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THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN-
WEDNESDAY. AT.
The Atlanta Georgian.
JOHN TEMPLE GRAVES. Editor.
F. L. SEELY,-President.
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ot the appreciation which Georgia should feel for educa
tional work of such vigor, of such courage and of such
high and progressive Intelligence.
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Atlanta. Ga.. under act of congreaa of Ifirch 3. 1179.
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 the 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
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 tilled 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 ua all unite, aa soon as today's conflict 1b
over, In making the state fair of next October the most
•uccessful 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 home coming
will be one of the moat unique and delightful features
ever devised.
There are thousands of Georgians scattered through
out the country. Wherever they have gone they havo
carried the thrift and the culture of the Empire State and
have made a place for thdmselvei In thd life and prog
ress ot 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
companion! 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 ua 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 la 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 the first dsy that Presidents VanHoose and
Pierce took charge of the college In Gainesville, It began
a progressive career' In which overy year has marked
aome 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
of admirable merit In the personnel and attainment of
its faculty and In the equipment of Its several schools
after the most heroic liberality.
The Brenau College established at Galneavllle 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 first year recorded a
phenomenal success, filling the building to Its capacity,
and they are now erecting n beautiful now bnlldlng as
a mark of the appreciation and generosity of the people
of Eufaula.
Brenau College hai just begun a building for a high
grade military academy at Galnoaville, 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 Its other attractions Brenau haa or
ganized 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 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 study and travel. It Is not strange that
applications have already poured In for the next year
for 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 the 8outh, 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 the other. The school la al
ready drawing patronage from all over the United States,
North and South. Students are registered from Con
necticut and from California. One of the thlnga which
haa been found moat attractive In this great Brenau
system la the fact that It haa the best organised school
of oratory In the entire South, affiliated with the great
Emerson school of Boston, and the graduates of Brenau
are accepted without question Into the full fellowship
of the Emerson school.
Now, we submit to the judgment of those In Georgia
who are Interested In vigorous and progressive methods
of education that these phenomenal and magnificent
achievements entitle the presidents of Brenau College
to the appreciation and the congratulation of the people
ot 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 the
college and the educational reputation of the state. We
feel that editorial Indorsement and congratulation Is the
faintest jxwsible recognition for work so advanced and
so liberal and so beneficent as this college has done.
The career of Brenau marks s 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 a corresponding effort which will raise the
standard of every female school In the South.
All of which adds new emphasis to the heartiness
The Way to Save Our Women.
Whether Hoke Smith wins or loses In the battle of
the ballots the race quesUon 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 the hearts of this people today,
We have learned the great truth that lynching does
not stop the 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 authorizing the mutilation of the
criminal and the branding of him on the forehead with
the letter “R" significant of hla 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
■uperstltlon of the criminal negro.
But beyond these and above these and more poten
tial than all others. Is the stern and insistent demand of
our white civilization that Jhe leaders of the negro race
Bhall give us from this time forth that cooperation which
they have heretofore refused. The South Is growing
Indignantly Bred of negro tirades In central cities against
the lawlessness of lynching. We are tired ofYiegro plati
tudes and resolutions against the Injustice ot 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 ot 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 who make the chief tension and the deadly
friction between the races.
Now see here: The South has for 25 years befriend
ed the negroes In every 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 ift idleness and sometimes In
want. But now as one unit In the mass of Southern sen
timent. The 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 Bhall join with us
In thundering into the ears ot the negro race the warning
and denunciation of this horrible crime.
Without passion, or at least without passion which la
not richly due and. justified, we ask our brethren of the
Southern press ahd 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 Its editors
In those institutions are thundering the doctrine of hell
and damnation to the assailants ot white women.
Now this Is fair. It is Just, and It Is right.
The 8outh 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 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 free people and a
great country. Are we to live forever under this shadow
and under this terror? Are we to sit stilt and help to
build up these negro Institutions when they are silent
and apathetic toward the peril In which their criminals
put the best element of our race? Are we to co-operate
with those peopfo to build up Institutions In which they
do not preach the onormlty ot theso offenses? Are we
to be forever y held In a state ot aetge 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 preachers and these
editors that they have the most vital Interest In this af
fair. If the boundaries of restraint are ever broken by
this Caucasian race In a wild spirit of retaliation for a
condition which Imprisons and terrifies the noblest women
of the world, they themselves will be whelmed In the
tidal wave which follows.
And we say here and now to Booker Washington, to
Gaines, and Turner, to Proctor and to Stinson and to tha
rest of those who are sq eager to rush Into print to plead
for taw and order, that If they have,any regard for the
future of their race and for themselves, they will take
the hint which Is not unkindly sent from this aroused end
indignant race ot Caucasians, and will stand shoulder to
shoulder with us In demanding that every preacher In
every country pulpit and every editor ot every little 2x4
aheet and that every teacher In the city and country
schools shall devote some part of his sermon or some
portion of his editorial, or some segment of 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
of this country Is now being aroused aa 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 coat may be to another race. There Is no wildness of
passion and radicalism In this announcement. If 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 commendation and the confidence of our race.
But aa long as they continue to howl resolutions
against lynching and orate against lawlessness while they
are shamefully silent toward the crimes which produce the
mob, then the back of our band Is against them snd 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 Saxons who respect themselves to assume it every-
As to Joyner and Goodwin.
The Georgian understands that some of the friends
ot Captain Joyner feel that they have been discriminated
against by this paper In an editorial comment which Mr.
Goodwin has been exploiting In hla 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
ments 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 haa used it with conspicuous publicity and success In
the' advertising columns of the city papers. Captain
Joyner and his friends either through over confidence or
through a failure to appreciate the value ot the matter,
have failed to make any use of the 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-confidence of Mr.
Joyner’a 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.
where.
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 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 of the topical song. It “was
near it, very near It”
To be absolutely accurate, the appropriations
amounted to (879,689,185.16. The New York Commercial,
which gives out the 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 sum of (20,587,-
200. These contracts cover the following objects and
amounts: Fort Maaon, Cal. (760,000; West Point Mili
tary Academy, (1,700,000; torpedo boat destroyers and
submarine torpedo boats, (2,760,000; public building in
Baltimore, for light vessels, light houses, life-saving tug,
derelict destroyer, heat, light and power plant and sub
way system for eapltol and other buildings, and for
school buildings In the District of Columbia, (2,018,700;
new public buildings throughout the country, (13,368,600.
A comparison of these contract natalities, with thosb
of the last session of the last congress, amounting to
(26,770,067 shows a reduction of (6,182,857.
The new offices specifically authorized are 6,934 In
number, at an annual compensation of (6,615,870.61, and
those abolished are 6,525, 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 the Treasury Department (Including 48 for the
office ot the treasurer of the United Statea), six for
the Independent treasury, four for the War Department,
three for the Navy Department, 15 for the Department
of Justice, 49 for the Department of Agriculture, 116 for
the government of the District ot Columbia (Including
33 school teachers, 12 firemen, 20 policemen and 22 em
ployees for the alms house), 17 for the military prison,
62 for the diplomatic and consular service, 61 for the
military establishment, 38 for the naval establishment
and 1,366 for the postal service (Including 35 assistant
postmasters, 798 clerks In postofflcea and 693 railway
postal clerks).
Deductyig from the net Increase of 1,649 new salaries
and employments the 1,366 additional -employees for the
postal service, there remain only 283 net Increase in em
ployments for all other departments and branches of the
public servcle.
The net number of salaries Increased Is 588, at an
annual cost of (374,449. Of this number 28 are In the
senate, 24 In the house of representatives, 11 In the
Navy Department, five In the Department of Commerce
and Labor, 17 In the Department of Agriculture, 147 In
the District of 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 tbs total appropriation for the first
session of the fifty-ninth congress—(879,589,185.16—with
that of tho last session of the fifty-eighth congress—(820,-
184,634.96—shows an Increase of (69,404,660.20.
The principal Increases by acta are as follows:
Agricultural act, (3,047,760, of which sum the amount
of (3,000,000 la for meat Inspection service; diplomatic
and consular act, (968,010.45; postal act, (10,673,905, In
cluding (3,030,000 for the rural free delivery service; sun
dry civil act, (31,726,319.66, Including (&,456,415.08 as a
new Item for the Isthmian Canal, and more than (6,000,-
000 Increase In sums required to meet contracts author
ised for work on rivers and harbora.
The deficiency acta show an Increase of (7,465,740.73,
but they include aa new Items (16,990,786 for the Isth
mian canal, which If excluded would Indicate a reduc
tion on account ot the deficiencies as compared with the
previous, session ot (9,545,039.27. 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, (10,275,600 for new public buildings
and (1,000,000 for arming and equipping the militia.
The permanent annual appropriations are reduced
(6,760,000; the fortification act shows a reduction of (I,-
693,900, and, as no river and harbor act waa passed, a
reduction of (18,181,876.41 Is made on that account.
Other Increases and reductions are made in the va
rious acts, the whole showing a net Increase, as stated,
of (59.404,660.20, which sum includes (42,447,201.08 for
the Isthmian canal, as a new element of expenditure.
a rAp FOR ALL OF THEM.
To the Edltoi ot The Georgian;
The varieties of Democrats now being exploited be
fore the people of Georgia Is strange, wonderful and
remarkable.
A few years ago the Hon. Thomas E. Watson, then
a Populist leader and canvassing the state for the Popu
list ticket, said In a speech delivered at Cordele that
there were then seventeen kinds of Democrats In the
United 8tatos and he named most 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 ao many doors all open
wide and labelled the true Democracy; and he did not
enter because of the uncertainty of getting Into the right
fold. But It seoma after some years of wandering In the
bleak and barren hills of Populism, he has found the
right door and entered the right fold nnd haa proclaimed
hla arrival at home and to stay. The prodigal has return
ed to his father's bouse and there is great rejoicing
Howell, Dick Russell, Big Jim Smith nnd the South Geor
gia candidate, H. Kstill, say lie lias not come into tile
right fold and he- is still a prod leal, a wandering freak,
a tremendous fraud, a terrible deceiver and not worthy to
be called g son of the Simon-pure, unadulterated Democ
racy. 8o It seems we still have five varieties of Domoera
cy left even In Democratic Georgia, and now It Is In order
for the man who holds midnight communions with Hoko
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, the
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 the
Simon-pure, blue-ribbon, red-shirt, all wool and a yard
wide, unadulterated Democracy, alnce he.haa always pro
claimed In no uncertain voice his Jeffersonian Democra
cy.
Now the situation demands that the rank and file who
are anxious to get Into the right fold of Democracy be
enlightened, alnce 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 the 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 the fold that has the best counters and most
skilled manipulators. Now the Clark Howell shepherd Is
crying aloud in the hills 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.
The South Georgia candidate, who knows he can
not bo elected but is out for an airing of hla good deeds
and pure Democracy, and the defense of his section. He
loves the piny woods and wlregrass South 'Georgia
so well that he wants a governor to come from ita
homes. All right, Brother Estlll, but did you ever 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 be consistent, Col
onel Estlll. When Dupont Guerry, a South Georgia man,
waB 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 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 they were
seeking the genuine. Simon-pure article of Democracy—
and you are offering to lead your followers up to the
gate of Clark Howell fold, and If possible, push them Into
his gate. But there are many old rams In your flock nnd
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 said 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 tho mud-holes and cesspools you have
created.
Now you have had this advantage of poor Dick
Russell, whose chief recommendation is that he Is a
poor man with nine children and wants an office nnd
wants one bad. He 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 the South Georgia candidate, hla followers are '
In a narrow limit; the bounds of his former Judicial cir
cuit; and they cab and will only be led up to and, If
K ssible, Into the Clark Howell fold. Since poor Dick
a no rnud-sllnglng organ, he will hnve to draw by hla
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 ot 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 we have Big Jim Smith from the hills of Big
Creek,- Oglethorpe county. He whose Democracy la 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. the Unfit 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 hla Democracy Is
so pure and genuine that he can help the other fellow
beat the fellow that Tom Watson favors and In whose
fold Tom and a lot of his kind have entored—when
they see the still waters and tho greon pastures before
them—and Big Jim will have less trouble to drive In and
turn over hla -fellows to tho other fold than the South
Georgia candidate, because he has a stronger hold on
them and they cost more and will bo closer Watched
when they come to the grand rounding up of tho Inno
cents.
Now this Is tho situation aa It appears to an out
sider on tho eve of this grand rounding up of forces,
and If thore 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 tho stench
of this kettle of fish will disgust and annoy the nos
trils of decent people for years to come. And yet the
pure Democracy In five doses Is offered. Which shall we
take to relieve tho situation, which is critical? Echo
answers which. , a VET.
THINGS 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 the
middle classes of the same age 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
nil sent back across the Atlantic, there to be tanned,
and mayhap reshlpped to England as 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 Graham
Bell had perfected hla Invention, but It was not until a
month after the opening of the centennlul that It occur
red to him to exhibit the 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 qtone. In 1824 an Englishman named Joseph Aaplin
of Leeds patented a process for mixing and burning lime
and clay. The product looked ao much like the Portland
limestone that he called It "Portland cement,” from
which the cothmonly known name given to nearly all
kinds o? hydraulic cement was derived.
ABOUT PROMINENT PEOPLE.
The dowager empress or Russia Is extremely fond of
the Danish black or rye bread, such as la baked for the
soldiers.
Representative Charles Curtis, of Kansas, Is the only
msn In congress who has Indian blood In hla veins. One
of his 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 who says little,
yet his house Is known In Washington as the place where
the host has the most exacting ideal as to the qualifica
tions of his guests.
The emir of Afghanistan recently discovered that
three of the muftis of his court had been grafting, and
also had been guilty of oppressing the poor. He ordered
them buried alive, and this waa donq without delay.
When Elsowath, king ot Cambodia, now on a rlstt
to France, takes hla walks one attendant carries a gold
cigarette case set with diamonds, another a gold match
box set with rubles, and a third a gold cnspldor.
Andrew Carnegie, at Gravesend, when he waa the
first distinguished stranger to receive the freedom of
the borough, said that he understood only one machine
I GOSSIP
By CHOLLY KNICKERBOCKER.
By Private Leased Wire.
New York. Aug. 22.—J. Q. a. Ward
the famous American sculptor, haa
taken unto himself a wife and It u hla
third, nnd his friends have not reenv.
ered from the shock of the announce
ment yet. Mr. Ward Is now 7« yeara
old.- He declines to make known th«
Identity df his bride.
"Why should you ask?" he Inquired.
"Docs the public care? I am not a
kaiser or president. I would prefer
that nothing be said, and certainly it
Is not necessary that I should tenth,
name of the lady. I was married about
a month ago, and that Is all I core ,,,
say about It."
From another' source It was learned
that the bride was a widow and ?,
about 40 years old. She and Mr. Ward
had been acquainted many years
Mr. Ward will retire from his pro.
tension when he completes his statue
ot 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 nark
and almost on tl*e site If the old hovel
where David S. Husted, a miser, .pent
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, hts home being a re
modeled farm house, resembling three
square boxes of different sizes, but
very comfortably arranged In Its in.
tertor.
The famous "Poet 8onon,” of Mark
Twain's “Innocents Abroad," Blood-
ood H. Cutler, of Little Neck, L. I., la
a bed as the result of a serious acci
dent.
Mr. Cutler, who Is 85 years ot age, la
a sufferer from rheumatism. As he
opened the door with his crutch It
swung back and hit him.
I learn from a sure source that the
Duchess Consuelo of Marlboro Is soon
to pay another visit to this couitrv.
It is the Impression that she will trlng
at least one of her children with her
to see the land of his mother's tlrth
nnd the place where her family matey
comes from.
Although suffering from severe n-
jurles received when a train struck tis
automobile on August 2, Lewis R.
Conklin, an attorney of 59 Wall stre.t,
will today wed Miss Grace Frlsbce, .f
New Haven, at the time they had s<
for the ceremony. She has nursed hln
at the hospital. He will have to b
married on a stretcher.
Platinum has jumped In price re
cently, and ns a one of the re
suits, diamonds, Jewelry, artificial teetl
and many articles used on proto-
graphic, chemical and electrical trudet
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 124
an ounce. A year ago It sold for 118
and (18.50.
The small hoy must have his fun.
but there was an Impression among
those present that Gregory Williams,
the 14-year-old son of Mrs. Gregory
Williams, of Brooklyn, N. Y„ carried
the Joke too far when he let loose 400
grasshoppers at a dinner party and
Gregory wears a pained look as the re-
suit of an Interview with his mother'*
slipper.
A dozen smartly gowned women and
ns many men In evening clothes were
thrown Into a ludicrous panic when tho
grasshoppers swarmed on the dining
room table at Mrs. Williams’ summer
home In Oxford. Women grabbed
frantically at their hair, where the In
serts flew, breaking costly hair orna
ments, and a general mlx-up ensu'd.
Two women fainted and the party
was broken up.
Richard Canfleld does 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 vacation at Saratoga and
has picked long shots so well that he
Is 130,000 richer than when he started
on his trip.
GEORGIANS IN GOTHAM.
By Prlrato I-eased Wire.
New York, Aug. 22.—Here are some
of the visitors In New York today:
ATLANTA—Mrs. F. Klexner, C. A.
Wlckersham.
AUGUSTA—Miss M. Jacobs.
MACON—C. B. Rhodes, J. L. White.
THIS DATE IN HISTORY.
AUGUST 22s
1138—Rattle or Tho Htmuliiril. Englaml.
1280— Po|n» Nicholas 111 died.
1350—Plilllp|)e IteVnlolN of Franco died.
1496—Richard III killed on Bo* worth fluid.
1798—French directory established*
1918—Warren Haatlinrs died.
1829—l»r. Frans Jo»4*ph Gall, founder of
phrenology, died.
1991—Itlchard Oastler. leader of the *ea*
hour movement In Hnglaiid, did.
1894-Fort Morgan, Mobile bay, ■urrcutlw
ed to Farm gut.
1870—Proclamation by the president *
neutrality in the Frauco-I ruidan
war.
1877—Canal around the Dea Molne* Bap-
Ids on Mississippi rlrer opened.
Provldloiial government
1880--Mr*. Mayhrick'a sentence
to penal servitude for life.
1998—Attempt to mow**! no to
Crespo of Yeneauela
commuted
President
In the Hoke Smith camp. Dut the other fellows, Clark I the human one—and he always patted it on the back.
19K>—Attack made ou American nil*d° B
nchool at FoocboWt China. .
1903—I.ord Salisbury, prime minister *
Kiiglaml, died. . .
1984—Mrs. Maybrlck, after rrtaass
Kngll.li prison, arrived In Lolita
State..
Admiral Lord Charles Beresford. al
ter his release from command of im
British Mediterranean squadron.
come to America. He will be the gu>
of Colonel and Mrs. Robert M. Thomp
son, of New York, and when he goe*
England will be accompanied by i»»
daughter, Miss Kathleen Bereft’ 1 ,
now visiting with them.
Sir Douglas Fox, who has been com
missioned to prepare the new plans mr
the long-talked-of Channel Tunnel i*
regarded by the members of hla
fession as one of the greatest engin
eers of modern times. It Is owing «*
his marvelous creative and conairu* t-
ive genius that the famous Cape m
Cairo railway developed Into an actual
ity Instead of an Impossible dream ul
the Empire builders.