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ti r.( Jltlii A.\, THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN :chh mini cut vis. tutu r. i. mu. Miitin. Published Ev*ry Afternoon CExc.pt Rood*,) By THE GEORGIAN COMPANY. At S Writ Alsbsm* fit.. AtleoU. (it. “When Greek meet* Greek" at the Piedmont next week there'll he a reg ular Sigma Alpha Epsilon of a time. Well, we couldn't hope to eacape It alwaya. Mra. Maybrlek startn on a lecture tour aoon. Subscription Rstee. nor Tear.......... 8*®> Six Month* *•*? Three Monthi I if By CarMrr. Per Weak t» rooarotla* all dapartmODta a rirjunruca cuaan>»» ung dlatanra terrelaala. ■Win m * ■wuai'wuao. rraentatleaa for all tarrltory ontt Uforgla. SSTR^Ste::::::::: 3SB g!3S: It t» drrlrahl* that all roanaaelr*- tloaa Intemlrd (or nolillratlon In TIIH GEORGIAN be llmllrd to 400 worda la I.RMb IP la lawaaaeatln that Ike* ha THE aP.OROIAN prlota an eoclrao or ablrrllnnahle adrorttalog. Noltaar <1 net It print whiaky or any Honor ada. ly. lie done at once. The.. i forks. Other cltlr« do • •* low »• 90 rent*, Till* fthontd Georgian i mi ropian ___| ii I iff#f# *» art ready for to big ao dettaila^Stllt Atlanta jbonia ^atljNL. fata la tint direction NOW, IK All of ua heartily agree that It la both aenalble and proper to do pur holiday abopplng early—then we all get Into the grand, frre-for-all scram- Me Chrlatmaa Ere. Congress Is opened now wllh prayer slid a couple of messages. Our young friend. Jim Nevln, Is making the paragraph Column of the Washington* Herald the moat read able, pungent and brilliant of any ai>- pearlng In a Washington paper sluce the death of that gifted Journalist, Harry Merrick. - The public printer ought to be a very thankful man.. Congress abol ished simplified spelling and boosted his salary In one fine day. .A contemporary has an editorial headed “For Cooking Reform." It ought to have read “For Reforming the Cook.” What we want la a simplified meth od of making our cash reach as far as our heartstring* in the' Christmas giving. Really that Pennsylvania man car ried the marital privileges a little too far when be declared he bad a right to kTIT hi* wife and promptly did so. "How we advance.” exclaims an eiv thuslaat. “Not many years ago doc tors bled ue for every Imaginable trouble,” Yes, but have we really ad vanced? Isn’t the system of "bleed ing" Just changed a bit? Representative Lacey, of Iowa, says It’s Idotic for congress to qutf for l he Christmas holiday. Hy the way. Repreaeutatlve Ijwey, of Iowa, won't be among those present In the Hlxtt eth congress. What does Secretary Hitchcock care about Ignoring a small thing like the constitution? He retires pretty aoon. Vhlle some members are trying to salaries of congressmen increased in Wesley Galnea la seeking lo cut A down. He proposes a law to de- it a day's pay for every day a ntem- aabents himself. Poultney lilgelow'i comment about "Doubting Thomases'' has not been given out yet. but Poultney wouldn’t •vertook a bet aa good as that. It ought lo be hoped tbat when tbe warships do obey Kalaull'a orders and depart one of them will have bltn safely Ironed In tbe hold. Oovernor-elect Hughes is training for the onslaught of office-seekers. He Is trying Brooklyn bridge at the rush hour. Because her husband talks In his Sleep, thus depriving her of the In alienable right of having the last word, a Wisconsin woman Is seeking a divorce. Rat Masteraon made the mistake of his life when he swapped his gun for the pen. As long as he confined bis activities to gun-play llfb was all serene—lo him. Rut be tried a foun tain pen In Journalistic endeavor and butted Into contempt of court and a $.10 fine. Hall Caine aaya only seven of Shakespeare's plays are worth pre serving. He would probably substi tute 'Tbe Manxman.” “The Deem ster,” and a few otfaera In tbe miss ing niches. The congressman wbo asserts that tbe Job la tbe “eofteet ever” bases hla views perhaps on t personal estima tion of bit own worth. BEING FAIR WITH THE RAILROADS. So ont whi> Is familiar with recent newspaper history In Georgia will suspect the editor of this paper of any unilbe partiality toward the rail roads. Over bis protest, and under circumstances of peculiar aggravation, a railroad bought the controlling atock of a paper which he had been thd chief Instrument In establishing, and created a revolution In his life which Is not likely to leave behind It any peculiar sense of gratitude or partiality toward the corporation. But tha disposition to be fair transcanda, and wilt always transcend, all persons) considerations, and ft publicist has no right to regard private grlevancea In dealing wllh general alfalra. It haa been impressed for some time upon the mind of The Georgian that there are some thing* that ought to be said In behalf of the rail road* at Ihla period, when the public and tha'presa are united, almost with <>ne accord, In heaping criticism, complaint and abuse upon the various sys tems of the country. • We have dona our share In time past In protesting against the defects of the present railway ayatem, and have helped to the full In creating the pub. Hr sentiment which ha* finally quickened the railroads to a sense of duty. But, with this sentiment already created and the railroads now fully astir, the period seems to have arrived for some conservatism and co-operation as a proper substitute for continued denunciation and abuse. The present condition of the railroads Is plalifly and evidently due to a tidal wave of prosperity which has swept the country, multiplying traffic, freight and passengers to a degrso far beyond the present equipment and facilities of the railroad system* of the country to care for. Under these conditions, freights of today are hindered, passengers are delajyd, trains are Isle, and tha whole system of commerce and the carrying of malls and matter and inen seems to be In a tangle of Irregularity and delay. Under clrcuinstaneea that prevailed ten years ago, or even five years ago, the railroads would have been able to bundle this matter with ease and with romparaflve regularity. it may bo urged that tha railroad* should hare foreseen this wave of prosperity and sHonld hare provided tor It far In advance by the multipli cation of englneaTcdiW and double track*, before the tide of proeperlty reached It* flood. v J i I-*t ua sea If this la a good argument. ,Dld you who read this artl- el* fores** the tide of proeperlty that has come upon us? Did the banker fores** It; did the merchant foresee ft, or the professional man? Soarcely. ff any man of affairs could have foreseen or forecaated the prosperity that has roma to the country, the nmltlpllcktton of values, the demands for product* and the Increasing use of all forma of commodi ties and of luxuries, he could have doubled his own fortune, and would have doubled his own fortune, by a prdmpt and fearless Investment of alt the mean* that he could command or acquire at a time when they were Comparatively cheap, for the purpose of selling them In this great era of prosperity which he foresaw. Any man who claims that he accurately fore saw tha present conditions with sufficient certainty to act, 'and did not act, Is either making a false claim to prophecy or Is reflecting upon his own business Intelligence and commercial discretion In his failure to util ise the opportunity' It must be accepted aa a general fact that the present condition of over-demand for everything has come as a surprise to the entire buelnese world, and that the'railroads are no more to blame for not foreseeing It and Investing far In udvancc of their Immediate necessities than other business Institutions and corporations who are unable at Ids lima to meet the public dehiamLupon tbelr equipment for products and the handling of them. Let ue take another view of the situation, founded not upon theory, but upon fact. If the rallfoads are (deniable in lids present state of affairs, and In many Instances they undoubtedly are, It cannot be denied that the people are themselves culpable and obstructive to prosperity and to the proper expediting of transportation. Nearly every freight yard In the cities of the country Is absolutely blocked and congested hy the multitude of freight rare which are left there hy consignee* who really have not time, nr refuse to take time, to unload the :t iods which they contain, and who nearly alwaya utilise the last limit nf demurrage before emptying these cars. With seventy-two hours a* a frequent demurrage limit for consignees to upload freight shipped to them, there Is scarcely a car that Is taken out until the limit I* about to expire. Take Havannah, for Instance. The yards of the Central railway arc blocked to tha limit with cars which are not unloaded by the busy mer chants of that city until their seventy-two hours have eaplrad. So full are these yards with freight th it the Central railway In It* utter Inability to find a pjace to store another car hue been forced In self-defense to refuse to receive any further freight* for Savannah until the yards ar* clear. Tha list forms of many of the depot* In cities nearer home ate an packed with cotton left there hy consignees watting for a rise In price that the railroads have no place to discharge the additional cotton which they bring there, and therefore refuse to accept It as freight. Of course %|l this means that the merchants are busy and, that the merchants are prosperous and that their hands are full und that tlielr own equipment I* Inadequate to perform the work and to inset the obligation* which they <jwe to the railroads and to their patrons. Rut the mere fact of tha conditions which prevail In earh man’* awn line of work and In the Individual business establishments nf tha country, at least-give* us soutc comprehension of the difficulties with which the rail road* have to grapple at the present timo. of course this does not excuse the railroad* or Juatlfy them In apathy .r In folding their hands and accepting u situation which entail* Ioaa and,In convenience upon th# business world. If they do this, the whole force of publicity should be brought with all lie thunder and acclaims to arouse the railroads to action, either through public opinion or through the Instrumentality of the law. l-et us,see. then. If the railroads are doing anything—If they are rising to the profound necessities nf the situation anil are bestirring themselves to secure the equipment and to effect the changes which will meet th* great demands nf modern transportation. Let us take for an Illustration that system which has been most under criticism and discussion In Ihe South. Th* Southern railway, to begin with, has Increased the number of the districts Into which Its great system Is di vided. It has on tills sente line of reform Increased the number of superin tendents who have charge of these divisions, and has therefore multiplied the personal supervision over each division along It* linos. Th* Southern railway Is moving as fust us nten and-money can lie obtained. In the work of doubling the tracks along Its line between Lynchburg, Va„ and Charlotte, N. C., which seems lo be the territory of Its accidents Hnd delays. Between these two cities there ure a number of converging lines which empty their traffic, fiassengere und freight, upon file main line of the Southern and there fore complicate Its schedules and multiply Its accident*. Four powerful lines converge at Lynchburg. Five rallpoads empty Into th* Southern pt Danville. Three at Greensboro, three at Salisbury,'and at Charlotte the whole Southeastern systems come together In long arteries of rails. Here. then, at least In this matter, the Southern haa gone to Ihe core of Its difficulties ami Is mqklng titanic efforts to expedite th* doubling of It* tracks, which will greatly relieve both the congestion and tha danger of th* present hour. In addition lo this the Southern railway and other railways have their order* In at the car shops and the locomotive works for all the engines and curs that can possibly he turned over to them. And lie It remembered (hat th* corporation, too, Just as the Individual, at present Is working In these lines under th* enormous difficulty ol secur ing laborer* for the work and under the Impossibility of hurrying the great car shoye and locomotive works which are In turn pressed beyond their rapacity to meet Ihe demands of the public Hnd who ran only dole out tbelr' products In sinnil quantities to all the clamorous lilies that are after them. • The same difficulties and the same tidal wave of demand which Is Hooding the corporation Is flooding ill* small producer and the manufacturer and merchant everywhere. Anil so ll Is simply fair lo recognise Ihe community of difficulty be tween tlie corporations and individual enterprises, and there should be at least a bond of sympathy established by the mutual obstacles which ham- per and handicap them both. In fair and tranquil consideration of these facl* one ought to be able to look at least with some patience and consideration upon the present prob lems and difficulties of our'railroad systems. Of course iher* are other things which the roads can do, and ought to do. They enn Increase Ih* wages of those employees Who hold responsible positions to the end of ob taining the best men who can eland between the people and Ihe peril of acci dent and the loss of schedules. Th* railroads have, many of them, already advanced ihe Wages of employees along certain llges, and we confidently believe that llie sirees of public opinion Joined to their own good sens* will lead them to an advance In the wtges or all their responsible employees, to Ihe shortening of the hours of labor and lo the securing of the beat and highest class of men as ihe public interest and the public safety demands. A central point which we had in mind was this: That If. with a reason able view of the difficulties which surround the railroads at the present time, and with a reasonable recognition of the fact that they will them selves be wide awoke and diligently asllr lo enlarge their facilities and to Increase their equipment lo ihe measure of the public demands—then com mon sense would seem to leach ua that ihe heads of thee* great corporations are fully aa anxious now fur a sufficiency of equipment aa we are to have them secure It. They are better prepared In Judgment and In knowledge to do these things In their own way than to De hampered by too much foolish legislation 'from budding and ambitious legislators, or by arbitrary rulings on the part of men who do not know halt aa well how to remedy existing evils as,those whose Interest Is largest In them. We are not an advocate of any relaxing of an interest on the part of railroad commissions or on.behalf of those who make legislation for,cor poration regulation, but we do think that this vigilance and Interest can be mixed with so piuclf of discretion aa not to Impose upon the struggling railroad at this time any hasty or Ill-advised legislation until n-e have fully discovered what the railroads themselves are now doing and Intend doing to remedy the evils at which we aim. You may rest assured that this will'be no happy and Joyous Christmas to President Finley, of the Southern railway, or to any other of the great* executive hearts of the systems who are struggling now under such .tremen dous responsibility. President Finley Is by common consent an absolutely honest man and an official, by hla record, aa sincerely consecrated to public affairs aa to private Interests. He will probably spend this season which so many of us will pass In lightness and frivolity In tbe serious day and night consideration of the problems of triihaportatlon which are giving to him and to ua ao much of concern. Let us at least be fair In this time of great unrest. And let us extend proper consideration to the great transportation systems In tbe difficulties that they are combatting and whatever clear and vigorous measures they are taking for the relief that the public needs; In the highest possible consideration for the great body of the people whom we represent, and whom we will always serve, we do not hesitate to suggest fairness and Just consideration for the railroads at this time. THOUGH7 HE HAD RIGHT TO KILL HIS OWN WIFE Butler, Pa., Dec 21.—“I have a right to kill my wife. It's nobody's business but my own." ^ So declared Max Kraftle, a Russian, who killed hla wife last night with an ax. He also Injured his young daugh ter and a boarder. Policemen saved the man from being roughly handled by an angry crowd. Several Russians, who knew Kraflle In Russia, Informed the police that be Is wanted for murder there, asserting that he killed several wives, and that there Is a standing reward for hla ar rest and return to Russia. TEACHERS IN40 COUNTIES 7 O MISS CHRISTMAS MONE \ For the school teacher* In forty counties of Georgia It will not be a very cheerful Christ maa. The check from the state for sal aries to which they looked ao eagerly for the Chrliitmati money won't be there until Kris Krlngle-has come and gone. And It all results from th® delay of county school commissioners in not getting their report# her® before Gov ernor Terrell went away for the week. There will be disappointment toracorea, but It Is a situation that could not be avoided. Warrant# will be made out and' mailed as soon as the governor gets back to his office, but the money will get to the teachers too late to buy Christmas things. SENATOR CLARK HAS TO GET PERMIT TO ENTER OWN HOME IN GOTHAM New York, l»e«\ 21— gVimtor W. A. Clark fame tram Washington in rl#lt bl# oew marble mansion In Fifth avenue nml note the progieaa of the work. When lie reached the entrance hi# way wn* Marred by n big watchman, who naked: Where la your permit 2” WOUNDED HIM II “I am Hcmitor Clark," the owner replied. "You can't work that dodge on 11 Them** a hundred Senator Clark* lie S ere." responded the watchman. "You'll uve to gut n penult.” * ed ordera nml aent for medal permit, where- . — it - A - *' house. enter hla SCOTTISH BITES INSTALL OFFICEBS A mysterious robbery and suspected attack on J. K. Myers, 40 year# of age, a well-known cltlxen of Lithonfa, wai discovered about 3 o'clock Friday morning when Myers was found In a room at 87 Central avenue, moaning and groaning with pain. .Myers was taken to this place, which la a lodging house, conducted by Mr#. Z. F. (foodson, Thursday night about 9 o'clock by two unknown white men. These two strangers left the house some time during the night and since then nothing ha# been seeft of them. The trio of men drove up In front of the house In a cab and the two stran gers alighted end knocked on the door. Mrs. Goodson responded and they stated they wanted to epgage a room for the night for a friend. Mrs. Good let them have a room and a few minutes later they came onto the porch with Myers, who was limping. 'Before entering the house, however, the two Strangers told *Vfrs. Goodson to go into her room, that they would look after their companion. That was the Just Mrs. Gooden saw of the party until about 3 o'clock, when she heard groans In tha room. On In vestigation she found Myers, but his companions had gone. Myers was suffering with a broken collar bone and also had bruises Ills face. He Informed the landlady he had been robbed of $25, but was una ble to tell where or at what time or who robbed him. He was also unable to give any Information as to how he received hla Injuries. The Grady hospital was notified, but Myers was not taken there, his In juries being dressed In the house by the ambulance surgeon. The police were also informed of the affair, but have so far failed to ravel the myatery. IJSCHABGE POLICE FORCE Of CITY OF NASHVILLE Bpectal to Tlie Georgian. Nashville, Tens* Dec. 21.—At the next session of the city council of Nashville Councilman E. M. Wrenne will offer a resolution asking for tha dismissal of the entire police force of the city of over 100 men. The de partment is pronounced "rotten to the core, full of Incompetents and insu bordination." The police have been unable to stop gambling and Sunday tipping, ft Ja charged, and the new sheriff, C. D. Johns, with a few depu ties. has attempted to show them up. Fred L. Beers. Fred 1- Beers, the well-known dep uty clerk in tbe bankruptcy division of the Federal court, will leave Friday night for Jacksonville and 8t. Augus tine. Mr. Beers will spend the holi days visiting relatives and friends in those cities. , Hlnnli ronnrlt, Krdoali, A. A. S. of h. .1.. Valter of A Hama. Orient of Georgia, waa Instituted Thursday night In the MumoiiIi temple. Heretofore monitor* of tlie order bare had to go to Havannab, where the only council ini* l»«en located. The following officer# previously elected were Installed: Preceptor, XJr Edward Halmond Merest). Ie«* (821, KOCH. First ftutt-preceptor, Kir Joseph Ciioliuofi- deley Greenfield (32». KCCII. Hceoud sub-preceptor, Mir David Marx <»>. Chancellor, Mir Thomas Henry J«*ffri*>< (32». ^Turcopllcr, Mir Victor Hugo Kridgidiiihc Draper, Sir Max Zlska CrUt <321. Deacon, Mir 1 .yinan Joel Aunolen i3_*i. Hearn- of Ih-uuMnint, Mir John lilltuorc •32*. Hearer of m-coud etnudard, Mir George W min in Wilkins i32». Bearer of third stundnrd. Mir Walter l». Waite (32*. '■ l.imutMumr of guard, Mir Hurry IV. An Kenflmd. Sir Jauien Marsh.til Fijler «.?.*. Sir John Holier! Wilkinson (33i, lionorublu special deputy, assisted b.v Hlr Henry CIs* Htookdell i33i, hotioriiblc noting grand itmi shut * 'I n Box Taken From Car at Reno, Nev. Jtmo. Nev., 339,000 has been stolen from espress car here. WOMAN AS HOST FOB 20 CHILDREN TICKET NO, 952 Ml** Luulae Street, of 148 Windsor street, won the lucky ticket which mean* a dinner fo 20 poor children at Durand's restaurant on Chrlatma* day. She ha* not »ald whether or not she will be the hoetea* at the dinner—but the dinner Koe*. Ju*l the earn*. The winning ticket waa So. 902. The winning number waa published In the noon edition of The Georgian. An hour later Miss Street called Du rand's e.nd announced that she «aa the winner. Durand's will furnish a dinner for 20 children. GOSSIP By CHOLLY KNICKERBOCKER. Sew York. Dec. 21.—“There ought to be a form of Insurance against du plication of gown*,” said an angry woman, who la In town from Washing, ton, “That’* the only way by which fair play can be assured to the woman who pay* a thousand dollars for an lm<-orted gown of 'exclusive’ design '• The embittered on* added that * V |. denee wa* piling up to prove that the 'exclusive' pattern* were sold many time*. One glaring instance was cited Mr*. Hitchcock, wife of the secretary of the Interior; Mr*) Kean, wife of the senator from Now Jersey, and Mr, Foraker, wife of the senator fr,„„ Ohio, met In the whit# house the other day and great wa* their anwiemem as they gaxed upon each other. In color fabric and general design, even to th* trimmings, their gowns were Identical Yet th# trocka had been bought in St' Louis. New York and Cincinnati re^ apectlvaly, and at stiff prices, becau,. they were “pattern garments with no duplicate*.” Mr*. Nicholas Longworth recenilv received a ehock on finding the twin of one of her loveliest Part* gowh, worn by Henora Ktano, formerly ui„ Alice Ward, of New York. That John D. Rockefeller I* genii, patient and a humorist, ha* been di«.‘ cover id by a writer who played g„i, with him at Foreat HUB Mr. Rock.- feller's summer home, at Cleveland Th* Invitation to play golf was obtained by a letter sent to Mr. Rockefeller, in which the writer offered him a chance to set himself right before the world The writers discoveries are given in an article on “The Human Side of John D. Rockefeller.” "When he I* with friends and mer ry." says the writer, “you can't count the lines In his face—gentle, genial lines—and around the eye crow's feet of delicious humor. Usually he wears no glasses. But the eyes—they me light blue, and Just around the corner a Jolly roguish twinkle.” GEORGIANS IN GOTHAM. New Yoib, Dec. 21.—Here ar« ftorae of tin* rlaltota In New York today: THIS DATE IN HISTORY. DECEMBER 21. 1719—First Iftftue of Ronton Gasette. 1832—Mlr Kauiuel Montague, pbllautiiroHut. born. 1304—General Sherman entered city of Sa vannah. . 1871—PreaMent Grant Issued proclamation nhollshlnc disci(mluatlng duties on Spanish linoprtft. \ 1900— Roger Walcott, governor of Mnssncbn- setts, died. Horn July 13, 1347. 1902—Wireless, message sent across tlie At- Princeton Glee Club. The advance sale of seat# for the oncert by the Princeton Glee «’lub, of Princeton rntvernily, will begin at the Grand box office Saturday morn ing. The appearance of the club Wed nesday night will be the firm In the South In ten year#, and conHirierable Interest I# being inanife#ted In the anting of these talented musicians of the famous university. * TO ATLANTA PRISON Mpecinl to The Georgian. Wilmington, N. (*., Dec. 21.—-Aft. r a thirteen-month*’ Imprisonment In Die new Hanover county Jail. Arthur Ad am# and Robert Hawyer, two negroes, mutineer# and murderer#, will be taken to the Atlanta federal prlion this after noon. to begin a life sentence. At Ham let they will be Joined by eight other prisoners. Adams and Hawyer recently had the death sentence commuted by President Roosevelt. At the next term of the dis trict court a motion for a new trial will probably be made by the negroes' at torney#. the privilege having been granted by the Fnlted Htates supreme court a few*week# since. The two men were convicted of com plicity In th# killing of the white crew of the schooner Berwlnd off the North Caroling coast In October, 1905. URGENT PROTEST AGAINST CONDITION OF NORTH PEACHTREE From Charlea A. Conklin come* n atrong rotest iignlmit tlie Intolerable condition of each tree street beyond the old city limits, ir. Conklin says a recent Ill-advised jtf- pt to better t fliig It infinitely worst*. brought Into the __. r think* he mu) other reahlenta are entitled to •me eoiiNtderntloii. He believes it incumbent on the ward representative# in munell to bring the mut ter vigorously to the nttcifclon of the city legislative body. He say* that no street In •Atlanta or any other city of slmllnr im porta nee In In mi disreputable it condition. ‘n concluding his protest. Mr. Conklin r# he believes the tax-payer* of that vl illy would Im* .Instilled in restating the fluent of taxon until they ore given rellel ••lief to.which they are entitled. WOODY ESCAPES JAIL BY CLIMBING PLANK TAKEN FROM FLOOR H|w ( hnrlentnn, ’ n murine . . _ it I* (he murder of l.tilian lit even, op Ictobcr 39, male his ••kcii , mj from the h a rlc j ton rail last cvenirnr l*y taking m). Iiitugo »>f t'i* liberty of the building, . Turing a plank from the euglue room nnu scaling a m-pMit wall. wna *hot over tlie left breast on Ight of the i " •i. taken to t to Jnlt November 8. It ta the custom to allow Invalid prison- to her for three year#. Ia that so'.”' “ "* »»••- J"!!. tinlMltii!. The "It |g,“ Your Honor,” qult'klS' »»- ltK’k, mui | .tvered the husband. "Well, air," thundered the Judge, “why didn't you apeak to her, may 1 *ek ?'' "Simply,” replied the hueband. 'be- cause I didn't want-to Interrupt her.’ Where the Georgia Delegation Live In Washington. SENATORS. Augustus O. Bacon, 1767 Oregon avenue,. A. 8. Clay, the Normandie. « CONGRESSMEN. W. C, Adamson, the Oxford. C. L. Bartlett, th* Shoreham. Thomas M. Bell, the Iroquois, tv. G. Brantley, the Chapin. T, W. Hardwick, the Shoreham. W. M. Howard, the Bancroft. Gordon Lee, th# Shoreham. E. B. Lewis, the Metropolitan. J. W. Overstreet, the Metropoli tan. L. F. Livingston, 1918 Blltmor* street. J, M. Griggs, th* Metropolitan. Too Polite. From The Pittsburg Press. A hueband wo* being arraigned In court In a suit brought by his wife for cruelty. “I understand, air,” said the Judge, addressing the husband, "that one of the Indlgnltlea you have ahowered uiuin your wife Is that you have not spoken the the litm< •m were not hM*!:e<l until « eaettpo wn* made before th< ... mril nf $T>0 Inih Imtii offerril l»y Sher iff Martin for lita lie In u marine, brunette, weighs 1a0 |H*tin«l#. height u feet s Inched, nml i| uniform uniler n eivliktn coat. The Uneven woman Wiih foiunl ileiul shot in Che left aide. Wooily, wouinh*il over tlie /omul M-vcrnl bliN-kt from the • rime mi the unine night. Army Orders. Washington, Der. 21.—Here are army orders Just Issued: Captain John A. Payne, retired, from recruiting service, Portland, fo his home. * First Isieutenant Charles M. Wesson, Eight Ii Cavalry, to Washington bar racks, general hospital. Major Benjamin M. Purnell, Eigh teenth Infantry, to hi# regiment. Major Kben Swift (general staff), from Twelfth to Fourth Cuvulry. Major Thomas B. Dugan, from Fourth to Twelfth cavalry. Major Robert H. Smith, paymaster, now at Denver, to duty a* chief pay master, department of the.Colorado. Major James \\\ Dawes, paymaster, >w at Atlanta, to duty a* chief pay master, department of the gulf. Navy Orders. Assistant Payiinuyer 11. I. MeCrae, from naval hospital, Puget Hound. Lieutenant Commander P. Andrews, to bureau of navigation, navy depart ment Lieutenant A. W. Marshall, to navy ird. New York. Lieutenant D. K. Theleen. to naval proving grounds, Indian Head. Movements of 8hips. The following movements of ves sels have been reported to the bureau of navigation: Arrivals: Triton, at Washington; Kearsurge, at navy yard. New York: Connecticut, at Hampton Roads; Princeton, at Santa Barbara; Des Moine*, at Guantanamo; Stringlturn. Blakely, DeLong, Fockton and Wilkes, at Port Royal, »s. (.*., December 18. Arrived—December 18, Tennessee, at League Island; Hopkins, at Charles ton. December 19—Preble, at Han Pedro. Hailed—December 19, Preble, from Hanta Barbara, for Han JW?dro; Wed (was served by the exception ci Virginia, Colorado, Maryland atidl Very respectfully. Pennsylvania, from Cavite for Hong- I C. T. PABKt*rt* Kon *- I Atlanta, Ga* A QUESTION OF MONEY. To the Editor of The Georgian; After thanking you for the proverbial liberality of The Georgian, will y«u please answer, why Is It, when an amendment to or reform of our finan cial ayatem becoVne# manifest, on ap peal Is always made by our govern ment to the "money changers" for ad vice as to the proper remedy? It seem# lo me that they whose busi ness It I# to make money off the people through money changing ihoufd be tM last ones to look to for a system in th* interest of the people. * The first greenback speech I ever heard was delivered by a money changer, a banker, who said: "If the people are so foolish a# to put saddle.* on tbelr backs and spurs on my heeta. I'm as fool felt as they ire If I dont ride." , Bankers made the saddles and tn«? people, through their congressional mtsrepresentattves, put them on trie people's backs. About a mofith ago. when thing* were looking very panicky In Man street and the gamblers were getting hot for an elastic money makeshift, a correspondent of one of your tnuen- evteemed evening contemporarf-s asked: "Why not greenbacks?" The contemporary anawered: ' u‘; cause greenbacks were not nomej • Simply promises to pay money.' I wrote the contemporary, •»a>:ng that the greenback never wa# a prom ise to pay money; the first seventy TH# Perfect Number, million dollars being absolute nmnev being made so by tbe law of legal ten der just as ail other money la maa*- and that subsequent Issues were law ful money for atl purposes, "excepi duties on Imports and Interest on [i.- publlc debt," these exception# being put there in the Interest of the mo»jJ> changer and has cost the people mil lions of dollars. . And, for proof of the correctnev-j •»* my statement, J referred to the r.v that the supreme court haa twice ren dered a decision that greenback# ar lawful money; the last decision in r• I think the supreme court the be J authority on the subject, because » say bo goes, newspapers to the con rau notwithstanding. The contemporary would not pubi^a the facta , In conclusion, can you os anyone what good in the Interest of the nu-