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The age-herald., 1900-08-17
Marching Upon Pekin.

A Shanghai dispatch states that the pllles are in Pekin, but as all Shanghai war dispatches need verifcation, the state- ment is not at this writing accepted The Iekin situation is at any rate near ex- planation and full elucidaton. The truth will soon be told.
 It should be remembered that the allies are not marching along the railroad, but are marching along the Pei-ho river, and that the dry weather has rendered the for marching purposes. It is so dry that the Chinese have not been able to flood it. Near the river is the town of Tung Chow This town is thirteen miles from Pekin. This town has wall, as most Chinese towns have, and military critics expect, or rather expected, the Chinese to make their last stand at Tung Chow. It is pos- sible that the allies have fanked the Chin ese out of Tung Chow; many things are possible in China, and 1t is necessary to await news of events before commenting upon them.
 One fact is, however, plain-the Govern- ments are in communication with the lega- tloners daily, and some sort of negotiations are going on. The Government at Wash ington is keeping from the people these later dispatches, and all is surmise as to their nature. No doubt Ii Hung Chang is keeping the wires hot with peace nego- tiations.
 What the Administra tion will do after the logationers are released, it Is difficult to say. What it should under the constitu- tlon is plain enough, but what it will do for the sake of winning campaign glory is quite another thing. It has accepted Wal dersee as commander-in- chief, and he goes out instructed to occupy permanently the most important Chinese centers until the powers are completely reimbursed for the expenses of the war; This means, as it will be construed, permanent occupation Il involves in all probability, the overthrow of the Dowager Empress, and the setting up of a government that will be dominated by the strongest battalions. This is con quest, and this is what the Administratio plainly proposes. "The object" says the Frankfurter General Anzeger, lis not merely the liberation of foreigners in Pe- kin, but the complete subjection of the Chinese forces" This is the Waldersee programme, which the Administration has accepted by accepting him as commander ia-chief. This means not only a long and
The age-herald., 1900-08-17
New City Hall,

The City Council will be upheld by pub lie sentiment in its determination to build a new city hall and city jail at a cost of $150,O00, the building to be erected on the site at present occupied by the city build ing in Nineteenth street at Fourth avenue The city attorney and the judiciary com mittee of the Council have been instructed to prepare the necessary resolutions for the issuance by the city of bonds to the amount of $l50,000 Tine proposed new building is to cost that sum- The bonds in question are to be per cent. gold bonds, and they should command a premium.
 The subject has been under consideration a long time, and there is no reason why it should not be hastened into fact. There are many reasons why it should be. The city jail is disgrace to the city and to civilization, and every part of the building "a cheap structure to begin with-has been outgrown. The occupants of the Hotel Hillman need, too. something more at- tractive to gaze at across the street, and altogether the new project cannot be hur- ried along too quickly. The sum named should secure a building that will accepta- bly serve generation at least.
The age-herald., 1900-08-17
Nomination by Reclamation.

The nomination by exclamation of Sydney J. Bowie in the fourth district was not un- expected The honor comes to a man who had rendered the Democratic party excel lent service when it's integrity was threat ened. It comes to man who is capable of still more service in Congressional life, for the nominee is a cool clear-headed, re- sourceful man, endowed with all the quail ities that make for success in public work.
 The district will gain man who will take the needful steps to fortify the returns that the district will give him. He is a lawyer and he knows the district, and he knows what he will encounter in Washington, and it is safe to say that he will not be found wanting. But he needs and should have the support of all Democrats in the district in November A full white vote should be boiled, and MT. Bowie's nomination by &C., clamation, without friction, is an assurance that Dallas County will do it's duty in this crisis of the district.
 The State is to be congratulated upon the nomination, because it means solid Dem ocratic delegation, no matter what the con- plaxion, of the House may be. The district will rally to Mir. Bowie, and he will give the political rapists in Washington all the business they can comfortably attend to- lie will not be unseated if every Democrat in the district does his duty in November
The age-herald., 1900-08-17
Five Thousand in a Mob.

Yes, five thousand angry and furious persons engaged in a race mob based on the color line! This is dreadful. but it did not occur in the South. It did not occur under the grandfather or any other clause. but under a common failing of human na- ture of a brutal and vicious sort. It oc- cured in New York city, the home of many esteemed editors and spellbinders
 It arose in about the customary way. A policeman, attempting to arrest negro woman, was set upon by several vicious negro men. who cut him with razors to his death This occurred on Sunday. On Tuesday the policeman died, and on Tues day night a mob of thousands surged through four police precincts, attacking negroes without regard to age or sex. It was with difficulty that the mob was over come and order restored
 New York contains about 40,0o1 negroes, and their densest quarter is on the west side of the city above Twenty-seventh street, and the riot occurred in or near that locality. There seems to be an im- placabe hatred between the Irish people of New York and the negroes, and the mob that the negro Harris from Wash ington precipitated was the outgrowth of such hatred.
 The riot in New York is not in any way a justification of riots in New Orleans or Palmetto, Ga; but it goes to show that human nature is much the same in all parts of this country, and it further makes difficult the task of the spellbinders who are striving to stir up feeling against the South on account of the suffrage problem and other race problems in this section. No one was killed in the New York riot, but the escapes from death were narrow, being more the results of good fortune than of intention. The mob was, in all respects, as cruel and fiendsh and barbar- ous as were those of Southern origin that the spellbinders have dwelt upon in their speeches There was no essential differ cnce in them, and hereafter the spellbind- CTS must either attack New York city. or else let the problem rest where it belongs and where it must be solved, if solved it ever be.
The age-herald., 1900-08-17
THE DANCING OF SISTER CA'LINE

Frank L. Stanton in Frank Leslie's Popular Monthly. Br'er William play de fiddle-Sister Ca'line hoppin light, En de room a-gwine 'roun' me. ez l swing her lef' an right. All up en down de hall Swing co'ners!" is de call Bless God. dat Sister Ca line IS outdancln 'em all De flo was des a-creakin' en de frosty win ders shake. En de old folks sorter fdget at de music what we make: E,n betwixt em dar's a scuffle Fer ter dance de double shuffle, Sister Ca'line gwine 'roun wid de fiounees
 en de ruffe. Sister Ca'ine-sister Ca'line, ain't you
 dancn' mighty much? I mighty 'fraid de preacher gwine ter tu'n you out de chu'ch!' But l tu'n en see de preacher De sollum gospill teacher A-swingin' Sister Ca'line ever time dat he could reach her! sister Caline, I is tired en de fiddle tired,
 too! Can't you stop untell de preacher take en
 marry me en you"' But de preacher kick de stubble Fun his soes en swing 'em double; q ain't gwine marry any folks-dis ain't no
 time fer trouble" But when we gwine me'ards-'bout de
 breakin CT de day I see de preacher huggin Sister Ca'line all
 dc way.
 En hit sho' did take my bret Des lay me on de she'f, When he low: "She hop so lively. I'll des
 marry her myself"
The age-herald., 1900-08-17

expensive war-so long and expensive that China cannot pay expenses-but it means the conquest of vast population that can never be assimilated benevolently or other wise It means, too precedent that sets aside forever these words: Congress shall have power to declare war;" and makes the one-man power of our system as poten- tial as the ruler of any monarchy in the world
The age-herald., 1900-08-17
SHORT STORIES
 OF THE DAY
His Plans Came to Nought

q was an enumerator in 1890, down in Louisiana, and, being down on my uppers about that time, I was tickled enough to get the job," said Colonel Sim" Baston the Cheyenne, Wyo., millionaire, to a writer in the New York Commercial. My bill against the Government was $119, and I used to lie awake nights planning how I would blow the money in I was terribly disappointed when the Supervisor told me I would have to wait for a Government check He said however, that the remit tance would be along in a few days, and l begun to haunt the postoffice, expecting to get it in every mail. I kept that up for about sixty days. and meanwhile missed several good chances of getting a job.
 About a month later the other boys re- ceived their cheeks, but mine failed to ar rive. I wrote a hot letter to Washington, telling the Supervisor General all about my troubles, and in four or five weeks got reply from the ninth deputy of the fourth assistant clerk of the Acting Superintend ent of the Bureau of Kicks and Walls. He said the records showed that all the enu nerators had been paid intimated, courte- ously, that l was crook and bunko man, and requested me to fill out the enclosed blanks They were forms for filing a claim against the Government I threw the bunch into the waste basket. I decided not to devote my entire life to the collection of $l19. I'll forget this, I said to myself, and try to live it down.
 Tn the fall of 1894 I was spending my vacation at Denver, Col, when l received a letter that had been chasing me all over the country, and was black with post marks. It contained l check for $119 and a brief, cold typewriter statement that the Census Bureau had found my account. l cashed the check, took the money to a faro bank around the corner, put it on the ace, and lost'
The age-herald., 1900-08-17
Saw Himself as Others See Him

Emperor William recently told this yarn about himself, relates a correspondent in the New York Press:
 "A few weeks ago, as I was going through some of the smaller streets of Berlin, I dropped into an outfitter's shop and asked the man who there to show me some ties soon picked out one with a pattern that always pleases me, and, in fact often do I wear this co- ored tie that many of my subjects fre- quenty recognize me by it. I believe the Emperor is very fond of this pattern, 1 said to the shopman. genially. Now, what do you think about it?
 "'What do I think about it. eh. sir! Well, I think that he's about the only "duffer'' in all Germany who would wear if
The age-herald., 1900-08-17
Refus d to be Worshiped

I met traveller who came from the Cape aboard the steamer on which Rudyard Kip ling made the passage, and he had some good stories to tell'of the author, says a London correspondent of the Saturday Ev- ening Post. Kipling was pestered by a flock of passengers who wished to gush over him and hero-worship him.
 Kipllng, you know, is not built that way and puts up impatiently with gush and hysteria. One forenoon Kipling was walk ing the deck hand-in-hand with his little daughter, when one of the gushers, seeing an opportunity to fiatter the father and so make friends with the author, threw him. self in the way of the couple.
 "Oh, Mir. Kipling,' he gushed, 'fs that your child?"
 Kipling grunted non-committal "Yes," and tried to pass on. But the fellow was not done with him. Still standing in tha way, he exclaimed:
 What a delightfully."- beautiful and healthy child she is.
 Kipling gazed a stony gaze at the man. and saying, with great emphasis on tho personal pronoun I'm reasonably saffs- fled with her make" he shouldered past the bore and tramped on.
The age-herald., 1900-08-17
Troops : suffering from Heat

London, Aug. 16.-Sir Alfred Gazelee, com- manding the contingent of troops from In- dia in China, has wired to the government from Matowa, under date of August 16, via Che Foo, August 15, follows:
 Arrived here this morning early, after a most trying night watch The troops of all nationalities are suffering severely from the heat. Ten of our horses died yesterday from sunstroke. The enemy is believed to be entrenchd north of Chang Chia Wan. Thre is no further news from the lega- tions."
The age-herald., 1900-08-17
A Lesson That Was Impressive

A sister of the late E. P. Roe tells an amusing story of the first lesson which she and her brother ever received in Roman history, relates the Youths Companion. Among our most loved and honored guests during our childhood was Dr. Samuel Cox, for many years a prominent clergyman in New York. At times our conversation turned on history, and I remember on one occasion he asked Edward and me if we could give him the names of the first Ro- man Triumvirate.
 At this period of our existence the name Caesar" was associated exclusively with an old colored man, whom we often visited, and who lived upon lonely road in the neighborhood, to learn that the name had ever been borne by more illustrious per son than our dusky friend; but we listened entranced to the story of the rivalries of Caesar and Pompey for the empire of the world
 Unhappily, the good doctor could not re- member the name of the third triumvir, and the lack troubled him greatly. That night about o'clock, 1 was startled by loud knock at my bedrom door, and Dr. Cox called out:
 Mary, are you awake?"
 replied that ! was-as indeed, was everyone else in the house by that time
 It's Crassus," said the doctor, and then he returned to his room, greatly relieved
 Neither Edward nor I ever forgot that irst lesson in Roman history.
The age-herald., 1900-08-17
Russian Regiment to Protect Rear

Rome, August 16.-The following dis patch has been received here from Taku via Che Foo, August 15:
 "A Russian regiment has disembarked to protect the rear of the allied forces, which is seriously threatened.
 "The Japanese admiral announces that the allies occupied Tung Chau (also writ ten Tung Chow) last Sunday, and that he is awaiting news of an attack on Pekin to- day"
The age-herald., 1900-08-17
FOUND A CAVE
Containing the Skull of Great Ind ian
 Chief

Huntsville, August 1G-{speeial.)-Wh digging limestone from a cliff on his farm near Gurley early this week John Hewlett came upon a cave that seemed to be of artificial formation. A large boulder almost dramatically sealed the entrance .o the cave, which proved to be a sarcopnagus, and skull of tremendous proportions with great width across the jaw was found, Dr. Williamson of Gurley examined the skull and said that it was probably that of some great Indian chief buried more than hum dred years ago.
The age-herald., 1900-08-17
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR
From the New York Press.

From the New York Press.
 A woman is very seldom duchess, but a duchess Is always a woman
 One can forgive real sweet woman for everything but being fat.
 To be really worshipped by the women, a man must be half a demigod and half a wild beast.
 There are only two ways of making a woman chase you; one is to love her and the other is not to.
 Probably women would not be so religious If they believed in their hearts that there is no such thing as fashion in heaven
The age-herald., 1900-08-17
NO u,r roN NAUATloNs

From the St Louis Post-Dispatch.
 Russell Sage, the man of many millions, has no use for vacations. He says:
 To my mind the vacation is an institution intended for the lazy The really energetic man has neither time nor inclination to waste several years of his life in idle at- tempts to rusticate.
 c. P. Huntington, another very wealthy man, said he had not taken six days va cation in his life.
The age-herald., 1900-08-17
Creditors Are safe

New York, August 16.-The creditors of D. Appleton & Co., the publishers, will be paid 100 cents on the dollar. Counsel for the reorganization committee will take i'm mediate steps to organize new corpora tion to take over all the assets from the receiver.
The age-herald., 1900-08-17
25O Coke Overs shut Down

Middlesboro, Ky, August 16.-Two hun dred and fifty coke ovens at the plant of the Virginia Iron, Coal and Railway Com pany at Stonegap, Va, have shut down as result of the shut down of the iron fur naces recently, as these coke ovens sup piled many furnaces with coke Two hun dred and fifty men are thrown out of work
The age-herald., 1900-08-17
Hnxe Abandoned Control

Kingston, Jamaica, August l6.-The bond- holders of the Jamaica railway, construct ed by American engineers. have vclunta~ rily abandoned control of the line, and tha government took possession today.
The age-herald., 1900-08-17
CHARGED THAT HE I4 A CATHOLIC

From the Huntsville Tribune.
 It seems that in the First Congressional District of Alabama war is being made on Hon. Hannis Taylor, a candidate for Con gress, because he is Catholic and it fur ther appears that MT. Taylor is losing votes
The age-herald., 1900-08-17

In Chicago the shirt waist man is matched oy the bonnetless church-going woman. We are gradually as a people returning to first principles as they existed in the Garden of Eden.
The age-herald., 1900-08-17

The appointment of Waldersee to the com- mand of American troops should have had a legation string tied to it.
The age-herald., 1900-08-17

Wadersee does not mind such a trifie as the capture of Pel<in. He proposes to cap ture the whole of China.
The age-herald., 1900-08-17

MT. Mckinley is trying to find answer to Mir Bryan's Indianapolis speech, and is holding back his letter of acceptance
The age-herald., 1900-08-17

The shirt waist is laying the foundation for triumphant campaign next year. Summer coats are doomed.
The age-herald., 1900-08-17

The Count de Castelane is escaping ob- scurity again by introducing the American shirt waist in Paris.
The age-herald., 1900-08-17

The Huntington lobby in Washington should be dispersed, now that its master is dead and gone.
The age-herald., 1900-08-17

In her march upon the south Joan Jewett will first encounter the enemy in New York City, and she will either have to fight or flank that town.
The age-herald., 1900-08-17

The in China is spelling the book business, and sales of stories, especially of an amateursh sort, are sadly reduced
The age-herald., 1900-08-17

The Hon. Bathhouse John is about to grace the vaudeville stage, The stage must be lifted up.
The age-herald., 1900-08-17

MT. Towne accepted walkaway from the Vice Presidency when a wallxover ceased to be feasible.
The age-herald., 1900-08-17

The two imperial Williams of Germany and the United States are becoming very chummy
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The lock-step was the paramount issue in New York prisons, but it has been abol- ished.
The age-herald., 1900-08-17

Birmingham is now classed among the cities that require an extra covering at night.
The age-herald., 1900-08-17

The States that encourage child labor are the States that do not discourage illteracy.
The age-herald., 1900-08-17

To the thermometer habit should be ascribed the most of our weather troubles.
The age-herald., 1900-08-17

We have annexed leprosy, not only in Hawaii, but also in the Philippines.
The age-herald., 1900-08-17
Cuba growsssachers and tobacco.

Champion Jenries welcomes all corners.
The age-herald., 1900-08-17

u Hung Chang should remember that Poet Harte's pen is still nimble
The age-herald., 1900-08-17

The Two Million Club is up against the census supervisor of Chicago.
The age-herald., 1900-08-17

ture the whole of China. The shirt waist is laying the foundation for a triumphant campaign next year. Summer coats are doomed.
 The Count de Castellane is escaping ob- scurity again by introducing the American shirt waist in Paris
 The Huntington lobby in Washington should be dispersed, now that its master is dead and gone.
 Mir Towne accepted walkaway from the Vice Presidency when a wall1over ceased to be feasible. The Hon. Bathhouse John is about to grace the vaudeville stage. The stage must be lifted up. The two imperial Williams of Germany and the United States are becoming very chummy.
 The lock-step was the paramount issue in New York prisons, but it has been abol- ished.
 Birmingham is now classed among the cities that require an extra covering at night.
 The States that encourage child labor are the States that do not discourage illiteracy.  To the thermometer habit should be ascribed the most of our weather troubles 
 We have annexed leprosy, not only in Hawaii but also in the Philippines.  Ii Hung Chang should remember that Poet Harte's pen Is still nimble. 
 The Two Million Club is up against the census supervisor of Chicago.
 Conger's courage and Chaffee's ammuni- ton will soon be united.
 The German voter is the whole bakery this year.
 The newspapers are suppantlng the spell binders. u Hung Chang's paramount issue is peace. -1,. A1l~,
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1900-01-25
May see what you work atr.

MAY see what you work atF'
The fellow handed his wooden post.
1t was by no means lovely. The men
and birds were almost grotesque In
their labored resemblance to nature
and bore signs of patient thought.
The stranger turned the thing over on
his knee.
where did you learn this work"
II taught myself"
"And these zigzag lines represent
"a mountain"
The stranger looked.
at has some meaning, has 1t notY
The boy muttered confusedly:
"Only things"
The questioner looked down at him
the huge, unwieldy figure, In size a
mans, In right of it's childlike fea-
lures and curling hair child's-and 1t
hurt him. 1t attracted him, and 1t
hurt him. 1t was something between
pity and sympathy.
''How long have you worked at
this"
"Nine months" .e ,14
From his pocket the stranger drew
his. pocketbook and took something
from it. He could fasten the post to
his horse in some way and throw II
away in the sand when at safe dis
lance.
'Win you take this for your cary.
ing? $3.50 .....-....-~
The boy glanced at the f5 note and
shook his head, ..."..
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1900-01-25
CHAPTER XIV.
WALDo's STRANGER.

Waldo lay on his stomach on the red
sand. The small ostriches he herded
wandered about him, pecking at the
food he had cut or at pebbles and dry
sticks. On his right lay the graves. on
his left the dam. In his hand was
large wooden post covered with carv-
ings, at which he worked. Doss lay
before him basking In the winter sun
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1900-01-25

And a new life begins for us, new
time, a life ns cold as that Of man
who sits on the pinnacle Of an iceberg
and sees the glittering crystals all
about him. The old looks indeed like
a long, hot delirium, peopled with
phantasies. The new is cold enough.
Now we have no God. We have had
two-the old God that our fathers
handed down to us, that we hated and
never liked; the new One that we
made for ourselves, that we loved. But
now he has fitted away from us, and
we see what he was made of-the
shadow Of our highest ideal, crowned
and throned. Now we have no God.
"The fool hath said in his heart.
There is no God" 1t may be so. Most
things said or written have been the
work of, fools. -
This thing is certain-he is q fool
who says. mo man hath said In his
heart, There Is no God.
It has been said many thousand
times in hearts with profound bitter.
ness Of earnest faith.
We do not cry and weep. We sit
down with cold eyes and look at the