The Anderson daily intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson, S.C.) 1914-1915, 1915-01-07

shipped two hundred tons OF gold by
parcel post from Philadeiphia with
out paying a cent for transportation
is brought out In a statement by Lead
ing railroads today.
The government insists that the
newly created parcel post business
shall be carried by the railway mail
service without any compensation
more than that fixed several years ago,
at so much per year, when the enor-
NOUS parcel post business was not
contemplated. SO when the war made
this big gold shipment necessary the
railroad had to carry nineteen thons-
and dacks OF gold coin. One shipment
dollar gold pieces, weighing 100 tons.
The railroad furniahed four special
cars, carried them by special engines,
and transported more than 100 guards
all for nothing. The parcel post rate
would have been S4.554, but the roads
didn't get q thank you.
This is merely one OF the instances
being brought before Congress In the
railroads efforts to secure an adjust
ment OF pay for carrying the mails,
the roads claiming an underpaymept OF
millions OF dollars n year.
An Atlanta deputy sheriff who went
TO serve divorce papers ON O promtn-
ent young real estate man yesterday
afternoon had his troubles for his
pains, for he found the husband and
wife billing and cooing and was greet
ed with the announcement that they
had made up"
The man In the case is one of he
largest landowners in Geors..s, having
been left large tracts oy his father
some yeass ago. His Wife, In her suit,
charged drunkenness nd other faults,
for the wealthy young IMAM has O repu-
tation. as q. .'rounder.,"'
The next legislature may enact! a
law providing that corvicts DO paid
for all work done above that required
to pay for their upt.eep, the money
to 60 to the support OF their wives
and children. IL they have any.
Tull c. Waters. ,etiring commission
er OF Fulton coUhty, urged this In his
maj report. 1t 10 shown that the eys-
tenn has worked well In several states,
1--WE really punish the innocent wife
and babies more than we punish the
prisoner" said one noted eoriologist
on the subject. The convict is fed and
clothed, but there. is nobody to care
scr the folks at home. The state has
, 10 right to deprive these OF their s1p-
!, pr Il and profit by the prisoners woi 4. !"
Nathan Straus, the noted New Yor,,
Iphilanthropist, 10 In Atlanta for few
days, and thinks he will spend the re-
naming years Of his life in Georgia.
the state OF his boyhood.
He is one OF the famous brothers
who spent their youth In Talbotton
and Columbus, and who efterward be-
came great figures In the world OF "a Z,
nance and philanthropy Sysador StFarv,
the eldest, weps Gown with the ;.vitar;c.
Oscar was 1iinister to Turkey ans q
member cf. ,Roosevelt'e cabinet. Nn-
than, tbs middle brother, is that rfau
who provided pure milk for. thonsapSs
Tor Now York poor babies, and who h,
now devotjng himself to relieving dis
Itfeps in Palestine. i ilI3
"But I am coming back to Georgia
ito stay" he said. "Perhaps can teach
my neighbors to raise something be-!
sides cotton. That is what the South
must learn above all things " g1ff
mr.. Straus leaves in a few days for
California, buG says ne ififenda 10 come
back. md o comfortable home some
where in Georgia and stay here uEs:i
the end comes. :, ~