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THE ATLANTA ' • •• GEORGIAN. WEDNESDAY, ACC.rST 22. 1909. The Atlanta Georgian. JOHN TEMPLE GRAVES, Editor. F. L. SEELY, President. Connections. ! Yl Subscription Rates; Published Every Afternoon One.Year. T $4.50 Except Sunday by Six Months 2.50 THE GEORGIAN CO. Three Months.... '1.25 at 25 W. Alabama Street, By Carrier, per week 10c Atlanta; Ga. Entered •• second*cla«i matter April 25, 1908. at the PostolTIck at Atlanta. 0*$. under act of congress of March 8. 1171. 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.