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THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN- WBDNKSDAY. AT’GI'ST 22. IV* 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 Csrrier, per week 10c Published Every Afternoon Exeept Sundsy by THE GEORGIAN CO. st 25 W. Alsbsms Street, Atlsnts, Gs. 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. 1 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*.