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THE SAN ANTONIO DAILY EGRESS: SATURDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 8, 1908.
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Cleaoiog-llp Day io San Antonio.
Tuesday, March 10, has been set
apart as a general cleanlng-up day
In San Antonio and lis general ob-
servance will be urged and promoted
by the Woman's Club, the city au-
thorities, the Health Protective Asso-
ciation, the Business Men's Club end
the publid schools.
It is purposed to have a working
lorce in every precinct under direc-
tion of a well chosen committee, co-
operating through its chairman with
each of the other precinct commit-
tees, and all with the general commit-
tee, bo that the work may be properly
mapped out, systoraatlzed and mado
harmonious as «. whole.
in the hutiness, as well as in tho
residence districts, efforts will be
made to have a general cleaning up
of back yards as well as of the front,
to have all rubbish and trash re-
moved, sidewalks and streets swept
elero and a little repairing and paint-
ing done to fences and walls, or at
least a little scrubbing, where appear-
ances would be greatly improved
thereby. Much of this will depend
upon individual effort and enterprise,
promoted by gentle persuasion and
civic pride, while a good deal in that
direction may bo accomplished by tho
city's street cleaning department and
the special attention given to vacant
lots, weed-choked gutters and all un-
sightly localities.
This spring cleaning day is well
timed. It comes just before tho rea-
son of spring rains and only a low
weeks before the annual Spring Car-
nival that will Attract thousands of
visitors to the city. It may be as-
sumed that when this general and
thorough cleaning up has been under-
taken it will extend beyond one day.
That is to say, the cleaning process
will go on, and the advantages of it
having been seen more c-are will be
taken to keep the city clean and at-
tractive, for the force of example will
be impressive. As it is now, San An-
tonio has the reputation of being the
cleanest, as well as the most health-
ful, city in the State, and the citUens
are proud of that reputation, and this
should prompt them to further im-
prove it.
The school authorities will assume
responsibility of making the school
grounds neat and attractive, but more
is expected of the school children.
They are the most diligent and effec-
tive detectives of mosquito breeding
places. They have generally shown
enthusiastic interest in the crusade
against mosquitoes and greatest effi-
ciency in the discovery of the hidden
sources of propagation — the small
pools of water that accumulate near
the hydrant, on weed-covered lots, in
back yards and elsewhere, any one of
which may be sufficient to supply a
whole neighborhood with mosquitoes
all summer.
Th« 'civic committee of the Wom-
an's Club has undertaken the direc-
tion of this cleaninf-up proposition
and, with the assurance giveu of
hearty sympathy and co-operation,
there can be no doubt of the success-
ful issue.
Pat (he Vires Undergroand.
The idea of doing away with the
unsightly telegraph and telephone
poles which disfigure and obstruct the
Fidewalks and the network of over-
head wires in the business district
ol' the city has for several years ob-
tained among the citizens and with
the authorities, but comparatively lit-
tle progress has yet been made in
that direction.
It has all along been realized that
!t would be expensive to the com-
panies to install their system of wires
underground instead of stringing
them on wires, as at present, espe-
cially if required to make the change
■11 at once, and at the same time it
must also have been realized that
Kooner or later the change must come.
Several years ago there was an un-
demanding that the telegraph and
telephone companies wdfald put their
wires underground gradually, inat Is,
enlarge the underground system year
by year until the overhead wiroa
hhould entirely disappear, but the
poles have been multiplying Instead
of diminishing and unless checked tho
nuisance will become unbearable after
awhile. There is no better time than
the present for making a start In
preparation for the inevitable. While
it Is true that San Antonio Is not so
large a city In the matter of popula-
tion ns some of the other cities which
have banished poles and overhead
wires, it Is growing very fast, and,
while it is equally true that the city
does not boast many skyscrapers a?
yet, several are in contemplation, and
with the rapid enhancement of real
estate values in the business district
economy will compel the construction
of higher buildings before many years.
Tho cost of making tho change Is con-
sequently not so great now as it will
be later.
It is not to be expected that the
contemplated action of the City Coun-
cil will Impose burdens upon the tele-
graph and telephone companies too
heavy for them to bear. The cost of
installing tho underground system
will be duly considered, and it Is prob-
able that ample time will be allowed
for the proposed change, which may
be gradual, buit. there Is no question
that public sentiment is quite unani-
mous with respect to tfte necessity
for making the change with as much
expedition as may reasonably be de-
manded.
Possibly nt some future time, with
the development, of the wireless sys-
tem of transmitting telegraphic and
telephonic messages, tho polrs may
disappear from the streets and side-
walks in the evolution of progress, but
we can hardly afford to wait for that.
A Popular Sovereign.
King Alfonso of Spain is what the
Americans would call "a brick." As
a lover ho wrote poetry to the lady
who is now his Queen in precisely the
tamo strain as other love-lorn youths,
except that he showed an apprecia-
tion of the dangers as well as the
divinity that doth beset, a king, but
scoffed at bombs so long as lovn
should guide.
With reckless disregard of conse-
quences Alfonso persists in going
about unattended, mixing indiscrimi-
nately with the people In the moat
democratic sort of way, and appar-
ently enjoying the apprehension and
consternation of those who are great-
ly exercised for his safety.
Tho other day the King, while saun-
tering through the streets of Seville,
was taken in charge as a suspicious
person by a zealous policeman who
knew the King was somewhere. He
was quickly released, of course, and
the policeman was in danger of se-
vere treatment, but Alfonso good-
humoredly ordered his liberation and
showed by his manner that he was
rather amused than annoyed by the
affair.
If Spain were populated by Ameri-
cans or people like them the youn^
sovereign would be about as popular
with the masses as a king Is ever like-
ly to be. for he seems to be a good
mixer und an all round good fellow.
A Washington special says the Ap-
propriations Committer is not Inclined
to appropriate money for eradicating
the cattle tick in Stales In which no
legislative appropriation is made for
that purpose. This is a narrow "view,
and yet it Is a natural view. The
Texas Legislature snould long ago
have made a substantial appropria-
tion to aid in wiping out this pest;
but where the State has failed the
cattlemen have not. They have, made
liberal expenditures from their pri-
vate incomes, but the task of eradicat-
ing the tick is too great for them
alone. The Government must help,
even though the State will not Per-
haps, however, when the next Legis-
lature meets the State will do its part.
Two of the best debaters in the Sen-
ate were engaged In the debate on the
tariff, though taking widely different
views, when Culberson of Texr.s and
Beveridge of Indiana crossed bayonets
Wednesday. Senator Beveridge was
(.peaking in behalf of his bill for the
appointment of a permanent tariff
commission and Senator Culberson
took occasion to repeat the Demo-
cratic contention that a protective
tariff encourages trusts. It may be
said to have been the beginning of
the tariff controversy in the present
Congress.
The Galveston Tribune asserts that
"the gossips are already saying that
the marriage of Harry Thaw is to be
annulled and Evelyn cast off." The
Bame thing is already predicted for
the Vanderbilt international wedding.
Many will hope the gloomy forecast
Is unfounded.
NV> more are the streets and side-
walks of the smart and cleanly City
ef Yoakum to be littered with hand-
bills, "guttersnlpea" and like adver-
tisements which have heretofore been
scattered broadcast for the sport of
the winds or for the edification of tho
public. Yoakum proposes that here-
nftur the., streets and sidewalks shall
be clean and comely. Handbill dis-
tributors may leave Vneir tracts in
the homes, but must not leave their
tracks on the outside.
A traveling man says conditions are
belter In Southwest Texas than in
North Texas because the farmers In
this section moro generally sold their
cotton early in the season when it
commanded better prices than since,
while in North Texas many farmers
are still holding In expectation of
higher prices. Perhaps he means to
insinuate that the Southwest Texas
farmer has more gumption than those
In other parts of the State.
The Fort Worlh Telegram, editor-
ially, continues to differ from authori-
ties regarding tho art of spanjklng It
asserts confidently that "sfripped of
unessential opinions and brought
down to bare facts, spanking is a
corporeal punishment at tho hands
of a female parent, applied where it
will do the most good."
In answer to the question as to
what has become of the old-fashioned
father tho Memphis Commercial-Ap-
peal calls attention to that old chap
back in the kitchen playing pinochle
wilh the cook. How about that one
who la working in his shirt, sleeves
down on the farm to pay son's bills in
the eit.y?
Punta Arenas is having the time of
her life entertaining the American
battleship fleet and being entertained
in return. In a few days the fleet
will be in Iho Pacific, on its way to
San Francisco, but Punta Arenas will
not be forgotten
Tho Carnival committees are work-
ing llko beavers now and, with every
appearance of a determination to
make the coming Spring Carnival
surpass all preceding carnivals In
every aspect. This is as it should ba
A Spanish policeman tried io hustlo
along King Alfonso, whom he
thought looked suspicious. Can any-
one be blamed for being, suspicious
when in the vicinity of a policeman?
An exchange says that the Gov
ernor of New Jersey is sotting In bad
by observing his election pledges.
T hat appears to be fashionable these
oays among the Governors.
Kansas City wants an International
Club, modeled after the club in San
Antonio, for the cultivation of social
and trade relations with the sister
Republic. Not a bad idea.
"t.ove," according to the Dallas
News, "is one of the softest words in
the Buglish language." Sio soft, In
fact, that it is often confused with
mushy sentiment.
They who live by the sword shali
die by the sword Is a Scriptural in-
junction which the Kentucky feudists
and all others might do well to re-
member.
-Merely because it is now too late
to get a poll tax receipt t« vote with
is no reason that it. is too early to
commence resolving to pay in time the
next time.
Just think of that bunch of young
West Pointers who are counting the
days until the delivery of those valen-
tines in the shape of aitmy commis-
sions.
Ma's Regret.
Uiuce pa has lost hi* job the joys we. had
have all departed;
Ma mopes around and you can see that
she is heavy-hearted;
She's cut out bridge, and it, of course, is
not at all surprisln'
That we nin't doin' much just now, ex-
cept economiiiu.'
Pa says it wouldn t be so bad If ma had
only heeded
And saved a little when she had so much
more than she needed;
Tho Rirls are all at home in spite of all
^na did to mnke em
So sweet the fellows shed picked out
would simply have to take 'em.
It's awful gloomy 'round the place, since
pa don't have to hurry
A.way from breakfast any more; we don t
'do much but worry;
Madge sets around and frets all day, ana
so does Bess and Oertle:
Sue seems to take it hardest, though,
because she's nearly thirty.
When Pil was scoldln' ma Inst night be-
cause she'd been short-sighted
He spoke as thou h'ed lost his job Just
so that she'd be spited;
But ma spunked up at last and said:
••You'd spoil a saint's endurance.
And you're so healthy, too, with such
a lot of life Insurance
—S. E. ktscr.
O
Point* From Paragraphers.
Indianapolis News: Take the weather
jib it comes. It saves discussion.
Voungstown Telegram: Many Demo-
erats ardently wish that Bryan would
stop rocklna the Psriy boat.
Philadelphia North American: Its a
mistake to speak of the Hughes boom as
voting It's old enough to have whiskers.
' Pittsburg Sun: The grade crossing
doesn't get as many victims Ht a time as
the ftre-trap theater, but it gets them
oftener. . _ .,
Cleveland J/eader: .Backing a revolu-
tion with counterfeit foin should be no
more criminal than promoting one with
spurious patriotism.
Washington Hers Id: If Mis* Vander-
bilt is marrying the Count for his name,
surely Ij»s*1o Jeno Marls Henrlk Simon
Sleehenyl should satisfy her.
Washington Timet: You don't need to
have wrinkle* If you have money, says
the Beauty Htnt department. Of cours*
not. It sJjeMln* the meiMir that brings
WHAT STATE PAPERS SAY
Why Shouldn't He?
'TIs sold that a certain dry goods clerk
In this city wears corsets. Du you know
him?—Yoakum Times.
This paragraph is not ns ridiculous as
it seems when one considers how many
women wear tho trotibors of tho family.
♦ ♦
More Than Likely.
A New York renovator Is suing Mrs.
Leslie Carter fur J3WOO. lie will probably
get his money when Mrs. farter has hud
a clmnce to renovate her bank account.—
Houston Post.
Apparently this suit bus something to
do with the Carter's mako-up.
♦ ♦
Slow Building.
Dr. Washington Gladden of the Kirst
Congregational Church at Columbus.
Ohio, has completed twenty-five years'
work at that church.—Houston Post.
The worthy doctor must have under-
taken tho Job alone.
♦ ♦ ♦
Poor Policy.
The assassination of the King of Por-
tugal and tho desperate effort, to wipe
out the royal family Is. after all, tne
samo old thing over ngnln. It bus not
heon long since an effort was made to
kill the King of Spain. Most of tho liv-
ing Kings and Kmperors have beon
threatened, and a number of them as-
saulted from time to time. Dom Pedro
of Braill was a wise man. After tha
republican sentiment outgrew his sort
of government he permitted his oppo-
nents to send him awav to Europe, and
there ho remained. When the people of
Norway determined to have a separata
?:overnment King Oscar of Sweden of-
ered no violent resistance. Aside from
tho faults and cruelties to be found by
the one aide against the other, and aside
from the horrors of revolution and an-
archy, the question today Is simply
whether the remaining Kings and
Queens and Emperors of the earth are
willing to yield peaceably to tho growing
power of the people.—Dallas News.
The elevation of the people, however,
offers little excuse for the blowing up
of a monarch.
♦ ♦ ♦
More Than Likely.
"Who steals my purse steals trash,"
but the statesmen will not admit that
who steals their bills steals trash.—
Gainesville Messenger.
Apparently it would largely depend
upon whether the bills are receipted or
not.
♦ ♦ ♦
Already There,
Less than half a doisen yesrs ago the
onidn crop of Texas was a matter of
smalt moment in Texns. Since then other
crops have been coming Into ptpminence
and one of the latest Is asparagus, whlcn
is said to be one of the most profitable
of all. Gradually people are finding out
how many things Ttxus soil alii ellmiite
wpo good for. -- San Antonio Express.
Great as has been the development of
this .•■"tate agriculturally it has only Just
begun. Texaa has a wonderful future
ahead of her.—Denlson Herald.
Kor that matter, Texas has a wonder-
ful present.
♦ ♦ ♦
May Help,
It begins to seem thiit nothing loss
than a 11,000.000 Government suit will at-
tract any attention these times. Laredo
Times.
It is said that checks are once again
fashionable.
♦
Easily Settled.
Wonder where the nun goes for his
summer vacation who already lives on
the coast?—Yoakum Horald.
After working all summer and work-
ing nil the summer visitors he comes to
San Antonio to spend tho winter.
Probably So.
The voters in George Ade's district
have decided that he shall go to the Chi-
cago convention as a delegate whether he
wants to or not. George is not the only
Jokesmith In Indiana.—Palestine Herald.
No doubt a caae of every vote a pun.
so to speak.
♦ ♦ ♦
Its Own Campaign.
It appears to be settled upon that
Judge .fames H. Robertson is the ohoica
of about every Democrat who wants
Travis County and Its multiplied Inter-
ests looked after In tho next legisla-
ture, as they should be, for re-election
to the legislature. The Statesman feels
sure that no abler or better man can
be sent there to perform tho service so
much needed to be performed. We can
not think if he becomes a candidate for
re-election that .Judge Robertson will
have opposition, ns it seems almost cer-
tain that no one will oppose him.—Austin
Statesman.
The methods of the Statesman are cer-
tainly peculiar to itself. First it selects
a number of candidates who are possi-
bilities and then it decides whi-jh is to
ho elected. Tt will not be at all surpris-
ing to hear within a few days that the
Statesman has elected Judge James H.
Robertson to the Legislature.
The Probable Alternative.
It is certain that State-wide prohibition
is already making a noise like success.—
Greenville Banner.
Now a State surrounded by prohibition
would not be no bad.
la in Danger.
Fresh from the red-apple State of Ar-
kansas, where Jeff Davis is the para-
mount Issue and many people take the
rising of the moon for the sun. a gen-
tleman of some 40 winters, with a like
number of hot summers, got off tbe train
here ?nnday wtfh a red and black rib-
bon pinned to the lapel of his coat, that
he might be recognised by his long-
looked-for love, who promised to meet
him at the train, she, too, to have a
small badge pinned on her bosom, that
there might be no mistake of the iden-
tity of each other. 'The Arkansawyer."
ever true and brave, fulfilled hlv promise,
but the supposed true love In McKlnney
gave him a MSKtnnev lilt, hence his trip
as far as this apostle could lesrn was
a dismal failure. As to the identity of
the young Isdy whom hc\ intended to
meet, woo and win we have not been
uhle to learn; but we understand that
the gentleman in uuestlon—a fairly good
looker, too, bud-ia the proprietor of i
red-apple farm and a young mountain
of diamonds in the free State of "Ar-
kansaw." and the young lady who failed
to allow up Is the great big loser In the
transaction. Red apples and diamonds
In these panicky times are not very bad
aaaeta. True to the manner born. It
takes more than mountains of diamonds
and acres of red apple* to eatrb a Mc-
Klnney girl. Any way. there may be
something doing yet; can't tell.—McKln-
ney Courier-Gazette.
Editor Perkins did well to cont'eal
identity of the gentleman in question In
these days of leap year, as there are no
doubt hundreds and hundreds of leap-
year glrla In every section of the coun-
try who will now turn their eyes Mc-
Klnneywards. Now In San Antonio. If
the gentleman In question could prove
effectually that at least one of his an-
cestors died in the Alamo, that his
mother came from Grand Old Texas and
that he himself. I* worth while, he might
he able to lay his diamonds and applea
■ble to make even Jeff Deris forget to
at the feet of a beauty who would be
return to Congress and the sordid cares
of attending to three Federal salaries.
TOPICS OF THE TIMES,
Army Recruit#.
There is an element of tho population
whose course it does not require much
to turn. This is the class of young men
who have not become fixed in tho indus-
trial system; they either have trades to
which they have not settled down or
else they are without any regular means
of livelihood. Under especially prosper-
ous conditions they are assimilated by
the industrial demand. When there comes
some letting up of business activity they
are the first, to be eliminated from In-
dustry. Such young men are orten first-
rate, material for the country's use in
enterprise, and yet, through force of
circumstances, their hold upon the loom
nnd spindle of labor is slight.
Prom this class the army recruits some
of its best elements. These young men
find in the diseiplin#»of Uncle Sam's ser-
vice the conditions of fixity that, they
missed in the lines of civil labor. It is a
mistake to take this class as a labor
gauge, to say that when there are a
number of such unemployed the country
is In a bad condition. 'Hie real test of
industrial soundness is, of course, the
steady employment of the fixed labor
factors. Nothing is easier than to point
to the army recruiting office and say
that the enlistments of the month have
been so much in excess of the same
month last year and this is proof that
the mills of toil are grinding slowly and
the workingman is losing employment.
The army service just now reports
large recruits of young men, much larger
than the corresponding time of last year.
This is gratifying, as the army has been
particularly short-handed. Hut as the
army is a form of public industry it has
claims as such, along with other forms
of industry, rt Hhould be maintained,
and the fact that it is having additions
that tend to raise the enrollment to the
proper footing is indication only of a
more normal state of the labor market.
The slight retardation of industry has
been shown in quick response to the
army's attractions, tho terms and condi-
tions of its service making it a close
competitor with civil employments, cer-
tainly for tho class of loosely attached
young men. Bo that the fact that Uncle
Sam is getting Home of the fine young
fellows of the country into his ranks
does not furnish a text for industrial
depression.—Baltimore American.
"Back to the Dead Rat."
Harry Thaw says that his lawyers will
soon get him out of the asylum for the
criminally insane. Why not? They got
him into it, and thereby demonstrated
the power of money, in a little while
the young millionaire will be at liberty
to return to the old life in the Tender-
loin cafes. F'or a time ho may pose as a
reformed man. Possibly the annoyances
that resulted from his murder of Stan-
ford White may Impress him with the
idea that murder involves certain dis-
agreeable consequences even lor a mil-
lionaire. Lie may go through life with a
license to kill in his pocket, and yet
refrain from killing. If he does his ab-
stinence will only add proof to already
overwhelming proof that he is not in-
sane. If he should run amuck agair,
and kill another admirer of Evelyn's it
would merely show that If he was never
insane he should havo been executed, and
that If he was ever insane he should
have been kept in the asylum. No mat-
ter how the affairs of Mr. Thaw turn
out, the State of New York has been
badly beaten by the millions of Pitts-
burg. The pessimism of Bourke Cock-
ran, who said no millionaire can be con-
victed of crime in New York, has been
vindicated. ✓
The outcome of the trial serves to
bring attention once more to the fact
that the alienist as a witness in a juty
case is a potent factor for the defeat
of justice. So long us it is possible for
a man of unlimited means to haie into
court any number of hair-splitting spec-
ialists upon brain troubles, who are capa-
ble of making a jury believe that a tant-
rum is temporary insanity, and that the
Tenderloin brawler who uses his pistol
is irresponsible, the jury system will be
ineffective where rich defendants are
concerned. Sending rl haw to Mattcawan
was a farce, t ompared to which even
the acquittal of Mrs. Bradley at Wash-
ington has a certain sort of dignKy.—
Louisville Courier-Journal.
Shall Women Propose?
,J. Adam Bede of Minnesota, Congress-
man and humorist, deep thinker and
good talker, has concluded that it would
improve conditions materially if women,
instead of men, proposed marriage. In
support of his position Mr. Bede says:
"We men have been on the job for 2000
years, and the fact that we have made a
complete failure of it Is proved by the
number of divorces, which is increasing
every day. Why, divorce is as common
as appendicitis, and It is all the fault of
us men." Ho argues that If woman were
free to look about and pick out the sort
of man she wanted she would show
more gumption in selecting one she could
get along with than the man now docs
in choosing a mate; that there would bo
fewer matrimonial Jars, and in conse-
qucnce, fewer divorces.
It is probably true that woman, being
accustomed to shopping around and tak-
ing her own good time in being suited,
if permitted to propose would go about
It in a more sensible, way than the aver-
age man. Having less to do. she could
put more thought into the question, and
would not be so apt to be carried away
with surface matters. Tt is also true
that she knows, seemingly by intuition,
whether marriage is scheduled for a fair
or stormy voyage, and it she could bring
to bear on her own case tho experience
which observation ha-s given her. there
is not much room to doubt that when
she "popped" she would know what she
was about. But if man is given the right
of refusal, could the lair sex take the
rebuff and try, try ngain? Or, If her per-
sistence Is not rewarded in one quarter,
could she, as men now do. console hcr-
.velf with the comforting reflection that
there are us good fish still in the sea
and proceed t<> angle for one of them?
* One serious argument in favor of per-
mitting man to propose is that his af-
fections are hard to blight. He can take
a knockout blow and be up and doing
the next day, and th»% next month will
l e wondering which one it was that de-
livered It. This ability to stand punish-
ment is due. of course, to nature's wise
economy and assures a fairly constant
ringing of wedding bells. However. Mr.
Bede has devoted thought to the subject,
and his suggestion is not to be dismissed
lightly. II" has even considered minute
details, and when asked whether, in the
event his plan was adopted, women
could still "name the way." promptly re-
plied: "No: I think the challenged party
should have the privilege of naming
time, place and weapons."—Baltimore
News.
Proposing to a Widow.
He—Would you think me very—I mean,
would It bo bud taate on my part
She (hastily)—Not a bit.
lit—Hut you don't know—you can't
know—what I was going to say. 1 was
going to say. would it be very imper-
tinent of me if I
8he (tenderly)—I think 1 do know.
Harry, and I cam assure you that 1
should not resent it in the least.
He—Ah, hut It was something much
more serious than you Imagine—some-
thing about
She (looking down)—Something about
your future life?
He—No; not quite so serious «s that.
Something about my rresent life.
She—That's what I meant—the sePond
half of your present life.
He—Oh, I'm only twenty-seven, you
know.
She—t know; but when a man con-
templates n great change In his life
He—you did know, then?
She—Months ago, dearest. 1 read it In
your eyes the first day we met.
He—By Jove! Then—why. 1'vp done It!
She—(weeping a little)—Harry, you
have swept tne off my feet!
He—My love! t know I was brutally
frank, but don't cry.
She—Von men! How Irresistible you
are!—Uondon Sketch.
To the woman who bakes,
Royal is the greatest of
time and labor savers.
Makes home baking easy,'
a pleasure and a profit1
W
Baking Powder
The only Baking Powder mado
from Royal Grape Cream of Tartar
With minimum trouble and cost bis-
cuit, cake and pastry are made fresh,
clean and greatly superior to the ready-
made, dry, found-in-the-shop variety.
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FORESTS BLOT OUT OLD FARMS.
Virginia Estates Slowly but Surely
Being Effaced by Nature.
Richmond, Va.—Forests are creep-
ing: back over abandoned farms in
many parts \>f the East. When worn
out fields can no longer produce agricul-
tural crops nature tak^s them back and
clothes them with trees again to give
them shade and rest and slowly restore
fertility to the soil. This is more in evi-
dence in the first settled parts of Vir-
ginia perhapB, than anywhere else In the
country, for the reason tnat a longer
time has passed since the original for-
ests were cleared away and the second
growth has had better opportunity to
take the land.
In James City County, Virginia, the
first permanent English colony in the
United States was established 300 years
ago, and in that old county the whole
cycle of deforestation and reforestation
may be studied. Agriculture for a long
period pushed the forests back and plan-
tations covered the country; then the
forests came again and crowded agricul-
ture out. A hundred years before the.
Revolution tobacco plantations occupied
the best parts of tidewater Virginia and
had pushed up the rivers into the Pied-
mont region.
Continuous bodies of cleared rand em-
braced thousands of acres. Nearly ev-
ery largo plantation had a river front-
age and a wharf, and ahips carried the
tobacco directly to Europo and brought
merchandise back, it would be difficult,
perhaps impossible, to determine with ap-
proximate accuracy the proportion of
clear land to the forests in tidewater
Virginia, fifty years before the Revolu-
tion, but there can be no doubt that, there
was more cleared laud then than now.
Many great Virginia, plantations of Co-
lonial times have contracted under the
pressure of surrounding forests, giving
up field after field to thfe pine needles,
until small openings now mark the sites
of forest estates and all else is woods-
second growth or third growth. The
early settlers found a soil of great fer-
tility. They drew upon it as though it
would last forever. It yielded tobacco
and corn for generations and made for-
tunes for the planters. But the result
was inevitable. The soil wore out. A
few patches of land are pointed out in
James City County and also in nearby
districts which have been under continu-
ous cultivation for noarly or quite three
hundred years. Jamestown Island, the
site of the very earliest settlement, still
produces corn, hay and peanuts. But
such places are few. The majority of
the oldest plantations have partly or
wholly gone back to forest.
In travelling through that region it
is frequently possible to note the succes-
sive stages of the forest's advance into
the cleared land. Jn one place a body of
timber may consist of trees a foot in
diameter and probably seventy feet high.
Their even tops and uniform size show
that they occupy the site of a former
field, where seedlings took possession af-
ter the plough left off its annual til-
lage. Adjoining such a wood lot another
may often be seen with smaller and
younger trees, suggesting that they occu-
py the site of a field abandoned at a la-
ter date. Near by may be seen a still
ygunger stand. In some localities the
even tops of one \tfood lot are seen be-
yond another descending like stairsteps
and marking the sites of one abandoned
field beyond another, each succeeding one
a little later and the trees a little bit
smaller. The descending series frequent-
ly ends with a field where young trees
are just starting from seeds blown from
neighboring woods. It may mark tho
site of the last remnant of a former plan-
tation which was allowed to relapse into
woods bees use the soil was worn out.
Few if anv of the primeval forests re-
main in tidewater Virginia, but largo
trees of second growth exist. A syca-
more more than two hundred years old,
and known to be of second growth, was
cut this year on the site of a building
burned during Bacon rebellion, in
167'», and many other trees as large are
growing where tobacco was cultivated
two centuries 'ago. The forest in Its
hunger to occupy again is no respecter
of historical places. Tt is slowly tak-
ing the entrenchments at Yorktown,
where the British made their last
stnnd, and the tablet marking the very
spot where General O'Hsra surrendered
the sword of C'ornwallls. then an open
field, would soon be invisible if the ux
were not. frequently called Into use to
clear away the encroaching woods.—New
York Herald.
WHERE NAVY BOATS ARE BUILT.
Nearly 200 Gigs, Launches and Cut-
ters Stored at Charlestown Yard.
At the Charlestown Navy Yard a large
proportion of the small boats used In
Uncle Sam's navy are built. The yard
is also one of the largest storage depots
in the country for small boats of the
navy. . .
Today at the yard, in
a new modern
fireproof boat storage building, a big
rfl.uoo brick structure that forms the
bountarv of the yard at Chelsea Bridge,
iw prolmblv the largest number of small
boats— so called, for some of them are not
very small-ever seen In this vicinity.
Tne beauty and fine lines of the navy's
small boots'can be appreciated by a view
of the lot. All are built to the most mi-
nute speclfleatlons. and represent th«
best attainable stock and the highest
boat building skill.
Almost boats, representing a total
expenditure of more than tion.aoo in la-
bor and material, are on the great stor-
age floors, arranged systematically in
regular lots and rows of streets, or piled
in tiers three and four high.
There ate all kinds of launches, both
steam and electric, from the smaller,
natty, Bpeedy and more magnificently
finished ones for Admirals and command-
ing officers to the great 40-feet-long
service launches of tremendous power,
especially adapted for towing the ships'
sailing launches and cutters for landing
men and the rapid-fire field artillery and
shore guns carried on every ship.
There are plain, cheap, tiny little din-
ghies for use in wonting around the sides
of a ship, and side by side with them are
a couple of the magnificent. 12-oared ma-
hogany rowiug barges of Rear Admirals.
This is the barge of the highest stale,
used practically only for the most cere-
monial occasicns, and for offR-lal visits
in foreign ports. The handsome carved
eagles, t». P. seals and stars on tho
stretchers of these craft are. works of art
and represent a considerable outlay in
themselves.
There are here also massive, "heavy,
sturdy. 40-foot long sailing launches, that
can conveniently land 100 men and a
couple of small cannon. They are
equipped with gun circles and standards
for using their guns in boat attacks. The
great rowjng barges are of the same size
and almfcst the same type and of equal
capacity.
All the boats in the great rows and
piles on the storage floors at tlte yard,
except the Admirals' mahogany rowing
barges and the lighter and smaller spe-
cial boats for the torpedo destroyers and
torpedo boats, are immaculate in spotless
white prtTnt and polished brass fittings.
The torpedo craft boats are all painted
the homely dark "sea green'' to conform
to the color, or in reality the colorless-
ness of those little ships.
Nowadays all tlie navy boats are of
standard patterns. A *3<»-foot. sailing
launch built at the. Charleston Navy
Yard is identical with one built at Ports-
mouth, or at New York, or at San Fran-
cisco. The Bostoji yard had the honor of
having many of Its espeeial plans and ar-
rangements adopted as the standards
when the uniform types were adopted.—
Boston Globe.
FRENCHMEN'S CLOTHES SHABBY.
American Men Should Buy All They
Need at Home.
"While Paris is a fair market for wom-
en to shop, American men are advised
to buy all they need at home before
crossing the ocean. As French women
are probably the best appearing In the
universe, certainly their husbands,
brothers and sweethearts are the reverse
—from a sartorial point of view. Their
clothes are ill-fitting find of poor quality,
their accessories cheap and effeminate,
and their underwear is coarse and out of
date.
The best men's markets are the English
ones, and Americans are rarely suited
hero. If clothes do not bag they are
hopel*i*Hy out of fit. and while they sit
well enough on an Englishman are not
built for the American form. A French-
man thinks he is well habited when fitted
out by an-Knglish tailor, and yet no mat-
ter how long a time he wears his clothes
they never become a part of his makeup,
and something in his ensemble appears
out of Joint—which probably accounts for
his ungroomed yet too dressed up air.
The well-shod American foot may be
picked out of a multitude at a glance.
There is such an elegant, easy, well-
shaped air about the foot of an American
man, and there would at a. glance be a
transformation did he change shoes with
a Parisian. The shoes made over there
are extremely ugly and make the foot
of the most delicately formed man or
woman clumsy and large. Footgear is
terribly costly, a shoe at a good shop run-
ning anything from to $!•>. Private
makers rarely turn out anything under
$11!.—New York Evening Sun.
THE ANCESTOR RECORD BROKEN
Nebraska Babies Have Six Great-
Grandparents Living.
What is brliovrd to be tho record fnr
living generations of a family Is that
hold by immediate surviving progenitors,
Marvin and Melvln Bennett, two little
chaps, the children of Mr. and Mrs. Per-
ry B<nnctt, at Riverton, Neb. The eld-
est of the children is I y»ars andl
month, and the youngest was born on
Thanksgiving Jay, 1!I0T. The great-great-
grandparent is MS years of age.
To simplify a proposition which to one
not familiar with the process of figuring
nut a family tree is difficult, there are five
generations represented among the living
on the mother's side and four genera-
tions on the father's side.
These two babies have the distinction
of possessing a great-great-grandfather,
four great-grand mot hers and two great-
grandfathers. all living
Here are the different generations a.i
they are. represented among the Jiving
todav;
E. H. Xeal, grent-grent-grsndfatlier. .W
T. K. Bloom, gieat-garndfather tW
T. K. Bloom, great-grandfather t>x
Joshua Martin, great-grandfather ... 63
Mrs. Joshua Martin, great-grandmother «4
Mrs. Sarah Bennett Warner, great
grandmother "1
Mrs. Kliiabeth Dulrjmple, great grand- _
mother
till Bennett, grandfatner 53
Mrs. Eli Bennett, grandmother 48
T.uther Martin, grandfather ¥t
Mrs. l.nther Martin, grandmother C
Mrs. 'Josie Bennett, mother 15
M. Bennett, father Jl
—Omaha World-Heruli.
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