“Their home is at Brodie, in the country, about twenty miles from Henderson, N.C.  The father’s name is Gillis Garnes.  He is about fifty years of age, and the mother says she is about forty-eight.  The oldest child is a daughter, aged twenty-eight, and the youngest is also a daughter, three years of age; that you see seated in her mother’s arms.  They are all Baptists and thirteen of the family are members of the church.  I had this photograph taken at Henderson, on April 8th.  There are seventeen children, all living, of the same father and mother.  A.J.  Garnes spends quite a part of the time in teaching in his native county.  When he is not teaching he is at home, and every evening has a school made up of children of the family.  A.J.  Garnes is the tall young man in the background at the right, who is a former student of Shaw University, as well as one of the sisters represented in the picture.”—­Prof.  Charles F. Meserve, in the Baptist Home Mission Monthly.

“A COLORED WONDER” ON THE BICYCLE.

New York, August 27.—­Major Taylor, the colored cyclist, met and defeated “Jimmy” Michael, the little Welshman, in a special match race, best two out of three, one mile pace heats, from a standing start at Manhattan Beach Cycle track this afternoon.

Michael won the first heat easily, as Taylor’s pacing quint broke down in the final lap, but on the next two heats Michael was so badly beaten and distanced that he quit each time in the last lap.

MARVELOUS WORK.

Taylor’s work was wonderful, both from a racing and time standpoint, and he established a new world’s record which was absolutely phenomenal, covering the third heat in 1:41 2-5.

Michael was hissed by the spectators as he passed the stand, dispirited and dejected by Taylor’s overwhelming victory.

Immediately after the third heat was finished, and before the time was announced, William A. Bradley, who championed the colored boy during the entire season, issued a challenge to race Taylor against Michael for $5,000 or $10,000 a side at any distance up to one hundred miles.

THE COLORED YOUTH LIONIZED.

This declaration was received with tumultuous shouts by the assemblage, and the colored victor was lionized when the time was made known.

Edouard Taylore, the French rider, held the world’s record of 1:45 3-5 for the distance in a contest paced from a standing start.

[Illustration:  COLEMAN COTTON MILL.]

THE WORLD’S RECORD LOWERED.

The world’s record against time from a standing start, made by Platt Betts, of England, was 1:43 2-5.  Michael beat Taylore’s record by 1 2-5 seconds in the first heat, but Major Taylor wiped this out and tied Betts’ record against time in the second heat.  As Taylor was on the outside for nearly two and a half laps, it was easily seen that he rode more than a mile in the time, and shrewd judges who watched the race said that he would surely do better on the third attempt.