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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-10-27
An InfnIIibIe Record.

Visitors to the Smithsonian Institution
and National Museum in Washington, and
at the worlds fair. will remember seeing
specimens of the giant tree trunks of Cali
fornia on exhibition, and will recall how the
age of those trees was scientifically figured
out by counting the concentric rings and
circles of the trunks. each ring represent
ing a years growth In the tree. They are
called "saps" by surveyors and civil engi-
neers. Just at this season, amid our
utumnal forest hlazonry of purple and
crimson and gold. the sap that has been
held since last spring between the bark and
the wood of each tree is being hardened
and transmitted by nature into layer of
fresh dry fiber.
When the coming winter shall have set
in this magic process will be completed,
and each tree will then bear one more ring
around it's trunk than 1t had last spring.
Thus a natural record of the fight of time
Is permanently registered in the substance
of each tree. and by consulting this record
as an open book one can read the exact
age of each tree with infallible accuracy.
This phenomenon Is reasonably familiar to
most people. but 1t has recently acquired
an all-important utility by a peculiar appli-
cation of 1t that is little known or even
dreamed of, except by certain surveyors
and engineers, and they are turning 1t to
tremendous account in a comparatively
new line of -ork.
1t happens that a mark, or notch, or
blaze cut deeply on the side of u tree.
through the bark and into the wood proper,
heals precisely n wound does on the hu-
man body, and, like such wound. 1t leaves
an enduring scar. Unless cut to the heart,
a tree seldom dies of wounds. While new
rings or "saps'' encircle a tree everywhere
around a scar, and even partially cover the
scar itself, and while the outer bark splits
into gnarls and assures IN accommodating
itself to the annual enlargement of the tree.
yet the position of the scar still remains
discernble; and right here occurs the
curious application of the phenomenon that
is made to subserve so useful and import
ant "a DurDOSp
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-10-27
Mount St. Elias is Declared to Be
American Soil.
BOUNDARY Line SURVEY COMPLETED
1t is Believed That Mount Wranqel
is the Highest Peak.
THE GREAT GOLD REGIONS

Written for The Evening Star.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-10-27

ONE ENJOYS
Both the method and results when
Syrup of Figs is taken; it is pleasant
and refreshing to the taste, and acts
gently yet promptly on the Kidneys
Liver and Bowels, cleanses the sys-
tenn efectually, dispels colds, head
aches and fevers and cures habitul
constipation. Syrup of Figs is the
only remedy of its kind ever pro-
duced, pleasing to the taste and &C
ceptable to the stomach, prompt in
its action and truly beneficial in It's
effects, prepared only from the most
healthy and agreeable substances, its
many excellent qualities commend it
to all and have made it the most
popular remedy known.
Syrup of Figs is for sale in 800
and 81 bottles b, all leading drug
gists. Any reliable druggist who
may not have it on hand will pro.
cure it promptly for any one who
wishes to try it. DO not accept any
substi
CAL irORNIA ZIG SYRUP co.
SAN FRANCISCO. CAL.
lou VIE. EY KEw YoRk. M
Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1894-07-12

Karl's Clover Root. the great blood purifier,
gives freshness and clearness to the complex
ion and cures constipation, % cis so cts, 81.
Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1894-07-12
Newspapers in Berlin.

The newspaper business in and
from the capital of the German EN-
pire is something stupendous, as an.
pears from the following figures.
which are furnished by the newspa-
per department Of the Berlin post.
office. Last month there were pub.
lished nearly forty political journals,
and the total daily issues of these
passing through the post oflce
amounted in round numbers to $780,
600 copies. There are 100 non-politi-
cal papers published in the city, and
their total postoffice circulation
amounted to more than 100, 900 a
day. Upward of 1000 mail bags
and $50 clerks are employed in the
newspaper traffic alone. The num-
Der OF newspapers and other period.
Gals that were published in the Ger
man empire at the beginning of the
present year was 10, SAC OF these
1880 were printed in the German
language, and the other 2, GIG In some
thirty different languages.
Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1894-07-12
Penelope.

Oh, tell me not OF distant lands
Where art and nature blend
And weave their spells with welded honda
40 work wonderous end,
Where bleak-browned heights their forms ~
rear,
Or cooling fountains flow.
But whisper that you love me. Dear
lis all caro- to know.
oh, tell ne not of summer seas
That glass the wistfu moon.
Or ripple in the spicy breeze
With languid waves in tune
Where naught save night DER sheds n fo.r
Ger laughing isles a-blow,
Just whisper that you love me- Dear.
Ills all care to know.
Oh, tell me not of palace wall.
Where marble statues CLEAN
Ana every slanting sunbeam.
Upon an artists dream.
In vain such splendor woos tho
When all my hearts a-glow,
30 whisper that You love me ne.-
lis all caro- to know.
Samrel M. Peck, in Atlanta Journal
Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1894-07-12
OVER FIFTY YEARS OF SUCCESS.
Notable Career of the John p. Lowell
Arms Company.

Arms Company.
For over half century the John p Lowell
Arms Co. has been looked to as an authority
ON sporting goods and no one who ever had
business dealings with this well known firm
has ever had cause to complain OF unfair treat
ment.
known throughout the country, and the very
mention of the name John p. Lowell Arms Co
Is synonym of honesty and reliability.
John =. Lowell, the founder of the Company
although IA years old, is invariably at his desk
every day to overlook the rapidly increasing
business.
No sharp practices in trade can be laid up
against him. His record for honesty and in
tegrity is irreproachable
Fortunately, Mr.. Lowell has some sturdy and
businesslike sons whom he early associated
with him.
Col. Benjamin S. Lowell, who is endowed
with rare business ability. fills the position of
treasurer OF the Company in a most thorough
manner. he is attached to the Governor of
Massachusetts, staff as was he from 1890 to
1852; was aide-de- camp to Gen. John G. Robin
son IN lS77-lS7S, and served on staff of Gen.
in 1892.
Thos., P. Lowell and H. L. Lowell are the
ColonePs valuable assistants in keeping the
Company to the front
The John P. Lowell Arms Company have
every facility which money, q thorough knowl-
edge OF the business, and the greatest skill
mechanism m can produce to make the Lowell
Diamond" the best bicycle in the world
Every year since its first appearance this BIZ
cycle has been improved, until now it is un-
surpassed in point of material, workmanship.
nnlsn saTety, speed, beauty and easy running
qualities.
Not only is the use of the Lowell Diamond
becoming more widespread in this country,
put foreign dealers are not slow in recognizing
the merit of this machine.
The Lowell Diamond" has the field, and it
has already demonstrated that it is the king
OF bicycles. AS the mountains of New Eng
land stand for all that is substantial in ma
turc, SO does the John p. Lowell Arms Com
pany represent all that is solid and perma-
nent In the business world.-B0stOn Herald.
Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1894-07-12
A BELL WITH NO TONGUE.
To Ring 1t Ono Must Beat 1t Like
Drum.

To Ring 1t Ono Must Beat 1t Like .
Drum.
Here is an interesting bit of New
YORK miscellany. There is q big
Chinese bell in the United States
bonded warehouse at Jefferson and
Front streets which has aroused
much comment since it arrived there
a Few days ago on the steamer
Eoohng Suey. 1t was brought from
China for w. II. Forbes, who was
formerly member of the china house
OF Russell & Co. and who lives at
Newburg.
The bell is nearly as tall as a man
and 1t weighs about1, 900 pounds. Its
greatest diameter is much less than
modern bells of that weight. Wab
Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1894-07-12

n nflfctcd with sore eyes use DIR. Isaac Thomu
sons Eye Wa ter. Druggists sell at &c. bottle.
Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1894-07-12
A Child's Vocabulary.

The statement that a child 81
years OF age would not have more
than $50 words in its vocabulary thai
II was able to use understandinolv
led careful mother to note for a
month the number of words used bv
her child. All the parts of speech
used were recorded, with the result
enat IN thls case the child appeared
TO have a vocabulary of 1925 words
Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1894-07-12

WANTED to loan money to everybody; s. to 800;
" up. interest: easy payu ents; also death ban
eft for old and young not exceeding 5000; cost g.
Send stamp for particulars Agents wanted. Mu-
tual BENEFIT Association RICHMOND, Va. Josiah Ry-
land, Jr., Pres. (Sec. Aud ofvah
Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1894-07-12

WHAT MORE COULD BE ExPECTEDe
docs this new photograph of mine
do me justice, love?" said Miss Gid
dey to her dearest friend. Il does
more" replied Miss Flypp. "It's re-
ally merciful 10 you. "-Harper's Ba-
Zar.
Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1894-07-12

The pleasant effect and perfect safety with
which ladies may use the California liquid lax
makes it their favorite remedy. To get the
true and genuine article, look for the name of
the California Fig Syrup Co., printed near the
bottom of the package.
Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1894-07-12

Halls Catnrrh Cure
Is taken internally. Price Toe.
Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1894-07-12

THE small boy with the seat of his
trousers torn is not landlord, but
he frequently raises the rent by
standing on his head. - Danville
Breeze.
Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1894-07-12
HUMOROUS.

a wit calls his best girl Parsley be.
oa"se' ne says, she is simply soup.
herb.
When the hands of a clock are ar
rested they stop doing time. 1t is
quite different with man.
a New York bootmaker displays
snls notice in his window: 'tDon't Won
WISH you were in my shoes?"
What is the difference between
goose and defeated adversary? One
gives down and the other gives up.
Cholly-Do you think it takes nine
'aiiors TO make man? Algy-Not at
all provided he has credit with one
Last night an awful dream had,
twas dream that made me SILVER.
saw cat fish for shad.
And the shad roe up the river.
After horse dies the people begin
to hear that the owner has refused
hundreds and hundreds of dollars for
it.
'Some men," says the Harlem phil
osopher, care like race horses, their
only ambition being to lower their
records"
Stranger-Is the climate variable
here? Native-No; same sort right
along. Four or five kinds of weather
in one day.
Jillson says the owner of menag-
erie may occasionally lose track of
some OF the other animals, but he in
variably has all his leopards spotted
The moon is growing very thin,
Though beautiful and white
think it needs a little oil
To give better light.
An English provincial paper con-
cludes long obituary with the fol.
lowing unusual notifcation-"S Several
deaths are unavoidably deferred"
"Is my article in the soup?" in
CURED the good natured litterateur.
Not yet, replied the editor, "but I
am going to boil it down pretty soon.
There are two reasons why some
people don't mind their own business
One is that they haven't any mind;
and other, that they haven't any bust
ness.
Mrs. Youngrake "a bride of a day.
Now, Harry, hope you will give
up all your firtations. Mr.. Young
rake-Yes, my dear 1 assure you this
is my last folly.
"My heart is light"
He gaily said.
81 thought, she murmured,
8 Twas your head"
"Well," said Snaggs, 81 think many
dogs have more sense than their mas
ters" eyes" chimed in Craggs, 81
have dog like that myself" (And
yet he couldn't make out why they
laughed.
She-I suppose you sing the classi-
cal song, "Saw My Leg off, 'of course?
He-No, indeed It's the medical
department sings it that way lam in
the law school. We sing it "Pull My
Leg off.
Mrs. Spekezy-Oh, you may not see
any beauty in me now, but you told
me that You fell in love with my face.
Mr.. S.-Yes, my dear; but when 1 fell
in love with your face your features
were in repose.
''There Is no rose without its thorn"
But LIES brief path discloses.
With hearts and fingers sadly torn,
Some thorns without their roses.
Tramp-It's needless to ask you the
question, madam. You know what ]
want. Landlady-Yes, I know what
you want badly, but I've only got one
bar of soap in the house, and the SER
want is using it. Come again some
other time
Mrs. Flora-But, Jack, won't the
people who buy seeds of you be dis
appointed when the seeds they have
planted come up and look SO different
from these gorgeous pictures in your
catalogue. Ms. F. (seedsman)-
there's no trouble about that. The
seeds will never come up.
Robert I.eidlaw, Of England, has
Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1894-07-12

Robert I.cidlaw, Of England, has
given $40. 900 to build q school in cal
cutta, India.
Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1894-07-12

THE leaving ees announce the
coming summer. Lowell Courier.
Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1894-07-12

Sing, Chinese philosopher, says that
the bell goes back TO the time OF
Confucius, but other people who
know things say it is about 200 years
old. The bell has no tongue, but is
beat with q club.
Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1894-07-12

A NEW YORK paper advertises a
great reduction in burial lots. Now
is the time to die.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1894-09-21
An Old Ne ale Tree.

One of the most curious trees in
Germany stands on the left bank of
the river Oder, in Ratibor, Silesia. 1t
is q maple, at least 100 years old, which
has been twisted and cut into sort of
circular two-storied house. A flight
of steps leads up to the first level,
where branches have been gradually
woven together SO that they make a
firm leafy floor above this is a second
floor of smaller diane Ter, formed in
the same way, and the ends of The
branches have been woven into solid
walls, and cut SO that eight windows
light each of the apartments. Below
the first floor, at the level of the
second, and at the top of the tree the
boughs have been allowed to grow out
naturally, while the intermediate walls
and the edges of the windowlike open
ings are kept closely clipped. Detroit
Free Press.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1894-09-21
ENsILAGE BETTER THAN ROOTS.

The corn crop in this country has
always largely taken the place of roots
for feeding stock. Probably if Eng
land could grow corn as the United
States can its growth OF root for cattle
and sheep feeding would be lessened;
but the fact that roots are succulent
food, while dried cornstalks are not,
has to some made it seem q necessity
to grow roots for part Of the winter
ration. Ensllage removes this neces-
sity. It is succulent and has gener-
ally higher nutritive value than has
roots. The greatest of the advantages
of ensilago is that the cutting and fill
ing of the silo is in one operation and
all the work of cutting is done by
horse or steam power. Where roots
are fed there is a daily JOB Of cutting
and slicing them SO that they may be
safely eaten. It is not job big
enough to use horse or steam power,
and the daily task Of slicing roots by
hand labor soon becomes an intoler
able nuisance. Cultivator.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1894-09-21
The Great Salt Lakes Weight.

"During a trip through Utah few
months ago." said A. G.. lowering. of
Kansas City, at tn Laclede last night,
81 witnessed most convincing proof
of the weight of the salt-laden waters
of the Great Salt Lake A strong gale
of wind was blowing over the lake an1
driving its surface into low, white
capped ridges, while along the shore
the foam lay like fiat banks of new
fallen snow. II as strong a wind had
passed across a lake of fresh water of
equal extent it would unquestionably
have produced such an agitation of its
surface that navigation in small boats
would have been difficult, if not high
ly perilous. The waves there showed
q curious resistance to the wind and
rose only to slight elevation. Yet
there was an immense momentum
stirred up in those low, heavy, slow
moving waves. | ventured into the
water at point where the depth did
not exceed three feet, and found that
it was impossible to stand against
them, as their sheer weight swept me
resistlessly along. was told that it
was impossible to dive through an on
coming wave after the manner prac-
ticed by bathers along the Atlantic
coast. st. Louis Globe-Democrat.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1894-09-21
KNOWLEDGE

Brings comfort and improvement and
tends to personal enjoyment when
rightly used. The many, who live bet
ter than others and enjoy life more, with
less expenditure, by more promptly
adapting the worlds best products to
the needs of physical being, will attest
the value to health of the pure liquid
laxative principles embraced in the
remedy, Syrup Of Figs.
Its excellence is due to its presenting
in the form most acceptable and pleas
ant to the taste, the refreshing and truly
beneficial properties of perfect lax.
alive; elfectuaIly cleansing the system,
dispelling colds, headaches and fevers
and permanently curing constipation.
1t has given satisfaction to millions and
met with the approval of the medical
profession, because it acts on the Kid"
neys, Liver and Bowels without weak.
ening them and it is perfectly free from
every Objectionable substance.
Syrup of Figs is for sale by all drug.
gists in soc and 81 bottles, but it is mans
ufactured by the California Fig Syrup
Co. only, whose name is printed on every
package, also the name, Syrup of Figs,
and being well informed, you will not
accept any substitute if offered.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1894-09-21
Famine In Japan.

There is q village called Sammyo-
mura, among the mountains on the
southwest corner of the Province OF
AVA, in Japan. 1t consists OF three
hamlets, and has 600 houses in all.
Being cut off by natural obstacles
from other villages, it still retains its
primitive simplicity, and the in
habitants have always intermarried
and kept an independent spirit of
their own, never asking help, even in
times of greatest difficulty, from other
villages. Recently they have been
invaded by famine. The drought of
last year, followed by a similar alb
sence of rain for seventy days tits
year, have made their crops an utter
tll'ure. Their sugar cane, indigo,
maize, oat and barley fields have
absolutely yielded nothing. But the
villagers, considering it disgrace to
ask help of other villages, resolved to
wait quietly for death. In two of the
hamlets, seventy houses with 334 in
habitants are suffering more terribly
than others from the famine. Their
neighbors can do nothing to help
them, for it is all they can do to keep
themselves alive. At first they fed
on grass and roots; and when they
were exhausted, they ground husks
and bran, and making them into
dumplings, ate them boiled. Even
these fell short. Next they turned
their attention to straw, which was
similarly treated. and now there is
not wisp of straw in the village, he
poor inhabitants lying at night on
bare boarding. Even young men are
now so weak that they cannot handle
their hoes. The matter has been
brought to the attention of the
japanese Government, nd steps are
to be taken for aiding the distressed
villagers. York Sun.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1894-09-21
DO NOT DROWN THE PLANTS.

Even in dry weather stagnant water
IS injurious to plants, III part because
1t browns them by shutting OFF the
air, just as it does with human beings.
The fine fibres Of the root system and
the still finer cells callel root hairs,
are both the lungs and stomach Of the
plants. They take plant food from the
soil, and oxygen from the air which
permeates the soil. The leaves are in
one sense also lungs, as they take car
bonic acid from the air; but it is the
roots which take oxygen rs do human
lungs. If the soil is loose and partially
dry, these root lungs can breathe and
do their work but when the soil IS
kept well soaked and the air is thus
kept out, the underground plant or
gans fail to work, and soon decay.
Soil which has loose wcll-lraine1
surface encourages root extension, and,
at the same time, admits plenty Of air
for them to feed upon. Soil which is
too cold and moist is likewise unfavor-
able to the action of the living mi
crobes, which change over the chem
ical elements in the soil, and adapt
these clements to the use of the
plants. Massachusetts, Ploughman.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1894-09-21
FARM AID GARDEN NOTES.

An ill-ftting harness often makes
the balky horse.
The time to go into business is
when everybody else is going out.
Plant food can nowhere be SO
cheaply obtained as from barn yard
manure. This is particularly true
when the latter can be had for the
gathering.
Hens are in the best condition to
they should be fed sparin ely during
the day, but have hearty meal given
them at night.
If You work your brood marc and
shut the foal in the barn, take care
not to let the little one suckle until
the dam hiss cooled of. Heated milk
often causes serious bowel troubles.
By using bit that hurts you will
teach \ colt to dread the bit and shrink
from it. This should never be. He
should be taught to drive up well on
the bit and yield a quick obedience to
it.
In several comparative trials male
by the Ontario (CAuala) Experiment
Station best results We're obtained
from sowing turnips in drills twenty
inches apart and thinning to eight
inches in the rows.
Now is the time to be giving special
attention to the rams intended for use
next fall. Keep them healthy and fat,
and if they are given a little grain
from time to time they will relish it
and it will help them.
Corn grown for forage or ensilags
should be planted sufficient distance to
allow good growth of ears, and the
best stage to cut to secure the most
dry matter is when the grains have
glazed, or denied il dent varieties, or
when newly ripe.
Sunfower seed, it is we'll known, is
a good egg producing food for chick
ems it is also fine food to give the
plumage a glossy appearance for ex-
hibition purposes. The Russian sun
flower is very productive, and may be
planted in fence corners or out-of-the>
way places.
1t is said that peach yellows may be
largely if not wholly avoided by the
use of potash-not the meagre 100
pounds per acre, but an application of
ten times that amount. Proof of this
statement is offered in the fact that
peach trees grown on new lanl are al
ways healthy and vigorous.
A dry COW should be fed we'll
enough to keep her in good condition,
but not SO well as to make her fat
1t is not to be forgotten that the con-
ditlon of the calf depends greatly on
that of the COW, and that this will
suffer before the COW does if the food
is not sufficient to maintain both in
good health.
Professor Robertson has ascertained
that by churning sweet cream at forty
six degrees temperature all the butter
fat can be recovered, but it takes
about thirty minutes longer to do the
churning. Ripened cream he churns
at from fiftyfour to tifty-f degrees
in summer and fifty eight to sixty de-
grees in winter.
At a meeting of the local branch of
the South Australian Bureau of Agri-
culture, member stated that he had
raised and sold fifty pigs at a cost of
less than twelve cents each for feed.
He had kept them in an enclosure
where they fed off an early crop of
barley and were then fattened on
melons, the latter being a profitable
food for the purpose,