointed him chairman of the Massachusetts Hoard of Paris Exposition Managers, and last year lie was unanimously elected a member ot the Republican Jva tional committee.

He has a considexabla fortune. truth is perceived that the Interests oCj America, Germany, and England are lden-i tlcal, and that the three powers, after taking different roads, are heading for a common goal and their combined Influence will bring?) about a settlement of the general Issues of the China problem. Victory for McKinley Policy. The McKinley administration has been sharply criticised by the English and the Mm If 0S vi- 3 't-i I LITHRAKY MEMBhRS of the next house of commons. Ur Si Alfred Ilarmsworth, owner of the London Daily Mail and thirty other English periodicals, and the wonder of the English newspaper world is said to be negotiating fur the London Times, and, according to a London cable, has made an "er that is tempting to the chief stockholder of The 1 hunderer.

Mr. Harms-worth is 34 vcars old, and has a fortune of $20,000,000. His meteoric career 111 journalism has no parallel. He began as otfice bov on Tid-Bits twenty years ago, with a salary of 10 shillings per week. He advanced rapidly, and in two years became the editor of a weekly run in conjunction with the Illustrated London -News.

He was full of new ideas, and tried his hand successfully at every branch cf newspaper work. In seven years he had saved $7,000. and with that sum started his first weeklv. Answers. In four years Answers reached a circulation of over a million copies.

He was joined by his brothers, and one by one he has added to his publications, until their combined circulation has reached the total of 15,000.000 copies a week. Among them is Harmsworth Magazine, which alone has a circulation of 1,000.000. His great success is due to the introduction of American methods into his publications. He started the London Daily Mail in 1895. modeling it along the lines of American newspapers, and it became an instant success.

If he gets the Times he will make it a penny journal, and will, it is said, do many things with that staid journal that will startle England. Mr. Harmsworth is the son of a lawyer, and chose the position of office boy in Tid-Bits rather than go to college. Anthony Hope Hawkins, novelist; sir George wewnus, journalist; Cecil Harmsworth, jour- nalist; Gilbert Parker, novelist..