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Gardening Hints.
Strawberry Plants.

r Won wish to have a strawberry bed
! which will give a crop next year get
small potted plants now from your florist
and set them out in a bed which has been
well worked Cultivation should follow
n,an,inR several times. then the plants
NAV he mulched to retain moisture and
later yell mulched for the winter. A full
rron should be PRODUCED at the usual sea
SON next wear whereas II you waited un-
III neyt spring you would get no fruit
until the following year.
Lawns.
one of the best times to sow grass for
lawn is in September. the same as
winter wheat or rye. Lawns which have
hecome covered with weeds or coarse
grasses may be resown after the obJec-
tionable growths are dug out II is some
times well to sow oats with the grass at
this season. The oats are winter Killed.
hut serve as a mulch for the grass our
ing the cold weather.
n a new lawn is made great care should
be taken In preparing the soil Where !.
Is lacking in humus II should be enriched
with a liberal supply of well rotted ma
nure. Be liberal with the seed and use
a good lawn mixture from reliable
dealer.
Starting Plants for Next Year.
The gardener who wishes to have his
own pansy plants next spring should
SOW seed In September and transplant
the seedlings to cold frames with good
soil. Here they may remain until
winter. when they should be protected
with glass and boerds. The pansy. or
heart s-ease, 10 one Of the oldest and most
popular % garden flowers. Their bril-
lance and variety Of color make them
most useful a. border plants. II kept
In 4 cold frame during the winter they
must be given fresh air frequently.
Hollyhocks. larksjurs. columbines.
Canterbury bells and perennial poppies
may be started from seed at this sea-
con and kept during the winter without
cold frames. by having the seed bed
raised % as to insure perfect drain
age, and mulching the plants with
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of the Roman abbot, Dennis the Less, or
of James Usher. the Anglican arcnolsnop.
But these scientists say that our loot
stool is ten Thousand times as old as the
theologians taught-that earth became
earth some thirty thousand times as Tar
back as the time of Jesus of Nazareth.
But how do they estimate IL?
There have been many methods used IN
the past for solving the veXed problem.
] once read that theological literature
preserves 132 different schemes for esti-
mating the age OF the earth at the time
of the birth of Jesus. Doubtless there
have been many more methods devised by
scientists. since a generation ago when
they began TO burn the midnight oil over
the matter, and TO sew seeds of doubt in
the minds Of the good people who i'm
picitly believed that the deluge took
place two thousand years after the crea-
ton. and that Christ was born two thou
sand years after the deluge.
Now this is the method by which
Clarke and Becker make their new cal
cula They estimate the rate at
which the earth's surface matter is be-
ing worn away by rain. rivers. frost ice
and winds. and with this factor figure
out how long IL has taken those forces
to leave our globe in its present ccndl-
ton. Some years ago Sir Archibald
Geikie calculated that al their present
rate OF wearing away from these natural
agencies the British Isles would be level
ed down TO the surface Of the sea in
about JJ0.000.o00 years and by reversal
of his process the American scientists
come to their conclusions.
Prof. Clarke estimates that about :
030,0O0H0 tons If the surface matter
Of the entire earth is being worn off rer
annum. Europe shows the greatest wear,
losing each year 100 tons per square mile,
and Asia ranks second with 81 tons.
Then comes North America. losing ~
tens: South America. losing 80 tons, aud.
finally, Africa, losing II tens.
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Pure Fake.

STHE reason why royalty doesn't visit
our shores" said Jerome s.. Nc
Wade. the Duluth millionaire. at an open
air luncheon in the sunken garden OF his
town house, rs that royalty thinks we
wouldn't know how to treat ii right.
The King and Queen Of England, King
Alfonso. the German emperor and all
the rest of them are dying to come over
here, but they tell one another In hor-
rlfied tones a fake yarn about the visit
OF the kaisers brother. Prince Henry,
some years since.
They say that, as Prince Henry on his
warship. steamed up New York bay, his
first American greeting. Numbered at him
through a megaphone. was:
HELLO. Hank, How's Bill?'"
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When Washington Pays Its Personal Tax


Of personal tax appraisers. under authori-
~ of the act of Congress approved july
!, 1902, IS amended By the act OF Con-
gress approved April 2S. 1904. has made
an assessment of your. personal property
in the sum of s., which inclhies a
penalty OF 20 per centum, upon which
there is levied a tax OF IL per centum.
.Ycu are one of the body which framed
and passed that law?' he asked.
Yes am, hut il is an outrage just the
same stormed the angry representative.
On account Of his high position he was
given immediate audience with the board.
How he succeeded with his case deponent
saith not, but il is positively known that
he did not eva6e the penalty.
Although the blank schedules have 10 be
filled out and returned by the 1st OF
August, the property owner IS given until
the lst day Of the following June 10 pay
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since the first consolidation Of tho rocks
with which the geologist is acquainted.
Each measures the way back To the Ice
ginning. and then-what? The bounding
precipice is so steep that none Of them
dares creep 10 the edge and look down.
Lord Kelvin took half a glance, but re-
turned to tell only what was not there.
Speaking OF the commencement OF life,
he said
This certainty did not take place ~
any action of chemistry or electricity, ~
crystalline grouping OF molecules under
the influence OF force. or by any posi-
bile kind of fortuitous concourse of atoms.
We must pause face TO face with The
mystery and miracle OF the creation II
living creatures.
JOHN ELFRETH WATKINS.
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At Sea,

n Mss MACDE ADAMS, at dinner on
AV4 the Mauretania, said of shipboard
etiquette:
1T is unconventional and odd. Some
times it causes embarrassment. For ex-
ample:
a beautiful young widow sat in her
deck chair in the stern, and near her sat
a very handsome man. The widows little
son. an urchin of four or five years.
crossed over to the man and said:
What's DOR name?
'HerKimer Wilkinson was the smil-
ing reply.
is 90 married.?
No; I'm a bachelor.
1.-THE child turned to its mother and said !:
What else shall l ask him, man.
mar"
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tanned by the soil He also gees so Tar
as t. account for the amount OF salt
washed into the ocean in the sewage OF
cities, the refuse of chemical manufac-
lures etc-over 13.F0,0CO tons per year,
estimated in terms of common salt.
A total amount of salty matter In the
ocean he SAYS. would if concentrated.
measure 4.SO0.000 cubic miles. In other
words. you could manufacture out Of
ocean water enough of this salty matter
10 build a bridge to the moon one mie
wide by twenty miles high. II you set
these big cubes in rows they would form
about the equator band one mile nlgn
and 800 miles wide. Another step is TO
estimate the total amount of rock in the
earth's crust, which has been needed to
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and some horror at a corpse arranged
for burial. Naturally he beat hasty
retreat.
Not a few of the women, however. are
inclined to be unkind. An inspector stop
ped at one house and very politely asked :
Have you. an automobile. madam?
NO replied the woman, and with
biting sarcasm she added: Are you Civ
ing them away today?
The inspector grinned and, in no little
confusion, admitted that the joke was on
him.
will YOU please tell the appraisers.
the woman sneered as parting shot,
that ! have added new dishpan TO my
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celestial visitor, devised a method OF de-
termining the age of the ocean from the
amount of salt which IL contains Al
though predicting that by this method
the world may he found much more than
many have hitherto imagined, he did not
attempt to answer the sphynx riddle HIM
self.
Darwin, the same who surprised us with
our near kinship with the apes, thought
an estimate of 2poOo.no years for old
earth's age too small. He traced the foot
prints of time upon the north and south
downs. of England. over 3oS.Ts.oo years
and Sir Charles Lyell thought that 2io.-
0D0oo years was the time required by all
OF the species TO have changed TO their
present forms.
Then came the Rev Samuel Houghton.
British geologist and divine Of Trinity
College, Dublin. ignoring the theories of
his brother theologians to the extent OF
pronouncing that earth had been habta BILE
for time so great as to he inconceivable
by beings of our limited intelligence" And
IL Is of interest to glance at the calcula-
tions of some OF the later scientists. Dr.
James Croll back In the eighties. for ex-
ample, dated plant and animal life to a
period infinitely more remote than 10.
T0.Gn years and maybe 1ao.gNapp. while
Sir Archibald Geikie figured our planets
age at between 1OD.Nn.unO and ittnp.HD
years. And next came A geoiogist. Mil
lard Reade. with the calculation that time
has been wearing down our mountains.
hills and fields at the rate OF one foot per
5000 years. since the world began. He
had fixed old earthS years at something
over 93,G,9GOO when our own great scien-
t.st. Prof. J. ID. Dana, jumped into the
fray with calculation of something over
4S.OD0U1
You don't suppose geological history
has run through a billion years. Lord
Kelvin once asked Sir Allan Ramsay. the
geolosist
Certainly do answered Sir Allen.
Ten billion years.?
Yes replied the knight. again
Mother earth's favor SHOULD he on the
side Of the physicists. for in these re-
peated discussions with the uaturalists
they have usually contended that she is
much younger than the naturalfsts will
admit. And until now, when Prof. Clarke
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AvHAT a man could be distin-
guished as a gallant soldier,
win success writing for tech
meal magazines and editing
newspaper, and then become
one of the foremost authorities on iaho-
scape gardening and forestry In america
seems rather impossible. and yet they are
all professions in which Mr.. Arthur
Smith, only just arrived in Washington
as the new working manager OF the
Peoples Gardens. has proven capable.
He is an Englishman, and so. naturally,
loves the out of doors. Born on a large
estate Of his fathers. he had every OPP
portunity to develop this inherent liking
anu ADDED to it an individual love for
and knowledge of plant life that soon
made him conspicuous even in land
where queens do not hesitate to raise
their own vegetables.
Losing his money at an early age, he
found what had been a pastime a. very
profitable method of earning what he
calls "a competence" But previously he
had laid out for himself country place,
which he considered a gem of what can
be done on limited space, and incurred the
interest of. that class of Briton who con-
siders no outlay of money extravaganza
II ii means the further identifying of his
ancestral home. AT this period he held
the position of instructor in agriculture
and horticulture under the county educa-
tional authorities.
When circumstances demanded that Mr.
Smith become a professional gardener
he went private secretary and man
ager TO a nobieman and. 70 use his woros,
remained with him until there was quite
an opening in Ireland. where / managed
a very large estate for a gentleman who
had married into the Craven family.
While there / met Mrs. Adolph Laden
burg OF New York, who was A house
guest on the place. She displayed far
more interest in my work than most
American ladies do and insisted on my
accompanying her to America as her
manager on her Long Island property
And l believe that l improved il some
what.
But Americans. | find. do not wish to
invest much money In such things. They
are eager to spend thousands of dollars
on a garage or a new motor car, but
become economical when an estimate has
been given them on landscape gardening.
1t is surprising what an amount OF money
one can put into place just TO make II
beautiful. But really l think 1t is more
because they never know how soon the
places are going out of the family than
from any real stinginess. And then. TOO.
you Americans lack patience. Ii the trees
could be made to grow and the flowers
to bloom all at once like the Hindoo
magician raises them l am convinced
the impulsive American would open wide
his purse strings. But the idea Of plant
ing forests which will not be grown up
within the lifetime of the planter makes
no appeal. Posterity seemingly has none
Of that claim the English so strongly feel.
american ladies', however, have an
extraordinary sense Of the beautiful and
very good ideas on laying out country
nlaces. NV most satisfactory work has
been done for them rather than in homes
where the husbands directed, the latter
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The Lemon-Co1ored "Mutt'
That Strayed From Home

J had breath in my body. If the mean
little snip of a thing is just bound and
determined TO run away, why, let him.
that's ALL wouldn't turn over finger
TO find him-not i"
Perceive. If YOU please. the craftiness
OF that attitude of hers. II she had
commanded me 10 hustle right down town
10 advertise for the dog and to notify the
police and alarm the town over the bust
ness. she knew perfectly well that I'd
have curled up instantly and washed my
hands Of the whole affair.
She purposely gave me the opportunity,
however. TO reproach her for her cal
loGsness in leaving a poor little dog. ner
faithful companion for five years, TO
starve in the streets of Washington with
out any effort being made to fetch him
back TO his home. And Of course | avail
ed myself of the chance. told her
was going after that dog, and that she
need never expect to see me again-no.
not If was hoary old man-until I'd
found him.
"Whereupon, leaving her standing in-the
street. i hopped car and was hauled
TO the nearest station house. where !
frantically reported the loss of a bIocky
fox terrier with lemon markings on either
side of his bean. The police authorities
didn't appear TO take 1t so seriously as I
did. and | felt resentful toward them for
their attitude -
Then | hustled to the newspaper Of
fees and inserted an elaborate descrip-
ton of the dog in lost advertisement.
| believe ! appended the statement TO
the advertisement that almost any old
reward would be instantly paid and no
questions whatever asked for the dog S
return to my fiat.
Then. exhausted with the frenzy Of all
II
Fine. That fox terrier mutt was
yawnng, squatted in a bored kind of a
way on the couch in the sitting room.
when l walked into the fiat. I stared
al him for a minute, wondering II he
were the ghost of a dog come back to
reproach us in spirit for not having been
more Jealous in hunting for him. Ghost
nothing! When he saw me he bounded
down to the floor and turned over on his
back and executed the usual stunt of
welcome which he always pulls of when
! arrive home. even If I've only been to
the corner 10 get a cigar.
Wasn't IL silly?' / heard my spouse
saying to me then You see. dearie
when 7 left the fiat to go shopping. my
poor little Cutey was In my clothes
closet. and / closed my door 10, no,
knowing that he was in there. And a
few minutes after / came in this evening
after meeting you. / heard the creates,
scratching in the closet that ever was
and. OF course. 1t was the poor little dear
trying to get out. Why, you might have
known that the little dear never would
have run away in this wide world from
his mummsy-wummsy, and
And then she had the mutt in her
arms and the rest Of ii was uninteiligi-
BILE" e
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low fifty-five million years" is their
verdict, and how are you going to con-
tradict them?
They are two of the governments most
learned scientists-Prof. Frank Wig
ellsworth Clarke, chief chemist of the
United States geological survey, and
DIR. George +. Becker. geologist. of the
same institution. Both are men of In
ternational reputation, Prof. Clarke
being a chevalier of the Legion OF
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-09-04
The Short Actor.

WINTHROP AMES. the director Of the
" New Theater. was talking shout
actors of low stature.
mo man needs height like an actor. "
he said. Short actors. you know, get
suyed. The best Of our short actors.
playing in the west, had to say one night
TO an actress about . foot taller than
himself:
II would were glove upon tnat
hand
I've wouldn't IT. shouted guytng
voice from the gallery. Yer too smah :"
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OW old are you.
madam ?"
Silence on the
part Of the lady
the same old. i'm
penetrable. sphinx
like silence.
While the census
man has been en-
acting this little
scene with thou
sands Of h e r
American daugh-
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ocean. Other scientists have attempted
TO estimate the age of the ocean by
dividing its total salty matter by this
amount annually carried into 1t by
rivers, but Prof. Clarke corrects their
figures by taking certain other processes
into consideration. In the first place. he
estimates the amount of the salt that Is
being lifted from the sea as spray and
blown inland, part of 1t returning again
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Hero of Boer War to Manage Peoples Gardens


being less inclined 10 spend the needed
amount OF money. II is unfortunate.
since some Of the lovelest houses here
are marred by improperly arranged set
tings, like, You know. like-ah. yes-put-
ting thousand-dollar painting into a
gilt frame"
Later Mr.. Smith. who is very English
in appearance and suggests the wiry
strength of the cavalry to which he be-
longed, laid out a small estate for Mr..
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Kelvin's. This great physicist by working
out the rule that the thickness of the
earth's solid crust increases the square
root OF the earth's age. concluded back in
civil war times that our spinning top was
anywhere from twenty to four hundred
million years old. Blu, some time ago. In
a laboratory OF the United States geolog-
icai survey. two members of that bu-
reau's staf. Clarence King and Carl
Barus. made some surprising discoveries
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-09-04

and Dr. Becker practically reafiirm tho
estimate OF Secretary Walcott. there ne
always been such wide disagreement ~
doctors as we have seen above. AS I1r.
walcott himself puts IL. the only con
clusion that can be drawn from these
older estimates n whole is that tho
earth Is very old and that mans occupa-
ton Of IL is but a DAYS span a. com
pared with the cons that have elapsed
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imposing appearance. who was seated on
the ..bench," said to one of the clerks:
at help to pay your salary; am Repre-
sentative -: can't you get me before
the board Immediately? / made a return
last wear in the sum of 5000. which was
in excess of the amount OF $1,000 exempt
by law on my household furniture. TINS
year / forgot TO make a return and am
forced to pay an increased amount and
penalty Of 20 per cent
The clerk pointed to the following para
graph In the notice sent to the represent
alive:
You are hereby notified that the board
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OR the past month
the officials in the
personal tax de-
partment at the
District building
have been busy
with their heaviest
work Of the year.
From the LIST OF
July through the
first day of August
the Offices were
crowded with tax
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that 4 Work mNSeI UP iito q
lathery stampedng point over a dog the
dogs going TO be one of the bench kind
worth at least 5,c01 bucks and with
enough blue ribbons ard other trophies
dangling from his collar 10 make the
stampede worth while. It's sure not go
ing to be a mutt worth about 70 cents for
fertilizer-the kind of a mutt that kept
me dancing on a griddle for ABOUT four
hours the ether evening.
THE aforesaid mutt belongs 10 me.
That is to say he belongs to botn my
spouse and myself. but whenever any
thing happens 10 him my wife passes the
sole proprietary interest in him over 70
me- so as TO make me responsible for MS
safe return TO the bosom of his family.
The other evening, when | got home from
the office, / whistled up the tube OF my
fiat and the darksome handmaiden
answered the whistle. / whistled TO have
I'm always booked 10 give the ki-Oodie a
little trot around the block of evenings
when I get home no matter how hungry
I may be. and no matter whether there
torrential rain coming down or biiz-
Zard raging.
After delay of about two minutes
the black handmaiden returned TO the
whistling tube and sang down TO me:
deed, sub, All can't find Cutey no
wheah."
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CONCERNING me melting point OF TOckS
which led Lord Kelvin to revise his esti-
mate of the earth's age.
We now have good reason" he opined.
that II was more than twenty and less
than forty million years. and probably
much nearer twenty than forty" Thus,
the greatest physicist of his time came 20
America to get the final data for his most
famous contribution TO science.
Back In the old days when the scientists
and theoIogians Wed with one another in
attempts to harmonic the mosaic evil
dences Of the earths age with the testi-
mony Of nature Sir Edmund Haley the
same genius who discovered our recent