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THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN-
WBDNKSDAY. AT’GI'ST 22. IV*
The Atlanta Georgian.
JOHN TEMPLE GRAVES, Editor.
F. L. SEELY, President.
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Entered is eecood-elass nutter April 35, isos. St the PoetotTies st
Atlanta. OS., under set or eonxress or Msrrh 8. lfTS.
• Now for the State Fair.
By tonight the die will have been cast and tomorrow
“the tumult and the shouting dies."
It baa 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
t of a contest In the convention, the hungry date will look
around for something more to stimulate Its Interest
Here In Atlanta we hare something right at hand,
and it Is 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 tilled today, but when this
la 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 ts
tnrer. In making the state fair of next October the most
successful In the 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 home 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 state can
unite. There Is no bitterness and partisanship In this
event. It Is to be a festival of love and good will and
a testimonial of our civic and Industrial strength.
8o as soon as this contest of today Is over let us all
unite and make the state fair a great success.
of the appreciation which Georgia should feel for educa
tional work of such vigor, of such courage and of such
high and progressive Intelligence.
Brenau College and Its Lesson.
In educational Institutions, as In all other forms of
public enterprise, It Is the progressive and courageous
spirit which produces results and establishes reputation.
No college. In the South has done more to vindicate
this proposition than Brenau College, located at Oalnes-
vllle. .
From the first day that Presidents VanHoose sad
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 , place, the original college
st 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 Drat of the state, and the enterprising
proprietors conceived the design of establishing other
dblleges upon the same foundation of merit In other
states. They have already established the Alabama
Brenau st 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 peoplo
of Eufaula.
Brenau College has Just begun a building for a high
grade military academy at Gainesville, to cost $40,000,
and to be the most completely and perfectly equipped
of any similar building in the South. Other notable
buildings will be erected around the site of the original
college.
In addition to Ita other attractions Brenau has or
ganised a Chautauqua association and will next summer
at beautiful Chattahoochee Park put Into operation a
great summer school modeled after that parent Chau-
"tauqua In New York. Brenau haa done more than this.
It has had the audacity to cross the ocean and establish
a branch Institution In Paris, that such of Its students
as may wish to do so may receive the advantages com
ing from foreign study and travel. It Is not strange that
applications have already poured in for the next year
for a connection with this foreign school. Brenau Is now
moving to establish a school In New York and In Wash
Ington where young ladles from the South, after finishing
their courses at Gainesville and Eufaula, may spend a
year In the capital or metropolis-of the United States.
And each of these great schools Is united In one splendid
chain, working under a perfect system which will con
tribute to the success of the other. The school Is al
ready drawing patronage from all over the United States,
North and South, students are registered from Con
necticut and from California. One of tbs things which
has been found most attractive In this great Brenau
system Is the fact that It has the best organised school
of oratory In the entire South, affiliated with the 'great
Emerson school of Boston, and the graduates of Brenau
a$e accepted without question Into the 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
achievements entitle the presidents of Brenau College
to the appreciation and the congratulation of the people
of the South. Surely no Institution started under such
circumstances and with so little capital has done so
much and dona It so rapidly, to build up the fame of the
college and the educational reputation of the state. We
feel that editorial Indorsement and congratulation Is the
faintest possible recognition for work so advanced and
so liberal and so beneficent as this college has done.
The career of Brenau marks a new era In the educa
tional growth of the South, and the mark of progress
which It has established will force In necessity and In
competition a corresponding effort which will raise the
standard of every female school In the South.
All of which adds new emphasis to the heartiness
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.lt 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 poople today.
We have learned the great truth that lynching does
not stop the crime against our women. We have reach:
M by elimination the conclusion that other experiments
must be tried to lnUmldate the criminals of the negro
race. One of the most hopeful of these experiments
seems to be a statute authorising the mutilation of the
criminal and the branding of him on the forehead with
the letter "R” significant of his crime and making him
an object of suspicion for the rest of time.
Tbe 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 ol
our white civilization that the leaders of the negro race
shall give us from this time forth that co-operation which
they have heretofore refused. The South la growing
Indignantly tired of negro tirades In central dUes against
the lawlessness of lynching. We are tired of negro plati
tudes and resolutions against the injustice of the South
toward the negro. And we have utterly lost patience
with those pacific preachments which cry out for law and
order on the part of the white man. while they spend
no time rtor breath nor effort In thundering to tbelr own
people the earnest and passionate denunciation of these
criminals who make the chief tension and the deadly
friction between the raefes.
Now see here: The South has for 25 years befriend
ed the negroes Id every practical way. We have helped to
build their churches, we have helped to austaln their
schools, we hare buried their dead and helped to main
tain their living sometimes In Idleness and sometimes In
want. But now as one unit In the mass of Southern sen
timent, Tbe Georgian lifts Its voice and protests that
henceforward It will give no dollar and lend no aid and no
cooperation to any negro Institution until Its officers, Its
preachers, Its teachers and Its editors shall 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 friends 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, Us teachers and Its editors
In those Institutions are thundering the doctrine ol hell
and damnation to the assailants of white women.
Now this Is fair. It Is Just, and It is right.
The South Ik 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
afratd to leave their families alone even Id 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 qouth. We are a free people and a
great country. Are we to live forever under thla shadow
and under this terror? Are we. to sit still and help to
build up these' negro Institutions when they are silent
and apathetic toward tho peril In which tboir criminals
put the best element of our' race? Are we 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 field In a state of selge with our women
trembling In fear and terror when they are alono? Is
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 theee teachers, these preachers and these
editors that they have the most vital interest In this af
fair. If the boundariee of restraint are ever broken by
this Caucasian race In a wild spirit of retaliation for 'a
condition which Imprison* 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 It 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 wilt stand shoulder to
shoulder with us In demanding that every preacher In
every country pulpit and every editor of every little 2x4
sheet and that every teacher In the city and country
schools shall devote some part of his sermon or some
portion of his editorial, or some segment of hi* scholastic
hours to preaching hell and damnation to all who are
guilty of this fiendish cjtrao.
We assure these men that tho Caucasian sentiment
of this country Is now being aroused as It never was
before. We need not and wo will not continue to have
our women lire finder the shadow of this fiendish negro
lust. We are going to free our women no matter what
the cost may be to another race. There Is no wildness of
passion and radicalism In this announcement. If these
men know anything they know that we 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 against 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 wo 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 has been exploiting in bis public advertisement
This apprehension is absolutely without foundation.
Tbe Georgian has made but one editorial comment upon
tbe 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 npon the editorial paragraph relating to himself
and has used It with conspicuous publicity and success In
tbe advertising columns of tbe city papers. Captain
Joyner and bis friends either through over confidence or
through a failure to appreciate the value of tbe matter,
have failed to mite any use of the much stronger and
more effective comment made upon bl* candidacy. So that
tbe fault Is not by any mean* with the Impartial Georgian,
but must be either attributed to the superior activity of
Mr. Goodwin, or to the apathy and over-confidence of Sir.
Joyner's friends.
No honest Judgment can find anything to complain
of In tho treatment which this paper has accorded to
both candidates and of the decided leaning which it evi
denced toward Its older and nearer friend—Captain Joy
ner. \
whore.
„ What Congress Really Appropriated^
It requires some little time alter the adjournment
of congress for the clerks ofothe appropriation commit
tees to make up the budget and determine Just how
much money has been appropriated.
This report has Just been completed and it Is shown
that the appropriations for this first session of the fifty-
ninth congress did not reach a billion dollar*.
But, In the language of the topical *ong, it “waa
near It, yery near it."
To be absolutely accurate, the appropriation*
amounted to $879,589,185.16. The New York Commercial,
which give* out the figures, show* that In addition to the
specific appropriations made, contracts are authorized to
bo entered Into for public works, requiring future appro
priations by congress In the aggregate sum of $20,587,-
200. These contracts -cover the following objects and
amounts: Fort Mason. Cal, $760,000; West Point Mili
tary Academy, $1,700,000; torpedo boat destroyers and
submarine 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 sub
way system for capitol and other buildings, and for
school buildings In tbe 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 $6,615,870.61, and
those abolished are 5,525, at an annual compensation of
$4,010,109, a net Increase of 1,649 In number, and $2,-
605,761.51 lu amount.
Of this net Increase In number, eight are for the
library of Congress, 26 for the Department of State,
63 for tho Treasury Department (Including 48 for the
office of the treasurer of tbe United States), six for
the Independent treasury, four for the War Department,
three for the Navy Department, 15 for the Department
of Justice, 49 for the Department of Agriculture. 116 for
the government of tbe District of Columbia (Including
33 school teachers, 12 firemen, 20 policemen and 22 em
ployees for the alms house), 17 for the military prison,
62 for the diplomatic and consular service, 61 for the
military establishment, 38 for the naval establishment
and 1,366 for the postal service (including 35 assistant
postmasters, 798 clerks la 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
postal service, there remain only 283 net Increase In em
ployments for all other departments and branches of the
public servcle.
The net number of salaries Increased Is 588, at an
annual cost of $374,449. Of this number 28 are In the
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 lu
the District of Columbia, 274 In the diplomatic and con
sular service and 10 In the postal service. The remain
ing Increased salaries are In various branches of the
public service, and Involve generally small amounts.
Continuing, tbe New York Commercial says that
comparison of tbe total appropriation for the first
session of the fifty-ninth congress—$879,589,185.16—with
that of tho last aestion of the fifty-eighth congress—$820,-
184,634.96—shows an Increase of $59,404,650.20.
The principal Increases by sets 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, $968,046.45; 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 $25,456,415.08 as 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.
Tbe 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 redac
tion on account of the deficiencies as compared with tho
previous session of $9,546,039.27. 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, $10,276,500 for new public buildings
and $1,000,000 for arming and equipping the militia.
The permanent annual appropriations are reduced
$6,760,000; tbe fortification act shows a reduction of $l,-
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 reduction* are made In the va
rious acts, the whole showing a net Increase, as stated,
Howell. Dick Russell. Big Jim Smith nnd the South Geor
gia candidate, J. H. Kstill, say lie lias not entile Into the
right fold and he la 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 Hoko
Smith to bring out tbe beat robe and a ring and put them
on him, kill the fatted calf. On with the dance; sound
the loud timbrel over tho land, the lost Is found, the
dead Populist Is a live Democrat In one branch. dtvlBlou
or fold of Democracy known as the Hoke Smith kind—
and Thomas must have discovered that this fold was the
Simon-pure, blue-ribbon, red-shirt, all wool and a yard
wide, unadulterated Democracy, since he has always pro
claimed In no uncertain voice his JeffersonlaO Democra
cy.
Now tbe 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 the machinery, and control the court,
which ts the biggest thing In all the kinds offered, for
one good counter Is worth twenty to fifty voters at most
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 most
skilled manipulators. Now,the Clark Howell shepherd Is
crying aloud in the hills and highways In startling head
lines In his paper. The Constitution, now Infamous for
Its distortions and misrepresentations—that tbe Hoke
Bmlth wing and leader Is a fake—a fraud. Insincere, hypo
critical, a defrauder of men and desplser of the rights of
women—without conscience or humane feelings, favoring
negroes rather than white-men. Now this smells a good
deal like a fish factory In June. But these other three
good and true Democrats.
Tho South Georgia candidate, who knows he can
not be elected but is out for an airing of fcls good deeds
and pure Democracy, and the defense of his section. He
loves the piny woods and wlregrass South Georgia
so well that he wants a governor to come from Its
homes. All light. Brother Estlll, but did you ever sup
port a South Georgia candidate when one offered? How
about the Norwood-Colqultt race? Which side did you
take, and how 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 as a Prohibition man, did -you not oppose
him, and announce In Albany, Ga., that you were a
whisky man—wanted more and better whisky. Wow 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 you are offering to lead your followers up to the
zate of Clark Howell fold, and if possible, push them Into
its gate. But there are many old rams In your flock and
followers 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 had this advantage of poor Dick
Russell, whose chief recommendation Is that he is
poor man with nlae 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 bad 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
josslble, Into the Clark Howell fold. Blnce poor Dick
laa no mud-slinging organ, he will have to draw by his
good looks and explaining his true and tried pemocracy
and then he said so first—oven before the Divine called
had been summoned to lead the hosts of Simon-pure Dem
ocracy of tho good old Grover Cleveland kind, had an
nounced, and that Is a long way back, as we all know.
Dick ought to have chartered him a mud-sllnger. This Is
his 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 human endurance, can
buy him a mud sllnger and set his Larry Gantt going
with bis little 2x4 organ, and who can ride over middle
Georgia In a palace car seeking help, not to elect him
for he knows he has no chance, but his Democracy Is
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 his kind have entered—when
they see the still waters and. the green pastures before
them—and Big Jim will have less trouble to drive In and
turn over hts fellows to the other fold than the South
Georgia candidate, because he has a stronger hold on
them and they cost more and will be eloaer watched
when they como to the grand rounding up of tho Inno
cents.
Now this Is the situation as It appears to an out
sider on the eve of this grand rounding up of forcos.
nnd If there waa ever a more corrupt, dirty, mud-sling-
Ing, slanderous, vicious, unholy political struggle In Geor
gia It was more than fifty years ago. and the stench
of this kettle of fish will disgust snd annoy tho nos
trils of decent people tor years to come. And yet the
pure Democracy In five doses Is offered. Which shall we
take to relieve tho situation, which Is critical? Echo
answers which. a VET.
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of $59,404,550.20, which sum Includes $42,447,201.08 for
the Isthmian canal, as a new element ot expenditure.
A RAP FOR ALL OF THEM.
To the Edltoi of The Georgian:
The varieties of Democrats now being exploited be
fore the people of Georgia Is strange, wonderful and
remarkable.
A- few years ago the Hon. Thomas E. Watson, then
a Populist leader and canvassing the state for the Popu
list ticket, said In a speech delivered st 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 bad been Invited and urged to return
to the Democratic fold, but he said that he really could
not tell which fold to enter with so many doors all open
wide and labelled the true Democracy; and he did not
enter because of tbe uncertainty of getting Into the right
fold. But It seems after some years of wanderiag In the
bleak and barren bills of Populism, he has found the
right door and entered tbe right fold and haa proclaimed
bis arrival at home and to stay. The prodigal has return
ed to his father's house and there Is great rejoicing
THINGS TO THINK ABOUT.
Tbe English vocabulary of a slum child of 6, ac
cording to a Scottish school Inspector, contains only two
or three dozen words. That ot the average child of the
middle classes of the same age Is about 1,000 words
It Is said that the hides of American live cattle sent
to England to be killed and eaten are by prearrangement
all sent back across the Atlantic, there to be tanned,
and mayhap reshippcd to England as leather or in boots
and shoes.
June 25, 1876. st the centennial exhibition In Phil
adelphia. the telephone was for the first time exhibited
to the public. A* few months before, Alexander Graham
Bell had perfected his Invention, but It was not until a
month after the opening of the centennial that It occur
red to him to exhibit the wonder-working device at the
great fair.
On the Isle of Portland. In the south of England,
there are certain quarries of limestone .which have been
worked for many years, In former times producing build
ing stone. In 1824 an Englishman named Josepn Asplln
ot 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 tbe commonly known name given to nearly all
kinds o? hydraulic cement was derived.
ABOUT PROMINENT PEOPLE.
The dowager empress of Russia Is extremely fond of
the Danish black or rye bread, such as Is baked for the
soldiers.
Representative Charles Curtis, of Kansas, Is the only
man In congress who has Indian blood In his veins. One
of his remote ancestors was a noble red man.
James S. Harlan, recently appointed a delegate to
the Pan-American conference, was known In fals younger
days as "Ibe 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 as to the qualifica
tions of hit guests.
The emir of Afghanistan recently discovered that
three of the muftis of his court bad been grafting, and
also had been guilty of oppressing the poor. He ordered
them buried alive, and this was done without delay.
When Elspjrath, king of Cambodia, now on a visit
to France, takes bis walks one attendant carries a gold
cigarette case set with diamonds, another a gold match
box set with rubles, and a third a gold cuspidor.
Andrew Carnegie, at Gravesend, when he was the
first distinguished stranger to receive the freedom of
the borough, said that he understood only one machine
[GOSSIP,
By CHOLLY KNICKERBOCKER
By Private Leased Wire.
New York, Aug. 12.-J. Q. a. Ward
the famous American sculptor, has
taken unto himself a wife and it'i» his
third, and Ills friend* have nut recov.
ered from the shock of the announce
ment yet. Mr. Ward Is now 7« years
old. He declines to make known th«
identity of his bride.
"Why should you ask?" he Inquired
"Does the public care? I am nut «
kaiser or president. I would prefer
that nothing be said, and certainly i t
Is not necessary that I should tell the
name of the lady: I was married nbout
a month ago. and that Is all 1 care X
say aboutlt." t0
From another source It was learn**
that the bride was a widow an.l l
about 40 years old. She and Mr. Ward
bad been acquainted many years
Mr. Watd will retire from his pro-
fesslon when he completes hla statu*
of General Hancock.
William Rockefeller Is to erect a half
million dollar mansion for his
Percy, and family to occupy In Green,
wlch, on the borders of his deer park '
and almost on the site If the old hovel
where David S. Husted, a miser, spent
his last days. It Is to be the finest
house !n town, no expense being spared.
It will take two years to build it
Percy Rockefeller's brother. William
, lives almost across the street from
the new house, his home being a re
modeled farm house, resembling three
square boxes of different rises, hut
very comfortably arranged In Its i n .
terior.
The famous “Poet Sonon." of Mark
Twain's "Innocents Abroad," Blond,
good H. Cutler, of Little {leek, L. I is
In bed as the result of a serious acci
dent.
MV. Cutler, who Is 85 years of age is
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 the
Duchess Consuelo of Marlboro is soon
to pay another visit to this country.
It Is the Impression that she will bring
at least one of her children with her
to see the land of his mother's birth
and the place where her family muney
comes from.
Although suffering from severe In
juries received when n train struck his
automobile ojn 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 ceremony. 8he has nursed him
at .the hospital. He will have to t,«
married on a stretcher.
Platinum has Jumped in price re-
cently, and ns a one of the re
sults, diamonds, jewelry, artificial teeth
and many articles. used on proto,
graphic, chemical and electrical trades
nre growing coatller. 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 824, but It now costs
an ounce. A year ago it sold for fli
and $18.60.
The small boy must have hfs 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 <09
grasshoppers’ at a dinner party apd
Gregory w ears a pained look as the re
sult of an Interview with hi* mother's
slipper.
A dozen smartly gowned women nnd
as many men In 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 coatly hair orna
ments, and a general mlx-up ensu-d.
Two women fainted and the party
was broken up.
Richard Canfield does not need to
bother about the "lid” at Saratoga. He
Is credited .with being a winner to the
tune of $1,200,000 In the recent flurry
on Wall street. Another piece of be-
Inted luck came to Police Sergeant
Meyers, of Brooklyn. He has been
spending his vacation at Saratoga anil
has picked long shots so well that he
Is 110.000 richer than when he started
on hla trip.
GEORGIANS IN GOTHAM.
By Private I.eased Wlrs.
New York, Aug. 22.—Here are some
of the visitors In New York today:
ATLANTA—Mrs. F. Flexner, C. A
Wlckersham.
AUGUSTA—Miss M. Jacobs.
MACON—C. B. Rhodes, J. L. White.
THIS DATE IN HISTORY.
AUGUST 22.
1138—Battle of The Standard, England.
12sa-l'o|H> Nicholas III died.
1360—1’hlllppe IleValols of France died.
I486—llle hard III killed on Bos worth Held.
1196-Freuck directory established.
Hll-W»rrpn Hutting* (11*1.
MJ8-I)r. Front Jowph Gall, foumW ol
phrenology, illcd.
MU—Richard* Oantier. Iroder of the ten-
hour movement In Kngtnnu. uleu.
MSI—Fort Morgan. Mobile t*y, »urn u«i*-
edrto Form gut. .
U7ft—Prorl*motion by tho provident m
neutrality In the Fmnco-lT'iMiai
war.
1877—Cun*! around the !>*• Molne* R*P*
til* on MlwlMlppI river opened.
188ft—Prince Alexander of Ilulgftria
I’rovbrioiM) government formed. ,
188ft—Mrs. Mayhiiek'* oentenee commute!
to pennl torvltnde for life. t
1803—Attempt to aMMMluate PrcOldeM
<*re«lM>.of Vcnexuelfl. ,
180ft-Attnck mnde on American mMol
$$4*1104)1 nt Foochow, Chin*., u
1808—Lord ftalfxhury, prime minister *
m-l
English prison,
Ststes.
aftei
srrtr
.. rriess* .to"
red In L»*«
In the Hoke Smith camp. But thn other fellows, Clark i the human one—and be always patted It on the back.
Admiral Lord Charles Bereeford af
ter hla release from command of tne
British Mediterranean squadron. »«*
come to America. He will be the guest
of Colonel and Mrs. Robert M. Thomp
son, of New York, snd when he goes t®
England will be accompanied by hi®
daughter. Nils* Kathleen Bereeford.
now visiting with them.
Sir Douglas Fox, who Ins been com
missioned to prepare the new plans tor
the long-talked-of Channel Tunne,. i»
regarded by the members of his i'J®*
fesslon as one of the greatest engin
eers of modern times. It Is owing
his marvelous creative and construe*-
ive genius that the famous t'»P" .
Cairo railway developed lnto«n actual
ity instead of an Impoeslble dream of
I the Empire builder*.