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PAGE FOUR Summary of Ebents as They Happen Morgan ’Phones Oheer A long distance telephone message received early this afternoon from J. Pierpont Morgan and sent to a Rich mond banker, announced that the worst is about over on the New York stock market now, and that things are adjusting themselves in a manner which seems quite satisfactory. This information, coming from ons so closely in touch with the situation, which for the last few hours has been regarded as very critical, is most re assuring. Colonel Charles E. Wingo, who keeps thoroughly posted on the finan cial situation, informed a Journal re porter this afternoon that despite the anxiety in New York, the Richmond banks were in fine shape. He de clared that everything here was most satisfactory and that the newspapers should be careful not to produce alarming impressions. Richmond Journal. Sec. Dover Objected to Friday, 13th. The real story of how December 7 came to be selected as the date for the meeting of the Republican National Committee came out re cently. When Harry C. New, acting ehairman of the committee, and El mer Dover, committee’s secretary, were here Saturday to get ready to issue the call for the meeting Mr. New expressed a preference for De cember 13 as the date. “Holy smoke!” cried Dover, “that day is Friday 1” “What of that!” asked New. “Why, man,” said oDver, “we’d be queered forever if we started the next campaign on Friday, the 13th. You wouldn’t get half the members of the committee here, and the whole thing would be a fizzle.” Mr. New gave in somewhat reluct antly, and agreed to fix a week earlier as the time for the committee to as semble. —Washington Herald. They Caught Baby Oysters. W. MacDonald Lee, chairman of the State Board of Fisheries, has notified the Richmond members of the body that within the last week the Virgin ia gunboats, The Maury and The Rap pahannock, have overhauled a number of vessels dredging in the Potomac and collected nearly SI,OOO in fines for offenses against the oyster and fishing laws. Tn all half a hundred craft were halted for disregarding the culling laws or operating without licenses. The gunboats, in their journey to the Potomac, saw over 2,000 vessels engaged in pursuit of the phlegmatic oyster. Most of the men arrested were engaged in catching mollusks be low the prescribed size. Mr. Lee further says in his com munication that the Potomac oysters this season are the finest he has seen in years. • A meeting of the State Board of Fisheries will be held at the Atlantic Hotel in Norfolk on October 30.—' Richmond Journal. Uncle Sam After Tobacco Trust. A shipment of cigarettes and leaf tobacco is being held by the customs authorities in Norfolk, Va. Anti trust laws violated, Y. M. C. A. Desires Training School. At the Georgia Y. M. C. A. Secre taries’ conference, held several days ago at Macon, Ga., the advisability of establishing a southern training school for association secretaries was thoroughly discussed, and as an outcome of this discussion, Mr. Ed win Hill, of the local Y. M. C. A., announces that one may be estab lished in the near future. The in ception of the movement began in the right place, and as the territory is so large, there will be no difficulty in securing all the financial assist ance wanted. The men who discussed and favorably considered the matter were the best informed men as to the needs of the associations in the organization. Every separate man at the conference represented a large body, and, consequently, every indi vidual man represented a city or town. Should the training school be es tablished, its location will be of in terest to thousands of association members throughout the South. While it is not known as to what ef fort the local association will make to have the large school established in Augusta, it is known that the en terprise would be welcomed with open arms by the leading citizens of Augusta. The local association, ■while not the strongest in the state, is one of the largest and best equipped. The need of a training school is obvious. So wide in its scope has become the Y. M. C. A. that none but especially trained men can suc cessfully manage any department. There are several of these schools in the North, and all of them have sev eral years’ course to offer prospect ive students. —Augusta Herald. Chanler in Atlanta. Lieutenant Governor Chanler of New York made a speech at the state fair grounds. He was introduced by Col. H. H. Cabaniss and Senator Clay. He was closely followed and loudly applauded by a large audience composed of people from all parts of Georgia. To Tour State in College on Wheels. Professor A. M. Soule, president of the State College of Agriculture, of Athens, has recently planned a college on wheels, in which he and others will probably tour the State, address the farmers and make practi cal exhibits. This will be a unique and novel trip and is looked forward to with interest hy farmers and planters throughout Georgia. Concetming this trip Professor Soule a few days ago gave out the following statement: “We have made a requisition for a special train to be composed of an engine, a baggage car for exhibits and two day coaches to be used as lecture rooms. In order to get over the State we can’t afford to lose so much time as would be required to go from our train to the town hall, deliver these lectures on practical agriculture and get off again. We hope to make an extended tour of thirty days sad within this time to WATSON'S WEEKLY JEFFERSONIAN. compass nearly the whole of Geor gia. The college believes that such an advertisement would be both prac tical and profitable. We are unde cided as yet whether to make the tour in December, before the college opens in January, or in February of next yeas, just before the planting season. Until we hear from the rail roads we cannot decide definitely.” —Griffin News. Seab Wright in Alabama. Seab Wright, the well known Georgian and noted temperence lec turer, made two speeches in Etowah county Sunday, one at Atalla in the morning and one at Gadsden in the afternoon at the courthouse, in favor of prohibition in the stae of Ala bama. Pennsylvania Farmers want Teddy. Farmers living in the vicinity ,of Buckhorn mountain, near Williams port, Pennsylvania, have sent an in vitation 'to President Roosevelt to hunt for bears in their county, and assist them in exterminating the pest is destroying corn. Many farmers are obliged to guard their fields at night. The farm ers of this section have issued pub lic invitations for the hunting of bear in their lands. Rockefeller on Witness Stand. William G. Rockefeller, treasurer of the Standard Oil Company of New York, was the star witness last week in the government’s investiga tion of the oil trust, before Commis sioner Ferris. Rockefeller made two most impor tant admissions. One was that the Standard Oil Co. made an enormous loan to Wall street houses and the other was that the company had made big loans to supposedly inde pendent oil concerns, and gained con trol of them. Canal Locks Wider. H. H. Rosseau, naval member of the Isthmian Canal Commission and civil engineer, has the opinion that the locks of the projected Panama Canal must be made wider than they were originally planned. Giant ships cannot pass through the canal. Progress in ship-building demands a change in the plans of the canal com mission, which will take time and millions more of money. HONOR TO WHOM HONOR IS DUE The Citizen has always given Hon. Thomas E. Watson credit for getting the first appropriation for the devel opment of the rural free delivery system. This is simple justice, and we could not be honest and fail to do this. The Congressional Record plainly gives Mr. Watson credit for beginning the work that is proving such a blessing to the rural popula tion of America. Last week, when the national con vention of rural free delivery carri ers was in session in Atlanta, Mr. Watson was conspicuous by his ab sence. We do not know why an in-* vi tat ion' was not extended the bril liant Georgian whoi was the founder of the system, but we know that the slight was great and keenly felt by Mr. Watson. He should have been invited. We do not agree with Mr. Watson at all when it comes to politics. As a statesman he is destructive, but as a man and a historical writer we have great respect for him. He advocates many things which will come to pass that are good and of great benefit to the people. His fight for the parcels post has done much good, and The Citizen has frequently quoted from him, and just recently, too. The par cels post is going to be established, in spite of the express companies and the catalog houses, and when it shall come Mr. Watson will again have cause for much rejoicing. Qur prejudice, if such we have, has never yet kept us from saying what we believe is right; it has never kept us from quoting those with whom we radically disagree, if what they say is in line with our policies, and it has never caused us to fail to give to those the honor that justly belongs to them. And we hope it never will. Mr. Watson may not like ns or our policies. We are sure he does not, but at the same time, when we see anything that we believe to be good from him, and it is not nailed down, we will use it and properly credit it. And when we see the rural free de livery boxes along the country roads, as sentinels of a progressive people, and knowing who is responsible for their being there, we will certainly place the credit where it belongs. Mr. Watson should have been invit ed to the rural free delivery conven tion, for if there had been no Con gressman Watson, there would not likely have been the rural free de livery convention. —North Georgia Citizen, Dalton, Ga. COL. BROWNLOW. Col. John B. Brownlow, of Knox ville, has been suggested for the Re publican nomination for governor. Col. Brownlow ought to make a strong candidate. The Republicans have no body who has more sense, and he is a first-class gentleman. He was a fed eral officer during the war, and his title is not bogus, or the result of cheap vanity, and Confederates who met him then respect him now. He is a son of William Ganaway Brown low, once governor and afterwards senator, and one of the most stren”- ous partisans of his time. Col. John Brownlow was for many years in the service of the post office department, but his honesty, independence and courage is refusing to sancton certain wrongs in the department, and in re fusing to bow the knee to the pecu liar Payne, and the imperious Roose velt, caused him to retire from the sendee. He does not need to depend on office for a living. Another writ" suggests G. N. Tillman, Esq., of Nashville, for Republican candidate for governor. The Republicans could hardly nominate a stronger man, or one who would threaten more danger to Democrats. He would doubtless be acceptable to the Brownlow faction, but the Evansites would probably op pose him, though he is allied with neither faction.—Naahville American.