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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.