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% THE CLOJ If voit had nmf to my door alone, Love. my iord; Had 1 heard r.u foot fasave your own, ^ No voice but yours. Oh. how wide had my door been thrown, Oh. how jrladiy t he way been shown, Lo\e, rr.y iordi But I pccrro fr.vn r.:y casement cautiously, Love. my lord: You stood at my door with henchmen three I knew too we!!; Doubt and Distrust ctnr<* t ur> at me And gaunt-faced, white-!inped Jealousy, Love, my lord. I 1! ~ | HGHTDTG TC 'j A BULGARIAN LEONID! Tiiir.y-ei?h* Men Repel Hie lent Delens; c .1 Mount | c: Maceionia ; e?Y ALBERT tor. si r^OIt tI:o r?vr Wl0ks 1 rbeen studying bits of lUll i I reports tintt have come in M jM? front Macedonia front vai;ous chiefs of chetas, secret agents ami other individual members of the oiga nidation, all regarding a certain incident which occurred some weeks ago down in Southern Macedonia, in the enza, or *rp V district of Tevgeli. It was much tele? / graphed about at the time and mentioned in tlie European papers, but some of the main facts and all the details have as yet remained secret. Tutting togjtner the dry official reports to the committee with the narratives of several participants or wii-! iiesses who arrived here several days ago, and excluding obvious individual exaggerations, there still remains the stoiy of an event which stands out as remarkable, even in tills country of sensational events. It is just such a one as you may find here and there in the pages of Herodotus?a second Lionidas in another Thermopylae. It is the story of how thirty-eight comitajis, well armed and well entrenched, for a whole day stood off the repeated attacks of 2000 regular Turkish soldiers, a horde of ^several thousand bashi-bazouks, several hundred Albanians and a band of thirty Greeks. These numbers are quoted in the Turkish reports. x Few people familiar with events fcere for the past few years have not heard of Apostol Voyvoda. known to the Turks and gendarmerie officers as J.iptaiu Apostol. There is a standing price of 5000 liras, or Turkish pounds. 011 his head. lie is a small, dark, keen-eyed man of about thirty-five years, who can neither r*ad nor write, and always signs his dispatches, written by his secretary, with a rubber stamp hanging as a watch charm. t Were lie a man of education. lie would be one of the genera! leruers, for lie & ? t is intellectually keen. Bat he is the p . Robin IIoou of Macedonia. It is about liitu that the story centres. A week before Lent Apostol came here to Kustendil, to recross the froiitier some days later with several horse loads of munitions. He was going to take them to his rwu district, cache tLeni in the mountains to use them as a reserve for the summer's fighting. With liim were Save MichaelotT, his sub-chief, and thirty-eight num. On the day before tne beginning of Lent. Apostoi and his band were in the Giavato Mountains. lie wanted to t get over into the Cherni-Dervent Mountains; between the two ranges runs the River Vardar. During the day no had sent a courier across the river to the village of Spalivo, asking the villagers to send horses for the am munition. As was afterwards known, V - the courier was stopped in the intermediate village of Stoyak, where a company of soldiers were quartered. And this is the reason he was stopped. A Greek shepherd boy. wandering about the mountains with bis tiock. came accidentally upon Apostol's band iu hiding for the daj. They took him nricnnp;* Xo\V evei'V Gl'PCk ia ail - - - -cueiuy to every Bnlgar, and for some moments the boy's life was in danger. Perhaps it was his youth which apMy pealed to the chief: at any rate, he released him. The boy at once went to the village of Stoyak ami reported Apostol's presence in the nearby mountains, and later pointed out the courier passing through the village for Spalivo. The latter was arrested. When night came and the horses from Spalivo did rot appear Apostol de fded that pertaps the villagers had lost the way. so he and his men shouldered the ammunition bugs among them, descended to me river, crossed it. and by moonlight had reached their destination. Spalivo. This village was several miles higher up the same bank of the river 011 which stood Slovak, where the soldivs were quartered. On one side are aign mountain bluffs, on the other the Kiver Yardar. But as the villagers had not receiveu Apostofs message, they, not expecting him. had made no preparations. First, they had allowed their dogs free, who noisily announced the entrance of the bandsmen into the village. Their barkings were heard by some Albanian shepherds a short distance outside. However, the ammunition was stored in an oid. half-broken-dcwn deserted house, and two of the bandsmen were detailed to sleep upon it. Apostol, Michaelolt" and their companions then divided themselves among a half dozen houses nearby. In half an h;?ur all were asleep, save a few of the villagers. who remained awake to guard cgainst surprise. Meanwhile the sol SED DOOR. 0?1. the house of tt.v heart is over small. Love, my lot ?i: An' if I let you in I must let in all, () >. every one! And riot would reurn in my quiet hn 11. And I fear me soon would my dwelling: fall. Love, my lord. You went who mipht never entrance win, Love, my lord: Str,i>iL-p tlmr ! thomriit it little sin To bar my door: P?;;t a kin; comes ever with shout and din, A"d not alone Ir.d ycu entered in, Love, mv Vord. ? . ' si:?. (Lirrison, in Puck. ~ ' ''I )TBE DEATH! is against the turks. j Attack of Tfccusardf~A Gal?in Pass?The Fctin Heed and His Exploi s. SONMCHSEN. tilers in Stoyak hud quietly marched up to SpaJivo and surrounded it. Then a search party entered the village and began searching the houses. The Albanian shepherds, who had heard the barking of the dogs, joined them. The soldiers were now doubly assured that they had Apostol and his baud sur rounuect at last. . Meanwhile, the pounding at the doors as the Turks demanded entrance to the houses, alarmed the village. Fortunately, tlie search began from the side opposite to that where the bfinds111011 were quartered. Now, it is a standing law of the committee that the bands must never tight in the villages, unless* absolutely cornered, so Apostol and his men, still half clothed, gathered themselves together, and determined to break through the ring. It is probable that the traitor, who. as a Greek, hated the Turks only a little less than the Bulgars, had minimized the number of the band, and that the Turks thought they had only a baifd oJ ordinary size to deal with, of from fifteen to twenty men. At any rate. Aposiol and his men had 110 difficulty in walking through the circle. They retreated quickly up the pass through which the river runs until they could go no further. Behind them the bluffs descended abruptly into the Vardar; 011 one side rose cliffs, on the other, below tlieiu, ran the river, a wide, C rr? * f f 4 1\ ??? ~ ~ our<iIU juat iueu, iui UJU auuwa were melting.- Before them the roc-ky ground descended toward the village. From a military point of view, it was an ideal position for defense?and death, for no escape was possible. Day was dawning then, as the bandsmen hastily threw up three lines cf trenches with loose rocks and boulders that had once tumbled down from the heights above them. As soon as the Turks were able to locate'their positions by the growing light, they spread out in fan formation below, and began to tire. The bandsmen numbered just thirty-eight, for in the hurry there haa not been time to gather in the two men who were in the hut with the ammunition. As was found later, they 'ontinutd sleeping undisturbed, for the '?urks had not considered the hut worthy of search, and there the ammunition and its two guards remained in safety during the whole day. The first line of trenches in the pars was defended by Save MichaeloU and eleven men. Fifty yards beyond and higher up tifteen men were stationed, and still higher up were Apostol and twelve men. .uonnwn.ie the nrni.' una begun to attract to the spot the vultures of the Turkish army, the bashi-buzcuks. These are a disorganized, irresponsibl; rabble, who seldom fight but are always on hand to share the plunder. On occasions, they will someiifhes support the troops in a charge, for th.:y are well armed. These began to gather in great numbers now, and took up positions with the regulars. When the tight was two hours old a Greek band of thirty men. commanded by an officer in the uniform of the Greel: army, appeared and joined the Turks. Evidently the Turkish officer in command had recognized the strength of Aposlol's position, for hitherto lie had ordered no attack. Meanwhile it had been telegraphed to Saioniea. two hours away, by train, that Apostol was cornered and more troops were needed. But, anxious to gain the big reward 011 Apostol's head, the Turkish officer determined to get him before his superiors arrived. Enforced by the hashi-bazouks. the Albanians and the Greeks, lie ordered a general charge. The bandsmen allowed the charging throng to come half-way up. Then four hand grenades were thrown and as many volleys fired. They also rolled down huge boulders into the panic-stricken Turks. The destruction by the bombs was ter rific, for even the Turkish regulars, lierce fighters as they are, poured down in scrambling retreat. Having lost heavily, the Turks made no further efforts then to storm Aposi tol's position. liut in three hours the I reinforcements from Salomon began to J arrive. P.y noon twenty-five carloads j had come, two thousand soldiers in all. Meanwhile the bashi-bnzouks had streamed steadily in from the surrounding villages to the number of five thousand, some reports say. That is probably an exaggeration, and then, too. as far as actual fighting was concerned. most of these fellows probably took up the passive attitude of expectant spectators. Upon the arrival of the general officer Ir. command from Salonica. lie Jmpatiently ordered ;i sonoral attack at once. The soldiers made a wild upward scramble, bat attain tlie bombs were loas.n.g up iiio lava anions them. That attack failed. as had the iir>r. Two more equally desperate attacks had a similar result soon after Then the Turks withdrew and began to open tip a heavy tire on the rocks a hove, depending on rock splinters tc destroy the insurgents behind tlieii positions. These tactics, although costly?for Apostol and his men were slowly pot shooting individual officers wherever visible?were more successful. By seven that evening, at fifteen o'clock by Turkish time, the insurgents had been much reduced. Anothei attack was ordered, before dark should give the few survivors a possible chance to escape. In the first trend uly Miehaeloff and three men were alive, and they all wounded. In thf ther two lines of trenches were eight ucn unwounded. As tliis last general attack began the ammunit. >11 of the bandsmen gave out in a few last volleys. Then Miokaeloff and his three men in the first trench rose, deliberately smashed their rifles over the rocks, destroyed their watches in a similar manner and drank the poison, which is part of every bandsman's equipment, . to save him from torture, if wounded. The eight men above killed their wounded comrades with their knives, and then made a break for the river. The Turks were successful. They had gained the position. The news was then telegraphed that Apostol had been killed. From one of the bodies were taken personal letters addressed to him, a rifle with his name engraved upon it was found, and various villagers identified the corpse. Later it was found that this was the body of Apostol's secretary. So well was the Sultan pleased with the lews that he immediately telegraphed his personal thanks to the troops, and sent ?3o0 to be divided among them. The gendarmes, the creatures established by the reforms. who had taken part in the fight, were all promoted. Next day Georgis Pasha, the Italian gendarmerie officer, commissioned there by the Powers, arrived and began an investigation. It seems be was the first to question Apostol's death. At any rate, he sent tor Apostol's wife, wlio lives in a village nearby, and the dead having already been buried, he ordered them disinterred, that she might identify her husband among them. She failed to do so. Bnt several days after all doubts were settled when the kaimakam. or governor of the caza, received a letter bearing Apostol's rubber stamped seal, announcing himself in good health, save for a sprained ankle. Of the whole band of forty men, six escaped, two being the guards who watched over the ammunition and took no part in the fight. They remained with it until another band came a week later and carried it safely off. Of the eight who broke for the river, three were drowned while attempting to swim across, and one, realizing that he could not even attempt it, drank poison. One reached the opposite bank and escaped, and is now here in Kustendil. Apostol and his three comrades crouched among some rushes in shallow water, and escaped later in the night when the search was over. He is now recovering from his sprained ankle in a secret hospital in the mountains. What the Turkish losses were in the fight is hard to estimate truly. Turkish reports only mention two Greeks and sixteen Albanians killed. Villagers of Spalivo say 1200 in all fell, but that is perhaps an exaggeration. Still, the casualities must have been heavy, otherwise such a large force could not have been checked for a trboip ftnv hv thirtv-eicht men.?New York Post. Rachel's Sinter Still Lives. Comparatively few persons are aware that the once great actress of the Comedie Francaise, Rachel, who died so far back as 1SJS, has a sister still living in Paris. This sister, Mile. Lea Felix, was hurt in a carriage accident recently, but is now getting better. Mile. Felix retired from the stage fifteen years ago. her last appearance being 3 s Joan of Arc, in Aarbier's drama, at the Forte Saint Martin. She always retained her family name of Felix. Mile. Rachel, the great tragedienne, had four sisters and one brothel. All her sisters were actresses, like herself, and had considerable sucess in the profesion. Lea Felix is, in all probability, the only one of the sisters now living.?London Telegraph. Noble Itevfci-ge. It was a not day. and the dray horse and the thoroughbred carriage horse Happened to be drinking at the same .rough. "You're a perfect fright," said the thoroughbred, indulging in a horse laugh, "with that hideous old straw hat 011 your head." The dray horse looked at him. but said nothing. Then, with a brush of his ample tail, lie bru ^ed a fiy from the quivering hide of the carriage liorse. which the latter, with bis poor little stump of a tall, was unable to reach, and dipped bis nose in the trough again. ?Chicago Tribune. A Curious Club. One of the most curious clubs on record has recently been formed by society ladies in Berlin. The principal condition of membership is that the applicant must do oewi. mv ciuu iiui over a hundred members, who meet regularly on e a weel: in handsomely furnished rooms in the Wilheln Strasse, where they converse by means of ear-trumpets anl the sign 4anguag< and drink tea. ij gOME PRIS j |TfE are accustomed to speak , j of the ^udian as a hunter, ; j \\j to think that his food con, j - sisted wholly of flesh, and j that he lived purely 0:1 the , | products of the chase. This , | impression is very far from true. The . I Indian?like man everywhere except in . 1 the Arctic regions?is an omnivorous , creature, and while lie may subsist . | chiefly 011 flesh, he also greatly relishes . vegetable food. As a matter of fact, I the great majority of the aboriginal , tribes of North America were cultivators of the ground. The popular idea , that the Indian was a nomad wander, i ing from place to place and never ., camping twice in the same spot arises from an entire misconception of facts. t We have been lokl for years by the ? newspapers and other equally ill-informed authorities that the Indians II ? i were wanderers, and we Lave come J to believe that this was true. It was j not. The Indians lived in ver.v large , | measure in permanent villages, near . j which they had their cultivated fields, , I and which they occupied for the great! er part of each year. At certain sea, i sons special absences?more or less j protracted?were necessary for the purj pose of hunting sonic particular game ; or of gathering some special-sort of ! wild roots or fruits. This permanency of habitation was j true even of some of tlie tribes inhab| iting the semi-arid plains who depend: [ ed for support on ihe buffalo, and toi day, one who visits one of the plains . j tribes and asks the old men how their ; fathers used to live will everywhere receive the same answer. They will say that they used to grow corn, beans, squashes or pumpkins, and tobacco and besides this they gathered as abundance of wild crops which gave them a certain amount of vegetable food all through the year. Of the Iroquois we are told that the crops they harvested were so large that they frequently had in their store houses two or three years' supply or corn, beans and squashes. The Pawnees, occupying the arid West, like the Delawarcs of the moist sea coast, stored their crops in great pits dug in the ground, which they lined with mats, and in which their corn was perfectly preserved all through the winter, or until the supply was exhausted. Very different was the situation of the Cocopahs inhabiting the desert away to the Southwest. They scraped aside the rocks that covered the dry mountainside and, uncovering a little soil, planted there n few hills of corn and squashes, carrying on their backs from the distant spring the water which should moisten the ground to cause the seeds to sprout and to refresh the plants until the crop matured, and . when it was gathered they at once consumed it. Within the memory of living men, and while there were yet buffalo in abundance, the Western Indians of many tribes continued their primitive culture of the stubborn soil. The Pawi nee women used to hoe their corn with I hces made from the slioulderblade of j the buffalo Iasbod to a wooden handle, ! and about tbe same time the warlike Cheyennes were planting their little cornfields on.the Little Missouri River. We know that in early days, when i wooded Minnesota was much farther from the centre of things than Alaska is to day, the Indians of that territory planted little crops of corn, loosening the soil, either with hoes purchased j from the traders or with the hardened i sharpened branch of a tree. Their j fields were small, from a quarter of j an acre to an acre in extent, and proj dueed a small corn the ears of which I vere from three to eitrht inches -Ion?, I and which was chiefly consumed green ! as roasting ears. A. part of the crop, j however, was boiled 011 the ear while ! green,, cut from the cob and dried in j the sun to be kept for winter use. i Boiled with meat it made a nourishing j and pnlntble dish. There was no food ! more delicious, and none better to work ! on than dried corn and buffalo meat. Over the whole of North America, j wherever the climate permitted it to ripen, corn was cultivated by the Indians and constituted an important ' part of their subsistence. I.oskiel. who j in the eighteenth century wrote interi estingly and at great length of the j Indians among whom the United i Brethren worked, enumerates no Jess |; tlian twelve methods employed liy the ; Indians in preparing their corn for j food. A concentrated form of nounsh! ment much employed when traveling j on the warpath, or where it was neres11 sary to go swiftly or with light loads, , | was citanton. an interesting analogue ' ! of the penunicau used in old prairie travel. Pemmican consisted of pulverized dried meat mixed with melted ! fat. hut, as those will remember who j have rend the old works of travel in ! the Northwest, or even those "Trails of | the Pathfinders.*' which have recently ! appeared in Forest and Stream, there 'was another sort of pemmican made of the pulverized flesh of fish also j mixed with fat. Citamon. on the other j hand, was finely pounded rornmeal . mixed with powdered maple sugar, and i then packed in a sa<*k so tightly that I tiie air could not enter it. "While pom! mican was purely a flesh food, citamon ! was wholly vegetable. ' It is well understood -that the In; t'ians had discovered the art of making ! maple sugar long before the coating -whites. ai d that they tauuht j first the French i:i Can nun and inter j other white people liow to maiiufnetwr.j sugar and syrup from the sap of the I maple tree. They used i:ot only the i sap of the hard or sugar maple, hut | also that of the soft or white mapio. i though of the latter mm-h more sup i vas required to unke a given quantity IITIVE 1 3t , zs i\TT Fnnn^i . XJ1 JlIU X JL VUJL/U ?|| I?M M?i ( of sugar. In tbe Western country, i } even out on the plains, sugar was made j by Indians from the sap of the commoy ! box elder tree.?Forest and Stream. J | THE ORiCIN OF RADIUM. i i It ig Believed to Be Derived From Some | Parent Klement. Frofessor F. Socldy has made recently some interesting contributions to our knowledge of radium, about whose probable origin there has been so much speculation. Radium is now believed to bje derived from some parent element which is decomposing at a very i . slow rate, and Frofessor Soddy not only supports this view, but states ? that from the disintegration of radium must follow otber and better-known elements. On the assumption that there is such a parent clement and the * quantity of radium is minute, this par- I (out element must exist in large !i amounts, and it must have a large atomic weight in order to give radium on its disintegration, a process that is known to be very slow. The only two elements answering these requirements are uranium and thorium, and as the former is practically always found in company with radium it must be the substance i sought. Professor Soduy has been able to demonstrate this fact experimentally by obtaining from uranium, which originally was free from radium, an unmistakable emanating power. The original uranium, it was proved, did not possess the power of emitting an emanation, and as the emanation thus obtained seemed to be in all respects identical with that of radium, it seemed a proper inference that the uranium in the course of its decomposition was producing radium. Professor Soddy believes that radium, actinium and polonium are intermediate products in the disintegration of radium, and that the ultimate product must be an element of lighter atomic weight and should be a known substance. The logical candidates for such a position are bismuth and lead, and inasmuch as the latter occurs in the uranium-radium minerals the preponderance of opinion is in its favor. This seeins in a fair way soon to be settled, as polonium not only is easily obtained, but also changes very rapidly. and the question of deciding definitely 011 this filial product is apparent1?< /\rtA <m/Y ArriQ*?ininnf ? UUJ^ U11C VI VVOl iliiu ?* Harper's Weekly. U, V and TV. "Spell it Tvltli a Wc, Sammy, spell it i with a We!" the elder Mr. Weller shouted from the gallery of the court room to his son when the judge desired to learn the correct initial of his name. Doubtless, in a delightful anecdote recently related of Mr. Laurence Hutton and two of his friends, it was a recollection, of this famous injunction that moved a perplexed parent to adopt, when the propriety of a W was? questioned, tk? simple rule, "When in doubt choose Laurence Hutton and the actor, Lawrence Barrett, were both intimate friends of the artist. Frank Millet; so when, oue summer in London, a baby son was boru to Millet, they both accompanied him to the vestry-house of St. Mary's, Kensington, in which parish ! his residence lay, to have its birth duly registered. The usual questions were asked and answered. Mr. Hutton relates, and finally the name of the child. "Lawrence," said the father. "L-a-w-r-e-n-c-e," said Barrett, in his most formidable high-tragedy voice, # and with a strong accent on the w. "Pardon me," said Hutton, "L-a-u- j r-e-n-c-e. if you please," with the accent on the u. "L-a-W!" shouted Barrett. "L-a-u!" insisted Hutton, and the j c noor little official laid down his pen in j j amazement. j 1 "The clerk was on the point of faint- J 1 ing or calling the police," added Mr. j 1 Hutton. "when Mr. Millet, in his quiet i way, came to the rescue." t " 'It appears to me,' he exclaimed, q 'that in a case of this kind the father t of the child should have something to say! I never interfered with the nam- t ing of any of your babies, did I?' Then j turning to the clerk, be said, 'Spell him c with a v.' f "And Lavrence Millet he is by law to this day."?Youth's Companion. e { A School of Glove Making. Mainly because of objection on the part of skilled employes to having an unlimited force of green hands engaged, and also owing to chronic scare- ^ ity of competent help, the Master Glovers' Association, principally composed of wholesale firms in the metropolis, c opened a free school of instruction at Gloversvillc, X. Y., lust week. It is intended to make this institution perma- . * nent, with the purpose of supplying present and future shortage in the kid i glove labor market. The various styles < in stitching are taught, among other j < I branches of the business, under the j i ' general direction of a corps of expert ! ( I male and female tutors. As the up- : c T ? ! j piVilIiC?3 I'lvmiyt Vj/V.i?u,vu . thry are ai liberty to seek employment J in ;u:y factory operated by a member : of the organization. A uniform wage j schedule prevails. .Many applications | \ have been received from both men and ; women.?New York Press. !< DeslroyiiiR Germs. 0 The inspector of the disinfection .( ; office of Turin, Italy, lias instituted an 'Innovation in destroying germs in ! dwellings. He uses a one per cent, so- . ! Intioii of sai soda for cleansing tlie j floors, whereby the bacilli of diphtheria ; '/ I ami typhus are killed in one minute. EACH SALE TAXED :J ' # ?*3j Dotton Association Plans lo Raise Campaign Fund. * CONVENTION A SUCCESS s 1 -. ' '\i mportant Work in Interest of Grow- - , ers of the South Mapped Out at Convention Sessions in Asheviile. - 'W The first annual convention of the southern Cotton convention closed at * Asheviile, N. C., Friday night, with % i banquet tendered to the executive jommittee by Keniiwortli Inn. It is <protx>sed to raise $10QJ]00 tor the national association and $160,* )00 each for the state and county astxuaticns by the 3 cent tax on each V;vj jale of cotton, and such tax wlB be evied. The afternoon and night sessions rtiday were confined chiefly to the wssing of various resolutions, chief >f which was one looking to a raise a membership dues fqrom 25 cents :o $1 a year. Colonel J. McMartin's. resolution ecommended that greater publicity je given to article 1, section 1, of : he constitution, which calls attenion to the fact that the Southern ; Cotton convention is an organization . omposed not only of growers, but >f manufacturers and farmers, which vas adopted. M,r McMartin further states that the chief object of tbs ^ >rganization is ,sthe industrial devel- ' | >pment and supremacy of the cotton ^ states," and to this end the govern- -Wk nent should be argued to build bet* ;er southern harbors. An important feature of the closing session was the adoption of a modon made by E. D. Smith of South Carolina to the effect that all mem- ~ ^ 3ers of the association be urged to vy<j narket their cotton, even at the minmum price, as slowly as possible, so - 'iM ts to distribute the sale of the sta)le over the entire year instead of marketing the crop in ninety days is has been the custom. In this wajr - ;5|jH he highest prices possible above the ninimum could be secured. * * After some discussion at the night ession as to the next meeting ptace )f the association's executive commit ee, Hot Springs, Ark., was chosen. ~;rhis was effected by a compromise . nade between the advocates of Ashe- ' J|pg rille and Hot Springs, by the terms >f which the winter meeting con-enes at the latter place, while Ashe. ;' rille gets the summer meeting. The matter of Vice President Pe- if, ;ers* resignation was again touched v u^on, and although the discussion was ;oncluded in secret session, it is un- ^ lerstood that Mr. Peters will "volunarily resign" in a few days, and his -Z& accessor will be named by Presilent Jordan, in whose hands the quesion was left for adjustment It was . ??j eported that the association will >robably deliver an address to the American people. It will deal princi>ally with existing conditions in the extile world. The .passing of resoln- , dons of thanks to the people of Ashe- ^ rille, the local and national press and . die local authorities of Kenilworth . . :losed the convention. QUIET RESTORED IN TOKIO. ' " Regret Expressed by Better Class at Burning of Christian Churches. A Tokio special says: At noon Frilay the city was quiet. Complete reports from metropolitan and outly- - ^ ng districts indcate that there was 10 disorder throughout Thursday light or early Friday morning. The government has suspended a otal of five newspapers, and it is exacted that the publications of others will be prevented. Government officials and the beter class of Japanese citizens are expressing keen regret over the attacks *vf >n Christian churches. They explain -J hat the affdr was the result of local , :onditions, and does not indicate & ;erious anti-foreign or anti-Christian eeling. ;~V{ m FRENCH ROUTE FAVORED. Zzr.aI Engineers Accept Old Lines at Basis of Discussion. The board of consulting engineers >f the Panama canal met in Washingon Friday. The members have been tudying the various maps and data. Hie most important conclusion reaca id by the board was that the location )f the canal, as marked on the official maps of the commission, known is the French location, shall be accepted as a basis for the detailed discussion of its structure. GEORGIA'S GOLD PRODUCTION. ' 1 1 falue of Output for Year 1904 is Fig- f ured at $96,9CO. Director of the M'int Roberts rnc :.a'?e public his estimates of the* prediction of gold and silver Id the Uu r-.t States for the calendar year 19'. '. These figures show an increase t: i.t- pa.dticrion ever the calendar ytvtC $7,131,500 gold and 3.4S6.0;i) r:e ounces of silver. -Georgia is ere iJ with $96,900 gold and 1,500 Cno nieces of s,tver. ': . 'Hi