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The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1886-06-10
THE COST OF TREE-PLANTINe.

A Few Figures on the SubjeSt-Scare
About Timber Famine.
In estimating the value of property,
its actual cost is commonly considered
fair measure, and yet how shall we esti-
mate an acre of virgin forest growth on
this basis? Trees from 100 to 200 years
old can not be duplicated at the asking.
Nothing on earth to-day is selling so
cheaply, as compared with the cost of
reproduction as forest trees. Volumes
have been written urging the business of
tree-planting, even based upon its pecuni-
airy advantages. Yet, however beneficial
such an industry may prove to its pro-
jector, OR to the locality in which the
planting is pursued, its possible profit
is totally eclipsed by the present value
and future prospect of acres of original
forest.
Suppose, for instance, an acre of land
be purchased for $5 and planted with
forest trees, at a first cost of say $50.
Now, allowing nothing for subsequent
care and cultivation, taxes or other ex-
penses, let us see what the principal and
interest would show at the end of 100
years, the average age of valuable for
est trees. Thirty-five dollars invested at
6 per cent, would, even at simple inter-
est, double every sixteen years; say $40
in sixteen years, $40 in thirty-two years,
$3.50 in forty-eight years, $500 in sixty
four years, in eighty years 81, 100; in
ninety-six years $2,24O, representing the
cost and interest Of the artificial plant
ing of an acre of forest trees and their
growth to maturity. Will the natural
impotence of our American people per-
NIT them to raise such century plants"
on a money-making basis?
1t may be many years before forest
tree planting will be attempted in New
England on an extensive scale, except
through the stimulus of state or govern
ment bounty, or as matter of sentiment
and regard for the public good. All good
citizens should encourage the planting
of trees, on a limited scale, at least, by
every land owner whose surroundings
and conditions will warrant. The scare
about timber famine in New England
and Canada is simply nonsense at the
present day. If the timber is far ex-
hausted as some of the orators at for
estry gatherings would have us believe,
if the cost of reproducing timber is at
tendant upon such an expenditure of
money, time and interest as the above
figures indicate, why then is there not
ready sale of timber tracts now seeking
purchasers, in the province of Que
bee, for instance?
We can enumerate half dozen prop
critics in lower Canada now being offered
at beggarly sums of money as compared
with their intrinsic value.-Boston BUD
get.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1886-06-10
The Yucca, or Newspaper Plant

1t seems that in certain PARKWAY ter
ritories called New Mexico and Arizona,
there are great tracts of desolate desert
lands, where the very hills seem des-
titute Of life and beauty, and where the
earth is shriveled from centuries of ter
rible heat. And in these desert tracts
grow curious, mishapen, grotesque and
twisted plant that seems more like a
goblin tree than real one.
Of all the trees in the world, you would
imagine this to be the most outcast and
worthless-so meager living does it OBJ
tain from the waste of sand and gravel
in which it grows. And yet this goblin
tree is now being sought after and
utilized in one of the worlds greatest in
dustries-an industry that affects the
daily needs of civilization. Those wise
folks, the botanists, call our goblin tree
by its odd Indian name of the Yucca"
palm.
This plant of the desert for a long
time was considered valueless. But not
long ago it was discovered that the fiber
of the Yucca could be made into an ex-
cellent paper. And now one of the
great English dailies, The London Tele-
graph, is printed upon paper made from
this goblin tree. Indeed, The Telegraph
has purchased large plantation in
Arizona, merely for the purpose of cult
waiting this tree, and manufacturing
paper from it. So, you see, the Yucca is
now a newspaper plant.-St. Nicholas.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1886-06-10
AVER,G
Hair Vigor

restores, with the gloss and freshness OF
youth, faded or gray hair to a natural, rich
brown color; or deep black, as may be desired.
By its use light or red hair may be ,,arkened,
thin hair thickened, and baldness often,
though not always, cured.
1t checks falling of the hair, and stimu-
hates weak and sickly growth to vigor. 1t
prevents and cures sourf and dan,lruif. ard
heals nearly every disease pecui,ar to The
scalp. AS Ladies' Hair Dressing, the
VIGoR is urequalled; it contains neither Oil
!, nor dyo, renders the hair soft, glossy, and
Ssilken in appearance, and imparts delicate.
agreeable, and lasting perfume.
Mr. C. P. BRIcnER writes from Kirby, o.,
Jniy s. ISS2 Last fall my hair commenced
falling out. and in a short time | became
Aeariy bald. ] used part of bottle Of
AYERS HAIR yiG0R, which stopped the falIr
ing of the hair, and started a new growth.
have now a full heal of hair growing yigor-
oaSiy, and ana convinced that but for the
use OF your preparation l should lave beep
entirely bald"
J.W. bowen proprietor of the DC A,faar
(Ohio) Enquirer. says LAYERS HAIR NIGoR
is n most excellent preparation for the hair.
speak of it from my own experience. Its
use promotes tine growth OF new hair, ard
makes it glossy ami soft. The YIaoH is also
sure cure for danGruif. Not within my
knowledge has tho preparation ever failed
to give entire satisfaction"
Mr.. ASGCS FAIgs.IRS, leader of the
celebrated " Fairbairn Family" Of Scottish
NOcalists, writes from Boston, 1iaSs., Fec. 9,
1SSa Ever since my hSir began to give sill
very evidence of the change which heeting
t;":e procureth, l have used AYERS HAIR
EIioG, ana so have been able to maintain
al appearance of youthfulncss "a matter of
considerable consequence to ministers, ora
to"s. actors, and in fact every olls WHO lives
in the eyes of the public" -" FL.
Mrs. o. A. PRESCOTT, writing from 10 Elm
s.. (hnr!esfo'rn, Mass, aIru H. 1899, says:
TIo years ago about two-thir,is of my lair
came off. 1t tl:inred very rapidly, and was
fast growing bald. On using AYERS HAIR
NiG-.R the failing stopped and a new growth
commenced, aud in about q month my head
was completely covered with short hair II
has continued to grow. and is now us good as
before II fell. l regularly use,i but one bottle
CT the EiGat:, hut now Use il occasionally as
dressing"
We have Hundreds Of similar testimonials
to the efficacy of AYE.'s HAIR E!GaR. It
reeds hut trial to convince tie most sker,i-
Ca. of It's value.
PREPARED nv
Cr.J. c. Aver &Co., Lowell, siass.
Sold by all Druggists.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1886-06-10
Changing Poor Pine to Walnut.

A striking similarity to black walnut,
it is said, can be manufactured from poor
pine by the following method: One part
of walnut peel extract is mixed with six
parts of water, and the wood is coated
with the solution. When the material is
about half dry. solution of bichromate
of potash with water is rubbed on it, and
the walnut is ready. In this way excel
lent walnut can be made from poor pine,
and it is said to defy detection except
upon very close examination. Exchange
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1886-06-10
China's Troublesome Hoangho River.

The Hoangho river in China is more
troublesome than our cratic Mississippi.
Nine instances are on record of its max
ing complete change of course. 1t has
moved its mouth from south to north
over 4 degrees of latitude, leaving
many satldy wastes and shallow lakes
where populous plains had existed. En-
gineers have been much interested in the
question whether thsse disastrous over
flows and changes Of the river bed can
be checked. They have been convinced
for some years of the feasibility of keep
ing the rivers cratic tendencies within
limits, and in the course of human pro-
gress @China's sorrow" may some day be
robbed of its terrors.-Foreign Letter,
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1886-06-10
Valuable Hint for prau-htsmen.

Sometimes the draughtsman wishes to
erase line without removing other parts
of the work or damaging line which
cuts the line to be removed. In the above
case, lay sheet of paper upon the line it
is desired to save, and with an India
rubber eraser the desired line can be re-
moved, and you can work clean and
sharp to within one thousanth of an inch
of the parts desired to be left.-American
MachiniSf
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1886-06-10
FLOWED YOU ONCE.
Ilos'.d you once; but now, alasl

Ilos..d you once; but now, alasi
The fame Is out. the hearth is cold.
Love could not leap the chasm set,
1t missed its purpose, lost its hold,
And in the pit of doubt it fell:
All, doubt to love is loves death-kneul
I loved you once; but as a rose
Fades from its Summer into clay,
And never more may bloom the same,
So love lies in its grave to-day.
No resurrection may aspire
To raise again its dead desire.
loved you once: you flung me doubt,
And basely dealt untruth's sharp thrust
How deep the wound and scar will show
Where love is stabbed thpo' its own trust
You dug its graye-then why regret?
Tears bring not back the sun that's set
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1886-06-10
Tie. Art of Compelling Others.

The graduate of the school as he stands
on the threshold of the world see on
every hand wealth.; luxury, extrava-
gance. splendor. But, curiously enough,
these good things of life are not in pos
session Of the skilled workers who pro-
duce them. They are mostly in the
hands of those who, like himself, can not
produce a single thing they want or need.
lie naturally begins to study the art of
compelling others to produce things for
him.-Charles II. Ham.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1886-06-10
How Gladstone Prepares His Speeche


We are told on good authority that
this is Mr.. Gladstone's method of prepar-
ing his speeches: He Keeps box into
which he is in the habit of throwing cut
tings from newspapers and other men,
oranda of facts bearing upon the subject
in hand. The morning of the day pre-
ceding any great Grafton he goes through
this box and picks out his notes of the
particular facts which he wishes to use.
These he gums in their proper order
upon large sheet of paper, and uses
them as the posts upon which the speech
itself is to be hung. Then he imagines
himself to be actually speaSing-com-
poses his Grafton, in fact, in his head.
After he is satisfied withit, he dismisses
the subject from his mind, and occupies
himself until the hour for speaking
comes in reading novel! His memory
is so great that his previously composed
sentences come back to him without
effort.-London Whitehall Review.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1886-06-10
Improved Glass for the Microscope.

A glass of greatly improved quality
has been made by DIR. Carl Zeiss, of
Jena, for microscopic detectives. Lenses
CT the new glass give images of wonder
FIJI clearness. and have greater resolving
power than has hitherto been Known
Arkansaw Traveller,
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1886-06-10
Literary Names Used for Streets.

Literary names are largely used for
designating streets in Liverpool. Among
the names thus chosen are, Shakespeare,
Falstaff, Rosalind, Macbeth, Wordsworth,
Longfellow, Tennyson, Dickens, Pick
wick, Dombey, Micawber and Sam
Weller,-Frank Leslie's.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1886-06-10
How the Blind Recognize words.

Some of the blind can read five or sig
hours without feeling fatigued. They
use both hands in reading, the right fore
finger being used chiefly to separate the
words and syllables, while the left fore
finger recognizes the word by itself
Chicago Times,
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1886-06-10
,.stire soon ARR sunset.

TO obtain perfect rest go to bed as
soon aftefsunset as possible, for it is laid
down as universal law that the hours
Of darkness are the only ones during
which healthy sleep is possible.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1886-06-10
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The Sunday herald. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1866-1887, 1886-02-07
ARMY REORGANIZATION.

To The Editor OF The sunday Herald:
SIR: VIII you permit me TO say through your
valuable paper few words to my brother onicers
of the cavalry? have been In Washington long
enough since the meeting Of the present Congress
to meet and talk with several members of the Mill
tary Committees Of the House and Senate, and this
is what learn from them, ana what has been con-
Hrmed by other members Of Congress not on the
Military Committees. The present Congress appre-
ciates the present needs OF the Army; that is the
necessity of legislation which shall put the different
arms OF the service basis with the correspond
ing branches OF other armies. They recognize the
fact that the changes that have been made from time
to time In our Regular Army since the close Of the
war In 1865 have been made with the object OF re-
duclng the force from time 10 time the necessities
OF the country seemed TO make such reduction Justl
liable, and not upon any we-consldered plan OF or
ganization for permanent force, which being as
small as possible In time OF peace would admit OF
the greatest possible development when necessary.
The Hrst step toward an organization on such
basis has been taken by the Introduction OF the
Manderson bill for the reorganization OF the inan-
try Without saying anything OF the merits or
dement's OF this plan OF organization-t. e., three
battalioDs OF four companies In each regment-it ID
but Just TO say that II meets with the approval Of
many II not all, the higher officers OF the Army; In
fact, have heard little said against 1t. Prominent
members Of the committee in both the House and
Senate favor the bill, and think that there ID fair
prospect OF Its passage, II II s not killed by the Army.
have been told personally by members OF the COM
mlttee that they are receiving 30 many suggestions
and protests from officers OF the Army, that they are
almost forced TO believe that the only thing an ocer
thinks Of when change In the Army Ia suggested 10,
scan gain anything individually by the change ~
| As this question is answered they favor or oppose
legislation II Ia after these interviews that de-
termned 10 suggest to those who, like myself, are
only Indirectly Interested In this that VIC keep our
hands OIL, unless we approve OF this measure ON Its
merits, and then II certainly can do no harm to say
| 80. II this act becomes a law one branch OF the
service viii he raised out OF the slough In which all
are plungednow, and there would be good reason TO
hope for the necessary legislation TO raise the ohers.
For my part, think the bill good one, and hope II
| Will become a law, CAVALRY.
The Sunday herald. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1866-1887, 1886-02-07
IFortnlghtly Review.


The Latin races, that IL, France, Italy, and Spain,
have ceased to be, whatever any one OF them may
be destined yet 10 become again, the mighty factors
In the worlds progress which OF old they were.
They minister exqaistey TO the comfort the luxury,
the culture, and the pciuresqueness OF fe but the
aptitude for foreign commerce which they show Is
comparatively slight, and In the colonzng business
OF humanity they only play q subordinate part.
Moreover, their population, when compared with the
population of the Ango-saxon aud the 1eutonic
races, Is diminishing. Thus, In period OF little
less than 100 years. from ls5 10 1856 the aggregate
populations OF France, spain, aud Italy have only
increased from 900 900 20 S2,50OoOo. On tho other
hand, the populations OF Germany and England dur
ing this period have each irebed. Germany In 1888
had population OF about l60O0,OOO In 1885 lt has
Increased 10 45,OO0OoO. Great Britain In the same
way had In 1888 population OF l2,0O0000; in 1886
the ngure Is 3g 900, 900 Another country largely,
but not exclusively populated by the Anglo.Saxon
race-Amerca- Ia Teas than hundred years in-
creased nearly thirteen tmes-hat is, from less
than 1000 900 ia 1890 10 nearly C0,0O0000 In 1885.
Finally, II must not be forgotten tina. Canada, Aus
tralla South Africa, US well as other British depen-
denotes, collectively, contain population " some
900 06O chiefly OF Anglosaxons, and there seyery
reason TO believe that the development ana Increase
Of this population VIII be Tapln,
The Sunday herald. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1866-1887, 1886-02-07

NEW Industry seems about developing in WASH
ington, If we may Judge from the following adver
tisemen in the daily papers:
4 GENTLEMAN OF ELEGANT ADDRESS, AND
,. ko cy relelences as 10 caarac.er
70 adv os mesns .dSrsss Ray r this sI of'ce
This o,ens wide s,,d of coniectnre ahont the
state of things secretrv erisjnp IN Wash,noton a.
c,etv 7, IA we'll tnoJrp thar men are extremely
scarce. for /, has been the burden Of COMPLAINT in
fashonah,e circles Tor vaara Cani,he nosslhe tha,
the Iacs ia snnn.d in the bnsinessIk wav imnlied
In m. ahovno The off hand reference IN uNo c,tv
ureferenoesnwopd indicate an branch Of
trade and nravioua ernn,ovmert ot tbe advertiser
On the ether hand /, NAV he that uRox rnis NH.
The Sunday herald. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1866-1887, 1886-02-07

THE newspapers OF New YORK are having good
deal to say about the full dress wern by ladies' at
the opera The dramatic critics OF the metropolitan
press have been employing their facile pens In de-
picting, sometimes with more force tnan deicacy'
the full dress as they see II In the boxes, evidently
nowhere e!se II 1t were not an unusual sight In re-
portoriai experience, 1t would hardly make such
sensation Or perhaps the critical fraternity OF New
York are al loss for something to write. Itmay be
easier to describe the decolete dresses In the audi
ence than to make Judicious and apprecative re-
view OF the performance on the stage. II would be
well for them to remember, however, that literature
has already been enriched by considerable discussion
OF the low-necked gown, and that probably az many
smart and racy things have been said at It's expense
likely TO be. In spite OF all this II remains,
and IL likely 10 remain 70 long aB the Tcyered head
OF British propriety insists upon It's appearance at
her Court, the conventional and usual form OF dress
for the most stately and elegant occasions The Oft
time dissertations upon this subject have not fahed
10 enlighten ns with the fact that proprey In dress
IA a matter OF custom which has the widest possible
range. We are not unfamiliar with the Turkish
maiden who would snatch up her skirt to
cover her face, thinking In her artless
Turkish fashion that uncovered face was q
greater immodesty than uncovered legs. But
we hardly realize how our motions OF modesty
are moulded by custom here in Our own land until
think that any young lady wond faint at the Idea
Of appearing on Pennsylvania avenue in skrt that
barely reached her knees, hut when she gets on the
beach at the sea-shore though quite as public as
city street, she forgets all that shapely contour OF
limb she would be SO horrl1ed 10 expose here, and
frisKs about In her bathing suit with perfect freedom
from self-consciousness. She Is protected by Gus
tom. II la as proper 10 short dress there az
to wear long one here and one gives the matter
a thought Custom is GHc,uatlng, but when II once
gets Its stamp anything 1t is not indispuiaole but
powerful There was time when the tght-nttinR
body was novelty, and a little doubtfully received
tentatively adopted at last by the most prudls and
The Sunday herald. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1866-1887, 1886-02-07
RANDOM NOTES.


Mr. Lycutgus Dalton, the Postmaster OF the House
Of Representatives says the mails for members
have been OF late unusually heavy, averaging from
ia0oo 10 5000 letters daily. This is average Of
members get but few letters, while others often
get several hundred communications In a
day There are few members who at
tend to the manual part Of their own cor
respcndence, or who can ind time to attend to the
routise part OF Congressmans outdoor duties.
Nearly every pensioner, or would-be pensoner,
now has his or her member attend to the business,
and IN some instances constituents even get their
members TO attend to collections for them. | had
not i've a thousand miles from the Capital, and
who receives large mail, besides a perfect thronp
of personal visitors, asked him what they all had
10 write about He said tina, the bulk of his letters
were applications for oflces aud recon-
menchtions OF interested friends; that there were
a number OF men In his district OF whom he had
never heard in politics or seen around on election
day, vho thought all they had to do to get of,ces
was 10 secure his Endorsement He had been doing
pretty well for his constituents in that line, and
hoped to do better when the Departments would
oust The sslonr legged Yankeesn who had been nut
downas residing in his state and who had never
been nearer to 1t than Washington. understand
that this practice OF ouarterng Northern men on
Southern quotas was practiced quite extensively
The Sunday herald. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1866-1887, 1886-02-07

ALTHOUGH SO young country in historical remi-
niscenses America has reached that stage where her
writers of fiction can scarcely be at loss to find
home subjects for treatment, and leave the so-caed
society novels which describe the trials and trbula-
tions of English lords and ladies to English noveliss
The pictures of English localities and English life
which we have from the pens of Fielding, Dickens,
and Thackeray are masterpieces Of local painting.
Cooper and Hawthorne chose local subjects for
treatment, and in this they have been followed to
some extent by Cable, James, and Howells. But the
last-named writer's use American localities more as
mere theatre upon which to parade fictitious per-
sonages, and less means of awakening the inter.
est of readers in historical "reminiscences like those
which cluster about old England. In thisrespect the
course pursued by later writer's of American fiction
is no: comparable with the works Of local coloring
which have made the works Of English povelists
correct pictures of the times.