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The Atlanta Georgian.
JOHN TEMPLE GRAVES, Editor.
F. L. SEELY, President.
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Entered as nerand-rtau matter April 28. ISOS, at the Poatofflee St
Attests, os., tinder set of rosareas of Mere! S^irt.
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 ia known, provided there la no possibility
ot a contest In the convention, the hungry slate will look
around for something more to stimulate Ita Interest.
Here In Atlanta we have something right at hand,
and It Is the state fair and the home coming which prom
ise to be the most notable and Important In the history
of the state. It Is altogether Important that we should
have a good governor and a good mayor and a good man
in all the other offices 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 the state. The attractions
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 homo 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 (he thrift and the culture ot the Empire State and
have made a place for themselves In the life and prog
ress of their adopted home.
But they would be glad to return to the red old hills'
of Georgia and mingle once more with the friends and
companions of their youth—those here and those gather
ed here from the widely separated sections to which they
have 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 tbe slate fair a great success.
of the appreciation which Georgia should feel for educa
tional work of such vigor, of such courage and of such
high and progressive Intelligence.
Brenau College and Its Lesson.
In educstlonal Institutions, as In all other forms of
public enterprise, it Is the progressive and courageous
spirit which produces results and establishes reputation.
No collbge In the 8outh has done more to vindicate
this proposition than Brenau College, located at Gaines
ville.
From the first day that Presidents Vanlloose 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
ern education. In the first place, the original college
at Gainesville was changed to Brenau College, and was
established from the very beginning upon a foundation
ot admirable merit In the personnel and attainment of
its faculty and In tbe equipment of Its several schools
after the moat heroic liberality.
The Brenau College established at Gainesville soon
ranked among the first of the state, and the entorprlslng
proprietors conceived tbe design of establishing other
oolleges upon the same foundation of merit In other
states. They hsve already established the Alabama
Brenau at Eufaula, which In Its first year recorded a
phenomenal success, filling the building to Its capacity,
and they are now erecting a beautiful new building aa
a mark of the appreciation and generosity ot the people
ot 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 the South.' Other notable
buildings will be erected around the site of the original
college.
In addition to Ita other attractions Brenau has or
ganised a Chautauqua association and will 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 bad tbe audacity to cross the ocean and establish
a branch Institution In Paris, that such of Its students
aa may wish to do so may receive the advantages com
ing from foreign study and travel. It Is not strange that
applications have already poured In for the next year
(or a connection with this foreign school. Brenau ia now
moving to establish a school In New York and In Wash
ington where young ladles from tbe South, after finishing
their 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 tbe other. The school Is al
ready drawing patronage from all over the United States,
North and Booth. Btudents are reglst^ed from Con
necticut and from California. One of tbe things which
baa been found most attractive In this great Brenau
system Is the fact that it has the best organised school
of oratory In tbe entire South, affiliated with the great
Emerson school of Boston, and the graduates of Brenau
are accepted without question Into tbe full fellowship
of the Emerson school.
Now, we submit to the judgment of thoee In Georgia
wbo are Interested In vigorous and progressive methods
of education that these pbenomeual and magntacent
achievements entitle the presidents ot Brenau College
to the appreciation and the congratulation ot the people
ot the South. Surely no Institution started under such
circumstances and with so little capital baa done so
much and done it so rapidly, to build up tbe fame of the
college and the educational reputation of the state. We
feel that editorial Indorsement and congratulation Is the
tsintest possible recognition for work so advanced and
so liberal and so beneficent a* this college has done.
Tbe career of Breneu marks a new era In the educa
tional growth of the South, and the mark of progress
which it has established will force -In necessity and in
competition s corresponding effort which will raise the
Standard of every female school in the South.
All ol which adds nsw emphasis to tbe heartiness
The Way to Save Our Women.
Whether Hoke Smith wins or loses In the battle of
the ballots tbe race question will live on, and In its vary
ing emergencies It must be met until It is finally answer
ed In the only and Inevitable way. ,
The Georgian struck a key note on yesterday which
is still vibrating In tbe hearts of this people today.
We have learned the great truth that lynching does
not stop tbe crime against our women. We have reach
ed by elimination the conclusion that other experiments
must be tried to Intimidate the criminals of the negro
race. One of the 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
the letter "R" significant of his crime and making him
an object ot suspicion for tbe rest ot 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 tbe criminal negro.
But beyond these and above these and more poten
tlal than all others, Is tbe stern and Insistent demand ot
our white civilization that the leaders of the negro race
shall give us from this time forth that co-operation which
they have heretofore refused. Tbe South Is growing
Indignantly tired ot negro tirades in central cities against
the lawlessness of lynching. We are tired ot negro plati
tudes and resolutions against the Injustice ot tbe 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 their own
people the earnest and passionate denunciation of thess
criminals wbo mtke the chief tension and the deadly
friction between the races.
Now see here: The South has for 25 years befriend
ed the negroes In svery practical way. We have helped to
build their churches, we have helped to sustain their
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
timent, The Georgian lifts Jts voice and protests that
henceforward It will give no dollar and lend no aid and no
co-operation to any negro Institution until Its officers, Ita
preachers. Its teachers and Its editors shall Join with us
In thundering Into the earn of the negro race tbe warning
and denunciation of this horrible crime.
Without passion, or at least without passion which Is
not richly duo 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 Ita preachers, Us teachers and Ita editors
In those Institutions are thundering the doctrine ot hell
and damnation to the assailants of white women.
Now this Is fair. It la just, and it It right
The South Is living under a shadow which no man
can estimate. Men whose public duties call them to pub
lic meetings are held at home because they are actually
afraid to leave their families alone even In tbe shelter
and sapctlty 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 porll In which their criminals
put the best element of our race? Are we to co-operate
with these people to build up Institutions In which they
do not preach the enormity of these offenses? Are we
to be forever held In a stato ot 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 ot an alien and sub
ordinate race?
We tell these teachers, these preachers and theae
editors that they have the most vital Interest In this af
fair. If tbe boundaries of restraint are ever broken by
this Caucasian race in a wild spirit of retaliation for n
condition which Imprisons and terrifies the noblest women
ot the world, they themselves will bo whelmed In the
tidal wave which follows.
And we say here and now to Booker Washington, to
Gaines, and Turner, to Proctor and to 8tlnson and to the
rest ot those who are so enger to rush into print to plead
for law and order, that If they have any regard for the
future ot their race and for themselves, they will take
the hint which Is not unkindly sent from this aroused and
Indignant race ot Caucasians, and will stand shoulder to
shoulder with us In demanding that every preacher in
every country pulpit and every editor of erery little 2x4
sheet and that every teacher In the city and country
schools shall devote some part of his sermon or some
portion of bis editorial, or some segment ot his scholastic
hours to preaching hell and damnation to all who are
guilty of this fiendish crime.
We assure these men that the .Caucasian sentiment
ot this country Is now being aroused as It never was
before. We need not and we will not continue to have
our women live under the shadow ot this fiendish negro
lust. We are going to free our women no matter what
the edit may be to another race. There Is no wildness of
passion and radicalism in this announcement. It these
men know anything they know that we demand It, and
they know that demand Is firmly stern and earnest.
When they have done their best they will command
our commendntton and the confidence of our race.
But os long as they continue to howl resolutions
against lynching and orate sgslnst lawlessness while they
are shamefully silent toward the crimes which produce the
mob, then the back of our hand Is sgslnst them and all
that they represent.
This Is the position which tho present tragic environ
ment sternly demands of the Saxon race, and we call up
on jjaxons wbo respect themselves to assume It every
where.
As to Joyner and Goodwin.
The Georgian understands that some of tho friends
of Captain Joyner feel that they have been discriminated
against by this paper In an editorial comment which Mr.
Goodwin baa been exploiting In his public advertisement.
Thts apprehension Is absolutely without foundation.
The Georgian has made but one editorial comment upon
tbe municipal race. In that comment it spoke kindly of
both candidates, if there was any difference In its com
ments that difference was In favor of Captain Joyner,
to whom we ascribed tho largest possibility and a better
chance of success.
Mr. T. H. Goodwin with great enterprise and vigor
seised upon the editorial paragraph rslatlng to himself
and baa used It with conspicuous publicity and success In
the advertising columns of the city papers. Captain
Joynsr and bla friends either through over confidence or
through e failure to appreciate the value of the matter,
have failed to make any use of the much stronger and
more effective comment'made upon hit candidacy. So that
the fault Is not by any mean* with the Impartial Georgian,
but muit be either attributed to tbe superior activity ot
Mr, Goodwin, or to the apathy and over-confidence of Mr.
Joyner's friends.
No honest judgment can find anything to complain
of In tho 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 tho adjournment
of congress for the clerks of tha appropriation commit
tees to nuke up the budget and determine Just how
much money has been appropriated.
This report has Just been completed and It Is shown
that the appropriations for this first session of the fifty-
ninth congress did not reach a billion dollars.
But, In the language ot the topical song, It "was
near it, very near It."
To be absolutely accurate, the appropriations
amounted to $879,589,185.15. The New York Commercial,
which gives out* the figures, shows that Insnddltlon to the
specific appropriations made, contracts are authorised to
be entered Into for public works, requiring future appro
priations by congress in tbe aggregate sum of $20,587,-
200. These contracts cover the following objects and
amounts: Fort Mason, Cal., $760,000; West Point MUl
tary Academy, $1,700,000; torpedo boat destroyers and
submarine torpedo boats, $2,750,000; public building In
Baltimore, for light vessels, light 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 $6,182,857.
The new offices specifically authorized are 6,934 In
number, at an annual compensation of $6,615,870.51, and
those abolished are 6,625, at an annual compensation ot
$4,010,109, a net Increase of 1,649 1 in number, and $2,
605,761.61 In amount.
Of this net Increase In number, eight are for the
library of Congress, 26 for the Department of Stato,
63 for the 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
ot Justice, 40 for the Department ol Agrloulture, 116 tor
tbe government ot the District of Columbia (Including
-33 school teachers, 12 firemen, 20 policemen and 22 em
ployees for the alma bouse), 17 for tbe military prison,
62 for the diplomatic and consular service, 51 for the
military establishment, 88 for the naval establishment
and 1,366 for the postal service (Including 36 assistant
postmasters, 798 clerks In postofflees and 592 railway
postal clerks).
Deducting from the net Increase ot 1,649 new salaries
and employments tbe 1,366 additional employees for tbe
postal service, there remain only 283 net Increase In em
ployments for all other departments and branches of the
public servcle.
The net ^umbor of salaries Increased Is 588, at an
annual cost of $374,449. Of this number 28 are In the
senate, 24 In the house ot representatives, 11 In the
Navy Department, five In the Department of Commerce
and Labor. 17 in the Department of Agriculture,.147 In
the District ot Columbia, 274 In the diplomatic and con
sular service and 10 In the postal service. The remain
ing-Increased salaries are In various branches of the
public service, and Involve generally small amounts.
Continuing, the New York Commercial says that
a comparison of the total appropriation lor tbe first
session ot the fifty-ninth congress—$879,589,185.16—with
that of the last session of the fifty-eighth congress—$820,-
184,634.96—shows an Increase of $59,404,560.20.
The principal Increases by acts are aa follows:
Agriciiltural act, $1,017,760, of which sum thq amount
ot $8,000,000 Is for meat Inspection service; diplomatic
and consular act, $968,046.45; postal act, $10,673,905,. In
cluding $3,030,000 for tbe rural tree delivery service; sun
dry civil act. $31,726,319.06. Including $26,466,416.08 as a
new Item tor the Isthmian Canal, and more than $6,000,-
Increase In sums required to meet contracts author
ised for work on rivers and harbors.
The deficiency acts show an Increase of $7,465,746.73,
but they 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 $9,546,039.27. The appropriations
made In miscellaneous sets exceed these ot the previous
session by $24,748402.29, Including $10,250,000 under the
new statehood act, $10,275,500 for new public buildings
and $1,000,000 tor arming and equipping the mltltla.
Tbe permanent annual appropriations are reduced
$6,760,000; the fortification act shows a redaction of $1,-
693,900, and, as no river and harbor act was passed, a
reduction of $18,181,876.41 la made on that account.
Other Increases and reductions are made In the va
rious acts, the whole showing a net increase, as stated,
of $69,404,650.20, which, sum Includes $42,447,201.08 for
the Isthmian canai; as a new element ot expenditure.
Howell, Dick Russell. Big Jim Smllh and the South Oeor
gla candidate, J. H. Estlll, Bay ho has not come Into the
right fold and he 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 It seema we still have five varieties of Democra
cy left even fn Democratic Georgia, and now It Is in order
for the man who holds 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
tbe 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 that this fold was tho
Simon-pure, blue-ribbon, red-shirt, all wool and a yard
wide, unadulterated Democracy, since he has always pro
claimed In no uncertain volco hfs Jeffersonian Democra
cy.
Now the situation demands that the rank and filo 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 the 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 skilled manip
ulator of tickets, ready to supply the right kind at the
right minute and In the right place, for the fold that will
win Is tho fold that has the best counters and most
skilled manipulators. Now the Clark Howell shepherd Is
crying aloud In the' bills and highways In startling head
lines In his paper. The Constitution, now Infamous for
Its distortions and misrepresentations—that the Hoke
Smith wing and leader Is a fake—a fraud. Insincere, hypo
critical, a defrauder of men and desplser of the rights of
women—without conscience 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.
Tbe South Georgia candidate, who knows he can
not be elected but la out for an airing of hts good deeds
and pure Democracy, and the defense of his section. He
loves the piny woods and wlregrass South Georgia
so well that ho wants a governor to come from Its
homes. All right. Brother Estlll, but did you ever sup
port a South Georgia candidate when one offered? How
about the Norwbbd-Colquitt race? Which side did you.
take, and how muoh did you contribute to pay taxes of
negroes to vote In that election? Let's be 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 a
whisky man—wanted more and better whisky. Now we
all know thlst was good, sound Andrew Jackson Democra
cy and It is strange that Thomas E, Watson or Hon.
James Hines did not enter your fold whon they wero
seeking the genuine. Simon-pure artlclo of Democracy—
and you are offering to lead your followers up to the
tafe of Clark Howell fold, and It possible, push them Into
its 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
tho splendid things you said ot 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-boles and cesspools you have
created.
Now you have had this advantage ot poor Dick
Russell, whoso chief recommendation Is that he is a
poor man with nine children and wants an office and
wants one bad. Ho needs It In his 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 had 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 tbe South Georgia candidate, his followers are
In a narrow limit; the bounds of his former judicial cir
cuit; and they can and will only be led up to and, If
possible, Into the Clark Howell fold. Since poor Dick
las no mud-slinging organ, he will have to draw by his
good looks and explaining his true and tried Democracy
and then he said so first—even before the Divine called
had been summoned to tend the hosts of Simon-pure Dem
ocracy of the good old Grover Cleveland kind, had an
nounced. and that Is a long way back, as we all know.
Dick ought to have chartered him a mud-sllnger. This is
his weak point.
Then wo have Big Jim Smith from the hills of Big
Creek, Oglethorpe courtly. He whose Democracy Is of the
true Lucinda kind as they call it In that good old county.
And who by blood money wrung from manacled human
beings, worked to tbe 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 n palace car seeking help, not to elect him
for he knows he has no chance, but his Democracy is
so pure and genuine that be can help the other fellow
beat tbe fellow that Tom Watson favors ang In whose
fold Tom and a lot of his kind have entered—when
they see the still waters and the green pastures before
them—and Big Jim will have less trouble to drive in and
turn over his fellows to the other fold than the Sonth
Georgia candidate, because ho has a stronger hold on
them and they coat more and will be closer watched
when they come to the grand rounding up ol the Inno
cents.
^■Now this Is the situation as 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-
Ing, slanderous, vicious, unholy political struggle in Geor
gia It was more than fifty years ago. and the stench
of this kettle offish 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 the situation, which Is critical? Echo
answers which. A VET.
THING8 TO THINK ABOUT.
The English vocabulary of a slum child of 6, ac
cording to a Scottish school Inspector, contains only two
or three dozen words. That of the average child of tbe
middle claasea of the same ago Is about 1,000 words
It Is said that the hides of American live cattle sent
to England to be killed and eaten are by prearrangement
all sont back across the Atlantic, there to be tanned,
and mayhap reshlpped to England os leather or In boots
and shoes.
June 25. 1876, at the centennial exhibition In Phil
adelphia,-the telephone was for the first time exhibited
to the public. A few months before, Alexander Oraham
Bell had perfected bla Invention, but it was not until a
month after the opening of the centennial that It occur
red to him to exhibit tbe wonder-working device at the
great fair.
On the Isle of Portland, In the south of England,
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 looked so much like the Portland
limestone that he called It "Portland cement,” from
which the commonly known name given to nearly all
kinds n? hydraulic cement was derived.
A RAP FOR ALL OF THEM.
To the Edltoi of The Georgian:
The varieties of Democrats now being exploited be
fore the people of Georgia Is strange, wonderful and
remarkable.
A tew years ago tbe Hon. Thomas E. Watson, then
Populist leader and canvassing tbe state for the Popu
list ticket, said In a speech delivered at Cordelc that
there were then seventeen kinds of Democrats in the
United States and he named moet If not all of the varie
ties and said that he had been Invited and urged to return
to the Democratic fold, but he said that he really could
not tell which fold to enter with so many doors all open
wide and labelled the true Democracyand he did not
enter because of the uncertainty of getting Into the right
fold. But It seema after some years of wandering in the
bleak and barren hills of Populism, he hat found the
right door and entered the right fold and has proclaimed
hts arrival al home and to stay. The prodigal has return
ed to hts father's house and there Is great rejoicing
In tho Hoke Smith camp. But the other fellows, Clark
i GOSSIP
By CHOLLY KNICKERBOCKER
By Private l^oieil Wire.
•Ven Fork, Aug. 22 J. Q. a. Wai
the- famous American sculptor,' h
taken unto himself a wife and It’Is h
third, and his friends have not reco-
ered from the ehock of the ennmin,-,
ment yet. Mr. Ward le now 7& yen J
old. He declines to make known the
Identity of his bride.
"Why should you nek?" he lipilred.
Does the public care? I am not a
kaiser or president. I would prefer
that nothing be aald, and certtlnly it
Is not necessary that X should tell th ,
name of the lady. I was marrlel about
a month ago. and that Is all I care to
say about It." , lu
.. F ' ro ™ »n°‘k«v source It waslearned
that the bride was a widow ami j,
about 40 years old. She ant\ M-. Wart
had been acquainted many yej-.-..
Mr. Wart will retire from lie |. ro .
teuton when he completes hi statue
of General Hencock.
William Rockefeller Is to eret a half
million dollar mansion for Is
Percy, and family to oocuivy t Green
wich, on the borders of his uer park
and almost on tho site If theild hovel
where David S. Ilusted. a mWr. spent
his last days. It Is to be he nnest
house In town, no expense helg spared,
dll take two years to bull it.
trey Rockefeller’s brothe William
O., lives almost across the reel from
the new house, his home blng « re.
modeled farm house, resemXng three
square boxes of different :ixe», but
very comfortably arranged it its in-
teriqr. v
The famous "Poet Sonon, of Mark
Twain's "Innocents Abroad Blood,
—wirt H. Cutler, of Little Net I,, i,
bed as the result of a sejus oed-
mt.
Mr. Cutlar, who la 86 yearnf age. Is
sufferer from rheumutlsh As he
opened the door with hls-rutch It
ewung back and hit him.
I learn from a sure source hat tht
Duchess Consuelo of Marlboris soon
to pay another visit to this onritry
It la the Impression that she v| bring
at least one of her children th her
to see the land of his mothei birth
and the place where her famllyinmey
comes from.
Although suffering from sev e in
juries received when a train stt-k hia
automobile on August 2. Lon n,
Conklin, an attorney of 6» Wailtreet,
will today wed Miss Grace Frjs-e, of
New Haven, at the time they lg w t
for the ceremony. She has nursi hhn
at the hospital. He will have ■ be
married on a stretcher.
Platinum has Jumped in price re
cently, and se a one of there. .
suits, diamonds, jewelry, artificial -th
and many articles used on bio
graphic, chemical and electrical tiles
are growing costlier. It Is all dato
the troubles In Russia. The gnv n .
ment there owns the mines In tho VI
mountains, and la trying to fncreasu
revenue. A week ago the metal c\d
be bought for $24, but It non- costs,*
an ounce. A year ago It sold for,|
and $18.60.
The small boy must have his ft
but there was nn Impression man
those present that Gregory Wllllsn
the 14-year-old son of Mrs. Gregn
Williams, of Brooklyn, N. Y., enrrh
the joke too fur when he let loose l
grasshoppers at a dinner party iff
Gregory wears a pained look as the u
suit ot an Interview with his mothef
slipper.
A dozen smartly gowned women as
as many men In evening clothes wer-
thrown Into a ludicrous panic when tin
grasahoppara swarmed on the dining
room table at Mr*. Williams' summer
home In Oxford. Women grabbed
frantically at their hair, where the In
sects flew, breaking costly hair orna
ments, and a general mlx-up ensu'd.
Two women fulnted and the party
was broken up.
Richard Canfleld does not need to
bother about the "lid” at Saratoga. He
la credited with being a winner to th*
tunc of $1,200,000 In the recent (lurry
on Wall street. Anothor piece of be
lated luck came to Police Sergeant
Meyers, 'of Brooklyn. He has been
spending hts vacation at Saratoga and
has picked long shots so well that he
la *30,000 richer than when he started
on hla trip.
GEORGIANS IN GOTHAM.
By Private Leased Wilt*.
New York, Aug. 2|.—Here are some
of the visitors In.NeW York today:
ATLANTA—Mrs. r. Flexner, C. A
Wlckersham. 1
AUGUSTA—Mias 3. Jacobs.
MACON—C. B. Rhidea, J. L. White.
ABOUT PROMINENT PEOPLE.
The dowager empress of Russls is extremely fond ot
the Danish blsck or rye bresd,' such as Is baked for the
soldiers. ' . N
Representative Charles Curtis, of Kansas, Is the only
man In congress wbo has Indian blood in his veins. One
ot hla remote ancestors was a noble red man.
James S. Harlan,'recently appointed a delegate to
the Pan-American conference, was known In his younger
days as “the handsomest man In Kentucky.^'
Thomas Nelson Page Is a quiet man wbo says little
yet hts honse Is known In Washington as the place where
the host has the moet exacting Ideas as to me qualifica
tions ot his gueeta.
The emir of Afghanistan recently discovered that
three of the muftis ot his 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 Blsowath. king of Cambodia, now on a visit
France, takes his walks one attendant carries a gold
cigarette caee set with diamonds, another a gold match
box *et with rubies, and a third a gold cuspidor.
Andrew Carnegie, at Gravesend, when he was the
first distinguished stranger to receive the freedom of
the borough, said that he understood only one machine
the human one—and he alwavs patted It on the beck.
THIS DATE IN HISTORY.
AUGUST:
1138—Untile uf The Htnndeit England.
1285—Pope N'lrholna* lit dlt
IBS—Philippe DeVnlola of frnn-t- died.
I486—Richard III killed on h* worth Odd.
1786—French directory eatntyhed.
HIS—Warren Itnxtlng* diet
1828—Vr. Freni Joseph lint found.-
phrenology, died. \ ^^ffi
1E81—utrhard Gautier, letnlerof the ten-
hour movement In Engh^i, died.
ISM—For* Mnrgno, Mobile lie, surrender-
ed to Farrugut.
187tt—Proclamation hy the Rald.-iu "t
neutrality In the Fr%>lTu»»U«
wnr.
1877—t'nnal around the Pea Mae* Hip-
Ida on Mlrudaalppt river wiu-d.
1SS6—Prince Alexander of Iliilgaa deposed.
Provfatonal government fo**d.
1889—Mrs. Mnyhrlrk'a nenience mummed
to jieiinl eervltmle for life.:
ISPS—Attempt to nanniodlinte »|v«ld.-nl
t'rrapo of Venezuela.
1886—Attack made on America! nilr-ios
M-honl at Foochow, t’lilna.
1903-I.orU gnllahnry, prime milter of
England, died.
1944—Mr*. Mayhrtck. after .releo from
English prison, arrived In Lulled
State*
Admiral Lord Charles Beresfit, al
ter hit rcterse from command f mo
British Mediterranean nquadro: will
come to America. He will be theurxt
of Colonel and Mrs. Robert M. Tnip-
aon, of New York, and when he (a t->
Englnnd will be accompanied n bit
daughter, Mjaa Kathleen Bereml,
now visiting with them.
Sir Douglas Fox, who has been >n-
mlsaloned to prapare the new plainer
the long-talked-of Channel Tunnel*
regarded by the members of hie >-
feealon as une of the greatest em*
eera of modern times. It la owlngr
his marvelous creative and conairu.
ive genius that the famoow Cope
Cairo railway developed Into an actui
tty Instead of an Impossible dream
the Empire builders.
