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HIIXSBORO, WASHINGTON COUNTV, OREGON, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER ji, 1902.
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I.-What Is a Tree?
T
REE8 in our country are for
tunately ao common as al
moat to paaa without defini
tion. Everybody knows a tree
and knows all about it too. At leant
be thinks bo doen. IIo knows that a
tree has an erect persUtent stem, wlde
epreadlntr or deep U.Hoondliig roots,
waving, fur extending brunches and
abundant leaves, canting In summer a
grateful shade, lu autumn falling. IIo
knows that treea, some of them at
least, bear flowers and fruits nnd seed,
reproducing the leeles "after theU
kind." This much everybody knows,
and these indeed are some of the pa
tent, obvious features of a tree. Ner
erthclcHS, as may be suspected, this Is
only an outnhlo or surface view of the
subject. When we come to Inquire
how the tree comes to bo what It Is,
how It does all tho things that we see
It do, how It pushes the roots through
the hard ground where a plow can
hardly go, how the leaves elnlmrate Its
food, how It builds stem and bnrk and
branch and carries pound after pound,
ton after ton, nwny up Into the. air,
bow It endures whllo living summer's
drought aud winter's cold, not for a few
years, but yeur "after year, for centu
ries-and centuries -when wo Ix'jilu to
Transverse Section of a Maple Twig
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bium Line,
think of trees in this way, It Is plain
that all our surface knowledge counts
but little. Wo are In the presence of
mechanism of wonderful efUcleney,
but also of great complexity, whose
delicate adjustments may tax the cun
ning of the wisest.
Now, In a few short diopters which
constitute this course a complete an
swer to the problem of the tree or
even n complete statement of It Is
certainly not to Ik? expected. We may
perhaps study the problem in some of
Its simpler asiiects, learn little of
the structure of a tree, of Its history,
aud more ftf Its utility and exceeding
value to enlightened uiea and nations.
Perhaps the most striking peculiarity
of the tree Is Its persistence. ' Other
plants grow, send up steins and leaves
and flowers, begin many. of the thlugs
done by the tree, but theso presently
perish, survive few months or years
at most and arc gone. Only plants of
the tree type seem able to accumulate,
to carry forward the work of life and
make. each year contributory to life's
perennial triumph. Fortunately this
particular property of the tree, taking
things as hcy ore, admits of compara
tively simple explanation. We find the
explanation In so far In the tree'a struc
ture. Just as In the case of any mech
anism we may study the ports and Ami
o'lt bow they work and so understand
the machine. If we make a thin cross
section of tbe stem of a small tree and
Iny the section under the lens of a nil
croscope, we shall see something llk
that shown In the accompanying Illus
tration, which Is Indeed from photo
graph of such section.
Here the. whole section seems made
p of UtUo rings. Tbe early observers
thought tl?se rings looked like a sec
tion of a honeycomb and accordingly
colled them cells. At glance we per
ceive that tbe rings or .cells are not
!ik,e. They differ greatly In size and
stupe. A second glance shows ns that
the cells fall easily Into groups which
form together a circle around within
the margin. The cells which make up
this band or circle are In tho growing
tree, all living cells and all active, each
In its own way. Within the limits as
signed os her w may not couslder
themvall, but must pay attention to ths
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narrow band, marked C In tbe figure.
It Is to those tiniest but ever living cells
that the tree of the forest owe II
character, its long enduring vigor. Be
ing living cells, these can grow, and by
their peculiar way of growing they ac-
couiplisb three things they lie between
bark and wood, and all tbe time in th
growing season those on tbe outside be
come transformed into cells that inak
up the cortex, ultimately the bark, and
are added to its-inner surface; those oe
the Inside are In a similar way pass'Inf
over Into the form of the cells of or
dinary wood, either to form wood ds
novo or to bo added to ttie wood at
ready In position; the. middle cells of
the band simply divide and divide and
so keep up a perennial supply of cells
of such plastic sort. Uere is the secret
of tho tree's endurance and of its in
crease in thickness, for we must re
member we are studylug a cross sec
tion of the tree, taken anywhere, and
we must therefore conceive these tluy
cells to form a living sheath cover! ug
tho whole tree, lying between bark and
wood. In spring we very easily pull
tho bark from a living tree a willow,
for Instance tbe separation occurring
In tbe plane of this living but proper
tlonatcly delicate cell layer. This liv
ing, active luyer has long been named
the cambium. We ahull refer to it
again.
But let ns look at our section again.
We may discover still another pecul
iarity. Tbe border cells arrange them
selves In groups, with slight intervals
between. Tho cells of these Intervals
are continuous with the large cells of
tbe middle, with the pith, or medulla.
They may be regarded as at first part
of the medulla. They form the medul
lary rays. They build as they grow
vertical plates radiating outwardly
from the center of tbe tree. At first
the plates are comparatively few, but
as growth proceeds tbe primary rays
re continually re-enforced by others,
originating Indeed 1n tbe persistent
ranibium and Intercalated between
those already formed until their num
ber, as may be seen In any bit of
i wood, as ook, becomes very great.
Split a piece of such wood, and the
medullary plates appear and shine,
railed by the artisan "silver grain."
Let us now recapitulate the struc
tures of tho stem as we have studied
them. In the center of our section
lies the medulla, or pith, bounded on
tbe outer side by a ring of forming
wood. Next to this outwardly lies tbe
cambium, beyond which, again, is the
cortex, the forming structures of tbe
bark. The elements of bark and wood
are gathered plainly into groups, and
Intervening ' between these several
groups, intercepting what would be
otherwise a continuous arc, occur tho
medullary rays.
(Copyright, IMS, by Lewis D, Sampson.
Tress as Air Purifiers.
F. Schuyler Mathews in a recently
issued work on "Familiar Trees and
Their Leaves" says: "The greatest
sphere of usefulness which a tree oc
copies Is counected with Its life. It Is
a great air purifier. It absorbs from
tho atmosphere the carbonic acid gas
which is poisonous to us. It holds and
slowly dispenses moisture which the
pa relied air needs. It gives out the oxoue
(or oxygen In an active electro nega
tive condition) which is particularly
conducive to our health and It modifies
beat which would otherwise be over
powering. Step into tbe thick woods
from au open space on a very hot day,
and Immediately relief is experienced
from the Intense beat This is not
wholly tbe result of shade furnished
by the trees. Much of It proceeds from
tbe modification of tbe air through tbe
breathing of tbe tree leaves.
"I have estimated that a certain sug
ar maple of large proportions which
grow near my' cottage puts forth In
one season about 432,000 leaves. These
leaves combined present a surface to
sunlight of about 21,000 square feet,
or an area equal to pretty nearly half
an acre. Every Inch of tbla expanse
breathes In life for tbe tree and out
kcalth for man, while It absorbs In
the aggregate an enormous amount of
heat and sunlight."
Washington Beautified.
The city of Washington baa sot a
good example to American municipal
ities In the matter of tree planting.
Within its limits there are now no lees
than Mo.isil shade trees, and It Is no
rieceesory to dwell on tbe added beau
ty thry lend to the place. Farta has
an even greater number, and It Is said
that M.r) Is expended annually by
the latter city in the car of them aud
lo tbe setting out of new ones. Every
stn-et of a certain width Is entitled to
a row of trees on either side and every
street of a certain greater width to a
double row.
THE ASTHtmUE BTKIklt ITS
EOCliL EttECTS.
The anthracite coal area Is 4 S3
square miles. .Upon Ibis territory
about 400,IHKI pertiou are directly de
pendent upon the analog Industry
for thdir subsistanrr; another 200,000
are Indirectly dependent upon It aud
were necessarily affected by there-
cent strike. Among this group of
C0O.OO0 souls industrial war prevailed
for nearly six months, ltie wages
of 110,000 uiloe employees, which
aggregated a monthly average ol
over three and a half millions of dol
lars, were rut off. ' The wholesale
houses beard thejuin of battle from
afar, and in the spring restrain! the
activity of their ageuts and watched
development Conservative busi
ness men who saved from live to ten
per rent, on., their purchases by buy
ing early in the season withheld their
orders. The hotels where commer
cial tiavelers stayed lost fifty per
c-3nt. of their .traocieut trade, The
backs found a considerable falling off
!q tbe deposits. Over the hardware,
clothing, Jewelry, furniture, and dry
good stores hung a depressing sense
of Impending calamity. Before hos
tilliawere declHred.au ominous de
pression in business circles tlnough
out the anthracite coal fields pre
vailed. .May 12 proved how well
these men had read the signs of the
times. An army of about 140,000
producers did not rescind that morn
ing to the gongs which sounded at
the. four hundred colliers. . The ttrug-
gle was or, and Hume men who bad
wetclud t lie development of affairs
since 19110 felt In their hearts that It
was to lie a costly, stubborn, and
protracted one.
Society in the strike letritory was
divided iuto two hostile camp', and
tbe line of cleavage was along the
an.tngiiui.-tic Interests of capital and
labor. Mine suierintuudeuts, fore
men, clerks, diid some favorite min
ers id all about Dve thousand
strong . were on the side of tbe opera
tors. - Th rank ami BU' u,ine eio-
pteyeen were on. t lie other side. The
mert-hauif, from business considera
tions, held their (M'uce. Professional
men of influence were diaemt, but
their conservatism anil pecuniary in
terests inclined them to the side of
the operators more than to that of
the men. The clergy, cautious and
timid, could not prevent the spirit of
fiction frrnu entering the churches.
A few were outspoken, but the rank
and file of our spiritual leaders were
silent and prayed for peace.
Soon alter the strike was declared
family and social bonds were scveied.
For the first month mine workers
migrated In large numbers from alt
anthracite communities. We had
over thirty thousand young wiav
bachelors in our towns and villages.
Hundreds of these packed their
trunks, carried them to tbe depot,
and left for either fatherland or else
where in quest of work. If any one
Imagines that the Slavs are not sus-
ceplable lo the tiea of sympathy and
fellowship, be should have teen these
people at the depots. They kissed
each other farewell, tbe departing
lingered on tbe platform of the train
and waved good-by, and strong men
turned their tiers to brush off the
falling tesr. Some left stealthily.
They owed hill and feared attach
ment. There were men at the depot
watching the migrating ones. Tbe
tax-collector was theie. Merchants
who had information that their cred
itors were leaving bad constables
attach the guods in the depot. I saw
one of tbeser debtors brought before a
Justice of the peace. The man was
passive, but the wife argued her ease
with such effect Ibat two dollars were
taken off the costs. The bill was
paid, and as the woman left, the con
stable said, "She's n holy terror."
The only persons kept busy for the
first month of the strike were ticket
agents, constables, ami justices of the
peace. One of this last class said in
June, "Business is gmal, I've taken
in over five dollars, day for the last
month."
The English speaking mine em-
ployees did not leave in troops, as
did I he Hie s. Many families of them,
however, have left these coal fields.
In the towns of Mahanoy ami Shen
andoah houses were very scarce tie-
fore the strki; lo-day Ihecaad "For
rent' is seen in every street, lew
are the Koglish-speaking . families
throughout the anthracite regions
which have not been broken up.
Young men and women were quick
to see the economic pressure wbldi
would fall upon the family, and to
stay It as long m possible, tbey took
their departure for the cities of New
York and Philadelphia, or to the
lift coal fields. The boys made he
roic sacrifices. Mooey was scarce.
Tbey would board a freight train aod
take a "Johnny Mitchell excursion'
to some distant point. Th cities of
Eistoo, Alletitown, New York, Phil
adelpbia, etft , were soon glutted with
cheap labor. The boys begged tbei
food and tramped in quest of work
Tbe Philadelphia and Heading Kail
way Company found it necessary to
put a stop to Illegal car-rldiDg. The
incoming trains were stopped on the
bridge crossiog tbeSusquehanua Kiv
er before entering the city of Phila
delphia and the transgressors arrest
ed. I asked a mother, whose young
est Bon, twenty years of age, bad left
home, "Have you heard from Rich
ard?" "No," she said, "he's been
gone now ten days, and I haven't
beard a word." The boy and twen
ty-ulue others were arrested on the
bridge aud sentenced to ten day Im
prlsoniueut. The boy bravely served
his seolence, and savod his mother
from worry by not telling her of his
misfortune. These young men who
dig anthracite coal show a, delicacy
of feeling and fi'lnl tenderness wor
thy of a Coriolauus. One of them
le It for Philadelphia and got work
there. He regularly sent money to
his mother: but that was not euough;
she wanted to see her boy. He de
layed coming uutil a week ago, and
said, "I lost thirty pounds from July
to August. I knew 'mam' would
worry if she saw me. In the last
month I've gained fifteen pounds."
This breaking up of family tics be
cause of the strike Is a fuct seJdom
mentioned, but privation and hunger
do not rend the heart as this does. 1
have seen young girls from sixteen
to eighteen years of ago leaving home
because tbe family's income was cut
off. Can any heart tell what It
means for those to go into a ft range
cily to try to eke out a Buhsistance?
( ne of these, seventeen years of age,
left for . All her mother tould
gather was enough money to buy a
half-fare ticket. The girl didn't have
another cent, aud wa- scantily clad
8he slrpt the first night with iriends
In the city, and on the following
morning looked for work. She got
it, and earned $3. .10 a week, liefore-1
tbe month was up she came home,
her shoes woru aud lorn, aud her
clothing la a dilapidated condition.
She was a girt of strong moral cour
age, and she came home.
Hut not only does industrial con
flict drive men and young women
from home, it als'i disturbs social
eaco at home and wis brother
against brother and family against
family. Two men who left their
mother country together, shared the
same bed, and divided equally their
earnings, are today enemies they
will not exchange the time of day.
One of them weut lo work, and the
other called him "scab." Tbla op
probrious epithet sticks and stings
most virulently. When uttered It
means social ostracism, and for it
there is no remedy. There is a sin
as grievous as "scabbing" in the eth
ical code of thess workers. Half a
dozen women, metnberaof the ladies'
aid society of one of the chuaches,
were talking of non-union workers,
when one of them said, "I could look
at 'scabs hanged," aud the otl.ers
echoed her sentiment. To what ex
tent this feeling carries men was il
lustrated in Ltngford. Sharpe, a un
ion man, who was shot by a deputy,
had a fuoeral such as was never wit
teased ta that town. All tbe union
men from the mining villages came
to pay the last tribute of respect to
one whom they considered a martyr
for the cause. The union leaders r
were In charge, ami the procession
was solemn and Impressive. A few
weeks after, a non-union Hungarian
who worked was accidently killed.
On the day of the funeral the under
taker could not get a man to remove
his remains from Ihe house to the
funeral car. His fellow-countrymen
said. Him die a scab, him bury a
scab," and to a turn they kept away
from Ihe funeral.
The families of the men who
worked are subject to social ban.
Some men left Laraweua County,
where they would not work, and
rame lo Schuylkill to seek employ
ment. They worked where they
were not known, nnd kept closely
wllhin tbe slorkade of the colliery.
If their neighbors at home learned
that they were working elsewhere in
theso coal fields, Ihe lives of their
wives and children were soon made
misral.le. It meanliat9trac4sin.
Three wives came from Luzerne
County to Schuylkill lately In quest
of their husbands. They said they
could not stand It longer, and re
solved either to stay at the colliery
with their husbands or to go borne
together. The childreu of those who
worked were subjected to Insults, and
many ti-iticuffa were the result. One
young man whose father worked lu
soother section w&s badly beaten in
a fight. His mother said, '.'Wby
didn't you let them alone to say what
they would?" No, mam," he said;
"I wasn't goiog to let Iheiu speak
dirt about pap." Little children
would not play with "scab" children,
and most pathetic was it to hear a
child say, "I'll be Johnny Mitchell
man only let mo pluy." Women
anxious to live ineaee were insulted
by their neighbors if their husbands
worked. Innuendoes, sneers, oblo
quies, aie weapons which hurt, and
up civil or military power can save
the victim. A family moved from
one part of town to another a week
ago, anil the mother said, "I couldn't
stand It any longer; those women are
terrible." The landlord said, "I'm
glad they're gone. 1 don't want
dynamite here Wause of scabs. "
When the Eighth Hoglment was
called out on the night of July 30,
antagonism between men residing in
the same town was still further In
tensified. Many mine employees
who were loyal union men belonged
to that regiment. Each one's soul
was racked by conflicting duties
the Stale versus the union but, to
the credit of the yeung men bo it said,
not one of them fulled lo respond to
the midnight summons. No one
willeverknow what Mas tho sacri
fice these boys made when they
obeyed the Oovernor's call to arms.
Oue hesitated and SHid, "Pit run
away, mother." "Fred, no; Will,
your brother, was no coward." Will
had died In (hePiiillipines, and Fred
weut lo the armory that night. As .
the callers went from house to house
where their coinradesJived, the strik
ers soon learned their mission and
gathered in large companies near the
armory. Each member as he came
was hooted and vilified. A young
lad left his homo, and lmmldistely his
parents heard the crowd yelling.
They feared violence, and both of
tboin, barefooted and scantily clad,
ran to protect the sou and accompany
him to the armory. As one company
left the armory their companions and
neighbors called them "scabs." It
was too much for one of tbe soldiers;
he stepped from the ranks and struck
one of the vllltlers a mow wnicn
floored him. The soldiers who are
union men may be excommunicated
from the union. Many of them will
leave the tympanies as soon as pence
is restored. One this class said, "To
think of shooting down my follow
workmen is terrible. No more for
me as soon as this is over." Troops
from a distance are not so rent by
cjoflctlng scntimeuls. They cm
calmly speak of shooting a mine em
ployee, and joyously exhibit the but-
( ts which would lay low Ihe Slavs.
The troops will not tolerate the cut
ting epithet ol "scab." The troops
stand no "foollu;." Men grew of late
more careful in loading them with
reproach. In one of our towns sev
eral were prosecuted for calling men
scabs." The word was dropped,
but the strikers' sentiment suffered no
change, and now the offender is dif
ferentiated by saying, "There he
goeS there he got!" A soldier on
horseback was on a street of one of
our towns when he heard the word,
"Scab! scab!" He. Instantly turned
his horse, dismounted and looked for
the culprit. lie returned crestfallen
amid the laughter of seclators, for
the criminal was a parrot which lie-
onged to one of the miners.
Not for a generation will the en
mities and hatred-engengored by this
strike die away. Industrial peace is
n sight, but it will not bring peace
to the men who stood by the opera
tors in this emergency. The famil
ies which have suffered reproach In
the last few months will not be res
tored to favor. Social ostracism will
remain when the troops are gone and
coal produced. A troop of young
men standing on the street corner in
Hhenando.th discussed tho treatment
of "scabs" when the collieries re
sumed. "Yes," said one of them,
"we'll tend to them good," and any
one familiar with the mines knows
what that means. A young lad on
Ihe HaZ -Itoo mountains calmly out
lined a scheme whereby the "scab"
could lie blown to pieces by powder.
The lot of these men who exercise
their natural ri'ht to work; will be a
sad one for msoy days t come. No
foreman will be able to protect I hem
from Iho hatred of the union men.
The financial loss to our communi
ties because of tho strike was great,
but that will In a few years be made
good. The burning rancor, the un
compromising hostility, the rending
asn oder of ties of friendship, the so-
cial ostracism, the opprobrious epl
thets these remain. Time ts a heal
ing hand, but death alone, will cure
these wouods. Hero in our towns
these irritated and enraged men will
continue to live, aud so strong is their
hatred that iu social, political, indus
trial, and it-liglous life they will Dev.
er let pass an opportunity to "do"
their mail. Should not this lameut
able condition of affairs, dun to In
dustrial conflict, couut for something
in the eyes of the world's men of act
ion, Of thought? The Thirty Years'
War scotched the progress of society
lu (lermnny for fifty years. A six
months' industriul war leaves, our
communitlis in a state of material,
intellectual, and moral confusion
which will need many years ol
patient work to set in order. P. Q. It.
iu Outlook.
KWS 01' THE HTATK.
The foot ball team of tho Oregon
Agricultural College defeated the
McMinnville (College last Friday by
a score of ft.'i to 0.
Mrs. Frauds Fuller Victor, a well
known historical writer, author of
the Hiver of the West Jos. Meek's
biography died in Portland Friday
morning last, aged, 70 years.
Plans are being arranged for hold
ing a.hig poultry show In Newberg
in January. From five to six hundred
birds are already In sight for the
show and a fine exhibition Is expect
ed.
A colony of about 100 beavers has
been found in the Cascade Mountains
ou the head waters of a stream that
flows east into the Deschutes. The
good suggestion is msde that the gen
eral government protect them. Tbe
f.fkloitr Id nrtt fur frnm llrAlor ImIta
i t...... j . . i . . w . .... . . u I . . . h . v. a
and would make a fine setting for
the uutional park,
Tho new group of copper mines at
Al house, Josephine County, in the
Orayb'ack Mountain, which werj lo
cated last year by Messrs.- Babcoclc
and Kitterman, are under develop
iri.nt and give promise of being the
bet copper producers In the stile.
These mines are only a few miles
Iroin the wondorfull Josephine caves.
The. plans, for the new Baptist
church to replace the building des
troyed by the Are last summer, have
been completed and the work of
building will be begun In a short
time. The new church will bo a
very handsome structure and has
many point's of improvement, both
in apiieArance and arrangement over
the former building.
The Three Sisters Canal Company
has Died iu the ofllce of the State
l.nd iioard an application for eon
tract for Ihe reclaiming of 30,000 acr
cs of arid laud lying In Ihe western
part of Crook County, The tract Is
located between the mountains known
as the Three Sisters and the Deichutes
River. State Engineer Oeorge L,
Uiilmau will go aud examine) the
land this week. It is projswed to ir
rigate with water from tributaries of
the Deschutes. Albany Herald.
Ex-Superintendent of Public In
struction Jrwin, late of this stale is
under arrest at Juneau Alaska charg
ed with malfeasance in ofllce. He is
U. S. Commisloner there and has
Jurisdiction of criminal actions at one
stage af their trial. Two attorneys
charge that he illegally appropriated
to his ow n use a large amount made'
up of sums ranging from tl to f 10 on
criminal cases which came before
him lor trial. In order to do this
'OcccHsfuily, the complaint stts, the
accused falsi fled certain records and
mutilated others. Up to the present
time Ihe accused has borne an excel
lent reputation.
II. M. Watson has sued the Tilla
mook Headligh for libel placing the
damages at fiooo. This is the libel
ous paragraph that is the cause of the
action : "We would suggest that the
new newspaper tie called Ihe 'ltaby
Act Uraft,' and should give a graphic
account of Watson's last bout ith
his wife, going home drunk, running
into debt and horiowing money from
his son in-law, an honest, hard-working
hoy. aud suddenly skipping out
without paying the same; also the
tight place Walsiu louod himself in
when lie had to clear out of Elina or
commit suicide, w hicli he threatened
to do. Tins reliable facts will n,ake
theMUi.y Act Graft' exceedingly In
teresting to those who allow the man
who has guziled whiskey enough to
float the Hm II. Elmore lo Up them
again. We have a spark of sympathy
however, lor Watson, for It Is distress
ing to sec a man at enmity with his
own relatives and headed for the asy
lum."