The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-05-22

N T frequent intervals since the
 PII world began prophets of evil
 omen have arisen who made night hideous with their predictions of future disaster. Just now tes.t are sev- eral prominent ministers and public men in the United States who are firmly con vinc ed that the country and everybody n t is going to the bow Naws. They point to race suicide. the divorce court. the shattering of the holns 'lcai moral corruption in politics and 50 ety. indus t,iai depression, the growing d.strust en- ge. dered between capital and .$tor. end last a universal war tha. is destined to crv9Ive all the world powers in a bloody struggle which will last indefinitely. The WAT between Russia and sasan is merely a preliminary to what is to follow. These crnai CTS publish their views :ffn the pia.fo9m and the pulpit. At first they are enough to make the unsophisticated shhver with fear but the very fact that wr SC times than the present have pre- vailed over and over again in the past ~.'hout disrupting the wUrld strong e., e1ce that the sphere wbi'1 we in- habt $ good for many days yet Even 1T the is to be universal rala at some ;lie in the future. it Is safe ', say that the day Is still long way off and tEere Is no reason why people Of rsay should
 ose sleep over what is soii to happen perhaps centuries after they have turned to list The prophet of evil is not a pleast mt person to have afoa.d and his acaus ntance should not be cultivated
 Bishop Turner has succeeded in getting himsei: much talked about because he said n Chicago that God nev !, made a white man. Originally all men gre ere ated ack but the white man hrgaA to van1,i around and in course of time his skin was bleaohed. The oISho s views on ie subject are very inte.es. ng no dJult, but he fails to give scientific explanation of his theories. tt Is easy snoui to say thing but. proving 1t is an en.irely different matter. According to s;is idea the Chinaman, D, Indian. the Malay and the Caucasian, all had their complexions changed but the bleach ing process seems to have been varied.
 Lew OOChsldueT, the minstrel, was foiled in his attempt to make money out of President Rooseyelt's ideas concern ing the negro. As told in the press dis patches Dockstader and John c. Hays, the song writer were made up to resem- ble MT. Roosevelt and Booker T. Wash ington. They took their stand in front of the capital and proceeded to go through pantomime before picture ma chine to illustrate a new song written for Dockstader and entitled "Oh, Won't You Come and Dine With Me?" The scheme was nipped in the bud, however, for Dockstader was visited later by a secret service officer and advised to give up the films. He did so and 1t seems that minstrel novelty for next season has been eliminated. Dockstader takes espec- ial pains to burlesque the foibles of well known men and his satirical attack on Harry Lehr at Newport Is remembered.
 A pitched battle in Leslie county, Ken lucky, took place last Wednesday between two factions of mountaineers and it seems that an old feud has been revived. In that case a long period of assassination and bloodshed will be inaugurated, while the officers of the law will be no more able to stop the slaughter than if 1t were taking place in the wilds of Alaska. It