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THE TWICE-A-WEEK TELEGRAPH rOLl'MBT r.:! Inter." «t Co:, tr.nl •xpl tins rts th: tin? V-o. 29—Of gf-n- .■ or the lines of a Railway Cora- -r from General of that railroad Ittee from the is city, replying Chairman, et ©ceipt of your h Inst., risking eon rendering ;c< at Coium- doing to oper- s on a ’hedule. i answer vour In n u I r 1 ppre- your to express my ri friendly tone of which, I feci sure, la i the sentiments of the e generally. It follows nr. and will continue to our r-nt atlsfactory I the ur ni thi In bus <1 f is ha 400 havt rrter to provide for It 10 freight locomotives, n<l l.ooo coal cars dur- irt of this year. Xone a delivered The box us at the nclng July n received The coal cars were promised rite -.f in per day, commencing • tuber. Xone of them have revived and present indications t v.-e win nut begin to get them ie I ist of January. Twenty of • •motives were promised in Sep- nnd 10 ir October. A portion machinery Is in service, e delivery is not yet com- 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 r contracts, 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 cuts, iuit tit - j'] 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. *H"1**H* 1 n 1 1: 11 1 .i-.i.-i.-i-i-i- .h-i-i-m-h-i- It was the war that developed the j Journal and Messenger was printed by 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. » * * 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. * * * 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.”