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PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL

Christ. 1909 Third avenue. south.
Church OF the Advent, Sixth ave-
nue. and Twentieth street, north
Rev. Middleton S. Barnwell, rector.
Grace, 1920 First avenue, north
Rev Carl Henckell, rector.
st. Andrews. Eleventh avenue and
Twelfth street, south-Rev. j. L
Ware, rector.
St. Johns, I'll Twenty second
street, Ensley-Rev Edmonds Ben
nett, rector.
st. Marys- on the Hi ghlands, 1900
Twelfth avenue. south-Rey. Q. D.
Randolph. pastor.
Trinity, 1904 Cotton avenue.
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MISCELLANEOUS

Apostolic Faith Mission, 314.
Twenty-ninth avenue, north
Church of God, 1851 Fourth avenue
west-Rev. J. L. Mitchell, pastor.
Church of Christ. 700 Lomb avenue
Pentecostal Assembly, 270S Thirty
second avenue, north-Rev. S. A
Bishop. pastor.
salvation Army, 5014 North Tween.
tieth street
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! Twenty-seventh. North--Rev. A. d.
Rudolph, pastor.
Cumberland, 1744 Cleveland Ave
nue-Rev. p. c. Lee, pastor.
East Lake Cumberland. 1900 Di-
vision Avenue-Rev. J. p. Stevenson,
pastor.
Edgewood-Rey 7. S. Hickman,
pastor.
Eighty third street, sos Eighty
third Street, south.
Ensley Highlands, 26ss Ensley
Avenue. Fairfield. Rev. L. e. Bru-
baker, pastor.
Fairview. 2331 Thirtieth, Fair
view-Rev. j. 4. Hixson, pastor.
FIFTH Avenue. 1901 Fifth Avenue.
North-Rev. J. NJ Broadly pastor.
First, POO Fourth Avenue. North
Rev. j. A. MacSporran, pastor.
First, roe Nineteenth, Ensley-Res
j. L. Logemann, pastor.
First, 440l Eighth Avenue. Wylam,
First, Pennsylvania Avenue and
First Thomas-Rev. j. e. Hixsoa,
pastor.
HaudIey Memorial, Thirteenth Ave-
nue. and Twenty-fifth Street, North
Rev. o. s. Coke, pastor.
1nglenook. Seventh Avenue. Barton
ROAD, f1lB0 1llIl.
Independent Presbyterian Church
of Birmingham. Highland Avenue
and Thirtyfirst street, Henry NJ.
Edmonds, pastor.
Italian, 1914 Park Avenue. Ensley.
Plunkett Memorial, Parkway AMI
Forty fourth Fairfield.
Second. 1880 Tenth Avenue South
Rev. ]. B. Meacham. pastor.
South Highlands. Twenty-first
Street and Highland Avenue-Rev.
William r. Dobyns, pastor.
Third, Seventh avenue. south, and
Twenty-second street-Rev. j. A.
Bryan, pastor.
Thirty-fifth Avenue. 1929 Thirty
fifth avenue, north.
Vine Street S13 Cotton avenue
Rev. Fl. NJ Moffett. pastor.
Woodlawn, 1928 First avenue, nortn
Rev. Roy G.. Hershey, pastor.
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and In his district raised $4,000, 600
on a quota of Sc 900 900. He saw over
seas service as general field superin-
tendent of religious work in the A.
e. r. in France and Germany and was
one of the newspaper correspondents
at the peace conference. Since then
he has been field secretary for the
Presbyterian committee on Christian
education.
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Blessed Sacrament, 1416 Pearson
ayenue-Rev. j. l.. Carroll.
Church of the Immaculate Concep.
ton, Sixth avenue and Seventeenth
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METHODIST EPISCOPAL

Acipco, Sixteenth and Thirty-see
ond avenue, north-Rev. J. S. Black
burn, pasted.
Ann Memorial (Powderly)-Rev. r.
A. Thompson, pastor.
Avondale. South. 1910 Fifth avenue.
south-Rev. G. T. Harris, pastor.
Central Park, 4t05 Walnut street
Rev S. r. Emerson, pastor.
East Birmingham. 1900 Tenth ave-
nue.. north-Rev. b. NJ. Glenn. pas
tor.
East Lake. 1865 First avenue south
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Special Guests Christian Church ReuiuaL Today

/ Thirteenth avenue and Twenty fifth
street, north, which are being con-
Quoted by Rev. Charles II. Pratt,
traveller. lecturer and preacher, and
J. Fred scholfeld, noted evangelist
singer
Two services are being held daily
at 10 o'clock In the morning and
1880 o'clock at night.
Dr. William Ray Dobyns, pastor of
the South Highlands Presbyterian
church. who has been absent in Kan
sas City for the past two weeks, has
returned and will preach at both SER
vices on Sunday.
During DR.. Dobyns' absence the
pulpit was occupied by Mr.. James
Bowron, DR.. b. F. Riley and DR..
r. Ames Montgomery, president of
Centre college.
In observance of the Thanksgiving
season special services will be held
at. the Second Presbyterian church
Sunday. Judge william Z. Fort will
be the principal speaker at the Sum
day school service at 1915 a. m.
while the Rev. j. 3. Meacham, pastor
of the church. will deliver the
Thanksgiving sermon at the II
O'Clock hour. He will take for his
subject. Were Not Ten CIeansed?"
At the evening service he will speak
on Gods Grenadiers." Special music
will be rendered al each service by
the large chorus under the direction
of Mrs. Wallace Shelby
Methodist
In the absence of the pastor, DR.
W. r. Hendrix, who with Judge Dan
A. Greene, is spending few days
on the coast at Magnolia. in order to
recuperate from a very serious cold,
DIR. Kicks Of the education board
of the Southern Methodist Episcopal
church. south. will fill the pulpit
at II o'clock Sunday morning, Mo-
vember 26.
DR.. Guy f. Snavely OF the Birming-
ham Southern college will fill the
pulpit in the evening.
Christian
DR.. Marion Stevenson of st. Louis.
prominent religious educator
aRoHb ZIG LlSClplcS Ol christ, VIII
preach at Fifty seventh Street Chris
tan church, Woodlawn, Sunday
morning at II o'clock. DIR. Steven
son is an outstanding contributor to
the literature of the disciples in re-
ligious education. He is passing
through the city en- route to St. Louis
and Will preach at Fffty-seventh
Street Christian church in the morn
ing and at the First Christian church
at night.
Psychology
The University of Life presents DIR.
Roy Clyde Weidler. it's dean, in two
public lectures Sunday in the ball
room of tho Hotel Tutwiler
Subjects; p. m, The Latest
psychological Discoveries in Self |
Healing;" 8 p. M, Into the King |
Row and Crowned"
Lectures are free, and everybody Is |
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Congregational Beth Ell. 1906 Sixth
avenue, north.
Temple Emanu- El, Highland ave-
nue. and Twenty first street-Morris
newfield, rabbi.
Knesses Israel Congregation, Sew
enth avenue and Seventeenth street
Rev. David Stein, rabbi
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ANAAAA7 lsA9NNAt
BAPTIST
Calvary, 1405 Thirteenth Avenue
North-Rev, Emmett Williams, pastor
Central Park Avenue Q, Near Bes-
semer Road-Rev. A. c. Swindall
pastor.
East Birmingham. 1850 Tenth Ave
nue., North--Rev. c. ]. Hill, pastor
East Thomas, Arkadelphia Road
Rev. o. p. Bentley, pastor.
Elyton. Corner Fourth and Cotton
Avenue.
Fifty-sixth Street, First Avenue
North. and Fifty-slxth street-Rev
j. T. McNew, pastor.
First. Sixth Avenue and Twenty
second Street, North-Rev ]. Il
Hobbs. pastor z
First (Avondale). 1920 Fourth Ave
nue.. south-Rev. w. p. Reeves, pas
tor.
First (Enslay), 1901 Avenue G.
Rev. d. NJ Gardner, pastor.
First (Fairfield), Commerce, Cor
ner eBardeleben-Rev. E. b. Gatlin,
pastor.
First pratt city,, 31e Third-Rev.
7. c. Wyatt, pastor.
Gate City Church, Gate City-Rev,
w. c. Eubanks, pastor.
Hamilton Memorial, S23 Twelfth,
South-Rev. L. w. Dockery, pastor.
Hunter Street. 1894 Twenty fourth
Fairview-Rev. L. M. Bradley, pas
tor.
Parker Memorial. $500 Fifth Court
North-Rev. W. H. Gregory, pastor.
Pike Avenue, Twenty third, Corner
Pike Avenue, Ensley-Rev. Theo.
Harris, pastor.
Powderly-Rev. Z. l.. Davis, pastor.
Ruhama, 1870 Second Avenue, South
Rev ]. c. Stivender. pastor
Sixtysixth Street. 6631 Division
Avenue-Rev. S. e. Boroughs, pastor.
Southside. Nineteenth Street and
Eleventh Avenue, South-Rev. ]. e.
billiard, pastor.
Thirtyfifth Avenue, 2502 Thirty
fifth Avenue. North-Rev. G. L. Bur-
ton. pastor
Twenty first, Avenue Church, 1890
Twenty first Avenue North-Rev.
Walter Dudley, pastor.
Twenty seventh Street, Twenty
seventh Street and Eighth Avenue,
South--Rev ]. d. Thompson. pastor.
West End. 1927 Tuscaloosa Ave-
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SERVICES TODAY
Episcopal

The Right Reverend c. NJ Beck
with, bishop of the diocese of Ala
bama, Episcopal church, will hold
services at IL o'clock Sunday morning
at the Masonic home at Fairfield.
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Christ English, Fourteenth avenue
and Twentieth street. north-Rev. w.
burn, pastor.
Zion. 1901 Second avenue. south
Rev II. Reuter- pastor.
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That thou nayest know how thou
oughtest to behave thysef in the
house of God, Uhich is the Church
of the living God.
II Timothy iii:I5
II Timothy iii:15

Pastors of Birminbham churches
are requested to have corrections
and notices Of special services for
publication Sunday in The Age
Herald office by noon on Thursday
of each week.
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Large crowds are attending the
evangellstic services at the Handley
Memorial Presbyterian church on
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hue--IAeN. j. a. COOK, pastor.
West Woodlawn, 46S1 Georgia Road
Rev, J. w. Partridge. pastor.
Wylam, Ninth Avenue and Fortieth
street-Rex. L. L. Hearn. pastor.
CHRISTIAN
North Birminbham Church Corner
Twenty Avenue and Twenty
fifth street--Rey. T. II. Anderson.
pastor.
Fifty seventh Street, 121 Fifty-sev-
enth Street. North-Rev w. A. Eb-
erhart, pastor.
First Church, 481 rwenty-first
Street, North-Rev. r. n. Simpson,
pastor.
First Church eEhsiey). Avenue r
and Twenty first Street-Rev. ]. L.
Anderson. pastor.
woodlayn, 1T sixtieth street,
south-Rey. II. c. Hershey. pastor
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE
First Church of Christ. 2017 Eley-
enth avenue, south.
CONGREGATIONAL
Pilgrim, 73O Georgia road.
EVANGELICAL
Chiesa, Italian, 1901 Avenue H.
Ensley-Rev. S. G. Cerevolo. pastor.
st. Johns church. 210t Sixth ave-
nue., south-Rev. S. A. Ebinger, pas
tor.
GREEK
Holy Trinity. 301 Nineteenth
street, south-Rev A. Davis, pastor
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ADVENTIST

Seventh Day Adventist. rs Nine
teenth Street, North-Rev O. F.
Frank, pastor.
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Presbyterian
First Presbyterian, corner of
Fourth avenue and Twenty first
street, Rev. John A. MacSporran.
u. D., minister. Morning service at
II o'clock. ermon topic. THE Com
liberalization of Life Afternoon
service at 5 o'clock Sermon topic,
THE Home Atmosphere" Sunday
School at $3.50 a. M Young peoples
meeting at 600 p. m.
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HEBREW

Holy Trinity, 3O1 Nineteenth
street, south-Rev A. Davis, pastor
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METHODIST PROTESTANT
Methodist Protestant, 40t Fifteenth
Way, Southwest-Rev. 7. G. Casaday,
pastor.
PRESBYTERIAN
Avondale, 1909 Third Avenue
Rev f. B. Webb, pastor.
Birmingham Cumberland, 1915
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CHRISTIAN SCIENCE
First Church of Christ, 2017 Eley-
enth avenue. south
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CONGREGATIONAL
Pilgrim, 7So Georgia road.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-08-19

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The Washington times., 1922-08-07

has shown by studies OF the yell
low pines of Arizona and the
sequoias of California. that an
eleven.year period appears very
strongly recorded in the growth.
rings of very old trees OF these
varieties, and this is beyond doubt
associated with the sunspot peri
DDS of centuries ago.
The great sequoias on the Gen.
eral Grant Reservation show an
water supply, being doubled when
that was favorable and halved
when it was unfavorable.
Thus a historical agreement Ia
established between the rate of
growth Of the trees and the ac.
tivity OF the sun. The same paral.
lei has been traced in the growth
OF the Arizona pines. 1t has been
run back to about the year 1400.
During the interval of seventy-fivc
years between 1910 and 1715, when
there was a prolonged state Of
minimum sun-spottedness, the
growth rings. to a large extent, al.
most disappeared.
Other observations have shown
that trees are very sensitive to
changes in the length OF the day
light period, as compared with the
night. This, of course, is a regu.
larly recurring phenomenon in any
given latitude, the only part OF the
earth where the relative length of
day and night is Interchangeable be.
ing along the equator, where day
and night are always equal. In the
equatorial forests practically no
variation Of the rate OF tree growth
should occur as far as the growth
depends upon the duration OF day.
light. But the intluepces assocI.
ated with sunspots MAY be felt
there as elsewhere.
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WHEN ALL LOOKS STORMY
BY Beatrice Fairfax.

hunt for unhappy folks with whom
TO contrast ourselves? BY no
means.
Joy is self sufficient. But mis-.
cry insists on comparing it's state
with that OF more fortunate be-
ings.
When II seems as IL there were
nothing ahead, remember that
misery is generally self-created.
1t comes more often from our own
reactions to conditions than from
anything which happens to us.
Hasn't II ever chanced that some
disappointing thing happened and
you were In the mood to poke fun
at yourself and to laugh at your
own discontinued And II YOU did
that for few minutes, didn't the
sting of the disappointment fade
from your consciousness?
When II looks as il there were
nothing ahead, just remember that
every pendulum swings as far to
the right as II travelled to the left.
And wait for the swing! Don't
think about the present state of
misery. But wait for the swing
OF the pendulum. which may just
he on the turn as you're conclud.
ing That you can't bear your pres.
ent state of depression.
Depression doesn't last. Troubles
go. Misery departs. So while they
are paying you an unweloSme visit
retuse to take them seriously or to
believe that you cannot free your.
sell from their ugly thrall.
The Washington times., 1922-08-07
Widely Known Lecturer and Author
and . National Authority on
Juvenile Problems.

A n ordinary ten-year-oid poy
u speaks French and English
- with equal fluency and has
had no formal instruction in
either language except the rou-
tine public school lessons in the
latter.
How does he do it? you ask.
Simply by hearing daily the cor
rect speech forms in both IAN
guages. The mother happeps 10
be French by blood and birth. ihe
father is an American, but mas
picked up a working use OF the
native tongue Of his wife. Ana
these three have continued from
the infancy OF the boy to use only
the French language at the din
ing table, except, of course, when
there are guests. Then strict
rule is to drop back to the Eng
lish. A .year-old little girl
member is likewise acquiring
knowledge of the two forms.
The explanation is this. Ian
Ruage Is learned almost wholly
from mere imitation Of sounds,
with gestures and grimaces &C.
ouired by sight imitation ana
thrown in as extras. Any COM
mon child could learn the two
languages practically as the ten
year.old Of this story is doing.
provided the circumstances OF
training were the same.
Few Of the great majority OF
busy parents will happen 10 have
one member who is equally con.
versant with two languages, and
hence cannot teach the foreign
one. But the masses can speak
very good English in the presence
OF their children, II they will. and
10 teach the vernacular in a po.
lite and finished form.
Try the dinner-table method OF
language Improvement for your
child's sake. Practically all the
fixed habi,s OF speech are learned
before the age Of youth Is reached,
Determine to become master Of
clear, forceful. conversational
English, for your own advantage
ns we'll MS for the sake of giving
your child a powerful instrument
OF success and achievement. for
his future,
Simple. direct Angto.Sason
words are the best for household
use, Wordy and so-called ele.
CANT. sentences are now little In
favor In any class OF good 30
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Perfectly Understood

"Of course ii may. l don't ex-
pect you to square 1t with a bunch
of double English violets. but it
can be squared, and 1t must be.
II only for the sake of Hammon's
women folks. 1t won't serve any
good purpose to air that old scan
day"
The Senator nodded. First we
will have to eliminate the gang
clean them out" He made an ex-
pansive, eloquent gesture. you
don't object?"
Kill 'em, II necessary" Merkle
gyowled, vindictively.
Very well; I'll do my best"
Then it's done"
Merkle rose with relief, shook
the Senator's limp and pudgy
hand. then departed, knowing
that the secret of Jarvis Hammon's
death was quite as safe in
Sabin's keeping as in his
own. That plump, imperturbable
politician had long been one OF the
triumvirate that ruled the city, and
Merkle knew him to be the tomb
of confessions far more startling
than this; he knew also that al.
though Sabin took toll of the pub
lie in the way of all powerful poll
tical rulers, he put no price on his
favorS
That evening Inspector Smell oc-
cupied the same chair in which
Merkle had sat, and found himself
the target of Sabin's veiled stare.
Smell was a bulky, forceful, unim-
aginative man. He was vastly i'm.
pressive in his uniform. but the
Senator's questions appeared to
bewilder him.
What do you mean-Melcher?"
the inspector finally inquired.
HE claims you give him protec.
ton"
The officers face purpled. "Oh!
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the past. 1t is in this way that
they have been related with the
Cyclical variations in the suns
activity whose chief, visible. sign
is found in the recurrence OF sun.
spots.
These have an average period
OF about eleven years, /. e., start
ing from a year when the spots
are specially numerous and
large, they are found TO decline
until almost none are seen, and
then they increase again to an
other maximum, which is reached
about eleven years later than the
first one noticed.
When the spots are numerous
the rainfall is apt TO be increased.
and this. together with associated
average growth in girth of rs
centimeters per century during
the last 500 years. But the rate
has evidently varied with the
conditions, favors tree growth.
and the annual rings are more
strongly marked and broader
during the years of many sun:
spots than during the periods
when the spots are few. Douglass
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ARRANGE YOUR SCHEDULE
BY LOrettO c. Lynch.

. will simplify the task Of daily
housecleaning.
Every housewife should make
Il point to have time on a
warm day to bathe 'leisurely, or
sit In one OF the shaded spots
and read or nap for an hour or
two. II the Riddles are home on
vacation. a mother should try to
find time from her household
tasks to read to the children or
talk with them or play a quiet
game.
Some women make such hard
work OF their household duties
and give 80 much time and en-
ergy to them that they fail to
remember that the home exists
primarily for the children, and
a home falls IN part when the
mother has no time for mother
ing the little ones.
II lE we'll TO cook large ham
or piece of beef and have this
on hand for days when you may
act feel like cooking at all. Such
iays come to all of us. How.
ever, with a ham on hand, one
npv serve n cold with potato
salad or hot potatoes, or the
nam may Ue sGIhinsleu' wllh
eggs for an emergency hot
meal. Sliced cold, the ham may
find It's way into the picnic
basket or I'm sandwiches for the
emergency fishing party's basket.
IL is also we'll 20 bake a couple
OF hundred cookies and put
them into a stone crock or tin
box. They keep fresh a long
time II made from a good recipe
and properly stored.
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By Rex Beach
A Realistic Romance Wherein Poverty
and Millions Walk Side by Side
in Strange Places.

ignorance. at least, and he was
taken aback at this ready ac.
ceptance Of his challenge. Some.
thing maievolent in her air In.
creased his uneasiness. The girl
was as hard as flint and seemed
capable Of any desperate action.
you say you love Lorelei; you
pretend to be grateful to me"
As II the mere heat OF
his accusation had ignited her
fury Lilas interrupted him
anerily: "oh, cut out that
lovs-and-sratitude talk! I want
money, do you understand Money!
You think won't dare go through
with this, and so does Merkle.
You. neither OF you, can under.
stand why I'll take 2 chance on
"ths chair just to make you pay.
Well, that's because you are men.
and because you are healthy and
happy and have something to live
for. But what have I got? I'm
sick. I'm going to pieces. Ill be
gone in a few years II don't get
the coin. I've always fought and
I've usually BEEN licked. but I
won't be licked this time. Men
like you and John Merkle licked
me Why, ] was licked before I
had learned to fight back. and you
taught me to hate you before I
had put on long dresses"
You know that's not true"
Bob cried. sharply. You harmed
men before they ever harmed you.
You hated Jarvis Harmon. and
yet he did more for you than any
one In all your life: Merkis helped
you, too. when you needed help.
and so did I. Lorelei was your
friend"
Bah! I haven't any friends; I
never had any, and / don't want
any now. Nobody ever did any
thing for me. You and John
Merkle are going to pay me for
what other men have put me
through. Oh, come. I'm not bluff
ing! You're afraid to stand the
gaff, but I'm not. I'm getting old.
My looks are gone. Who's going
to pay me II you don't7 Who"
Lilas's voice, which has risen
steadily, broke now. and she shook
a clenched fist In Wharton's face.
He saw that she had worked her
self UP into one of her abrupt.
reasonless RACES.
(To Be Continued Tomorrow
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BY Garrett p. Serviss,
Eminent Astronomer and Author.
ity on Subjects OF Scientific
Interest.

HNE Of the curiosities OF sci.
entific investigation is the
relationship apparently ex-
listing between spots on the sun
and rings OF growth in the trunks
Of trees. Everybody has heard
how. by counting the number Of
such rings, shown when a log Is
sawed across transversely, begin.
ming the count from the center, or
core. and continuing It out 70 the
bark, the age Of the tree may -
told, each one of the concentric
rings, standing, on the average,
for one years growth. The sys.
tenn Of rings is the trees diary, in
which II has drawn a plainly Wis
ible circle to mark every year Of
its life.
This Is the theoretical basis on
which rests the calcula ton Of the
age of huge ancient trees, like
the giant sequoias Of California,
some Of which show several thou.
sand concentric rings, which are
taken to prove that they have
outlived, two or three times over,
such passing phases OF history as
the Egyptian or Roman empires.
When these mighty trees were
young sprlgs, no nation that still
maintains an independent exist.
ence. unless II be China, had yet
sprung into being!
II has been found, however, that
the growth.rings are not invn.
rlable, or entirely trustworthy
marks OF tho passage of the
years. Seasonal Variations have
an important influence upon their