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2 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. / J® S'" n Jr • > Esf VS i® j W ■ 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.