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6 THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN- The Atlanta Georgian. JOHN TEMPLE GRAVES, Editor. F. L. SEELY, President. Telephone Connections. Subscription Rstes: One Yesr........ $4.50 Sis Months ....... 2.50 Three Months 1.25 By Csrrler, per week JOe Published Every Afternoon | Except Sundty by THE GEORGIAN 00. it 25 W. Alsbsmt Street, | Atlanta,‘ Ga. ~jr Entered •• second-elana matter April », IttC, at the Poatotflca at Atlanta. Oa., under act of eonfreaa of March t. 1171. 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 glorification of a man whose crowning work was thus characterised by a select com mittee of the United States senate, appointed at the time to Investigate It: "The Invasion (to call It so) by John Brown and bis followers at Harper's Kerry . . . was simply the act of lawless ruffians, under the sanction of no public or political authority—distinguishable only from ordinary felonies by the ulterior ends con- tefbplated by them.” Until these historic words, signed by a majority of that select committee, are expunged from the files of the Congressional Olobe, and the truth of history Is offi cially made a He, 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 slumbering embers of a sensitive sectional ism. That John Brown, of Osawatomle, was a felon and a traitor no sane man can deny In the face of the ver dicts of the courts and the summary punishment vis ited, upon him for bis.crimes. It Is not a matter of opinion. It Is a fact of official record. In the opinion of a more tranquil and conservative poeterlty bitterness hss In a large moasure given place to a cynical pity for his civic obliquity, compounded as It was of malice and madness. He Is looked upon by the dispassionate thinkers of today as a dangerous Don Quixote whose self-imposed and chimerical task ended In his own undoing as the Inevitable consequence of his fanaticism and folly. The rancor with which his name was once dis cussed has passed away, but hta 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 Iieople 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 as "the battle of Osawatomle.” On the twenty-first anniversary of that event a monument was erected on the scene of the contest, out there on the plains of Kansas. In the dedicatory speech of that occasion the orator of the day declared that John Brown “dared to be a traitor to the government that he might bo loyal to humanity." His loyalty to humanity consisted In part In the cold blooded murder of flvo men who dared to differ with him and his followers as to the form of government which the state of Kansas should adopt. His treachery to the government Is not denied. We might well Imagine that somo such sentiment as "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 for 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 hts misguided followers had succeeded In acquiring any momentum when they captured the government arsenal on that 8unday night of October, 1859. It would have set a precedent for murder and as sassination Infinitely worse than organlted 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 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 bomb-proof rodomontades and cor ner grocery bitterness than Gettysburg and Manassas. It has been the text of a world of “envy, malice and all unoharltableneas" which North and 8outh alike would do well to forget. John Brown Is dead, and bis soul, so far as there Is any satisfactory evidence, has long Slnco ceased to go marching on except to stir up occasionally, even as It did when It Inhabited the flesh, needless rancor and recrimination. At any rate the Iclcular Mr. Fairbanks, who la at present Important chiefly because he Is vice president of the 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 his guerrilla warfare of treason. [IngS regularly appointed where the public and Interested parties may be assured of an attentive bearing. Third, the committees of the bouse and of the senate should have 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 expense sod an annoyance to the public and those Inter ested In special legislation to have to visit the capitol and wait for a hearing.. Fourth, the rule covering committee meetings should be such as to secure the attendance of all of the mem bers of these committees unless there be a valid excuse for not doing so. Fifth, the chief reason for the stxealled lobby Is In the fact that unless matters of great Importance are pre sented to members with a personal Interview and within a limited time, they will be delayed and quite often legislation Inimical to the best Interests of the state may be enacted, The 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 ..that commercial and personal Interests have a right to be heard fully and freely on all sides of every public question, and that It Is a duty to avoid a one-sided or prejudiced hearing of public questions. It Is very clear that only by the most liberal treat ment of public and private Interests along these 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 bllL The rush of the Roosevelt renomlnatlon Is not so violent as It was a month ago. Has Taft, who “sat on the lid," now also blocked the llnef me thi lei Curb the Lobby But Be Fair to Vested Interests. Perhape no bill passed by the present legislature will meet with more general Indorsement and approval than the anti-lobby bill presented and advocated by Hon. Seaborn Wright, of Floyd. It Is yet to be tsken In band by the senate and there can scarcely be any doubt that the senate will pass It as emphatically as the hone has done. The public will applaud this bill in every section of the state. It Is aimed at an evil which has too long existed, and which has for many years been a source of annoyance and Irritation to the voters of the state. But If the legislature passes this bill there will de volve upon that body certain self-imposed responsibili ties to the large vested Intereste 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. la the second place, the committee having In charge legislation of an Important character should bava hear. We Join the Red Cross Society. Surely there ought to be some one In this Ume of 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 ambulanee and the Red Cross brigade. And In this wild war of words where missiles of discussion fill the air with their mission of III the civilisation about us ought to furnish some element of reconstruction, of reorganisation and of healing. As The Georgian Is a noncombatant In this strife of clttsens, we propose to Join the Red Cross brigade.of relief and so far as In us lies to heal the wounds of the battle and to preach the peace which ought to follow as Its aftermath. ' Men all over Oeorgta 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 the state, and Its casualties In character and In repute wilt outnumber the actual destruction wrought among the combatants most nearly engaged. For It has come to pass that not only do the candl- lates themselves through their organs belabor each other with uncoaslng venom, but If a citizen of any age or any station or of any character, sees fit to exercise bis 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 the organs of the other side, and every small and trivial criticism that has been made In the past Is Instantly raked from the records of other years to reflect upon him and to prejudjee publlo scntl ment against his Influence and his name. No pert 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 this election, are not the legiti mate targets for the 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 kindest feeling tor the others, and the decision of the ballot Is reached In most Instances purely on public and economic reasons and with no personal discrimination between the various gentlemen Involved. And yet for this simple exercise of personal and civic right these mon are criticised and assailed as vio lently ns are the candidates themselves. So that out of the noise and the bustle of the pens and the papers, the tongues and the tempers, the com mittees and the caucuses, the methods and the mass meetings, the air Is thick with arrows, each with a pois oned tip, and the hospitals of our fair repute are filled with the wounded whose minds are sore and whose characters are aspersed. Surely the time has come for the relief corps of the hospital and for the evangels of peace. And so, without any other than a self-appointment and with no commis sion beyond the Impulse of general good will, Th'e Geor gian has pinned the Red Cross upon the arm that moves the pen and 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 friends. We will seek to show that many of the eminent Georgians from whose garments drip the Ink and mud of opposi tion ramps, are neither traitorous nor dishonored. And, that within six weeks from this blessed day, when tbs storm Is stilled and the tempest Is over, they will each and ail abide once more along the tranquil waters of a serene and "placid period enjoying the rest and receiv ing the blessing and the salutation of their fellow men. / Unless all precedents are broken, unless all tradi tions are deetroyed, and unless history for the first time refuses to "repeat Itself,” the next six months must and will record not only the rehabilitation of character, but the restoration of the entente cordial betweed the fierce and heated combatants who now have the state In a steam and the people In a stew. Pave Peachtree Before the Fair The whole community Is becoming thoroughly aroused over the delay In repaving Peachtree street There was every reason to hope that this work would be takeu up and authorised by the last session of council, and It Is putting It mildly to say that, there was a general feeling of disappointment when this wss not done. There are a hundred good reasons why this work should be hurried to completion and 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. That time Is rapidly approaching. Little more than two months now remain before the gates are thrown open to the public. There will be visitors In the city not only from all over the state, but from the 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 win be disposed to Judge Atlanta as a whole by the condition of this chief high way, and In that event, unless something Is done, we will not create a very favorable Impression. And yet this Is not perhaps, after all, the strongest reason to be advanced for hastening this work. The condition of Peachtree Is undoubtedly a menace to life and limb as It now stands. The holes and abrasions make travel a positive danger and very far from a pleasure. The effort to secure united purpose on the part of the abutting property owners and the street railroad was regarded In advance as a difficult, undertaking, and. In point of fact. It was not easy to accomplish, but this co-operation has long since been secured. Those In terests are agreed, and the amount which the city will be called upon to pay Is very small. Under these dr- cumstnnres there s-ems to be no good reason why the work should be further delayed. It Is conceded by all concerned that the present asphalt Is actually and hope lessly worn out. It wouI£ be Idle to talk further of re pairing It or adopting any kind of makeshift Give Peachtree a new pavement, and let us have It completed before the State Fair begins. The official police of the Jameston Exposition will be called the "Powhatan Guard." Good. Now see to It that the uniform Is either Indian or Colonial, and that the taciturnity of the 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. Under this head wilt appear from tlma to time Information lllnatratinf tba remarkable ileTeluianent of tb« South which deaenrea oometblnf more than pas*- lag attention. How Southern Spindles Multiply The song of the looms and spindles In the South already Indicates that this section of our common country Is 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. Everybody thought the South was* doing remarkably well when 110,- 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 that a still furthsr number of 387,- 000 spindles had been added or-contracted 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 the present year will amount to practically one million. Georgia Is 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, her additions In April, May and June aggregating 167.280 spindles and 2,870 looms. South Carolina comes next with 101,804 apindlee and 1771 looms, and Georgia follows with 44,100 spindles and, 176 looms. Mississippi added during the second quarter 1,000 apindlee, asd Virginia Installed 8,082 spindles. ' Alabama has a record In the second quarter of 4,082 spindles and 24 looms, thus outdoing Tennessee and Texas. . The new spindles In Ala bama are to be placed, not In new milts, but In old mills at Sylacauga and Girard. In the Bylacauga mill 8,186 spindles are to be placed. In the Girard mill 806 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 lend beyond what was once Mason and Dix on's line has at last awakened Industrially and the people are beginning to gather in the fruits. In New Orleans the building under way represents 810,(loo,000. During the last year the building Improvements In San An tonio, Tex., cost 81,081,000. The year's record for Chattanooga Is about 81,600,000. During (be seine month for Louisville, Ky., they cost 8496,000; for Atlanta, Oa., |587,000. A significant feature of this record Is the fact that some of the best new buildings are railroad stations. Atlanta has a fine new passenger depot and Birmingham, Ala., Memphis, New Orleans and Little Rock will soon b* similarly provided. The Southern states are surely coming Into their own. COMMENT OX REVELATIONS IN COTTON ASSOCIATION WHAT IS THE DESTINY OF THE NEGRO RACE? EXTINCTION By DR. WM. EDWARD FITCH In the working out of the problem of the survival of the fittest the hand! cap Imposed by nature upon f he black race Is slowly, but surely, telling against the negro. Hts little knowl edge end his Indifference to the re quirements of sanitation compel him to suffer the Impost of a heavy penalty In tho form of disease engendered by bis surroundings. Torn from his moorings by the tide of war, the negro In America Is drifting steadily toward oblivion and will eventually disappear below the sociologic horlson, following, but more slowly, the North American Indian Into extinction. The race prob. lem will eventually solve Itself, pos slbly In lees than a century, for the negro In America has servsd his 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 was the result of ths needs of condi tions than existing and the necessity for their fulfillment In the develop ment of the country, and particularly of the southern half. With the termi nation of thsss conditions by war, a new er% In the development of the Southland was Inaugurated In which the dark-skinned race le but little available and ss a free agent the ne gro Is left to work out his own des tiny. That hs will play any- part of Importance In the future development of his adopted country la Improbable, and as an economic factor may be Ignored, for as a race he has fulfilled the object which made his presence necessary, and It now a discarded bit of the mechanism of the world's ad- vanesmeot. Their gregarious tendencies have caused them to gather Into towns and villages In largs numbers and to sxlst 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. Seals Harris, of Ala bama, In American Medicine, who states that "they are poorly fed, 1m- jroperly clothed, end their homes are ocated on the lowlands In the suburbs of tbs towns, where the dampness of itmosphere predisposes to tuber culosis and where all the filth and Im purities of the towns drain directly nto their wells and streams, contami nating their only source of water sup ply." Harris furthsr adds that "with such surroundings and an uttsr lack of re tard or appreciation for the laws of health, they become very susceptible to all forms of disease, particularly typhoid and malarial fevers and tuber culosis: and for the same reasons their (Issues, having lesa powers of resist ance to the ravages of disease, they fall easy victims to the felt destroyer." Hybridisation among the negro race Is an Interesting subject from an anthropological standpoint. It Is a well-known fact In horticulture that If. for Instance, cantaloupe end pome granate seeds are planted side by side they will hybridise, and the fruit borne on the respective vines will not be either a Juicy cantaloupe or a fra grant pomegranate, but s hybrid par taking of the nature of both, and unfit for use. Seeds tsken from the fruit of each vine and replanted will pro duce a fruit of an Inferior quality, the seeds after being planted again will fall to germinate and the hybrid be comes extinct. We have an Illustra tion- In animal life that hybridisation leads to extinction. The ass crossed with the bone produces an animal which Is neither horse nor ass, but a mongrel hybrid—the mule, which Is Incapable of procreation. An Interesting side-light could be thrown upon the general question of the Increase In the negro population. If reliable statistics were obtainable as to the numbers of full-blooded negroes and the numbers of mutattoes. An at tempt wan made, In the census of 1890, 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 dons when the last census was taken. About ten years ago Professor Bloomfield, of Johns Hopkins Uplver- slty, wrote a remarkable series of ar ticles, In which he discussed the race question from the standpoint of a naturalist and anthropotlglit and reached the conclusion that the per centage of full-blooded negroes wee gradually decreasing. Professor Bloom field believed that the Darwinian law of natural selection was working In the negro race, and that In accordance therewith there was a constant tan- dtney on the pari of both. men and women to mate with those of 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, but, of course. It would require many cen turies to po far sllmlnate ths negro blood as to make the race aa a whole lose the distinctive characteristics of the negro. One who has observed the negro race In the Bouth must admit that It Is ths tendency of both sexes to mate with mulsttoes lighter In color than them selves. Ths fruits of such marriages ts small fsmlllss—two, three, or perhaps four, children, whereas In ths full- blooded black families from ten to sixteen children are oommon. In order to give our readers the status of the death and birth rate of the negro race, we quote from the last census report: If this Is true, there ts 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 by the census. In all parts of the country— North, South, East and West—the death rale 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 negro populations, where the small ex cess of 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 os In New England. For this reason the figures for Boston are particularly Interesting. They show that during the census yeat there were 81,981 births and 11,877 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 887, making the excess of deaths 87. In Greatsr New York there were 94,164 births and 70,289 deaths among the white population, making ths ex cess of births 16,986. Among ths ne gro population there were 1,870 deaths and 1,480 births, making the escess 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 89 births and 60 deaths, making the excess of deaths 81. In Chicago there were 42.098 births and 27,622 deaths In the white popula tion, mak'og an excess of births 16,666, Among the colored population there were 189 births and 679 deaths, making the excess of deaths 290. In St. Louis thsrs were 18.9*0 births and 10,880 deaths among the white population, making the excess of births 8,640. Among the colored population there were 694 births and 1,166 deaths, making the excess of deaths 661. In New Orleans there were 6,224 births among the white population and 6,977 deaths, making the excess of births 847. Among the colored population there were !,72S births and 8,210 deaths, making the excess of deaths M76. Mr. Jordsn on Futures. From The New York Journal of Com merce. There is nothing strange in the feet that Mr. Harvle Jordan, president of the Southern Cotton Association, sup. ports with such vigor as he is capable of the bill which has passed the lower house of the Georgia legislature pro hibiting contracts for the sale and fu ture delivery of cotton, grain, provls 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 his limited know) edge and understanding of comihercial and economic principles, and such an Incapacity (or clsar reasoning that any vagary Is to be expected of him. The only thing that makes what he says upon such a subject of the least con sequence le the position he holds as the head of the Southern Cotton Associa tion and editor of what assumes to be the specie! organ of the cotton Industry and trade of the South, and the oppor tunity this gives him to mislead the minds of those whoso understanding may be no better than his own. Wha; Is to be regretted Is that the legislature of any state should at this late day be misled by the fallacious arguments used against speculative dealings on the regular exchanges In commodities or representatives or value for which systematic distribution and stability of markst price can be established and maintained In no other way. Mr. Free, man, whose reply to Mr. Jordan's At lanta article we published yesterday, put the general case forcibly; but the matter needs to be pressed home espe dally to those the market fur whose 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 le especially conspicuous and easy of comprehension. It la a commodity of which about three-fourths of ths world's supply Is produced In our Southern states and two-thirds of our product Is sent to foreign- markets. It takes half the year to prepare the crop for ths harvest tlrut 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 of the uncertainty of the crop, owing to cllmatlo-and other con ditions. But whatsver may be the re sult of such sfforts, so far as a season's output la concerned, the value will be determined by the relation of supply to demand. The most Important thing Is so to distribute the marketing and de livery of the product over the yesr as to have that value represented for sell ers and buyers by a price es nearly uniform and stable as It can be made. The effect of wide fluctuations will be disastrous to selling producers and buying consumers alike, and profita ble only to middlemen and speculators for Immediate taking and delivering, which need not be simultaneous or In close succession. When the product cornea 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 Hsrs and Hold With Hounds From Ths New Orleans Item. The committee of five who have been Investigating tha charges made In the Georgia legislature, to the effect that Richard Cheatham, secretary of the cotton association, baa been dealing with bucket shops, report that the charges mads against him are true. He owned stock In what Is known oa a bucket shop. He bought and sold un der assumed names, and he often signed "secretary” after his own name, to glvt credence to the Idea that Jil* operations were for the 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 his 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, w hich meets Sep tember 6, at Hot Springs. A singular feature of this affair Is that the charges against Cheatham were made by nts bucket shop associates, who discovered that Cheatham was using his Influence before the legislature to secure the passage of anti-bucket shop measures, whan a man runs with the hare and holds with the hounds, he Is apt to be caught. The wrong In this case was that Cheatham made use of his knowl- edge of the condition of the cotton crop to bull or bear the market at pleasure for his own profit. He did exactly what he so vehemently denounced gov ernment officials for doing. Should Probs Furthsr. From Ths New York Commercial. The Investigation of the affairs of ths Southern Cotton Association should not be stopped where It le. There le a whole lot of thlngsyet 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 meeting, but unfortunately there was a mlacua somewhere. 8hort on Peat, But 8trong on Futures. From The Amerlcus Tlmes-Recorder. Secretary Cheatham may not deal largely In the pest, but he Is certainly there with the goods when It comet to dealing with the futures. Living Down His Ntms. From The Rome Tribune. "My Deer Dick" Cheatham was, per haps, merely trying to live down hts name. His Earnad a Rest. From The Amerlcus Tlmes-Recorder. The Hon. Hervle Jordan hes 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 his consent to have his picture painted, wig and alL Nerval H. Busty Is the artist who la to go Into the history of American art as the only man who ever "done John D. Rockefeler In OIL" “ It was a portrait of Samuel T. Todd, l ho retired general solicitor of the Standar Oil Company, done by Mr Bussy, which gave Mr. Rockefeller the Idea of having hie wig painted. After seeing the portrait of Mr. Dodd, he call, ed at the Bussy studio and asked ths 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. Bussy began. The famous portrait n1U be ready for an admiring world before long. The strenuous highway comlsslonera of Oyster Bay have been foiled, for a Ume at least. In their crusade against the encroaching plans which they de sired to clear away. An aged lady. Sirs. Frederick R. Coudert, put a stop to their work of demolition. When Commissioner Hawkhurst led a gang of men and began to tear down ths pier, Mrs. Coudert who Is 73 years old, ran out from the house and order ed them to stop. They paid no atten tion to her and ripped a few planks from the structure. Then ths old lady ran out on the pier and dared them to pull It down and let her drown. She was Joined by Mrs. E. Q Whitney, a friend, and ths two women defied the commissioner. Mrs. Coudsrt ordered her servants to bring camp chairs and the women made themselves comfortable. Com missioner Hawkhurst called for them to come down, but like Cassablanca, she refused to leave her post of duty. Hawkhurst finally turnsd on his heel In disgust and went away. "No, I don't fight women," said he as hs went Then gathering his men together, he told them to follow. At they turned the bend of the beach they saw two women standing on the pier. One wee waving 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. ' The movement for the monument was started several years ago by Hungarians In America. GEORGIANS IN GOTHAM. New York, Aug. 8.—Following are among the visitors In Nsw York today: ATLANTA—Miss Dubois, W. M. Richards, R. B. Sey, 8. L. Leers, Mrs. Rosenbaum, A. Wellhouse, R. O. Camp bell. AUGUSTA—D. L. Green, V. F. Mc Carthy, J. J. Tarleton. SAVANNAH—Mrs. Fltsgerald, W. P. Powers, J. P. Lyons. H. Small. MACON—J. H. Crandall, Jr, J. C. Holmes. ' THIS DATE IN HISTORY. 1611—John Drjrden, po«t, boro. Died 170L 187*—New York lurremlerod to tbe Dutch. 1767—Port William Henrj aarrendertd to Montcalm. 1806—Nonimportation act proclaimed b y President Madison. 1813—Battle of Btonlngtoa, Coon. 18*0—Lonia^ Pbtllppe proclaimed king of 1*41—Steamer Erie burned on Lake Erie; 17* Urea loet. 186#—Mrs. Charles Matthews, actress, died. 1861—President Lincoln called for *00,000 men far nine months. 1*71—Celebration of the Sir Walter Scott centenary at Edinburgh. 1183—Dynamite conspirator! at Liverpool sentenced to penal aenrltude for life. 1803—Serere earthquake shocks la Callfor* 18M—The yacht Britannia beat tbe Vigilant at C ii mm 1803-Pope Plus X crowned. •gS died. Born December •» loja. The Association Must Act From the Charlotte Chronicle The Georgia legislator certainly made good his charges of bucktt shop ping against Messrs. Cheatham and Fairchild, two officials of the South ern Cotton Asoclatlon. 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 call* for his resignation. It Is perhaps best for the >Te matter to go to the executive whoh .. .. „ committee and from that body to the 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 Ossetic. They are smiting Harvle Jordan hip and thigh on the bucket shop and cotton future business. We have a very high regard for Sir. Jordan and hope he will come through without the smell of Are about his garments, but nsvertheless w* want to see ths whol* truth Come out no mattes who It may hurt. No Explanation** Will Satisfy. From The Maletta Courier. It seems that XIr. Cheatham, of the Southern Cotton Growers’ Association, has gotten himself Into a very ember- rasing 'position. No explanation that he can make will satisfy tbe public. Jordan’s Poor Selection*. From the Way cross Herald. The Bouthern Cotton Association seems to hare received a black eye. Mr. Jordan doss not seem to be Im plicated, but he should have been more cartful In selecting his associates. Ths Psoplt Psy the Psnslty. From ths EUavlUe News. It actually looks as If the Southern Cotton Association had gone Into the gambling business. Away goes another reform move In the Interest of the dear people, and money was tb» cause of It