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Fitzgerald Leader. FITZGERALD, GEORGIA. — PUBLISHED BT— ZdvrA.Fi> «*» sorer. Who said the coal supply was run¬ ning out? Reports have been received at Washington of the discovery of a coal field of 215,000 acres in Columbia, South America, containing 300,000,000 tons of semi-anthracite, anthracite and good Bteam coal. A new invention is Jadoo fiber, n is a material in which every sort of plant will root freely without earth. Experiments by the Agri-Horticultural Society of India show that any sort of plant or tree can be propagated much more quickly in Jadoo than in earth. The New York World says the high prices of rent and living rooms in de¬ cent sections of New York are the greatest detriments to matrimony, as “no man with small earnings—say 81200 or $1500 a year—can rent a flat and support a wife in decent style on Manhattan Island. ” Many of the patriotic Greeks whe went to Greece from this and otbei countries to fight against the Turks are in a pitiable condition. Not only is the Government unable to make any use of their services, but in the pres¬ ent disturbed condition of the country they can get nothing to do, and they are in actual want. The Gaylord (Kan.) Herald records that the experiment tried there a year ago of’eTecftag ' wor mtatO 4 M .-01 -the city offices has proved a complete sue- cess, the city business being conduct- ed by them in a careful, economical and efficient manner, It/says that the same officers would have been con- tmued for another , had . they year con- sented to serve. That is a sarcastic touch, indeed, the curt comment of a daily paper which explains the abandonment of the Armenians by saying that they were sacrificed because they were “outside the sphere of Mediterranean influence, and but a trifling factor in the cotton trade.” Yet it is to be feared, remarks the New York Observer, that English commercial investments have too greatly of late influenced British di¬ plomacy. We might almost say, if the play upon words could be pardoned, that English bonds Rave, indeed, be¬ come England’s bonds. Excessive noise is a form of violence which injures the hearing, the nervous system and the brain. We do not per¬ mit one man to beat another with a stick, to throw injurious substances into his eyes, to poison him or other¬ wise to maltreat him, but hitherto every man has had full liberty to as¬ sault his fellow creatures through the medium of their ears and thereby to do them grievous bodily harm. But a public movement against unnecessary noises in New York City has begun. An ordinance against one most bane¬ ful noise has been discovered and a pestiferous noisemaker heavily fined. The size of the commercial armies that invade New York City every day for a few hours’ campaigning may be judged from the fact that it is claimed that twenty-three thousand persons, equivalent to two good-sized army corps, entered a certain big business building on a single day this last April, by actual count. Over ten years ago it was estimated that the population of New York was five hundred thousand greater at midday than at midnight. Now, the difference between the popu¬ lation in and out of business hours may be much greater. These facts are suggestive as to the number and com¬ plexity of the new problems both urban and suburban that have come with the years. These daily migra¬ tions to and fro inevitably affect char¬ acters and manners as well as bank accounts. Says Harper’s Weekly; Chicago, which never lacks something to brag of, will presently have a considerable basis for self-congratulation in the magnificent boulevard along the shore of Lake Michigan, which is to conned it with Milwaukee. This heautiful road will be eighty miles long, and promises to be the most notable stretch of roadway along a waterfront in the country. Eighty miles is over-long for a drive, but it is just a comfortable morning stretch for a contemporary bicyclist. New York’s beautiful Riv¬ erside Drive, even when the new via¬ ducts have lifted it over Ninety-sixth street, carried it over the wide gully from 128th to 134th street, and ex¬ tended it to 156th street, will still seem microscopic compared with this Chicago road, though it will be long enough for most practical purposes, and almost unmatched in beauty. SMILE A LITTLE. Bmlle a little, smile a litllo, Smile upon the troubled pilgrims As you go alom:, Whom you pass and meet. Not alone when life is pleasant, Flowers are thorns and smiles are blos¬ | But delights when things gp wrong. frowning, soms — Care to see you Oft for weary feet. Loves to hear you sigh. Do not make the way seem harder Turn a smiling face upon her. Ky a sullen face. Quick the dame will fly.. Smile a little, smile a little, Brighten up the place. Smile a little, smile a little, All along the road, burden, Smile upon your undone labor. Every life must have its Not for ono who grieves Every heart its load. O'er his task waits wealth or glory. Why sit down in gloom and darkness, He who smiles achieves. With your grief to sup? Though you meet with loss and sorrow As you bring fate’s bitter tonlo In the passing years. Smile across the eup. Smile a little, smile n little, Even through your tears. —Ella Wheeler Wilcox. Xfie: Other Fellow. HARACTERS: Dick Hatherly, a young painter; Letty Lorimer,’his second cousin an C orphan; and Cap¬ tain Vere Grierson, y>. a soldier on a fur- s lough. •*1/7/;}*'-'Hs WV.', ta®- ft Scene I: A studio, •jJ •;! '■fw Campden Hill, 'dim SC'qSiW, ’’ Rough sketches id pinned on walls, some new can¬ vasses on easels; lay figure, with T am -o’- Shanter rakishly a-top,posed on throne. Tray with a plate of sandwiches and empty beer bottles on piano. Under north skylight Hatherly in a painting blouse at work on sLx-foot-by-four canvas “Autumn in the NewFor- est.” Hatherly (soliloquizing): Well, I goodn ess one drops in this theST?bro^K W November till last week. If I’m not interrupted and get on as well as I have been doing, I may be in time for send- “g-in-day af ter a11 - (Gentle knock at the door, which , , Hatherly does not j jear ^ Visitor: Tap, tap. Hatherly (impatiently): O, bother! I’ll pretend I’m out. Visitor (louder): (hesitatingly): Tap, tap, tap! Letty Lorimer Yes, Dick. May I come in ? You’re sure I’m not disturbing you? Hatherly (mendaciously): O, no. Of course you’re not. But I say, Letty, you won’t mind my going on with my work, will you? I want to get this done for the Academy, and time is short now. Letty (earnestly): (complacently): No, Dick! Hatherly That’s all right, then. Sit down there like a dear, and don’t mind me. You see, the light is good now, and in a while it will be too dark to paint. Letty takes a seat behind him and silently watches the progress of the work. At last, summoning up courage, she says nervously: Dick! Hatherly (starting): Yes! why, I had nearly forgotten you, Letty. By the bye, what has become of the Dowager? She doesn’t usually allow you out alone. Letty: Grandmama is tired to-day and resting. I’ve been to the dress¬ maker’s. Ford is with me. She is waiting in the carriage downstairs. I came alone (falteringly) because I wished to speak to you. Hatherly: That’s right, my dear. Gossip away. Tell me all your news. I can listen quite well, though I’m busy. How’s the old lady? Been any pleasanter lately? Letty (almost in tears): O, Dick! her temper is simply unbearable. Hatherly: Horrid old vixen. I’m glad she’s no guardian of mine. Letty: I do try to be patient, but her tongue is so bitter and so cruel. Hatherly (absently): Poor little girl. Letty: I sometimes feel as if I could run away. Hatherly (engrossed in studying foreground of picture, sotto voce): Ah, I’ve caught it now. Claxton was right. That shadow to the left is too heavy. What are you saying, Letty? Letty (getting it out with a jerk): Do you rember Captain Grierson, one of the Leicester Griersons? Hatherly (squeezing fresh color on his palette); Yes, that alteration will make all the difference. I beg pardon, Letty. You were saying— Letty (patiently): Do you remem¬ ber Captain Grierson? Hatherly: Yes; he was at Rugby with me. Or was that his brother? Cecil Grierson—sandy-haireu chap, tall. Letty: l T es, Cecil Vere Grierson. I want to tell you, Dick—(Hatherly, leaving Easel abruptly, goes to a table and returns with a small piece of card¬ board with square cut from the centre, through which he gazes absorbedly at the new arrangement. Letty sighs despondently.) (turning her): Say, Hatherly to this Letty! Just look through square a moment. Don’t you think the pic¬ ture will compose better with that shadow lightened? agitated): Dick, I j Letty (pale and must go soon. Can you spare me a moment to-day? Excuse Hatherly (penitently): treating me, dear. I’m beastly rude, glorious you like this. It’s the fault of this light. There hasn’t been a day like it all winter. I’m a boor, I know, but the fatal Monday draweth nigh after which no man can work. Letty: Well, I was trying to tell you that Captain Grierson returns to India in two months to rejoin his regi¬ ment, and— Dick (cheerfully interrupting): Lucky beggar! Seeing the world while we all vegetate at home. Letty (faltering): And—Dick—he says he hates going back. He doesn’t wish to go alone. Hatherly (struck with sudden com¬ punction): thoughtless I say, Letty, what a brute I am not to have given you some tea. Just touch the bell, will you? Letty: No tea, thanks. I really couldn’t drink it. Dick, he feels aw- ful at leaving—everybody—and grand- mama keeps getting worse and worse, and— Hatherly (painting away vigorously): She’s an unmitigated old wretch. Good thing she was a bit queer to-day, so that you could get off the chain and have a little flutter by yourself. Letty: O, I don’t thinkshe would object to my coming here so much. She likes you pretty well, Dick. But to return to what we were saying—• Hatherly; Letty, just hand me that hand-mirror, will you? It’s on the table beside you. Ah, thank you. Letty (continuing, doggedly and huskily); So he said he’d come this evening—for his answer-. - (Dick, staring fixedly at'the reflec¬ tion of liis picture in the hand-mirror, makes no reply. Letty waits in breath¬ less silence. Hatherly (speaking suddenly): Do come here, Letty, and say if you like that, or is it too strong? Lettie (rising): It is strong and de¬ cided, like yourself and all men, Dick. It is only we women who are weak and irresolute. Good-bye. No, don’t come downstairs; I can see myself out. Good-bye. Hatherly (relieved) Well, if you must go, good-bye. Come again soon, like a good girl, when I have more time to spare. And don’t let the old lady bully you too much. Ta-ta. (Hatherly paints till the light fails, and then sits before the picture smok¬ ing meditatively.) Glad I took that hint of Claxton’s. Funny how - the duffer always gives you the be it sug¬ gestions. It will be easy sailing now. The rest groups, all right. Nice of Letty not staying when she saw I was working against time. She did not seem so happy as usual, somehow. Hateful time she has with that old grandmother." If I was richer I’d like to carry her off out of that old witch’s clutches; but she’s too young jet, She was talking about Grierson. Capital fellow he used to be. Going back to India? What a lot of fun those army chaps have—not like artists, shut up in a studio half the year. By the bye, what was it that Letty said about him not wishing to go back alone? He can’t have been making love to that child. She is only eighteen, and I al¬ ways thought of her as mine—some day. What did she say about him coming for his answer? Heavens! what a fool I’ve been. That’s what she was trying to tell me, and I was ass enough to have thoughts for noth¬ ing but my picture. Blind idiot! (Getting up hurriedly.) This evening she said. I wonder if I can possibly be in time. (Seizes hat and rushes out.) Scene II. Entrance to the Dowager Lady. Lorimer mansion in May- fair. Hatherly, alighting hurriedly from hansom, runs into Grierson descending steps of house. erly! Grierson (radiantly): Hullo, Hath-* Hatherly Grierson: (blankly): Grierson! Delighted to meet you again, old man. Seems almost a good omen, don’t you know. Hatherly (with hollow politeness): Ah, very pleased, I’m sure. Grierson (confidentially and effu¬ sively): Feel you sort of relation, don’t you know. You see I’ve just— that is, Miss Letty has just—I say, old chap, by Jove, I’m awfully happy! Congratulate me.—Black and White. Booking: Out for Herself. Here is an instructive story and one quite new about Queen Victoria. It was suggested to her the other day that Queen Anne’s statue, opposite St. Paul’s, should be removed for the jubilee thanksgiving service, in order that the view might not be obstructed. When this proposal was submitted to Her Majesty she refused to sanction it. “I am not willing to allow the statue to be displaced,” the Queen is said to have remarked. “If I permit it some one may consider it a justification for removing my statue some day on a similar occasion.” Huntsman's Great Buck. H. Cox, of Brooklyn, Mich., with a company of friends, went borth to hunt deer. His friends placed him back of a runway and told him to keep on the lookout if he wanted deer. Cox sat there until tired, and then stepped hack to the shelter of a bush. As he did so a big buck leaped over the bush, knocked the gun out of his hand and discharged it. The charge struck the deer and it fell dead within a few feet of the hunter.—Chicago Tri¬ bune. OUR BUDGET OF HUMOR. LAUGHTER-PROVOKING STORIES FOR LOVERS OF FUN. Lacking—A Bequest—Possibly the Uni¬ son—In Boston — Convincing: — Then Neither Made Up—The Horrl.1 Hrute— More Domestic Oppression, Etc., Etc. I told her in passionate her measure completely; That my love was own She smiled with a sorrowful pleasure, And said to me, slowly and sweetly: “Your love is my own completely; Alas! that so soon I must spurn it," She said to me, slowly and sweetly. “I haven’t the heart to return it.” —Percy L. Shaw, in Life. In Boston. “Browning, dear?” “1 am listening, love.” “Are my spectacles on straight?”— Judge. Convincing. “What makes you think he is in love with you—the way he behaved?” “No. The way he misbehaved.”-— Indianapolis Journal. Then Neither Made Up. Miss Rosy—“My mind isn’t made up yet, ” Miss Speyt—“It’s more than yon can say for your face.”—New York Journal. A Bequest. Mrs. Y.—“My daughter is a prom¬ ising musician.” Mr. C.—“Well, get her to promise that she won’t sing any more.”—Yon¬ kers Statesman. More Domestic Oppression. “What is leisure, Popper?” “Leisure? Well, it is any old idle five minutes I get while your dear mother is hunting up something else for me to do.”—Puck. Possibly the Reason. “They say that Batch hasn’t a dollar to his name.” “That must be the reason he has never been able to get any woman to accept it, ”—Cincinnati Enquirer. * 'The Horrid Brute. She—“I never expected to work like this when I married you.” He—“I didn’t suppose you cared. You worked hard enough to get me, didn't you?”—Indianapolis Journal. Heroic. Brawn (to dentist)—“I won’t pay anything extra for gas. Just yank the tooth out,even if it does hurt a little.” Dentist—“I must say you are very plucky. Just let me see the tooth. ” Brawn—“O, I haven’t got any tooth¬ ache; its Mrs. Brawn. She’ll be here in a minute.”—Tit-Bits. An Uprising: in Hig Midst. “Speaking of Cuban uprisings and insurrections,” said Wallace, “I shall never forget one that occurred twenty years ago.” Were you present?” asked Ferry. “Very much so. I happened about five minutes after I had lighted one of my father’s big, black Havana cigars. ” —Cincinnati Enquirer. A Unnecessary Admonition. “Did you tell that young man not to call here any more?” asked Mabel’s father, severely. “N—no.” “Why not?” “I didn’t think that it was neces¬ sary. I don’t see how he could call any more, now. He calls seven times a week.”—Washington Star. Safe While It Basts. “I haven’t got any case,” said the client, “but I have money.” “How much?” asked the lawyer. “Ten thousand dollars,” was the reply. “Phew! you have the best ease I ever heard of. I’ll see that you never go to prison with that sum,” said the lawyer, cheerfully.—Boston Traveler. An Easier Revenue. Sparring Teacher—“What? No more lessons? Why, you only took two.” ' Amateur (much the worse for wear) —“You Bee, I wanted to take enough lessons so that I fcould learn enough about the manly art to lick a man. I’ve changed my mind now. I guess I will send the fellow down to take the rest of the lessons.”—Rochester Dem¬ ocrat and Chronicle. Trouble Among: the Freaks. “Oh, Reginald, I am so glad you have come!” puffed the Fat Lady. “We have just been having an awful timer” “What is it?” asked the Living Skeleton. “The India Rubber Man got angry at the Leopard Boy and swore be would knock the spots off him, if he had to do a stretch of ten years for it. ” —Indianapolis Journal. True to His Order. The Lady—“I’ll give you a good meal if you will cut up some of that wood.” The Tramp—“Sorry, hut I can’t ac¬ commodate you, madam.” “To lazy to work, I suppose?” “Not that, madam, not that. I would be false to my trust. You see, I’m a member of the Society for the Preser¬ vation of the American Forests, and we never cut any wood.”—Yonkers Statesman. Photographing: the Arteries. After much study and painstaking an artery in the arm of an adult has been photographed. The patient had been suffering from some trouble in the arm which the physicians were unable to correctly diagnose, By means of the X-rays deposits of lime salts in the blood werq clearly sho.wn, and the case was treated ta accordance with the facts elicited by the photo¬ graphing as described. COOD ROADS NOTES. Strangely enough a railroad is smoother than a plank road. “Honest Elections and Good Eoads” is the platform on which Charles G. Richie, of Louisville, Ky., is standing for re-election next November as Judge of Jefferson County Court. Fred Harvey, thirty-five, a Barre (Vt.) teamster, was thrown from his wagon while driving over a muddy place in the road, and a wheel passing over his head forced his face down into the mud in such a way that he was smothered before aid reached him. A novel case was recently decided by a judge in Brighton township, near Sacramento, Cal. The wheelmen of the township, who have a cycle path, werd very much annoyed by the wan¬ dering of cows on the path, the ani¬ mals preferring the smooth path to the road. An animal was impounded by the county officials and a test case made. The cow came off victorious, as it was found that no pound ordi¬ nance existed for the township, though most of the other townships had laws covering such. The fourth annual report of the Com¬ missioners of Public Works of Ogdens- burg, N, Y., gives an infesting detailed account of the work done for road irn- pvovment during the past year, for which work $16,470 have been ex¬ pended. Ogdensburg is now provided with excellent facilities for road con¬ struction and improvement, The equipment, the aggregate value of which is about fifteen thousand dol- lars, will serve for years to come, to build and keep in repair a superior class of macadam roads. Many farms in this State have en¬ tailed more labor than was cheerfully bestowed in piling stones taken from the land, stone fences being seen for miles, yet right alongside of these fences of stone the farmers have driven fetlock deep in mud for years, when they could have used the stones to bet¬ ter advantage on tbe roads tlian in any other manner, as they were encum¬ brances. Now that the stone breaker quickly reduces the stone for the pur¬ pose, muddy roads should be covered with stone. Philadelphia Saturday Post. “The wholesale trade of the city has been undeniably light. A number of causes have operated to this end, the principal one of which has been the weather. Country roads in much of the tributary district are little better than impassable, and act as a bar to the ordering of goods not absolutely neces- sary.” The above, from the commer- cial column of the Chicago Tribune, is extremely interesting. It conveys a large lap-welded |fact, that, like a can- cer is eating into the prosperity of large tracts of our otherwise glorious country, says the L. A. W. Bulletin. Nearly twenty years ago General Grant, in enumerating necessary lines of public improvement, named the pub- lie schools and highways. Once when lie and General Sheridan were in a re- miniscent mood, the old common ei said to “Little PhE speaking of the latter’s famous ride to the battle ot Cedar Creek: ‘ S-ieridan, if that mt- tie had taken place atter a prolonged rain, and there had not been a good pike from Winchester, you would never have been promoted to the head of the United States Army. You would not have reached the battlefield to cheer your men, and there would have been a great defeat for the Union forces in¬ stead of a great victory. That would have left Meade and Thomas a long distance ahead of you in the line of promotion.” Where Soldiers Are Hit. A great military authority says that when a well-built man of six feet is facing the enemy he presents a surface to be shot at of one thousand square inches. His face has an area of fifty-six inches, and his neck of twenty-three inches, and out ot every hundred men wounded in battle fourteen will be wounded in those parts. They are the most exposed parts of the body, whether the combatant be in a trench or behind a tree or wall. The trunk offers nearly four times as large a target, but it is usually protect¬ ed by some form of defense work, and is, therefore, hit only nineteen times in a hundred. As Scraps says, it seems extraordi¬ nary that the arms have as great an area almost as the body. That is to say, what the anatomist calls arms, which include the shoulders. They measure two hundred and twenty-six inches, and receive thirty out of the hundred hits. The reason they are oftener hit than the body is that they have to be exposed so much in firing. The legs, including the hips, have the largest surface of all, measuring four hundred and twenty-two square inches, or nearly twice as much as the arms. But they are nearly always pro¬ tected by breastworks, rising ground, trunks of trees, etc., and so they are wounded only thirty-five times out of the hundred. When fighting at close quarters the head and body suffer very severely, and when fighting from behind trees the arms, having to bo put forward to fire, receive an unusual number of wounds. A curious fact, which every veteran knows to his cost, is that when the ground is hard bullets are reflected upward and wound the legs and lower parts of the body, while, if the ground were soft, the bullets would bury themselves in it. Pointed Toes Out of Fashion. Pointed toed shoes have gone out of fashion, but shoe dealers say people are not willing to go back to more sensible footwear. Round-toed shoes are fashionable, but pointed toed shoes are sold. The chiropodists rejoins over this latter fact, for the shoes with sharp toes have done much for their business. A QUEEN’S CORONATIO, AN ACCOUNT OF THE CAZETTE. CEREMC^ FROM THE OFFICIAL Toothful Victoria Made an Oflering of a Golden Altar-Cloth and an Ingot of Gold Weighing a Pound—How She Looked—Curious Symbolical Services. In the Century there is an article mi “Queen Victoria’s ‘Coronation Roll,’ ” written by Florence Haywood. The author takes the following account of the coronation from the Official Gazette: The Queen then made the first of her offerings: an altar-cloth of gold placed upon the altar, and an ingot of gold weighing a pound placed in the oblation dish. This done, the regalia were placed upon the altar, where they remained during the litany, the com¬ munion service, and the sermon—all being preliminary to the taking and signing of the coronation oath. After signing the oath the Queenwas anointed; and the mental picture one has of her at this moment is one of the most vivid. But little more thau a child either in years or in stature, “she sat in St. Edward’s Chair, which was covered with a cloth of Gold, with a fald-stool in front of her placed in front of the Altar. Four Knights of the Garter held a Pall of Gold over her head, and the Sub-Dean, of Westmin¬ ster took from the Altar the Ampulla, and containing the consecrated oil, pouring some of it into the Annotating Spoon annointed the Queen on the Head and Hands in the Form of a Cross.” The great spurs, having, like every other part of the regalia, their own symbolism in the ceremonial, were then delivered to the Queen, returned them to be laid upon the altar. Indeed, if one may translate the meaning of the whole ceremonial, it was briefly this: That there was an intimate connection between the church as typified by the altar and the power of government as typified by the regalia. But the symbolism of what next followed is too involved for laymen: “The Sword of State was now delivered to the Lord Chancellor who gave Viscount Melbourne another in exchange for it the which Lord Mel¬ bourne delivered to the Archbishop. This the Archbishop after placing it on the f > tar delivered to the Queen sayy Reoelve Singly Sword etc. Whereupon the Queen placed thed th* Sword on the Altar and it was redeemed by Viscount Melbourne hl hundred for the est shillings f t he and carried b| 1 “ The mantle ,^ which ° . . the Queen , hadj «s now rep aced by the impeiia Dalmatian mantle of cloth of gold of and aftertake ring had been placed he le subdeacon fin gf brought of .^5 from the A altar F J ^ Iove for hel . rigkt kand) embroid- ered with the Howard arms —the lpve tkat figured in the petition,— wk j ck the Queen put on; and then <<t ke Archbishop placed the sceptre the cross in her right hand saying ‘Receive the Boyal Sceptre’ and the Sceptre witk tke Dove in Her left kaad saying ‘Receive the Rod of Equity,’ and the Duke of Norfolk sup- p 01 q ed Her Majesty’s right arm and ke j d tke Sceptre as occasion required, And now came the actual moment of coronation: “The Archbishop, standing before the Altar and having St. Edward’s Crown, consecrated and blessed it, and attended by the Bishops, and assisted by the Archbishops and Sub-Deans of Westminster Put the Crown on Her Majesty’s Head. Then the people with lomVshouts cried ‘God save the Queen.’ And immediately the Peers and Peeresses put on their coronets, the Bishops their caps, the Deputy Garter King of Arms liis Crown, the trumpeters sounding, the drums beat¬ ing, and the Town and Park Guns firing by signals.” Is not that fine! And must not the benediction and the Te Deum which immediately followed have voiced in a way that could not have been otherwise expressed the emotions of that splendid moment! Stole While She Slept. For some time Mrs. Henry Wallace, a widow, living near Appalachin, has been missing articles from her house, mostly small trinkets, but some of con¬ siderable value. Suspecting a new servant, she locked her room and kept the jewels securely lofficed in a bureau, but still they disappeared. Three servants were discharged, one after the other, but the pilfering still con¬ tinued. One. night Mrs. Wallace had a dream that she would find a buried treasure at the foot of a willow tree on the bank of a creek. Three successive nights this dream, came to her, and the fourth day she went to the place accompanied by a servant. Hidden in a box be¬ neath the foot of the tree she found the missing articles. How they got there she could not explain. And the mystery was stall unsolved. The night following, a farmer, who was return¬ ing from a neighbor’s, saw a white figure emerging from Mrs. Wallace’s house and go toward the creek. Fol¬ lowing it he saw the figure lift up a stone and deposit something under it. Thinking he had the thief, he rushed forward and grasped—Mrs. Wallace. She had been walking in her sleep and had a valuable necklace in her hand. The mystery has now been explained, and one of the servants sleeps outside her mistress’ door every night. Earth the Rest Fortification. Military engineers are practically agreed that no material for fortifica- tion is superior to earth. When clay is not obtainable, as on the seashore, sand is collected into bags, and these are laid in regular heaps along the line of the proposed fortification. In such a fortification the balls from the enemy’s guns sink without doing damage, and shells explode harmlessly.