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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-06-25

period to make us in most cases cog
INFANT of their being and formation. 1t
was clear perception which a few years
ago permitted an Austrian geologist, not
less eminent as a parliamentarian than as
a man of science, Professor Edward Suess,
to recognize that what the earth
largely engaged in doing at the present
time was the reverse of mountain max
ing, although yet closely associated with
that process. 1t is, plainly speaking. fall
ing to pieces within itself, slice after slice,
section after section, dropping away from
the surface and acquiring positions nearer
and nearer to the ipatle,ary center. Not
only at this time, btit probably at all times
has this notion been taking place, and not
in one continent aiona, but in all CONT
nents has this peculiar work of dismem-
berment been adjusting itself. Again,
the oceanic areas as we'll the land sur
faces have felt the force of this extraor-
binary partitioning which has left but
tresses and alternating sunken areas to
mark out the existing relief of the entire
terrestrial surface.
Fallen "BlOcks" of the Earth.
The earth is gently crumbling, and
seemingly it has been so crumbling from
the time Of its first formation. The deep
scattered pits of the surface are evidences
of this, the ASSOCIATED parts of archipela-
goes the same In the great trough of the
Mediterranean we have q fallen block, of
the combination OF a number of fallen
blocks, measuring the better part of 900
miles in length, and descending to depths
Of 10000 and l., UO0 feet The Gulf of Mexi-
co seemingly presents us with counter
part of the same structure and in the
broken islands which mark it's eastern
boundary-themselves the remaining frag-
mented parts OF the great Andean system
of mountains which swept northeastward
through the South American continent-We
have the analogous OF those hundreds or
thousands of islands and islets which, as
the Grecian archipelago, dot the eastern
Mediterranean, and testify to the former
existence of a continuous continental area
The narrow basin of the Red sea is another
such Sunken trough, the Gulf of California
still another, and perhaps also the deep es-
tuary OF the st. Lawrence river The de-
pressions of the Dead sea and Of the River
the American side, the famous valley OF
the Yosemite, with its steeply faced and
pitching rocks. rising in imposing grandeur
thousands of feet, as the rift walls of the
Sunken chaSm. The continent of North
America has been riven from that Of Asia,
and 1t has left as part traces of the frac-
ture the line of Aieutian Islands, which
trend in the direction of the former con-
nection. South America has similarly been
disrupted from its former Antarctic aSSo-
Citations, but the connection here also left
its traces in the South Shetland Islands in
South Georgia, and in the archipelago of
Graham Land. But OF all the remarkable
dislocations none equals in interest that
which has latterly been described from the
heart of Africa, and to which its discover
er, DIR. J. w. Gregory of the British Mu-
scum, has given the name of the Great Rift
valley. ANGELO HEILPRIN.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-06-25
He Says He Can Ride, but Not That He
Does.

A report got In circulation to the effect
that Bob Burdette was dead. The Burling-
ton "HaWkeye," with which the humorist
was formerly associated, denied the rumor,
and Bob confirms the denial in the follow
ing letter to the editor:
Bryn Mawr, Pa, June H. 1S97.-My Dear
Waite: Like the true friend and loyal COM
rade you ever were, you do right to pro-
test against my burial prior to the autopsy.
am, indeed, very much alive. Not only
so, l haven't been dead even a little bit.
Not once. Could have been. had l wanted
to be. Could be yet. But l don't want.
May be 1 ought to be, even now. But, as
we make weekly confession-"we have left
undone those things which we ought to
have doLe."
Possibly the rumor that have gone dead
grew out Of the fact that l have learned
to ride bicycle. Il say. have learned"
Not Am learning. Learned in one lesson.
All by myself. u Is
Went out in the moonlight last Friday
right to learn. having first locked my FAM
lily in the house and forbade them to look
on the turnpike-the Bfyn Mawr pixies are
broader than the way to destruction, twice
as smooth and much CLEANER. It's young
ticycle-a colt foaled in 81. Would give
the name but for the fact thaNI had to pay
for the wheel Will only say, therefore, in
accordance with tie ethics of our profess
sion. that it is not the wheel anybody says
1t is. :" IL
1 held him by the withers right in the
middle of the road. and mounted without
assistance. u
1 disinounted in the same Independent
manner.
Got on again ana proceeded to break
+ i'm to saddle.
Did ride the first time?
Well, say!
People had told me-liars Of all ages and
both sexes-that I couldn't fall IT, when
felt that I was falling, would stick out
my foot.
I stuck out both feet and both hands and
fell on my head.
| fell on one side Of that diabolical wheel
and then on the other: fell on both sides
at once; fell on top OF 1t and underneath
it, and made dog falls with 1t. I fell be-
tween the wheels. l fell behind the hind
wheel and before the front one at the same
time and don't know yet how I did it. I fell
end thrust both legs through the spokes
of one wheel. I met terrified man In a
buggy and drove him clear off the pike
through Wheeler's hedge, and don't think
he has come back yet Every time fell I
slapped the palms Of my raw, swollen.
throbbing hands on the hard 'inelastia''
pike. except the time fell on my head. I
fell harder ard with greater variety of
landing than any man could fall unless he
dropped out Of balloon and lit in q load
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-06-25

Compared with a new hemp rope, the as
bestos rope has two-thirds of its strength.
but as the ropes get older the proper
ton is altered in favor of asbestos ropes
since they suffer but verY little from the
Influences of the atmosphere
Another novel application of this mater
lai Is the working Of blue asbestos fiber
into mattresses for hospitals. They are
cooler in summer and warmer in winter
than those made either of animal hair or
vegetable fiber. and no vermin can live
IN thls mattress. Experiments are now
being made of working the fiber into cloth
for firemen's apparel. OF course the long
hber Of blue asbestos can also be employ.
ed for all the uses to which white asbestos
has been Put heretofore. While a triha
more expensive its superior qualities max.
it well worth the difference
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-06-25
An Accommodating Officer.

From the Denver Times.
A prominent physician, DR.. Gildea, was
arrested at Colorado Springs this morn
irg for leaving his horses on the street
without hitching them. When taken to
court the judge ordered the doctor to ap-
pear at 8 o'clock tomorrow morning to
plead to the charge. Turning to the city
marshal the doctor said:
II can't be here tomorrow"
why not?' asked the marshal.
Because am to be married tonight and
am going away" was the reply.
''All right" said the marshal. ''Tn ap-
pear for you and plead guilty tomorrow"
VERY well,'' said the doctor; you do
that and pay my fine. Send the bill to my
office and will pay 1t on my return"
The marshal assented and the doctor left
the court room greatly relieved.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-06-25

In some of the cities of Europe the cost
OF putting cut fire is made charge mo,
the property of the person for whose ben
eft the fire department Is called out.
A German statistician says that of every
Io.VVo ciimneys three are struck by light
ming. while of the same number of towers
and windmills sixty and eighty. respective
ly. are struck.
Want ads. in The Star pay because
they bring answers.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-06-25
Is Thicker Than It Was Once Thought
to Be.
Bot STILL IT Is NONE TOO DURABLE
Changes It Has Undergone and is
Now Undergoing.
OF THE LAND
Written for The Evening Star.

Written for The Evening Star.
The was time, hardly a quarter of
century ago. when the belief was preva-
lent that all that there was of living on
the earth was foated on a thin crust per-
haps 30 or 100 miles thick The scientific
world had begun to know better, and 500
or 600 miles were substituted as the mar
gin of security which separated the des-
TIMES of humanity from the seething
flames of an ignoble neither world. but
with mankind generally the earlier no
tons still held almost full sway. Grad
ually the more modern belief in terres-
trial solidity pushed its seeds into the ger
mlnating mind, and today there is hardly
a scientist who is not prepared to accept
the view that our planet is virtually solid
10 It's core, or that it might be SO without
the condition doing violence to any known
Facts OF astronomy, physics or geology
What does this signify? Does it imply that
eartn movements are no longer possible,
that those vast disturbances and disloca-
lions nave come to an end which in past
periods of the earths history have repeat
edly or successfully lowered up high noun
tain walls, raised beaches hundreds or
thousands Of feet above water level and
separated continents and entombed oceanic
waters? Assuredly such is not fully the
case for even in our own day it requires
no scientific intelligence to inform us that
earth-movements of kind or another
are still taking place, and on scale which
might readily be taken to be confirmative
Of the belief in a "thinly floating crust.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-06-25
Rearing or Making Mountains

=,
If the geologist were to appeal to the
e'rth Tor the best evidence touching sue
tesslve ana broadly reaching movements Of
the crust he would probably instinctiyely
turn to the testimony Of the larger no,n-
tain systems.
All the main mountain masses of tho
globe have been formed in association with
earth movements; the crust has been
tossed and twirled and beloved I'D to make
the great ridges which are the mounta:n
backbones-backbones which, as in the case
OF the rockies and the Andes are thou-
saI DIS OF miles in length, or, like that of
the central Asiatic chain tower the bet
te' part of six miles into the air In the
struggle OF this making the rocks have
heen rent, twisted and fractured and
whole mot ntain tuttresses have been NOV
ed or sheared bodily for miles in a stretch
over the shoulders Of their predecessors
OF the land; others have been turned over
on their heads, and row stand with what
was formerly their innermost parts nro
jecting to plain air. Such is the history of
the COMMISSIONS of the terrestrial sur
face-c6 rvulsions, however, only in name
ana III the ultimate grand effects that were
produced, for the action itself that caused
the tIai sformation was a slowly operating
one, requiring perhaps, thousands of years
for its full consummation
II might reasonably have been expected
that the earlier periods of the earth;s bis
tory, when there was still true crust of
only moderate thickness, slowly adiusting
itself to the shrinking interior, could he the
periods of greatest mountain making dis
turbances. and would show the mountains
OF greatest elevation and magnitude. and
that from that time on there would he a
gradual restriction or diminution of the
phenomena, with a complete cessation on
the earth's acquiring its solid or nearly
solid form. Whether this has been to an
extent the case or not, present facts hardly
permit a definite answer; but thew do in.
form us that mountain making has been
most energettcally carried on until a COM
paratively recent period Of geological time
and that the later mountains formed were
of a magnitude that could easily be com
pared with those Of the earliest of which
geology gives record Witness the Hima-
layas, which were reared aloft perha ps not
more than a million years ago-possib,y at
time much less distant; the Alps the
Andes of much the same epoch. To an
proximately the same time dates back that
far-reaching congressional force which be-
gan to heave up the vast plateau mass of
the western United States. and raised II
to height which permitted canyons to be
cut into 1t to depths of 5000 feet and more.
breaking Down the Crust.
The earth. doubtless, still moves. and
mountains are being constructed in our
| own days, but their slow manufacture
prevents lifetime or even historic
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-06-25

OF the fifty-four trotters in the 2.1O list
all but four have the blood of old Hamble
tonian in their veins, and of the I46 no go,
In the 21O list all but twenty three trace
to him. =
Switzerland has the largest army of anv
nation in Europe in proportion to its pop-
ulation.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-06-25

MEMS SUITS Black serge, navy blue
plaidS and oveTplIids. hair-linc. Scotch
tweed. etc Much ADD is being made of
suits made of short ends nj 81 Eless
you-thcy aIcut in it. Would pale into
utter insiSn'ficance If put side hy side q K
with these Incompatible creations Sale aDU
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-06-25

II told him would stake my reputation
upon It,"
What did he say?"
THAT he wasn't offering odds."-Puck
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-06-25

1t ls, however fact that following IN
the wake of many earthquakes and in
some cases probably, origina ting the earth
quakes themselves rather than being Ilide
by them, are permanent displacements OF
the land which have considerable value
rises and falls of from 10 to 70 feet or more
having been positively determined In tire
earthquake of Corinth in Greece, in 1861,
drop Of the land Of two feet was recorded
over an area of thirteen square kilometers
IN Calabria in the early part of the last CEN
fury, subsistence of the land of full ~
feet was registered, and, again, IN lSl1-l2
the earthquake which extended for hun
dreds of miles along the valley Of the Mis-
sissippi left its impress by lowering the
surface of considerable area in southern
Illinois. and forming there lake basins of no
insignificant area After an interval CT
nearly ninety years the former equality has
not yet been re-established.
Movements of this kind are in most eases
the expression of actual breakages in the
rocky crust-fractures through the rock OF
possibly thousands of feet Of thickness
which have allowed of the disbursement
taking place. But how insignificant are
THESE breaks when contrasted with those
of past periods of the earths history Whe re
the vertical displacements of the rock in a
single fracture are as much AS 1o,UU and
2ooD feet-nay, 10000 or ~, 900 feet in some
instances, as the American mountains 81
lently bear witness. But yet these ma ior
dreds of years, or perhaps even thousands.
may have been involved in their making.
they had beginning and continuance
and 1t is by no means certain that the
MINOR dlslocatlons OF our own days are rot
the beginnings of more momeatous epi-
sodes of the future. The present evidence
can naturally touch only an event of The
gay the future must tell the rest
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-06-25

II you want anything. try an ad. In The
Star. II anybody has what you wish. yo1
will get an answer.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-06-25


Earthquake movements are of all ter
restrial oscillations the most familiar to
US. Japan has it's 300 or 400 shocks year.
ly, sometimes, indeed, monthly and if the
minor shocks are taken count of nearly
that number are known to take place in
closely in the race, and other regions of
the earth's surface-the north of South
America. for eXample-lag but little be-
mind. Most of these Shocks however rep
resent but insignificant movements of the
land surface, quarter of an inch, a half
OF an inch. either vertically or laterallv
suffices to make the earthquake apDarent-
ly catastrophe, and truly catastrouhic so
lar as the work of destruction is concern
ed. Buildings are overturned walls are
rent asGnder and bridges undermined in
their supporting buttresses-as witness the
power of the weak earthquake of the
Riviera of 1856. They may appear mo-
nentous In their application to the posi-
DllitleS OF the crust, seemingly proving the
non-nxlty of the base upon which we live
out as a matter of fact they are generally
only an amDltication of the ordinary ire
mors which are occasioned by the fall of
any heaVy body, by the passage over a
iouen roadway OF laden vehicle, or by
tne dlscharge of electricity the explo-
SIGN OF gunpowder. The observations in
South Africa and elsewhere by Prof Geo.
Darwin make IT certain that in so far as
Such tremorS are concerned the planet is
IN a state oil continuous unrest and that
at no place, not even in pit or deep shaft
ana at no time, is it exempt in such a way
,hat tremors or minor earthquakes cannot
De detected by instruments of only a mod
crate degree of precision or fineness.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1897-09-16
Hoed Crops on Sod.

So far as possible the farmer ought
to have sod land on which to grow all
hoed crops. He cannot usually make
nearly enough manure to fertilize all
that he wants to plant to corn or pota-
toes. If there is q sod to be rotting
during the summer a moderate dress
ing Of commercial fertilizers will in
sure as great success as he could usual
~ depend upon with dressing Of ma
nure on land that has been naked
through the winter. Possibly the sod
may not equal in value the plant nutri-
ton furnished by dressing of stable
manure, but the sod will be more sure
to rot if the season be dry, and thus
make up in availability what it lacks
in fertilizing power. If the sod be
mainly of clover, the fertility it will
add to the soil will be as great as is
given with the manure dressings, es-
peciauy if applied just after the land
is DlOwed
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1897-09-16
Poor Mixers.

Success in dairying must depend not
only on having cows able to give lib
eral mess and keep at it, but also on
the kind of mixers employed. A care
less, lazy mixer will easily lose more
than his wages during the time he is
employed. Not only this, but he will
quickly convert really good cow into
a poor one The milk which the careless
mixer leaves in the udder is always
that which has the largest amount Of
butter fats. II it is not drawn the fat
is reabsorbed into the COW and helps
to dry her off. The difficulty in get
ting help that can be depended on is
the great drawback in running large
dairy farm. 1t is also no light job to
milk ten, twelve or more cows twice
every day. 1t will make any mans
hands tired until he becomes used to it.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1897-09-16
Fruits Canned at Home.

1t is said the American stomach Lao
universally suffered from tt use OF
canned goods. This, of course, applies
only to bought goods which contain
some chemical to preserve them. Peas,
beans and tomatoes are treated to pre-
serve their color, and with the excep-
ton Of tomatoes all vegetables, it is
said, contain something to prevent fer
mentatiOn. Fruits, being without
starcn, keep more easily than vegeta-
bles, but many are var:ously treated to
insure their fair appearance as COM
mercial articles. Nearly all fruits.
and some vegetables, are easily canned
for winter use; and if housekeeper
once supplies her own storeroom,
bought goods will never after have an
attraction for her. It is a mystery
why we use bought canned +omatoes
when we are so often warned against
their injurious effects, aid when home
canned ones are so much te ter, alto
gether wholesome, so easily prepared
and keep SO well. Perhap- it is because
OF an impression that the bought ones,
at nine or ten cents a can, are cheaper
This is not the case. The first cost OF
quart Jars, at retail, is sixty cents a
dozen. Tomatoes, at the eight of their
season, can be bought, even in cities, at
twenty-five or even twenty cents a
bushel. So even the first season a
quart jar would not cost ten cents, and
after that the cost of the jars Can be
subtracted, making the cost of the can
ned vegetable acknowledgements
Home Companion.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1897-09-16
Tim Der.

A country cannot continue to be pop
nlous nor highly civilized when its for
ests, or their equivalent in coal, are lost
to 1t. But this loss has been expert
enced by many nations The whole
Eastern world was once we'll wooded.
Roman and Greek writer's assure us Of
this. Vast regions Of Europe and
Asia, by wars and wantonness and
1mprudence, have been stripped Of
their forests. A belt of woodland
stretching from the Pyrenees to the
Himalayas has been swept away, and
that whole region, once fertile and pop
ulous, now barely sustains people
scanty in numbers. It Is significant
fact that great deserts now occupy the
original seat Of the human race, and
extend on every route Of their migra-
tons. Humboldt is reported as saying
"Men in all climates seem to bring up
on future generations two calamities at
once-a want of fuel and scarcity OF
water" The two come alike from the
destruction Of the forests.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1897-09-16
A Cold Stove.

A late invention is a cold stove. II
is for use in the heated months of sum-
mer for reducing the temperature. By
the use of salt, small quantity of ice
and patented chemical the most in
tense degree of cold is secured. 1t is
as dangerous to touch this stove when
in operation as it would be to place the
hand on fire stove at a high degree
of heat. The skin is instantly taken
off and painful injuries are the result
of the slightest contact. The inventor
claims that during the hottest weather
the temperature of a room may be run
down and made pleasant by the use Of
this novel device. The cost of operat-
ing the stove is slight.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1897-09-16
Household Hints.

All children, girls as well as boys
should be taught self-reliance.
Sprains may be greatly relieTed by
the use of poultices of hops or tansy.
Olive oil Is gentle laxative and
should be freely used.
Every household should possess pair
of scissors for trimming lamp wicks.
Clean rusty steel buckles with paste
of olive oil and whiting, laid on for
some time and then brushed off brisklys
give a final polish with dry whiting.
Clean soiled white felt hat by COW
ering it with paste made of magnesia
and cold water. Let this dry OH thor
oughly, then brush off with clean,
soft brush.
To remove the odor of iodoform from,
utensils or the hands, add little tur-
pentine to the water in which they ara
washed; then give them good bath In
soap and water.