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THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN.
WEDNESDAY, Al'DIXT m
The Atlanta Georgian.
JOHN TEMPLE GRAVES, Editor.
F. L. SEELY, President.
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Catered ee second-cleee matter April 25, ISOS, at the Poe to flee St
Attests. Os., under Act of eonsreaa of Starch t, in.
of the appreciation which Georgia should feel tor educa
tional work of such vigor, of such courage and of such
high and progressive Intelligence.
Now for the State Fair.
By tonight the die will have been cast and tomorrow
‘‘tho tumult and the shouting dies.”
It has been a long, strong campaign of absorbing In
terest and bitterness, but when the ballots are counted
and the result la known, provided there Is no possibility
of a contest In the convention, the hungry state will look
around for something more to stimulate its Interest.
Here In Atlanta we have something right at hand,
and It la the state fair and the home coming which prom
ise to be the most notable and Important In the history
of the state. It Is altogether important that we should
have a good governor and a good mayor and a good man
In all the other offices to be Ailed today, but when this
Is settled we must return to the work of upbuilding the
city and the state, and knitting together those ties that
bind one section of the state with the other.
So let us all unite, as soon as today's conflict Is
over, In making the state fair of next October the most
successful In tho history-of the state. The attractions
already provided are such as should Induce thousands
of visitors to come to Atlanta during the fall festivities.
The evidences of Georgia’s growth and development will
be large and convincing and then the borne coming
will be one of the most unique and delightful features
ever devised.
There are thousands of Georgians scattered through
out the country. Wherever they have gone they have
carried the thrift and the culture of the Empire State and
have made a place for themselves In the life and prog
ress of their adopted home.
But they would be glad to return to the red old hills
of Georgia and mingle once more with the friends and
companions of their youth—those here and those gather
ed here from the widely separated sections to which they
have gone.
This Is something on which the whole Rtate can
unite. There Is no bitterness and partisanship In this
event. It Is to be a festival of lovo and good will and
a testimonial of our civic and Industrial strength.
80 as soon as this contest of today Is over let us all
unite and make the state fair a great success.
Brenau College and Its Lesson.
In educational Institutions, as In all other forms of
public enterprise, It Is tho progressive and courageous
spirit which produces results snd establishes reputation.
No college In the South has done more to vindicate
this proposition than nrenau College, located at Oalnos-
vllle.
From the first day that Presidents Vanlloose and
Pierce took charge of the college in Gainesville, It began
a progressive career In which every year has marked
some new and vital Improvement along the lines of mod
ern education. In the first placo, the original'college
at Gainesville was changed to Brenau College, and was
established from the very beginning upon a foundation
of admirable merit In the personnel and attainment of
Its faculty and In the equipment of Its several schools
after the most heroic liberality.
The Brenau College established at Gainesville soon
ranked among the first of the state, and the enterprising
proprietors conceived the design of establishing other
colleges upon the same foundation of merit In other
states. They have already established the Alabama
Brenau at Eufaula, which In Its first year recorded a
phenomenal success, filling the building to Its capacity,
and they are now erecting a beautiful new building as
a mark of the appreciation and generosity of the people
of Eufaula.
Brenau College has Just begun a building for a high
grade military academy at Gainesville, to cost $10,000,
and to be tho most completely and perfectly equipped
of any similar building In the South. Other notable
buildings will be erected around the site of tho original
college.
In addition to Its other attractions Brenau has or
ganised a Chautauqua association and will next summer
at beautiful Chattahoochee Park put Into operation a
great summer school modeled after that parent Chau
tauqua In New York. Brenau has done more than this.
It has had the audacity to cross the ocean and establish
a branch Institution In Paris, that such of Its students
as may wish to do so may receive the advantages com
lng from foreign study and travel. It Is not strange that
applications have already poured In for the next year
for a connection with this foreign school. Brenau Is now
moving to establish a school In New York and In Wash
ington where young ladies from the South, after finishing
their courses at Gainesville and Eufaula, may spend a
.year In the capital or metropolis of the United States.
And each of these great schools Is united In one splendid
chain, working under a perfect system which will con
tribute to the success of the other. The school Is al
ready drawing patronage from all over the United States,
North and 8outh. Students are registered from Con
necticut and from California. One of the tblnga which
has been found most attractive In thli great Brenau
. system Is the fact that It haa the beat organized school
of oratory In the entire South, affiliated with the great
Emerson school of Boston, and the graduatea of Brenau
are accepted w'lhout question Into tho full fellowship
of the Emerson school.
Now, we submit to the judgment of those In Georgia
who are Interested In vigorous and progressive methods
of education that these phenomenal and magnificent
nchbvcments entitle the preeldenta of-Brenau College
to the appreciation and the congratulation of the people
of the South. 8urely no institution started under aucb
circumstances and with so little capital has done so
much and done It ao rapidly, to build up the fame of the
college aid the educational reputation of the atate. We
f< - I that editorial Indorsement and congratulation la the
fainttrt possible recognition for work so advanced and
so liberal and so beneficent as this college has done.
Tho career of Brenau marks a new era In the educa
tional growth of the South, and the mark of progress
which It baa established will forco In necessity and In
competition a corresponding effort which will raise the
standard of every female school In tho South.
All of which adds new emphasis to the heartiness i where.
The Way to Save Our Women.
Whether Hoke Smith wins or loses In the battle of
the ballots the race question will live on, and In Its vary
ing emergencies It must be met until It Is finally answer
ed In the only and Inevitable way.
The Georgian struck a key note on yesterday which
Is still vibrating In the hearts of this people today,
We have learned the great truth that lynching does
not atop the crime against our women. We have reach
ed by elimination the conclusion that other experiments
must be tried to Intimidate the Criminals of the negro
race. One of the moat hopeful of these experiment!
seems to be a statute authorizing the mutilation of the
criminal and the branding of him on the forehead with
the letter “R" significant of bla crime and making him
an object of suspicion for the rest of time.
The other experiment Is to devise some new and
mysterious form of punishment wrapped In darkness and
In mystery which will appeal to the terror and to the
superstition of the criminal negro.
But beyond these and above these and more poten
tial than all others, is the stern and insistent demand of
our white civilization that the leaders of the negro race
shall give ua from this time forth that cooperation which
they have heretofore refused. The South la growing
Indignantly tired of negro tirades In central cities against
tho lawlessness of lynching. We are tired of negro plati
tudes and resolutions against the Injustice of the 8outh
toward the negro. And we have utterly lost patience
with those pacific preachments which cry out for law and
order on the part of tho white man, while they spend
no time nor breath nor effort in thundering to their own
people the earnest and passionate denunciation of thes*
criminals who make the chief tension and the deadly
friction between the races.
Now see here: The South has for 25 years befriend
ed the negroes In every practical way. We have helped to
build their churches, we have helped to sustain their
schools, we have burled their dead and helped to main
tain their living sometimes In idleness and sometimes In
want. But now ah one unit in the mass of Southern sen
timent, The Georgian lifts Its voice and protests that
henceforward It will give no dollar and lend no aid and no
co-operation to any negro Institution until Its officers, its
preachers. Its teachers and It* editors shnll Join with us
In thundering Into the ears of the negro race the warning
and denunciation of this horrible crime.
Without passion, or at least without passion which Is
not richly due and Justified, we ask our brethren of the
Southern press and our Caucasian friend* and brethren
everywhere to take this firm and unalterable stand—that
they will help no negro church, newspaper or school until
they know that Its preachers, Its teachers and Its editors
In those Institutions are thundering the doctrine of hell
and dnmnatlon to the assailants of white women.
Now this is fair. It Is Just, and It la right.
The South Is living under a shadow which no man
can estimate. Men whose public duties call them to pub
lic meetings are held at home because they are actually
ffrald to leave their families alone even In the shelter
and sanctity of their own homes after nightfall. Men
cannot go to church for the same reason. And this,
please God, Is the South. We are a free people and a
great country. Are we to live forever under this shadow
and under this terror? Are we to alt still and help to
build up these negro Inatltutlona when they are silent
and apathetic toward tho peril In which their criminals
put the best element of our race? Are wo to co-operate
with these people to build up Institutions In which they
do not preach the enormity of these offenses? Are we
to be forever held In a state of selge with our women
trembling In fear and terror when they are alono? la
the liberty which our fathers bought with their blood to
be surrendered to the foul terror of an alien and sub
ordinate race?
We tell these teachers, these preachers and these
editors that they have the moat vital Interest In this af
fair. If the boundaries of restraint are ever broken by
this Caucasian race In a wild spirit of retaliation for a
condition which Imprisons and terrifies the noblest women
of the world, they themselves will be whelmed in the
tidal wave which follows.
And we say here and now to Booker Washington, to
Gaines, and Turner, to Proctor and to Stinson and to the
rest of those who are so eager to rush Into print to plead
for law and order, that If they have any regard for the
future of their race and for themselves, they will take
the hint which Is not unkindly sent from this aroused and
Indignant race of Caucasians, and will stand shoulder to
shoulder with us In demanding that every preacher In
every country pulpit and every editor of every little 3x4
sheet and that every teacher In the city and country
schools shall devote somo part of his sermon or some
portion of his editorial, or some segment of his scholastic
hours to preaching hell and damnation to all who are
guilty of this fiendish crime.
We assure these men that the Caucasian aentlment
of this country la now being aroused aa It never was
before. We need not and we will not continue to have
our women live under the shadow of this fiendish negro
lust. We are going to free our women no matter what
the coat may be to another race. There la no wildness of
passion and radicalism In this announcement. If these
men know anything they know that wo demand It, and
they know that demand is firmly stern and earnest.
When they have done their best they will command
our commendation and the confidence of our race.
But as long as they continue to howl resolutions
against lynching and orate agalnat lawlessness while they
are shamefully silent toward the crimes which produce the
mob, then the back of our hand Is against them and all
that they represent.
This Is the position which the present tragic environ
ment sternly demands of the Saxon race, and we call up
on Saxons who respect themselves to assume It every-
As to Joyner and Goodwin.
The Georgian understands that some of the friends
of Captain Joyner feel that they have been discriminated
against by this paper In an editorial comment which Mr.
Goodwin haa been exploiting In hla public advertisement.
Tbl* apprehension la absolutely without foundation.
The Georgian baa made but one editorial comment upon
the municipal race. In that comment It spoke kindly of
both candidates. If there was any difference in Its com
ments that difference was In favor of Captain -Joyner,
to whom we ascribed the largest possibility and a better
chance of success.
Mr. T. H. Goodwin with great enterprise and vigor
seized upon the editorial paragraph relating to himself
and has used It with conspicuous publicity and success In
the advertising columns of the city papers. Captain
Joyner and hla friend* either through over confidence or
through a failure to appreciate the value of the matter,
have failed to make any use of the much stronger and
more effective comment made upon his candidacy. So that
the fault Is not by any means with the impartial Georgian,
but must be either attributed to the superior activity of
Mr. Goodwin, or to the apathy and over-confidence of Mr.
Joyner's friends.
No honest Judgment can Had anything to complain
of In the treatment which thl* paper haa accorded to
both candidates and of the decided leaning which It- evi
denced toward Its older and nearer friend—Captain Joy
ner.
What Congress Really Appropriated.
It requires some little time after the adjournment
of congress for the clerks of the appropriation commit
tees to make up the budget and determine Just how
much money has been appropriated.
This report haa jnst been completed and It Is shown
that the appropriations for this first session of the fifty-
ninth congress did not reach a billion dollars.
But, In the language of the topical song, it ‘‘was
near It, very near It"
To be absolutely accurate, the appropriations
amounted to $879,589,135.16. The New York Commercial,
which gives out the figures, shows that in addition to the
specific appropriations made, contracts are authorized to
be entered Into fbr public works, requiring future appro
priations by congress In the aggregate sum of $20,687,-
200. These contracts cover the following objects and
amounts: Fort Mason, Cal, $750,000; West Point Mili
tary Academy, $1,700,000; torpedo boat destroyers and
anbmarine torpedo boats, $2,750,000; public building In
Baltimore, for light vessels, light houses, life-saving tug,
derelict destroyer, heat, light and power plant and Bub-
way system for capitol and other buildings, and for'
school buildings In the District of Columbia, $2,018,700;
new public buildings throughout the country, $13,368,600.
A comparison of these contract liabilities, with those
of the last session of the last congress, amounting to
$26,770,067 shows a reduction of $6,182,857.
The new offices specifically authorized are 6,934 In
number, at, an annual compensation of $6,615,870.51, and
those abolished are 6,525, at an annual compensation of
$4,010,109, a net Increase of 1,649 In number, and $2,-
605,761.61 in amount.
Of this net Increase In number, eight are for the
library of Congress,, 26 for tho Department of State,
63 for the Treasury Department (Including 48 for the
offleo of the treasurer of the United States), six for
the Independent treasury, four for the Wnr Department,
three for the Navy Department, 15 for the Department
of Justice, 49 for the Department of Agriculture, 116 for
the government of the District of Columbia (Including
33 school teachers, 12 firemen, 20 policemen and 22 em
ployees for the alms house), 17 for the military prison,
52 for the diplomatic and consular aervlce, 51 for the
military establishment, 38 for the naval establishment
and. 1,386 for the postal service (Including 36 assistant
postmasters, 798 clerks In postofflees and 592 railway
postal clerks).
Deducting from the net Increase of 1,649 new salaries
and employments the 1,366 additional employees for the
poetal service, there remain only 283 net Increase In em
ployments for all other departments and branches of the
public senrcle.
The net number of salaries Increased Is 588, at'an
annual cost of $374,449. Of this number 28 are In tbe
senate, 24 In the house of representatives, 11 In the
Navy Department, five In the Department of Commerce
and Labor, 17 In the Department of Agriculture, 147 In
tbe District of Columbia, 274 in the diplomatic and con
sular service and 10 In the postal sorvlco. Tho remain
ing Increased salaries are In various branches of the
public service, and Involve generally small amounts.
Continuing, the New York Commercial says that
a comparison of the total appropriation for the first
session of the fifty-ninth congress—$879,689,185.16—with
that of the last session of tbe fifty-eighth congress—$820,-
184,634.96—shows an Increase of $59,404,560.20.
The principal Increases by acts are as follows:
Agricultural act, $3,047,750, of which sum the amount
of $3,000,000 Is for meat Inspection service; diplomatic
and consular act, $963,046.45; postal act, $10,673,905, In
cluding $3,030,000 for the rural free delivery service; sun
dry civil act, $31,725,319.66, Including $26,466,415.08 aa a
new Item for the Isthmian Canal, and more than $6,000,
000 Increase In sums required to meet contracts author
ized for work on rivers and harbors.
The deficiency acts show an Increase of $7,455,746.73,
but they Include as new Items $16,990,786 for the Isth
mian canal, which If excluded would indicate a reduc
tion on account of the deficiencies as compared with the
previous session of $9,545,039.27. The appropriations
made In miscellaneous acts exceed these of the previous
session by $24,748,202.29, Including $10,250,000 under the
new statehood act, $10,275,500 for new public buildings
and $1,000,000 for arming and equipping tbe militia.
The permanent annual appropriations are reduced
$6,760,000; tbe fortification act shows a reduction of $1,-
693,900, and, as no river and harbor act was passed, a
reduction of $18,181,875.41 Is made on that account.
Other Increases and reductions are made In the va
rious acts, the wbole showing a net Increase, as stated,
of $59,404,650.20, which sum includes $42,447,201.08 for
tho Isthmian canal, as a new element of expenditure.
A RAP FOR ALL OF THEM.
To the Edltoi of The Georgian:
The varieties of Democrats now being exploited be
fore tbe people of Georgia Is strange, wonderful and
remarkable.
A few year* ago tbe Hon. Thomas E. Watson, then
a Populist leader and canvassing the state for the Popu
list ticket, said In a speech delivered at Cordele that
there were then seventeen kinds of Democrats in the
United States and be named most If not all of the varie
ties and said that he had been Invited and urged to return
to the Democratic fold, but be said that he really could
not tell which fold to enter with so many doors all open
wide snd labelled the true Democracy; and he did not
enter because of the uncertainty of getting Into the right
fold. But It seems after some years of wandering in the
bleak and barren hills of Populism, he has found the
right door and entered the right fold and has proclaimed
his arrival at home and to stay. The prodigal has return
ed to his father’s house and there Is great rejoicing
Howell, Dick Ituson]!, BIk Jim Smith and the South Geor-
Kla candidate, .1. H. Ksi‘11. say lie lias not in Into the
right fold and be Is still a prodigal, a wandering freak,
a tremendous fraud, a terrible deceiver and not worthy to
be called a son of the Simon-pure, unadulterated Democ
racy. So It seems we still have five varieties of Democra
cy left even In Democratic Georgia, and now It la In order
for the. man who holds midnight communions with Hoke
Smith to bring out the best robe and a ring and put them
on him, kill the fatted calf. On with the dance; sound
the loud timbrel over the land, the lost Is found, tho
dead Populist Is a live Democrat In one branch, division
or fold of Democracy known as the Hoke Smith kind—
and Thomas must have discovered that thl* fold was tho
Simon-pure, blue-ribbon, red-ahlrt, all wool and a yard
wide, unadulterated Democracy, since ho haa always pro
claimed In no uncertain voice hla Jeffersonian Democra
cy.
Now the situation demands that the rank and file who
are anxious to get Into the right fold of Democracy be
enlightened, since the followers of the Hon. Clark How
ell claim they are the- only true blue. Simon-pure Dem
ocrats, and have tho machinery, and control the court,
which la the biggest thing In all the kinds offered, for
one good counter la worth twenty to fifty voters at moat
of the polling places. Then he should be a skilled manip
ulator of tickets, ready to supply the right kind at the
right minute and In the right place, for the fold that will
win is the fold that has the best counters and moat
skilled manipulators. Now the Clark Howell shepherd Is
crying aloud In the hills and highways In startling head
lines In hla paper, Tho Constitution, now-infamous for
Its distortions and misrepresentations—that tbe Hoke
Smith wing and leader la a fake—a fraud. Insincere, hypo
critical, a defrauder of men and desplier of the rights of
women—without conscience or humane feelings, favoring
negroes rather than white men. /Now this amelia a good
deal like a fish factory In June. But these other three
good and true Democrats.
The South Georgia candidate, who knows he can
not be elected but Is out for an airing of his good deeds
and pure Democracy, and (he defense of hla section. He
loves the piny woods and wlregraas South Georgia
ao well that he wants a governor to come from Its
homes. AH right, Brother Estlll, but did you ever sup
port a South Georgia candidate when one offered? How
about the Norwood-Colquttt race? Which side did you
take, and bow much did you contribute to pay taxes of
negroes to vote In that election? Let’s be consistent, Col
onel Estlll. When Dupont Guerry, a South Georgia man,
was running aa n Prohibition man, did you not oppose
him, and announce in Albany, Ga., that you were a
whisky man—wanted more and better whisky. Now we
all know this was good, sound Andrew Jackson Democra
cy and it Is strange that Thomas E. Watson or Hon.
James Hines did not enter your fold when they were
seeking the genuine. Simon-pure article of Democracy—
and . yon are offering to lead your followers up to the
;ate of Clark Howell fold, and If possible, push them Into
its gate. But there are many old rams In your (lock and
follower! who can’t be driven In that fold and will break
and scatter over South Georgia and go home to read
the splendid things you said of W. J. Bryan four years
ago In your paper. Now you and Clark have both a mud-
slinging machine, but when the campaign Is over you
may have trouble to restore the mud and slush, and to
replace some of the mud-holes and cesspools you have
created.
Now you have bad this advantage of poor Dick
Russell, whoso chief recommendation la • that he la a
poor man with nine children and wants an office and
wants one bad. He needs It In his business of taking
care of wife and children; he wants to ornament the
lawn around the governor’s mansion with his splendid
family, and If he had the Simon-pure Democracy to offer
he too might have had Tom Watson, Yancy Carter or
Charlie McGregor helping him lead and drive his herd.
But like the South Georgia candidate, his followers are
in a narrow limit; the bounds of his former judicial cir
cuit; and they can and will only be led up to and, If
possible. Into the Clark Howell fold. Since poor Dick
has no mnd-sllnglng organ, he will have to draw by hla
good looks and explaining his true and tried Democracy
and then ho said so first—even before the Divine called
had been summoned to lead the hosts of Simon-pure Dem
ocracy of the good old Grover Cleveland kind, had an
nounced, and that Is a long way back, as we all know.
Dick ought tcl have chartered him a mud-allnger. This la
hla weak point.
Then we have Big Jim Smith from the hills of Big
Creek. Oglethorpe county. He whose'Democracy Is of the
true Lucinda -kind as they call it In that good old county.
And who by blood money wrung from manacled human
beings, worked to the limit of hnman endurance, can
buy him a mud allnger and set hla Larry Gantt going
with hi* little 2x4 organ, and who can rMe over middle
Georgia In a palace car seeking help, not to elect him
for he knows he has no chance, but hla Democracy 1*
so pure and genuine that he can help the other fellow
beat the fellow that Tom Watson favors and In whose
fold Tom and a lot of hla kind have entered—when
they see the stilt waters and the green pastures before
them—and Big Jim will havo less trouble to drive In and
turn over hla fellows to the other fold than the South
Georgia candidate, became he has a stronger hold on
them and they cost more and will be closer watched
when they come to the grand rounding up of the Inno
cents.
Now this Is the situation as It appears to an out
sider on the eve of this grand rounding up of forcos,
and If there was ever a more corrupt, dirty, mud-sllng-
Ing, slanderous, vicious, unholy political struggle in Geor
gia It was more than fifty years ago, and tho stench
of this kettle of fish will disgust and annoy the nos
tril* of decent people for year* to come. And yet the
pure Democracy In five doses Is offered. Which shall we
take to relieve the situation, which la critical? Echo
answers which. A VET.
I GOSSIP I
THINGS TO THINK ABOUT.
The English vocabulary of a alum child of 5, ac
cording to a Scottish school Inspector, contains only two
or three doxen words. That of the average child of the
middle classes of the same age Is about 1,000 words
It Is said that the hides of American Uve cattle lent
to England to be killed and eaten are by preerrangement
all sent back across the Atlantic, there to be tanned,
and mayhap reshlpped to England as leather or In boots
and shoes.
June 25, 1876, at the centennial exhibition In Phil
adelphia, the telephone wna for the first time exhibited
to the public. A few months before, Alexander Graham
Bell had perfected hla Invention, but It was not until a
month after the opening of tbe centennial that It occur
red to him to exhibit the wonder-working device at the
great fair.
On the Iale of Portlnnd, In the south of England,
thore are certain quarries of limestone which havo been
worked for many years, In former times producing bdlld-
tng stone. In 1824 an Englishman named Joseph Asplln
of Leeds patented a process for mixing and burning lime
and clay. The product looked so much like the Portland
limestone that he called It “Portland cement," from
which the commonly known name given to nearly all
kinds o? hydraulic cement was derived.
By CHOLLY KNICKERBOCKER.
By I’rlvste Lenu.il Wire.
New York, Aug. 22.—J. Q. A. Ward,
the famous American sculptor, has
taken unto himself a wife and It Is his
third, and his friends have not recov
ered from the shock of the announce
ment yet. Mr. Ward Is now 76 years
old. He declines to make known the
identity of his bride.
“Why should you ask 7” he Inquired.
“Does the public care? I am not a
kaiser or president. I would prefer
that nothing be said, and certainly It
Is not necessary that 1 should tell the
name of the lady, 1 w-ns married about
a month ago, and that Is all I care to
say about It.”
From another source It was learned
that the bride was a widow' and la
about 40 years old. She and Mr. Ward
had been acquainted many years.
Mr. Ward’will retire from hts pro
fession when he completes his statue
of General Hancock.
William Rockefeller Is to erect a half
million dollar mansion for h|s son,
Percy, and family to occupy In Green
wich, on the borders of hfs deer park
and almost on the site it the old hovel
where David S. Hinted, a miser, spent
his last days. It Is to be the 'Attest -
house in town, no expense being spared.
It will take two years to build It.
Percy Rockefeller’s brother, William
O., lives almost across the street from
the new house, hts home being a re
modeled farm house, resembling three
square boxes of different slses, but
very comfortably arranged In It* In
terior.
The famous “Poet Sonon,” of Mark
Twain’s "Innocents Abroad,’’ Blood-
good H. Cutler, of Little Neck, L. 1., ts
In bed as the result of a serious acci
dent.
Mr. Cutler, who Is 86 years of age, if
a sufferer from rheumatism. As he
opened the door with his crutch It
swung back and hit him.
I learn from a sure source that tha
Duchess Consuelo of Marlboro Is soon
to pay another visit to this country.
It Is the Impression that she will bring
at leaat one of her children with her
to see the land of hts mother’s birth
and the place where her family money
comes from.
Although suffering from severe In
juries received when a train struck hta
automobile on August 2, Lewis R.
Conklin, an attorney of 59 Wall street,
.will today wed Miss Grace Frisbee, of
New Haven, at the time they had set
for the cereihony. She has nursed him
at the hospital. He will have to be
married on a stretcher.
Platinum has Jumped tn price re
cently, and as a one of the re
sults, diamonds, jewelry, artificial teeth
and many articles used on proto-
graphtc, chemical and electrical trades
are growing costlier. It Is all due to
the troubles In Russia. The govern
ment there owns the mines In the Ural
mountains, and Is trying to Increase Its
revenue. A week ago the metal could
be bought for $24, but It now costs $28
an ounce. A year ago It sold for $U
and $18.60.
The small boy must have his fun,
but there was an Impression among
those present that Gregory Williams,
the 14-year-old son of Mrs. Gregory
Williams, of Brooklyn, N. Y„ carried
the joke too far when he let loose 400
grasshoppers at a dinner party apd
Gregory wears a pained look as the re
sult of an Interview with hts mother's
slipper.
A dozen smartly gowned women and
as many men tn evening clothes were
thrown Into a ludicrous panic when the
grasshoppers swarmed on the dining
room table at Mrs. Williams’ summer
home In Oxford. Women grabbed
frantically at their hair, where the In
sects flew, breaking costly hair orna
ments, and a general mfx-up ensued.
Two women fainted and the party
was broken up.
Richard Canfield does' not need to
bother about the “lid’’ at Saratoga. He
la credited with being a winner to th*
tune of $1,200,009 In the recent flurry
on Wall street. Another piece of be
lated luck came to Police Sergeant
Meyers, of Brooklyn. He has been
spending his vacation at Saratoga and
has picked tong shots so well that ha
la *$0,000 richer than when he started
on hla trip.
GEORGIANS IN GOTHAM.
fly Trieste I.essed Wire.
New York, Aug. 2$.—Here are soma
of the visitors In New York today:
ATLANTA—Mrs. F. Flexner, C. A.
Wlckersham.
AUGUSTA—Miss M. Jacobs.
MACON—C. B. Rhodes, J. L. Whit*.
ABOUT PROMINENT PEOPLE.
Th« dowager empress of Russia Is extremely fond of
the Danish black or rye bread, such aa Js baked for the
soldiers.
Representative Charles Curtis, of Kansas, Is the only
man in congress who has Indian blood In hla veins. One
of his remote ancestors was a noble red man.
James S. Harlan, recently appolpied a delegate to
the Pan-American conference, was known in his younger
days as "the handsomest man In Kentucky."
Thomas Nelson Page Is a quiet man who says little,
yet his house Is known In Washington as the place where.
the host has the most exacting Ideas aa to the qualifica
tions of his guests.
The -emir of Afghanistan recently discovered that
three of the muftis of his court had been grafting, and
also had been guilty of oppressing the poor. He ordored
them burled alive, and this was done without delay.
When Elsowath, king of Cambodia, now on a visit
to Prance, takes bis walks one attendant carries a gold
cigarette case set with diamonds, another a gold match
box set with rubies, and a third a gold cuspidor.
Andrew Carnegie, at Gravesend, when he was tho
first distinguished stranger to receive the freedom of
the borough, said that he understood only one machine
THIS DATE IN HISTORY.
AUGU8T 22.
1138—lint tie of Tho Ktnmlanl, Knjflnud.
128ft—Pope Nicholas III died.
iasa-1'lilllppe DeValola of Prance died.
I486—lUchnrd III killed on Rnawortb field.
179ft—French directory established.
181ft—Warren Hastings filed.
182ft— Dr. Fran* Joaeph Gall, founder of
phrenolofy. died.
1811—Itliliard 0*4 tier, leader of the ten-
hour movement in Knflainl, died.
1864— Fort Morann. Mobile bay, surrender
ed to Knrragut.
1870—Proclamation by the president of
neutrality In tbe Prauco-Pruaajan
war.
1877—C'itnal around the Dee Moines flap-
Ida on Mlaalaaippl river opened.
188ft—Prlnee Alexander of Iluljrnrla deposed.
1’rovUlotial government formed.
188ft-Sira. Majhrfek'a aentenoe commuted
to aervttiule for life.
18M—Attempt to n nan aal note President
t’reapn of Yenesuelti.
1896— At tack made on American mission
school at Foochow, China.
190S—Lord Salisbury, prime minister e<
Kiielaud. died.
1994— Mrs. May brick, after release from
English prison, arrived In United
States.
In the Hoke Smith camp. But tbe other fellows, Clark I the human one—and he always patted It on tbe back.
Admiral Lord Charles Beresford, al
ter hts release from command of thu
British Mediterranean squadron, will
come to America. H, will be th. gue.t
of Colonel and Mrs. Robert M. Thomp
son. of New York, and when he goes to
England will lie accompanied by his
daughter. Miss Kathleen Beresford,
now visiting with then.
Sir Douglas Fox, who ha. been com
missioned to prepare the new plan, for
the long-talked-of Chaanel Tunnel, la
regarded by the members of hi* pro
fession as one of the greatest engin
eers of modern times. It t. owing to
his marvelous creative and construct-
ive genius that the famous Cape to
Calm railway developed Ir.to an actual
ity Instead of an Ifnpossible dream of
the Empire builders.