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6 THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN. The Atlanta Georgian. JOHN TEMPLE GRAVES, Editor. F. L. SEELY, President. Subscription Rates: Published Every Afternoon One Tear........ $4.50 Except Sunday by Six Months 2.50 THE GEORGIAN CO. Three Months 1.25 at 25 W. Alabama Street, By Carrier, per week '10c Atlinlsj Gt. Eot#r*! ■■ Mcond-cltts matter April 26, IMS, it the Postofflra *t A fin n ta. Ga.. under act of congress of Martb t. lflft A man may well bring a horse to the water. But he cannot make him drink without he will. —Heywood. The Problem That Presses. . There are few gatherings more Important to the South In the most serious phase of Its 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 almllar and can best be worked out In unity rather than In separato organiza tions. One of the most tremendous questions which will come before this body will be this problem of labor which Is everywhere becoming a pressing and vital con sideration 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 Js no longer the vital element nor the Indispensable element In tbe Industrial life of the 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 nogro Is a constantly decreasing factor In our Industrisl 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 his color and because of Ills unasslmllable qualities, be has kept away other la borers of the white class who were not willing to put themselveB upon an equality with an Inferior race. And now. after having shut ont for so many yean tbe 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 tbe Hooker Wash ington theories out of willingness for manual labor, has practically deserted the cotton fields and the farms of the South, and we stand face to face with a deficit of labor every year. This Is the cry that floods our want columns In onr newspapers and makes prosperity a problem In the fields and mines of the South. Of courso there can be but one ultimate answer to this demand. • Immigration must furnish to this great Southern country tho Inborcrs of the future for the development and growth of the country. And yet, when we come to consider tbe question of Immigration It Involves so many problems and so many dangers tbat may menace our civilization, tbat only those men should be sont to the discussion of Immigration and to the devising of ways and means to secure It, who know the subject In all of Its bearings, nnd who appreciate the difficulties and dsngors which are certain to accompany It In Its un restricted state. We do not want tho hordos of Southorn Europe In these Southern stateB. Ood knows that we have a rnco problem now that Is difficult enough to hsndlo, and wo do not wish to complicate It by a steady Influx of thosa vagrants of Southern Europe wbo make every year tho percentages of crimo and the basis of revolution. When the time comes, tbe representative South with all Its might and nil Its Intelligence should move clearly, defl nJtely and persistently for the German, English, Irish, Scotch nnd Scandanavlan races of Europe for this coun try. They are the only Immigrants wbo have made good In America. They hnvo enriched our citizenship, In creased our thrift and mngnlfled tho states In which they live. They ought to bo just as oasy to get as the Southern Europeans. Our opportunities and attractions are as large to them ns they aro to the other races, and we had hotter suffer the Ills we have. Inconvenient nnd serious as they are, than to rush to problems and ad mixtures that Involve difficulties more serious and mpro dangerous and more menacing than those which oppress us now. ‘This quostlon of labor presses nowhere more acute ly than It does In tbe matter of domestic service. The women of tbe South are subjected io unceasing worry and lnconvenlonco by the Irregularity and unthrltt and the Insolent Independence of the domestic negro. Com munities might find It wise to band themselves together and by sending representatives to some of the cities of tbe North, they might bring groups and companies of white domestics to tbe South wbo, haring their own com rades about them, would find life pleasant here .-nnd would be willing to stay and to establish the Indepen dence which the people need. Wo trust that Oovernor 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 Intereited In this great problem and who aro capable of discussing It with Intelligence and with force. tbe tide of revolution Is gathering strength every day and that sooner or later there will be a torrlble climax to all the mutterlngs of discontent which have been go ing on In the empire ever since the douma was dissolved by the ukase of the Czar. Nicholas himself Is practically a prisoner In the palace at Peterhof, guarded by Trepolf and his band of henchmen. Sooner or later be must realize that be has made a tremendous mistake In dissolving tbe popular chamber, which ho himself had called Into existence, and that tbe people, having once bad a taste of representative government, will not sit Idly by nnd see It swept away. Students of history and of the present tlmo feel that the new reign of terror has begun at last and that before affairs ate settled In Russia again there will be much bloodshed, and out of U all, and beyond It all, the vin dication and adoption of a real constitutional govern ment in which tbe people may have a voice. 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 private office during these Isst'two days. At least two of tbe members of that Impartial (?) committee of Investigation have lmpresse/1 tho by-atand- ers and tho witnesses alike with tbe fact that they had forgotten the role of calm and dispassionate jurymen Bnd had bocome tbe eloquent and enthusiastic attorneys for tbe 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 time In Colonel Peek's life when he was less than an honest and brave man, and ho evidently wanted tbe truth. But two or throe* of the outside committee, and moBt 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 wlTole attitude toward the Investigation left little hope of that unbiased mind which we expected to find In a dispassionate tri bunal. • Another most notable Incident of tbe Investigation was In the fact that when 'several witnesses volunteered to tell things that were of vital Interest to tbe 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 tbe 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 bo Ignorance or whether It bo something wofse, 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 aro 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 nnught. 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 Hofl. 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. The Russian Revolt. Reports from Finland Indicate that the revolution In that country has at last assumed formidable propor tions. The garrison at Sveaborg baa revolted and It la reported that there la a mutiny among the sailors of tbe Baltic fleet. It Is given out In certain quarters that this la but part ot a general plan to revolt, which was ‘to place the commanding fortresses of the Black Sea and the Baltic, together with tbe fleets stationed there. In the hands of the revolutionists, hut tbat the general plan has been .temporarily Interfered' with by the premature revolt In Finland. Communication between Cronstadt and St. Peters burg has been cut off and the Russian government la In great alarm. These stirring events lend color to tbe opinion tbat the popular uprising la about to be sustained by the gen eral revolt of the army and navy. This may or may not be tree. It Is possible that the present disorder* In Finland may be suppressed. But they sufficiently in dicate the temper of tbe sailors and seamen and the pc-, (la la general. They clearly point to the fact tbat As to the “Personal” Element. President Harvle Jordan, In his testimony on Wed nesday night before his committee, complains that It Is hardly fair that the editor ot The Georgian should bold any personal feelings toward him since ho/ 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 !( he bad 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 stop, but after our temperate criticism, went on and on to apeak 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 hla words. Meanwhile we aay now to Mr. Jordan that not one lino personal to himself has gono Into this paper during this Investigation, that In the discussion of this question we feel absolutely free from any personal animosity to ward him, and that we are tolly as anxious as he Is to vindicate the association and Ita administration If It be possible to vindicate It from the shadow which reals upon Ita present life. * A Georgian in Texas. Georgians have a very keen interest In the contest In the Sixth congressional district ot Texas because of the neck and neck race which hat been run between Messrs Hardy, Henderson and Maya. Rufus Hardy, who leads by sixty votes at the last return, was a member of the famous University ot Georgia data ot 1876, and won the Junior medal In the Phi Kappa 8ocloty. He haa been a Judge ot the superior court for many years in the circuit of which Corsicana la the chief city. He la a man of the highest character and of the broadeat ability. There are hundred* ot hla friends and classmates scattered throughout the state who are watch ing with keen Interest tbe Texas contest and wishing him abundant success At the last summary ot the returns Judge Hardy had received 3,894, Mr. Henderson, 1,838, and Mr. Maya 3,739. With lest than a hundred vote* sep arating the hlgbeet and loweat candidate, one can real- lie the tension tbat 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 reepecL 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 Oovernor Cummins had the convention entirely hit way, A large majority of the delegates were tor him, even after tbe contests were settled. Garst, hla candidate for lieutenant governor, was chosen and the policy of progressive tariff reform was adopted. - This will give a strong Impulse to tariff revision throughout the country, but the fact of the matter la that Cummins' anti-corporation policy la causing as much alarm as anything else In the ranks of hla enemies. Garst, It seems. In even more radical In hla opposition to Illegal combinations of capital tuan Cummins him- seir. It la feared by the corporations that Senator Alllton, who la very much advanced In years, may die or retire, and that Cummins would succeed him. In which event Garst. more relentless In hla opposition to trusts and combines than Cummins himself, would be come governor of the state. It was Garst whom they feared. But all their plans and calcnlatlona to prevent the , Col. Mulberry Sellers’ Latest Scheme. In tho fear that the farmers of the South, and tbe people In general, might be Induced to take stock In a visionary enterprise established to make paper from cotton stalks. The Tradesman, of Chattanooga, haa sounded a note of alarm, which was recently reproduced In these columns. That article, and the general discussion precipitated by The Tradesman, has made tbe Southern people sit up and take notice. Tbe periodical In question Is recog nized os one of tho ablest In the South and Is always de voted to the legitimate upbuilding of tbe Southern states. But It sees great danger In the present project and It has determined to go to the bottom ot It. In Its current Issue The Tradesman says of this 816,000,000 en terprise: It was reported In a reliable New York paper, and extensively copied by tho Southern press, as coming from tho president of the now 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 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 Buch losses In experiments as had occurred elsewhere, and under the same patents that thta 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 Harvle Jordan Is president, and would state to you that paper stock cannot be made from the cotton plant, cither 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. 8PURLIN, "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 are that this project Is dangerously visionary, and the facts should be made known before anybody Is Induced to put money In It. Cholly ^ Knickerbocker's GOSSIP Senator Bacon wants The Congressional Record read by tho people.—Houston Post. What sort of an inhuman monster Is Senator Bacon, anyway?—LIfq Well, maybe he was suggesting an antidote for dog days. Growth and Progress of the New South Under this bead will appear from tlmo to tlmo Information Illustrating the remarkable development of tbe Booth which deserves something more than pass* lag attention. Wages Advance and Prosperity Prevails. At present there Is considerable activity In the cotton goods market throughout ths country and on yestterday, an advance In wages, made voluntarily by various mills, went Into effect. The beneficial result ot this will be felt throughout the entire South. One of the leading commercial agencies reports that ths 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 lost week was one from the Southern Railroad for >0,000 tons of rails. Some of the big mills rsport 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 300 miles of pipe. Building operations all over the country are pushing the mills for structural steel and hardware. Railroad extension Is more active tn the South than In any other part of tha country, says this commercial agency. The prosperity of the South Is shown, moreover. In the reports of the postoftlce department. The rev, enues of the postoffice Increased 43 per cent during ths year ended June SO, while the Increase last year was 34 per cent. The states showing the larg est percentages of Increase were all In ths South, with South Carolina In the van. The Baltimore American says that never In the history ot the clothing and straw hat trads haa the aeaeon 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 bs fore cast ths trads 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 tha various trade bodies and organi sations that have the city's trade at heart. The American continues: It Is most gratifying, therefore,, to find ths city upon a trade swell that promises to reach still higher proportions for a number of years to come. Those who have studied ths 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 ths Intervening periods of stability. While Balti more la In no senaa a boom town, It Is, nevertheless, one of the most rapid ly developing and flourishing trade oenters. In the country. It not only Is the natural market for the Eastern ahore of Maryland and Virginia, but of tha entire Southern section as far as Florida. Rallroada and coaat line steamers center In this city the Interlinked towns of the Southern region. The efforts of other Eastern cities to divert Baltimore's Bouthern 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 hospitable treatment of the buyers when they coma here, as they will soon be doing, count much In the general scheme of enhancing the city as a trade center. THE SUPERIOR SEX. By WEX JONES. A woman ran’t rote ns a man can; 8he thinks it«>rnnnl Sbnw Is “intense.” An«l she tlnnr»*« what looks like s can-can wtifii m$ aim It >r**t orer a fence. She can’t see n mirror hat In It Her hair needs a pat and n smack; She can’t keep a secret a minute. A woman can't hit with a hammer. net * In ntl Her When out of a street car Hhe profmhlr sprawls on the track. When asked for a sgeech she Just mumbles* She can button her wslst up the back. A woman can’t sharpen a* pencil; A woman can’t aim with n stone; A rasor she deems a utensil For earring the gristle nnd bone. When a man feels uncommonly cheerful He laughs till his ligaments crack. While a woman when Joyful la tearful* BUT She can bntton her waist up the back. A woman can’t stay, without dreaming I AM. By ELLA WHEELER WILCOX, I aoi greater thsn'.tar or inn. For I em a por — Part sod parcel .nun ur iun. 'or I am a portion of One. THE ONE. rcot of that Orest Cause hen Maker and Bolder of ajatetas rare Fashioned tho llnlrarae, 1 was there. II that haa been or la to ho toea Uod-huntlDf and look! ._ .aided ever away from aln. IVho knows ho It one with the Primal Power Will And direction from honr to hour. And ont of evil shell .food bo wrought ‘ am .mate, then star nr min, 1 ONE," Jorome in Georgia. From The New York Globa. It I. something of a novelty to And our plcturoeque district attorney down In Georgia discoursing to an audltnoe of lasryers An such a threadbare and platform-worn subject as public opin ion, “ths basis of Democracy,” as some prehistoric economist characterized If. Mr. Jerome Is wont- to eelect as his themes texts ot unusual and striking character, so much so that the mere eight of them raises the reader at once “to attention"—tha Imbecility of judges, their venality; how much more I know than other people, the murrected skirt dancer of politics, etc. Hie forte Is not the emission of platitudes, and he did manage to Interline those Inevitable In a twentieth century sddrJaa on public opinion with a few Ideas having the typlcaf Jerome flavor. Hie criticism of Mr. Roosevelt's crltl clem 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 ha* so recently taken a fall out ot the judiciary. In hla fa miliar vein was bl* 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 aa well. In the main, however, the Warm Spring, audience waa treated to a thoughtful dlscusalon of the old sub ject. Mr. Jerome's basic Idea was 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. His remark, on the newspaper, were all true enough, and would have been In the Bible If they had had newspapers In those days. What he had to offer about the law yer* Is equally true. "For weal or for woe," he said, “In proportion to our numbers, w* 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 United States Pay* Ita Share. By Private Leased Wire. Berlin, Aug. 3.—The United States hue just pnld It. sharo of the award for the •ulTerers by tho Samoan outbreak of UN, and that Incident le deOnltely settled. Italian Heeds the Lilt. ByPrtvat* Leaned Wire. Washington, An*. I—Secretary Doyle of the civil service commission has received order* from tho -preeident to make apeeial the case of Tony Verrosso, an Itall birth a eltlaen of the district, who la the American army during the la with Spain, ami who will now be placed at the head of the elvll service eligible list of laborers. Indian Protest* Fee, By Private Leased Wire. Washington, Aug. i—Jn.tlce Gould, alt. ting In the equity court,, has taken nsdee advisement the petition of Frank J. Boudb not, an eastern Cherokee Indian, for an In- Junction against Secretary Hitchcock and Charles II. Treat, United Slate* treasurer, who seeks to prevent the payment of an S Horner's fee of 1140,000 to Flnkelbnrx. lagte t Kirby, of St. Louis, Mo., and Ed ward Smith, ot Vinita, I, T. Captain Nick Dawson Dead, By Ptlvst. Leaied Wire. Washington, Aug. 3.0-Capt.ln Kiel Dawson, who has been critically III for .rat month* at Cameron, hi. ronntry I In Nichols. ‘ r a.v homi ing oi In Fairfax county. Vs., dlad yesterday at 1:40 o’clock a. ra. At the beginning of th. civil war he minted In th* fan .nth Virginia caralr; ml Turner Aabbv. Poisoned by Insect. Bx Privets Leased Wire. Washington, Aug. I—Flying inteeta beat- lug against the bark.of hi. neck a. he sat In th* front Mat of a suburban street car resulted In s mild cat* of blood poisoning to Max Pracht, of 333 Tenth street, North- BIQ MONEY IN CAT FARM. From the Chicago News There Is e man In Chicago wbo I. try! to work np e scheme for making mosey i ot rats. There era MOW .tray cat, la Chicago," Mya, 'Nhst. ere of no beneOt to anyone. h» tag awl’ bl rid Chicago of e nuisance end out at them." II* has 31.000. lie Is looking for a man with more capita! end * good heed for managing a cat Mead. Ilia neb-mr Is this: llpln the norther* part at Lake Mich igan Is a little Island four mile* loog and •*e mil* wide. II. propose* to erect there extensive sheds. There Is plenty mf vegeta tion and there are no entmal Inhabitant!. Whn th* betldlngs ere up he wUl her* eat tsiWei?a wo $u rants etch. II* will put them o* the Island and buy up deed korm and old meet from tho •fork yard, aad have It damped there free, law te time. The cats will be left there INf cere, e This ._— . .at abet.— — ... IMS* raU S.TO’iulmf^ySr! 1 .hHr-ahln, worth from lft to 26 rants ra<*h. amine tbe proprietors of tkU unique laduatrj 110,0*1 • yenr. \ wuiuau mu i aw/, wmiuui. « Of burglars, alone In n house, a woman enn nrrnr iook merr, When spending 10 cents at a A woman can’t cllmh^for a chi She can bntton her waist up the back. rfOW HARVIE IMPRESSES MEM PHIS. From tho Memphis Commercial-Appeal In the local market business Is sus pended and the traders And diversion and amusement In scanning the cob umns of on amateur planters' jour nal whose owners seek notoriety by ossdults 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 vi cious agitation, and thro^v fits under the Impression that they are pleasing their country constituency. They bark and snarl at everything and sverybody who disagrees with then), and court attention by striv ing'to Involve metropolitan newspapers In controversy with them. The ex perlment 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 ths 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 tho plow or swinging the hoe. Promoter number two was present ed In a studied pos. representing a master mind at work, or rather watch ing the stenographer at it, presuma bly hurling anathemas at Becretary Wilson or Instructing him how to run th* agricultural department. A later edition waa given oyer to Instructions to farmers' wives os how to raise a pet. lamb, the correct way to hold a piece of linen tyhll* embroidering de signs on It, how t* make and keep persimmon beer, and for the farmer himself a wild and woolly attack on th* agricultural department for daring to differ with them on th* acreage and crop condition. Then came another devoted largely again to pictures, at their penmen were evidently resting after brain ex haustion brought on by the strenuous efforts at roasting the secretary In the previous number. The happy In spiration struck thsm 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 moet 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 just 111 wl In face or the Idiotic specula tive advice they gave the farmers lost spring, to hold for 16c, *nd 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 ttable one they have ever gotten out, and the reason for this lies 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 aad Intelligent dla mission of current events and crop news they have ever set before them; while their consistency waa shown In their hearty Indorsement of the bureau that they so roundly denounced the previous month, and almost monthly during tbs past season. It Is hoped .that Inasmuch a. 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 reader* wlU recognise that these follow too cloeely the lines of Intelligent pre sentation of facta to have originated with them. The (natter of replying to their usual malicious slander Is reserved for the future; meanwhile their record will be kept and recalled whA necessary, and In-event that they have not Joined a former planters' journal In the jour nalistic boneyard a year from now. It will be interacting It not Instructive to point with pride to the accuracy of their crop and market forecasts, which would probably be about aa near cor rect as the famous crop estimate of 3,444,314 bales which they guaranteed correct By Private Leaned Wire. New York. Aug. 3.—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 tiielr rights, and knowing, dare maintain." For In stance: A wall with which Millionaire Louts Tiffany fenced In the beach In front of hla home. "Laurelton," at Cold Spring harbor, has been torn down by Indtg. nant Oyster Bay people, who have been In tho habit of picnicking and bathing there. Citizens were enraged when they were confronted by the wall made of spars nnd cemented stone. This was on Monday. The town board of Oyater Bay searched the records and found that under patent from George III tha 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, Btono from stone. They made a Are of the spars to light them at their work. Among the noted visitors at ths Catholic cathedral rectory is Father Kenlln Vaughn, who has Just returned from a mission to South America for the purpose of raising funds for a La tin-American chapel Tor the Metro politan cathedral In London. He hu met with marked success. Father Vaughn Is a member of the family which gave Cardinal Vaughn and oth- er notables to the Roman Catholto church In England. Of nine brothers, five have risen to high dignity in church. Roger Vaughn' waa archbishop of Bldney; 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, u 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 Sister of Charity. She was the first slater of that order to die tn 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 tho 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 girlhood, and which waa 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 his home In the "400" 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. Hardman, Mrs. A. B. Twombly, Harry S. Red mond and Dr. W.-F. Chappelle. GEORGIANS IN GOTHAM. By Private Leased Wire. New York, Aug. 3.—Tlje 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. Llllcnthal, J. A. Maglll, Miss-ft. Pat ten, J. E. C. Peddle. H. L. Striberg, W. M. Sike. V. J. A'dams, 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. Foolo, J. A. Russo. C. O. Sheri dan, C. H. McLaughlin. MACON—I., Kessler. G. J. Waxel- baum. IN PARI8. Special to The Georgian. Paris, August 3.—Mr. W. A. Watt, of Thomasvllle, Ga., registered at the of- flee of the European edition of Tho s’ew York Herald today. THIS DATE In HISTORY. 1*53—Henry III of Franc. died; succeeded to Henry of Navarre as Henry IV 1314—Treaty of peace concluded at Albany Iwtween tbe Colonists and tbs Five Nation*. 1701—Duke of Marlborough victorious over French forces at battle of Blenheim. 1730-Battle of Mobawk Valley, N. T. 1717—First ascent of Mont Blanc. 17*4—'Thomas (lalnsbormigh, portrait paint- lied: b«“ ■parte i ty of rlsoner, _ ^ Empress of ■Congress passed an tot for raising JW-ffirKM Cortis’nT Ora-, do- stroyed by fire. „ IMS—Pilgrim Monument at Plymouth, Mass, dedicated. . , 1 SOI—Trial of Snnto Ceaarlo for murder of President Carnot begun at Lyons er, died; born 1T2T. ... ... 1 H>3—Bonaparte elected first consul for life, 1415—Treaty of Paris; Napoleon declared 1439—Abdication of Charles X of France. 1454—Queen Victoria sanctioned T ian-coi ' PRESIDENT OF SEVENTY- FIVE BANKS From The American Banker. A record that has a tinge of romance, a touch of pathos and a huge lesson for us all. Is that qf W. B. Wltham, of Georgia. Twenty-live years ago he left the town of LaGrange. Ga, with the munificent sum of 31 In his pocket, snd landed In New York, with nothing to hts credit but his clothes and hla char acter. The quality of the former does not'matter, and the quality of the l*>- ter has shown Itself. He Is today president of seventy-five banks, *11 but four of which are situated In hla na tive state. In return for Georgia, ■mail advance of 100 cents, he ha* pretty well cornered her banking In terest* snd Is keeping s goodly »< n ““ n l ' of her funds. Th* four banks of which he Is president outside of the state ot Georgia are *11 nourishing, *11 the absolute and well-earned confi dence of the communities, and are run for tbe Interest* of the people *» well i capitalists, „ — Mr. Wltham celebrated the Fourth of July by having a little Private bank ing convention of hi* own at warm Spring* Ga, where he met seventy- five cashiers from his seventy-"'? banks, possibly the most unique and original gathering In the country. ■■■■ k HMUtfUfl