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THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN.
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The Atlanta Georgian.
JOHN TEMPLE GRAVES, Editor.
F. L. SEELY, President.
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Entered na iccond-elnaa ointter April 55, 1904. at tbe Pestolfles St
Atlanta. Ga.. under act of concrete of March S. ITS.
Now for the State Fair.
By tonight the die will have been cast and tomorrow
“the tumult and the shouting dies."
It has been a long, strong campaign of absorbing In-
terest and bitterness, but when the ballots are counted
and the result Is known, provided there Is no possibility
of a contest In tbe convention, the hungry state will look
around for something more to stimulate Its Interest.
Here In Atlanta we have something right at hand,
and It Is the state fair and the home coming which prom,
lse to be tbe most .notable and Important In the history
of the state. It Is altogether Important that we should
bare a good governor and a good mayor and a good man
In all the other ofBces to be filled today, but when this
Is settled we must return to the work of upbuilding the
city and the state, and knitting together those ties that
bind one section of the state with the other.
So let us all unite, as soon as today's conflict Is
over. In making the state fair of next October the most
successful In the history of tbe state. The attraotlons
already provided are such as should Induce thousands
of visitors to come to Atlanta during the fall festivities.
The evidences of Georgia's growth and development will
be large and convincing and then the home coming
will be one of the most unique and delightful features
ever devised.
There are thousands of Georgians scattered through-
out the country. Wherever they have gone they have
carried the thrift and the cultuse of the Empire State and
hare made a place for themselves In the life and prog*
rcss of their adopted home.
But they would be glad to return to the red old hills
of Georgia and mingle once more yvlth the friends and
companions of tbelr youth—those here and those gather-
ed here from the widely separated sections to which they,
bare gone.
This Is something on which the whole state can
unite. There Is no bitterness and partisanship In this
event. It Is to be a festival of love and good will and
a testimonial of our civic and Industrial strength.
So as soon as this contest of today is over let us all
unite and make the state fair a great success.
Brenau College and Its Lesson.
In educational Institutions, as In all other forms of
public enterprise, It Is the progressive and courageous
spirit which produces results and establishes reputation.
No college In the South has done more to vindicate
this proposition than Brenau College, located at Gaines
ville.
From tbe first dsy thst Presidents VanHooae and
Pierce took charge of the college In Gainesville, It began
a progressive career In which every year has marked
some new and vital Improvement along the lines of mod
cm education. In ths Brat place, tbe original college
at Gainesville was changed to Brenau College, and was
established from the very beginning upon a foundation
of admirable merit In the personnel dnd attainment of
its faculty and In ths equipment of Its several schools
after tfcd most heroic liberality.
The Brenau 'College established at Gainesville soon
ranked among the first of the state, and the enterprising
proprietors conceived the design of establishing other
colleges upon the same foundation of merit In other
states. They have already established the Alabama
Brenau at Eufaula, which In Its Brat year recorded a
phenomenal success, filling the building to Its capacity,
and they are now erecting a beautiful new building as
a mark of the appreciation and generosity of the people
of Eufaula.
Brenau College has just begun a building for a high
grade military academy at Gainesville, to cost $40,000,
and to be the most completely and perfectly equipped
of any similar building In tbe South. Other notable
buildings will be erected around the site of the original
college.
In addition to Its other attractions Brenau has or
ganized a Chautauqua association and wilt next summer
at beautiful Chattahoochee Park put Into operation a
great summer school modeled after that parent Chau
tauqua in New York. Brenau has done more than this.
It has had the audacity to cross the ocean and establish
a branch Institution In Paris, that such of Its students
as may wish to do so may receive the advantages com
ing from foreign Btudy and travel. It Is not strange that
applications have already poured In for tbe next year
lor a connection with this foreign schooL Brenau Is now
moving to establish a school In New York and In Wash
ington where young ladles from tbe South, after finishing
tbelr courses at Gainesville and Eufaula, may spend a
year In the capital or metropolis of the United States.
And each of these great schools Is united In one splendid
chain, working under a perfect system which will con
tribute to the success of the other. Tbe school Is al
ready drawing patronage frpm all over the United States,
North and South. Students sre registered from Con
necticut end from California. One of the things which
has been found most attractive in this great Brenau
system Is the fact that U has the best organised school
of oratory In the entire South, affiliated with the great
Emerson school of Boston, and the graduates of BrenrfU
are accepted without question Into the full fellowship
of the Emerson school.
Now, we submit to tb» Judgment of those In Georgia
who are Interested in rigorous and progressive methods
of education that theso phenomenal and magnificent
achievements entitle tbe presidents of Brenau College
to the appreciation and the congratulation of the people
of the South.. Surely no Institution started under such
circumstances and with so little capital has done so
much and done it so rapidly, to build up the fame of tbe
college and the educational reputation of the state. We
feel that editorial Indorsement and congratulation Is tbe
faintest possible recognition for work so advanced and
so liberal and so beneficent as this college has done.
The career of Brenau marks a new era In the educa
tional growth of the 8outh, and the mark of progress
which it has established will force in necessity and In
competition a corresponding effort which will raise the
standard of every female school In the South.
All of which adds new emphasis to the heartiness
of the appreciation which Georgia should feel for edit
tlonal work of such vigor, of such courage and of such
high and progressive Intelligence.
The Way to Save Our Women.
Whether Hoke Smith Wins or loses In the battle
tbe ballots the race question will live on, and In Us vary
ing emergencies It mnit be met until It la finally answer
ed In the only and Inevitable way.
• The Georgian struck s key note on yesterday which
Is still vibrating In the hearts of this people today.
We have learned the great truth that lynching does
not stop tho crime against our women. We hare reach
ed by elimination the conclusion that other experiments
must be tried to Intlroldatsi tbe criminals of the negro
race. One of tbe most hopeful of these experiments
seems to be a statute authorising the mutilation of the
criminal and the branding of him on the forehead with
tbe letter *‘R" significant of bis crime and making him
an object of suspicion for the rest of time.
The other experiment is to devise some new and
mysterious form of punishment wrapped In darkness and
In mystery which will appeal to the terror and to the
superstition of the criminal negro.
But beyond these and above these and more poten
tial than all others, la the atern and Insistent demand of
our white civilisation that the leaders of the negro race
shall give ua from this time, forth that cooperation which
they have heretofore' refused. The South Is growing
Indignantly tired of negro tirades in central cities against
the lawlessness of lynching. We are tired of negro plati
tudes and resolutions against the injustice of the South
toward the negro. And we have utterly lost patience
with those pacific preachments which cry out for law and
order on the part of the white man, while they spend
no time nor breath nor effort In thundering to tbelr own
people the earnest and passionate denunciation of theat
criminals who make the chief tension and the deadly
friction between the races.
Now tee here: The South has for $5 years befriend-
ed the negroes In every practical way. We have helped to
build their churches, we have helped to sustain tbelr
schools, we have buried their dead and helped to main
tain their living sometimes In Idleness and sometimes In
want. But now as one unit In the mass of Southern sen-
tlment, Tbe Georgian lifts Its voice and protests that
henceforward It will give no dollar and lend no aid and no
cooperation to any negro Institution until Its officers, Its
preachers. Its teachers and its editors shall Join with us
In thundering Into the ears of the negro race tbe warning
and denunciation of tbla horrible crime.
Without passion, or at least without passion which la
not richly due and Justified, we ask our brethren of the
Southern press and our Caucasian friends and brethren
everywhere to take this firm and unalterable stand—that
they will help no negro church, newspaper or school until
they know that Its preachers, Its teachers and lta editors
In those Institutions are thundering the doctrine of bell
and damnation to the assailants of white women.
Now this Is fair. It la Just, and tt Is right.
Tho South Is living under a shadow which no man
can estimate. Men whose public duties call them to pub*
lie meetings are held at home because tbey are actually
afraid to leave tbelr families alone even In the shelter
and sanctity of their own homes after nightfall. Men
cannot go to church for the same reason. And this,
please God. Is the South. We are a tree people and a
great country. Are we to live forever under this shadow
and under this terror? Are we to alt still and help to
build up these negro Institutions when they are silent
and apathetic toward the peril In which tbelr criminals
put the beat element of our race? Are we to cooperate
with these people to build up Institutions In which they
do not preach the enormity of these offenses? Are wo
to be forever held In n state of selge with our women
trembling in fear and terror when they are alono? Is
the liberty which our fathers bought with their blood to
be surrendered to the foul terror of an alien and sub
ordinate race?
We tell these teachers, these preacher* and these
editors that they have the moat vital Interest In this af
fair. If tho boundaries of restraint aro ever broken by
tbla Caucasian race In a wild spirit of retaliation for a
condition which Imprisons and terrifies the nobleat women
of tho world, they themselves will be whelmed In the
tidal wave which follows.
And we say hero and now to Booker Wnshtngton, to
Gaines, and Turner, to Proctor and to Stinson and to tho
rest of those who are so eager to rush Into print to plead
for law and order, that If Jhey have any regard for the
future of their race and for themselves, they will take
the hint which la not unkindly sent from this aroused and
Indignant race of Caucasians, and will stand shoulder to
shoulder with u* In demanding that every preacher In
every country pulpit and every editor of every little 2x4
sheet and that every teacher In the city and country
schools shall dovote some part of bts sermon or some
portion of his editorial, or some segment of bla scholastic
hours to preaching hell and damnation to all who are
guilty of this fiendish crime.
We-assure these men that the Caucasian sentiment
of this country la now being aroused as tt never was
before. We need not and we will not continue to have
our women live under the shadow of this fiendish negro
lust. We are going to free our women no matter what
the cost may be to another race. There It no wildness of
paaslon and radicalism In this announcement. If these
men know anything they know thst we demand It, and
they know thnt demand Is firmly stern and earnest.
When tbey have done their best they will command
our commendation and the confidence of our race.
But as long aa they continue to howl resolution*
against lynching and orate against lawlessness while they
are shamefully allent toward the crimes which produce the
mob, then the back of onr band la against them and all
that they represent.
This is the position which the present tragic environ
ment sternly demands of the Saxon race, and we call up
on Saxona who respect themselves to assume It every
where.
As to Joyner and Goodwin.
The Georgian understands that some of the friends
of Captain Joyner feel that they have been discriminated
against by tbla paper In an editorial comment which Mr.
Goodwln*hna been exploiting In hi* public advertisement,
This apprehension Is absolutely without foundation,
The Georgian has made but one editorial comment upon
the municipal race. In that comment It spoke kindly of
both candidates. If there was any difference In Its com-
raents that difference was In favor of Captain Joyner,
to whom we ascribed the largest possibility and a better
chance of success.
*[ Mr. T. H. Goodwin with great enterprise and vigor
seized upon the editorial paragraph relating to himself
and has used It with conspicuous publicity and success In
the advertising columns of tbe city papers. Captain
Joyner and his friends either through over confidence or
through a failure to appreciate the value of the matter,
have failed to make any use of tbe much stronger and
more effective comment made upon his candidacy. So that
the fault Is not by any means with the impartial Georgian,
but must be either attributed to the superior activity of
Mr. Goodwin, or to the apathy and over-confldenco of Mr.
Joyner's friends.
No honest Judgment can find anything to complain
of In the treatment which this paper has accorded to
both candidates and of the decided leaning which It evi
denced toward Its older and nearer friend—Captain Joy
ner.
What Congress Really Appropriated
It requires some little time after the adjournment
of congress for the clerks of the appropriation commit
tees to make up the budget and determine Just bow
much mqney has been appropriated.
This report has Just been completed and It la shown
that the appropriations for this first session of the fifty-
ninth congress did not reach a billion dollars.
But, In the Iangusge of the topical song, It "was
near It, very near it”
To be absolutely accurate, the appropriations
amounted to $879,689,185.1$. The New York Commercial,
which give* out th* figures, shows that in addition to the
specific appropriations made, contracts are authorized to
be entered Into for public works, requiring future appro
priations by congress In the aggregate aum of $20,687,-
200. These contracts cover tho following objects and
amounts: Fort Mason, Cal., $760,000; West Point Mill-
tnry Academy, $1,700,000; torpedo boat destroyers and
submarine torpedo boats, $2,760,000; public building In
Baltimore, for light vessels, tight houses, life-saving tug,
derelict destroyer, heat, light and power plant and sub
way system for Capitol and other buildings, and for
school buildings In the District of Columbia, $2,018,700;
new public buildings throughout the country, $13,368,500.
A comparison of these contract liabilities, with those
of the last session of the last congress, amounting to
$26,770,057 shows a reduction of $6,182,867.
The new offices specifically authorized are 6,934 In
number, it an annual compensation of $6,616,870.61, and
those abolished are 6,626, at an annual compensation of
$4,010,100, a net Increase of 1,649 In number, and $2,-
606,761.61 In amount.
Of this net increase In number, eight are for the
library of Congress, 26 for the Department of State,
63 for tbe Treasury Department (Including 48 for the
office of the treasurer of the United . States), six for
the Independent treasury, four for the War Department,
three for the Navy Department, 16 for the Department
of Justice, 49. for the Department of Agriculture, 116 for
the government of the District of Columbln (Including
Howell, Dick Russell, Big Jim Smllh and the South floor
gta candidate, J. H. Estlll, say ho has not come Into the
right fold and ho Is still a prodigal, a wandering freak,
a tremendous fraud, a terrible deceiver and not worthy to
be called a son of the Simon-pure, unadulterated Democ
racy. So tt seems we still have five varieties of Democra
cy left even In Democratic Georgia, and now It Is In order
for the man who bolds midnight communions with Hoke
Smith to bring out the best robe and a ring and put them
on him, kill the fatted calf. On with the dance; sound
the loud timbrel over the land, the lost Is found, tho
dead Populist is a live Democrat in one branch, division
or fold of Democracy known as the Hoke Smith kind—
and Thomas must have discovered thnt this fold was the
Simon-pure, bluo-ribbon, rcd-ahlrt. all wool and a yard
wide, unadulterated Democracy, since he has always pro
claimed in no Iiiii'i-rtnlii voice his Jeffersonian Demncra-
cy.
govcriitnum. tu mu district qf-v-oiumuia unciuning CreeUi Oglethorpe counjv, Ho whoee Democracy Is of the
3S school teachers, 12 firemen, 20 policemen and 22 em- |truo Lucinda kind as they call It In that goMTtiTd county.
Now tho situation demands that the rank and file who
are anxious to get Into the right fold of Democracy be
enlightened, since the followers of the Hon. Clark How
ell claim they are tbo only true blue. Simon-pure Dem
ocrats, and have the machinery, and control the court,
which Is tho biggest thing In all the kinds offered, for
one good counter Is worth twenty to fifty voters at most
of the polling places. Then he should be a shilled manip
ulator of tickets, ready to supply tbe right kind at tbo
right minute and In the right place, for tbe fold that will
win* Is the fold that has the best counters and most
skilled manipulators. Sow the Clark Howell shepherd Is
crying aloud In the hills and hlghwnys In startling head
lines In his paper, Thi Constitution, now Infamous for
Its distortions and misrepresentations—that tbe Hofce
Smith wing and leader Is a take—a fraud, Insincere, hypo
critical, a defrauder of men and desplser of the rights of
women—without cousoteaM or humane feelings, favoring
negroes rather than white men. Now this smells a good
deal like a fish factory In June. But these other three
good and true Democrats.
The South Georgia candidate, who knows he can-
not be elected but Is out (or nn airing of his good deeds
and pure Democracy, and tho defense of bis section. He
loves the piny woods end w I r--grass South Georgia
so will thst he wants s governor to come from Its
homes. All right, Brother Estlll, but did you over sup
port a South Georgia candidate when one offered? How
about the Norwood-Colqultt race? Which side did you
take, and how much did you contribute to pay taxes of
negroes to vote In that election? Let's bo consistent. Col
onel Estlll. When Dupont Guerry, a South Georgia man,
was running as a Prohibition man, did you 'not oppose
him, and announce In Albany, Ga., that you were s
wblsky man—wanted more and better whisky. Now we
all know this was good, sound Andrew Jackson Democra
cy and It is strange that Thomas E. Watson or Hon.
James Hines did not enter your fold when tbey were
seeking tbe genuine. Simon-pure article of Democracy—
and you are offering to lead your foHowers up to the
;ate of Clark Howell fold, and If possible, push them Into
ill gate. But there are many old rams In your flock and
followers who can't be driven In that fold and will break
and scatter over South Georgia and go home to read
the splendid things you laid of W. J. Bryan four years
ago In your paper. Now you and Clark have both a mud-
slinging machine, but when the campaign Is over you
may have trouble to restore the mud and slush, and to
replace some of the mud-holes and cesspools you have
created.
Now you have had this advantage of poor Dick
Russell, whoso chief recommendation la that he Is a
poor man with nine children and wants an office nnd
wants one bad. Ho needs It In hit business of taking
care of wife and children; he wants to ornament the
lawn around- the governor's mansion with his splendid
family, and If he bad the Simon-pure Democracy to offer
he too might have had Tom Watson, Yancy Carter or
Charlie McGregor helping him lead and drive his herd.
But like the South Georgia candidate, his followers are
In a narrow limit; tbe bound* of hit former Judicial cir
cuit; and tbey can and will only be led up to and. If
msslble, Into the Clark Howell fold. Since poor Dick
laa no mud-slinging-organ, be will have to draw by bis
good looks and explaining his true and tried Democracy
and then he said so first—even before the Divine called
had been summoned to lead the hosts of Simon-pure Dem
ocracy of the good old Grover Cleveland kind, had an
nounced, and that la a long way back, as we all know.
Dick ought to have chartered him a mud-sllnger. This Is
his weak point. '
Then we have Big Jim 8mlth from the hills of Big
Creek, Oglethorpe counjj, He whose Democracy Is of the
ployees for the alma house), 17 for the military prison,
62 for the diplomatic and consular service, 61 for the
military establishment, 38 for tbe naval establishment
and 1,366 for tbe postal service (Including 35 assistant
postmasters, 798 clerks In postofflees and 593 railway
postal clerks)
Deducting from the net Increase of 1,649 new salaries
and employments the 1,366 additional employees for th*
postal service, there remain only 283 net Increase In em
ployments for all other departments and branches of tbe
public aervcle.
The net number of salaries Increased la 688, at an
annual cost of $374,449. Of this number 28 are in the
senate, 24 in the house of representatives, 11 In tbe
Nnvy Department, five In the Department of Commerce
and Labor, 17 In tbe Department of Agriculture, 147 In
the District of Columbia, 274 In tho diplomatic and con
sular service and 10 In the postal service. Tbe remain
ing Increased salaries are In various branches of tbe
public service, and Involve generally small amounts.
Continuing, the New York Commercial says that
comparison of tbs total appropriation for tbe first
aeaalon of the fifty-ninth congress—$879,689,185.16—with
that of the lait aeaalon of the fifty-eighth congress—$820,-
184,634.06—abowa an Increase of $59,404,660.20.
The principal Increase* by acta are aa follows:
Agricultural act, $1,047,750, of which aum tbo amount
of $3,000,000 Is for meat Inspection service; diplomatic
and consular act. $968,046.45; postal act, $10,673,906, In
cluding $3,030,000 for tbe rural frce.dellvery service; sun-
dry civil act, $31,726,319.66, Including $26,456,416.08 as a
new Item for the Isthmian Canal, and more than $8,000,-
000 Increase In sums required to meet contract* author
ized for work on rivers nnd harbors.
The deficiency acta abow an Increase of $7,465,746.73,
but tbey Include as new Items $16,990,786 for the Isth
mian canal, which If excluded would Indicate a reduc
tion on account of the deficiencies as compared with the
previous session of $9,645,039.27. The appropriations
made In miscellaneous acts exceed these of the previous
session by $24,748,202.29, Including $10,250,000 under the
new statehood act, $10,276,600 for new public buildings
and $1,000,000 for arming and equipping the militia.
The iwmanent annual appropriations are reduced
$6,760,000; the fortification act shows a reduction of $1,-
693,900, and, aa no river and harbor act was passed, a
reduction of $18,181,875.41 Is made on that account
Other Increases and reductions are made In the va
rious acts, the whole showing a not Increase, as stated,
of $59,404,560.20, which aum Includes $42,447,201.08 for
tbe Isthmian canal, aa s new element of expenditure.
A RAP FOR ALL OF THEM.
To the Edltot of The Georgian:
The varieties of Democrats now being exploited be
fore the people of Georgia la strange, wonderful and
remarkable.
A few year* ago tbe Hon. Thomas E. Watson, then
Populist leader and canvassing the state for the Popu
list ticket, said tn a speech delivered at Cordele that
there were then seventeen kinds of Democrats In tho
United States and he named most If not all of the varie
ties and said that he had been Invited nnd urged to return
the Democratic fold, bat he said that he really could
not tell which fold to enter with ao many doors nil open
wide and labelled tbe true Democracy; and he did not
enter because of tbe uncertainty of getting Into the right
fold. But It aeemt after some years of wandering in the
bleak and barren hill* of Populism, he has found the
right door and entered the right fold and hat proclaimed
his arrival at home and to stay. The prodigal has return
ed to his father’s house and there ts great rejoicing
In the Hoke Smith camp. But the other fellow*, Clark
And who by blood money wrung from manacled human
beings, worked to the limit of human endurance, can
buy him a mud sllnger and set his Larry Gantt going
with his little 2x4 organ, and who can ride over middle
Georgia in a palace car seeking help, not to elect him
for he knows he has no chance, but his Democracy is
ao pure and genuine that be can help the other fellow
beat tbe fellow thst Tom Watson favor* and In whose
fold Tom and a lot of his kind hare entered—when
they tee tbe still waters and the green pastures before
them—and Big Jim will have leas trouble to drive In and
turn over bla fellows to the other fold than tbe South
Georgia candidate, because he has a stronger hold on
them and they cost more and will be closer watched
when they como to the grand rounding up of the Inno
cents.
Now this la the situation aa It appears to an out
sider on the eve of this grand rounding up of forces,
and If there was ever a more corrupt, dirty, mud-sllng-
lng, slanderous, vicious, unholy political struggle In Geor
gia It was more than fifty years ago, and the stench
of this kettle of fish will disgust and annoy the nos
trils of decent people for years to come. And yet tho
pure Democracy In five doses Is offered. Which shall we
take to relieve tho situation, which is critical? Echo
answers which. A VET.
By CHOLLY KNICKERBOCKER.
By Private Lsaswl wire.
Ns* York. Aug. 22.—J. Q. a. Ward,
the famous American sculptor, has
tnken unto himself a wife and It' Is his
third, and his friends have not recov
ered from tho shock of the announce-
ment yet. Mr. Ward la now it years
old. He declines to make known ths
Identity of hi a bride.
••Why should you ask?" he, Inquired.
"Does tho public care? I am not a
kaiser or president. I would prefer
that nothing be said, and certainly it
Is not necessary thnt I should tell the
name of the lady. I was married about
a month ago. and that Is all I care to
“V about It.”
-'rom another source It was learned
that the bride was a widow and is
about 40 years old. She and Mr. Ward
had been acquainted many years'
Mr. Ward will retire from his pro
fession when he completes his statue
of General Hancock.
William Rockefeller Is to erect a half
million dollar mansion for his son.
Percy, and family to occupy In Green
wich, on the borders of his deer park
and almost on the site If the old hove!
where David S. Iiustcd, a miser, spent
his last days. It Is to be the finest
house In town, no expense being spared
It will take two years to build It
Percy Rockefeller's brother, William
G„ lives almost across the street from
the new house, his home being a re-
modeled farm house, resembling three
square boxes of different sixes, but
very comfortably arranged In Its In
terior.
The famous "Poet 8onon," of Mark
Twain'* “Innocents Abroad," Blood-
[ood H. Cutler, of Little Neck, L. I.. Is
n bed as the result of a serious acci
dent.
opened the door with his crutch It
swung back and hit him.
I learn from a sure source that th*
Duchess Consuelo of Marlboro Is soon
to pay another visit fo this country.
It Is the Impression that she will bring
at least one of her children with her
to see ths land of hi* mother’s birth
nnd the place where her family money
comes from.
Although suffering from severe in
juries received when a train struck his
automobile on August 2, Lewis R.
Conklin, an attorney of 59 Wall street,
will today wed Miss Grace Frlsbec, of
New Haven, at the time they had set
tor the ceremony. 8he has nursed hhn
at the hospital. . He will have to be
married on a stretcher.
Platinum has Jumped In price re
cently, and aa a one of the re
sults, diamonds, jewelry, artificial teeth
and many articles used on proto-
graphic, chemical and electrical trndes
are growing costlier. It Is all due to
the troubles In Russia. The govern
ment there owns the mines In the Ural
mountains, and Is trying to Increase Its
revenue. A. week ago the metal could
be bought for $24, but It now costs 828
an ounce. A year ago It sold tor til
and $18.50.
The small boy must have his fun.
but there was nn Impression among
those present thnt Oregon - Williams,
the 14-yenr-old son of Mrs. Gregory
Williams, of Brooklyn^ N. Y., carried
the Joke too far when It* let loose too
grasshoppers at a dinner party apd
Gregory wears a pained look os the re
sult of an Interview with bis mother’s
slipper.
A dozen smartly gowned women and
as many men In evening clothes were
thrown Into a ludicrous panic when the
grasshoppers swarmed on the dining
room table at Mr*. Williams' summer
home In Oxford. Women grabbed
frantically at tbelr hair, where the In
sects flew, breaking coatly hair orna
ments, and a general mlx-up ensu'd.
Two women fainted and the party
was, broken up.
Richard Canfield doe* not need to
bother about the "lid" at Saratoga. He
is credited with being a winner to the
tune of $1,200,000 In the recent flurry
on Wall street. Another piece of be
lated- luck came to Police Sergeant
Meyers, of Brooklyn. He has been
spending his vacntlon at Saratoga and
has picked long shots so well that he
Is »30,00n richer than when ho started
on his trip.
THINGS TO THINK ABOUT.
The English vocabulary of a alum child of 6, ac
cording to a Scottish school Inspector, contains only two
or three doxen words. That of the average child of the
middle classes of tbo same age ts about 1,909 words
It ts said that the hides pf American live cattle sont
to England to be killed and eaten are by prearrangement
all sent back scrota tbe Atlantic, there to be tanned,
and mayhap roshlpped to England as leather or In boots
and shoes.
June 26, 1876, at the centennial exhibition In Phil
adelphia, the tolcphono waa tor tbe first llino exhibited
to the public. A fow months before, Alexander Graham
Bell bad perfected bis Invention, but It waa not until a'
month after the opening of the centennial that It occur
red to him to exhibit the wonder-working device at tbe
great fair.
On the late of Portland, In tbe south of Englnnd,
there are certain quarries of limestone which have been
worked for many years, In former times producing build
ing stone. In 1824 an. Englishman named Josepn Asplln
of Leeds patented a process for mixing and burning lime
and clay. The product rooked so much like the Portland
limestone that he called It "Portland cement,” from
which the commonly known name given to nearly all
kinds ot hydraulic cement was derived.
ABOUT PROMINENT PEOPLE.
The dowager empress of Russia Is extremely fond of
the Danish black or rye bread, such aa Is baked for tbe
soldiers. '
Representative Charles Curtis, of Kansas, ts the only
man tn congress who has Indian blood In hts veins. One
of bla remote ancestors was a noble red man.
James 8. Harlan, recently appolo'ed a delegate to
tbe Pan-American conference, waa known tn his younger
days as "the handsomest man tn Kentucky."
Thomas Nelson Page Is a quiet man who says little
yet his house la known In Washington as the place where
the host has tbe moat exacting Ideas as to tne qualifica
tions of bis guests.
The emir of Afghanistan recently discovered that
three of the muftis of hts court had been grafting, and
also had been guilty of oppressing the poor. He ordered
them buried alive, and this was done without delay.
When Elaowath, king of Cambodia, now on a visit
to France, takes bis walks one attendant carries a gold
cigarette case set with diamonds, another a gold match
box set with rubles, aad a third a gold cuspidor.
Andrew Carnegie, at Oravcaend, when he waa the
first distinguished stranger to receive tho freedom of
the borough, said that he understood only one machine
the human on*—and be always patted it on the back.
GEORGIANS IN GOTHAM.
By Private Lesneil Wire.
New York, Aug. 22.—Here are some
of the visitors In New York today:
ATLANTA—Mrs. F. Flexner, C. A.
Wlckersham.
AUOUSTA—Miss M. Jacob*.
MACON—C. B. Rhodes, J. L. White.
THIS DATE IN HISTORY.
AUGUST 22.
1138—Battle of The Mfnndard. Kflftand.
12*)— Pope Nicholas III tlhl.
ISO-Pblllppe IJeVnlolH of Kronen* died.
1486—Hlvhard III killed on Bo«worth field.
17?*— French dliwlory yrtiMMWii
1116—Warren Ilnutlng* tiled.
1626—Dr. Kraus Joseph Gall, founder of
phrenology, died.
lSfil-Utehard (Matter, leader of the tea-
hour ulovement In England, died.
1864—Fort Morgnn, Mobile bay, surrender-
etl to Farm gut.
1170—Proclamation by the president of
neutrality In tbe Kronco-l'rwodaii
wnr.
1677—(’anal around the Den Moines K fl P*
bls on Mississippi river opened.
1686-Prlnee Alexander of Bulgaria depos- »•
Provisional govern meat formed.
1886—Mrs. Mnybrbk s sentence commuted
to |M*na1 servitude for life.
1KC—Attempt tt* asmaalnate Pn-alneni
('respt* of Veuextieln. .
imS-Atturk made on Amorimn mission
sehistl nt Foochow, Chinn. #
1800—Lord Salisbury, prime minister or
KiurlniHl, died.
1904—Mrs. Maybrtck, after releuse^frota
“ ‘ prtapn, arrived
KSf
Lulled
Admiral Lord Charles Beresford, al
ter his release from command of tu«
British Mediterranean squadron, will
come to America. He will be the guest
of Colonel and Sirs. Robert M. Thomp
son. of New York, and when he goes to
England will be acrompanled by m»
daughter, Miss Kathleen Beresford.
now vixlt lng with them.
Sir Douglas Fox, who has been com
missioned to prepare the new plans for
the h>ng-talkcd-of Channel Tunnel, is
regarded by the members of his p]" -
fesslon as one of the greatest engin
eers of modern times. It I* owing to
hts marvelous creative and construct
ive getihis that the famous Cal* 10
Cairo railway developed into an actual
ity Instead of sn Impossible dream of
the Empire builder*