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The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1902-05-03
NEED OF A FOREST RESERVE IN
SOUTHERN APPALACHIAN REGION
ysnarFU MaEaD SERMONS Carolina


m I Appalachian forest reserve
M bill calls for an appropria-
4 ! ton of 10000, 900 to purchase
100000 acres of land in the Southern
Appalachian region, the present mar
ket value of which is $3.50 to S. an
acre. Of the amount OF the appro-
priation, 100000 is to be spent in
the next two years
We contend that this is not a new
policy, because the Government has
established in the last ten years for
ty-one park reservations. all of which
are located west of the Mississippi
River. These parks were organized
from Government land, and in that
respect differ from my bill. 1t is a
difference without a distinction, how
ever, because the lands out of which
they are organized constitute a ma
tional asset, and if not used for this
purpose viii be sold and the money
go into the United States Treasury.
There is no difference between appro-
priating the property or the money
Of the people
One of these reservations was es-
tablished in part by lands actually
purchased by the Government, and is
on all-fours with the proposition in
my bill As to the public interest to
be affected, on account of the great
waterfall in the southern Appalachian
region, it being between 20 and 100
inches per annum, if you remove the
forest covering of these mountains
it viii only be a comparatively short
time before the upper soil viii be
washed away. When this soil is wash
ed away it IS taken down into streams
constituting the natural drafn.-ay.
The heavier part of it is deposited
The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1902-05-03
THE PASSING OF MANY
BEAUTIFUL MAY DAY CUSTOMS

= = OST Of the customs that once
M made the LIST Of May a beauti-
VI full festival in England and
continental Europe have long
since passed away and we know them
now only as they have been celebrated in
song and story Some, however. still re-
Rain in England, France, and Germany,
but only a few. a very. very few. Out
Of the many that were once pTacticed in
London. but one is observed today. and
this observance is generally confined to
the poorer quarters of the city. The
chimney sweeps have never failed to
celebrate May day in their own peculiar
manner, and viii doubtless go through
TIE same ceremony along the streets Of
the East End this morning that they
have done from time to time almost i'm
memorial. They usually go about in
parties Of fve-four men and one woman.
The woman is CARRIED in a white dress
literally stTewn with spangles. and her
head IS adorned with a wreath OF pink
and white flowers. Three of the men are
adorned with clothing Of fantastic DE-
signs, and carry flies and drums The
fourth is termed the Jack-in-t the green,
and is almost entirely concealed in a
framework covered with leaves and fow-
ers, and with a small Tag waving at the
top. The ceremony is simple The Jack
in-the-green and the woman dance in the
various public houses visited, to the
music Of flies and drums. played by the
others in the party, after which col
lection is taken up by the woman from
among the bystanders, while May day
carol is sung by the men. That ter
inmates the celebration; and the party
proceeds on its way TO repeat 1t else
where.
In Edinburgh the women of the poorer
classes may still be seen out in the
suburbs early On the May day morning
washing their faces in the dew gathered
from the grass and bushes. This is a
survival of a medieval belief that the
dew which fell on the night preceding
the 1st of May was panacea for all
manner of facial bIemishes. and the girls
The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1902-05-03
Ex-President Cleveland Describes
Him IL Different Situations.


ticUla: formula is used. 1t should ct once
be followed by a decided command to
the guide in attendance to watch the
disappearing duck and mark where it
falls. The fact shouid be here mentioned
that the complete enjoyment of this pro-
eeeeing depends largely upon the fact
and Intelligence of the guide. II with
these he has due appreciation of his re-
sponseibfIity as an adjunct TO the sport.
and is also in proper accord with his
principal, he viii give ready support to
the claim that the duck is mortaIly
wounded, at the same time shrewdly and
with apparent depression suggesting the
improbabiity OF recovering the slain.
II as the hours wear away this process
becomes so monetonous as to be fatiguing,
a restful variety may be introduced by
guardcdly acknowledging an occasional
miss, and bringing into play the excuses
and explanations appropriate to such al
tered conditions h very useful way of
accounting Tor 4 shot missed is by the
suggestion that through a slightly erro-
neous calculation Of distance the duck was
out of range when the shot was fired A
very frequent and rather gratifying pre-
text for avoiding chagrin in case Of long
shot missed is found in the claim that.
though the sound of shot striking tbs
bird is distinctly heard, their penetration
is Ineffective Sometimes failure Is at
tributed to the towering or turning of the
duck at the instant Of the guns dis
charge. It is at times useful to imPute
failure to the probability that the par
iicuIar cartridge used was stale and weak:
and when all these are fnadmissiBIe, the
small size of the shot and the faulty quail
-ty Of powder they contain. and. in ex-
IRENE cases, their constructor may be
roundiy cursed as causes for miscar-
rage of fatal results.
The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1902-05-03

cause they have only about half
the annual rainfall as in these
mountains. but this section is
chiefly protected against the re-
suits of defOrestation by the great
lakes and the deep gravel sand de
posts found everywhere on the sur
face of that area. which act as res
erv0ir for the storage of water. and
preserves the regularity of the flow
of the streams. Also the vigorous
grass growth of that section, even
where the forest has been cleared.
forms a dense sod which holds the
soil together, thereby protecting it
from erosion.
None of these conditions exist in
the southern Appalachian region and
it is absolutely true that the forest
covering of these mountains is their
only protection against land erosion
and ultimate destruction. Nine OF
the greatest rivers flowing into the
South Atlantic and the Gulf of Mex
leo, including the Tennessee and the
kanawha, tributaries of the Ohio.
would be affected by the rapid de-
forestatioR going on in this noun
tain region, for they ali take their
rise there. TwentY-four per cent of
the area included in this forest re-
serve has already been cleared, and
the destructiYeness of the floods
there has increased in proportion to
this clearing, and viii continue to in
crease as the population and the
clearing IN this section progresses
France is now engaged in scheme
OF forest reservation, IN which It IS
spending $50 an acre for the purchase
and reforestation OF 100000 acres, to
save from destruction valuable lands
threatened with destruction as the
result of the deforestation of the
mountains of Southern France.
The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1902-05-03
LEGISLATION TO REGULATE THE
ADULTERATTON OF FOOD PRODUCTS
By Senator PORTER J. MccUmBER, of Roth Dakota.

AM deeply interested legislation supplement-
ing the efforts of the States
food products Representing agricultural nau
rally interested in that which believe especial
:
1t is safe estimate say
adulterated food annually
value between three and billions Of
ucts while less hahful competition
products of he farm
The
example OF this character of competition product
agriculture outside potatoes
competition with kind of adulterated
1t be said that
used in the United large percentage honey
consumed 1t is of the
market With little coloring favorfng
ed into any kind of syrup. honey, jelly
Nearly State the Union against
branded articles
because
importation and sale of products shipped from another State
protected under the interstate
In the bill introduced
Hepburn BILL the Government
hbtng the Importation of adueate drugs
they
that all persons know what they purchasing
The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1902-05-03
HER LAST SLEEP.

When she lay down for her last sleep
The violet sky s1one through the vines
that creep
Across the window, and a gold shaft fell
Upon her hair: and 10. as If TO tell
Her all was well. from out the trembling
tree
There came lone birds vesper song;
then free
From pain she looked into my saddened
face.
And gently smiling. babe me pray for
grace
To bear nv grief, and told me not to
weep
When she had closed her ewes in her
last sleep.
Yet when she died I fell beside
Her couch and kissed her hair and lips.
and cried
Aloud in anguish. There throughout the
night
I kneIt, until, with specter hands, the
light
OF dawn touched her dear face, and they
led
Me blind with grief away. My world was
dead
All life was but a mockery Of fate!
And now ! wander iistlessly and wait
The hour when Death shall come with
shadows deep.
And I shall lie beside her fast asleep.
John Luther renizer in Boston Trans
cript-
The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1902-05-03
Old-Time Dominies.

The length, breadth, depth, and
thoroughness OF the Scottish sermon
of the eighteenth century were vivid
| " portrayed by Dr.. Watson, better
known as Ian Maclaren, at the Royal
Institution yesterday. A subject, as
he remarked. vas thoroughly thrashed
! out in those days One text furnished
a minister with eight sermons; an
other spread his comments and ex-
plantations upon a passage Of eight
verses over a period Of nine months.
while a third commenced a course OF
addresses to his congregation on the
epistIe Of St James in 1856, and
whole generation had passed away
before it was completed in 1892 Even
the endurance Of Scotch congregations
seems sometimes to have been IN
equal to these great trials, and an
order had to be issued that the PEG
pie should not entertain their neigh
bors with discourses while the min
lister was holding forth.
1t must have been easy to slip into
heresy in those days. The declaration
Of a stern Cameronian Of the middle
Of the century. which had fortunately
been preserved, indicates the ready
pitfalls for the feet = leave my pro
test. said he. against all sectarian
errors. heresies, and blasphemies,
particularly Arianism. Erastianism.
Socialism, Quakerism. Deism. Bourig-
ianism, Familism. Scepticism. Ana
baptism. MilIenarfanism. PeIagianism,
CampbeaiaZism. Whitfeldism, Lati-
tudiarian.sr., and Independently, and
ali other sscts and sorts tsIat main
tain any error, heresy, or blasphemy
that IS contrary to the word Of God,
particularly the federation granted by
the sectarian usurper. Oliver Crom- /
well, 1.-THE anti-C Christian federation /
granted by the Duke OF York, and the 4
present continued federation granted /
by the wicked JeZebel. the pretended I
Queen Anne. LONDON Chronicle.
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in the channel, filing it up. thus de
stroying the navigation of the great
rivers taking their rise in these
mountains, by sitting up the channel
down to the harbor.
Another effect IS that the water
which would be held b. the forest
covering until it was soaked into the
soil, where if would beIretained as N
a reservoir. and delivered weeks
and months afterwards to the
drainway, thus preserving the
regularity of the : water flow,
is suddenly precipitated into these
streams, causing great floods,
or freshets, WHICH overflow the
banks, and wash away the light sur
face of the valley lands, or in cases
where the surfaceiis firm and resists
washing, the lighter sandy elements
of this soil erosion Is deposited upoa
these lands, sometimes burying them
ir banks of sand from three to seven
feet deep.
The effect of these floods caused by
deforestation upon navigation of
streams is apparent. The effect upon
the water power of the streams is
also seIf-evident The Secretary of
the Treasury in his report estimates
the damage to agriculture and manu-
facture along the rivers rising IN
these mountains, by the floods of the
last twelve months at SIS, 100000.
The lands in the far West where
they have no forest are protected
from these disastrous results by the
small rainfall they have there, being
only 20 inches annually, as against
20 to 100 IN these mountains. Like
wise in New England and the Norti.
as far west as Minnesota, the
land is similarly protected, be-
The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1902-05-03
THE SERENE
DUCK HUNTER

7 T is quite likely that his first oppor-
tunity TO shoot will be presented
i when single duck hoYers over the
decoys, and IS it poIses itself offers
as easy target as If sitting on a fence
Our hunters gun is ceoIly and gracefully
raised, and simultaneously with it's dis
charge the duck falls helplessIy into the
water. This is a situation that calls for
no word to be spoken Merely q self
satisfied and almost Indifferent expression
Of conference should indicate that only
the expected has happened. and that duck
killing IS to be the order of the day.
Perhaps after reasonable walt an
ether venturesome duck will enter the
zone Of danger and pass with steady
fight over the decoys easily within shoot
ing distance. Again the gun OF our Sc
rene hunter gives voice, summoning the
bird to instant death. To an impartial
observer, however, such a course would
not seem to be in accordance with the
ducks arrangements This Is plainly in
Dictated by such an acceleratioa of fight
as would naturally follow the noise of
the guns discharge and the whistling of
the shot in the rear OF the expected vic
tim
This is the moment when the man be-
hind the gun should rise to the occasion,
and under the rule governing the case
should without the least delay or hesi-
tation insist that the duck is hit This
may be done by the dse Of one of sew
eral appropriate excIamations-aII having
the sanction OF precedent and long use
One which is quite clear and emphatic
is to the effect that the fleeing duck Is
lead ballasted," and another easily IN
der5tOOd is that it has got dose. and
still another OF no uncertain meaning
that it is full of shot Whatever par
The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1902-05-03

From a sanitary standpoint, the
waterway is a disgrace to an enter
prising city that seeks TO obey the
laws of health. 1t is obsolete and
dangerous, an eyesore to the people;
in fact, monstrosity that should not
be permitted to exist. Tt is to be
hoped that the intelligent gentlemen
who alone possess the power to grant
relief VIII consider it an immediate
duty to take the necessary action in
the premises.
The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1902-05-03
ADULTERATION'S LIMIT
B. W. D. NEsRIT, in @what to Eat"

We've stood for almost every food aduIteraon
And uttered but the mildest
The coffee might be filed with beans by methods undeanded
The might be bits of bark all the
But novs the time speak loud febly
They're putting artificial hairs in artificial baterl
It's bad enough to know that half the
the lard cottonseedwe'I
It's rather rough to be informed that waters the whisky
Oil things pretty
They're putting n utterI
We've assured that olive oil is rendered
say humble cheating master;
furthermore, the pumpkin qucunch
of orchard urnip and of pumpkin bears to
with aautter
They're putting artif in
finding strands, light
coniuring impressions of the princess dairy.
weak stronger
they'd keep dreamings any longer
We We warry
They're putting artificial hairs artificial
The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1902-05-03
SHOULD BE ABOLISHED

The appeal of the District Commits
sioneTs for the sanction of Congress
in the work of abolishing that death
trap known as the James Creek Ca
nal IS q most reasonable one Within
the past few weeks several bodies
have been taken from the sluggish
waters of the ditch and the Chief of
Police has asserted that the lives of
citizens in that section are constantly
endangered because of insufficient
protection against accidents.
The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1902-05-03
The Cape to Cairo.

According to the latest adyices the Cape
to Cairo Railway has been surveyed as far
as the Zambesi. where a great steel bridge
having one span of 500 feet will carry the
line across the river at Victoria Falls
The whole section, from Buluwayo to the
Zambesi-Z75 miles in length, OF nearly
LOO from Cape Towns expected to be
opened next year. Locomotives for con-
tractors purposes are now running on it
for a short distance north of the present
terminus, and g railway exploration
party has been dispatched over the rail-
way route beyond Victoria Falls as far as
Tanganyika. For forty miles north Of
Buluwayo the earthworks are more or less
complete, bridging work on the Victoria
Falls section is in progress, and about
five miles of line are finished The work
OF connecting the Buiuwayo and Salisbury
sections is also proceeding rapidly, and
rails have already been laid from Sails
bury to Sebakwe, a distance of sixty
miles. From the BuIuwayo end Of this
line the railroad has reached the Arguza
River. so that when this gap is filed in
and the line completed, as is expected
by the end of the present year. trains
will be able 20 run from Cape Town to
Delagoa Bay, via Buluwayo, Salisbury.
and Umtali.
The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1902-05-03
a Private Onininn

The OpeTator-I'm afraid when wire
less telegraphy is perfected I'll have to
find other work than operating.
Uncle Jason--No, ye won't; Just come
tew Kansas.
The oDerator-Why, don't you think the
Marconi system viii work in that State?
Uncle Jason-Wa-al, I'll bet a dollar
that the wireless telegraph message that
gets struck by a Kansas cyclone viii Join
the ranks Nv the letter that never camel
-PIfck
The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1902-05-03
SONG OF SPRING.
b DAIsY LOIS WEppING.

My sad heart mourned the cherished
hours
That persisted With the burial Of the
flowers
But oh, I saw the BUDDHISM OF the
youthful spring,
I heard the futter OF an azure wing.
The brook, anburdened of its icy sigh,
Became the liquid mirror OF the sap
phire sky;
The balmy air. with laughter wild and
free,
Bore rapturous greeting to the wait
ing sea
My soul arose from out the mist CT
tears,
AS when the first faint CLEAN OF mo-r.
!. appears;
3 Ny spirit caught the thrill OF bliss.
And trembled at the touch OF spring
times kiss
Oh. soul. mourn not for days death
banished far,
But rise and clasp the rapture Of the
days that are.
The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1902-05-03
He Explained It.

A negro who had been arrested on sus-
picion gave himself away" in a clever
reply to a question recently
How old are you asked the justice.
81 dunno, sub
''You don't know your own age?"
mo, sub
''Weu, now, that's strange!"
you may think so now, suh,' was the
reply but wen you hez been in de peni-
Tertiary ez long ez I hez, you'll lose track
er time too"
The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1902-05-03
Sufficient Evidence

Father-Can you give me any assur-
ance that you are able to support my
daughter?
Suitor-Cortainly, here are seventeen
medals g>t for rescuing persons from
drowning la It summer.-Chelsea Gazette.
The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1902-05-03
Ich Denke DeiR.
The German Of Goethe, Paraphro-ed.
By De Witt c. sprague

By De Witt C. sprague.
l think of thee when the rosy morn
Comes DER the lea,
And shiTnmering kues the East adorn
And gid the sea.
In deep'ning night when DER my way
Dark storms arise,
Thou art a star whose peerless ray
Illumes the skies.
I hear thee where the silvery waves
Play on the shore,
Or in still groves my spirit Graves
One whisper more
And though, dear one, thou art afar,
Thou dost appear,
With evening and with owes fair
star,
To Hcger here.
The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1902-05-03
CUMMINGS
By JOHN A. JOYCE

Happy, cheerful, loyal man,
Built upon the God-Iike plan;
Always doing something good
For his human brotherhood
Memory, with her magic spell
Ger the years shall fondIy tell
How his glorious, active mind
Loved and wrought for all ma
kind.
The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1902-05-03
His No Longer

az suppose you own the house you
live iH7'f
Il used to-
sold it, eh?''
mo; got married Philadelphia Press
The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1902-05-03

Any person who buy the Morning Afternoon, Sunday
Edition The Times any stand in Washington
railroad trains elsewhere, by notifying
the Publisher of The Times, Tenth and S Washington c,
The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1902-05-03
Thinks He Means 1t.

When a man is really in love he thinks
he means what he says : Summervilie
Journal
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sUBsCRfPTION RATES TO OUT OF
HORNISG EDITION, one year So; six
months, s2-50; three months, S1-25. Morn
ing and Sunday, one year, 81; six months,
$50; three months, ST. Sunday sdi-
ton enly, one year, So six months, 81;
ibree months 90 cents
The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1902-05-03
TOWN POINTS. POSTAGE PREPAID:

EVENING EDITION, one year, s.; six
months, S1-5o; three months, IS cents
Evening and Sunday, year, 81; six
months, 81. so; three months. S1.25. Morn
ing, Evening. and Sunday, one year, SO;
SIX months, -, three months, $3.50
The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1902-05-03

RI ! Appalachian forest reserve
I'M bill calls for an appropria-
1 ' ! ton of 1000. 900 10 purchase
The suburban citizen., 1902-08-23
"Beggar Day,' in Por,o Rico.

Saturday is a day set aside by Porto
Rican law and custom for beggars
On this day they are allowed to beg
and ply their calling about over the
streets Of San Juan and other towns
Of the island, and the merchants and
well-to-do people anticipate the event
by placing, where the beggars can get
them, little boxes of food, clothing and
things to eat and wear One Saturday
| saw as many as twenty y-eight beggars
lined up, single file, before the door Of
one of the finest houses in San Juan.
Curious to know the reason for this
singular gathering, awaited develop.
ments, and presently a well-dressed
gentleman came to the door and hand.
ed every beggar in the lot penny. 1t
seemed that he had been doing this for
years, and that the beggars gathered
regularly every Saturday morning
in front Of his house in expectation
of the dole that he never refused. In
one respect / think this is a custom
that might with profit be copied by
our American cities, for during the
other days Of the week mendicants
are not allowed on the streets, and are
arrested and fined whenever they
break this law.-Washington Post.
The suburban citizen., 1902-08-23
Salt as a Cure For Pneumonia.

The great value of salt as an anti
septic and the fact that nature ap.
pears to have made 1t an essential in.
gredient in the food of nearly all ami
mails have made the medical profession
very hospitable toward new theories
or discoveries regarding its therapeutic
qualities. The doctors, in fact, are
never unprepared for the announce.
ment of some extraordinary cure eff
fected by the use Of this widely dis.
tributed compound.
That pneumonia can be cured by
pumping an eight per cent sodium
chloride solution at temperatures rang
ing from 100 to 1870 degrees Fahren.
heit into the lungs, however, naturally
taxes the credulity of most physicians.
This achievement was announced by
DR.. w. Byron Conkley in a paper read
by him before the American Medical
Association at the recent convention
at Saratoga. That such saline solu.
tion would be death to all bacteria, and
would also have an antiseptic effect
upon diseased tissue will be readily
conceded 1t is a question of getting
the solution into the lungs in such a
way that the patient could stand the
treatment.-Chicago Record-Herald.