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Pickos Sentd d ertinng SnbserJttion Prleb 4 - ____In Advac Use4r at Plten. Poisto Mai Mat THURSDAY, APH The corn crop Southern states I %..AA-, IIyflow. The Czar of Russia has bought a newspaper. Now, he'll get acqualiited With some real troubles. It !s possible to buy a cement house with a roof garden for $2,500. We sup poso the cellar would be extra. The Elberta peach crop anil the Al berta wheat crop are friendly rivals, and both are ful of promise this year. Germany has ordered another Zeppe lin airship. Germany imiit have de .cided to keep on trying until she gets a good one. There is no use in fighting the in levitable. A prominent college is add ing to its courses one to teach men bow to cook. Milliners tell us that small hats will be tho fashion this year, but it is not likely that tho prices will be any small. er thani usual. Now that Dr. \Viley has taken unto himself a wife we are curious to know -whether she can make the pies that not-her used to mimake. No divorced woman or actress who has married a peer will be presented at the EInglish court. This is very hard on the.actresses. A woman of 84, living on Long Is band, saws her own wood. And no body rebukes her for entrenching on Uan's sI)bero of activities. Vassar collego has celebrated her ilftieth birthday, and has silenced all eyinical critics by not claiming to be a day younger than she really is. Pittsburg woman wants a divorce because he:' husband treats her sister too affectionately. Yes, younger sis tor; why asis superilous questions? Hopkins professors have discovered that water is a valuablo anesthetic. Uefore long someono may prove that it is equally good for drinking pur oes. Two French vasdoville criticB re contly fought a duel. They should have stuck to the pen, which in the ory at least is considered mightier, anyhow. A prominent railroad man says that Neuropo leads the United states fit the number of railroad wrecks. She's rwelcomeo to the prize for this line of endeavor. The report that a German plumber has been raised to the Prussian nobil Ety by the kaiser leads us to believe that some foreign correspondent has been hitting the pipe. "Girl students are smarteor than mnen" opines the presideont of Vassar college. Hlut men made better foot bail players, and wvhat Is a college without a football team? The Marys of EIgland are comibin ig for the purpose of buying Queen Mary a coronation gift. Trho Queen staunds a chance to get a manicure set. or a photograph album. *I read in the papers the other (lay of a muan who got a divorco because the womanil lie married was a pick pocket. it seems to me that Is es tablishing something of a precedlent. What wife isn't? A chicken in Ohio has swallowed a $200 dliamnond ring and its owvner re tuses to have the culprit killed. The only way out of it is to set the chick en in a ring and wear it. A Chicago lady wuants a divorce be cause her husband shut off her charge account at the dlepartment storeR. It probably comes under the head of cruel and Inhuman treatment. An Evansville, Ind., widow has just annoxed her ninth husband. Massa ohusetts spinsters may be Informed, if they wish to have particulars, that she is 70 years of age-and wealthy. A fat nmn's club in Now England ha discovered that few fat meni are criminals, and that most good-hearted and right-minded men tendl to take on flesh, for they are naturally men of stout hearts. A St. lomis wvomnan left instructions In her will that her dog should be shot, and buried after her death. Thus do 'we gradually climb up from -the days 'when men caused their wives to be burled wvith them. A minister in WVashington state roused the feminine population. by naylng. that. women are worse liars than meon. H~e has no exceptions, since the protests began to come in, that they are going to lie like ladies in expressing their opinlon.f'n, A Masanchusetts alIenist 'says that everyone somnetime iii life is on the verge of insanity. The smart ones are those who manage to make this pe riod connect with crime, so as to get the benefit of ,the latter Witli the for aner as an excuse. 6rloour-toute tO face hirn ( Uoesonablp (Ga.) Telegrap tIhDollnar a -Year es M Picker - Mis Nora H Dime A 800nd Cass Minnie Morgai week. Misses Lena: ri, 18. Morgan visite Hayes, sunday of the nine Miss Minnie ] stf .ear e ~ - 8ton, spent ARMY COMM 4 - south, and for several years, dur various southern states. Then I %w tryI beyond the Mississippi which a I gained great pleasure from in In that western land and watched "I had mniny exciting encount ties between the federal troops ai "When the Spanish-American and was placed in command of a fought through the Santiago caip "I have fought much and long in the glory 'of the past. lut I si army, and my heart will be with IS ONLY LIVI General Keif-er to, the hardships of as well as in military strife. The action, and lie was next heard of captuiredl Cuban capital. After 20 years' absence Gener triump~hs and defeats, and now, at major general of the Cisvil war ret tives to his Democratic successor. General Keifer is only one of qind the fact that he is president o author of recognized merit would gage his energy after his retireme ment~ ~~~ik tote uPntml y n mehd e ttingt olylnead CZA'S OU stanspeas Mpct. A n thod of gttn g roli e~s a.nd Mlmal is al hering.-] h. 9s Re 49 Ives visite , 1 one d4 Brown an d Miss Duncan,, last weel ANDER RETIRES A veteran of two wars and many Indian skirmishcs, a man of the strong, vital traits that have made heroes in life and literature, war scarred, weather-beaten, lirig. Gen. Charles L. Hodges has ended his serv ice in the United States army. (en. Hodges, who succeeded Gen. Freder ick Deni Grant as commander of the department of the lakes, enlisted as a private in 1861, and reluctantly for sakes-the old Eoldier leaves his post only becauso he must. "I'm just a plain soldier man," he said, modestly, when asked to tell of exploits of his career. "I have fought in battles, many of them, but all sol diers do that." The veteran stroked his gray mus tache, smiled good humnoredly, and his visitors thought of him in his younger years as the picturesque type of sol. dier described by Kipling as a "fust class fightin' man." "After the war I was sent to the n1g the reconstruction period, I served in 'as sent west, to that great, primitive coun. t that time seemed like another nation, and experience during the thirty years I lived the development of the country. ers with Indians and fought in many bat. id rampaging redskins. war broke out in 1898 I was sent to Cuba battalion of the Twenty-fifth infantry. We lign, and it was lively fighting, too. now I shall retire to private life and live all always feci the deepest interest in the NG EX-SPEAKER One of the notable events at the t passing of thl- Sixty-first congress was 1 the retiMenment from active political c life of one of the country's best e known statesmen, Gon. Joseph War- ; ren Keifer of Ohio, whose political I career has extended throughout many % years. General Keifer holds the I unittue position today of being the only living ex-speaker of the house of representatives. He held this im. portant place in the Forty-seventh congress, and since the death of John G. Carlisle this honor has been .his alone. General Keifer took part in the very flrst skirmishes of the Civil war, and when General Lee laid dow'n his arms at Appomattox the commander of the One Hundred and Tenth Ohio volun teer infantry was there to witness that memorable event. lEight years in congress, during the later '70's and '80's, served to inure victory' andl the blessings of dlefeat in civil Spanish war again calledl him into military leading the victorious Americans into the al Keifer returned to the scedfes of his civil the age of seventy-five, this one 5ium~iving ligns his chair in the house of representa a legion of busy young-old American men, fa national bank, a college trustee and an to men of less ability seem enough to en nt from congressional duties. --Gen. T. Coleman Du Pont is going to build at his own expense the first link in the great highwvay ,from New York to Washington. A boulevard is an unusual form for a wvealthy man's public gifts to take. Delawa're is the state wvhich is to be0 made the bene ficiary of such a gift. Glen. Du Pont, I has offered to giv-e to that state: ai highwvay, running from end to end ofi the commonwe.alth, a distance of 103 miles. It is to be 150 feet wide and will cost from $1,000,000 to $2,000,000. In his offer of the highway (Con. I D Iu Pont stipulated that he would re /taint tho sides of the road and re. cquestedl puhlic utiilities franchises up. I on themi. This feature of his offer 1 came in for much criticism and led< Mr., Du Pont to modify it consider, m .ably. He now offers to build the I road, retain the sections on the side, f but turn them over free of charge tri any concern which will obligate itseli I to build an electric railwvay line or i tys his object is to make the road a menu. m also to improve the state by assuring aj other improvements down the peninsula... 'r slN IS POPULAR The most popular member of the r Romanoff family of Russia is the a Grand Duke Constantine Constantin. I vitch, cousin of the czar, who beside holding the important post of inspec, I tor of military schools of the empire a~ is a playwright, an actor and a poet' Better perhaps than all of these, he ig r a man of good morals and exaltod t ideals. d The grand duke has translate<)V Shakespeare into Russian, has writ, ten several plays and acted them and i has' published some valuable critical studlies of new Russian poets. It is a .as a poet that he is best known. One of his works has agofIe th.-ough ten / ditions and his songs- arc sung sin t .4ver peasant cabin. Two of his. agnga a are rendered at .evetly Russian .cont cert and many have bpen act to mnusie r 4part from his 'meritsi'as a poet, t the grand duke is an attractive pen 'i sonality. He is about the only livingt Romanoff of whom the average Rue \~ pector of military school., he is obliged to ii etter known thani theo osar's oth~a, rlativea P.. A ATEF 40a 0 C E AIN A7 THK1 CROJJMADl1 THAS been admitted by the stal department In Washingtoni th negotiations for- the acquisition < thle Galapagos islands, oft it coast (if Iecuador on the we: oast of South America, by the Unite ;tales as a naval base hanve been m1 er way for some timio between til ted States and cuador. T slands. which are sparsely settlei annot be bought outright, because < L clause in the cons;titution of Ecu; lor which prevents thetr sale. It is said In Ecuador that the Unite states offers to pay $35,000,000 1 ent. That would be $253,000 a yea From at commercial or an IndustiL sit of view they would be of litt 'alue to thle Unitedi states. The otal area Is only about 2.400 squa iles. But they would serve, thru Put into the Pacific as they are, ts t avance post of the Panea cam Ond. which is tpr e mhin point, th VOUld not he the menace to t th< ould be under certain circumstanc or the next 100 years. So, the completion of the Panui anal wvill bring thle Galapagos Islam ito the limeliht of the world stag n almost a Uraight line and Thalf w rom Southampton to Sidney, their f uire maritime importance cannot I .xaggerated. Th islands, about tv lays' run from Pana a, stand in tI ate relation to the Pacific entran t the canal that the West Indies do o Its Atlantic gateway. It will al re noticed that they are a little mo han half way on the trade route fr san Francisco to Valparaiso. it needs no prophet to foresee th he now almost unknown archipela, vill soon lbe a port of call for t] .teamships of the world and their i ition be likened in SOmel degree hat of the llawaiian group in ti torthern Pacific. The settlement Thathanm island will be changed fra he status of a penal colony to that commercial center. The rapidly1 reasing .trade between the wvest coa >f South. A merica and .Japan ,brin herse islands in the pathways of ti nercantile vessels of the latter cou ry. This -group is remarkable in ma: vays, and the story of the isles frc he prehistoric period when natui a the throes of some great agol hrew them up from the bed of t 'acific, to the time of their discove nad occupation by man, holds much nterest. Nothing is known definitely of t. late when the islands came into 1 ng, except that they were of a d: inctly later appearance than tV nountains of tile South Americi nainlandl. Some scientists think the hie remains of a nlow-sunken con eat. Owing to tile isolation of ti glands, thlere is no athentic reco *f active eruptions, but we know tb s far back as 1735 volcanic distur aces were noticed, while in 1814 ai 825 English skippers reported ti raters active, and as late as 1907 ew openiig appeared ,pn Jam sland, from whlich a torrent of Ia, owed to the sea. The archipelago consists of irger islands and about 40 smalle pith a total area variously estimate t from 2,400 to 3,000. squiare mile Leaving the question of discove: erhaps forever undetermined, we< no0w that Thomas do Berlanga, thi1 ishop of Panama, *was the first E opean to sight the Galapagos, on ti 0th of March, 1635. This explorii relate is also credited with being r ponsible for the introduction ananas into the western continent. His discovery of the Galapage dlands was quito accidental and can bout during~ a voyage from Panan Peru, whither heohad been sent pert on the doings of Pizarvo, f te worthy bishop enjoyed the con once of his king. The good bisht 'as a scientist as well as a churc ian, and ho determined the exact Ia uide and longitude of tho archipel o; but he gave no name to the grou ad after a stay of ton days 'tuirne me prow of his ship toward Per 'he archipelago now was well know ) the Spanish mariners, and for re ons already suggested wore calle Te' Enchanted Isles, During the p [od of reyluion against Spanish al uority' trya~oath .America the islanc 'ere much used by the privateei iat preyed on Spanish commerb Vith the fall of Spanish power tt bies were in a masure for.-t . f 010 y Qp cavdv4Y'c4 0 and these desolate Ehores were only t touched by an occasional whaler o1 if somo circumnavigating sailor, the e archipelago actually remaining nc ,t man's land until February 12, 1832 d when the Ecuadorean government for I. mally took possession of the group. I e is curious to note that this act of oc e cupation was inspired by a Norti 1, American, a Louisianian namced Vil If lamil, who left his native territor: . when it came under the jurisdiction o the United States. (I As already stated, the indigenou n animal life of the archipelago is in it r. way perhaps the most interesting I it the world. When Darwin first vls4te< .e the islands he determined 26 distinc Ir species of land birds, 25 of which wir( *e round nowhere else in the world, an( ;t since that time other naturalists, wh< v have studied this feature, claim tha 1. there are 58 peculiar species, and pos y sibly more. Darwin puts forward th y hypothes is that all of these are do sconded from a single species. having been modified in form and color dmr a ing the course of ages. Is Of the reptiles, the most interesting e. are the turtles and lizards. The foi .y mer, the Galapagos, are found n Li- where else, and at one time literall >e swarmed over the islands. They wer ,o huge, measuring sometimes three fee ko from the bre.st shell to the dome c 3e the back; slow of movement, makin ,s about four niiles a day when walking -o long, thin necks and curiously sma re heads and broad flat flappers; thel let to in oi re ry of e-~ ti- The Galapagos Turtle. le whole appearance suggesting som b-t dwarfed descendant of Lhe Pleistocen dage. Some specimens weighed a dmuch as 600 pounds, but these giant eare very rare nowadays. An expedi ation that sailed from San Francisce with the special object of getting sper ainens of the Galapagos turtle, afte 5considerable difficulty could only fin< r5 a' few weighing 40 or 50 pounds. For merly, cruisers or ships that stoppeo idat the island had no difficulty'in kill intg great numbers of these reptiles ~'but latterly a comb~nation of circun 'd stances are working for their comipleti extinction. The turtles yield a peculiar qualit: eof oil that can be used in place o ilard. The medium-sized ones contali from five to six gallons of this prod uct, worth about 75 cents, gold, pel gallon, and as it is a very simple mat ter to extract the oil, it is easily seer ahow the turtle hunters would pursui otheir calling until they had complete r ay exterminaqtedl this remarkable rep tile. The dogs that roam the islandi have also contributed to the destruc tion of the turtles. t. The Ecuadorean government has ~. several times begun negotiations foz p, the disposition of the islands, and as d far back as 1851 the preliminaries of 2. transfer were arranged with the n United States, the sum offered being ,. $3,000,000 for the right of collecting d the guano that could be fount on the s. islands. For various reasons the 'deal 2. fell thifough, and while since thai ,s time tentatiVe negotiations have beern 'a commiericed during different adminia, 3.. trations, no definite agreement has * ever been reached. nQR A NV ILL PORTEmOC.. UL.. WHAT DID HE. MEAN? 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