JAMES R. STEWART

Mr. James R. Stewart, the genial and gentlemanly head of the Order of Scottish Clans in the State of New Jersey, is a native of Arbroath, Scotland. He came to America in 1865, and engaged in the butcher business in Brooklyn. He was an officer for several years in the Brooklyn Caledonian Club, and with several other

young enthusiastic Scotsme: brought the club into great popular favor. Mr. Stewart became interested in real estate in New Jersey and removed to Orange, where he has been eminently successful in business, retiring some years ago. Mr. Stewart has lost none of his early Scottish enthusiasm, his occasional visits to his native town being heralded by the press there with more than ordinary comment. Indeed, Mr. Stewart's repeated visits to Scotland might serve as a fitting example to others. He does not believe in going over the Atlantic alone or in company of some good fellows. His good lady and six or seven young Stewarts, braw lads and bonnie lasses, accompany him, and many of the "auld bodies" in Arbroath can testify to the kindly, warm-heartedness of Mr. Stewart toward his less fortunate townspeople.

It was during one of their trans-Atlantic visits that Mr. Stewart was notified by Royal Chief Steen that he had been

appointed Deputy Royal Chief for the State of New Jersey. On Mr. Stewart's return he entered into the duties of his office with painstaking zeal, and has made it a point to visit the Jersey Clans with unceasing regularity. It is just such men as Mr. Stewart that should be selected to fill such offices, but the trouble is that it is hard to find men who have the leisure that comes to successful men, combined with the enthusiasm of youth, that is only given to few.

CHIEF JOHN MILLER

Chief Miller, of Clan MacDuff, New York, is a native of Dundee, and is a very earnest and active worker in the Order of Scottish Clans. He was mainly instrumental in organizing Clan Drummond, of Orange, N. J., and in his set

tling in New York in 1897, he transferred his membership to Clan MacDuff. His activity in the good work has resulted in attracting a large number of the better class of workmen in the building trades to identify themselves with the Order, with the result that the membership has nearly doubled during the years in which Mr. Miller has acted as Chief of Clan MacDuff. Mr. Miller has been an active member of various fraternal and social organizations, but it is not too much to say that he devotes more time and atten tion to the Order of Scottish Clans than to all of the other societies to which he is attached. He is particularly watchful of the sick and distressed, and has re

peatedly exercised his kindly qualities to members of the Order who may find themselves friendless in the metropolis Mr. Miller has been quite successful in his calling of carpenter and builder and has done much excellent work in the best houses recently built in this city. He had particularly the confidence and patronage of the late Mr. William C. Whitney, who entrusted all of his building and repairing work in his various establishments to Mr. Miller's care. It need hardly be said that Mr. Miller is somewhat partial to his own countrymen, and his workmen are mostly from the land of the heather

Mr. Miller is actively interested in the work of the Reception Committee, whose duty it will be to entertain the visiting delegates to the meeting of the Royal

Clan.

THE RUSSIAN PEOPLE.

Collier's Weekly.

They do not have the kind of government they need. On that the best thought of Russia is agreed. On what they do need, and what they want, no such concord has been reached.

Many leaders of thought are hopelessly ideal, as is natural in a country where intelligence and education in a few are So far ahead of political conditions. "You require." says Tolstoi to the strikers, "only one thing--a free land upon which you can live and from which you can draw your food. You can acquire the land not by riots, from which God preserve you; not by demonstrations or strikes; not by Socialistic representatives in Parliament, but only by a non-participation in that which you regard as evil."

Chief James Hay

James Hay, Chief of Clan MacDonald, Brooklyn, is a native of Elgin, Scotland, where he learned the blacksmithing trade. He was prominently identified with the Second Elginshire Rifle Volunteers, and also won distinction as a local athlete. He came to America in 1880 and was engaged for several years by the Bliss Company, of Brooklyn, in their engineering works. Mr. Hay began business on his own account in 1885, and his success has been rapid and pronounced. Mr. Hay made several important improvements in the method of constructing dies and steel forgings, and eventually turned his attention to the manufacture of solid

wrought anvils. Mr. Hay may be said to have created this industry in America, the Wright Company, of England, having a monopoly in the trade. The su-periority of the anvils made by the HayBurden Manufacturing Company is now universally acknowledged, and the extensive works of the company now occupy several acres of ground between North Henry and Monitor streets,. Brooklyn. Mr. Hay was a charter member of the Kilwinning Lodge of Free Masons, and is also an officer in the Commandery in Brooklyn. Of a quiet and unassuming manner, Mr. Hay has taken the good fortune that has come to him modestly. He is a genial and warm-hearted Scot, and is a shining example of what earnestness and industry can accomplish. As an officer of the Order of Scottish Clans, he has done. much work in a quiet, earnest way that has done much to build up and maintain the supremacy of Clan MacDonald in New York and vicinity.

The Scottish District Army Meeting,. which has hitherto been held at Mallony, is this year to be held at Stobs, from Wednesday, the 2d, to Saturday, the 5th of August: while the Minto Cup competition is also to be held at Stobs on a date in August.

In presence of an interested gathering of ladies and gentlemen, Principal Donaldson, St. Andrews' University, in the hall of St. Andrews University Library, was presented with his portrait in oils, the work of Sir George Reid. The presentation was made by Lord Balfour, of Burleigh, Lord Chancellor of the University.

Messrs. A. & J. Inglis, of Pointhouse Yard, on the Clyde, have received the order to build the new yacht for the King. She will be of 2,000 tons, and will be fitted with turbine engines.

"I have no power to look across the tide, To see while here the land beyond the river,

But this I know, I shall be God's for

ever,

So can I trust."

Since 1898 the fortunes of "Czar" Reid, as he is known in the island and colony of Newfoundland, has been indissolubly linked together-by no means to the contractor's disadvantage. Mr. Reid is the largest landowner in the world. one of the richest millionaires, and has for the past seven years been to all intents and purposes the dictator of the colony.

His history is remarkable. Born at Coupar-Angus in 1840, he emigrated to Canada in 1868. After drifting to Australia and California as a gold digger, he went to Newfoundland as a large contractor in 1894. The Government was in difficulties, and he gave it timely aid. In 1898 he executed his master-stroke in a contract with the Government. By this one coup he became the owner of the colony's railways, docks, telegraph and postal services, 4,000,000 acres of land, electric concessions, and mining and lumbering rights in return for a cash sum of less than one-third of the estimated value of these properties at that time. For carrying on the construction of the Government lines he subsequently received 2,500 acres for each mile built, the land to be chosen by himself. By a total expenditure of £900,000 he gained the absolute ownership of 540 miles of rail

ways, 3.200 miles of steamer routes, 1,000 miles of telegraphs, and 27,000 square miles of land-nearly one-third of the whole island.

Since 1901 the Newfoundland Government has been buying back at enormously enhanced prices the properties which it ceded to Reid in time of stress. Over £840,000 has already been paid to him, and several millions sterling would be necessary to buy out the Reid interests wholesale.

As a rule those whose last days are spent in comfort and wealth started with nothing, and those who die in the poorhouse were born rich.-The Hustler.

After the premier, Mr. Winston Churchill will, perhaps, be the leader in the Commons. While the matrimonial alliances between American women and British politicians have not often resulted in large or brilliant families, there is one brilliant exception. Miss Jerome, who married Randolph Churchill, has not a large family, but her son, Winston, has done much to gratify British-American intermarriages. For Winston Churchill, who is an American on his mother's side, is the most conspicuous and promising of the younger politicians in Great Britain. Whether he will ever lead the House of Commons is an open question. But if he does, he will owe it quite as much to his American mother as to his aristocrat father.

The people of Scottish birth and descent naturally feel proud of the accom plished young statesman who so worthily fills the position of Lieutenant-Governor of New York State at the present time. Mr. Bruce is a descendant of the Bruces of Morebattle, near Kelso, Roxburghshire, Scotland, and inherits many of the fine qualities of the ancient race. He is frank and fearless in his dealings with all men.

His bright, energetic face, lightened up with kindly humor, reveals shrewdness, courage and a keen insight into human nature. As president of the Senate, he has shown himself to be a most accomplished presiding officer. In the recess he has charge of the Canal Commission. He is also president of the board having control of all public lands. He is also president of the State Fair

Commission, and member of the Board of Regents of the State University. To enumerate the colleges and other institutions of which he is a trustee would be to fill a page.

Mr. Bruce is a "son of the manse," his father, Rev. James Bruce, D.D., having been pastor of the United Presbyterian Church of Andes, N. Y., for nearly forty years. Mr. Bruce was educated in the Andes Academy and graduated from Rutgers College in 1885. He passed for the bar in 1889, and has practiced law in this State. He has been prominently identified with the Republican party and has the confidence of all who know him. A man of great natural gifts, polished by education and experience, he is within easy reach of the highest office in the State at an age when most men are only beginning their public careers.

BY W. M. KEEN, B.S.C., M.D.

Scarce do I hope to attain rest. Always from home's port withheld, distressed I lay my afflictions on the altar of sorrow, being tempest tossed by the howling winds of affliction now engulfing me in their storms grasp.

Health, my sails whose seams are now rent and have apertures wide. Will, my compass, no longer guides me. Thought, my steering apparatus, haphazard acts. My mind, the nidus in which my gleaned thoughts and ideas could be evolved into marketable facts, has become of purpose to persons of research, and I am to them a means to an end and not a means for my own end and progress.

In the shallow sea of friends, good wishes, which have no channels to opportunity leading, help rather than retard my assailants' ravagings of my physical strength and mental inclination. Why am I God's image? Why am I food for the wind's hunger? Oh, weak imI am. I am naught. I am a mirage, age a shadow. O, were I but like the wind, an entity, bereft of all composition that gives and makes glory for the vaunted great. I am a weak part of strong mankind. Weak to submit. Strong to glorify my oppressors. But great, too, am I in sweet, pure faith, the true interpreter of omniscient will. Shadow truths symbol pure.

Death, whose portal's frame hope is. leads me now on to the haven of the shadows. Heaven, the great shore of incontestable theory, yet like immaterial light, has no past or end, but has a present and a future in which I desire continued residence.

AN ENGLISHMAN'S AFTER-DIN-
NER SONG IN SCOTLAND.
Ta he-land hills pe vera high,
Ta he-land roads pe long, long;
Ta he-land lass pe vera good,

Ta he-land whiskey strong, strong.
D. MALCOLM.

Do your procrastinating to-morrow; act to-day.-Common Sense.

DAVID KING.

David King, a young and active member of Clan MacLeod, of Jersey City, is a native of Glasgow, where he was born in 1873. He came to America with his parents in 1881, and entered the employ of the Fourth National Bank of this city in 1890, where he has been continually employed ever since, and has been promoted from the position of messenger until, step by step, he is now manager of an important department where his services are much appreciated. He is prominently identified with several of the accounting and banking associations. He is a member of the Board of Governors of the American Institute of Bankers, and has read several original papers before the institute. He was awarded a prize in 1902 for the best essay on bank work, the competition being open to all bankers in New York and vicinity.

Mr. King has taken an active interest in Clan MacLeod, and has filled nearly all of the offices in the gift of the Clan. He is secretary of the committe appointed to receive and entertain the visiting offcers and delegates to the Royal Clan meeting.