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THE ATLANTA LEOHO TAX TTURSPAY. At r,r*T 9. im The Atlanta Georgian. JOHN TEMPLB GRAVES, Edllor. P. L. SEELY, President. |lngs rc-gulnrly appointed where the public and interested way, and in that event, uni parties may ba aasured of an attentive hearing. Third, the commltteei of the bouae and of the aenato should bare regularly appointed days and hours of meet ing from which there should be no variation except by public notice backed by substantial reasons. It Is an Subscription Rales: One Year $4.50 Six Months 2.50 Three Months ..... 1.25 By Carrier, per week lOe Published Every Afternoon Except Sunday by THE GEORGIAN CO. at 25 W. Alabama Street, Atlanta,* Gs. Entered as aeeoad-elass matter April 9. INS, at the Postofflee at Atlanta. Oa.. under act of consresa of March S. 1ST*. Fairbanks Glorifying John Brown. Three weeks from today the vice president of the United States and presiding officer of the upper house will participate in the fflorlflcatlon of a man whose crowning work was thus characterised by a select com mittee of the United States senate, appointed at the timo to Investigate It: "The Invasion (to call it so) by John Brown and hla followers at Harper's Kerry . . . was simply the art of lawless ruffians, under the sanction of no. public or political authority—distinguishable only from ordinary felonlea by the ulterior enda con templated by them." Until these historic words, signed by a majority of that select committee, are expunged from the'Idas of the Congressional Globe, and the truth of history la offl dally made a lie, the vice president of these United States, who so recently was the recipient of Southern hospitality, might be doing something better than thus entering Into fellowship with treason and felony and stirring the sltmbering embers of a sensitive sectional ism. Tbat John Brown, of Osawatomle, was a felon and a traitor no sane man can deny in the face of the ver- dicte of the courts and the summary punishment vis ited upon him for his crimes. It Is not a matter of opinion. It la a fact of official record. In the opinion of a more tranquil and conservative posterity bitterness has In a large measure given plaae to a cynical pity for bis civic obliquity, compounded ns it was of malice and madneas. He la looked upon by the dispassionate thinkers of today as a dangerous Don Quixote whose self-imposed and chimerical task ended In hls own undoing aa the Inevitable consequence of bis fanaticism and folly. - The rancor with which bis name was once dis cussed has pasted away, but hts wisdom and foresight have not grown upon the world. That he was a madman and a firebrand, and that he brought reproach upon the honest and well meaning people who differed politically from the South Imme diately before the war, stands undisputed and Indis putable. Three weeks from today will be the fiftieth anni versary of that military fisticuff known at "the battle of Osawatomle." On the twenty-first aunlversary of that event a monument waa erected on the scene of the contest, out there on, the plains of Kanaai. In tha dedicatory speech of that occasion the orator of the day declared that John Brown "dared to bo a traitor to the government that be might be loyal.to hnmanlty." Hls loyalty to humanity consisted In part In tho cold blooded murder of five mep who dared to dlffor with him and hls followers as to the form of government which the state of Kansas should adopt Hls treachery to the government Is not denied Wo might well Imsglne that some such sentiment na "treason to the country that they might be loyal to humanity" would have risen spontaneously to the lips of August Spies, Adolph Fisher, George Engel and Al bert Parsons as they walked to the gallows 20 years ago for their part In the slaying of seven policemen and wounding of twenty-seven more because those officers of the law had attempted to disperse an anarchist meeting In the Hsymarket square of Chicago. They were glorified enough, God knows, and nothing they could have said tor themselves would have sounded more grandiloquent than "treason to the government and loyalty to humanity.” It would have been a reign of anarchy. Indeed, If John Brown and hla misguided followers had succeeded In acquiring any momentum when they captured the government arsenal on that 8unday night of Ootober, 1859. It would have set a precedent for murder and as sassination Infinitely worse than organised warfare. The determination to make a hero of this shiftless, thriftless fanatic—the unsteadlest product that ever came out of the "Land of Steady Habits”—has Inten sified the bitterness between North and South a thousand fold more acutely than the meeting of brave men on the battlefield, where each rendered willing tribute to the skill and courage of the other. It has brought forth more Tiomb-proof rodomontades and cor ner grocery bitterness than Gettysburg and Manassas. It bat been the text of a world of “envy, malice and all unchaiitableneas" wbicb North and 8outh alike would do well to forget. John Brown la dead, and htq soul,, so far as there Is tiny satisfactory evidence, has long since ceased to go mnrcblng on except to stir up occasionally, even as It did when It Inhabited the flesh, needless rancor and recrimination. At any raid the Idcular Mr. Fairbanks, who Is at present Important chiefly because he Is vice president of tho United States, could be engaged In many things, or even anything, more timely and In better taste, than participating In the glorification of John Brown and hls guerrilla warfare of treason. thing Is done. and limb as It now stands. The holes and abrailons expense and an annoyance to the public and those Inter-1 make travel a positive danger snd very far from a pleasure. The effort to secure united purpose on the part of the abutting property owner* and the street railroad was regarded In advance as a difficult undertaking, end, In point of fact. It was not easy to accomplish, but this co-operation ha* long since been secured. Thoao In terests are agreed, and the amount which the city will be railed upon to pay Is very smslL Under these clr- imHtanren there seems to lie no good reason why the not create a very favorable Impression. jwork should be further delayed. It is conceded hy all And yet thla la not perhaps, after all. the strongest - concerned that tho present asphalt Is actually and hopo- reaaon to be advanced for hastening this work. The j Iesaly worn out. It would be Idle to talk further of re condition of Peachtree Is undoubtedly a menace to life j pairing It or adopting any kind of makeshift. Curb the Lobby But Be Fair to Vested Interests. Perhaps no bill passed by the present legislature will meet with more general Indorsement and approval than the anti-lobby bUt presented and advocated by Hon. Seaborn Wright, of Floyd. It Is'yet to be taken In hand by tbe senate and there can scarcely be any doubt that tbe senate will pass It as emphaUcally as tbe bouse has done. The public will applaud this bill In every section of the state. It la aimed at an evil which has too long existed, and which baa for many yean been a source of annoyance and Irritation to She voten of the state. But If the legislature paaaee this bill there will de volve upon that body certain self-imposed responsibili ties to tbe large vetted Interests which are represented In legislation throughout the state. In the first place as it appears to a newspaper seek ing only the right thing, it should be the duty of the members of the legislature to personally Investigate all the bills they vote upon. In the second place, the committee having In charge legislation of an Important ebaneter should have hear- ested In special legislation to have to visit tha capltol and wait for a hearing. Fourth, tbe rule covering committee meetings should be such ae to secure the attendance of ail of the mem bers of these committees unless there be a valid excuse for not doing so. Fifth, tbe chief reason for the so-called lobby Is In the fact that unless matters of great Importance are pre sented to members with a personal Interview an<J within a limited time, they will be delayed and quite often legislation Inimical to the best Interests of tbe state may bo enacted. Tbe legislature will do a wise thing In passing this bill. There has been too much lobbying and too much of personal Interest of an unworthy kind. But no body of honest legislators can forget tbat commercial and personal Interests have a right to be heard fully and freely on all sides of every public question, snd that it Is s duty to avoid a one-sided or prejudiced hearing of public queatlons. “ - It Is very clear that only by the most liberal treat ment of public and private Intereft* along tbeee lines, and by the putting up of the most careful safeguards for the proper hearing of advocates, can the legislature justify the admirable reform Instituted In the Wright bill. The rush of the Roosevelt rendmlnatton Is not so violent as It was a month ago. Has Taft, who “sat on the lid,” now also blocked the line? We Join the Red Cross Society. Surely there ought to be some one In this 'time ot bitterness and trial to play the part of peacemaker and to moderate so far as possible the bitterness of the ballot. In every war there follows after the mailed battal ions of the warrior the ambulance and the'Red Cross brigade. And In tbls wild war of words where missiles ot discussion fill the air with their mission ot 111 the civilisation about ns ought to furnish some element of reconstruction, of reorganisation and of healing. As The Georgian la a non-combatant In this strife of oltlsens, we propose to join tbe Red Cross brigade of relief and so far as in us lies to heal the wounds of the battle and to preach tbe peace which ought to follow as Us aftermath. Men all over Georgia are thanking God today that this bitter and remorseless campaign Is drawing to Its close. It has been without a parallel In the history of tbe state, and Its casualties In character and In repute will outnumber the actual destrucUon wrought among the combatants most nearly engaged. For It has corns to pass that not only do tbe candl- lates themselves through their organs belabor each other with Unceasing venom, hut If a citizen of any age or any station or ot any character, sees fit to exercise hls civic liberty In declaring In public for one or for another of these candidates, he becomes the Instant target for the abuse and malediction of tbe organs of the other aide, and every amall and trivial criticism that has been made In the past Is Instantly raked from tbe records of other years to refloat -upon him and to prejudice public sent! ment against bis Influence and hls namo. No part of this campaign Is more lamentable than this, Surely'men without malice who entertain and ex press their preferences for one or another of the op posing candidates In tbls election, are not tbe legiti mate targets for tbe criticisms and the abuses of the organs of the candidates opposed. In most Instances these men who take a stand for one or the other of the aspirants for gubernatorial honors do so holding In their minds and in their hearts the klndeet feeling for the others, and the decision of the ballot Is reached In most Instances purely on public and economic reasons and with no persons! discrimination between tbe various gentlemen involved. And yet for this simple exercise ot personal and civic right these men are critlcizcd'nnd assailed as vio lently as are the candidate# themselves. So that out of the noise and the bustle of the pens and the papers, the tongues and the tempera, the com mittees and the caucuses, the methods and the mass meetings, tbe air Is thick with arrows, each with a pois oned tip, and the hospitals of our fair repute are filled with tho wounded whose minds are sore and whoee characters are aspersed. Surely the time has come for the relief corps of the hospital and for tbe evangels ot peace. And so, without any other than a self-appointment and with no commis sion beyond the Impulse ot general good will. The Geor gian has pinned the Red Cross upon the arm that moves tbe pen snd we will seek so far as In us lies from time to time to soften the asperities of a malignant war with the mission of relief. We will seek to show that many of the men whose hands are now at each others’ throats are not natural enemies and may yet be frlonds. We will seek to show that many ot the eminent Georgians from whose garments drip tho Ink and mud of opposi tion camps, are neither traitorous nor dishonored. And, tbat within six weeks from' this blessed day, when the storm Is stilled and the tempeet Is over, they will each and all abide once more along the tranquil waters of a serene and placid period enjoying tho rest and receiv ing the blessing and the salutation of their fellow men. Unless sll precedents are broken, unless all tradi tions are destroyed, and unless history for tbe first time refuses to “repeat Itself,” the next six months must and will record not only the rehabilitation of character, but tbe restoration of the entente cordial between the fierce and heated combatants who now have the state In a steam and the people In a stew. Give Peachtree a new pavement, and let us have it completed before tbe State Fair begins. The official police of the Jameaton Exposition will be called the "Powhatan Guard.” Good. Now see to It tbat the uniform la either Indian or Colonial, and that the" taciturnity of tbe Indian is freely relieved by the friendliness of the Colonial, and a wholesome willing ness to surrender Information. Growth and Progress of the New South Booth which de*erv*»» something more tbnn pass- Pave Peachtree Before the Fair The whole community te becoming thoroughly aroused over the delay In repaving Peachtree street. There was every reason to hope that tbls work would be taken up and authorised by tbe lest session of council, and It Is putting It mildly to say tbat there was a general feeling ot disappointment when this was not done. There are a hundred good reasons why this work should be hurried to completion snd not one, so far as we are aware, why the delay should bb continued. One of the strongest considerations is that the State Fair will be held In this city next October. Tbat time le rapidly approaching. Little more than two months now remain before the gales are thrown open to tbe public. There will be visitors In the city not only from all over the state, but from tbe country at large. It Is a matter of some Importance that this leading thoroughfare of the city should not be found in Its present condition when those visitors come. They will be disposed to Judge Atlanta as a whole by the condition of this chief high- How Southern Spindles Multiply The song of the looms snd spindles In the South already Indicates that this section of our common country la enjoying a large degree of pros perity, and the rapidity with which those vehicles of Industry are multi plying gives great promise for the future, A Everybody thought the South, was doing remarkably well when 190,- 000 spindles were added or contracted for In Southern mills during.the first quarter of the present year, but the second quarter did even better, for It brought out the announcement (hat a still further number of 127,- 000 spindles hnd been added or cohtracted for during that period of time. It Is even predicted by those who are In the best position to know that the Increase In the number of cotton spindles In the South during tbe present year will amount to practically one million. Georgia la holding her own In this Increase. That excellent trade pub lication, "Cotton,” In presenting' the figures, says that North Carolina’s enterprise Is easily first this year, bar additions In April, May and June aggregating 157.210 spindles and 2,270 looms. South Carolina comes next with 101,104 spindles and 1778 looms, and Georgia fellows with 44,600 spindles and 170 looms. Mississippi added during the second quarter 0,000 splndlae, and Virginia Installed 0,012 spindles, , Alabama has a record In the second quarter of 4,082 eplndles and 24 loome, thus outdoing Tennessee and Texas. Tha new spindles In Ala bama are to be placed, not In new mills, but In old mills st Sylacanga and Girard. In the Sylaeauga mill 1,180 spindles are to be placed, In the Girard mill 800 spindles. In this connection we reproduce the following timely and Impressive paragraph from The Cleveland Leader: When the veteran editor Henry Watterson delivered an address be fore the students of Brown university at Its commencement exercises he advised the young men who were seeking for opporluntles to go South. He knew whereof he spoke. The land beyond what was once Mason and Dix on's line has at laet awakened Industrially and the people are beginning to gather In the fruits. In New Orleans the building under way represents 210.000. 000. During the lest year the building Improvements In San An tonio, Tex., cost 81,021,000. The year'a record for Chattanooga Is about 81.600.000. During the same month (or Louisville, Ky„ they cost 84*6,000; for Atlanta, Ga, 2687,000. A significant faature of this record Is the fact that some of the best new buildings are railroad stations. Atlanta has a fins new passenger depot and Birmingham, Ala., Memphis, New Orleans and Little Rock will soon be similarly provided. The Southern states are surely coming Into thetr own. WHAT IS THE DESTINY OF THE NEGRO RACE? EXTINCTION By DR. WM. EDWARD FITCH In th* working out of the problem oi the survival of the fittest the handi cap Imposed tpr nature upon the black race Is slowly, but surely, telling against the negro. Hls little knowl edge and hla Indifference to the qulromenta of sanitation compel him to suffer the Impost of a heavy penalty In the form of disease engendered by hls surroundings. Torn from moorings by the tide of war, the negro In America Is drifting steadily toward oblivion and will eventually disappear below tbe soclologlc horlxon, following, but more alowly, the North American Indian Into extinction. The race prob lem will eventually solve Itseir, pos sibly In less than a century, for tbe negro In America has served hls pur pose and must now move on to give place to the resistless Anglo-Saxon, whose manifest destiny Is to control the world. The coming of the negro to America u tbe result of tha needs of condi tions thsn existing and ths necessity for their fulfillment In ths develop ment of the country, and particularly of the southern hair. With the termi nation of these conditions by war, a new era In the development of the Southland was Inaugurated In which the dark-skinned race .la but little available and as a free agent the ne gro Is left to work out hls own des tiny. That he will play any part ot Importance In the future development of hls adopted country Is Improbable, snd as sn economic factor may be Ignored, (or as a race he has fulfilled the object which made hls presence necessary, and is now a discarded bit of the mechanism of the world's ad vancement. Thetr gregarious tendencies have caused them to gather Into towns and villages In large numbers and to exist there under conditions far less favor able to their existence than In the country districts. The urban life of this hapless race Is accurately de scribed by Dr. Seale Harris, of Ala bama, In American Medicine, who states that "they are poorly fed, Im- wrly clothed, and their homes ere ted on ths lowlands In the suburbs of the towns, where the dampness of the atmosphere predisposes to tuber culosis and where all the filth and Im purities of the towns drain directly Into their wells and streams, contami nating their only source of water 'sup ply." Harris further adds that "with such surroundings and an utter lack of re- S ard or appreciation for the laws of ealth, they become very sueceptible to all forms of disease, particularly typhoid and malarial fevers and tuber culosis: and for the same reasons their tissues, having less powers ot resist ance to the ravages of disease, they fall easy victims to the fell destroyer. Hybridisation among the negro race an Interesting subject from an anthropological standpoint. It Is a well-known fact In horticulture that If. for Instance, cantaloupe and pome granate seeds are planted side by side they will hybridize, and the fruit borne on the respective vines will not be either a Juicy cantaloupe or a fra grant pomegranate, but a hybrid par taking of the nature of both, and unfit for use. Seeds taken from the fruit of each vine and replanted will pro duce a fruit of sn Interior quality, the seeds after being planted again will fall .to germinate and the hybrid be come* extinct. We have an Illustra tion In animat life that hybridisation leads to extinction. The ass crossed with the horse produces an animal which Is neither horse nor ass. but a mongrel hybrid—the mule, which la Incapable ot procreation. An Interesting side-light could he thrown upon the general question of the Increase In the negro population. If reliable statistics were obtainable as I to the numbers of full-blooded negroes and the numbers of mulattos!. An at tempt waa made. In the census of 1880, to classify the negroes In proportion to the purity of their blood, but the results obtained were so unsatisfactory that nothing of the kind was done when the last census was taken. About ten years ago Professor Bloomfield, of Johns Hopkins Univer sity, wrote a remarkable series of ar tides, In which he discussed the race queetlon from the standpoint ot a naturalist and anthropollglst and reached the conclusion that the per centage of full-blooded negroes waa gradually decreasing. Professor Bloom field believed that the Darwinian law of natural salectlon was working In the negro race, and that In accordance therewith there was a constant ten dency on the part of both men and women to mate with thoee ot lighter color than themselves. As far as there may be fresh Infusions of white blood Into the race, the bleaching out pro cess would be accelerated, hut, of course, It would require many can turies to so far eliminate the negro blood ae to make the race as a whole lose the distinctive characteristics ot ths negro. One who has observed the negro race In the South must admit that It is the tendency of both sexes to mate with mulattoea lighter In color than them selves. The fruits of such marriages Is amall families—two, three, or perhspe four, children, whereas In ths full' blooded black families from ten to sixteen children are common. - In order to give our readers the status of the death and birth rate of the negro race, we quote from tbe last census report: If thla Is true, there Is no doubt that the negro population of the cities, If not recruited by new arrivals from the country, would rapidly diminish. Out of fifty-six cities reported hy the census, In all parts of the country— North, South, East and West—the denth rate among the negroes Is found to be greater than'the birth rate In fifty cities. The remaining six cities are nearly all places with very small populations, where the amall *x- f the birth rate reported might be accounted for by an accidental fall Ing off In the death rate for that par ticular year. There Is no part 'of the country In which the registration of vital statis tics Is so nearly perfect as In New England. For this reason the figures for Boston are particularly interesting. They show that during the census year there were 21,9*1 births and 11,277 deaths among the white population, making an excess of 2,714 births. Among the negro population of Bos ton In the same year the births num bered 240, and the deaths 827, making the excess of deaths 87. Greater Non- York there were 94,164 births and 70,229 deaths among the white population, maklqg the ex cess of births 15,9*6. Among the ne gro population there were 1,970 deaths and 1.420 births, making tha excess of deaths 640. In Buffalo there were 9,- 227 births and 6.167 deaths among the white population, making the excess of births 4.070. Among the negro pop ulation there were 2* births and 60 deaths, making the excess of deaths 81. In Chicago there were 48,0*8 births and 17,528 deaths In the white popula tion, mak'nr an excess of births 15,585. Among the colored population there were >89 births and 97* deaths, making the excess of deaths 190. In St. Louis there were 12,940 births and 10,120 deaths among the white papulation, making the excess of births 2,440. Among the colored population there were 694 births and 1,166 deaths, making the excess of deaths 5(1. In New Orleans there were 6.224 births among the white population and 4.977 deaths, making the excess of births 247. Among the colored population there were 1.786 births and 8.810 deaths, making the escass of deaths 1,676. COMMENT OX REVELATIONS IN COTTON ASSOCIATION Mr. Jordan on Futures. From The New York Journal of Com merce. There Is nothing strange In the fact that Mr. Harvie Jordan, president of the Southern Cotton Association, sup ports with such vigor is he Is capable o> the bill which has passed the lower house of the Georgia legislature pro hibiting contracts for the sale and fu ture deliver}- of cotton, grain, provis ions and other commodities, or of stocks, bonds and other securities, or what Is commonly known as “dealing In futures." -Mr. Jordan has shown on so many occasions hls limited knowl edge and understanding of commercial and economic principles, and such an Incapacity for clear reasoning that any vagary Is to be expected of him. The only thlng'-that makes what he says upon such a subject of the least con sequence Is the position he holds as the head of the Southern Cotton Associa tion and editor of what assumes to be the special organ of ihe cotton Industry and trads of ths South, and the oppor tunity this gives him to mislead the minds of those whose understanding may be no better than hls own. Wha; Is to be regretted Is that the legislature of nnV state should at this late day be misled by the fallacious arguments used against speculative dealings on Hu- regular exchanges In commodities or representatives or value for which systematic distribution snd stability of market price can be established and maintained In no other way. Mr. Free man. whose reply to Mr. Jordan's At' lama article we published yesterday, put the general case forcibly; but thi matter need* to be pressed home espe' daily to those the market for whoee product would be constantly In confu sion except for dealings In futures upon the cotton exchanges. Cotton Is a product with which the advantage of. constant buying and sell ing on contracts for future delivery Is especially conspicuous and easy of comprehension. It Is a commodity of which about three-fourths of ths world's supply Is produced In our Southern states and two-thirds of our product la sent to foreign markets. It takes half the year to prepare the crop for the harvest that begins about September 1, and the natural tendency would be for It to pile Into the market In about three months after that date, though the demand for It Is a continu ous one throughout the year and year after year. Efforts to adjust supply and demand at a fair price for producer and consumer is a difficult one at best on account ot the uncertainty ot the crop, owing to climatic and other con ditions. But whatever may be the re sult of such efforts, so far as a season's output Is concerned, the value will be determined by the relation of supply to demand. The most Important thing Is ao to distribute the marketing and de livery of the product over the year as to have that value represented for sell ers and buyers by a price as nearly uniform and stable as it can be made. The effect of wide fluctuations will he disastrous to selling producers end buying consumers alike, and proflta' ble only to middlemen and speculators for Immediate taking and delivering, which need not be simultaneous or In close succession. When the product comes Into the market under such con ditions competition to sell will depress the price and men with capital may capture much of the supply to hold for higher prices, and spinners cannot tell what to calculate upon. Ran With Hare and Held With Hounds From The New Orleans Item. The committee of five who have been Investigating the charges made In the Georgia legislature, to the effect that Richard Cheatham, secretary of the cotton association, has bean dealing with bucket shops, report that the chargee made against him are true. He owned stock In what Is known as.a bucket shop. He bought' and sold un der assumed names, and he often signed "secretary" after hls own name, to give credence to the Idea that hls operations were for ths association, whereas they were exclusively for him self. The committee, while admitting that there Is no law against buying and selling futures, condemn Secretary Cheatham for using hla official position to speculate In a bucket shop, a part of the stock of which he was an owner. That Cheatham knew that he was do ing something Improper Is shown by the fact that he opened accounts In fictitious names. This report will be forwarded to President Jordan and acted upon by the executive committee, which meets Sep tember (, at Hot Springs. A singular feature of this affair Is that the charges against Cheatham, were made by hls bucket shop associates, who discovered that Cheatham was using hls Influence before tbe legislature to secure the age of anti-bucket shop measures, in a man runs with the hare and bolds with the hounds, he Is apt to he caught. The wrong In this case was that Cheatham made use of hls know! edge of the condition of the cotton crop to bull or bur the market at pleasure for hls own profit. He did exactly what he so vehemently denounced gov ernment officials for doing. 8hou!d Probe Further. From The New York Commercial. The Investigation of the affairs of the Southern Cotton Auoclatlon should not tae stopped where It Is. There Is a whole lot of things yet to be brought out, and the probe should be sent to the bottom. There was a great chance of a great deal, after that famous New Orleans muting, but unfortunately there was a mtacue somewhere. 8hort on Past, But 8trong on Futures, From The Americus Tlmes-Recorder. Secretary Cheatham may not deal largely In the past, but he Is certainly there with the goods when It comes to dealing with the futures Living Down Hit Nama. From The Rome Tribune. "My Dear Dick" Cheatham was, per haps, merely trying to live down hls name. Has Earned a Rsst From Th# Americus Tlmes-Recorder. The Hon. Harvie Jordan has gone to New York upon a pleasure trip. The mixing of that barrel of whitewash. By Private Erased Wire. New York, Aug. 9.—John D. Rocke feller's fondness for oil has at last tri umphed and he has given hls consent to.have hls picture painted, wig and alL Nerval H. Buuy is the artist who Is to go into ths history of American art as the only map who ever "done John D. Rockefeler In oil." It was a portrait of Samuel T. Todd, the retired general solicitor of the Blander Oil Company, done by Ur Busay, which gave Mr. Rockefeller the Idea of having hls wig palmed. After seeing the portrait of Mr. Dodd, he call, ed at the Busay studio and asked th* artist how he thought a portrait of him wearing a wig would look. The artist with supreme frankness replied: "It would be a great Improvement. Your expression would not be so stolid and hard." •Well, suppose you begin right away," said Mr. Rockefeller, and Mr. Busay began. The famous portrait will be ready for an admiring world before long. * The strenuous highway comlsslonert of Oyster Bay have been foiled, for a time at least, In their crusade against the encroaching piers which they de sired to clear away. An aged lady. Mrs. Frederick R. Coudert, put a atop to their work of demolition. When Commissioner Hawkhurst led a gang of men and began to tear down tbe pier, Mrs. Coudert, who Is 72 years old, ran out from th* house and order ed them to stop. They paid no atten tion to her and ripped a few planks from the structure. Then the old lady ran out on the pier and dared them to pull It down and let her drown. She waa Joined by Mrs. E. C. Whitney, a friend, and the two women defied th* commissioner. Mrs. Coudert ordered her servants to bring camp chairs and the women made themselves comfortable. Com missioner Hawkhurst called for them to come down, hut like Casaablanca, she refused to leave her post of duty. Hawkhurst finally turned on his heel In disgust and went away. "No, I don’t fight women," said he as he went. Then gathering hls men together, he told them to follow. As they turned the bend of the beach they saw two women standing on the pier. One was waring a handkerchief. Hungarians In New York are prepar ing today to select a committee to at tend the unveiling at Budapest, on Sep tember 16, next, of a monument to George Washington. Ths movement for the monument was started several years ago by Hungarians in America. GEORGIANS IN GOTHAM. New York, Aug. 9.—Following are among the visitors In New York today: ATLANTA—Miss Dubois. W. M. Richards, R. B. Bey, S. L. Leers, Mrs. Rosenbaum, A. Wellhouse, R. O. Camp bell. AUGUSTA—D. L. Green, P. F. Mc Carthy, J. J. Tarleton. SAVANNAH—Mrs. Fltxgerald, W. P. Powers, J. P. Lyons, H. Small. MACON—J. H. Crandall, Jr, J. C. Holmes. THIS DATE IN HISTORY. AUOU8T 9. l«t—John Dryden, post, born. Died 170L 1*71—New York surrendered to th* Dutch. 1767—Fort William Henry surrendered to Montcalm. 1809-Nonlmportstlon act proclaimed by President Madison. 1819—Battle ot Stonlngton, Coon. France proclaimed king of 1141—Steamer Erie burned on Lake Erie; 176 lives lost. IMS—Mrs Churl** Matthews, actress, died. 1883—President Lincoln called (or 800,000 men for nine month*. 2871—Celebration of tho Sir Walter Scott at Edinburgh, mnsplrators . ... -j penal servitude for life. ISM—Severe osrthqunke shock* In Califor nia. 1894—The yacht Britannia best the Vigilant at Cowes. 1889—Hurricane In West Indies; 8,000 drown- 1908—Pope Pin* X crowned. 1904—Ei-ttenatnr George O. Test, of Mis souri, died. Bora Dorember 4, 1880, Ths Association Must Act. From the Charlotte Chronicle Tho Georgia legislator certainly made good hla charges of bucket shop ping against Messrs. Cheatham and Fairchild, two officials of the South ern Cotton Aaoclatlon. Mr. Fair- child lost no time In resigning. Mr. Cheatham holds on under censure. This may be well. The Chronicle Is not one of the papers that calls for hi* resignation, It Is perhaps beat for the whole matter to go to the executive committee and from that body to th* association Itself. About the best thing that could come to pass would be for the association to take account of af fairs, which It probably will do at Its next annual meeting. Wants ths Whole Truth. From the Washington Gasette. They are' smiting Harvie Jordan hip and thigh on the bucket shop and cotton future business. We hare a very high regard for Mr. Jordan snd hope he will come through without th# smell of Are about hls garments, hut nevertheless w# want to see th# whole truth come out no matter who It may hurt. No Explanation*Will Satisfy. From The Marietta Courier. It seems that Mr. Cheatham, of th* Southern Cotton Grower*’ Association, has gotten himself Into a very embar- raslng position. No explanation that he can make will satisfy the public. Jordan’s Poor 8oloctlop«- From the Waycroes Herald. The Southern Cotton Association seems to have received a blsck eye, Mr. Jordan does not seem to be Im plicated, but he should have been more careful In selecting hls associates. Ths People Pay ths Penalty. From the Etlavllle News. It actually looks as If the Southern Cotton Association had gone Into th* gambling business. Away goes another reform move In th# Interest of the dear people, and money was the cause of it all.