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LEFT WADAI 262 WADE Quinn College (A. M. E.), United States Government building, public library, Na- tional, State, and private banks, and several daily and weekly newspapers. Here also are waterworks, gas and electric lights, street railroads, etc. Waco is the chief interior cotton en- trepot of Texas. It has flour mills, foundries, and manufactories of cotton and woolen goods, ice, lumber, iron, brass, and various other articles. Pop. (1910) 26,425; (1920) 38,500. WADAI, or WADAY, formerly an ex- tensive and powerful negro state in the central Sudan; between Kanem and Bagirmi in the W. and Darfur in the E.; area, 170,000 square miles; pop. estimated at 1,000,000. It consists principally of an elevated plateau, very fertile in some parts, producing abundantly maize, millet, indigo, cotton, etc. Ivory and slaves are also largely dealt in. The in- habitants are warlike, and their sultan exercises tributary rights over several neighboring settlements. The prevailing religion is Mohammedan. Its sovereignty passed to France in 1903. Capital, Abeshr. WADDING, LUKE, an Irish ecclesi- astic; born in Waterford, Ireland, Oct. 16, 1588; after studying theology at the Lisbon Jesuit Seminary, entered the Franciscan order (1607), and became Professor of Divinity in the University of Salamanca. As chaplain to an em- bassy despatched to treat concerning the doctrine of the Immaculate Conception, he went to Rome in 1618, and settling there, founded the Irish Franciscan Col- lege of St. Isidore (1625), acted as papal councilor in the great controversy with the Jansenists, whose tenets he shared at first, but presently renounced; and was procurator of his order (1630-1634) and vice-commissary (1645-1648). He re- fused a cardinal's hat, and died in Rome, Nov. 18, 1657, having himself composed the "Annals of Minor Ordinances" (8 vols. 1625-1656; new ed. 22 vols. 1731- 1747), and "Scriptures of Minor Ordi- nances" (1660; new ed. 1806), and edited Calasio's posthumous "Biblical Con- cordance" (4 vols. 1621) and the works of Duns Scotus (12 vols. 1620). WADDINGTON, GEORGE, an Eng- lish educator; born Sept. 7, 1793; son of Rev. George Waddington, vicar of Tux- ford, Nottinghamshire. A brilliant uni- versity career at Cambridge was re- warded by a fellowship in Trinity Col- lege; and after several years of foreign travel he received the vicarage of Mar- sham in Yorkshire. In 1840 he was made dean of Durham, and in the follow- ing year warden of Durham University. His chief works are: "Journal of a Visit to Some Parts of Ethiopia" (1822) ; "A Visit to Greece in 1823 and 1824" (1825) ; "Present Prospects of the Greek or Oriental Church" (1829); "History of the Church from the Earliest Ages to the Reformation" (13 vols. 1835) ; "History of the Reformation on the Con- tinent" (3 vols. 1843). He died July 20, 1869. WADDINGTON, WILLIAM HENRY, a French statesman; born in Paris, Dec. 11, 1826; was educated at Rugby and Trinity College, Cambrige, and took a classical first-class, with a chancellor's medal, in 1849. He returned to France, and devoted himself to the study of antiquities, extending his journeys to Asia Minor, Syria, and Cyprus. In 1865 he was elected to the Academy of In- scriptions and Belles Lettres. In Feb- ruary, 1871, he was returned by Aisne to the National Assembly, giving a steady support to Thiers. From 1876 till 1885 he sat as senator for Aisne. He served as minister of Public Instruction in 1873 (for a few days only) and in 1876- 1877 as minister of foreign affairs, plenipotentiary at the Berlin Congress (1878), president of the Council (1879), and was ambassador at London from 1883 to 1893. He died Jan. 13, 1894. WADE, BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, an American statesman; bom in Spring- field, Mass., Oct. 27, 1800. About 1821 he removed to Ohio, where he was em- ployed as a school teacher for several years. He studied law and was ad- mitted to the bar in 1827. In 1837 and 1841 he was elected State Senator; in 1847 was chosen presiding judge of the 3d Judicial District of Ohio; and in 1851, 1857, and 1863 was elected United States Senator. He was an advocate of the Homestead bill, voted for the repeal of the Fugitive-Slave Law, and opposed the Nebraska-Kansas bill of 1854. Dur- ing the Civil War he was prominent in public affairs. In the session of 1861- 1862 he was appointed chairman of the Joint Committee on the Conduct of the War. He also served as president of the Senate and acting Vice-President of the United States. At the Republican Na- tional Convention, in Chicago, May 21, 1868, he received more votes on the first four ballots for the nomination for Vice- President than any other candidate; but failed to obtain the nomination. Except- ing to serve as a commissioner to Santo Domingo, he took no prominent part in public affairs after 1869. He died in Jefferson, 0., March 2, 1878. WADE, JAMES F., an American mil- itary officer; born in Ohio, April 14,