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'lilh ATLANTA GEOKOiAN- The Atlanta Georgian. JOHN TEMPLE GRAVES, Edllor. F. L. SEELY, President. Telephone Connections. Subscription Rates: One Ye*r........ $4.50 Six Months....... 2.50 Three Month* 1.25 By Carrier, per week 10c Published Every Afternoon Except Sunday by THE GEORGIAN CO. at 25 W. Alabama Street, Atlanta, Ga. Entered as second-class matter April 25, 19*6. at the PoatoPlca at Attanta. Ga.. under act of congress of Marcn 3. ITS. 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 ho will. —Heywood. Saturday Evening. Thla to the migratory season of the year, when humanity, with money In Its purse or gypsy-blood in Its veins, swells the passenger lists ot outgoing steamers and the exchequers of the seaside resorts. This migratory Instinct Is sa strong In mankind as In any ot the feattiered tribe, from the restless quail which, hatched In captivity, will beat Its brains out against the bars, td the wild goose whose honk marks the coming and the passing ot winter. It is elemental and primeval, and all the civilisation under the sun cannot entirely eliminate it 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 himself at home in all the continents of the earth, ha waa In the habit of climbing the loftiest hills In the vicinity of hla Inland home and looking out with a vague and prophetic longing toward the ever luring sea. Madame de Stacl has told us that travel I* “the saddest of all pleasures," for we realise that In making new and attractive acquaintances and In becoming at tached to charming acenea In other lands we are mere- ly forming ties which must be broken again as the ne cessity for moving on arises. It may be a sad pleasure, but we have It upon the authority of the great dramatist that "home-staying youths hava ever homely ways," and that "It would be great impeachment to hla age In having known no travel In hi* youth.” There may be a certain class of people who would ride a ( hundred miles td see an Interesting man, but “would not throw open their window to see the bay ot Naples." Theae are lew and far between, however, and the desire to follow tho sun In his coune around the earth Is aa 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 6raised the Atlantic last year, and atlll 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 a part of the education of princes and the members of tho nobility, for It was a perilous and a costly undertak ing. A form of insurance once prevailed by which the Insurers received a sum of monoy on the haxard of paying back a much larger sum In the event that the traveler returned to hla home again. That was In the ilnys when Coryat and Sir John Maundervllle and Marco rolo made their daring voyages to the lands beyond the seas and brought back strange and Incredible stories ot the people they had seen. The Ingenuity and development of modem time* hat made not only “(he grand tour” but a much grander tour possible without the basard Implied by the Insurance arrangement of early times. It Is a part of the culture of the times and one for which , we ahould be duly grateful. The peoplo who are "born In a teacup and never look oxer the brim” are sadly handicapped In the race of life. It la wrought Into the very essence of the soul, when one has stood .upon the Alps and looked out across the wilderness of Ice and anow where nature has written her moat Imposing masterworka or stood upon the Palatine and surveyed the crumbled ruins of an empire, built with handa, which rose, reigned and fell In a cycle ot power, luxury and de cay. It becomes a part ot our very being when we have ■trolled through tho dreamy temples of the Eaat, where gnu-haired pundits teach the mystery ot Brahma, whore muetslos call the Faithful to the worship o( 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 4race the operation of laws and customs in Innds 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. ft la well worth while. In the highest and noblest -sense, to become a man of the world. lantn. 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 sunstroko or prostration. It would Indeed be the meanB of bringing labor and capital to flit* state If these facts were set forth as they deserve, and no man Is better quallQed to do this than Mr. Marbury. Tho coat of the undertaking would be Insignificant compared with the good that could be accomplished.-Five or ten thousand o' these books scattered throughout the country where they would be most generally read would serve to attract new blood to this favored section. It It royally generous on the part of Mr. Marbury to offer to do this work without money and without price. Impelled thereto only by hla civic pride and bis love for the state as a whole. Hla offer Is heartily appreciated and should be put Into effect at once. Heard on the Corner Electric Eels as Motive Power. A Brochure on Our Climate. The proposition ot Forecaster J. B. Marbury that If the city will' defray the expense ot printing, he will prepare a work on the climatic advantages of AUanta and ot the stale, should be promptly accepted and put Into execution. Mr. Marbury, wbo Is one of the moat efficient ob servers In the meteorological department of the govern ment, la particularly well qualified to discuss thla sub ject. and It la known of all men, when they atop to con sider the facta, that thla Id* Indeed one of the moat de lightful and wholesome climates In the world. Mr. Marbury It quite right In attributing to thla ex cellence of our climate ta targe degree of the material prosperity of the city, and It would lie of Inestimable ad vantage to have theae facta made known to the world at large. There It ( something bracing and Invigorating In the very atmosphere, while the temperature Is mild and even. The AUanta observer speaks by the card when he saya that It la the most delightful climate east of the Rocky mountains. What is true of AUanta Is true In lurge measure of the ftate aa a whole. Georgia can boast of a climate which makes life worth living the year round. It goes without saying that there la no extreme cold such as Northern cities suffer, and It It equally well known by those wbo live here that when the large cities like New York. Philadelphia and Boston are sweltering In the summer sun, and humidity la claiming Its hundreds very week, the people of Georgia, and particularly of At- Will the horse power be supplanted by tbe eel power as the dynamic measure of the future? Tbe quesUon opens up a condition of affairs which Is dwelt upon without a smile by grave and reverend signors wbo ought to kDow what they are talking about When the average man la told that concerted ef forts are being made to utilize the electric eel of South America aa a motive power he la naturally Inclined to titter, but If Don Quixote de Esperando, of Venezuela, cornea to thla country, aa he la reported to Intend, we will hare "In our midst” the greatest living authority on the electric eel, and In the meantime the people who like to speculate on the wonders of tbe future are figuring out tome curious applications of thla remarkable force to tbe work of transportation and Illumination. We are gravely told that one hundred of these eels can be put In a xlnc tank and will give enough power to run an automobile for twenty-four hours. Even If It la a vary small automobile, thla 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 theae eels, distributed In suitable tanka or Jars, would propel a three-coach train at the rate of 36 miles an hour. (For how many hours I* not stated!) Carry ing the calculation still further, w* are aaked to believe that 300,000 of them. If so many could be oollected from the Amazon and the Orinoco, where they thrive, would carry a trans-Atlantic liner from Sandy Hook to Cher- bohrg wlthont tbe slightest difficulty. And In the matter of Illumination they would be no leu useful. One eel would light a room with easo, 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 bllla would be enormouB, so tong os 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 thrive and multiply bo far from the South American waters which are their native habitat has not been made public. Presumably all thla will bo made clear when Senor Don Quixote de Esperando arrtvos In thta country. On tbe whole It sounds as It the gentloman who Is quoted aa an authority on electric eels were well named, and that he might at any time be expected to employ a squire and start out on a crusade against windmills, but we are asked to accept tbe whole story seriously and we shall endeavor to do so until Don Quixote actually arrives on the scene. In the meantime there has been no slump In the price of coal on account of the prospective competition from the electric eels'ot South America. Gourdain’s Strange Case. The case of Louis A. Gourdaln, of Chicago, who la making desperate efforts to break Into the peniten tiary, la one of tbe moat remarkable In tbe history of American freaks and eccentrics. Gourdaln waa arrosted. tried and convicted of run ning n kind of. lottery scheme by which be had accu mulated a fortune. He la represented as being a mil llonalre aevoral times over. He made a vow la court that It he was found guilty he would not appeal from the sentence of tbe court and would return every dollar of hla Illegal gains to tho people ho swindled. He wae found guilty, all right, and was sentenced to the penitentiary at Joliet for four years. After few months' Incarceration however, an attorney, who la said to have acted on hla own Initiative In the matter, secured a pardon for Mm, and Gourdaln waa released. He accepted Ms freedom under the persuasion of hla wife, but he l.a# been conscience stricken ever since and haa been mixing desperate efforts to be sent back to the penitentiary. He Insists that bta honor la In volved. and he haa be«n trying to see various Justice* of the supremo court to have hla petition for relncarcer- atlon filed In due form. He declared that If he la not ■ent back to prison he will erect a cell at hit own ex pense on land which he haa already bought In the Im mediate vicinity of the penitentiary and serve out hla sentence, after which he will restore to the people who trusted him the fortune he made and will embark on a vessel with all hla Immediate relatives. Tbe Gourdaln family will disappear from the earth. It does not teem to occur to him that the Gourdalna aa a whole may not be willing to embark on hla ship and efface themselves from the earth at the whim of Louis, but be that aa It may Gourdaln appears to take the .whole'matter very seriously. True he made a vow that he would not eat until he had been restored to prlaon, but the pangs of hunger won out over that deter initiation. He has gone from city to city, however, try ing to find some Judge who will put him back In the penitentiary, and haa met with no success. The mystery of Itiall la that the man appears to be perfectly aane, at least on every other subject, and an nounces that he la simply conscience stricken and wmnta to make amend*. The chancea are that hla ardor will abate In a short time, and certainly tb* ends ot justice will be met If he will redeem hla promise to return the money secured Illegally, with Interest, much more effectively than If he went back Into, prison to brood over hla tins. EXCHANGE AND BUCKET SHOP. To tbe Editor of The Georgian: I have read with great Interest what haa been pub lished In The Georgian on the subject of bucket shops. Commercial questions are out of my line, but I do know something about law, logic and moral philosophy, and I am not entirely Ignorant about political economy. Two element* enter Into tbe essence of gambling. They are both present In every act of gambling, and wherever both exist In any transaction they make It gambling. Theae elements are: First. The smallness of the amount paid Into the transection and the possible large gains, therefrom. Second. The presence of contingency that wins through the transaction. Tbe capitalist who puts up 31,000 In an exchange How He Got Eloctod. Judge Joel Branham l» a recontuer without a !>eer 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 i-olltlclans and their ways, he told this one: “Cp In Floyd a good many years ago a certain well known man waa a can dIdate for the legislature. He was getting on pretty well, though having hot opposition. Then an ugly rumor started that this candidate bad 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 an that he had not only not sold her cow, but that he hail 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. Ye.-ir- aftei- w-ard he confessed that he started both reports." CORPORATION CONSCIENCE IS NEGATIVESAYS GIBBONS, “AND MAGNIFIES EXCUSES” Putt in th« Corner. Ono of the popular residents of X. Jackson street almost had a fit tbe other morning when she missed two of her choicest angora kittens. Search high and low failed to rereal their whereabouts. Ah 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. Uha was Just in the nick of time. The contents of the banket 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 ■hlrt. American Cardinal Discusses Question “What is the Remedy for Social and* Civic Unhealthfulness ? ” Houssr's Story. ’Colonel" Frpd Houser, the genial chief clerk at the Aragon hotel. Is a veteran In the hotel business and la fond of relating tome 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 n guest at a hotel with which Houser was connected was given. a fishbolt for breakfast. He slxed 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 a bite. Amaxed at tasting animal matter where he had expected vegetable, he exclaimed with horrer: “Oh, mem, there's something dead In me bun. COURT FIXES BOND FDR W,W, COLLIER Trihl of Alleged Embezzler Set for November 12, at Bainbridge. Special to The Georgian. Bainbridge, Ga., July 21.—W. W. Col lier, who waa Indicted at the November term of court, 1905, on the charge of embezzling funds of the Mexican Gulf Oil and Mining Company, of* which he was treasurer, was brought to Bain bridge yttzerday from Belton, Texas, by the sheriff of that county and his bond assessed nt 22.000. When Interviewed Collier said: "I will moot them when the time comes." The bond of J. 8. Ml Refit Indicted at tho name time as Collier on a charge - 'of embezzlement, was also fixed at 32,- non. McHt-c whs president of the oil company. The trial Is set for November 12. HOUSE IS WILLING TO RELIEVE COURT The action of the Georgia Bar Asso ciation In naming a committee to form ulate some plan to present to the legis lature to give needed relief to the su preme court seems to have met a re sponsive echo In the liftuse. Several members are heartily tn fa vor of giving thta relief, the only dif ference being In the mode. Some think an Increase of judges to nine or ten would give the relief, as that would lessen the work upon the individual members. Others are wed ded to the Idea of establishing an In termediate court. Th(s 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 wonld be easier to get one or possibly two than three on more Judges. Mr. Flanders, of Johnson, another lay member of the house, also believes la Increasing /the Judges, making the Private WIr* to Waro Sc Leland. New York, July 21.—In an Interview today Cardinal Gibbona, who la resting In the Shlnnecock hills on Long Island with Bishop Foley, of Detroit, In an swer to the question, “What ia the remedy for the social and civic un healthfulness that Is giving occupation now to so many muck-rakerar* said:'* That la comprehensive. I would rather attempt to answer a dozen spe cific questions, but I think I may an- swer thin by saying, when the sanctity <.f the marriage tl* and the obligation of family relations are more fully real ized and religious training In the fami ly becomes more general, we may look for better conditions. "Dlsect the questions as me may, we are forced back again and again to the same conclusion—moral and rHig- Ioiih training In the family are tlal, and Just as they are neglected do these evils Increaes. Excuses the Corporation. ’By civic evils we refer to cqrporate greed, financial Immorality and official Infidelity, an in the rase of the Insur ant e crimes and the group of crimes broadly classlfled as 'graft. 1 I do not know enough of the facts In the pack ing house scandals to Include them In this generalization, but generally speaking this class of evil Is dm* 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 U negative, h minimizes 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, sin 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 cotv* science. Tills has given rise to much broad, liberal discussion of prevalent abuseH and their causes, fixing the re sponsibility and often disclosing crim inality, and. Is doing much to remedy these abuses and bring business, moral ity bark to the point of safety. This Is, at least, my hope. I 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 crime* havi had their eyes opened. They now see much that they did not see before. “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 nixed I see little hope for Improve ment. As to the False Standards. “The principal obligation of the fam lly Is the religious education of tbe young, the Importance of which Is ap parent. With if everything may b< accomplished. Without It we may have great awakenings, we may have general revival oi public conscience, but relapses will come again because the foundation Is lacking. “Most og the putridity of private character, as disclosed In the revela* tlons of courts and the press, grows out of family relations with false standards and without religion, and not fr*on u Jack of family relations. He turning to the civic side of the ques tlon, It may be asked why, if I see such close relations between the mo rality of business and religious train lng 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. Declined Reluctantly. I was reluctant to decline the place offered me on* that committee, but I believe that the questions involved are very intimately associated with great and vital matters of finance. With such, I am not sufficiently familiar to enable me to Judge fairly, should doubt arise, and I felt that my best course was to decline* which I have done. My reslg nation nas been received by the com mlttee and reluctantly accepted. "The whole matter Is in good hands now, and I trust and believe will bo worked out wisely.” . . . JOHN D. LOSES HIS WIG ! HAIR DRESSER MAY SUE HIM By PAUL VILLIER8. By Private Lea rad Wire. Paris, July 21.—Tile wealthiest peo ple In the world are not exempt from physical discomforts which attack us all, as the King of Petroleum, Mr. Rockefeller, has Just discovered. As hs was making a quiet little excur sion of the forest of Compelgne re cently he lost not his hair, for he has none, but his wig, which Is as pre cious to him as the apple of his eye. Happily, Paris Is well provided with wig makers. Mr. Rockefeller at once put himself tn communication with a celebrated tonsorlal artist here, whose number as high aB ten, In letting the justices consider the cases In pairs. Mr. Flynt, of Spalding, one of the strongest lawyers of the house, believes an Intermediate court the proper rem edy. -With such a court, restricted to reviewing all misdemeanor cases, and civil enses up to a certain amount, making the final tribunal In such cases, would give the deetred relief. This would relieve tbe burden now upon the supreme court Justices, and give them sufficient time to oonslder the really Important litigation that goes to that court. Mr. Jenkins, of Putnam, also believes the Intermediate court the only way t11 Klx.- the teller. He .11.1 llot think ..11 Increase of tho Judges would meet the needs of the situation. Mr. Covington. In Indorsing the prop osition, said that all city and county courts should he abolished. If necea- snry. he would favor a supreme court Judge lit end liny. Iti.lhin.i 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 Rsturn to Atlanta, 8peclt! to The Georgian. , Opelika, Ala, July 21.—H. H. Ham mond, who for nearly two years has been manager ot the Opetlkn, Auburn and Lafayette exchanges ot the South ern Bell Telephone Company, has re signed his position, to take effect Au gust l. Mr. Hammond will return to the purchasing department of the uine company, with headquarters In Atlanta. establishment Is In the Castlgllone, and commissioned him to replace the lost wig. The hair dresser made Inquiries nn.l found out that Mr. Rockefeller paid 350 francs in New York for his original wig. Being a good business man, tho Pari sian hair dresser determined t»st he would charge the American billionaire more than that, and sent In a bill for 500 francs, nr 3100. Mr. Rockefeller absolutely refused to pay any such n price, so the hair dresser threatens to sue him. The case has 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 house. WILL WORK FOR PA3SAGE OF IMMIGRATION BILL Special to Tbe Georgian. Augusta, Ga, July 21.—Secretary Moore, of the Chamber of Commerce ztatez 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 th« kMN and will urge Its pAssage. He says the movement that has been started for the Immigrants for this section will not 1.1- allowed 1.. get lukewarm, but, mi tif other hand, tho 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 ELECT8 NEW OFFICERS. Special to The Georgian. v Newberry, S. C, July 21.—The South Carolina State Press Association, now In annual session at the Iale of Palms, Charleiton, haa elected the following officers: President. E. H. Ault, of Newberry: vice presidents, William Banka and J. C. Mayce; secretary, R. L. Freeman; treasurer, August Kohn; executive committee, W. Vy. Ball, E. H. De Camp and C. M. Galloway. Escaped Convict Caught. Special fo Tbe Georgian. Newberry. 8. C., July 31.—Mllledge Green, a negro, who last fall escaped from the Georgia chalngang, was ar (ruin ilia nt <u Kill i wll Br* rested by Magistrate C. 8. Blrase on Wednesday In this city, and taken to Atlanta. on December cotton, In no moral aenao differs from tbe clerk wbo puts up $10 In a bucket abop on the same hazard. But a mill man. It la urged, should be allowed to buy a supply of cotton to be delivered.In December at a price to be agreed upon lu July, In order that be may know how to price tbe goods be must deliver In Jan uary. "Therefore the cotton exchange may tell cotton futures." But since mill men never buy from bucket shop* the bucket shops should uot be allowed to tell cot ton futures, for It ia well established In law and morals that dealing In cotton futures la gambling. And It la gambling because the transaction la conducted between a small wager and a contingency that Is cot settled until tbe game la played out, whether In the exchange or bucket shop. Speculation ia not wrong. There la no harm In "buy ing and telling and getting gain.” to long as honest deal ings prevail. There are two ways In which contracts for future delivery of goods may be made, whlcb are not gambling contracts. Example: , , , „ First. A mill man buy* from a farmer In July 35 I bales of cotton to be delivered In December at tbe mar ket price that shall prevail in December. To secure thla contract the mill man pays the farmer 34 a bale for the cotton In advance. Such a trade would be legitimate. The uncertainty In which the future price of cotton Is Involved la Just the uncertainty that tbe farmer baa had to meet from the first of the year clear on through. All productive Industries without exception are confronted constantly by tbe uncertainty of future markets. Second. The other way la thta: The mill man goes to the farmer and buy* 36 bales of cotton to be delivered In December at 360 per bale, and gives his note for the amount In thla transaction the future price Is agreed upon without reference to what the market price may be and tbe deal la doted on that basis. The note, of course, bat Its present value In bank. There la spec ulation In It but there Is no gambling, because the amount paid In I* 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,” but a full payment Is made. The cotton exchange la, of course, the representative of the farmer In the telling of cotton and the moral prin ciples that bold good in one cate would be juit aa good In the other. 1 do not know whether anybody ever buys or tells cotton at a cotton excb&uge In either of tbe way* I have described us legitimate. The usual practice I know Is very different. A buyer "puts up” a margin of say 32 a bale on December cotton at 10c. That la he bets 32 a bale that he will be able to buy cotton at 360 a bale In December. The exchange or bucket shop, as the case may be, puts up lu engagement to furnish the cotton at that price, or pay the difference, which la the corre sponding wager on its side. Such a transaction la gamb ling. pure and simple, whether conducted In an ex change between the cotton mill men of all America on oue side and the New York Cotton exchange on the other, or between a 325 dork and a back street bucket ■hop. No iuffident reason can be given for allowing cot- toit 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 the laws of business and the dispensation of Providence to make their price*. This Is true of all productive industries. On what principle of economics or morals should manufacturing Industries be allowed to evBde the law* of business and Providence by trading In futurer? The whole scheme Is presume tuous Bln against the God of providence, and can bring no possible advantage to anybody, except a gambler’s ad vantage who wins while another lose*. It Is tho earnest hope of all good people that our lawmakers will forbid the continuation of the gambling In futures. The demand for thla reform Is cloaeiy related to the demand for reform in divers other places Let the good work go on. J. L. D. HILLYEU. By Private Leaned Wire. New York. July 21.—Of all men, A|. fretl Belt, the diamond king, who died In London this week, would have been the last, when he was alive, to be con sidered the hero of a love romance, it was through the Instrumentality of . prosaic American life Insurance policy that It became known that England's richest man had fallen victim to Dan Cupid. The Elizabeth Bennett, In whole fa- for Belt took out on 350,000 policy u "my Intended wife," has been Identified and Is believed to be a beneflclary un der the Wiir of Belt. She la a widow, not young, but the Junior of Belt by several years, who lives In Mayfair. Her husband was a mining engineer' who was a companion of Belt when the* latter was prospecting In South Af. idea and they were partners. They separated before Belt laid the foundation of his fortune In Kimberly nnd Bennett died not sharing that good luck. But Belt remembered Bennett, looked him up and became Intimate with his family after his fortune had begun to rapidly grow, and the friend- ship for the family continued until Belt's death. As one mark of his friendship. Belt undertook ta educate Bennett's son and daughter did not marry the widow never will be known. After all, Sarah Bernhardt Is not to wear the ribbon ot the Legion of Honor. The government nominated her —as has been told—but with the coun- ell of the order the prejudice was too strong nnd 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 Mlsa Anne Ide, daughter of Governor. General Henry C. Ide. of the Philip, pines, to W. Hourke Coekran Is Inten sified by the report that the ceremony Is likely to be held In the old historic Malacanang palace, where Mlsa Ids nnd her sister Marjorie have entertain ed liberally and become popular Jn the military society set of Mnnlln. To hold the wedding In the gover nor-general's palace, It was said, would mark a raro 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 tho other hand, many of the Invited guests could not possibly voyage hslf- way around the earth to see Miss Ids mnrrlcd, and the affnlr would lack the brilliance that would bo possible In a marriage In the national capital. Another offlclnl advocate of marriage has been found In Acting Mayor Mc Carthy, of Jersey City. He declares: “The man who marries and helps to rear children does what he can to make this world a better place to, live In. We need more Itulilcs. We mn't get too many of them. It Is needless to say that I am violently opposed to race sul- cldc. I'll be acting mayor for a week, and I offer nil couples who have a right to wed a first-claHS, all-wool, cop. per-rlveted, asbestos-lined carriage ceremonoy free of charge. "I'm a batchelor, but It Is not my fault. I'm ready tn marry when the right girl comes along.” Frank Work, father of My*. Burke- Roche, who Is married to Aural Ba. tonyl, Is employing nt least one, and, It t a -If....A mAa,AMn1 aBLas* Vaix* Vrtflf Is believed, several other New York detectives to watch all Incoming steam- era and trains. The purpose of the quest. Is kept secret. Meanwhile tho gates of the Work mansion, “Elm Court,” are chained and the gardener has been Instructed to per- mlt no one to occupy the house. Mr. Work declares that Mrs. Batonyl never can enter Elm Court again. This ap parently contradlctz the rumor that he md forgiven his daughter. Messenger 4126 draws the line on blrd-catchlng. He was sent for to get a canary which had escaped front Bellevue hospital. The messenger boy was offered 60 cents to climb the tree In which the bird sat, but when he haa struggled to the top the songster again hopped elsewhere. "Wat do youso ttnk I am—a bold, me A. D. T. exclnlmcd. “I can t 1Mle* dls little yeller feller wldout wings. Dr. Thomas or Knabenahue If y?<-*« want to ketch dla bold. 1m foln ter 'beat it* back to de oflls.” GEORGIANS IN GOTHAM. By Private Leased Wire. New York, July 21.—Here are som* of the visitors In New York today: ATLANTA—V. H. Oeelbaway, J. Hargrave, C. B. Howard. E. E. Lowe. L. Reynold*, W. W. Reynolds, W. MIH- SAVANNAH—H. W. Cowan, Mrs. J. M. Hampton, J. J. Corrigan. IN PARI8. Special to The Geor*lan. . . . Paris, July 21.—Mrs. Nellie Black tad the Misses Anita and Louise Black, or Atlanta, Oa., registered at tha the European edition of The New lor* Herald today. THIS DATE IN HISTORY. poet. JULY 21. _ 1794—Robert norao, ScotUah Bore January X, 1759. 1797—Battle of the 1'jrramlda la MU*'- 1014—Inquisition reeotablUhed In died. U14—Inquisition re-eotnblienea in <v“j-v 4 the'Sttb'of coned' toti**- cniost 1X74—Charges of Theodore Tilton «**' Hrory Wart Beecher amdejobfl.. p< Anthony J. UondeOa. 1*39—Robert G. Ingerooll died. Born d* 902—Shaking d™"- etremer .lag of Klim river steamer t rnojj Hamburg! one hundred 1909—Grrat'uilldlug trade strike lu >»« named for r>'«~ 1906—lExplomfon r *on t'nltrd '."Tw'ra Bennington lu San Itlcgo harbor, ty*Wght moa killed. SERVANT PROBLEM IS VEXING ROMA" 8, Special to The Georgian.. Rome, Oa., July 2I.-Tbe question seems to be a problem _ Rome at preaent, as well a* the cri need of farmers to get sufficient to work their cro|i». There ■J*”’* a plot among the negroes here, male and female, not to work “ can keep from It. One fiegro * JTin was heart to say: “De nigger wth j g Rome has now got de white worn de kitchen, an' dey 'apeels ter dem dar."