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College Notes. C. H. Westbrook and J. W. Norman, graduataes of Mercer University, 1906, and who have had charge of the Mercer Summer School during the summer just passed, will attend Harvard during the coming year. The public schools of Atlanta, Ga., opened on September 4th. There have already been a large number of certificates issued, and it is expected that the enrollment in the schools during the schol astic year will amount to seventeen thousand. Dr. William T. Harris, United States Commis sioner of Education, among many other interesting statistics brings out the fact that the annual school bill of the country equals in amount half the sum required to carry on the government for a year. Miss Merle Stephens, who has had charge of the manual training work in the public schools of Atlanta, has been granted a year’s leave of ab sence which she will spend at Columbia College studying advanced work. She is a graduate of the Girls’ High School of Atlanta, of the State Normal School, and the Oread Institute. Euharlee Institute, at Euharlee, Ga., has just in corporated a new feature in school work. Three wagons will be used in bringing the pupils to school. Mechanical and industrial features have also been introduced into the work of the school. The school wagon plan will be watched with con siderable interest as it is just beginning to be adopt ed in Georgia by schools of this class. Under the condition that the colleges raise three times the amount of the donation, the following Southern colleges have received appropriations from the Rockefeller Fund of ten million dollars; in amounts as follows: Furman, twenty-five thousand; Wake Forest College, thirty-seven thousand five hundred dollars; Howard College, twenty-five thousand dollars; South Western University, twen ty-five thousand dollars; Mississippi College, twen ty-five thousand dollars. An earnest effort is being made by the citizens of LaGrange, Ga., to locate the Fourth Congression al District agricultural college at LaGrange. Judge F. M; Longley, of that city, is chairman of the movement. The three hundred acre site for the college has been guaranteed, and an offer has been made to sell “Brownwood” where Benjamin H. Hill, Judge Emory Speer and other distinguished Georgians received their early training, for use as a school building. Mr. Alfred C. Ackerman, "who, until recently, was State Forester of Massachusetts, has received the appointment- as instructor of the department of foresty in the University of Georgia. He was born at Cartersville, Ga., being the son of Amos T. Akerman, United States Attorney General during President Grant’s first administration. He was graduated in the University of Georgia in 1898, and afterward took special work in forestry at Berlin, Germany, and at Yale. Governor Terrell has named the members of the first Board of Trustees for the Agricultural Col lege to be established at Athens, Ga., under the provision of the Connor bill The chairman of the board will be Hon. J. J. Connor, of Bartow county, Ga., author of the bill under which the college will come into existence. The other members of the board are as follows: J. A. Thrash, of Meriweth er; J. L. Hand, of Mitchell; A. J. McMullen, of Hart; L. 0. H. Martin, of Elbert; E. H. Callaway, of Richmond; R. C. Neely, of Burke; John W. Bennett, of Ware; L. G. Hardman, of Jackson; D. M. Hughes, of Twiggs, and T. G. Hudson, com missioner of Agriculture, ex-officio member of the committee. The Golden Age for September 6, 1906. THE SEP TEMBER MA GA ZINES McCLURE’S. As a leader for this month, McClure’s contains the second instalment of “The Story of Montana,” by C. P. Connally. This deals with the development of the copper industry and the beginnings of the Clark-Daly Feud. This is a strong and instructive history of the most interesting period of Montana’s industrial development and the next instalment will outline the campaign made in 1898 by Clark to secure a seat in the United States Senate. A beautifully illustrated article by Eugene Wood dis cusses Niagara and the threatened destruction of the scenic beauties of the Falls by power companies. Rudyard Kipling’s fifth story of his series is in harmony with the four preceding ones, but there is nothing of the old Kipling except a faint and elu sive touch here and there. If he would only hit up his old gait he would be the feature of this or any other magazine, but truly his “pomp of yes terday” seems “one with Nineveh and Tyre.” Burton J. Hendricks’ fifth instalment of “The story of Life Insurance,” is good. The fiction is fair and the advertising section is splendid. Don’t miss the one hundred and sixteen pages of ads in the back. WATSON’S MAGAZINE. Watson’s comes out in a new colored cover this month which is a material improvement upon the work-a-day garb it has heretofore affected. Its main feature, as usual, is the editorial matter by Mr. Watson. This is always good, but since Mr. Watson and Mr. Pendleton have entered the lists there has been enough ginger and strong Eng lish to satisfy the cravings of any one. This month Mr. Watson fills twenty-five pages with re marks about Mr. Pendleton, Editor of the Macon Telegraph, Mr. Samuel Spencer and the Southern Railway. This is most positively good reading. When two private citizens get a grudge against one another and get to calling one another names, it doesn’t amount to much, but arm an able editor and thinker with a daily paper, and a historian, politician and lawyer with a monthly magazine; set them at one another and there is something doing. Those persons who read both the Telegraph and Watson’s Magazine, are fortunate; provided they are Irishly descended and enjoy a scrap; but if they get only the magazine, that alone is a liberal education in a controversy “as it should be did.” It is impossible not to speculate as to where Mr. Watson and Mr. Pendleton will end, and how they will be able to put a period to their tilt. Saving the dignity of these gentlemen- and the forum in which they are engaged, the logical conclusion prom ises to arrive in a manner similar to that of Bob Taylor’s wild cat story. They were both large cats, strong and wary; and each simply crazy to demolish the other. They met on a ridge, leaped at one an other at the same instant and collided in mid air, scratching and biting. They were so angry and collided at such an angle that they simply went up in the air, fighting as they went. The neighbors said it rained hair and hide for a week. The fiction of this issue is good, and two notable articles for thinkers are “The Railroad Hold-up” and “The Currency Trust.” Watson’s has advanc ed to $1.50 per year and is worth it. PEARSON’S MAGAZINE. Pearson’s this month has “The Real Mr. Hearst,” by James Creelman. The article is well illustrated from photographs of Mr. Hearst and his family. On the whole, though a very laudatory view of the subject, the article is sensible and readable. It brings out no new r facts, but it discusses Mr. Hearst’s work through his newspaper properties and his attitude on political and governmental ques tions. A point is clearly made on Mr. Hearst’s ability to find and employ men to carry out his plans, who are able to do things which their em- By A. E. RAMSAUR. ployer himself could not. There are some little features of the article that give it the sound usu ally associated with the launching of a presidential boom, but it may be entirely innocent. There is an interesting short article about Well man’s Polar Airship and in the fiction department, our old friend “Don Q” acts as knight to" a lady in distress and kills two or three gentlemen who had annoyed her. It is amazing to consider how bloodthirsty that same “Don Q” is, and has ever been. In the last two years we have known per sonally of more than a hundred deaths he is ac countable for. We would not like him as a next door neighbor in real life; but if he could only be made to exist long enough to meet our creditors and dislike them, we would be thankful. 808 TAYLOR’S MAGAZINE. To many the most attractive feature of Tay lor s Magazine is the contribution it contains each month from Mr. Taylor himself. To those who have heard his famous “Fiddle and Bow” lecture, it is unnecessary to comment further than to say that the magazine articles are in the same key. In this issue his contribution is “The Man in Stripes,” and “A Tribute to Texas”; the latter being an extract from a speech delivered in Dallas. I here are six photographs of ladies presented as “Some beautiful women of the South.” “The Men of Affairs” department contains articles and pictures of eleven prominent men, and Beverly Keith Lewis contributes an interesting article on the coming Jamestown Exposition. “Davy Crockett,” by Carl Holliday, is worth special mention, as being interesting as well as in structive. HARPER’S MAGAZINE. Harper’s for this month is satisfying in every detail. It is difficult in a few lines to give an ade quate review of a magazine which contains one hundred and sixty pages of the very best class of matter in all the branches of magazine making. Years ago, Omar sang of how like Paradise the des ert would be if he were “seated underneath the bough” with a certain friend, a book of verse and some accessories. If he lived now it is my convic tion that he would have chosen Harper’s Magazine instead of that “book of verse.” (A marked copy of this sent to Harper’s ought to result in a year’s free subbscription.) Harper’s leads all the maga zines in color illustrations. The frontispiece in color accompanies a charming piece of fiction by Maurice Hewlett. Mark Twain’s story “A Horse’s Tale,” is concluded, and there are some half dozen other stories. There is an article on elephant shoot ing, by Captain Speedy; William Dean Howells has “Kentish Neighborhoods, Including Canterbury”; and “The Wonders of Cellulose” is the ti tle of a most interesting article by Professor Rob ert Kennedy Duncan. Lovers of nature and insect life will find most interest perhaps, in the contri bution of Dr. Henry C. McCook on “Hunting Wild Bees.” “One of Franklin’s Friendships,” by Worthington Ford, is good stuff. It is composed chiefly of hitherto unpublished correspondence be tween Ffrankilin and Madam® de Birifllon, 1776- 1789. The facts to be gleaned from this corres pondence draw one closer to Franklin; they seem to humanize him and bring him into the light of interpretation by purely every-day standards. The funny department of Harper’s is really fun ny. There are now and then pictures of animals that linger with one and you can see them when you are lying wakeful at night. This month the in terior of a passenger car is shown. Two rabbits are a bride and groom. This conversation takes place: She—“ You ought not to have kissed me in that tunnel.” He—“ Why not, dearie? it was pitch dark.” She—“l know but there’s a couple of owls sit ting behind us.” 9