Williams news., 1911-10-14
READING THE TREE.

n6fNOIIV9s Il6 iIA1es How the Forester Getn Its Life His
 tory In Detail.
 The fogester reads the history of tree ia great detail, says the AGerican Nagazine. After taking out a few "borings" to the center of the tree at different heights and counting the rings on them he may spin you such yarn as this:
 '-This tree is 150 years old Q5o rings at the basel. During the first i've years it grew only seven inches Q45 rings, seven inches from the basel. Evidently 1t then began to touch crowns with other saplings, for it took . spurt and put on fifteen inches a year steadily till it was forty years old (forty rings forty-four and one-half feet above the ground). It was not growing as fast as its. neighbors, how ever, for at this point it began to be overshadowed, and its growth declined for the next ten years Co as little aa four inches a year (forty-five rings at fccty-eight feet and fifty at fifty feet. Just in time to save it's life something happened to its big neighbors, pre- gumably a -windstorm, and 1t resumed . steady growth of about six inches . year. having passed its fastest growing time. Its growth in thickness doesn't seem to have varied mrch. about an inch every three years. Nut 1t grew faster and faster in volume. of course, as It's height increased-a litrle over . cubic foot year in it's prime of life. should judge. About thirty years, age t reached maturity and stopped grow ing in height thirty rings at the top of the main stem), and nov 1t is apr preaching old age (the last rings are pretty thtnl Hold on a minute -here c false ring, twenty, forty. forty-siI years back; two very thin rings oee-insteaG of one thick one; means that something interrupted the growing Season. probably late frost"
 eeneiusivs Reasoning.
 A little elderly German who keeps . stationer's shop amuses and inter- ests himself by making up stories about his customers and telling them to his family.
 'Dat young lady who has de pink cheeks, she be. married soon, I tink," he announced one night.
 "Now, my Carl, you know not tings of her whatefer. Is it not so?" And his wife tried to look as if she did not think him a wonder fully clever man.
 '1t is like dis," said the stationer solemnly: q observe, and I know. At first she buy paper and envelopes de same, later she buy twice as more paper and den five times as more paper as envelopes. So I know she Is become betrothed.
 "And today" he said, beaming with pleasure; 'today she buy only one-half dozen envelopes and five times as more paper, and when l tell her she get dem cheaper if she buy many she say to me, T have no need of more, tank you.' So l know de friend he comes soon, and so comes de marriage on quickly"
 His Idea of Wife.
 Discussing with a representative of an Irish paper the qualities g wife should possess, a tramp said the other day that she should be Gan all around woman" between forty and fifty years, not handsome but temperate. '1f there is any drinking to be .done," he said, q can see to it. She should be able to walk twenty miles day and bt good at begging bottles and pota toes and also at ballad singing. Sh' should be able to fight a round ol kwo to defend her husband when II eettou-"