Show PRSONAL MENTION Ohio C Barber president of tho Diamond Dia-mond Match company Is about to build a residence In Akron which It is reported report-ed will be the handsomest house In Ohio Tho cost will be about 300000 The material ma-terial for tho outside will cost 50000 and the portccochcro alone 7000 0 04 Gen James M Bell who has Just returned S re-turned from the Philippines declares that It was a bad day for the army when the turn sellers joined hands with mistaken S temperance enthusiasts and broke up the canteen Ho says the consequences have been deplorable In Manila 0 0 4 Gen Sir Evelyn Wood V C G C B AdjutantGeneral of the British army has Just entered upon his fiftieth year of active service havlnj Joined the royal nmy oh April IS W > 2 when but II years Old In lS > 5 ho left the navy for the army receiving n Cornets commission In the Thirteenth Light Dragoons now the Thirteenth Hussars S > 0 SIn S-In concluding his sailors logForty S Years In Die Navy RearAdmiral Evans S says I was attending a reception In the Chamber of Commerce where many people peo-ple had assembled to greet me A whiteS white-S haired old gentleman Mopped In Iront of mo and taking my hand said Captain I want to know how It feels when you nro aure that there arc 70000000 of people peo-ple each of whom would like to look Into your eyes und say God bless you I could have told the kindly old man that It made mo feel like lighting by day and watching by night that danger In storm and stiftcrlng In tropic calm were but reasonable service to such a country and Much fellow countrymen na I um bound to by every feeling of my heart 0 0 0 The Chicago Inter Ocean observes that President McKinley could not very woll pass thiough San Antonio Tex without being guided to the Alamo And as expansion S ex-pansion received one of Us first Impulses there ho would hardly have avoided It if he could |