House and Garden 
THE METROPOLITAN MAGAZINE 
THe Great MontHly for tHe American Home 
SEPTEMBER 
The FALL FICTION number offers some remarkable short stories, including “The 
Case of Alaboneur,” by Arthur Colton; “The Comedy of the White Rat,” by Robert A. 
Bachmann; “L’Etrangere,” by F. H. Lancaster; “A Captain of Indigence,” by Avery 
Abbott; “Excommunicated,” by J. S. Thomson; and “Exit: The ‘Honorable’ Benson 
Hikes,” by Jerome Uhle; also several unusually important articles, among them: 
“THE NAVAL BATTLE OF THE FUTURE,” by Hudson Maxim 
“OSTEOPATHY,” Part I, by E. M. Downing 
“GOLD,” by W. F. FitzpatricK 
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from Shreveport named Dixon, and last 
July he went to Shreveport to view it. 
He found several of the locusts in that 
locality and was convinced that he had 
discovered a new tree. In order to 
make his belief certain he sent a speci¬ 
men to C. H. Sargent, in charge of trees 
at Harvard University, the greatest 
authority on American trees, and as 
soon as leaves were on the tree Mr. 
Sargent came to Louisiana and he an¬ 
nounced that Professor Cocks was right. 
Louisiana has a new tree. 
It is thought by Professor Cocks that 
additional discoveries will be made in 
Louisiana as soon as scientists begin to 
make investigations. He says very little 
work has been done since the war, and 
what he has done himself has been done 
at his own expense. There is no fund 
given by the State to conduct these 
investigations, as is the case in other 
States. 
CAPTAIN HENRY LOME 
TT is with profound regret that we 
-*■ record the death, in Rochester, 
New York, on June 14th, of Cap¬ 
tain Henry Lomb, head of the widely 
known Bausch N Lomb Optical Com¬ 
pany. 
Captain Lomb was born in 1828 in 
Hesse-Cassel, Germany. He came to 
the United States in 1849. After a few 
years’ occupation as a cabinet-maker he 
formed a partnership with J. J. Bausch, 
his friend, and built up the greatest 
optical manufacturing establishment in 
the world. 
Captain Lomb enlisted as a private 
at the outbreak of the Civil War, serving 
two years. He was rapidly promoted 
and retired at the expiration of his en¬ 
listment with the rank of captain and an 
honorable discharge. 
He participated with his company in 
all the earlier campaigns and battles of 
the Army of the Potomac. Always 
since those historic days he has taken a 
deep interest in the affairs and reunions 
of the veterans, and none will more 
sincerely mourn his departure than his 
old comrades of the Union armies. 
There was never in his manner the 
slightest suggestion of self-consciousness 
over his genuine importance as a busi¬ 
ness man or citizen. His anxiety to 
efface himself and promote some one of 
the many causes in which he was inter¬ 
ested could not be mistaken or doubted. 
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