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rite -.f in per day, commencing
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ie I ist of January. Twenty of
• •motives were promised in Sep-
nnd 10 ir October. A portion
machinery Is in service,
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in of the largest of these en-
'whlch were ordered for service
Columbus division), were the
he completed, and are just be-
t to reach us.
•.or wish to he understood as
ting to transfer our troubles to
uildera of the car factories and
tlve works. They appear to
nade diligent effort to live up
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onlv fair, how<
HEW M'S EVE
A ROMAN FESTIVAL
XET\V YORK. Dec. 29.—Xew Year’s
in Xew York will be a Roman festival
such as the ancient city by the Tiber
never saw in all Us centuries of mag
nificence. This year the Great White
Way Is making preparations for a cel
ebration that will be a wonder even to
itself. For two weeks every table In
every popular resort in the lobster
belt has been reserved for the inevi
table ‘supper” at prices ranging from
fl to fa a seat, and that takes no ac
count of the many dollars that will be
; vpent in other ways after the game is
| on. It Is estimated that 50.000 people
j will partake of the feast in that gilded
I mile of Broadway, beside which all the
rest of the world s<-ems tame and un
interesting on X r -v Year's Eve. Enough
food will be eaten or wasted to feed
an army for a v.-eek, and the cham-
Ip.gne Consumed would float a battle-
] ship. The section in which the cele-
I brat Ion will he most strenuous extends
I from Twenty-third street to Forty-
eighth street and reaches its climax
at Longacre Square, into which, after
! the theaters are out. Broadway, Sev-
! enth avende, Forty-second street and
! Forty-fourth street pour an army of
I revelers and sightseers. Around the
j square are ranged the famous restau-
! rants and hotel? where the fun will be
most uproarious. By virtue of Its
• size, the Hotel Astor will accommo
date the largest number—between
1,500 and 2.000. So great has been the
I demand for places that the capacity
of the regular dining rooms and cafes
1 was exceeded long ago, and all sorts
I of makeshift preparations have been
I made to accommodate the overflow in
ballrooms and parlors.
expensive, but the proprietor has stuck
to it heroically, animated by a pro
found interest in the welfare of the
ra> p at 1 sustained by the advertising
value of the scheme. The cafe has a
• hef who. by joining hands with an
other employees, about a year ago suc
ceeded in dragging down double prize
money: but this was held to be strict
ly legitimate, with a profit left over
for extra advertising value. A little
while ago. however, the chef, figuring
that he would need a little extra money
about this time, thought he saw a
chance to make it on the side. So
to the chef of a rival lobster palace
be offered to bet a substantial =um
that it would be a boy. His friend,
after looking up a few statistics, was
a little more than willing to bet even
I money that It would be- a girl. It
: isn’t: it’s twins, a boy and a girl! The
i chef gifts double prize-money again
: and his employer promises to throw in
; an extra $25 for good measure. But
the bet is still undecided.
News in Paragraphs
ATLANTA. Ga.. Dec. 28.—W. M.
Smith, of New York City, president
of the Bank for Savings of that city,
died her- today in a private sanita
rium, after a protracted illness, age
fifty-four years. Mr. Smith had been
for several' years a sufferer from heart
trouble and went to Florida some weeks
ago to avoid the severity of a Xorthern
winter. Finding the season too warm
in Florida, he came to Atlanta.
OMSK. Asiatic Russia, Dec. 28.—
General Litvinoff. Governor of tho
Province of Akmollnsk, was assassi
nated in tho street close to his office
today by two unknown men.
When the savants of a future age
unearth from the debris of some gi
gantic cataclysm of nature what is now
going on at the bottom of Xew York,
j and survey the tremendous engineering
feats to which the inhabitants were
] elrivcn to secure refuge from the fero-
! clous trolley-dactyl, the hlppotomobile,
; the autohornosaurus, and other savage
mechanical heaMs which infested the
; island of Manha ttan in the early part
of the twentieth century, the specula
tions occasioned thereby will make in
teresting eavesdropping for such
ghosts as have found their way back to
earth. An under-river passage to
Brooklyn, as well as one to Xew Jer
sey. is now an accomplished fact. Un
der Xinth avenue there Is in process of
construction for the Pennsylvania tun
nel. 25 feet beneath the curb line,
MEXICO CITY, Mexico, Dec. 29.—
I According to the official reports of the
\ uprising of Y'aqui Indians received by
; the Government here, no Americans
: were killed and the total number of
deaths was four, two men and two
women, all Mexicans. Besides these,
four Mexicans were badly wounded.
PEXSACOLA. Fia.. Dec. 29.—News
reached here tonight of the suicide
near Chlpiey. v l... this morning of
James Fairciott, a prominent citizen
of this section of the State. He fired
a bullet through his brain, death be
ing instantaneous.
Meager details of a murder which
occurred Thursday night reached here
today. Xear Sneads, Fla.. Tom Mc
Daniel, a young man, met the two
Gleason brothers and a fight ensued in
which McDaniel's throat was cut from
ear to ear.
At Milton, twenty miles from Pen
sacola, Christmas night, one negro is
reported killed and several white per
sons wounded.
IN
NEGRO APPOINTED CLERK
POSTOFFICE AND AFRAID
TO SERVE.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 29.—The Civil
Service Commission has been in com
munication with Wilbert T. George, a
negro, who is the only eligible for a
clerkship in the postoffice at Hatties
burg, Miss., and who has been advised
by certain white persons in that, place
to remain away from the post iffice,
otherwise he would be mobbed. George
recently advised the Civil Service Com
mission that the postmaster at Hat
tiesburg had tendered him a positon
and he had accepted, but had failed to
put in an appearance for duty on ac
count of the mob that was threaten
ing lfim.
“I contend for the position or some
thing equally as good in the civil ser
vice, as per my examination.” says
George in his letter to the commis
sion. "It is not oven safe for me to
stay here longer than tonight, so you
can address me for the next few days
at Gainesville. Miss. As I have not
heard from you I feel at liberty to take
this action.”
Commissioner Greene, replying to the
letter of George stated that it was
PARIS, Dec. 29.—Tho Chamber 0 f j within his discretion to accept or de-
Deputies today decided that the latest cline appointment if tendered by the
election of Count Boni de* Castellane * ,t! T ”"‘ f * °
to the Chambetr of Deputies was valid.
WASHIXGTOX, Dec. 29.—It is said
at the State Department today that the
United States Government, through its
ambassador in London, bad pledged to
give its support in any steps taken by
the British Government toward amelio
rating the condition Of affairs In the
Congo. This sets at rest all questions
as to the stand the United States would
t take in case it became necessary for one
postmaster. “It is not the practice
of the commission,” continued Mr.
Greene, “to transfer the names of
eligibles from one postoffice to another
unless the needs of the service actually
require such action.”
ever, in our own
d <■■■• v. to snv that our management
war. not unmindful of probable de-
jim.'iiK- on the i'art of the public, and
w .•- prompt to provide against them.
With referen ■•• to passenger train
schedules. 1 will say that they aro
much more difficult to fnalntain than
in i.-iit years Our fuel has been un
satisfactory. in spite of our best of-
f in secure good coal. The motive
p . . it has suffered ns a result of this
condition, and ii has boon impossible.
In some Instances, to maintain the
schedules Aside from these physical
disabilities, you will appreciate how
difficult ii Is to handle the increasing
volume of passenger business within
the same time required for a much |
smaller business several year? ago, <
when there were fewer passengers to
pet .>n or off of the trains .and less j
baggage, mail and express to handle.
The greatest delays occur on tho J
ljne between Columbus and Birming
ham. Ten new passenger engine? have
just been m •■:> d for service between
Atlanta and Savannah, and we hope to
., Ac. "tile the delays on the Columbus-
TYTminchain lii:.- In the near future,
bv placing heavier engines for this
service, which should enable ' us to
improve the service of the trains that
are row handled with lighter ma
chinery. T see no reason now why
these changes should not he made in
the near future, but if we find this im-
pr.ieii able, for any cause, there seems
in be only one remedy left, .and that
1? to slow down'the present schedules
so the motive power row In use can
handle the trains on time.
Again thanking your committee for
their courto-us communication, I re
main verv trulv vours.
T. S. MOISE.
General Manager
AMBASSADOR BRYCE ACCEPTA-|
BLE TO UNITED STATES
GOVERNMENT
<X. Dee. 28.—The United |
causing British officialdom •
bio embarrassment through
■ to send In its acceptance of j
• Intm.e.it of James Bryce as
dor to Washington, In sue- .
o Sir Mortimer Durand. This .
ce must be received before |
ia! announ oment of the ap- I
u can be published. The ap- I
it had been admitted by the !
Office and Mr. Bryce has an-
it in a letter to his constitu-
! .n ation of the King
•sk ..i the Foreign Of-
■ablegram from the
t at Washington.
or more powers signatory to the Berlin
treaty to intervene.
massive steel bridge designed to sup- :
port not only the street above it, but: NEW YORK, Dec.- 29.—The jury in
the elevated railroad structure as well, the case of Col. Wm. D. Mann, of Town
While the work of building this bridge Topics, charged with perjury, tonight
is going on. the rush of traffic at and returned a verdict of acquittal. The
above the surface goes on undisturbed. ■ case went to the jury at 7 o'clock and
It has been found necessary to support ! the verdict was reached four
the street for a distance of 400 feet be- | later,
tween Thirty-first and Thirty-third
REFUSED TO TELL WHAT HE
KNOWS ABOUT MACKLiN’S
ASSAILANT
streets, and for this purpose 54 enor
mous steel girders, each 61 feet long
and weighing ten tons, were bought
for temporary use on this part of the
work. The latest remarkable scheme
is a double-decked subway under Lex
ington avenue, the express tracks be
neath and tho local tracks above, where
the street is too narrow to accommo
date four tracks on the same level.
There is a project afoot to install in
this tunnel the new Behr mono-rail,
which affords a possible speed of more
than 100 miles an hour. In some
places the lower tracks will he nearly
100 feet below the surface of the
street. Altogether the bottom of Xew
York is getting to be a good ways from
the top.
BISBEE, Ariz.. Dec. £9.—Details yes
terday say that last Saturday evening a
Yaquian band attacked and destroyed the
new town of Lancho on the Cananea.
Yaqui River and Pacific Railway, south
east of Guayamas Eonora, Mexico. They
murdered 10 men, women and children,
fatally shot two others and took three
women away captives to their stronghold
in the hills.
EL RENO, Okla., Dec. 29.—Major
Penrose, commandant at Fort Reno,
tonight refused to make any statement
regarding a report that he has a clue
to the identity and whereabouts of the
negro, believed to be discharged from
the Twenty-fifth Infantry, who shot
and seriously wounded Capt. Edgar B.
hours i Macklin a week ago. It is believed,
' however, that Major Penrose has defi
nite information and that the assail
ant will be in custody within a short
time.
An intense racial feeling prevails
over the assault on Mrs. Clifford yes
terday by a negro. While Major Pen
rose declines to discuss the affair, it
is said that all of the regulars have
been accounted for, and.it is believed
LON DC
S hies is
onsidera
.is f.iiiur.
Fon
A record-breaking long-distance
clock setting device has recently been
discovered in the -dally noon-.tlme
blasts of a trap rock quarry on Hook
Mountain, seme thirty miles up the
Hudson river from this city. A dent
ist living at Darien, Conn., 22 miles
from Hook Mountain, will testify in a
suit before the Supreme Court at
White Plains next month that he sets
his clock daily by the 12 o'clock blast
at Hook Mountain, the detonation be
ing not alone audible at his house, but
is plainly perceptible in the shaking of
the house whenever a blast is set off.
The Interstate Palisades Park Com
mission and a number of Individuals
in Ossining have been trying for some
tinic to stop the blasting at Hook
Mountain in order to preserve that
landmark as a part of the Palisades
Park. A suit has been brought by
property owners of Ossining to stop
the blasting because the leasts shake
down ceilings and cause the founda
tions of houses to settle. Witnesses
from practically every town of im
portance in Westchester County will
testify that the blasts are perceptible-
as much as thirty miles away, and the
physicians of Ossining will testify that
the blasts are prejudicial to the well
being of patients in the Ossining Hos
pital.
ATLANTA, Dec. 29.—The bottom has
dropped out of the strong box, the one
that usually holds the money for the
office expenses of the Railroad Com
mission, and- until the appropriation
for the year 1907 is available stamps
will be scarce around that department
of the State government. Secretary
Montgomery for some days has been
sending out by mail the annual report
of the commission, but today he had
to suspend business on this account,
as he was out of stamps, and out of
expense money.
MONTGOMERY. Ala.. Dec. 28.—
William Davis met a horrible death by
burning near Andalusia, being either
ill or drinking. He sat down by a
burning stump to rest and fell over
into the flames. Part of his body was
literally cooked.
EL RENO. Okla.. Dec. 29.—Resist
ing an attempted hold-up in his laund
ry tonight. Lee Sung was shot and
severely wounded by a negro who wore
the uniform of the United States
Army. The assailant escaped.
LONDON. Dec. 29.—lit is many years
since Central Europe generally has
suffered so severely from an arctic
visitation as it has this Christmas
week. From France. Belgium, Switz
erland, Germany and Austria-Hungary
the same tale is repeated of heavy
snowstorms, the interruption of rail
road, vehicular and telegraphic com
munication. The loss of life and gen
eral discomfort and inconvenience are
felt in the country districts and in
the towns. ■
that the assault was made either by a
discharged soldier or a negro civilian, j that^ prevails where boxing
who might have purchased a cast off * J
uniform.
EDUCATORS HANDLED
LIVE WIRE YESTERDAY
MONTGOMERY. Ala., Dec. 29.—The
department of Superintendents of Ed
ucation of the Southern Educational
Association, went on record today, as
emphatically opposed to the recommen
dation of John W. Abercrombie, pres
ident of that association, that there
should be Government aid to the public
school systems.
The resolution adopted declares that
the control of schools of each State
should be in the hands of the State
Government and by that Government
supported. The resolution declared in
favor of the industrial education of the
negro, although it was argued on the
floor of the convention that education
of the negro in any manner was a mis
take.
The convention was addressed to
night by President Craighead, of Tu-
lane University. New Orleans, who at
tacked the policy of the Government
for spending millions for the support
of a navy and army and practically
nothing for education.
Scotland Railways
Scene of Disaster i
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is- 1\ ing 'in the
(ice awaiting .i
Suite Dvpartm
Frequently during the season, at
either one of New York’s opera houses,
there may be seen behind the rail
which marks the boundary line of
"standing room only,” particularly if
the piece be his favorite "Lucia,” or __ _ ^
Rigoletto, or even “Aida, a thickset, j n to effect January 1st.
middle-aged man of medium height, j Hubbard Bros, and the
ATLANTA, Dec. 29.—Of the eight
cotton and stock exchanges which I
have been doing business in Atlanta
for years, only two remain. These are
Hubbard Bros., in the Century build
ing. and the Southern Exchange, in the
Gould building. All the others have
closed their doors on account of the
provisions of the Boykin bill which go
WASHINGTON,
shown the oablegr.
?aying that ihe I'.v
embarrassed berau
the United Slates
D
28.—When
from London,
i Government Is
f the failure of
-•end its accept
ance of the appointment of James
Bryce as Ambassador to the United
States to succeed Sir Henry Mortimer
Durand. Secretary Root slid tonight:
, "The British Government was noti
ced both orally (through Ambassador
Durand) and in writing, several days
ago, tha: the appointment of Air.
Bryce as Ambassador to the United
States would lie eminently 1 satisfactory
to this Government.”
It was annour.ct
dispatches a week
to inquiries front
ment. President Rf
erl that Mr. ItrycC:
be entirely accept
ment.
d in Washington
asro that in response
iho British Govern-
losevelt had ir.dlcat-
• appointment would
Mo to this Govern-
i
YOUNG WOMAN FOUND
DEAD iN THE SNOW
• BOSTON. Dee. 29.—The body of Mrs.
Nellie Murray, of Charlestown, was
found today partly clad and lying in
,he snow of .he yard of the Massachu
setts General Hospital, at the West
End. The woman was young and of
rather attractive countenance and the
clothing on tli■■ body was of a texture
and make indicating that the wearer
was well to do.
Several hours passed before identifi-
cati n was made by a relative. The
first theory of the police was that Mrs.
Murray had been murdered and drag
ged to the place where the body was
found, from a house adjoining the hos
pital enclosure. An autopsy, bow-
evr-. satisfied the medical examiner
ihdV the woman had been suffocated,
apparently while leaning from a win
dow to. relieve nautea and had fallen.
Mr* Murray formerly was the wife of
a theatrical man. but had not lived
with her husband recently. She was
a<>oul 25 years of age.
with close-cropped hair and short.
Mack moustache, who occupies, in a
somewhat more restricted sphere, a
position as full of danger and dra- j
matie possibility ns that of Russia's j
celebrated chief of police. It is De
tective-Sergeant Petrcsino. a man who
has solved many a mystery as deep
and thrilling a? over engaged the at- •
tention of Sherlock Holmes. Like the
famous hero of Baker street, he is a
fine musician and an excellent per
former on the violin; but his methods
contain so little of the spectacular that
it has taken his fame 25 years to find
him out. For 13 years of that time,
Petrosino was a humble patrolman: 1
for the last 11 years he has been a
"plain clothes” man. known to the
police of the entire continent for his
success in tracing Italian criminals.
Now he is about to become chief of the
new secret service force of the police
department, organized to hunt down j
the notorious "Black Hand” crimes per- •
petrated and attempted by bands of ex
convicts and outlaws of the "heel and
toe” of the Italian peninsula who have ■
sought a refuge from the police of
their native country in the Italian set
tlements in and around Xew York. So
secretly has the new force been organ
ized that no one but the commissioner*
and Petrosino will know who compose
it: hut Petrosino, long hated and
feared as an individual by the crimi
nal class among his countrymen, has
now become a many-handed, many- !
eyed force against them, to be exe- i
crated and exterminated if possible.
Southern
Exchange "will likely quit in time to
come within the operation of the new
law.
ROME, Ga.. .Dec. 29.—James Jones,
while wrestling with his brother-in-
law, C. Arnold, sustained internal in
juries from which he died this morn
ing.
Jones and Arnold were indulging in
a friendly affair at Llndale Christ
mas, when the former was thrown
heavily to the ground. He was ren
dered unconscious and never rallied.
TONOPAH, Nev., Dec. 29.—Despite
a heavy fall of snow throughout the
night, Joe Gans and “Kid” Herman
took their daily morning run of ten
miles today over country roads. The
highways were knee deep In mud and
snow, but the pugilists floundered
through the mire at a rapid pace.
"Work on the arena is rushing day
and night and it is expected that the
structure will be completed tomorrow'.
MSB AS SEEN
1H MANY COUNTRIES
The charge brought against Enrico
Caruso draws attention to the annoy- !
ance to which women are subjected !
in the streets, in public places and j
to the difference in the manner in which j
such annoyances are regarded here and I
abroad. j
As to the former matter, well-to-do i
women are followed and annoyed dur- ,
ing shopping hours. Women who work i
are subjected to worse persecution on |
their way home after the day’s work i
in the streets and public conveyances, i
The police could find work to do in !
many of the busy thoroughfares dur- I
ing shopping hours and after. The i
well-dressed loafer is found there j
smirking, ogling, trailing, insulting, I
says the Chicago Chronicle. i
There is this distinction to be drawn, j
however. The indigenous or natural
ized loafer of this stripe knows that !
public indignation may at any mo
ment punish him. His European broth
er. on the other hand, considers him
self well within his rights in his pur
suit of women.
Women who object to insult, he
holds, should not go forth unless prop
erly escorted or chaperoned. The prin
cipal thoroughfares of the capitals of
Europe ardthus to a certain extent un
safe for women who visit them unpro
tected.
Nothing illustrates the difference be
tween the status of the women of the
new world and that of her sister of
the old so vividly as this matter of
mashing. In this country a word or
appeal spoken by a woman will make
an offense the concern of every man
within hearing a matter of immediate
danger to the offender. In Europe wo
man does not dream of appealing to
the chivalry of one man against the
offense of another.
Women Natural Prey.
She dreads the certainty of being
misunderstood, of jumping from the
frying pan into the fire. It is the busi
ness of nobody but the offender, the
victim and her own folk, who should
be there to defend her and are not.
Annoying women is one of the estab
lished diversions of the street life of
the great cities of Europe—es costum-
bre. to use the expressive Spanish
phrase. Who would interfere with a
custom when it does not concern the
comfort and safety of his own? Wom
en and minors should not be so ven
turesome when they know that they are
natural prey.
Europe has no public opinion to be
aroused on the subject. Hence the at
titude of the Parisian press—hence its
incomprehending sneer at our “primi
tive customs and barbarous ideas of
feminine modesty.”
There are punishments for the of
fense, of course, but they are matters
of private vengeance. The Italian
masher has probably reflected upon the
chances of a stiletto thrust, his smil
ing French brother very likely has tak
en into consideration the small dangers
of a modern French duel or the far
greater painfulness of a coup de savate.
The arrogant, brusque German no
doubt knows that he may have to face
an adversary trained in the handling
of sword or pistol, or. if he be not
considered of exactly the proper social
status, he may have to take part in
the clumsy sort of personal encounter
not prac
ticed, but in each case there is no so
cial punishment.
Reputations for Gallantry.
Quite to the contrary. The French
man will keep silent about the coup de
savate, but after his duel he will swag
ger about, the envy of his companions
and the admiration of the boulevards
and the salons. The German will be
in very much the same enviable posi
tion, and as for the Italian, why, what
could be more fit and proper than a
stiletto thrust? He took a risk that
was his own concern and received a
punishment that was undoubtedly the
other man’s concern.
All three, if they survive, will be re
warded with the reputation far gallan
try. while if they die their reputation
will survive them to impress younger
men and fire them to emulation. But
whatever the consequences, none of
them will ever feel that his dignity
has been lowered by the offense. That
is prefectly honorable—“es costumbre."
But to be manhandled by five or six
husky men who have no earthly right
to interfere, because forsooth, they do
not even know the woman who has
been immodest enough to appeal to
them—entire strangers—-for protection,
is humiliating and profoundly discour
aging to a galantuonio, not to speak
of its discomforts and dangers. It is
indeed a "primitive custom” of a na
tion with "barbarous ideas of feminine
modesty," a variance of 15-nching—
nothing more. It is » violent breaking
with a custom old as untutored primi
tive instincts of man.
Still worse is to be arrested like a
pickpocket, to be placed in a coll, to be
criticised and caricatured in newspa
pers; above all, to discover suddenly
the existence of a public sense of mor
ality. withholding its judgment, but
unmistakably ready to pronounce its
pitiless verdict in case of proved guilt
—stiil worse is this qnd most bewilder
ing. inconceivable, barbarous, when the
offense springs from nothing more nat
ural than the inborn masculine desire
to fascinate a woman. •
America is Different.
A survival from the days of marriage
by capture, this is what the masher
probably is in the eyes of the sociolo
gist; still more, a survival from the
days of the droit du seigneur. Gener
ally speaking the European masher
honors with his attentions women who
are his inferiors socially, owing, in
part, to the safeguards thrown about
European women of position the mo
ment they venture forth in public and
partly, no doubt, to an instinctive or
studied recognition of the line of least
resistance.
The glamor of social superiority is
a potent factor in their predatory'en-
;LE(SME?Hie
By BRIDGES SMITH.
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DUNDEE, Scotland, Dec. 28.—In a
railroad collision, caused indirectly by
the heavy snow storm of the last days,
sixteen persons have been killed and
over thirty injured. The accident oc
curred near Arbroath, on tile North
British Railroad, between Edinburg
and Aberdeen, and some distance north
of here.
Among the persons injured was
Alexander William Black, member of
the House of Commons, from Banff
shire, Gotland. The accident is at
tributed to the heavy fall of snow,
about which trains from London for
Aberdeen were held up at Arbroath.
During the afternoon, however, the
line was cleared and one train pro
ceeded for Dundee. It had stopped at
Elliott Junction and the danger signals
were thought to have been set. They
failed to act. however, through being
clogged with snow, or from some other
cause not yet ascertained, and an ex
press train dashed into the rear of
the waiting train.
Everything possible is being done to
succor the wounded, but the rendering ________
of assistance is attended with much j terprises. Eminence of any kind, in
difficulty. and the suffering can be
alleviated- but slightly.
i SHOT BULLET INTO BRAIN ON
i CACOUNT OF ILL HEALTH.
j NORFOLK, Va.. Dec. 29.—Dr. Chas.
j L. Culpepper, a leading physician of
j Portsmouth, was this morning found
1 "dead in his office with a bullet wound
! in the head, and a pistol lying by his
j side. The words, "Broken health,” in
i Dr. Culpepper’s handwriting, were
HAMBURG. Miss.. Dec. 2S.-Thad I writWn on a postal card upon
Stanley was killed in a pistol duel here the Phelan ® ottice desk. Dr Cul-
today and Dick and W. F. Magee were S tJZ
ceriouslv wounded • clouds of - a. t« *ng to his \\ ifo \ aluci-
senousi> wounaea. | b]e property in this city and Ports
mouth. and . then telephoned to the
clerk’s office, asking that they keep
open until the deeds could be recorded,
which was done. Dr. Culpepper was
prominent and wealthy. His wife was
formerly Miss Mary O. Harwood, of
herited or achieved, does indeed attract
women of all classes and conditions.
Man may even reach a point of emi
nence or be born to it. where the roles
are changed, and the pursuer becomes
the pursued. “Why should Caruso run
after women in the monkey house?”
said the Herr Operndirektor Conricd In
substance, “when women run after
him in the very portals of my sacred
temple of art and in the lobby of ids
! hotel?” Why, indeed? The answer to
1 the question reveals the difference with
which the offense is regarded here and
: in Europe—the fundamental difference
| between the European and the Ameri-
1 can attitude toward women.
DUNDEE. Scotland, Dec. 2S.—In’ a
railroad collision caused by drifted
snow near Arbroath, today, thirteen
persons were killed and over twenty
were injured. Details of the accident
have not yet been received.
Fate always has in store some par
ticularly hard knock for the man who
tries to go; more than his share, else
why should John D. Rockefeller have
indiees'ion and Andrew Carnegie find
it so difficult to die noor? One humble
but promising imitator has received
the jolt early in his career, however,
nnd it ought to serve as a warning.
The story i? this: There is a famous
cafe in Gotham's all-night
■whose proprietor. inspired
LAGRANGE. Ga.. Dec. 28.—Frank • stance of Attorney General Young, has
Bassett, a young white man of La- j signed an order directing the Great
Grange, committed suicide early this Xorthern Railroad Company to show
newsboy in the South. Before
important event in our history, the
newsboy was unknown except in the
large Xorthern cities. Years and
years before the war. in the elder Ben
nett's time, there were boys in Xew
Yopk who sold the Herald on the
streets. It was Bennett who started
newsboys, when he printed his paper
in a cellar, and they have been sell
ing the Herald ever since.
Down South, from the beginning of
newspapers, there were carriers who
laid the paper at the doors of the sub
scribers, and perhaps sold a single
copy now and then. But there were
no boys to make a business of it as
at present. But it was on New Year's
day that the carriers made their real
money.
In the year 1856 it was my duty and
pleasure' to carry the Columbus Sun
each morning to its subscribers, and
on one afternoon during the week to
carry to its subscribers a weekly
paper known as The Corner Stone.
This paper was published by Gen.
John Bethune, the owner of Blind
Tom. the negro pianist. There was.
nothing renumerative beyond a regular
weekly stipend until Xew Year's day,
and that day was looked forward to
for months with keen anxiety. Nowa
days the carriers take advantage of
Christmas to greet their subscribers,
but in the olden times we let Christ
mas go by and observed the New
Year's day.
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There is a big difference in the
quality of the “addresses” gotten up
for the carriers of today and that of
my time and day. Now the carrier
presents the subscriber with a little
kimpy affair with some, doggerel on
preachings of a certain distinguished
individual to an anti-race suicide cam
morning by cutting his throat. A
physician dressed the wounds, but
Bassett, preferring death to life, tore
loose the stitches and bled to death
in a few minutes.
PHOENIX. Ariz., Dec. 2S.—Business
men of Sonora. Mexico, recently arriving
here, say that within the last two months
16 Americans have been killed by Y'aqui
district J Indians at one point or another, in Mex-
by the ico. Most of the victims were settler;
who fled three years ago during Indian
troubles, but recentlv returned, beiiev-
a . _ ing the railroad building had progressed
pai„n, a or tt\o ago . ffered a | to a p 0 j n t W here they could be pro-
prize of ioO to every one of his em- 1 teeted from the murderous bands of Ya-
ployees who should marry. Later on j quis.
the scheme seemed incomplete, and a
fered for babies. So far it has been ST. PAUL. Minn., Dec. 28.—Judge
supplementary prize of 825 was of- Orr, of the District Court, .-at the in.-
cause why a temporary injunction
should not be granted pending the final
adjudication of tile proceedings to re
strain the proposed Issue of $60,009,000
of Great Xorthern stock.
This stock was to be issued January
4. The order is returnable and will
be argued January 3.
TAMPA. ,FIa.. Dec. 28.—After drift
ing helpless in the Gulf two days, dis
abled by a broken tail shaft, the steam
ship Manteo. which plies between Tam
pa and Xew Orleans, was towed into
port today by the tug Clark. The
Manteo dr.fted to a little inlet where
communication was had with Punta
Gorda through a pilot. All on board
are safe.
Simri Rase on Third stret. where the
Shinholser carriage store now stands.
Speaking of Xew Year's Day brings
to mind how that day was observed
j years ago, in Macon. After the war
had ended, and people had begun to
I get on their feet again, so to speak,
j the young people of the city made a
| great day of it. Christmas was given
! up to the children and Santa Claus,
! while the young men nnd ladies re-
j garde.i it ns entirely their day. It was
I open-house all day at the homes. The
I ladies arrayed themselves in the
brightest and. best, and the young men
wore their evening suits. At tho houses
open to callers the punch bowl or the
wine occupied the center of the par
lor. The young men called in car
riages. drank to the health of the
ladies, exchanged the compliments of
the season, and were off for another
call. Only the careful ones could stand
this all day.
• * •
For years this social function was
kept up until excoriations from the pul
pit caused it to cease.
Looking over some cards the other
day, I came across a few that brought
this New Year calling custom vividly
to nlind. The young men called in
couples, in trios and quartettes, but
there were a lew who called alone.
One of these, who preferred to go alone,
and who always liad unique cards, was
the late Willis F. Price, long since
dead. Another was J. A. Pugh, one of
Macon's best photographers, al ways a
bachelor, but who always had a pro
found respect for woman.
Each party carried a card bearing
the names of the members. Sometimes
all the names were printed on one
card: sometimes the individual cards
were tied together with white ribbon.
these cards
it, nnd perhaps the same, stuff has done ' Efforts were made t
service for a score of back Christ
mases. The present day carrier get?
a dime here and there, and sometime?
as much as a quarter.
I as unique or novel as possible.
I I have before me the cards of one
j quartette of young men who called on
the first day of 1872. They are George
I H. Plant. John G. Ruan. Fleming D.
The old time “address” was always i rinsley and Robert AY. Jemison. All
a literary production worthy of the
name. Dr. Frank Tiehnor, who wrote
'Little Griffin, of Tennessee.” nnd who
was then a regular contributor to The
Corner Stone, wrote an address for me
once, and it was a gem, And it
brought me a peck of silver. I can re
member that after filling my hat I was
only half through my route, and that
I received another hatful on the other
half. Money was not only plentiful in
those days, but the paper carriers were
appreciated.
In 1S5S it was also my duty and
pleasure to carry The Georgia Citizen,
a paper published in Macon by Dr. L.
F. W. Andrews, and, by tho way.
George Sims, now living at a good old
age, and Charlie McGregor, Tom Wat
son’s fother right hand man,
set type on the paper at that
time. The writer of the ad
dresses then was Dr. James A. Da-
mour, brother of Mr. Chas. E. Damour,
who contributed weekly to the Citizen
over the name of S. Q. Lapius. M. D.
I have or.e of his addresses written by
hint, printed on satin. It was the
custom in the old days to print a few
on satin for distribution among friends.
It was somewhere in the '70’s that I
induced the late Sidney Lanier to write
a New Year's address for a carrier.
He had just published his book of
poems, “Tiger Lilies.” and was begin
ning to win fame. At first he demur
red. though he finally consented, but
he could never get in what he con
sidered the mood for it. He couldn't
write to order, and tried many times,
but none of the attempts suited him.
Finally, when the time was short in
which to print it. he handed me the
manuscript only after I had promised
to leave his name off.
(But going back to the newsboy.
It was at the beginning of the
war when The Telegraph issued
occasional extras. There were
demands from the peonle to
know what was going on at the
time. State after State was seceding,
and then came the firing on Ft. Sum
ter. Extras were printed, and so great
was the anxiety to hear the news that
the boys coined money. This money
was in silver at first, but day by day
the silver disappeared, and the shin-
plaster of the Confederate States took ; , ^
its place. From five cents a copy the j Jr ’ an(1
price went un to twenty-five and even :
fifty cents. From selling extras the, The ment
bpys
just
these gentlemen are living today, and
ni! of them, I believe, have grown chil
dren.
On New Year's Day of 1 STS (her©
was more calling than ever before, or
ever after. It was made a particularly
brilliant day.
On that occasion J. R. Saulsbury
and A. D. Schofield called together.
YYill S. Payne and Prentice Edwards
made up another couple.
'Will A. Redding. Clarence IT. Cub-
bedgo, George C. Price and W. W.
Leman. Jr., composed one quartette.
Campbell T. King. Cooper D. YY’inn,
YY T iIl G. Solomon and Jos. H. Jones
made up another.
Of this quartette, only one is living
today: Nath M. Solomon. .Tim S. Iver
son, Willis B. Sparks and Will H.
YY r oodson.
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YVhatever may have been said of
the custom otherwise, it was a beauti
ful one. The young men represented
the flower of Macon’s young manhood,
and though the custom was finally
abandoned because of the hard knocks
of those who saw in it only the ruina
tion of young men. there are many
whose names are thus.remembered who
are yet on earth, are now in the prime
of life and have made good citizens.
It is not probable that the custom
will be revived, hut among the old-
fashioned things we sometimes find
pleasure in looking river, none brings
up prettier scenes of the loveliness
of woman nr 1! gallantry of men
than this old custom of railing on
New Year’s Day.
* * * *
Another feature of New Year’s Day
of thirty or forty years ago was the
masquerade ball given by the young
people. A flooring placed on top of
the chairs In th; old Ralston Hall,
level with the stage, and here indeed
was a scene of bn itity. The very best
people of the cirv and surrounding
towns, made these bails magnificent
affairs. I have before me an invita
tion to attend one on the night of
January 5, 1S70, and of the eighteen
managers, only four are living today.
The seniors were: Thos. Hardeman,
John T, BoifeuilieL James M. Board-
man. A. A. Ro
Edward J. Johns
L. H. Wing an
juniors were:
David E. Norris
L. Ross. J. A.
Ilonrv Hone
Willie G
ff, Chas. A. Nutting,
ion. Dr. Chas H. Hall.
! A. O. Bacon. The
Gv'nnville C. Conner,
Sim 16. Theus. Cites,'
Walker, T. D. Tin.i-
W. B. Johnston,.
cents. .-I. ' The men’ in of these names
got to selling: the regular papers. ; 0 2 d -tfm e r will lirinff -n(
qs they arG selling' them at t*.e ; ^ minfl as vividly as if if w^r-
present day.
: yesterday he saw them in life.
e only
Perhaps the most prosperous times , THE CAMPAIGN FUND
of the newsboy were at the close of ; j ; n j^ aw York World,
the war. Macon was in possession of ; F r i en 'j| s .q fellow-citizens
General YYRlson before General Lee had
surrendered. The city was shut off. it
seemed, from the world, and news was
wanted and wanted bad. Som.- Federal
soldiers had mixed the type of 9 ho
Teleeraph. or in printer’s parlance, had
“pied" it, and. of course, no paper could
be gotten out. The idle printers
Partisans and plugs,
Step right up
To.the open cup
And get your Dra re of the sit
I’m a campaign c mtribution.
| A gift boss
! For heeler "and boss.
no gotten out. 'me v* •*••"• - .-• . ... ,, grm»b
hold of some .type and a press belong- j Vu.tmt'i ok me in the if
ing to an Atlanta paper that had run ‘ OOK n e - n 10 ”
away from that city because of Sher- , ‘
outh.
id?
NEGRO EDUCATORS ELECT
OFFICERS AND ADJOURN
; GREENSBORO. X. C., Dec. 29—Aft
er Issuing appeals to the public and
! to the negro teachers for their co-
; operation in the movement for a re-
l awakening of the interest in the cd-
: ucation of the negro, the National As
sociation of Negro Teachers of Ag-
j ricultural and Mechanical Colleges,
1 Secondary Schools and Schools of
i higher Education, adjourned tonight.
. The association has been in session
at the Negro Agricultural and Mechan-
\ ieal College here since Wednesday.
New offi ers were elected as follows:
i President. R. R. YY r r:ght, Georgia State
j Industrial School: first vice-president.
' James B. Dudley, North Carolina State
Agricultural ,and Mechanical College:
second vice-president, James A. Hath-
I away, Kentucky Normal and Indus-
1 trial School; secretary, W. B. Williams,
' Hampton Institute. Y'irginia: treasurer,
X. B. Young. State Normal and In
dustrial School. Florida.
1 The next meeting will be held in
j Washington, D. C., December 27-29,
J907.
man’s visit, apd published a small pa
per. getting their news by grapevine,
or in anv way they could. Those pa
pers sold for five and ten dollars th.-
copy, in Confederate money. Shortly
after they came to Macon the Federal
soldiers in Macon were paid off. and
silver got in circulation in a single
night, and then the price of the paper
fell to five cents the copy.
A train went to and came from At
lanta every day. but before there was
no regularity about it. BeUveen Ma
con and Atlanta, principally about
Jonesboro, the rails had been taken
up bv "Wilson's men. placed on a fire
until a section in the middle was red-
hot, and then twisted around trees.
The track was repaired with all sorts
of old rails, and necessarily the trains
rolled along slowly. It would take all
the morning to make the run from
Macon to Atlanta, and on these trains
.the little paper was sold. People along
the line, at Forsyth, Griffin, at Love-
joys and at other stations watched
for the trains that they might buy a
paper and read the news of Lee's move- | Are great
ir.ents. They knew then that it was -
only a question of time when the war
would end. and they wanted to learn
of the coming of the remnants of regi
ments in which were their sons or
fathers. They were willing to pay any
price to get a paper, and the newsboys
were willing to take it, no matter how
much.
Macon had several newspapers dur
ing the war. The Telegraph was. of
course, the principal pane’r, being pub
lished daily, but it finally merged with
a new paper. The Confederate, and
The Telegraph and Confederate was
run for some time with Clavland &
Durnble as proprietors, and Harry L.
Flash and James R. Barriek as edi
tors. The paper was published at the
old home, over C'.isby & McKay’s shoe
store. Henry YVatterson. chased away
from Chattanooga, and later from At
lanta. published The Chattanooga Reb
el. where the American National Bank
now stands. Later the Atlanta. Intel
ligencer was published in the same
building. The Georgia Citizen was
printed on Cherry street over the pres
ent Postal Telegraph’s office.
I’m supposed to pay
|The way
j Of low and high
j To the counter of Pie,
! And tho’ some don't always get there,
I do my share.
All parties seek me.
And usually the one
That gets the most of me
Gets the best of the run.
I don't know why it happens so.
Except that money
Makes politics go.
My force ■ •
Doesn't depend on my source,
And tho' I may be tainted
Or sweet as honey dew.
The leaders do not giveadam
If I can pull them through.
You bet I’m mighty handy
In every campaign mix,
And all the parties pull my
Leg in politics.
By gum!
I may be hum
In some
Respects.
But my effects
1-;
In all affairs of state;
And I don't care
YYhat the good may say about me.
Politics couldn't i
Get along without me.
See? s, #.
"”-*1
The Record Omelet
From the New Orleans Times-Demo-
crat.
The chef lighted a cigarette.
“A good omelet, was it not?” he
said. "Now I will tell you of the rec
ord omelet of the world.
“When I soldiered in Tunisia, our
company was sent out, at the fanners’
request, to annihilate -the sparrow:*
which- destroyed the crops. We
brought back—it is incredible—5,000
sparrows’ eggs. Think of it!
"Out of the 5,000 sparrows’ eggs wa
made an omelet. It was 14 feet long,
12 feet wide, and 1 foot thick. And
light! Lighter, my friend, than a
feather.
"It was the record omelet of the
world, and I have a photograph Of It
The in my strong box.”