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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-06-21
THE REBELLION SPREADS.
POWERS HAVE NOT GRAPPLED THE
CHINESE SITUATION EFFECTIVELY.
UBy The Associated Prsss.)

CBy Associated PrsssD
London June 21.-The reports Of Admiral
Seymour's arrival at Peking and Of the safety
of the foreign legations. originating from Chi
hal. are still unverided. However the Italian
Consul at Shanghai has telegraphed to the
italian Foreign Minister Marquis Vsconti We
nosta that the legations are safe.
The rebellion is spreading far and wide There
is an impression in diplomatic circles here and
on the Continent that the allies have not yet
grappled with the situation effectively, and that
even fifty thousand troops would be powerless
to do much to control four million square miles
The latest story sent out by Shanghai gossps
is that Prince Tuan, president Of the Tsung-li-
Yamen, has burned the Imperial palace at
Peklng and murdered the Emperor, and that
the Empress Dowager has committed suicide
The effect of the bombardment Of the Taku
forts as described by the Shanghai correspond
ents was CORY in the extreme. nothing less than
rivers Of blood" and "mutilated corpses piled
up inside the forts"
The Russians guarding Tien-Tsin. according
to another report, fired artillery and rifles on
June Is at a range of fifty yards into dense
crowds Of attacking Boxers, and killed three
hundred
Japan. according 70 a dispatch to The Daily
MALI from Yokohama. intends TO land
pedition at Foo-ChOw.
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YALE-HARVARD BOAT RACE, NEW-LONDON.
JUNE 2SrH.

Excursion tickets, including Parlor seat, 500
Il. IN. train from Grand Central Station. S.00. EX-
cursion tickets good only i'll coaches. $ IS. Tickets
for observation train TO be east bank of the
river finish TO be from the bridge. $780, all
sale at Room No. g. Grand Central Station. N Y.
n. H. & II. X. RAW
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-06-21

NO EXCESS FARE TO CINCINNATI
A fast limited train every day along the Hudson
River and through the Mohawk Valley by the New
York Central--AdvE-
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-06-21

NO EXTRA FARE ON THE PENNSYLVANIA
LIMITED TO ST. LOUIS.
Every convenience and comfort fast schedule
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ne" TRAIN TO CLEVELAND AND CINcIN-
-, MATT
Ves ne 81. Fe1nsylgapia Railroad Leaves New forK
N"SSt "a 81 StatIon) e=25 y. IA. datly.-AdVt'
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-06-21

$3.50 TO PHILADELPHIA AND RETURN
During the North American funniest. the Central
Railroad of New Jersey will sell tickets in York
at $3.50 for the round trip Tickets good go June
21st and return before June %. Stations IN
New York. Liberty st. and South Ferry.-Adyt-
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-06-21

Parlor car 10 Mount Pleasant House White Mts
terminus Conn. +. Line, A M TO 7:35 Z M
Tickets and information. Mr.. Bingham. Park Pl.-
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-06-21
FIGHTING ON THE ROAD TO PEKINCs
FIVE HUNDRED CHINESE KILLED BY AID
MIRAL sEYMoURS MARINES

London, June 20-A news agency dispatch
from Shanghai. dated June 20. says
After an arduous march and frequent fighting
with the Chinese. Vice-Admiral Seymour ar
rived at Peking on Sunday afternoon. On five
occasions the Chinese attacked the column in
great force There were many mounted men
among the Chinese but most of the natives
were badly armed. AT times they fought with
admirable courage and bravery. The losses OF
the Chinese during the march estimated at
five hundred killed. The losses of the foreign
ers were trihing.
The exact state OF affairs inside Of Peking it
is inpossbe TO describe, in view OF the many
conflicting reports, nothing having been received
from the legations or foreigners there
Surprise is expressed at the fact that large
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-06-21

Potter 4 Kirkham 81 Broadway, nave opened i
branch office l. 286 Broadway corner sd St. under
charge Of lir. w. S. Bagg.-AovL
The age-herald., 1900-04-27
Pen Pictures of Notal,ies

His pen picture of the last Napoleon is not to be forgotten: Ever a puppet whose wires men with stouter wills pulled, he was never a stupid man. His intel ligence was so keen as to impair his hap piness Had he been a duler man he would have had much better time of his spell of empire. He saw himself poised be- tween the all but certainty of revolution and the all but desperate chances of war; In the one direction there was no hope; in the other he could not but realize there was only forlone hope. He knew that the sham empire had deteriorated the once puissant French army into nearly as great a sham as itself"
 This parting between Bazaine and the emperor before the final German victory: the final words: I am leaning on you One can fancy Bazaine leaving the chamber with lump in his honest throat. How he felt about the future may be gathered from a chance colloquy. As he passed through the outer room the officers of the house. hold, who sat watching, called out to him in the jaunty tone of such people: You are going to fetch us out of this hole we have got into-are you not marshal?' I am go- ing to do my best, gentlemen replied the marshal; tout mon possible; none of us can do more, and there are none of us who would do less And so he went out into the darkness"
The age-herald., 1900-04-27
ECLIPSE IN NORTH AMERICA

Out of about 70 eclipses of the sun which have occurred somewhere in the world within the nineteenth century, there have been only eight total eclpses of more or less duration visible the North Ameri- can continent writes Professor F. H. Bige- low in Appleton's Popular Science Month ly. The others happened in places often re- mote from civilization, and sometimes in entirely inaccessible localities, as over the ocean areas. The difficulty of transport ing heavy baggage to the remote parts of Asia, Africa or South America is such to preclude all but few scientists from any effort to observe eclipses.
 The writer was much impressed with the formidable nature of undertaking to es- tablish eclipse stations in places which are distant from centers of population by his own experience on the West African eclipse expedition, sent out by the United States government for the eclipse of December 22, 1889, to Cape Ledo, on the west coast of Angola about 70 miles south of St. Paul de Loanda. Nearly eight months were con- stunned in the course of the preparations at home and in the voyage out and back. The expedition, it should be said, however, went to Capetown, South Africa, and halted also at St. Helena, Ascension Island and Barbados for magnetic and gravity observations, so that all this time should not be charged to the eclipse proper.
The age-herald., 1900-04-27
Nicaragua Bill Before Congress.

Senator Morgan and Chairman Hepburn working harmoniously together to pass at the earliest practical moment the Nieara- qua canal bill. and it has been agreed to take up the bill on May 1 under special rule, and to pass it speedily, and send it to the senate MT. Hepburn is as good a re- publican as Senator Morgan is a democrat, and party considerations do not largely enter into the great measure. Neither are sectional lines drawn against it. MT. Hep- burn is an Iowa member, and his section of the country as warmly desires an isthmian canal as this section does.
 There are, however, some strong inter- ests opposed to the bill The ports of the Atlantic down to and including Baltimore prefer the Panama route, possibly because they do not want to see the Gulf and South Atlantic ports brought near to the new waterway. They naturally desire to secure the control and monopoly of com- cerce through it, and for this reason they prefer the Panama route, impracticable though it be- That is to say, they desire either Panama canal or none at all.
 The trans-continental railroads have se- cured the help of the Hon. Mark Hanna, and they are insisting that the bill should go over to the short session, when the million dollar commission will be ready to report. Mir. Hanna's interest in the sub- ject is closely connected with a campaign list that he never loses sight of, and the trans-continental railroads are simply fighting for delay because there is nothing else they can fight for in the face of pub lie sentiment.
 The honest and square thing consists in the passage of the bill soon after May l. A refusal to pass it means that the purse of the trans-continental railroads is more potential in a republican congress than public sentiment, voiced as it is by both parties, and in innumerable ways. Con- gress should not ignore the wishes and demands of the people in order to please a selfish and arrogant railroad combine do nothing that will more commend it to the American people, for no one now ques- tions the standing of the people on this subject. It has won its way in the minds of the people until it commands the sup port of all but few selfish factions.
The age-herald., 1900-04-27
IMITATION HITTER

Interview with Secretary of Agriculture
 Wilson in the New York Tribune.
 Speaking of the proposition to tax imi- tation butter Secretary Wilson said: When the millionaire and the laborer either go to market to buy the cheapest fats or tallow from the steer or the sheep they have no difficulty in getting them at the prevailing market prices. If they de- sire, however, to purchase the fats of the dairy COW they are met with different con- alterations. The butter of the COW, which is composed of fat and caseine, sells on its flavor All other fats are different from this. The fat or tallow of the OK or the sheep may be had for f. 5 or 6 cents a mands in it's best condition at present over 30 cents pound. Whenever the manipulation of 8 cows milk is conducted under cleanly conditions, and at a proper temperature, a favoring element enters 1t by reason of microscopic fat growths, which are bacteria. These bacteria make the fine flavor, for which we pay 30 cents a pound and more, and also add to the digestibility and healthfulness sof the prod uct Other fats do not contain these germs, for the reason that there is noth- ing in them upon which they may live and multiply.
 Now, when the millionaire and the la borer either go to the market and are led into purchasing these cheaper fats, rigged and jockeyed in such a way as to initiate butter, they are not only deceived and robbed, but they are made to introduce into their stomachs and the stomachs of their families substances that are injuri- ous to their health, beyond any question. The deleterious qualities of body fat and tallow, such as are largely used in the production of imitation butter cannot be eliminated by deodorizing processes or such things"
The age-herald., 1900-04-27
FRENCH RECIPROCITY TREATY
From the Baltimore Sun.

From the Baltimore Sun.
 Our prtectionists take @ very odious position in opposing the ratification of the French reciprocity treaty. The duty on silk goods imported from France averages 53 per cent. of their value, and the treaty would reduce it to a trifie under 50 per cent.-itself an almost prohibitive rate. Yet it is on account of this reduction of 8 per cent that the senators from New Jer- sey oppose the treaty. If their constitu- ents are so greedy as to begrudge the farmer the larger market he will get for grain by 3 per cent. reduction in silks, the New Jersey senators ought to rebuke their selfishness instead of voicing it.
 Similarly, Senator Aldrich of Rhode Is- land is against the treaty because it will reduce a GA per cent. ad valorem duty on knit goods to 515 per cent, which is prac- tically prohibitive. Thus New Jersey and Rhode Island proposes to prevent. the sale of millions of dollars worth of American breadstuffs rather than risk the incoming of few thousand dollars worth of knit and silk goods. This is offensive to vest ern producers as being an exhibition of in- tolerable meanness. Duties were put high CT than usual in the Dingley act in order to have a margin for reduction in reciproc- now dead against and reduction whatever. Such colossal selfishness cannot but inn press the farming interest. s5
The age-herald., 1900-04-27
Liberty, Bat Not License

"A girl in America" he wrote, can travel from New York to San Francisco without any thought of violated etiquette. She can cross the Atlantic alone and not have the consciousness of a solecism until a fresh light comes to her with surprise when she puts up at British hotel She walks out with a gentleman friend who need not at all be the lover; she can go to the theatre with him and ask hlm into her house to have cup of cofIee when he shall have escorted her to the doorstep. Or if she chooses she may go to the theatre, or anywhere else, alone; although her practice makes is sufficiently obviously that she prefers the companiopN ship which she desgnates as an escort
 "Is all this very shocking? It rather startles one at first, but it is wonderful how soon one gets used to things, especi- ally if they do not happen to be disagree able.
 ''I do not ask anyone to take my word for it, but I must record my profound conviction that the evil coming out of liberty that at first sight seems to us maE- velously close to license is singularly small, There are occasional relapses, but the lapses will bear comparison in infreA quency'
The age-herald., 1900-04-27
Preliminary State Elections.

Seven states will hold elections before the November contest, namely: Oregon, June ?; North Carolina, August 2; Ala bama, August G. Kansas, September 8; Vermont, September 4; Maine, September 1O and Georgia, October g. The five last named states can scarcely be considered contested states, and they probably will not furnish any indication of the Novem- Der battle. But oregon and North Caro- lima will be contested, and the ballot foot ings from each of them will be closely studied. Oregon gave Mckinley a plu- rality of 2,117 votes, and in 1898 MT. Greer, the republican candidate for governor, was elected by a plu- vote in 1898 was 2,S66 The whole vote of the state this year will be between 90, 900 and 100000. Both of it's congressman are republicans and so are its senator's and all the state officials are members of the republican party If the fusion ticket is elected in June it will indeed indicate a landslide in favor of MT Bryan; but it is not easy to see how such a result can be reasonably anticipated, because the demo- crats have never carried the state in a presidential year.
 In North Carolina Bryan had a majority of 192 266 in 1896, and in 1898 the democratic candidate for superior court judge carried the state by majority of 1S,93S. A repub- lican-populst state ticket was elected in 1896, and a similar ticket won in 1894. But the race troubles in and about Whining ton and in other eastern districts of the state have brought the whites together to some extent at least, and it is not thought probable that any such fusion ticket again carry the state. It certainly cannot carry the state against MT. Bryan, for it never did. A constitutional ballot proposi- ton of a very stringent nature is to be voted upon Under it's operation the blacks will practically be excluded, intelligence being required, and all whites will be let in under the famous grandfather clause" This may affect the August election, but it will not be likely to change the result in November Still the vote in August will be significant, and it will be carefully scrutinized.
The age-herald., 1900-04-27
THE ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER IN ALABAMA
Moruan and Sanford.

The election of William J. Sanford to lead the state democracy is a further vim dieation of the principle of direct action by the people; for it was more the prin- ciple than the method that was direct. Practically, however the politicians per mtted the people to act pretty directly as to a gubernatorial candidate. And Will liam J. Sanford was unmistakably the choice of a large majority of the demo- crats of the state. It was this that made his name so irresistible in the convention at Montgomery. It was plain from the day of the primaries that he was the combine, no deal, could take the honor from him.
 When the democratic masses select John Tyler Morgan for senator and William J. Sanford for governor, 1t is high time to declare that selection by the masses in stead of the classes is thoroughly and fully vindicated. The selection of Sena- tor Morgan to succeed himself has cover ed the state with glory and high praise in every other state, and the selection of William J. Sanford the candidate for governor finds approval deep down in the hearts of every intelligent and honest citi- gen. The two men represent the best thought and the highest ideals of Alabama democracy. The state has doubly honored herself in their selection, and the demo- cratic party of the state never stood higher or more unitedly or more impreg- nable in its entire history. This is demo- cracy's highwater mark.
 It should also be considered the sanction, but not the highwater mark, of popular selection. The people can always be trusted The people can and always will trust the people, and it is arrogance and insufferable presumption on the part of any given number to assert otherwise. Direct popular action is, however imper- fectly conducted as yet It is still thwart- ed and obstructed by politicians. It needs to be broadened and deepened until noth- ing stands between the people and action. Even a StdIe convention IS dltOScthSi uii- necessary. None were held in the early days of the republic; none are held in other republics Platforms are pieces of humbuggery never equal to actual acts No other country indulges in any such nonsense state executive committee can be selected by members of the legislature elected directly by the people. Members of congress formerly nominated president tial candidates. The convention with it's deal and dickers belongs to the corrupt period of the republic. It is no longer needed, for the people are about to resume business at the old stand. Fourteen thous- and of them resumed public duties in single Alabama county on the day that gave the state the candidatures of a Nor gan and Sanford.
The age-herald., 1900-04-27
------------ HALL OF FAME JUDGES

New York Letter in the Chicago Tribune.
 Chancellor McCracken of the University of New York has received the following acceptances of places on the board ot judges for the Hall of Fame: Thomas N. Mcclellan, Alabama; R. F. Taylor Florida M. S. Bonnifield Nevada; J. M Bartholomew, North Dakota; Charles D. Wolverton, Oregon; Reuben R. Gaines Texas; c. N. Potter, Wyoming; George w. Batch, Utah, all holding the position of chief justice of their respective states
The age-herald., 1900-04-27
SHORT STORIES
 OF THE DAY
Opposed to the Term Journalist

The pallbearers have carried to a last resting place the battle-worn body of Arch ibald Forbes, writes H. I. Cleveland in the Chicago Times-Herald. When living he was proud to be called reporter" of events and people He once said:
 ''The term journalist gives me an itch- ing desire to slap the face of the person using it. do not do so, but it Is not be- cause I do not wish to-
 Forbes, besides passing through the Franco-Prussian war, the seige of Plevna, the fierce fighting in Zululand, visited the United States. After his return to London he wrote some things about the American girl, perhaps not as much read then as they will be now.
The age-herald., 1900-04-27
A Reporter of the First Water

Archibald Forbes was a reporter who was always good in stuff" Here is his line on Bucharest at the opening of the Turko- Russian war: Bucharest was a ballroom wherein Mars, Venus and, Bac- chus were dancing the ean-can in frantic orgie."
 He meets the Prince Dolgoroukls near Simnitiza and writes:
 His brother a general, and the governor of province; his sister was the morganatic wife of the czar, to whom, therefore, this private soldier on duty as my escort to my baggage wagon bore the relationship of left-handed brother-in- law"
 His description of Skobeleff:
 'Six feet high, straight as pine, the head carried high, with a gaunt debonair fearlessness, square across the broad shoulders, deep in the chest, slender of waist, clean of flank, the muscular grace ful, supple figure set off to perfection by the white frock coat with the decorations and the gold lace on it, Skobeleff, with his frank bearing, looked a genial king of men"
The age-herald., 1900-04-27
JOHNSTON TO CORY
Inspired By His Recent Defeat For Sena-
 torial Honors

CWith apologies to Shakespearke. By
 Amos" in Geneva Journel) Farewell, long farewell to all my schem- ing! This is the state of the politician: Today he lays his wires And binds his machine; tomorrow connects them And thinks himself impregnabe. The third day comes a rumbling-a ter rife explosion; And, when he thinks, delusiye man, he is the whole thing The ground is torn up and he is rss there not at all.
 Cory, I have like little wanton boys that swan on bladders Full of wind, ran on my record as Gov ernor And appointments made; these many months did I swim Upon a sea of certainty; but far beyond my depth I ventured; My high-blown ambition at length is Ripped, and here I am in the middle of bad fix.
 Cory. I am left to the mercy of a rude stream That must forever hide me. Vain pomp and glory of this world,
 l hate ye; But have learned a lots. My vaulting ambition hath oerleaped itself; it was Crop above my mental calibre, Ambition doth not reason we'll
 how wretched Is that poor man who depends upon the politicians smile, or An appointee's promise. There is between the office I now have and the one I didn't more panPs and fearS than T can speak. Planting myself, as in dream upon the capitols dome, I viewed the stars and they Winked. Absorbed, the world forgetting; by the world Forgot, I fell like a meteor-and am still falnng, never to Rise again. Cory, did not think to shed tear Out of honest truth to play the woman- But Alabama, and particularly Jefferson County, has forced me; and Look at Geneva, where Black lives; And Dale, where Gilley lives; And Pike where Hubbard lives, And Talladega, where Huey lives
 Jefferson. She simply sapd-bagged me. Let's dry our
 And thus hear me: When I am forgotten, as I shall be, and sleep in the Marble easements of political oblivion, Where no mention of me is heard of-Sav I taught thee; Say Johnston that twice was Govern'r. And sounded all the depths and shoals of honor, Found not way out of this wreck to rise in Mark my falkland that Montevallo ruined me. Cory I charge thee, fling away ambition: by that sin Fell the angels-how, then, can man, the image of his Maker, hope to win by 1t? Stick not to Hood and the Journal further and monkey not By no means monkey with The Adyer- tser Love myself last; write no letters that like a ghost, will Rise up and haunt you My Integrity is lost. I have nothing I can call my own but University lands and bank stock-in All things else I am penniless. O Cory! Cory! had I but served the peo- pie of Alabama with Half the zeal I sought the Senatorship, they would not now In mine age have left mo
 Naked to mine enemies,
The age-herald., 1900-04-27
nEFLEorIONs OF A pACHELoR

From the New York Press.
 An old maid always reminds you of vacant house.
 An Easter hat is generally one that is all Easter and no hat.
 When a pretty woman has favor to ask it's always the homeliest woman she knows that she goes to for it.
 If women wore mems clothes they would probably button their suspenders on be- fore they got into their trousers.
 A girl never has much use for dress maker who can make a low-cut waist fit so we'll that the shoulder-straps don't ever slip down.