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I THE ATLj» #TA GEORGIAN. fUTrnnAV. ji xr. v The Atlanta Georgian. JOHN TEMPLE GRAVES, Editor. ' P. L. SEELY, Prezident. 1 Connection!. "N Subscription Rttes: One Yezr $4.50 Six Month, 2.50 Three Month! 1.25 By Czrrier, per week 10c Published Every Afternoon Except Sundzy by THE GEORpIAN CO. at 25 V. Altbzmz Street, Atlanta, Gz. 1 l J Catered as nscond-class matter April ». lfOi, at the Pootnttet at Atlanta. Ga., under act of congress of March S. 1179. % THE GEORGIAN COMES TO 1! GEORGIA AS THE SUNSHINE || fiK “i* •cended Iz Indeed a deilrabte thing to be well de but th, glory belong, to our ancestor,." —Plutarch. IU faculty to any collets aouth of John* Hopkloa at Baltimore. With two acre* of ground directly fronting tbe Orady Hospital, with a faculty of thirty or more of tbe foremost phyalciam and surgeona of Atlanta, and with tbe splendid environment of nearly four hundred pupils, with a chem leal, physiological, pathological and bacteriological lab oratory of the best quality annexed, this Institution Is worth.a visit to anyone who wishes to he Impressed with tbe splendid development of Atlanta along the high lines of the modern aft of surgery and healing. Saturday Evening. Tho bloody eclipse of a brilliant life. In which one upon whom Fortune bad lavished her most splendid gifts became tbe shutUecock of her Irony and went down to dusty death In the midst of mirth and revelry, baa ab sorbed the Interest of two hemispheres during the week now drawing to a dose. We have already Indicated that there are no lessons to be learned from this Iliad of tears which time and ex perience have not taught with tedious reiteration ever since the melancholy hour "When Eve had led her lord away And Cain had killed his brother." We can only repeat that this Is true. And yet, at an hour when the moral sensibilities of the world are more deeply stirred than they have been for years—at an hour when even the flippant worldlings pause to meditate upon the heart-ache that Is twin-born to selflsh pleasures, there Is an Inspiration to reflect upon at least one aspect of tho death-crowned saturnalia. Out of the tangled woof and web of clewa one fact seems clearly to appear: That a man, endowed with more than moderate wealth, possessing In superior degree the talent, tho magnetism, tbe nameless charm by which men cast a subtle spell over those who come within the circle of tbelr Influence, employed these rich endow ments to accomplish' the overthrow of Innocence and honor. For purposes of these reflections It matters little w hether his Insidious artifice pursued the object of his former passion beyond tbe altar and the ring or rested with the Ineradicable canker Implanted In the years gone by, one who follows the tragic ’story as Its tear-stained leaves unfold can hear. In Imagination, the heart-broken wall of that earlier bride In the scriptural allegory: "The keepers of the walls took away my veil from-me.” The opulence of the Orient could furnish forth no more Impressive phrase to express tho bitter depths of desolation and of shame. The manners and tho cus toms of the times required that no unsullied wife or daughter In tha Hebrew commonwealth should go un veiled. The nicety of honor prescribed that the eye of the -stranger should not aee her face—a custom of tho Orient so deeply rooted that It still prevails today. And the keepers of tbe walls—they were the watch men, tbe guardians, the civic’towers of strength. They were the Incarnation of law and order, the refuge of the weak, the defense of helpless Innocence. If this pro tection was withdrawn, whither could they fly In hours of danger? How hopeless and helpless they were Indeed whose face was sacrilegiously revealed to every vulgar eyo and made the target of every Insulting leer! There was a pathos which the occidental mind can hut dimply comprehend In that piercing wall which breaks through the Song of Songs: "The keepers of the walls took away my vell from me." It Is not alone In allegory, not alone In far Judea that this walling cry risea above th« mirth and laughter of the world. Out of the languorous light and perfume of an Inebriating atmosphere where liner sensibilities are steeped In rosy dreams and the sentinels or conscience are lulled to sleep with lutes and lotuses—out of this Adonis-garden of a night, conjured up by minds that are ’masterful and meamerie—there comes with sickening frequency and clearness the stricken cry: ’’The keepers of the walls hare taken away my veil from me!" And then the fierce light of the garish day—the face that fain would hide Its beauty from the gloating eye of levity or the chilling stare of scorn. Her happier sisters pass her—veiled. The daughter, wife and mother—veiled, veiled, veiled! The very casements of uncontaminated homes, curtained and secure, seem to echo with withering mockery, "veiled, veiled, veiled!"—while In her own bitter and blighted heart murmura the same melancholy monotone, ’’The keepers of the walls’’—not the beggars at the gate nor tbe outlawed thieves on the highway to Jericho, but the guardians of social honor and civic Jaw, the keepers of the walls—"have taken away my veil from me!” How long la the glamour of wealth an eminence to dazzle tbe eye of justice? How long Is vice to flaunt Itself In tbe livery of virtue, because the texture of its mantle Is cloth of gold? Are the unspeakable orgies which go on In tapestried eyries above a glittering pleaa- tye garden to escape the avenging thunderbolts while Mott street coulee are harried from their burrows by the sleepless beagles of the law? Is vice to continue less vi cious bcause It flaunts Itself on a splendid scale? The stricken daughter of Jerusalem Is not alone In her agonising cry: "The watchmen that went about the city found me, they amote me, they wounded me; the ketpers of the wells took away my veil from me." Lincoln, Watterson, and History. Col. Henry Watterson la now engaged In tbe philan thropic work of defending Abraham Lincoln from the charge of Illegitimacy—before northern audiences, of course. Col. Watterson Is alwsys Interesting, but. rarely re liable or Important- Tbe trouble with the Kentucky editor Is his persistent bid for notoriety and appIUUge from the clubs and gatherings that furnish applause— and gate fees in tbe North. A few years ago. and after Jefferson'IMvts died— the Colonel asserted before an applauding audience—In Chicago—that sixty days before the collapse of the Con federacy Jefferson Davis and his cabinet refused from Abraham Lincoln and bis cabinet terms of ’ surrender which every suggestion of prudence and of stateamansbip should have moved them to accept. In the absence of any other defender the editor of Tbe Georgian, entered the lists of controversy against Henry Watterson upon this proposition. We put upon tho wltflehr stand In complete refutation every member of the Confederate cabinet living nnd dead, and every member of the- Con federate commissioners living and dead. The contro versy lasted two years. At tho end of. that tlmo Colonel Watterson was compelled to surrender, and this he, did, not to the man who had proven bls’Jnaccurate reflections upon the Confederate government, but to'John 11. Rea gan, of Texas, postmaster general-of the. Confederacy, who had written a letter Indoftlng 'tie' pOiinoa 'whlch tho editor of this paper had assumed. Two or three years later iHonklnson Smith asserted In New England that “Uncle Twh’a Cabin” was doing damage to the fraternal spirit of the country, and ought 1 to be condemned. Henry Watterson, ’ speaking' again’to and for the applause of some Northern gathering, rushed to the defense of Mrs. Stowe's hook, and declared tfiat It was a faithful picture of Southern life and the author a great wom«n and benefactor. The editor of this paper Joined Issue again with the foolish utterance, and proved Mr. Watterson's maudlin error from the records and from history. The controversy had no direct result upon the colonel's expressed'opinion,, but the best proof of the strength and truth fit our contention was found In the fact that at the close of the controversy Colonel Wat terson's own state of Kentucky passed an act through Its legislature forbidding the presentation of "Uncle Tom'a Cabin” upon any stage or platrorm In that com monwealth. And so It has come to be well understood that Col. Watterson’s history Is always largely colored by tho audience and occasion before which he speaks and that hla facts are always to be accepted with the proper and prudent amount of salt. It Is a very generous and a very popular thing to argue before a Northern or a Southern audience the question of Lincoln's legitimacy. Wo, love and honor Lincoln In the South ns much as they do In the North, and at jealously gpard hts fame. But the truth of history something that will come out, and tbe evidence to support Lincoln's Illegitimacy is much clearer and strong er than that whleh goes to prove the regularity of his birth- Of course the public desire and tendency Is to believe the better thing. Llnooln's paternity has boon credited to various n» of greater or less repute. There never was a scintilla of fact to support the suggestion which The Macbn Telegraph revives that linked him with John C. Cal houn. That was a mere rumor born of the romantic design to link a great man to a great ancestor. It Is of part with the gossip that made him the half brother of Jefferson Davis. Richard Owsley, of Kentucky, was a nearer and better based suggestion. But tho Jtrongeit evidence pro or con In this famous case, made Lincoln the don of a neighbor In Hardin county. Kentucky. Upon this line General James Wil son, of the Federal army, who was the captor of Macon and of Jefferson Davis In our civil war, and who was later advanced to high command In Cuba under the McKinley administration, told the editor of The Georgian that he had spent an entire winter In southern Indiana and Kentucky In vigorous and exhaustive Investigation Into this matter, and that Lincoln's Illegitimacy was as well attested as any fact In history. , But whnt does It matter In the record of the great war president? Lincoln was n great, good man—one of the greatest and broadest and kindest In the world's roster of great men. lle has passed Into an Immortality upon which tbe roses of Georgia and Carolina fall as softly ns the roses of Kentucky and Illinois, He Is not the first great man who has lived under this sad and melancholy shadow of birth. Alexander Hamilton was an Illegitimate, by the tes timony of his most ardent biographers. Thrt-e are wise men and strong men In the editorial sanctums of north ern New ,’ork who will tell you from the records that Martin Van Buren was tbe son of Aaron Burr, and that Burr In turn was tho putative father of 8amuel J. Tllden. The grant brain and the great soul rises above all adverse conditions and the world acclaims tho man and the hero that lived and forgets tbe Irresponsible child that suffered In another's sin. The Atlanta College of Physicians and Surgeons. The advertisement of tbe Atlanta College of Physi cians and Surgeons In today’s Georgian marks a very -large and progressive step In Southern medicine. The consolidation of the Atlanta Medical College and the Southern Medical College tuok place In 1898. Since that time the Atlanta College of Physicians and Surgeons has marked a steadily progressive career. The new build ing, 150x80 feet, now rapidly jiearlng completion on the site of the old Atlanta -Medical College, is one of the handsomest and In all respects one of the* completes! buildings consecrated to medicine In the South. Tbe completion of this building. Joined to the othitr large and ample buildings on the splendid tract of ground which comprises the college property, makes the AUanta Cottage of Physicians atid Surgeons In literal tact tbe foil equal In equipment and the easy equal in the merit of umn or ^bre than that rarely reaches the eyes of more than a pitifully small number of readers. We love to bear from our friends. We surrender to them dal|y our space with cheerfulness and suppress editorials and news matter to give room to tbelr opin ions, but we will have to announce definitely and finally that we cannot, except In rare Instances, publish com munications (bat are as much as a column In length. .'I -I- I to Gen “Home, Sweet Home” for the Home Comers. That Is a charming and timely suggestion which Mr. Jatnos I.. j-’or*. of Anu-rlcas. ■ makes through The Georgian today to those, whq harp In charge the arrange- nient foy.our. hodie'.coming CelebraUdh In.October, What could be sweeter arid what more beautiful to our exiled, sons-and (Daughters-who are living In other commonwealths than to have their return to this dear old native'stale, circle, and ceiitet ’ about the’Immortal song writtair by John Howard Payne; who, although born Jn'rfeW York/clty,.lived(.In. Ocprgla and wrote In this state tbe song that has gone around the world? Surely thls furnishes a suggestion wfalch-our- Home Comers committee could utilise wlih great profit'and ad vertise with Immense effectiveness throughout - tho length and breadth of the territory which our former Georgians have Inhabited and developed. Tbe song should ran like a'silver current Of loyalty through 1 every day of tho celebration, and If we should make also the occasion to erect here at tbft time.a. monument for the Immortal singer. It would make a distinct and definite center for this Home Comers week.-* — * - ■' * We commend the suggestion right heartily to those who have this matter In charge, and If they should not deem It appropriate to honor Payne. then we thfght, as Mr. Fort suggests,’ transfer the central thought of the Home Comers Week to the unveiling of Oglethorpe's monument'at 'Savannah.’ “As he wai the . founder,'If would seem like a father calling his children botne. Thlk approaching' occasion Is* III' Itself * full of the tendqrest suggestions, and of the. noblest sentiments that stir the human heart. Left to Itself nnd to'the. mere loys‘ot reunion, and of fellowships and.’of sight seeing, aiqld scraps familiar, and those- metamorphosed'Into'su perb development, there would be abundance of,Joy and happiness In,onf Home Comers Wpok ! But If there breathed to Georgia’s returning children in every noto of the band and In every stroke of this violin, In'every ^-qpturops burst of . the orchestra, and In ■ every tender finger that touched the piano's chords during that week, the beauty, the pqthos and. the radiant reminiscence of Payne’s Immortal song, the Georgia homo comers would carry back with-them memories that would last them as long as life should last. And so, we suggest “Home, Sweet Home" as the sen timent of every greeting, and we suggest that some noble and tlmoly memorial to tbe Immortal bard should form the central and beautiful incident of this period to which every Georgian at home and abroad Is looking with brightening eyes and glowing hearts against the Octo ber day to come. * Be Brief, Dear Friends. Once more we must appeal to our friends and cor respondents to have conilderatlon for the crowded state of our columns, and to make their communication! brief. It Is just ntterly impossible for us to print all of the opinions which our friends send to us at the length In which they are presented. The pile of communications upon our desk Is so targe that they would consume two solid Issues ot this paper at thta moment to dlapose of them, and It we published one-third of them every day, there would be little room left for news or for editorial opinion of our own. r The communications which we publish today are nearly all condensed and abbreviated In this oOce by necessity. We have taken tbe liberty of doing thta, be cause we cannot possibly publish them In tbelr original length. Once more we would Impress upon our friends and correspondents' that nobody reads long-winded communi cations. except from men particularly prominent In tho public eye,’ am) even then, there are few who read com munications that are as much as a column In length. We earnestly counsel our friends that If they would be heard upon any subject to apeak briefly. One-fourth of a column Is the best length for a Com munication.' a half column Is the next best, .three- fourths the next' best, and anything that reaches a col- The Reunion at Brandy Station. Arrangements are being perfected for the reunion of the Federal and Confederate forces which participated’ In the battle of Brandy 8tatlon on tbe anniversary of (pat bloody event, August 9 next, and considerable Interest,' Is being manifested In the approaching occasion. Phillips' Legion and Cobb’s Legion, made up pf Geor gia men, participated In this great battle, and it it desired tha^ as- large an attendance as possible shall be secured. Jeff riavls Legion was also a participant In the battle, and It Is hoped that 'the survivors of that command will also be present. Dr. C. F. D'Alvtgney, of this city, has been In corre spondence with Adjutant W. P. Hill, of A. P. Hill Camp No. 2, of Culpeper, Va.. who announces that one of the objects of the reunion will'be to Identify and mark the locations of special Interest on tbe’battlefield and thus preserve their historical status. The Southern raUroad will give special rates for the occasion and accommodations at a low rate, will be provided at Culpeper,' as welt aa at Brandy. Station, which Is now a toiyn of considerable Importance. It Is desired to know as early as .possible Just how many veterans will attend. Phillips' Legion was composed of Infantry and cav alry, and was commanded y>- Colonel William Phillips, of Cobb county. The lieutenant colonel was Seaborn Jones, of Polk county; John B. Wilcox son, of Coweta county, was the major, and James H. Lawrence, ot Floyd county, was the adjutant. The legion consisted of ten companies and were mustered Into service on the 11th of June, 18(1. They were prepared for active service at Camp Mc Donald at Big Shanty. From there they were ordered to Lynchburg, Va. In January, 1862, the legion was sent to the coSst of South Caroline. While there the legion formed! part of the brigade'of General T. F. Drayton. While the legion was In 8out(i Carolina there was a change of Its Held officers, occasioned by the resignation of Lieutenant Colonel Jones and Major Wllcoxson. Captain W. W. Rich, of Cass (now Rartow) county, was promoted to the position of lieutenant colonel, and was assigned to the command 6f the cavalry companies of tbe legion. There were two companies of cavalry added to them, making six, which entitled them to a lieutenant colons! and a major, forming a battalion of cavalry. Captain William R. C. Puckett, of Cherokee county, was promoted to the pozltloh of major In September, 1862. In July 1862. General Drayton received orders to proceed with his brigade to Virginia, and report to General R. E. Lee for duty. From that time the Infantry and cavalry ot the legion were separated, and a later order from the secretary of war created them aa separate and distinct organisations, so far as each other was concerned. The cavalry under Major .Puckett arrived In Shep- herdatown In time to engage In *-£ • battle of Sharpsburg. The cavalry battalion participated In all tbe light! In which General Wade Hampton’s brigade was engaged In Virginia, Maryland and Pennsylvania Rev. W. E. Jones, ot this city now, was the chaplain of the battalion. The captains were James H. Nichols, Thomas O. Wilkes, Ell p. Hardin. R. L. Y. Long, A. F. Hunter and W. K. Thomas. ' " Tbe Cobb Legion was an organisation similar to Phillips’ Legion. It was Organised In 1861 by Thomas R. R. Cobb, a distinguished lawyer of Georgia. In tbe organ isation of his legion the Fulton Dragoons had n place. Several or tbe survivors of the old company. Fulton Dragoons, are now living In this city. Major Z. A. Rice, who died here last year, was one of them. Dr. Charles D’Alvtgney Is now living here, and la a prominent and Influential citlsen. Cobb’s’ Legion was one of the distinguished and famous commands of the Southern army. It was com posed of some of the best of our Southern people. The legion being organised, went to Richmond and was mustered into service j eral Magruder at Yorktown. After some service about Yorktown. General Johnston ordered Its evacuation, and the Cobb Legion returned to Richmond. In tbe course of events. Colonel Cj>bb vuas promoted to the position of brigadier general' Major Pierce M. B. Young was promoted to colonel of Cobb's Legion In 1862; was appointed brigadier general of cav alry In November, 1864,' and- In 'December ot the same year he was promoted'to major general of cavalry for bis brave and gallant action In battle. After the< battle of Cold -Harbor General Cobb was ordered to hold tbe main road leading from. Cold Harbor to tbe white house. In the afternoon of that day General Jackson sent Major Fltzhugh to General’Cobb-for a squadron of cavalry to support a battery on General D. H. Hill’s left flank. General Cobb ordered squadron B to report to Major Fltzhugh. Squadron B consisted of two cavalry companies of Cobb's Legion, and tbe designated squadron was the Fulton Dragoons. They had to pass through and under heavy shelling from the federal guns and their duty was to support a battery of the famous Washington Artillery, which was in danger of being flanked by federal cavalry. The Squadron B remained there until the last gun was fired, and then, with General Stuart, they followed the retreat ing enemy. < Major Fltzhugh, some time after- that, remarked to Captain Z. A. Rice, of the Fulton Dragoons: "Do you know that General Jackson paid your squadron a high compliment at the battle of Cold Harbor? He saw your Squadron as you were passing through that storm of Iron haH, and be remarked that your squadron would do to trust.” The Home for Old Women. In another column of The Georgian appears this afternoon a brief survey of the history of the Home for Old* Women, conducted by the Gordon Circle of King's Daughters. t This noble Institution is now In Its second year, and during that time has cared for twenty-six Inmates, fif teen .of-whom tre still wards of the Gordon Circle. Particular attention Is directed to the fact that tho period of one year, for which the house now occupied by the Home was granted rent free by the owner, will explre on August 1, and It wilt be necessary before that time to make other arrangements. The circle has ion hand about $1,800 and pledges of $985 more as a nucleus of a building fund. The women in charge of this noblo work are mak ing heroic efforts to raise a sufficient amount of money to warrant them In erecting a permanent and adequate home for old women. Ten yer cent of the proceeds of the Nathan bakery, at 75 PeSchtree, on the opening day next Thursday, will be devoted to this cause. Similar entertainments are given from time to time to meet the operating expenses of the home and to ralSe funds for the proposed building. There Is no worthier charity than this Old Woman's Home In all Atlanta and It deserves the cordial support of the people of this community. It Is tnklng care of the feeble and destitute who have no one else In the evening of life to care for them, and surely this should appeal to the deepest sympathies and best Impulses ot our people. But one short month remains In which to make the necessary arrangements for the future. The Gordon Cir cle already has large: obligations on Its shoulders in cap tug for the fifteen Inmates of the home, and provision must be made, not only for thqse but for the larger num ber who are seeking admission. The Georgian commends the movement to the people of Atlanta and hopes that It will soon be carried to a successful Issue. A CHARMING SUGGESTION FOR HOMECOMERS. To the Editor of The Georgian; The great success of the Kentucky home-coming and the honor shown to the Old Kentucky Home's author suggests that Georgia can more appropriately celebrate a home-coming this fall at the state fair. John Howard Payne, the author of Home,’ Sweet Home, was a Georgian and Is entitled to a monument for this grand old song. Georgia has many distinguished sons dispersed through out the unlfln and It would be very appropriate for our state to have' a great home-coming of all the sons of Georgia to do honor to the memory of the author of Home, 8weet Home.” By all means let us erect a suit able monument to him In Atlanta and It could be un- ycllcd some time during the state fair next fait with suit able ceremonies. It would draw an Immense crowd to the fair and do much to promote enterprise and patriot ism. I hope your paper will take this matter up and make a success of it. Very truly yours. JAMES L. FORT. THE GEORGIAN STANDS FOR MORALITY. To the Editor ot The Georgian: The publishers of The Atlanta Georgian are to be congratulated for the Important step they have taken for the cause of morality and sobriety In that they refuae to publish liquor advertisements. This noble example set by The Georgian should be followed by all newspaper men who recognize whisky as a great evil and all who profess to be against Its sale. Every editor before accepting an advertisement from a liquor dealer should ask himself this question: Is It right to sell liquor? Does the person who accepts the terms of this advertisement receive the value of his money? Could I sell Hquor aud still have a good con science? Would tbe meek and lowly Nazarene handle liquor In any way If be teas upon the earth? If deep down In your heart, your answers to these questions are yes, then you can consistently publish liquor "ads," but If your conscience and reasoning pow ers answer In the negative then you cannot do so It yon place any value on the merits of your paper aa an ad vertising medium. If you did not thlqk you would enable the liquor dealer to Increaae the sales ot the damnable stuff that wrecks more homes, causes more crimes and destroys more happiness than every other influence put together, you would b<* acting dishonest, for in that case you would accept his money and give nothing of value In return. If on the other hand yon Increase the sales of the bar keeper, the blood spilled on account of the increase of sales made possible by the advertisement In a newspa per Is upon the skirt of the publishers of the paper as well as upon the skirts ot the saloon keeper. We are glad to see the sentiment against the liquor traffic growing stronger each day and hope to see the time soon come when all respectable newspapers will refuse to aid the liquor dealers In their unholy traffic by publishing their alluring advertisements. We believe the temperance people ot tbe state should show their appreciation of the noble stand’they have taken at con siderable financial Ioas by giving The Georgian ihelr hearty support and patronage. Statham. Ga WILLIE S. LAMER. THEN AND NOW. To the Editor ot The Georgian: Referring to Constitution editorial of today on Mr. Bryan: Should Mr. Bryan visit this city again soon what In your opinion would be tbe difference In tbe personnel of the rostrum from what It was on the occasion of bis last visit, when he wss forced to have a grocery-man at tempt to introduce him and The Constitution and Tbe Journal gave him only small recognition? A BRYANIST. Dy Frlrste Leased Wire. New York, June JO.—June Is going out Uke a furnace, so far as New York Is concerned. The thermometer is climbing, so high that It Is too much of an effort for wjlted humanity to keep-track of-It. Already the list of casualties has begun to grow. The early morning record was: Four persons rendered Insane, many prostrated and. thousands seeking re lief in the parks and on the beaches. So pitiful were the conditions on the lower East Side, where hundreds of mothers and babes were crowded to gether In each tenement house, that the police anbandoned sit regulations con cerning eleeplng In the parks and per mitted any one so desiring to spend the night tn every public play ground. Many tenement house dwellers slept on lire escapes and one man, tossing about restlessly In hts almost unbear able surroundings, fell from the Iron structure and sustained serious Inju ries. Now It fs a-dairy trust forming, and the prlcee of chickens, eggs butter, cheese and milk will, so far as the East Is concerned, be at the mercy of the $20,000,000 American Farm Products Company, which Is being formed. Among the score of capitalists Inter ested are Levi P. Morton, Thomas F. Ryan, Harry Payne Whitney, Anthony Brady, E. J. Berwlnd, Kuhn, Loeb A Co., and several other banking houses and Individual capitalists In tne East. Headquarters have been opened at No. 52 Broadway. Polo continues to claim Its victims. The latest devotee of this strenuous to require the services of a surgeon Is Raymond Belmont, second son of Au gust Belmont, who Is suffering painful Injuries aa the result of being struck In the face by hts polo pony while the latter was struggling to rise after fall- . Ing on the ground. There has been no slackening of tha library business so far as Andrew Car negie Is concerned. Reports 'read at the American Library Association show that Andrew Carnegie In 1905 made 311 gifts of libraries of a value aggregating more than $3,000,000, and still the work goes on. GEORGIANS IN GOTHAM. By Private Leased Wire. New York, June 30.—Here are acme of the visitors In New York today: At lanta, C. E. Adams, J. E. Beldren, O. C. Spencer, O. VYHffate, M. E. Turner, D. Qllfallan, T. H. Martin, J. L. Mell arid wife. THIS DATE IN HISTORY. JUNE 30. 1520—Montezuma, emperqr of Mexico, died. 1685—Archibald Campbell, earl of Ar- gyle, beheaded at Edinburgh. 1797—Richard Parker, head of the na val mutiny at the Nore, hanged. - 1815—United Statez brig Peacock cap tured British cruiser Nautilus In straits of Sunda. 1831—United States treay with Black Hawk, chief of Sacs and Fox,!. 1837—Act of British parliament to dis continue use of pillory for pun ishment. 1845—Maynooth Colelge Incorporated and endowed. 1857—Ship Montreal tost near Quebec; 250 persons perished. 1862—Lee defeated McClellan at Glen dale, Va. 1864—Salmon P. Chase, secretary of the treasury, resigned. 1879—Great tornado In Iowa, Minne sota and Wisconsin. 1882—Charles Gulteau hanged at Washington for murder of Presi dent Garfield. 1889—Chicago grand Jury returned In dictments for murder of Dr. Cronin. 1891—Pike’s Peak, Colorado, reached by first railroad passenger train. 1894—The Tower bridge, London, for mally opened by prince of Wales, 1899— Mrs. E. D. E. N. Southworth. novelist, died. 1900— Great Hoboken dock fire. 1904—Prohtbtlontste nominated Dr. Si las C. Swallow for president. UNANSWERED PRAYERS.’ By KLI.A WHEELER WILCOX. Like hour* schoolmaster, kind In tiefng stern. • Who hMra the children crying o’er their ••Help me, matter!” yet belpa. ■■ alienee nnd refuwil Their self-development, to Ood rnhccOlnif ninny prayers. He In am aewx To any cry aent np from carucnt heart*: He heart aud strengthens when He wait ... secs’u* weeping over llfe*t hard sum-. Bnt should He give the key mid dry our tears— _ . . Whnt would It profit un when school were done And not one lessen mastered 7 Whnt a world Were this If sll our prayers were answered. In famed Pandora's l*>x were such vast Ula Kaos would result! In my fierce youth sighed out brenth enough to move n fleet, ntoing wild prayers to heaven for fancied Which were denied: nnd that denial bends My knee to prayers of .gratitude each day Of my maturer years, let from those pray* . row always regirded for the atrife And conscious of new strength. Pray on, sad heart. Who supplicate Hod’s graco are lifted, them . Thou sbalt find help to bear thy dally lot Which Is not elsewhere found. JUNE WEDDINGS. fW. J. L. In New York World.)* There's a swell of stately innate. There's a chancel full of bloom. There's a crowd of well-gowned women. There's a churchful of perfume. . There's s bunch of orange blossoms. There's a shy nnd shrinking smlla, There's s swish of veil nnd chiffon. There's s rtbliou down the aisle. There's a sweetly solemn pastor. There’s a whisper now ami then. There's a ring upon a finger. There’s a Joyous Amen. « here's a rush of raw With s diction that's An>l the lovely wedding write-up# Are working overtime.