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The age-herald., 1901-03-24

upon my staff, with the rank of colonel, towit:
 Allen Barsdale a member of Ruston Camp, U. c. V, of Ruston, La.
 John w. Faxon, a member of N. B. For rest U. c. V. of Chattanooga, Tenn.
 Charles W. Anderson, a member of Joe B. Palmer Camp S1 U. c. ", of Mur- freesboro. Tenn.
 Tim E. Cooper, a member of Robert A. Smith, Camp "A, U. NC. ", of Jackson, Miss, now resident of Memphis, Tenn. W J. Crawford, a member of Confeder, ate Historical Association, Camp 2S, U. c. w. of Memphis, Tenn. w. M. Forrest, a son of the illustrious Lieut.-Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest of Memhis.
 They will be obeyed and respected in the discharge of their duties. By order of J. B. GORDON. Gen. Com. GEORGE MOORMAN, Adjt. Gen. and
 Chief of Staff.
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WITH THE EDITORS OF
 THE STATE PRESS
Wants a Colony.

From the Chiffon Reflector.
 There is no section of Alabama better adapted for colonies than the section right around Maplesville. There are sev eral parties who own thousands of acres of land in solid bodies. The lands could be made to produce anything that can be raised in this section, is well timbered, well watered and is populated with white people. If these large land owners will go to work in earnest they could get col onies here like that at Thorsby, and this country would soon blossom like a rose. ate prices on their lands and place them in our hands, the Reflector will go to work with all its might to induce immi- grafton and colonies to come here.
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No Reason for Antasonizing It.

From the Prattville Progress.
 The question of a constitutional con- vention is one that every citizen through out the state Is vitally interested in, and there Is no reason in antagonizing the arrangements to free the state from the bane which has been upon her for these many years It appears to all reasonable minds that the time has come when all the people should join hands with a will and deal with conditions in regard to the negro suffrage question, and that is the all important one in the present contest
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An Editors Hard Luck.

From the Dothan Wire Grass Siftings
 We had been thinking a great deal of the weather man-we had even compli- mented him in our columns-but we take 1t all back. The cold has come and we have spent the $2 that we had cheerfuliy laid away to buy some heavy trousers thinking that these old ones would do and now we are forced to cough and bear it.
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Genuine Progress Here.

From the Marion Standard.
 For genuine progress one can turn his eye towards Birmingham almost any day in the week. One of the latest moves Is to put in skilled white labor where un- skilled colored labor has heretofore been used. The black belt could learn a les son thereby encouraging white farmers to cultivate our rich soil, so much of which is now butchered by colored laborers, who are becoming so indolent that their labor is proving less profitable every year.
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PROMINENT MAN
 KILLED BY MARE
Pet Animal Kicked H. L. Jones on the Head Cracking
 the Skull.

Huntsville, March '23.-(Special.)-H Ley Jones. aged 42 years, a successful business man and planter of Pleva, died last night from a fractured skull MT. Jones was kicked on the head by a pet mare and large crack was made in his skull. The most sl<illful physicians were unable to save his life. MT Jones was one of the best known men in Madison County and was recognized as a factor in county politics, although he was never a candidate for office.
 For several years past he has not miss ed a Democratic county convent,on, hay ing always been elected a delegate by his precinct. He leaves a wife
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APPLETON, WIs.,


 The Peruna Medicine Co.,, Columbus, O.: Gentlemen --- After returning from Cuba ' feH my health was considerably broken down. Standing in water for days in the trenches affected my lungs until fhe doctor said had quick con- sumption. My mother advised me to use Peruna, and in three months my lungs were as we'll as ever.
 Ihave arranged 10 fake some Peruna with me 10 fhe PhiIlipines, as ' cOn- slider # indispensable to maintain my health in fhe unfaVorabIe climate. --- William Sfegman.
 The above case was one of catarrh of the lungs. This condition is often mis- taken for consumption, and is undoubt- edly the first stage of this dread disease. Thousands of instances in which a prompt recovery has followed the use of Peruna in catarrh of the lungs shows that this remedy can be relied upon to cure this class of cases.
 An Officers Narrow Escape From an Ag- gravated Attack of Catarrh of Kidneys. Another case very similar to the above was that of Capt. J ohm Friebertshauser, Captain of the German Artillery, Reg't No. Il, who suffered with catarrh of the kidneys, due to exposure of Army life. Peruna cured him quickly and perma- nently, and in letter from POP Montrose
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HEAVY VOTE.
Result of the Recent Temperance Aei-
 tation In Kansas.

Topeka, Kan. March 23.-The temper ance agitation started here by Mrs. Ma tion has resulted in bringing out the heaviest registration for the spring elec- tion in the history of the city. The reg istration books just closed show g regis tration of 15,0o0 of which 6000 are women. The Law and Order League has put up candidates for Mayor and other city of- fees who are pledged to enforce the pro- hibition law. The election will take place April g.
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Wet or Dry.

Kansas City, March 23.-The heaviest registration of women on record in Kan sas has been recorded for the spring cleo tions Almost always the politics is Wet or Dry" At Atchison there is a contest between the whites and negroes over voting for school bill for negroes
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CONFEDERATE VETERANS.
General Gordon Announces the Ap
 .poinments On His Staff.

Chattanooga, March 23.-General John B. Gordon, commanding the United Con federate Veterans, has announced the following appointments on his staff:
 Headquarters United Confederate Veter-
 ans New Orleans, March 23, 1901.
 General Order No. 251-I, the general commanding, hereby announce the ap- pointment of the following aides de camp
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CORONER PARIS
Death of Negro at Besse-
 mer Yesterday.

Coroner Paris returned from Bessemer yesterday, where he went to investigate dead near the A. G. S. depot. His name was Joe Valiant and the coroner decided that his death was due to apoplexy from alcoholism. The deceased had $1.s2 on his person. He had recently moved to Bes- semer from Johns Station.
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We have sole agency for Golden Whiskey in Besse- mer. Try 1t. It's fine,
 Klondyke Liquor Go.
BOTTLED PuRITY.

This is what I claim for my famous Hillside Dairy Farm milk. Cost, care, skill and time are all carried to ex- treme to insure it's absolute purity. A visit to the farm will convince you of these facts. We deliver milk an d cream on the Highlands. Bell phone 2942. w. M. Glass.
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Aberando Has Been Repaired.

Washington, March 2S.-Assistant Sec retary Hackett has received report from Commander B. r. Tilley, commanding the naval station at Tutuila, Samoa, dated Auckland, March ?, saying that the re- pairs to the Aberando have been com pleted He says that the health of the ships company is excellent and that everything is reported to be in satis- factory state at Tutuila
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Has Had Experience.

From the Jasper Mountain Eagle.
 A man with the yellow jaundice and la grippe combined, and the jumping toothache and humps thrown in for good good measure. feels like a sixteen-year- old by the side of an editor who helps a candidate into office and is ashamed of it ever after.
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Did Not Eat Boarding Houses.
From the Baldwin Times.

From the Baldwin Times.
 MT. John Kruse, the popular restau- rant man of Bay Minette, was in Da- phone again Monday. The wild and woody report that he ate out several of our boarding houses was a mistake. John was not feeling well during the whole time he was here.
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Court of Butler. This within itself Is a stern rebuke to those officials who dis regarded the constitutional right of an individual by denying him the right of trial, as was the case with some of the men. The officers guilty of such palpable misconduct should be impeaehed and the citizens of Butler should rise up in their righteous indignation and demand as mich
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Miss Buckley Will Not Talk,

New York March 23.-Miss May Buck ley, who narrowly escaped becoming one of Robert II. Moulton's victims when be succeeded in woundng two men in the Rathskeller of the Pabst Hotel refused to make a statement today or even t6 be seen.
 She appeared as usual, however, Tn ''The Price of Peace" at the Broadway Theatre this afternon. O
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of prominence and experience, verifies the experience of Mrs. T. B. Smith in the following letter:
 Chicago, H., 427 W. Munroe St. The Peruna Medicine Co.,, Columbus, O.:
 Gentlemen As far as I have ob- served Peruna is the finest tonic any man or woman can use who are weak from the after-effects of any serious illness. I have seen it used in number of convalescent cases, and have seen several other tonics used, but I found that those who used Peruna had the quickest relief. It seems to restore vi- tality, increase bodily vigor, and renew health and strength in a wonderfully short time. Mrs. Kate Taylor.
 Address The Peruna Medicine Co.,, of Columbus, O., for free book written by Dr Hartman on the prevention and cure of catarrh in its different phases and stages
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To Sustain Steel Prices.

Edinburg, March 2a-The Scottish and north of England steel makers are nego- tiating with the object of sustaining the present prices with the view of competi- ton with the American steel trust The Scotch steel makers claim to have full orde,
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Is Dead.

From the Livingston Southern Home
 Last week one of our delinquent sub scribers told us he would pay up this week if he should live. Lookout for his obituary next week. He didn't pay up and of course he is dead.
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Standing For Days Knee-Deep
 in Cuban Trenches.
HIS GREAT ENDURANCE.
At Last Yielded And The Soldier
 Boy Returns Home to Die.
His Mothers Earnest Appeal to Use Peruna is Followed And He Is Cured of Very Bad Phase of Catarrh
 of The Lungs.
DERUNA attained great popularity

DERUNA attained great popularity \ among the officers and privates of the army as well as the Navy during the late war with Spain.
 A great many letters were received from field and hospital corps indicating that this popular climatic remedy had become well-nigh indispensable to them.
 Peruna is not only National remedy, but has proven itself National bless ing. Letters from every quarter are re- ceived daily testifying to the virtues of Peruna in cases of catarrh that had long since given up all hope of cure.
 Coughs, colds, influenza, la grippe and acute catarrh yield at once to the action of Peruna. No case of catarrh can entire ly resist the curative virtues of Peruna, as every case is either cured or perma- nently benefited.
 MT. Vim. Stegman, member Co. L, 3Oth U. S. Volunteer Infantry, writes as fol- lows:
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An Open House for Dothan.

From the Dothan Wire Grass Siftings
 Dothan is to have new opera house. A stock company is being formed and s3.000 worth of stock has been subscribed
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A Very Attractive Paper.
he Denbpolis Express.

The Age-Hefald is getting to be very metropolitan in the style of it's 'get up.' It is now printing two colors and making very attractive paper.
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This is a much needed enterprise in Dothan and the Siftings is assured that the project Is to be perfected.
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Mercer With Washington.

Philadelphia, March 23.-Win Mer- cer, the pitcher, has signed contract to play with the American League Club of Washington.
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Butler County Cases.

From the Abbeville Times
 Governor Sanford has pardoned eight cen of the men sent up by the County
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BEsSEME FER.
Large Brick Building In Second Ave
 nue Brings $65oo.

l3essemer, March 23.-(Special)- Among recent real estate sales is the two-story brick building, No. 1905 Sec ond avenue, purchased from the Messers. Adler by Dr. T. F. Robinson for $6500. It is at present occupied chant
 There is great activity at present here in church circles. The Baptists are meeting with great success in so- licitlng subscriptions for their hand some new church, on which work will shortly begin The Cumberland Pres bylerians are tearing down their old ciurch building in South Bessemer and are erecting a new church on the corner of Fifth avenue and Sixteenth street. The members of the First Methodist Church are seriously con sidering raising thelr church and building a Sunday school room be- meath it.
 There will be no preaching at the Presbyterian Church tomorrow, to en- able the congregation to hear the Rev. MT. Meyer, the great English evangel- ist, in Birmingham.
 The residence of MT. H. T. Mundes, on the corner of Eighth avenue and Twenty-fourth street, is completed. Four attractive residences have re- gently been completed in tie same neighborhood. They were erected by MT A. I. Dexter for rental purposes.
 The childrens entertainment to be given at the library Monday night is being anticipated with great interest. Two hundred children will take part and will appear in marching, posing, songs, tableauX, etc.
 Mrs. A. c. Kendrick has purchased several lots on Arlington avenue, near Seventeenth street, and will at once erect handsome residence.
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CONSP|RATORS ,. RECEIVE SENTENCE S
 -Sjudge Bruce Sends Calhoun . County Gang to Prison A RECEIVER IS REFUSED The Bessemer Building and Loan As
 sociation Is All Right-The Cir
 cult Court Will Open Next - Tqesday-court Items
A RECEIVER IS REFUSED

In the United States Court yesterday the Calhoun County gang of conspirators who were recently convicted, were sen tenced. This was rather an unusual case, the members having passed counterfeit money on innocent parties and then had them arrested and taken before United States Commissioners on the charge of having counterfeit money in their posses sion. This was done in order to get wit ness fees in appearing against them.
 Judge Bruce sentenced them as follows: w. J. Pruett. three years for perjury and two years for conspiracy; David A. S. Priggs, two years for conspiracy; John A. \ Terry, ore year for perjury.
 John A. Blanton was sentenced to two lSears for counterfeiting.
 James Wright and Melvin Wright who were convicted of illicit distilling, were zach given thirty days and fined $100 and Gosts.
 S Carthright. for forging a name to a money order, was on account of his youth seat to the Federal Reform School of the District of Columbia.
 R. A Borck was found guilty of retail ang and remanded to the custody of the marshal.
 James Cothran, who lives on the South side, was found guilty of counterfeit ing.
 s Chancery Court
 In the Chancery Court, Chancellor Car michael has refused to appoint a receiver for the Bessemer Building and Loan As- sociation.
 Some time ago a bill was filed by w. ,. D. Houston, a stockholder, on behalf of himself and other stockholders in which y he alleged that the association had for 5 feited it's franchise in that they had ceased to do business as prescribed by It's charter, that the board of directors had ceased to hold meetings, that no money was being loaned out. and that on the contrary, the association's money was lying in bank and being used to retire its obligations, all of which he alleged was detrimental to his rights as a stock 2 holder, and he asked that receiver be ap- pointed to wind up it's affairs.
 Chancellor Carmichael refused to ap-
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TO CURE A COLD IN ONE DAY Take Laxative Bromo-Q Quinine Tablets
 g cents.
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Accept no substitute for Hoods Sarsaparilla.

point a receiver on the ground that plain tiff had failed to make out a case.
 Court Items.
 The Circuit Court will open next Tues day.
 A petition in bankruptcy was filed by James Layton.
 Chief Clerk George Tarrant of the Pro- bate Court who has been sick for several days, is able to be out.
 In the second division of the City Court the insurance case of D. R. McGlathery vs the Western Assurance Company is on trial.
 Marriage licenses were issued to Bee T Landrum and Hattie Jones, John w. Pool and Abbie Marks
 The following deeds were filed: R. R. Hawkins ct al. to Virginia Investment Company, s5, ,OOO. lot s, block 107. Brming- !. ham, E. W. Smith and husband to J. ". Coe, 9,950, see deed for description; H. Y. Hall to W. G. Thomas, $1,O50, pt lots II, 10, 16 block 1855, Birmingham.
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Pens Waterman's Ideal, FOuIlldl1 Dewberry's Book Store
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There will be no preaching at the Presbyterian Church tomorrow, to en- able the congregation to hear the Rev. MT Meyer, the great English eyangel- ist, in Birmingham.
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A petition in bankruptcy was filed by James Layton.
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Mrs. A. c. Kendrick has purchased several lots on Arlington avenue, near Seventeenth street, and will at once erect a handsome residence.
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T had no strength, and would get up in the morning feeling tired and low spirited. l read advertisements of Hoods Sarsaparilla. and when I had tal1en one bottle I felt a change for the letter. When 1 had taken two bottles l could go about my housework without any trouble. It is the right medicine for women. It has greatly benefited my sister," Annie Emins, 1O5 s. Albany street, Brunswick Ga.
The Springfield herald., 1901-06-28
"vlLLAoE POSTMASTER" RAIN.
The Way the Stage Rainmaker Brings It
and Disposes of 1t.

and Dlsposes of 1t.
Many who have witnessed the per-
formance Of 1.-The Village Postmaster"
in tile Great Northern theater have
wondered how it was possible to turn
reai water on the stage in the first act
without completely flooding the the
ater and the dressing rooms and all
the people who failed to run away in
time. says the Chicago Chronicle. The
rain storm is manufactured by Il very
simple device and, while about ten
barrels of water falls during the
storm, there is no flood, and every
thing is so well arranged that none OF
the performers gets even damp unless
some accident occurs.
Two perforated iron pipes reaching
entirely across the stage are concealed
in the flies, where they take up litlle
room, one about six feet behind tAe
other. When the signal is given for
the storm the water is turned on ANA
pours down upon the stage. From
the front it looks as though the entire
stage were deluged. Behind rhe
scenes, however. it can be seen that
the water is coming down in two
streams. Onlookers see Frank Nor
daunt, the village postmaster, standing
in the rain. and they wonder how he
dries his costume to use it for another
act. In reality Mr.. Mordaunt is stand
ing between two lines of rain" and
does not get wet at all, although he
occasionally puts his umbrella under
the falling water in order to hcighten
the realistic effect.
The water falls upon big rubber
blanket which is lying on the stage ut
the opening of the act. In the center
of this blanket is Il brass funnel lead
ing through hole in the stage to an
outlet below. The moment the eur
tain falls II dozen stage hands seize the
blanket and lift up the corners, so
that the water is drained Off very
quickly The stage is left perfectly
dry and it takes only about two min
utcs longer to set the next scene than
1t would under ordinary circumstances.
A rain storm was first successfully
initiated in this country when The
Village Postmaster" was produced.
The effect had been obtained in Euro
pean theaters before, but only by de-
luging the stage and all the members
of the company, process that made
the stage rain storm both unpopular
and Improbable.
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The Best of 1t
A Juvenile Sketch
for
Independence Day

The CrosSpatch Man was sick again,
and this time it must be pretty bad,
for all the morning Meredith had been
watching the servants spread straw
before the house and muflle the big.
shiny doorbelL-
Poor mani" mamma said, pitingly.
He is sick SO often!"
But he's Crosspatch Mani" NUT
tered Meredith stiffly. Then he re-
pented and looked as shamefaced as a
very little boy with very round, dim
pied face could look. I'm SO sorry
he's very SICK" he said slowly. II
s'pose it hurts even Crosspatch Men"
Mamma did not notice. She was
having her little noon gossip" with
papa, and they were still talking about
their invalid neighbor.
''It isn't quite so bad as 1t seems
you know" papa was saying. He al
ways has the straw laid down and
things muffied when he has one Of
his worse nervous attacks. 1t doesn't
He is terribly afflicted by noise at al
most any time
Noise! should think SOL" That
was from Meredith, who pricked up
his ears at the word. Didn't he know
how the Crosspatch Man felt bout a
noise? Didn't he belong to the Rudd
S.Net Second? Wasn't he captain?
And oh, my, the times he'd seen the
Crosspatch Man a-scowling and a
fuming when they marched past his
window!
But Fourth of July will be terri
BILE day to him-poor mani" went on
mammals gentle voice. That made
Meredith start little. He had been
thinking about Fourth O. July, too.
(Did he think of much of anything
else nowadays?) He had been going
over in his mind all the glorious pro-
gram of the day. For the Rudd Street
Second was going to celebrate in a
worthy manner. They were going to
even outdo themselves this year-and
hadn't they had the proud honor of
being the noisest street in the city for
two Fourth O. Julys a-running? Let
'em Just wait till they heard this
Fourth O. July!
1t was three days of. That would
give the Crosspatch Man time to have
the straw taken up and the bell un-
muffied, for his worst times" never
lasted more than two or three days.
Then he'll have to cotton up his
ears" unused Meredith. philosophic-
ally, watching the big foreign servant
that wore turban go back and forth
past the Crosspatch Mans window.
The house Meredith lived in and the
Crosspatch Mans house were quite
close together, SO it was easy to watch
things.
Unfortunately for an invalid with
The Springfield herald., 1901-06-28
EAT oUINlNE By THE OUNCE.
Residents Along the Mexican Coast Com
sume Nnst Quantities.

sume Vast Quantities.
1.-THE quantity of Quinine taken by
foreigners on the southeastern coast Of
Mexico is something Incredible" said
n resident of this city who is interest
ed II. coffee culture in the sister re-
public. .''rhere is IL general belief
among the Americans and English all
through that region that the drug is
necessary for the preservation of life,
and tley keep full of it from one year S
end to another.
"Tley generally keep the stuff in
rubber tobacco pouches. to protect it
from perspiraton, and when they feel
like taking n dose they dig in, with
one of those spatulated knives that
they all carry and swallow as much
as they see fit AS they go entirely by
guess 1t is hard to say how much Will
be taken in the course of Il day, hut l
have weighed the amount that can be
lifted on the ordinary knife blade and
found it to range between twenty-five
and fifty grains You see, quinine is
as comDressible as cotton, and two
wads of it that look about the same
size will vary 100 per cent. in weight.
One would suppose, as matter of
course, that such enormous quantities
of the drug would produce an intol-
cradle ringing in the head, but, strange
to say, they do nothing of the kind.
The average white man down there
who keeps under the influence all the
time experiences nothing except Il
slight feeling of eXhiliaration-at least
so l was assured by dozens of
habitues. Whether the use of the stuff
is of any real benefit is something am
skeptical about. l never took n grain
of it myself, and l was the only man
on our plantation who didn't have n
touch of fever."-New Orleans Times
Democrat.