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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 -
