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About The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 7, 1900)
JUST COMMON FOLKS, If only sweetest bells wei rung" How we should miss the minor chimes K only grandest poetn sung, There'd be no simple Uttle rhymes; The- modest clinging vine adds grace To all the forest's giant oaks, And 'mid earth's mighty U a place To people with just common folks. , Not they the warriors who shall wla Upon the battlefield a name -To sound the awful ilin: Not theirs the painter's deathless fame; i.oi ineirs me poet s muse mat rings The rhythmic gift his soul Invokes; . Theirs but to do the simple things ,, That duty gives just common folks. ' Fate has not lifted them above. The level of the human plane; They share with men a fellow love In touch with pleasure and with pain. One great, far-reaching brotherhood, With And common wrongs and common good j " jr. - ... ... uou s army or just common folks. TWO POOR BOYS WHO MADE ',:: - : : their marks in the world. An Unconscious Matchmaker. m , MAR US DALY'S MONEY. Capital represented by him. .$ 100,000,000; ,0 tell me, old fellow, how on ) earth It Is possible for such a metamorphosis to have taken plnce. Not a month ago we sat here, two hardened but lie I org, determined to remain so to the end of our days, and now I find you transformed Into a most devoted husband." " " ' ' A hearty laugh was the Immediate answer to this outburst, and DiC Tren ton, to whom It was addressed, took a puff at his pipe before replying, r - "Well, you see, JlnC be Bald, -'I thought It would be fun to surprise you thoroughly for once. But Delia shall tell you the story, and you max be sur prised to learn that, you yourself, un consciously, I admltiunde; up Jhj match." "I suppose It Is for penance, Will, that I am to narrate mf own mistakes nd misdeeds to Mr, Allison. Two months ago I was a stupid little coun try girl. f My eldest brother had sent for me to keep bis house, Our parents have been dead many years and I had lived with an aunt. Henry, my brother, had written.me that It would be Impos sible for him to meet me at the depot, and that. I should drive to the Tudor Flats, where he was living on the fourth floor. My poor brain was cer tainly In a whirl after my long drive through the, noisy streets. Wben I -arrived at the Tudor, Flats. I walked bravely up the tain. ' . ' J "I know you will laugh at me dread fully, Mr. Allison, but you must remem ber that I had never before seen so many stairs. In my Ignorance J. was unaware that the entresol does not count; therefore, when I arrived at a landing where a door was ajar and an eld rnaii servant replying to an Inquirer the the doctor wouldnot be home until 2 o'clock, I naturally concluded that I had reached niy. Journey's end, for my brother also bears the title doctor, to old James' astonishment I walked calmly In, saying: . ' ' 'The; doctor expects me. Please have my luggage seen to ',,' . ' "; nut, uihs, I don't know,' ,he ven HENRY VlLLARD'S DEEDS. Re.wrted the Lincoln-Douglas debates Reported the Brut Lincoln campaign. War correspondent, the Civil War. Foreign correspondent of American newspapers. IB ISfil owned Nfw York E renins Post and Nation. In 1875 Dresidi-nt Oiwon RteamKhln Company. Iteceiver . of Kansas-- Pacific Railroad Company. Completed la 1S33 the Northern Purine Itailroad. President Northern Pacific Rnll Company. ' "- ' President Edisoii Dcuraat uiertric tJom pany. ... , Chairman In 1SS9 of the Northern P. clfic directory, i " , u . Marcus Daly graduated from digging potatoes to' digging copper and accumu lated a fortune of $50,000,000. Henry Villard rosev from reporter to railroad president, became a Napoleon of finance, lost two enormous fortunes, and died, a millionaire. , y v , ,. His pergonal wealth Copper Interests represented First price paid for his cop per mine His annual wage roll paid. . His horses cost His works of art cost. ...... His private car cost. ,.... His hotel cost. .. His personal living cost per annum ; His annual Income was ap proximately 2,500,000 22,000,000 75,000,000 35,000 8,000,000 : 1,000,000 W,000 40,000 200,000 6,000 DESTROY Bit TREES. CALIFORNIA GIANTS ARE RUTH LESSLY cut Down. Neceiaarjr Waitt of Lumbering Mam moth Over Fifty Per Cent ForeUrjr IVp.rtmcat Demanl That Effort Be MaJe to Save Few KemainlnK Groves. " Gifford I'lnchot, United States fores ter, hag issued a pamphlet concerning the biir trees of California which has created no little comment through its endeavors to state clearlv and emDhat Ically the necessity for the preservation or tue Ualifornla mammoths. The writer crotests azalost the rate at which the big trees are being destroyed by private owners, pointing out clearly that the chances of a renewal of the wonder growths are to be little consid ered. , f 'Most of the scattered groves of big trees are privately owned and, there fore, in danger of destruction," he writes. "Lumberinz Is rsnldlv sweeo lng them off; forty mills and logging companies are now at work wholly or in part upon Die tree, timber. The southern groves show tome reproduc er women and for helDless thlnes. writes "An American Mother" In the Ladles' Home Journal "He has usu ally, too, a wide acquaintance' with the world which hinders him from intoler ance and vanity. He has also a tact too flue to blurt out unpleasant facta to his companions, as doe's the English man, who, quite unprovoked, hurls dis agreeable truths at you with a ferocity and a gusto that Is Indecent A week with your dearest English friends Is enough to make you In love with lying. The dearer you" are to" them the nibrt Hkely are they to talk Incessantly of the mole on your nose, or your vulirar kinsfolk. .The American had'al vivacity almost French: he gives himself easily to the occasion: he is ready to weep and laugh with you, and Is sJJJcerely Inter ested In, your new bicycle or baby. At the same time he has something of the phlegm of the Asiatic, and seldom frets pr grumbles. , He sniffs the odors of foul drains, quaffs typhoid germs In his water, sits In overheated steam cars and stands In overcrowded street ears year afteryear with Imperturbable good humor. ' -: :' ! : V. "V .v,'' "Why, with all these qualities why Is he not a more agreeable fellow? Why, with all the traits that to make up a courtly geuilemnn why Is he vulgar? Simply because he la not certain of his ytLLINO A BIG, TKKK. aa ottlces It would be wrecked In five or alx years. Those who have no ex perience with public buildings or with tion, through which there Is hope of perpetuating , these .. groves. ,.Ja, .the northern groves the! species ; hardly holds its own." , Iff Introducing a history, of the big trees, with facts Concerning each of the groves now existing, the writer says: "At the present time the only, grove thoroughly safe from destruction Is the Mariposa and this Is far from being the most interesting. ' Most of the other groves are either In Drocess of or in , danger of being logged. The very finest m .it In , 8. A., In urging the adoption "o'riMri. Harrison's plans 'for enlarging the house, in the Ladles' Home Journal. "One plea therefor, has been that' the historic building should be left as It Is. This is certainly to be insisted on. But It, Is said the mansion is too pure a piece of architecture to be marred by additions,.,, This, however, is a specious argument, since the original design con templated side additions, and If tua building In Its present state were used '"f TlPtL f 3t as ottlces It would be wrecked in B".tbe Calaveras grove, with the available means. The fragments of logs blown apart In this way are not ouly often of wasteful shapes, but un less very nice Judgment Is exercised In preparing the blast a great deal of wood Itself Is scattered In useless splin ters." "At the mill, where waste Is the rule in the manufacture of lumber in the United States, the big tree makes no pYcpntlnrt This waste, added as it Is to the other sources of loss already men tioned, makes a total probably often considerably In excess of half the total volume of the standing tree, and this Is only one side of the matter. "The big tree stands as a rule In a mixed fnpeat cmnnnspri of many SDe- cles. The result of sequoia lumbering upon this forest Is almost ruinous. The destruction caused by the fall of enor mous trees Is In Itself great, but the principal sourse of damage Is the Im mense amount of debris left on the ground the certain source of future fires. This mass of broken branches, trunks unit hark, la nftpn five or six Or more feet In thickness and necessarily gives rise to fires of great destructive nower. even though the big tree wood Is not specially inflammable. The devas tation which follows this lumbering is WK AT A ROORBACK IS MR. DOODLESAP EXPLAINS TO LITTLE FRANCIS. Owing to Difficulty in Giving the Lad a Correct lmpreaalon He Relates a Harrowing Domestic Experience ol Bccent Occurrence. s "Pa," said little Francis, "what's a roorback?" , "Well" Mr. Doodlesap replied, 1 don't know as I can explain It so you U understand exactly, but may be you can get an Idea of what It is rroui a m- tle story I'll tell you. About two weeas r o frnm fl ladV WUO ago 1 mcitcu a itnv . asked If I could get her a half-fare tick et on a certain railroad. Before an swering her or taking any step In the matter I thought 1 would tell, your mother about It. So. when 1 came home from the office that, evening I said to your mother, says I: ' " 'Mamma, I got a teller iroui a mu to-day who wants me to get her a half ra;e railroad ticket She knows I have opportunities to do this, and I suppose . . i a. 1I .,n ilia biggest and tallest trees, the niost un- contaminated surroundings and prac- this building In particular, have no con " 3 l "terary and scientific as ceptlon of the wear and tear o p2 l0CatIts f the species connected with dent's ofUce. It surpasses thaf on any Phased recently by a other office .n-thotrntry. riitJ Executive Mansion was Hchtlv h,,.w i r " and .Is already expensive to keen nWn.i " u eneral Grant Na proper repair. Its floor beams . not hZ. "l Ch "f6 8UPl'8ed t0 em" strorig enough ' to endure office use ' Ji,?."4 g':'et "f" iX a ,arge part Great difficulty has arisen , e past S "' "'"l''""'44'60 with- the .few. rooms ,nw used as tlS ZelVlT ' 1fd by pr'Vate President's executive offices, and great' f ",!Lt0 . ' ' . uw IDI Ul I 1 1 H uui, u"Mi uuu i auvw, ,ue veu- uwu iusiuuu. lie bhwl la uiiiisuu evtsrjr Hive i tured, 'I have the strictest orders never moment lest you may mistake him for reaul t , n 1 1 ... At.. nnA 4 ...... ... . ....... ..f .. n I ., 0 1 u f I M . I .. .. .. . I .. n I 1 , . . 1 1 . 1 is the exnliinatlon of all our bad man- lat ners. 'I'm as good as you!' Is the secret thought with whicl, too mauy of us meet every leiiow-creature." watchfulness has to be constantly ex erclsed. Several times the floors have threatened to break through. The stairs have already broken down, one flight berlng now supported bv a chain sum to remodel for office use only. th. I. " mflJOrl y. oT tbe blS 1 interior of our historic Executive Man- "amorn,a' cenam' ttM ; slon, would be not only a verv exnpn si ve scanty patches of big trees are In a fair way to disappear In Calaveras, Tuo lumne,' Fresno and Tulare' counties, they are now dlsappearlng-by the ax! In brief, the majority of the big trees of --------- . "i',--- - - . n m anil ilnnln.afilA n a f-fia 11 H . I . . t 1 . . .. 1. I U. . nn ..-111 1 a a VP ta touched forest Is. unparalleled, beautl- money as not if I would help her.' tui ana wormy or preservation. 'suow me mat letter, xom lioouic rule It has not even had the advantage ..ni" mnr mnthcr iitman(Iid. of belntr Drofltable. Very much of this , ut nut it in n nieeon-hnle In my appalling destruction has been done eB t0j ner or else I threw It In without leaving the owners of the big tDe waste basket. I don't remember tree as well off as they were before It which.' ". began." . , I "Well Franclsl your mother was not Keriea of Pampbtets to Be leaned, amused. She Informed me tnat tue The namnhlet which was nubllshed a- a m vv vuiiui nuv m itiivu v - by the forestry division of the Depart- a brazen thing, and wanted to know If ment of Agriculture is one or a series jja(i ever gepn her. I had. I told your which will be Issued in behalf of the mother so. In fact. I had known this big trees. The report was prepared for woman before your mother and I were the information of the Senate Commit- married Francis.. Your dear, fond tee on Puhllc T.nnda. which war at the Annr, .airmi ' uiutuci jujucu uf auu uvnu ovwu. time considering the preservation of the times, and said things to me that I am u i.auio.au ui ii going to try to rorget. i may not sue groves. It Is the first document on the w - - - VCCU IU Ullilg IUIO, UUt a AUJ guiug IU subject which has ever been published try. She told me that If I had not en- oy me government, strange as tne fact couraged the woman In some way she may seem. Prof. W. It. Dudley, of . n,.ito n p Stanford Ualverslty, who aided with ,s she did. I protested that I had nev the work, Is now preparing a more de- ,r to my knowledge, given her a word tailed account of the ble trees and tha . . . i . . vi ruuuiiiaKtrujeui ai leant uui biuuu big tree groves, which will be published your mamma and I have been husband by the government forestry office. The and wife. Before that I had tried to be pamphlet now out contains an excellent knd t0 her-had, In fact, done all In . , "l . . m wu- my power to win her favor. I admitted m uiuB uig ireeB, logeiuer wan a ae- thlfJ openly but ,t dd not geem to tauea account or eacn or tne larger strengthen or renew your mother's con g ' ; -' ' fldence In me. She denounced me as a ..-.,, e nDC, Tuinr. ' .sneak and a deceiver. She said she didn't believe I had told her half, and Pennie who Have RtnhhPH ThxiTn.. flatly Informed me that If I ever had Against Biff Fortune Unaware. -. any more to do with this Woman OUT "I dare say every great Invention, be- happy home would go to smash like a fore It is finally hit unon." remarked a Cold Storage egg upon the cheek of a New Orleans lawyer to a Times-Demo- political candidate, or words to that crat man, "has been within a hand's enect. , v . ...... ,.K .1 .. . ... l. I 41 'Ttnt mv rioai 1. caM trt ICttU HI UUiCUS Ul 111CU nUU UU- 1 - J a cm&.U IU JVUI UlUlU' aware how near they stood to fortune. er 'anppose that I get the ticket and There Is nothing more singular in fact Joxs sen t0 Der? There would be than the way people can skate around ntn'ng Improper about that.' some huge idea without seeing It vvnati your, dear mother an- "T haA on -!,,..( .in... nf tl.nl 1. 1 .1 flWPred. 'wnilld vnll null haii- nrlfa & muu uu wireiwiiw VI IU U 1. D.1UU , rfwv. aj.. ;vui ii I.. nnna ....... .,1 1 ''Tf nnA..HW.J A . 1. i flnnm iCk tllla lUNnn'n lairnll t .. .1 UUVC ill BCiLi It VtlUUvU IU U1V liiitl V " " ' ' " w " " l.wuu o It T tl. AlUi AUU revolving bookcase would be a handy y aall not get the ticket! f ou bring 1. 1 .. . . rt) nA .. J V 1 1 1 ,1. that lottui hmA n.nMHAn.t V .. 1 ill ill lui UiilUC UK, auu 1 UaU OIlc UUUI " i-,-' uvmc ivriuui I u n ( iuu uUUW to order. It proved a success, and on where It Is, and you know, too, that It to allow any one to enter my master's study during bis absence.' " 'I am the doctor's sister, and he him self arranged myt coming, I answered, condescendingly.'', ' v"" "With that he admitted me, mutter ing Never heard about a sister,' Into th smoky, dus-ty apartments, "which I assumed .to be my brother's. "Much to James' consternation, I set to work and dusted ' lurfilture' and books; spread a clean cloth on the table, and prepared a lunch (though James In formed me 'Master ne.ver eats at home') of fresh butter, home-made bread, cheese, bam and apples; then decorated the room with roses and honeysuckle brought from home. ; ; "To pass away the time, I took up a book andbegan to read. .A note fell out of this book. My eyes fell on the first words flml my attention was Instantly attracted. It was slgued Charlie Alli son, and read: " 'Dear Old Mnn: So yon have- decided to Install that awful creature In your house, though you acknowledge that all hopes of peace and comfort pf your life will be gone My dear fellow; do be ad vised and give up '. this preposterous Idea. At any rate, don't be surprised if I cut your acquaintance for the present, and leave' you to enjoy the company of Miss Delia. .Your friend, "CHARLIE ALLISON." "My dear lady," Interrupted Charlie, , "yu don't mean to say-It lsn'l pqssibla that any misunderstanding arose out of that? My dislike and " "I do mean to say so," she renllpd. laughing; "It was quite possible in deed, natural I should assume that those words referred to me. I was at first highly Indignant and then began to cry. My resolution was soon formed; I would go away at once and not ever see the heartless brother who had dis cussed me I.u. such a manner before my rival. , "Whllerepacklugmy bag I came upon a photograph of myself. A sudden Im pulse made me write a few woids on the back of It and leave It on the table. Then heard steps outside. It was Henry, I thought. He should not find me there.' Seeing the door of a small room open, I slipped ju and closed It behind me."' ' , - ;-i "Let me tell the rest," Interrupted the doctor; "I-fancied I was dreaming as I became aware of the Invitingly spread table; then I noted two covers laid as If for a delightful tete-a-tete, and upon my napkin a photograph of the sweet est face I had ever seen. Listen to what was written under it: "rAs I am so ugly; as I destroy yonr peace and drive away vour friend, i leave you to lunch alone and shall find a home elsewhere.' "While puzsliug about what this might mean, I heard a terrific yell from Delia, my parrot: I opened the store room door and Delia, my wife, fell Into my arms. fAfter explanations had been made I restored her to brother Henry as housekeeper, but claimed her In five weeks for my own. Now do you be lieve that you are a matchmaker?" Boston Post . The American I Vulgar.. "We must ail agree that the American h& beyond other men an luuate respect RUSHING INTO THE CITIES.' Young Men Invite Failure by Eisaj ing Untrie I Field. . Some" nubllshed fragments of the new census statistics are very depressing to the-old-fashloued. ret very sensible. people who have been hoping that the movement or viungers ana country peo- Dlo to the lai'28 cities had been checked ' What Is the meaning of the continu ous rush to the cities? The old expla nation was that farmers' sons and daughters wearied of work that was never mushed; they had heard of city demands for labor and of city wages, payable always In cash and at stated dates. They bad also heard of city pleasures, some of which were said to cost nothing, , while others were very cheap. . But young people do not con stitute the whole body of people who are crowding Into the cities, for., nm chanles and artisans of all kinds are in the throng, for In the villages and coun try districts employment Is Irregular and pay uncertain. The more asplr lug of them hope for the larger oppor tunltles and recognition that the coun try dares not promise: thev know, too, that such of their children as Incline to study may become fairly; even highly educated la the city without special cost to their parents. Of the. seamy' side of city life they Jtuow nothing for their acquaintances who "went to town" have not returned to tell of It few of them could return if thev would The few who go back to the old home steads are tbe uieu who have succeed ed, and In any village such a man In effect resembles a gold-laden miner from Cape Nome or the Klondike his example threatens to depopulate the town. Nevertheless the rural districts are not going to le depopulated, except when tneir sou is very poor and the! malaria overrlch.- A countryward movement started In some cities a few years ago and It has been Increasing In volume, It may be almost Invisible In some localities, for 3,XX),000 square miles Is an area so great that any city's overflow might be lost In It.' The men who are trying scientific farraiug are all from the cities and thev have car ried their city ideas with them. As rule, city brain "and city money are 8UEgestlng and backlug tbe rural at tempts to have good roads, pure wat er, perfect drainage, high farming, high-grade schools, free libraries and many other ameliorations of old-time conditions, let in one respect the city man In the country Is a disappointment to all classes of the dissatisfied, for when they talk of going to the city he persistently says. "Don't," and be sup ports his advice with a dismal array of facts and figures. Saturday Even ing Tost i "Whlto House la Rtraety. "In the plan for building k new house for the President elsewhere! than on the present site it has been proposed to pi Lalrbcek, Keswick, for the best in scription suitable for the proposed me dallion of John Ruskin In Westminster Abbey. Mr, Anderson's epitaph is as follows: '- ' He Tnut'ht Us j To Hold ' In Loving Ilovertnee : Poor Men and Their Work Great Men and Their Work - -: f God and His Work. ; In connection with this competition It Is Interesting to QUO to whn t Tf ii 1 In himself said on epitaphs:, "Take care mat some memorial la kpnt mon .), deserve memory In a distinct statement on the stone or brass of their tombs eitner that they were true r.mn nr wh eals wise men or fools. Ilnw iunnti. ful the variety of sepulchral archltec-. ture might be. In any eitensivp nio,.o of burial, If the public would meet the small expense of thus ernrptn it- opinions In a verily Instructive manner, and If some of the tombstones accord ingly terminated In fools' cans, and oth ers, instead of crosses n,i i,flM,,10 - : .. : , the approval of the-comitV; ai! W FJ WMffi Hkl ge." . - - 1 -it ."-tTIl I II Mm An Kpitaph for Raskin. J if tSj&r RvU The London Academy has awarded a f M . -JfmMJ Ize of one guinea to J. It. Aii.lprnn 1 -; fiT. r-Si 4WJ - . S-lf-lV I N;4r.ia LOGGING RAfLItOAD IN A BIG TREE FOREST. . them, are owned by people who have every right and In many cases every Intention, to cut them into lumber." cicntiuc Value of Big Tree. : Further along these same lines 'the value of the big tree is thus considered: "The big trees are unique in the world -the grandest, the oldest, the most ma jestically graceful trees-and if it were not enough to be all this, they are among the scarcest of known tree spe cies and have the extreme scientific val- ' e vuri uus. typical of the orobablP nJt Z. . 1 iue of belng the best livluK Presenta- tertainmeut In the next world of the ' mTI' gel0glC age- They persons not. t in t h ),.,. . "vx" "- .wuic uu io us below. - '. 'tpohing through the vicissitudes of many cen tunes soieiy necause of their superb Qualifications. The bark of the big tree several occasions I thought vageuly of having be device patented, but I dis missed the scheme as 'not worth wMi Nearly two years afterward a more in telligent gentleman up in New England hasn't been put in the waste basket Don t you come home to-morrow with out It!" " 'And,' says I to your mother, 'you won't reconsider about the ticket?' "I will not repeat the answer I re ceived, Francis. Your mother was firm In her decision that the ladv must r celve no further consideration from me. and so the matter was dropped until me next day, except that I received some woks which were calculated to make my clothes a great deal too big tor me. ' . - "Well, Francis, the next evening I brought home the letter. It was from your Grandma Paddleford, who wished to come ana pay us a visit, and thought I might send her the half-rate tlrkpt well as not. When your mother had reaa tne letter she was up against auoui me nearest th ne tn a rn..rh.i. tnat l am able to descrlbe,"-ChIcago Aijuca-acntiu. '" - i Russia's Pionppra The Cossacks are the arm.. na of Russia, while the moujlk is the back bone. The Cossacks won Siberia for nussia wnen they were tho Key to the Working-Girl's Success, Whatever vocation the d-i-i worker settles upon she mnv .n accept the fact, first as int shod performance and Inadequate equipment will win no favor, will not eveu secure a foothold," writes Marga ret B. Sangster In the Ladies' Home Journal. "The ranks are crowded, and the second-rate must go to the wall. In most um- ..... supply Is well In excess of the demand and ouly the capable, the emVi put ' competent and the trustworthy n. hope to find their niche. As oi.. satisfaction let It be nddvd that n,,o possessed of . these desirable qualities those who are ready for Krvi.p o.i are responsible In their work, are sure to De appreciated and will never cease to be wanted." Barter. I should like to subscribe to mnr paper. Would you be willing to take It out In trade?" Country KdltorGuess fin n-l.n v. , " 'in i a your business? "Pin the undertaker." Brooklyn Life Cities that Grow Most Rapidly. The census bulletins confirm H,u truth of the statement that the growing American cities are those where manu facturing can be carried on economically. Guards on Kuronean KTir. Every royal palace in Euroue hno iV. special private police, who, in one guise or another, are always on the lookout for suspicious persons. English Public B'.tilainn. utilise the present mansion for ofiloes," I are valuel at a sum approaching wriUsa CoL Theodore A. Bingham, U. L250.00,00a Is often two feet thick and almost non combustible. The . oldest specimens felled are still sound at the heart and fungus Is an enemy unknown to It Yet with air these means of niainrpnnn the big trees have apparently not In creasea their range since the glacial epoch. They have only lust manfl to hold their own on a little strip of country where the climate Is locally fa- vorauie." . . , , . Everyone who Is Interested In fhp h! trees, as everyone must be either from curiosity, a natural love of the forest or for scientific reasons, must deplore the destruction of these forests. Rverv one who hns visited a forest In any part of the world will regret the destruction of these jungles of beauty. Every thoughtful American is waklntr tn realization of the criminal carelessness with which the forests of this country nave ueen wipea out The lumherino- of the big trees, with Its accomnanvmo- waste and devastation, seems a partic ularly unnecessary and almost immoral proceeding. Forester Plnchot savs of it: "The lumbering of the big tree Is destructive to a most unusual degree. In the first place, the enormous size and weight of the trees necessarily entails very con siderable breakage when one of them falls. Such a tree strikes the ground with a force of many hundreds or even thousands of tons, so that even slight Inequalities are sufficient to smssh the brittle trunk at Its upper extremity Into almost useless fragments. The loss from this case is great, but It la oni one of the sources of waste. The great diameter of the logs. and. in spite of the lightness of the wood, their enormous weight make it impossible to handle them without breaking tnem ud. For this pursue gunnowder la the moat o -v Bcuucuiou up m iew jjjngiand J cic me uannt (1 iil what T i .i .. i - . . . . frincre nf hei rvtmilafUn . . nvuiiui i uo, una io-aay he rFuiauUu, grown aaven- Is rolling in riches. I have been obliged turou8 and warlIk by their frequent tnbllT ntMnfhl...... .1 - , . Conflicts With th T,l... . j v. v. mo inaca oiue, uuu i nev-1 -"i ii o wuo crowQ- er hated tn ed Russia's hnrwi t i my life. Several other Instances in the c6"816" th enterprise and aggressive- same line have come under my personal wulcn tbe ntonjlk lacks. They uuBu-vauon. - . i" yam ana me moujlks followed "I hnvo a fifAmi1 i ..i .' find the rlefioenlanta r.r .1 , . ' - ii.cuu, mi luauiuce, wno - "uio ui iues naray vvwui.cu uuvu iu principle or tne Bell miuuguuui Dmena to-day, len-puono long Defore the war. He was loru"u 11 nereaitary military caste. So at college at the time, and he and a BtrIct are the ,aws of heredity among fellow student actually went so far as toe Cossacks that It Is almost lmpossl to construct an experimental line, over bl for 411 offlcer who wa not born one uair a mile long. They had It In sue- i 10 oDtaln commission In a Cossack cssiui operation -'for aevorai n,K- i regiment, when it was discovered and destroyed by a cantankerous orofessmr n ,.. vanished what might have been one i me oiggest rortunes in the . world. The Incident had almost faded from my friend's mind when Prof. Bell launched uis invention on the public. "t 11 . .. "" Auomer gentleman, whn merly a client of mine, anticipated the vireuumuc tire years before somebody else patented it. He is fond nt and away back in the 70's he had a light '"- uinuw mat was almost the exact counterpart of the modern nne. matic sulky. The ble. rinm...iMn.. tir0 ArnUAJ j. .. .. o great merriment among ms mends. They dubbed them 'sausage wheels,' and he has told me " uiva v lilts U once that that foolish joke' was the uiing that caused him to abandon the experiment Pneumatic tires have since m.aff!ialf dozen bI "yWHcatea rich SUU another acquaintance figured out the exact mechanism . binding reaper nearly ten years before the machine was covered by patents. Not being a farmer, he fniiiwi . elate the Importance of the thing it Impressed him as being chimerical, and he pigeon-holed his drawing t dust until he awakened to the fact that "e uau lonune Dy tne throat, only to let go again. His comments nn th dent wouldn't sound well at a Draver meeting. v t r la the Darkest South. "But there was no evidence amino. the man who was lynched," protsted the stranger. , - No evidence V 1 said ' - 'the 3 e'fttew "Why, he was as black as the ace of spadcar Puck. Reunited After Awfnl KTnAi.n 1' -V. "V.. Though separated by the storm and wasnea in amerent directions, all the memoers 01 tne Stubbs family at Gal veston were rescued. Father, mother and two children were on a floating .vui, mui uiu&e m pieces. The father with one child, went one way. The momer went another and the remain Ing child went In still a third a A day or two later all four were re united. Near Enough.' "Got that job o' cards done fur Doc Pillem? 'asked the Jayville editor. - "Yes, if b done," replied his foreman. "Joey made a leetle mistake .o.t.i. It up. Mebbe doc'U kick, but I reckon 11 am 1 so iur wrong." "What Is It?" "Joey made It 'Presorinti nuiio val tfi Ul- ly Confounded."-Ph!ladelphla Press. A Discerning Woman. 'Oh, yes," said voumr Mr ni.i..... "I have been admitted to the h v..... am not practicing regularly at It" luueeu; murmured Miss Goonh "1 thought you practiced very often." -And the young, man wieheii .v.. t. uau uui uami in mnnh -n , - u.u icuunce those cloves.-Baltlmore American. Tea In Riho.i. Siberians as a rule are not great ivn nmpre nf i . reat con- in ONLY ONE LIKE IT EXTANT. Omaha Man Greatly prize, a 81. f Dollar Bill He OwDfc The most unique piece of legal tender in the city, outside of the Byron Reea collection, Is a $00 bill, in the poa9et slon of A." K. Rhoades, 2382 Spald!n street, says the Omaha Bee. Jtr Khoades brought the bill with him when he left Maine for the West In his early youth and It has been trea ured among the family archives fot forty-three years. It would probablj have remained far from the public e had It not been for the boast of a Spo kane paper that a resident of that city possessed the only $00 bill in existence Mr. Rhoades wishes Omaha to have the credit of a similar possession. The bill was Issued during the first session of the Continental Congress In 1779, and Is a document of peculiar appearance. The paper Is of a faded yellow material and Is coarse and heavy. It Is cut almost square, r0ur Inches by three. The promise to pay is worded as follows: "The bearer Is en titled to receive sixty Spanish milled dollars or an equal sum In gold or sliver-, according to a resolution of Con gress of the 14th of January, 1779." At one side is an engraving of the earth with the motto "Deus regnat v. Till til Terra" ("The Lord reigns, let the earth rejoice ", on me obverse of the bill are sketches of two leaves. resemhiin a mint leaf and a sprig of pine, with the printers' signature, "Hall & Sellers 1779." - The Byron Reed collection contains an $80 bill and several samples of con tinental currency of other denomina tions, but has. no duplicate of Mr. Rhoades' treasure. : Neither docs the rich library on numismatics In the col lection have anything to say regarding the history or value of the document The bill bears every evidence of being genuine, however, and Is undoubtedly worth far more than Its face value. Mr. Rhoades values the bit of paper very highly, both as a curio and as a keepsake, and has never made any ef fort to ascertain Its commercial worth. ' Otto Flechtl, of the Coeur d'AIene, Is said to have been offered $1,000 for his specimen spoken of bv the Rrni,. - V ; 'uauuij paper, but preferred not to part with It He submitted the currency to the Treasury Department and after an examination it was renorted rht ti, bill was legal; such an Issue Is known to have been made In the year men tioned. The official signature Inscribed in Ink Is that of George Bond. The Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen gained 3,700 new members In ' the past year. ' .' - Laborers are so scarce in Switzerland that they have to be imported not only from Italy, but from Bohemia and Silesia. The new United States census will show that nearly 1,000,000 females are employed In the factories of the Unitpd States. - Edison's plan to cheapen- electric power by abolishing dynamos will throw hundreds of mechanics out of employment Fifty-two thousand five' hundred dol- lars has been spent by the United Hat ters' Union In the past two years In ad vertising Its label. - ' The 100 local unions of " the textile workers in the South are about to start a movement for a ten-hour day in all. the Southern mills, ; .. Judge Halloran, of Des Moines. Iowa. recently rendered a decision that a trades union Is a pool or trust and In violation of the laws of that State. It is stated that 100.000.000 of the population of China, or one-fourth of the people, are connected with the vari ous branches of raising and marketing tea. , ,: i. : . :. The average daily comnpnsntlori of the general officers of the various rail ways In the United States Is $7.47 oer day, while the average of the working employes Is $1.(50. , , Kansas City. Mo., is now the second flour-making city In the United States, having made 48,420 barrels In one day . recently, and eclipsing all records ex cept that of Minneapolis, Minn. The Minneapolis flour mills In the past year surpassed all previous per formances In the hlsstnrv nf the cltv'S. great Industry with an output of 14,- ouu.uw barrels of flour. The mills used up between 62,000,000 and 65,000,000 bushels of wheat during the year. The Baldwin Locomotive Works. Philadelphia, has received an order for twenty-two havy freight locomo tives for use on the Government rail roads In New Zealand. The first Amer ican-made locomotive to he used In Ire land was shipped by the same company a few days ago. Biggest of Toy Factories. The largest toy factory in th world Is In New York, where nlnvthlnirs In tin are manufactured literally by the mill ion. It stands five stories high, and , turns out 1,607 distinct varieties in Un toys. No. 1 Is a tin horse, No. 1,607 a tin menagerie. The outout of circular un whistles Is 2,000,000 per annum make a tin horse twelve Inches dies have to be cast costing 15. children of ' different countries different tastes, hut tin swords wanted all over the world, the military instinct being as universal In the nur series as In the courts and cabinets of the world. To long The have are Phonographic Reminder. An ingenlons Austrian Inventor has Just patented a speaking clock which he Claims Will he nf the o-rentpst value to persona of forgetful and Irregular habits. It consists of a clock phono graph combination. In Dlaee of the usual striking attachment is a phono graph, which can be set to speak a sen- nmers of lemons, nor do theVnl v tence &t my time dired, us becom ln tea as much as mav he th 1 in filing reminder to its owner in :uutu itussia. cream t vi cov-u into general use hr thTL""T 00016 eondensed milk ftS?" France and states. : "iwawmi, Somehow, it always shocks people to see a woman smile while wearing mourning. Many a man's nrin.n. '. . - I . . ... cuhstnea efectlve memory. he knows there la nothing in. -i- r