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Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-06-19
Stone Mountain Turtle
Captured by Car Crew
After Bitter Struggle

Colonel Jefferson Shackleford
Mills, at times Kirkwood, Decatur.
Stone Mountain and Redan CORE
spondent for The Journal, decided
that he could best serve the inter
ests of his paper in the heat of
Thursday morning by covering" a
street car to Atlanta. Here is the
rc'>o~+ on his trip:
"At $50 o'clock a. M, between
Warren station and Kirkwood, a troll
ley car was halted by a gigantic OBJ
struction right in the middle of the
tracks.
Upon investigation, Conductor Il
Bryant and Motorman Now. Ell
lis discovered an immense migratory
iogger-head turtle which was dis
posed to dispute the right of way.
THE turtlefougnt viciously and
finally they succeeded in getting it
aboard the car. Here the logger
head nsapped right and left and re-
fused to be subdued. Finally they
had to put him off the car. Nothing
further has been heard from the tur-
tie at this writing. The conductor
said the logger-head weighed about
sixty poi. DIS. The motorman esti-
mated his weiCht at 1870 mounds" '
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-06-19
NEW QUESTIONS


Who said to educate a woman
and give a monkey a sharp knife is
the same thing.
2. Is there walking fish?
8. How deep is the earth's at
4. What was the Malthusian doc
trine?
5. When do the different harvests
begin?
6. How many languages are spok-
en- in New York City?
z. What is a gargoyle?
8. Why and how did England &C
quire Ireland?
9. In a certain well the water rises
and falls with the tide, how do you
10. When did France adopt the
s, -ste- of time that they had during
the war, for instance, calling 2
o'clock in the afternoon fourteen
o'clock?
Questions Answered
A. One of the pictures on this
rage answers this question. 1t shows
the head of German household
taking out the family hens for air,
exercise and stray crumbs. The pic
ture is not posed and it is not an
scarce and so valuable in Germany
that they are treated like French
poodIes here. When they are taken
out for walk, they are held in leash,
as the accompanying photograph
shows.
Q. When and where was whisky
first made?
A The art of distilling liquors
is first mentioned by AIbukassen,
an Arabian physician who lived in
the tenth century. Whisky, "a pot
able spirit distilled from cereal
grains" probably originated in Ire
land and it's Celtic name was uisge-
betha (water of life) afterwards
contracted to usquebaugh and then
to whisky. 1t was known as unSeque-
baugh In the seventeenth and eigh-
teenth centuries in both Ireland and
Scotland.
Q. How did the name "Gob" come
into use?
A. The appellation Cob" is of
Chinese derivation from the Chinese
word meaning sailor The word came
into use when the fleet was in the
Far East.
q. Why is thirteen considered an
unlucky number?
A. According to an ancient Hin
doc superstition, thirteen at table
BODIED i'll for some one seated there.
in Morse mythology there is a tale
which says that one night twelve
major gods were seated at a table
in Valhalla when Loki, the evil spirit
Joined them, making the thirteenth
Quarrelling with Baldur, the Apollo
of the Scandinavians, he shot him
dead with a mistletoe arrow.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-06-19

more money from Ellis; perhaps he
hoped to find Lillian alone. For
nearly half hour they fought The
girl used upon him jiu-jitsu holds
taught her by her father. She twist
ed his fingers and clawed at his
eyes. Finally she beat him off.
At Volunteer hospital it was said
she would recover.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-06-19
ZOE sALE-M1scELANEoUs

u. S. Army Goods for Sale
U. S. Army Wool Shirts, in good
condition .............$ 81. %, $3.50, S1.35
U. S. Army Gold Medal Canvas Fold
ing Cots. Good condition ..........$2.3o
L. S. Army Raincoats. Good con
dition. Bargain .S5.0J, S4.95, $3.95
L. $. Army Leggngs, Canvas, rein
forced with leather. Bargain. ....... Sac
L. S. Army Khaki Cotton Brooches.
Good condition ......... $3.50, 81 .25, 90c
e. S. Army Shoes, BRAND-NEW.
RUSSET LEATHER. Nunson Last So So
Z. S. Army Cotton Cot Mattresses.
Reclaimed. Sterilized .......... S5. 50
L. S. Army Field Ranges. Reclaimed.
GOOD CONDITION ....... :. So.UU
WRITE FOR FREE CATALOG. Money re-
funded if not sd tiSfied.
BRADLEY BONDED WAREHOUSE CO.,
Dept +. Greenville, $. G.
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MENDING TISSUE--P pairs all kinds of
clothing silk, satin, cotton goods, ribbon,
fabrics of all kinds, kid gloves. mackin-
toshes, umbrellas, parasols, stockings, etc.
Pkg, 15c; two pkgs., 25c. J. A. McMorris,
Station G, Box Glib, Columbus, Ohio,
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GRAIN

CHICAGO, June 1S.-Strength developed
in the corn market today after hesitat-
ing start. Opening quotat ions which varied
from 11Sc decline to * advance, were fol-
lowed by q rise all around to well above
yesterdays finish.
Closed strong, 1%c to 2%c net higher.
Oats parallelled the action OF corn.
Provisions were firmer with grain and
hogs.
CHICAGO QUOTATIONS
Tho following vera the ruling prices in
Tbs exchange today:
: Open. High. Low. Close. Close.
July 80. 1.7e% 1.79% 1.76A 1.79% 1.77h
Sept. -. 1.67A 1.7O1a 1.67h 1.69h 1.67h
OATS ...
July 80. 1.O2A 1.O4h LOIS 1.O4 1O2k
Sept. SAN s6B SAYS $685. s4b
i'URk-
July -. 1890 1885 34.6o s47o 1892
Sept. -. 1910 $3.50 1910 1875 1910
LARD-\
July &C.. \2Os2 2O.97 20.S2 20.s5 2o.s2
Sept. So. 21.SO 21.a7 21.sO 21.s5 21.s0
RIBS
July .... 1912 1882 1912 1s.A 1910
Sept. 80. 1885 1882 1885 1915 1887
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-06-19
LIVE STOCK BY WIRE

CHICAGO, June notwithstanding
1000; beef steers slow, with lower tenden-
cy; bulk, 81 .5O@16. 90; cows and heifers,
extremely dull; bulk, $7.7J@10 90; stock
ers and feeders, slow to 25c lower.
Hogs-Reeeipts, 2S, 900, 15c to 25c higher
than yesterdays average; top, SIS. 10; bulk,
s14. 60@15:s5; pigs, SOC lower; bulk,
$12. 50@1. 80.
Sheep-Receipts, 1900; market slow;
mostly SOC lower, with best lambs SIG. 90.
LOUISVILLE, Jpne S.-Hogs--Receipts,
1000, 25c higher; 225 pounds up, $500
165 to 225 pounds, $3.50; 100 to 165
pounds. $14 %; pigs, S9.75@11 % down.
Cattle-Receipts, $50; slow; heavy steers.
$12. O0@13. 90; beef steers, IS. OO@12. rs;
heifers, SS.00@ 10 90; cows, 81. 1910. so;
feeders, 50 00@10.5O; stockers, S7.0O@
10. 90.
Sheep-Receipts, 1900; steady; lambs,
$1,000 down; seconds, $40. 90; sheep, 81 so;
bucks, $500 down.
EAST ST. LOUIS, ILL.,, June 1S--Cattle:
Receipts, 1000, including no Texans; mar
ket steady; native beef steers, S9.OO@12. 90;
yearlings, steers and heifers, S10.00M15. 90;
cows, $S.25M11.0O; stockers and feeders,
S9.O0d1O.75; calves, $12.0OM14.25.
Hogs-Receipts, 1900; market 15M25c
higher: mixed and butchers. SIS. 4OM15.75:
goodo ami heavy, $13.15M15.GO: roughs,
s11.OO@12.75; light. s15.55m15.7O; pigs,
1O.50M 1900: bulk, $154OM157O.
Sheep-Rcceipts. 900: market nominal:
cliDped eyes, $7.50MS.OO: lambs. S15. SOC
1850; Gamers and choppers. 81. OO6 500.
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CHICAGO CASH QUOTATIONS
CHICAGO, June 1S.-Cash wheat, none.
Corn, No: 2 mixed, $1.s6h@1.9o; No. 2
yellow, 81. SS@1.90
Oats, No: 2 white, $1.1s@1,2o; No. 3
white, $1.14@1.161a.
Rye, No. 2, 1927.
Barley, $1.50@1.55. D..
Timothy seed, $10.00@12. 90.
Glover seed, $25. O0@35.OO.
Pork, nominal.
Lard, $2C.45. ;
Ribs S17 hOM1S 60
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THOMSON, MoKINNoN & co. GRAIN
IETTER

fhomsoN' Mck1MMON &c co. GRAIN
CHICAGO. June 1s.-Corn: 1t developed
that the needs of the cash corn buyers who
withdrew from yesterdays market were not
buyers today. The result was an advance
in cash of about cents above yesterdays
low. This condition has been the immediate
motive in the deferred delivery. Transport
thing in the market. 1t is apparent that
present facilities are inadequate. A good
idea Of future probabilities is to be gath
cred from the request of the banking in
terests that wheat be given a preferential
order. Therefore, given existing premiums
Of II cents and over for contract grades
an a poor outlet for any material improve
ment in receipts there should be tInnAss
in market at all times.
Oats: 1t has been intimated in some
quarters that oats were heading short in
certain sections. and in extreme southwest
premature ripening promised yield of
lightweight oats. These items together with
continued strength in cash, account for the
action of the new crop deliveries. mas
much as present weather Is distinctly bene-
fetal for oats, all claims of damage should
be taken with q grain of salt; however, we
repeat our belief that the discount or Sep
TENDER is not warranted by the size of the
crop as estimated
CHICAGO PRODUCE MARKET
CHICAGO, June 1s.-Butter: Creamery
extras, 5511c creamery standards, sac:
firsts, 496154c; seconds, 43@4Sc
3skc.
=, Gheese-Twins, 22He; Young Americas,
Live Poultry-Fowls, SOC; ducks, 32c;
geese, Zoe; turkeys, 55c; BOOSTERS, 1sc;
broilers, 45M55c.
Potatoes-Seven cars: Wisconsin and Min
nesota (per 100 lbs.), s6.OO@6.20.
SHEPARD GLUCK COTTON LETTER
NEW ORLEANS, June 1S.-Although the
rains in the belt overnight were regarded
favorably on the whole the early selling
movement in the cotton market today which
they caused did not last long and was
succeeded by a fairly determined upward
movement which was explained by the fear
was strengthened by the forecast of more
showery weather for the greater part of
the belt. The market tomorrow will prob
ably depend almost altogether on the char
acter of the weather man..
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-06-19

NEW 4URh, June I6.-FlnaI Prices on
Liberty bonds today were:
}hs -. -. 80. 90. -. -. -. 1922 O6
First As 80. %. %. -. -. -. 80. IS. 90
Second as. -. 90. =. =. =. .... S5.56
First Ans =. 80. o.. ... . -. S5.9S
Second AIS go. .... .... go. &C.. $500
Third AIS ..., .... .. So. ....,. S9.1S
Fourth4As &C.. go. 800. 1915
Victory 3%s -. -. e.. -. -. &C.. 95.76
Victory AIS -. -. ....... -. -. 95.7S
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-06-19
Atlanta Live Stock
Corrected BY W; a. White. Jr.. Presid

Corrected by W. a. White. Jr., President
Of White Provision Company
Good to choice steers, $50 to 1000 pounds,
$11.50@11.75.
Good steers, $50 to $50 pounds. $1,000
11.50.
Medium to good steers, $50 to $50 pounds,
S10.50@11.O0.
Good to choice beef cows, $50 to $50
pounds, $9.50@10.00.N .-.. =.
Medium to good cows, $50 to $50 pounds,
3s.5O@9.OO.
Good to choice heifers. $50 to $50 pounds,
$s.O0@9.OO. r.
The above represents the ruling prices on
good quality fed cattle. Inferior grades
and dairy tyres quoted below.
Medium to good steers. TOO to 800 pounds,
Medium to good cows. 600 to 700 pounds,
s7.50@s.50.
Mixed common cattle, $eOo97.oo.
Good fat oxen, $S.50@9.50.
Good butcher bulls, $6.5O@S.50. /.
Choice veal calves, $9.O0@1OO0.
Yearlings, $6.00@7.50.
Prime hogs. 165 to 225 pounds, $4,000
1925.
Light hogs. 1876 10 1876 pounds. $3.50
@13.75.
Heavy pigs, 100 to 1876 pounds, $1,000
1925.
Light pigs. 80 to 100 pounds, s1o.5o@
10 TX
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ArLANTA SPOT coTTy
COTTON AND

AMERICAN COTTON AND
GRAIN EXCHANGE
COTTON QUOTATIONS
The following were the opening. highest,
lowest, close and previous close quota.
tions on the American Cotton and Grais
Exchange of New YORK:
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-06-19
Prairie Soil Farm .

124 Acres Equipped 900
SPLENDID improved property, mile to R.
K. town; easily worked fields. spring
watered pasture adjoins large open range,
big woodlot, variety fruit; cottage. barns;
with quick sale owner includes good mule,
8 milk cows, 2 sows. moving machine, disc
harrow, grain drill, black land pillow, etc.
all for SO. 600 only 81. 600 cash, balance easy
terms. Details page 90 Strout's New Cata-
log Southern Farm Bargains. Copy free.
STR0UT FARM AGENCY, 25J-BA Gambler
Annex, Atlanta. Ga.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-06-19

WANTED HELP-Male and Female
HUNDREDS government positions open to
men-women over II: 500 month up; short
hours; common educat ton. sufficient. Write
today sure for free list positions open.
Franklin Institute, Dept. W-103. Roches-
fer N Y.
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NEW YORK COFFEE MARKET
NOMINEE WILLING
TO GO TO PEOPLE
ON TREATY ISSUE

Continued from Page u
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wANTED-.AreurH,

SELL what millions want; new, wonderful
Liberty Portraits; creates tremendous in
terest; absolutely different; unique; enor-
nous demand 30 hours service; liberal
credit; outfit and catalogue free; 500
weekly profit; easy. Consolidated Portrait
Co., Dept 16, 1896 W. Adams ST., Chicago.
CASH IN ON BONE DRY BILL. Make IS a
day easy. Will show You how with our
Concentrated Pure Fruit Drinks. Wanted
everywhere. Small package-just add water.
Here's the chance Of lifetime. Grab your
territory. Write quick. American Products
Co, 2444 American bldg, Cincinnati, O..
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EARN easily $40 daily and more distribut-
ing established line summer drinks, foods,
flayoring extracts, soaps, toilet prepare.
lions. Write for complete wonder Outfit"
Crofts & Reed 424 CIairmont ave., Chicago.
MAKE and sell your own goods. Formulas
by expect chemists. Manufacturing pro-
cesses and trade scorers. Write for for
mula catalogue Brown Mystic Company,
Washington. D. G.
SELL fruit trees, nut trees. ornamentals.
Light work, good profit. Write today.
Smith Bros, Dept. 20, Concord, Ga.
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PILES

FREE information about painless pile cure.
No knife Box 116S, Atlanta, Ga.
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Classified Adver tisements
WANTED HE1F-Mals.

MEN-Age IT to As; experience unneces-
sary; travel; make secret Investigations,
reports: salaries; expenses. American For
eign Detective Agency, 322, st. Louis.
RAILWAY' mail clerks wanted; examina-
tions everywhere July IA; big pay; list
vacancies free. Franklin Institute. Dept
W-102, Rochester,. N. Y,
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-06-19

Sizes % to 40 waist, 81 to 40
length. Extra waist size from
80 to 4O-55 cents extra.
Be sure to state color desired,
waist and length size. This,
with your name and address on
the coupon, is all we require.
Don't send a penny with the
coupon. Remember, you can
send this skirt back at our eX-
pense if you don't think it is
the greatest skirt value ever
offered.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-06-19
Liberty Bond Market

NEW YORK, June 18.-Final prices on
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-06-19

NEW ORLEANS, June 1S.-Spot cotton,
steady and unchanged; sales on the spot,
80 bales; to arrive, none; low middling,
d. 75c; middling, 40.75c; good middling,
q &c; receipts, 1856; stock, 331, 621.
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1920-02-26

tation, and for each one who goes out
that way the antidote will be effica-
cious for hundred who are left. But
to be effective the treatment must be
prompt.
When man is found merely watch
ing a band of counterfeiters at work,
the secret-service agents have right
to assume he is one, too; if the man
declares he is, and believes in coun-
terfeiting, he is entitled to be taken
at his word. The man or woman who
declares, or writes or prints, a desire
to overthrow our Government, by that
act pleads guilty to being a traitor,
should be given a traitors de-
serts; and instead of waiting for a
soviet condition here, be hurried to
the place where he belongs, and where
that condition already exists.
Ships are leaving our shores by
hundreds every week; the sailing is
good now, and we hope to chronicle
the departure of, not well filled, but
an overcrowded lark" next month.
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1920-02-26
HAS, FIVE SUNDAYS
First Time it Has Happened in 10
Years-Occur Again in 1948

This is leap year and this month
will have the usual twenty-nine days
allotted to Februraries which leap.
But February will have something
that no February has had for forty
years-five Sundays.
Many people have had their curios-
ity aroused by the fact that this
month with it's meager twenty-nine
days will have one more Sunday than
either December or January could af-
ford with their full quota Of thirty
one days.
Many inquiries have come, asking
"When did February have five Sun
days before, and when will it occur
again?
In 1756, 1884, 1924, 1852 and 1880
February had five Sundays, and In
1948 the month will again have five
Sundays.
The periodicity of the five Sunday
ed February seems to be % and 40
years, so that a person may be born,
marry and have children and pass to
"that bourne from which no traveller
returneth," and never see February
with five Sundays.
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1920-02-26
Our Tobacco Market

The Wilmington Morning Star of
Tuesday brings in its news columns
striking confirmation of the state
ments made in The News and Courier
of last Monday with reference to the
very great advantages afforded by
North Carolina tobacco markets over
those of South Carolina. A special ar
ticle to the Morning Star from Rocky
Mount gives figures compiled by the
Rocky Mount Board of Trade show
ing that the sales of tobacco for this
season at Rocky Mount up to Feb
ruary 1, 1920, totalled 20,727, 200
pounds, which sold at an average OF
$51.56 per hundred.
We have not at hand at the moment
the total tobacco figures for South
Carolina for the past season but in
July, August and September, S1,123,-
GIG pounds of tobacco were marketed
in this State, with money value OF
$S,439, ,3S6.74. 1t is probable that the
total figures for the season exceeded
those given above by two or three
million pounds. In South Carolina the
average price of tobacco in 1919 was
a little over $40 per houndred, or
about one-fifth that of the North Car
olina market. The tobacco sold on the
Rocky Mount market alone brought
approximately as much, perhaps more,
than all the tobacco sold in South
Carolina.
Is there any reason why tobacco in
North Carolina should be so much
more profitable a crop than it is in
South Carolina? Is, there any real
reason why the tobacco markets in
North Carolina should be kept open
for months after the gathering and
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1920-02-26

the curing of the crop has been fin
ished while those in South Carolina
are closed almost before the farmers
are through getting the weed out Of
the field? the Rocky Mount market
did not close until this week. It is
especially interesting to note that
whereas tobacco on the Rocky Mount
market brought only S38.79 per hun
dred pounds during the first month
of the past season the average price
during the month just ended reached
s42.0S or gain of 1925 per hundred
pounds.-Charleston News and Cou-
rier.
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Keep Them Going
Popular Mechanics Magazine]

Popular Mechanics Magazine]
A month ago these pages chroni-
cled what was in many respects the
most extraordinary event in the en-
tire history of this country-the ban
ishment and deportation of a consid-
cradle body of arch traitors. A feel
ing of approval and satisfaction swept
across the entire country; even those
few who disapproved, for personal
reasons, dared not do it openly. What
all loyal Americans had long hoped
and prayed for was at last an accom-
plished fact, and the promise that the
good work so successfully begun was
to be at once repeated, and then
maintained until we were rid of the
red menace, was accepted as evidence
that long-suffering and over-patient
Government had at last really awak-
ened from its sloth and lethargy and
exerted its right and might.
Each day millions read their daily
papers in the hope of seeing the prom
Use fulfilled. And each day for a
month we have looked in vain. A ma
tion-wide "raid" which gathered in
hundreds of the undesirable was made,
but as yet no second ark has sailed.
Instead those who yesterday were
calling down anathema upon our
courts and laws, are today using every
advantage of legal technicalities' in a
frantic effort to avoid the sentence
which tteir very acts should pro-
nounce upon themselves. We are too
thin-skinned or there is too much poll
ties being employed, when traitor
who has shouted his infidelity from
the housetops, can get his cease" jug
gled INTO the ordinary processes of
law, and dragged out indefinitely. 1t
is almost enough to make one even
wish for that autocratic and hair
trigger efficiency of monarch or a
car, which, with all its faults, did
have the advantage of making short
shift of traitors. A happy medium
with us would be sufficient, but it
might well err toward the side of a
court-martial, which is noted for ac-
ton, rather than the canal-boat speed
to which we often limit ourselves.
Wher a man has taken deadly poi
son, has all the symptoms of being
poisoned. himself declares he is poi
soned, his physician does not take his
case under advisement for month
or two, does not continue his case
from week to week, nor does he per-
NIT the patient to engage experts to
prove he isn't poisoned. He gets busy
right away; he doesn't waste NOM
ent, end he gets the poison out of the
patient and administers the antidote.
What We, need is to get the red poison
out of cur country, by prompt depor-
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1920-03-25
GROWTH.

In an article by Frank j. D. Barn,
jun, a Nova Scotia timber man, the
writer discusses the enormous loss of
annually by wind. fire, in
sects and other causes, and he reach
IS the conclusion that entirely apart
from the timber which is cut for con
mercial purposes, there is not, a. has
been, asserted, a net increase in our
timber supply, but. on the contrary,
q rapid and steady shrinkage. In
other words. as we understand the
article. if we we're to. stop cutting
timber entirely, the annual growth
would not be sufficient to counter
balance the, annual loss from natural
causes. hence we have a net annual
loss without cutting any timber at all.
Mr.. Barnjum tells. of the enormous
losses in some of the great timber
fires. and of the destruction wrought
by great wind storms, in which thou
sands Of acres of fine timber are some
times leveled in ar hour. In addition,
there is the continual dropping by
the wind of a tree here, and there.
which means a great deal in the az-
sregate. The statement in regard to
this feature will surprise many who
read it.. 1t is that it is necessary to
lose only n tree per acre per year,
varying in size from 5 TO IL inches,
to wipe out the entire growth from
this cause alone. We think the gen
eral impression will be that an. acre
of timber adds to it's growth more
than the equivalent Of one tree a year,
II the general estimate given is
correct it is difficult to see .how the
Aperican continent>came to have any
forests at all. There have always
been wind storms, and insectA and
fires. Before the. white man came,
with his lumbering operations and his
careless habits, lightning was settinz
fire to. the forests, and the Indian was
not noted as a conservationist. De.
%strdction was going on all the time.
Yet in some way or other, forest.
grew and covered q good, share Of the
continent.
Nevertheless, the ak is at-work. and
1t is certain that all the causes Of de.
struction combined are wipinz GU,
forests out. =