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I THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN. TnCBUDAT, AUGUST t, JKH. The Atlanta Georgian. JOHN TEMPLE GRAVES, Editor. F. L. SEELY, President. the tide of revolution Is gathering strength every day carrying out of the Cummins program have come to Subscription Rsles: 1 One Year ........ $4.50 Six Months 2.50 I Three Months 1.25 } By Carrier, per week JOc Published Every Afternoon Except Sunday by THE GEORGIAN CO. at 25 W. Alabama Street, Atlanta? G«. jr Petered as second-class matter April S3, 1WS. at the PottotTlce at Atlanta. Ga., under act of cooxrrss of March t. 137*. ■ A msn may well bring a horse to the water. But ha cannot make him drink without he will. , —Heywood. The Preblem That Presses. There are few gatherings more Important to the South In the moat serious phnso of Its present day life, than tho joint mooting to be held In NaahYlUe on No vember 13th, by the representatives of tho Southern Im migration and Quarantine Convention and of tho South ern Industrial Parliament These bodies will doubtless merge at that time, as their problems are practically similar and can beat be worked out In unity rather than in separate organiza tions. One of tbe moat tremendous questions which, will come before this body will be this problem of labor which la everywhere becoming a pressing and vital con sideration In these Southern states. The negro has failed. As the editor of Tbe Georgian pointed out three years ago at the University of Chicago, the negro la no longer the vital element nor the Indispensable element In tho industrial life of tbe South. The cotton in the cotton states, the 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 tbe stand ards of labor, and because of his color and because of hts unasslmllable qualities, he has kept away other la borers of the whlto 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 tho tide of Immigration from these Southern states, tbe negro, growing overy year more shiftless and Indifferent, flock' Ing to the cities whero Idleness syems to be not Incon sistent with a living, and educated by tbe Booker Wash ington theories out of willingness for manual labor, has practically deserted the cotton Helds and the farms of the South, and wo stand face to face with a deficit of labor every year. This Is tho cry that floods our want rnlumns In our newspapers and makes prosperity problem in tbe fields and mines of the South. Of course there can be but one ultimate answer to this demand. Immigration must furnish to this great Southern country tho laborers of the future Tor the development and growth of tho country. And yet, when we come to consider tho question of Immigration It Involves so many problems and so many dangers that,may menace our civilization, that only those men should be aent to the discussion of Immigration and to the devising of ways and means to socuro It, who know the subject In all of Its bearings, and who appreciate the difficulties and dnngera which are certain to accompany It In Its un restricted stato. We do not want tho hordes of Southern Europe In these Southern states. God knows that wo havo a race problem now' that Is difficult enough to handle, and wo do not wish to compllcato It by a steady Influx gf those vagrants of Southern Europo who mako every year tho percentages of crime and the basin of revolution. When the time comes, tho representative South with all its might and nil ita Intelligence Bhovld move clearly, defi nitely nnd persistently for the Gorman, English, Irish, Scotch nnd Scandanavlan races of Europe for this coun try. Tboy are tho only Immigrants who bavo made good In America. They havo enriched our citizenship. In creased our thrift and magnified tho atates In which they llvo. They ought to bo Just at easy to get as the Southern Europeans. Our opportunities and attractions are aa largo to them aa they are to the other races, and we had bettor suffer tho Ills we have, Inconvonlent and serious as they are, than to rush to problems and ad mixtures that Involve difficulties moro serious and more dangerous and more menacing than those which oppress us now. This question of labor presses nowhere more acute ly than It does In the matter of domestic service. The women of the South are subjected to unceasing worry and inconvenience by the irregularity and untbrlft and the Insolont Independence of the domestic negro. Com munities might find It wlso to band themselves together nnd by sending representatives to some of the cities of the North, they might bring groups and companies of white domestics to the South who, having their own com rades about -them, would find life pleasant here and would be willing to stay and to establish the Indepen dence which the people need. We trust that Govern OB Terrell will take this mat ter seriously under consideration and that he will ap point as delegates to Nashville to both of these con gresses. men who are Interested in this great problem and who are capable of discussing It with Intelligence aad with force. nnd that sooner or later there will be a terrible climax to all tho mutterlnes of discontent which have been go Ing on In the empire ever slnco tho douma was dissolved by the ukase of the Czar. Nicholas himself Is practically n prisoner In the palace at Peterhof, guarded by Trepoff and hlB band of henchmen. Sooner or later he must realize that he has made tremendous mistake In dissolving the popular chamber, which ho himself had called Into existence, and that the people, having once had a taste of representatlv government, will not sit Idly by and see It swept away Students of history and of the present time feel that tbe new reign of terror has begun at last and that before affairs are settled In Russia again there will be much bloodshed, and out of It all, and beyond It all. th dlcatjon and adoption of a real constitutional govern meat In which the people may have a. voice. 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 It reported that there Is a muUny among the sailors of the BalUc fleet It is given out In 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 tbe general plan has been temporarily Interfered with by the premature revolt la Finland. Communication between Cnmatadt and SL Peters burg has been cut .off and the Russian government It In great alarm. These stirring events lend color to the opinion that . the popular uprising is about to be sustained by the gen- ! era! re\olt of the army and navy. This may or may not he true. It Is possible that the present disorders In Finland may be suppressed. But they sufficiently In dicate the temper of the sailors and teamen and the people la general. They clearly point to ths fact that The Spirit of the Investigation. There Is easily room for criticism If one should go to seek It. In the Investigation being held In Mr. Jor dan's privato office during these last two days. At loaBt two of tbe members of that Impartial (?) committee of Investigation have Impressed the by-Btand- ers and tho witnesses alike with the fact that they had forgotten the role of calm and dispassionate jurymen and bad become the eloquent and enthusiastic attorneys for the defense. President Johnson has preserved throughout an at titude of Judicial calm and the evident intention to be fair and thorough. There never was a tlmo In Colonel Peek's life when ho was less than an honest and bravo man, and he evidently wanted tbe truth. But two or three* of the outside committee, and most notably Mr. Seymour, of Alabama, made manifest from the first that .they wero the partisans of tho administration, and their questions to the witnesses and their whole attitude toward the Investigation left little 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 witnesses 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 apeak, that not only did Mr. Cheatham, who professed to desire the whole truth exploited, refuse to permit theso men to speak but the committee vtho came hero professedly for the exclu sive purpose of getting all tho 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 Is perfectly evident that'there was a spirit present In several members of that committee 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 thh facts In this memora ble and Important case.v As to the “Personal” Element. President Harvle Jordan, In his testimony on Wed nesday night before his committee, complaint 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 disclaimed the cartoon, that It 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 tbe personal In the feelings of the editor of Tho Georgian toward him. But when President Jordan did not stop, but after our temperate criticism, went on and on to speak bitterly and insultingly In his subsequent comments and to say all and more than he disclaimed In 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 foel absolutely free from any personal animosity to ward him, and that we are fully aa anxious as he is to vindicate the association' and ita administration It it be possible to vindicate It from the shadow which rests upon Ita present life. A Georgian in Texas. Georgians hare a very keen Interest In tbe contest in the Sixth congressional district of Texas because of the nock and neck race which hit been run between Messrs. Hardy, Henderson and Mays. Rufus Hardy, who leads by sixty votes at the last return, wai a member of tbe famous University of Georgia class of 1875, and won the junior medal In the Phi Kappa Society. fie hna been a Judge of the superior court for many years In the circuit of which Corsicana Is the chief city. He Is 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 Texas contest and wishing him abundant success. At the last summary of the return* Judge Hardy had received 3,884, Mr. Henderson, 3,838, and Mr. Mays 8.T39. With less than a hundred votes sep arating the highest and lowest candidate, one can real ise the tension that la felt In the Sixth congressional district by the friends of the Interested parties. The Cummins Program Wins! The expected did not happen out In Iowa, In one respect. Tho 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 convention entirely his way. A large majority of the delegates were for him, even after the contests were settled. Garst, bis candidate for lieutenant governor, was chosen and the policy of progressive tariff reform was adopted. Thti will, give a strong Impulse to tariff revision throughout the country, bat the fact of the matter* Is that Cummins' anti-corporation policy Is causing as much alarm as anything else In tbe ranks of his enemies. Oarst, It teems. It even more radical In hit opposition to Illegal combinations of capital than Cummlna him self. It la feared by the corporations that Senator Allison, who Is very much advanced In years, may dte 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 was Garst whom they feared. But all their plana and calculaUons to prevent the naught. The progressive faction has won out on every count, and the "stand pat” forces have been put to flight, In spite of the administration Influence exerted through'Hon. Leslie M. Shaw. All of which Is bot/tad to have a great effect on the congressional elections and on the presidential election two years later. Col. Mulberry Sellers’ Latesjt Scheme. In the fear that the farmers of the South, and the people In general, might be Induced lo take Block In a visionary enterprise established to make paper from cotton stalks, The Tradesman, of Chattanooga. has sounded a note of alarm, which was recently reproduced In these columns. That article, and the general discussion precipitated by The Tradesman, has made the Southern people sit up and take notice. The periodical In question Is recog nized aB one of the ablest In the South nnd !b alwtfys de voted to the legitimate upbuilding of the Southern states. But It sees great danger In tbe present project and It has determined to go to tbe bottom of It. In its current Issue The Tradesman says of thlB $15,000,000 en terprise:. It was reported In a reliable New York paper, and extensively copied by the Southern press, as coming from the president of the now company, that "Several plants would bo erected and in successful operation by January 1, 1307," and tho marvelous re sults that were to follow from the operation of theso plants wero such that wo felt Impelled to dub them as being worthy of having emanated from the fer tile brain 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 their correctness, before entailing such losses In experiments as had oectirred elsewhere, and under the same patents that this lat ter company were reported aa 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 ProductH Company, of which Harvle Jordan Is president, and would state to you that paper stock cannot be made from the cotton plant, either stalk or hulls; that Is, tbe high-grade paper stock cannot be manufactured from stalk or hulls, but a cheap grade can bo made, but not at a profit. J. A. SPURLIN. "Chemist Little Rock Board of Trade. Little Rock, Ark.. July 18, 1906." Every true friend of the South would, of course, be delighted to see any practicable enterprise succeed, but tho Indications aro that this project is dangerously visionary, and the facts should 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 Baqon, anyway?—Life Well, maybe he was suggesting an antidote for dog days. Growth and Progress of the New South Under thin head will appear from time to time information Illustrating the remarkable development of the South which deserves something more than pass* log attention. Wages Advance and Prosperity Prevails. At present there Is considerable activity In the cotton goods market throughout the country and on yestterday 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 bo felt seriously, on account of the. steady Inflow of orders for structural steel, ateel rails, etc. There Is more activity In steel manufacture than ever before In midsummer. Among the orders booked lost week was one from the Southern Railroad for 30,030 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 200 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 the South Is shown, moreover. In the reports of the postofflce department. The rev enues of tbe postofflce Increased 41 per cent during the year ended June SO, while the Increase last year was 24 -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 hletory of the clothing and straw hat trade has tha 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 detnand all around. The outlook Is ths sort that has been worked up to and planned for by the various trade bodies and organi zations that have the city's trade at heart. The American continues: It Is most gratifying, therefore, to And 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 It 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 is, nevertheless, one of the most rapid ly developing and flourishing trade centers In the country. It not only Is the natural market for the Eastern shore of Maryland and Virginia, but of the entire Southern section as far os 'Florida. Railroads and coast line steamers center In this city the Interlinked towns of the Southern region. The efforts of other Eastern cities to divert Baltimore’s Southern trade have been largely overcome by securing the same transportation conces sions enjoyed by those cities, so that there Is no longer any Inducement of this nature for the Southern merchant to pass by Baltimore. Arrange ments for a hearty reception and hospltabla treatment of tbe buyera when they come here, as they will soon he doing, count much In the general schema of enhancing the city aa a trade center. THE SUPERIOR SEX. I AM. By ELLA WHEELER WILCOX, em greater than star or sun, >r I am a portion of One, TH B ONE. ‘art and parcePof that Great Cause will lie ever; I am: I was. When Msker and Holder of systema rare Fashioned the Unlrerae, I wee there. All that hee been or Is to be iltena soul refining end rood for me. Who roes God-hnnllng snd looks Wilhi te guided ever swsy from sin. - .- 0M w |tn the Prims) Who knows he Power Will And direction from hour to hour. And ont of erll shall good be wrought For I am a portion - Jeroma in Qaorgla. From The Now York Globe. It is something of a novelty to find our picturesque district attorney down In Georgia discoursing to an audience of lawyers on such a threadbare and platform-worn subject as public opin ion, “the basis of Democracy," as some prehistoric economist characterised It. Mr. Jerome la wont to eelect aa hie themes texta of unueual and striking character, so much ao that the mere eight 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. Hls forte la not the emission of platitudes, and he did manage to Interline those Inevitable In twentieth century address on public opinion with *a few Ideaa having the typical Jerome flavor. HU criticism of 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 hlmaelf has so recently token a fall out of the Judiciary. In hls fa miliar vein was hie remark that while It woe true “the Individual must wither and the world be more and more," the kind of public opinion which drives good men out of offlee 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 IndlvIduaL but the world as well. In the main, however, the Warm 8prings audience was treated to a thoughtful dlscuaslon of the old sub ject. Mr. Jerome's basic Idea waa that embodied In the phrase noblesse oblige; the duty of the men and news papers, which largely mould public opinion to use their power carefully and honestly. HU remarks on the newspapers were all true enough, and would have been In the Bible If they bed had newspapers In those days. What he had to offer about the law yers U equally true. "For weal or for woe," he s^ld, "In proportion to our numbers, we are, or can be, the most influential body of men In the country. This power brings responsibilities which cannot honorably be avoided." TELEGRAPHIC NEWS TOLD IN FEW WORDS Berlin, Aug. 2.—The Called States has Just ptfd Its share of the award for the sufferers by the Ksmoan outbreak of 1S», and that Incident Is definitely settled. Italian Heads the Llet. By Private Leased Wire. Washington, Aug. 2.—Secretary Doyle o the rlrll service commission has receive- orders from the president to make specie the rate of Taey Verroeso, en Italian, by Idrth a cltlsen of the district, who served In the American army during the late war with Spain, and who will now he placed at the head of the civil service eligible Hat of laborers, Indian Protests Fee. By Private Leased Wire. Washington. Aug. {.—Justice Gould, sit ting In the eqnlty court, has taken under adri- — - Sum Charles H.'Treat,' Unlted'BtatnTrrasnreri who seeks to prevent the payment of an attorney's fee of 3lM.«» to Ftnkelbnrx. Nagle t Kirby, of Ht. Lulls, Mo., and Ed ward Smith, of "iDlta, E T. Captain Nick Dawson. Dead. By Private I.eased Wire. Washington, Aug. t—Captdlo Nicholas Dawson, who has been critically III for entb Virginia cavalry, commanded by Gen. erel Turner Ashbv. Poisoned by Insect j I.eased Wire. Washington, Ang. t—Flying Insects beat ing against toe beck of hls neck as he set In the front sent of a suburban street ear resulted In e mild cane of blood poisoning to Max Fraeht, of 222 Tenth etreeVNorth- rest, BIG MONEY IN CAT FARM. From the Chicago News. There Is e men In Chicago who It try to work up a ncheme for making money of rata "There ere MOM stray rata In Chicago," he nays, "that are at no benefit to anyone, They makt night hideous. They scratch end kite small children. They are hated and pelted with coal snd bootjacks. I ran rid Chicago of a nuisance end make money out of them." Its has 31,003. He Is looking for a man with more capital and a good bead for managing a cal Island. Ills scheme Is this: Ip In the northern part of lake Mich igan Is a little Island four miles long end managing a ral ;p in ‘ in Is - one mile wide. -He proposes to erect then extenslre sheds. There It tlon and there ere no anl Who the balldlnga ere np he will have eat , to wort )n chirajo si " rata Their pelts ere .ita. TH#lr npiia im cents each. He will not them on the Island end buy up deed horses and old meet from the stock yards and have H damped there from time to time. The rate will be left there for four years, rating this fowl sad grow- rafoablc ™* *' * Uk ' ,tw,r far more Then a rat abattoir will be created. Thev will have propagated and multiplied, sad saem rate ran be killed a year, their skits Worth from IS to 3 cents etch, netting the proprietors of this unique Industry 119,001 By WEX JONES. A woman can't vote ns n man cat); Khi* thinks Il.-riinr-l Stiinv Is 'Tnton«<\' Ami she dunces whst looks like a rpn-csn When «I|I- I lies W k-el "V-T H ft-IICC. She rnn't re.- n mirror hut In II Her hair needs a jmt nnd n smack; Sbo can't keep n secret n minute, Bl'T She ran button her waist up tho bark. A woman can't hit with n hummer. Except on the end of her thumb; In ii I hi,-ties, for nil of her olninoi-, Her performance i 8 terril.lv limn. When out of a street cur she tumbles She prnh.ihly sprawls on tie- truck; When nshe-l for n sj-eeoh sin- Just mumbles, Sbe cun button her wxlst up tho back. A n-omun cun't sharpen a- pencil; A woman can't aim with a atone; A razor she dooms n up-null For carving tho grlstlo nnd bono. White a woman when Joyful Is tearful. A woman can't stay, without dreaming Of burglars, alone In a house, Nor see without Jumping end screaming Bo much at tha toll or a mouse. . women ran never look merry When spending 10 cents at a crack; A woman can't cllmb^for a cherry, She can button her waist np the beck. HOW HARVIE IMPRESSES MEM PHI8. From tho Memphis Commercial-Appeal In the local market business Is sun pended and the traders find diversion and amusement In scanning the col umns of an amateur planters' Jour nal whose owners seek notoriety by assaults upon government officials and departments, leading newspapers and people with whom they seem delighted to differ. They seem to expect to fat ten upon prejudice engendered by v! clous agltotton, 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 flrat edition was largely devoted to pictures of tha promoters, and prom ises not likely to be fulfilled. The leading picture was an Imitation of a farmer on' horseback—where such farmer would likely be, not behind the plow or swinging tho 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, presuma bly hurling anathemas at Secretory Wilson or Instructing him how to run the agricultural department. A later edition was given over to tnetructlona to farmers’ wives as how to raise i pot lamb, the correct way to hold t piece 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 for daring to differ with them on the acreage and crop condition. Then came another devoted largely again to pictures, as their penmen wero evidently reeling after brain ex haustion brought on by the strenuous efforts at roasting the secretary Jn the previous number. The happy In spiration struck them that th make some capital with the farmers by attacking with a cartoon one of the leading exchangee 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 tbe 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 12c, and which has 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 Use largely In the fact that they quoted so exten sively from the cotton article of Tha Commercial-Appeal and thereby fur nished their readers with the first and only reliable and Intelligent dis cussion of current events and crop newa they have ever set before them; while their 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/' It Is hoped that Inasmuch as 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 facto to have originated with them. The matter of replying to their usual malicious slander la reserved for the future: meanwhile their record will be kept and recalled when necessary, and In event that they have not Joined a former planters’ journal In the Jour nalistic boneysrd a year from now. It will be Interesting If not Instructive to point with- pride to the accuracy of their crop and market forecasts, which would probably be about as near cor rect aa tha famous crop estimate of 8,444.314 bales which they guaranteed correct GOSSIP =1 About I People By Private Leased Wire. New York, Aug. 2—President Roosevelt Is not the only etrenuoua man In Oyster Bay. The citizenship of that famous village are a sturdy lot o( Americans, who “know their rlfhu. and knowing, dare maintain."* f F 0 r in. stance: A wall with which Millionaire Loaig Tiffany fenced in the beach in front of hls home, “Laurelton,” at Cold Spring harbor, has been tom down by Indig. nant Oyster Bay people, who hava been In the habit of picnicking and bathing there. Citizens were enraged when thty were confronted by the wall made of spars nnd cemented stone. This vy on Monday. The town board of Oystar Bay searched the records and found that under pntent from George III thi beach whero they had always bathed was 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 from stone. They made a lire of the span to light them at their work. Among th© noted visitors at the Catholic cathedral rectory Is Father Kenlln Vaughn, who has Just returned from a mission to South America f r the purple of raising funds for a Latln-Ainerlcan chapel for the Metro, polltan 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 Catholic church In England. Of nine brothers, five have risen to high dignity in church. Roger Vaughn was archbishop of Sidney; Herbert was archbishop in London. It was Bernard Vaughn, an other brother, who recently Issued a bitter blast directed toward the evils, which, he declared, were prevalent In English society. Theresa Vaughn, a sister, said to be one of the most beau tiful women in Great Britain, threw aside a life of luxury for the veil of a Sinter of Charity. She was th.- jlr.-t sister of that order to die In England. Generals and colonels are as thick In Saratoga as In Kentucky, and you never can tell who’s who until you meet them. With the receiving of a cablegram from Paris, signed John A. Black, It Immediately was decided that General and Mrs. John Black, 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* Jrthe son of Colonel and Mrs. Black, married the daughter of O. W. Potter, of Chicago, who oston- ; lshed the social world of that city with a novel written while still In ear liest girlhood, 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 hls homo In the “lOO” colony re cently purchased from William C. Kemp, at No. 9 East Fifty-fifth street, opposite the St. Regis. Canfield now has such neighbors as E. H. Harriman, Mrs. A. B. Twombly, Harry S. Red mond and Dr. W. F. Chappelle. GEORGIANS IN GOTHAM. By Private Leased Wire. Now York, Aug. 2.—Tho 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. Constancy, W. C. Holliman, L. B. Johnson, L. B. Llllenthal, J. A. Magtll, Miss a Pat ten. J. E. C. Peddle, H. L. Strlberg, W. M. Slke, V. J. Adams, W. O. Banka, B. B. Beckham, Rev. L. O. Broughton, L. Buchanan, Mrs. M. Buchanan, J. K. Christian, R. L. Hartwell, W. H. Keans, J. B. Pools, J. A. Russo, C. O. Sheri dan, C. JL McLaughlin. MACON—I. Kessler, G. J. Waxel- baum. IN PARI8. Special to The Georgian. Paris August 2.—Mr. W. A. Watt of Thomaavllle, Ga., registered at the of fice of the European edition of The New York Herald today. THIS DATE IN HISTORY. HUUUOI C. 1238-Henry HI of France died; succeeded by Henry of Navarre at Henry IV, 1624—Treaty of peace concluded nt Albany lietween the Coloaleta and the Fire Notion., 1704—Duke of Marlborough vlrtorloua over French force, ot battle of Blenheim. 1780—Battle of Mohawk Valley, N. V. 1787—Flrat eerant of Mont Illnne. res—Thomas Gainsborough, portrait paint- r, died: born 1727. , , lonaparte elected flrat rononl for life 1X1S—Treaty of Parte; Napoleon declared 1X30—Abdication of Charles X of France. 1268—Queen Victoria sanctioned Empress of -Congress passed an set for raisin* {300,000,010 by tax and tariff. 1272—Large section of Portland, Ore., de- 1SS3—Pilgrim Monument at Plymouth, Mesa, dedicated. , 1284-Trial of Santo Cesario for murder of President Carnot begun at Lyons. PRESIDENT OF SEVENTY- FIVE BANKS From The American Banker. A record that has a tinge of romance, _ touch of pathos and a huge lesson for ue all, Is that of W. S. Wltham, of Georgia. Twenty-Are year* ago he left the town of LaGrange. Ga, with the munificent sum of 31 In hie pocket, and landed In New York, with nothing to hts credit but hie clothes and hie char acter. The quality of the former doee not matter, and the quality of the lat ter has shown Itoelf. He Is today president of seventy-five banks, all hut four of which are situated In hls na tive state. In return for Georgia* ■mall advance of 100 cents, he has pretty well cornered her banking in terests, and Is keeping a goodly amount of her funds. The four banks of which he la president outside of the state of Georgia are alt flourishing, *11 enjoy the absolute and well-earned confi dence of the communities, and are run for the Interest! of the people as wen aa capitalists. • Mr. Wltham celebrated the Fourth of July by having a little private bank ing convention of hls own at Warm Springs, Ga, where he met seventl- live cashiers from hls seventy-fit* banks, possibly the moat unique -im original gathering in the country.