Evening Star Newspaper, October 20, 1896, Page 11

THE EVENING STAR, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 20, 1996-SIXTEEN PAGES. SPECIALS —FROM THE— MERTZ STOCK. Every day the store is crowded with buyers. .Every day greater inroads are made into the stock, and the largest and best stock of Medicines, Toilet fumes, &c., is rapidly melting away. The world-renowned Rabutean Toilet Preparations are offered at a big re- duction. These goods are recognized everywhere as the finest preparations ~~ ever manufactured for beautifying the face and form of women. Rabuteau’s Famous Skin Food. = = =67c. (removes skin blemishes and freckles.) Rabuteau’s Famous Almond Meal, large jars = = = = =37¢. (—beautifies the complexion wonder= fully.) Articles, Fancy Goods, Per- Rabuteau’s Famous ; Ceratine - = =$1.133 (develops the bust several inches.) Included in the sacrifice selling are Fine Imported and Domestic Per- fumes, Sponges, Cut Glass Bottles, Silver Ware, Ivory Goods, Fancy Artl- cles, Extracts, etc., etc. All must go! S. T. Thomas (Assignee), F lertz’s Modern Pharmacy, ‘Cor. 11th & F Sts. N. W. 4 UNCLE REMUS ABROAD. His Dinlect Amused and Deceived the English Professor. rom the Chicago Times-Herald. After Joel Chandler Harris had made imself famous through his “Uncle Remus” ooks he was at first somewhat annoyed Ly fhe discovery that many persons of intelli- fence and education in the northern states nd in England believed that the southern hites used the negro and cracker dialect hich his stories had made familiar to the eading public. Occasionally Mr. Harris yielded to his pve Of fun and deliberately went to work convince the outsiders who came in con- act with him that he habitually spoke a arbarous patois. His most audacious ;chievement in this line was reserved for ne of visits to Canada a few years ago. The humorist was accompanied by his ‘iend, Ed Hammond, an admirable mimic nd a@ practical joker of some note. The two agreed to mystify the Canadians yy making use of the plantation and moun- ain dialect of their section, and they were juccessful beyond their most sanguine ex- ectations. In Ottawa they met a number of British jourists of some reputation in literary and tistic circles, and among them was a professor of English literature who was a member of several learned societies. ‘The rofessor was introduced to the Georgians, id they at once proceeded to astonish him ith their remarkable lingo. “Are yeu much of a traveler, Mr. Har- "" was one of the first questions asked the Englishman. nginrully,” replied Harris, “I am not, but you uns make hit so pleasant when we pns come up heah thet I feel at home.” The professor ducked his head and pon- Rered a moment. “So you like Canada?” he said. “Yas, suh,” promptly answered Ham- mond. “‘Hit's a fine country, an’ if I kin it off agin endurin’ uv next summer I'll © another trip.” The cultured Briton turned again to Mr. Harris. “You should visit England,” he said. ‘Your books are very popular over there, nd our painters, wood carvers and sculp- ors are utilizing Brer Rabbit and Brer Fox n their work." be “I was agwine once,” said Harris, “an’ I ent ter New-York ter sail with a friend, but when I got thar he wuz dun gone.” “Yas. suh,” interrupted Hammond, “he uz plumb done gone. Hit wuz norated oun’ thet he done hit ambitiously, but while he wuz somewhat bardacious, I don’t hink he left us puppusly.”” The prot turned red and oughed v! “Excuse me, gentlemen,” he apologized. |The dust irritates my throat.” “I expose thet thar's a heap of dry eather heah,” remar'! Hammond, “mo’ han we uns air useter. The professor seemed to have more rouble with his throat, but he soon re- vered and talked to his new friends about Canada. “Do the British and Canadian peculiari- les of speech bother you?” he asked. “Yas, suh,” replied Harris. “Comin’ as fe uns do from a section whar even the po'rest speak pewah English, the talk of ese people sounds pow’ful funny, but I expose hit can’t be holped. But whut both- r$ me wust is the vittles. I miss my jbgcon an’ collards, and pone bread en’ pot liquor.” That night Harris was present at a ban- iquet giver in his honor, and the professor lwas among the guests. The Englishman had quietly told his friends about his new acquaintance, and jome of the rollicking clubmen agreed to raw the stranger out for the amusement of the others. At a late hour Harris and Hammond ar- rived. They were faultlessly costumed, and re themselves well, but they were so re- rkably reticent and made such brief re- plies to their entertainers that the dialect ifezture of their conversation was missing, o the great disappointment of the profes- and the Canadians. But the toast to “Uncle Remus” would force Harris to talk at some length. He would be taken by surp: , and in his off- hand remarks he would be sure to fall into his natural dialect. So the guests thought, but a surprise was in store for them. At an unexpected moment the toast to “Uncle Remus” was given in a highly complimentary little speech, and there were bud calls for the visitor from Georgia. the professor nudged his nearest neigh- ibors, and half-concealed smiles flasned laround the table. Rising with the easy self-possession of a lveteran after-dinner orator, Mr. Harris de- Hvered a short speech, which electrified his hearers. It was a perfect gem, sparkling with wit and eloquence. Every sentence ‘was in good taste and every word was the purest English. “Professor,” said one of the guests after the departure of the ns, “you have een victimized. Those Hterary fellows dcwn south don’t talk dialect, except in their books or when they want to have ja little fun with strangers.” “I am afraid that I have been deceived and trified with,” answe: earned foreigner. very grossly red the = Wilbur Storey’s Queer House. From the Chleago Tin-es-Herald. “Storey never finished the house which Ihe was building for himself, and as it ould suit nobody but Storey himself, it was torn down after his death and a block of smaller houses now stands on its site. While it was being built Storey showed me the plans. On it had been marked various ms and their uses. There was a library, sitting room, drawing room, etc, but among others I noticed one marked school recom and another marked nursery. “‘Why do you have those?’ I asked him; ‘you have no need of them.’ ‘I don’t ever expect to have any chil- dren, but every gentleman's house has such ms. ay suggested that he cught to have = chapel built. Was it necessary, he ask: J assured him that while not necessary, nearly everybody had one. So he arranged for chapel. Then I called his attention to the fect that he didn’t have a poor rela- tions’ room. ‘What's that?" he inquired. “*& room in which your poor relations ‘will stay when they visit you.” “But I haven't any poor relations, and #2 I did have any I wouldn’t have them around in my house.’ ." ‘But,’ I declared, ‘no gentleman's house is complete without it.” “Se he agreed to add a poor relations’ foom, im addition to the others. He was eonstan' moking changes in the house, and for six or seven years kept the build- ers and architects planning and construct- img and tearing down and reconstructing. A BEAUTIFUL WOMAN. The Lovely Miss Schomberg Proved Her Claim to Admiration. From the Boston Herald. Stories of celebrated beauties are circu- lated long after the beauty has become only a remembrance, and are often as interest- ing as anecdotes of great geniuses. They are quite as likely to show the frailty of numan nature. “My Uncle John,” relates a relative of one of the people interested in this story, “was a childhood friend of the beautiful Miss Emily Schomberg of Philadelphia. She was a wonderfully beautiful woman. I have seen painted portraits of her, and nothing sald in praise of her beauty could be too strong. My uncle as a young man went to rae to study his profession, and coming iome brought with him a yourg Spaniard with whom he had become acquainted. It Was at a ball when the Spaniard was first introduced to Miss Schomberg. She was one of her own most appreciative admirers, and received as her due the compliments of the young foreigner, which were made in the effusive manner of his country. ‘Bring your friend to call, John,’ she said gra- clously, tapping my uncle on the shoulder with a fan. ‘He says I’m beautiful. But even you, who have known me so long, do not appreciate my chief beauty. Come eee at 11 o'clock, and see if I am not ight.” “The young men were on hand prompt- ly. The servant ushered them into the re- ception room, where the young beauty sat. The meaning of her somewhat enig- matical remark was made plain. The young lady did not rise to receive her guests, and as they approached they saw two small bare feet resting upon the deep, sapphire- blue velvet cushion, which brought out more fully their delicate beauty. The skin was like exquisite white satin, and the nails like polished sea shells. ‘They were Very beautiful, my uncle said—absolutely without blemish. Only a woman inordinate- ly vain could have given such an uncon- ventional exhibition, but at least there was excuse for the vanity.” -oo___ IN THE RESTAURANT. He Didn't Get Much Pleasure Out of a Meal Set to Music. From the New York Journal. “Did you ever,” queried the man with the red cravat, “dine in one of those restau- rants where they give you a meal and a band concert for a quarter?” “I never did,” replied the man with the asbestos shirt, “but I have dined in zes- taurants where I did not get either a Square meal or a band concert for a dol- lar. Well,” resumed the man with the neck- tie, laden with disgust, “this experience I had was new.” “ “I went into the restaurant about 5 o’clock in the afternoon. There was no other victim in the place. A waiter who wore an apron that put me in mind of a table-cloth after a hard day’s work at a chowder party dexterously attempted to Knock out my eye with a napkin. The band was just tuning up. I fancied the leader Was gazing at me with an expression of interest. Anyhow, J ordered soup, and all the time I was putting it away the band played ‘S Out, O'Grady.’ “I tackled a piece of chicken, and the band switched to ‘When You and I Were Young.’ I started in to carve a plece of alleged roast beef, and the band played ‘He’s an Elephant on His Hands.’ After I got through with an assault on the roast beef I took a bite out of a pickle. I thought I would fool him the next attempt, and made a sudden jab at a plece of pie. It never phased him. He came right back at me with ‘The Sidewalks of New York,’ and I had to admit as I unbent my teeth that he knew the crust. I gulped down a drink of water, and the leader detected some evi- dence of my unfamiliarity with the bev- erage, for the band played ‘Arrah, Go On, You're Only Foolin’.’ I started to leave before there was a chatice of losing my mind. As I did so the band, with a note of exultation in the tones of all the instru- ments, spieled ‘Just Tell Them That You Saw Me.’ You are the first man I have told.” . The man with the asbestos shirt was lost in thought for two minutes. Then he said: “Charles, I believe you're smoking at a cheap place.” eee Mrs. Sawyer’s $20,000 Cow. From the Chicago Times-Herald. " It was in 1881, when Mr. Sawyer was seeking his first election to the Untted States Senate, that Colonel Calkins said to him: “Mr. Sawyer, one of the Winnebago county assemblymen, Mr. Jones, here, is all right on the bill which proposes to pay me for work I did for the state over twenty years ago, but-I don’t know how the others stand. 1 wish you would fix them up for Of course the colonel was jesting. Mr. Sawyer was amused, and told one of the few sunny stories he ever indulged in. “Calkins,” said the Senator, “your request for help on that printing bill reminds me of an experience I had a good many years ago. When we were living on my farm at Rosen- dale it became necessary to sell a cow. The buyer wanted a certain cow or none at all. It happened to be the cow I had given to my wife. I went into the house and told my wife. She, the good soul, said: ‘Sell ker, but I want the money.’ I sold the cow, gave my wife a couple of dollars and said: ‘Call on me when you want more.’ When she wanted to buy a dress, bonnet or wedding present she would ask for some of that cow meney. I had paid back several thousand dollars of the cow money and was wondering when the demand would cease. A house was built. It had to be furnished. We figured up what the furnishing would cost. It amounted to several thousand dol- lars. I said: ‘Wife, I'll pay you the balance of that cow money and you can pay for furnishing the house with it’ It was a bargain, and the cow deal was over.” The $20 cow cost the old Senator not far from $20,000, but he never complained at the price. ——_+e+___ A Scheme That Failed. From the Cleveiund Leader. “Good gracious!” he cried, “was that a rooster I heard crowing then?” “Yes,” she said, “but don’t hurry away. ‘The people around here won’t be up for an hour yet.” Next day he learned that her father had an educated rooster that ‘crowed every po ew ee en EP Mets Acigne Sele, (REPLY TO HUTCHINS His Pigures Said to Be Misteading and Unreliable. ¢| WHAT CENSUS REPORTS SHOW Statistics as to the Wealth of the East and West. SILVER AND GOLD To the Editor of The Evening Star: In the discussion of free coinage of sil- ver, which took place at Convention Hall on the evening of the 16th inst., by Messrs. Henry E.. Davis and Stilson Hutch- ins, Mr. Hutchins was pleased to present in deferse of his position, an array of figures, and while criti- cising with not a little severity alleged false statistical statements, set forth by some of the principal metropolitan news- papers of the country; invited special at- tention to the correctness of his own mathematical calculations. In response to this invitation I take the liberty of sub- mitting the following: Mr. Hutchins stated that in the past fourteen years England has taken from us $853,000,000 of gold, that in the last ten years the aggregate decrease of wealth in Hlinois was $59,000,900, and that the proportionate increase of wealth in the eastern states, such as Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, New York and Rhode Isl- and, was immeasurably greater than in any of the western or southern states. Now, the facts as shown by the statisti- cal abstract published by the Treasury Department, year 1895, p. 60, and the ab- stract of the eleventh census, p. 198, are these: The total value of gold coin ‘and bullion exported by us to all the other countries ef the world from 1880 to 1885, inclusive, was $836,557,231: the total value of gold coin and bullion imported into this country from all other countries for the same period was $609,942,503, leaving a balance against the United States of only $26,614,638, and this is entirely wiped out by the large balance in our favor already reported for the nine montis of 1896, thus showing that instead of this country having been draired to the extent of $853,000,000,as stated by Mr. Hutchins, there is in fact a small balance in our favor for the past sixteen years. On the authority above cited it appears that the aggregate wealth of Illinois for the year 1880 was $3,210,000,000, and for the year 1890 $5,066,751,719, an increase of $1,856,751,719, or 57.84 per cent, for the decade From the same authority the following comparative tables showing the relative increase in wealth of the different states and sections fdr the past decade are com- piled: Fs E552 5 ee :8 BF “euopjooy Aq POL'9Lg' QOS Se) le 2 s |e. ~ Hyp (eeeEeeee | 2 Len g| 2 | P| 83 a2 i= a5 From the above tabulated statements it must be seen that instead of the immeasur- able increase of wealth of the eastern states, as compared with other sections of the country during the past decade, as stated by Mr. Hutchins, the immeas- urable increase is in favor of the western and southern states and not of the <o-called opulent and monopolistic east; and that the eastern section ts steadily losing in its pro- portionate share of the aggregate wealth of the country, the middle west having passed it in the past ten years. The methods of reasoning adopted by Mr. Hutchins by which he reaches his conclu- sions are unknown to the ordinary mathe- matician, although they seem to be in har- mony with that process of evolution in the matter of statistics known only to the advo- cates of the free coinage of silver. In answer to his statement that the wealth of those engaged in agriculture as compared to those engaged in other pursuits is steadily diminishing, we might, in follow- ing the same line of argument, go back to the first decade after the landing of the pilgrims and show that at that time nearly all the wealth of the country consisted of land only, and was in the possession of those engaged tn agriculture. The statis- tics of ali healthy and prosperous countries show that the increase of wealth is largely invested in industries other than that fe the cultivation of the soil. J. Silver Free Coinage and Geld Cireu- lation. To the Editor of The Evening Star: In the newspaper reports of Mr. Hutch- ins’ argument he ts represented as saying that “If we had $250,000,000 of silver in cir- culation, it would drive out of its hiding place gold.” If he was correctly reported, and I have no reason to doubt that he was, Mr. Hutchins must think that the American pecple are very ignorant and have very short memori2s, or he would not make such statement. with the expectation of being believed. There is not an intelligent per- sen anywhere who does not know that de- preciated money, whether of coin or paper, invariably drives out of circulation the better money; that whenever a cheaper or less valuable money is introduced, gold goes to a premfum, is hoarded and goes out of circulation. If his statement fs true, gold ought to be abundant and in common use, for we have much more thar $250,000,000 of silver in use. According to the statement of treasury circular 123, the amount of silver certifi- cates outside of the treasury July 1, 1806, Was $331,259,500, besides 52,175,908 of standard silver dollars, a total of $383,435,- 507, or more than 50 per cent more than he says ts necessary to bring gold out of hi ding. Instead of bringing out gold, the amount of fifty-three-cent silver dollars and the threat of more has sent gold into hiding, and all over the country people are begin- ming to convert their money into gold and to hoard it. it has always been the same, and always will be, the world over. Why did gold go to a premium and into hiding during the war? Simply because of the cheaper or inferior paper money that was introduced, and at that time we had free and unlimited coinage of silver, too. People feared that the paper money would not be redeemed, or, if so, at a discount, and hence every dollar of gold was gob- bled up and hoarded. $1,200 at the breaking out of the war, ‘and the moment the government began the issue of paper money he converted his $1,200 into gold, hid ft IM a box under — and -o idle during the war. Simpty because, said, he had no confidence in money, and believed that, tke nental money, it would nevi the the rer be rede I tried to induce him to Ioan it to me for “use, offering to give him real estate se- curity, to pay the interest in gold, and to 1 fm gold whenever he repay the princi; demanded it, Dat he refused absolutely to. et it go out of his possession under any ctreumstances. Up to that time the clerks in the depa ents hed been and OF just re- ceived his pay in fresh, crisp United States notes, which lay spread out on his desk. As I went in he said te me: “I:don't like thig—it tends to shake a man’s confidence in the stability of the go ut.” And he was a man who had been m the employ of the government for more thari twenty- five years, all his adult life, ané who, if any one, ought to have had corifidence in the government. Again, Mr. Hutchins said the west and south had decreased in wealth (which is not true) and that surh decrease “has all been brought about by legisl. ion in the interest of the favored classes, the oll trust and the coal trust. Wilt Mr, Hutchins tell us when Co: SS has ever enacted any legislation for the benefit of these trusts? He knows per- fectly well that Congress has done no such thing, that whatever laws they are operat- ing under are state laws, with which the national legislature has nothing to do, and that, therefore, the operation of the oil and coal trusts have nothing to do with the national issue now before the country. W. C. DODGE, POLLING THE MIDDLE WEST Postal Card Canvass Puts McKinley Aheadin Ten States. Bryan Leading in Missouri an@ Ken- tucky—Latest Figures in the Chi- cago Record Inquiry. The Chicago dispatch to today’s New York Herald giving the result of the postal card canvass by the Chicago Record says: All of the twelve great states of the northern central portion sharing in the postal card election test of rublic opinion undertaken by the Chicago Record to dis- cover so far as porsible the trend of the voters’ choice before November 3 are listed in the partial returns from the ballot to- day, with a total vote passing 175,000. Kentucky, Minnesota, North Dakota and Scuth Dakota are the states added to the list by the count of yesterday, and in the published tables of returns they are given the preference because of the general in- terest in the showing from the states not before reported. Here is the table: States. Counties. Bryan. McKinley. Palmer. Kentucky. 100. 2.768 1,887 214 72 1044 3,652 15 45 402 882 9 29 139 453 3 90 2,198 4,152 6 G 1,320 6,216 199 Michigan... 73 1,308 5,583 84 Nebraska... 78 1,249 3,283 38 90 -3,888 9,203 134 94 = 3,317 8,832 im 05 G11 4,781 100 Chicago Cicero). Totals Chicago Total vote counted. 128,084 2,858 Kentucky is the second state to join Mr. Bryan's list, and show a majority of all votes counted in his favor. The vote is: Bryan, 2,768; McKinley, 1,887. The other new states listed range themselves on the side of McKinley in these partial returns, while Missouri remains in the Bryan col- umn. 3 Kentucxy and South Dakota show gains for Bryan, out of the changing of votes from Harrison to Bryan and from Cleve- land to McKinley, while North Dakota and Minnesota give a McKinley gain from the same element of the poll. Ballots Pouring Ini The mails today brought in nearly’ 25,000 ballots from the twelve states, “2hd’ there are io'signs of cessation. The daily count up to the present time has not been able to do more than keep up with the number of ballots received the day before, by con- stant and hard work, and not until the number of ballots coming through the mails begin to diminish in some degree can the tables be brought exactly to the count of all votes in hand. The correspondence as well multiplies, and the reasons offered by the voters for their choice will furnish interesting facts when analyzed. Percentages ef Candidates. Percentage of each candidate's vote to the total so far counted: aac — MeKin- Pal- Lev- Chicago and Cleero.. se aT gy Mg TMS, except Chi, S&S 73 Missourl 53 6% i ? 27 um 1 1 2 69 1 1 3 2 74 1 1 Nebraska, 1B 27 a 1 1 Wisconsin sy IT 72 2 2 Kansas . 9 34 6h 1 1 Minnesota rg 22 6 1 2 Kentucky 100 56 39g 1 North Dakota. 20 23 7% «4 1 South Dakota. rt 31 a 1 é 61 Harrison votes of 1892 for Bryan, and Cleveland votes of 1892 for McKinley: Coun- Bryan. - Bryan. McK. State. ties, Har. Gain. Gain: or go and 3,88 Minis, except g ae Chicago and Cicero . 870 1,002... ooo 251448 es 127 83 321 pe 545 2 Cw Kentucky 401 ig. N. Dakota. ... 29 Bt can 5 S. Dakota. cy ns 3D eee Percentage comparison of the vote re- ceived in 1896 and 1892 by the two demo- cratic and the two republican candidates: State. County. Bryan. Cleve. McK. Har. hicay 1; 56 Cicero ——- Hinots,except - cago and Cicero. Missouri Michigan Nebraska Wisconsin Kansas . auSagacaseas SBSNEINEBNSR seegseuantss Rapagsasesea ee sosgeesesses ee ———_+e+—_____ THE “JIGGERS” OF AFRICA. One ef the Worst and Most Painfal Afflictions Known to the Natives. From the Century. The village of Mayilo ts surrounded by a boma of stakes, clayed four feet up. . The three gates are firmly closed at night.’ The natives do not venture outside at night for any purpoge, and this gives the’ village a very pretty aspect. ‘he place is horribly infested with the burrowing flea’ “the fig- ger,” the pest of men, women and children, who are a mass of horrid sores. Through lack of washing and removing ithe Jigger when he first enters big sores ‘are* found all over the feet. I felt very“sorty for the chfldren, who were all m or less lame, and many stumping around om.their heels, unable to put foot to ground ewing to swolien toes. The moaning pf women at night and the bellowing of youngsters were most distressing to hear. [I tried to impress upon them that constant washing and attention to their feet and pecasional flooding of the low, clayey ground in hut and street would cure the evil, but ft was too much Hke hard work to be adopted. The flooding could be done without the slightest injury to property, as the streets are quite level, and the floorings of clay brick are raised about a foot above the ground, but no precautions are taken, and even the babies are permitted to squat on the bare ground as though the figger did not exist. —_+e+—____ The Wheel and Morality. From Truth. The effort to show that the bicycle is immoral revives. the proposition that im- morality is the result of bad persons rather than bad vehicles or a bad anything else. There are bad church members; wherefore shall we abolish the church? There {s im- men who ache for notoriety; must we therefore abolish Charlotte Smith and all the other women? THE CARE OF TREES Reply to a Gommunieation as to Planting ipa Result of Observations With the Methods of Treatment of Various Kinds of Trees. ‘To the Editor of The Evening Star: For some time past I have looked for some comment on the statements made by one who assumes to be an expert on trees, namely, that the-treatment given the shade trees of this city has been faulty and inju- rious in the fact that some of them have been cut back and pruned into better shape. In his published report he an- nounces the dictum, which I seriously question, that “ it is especially noticeable that the trees that have been severely headed back and tops removed from time to time nave suffered most.” He seeks to confirm this by a theory, which cannot have been well verified by ocular evidence, that “the removal of branches, particularly when the trees are in foliage, destroys a corresponding portion of roots.” He then, in turn, props this theory by a supposition, as follows: “An examination of these overturned roots will show that they are destitute of vigor and very limited in quantity.” This is a re- markable statement. He does not say thdt any one has made such an examination, or that it has shown such a result; but that it ‘twill show that they are destitute of vigor.” A thing destitute of vigor must be dead. “Lacking in vigor” would have been a safer assertion. As to this point, it happens that a tree blown down by the wind (especially one of the softer and weaker varieties) does not present all its roots to be counted, or to have their pulse felt and vigor estimated by an expert. On the contrary, the roots remain under ground; and an expert can only stand above and indulge his imagina- tion as to the conditions below. The whole hypothesis of the surface seems superficial and not rooted in the firm subsoil of common sense. It seems one of those poetic statements which ought to be true, if they are not; and an official utter- ance so embellished will carry weight with many readers, But with some plain people, who have dealt with live trees all their lives, this blooming theory will not stand up against any breeze of investigation. It is hard to see just why the request of the authorities to report on the injury to the various kinds of shade trees by the recent gale should have resulted in a caustic lec- ture to those officials on their misdeeds in the pruning field. Their expert sets up too general a rule, and does not distinguish between the dif- ferent kinds and natures of trees. Perceiv- ing that some specimens have failed to stand the blast, he assumes to know the reason why, and finds opportunity to pro- mulgate some pet views. Now, in the Capitol Park, beside a west- ern avenue, in a uniform row of tall, vig- orous, unpruned sycamores, the wind pros- trated two, leaving one between and oth- ers along the row all intact. What caused this difference? An expert is needed with a theory to explain it; and he could safely diagnose the case, as the roots are mostly out of sight. The same adviser exposes the mistakes made in earlier days, of “improper prepa- ration of holes and insufficient quantity of good soil.””, But my observation of forestry has shown that the greatest of all tree planters—old Nature herself—generally se- cures firm and stable trunks, rooted in even the hardest and poorest soil, without first digging any hole whatever. And as the investigation goes on, is it not possible to conclude that the planters of some of those sycamores dug the holes too deep, and stuffed in too much soft and perishable filling to support such a growth? Many people believe that certain kinds of trees are safer neighbors when kept within due bounds. Pride must have a fall. By soaring too ambitiously, the more weak and sappy kinds of timber are more. exposed, and must either be shortened in, or go to Pieces, like the average wind motor. It is tke nature of other kinds to live moderately within their means, and need no calling down. No general rule will govern them all. Some unlucky trees, from poor nutrition, nervous prostration, chlorosis, tape worm, or lazy roots, begin to have dead limbs. The pruners wisely remove those, and re- duce the top. Then, if such a weakling is blown over, the government expert may rise to explain that a vicious system of pruning has caused all the damage. Thus do cause and effect often become trans- sed. While it is not credible that the removal of a few live boughs kills a proportionate Part of the roots, yet experience shows that mcst of the common trees will slowly die underground, if the trunk is cut down. But other kinds do just the reverse. I have seen thousands of thrifty trees, sometimes of gcod size, that were broken or sawn or chopped off near the surface of the ground without seeming to affect the roots. This refers chiefly to the lemon, lime, orange, fig, guava, persimmon and mango; and also applies strongly to some of the willows, lindens, plums, poplars, oaks, chestnuts, etc. How could many of these varieties, when cut off, so promptly resume business at the old stand, and send up a new trunk like the mulberry, or a whole thicket like the guava, if there were any foundation in fact for the theory quoted? Again, we sometimes transplant a tree in its growing season, helping it to survive the loss of roots by removing about all the twigs and leaves, and relieving the drain on the roots; and the pruning does not in- jure the roots in the way the new doctrine indicates. I have sucessfully moved many an orange tree thus in summer. Another evidence of the wildness of the theory is found in the practice of northern nurserymen. We used to prune thousands of young and tender trees in summer, cut- ting away at least half their tops, without the least suspicion that we were “destroy- ing a corresponding portion of the roots.” No practical tree grower has discovered such injury. The only effect was to tm- prove the form and stimulate the growth of the rest of the tree. When apple trees grew too large on our hands, it was desirable to reduce the few long roots to a short, bushy mass for next season. which must be done by “root pruning” with the spade. Now, if the Agricultural Department had sent out an expert, with the informatioh that pruning the tops removed a part of the roots, what a help it would have been! And what is to be done with the bushy, low limbs that Send upon the heads of pedestrians as the trees expand? Must the pruners cease to cut them off for fear of giving weakness and disease to the roots? A few years ago some sentimentalist im- agined that honey locust trees would shade and beautify these streets. No doubt the Planter meant to be a benefactor, but he only put very great nuisances in rows where should now be noble water oaks and dense shady maples. I ve long had to pass daily under scores of the abominable things. They are the last to put out foliage and the first to lose it of all the ehade trees; and at their best the shade is thin and “sorry.” Year after year their trunks need to be shorn of a branchy growth of dia- bolical thorns; and on the low hanging boughs the cruel points are as bad im one’s face as barbed wire. They litter the street with coarse rubbish of pods, attracting the yeung Africans, their only admirers. They need to be pruned, after the effectual plan of cutting off the dog’s tail—just behind the ears. Mary have observed, this year, that scores of the finest and largest elms in the parks were infested by an infinite swarm of minute worms, eating and killing all their leaves im midsummer. This must have checked the growth a little. Destroying all the foliage in full activity must Lave been equivalent to that other calamity, a severe pruning. Are we, then, toe infer that the rccts have partially died in consequence? If those elms fail to tumble to the next gale, then there is a weak spot in some- body's system of arboreal pheseeey- a —_._—_. Valuable Experience. From the Cincinnati Enqutrer. Hay—“That there boy of yourn any good about the farm sence he come back from @rivin® truck in the city?” Oates—“¥ou bet he is. He’s learned to cuss so weit that he is able to shock the corn jist by swearin” at it.” ee. Looked Like Beardsicy’s Latest. From the Besten ‘Transcript, Miss -Doter—“Oh, what a lovely poster! Where in the world did you get it?” Mrs. Homes—“Poster? On, E see. Ned tried to fling an egg out of the window, but he never was much of a and it went smash against the wall.” THE OCTOBER) EVENING The $3 Opportunity is Open to All. The Renewal of the $3 Offer Made by Decters MeCey and Cowde: win Be, in Spite of the Throngs of Pa- tients, Conscientiously Until November ist. Maintained ALL NEW PATIENTS WHO APPLY BEFORE NOVEMBER 1ST, AND ALL OLD PATIENTS WHO RENEW BE- FORE NOVEMBER 1ST, WILL BE ‘TREATED UNTIL CURED AT THE UNI- FORM RATE OF $3 A MONTH, MEDI- CINES INCLUDED. THIS APPLIES TO ALL PATIENTS AND ALL DISEASES, INCLUDING DEAFNESS. IN SPITE OF THE THRONGS OF PATIENTS TAKING ADVANTAGE OF THIS OPPORTUNITY, THE RENEWAL OF THE OFFER WILL BE MAINTAINED TO ALL DURING OCTOBER. NONB WILL BE SLIGHTED OR TURNED AWAY. IT PROBABLY DOES NOT EXAGGERATE THE ‘TRUTH TO SAY THAT DURING THE PAST SIX WEEKS DOCTORS McCOY AND COWDEN HAVE CONSULTED WITH MORE PATIENTS THAN IN THE SAME LENGTH OF TIME WERE EVER RE- CEIVED IN A DOCTOR'S OFFICE LN THIS CITY. THE HUNDREDS WHO ARE APPLYING KNOW WELL THAT THEY ARE RECEIVING THE SKILL OF THE MASTER AND THE TREATMENT THAT HAS ATTRACTED THE ATTENTION OF THE WHOLE WORLD AT THE SMALLEST FEE RATE EVER GIVEN. THEY UNDERSTAND THE SPLENDID PURPOSE THAT ACTUATED THE OFFER. DOCYOR Mc€O¥Y APPRECIATES THIS AND WILL, AT ANY COST, MAINTAIN THE IN- TEGRITY OF THE OFFER UP TO THE TIME LIMIT, THAT-IS, NOVEMBER 1. HE DESIRES IT TO BE UNDERSTOOD, HOWEVER, THAT THE OFFER CANNOT BE AND WILL NOT BE IN- DEFINITELY EXTENDED, THAT IT EXPIRES NOVEMBER 1, DESCRIBED BY SYMPTOfSIS. Hosts of people suffer from the various mallg- Rant polsons in their blood, which produce or re- sult from catarrh. Many other persous suffer from nervous diseases, liver diseases, kidney diseases and skin diseases, as the result of irritating crys- tal poisons in the blood. A majority of such suf- ferers do not have a definite understanding of the natwe of thelr affliction. The following symptoms have been arranged by Dr. McCoy to enable suf- ferers to understand just what it ts that alls them. Although written and copyrighted by him, they have heen extensively copied by other con- cerns withcut his authority. The proper course of those affected is this: Read these symptoms care- fully over; mark those that apply to your case, and bring this with you to Doctors McCoy and Cowden. Providing you apply for treatment or renew treat- ment before November 1 you will be treated until cured at the nominal rate of $3 per month, DISEASE OF HEAD AND THROAT The head d throat become dis- eased from neglected colds, causing Catarrh when the condition ef the bleod predisposes to this condition. “Is the voice husky?” * Do you spit up slime?” “Do you ach> all over?” * Do you snore at “In there pain 4 ‘Is there paio across the eyes?" “* Is there tickling in the throat?" “Is your sense of smell leaving?” ** Do you hawk to clear the throat?” “Bs the throat dry in the morning?" *: Are you losing your sense of taste ng “Do you sleep with the mouth ae * Does your hose stop up toward night?" DISEASE OF BRONCHIAL TUBES. This condition often results from eatarrh extending from the head and throat, and, if left unchecked, extends down the windpipe into the bronchial tubes, and in time at- tacks the lungs. “ Have & congh?”" ave 708 ee little cheese lumpe?” ist for-fatty foods?” = De souseit pats ~ at “Ip there w tickling behind. the palate?” “Do you feel you are growing weaker?” “Ig thers © burning paln in the throa a “Heve you pain behind the breastbone? “Dy you cough worse night and moraing?* | “Do yeu bave to sit up at night to get breath?’ DISEASE OF THE EARS. from catarrh passing along the Eustachian tube that leads from the throat te the ear. “Is your hearing failing? * Do your ears ge?” “ “* Do your ears itch aud burn?” 2 cars dry and scaly?” «Have you pain behind the ears?” «Is there a throbbing in the ears?” Is there ng A : i Fee?! 2 fil This condition may result from sev- eral causes, but the usual cause is catarrh, the mucus dropping down imto the threat and being swallowed. “Is disgust for breakfast’ “ Have you distress after eating?” “Js your throat Aled with slime ?=, Br there cust of blood to the head?” “ Is there rush «+ Is there coastant sensation in the stomach P* “Do you feel as if you had lead in stomach?” “When you get up suddenly rre you disxy?’* ™ When stom«ch is empty do you feel faint?” “Do you beleh ap material that burme threat? “ When stomach is full do you feel oppressed?” Copies of Doctor MeCoy’s Menegraph om Deafness Will Be Matied on Applt- eatien to These Directly Interested in the Cure of This Condition. 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