and Churchill was victorious, and when the new Government was
formed the tidal wave landed Churchill in the office of
Under-Secretary for the Colonies.

While this is being written the English papers say that within a
month he again will be promoted. For this young man of thirty the
only promotion remaining is a position in the Cabinet, in which
august body men of fifty are considered young.

His is a picturesque career. Of any man of his few years speaking
our language, his career is probably the most picturesque. And that
he is half an American gives all of us an excuse to pretend we
share in his successes.

CAPTAIN PHILO NORTON McGIFFIN

IN the Chinese-Japanese War the battle of the Yalu was the first
battle fought between warships of modern make, and, except on
paper, neither the men who made them nor the men who fought
them knew what the ships could do, or what they might not do. For
years every naval power had been building these new engines of
war, and in the battle which was to test them the whole world was
interested. But in this battle Americans had a special interest, a
human, family interest, for the reason that one of the Chinese
squadron, which was matched against some of the same vessels of
Japan which lately swept those of Russia from the sea, was
commanded by a young graduate of the American Naval Academy.
This young man, who, at the time of the battle of the Yalu, was
thirty-three years old, was Captain Philo Norton McGiffin. So it
appears that five years before our fleet sailed to victory in Manila