242 WITH MR. CHAMBERLAIN IN THE 

 favoured its readers with the following sample of 



its facetiae 



MAYCOCK IS CHAMBERLAIN 



HOW THE BRITISH STATESMAN CAME (JVER AFTER 

 HIS BRIDE 



He dropped his alias when the steamer got away from 

 Liverpool — Mrs. Paran 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 



