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BATT’RPAY, JUNE 23. iyw. THE ATLANTA GEORGIA'S. The Atlanta Georgian. JOHN TEMPLE GRAVES, Editor. F. L. SEELY, President. Subscription Rites: I One Year $4.50 Six Months....... 2.50 Three Months 1.25 By Carrier, per week 10c Published Erery Afternoon Except Sunday by THE GEORGIAN CO. at 25 W. Alabama Street, Atlanta, Ga. notated aa ■econri-elass matter April 26, ISOS, at the PoetnEflce at Atlanta. Oa.. under act of conareaa of March 8. 1*1*. THE GEORGIAN COMES TO GEORGIA AS THE SUNSHINE world of work. He has given to his profesrlon his time, his energy nml Ills talents In consecrated Measure, and It Is a noble and Inspiring Ies?on_tg the young teachers of the state to have had him advance from the ranks by steadfast devotion and unquestioned merit.to the head of the Institution which be has mightily helped to make the foremost of Its class in the South. The Georgian rejoices In the triumph of principles which It baa advocated, but for which it has no right to claim either credit or originality. The principle Is as old as public aervlce, and as old as government in both the military and the civil life of men. We feel sure that these two selections, made by the trustees of these Institutions at this time, will give a dis tinct and noble Impulse , to the spirit and pride of the Georgia teacher* In their great and noble calling. • They have lifted a banner of hope above the young men and the young women who have given their live* and talents to thla noblest service of the state. And we are thankful for the action and hopeful of the splendid results which are to follow from It" through all the teaching ranks. “It la Indeed a desirable thing to be well de scended, but the glory belongs to our ancestors.” —Plutarch. Saturday Evening. It Is an established fact that In India, where ele phants are employed for carrying heavy timbers, and In other work of construction, these knowing beasta realize ful well when the seventh day of the week arrives and no force or' persuasion can Induce them to labor on that day. . / . • The necessity and desire for rest and recreation at that stated Interval which the Hebrews called the Sab bath have existed ever since the Drat .week after the Almighty's flat brought order out of chaos and established the limitations.of the land and sea. So we can do no bet ter at this end of the strenuous week, which has meant so much lot. our national and International life, than to dwell for a few momenta upon the blessings of rest. There are those, we are willing to concede, who want the Irish job "where you work from twelve till one, with an hour for dinner,” but this la by no means char acteristic of the American people. We hear continual complaints that the people of the United States live In a fever of unrest which saps their vital energies and desic cates their minds and heatts at a period In life when they should be In their prime, and soon—"Out, out brief can dle!"—It la .all over. There nre moralists enough who wilt preach the. vir tue of Industry and diligence—who will quote for us the copybook maxims of "Palma non slue pulvero" and "La bor omnia vlnclt," and a few other platitudes In as many tongues and key*. B^ut It should not be forgotten, at least by those who have the natural disposition to labor and achieve, that thero is ar world of wisdom Involved In the art of resting, and particularly In knowing how to rest. To rest is not to rust. Variety and diversion con stitute the most efficient system of rest of which we have any knowledge, for the active mind which has nothing elao to feed upon must feed upon Itself. We need not be come "as Idle as a painted ship upon a painted ocean” In order to recuperate the flagging faculties. But rest we must and should have, whatever may be Its nature and: variety. “Give the boys ‘a holiday,” said the dying Anaxagaros, and the true philosopher, ever since, has been saylnq, "Give the boys a holiday.” The changes have been rung .upon it In a dozen proverbs and tha world has confirmed the wisdom of them. This Is peculiarly the season of the year when the ex hausted mind and body cry aloud for rest and recreation. Thu bracing air of winter sends the blood bounding through' the veins and Idleness becomes a burden. But when the sun rides In the warmer constellations and the earth pants wjth meridian heat, the heart turns to the woods and fields, to the monntalns and the sea, and In voluntarily we sigh for the balm In the Gilead of rest Nothing could be more alluring than these soft sum mer days when the lasy clouds are drifting across the aituro skies, like golden argosies laden with Indolent t! reams—when the butterflies float like winged flowors among the old-fashioned gardens and'even the morning note of the nervous lark Is a trifle more faint and tar away than In the earlier spring. Now, Indeed, there sre bookz In tho running brooks and we flt)d ourselves "Most too weak for wishln' And most too tired to nod.” 7* think of poor Tom Hood and of his opinion that whoever "early would be stirring surely Is a spoon.” We think of lotus-eaters upon the banks of the Nile and of tho enchanted country where It "seemed always after noon." To rest does not necessarily mean a junket to the feverish and fashionable resorts, where the tedious round Is In fact exhausting, paid for, perhaps, at the expense of unpaid obligations left behind. A cool veranda under the trelllslng vines with the Ice and the syphon In easy reach, remind us that “The Persian's heaven la easy made; Tli but blacjt eyea and lemonade"— And that almost as easily we can provide a miniature paradise of heavenly rest We may well commend the diligence of those who, pnttlng their hand to the plow, look not back, but when tho day or the week or the appropriate season of labor Is ended we may justly clslm and conscientiously enjoy the relnvlgoratlng guerdon of rest. An Inspiration to Teachers. One policy, at least. In our educational system for which the editor of The Georgian has stoutly contended for the last two years has triumphed splendidly In the recent sessions of the boards of trustees ot our two high* est state Institutions. The principle of promotion In educational position* has enlisted our ardent and consistent advocacy from the beginning. The Inspiration to the young teacher In the belief that faithful and effective aervlce In the lower ranks entitles him to hope for ultimate promotion and the, highest .raifk. Is the very core and essence of that hon orable ambition which betters tho teacher and uplifts the school. The election ot David C. Barrow to the chancellor ship ot the University ot Georgia, followed fast by the election of K. G. Matheson to the presidency ot the Technological school, both vindicated this principle In the highest and happiest degree. Both of these men have been teachers daring their entire active lives David C. Barrow left the class room at the university to become a tutor In that institution, and for nearly thirty diligent, faithful years he has grown step by step In effectiveness and In noble usefulness to the Institu tion, from whose ranks he has been advanced by legltt mate and steady promotion to be the honored and be- loved head. Kenneth G. Matheson has been himself .a teacher from bis formal entrance Into the business and active There Is a little breeze blowing In New York city whlci. tnrows a side light on what might be If municipal ownership openly prevailed.—Chicago Chronicle. Gee! But wouldn't a "breeze” that can "throw a side light” be worth going miles to see! Mr. Fleming and Free Speech. We are not In sympathy with the criticisms which have been made upon the Hon. William H: Fleming for the speech delivered at the University commencement. We think he had a perfect right to make the speech at the time and place he did. We do not recognize any Impropriety In hi* choice of a theme, and his Impersonal treatment of it certainly destroys any possible basis of legitimate criticism aa to the good taste and tact of the performance. Tho fact that William H. Fleming made the speech Is In Itself a guarantee that It was within the ethical boundary of university discussion. There Is no man of higher and clearer ethics In the public life of Oeorgia. The fact that Walter B. Hill, lamented and honored among Georgians, knew and Indorsed the purpose and theme of the speaker, completes the personal argument as to Its full propriety. What Walter Hill and William Fleming In the tranquil deliberation • of a non-partisan hoAr agreed upon as proper, will be likely to stand un condemned against the prQtest of eager advocates and fiery politicians. We are at variance with Mr. Fleming's views a* ex pressed at Athens. We are consistently and firmly upon the other side ot the question. We are heart and soul enlisted In the advocac/ of negro disfranchisement as Il lustrated ,in the approval and successful operation ot the laws In Mississippi, Alabama and the Carolina*. We ante date in this advocacy every man now engaged In the dis cussion. We were fighting far In the forefront of this battle line when all of these later warriors were apa thetic or asleep. We oppose Mr. Fleming’s conclusions. We protest his final argument, and because we look further and see deeper into this groat question than any mere constitutional qulbbler, or shallow opportunist ot present day politics, we are hoping and trusting that Georgia voters will be wise enough and great enough to follow their sister commonwealths and to establish In their sov ereign ballots the legal and eternal supremacy ot the Caucasian race while the mighty question is at Issue In this state. But for all this we are glad that William H. Fleming expressed his honest sentiments at Athens. The university rostrum Is or ought to be one of the great free platforms ot the state. Whatever Is of Interest to the people of Georgia ought to be discussed with, abso lute freedom and frankness there by her distinguished sons so long as the discussion steers clear ot personal al lusions or partlann alignment as this discussion ran. The speech cannot be Judged by the excerpts carefully col lated by a local and partisan paper. It must be Judged In Its entirety, and upon this basin we are sure It will stand the test of all propriety. There bas been all too little of fair and philosophic discussion of this mighty issue In this campaign. Mr. Smith, Indeed, givei It clear comment and earnest exposition In his canvass, but It Is all too sadly true that the greatest of all our present Issues Is clouded In the prejudices and passions of a personal campaign. If ever the people ot Georgia had need for dispassionate argu ment and clear counsel upon a transcendent theme It la la this Issue of the races In the South. Because we believe Mr. Fleming to be able, and because we know him to be sincere, we are glad that his honest views, which are op- pollte to our own, found expression upon a great and Im partial platform. We are only sorry that some other statesman did not bethink himself to discuss upon the same or another platform the opposite view of the same great question. We would have given much for the priv ilege of answering that line argument upon the following day. We trust that some advoento of our side may an swer yet the objections which Mr. Fleming has pro posed. They can be answered—all of them. But In the name of all fair discussion, do not let us close In this too partisan age the few great platforms on which honest men may submit their honest and opposing views to the honeet Judgment ot a people whose vital Interests hang upon their wise and Intelligent decision at the polls. The longer we live and the more wo realise the preju dice and passion and demagogy which becloud our public Issues, the more we are convinced that the crying need of these great time* la platforms of honest thought and speech whereon men may stand, with no candidate to elect, with no scheme to carry, with no purpose to sub serve, with no object but the truth, and with no plan but to tear every great question wide open and let the light shine through It May God and >our better cltlsena multiply such men and such platforms In our greater Georgia of today. Bryan’s Bugle Note. That was a clear, strong note which William J. Bryan sounds from distant Norway oa the vital question of the trusts. It will do much to clear the atmosphere which hat been thick with the rumor of the too great conservatism of the Nebraska statesman. Mr. Bryan Is very wise sad very timely In the ut terance which he has sent to us across the sea. There have been muttering* not a few over the eagerness of the ultra conservatives-and the Democratic allies of the ltrusts In behalf of the people’* candidate of two great campaigns, and It sounds wholesome and cheerful to bear the man whose name Is Just now on every Demo crats lip speak the assurance that his hope and his poli cy are not to' be wasted upon the vain expectation of regulating and controlling Individual monopoly, but that hit brain and bit strong right arm are to be consecrated to the work of their absolute destruction. This sounds dear and definite. It strand* like Hcarat and Is what the people are waiting to hear. The process by resolution will doubtless now go For Bryan has undoubtedly blown a bugle note across the deep blue sea. General Rufus N> Rhodes, of The Birmingham Eve-* nlng News, tho dean and the shilling ornament of after noon Journalism in the South, Is a guest of Atlanta to- equally certain that The Atlanta Constitution day. General Rhodes Is the most vital figure In the Journalism of our sister state. He Is perennially young, Indomitably purposeful, exhaust.ess In resources and Ir resistible In his charm of manner and of speech. Atlanta Is always delighted to welcome him as her honored guest The Crusade for Small Parks. The present range of the thermometer lends a flew stimulus and Interest to the proposition to purchase "breathing spaces” -for the people throughout the city ana dedicate them In perpetuity to the people. This question has become more and more Inter- esUng as It has been discussed during tho past few weeks. Many of the leading citizens of Atlanta have been spoken to about the matter and they give their unqualified sup port to the undertaking They realize that the value of real estate, in Atlanta Is advancing rapidly and that the city Itself is growing with tremendous strides. Unless some of the desirable locations for a park are secured within a short time the price will have advanced to pro hibitive prices and all the available sites will be built up to such an extent with large and permanent buildings that It will be Impossible to secure the small parks we need for the benefit of the people. We believe that the creation of a special commission by the legislature, to acquire and preserve these parks, will inspire confidence on the part ot the people that these breathing spaces will never be alienated by the city—'which would then be Impossible—and will be an Inducement to public spirited citizens to moke donations of land or endowments for park purposes. We have no disposition to criticise the city authori ties, but the following extract from The New York Jour nal of yesterday throws some light upon the fate of. park sites which are-left under the direct control of the city: "Four solid blocks of vile tenements, acquired by the city for park purposes, are being rented out to the poor of the west side In flagrant violation of the law, by the city authorities, according to charges made public last night by the Citizens’ Union. “The buildings are located on Ninth and Tenth ave nues and Twenty-seventh and Twenty-eighth streets and were purchased as a part of the site for the proposed Chelsea park. The tenement house department permit ted tho former owners to run them regardless of the life and health of tjie poor occupants and since their acquisi tion by tho city, the finance department has been doing just what the previous owners did, rent them for all they would bring. "An Inspection revealed an average of sixteen vio lations of the tenement law In each structure. It Is In ferred from this condition that a large portion of the neighboring tenements are also immune from the law.” It Is only human nature that when necessities arise and opportunities present themselves for disposing of city property at a good price, this should be done and all projects for preserving park sites are set aside for tho time being. It is not only true In Atlanta; It Is true, as we have seen, in New York, and it Is true In all other cities ot the country. The only certain way to prevent this Is to secure the establishment ot a chartered commission, holding lta power and authority directly from the st^te, which shall have these parks In lta keeping for alt time to come. •; t ' .if .' We trust that all those who are in favor of the small park system or of any part of the plan outlined, will fill out the blanks published In another column of the paper and send them to the "Park Editor" of The Georgian. Dr. Young J. Allen, who preaches at Trinity church tomorrow, la worthy ot a dozen editorials: At this late hour we have not space to give him even'one. He la per haps the most famous of all American missionaries. His life Is a romance of high achievement and of great use fulness. He Is one of the distinctly great Americans of this generation. He la also a mandarin of the Chinese empire, and those who have not heard him preach would find it a matter of lqttfost and ot profit to be among his congregation on the morrow. A Useless Debate. There Is no logical basis of expectation for mnch of In terest or any definite result from the Joint debate being hold In Rome today. There Is really nothing to be accomplished by It, and both parties to the performance will enter Into It with the full conception of Its futility and folly. There will doubtless be a careful distribution of ad mission tickets oetween the friends of either candidate. They will line up on separate sides of the hall In which the speaking Is done. They will each yell like demons for every point or erery climax scored by their respec tive candidates, and when It Is all over the mad parti sans of either will waste their breath In proving how well each man sustained himself and how completely he demolished tbe other. | There are tew Impartial forces in politics, although The Georgian at thla time la one of them, and It Is not likely that any partisan on either aide will be converted by today's debate. If there be any fair and balanced men, and there are many such In Floyd, who go to listen and to learn, there may he votes turned one way or the other by tho meeting of the candidates. There Is only one thing of which we nmy be perfect ly sure—that Tho Journal on tomorrow will assert most positively that Hoke Smith has once more wiped Clark Howell from the face of the political map. and It Is 111 con fidently proclaim that Clark Howell has routed Hoke Smith, bag and baggage. In this new encounter. SHAME ON THE YOUNG MEN. To the Editor of The Georgian: My Dear Sir: I read with a great deal of pleasure your editorial today of the standing ladles and the sit ting gentlemen. If we must call the latter by that name. If you will take a trip In any crowded car. especially cars running to tho parks on Sundays, and watch the gen tlemen who keep their seats while ladies nre standing you will find that 99 per cent of them are young men from 12 to 20 years old. The old gray-halred fellows, nq matter bow old and feeble, are the first ones to get up for a lady, as soon os one enters the car that has no vacant seats. The younger generation (a great many of them) are devoid of the proper respect for gray hairs and tli.- fi-mali- >ex. Whose fault Is It'.' Sonic- of It. belongs to the mothers and fathers of the present gener ation. “Hit ’em again.” Yours truly. G. M. MTUNNON. Atlanta, June 22, 1906. IN DEFENSE OF MISS WRIGHT. To the Editor of The Georgian: For the first time I noticed this morning the arraign ment of Miss Wright at the Sheltering Arms for whip ping a little child under her care. I have been a con stant Visitor at the Sheltering Arms for some time, fre quently till hour at a time and several times quite a half day,-Iralng Interested In a little boy nader Miss Wrlgbt’s care, and I want to say In her behalf that for nobleness of purpose, gentle patience and motherly devotion and grace I have seldom It ever seen her equal. In several instances I have seen her patience tried beyond reason, but with sweet, gentle forbearance she ruled them with out even a harsh word. In one case the child was unusu ally stubborn and persistent, and I thought needed a "good spanking," and I told her so. With a bright smile she salt}: “Oh It takes a whole lot of love to go through with it, but be will come to me In a little while for a kiss and be reaf sorry.” Parents or guardians leaving their children at this Institution scarcely realize or appre ciate the favor they are receiving, or the great care and responsibility resting on those In charge. Think of six teen babies to look after and care for. I have seen Miss Wright under the most trying circumstances. Her assis tant being out for the afternoon, leaving her own baby to Miss Wright's care, and. ahe performed all the duties of this mother who should have been In In time to put her child to bed and help with the others. But Miss Wright bathed each little baby, giving a loving pat and a goodnight kiss to the little lips raised to receive it. If sho were harsh, thes'e little fellows would Boon disclose the fact by their actions. That tbe child In question got the bruises on its little body by falling I haven't a doubt, as there Is a stairway leading from the porch where the little ones play and one afternoon I happened to be there, one of the little ones climbed upon the gate placed to bar the step and keep them from falling. I took him down three times myself while Miss Wright was in the nursery attending to a sick baby and frequently the older children from tho ward below came up tbe steps leaving the gate unfasten ed. It Is a matter almozt Impossible to keep It fastened. Miss Wright Is only one woman and cannot be in two or three places at one time. I am comparatively a stranger In the city and I apeak from simple justice and from my convictions. That Miss Wright's nature is anything else but cruel as the accusations would Imply. Her position Is certainly one of self-sacrifice for anyone, and few would be able to fill it aa satisfactorily in every way. June 20, 1906. A VISITOR. MR WHATLEY WILL AID MR. STOVALL. To the Editor ot The Georgian: In your editorial commenting on my “Open Letter to the People ot Georgia,” resenting certain unjust re flections cast against the city ot Savannah, growing out of the recent primary election here, you seem to misun derstand cleariy the motive ot my letter. The purpose in view was to show that Savannah was being made tbe “scapegoat,” as it were, through which certain defeated soreheads .here sought to vent their spleen by sending out exaggerated reports of vote buying and selling. These reports were telegraphed broadcast throughout the. state, and your paper, like many others throughout the stato, In the best of good- faith, handled what you had been led to bellevo was one of the most unprece dented ot outrages, In no mistaken terms. This brought forth my letter, and my sole purpose wns to set before the people the plain facts, and let them Judgo for themselves. It was not my purpose to do Injustice) to nny one. I repeat It, and I wish to emphastzo It, that thero was never In tho history, of Savannah, so far ns I have known it, for the last quarter of a century, a more orderly election. Everybody wns calm and quiet to a degree. I was about the polls tho most of the en tire day. and I never saw a ballot bought or sold. It was simply nn uprising of the people—a quiet and blood less one, too—the laboring man standing side by side with his so-called “kid glove" neighbor. In a united determination to "put out that gang.” In an election of this kind money plays a very amall part, and this Is the general opinion of every good citizen In this city today except the defeated Citizens Club. If you could have seen the ten thousand jubilant men, women and children assembled In the Park Extension last night to celebrate this great victory, you would have been fully satisfied, without any argument from my pen, that it was the free and uncontaminated will of the people, whose vote was cast without money and without price, that carried this election to such a glorious consummation. Everybody in Savannah and throughout this great state who knows me. knows that I have always stood for a free and un sullied balloL and as suggested In your editorial. I am ready to stand side by side with Mr. Stovall and every good man in Georgia to carry to a sure consummation a law that will give us a pure ballot, the sale or purchase of which shall be punished as a felony. G. B. WHATLEY. Savannah, Ga., June 22, 1906. FOLLOW ME. The Fourth of July United State* Is not the only republic In the universe. The William Tell mountaineers of Switzerland have maintained a repub lic for 700 years. Away back In the dark ages when the feudal lorde were masters of Eu rope, much of the Swiss mountains belonged to Austria. Man Imbibes strength of character from the God- reaching-mountains and the spirit of liberty, like the American eagle, la al ways calling for independence. The Swiss peasants ware feeling the strength of the eternal hills, were feel ing the divine summons to be men— Independent men—were warming the inner fires that centuries later burned Into sublime courage In the farmer hearts at Islington. They were aroiai- ed and were having secret nltsit meet ings In the clefts and rock caves and they might have sung: Rock of Ages deft for me. Let me gain my strength from Thee." The feudal lords .add such brag gart upstarts must be stopped and the contemptuous peasants taught a les son of carnage. But, unafraid. Liberty replied In many cantons, gathering In a public meeting. Oppression tried to scare by sending In one day forty-.five declara tions of war front forty-five feudal lords. But liberty scares forward and not backward. Liberty counts not In num bers. but In God's right arm. Soon tho dreadful Austrian army cornea 5,000 trained, armor-clad knights, aafl what band of peasants could stand against them, who had an able general at tbetr head, long spears at each side and sharp swords in each mailed band. The Swiss peasants numbered only 120 O, men. not one trained to fight and with no armor, spear nor sword. They only had the halbert, a wooden stick about four feet long with Iron spikes like nails in the head. They bravely charged, but the long Austrian spears stopped them, killed many while their short halberts had not reached a sin gle Iron clad knight. They had to re treat up the mountain or all be killed. The cause of light was hopeless. What shall be do.ne? God was calling for a hero. One man heard It, who became liberty In carnate, who, like Patrick Henry, said, "Give me liberty or give me death," not In oratory's ringing words, but In the higher grandeur of action. Arnold Welnklefreld eald: "Men. take care of wife and children and follow me." He rushed at the center ot tho Austrian line. Every spear that could reach him was buried In his aide, and, fall ing, dead, pulled them down. Over his body rushed his comrades, broke the Austrian lines, and, like frenzied gods of courage, they mowed them down till hardly an Austrian was left to tell the tale of utter defeat; and 700 years of liberty and the beet government now- under tbe sun is the fruit of one man's courage. Two thousand years ago the heart less Roman sword ruled the world. Bnt there was a poor man. If man we call Incarnate love, who on the defeated cross said, "Follow me," not to ambi tion's glory, not to Roman throne, bnt to die with the spear In Hts elds, to prove It Is more glorious to die for right than to Uve In the palace of wrong. To die. to break the ranks of ■In, to ovsrthrow the temple of soul less creed, to prove every mao a chl'd of God and find in every human a brother and to prove to a hopeless world that those who die for right will rise again. Love's heroic brother has broken the ranks, let us follow Him; follow Him till hate aqd greed and discord are swept from our Eden-created world. ANDREW M. M'CONNELL. IN THE BEST OF IIUMOR. "Why do girls wear engagement ringer' "On the same principle that s person ties s string sround hla finger—so they won't forget they’re engaged.”—Answers. "Did yon say that she' la s professional nurse?" "I think no. Anyway, she's going to marry him just SB noon ns he can sit up."— Mllsranhee Sentinel. lie—Orerlous! DM you notlee tbe terrl- Hr ttstestoraotll. marie that went by. a little white ago? w ‘* Peeling onions tor diftuer then.—\ookers Statesman. " WaRe*. bring me s Jangle sandwich, "Ali right, sir." (Going to a speaking lobe): --Konst beef sandwich Savored with llmburger cheese."—Chicago News. Kooh-Do yos know. old chap, I don't ■■.msc^moocy nos u HU before k wornotr—Ilew's that? 1 ' ** “ ,0 *"*-<*■ Optimist—A greet deal Is written aowa. d*ys, npon the orivtsaMUty of always look- lug en tbs bright stde of things. Pens!mtat—Tas, hat confound It: Sonunr gn don’t bare any bright std*.- | Cholly | Knickerbocker Gossips About People. By Private Leased Wire. New York, June 23.—The Waldorf. Astoria Is getting to be a strenuous place these warm summer days. There wns a great scatteratlon last night In the big hostelry when those two dis tinguished exponents of wild western life as It was a score of years ago. Colonel llat Masterson. once sheriff of Fort Dodge, and Colonel Dick Plunkltt former sheriff of Tombstone, came to gether. Everybody expected that gqns would be busy and blood would flow In rivu lets. nt least, but so far as known not a drop of the ruby Is missing. Plun- kltt was seated at a table with an other man, who Is said to bo a Texas editor named Dlnklespeets. According to reports, Plunkltt had been expressing doubts about Master- son’s killing proclivities when Master- son arrived on tho scene. Masterson Is alleged to have remarked to the colonel that he had thought he was a friend, but after tbs line of talk he had heard Plunkltt was giving, he wanted to give Plunkltt a wide berth. Ths story goes that warm words were ex changed. and that the Texas editor butted In, aiming a blow at Masterson, but only knocking the glasses from the table. Masterson, It Is asserted, stepped back, shot Ills fist out and the Texas editor .went to the floor. Then Master, son stepped over the overturned table anil pressed against Plunkltt. He was watching the right hand 6f Plunkltt. nnd some say they saw Masteraon’s hand go to his coat pocket. Somebody yelled at this point that Masterson was about to pull hla cannon, and with vis ions of bullets flying through the air, there was a triad scramble to reach the outside. Joseph Smith, house detective, who Is not familiar with western ways, went to Masterson and Induced him to leave quietly. Plunkltt, It Is asserted, had felt something hard In Masterson* pocket pressing against him, and re mained. quiet. In the exodus even the palm room had been deserted, and men left their hata behind. When quiet was restored, the Texas editor revived and began to talk loud, but he wns quickly quieted and placed In a cab. Masterson avoided Interviewers after the affair, and an effort to find him this morn ing was unsuccessful.. I regret to learn that Mr*. Cornelius Vanderbilt, Jr., is 111 at her home In Newport. Society can lll-afford to spare Mrs. Vanderbilt at the beginning of a strenuous season. A double veil combination has be come a fad. At the Suburban, the other day, many of the smart »st wore two) veils, nnd thick ones, at that. The combination of ribbon nnd lace veils, or plain and fancy veils, of any kind, makes the wearer's features Indistin guishable except under scrutiny. One man, who has been bowing blindly all morning to these mysterious visions of hidden beauty, finally said: "By Jove! They must see out of thoze ecreene better than we caivsee in, for Til b* blamed if I can place one’of them. GEORGIANS IN GOTHAM. Paying so sUsjUmm to tbe howling lu natics la the grandstand, he climbed aboard the omnibus aa* r*4e dm.Ma-Oto*i By Private I.ensed Wire. Now York, Juno >23.—Here arc some of the visitors In New York today: ATLANTA—F. B. Chapman, F. H. Coolidge, J. B. Daniel, J. V. Gresham and wife. J. H. Jennings, A. C. Langs ton, G. Warren, F. S. Wllner, A. Graves. _ _ AUGUSTA—W. F. Roowe, C. B- Hammond. -MACON—T. C. Parker. SAVANNAH—J. Hull. THIS DATE IN HISTORY. JUNE 23. .1757—Lord Clive, with 3.000 mtn. de- . tented 60,000 at Plassey. making England mistress of India. 1760—Battle of Landshut. 1810—Slllstria taken by Rueslans. 1825—Trlpolltza taken by Ibraham Pasha. 1839—Lady Hester Stanhope died In Syria: bom 1776. 1849—The Prussians defeated the Ba den Insurgents and entered Hei delberg. 1864—Fugitive slave law repealed. 1863—Matthew Vasaar, founder of Vasear College, died: born April 28, 1792. 1881—Silas C. Herring, snfq Inventor, died; born September 7, 180J. 1892—Grover Cleveland nominated for president 1894—Prince Edward of Wales, heir presumptive to British throns. bora. 1897—Great naval review at Ports mouth In honor of Queen » lc * torta's jubilee. ' 1899—Henry B. Plant steamship own er and financier, died; born Oc tober 27. 1818. 1904—Roosevelt and Fairbanks nomi nated. VIEW8 OF ONE. By Wax Jones. , The man who. after tf'cnty T*aJJ «* dumbness, suddenly asked: "In R *«■ enough for youri nude so Infamous • if his reeovered speech that nature “'f lustly condemn him to eternal imnumny [rom deafness when tbe weather Is really warm. Mr. Jerome nnpesrs to think t*e**°rt to remote him for malfeasance In nfft.e « pretty good Jobe. If It fall let him prosecuted for Indecent exposure of kuw of humor. The Vnssnr glrU' contuwllonn treym<£j of the Usekwnr of n*rodacnnnotl“- tc S fried with patience. Will nobody s™ cm but the Mufti ot Moosh? Washington's chief of imx4Im advocate'il imtlonnt bnresn for IdenttflenUoo of cruui ns Is. That Is n good notion no torns little offenders nre concerned, hot it ■ thJT/'fare” * bureau for booting them on sight. Baron Takakb of ^rjnpaneee arar. I" • battleships. That ought to be a good s -x j£££$ any^Amerb-sn^Iwitrtms'are left Seto*-' fhnn« «‘ to rank to irtory or thr ' when then* I* a n*ai*..t.AbIe pru*p«tt of »or* glory le-*« «rave.