The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1916-06-09
Evening Chat

uay u now Delng uSed at the Letch.
worth Park Forest and Arboretum, In
Wyoming county. N. Y, according to
Officials OF the Forest service who are
acting as advisers in the work. Pre-.
vtously the planting has been done
by hand at the rate OF. 1900 to $500
trees each day per man.
The machine was designed to set
out cabbage and tomato plants, but
works equally well with trees II Is
about the size of an ordinary moving
machine and Is operated by three men
and two horses. One man drives the
team while the other two handle the
seedlings. The machine makes a fur.
row In which the trees are set at any
desired distance. and an automatic de.
; Vice indicates where they should be
dropped. Two metal.tired wheels push
and roll the dirt firmly down around
the roots. This Is a very desirable
feature, It is said, because the trees
are apt TO die II this is not we'll done.
Two detachments make It possible to
place water and fertilizer at the roots
OF each Seeding. Another attachment
marks the line on which the next
row OF trees is to be planted.
No cost figures are available yet,
but officials say that the cost will he
much less than when the planting Is
done. by hand 1t Is stated that the
machine can be used on any land
which has been cleared and Is not
too rough to,plow and harrow
TITS said indeed for many lonely
chap to read the daily papers this
month when most every day on peru.
sal Of the society columns he sees the
account OF the happy marriage of some
former close friend or playmate OF
his youth Sadder still is the reading
OF the account of the marriage OF some
former sweetheart or charming girl
whom he has long admired and posi-.
bly, thought that she In turn had
warm corner in her heart for him.
yet all these shall one by one be
gathered to the side Of their life com.
panion" to paraphrase the immortal
words Of that youthful prodigy Bry.
ant. "Tempus fugits" as the high
school graduates say, and the world
moves along in step with "tempus."
1.-THE old order changeth" and there
are thousand more SNUG bromide
quotations and wearisome maxims
that the deep thinkers" repeat parrot
like on these occasions.
None however take away the hurt
and heartfelt regret that a man feels
when he reads of his friends marriage
and knows that neyermore can he be
as close and feel that freedom In con.
fding his troubles to his friend as he
Z did before the marriage.
iNeyermore will the friend be the hap.
py carefree companion Of old. He as.
riage, and II he Is the right kind Of
man he will never for minute forget
those responsibilities. Even in his
5olliest and happiest moments when
he attends reunion Of his old com.
panions after marriage he will always
be thinking Of his wife and wishing
that she too might share the joy of
the hour.
: They try to come back but not one
has ever yet succeeded. One sees
them at college and class reunions. at
fraternal conventions and on vacation
trips. At banquets and dinners and
lodge meetings. They took the same
and answer to the same name. yet one
senses some undetinable change about
them and feels that they are no longer
the same They try to enter into the
spirit of gathering and again be ono
Of the boys. but their efforts are In
vain and one senses repression OF
the spirit and restraint and self
conscious manner Of thinking In the
married man that was not there In
the old jolly Days when each cared
not for the morrow and was happy
with thu things each day brought.
I Yet deep In our heart perhaps we
envy them and wish that we too be.
longed TO someone and had some one
ito work for and to "love and cherish
until death do us part"
The spirit that induces schoolboys
TO make faces at the teacher when his
back is turned, and to annoy dogs that
are chained, or to taunt policeman
from some vantage point where he can
not reach them, has evidently afflict-
ed some patron Of the contraband ven.
doris who are called "bootleggers" in
Fairmont.
Early this morning six empty beer
bottles were seen empaled upside down
on the sharp spikes of the iron fence
running from the outside door to the
room in the court house used as the
city jail. These dead soldiers" as
they, are lovingly called in this neigh
borhood were bravely lined up facing
the very doorway Of the pail They
were evidently meant to taunt the ov.
erworked (?) cops and Yost law"
"Detec.a.tives" who search In vain for
these offenders.
Some evil minded persons were
mean enough to suggest that these
had likely been placed there by the
cops themselves to flaunt and enrage
the prisoners with the tempting sight
Of unattainable joys. Surely this is
not true. Many persons who profess.
ed to be on the inside" and to have
the authentic stable information"
said that this prank bore the finer
marks Of Shanghai" Who is "Shang.
hai?"