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THE NATIONAL BANK OF AUGUSTA L. C. "JAYNE, Free't. F. G. FORD, Cashier. Capital, 8250,000. Und, vi liv a 1'rofltS } ?110,000. Facilities o? our magnificent New Vaiilt goontatning 410 r'aterr>Louk Boxes. Dlfler fent Sises aro offered to our patrons and I the public at $3.00 to $10.00 per annum. ^^^^ 'ifyS THE PLANTERS LOAN AND SAVINGS BANK. AUGUSTA, GA, Pays Interest ou Deposits. Accounts Solicited. |L. C. Ii a y no, President. Chas, C. Howard, Cashier. THOS. J ADAMS PROPRIETOR. VOL. LXVII. NO. 1. g You Will W< iNice Christin Wehavethemosi 2 nias Goods of < 5 Goods, Fine Wa 2 ware. No matte it. Everything j S Fine Engraving ? Call early or wri J WM. SCH WE j 702 BROAD STRE LOT-KNTEBEXT Ned: Shape.-. While there are a uumber of the round necks, with the downward point at tho front, the newest effect, as noted on the latest importations, is tho very low and very broad square. So broad are these models that they Trtll surely have to be made narrower to fit the breadth o; sboal?er of the average women. Child Training In Ccrmnny. In the German cities it is most re freshing to find scattered througli each park many geed siz?d beds of clean sand. These beeb ere confined by il wooden border to prevent'the sand being scattered or waslied away by rains. NV matter how small thc park, or in what quarter of thc city it is -. cit^ntcf, ene is sure to ?nd at least four pr five of these small spots of tie-light^ for the children; and from eariy morn itmil sometimes far into the twilight you* will never find one of .ihe::a little enclosures entirely de serted. It is here the little toddlers' Jegs carry them ns soon as they reach tho park, and the younger cues, who are in the callages, one, but full tdi w ?will, using hands, scoop, each worein; and hands his own own entertainment and taking the keen doing. Occasionally resist taking a hand as she cenfiucs her . . herself everything runs smoothly, but nay interference or suggestion to the little Avorkers is usually met with re sentment. Mechanical or other toys in the hands of older persons intended or displayed for the amusement of children are simply nothiug as com pared with the pleasure derived from these sand heaps. They, without doubt, not only provide amusement, but at the same time ser e to educate the infant mind. Au hour spent in .watching the children can be made a most profitable ore in studying the mind, temperament, natureland re sources of those little men and women. -Marianna Wheeler, in Harper's Ba zar. A Girl of Pluclc. To give her name would not be right, but tu tell of her pluck as aa Inspira tion to other girls is fair and justifia ble. She had enjoyed every comfort in a home of wealth. In society she was popular, for she is well bred and clever. Her rare beauty, inherited from several generations of lovely women, was known to those whom to knew is to be somebody in the social sense. Her father lost almost every thi... he had when Northern Tacific made its remarkable jump to 1000. She gave up all but her most inti mate friends, and then planned not to be a burden to her father ia his hard fight to regain his fortune. She weat to a danciug teacher, very efficient but not well-known to New Yorkers. She knew of him from a "Western cousin who had written that ho had started i;: New York City, and as he was splen did it might be well to scud the younger children to him. The girl looked this mau up. She offered to furnish him pupils at so much a head. She gave him ad dresses of value, where she could not properly go herself, and then started on her own scheme. Just after school hours and when, the children are play ing on the street, she would go to some quiet neighborhood. It is not difficult l'or a pretty girl with a sweet voice to engage children in conversation and lead them to tell where they live and if they go to dancing school. With the help of thc city directory, their infor mation and a little nerve, she visited tlftir mother?, and the way she gath ered in pupils for the dauciug instuctor was astonishing. She has made a good deal of money. "Jack," a young man who thinks as much of her ns when she was the daughter of a rich man, has been a trouble. He persists in trying to make her give up "business," and to entei into a marriage contract with bin that shall end ill thought of her earn ing her own living. He may be sue cessful in the end, for he is backer by he. father, who is not as poor as b< was some months ago.-New Tort Times. A Noted Huntress Repents. Women do not seem likely to en croach on at least one of man's pleas ores, that of huting. The most cele brated shot among English .women ha Tires, that of hunting. The most cele lilied a pamphlet on "The Horrors o Sport." . She knows what she is talking abool int a as Present t complete stock of Christ- ? ?very description; Fancy H itches, Jewelry, Silver-? r what you want we have H the best and guaranteed. . md Repairing. 13 te us your wants. ? :IGE*RT & eO.,8 ET, AUGUSTA, GA. I Her husband was nn ardent bunter, but 6be was such an enthusiast that his shootin : preserves Hid not satisfy her and she would rent a Scottish moor or deer forest for her own use. She vas called by her friends the female Nimrod, and her house was full of trophies of her skill. Now she has taken up her pea to decry her old weapou, the gun. Lady Florence Dixie is this reformed Nimrod. She has killed lions in Africa, gazelles in Arabia, bears in the Rock ies. With her brother, Lord James Douglas, she took a journey through Patagonia. A good many years ago another brother. Lord Francis Douglas, lost his life b the Alps. This intrepid wo man later climbed the very peak in whose ascent he was killed. She says that few men have done "a tithe of the hunting I have done both at home and in foreign lands;" so that her re nuaciatioa of the sport seems to mean that herc, at any rate, women are not Ooiug to contest with men for privi leges. She says: I "Many a keen sportsman will ac knowledge that a feeling of self-re proach has at times come over him as he stood by the dying victim of his skill. I know that it has confronted me many and many a time. I hav-. bent over my fallen game and seen x\\-, beautiful eye of the deer grow dim. I have ended with the sharp, yet mer ciful knife, the dying sufferings of creatures that never harmed me. I, too. have witnessed the angry, defiant glare of the wild beast's fading sight as death deprived him of the power to wreak his vengeance on *hc 1-a" Princess Waldemar of Denmark has added real estate dealing to her other commercial pursuits. One thousand and seventy-nine "wo men studied medicine last year in the 119 medical schools of this country. The National Society Daughters of the Revolution has petitioned Congress to set apart Valley Forge as a National military park. Miss Portia Washington, daughter of Booker T. Washington, is at pre? eut a student at Wellesley College. She is much liked. Three women are at present engaged at Swiss high schools as instructors. At Bern Dr. Anna Tumarkiu, of Rus sia, lectures on history of philosophy and aesthetics. At Geneva lectures on botany are delivered by Dr. A. Rod rigue, while German literature and language are the subjects of Mme. Zbowski at the Neurcnburger Acad emy. English peeresses are busy looking through their store of laces to select those suitable for their coronation robes. The Irish, Devon and Buck ingham lacemakers are reaping tho benefit of Queen Alexandra's intima tion that she hoped that home indus tries would be patronized as nearly ex clusively as possible. The lacemakers throughout the British Isles, therefore, are working energetically to fill the orders that crowd upon them, it is said. The Tudor rose, the shamrock and the thistle designs are the most popular. The low style of wearing th? hair grows in favor every day. Galloons and all-overs in black Chantilly nets are smart black trim mings. In a handsome brocaded wrap of a brilliant yellow a little pale blue is in troduced at the neck. Black fox, showing a few silver white hairs, is one of the season's favorite furs for boas and perelincs. The very latest walking skirts are made to show the feet to the top of the instep, and are of equal length all around. A new cut of skirt for evening wear has two deep flounces, the upper one set at the back into two fluted pleats, which resemble sash ends. Shaggy camel's hair felts and silky beavers are among the highly favored fabrics used for autumn toques, tur bans, and short-back sailor hats. A really sweet little collar is one made of dotted silk net of the style of point d'esprit edged with tiny mellings of black silk ribbon. This is more of a boa and is very simple, and io go around the throat only. Combinations of colors this year are veiy beautiful, and a charming effect is obtained in a gray cloth coat which bas applied upon it pink How ers in a wann p??k; the Howers are in the up-and-down design, with long stems, giving long lines which are ar tistic. _. A PAIR O Where They Arrived Tl tBY HARRIET H For a few minutes they stood before I the Kearny street shoe store window i discussing the relative merits of white I satin and suede patent leather. Sue, ".ho was of a practical turn of mind, advised the latter. "Gracious me, you little hayseed. I couldn't wear black slippers with my white gown. They must be white -either satin or suede. Come, let us go in; I can only tell by trying them on." Turning hurriedly, they precipitated themselves forcibly against a man who had been gazing dejectedly into the neighboring window at the rows of manly boots and shoes. More es pecially were his eyes directed toward the dancing pumps-not that he ad mired them, nor even wished to buy j them; but, nevertheless, fired by a j noble resolve, he turned to enter, just as the two girls finished their little dialogue, which he partially overheard. Two pairs of eyes flashed indignantly into his. Bee's brown ones were mild er than the blue ones of the "little hayseed." "Great, clumsy thing! Couldn't he look where he was going?" "Why, Sue; it was as much our fault as his." Now the man was neither great nor clumsy, however much he hoped to be the former in the future and had overcome the latter in his past. Fur thermore, the glimpse he had had of the brown eyes gave impetus to his resolve of purchasing a pair of patent leathers for the cotillion to which he waa going, simply to please his friend, Charlie Graham. Hence he ordered and tried on the much despised arti cles of attire; in the meantime, cast ing furtive glances at the purchaser of the dainty pair of white suedes. Then the two, without a backward look, hurried away to Beatrice Har te's home on the Heights, leaving the clerk politely assuring them that the parcel would be sent without delay that he would attend to it himself. No sooner had they left the store than the faithless creature turned them over to the clerk who was waiting on the purchaser of thc patent leathers, and he, too, hurried away, for a little din- ! uer at the restaurant with his best girl was^not to be disturbed for any 1 white suedes in the world. Half-past eight was sounding by the Karloe's big hall clock, and upstair0 ' (ho . ->.?] lUem on awhile ana taae ci.*.... before I go," said Bee. So Marie opened the box, and they beheld a pair of manly patent leath ers, slim and graceful, it is true, but never intended for Beatrice's tiny feet. The two girls surveyed each other in blank dismay, then solemnly and for cibly there came from Sue the single syllable, "Gee:" "What shall I do?" cried Beatrice, distractedly. That wretched clerk, after all his promises, to make such a mistake. I can't go, that's all; I haven't another decent pair." "Not go!" exclaimed Sue, "after all my hopes for weeks on this party. Fly. Marie-fly and bring up some bread crumbs-stale ones. Where are all your old slippers, Bee? We'll choose the best looking ones and have them cleaned in the shake of a-very quick ly, I mean," primly, for Susan was he roically striving to drop all the slang phrases which her life on a western ranch had cultivated. Out of various boxes an assortment of foot-gear wac produced and sur veyed by its dejected owner. She im mediately pounced upon a pair of white suedes, not so bad, after all, and vigorously set herself to work with the bread crumbs, with such good results that a fairly presentable pair of slippers was produced. "You extravagant girl," she laughed. "If you had been used, as I have, to making one pair do till it is done, you would use up plenty of stale bread. Your dress is so long they'll never show; besides, who would suspect Miss Harloe, who has a new pair for every party, if she likes, to be wearing old ones. They'll never think of looking." "Oh, you dear little 'Hay.' " laughed Beatrice, "you are such a comfort. We must hurry, it would not do to be late when I have to introduce all your partners." "Hayseeds have their little mission in the world, after all, eh, Honey Bee?" quoth Sue. "I never would have gotten off to this cotillion if it hadn't been for you. that's certain," she answered, as the two went gayly down stairs, leaving the patent leathers, the ignominious cause of all the trouble, lying forgot ten on the floor. Scratch, scratch, went the pen, and eheet after sheet of manuscript flut tered, to the floor. The medical stu dents who were to be regaled on the morrow with Dr. John Meredith's ad dress on anatomy were not to be en vied, if length were not offset by brilliancy. Finally the toes are reached. Surely he must be nearing the end. If not the end, the mention of his extremities started a train of thought utterly for eign to the subject in hand, how?ver. With a sigh he dropped his pen and turned in his chair. Drawing the arm of a skeleton hanging near him affec tionately over his shoulder, with the thumb-bone he thoughtfully prodded the tobacco in his pipe. "Well, Boni ta, old girl, I suppose it's about time I stopped." The person addressed wai; accus tomed to his confidences, and, not be ing expected to he communicative, pre served a discreet silence. She was always Introduced to his friends as "Miss Bonita. t!;o beautiful Indian maiden," and her r,ole duty in life was to hang suspended there in midair, in >F SUEDES. irough a Fortunate Error. OL M ES HASLETT. f I convenient range, where at any tim' her thumb could be called into use Meredith declared that his pipe neve: smoked as well as when Bonita packet it for him. Touching his repeater, the faithfu little chime rang out-nine and twen ty. "Great Scott!" he exclaimed, spring ing to his feet. "Why didn't yoi give me a hint it was so late? Whal use are you, anyway, hanging there twirling your toes, when I should bi twirling mine?" Just then there came a knock at the door, and without waning for an answer, his friend Graham entered with ? rush, ' riello, not ready yet? What have you been about, you old fogy? You'll get no dances if you don't hurry." "Don't want any. Haven't danced for four years, as I told you," an swered John, in the drawling, indiffer ent tone he always assumed when matters social were discussed. "Well, you promised me youd go to this. How do you expect to be a success in your profession if you drop so completely out of social life? Don't you know that two or three conquests tonight mean as many 'calls' in the course of the week?" "Great heavens! You don't mean it?" (sarcastically). "Yes, and i'll wager you haven't even thought of the dancing shoes you promised me so faithfully to buy." "There you are wrong, dear boy, as usual. Thought of them just in the nick of time. Open the box there and lend me a hand, will you?" (giving himself a , shake). He disappeared into the other end of the long room, which was divided by portieres, and was dignified by the title of sleeping : apartment, in this, his home, up five . flights of stairs-the climbing of J which was all the exercise he needed, he declared. An astonished silence followed the crackling of the paper, then a burst of hearty laughter. "What in thunder have you been about, old saw-bones? Some one's been ? playing a trick on you." As Charlie finished speaking, Mere- j flith appeared at the portieres, and to bis astonished gaze was held up a pair ! 3f white suedes, dainty, high heeled, j f?t for a fairy. Consternation dire over- j whelmed them both. thor. - - - samp f~ 7>T- . ' ' :rets, 1 assure yuu. me. Kindly show me the right box." "Oh, hang it all, dry up. What are you talking about?" almost shouted Meredith, shaken out of his usual calm. "Don't you see what has hap-. pened? The clerk has mixed them up, that's all." Then he related the whole story to his unsympathetic friend, who rolled over on the divan in paroxysms of delight, to the detri ment of his immaculate evening dress. "That's the best I ever heard," he gasped. "Imagine the scene in the boudoir of the brown eyed one, when your dainty canoes arrived. Don't stand there petrified. Hurry up, get out your old ones and come along." "But I haven't any old ones. Gave them all to my small brother long ago. What use have I for dancing shoes?" dejectedly. Now that all pos sibility of a dance was at an end, he longed most unreasonably for the un attainable. Forlornly, he arrayed him self. "You'll have to sit out most of your dances-if you get any," said his friend, consolingly; "mine are all en gaged. I never take any before half past ten." "Nobody will want to dance with me in these thick things," sighed the other, surveying his shoes ruefully. However, they made a start finally, Charlie gayly arranging future pro ceedings as they went. "Now, ii the brown eyes are there, what luck! I'm sure to know her; I know everybody. I can see it all-in troduction, start of recognition, hope less confusion, gallant friend to the rescue-all satisfactorily explained in a moment." "Never!" ejaculated Meredith, clutching his arm. "Suppose she's a girl who chaffs a fellow unmercifully." "Why, she can't. She's in as much of a box as you are." "Oh, no, she isn't. She forgot all about me and my patent leathers as soon as she entered the store." "Well, hope for the best, my af flicted friend," said Charlie. Presently they reached the brilliant ly lighted hall where the first cotillion of the season was under way. Gayly the couples were marching back and forth through the mazes of the figures, and there-surely his eyes did not mis lead him-was the brown eyed one, de murely leading all that lovely train ol followers. Meredith leaned against the door-facing, and Graham noticed the look of consternation, almost of fear upon his face. "She's here, is she?" he asked. "Yes, there, leading," he answered faintly. "That! Beatrice Harloe! Well, yov. are a lucky dog! She's the jolliest am! sweetest girl on the hill." Later on Meredith was introduced and one glance of the brown eyes w?? enough. Totally unprepared for th< meeting no sooner did their eyes mee than the remembrance swept over hei of the "great clumsy thing" In fron rf the shoe store. Laughing, she pu out her hand: "Oh, Dr. Meredith am I have met. before, if rather uncere n.oniously. You must excuse ou haste of this afternoon-we were ii such a hurry." "Tt was ali my fault, I assure you. ha answered eagerly. So far, she di * 'j not connect him in any way with ihe L :) mistake of the dancing shoes. "I am so late," said Meredith, "I am afraid 1 there is no hope for me on your card; ? I am not going to dance myself, but 9 I hoped tonight find some one kind friend wjiipC would take' pity on me P and 'sit one occasionally." Once ? j-nothin^jp^ ever been further from j Meredith^^thxmghts than the absurd e I "sitting oil?' of a dance with a girl; . J but now-well, circumstances alter r j cases, that's all. i ; "Oh," she answered, "I was late, too. j I have only the cotillion left. I will 1 i give you one later on." Charlie, who had been an amused - ^ spectator, could restrain himself no i longer, in spite of an imploring look : from his friend. "Why were you late, Bee? You told : ? me you expected to bc here early, on J account of your friend." : "Such a funny thing happened," she laughed. "Come here. Sue, and help ! me tell about it.'' Glancing at the young doctor, one j 3 l?ok at his conscious face was enough. j "Oh," she cried; "why, you-you are I the man." Then the tension gave way and the ? ' quartet laughed long and merrily. "What's the joke?" was asked n ! j all sides; but taking Sue hurriedly j by tile hand, Beatrice made her way j to a retired corner, motioning to Gra ! ham to bring his friend, j "We must exchange confidences," 1 she said. "And shoes," murmured Graham, sotto voce. So, with much laughter . and clatter of tongues, the whole af j fair was made clear, to the mystifica I tion of all their friends and acquaint I anees. The following year Dr. and Mrs. Meredith (nee Harloe) set up house . keeping in a cozy fiat on Geary street, j where there is a mystery still unsolved 1 in the doctor's study. Hanging beside I his desk, within convenient reach of j his right arm, is the well known fig- 1 ure of "Miss Bonita," gracefully swing- 1 ing her toes as of old. But upon those ( [toes are now fitted dainty slippers of i j white suede, held in place by huge ( I bows of white satin ribbon. ] [ To all inquiries, Bee merrily an- n j swers: "Well, if I did throw myself c at his head first, he returned the com- v ! pliment promptly by throwing him- s self at my feet."-San Francisco Argo- ci haut. c QUAINT AND CURIOUS. u Norwegian fishery commissioners '* have been measuring the salmon's leap by means of standards erected ? below waterfalls. They have found i! all through his CO years of life he was {l shunned by the other members of the c tribe because of his flaming red hair. j] _ 1? Grasshoppers, according to recent e official information, arc considered a 1: great delicacy in many of the Philip- c pine islands. The locusts are collected * and boiled, after the removal of the 4 legs, heads and wings. When thus pre- J pared they make a black looking mass. 1 One haciendo recently shipped "a load ] of prepared locusts to Iloilo, where 1 they brought about $4 a bag." No fewer than 1100 pears have been j gathered from a Jargonelle pear tree J in the garden of Borthwick. Manse, 1 Gorebridge, Eng. The tree was plant- 1 ed 48 years ago, and has been pruned 1 and tended for 41 years by the Rev. ' Walter Waddell, who has been the in- ' cumbent of thc parish during that pe- ! riod. It is trained against a west wall. 1 The present crop is the largest it has ever borne. The average weight of the pears is three to the pound. The curious sight of a clergyman transformed to a miner was witnessed in England. The vicar cf Cannock, the Rev. H. Stuart, attired in miner's dress, with a red handkerchief around his neck, union badges in his cap, and wearing heavy boots and black trous ers, has been working on a deep seam at a local pit In an interview he said he was doing it for experience. W'hen work was over he was escorted home by a number of proud fellow workers. Dr. J. J. Lafferty of Richmond. Va., possesses a remarkable cane. At the time of the burial of Gen. Stonewall Jackson some one planted a twig upon the grave. It grew to be a sapling sev eral inches in diameter. Friends of the Jackson family had it removed. They found that the root of the sap ling had entwined itself about his skeleton. It was taken up and a cane was made of a part of it. This car9 was artistically carved and given to Dr. Lafferty. ?'rosairs. The pride of wealth is a very bad thing. But is there anything worse than the pride of poverty? It is queer that the women who do not believe in love turn out to be the deepest lovers. The most exquisite cynicism exists in th? young; afterward it becomes mere grumpiness. All women who forgive are not fools. A few of them know that there are men proud of certain sins not yet com mitted. It is often hard for a woman to de cide between the man che loves and the roan who loves her, therefore we see her go to the aka'r with the man who will ever be kind. The average parvenue uses his mem ory to forget things as well as to re member them-Nev; York Herald. Ump-l'ml Stri-ft Koot hu, An English plan in some of the smaller towns is to build stands around the base of electric lamp posts, fitting them up with electric light and rent ing them to costermongers. They would doubtless be popular with the Italian fruit venders in America. ERA OF THE TROLLEY. Still Electric Trnctlon Has N'ot Roached Its Perihelion. That thc wonderful development of the trolley system of traction, which has marked the past dec?ele, has not yet reached its limit is evidenced by the projected eight track trolley line between Jersey City and Philadelphia, a distance of 90 miles. It is announced that this line will be equipped with trolley cars capable of attaining a speed of 60 miles un hour and that passengers will be hauled the entire distance for a 5-cent fare. Of course this road is only on paper as yet, but its practicability from a financial and an engineering stand point will not be challenged in the light of the many long-distance in terurban trolley lines that are now in successful operation all over the coun try. The "mile-a-minute" annnun.-e ment and the D-cent fare for 90 miles are propositions that may never ;-.et beyond the limitations of engineering optimism, but leaving these claims out of consideration a trolley line from the Quaker city to Jersey City, pa>'ng a good dividend on thc investment, isa possibility that may be easily realized. In alL trolley traction projects cf chip character due allowance is always made for the radiant optimism of the promoter. That trolley traction has not yet reached its perihelion is plainly mani fest from the many and extensivo in terurban lines that are being pro jected all over the Union. It will soon he possible to ride from one end of the state of Ohio to the other on trol ley cars. Plans are already on font for constructing a continuous roufe be tween Cleveland and Columbus. When the Columbus, London and Springfield line is completed it will be possible to ride from Columubs to Cincinnati. From Columbus northa line is now seing built with a terminus at Mt. Vernon. The proposed consolidation )f Sandusky and Cleveland lina-., it s believed, is the forerunner of a chain >f electric railroads extending fro::, buffalo to Detroit. In Indiana the aovement is also toward consolidation if interurban plant's, which means an ; iltimate network of lines coverirg j outhern Michigan, northeastern In- j iana and northwestern Ohio. Sf.isg.i- i husetts is completely covered with a ! ast interurban trolley system con- \ lecting nearly every city and town 1th the "hub" of the Bay slate. A singular and interesting feature of iiis remarkable trolley development is | is apparentlv i??-.... is list, which will probably not be isputed. The rainbow city in defer nce to thc exposition. Chicago dur ng the period of the world's fair was :nown as the white city, in acknowl dgment of the staff on its fair bulld ogs, but the title did not survive the lose of the fair, and it has reverted o its former name. Garden city, al liough it is more frequently referred to s the Windy city. St. Louis has, per laps, the largest number of nicknames t has been called the Iron city, the iound city, the American Frankfort md thc new Vienna. Years ago Roch ?ster, N. Y., was entitled to the name .Hour city, on account of its large louring mills, but that industry has ong since followed the course of em pire and gone west, and it can no long er claim that distinction. It is known, however, in these days, as the Flower ?ity, on account of the large nurseries surrounding it. Syracuse is known as the Salt city, although it is no longer the leader in that industry. Pittsburg is the Smoky city and Cincinnati and Cleveland might lay claim to the same name. Among the names which have been longest associated with American cities are: Gotham for New York, baked bean city and Huh for Boston, Quaker city for Philadelphia, Monu mental city for Baltimore. Crescent city fer New Orleans and City of the Golden Gate for San Francisco-Me chanical Engineering. Tho Time a Man Sleeps. "Tell a man that he has slept 20 years and he'll give you a pitying stare." remarked the man with a ma nia for statistics; "but it's a fact. The man who has reachid the age of 60 has spent one-third ot his life, or 20 years, in slumber and if a man is lucky enough to live until he is 75 he has Rip Van Winkle beaten to a stand still. The average person sleeps eight hours a day, or exactly one-third of his day's life. Again, if you abruptly inform a man of 60 that he has stowed a herd of cattle under his belt in his time he will put you down as a third year man at an insane asylum. Fig ures, however, don't lie, and you can give him a statistical knockout. A healthy man eats on a conservative estimate, one pound of meat every day of his life, and in 60 years will de vour 21,900 pounds. Allowing 1000 pounds as the average weight of a beeve, you have 22 cattle, a pretty re spectable herd, I think. There are lots of other surprising things that figures will demonstrate, but I haven't time to spring 'em just now."-Philadelphia Record. Ono of England** Foremost Scientist*. One of the most interesting of Eng land's surviving men of science is Dr. James Glaisher. F. R. S.. who recently entered upon his 93d year. Many peo ple think of the veteran meteorologist only as an aeronaut, cn account ol that memorable and unparalleled as cent which he and Mr. Coxwell mad,? nearly 40 years ago. But Mr. Glaisher is not an aeronaut, though he has made some :!0 ascents skyward fji scientific purposes. He ii a rr. enrol ogist. astronomer and mathematician and-a fine sample of what a vigorous mind in a sound burly can do-hah and hearty at over '.<2. j?y-xjv-j Territory io which rr?cironi wrjt?t" > iw?vi; :olor;o ?j [hs jurnrncr rainfall n TcrTUorj tr) wrjicr) macaroni wi) .";: ol' che pra.it) will rjor be so good it ls reported that the yield of maca roni wheat will be from thirty-five to forty bushels per acre, which is one third mere per acre than the average yield of the regular wheat from this section. The establishment of this new wheat industry will bo of incalculable benefit to agriculture in the semi arid plains. A million or more cf acres can thus be given to profitable wheat raising, which, on account of drought, have heretofore been entirely idle. Macaroni wheats differ radically from the ordinary bread wheats. The grain is much harder, and in the best varieties contains an unusual amount of nitrogen and a correspondingly small amount of starch. Thc quantity and quality of the gluten make it ex ceedingly valuable for making maca roni. The area outlined by the Department of Agriculture where macaroni wheat will succeed best is a long belt extend ing northward and southward through the great plain from North Dakota to ? the Texas coast. In width it embraces nearly the whole of the two Dakotas. Nebraska, the greater part of Kansas. Oklahoma and the eastern sections of Colorado. Nev.' Mexico and of Central Texas. The most remarkable thing regarding macaroni wheat is this: lt is not only ? true that it can bc grown in dry dis- ? tricts, but it must bc grown thyre in ; order to produce tho best quality of j grain, aud up to a minimum of about j ten inches of an annual rainfall the drier the better. Probably the most important an nouncement from a commercial stand-! point as a result of the now wheat in- : dustry is rho fact of immediate mar- ! ket for these wheats. The entire pres- j eut crop of this year, which will be ; about 100,000 bushels, was contracted j for even before harvested at a good 1 average price. Another Important j business enterprise may be brought ? into existence, for Hie reason that the macaroni wheat from Southern Eu ropa is succeeding so well In thc great plains as io warrant the establishment of macaroni manufacturing. About 15,090.000 pounds of foreign macaroni is Imported into this country each year, solely because being made from true macaren! when i it Ss considered to be of betti r quality I han our domes tic macaroni, which ls ir.sdo r.lmost entirely from bread wheat. AU the rests of tho imported product can now be saved to this cottniry if Hie farmers aud ?' Hers will furnish cur factories BKmSfl COLUMBIA. mm* jn ""iffin T-r-nwmm i? i mi I ?1 gs and hewn timber from the mount mountain torrents, and are in some ?g. The lumber men, after their urney by constructing a rough wood ig at times at the rate of a m'le a mdoa Illustrated News. Uh the right kind of material, and ie factories are anxious to have the ime. The area of wheat in thc United tates in 1S99 was over 44,000,000 ires. At the lowest estimate, there ire, if the average yield of wheat is creased only one bushel per acre we ill have an increase of 44,000,000 ishels, worth at the former price for 100-nearly sixty cents per bushel jout .520.000,000. These fip-nroo ~tw .. ?r ?ne poss ?Pili KECK AND \'c.C;i r/ill suctecd btst and without" irngaftor , at least io incbts. - - . ?.> tat nj&y be grown, but th? yaljhj) len, says a writer in the New York lerald, lie down facing each other, 'hen a rope is passed over their heads, s shown in the illustration. Two balk lines are drawn between the ontestants. The object is to draw the pppnent so far that his linger tips hall be beyond the second line. This OUgh pastime means sore necks and deeding ears, but it is greatly enjoyed A NECK-AXD ?i'ECKT?G-OF-WAI?. by all beholders. The winner usually receives a cash prize, and the contest is invariably followed by dancing on "the arena where the bloody conflict was pulled,'' as the local prints de scribe ir. Discovered Guncotto. . In a notice of a recently published biography of the eminent chemist Schoeubein, a writer in Science says: No one ol" thc discoveries made by .Schoeubein made him more popularly known than that of guncotton, des tined to play so important a role in international, as well as industrial en terprises. This dares from Its value as a substitute for gun powder was at once perceived, and experi ments with firearms were instituted ns carly as May of ihe same year. It is a sad commentary on the unprofita bleness of pure science from the mon ey point of view that this prime dis ci-very brought to Schoeubein only eighteen to twenty thousand dollars, while Alfred Nobel gained through it more luau len million dollars. She liie?. "I'll get even wid 'em for dischairg in' me:" mumbled the cock lady, ILt lng up the register and dropping a pair of ?io:- old shoee down thc "not air pipe Just before sha went away. And those t-id shoes avenged nee for nearly ;'. week heiore the family r'oiiud eui what was the matter.-t hicag ? Tribune. F;,';s and mulberry trees were seui out to Georgia by the British go'veri . meut shortly nf ter the seulement o? the colony.