EATERS OF CARBON
THE LEAD MINES OF LO.
the Air.
Tree and Plants Grow Out of
Not from the Ground.
Tnlr an nnlinarv seltzer water siphon
Rnd empty it till only a few drops re
main in the bottom. Then tho bottle U
full of gas, and that gas. which will
rush out with a spurt when you press
the knob, is the stuff that plants eat
raw material of life, both animal ami
vegetable. The tree grows and lives by
taking in the carbonic- acid from the air
and solidifying its carbon: the animal
grows and lives by taking the solidified
carbon from the plant and converting it
once more into carbonic acid.
That, in its ideally -simple form, is the
Iliad in a nutshell, the core una Kernel
of biology.- The whole cycle of life is
one eternal seesaw. First the plant col
lects, its carbon compounds from the air
in the oxidized state: it deoxidizes and
rebuilds them, and then the animal pro- j
ceeds to burn them by slow combustion
within its own body and to turn them
loose npon the air once more oxidized.
After which the plant starts again on
the same road as before, and the animal
also recommences da capo And so on
ad infinitum. ' '
But the point which 1 want particu
larly to emphasize here is just this: That
trees and plants don't grow out of the
ground at all. a3 most people do vainly
talk, but directly out of the air, and
that when they die or get consumed
they return once more to the atmosphere
from which they were taken Trees un
deniably eat carbon.
- Of course, therefore, all the ordinary
unscientific conceptions of how plants
feed are absolutely erroneous. Vegetable
physiology indeed got oeyouu tnose
conceptions a good hundred years ago.
But it usually takes a hundred years for
the world at large to make up its lee
way. Trees don't suck mi their nutri
ment by the roots, they don't derive
their food from the soil, they don't need
to be fed like babies through a tube with
terrestrial solids. The solitary instance i
of au orchid hung up by a string in a
conservatory on u piece of bark ought to
be sufficient , at once to dispel forever
this strange delusion if people ever
thought: .but. of course, they don't think
I mean other people.
The true mouths and stomachs of
plants are not to be found in the roots,
but in the f?reen leaves: their true' food
is not sucked up from the soil, but is in
haled through tiny channels from the
air: the mass of their material is carbon,
us we can all see visibly to the naked eye
when a log of wood "is reduced to;har
Voal. and that carbon the leaves them
selves drink in by a thousand small
green mouths from tho atmrfcphere
around them.
But how about the juice, the sap, the
qualities of the soil, the manure required,
is the incredulous cry or otner fieopie.
. What is the use of the roots, and espe-
cially of the rootlets, if they are not the
mouths and supply tubes of tho plants?
vv ill. 1 I i;w ill v ycimnc . fr,
forrader, line tlie larmer witn msciarei,
till I've answered that question, pro
visionally at least; so 1 will say here at
once, without further ado, that the plant
requires drink as well as food, and the
roots are the months that supply it with
. water
They also suck up a few other things
as well, which are necessary indeed, but
far from forming the bulk of the nutri
ment. Many plants, however, don't
'. need any roots at all, while none can
get on without leaves as mouths and
stomachs that is to say, no true plant-
I r 1 i ... ( . .. . ....... t i l il ,1 1 U 1 T..1
practically ' to all intents and purposes
animais. To piit it briefly, every plant
lias one set of aerial mouths to suck a
carbon, and many plants have another
set of subterranean mouf hs as well, to
suck up water and mineral constituents.
Cornniu Magazine.
TRADITIONS CONCERNING THEM
PENNSYLVANIA. ,
IN
A Blacksmith of Former liny Who Kan
Into Bullets Ore Supplied by Indians.
Pointers That Do Sot Develop Red
Men's Pipes and Weapons.
Where, if anywhere, .are the lead
mines of northwestern Pennsylvania? In
connection with attempts to answer this
question the writer hereof, in boyhood,
harvested many stone bruises by day
and treasure dreams by night, together
with numerous traditions of the days of
practically unbroken forests, bears'
grease and primeval ecpnomy. -
This section, comprising parts of
northern Venango and southern Craw
ford counties, is about forty miles south
of Corry, sixteen miles north of Oil City,
ten miles west of Titusville and eight
een miles east of Meadville. There is no
doubt in the minds of plenty of entirely
rational people that somewhere within,
or iTonrianouslv without, the region of
country which these towns bound, there
is a locality where an exceptionally good
nualitv of lead ore may'be obtained, or,
at least, the locality where ore of such
nualitv was obtained formerly by the
Indians, both for their own use and to
sell or trade to the white settlers. As
the source of this supply ws carefully
kept a secret by the Indians mainly of
Chief Cornplanter's tribe and has never
been discovered, it is regarded as rea
sonable to infer , that it may yet be a
source of profit as to believe that it was
exhausted.
A PIONEER'S EXPERIENCE.
'At what is now Bradleytown, a vil
lage three miles southwest of here, on
one of the branches of Sugar Creek, a
pioneer named Jacob Jennings lived 100
years ago and had near his pioneer
house a small blacksmith shop. From
Mrs. Samuel Matson, of Chapmanville,
and John Jennings, of Sunville, some
interesting reminiscences were obtained
as related by their, father, who was a
son of Jacob Jennings. The latter, at
his blacksmith shop, frequently .smelted
and run into bullets . rich lead ore sup
plied by the Indians. They made peri
odical trips to this place for that pur
pose. Coming up from the Allegheny
river they made it a point to reach his
home in the evening, there being usually
several in the party. They would be
allowed to stay and would sleep around
the firenlaces in the house and shop. At
dayleak they would strike northward
up" the creek and would return a few
hours later with a stock of the lead
product to be melted. No amount of
persuasion, of barter or of purchase
price would cause them to disclose the
whereabouts of the lead deposits
Fifty years ago, according to a mem
ber of the family. Mrs. Robert Gillespie
and a daughter, then a little girl, 'were
lost in the woods, and during their wan
derings found along a ravine an out-
A Dog's Lore fur, Another og.
I had two puppies ot the J.lolussus,
commonly called the Maremina, breed;
large, white, very beautiful dogs, with
long hair; varying in size between a
Newfoundland and a collie: the old)
Greek race of watch dogs to which,
quite certainiy, Argo3 belonged. These
puppies, named Pan and Paris, lived
together, fed. played and slept together,
and .were never separated for a moment
for seven months. . In the seventh month
Paris fell ill of distemper and died.
Now. by my own observation, I can
declare that Pan nursed his brother as
assiduously as any boy could have
nursed another., licked him, cleaned
him. brought him tempting bits to eat;
did all that he could think of; . and
when his brother at last lay there cold
and unresponsive to his efforts, his grief
and astonishment were pitiful to see.
From that time he ceased to play; from
being a very lively dog he grew grave
and sad: he had a wistful, wondering
inquiry in his eyas which it was pathetic
to behold; and although he lived for
many years after, and was as happy as a
dog can be, he never recovered his spirits:
he had buried his mirth in the grave of
Paris. . Something was lost for him with
his brother which he never regained.
This is the
Mine. Geoffrin's Husband.
' Mme. GeofErin married, at the age of j
fourteen, M. Geoffrin, a wealthy glass
manufacturer and lieutenant colonel of
the National Guard. His duty as hus
band seems to have been to provide the
fund3 for her social campaigns and to
watch over the details of the menage. It
is related of him that some person gave
him a history to read, and when he asked
for the successive volumes, regularly
palmed off upon him the first, as if it
were new. At last he was heard to say
that he thought the author "repeated
himself a little." .
A book nrinted in double columns he
read straight across the page, remarking
that "it seemed to be very good, but was
rather abstract." One day a visitor in
auired after the silent, white haired old
gentleman who was in the habit of sit
ting at the' head of the table. "Oh, he
was my husband," replied Mme. Geoff
rin. "before -he died." San Francisco
Argonaut.
O
ly
J. V. S. Is tho cnly Ssr;r.v:i:
fecblo pcojilu should la'-e. us l i
i. H
only instance 1 have known j whiohisiacven.-otucr.-i-.rsu. :-. :..,
of a dog's love for another dog.-Ouida iT on .'on.
in aorio Aiirenrau ncucn
;!i:y
OT
, .t.'.ii"-i
j t j !e
. A Plain Truth. J i
No man has a right to marry till, in
every human probability, assured that
he can support a family in his own sta
tion. Mere love or improvident matches
seldom turn out : well; poverty comes,
and there, is so much self reproach on
either side that gall is added to its bit-'
terness: their tempers are soured, and
they soon wish themselves unmarried.
But when trials assail an attached, a
reasonable pair, sorrow unites . them
closer; the man. feeling how much de
pends on him, never flags in his exertion,
and often recovers the lost step: if not.
fhere is still consolation in his wifa's un-
varying love in ner sweet, noiseless
sacrifices. In these uncertain times
there are few commercial men who
have not met with reverses, and they
will often say:
'Had it not been for those at home I
should ' have blown my brains out: I
could not have stood it."
Wife and children 1 They are a beacon
to us in our troubled sea: we renew the
struggle when ready to sink beneath the
"wave. -and at last are saved. At the
worst, when all is black when friends
are cool or reproachful when the cruel
est doubts assail as there is still one
who respects and loves us; at home we
are still dear. New York Ledger.
vegetable Bud stimulate ':":v.-ii' :i t::n evenin
new blood, tho very thins I. r i.id, ieli-n!o nr
broken down people. It i".ii'u!s tiiL-ra tip a id
prolongs their lives. A case hi pci-.d:
Mrs. Belden uu estimable and eMi-rly lady ol
510 Mnso:i St., S. F. vas for mo'.iths dei-Hiring no
rapidly as to seriously alarm tier family. It cot
so bad that sho was finally afi'.irttid with faiuting
spells. She writes: "While i i t'.n'.t dangerous
condition I saw some c.f the testimonials con
cerning J.V. S. cud scut for a bottle. That marked
tho turning point. . I regained my lost flesh and
strength and have not felt m well in years."
That was two years ago and Mrs. Eelden is well
and hearty to-day, and still taking J. V. S.
If you -arc old or feeble and want to be bnilt up.
Ask for
Vegetable
iV .ss
Sarsaparina
jiiinr ino:'.cru. most effective, largest bottle.
Aimy tiricc, $1.00, six for &0&
For Sale by SNIPES St. KINERSLY.
THE DALLES. OltEGON.
a it a h
C9UU J
A Giaut Hfirsc.
There is in Detroit an equine thorough
bred which is pronounced not only the
handsomest, but one of the largest horses
in existence. He is in truth a giant, and
the veriest novice in horseflesh could not
but view his size and beauty without a
certain feeling of awe. This colossal
animal is-5 vears old and is 21 hands
Health is Wealth !
1 i Mm ' jPLpil
fT-nrmiTir of lead-filled rock, a Diece of
.v;r. ti,-o- wlr with t.linin. After find- i liiirh. weiirhinsr 2.305 pounds. An ordi-
ins their way home they were unable to nary sized man cuts but a small figure
Desiue mm. tic la ui v
color, with superb mane and tail. He is
! iu loci Vnrimi. nnrl wm. i mrnpd bv Richard Tresaskis. andean
trot in four minutes. .
It seems a pity that there will be none
of his progeny. He was imported from
France by a Kentucky horse breeder,
wlia paid $5,000 for him. When put in
the stud the animal became a veritable
fiend. He would kick and bite on the
slightest provocation, and no one could
do anything with him. He soon killed
one attendant and a short time after an
other man fell a victim to the vicious
brute. The death of these two men
caused the owner to change the animal
into a gelding, and witljjiood effect, his
temper being greatly improved, Detroit
Free Press.
This !s Km m Goad Thing;.
It would be quite impossible for any liv
ing being, it would seem, to be insensible
to the charms of camp life. One morn
ing when the 1 Listener was in camp,
queer looking black dog of uncertain race,
but broad between the eyes.like all intelli
gent dogs, suddenly popped into the place,
evidently upon some journey around the
lake. He looked about him in astonish
ment, and then sat down and looked
again. Then he settled instantly down.
" in a sort of glad, "grateful way, which
was as much as to say, "This is exactly
the sort of place that I've always been
looking for!' Not another step did he
stir ou the journey
He adopted the camp from that mo
ment and everybody in it. Nobody
knew where he came from or to whom
he belonged. He was a total stranger to
the people who lived on the farm not
far away. He slept in front of the tent
at night, and barked at any stranger who
came that way, and answered amiably
to the naraeof Liberty Moses. Nodoubt,
when the camp broke up, he went back
to his more civilized home, wherever it
was, but as long as that charming spot
remained in existence there was no other
place for him. Boston Transcript.
To Bemluil Him. '
Little Pete is a good boy as well as a
boy of a great deal of originality in His
"notions." but he has the serious fault of
. being extremely forgetful. '
One day. after having .gone on an er
rand and forgotten what he was sent for.
he exclaimed bitterly to his sister:
"Oh. dear! I wish I was a snake!"
Yon wish yon were a snake?" said his
sister, horrified. '
"Yes, and a great long one as much
'' as six feet long."
"Why. what for, Pete?'
"So 1 could tie knots in myself to
make me remember things!" Youth's
Companion. ..
Thrrs Koofs In a Century and a Half.
Morgan Mory, of Dpper Saucon. Pa.,
has had his barn reroofed with tin. The
structure was built in 1753. when it was
roofed with cedar A number of years
; later pine shingles took the place of the
cedar. It has been roofed only three
times during its existence. The barn is
still in a good state of preservation, and
will ontlast a few more roofs. lix-
find their way back with older members
of the family to the point where they
had found the lead. Various and. con
tinuous searches have been made since
along the ravines in that section, one
enthusiast devoting a considerable por
tion of a year to the search; but aside
from a fragment weighing about four
pounds, and found in a field in Randolph
township, . Crawford county, where it
had apparently been dropped, no lead
ore has been discovered.
MATERIAL. FOR PROSPECTORS.
The prospector able to develop point
ers from Indian relics may find consid
erable material in that line in this sec
tion. At Wallaceville, three miles south
east of here, he may find a whole field of
yet well defined mounds and excava
tions. A mile north of here, just across
the line in Crawford county, he may
find remnants of several ' large stone
niles constructed of stones having nota
ble uniformity in size and piled up by j
the Indians for some unknown purpose i
before the time of the earliest settlers.
If he will follow the plow for a season
in the southwestern part of this town- j
shin Plnm township, Venango county j
the northerly adjoining townsnip oi j .
Troy, in Crawford county, his labors j
will probably be rewarded with a fresn
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ITS Second St. ' The DallM. Or.
s
B
.cvi " I l,,,r Arcvi fnmi
stock of pipes, weapons and other relics tamntnna,
One Thins Women Can't lrn.
There is one thing a woman never
! learns." said a Broadway conductor as
he yanked the bellcord. "and that is to
get on and off a car with a swing to
ward the horses. She steps on or off
backward that is. with her face the
other way. If the car is moving the
least bit she is liable to trip aud fall
down. Then she looks daggers at me, as
ifltlidthe whole thing purposely. A
five-year-old boy knows better. Talk
he murmured con-
I temntnnnslr "what a woman wants to
reform is in getting ' some sense about
of the noble and ignoble Lo.
If he will further follow the plow in a i
f 1 1 , .1 0 t - anB nl.rtV
neiu aiong "5" " , from her brother.
two miles north of the Jacob Jennings j nQ how mnct aM
homestead, and will fail to lift the point , condTlctor3 atsi driver8..
of his plow when he reaches a certwa , . wojried abon(. women Ketting
point in that field his plow handles will , off it i3 a 6ense
siuii u.m mi, u . r - . ,. . . .,..- rPST,onsibihtv that i
turn in my last, trip every day feeling
Cleveland, Wash., )
June 19th, 1891. f
S. B. Medicine Co., '
Gentlemen Your kind favor recei v
and in reply would say that I am more
than pleased with the terms offered me
on the last shipment of your medicines.
There is nothing like them ever intro
duced in this country, especially for La
grippe and kindred complaints. I have
had no complaints so far, arid everyone
is ready with a word of praise for their
virtues. Yours, etc.,
' M. F. Hacklky
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we ask that you give it a fair trial, and
if satisfied with its course a generous
support.
The
will "be to advertise the resources of the city, and
adjacent country, to assist in developing : our
industries, in extending and opening up new channels
for our trade, in securing an open river, and in
helping THE DALLES to take her proper position
as the .
Its Obeets
will be to advertise the resources of the
city, and adjacent country, to assist in
developing our industries, in extending
and opening up new channels for our
trade, in" securing1 an open river, and in
helping THE DALLES to take her prop
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Leading City of Eastern Oregon.
four pages of siy columns each, will he issued every
evening, except Sunday, and will oe delivered mtne
city, or sent oy mail for the moderate sum 01 ntty
cents a month.
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we ask that your criticism of out object an course,
be formed from the contents of the paper, and not
from rash assertions of outside parties.
THE WEEKLY,
sent to any address for $1.50 per year. it will
contain from four to -six eight column pages, and we
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Office, N. W. Cor. Washington and Second, bts
RUCTION SKLE I
that no woman h;s had her neck broken
of fallen down from my platform. We
from that every
rout The cause thereof will Be tnat tne
plow point will strike the edge of a circu
lar bed of burned and pounded stone It
" , Jl "1 , I have narrow escape from that every
the top of the ground where efforts have j in tfae day..PNew York Telegranl
LlOL UCCU UJttUC LU vjvj J www a
torn of it. Trad is known to have been . Tllo FaI, Bollets.
there fully 150 years how much longer ! tQ6 fashionaUe fall woman
no man Knows, as 11 men, , , upproachim? you wonder if she is wear
ing to pioneer tradition, as much a mat- j & CTown Q her head Her hat i8
ter of mystery and antiquity as at pres- j of ft a, tnat looks burnished
ent. ! 0j(j or polished brass. It sets closely to
If the lead prospector chooses to con- j heaJ -n front( aml extends upward
sider it of no value to him, he may re- ; ftg .f u were . tQ eud or rathel.
gard it as one of the places where the j k Qff intQ the re&nlation top for a
Norsemen, poking out this way from , CIwn But she isn't wearing any such
Newport ana tne vicinuy oi . mark er shjj &i . t on
paused to bake beans, ix ne is incuneu b- aud u arin it- not for
I the purpose of . astonishing the natives,
but simply because it is fashionable. If
I she is a very fashionable woman she has
: had a piece of her dress material let into
the top of. her Varnished gold hat, and
! at the wry bac-i; ! tlie wholf affair she
' has cause a whole field of brass daisies
I to be fastened upright, so thai they nod
j npon their wiry stems and wave to and
' fro as their wearer walks or talks, bows
J or nods. New York Letter ' -
If he is
to be less skeptical he may do as tradi
tion says the early settlers did regard
it as the fouALation of a sort of Indian
crucible or furnace which served in part
as'a smelter for lead previous to the in
troduction of firearms on this continent,
and for purposes unknown. Plum (Pa.)
Cor. Philadelphia Press. :
He Had Chanio.
" Tramp Have you change for half a
dollar?
ti1rmon Voa Where's the half What He Would !
dollar? - - Isabelle If you loved Tom Barry as i.
Tramp 1 haven't any, Jjut I thort if i much as I do- wouldn't you marry, him. j
you had change for a half dollar yon Uncle Dick? ; .'. - . . t
might have a dime er two fer a poor : Dncle Dick Nvl would not
man wot's seen better days. All the gents : Isabrlle Why not?
I have asked fer help said they hadn't Uncle Dick 1 should prefer to marry i
any change. Good News. : . a !r.3r. Life j
A Revelation.
Few people know tnat the
bright bluish-green color of
the ordinary' teas exposed in
the windows is not the nat
ural color. Unpleasant as the
fact may be, it is nevertheless
artificial; mineral ' coloring
matter betnsr used for this
purpose. The effect is two
fold. It not only makes the
tea a bright, shiny green, hut also permits the
ase of " off-color " and worthless teas, which,
once under the green cloak, are readily
worked off as s good quality of tea.
An eminent authority writes on this tub
Ject: "The manipulation of poor tecs, to b1vo
them a"flner appearance, is carried on exten
sively. Green teas, being in this ccuntry
especially popular, are produced to meet tho
demand by coloring cheaper b'.ack ki::ds by
glazing or facing with Prussian blue, tuTT.enr. .
gypsum, and iudigo. This method is to gen
eral that very little genuine untolored green tea
is offered for tale." '
It was the knowledge cf this condition 1 1
affairs that prompted the placing of Ileecirn
Tea before the public It is absolutely pin a
and without color. Did you ever seo any
. genuine uncolored Japan tea T , Aek your
grocer to open a package of Beech's, and you
will see it, and probably for the very first
time. It will be found in color to be junt be
tween the artificial green lea that yon have
' been accustomed to aad the black tea.
It draws a delightful canary color, aud is so
fragrant that It will be a reve!r.!on to tea
drinkers. Its purity makes It also mors
economical than the artificial tea.;, for le
of It is required per cup. Soldocly ia pound
packages bearing this trade-mark; ; i
BEECI
If your grocer does not have It, he will ge
It for you. Price 60o per pound. For sale at
Lioslio Butler's,
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The entire stock of N. Harris consisting of General Dry
Goods, Clothing, Boots and Shoes, Hats, Caps, and
Gents' Furnishing Goods will be sold at
; Auction to the highest bidder for
cash in hand.
Sales held evety night eommeneing ,at 7 o'eloek.
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