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New-York tribune., 1900-03-10
SUNSHINE DISTRIBUTED.

Yesterday was distribution day at headquarters
With the aid of a T S. s. member who volun-
teered her services, the sunshine that had accd-
mulated in the last few days made ready to
go on missions OF good cheer. Forty parcels were
prepared for the Easter distribution besides oox
of clothing for the blind branch and twenty moi
vidual greetings for invalids. This work VIII go
on daily until every parcel sent to the office mas
gone as q ray of sunshine to gladden. some heart
and home.
New-York tribune., 1900-03-10
WOMAN LANDSCAPE GARDENER.

The landscape gardener just selected for Lincoln
Park Chicago Is Mrs g. McCrea, who became !n-
terested in her husbands work of gardening In
Denver Col. After his death seven years ago she
took ND the study as a means of livelihood for
herself and two young daughters, and has become
competent to I'LL the place mentioned.
New-York tribune., 1900-03-10
4 HELPING HAND.

IF | should
brother languishinG In sore distress.
And l should turn and leave him comfortless.
When | might be
4 messenger Of hope and happiness
How could ask what | denied
In my own hour of bitterness suppNedF
II might sing
little song to cheer fGinting heart
And should seal my lips and SIT apart.
When | might bring
\ bit Of sunshine for life's ache and smart
How could hope to have my grief relieved
If l kept silent when my brother grieved?
And ' know
That day IS lost wherein | fail to lend
4 helping hand unto some WaywarI friend:
But II II show
4 burden lightened by the cheer sent.
Then do hold the golden hours we'll spent.
And lay me down TO rest In sweet content
-(Edith Y. Brandt
New-York tribune., 1900-03-10

A reception in honor of Mr.. and Mrs. Edward
F. Brandt whose marriage took place a short
time ago. will be given this afternoon by Mrs.
CHRISTIAN Brandt, at her home No l West One
hundred nd-twenty- -fourthst.
New-York tribune., 1900-03-10
COMFORTABLY PILLOWS FOR NURSES

sbs taoie pillows are scarce in South Africa so
Six OF the Princess Of waIes's nurses Jeft for
from 8, nrsscentiy she sent each one down pillow
ter ln5ihghaifl: Superintendent Nursing Sis
Gf :hs po,oit ran II the Army Service q recipient
Sor Asrtess Red Cross. among those who left
''ca on the Kinfauns castle
New-York tribune., 1900-03-10
FOR THE r. s. S.. FUND.

A letter containing s. was received yesterday, TO
be used sunshine for some one who Is III ana
in need from one who has been Ill and is CRATE
full for health: 81 from Mrs. George T. Hewlett, IS
initiation fee; 30 cents from Mrs. j. Mlldeberser
for a gold plated badge.
New-York tribune., 1900-03-10
INCIDENTS IN SOCIETY.

The Friday Evening Badminton Club last even
ing held another meeting at the Berkeley Armory.
in East Forty-ninth-st. The patronesses present
to receive the guests and members were Mrs.
George Crocker. Mrs. Joseph c. Willetts, Mrs
George r. schieYelin, Mrs. Edward R. Bddle Mrs.
Joseph Drexel. Mrs Henry l.. Burnett Mrs. Alex
ander d. Shaw and Mrs. Thomas S. Young. jr
New-York tribune., 1900-03-10

Mrs. Stuyvesant Fish. who went South with Mrs.
George Jay Gould and party of young people two
weeks ago. has returned to town.
New-York tribune., 1900-03-10

Mrs E 4. Tuttle. president OF Manhattan T.
: 5. Branch No. l, IS staying for the present at
Richmond, Va Mrs. Tuttle has not been we'll for
some time. owing to overexert!on in the many
good works I'm which she Sc actively engaged She
promises return with renewed zeal for the pro-
motion of Sunshine work
New-York tribune., 1900-03-10
GRATEFUL For REMEMBRANCEs

Mrs. X Bryant. Of East Orange. y. j, writes 10
the office follows
win you please find room In the r s. $. column
10 thank the Sunshine members OF the Oranges for
their kind consideration of me, especially Mrs r. r
Mccoy, Mrs. George Allen and Miss Hedenberg?
cannot find words my gratitude for their
sympathetic well as substantial sunshine.
New-York tribune., 1900-03-10

The wedding Of Miss Mary Eleanor Swenson
daughter Of Mrs. S. M. Swenson. OF No. 20 East
sixty-nfnth-st.. to John Henry Towne will take
place In St Bartholomew's Protestant Episcopal
church. Madison-ave. and Forty-fourth-st.. on
Wednesday, April 49,
New-York tribune., 1900-03-10

The United States transport Fitzpatrick which
sailed from Newport News Thursday for this
port to undergo overhauling to cost s5O,OOO
rived here yesterday.
New-York tribune., 1900-03-10

Mrs. Katherine Duer Cammack. president OF a
Virginia T. S. S. branch. acknowledges the receipt
OF box of books and magazines sent frcm the
general office for the of her branch members.
New-York tribune., 1900-03-10
RECEPTION FOR WOODRUFF.
CITIZENS OF BROOKLYN GATHER TO DO
LIEUTENANT-G HONOR.
rs ADOPTED - AN ENTHUSIASTIC

RESOLUTIONS ADOPTED - AN ENTHUSIASTIC
GREETING FOR CONTROLLER co1ER
Citizens of Brooklyn last night attended a
ception at the Academy of Music in that borough
in order to show their appreciation of the canvass
that Lieutenant Governor Timothy L. Woodruff is
making for the Republican nomination for Vice
President. The auditorium nearly filled.
One OF the features of the evening was the
ception of Controller Coler who toward the close
of the speechmaking slipped quietly In at the back
of the stage and sat down. He recognized
and cheered. After the Lieutenant-Governor had
finished there were cries for Coler from all parts
of the audience, and he finally came forward
and made rev remarks.
Among those who the platform were:
New-York tribune., 1900-03-10

Ex-Mayor David A. Boody.
Borough President Edward
NJ. Grout.
Eugene G. Blackford.
Justice w. VI. Goodrich.
A. Augustus Healy.
Ex-Mayor Frederick W.
Wurster.
The Rev. s. u. Mcconnell.
Abraham Abraham.
Ex-Mayor Charles A.
Schieren-
Francis II. Wilson.
New-York tribune., 1900-03-10

Mrs. A. V. V. Tibbals has paid her 1900 dues by
forwarding a box of reading matter TO a T. s. 6.
member In Connecticut and some gifts to Waiter
Tnn
New-York tribune., 1900-03-10

Professor John F. Reigart, superintendent of the
Ethical Culture Schools. delivered yesterdays ect-
ure in the kindergarten course at Normal College.
His subject Habit"
The age-herald., 1900-08-02
MIKE UNANIMOUS

From the Selma Journal.
 As stated by the Journal a few days since, the action of Shelby County but foreshadows the result in the district. Had MT. Williams or MT. Burns or MT Robbins been successful in Shelby there is little room to doubt the one who carried the county would have received the nomina- tion.
 MT Bowie has won the fight in Shelby County, and the Journal published in the home of two of the other candidates, now moves to make the nomination unanimous. A continuation in the race by the other candidates will obviously be barren of re- suits, and will but add to the difficulty of eIecting the nominee in November
 This paper would have preferred to see one of Dallas County's citizens secure the nomination for Congress. for Dallas has had and will have to bear the brunt of the battle, but it recognizes the right of the district to make it's selection according to it's own wisdom, and therefore acouiesces in the verdict, and will use every effort to make the majority of the standard-aearer of the Democracy as large as possible.
The age-herald., 1900-08-02
RUssIAs COMMANDER IN CHINA
rom the Chicago Times-Herald.

From the Chicago Times-Herald.
 General Alexei Nicolaievitch Kuropatkin, who it is said will be sent to China as the commander-in-chief of the Russian forces, is the Russian Minister of War; and is probably the most trusted, most powerful and most faithful servant of the CZar. Long ago, when Kuropatl<in was young Russian advance, and spent his youth in high adventure and in winning for himself honors, decorations and promotion. When he had served his apprenticeship in the marches and bivouacs of the East, he re- turned to Europe and resumed his studies in the schools. At Paris he won the Le- zion of Honor, and was the first Russian officer to do so. This was in 1874 The fol- lowing year he went to Roland, fought in the Pamirs-the roof of the world''-and in the country of Kublai Khan. He rode 2500 miles on horseback, came back, wrote a book and won the gold medal of the Geo. graphical Society. He entered the war with Turkey as a lieutenant and emerged from it a colonel. For God. the Czar and country" was the motive of all his deeds, and this faithfulness was not without its effect. Slowly he rose on the ladder of ad- vancement, until in 1898 he was made ab solute master, under the Czar of the armies of All the Russias. Kuropatkin's S rank will probably give him command of the allied forces in China.
The age-herald., 1900-08-02

long had plans for an advance to Pekin.
 to the towers, because America desires no territorial concessions, but if an American be not given the supreme command then Japan is to furnish much the largest force in the allied army. and this alone should be controlling if General Chaffee be set aside. Japan may desire full control of Corea as a result of the war but it is not known that she is expecting other territorial concessions. Corea belongs to Japan, any way. She is the suzerain, and she will never give up her rights to that country except at the end of a disastrous war.
The age-herald., 1900-08-02
HE ohlY DalLY NEWSPAPER IN. ALABAMA
More Coal for Export.

Philadelphia is about to ship a cargo of soft coal to Gutujewski. It is needless to say that Gutuiewsd is Russian port, for no other nation would have such jaw-breaking name-no other nation clings to the termination 'ski." The port is on the Baltic sea, not far from Germany, which has coal to burn also.
 Russia has long used cars and loeomo- lives made in America, and it will soon have the Variag. cruiser also made in famine it wants American coal. It is a vast country, and about the Baltic sea it is a very cold country, and the time may come, If ship room can be secured, when it will take large quantities of American coal
 All this goes to show that the Warrior river should be speedily opened The Ala bama mines are nearer the sea than any other coal mines, and if Alabama coal can be barged from mine to sea, no other coal can compete with it, and the fortune Of Alabama will be made. The production of Alabama mines may go this year to 1O,- 00OOoo tons, but the production can readily be doubled or trebed or auadrupled. If it were quadrupled, it would then be equal to the average English exports, which stand at about 370oO.0eo tons a year. At present England is importing coal, and this means that English exports of coal will soon be impossible. If the Warrior can be opened to slack-water navigation. Ala bama coal can take the place in the worlds trade now filled by English coal. Congress can make all this possible, even probable.
The age-herald., 1900-08-02
MARYLAND ESTAtES

From the Augusta Chronicle.
 One of the most famous estates in Mary land is called The Caves" There are no caves there, but somebody thought so and hence the name. This magnificent property consisted of l,S17 acres, with a grand man sion and outbuildings. Up to recent perl cd it had been in possession of the Car roll family for 200 years. The last Carroll owner became embarrassed and finally the property was sold under mortgage fore closure. It brought $20.000, the amount of the mortgage or less and the court would not ratify the sale It was put up again and brought $25, 600. with the same result. At third sale the holder of the mortgage bid S32, GOO, and the court ratified 1t. Not many years ago this property was valued at $1S0.000
 If this is specimen, even in degree, of the shrinkage of Maryland real estate, it may be difficult to persuade the land owner in that State that "boundless pros- perity' is on hand
 We learn that in Howard County, Maryland, one of the best agricultural re- gions of the State, a farm of some 200 acres, with a house upon 1t, originally costing $65, 900, can be bought for $10,000
 These may be extreme cases, but they are relatively examples of agricultural de- cline under the gold standard.
The age-herald., 1900-08-02
HOW ANIMALS SWIM
From the Chicago News

From the ChcaBo NeWS
 Among what are generally considered purely land animals there is no finer swimmer than the polar bear. This grand creature, with which everybody is nowa- days familiar. spends more than half his time in the water, performing immense journeys across the polar wastes from con tinent to continent. The distance he tray els from the pack ice to the main coasts over open water are at times astounding, considering that the body is all the time immersed in freezing water, known to hu- man beings as the greatest deterrent to all long swims.
 The most interesting family of swim mers is perhaps the rodents. It may be taken as a general rule that if one mem- Der of a family is a good swimmer all the rest are, but not SO with regard to the group in question, for it embraces not only such fine performers beavers rats, mice and their allies, but such regular land-lub- bers as squirrels hares and rabbits, says Pearson's.
 All the good swimmers among the TO- dents are also expert divers, and are able, moreover, to raise or depress the body in the waiter at will. When swimming at ease
 
 passes across the mouth, the middle of the cheek and the shoulder disclosing on the surface rather more than one-third of the whole body, and, though the root of the tail is seen, the tail itself is generally un- der the water, excepting when the animal is stationary. About rats one need hardly spaak, so familiar to everyone are their habits. The common house rat, when he takes to living on river banks. is almost as much at home in the water as his cousin, the water yole, and the same thing may be said of mice, notably the water shrew.
 Among the indifferent swimmers of this family the squirrel first claims attention Many observers are of the opinion that the squirrel does not swim at all, but that by hopping on to floating piece of bark and using his tail as a sail he crosses the wid- est rivers. This is a pretty story and one with certain amount of truth in it, as scientists have seen squirrels floating down stream in this way, but that he often at tains his object thus is doubtful.
 Twice while fishing in the Fay an ob- server saw squirrels actually swimming across the river, and their movements struck him as so peculiar that he after ward experimented with them in the wa ter. They were evidently alarmed at the thought of trusting themselves to so treacherous element. and, at starting some of them sprang into the air, as if inclined to fly rather than to swim, but, once afloat. they padded away with such extreme rapidity as to exhaust themselves within few minutes at most.
The age-herald., 1900-08-02
RULES FOR A LONG AND HAPPY LIFE

From the Chicago News.
 So few people round the century mark that when one of them passes, the general public is naturally interested to know how it was done
 Miss Yardley, who died the other day in th.s city at the age of 1O5 years, was born in Philadelphia, and, therefore, presumably came of peaceable, placid stock. And she lived the latter years of her life in Chicago, where there is superabundant ozone in the air and where a sense of youth and strength is regnant.
 And Miss Yardley lived by few simple, plain rules, which may be stated briefly:
 She avoided draughts and doctors.
 She rose at a. m. in winter and at 5 a. m. in summer.
 She did not, as Dr. Parsons says many do, dig her grave with her teeth; she ate light breakfasts, seldom ate any sup per.
 She abstained from coffee and alcohiloc beverages.
 She allowed nothing to ruf1e her temper, but preserved an invariable evenness and oheerfulness of disposition. @
 She made it a point never to be idle.
 And, finally she never worried about how long she was going to live.
 These rules are simplicity itself They are the golden mean recommended by phi losophers of all ages and rarely followed, except by few here and there in any age.
 Summed up Miss Yardley's rules consist ed in careful, sensible habits for body, mind and soul. She read the New Testament from cover to cover once every month. She was religious, therefore and the secret of her cheerfulness and serenity of temper wer doubtless largely an outgrowth of her Christian character She does not seem to have been noted as a reformer; her name was unfamiliar to Chicagoians until she died. She did not worry about the sins of her neighbors or of the world and she did not work off her bile upon those with whom she was associated She was sunny, even-tempered cheerful, always with pleasant thank you for every slight serv ice rendered. In short, she was one of those whom the poet Shirley wrote nearly 25o years ago:
 "Only the actions of the just
 Smell sweet and blossom in the dust"
The age-herald., 1900-08-02
Vote Next Monday.

It is not too much to say that the elec- tion of next Monday was never exceeded In importance by any ever held in the state. Its importance should carry with it an equal degree of interest. Every Dem. ocrat should consider it at it's true value, for on Monday suffrage reform will be the paramount issue, and its fate will be de- cided then and there.
 Every Democrat should go to the polls, and he should do his best to secure the election of suffrage reform members of the Legislature. The question is by no means decided, and every man who believes a constitutional convention should be called should go to the polls on Monday, and he should persuade his neighbors to go with him.
 The present lethargy in state politics is playing into the hands of the opponents of a constitutional change. Apathy is their best hope, and every Democrat who stays away from the polls next Monday be- comes an assistant Republican or Populist, as the case may be- If you desire then settlement of the suffrage on permanent basis that will bring peace and prosperity to the state, go to the polls on Monday next. Do not forget the day or the duty. The day comes but once in two years, and the duty may not soon come again. The opportunity for a constitutional change was never better. It was delayed by pol itics last year, but it Is now squarely be- be rendered on Monday next.
The age-herald., 1900-08-02
Selectina a Generaiissimo.

A commander of the allied forces in China must. soon be chosen. The central board of strategy which is now in control will not answer when the allies take the field and are marching to Pekin. Then commander in chief who keeps well to the front will be needed, and the choice of the man for the work is troubling the nations at present, although each appreciates the one head A board consisting of officers of several nations each having at heart a to confusion and trouble.
 It has been suggested that General Chaf- fee, who is a capable military man, al- though he has never had a large command, should be made the commander in chief; but Russian and French jealousy will prob ably object to the appointment. because t6e two Anglo-SaXon nations are believed to be working in accord-to have in fact one poiicy-'the open door,"
 taken from the Japanese army. for no one else so well understands Oriental methods and Oriental transport necessities and Ori- ental food supplies as the Japanese do They are not only Orientals themselves, but they have been on the ground before, They have fought the Chinese. and they have
The age-herald., 1900-08-02
ICE HABIT GROWING IN ENGLAND

Marshal Halstead the United States Con- sul at Birmingham England, reports as follows:
 The Ice habit is making rapid progress in Great Britain. due largely to the in- cessant clamor for ice in hotels and public places by the thousands of travelling Amer jeans. Not very long ago the attendants of public places in England where nearly everything except ice was provided, would be insulting if one complained because ice could not be had. Today all frst-clas places have few small Jumps swimming in a glass dish, and you pick these out with sugar tongs; and in country inns and even in second-class public houses they apologize for not having it.
 Though very few saloons and restaurants have refrigerators, many private residences now own them; and there would be far more general use of ice if companies were organized to distribute it from house to house. As it is. one must secure it almost by favor from the fish-monger. Last sum
The age-herald., 1900-08-02
Conquering a Peace.

In the eye of the world Lord Roberts has suffered an eclipse, but nevertheless he is proceeding to conquer and pacify and reor- ganize both of the absorbed republics. He is setting up civil governments, and round- ing up commanders here and there The surrender of the remnant of the Free State army practically completes the campaign in that quarter, and one of Lord Roberts sud- den marches will drive the remnant of Krugers army to surrender or into exile over the Portuguese boundary.
 British civil government is well advanced in the Orange River colony, and it has been begun in the western portion of the Trans vaaL These events do not attract the at- tention of the world, and even when Kru- ger and Botha are rounded up or driven off the world will give the subject slight atten- tion The forces of the Boers are dwind- ling. and time would doubtless complete the work without the need of another bat tie. The slaughter period was passed as soon as Roberts and Kitchener took the field.
 The release of the forces in the Orange River colony from warfare may lead to the dispatch of a division to China. So far as the outside world is concerned, South Af- rica now possesses interest only as it re- 1ates to China. A quick collapse of the fatuous campaign of the Transvaal leaders would have a marked effect upon the march te Pekin. Durban cannot be much more than ten days steaming distance from Taku, and division of English troops can be landed there before the allies will be ready to march to Pekin. If Kruger should at once surrender, 1t would not be surpris- ing of the Russan-German combine did not suddenly find some way in which to settle the Chinese problem without an advance to Pekin. They have been going on the basis that England had her hands full in South Africa. and if they should find that Eng land has instead 100000 seasoned soldiers that are footloose. they might face about, concluding that the Chinese problem is not much of problem after ar
The age-herald., 1900-08-02
POINTED PARAGRAPHS

From tn Chicago News. his meaning. a
 woman may be beaten, but she rarely acknowledges it.
 No man is truly good who is only so for the sake of praise. s
 Even insane persons will get their census this year-perhaps.
 It has been truly said that more men fall in love than in War.
 When a man is a little mellow he i'm agnes he is ripe for anything.
 The savage worships demigod; civilized man worships demijohn.
 An old bachelor says that wonlans tongue is made of very loose leather
 The man who marries for either beauty. talent or wealth makes serious blunder.
 With the exception of trouble, the more the average man has the more he wants.
 Don't be ashamed to wear your old clothes until you are able to pay for new ones.
 One swallow may not make a summer, but a pin maliciously inserted in a chair will make one spring
 The poor man has two advantages over his rich neighbor; he can wear out all his old clothes and he is seldom troubled with tiresome callers.
The age-herald., 1900-08-02
NOT A CANDIDATE

From the Washington Evening Star I'm glad I ain't a candidate
 To worry day by day, A-watchin voters, small an great
 Fur fear they'll git away; i An shai1in' hands with every one
 You're happenin' to meet. An never havin' any fun
 Excep' to talk an eat When Mandy scolds me now an then, murmur, Whats the use? 'Tain't much compared to what those mel Receive in round abuse" If they should print such things Of me- Before the public eye, I'd git so mad I couldn't see. k An go somewhere an die! I love my country strong an true. But am blest if I i Could ever see a campaign through, No matter how I'd try. An when their eager work 1 scan,> I say-an mean it straight ts It takes a mighty nervy man .stis isi To be a candidate. sss!g.f T