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THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN.
Tin-RftnAT. august j, iso*.
The Atlanta Georgian.
JOHN TEMPLE GRAVES, Editor.
F. L. SEELY, President.
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A man may well bring a horse to the water.
But he cannot make him drink without he will.
—Hey wood.
The Problem That Presses.
There are few gatherings more important to the
South In the most seriouq phase of Us present day life,
than the Joint meeting to be held In Nashville on No-
vember 13th, by the representatives of the Southern Im
migration and quarantine Convention and of the South
ern Industrial Parliament
These bodies will doubtless merge at that time, as
their problems are practically similar and can best be
worked out In unity rather than In separate organisa
tions.
One of the most tremendous questions which will
come before this body will be this problem of labor
which la everywhere becoming a pressing and vital con-
slderaUon In these Southern states. The negro has
failed. As the editor of The Georgian pointed out three
years ago at the University of Chicago, the negro Is no
longer the vital element nor the Indispensable element
tn the Industrial life of the South. The cotton In the
cotton states, (he sugar and cane In the sugar states,
and the Industrial work In all of these Southern states,
Is now done mostly by white men and the negro Is a
constantly decreasing factor In our Industrial work.
Of course the negro has been for a hundred years
or more our laboring class. He has furnished the stand
ards of labor, and because of hla color and because of
his unasslmllable qualities, he has kept away other la
borers of tho white class who were not willing to put
themselves upon an equality with an Inferior race. And
now, after having shut out for so many years the tide
of Immigration from these Southern states, the negro,
growing every year more shiftless and Indifferent, flock
ing to the cities where Idleness seems to be not Incon
sistent with a living, and educated by the Booker Wash
ington theories out of willingness for manual labor, has
prnctlcally deserted the cotton fields and the farms of
the South, and we stand face to face with a deficit of
labor every year. This la the cry that floods our want
columns In our newspapers and makes prosperity a
problem In the fields and mines of the South.
Of course thero can be but one ultimate answer to
this demand.
Immigration must furnish to this great Southern
country the laborers of the future for the development
Hnd growth of the country. And yet, when we come
to consider the question of Immigration It Involves so
many problems and so many dangers that may menace
our civilization, that only those men should be sent to
the discussion of Immigration and to the devising of
ways and means to secure ft, who know the subjeet In
all of Its bearings, and who appreciate the difficulties
and dmigers which are cortaln to accompany It In Its un
restricted state.
Wo do not want the hordes of Bouthern Europe In
these Southern states. God knows that we have a race
problem now that Is difficult enough to handle, and we
do not wish to complicate It by a steady Influx of those
vagrants of Southorn Europe who make every year the
percentages of crlmo and tho bnsls of revolution. When
the time comos, tho representative South with all Its
might and all Its Intelligence should move clearly, defi
nitely and persistently for the German, English, Irish,
Scotch and Scnndanavlan races of Europe for this coun
try.
They nro tho only Immigrants who have made good
In America. They have enriched our cltlsenshlp, In
creased our thrift and magnified the states In which
they llvo. They ought to bo just as easy to gst as the
Southern Europeans. Our opportunities and attractions
are as large to them as they are to the other races, and
we had better suffer tho Ilia ws have, Inconvenient and
serious as they are. than to rush to problems and ad
mixtures that Involve difficulties more serious and more
dangerous nnd more menacing than thoso which oppress
us now.
- This question of labor pressos nowhore more acute
ly than It doos In the matter of domestic service. The
women of tho South are subjected to unceasing wfcrry
and Inconvenience by the Irregularity and unthrift and
the Insolont Independence of the domestic negro. Com
munltles might find It wise to band themselves together
and by sending representatives to some of the cities of
the North, they might bring groups and companies of
white domestics to tho South who, having their own com
rades about them, would find life pleasant bars and
would be willing to stay and to establish the Indepen
dence which the people need. '
We trust that Governor Terrell will take this mat
ter seriously under consideration and that hs will ap
point as delegates to Nashville to both of these con
gresses. men who are Interested tn this great problem
and who are capable of discussing It with Intelligence
and with force.
The Russian Revolt.
Reports from Finland Indicate that the revolution
In that country has at last assumed formidable propor
tions. The garrison at Sveaborg has revolted and It Is
reported that there Is a mutiny among the sailors of
the Baltic fleet.
It Is given out tn certain quarters that this Is but
part of a general plan to revolt, which was to place
the commanding fortresses of the Black Sea and the
Baltic, together with the fleets stationed there. In the
hands of the revolutionists, but that the general plan
has been temporarily Interfered with by the premature
revolt In Finland. v
Communication betweeo Cronstadt and St. Peters
burg has been cut off and the Russian government Is
In great alarm.
These stirring events lend color to the opinion that
the popular uprising Is about to be suatatnad by the gen
eral revolt of the army and navy. This may or may
not be true. It Is possible that the present disorders In
Finland may be suppressed. But they sufficiently In
dicate the temper of the sailors and seamen and the
people In general. They dearly point to the fact that
the tide of revolution la gathering strength every day
and that sooner or later there will be a terrible climax
to alt the mutterings of discontent which have been go
ing on In the empire ever since the douma was dissolved
by tho ukaae of the Czar. Nicholas himself la practically
a prisoner In the palace at Peterhof, guarded by Trepoff
and hla band of henchmen.
Sooner or later he must realize that be has made a
tremendous mistake In dissolving the popular chamber,
which he himself had called Into existence, and that
the people, having once had a taste of representative
government, will not alt Idly by and see It swept away.
Students of history and of the present time feel that
the new reign of terror baa begun at last and that before
affairs are settled tn Russia again there will be much
bloodshed, and out of It all, and beyond It all, the vin
dication aod adoption of a real constitutional govern
ment In which the people may have a voice.
The Spirit of the Investigation.
There Is easily room for criticism It one should go
to seek It, In the Investigation being held In Mr. Jor
dan’s private office during tbeBO lost two days.
At least two of the members of that Impartial (?)
committee of Investigation havo Impressed the by-stand-
ers and the witnesses alike with the fact that they had
forgotten the role of calm and dispassionate Jurymen and
bad become the eloquent and enthuslaattc attorneys for
the defense.
President Johnson has preserved throughout an at
tltude of judicial calm and the evident Intention to be
fair and thorough. There never was a time In Colonel
Peek’s life when be was lest than an honest and brave
man, and he evidently wanted the truth. But two or
three* of the outside committee, and most notably Mr,
Seymour, of Alabama, made manifest from the first
that they were the partisans of the administration, and
their questions to the witnesses and their whole attitude
toward the Investigation left Jlttle hope of that unbiased
mind which we expected to find In a dispassionate tri
bunal.
Another moat notable Incident of the Investigation
was in the fact that when several wltneeaea volunteered
to tell things that were of vital Interest to the truth
which these gentlemen came to hear. If Mr. Richard
Cheatham would permit them to speak, that not only
did Mr. Cheatham, who professed to desire the whole
truth exploited, refuse to permit these men to speak but
the committee who came here professedly for the exclu
sive purpose of getting all the truth and all of the light,
would not ask these men to tell all that they knew.
Whether It be Ignorance or whether It be something
worse, It la perfectly evident that there was a spirit
present In several members of that commltteo which was
not the spirit out of which truth is derived, and from
which the cotton growers of Georgia are going to get a
fair and fearless decision of the facts In this memora
ble and important case.
carrying out of the Cummins program have come to
naught. The progressive faction has won out on every
count, and the "stand pat" forces have been put to
flight, In spite of tho administration Influence exerted
through Hon. Leslie M. Shaw.
All of which Is bound to have a great effect on the
congressional elections and on the presidential election
two years later.
As to the “Personal” Element.
President Harvie Jordan, In hla testimony on Wed
nesday night before his committee, complains that it Is
hardly fair that the editor of The Georgian should hold
any personal feelings toward him since he disclaimed
any connection with or any responsibility for the cartoon
which sought to Impeach the sincerity of this paper.
President Jordan will'remember that we reminded
him when he dticlatmed the cartoon, that If he had halt
ed at that point where the rules and codes of honor and
of controversy demand, there would promptly have been
eliminated at that time and place, every element of the
personal In the feelings of the editor of The Georgian
toward him.
But when President Jordan did not atop, but after
our temperate criticism, went on and on to speak bitterly
and Insultingly In hla subsequent comments and to say
all and more than he disclaimed tn the cartoon, It was
Impossible for any self-respecting man not to feel the out
rage perpetrated by his words.
Meanwhile we say now to Mr. Jordan that not one
line personal to himself has gone Into this paper during
this Investigation, that In tho discussion of this question
we feel absolutely free from any personal animosity to
ward him, and that we are fully as anxious as he Is. to
vindicate the association and Its administration if It be
possible to vindicate It from the shadow which rests upon
Its present life.
A Georgian' in Texas.
Georgians have a very keen Interest In the contest in
the 8lxth congressional district of Texas because of the
neck and neck race which has been run between Messrs.
Hardy, Henderson and Mays.
Rufus Hardy, who leads by sixty votes at the laat
return, was a member of the famous University of
Georgia risks of 1875, and won the Junior medal In the
Phi Kappa Society.
He has been a judge of the superior court for many
years In the circuit of which Corelcana la the chief
city. He la a man of the highest character and of the
broadest ability. There are hundreds of his friends and
classmates scattered throughout the state who are watch
ing with keen Interest the Texae contest and wishing him
abundant success. At the last summary of the returns
Judge Hardy had received 3,894, Mr, Henderson. 3,883,
and Mr. Mays 3,739. With less than a hundred votes sep
arating the highest and lowest candidate, one can real
ise the tendon that Is felt In the Sixth congreeslonal
district by the friends of the Interested parties.
The Cummins Program Wins.
The expected did not happen out In Iowa, In one
respect.
The Indications were that there would be an ex
citing convention and there were even anticipations
that something like personal violence might break out
on the floor of the convention.
But nothing of the kind occurred, and from the lim
ited Information at hand thus far It would seem that
Governor Cummins had the convenUon entirely his way.
A large majority of the delegates were for him. even
arter the conteata were settled. Garst, hla candidate
for lieutenant governor, was chosen and the policy of
progressive tariff reform waa adopted.
Tbti will give a strong impulse to tariff revirion
throughout the country, but the fact of the matter It
that Cummins’ anti-corporation policy Is cansing as much
alarm aa anything else In the ranks of his enemies.
Garst. It seems, in even more radical In his opposition
to Illegal combinations of capita) than Cummins him-
sslf. It It feared by the corporations that Senator
Alllaon, who It very much advanced In years, may die
or retire, and that Cummins would succeed him, in
which event Garst, more relentless In his opposition to
trusts and combines than Cummins himself, would be
come governor of the state. It wot Garst whom they
feared.
But dll their plans and calculations to prevent the
Col. Mulberry Sellers’ Latest Scheme.
In the fear that the farmers of the South, and the
people In general, might be Induced to take stock tn a
visionary enterprise established to make paper from
cotton stalks. The Tradesman, of Chattanooga, has
sounded a note of alarm, which waa recently reproduced
In these columns.
That article, and the general discussion precipitated
by The Tradesman, has made the Southern people alt up
and take notice. The periodical In question Is recog
nized as one of the ablest In the South and la always de
voted to the legitimate upbuilding of tho Southern
states. But It sees great danger In the present project
and It has determined to go to the bottom of It fn its
current Issue The Tradesman says of this $15,000,000 en
terprise:
It waa reported In a reliable New York paper,
and extensively copied by the Southern press, as
coming from the president of the new company, that
"Several plants would be erected and In successful
operation by January 1, 1907," and the marvelous re
sults that were to follow from the operation of these
plants were such that we frit Impelled to dub them
as being worthy of having emanated from the fer
tile hraln of a Colonel Mulberry Sellers.
We know that no plant for making paper from
cotton stalks had ever been operated to test the com
mercial value of the enterprise, and the only object
of our publication was to have those who had made
these claims demonstrate thetr correctness, before
entailing such losses In experiments as had occurred
elsewhere, and under the same patents that this lat
ter company were reported as Intending to use.
For the Information of all Interested parties we
give below a report made by a competent chemist to
the Little Rock Board of Trade on the practicability
of such an enterprise:
" To the Members of the Board of Trade, Little
Rock, Ark.—I notice considerable comment In the
press regarding the Cotton Stalk Products Company,
of which Harvie Jordan 1b president, and would
state to you that paper stock cannot be made from
the cotton plant, either stalk or hulls; that Is, the
high-grade paper stock cannot be manufactured from
stalk or hulls, but a cheap grade can be made, but
not at a profit. J. A. SPURLIN.
"Chemist Little Roclt Board of Trade.
Little Rock. Ark., July 18. 1906.”
Every true friend of the 8outh would, of course,
be* delighted to see any practicable enterprise succeed,
but the Indications are that this project Is dangerously
visionary, and the facts ahould be made known before
anybody Is Induced to put money In It
Senator Bacon wants The Congressional Record read
by the people.—Houston Post
What sort of an Inhuman monster Is Senator Bacon,
anyway?—Life
Well, maybo he was suggesting an antidote tor dog
days.
Growth and Progress of the New South
Wages Advance and Prosperity Prevails.
At present there Is considerable activity In the cotton goods market
throughout the country and on yestterd&y an advance In wages, made
voluntarily by various mills, went Into effect. The beneficial result of this
will be felt throughout the entire South.
One of the leading commercial agencies reports that the scarcity of pig
Iron Is beginning to be felt seriously, on account of the steady Inflow of
orders for structural steel, steel rails, etc. There Is more activity In steel
manufacture than ever before In midsummer. Among the orders booked last
week was one from the Southern Railroad tor 80,000 tons of rails. Some
of the big mills report that they have orders for next year's delivery that
will tax their capacity. Pipe mills are also busy, one order from Kansas
calling for 100 miles of pipe. Building operations all over the country are
pushing the mills for structural steel and hardware.
Railroad extension Is more active In the South than In any other part
of the country, says this commercial agency. The prosperity of tho South
Is shown, moreover, In the reports of the postofflce department. The rev
enues of the postofflce Increased 42 per cent during the year ended June 30,
while the Increase last yesr was 34 per cent. The states showing the larg
est percentages of Increase were all In the South, with South Carolina In
the van.
The Baltimore American says that never In the history of the clothing
and straw hat trade has the season of manufacture opened so early and
been pushed with such a rush as has been the case this year. These lines
are the trade barometers of Baltimore; by their Indications may be fore
cast the trade outlook generally. The Southern traders, so largely the
customers of that city, buy these staples, and a heavy demand In these
lines Indicates a strong demand all around. The outlook Is the sort that has
been worked up to and planned for by the various trade bodies and organi
sations that have the city’s trade at heart. The American continues: It
Is most gratifying, therefore, to find the city upon a trade swell that
promises to reach still higher proportions for a number of years to come.
Those who have studied the trade history of this city know that tt has ’
had several clearly defined periods of sharp advance that have done more,
for Its promotion than tha Intervening periods of stability. While Balti
more Is in no sense a boom town. It la, nevertheleaa, one of the most rapid
ly developing and flourishing trade centera In the country. It not only la
the natural market for the Eastern ahore of Maryland and Virginia, but of
the entire Southern section as far as Florida. Railroads and coast line
steamers center In this city the Interlinked towns of the Southern region.'
The efforts of other Eaetem cities to divert Baltimore’s Southern trade
have been largely overcome by securing the eame transportation conces
sions enjoyed by thoee cities, so that there Is no longer any Inducement of
this nature for the Southern merchant to pus by Baltimore. Arrange
ments for a hearty reception and hospitable treatment of the buyers when
they come here, ae they will soon be doing, count - much In the general
scheme of enhancing the city as a trade center.
THE SUPERIOR SEX.
I AM.
By ELLA WHEELER WILCOX.
I in (Tester than star or tun.
For I am a portion ot One, THE ONE.
l’art and parrel of that Greet Cause
I will ba ever; I am: 1 was.
When Maker and Molder of syateme rare
Fashioned tho tlntrerae, I waa thera.
All that haa been or la to bo
tlrane soul refining and good for me.
Who sort (lod-huntlng and loohs within
Is guided erer nway from ntn.
Who knows be la one with the Primal
Powar
Will And direction from honr to honr.
And out of erll ahall good tie wrought
By one who patlantly holds this thought
"I am greater than atar or oun.
For I am a portion of One, TIIE ONE.”
Jarome in Gssrgla.
From The New York Olobe.
It Is something of a novelty to find
our picturesque district attorney down
in Georgia discoursing to an audience
ot lawyers on such a threadbare and
platform-worn subject us public opin
ion, "the basis of Democracy," u some
prehistoric economist characterised It.
Mr. Jerome Is wont to select as his
themes texts of unusual and striking
character, so much so that the mere
sight of them raises the reader at once
•to attention’’—the Imbecility of judges,
their venality; how much more I know
than other people, the resurrected skirt
dancer of politics, etc. HU forte la not
the emission of platitudes, and he did
manage to Interline thoee Inevitable In
a twentieth century address on public
opinion with a few Ideas having the
typical Jerome flavor.
HU criticism ot Mr. Roosevelt's criti
cism of a Federal Judge, while un
doubtedly expressing public opinion—
at least legal public opinion—comes
with fantastic unfitness from a states
man who himself has so recently taken
a fall out of the Judiciary- In his fa
miliar vein was his remark that while
It was true "the Individual must wither
and the world be more and more,” the
kind of public opinion which drives
good men out of office and brings In a
"group of time servers who, under
cover of bowing to public opinion, seek
only their own Interest," not only with
ered the Individual, but the world ah
well.
In the main, however, the Warm
Springs audience wae treated to a
thoughtful dlacuselon of the old sub
ject. Mr. Jerome's basic Idea waa that
embodied tn the phrase noblesse
oblige; the duty of the men and news
paper! which largely mould public
opinion to use thetr power carefully
and honestly. His remarks on the
newspapers were all true enough, and
would have been tn ttie Bible If they
had had newipapers In tbose days.
What he had to offer about the law
yers Is equally true. "For weal or for
woe," he said, "In proportion to our
numbers, wa art, or can be. the most
Influential body of men In the country.
This power brings responsibilities
which cannot honorably bs avoided."
TELEGRAPHIC NEWS
TOLD IN FEW WORDS
Unit«d State* Pays Its Shir*.
By Private leased Wire.
nerlln. Auk. 2.—The United State* he*
Ju*t paid Ite share of the award for the
sufferer* by the A* *
/ Italian Heads tha List.
By Private Leaeed Wire.
Wnihlnaton. Aug. 2.—Herretary Doyle ol
the rlril service commlMlon ha* receivin',
er* from the president to make special
with
tbe heai
laborers.
m rmarn ui lur tiiamt i,
e American army during t
Rpaln, and who will now I
ead of the civil service ell
Indian Protests Fse.
advisement the Mtttlon of Prank
not, an eaatern Cherokee Indian, for an In
i nnctlon against Secretary Hitchcock and
Charles II. Treat, United States treasurer,
who seeks to prevent the payment of an
attorney’s fee of $150,000 to Plnkelhnrg,
Nagle « Kirby, of Ht. Lou!*, Mo., and Ed*
ward Smith, of Vlnlta, I. T.
Captain Nick Dawson Dead.
By Private Leased Wire.
Washington, Aug. l~Captsln Nicholas
Dawson, who has been critically 111'for sev
eral months at Cameron, bta country home
In Fairfax county, Va.. died yeaturday at
1:40 o’clock a. m. At the beginning of the
civil war be enlisted In the famous Rev
entb Virginia cavalry, commanded by Uen
oral Turner Asbbr.
Poisoned by Insect.
By Private Leased Wire.
Washington, Aug. 2.—Plying Insects beat*
Ing against the back of hla neck as he sat
BIG MONEY IN CAT FARM.
From the Chicago News.
There la a man In Chicago who la trying
to work up a scheme for making money out
of cate.
'There are 60,000 stray cate In Chicago,"
he eays, "that are of no benefit to anyone.
They make night hideous. They scratch
and bite email children. They are hated
and pelted with coal and bootjacks. 1 can
rid Chicago of a nuisance and make money
<«t» nf them."
has $1,000. He Is looking fdr a man
with more capital and a good head for
managing a cat (aland. Hla scheme la this:
-P M ' *
Wbn the buildings are up he will have cat
hengo to work In Chicago and capture
50.000 cats. Their pelts are Worth 16
ceat# each.
He will not them on the Islaad and buy
up dead horses and old meat from the
stock yard* and have It dumped there from
time to time. The cate will be left there
four j
wild,
able.
sH5Ei ve propagated sed ’multiplied, * sad
MM) rets ran lie killed s yesr, their skins
worth front U to 3 rents each. netting the
proprietors of this nnlqoe industry 113,go,
s yesr.
By WEX J0NE8.
A woman can't vote ns a mop can;
She thinks Brrnsnl 8hsw la "Intense."
Amt she ilinces what looka like n ean-ean
When abe tries to get over ( fence.
Hbe cen't sec n mirror bnt In It
Ilcr hslr needs a pat and a amnek;
She can't keep n accret a minute.
BUT
She can button her watat np the back.
A woman can’t hit with a hammer, *
_ ilr
When out nf a street car ane tumbles
She probably aprawla on tho track;
When naked for a ij-eerh she Just mumbles,
She can button her waist up the back.
A woman can't sharpen a, pencil;
A woman can't aim with a stone;
A razor she deems a utensil -
For earring the grfatle and hone.
When a man feeln uncommonly cheerful
’—‘ hla tigs "
when J
BUT
She can button bor waist up the back.
A woman can't atay. without dreaming
Of burglnrs, alone In a bouse,
Nor see without Jumping and screaming
Ho mucb na the ta’l of a mouse.
A woman can never look merry
When spending 10 cents at a crack;
A woman can't climb for n cherry,
BUT
Hbe can button ber watat up the back.
HOW HARVIE IMPRESSES MEM
PHIS.
From the Memphis Commercial-Appeal
In the local market business Is sus
pended and the traders find diveralon
and amusement In scanning the col
umns ot an amateur planters' Jour
nal whose owners seek notoriety by
assault! upon government officials and
departments, leading newspaper! and
people with whom they seem delighted
to differ. They seem to expect to fat
ten upon prejudice engendered by vl
cloui agitation, and throw fits under
the Impression that they are pleasing
their country constituency.
They bark and snarl at everything
and everybody who disagrees with
them, and court attention by striv
ing to Involve metropolitan newspapers
In controversy with them. The ex
periment has now reached its ninth
edition and they have In practically
one bound reached the pre-eminent
distinction of a national scold. The
first edition was largely devoted to
pictures of the promoters, and prom'
tees not llksly to be fulfilled. The
leading picture was an Imitation of a
farmer on horseback—where euch _
farmer would likely be, not behind the
plow or. swinging the hoe.
Promoter number two was present'
ed In a studied pose representing a
master mind at work, or rather watch'
Ing the stenographer at it, presume
bly hurling anathemas at Secretary
Wilson or Instructing him how to run
the agricultural department. A later
edition waa given over to Instructions
to farmers' wives ss how to raise
pet Ismb, the correct way to hold a
place of linen while embroidering de
signs on It, how to make and keep
persimmon beer, and for the farmer
himself a wild and woolly attack on
the agricultural department tor daring
to differ with them on the acreage and
crop condition.
Then came another devoted largely
again to pictures, as their penmen
were evidently resting after brain ex
haustion brought on by the strenuous
efforts at roasting the secretary tn
the previous number. The happy In
spiration struck them that they could
make some capital with the farmers
by attacking with a cartoon one of the
leading exchanges of the country,
among whose membership the most
representative men of the cotton trade
are found. They roared and railed
against speculation In a way that
caused broad smiles, and misrepre
sented the local exchange’s methods
with a venom, utterly reckless, and
wilfully malicious. Their right to crit
icise others for speculating Is hardly
Justified In face of the Idiotic specula
tive advice they gave the farmers last
spring, to hold for 15c, and which haa
cost the cotton growers of the South
more millions of dollars than have
been lost In speculation In ten years.
Their last edition was the only cred
itable one they have ever gotten out,
and the reason for this lids largely In
the fact that they quoted so exten
sively from the cotton article of The
Commercial-Appeal and thereby fur
nished their readers with the first
and only reliable and Intelligent dis
cussion of current events and crop
news they have ever set before them;
while tbelr consistency was shown In
their hearty Indorsement of the bureau
that they so roundly denounced the
previous month, and almost monthly
during the past season.
Ills hoped that Inasmuch aa the cot
ton articles of The Commercial-Appeal
are not copyrighted they will use them
freely In the future, and without the
formality of credit, for their readers
will recognise that these follow too
closely the lines of Intelligent pre
sentation of facts to have originated
with them.
The matter of replying to their usual
malicious slander Is reserved for the
future; meanwhile thetr record will
be kept and recalled when .necessary,
and In. event that they have not Joined
a former planters’ Journal tn the Jour
nalistic boneyard a year from now, tt
will be Interesting If not Instructive to
point with pride to the accuracy of
their crop and market forecasts, which
would probably bs about as near cor
rect as the famous crop estimate of
9,444,114 bales which they guaranteed
correct.
By Private Leased Wire.
New York, Aug. 2.—President
Roosevelt Is not the only strenuous
man In Oyster Bay. The citizenship of
that famous village are a sturdy lot of
Americans, who "know their rights
and knowing, dare maintain." For la-
stance: -
A wall with which Millionaire Louis
Tiffany fenced in the beach In front of
his home, "Laurelton," at Cold 8pring
harbor, has been torn down by Indtg.
mint Oyster Bay people, who have
been In the habit of picnicking and
bathing there.
Citizens were enraged when they
were confronted by the wall made of
spars and cemented stone. This was
on Monday. The town board of Oyster
Bay searched the records and found
that under patent from George III the
beach where they had always bathed
waa the people's.
Highway Commissioner William A.
Finger captained the body of stern-
faced men who went at the wall with
a will, and tore It down, stone front
stone. They mode a Are ot the spars
to light them at their work.
Among the noted visitors at tha
Catholic cathedral rectory Is Father
Kenlln Vaughn, who has just returned
from a mission to South America for
the purpose of raising funds tor a
Latin-Amerlcan chapel for the Metro
politan cathedral in London. He has
met with marked success. Father
Vaughn Is a member of the family
which gave Cardinal Vaughn and oth
er notables to the Roman Catholio
church in England. Of nine brothers,
five have risen to high dignity la
chlirch.
Roger Vaughn was archbishop of
Sidney; Herbert was archbishop in
London. It was Bernard Vaughn, an-
cither brother, who recently Issued a
bitter blast directed toward the evils,
which, he declared, were prevalent in
English society. Theresa Vaughn, a
slater, said to be one of the most beau
tiful women In Great Britain, • threw
aside a life of luxury for the veil of
a Sister of Charity. She was the first
slater of that order to die In England.
Generals and colonels are as thick In
Saratoga as tn Kentucky, and you
never can tell who’s who until you
meet them.
With the receiving of a cablegram
from ParlB, signed John A. Black, It
immediately was decided that General
and Mrs. John Block, of Chicago,.New
York, Paris, and the world globe trot
ters that they are, had engaged for the
season one of the cottages attached to
the States.
John Black, Jr., the son of Colonel
and Mrs. Black, married the daughter
of O. W. Potter, of Chicago, who aston
ished the social world of that city
with a novel written while still In ear
liest glrlhoqd, and which was sup
posed to be an exposure of all of Chi
cago society's sins. Since then she has
written some historical romances.
Richard Canfield has taken the title
to hla home In the “400” colony re
cently purchased from William C.
Kemp, at No. 8 East Fifty-fifth street,
opposite the St. Regis. Canfield now
has such neighbors as E. H. Harrlman,
Mrs. A. B. Twombly, Harry S. Red
mond and Dr. W. F. (Jhappelle.
GEORGIANS IN GOTHAM.
By Private Leased Wire.
New York, Aug. 2.—The following
are among the visitors In New York
today:
ATLANTA—M. C. Leetson, William
McLain, W. F. Williams, J. H. Arm
strong, J. W. Boone, G. Constangy.
W. C. Holliman, L. B. Johnson, L. B.
Llllenthal, J. A. M(trill. Miss R. Pat
ten. J. E. C. Peddle, H. L. Striberg,
W. M. Bike, V. J. Adams, W. O. Banks,
B. B. Beckham, Rev. L. G. Broughton.
L. Buchanan, Mrs. M. Buchanan, J. K.
Christian, R. L. Hartwell, W. H. Keans,
J. B. Poole, J. A. Russe, C. O. Sheri
dan, C. H. McLaughlin.
MACON—I. Kessler, G. J. Waxol-
baum.
IN PARIS.
Special to The Georgian.
Parts, August 3.—Mr. W. A. Watt, of
Thomaavltle, On., registered at the of
fice of the European edition of The
New York Herald today.
THIS DATE IN HISTORY.
AUGUST 2.
1519—Henry III of France died; succeeded
by Henry of Navarre sa Henry IV.
1484—'Treaty of peace concluded at Albany
lietween the Colonists and the Fire
Nations.
1704-Huke of Marllmrough victorious over
French forces at bottle of Blenheim.
.7X0—Bottle nf MohnwX Valley, N. Y.
1717—First ascent of Mont Blanc.
1780—Thomas Gainsborough, portrait paint
er, died; born 1727. - .....
Bonaparte elected first consul for life.
Treaty of Ports; Napoleon declared
WO—Abdication of Charles X of France.
lBS-Uueen Victoria sanctioned Emprvas of
India,
lttl—I'onirn*** p***e<l an act for ra!»inf
3SOO.OOO.OOO by tsz and tarW.
1871—Large section of Portland, Ore., de-
lS*t-nhtrim Monument st Plymouth, Mtse.,
dedicated. . .
lSM-Trlnl of Hantn Ceesrio for murder of
‘President Carnot begun at Lyona
PRESIDENT OF SEVENTY-
FIVE BANKS
From The American Banker.
A record that haa a tinge of romance,
_ touch of pathoe and a huge lesson for
ua all, la that of W. S. Wltham, of
Georgia. Twenty-five year* ago he left
the town of LaGrange, Ga- with the
munificent eum of 31 in hla pocket, and
landed tn New York, with nothing to
hla credit but hie clothes and hla char
acter. The quality of the former does
not matter, and tho quality of the lat
ter has shown itself. He la today
president of aeventy-flve banka OB but
four of which are situated In hla na
tive state, in return for Georgias
small advance of 1M cents, he haa
pretty well cornered her banking In
terests, and Is keeping a goodly amount
of her funds. The four banks of which
he Is president outelde of the state of
Georgia are all flourishing, all enjoy
the abaolute and well-earned confi
dence of the communities and are run
for the interests of the people aa well
aa capitalists.
Mr. Wltham celebrated the Fourth
of July by having a llule private bank
ing convention of Me own at Warm
Springs, Ga., where he met seventy-
five cashier, from hla ceventy-AV]
banka, possibly the most unique Jfcd
original gathering tn the counuim