8 C. W. SHERMAN IN PHILOSOPHIC MOOD "If vou had a million dollar. what would vou do with It?" waa the ques tion Dut to the Old I'hllonoohcr bv friend. "Wall." aald that Individual. "I'd want to do anmethlng with auch an amount of mnnev aa would b of the greatest and most lasting benefit to the future generation of mv fellow man. and the ranire of ohlecta for aurh a purooia la a verv wide one. The flrat thought 1 have la that I would oend It In planting; tree. Take the future needa of tho people of thl town, aa a mole: At the present time the fuel aueation la an Important and pressing one. Fire wood la todav soiling at IH a cord. A time goes on. the oresent sunnlv of timber for fuel will become scarcer every vear. and the orlre will rise, and thus make the cost of living greater, unless effort are made on a larger scale to cover the manv thou- aanda of acrra of hill and mountain land Ivltitr east of the town with a growth of treea that can be cut Into firewood. Now. what la the matter with aorolert of thataort be In if adopt ed? These Unda are valueleae except for pasture and are very Door for that. To the went, acroaa the vallev. almiUr hill and mountains are todav timber covered, and I can are no reason whv the- barren hllla to the cant should not grow similar timbe'. If aomebMlv were to take the trouble to seed the around with the aeeda of cine and fir. and fence to the land, ao that the vounir eroute would no' be trx1len out. and thev would have a chance to grow and mature for the UDe ol the, future gen erationa of I.akeview'a present iwpul tlon. It'a all right for rich men to give to the poor, but there la a limit bevond which auch Rift Itecome an in jurv. instead ot a blessing. As lonir as auch gift art a a atimuloua to Inde pendent efftrt or to assist the unfor tunate thev are a public benefit: but bevond thattit I unwise to go Those are mattera of present moment. But the trulv wise man looks into the future and would bend his etTorta to amulior ate conditiona that are certain to ensue in the vears to come. "One of the traits of mankind which has come down to ua as a result of tho cultivation of the centuries, la the habit of msn to accumulate to save and lav up for future need. Watch the squirrel and vou will see him carrv to his nest grain and nuts with which to sustain lifo in the coming winter; and lust so it is with man. Carrying this principle out to a greater length, some mon give the earnings and accumulation of their lives of toil and effort tor the wdowment of school and collides and Institutiona for the care of the sick and unfortunate, for monumenta to the great and the good men of tho rare and the like; but few have thought of replacing the present supply of timber and fuel for the use, of coming generation a need which is even now becoming a present one. "That wonderful thinga can lo done even in the life time of one generation requires a single Illustration to prove. I once knew a lawver. who lived in a western Iowa town, whoso name was Solomon. He was not thought to be verv wie bv hia fellow members at the bar. being rather eccentrlo and ftightv of disposition, having, wild notions so thev sav : but he waa a man of ideas, nevertheless. When this county waa thinlv aettled. and land waa cheap, he bought a aection of prairie land and prooeeded to improve it first planting a hedge about it and establishing road wava through it In several directions to and from Ita center, where he plant ed a grove of cottonwooda and behind this planted an orchard. And along on either side of these roadwava he planted black walnuts about 40 feet aoart something like a thousand of them, al together, ao that hi roadwav should in time bo shaded. Then he builded hia house near the center, and bv the road wav he would have access to anv Dart of hi farm without letting down fence. Within a few vears hia orchard becan to bear, and he had manv tone of apples to sell to his neighbor who were less thoughtful. Not onlv that hia grove of cottonwooda within a couple of decadea furnished hia family with firewood, and those walnut trees soon buoamo an ornament to .he place, and now that thov are sotno thirty years of age thev have become verv valuable for the timber thev contain, and each year adds manv a dollar to their value. Some of these walnut treea are todav as much aa three feet in diameter, and have grown tall and stately, making a picture well worth looking at. Imagine, if vou can what a 40 acra grove of aucb tree would "be worth now. if Solomon had had the foresight to have olanted them at the time be planted those rows of trees! It would bring a fabuloua figure. "The planting of treea on the bar ren hill of Lake countv would be like the banker' interest, thev would grow while people slept, and one cannot estimate the blessing such an effort would entail unon the future inhabit ant of thl favored community. Can vou imagine a direction more fruitful of good to the coming race in which to vpend a million dollars-If vou had It? Homrthlng more than a hundred va,r ago there wa a municipality In Switz erland whlrh owned sundry hill and mountain lands which were barren of timber. An edict went forth fr.m the authorities and these hillside were planted in foreit tree. Since then that citv h grown to have upward of 100. 000 inhabitanta. It has all of the con venience and advantage of modern civilisation schools, water work, street car, railroad, paved atreets. And all of the public Improvement have been puid for out of the Pry lit received from the sale of timber from thoae treea. and not a cent of taxsa are levied uoon the property In the citv all of the rltv'a expense being paid from the same source. And not a tree is cut down hut another la planted to take Ita plane. Can vou Imagine another source euual benefit could be derived bv the people of that community? In what other way could a million dollars be expended here that could in anv o sible way be expended to better ad vantage to this people in the coming vears? I can think of none. "leaving the million dollar orojoal tion nut of the esse, what better thing could tho wisescre ot thi town pro pose than to rover the hillsides ad jacent to the town with a growth of voung pines? Some might asv that they would not grow ; but they might be made to grow and flourish, if proper steu were taken. Wnat monument would be lastinKiv beneficial to the coming generation? Is it not well worth consideration? C. W. S HERMAN. Sr. TOWNS THAT ARE WORTH LIVING IN Collier's Weekly has for Rome time past been publishing ttorlea of towna that are worth living in. and la un doubtedly doing a good deal to awakun civic oride. Here la a description of one of these town, which has a good many advantages not possessed bv placea mur-b more oretentoue: "A certain countrv town haa SttOO population, is not the countv scat. Is more than 40 milea from the nearest citv. and depends almost entirely upon the neightorlng farma for It pros perity. In appearance thla town differs little from a thousand others of it class, except that the three garage are a (urorlse. and the lawn and house might be remembered aa neater and more trim than ordinary. "Ask a uuestion and it leada vou far. "You notice. oerhta. that the ores of the country pnncr is run by electric motor. The power and light plant is the property of the town, and pavs a revenue of $500 a month into tho pub lic treasury. "The heating plant for downtown tores I alHo owned by the people. It utilizes the waste steam from the power plant and cut the merchant' fuel bill in half. A countrv physician's son who in this little town ia now com pleting a t." 0.000 hospital for general practice, suggested that the steam be connected with the water avstem ao that it tho water pines ever become infected thev mav bo sterilized with live steam. "To this municipal light, water and heating plant is attached a private ice factory which sell pure ice made from sterilized water at 4t cent a hundred pound. A wholesale ice cream fac trov buving real countrv cream to fell again for 8U cents a gallon ues cold salt water from the Ice plant. "Helpful co-operation 'a found in other fields. "Uncle John Mowder. a farmer now comfortably rich and with spare time to improve his 'form' in horseshoe (iuoit. usee hia little fortune a a pri vate remedial loan fund for the town people who long to own a home: and the woman who makes oullts for tho countryside, the bov who runs the pea nut stand, a clerk in a general store, and a tinner's helper are respected pro perty owners. The town boasts that every laborer who has lived in the plaoe five year own a home, and that Uncle John haa never lost a dollar on manv risky securities. "Women's club meeting havo time for Keats and Browning and the ser vant problem never need to be dis cussed. In the neighborhood there are a number of the Amish sect whose daughter, as a matter of religious principle, will do the housework and mind the baby at 10 cents an hour, for three dollar a week or lesa never more. "At one end of the town la a public playground, which in the winter time i flooded for a skating rink. For a citv man who remember the countrv aa It used to be. a visit to auch a com munity as this ia stimulating educa tion. "The place by the wav ia Sabetha. Kansas." BedeuUry habits, lacs ot outdoor exercise, lnnumclent intmi'iatlou ot food, coiinllimlluii, a turpod llvor, worry and anilely are the most eorumon rauses o( stonmob troubles Cnrreot your hablti and take Cliamburlaln's Biomacli and Uver Tablets and you will iuoii be wull again Tut sale by all dealers SUBSCRIBE FORTH 15 EXAMINER CHICKEN BUSINESS GOOD FOR WOMEN A hue and cr? that once fairly rent the heaven, but I now hapollv fading away into the shadowy realm of mis take that have been corrected, wa to the effect that husincsa would take women out of their home. i But now come Mrs. F. K. Walsh, of llooutam to Tacoma. along with her 21 full-blooded fowls, including some 8 or 10 flrat prlzera. who proves the re verse bv saving her business keeps her at home, and makes her hapov and prosperous on her own account, and self reliant and active, and helps her to be a good mother and a first-clasf house keeper, and leavea her plenty of time for everything, but bridge and tea. In fact, her business has accomplished all of the thinge for her that the re actionaries thought were going to be added to the list of the lost arte, once women turned their talents to lucrative account. Mrs. Walsh was found in adoration before an Ancona pen. from which fluttered a first prize ribbon and out of which came refined and manifestly blue blooded crows, clucks and caws. Ancona. which sound like the nme of a ship I really a kind of chicken, and a kind that ia ao pooular that there la a national Ancona society. The rilibon adorning the ocn waa the award of the aorictv. Around on the other aide he haa another pen of Rhode Island Reds, verv handsome birda but probably on account of their olumo figure not so fashionable In this dsv of svelte lines as the Anconas. At anv rate there la no national society for the Keds. but the three bird belonging to Mrs. Walsh were dividing the honors of two first prize tickets between them. Across the aisle a coon of Columbian I'lvmnutha has rather overdone the prize thing bv havinr a first, second third and fifth award. "How?" waa Baked in bewilderment. "How and whv. and when, do vou do it?" Mrs. Walsh laughed. "Well." she j said. "I started out innocently enough j five vears ago with a wee bunch of lit- tie chicks, without which no backvard has a homelike look. I had two little j children, and I wanted to stay at home with them. But I knew if I was to! atav at home and tend to mv babies! as I ought to. I should have (to have something outside of the four walls. j and vet closelv associated with mv j home to keoo me there. So I got a j trood of chicks. ! got good onca be-( cause I don't believe in putting labor; and thought on poor material. j "Well, those chicken grew un and mv interest kcot growing. Bv and bv' I found that I could get $10 a setting, for good teas, when common egg were selling at 40 cents a dozen. "So I began to breed verv carefully. ' I watched the flocks and sold the stranggle" off-color pullet and cock-j erels for 'poring.' and kept the best j colored and sturdiest hens laving eggs : for the incubator and selling the other egga to the markets. J "It began to oav and pay well. Ij was a business woman and l had mv , business right in mv own backvard. i It kept me contented with mv homi , and interested in it. The business kept j enlarging itself. I had to plan new! chicken houses. Bv and bv I had to j have more land and I bought another i lot. I studied the climatic conditiona . and built coooa that were especially i adaoted for the countrv. so that mv J chicken could stretch out door all dav. j have all the freBh air thev needed and ! never get wet. "I never made the mistake of over tending them. A chicken, like any thing else haa to work for ita living if it going to be a normal, healthy chicken. I never deprived a fowl of mine ot the privilege of scratching around for something to eat. "Now I have 500 full blooded chick en. There have been six Jshows this full and winter, and I have taken some hrst prizes at all of them, and at some of them several prize have been awarded to me. "There is a fever about it. once vou get interested in 'chicken raising vou become a chicken enthusiast. It makes hard work of course. 1 have mv child ren, mv h ome. mv social obligation but I've made a firm resolution to give it uo." What? Your home your children vour chickens?" Not I'm going to give up the worth while things. I'm going to give un the tea and the card parties." How to curs a ruld Is a question In which many are Interested Just now Chamberlain's onutih remedy has won Its treat reputaiioa and linmeuse sale by tls remarkable cure ol colds It can always be depended upon For sale by all delr A new perennial clover, of the al slke specie, ia reported from Tilla mook Cojntv. where it wa first dis covered. Experiment are being made with it and it is olaimed it yield enor mous tonnage to the acre, while it grow the year around. The clover has no seed, bloom or sex and i propa gated bv cutting ud the plant and owing the piece. The department of agriculture will make an Investigation of the new plant. Now Is The Time To Subscribe For The LA CMitty (The Largest Paper in Lake County) Has the largest circulation in the County. Call in and put your name down, so it may soon be said that every citizen of the County is a regu lar reader of The Examiner. 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