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'Brief Sketch of Jas. L. 'flayson James L. Mayson was born in At lanta on August 2D, 1862, and at tended the public schools of the city, graduating from the high school in the scholastic year of 1879. He en tered the sophomore class of Emory College in the fall of the same year and remained there for nearly three years, leaving shortly before gradua tion, in the spring of 1882, when he returned home. Later, he entered the law department of Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, and graduated from that department the following year. After graduation he returned to Atlanta and entered the office of i W* ■< B OBIS JAMES L. MAYSON. Jackson & King, remaining in this office sor x sabout a year. Following this connection he opened up an office on his own account and soon thereafter formed a partnership with Mr. W. J?. Hill, which partnership still continues. SOCIALISTS’ BEAR PIT. Congress at Stuttgart a Saturnalia of Rancor —Delegates Trade In sults —Vituperation and Unre strained Outbursts Turn Hall Into a Bedlam —American Trades Un ionism Declared to Mean Adher ence to Bebel’s Creed—Militarists Win Victory in Bitter Discussion. Stuttgart, Aug. 24 —The widespread propoganda of socialism during the last two years has won many sym pathizers among the kind-hearted academic folks, who believe that hu man nature has reached such heights of purification and exaltation that its theories are now capable of practical application. It is a pity that these advocates of the immediate estab lishment of the social millennium could not have been witnesses of the scenes in the International Socialist Congress, held here this week. The world owes a real debt of gratitude to the delegates here assembled for the convincing demonstration they have given of the fundamental impos sibility of reorganizing human society on the basis of their theories in the present day and generation. The assemblage opened with Herr Bebel’s grandiloquent assertion that “Not The Hague conference, but the He has continued the practice of law with success, and at present oc cupies a high position among his col leagues at the bar of the Superior Court of Fulton county, and holds the important position of pttornev for the city of Atlanta. He has filled this position with credit, be ginning with the year 1901, and has attained considerable reputation in representing the city of Atlanta in its important litigation at different times and on important questions. He was at one time a member of the board of education of the city of Atlanta, and took a very active interest in educational a flfairs. At another time he was aiderman of the city, and concluded his ser vice of aiderman by acting as mayor pro tern. It is not going too far to say that he secured and held the es teem of his colleagues in municipal sendee, and was recognized as an honest public servant and a safe rep resentative of the people. Many questions of great importance to the city were before the council during his term of office, and he gave them close attention, and was active in their consideration and adjustment. He has, for some fifteen or twenty years, taken an active interest in the affairs of his church, the Walker •Street Methodist Church. He is now serving as superintendent of the Sun day school, being his third year in this office, and he has acted for many years as chairman of the board of trustees of the same church. Mr. Mayson is held in esteem by the citizens of his native city, and they are proud of his record, and will be glad to see him advance to a place of more importance. Many of them have tendered him their active ser vices for the approaching campaign, and he has every assurance of an en thusiastic and large following. present conference is the true peace assembly, for it unites the proleta riat of the world. ’ ’ Since Bebel’s words were spoken the socialist con gress has been a saturnalia of rancor, vituperation, and unrestrained out bursts of the worst human passions. Holds Record for Quarrels. No international assemblage, gath ered presumably for a common ob ject, ever witnessed such hopeless di vergence of views, such bitter quar rels, such violent language, such ab-“ sence of self-control as were indulged in by the self-constituted apostles of peace and good will. It would dis courage even those who believe in the democratic as opposed to the au tocratic form of government if they were obliged to admit that human na ture is still so poor and weak a thing as has been exemplified in this convention hall. All the wrangling, moreover, has been concirned, not with the enemies of the faith, but with their own com rades and with the essential theories of their common belief. Some of the scenes were more suggestive of an cient religious fanatics dealing with desperate characters than of modem progressive seekihg an ideal form of government They began with a furious squab ble militarism, which one would WATSON’S WEEKLY JEFFERSONIAN. suppose was of the essence of anti socialism. Yet the militarists won. Then the different brands of Social ists represented from England turned the congress into a raving bedlam over their rival claims to the simon pure faith. Say Labor Men are Socialists. This particular dispute was of con siderable political interest, for it ex posed the complete disintegration of the party that now controls the Brit ish government. It brought out the fact that the British trades union delegates desired recognition by the International Socialist Bureau. This is the first time that organized labor in Great Britain has declared itself in its true colors. The delegates here assert that trades unionism means socialism just as much in America and the world over, for that /matter. But the issue is not really clarified at all. The delegates are all ready to shout for socialism, but what is socialism? Stuttgart is the last place to seek for an answer. The moment any one in the congress attempts to define it its representatives metaphor ically fly at each other’s throats and pandemonium reigns. They are un able to agree upon a single point when any definite application of the term is suggested. But this great international con gress of socialism is an abundant suc cess as an object lesson. It is com posed of men and women who agree in the theory of taking things from their possessors and giving them to others, but when it comes to ways and means and deciding whose ox is to be gored, there is no possibility of their agreement. After the adoption of Herr Bebel’s resolution and another on expressing sympathy with the Russian revolu tionists and protesting against the Moroccan expedition, the congress ad journed sine die. The next congress will be held at Copenhagen: “The average negro doesn’t worry much over the problem,” says a con temporary. Why should he? Water melon time is gently merging into ’possum time down where he lives! A CORRECTION By inadvertence, we published a notice of a certain farm paper, offering that paper and ours at the price of ours, and recommending that paper as the best of all farm papers. Our friends will please take notice that this was one of those inadvertences that happen now and then in spite of the “Eternal vigilance” that is the price of liberty and other good things. • We cannot offer any two papers at the price of ours, nor can we afford to recommend the paper named as the best of all farm papers. PAGE THIRTEEN WELLMAN’S AIRSHIP ALIGHT ED ON A GLACIER. Tromsoe, Norway, Sept. 13.—Wal ter Wellman and his party arrived here last evening from Spitzbergen and announced that he had definite ly abandoned for this year, after a disastrous trial of his airship the proposed attempt to reach the North Pole, but will try it again next year. He says his airship, America, left her shed September 2 and made an ascent in bad weather, but she proved so strong and behaved so well that a start North was immediately made. She encountered a storm, however, and was driven back. When the airship left the shed it was anchored to a steamer, the Ex press, which helped to tow it to Vogel Bay Island, two miles north ward to Camp Wellman. Riesenberg and Vaniman occupied the car. When the motor was started it drove the America ahead of the steamer, and the airship answered her helm well. Off Vogel Bay Island the America was freed from her anchor ropes, but an increasing gale and a driving snowstorm beat her backward over the mainland of Spitzbergen. Seeing the hopelessness of attempting, to battle with the gale the valves were opened and the balloon quickly de scended on a glacier. A rescue party from the steamer had considerable difficulty in saving the airship. The balloon portion had to be cut in two and the car was taken to pieces to be transported over the ice-hills and fissures to the sea. After two days’ work this was ac complished, and in the evening of September 4 the members of the ex pedition got back to Danes Island, wherce they sailed for Tromsoe Sep tember 8. NOTICE! When in need of Corn, Hay or Teed Stuff, write J. R. REYNOLDS, Louisburg, Tenn.