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The age-herald., 1900-04-16
Four Great Powers.

Yes, that is all in the world round-a biz round world full of varying languaupes traditions and customs. Are the four powers to own the world? It is not im- possible.
 The four great powers of the world are China with 4O2. 2.6So0OO people; Great Brit ain with sS1.O37,S74; Russia with 129, 211 ,11S; and the United States with 76,14SOOo peo- ple not counting those in the new possess sions. These are the four giants of the world
 No one will question the standing or permanence of Russia, England or the United States; but many will rise up to if it does contain nearly one-third of the worlds population. But hold, is this true Is China to pass away as nation? His tory does not sustain this view for China was thousands of years old before the other three great powers were organized It is so old that no one knows when it was organized into power. To say that such a people lack cohesion and the ele- ments of national growth and evolution is to fly into the face of history In this transition stage China is weak. but she will beyond doubt emerge from the change a compact and homogeneous power, and will so stand to, perhaps, the end of time. It is currently said that China is breaking up, but it is plain that such a misfortune is not to occur. Such catastrophe would mean untold suffering for a contented, happy people that are almost beyond enu- meration. China will come out of her present sore trials greatly strengthened and she will last as power thousands of additional years.
 No one can see signs of decay in Eng
The age-herald., 1900-04-16
ANDREWS CALLED TO NEBRASKA
Elected Chancellor of the State Universit.
 by the FusionIst Board

Lincoln, Neb., April HE. Benjamin An drews, former president of Brown univer- sity, and now superintendent of schools in Chicago, was elected this evening to the chancellorship of the State university of Nebraska. The board of regents consists of four fusionists and two republicans. and his election was by strict party vote. Mr. Andrews chief competitors have been President Gates of Grinneli and Professor Jinlxs, head of the school of political econ omy at Cornell. The salary has been s5,Oo0 a year. but it Is understood that MT. An drews will receive more than this-enough, at least, to in part reconcile him to the difference between it and the $10,o0O he re- ceives in Chicago.
 MT. Andrews has been urged for the place ever since it was apparent that the fusion ists would control the board. Prominent silver men desired to have this state ex- press its disapproval of the treatment MT. Andrews received at Brown university in 1896, because of his espousal of the cause of Bryan. No positive assurance has been received that he will accept, but a fusionist member of the board says that the step was not taken without the knowledge of MT Andrews. The chancellorship has been vacant since September, when Chancellor Mclean resigned.
The age-herald., 1900-04-16

O'Reilly will doubtless have in the future solemn mass on all great festivals. As for the musie-a complete mass by Phil Mem eli, the director of the chor-it was ex- tremely brilliant. and was finely rendered by twenty-five voices. accompanied by a select professional orchestra of twenty-odd pieces. It was, with perhaps one excep- tion, the largest local orchestra ever heard anywhere in Alabama. Memoli the young and modest composer, is to be congratu- lated upon his work. It is hoped his mass will be often repeated. If the services of Easter could be repeated next Sunday it would require church twice as large as St. Pauls to hold the people,
 The Birmingham division will be called in the state supreme court at Montgomery today, and many members of the Blrming- ham bar will go to the capital this morn ing. There are numerous causes from Jef- ferson county pending before the court.
 Colonel William Youngbood has gone to Montgomery, after spending two days in Birmingham Colonel Youngblood will be present at the state republican convention which will be in session at Montgomery this week, beginning Wednesday.
 John Bradley of the criminal court will go to his fishing camp up the Cahaba river today to rest for a few days after the fa- tigue of the political canvass.
 Henry F. DeBardeleben is in the city.
 
 Duncan McPhee of Louisville and Wil- liam H. Winters of Cincinnati are at the Morris.
The age-herald., 1900-04-16
"MONEY TO GURN"

From the New York World.
 On November IT, MT. Peck, commissioner general to the Paris exposition, sent to the president report of his expenditures from November 15, 1898, to November l. 1899, amounting to $240,633 This report did not reach congress until April g. and then it appeared that no itemized account had been given, but the expenditures were Jumped under the headings of salaries, travelling expenses, rent, furniture-and miscellaneous
 The executive authority does not seem to have been potent enough to secure any more satisfactory elucidation of the mys- tery of MT Pecks expenditures, and reso- lutios of inquiry have been introduced in the house by MT. Jefferson Levy of New York and in the senate by MT. Jones of
 nsas. It remains to be seen whether
 lesred information will be ,rouchsafed
 public, whether MT. Peck viii e
 jed in his theory that his office is one l gives him 'money to burHn6nnIu
The age-herald., 1900-04-16
A SPRING TIME

By William Dean Howells. One knows the spring is coming;
 There are birds; the fields are green; There is balm in the sunlight and moon-
 light;
 A dew in the twilight between. But ever there is a silence,
 A rapture great and dumb, That day when the doubt is ended,
 And at last the spring is come. Behold the wonder, O silence!
 Strange as if wrought in night The waited and lingering glory,
 The world-old, fresh delight! O blossoms that hang like winter
 Dri1ted upon the trees, o birds that sing in the blossoms,
 0 blossom haunting bees o green, green leaves on the branches, O shadowy dark below, O cool of the aisles of orchards,
 Woods that the wild flowers know o air of gold and perfume.
 Wind; breathing sweet, and sun, O sky of perfect azure Day, heaven. and earth in one! Let me draw near thy secret,
 And in thy deep heart see How fared, in doubt and dreaming.
 The spring that is come in me-. For my soul is held in silence, s A rapture great and dumb For the mystery that fingered, The glory that is comaI
The age-herald., 1900-04-16
THE BEST ORE sTD sl,SATOR on the Washington Times.

From the Washington Times.
 Visitors to the senate during the past week have observed with conflicting emo- tions of astonishment and admiration that the best-dressed member of that august tribunal at present is the Hon. Francis Marion Cockrell of Missouri Senator Cockrell has been somewhat careless of his attire heretofore, and it is natural, therefore, that when he blossoms out as the glass of fashion and the mold of form there should be surprise Senators Vol colt, Hale and Wetmore w..o lave be- come famed as the best dressers in the senate, are not in the same class with the distinguished Missourian at this mo..ent. His new sartorial adornment is not as gaudy as that of any of this trio but in cut and texture as viewed from the gal lery it is much more fait not to say comme il fait also de riguer, likewise bang-up Senator Cockrells Easter suit is of solemn black, but 1t fits him like a glove-aye, even to the trousers thereof, which, by the way, not only are of proper length and width, but also are carefully creased. All that he now needs to be in the height of fashion is gay Ascot tie and a collar of the latest design. The re- port is being circulated, and is finding ere dence, that Senator Cockrell even has adopted spats as the crownng glory of his recent conversion to the ways of the fashionable world If this is true the spats will complete a raiment that is at once swagger and becoming.
The age-herald., 1900-04-16
Miss Goggin should advertise.
ITEMS FROM GEORGIA

From the Columbus Enquirer-Sun.
 It looks like Alabama is about as loyal as ever to Hon. John T. Morgan.
 The people of Alabama evidently do not endorse the kind of campaign waged by Governor Johnston.
 The whole south will be pleased with the selection of a senator made by the Ala bama democrats yesterday.
 The Enquirer-Sun has never believed that the white people of Alabama would repu- diate Hon. John T. Morgan at the polls.
The age-herald., 1900-04-16
REFLEC HONS. OF A BACHELoI
From the New York Press.

From the New York Press.
 Bring child up in the way 1t should go, and if it is girl it likely to.
 Secrets were invented by women to give themselves an excuse to talk about not telling something.
 When a man thinks that a girl who is over 21 wouldn't marry him, it's mighty easy for him to find out how foolish he was.
 About this time of the year anybody who has ever smelled a moth-ball can tell a married man as far off he can see him. Men laugh at love for the same reason that when they were little they used to whistle when they went through a dark alley.
The age-herald., 1900-04-16

Admiral Dewey has not yet stated wheth- CT he is a Chicago platform democrat or a Whitney Belmont democrat
  Portugal is trying to be impartial. but England is in a fair way to strain her inn partiality severely.
  Tim Woodruff has all kinds of weskits except the Mark Hanna, which is covered with dollar marks.
 The trusts wiring money out of the peo- pie, and the lawyers squeeze some of it out of the trusts.
 Worlds fairs are never ready on the of flciaI opening day, and Paris is no excep- tion to the rule.
 Alabama voted on Saturday in favor of Nicaragua canal and sane Philippine policy.
 Personalism has been driven out of the Alabama democracy by large majority. Dewey is to be king of the May festival in Chicago candidate or no candidate  Cronje should write a book. There is not much else to do at St. Helena.
  There is no automobile nonsense in Lord Roberts mind. He wants horses. Senator Tillman has not as yet sent con gratulations to Senator Morgan. The new Kansas City auditoriuR is to be fitted up with circus seats. MT. McKinleys epistle to the Philippines should be given to the public. Wharton Barker takes his candidacy for president seriously.
 Web. Davis and Macrum are slowly get ting together.
 Dr. Andrews is step by step logging the star of empire.
 The Bryan and Dewey ticket gains friends every day.
The age-herald., 1900-04-16
And She Didn't Tell
From the Philadelphia Press.

From the Philadelphia Press
 '.Now, madam" said the crotchety judge who had been annoyed by the digestions of previous female witnesses, i've want no hearsay evidence. Tell only what you know Your name please
 Mary Jones'" replied the witness.
 Your age?"
 "Well-er-I only have hearsay evidence on that point. so I won't answer"
The age-herald., 1900-04-16

ml.ca !. sa. n rin.ar HfHea. mop a 41O,0O0,0OO bushels, ae...--s- #Ha. .a4 ssar of 296OOO,OOO bushels; of 279, 100000 bushels in 1898; of 332, ,OOO, 900 bushels in 1897. Such a winter wheat crop as is now foreshadow- ed would render cheap bread almost a certainty, and probably afford large sur plus with which to feed the breadless na- tions of the world. The spring wheat crop is now in the seeding stage, and no indications of it's prospects are as yet available. But in California, in Kansas, Texas and Missouri, and in the belt east of those states to the Atlantic the winter wheat crop is very promising. A yield of 4OOOoO,OoO bushels of winter wheat would give prosperity another boost.
 The crop outlook as a whole, says Brad streets, "favors the expectation of large yield of wheat, corn and cotton" Much of this is of course expectation. Much corn has been planted, even in Illinois. and good stands are reported in Alabama and Texas. Extensive preparations, says the department of agriculture, for cotton planting are progressing, and in some dis trcts 1t is well advanced-in southern Texas it is we'll nigh completed. All in all Bradstreet's is justified in saying that there are expectations of large crops of the entire country is based upon these three great crops.
The age-herald., 1900-04-16
THE ONLY DAILY HsaspApza III ALABAMA
Dr. HiIlis' Letter.

pr. Hills, who left Chicago to become tbe nastor of the Plymouth church, has asked permission to demit the ministry Of the Presbyterian church. His letter ad- dressed to the presbytery of Chicago is long, and no action has yet been taken m if It will come up this week, but whether or no Dr. Hills is permitted to demit, thus allowing him to become preacher of the Congregational church without doctrinal examination or question: ing, he has at any rate put himself out side of the confession of faith-the chief standard-of the Presbyterian church. He of men who have ceased to be Calvinists. He thus states his position:
 Tor years in common with many other preachers, I have been apologizing for our creed and saying that while our confess sion of faith says that some men and angels are foreordained to everlasting death" nobody believed it. Nevertheless, during these years I have been disturbed ty the thought that nothing lowers the moral sense of the community like the keeping on statute books laws that are daily disobeyed and laughed at; and what shall be said of the injury to our children and youth of preserving intact creed that is accepted by our clerical instructors one day and denied by our ministers the next?
 During the past years I labored in sea- son and out of season with voice and pen to secure revision of the confession that we might be clear before the world. But it now seems that some teachers in our theological seminaries hold to the doctrine of reproduction, teach it, love 1t. count it an integral part of our system, and urge that If l cannot accept 1t I must with draw from the church.
 The movement that Dr. Hills has pre- cipitated seems likely to result in the set ting aside of the confession of faith and the adoption of a short evangelical creed instead. The Interior, the chief Presbyte- rian organ of the northwest, openly advo- cates such a change, adding the statement that three-ffths of the ministers and nine tenths of the parishioners now reject the doctrine of predestination. The Interior r believes that a new creed will be adopted at an early day, and the great church thus saved from disruption and disorgan- ization.
 Scarcely any movement of the times goes deeper or is more significant The dog matism of two hundred years ago is pass ing away, and simpler creeds and teach .s- -rcejs and s Ina .N c5n subsea4lH 4.-Ara t4Hf-.. ###.
The age-herald., 1900-04-16

The esteemed court journal has weeks of work ahead in explaining why it did not rnrrv
The age-herald., 1900-04-16

Congressman King of Utah decided to slip into Washington when every woman nets
The age-herald., 1900-04-16

The locusts swarmed in Mafekins. and the people of that town had full rations and good square meals while they stayed.
The age-herald., 1900-04-16

Wharton Barker is pursuing the presi- dency with devotion and steadiness of purpose worthy of better cause.
The age-herald., 1900-04-16

that make for the unification of Christi anity. The new century work out or at least advance, the great problem.
The age-herald., 1900-04-16

Dr. Andrews is step by step logging the star of empire
The age-herald., 1900-04-16

Tim Woodruff has all kinds of weskits except the Mark Hanna which is covered with dollar marks.
The age-herald., 1900-04-16

The Bryan and Dewey ticket gains friends every day
The age-herald., 1900-04-16

Snow shoveiing is still an issue in Du- luth.
The age-herald., 1900-04-16

Web. Davis and Macrum are slowly get ting together.
The age-herald., 1900-04-16
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The age-herald., 1900-04-16

Portugal is trying to be impartial. but England is In fair way to strain her inn partiality severely.
The age-herald., 1900-04-16

The trusts wiring money out of the peo- pie, and the lawyers squeeze some of it out of the trusts.
The age-herald., 1900-04-16

Wharton Barker takes his candidacy fo president seriously.
The age-herald., 1900-04-16

Admiral Dewey has not yet stated wheth- CT he is a Chicago platform democrat or a Whitney Belmont democrat
The age-herald., 1900-04-16
Condition of the Crops.

W. eenson of growing crops is at hand,
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 sent f=-Has fa. aH# mllc5H IS se f,Io.=f= aa#ea. #raI 4.
The age-herald., 1900-04-16

Worlds fairs are never ready on the off, flcial opening day, and Paris is no eXcep- tion to the rule.
The age-herald., 1900-04-16

Mr. McKinley's epistle to the Philippine should be given to the public
The age-herald., 1900-04-16

Alabama voted on Saturday in favor of a Nicaragua canal and a sane Philippine policy.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-08-27
The Darky's Awe of General Lee.

IFron the Louisville Courier-Journal-1
In a group of old Confederates gathered
around the camp fire at the headquarters
at 1876 West Jefferson street the other
evening was an ex- captain of Stonewall
drffted to the love that the men of the
southern army bore for their leader and
a dozen or more stories were told Of some
little incident in which that love had
manifested itself. Then the captain spoke
Your stories prove the love that the
men of the south had for General Lee,
but 1 remember conversation with an
appreciation OF his worth than any OF
you
sumed the presidency of Washington COL
lege, now known as Washington and Lee
Ten years ago I visited Lexington. Va,
to see the grave of Lee, who lies buried in
The head janitor was then white-haired
old negro, whose greatest delight in life
was to usher a party Of visitors into the
office that had been General Lees. His
accent in speaking of Mars Robert was
one of awed reverence. asked him a
number of questions, and found that his
master had been a colonel on Lees staff,
and that he had been employed as a
cook at headquarters In a spirit of BAN
ter I asked him if he had ever heard any
one say anything disrespectful about Cen
lively and then said:
. Vas, sir; jes' one time
. Well, sir 'twus dis erway. One night
erbout de middle oh de war / seed a
GURUS go inter de Gin'Is tent. He
cum out, en- whin he got upter whar I wus
he wuz er-rippin' en- er-roarin' and err
snortin'.'
q whats de trubble?'' I seq ter i'm.
Sc 8 'sTrubble,'' seq he, II jes got orders
ter ride 40 miles. ter-night wild er mes
sidge en- her tbs er-snowin' en- er-blowin
en- er-sleetin lax all hell persessed i m
darned eff 1 know what Gin'l Lees er-
thinkfn. erbout''s
9 What did you say to him, Uncle
Tom2 i asked of the old janitor.
=" I say ter imp he replied. Wen, sir,
I jes' looked at i'm fer a ninnit en- then
SEE ter i'm: "Fo Gawd; I doan' reekin yer
erbout. Man. sir, eff one er GinI Lees
thots wuz ter get inter yer haid 'twould
blls it omen - -
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-08-27
REEDER-SCOTT DEBATE.
Dates for the Meetings of the Two
Candidates Arranged.

Norton. Aug. 27.-Representatives OF
Congressman Reeder and Tulley Scott
the Republican and Democratic candi-
dates for congress in the Sixth district
are in this city today for the purpose OF
selecting dates and places for the series
of joint debates agreed upon between
these gentlemen several days ago.
Twenty-Five meetings were agreed up.
on. one in each county in the district as
follows:
Norton. Tuesday. Sept 1s
Colby, Wednesday, Sept. 10.
Hill City, Thursday, Sept 20.
Grainfield, Tuesday, Sept. 25-
Winona, Wednesday, Sept. 20.
Sharon Springs. Thursday, Sept. %.
Beloit, Tuesday, Oct. 2.
Osborne, Wednesday, Oct. 8.
Stockton, Thursday, Oct. 4.
Atwood, Thursday, Oct. H.
St. Francis, Friday, Oct II.
Goodland, Saturday, Oct. 13.
kirwin, Tuesday, Oct. t.
Smith Center, Wednesday, Oct II.
Mankato. Thursday. Oct. Is.
Oberlin, Monday, Oct. p.
Hoxie, Tuesday, Oct. %.
LincolH, Wednesday, Oct. "a
Wilson, Thursday, Oct 25.
WaKeeney, Tuesday, Oct. 25-
Hays City, Wednesday, Oct. 81.
Russell, Thursday, Nov. l.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-08-27
DEMOCRATS WAKE UP.
Plan an Earnest Fight for Certain
Eastern States.

New York, Aug. 27.-The Democratic
national committee viii establish branch
headquarters in New York next Wednes-
day w. j. Stone, former governor of
Missouri and vice chairman of the ma
tional committee, will be in charge His
associates in campaign mana cement
there will be Arthur Pue German of
Maryland D. J. Campau of Michigan, J.
NJ Guffey of Pennsylvania, Norman e.
Mack of New York and Congressman ].
d. Richardson of Tennessee. This is the
first step by the Democrats toward con-
testing the eastern field. which was
wholly abandoned by them in 1896 That
it means a real fight in the east, rather
than a mere diversion to draw Republic
can fire, is deducible from the list of
campaign managers chosen. They are
recognized as among the very ablest
politiciansof their party, and their con-
nections, in and out of politics, give the
western managers hope of a campaign
fund much fatter than that of four years
ago.
Campaigning in all the territory east
of the Allegheny Mountains will be I'M
der the direction of the eastern head
quarters. with the possible addition of
Ohio. The hardest work will be confined
to West Virginia, Maryland, Delaware
New York and Connecticut
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-08-27
How Mosquitoes Poster Canary Birds

iFTO1n the Balt1nOre
Owners of canary birds will receive
a valuable tip by reading this story
A well known educator of youths in
this city has for years had as a pet one
or more of the songsters hung in cages
about his house. In the summer it is
one of his chief delights to sit on his
front porch and listen to them. Re-
Gently he noticed that two of his birds
were becoming droopy, irritable and
very restless and that little spots Of
blood mysterious1y made their appear
ance on the bottom of the cage. He
watched the canaries closely for the
next few nights and made the astonish-
ing discovery that they were being
nearly bitten to death by mosquitoes.
In speaking of the affair he said:
@I watched one of the birds narrow
~ for a long while and wondered why
it kept hopping from one foot to the
other. I saw the mosquitoes in the
cage, but it never entered my mind
that they were attacking the canary
until 1 saw a tiny spot of blood on the
birds leg. 1 picked the bird up and
saw that it had just received we'll
developed mosquito bite
'@The only vulnerable part of the
canary is the leg. where the skin is very
thin and tender and almost unprotected
by feathers The mosquitoes appear to
know the tenderness of the skin and at
tack in such numbers that in the course
of time they could seriously injure the
health of the bird by draining it of
blood. I blocked the game by draping
each cage with mosquito netting My
canaries are now well protected and
happy suffer so much myself from
mosquitoes that it is astonishing / did
not think of. them in connection with
the birds before"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-08-27
FITz TO RETIRE.
Jeffries, He Says, Must Meet
Him Before September 1st.

New York, Aug. 27.-Bob Fitzsimmons
who is to meet William A Brady, JEFF
fries manager to arrange for a contest
for the heavyweight championships said
this morning that he would agree TO
meet Jeffries in Madison Square Garden
on August 81, on any basis agreeable TO
Jefries. He would fight, he said. winner
take all the purse. So per cent OF the
purse or he would be satisfied with an
equal division. but he wanted a fight
before September 1. or not at all. F'itz-
simmons said-he wishes to retire from
the ring and open training school IN
Chicago. Out of consideration for his
children, he said, he does not care to
remain in the ring or open a saloon.