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J0jnt Note Sjuned.

Harsh as the demands made upon China by the allies are the Emperor of China has accepted them ,and the Chi nese plenipotentiaries have been or dered to sign the joint note. This ac- ceptance of the basis of negotiation should put an end at once to General von Waldersee's punitive expeditions, which are a drsgraee- to civilization,
The age-herald., 1901-01-01
Illusions of the Century.

Hall Caine has called the old cen s-Ary the peoples century" and he 6pes this will be the century of hu- manity." This is very nice as one reads it, but, alas, it is not true, so far as the old century is concerned. We know little as to this century. But the century now endeo was not IS bright as MT. Caine points it. It was in fact century of failures to the peo- pie.
 It was ushered in to the music of lip- erty, equality and fraternity. U was Hunsh music to be sure and Napolo-
 Hkpplanted all its ideals almost
 nnthe century came in.
 ke after a fashion a republic again, but kings and emper- ors are as common and as firmly placed as they were one hundred years ago. | The Czar is even stronger and more Aggressive, and fully as autocratic, al- Enough -despotism in that case is to vsome extent tempered by assassina- tion. Popular government is no stronger than it was one hundred years ago, and all the promise of the Flrepch outburst has been lost.
 This country has been increased chiefly through the fertility of its soil and it's natural resources, but no one
The age-herald., 1901-01-01
Colonel Bankhead and Others

Congressman John Hollis Bankhead was in town yesterday on his way from his home at Fayette, where he had spent the Christmas holidays, to Washington to re- sume his duties in Congress. Congressman Bankhead, who is in his usual sturdy health has been the pleased recipient of numberless congratulations of the warmest nature concerning his extraordinary success in obtaining appropriations for Alabama rivers and Mobile bay.
 The cornerstone of a new Jewish temple to cost $5O,OOO wdll be laid in Montgomery today and Masonic Grand Master Russell M. Cunningham and Acting Grand Secre- tary Lew Lazarus of Birmingham will take part in the ceremonies, which will be of most elaborate character.
 Medical Inspector of Conyicts w. H. Blake and Inspector E. w. Booker are in Birmingham.
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Call Upon LoyaIists.

Capetown, December 31.-The Cape gov- ernment has called upon the loyalists in twenty-seven districts, including Cape town, to assist the military to repel the invasion by the formation of a paid de- fense force.
The age-herald., 1901-01-01
BERNHARD's SHARE OF HE PELF

New York Letter in the Pittsburg Dispatch.
 Sara Bernhardt will close her engage ment at the Garden Theatre tomorrow night just s15O,OO to the good. Many nights she has played to slim houses, but every seat was sold. The speculators, not the manage ment suffered.
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HE ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER IN ALABAMA
A Century's BaIefuI Work.

progress, nor is a great volume of trade. Whatever brings greater good to greater number relatively speak ing is progress, and nothing else is Tried by this standard the dead cen tury was a woeful failure.
 In the thirties and forties of it, be- fore railroads were built, and the tide of new un-English immigration had set in, the diffusion of wealth and content ment and happiness in this country was without parallel elsewhere in the world. There were no million aires, and consequently no tramps. All had equal and good opportunities A-zzis disappeared as the century waxed old. The rich grew richer and the poor poorer. The land was filled with milionaires and therefore with tramps. Monopoly, fostered and pro- noted by laws it procured and paid for, reared it's head everywhere, and as the century went out class distinc- tions were cropping out based on mo- nopoly-gotten wealth. The republic of the thirties was dead.
 Just before the century was ended the administration of William McKin- ! ley stood before the highest court of the land pleading for the right to set ap colonial system in any part of the word Its attorney-general shameless ly asked that vassal possessions be permitted, although the vassal any where implies an imperial master at ome. And the wonder is that the pie ire of John Marshall dld not flash 'arning and defiance to this New Jer- ey limb of the administration on the bot. This act of the administration lone shows that the republic of the athers has vanished.
 In the Senate Mark Hanna, carrying campaign subscription list approach ng if not exceeding S1O,00O,O00, was
 
 to a few rich steamship owners, and in New York Governor Roosevelt was bidding defiance to requisition from la sister State directed against the head of the Standard Oil monopoly
 The millionaire and monopolst is
 touching every interest,
 elf to the United States
 Ing the President, making
 ling the laws, and setting
 sss distinctions. The few are to
 ters, and the many slaves.
 portunity is dead. Free cleo
 e dead, corruption exists i'll ry Legislature and in every city.
 r an agitation of fifty years even
 thmian canal bill could not in the
 century<be passed, because lob
 the- transcontinental rail- .Will this sort of thing be stayed !n the new century? Probably not. His tory shows that concentrated wealth -soes on from worse to worse. The old century bequeathed to the new monop- 1. oly, class distinction and imperialism hnd the masses of the people still pos sessing the power to throw them of either lack the intelligence or the will power needful in order to restore the republic.
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BILL ME AND WAGNER
From the Literary Era.

From the Literary Era.
 When Bill Nye was in Philadelphia in fss5 he visited the office of George w. Childs At parting MT. Childs asked the humorist to write a sentiment in his autograph al- bum. Nye at once produced this: "Wag- ner's music is not as bad as it sounds"
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Machinery Disabled.

London, December 31 - The Spanish steamer Enero, Captain zaluendo. which arrived at St. Michaels December 30 from New Orleans for Barcelona, had her ma chinery disordered and is repairing.
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 Years Day, January 1, 1901:
 '"Thou hast a favorable birthday
 'The young may court"
 "A child born on this day will be fond of travel and have a chequred career"
 Thou Shalt Labor.
 'The old-time Southerners, very many of them, made it a custom to be busily en- gagged in their ordinary occupations on New Years Day, holding that if they were we'll and profitably engaged on the first day of the year they would be dligent and indus trious throughout the twelve-month, su- perstition not without it's practical value" said the son of an old Southerner.
 Probably all the Southerners of Anglo Saxon descent, and that included nearly the entire white population outside of the coasttowns, held to that practice regarding New Years, and it was clearly survival of ancient racial characteristics. Labor on the first day of January was something of a material pledge-a swear-off from useless idleness during the year, much as thought less persons swear-off from grosser indul- gences nowadays, with the difference that the old d-timers were in earnest in these im- piled resolutions to labor and be faithful.
 "So on the plantations of the old regime, as I have been told, there was great bus tie and life on New Years Day, the master setting his slaves the example of useful in- dustry by hurrying all over his estates on horseback and seeing what was to be done before the pitching of the crops.
 "I cannot believe that our Scotch and Irish ancestors of the South were indus trous on the first day of January, unless their social customs in the old countries have undergone mighty change in the past century, for in neither Scotland nor Ireland does anybody labor on New Year Day who isn't absolutely compelled to to so; for in those countries the day is legal holiday, and for at least a century it has been day of merriment. In Ireland the day is one of religious obligation to the great majority of the population, but after their religious duties are perofrmed the people go forth to enjoy themselves. Tn Scotland New Years took it's place as the greatest day in the calendar more as a protest against the popish Christmas or John Knox's church burners and image warriors
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spoken, Is the ever-pr@sent greeting in Ire land, and today in that beautiful land mill lions and millions of times will the simple little prayer of the faithful be uttered.
 Good day, and God bless your
The age-herald., 1901-01-01

Cadet Willis Peace defined hazing in all its idiocy when he said that some of the upper classmen lack the faculty of judg- ing when a man has had hazing enough.
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Manchester begins to think he is too Eng lsh for an American, and too American for an Englishman. He might compromise by bkcoming a Mexican.
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The Pat Croweites are overworking the art of polite letter writing
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When a cadet has been exercised braced and filled with Sammy and prunes he is considered eligible to service, 'if alive"
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THE BETTER OF THE TWO.

From the Louisville CourIer-Journal
 Just now Pat Crowe's" subsidy plan seems more successful than Mark Han mas.
The age-herald., 1901-01-01

EIt seems that the White House must be Enlarged in order to give Mark Hanna per manent accommodation there Mark is the government.
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The esteemed Republicans seem to think they are commissioned to select The Con- moner's staff.
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The hazed are not equal to the task of officering the army, and seventy-two men from the ranks are to be sworn in.
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Gray, Altman and Thach-three good and strong men reelected to the board of al- dermen yesterday.
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Mrs. Nation is demonstrating that wom- an can hit a shining mark.
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The society generals in South Africa are under fire, and society cannot save them this time.
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Quay and Addcks belong to the twentieth century now. They cannot be put on the old century, which was better than it looks.
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Wichita saloonkeepers do not know how to defend themselves against Mrs. Nation, for if they touch a hair of her head their concerns will tumble like a house of cards.
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The new century was ushered in in many states with blizzard.
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Don't resolve to go to church once during the century. It would be too thin!
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A man might at least resolve today that he would. do one unselfish act during the century.
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Society and war are to be divorced in Great Britain.
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Mark Hannas effort to subdue the Sen- ate to his campaign will is encountering ob- stacles.
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MT. Hanna will take up his subsidy fight again this week, but Messrs. Pettigrew, Allen and Butler have their eyes on him. They do not intend to let him take $9,OOO,OO of paying Republican campaign debts.
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Fire off your new century resolution to- day. It is perishable matter.
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West Points chief objection to Booz was the omission of the ''e at the end of his name.
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The twentieth century has inherited the Dreyfus case.
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The bells last night rang out an old year and very old and frazzled century.
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THE NEW CENTUH

From the Independent. When in the dim, gray east , The morning of thy birth When thy first5dawn steps
 Upon the hilJs of earth77 Shall waiting nations bre(
 Oppressed with haunt Of what thou holdest i
 Thou coming Hundra Or shall a glad world
 With laughter and Thou unborn child
 Whose reign sha Who, knows-we
 Shall enter likS Into thy courts
 Whatever tho What matter Thy herald The story q
 Is evermd Thy childI
 Through Naught
 The Bj
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IN HOTEL LOBBIES
 AND ELSEWHERE

Astrologer Raphaels prophecies for New Years Day. January l, 1901:
 "Thou hast a favorable birthday"
 "The young may court"
 "A child born on this day will be fond of travel and have a chequred career"
The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1901-01-25
GLEANINGS OF FACT.

Britain makes 100000 900 yards of
linen year.
Forty-five aligators in Milwaukee
show died of pneumonia one day re-
Gently.
Craig-yNos, the name of Nine. Ade-
lima PATHS castle in Wales, means rock
of the night.
A st. Louis negro has devised an ele-
vator in which screw takes the place
of weights and pulleys.
The first iron war vessel built in the
world was the United States steamship
Michigan. which is still on duty on the
great lakes, and has often been seen in
Chicago.
> The annual report on the Michigan
state penitentiary at Jackson shows
total population of 720, the lowest in
% years. The tailors' shop had but
Nne man at work.
The town of Eatonville, Fla, has
Sl.2o0 inhabitants, with not a single
white among them. 1t has it's full
quota of pubic officials, bank and
other business establishments requi.
site in a town of it's size. ~
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the other point, while 1 can hardly
lady, I think saw her not more than
a couple of hours ago."
"a couple of hours ago." exclaimed
Sprague; why, 1 was with her myself
then"
Il know that now, although L was
not aware of it at the time
.'What, were you at the Murdocks' at
the same time as 1 WASP" asked
Sprague, surprised.
II had just come from there when
I met you. l was in MurGock's study
while you were-er-busy in the par
lor.''
sin Murdock's study? How long,
were you there?"
"About half an hour, should judge"
replied Sturgis, "and perhaps Is min
utes more in the hall, while Murdoch
was engaged"
81 suppose Chatham was still with
him?" unused Sprague.
Sturgis started at the name.
"Chatham!" he CALCULATED; what do
you know about Chatham"
What, are you interested in Chat
ham," asked the artist, curiously. II
know very little about him, only that
he is one of my disappointed rivals"
And he thereupon related to the re-
porter what he knew of Chatham's
suit.
Sturgis listened with deep attention
to his friends narrative, and Iuminated
in silence long after the artist had
ceased speaking.
At last he started up with a sudden
exclamation, and, walking over to the
side of the tank, he looked into the
depths of its oily contents, as if fas-.
cinated by some horrible thing he saw
there. ssvzat4 So fsfH +
Sprague came and stood beside him
and gazed curiously into the viscous,
liquid. There was nothing there that.
he could see.
"What is it ?" he asked.
Without replying, Sturgis took from
his pocket q bone-handled knife and
carefully dipped one end of the handle
The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1901-01-25

into the. fluid in the 1eaden tank. At
once the liquid began to seethe and
boil, giving out dark, pungent fumes.
81 thought so." muttered the re-
porter, under his breath; that man is
truly a genius-the genius of evil"
"Who?" asked Sprague.
Sturgis made no reply. His eyes
were wandering about the room, as If
in search of something.
"Hand me a couple of those long
glass tubes from that shelf yonder,"
he said, earnestly.
The artist complied with the request.
Dipping these tubes into the oily
liquid, Sturgis, after considerable diff
Guilty, managed to seize with them a
small dark object which lay at the bot
tom of the tank. With infinite precau-
ton he brought it to the surface. It
had the appearance of flattened lead
en- bullet.
"What is it?" inquired Sprague.
"Sit down. answered Sturgis, in q
low, tense voice. 81 have just found
the last link which completes my chain
of evidence; I am now prepared to tell
you such a story as you will scarcely
credit, even with the absolute proofs
before your eyes"
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to ask, Ibid you bring me here, armed
to the teeth, to see you go off into
trance?" :
Sturgis started like a man suddenly
awakened from deep sleep.
"Eh? What? Oh, yes-those conf
dences. Well, you start in with yours.
I am trying to find the denouement of
my story. 1 feel that it is just within
my grasp; and yet I cannot seem to
see it yet. But can listen to you while
I am thinking. Go on"
81 have not any story to tell" said
Sprague, somewhat offended at his
friends apparent Indifference to what
he had to say.
"Oh, yes, you have" retorted Stur-
gis. with a conciliatory smile; ''you
said you had news to tell me. Well, tell
away. I am listening most respectful
ly, in spite of my apparent absorp-
tion."
"What strange fellow you are, Stur-
gis," laughed Sprague, good-naturedly.
Cali wanted to tell you-and you are
the first to hear of it's the, to me,
rather important fact that I am en-
gagged to be married"
you are?" exclaimed Sturgis, with
genuine pleasure. 81 congratulate you,
old fellow, from the bottom of my
heart" s"AHis 70f
He seized the artists hand and shook
it in his hearty grasp.
ITO the original of the picture you
wanted to show me yesterday" he
asked. fEs., . ..,-.
EYES," tass
''Then she was not S=:rothed to the
other fellow, after all?" $3.50 q
''No; that seems to have been a mis-
take" t.a --s
81 am glad of that, very glad" said
the reporter. ''By the way, you have
not yet told me the young lady's
name."
81 thought 1 had mentioned it yes
terday morning. Didn't L? No? My
fiancee is Miss Murdoch"
At the sound of this name Sturgis
started visibly, and shadow crossed
his features.
Miss Murdock?" he echoed.
YES" said Sprague. What is it?
You do not seem pleased"
Then, as a sudden thought struck
him:
Il hope I am not treading on your
toes, old fellow" he said, putting his
hand gently upon his friends shoul-
der and trying to read his thought lin
his clear gray eyes. "But how absurd!
Of course you cannot be rival for
Miss Murdock's affections, since you
do not even know her"
"No," laughed Sturgis, regaining his
composure, Il am not your rival. AS to
The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1901-01-25
The DUTY OF MOTHERS.

What suffering frequently results
from mothers ignorance or more
frequently from a mothers neglect to
properly instruct her daughteri
Tradition says woman must SUI
fer" and young women are so taught.
There is little truth and great deal
of exaggeration in this. If young
woman suffers severely she needs
treatment, and her mother should see
that she gets it.
Many mothers hesitate to take their
daughters to a physician for examine
ton but no mother need hesitate to,
write freely about her daughter or
herself to Mrs. Pinkham and secure
the most efficient advice without
charge. Mrs. Pinkham's address L.
Lynn, Mass. {s.
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PRIVATE OFFICE.
NO ADMITTANCE.

One of the detectives tried this door
and found it locked. Whereupon he
placed his shoulder to it and prepared
to force it in.
wait minute" said Sturgis; 'let
me see if cannot open it."
The detective stepped aside with q
quizzical expression upon his face.
81 guess you will find it pretty solid
for your weight" said he.
The reporter took from his pocket a
piece of bent wire, and, with few
dexterous turns of the wrist, he shot
the bolt of the lock.
"You would make an expert cracks
man." said the detective. II didn't
know you possessed that accomplish
ment in addition to all your other
ones"
The four men entered the private
Office. The room was quite dark, the
shutters being closed and the blinds
The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1901-01-25

Mrs August Pfalzgraf, of South
Byron, Wis; mother of the young lady
whose portrait we here publish, wrote
Mrs. Pinkham in January, 1899, saying
her. daughter had suffered for two
years with. irregular menstruatiop-,
had headache all the time, and pain in
her side, feet swell, and was generally
miserable. Mrs. Pinkham promptly
replied with advice, and under date Of
March, 1899, the mother writes again
that Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable
Compound cured her daughter of all
pains and irregularity.
Nothing in the world equals Mrs
Pinkham's great medicine for regu-
lating woman's peculiar monthly
troubles.
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THE STURGIS WAGER ;
A DETECTIVE STORY.
} BY EDGAR MORETTE.
Copyright, 1899, by Frederick A. Stokes Co.
e%3@S&N@0@ N&4&e&e&,
CHAPTER XIX.-CoNT1NUED.

CHAPTER X1X.-CONTINCED.
THAT will do" observed Sturgis,
presently; 1.-The old woman is coming
as fast as she can"
"What old woman?" asked the de-
tective.
II don't know. Perhaps I ought to
have said an old woman. hear her
hobbling on the stairs"
The detective placed his ear to the
keyhole. After listening attentively,
he turned to the reporter with an in
credulous smile.
swell, Mr.. Sturgis," said he, eff you
can hear anything in there, your ears
are sharper than mine. That's all
can say
''She is on the second flight" replied
the reporter, quietly. "Now she is in
the second-story hall-and now you
can surely hear her coming down the
last flight
By this time, sure enough, the sound
of footsteps began to be audible to the
other three men; and presently the
door opened and disclosed the scared
face of an old Irish woman.
"And phwat might yez be wantin,
gintlemin, to be after scarin' an ould
H41man most to death wild yer ring
su'?" she asked, somewhat aggressive
ly. a.
1--WE want to see Mr.. Chatham" re-
piled one of the detectives.
Mister who, is it?''
Thomas Chatham. Show me the way
to his room. I'll go right up, and my
friends will wait for me here"
mister Thomuz Chathum, is it?"
said the old woman; well, we've come
to the wrong house to see him, do be
thinlxin', fer he don't live here"
"Come, that won't do" said the de-
tective, sharply; 1--WE belong to the po-
lice, and we saw Chatham enter this
house."
At the mention of the police, the old
hays parchment face became a shade
yellower and her eyes glistened.
"Sure, thin, if he do be hidin' here.
It's mesilf as 'ud know it," she said,
after short interval: ''but yez can
foind 'um, if yez loike; yez can foind
'um."
Whereupon she turned and hobbled
off, leaving the intruders to their own
resources.
They found themselves in a narrow
hallway. On the right was a rickety
staircase leading to business offices in
the upper part of the building; on the
left, door opening into the Office of
the Manhattan Chemical company, and
At the end of the. hall another door,
marked:
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1 LOVE YOU, DEAR.

A scent Of violets in the air,
And singing birds.
And beauty newborn, fresh and fair,
Too dear for words;
A little maid with floral crown
On hair of gold,
And blushing cheeks where lies the kiss
OF lover bold,
Whose boyish lips story tell
Into her ear,
AS, bending low. he whispers soft:
II love you, dear"
The breath of roses in the air.
And lilacs sweet,
A sunny sky Of azure blue.
The morn doth greet;
A maiden crowned with womanhood.
And robed in white,
With smiling lips, and in her eyes
A tender light,
Before the altar proudly stands,
And answers clear
The one who whispers soft and low:
II love you, DEAR"
A whirl of snowf1akes in the air,
A cold, gray sky
Where scudding clouds and wintry winds
Go sweeping by;
A woman with a crown of years
On silvered hair,
And faded check, where youths fair bloom
Once fingered there,
Beside the hearthsone knitS and rocks,
While someone near
Bends low his whitened head and says:
II love you. dear"
-Inez May Felt, in Boston Transcript.