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f-'9jre^r^-7?ir A 1 THE -ATLANTA GEORGIAN. FRIDAY, DECEMBER 28. 1900. THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN T#* 7EMFIE GRAVES, HI tar r. l miY. pawn*. Published Every Afternoon tExeept Sunday) By THE GEORGIAN COMPANY, At 25 West Alabama St.. Atlanta, Ga. Subscription Rates. Ota Tear If *2 Sfx Month* t» Three Months L2» By Carrier. Fer Week .I 0 Smith A Thompson, advertising rep resentatives for all territory outside of Georgia. Chicago Office Tribune Bldg. New York Office Potter Bldg. If you have any trouble getting TIIH GEORGIAN, telephone the Circulation Department end have It promptly rem it Is desirable that all communica tions Intended for publication In TUB GEORGIAN I* limited to 400 words In lengtk. It la Imperative that they be signed, as an evidence of good fnltb. though the names will be withheld If requested. Rejected mannacrlpts will not he returned unless stamps ore sent for the purpose. TUB GEORGIAN prints no unrlran or objectionable advertising. Neither does It print whisky or any liquor ads. ■mu ciocinc iigui iiiauia. oi ii now owns its waterworks. Other cities do this nod get gas as low ns 60 cents, with a profit to the city. This should ta done at once. The Georgian be lieves that If street railways can be operated successfully by European cities. as they are, there Is no good reason why they cannot be so operated lore. But we do not believe this can io done now, and It may be aome years before we are ready for ao big nu un dertaking. Still Atlanta abould aet Its faee lu that direction NOW. A National Child Labor Law. 8enator Beveridge's bill for the abo lition of child labor In th4 nation is likely to excite wide-spread Interest during the remaluder of the short ses sion of congress. The bill provides that no railroad •ngaged In interstate commerce shall transport from one state to another the products of any mine or factory where children Rre employed. The sae-limlt, 14, Is the standard already In most of the states of the Vnlon, some Southern states among them, and In Europe as well. It is admitted that if such a bill Is passed by con gress and declared constitutional. It will be effective In the prevention of the evil of child lalior where there Is the greatest abuse of the system, In the mills and In the mines. President Roosevelt has come out heartily In favor of the bill and It is receiving strong support from mem bers of both parties In congress. And that Illustrious exemplar of Democracy. William Jennings Bryan, has declared hltnRelf In favor of the measure and has added that the Inter state commerce clause of the constitu tion, as he has always contended, nf- fords the same simple remedy against the oppression of the trusts. Of course there will be those who see In this extension of the functions of the national government, under this clause, a violation of the doctrine of slates rights. But so was the quarantine bill, autl the rate bill, and so were the pure food and meat In spection bills, to ail of which the South and the Democratic party iib. seated. The trusts have been quick to sec the same connection between this and an anti-trust measure, that Mr. Bryan has pointed out. And It happens Just now that the strongest 'advocates of states rights, or at least the most conspicuous, are the eoriHira- tlon lawyers. But the Democracy has had enough of lining up with theae influences. One half-hearted cam paign for the presidency with that al liance waa enough for one generation. And we predict that the uncorrupt ed Democracy of the South, feeling the necesalty of uatlonal protection against the oppressions of trust and railroad corporations, which are quick enough to use the Interstate commerce provision to evade state-laws, will be found favoring the full extension of the rights of the federal government under that provision of the constitu tion, while the capitalized East, made rich by the plunder of the South and Weat, through the debauching of such a state as New Jersey with Its un limited charter grants to corporations, will be found now contending for the sacred and Inviolable rights of the states and pointing out the danger to our liberties In yielding one Inch to the ilowers of tho national govern ment.' One of the gravest questions for the nation to consider Is the welfare of Its future citizenship. The system of child labor la an Injury to the wel fare of that citizenship of the future. And when the sacred rights of the child are considered, as well as the light of any state to be protected against an unfair and Inhuman sys tem of labor, as allowed by another state, there will be an insistent de mand for the suppression of the evil that will make the Issue one of the Urest ones before the American peo ple. And the debates snd discussions of the subject will doubtless make such revelations of Intolerable conditions as the discussion of the meat Inspec- of 1892 contained an antl-cblld labor plank. We believe that Is the last platform on which we have done any business. It might be well to try that plank again. Perhaps one of the far-reaching re sults of the discussion of this measure in congress and Its resistance by the selflsh Interests, will be that In the tariff revision discussion, which can not lie much longer postponed, the ex ploiters of Infant Industry can hardly ask the American people to protect their Infant Industries. In any discussion of the 'rights of childhood, the child Is at last bound to win. We bid an Impressive lesson of the value of publicity In such a cause In Georgia. The child labor evil Is not conflned to the South by any means. It Is national in extent. The debates In congress will give na tional publicity to the evils of the system. And the result Is Inevitable. There Is no stronger appeal than that which helpless childhood makes, and oned this nation has heard the cry of Its children It will rage like the lioness robbed of her whelps and ruth to their rescue and their protec tion. RECORD OF WHAT A YEAR HAS WROUGHT Notable Events During 1906 in the Principal Lines of Interest POLITICAL. OUE FAMILY REUNION. The first family reunion of The "Georgian folks,” celebrated at the Kimball house on Thursday night. Is worthy of something pore than cas ual comment. In the first place, the number of those engaged In the daily making and handling of this newspaper, was a surprise to each one connected with the staff, saving only the publisher, and the bookkeeper who dis burses the weekly payroll. There were 106 men numbered among the staff and employees of The Georgian, and to these were added some twenty or twenty-five ladles of their families. There were two notable facts of the evening's assembly: The per sonnel of the men who make up The Georgian day by day was Impres sive. Not long since an expert InGeorgla Journalism, after a day spent In this ofllce, declared that The Georgian had not only the finest equip ment of any Southern newspaper, but that The Georgian had In all Its de partments the very pick of the men who work with newspapers In the South. And we are quite sure that anyone who looked out upon that ad mirable assembly Thursday night must have been Impressed with the cal iber and character of the young men who belong to our official family. No finer or a more representative body of young men could be gathered In Atlanta or In the state. They were young men of character, of Intelli gence, line In personal appearance, well dressed, with good manners and with clear heads and self-respecting minds. Time was when the printer In this Southern country was a dissipated and unreliable character whose stay In any ofllce was always a limited one, and whose habits were scarcely calculated to elevate or dignify his profession. In this day the men who set the type and run the presses and the machines and direct the details of printing ofllces, are men of as high and as solid a character as those who occupy the most responsi ble positions In the great department stores, or In the flelds and factories of our Industrial life, and The Georgian was proud In looking out upon Its staff on Thursday evening to realize the high character represented by Its young men and Its older men. V Among the 106 employees of The Georgian present, there was not an Intemperate man or a drunkard In any department. Another observation which made this happy eveqlng memorable, was the fact of perfect unity, and good will which prevailed among all the members of the family gathered around this hospitable board. There was not an enmity existing between any two men of the 106 present. There was not a man who had anything less than kindly feelings toward every other man, and the fellowship and harmony that existed from first to last, from the publisher and editor and editorial staff down to the de livery department of the paper, was a happy and wholesome guarantee of the effective and united co-operation which has made The Georgian so speedily a success. Time was. and In Atlanta, too, when many men felt that a rise In Journalism was to be accomplished only by cutting the throat of the man immediately In advance, and that promotion was only to be secured by a preliminary degradation of n co-worker. That day has gone, or If it exists It certainly has no place In the office of The Georgian, where the entire staff Is harmonious In each of Its departments and In nil Its departments with each othor. and where good wilt and fellowship and fraternity prevails among every individual. It was this at last which made The Georgian family banquet so hap py and so enjoyable an affair. As Me. Seely said In his opening speech: "It was just a getting of the family together and that the family would be brought together In the same way once a year." Aud so, without a breath or a ripple to disturb the fellowship, hearti ness and happiness and joy of the evening, It progressed through its In formal but charming program from a hospitable and easy beginning to a hearty and harmonious close. What was said at the banquet was a discussion of family affairs and, therefore, does not concorn the public, but It Is no violation of con fidence to say that the steady growth and wonderful success of this news paper was the subject of mutual felicitation and Inspired confidence for the months to come. 1 It was an occasion that made The Georgian family acquainted with each other, that manifested Its numerical strength and that demonstra ted the character of Its workers. It Inspired the confidence of each de partment In every other -nqmiintent. and It re-framed and re-aet for all de partments those high toeala of character, accuracy, reliability, cleanliness aud kindliness which have given The Georgian Its currency among the lieople, and which roust hold us our position to the end. INDORSING THE GEORGIAN S POSITION. Box 42a R. F. D. No. 9, Atlanta* Ga.,, Dec. 26, 1906. Editor Goorgian: Dear Sir: Your editorial of tho other day in which you show that the railroad corporations are not entirely to blame for their present Inability to move freight, etc., was one that will com mend itself to all fair-minded people. The people want the truth, all of it, and the paper which pre sents only one side of a question and that the blackest, very soon loses the confidence of thoso it is trying to serve and it toon looked upon as being mere scandal monger. And it ie this very knowledge that the truth will be spoken, which gives The Georgian such a great influence amongst its read ers. Very often railroads adopt or make rules which are a hard ship on the people, but they— 1 "the railroads”—do not know of the extent of the injustice until their attention is called to It. Then such a paper as The Georgian is of just as much help to the rail roads as it Is to the people, where they intend to do right. W. 8. MCINTYRE. The writer of this comment Is one of the soundest and truest men In North Georgia. He Is himself a man of the people, and a friend of tho people. He has shivered more than a single lance against the milled crest of the corporations, and In another column of this page today we print from him a clear and impressive comment upon the methods of an other great corporation. llut Mr. McIntyre Is a fair, brave, honest citizen, and believes In Jus tice and consideration. It Is upon such men as he that The Georgian depends for Indorse ment of fair, clean policies of justice and fair play. To receive such approval hi to confirm the conviction of rectitude In our own expressions. Of course, neither honest men nor honest newspapers can afford to notice utterances conceived In malignity and expressed In untruth, reck lessly misstating facts for the purpose of Injuring those whose success inflames envy. The appeal of honest publicists Is ever to an honest people. Aijd the man who discounts either the honesty or intelligence of the people Is thoughtless or he is deaf and blind. The people read, and then they sit down and think of what they read and In the calm reflection of quiet homes, which Is mush better than some of the more heated opinions of our rushing lives, the people reach conclusions which are nearly always fair and honest. The people are no longer the easy prey of demagogues and of tricksters. They don’t wish to oppress anybody or to hurt anything. They want their rights, and they will not fail to demand them, but they are not disposed to pull chestnuts out of the fire either for designing politicians or for starving and Irresponsible newspapers. We thank Mr. McIntyre for bis timely and manly comprehension of The Georgian's motives and its methods. This paper is always for the people when the people’s interests are antagonized by the corporations. When the two interests come In con flict. we always stand for the greatest good for the greatest number. But we have never falM to give the other side a hearing and to honestly consider the plea which corporations set up In justification of their de fects aud In defense of their policies. No other line of conduct would be ( January. 2—JoxiMili Blackburn Is defeated for re* nomination by the Democratic cancna for United Htatea aonator from Ken tucky: Thomas II. Poyuter nominated in his atend. 6—President Garda declares Ecuador In s •la to of war. 12— Diplomatic relations between France nud Venesnela broken. 13— British parliamentary elections begin ex-l*reniler Balfour loses his seat. 16—International conference on Motwcaii affairs opens at Algedras, Spain.— a?? 0 .?.** P® 1 **** the Philippine tariff bill. L-* Hi llleres elected president of France. 18—First nntionnl convention of any polit ical party In Husain, that of the Con- Btitutlounl Democrats, uaaemblea. 26—Capture of Quito by General Alfaro, the revolutionist, ends the Ecuador revo lution. 26— House passes the Arizona and New Mexico statehood bill.—New mutiny „ breaks out at Vladivostok. SO—Frederick VIII Is proclaimed king of Denmark.—Senate panes the consular reorganization bill. February. 1—John C. Hut.»* succeeds Adna It. Chaf fee as JJeutenant general commanding the army. • 8— House puss<% the Hepburn railroad rate Idll. 12—H«*iiotp rate rt few British parliament opens -with a »arge Liberal —*—•*- 14—Senate posses „ 19—Hungarian iinrllnnieut forcibly dissolved by the royal commissioner. 21— Senate passes the uineuded Hepburn pure fowl bill, 22— House passes the Tillman resolution to Investigate railroads. March. 1—Dr. Alfonso Morelrn elected president of Brazil. 6— Russian government promulgates the law Instituting the diiuui, or iiatlonul parliament. 7— Bonder ministry defeated In the French chnmber of deputies, and resigns.— Hlx passes a resolution to Investi gate railroads. 18—A' Islands. 9— Senate passes the statehood bill amend ed to admit only Oklabomn aud the Indian Territory aa one state. 10— Harriett begins the fonuatiou of a new French cabinet. 12—Father Gapou arrested in St. Peters burg. 18—House passes the senate bill reorganiz ing the consular service and the amend ed bill abolishing the army grade of lieutenant general. 20—Bellamy Storer resigns ns American nrabaasndor to Austria-Hungary. 24— House substitute for the senate nntl- hnxlng bill passes the house.—Hnmnr Is land Pulnjanos, gathered ostensibly to April. 2— House passes the employers' llab 8—Chicago special election goes In favor of municipal purchase of street rail ways, but ngnlnst the municipal opera tlon of the same. 6—Crisis In the relations between the Hungarian parliament and crown set the urwy by General J. Franklin Veil. May. 2—Resignation of Premier Witte, of Rnt- sla. accepted; succeeded by Goremykin. 6—Zulus attack a pursuing British column and lost* sixty, kllleu. 10—First Russian duum assembles. 12—In tbe Tenticsace Democratic prima ries, Robert I.. Taylor defeats E. W. Carmack for the senate nomination. 17— General Htoessol, who surrendered Port Arthur, couvfeted by Russian court mar tini. 18— Senate passes the railroad rate bill.— Itnllnn cabinet resigns. 24—Senate passes the free alcohol bill. 15— Korean Insurrection against Japan breaks out. 26— Russian iJunta rotee lack of confidence I? Goremykin ministry. 27— Revolutionists Invade Guatemala at four points. 28— Justice Brown's retirement from the supreme bench officially announced.— Ex-Premier Gtoletti accepts the klng'i commission to form a new Italian cab 1net.—Prince Hobenlohc-SchllUnsfuerat's Austrian cabinet resigns; Count Condo- vove summoned to form a new minis- 31—K?ng’ Alfonso of Spain marries Princess Ena of Rattenberg, who becomes Queen Victoria; tainb thrown nt the bridal procession kills and Injures many. June. 4—Democrats carry Oregon on tbe ernorablp; Republicans elect other St*- 1 * Burtou » of re 10— British win n decisive battle against rebellious Zulus. 11— Colonel Henry A. DuPont elected United States seuntor from Delaware. 18-Senate agrees to the conference report on the statehood bills.—House commit- tbe statehood bJJIs, which go to the president. -President signs the statehood bills. House passes tbe senate resolution re qulrlng that Panama canal supplies be bought In the United Sf •‘President” £akay, ladn Philippines, surrenders. 19—Meat Inspection bill passed by the house. 21—King Haakon VII of Norway crowned. Senate passes tbe Panama lock caual 29— Congress finally passes tbe rate regula tlon, meut Inspection and pure rood acts. 30- Congress adjourns. July. 4—Heir presumptive to the Imperial throne born to Crown Princess Ceelle of Ger many. declares war against Guste- Admiral Rojestvensky, but convicts four sultordluate officers engaged In tbe battle of the Boa of Japan. 11—Salvadorean troops Invade Guatemala, / but are defeated In tattle. 13— 1' rench parliament enacta a law restor ing Alfred Dreyfus to the army; duel follow* In which Under Secretary' of State Hnrrnuet Is dangerously wounded by M. Pugllest-Coutl, 14— Honduras declares w main. 19— General Stoessel condemned to death by Russian conrtmnrtlal for surrender ing Port Arthur. 20— Central American pence treaty algned on board the United States cruiser Mae Idebend. 21— Czar dissolves the Russian duuia and proclaim* martial law In St. Peters- 4»urg city am! province. 22— Stolypln succeeds Goremykin as Rus sian premier. 23— Russian dtimn. before dissolving, elects a permanent executive committee.—Pan- American conference convenes In Itlo Janeiro, and the Interparliamentary — jf Helsingfors, mutinies. August. 2— Naval mutiny breaks out nt Kronstadt. Russia. 3— Russian political strike begins. 6—Pulujnne* raid the town of Abuyog, Leyte Island. 1(M-Shati grants a constitution to Persia. 19— Insurrection breaks out In the Cuban nrovlnee of plnnr del Illo. letter to Congresiunn .Tnmes C. Bryan September. 4— Vermont Republicans elect Fletcher D. Proctor governor. 9—Cuban government wins a victory over „ rebels at Pnlaeloe. 10—Governor Cobb, of Maine, re-elected on a prohibition platform. 12—New York Independence League noml nates Henrst for governor. 14—President Roosevelt Informs the Cuban minister that the civil war must end or the United States will Intervene; Cuban __ t, e . pub l!° Pl*<*d ”P°n ft war footing. 26—Vice President Capote and all the Mod erate Mrty senators and represents ^ tlvea of Cuba resign. 26—New York state Republicans nominate Hughes for governor; Democrats name Henrst. 28—President Pslmn resigns nnd the Cu ban congress falls to nnuie bis sue- cessor; Culm without n government. 28-PresMenr Roosevelt orders American In tervention lu Cubs. 30—American marines land In force at Ha vana; Secretary Taft tnket temporary charge of the Island government. Ottobsr. 2—Charles E. Magoon chosen to be pro- I GOSSIP fair for a newspaper of the Twentieth Century. As Mr. McIntyre strongly says, The people wish the truth on both sides so that they can Judge for themselves, and they take The Georgian because they have learned to expect In Its columns the truth for both sides. In the Salutatory which The Georgian made to the world at Its birth it was distinctly stated that our consistent advocacy of the people should never lead us to be unfair or unjust to the corporations which it found necessary to oppose in the popular cause. When tho editor of this paper was a candidate for the United States senate, he proclaimed in every speech his firm Intention to be as fair to the railroads ns he had always been faithful to the people, and In no phase of recent discussion—even In the heat of the freight rate argu ment when we were training our heaviest guns on tho discriminations practiced against the shipper, did we fall to hear and to weigh the defense of tho other side. A newspaper Is both a judge and an advocate, and to be judicial it must he fair and openmlnded to the facts. In the present distressing situation, after battling in the forefront of those demanding the betterment of railroad transportation, It has been our pleasure and our privilege to give to the |>eoplo the railroad side of the question. After having said all we could say to urge the railroads to Improvement, we have taken pains to ascertain from official sources, what the railroads were already doing In tho way of remedy, to explain the difficulties which the railroads were combatting In the effort to rem edy the situation, and to show where the shippers themselves were retarding nnd hami>ering the betterment of conditions by their failure to unload cars consigned to them, and thereby blocking freight yards and crowding platforms until the railroads had neither cars to send nor space to unload their freights. We have shown, as a matter of simple fairness, that the railroads were multiplying their divisions. Increasing their superintendents, double tracking their lines in all the most congested sections, buying engines and cars as fast as shops could furnish them, remodeling their schedules to conservatism, and holding dally and nightly conferences to consider the situation and to provide the remedy. This is what we have done. We are glad we did It. It has scattered Information among the peo ple. It has given th? people a fairer view of the situation than they have had from any other source. It Is well for them to know the facts. It would have been unfair In us to withhold the facts when we knew them. When the time cornea tor us to decide the question as to whether the railroads have done all they might have done for the people In this emer gency, and whether they have left undone the things which they should have done, we shall be in a position to meet that question with an un biased mind, and to base our advocacy of policy and conduct among the people, absolutely and unfalteringly upon the straight line of the people’s interest and the people’s duty. of « new French cabinet. 23—TIips** cabinet changes announced by President Roosevelt: George B. Cor- telyon. secretary of tbe treasury; Vic tor II. Metcalf, secretary of the navy; Charles J. Bonaparte, attorney general: George Von L. Meyer, postuins- ter general, nud Oscar H. Straus, sec retary of commerce and In I hir. 3— Liberal government defeated In the British bouse of lords on nn amendment to the education bill. Novsmbsr. 6—In the state eteCtlous, Republicans save their coutrol of congress by n reduced majority; they elect heads of tickets In New York, Pennsylvania. Mnssn- i-hnsetta, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Kan sas. Nebraska. New Jersey, Wisconsin, Connecticut, West Virginia, Delaware, Washington. Wyoming, Utah, Colorado and California; Democrats curry North Dakota, Mouth Dakota. Missouri. Rhode Island, Oklahoma nnd the Houthern states; Mllver party wins In Nivsda.— Joint statehood proposition lost. New Mexico voting for and Arizona against. *—Mecrctsry of tbe Interior Hitchcock re signs. being succeeded by James It. Garfield; Attorney General Moody ap pointed to the supreme hooch. ►—Prince Albert of Flanders Is officially declared t uccessor of the kit “ glum as sovereign of Congo ent* State. 14—President Roosevelt arrives at the Isth mus of Panama. 19— Office of governor of Panama canal zone abolished, and Chairman tthonts Is made the executive head. ' 20— American Federation of tabor Indorses Gompcrt* non-polltlcsl policy. 21— President Roosevelt arrives at Ponce, Porto Rico. 23—W. J. Ilrynn's resolutions for encourag ing the merchant marine nnd for better mail facilities with South America adopted by the truns-MIssissIppl con gress. December. 3— tast session of tho fifty-ninth congress assembles. 9—Pope commands resistance of tho new French public worship law. 11— Par**! secretary In Paris arrested and expelled from France. 12— Senate confirms tho treaty of Algecl- rns. 13— French law separating church nnd state goes Into full effect.—German emperor dissolves tbe relctastng after It had refuned support for troops In HouthwVst Africa. 14— In passing the legislative, executive • and Judicial appropriation bill, tbe house votes to Increase salaries of vice president, speaker nnd cabinet mem- tars, but rejects proposition to ralso the dismissal of colored troops. 21-Jnmcs Bryce chosen to succeed Mortimer Durand as British nmbassador to Washington. By CHOLLV KNICKERBOCKER. Y °J k ,'. °* c - I®*—Notwithstanding B Jf" amy Storer affair. I fully believe and am aure the fact Is ecn . SrSSS of'diplomacy. 6 * 1 * hU ' ba " d ‘ ln No woman, the London newspapers aay, has shown auch an even balance aa Mra. Whitelaw Reid, she U inure popular than the wife of any ambus- .aador to the court of St. Jamea A newspaper, largely recognized a. the society organ of King Edward aaya she la particularly gracious to her own country people, and la sensible enough to make fewer distinctions than some other wives have done in her position. " Even at Dorchester house, where her surroundings are almost royal, she Is able to retain that graciousness of manner that Is so delightful In Amen- can women. All the widely different American aets living in London aunre. elate this. Mra. Reid seems to be able to conclll- ate all classes. She may be the hostess of the duke one week at West Park a beautiful country estate, where t'h, week-ends are passed, and tho follow. Ing week she will give a charming tea party to a bevy of American women who are far below- her In the social scale, but slnderely appreciative at such hospitality, General and Mra. John C. Black are entertaining a house party of eighteen in Washington for the wedding of their daughter. Miss Helene Black, who was married to Lieutenant .Stephen Abbott V. 8. A Wednesday afternoon. Charles P. Proctor, a New York artist, who has bought the famous Southwick grove In Middletown, Conn near the farms of the Vanderbilts, pur- poses to build a residence there. The grove contains Ilf acres and has been the favorite picnic grounds of society for decades. The British ambassador and Lady Durand will leave Washington today preparatory to sailing tomorrow from New York for England. The embassv was abloom with the flowers sent them by hundreds of friends In social, offi cial life, who greatly regret their de parture. When August Beckard, of Webster Grove, walked Into the waiting room of the union station at St. Louis, he led hie favorite -possum hound, bound to a chain. While the animal was sniffing about, a little girl, carrying a large "Teddy” bear, passed. The dog pricked up his ears. Then he growled and backed. Before Mr. Beckard could under stand the cause of all this, the dog lunged at the little girl and her toy. He pulled his owner along In his fran tic efforts to reach the bear. The little girl screamed and waa almost In hys terics. Beckard held the dog, and she. with her mother, ran away to another part of the station. Where the Georgia Delegation Live in Washington. company any right to confiscate my property In that way? They had not the excuse that they must get the freight, for that was paid. Does It not give the opportunity for graft? Could there not be collusion between tho ex press company's employees and the commission merchant? Why were all the tags removed from the shipments :o that no record of sales could be kept? It could not be possible that all the tags were torn or rubbed off In transit. The commission merchant explained that when perishable freight was re ceived and not In prime order the bill of lading waq marked "dump,” and he was given credit, by the express com pany. The express company cannot claim they were turned over to the commission merchant to protect either shipper or receiver, for no separate record Is kept of the sale. This particular keg of oysters could not have arrived In Atlanta before 11:40 on Monday morning, yet before night they were in the hands of the commission merchant with no means of Identlflcntlon. They cannot claim that they would spoil In less than a day's time, being well Iced and received during a blizzard. But you will say the express com pany Is liable and will pay for the oysters. Will they? If l-or anyone else receive a penny for those oysters In six months' time I will make public acknowledgment In The Georgian. Two years ago exactly I received a bucket of oysters, which showed unmistakable signs of having been tampered with. I refused to sign for them until theneent had examined the bucket. The agent directed one of the clerks to make the examination. The clerk admitted the bucket had been opened, "he thought by some hungry messenger." He also measured the contents and found over half gone. He directed me to enter a claim, which I did, or rather had the shippers at the other eml do so. That *'•« two years ago, and not a penny 8ENATOR3. Augustus O. Bacon. 1757 Oregon ave- - nue. A. S. Clay, the Normandie. CONGRESSMEN. W. C. Adamson, the Oxford. C. L. Bartlett, the Shoreham. Thomas M. Bell, the Iroquois. W. G. Brantley, the Chapin. T. W. Hardwick, the Shoreham. W. M. Howard, the Bancroft. Gordon Lee, the Shoreham. E. B. Lewis, the Metropolitan. J. W. Overstreet, the Metropolitan. L. K Livingston, 1916 Blltmore street. J. M. Griggs, the Metropolitan. THIS DATE IN HISTORY. DECEMBER 28. 1832—John C. Calhoun resigned vice-presi dency of the United State*. 1835—Dade’* massacre by tin* Seminole*. 1851—Perry Belmont, New York financier, born. 1862—Second attack on Vicksburg. 1889— Charles I proclaimed king of Portugal. 1890— Captain Wallace nnd several soldiers killed by Sioux Indians (ii South Da kota. 1S9&— Mrs. Stirling, famous actress (Lady Gregory), died. Born 1817. To the Kdltor of The Georgian: Now, I have a grievance against the Southern Express Company, and while It may appear a personal one, still It affects all shippers or receivers who may be similarly circumstanced. As the address below* Indicates, I live outside the city, and have all ex press matter simply marked Atlanta, and. of course, call for the freight. I have relatives living In Biloxi, Mis*.. ho occasionally send me n bucket of oysters, never missing a Christmas time, and this Christmas was no ex- eptlon. Heretofore I have called nt the office on Wall street and received the goods. This Christmas the clerk at Wall street sent me to the Termi nal station. In answer to my Inquiries I was promptly informed that such a ship ment—**a bucket of oysters”—had been received \he day before, but as my name did not appear In the city direc tory It had been taken to the F"ulton market to be sold! The clerk remembered the package well; did not even have to refer to his book. On my pressing Inquiries as to why they had been so quickly disposed of. the only answer I could get was that they alw ays did-so where there was no street or number on perishable goods. Now, those were picked oysters and I did not care to lose them; so away to the Fulton market I went. The man In charge there remembered re ceiving a bucket of oysters "among many others," one of w*hlch he was sure was from Biloxi, owing to the ma terial of which the bucket was made. He examined the express Invoices which came with the buckets, but «ach was marked no tag. so that no record could be kept, all trace of any particu lar shipment was lost after It reached the Fulton market. Of course the oys ters were sold, but for how much they did not know. Now, Mr. Editor, has the express has been paid yet. ^ Of course I cannot go to law with them: I cannot afford It, so that being poor man I have to pay them freight for goods they don't carry. And mine Is not a solitary case, as I mentioned above, there wus four other buckets of oysters confiscated that I saw*, and there Is no telling how much other perishable stuff given over to the commission merchant under the plea that the owner could not be found. Does It not give that commission mer chant a great advantage over his com petitors? That is, If he does not have to pay too great a rake-off. Now*. I hope you will publish this, that many who fell to receive presents of game, etc., will know the methods practiced by this corporation, and then wonder why Bryan should favor gov ernment ownership of railroads. Respectfully yours, B.F.D.No.4. " 8 M'I.VTYRE. GEORGIANS IN GOTHAM. New York. Dec. 28.—Here nre some of tli«* visitors In New York toilny: ATLANTA-J. W. Holmes, J. I>. H»bK W. II. I^iwsoii. Jr., It. F. Moore. It. H Parks, r. a. Swept, H. R. Vnughau. NEW STEAMBOAT LINE HAS BEEN INAUGURATED. gpeelat to The Georgian. Brunswick, a*., Dec. 28.—The steamer Attuquln, of the St. Simon* Trrntft Company, has been leased :o a steamboat company in Savannah and wW be put on the run from Savannah to Rluffton. S. f. The Attaqutn nn* already gone to Savannah nnd will start on her n< w run Immediately. HEROISM OF THE OLD SOLDIER. In point of diversity of character the old soldiers In the National Home are not unlike what they were during the civil war. Character tends to fixednes*. Habits nre not easily changed. Among the members of tho home are msnj whom any mftn would be glad to know; and If there are others—as It was In deed in the civil war, both In the army and navy—I find It hard to think any thing unworthy of one who still wear* the "old blue coat" of the long-ago day* of tl.e civil war. Time has dealt n<d altogether kindly with the men In every respect. Many of them for years had good homes from which, for one cause or another, the light has gone oat. in the hospital one day, I came to the bedside of a veteran who told me he was 85 years old. "Have you a wife?” I Inquired. He said he had. "And how old Is she?" # I In^ulreil. "Eighty-three," was the reply- "Well," I added. "It Is certainly hi.' for you to be separated at this time »’» ,,fe *'’ "Yes." he Mid, "but the pen«h*n money was not enough for us both, an * so I came here In order that she mum have It all."—Henry S. Burrage, in rbe World Today, for January*. In the Wrong Town. When ministers exchange they u ally preach old sermons, but, howeve*- they generally look over the MSS. care fully to see If the local points nee alteration. . A Somerville preacher many > eu . ago went to Andovrr to preach «“ neglected this simple precaution. * his discourse was an allusion to the m- sane asylum at Somerville, and v getting for the moment that he Andover, he said; . "Sooner than a child of mine eh* • be subjected to xuch influences. I wo» be willing-to have him confined In * der Institution.” „ And the good man pointed - the Andover theological seminary- Boston Herald.