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THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN.
WEDNESDAY, ATTEST
The Atlanta Georgian.
JOHN TEMPLE CRAVES, Editor.
F. L. SEELY, President.
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of the appreciation which Georgia should feel for educa
tional work of auch vigor, of such courage and of such
high and progressive Intelligence.
Cstvml as second-class matter April 25, ISOS, tt tbs Pottofllea at
Atlanta. Gs.. under act ot confrere et March A IPS.
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
•round for something more to stimulate Its Interest.
Here In Atlanta we have something right at hand,
and it it 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
bsve a good governor and a good mayor and a good man
in all the other offlces 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 ail unite, as soon as today's conflict Is
ovsr, 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
ot visitors to come to Atlanta during the fall festivities,
The evidences of Georgia’s growth and development will
be large and convincing and then the home coming
will be one of the most unique and delightful features
ever devised.
There are thousands of Georgians scattered through,
out the country. Wherever they have gone they have
carried the thrift and the culture of the Empire State and
have made a place for themselves In the life and prog
ress ot their adopted home. '
But they would be glad to return to the red old bills
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 wholo state can
unite. There is no bitterness and partisanship In this
event It Is to be a festival ot love and good will and
* testimonial of our civic and Industrial strength.
So as soon as this contest ot today Is over let us all
unite and make the state fair a great success.
Brenau College and Its Lesson.
in educational Institutiona, at In all other forms ot
public enterprise, It is the progressive* and courageous
spirit which produces results and establishes reputation.
No college In the South has done more to vindicate
this proposition than Brenau College, located at Gaines
ville.
From the first day that Prealdenta VanHooae and
Pierce took charge of the college In Gainesville, It began
• progressive career In which every year has marked
some new and vital Improvement along the lines of mod
em education. In the first place, the original college
at Gainesville wae changed to Brenau College, and was
established from the very beginning upon a foundation
of admirable merit la the personnel and attainment of
its faculty, and In the equipment ot ita several school*
after the most heroic liberality.
The Brenau College established at Gainesville soon
naked among the first of the state, and the enterprising
proprietors conceived the design of establishing other
oolleges 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 tho building to Ita capacity,
end they are now erecting a beautiful new building as
a mark of the appreciation and generosity of the people
ot Eufaula.
Brenau College haa 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
ot any similar building In the South. Other notablo
buildings will be erected aronud the site of the original
college.
In addition to Its 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 la New York. Brenau has done more than this.
It bfs had the audacity to croes the ocean and establish
• 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 ts not strange that
applications have already poured In for the nett year
tor a connection-with this foreign school. Brenau Is now
moviog to eetabllsh a school In New York and In Wash
ington when young ladles from the South, after finishing
their eouraee at Gainesville and Eufaula, may spend a
year lu the capital' or metropolis of tho United States.
And each of these great schools Is united In one splendid
chain, working under a perfect system which wilt con
tribute to the success of the other. The achoot Is 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 things which
haa been found moat attractive In this great Brenau
system Is the fact that It has the best organised school
of oratory In the entlra 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 tboee 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
of the South. Surely no Institution started under such
circumstances and with so little capital has done so
much and done It so rapidly, to build up the fame of the
college and the educational reputation of th^ state. We
feel that editorial-Indorsement and congratulation Is the
faintest possible recognition for work so advanced and
so liberal and so beneficent aa this college haa done.
The career of Brenau 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 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 lose*-in the battle of
the ballots the race queatlon 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 stilt vibrating in the heirts 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 authorising the mutilation ot the
criminal and the branding of him on the forehead with
the letter "R" significant of his crime and making him
an object of suspicion for the rest of time.
The other experiment is to devise some new and
mysterious form of punishment wrapped in darkness and
in mystery which will appeal to the terror and to the
superstition ot 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 the leaders of the negro race
shall give us from this time forth that co-opsration which
they have -heretofore refused. The South is growing
Indignantly tired of negro tirades In central cities against
the lawlessness of lynching. We are tired of negro plati
tudes and resolutions against the injustice of the South
toward the nepro. And we have utterly lost patience
with those paclilb 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 who make the chief tension and the deadly
friction between the races.
‘ Now see here: The South ha* for $5 years befriend
ed the negroes in every practical way. We have helped to
build their churches, we have helped to austaln their
schools, we hive buried their dead and^helped to main-
tala their living sometimes In Idleness and sometimes In
want. But now as one unit in the mass ot Southern sen
timent, The Georgian lifts its voice and protests that
henceforward it wili give no dollar and lend no aid and no
co-operation to any negro institution until Us officers, its
preachers. Its teachers and Us editors shall Join with us
in thundering into the ears of the negro race the warning
and denunciation ot this horrible crime.
Without passion, or at least without passion which is
not richly due and Justified, we ask our brethren of the
Southern press and our Caucasian friends and brethren
everywhere to take this firm and unalterable stand—that
they will help no negro church, newspaper or school until
they know that Its preachers. Us teachers and Us 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 South le 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, la the South. We are free people and a
great country. Are we to live forever under this shadow
and under this terror? Are we to sit still and help to
build up these negro Institutions when they are silent
and apathetic toward the peril In which their criminals
put the beat element ot our race? Are wo to co-operate
with these people to build up Institutions In which they
do not preach the enormity ot these offenses? Are we
to be forever held In a state of selge with our women
trembling In fear and terror when they are alono? Is
the liberty which our fathers bought with tbelr blood to
bo 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 tho boundaries of restraint are ever brokon by
this Caucasian rnco In a wild spirit ot retaliation for a
condition which Imprisons and terrifies the noblest women
of tho 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 Stinson and to the
rest ot those who are so eager to rush Into print to plead
tor law and order, that If they have any regard tor the
future of tbelr race and tor themselves, they will take
the hint which la not unkindly sent from this aroused and
Indignant race of Caucasians, and will stand ahoulder to
shoulder with us In demanding that every preacher In
every country pulpit and every editor of every little 2x4
sheet and that every teacher In the city and country
schools shall devote some part of his sermon or some
portion of his 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
of this country la now being aroused aa It never was
before. We need not and we will not continue to hare
our women live under the shadow of this fiendish fiiegro
lust. We ere going to tree our women no matter what
the cost may be to another race. There Is no wildness of
passion and- radicalism In this announcement. If these
men know anything they know tAat we demand It, and
they know that demand Is firmly (tern and earnest.
When they have dqne their best they will command
our commendation and tho confidence of our race.
But as 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 hand Is against 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-
As to Joyner and Goodwin.
The Georgian understands that some ot the friends
of Captain Joyner feel that they have been discriminated
against by this paper In an editorial comment which Mr.
Goodwin has been exploiting In his 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 bette:
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 zuccesz in
the advertizing columns ot the city papers. Captain
Joyner and his friends either through over confidence or
through a failure to appreciate the value of the matter,
have failed to make any use of the much stronger and
more effective comment made upomhis candidacy. So that
the fault is not by any means with the Impartial Georgian,
but mutt be either attributed to the tuperior activity of
Mr. Goodwin, or to the apathy and over-confidence of Mr.
Joyner’s friend*.
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*
tier. ,
What Congress Really Appropriated.
It requires some little time after the adjournment
of congress for tho clerks of the appropriation commit
tees to make up the budget and determine Just how
much money has been appropriated.
Tbia report has just been completed and tt 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 $879,689485.16. The Nsrw 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 $20,687,-
200. These contracts cover the following objects and
amounts: Fort Mason, 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 capitol 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 liabilities, with those
of the last session of the last congress, amounting to
$26,770,067 shows a reduction of $6,182,867.
The new offlces specifically authorized are 6,934 In
number, at an annual compensation of $6,616,870.51, and
those abolished are 6,525, at an annual compensation of
$4,010,109, a net increase of 1,649 in number, and $2,
606,761.51 in amount.
Ot this net Increase In number, eight are for the
library of Congress. 26 tor the Department ot State,
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, 49 for the Department of Agriculture, 116 for
the government ot the District ot Columbia (Including
33 school teachers, 12 firemen, 20, policemen and 22 cm-
plpyeca for the alms hquse), 17 for the military prison
62 for the diplomatic and consular service, 61 for the
military establishment, 38 for the naval establishment
and ljtt for tho postal service (Including 36 assistant
postmasters, 798 clerks In postofflees and 592 railway
postal clerks).
Deducting from tho 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 ot the
public servete.
The net number of salaries Increased Is 688, at an
annual cost of $374,419. Of this number 28 ar* la the
senate, 24 In the house of representatives, 11 In the
Navy Department, five la 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 the total appropriation for the first
session of the fifty-ninth congress—$879,589,186.16—with
that of tho last session of the fifty-eighth congress—$820,-
184,634.96—shows an Increase of $59,404,660.20.
The principal Increases by setd are aa follows:
Agricultural act, $3,047,750, of which sum tho amount
of $3,000,000 la tor meat Inspection service; diplomatic
and consular act, $968,046.46; 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 $26,456,415.08 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 harbors
The deficiency, acts show an increase ot $7,466,746.73,
but they include as. new Items $$6,990,786 for the Isth
mian canal, which If excluded would Indicate a reduc
tion on account ot the deficiencies as compared with .the
previous session of $9,645,039.27. The appropriations
made in miscellaneous acts exceed these ot the previous
session by $24,748,202.29. including $ld,250,000 under the
new statehood act, $10,276,500 tor new public building!
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 $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 $59,404,650.20, which sum Includes $42,447,'201.08 for
the Isthmian canal, as a new element ot expenditure.
A RAP FOJt ALL OF THEM.
To the Editoi of The Georgian:
The varieties of Democrats now being exploited be
fore the people of Georgia i* 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 States and he named most if not all of the varie
ties and aald that he had-been Invited and urged to return
to the Democratic fold, but bo said that he really could
not tell which fold to enter with so 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 tt seems after some years of wandering In the
bleak and barren hills of Populism, he has found the
right door and entered the right fold and has proclaimed
Howell. Dick Russell, IIIk Jim Smith and tho South Gcor
gla candidate, J. H. Estlll, Say he has not come Into the
right fold and ho Is still a prodigal, a wandering freak,
a tremendous fraud, a terrible deceiver and not worthy to
be called a son of the Simon-pure, unadulterated Democ
racy. So It seems we still have five varieties of Democra
cy left even In Democratic Georgia, and now It 1b in order
for the man who holds midnight cqmmunlona with Hoke
Smith to bring out the best robe and a ring and put them
on blm, kill the fatted calf. On with the dance; sound
the loud timbrel over the land, the lost Is found, tho
dead Populist Is a live Democrat In one branch,-division
or fold of Democracy known as the Hoke Smith kind—
and Thomas must have discovered 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 voice his Jeffersonian Democra
cy.
Now tho situation demands that the rank and file who
are anxious to get Into the right fold of Democracy be
enlightened, since the followers of the Hon. Clark How
ell claim they are 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 tbo 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 bis paper, The Constitution, now infamous for
Its distortions and misrepresentations—that the Hoke
Smith wing and leader Ib 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
de&l like a fish factory In June. But these other three
good and true Democrats.
The Sputh Georgia candidate, who knows he can
not bo elected but Is out for an airing of his good deeds
and pure Democracy, and the defense ot bis section. He
lores the piny woods and wlregraaa South Georgia
so well that ho wants a governor to come from Ita
homes. AH'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 bow much did you contribute to pay taxes ot
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 this wsb 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 np to the
gate of Clark Howell fold, and If possible, push them Into
nls gate. But there are many old rams In your flock and
followers who can’t be driven in that fold and will break
and scatter over South Georgia and go home to read
the splendid things you 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 restor .' the mud and sluah, and to
replace some of the 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 and
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 be had the Simon-pure Democracy to offer
he too might havei had Tom Watson, Yancy Carter or
Charlie McGregor helplhg him lead and drive his herd.
But like the 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
wsslble, Into the Clark Howell fold. Since poor Dick
las no mud-slinglng organ, he. will have to draw by his
good looks and explaining his true and tried Deiribcracy
and then he said so first—even before the Divine called
had been summoned to lead the hosts of Simon-pure Dem
ocracy of the good old Grover Cleveland kind, had an
nounced, and that 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 tho hills of Big
Creek, Oglethorpe county. Ho whose Democriicy Is of tho
true Lucinda kind as they call It In that god)! old county. '
And who by blood money wrung from manacled human
beings, workeq 10 tbe limit of human endurance, can
buy him n mud sllnger and set his Larry Gantt going
with bis little 2x4 organ, and who can ride over middle
Georgia In a palace car seeking help, not to elect him
for be knows he has no chance, but his Democracy la
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 ot his kind have entered—when
they aee the still waters and tbo green pastures before
them—and Big Jim will have less trouble to drive In and
turn over hts fellows to the other fold than the South
Georgia candidate, because he has a stronger hold on
them and they cost more and will be closer watched
when they come to the grand rounding up ot the Inno
cents.
Now this Is the situation as It appears to an out-
alder 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 of flsh will disgust and annoy the nos
trils of decent people for years to come. And yet the
pure Democracy In live doses is offered. Which shall we
take to relieve the situation, which Is critical? Echo
answers which. a VET.
THINGS TO THINK ABOUT.
The English vocabulary of a slum child ot 6, ac
cording to a Scottish school inspector, contains only two
or three dozen words. That of the average child of tho
middle classes ot tho same age Is about 1,000 words
It Is said that the hides of American live cattle Boat
to England to bo killed and eaten are by prearrangement
all sent back across the Atlantic, there to be tanned,
and mayhap reahtpped 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 tt was not until a
month after the opening ot the centennial that It occur
red to him to exhibit the wonder-working device at the
great fair. *
On the late ot Portland, In the south of England,
there' are certain quarries of limestone which havo been
worked for many years. In former times producing build
ing stone. In 1824 an Englishman named Joseph Asplln
ot 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 o? hydraulic cement wae derived.
I gossip!
By CHOLLY KNICKERBOCKER.
By Private Leaaed Wire.
New York, Aug. 22.-J. Q. A . \v ard .
the famous American sculptor, has
taken unto hlmselt a wife and It Is hii
third, and hla friends have not reonv.
ered^from the shock of the announce,
ment yet Mr. Ward is now 76 years
old. He declines to make known th.
Identity of hts bride.
"Why should you ask?" he Inquired.
"Does the public care? I am not ,
kaiser or president. I would prefer
•that nothing be said, and certainly it
Is not necessary.that I should tell
name of the lady. I was married about
a month ago, and that Is all I care to
“* about It."
.. another source It wes learned
that the bride wa* a widow and i,
about 40 years old. She and Mr. w ar d
had been acquainted many years
Mr. Ward will retire from his pro
fession when he completes hla statue
of General Hancock.
William Rockefeller Is to erect a half
million dollar mansion for his s .,n.
Percy, and family to occupy In Green-
Wlch, on the borders of hla deer park
and almost on the site If the old hovel
where David S. Husted, a mlaer, H,*nt
hl« 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
, 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 i n .
terior. « ,
The famous "Poet Sonon,” of Mark
Twain's "Innocents Abroad," niood.
good H. Cutler, of Little Neck, I,. I. u
In bed as the result of a serious acci
dent.
Mr. Cutler, who Is 86 yeara of age is
a sufferer frofn rheumatism. As hs
opened the door with • hts crutch It
swung back and hit him.
I learn from a sure source that the
Duchess Consuelo of Marlboro la sons
to pay another visit to this country.
It Is the Impression that she will bring
at least one of her children with her
to see the land of hie mother's birth
and the place where her fan.ily money
comes from.
Although suffering from severe in-
Juries received when a train struck his
automobile on August 2, Lewis R
Conklin, an attorney of 5# Wall street,
wilt today wed Miss Grace Frlsbee, or
Nbtv Haven, at the time they had set
for the ceremony. She has nursed him
at the hospital. He will have to bs
married on a stretcher.
Platinum has Jumped In price re
cently, and as a one of the re
sults, diamonds, Jewelry, artificial teeth'
and many articles used on proto-
graphjc, chemical and electrical trades
are growing costlier. It la all due to
the troubles In Russia. The govern
ment there owns the mines In the Ural
mountains, and le trying to Increase Us
revenue. A week ago the metal could
be bought for $24, but It now costa 128
an mince. A year ago It sold for ill
and .818.60.
The email boy must have hfs fun,
but there was an Impression among
those present that Gregory Williams,
the 14-year-old non of Mrs. Gregory
Williams, of Broqklyn, N. Y\. carried
the Joke too for when he let loose 400
rnuishoppera at «f dinner party apd
Gregory wears a pained look aa the re
sult of an Interview with hts mother's
slipper.
A dozen* smartly gowned women anti
as many men In evening clothes were
thrown Into a-ludlcrous panic when the
grasshoppers swarmed on the dining
room table at Mrs. Williams' summer
home In Oxford. Women grabbed
frantically at their hair, where the In
sects fiew, breaking costly hair orna
ments. and a general mlx-up ensu'd.
Two women fainted and the party
was broken up.
Richard Canfield does not need to
bother about the "Hd" 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 rime to Police Sergeant
Meyers, of Brooklyn. He has been
spending his vacation at Saratoga and
has picked long Shota so well that he
Is $30,000 richer than when he started /
on his trip.
GEORGIANS IN GOTHAM.
By Private Leased Wire.
New York, Aug. 22.—Here arc some
of the visitors In New York today:
ATLANTA—Mrs. F. Flexner, C. A
Wlckersham.
AUGUSTA—Miss M. Jacobs.
MACON—C. B. Rhodes, J. L. It hlte.
„ . . .. . _ his arrival at home and to stay; The prodigal has return-
Saxons who respect themselves to assume it every* I ts j t„ bis father’s house and there is great rejoicing
where. tin the Hoke Smith camp. But the other fellows, Clark
ABOUT PROMINENT PEOPLE.
The dowager empress of Ruasla is extremely fond ot
the Danish black or rye bread, such as is baked for the
soldiers.
v
Representative Charles Curtis, of Kansas, Is the only
man In congress who has Indian blood in his 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 hla 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 ideas as to me qualifica
tions of his guests.
The emir of Afghanistan recently discovered that
three of the muftis ot his court had been grafting, and
also had been guilty ot oppressing the poor. He ordered
them buried alive, and this was don* without delay.
When Elaowath, king of Cambodia, now on a visit
to France, takes his walks one attendant carries a gold
cigarette case set with diamonds, another a gold match
box set with rabies, and a third a gold cuspidor.
- Andrew Carnegie, at Gravesend, when he was the
first distinguished stranger to receive tho freedom of
the borough, said that he understood only one machine
th* human one—and he alwavs patted tt on the back.
THIS DATE IN HISTORY.
AUGU5T22.
lUS-ltnttle Ilf The Hts tula r<L Klixlnn't.
1280— 1'o|n» Nicholas III died.
DeVntoIs of Frame died.
1486—Illchard 111 killed on Bosworth Held.
1796— French directory cstsldlshctl.
1818—Warren Hastings tiled.
1826—Iir. Frans Joseph (lull. thunder of
phrenology, died.
1861—Metisrd dustier, lender of the fen-
hour movement la England, died.
1864—Fort Morgan, Mobile boy, surrender
ed to FamitfJt.
1876— Proclamation by the president
neutrality In tbe Franco
war.
1S77—t’unsl around tbe De* Moines Hnp*
bis on Mississippi river opened.
1886—Prince Alexander of Bulgaria ileposes.
Provisional government formed. ,
1886—Mrs. Mnybrick’s sentence commuted
to iiensl servitude for life. f
i«XS-Attempt to timunmlnat» 1 rt-MuB*
t'respo of Veuesueln. . . ...
1H6—Attuek made on American nilsslo*
whind st Foochow, Chinn. t
WO#—Lord Salisbury, prime * minister 01
England, illed. ,
1904—Mrs. Mnyhrirk, nfter release from
English prison, arrived In 1 *» ,wa
States.
Admiral Lord Charles Beresford, - 1 **
ter his release from command of tn«
British Mediterranean squadron,
come to America. He will be the gw.i
of Colonel and Mrs. Robert M* Thomp
son, of New’ York, and when he goes m
England will he accompanied by h» B
daughter, Ml ml Kathleen Bare* ford*
now visiting with them.
Sir Douglas Fox, who has been com
missioned to prepare the new plans rw
the long- talked -of Channel Tunnci,
regarded by the members of his pro
fession an one of the greatest engm*
eers of modern times. It Is owing j*
his marvelous creative and cons^ru-J*
ive genius that the famo»»«* Fai** ’
Cairo rallw’ay developed into an actual
ity Instead of an Impossible dream
the Empire builders.