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■ THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN- WEDNESDAY. AT. The Atlanta Georgian. JOHN TEMPLE GRAVES. Editor. F. L. SEELY,-President. Telephone Connections. ot the appreciation which Georgia should feel for educa tional work of such vigor, of such courage and of such high and progressive Intelligence. Subscription Rates: Published Every Afternoon One Year $4.50 I Except Sunday by Six Month 2.50 | THE GEORGIAN CO. Three Months 1.25 at 25 W. Alabama Street, By Carrier, per week 10c I Atlanta, Ga. Entered as accond-rliM roattar April 25, 1906. at tha Poatolflca it 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.