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GEORGIAN.
WEDNESDAY, ACC.rST 22. 1909.
The Atlanta Georgian.
JOHN TEMPLE GRAVES, Editor.
F. L. SEELY, President.
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Now for the State Fair.
By tonight the die will have been ciit 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
ot a contest in the convention, the hungry state will look
around (or 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 moBt 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 us all unite, as soon as today's conflict Is
over, In making the state fair of next October the most
successful In the history of the state. The attractions
already provided are such as should Induce thousands
of visitors to come to Atlanta during the fall festivities,
The evidences of Georgia’s growth and development will
be large and convincing and then the home coming
will be one of the most unique and delightful features
ever devised.
There are thousands ot 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 of their adopted home.
But they would be glad to return to the red old hills
of Georgia and mingle once more with the friends and
companions of their youth—those here and those gather
ed here from the widely separated sections to which they
have gone.
This Is something on which the whole state can
unite. There Is no bitterness and partisanship In this
event. It Is to be a festival ot love and good will and
a 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 Institutions, as In all other forms of
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 Presidents VanHoose and
Pierce took charge of the college In Gainesville, It began
a progressive career In which every year has marked
some new and vital Improvement along the lines of mod
ern education. In the first place, the original college
at Gainesville was changed to Brenau .College, and was
established from the very beginning upon a foundation
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 Gainesville soon
ranked among the first‘of the state, and the enterprising
proprietors conceived tho 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 Ita first year recorded a
phenomenal success, filling tho building to Its capacity,
and they are now erecting a beautiful new building as
a mark ot the appreciation and generosity of the people
ot Eufaula.
Brenau College has just begun a building for a high
grade military academy at Gainesville, to cost $40,000,
and to be the most completely and perfectly equipped
of any similar building In the South. Other notable
buildings will be erected around tho site of the original
college.
In addition to Its other attractions Brenau has or-,
gantxed a Chautauqua association and will next summer
at beautiful Chattahoochee Park put Into operation a
great summer school modeled after that parent Chnu-
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 South, after finishing
their courses at Gainesville and Eufaula, may spend a
year In the capital or metropolis ot 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 ot the other. The school 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
has been found most attractive In this great Brenau
system is the ract that It has the best organised school
ot 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
ot 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 sp 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 possible recognition for work so advanced and
so liberal and so beneficent as this college has done.
The career ot Brenau marks a new era in the educa
tional growth of the 8outb, and the mark of progress
which It has established will force In necessity and in
' competition a corresponding effort which will raise the
standard ot every female school In the South.
, All of which adds new emphasis to the heartiness
of the appreciation which Georgia should feel for educa
tional work of such vigor, of such courage and of such
high and progressive Intelligence.
The Way to Save Our Women.
Whether Hoke Smith wins or loses in the battle of
the ballots the race question will live on, and In Its vary
ing emergencies It must be met until It Is finally answer
ed In the only and Inevitable way.
The Georgian struck a key note on yesterday which
Is suit 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 those experiments
seems to be a statute authorising thp mutilation of the
criminal and the branding of him on the forehead with
the letter "R” significant of his crime and making him
an object of suspicion for the rest ot time.
The other experiment Is to devlsd some new and
mysterious form ot punishment wrapped In darkness and
in mystery which will appeal to the terror and to the
superstition 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 civilisation that the leaders ot the negro race
shall give us from this time forth that cooperation 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 sgalnst the Injustice of 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 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 haB 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 burled their dead and helped to main
tain their living sometimes In idleness and sometimes In
want. But now sb 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
co-operation to any negro institution until Its officers. Its
preachers, Ita teachers and its editors shall Join with us
In thundering Into the ears of the negro race the warning
and denunciation of this horrible crime.
Without passion, or at least without passion which Is
not rlebly due and justified, wo ask /our brethren of tho
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, Its teachers and Its editors
In those Institutions are thundering the doctrln^ of hell
and damnation to the assailants of white women.
Now this Is fair. It Is just, and It Is right.
The South is living under a shadow which no man
can estimate. Men whose public duties call them to pub
lic meetings are held at home because they are actually
afraid to leave their families alooo 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 still and help to
build up these negro Institutions when they are silent
and apathetic toward the peril In which their criminals
put the best eloment of 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? Aro we
to be forever held In n state of selge with our women
trembling In fear and terror when they are alono? Is
the liberty which our-fathers bought with their blood to
be surrendered to the foul terror of an alien and sub
ordinate race?
We tell these tenchers, these preachers and these
editors that they have the most vital Interest In this af-
fnlr. If the boundaries of restraint aro ever brokon by
this Caucasian race In a wild spirit ot. retaliation for a
condition which Imprisons nnd terrifies the noblest women
ot 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 the
rest of those who are so eager to rush Into print to plead
tor law and oyder, that If they have any regard for the
future ot their race and for themselves, they will take
the hint which Is not unkindly sent from this aroused and
Indignant race of Caucasians, and will stand shoulder 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 of hit scholastic
hours to preaching hell nnd damnation to all who are
guilty of this fiendish crime.
We assure these men that tho Caucasian sentiment
of this country is now being Broused as It never was
before. We need not and we will not continue to have
our women live under the shadow of this fiendish negro
lust. ' We are going to free our women no matter what
the cost may be to another race. There It no wildness ot
passion and radicalism In this announcement. If these
men know nnythlng they know that we demand It, end
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 as long as they continue to howl resolutions
sgalnst lynching and orate against lawlessness while they
are shamefully silent toward the crimes which produce the
mob, then the back of our hand li against them and all
that they repreeent.
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 aasnme It every
where.
As to Joyner and Goodwin.
The Georgian understands that some of 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 bis public advertisement.
This apprehension Is absolutely without foundation.
The Georgian has made but one editorial comment upon
the municipal race, fn 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
seised upon the editorial paragraph relating to himself
and has 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 of 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 Georgtan,
but must be either attributed to the superior activity of
Mr. Goodwin, or to the apathy and over-confidence ot Mr.
Joyner’s friends.
No honest judgment can find anything to complain
of In, the treatment which this paper has accorded to
txjth candidates and of the decided leaning which It evi
denced toward. Its older and nearer friend—Captain Joy
ner. ,
What Congress Really Appropriated.
It requires some little time after 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 qjiown
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 $879,589,185.16. 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 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 systom for capital and other buildings, and for
school buildings In the District of Columbia, $2,018,700;
new public buildings throughout the country, $13,368,500.
A comparison of these contract liabilities, with those
of the last session of the last congress, amounting to
$26,770,057 shows a reduction ot $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 5,525, at an annual compensation of
$4,010,109, a net Increase of 1,649 In number, and $2,-
605,761.61 In amount.
Ot 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 of the treasurer of the United States), 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 of Columbia (Including
33 school teachers, 12 firemen, 20 policemen and 22 em
ployees for the alms house), 17 for the military prison,
62 tor the diplomatic and consular service, 51 for the
military establishment, 38 for the naval establishment
and 1,366 for the postal service. (Including 35 assistant
postmasters, 798 clerks In postoffices and 692 railway
postal clerks).
Deducting 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 ot the
public servcle.
The net number of salaries Increased Is 588, at an
annual cost ot $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 nnd con
sular service and 10 In the postal service. The remain
ing Increased salaries are In various branches ot 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—$879,689,185.16—with
that of the last session of the fifty-eighth congress—$820,-
184,634.96—shows an Increase ot $69,404,550.20.
The principal Increases by acts are as follows;
Agricultural act, $1,047,750, of which sum the amount
of $3,000,000 Is for meat Inspection service; diplomatic
and consular act, $968,046.46; postal act, $10,673,905, In
cluding $3,030,000 tor the rural free delivery service; sun
dry civil act, $31,726,319.66, Including $26,466,415.08 as a
new Item for the Isthmian Canal, and more than $6,000,-
000 Increase In sum* required to meet contracts author
ised for work on rivers and harbors.
The deficiency acts show an Increase ot $7,465,746.73,
but they Include as new Items $16,990,786 for the Isth
mian canal, which It excluded would indicate a reduc
tion on account of the deficiencies as compared with the
previous session of $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 plllltla.
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 $18,181,875.41 Is made on that account
Other Increases and reductions are made In the fu
rious acts, the whole showing a net Increase, as stated,
ot $59,404,550.20, which sum Includes $42,447,201.08 for
the Isthmian canal, as a new element ot expenditure.
A RAP FOR ALL OF THEM.
To the Edltoi of The Georgian:
The varieties of Democrats now being exploited be
fore the people of Georgia Is strange, wonderful and
remarkable.
A 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 Cordcle that
there were then seventeen kinds of Democrats In the
United States and be named most tf not all of the varie
ties and said that he had been Invited and urged to return
to the Democratic fold, but he said that he really could
not tell which fold to enter with so many doors all often
wide and labelled the true Democracy: and he did not
enter because of the uncertainty of getting Into the right
fold. But It seems after some years ot wandering In the
bleak and barren hills of Populism, be has found the
right door and entered the right fold and has proclaimed
his arrival at home and to stay. The prodigal has return
ed to his father's house and there Is great rejoicing
In the Hoke Smith camp. But the other fellows, Clark
Howell, Dick Russell, Big Jim Smith and the South Geor
gia candidate, J. H. Estlll, say he has not come Into the
right fold and he Is still a prodigal, a wandering freak,
a tremendous fraud, a terrible deceiver and not worthy to
be called a son of the Simon-pure, unadulterated Democ
racy. So It seems we still have five varieties of Democra
cy left even In Democratic-Georgia, and now It Is In order
Jor the man who holds midnight communions with Hoke
Smith to bring oui the best robe and a ring nnd 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 wa8 the
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 the situation demands that the rank and file who
are anxious to get Into the right fold of Democracy be
enlightened, since the followers of tha 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 tho right place, for the fold that will
win Is the told thht 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 nnd 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 be elected but Is out for an airing of his 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 Its
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,
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 wo
all-know this was good. Bound 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 arc offering to lead your followers up to the
gate ot Clark Howell fold, and If possible, push them Into
his gate. But there are many old rams In your flock and
followers who can’t bo 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-
sllnglng machine, but when the campaign is over you
may have trouble to restore the mud and slush, and to
replace some ot the mud-holes and cesspools you have
created. *
Now you have had ttfis advantage of poor Dick
Russell, whose chief recommendation is that he Is a
poor man with nine children and waqts 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 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, hlB followers are
In a narrow limit; the lyrands of hts former Judicial cir
cuit; and they can and will only be led up to and, If
possible, Into the Clark Howell fold. Since poor Dick
has no mud-slinging organ, he will have to draw by his
good looks and explaining his true and tried Democracy
nnd 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 Grovor Cleveland kind, had an
nounced, nnd that Is a long way back, as we all know.
Dick ought to have chartered hint a mud-sllnger. This Is
hts weak point.
Then wo have Big Jim Smith from the! hills of Big
Creek. Oglethorpe.county. He whose Democracy Is of the
true Lucinda kind as they call It In that good old county.
And who by blood money wrung from manacled human
beings, worked to the limit of human endurance, can
buy him- a mud sllnger and set his Larry Gantt going
with his little 2x4 organ, and who can ride over middle
Georgia In a palace car seeking help, not to elect him
for he knows he has no chance, but hlB Democracy Is
so pure and genuine that he can help the other fellow
beat the fellow that Tom Watson favors anffi in whose
fold Tom and a lot of his kind have entered—when
they see the still waters and tho green pastures before
thdm—and Big Jim will have less trouble to drive In and
turn over his fellows to the other fold than the South
Georgia candidate; because ho has a stronger hold on
them and they coat more and will bo closer watched
when-they come to the grand rounding up of the Inno
cents.
Now this Is the situation as tt appears to an out
sider on the eve of this grand rounding up of forces,
and If there was ever a more corrupt, dirty, mud-sllng-
Ing, slanderous, vicious, unholy political struggle in Geor
gia It (was more than fifty years ago. and tho stench
of this kottle of fish will disgust ,nnd annoy the nos
trils of decent people for years to come. And yet tho
pure Democracy In five doses Is offered. Which shall wo
take to relieve the situation, which Is critical? Echo
answers which. a VET.
THINGS TO THINK ABOUT.
The English vocabulary of a slum child of 5, ac
cording to a Scottish Bchool 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 ot American live cattle sent
to England to be killed and eaten are by prearrangement
all sent back across the Atlantic, there to be tanned,
and mayhap reshlpped to England ns leather or la 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 his Invention, but it was not until a
month after the opening of the centennial that It occur
red to him to exhibit the wonder-working device at the
great fair. *
On the Isle ot Portland, In the south of England,
there are certain quarries of limestone which have been
worked for many years. In former times producing build
ing stone. In 1824 an Englishman named Joseph Asplln
of Leeds patented a process for mixing and burning lime
and clay. The product looked so much like the Portland
limestone that he called It “Portland cement," from
which the commonly known name given to nearly all
kinds o? hydraulic cement was derived.
ABOUT PROMINENT PEOPLE.
The dowager empress of Russia Is extremely fond of
the Danish black or rye bread, such as Is baked for the
soldiers.
Representative Charles Curtis, of Kansas, Is the only'
man In congress who has Indian blood In his veins. One
ot his remote ancestors was a noble red man.
James 8. Harlan, recently appointed a delegate to
the Pan-American conference, was known In hie younger
days as “the handsomest man in Kentucky."
Thomas Nelson Page Is a quiet man jrho says little
yet hts house is known In Washington as the place where
the host has the moit exacting Ideas as to me 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 burled alive, and this was done without delay.
When Eleowatb, king of Cambodia, now on a visit
to France, takes his walks one attendant carries a gold
cigarette cate set with diamonds, another a gold Match
box set with rubles, and a third a gold cuspidor.
Andrew Carnegie, at Gravesend, when he was the
first distinguished stranger to receive the freedom of
the borough, said that he understood only one machine
the human one—and he always patted It on the back.
! GOSSIP 1
By CHOLLY KNICKERBOCKER.
By Private Leased Wire.
New York, Aug. 22.—J. Q. A . Ward
the famous American sculptor, has
taken unto himself a wife and It’ In hi.
third, and his friends have not reeov.
ered from the shock of the announce-
ment yet Mr. Ward Is now 76 years
old. He declines to make known the
Identity of his bride.
“Why should you ask?" he Inquired
“Does the public care? 1 am not a
kaiser or president. I would prefer
that nothing be said, and certainly it
Is not necessary that I should tell the
name of the lady, I was married about
a month ago, and that Is all 1 care to
say about It.”
From another source It was learned
that the bride was a widow and is
about 40 years old. She and Mr. Ward
had been acquainted many years
Mr. Ward will retire from his' pro.
fcsslon when he completes his statue
of General Hancock.
William Rockefeller Is to erect a half
million dollar mansion for his sow
Percy, and family to occupy In Green-
wlch, on the borders of his deer park
and almost on the site if the old hovel
Where David S. Husted, a miser spent
his last days. It Is to bo the finest
house In town, no expense being spared.
It will take two years to build It
Percy Rockefeller's brother. William
O., Uvea almost across the street frum
the new house, his home being a re
modeled farm house, resembling three
square boxes of different sizes, hut
very comfortably arranged In its In-
terior.
The famous “Poet Sonon," of Mark
Twain's “Innocents Abroad," Blood-
good H. Cutler, at Little Neck, L. 1. Is
In bed as tho result of a serious acci
dent.
Mr. Cutler, who Is 85 years of age, Is
a sufferer from rheumatism. As he
opened the door with his crutch It
swung back and hit him.
X learn from a aure source that the
Duchess Consuelo of Marlboro is soon
to pay another visit to this country.
It Ib the impression that she will bring
at least one of her children with her
to see tho land ot his mother's Birth
and the place where her family money
comes from.
Although suffering from severe In-
Jurleo received when a train struck his
automobile on August 2, Lewis R,
Conklin, an attorney of 59 Wall street,
will today wed Miss Grace Frlsbee, of
New 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-
graphic, chemical and electrical trades
are growing costlier. It Is all due to
the troubles In Russia. The govern
ment there owns the mines In the Ural
mountains, nnd Is trying to Increase Its
revenue. A week ago the metal could
be bought for $24, but it now costs 138
an ounce. A year ago It sold for <11
and $18.60.
The small boy 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 WO
grasshoppers fit a dinner parly apd
Gregory wears a pained look as the re
sult of an Interview with his mother's
slipper.
A dozen smartly gowned women and
as many men In evening clothes were
thrown Into a ludicrous panic when the
grasshoppers swarmed on the dining
room table at Mrs. Williams' summer
home In Oxford. Women grabbed
frantically nt their hair, where the In
sects flew, breaking costly hair orna
ments, nnd a general mlx-up ensu-d.
Two women fainted and the party
was broken up.
Richard Canfield does not need to
bother about the "lid” at Saratoga. He
Is credited with being n 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
Meyerie’ of Brooklyn. He has been
spending his vacation at Saratoga and
has picked long shots so well tlmt he
Is $30,000 richer than when he started
on his trip.
GEORGIANS IN GOTHAM.
By Private l.ensed Win-.
New York, Aug. 22.—Here are 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. White.
THIS DATE IN HISTORY.
AUQU8T 22.
1138—Battle of The Standard, England.
1280— pope Xlcliolnii HI illml.
M60—Philippe DeVnlol* of Frame died.
I486—Richard 111 killed on Bosworth Hold.
1796— French directory established.
1818—Warren Ranting* tiled.
1828-Dr. Frans Joseph Gall, founder «
phrenology* illtnl.
1881—Richard (Matter* trader of the tea-
honr movement fit England. db*«i.
1864— Fort Morgan. Mobile bay* surrender
ed to Farrngut.
1870— ITncInmatloii by the president
neutrality In the Fwnco-lYnwUa
1877—Canal nround the Dea Moines
lit* on Mlnftiaslppl river <>|h’H»*u
1886—J’rlnre Alexander of Bulgarin tb•po***
Provisional government formed. .
1889—Mrs. Maybrlck'a sentence commuted
% to -iieual servitude for life. t
1893—Attempt to iiHMiHatnatu Pr»*ineO*
fivniMi of Venezuela. , ,
1806—Attack utmlc on American niwtoa
arhool nt Foochow, China. .
1808—Lord Salisbury, prime minister «
England, died. .
1904—Mrs. Mnybrtck. after release fr««
Kngllidi prison, arrives! In tub*>
Admiral Lord Charles Bnresford. at*
ter hfa release from command or tn«
British .Mediterranean squadron, *»“
come to America. He will be the gw**
of Colonel and Mrs. Robert M. Th<»mp*
son. of New York, and when he g-
England will be accompanied by «**•
daughter, Mia* Kathleen Beresfurd.
now visiting with them.
Sir Douglas Fo*~ho has been rom*
missioned to prepare the new plan.- *•«
the long-talked-of Channel Tunn* .
regarded by the members of his 1^*
fees Ion as one of the greatest engm*
eera of modern times. It Is owing
his marvelous creative and consirwj*
tve genius that the fam*>»»** Cap**
Cairo railway developed Into an aetu;u*
Ity Instead of an Impossible dream «*
the Empire builders.