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? in iii H mi i un.I in i n J THE NATIONAL BMOF AUGUSTA I L. C. HAYNS, Prfcs't P. 0. FORD, Cashier. Capita!, $250,000. Undivided Profila } $110,000. Facilities of oar magnificent Nev Yanlt containing 410 t-afoty-Locx Bosos. Differ ent Sises am offered to our patrons and tho public at $3.00 to 910.00 per Annntn, THOS. J. ADAMS PROPRIETOR. IBB PLANTERS LOAN AND SAVINGS BANK. AUGUSTA, GA. Hjt Intewtt oa Deposits, Aocounts Solicited, L. O. HATITB, President. W. O. WABDLAW, Cashier. VOL. LXV. NO. 15. THE OLD DAG BT JOB ) Up In the attie I found thom, locked ; Where tho flowered KO wns He foldoc And, like the queer old jackets und They tell of a worn-out fashion-tut * Quaint little folding cases fastened Seemingly made to tempt one to liri Linings ot purple velvet, odd llttlo : Circling the faded face* brought frc Grandpa and grandma, taken ever < Grandma's bonnet a rnurvel, grand] Hother? a tiny toddler, with rings c Painted-lest none should notice-li ' Aunts and uncles and cousins, a sti Lover? and bride?, thoo blooming, I Out through the misty glasses they Opening the quaint old caaos with a I will smilo no more, llttlo pictures, To drag to the cruel daylight ttieso Go back to your cedar ohamber, yot , And dream, 'mid their bygouo grace A BOND OF ? ? "J" *M awfnl sorry for Miss San I ders," romarbed Mrs. Abi jab Smith, "even if abo is prouder r? 4 ? ' han sin. I s'pose she can't -help thai, though. AU tho Sanderson was that -^ay. Poverty and pride ain't good bed-fellows, however." "Tint's true as the Gospel," re turned Mrs. White, with whom Mrs. Smith was spending the afternoon. Husband was saying only yesterday that Miss Sanders mast find it pretty hard hoeing. But she's got so much pride that she'd die beforo she'd have anybody suspect she needed help. It's too bad she's that way. Folks would be glad to help her if she'd let them." "Goodland! Don't attempt to give her^oythingK' cried Mrs. Smith in alarm, "or she'll treat you like she did in*. " !?5'How was that?" * "Well, the other day I happened to run in while she was eating her din ner. She was awful upset, but I mado out I didn't notice anything, though it did make mo feel bad when I see she hadn't nothing ou the table but tea and a few crackers. A couple of days later, I run over again with custard pi o I ju tv made and I says to hery'says I: 'Mus Sanders, I just finished baking anc. 1 brought over one of my custard pies for you to try. Miss Lowe gave me a new recipe.' She took it as nico as you please, though I was dreadful afraid she wouldn't, and I was tickled to pieces, but I didn't let on. That was on Thursday, and lo and behold, my name ain't ALmiry Smith if Miss San ders didn't come over on Saturday with the elegantest raised cake yon oversaw. The poor dear just made me take it, ? though she must have starved a week io make up for it." , Addie White, who had been studying her lessons for the next day, overheard this'conversation, and it made a deep impression upon her. "Poor Miss Sanders," she sighed pityingly, "I wish I could help her." A few days later Add io paid Miss Sanders a visit. "Next Friday I shall be twelve years old, and I'm going to have a birthday party after school," she told her eagerly, "and I thought ii would be just fine if you would make us some of your elegant cream candy. We'll need ? lot of it, you know, for your candy is so good every body will want all they get. Will you make me some?" Misa Sanders hesitated and flushed. Addie was shrewd enough to guess that she was thinking of tho expense compliance with the request involved. "Pleaso say you will," she urged. "Mo tb er says you can come over to our house in the morning and make the cnnc'y while she is doing her bak ing. Our kitchen is lots bigger than yours; and everything is handy, and there'll be only one mess to oleau up." Miss Sunders looked at her rather suspiciously. "Did your mother plan all that:?" ehe asked solemnly. ? "No!om, I thought of it myself," returned Addie. "Mother didn't want me to ask you at first, because rho said it would be too much for you." i "Oj?, no! I like it," answered Miss Sanders, all her suspicions vanishing. 'Til come over, then, Friday morn ing, and make you all the candy you want." Miss Sanders kept her word, and the delectable sweetmeats disappeared down the throats of the Goshen young people with remarkable rapidity. The next day Addie brought a little box addressed to Mr. Albert Evans, Springfield. Mass., to the postoffice and mailed it. A .letter which Addie sent to the same address read thus: Dear Uncle-There's the loveliest old lady lives here, but she's as poor aa poor can be, and she's just as proud as she's poor, because ber folks were rich once; but they're all dead and she's the only one of the family that's left, and she's got no money and there ain't anything she can do. She makes the finest cream candy you erer .te, and I'm sending some she made for ray. birthday party, for you to try and see if you don't think so too. I've been think ing that Springfield folks must eat lots of eandy. and why can't they eat Miss San der's as well as anybody's else's? If I have her make some and send it to you will you put lt in your store to sell? Please do, uncle, for she's awful poor, and I feel so sorry for her. J o n't tell anybody about this; it must be a secret, between you and n.e. Write and tell me how many pounds you want to begin with and bow much you Will pay for it. Tour loving niece, ADDIE. "Bless her dear heart!" exclaimed the head of Evans & Co., when he had finished reading this epistle. "That girl is always thinking of some scheme to help other people." A few days later Addie put in an appearance before Miss Sanders, her face wreathed in smiles. "Oh, Miss Sanders, something nice has happened to you!" she exchvmed. "To me!" echoed Miss Sanders in amazement. "Why nothing very pleasant ever comes my way." "Well, you just listen and see," re turned Addie, gayly, drawing a letter from her pocket. "It's all because of that eandy you made for any party. Yon know I've got an uncle in Spring field? He's just lovely, and of course I had to send him some oi my birth day candy. This letter is from him. He wants to know whether 'the person who made that delicious, old-fashioned cream candy'-that's just exactly what be said, interpolated Addie, looking ap from the letter and nodding her head emphatically, as she saw her listener's eyes open very wide in astonishment-'would be willing to give him the sr.le of it.' lie says he is tare that he can sell a great deal, be UERREOTYPES. ?xircora. \ . r I ta the cedar ohest, ?wi I, which once wera brave aa the best; tbe waistcoats gay with stripe?, ase old daguerreotypes. with tiny hook, ; up tho latch and look, trames of gold, >m the days of old. ... JO long ago, :?' ia's collar a show; ?' in ber baby hands a glittering, gilded bands. ireby and stiff array, jut now so wrinkled and gray. ROZO at me, sitting here i smile that is half-a tear. for heartless lt was. in truth, gbosts of a vanished yontb. ir gowns and your lavender, ss, of tho wonderful days tbnt w?re. ?Saturday Evening Tost. SWEETNESS. g cause there are many people who will pay a good price for pare, home-made candy. He'd like twenty-five pounds to start on, to see if it takes as well as ho expects, -.nd he'll pay thirty cents a pound for it, and ho sent the money for it. There now 1" concluded Addie, triumphantly, "ain't that nice?" Miss Sanders gasped. The tears came to her eyes, bat her heart bounded with thankfulness. "Mercy on me! I never heard of each a thing!" she incredulously exclaimed. "Doa't folks in the city know how to make cream candy?" "I s'pose they do," answered Ad die, "but not as good as yours. No body can make it like you, everybody says so. You'll make tho candy for f uncle, won't you?" "Why, yes, especially as he's paid for it already, at a good price, too," returned Miss Sanders. "But does your mother know anything about this?" she asked abruptly. "Why, no. She was over to Miss Smith's when father brought me the lotter, and I ran right over here the minute I read it," answered Addie a trifle uneasily. The old lady looked muoh relieved at her reply. "I thought perhaps it was your mother's doings, and I couldn't be beholden," she said apologetically. "I'll sts^t on the caacly the first thing in the morning." "And I'll come in and he'p you after school. I want to see how you'll get along." "Thank you, dearie. I hope I'll have good lack. I'm not used to making so much at one time." Early next morning Miss Sanders went to work on the candy. She watched her kettles anxiously, but lack favored her.- Every'hing turned out just as it should, though all her pots and pans were^pressed into ser vice. Addie,,when she called after school, found Miss Sanders flashed bat happy over her "beautiful luck." Of coarso Addie tasted the candy, and pro nounced it the best she had ever oaten. Then she set to work, under Miss Sauders's direction, and the candy was daintily wrapped, weighed and packed. Miss Sanders was very happy over the result of her day's work. She had labored like a Trojan, and she was thoroughly tired out "I'll just be on needles and pins till I find out how the candy suits, and if your uncle will want any more," she remarked anxiously. Bat even Addie did not suspect bow eagerly the old lady prayed that Springfield folks would find her candy to their liking and she would be kept busy supplying the demand. ?'ew Goshen people had any idea how far .along on the road to the poorhouse Miss Sanders really was. After the oooking utensils had been washed and tho kitchen tidied, Addie went home with a light heart, and wrote her uncle a letter which that gentleman cherished as a treasure. "Another letter from Unelo Albert!" announced Addie, rashing in upon Miss Sanders about two weeks later. "Good news in it, too!" "Tourface tells that," answered the old lady, beaming. "Bat wh&t does he say?" "He says the candy sold twice aa fast as he expected, and he wants you to make 100 pounds this time, and send it as soon as you can!" was the gleeful reply. "Land of mercy!" ejaculated Mist Sanders. "And he's going to send yon a bar?' rel of sugar and a case of flavoring ex tracts, at the wholesale rate," con tinued Addie, "and he'll take the price off what he'll owe yon. He says that will be oheaper and better than baying in small lots, for he expeots to have a demand for the candy right along." "Did you ever!" again exclaimed Miss Sanders. "Thirty dollars' worth! What great candy eaters those city folks must be!" Miss Sanders was more than busy after that. She hired a little girl to help her, and orders for the candy, which Uncle Albert judiciously adver tised as "Cupid Cream Candy," con tinued to oome so fast that she was obliged to make regalar weekly ship ments, and the demand is still grow ing. The dread of the poorhouse passed away and Miss ' Sanders became her own cheerful self. Addie is allowed to have all the candy she wants at any time, and she and Miss Sanders are the very best of friends. "I do believe you had more to do with your Uncle Albert ordering the candy than you ever told me of," said Miss Sanders to Addie one day. "Now, didn't you?" And Addie blushed and began to talk about something else.-St. Louis Globe-Democrat. The Wit of... "Best Man." A gallant "best man" oame to the reson? at a recent wedding, when the ring was not forthcoming at the right time. He drew from his tie the slen der stickpin that had been adorning it, and, bending the wire into ring shape, handed the improvised wed ding ring to the distracted groom. When Women Feel at Home. Lots of women never feel really at home unless they are away visiting somewhere.-New York Press. ? in iii H mi i un.I in i n J THE NATIONAL BMOF AUGUSTA I L. C. HAYNS, Prfcs't P. 0. FORD, Cashier. Capita!, $250,000. Undivided Profila } $110,000. Facilities of oar magnificent Nev Yanlt containing 410 t-afoty-Locx Bosos. Differ ent Sises am offered to our patrons and tho public at $3.00 to 910.00 per Annntn, THOS. J. ADAMS PROPRIETOR. IBB PLANTERS LOAN AND SAVINGS BANK. AUGUSTA, GA. Hjt Intewtt oa Deposits, Aocounts Solicited, L. O. HATITB, President. W. O. WABDLAW, Cashier. VOL. LXV. NO. 15. SCENES IN BL CAPITAL THE Orange Free State quarrel with Great The Transvaal's quarrel not her quarrel, free and independent State, living own lifo and worshiping her*-? legislative and administrative . Her people, however, spoke the ? tongue as the Tranavaaler. A shadow of tho Anglophobia that lurked o? the north of the'Vaal was also to bo found north of tho Orange, and Martians Th. Steyn, the far-seeing and ccrm?ge ous President of the Free State, firmly believed that if the South. African Republic were wrested from Dutch control, either by armed force or by awe of Great Britain's prowes8V>'the next victim of the slogan "British pre-eminence in South Africa" would VIEW OF BLOEMFONTEIN, THE C be his own little Republic, the Orange Free State. Furthermore, the" {?wo Republics were bound by a treaty made in 1897, after the Jameson: raid, which provided that if either State were -attacked the other was to come to its assistance with its full fighting force, which at that time meanta com bined army of about 44,000 men 27,000 Transvaalers and 17,000 Free Staterp. So the Orange Free State and the Transvaal joined hands. That the Free Staters were not the first to suf fer by this racial coalition was due to one of those mere accidents of war or oaprices of fate that can never be anticipated. Ladysmith and Colenso, Kimberley and Mafeking chanced to be the points where the storm bnret. The Free Staters, while descended from the same Dutch settlers in South Africa aa the Transvaal burghers, form what might'be termed another branch' of the Boer family. They settled .in Natal after the exodus from the Cape, but as that became a British colony, they fell back and established them selves in the country lying between the two great branches of the Orange River, known to the colonists as the PRESIDENT STEYN, OP THE ORANGE FREE STATE. Vaal and the Orange Rivers, and sepa rated from the coast by the Drachen berg Mountains. The Orange River Free State, to give it its full name, forms a connecting link between Cape Colony, tho Transvaal and Natal, and was for years called the Buffer State. It is a vast plateau, 3000 to 5000 feet above sea level. Its nndnlating plains slope from the Malnti Mountains to the Vaal River. In the south they are dotted with*rocky hills, which the Boers call "kopjes." lu the northern part, however, one can travel hundreds of miles without seeing a break in the horizon. When the Natal Boers took possession of the country it was in habited by different tribes. All ex cept the powerful Bas?t os have dis persed. The Free State is divided into the following districts : Bloemfontein, Winburg,'Southfield, Harrismith and Fauresmith. The capital is Bloem fontein (of which we give several, il lustrations), situated on a tributary of the Modder River and about 800 miles from Cape Town. The Orange Free State was annexed by Great Britain in the forties, and continued* colony of the empire nntil 1854, when HOME OF PRESIDENT fl It was granted independence. The in habitants then established a govern ment of their own and had progressed satisfactorily until their President, Mr. Steyn, was led by President Kruger into an offensive and defen sive alliance against England. That the Boera have for months and even for years been anticipating some ."ONTEIN, ?ANGE FREE STATE, final struggle with the British has been well demonstrated by the thor oughness of the preparations for war I which the Government of tho crafty Oom Paul has been making for some I time past. The same might be said of I the doughty burghers of the Orange ! Free State, for Bloemfontein, the cap j ital of the little repuhlic, was careful ly fortified and garrisoned for many months beforo the actual outbreak of 1 hostilities. The accompanying illus tration wi'l give a very good idea of the Boer fort at Bloemfontein, a spot which, in view of recent events, has an especial.interest to all followers of I the present struggle between the Boer ' and the British. The Orauge Free State is like and j yet unlike the Transvaal. Its people, TS APITAL OF ORANGE FREE STATE. like those north of tho Vaal River, are simple, bucolic and sincere. An infu sion of Huguenot blood makes them a slightly more active and progressive people than the Trausvaalers. The republic has au area of about 50,000 square miles. Its present population is estimated to be 93,000 whites and some 140,000 blacks of the Basuto and Barolong tribes. The capital, Bloem fontein, is a curious, old world look ing little city, with a railway leading THE EAADZAAL (PARLIAMENT)-BUILD ING, BLOEMFONTEIN. from the south into the town and again starting north. Unlike Kimberley and Johannesburg, the visitor gets no im pression of mushroom growth from Bloemfontein, for the city is rich in statuary and public monuments and possesses a national museum and a well-stocked public library. The Bloemfontein raadzaal, or council chamber of the legislature, is a hand some edifice, designed in the Greek style and costing almost a quarter of a million dollars. The buildings in the oity are substantial and prepossess ing, for near by are great beds of free stone, admirable for building pur poses. The presidency, where Presi dent Steyn resides, is also a very pa latial building. The Orange Free State is not a for est country, for, like the Transvaal, it is very sparsely wooded. The only BOER FORT AT BLOEMFONTEIN. mountain ranges in the State are the Stall Mountains, which lie in the east ern portion of the republic. Practi cally all of the plains are well adapted for pastoral purposes. On the Basu toland border there is a golden strip of land, thirty miles broad and 100 miles long, which is considered co be the best bit of grain producing soil in the world. Think of land that, without irriga tion, and with soaroely any cultiva tion, will raise seventy to eighty bushels of grain to the acre! Wheat, oats, maize, barley and Kaffir corn can all be grown, while herds of oat tle, horses, Angora goats, ostriches and sheep can live and flourish on the veldt. TEYN AT BLOEMFONTEIN. There are threo kinds of regnlar Government schools. One is the town school, another the ward school and the third the paripatetio school, j At Bloemfontein there is a very fine college, known as Grey College, where higher education is earriqd on. The vast majority ?} the Free Staters are members of tho Beformed ? in iii H mi i un.I in i n J THE NATIONAL BMOF AUGUSTA I L. C. HAYNS, Prfcs't P. 0. FORD, Cashier. Capita!, $250,000. Undivided Profila } $110,000. Facilities of oar magnificent Nev Yanlt containing 410 t-afoty-Locx Bosos. Differ ent Sises am offered to our patrons and tho public at $3.00 to 910.00 per Annntn, THOS. J. ADAMS PROPRIETOR. IBB PLANTERS LOAN AND SAVINGS BANK. AUGUSTA, GA. Hjt Intewtt oa Deposits, Aocounts Solicited, L. O. HATITB, President. W. O. WABDLAW, Cashier. VOL. LXV. NO. 15. HOW PLANTS ABE BRED, HYBRIDIZATION PROCESS NEITHER DIFFICULT NOR MYSTERIOUS. Professor Gullowny Doicribe* Kxperl meut* by th? Agricultural Department at Washington-Scokln; n Blore Nu trition* Com-VciT Conni or Fruit. ? ? YHTTHE breeding of animals is I i well understood and has been practiced for years, "4 but you cannot say as much of the breeding of plants," said Professor P>.' T. Galloway, chief of the vegetable physiology division of tho Agricultural Department at Wash ington. "It is true, nevertheless, that . tho breeding of planes has boon car ried on with most satisfactory results, mostly by private parties, but with little attempt to determine the princi ples involved. The possibilities in j the breeding of plants are just as great as in tho breeding of animals. We*find all through -iture a constant effort on the part of the plant to im prove. There in a constaut progres sive tendency iu all organism, animal as well as vegetable, and in tho ques tion of breeding man only takes ad vantage of these conditions and uses them to his own intorest. The fact is that most of the improved forms of plants wo have to-day are derived in a more or less spontaneous way, and have been propagated by people who have discovered them and have taken advantage of the improvements. Na ture has been made to do the work un assisted. As I say, most of our culti vated fruits and plants at the present time were developed by nature, and are therefore to be put down as acci dents. "Emphasis should be placed upon the fact that plants aro not fixed en tities," continued Professor Galloway. "I am aware that this is the general impression, but plants are exceeding ly plastic and eau be modeled within certain limits to meet almost any de sire. Looking at plants from that standpoint the wide field and possi bilities in developing new forms will be seen. Tho process of hybridizing plants, as this is called, is neither difficult nor mysterious, it being sim ply necessary to understand the gen eral structure of the flower to be used. Flowers have sexual organs, the Flamen and pistil, the former be ing the male, are usually several in number. Tho very numerous small, yellow, powdery grains of pollen, which constitute the male fecundating elements, are born in sacks, and when the portion of the flower which bears them, known as the anther, matures it bursts and the pollen is exposed. A quantity of this pollen must be transferred either by natural or arti ficial means to the stigma of the fe male organ in order to insure fecunda tion. The pistils, which are the be male "organs, occup'y the center of the flower and are surrounded by .the stamens. The upper portion of the pistil is usually somewhat swollen and more Or less rough. It is on this por tion of tho pistil, known as the stig ma, that the pollen must fall to pro duce fecundation. In the majority of plants the stamens and pistils aro pro duced iu the same flower, as in the orange, tomato and our common fruit trees, but in certain plants they aro produced in different flowers on the same plant, and in others on different plants. "The most important feature ia the work of crossing is to exclude from the stigma all pollen except that which it is desired to use. In the manipulation of orange flowers ma tare bads nearly ready to open are se lected, and. the tips carefully pried apart until the stamens ore exposed. The pollen is then transferred to the pistil of the flower seleoted, and a ma nila paper sack or a gauzo bag placed around it to prevent foreign pollen entering. The hybridizing process cap be carried as far as 0 the experi menter pleases. It consists of taking the pollen from the stamen and trans ferring it to the pistil. Where the two organs are found in the same flower it is necessary to destroy the stamen before it matares to assure that pollen from it does not interfere with the experiment. We have also carried on extensive experiments with pineapples, and have succeeded in getting crosses with certain important varieties in order to develop forms for which there is a demand.. It is possi ble to produce plants and fruits to meet any demand. We are now work ing to develop a pineapple that has qualities different from anything we now have. "These experiments I have referred to have been on the seacoasts of the country. Aside from these we are carrying on. extensive experiments in the interior in the crossing of wheat, cora and other cereals. This year we did extensivo work in Nebraska with norn. We have been trying to develop varieties that will have greater food vatha than those now in existence, and the food which the new varieties con tain to be in different ratios from that which we now possess. There has been considerable talk of the possibil ity and desirability of increasing the nitrogenous contents of corn. That) is one of the things wanted. The ni-1 trogenous contents ol corn are low compared with other cereals. If it can be inpressed, even by a small percentage, it will make its food value much greater. "The experiment is being conducted something in this way: We find that there is a marked variation in the nitrogenous contents of cora not only in different varieties but in the dif ferent grains of the same variety, on the same stalk but in different ears. The nitrogen could be increased by crossing two varieties having other characteristics and value with high nitrogenous contents, and by selection of the ears and grains obtain a variety with higher percentage of nitrogen. By seleotion and by crossing corn known to possess high nitrogenous contents forms can be developed that will, if the experiment is carried far enough, result ia materially increas ing the value of corn. "There are male and female organs In oom and the plant is one of the easiest in the world to cross, owing to the faot that these organs of reproduc tion are separate and not in the same flower. The tassel at the top of a cornstalk is the male organ that far nishes tho pollen and tao silk of the ears in the female organ. This silk is hollow, and the pollen, falling hy na tara upon it or placed there in cross ing experiments, outers tho cilk tabes at the exposed end and proceeds through to the cob, whero fecunda tion produces the grain. When crossing experiments are being con ducted the tassel is cut from the stalk where the new corn is desired and the pollen from the selected stalk is soattered upon the silk. It is cus tomary, however, to protect the ear, for otherwise pollen may bo brought by the tviad from adjoining rows of coru or even from a distanco and. in terfere with tho plan. We have just begun the corn experiments, and hope by breeding moro varieties, among other things, to extend the northern corn belt by producing hardier varie ties. "With wheat we have worked longer, but in much the same way, our object being not only to increase the variety, but to produco a hardy species that will resist diseases and certain climatic conditions. We have worked to accomplish certain objects. For instance, foreigners aro begin ning to realize that our wheat is valu able for macaror and our own millers and bakers have discovered that wheat grown la certain sections is valuable for crackers. It is possible by studying the peculiarities of dif ferent wheat to determine that which is best suited fer different purposes, and so we are proceeding by cross breeding to improve them. "The possibilities of plant breed ing," continued Professor Galloway, "seem limitless. The extent to which improvements can be carried is boundless. Heretofore, as I have stated, most of the work has been conducted by individuals without any parp?se of establishing principles. When plant breeding is better under stood it will bo possible to bring defi nite forms of vegetable life together and produce any result desired. . A ?? tran ge but tr ut If ni story is related by Professor J. H. Bailey, of Cornell, of a seed mau in New York advertis ing in his prospectus that he would furnish his customers during tho next season a bran new bean with a pecu liar kind of pod. This nurseryman had in his own mind decided what ha wanted. It had never been produced j before. He called to his assistant, an expert in plant breeding, and, by draw ing, explained the kind of bean ho desired. It was like a man calling a contractor, displaying his plans and specifications and instructing him to proceed and erect a house. Yes, the nurseryman had his bean, just what ! he wanted, and furnished his custom ? ers as he promised. "If some of us plant breeders had lived one hundred years ago we would have been burned at the stake. There is a man in California who makes it a business to produce new forma of planta and fruits. He decides what he wants, breeds to produce the re sults desired, and when he obtains something possessing qualities that will recommend it he disposes of a seedling to some nurseryman and then resumes his work for new resulta. The nurseryman having the seedling possesses a monopoly of that particu lar -variety anoV is permitted by the California experimenter to dispose of it as he pleases." CURIOUS FACTS. On a wager that ne ?ould put a col lar on an ungovernable horse, a travel ing man deliberately killed the ani mal in Main street, St. Paul, Minn., the other day, and then adjusted tho collar. He was arrested. Glass bricks are gradually coming into use. Glass will soon be used for makiug statues for public places. It resists the corroding effect of the weather much better than marble or granite. _ The Bussian photographers have a strange way of punishing those who, having received their photographs, do not pay their bills. They hang the pictures of the delinquents upside down at the entrance to their studios. Several weeks ago a oalf was born on Be nb en Bair s's farra, in Thorn creek Township, Ind., and instead of the regulation hair the quadruped was enveloped in a fine coat of black wooi. The calf is a fine one and is growing rapidly, and so is the wool on it. When it baas it is difficult to tell whether the sound resembles that of a lamb or a calf. The smallest inhabited island in the world is that on which the Eddystone lighthouse stands. At low water it is thirty feet in diamoter; at high water the lighthouse, whose diameter at the base is 28} feet, completely covers it. It is inhabited by three pe-sons. It lies nine miles off the Cornjsh coast and fourteen miles southwest of Ply mouth Breakwater. A very curious case is recorded in the surgical history of the Civil War, in whioh three officers were hit just at the same time. One had his leg from the knee down carried away, but he rode ten miles to the hospital. Another lost his little linger, and he became a raving maniac. While a third was shot through the body, and, though he did not shed a drep of blood ex ternally, dropped dead from the shock. There is an old church in Waukegan, Wis., which has no steeple, because of a conrt mandate forbidding such a construction. In 1862 a severe storm swept over the town, hurling the orig? . inal spire against the house next door and wrecking it. The owner of the house got an injunction restraining the trustees of the church from build ing another spire, and this order has held for thirty-eight years. Confectionery For the Army. "Candy" has been added to the ra tions of the American soluier. Fifty tons of confectionery have been sent to the troops in the Philippines, Cuba and Puerto Rico by one New York firm. The sweets preferred are choc olate creams, cocoanut drops, lemon drops and acidulated drops. These are sealed in one pound cans of au oval shape to fit the pockets of a sol dier's uniform. As we have before mentioned, the Germans have fonnd that sugar improves the endurance of soldiers, and issue chocolate and other sweets to the army. Jam is also good for men in the njd,-:London Globe*