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favoured its readers with the following sample of 

 its facetiae : 



MAYCOCK IS CHAMBERLAIN 



HOW THE BRITISH STATESMAN CAME OVER AFTER 

 HIS BRIDE 



He dropped his alias when the steamer got away from 

 Liverpool — Mrs, Par an Stevens was a fellow- 

 passenger, and she also tried to conceal her 

 identity — She chats about the coming wedding. 



A gentleman with a shaven face, very pale, with 

 keen blue eyes and a nervous manner, sat in one of 

 the forward state-rooms of the Aurania yesterday 

 morning talking in a quick, energetic way to another 

 gentleman sitting near him. A week ago the pale- 

 faced gentleman had registered as " Mr. W. Maycock 

 and man-servant.'' As soon as the ship cleared 

 Liverpool, however, he had this changed to *' Right 

 Hon. Joseph Chamberlain, M.P." He comes over 

 to marry the daughter of Secretary Endicott. A 

 slick-looking man was Joseph, with a rich dressing- 

 gown, trimmed in fur, wrapped about him, and an 

 officer's hat set jauntily on the side of his head. 



" There is no journal I would like to talk to more 

 than The World,'' said he, as he glanced up from a 

 letter he was reading ; " but you know I am here on 

 purely private business," and his face relaxed and 

 he smiled joyously. '* I suppose my mission has 

 been cabled over, and I feel assured that under 



