The Atlanta Georgian. (Atlanta, GA.) 1906-1907, August 22, 1906, Image 6

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- THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN. } The Atlanta Georgian. JOHN TEMPLE GRAVES, Editor. F. L. SEELY, President. r Telephone Connections. Subscription Rttes: One.Yeir........ $4.50 Six Months 2.50 Three Months 1.25 By Carrier, per week 10c Published Every Afternoon Except Sundsy by THE GEORGIAN CO. tt 25 W. Alabama Street, Atlanta, Ga. * 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*