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6 THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN. Tin-RftnAT. august j, iso*. The Atlanta Georgian. JOHN TEMPLE GRAVES, Editor. F. L. SEELY, President. Telephone Connections. Subscription Rates: e Yesr $4.50 ] Six Months 2.80 I Three Months 1.25 | By Csrrler, per week 10c Published Every Afternoon Except Sunday by THE GEORGIAN CO. it 25 W. Alibsms Street, Atlanta? Ga. Entered ss second-class matter April 35. isoi. at the Postofflce St Atlanta, Os., nnder act of coniress of March 1 Wt. A man may well bring a horse to the water. But he cannot make him drink without he will. —Hey wood. The Problem That Presses. There are few gatherings more important to the South In the most seriouq phase of Us present day life, than the Joint meeting to be held In Nashville on No- vember 13th, by the representatives of the Southern Im migration and quarantine Convention and of the South ern Industrial Parliament These bodies will doubtless merge at that time, as their problems are practically similar and can best be worked out In unity rather than In separate organisa tions. One of the most tremendous questions which will come before this body will be this problem of labor which la everywhere becoming a pressing and vital con- slderaUon In these Southern states. The negro has failed. As the editor of The Georgian pointed out three years ago at the University of Chicago, the negro Is no longer the vital element nor the Indispensable element tn the Industrial life of the South. The cotton In the cotton states, (he sugar and cane In the sugar states, and the Industrial work In all of these Southern states, Is now done mostly by white men and the negro Is a constantly decreasing factor In our Industrial work. Of course the negro has been for a hundred years or more our laboring class. He has furnished the stand ards of labor, and because of hla color and because of his unasslmllable qualities, he has kept away other la borers of tho white class who were not willing to put themselves upon an equality with an Inferior race. And now, after having shut out for so many years the tide of Immigration from these Southern states, the negro, growing every year more shiftless and Indifferent, flock ing to the cities where Idleness seems to be not Incon sistent with a living, and educated by the Booker Wash ington theories out of willingness for manual labor, has prnctlcally deserted the cotton fields and the farms of the South, and we stand face to face with a deficit of labor every year. This la the cry that floods our want columns In our newspapers and makes prosperity a problem In the fields and mines of the South. Of course thero can be but one ultimate answer to this demand. Immigration must furnish to this great Southern country the laborers of the future for the development Hnd growth of the country. And yet, when we come to consider the question of Immigration It Involves so many problems and so many dangers that may menace our civilization, that only those men should be sent to the discussion of Immigration and to the devising of ways and means to secure ft, who know the subjeet In all of Its bearings, and who appreciate the difficulties and dmigers which are cortaln to accompany It In Its un restricted state. Wo do not want the hordes of Bouthern Europe In these Southern states. God knows that we have a race problem now that Is difficult enough to handle, and we do not wish to complicate It by a steady Influx of those vagrants of Southorn Europe who make every year the percentages of crlmo and tho bnsls of revolution. When the time comos, tho representative South with all Its might and all Its Intelligence should move clearly, defi nitely and persistently for the German, English, Irish, Scotch and Scnndanavlan races of Europe for this coun try. They nro tho only Immigrants who have made good In America. They have enriched our cltlsenshlp, In creased our thrift and magnified the states In which they llvo. They ought to bo just as easy to gst as the Southern Europeans. Our opportunities and attractions are as large to them as they are to the other races, and we had better suffer tho Ilia ws have, Inconvenient and serious as they are. than to rush to problems and ad mixtures that Involve difficulties more serious and more dangerous nnd more menacing than thoso which oppress us now. - This question of labor pressos nowhore more acute ly than It doos In the matter of domestic service. The women of tho South are subjected to unceasing wfcrry and Inconvenience by the Irregularity and unthrift and the Insolont Independence of the domestic negro. Com munltles might find It wise to band themselves together and by sending representatives to some of the cities of the North, they might bring groups and companies of white domestics to tho South who, having their own com rades about them, would find life pleasant bars and would be willing to stay and to establish the Indepen dence which the people need. ' We trust that Governor Terrell will take this mat ter seriously under consideration and that hs will ap point as delegates to Nashville to both of these con gresses. men who are Interested tn this great problem and who are capable of discussing It with Intelligence and with force. The Russian Revolt. Reports from Finland Indicate that the revolution In that country has at last assumed formidable propor tions. The garrison at Sveaborg has revolted and It Is reported that there Is a mutiny among the sailors of the Baltic fleet. It Is given out tn certain quarters that this Is but part of a general plan to revolt, which was to place the commanding fortresses of the Black Sea and the Baltic, together with the fleets stationed there. In the hands of the revolutionists, but that the general plan has been temporarily Interfered with by the premature revolt In Finland. v Communication betweeo Cronstadt and St. Peters burg has been cut off and the Russian government Is In great alarm. These stirring events lend color to the opinion that the popular uprising Is about to be suatatnad by the gen eral revolt of the army and navy. This may or may not be true. It Is possible that the present disorders In Finland may be suppressed. But they sufficiently In dicate the temper of the sailors and seamen and the people In general. They dearly point to the fact that the tide of revolution la gathering strength every day and that sooner or later there will be a terrible climax to alt the mutterings of discontent which have been go ing on In the empire ever since the douma was dissolved by tho ukaae of the Czar. Nicholas himself la practically a prisoner In the palace at Peterhof, guarded by Trepoff and hla band of henchmen. Sooner or later he must realize that be has made a tremendous mistake In dissolving the popular chamber, which he himself had called Into existence, and that the people, having once had a taste of representative government, will not alt Idly by and see It swept away. Students of history and of the present time feel that the new reign of terror baa begun at last and that before affairs are settled tn Russia again there will be much bloodshed, and out of It all, and beyond It all, the vin dication aod adoption of a real constitutional govern ment In which the people may have a voice. The Spirit of the Investigation. There Is easily room for criticism It one should go to seek It, In the Investigation being held In Mr. Jor dan’s private office during tbeBO lost two days. At least two of the members of that Impartial (?) committee of Investigation havo Impressed the by-stand- ers and the witnesses alike with the fact that they had forgotten the role of calm and dispassionate Jurymen and bad become the eloquent and enthuslaattc attorneys for the defense. President Johnson has preserved throughout an at tltude of judicial calm and the evident Intention to be fair and thorough. There never was a time In Colonel Peek’s life when be was lest than an honest and brave man, and he evidently wanted the truth. But two or three* of the outside committee, and most notably Mr, Seymour, of Alabama, made manifest from the first that they were the partisans of the administration, and their questions to the witnesses and their whole attitude toward the Investigation left Jlttle hope of that unbiased mind which we expected to find In a dispassionate tri bunal. Another moat notable Incident of the Investigation was in the fact that when several wltneeaea volunteered to tell things that were of vital Interest to the truth which these gentlemen came to hear. If Mr. Richard Cheatham would permit them to speak, that not only did Mr. Cheatham, who professed to desire the whole truth exploited, refuse to permit these men to speak but the committee who came here professedly for the exclu sive purpose of getting all the truth and all of the light, would not ask these men to tell all that they knew. Whether It be Ignorance or whether It be something worse, It la perfectly evident that there was a spirit present In several members of that commltteo which was not the spirit out of which truth is derived, and from which the cotton growers of Georgia are going to get a fair and fearless decision of the facts In this memora ble and important case. carrying out of the Cummins program have come to naught. The progressive faction has won out on every count, and the "stand pat" forces have been put to flight, In spite of tho administration Influence exerted through Hon. Leslie M. Shaw. All of which Is bound to have a great effect on the congressional elections and on the presidential election two years later. As to the “Personal” Element. President Harvie Jordan, In hla testimony on Wed nesday night before his committee, complains that it Is hardly fair that the editor of The Georgian should hold any personal feelings toward him since he disclaimed any connection with or any responsibility for the cartoon which sought to Impeach the sincerity of this paper. President Jordan will'remember that we reminded him when he dticlatmed the cartoon, that If he had halt ed at that point where the rules and codes of honor and of controversy demand, there would promptly have been eliminated at that time and place, every element of the personal In the feelings of the editor of The Georgian toward him. But when President Jordan did not atop, but after our temperate criticism, went on and on to speak bitterly and Insultingly In hla subsequent comments and to say all and more than he disclaimed tn the cartoon, It was Impossible for any self-respecting man not to feel the out rage perpetrated by his words. Meanwhile we say now to Mr. Jordan that not one line personal to himself has gone Into this paper during this Investigation, that In tho discussion of this question we feel absolutely free from any personal animosity to ward him, and that we are fully as anxious as he Is. to vindicate the association and Its administration if It be possible to vindicate It from the shadow which rests upon Its present life. A Georgian' in Texas. Georgians have a very keen Interest In the contest in the 8lxth congressional district of Texas because of the neck and neck race which has been run between Messrs. Hardy, Henderson and Mays. Rufus Hardy, who leads by sixty votes at the laat return, was a member of the famous University of Georgia risks of 1875, and won the Junior medal In the Phi Kappa Society. He has been a judge of the superior court for many years In the circuit of which Corelcana la the chief city. He la a man of the highest character and of the broadest ability. There are hundreds of his friends and classmates scattered throughout the state who are watch ing with keen Interest the Texae contest and wishing him abundant success. At the last summary of the returns Judge Hardy had received 3,894, Mr, Henderson. 3,883, and Mr. Mays 3,739. With less than a hundred votes sep arating the highest and lowest candidate, one can real ise the tendon that Is felt In the Sixth congreeslonal district by the friends of the Interested parties. The Cummins Program Wins. The expected did not happen out In Iowa, In one respect. The Indications were that there would be an ex citing convention and there were even anticipations that something like personal violence might break out on the floor of the convention. But nothing of the kind occurred, and from the lim ited Information at hand thus far It would seem that Governor Cummins had the convenUon entirely his way. A large majority of the delegates were for him. even arter the conteata were settled. Garst, hla candidate for lieutenant governor, was chosen and the policy of progressive tariff reform waa adopted. Tbti will give a strong impulse to tariff revirion throughout the country, but the fact of the matter It that Cummins’ anti-corporation policy Is cansing as much alarm aa anything else In the ranks of his enemies. Garst. It seems, in even more radical In his opposition to Illegal combinations of capita) than Cummins him- sslf. It It feared by the corporations that Senator Alllaon, who It very much advanced In years, may die or retire, and that Cummins would succeed him, in which event Garst, more relentless In his opposition to trusts and combines than Cummins himself, would be come governor of the state. It wot Garst whom they feared. But dll their plans and calculations to prevent the Col. Mulberry Sellers’ Latest Scheme. In the fear that the farmers of the South, and the people In general, might be Induced to take stock tn a visionary enterprise established to make paper from cotton stalks. The Tradesman, of Chattanooga, has sounded a note of alarm, which waa recently reproduced In these columns. That article, and the general discussion precipitated by The Tradesman, has made the Southern people alt up and take notice. The periodical In question Is recog nized as one of the ablest In the South and la always de voted to the legitimate upbuilding of tho Southern states. But It sees great danger In the present project and It has determined to go to the bottom of It fn its current Issue The Tradesman says of this $15,000,000 en terprise: It waa reported In a reliable New York paper, and extensively copied by the Southern press, as coming from the president of the new company, that "Several plants would be erected and In successful operation by January 1, 1907," and the marvelous re sults that were to follow from the operation of these plants were such that we frit Impelled to dub them as being worthy of having emanated from the fer tile hraln of a Colonel Mulberry Sellers. We know that no plant for making paper from cotton stalks had ever been operated to test the com mercial value of the enterprise, and the only object of our publication was to have those who had made these claims demonstrate thetr correctness, before entailing such losses In experiments as had occurred elsewhere, and under the same patents that this lat ter company were reported as Intending to use. For the Information of all Interested parties we give below a report made by a competent chemist to the Little Rock Board of Trade on the practicability of such an enterprise: " To the Members of the Board of Trade, Little Rock, Ark.—I notice considerable comment In the press regarding the Cotton Stalk Products Company, of which Harvie Jordan 1b president, and would state to you that paper stock cannot be made from the cotton plant, either stalk or hulls; that Is, the high-grade paper stock cannot be manufactured from stalk or hulls, but a cheap grade can be made, but not at a profit. J. A. SPURLIN. "Chemist Little Roclt Board of Trade. Little Rock. Ark., July 18. 1906.” Every true friend of the 8outh would, of course, be* delighted to see any practicable enterprise succeed, but the Indications are that this project Is dangerously visionary, and the facts ahould be made known before anybody Is Induced to put money In It Senator Bacon wants The Congressional Record read by the people.—Houston Post What sort of an Inhuman monster Is Senator Bacon, anyway?—Life Well, maybo he was suggesting an antidote tor dog days. Growth and Progress of the New South Wages Advance and Prosperity Prevails. At present there Is considerable activity In the cotton goods market throughout the country and on yestterd&y an advance In wages, made voluntarily by various mills, went Into effect. The beneficial result of this will be felt throughout the entire South. One of the leading commercial agencies reports that the scarcity of pig Iron Is beginning to be felt seriously, on account of the steady Inflow of orders for structural steel, steel rails, etc. There Is more activity In steel manufacture than ever before In midsummer. Among the orders booked last week was one from the Southern Railroad tor 80,000 tons of rails. Some of the big mills report that they have orders for next year's delivery that will tax their capacity. Pipe mills are also busy, one order from Kansas calling for 100 miles of pipe. Building operations all over the country are pushing the mills for structural steel and hardware. Railroad extension Is more active In the South than In any other part of the country, says this commercial agency. The prosperity of tho South Is shown, moreover, In the reports of the postofflce department. The rev enues of the postofflce Increased 42 per cent during the year ended June 30, while the Increase last yesr was 34 per cent. The states showing the larg est percentages of Increase were all In the South, with South Carolina In the van. The Baltimore American says that never In the history of the clothing and straw hat trade has the season of manufacture opened so early and been pushed with such a rush as has been the case this year. These lines are the trade barometers of Baltimore; by their Indications may be fore cast the trade outlook generally. The Southern traders, so largely the customers of that city, buy these staples, and a heavy demand In these lines Indicates a strong demand all around. The outlook Is the sort that has been worked up to and planned for by the various trade bodies and organi sations that have the city’s trade at heart. The American continues: It Is most gratifying, therefore, to find the city upon a trade swell that promises to reach still higher proportions for a number of years to come. Those who have studied the trade history of this city know that tt has ’ had several clearly defined periods of sharp advance that have done more, for Its promotion than tha Intervening periods of stability. While Balti more Is in no sense a boom town. It la, nevertheleaa, one of the most rapid ly developing and flourishing trade centera In the country. It not only la the natural market for the Eastern ahore of Maryland and Virginia, but of the entire Southern section as far as Florida. Railroads and coast line steamers center In this city the Interlinked towns of the Southern region.' The efforts of other Eaetem cities to divert Baltimore’s Southern trade have been largely overcome by securing the eame transportation conces sions enjoyed by thoee cities, so that there Is no longer any Inducement of this nature for the Southern merchant to pus by Baltimore. Arrange ments for a hearty reception and hospitable treatment of the buyers when they come here, ae they will soon be doing, count - much In the general scheme of enhancing the city as a trade center. THE SUPERIOR SEX. I AM. By ELLA WHEELER WILCOX. I in (Tester than star or tun. For I am a portion ot One, THE ONE. l’art and parrel of that Greet Cause I will ba ever; I am: 1 was. When Maker and Molder of syateme rare Fashioned tho tlntrerae, I waa thera. All that haa been or la to bo tlrane soul refining and good for me. Who sort (lod-huntlng and loohs within Is guided erer nway from ntn. Who knows be la one with the Primal Powar Will And direction from honr to honr. And out of erll ahall good tie wrought By one who patlantly holds this thought "I am greater than atar or oun. For I am a portion of One, TIIE ONE.” Jarome in Gssrgla. From The New York Olobe. It Is something of a novelty to find our picturesque district attorney down in Georgia discoursing to an audience ot lawyers on such a threadbare and platform-worn subject us public opin ion, "the basis of Democracy," u some prehistoric economist characterised It. Mr. Jerome Is wont to select as his themes texts of unusual and striking character, so much so that the mere sight of them raises the reader at once •to attention’’—the Imbecility of judges, their venality; how much more I know than other people, the resurrected skirt dancer of politics, etc. HU forte la not the emission of platitudes, and he did manage to Interline thoee Inevitable In a twentieth century address on public opinion with a few Ideas having the typical Jerome flavor. HU criticism ot Mr. Roosevelt's criti cism of a Federal Judge, while un doubtedly expressing public opinion— at least legal public opinion—comes with fantastic unfitness from a states man who himself has so recently taken a fall out of the Judiciary- In his fa miliar vein was his remark that while It was true "the Individual must wither and the world be more and more,” the kind of public opinion which drives good men out of office and brings In a "group of time servers who, under cover of bowing to public opinion, seek only their own Interest," not only with ered the Individual, but the world ah well. In the main, however, the Warm Springs audience wae treated to a thoughtful dlacuselon of the old sub ject. Mr. Jerome's basic Idea waa that embodied tn the phrase noblesse oblige; the duty of the men and news paper! which largely mould public opinion to use thetr power carefully and honestly. His remarks on the newspapers were all true enough, and would have been tn ttie Bible If they had had newipapers In tbose days. What he had to offer about the law yers Is equally true. "For weal or for woe," he said, "In proportion to our numbers, wa art, or can be. the most Influential body of men In the country. This power brings responsibilities which cannot honorably bs avoided." TELEGRAPHIC NEWS TOLD IN FEW WORDS Unit«d State* Pays Its Shir*. By Private leased Wire. nerlln. Auk. 2.—The United State* he* Ju*t paid Ite share of the award for the sufferer* by the A* * / Italian Heads tha List. By Private Leaeed Wire. Wnihlnaton. Aug. 2.—Herretary Doyle ol the rlril service commlMlon ha* receivin', er* from the president to make special with tbe heai laborers. m rmarn ui lur tiiamt i, e American army during t Rpaln, and who will now I ead of the civil service ell Indian Protests Fse. advisement the Mtttlon of Prank not, an eaatern Cherokee Indian, for an In i nnctlon against Secretary Hitchcock and Charles II. Treat, United States treasurer, who seeks to prevent the payment of an attorney’s fee of $150,000 to Plnkelhnrg, Nagle « Kirby, of Ht. Lou!*, Mo., and Ed* ward Smith, of Vlnlta, I. T. Captain Nick Dawson Dead. By Private Leased Wire. Washington, Aug. l~Captsln Nicholas Dawson, who has been critically 111'for sev eral months at Cameron, bta country home In Fairfax county, Va.. died yeaturday at 1:40 o’clock a. m. At the beginning of the civil war be enlisted In the famous Rev entb Virginia cavalry, commanded by Uen oral Turner Asbbr. Poisoned by Insect. By Private Leased Wire. Washington, Aug. 2.—Plying Insects beat* Ing against the back of hla neck as he sat BIG MONEY IN CAT FARM. From the Chicago News. There la a man In Chicago who la trying to work up a scheme for making money out of cate. 'There are 60,000 stray cate In Chicago," he eays, "that are of no benefit to anyone. They make night hideous. They scratch and bite email children. They are hated and pelted with coal and bootjacks. 1 can rid Chicago of a nuisance and make money <«t» nf them." has $1,000. He Is looking fdr a man with more capital and a good head for managing a cat (aland. Hla scheme la this: -P M ' * Wbn the buildings are up he will have cat hengo to work In Chicago and capture 50.000 cats. Their pelts are Worth 16 ceat# each. He will not them on the Islaad and buy up dead horses and old meat from the stock yard* and have It dumped there from time to time. The cate will be left there four j wild, able. sH5Ei ve propagated sed ’multiplied, * sad MM) rets ran lie killed s yesr, their skins worth front U to 3 rents each. netting the proprietors of this nnlqoe industry 113,go, s yesr. By WEX J0NE8. A woman can't vote ns a mop can; She thinks Brrnsnl 8hsw la "Intense." Amt she ilinces what looka like n ean-ean When abe tries to get over ( fence. Hbe cen't sec n mirror bnt In It Ilcr hslr needs a pat and a amnek; She can't keep n accret a minute. BUT She can button her watat np the back. A woman can’t hit with a hammer, * _ ilr When out nf a street car ane tumbles She probably aprawla on tho track; When naked for a ij-eerh she Just mumbles, She can button her waist up the back. A woman can't sharpen a, pencil; A woman can't aim with a stone; A razor she deems a utensil - For earring the grfatle and hone. When a man feeln uncommonly cheerful ’—‘ hla tigs " when J BUT She can button bor waist up the back. A woman can't atay. without dreaming Of burglnrs, alone In a bouse, Nor see without Jumping and screaming Ho mucb na the ta’l of a mouse. A woman can never look merry When spending 10 cents at a crack; A woman can't climb for n cherry, BUT Hbe can button ber watat up the back. HOW HARVIE IMPRESSES MEM PHIS. From the Memphis Commercial-Appeal In the local market business Is sus pended and the traders find diveralon and amusement In scanning the col umns ot an amateur planters' Jour nal whose owners seek notoriety by assault! upon government officials and departments, leading newspaper! and people with whom they seem delighted to differ. They seem to expect to fat ten upon prejudice engendered by vl cloui agitation, and throw fits under the Impression that they are pleasing their country constituency. They bark and snarl at everything and everybody who disagrees with them, and court attention by striv ing to Involve metropolitan newspapers In controversy with them. The ex periment has now reached its ninth edition and they have In practically one bound reached the pre-eminent distinction of a national scold. The first edition was largely devoted to pictures of the promoters, and prom' tees not llksly to be fulfilled. The leading picture was an Imitation of a farmer on horseback—where euch _ farmer would likely be, not behind the plow or. swinging the hoe. Promoter number two was present' ed In a studied pose representing a master mind at work, or rather watch' Ing the stenographer at it, presume bly hurling anathemas at Secretary Wilson or Instructing him how to run the agricultural department. A later edition waa given over to Instructions to farmers' wives ss how to raise pet Ismb, the correct way to hold a place of linen while embroidering de signs on It, how to make and keep persimmon beer, and for the farmer himself a wild and woolly attack on the agricultural department tor daring to differ with them on the acreage and crop condition. Then came another devoted largely again to pictures, as their penmen were evidently resting after brain ex haustion brought on by the strenuous efforts at roasting the secretary tn the previous number. The happy In spiration struck them that they could make some capital with the farmers by attacking with a cartoon one of the leading exchanges of the country, among whose membership the most representative men of the cotton trade are found. They roared and railed against speculation In a way that caused broad smiles, and misrepre sented the local exchange’s methods with a venom, utterly reckless, and wilfully malicious. Their right to crit icise others for speculating Is hardly Justified In face of the Idiotic specula tive advice they gave the farmers last spring, to hold for 15c, and which haa cost the cotton growers of the South more millions of dollars than have been lost In speculation In ten years. Their last edition was the only cred itable one they have ever gotten out, and the reason for this lids largely In the fact that they quoted so exten sively from the cotton article of The Commercial-Appeal and thereby fur nished their readers with the first and only reliable and Intelligent dis cussion of current events and crop news they have ever set before them; while tbelr consistency was shown In their hearty Indorsement of the bureau that they so roundly denounced the previous month, and almost monthly during the past season. Ills hoped that Inasmuch aa the cot ton articles of The Commercial-Appeal are not copyrighted they will use them freely In the future, and without the formality of credit, for their readers will recognise that these follow too closely the lines of Intelligent pre sentation of facts to have originated with them. The matter of replying to their usual malicious slander Is reserved for the future; meanwhile thetr record will be kept and recalled when .necessary, and In. event that they have not Joined a former planters’ Journal tn the Jour nalistic boneyard a year from now, tt will be Interesting If not Instructive to point with pride to the accuracy of their crop and market forecasts, which would probably bs about as near cor rect as the famous crop estimate of 9,444,114 bales which they guaranteed correct. By Private Leased Wire. New York, Aug. 2.—President Roosevelt Is not the only strenuous man In Oyster Bay. The citizenship of that famous village are a sturdy lot of Americans, who "know their rights and knowing, dare maintain." For la- stance: - A wall with which Millionaire Louis Tiffany fenced in the beach In front of his home, "Laurelton," at Cold 8pring harbor, has been torn down by Indtg. mint Oyster Bay people, who have been In the habit of picnicking and bathing there. Citizens were enraged when they were confronted by the wall made of spars and cemented stone. This was on Monday. The town board of Oyster Bay searched the records and found that under patent from George III the beach where they had always bathed waa the people's. Highway Commissioner William A. Finger captained the body of stern- faced men who went at the wall with a will, and tore It down, stone front stone. They mode a Are ot the spars to light them at their work. Among the noted visitors at tha Catholic cathedral rectory Is Father Kenlln Vaughn, who has just returned from a mission to South America for the purpose of raising funds tor a Latin-Amerlcan chapel for the Metro politan cathedral in London. He has met with marked success. Father Vaughn Is a member of the family which gave Cardinal Vaughn and oth er notables to the Roman Catholio church in England. Of nine brothers, five have risen to high dignity la chlirch. Roger Vaughn was archbishop of Sidney; Herbert was archbishop in London. It was Bernard Vaughn, an- cither brother, who recently Issued a bitter blast directed toward the evils, which, he declared, were prevalent in English society. Theresa Vaughn, a slater, said to be one of the most beau tiful women In Great Britain, • threw aside a life of luxury for the veil of a Sister of Charity. She was the first slater of that order to die In England. Generals and colonels are as thick In Saratoga as tn Kentucky, and you never can tell who’s who until you meet them. With the receiving of a cablegram from ParlB, signed John A. Black, It immediately was decided that General and Mrs. John Block, of Chicago,.New York, Paris, and the world globe trot ters that they are, had engaged for the season one of the cottages attached to the States. John Black, Jr., the son of Colonel and Mrs. Black, married the daughter of O. W. Potter, of Chicago, who aston ished the social world of that city with a novel written while still In ear liest glrlhoqd, and which was sup posed to be an exposure of all of Chi cago society's sins. Since then she has written some historical romances. Richard Canfield has taken the title to hla home In the “400” colony re cently purchased from William C. Kemp, at No. 8 East Fifty-fifth street, opposite the St. Regis. Canfield now has such neighbors as E. H. Harrlman, Mrs. A. B. Twombly, Harry S. Red mond and Dr. W. F. (Jhappelle. GEORGIANS IN GOTHAM. By Private Leased Wire. New York, Aug. 2.—The following are among the visitors In New York today: ATLANTA—M. C. Leetson, William McLain, W. F. Williams, J. H. Arm strong, J. W. Boone, G. Constangy. W. C. Holliman, L. B. Johnson, L. B. Llllenthal, J. A. M(trill. Miss R. Pat ten. J. E. C. Peddle, H. L. Striberg, W. M. Bike, V. J. Adams, W. O. Banks, B. B. Beckham, Rev. L. G. Broughton. L. Buchanan, Mrs. M. Buchanan, J. K. Christian, R. L. Hartwell, W. H. Keans, J. B. Poole, J. A. Russe, C. O. Sheri dan, C. H. McLaughlin. MACON—I. Kessler, G. J. Waxol- baum. IN PARIS. Special to The Georgian. Parts, August 3.—Mr. W. A. Watt, of Thomaavltle, On., registered at the of fice of the European edition of The New York Herald today. THIS DATE IN HISTORY. AUGUST 2. 1519—Henry III of France died; succeeded by Henry of Navarre sa Henry IV. 1484—'Treaty of peace concluded at Albany lietween the Colonists and the Fire Nations. 1704-Huke of Marllmrough victorious over French forces at bottle of Blenheim. .7X0—Bottle nf MohnwX Valley, N. Y. 1717—First ascent of Mont Blanc. 1780—Thomas Gainsborough, portrait paint er, died; born 1727. - ..... Bonaparte elected first consul for life. Treaty of Ports; Napoleon declared WO—Abdication of Charles X of France. lBS-Uueen Victoria sanctioned Emprvas of India, lttl—I'onirn*** p***e<l an act for ra!»inf 3SOO.OOO.OOO by tsz and tarW. 1871—Large section of Portland, Ore., de- lS*t-nhtrim Monument st Plymouth, Mtse., dedicated. . . lSM-Trlnl of Hantn Ceesrio for murder of ‘President Carnot begun at Lyona PRESIDENT OF SEVENTY- FIVE BANKS From The American Banker. A record that haa a tinge of romance, _ touch of pathoe and a huge lesson for ua all, la that of W. S. Wltham, of Georgia. Twenty-five year* ago he left the town of LaGrange, Ga- with the munificent eum of 31 in hla pocket, and landed tn New York, with nothing to hla credit but hie clothes and hla char acter. The quality of the former does not matter, and tho quality of the lat ter has shown itself. He la today president of aeventy-flve banka OB but four of which are situated In hla na tive state, in return for Georgias small advance of 1M cents, he haa pretty well cornered her banking In terests, and Is keeping a goodly amount of her funds. The four banks of which he Is president outelde of the state of Georgia are all flourishing, all enjoy the abaolute and well-earned confi dence of the communities and are run for the interests of the people aa well aa capitalists. Mr. Wltham celebrated the Fourth of July by having a llule private bank ing convention of Me own at Warm Springs, Ga., where he met seventy- five cashier, from hla ceventy-AV] banka, possibly the most unique Jfcd original gathering tn the counuim