The evening world. Newspaper, January 1, 1906, Page 8

‘Wudliveed by tho Press Publishing Company, No, 88 to @ Park Row, New York. ci Watered at the Post-OMce at New York an Gecond-Class Mall Matter. ase eseees cosecs coosse NO. 16.204, ew Leaves. VOLUME 46...000ccceees The Day of N pa Pile the new leaves of yester-year? compunctions. be economical of his time. Industry is the best corrector of bad habits. A year’s odds and ends of time care- fully saved can be made highly useful In them is enough lelsure ordl- narily thrown away to learn a new language; to become familar with the elements of some profession; to acquaint yourself with the duties of the man just ahead of you in the office; to acquire a specialty in sport ‘or art or music or mechanics; to cultivate a fad; to write a book. Enlist in a military company or in a crusade against noise and dirty streets. Join a college settlement or a civic organization for the reform of every abuse in sight. The town is full of opportunities to put spare time to profitable use. Get busy; that fs the main thing. New Year's resolutions may then be left to take care of themselves. Railroad Speed in 1905. The new fast mali service to the West established yesterday clips twelve hours off the running time from New York to'the Pacific coast. The new schedule virtually saves a business day. Three and a half days from tidewater to tidewater is a remarkable feat in American railroading. The year just past has been generally notable for such feats. It brought forth a twenty-four-hour train from Chicago to New Orleans, the “Cuban Special” of the Illinois Central. It furnished two regular elgh- teen-hour trains between New York and Chicago. It added to the number of five-hour trains between New York and Boston. Four-hour trains are feasible on this run; will 1906 bring them? The Harriman special, in Spite of its failure to beat transcontinental records, was am Important at- tempt at fast railroading. The year was a record one for the purchase of new equipment. In the United States and Canada the vast sum of $260,000,000 was spent for new cars and locomotives, exchrsive of those constructed in railroad shops. The development of competing electric traction was a feature of the year’s ‘gallroad progress. The new year will see the electrification of the suburban | pervice of many of the steam roads having New York tenminats. Electrical Fire Hazards. ‘An electric car ablaze from defective insulation is not a novel sight. | (The year 1903 witnessed 241 fires of this nature in Manhattan and the Bronx. Nor is it a rare thing for buildings to break out in flames because of defective wiring. In the same year eighty-six fires had this origin. Yet, the occurrence of such fires in pairs is enough of a novelty to “ occasion comment. Almost at the very moment the Van Rensselaer home {was burning, Harlem was lighted up by the fire-which consumed a Subway car on the viaduct across Manhattan Valley. On Saturday another burn- ing Subway car gave additional proof of the seriousness of this peril, Where does the blame lie? Must efectrical science confess its Ihmita- Hons in its inability to safeguard the travelling public, as well as citizens ‘§m-their homes, from these fire risks? Is the inventor at fault, or does the ‘trouble lie with the construction and installation? CURLY QCoprriaht, 1908, by Léttle, Bjown @ Ca)jred of the sunset. Then she Mstened: { a to the thud of Doc's horse as he gal- Perera ce SPR as RATE | led tae voor ] ‘Be ariscia, living, were wilh bis wide and! ‘Cap,” says the man. “Buck's gawn } & movorious gans | straight awey to the ranch.” gaan, Curly. sahara, MoCsl | “That's good!" McCalmont chuckled. the story) is Balabannon's ex-foreman: | You gee, Dock, I've sent Buck to lead Bord @ lifelong feud against ee, . ae Tones ot pairing bein sheriff's poet to ately Coen gamb) e've to wo. to-night, in’ os aoride dian tye gota hun inte abalhey none for thelr company. ‘plane 0. aamaaeinate’ hin." Wash | D'you know the Jim Crow Mine?” epboatie, “Ctrl ind Coal 2 New | “7 guess thet's the old shaft = mile ig Pe el Od anon | this aide of Grave City?’ “Correct. Now, you lope off to the yan | boys we left in camp at Las Aguas. Toll Stanley he's second in command now. He's to round up his boys, herd ‘em close, and drive ‘em swkft to the Jim Crow Mine. Now repeat my aw- eters ts neers. Doc o “Now,” said the Captain, “ride!” Doo started off on the deed ren, and for a while Curly watched bis figure flopping away into the blue mists of | dusk. The night wes falling fast. “Po' Buck," she whispered “I'm sorry, too,” says MoCelmont; “sooner or later he had to be @ skunk, and behave as suct.” ‘out the then aesists Curly and Jim to escape. '@ posse pursues and captures and ride for the at their heels. ‘the grass way free pomse na. DeousMt Up ike a bor. “Ete ant might up ike a bor. “she an Jim escape from the celaboowe, Jim carryinz the, wounded ete) “rhey wixnal to McCakmont's ane for "yey gaid,” gaye Curly. “T beard | PWSceimont rescues them. Jim talla 1 just and love me | tove with Curly, “Warning. comes ‘that a him die just now, meee | Meritt powse ia” about toy attack” | so hard.” | posse” Ona’eet'Mscaiment’y men whe ioves | “The trail ip clearing ahead for you | ! my girl.” “Tm sort of tired," she answered. “You'll rest to-night.” “Father, when you was talking with | Jim outside the ahack I was awake; I| heard all what wag said, but couldn't | lunderstand. Jim wanted @uthin’ fearf What was it he wanted, dad?’ “wall, now, éf that don't beat ayl!| ' you jest got ears like a lil’ fox! And @idn’t I act plumb good and tame with that Jim boy?" “Which you shorely 41d. Fancy, you CHAPTER XXII. A Flying Hospital. APTAIN McCALMONT, away north | yaa, on the trail, pulled up at a bend of the hi “Doe,” he called out to the man with it the led horse astern, “Jest you hitch that sorrel of mine to the tall of this | Mg. That's right, my son; now find | taxing all that wartalk and never even jut {f Buck stays at the skyline Or shooting his Inigs. Yo're getting bet- | goes buttin’ straight back to the. tern better every day." | ranch.” | “I was «ood, that's a fact. You see, | ‘All right, Cap." I rally couldn't lose my temper When he was gone, Curly rucked up ut disturving you with my gun- the canvas ground-snee' mbed out talk. Besides, I jest cayn't help loving | of bed, and nestled against her father's | @lde on the seat. : | | “Hayin' a bad time?’ he asked, as } te drove on “Bure,”’ that Jim. You want tim, Curly?" “Sure. 1 don't know what's coming over me the way J feels at that man. It seems as though my heart wan pitch- fn’ and buckin’ ke a mean hawas to! “You heard what I told to Buck?" | Set at Jim. you think it's this wound "Buck's gawn back to betray the out- | that tears my heart—is {t ‘cause I’m 60 | Pa | sick?" | "So I reckon,” I's worse nor that, my girl. You've | v ning ‘World® What became of the virtuous res- olutions cf Jan, 4 last? Where are To the man with a sensitive con- science and a fair memory the re- currence of the anniversary of good intentions is wont to bring some Perhaps as profitatfie a resolution as the average citizen can make Is to x WONDERFVULL as Magazin Weal ROT ra Z i YY Letters from the People Nome Universally Observed. talkI I @ mot care what they say| ‘Bo the Maitor of The Drening World @ any one mho knows me, but what Je there o national holiday in the} woukl m stranger think? Can reaiers United Statest P. BH. DUSCHUES. aiivise me what to do? K. L. Missourian Says ‘Show Me.” ‘Te the Wiitor of The Brening Worle: T am a Missourian apending a few leas city; but there is one point toat pussies me, and I shoul be glad tf readers will enlighten me. I find your in these and in equally cramped board- “That's the only cure.” “But I don't want to be oured. I like ft, dad, and when it hurts I like it all the more." a bad symptom that. You'll go Jin? To the end of the world and over the edge—I caynit help that." “You don't love me any more?” ‘Ob, you're allus the sane, Ike tha climate—but ‘he’s come buttin’ along Mke the weather, so that I feel as if I ‘was just whirled up in the air."’ “I was an idiot to think I could fool old Nature and make you into a man. Wall, it cayn’t be helped.” “Daddy, I never was fit to ride with A Voice Called Out of the Dark: @urly got her father’s near arm | faller, in love." @round her, shivering while she looked “Doos that mean I got to marry the gang, and I doubt I'll never be fit shite Curly down In her nest. He told me after ee woman, Peer now, ja moraly | that he felt e and scared, with tired, and my hald goes rourt end) aii his nerves ajumping for fear there round,”" Was something worse than usual wrong. MoCelmont stopped. the teem-and-Jeld Le felt Curly's bandages, and le ew ow A onthe in and around New York. 1| most as accessible to their places of| Vn college of womne bave nothing but praise for your peer-| business? “I am from Missouri, You'll Woe.” oO} By J. Campbell Cory. | ee = nswers to Questions ing-house rooms. Your euburbe ere “be) (ors or lawyers. In America the ki most beautiful in America and the eas-|of a crossroads store, who doesn't jest reached. Rents in most of them/know diplomacy from a dodo bird, gets are very low. So is board. Then, why|/the job of consul to some important do your people live in tiny flats and/ foreign city. No wonder we are behind- hallrooma when for less money they can/#and in diplomacy and that foreigners get large, airy, beautiful quarters al-|!augh at our chin-whiekered diplomats! | not let Uncle Bam for=* a con- real "aA. HB, What Was the Game To the Eitor of The Hventng Werld: An article fs beught for $8, The ‘To the Editor ef The Drening Work: article Is lost ema $10 is secovered. The Tn nearly every country men aro|pame article 1s fowm@ and again bought | trained from youth to be diplomats|for $3. How mush was gained by the Just as they. would be trained to be doc-! deal, readers? BHR. have to show me.’’ OLIVE STREETER. Our Oomsular Service. the risk, while he stopped that dleed- ing. Meanwhile the marshal had started his clrous east toward Holy Cross, and he was having troubles most plentiful with all his warriors He held us in the name of the Republic for special service in pursuit of robbers, but his supper, and the cowboy people mot plumb disgusted at having to ride, point, ewing <nd drive on a herd of shorthorns, I'd shown my hand in this @ume by shooting Buck, the sume be- life, and I sure helped him all I knew in getting th: on time “Thi Up Your Hi ad » At th vate row Up ur Handa.’ Cra'was. ¢ same ite ard wot wet; then Mstened, and heard a drip, drip. drip, on the dust, theh struck a match and saw the dlood, for her wound. had feolings called me off to ent lay-out, and J | atter walking from York te Lendon; backed all yeur mounts.” SPIRITED AND INTERESTING. A LIVING ROMANCE OF WILD NATIVES AND WIDE DISTANC: % eS: A Tale of the Arizona Desert <» 2 By Roger Pococ eye!" I may tum out to be sane mind.” ‘The name was new to me, and 1 felt Buspicious. NEW YORK THRO’ FUNNY GLASSES, By I. @. Cobb. MALL towne have pertonally con(ucted New Years. On the evening before a watch service is held at the church, where people go at 8.30 and ait on a hard pew sent until midnight and alnmg hymns that are ap- @ropriate and gloomy, such as ‘Hark, from the Tomb," and listen while the minister calls attention to the large mortality record among the sinful dur- ing the past twelve months, and makes extensive predictions of an under taking nature for the future, ‘This {a calculated to exhilerate the man, has just gone over the new 1906 patent medicine almanac, and who has dis- covered that most of the symptoms described therein are his. Then all those who expect to lead a better life raise the right hand, generally with the fingers crossed, At 12 P. M. the whistle of the planing-mill and the one ||| on the round-house let loose and everybody goes home wadded to the ton~ sile with resolutions and good ‘ntentions. On or about Jan. 10 -falliig weather sets in, with slect aud backsliding, and Hades gets a fresh supply of paving material. Medium-sized towns play the game a different way. All the first fami. ‘Nes give functions, known as New Year's receptions, because ft wouldn't wound nice to call them souse parties or pickling bees. Parties of gentjp- men go from house to house sopping up liguid refreshment to beat the biot- ting pads. Byentually the tourist detects the Western Hemisphere in the act of trying to rise up and butt him in the face. So he calls for a cab, and two cabs come, driven by twin brothers, and he gets into both of them and rides home with his feet out of ali the windows. Thereafter for some hours the earth is void and without form. He wakes up next morning with a new taste in his mouth and is convinced that he must have swapped palates with a stranger. . But ttle old New York has the dandiest idea of all. Persons who are satisfied with table d’hote wine and a leather findings sandwich three hun- dred and sixty-four and a fourth nights in the year are taften on the night before New Year's with a strong hankering for red-head duck and large cold quarts. Hall bedroom dwellers will be content with nothing less than front tables in those restaurants where the walters own thelr own dress suits. The water wagon finds itself entitled to damages on the ground Of desertion. At’11 o'clock a person with unfreighted breath is as rare On Broadway as an Irish proprietor of a delicatessen store, and that’s the ram est thing in the habitable globe. Along toward midnight 400,000 celebrants turn ont, vainly trying to reconcile flat feet to a round and tossing world, and blow horns and smash hats and see the skyscrapers kiesing each across the street and watch each stationary mounted policeman resol: himself into a merry-go-round, heavily peopled and travelling at high speed. The attack fortunately lasts only one night, leaving the patient pale, weak and full of reminiscent hiocoughs. Theva acting Soe ee for bringing up memories of New Year's night on Broadway, unless ft the depleted condition of the victim’s wallet. THE FUNNY PART. We are supposed to celebrate our holidays in « rational manner. oo ful backers of his mounts, talismans of all kinds to races, sermons and tracts for his spirttual welfare, recipes coughs to a tendenoy to corpulence, forms for insuring ageinst marriage accompanied by bundles ef photographe ef would-be wives, welchéni tickets and a pair of worn-out boots with the legend: “AN that ts ieft of Travel on Ocean Floor. move along It, travelling great distances. Records have been obtained show+ ing that plaice have travelled eighty-stght miles in twenty-eight Gayn, ae an average of not Jess than three miles e day. more belated pilgrims behind. ‘The Hmht had faded, the siars were beginning to ride her on. iiky Way. and I felt @ sort of dumb yearning to find MqCal- mont An hour Jater, scouting swiftand cautious up the Grave City road, I saw @ lantern bobbing high up among the hills, That must a bait. I thought, 's pease into some , 20 T rode slow and sang my simple ‘range songs to show was only one harmless person. A voice called'out of the dark, ‘Throw prised if a wounded robber on them, ling the same @& | damaged’ in gun fights yet s lumb respectable, and frequents the Hplscopal Church. The bishop doardis thar when he around, and they'll take up with any litter of pass: Ing curates.” Canes yo’ bara? “I got a trunk full of female olundes ys says MeCalmont, “‘and it's right bere’ it the Duckboard, in case he needs to dress Sm Bo yere ladies run much to tongue? : “Wall, no; the faabsonable society of City bas them reticent. “Captain,” says he, down on a rock to tn emotions. “Tf that’s the truth,” I says, "I spose a » the being Some confusing to the “Walt, Mra. Davies,” says McCw- aot: Qy @ wort of shapes ‘I rise to inquire,” eays I, “if some new kind of mountain “A mountain sheep,” ‘@ MeUil- mont, “is @ clmarron, Dut a ‘s tenderfoot outfit was badly in want of | "yj ing needful to save the off marshal's | ¢"