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t 7 THE ATLANTA (iEOKUlAN- The Atlanta Georgian. JOHN TEMPLE GRAVES, Editor. F. L. SEELY, President. Subscription Rates: One Year $4.50 Six Months....... 2.50 Three Months 1.25 By Carrier, per week 10c Published Ever) - Afternoon Except Sunday by THE GEORGIAN CO. . at 25 W. Alabama Street, Atlanta! Ga. =J Entered as second-class matter April 3, 1000. at tbe Postofflca St Atlanta. Oa.. under set of congress of March 1 1070. THE GEORGIAN COMES TO GEORGIA AS THE SUNSHINE A man may well bring a horse to the water. But he cannot make him drink without he will. ' —Heywood. Saturday Evening. This Is the migratory season of the year, when humanity, with money In Its purse or gypsy-blood in Its veins, swells the passenger lists of outgoing steamers and the exchequers of the seaside resorts. 'This migratory Instinct Is as strong In mankind as In any of tbe feathered tribe, from the restless quail which, hatched In captivity, will beat Its brains out against the bars, to the wild goose whose honk marks the coming and the passing of winter. It Is elemental and primeval, and all the civilisation under the sun cannot entirely eliminate tt. Bayard Taylor tells us that as a boy, and long before he began that marvelous career of wandering In which he mastered a score of tongues and made hfmseif at home In all tbe continents of the earth, he. was In the habit of climbing tbe loftiest hills In the vicinity of his Inland home and looking out with a vague and propheUc longing toward-the ever luring sea. Madame de Stael has told 11s that travel Is "the saddest of all pleasures,” for we realise that In making new and attractive acquaintances and In becoming at tached to charming scenes In other lands we are mere ly forming ties which iriUst be broken again as the ne cessity for moving on arises. tt may be a sad pleasure, but we have It upon the authority of the great dramatist that "home-staying youths have ever homely ways,” and that "It would be great Impeachment to bis age In baring known no travel In his youth." There mgy be a certain class of people who would ride a hundred miles to see an Interesting man, but "would not, throw open their window to see the bay of Naples." These are few and far between, however, and the desire to follow tho sun In his course around the earth Is as old as the descendants of Noah, who sought their future homes In the outlying lands, far beyond the four rivers. This Instinct, together with the desire to better their condition. Is responsible for the fact that more than a million people crossed the Atlantic last year, and still more will come over during the present year, to make their homes In the land of freedom and unlimit ed opportunities. "The grand tour” of the continent was at one time it part of the education of princes and the members of tbo nobility, for It was a perilous and a costly undertak ing. A form of Insuranco onco prevailed by which the Insurers received' a sum of money on the hasard of paying back a much larger sum In the event that the traveler returned to his home again. That was In tho days when Coryat and Sir John Maundervllle and .Marco Polo made their daring voyages to the lands beyond the seas and brought back strange and Incredible stories of the people they had seen. The Ingenuity and development of modem times has made not only “the grand tour.” but a much grander tour possible without the hasard Implied by the Insurance arrangement of early times. It Is a part of the culture of the times and one for which we should be duly grateful. The people who are "bom In a teacup and never look over the brim" are sadly handicapped In the race of life. It Is wrought Into the very essence of the soul when one has stood upon the Alps and looked out across tho wilderness of Ice and snow where nature has written her most Imposing masterworks or stood upon the Palatine and surveyed the crumbled ruins pf an empire, built with hands, which rose, reigned and fell In a cycle of power, luxury and de cay. It becomes a part of our very being when we have atrolled through the dreamy temples of the East, where gray-halred pundits teach the mystery of Brahma, where muexxlns call the Faithful to the worship of Allah or the holy men of all Christian creeds exhibit the living evi dences of^the life and teachings of the Naxarene. It ex pands the mind and quickens the Judgment to trace the operation of laws and customs In lands less free and hap py than our own. It gives us a keener appreciation of the blessings we enjoy under an enlightened republic and a Christian civilisation. It Is well worth while. In the highest and noblest sense, to become a man of the world. lanta, are sitting under their vine and flg tree. In happy enjoyment of a temperature which scarcely occasions Inconvenience and Is certainly free from anything like sunstroke or prostration. It would Indeed be tbe means of bringing labor and Capital to this state If these facts were set forth as they deserve, and no man Is better qdallfled to do this than Mr. Marbury. The cost of tbe undertaking would be Insignificant compared with tbe good that could be accomplished. Five or ten thousand of these books scattered throughout tbe country where they would be most generally resd would serve to attract new blood to this favored section. It' Is- royally generous on the part of Mr. Marbury to offer to do'this work without money and without price, Impelled thereto oply by bis civic pride and his love for the state as a whole. His offer Is heartily appreciated and should be put Into effect at once. Heard on the Corner | A Brochure on Our Climate. The proposition of Forecaster J. B. Marbury that If the city wilt defray the expense of printing, he will prepare a work on the climatic advantages of Atlanta and of tbe state, should be promptly accepted and put Into execution. Mr. Marbury, who is one of the most efficient ob servers In the meteorological department of the govern ment, is particularly well qualified to discuss this sub ject, and It Is knowu of all meu, when they stop to con sider the fsets, that this Is indeed one of tbe most de lightful and wholesome climates In tbe world. Mr. Marbury Is quite right In attributing to this ex cellence of our climate a large degree of tbe material prosperity of the city, and it would be of Inestimable ad vantage to have these fsets made known to the world at large. There Is something bracing and Invigorating'In the very atmosphere, while the temperature Is mild aud even. The Atlanta observer speaks by the card when he says that It Is the most delightful climate east of the Rocky mountains. What Is true of Atlanta Is true in large measure of the state as a whole. GeoYgla can boast of a climate which makes life worth living the year round. It goes without saying that there Is no extreme cold such as Northern clUes suffer, and It Is equally well known by those who live here that when the large cities like New York, Philadelphia and Boston are sweltering In the summer sun, and humidity Is claiming Its hundreds every week, the people of Georgia, and particularly of At- Electric Eels as Motive Power. Will the horse power be supplanted by the eel power as the dynamic measure of the future? The question opens up a condition of affairs which Is dwelt upon without a smile by grave and reverend signors who ought to khow what they are talking about. When the average man Is told that concerted ef forts are being made to utilise the electric eel of South America as a motive power be Is naturally Inclined to titter, bnt If Don Quixote de Esperando, of Venexuela, comes to this country, as he Is reported to Intend, we will have "In our midst” the greatest living authority on the electric eel, and In the meantime tbe people who like to speculate on tbe wonders of , tbe future are figuring out some curious applications of this remarkable force to the work of transportation and Illumination. We are gravely told that one hundred of these eels can be put In a sine tank and will give enough power to run «n automobile for twenty-four hours. Even If It Is a very small automobile, this would be a novel means of transportation, and we,are asked to believe that tbe motive power would not be subject to the uncer tainties nor to the expense that 'attends any of the va rieties of power now employed. A correspondent of The Chicago Post Insists that 10,000 of these eels, distributed In suitable tanks or jars, would propel a three-coach train at the rate of 35 miles an hour. (For bow many hours Is not stated!) Carry ing the calculation still further, we are asked to believe that 300,000 of them, If so many could be collected from the Amazon and the Orinoco, where they thrive, would carry a trans-Atlantic liner from Sandy Hook to Cher bourg without the slightest difficulty. And In tbe matter of Illumination they would be no less useful. One eel would light a room with ease, while a bunch of them, say a dozen or so, would light a whole building. They would be the handiest things Imaginable to have around the house. The saving in gas and elec tric light bills would be enormous, so tong as tbe eels continued to live r.nd flourish. What the expectancy of the average eel may be, according to the mortality ta bles, Is not stated, and what chance they would have to tbrivo and multiply so far from the South American waters which are their native habitat has not been made public. Presumably all this will be made clear when Senor Don Quixote de Esperando arrives in this country. On the whole It sounds as If the gentleman who Is quoted as an authority on electric eels were well named, and that ho might at any time be expected to employ a squire and start out on a crusade against windmills, but we are askod to accept the whole story seriously and we shall endeavor to do so until Don Quixote actually arrives on tho scene. In the meantime there has been no slump In the price of coal on account of the prospective competition from the olectrlc eels of South America. Gourdain’s Strange Case. The case of Louis A. Gourdaln, of Chicago, who Is making desperate efforts to break Into the peniten tiary, Is one of tho moat remarkable In the history of American freaks and eccentrics. Gourdaln was arrested, tried and convicted of run ning a kind of lottery scheme by which he bad accu mulated a fortune. Hb Is represented as being a mil lionaire several times over. He made a vow In court that If he was found guilty he would not appeal from the sentence of tbe court and would return every dollar of his Illegal gains to the people he swindled. He was found guilty, all right, and was sentenced to the penitentiary at Joliet tor four years. After few months' Incarceration however, an attorney, who Is said to have acted on his own Initiative In the matter, secured a pardon for Mm, and Gourdaln was released. He accepted Lis freedom under the persuasion of his wife, but he l-as been conscience stricken ever since and has been tenting desperate efforts to be sent back to the penitentiary. He Insists that his honor Is In volved, and he has be«n trying to see various Justices of the supreme court to have his petition for relncarcer- atlon filed In'duo form. He declared that If he Is not sent back to prison he will erect a cell at his own ex pense on land which he has already bought In the Im mediate vicinity of the penitentiary and serve out his sentence, after which he will restore to the people who trustod him tbe fortune he made and will embark on a vessel with all his Immediate relatives. The Gourdaln family will disappear from the earth. It does not seem to occur to him that the Gourdalns as n whole may not be willing to embark on his ship and efface themselves from the earth at the whim of Louis, but be that as It may Gourdaln appears to take the whole matter very seriously. True he mqde a vow that he would not cut until he had been restored to prison, but the pangs of hunger won out over that deter mination. He has gone from city to city, however, try ing to find some Judge who will put him back in the penitentiary, and has met with no success. The mystery of It all Is that the mau appears to.be perfectly sane, at lenst on every other subject, and an nounces that he Is simply conscience stricken and wants to make amends. The chances are that his ardor will abate In a short time, and certainly the ends- of Justice will be met If he will redeem his promise to return the money secured Illegally, with Interest, much more effectively than It he went back Into prison to brood over his sins. EXCHANGE ANO BUCKET SHOP. To the Editor of The Georgian: I have read with great Interest what has been pub lished In The Georgian on the subject of bucket shops. Commercial questions are out of my line, but J do know something about law, logic and moral philosophy, and I am not entirely Ignorant about political economy. Two elements enter Into the essence of gambling. They are both present In every act of gambling, and wherever both exist In any transaction they make It gambling. These elements are: First. The smallness of the amount paid Into tbe transaction and the possible large gains therefrom. Second. The presence of contingency that wins through the transaction. The capitalist who puts up fl.004 In an exchange How Ht Got Elected. Judge Joel Branham Is a recontuer without a peer when you find him In the mind for It—which Is almost any time, as the venerable Jurist Is usually In a rare good humor. He was at the capitol the other day, and, the conver sation drifting around to politicians and their ways, he told this one: "Up In Floyd a good many years ago a certain well known man was a can didate for the legislature. He was getting on pretty well, though having hot opposition. Then an ugly rumor started that this candidate had been guilty of selling the cow of a widow, which was her sole support, and which furnished sustenance for her baby. "Immediately the candidate got busy and secured an affidavit from the wom en that he had not only not sold her cow, but that he had given It to her after her husband died In order that she might live. The outraged people rose up and elected him overwhelm ingly as a rebuke to the parties who started the first report. Years after ward he confessed that he started both reports." Puss In the Corner. One of the popular residents of N. Jackson street almost had a fit the other morning when she missed two of her choicest angora kittens. 8earch high and low failed to reveal their whereabouts. As a court of last resort, she appealed via telephone to her laun dry people. They had taken away a‘ basket of wash that very morning. 'Jhe was just In the nick of time. The contents of the basket were being In troduced to the first degre when the telephone bell rang. A quick search disclosed the precious pair comforta bly ensconsed In pa's discarded soft shirt. Houssr’s Story. ’Colonel" Fred Houser, the genial chief clerk at the Aragon hotel, Is a veteran fn the hotel business and Is fond of relating some of his expe riences to his friends who may be whil ing away the hours on a rainy evening. One of the stories told cv. him Illus trates the wonder and simplicity of the Briton. An English gentleman who was a guest at a hotel with which. Houser was connected was given a fishball for breakfast. He sized the thing up for a while; then, deciding that It must be- some sort of a roll, picked It up In his fingers and took n >lte. Amazed at tasting animal matter where he had expected vegetable, he exclaimed with horrer: "Oh, mem, there'a something dead In me bun. COURT FIXES BOND FOR W.W, COLLIER Trial of Alleged Embezzler Set for November 12, at Bainbridge. r CORPORATION CONSCIENCE IS NEGATIVE," SAYS GIBBONS, (t AND MAGNIFIES EXCUSES American Cardinal Discusses Question “What is the Remedy for Social and Civic Unhealthfulness ? ” Special to The Georgian. Bainbridge, Ga., July 21.—W. W. Col lier, who was Indicted at the November term of court, 1805, on the charge of embessllng funds of the Mexican Gulf Oil and Mining Company, of which he was treasurer, was brought to Bain- bridge yetserday from Belton, Texas, by the sheriff of that county and his bond assessed at 52.000. When Interviewed Collier said: "I will meet them when the time comes." The bond of J. 8. MITleqr Indicted St the seme time as Collier on a charge of smbesslement, was also fixed at 12,- 000. McRee was president of the oil company. The trial Is set for November 11. The action of the Georgia Bar Asso ciation in naming a committee to form ulate soma plan to preaent to the legla- lature to give needed relief to tha su preme court seems to have mot a re sponsive echo In tha houae. Several Members are heartily In fa vor of giving thla relief, the only- dif ference being In the mode. Borne think an Increase of Judge* to ne or ten would give tha relief, as .at would lessen the work upon the Individual member*. Other* Are wad ded to the Idea of establishing an In termediate court. Thl* sentiment that relief Is needed Is not confined to the lawyers of the house, either.- Representative Kelly, of Glascock, who Is a physician and not a lawyer, thinks the addition of one or two more Judges would meet the re quirements. It would be easier to get one or possibly two than three or more Judges. Mr. Flanders, of Johnson, another lay member of the house, also believes In Increasing tha judges, making the Private Wire to Ware Ic Leland. New York, July 21.—In an Interview today Cardinal Gibbons, who Is resting In the Shlnnecock hills on Long Island with Blshoff Foley, of Detroit, In an awer to tha question, "What Is' tha remedy for the social and civic un healthfulness that Is giving occupation now to so many muck-rakers?” said: "That Is comprehensive. I would rather attempt to answer a doxen spe cific questions, but I think l may an swer this by saying, when the sanctity of the marriage tie and the obligation of family relations are more fully real ised ana religious training In the fond ly becomes more general, we may took for batter conditions. "Dlssct the questions as me may, we are forced back again and again to the same conclusion—moral and relig ious training In the family are eaten- tlat. and just as they are neglected do these evils Increaes. Excuse* the Corporation. "By civic evils we refer to corporate greed, financial Immorality and official Infidelity, ns In the case of the Insur ance crimes and tha group of crimes broadly classified as ‘graft.’ I do not know enough of the facts In the pack ing house scandals to Include them In this generalisation, but generally speaking this class of evil Is due to a lack of conscience as applied to cor porate acts. "A man will excuse much in his cor poration which his conscience would condemn In himself. "Corporate conscience Is negative. I» minimises responsibility and multiplies and magnifies excuses. "A rudimentary moral sense will keep a man from stealing his neighbor's goods, but the moral sense must be educated to see moral wrong, aln and crime In the unconscionable acts of a corporation. Awakening of Public. "There has been of late a great awak ening of what Is called the public con science. This has given rise to much broad, liberal discussion of prevalent abuses and their causes, fixing the re sponsibility and often disclosing crim inality, and Is doing much to remedy these abuses and bring business moral- Is, at least, my hope. 1 believe I can see a decided tendency In that dlrec tlon. “Public discussion brings understand Ing and men who have been blind to the wrongs of corporate-crimes have had their eyes opened. They now limdl tha: they <ll>l 11 -t see l„ r 1- "This Is business morality. Social morality depends upon something more. The family, which Is the foundation of society. Is the source to which we must look for Its purification. The great crimes and scandals which are now ex citing so much comment can be traced directly to a lack of sanctity In the family relations. Until the sanctity of family ties is more generally recog nized T see little hope for Improve ment. As to the Falsa Standards. "The principal obligation of the fam fly Is the religious education of the young, (he Importance of which Is ai parent. With It everything may I accomplished. Without It we may have great awakenings, we may have a general revival of public conscience, but relapses will come again because the foundation is lacking. "Most og the putridity of private character, as disclosed In the revela tions of courts and the press, grows out of family relations with false standards and without religion, and not from a lack of family relations. Re turning to the rivJc side of the ques tlon. It may be asked why. If I see such close relations between the mo rallty of business and religious train Ing in the family I did not join the policyholders’ committee In Its efforts to do away with the scandalous condl tlon that prevails In these companies. Dsclinsd Rsluotsntty. 'I was reluctant to decline the place offered me on that committee, but I believe that the questions Involved are very liitlmately associated with great and vital matters of finance. With such, I am not sufficiently familiar to enable me to Judge fairly, should doubt arise, nnd I felt that my best course was to decline, which 1 have done. My resig nation has been received by the com mlttee and reluctantly accepted. "The whole matter Is In good hands now, and I trust and believe will be worked out wisely." JOHN D. LOSES HIS WIG ! HAIR DRESSER MA Y SUE HIM By PAUL VILLIER8, By Private Leased Wire. Paris, July 21.—Tho wealthiest peo ple In the world are not exempt from physical discomforts which attack us all, aa the King of Petroleum, Mr. Rockefeller, has Just discovered. As he was making a quiet little excur sion of the forest of Compeigne re cently he lost not his hair, for he has none, but his wig, which Is as pre cious to him aa the apple of his eye. Happily, Pari* la well provided with wig makers. Mr. Rockefeller at once put himself In communication with a celebrated tonaorial artist here, whose number as high as ten. In letting the Juatlcas consider the caaea In palm. Mr. Flynt, of Spalding, one of the strongest lawyers of tha houae, believes an Intermediate court the proper rem edy. With such a court, restricted to reviewing all misdemeanor cases, and civil cases up to a certain amount, making the final tribunal In such cases, would give the desired relief. Thla would relieve the burden now upon the supreme court Justices, and give them sufficient time to consider the really Important litigation that goes to that court. Mr. Jenkins, of Putnam, also believes the Intermediate court the only way to give the relief. He did not think an Increase of the Judges would maet the needs of the situation. Mr. Covington. In Indorsing the prop- osltlon, aald that all city and county courts should be abolished. If neces sary, ha would favor a supreme court Judge In each' county. Indiana has such a system, and Georgia might well emulate that example In view of our Increasing prosperity and the conse quent Increaa eln the volume of litiga tion. Will Return to Atlanta. 8peelal to The Oeorgtaa. Opelika, Ala, July *1.—H. H. Ham- mond, who for nearly two years has been manager of ths Opelika, Auburn and Lafayette exchanges of the South ern Bell Telephone Company, haa re signed his position, to take effect Au gust 1. Mr. Hammond will return to the purchasing department of the same company, with headquarters In Atlanta. establishment Is In the Castlgllone, and commissioned him to replace the lost wlr. The hair dresser made Inquiries and found out that Mr. Rockefeller paid <50 francs In New York for his original wig. Being a good business man, the Pari sian hair dresser determined t«at he would charge tbe American billionaire more than that, and sent In. a bill for 500 franca, or 5100. Mr. Rockefeller absolutely refused to pay any auch a price, so the hair dresser threatens td sue him. The case haa not yet come before the court, and If It does the de bates will be amusing to listen to, and the attorneys are sure of a packed houae. WILL WORK FOR PASSAGE OF IMMIGRATION BILL. Special to The Georgian. Augusta, Go., July 21.—Secretary Moore of the Chamber of Commerce states that the Immigration commit tee of the Chamber of Commerce here, together with some Influential men, will go to Atlanta when the Immigra tion bill Is to come up before the house and will urge Its passage. He says the movement that has been started for the Immigrants for this section will not be allowed to get lukewarm, but, on the other hand, the question will be kept at white heat by the supporters of the bill here until It has passed both the house and senate. PRE8S ASSOCIATION ELECTS NEW OFFICERS. 8pectnl to Tbe Georgian. Newberry, 8. C„ July 21.—The South Carolina 8tate Press Association, now In annual session at the Isle of Palms, Charleston, has elected the following officers: President, E. H. Aull, of Newberry, vice presidents, William Banks and J. C. Mayce: secretary, R. L. Freeman treasurer, August Kohn; executive committee, W. W. Ball, E. H. De- Camp and C. M. Galloway. Escaped Convict CaughL Special to The Georztsn. Newberry, 8. C., July 21.—Mllledge Green, a negro, who lost fall escaped from the Georgia chaingang, was ar rested by Magistrate C. 8. Blease on Wednesday In this city, and taken to Atlanta. on December cotton, In no moral sense differs from tbe clerk who puts up 310 In a bucket shop on the same hatard. But a mill man. It Is urged, should be allowed to buy a supply of cotton to be delivered In December at a price to be agreed upon In July, In order that he may know bow to price the goods he must deliver In Jan uary. "Therefore the cotton exchange may sell cotton futures." But since mill men never buy from bucket shops the bucket shops should uot be allowed to sell cot ton futures, for It is well established In law and morals that dealing In cotton futures Is gambling. And It Is gambling because the transaction Is conducted between a small wager and a contingency that Is not settled until the game Is played out, whether In the exchange or bucket shop. Speculation Is not wrong. There Is no harm In "buy ing and selling and getting gain,” so long as honest deal ings prevail. There are two ways In which contracts for future delivery of goods may be made, which are not gambling contracts. Example: First. A mill man buys from a farmer In July 35 I bales of cotton to be delivered In December at the mar ket price that shall prevail In December. To secure thla contract the mill man pays tbe farmer |4 a bale for the cotton In advance. Such a trade would be legitimate. The uncertainty In which the future prlcf of cotton la involved Is Just tbe uncertainty that the farmer hat had to meet from tbe first of the year dear on through. AJ1 productive Industries without exception are confronted constantly by the uncertainty of future markets. Second. The other way I* this: The mill man goes to the farmer and buys 26 bales of cotton to be delivered In December at $60 per bale, and gives his note for the amount. In this transaction the future price Is agreed upon without reference to what tbe market price may be and the deal I* closed on that basis. The note, of course, has Its preaent value In bank. There la spec ulation In It, but there la no gambling, because the amount paid In Is the full and adequate price for the cot ton estimated at the time of the trade to the satisfaction of both parties. No “margin” la “put up,” bnt a full payment Is made. The cotton exchange Is, of course, the representative of the farmer In the selling of cotton and the moral prin ciples thak hold good In one case would be Just ns good In the other. I do not know whether anybody ever buys or sells cotton at a cotton exchange In either of the ways I have described as legitimate. The usual practice I know la very different. A buyer "puts up" a margin of say $2 a bale on December cotton at 10c. That Is he beta $2 a bale that be will be able to buy cotton at 350 a bale In December. The exchange or bucket shop, as the case may be. puU up its engagement to furnish tbe cotton at that price, or pay the difference, which Is the corre sponding wager on Its side. Such a transaction la gamb ling, pure and simple, whether conducted In an ex change between tho cotton mill men of all America on one aide and the New York Cotton exchange on the other, or between a 325 clerk and a back street bucket shop. No sufficient reason can be given for allowing cot- ton mill men to operate on future prices through cotton exchanges, or flour mill men through wheat exchanges, or steel and Iron mill men through their exchanges The farmers and miners are obliged to carry on their oper ations relying entirely upon tbe laws of business and the dispensation of Providence to make their prices. Thla Js true of all productive Industries. On what principle of economics or morals should manufacturing Industries be allowed to evade the laws of business and Providence by trading In futures? The whole scheme Is presump tuous sin against the God of providence, and can bring no possible advantage to anybody, except a gambler’s ad vantage who wins while another loses. It Is the earnest hope of all good people that our lawmakers will forbid (he continuation or the gambling in future*. The demand for this reform Is closely related to the demand, for reform In diver* other place*. Let tho good work go on. J. L. D. HILLYER. Cholly Knickerbocker’* GOSSIP By Private X*eased Wire. New York, July 21.—Of all men. Al fred Belt, the diamond king, who died In London this week, would have been the last, when he wa* alive, to be con sidered the hero of a love romance. It waa through the Instrumentality of a prosaic American life Insurance policy that It became known that England’s richest man had fallen victim to Dan Cupid. The Elizabeth Bennett, In whose fa- for Belt took out an 380,000 policy oa ’my Intended wife." has been Identified and Is believed to be a beneficiary un- der tha will of Belt. She la a widow, not young, but the Junior of Belt by several years, who live* In Mayfair,’ Her husband was a mining engineer who was a companion of Belt when ths latter was prospecting In South At- rica and they were partners. They separated before Belt laid tb* foundation of his fortune In Kimberly and Bennett died not sharing that good luck. But Belt remembered Bennett, looked him up aud became Intimate with his family after hts fortune had begun to rapidly grow, and the friend ship for the family continued until Belt’* death. As one mark of his friendship. Belt undertook to educate Bennett’s son and daughter. Why hs did not marry the widow never will b* known. ' After all, Sarah Bernhardt Is not to wear the ribbon of the Legion of Honor. The government nominated her —as has been told—but with the coun cil of the order the prejudice was too strong and they have refused to con firm the action. To show that such prejudice did not tell against the great actress, Major Dreyfus was decorated. Interest In the coming wedding of Miss Anne Ide, daughter of Governor- General Henry C. Ide, of the Philip pines, to W. Bourke Cockran Is Inten sified by the report that the ceremony Is likely to be held In the old historic Malacanang palace, where Miss Ids and her sister Marjorie have entertain ed liberally and become popular In ths military society set of Manila. To hold the wedding In the gover nor-general’s palace. It was said, would mark a rare precedent. Miss Ide would thus become the first American bride to be led to the altar In the grand drawing room of the historic pile. On the other hand, many of the Invited guests could not possibly voyage half way around the earth to see Miss Ide married, and the affair would lack the brilliance that would be possible In a marriage In the national capital. Another official advocate of marriage has been found In Acting Mayor Mc Carthy, of Jeney City. Ha declares: "The man who marries and helps 10 rear children does what he can to make this world a better place to live In. We need more babies. We can’t get* too many of them. It Is needless to say that I am violently oppoied to race sui cide. I’ll be acting mayor for a week, and I offer all couples who have a right to wed a flrat-claos, all-wool, cop- per-rlveted, nsbestos-llned carriage ceremoney free of charge. I’m a batchelor, but It Is not iny fault. I’m ready to marry when the right girl comes along." Frank Work, father of Mrs. Burke- Roche, who Is married to- Aurel Ba- tonyl. la employing at least one, and, It Is believed, several other New York detectives to watch all Incoming steam ers and trains. The purpose of the quest Is kept secret. Meanwhile the gates of the Work mansion. "Elm Court,” are chained and tho gardener has been Instructed to per mit no one to occupy the house. Mr. Work declares that Mrs. Batonyl never can enter Elm Court again. This ap parently contradicts the rumor that he iad forgiven his daughter. Messenger 412* draws the line on bird-catching. He was sent for to get a canary’ which had ekeaped from Bellevue hospital. The messenger boy was offered 60 cents to climb the tree In which the bird eat, but when he tied struggled to the top the songster again hopped elsewhere. ’’W’at do youse t’lnk I am—a bold. ,„e A. D. T. exclaimed. "I can t toiler die little yeller feller wldout wings. Get Dr. Thomas or Knabenshue K vpuse want to ketch die bold. 1 m goin ter •beat It’ back to de offle." GEORGIANS IN GOTHAM. By Private Leased Wire. New York, July 21.—Here are some of the visitors In New York today: ATLANTA—V. H. Geelbaway. J. Hargrave, C. B. Howard, E. E. Lp»«- L. Reynold!, W. W. Reynolds, W. Mill 's A VANNAH—H. W. Cowan. Mrs. J. M. Hampton, J. J. Corrigan. IN PARI8. Special to The Georgian. Paris, July 21.—Mrs. Nellie Black and the Misses Anita and Louise Black, of Atlanta, Ga., registered at the office <« the European edition of The J>e« Yorx Herald today. THIS DATE IN HISTORY. died. JULY 21. _ 17X0—Robert Burns, BrotUsh poet. lloru January 25, 175*. . .... Battle of the Pyramids In Kg;I’ 1 1814—Inquisition re-established In — -Iwonold. king of Belgium. enter* Brnsset*. and took the oath of comtl- 1874—Charges of Theodore Tilton "f® 111 ** Henry Ward Beecher made BjbUi. 1897— lion. Anthony J. Mundelta. M.l-i 1898— Robert O. Ingersoll died. Born Au- 1902—Slaking nf°Klbe river atramer Prim* at Hamburg; one hundred |*r* M drowued. . v>« 1908—Great building trade strike lu York dty ended. , , 1904—Jooenh W. Folk Mined for former W06-Explo3»n rl *» United ‘."Twro' Bennington In San Ulego harbor; t»« ty-elght men killed. SERVANT PROBLEM ilu . 18 VEXING ROMANS. Special to The Georgia a. Rome, Ga, July 21.—The servant question seems to be a problem 1 Roma at present, aa wall as the cryins need of farmer* to gst sufficient be p to work their crop*. There seem* to a plot among the negroes hare, male and female, not to work It can keep from It. One negro • •JvV was heard to say: "Da nigger cook* ■ Rome ha* now got da white women de kitchen, an' dey 'specta ter **■» dem dar."