The age-herald., 1900-01-01
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 no person who shall date a letter in the year 1900 will live to write in the year 2OOO A. D. Millions of f<persons in Christendom Will maintain that the nineteenth century of the Christian era ended last midniebf. ana at that moment the twentieth century began, and other millions will say those millions are silly and altogether illogical, whilst the vaster multitude will not say anything or care anything about the mat ter. It will give pause to the seer him of prophetic vision, to the student. the scholar, the thinker, the idealist, the dreamer the man of romance and to him of emotion. To others there appears to be merely new date in the calendar of Pope Gregory XIII. The Roman calendar was reformed by this pope in 1882, the changes then made in- cluding the method of adjusting the leap years so as to harmonize the civil year with the solar, and also the regulation of the time of Easter and the movable feasts by means of epochs This day Is the great day for swearing off," and forming good reso- lutions. Every day of this nineteenth or twentieth century year, have 1t as you may, will be a good day for the faithful observance. There Is a man in Birming- ham who soemnly swears every New Years that he'll not "swear off during the succeeding twelve months. But he is frivolous-jests at the good resolutions formed today to be broken tomorrow. Every woman in Birmingham will begin to- day to keep diary, and will quit the diary business the day after tomorrow, or on Thursday at latest If she be young and unwedded she will write on the first line to- night: Saw Jack. Isn't he just the love- Hest, sweetest dearest thing in the world?' If she be a young mother she will write, "Baby's tooth is the cutest thing on earth. I believe hubby is jealous of him." And so will run the diary business. But apart from that, if every man and woman in Birming- ham will today do some deed of charity heaven will ring with new pralseI
 "In your issues of last Tuesday and today" says R. w. H. to The Age-Herald, you refer to the sen- atorial contest of Montana in which Mr. Clark was elected and you both times stat ed that Marcus Daly is a republican, This is mistake. Marcus Daly is a Chicago platform democrat but not as rich as MT Clark. The fight for the senate in Mon- tana is largely one between the rival cities of Butte and Anaconda. MT Clark is known in Montana as the king of Butte. while MT. Daly is the rich man of Ana conda. This is not a matter of much im- portance, but as a part of contemporary political history it should be correctly stat ed by the newspapers.
 Stories are current that former President Cleveland is fatally III at his home at Princeton This is 1atly contradicted in a, private letter from an authoritative source received in Birmingham yesterday. MT. Cleveland is afflicted by very severe mus cular rheumatism. and has been confined to his house for a fortnight; but his life is in no sense endangered. He suffers a great deal, as everybody suffers who has that terrible afhction; but he is likely to be able to walk out of doors before the New Year has marked its first week.
 
 ''The Royal Cork Yacht club at Queens town, the building of which was almost en- ttrely wrecked by last weeks gale on the south coast of Ireland, is the oldest club in the world" said George Harvey of SSihbereen. "The club was founded in 172O under a special charter granted by the king of England, giving some cherished privileges. Permission twas given to use the designation royal, to fly the red en- sign, and to call its executive head by the style and title of Admiral. No other yacht club in the British dominions has an ad- miral. The Royal Yacht squadron, which has it's club house on the Isle of Wight, has the sole privilege amongst such clubs of flying the whiteA ensign of the British navy; but it's official head the Prince of Wales, is styled commodore. The famous club house at Queenstown, which was damaged by the storm, is immediately on the edge of deep water in the lower Cove of Cork, now called Cork harbor and ar- chitectually it was perhaps the most at tractive building devoted to club purposes in Great Britain or Ireland. This club numbers amongst it's members several H. lustrious pers .. as, including the heirs apparent and lptve to the English throne; Prince --nry, brother of the Ger man Emperor; General Lord Roberts the Our Bobs', who is gone to conduct the war against the Boers; General Lord Wosley, commander-in-chief of the Brit ish army; and many other men prominent in the world.'
 The apparently hopeless illness of Charles Addison Boutelle, congressman from the Fourth district of Maine, serves to recall a chapter in the history of the war between the states Boutelle was a mdshiiman on the federal ship Sassagus flagship of Com modore Roane in Albermarle Sound about the time the confederate ship Albermarle was blown up by the daring young Cushing, of the federal fleet. Boutelle, with five of. his men, very narrowly escaped capture at the hands of Frank P. O'Brien and G. Nor timer Williams of Birmingham, and Chief Pilot HonxinS and Signal OHicar Artbrr