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THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN.
TnCBUDAT, AUGUST t, JKH.
The Atlanta Georgian.
JOHN TEMPLE GRAVES, Editor.
F. L. SEELY, President.
the tide of revolution Is gathering strength every day carrying out of the Cummins program have come to
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, —Heywood.
The Preblem That Presses.
There are few gatherings more Important to the
South In the moat serious phnso of Its present day life,
than tho joint mooting to be held In NaahYlUe on No
vember 13th, by the representatives of tho Southern Im
migration and Quarantine Convention and of tho South
ern Industrial Parliament
These bodies will doubtless merge at that time, as
their problems are practically similar and can beat be
worked out In unity rather than in separate organiza
tions.
One of tbe moat tremendous questions which, will
come before this body will be this problem of labor
which la everywhere becoming a pressing and vital con
sideration In these Southern states. The negro has
failed. As the editor of Tbe Georgian pointed out three
years ago at the University of Chicago, the negro la no
longer the vital element nor the Indispensable element
In tho industrial life of tbe South. The cotton in the
cotton states, the 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 tbe stand
ards of labor, and because of his color and because of
hts unasslmllable qualities, he has kept away other la
borers of the whlto 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 tho tide
of Immigration from these Southern states, tbe negro,
growing overy year more shiftless and Indifferent, flock'
Ing to the cities whero Idleness syems to be not Incon
sistent with a living, and educated by tbe Booker Wash
ington theories out of willingness for manual labor, has
practically deserted the cotton Helds and the farms of
the South, and wo stand face to face with a deficit of
labor every year. This Is tho cry that floods our want
rnlumns In our newspapers and makes prosperity
problem in tbe fields and mines of the South.
Of course there can be but one ultimate answer to
this demand.
Immigration must furnish to this great Southern
country tho laborers of the future Tor the development
and growth of tho country. And yet, when we come
to consider tho question of Immigration It Involves so
many problems and so many dangers that,may menace
our civilization, that only those men should be aent to
the discussion of Immigration and to the devising of
ways and means to socuro It, who know the subject In
all of Its bearings, and who appreciate the difficulties
and dnngera which are certain to accompany It In Its un
restricted stato.
We do not want tho hordes of Southern Europe In
these Southern states. God knows that wo havo a race
problem now' that Is difficult enough to handle, and wo
do not wish to compllcato It by a steady Influx gf those
vagrants of Southern Europo who mako every year tho
percentages of crime and the basin of revolution. When
the time comes, tho representative South with all its
might and nil ita Intelligence Bhovld move clearly, defi
nitely nnd persistently for the Gorman, English, Irish,
Scotch nnd Scandanavlan races of Europe for this coun
try.
Tboy are tho only Immigrants who bavo made good
In America. They havo enriched our citizenship. In
creased our thrift and magnified tho atates In which
they llvo. They ought to bo Just at easy to get as the
Southern Europeans. Our opportunities and attractions
are aa largo to them aa they are to the other races, and
we had bettor suffer tho Ills we have, Inconvonlent and
serious as they are, than to rush to problems and ad
mixtures that Involve difficulties moro serious and more
dangerous and more menacing than those which oppress
us now.
This question of labor presses nowhere more acute
ly than It does In the matter of domestic service. The
women of the South are subjected to unceasing worry
and inconvenience by the irregularity and untbrlft and
the Insolont Independence of the domestic negro. Com
munities might find It wlso to band themselves together
nnd by sending representatives to some of the cities of
the North, they might bring groups and companies of
white domestics to the South who, having their own com
rades about -them, would find life pleasant here and
would be willing to stay and to establish the Indepen
dence which the people need.
We trust that Govern OB Terrell will take this mat
ter seriously under consideration and that he will ap
point as delegates to Nashville to both of these con
gresses. men who are Interested in this great problem
and who are capable of discussing It with Intelligence
aad with force.
nnd that sooner or later there will be a terrible climax
to all tho mutterlnes of discontent which have been go
Ing on In the empire ever slnco tho douma was dissolved
by the ukase of the Czar. Nicholas himself Is practically
n prisoner In the palace at Peterhof, guarded by Trepoff
and hlB band of henchmen.
Sooner or later he must realize that he has made
tremendous mistake In dissolving the popular chamber,
which ho himself had called Into existence, and that
the people, having once had a taste of representatlv
government, will not sit Idly by and see It swept away
Students of history and of the present time feel that
tbe new reign of terror has begun at last and that before
affairs are settled In Russia again there will be much
bloodshed, and out of It all, and beyond It all. th
dlcatjon and adoption of a real constitutional govern
meat In which the people may have a. voice.
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 It
reported that there Is a muUny among the sailors of
the BalUc fleet
It is given out In 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 tbe general plan
has been temporarily Interfered with by the premature
revolt la Finland.
Communication between Cnmatadt and SL Peters
burg has been cut .off and the Russian government It
In great alarm.
These stirring events lend color to the opinion that
. the popular uprising is about to be sustained by the gen-
! era! re\olt of the army and navy. This may or may
not he true. It Is possible that the present disorders In
Finland may be suppressed. But they sufficiently In
dicate the temper of the sailors and teamen and the
people la general. They clearly point to ths fact that
The Spirit of the Investigation.
There Is easily room for criticism If one should go
to seek It. In the Investigation being held In Mr. Jor
dan's privato office during these last two days.
At loaBt two of tbe members of that Impartial (?)
committee of Investigation have Impressed the by-Btand-
ers and tho witnesses alike with the fact that they had
forgotten the role of calm and dispassionate jurymen and
bad become the eloquent and enthusiastic attorneys for
the defense.
President Johnson has preserved throughout an at
titude of Judicial calm and the evident intention to be
fair and thorough. There never was a tlmo In Colonel
Peek's life when ho was less than an honest and bravo
man, and he evidently wanted tbe truth. But two or
three* of the outside committee, and most notably Mr.
Seymour, of Alabama, made manifest from the first
that .they wero the partisans of tho administration, and
their questions to the witnesses and their whole attitude
toward the Investigation left little 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 witnesses 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 apeak, that not only
did Mr. Cheatham, who professed to desire the whole
truth exploited, refuse to permit theso men to speak but
the committee vtho came hero professedly for the exclu
sive purpose of getting all tho 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 Is perfectly evident that'there was a spirit
present In several members of that committee 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 thh facts In this memora
ble and Important case.v
As to the “Personal” Element.
President Harvle Jordan, In his testimony on Wed
nesday night before his committee, complaint 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 disclaimed the cartoon, that It 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 tbe
personal In the feelings of the editor of Tho Georgian
toward him.
But when President Jordan did not stop, but after
our temperate criticism, went on and on to speak bitterly
and insultingly In his subsequent comments and to say
all and more than he disclaimed In 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 foel absolutely free from any personal animosity to
ward him, and that we are fully aa anxious as he is to
vindicate the association' and ita administration It it be
possible to vindicate It from the shadow which rests upon
Ita present life.
A Georgian in Texas.
Georgians hare a very keen Interest In tbe contest in
the Sixth congressional district of Texas because of the
nock and neck race which hit been run between Messrs.
Hardy, Henderson and Mays.
Rufus Hardy, who leads by sixty votes at the last
return, wai a member of tbe famous University of
Georgia class of 1875, and won the junior medal In the
Phi Kappa Society.
fie hna been a Judge of the superior court for many
years In the circuit of which Corsicana Is the chief
city. He Is 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 Texas contest and wishing him
abundant success. At the last summary of the return*
Judge Hardy had received 3,884, Mr. Henderson, 3,838,
and Mr. Mays 8.T39. With less than a hundred votes sep
arating the highest and lowest candidate, one can real
ise the tension that la felt In the Sixth congressional
district by the friends of the Interested parties.
The Cummins Program Wins!
The expected did not happen out In Iowa, In one
respect.
Tho 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 convention entirely his way.
A large majority of the delegates were for him, even
after the contests were settled. Garst, bis candidate
for lieutenant governor, was chosen and the policy of
progressive tariff reform was adopted.
Thti will, give a strong Impulse to tariff revision
throughout the country, bat the fact of the matter* Is
that Cummins' anti-corporation policy Is causing as much
alarm as anything else In tbe ranks of his enemies.
Oarst, It teems. It even more radical In hit opposition
to Illegal combinations of capital than Cummlna him
self. It la feared by the corporations that Senator
Allison, who Is very much advanced In years, may dte
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 was Garst whom they
feared.
But all their plana and calculaUons to prevent the
naught. The progressive faction has won out on every
count, and the "stand pat” forces have been put to
flight, In spite of the administration Influence exerted
through'Hon. Leslie M. Shaw.
All of which Is bot/tad to have a great effect on the
congressional elections and on the presidential election
two years later.
Col. Mulberry Sellers’ Latesjt Scheme.
In the fear that the farmers of the South, and the
people In general, might be Induced lo take Block In a
visionary enterprise established to make paper from
cotton stalks, The Tradesman, of Chattanooga. has
sounded a note of alarm, which was recently reproduced
In these columns.
That article, and the general discussion precipitated
by The Tradesman, has made the Southern people sit up
and take notice. The periodical In question Is recog
nized aB one of the ablest In the South nnd !b alwtfys de
voted to the legitimate upbuilding of the Southern
states. But It sees great danger In tbe present project
and It has determined to go to tbe bottom of It. In its
current Issue The Tradesman says of thlB $15,000,000 en
terprise:.
It was reported In a reliable New York paper,
and extensively copied by the Southern press, as
coming from the president of the now company, that
"Several plants would bo erected and in successful
operation by January 1, 1307," and tho marvelous re
sults that were to follow from the operation of theso
plants wero such that wo felt Impelled to dub them
as being worthy of having emanated from the fer
tile brain 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 their correctness, before
entailing such losses In experiments as had oectirred
elsewhere, and under the same patents that this lat
ter company were reported aa 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 ProductH Company,
of which Harvle Jordan Is president, and would
state to you that paper stock cannot be made from
the cotton plant, either stalk or hulls; that Is, tbe
high-grade paper stock cannot be manufactured from
stalk or hulls, but a cheap grade can bo made, but
not at a profit. J. A. SPURLIN.
"Chemist Little Rock Board of Trade.
Little Rock, Ark.. July 18, 1906."
Every true friend of the South would, of course,
be delighted to see any practicable enterprise succeed,
but tho Indications aro that this project is dangerously
visionary, and the facts should 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 Baqon,
anyway?—Life
Well, maybe he was suggesting an antidote for dog
days.
Growth and Progress of the New South
Under thin head will appear from time to time information Illustrating the
remarkable development of the South which deserves something more than pass*
log attention.
Wages Advance and Prosperity Prevails.
At present there Is considerable activity In the cotton goods market
throughout the country and on yestterday 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 bo felt seriously, on account of the. steady Inflow of
orders for structural steel, ateel rails, etc. There Is more activity In steel
manufacture than ever before In midsummer. Among the orders booked lost
week was one from the Southern Railroad for 30,030 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 200 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 the South
Is shown, moreover. In the reports of the postofflce department. The rev
enues of tbe postofflce Increased 41 per cent during the year ended June SO,
while the Increase last year was 24 -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 hletory of the clothing
and straw hat trade has tha 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 detnand all around. The outlook Is ths sort that has
been worked up to and planned for by the various trade bodies and organi
zations that have the city's trade at heart. The American continues: It
Is most gratifying, therefore, to And 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 It 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 is, nevertheless, one of the most rapid
ly developing and flourishing trade centers In the country. It not only Is
the natural market for the Eastern shore of Maryland and Virginia, but of
the entire Southern section as far os 'Florida. Railroads and coast line
steamers center In this city the Interlinked towns of the Southern region.
The efforts of other Eastern cities to divert Baltimore’s Southern trade
have been largely overcome by securing the same transportation conces
sions enjoyed by those cities, so that there Is no longer any Inducement of
this nature for the Southern merchant to pass by Baltimore. Arrange
ments for a hearty reception and hospltabla treatment of tbe buyera when
they come here, as they will soon he doing, count much In the general
schema of enhancing the city aa a trade center.
THE SUPERIOR SEX.
I AM.
By ELLA WHEELER WILCOX,
em greater than star or sun,
>r I am a portion of One, TH B ONE.
‘art and parcePof that Great Cause
will lie ever; I am: I was.
When Msker and Holder of systema rare
Fashioned the Unlrerae, I wee there.
All that hee been or Is to be
iltena soul refining end rood for me.
Who roes God-hnnllng snd looks Wilhi
te guided ever swsy from sin.
- .- 0M w |tn the Prims)
Who knows he
Power
Will And direction from hour to hour.
And ont of erll shall good be wrought
For I am a portion -
Jeroma in Qaorgla.
From The Now York Globe.
It is something of a novelty to find
our picturesque district attorney down
In Georgia discoursing to an audience
of lawyers on such a threadbare and
platform-worn subject as public opin
ion, “the basis of Democracy," as some
prehistoric economist characterised It.
Mr. Jerome la wont to eelect aa hie
themes texta of unueual and striking
character, so much ao that the mere
eight 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. Hls forte la not
the emission of platitudes, and he did
manage to Interline those Inevitable In
twentieth century address on public
opinion with *a few Ideaa having the
typical Jerome flavor.
HU criticism of 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 hlmaelf has so recently token
a fall out of the Judiciary. In hls fa
miliar vein was hie remark that while
It woe true “the Individual must wither
and the world be more and more," the
kind of public opinion which drives
good men out of offlee 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 IndlvIduaL but the world as
well.
In the main, however, the Warm
8prings audience was treated to a
thoughtful dlscuaslon of the old sub
ject. Mr. Jerome's basic Idea waa that
embodied In the phrase noblesse
oblige; the duty of the men and news
papers, which largely mould public
opinion to use their power carefully
and honestly. HU remarks on the
newspapers were all true enough, and
would have been In the Bible If they
bed had newspapers In those days.
What he had to offer about the law
yers U equally true. "For weal or for
woe," he s^ld, "In proportion to our
numbers, we are, or can be, the most
influential body of men In the country.
This power brings responsibilities
which cannot honorably be avoided."
TELEGRAPHIC NEWS
TOLD IN FEW WORDS
Berlin, Aug. 2.—The Called States has
Just ptfd Its share of the award for the
sufferers by the Ksmoan outbreak of 1S»,
and that Incident Is definitely settled.
Italian Heads the Llet.
By Private Leased Wire.
Washington, Aug. 2.—Secretary Doyle o
the rlrll service commission has receive-
orders from the president to make specie
the rate of Taey Verroeso, en Italian, by
Idrth a cltlsen of the district, who served
In the American army during the late war
with Spain, and who will now he placed at
the head of the civil service eligible Hat of
laborers,
Indian Protests Fee.
By Private Leased Wire.
Washington. Aug. {.—Justice Gould, sit
ting In the eqnlty court, has taken under
adri- — -
Sum
Charles H.'Treat,' Unlted'BtatnTrrasnreri
who seeks to prevent the payment of an
attorney's fee of 3lM.«» to Ftnkelbnrx.
Nagle t Kirby, of Ht. Lulls, Mo., and Ed
ward Smith, of "iDlta, E T.
Captain Nick Dawson. Dead.
By Private I.eased Wire.
Washington, Aug. t—Captdlo Nicholas
Dawson, who has been critically III for
entb Virginia cavalry, commanded by Gen.
erel Turner Ashbv.
Poisoned by Insect
j I.eased Wire.
Washington, Ang. t—Flying Insects beat
ing against toe beck of hls neck as he set
In the front sent of a suburban street ear
resulted In e mild cane of blood poisoning
to Max Fraeht, of 222 Tenth etreeVNorth-
rest,
BIG MONEY IN CAT FARM.
From the Chicago News.
There Is e men In Chicago who It try
to work up a ncheme for making money
of rata
"There ere MOM stray rata In Chicago,"
he nays, "that are at no benefit to anyone,
They makt night hideous. They scratch
end kite small children. They are hated
and pelted with coal snd bootjacks. I ran
rid Chicago of a nuisance end make money
out of them."
Its has 31,003. He Is looking for a man
with more capital and a good bead for
managing a cal Island. Ills scheme Is this:
Ip In the northern part of lake Mich
igan Is a little Island four miles long end
managing a ral
;p in ‘
in Is -
one mile wide. -He proposes to erect then
extenslre sheds. There It
tlon and there ere no anl
Who the balldlnga ere np he will have eat
, to wort )n chirajo si "
rata Their pelts ere
.ita. TH#lr npiia im
cents each.
He will not them on the Island end buy
up deed horses and old meet from the
stock yards and have H damped there from
time to time. The rate will be left there
for four years, rating this fowl sad grow-
rafoablc ™* *' * Uk ' ,tw,r far more
Then a rat abattoir will be created. Thev
will have propagated and multiplied, sad
saem rate ran be killed a year, their skits
Worth from IS to 3 cents etch, netting the
proprietors of this unique Industry 119,001
By WEX JONES.
A woman can't vote ns n man cat);
Khi* thinks Il.-riinr-l Stiinv Is 'Tnton«<\'
Ami she dunces whst looks like a rpn-csn
When «I|I- I lies W k-el "V-T H ft-IICC.
She rnn't re.- n mirror hut In II
Her hair needs a jmt nnd n smack;
Sbo can't keep n secret n minute,
Bl'T
She ran button her waist up tho bark.
A woman can't hit with n hummer.
Except on the end of her thumb;
In ii I hi,-ties, for nil of her olninoi-,
Her performance i 8 terril.lv limn.
When out of a street cur she tumbles
She prnh.ihly sprawls on tie- truck;
When nshe-l for n sj-eeoh sin- Just mumbles,
Sbe cun button her wxlst up tho back.
A n-omun cun't sharpen a- pencil;
A woman can't aim with a atone;
A razor she dooms n up-null
For carving tho grlstlo nnd bono.
White a woman when Joyful Is tearful.
A woman can't stay, without dreaming
Of burglars, alone In a house,
Nor see without Jumping end screaming
Bo much at tha toll or a mouse.
. women ran never look merry
When spending 10 cents at a crack;
A woman can't cllmb^for a cherry,
She can button her waist np the beck.
HOW HARVIE IMPRESSES MEM
PHI8.
From tho Memphis Commercial-Appeal
In the local market business Is sun
pended and the traders find diversion
and amusement In scanning the col
umns of an amateur planters' Jour
nal whose owners seek notoriety by
assaults upon government officials and
departments, leading newspapers and
people with whom they seem delighted
to differ. They seem to expect to fat
ten upon prejudice engendered by v!
clous agltotton, 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
flrat edition was largely devoted to
pictures of tha promoters, and prom
ises not likely to be fulfilled. The
leading picture was an Imitation of a
farmer on' horseback—where such
farmer would likely be, not behind the
plow or swinging tho 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, presuma
bly hurling anathemas at Secretory
Wilson or Instructing him how to run
the agricultural department. A later
edition was given over to tnetructlona
to farmers’ wives as how to raise i
pot lamb, the correct way to hold t
piece 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 for daring
to differ with them on the acreage and
crop condition.
Then came another devoted largely
again to pictures, as their penmen
wero evidently reeling after brain ex
haustion brought on by the strenuous
efforts at roasting the secretary Jn
the previous number. The happy In
spiration struck them that th
make some capital with the farmers
by attacking with a cartoon one of the
leading exchangee 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 tbe 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 12c, and which has
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 Use largely In
the fact that they quoted so exten
sively from the cotton article of Tha
Commercial-Appeal and thereby fur
nished their readers with the first
and only reliable and Intelligent dis
cussion of current events and crop
newa they have ever set before them;
while their 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/'
It Is hoped that Inasmuch as 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 facto to have originated
with them.
The matter of replying to their usual
malicious slander la reserved for the
future: meanwhile their record will
be kept and recalled when necessary,
and In event that they have not Joined
a former planters’ journal In the Jour
nalistic boneysrd a year from now. It
will be Interesting If not Instructive to
point with- pride to the accuracy of
their crop and market forecasts, which
would probably be about as near cor
rect aa tha famous crop estimate of
8,444.314 bales which they guaranteed
correct
GOSSIP
=1
About I
People
By Private Leased Wire.
New York, Aug. 2—President
Roosevelt Is not the only etrenuoua
man In Oyster Bay. The citizenship of
that famous village are a sturdy lot o(
Americans, who “know their rlfhu.
and knowing, dare maintain."* f F 0 r in.
stance:
A wall with which Millionaire Loaig
Tiffany fenced in the beach in front of
hls home, “Laurelton,” at Cold Spring
harbor, has been tom down by Indig.
nant Oyster Bay people, who hava
been In the habit of picnicking and
bathing there.
Citizens were enraged when thty
were confronted by the wall made of
spars nnd cemented stone. This vy
on Monday. The town board of Oystar
Bay searched the records and found
that under pntent from George III thi
beach whero they had always bathed
was 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 from
stone. They made a lire of the span
to light them at their work.
Among th© noted visitors at the
Catholic cathedral rectory Is Father
Kenlln Vaughn, who has Just returned
from a mission to South America f r
the purple of raising funds for a
Latln-Ainerlcan chapel for the Metro,
polltan 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 Catholic
church In England. Of nine brothers,
five have risen to high dignity in
church.
Roger Vaughn was archbishop of
Sidney; Herbert was archbishop in
London. It was Bernard Vaughn, an
other brother, who recently Issued a
bitter blast directed toward the evils,
which, he declared, were prevalent In
English society. Theresa Vaughn, a
sister, said to be one of the most beau
tiful women in Great Britain, threw
aside a life of luxury for the veil of
a Sinter of Charity. She was th.- jlr.-t
sister of that order to die In England.
Generals and colonels are as thick In
Saratoga as In Kentucky, and you
never can tell who’s who until you
meet them.
With the receiving of a cablegram
from Paris, signed John A. Black, It
Immediately was decided that General
and Mrs. John Black, 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* Jrthe son of Colonel
and Mrs. Black, married the daughter
of O. W. Potter, of Chicago, who oston- ;
lshed the social world of that city
with a novel written while still In ear
liest girlhood, 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 hls homo In the “lOO” colony re
cently purchased from William C.
Kemp, at No. 9 East Fifty-fifth street,
opposite the St. Regis. Canfield now
has such neighbors as E. H. Harriman,
Mrs. A. B. Twombly, Harry S. Red
mond and Dr. W. F. Chappelle.
GEORGIANS IN GOTHAM.
By Private Leased Wire.
Now York, Aug. 2.—Tho 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. Constancy,
W. C. Holliman, L. B. Johnson, L. B.
Llllenthal, J. A. Magtll, Miss a Pat
ten. J. E. C. Peddle, H. L. Strlberg,
W. M. Slke, V. J. Adams, W. O. Banka,
B. B. Beckham, Rev. L. O. Broughton,
L. Buchanan, Mrs. M. Buchanan, J. K.
Christian, R. L. Hartwell, W. H. Keans,
J. B. Pools, J. A. Russo, C. O. Sheri
dan, C. JL McLaughlin.
MACON—I. Kessler, G. J. Waxel-
baum.
IN PARI8.
Special to The Georgian.
Paris August 2.—Mr. W. A. Watt of
Thomaavllle, Ga., registered at the of
fice of the European edition of The
New York Herald today.
THIS DATE IN HISTORY.
HUUUOI C.
1238-Henry HI of France died; succeeded
by Henry of Navarre at Henry IV,
1624—Treaty of peace concluded nt Albany
lietween the Coloaleta and the Fire
Notion.,
1704—Duke of Marlborough vlrtorloua over
French force, ot battle of Blenheim.
1780—Battle of Mohawk Valley, N. V.
1787—Flrat eerant of Mont Illnne.
res—Thomas Gainsborough, portrait paint-
r, died: born 1727. , ,
lonaparte elected flrat rononl for life
1X1S—Treaty of Parte; Napoleon declared
1X30—Abdication of Charles X of France.
1268—Queen Victoria sanctioned Empress of
-Congress passed an set for raisin*
{300,000,010 by tax and tariff.
1272—Large section of Portland, Ore., de-
1SS3—Pilgrim Monument at Plymouth, Mesa,
dedicated. ,
1284-Trial of Santo Cesario for murder of
President Carnot begun at Lyons.
PRESIDENT OF SEVENTY-
FIVE BANKS
From The American Banker.
A record that has a tinge of romance,
_ touch of pathos and a huge lesson for
ue all, Is that of W. S. Wltham, of
Georgia. Twenty-Are year* ago he left
the town of LaGrange. Ga, with the
munificent sum of 31 In hie pocket, and
landed In New York, with nothing to
hts credit but hie clothes and hie char
acter. The quality of the former doee
not matter, and the quality of the lat
ter has shown Itoelf. He Is today
president of seventy-five banks, all hut
four of which are situated In hls na
tive state. In return for Georgia*
■mall advance of 100 cents, he has
pretty well cornered her banking in
terests, and Is keeping a goodly amount
of her funds. The four banks of which
he la president outside of the state of
Georgia are alt flourishing, *11 enjoy
the absolute and well-earned confi
dence of the communities, and are run
for the Interest! of the people as wen
aa capitalists. •
Mr. Wltham celebrated the Fourth
of July by having a little private bank
ing convention of hls own at Warm
Springs, Ga, where he met seventl-
live cashiers from hls seventy-fit*
banks, possibly the moat unique -im
original gathering in the country.
