Show PERSONAL MENTION Corp E Mahoy of Iho Second Somerset regiment was thoroughly shot up In tho South African war but still lives to tell of It In the battle of Colenso ho had a bullet In each arm Iwo In tho head another an-other through one of his thumbs and a sixth In his left leg He lay four weeks In hospital and then went to the front again a a Lady Macdonald wife of the British Minister In China was two years ago tho leader of the deputation of diplomatic I ltdles l to tho Empress Dowager when European women were received at the Chinese court for the first time It Is I not generally known however that while tho Idea originated with Lady Macdonald It I I was carried out through the lullucnco or Prince Henry of Prussia The brother of tho Kaiser was staying a1 the British legation le-gation and ho asked his host s 1C I there was anything ho could do for her whon ho went to the Imperial palace Lady Macdonald who felt a natural curiosIty 1 regarding that wonderful personage promptly begged of his Royal Highness to ask tho Empress Dowager to allow time wives of tho foreign Ministers to present to her an address on her birthday After a little difficulty Prince Henry succoedc In arranging for the reception which was a notablo event In the hlstury of the Yellow Yel-low Kingdom 1 M a a Lord Roberts has with him In South Alrlca a warm personal friend who faced Ileath with him In India moro than forty cars ago says M A P The ray haired veteran who rode by thin side or the commnnderlnchlet Into KroonsUad recently was Lleulflon Sir James Hills Johns of Dolan Co thy In Carmarthen shire The two old friends hae much In common Both curiously enough are vcrv short In stature both havo had in India veritable hairbreadth escapes from 3ath Thero Is a very considerable personal per-sonal resemblance between them and both have won the Victoria Cross a i a Samuel R Van Sant Republican nominee nomi-nee for Governor of Minnesota was born at Rock Island Ill on May 11 ISM where his father settled In 1S37 When the Civil war broke out the son wa attending the huh school Ho enlisted In company A Ninth Illinois cavalry and saw active service In the South After helnp mustered mus-tered out ho completed his education at a business college at Hudson N Y and Knox college Galesburgr Ill He has always al-ways been a Republican Ho was a mom ber of the Minnesota Legislature In 1R02 and In 1831 belnc elected Speaker of tho House during his second term Tn ISM and 19S ho was an unsuccessful candidate before tho Republican State convention for the nomination for Governor a Th6 London Graphic says that many years ago 1L was understood that the late Mr Gladstone was prepared to take the Earldom to which he had beci mo entitled by precedent but that ho Insisted upon becoming Earl of Liverpool a proposal which was opposed by the Jonkmaon family At the death of the late Premier It was expected that tho Queen would confer an Earldom either on Mrs Gladstone Glad-stone or somp member of the family This was not clone and thero Is reason for believing that the lato Mrs Gladstone was not Inclined to a chanpe of name and that during hor lifetime It would not have been becoming for one of the family fami-ly to assume the lllle As Mrs Gladstone Is now dead the conditions are changed and it may bo that Herbert Gladstono will bo raised to tho peerage unless he wishes to retain tho namo which his father has mado historical |