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THE TWICE-A-WEEK TELEGRAPH
FRIDAY. JANUARY 4, 1907.
MAYOR
DOWN
NEW YORK' J;i
SUPREME 10 DECIDE
GN IMPORTANT LAW
EMPLOYERS' LIABILITY ACT DE
CLARED UNCONSTITUTIONAL.
WASHINGTON. Jan. 3.—The* recent de*
; cisions of Judge Kvans. ir. the* Federal
l Court at Louisville, in the case of Brooks,
administratrix, against the Southern Pa
cific Railroad Company, and bv Judcre Mc
Call. of the Unite “
i of Membus. in the
MI AWARDS
IF 10:
MINES IN BULL FROG REGION IN
NEVADA INVOLVED.
Miirphj
on nforn
Co minis.-
Mayor,
sons* as-
cause l.i
Dimixri;
*)(ction
refused
"Xlflt >
‘I de
whi(
half
Mayor’s petty
v him jo name a sine
, x (.,.%<• suggested o
if thr Democratic o
lintment to public ofTI'
ecord and character
favorably with his f
and intimates/*
* instance
urged on
^miration
any man
<rould not
eo<mt ap-
ofTicials
as matters of the greatest consequence,
and Attomey-Gcnbral Bonaparte probab’v
will endeavor to have the ca.= >s brought
to the Supreme Court of the United States
at as early a date as possible. Mr Harr
today received information from counsel
representing the plaintiff in the Louis
ville case, that an appeal would imme
diately be taken. President Roosevelt
is greatly interested in this law and earn
estly recommended to Congress at its
last session that it be passed.
SAN FRANCISCO. Jan. 3.—Mines in the
Bull Frog region of Nevada, valued by
i the owners at .$20,000,000, were awarded
I today to E. A. Montgomery by Judge Sea-
J well against the claims of C. B. Fleming,
s District Court 1 who had sued for a half interest because
T Howard, admin- j of A dispute in a grub state agreement:
properties will
M. Schab. who
has awaited a verdict clearing the titles
before closing the deal. The decision of
Judge Seaweil was based on a question
o' f ct, namely, whether the original
agreement existing between Fleming and
Montgomery in the mortn of July. 1902.
was in existence when the latter located
the contested claims in the fall of 1904.
Montgomery proved that he received no
aid from his partner except in the sum
mer of 1901, when they shared the ex
pense of a prospecting trip made by
Montgomery in Death Valley.
/'company 8 *both I *o?°whfch lt declared 11 is now statP '' thc P
■onstitutiona'i the employers' liability I bf ' transferred to Charles >1
. passed at the last session of Con- ! has awaited a verdict clear
NIECE OF NAPOLEON ill.
IN "A DREAM OF EGYPT"
snius OF FIHII
00 ATLANTIC SYSTEM
'PARIS. .Ian. 3.—There was* a re
markable sr.-no tonight at the noto
rious Moulin Rouge. when tile .Mar
quise de .Moray, .. daughter of the
famous fluke •!<• Morin, and a niece
of Nepoleon III., made her debut
In an net called “A Dream of Egypt."
written by herself in collaboration with
Mme. Da iithler-VIlIares, the author of
"Cluudinc,” and oilier decadent
els.
Thc Marquise, who is the divored
wife of Marquise de Belbuff, Ins al
ready achieved an unenviable reputa
tion. and b< r here! led appearance on
the st a tie brought out a s
eism. t
The Marquise Makes Statement.
To ibis the Marquise replied in a
letter published today denying that her
fie r forma nee was not Intended to be
suggestive and insisting*that she meant
to give an artistic reproduction of thc |
manners of Ancient Kgypt. In defend- |
In spite of this statement, a num
ber of clubmen and Borsipartlsts got
together, and went to the Moulin Rouge
tonight, where they ronducted a dem
onstration, the like of which has sel
dom been witnessed in this city. For
fully ten minutes the curtain couid
not be raised on the new net, owing
to the pandemonium front galleries and
“i |
nov- I boxes
t Missiles Thrown at Women.
1 When it finally went up disclosing
| the Marquise working out a cripte-
I gram of the charm of life, after the
j f ishlonT of Galatea, and a beautiful
of t rili- j Egyptian mummy in the person of
Mme. Willey, the din was redoubled.
This was followed by a rain
' siies. of every description, the audi-
i cnee even throwing hassocks and boxes
j at the women on the stage. In spite
I of this vociferous demonstration the
! two wemn persisted in completing their
•t. which is as disgustingly indecent
Ing her appearance on the stage, the j as anything ever seen on the Parisian
Marquise says: “This does not con- I stage. When the curtain was rung
stilule a disgrace to the French ari.- j down, the crowd rushed toward the prior *to May 1, without violating an
tocrac.v and a distinguished cion of box occupied by Mme. Gauthier-Vii- agreement made with the engineers,
this aristocracy, the Prince de Broglie, | lares and Mile. Polaire. who is starring “An arbitration that does not settle
has been earning his iiivng for some | in a stage adaptation of “Claudine.” the* relations between engineers and
time past by conducting an orchestra in land literally drove them from the the- firemen, which i=? the basis of the
New York.” I ater. whole trouble.” said Mr. Harriman,
— ■ ■ =-=> “would he useless."
HANAHAN AND HARRIMAN EX
CHANGE TELEGRAMS ON
THE SUBJECT.
NEW YORK. Jan. 3.—Copies of the
telegrams between John J. Hanahan,
grand master of the Brotherhood of | Ctane tonight asking him to co
operate with Senator Foraker, of Ohio,
in the effort to obtain a hearing for
firemen on the Atlantic system of the * the soldiers of the Twenty-fifth In-
HI BLACK HOOPS
PETITION ASKING SENATOR
CRANE TO CO-OPERATE
WITH FORAKER.
BOSTON’, Jan. 3.—A petition signed
by nearly a thousand negroes in this
State was sent to Senator W. Murry
Locomotive Firemen, and E. H. Harri
man with reference to the strike of
fantry, who. were discharged on ac
count of the affair at Brownsville,
Texas, on August 13. 1906. Signatures
of the petition were obtained by the
mis- j fiuenco the company. Mr. Hanahan
! also made reference to the possibility
; of an extension of the strike to other
: parts of the Harriman system.
Mr. Harriman in%uply said the com-
Southern Pacific Company were given
out acre today. Mr. Hanahan in a
telegram January 1 suggested arbitra
tion of the difficulties, but said that
the firemen would insist that a third i New England Suffrage League.
party would not be permitted to in- j
New York Negroes In It.
NEW’ YORK, Janf 3.—At a mass
meeting of lfogroes held at Cooper
Union tonight under the auspices of J the town, and no one there had ever
a committee of one hundred negroes I heard of him. He came in answer to
pany was not affected by outside in- I of Greater New York, in celebration j an advertisement and bought out the
fluences in dealing with the firemen, j of the emancipation proclamation, I hardware business of Oormorick &
rifling to arbitrate, but'could I resolutions were adopted calling on
' Congress to make a more thorough in
quiry into the Brownsville affair.
INGENIOUS FRAUD
Seven years ago Bertrand Officer, of
Marmaduke, insured his life in the
Central and "Western Life and Limb
Assurance Association, of New .Or
leans. 5nd two- other companies, for a
total sum of $50,090, his brother Or
ville. being named as beneficiary. Six
months later he wrote to the company
and informed them that he had just
been called to his attention by some
friends that his twin brother. Orville
Officer, and he looked so much alike
that in case of his own death, if it
were set up by the company as a de
fense to his brother's, the beneficiary's
claim for the money, that the living
brother. Orville, were really the de
ceased brother. Bertrand, there might
be difficulty about it, and he asked the
company for his and its own protection
to send on a representative who should
examine him and make report of the
Existence bn the back of his left shoul
der of a birth mark—a flat mole about
the size of a ten-cent piece—which
was not duplicated on his brother
Orville.
The company did this. Its represen
tative made the examination, found and
reported the existence of the mole and
took an affidavit from Bertrand to the
effect that his brother had no such
mole, and in a little later an affidavit,
signed and sworn to by “Orville Offi
cer.” was sent to the company front
St. Louis where Bertrand stated his
brother was living, setting forth, on
the part of Orville, that he had no
mole on his shoulder such as Bertrand
had.
Four months later Bertrand Officer
bought out a small iron foundry in an
interior Iowa town and employed two
men to assist in running it. Three
weeks later, late in the evening. Jacob
Prooster, one of the men in Officer’s
employ, ran, screaming from the foun
dry, and stated that his master had
fallen bodily into a mass of molfen iron
and had been instantly consumed. The
first person to enter the foundry re
ported that an odor of burned flesh and
clothing could be distinctly perceived,
and when the brother. Orville, came
on from St. Louis and made claims
for the insurance, the companies, after
an examination of his left shoulder to
ure themselves that it was indeed
Orvilie and not Bertrand, paid over
the $50,000.
Orville Officer moved to Hapweil
three miles eqst of here, and lias made
that place his home for the last five
■•ears, although he knew of no one in
built for them. All over the land there
is impatience with the law and intol
erance of Judges. The constituted au
thorities are set at defiance. Men
chafe at the restraints which are the
safeguards of liberty. Labor, earning
reward heretofore undreamed of. is dis
contented and unruly: it is more than
ever the prey of the innumerable agi
tators whose trade it is to debauch
and plunder it. It is losing its habit
of thrift and industry and its wages
turn from a blessing to a curse. There
is a greater unrest and a greater un
easiness in the air than there was
before Sutnfllr was fired on.
This sinister condition has been
achieved during a period when the
whole people of the United States have
enjoyed a kind and degree of pros
perity the like of which never before
was vouchsafe^ to any people in the
world's history.
From whom did the people derive
their new found hatred of wealth?
Who seduced organized labor from
the paths of industry and sanity? Who
became its self-constituted champion
when he wanted to secure its votes?
Who joined a union and prostituted
himself and his high place in his lust
for office?
To whom do we owe the growing
contempt for the law and the wide
spread impatience with its processes
and disrespect of its officers that we
see throughout the country? Can a
more shocking or dangerous example
be set before the people than that
of the President of the United States
rebuking an honest Judge for render
ing an opinion according to the laws
and according to his conscience, which
opinion was distasteful to him. the
President, personally?
The utterances of the President can
not be dissociated from the authority
and dignity of his office. Neither
can his acts. When he is seeking re-
ent tine. To realize that splendid but
entirely rational expectation its prime
need is population adequate in volume
and in energy to the opportunities ex
isting. And the first step toward sat
isfying that need is immigration. Im
migration from the North will be a
certain element in the increase, but not
a large one for some time, because
there is insufficient Inducement for it.
Immigration from abroad, if properly
regulated and selected and distributed,
will be much more important. That,
we take it. is the view taken by the
Government of South Carolina- The
experiment it is making is intensely
interesting. It may. prove of almost
incalculable advantage. It is a matter
for congratulation that the Department
of Commerce has been able to interpret
the lan so that it shall not interfere
with that experiment.
JAMESTOWN NEGRO EXHIBIT
LOOKED AFTER BY COMMITTEE
WASHINGTON. Jan. 3.—The Govern
ment Board of the Jamestown Exposition,
consisting of Secretaries Taft. Shaw and
Metcalf, held a meeting today for the
purpose* of receiving 1 a report from the
Xorrro Development and F?:po?nJon C om-
pany. which, under the law, has charge
of the nes-rn exhibit, as to the progress
which has been made in their work. Giles
B. Jackson, of Richmond, the head or
the company, submitted a written report
and an adjournment was taken until next
Monday. In the meantime. Jackson t
report will be examined by the board.
MUNICIPAL ELECTION
HELD IN HILLSBORO
HILLSBORO. Ga.. Jan. 3.—Mayor and
Cotmeilmen were elected yesterday. Dr.
J. T Garlaner was elected Mayor and E.
B. McCullouch. H. B. Burton. C. L. Rid-
lev. and C. H. Marks Councilman.
Mrs. B. Ezell died last night and was
buried in the Methodist cemetery.
, .. . . „, , Mrs. W. T Marks lias gone to Eatonton
election and has little confidence in to spen( j a week with her mother,
the disposition of the people to have
and wa
not restore
the conditions existing
JORDAN AND LIVINGSTON
AND N. Y. COTTON EXCHANGE
I ATLANTA BOY’S ABSENCE
CAUSES MUCH UNEASINESS
SAVANNAH. Ga.. Jan. 3.—Members
of ihe Savannah Cotton Exchange do
not believe that Harvie Jordan and
manipulated more easily.
Captain Hunter .believes that .the
public has recourse from this method
_ . of business. If it does not want to do
Congressman L. F. Livingston t\ .:1 he ■ business in that way. he said, it can
nble to substantiate their charges of j easily place orders with other ex
fraud against the New York Cotton j changes.
Exchange, but Captain Wight Hunter, j “I agree with Mr, Jordan on the con-
president of the Cotiton Exchange, said j tention that a future cotton exchange
today that some of Jordan’s eonten- [should be a spot cotton, market, for tf
thins were correct. | il is not. the market can be mahipu-
Captain Hunter said that he does ! laled loo easily. Now. at New Or-
not think the business of the New j leans-the exchange is practically in the
York Exchange is fraudulent, but that I cotton fields, and if the future price?
it is operated differently from the ! run too high, it is easy to throw them
other exchanges. He said that thc dif- j in there and run the price down and
ferenees in low-grade cotton were not j also ship cotton, if the price gets too
changed there but twice a year, while low."
In the New Orleans Cotton Exchange | Captain Hunter said th<
they are changed every day. according
to the supply and the demand. The
reason, he said, fdr changing them but
wlce was so that the market could be
local ex
change is nothing like the New York
j Exchange, as the Savannah Cotton Ex
change docs not do any future business
of . any kind. -
FURNITURE STORE
BURNED IN NEW YORK
ATLANTA. Ga.. Jan. 3.—The parents
i of little Johnnie Stevens, who live at 495
| Woodward avenue, feel deeply concerned
! as to the whereabouts of their- son. who
! has not been hea^d from since Monday
last. Upon that day a white, marr. ar>-
narently a strancer in the city, met
Johnnie near the Kimball and asked him
for directions to so to the Century build-
in ST.
When the boy grave* the strancrer th**
desired information, the man csVcd John
nie to *»n with him and shew him where
the buildintr was. This the boy aerrecd
to do. and that is the last that Ins been
heard of him A ccmoanion of Johenfi
was present and heard the conversation,
which was later related to the parents of
the child.
GEN. OBEAR PREPARING
CIRCULAR LETTER
ATLAXTA. Ga -Tar 3.— In~rw*tnf-<a—»*
W. G. Obear is preparing a circular to he
sent out to the offic'-rs of the X-'Mnr-d
Guard nf the State of Georgia notif , 'i r **7
thrnn that the regular inspection of the
tropes of the State will commence early
in Februar*\
Th«* circular will contain information nf
interest as to the manner, in which the
inspection »s to he made.
BOSTON EXfMAYOR
IN BANKRUPTCY
NEW YORK. Jan. 3.—Fire destroyed
the big furniture store of Cowper-
thwaite A- Sous, at Third avenue and
121sl street, tonight, entailed .1 loss es
timated at half a million dollars and
causing the injury of four flrepien,
none seriously. The blaze, which start
ed a few monients after 6 o’cloi U.
quickly developed into the must specta
cular lire seen in Harlem in a long
tljne- The Third avmuo elevated line
■was blocked for hours, at the time of
•its heaviest traffic atul drew such im-
nensc crowds that \in:ij,iy police ro-
jrves were called our to maintain or-
Kor a time the fire threat ned the
tire block and it required three
irs haixl work by the firemen to
|g it under control.
Cowperlh waite establishment.
Ig five-story brick structure, was
toyed. The stock was valued at
j)00. fully insured. The ti: started
basement and an explosion of
followed almost immediately.
The jffist two firemen on the s, ene were
overcome by smoke in the basement,
and wtere dragged out with difficulty.
One of'"them. Driver Duffy, was badly
burned .and'removed to a hospital.
About 209 feet from the Cowrer-
thwatte building is the Harlem police
court prison. The 54 prisoners set up
cries of fear and were taken from their
cells and paraded in tin* court until all
danger was passed.
The Third avenue wall of the burn
ing building fell across the elevated
road structure and the firemen who
were fighting the flames from that
vantage point were forced to leap to
the ground. Capt. Lumnify was slight
ly injured in falling. Another wall fell j
across 121st street, and buried a num
ber of small buildings. Several tire- !
Mrs. John Darby were instantly killed
tonight by a Pennsylvania Railroad
train at the Copeland station crossing.
AMERICAN GOODS
BOYCOTTED IN CHINA
SHANGHAI. Jan. 3.—As a result of
the revival of hcvcotjr of American
goods, due to the failure of the United
States authorities to- modify the Chi
nese exclusion act. the boycott is
spreading over China. Efforts are be
ing made here to induce the Chined?
newspapers to reject advertisements of
Nesseday, and set up a luxurious bach
elor life at the Graveswynd Hou
Yesterday he was arrested at Hapweil
by Sheriff Candall on complaint of
representatives of the insurance com
panies: who charged him with bein
Bertrand and not Orville Officer. The
evidence against him was so over
whelming that he made no defense.
The discovery of the fraud was
remarkable instance of the workings
of chance.
One of the men connected with the
New Orleans company. H. H. Slew,
was a brother-in-law of Dr. Geo. Har-
ravane, of Foldesi, III., ar.d being on a
visit to his relatives some three months
ago happened to mention to him the
strange death of Bertrand Officer and
the payment of the insurance to his
twin brother, relating all the.attendant
circumstances. * Dr. Harravane imme-
MAYOR WOODWA.RD’S VETO diately became deeply interested
PROBABLY BE ,OVERRIDDEN I the ease, and said that at a date that
must liax’e been a month or so after
the examination by the insurance offi-
BOSTON. Jan. 3.—A petition in bank
ruptcy against former Mayor Josiah
Quincy was filed today by creditors hold
ing notes for 52.7fio. ’ Mr. Quincy, In a
statement, admitted bis inability to meet
claims against him and said that his lia-
bi' s tips Incurred "through misplaced con
fidence in a former business associate”
would aggregate $150,000. M. F. Clark,
C. Id. WooOter and George Warner were
the petitioners.
ATLANTA. Jan! 3.—It looks like
sure thing that when the Council meets
• ciais of the birthmark on Bertrand’s
Monday next.,the flavor’s veto of the ] shoulder, a man whose appearance he
ordinance increasing the license to re- j remembered perfectly, and which was
tail liquor in Atlanta from .$1,400 to | exactly like the agent’s description of
32.000. will be overridden. Provisipns i Bertrand, had applied to him to cut
of this ordinance, also increase the out a similar birthmark from his left
NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS. I American manufacturers.
Examine label on your pa- southern’s* employes
per. It tells how you stand on all want more pay
the books. Due from date on j Atlanta. Ga.'. Jan. ^.—The con-
the label. Send in dues and switchmen, brahmen ari a
also renew for the year 1907.
ANIMAL DINNER INCLUDES TEN
FOUR-FOOTED ARISTOCRATS.
Chicago Dispatch in X. Y. World.
Mrs. Minnie Fiske-Griffin, one cf the
fashionable of the Lake Shore dis
trict, has outdistanced tile unique ec
centricities of Mr. Harry Lehr as a
banquet-giver. .She has entertained
pigs nt dinner. They were nigs of the
four-footed v iriety. The pigs, whose
ancestry is unimpeachable, dating back
to a pork nobility that Included no
packers :n its collateral branches, were
among the guest of honor at a dinner
where only the humans were the peo
ple of no importance. Mrs. Griffin a
magnificent home, at 714 Foster street,
was exquisitely decorated for the oc
casion. and :he daintily spread table,
with its silver and delicate china, was
laid far twenty.
Ten of tite'guests were a pink-nosed
pig attitred in a large blue bow: a
brown and white guinea pig. wearing
a smile: a game cock of high degree
whose occasional remarks were loudly
applauded: a pink-eyed rabbit with a
trainmen nf the Southern Railway have
sent reports to Washington to con
fer with the officials of that road for
the purpose of securing an increase
of wages. All divisions will be repre
sented. It is stated a 10 per cent in
crease will be asked for. The in
creased cost of living is given as a
reason for asking the advance.
ONE LIFE AND HALF
MILLION LOST BY FIRE
MONTREAL, Jan. 3.—A half million
dollar fire, resulting in the death of one
man and the injury of six firemen,
occurred early today in St. Antoine
street. Tito collapse of a wall caused
the death of II. Gagnon, a carter. Gag
non rushed in to rescue his son. whom
he thought imperiled, and was crushed
beneath the wail.
license on wholesale dealers from $500
to $^:0A0, and. the saloons prooortion-
at-Py/i It toji’es sixteen votes to over
ride the. veto and the advocates of
a higher l'cense for the sale of liquor
say they have that number cinched.
The raising of thy license, however,
will have no effect upon the proposed
prohibition election, as it has been
officially announced by the promoters
of tiie campaign that while the in
crease was a good thing in its way
it did not go fa- enough, and that
ncthims 'but a closing up of the sa-
ldors would satisfy them. There is
hardly a doubt but that some of the
members of the Council, who will vflte
to override, are to a limited extent
inclined that way on account of some
shoulder and to graft skin from the
small of his back over the place, and
that he had done the job and was at
the time very proud of the fact that
the operation had been perfectly suc
cessful as to the removal of the
birthmark and had left absolutely no
scar. The story was a startling one to
the insurance men. They looked for
and found Jacob. Proostar, the employe
of Bertrand Officer, who had reported
his death in the moltan metal, and ob
tained from him the confession that
Officer had not fallen into the metal
at all, »utt had gone secretly away and
that the odor pereceived by the first
persons to arrive in the foundry had
been caused by some old clothing and
a quarter of beef that had been mast
friction with Mayor Woodward. Since into the liquid form.—Le Sueur (Minn)
Mayor Woodward commenced his pres
ent term, two years ago. the Council
has passed upon eight of his veto mes
sages. Four have been sustained and
tbe-jwme numi^er overridden. While it
shows that the odd is sure' to go
against him. he says that he feels per
fectly indifferent upon the subject.
WALTER DANA SWANN
COMMITTED SUICIDE
CAMBRIDGE. Mass.. Jan. 3.—Walter
Dana Swann, an instructor' in archi
tecture at Harvard University, died to
day. after having shot himself over
the heart. No cause for the suiride
is known. Swann was appointed as
sistant in architecture at Harvard in
1S97. and instructor in 1901. He was
thirty years old.
ATLANTA MAN’S STRUGGLE
WITH NEGRO FOOTPADS
ATLANTA. Jan. 3.—.T. T. Pritchett,
of 16S Kirkwood avenue, htid a pugilis-
^Je encounter with a couple of negro
lootpads about 12 o’clock last night,
near the corner of Old Wheat and
Fort. streets. Pritchett had a double
incentive to fight for—his life a.nd a
roil of eighty dollars of hard-earned
money stored away in his inside
pocket.
The first intimation that he had that
danger was near was when he was
hit on. the back of the head a sharp
| blow, which caused him to stagger.
( He then realized that he was being
I attacked by two highwaymen. Being
unarmed he had to resort to his fists.
While, he was mixing it up at a pretty
lively gait with the footpads a friend
ly negro living near the scene and who
was attracted by the noise outside,
rushed to his assistance. The arrival
of reinforcement saved the day for
Pritchett and his roll of wealth.
Correspondence St. Louis Republican.
the
ler puff tail: a pouter pigeon that
men barely escaped from being burned ) chatted all the evening: a ehamelion,
in the ruins. I a Boston terrier a white Angora cat,
j and t gray squirrel.
Destructive Fire at Toccoa, Ga. i When Mrs. Griffin's invitations were
TOCCOA. Ga.. Jan. 3.—Fire today sent out each of the recipients was
destroyed the l'ow business block, on- | notified that nor.e would be admitted
tailing a loss or $,’.0,000. with only *x.- i unless escorted by a pet animal. Car- rvu-rr mripuri q ., _
500 insurance. The blaze was dlseov- , riages and automobiles deposited Fash- f T™le’wS?kere Sf this citv
ered in the rear of the store ot Lrynnt , ion s Zoo at the door and introductions j tonight, it was unanimously voted to
& MoAvoy. who had only moved in were made in the prreat reception hall, i ask for an increase in wajres of from 15
PHILADELPHIA TEXTILE WORKERS
THREATEN TO STRIKE
laze was discov-
• store of Bryant
MoAvoy. who had only moved in : were
yesterday. Toccoa has no tire depart- j Here everybody exhibited the most de
ment. and at one time the whole bus!- i ljerhtful manners till t>je Boston bull
ness section was threatened. j and the lady Angora were presented.
. j The Montague and Capulet feuds In
Mexican Factory Operatives Strike i] 10 two families overcame all claims
MEXICO (MTV. Jar:. 3. -It is esti- 0 f elegance, and for a time Mrs. Grjf-
matod that -M.oeo operatives in the 1 fin’s bric-a-brac seemed doomed. When
to 25 per cent. A committee was ap
pointed to wait upon the employ* rs and
was given power to eall a strike If the
conference with the mill owners is not
satisfactory.
SENT INFERNAL MACHINE
TO HIS FATHER-IN-LAW
NEW YORK. Jan. 3.—-Dr. Julius A.
Gottlieb, with an office in 106th street,
was arrested, today on the charge of hav
ing sent Jin infernal machine to hf:s
father-in-law. Morris Gluckan. a retired
broker. The machine failed to explode
when opened by one of Gluckman's daugh
ters. because the battery was weak.
Gottlieb is said to have acknowledged to
the police that he sent the machine, but
only as a joke. Gluckman says Gottlieb
has threatened him and his family for a
year past.
PAY TELLER PLEADS GUILTY
AND SENTENCED FIVE YEARS
< in
troub
Pine
it rate
republic are
o has extend-
*11 grouns at
Their trri->v-
Tho.v .!< maud
clothes f:i
now on strike. 1
ed over i loner
men going out
wldolv separate,
.•lines will be nr
higher salaries.
Ambur.hed Bv Raisuli's Followers.
TAXGIFR. Jan. 3 -The follow- - of
Baisuli have ambushed .1 nnrty of tie
tribe of Ben Minsrnr ihe former agent
of,the bandit chief here who deserted
Raisuli and are rot* supporting the
government, killing many of them.
Di"d Suddenly at Banquet.
BOSTON. Jan. 3.- At a banquet to
ore of bis successors :*• the Quincy
House tonight. John R. Henderson, who
wa« Mayor of Everett in 1897. v. s
stricken with apoplexy and died within
a few minutes.
Husband and Wife Killed.
PITTSBURG. Jan. 3.—Mr. and
tlv
pair
idv
were
J1C
1 separated the bull's
ind the Angora's missing
rl to the earnestness of
regard.
SOUTH CAROLINA DAY
AT JAMESTOWN EXPOSITION
BALTIMORE. Jan. 3.—William H.
White, paying teller of the Canton Na
tional Bank, pleaded guilty in the
United States District Court today, and
was sentenced to serve five years in
the Baltisr.ere jail for the embezzle
ment of $5.S00 from the bank.
NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS.
Ex amine label on yonr pa
per. It tells hew you stand on
the books. Due from date on
the label. Send in dues and
also renew for the year 1907.
NORFOLK,
th. anniversary of
British at Fort Moult
bop. S. C-. June 2S,
as pie da;, of South Carolina Day at th
Jamestown Exposition.
Jan. 3.—To celehrat-
'-.-n-N-- of the
ltrie. Charleston B~.r-
Edwin Davis Props Dcrd.
ATLANTA. Gn.. Jii- 3.—Edwin D. Th
is. a well-known citizen o? dio-1
-■id. n!v at his home, ft7»: North
ard. this morning from an attack of at>-
plexy. II- was dressing preparatory to
nving breakfast anfi then so to his tin-d
ess. when s-jCd-mv he be-anv quite
eak. He threw hints.,j- . n:on t t. t-.-a
s-nt for. hut befn-e
MONTGOMFTtV. Alai. Jan. 3—.Tributes
to Mrs. Jefferson Davis in manuscript
or other *iigi’»-- form brought forth by
her d-ath’. will t-e sent to the Ladies' Me
morial Association to be kept at Mont
gomery. “the cradle of the Confedera
cy. .
This is given out by Mrs. Margaret
Davis Kayes, only surviving child of Mrs.
Davis, in ron-.pjjnrepr in the nofThbors of
her mother during the early days of the
war.
WAYNESBORO BUYS
AN ELECTRIC PLANT
Mr
.us
closed
owned
■Tan.
whs
I. I irdrer
h will take
hruary 1. The s-wer
trriving and a large
possession about 1
rip-s nr- rapidly
force . p- la
It is hoped to have all the different pub
lic utilities in place by next summer.
Destructive Fire In England.
PORTSMOUTH, Eng.. .Tun 3.—Afire
which broke out las’ night among the
cumin and eqiii; m-tit St -res op Gun
wharf here caused damages according
to the official estimates, to the amount
j of $i •U.n.non. The »*r.tire equipment of
i the army corps was destroyed.
YARDMASTER CRUM’S FOOT
MASHED OFF IN BAINBRIDGE
BAINBRIDGE. Ga.. Jan. 3.—Yardmas-
ter Crum, of the Georgia. Florida and
Alabama Railroad, had his foot cut off by
a yard engine rhis morning. The yard
engine had gone into a siding for a pas-
sens- r train. Mr. Crum was throwing a
swit h for the engine to come out. and in
some manner he was caught on the track
e-d a foot was crushed off at the an
kle.
The President and the State of
Country.
New York Sun.
Mr. Roosevelt dees not as yet recog
nize his own force of suggestion. He
is unconscious of the contagion of his
example or of its consequences. It has
come to pass, therefore, that without
any deliberate design to do so he has
produced results from which a wiser
man and a man less centred in himself
would have shrunk.
"YVe are persuaded that from this
cause grave results must arise, and we
believe that the issues which confront
this country may even now be discern
ed with sufficient clearness to admit
af their proper consideration.
"We know that we have had periods
of great prosperity followed by corre
sponding periods of depression. The
former have been marked by content
and happiness, by all the normal evi
dences that should manifest them
selves in the career of a people de
serving the rewards of industry and
capable of enjoying them sanely and
peaceably. The latter, the times of
leanness and of hardship, we have met
with courage and cheerfulness, with
unquenchable confidence in the com
mon destiny and a faith in our national
solidarity which no one had ever
thought that anything could disturb.
Today it is not so. We have had
such years of material prosperity and
progress as were never known in the
history of any nation. Even at this
moment our country presents such an
aspect of fruitful industry and sub
stantial well doing that it Is almost
incredible: but whither have vanished
our content and our happinesS. and
what is become of the universal feel
ing that we were a homogeneous and
united people bound to each other by
indissoluble bonds of amity, of trust,
of fraternity and of unalterable unitiy
of purpose?
In the eyes of the whole American
people William McKinley embodied
the national sense of unity based upon
peace,' industry and the love of our
country. In his brave and gentle soul,
so clean of self-seeking, 'so free from
exaltation, he realized the nation’s
concept of a leader, a ruler and an
example. When Mi*. Roosevelt stepped
into William McKinley's place he was
not insensible to the qualities of his
murdered predecessor or unaware of
the regard in which they were held.
His first pledge to the country was
made under the quick incentive of the
dead President’s influence. It was a
solemn and an inspiring utterance and
it brought solace and reassurance to
many anxious and uneasy hearts. Mr.
Roosevelt pledged himself to carry out
the policies which William McKinley
had established. The episode and the
vow have been almost obliterated front
the public mind by the event
ha.ve since crowded our time, so much
so. indeed, that to recall them is to
evoke a shock.
How has Mr. Roosevelt kept his
word? Look at the state of the coun
try. Class is arrayed against class.
The relations between the employer
and the employed a»-e destroyed and
enmity and hatred have taken their
place. The rich are held up to uni
versal execration and are assailed in
the pillory which Mr. Roosevelt has
him again, and so resorts to the prac
tices of the demagogue and the politi
cian. he sets a most deplorable and
evil example. It is not the private
citizen who for his individual ends
lowers himself to ask the thugs and
assassins of Idaho or Montana to be
his guests in the ^Vhite House at
Washington. That would be merely
a negligible problem in self-abasement.
It is the President of the United States
who does it. and the consequences are
beyond estimation. To do this sort
of thing is to sow dragons’ teeth.
When the President of the United
States inveighs against wealth and
casts about publicly for means to pull
it down he invites violence. His idea
implies violence, and the imagination
of the people, already most unwisely
inflamed, will give practical issue to it.
A reaction in our prosperity may not
be due for some time, but Mr. Roose
velt is seemingly bent on "precipitating
it. The tremendous impetus of our
industries would alone carry us on
gradually and naturally for a long time,
supposing that we were really already
at our apogee, but shall we be per
mitted to pursue a natural course?
And when industry slackens and there
is no work, when wages can no longer
be maintained and when-savings dwin
dle. in what temper will it be taken?
With cheerfulness? With confidence
in a common and beneficent destiny?
With an abiding and unquenchable
faith in the brotherhood Of man and
in the solidarity of the American peo
ple? Alas !
Even now Mr. Roosevelt might do
much. Ho might abate his transports
and use his mighty influence to guide
people into safer and more peaceful
ways. He has accomplished many good
things, tilings that make for good and
for which good men will be ever grate
ful, if they have the opportunity to be
grateful. He has brought to light the
secret and the criminal practices of
railroads and other corporations, but he
has done it with such excitement and
uch superfluous circumstances as to
upset the public- mind, derange the
sober course of justice and effect a
minimum of practical good. A decorous
and resolute enforcement of the law
with strict reference and application to
specific wrong-doing is yet perfectly
feasible and would satisfy the public
welfare and the public desire without
impairing the intellectual stability of
any one.
In exchanging the strenuous life for
the turbulent life we have not done
well.
OLD FORT ST. PHILIP
WILL NOT - BE RECONSTRUCTED
NEW ORLEANS. La.. Jan. 3.—A tele
gram fvnni Washington states that the
United States Government has abandoned
its reconstruction of Fort St. Philip, near
the mouth of the Mississippi river, and
that contracts amounting to nearly $190,-
909 will bo abrogated. One of the con
tractors said today that he had received
a request asking on what term's he will
abrogate his contract. During the Gulf
hurricane last fall. Fort St. Thilip was
badly damaged.
KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS
ENDORSE THE POPE’S STAND
AUGUSTA. Ga.. Jan. 3.—At a called
meeting of Patrick’Walsh Council Knight?
of Columbus tonight, resolutions were
passed and signed by all the member*
present endorsing the stand taken by hit
Holiness Pope Pius X, in regard to the
situation in France, and tendering the
sympathy and expressing the loyalty of
the Knights of Columbus.
These resolutions will he presented in
person by Right Rev. B. J. Kelley, of the
Diocese of Savannah, when he has his
audience with the Holy Father. Bishop
Keily is now on his way to Rome, and thc
resolutions will be mailed him. Every
council in the State will take similar
action.
PASSENGER TRAINS WRECKED
BY REAR-END COLLISION
OMAHA. Neb.. Jan. 3.—Union Pacific
Overland Limited and Los Angeles trains
Nos. 2 and S. both bound for this city,
had n collision last night at Brule Station.
20 miles west of North Platte. The Los
Angeles train crashed into the observa
tion car in the rear of the Overland Lim
ited. Twenty-five to 30 passengers were
in the observation car. and one. E. W.
Hastings, an actor of New York, was in
stantly killed. One passenger named
Jennings was scalded.
NEW YORK. Jan. 3.—E. W. Hastings,
the actor, who was killed in the wreck
of the Union Pacific Overland Limited,
was well-known in this city. He was
returning to New York from Portland,
Ore. Hastings was a member of the
Lambs’ Club, the principal actors' elu'o,
and the Actors’ Society of America.
Peonage Trial of O’Hara.
JACKSONVILLE, Fla.. Jan. 3.—In the
trial of F. J. O'Hara, on the charge tf
peonage in the Federal Court here, tho:
Jury was not secured from the first panel
and another panel was ordered this sifter-
noon by Judge Locke.
New Outlook For South.
From the New York Times.
It was a happy coincidence that Mr.
Straus, the new minister of commerce.
hould be enabled in the second day of
his term to hand down an official de-
ision that may prove of very great
importance to the Southern States of
the Union, and indirectly to the whole
country. It was a decision in thc case
of a steamer which arrived in the port
of Charleston, S. C.. on the 4th of No
vember Iasi with 475 alien passengers
.vhose passage had been paid by the
State of South Carolina, and who were
destined. 300 of them. Germans, to be
come farm laborers and 175 of them,
Belgians, intended for employment in
the cotton factories of the State. Ob
jection to the landing of these aliens
was made on the ground that the con-
ract labor law had been violated.
Unquestionably the "importation” of
these aliens had been “assisted and
encouraged.” and their passage had
been paid, which the law says cannot
be done “under contract or agreement,
parol or special express or implied.
to perform labor or service of
any kind in the United States." The
solicitor of the department holds, and
the secretary indorses that view, that
the law does not apply to States which
may encourage immigration and assure
mmigrants of employment and good
homes, though they cannot make defi
nite contracts on the subject.
The decision has been made deliber
ately. and the language of the statute
indicates plainly enough that it was
intended to apply only to “persons,
companies, partnerships and corpora
tions,” not to a State of the Union. It
is to be assumed, moreover, that aid to
immigration extended by a State Gov
ernment would not have the motive
of crowding the labor market or re
ducing the rate of wages, which was
the thing the law was meant to pre
vent. Undoubtedly the example of
South Carolina will be followed by
other Southern States. The labor ques
tion in the South has two phases. In
the first place there is not nearly
enough ’abor to meet the grawing de
mands of its rapidly developing indus
tries. and in the second place the ne
groes who supply the most of the labor
are rendered less satisfactory as citi
zens by their relative freedom from
the pressure of competition and by
their opportunity to indulge idleness,
which is the banc of a great part of
the race. If they are forced to work
harder they will behave better, and
civilization has discovered nnlv one
effective force for such a purpose, that
of immediate need. If by such means
the race can be made more steadily
industrious, much of the rnee prejudice
existing will gradually disappear.
The matter, from all its aspects, is
one of immense importance to the
whole country. With all the remarka
ble progress made by the South since The ceremony of the United Staidfl
the close .of the Civil War—and there Supreme Court Judges marching frerf
has been nothing like it in the hiotory i their robing-room across the corrido*
On Postponing Work.
It is surprising how much consolation
is to be gotten out of analogies. It may
be irrational, but to find that our birth
day coincides with Shakespeare's does
tend to an assault upon the literary ca
reer. However, the applying of analogies
works both ways. If coincidents linking
us to the great, spur on ambition, yet to
find our failings shared by those who
have achieved is apt to make us overin-
dulgent to our own failings. There is a
certain genial Harvard professor who evi
dently believes that the truth is evoked
by sincere confession. Tie tells us,
apropos of something in his books, that
whenever, once a week, a certain partic
ular disagreeable logic lesson is to ho
prepared for a class, he invariably fcel3
himself impelled to do every other con
ceivable small duty to postpone the in
stant when lie should lie forced deliloer-
ately to set himself to the task of prepar
ing that logic lesson.
People who write, however fervently
thfev may love the profession, know tho
difficulty of seating oneself and commit
ting the first words to paper. “I feel.”
said recently an accomplished editor. "a3
if it were the most momentous act on
earth, and the most difficult, each time I
begin." It is so easy, after thinking over
one's subject for weeks or days, as tho
case may require, to feel, ae one sits
down to darken counsel on the white pa
per. that one ought surely first to clear
out the table drawer, or to sharpen ’5
pencils against possible need. And be
cause it is always easier to preach than
to be one of those to follow the preaching,
let it be recorded that all postponing of
work which must ultimately he d^ne ia
time lost, beyond recall. If the work haa
to be done, the only way to escape will-
paralvsis is to launch oneself upon tha
task, realizing that if it is difficult it is
not likely to grow easier, and that some
sort of a beginning must be made. “Keep
tiie faculty of effort alive in you by £
little gratuitous exercise every day.
writes a canny psychologist in his chapter
on "Habit." This gratuitous exercise it
is that trains the will to rule life and
destiny: it is the one great secret of suc
cess. Postponing of disagreeable dutiei
means laxness invading the will, a certain
slackening of all the mental nature, an
invasion of a paralytic tendency. If th4
will failed to obey at a given moment ves-
terday. it is vastly less likely to obey to
day. whereas a daily habit of forceful
inhibiting or commanding makes for that
most desirable of all endowments, “a
completely fashioned will."
Tf one were advising member.? of the
literary craft, who usually feci that they
have a right to lean upon the prompting^
of inclination, one would sav. write evorY
day front 10 to 1: once the habit is formeA
of so doing, the thought will answer the
daily summons at the given hour: ideai
are "amenable to, habit, like most forces.
The writer must tackle his task at a
given time, just as the musician nractic..*
daily, or the child shoulders his books
and marches into school.never asking if
that is the psychological moment of illu
mination. only if i? is the hour when the
school-bell rings. If teachers and pupits
waited on the moment of enthusiastic de
sire, wo can be fairly sure there would
be very little school.
So for most of the world's work the
great point is not to postpone and db
something else, which one fondly per
suades oneself is preparatory to the work,
hut to begin promptly on the moment
with such facilities and abilities as one
can muster. "Launch yourself with as
strong and decided nn initiative as pos
sible." realizing that only so oar, you put
yourself to the test and succeed or fail.—
Harper’s "Weekly.
of the world—the resources of that
section have hardly been touched,
that I What has been done 1? but a faint, in
significant part of what can be done,
and will be. in the next half century.
In everything that makes possible the
prosperity of a community the Soutli
is enormously rich. In food products,
in cotton, in metals, in fuel, in min
erals. in water power convertible into
electricity, the extent and variety of
its possessions are so great that it is
a moderate estimate that it could
to take their seats on the bench, which
occurs at high noon every week-day
while the court is holding session. i3
always a matter of interest to the
average visitor at the capitoL Every
day there is a small crowd waiting
to see the stately procession. The
other day Justice Moody, as the young- '
est member of thc august body, brought
up the rear. A flicker of a smile ap
peared on his face as he noted thq
black-robed figure-? ahead of him, but
it passed away instantly and he be-
easily support a population as large as j came as solemn antj grave as the oths
that of the entire country at the pres- j ers -