Show THE YEARS GREATEST EVENT We hellevo that when the events of this past year shall be looked back upon that neither the treaty of peace between be-tween tho United States and Spain nor the rebellion In tho Philippines nor the clashing of the powers over China nor the progress of the great Siberian road nor the war In the Transvaal will I be hold as Important events The most signal event of the year as history will reckon It will be the meeting of the peace congress at The Hague the gathering for the first time of the representatives rep-resentatives of the great nations to consider the question of how wars cane can-e slopped and of how differences between be-tween nations can be sctllcd without the sword 1 was the first pronounced echo of the message which the shepherds shep-herds heard of peace on earth and to men good will A significant feature of It all wnn that It was called by an autocrat who rules about oncfitlh of the aolld land of the earth who all his life has been able to say GO and como to millions and has never been disobeyed dis-obeyed In Uu results It amounts to but a faint echo of this message of 1900 years ago but that echo Is In the air and as the pebble dropped In tho vibrate on waters to sea causes the walels the farthest shores of the ocean that vibrating on and on echo will keep Ihrnlnr against the hearts of men until by and by l warn will cease and men will have their differences settled by the clear Judgment of enlightened men crystal bort Into InS and finally wrought international code That meeting Injo un Intcrnatonul ing was really the great event of 189D beginning of time fulfilment und was the bClnnlng ot ulm of tho promise which haa come down through the centuries and which has lingered a latent hope In the hearts of sixty generations of men The worlds I boundaries wi bo adjusted pretty aoon of our own Republic Is ma The light Rcpublo king Ighl more and more clear iho right of selfgovernment The royalty of great MCUIOVOIll brains Is assuming Its hearts und great us lS I sovereignty The world Is growing the New Years bettor and thc signs on Yeals heter Lcd with of light to sky arc I I tinted wl rays lsh the world and freedom to men |