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foreign nations, but not more so than did the milita
ry reviews which are planned to be given. These
reviews will alternate with the Naval features, and
when it is considered that the splendid soldiers of
Russia, of Germany, of France and of England will
lend their presence, the stirring scenes to be
enacted will be indeed inspiring.
Colonial Exhibits.
In speaking of “The new World’s beginning at
Jamestown/' Gov. Henry A. Wise, of Virginia,
said;
“Here the old world first met the new. Here the
white man first met the red for settlement and civ
ilization. Here the white man wielded the axe to
cut the first tree for the first log cabin. Here the
first log cabin was built for the first village. Here
the Hi’st village rose to the first state capital. Here
was the first capital of our empire of states. Here
was the very foundation of a nation of freemen,
which has stretched its millions and its dominion
across the continent to the shores of another ocean.
Go to the Pacific now to measure the progression
and power of a great people.’ 7
State Exhibits.
As the entire celebration is one which owes its
origin to the work of the early English colonists
it is but fitting that the colonial feature of the
exposition should be accentuated in every possible
way. To further carry out this idea, therefore, the
separate state buildings will, in many instances, oc
cupy colonial homes of historic interest. These
buildings are to be permanent ones and are to be
erected in exact imitation of the original structures.
Tor instance, Rhode Island will have a reproduc
tion of the old State House at Newport; New’ Jer
sey will reproduce Washington’s Headquarters at
Morristown; Pennsylvania will have, of course, an
“Independence Hall”; Maine will reproduce Long
fellow's home at Cambridge—a house used also
by General Washington as his headquarteis during
tne Revolutionary War, and Connecticut is to have
a perfect specimen of a handsome colonial residence.
Appropriations ranging from $5,000 to $300,000
have been made by individual states, and the Mid
dle West and South have arranged to be adequately
represented. In fact, every source to which an ap
peal for co-operation has been made has responded
most generously with both money and enthusiastic
interest.
Georgia’s Place at Jamestown.
It is almost impossible to cover even the sa
lient featuies of an exposition of the magnitude
of this one in an article of this length, but there are
some featuies which must be emphasized as having
more than a passing or transitory significance.
Prominent among these is the part that Georgia
will play in this convention of the states, where
each will vie with the other to display to the best
advantage its individual resources and achieve
ments. The South, which is recognized as the most
progressive section of the country at this time, will
make a better showing at Jamestown than ever
at any exposition before, but it is with a deep sense
of personal pride and pleasure that we of Georgia
realize that the exhibit of The Empire State of the
South will mean more to the world than a display
of her minerals, however rare and valuable, of her
agricultural attainments, be they ever so rich, or
even of her industrial or educational features, al
thought both are maiked and distinctive.
Georgia offers even more than these, because she
offers to the country and to the world an object
lesson of Southern patriotism, loyalty and recogni
tion of worthiness such as is seldom seen.
Bulloch Hall.
The building that Georgia will use during the six
months of the Jamestown Exposition—that is
from April to November, 1907—is no less an edifice
than Bulloch Hall at Roswell, Ga., which was the
ancestral home of the President of the United States
—Theodore Roosevelt. But not for this reason is
this historic building chosen—rather because of its
place in the colonial history of the state and because
of the distinguished services rendered to the nation
and the stale by the one-time inhabitants of Bulloch
Hall. In glancing over the historic events with
which Bulloch Hall is associated, we see that this
building is closely linked with those who figured in
The Golden Age for November 8, 1906
the most significant events in the history of the state,
not only during colonial times but during the more
recent period of the Civil War. While the original
owners of Bulloch Hall were prominent in Revolu
tionary circles so were their descendants loyal to
their own state of Georgia, and the two brave
brothers of Mrs. Roosevelt, Archibald and James,
did great service for the Confederate Cause. In
addition to his work as a brave soldier and officer
Captain Archibald Bulloch purchased vessels and
supplies in European markets for the use of the
Confederates and later he wrote a valuable work on
the subject—a work which is still a historical au
thority. Captain James Bulloch served in Lee’s
army and as all the officers in that command were
of necessity brave and loyal soldiers this name
gives added lustre to the Bulloch records.
Miss Mittie Bulloch lived all her young life at
Builoch Hall and only left its doors to become the
w’ife of Mr. Roosevelt and later to be the mother
of the President of the United States—that Chief
Executive of whom King Edward of England has
remarked: “He is the greatest President
since Washington,” an opinion which is certainly
indorsed by many people of the country at whose
head he stands, as well as by other crowned heads
of Europe, some of whom, such as William of Ger
many, are close personal friends of our president.
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MR. W. N. MITCHELL.
Mr. W. N. Mitchell, Georgia’s Commissioner.
The source to which Georgia owes the distinction
of erecting a building which w’ill give pleasure to
the nation’s chief as w T ell as reflect credit on the
people of the state, is Mr. W. N. Mitchell, the
President of the Georgia Commission whose idea
it is to use Bulloch Hall as a Georgia building.
Mr. Mitchell is himself a Virginian of distinguished
family but a resident of Georgia for many years and
he combines within himself all the characteristics
of a representative citizen of his adopted as well
as of his native state. During his early boyhood he
knew well Miss Mittie Bulloch, as she was a girl
hood friend of Mr. Mitchell’s sister—knowing her,
and also knowing the family traditions which made
Bulloch Hall a famous mansion, it was but natural
that Mr. Mitchell should select it as a home for
Georgians at the great exposition. His idea is that
a city from each Congressional district shall con
tribute a sum sufficient to erect the Georgia building
and that a room shall be reserved in this building
for each contributing city, the furnishings to be
the products of that city; the walls to be replete
with pictures of historic events, while there shall
be displayed an illustrated book containing views
distinctive of the city, advertising it both as a place
of residence and a commercial center, so that Geor
gia, under this one roof, will hold, as it were, a clear
exponent of the resources of her various municipal
ities.
(Continued on page 5.)
Items of General Interest.
“If for some of us action cannot mean doing,
then remember bearing, too, is action—often its
hardest part.”
“Failure after long perseverence is much grander
than never to have a striving good enough to be
called a failure.”
Nearly all the Bibles sent to Uganda are bound in
tin in order to guard against the voracious African
ants, which frequently completely devour the or
dinary covers of books.
The Literary Digest of the 6th of October has a
picture of Governor Joseph M. Terrell on the out
side cover, and devotes considerable space to ex
tracts from the press of the country on the recent
race troubles in Atlanta and elsewhere.
A thief recently captured in Berlin had a most
clever device in a “dummy’’ third hand which he
kept in evidence while his own right hand did dead
ly work among the pockets of his victims. A light
overcoat is thrown over the “dummy” hand thus
leaving the natural member free to follow its own
sweet will—or that of its criminal owner.
During the year 1904 the total number of persons
killed by wild beasts in India is statistically report
ed as being 24,034, 2,200 of whom were the victims
of vicious snakes. The reverse of this picture may
be found in the statement that during the same
period of time sixty-five thousand snakes and six
teen thousand other wild animals were killed in
the same country.
Many have been the experiments with high-speed
locomotives, and’ at the Loans and Industrial Exhi
bition now being held at Nuremberg there is ex
hibited a locomotive with a sharp pointed boiler,
built to resist air resistance and 'which will make a
speed record of ninety miles an hour as a regular
thing but this can easily be increased to 100
miles on special demand.
Miss Hilda Reise is perhaps the only girl mes
senger regularly in the employ of a Western Union
Telegraph office. This young woman, who lives in
Bayonne, is said to do better and more conscien
tious work than the boys, as she is an expert bicy
cle rider she gets over the ground quite as rapidly.
The girl, however, is endeavoring to learn telegra
phy, and from being so constantly in the office she
hopes soon to become a good operator.
It has been recently demonstrated that ice is the
best preservative of flesh now in use. This has been
conclusively shown by the arrival in England from
New Zealand of a little lamb which was shipped in
a block of ice just after having been slaughtered,
but before even the wool w’as removed. Around its
neck was tied a bright blue ribbon and the animal
was so lifelike that it seemed impossible to believe
it had been killed forty days previous.
The City of New York is threatened with a visi
tation of the dreaded disease of the Orient Lep
rosy. It is claimed that already there are a num
ber of cases in our great metropolis and even though
the climate is unfavorable to the spread of the dis
ease it may increase with great rapidity if not
checked. Some noted physicians of the city have
expressed their fears as to the situation and meas
ures are being taken to investigate and isolate indi
vidual cases.
Some years ago it was a question with physiolo
gists as to whether or not the actual size of a
man s brain in any w y ay influenced his mentality.
It is now claimed that brain activity is had in
proportion to the size of a brain, but in an inverse
manner -the smaller a man’s brain the greater
his thinking power. In like way the brains of un
tutored people have steadily grown larger, while
the white races show decided thinness of the brain
covering, as well as decrease in the size of the organ.