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When Another life Is added
To the heaving turbid mass ; V 'V'
"When another breath of being ''
Stains creation's tarnished glass;
■When the llrst cry, weak and piteous,
Herald's long-enduring pain,
And a soul from non-existence
Springs, that ne’er can die again ;
When the mother's passionate weleomO
Sorrow-like, bursts forth in tears,
And the sire's self-gratulation
f rophooles of future years—
i-v It is well we cannot see
' cfC' Whnt the end shall be.
1 „
Whon across the infant features
Trembles the faint dawn of mind ;
When the heart looks from the windows
Of the eyes flfcat were so blind ;
When the incoherent murmurs
Syllable each swaddled thought,
To tile fond ear of affection
With a boundless promise fraught,
Kindling great hopes for tomorrow,
From the dull, uncertain ray,
As by glimmering of the twilight
Is foreshown the perfect day~
It is well we cannot see
' What the end shall be.
Whon the boy upon the threshold
Of his all-comprising home,
I’utß aside the arm maternal
That unlocks him ere he roam j
When the canvas of his vessel
Flutters to the favoring gales,
Years of solitary exile
Hid behind its sunny sails ;
; When his pulses beat with with ardor,
And his sinews stretch for toil,
And a hundred bold emprises
I.ure him to that Eastern soil—
It is well we cannot see
YVhat the end shall be. _ ■'}
At Odds With the World.
’ Bixler sat in the park and railed at
,the world. Like the pipe he smoked,
Bixler was short and black; his rail
ings, though they were black enough
and bitter enough, were far from
.short, for they lasted from luncheon
dime until dinner time, and the after
noon was that of a long, hot July day.
The world at which he railed had de
manded very little of Bixler. Per
haps that was the trouble. That he
|>ay his debts, with the money his
mother left him, that he wear a spike
tail coat at dinner; that he wash his
linen in private—that was all the
.world asked, and the first and last
■were expectations rather than d?
mands; the world did not always in
sist upon them.
And yet Bixler was not happy. He
felt it hard to have been born into a
world peopled with fools and dolts.
It’s an unsatisfactory sort of exist
ence, even if it does give one some
thing to rail at.
t He watched a young couple meet at
the fountain. Bixler had seen them
'there before. She was a shop girl
evidently, tired with ten or twelve
hours’ standing in a hot and
crowded shop. Bixler pitied and
envied and hated her as the light
flashed into her eyes when the man
came up, trying to conceal his eager
hurry. He va' a factory hand, with
onlv part of the factory grime washed
off.'
r “Come near being late, Liz,’’ tbe
fellow was saying. “Don’t suppose
you’d ’a’ cared, would you?”
r. “Wouldn’t I?” exclaimed the girl,
looking unutterable things as she
look his arm.
Bixler looked and listened and felt
uo sense of being an eavesdropper. He
saw the little squeeze the girl gave
the fellow’s arm, and he saw the glad,
happy look in the boy’s face, and Bix
ler smiled with contempt.
)J> “Young idiots,” he said, half
“He’ll be beating her, or
jvhat’s worse, stamping on her heart
in a year —if she has any heart left
by that time. And in five years—
Lord! here comes the picture of
what they’ll beiu five years.”
' i A man with his hands in his pock
ets and a week’s stubble on his face,
slouched down the path,
i ‘'Don’t go so fast, Bill,” a woman
was snarling at him. “These kids
are draggin’ the life ont of me.”
U( But Bill gave no heed. He, too,
jjwas smoking a short black pipe. The
woman gave the child she was leading
a vicious jerk, saying: “Come on,
jwliy don’t you,” at which the child
•began to howl and the baby in the
woman’s arms took up the wail.
'/ “Can’t ye keep them brats still?”
growled Bill, as they passed from
sight.
i The lovers had seated themselves
on the bench nearest the fountain.
|The girl looked up at the sound of the
children’s cries, and laughed, a laugh
in which the fellow at her side joined,
ilfc “There’s love’s for you,” said Bix
ler, knocking the ashes out of his
pipe and immediately re-filling it.
“That’s love with its clothes off, and
those two blooming idiots don’t
know it. Yet if I’d go over and try
to point it out to them, the fellow
probably would thrash me.”
i u The lovers moved away while Bix
ler was relighting his pipe, and he
plunged into deeper bitterness. In
such gloom he did not notice the
healthy young fellow who came
swinging toward him.
i “Well, for heaven’s sake,” cried
the newcomer. “You look like you
had lost both friends and fortune.”
“Never had either,” said Bixler.
“Look here, Bixler,” said the
friend. “Yon want to throw away
that odious pipe, take a few grains of
pepsin and then come with me up
to the house—sort of an informal gar
den party, you know. Miss DeVere will
be there, and—”
“YVhat!” cried Bixler, springing to
his feet.
“YVhy.yes,” said the friend. “She’s
back. In fact, she sent me out to
look for you.”
They were already moving toward
Bixler's apartments “to get into some
clothes.” As they left the park, they
almost ran into the shop girl and the
factory hand. Bixler smiled kindly
as he recognized them.
1 “A pair of spoons,” said the friend.
- “Don’t say that,” said Bixler.
“They are probably very much in
love, and it’s the real thing, it’s
a thing to respect. ”
The friend looked at Bixler out of a
very small corner of his eye, but lie
understoood it all and was glad lie
bad found Bixler.
A Feathered Oueen.
Corn is king in Kansas. The people
all accept that as an undebatable
truth. Now (he Topeka Mail and
Breeze comes forward and declares
that if corn is king, the good old
WHAT THE END SHALL BE. •
When the youth beside the maiden
Looks Into her credulous eyes;
When the heart upon the surface
Shines, too happy to be wise ;
He by speeches less than gestures
Hinteth what her hopes expound, 1
Laying out tho waste hereafter
Like enchanted garden-ground ;
He may palter—so do many ;
She may suffer—so must all
Both may yet, world disappointed,
This lost hour recall —
It is well we cannot see
YVhat the end shall be.
When the altar of religion
Greets tho expectant bridal pair ;
YVhen the vow that lasts till dying
Vibrates on the sacred air;
When mans lavish protestations
llouht of after change defy,
Comforting the frailer spirit
Bound his servitor for aye;
YVhen beneath love’s silvery moonbeams
Many rocks in shadow steep,
Undiscovered till possession
Show the dangers of the deep—
It is well we cannot seo
r. • YVhat the end shall be.
Whatsoever is beginning
That Is wrought by human skill,
Every daring omanation
Of the mind’s ambitious will,
Every first impulse of passion,
Gush of love or twinge of hate ;
Every launch upon the waters,
YVide horizoned by our fate;
Every venture in the chances
Of life’s sad, oft desperate, game,
Whatsoever be our motive,
YY’hatsoever be our aim—
It is well we cannot soe
YVhat the end shall be.
—Boston Transcript.
domestic cackling Kansas hen is queen.
Some very clever rhymes by that
paper, in support of their declaration,
are published. Following is a sample:
“YVe have read of Maud on a summer
day, who raked, l>are-footed, the new
mown hay; we have read of the maid
in the early morn, who milked the cow
with the crumpled horn; and we’ve
read the lays that the poets sing, of
the rustling corn and the flowers of
spring, but of all tlie lays of tongue
or pen, there’s nought like the lay of
the Kansas hen. Long, long before
Maud raked her hay, the Kansas lieu
had begun to lay, aud ere the milk
maid stirs a peg, the lien is iip and
has dropped her egg; the corn must
rustle, the flowers spring, if they hold
their own with the barnyard ring.
If Maud is needing a bat and gown,
she doesn’t hustle her hay to town;
she goes to the store and obtains her
suit, with a basketful of fresh hen
fruit. If the milk maid’s beau makes
a Sunday call, she doesn’t feed him
on milk at all, but works up eggs in a
custard pie, and stuffs him full of
chicken fry; and when the old man
wants a horn, does he take tbe drug
gist a load of corn? Not much! he
simply robs a nest and to town he
goes—yon know the rest. He lingers
there and talks perchance, of true re
form and correct fee-nance, while his
poor wife stays at home and scowls,
but is saved from want by those self
same fowls, for while her husband
lingers there, she watches the cackling
hens with care, and gathers eggs, and
the eggs she’ll hide till she saves
enough to stem the tide. Then hail,
all hail to the Kansas hen,the greatest
blessing of all to men! Throw up
your hats and make Rome howl for
the persevering barnyard fowl!”
Inoculation From Stings.
The interesting observations recent
ly recorded regarding the freedom
from the effects of mosquito bites and
bee stings which may be induced by
previous injuries of this kind, de
mand a word of notice. The idea im
plied by this immunity is that previ
ous bites or stings inoculate the blood
with some principle or “toxin” de
rived from the poison, which in its
turn protects the body from fresh at
tack. An analogy can he seen between
this naturally produced immunity and
that which is presented by the treat
ment of diphtheria with the antitoxin
of the disease. One writer told his
experiences to the effect that, being a
beekeeper, he had never suffered from
stings after he had been once very
severely stung by a swarm. Prob
ably his system had become thoroughly
inoculated by the big dose of poison
be then received. Of mosquito bites
the same experience has been related.
But what will be of interest to biolo
gists is the recital of yet another cor
respondent, that such freedom from
mosquito stings is not invariably met
with as a consequence of frequent
bites. It is an illustration of a law I
have never been weary of pointing
out when unreasonable people have
argued that because a process or treat
ment did not act invariably and in all
cases in the same way it was therefore
of no value at all. The law I refer to
is that which teaches us that when we
are dealing with living beings we can
not expect to find mathematical cer
tainty in our results. Life is a very
different thing, in all its variability,
from mathematical and exact calcula
tions.—London Illustrated News.
Keinarknhle Swords.
Samuel Maxim, a brother of the
famous Hiram, inventor of gnns, lives
in the little village of Wayne, Ken
nebec county, Me., and is himself an
inventor. Some time ago his atten
tion was called to the fact that both
India and Japan have produced
swords that will cut through a gun
barrel without losing their edge.
This led him to study old Hindoo
literature on the subject of steel
manufacture, and then to begin at
Wayne a series of experiments which
soon resulted in the production of a
small quantity of steel possessing a
remarkable temper. From these few
ounces of steel he bad one or two
drills forged, and with these he was
able to drill holes through an ordinary
file without damaging the drills at all.
He has not yet made any steel for
sale, nor does his process at present
always produce the desired results.—
Boston Transcript.
J ust i float ion.
“Huh!” snorted the husband who
had been inveigled into attending the
rendition of a sermon. “Call him a
boy preacher! He is forty if he is a
day.”
“He does look that way,” said his
wife; “but,” she continued, in her
anxiety to plead, “don’t you think he
has the mind of a boy?”—Typograph
ical Journal.
COSTLY CATERPILLARS.
How Massachusetts Has Spent •0.10,000
in Its War on the Gipsy Moth.
Professor L. O. Howard, the gov
ernment entomologist, has just re
turned from Massachusetts, where he
has been investigating the work of
extermination carried on by that state
against the gypsy moth. At the sug
gestion of Senator Lodge of Massa
chusetts a clause was inserted in the
last appropriation for the entomologi
cal division of the agricultural depart
ment for this investigation, a report
to be made to Congress.
The caterpillars are at work now,
and Dr. Howard witnessed their
depredations and also the operations
against them by the state board of
agriculture. Dr. Howard says the
work in Massachusetts is the most
interesting experiment in the entomo
logical line which has ever been
attempted in this country and is with
out doubt one of the most expensive.
Since 1890 $650,000 has been appro
priated for destroying the moth in
Massachusetts, $150,000 of this being
used this year.
The gypsy moth (porthetria dispar)
is from Europe and is supposed to
have been imported to this country
about twenty years ago by Leopold
TionvSlt, a French entomologist. He
brought some of the eggs to experi
ment with silk worms in some direc
tion, and it is supposed these blew
out of liia window. Since then they
have increased in such large numbers
and their depredations have been so
great on all sorts of vegetation that
steps were taken in 1889 to destroy
them. YVhen first noticed the moth
began to work in an area of about
200 square miles in the vicinity of
Boston. Since the state board has
begun a crusade against them the
territory has been very largely re
duced.
The caterpillars are now full grown
and are feeding on the vegetation.
They appear in large numbers and
when they have visited trees and
shrubs no foliage remains. The cat
erpillar is about two inches and a
half long. It devolves into a cbyrsa
lis state from which the moth emerges.
They are distributed over tlie terri
tory by clinging to the garments of
persons, street cars and other moving
objects.
111 winter the eggs are found on
trees, houses, fences and such other
stationary objects in large white
patches containing from 500 to 700.
They are sprayed with an oily prepa
ration which kills them. In May and
June the larvae are sprayed with a
mixture containing arsenic. The
trees on which they are found are
bound with a burlap band. The
larva; collect under these bands and
are killed there. They are also exter
minated in large numbers by clearing
up the woodland. Persons engaged
in the work go through the forests,
cut out the underbrush, and burn it.
Only the trees are left standing. In
this manner millions of the larvae are
killed. The female moth cannot fly,
owing to her heavy body, and is easily
killed on this account. Tl\e cater
pillars have not appeared in any other
state but Massachusetts. —Waslring
ton Pathfinder.
QUAINT AND CURIOUS.
Pennies have just appeared in cir
culation in Hawaii.
Long Beach, Cal., has a seventy
foot whale staked out in the ocean
near the town.
The population of New South Wales
last year was 97,640, a gain of about
20,000 in one year.
The pension office at YVashington is
said to be the largest brick building
in the world. It took over 10,000,000
brick to erect it.
Ghost dancing has its penalties. It
is reported that the quarterly allow
ance of $50,000 doled out by the gov
ernment to the Cheyennes and Arapa
hoes is to be stopped.
Fossil remains of anew family of
monkeys have been discovered in
Madagascar, and yet, it is strange to
say, there is no talk of the “missing
link in connection” therewith.
The percentage of the United States
population living in cities was 3.25 in
1790, in 1890 it was 29.30, The pres
ent urban population of France is over
37 per cent, of the inhabitants.
Moses Fielding, an Indian, who died
in Norwich, Conn., recently, was a di
rect descendant of Chief Uncas of the
Mohegan tribe of Indians. Only three
members of his tribe now survive.
A man residing in Strafford, Vt.,
named one of his children Freedom
because he was born on a Fourth of
July, and another Blizzard because he
first saw what light there was on
March 12, 1888.
The largest fruit farm in the
world is said to be in Olden, Mo. It
consists of 2500 acres, on W'hich are
more than 100,000 peach trees, 60,000
apple trees, 2000 pear trees and 40
acres of blackberries.
The Earl of Raufurly, the new
governor of New Zealand, is head of
the Knox family, which counts among
its members the celebrated John, the
iconoclastic reformer and monitor of
the hapless Mary, Queen of Scots.
A Mississippi paper says that a col
ored man living near Newton, who
heard his dogs barking one night,
found that they had killed a remarka
ble animal. It had a head like a bull
dog, ears like a mule, legs like a duck,
and a tail like an elephant, and it was
long-bodied like a weasel.
Dr. F. Cadenhead of Carthage,
Miss., had some squash vines and sun
flower plants near to each other iu his
garden, and the squashes that have
grown on the vines resemble solid sun
flowers and are distinctly marked by
sunflower seeds. Tlie neighbors say
that they are the result of a cross be
tween the sunflower and the squash.
Hanging a Hammock.
There is a “know-how” about hang
ing a hammock, beside tying it so
firmly that it can’t break down. A
hammock hung according to rule
should lie six and a quarter feet from
the ground at the head and three and
three-quarters above the ground at the
foot end. The rope that secures the
head end should be less than twelve
inches, and that at the foot should
measure four and a half feet. Ar
ranged iu this way the lower part will
swing freely and the head be kept com
fortable by being nearly stationary.
THOUSANDS OF DUCKS.
RAISED ON A PENNSYLVANIA FARM
FOR THE MARKET.
Hatched Out in Wooden In cub a tor ■ anti
tlie Youngsters Are Not Allowed to Go
Near the Water Feathers Are Valuable
A Big Pro tit in tlie Buhlhc**.
Tn many instances the rise of modern
farm industries has been so sudden
that few city dwellers are yet aware of
their importance or of the extent to
which they have been carried out.
Think of a poultry farm, for in
stance, seven acres in extent, where
18,000 ducks are confined. It seems
almost incredible that sucb a place
should be under our very nose, so to
speak, without our having any exact
knowledge of it, situated, too, in the
heart of one of the richest farming
districts in the state, near Allentown.
If one becomes accustomed to the
deafening clack-clack made by the
thousands of feathered denizens of
this novel duck farm, which is ow ned
by Oliver Gittnet, a most interesting
holiday can be spent on the place.
Close by,at the Duck Farm hotel, kept
by Alfred Griesimer, entertainment
for man and beast to suit the most
fastidious, is to be secured. Mr.
Griesimer’s duck suppers are a
specialty well worth the trip alone,
the very finest ducks from the farm,
selected with great care, being served
on these occasions.
The most interesting feature about
the modern poultry farm is the wooden
mother or incubator, indeed, it is just
this Yankee invention which has made
duck farming on the scale to which it
is carried on the Allentown farm pos
sible. There are two classes of this
apparatus, one heated by hot water,
the other by hot air. Some are regu
lated by thermostatic bars made of
brass, iron, rubber and aluminum:
others by alcohol, ether, electricity
and the expansion of water. Naturally
the first place to be inspected on the
duck farm is the incubator cellar, a
room especially constructed for the
purposg, partially underground to
secure a more even temperature, as
the eggs during the process of incuba
tion are most susceptible to sudden
chancres of w eather.
YY'hen the poultry farmer prepares
to batch out a brood in liis incubators
he places the eggs in trays, which
trays are put in "the incubators
directly under the tank w hich supplies
the heat to the egg chamber. The
incubators are built double-walled and
the air space packed with asbestos to
prevent the sudden changes of tern-,
perature from affecting the egg
chamber. In size the smaller incuba
tors range from 25 to 600 eggs capac
ity, and can ba operated the year
round.
The most successful seasons, how
ever, are in the spring or fall, or even
in the winter, the results in summer
being the least satisfactory. During
the period required to hatch the eggs,
21 days, the temperature in tlie incu
bators is maintained at 103 degrees.
However a change of two or three
degrees in either direction will not, as
a rule, result seriously.
For 24 hours after hatching the
young ducks are left in the incubators
to dry. Then they are transferred to
brooders, some of which are made to
hold as many as three thousand ducks.
These brooders are constructed in long
narrow houses about 14 feet wide and
300 feet in length. They are heated
by hot water, and the ducks are re
tained in them for five weeks, after
which they are transferred to the cold
brooders or ordinary houses affording
them a comfortable shelter. • The per
centage of eggs successfully hatched
in the incubators is about 60per cent.,
w hile the loss of young ducks is about
10 per cent. Thus about 50 per cent,
of the eggs result in marketable ducks.
One great advantage of duck farm
ing over chicken farming is that the
ducks are ready for market weeks lie
fore the young chickens can leave the
farm. At the age of eight or ten
weeks the ducks are usually in a con
dition for sale, weighing about four
and a half pounds.
Another feature of duck farming and
an important item in the profits, is
the feathers. About 1000 pounds are
secured annually on the Allentown
farm, these feathers fetching on an
average about 18 cents per pound. In
the popular mind ducks are generally
associated with water, and many small
poultry raisers bar ducks from then
farmyard because there is no suitable
stream in the vicinity for them to
paddle about iu. It is, therefore,
rather interesting to learn that the
ducks which are bred for market on
the Allentown farm are not allow-ed to
go near the water, although Cedar
creek, a stream of the purest water,
flow-8 through the farm. The breed
ing ducks, how-ever, are allowed the
free run of this creek, much to the
envy of their brothers and sisters,who
are being fattened for sale on the
other side of the inclosure.
Although the modern incubator has
simplified and made poultry farming
on a large scale possible and profit
able, at the same time the incubator
does not fulfill all the requirements in'
the successful breeding of ducks.
Great care must be taken of the young
broods after then - arrival in this world.
After tbe first few weeks of their
life the young ducklings require the
closest watching and much experience
to bring them to a marketable age.
The matter of feeding is not by any
means the least important of the de
tails that have to be carefully looked
after. The ducks must be fed well
and at regular interim's, and as much
as a ton and a half of food is con
sumed daily on the Allentown farm.
Proper exercise for the youngsters is
also very necessary, and cleanliness
is an absolutely imperative factor in
the successful raising of ducks.
It i3 remarkable how expert the
duck farmers become in the picking
of their birds. A man is slow- indeed
who cannot strip a duck of its feathers
in three or four minutes, and do it so
nicely withal, that the feathers are
never broken or injured for the market
and tlie skin of the ducks looks as
smooth and unbroken as if tbe opera
tion was performed by magic.—Phila
delphia Times.
A conservative estimate made by
Several reliable eanners of the pack
of salmon on the Columbia river to
July 1 for this season is 190,000 cases.
THE COLDEST COUNTRY.
Tlie Tlierinutiieter Occasionally Drops to
UO Degree*, llelow Zero,
Hymon’s Monthly Meteorological
Magazine gives an interesting account
of “Life in the Coldest Country in the
YVorld,” which has been taken from
the bulletin of the Royal Geographi
cal Society at Irkutsk. The name ol
the place is YY r erchojansk, in Siberia,
longitude 133 degrees 51 minutes
east, latitude 67 degrees 34 minutes
north, where the lowest temperature
of minus 90 degrees Fahrenheit has
been observed, and the mean of Janu
ary is minus 48 degrees Fahrenheit.
It is inhabited by about 10,500 per
sons of the Jakut and Lamat races.
In a large part of this region, ac
cording to Prof. Kovalik, the air is so
dry and the winds are so rare that tbe
intensity of the cold cannot be fuliy
realized. In the most distant part of
the east there are sometimes terrible
storms, which are most fatal to life
in their consequences. During the
summer time the temperature oc
casionally rises to 86 degrees Fahren
heit in the shade, w’liile it freezes at
night. The latter part of the season
is often marked by copious rains and
extensive inundations, which invari
ably lay waste a vast acreage of land
and prove to be a serious obstacle to
the cultivation of the soil. YTegetn
tion is very scanty. There are prac
tically no trees—only wide, open
meadows. The people hunt fur-bear
ing animals, fish and raise cattle and
reindeer. It requires about eight
cow r s to support a family, four being
milked in the summer and two in the
winter. The cattle are very small in
size, and are fed on hay in the winter.
Occasionally they are allowed to go
out when there is the slightest break
in the weather, but their teats are al-
Yvays carefully covered up. Milk is
the principal food. This is supple
mented w'ith hares, which are quite
abundant, but not very relishable.
The houses are constructed of wood,
covered with clay, and as a rule con
sist of only one room, in which the
people and animals live together. The
upper and wealthier classes are better
provided with lodging and food. As n
race they are exceedingly courteous
and very hospitable, and they are ex
cessively punctilious concerning points
of honor, such as the place at the
table and the proper place as festivals.
Doves Growing Wine.
The doves which make their homes
in the icehouses on the Penobscot
river, below Bangor, have multiplied
so rapidly this summer that they have
been obliged to swarm and go outside
to build their nests. Most of them
went to barns and farm sheds, though
a good number are building among the
forked limbs of the red oaks, which
grow near the shore. The nests are
crude affairs, made of sticks and mud,
and are generally put up in groups of
four and five. In general appearance
they bear a close resemblance to the
nests of the wild pigeons, which were
very plentiful fifty years ago.
The domestic dove is far ahead of
the wild pigeon in matters of thrift
and fecundity. The pigeons reared
from three to four broods of two each
in a season and always moved to new
nesting grounds as soon as the young
were able to fly. The doves produce
eight or ten broods iu a year, occupy
ing the same large flat nests in which
the nearly fledged young and the newly
laid eggs lie side by side. The pigeons
w ent south during cold weather and
thus secured a perpetual food supply.
The doves have not learned to migrate
as yet, and many die from starvation
during tbe cold weather. The fact that
they have begun to utilize trees for
sites for their nests indicates that they
may soon acquire the habit of passing
tbe winter in the south. For more
than a century the country people
have believed the old rhyme:
YY'lien a dove shall light in a tree
The lame shall walk and the blind shall see.
Now- the doves not only light on
trees, but build their nests among the
branches. For this reason people be
lieve the doves will gain migratory hab
its in the course of time, and eventu
ally supplant the wild pigeons, which
are now practically extinct.—New
York Sun.
Strange Forms of Suicide.
Suicide is developing strange forms
in Paris. A dressmaker was working
with her three assistants one evening
recently, when they began to talk of
their troubles, and three of the
women, all about twenty-five years of
age, coming to the conclusion that
life was not worth living, decided to
kill themselves at once. The fourth,
a girl of tw-enty-one, said that she did
not care to he left alone and would
die too. They all wrote farewell let
ters to their friends, sent out for a
bottle of cherry brandy and some
charcoal, stopped up the openings
into the room, lit the charcoal, and
drank the brandy. They were heard
laughing and singing until late in the
night by the neighbors, and all four
were found dead the next morning.
A few days before an actress in one of
the minor theatres, who was supping
with three female friends, told them
that she meant to kill herself. They
discussed the best means for accom
plishing her purpose and decided on
poison. She went at once to a drug
store and procured what she w anted,
drank it in the presence of her friends
without interference, and after watch
! ing her convulsions and seeing that
tlie poison had done its work, they
called in a policeman and told him
what had happened.—New York Sun.
A Parson’s Story*
An itinerant parson tells that way
i out “in the back woods” he came, one
j day, to a settler’s house, and entered
to have a talk with its inmates. The
old woman of the house became much
j interested in tlie preacher’s discourse,
| and requested that he conduct family
j worship. She also insisted upon
hunting up her family Bible, to be
j used upon the occasion.
She left the room to look up the
! Bible, but seemed to have hard work
finding it. The minutes passed, and
she came not. The preacher had time
to grow impatient before the old
woman reappeared, with a few tattered
leaves in her hand.
She handed them over, w ith an apo
logetic air. “I’m awfully sorry, par
son,” she explained, “but the fact is,
I didn’t know I was so near out of
j Bibles!” —Harper’s Magazine.
NEGROES DISCUSS LYNCHING.
Chairman Council Give* Wholesome A<l.
vice to Hi* Race,
There was quite an exciting session
of the National Race Couneil.composed
of negroes, at Naskv'ille YVednesday.
YV. H. Councii,of Alabama,was elected
temporary chairman and in his address
he said :
“The frequency of violence to wo
men is alarming. YVe onnnot stop to
argue the nice points as to the cause of
the coming of these inearnato fiends
into a race which hitherto had abso
lute immunity from them, nor have we
time to plead that they are not the
trusted servautauf our southern homes;
nor can we stop to appeal from Judge
Lynch to the majesty of the civil law
but we must stamp out the crime.
“Let us restore that sense of securi
ty which white Yvomen felt fifty years
ago in the presence of our fathers, un
der any circumstances, amid the most
forbidding environments. YVe must
make the humblest white woman in
the remotest and wildest part of our
country feel as safe in the presence of
a negro as angelic Eva did alone with
her Uncle Tom. Let us make the
white women of this land and of all
lauds feel that our black arms are ever
ready, backed by hearts as pure as
truth, as guiltless as babes, to defend
their honor; that we are willing to
throw our black bodies between them
and their assailants and shed our
blood to the last drop iu protecting
them and hunting down and executing
these brutes in human form. ”
This language aroused the ire of
many delegates and after a long wran
gle a resolution was adopted declaring
that the accusations were injurious and
requesting the chairman to qualify his
remarks.
He refused to make any qualifica
tions, saying he had spoken the senti
ments of his heart and if more intel
lectuality was poured into the judg
ment of his hearers they w'ould admit
that he had spoken the truth.
Council was then unanimously elect
ed permanent chairman and the body
proceeded to business.
ANDREWS ASKEI) TO RECONSIDER.
Trustees of Brown University Kegret Their
Husty Action.
The corporation of Brown imiver
sify at Providence, R. 1., voted YVed
nesday, after a long meeting, to re
quest President Andrews to withdraw
his resignation as president of the
instihßion. The request was embodied
in a lengthy resolution w’hich set
forth the causes leading up to the dif
ferences between the trustees and
President Andrews.
The resolution closed by asking the
‘withdrawal of Professor Andrews’s
resignation.
In addition to a letter from Secretary
Olney, the now famous protest of
♦wenty-five of the faculty of Brown
and a number of petitions, including
one from college professors and public
men asking for the retention of Presi
dent Andrews, were also presented and
considered.
Among the signers are: Daniel C.
Gilman, president of Johns Hopkins
university; Charles YV. Eliot, president
of Harvard; C. K. Adams, president of
the University of Wisconsin; Seth
Low, president of Columbia; T. J.
Coolidge, former ambassador to Frauce;
YY r . C. Sumner, professor of political
economy at Yale;Jolin Fisher, the his
torian; YY'illiam Lloyd Garrison; J. T.
Trowbridge, the author; Josiah Quincy,
mayor of Boston; Professor James R.
Jewett, University of Minnesota.
FLANAGAN REFUSED NEYV TRIAL.
V.
Judge Candler I>enled the Motion Ab
solutely.
Judge Candler rendered his decision
YVednesday on the motion for anew
trial for Edward Flanagan, murderer
of Mrs. Allen and Miss Ruth Slack, at
Decatur, Ga., and decided to let the
verdict of death stand so far as he was
concerned.
The decision was a surprise, as
many expected that the murderer would
get anew trial. His attorneys had
made a motion containing forty-five
grounds of error, and were certain
that at least one of the grounds would
be sufficient for anew trial.
Judge Candler did not give any
very extended opinion in the case. In
fact, the only opinion given was in
the matter of the juror who it was
alleged was incompetent. The judge’s
opinion in this regard was a stunner
for the defense.
He said that he preferred to believe
the juror, and that it was his opinion
that the juror was competent despite
the alleged expressions used,
BREAD WILL COST MORE.
A* a Itesult Londoners Will Experience
Much Suffering.
The price of bread is rising slowly
iu London, and the outlook for the
winter is of the gloomiest kind. The
city requires 70,000 quarters of foreign
wheat w-eekly, independent of flour,
and during August less than 35,000
quarters were used per week.
Not one quarter of London’s bread
is made from English flour, and the
bakers assert that with flour at the
present figure, a loaf of bread at s}d
(11 cents) will send them into bank
ruptcy.
CONSUL LEE COMES HOME.
He Gets Leave of Absence From State
Department.
General Fitzhugh Lee, the United
States consul general at Havana, ac
companied by his son and private sec
retary, embarked Saturday afternoon
on board the YVavd line steamer Segu
ranea bound for New York.
YY 7 hen questioned as to his apparently
sudden departure from Cuba. Gener
al Lee said his leaving Havana had no
significance. He was simply availing
himself of a leave of absence granted
him by the state department.
SEVEN KILLED BY FALLING WALLS
An Insane Asylum Building In Course of
Erection Collapses.
A special dispatch from Montreux,
Switzerland, announces that an asy
lum for the insane, which was in
course of erection there, has collapsed,
burying a number of workmen iu the
ruius.
Up to the time the message was
sent the bodies of seven dead men had
been recovered and seven others, se
riously w-ounded, had been removed
from the wrecked building.
THROUGH GEORGIA.
The news comes from Columbus,
Ohio, that Lewis Hedwine Ims given
instructions to the warden and his
aides at the Ohio state penitentiary
not to allow any of his old Georgia
friends to see him,
* * *
The corner stone of the new court
house at Hawkinsville was laid with
impressive ceremonies, and in it was
placed a photograph of Jefferson Da
vis, a copy of The Federal Union, pub
lished at Milledgeville, August 16,
1843; a SIOO Confederate note an?, a
copy of The Hawkinsville Dispatch
and News.
* * *
The bill of exceptions in the Flana
gan case has not yet been filed and
will not for some time, as the attor
neys for the defense linve several
weeks before they will be barred by
the statue of limitations. Judge Chand
ler has already signified his intention
to sign it. It will be materially the
same as the motion for anew trial.
* * *
The superintendent of the mailing
department of the Atlanta postoffice
has filed his annual statement. It
shows a remarkable increase over the
year before and says that the people of
Atlanta write no less than 50 millions
of letters every year. It is almost an
inconceivable number, but it is true,
and the report shows that the business
done in the Atlanta postoffice is re
markable.
* * *
The tramp named Louden who was
arrested in Atlanta some days ago, un
der suspicion of being tlie man who
assaulted Miss Heathcock and nearly
killed her mother in Ringgold, was
carried there for identification. The
man was carried to the Heathcock
home and ushered into the presence
of Mrs. Heathcock, who, after looking
at him, immediately announced that
he was not the assailant.
The citizens of North Atlanta are
determined to get a postoffice. In a
few days a petition will he presented
to the postoffice department asking
that an office be established on Peach
tree street, about half way between
the city limits and the exposition
grounds. The petition has been ready
for some time, but there has been
some delay in selecting a place for
the office and in agreeing upon a post
master.
* + *
The latest report from the race for
state librarian is the announcement
that a dark horse has been selected for
the place. From the home of Gover
nor Atkinson in Coweta comes the ru
mor that Hon. James E. Brown, for
merly state senator and ex-postmaster
of Newnan, will he appointed by the
governor at the expiration of the term
now held by Captain Milledge. Gov
ernor Atkinson and Mr. Brown are
the closest of friends and both have
for years supported the other in the
political field.
# * *
Dawson has secured a removal of
discrimination against her in freight
rates, and the railroads have met it in
a way that will give them more reve
nue, with the result of high rates to
Albany. The railroad commission
heard the case and issued an order re
quiring the railroads to remove dis
crimination and submit the new rates
for approval. This will allow the rail
road to equalize on their own plan, so
long as they do not exceed the maxi
mum rate. Thus they will equalize
actually on higher average.
* * *
The weather bureau has highly en
couraging crop reports from all over
the state. Asa rule all crops are in
excellent condition and the yield of
each is large. With a good crop of
wheat saved and demanding exception
ally remunerative prices, and the
bright outlook of crops now in the
field, there seems to be a very decided
wave of prosperity sweeping over the
farmers of Georgia at present. Cotton
is growing well and is now being
picked in good condition, while a
large early corn crop has been saved,
and the late crop bids fair to return
even a greater yield.
* * *
The tax rate for Floyd county has
been raised from $1 to $1.25 per SIOO
by the county board of commissioners.
It was found necessary to increase the
rate of taxation on account of the in
crease of business in the courts. The
unusually large number of felony
cases with their unprecedented hosts
of witnesses have cost the county
thousands of dollars. Notwithstand
ing the increase in taxable property of
$275,000, this year aver last, the coru
sioners are compelled to raise the rata
on realty and personal property 25
per cent. Bridges, for embezzlement,
and Echols, for murder,, entailed an
expense little less than SB,OOO upon
Floyd county.
* * *
Colonel Phil G. Byrd’s supplemental
report on the condition of the private
misdemeanor convict camps in the
state was completed and filed at the
office of Governor Atkinson last Sat
urday. The governor has written a
letter to each of the judges in whose
circuits the law has been violated by
hiring out misdemeanor convicts to
private parties. Sixteen of the 23
superior court circuits are in this con
dition, and only seven are within the
law. Seventy of the 137 counties are
included in these circuits, and the
governor will send a similar letter to
the judges of the city and county
courts, where there are such tribunals
in these counties. In addition to this
he is sending copies of these letters to
the solicitors general in each circuit
ANDREWS IS IN DECIDED.
He May Not Kecon&ider Resignation
From Brown I'nivernlty.
E. Benjamin Andrews, president of
Brown university, has stated to a press
representative that he had made io
response as yet to the request of the
corporation of Brown university that
he .reconsider his resignation of the
presidency of the institution. As to
the tender which had been made to
him of the presidency of the projected
Cosmopolitan university, Dr. Andrews
said that the subject is still in abey
ance.