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The herald., 1896-04-06
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T. =. Curtis is the fourth member of
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123 feet.
T. p. Curtis is the fourth member of
the team
The Princeton team will be captained
by Robert Garrett, who is entered for
the shot put. throwing the discs, broad
jump and horizontal bar vault. Garrett
put the shot thirty mine feet six inches
at the indoor meeting of the Boston A.
A. this winter.
A. C. Taylor will enter the pole vault
competition. His record made in New
York on May % last, was II feet 2%
inches, equal to that of o. 7. Bucholz
OF the University of Pennsylvania.
F. A. Lane is entered for the 100
metres and is good 100 yard man, hav
ing done the dash in ten seconds flat.
b. ii. Jameson, who will compete in
the 400 meter race is the fourth man of
the team. Jameson has a record of SO
seconds for the 440 yard dash.
Following is the program of the
games:
Athletic sports-Foot races. 100, 400.
500 and 1900 meters: hurdle race of ITO
meters; running broad and high jump
pole vault, putting the she. and throwing
the discs long distance run from A thens
to Marathon a distance of As kilOmeters.
Gymnastic sports--Individual exhi
billions, exhibitions on the rings, par
allel bars. horse leaping and team work,
IenclHS anu WTebtllHS, WOIk Will tne
salve and sword, amateur, civil and
military wrestling, Grecian and Roman
methods, shooting with army rifles, car
bines and pistols.
Nautical sports-Yachting race for
steam yachts over a ten mile course,
races for sailing vessels, rowing of one
cared skiffs. two and four Dared yawls
with outriggers: swimming, 100, 500 and
1000 meters; game of water polo.
Bicycling-Race for 2000 and 10000
meters and 100 kilometers; also a, race
for two hours.
Athletic games-I.awn tennis, single
and double, and cricket.
The weather is rainy today. but there
is little doubt the games will commence
tomorrow.
SUCCESS ASSURED
LONDON. April "a dispatch from
Athens to the Times says the premier,
NJ. Delyannis, and all of the ministers
were present at the unveiling of the
statute of NJ. Averoff. The Times has a
letter from Athens describing the his
tory of the present movement for the
revival of the Hellenic games, which
says: The success of the festival is
now assured. It has been wisely or
ranged to avoid all needless expendi-
ture on erlporary decorations and not
to attempt any fetes on large scale
for the amusement of visitors. The
Grecian finances are not in condition
for a lavish display OF all the capitals
of Europe. Athens least needs mer-
etricious embellishments which would
| only detract from the adornment of her
unique charms.
The herald., 1896-04-06
THE CUBAN WAR
Meager Particulars Of Victories Of the Spanish
Forces

HAVANA. April ga report has been
received that Gems Suarez, Ynclan
and Linares have fought the band of
Maceo near Whales. in Pinar del Rio,
and that Maceo was routed, leaving
thirty killed. No details have been re-
Ceiyed.
1t has been learned that while Gomez
force was marching on March 81 near
the district of Santo Domingo. they
surprised eight soldiers who were act
ing as convoy to a supply of groceries.
killing two of them and taking prisoner
a corporal and one private. 1t is not
known what became of the other four
The insurgent leader. Mariana Torez.
was encamped at the farm of Clavellina
between Roderigo and Sitccito. The
The herald., 1896-04-06
A sb.kespeare Celebration

LONDON, April 5.-A series of events
interesting to Americans has been an
ranged this year in connection with the
celebration of Shakespeare's birthday
in Warwickshire. the poets county.
The first of these will be the annual
commemoration of the birth. to be held
at birmingham on Tuesday. April 21.
by the Dramatic and Literary club of
that city, of which the United States
consul, Mr.. George F. Parker of New
York, is president. On that day Am
bassador Bayard will go to Birming
ham, where he will respond to the
principal toast. Literature. Bret Harte
and the Rev. Augustus Jassopp have
promised to be present, thus insurins
literary representation of both English
Speaking countries.
The herald., 1896-04-06
The Government win Buv

DENVER, April 5,-A special to the
News from Lander. Wyo., says: Major
James Mclaughlin. inspector of the In
dian department, who was appointed
to treat with the Arapahoes and Sho-
shones for the purchase of the Big Horn
hot springs, has arrived and is now ut
the Shoshone agency. DR.. j. A. Schu-
elke, a short time ago at the request of
Congressman Mondell, made report OF
the medical qualities of these waters,
and this, together with the general rep
utation of their phenomenal healing
qualities has induced the governWent
to purchase them. provided q reaSQ0e
able price can be agreed upon - ~
The herald., 1896-04-06
The Ciothiers' Strike

CINCINNATI (O). April 5.-The
strike of the Clothing Cutters union
has lasted two months without result.
The Coatmakers' Protective associa-
tion adopted a resolution to join the
strike tomorrow unless the manufac-
turers recognize both unions. Presi-
dent Reichers of the United Garment
Workers Of America is still here Both
manufacturers and cutters will now
await the result of the coat makers eff
forts to tie up the clothing industry
here during this week.
The herald., 1896-04-06
AN X RAY QUESTION
Dispute as to the Penetrabiiity Of Lead
Glass

DENVER. April 5.-Word reached
this city yesterday from Samuel S.
Campbell, manager OF the Diamond In
candescent Lamp company, who is at
present in San Francisco that several
scientists of that place had offered to
make wager that X rays could not be
produced from tubes made by lead glass
The dispute arose over the publication
Of the results secured by H. H. Buck
walter, a reporter for the Rocky Noun
tain News. and Dr. C. e. Tenant, jr.,
of the homeopathic college in this city
The results were gained with tubes
made by Mr.. Campbell's company. Last
night proposition was mailed by these
gentlemen to Mr. Campbell as follows:
"If San Francisco or any other scien-
lists believe that X rays cannot be read
lily produced by tubes made of lead glass
they are at liberty to name three rep
resentatives to come to Denver, or they
The herald., 1896-04-06
Test Your Cow

PITTSBURG (Pa.). April 5.-As re-
suit of the test made at Economy,
Pittsburg will probably require all
dairyrnen to furnish clean bills of
health for all COWS used in their bust
ness. 1t was recently decided that be-
fore selling a herd of dairy cows to a
dairy company to have the herd tested
with tuberculin for tuberculosis. The
test showed that per cent of the COWS
vcre diSea Sed
The herald., 1896-04-06
r1issOurl Silverites

ST. LOUIS, Mo-. April 5.-The free
silver men of 100 or more townships and
counties of Missouri held conventions
yesterday. In almost every instance
free coinage at sixteen to one was en-
dorsed and delegates to the state con-
vention were instructed to vote for del
egates to the national convention who
favored that idea. Whenever the issue
was made the conventions expressed
themselves in favor of sending solid
silver delegation to Chicago. regardless
of the choices of the congressional dis
triCtS
The herald., 1896-04-06
A SsirmlsIl at Arb

CAIRO, April "a skirmish has oc-
Cured at Arib, between Suakim and
Abu Hamid, ,on the Nile,in which friend
ly Arabs routed the forces of a Dervish
outpost, killing several OF them.
PARIS, April 5.-The Temps asserts
that the idea of the Dongola expedition
emanated from King Humbert. who
simultaneously addressed England and
Germany on the subject.
The herald., 1896-04-06
Dr. BROWN Nav Move

SAN FRANCISCO, April 5.-A local
paper prints a dispatch from Tacoma
which says that Rev. c. o. Brown has
received a call from his old church in
Tacoma and has virtually accepted the
call Dr. Brown, when asked today If
he was going to Tacoma, said he had
heard nothing of any move to ask him
to go and did not think there was any
truth in the story.
The herald., 1896-04-06
A Peecemaker Killed

Davids, a prominent farmer. was shot
and instantly killed last night by Julius
Zilke, a farm hand working for Davids.
Davids had interfered to prevent Zilke
striking young man in a quarrel and
Zilke waited for Davids to come home.
when he shot him in the presence of
Davids' wife. He has not yet been cap
tured.
The herald., 1896-04-06
lurrnnt.a Crime

SAN FRANCISCO, April 5-A year
ago today the body of Blanche Lamont
was discovered in the belfry of Emanuel
Baptist church. Theodore Durrant, her
convicted murderer, is in Jail awaiting
patiently the decision of the supreme
court in his case. Durrant expresses
confidence that he will not hang, and
did not seem to be affected today when
reminded of the anniversary Of his
p,iD
Birmingham state herald., 1896-02-16
THE P|TCHFORK STUDY Ti|Iman of South Carolina, Who
 Wars for the Farmer.
MISSION IN THE SENATE
He Proposes to Reyolutionize Things and Male the Country Dominate the City.
 Some Odd Traits.

Benjamin Ryan Tillman, the new sena- tor from South Carolina, Is a wonder. Some people call him freak, but that Is small word to apply to such a man. The nation at large had an opportunity to pass judgment upon the man a few weeks ago when he emptied a floodgate of vitu- peration upon the head of President Cleveland.
 Tillman from all standpoints except that of long distance study is uncom- fortable. As study he is interesting. What his precise object in life is he would probably have some difficulty in explain ing. He has made himself clear on two or three points, the first of which is to annihilate MT. Cleveland politically. He wants also to bore a few holes in the constitution of the United States and linn it the power of the federal government in dealing with matters which he claims are the exclusive right of individual states.
 He would also like to wipe every corpo- ration off the face of the earth and to pull veriZe the money kings of the nation. He is an odd mixture of socialist and populist. For generations his forefathers were democrats but if he had the power he would smash the democratic party to gain any one of his ideals. He is a dem ocrat on the tariff question only. He Is opposed to protection because he argues that protective policy benefits the man ufacturers and their employees while 1t makes the farmers pay moro their needs
Birmingham state herald., 1896-02-16
Farming as Q Business.

It is a remarka ble fact that the success ful farmers are readers of agricultural literature of all kinds. They make study Of their business, and by keeping posted on what others are doing in the farming line are always able to take ad- vantage of improved methods. There are many farmers who honestly think that they are not to blame because their cows do not yield more than 150 pounds of butter in year, and other crops in like proportion. Because they work hard they feel they have done their full duty, and when they realize they are continually running behind become dis couraged and say there Is no money in farming. True, and there never will be for those farmers. In the commercial world large percentage of the business men fail, largely due to incapability. It takes just as much if not more ability to successfully run a farm as com mercal business. There was perhaps a time when it did not, but that time has passed never to return. In times of gen eral depression the business of farming is no worse than any other business. There is money in farming for the brainy is profit in fruit orchard that returns $50 zoo per acre, but unless 0 man kno. how to care for his fruit trees so that they will yield good, clean fruit, there will be no money in 1t for him and, according to his experience. no money In the business.
 The trouble is not that farming is go- ing to the dogs end that the country has
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no more use for farmers. but largely be- cause they are also so obstinately welded 10 cll ideas and methods. Business meth ods have been literally revolutionized during the last sixty years, and without complaint from business men, but the average farmer hates radical changes more than he hates sin, and never would change without the stimulus of some thing like financial ruin or starvation.
 If the season of low prices is hard on farmers, 1t has its phases of good. It forces him to think. and that to the man "sot in his ways is the most disagreea- ble of all work. He hates thinking as ap- piled to his business, and the methods of his grandfather or great-grandfather would still be in vogue, could he have his way.
 A very common impression prevails among many of our farmers that lime exhausts the soil and its use is therefore neglected. This is like saying: Tt would exhaust the land to make 1t yield 100 bushels of grain corn to the acre. It won't pay me to do it. l must be content to go on growing twenty or forty bush els" It would not exhaust the land q hit to do this. It would use up some of the fertility in the soil that is extraneous to it and which may be returned in a most easy manner by a good farmer And the big crop itself finds its own way to do this very thing by simply adding more manure to the land. And if one uses lime and finds his clover doubling in product. his wheat doubled. and the same in other ways, he will be equally rnisled If he thinks the sol Is being ex-
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Phosphorus. A large number of American girls are students at the college, where they are educated for the work Of Chris- thanking the fanatics who, for the most part make up the population of Tur- key.
 If serious interference is thrown in the way of Miss Barton in the humane work she has planned to do, it would be wise to recall that portion of the history or Robert college relating to it's establish ment at Constantinople It has d double interest for the officers of Uncle Sam's warships now stationed in Turkish wa ters.
 Farragut-Warships.
 In the early fifties the Rev. pr. Cyrus Hamlin went to Constantinople for the purpose of teaching Christianity to its population. With money Furnished by Christopher Robert, wealthy New York merchant, and with $30,000 of his own. Dr. Hamlin endeavored, to establish q col lege but such was the strength or the prejudice of the Turkish government that for eight years he labored in vain.
 At last Admiral Farragut sailed into the Bosphorus with three big men-of- war and went ashore to pay his respects to the porte. Dr. Hamlin told Farragut of the obstacles that had been thrown In his way, and the admiral said that ne would see what he could do for him.
 The sultan looked at the big shlps which f1oated the stars and stripes under his palace windows, and he was much im- pressed He invited the American admiral to a grand banquet in the palace Of the grand vizier During the course Of the entertainment Farragut asked the sul- tan.
 Why has Dr. Hamlin been prevented from building college in your country?"
 The answer made was an evasive one, but soon after charter was granted by the terms of which a most beautifully situated plot of ground, overlooking Con- stantinople and the Bosphorus, was given to Dr. Hamln. Afterward. when the grand vizier was asked why the permis- sion had been granted to Americans. he
Birmingham state herald., 1896-02-16
A SALVATION ARMY KING General Booths Strong Hold on
 the Army. HIS POWER IS ABSOLUTE Controls All of the Property and Could Not Be Deposed-A Strange Financial
 System.

Gen. William Booth, the commander in-chlef of the Salvation Army, who has torn up the United States branch of the order by his arbitrary recall of Com- mander Ballington Booth and Mrs. Booth, Is a remarkable man. The whole family is remarkable for that matter, but he ranks supreme.
 He Is an old man now and his temper is not as smooth as 1t once was. At the present time he is in India booming along the affairs of the army Next year he may be Australia or in the heart of Africa, or in Siberia. He jumps from one continent to another with the indiffer- ence of the ordinary man making a fifty mile journey. He has been In every big and little city the world over but if he were asked to name any of their famous sights he would remain silent, be- cause he has never seen them. But If
Birmingham state herald., 1896-02-16

he were asked about the slums of any of the cities, he could picture them as faithfully as the native policeman who patrols them daily. Criminals and social outcasts are pretty much the same the world over whether they are found in London Tokio, Constantinople, Cape Town. or New York. But there are diff ferences in environment which he studies, and he turns the knowledge to the advantage of the army.
 General Booth is king. He is more than the average king for he not only controls the bodies of his subjects but he is master of their souls They are firm ly bound to him, and sometimes they feel the tether which holds them. Gen era1 Booth spends much of his time in- trenching himself in his position. He does not want to be busted from the monarchy which he has builded with so much pains. And he has made such task should it ever be attempted, well nigh impossible.
 A Very Shrewd Man.
 He is a religious enthusiast but he Is also a shrewd man. He has made many enemies in his unusual life, and wires are constantly being operated to cause his downfall. His enemies claim that he Is more despotIc than the czar of Russia; that he uses the Salvation Army, first, for the benefit of William Booth, and, second, for the benefit of the Booth fami- ly. That ends the list. They claim that every possession of the Salvation Army the world over is the property of William Booth. It owns real estate in nearly every country in the world. It Is established today in thirty-eight countries and is
Birmingham state herald., 1896-02-16
CLARA BARTON'S TASK
The Odd Armenian Quarter in
 Censtantinople.
WHERE HER WORK BEGINS
Hundreds of Refugees From the Desolaied Districts Sheltered There-WiIl She
 Be Allowed 10 Enter Armenia?

Clara Barton is now in Constantinople, where she will begin her work of aiding
 the stricken Armenians unless the doub- le-face sultan completely blocks her pur- pose. But Miss Barton will find that the Armenians of Constantinople are fairly we'll off The crafty Turks will probably try to fool her by showing her the Arme- nian quarter, the prosperity Of the wealthy Armenians, the unhindered in- dustry of the people and their generally happy lot. z
 The Armenians of Constantinople and the Armenians of Armenia are, however,
 two very different things In the cities they are under the eyes of the ministers of the western powers and consequently protected from open brutality. There are numerous missions located in the city, and while there Miss Barton will probably make her headquarters at Rob- ert college. overlooking the city and the
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without comrensating them in any way. In other words. he says protection bene- fits the city at the expense of the coun- try. . This latter perhaps forms the keystone of Tillman's plans His is war of the country against the town. He is reyo- lutionist, and would have the farmers. dominate the cities. He claims that of the-70, ,000, 900 people in the United States probably more than one-half are farmers. This claim he uses as a Justification of his own stand He abominates the pro- fessional politician. yet he Is politician of no mean capacity himself He has the country folk of South Carolina more completely under his thumb than Tam many hall ever had the city of New York. The cultured people of the large cities in his native state despise Tillman, and hold up their hands in holy horror at the mention of his name. Those of the old regime take a melancholy satisfaction in comparing Tillman with Wade Hampton to show the degeneracy of the times.
 A Career w forth Watching.
 Tillman's career in the senate will be worth the watching. He cannot be SUD- pressed unless his hot temper involves him in a quarrel with man who can shoot quicker or weld knife more sure ly than himself. This is no idle provision. for sooner or later Tillman's propensity for personal abuse is sure to involve him in many rows. Besides he Is a fighter and comes of fighting stock. Two of his brothers died with their boots oh in per sonaI encounters a third was killed in the battle of Chickamauga, and fourth was killed in the Mexican war
 TiIlman's left eye was knocked out when he was boy. Some say that he lost 1t in a row with his brother. Others claim that in his boyhood he was so studious that he was in the habit of taking ''lightwood'' knot at night and going into the woods to study his books
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spreading all the time. The value of tho assets of the army are not published in any of It's numerous papers. What they are 1t is difficult to estimate, but their headquarters in the various large cities of the world are imposing structures.
 The army may be worth &, 900 900 and 1t may be worth $10.000.000. Every cent of it IS absolutely under the control of General Booth. It's real estate Is alone worth $4,000.000. One of the officers of the army said recently on this subject: "All Is made over to the general; indeed, so absolutely that I much question If friend left me legacy of 5000 whether could legally retain 1t for myself or family"
 This Is the way General Booth has in- trenched himself and it can be readily seen that he has fortified his Kingdom in no insecure manner Moreover, he Is bound to perpetuate the name of Booth. When one of his daughters marries. the lCortinued on Nineteenth Page.)
Birmingham state herald., 1896-02-16

ships in Turkish waters. He said:
 ''There are good and bad Armenians-. there are those who are prosperous ana those who are not One of these. whom l met quite often, is wealthy banker and a really charming gentleman. He has an American wife and his children have an English governess. He lives in the summer time in a handsome villa on the Island of Prinkipo. .one of the Princess group; favorte summer resort close to Constantinople, in the sea of Marmo- ra. Here surrounded by all the luxuries of wealth and refinement, he lives, much respected by all, both Turkish and oth- CTS.
 Some of the best shops are owned by Armenians, yet, on the other hand that nationality contributes many recruits to questionable resorts, but so do other na- tonalites. In nutshell, l should say that. one the whole, the Armenians, as far as my observation went, are as law abiding and as desirable a colony as any in Constantinopie."
 It is generally understood that the Turkish officials will do everything pos sible in an underhand way to prevent Miss Barton and her assistant Red Cross workers from getting outside of Constan- tinopIe She would learn too much if she were permitted to visit the districts where the massacres have taken place and mingled unhindered with the affiict- ed people The complexion of eastern af fairs Is changing every day, however. and 1t may be deemed good policy by thd sultan to give Miss Barton free access to all portions of the empire.