Ireland, John, Archbishop

of St. Paul since 1888, was born at Burn Church, Kilkenny County, Ireland, September 11, 1838. He came to America when a youth, and his parents settling in St. Paul, Minn., he was placed in the Cathedral school of that city. Subsequently he was sent to France, to the school of Petit Seminaire, Meximeux, where he remained 1853-1857, and after graduating there he studied theology at the Grand Seminaire, Hyeres, Franee, from 1857-1861. Me was erdained a priest December, 1861, and was chaplain of a Minnesota regiment during the Civil War. He was next appointed secretary to Bishop Grace, and later his coadjutor. In 1869 he founded the first total abstinence society in Minnesota, and was prominent in establishing Roman Catholic colonies in the Northwest, and in inaugurating the Catholic University at Washington City. He is avery popular lecturer, writer on timely topics, and great impromptu speaker. He is author of ‘‘The Church and Modern Society.”, Johnston, Mary, a distinguished Southern novelist, was born in Buchanan, Va., November 21, 1870. Her education was obtained chiefly at a private school in Atlanta, Ga., where she first evinced a pre delict i on: for literature, and was greatly encouraged by the praise bestowed upon her earliest poetic productions, several of which have been published, and all exhibit po e ion of marked talent. Subsequently she began writing stories, and her “Prisoners of Hope,” published in 1898, was so enthusiastically received and so favorably criticised that she was immediately given rank with the best living novelists. This was followed, in 1899, by ‘‘To Have and to Hold,” which is the most popular story written for half a century, and is near to being the Great American Novel that has so long been looked for. Jones, James K., was born in Marshall county, Mi ., September 29, 1839. He received a cla ical education with the intention of adopting the law asa profe ion. At the beginning of the Civil War, however, he enlisted as a Confederate private, and was with his regiment until disbandment, 1865. All of his property having been wasted by the war, he moved to Arkansas, and settled upon a farm, but later took up the study of law, and was admitted to practice in 1873. In the same year he was elected to the State Senate, and later was a member of the 48th and 49th Congre es. He succeeded Hon. James D. Walker as United States Senator, March 18, 1885, and has been twice reélected since, his present term expiring 1903. At the Chicago Convention he was made Chairman of the Democratic National Committee, and conducted the presidential campaign of 1896 with such satisfaction that the honor of National Committee Chairman was conferred upon him again by the Democratic Convention of 1900. Kipling, Rudyard, distinguished author, born in Bombay, India, December 30, 1865. He was educated at the United Services College, North Devon, England, and directly after graduating became a istant | editor of the Civil and Military Gazette, India, 1882-1889. He traveled ' extensively in China, Japan, Africa and Australia, and on one of his tours met Mi Bales tier, of Battleboro, Vermont, whom he married, and has | | since kept a home in that town. He is poet, novelist and e ayist, whose works are very numerous and so uniformly excellent that by general consent he is regarded as the first writer of the age. Early in 1900, after recovering from a dangerous illne in New York, he went to South * Africa with the British army, where he remained for nearly one year, contributing to the pre articles on the Boer war. 494