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OWING THOUSANDS Broker Alexander Skips Out from Augusta, G"a. IS MYSTERIOUSLY ABSENT Banks Are Left in the Lurch to the Tune of $145,000?Cotton Firm's Failure Causes Great Sensation in Georaia Git\'.? "^ _ ^ " i *y Revelation of the financial embarrassment of the firm of cotton factors of Alexander & Alexander, at Augusta, Ga., cne of the largest in the state, deveic discrepancies of about $145,(KM), following the disappearance of Thomas W. Alexander, head of the firm. Mr. Alexander left Augusta July 7th, after borrowing $2-00 from a friend, saying he was going to New York. The following night his brother, Bishop Alexander, the junior member of the firm, received a telegram from him asking that his office desk be opened and three let- I ters found there be delivered. On? j oi tne ieuers was to rus ym wci, in which a statement was made or | the financial embarrassment of the | firm, and saying that if Mr. Alex- ; ander was not back in Augusta by j Wednesday he would never be seen j again. Another letter was addressed ! to a local cotton mill president, and a third to Mr. Alexander's wife. The manner in -which the money was secured^has not been made known by the three banks who are the losers, except that it was in the shape of loans. The Georgia Railroad bank sustains a loss of $115,000, which was marked off its books Thursday, and charged to the surplus and undivided profits accounts. The National Bank of Augusta lcses $7,000, and the National Exchange bank $2,000. The available assets of the firm amount to about JSU.uw, wnne me | personal liabilities of T. W. Alexander, in addition to the amount of loans, is about $26,000. 'In his letters T. W. Alexander states that he alone is responsible, that his brother Knew nothing of the financial end of the business, and had nothing to do% with it. Much sympathy is expressed for his brother. DREYFUS DOUBLY VINDICATED. Stain of Dishonor Wiped Out and Reparation to Be Made. At Paris, Thursday, Alfred Dreyfus was completely acquitted of the ! charges on which he w;as condemned ! as a traitor, dismissed from the army and imprisoned on Devil's Island, and regarding which France has been torn for years by the most bitter political and racial agitation. His vindication is two-fold, the supreme court first announcing a decision establishing the entire innocence of the accused man and the ministry later deciding to put an urgent bill in parliament restoring Dreyfus to the army with ad * J I vancecr raua. ami uuici wxao reparation. GOVERNOR GRANTS RESPITES. For Second Time Hanging of Rawlings is Postponed. Governor Terrell has respited J. G. Rawlings and Alf Moore, both of Friday last, at Valdosta, Ga., until the 3d of August. The respite was granted in order that the men may be used as witnesses in case the supreme court gives the three Rawlings boys a new trial. The case comes up August 16. JEWS FLEE FROM WARSAW. Terror-Stricken, Forty Thousand Leave City in One Day. It is estimated that no less than 40,000 Jews, old men, women and children fled from *Viarsaw, Russian Poland, Thursday. Most of the ablebodied male Jews remained to protect their property. The houses of the Jews are empty. and armed guards are posted at the .gates and patrols parade the streets. ATLANTANS ENTERTAIN JEROME. New York District Attorney and Two Assistants Warmly Welcomed. Monday three very distinguished guests. William Travers Jerome, the famous district attorney of New York, and his two assistants, Arthur C. Vaadiver and Francis P. Garvan, were entertained by citizens of Atlanta. This trio of legal talent that have become national arrived in the city Sunday afternoon enroute to Warm Springs, Ga., where Mr. Jerome was slated to address the Georgia Bar Associa UUU. ADMIRAL ASSASSINATED. Commander of Russian Black Sea Fleet Put Out of Action. Advices from Sebastopol, Russia, state that Vice Admiral Chouknin, commander of the Black sea fleet, who was shot Wednesday, supposedly by a sailor of the battleship Otchakoff, died Thursday morning without having regained consciousness. ??????? BRYAN MORE RAD CAL. Nebraskan Says He Has Changed Somewhat Since 1896?Comments on Word "Conservative." A London special says: William J. Bryan, having had the opportunity of reading American newspapers, consented Thursday to discuss some of the questions which have been raised since he has become prominent as a presidential possibility for 1908. He said, in part: "I notice that I am described by some as a conservative and in order that there may be no misunderstanding on that subject, permit me to say that in one sense I always have been a conservative. The democratic poli-1 cies are conservative in that they embody eld principles applied to new conditions. There was nothing new in principle in either of the platforms on which I stood. We were accused of attacking property when in fact the democratic party is the defender of property because it endeavors to draw the line between honest accumulation by honest methods on the one side and predatory wealth and immoral methods on the other. "It is to the interest of every honest man that dishonesty should be exposed and punished; otherwise the deserving are apt to suffer for the undeserving. "If, however, by the word conservative they moan that I have changed my position on any public question or moderated my opposition to cor- j porate aggrandizement they have a surprise waiting for them. I am more radical than I was in 1S96, and have nothing to withdraw on economic questions which have been under discussion. "in? oniy quesnon we uiseusseu m j 1S96 upon which there has been anyapparent change is the silver question and that has not been a change in the advocates of bimetalism, but in conditions. "We contended for more money and urged the free coinage of silver as the only means then in sight for securing it. The production of gold has brought in part the benefit we expected to secure from the restoration of silver. The per capita volume of money in the United 'States is almost 50 per cent greater now than it was in 1896 and the benefits brought by this increase have not only vindicated the quantitive theory of money but have proven the benefits cf the larger amount of money. No advocate of the gold standard can claim the triumph of his logic. 'T believe in bimetallism, and . I believe that the restoration of silver would bring still further prosperity, ?acfrtrin<r nan in n 5?P be. UCdlU^O 0 w tween gold and silver usiDg countries; but I recognize, as do all other bimetalists who I have met abroad, that the unexpected and unprecedented increase in gold production has for the present removed the silver question as an issue. "While the money question has waned in importance, other questions have been forging to the front, and to these questions we must apply the same principles w.e applied to the money question and seek to secure the greatest good to the greatest number by legislation which conforms to the doctrine of equal rights for all and special privileges for none." Mr. Bryan added that he would discuss the trust, tariff, railroad and labor questions, imperialism and other issues at length when he reached America. STRIKES DEFY AUTHORITIES. Well Armed, One Hundred Take Charge of Government Camp. One hundred strikers have taken possession o/ the government camp at Corbett tunnel, in the Shoshone reservation works, eight miles from Cody, Wyoming, and have created a reign of terror. They threaten the jives of 500 other men if they return to work. Sheriff Halmette of Cody, with fifty mounted deputies, heavily armed, left Thursday afternoon for the scene of the trouble. A battle is probable, as the strikers are armed and are incensed at the officers because they drove them out of Cody, July 4. LOWER FREIGHT RATES. Assured Columbus Shippers Who Will Patronize All-Waterway. The skippers cf Columbus, Ga., are to make a concerted effort to secure lower freight rates. The plan is to patronize the all-water route, via Apalachicola, regardless of all possible delays and inconveniences. The situation was gone over thor* oughly at a meeting of a special committee from the Columbus board of trade on the subject of a water route, and it was the practically unanimous opinion that a water route should be established. GIRL WAS ASSASSIN. Report That Chouk*nin Died at Hands of Female Terrorist. According to a dispatch from Sevastopol, Russia, it is credibly stated that the assassin of Admiral Chouknin, commander of the Black Sea fleet, was a girl, disguised in the uniform of a soldier. No arrest has yet been made. Excitement in Topeka. There is great excitement over the report that a bride who will come to Topeka soon has a maid, says the Topeka ?State Journal. This will raise the limit and establish a new record in Topeka. Occasionally a Topeka woman steals the housemaid or nurse, exchanges their caps and aprons for the lady's maid kind and takes her out of town with her in order to make a noise like an aristocrat, but it is believed the new bride will be the only woman in Topeka who has a really and truly lady's maid all her own who never helps out in the kitchen, nursery or laundry. Gloves. What variety! Kid is smartest. Fabric gloves are here. In most cases gloves match. Cleverly contrasted gloves are seen. Gauntlets appear in fetching novelties. Showilv-adorned gloves will not "take" here. Yellow chamois gloves are exceedingly smart. Elbow lengths in colored silk gloves are sold out. The elbow length craze was not ex pected to rage as severely.?mnaaeipkia Record. Blames Wives for Divorce. Neither careless husbands nor pretty typewritists, but pastors and wives are responsible for most modern divorces, according to Mrs. Maria C. Weed, who spoke before the W. C. T. U. "The utter selfishness of wives drive many husbands' from their homes." said Mrs. Weed. "When a minister," she continued, "accepts a fee in which he feels certain that honor has been bartered for a title, is it not the acme of inconsistency for him to persist that the blunder which he helped to consummate shall be a life sentence?" ?New York Globe. Weaving Silk Rags. Tiny looms for the weaving of silk rags into strips which are afterwards joined to make rugs or couch covers, or even portieres, are among the interesting inventions brought about by the interest women are taking in all forms of handicraft. On the loom can be woven strips of about nine inches wide, the warp threads stretched as firmly as in the big, full-edged affairs used for the heavier sort of work. "Hit-or-miss" pattern are popular in silk work as they are in the old-fashioned rag carpets, used now only for kitchen or nursery, but often strips composed of two colors are made, with one used for bordering the ends. Cow Swallowed a Snake. Mrs. Carrie Hagen, a widow of La Crosse, Wis., was until recently the proud owner of a beautiful cow, the sale of whose milk contributed largely to the woman's support. Five or six weeks ago the animal became ill, and Mrs. Hagen was forced to cease selling milk. Veterinary aid was summoned. The oase was puzzling In tne extreme. Then Mrs. Hagen decided that it was best to have the suffering bovine killed. In order to satisfy her ^curiosity as to what ailed the animal she had it cut open. In the cow's stomach was a large reptile. It looked like a water snake. In its lower jaw it had four small teeth. It is thought that the cow, while pastured near some creek or stream, had swallowed a young snake, which had grown and flourished ever since in the poor animal's stomach. Mrs. Hagen says the snake was an inch and a half thick and fifteen feet long. The assertion is borne out by neighbors.?Milwaukee Wisconsin. ? nave ocduuiui nanu> Soft, 'white hands, with well-shaded rosy nails, are an-attraction not to be lightly considered. The hands should be manicured at least once a week, and the time spent on the task will be found well worth the while. Always dry the hands carefully, and keep the flesh about the base of the nails free, so that the halfmoons will show. If the hands are very thin, fatten it by means of massage with a good skin food. A good preparation for tender hands, which is both softening and whitening in effect, Is made of powdered marshmallow root two ounces, carbonate of soda two ounces, with twelve ounces of barley stirred into it While doing rough housework always wear gloves. It may seem a bother, but it repays the trouble. At night rub the hands with good cold cream, and slip on old loose gloves. These are little duties that take but a few mintues to do, yet if nersisted in regularly and systemati cally will result in softness and whiteness of the hands. How to Lift the Baby. While the manner of lifting a young child is seemingly of minor importance, at the same time it is of enough concern to receive consideration. The bones of an infant are soft, not easily broken but very easily bent and shaped if pressure is constantly exerted on or near the same locality. Pressure should never be exerted on the chest of a young infant,- the ribs are very small and frail, and finger pressure such as would have to be exerted by placing the hands around the body and - -- - * i : J - lifting the baby is not to De aesneu, sometimes a marked depression is likely to occur from this sort of handling, thus hampering the free action of the lungs and interfering with the breathing; cases of chronic coughs have been known to result from such degression. Handle the young infant without pressure if possible; this may be accomplished by placing the hand under the back, letting the head rest on wrist or arm. Or extend two or three fingers upward for this purpose, and with the other hand lift the child by the clothes at the feet.?Marianna Wheeler iff Harper's Bazar. Fashion Notes. The woman who wears the gloves with the small pocket for change stitched to the palm is sure never to lay down her pocketbook. Line your Irish lace coat with mous+V10 iionitv nf rhp will b# oc1x11u ^ lii^ v^uvi vj v* vmv . very much, enhanced. Shoes of patent leather with white | kid tops and black buttons are preferred by some to the all-white shoes to wear with light, thin gowns; it would be hard to say which is the better style for both are very modish. Three box plaits front and back provide ample fullness for the small girl's low-necked, no-sleeved dress which is worn over a guimpe. The plaits are fastened to a two-and-one-balf inch circular band which takes the place of a yoke. Automobiles and automobile apparel now occupy the attention of a host of men and women?especially the apparel. Every woman seems to be trying to find a coat and a hat that will be practical and becoming too, and she is succeeding beautifully. There never were so many automobile hats shown and worn as this season. The accordion-plated sheer blouses which accompany some of, the new princess skirls are very dainty accessories to this favorite skirt. The yoke is of fine embroidery and cloth bands like the skirt follow it and the bottom of the short sleeves to give the effect of an entire costume. Wide tucks and flat ribbon bands seem to be the favored skirt trimmings for graduation and other sheer gowns while folds of the same are much used on wool materials. Make one of your negligees with the * ?- ----- ?1ap?v>a>i tn thft snort sieeves siooucu v.ivc** w shoulder and lace together the spreading edges with velvet ribbon. Women's Ignorance of Business. Thousands of girls are sent out into the world with what is called finished educations, who can not give a proper receipt for money, to say nothing of drawing a promissory note, a draft or a bill, or understanding the significance and importance of business contracts. Such a woman, says 0. S. Marden in Success Magazine, presented a check for payment to the paying teller of her bank. He passed it back to her with the request that she be kind enough to indorse it. The lady wrote on the back of the check." I have done business with this bank for many years, and I believe it to be all right Mrs. James B. Brown." Another society woman in New York City presented a check for payment at the bank, and the teller told her that it was not signed. "Oh, do they have to be signed?" she responded. "What an awful lot of red tape there is about the banking business." I know of a lady whose husband made a deposit for her in a bank and gave her a check book so that she could pay her bills without annoying him. One day she received a notice from the bank that her account was overdrawn. She went to the bank and told the teller that there must be a mistake about it, because she -still had a lot of checks left in her book. She knew so little about business that she thought that she could keep drawing any amount until the checks were all gone. This sounds ridiculous and almost incredible, yet the very girl who laughs at it may make even more absurd blunders. Many an accomplished woman, when given a pen and asked to sign an important document drawn up by an attorney or a long-headed business man, will sign it without reading it or even asking to be informed of its contents, only to learn afterwards by disastrous results that she has signed away her property and turned herself out of home. Only a short time ago I read of a lady who had won a suit involving about $20,000. New evidence, however, was brought forward, vwhich caused the court immediately to reverse its decision. It was proved that the lady had sworn falsely. She was perfectly innocent of any such intention, but she had sworn, that she had never signed her name to a certain document. The document was produced, and, to her utter astonishment, she saw her signature affixed to it. She acknowledged at once that the signature was hers, although she had just sworn that she had never signed the paper in question. It appeared that, during her husband's lifetime, whenever papers were to be signed, he told her where to write her name, and she did as she was told, without having the slightest idea, of the contents of the papers. NEW YORK'S GREAT klTOHENS. . . i Getting Sigger Every Year?Ovens Out Under the Street. In recently-built hotels in New York the kitchen is a space about 150x200 I feet, floored with red tiles. The walls | where exposed are tiled in white. The j ceiling is 14 feet high. j At the entrance is the chef's office, and near him the principal refrigera- j tor for the storage of meat. Along ! one side are from 50 to 100 lineal j feet of ranges adapted to coal, gas" and j charcoal. I In front of these are the cooks' j tables, in the steel tops of which are i Kint-c tininc.moria otirl ctpjim t&blftS. ' Underneath are steam plate warmers, i Above the cooks' heads are racks, on ; which is hung a picturesque array of ! copper pots, skillets, sauce pans and ! kettles, and above this again is the j elaborate system of ventilating ducts ; which carry off the smoke and odor j from every appliance where heat is generated. Near the man kitchen and about one-half its size, says Indoors and Out, is the soup and roasting department, provided with stock, soup and grease boilers and an oven for roasting fowl or large joints of meat. Such an oven in one of the new hotels has ! a capacity of 1000 pigeons or 300 chickens or 16 large ribs of beef. The boilers are huge copper affairs, double jacketed, and some of the spits for roasting meats are turned by electricity. This department contains its own refrigerator, in which is I kept all uncooked food prepared here, j Other departments are the vegetable j room, butcher shop, oyster room, : bakery, ice cream department, confec- j tionery shop, china store and the great . storprnnin Tn addition to these de- i partments, where the chief classes cf I food are prepared, there are innumer- | able booths and counters where I dishes of a lighter order are made ! ready for the hurrying waiters. Sandwiches and salads, for example* ! are prepared near the garde manger, j Coffee urns and roll warmers, griddle and waffle ranges, toasters and egg ! boilers must be where their products j can be most conveniently delivered to the room above. The kitchen should not be removed more than one. floor from the dining room, grill room or cafe to be served. Dumbwaiter communication- is impracticable, as it cools the food. The human waiter must have free access to the kitchen, and so speedy that he shall spend the greatest possible time in the dining-room within call of pat? rons. Having dropped his written order in a tube, he must go to the proper place in the kitchen to obtain it when prepared. On his way to the ranges he should pass the counter, near the kitchen entrance, where bread and rel- j ishes are supplied, for he must be ! placing these before his customer | while the fish or meat is being cooked, j As he starts up the stairway he i must pass the checker, who places the ynv;c; upuu >v uaiv vci uc 10 ounug. For salads he must be able to reach the salad department with equal ease. For wines and liquors he must go to the bar of the kitchen. Whatever number .of stories a hotel displays above the street, the business of the enterprise goes on in those below the pavement, and so hard pressed is the city hotel for space that every foot the law allows the owner to reach under the sidewalk is eagerly seized. The bakery of the new Hotel Belmont, for example, is under the pavement at Park avenue and Fortysecond street, and one of the ovens is directly over the subway as it makes the -curve there. .A Valuable Dog. Mark Twain is immensely popular with the farmers living around "Quarry arm," his summer home near Elmira, N. Y. He and his neighbors exchange experiences and both profit thereby. The genial humorist tells of one farmer who purchased a hunting dog that was highly recommended to him by a man who did not seem particularly reluctant about parting with it. When the dog was delivered the farmer looked it over with considerable misgivings. It seemed shy and i bashful and hardly the animal it was cracked up to be. Anxious to give it j a trial, however, he took it out shortly afterwards and, as luck would have it, ran across a fox. The dog took after the fox and the two were soon out j of sight, the farmer following as rap- | idly as he could. Finally he meet j another farmer who, in response to [ his inquiry, stated that they had j passed in his direction. Asked as to how they were running, the second farmer replied: "Wall, it was nip and tuck, but I think the dog was about three feet ahead."-r-LIppincott's The Crown of Gold. "The late Paul Lawrence Dunbai, the negro poet," said an editor, "once addressed a Sunday school in New York. I heard the address. It was delightful. An odd incident happened, though, at its end, an incident that Dunbar laughed at as heartily as the rest of us. "Dunbar, toward the close of his re- | marks, said: " 'And, my little friends, if you do all these things some day you will wear a gold crown. Yes, ehch of you some Clay Will wear a genu viiuwu. I "A little chap in the front row, catching the poet's friendly eye, piped: " 'My fader wears one now.' "'No!' said the poet "'Yes, he does?on his toof,' said the little chap." The French find fun in legislation just as do some of the so loos of American States, - . 11 # Danger of Relying on Secrecy to Pro. tec* a Process. Some years ago the Goldsshmldt Company, of Essen, Germany, perfected a process of detinning tin scrap, but instead of patenting the process they depended on secrecy to Vmake it profitable. The usual result ??.,.j of such practice followed. Two of the employes knowing - the secret, proved unfaithful and sold their knowledge to a concern which commenced the work in Holland and from there it was brougl^ to America. The ^ American concern in turn was served in the manner. The result was that undesirable competition was established by two plants, one at Paulsbpro, N. J., and the other at Joliet, IlL The company first on the ground In this country commenced suit again % the competitor, seeking to enjoin them from usine the knowledge obtained through the defection of ?ne of their employes. The case was thrown Out cf court, as the court would not stain . its hands with such disreputable proceedings, none of the parties haying good standing. The operation of a plant on the principle of secrecy puts a premium on dishonesty. The ^ patent laws of most countries offer adequate protection for most inventions and discoveries; if that protec* , tion is not sought, but rather that of secrecy, the possibility of recovery of damages in case the secret is stolen by competitors is very slight in- J, deed.?Machinery. -#1 NATURAL BRIDGES. \.V , Two Theories in Regard to Thelf Formation. It is commcnly believed, says the Geographical Record, that natural bridges, of which the Natural Bridge cf Virginia is the best known Am- ? erican example, are due to the falling in of cavern roofs, leaving only a part to span the stream which the. destruction of the cavern has brought ' " to the surface. By a study of the North Adams Natural Bridge, Professor Cleland'v^ has been, led to ue cvuuuiwu * in this case at least the origin ifi quite different In thi? case the bridge seems to be due to the solution of :-'-3 the limestone along a joint plane near; the former course of Hudson Brook, &E At first only a small amount of water: |aa seeped along the joint plane but after awhile, it made a channel lar^.;*J| enough to divert the entire brook der the surface, giving rise to fhst;>:|| bridge. Walcott had previously offered similar theory for the Natural' Bridge* Jg of Virginia, and Cleland concludes that while the falling in of caverAJ^ roofs may occasionally give rise to^||| natural bridges the most common cause for such bridges in marble, j limestone, sandstone and lava is thaKv^ outlined above. Dry Farming and irrigation. There is nothing inimical to irrigfer';^ tion in the dry-farming movement Each has a wide field before it many regions it is probable that a ?* combination of irrigation and dry- ^: farming methods will be found desir* able. By an economical use of t2to > Jf water stored in reservoirs, in acco^d^-i|| ance with dry-farming principles, and Ja 1"" rr +VlQ M SBOW1 uy wu?oiTa ?- . .. . ...? tha* fall in the soil as taught by the ^ advocates of dry-farming, and draw-'^| Ing upon the irrigating ditches only - p to supply the deficiency, it is possible ^ that irrigation reservoirs may be able to supply double or treble the acre* ^ age they can serve by the present wasteful methods, and that great " stretches of territory in which the rainfall is too small to allow the sue* cessful application of dry-farming r: methods alone may be covered with waving grain fields?From John JjCowan's "Dry-Farming?the Hope of ; the West" in tha Century. I *>< ' 1 OUTDOOR LIFE Will Xot Offset the 111 Effects of ' v Cnffoa One Cannot Dijrest It. A farmer says: "It was not from liquor or tobacco that for ten years or more I suffered from dyspepsia and stomach trouble; f I they were caused by the use of cof* <3$ [ fee until I got so bad I had to give up coffee entirely and almost give up eating. There were times when'-1 could eat only boiled milk and bread ^3 and when I went to the field to work I had to take some bread and butter ;s^| along to give me strength. "I doctored with doctors and took almost everything I could get for my stomach in the way of medicine, but M if I got any better it only lasted a Jj! little while until I was almost a ;-? walking skeleton. "One day I read an ad. for Postum and told my wife I would try it, and as to the following facts I will make affidavit before any judge: "I quit coffee entirely and used *-.i Postum in its place. I have regained my health entirely and can eat anything that is cooked to eat. I . have increased in weight until now I" weigh more than I ever did; I have l not taken any medicine for my stomach since I began using Postum. i Why, I believe Postum will almost ? digest an iron wedge. "My family would stick to coffee at first, but they saw the effects it _4 had on me and when they were feel- ; ing bad they began to use Postum,' one at a time, until now we all use Postum." Name give by Postum x Co., Battle Creek, Mich. Ten days' trial of Postum in place of coffee proves the truth, and easy *5 and pleasant way. "There's a rea- T|p son. ' Look in pkgs. for a copy of the > famous little book, "The Road" to j Wellville."' m