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THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN. U’EJ>.VE*I>AY. At lirrr I*. The Atlanta Georgian. JOHN TEMPLE GRAVES, Editor. F. L. SEELT, Pre»ident. Subscription Rites: II Published Every Afternoon One Tesr .‘..$4.50 Except Sunday by Six Months .. .V... 2.50 THE GEORGIAN CO. Three Month 1.25 it 25 V. Alabama Street, By Cirrier, per week 10c I Atlsnti, Gt. Entered •• ascsnd-clasa nutter April at tm. nt tbe Poatoffie* at Atlanta, lie., under net of magma ef Starr! &. lit*. Dr. McCandtcss and Pure Food. Whether the pure food bill passes or dies of neglect upon this final day of legislative session, Tbe Georgian Is moved to an expression of admiration for the earn estness, vonsecratlon and conslatent energy with which It has been advocated by Dr. 1. M. McCandless, of this city. As a private citlsen. with no Interest at stake, with no object In view, and with no purpose but to serve his day and generation, according to hla Ughta, Dr. Me- Candltaa haa fought for this bill In season and out of aea- aon. He baa garnered Information, he haa maraballed (acta, he haa presented briefs and with hla brain and hia hand and hla tnerglea he baa given hla time and hla talenta to a strong and leglUmate effort to convince the reaeon and the Intereat of the legislature and of tbe people of the necessity for this wholesome bill. If It ahould triumph, why, of course. Its passage will reflect directly upon the eloquence of tbe advocate* upon tbe floor. There will be no leas of reflection In Ita triumph upon the patient and persistent devotion of the brilliant chemist and ciUten who was Ita Inspiration. And if It (alts and goes down to wait Ita time before an other body of law-makers In tbe atate, Dr. McCandless can feel (hat be at least has done hla duty with a sin gle mind and haa spared no atom of hla manifold equlp- medt to carry hla convictions to a successful end. ond fare from the travelera'to Coney Island. But. puffad up with their own Impudence and greed, and their long Immunity from punishment and regulation, they defy (be courts and trample upon the righta of tbe people— and the; people tbemaelvea An application baa been made to forfeit the charter of .the company, and the whole country would sympa thise with such a movement. Nothing short of some such radical action, It seems, will bring the Metropol itan Moloch to Ita senses. It would furnish a whole some lesson to corporation* all over tbe country who abuse their franchises and ov*r-ride_ the righta of tbe people. Every large city has an Instance in point and we ourselves would not have to.go to,very tar from home to And one. ' ^ The Transcendent Question of Saxon Rule. Joined the rhlcb mi supreme insider tl A Visit to Mars. We know all about It^pow. The president of the Society for Psychical' Re search, an organization InsUtuted for the purpose of see ing ghosts and explaining the whyness of the thus, haa just taken a little trip to Mars. This blood-red patron planet of war I* something like 141,000.000 miles away,but a little thing like that did not disturb the adventurous spirit of President Backvllle Leyaon, who disrobed him self of bl* flesh and started out on hla aerial journey' without so much as a celestial Baedeker to guide him. He simply projected his astral body Into space ynd within forty minutes be was there 'and back, after an exhaustive study of the ethnic and commercial condi tions on the planet, and was giving out hi* experience* to the paper*. , He tell* us that there' are two race* of men up there, ono so tall that he did not reach to their knees, while the other race Is so small that the tiny, specimen did not reach to the visitor's knees. Just how far It Is between the kneecap and tbe kibe ot Layton's astral shanks I* not stated. Tbe Martian*, we are told, do not wear any clothes, but are abundantly covered with hair. The larger specimen* have no note, but have two eyes, one In each temple. The smaller specimens have a single eye, which, like the curl of the celebrated little girl, was right In tbe middle of the forehead. The little fellows have web feet and glide along on the mots at It they were akatlng. They live In boles In the ground, while the big fellows make habitation* of tbe rocks and seem to be very happy. . It la a matter of regret that.be did not bring us aomn definite data about the canala which are, by com- mon consent, the moet remarkable features of Mars. We would like to know If they are owned and controlled by the state, or by private capital, whether Chinese labor was successfully employed In their construction, ■ bow sanitation Is preserved and a few other facts which might have been of value to our own canal commission. But perhaps we should be satisfied. Tbe president of tb* Society for Psychical' Research has given us a great deal of information. Among other things, this thing of eating Ice cream and shrimp after II o'clock at night Is bound to get In Its work. The B. R. T. Aggressions. It has been a long time since the American people were treated to a more flagrant instance ol the high handed Insolence of corporate power than that dt* • played by the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company on Sunday and Monday, when fnlly n thousand people were bodily ejected from cars running to Couey Island, simply because. In pursuance of a decision of the court lianded down by Justice Gaynor, they refused to pay a double far* for * single trip between tbe metropolis and tbe celebrated seaside readrt. . Not only were a thousand people thrown from tbe cars, at the Imminent rlsk*M life and limb, but one young girl was actually killed as a direct result ot this treatment Having been ejected from a car, although sho bad paid the double fare, she was Immediately run down and killed by a passing trolley on a bridge. No effort whatever was made by the company to Identify and band over to juatlce tbe trainmen who were responsible for tbe death of tbe girl. This conduct was of a piece with the Impudence which the corpora tion has shown throughout the entire light, and some thing of the strength with which It has entrenched Itself tuny be gathered from the fact that on the second day of the disorders the poke no longer pretended to make a non-partisan effort to preserve the |>eac* but openly aided and abetted the fallroad employees In thfowlng off passenger* who declined to pay a second fare. The higher offletata of the road make no show of re- j.i ntance whatever. They blocked the rosds with delsy- ed trains and kept hundreds of iieople from returning homo until the late hours of the night. -They caused .rouble and Inconvenience of every kind, and when the facta were presented to them they went further than Boas Tweed't. cynical query. “What are you going to do about It?" and even Intimated that they would make the service less satisfactory than It la at present. All this, be It understood, because the patrons of the road were acting upon a decision of the court and were refusing to pay a second fare. It has been shown that the anbway, whose peeeen- gsra as a rule travel for a long distance, makes a profit on 6 cents fares, since tbfe cost Is not more than 2 cents each. It haa been shown that the uniform fare of 5 cent* for surface'car travel makes a good net average profit, and that there Is no excuae for demanding a son. ib'gh and sincere regard and sympathy tor the Inferior There appears upon this pepe today a letter of uiual inters*! addressed to Mr.-William Riley Boyd by a distinguished and thoughtful physician of Norwich Conn., upon the etihorbfng and vital question of the ne gro and . his relation* to the white race In tbe South and In the country at large. Mr. Boyd recently wrote a letter to The Indlanapolt* New* which bai been widely commented upon through out the country, and out of that contribution ba* grown thl* correspondence with Dr. Mann, of Connecticut. The letter of Dr. Mann Is broadly and deeply signifi cant and we commend It tp tbe careful consideration of our readera today because of tbe light which It sheds upon the sentiment and the sympathy 1 of the Northern people toward this vexed question of the negro In tho South. The comment of Dr. Mann la upon an editorial which recently appeared In The Georgian claiming that the real friend of the negro aud not bis enemy, was that man who recognising his limitations and the hopeless ness of his position under the present environment, hu manely sought to find for him another home and another country In order that he might reach bis full develop ment both as a citlsen and aa a man. To this theory Dr. Mann gives bl* full Indorsement and declares that be goes even farther than the editor of Tbe Oeorglau ,’n hla Indorsement of the principle In volved. Dr.- Mann states In underscored Italics that he agrees absolutely with tho editor of The Georgian that the beat thing for the negro aa well as for the white man I* that the relative Inferiority of tbe negro man should be recognized definitely and clearly In every relation of life. Upon this proposition The Georgian haa baaed Its whole attitude toward tbe negro at the present time. Tho Georgian Is not a partisan In the present Georgia cam paign and doe* not propose to be. Tbe matter of per sonalities baa little to do with ourjtttltude or our align- ment. We taka no stock In the abuse of the prominent Georgians who are candidates before tbe people because we are fully prepared to believe tbat each and everyone of them In character, In record, and In capacity, la equal to the responsibility of aervlng Georgia and of making a good and acceptable governor of the state. The things that concern thoughtful and Impartial men, as we are, are tho great vital Issues around which this campaign Is wrapped, and among these Issues The Georgian has always recognised as the one transcendent and overwhelming question the prudent and statesman- like consideration of the negro and hla relations to the people of the South. It may be sald ; frankly that we rec ognise as valid some of the objections to-the method* of disfranchisement proposed by statesmen upon the eido of complete disfranchisement In this campaign. We have been Impressed by the objections that have been urged and are fully prepared to believe that there must be a better way to handle this question and to legally disfranchise and subordinate the negro In our general civilisation and In our political life. We fully believe that with the wide and free dis cussion of this question, the minds of thoughtful men must have been and doubtless are Impressed by tbe dlf- flculty and tbe complexity of tbls proposition, but we are also fully prepared to believe that If the weight of thl* responsibility ahould rest upon any one of these can. dldates for the high office of governor, tbe educative value of tbls discussion would move the successful can- dldate or tbe successful legislator to a due and aerlous consideration of these apprehensions and to the wisest, moat unprejudiced and moat broad-minded search for bet ter methods to perfect and to complete the disfran chisement and subordination of the negro race to the Anglo Saxon people who have made and ruled thl* con tinent Now with this much said we desire to say that we deem It a matter of supreme and overshadowing Impor tance that this election should not pass without some definite and clear-cut announcement made In thunder tones at the ballot box that this Is a white man's government, a white man's country and that the white race must rate It and will rule II to the ond of time, and that this election carries this announcement In definite and legal form that the negro la an Inferior and tbat the whlta man Is the superior, and that the superior must and will rale and dominate the Inferior In society and In politics In this republic. In the heat and passion of this furious eanvass men have had little time to give to this question and to its perfect solution that fine and deliberate consideration which Us Importance and Its dangers demand. We must confess that we ourselves have failed to reach any defi ntte and final conclusion as to the beat and moat effec tive method of disfranchising the negro. But we have absolute confidence In tbe patriotism, In the Integrity, and In the Intelligence ot the Anglo 8axon element that la straggling tor supremacy In this campaign, and we ex press the further and moat profound and far-reaching confidence tbat when this election Is settled. If It be settled upon the lines ot this policy, that the men who win and the friends who stand hohlnd them, lawyers, legislators, statesmen, publicist* and patriots, will unite with one accord to put thl* decision of the ballot box Into effect In tbe wisest, safest and moat conservative way which will stand the teats of the courts and the trials of the coming years. Meanwhile, let us remember that a defeat of this general proposition here and now carries encouragement of untold weight and force to the negro race in the prosecution of their laudable but dangerous ambition; that It will inevitably produce strife and friction In the Increased aggression of tho tower race and that the only aafe thing to do, sod the only wtae thing to do now, since the tssuo la Joined and the question at a white heat of solution, ta to express In thunder tones at the ballot box the ultimatum of the Caucasian race, and to rely confidently upon the combined wisdom and pru dence ot the men who make the laws for this state nnd for this section, to put this verdict Into execution with skill and discretion and a comprehensive regard for lib erty and for law. We state thli proposition upon our honor with a *ct ot self-preservHtlon ! has be and tbe fortunes ' Before of the superior race. There la no malice and no un ness In ns toward the negro. Tbe sooner his status la settled and he la removed aa the booe of contention from the tactions of thl* Anglo Saxon republic, the sooner wilt be drift to to peace, prosperity and develop ment, and the sooner will the Anglo Saxon race react Into an attitude of justice, a lore of liberty aod consti tutional law. There is wisdom enough, there te conscience .enough, and there la Justice enough Is these Southern state* to deal justly aad honorably with'this Inferior race when once we have written to Indiknotabla statutes tbe doc trine of white supremacy and eg negro Inferiority. Let ns announce to the worM and to our own people by our coming ballots what we tutend to do, and then let us rely upon an unfailing wisdom and tbe unbroken history of these Southern Saxons to do the right and the wisest thing for both races and for tbe greet future of this greet‘and storm-tried people. There It no politics In this position. There la uo partisanship and no deceit. The editor of The Georgian >h<* advocate ot this policy for twenty years, e contentions of tbls )iersonal controversy were brought forth, or time had formed a Hoke Smith, a Clark Howell, a Journal or a Constitution as Its evangels, the editor of this paper, with a single mutlve and a clear conception, waa sowing In the West and In the East and in tbe militant North the seeds of that great doctrine of Saxon rale whqse fruits are evident In tbe liberal and progressive letter of Dr. Mann, of Connecticut. We register no change, we record no new Idea. We write no change of front, but we simply stand now upon the position which we assumed In 1893 at th$ great Chau- tanqna at Lexington. Ky„ when we plead then In the exact language that we use today for tbe absolute, the evident and the Imperatlvd necessity of establishing defi nitely and by statute the relative positions of these op posite and antagonistic races In tbe South. We pray God tbat the people of Georgia, unbllnded by faction and unvexed by prejudice, keeping their eyes firmly fixed upon tbe great future of our people and our children, will settle this question In the spirit of patriot ism, the spirit of statesmanship and In the spirit of fear less truth. Growth and Progress of the New South Under this head will appvsr from tlrat to tluo Information Illustrating lb* remarkable development of tbe South which deserves something more tbnu puss ies attention. The South Sells Engines to the 'East, Nothing which we have yet encountered illustrates more completely the material growth ahd progress-of the South than a recent article pub lished In "Advance," of Birmingham, showing how a home concern of that city 1* manufacturing stationery engines and selling them to the East and Went. It Is pointed out that thin would not be very remarkable If the engines were of tome special type covered by patents, but they are, on the contrary, Corliss engines, which have been a standard type ever since the centennial of 1179. Mr. John Sparrow, of "Advance," hsd *n lutefeatlng Interview with W. D. Tynee, of the Hardle-Tynes Company, which manufactures these eh- glnes, and was told that the chief superiority of his engines consisted In strength, weight and efficiency. Continuing he said: "No, we do not find that our comparatively long distance from the the Northern and Eastern markets Is a drawback, nor are we conscious ot any prejudlct against us on account of our Southern location. Eastern and Western people are keenly practical, and they have their share of the American spirit of fair play. They know what they want, and they will pay for It, no matter where It cornea from. - . “Tea, our territory Is steadily widening. Some of ,our engines have gone Into South American countries, and we have established a connect tlon In Japan, which promise* well." * "The road ha* not always been smooth?" I said. “Oh, no," replied Mr. Tynea, “we have had our period* of discourage ment, but there never was a time when we lost faith In ultimate results. “The fire was a good thing for us. I might say It was the turning point. Several years ago we were burned out, you know—total loss, plant, patterns, everything. It waa • "hard blow. We bad been making a good engine, a* we thought, and were booked away abead. There was nothing to do but to start over. So we determined to get the beat talant In the engineering profession to be had.” (Ah, 1 thought, this la the key to tbe business—the genius wblch snatches vlctory v trom defeat and turns disaster Into success.) < "We employed expert* of high repute." continued Mr. Tynes, smiling— my eye must have flashed appreciation—“and with some suggestions from u* they gave ua designs and patterns which embody the latest and most approved Ideas of engine construction as applied to those modifications of the Corliss to-which I referred when we began talking. Consequently we have a distinct advantage over our competitors who have not kept pace with the Improvements of more modern engineering construction. "And our machine shops and foundry, aa rebuilt, are the most perfectly adapted to their requirements of any In this country. There are plants which may contalf more brick and mortar, but none makes a better show ing architecturally, or la better equipped for the hurtling of raw materials and the flrlabed.product la bur line of business, quite frequently our plant Is inspected by machinists and founders In other portions of the country who wish to duplicate It In whole or In part. We let. them copy the plans It they ask for that -privilege. It's alt for the good of the trade.” "Are you a Southern man?” I asked. “Both Mr. Hardle and myself are Southern men, but neither of us re gards that aa a handicap,” he eald humorously. “I see no reason wby Southern men should not succeed as manufacturer*" ‘The civil war proved ,th*t the men of the South were as Ingenious and fertll* In resources as the so-called Yankees," I suggested. "Probably you are Correct," said Mr. Tynes, thoughtfully. "Now let us look over the plant.” THE NORTH WITH THE 80UTH ON THE NEGRO Mr. William Riley Boyd, Atlanta. Qa. My Dear Sir: Yours of Tuesday last came duly. I am much pleased with your letter and should thoroughly enjoy meeting you and discussing this subject at our leisure. We might not agree In all points, but would be wise enough to respect each other's opin ions. 1 feel about Anderaonvllle very much os I do about the Black Hole of Calcutta—that both have been dis cussed enough. Let us drop the sub ject and forget It. That does not mean that I shall forget It and the people of the South keep pushing It to the front again. Let us both forget It and have pence on that subject There are some large questions for the world to solve still staring us In the face and neither you nor I are too old to lend our Influence and advice to the oncoming generation toward solv ing them. The question of the per petuation of the union and Ita cost nave gone Into history-. It will require a wait until about the year 1990 be fore an uni of lice to both sides, ran aeneral l.ee could have written his own memoirs, as did aeneral Grant, the two would hnve been a wonderful aid to some future historian. Grant'i ' as It goes as was also e an unprejudiced, accurate history that civil war, which shall do Jua- e to both sides, ran be written. If ould General Lee'i General Gordon's. You sent me a pamphlet of selec tion* for schools for anniversary of General I.ee‘s birth, which I have read Ith great Interest, and say amen to every sentiment therein expreseed. But of all your correspondence snd In closures the most Interesting Is the editorial from The Atlanta Georgian. "Friend, Not Enemy to the Negro." There In a question worth the pnt- foundest study, sympathy and states manship of the future. In the main I agree w ith that editorial, and for years have advocated leaving the negro to Inhabitants of the several states In which he Is found for treatment aa each several atatea shall decide. The worst blunder ever committed by the United States within my remembrance wns wbat Is known a* the "carpet bag government" Immediately following the war. If Lincoln bad lived that never ould have happened because wiser counsels would have prevailed. ' If the negro could be comparatively equally distributed among the whole forty-live or torty-stx states the question of Ms real status would be much quicker de nied. The majority of the native hltes of the North cannot yet be made to acknowledge that "the best thing for the negro as wall as the white man is that the relative inferiority of the negro man should be recognised definitely and deaHy in avary relation in lifs,” or they are not ready to ac knowledge It. They are backward, like ■he Presbyterian church In revising Its creed to correspond with present civ ilization. The movers and former* of public opinion here North are getting ready to Indorse that underlined sentence from the editorial In question. That editorial, ns a whole, so welt conforms to my own freely expressed opinions, that there Is little room for discussion between you and I. It ' very well written; very well put. 1 go a little further In believing that within a thousand or two years the negro will be a thing of the past, or the customs of the earth will take on some entirely new phase hardly yet dreamed of. Life Is a very funny prop osition or n very serious one, ns one happena or chooses to look out upon It. I believe the Great Spirit that gov erns the universe Is doing the best possible with the material He has In hand, and that Anally perfection will result. It Is up to us to help Him In every possible manner to the extent of our ability and knowledge, and got be finding fault with our neighbor tor not doing his work just as we feel like dic tating sometimes. With best wishes, l Yours, T. H. MANN. Norwich, Conn., Aug, 9, 1909. “A NOBLE TYPE OF GOOD, HEROIC WOMANHOOD" From The t’hlcnso Journal. When Mncaeniis. lu the Hhakespenre piny, noised that Antony must leave ('teoisurs utterly. Enolmrluts. who was Just returned front Egypt. replied: "Never; he trill not; Afe ean not wither her nor custom stalo tier InSnlte variety." t’shipplly, nowadays* we hear too often that nten have left women liy whom for merly they were faselimtetl, but It Is still true ot every woman, ns It wns of Cleo- pntnt. that her vnrlety Is luflnlte. An,I Hie Imst, part of It Is that It Is al ways so tutslly unexpected. No nuttier how hm* nnd Intimately you may have known s woman, yon ran never predict whnt she will do In sny elves set of rlreimtstnneos. There was Mrs. Hnliert Ltnsley. of At lnntn. for example, ttoliert had lived with her for several years, sail yet he did not have the remotest idea of w hat.was In store for him when, upon Ills eel urn to his board- In* house the other eveutu*. he neslivird lit Itesfow the esstouuiry marital snliite u|M>n her. If he hsd. then, of coarse, he Huts-rt failed to prove _ n kiss, Mrs. Isiigley attempt,-I to f,nr,t hint to kiss her. (.nnxtey pash,-I her aw-sy from hint In s playful wnr. whereupon wlfey lieeame mixer,-I. cryins: "Yon won't kiss me. won’t yont" and then proceeded to knock him down nml stamp on him until her strength was rx- Unlisted. fancy that will teach Ibdiert to lore hie wile. He will renietulter. loo. tbe re- h to see her ns to get auutethlug to eat. As the poet Indy says: AVhnt will not woman, gentle woman. MR. JORDAN HA8 FULL POWER TO ACT. (The Progressive Farmer, Raleigh, N. C.) If we may Judge tbe temper of the farmers of the South by tbat of those In North and South Carolina, Mr. Rich ard Cheatham, secretary of the South ern Cotton Association, Is going prov* a millstone about the neck of the organisation until his resignation la received and accepted—Insunter. "We are not going to be led by con fessed gamblers," was the undertone at the South Carolina Farmers’ Insti tute last week, and from Georgia a similar cry was heard. Mr. Harvle Jordan, who acted so promptly In the cane of Vies President Petera last year, Is not expected to trifle with this far more serious offence of a higher and more trusted official of the associa tion. And the hypocrisy of Mr. Cheat ham makes his primary offence even more Insupportable. Tbe chief owner of The Cotton Journal, that paper has been carrying on a campaign against cotton gambling and bucket shops, whereupon a cotton gambler Is quoted as saying to Cheatham: "Why do you let your paper do this? Don't you know It Is hurting us?” to which this “friend of the cotton growers" wlnk- Ingly replied: "Oh. well, that's Just to fool the farmers, you know. And they are biting, too, to beat the band: why, Just tbls morning our stack of sub scriptions received Is eight Inches high!” It was Mr. Cheatham’* own ellckneas which enabled him to catch up with the other cotton gamblers In the department of agriculture last year. There's nothing plainer than that the Cotton Association must be freed from hla Influence if It Is to continue to command that confidence of South ern cotton growers to which Its pre vious good work wapld entitle It. Mr. Jordan should act. Since The Progressive Farmer seeks for Information It la our duty to say to him that under the constitution of the Cotton Growers' Association Mr. Har vle Jordan hoe abundant power to take Anal action at any time In the case of Mr. Cheatham, hie secretary. If be doee not act. It Is because he does not choose to exercise his constitutional authority.—Ed. Georgian. Biennial Elections, But Perennial Politics. To the Editor of The Georgian: We have biennial elections In Geor gia. That Is tit say, the governor holds office for two years. Reformers favor biennial elections—less politics, you know. But listen, ye ardent reformers who would reform man from the outside, and who think that laws can change men as readily as men can change taws —listen: We have biennial elections, but we have perennial politics. In those lucky states that have annual elections a campaign can not well last'more than one year. But, since our present cam paign for governor began, this unfor tunate state has made nearly one and a half revolutions around the sun. It actually began before Governor Ter rell was Inducted Into office. It seems to me that the chief prob lem in this state Is not how to take the black man out of politics, but how to take the politics out of the white men. JAME8 J. POOLING. Atlanta, Ga, The Road to “Success.” By WEX JONES. 1M everything go In the hUNtlc for dough, And never let up For a billion or »o. To tlmlm with youth And frlemlRhtp nnd truth: Get your inlttn on the coin Without ncruple or ruth. Expand your Unit million Till It nwelli to n billion; Then nml! day nnd utght To innke It a trillion. N And then when your store Is s trillion or o'er— Why keep on n-hnntllnf " And rustling for more. Keep on. never Atop; Keep on till yuu drop. Bvery dollnr you ml aa gome other will cop. CHOLLY KX'ICk'EKHOCKER S| ! GOSSIP m ABOUT 1 •EOPLEl Make your iJollnr-birtln I WHEN THE TA8K Iff DONE. port ml dt gym* wage*. be they ruiiitted Ikki or gnml. Aa Time, the old taifc-uiniter, wot moved to nay; . And having warred ami •offend,’And pasa* «*d on Thore gift* the Arbiter* preferred nnd gave, Km re grateful nml content, I town the ithn wiy Whereby race* fiitottueruMe have gone Into tho alieut uufvernt* of the Grave. —HENLBV. Negroes Bound Ovtr. Hpeelal to The Gvorgfiui. % Rome, On., Aug. IS.—Will Anderson •nd Tom t’rankftejd. both colored, were bound over to the city («,urt yesterday by the recorder on $250 bonds each, charged with larceny. First New Bale ef Cotton. gpeclst to The Georgian. Augusta, Qa.. Aug. 1&—F. D. Moore continue* to hold the record for getting the first bale of Richmond county cot ton on-the Augusta market, he bring ing the Arst bale to Augusta yeater- day, and placed It in the warehouse of fiP^rni * Pilcher. The hale waa raised within five miles of Augusta and was ginned yesterday morning. By Private Leased Wire. New York. Aug. 15,-Th. last t| ra « I saw Joaquin Miller, the "poet of ih, Sierras," waa in his neat among the hill*—“The Heights”—about ten mile* out of San Francisco. He wore high- top boots, buckskin breeches with * fringe down the sides, a brown velvet Jacket and a red silk cap. This morning Joaquin Miller sat on the veranda of a Saratoga cottage in the same red silk cap, with the same flowing white beard and hair, but In a spotless, natty and modern gray suit. HI" eyes had the same kindly, shrewd twinkle a* he looked me over and tried to recall meeting me. He said: "I came here for the quiet and to begin life all over again. I lost nil tbe plates of my books, all my auto graphs of my beloved friends—Walter Whitman and Tennyson among the rest —that I bad taken to the Bohemian Club for nafe-keeplng—everything of mine and tbe book* given to me—but I will start In again and grow with the new and iqore magnificent Sin Fran- clteo. You know, we were a ptuc. where the Insane and nick used to come—where people came when they wanted to commit suicide, and where the rapid pace of living never slowed down. "All that is gone now. There Is no more high tension, ho more Insane, no more Invalids and never a suicide. Mar- tlal law enforced the drinking of water and people had to sleep In the open air and everybody Is well and young nnd ambitious." •Was martial law disagreeable, or did you feet It was a protection?" "It was grand. Little Funatun was a wonder in bin management, and was re'leved from commund only when he was worn out. It was rather hard sometime* that people were not al lowed to go Into their own bouses, but the soldiers had no way of discrimi nating between owners nnd looters, and had to carry out orders." I asked him about Saratoga nnd what he thought of the ever return ing convuleions about gambling. The mildly shrewd look came Into his eyes again and he evaded a direct answer by saying: "Nothing can Impair beautiful, rest ful Saratoga. I have been coming here for forty years. It always Is the same, only that the trees hnve grown larger and the town more like a glorious park. "Races—the race—oh, yes, of course, the races. Well, why not? They dis turb the quiet some and make the streets rattle with carriages and mnke the hotels congested and the songs of the birds arc lost In 'the noise, and fashion gets In before all else, but the races belong to the horses. Yes, I think I will go to the races." Then Joaquin Miller look off his red silk cap and nut on n broad-brimmed soft black hat and walked with me down to the corner. He will stay In Saratoga for a long rest, working as he feels Inclined. Professor Willis, of Newport, tvho modestly styles himself "the world's greatest palmist and clairvoyant," told Mrs.' Fish something that happened to come true, and on that statement and from her press agent's work he has acquired a reputation and amassed a considerable fortune. The other morn ing Mrs. Fish met him on the avenue. Off came her glove and soon they both were lost In tracing the tiny lines. Suddenly Mr*. • Fish caught sight of Harry Lehr hurrying toward the flor ist's for his morning gardenia. "Harry, come here, I wnnt you. I am not going away. Harry. The professor says I must not." The professor hastened to assure her that he could not Impress too firmly upon her mind the necessity for not leaving Newport at present Just what the seer predicted for Mrs. Fish that came true the mjsstreas of Crossn-ovs Is telling no one. Mrs. Reggie Van derbilt Joins Mrs. Fish In a reullxed prediction. Robert Fulton Ludlow, of Clavcrnck. N. Y„ tho grandson of Robert Fulton nnd Charles L. Haswcll. of thl* city, the only living man who saw Full,ms steamboat, the "Clermont," steaming up the Hudson, met • -sterday at the New Yorker’s home. "lie men were brought together bv Mr. Helnstnnd, chairman of the Fnlton Memorial As sociation, which Is raising 990#,0«0 to put up a monument on Riverside drive. Mr. Ludlow said the family would al low Fulton's body to be moved to tn" monument. Haswell. though 9,. «' j lake part In the dedication If ho Is still alive. GEORGIANS IN GOTHAM. By Private la-naod Wire. New York. Aug. IS.—Hero nre a, the visitor* In New 'York today: ATLANTA—It. P. Arnold. Mrs. Al'ril'NTA-tV. A. Khrianl. MACON—II. II. Mi l.mil. ... „ HA VANN All—F. N. Nne'HTxer. « “■ Way, II. Weber. J. W. Fltsgerald. I>. *> Hnsnu, U. W. Tledetnnn. Miss I. tledemsfc Mrs. A. Barnet. H, Honuefiian. I. Bonn* man, (1. It. Foltz, H. M. Tnxiso. THIS DATE IN HISTORY. 1039-81. _ Htephen, first king of Hungary, III o( lGZZ-Frcdertek William I of Prussia l-™ I7«— Xnpofeou Horn parte Inirn. If led 21, 18B. 1771—Wr Walter Ki-ott. norellft, liorn. HrpteiulM'r 21. pled 1109—First stone laid for the Are de Trh •MHph<\ rtdebratiug the rnm-etm »>* ,u Grand Army of Austertlts. 1907—FrnneoU Jules tlrevy. prcsldi'iit '|* Fra bee. bora. Hied September ». TO- ISIS—Itelrolt surrendered to lh» British. 1>CW— Mra. John A. l*o*nn Imru. 1W#—Firm |Miner piMUhvtl In California i* sMUo<| at Monterey. , M4-J. Krlr flanlle. KnjrlUb labor niul member of parliament, born. 1SS3—Knctwlilnut. Japan, ileatroyetl by to* KrttUb fleet. im-EfUel Barrymore, netrens. Item. lMft-AfleUiMe Nellaon. altiger. tiled. IMS—i 'onvent of the Harm! Heart, York, destroyed by flte. l&O-Keeelreni appointed for Ih* Sortbert Pa rifle railroad. 1XH—Explorer Wei Ini an nud iwrtr nt TTomaoe. hnvlmr nbandoued nttwn# to reach the north point