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■ rz THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN. pt^agm MONDAY, JUNE X, 1KV The Atlanta Georgian. JOHN TEMPLE GRAVES, Editor. F. L. SEELY, President. Telephone Connection!. Subscription Rites: One Year $4.50 Six Months ....... 2.50 Three Month! 1.25 By Cirrler, per week 10c Published Every Afternoon Except Sunday by THE GEORGIAN CO. at 25 V. Alabama Street, Atlanta, Ga. Earned as Meoad-elin matter April S3. ISM, at th* Pottofflee at Atlanta. Oa.. under act of coexreaa of March S. lit*. THE GEORGIAN COMES TO GEORGIA AS THE SUNSHINE' “It la Indeed a dealrable thing to be well de scended, but the glory belongs to our ancestors." —Plutarch. Mr. Alexander and Mr. Fleming. The Honorable Hooper Alexander contributes to our columns today his reasons for protesting against Mr. Fleming's speech at Athens. And Mr. Alexander's reasons are always both Inter esting and Important. We commend them to dug con- alderaUon. They do not, however, convince us that Mr. Fleming ha* been guilty of either unfairness or Impropriety. His speech and Its theme were decided upon long before the disfranchisement question became so “scute" In Georgia polities as It Is today, and we repeat that the Judgment and tact of Walter Hill and William Fleming In that hour were much more likely to be Impartial sod correct than the Judgment of Hooper Alexander, the honest but flery partisan of this hour. It Is our apprehension that Mr. Alexander In hit *aver championship of a candidate Is Inclined to magnify In this matter the fortunes of the candidate to the sub ordination of the Issues of the campaign. The success or failure of Mr. Hoke Smith or of Mr. Dark Howell In the campaign Is not a matter of approximate Importance to the greeter question whether negro dlefrsncblsement and revised freight rates shall prevail. The Issue of disfranchisement Is Indeed "scute, but Its very “acuteness' demands the dissemination of every honest view and of every essential fact that can be put before the people to clarify their vision end to simplify their votes. If s gentleman of approved public character like Mr. Fleming believes that grave public dangera front the people and the state In certain advo cated policies, we do not recognise any presumption or Impropriety In his seeking a great free, Impartial plat form on which to present his views more deliberately and Impartlslly than he could speak to a partisan au dience upon a political platform Tho Idea that a man should be shut out from one of tho two or three Impartial platforms of the state, simply because he does not agree with everybody upon an "acute” politics) Issue, Is a new one, and not In accord with the spirit and traditions of our fathers. If Mr. Fleming's argument le so strong thnt It cannoY be answered—and this we by no means believe—then the state Is fortunate In having beard that argument In a clear and tranquil atmosphere sod before a non partisan company of patriotic voters. We have before declared that the crying need of the times was such a platform on which to discuss great Issues, unblended by passion and unclouded by prejudice. Mr. Fleming spoke perhaps to six hundred people out of 2,504,000 In the state. The newspapers carried u small and trivial part of that speech to the public. The Constitution, as the organ of Mr. Howell, naturdlly collected that small section which seemed especially to set ee with Mr. Howell's position. Mr. Fleming’s speech can be answered by Mr. Hoke Smith or Mr. Hoofer Alexander at any time In Athens within this two mouths to sn audience equally as large and much more repre sentative of voters gathered upon the mere announce ment of replying, and the newspapers will herald and summarise the answer Just as wldsly and fully all over the state as tboy did Mr. Fleming's speech. The mere fact of Mr. Fleming's speech on this Impartial platform, and the comment which hoi been arouapd by the orltl- dam of It, will arouse greater Interest In the question and In the answer to It, and advertise any speech or article that may be offered In reply. And so the agitation awakens the voter and educates him. ‘ There was nothing to prevent any man from speak- Ing on the other ilde of the queetlon on the university platform, and It is not the fault of Mr. Fleming, but the misfortune of tho other side of the question that nobody cared to do so. So far from Sir. Fleming’s speech shutting out the hearing of both aides of the question, It simply creates a greater desire to hear both sides. The significant and conclusive fact of all Is that while tha arguments of Mr. Smith and Mr. Howell and the other candidates upon the hustings have not made any especial sensation at any time because of the partisan and personal advocacy, this one Impersonal argument upon this one Impartial platfor mhos crested more com ment than sny other utterance of the summer, and It Is so far from being sn argument against free speech at the university commencement It makes us regret that there are not other commencement! and other orators to lift this great and transcendent question out of ths mists and miasms of personal politics, and to set It clearly betora this thinking people from those great Impersonal and Impartial platforms devoted to education and to truth as they see It We-stand for such free, brave platforms. We don't where we are to get them If the college and unlver- ally chapels are to iie cloaed to the discussion of tha great questions, however acute, that vitally concern the state. Such a discussion with boundless freedom of tiisat- i iont was permitted to the editor of The Georgian upon (he same great question upon the great platform of the i nlreralty of Chicago In 1002, and we hare good reason to beliere that the truths told upon that occasion have borne the golden fruit of a better understanding of our Southern problems among alt the people of this oountry. Let ns suggest to Mr. Alexander that a batter thing than Us criticism of Mr. Flaming’s use of the university platform would be a challenge to Mr. Fleming to debate disfranchisement from their separate viewpoints on some public platform In Atlanta. We confidently belled that Mr. Alexander can answer Mr. Fleming completely a ad we are entirely aura that all this unnaceeaary p.|- teet over free apeach at the unlveralty will reeult In riving these two able and honest Georgian* an audience of wider scope and of keener Internet than Mr. Fleming had at Athens. C Reduced Postal Rates. Perhaps the.day will come when the people of this country may enjoy tho economic blessing of tho parcels post. The agitation In favor of it, while not persist ently pursued, will continue unUl this rational reform Ib established. If the tremendous amount of public documents sent through the mallB by members of congress were once excluded, together with a largo number of publications which undoubtedly have no right to a second-class rate, the poetoffleo department would be well-nigh self-sus taining, and then tho powers that be would find them' selves In a position to give some attention to the parcels post. It should be regarded as a logical sequence of the extension of the rural free delivery, which has done so much for the people who live In the country, and that step forward has given encouragement to tho friends of tbo parcels post This reform Is no mere experiment. It has worked well In England and there Is nisolutely no reason why It should not work well In this county. Incidentally It may bo mentioned that the Universal Postal Union, which recently convened In Rome, has ordered a substantial reduction lo letter postage by In- creasing the unit of weight. This reduction will become effective on October 1. 1507. The unit Is to bo Increased from fifteen to twenty grams, and while the postage on the first twenty grams Is to remain st five cents, every additional twenty grams Is to be at the rate of three cents. This Is Indeed a substantial reduction. Great Britain and the United States urged that the unit of weight for them should be fixed at one ounce, as It would be a difficult matter for them to express the equivalent weight of twenty grams, as they have not adopted the metric system as yet, and this request was granted. This will give the two great countries exceptionally low rates for the exchange of letters. Under the reduced rates a letter to Groat Britain will cost five cents for the first ounce nnd three rents for th* second ounce, or eight cents for two ounces. In other words, when the new rates become effective a letter packet weighing six ounces can be sent to Great Britain at the rate now charged for a two-ounce packet. This reduction In the International postal rates will mean a great deal for the American people, but the crying need In the matter of postal reform Is the estab lishment of the parcels post. It will broaden the field of our great commercial bouses, and will make shopping by mall an easy and convenient method. A prominent member of the senate once said that there were seven reasons why the law could not be passed—and they were the > seven great express com panies In this country. They are naturally opposed to It and will continue to work against It, but before long the people of the country may rise up snd assert ihem- solves snd demsnd the establishment of the parcels print. Lord, send us a Rowland Hill! The rebate rascal* would get eomethlng like what la coming to them tf they wen: compelled to reed The Congressional Record right straight through. Attorney General Moody will get all the moral sup- tort he wants In his effort to put the Standard Oilers n Jail. The Debate at Rome. Piecing things together out or the wreck of fact and the riot of assertion which rages through the partisan col umns of the two Sunday morning newspapers, snd relying upon the Impartial representation of our own special cor respondent. The Georgian has derlted the Impression that Mr. Clark Howell acquitted himself much better at Romo than he «ld In Atlanta, and that be Is fully entitled to this statement at our hands. Our correspondent, Mr. John Reece, who went to Rome, la thoroughly reliable, accurate of habit and train ing, and la an advocate of neither of the gentlemen who engaged In debate on Saturday. From the coincidence of the reports, where they do happen marvelously enough to coincide In The Journal snd The Constitution, as well as from Mr. Reece's accu rate and Impartial advices. It may be said that Mr. How ell's effort at Rome was better than either hla Columbus or Atlanta speech, and gave more Just satisfaction to his friends than any meeting he haa yet had with Mr. Smith. The equilibrium wae more nearly maintained. , It Is also evident from the concurrent reports, that the debate war pitched on a much higher plane of dignity ano courtesy tbsn any which have preceded It, snd this la a matter of general congratulation to the friends of both parties, and of decent politics in the state. It the repeated and Insistent appeals of The Georgian to this end have had sny effect upon this happy result, we are richly repaid tor the time and tha pains which It has taken us to make them. It may also be said from the records that Mr. Howell most happily departed In this debate from the. habit of giving the greater part of his time to the dlecueelon of personalities, snd dovoted himself during a much larger period than heretofore to the dlsquselon of at least one of the great Issues of the campaign, snd while we differ from Mr. Howell's conclusions upon the disfranchisement Issue, we feel that, having rdjteatedly criticised him for the preponderance of tho personal objection In his plan of campaign, that It Is nothing less than our pleasure and privilege to commend him for the fact that he has seen fit to change this poltey and to base hla campaign more upon Issues than It has ever been placed before. It makes nr difference whether Mr.' Howell has been convinced by our arguments along this line, or whether he has adopted this policy upon a second thought of hla own, It |s a wise and proper policy, snd will unquestionably add dignity to hit canvass and to hla repute. Whenever we can reach the plane of felr, tearless snd courteous discussion In great political campaigns, we may be sure that the people will be happier snd the gov ernment more sate. right of a man who buys from two to ton thousand miles of transportation to obtain that transportation cheaper than the man who buys only a hundred or one hundred and fifty miles Is perfectly clear and apparent to every fair minded man In the city or the state. The most colid, permanent and steadily profitable patrons of the railroads are the drummers. Not only In the matter of their own transportation, but In the routing of the vast shipments which their orders produce, they make tip a magnificent part of the revenues and profits of every railroad In the state, nnd we confess that public sentiment will share In part the disappointment of these commercial travelers that their full demands were not conceded as they have been In almost every similar por tion of these United States. Mr. Broyles makes an admirable point on tho railroad when be calls attention to the fact that baseball clubs of a dozen men; that theatrical companies In number from ten to fifty; and that every convention or group of prominent citizens aro given cheaper rates than the drummers aro clamoring for at tho present time, and this, notwithstanding the fact that these men produce no busi ness to follow In their wako, that they como at rare In tervals. and that frequently extra expense ts Incurred In handling them by putting on extra service or equipment for their trips. The Inconsistency tn this treatment seems evident, and we trust that the action of the passenger agents last week Is but a preliminary step toward the concession In full of the reasonable and well Justified demands which have been made upon the transportation compa nies. -• Mr. Longwortb In knickerbockers looked very well. He had been dancing attendance so long that his silk stockings were well rounded out A Battle Anniversary. Tomorrow, the 26th instant. Is the forty-fourth an niversary of the beginning of the Seven Days' Battle near Richmond, Vs. Georgia was represented by thirty-eight regiments of Infantry, eight artillery companies and two regiments, of cavalry. On this occasion General Lee's army num bered 20,000 men and General McClellan's army num bered 120,000 men. Including ten regiment* of regular United 8tates Infantry, numerous regular United States batteries of artillery and one regiment of cavalry. Being the attacking party, the Confederates lost nearly 20,000 men, and the Federal army, though pro tected by strong field fortifications, lost 16,240 men. The Georgia troops lost 2,374 men. One regiment alone, the Forty-fourth, mustered 514 men and left 335 men on the field of battle. How little thought the youth of our day give to the history of the period during the early sixties, when the civilised world regarded In amaxed wonder the stu pendous struggle and fearful losses of both American armies. Few, If any, people In the world's Jjlitory ever Illustrated such bravery and endurance. Upton Sinclair Is working as a day laborer under an assumed name to get some more Important data. Speak kindly to the new hired man. He may be a muck-raker In disguise. “Appreciative But Not Satisfied.” The atUtude of the Travelers' Protective Associa tion toward the recent concession of the railroads In the matter of mileage books le expressed lo the tour words or Chairman R. A. Broyles, which read: "Appre ciative but not satisfied." Tha traveling men feel that some concession baa been made them and this they appreciate, bat they do not feel that they have received n fair proportion of what they asked or s proper share of what their claims de serve. Mr. Broyles beset hie further argument to the rail roads upon the same foundation ts that on which the editor of Tho Georgian spoke snd wrote tn behalf of the commercial travelers, and that foundation we believe to he solid nod unassailable—the right to purchase toy commodity cheaper In wholesale than In retail quantities. Neither the railroads nor any form of business un der the sun will protest this general principle and tbo Justice for Dreyfus at Last. A little paragraph, which thus far has attracted no particular attenUon, announces that the French court which Has Had the matter under consideration, has de cided to grant a new trial to Captain Dreyfus, and the celebrated case which kept Europe In a turmoil for near ly twelve years Is to be resumed. It will come as a surprise to many people to learn that Ckptaln Dreyfus was never acquitted, such Is the brevity of men's memories. They know that the cap tain Is free, after having had a second trial, that he did not go back to Devil’s Island, and they assumed that he was acquitted. But such was by no means the case, snd It has been one of the longest, most dramatic struggles tor the vindication of a good name in the history of the world, by which Captain Dreyfus, whose sword was broken In the court yard of the Ecole Mllltalrs on January 4, 1895, has sought to secure Justice. Most of bis friends snd enemies alike are dead. Zola, the terrible protagonist of the convicted man—the author of the "j’accuse" documents which were eo bitter that they brought about hla exile, bss gone to hla long reward. Many of the perjurera and forger* who wore their net-work of lies about Dreyfus, killed themselves or have since died a natural death. Tho whole affair haa almost passed from the minds of men. But Dreyfus has never rested since the day when hla esse was reopened and he was brought back from his living death. The courtmartlal st Rennes, during the month of August, 1199. resulted In a verdict of guilty, with mitigating circumstances. Dreytua waa sentenced to ten yeara penal servitude, the amount of time he had served to be deducted from the sentence. The members of the court martial united In n recommendation to mercy end on September 29, 1899, he was pardoned by President LouheL V But Dreyfus was not content with a pardon. He demanded a vindication, and he has been struggling for It ever since. Esterhaxy confessed that the bordereau, on which Dreyfus was convicted, was n forgery which he had made at the Instigation of n superior offleer, and all the evidence produced at the Rennes courtmartlal was of the flimsiest character. Everyone knew that the army was but protecting Itself, after Its own fashion, by convicting the defendant, and no one believed him guilty. Bo he took advantage of the liberty accorded him by his pardon to accuro a Vindication. Six' years have elapsed since he was given his freedom, and ever since that time he has been endeavoring to secure' a new trial. The unpretentious little telegram of last Friday In dicates that his desire has been granted and that he will be heard once more In order that the stigma which rests on hla name may be wiped out forever. The devotion of the prisoner's wife snd brother, as well ss the Interest of Zola, Moltre Labor! snd others, furnished a few bright spots In the shadow/- picture of the man's life, and those who are yet living among his frietMs have never deserted him. That he will be acquitted there can be no doubt. The odium will be placed where It belongs and the French army, Instead of one of Its despised captains, will stand disgraced before tbs world. MR. ALEXANDER CRITICISES MR. FLEMING. To the Editor of The Georgian: v. I dissent from your position In regard to Mr. Flem ing’s speech last Tuesday, and I do so with a respect for Mr. Fleming quite as profound ss your own. and a per sonal'friendship for him folly as warm as yours. I have nothing to say as to any question of mere good taste on hla part. In making the speech. That la n personal matter with which I have neither the right nor the desire to meddle. Bnt there U a question hack of that which I conceive affects the rights of the citizens of Georgia and the alumni of the university. The disfranchisement question Is an acute present Issue in Georgia politics upon- which the cltisens who support the university differ, snd on which the slnmnl differ. Any citizen bolding views on the subject has the right to express them In hla own time snd place, but when he Is given the solo opportunity to speak from the rostrum of the unlveralty and at the annual commence ment, It ts a distinct violation of the rights of hla fellow citizens nnd hla fellow alumni to take advantage of the occnalon to promulgate views which cannot be answered upon equal terms. Mr. Fleming has Inforentlally Justified this Invasion of the equal rights of his fellows by a vague reference to freo speech, and The Georgian reinforces tho plea by assorting that "The university rostrum Is or ought to be one of the great freo platforms of the state.” Precisely so, Mr. Editor, but haw Is It a free plat form when but one side Is permitted voice there? In th© very nature of things. It is impossible at tho commencement to give a hearing to both sides. There fore when the alumni, among whom there are acute dif ferences of opinion. Invite one of their number to ad dress them at their annual convocation, every consider ation demands that lit- abstain from making the occasion, on till- very eve of hatth-, an instrumentality for giving the slightest advantage to one Hid,- over the other upon an Ibsuo which they have laid aside for the time being, in order to renew tho filial and fraternal memories of youth. To mako an address for or against either side on such an occasion Is no vindication of the right of free speech. It Is a suppression of free speech. It Is not an assertion but a denial of that great right. Mr. Editor, both you and Mr. Fleming Inforentlally admit the wrong of which I complain. Mr. Fleming says In his card to The Journal that he mentioned no mania name, and "you say that the discussion is all right. "So long as the discussion steers clear of personal allusion or partisan alignment, ns this discussion ran." Both of you thus admit that partisan advocacy at such a time and place Is wrong. But both of you deny that Mr. Fleming thus offended. Stfch a subject, Mr. Editor, cannot be discussed In Georgia In June. 1906, without being partisan. Mr. Fleming might Just as well have argued from the univer sity rostrum that Georgia towns have fair,freight rates or that the state has no right to regulate them. The one argument would have been no more partisan than the other. Moreover, Mr. Editor, you are both unfortunate In your assertions as to the personal quality of the speech. It Is quite true, as a mere literal technicality, that Mr. Fleming, as ho said, "called no man's name," but Mr. Fleming Is a man of too much frankness to deny that be meant Hoke Smith when he spoke of "promim-ni lead ers, opeply announcing, etc.,” nnd he will bo equally frank to admit that all that portion of his speech which referred to disfranchisement by state legislation was an argument, and'was Intended as an argument, against the platform upon which Hoke Smith Is now running. And when that admission Is made, how can you say, Mr. Editor, that this discussion was "free from personal al lusion or partisan alignment?" There were nearly three columns of nonpareil type In The Constitution report of thlk speech that was a distinct and avowed argument against the position of a prominent candidate for gov ernor, and with exact personal references. And this, Mr. Editor, was from the unlveralty ros trum, without opportunity for reply, and distinctly charged on all of us who differ wlthr Mr. Fleming, tho Instinct of Injustice and the purpose to defraud. Upon this subject I say that Mr. Fleming had no right to make such accusations or such argument at such a time and from the university rostrum. I say moreover, that both he snd The Georgian gravely misunderstand what "free speech” Is, If you call that free speech. And the want of freeness In It Is the more manifest when the opposition candidate for governor headed a committee to select next year's or ator, and they chose such a man as Dr. Hadley, of Yale. These things do not commit the university to free speech. Thoy bind the voice and suppress free speech. Mr. Fleming had the right to speak from his own ros trum alone, or challenge an adversary to debate the question, and either course would have been within hla right, but when he made a political argument from tbo university rostrum to which his adversaries could not reply, he wronged them. I do not say these things because t consider the ar gument likely to Injure the cause he attacked. I have no doubt In the world that that oaose Is going to suc ceed. Mr. Fleming made Just as good an argument on the subject as can be made, and hts personal character Is high enough to give It all the weight It deserves, but It will fall. The people of Georgia have made up their minds and they are going to eliminate the negro as far as possible from politics, and I think they aro right, and ao tar as that question Is concerned I care nothing about Mr. Fleming's speech. But I do caro for the university and I do love fair play and freo speech, and because I love the university and free speech, and because I respect and esteem Mr. Fleming, and becauso I am hla friend, I take advantage now of this occasion to protest sgstnst the university rostrum botng ever again made tho partisan advantage of one political faction. HOOPER ALEXANDER. JUDGE REID INDORSES "BREATHING SPACE3.” Editor of The Georgian: More than for anything else In your editorial record In this city, brilliant as It has been and Is, you deserve credit and commendation, In my Judgment, for your per slstent and unremitting insistence on breathing places for the people. Skyscrapers are all right; let them reach the sky! Walls of brick and mortar and marble and trap, bespeak wealth snd prosperity and commerce, and they make loyal clttxens proud and Intensify tho At lanta spirit of Atlantans, but the real beauty and aspira tion of life must be found In nature—It can never be found anywhere else. Why not keep the woods with us and let the tree* and the grass and the birds snd even the murmuring Insects and. In the necessary absence of the rippling brooks, artificial fountains teach us tho happy, bright lessons of life and cuggest the more sol emn thoughts of destiny. No people were ever great who left nature; no people were over spiritually refined, to whom It was denied to see the stars through overarching branches of the tree*, and who have not heard In the soft twilight, aa evening melts Into night, the myriad voices with which, In harmonious lullaby, the setting sun puts the day to sleep. 8entlment may not make money, but It alone makes life worth living, and all things that contribute most to |ta proper development should be nurtured sad encour aged. Aud betides, If so called practical minds demand practical considerations, these same breathing place* will add more to the health of the city, or as much st least, than any other slptllsr regulation. Keep the fight going. Our city fathers will finally see Its wisdom snd multiply small parks, to the beauty and the prosperity of the city. Very truly, H. M. REID. June 21, 1908 TO A HUMMING BIRO. (By J. Vivien.) Whence, spirit bright, that touebest even flow'ra With dainty protest, nectar graceful scorning? Thou eeemest not a thing of time; thine hours Seem measureless by evening or by morning. What eve and morning, linked, thine advent numbers? What eve can close thy superfine career? Time’s nice slembie, yet, distills a tear For thee as all. In love of cosmic weal. To gem unfeund doth tear of tbine congeal? In the mute night, white thy wee plumage slumbers. Ah, whither flits thine astral? Can It be More exquisitely pathed, more rare, than thee. That feed'st on Aow'r-dealt fragrance, poised free; That turn'sL disdainful, back the great sun's ray From thy rich breast, more brightly various-gay? "BEST PAPER IN THE 80UTH.” (South Fulthn Enterprise.) The Atlanta Georgian continues to be the newsiest and brightest paper la the Soutfc. The management Is sparing neither pains nor expense to give the people a paper which Is first class in every detail. In view of the fact that The Georgian has openly declared for all things that tend to uplift humanity snd has refused to countenance those things which have a tendency to de grade and drag men down. It Is the bounden duty of all who profess to stand for right and principle to give their support snd encouragement to this paper for which they • have been clamoring. Of course The Georgian 'Is already a big success, but The Enterprise simply wants to go on record as giving the “glad band" to lu founders In their noble work. Cho/ly Knickerbocker Gossips About People. By Private Leased Wire. New York, June 25.—Bishop Henry r. Potter lines not agree with Urn-la Bussell Ssgs on the vacation ques tion. Misbelieves that even the preach ers are entitled to their summer rest. He declares n. "If the city rector does not take hit summer vacation of three, four aix or eight weeks, he Will KO mad dr h« will deteriorate Into what hit con- HtUuems least destre, a mere machine "The rector may carry on a work undltnlnlshed every hour In the day every day In the year, but eventually one of the two alternatives will come. The demand of the city parson for a vacation Is an equitable demand." The bishop Is also Interested In the layman who is left at home and who may or may nut get a vacation re- itardle»i of Ills needs In that Una This good mlvlce Is given to him: -If deserted by famtly and friends during the summer months, do not fall Into vagrant habits. Donotjoln (nufth questionable companions In question able occupations. In this sort of semi- vagabondage, with the excuse that you die left very much alone, and to be a great deal alone Is to be very III off." Society folk tn Germantown and Ogontx nre discussing the elopment of Miss Helen llrooks Lewie, daugh ter of .Mr. and Mrs. J. Howard Lewis, Jr., of Ogontz, and O. Henry Stetson, the youngest son of the late John B. Stetson, the millionaire hat manufac turer. They were wedded last Friday after noon. nnd the first Intelligence either of thetr families had of the event wae received last night, when telegrams came from New York. Mrs. 8tet»on la 18 years old: her husband Is 20. They had been engaged for two years with the approval of thetr families. When Mr. Stetson celebrates lilt twenty-first birthday he will come Into possession of several millions of dol lars. Ther’e was a provision In tils father’s will which provides that If he married before he came of age the allowance was to be substantially In creased. Newport ts to have a moat distin guished city government. It Is to be In the hands of a representative com mittee after January and among the members of the committee will be Rear Admiral French E. Chadwick, Beer Ad miral Stephen B. Luce, Colonel Rob inson, Robert Walton Goelet, Charles Wilson Goelet, Colonel Addison -Thom- as, Edward R Thomas, R. Livingston Beeckman, Professor Agassiz, I. Town send Burden, James A. Swan, Edward H. Butkty, Louts L. Lorrllkird, Royal Phelpe Carroll, LorlHard Spencer, John R DrexeL William Watte Sherman and James Brown Potter. Little old Philadelphia will con tribute two handsome matrons to this season's Newport beauties, Mrs. Jo«- eph M: Wldener and Mrs. E. Moors Robinson. These two are very be- coming foils to each other and It Is always a pleasing addition If the land scape to see them together. Little Mrs. Wldener 1 ! brunette type ts the complement to Mrs. Robinson's beauty. Sirs. Robinson !■ constantly being quizzed by her less fortunate sis ters as to her method of preserving her complexion. Society still remem bers what a pretty showing these two made at the horse show last year as they sat side by side tn Mrs, Joe's box. GEORGIANS IN GOTHAM. By Titrate Leased Wire. New York, June 25.—Here are some of the visitors tn New York today: ATLANTA—H. Ohlpley, W. C. Cole and wife, Miss E. Cole, F. B. Dabney. J. H. Hllsman, J. IV. Hoyt. Mrs. C. D. Knight, B. C. Martin, H. H. Leech, K. N. Mullln. AUGUSTA—A. K. Clark, C. Hlllyer and wife. J. W. Hitt. MACON— TV. F. Bunchanan. C. O. Smith. SAVANNAH—Mrs. Gibson. S. R Harris and wife. Miss I. Henderson, J. L. Morrison, W. A. Smith, J. " ■ Thomas, THIS DATE IN HISTORY. • JUNE 25. 1080—Diet of Brlxen, held.by Henry IV, deposed the pope and elected Clementine III. 1530—Confession of Ausburg present ed to King Charles V. 1889—France declared war against England. King William's war. 1738—John Horne Tooke, author of "Dt- versions of Purley,” born 1788—Virginia ratified the Federal con- stltutlon. 1795—Union College, Schenectady. N. Y, instituted. 1813—Hampton, Va., captured by the British. 1841—Brigadier General Scott appoint ed general In chief of the United States army. 1848—Louts Bonaparte, ex-king of Hot- land, died. 1868—'William Walker elected presi dent of Nicaragua. 1881—Federal! repulsed at battle or Roanoke Station, Va. 1870—Abdication of Queen Isabella ii of Spain. . 1878—Battle of Little Big Horn-tne Custer massacre. 1888- Shore end of the Bennett-Maca- ay cable laid at Watervllle. 1889— Mre. Lucy Webb Hayes died. Bom August 20, 1991. 1891—India cloaed her mints to tn* free coinage of sliver. 1895—Princess Helene of Orleans mar- rled to duke of Aosta. 1696—Lyman Trumbull dlgd. Bora Oc tober 12. 1111. Thanks From ths Homs Comers. To' the Editor of The Georgian: On bohalf of the Georgia state fair, i destre to thank you for the be» utl I editorial on the "Home Uom<n« _ M Georgians,” which appeared to Georgian yeatarttay. „«,»[ The home coming will be a event. 1 look for thirty W forty ‘ h ‘>“ sand visitors from other state* » two days. With best wishes, 1 remain. YouravmgU^^ Secretary and General Manager. Atlanta, Ga., June 22, IW»- A double-header atate tonyentFn will be held at Burlington.'t. ™ Thursday of this week. The . erats will meet in elate convent5m“nu there will also he an Independent co " ventlon to nominate P. t\. CtoJJJV t# governor. An effort will be in JJj ^ have tho two conventions 00 Clement ticket.