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The age-herald., 1901-02-01
SOUTH AFRICA.
Peace Officer Shot by Order of Dewet.
 Other News.

Capetown, January 3l-The Boer attack on Boiksburg mines resulted in damages amounting to f300,000
 The commissioner at Kroonstad reports that Andries Vessels, one of the peace en- voys. was shot at Klipfontein January 2S by order of General Dewet.
 Lord Kitchener reported from Pretoria January 13 that three of the Boer peace commissioners were taken as prisoners to General Dewet's laager, near Lindley, Jan uary 10, and that one, who was a subject was fiogged and then shot The other two, burghers, were fogged by General Dewet's orders.
 The identity of Andries Vessels, reported to have been shot by General Dewet at Klipfontein January 2S, cannot be definitely established But Lord Roberts, on July I last, reported that General Mathuen had captured the commander of Dewet's scouts, two other prisoners and, according to the cable, Andeles Vessels the head of the Afrikander Bund. It is possible that An dries Vessels and Andeles Vessels are the same person.
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ingly fast. It had SS.46s people In June; in January it had 46,oOO, as Mayor Cap deville. with both hands up. stands ready to assert. Here is 8 growth of nearly 20 per cent. in six months, and it tires the imagination to think what this means before the next federal cen. sus is taken. It means at least million people, and Jeffersons glory will be gone, at least until the next federal fig. ures are announced.
 Nashville, too, has gained 5000 peo- pie in six months. Jefferson County, Alabama, better known as Greater Bir- mingham, stands at the old figures, 14O,42O, and it will have no other figures to present until 1910, when the govern ment will send out some population facts for this neighborhood that will Jar the imaginative artists of other towns,
The age-herald., 1901-02-01

eOo,0OO, may be passed. while the promo tors of the Pacific cable project will mot be satisfied with less than s2o,OOO. 900. In that event the grand total for the F'ifty-sixth Congress would be $1.542,525. .666 The country had ''one-and-a -half-b billion-doll Congress two years ago, but then the United States was at war with Spain. Now we have a war which we have frequently been told was practically ended several months ago, and yet the expenditures of the government show no evidence of de- creasing. If the country Is to be run on a billion -and-a-half basis it seems to be folly to reduce taxation. On the contrary, our statesmen should rather be looking for new subjects of taxation. It is evident that there is no such word as economy in their lexicon. The twentieth century opens very inauspiciously for those who have to pro- vide revenue for the government.
The age-herald., 1901-02-01
THE ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER IN ALABAMA
Another Railroad Comes In.

The absorption of the Mobile and Ohio Railroad by the Southern Railway Company is complete. The Mobile and Ohio becomes division of the Southern it as the line from Birmingham to Selma. In fact, the Mobile and Ohio Railroad as such under it's own name has ceased to exist, and even it's se- curities-its stocks and bonds-are to be exchanged for Southern securities. Thus the identity of this old railroad will be lost, and it will be known in history only.
 This transfer will give the Mobile and Ohio important ana valuable busi- ness, and it will place over it men who have an eye to traffic only and traffic profits. It will pass into the hands of experienced railroad managers, and a degree of prosperity will attend it that will render 1t one of the best railroad properties in this section of the caun- try.
 Two Alabama cities at least will be benefited by this change. Mobile will gain much additional export trade. It is not too much to expect that its ex- port trade will be doubled. Birming- ham, too, becomes a terminal of the an nexed railroad. By the use of the Ala bama Great Southern from Blocton, dis tant forty miles, Mobile and Ohio trains will arrive and depart from this city at once. Thus one more large mileage is added to the facilities of this town, and that, too, without friction or liti- gation. This will strengthen, as Presi- dent Spencer has said, the Mobile and Ohio property, and 1t will also strength en the trade and export facilities of this district.
The age-herald., 1901-02-01
MoJEsKA's EXILE LIFTED.

New York Letter in the Pittsburg Dispatch
 Madame Modjeska has received word from Poland that the political charges against her have been withdrawn and that she may return home She is arranging to sail on an early steamer and will not re- turn to this county. Although the actress owns one of the most valuable ranches in california she has longed for her native land, and the news of her permission to re- turn without danger of arrest has filled her with joy. number of years ago she de- hVered speeches on personal freedom, which resulted in her punishment from the country.
The age-herald., 1901-02-01
Mrs. Nation on the South Side.

You'd better close your door in a hurry if you want to save your stock shouted a respectable citizen as he dashed into a Southside saloon yesterday.
 ''Why-what's the matter?" gasped the saloonkeeper, turning white.
 Don't ask me-havent got time to ex- plain--but close up!" cried the respectable citizen excitediy.
 Whats the er-matter-matter? demanded the saloonkeeper as he began to dance in excitement
 Mrs Nation-just came in on train great crowd following coming right your way-better be in a hurryi" calculated the respectable citizen as he darted through the door, and before he had reached the middle of the sidewalk the saloon door closed with-a bangi
 The laugh came as the immediate subse- quent It is still being enjoyed on the Southside, whilst Mrs. Nation figures in running legs and wrecking kegs and Sam Jones rattles the mountebank's bones in Wichita the while Sockless Simp far away gambols like an imp and gives loud guffaw!
The age-herald., 1901-02-01
George Cruikshank and Others.

George Chuikshank died just twenty three years ago. or February l, 1878, and then passed the greatest and sweetest lived of all the generations of geniuses whose business it has been to make fun with their pencils and brushes" said one who has studied and written of the lives of the great carcaturists.
 ''Thackeray was the lordliest and most lovable of all the funmakers and weavers of romances of the highest order, but car- cature was more pastime than a business with the incomparable Thackeray. Like and unlike MT. Silas Wegg in regard to poetry, Thackeray merely dropped into caricature with an easy familiarity and with infinite charm. He left the real work to Leech and Cruikshank, and later to George DuMaurier and Tenneil, and the others. And in this relation it Is astonsh- ing that Tenneil is still with us, hale and hearty, though in the eighties, and he re- tired just the other day, the beginning of the New Year, after fifty years of fame making and world-moving on Punch, and Du Maurier, who won worldwide fame in literature after he had reached the top of the ladder in caricature, died but the other year a not very old man.
 ''These men were great and renowned
The age-herald., 1901-02-01

before the world became accustomed to the flavor of that most unpoetic word ear toonist.' They were caricaturists who dealt gently but powerfully with the faults and foibies and the physiognomie peculiarities of the great or the notorious; they were good-tempered and good-mannered fun makers in politics and society, and they snever struck to wound any man. Thus they differed radically from many of the cartoonists of this day, and especially of this country, for a noble art never fell te lower level than caricature was dragged by some of the cartoonists of the great newspapers during the recent Presidential canvass in the United States. Even Daven- port, greatest of them all and best of good fellows, seemed sometimes to strike below the belt and out of 1t all there has grown a widespread demand for the legal protec- tion of the public against the cartoonists. There are some notable and most honored exceptions to the general run of American cartoonists in their offensive work, be 1t said in all justice. An, for Cruikshank of old to lead all in the way of decency! He never stopped to a mean fling or low or base insnuation in all his career"
The age-herald., 1901-02-01
One Sunhriqht Day.

Yesterday was the first day of the new year which Drought any comfort to the in- numerable victims who are writhing in the grip of the Grip Devil, for it was the only cold, clear, breezy, sunbright day of the thirty-one of 1901 which have so far run their lengthening course. It was the one truly refreshing and ideal winters day in a winter that Is already half past, and which has been phenomenally mild and open, thereby proving to be so unseasona- ble as to make serious 'inroads upon the public health, and to offer especial encour- agement to the grip, now the most serious danger to the health of the people. week such as yesterday would effectually break the dreadful grip epidemic.
The age-herald., 1901-02-01
ANTI-sRITIsH SENTIMENT.
Outbreak in the Austrian Reichrath-
 Cheers for Beers.

Vienna, January a.-The newly elected Reichsrath met this morning. Dr. Weigal president of the lower house, referred to the late Queen Victoria in eulogistic terms and asked the deputies to mark their sym pathy for Great Britain by rising to au- tborize the president s-to-> convey an ex- pression of their sincere condolance to the House of Commons. The proposal evoked an expression of dissent in some quarters especially among the German Radicals, who are pro-Boer sympathizers, were empha sized by cheers for the Boers.
 The president of the upper house paid warm tribute to Queen Victoria and the entire house stood up as a mark of sym pathy with Great Britain.
 Cheers for the BoeTs, cries of Success to the Boers, Down with England" and other ~pro-Boer and ant-Brtish shouts re-echoed through the building. The great majority or the deputies, however, condemned the outburst and rose from their seats as sign of coincidence.
 The Freindaublatt Nous, F'reie Presse and Naterland all indignantly condemn the at- titude of the dissenters. They claim the dis order only proceeded from small section of the house, which in no way represents the public opinion of Austria.
The age-herald., 1901-02-01
Another Narrow EscaDe,

The fourth collision between backing cars has occurred, and horror was averted by the quick action of a negro struck the trolley car loaded with pas sengers, jarring them seyereiy, and very tion into a panic. For if the freight jumbo had not been stopped by the prompt signalling of brakeman the car and the persons in it would have been crushed. This accident occurred in broad daylight on the busy East Lake line. Night and the confusion of dark ness had nothing to do with it. It oc- cured at the monday hour. It goes to show that death and destruction are possible at any hour on the unguarded ungated grade crossings of this town.
 If the Mayor and Board of Aldermen lacked power to protect fife and limb in this town, or if they lacked object lessons showing the need of such pro lection, the case would be different; they lack neither; and yet they go on from week to week without action or even attempted actlon.
 The East Lake case is one of hun dred similar escapes from horror that would startle and enrage lne people of thls town. It is not exaggeration to say that here is at least one narrow escape of this nature every day. Shah this go on to the enevitable slaughter of our own citizens, men, women and children? Such a slaughter will come when for tune turns, as it may at any time The problem is up to the City Council. It calls for prompt action. Shall it have it?
The age-herald., 1901-02-01
Great Growth of Cities.

yThe World Almanac is at hand, as it usually is at given price; and 1t con- tains the customary variety of informa- b btion, including the population of Ameri can cities in June, 1900. It also con tains the population of some of those cities of January 1, 1901. The differ- ences in these two sets of figures go to show that great growth is taking place :, either in the number of people or in the . imaginations of some of those people.
 For example, Atlanta, which had in June 89,S72 people, had in the following January 100000, as Mayor Mims certi- "a fies. Here is growth of 12 per cent. in six months! Such rate of growth would carry Atlanta far over the mill . Rsss isso 5s9o-s Che next census pulls it back to plain, unvarnished facts again. Memphis, too, is growing on paper very rapidly. It had 1O2,026 in June; in January it had 11O,OG5, according to Mayor Williams. A growth of per cent. in six months is something hand some, and it, too, is headed for the mil lion line, but it, too, has the census of 1910 to face.
 Our own Mobile is growing surpris-
The age-herald., 1901-02-01
RADICAL CHANGES.
Made in the Curriculum of Vale Univer
 sity.

New Haven, Conn, January a.-Radical changes were made in the curriculum at the meeting of the Yale University corporation and it will now be possible for a well pre- pared student to complete his course in three years instead of four years, and ob- tain the Bachelor of Arts degree. Students can, under the new system, carry twenty more hours of class work each year with ease.
 Only in the freshman year hereafter will there be required" or compulsory courses as contrasted with "elective" studies. The course of ''psycology and mental and nor al science" has also been made elective This was the most difficult work of the junior year, was sung about in the college glees. and has been for many years the sin gle required" study in the junior class.
The age-herald., 1901-02-01
LONGlNG.

 From the Blackwood's Magazine. If but for one brief day my sould might
 roam s= In bird form through the spaces of the
 air,
 And hover on still wing above the foam, And see more clearly what the hiltops
 wear; Hr If I might feel the great winds mighty
 wings a@ Upbearing me, until touched the clouds Until the silence whispered and the things Of earth were blurred beneath the ilmy
 shrouds a If I might see the dawn grow white~and
 scent ~ The upward breath of all the wildwood
 flowers, And fly at eve across that purple rent Of darkening valley, with unfailing pow
 CTS:
 How would longing of my life be stilled. And ehildhood's frequent dreaming bs-fuls
 hicu'
The age-herald., 1901-02-01
STUN MING.
From the Baltimore Sun.

From the Baltimore Sun.
 The Fifty-sixth Congress will make a stunning record for profligacy in expendi- ture At its first session it appropriated s71O,O50,S62. The estimated appropriations for the present session aggregate s743.3 .374,- S04, not including deficiencies of $3O 900, 900 which already exist and deficiencies of $1o, ,OOO. 900 which are likely to occur The total expenditures will amount, on this basis, to $1.493, ,525. .666. In addition the ship subsidy bill and the Nicaragua canal bill, the former providing for yearly ex- penditure of $9,OOO.OOO and the latter s2O,-
The age-herald., 1901-02-01
BIG DEMONSTRATION.
Given Norwegian Corvette EIIida at
 New Orleans.

New Orleans, January 31-The Norwegian corvette Ellida, which has been in port a week, weighed anchor today and started down the river There was noisy demon stration on the river front as the vessel departed. The Ellida fired salute as she passed Canal street. The vessel goes hence to Mobile, where she will spend few days, thence she starts for Norway. Be- fore leaving Commander Rosenquist and his officers spoke in the highest terms of the courtesy and hospitality they had been shown while here, and said they hoped soon 10 revisit America with a larger ship. They have been feted throughout their stay here and have been lions at several of the swell carnival balls.
The age-herald., 1901-02-01
MUNICIPAL ACT
Passed by the Philippine Commission.
 Its Provisions.

Manila, January 31.-The act organizing municipal governments in the Philippines was passed by the United States commits sion today after the adoption of amend ments. including a provision disqualifying from voting and holding office any person who, after April l, is in arms against or aiding those opposing the United States authority.
 The power to review election irregulari- ties is transferred from the Governor of the province to the election judges.
 A provision is added for returns and rec ords of births, marriages and deaths.
 Prior to the passage of the act, Judge Taft, president of the commission, said the greatest pains had been taken in the preparation of the act because the muni- cipalties were units upon which would be erected the general government.
The age-herald., 1901-02-01
RaphaeI's Wonderful Foresight.

Writing in August, 1900, Raphael made the latter part of January and the month of February:
 The influences are not favorable for the health of the Queen" (The Queen is dead.)
 'The Duke of York comes under very unfortunate influences" (The Duke of York is in very i'll health)
 ''The British government will not be pop ular, and death will leave a sad vacancy in it's ranks" Crhe government is Lord Sails burys cabinet.)
 ''The general position of the stars is not favorable, denoting colliery explosions, boisterous weather with heavy gales, and great number of suicides" (Witness the great storms in England and elsewhere within the past few days.)
 There will be an extraordinary number of very sudden deaths of notable people, and there is danger that influenza will be prevalent and very fatal" CWitness the Queens death, and the terrible ravages of influenza, or as we call it, the grip, all over great Britain and America.)
 '.There will be disasters on the railways, and many accidents on the roads, particu- larly during the earlier part of the month. Towards the close of the month there will be a terrible disaster at sea with heavy loss of life. There will also be strikes in some trades and labor may be getting un- settled"
The age-herald., 1901-02-01
OLDEST PERSONS.
Committee on Vital Statistics Prepares
 Its Report.

New York, January H.-After searching for six months for the oldest persons in the world the committee on vital statistics of the Hundred Year Club of this city has prepared report which shows that the oldest man in the world is Izai Rodofsty of Moscow, Russia, who is in his l36th year. and the oldest woman is Mrs. Nancy Holli- field of Battle Creek, Mich, who Is IT,
 Rodofsty Is reported by Dr. Joseph Jer- nossky oI Moscow, who says the old man comes of long-lived family. His father died at the age of 120 years. Redofsty's sight is good but his hearing is poor He was never ill, uses liquor but has never used tobacco.
 Dr. Wood of the Battle Creek Sanitarium reports that Mrs. Hollifield has lived a temperate, simple life, doing housework for years.
The age-herald., 1901-02-01
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.

From the Chicago News. The woman who seldom makes remarks is remarkable Ir Credulous people, like musical instru-l ments, are frequently played upon. 2
 An old bachelor says that women talk so much they haven't time to think. a When a little man wants to make an impression he puts on silk hat. E
 TIP o..s step from the sublime to the ridiculous Is usually short one.
 Many man with but little judgment has a lot of them entered against him in court
 Contentment is virtue, but even in the matter of virtues one should beware of commercials.
 His ability to say no" at the right tins is of more use to man than his ability to quote Latin.
 Some one says that a woman never talks when she is doing up her hair. Perhaps it 1t because her mouth is full of bairpins at that stage of the game
The age-herald., 1901-02-01
After Human Hogs

There is a home-thrust for Birmingham and lesson crying for hearing in an editorial of the New York Herald entitled "A Fine Well Levied" and striking at "hu- man hogs:"
 Hosts of street and T. road patrons will rejoice over the enforcement of $z5 fine against a man convicted of splitting on the floor of an T. car. Experience has shown that warnings posted in the cars are of little use, but if few more sS fines are levied the vile practice will not last
The age-herald., 1901-02-01
EXPORT TRADE
American Locomotives for Europe.
 Steel for England.

Philadelphia January 31.-The Norwe- gian steamship Fortuna has sailed from this port for Europe, carrying railroad roll ing stock valued at s220SS0.
 At Marseilles she will land ten locomo- tives and tenders worth $120,000 for the Paris and Lyons Railroad and to Bilboa Spain, she will take eight locomotives and tenders, valued at $10O,SS0.
 Besides these shipments the Fortuna has on board TAPS flat steel billets, worth $l7, ,799, for Newport, England
The age-herald., 1901-02-01
Making Slow Propress.

Manila, January 31.-The cabled state ment that the movement toward Protes- tantism in the Philippines is growing with astonishing rapidity is exaggerated. The Methodists, Presbyterians, Episcopalians and British and American societies have worked in Manila and it's vincinity for two years and the membership of the four Methodist missions is 400, and in a constitu- ency of a thousand the Presbyterian mis- sion has a native membership of thirty
The age-herald., 1901-02-01
Two Men Injured.

Wilkesbarre, Pa., January 31. - A small keg of dynamite used for blasting purposes exploded this morning in the Fernwood mine at Pitston, owned by the Erie Rail-. road Company. Joe Santino had an arm blown off and an eye destroyed. Antonio Santino sustained a fractured skull and will probably die. su
The age-herald., 1901-02-01
"A coMPENSATiNG FEATURE

From the St. Louis Republic
 In giving both sides of the case, it is only fair to notice that, while Mrs. Carrie Na- tion is smashing saloon fixtures, the tax on beer will probably be reduced to s1.50 barrel.
The age-herald., 1901-02-01
IN HOTEL LCBBIES
 AND ELSEWHERE

Astrologer Raphael's prophecies for this day, Friday, February 1, 1901:
 Avoid women and keep quiet"
 Thou hast a most unfortunate birthday. and thy business will fail, and thou wilt suf- fer sickness or bereavement; keep thy af- fairs well in hand''
 "The child that is born on this day will be very unlucky all through life, and will have much grief and sorrow in it's domestic affairs. If a female, she will become unfor- tunate early in life"
The age-herald., 1901-02-01

Bachelors in Michigan are to be taxed $5 a year, and girls who say No to pro- posal should likewise be taxed.
The age-herald., 1901-02-01

Now that her annual allowance has been cut down to $2OOOOO, the Countess de Cas- tellane begins to think she will have to ac- cept the suburbs and use the trolley.