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4 TIIE ATLANTA GEORGIAN. MONDAY. JT’NF 3. IV*. The Atlanta Georgian. JOHN TEMPLE GRAVES, Editor. F. L. SEELY, President. Subscription Rites: One Yesr $4.50 Six Months 2.50 Three Months ..... 1.25 By Carrier, per week 10c Published Every Afternoon Except Sunday by THE GEORGIAN CO. at 25 W. Alabama Street, Atlanta, Gs. Reduced Postal Rates. Perhaps the day will come when the people of this Entered as eeeood-elsss matt.r April S. ISOS, at tha PostotTlcO at Attests. Ga.. under act of conirM. at March a. ITS. THE GEORGIAN COMES TO GEORGIA AS THE SUNSHINE "It Is Indeed a desirable thing to be well de* ecended, 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. Floating's speech at Athens. , And Mr. Alexander's reasons are always both Inter esting and Important We commend them to due con sideration. They do not, however, convince us that Hr. Fleming hns been guilty of either unfairness or Impropriety. Ills speech and Its theme were decided upon long before the disfranchisement question became so "acute” In Georgia pollUcs as it Is today, and wo repeat that the Judgment and tact of Walter Illll and Wllllnm Fleming In that hour were much more likely to be Impartial end correct than the Judgment of Hooper Alexander, the honest but fiery partisan of this hour. It Is our apprehension that Mr. Alexander In his eager championship of a candidate Is Inclined to magnify in this matter the fortunes of tlje candidate to the sub- ordination of the Issues of the campaign. The success or failure of Mr. Hoke Smith or of Mr. Clark Howell In the campaign Is not a matter of approximate Importance to the greater question whether negro disfranchisement and revised freight rates shall prevail. The Issue of disfranchisement Is Indeed "acute,” but Its very "acuteness' demands tho dissemination ‘ of every honest view and of every essential fact that can btf put before the people to clarify their vision and to simplify their votes. If a gentleman of approved public character like Mr. Fleming believes that grave public dangers 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 bis views moro deliberately and Impartially than he could speak to a partisan au dience upon a political platform. The Idea that a man should be shut out from one of the two or three Impartial platforms of the state, simply because he does not agree with everybody upon an "acute" political Issue, Is a new one, and not In accord with the spirit and traditions of our fathers. If Mr. Fleming's argument Is so strong that It cannot be answered—and this we by no means believe—then tho state is fortunate In having beard that argument In a clear and tranquil atmosphere and 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 dlsouss great Issues, unblended by passion and unclouded by prejudice. Mr. Fleming spoke perhaps to six hundred people out of 2,600,000 In the state. The newspapers carried a small and trivial part of that speoch to the public. The Constitution, as the organ of Mr. Howell, naturAlly collected that smalt section which seemed especially to ngree with Mr. Howell's position. Mr. Fleming's speech can be answered by Mr. Moke Smith or Mr. Hoofer Alexander at any time In Athens within this two months to an audience equally as large and much moro repre sentative of voters gathered upon the mere announce ment of replying, and the newspapers will herald and summarise the answer Just as widely and fully all over the state as they did Mr. Fleming's speech. The mere fact of Mr. Fleming's speech on this Impartial platform, and the comment which has been aroused by tho criti cism 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 waf nothing to prevent any man from speak ing on the other side of the question on the university platform, and It la not the fault of Mr. Fleming, but the misfortune of the other side of the question that nobody cared to do so. So far from Mr. Fleming's speech shutting out the hearing of both sides of the question, tt simply creates a greater desire to hear both sides. The significant and conclusive fact of all Is that while the 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 mhas created more com ment than any other utterance of the summer, and It Is so far from being an argument against free speech at the university commencement It makes us regret that there are not other commencements and other orators to lift this great and transcendent question out of the mists and miasma of personal politics, and to set It dsarly before this thinking people from those grtat Impersonal and Impartial platforms devoted to education and to truth as they see IL We stand for such free, brave platforms. We don't sec where we are to get them If the college and univer sity chapels are to ba dosed to the discussion of the great questions, however acute, that vitally concern the state. , Such a discussion with boundless freedom of treat ment was permitted to the editor of The Georgian upon the same great question upon the great platform of the University of Chicago In 1202. and we have good reason to believe that the truths told upon that ocoaslon have borne the golden fruit of a better understanding of our Southern prohlems among all the people of this country. Let us suggest to Mr. Alexander that a better thing than his crltldsm of Mr. Fleming's use of the university platform would be a challenge to Mr. Fleming to debate disfranchisement from their separate viewpoint! on some public platform In Atlanta. We confidently believe that Mr. Alexander can answer Mr. Fleming completely and we are entirely sure that all this unnecessary p:4>- test over free speech at the university will result In giving these two able and honest Georgians an audience of wider scope and of keener Interest than Mr. Fleming had st Athens. country may enjoy the economic blessing of tho parcels post Ths agitation In favor of It, wliilo hot persist ently pursued, will continue until this rational reform Is established. If the tremendous amount o» public documents sent through the malls by members of congress were once excluded, together with a large number of publications which undoubtedly have no right to a second-claBs rate, the postoffleo department would be well-nigh self-sus taining, and then the 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 tho 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 the parcels post. This reform Is no mere experiment It has worked well In England and there Is aisolntely no reason why It should not work well In this county. 'incidentally tt may be mentioned that the Universal Postal Union, which recently convened In Rome, has ordered a substantial reduction In letter postage by In creasing the unit of weight. This reduction will become effective on October 1, 1907. The unit Is to be Increased from fifteen to twenty grams! and while the postage on the first twenty grams Is to remain at 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"1t 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 reduoed rates a letter to Great Britain will cost five cents for the first ounce and three cents tor the 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 Id the International postal rates will mean a great deal for the American people, but the crying need In the jnatter of postal reform Is the estab lishment of the parcels post. .It wilt broaden the field of our great commercial houses, and will make shopping by mall an easy snd convenient method. A prominent member of the senate once said that there were seven reasons why the law could not be passed—and. they wore tho 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 and assert them selves and demand the establishment of the parcels ptvt. Lord, send us a Rowland HUH Attorney General Moody will get all the moral sup port he wants In bis effort to put the Standard Oilers In Jail. i The rebate rascals would get something like what Is tuning to them If they were compelled to read The Congressional Record right straight through. » The Debate at Rome. Piecing things together out of the wreck of fact and the riot of assertion which rages through the partisan col umns of the two Sunday morning newspapors, and relying upon the Impartial representation of our own spoclal cor respondent, The Georgian has derived tho Impression that Mr. Clark Howell acquitted himself much better at Rome than he did In Atlanta, and that he Is fully entitled to this statement at our hands. Our correspondent, Mr. John Reece, who went to Rome,. Is thoroughly reliable, accurate of habit and train ing, and Is 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 bettor than either his Columbus or Atlanta speech, and gave moro Just satisfaction to bis friends than any meeting be has yet had with Mr. Smith. The equilibrium was more nearly maintained. It Is also evident from the concurrent reports, that the debate was pitched on a much higher plane of dignity and courtesy than any which have preceded it, and this Is a matter of general congratulation to the friends of both parties, and of decent politics In the state. If the repeated and Insistent appeals of The Georgian to this end have had any effect upon this happy result, we are richly repaid for the time and the pains which It has taken us to make thorn. 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 discussion of personalities, and devoted himself during a much larger period than heretofore to the discussion of at least one of the great Issues of the campaign, and while we differ from Mr. Howell's conclusions upon the disfranchisement Issue, we reel that, having repeatedly criticised him for the preponderance of the personal objection In his plan of campaign, that It Is nothing less than our pleasure and privilege to commend him for the ract that he has seen fit to change this policy and -to base his campaign more upon Issues than It has ever been placed before. It makes nc 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 his own, It Is a wise and proper policy, and will unquestionably add dignity to bis canvass and to his repute. Whenever we can reach the plane of fair, fearless and courteous discussion In great political campaigns, we may be sure that the people will be happier and the gov ernment more safe. 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 attitude of the Travelers' Protective Associa tion toward the recent concession of the railroads In the matter of mileage books is expressed In the four words of Chairman R- A. Broyles, which read: “Appre ciative but not saUsfied." The traveling men feel that some concession has been made them and this they appreciate, but they do not feel that they have received a fair proportion of what they asked or a proper share of what their claims de serve. Mr. Broyles bases his further argument to the rail roads upon the same foundation as that on which the editor of The Georgian spoke and wrote In behalf of the commercial travelers, and that foundation we believe to be solid and unassailable—the right to purchase any 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 tho right of a man who buys from two to ten thou Hand mllca of transportation to obtain that transportation cheaper than tho 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 tho state. The most colld, 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 up a magnificent part of the revenues and profits of every railroad In tho state, and 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 the railroad when be calls attention to the fact that baseball clubs of a dozen mm; that theatrical companies In number from ten to fifty; and that every convention or group of prominen. citizens are given cheaper rates than the drummers are clamoring for at tbo present time, and this, notwithstanding tho fact that these men produce no busi ness to follow In their wake, that they come at rare In tervals, and that frequently extra expense Ib Incurred In handling them by putting on extra service or equipment for their trips. , The Inconsistency In this treatment seems evident, and we trust that tho action of the passenger agents last week Is but a preliminary step toward the concession in full of tho reasonable and well Justified demands which have been made upon the transportation compa nies. Mr. Longworth In knickerbockers looked very well He bad been dancing attendance so long' that his silk stockings were well rounded out A Battle Anniversary. Tomorrow, tho 26th Instant, Is the forty-fourth an niversary of the beginning of the Seven Days’ Battle near Richmond, Va. 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 80,000 men and General McClellan's army num bered 120,000 men, Including ten regiments of regular United States 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 fldld fortifications, lost 16,249 men. The Georgia troops lost 3,374 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 amazed ‘wonder the stu pendous struggle and fearful losses of both Anierlcan armies. Few, It any, people In the world's history ever Illustrated such bravery and endurance. Justice for Dreyfus at Last. A little paragraph, which thus far has attracted no particular attention, 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 Captain Dreyfus was never acquitted, such Is the brevity of men's memories. They know that the cap tain Is frv. 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, and It has been one of the longest, most dramatic struggles for 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 Ecote. Militalre on January 4, 1895, has sought to secure Justice. Most of his friends and enemies alike are dead, Zola, the terrible protagonist of the convicted man—the author of the "J’accuse" documents which were so bitter that they brought about his exile, has gone to his long reward. Many of the perjurers and forgers who wove their net-work of lies about Dreyfus, killed themselves or have since died a natural death. The whole affair has almost passed from the minds of men. But Dreyfus has never rested since the day when his case was reopened and he was brought back from his living death. The courtmartlal at Rennes, during the month of August, 1899, resulted In a verdict of guilty, with mitigating circumstances. Dreyfus was sentenced to ten years pdnal servitude, the amount of time he had served to be deducted from the sentence. The members of the court martial united In a recommendation to mercy and on September 29, 1899, he was pardoned by President LoubeL But Dreyfus was not content with a pardon. He demanded a vindication, and he has been struggling for It ever since. Esterhazy confessed that the bordereau, on which Dreyfus was convicted, was a forgery which he had made at the Instigation of a superior officer, 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. So he took advantage of the liberty .accorded him by his pardon to secure a vindication. 8lx 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 hts desire has been granted and that he will .be heard once more In order that the stigma which resta on his dame may be wiped out forever. The devotion of the prisoner’s wife and brother, as well as the Interest of Zola, Maltre Labor! and others, furnished a few bright spots In the shadowy picture of the man's life, and those who are yet living among his friends have never deserted him. That lie will be acquitted there cab be - no doubt. Th% odium will be placed where It belongs and the French army, Instead of one of Its despised captains, will stand disgraced before the world. MR. ALEXANDER CRITICISES MR. FLEMING. To the Editor of The Georgian: I dissent from your position In regard to Mr. Flem- Ing's speech last Tuesday, and I do so with a respect tor, Mr. Fleming quite as profound as your own, and a per-' sonal friendship for him fully as warm as yours. I have nothing to say as to any question of mere- good taste on bis part. In making the speech. That Is a personal matter with which I have neither the right nor the desire to meddle. But there Is a question back 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 citizens who support the university differ, and oo which the alumni differ. Any citizen holding views on the subject has the right to express them In his own time and place, but when he Is given the sole opportunity to speak from the rostrum of tho university and at the annual eommence- m<-nt, it Is a distinct violation of tin* rights of his fellow citizens and his fellow alumni to take advantage of the occasion to promulgate views which cannot be answered upon equal terms. Mr. Fleming has infercntially justified this invasion of the equal rights of bis fellows by n vague reference to free speech, and The Georgian reinforces the plea by asserting that • "The university rostrum is or ought to be one of the great free platforms of the state." Precisely so, Mr. Editor, but how Is It a free plat form when but one side Is permitted voice there? In tho 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 he abstain from making the occasion, on the very eve of batUo. an Instrumentality for giving the slightest advantage to one aide over the other upon an issue which they have laid aside for the time being. In order to renew the filial and fraternal memories of youth. * To make 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 Infercntially admit the wrong of which I complain. Mr. Fleming says In his card to The Jourffa! that he mentioned no manjs name, and you say that the discussion Is all right “So long as the dlscussI6n steers clear of personal allusion or partisan alignment, os 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. Such a subject, Mr. Editor, cannot be discussed In Georgia In Juno, 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 to your assertions as to the personal quality of the speech. It Is quite true, as a mere literal technicality, that Mr. Fleming, as he said, “called no man’s name,” but Mr. Fleming Is a man of too much frankness to deny that he meant Hoke Smith when he spoke of “prominent lead ers, openly announcing, etc.,’’ and ho will be 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 tho 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 this 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 university ros trum, without opportunity for-reply, and distinctly charged on all of us who differ with Mr. Fleming, the Instinct of Injustice and the purpose to defraud. Upon this subject I Bay that Mr. Fleming had no right to make such accusations or such argument at such a tlmo and' from the university rostrum. I say moreover, that both he and 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 noUcommlt the university to f^ee speech. They bind tho 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 bis right, but when he-made a political argument from the university rostrum to which his adversaries could not reply, he wronged them. I do not say these things because I consider the ar gument likely to Injure the cause he attacked. I have no doubt In the world that that cause Is going to suc ceed. Mr. Fleming made Just as good an argument on the subject, os can be made, and his 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 are right, and so far as that question is concerned I care nothing about Mr. Fleming's speech. But I do care for the university and I do love fair play and free speech, and because I love the university and free speech, and because I respect and esteem Mr. Fleming, and because I am his friend, I take advantage now of this Occasion to protest against the university . rostrum being ever again made the-partisan advantage of one political faction. HOOPER ALEaANDER. JUOGE REID INDORSE8 "BREATHING 8PACE8.” Editor of The Georgian: More than for anything else In your editorial record In this city, brilliant as It has been and Is, you jleservo credit and commendation. In my judgment, for your per sistent 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 Iron, bespeak wealth and prosperity and commerce, and they make loyal citizens proud and Intensify the At lanta spirit of Atlantans, but the real beauty and aspira tion of lift must be found in nature—It can never be found anywhere else. Why not keep the woods with us and let the trees and the grass and the birds and even the murmuring Insects and. In tbe 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 ever spiritually refined, to whom it was denied to see the stars through overarching branches of tbe trees, and who have not heard In the soft. twilight, as evening melts Into night, the myriad-voices with which. In harmonious lullaby, the setting sun puts ttiA sintr te\ slonn the day to sleep. Sentiment may not make money, but it alone makes life worth living, and all things that contribute most to Its proper development should be nurtured and encour aged. And besides, If so called practical minds demand practical considerations, these same breathing places will add more to the health of the city, or as much at least, than any other similar regulation. . Keep the fight going. Our city fathers will finally see its wisdom and multiply small parks, to the beauty and the prosperity of the city. Very truly, H. M. REID. June 21, 1906. TO A HUMMING BIRD. (By J. Vlvloa.) Whence, spirit bright, that touchest even fiow’ra With dainty protest, nectar graceful scorning? Thou seemest not a thing of time; thine hours 8eem measureless by evening or by morning. What eve and morning, linked, thine advent numbers? What eve can close thy superfine career? Time's nice alembic, yet, distills a tear For thee as all, In love of cosmic weal. To gem unfound doth tear of thine.congeal? In the mute night, while thy wee plumage .slumbers. Ah, whither Bits thine astral? Can ll be .More exquisitely patbed, more rare, than thee. That feed'st on flow’r-dealt fragrance, poised free; That turn’st, disdainful, back the great sun's ray From thy rich breast, more brightly various-gay? Cholly Knickerbocker Gossips About People. By Private Leased Wire. New York, Juno 25.—Bishop Henry C. Potter lines not agree with Uncle Russell Sage on the vacation ques tion. He believes that even the preach ers are entitled to their summer rest. He declares: "It tlie city rector does not take his summer vacation of three, four, sis or eight weeks, lie will go mad or he will deteriorate Into what his con stituents least desire, a mere machine. • The rector may carry on a work undlmlnlshcd every hour In the dav every day In the year, but eventually one of the two alternatives will come. The demand of tho 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 not get a vacation re gardless of his needs in that line. This good advice Is given to him: "If deserted by family and friends during the summer months, do not fall Into vagrant habits. Do not join In with questionable companions In question able occupations, in this sort of seml- vagabondnge, with the excuse that you Sre left very much alone, and to be a great deal alone Is to be very 111 off." Society folk In Germantown and Ogontx are discussing the elopment of Miss Helen Brooks Lewis, daugh ter of Mr. and Mrs. J. Howard Lewis, Jr., of Ogontz, and G. Henry Stetson, the youngest son of the late John B. Stetson, the millionaire hat manufac turer. They were wedded last Friday after noon. and the first Intelligence either of their families had of the event was received last night, when telegrams came from New York. Mrs. 8tetsnn Is 18 years old; her husband Is 20. They had been engaged for two years with the approval of their families. When Mr. Stetson celebrates his twenty-first birthday he will come Into possession of several millions ,ot dol lars. There was a provision In his father's will which provides that If he married before he came of age the allowance was to be substantially In creased. Newport Is to have a most 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 Renr Admiral French El Chadwick, Rear 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 Agassis, I. Town send Burden, James A. Swan, Edward H. Bulkly, Louis L. Lorrilkird, Royal Phelps Carroll Lorillard Spencer, John B. Drexel, William Watts Sherman and James Brown Potter. Little old Philadelphia will con tribute two handsome matrons to this season's Newport beauties, Mrs. Jos eph M. Widener and Mrs. El Moore Robinson. These two are very be coming foils to each other and It Is always a pleasing addition to the land scape to eee them together. Little Mrs. Wldenerte brunette type Is the complement to Mrs. Robinson s beauty. Mrs. Robinson Is constantly being quixzed 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 In Mrs. Joe's box. GEORGIANS IN GOTHAM. By rrlrste Leased Wire. New York, June 26.—Here are some of the visitors In New York today: ATLANTA—H. Chlpley. W, C. Cole and wife, Mlaa E. Cole, F. -B. Dabney. J. H. Hilsman, J. W. Hoyt. Mrs. C. D. Knight, B. C. Martin, H. H. Leech, E. N. Mullln. AUGUSTA—A. K. Clark. C. Hlllyer and wife. J. W. Hitt. MACON—W. F. Bunchanan, C. 0. Smith. _ _ SAVANNAH—Mra. Gibson. S. R- Harris and wife, Mias I. Henderson, J. Morrison, W. A. Smith, J. "• Thomas. THIS DATE IITHISTORY. JUNE 25. 1060—Diet of Brlxen, held by Henry 1Y, deposed the pope and elected Clementine III. 1530—Confession of’ Auaburg present ed to King Charles V. 1689—Franpe declared war against England. King Wllllam'a war. 1736—John Horne Tooke, author of "Di versions of Purley,” born. 1788—Virginia ratified the Federal con stitution. 1795—Union College, Schenectady, N. Y., Instituted. • 1813—Hampton, Va, raptured by the British. 1841—Brigadier General Scott •PP 0 [" t : ed general In chief of the United States army. 1846—Louis Bonaparte, ex-klng of Hol land, died. 1856—William Walker, elected ptcsl- dent of Nicaragua. 1864—Federate repulsed at battle or Roanoke Station, Va. 1870—Abdication of Queen Isabella n of Spain. 1876—Battle of Little Big Horn—me Custer massacre. 1863—Shore end of the Bennett-MacX- ay cable laid at Watervtlle. 1889—Mrs. Lucy Webb Hayes died. Born -August 22, 1821. 1893—India closed her mints to tns free coinage of silver. 1895— Princess Helene of Orleans mar ried to duke of Aosta. 1896— Lyman Trumbull died. Bom Oc tober 12. 1812. • "BEST PAPER IN THE 80UTH.” (South Pulton Enterprise.) The Atlanta Georgtan continues to be the newsiest and brightest paper In the South. 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 Georgtan has openly declared for all thing* that tend to uplift humanity and ha* refused to countenance those things which have a tendency to de grade and drag men down. It Is the bonnden duty of all who profess to stand tor right and principle to give their support and encouragement to this paper for which they have been clamoring. Of coarse The Georgian Is already a big success, but The Enterprise simply wants to go on record as giving the "glad hand" to its founders In their noble work. Thsnks From the Home Comers. To the Editor of The Georgian: On bohslf of the Georgia itate W . dealre to thank you for the beautiful editorial on the "Home Coming Georgians," which appeared In * Georgian yesterday. ,«, t The home coming will be a event I look for thirty to foro thou send visitors from other state* In m* two days. With best wishes, 1 remain. Yoursveratmly^ Secretary and General Manager. Atlanta, Ga, June 21, IKK A double-header state convention will be held st Burlington. Vt, ™ Thursday of this week. The iDemo crate will meet In state convention ana there will also be an Independent r<m ventlon to nominate P. W. Clement for governor. An effort will be nufcde have the two convention* fu** o» Clement ticket.