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The Atlanta Georgian. JOHN TEMPLE GRAVES, Editor. F. L. SEELY, President. Subscription Rites: One, Year $4.50 Six Months 2.50 Three Months ..... 1.25 By Carrier, per week 10c Published Every Afternoon Except Sundsy by THE GEORGIAN CO. st 25 V. AlVbtmi Street, Atlanta; Ga. 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.