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K THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN. The Atlanta Georgian, JOHN TEMPLE GRAVES, Editor. F. L. SEELY, President. Telephone. Subscription Rttes; j Published Every Afternoon One Year $4.50 Except Sunday by Six Months 2.50 THE GEORGIAN CO. Three Months 1.25 at 25 W. Alabama Street, By Carrier, per week 10c Atlanta, Gt. Catered as second-cUss matter April 26, 1106. at ths PostoflTIca at * Atlanta. Qa.. under act of congress of March & 1879. The Verdict of the People. The most sanguine expectation* and predictions of the friend* and advocate* of Hoke Smith have been confirmed by the ballot* Of Georgia voters, and on the platform of railroad regulation and negro disfranchise ment he has swept the state. Thus terminates one of the longest and bitterest contests In the history of the commonwealth. Today the people who hare been for fourteen months rent and riven with conflict will resume the tranquillity of mind from which they were aroused. They have expressed their cholee and we believe that .the confidence they have shown In the victorious candidate will be vin dicated by his administration. He had chosen as his platform living principle* such as appealed to the wisdom of the masses. With the grace and equanimity which mark him in every relation of life. Hon. Clark Howell, who has led the militant opposition against him, has accepted his defeat and will cordially support the nominee of the Democratic psrty. The fact that he has made a game fight and a great fight will linger with him as a com fort In the hour of defeat. Equally true is this of the other candidates In this notable contest They are all ready to unite for the triumph of Democracy and the permanent welfare of the state. The municipal campaign has revealed surprising strength on the part of Goodwin, and of this he may well be proud, but the older and riper cltixen carries away the honors, and The Georgian extends Its con gratulations to Mayor Joyner. That he will make at once a sate and a conservative chief executive of the capital city of the state Is a foregone conclusion, and It Is the general sentiment that in his election ho but comes Into his own. The manifest duty of the hour on the part of all the recent candidates Is to heal the wounds of war and unite for the general good. Governor Smith and Mayor Joyner, we salute you! 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 baa done more to vindicate this proposition than Brenau College, located at Gaines ville. From the first day that Presidents VanHoose and Pierce took charge of the college In Oalnesvllle, 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 at Gainesville was changed to Brenau .College, and was established from the very beginning upon a foundation of admirable merit In the personnel nnd attainment of Its faculty and In tb* 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 havo already established the Alabama Brenau at Eufaula, which In Its first year recorded a phenomenal success, filling the building to Its cspaclty, 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 grad* 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 Its other attractions Brenau hns 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 audaolty 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 thnt, applications have already poured In for the next year for a connection with this foreign school, llrenau 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 Oalnesvllle end Eufaula, may spend a year In the capital or metropolis of the United States. And each of these great school's Is united In one'splendld chain, working under a perfect system which will con tribute to tho 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 the things which hss been found most attractive In this great Itrenan system Is the fact that It has the beat organised school of oratory In the entire South, affiliated with the great Emerson school of Boston, and the graduates of Brenau are 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. 8urely no Institution started under such circumstances and with so little capital has done so much and done it so rapidly, to build up the fame of the college and the educational reputation of the state. We tee! that editorial Indorsement and congratulation Is the faintest possible recognition for work so advanced and •o 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 u has established will force In neceselty end 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 had won or lost In the battle of the ballot* 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 Tuesday which Is still vibrating In the hearts of this people today. We have learned the great truth that lynching does not stop the crime against our women. We have reach ed by elimlhatlon the conclusion that other experiments must be tried to Intimidate 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 bis 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 civilisation that the leaders of the negro race shall give us from this time forth that cooperation which they have heretofore refused. The South Is growing Indignantly tired of negro tirades In central cities 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 nor breath nor effort In thundering to their own people the earnest and passionate denunciation of thesi criminals who make the ehlef tension and the deadly friction between the races. Now see here: The South has for 2S 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 buried their dead and helped to main tain their living sometimes In idleness and sometimes In want. But now as one unit In the mas* of Southern sen timent, The 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, Its teachers and Its editors In those institutions sre thundering the doctrine of hell and damnation to the assailants of white women. Now this Is fstr. It Is Just, and It Is right The 8outh Is living under a shadow which no man can estimate. Men whose public duties call them to pub lic meetings nre held at-home because they are actually afraid to leave their famlllea alone even In the shelter nnd sanctity of their own hornet after nightfall. Men cannot go to church for tho 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 sit still and help to build up these negro Institutions when they nre silent and apathetic toward the peril In which their criminals put the host element of our race? Aro we to co-operate with these people to build up Institutions In which they do not preach the enormity of these offenses? Are wo to be forever held In a slate of selge with onr women trembling In fear and terror when they are alone? Is the liberty which our fathers bought with their, blood to bo surrendered to tho foul terror of an alien and sub ordinate race? We tell these teachers, these preachers and these editors that they have the most vital interest In this af- fBlr. If the boundaries of restraint nre ever broken by this Caucasian race In a wild spirit of retaliation for a condition which Imprisons nnd terrifies the noblest women of the world, they themselves will bo whelmed In the tidal wave which follows. And we say here and now to Booker Washington, to Gaines, sad Turner, to Proctor nnd to Stinson and to tho rest of thosd who nre so eager to rush Into print to plead for law nnd order, that If they havo any regard for tho future of their raco 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 2x4 sheet and thnt 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 his scholastic hours to preaching hell and damnation to all who are guilty of this fiendish crime. We assure these men that the Caucasian sentiment of this country Is now being aroused as It never was before. We need not nnd we will not continue to have our women live under the shadow of this fiendish negro lust. We are going to freo 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, end they know thnt 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 ns they continue to howl resolutions against lynching and orate against lawlessness while they are shamefully silent toward the crimes which produce the mob, then tho back of our hand Is against them and all that they represent. \ This Is the position which the present tragic environ- 5f’a HSmin'Smphlthiaie'r ment sternly demands of the Saxon race, and we call up- In the time of Tiberius. Fifty thou* on Saxons who respect themselves to assume It every* un<1 peopl ® we,e cru »hed. 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 Jnst 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 dollars. But,- In the language of the topical song, it “was near It, very near It." To be absolutely accurate, the appropriations amounted to $879,589,185.16. 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 for public works, requiring future appro priations by congress In the aggregate sura of $30,58?,- 200. Theso Contracts cover tho following objects and amounts: Fort Mason, Cal., $750,000: West Point Mili tary Academy, $1,700,000; torpedo boat destroyers and submarine torpedo boats, $2,760,000; public building in Baltimore, for light vessels, light bouses, life-saving tug, derelict destroyer, heat, light and power plant and sub way system for cspltol and other buildings, and for school buildings In the District of Columbia, $2,018,700; new public buildings throughout the country, $13,368,500. A comparison of these contract liabilities, with those of the laet session of the last congress, amounting to $26,770,057 shows a reduction of $6,182,857. The new offices specifically authorized are 6,934 Id number, at an annual compensation of $6,616,870.61, and those abolished are 5,625, at an annual compensation of $4,010,109, a net Increase of 1,649 in number, and $2,- 605,761.51 In amount Of this net Increase In number, eight are for the library of Congressr 26 for the Department of State, 63 for the Treasury Department (including 4$ for the office of the treasurer of the United States), six for the Independent treasury, tour for thp War Department, three for tho Navy Department, 16 for the Department of Justice, 49 for the Department of Agriculture, 110 tor the government of fhe 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 tor the naval establishment and 1,366 for the postal service (Including 35 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 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 nnd Labor, 17 In the Department of Agriculture, 147 In the District of Columbia, 274 In the diplomatic and con sular service and 10 lu the postal service. The remain ing Increased salaries are In various branches of the public service, anti Involve generally small amount*. Continuing, the New York Commercial says that a comparison of the total appropriation for the first session of the fifty-ninth congress—$879,589,186.16—with that of the last session of the fifty-eighth congress—$820, 184,634.96—shows an Increase of $69,404,550.20. The principal Increases by acts are as follows Agricultural act, $3,047,760, 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 $25,466,415.08 as a new Item for the Isthmian Canal, and more than $6,000,- 000 Increase In sums required to meet contracts author ised for work on rivers and harbors. The deficiency act* 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 $34,748,202.29, 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 $6,700,000; tho 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 whole showing a net Increase, as stated, of $59,404,550.20, which aum Includes $42,447,201.08 for the Isthmian canal, as a new element of expenditure. bo A RAP FOR ALL OF THEM. To the Etllloi 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 loader and canvassing the state for the Popu list ticket, sntd In a speech delivered at Cordele that there woro then seventeen kinds of Democrats In the United States nnd he named most If not all of the varie ties and said thnt he had 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 the uncertainty of getting Into the right fold. But It seems after some yeara. 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 hat return ed to hts father's house and there is great rejoicing In the Hoke Smith camp. But the other fellows, Clark Howell, Dick Russell, Big Jim Smith and the South Geor gia candidate, J. H. Estlll, say he has not come 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 Is in order for the man who holds midnight communions with Hoke Smith to bring out the best robe and a ring nnd put them on him, kill the fatted calf. On with the dance; sound the loud timbrel over the land, the loat Is found, the dead Populist Is a live Democrat In one branch, division or fold of Democracy known ns 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 1n no uncertain voice his Jeffersonian Democra cy. Now the situation demands that the rank and file who are anxious to get Into the right fold of Democra enlightened, slnco the followers of the Hon. Clark How ell claim they are tho only true Wue. Simon-pure Dem ocrats. and have the machinery, and -control the court, which Is 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 tho hills and highways In startling head lines In his paper. The Constitution, now Infamous for Its distortions and misrepresentations—that the Hoke Smith 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. The South Georgia candidate, who knows he can not bo elected but Is out for an airing 6f his good deeds and pure Democracy, and the defense of his section. He loves the piny woods and wlrcgrass South Georgia so well that he wants a governor to come from Its homes. All right. 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 c. 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 nnd It Is strange that Thomas E. Watson or Hon. James Hines did not enter your fold when they were seeking tho genuine, Simon-pure article of Democracy— and you are offering to lead your followers up to the gate of Clark Howell fold, and if possible, push them Into his 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 8outh 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, nnd to replace some of the mud-holes and cesspool* you have created. Now you have had this advantage of poor Dick Russell, whoso chief recommendation Is that he la a poor man with nine children nnd 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 Mb splendid family, and If be had the Simon-pure Democracy to offer he too might have had Tom Watson, Yancy Carter or Charlie McGregor helping him lend and drlvo his herd. But like the South Georgia candidate, hts followers are In a narrow limit; the bounds of his former Judicial cir cuit; and they can and will only he led up to and. If g osslble. Into the Clark Howell fold. Since poor Dick as no mud-slinging organ, he will have to draw by his good looks and explaining his true and tried Democracy and then he 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, ns we all know. Dick ought to have chartered him a mud-sltnger. This la hts weak point. Then we bare 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 am) set his Larry Gantt going with his little 2x4 organ, and who can ride over middle Georgia In a palace car seeking help, not td 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 his 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 closer watohed when they come to the grand rounding up of the Inno cents. Now this Is the situation ns it appears to an out sider on the eve of this grand rounding up of forces, and If there was 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 and annoy the nos trils of decent people for years to come. And yet the pure Democracy In five doses Is offered. Which shall we take to relieve the situation, which Is critical? Echo answers which. A VET. THING8 TO THINK ABOUT. The English vocabulary of a slum child of 6, 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 live cattle sent to England to be killed and eaten are by prearrangoment all sent back across the Atlantic, there to be tnnnod, and mayhap reshlpped to England as leather or In boots and shoes. . June- 25, 1876, at 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 n 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 arc certain quarries of limestone which have boon worked for many years. In former times producing build ing stone. In 1824 an Englishman named Joscpn Asplln of Leeds patented a process for mixing and burnmg lime and clay. The product looked so much ltko the Portland limestone that he called It "Portland cement," from which the commonly known name given to nearly all kinds n? hydraulic cement wah 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 hts veins. One of his remote ancestors was a noble red man. James 8. Harlan, recently appotn'ed a delegate to the Pan-American conference, waB known In bis younger days as "the handsomest man In Kentucky.” Thomas Nelson Page Is a quiet man wno says little yet hls house Is known In Washington as the place where the host has the most exacting Ideas as to the qualifica tions of hls guests. The emir of Afghanistan recently discovered that three of the muftis of hls court had been grafting, and also had been guilty of oppressing the poor. He ordered them buried alive, and this was done without delay. When Elsowath, king of Cambod's, now on a visit to France, takes hit 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 the human one—end be always patted It on the back. ITEMS OF INTERE8T. Madame Albanl has performed before royalty more frequently than any ether actress or singer alive. During the reign of Edward the Con fessor, of England, the practice of em ploying surname* began. From ISO* to 14SS Bcottla-i bank rupts were compelled to wear a sort of convict dress, half yellow, half brown. Spain la the only country that has n coinage bearing a baby's nend on It. Coins beating the baby head of King Alfonso were Issued in 188S. As soon as the neressary funds are collected a Hebrew Institute will li» erected In Omaha. Nebr.. by the local B'nat B'rith for the purpose of train ing Jewish boys and girls. The National Baptist Convention, the largest body of colored Baptists in America, haa decided to eatabllah a theological seminary at Ita own. It already haa a large and proaperous publishing house. Plana for the aalt water and high pressure system for the purpose of lire protection to the business part of the city of Seattle have been complete I. The plan Is modeled after the Phila delphia system. A woman at Keighley, England, sum moned for not sending her boy it! school, explained t.. the bench that when she attempted to chastise Mm for not going he threatened to report llFT tf$ ttllS "dPttel • Inanaolne her to the "cruelty" Inspector. The Six states of Guatemala, Hondu ras, British Honduras, Salvador, .Vtc- uragua and Costa Hlea together form a long, narrow strip of land extending from Southeast to northwest over u distance ofiaotae 80S miles. The width varies from 80 miles to over 100. and the total area Is estimated at 178.S27 square miles, or somewhat larger t.tan our state of California. I GOSSIP By CHOLLY KNICKERBOCKER. By Private I-onBed Wire. New York. Aug. 21.—J. Q. A . Wan , the famous American sculptor, hss taken unto himself a wife and It’ Is hls third, and hls friends have not recur ered from the shock of the announce* ment yet. Mr. Ward Is now 76 y ear , old. He declines to make known th« Identity of hie bride. "Whyshould you. ask?” he Inquired “Docs the public care? I am not s katser or president. I would prefcr that nothing be said, and certainly it Is not necessary that I should tell th. name of the lady. I was married about ?ay XutT"“ nd ‘ hat a “ 1 “» 2 I-'rom another source It was learned that the bride was a widow and t. about 40 years old. She and Mr Ward had been acquainted many years Mr. Ward -will retire from hls' pro. feaston when he completes hls statue of, General Hancock. William Rockefeller Is to erect a hilf million dollar mansion for hls Z* Percy, and family to occupy In Green wich, on the borders of his deer nark and almost on the site If the old h,ivei where David S. Hueted, a miser, spent hls last days. It Is to be the finest house In town, no expense being spared It will take two years to build It Percy Rockefeller's brother, William G„ lives almost across the streak from the new house, hls home being a re modeled farm house, resembling three square boxes of different sizes, but very comfortably arranged In Its in. terlor. The f&mouit "Poet Sonon,” of Mark Twain's "Innocents Abroad," Blood- good H. Cutler, of Little Neck, L 1 | ( In bed aa the result of a serious acci dent. Mr. Cutler, who |s 85 yearn of age. is a sufferer from rheumatism. As he opened tho door with hls crutch It swung back and hit him. I learn from a sure source thnt the Duchess ConsuelO of Marlboro Is soon to pay another visit to this country. It la the Impression that she will bring at least one of her children with her to see the land of hls mother's birth and the place where her family money comes from. Although suffering from severe In juries received when a train struck hls automobile on August 2, Lewis R, Conklin, on attorney of 59- Wall street, will today wed Miss Grace Frlsbee, of New Haven, at the time they had set for the ceremony. She has nursed him at the hospital. He will have to ho married on a stretcher. Platinum has Jumped In prlre re cently. and as a one of the re. suits, diamonds, Jewelry, artificial teeth and many articles used on proto- graphic, chemical and electrical trades are growing coatller. It Is all due to the troubles In Russia. The govern ment there owns tho mines In the I'rol mountains, nnd Is trying to Increase its revenue. A week ago the metal could be bought for $24, but It now mats 126 an ounce. A year ago It sold fur 414 and $18.50. The small boy must have hls 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 looae 401 ■ grasshoppers at a dinner party and ! Gregory wear* a pained look as the re sult of an Interview with hls mother's ■Upper. A doxen smartly gowned women and as many men In evening clothes were thrown Into a ludicrous panic w hen 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 mlx-up ensu'd. Two women fainted and the party woe broken up. Richard Canfield does not need to bother about the "lid” at Saratoga. Ho In credited with being a winner to the tune at 81.200,000 In the recent flurry on Wall street. Another piece of be lated luck came to Police Sergeant Meyers, of Brooklyn. He has been spending hls vacation at Saratoga ami has picked long shots eo well that he Is *30,000 richer than when he started on hie trip. ' GEORGIANS IN GOTHAM. By Private Loosed Wire. 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. \\ hlte. THIS DATE IN HISTOIIY. AUGUST 22. 1128—Rattle of The Standard. England. 128!)—l*oim» Xlcliolns HI dlod. I860—1'lilllppe ito Valois of Prance did. I486—Richard III killed on Bob worth field. 179T»—French dlri*4‘tory established. 1818—Wnrren Hasting* died. 1828—Dr. Frans Joseph Gull, founder « phrenology, died. 1SC1—Richard (tastier, lender of th** te * hour movement In England, died. 1881—Fort Morgnn. Mobile bay, mirrend*** ml to FnrriiKut. 1870—l*roclntn«tlon bjr the president «* neutrality lu the Front”-ITumM wnr. 1877—(’mm! nmnnd the Ita* Moines Id* on Mississippi river opened. 1886—Itafuee Aleut uder $>f Hnlgurlrt itaw*** I'rm Ulouiil government formed. . 1S80—Mrs. Mfijhnrk's sentence commutes to pen*! wrvltude for life. *-- - - Pr.-s.1cul 1886—Attack tttndo iczucin. . ... on American nii«*»‘°o school nt Foochow, Chinn. * 1903— Lord Salisbury, prime minister or Kufflnnd. tiled. , .... 1904— Mrs. Mayhrlck. after release tea* Knclisb orison, arrived In Lnliea Admiral Lord Charles Beresford. sf- ter hls release from command «>r British Mediterranean squadron. «»* come to America. He will be the of Colonel and Mrs. Robert M. Th**mp* son. of New York, and when he f 1 ** England will be accompanied by nil daughter. Miss Kathleen Hereford* now visiting with them. Sir Douglas Fox, who has been corn- missioned to prepare the new plans th. lonp.ta ItrnA fhnnnot '* the long-talked-of Channel Tunnel, regarded by the members of hi* I***’* feselon ns one of the greatest engin eer* of modern times. It t* owing J 1 ' hts marvelous creative and cone, run* ive getdiis that the famou. *’ape 10 Cairo railway developed Into an sctuM* Itv InqtP.iil cit ivn Imiwiffglhl* dreHtU Ity Instead of no Impossible dream the Empire bulUers. •