Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-11-14

cataract would have been greatly enhanced.
We have a few objects of great natural
curiosity which will in course of time be
destroyed unless they also are made pubic
parks. Among these | might name the
Mammoth Cave Of Kentucky. the Garden
of the Gods of Colorado. the Yosemite val
ley of California, the Dales of the St. Croix
of Wisconsin and the petrifed forests N
Arizona. These national parks have IS
GOOD cause for existence as the parks in
cities If large city is built without
parks it becomes exceedingly expensive and
difficult to provide parks. In few years
there would be a good deal of trouble in
securing these parks for the general gov
eminent, and they would have by that time
lost much of their beauty. In Europe all
such great points of interest would be care
fully preserved, and the United States has
several scenic features which far surpass
anything of a similar nature to be found in
Europe"
Il have seen a number of newspaper ac
counts of people of the African race turn
ing white" said r. P. Green of Milwaukee,
at the Hamilton, but 1 know of boy at
Petoskey who is reversing this order, and
the boy, who is white, is steadily turning
black. The boy was afflicted with a can
Ger on the left breast Immediately below
the shoulder. The cancer was cut out and
the wound made by the operation refused
to heal. The surgeons concluded that it
was necessary to graft flesh into the
wound in order to cure the boy. The only
person the parents could find who was
willing to sacrifice for a consideration a
portion of his own anatomy was a coal
black negro. The negro flesh was grated
into the white boy and the youth recover
ed. But this flesh is stronger than the
white flesh which surrounds it, and the
boys skin has become discolored as far
the side of the neck and
tell how far the African flesh is going to
succeed the Caucasian"
II have just returned from eastern Ken
lucky, where 1 went to inspect some tim
ber,'' said L. A. Kotchkns of Norfolk. at
the Riggs My principal operations were
in Leslie county, and l was surprised to
discover community in the United States
where money is unknown, or practically
so. The entire business of this county is
done on the barter system. The country
storekeepers exchange merchandise for
anything and everything the natives have
to sell, and ship this motley array of prod
uctS down to Catlettsburg, where the mer-
chant has it placed in bank to his credit,
when he orders more goods, paying for
them with check. These merchants usual
ly keep a small amount of money in case
1t should be required, but the natives. as
rule, do not handle cent in cash from one
years end to the other. They barter among
themselves and with the merchant, and
when l bought lands the most of those who
sold me lands would not accept my money
until the merchant assured them that it
was genuine. Leslie county is in the heart
of the Kentucky mountains and is very
sparsely populated. which accounts for it's
primitive condition. but it is probably the
only section of the United States remaining
where the people do not know what money
is
II have seen a great deal in print con-
concerning the wearing out of the lands OF
the United S-ates,' said E. c. Knolton of
Peoria, Ill, at the Ebbitt. Il have just
returned from a somewhat extensive for
eign tour, and 1t has given me the idea
that the wearing out of American land
must be due solely to the methods of Amer
lean agriculture. The lands of the middle
west have not been cultivated for a CEN
fury, while none of the land of the United
States has been under cultivation over three
centuries. The land in England is still
fertile and has been cultivated continuously
as to many parts for two thousand years.
There is land in China and Japan which
has been cultivated every year for at least
four thousand years and probably more.
The land of France, Spain and Germany
has been cultivated for over twenty CEN
turtles. The primitive methods of agricul-
tuTe IN spain prevent q comparison OF It's
crops with those of other countries, bnt
in France, Germany, Denmark, the Meth
erlands and England the average product
per acre is much greater than that of the
United States, the farms are very much
smaller and cultivation more intense. A
five-acre farm in France is made to pro-
duce more than a twenty-acre farm in the
United States. The same is true In Ger
many and Denmark. In Egypt there is
land that has produced continuous crops
of wheat for twenty centuries. The land
OF the United States ought not to begin to
wear out for another thousand years"
Zone of the most interesting features Of
Washington life to me are the people who
used to be great" said A. D. CoIburn of
Chicago at the st. James II have travelled
extensively for great many years and my
business has thrown me in contact with a |
large number of people hence I am per-
sonally acquainted with several of the
men referred to. met a man a few min