Evening Star Newspaper, October 27, 1894, Page 15

THE EVENING STAR, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 27, 1894-TWENTY PAGES. BRUTAL BULL FIGHTS The Question That is Agitating the French People. TRE SCUIH AGAINST THE NORTH Movement in Paris Against Cruelty to Animals. ——_>—__—_. WAYS TO RUN BULLS —_ + THRE Special Correspondence of The Evening Star. NIMES, France, October § 1804 ORO, TORO! THE l question of the jight- ing bull may cause the downfall of the present ministry at Parts. The whole hat south of Frenee ts up in arms ogainst the anti-crueity-to~- auimals decree of Minister Dupuy. Toro, toro! the for'ss of Nimes and Aries, Bayonne, Pax, ‘Teraseen, the land of Cartarin, ery cut against Montmartre, the Faubourg Saint-Germain and the American lady residents of Paris. There is @ southern chivalry in Prance, and it re- quires the blood of bulls and horses. Bull fights hav= been the immemorial sport cf these old towns, And now the minister has sent down word from Paris that the bulls may not be killed. ‘The mayor of the city went to Paris to protest, and he sent back a telegram, hope.” Toro, toro! Three thousand people gathered .tnstantly before the. prefecture to yell, “Demission!” Half the members of the municipat council have handed in their resignations. ‘The senators and depu- ties will hand in theirs. The question will be fought out to a finish im the parliament, which opens on the 233. What would you say if a prize fight im Florida could block the legtsiation of our Congress and cause eur President severe alarm? Meanwhile encouragements to openly re- sist the law come in from every vihuye of the southern eountry side. Inflammatory harangues are applauded in the clubs ind cafes. The Nimeis : “Hands off our ancient custom acquit bull nght- ers on the flim ‘al grounds. The bull fight controversy trritating one in France for six years past. ‘The past six months have brought it into such a promine at it must be deculed. The south b un its buils in peace. nes from Paris. Americans who enter the Duke of Veragua throwch the late werld’s fair know him as a Columbian descendant and a needy noble rether ther as an impresario of Spanish bulls. In Paris at the very moment of his socitt triumphs in Chicago, when Mr. Higeivbothain put his dress suit om, the dake was being sold out by the sheriff. In Paris he was known as the backer of the failing bull ring of the Lois de Loulogne, at sinister toadstool of the Paris pleasure garden,” as fighting Julieu FPorgues wrote bitterly. e ducai bull fight came to Paris with the exposition of ISS. At first Parisian: tolerated it, even to the ruining of aorses on underneati their so-ealied armor. But when the exposition ended there rose up a cry of iftdignation “The sword is not remarked Willette in he eries of Madame calted down made for butchers!” ene of his cartoon: Severine, the lady the vengeance of a € e does net credit on such cruelties so, in time, the Paris bull fight was tamed down. It ian- don oll ive, though its last autumn 3 were frosty. ‘The Uavisian Bull Fight. Kt was a wretched sight. In “taming down” the combat it was made the more abomivable. There was a eireus, very large. Scattered spectators, filling, perhaps, one seat in every twenty, sat oné yawned until the music struck up. Tt seve poor promise of the fierce joys hi up to the Frenelr tmagiration in the Duke of Veragua’s richly cclored Bill-tourd pie- tures, *'* * “Six buils to be rum succes sive anish bull is a savage and Teroes that attacks man without provocation. His force is terrible. And have been combats in whieh buils an wed licns apd ti eros, mataderes, cabal- leros, sour d of trumpets, and salnted ine, solid-looking fel lows—hotel porters, eafe waiters, b anu Lie xe, picked up from many a Span- ct, proud, bigh-headed, the left tiiy ‘arched from the shoulder to Uy like the handle of a water ched. blare of trumpets. Some young Another Parisians on the berches began yeiling, in order to let everybody know they were real amateurs and had been dewn in Spain. toro! Hardi, Matefto!"" ‘The Young Parisians whistled, barked, miauow ed. What for? Perhaps to stir the bull's ferecity. Ah, the peor bull! He came trotting amiably into the ring, stopped in the middie and looked round at Hl the audienee. His beautiful big Sooke his astonishment to find hin among bay breught up people. In va ador2s attempted to excite him. In ¥: + track | waved their blood sd table cloths before him. He did not aw. He did not understand. He did not h to play the part of a ferocious an t even conquers tions end the times he tried to jump the tence ran to the gate. Open the door! to go out! Cruelty. Buc no, the combat must go on. What combat? Was there, to relieve the stupid spectacle of its plain cruelty, the slightest sign of danger to the men?. The men were safe. ‘fhe buli—as much as he was a bull, being only hbelf grown up—was quite dis armed. His norns were sawed off, and their butts were tipped with big balls’ of eaout- choue. The ecaballero en plaza—sorry-look- ing cavalier wneed and jammed a sp his ‘The bull attempted a the hors ball. ca mr neck. He punched one o: de- sin the ie horse and walked on, fense. stomach with hi went = one rubber rou ghee, a. the poo n his less. oh adores, low fellows, I tting ices, posing like so many siris. “h took his little stab at the poor bull ulf, who was bellowing pitifully. He asked me In his poor shed eye there was a leek that said. ward: ‘Tix Paris 3 failed. The government did it died from a lack of patr . ans, when all was o' ugh about the bull ring of “hippodrome” and no reai ax Lebaudy built up a private bull tion of his frie ris Was anothe when yot Ball Fight. ndy's Private 1 think the public ts almost fgnorant yet of thf astonishing young pli What t Benson (the Jubllee Jue was to London in 1887, that Max Lok (Le Petit Suerier) has been Parts the past two yeurs. E an thr ion and a halg jars in a the ugar reiiner he early of he devoted ated prom- ums and It had audy told sons in butt ing ever When (in September fast) has been an } | | | | | | Bxample: They would seareely hesitate to | mount an overcrowded street car, for they ie | Minister Dupuy must be inevitable. he gave a really great fete in his private: bull ring on his private villa grounds be- side his private race track, haying pur- chase etzhty ponies for his private lady friends and S¥,ce botties of private cham- pagne for his private Spanish miatadores: and pleadores and several hundred pri- vately invited gilded youth, the papers simply pictured Max in red and gold in the great act of running from # cow. It was. thought he could not do things seriousty. They w mistaken. The two bull fights: he gave were wicked, bloody. ‘The papers, not to be found im the wrong, passed over His guests, eshamed to be a part of a function, did not brag of ft. And, as feast wes private, the peblic prase- cuter cowkl not prosecute, even had he wished. that. ‘Zwe Accidents. Alb this was doueamd over a full month ago. The only K it made was to arouse, er half erouse, the public mind to the bull dghting questioa in particular and to cruel- ty to dumb animals in general. Now, here twe aceidents, iwo simple accidents, have imtervened to stir up France and make a real war of opinions. ‘The tixst of these two accidents is due to the American woman. Yes, it is true. At last, perhaps for the first ume, American women have had some iniluence on cur- rent French thought. Outraged by sights of continual cruelty te the deach driven, un- der-fed Parisian cab herse, they have of late stirred up an S. P. C. A. movemeat, really strong, in which they have been joined, und heartily, by the complete Paris- jan population of the better sort. These ladies from America had not a thought ef bulls. The bull fights of the south are far off. They do not see them. “Je connais bien evs dames.” What they object to ts the sight of cruelty, not crucity. do not see the mariyred horses. They do not hesitate to wear dead birds in their hats and feather boas. They eat the lob- ster thrust alive into {ts boiling water, feie gras torn from out the living goose, the mute but quivering oyster on its cold half€ shell, and pour corroding vinegar and | hot red pepper into its flesh wounds, And they exult when they ean bargain down @ Paris sewing girt to 40 cents a day. The cheapest room a girl can get costs % a month, Car fare (ee way), SL a month; morning coffee and bread, $1.50 a mont food when not empicyed, a month: they starve; that makes $12 a month. Sup- pose they have American ladies to work fer every day at 4@ cents. That makes $1 @ month. No shees, no clothes, no lights, vo fire, no medicine. Poor giris, your richer sisters eat your food and wear your clothes! The seeend accident 's much more seri- ous, Kill girts, kill men, but do not shed the blood of bulls except in the official | slaughter houses for the delectation of such people as have money to pay for their flesh cut into deeent secttons, slices, por- tions, rump steak, chump chop, entrecote, sirloin, tib roast, calves’ liver, calves! fect calf's head, calf’s brain, calves’ tongue. Now, in the south of France it is a fact one must admit that the Rot southern eye is | thirsting more and more of late years for | real built ‘ichts, where the bull shall have an hom combat for his money, where mon shall run some risk. It was not al- Ways so. There was a time—and only ten yenrs hack-when these bull fights ef Nimos and Aries were merely sportive games, where | posing ‘Yartarins conld sport their | und all the small boys ef the coun could dedge the rubbe ned he-cait to their heart's « more risk en ribs was in A 3ut now they hav the anish bull. And th heard the bad bull puncher's | song in Gounod’s “Mireille” some ene not brir Mir j the United States?), will recogniz fierce note in what goes on today. In the south of France of today there are three ways to “run” the bulls. The Three Styles. 1—The fashion of the “Landes,” around by Bordeaux. In this game a red, white and blue rosette is fastened between the horns of a bull. Whoever has the dexterity | and cour: to pluck it away receives a prize of $4 There is no blood, either of men, horses or bulls. But a man may wave arms or ribs broken. ‘The style of Portugal, old Spanish bull fight, pure and simpie. One or more fighters, mounted on tine hor. attempt, either with a deadly spear to kill the bull, while saving their horses, or with i n off the bull, who would ally) imperil the horses, In this latter case the horses have armor or the buil’s horns are balled. 3—The modern Spanish style. This is the ht of today. it has its set acts, like This was the rwise (iechn: a wage It has its traditions and con- ventions, like the stage. It occupies pro- fessionals. (a) ‘The bull is rum by nimble the tablecloths eseape. (b) The bull is en- by “banderilleros,” jabbing iron hai poons into his neck. (c) The infuriated bull is allowed to massacre from three to five broxen-down, blindfolded horses, by dis- emboweling them, ripping their flanks and throats and so on. It is to give the bull a smell of blood and alxo to weaken him. Sometimes the horses are protected by a cuirass, which may save them, or may oniy hide the outrage from the public view, a cording as it is arranged. () The bull is | killed by the “espada,” through a sword thrust delivered from in front, beneath his | very nose. The sword must pie the bull in the environs of his shoulderblade, and, going two feet deep, must penetrate his heart or lungs. It is a dangerous feat. I have seen one man killed outright and one man crippled at the real Madrid and Seville fights. In these fights of the south of France it is pretended at the present moment, when they are in danger of suppression, that the horses run no risk. It may be so this week. It Was not so last week. At Dax they kill- ed ten horses and four bulls in one short afternoon. The North and Sov At Nimes, Arles, Dax, Bayonne they have wn up the issue, plain and square. The minister of the interior, from Paris, sent down word to all the prefects, telling them they must enforce the Grammont law, which broadly forbids cruelty to domestic animals in public. Acting on this the prefects have forbidden the putting of bulls or horses to death In the public bull rings. People, news- | par municipal councillors alike | declare: will kilt bulls.” And they go on and do it. Now, as respect for consil- | tuted authority is the fundamental idea of French government—not respect for law, but t for those who execute the law—it seems that a collision or a plump defeat for “toreadors,” who flaunt Meanwhile from Paris come the Paris: pa- Jlustrated and unillustrated. “Le Midi Tout ‘est rouge!” They sneer at the excitable, impotent south as a people who eat garlic, off their hair and are im one word—dagoes. Arles is noted for a kind of garlic sausage. Parisians pretend that it is made from horses killed in the ring. Nimes is noted for the yellow-painted wooden whistles, flutes or flageolets, which the Nimois come up to seli in Paris to the children in the parks. On all sides these honest folks are laughed at as being anti- quated—even mediaeval. solent and flippant—knowing nothing, caring nothing for the things outside herself. (The Star has been fay with a copy of lines written hy OF el Holmes to bis grand- nieve, Dorothy Qui phan, evidently at her ve- As these to our readers. x little Dorothy, Dorothy Q., What cau £ tint t0' write to you You hav And have been published they how, in y serap of idle . out kindly a Bit of Co or. | stipulates that the boundary line, In this } cut ea OURS AFTER ALL Mount St. Elias is Declared to Be American Soil. BOUNDARY LINE SURVEY COMPLETED It is Believed That Mount Wrangel is the Highest Peak. THE GREAT GOLD REGIONS Written for The Evening Star. NCLE SAM WILL not lose St. Elias, the mountain of Alaska, which is said to be the highest point of land on the western continent, This is given on the author- ity of Mr. John E. McGrath of the Uni- ted States coast and geodetic survey, who personally made the measurement of the boundary Mme which determines whether the summit of the moyntain in question ts located in Ameri- can or British territory. The reports sent abroad several weeks ago, stating that we had lost one of our many physical wonders, were probably due to a confusion of the standards of marine and land measure- ments, an error to which any one not fa- miliar with the science of surveying might be Hable. ‘The treaty of 1867, by which we acquired our arctic possession from Russia, vicinity, shall extend back from the coast ten marine leagues or thirty marine miles, equal to about thirty-five statute miles. Mr. McGrath found the top of Mt, St. Elias to be statute miles inland, Which puts the much-talked-about mountain in our pos- session by one and seven-tenths miles. Mr. McGrath, whom I interviewed a few days ogo,inmediately upen his arrtval at the survey, Was one of the last few members of his party to reach Washington. He has been in the north since last April, his work during this time being principally around Mt. St. Elias, where he nas been establish- ing a coast Ine and determining the relation oft this line to the mountains inland. He says, without expressing the slightest doubt, that hfS observations in regard to the loea- tion of this mountain are correct and that in the final event of a settlement of the boundary—the question with Engtand—there will be no grounds r dispute, the surveying having been most carefully performed under hi direction, although many weeks were | expended in waiting for the weather to mit a clear view of the summit. At every point where a st » was driven or a mark | jaade the temperature was recorded and the refraction estimated. He described his col leagues, sent by the Canadian government, as most congenial, and says that so far there s been no disagreement of results, the tigures of Lot everninents corroborac ing one another in almost every detail. Some Disputed Pe ercz.ces which will arise betweea | The di Uncle Sam ever, will come later, board meets for a permanent decision. cording to the Russian treaty the line be- the long scuthern strip of Alaska | tween and the E the summits of such mountain ranges as are on the coast: Where there are no ranges directly on the coast, but inland, | more than thirty-five statute miles, the line is situated that distance (thirty-live ) back. Now, England, of course, wilt | that the many mountains scattered along sho through most of this strip. shouki be included within the category of connected ranges, Whereas we will define them only as se; te points and that our strip should re pout thirty-five miles wide almost in its entirety. Another point of dispute will be In rega to the very beginning of the boundary. treaty states that it shall commence at | the southernmost point of Prince of Wales Island, proceeding north along Portland | ‘as far as the fifty-sixth latitude our present maps, which state very clearly what the United States au thorities are going to claim, the line goes | directly east from the point of the island | for about seventy-five miles before taking | t this turn north through Portland channel There was probably an error made on the part of the board or the person writing the | | } | treaty, since it is impossibie for this chan- nel to be reached without first taking the If Portland channel was really meant as the boundary’s limit, the tr should have read: “From Prince of Wales Island east to Portland channel, and then | north,” or if due north was put there to | si it should h said rth through | Clarence strait,” which {ts to the west of | the channel. So the orly question which Une! am and John B. are going to asi one another is, “What are you going to do about it?” If the Britishers gain the point | merely because this little word was left out, | we will lose about 6,000 square miles of our territory. St. Elins Not the Highest. But even had Mount St. Elias been lost | to this country, Mr. McGrath is of the! opinion that still our banner could wave higher than that of Great Britain. It true that on the map which the survey itself published the height of this peak is marked at 18,010 feet, whereas that of | Mount Wrangei, 200 miles to the northwest, appears at 1 there being a difference considerably less than the height of our | yashington monument in Washington. ath, who is the best authority in | don’ the height of Alaskan moun- tains, expressed to the writer his strong belief that Mount Wrangel is the higher of the two. The computations for determin- | ing the height of St. Has are beyond dis- | pute, having been made several times =| | the best instruments, but the measurements of Wrangel were made by Lieut. Allen, United States army, who some years ago made a flying trip to this locality, using a simple sextant, which cannot be relied upon for accurate results. Wrangel {s lo- cated 140 miles back from the sea, whereas St. Ellas is but 33; yet sailors have seen the former far out in the Gulf of Alaska, | where the curvature of the earth would be more than 13,000 feet. The natives of Alaska, who have lived around both of these mountains, are also of the opinion that Wrangel is the higher of the two. , | ‘Mir, McGrath’s party camped on the beach | In front of thc great Melaspina glacier | from the middle of May until the Ist of | August. They reached this part of the ‘country just in time to witness the close of one of the most severe winters ever ex- perienced in this section of the arctic re- gions. In some places the snow was from forty to fifty feet deep. Birds lay frozen In the woods, and the natives were all threat- ened with famine. The crops, usually planted in the early spring could not be put In the ground until late In July, when the spring rains started in, to last almost up to the time of the party's departure. The Indians haa never known such a oldest season in their lives. Mr. McGrath deseribes the scenery as most beautifui during this time, the whole of the seacoast being a crust of marble hills, with no indication of the nak@d earth except Where the waves at high tide wash- ed tne extreme cdge of the beach., But this tition of affairs did not impedé the pro- s of the survey, although no stakes could he driven as long as the snow lasted, and although the men had to wade almost waist deep in the slush as. they carried the Since it was impossible to drive 2 milk cans were buried in the snow as ta which tags were tied bearing irements and the temperature at ka as a Territory. ugh the work on the Alaskan boun- um in Mr. Cleveland’s former ad tion, is now practically at an end as far as the United States is concerned Mr. M ath is of the opinion that at leasi three ears must be expended before the records will have been put in sufficiently definite shape to admit of final decision The work, so far, has been principally con. fined to the location of the boundary be- tween Portland Canal and Mount St. Elias, | x and to finding the intersections of the greai | line We the 14ist meridian with the Yukon | sh province ts determined by | « river, Forty Mile creek, Porcupine river and the frozen ocean. The Canadians, un- der Prof. King, chief astronomer for the dominion’s interior department, will here- efter make their surveys undisturbed by representatives of the United States. When the line is finally fixed, permanent monu- ments will be erected at its intersections with all the leading streams, inlets, thor- oughfares and trails, so that neither coun- try need be excused for trespassing on the other's ground. During the next session of Congress, ac- cording to late reports from those best versed in territorial legislation, a move will be made by a number of Alaskan en- thusiasts to establish a regular territorial form of government in Alaska, and to give her a delegate in Congress, Although she has been under the chaperonage of the stars and stripes for going on thirty years, she has yet the same district government erected in the first years of our ownership. This consists of a governor and a district court, governing aecording to the laws used in Oregom before that state was admitted. Gohl and Puirictism, These steps will, of course, make Alaska ® general topic of conversation during the next year, in which time more must be known of our frezen possessions than ever before. As compared with the condition of affairs found during his visit two years ago, Mr. McGrath reports great improvement in every region which he has recently seen pie — — he heard accounts. What nts to greatest future progress, he seys, fs the fact that this sortase for the first time, the miners on their pilgrimages to the great gold regions of the interior brought their wives along, which means that they have come to stay and improve the country. The face of a white woman was never seen, except along the coast, un- til 1887, when a Dutch girl floated down the Yukon on a raft, in pursuit of a man. In 1891 but 150 miners went into the gold regions. on Forty Mile creek, but this year there were fully ten times that number. The whole of this middle region, he reports, is fast becoming recognized as a safe Eldo- rado for speculation, there being scarcely @ stream flowing through it in which the miners cannot “‘find the color.” He has seen men seventy years old washing gold along Forty Mile creek, and in evidence of their success he heard this summer that one neweomer had already cleared $13,000, a another found a single lump worth Alaska, however, in his opinion, is much the victim of false report. He recently read ® statement that our nation’s importance was so. little felt in the territory that the patives were still more loyal to the name of the czar than to their own flag. On the other hand, he has been among the natives several times on the Fourth of July, which was celebrated by the Indians and ali with equally as much patriotism as he has éver seen here. The Juneau Indians on this oc- easion paint themselves in their loudest colors and make the day hideous with their songs and dances, Fireworks, however, heve never reached this part of the coun- try, except in the line of gun cartridges. ene apabasoaats cH ICAL BLONDES. @lenching the Hatr Once More Vogue With the Fashionablics. “Being a blonde is very hard work,” Te- viarked Miss Bings, as she piled up the pillows and sank back among them with quite an exhausted air. She was a very pretty girl and the thought occurred to her friend Miss Brown that perhaps she bnew how well she looked, with the bright itin cushions as a background for her lden head. “Well, dear,” sald Miss Brown, sooth- ingly, “you know the old saying, ‘il faut witrir pour etre belle,’ and I think we yuld all be willing to accept the ven ly £ we could but accomplish the result,” vd Miss Brown sighed. You know,” resumed Miss Bings, “1a er would jet me make my hair lighter this summer, when we went up to wport and found that there was a per- feet rage among the women of the New York well set for bleached blonde hair, and {hat all the other women there were imi- teting them. hen she gave in and that very day I bought a bottle of peroxide of hydrogen and started in. Even ma had rdmit that it was a beautifier and simply lovely. bout the roots I never realized before that hair could ow so fast. Then began the touching-up 3, and it seems to me that I have had for little else since. There are always me dark spot: Nonsense,” said Brown. - w perfectly well your ot sincere; you would willingly devote the time and trouble to your hair ere necessary to produce that lovely u at ou implaints Maybe you are right, but there is no doubt about the peroxide being horrid stuff to handle, and I have just had such a try- adventure. Yes, I will cell you about it, went down town this morning and got a bottle ef what father calls m: sold uid,” and then started for home with it in a car. ‘The car was unusually crowded and I sat ween a fat woman, holding a dirty-look- baby, and a man who looked like a real k. I sat there quietly, holding iny bot- arefully on my lap, when the ear gave ndden jolt and the detestable stuff ex- ploded. I had been so careful to have the | bottle less than half full, and the apothe- had tied the cork in so se y that never occurred to me’ could have any ac- ent; but the bottle flew im every direction st once and we had an awful scene. The oueer-looking man sprang to his feet, screaming that there were anarchists in our midst, and the fat woman on the other | of me promptly went into hysterics, while (be baby set up a doleful howl. A vevere- Jooking spinster who sat opposite leaned over to tell me that I ought to be ashamed >! myself to carry bombs in a street car wnd frighten innocent women and children |, out of their senses, I need not tel! her that nohody was hurt—that was not my fault. her opinion I ought to be handed over to nearest policeman. She would appear against me with pleasure. Just then I caught sight of a dude over in the furthest corner who was grinning with ol his might and enjoying the situation tm- mensely. He had evidently had experience of the peroxide before. Then I glanced at bt companion. She also was a chemical blonde, and she was in a perfect gale of leughter, but the horrid, mean thing never came to my assistance at all, but simply ot there and shook. I should dearly have liked to help on the shaking process myself. However, I refrained, and simply remarked vorely to the conductor that when he got te through laughing I would like to get off the car. I see that the whole adventure (vikes you as very funny, but I assure au 7 was not in the least amused.” a A Prayer. God rest thee, dear, At birth of day, When all i bright My prayer alway, God rest thee, dear. God rest thee, dear, When joy abides And life beams fate, Nor care betides: God rest thee, dear God rest thee, dew When shadows creep Around thy way; In heaven's keep, God rest thee, dear God rest thee, deai When fades the day. When night hangs low And life looms gray, God rest thee, dear. —W. H. 0. geet ae The Anxious Bride. » oor Spare Moments. \ Condon curate had the usual notice to vy @ couple one Sunday morning, but the time came found only the woman arrived. 2r waiting some time, and no ming, she reluctantly withdrew. i next Sunday the woman turned up as. 2 and again no man. After waiting able time she became furious and » wher nad A man ‘tain’t his trousers this time, se I bought him a pair.” You don’t drink Because you can't digest f LIPS*2 “COCO. and is a delicious feod drink. ‘om oe SCRAMBLE FOR LAND Especially When Valuable Mineral and Other Deposits Are Discovered. A POTEN? FACTOR IN DISPUTED TITLES Part Played by the Woodmen's Lore of Saps and Notches. THE AGE OF TREES Written for The Evening Star. A host of big lawsuits, involving the ownership of large tracts of land under- laid with coal, gas, ofl and valvable min- erals, worth millions upon millions of dol- lars, are now pending before the courts in meny states of the Unien, and the most potent agency that will be employed for their equitable determination is one of na- ture’s curious little secrets, which is un- folded by the modest forestry lore of “saps” and “notches.” When lards that have lain unclaimed or neglected and undeveloped are discovered to be rich in salable deposits of any kind there is always a great scramble on the parc of wide-awake prospectors— first, to find out whe owns them, or if any- body does, and then to get them. This has been particularly the case of late wit. ofl and gas lands and. with iron and other mineral properties in Pennsyl- vania, Ohio, Indiana, Maryland and the Virginias, and also in Tennessee, Georgia nd Alabama, as well as the far western states. The principal resource in determin- ing their ownership is the record of old surveys. In contests where vast interests are at stake, however, these old surveys frequently prove unsatisfactory and incon- clusive in the face of ingenious paper claims and counter-elaims, and in all such exigen- cies the one thing that plays the deciding part is the lore of “saps” and “notches,” proving, in truth, a more powerful and effeteive safeguard of justice than any that could possibly be devised by the best inge- nuity of man, An Infallible Record. Visitors to the Smithsonian Institution and National Museum in Washington, and at the world’s fair, will remember seeing specimens of the giant tree trunks of Cali- fornia on exhibition, and will recall how the age of those trees was scientifically figured out by counting the concentric rings and circles of the trunks, each ring represent- ing a year’s growth in the tree. They are called “saps” by surveyors and civil engi- neers. Just at this season, amid our utumnal forest blazonry of purple and crimson and gold, the sap that has been held since last spring between the bark and the wood of each tree is being hardened and transmuted by nature into a layer of fresh, dry fiber. When the coming winter shall have set in this magic process will be completed, and each tree will then”bear one more ring around its trunk than It had last spring. Thus a natural record of the flight of time is permanently registered in the substance of each tree, and by consulting this record as an open book ome can read the exact age of each tree with infallible accuracy. This phenomenon is reasonably familiar to most people, but it has recently acquired an all-Important utility by a peculiar appli- cation of it that is little known or exen dreamed of, except by certain surveyors and engineers, and they are turning It to tremendous account in a comparatively new line of -ork. It happens that a mark, or notch, or “blaze” cut deeply on the side of a tree, through the bark and into the wood proper, heals precisely as a weund does on the hu- man body, and, like such a wound, it leaves em enduring scar. Unless cut to the heart, a tree seldom dies of wounds. While new rings or “saps” encircle a tree everywhere around a scar, and even partially cover the scar itself, and while the outer bark splits into gnarls and fissures in accommodating itself to the annual enlargement of the tree, yet the position of the scar still remains discernible; and right here occurs the curious application of the phenomenon that is made to subserve so useful and import- ant a purposg. Counting the Rings. On cutting into such a notch or scar, the criginal mark is invariably found distinct and perfectly delineated on the inner wood. By counting the annual rings or circles grown over the mark—or more generally the rings grown over the particular circle on which the mark is seen, some inches from the scar but along the sgme fiber, where the wood has not been retarded In development—one can determine absolutely Lardepsia would be a more ap- propriate name for that common cause of suf- fering—dyspepsia—be- cause most cases of dys- pepsia can be traced to food cooked with lard. Let COTTOLENE f take the place of lardin <4 your kitchen and good | health will take the lace of Dyspepsia. Iey it. Every pail of the genuine COTTOLENE bears this trade mark. —steer’s, head in cot- ton-plant wreath. Made ie by THE |. K. FAIRBANK COMPANY, CHICAGO, and 114 Commerce St., Baltimore. Get the Best. THE CONCORD HARNESS. LUTZ & BRO, 497 Penn. ave., adjoining National Hotel. | Horse Blankets and Lap Robes at low prices. ecls end with the utmost nicety the precise number of years that have elapsed since the scar was inflicted. Hence, by running back that number of years from the date of the examination, one can fix beyon per- adventure the very year, and, in fact, the = of the year, in which the notch was cu The practical value of this is readily ap- es On agricultural, mineral and tim- lands trees are employed almost ex- clusively in fixing toundary, lines and cor- ners, and it is on this account that a knowl- edge of surveyors’ woodcraft in calculating time and dates by “saps” and “notches” has become so tnvaluable in determining the history of disputed surveys. Trees have been availed of in this country to mark the metes and bounds of land from aboriginal times, and indeed trees, in connection with stone heaps, mounds and other artificial monuments, have always constituted the chief Iendmarks of every country in every age. Everybody who has ever read the deed of a farm. or other tract of land psutside a city, will remember that the measures and distances are described something after this fashion: So many rods or perches north to an oak; thence so many perches west to a hickory; thence to a beech, or walnut, ash or pine, and s9 on. Corners, when marked by trees, are usually indicated by three small notches cut into the sides of the tree im the directions in which the lines diverge. Trees standing exactly on these lines, cailed “line trees,” are marked either with two notehes on each side in the direction of the line, or with two notches and a “blaze” be- tween them—the “blaze” being simply a chip cut out of the bark, extending to the edge of the fresh wood. Trees standing close to the Une, say within a couple of feet of it, but not on it, are marked on each side by a “blaze” to signify their approxi- mate neighborhood to the line, and are known as “sight trees. No Time to Lose. From the New York Weekly. 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