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THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN. WEDNESDAY, Al'DIXT m The Atlanta Georgian. JOHN TEMPLE GRAVES, Editor. F. L. SEELY, President. Subscription Rites: One.Yeir $4.50 Six Months 2.50 Three Months 1.25 By Carrier, per week 10c Published Every Afternoon Except Sundsy by THE GEORGIAN CO. it 25 W. Alsbsms Street, Atlsnts, Gs. 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.