Evening Star Newspaper, April 17, 1897, Page 19

THE EVENING STAR, SATURDAY, APRIL 17, 1897—28 PAGES. LOG CABIN SENATORS How Two Farmer Boys Fought Their Way to Success, WON BY THE HARDEST KIND OF WORK eee Talks With Senator Foraker aad Senator Fairbanks. ee Seer AN EDUCATION a a GETTING (Copyrighted, 1897, by Frank G. Carpenter.) Written for Tne Evening Star. Wo) OF THE MOST distinguished of the new United Stat senators were born in log cabins in thc Ohio woods. I refer to Charies W. Fair- banks, the republi- can who now stands in Dan _ Voorhees’ democratic shoes as the new senator from Indiana, and to Jos- eph Benson Foraker, Z who is said to hold a big half of the state of Ohio in his panta- loons pockets. Gov. Foraker’s log cabin was situated in Highland county, in the southern part of the state. Fairbanks was further north, in Union county, in the cen- ter of Ohio. Thereris a tradition that both babies were rocked in sugar troughs, and I happen to know that both have had hard tussles to reach the high positions which they now hold. Senator Foraker's father, for instance, was a farmer. He had eleven children, and little Benny was only one of the six boys in the famfly. There were five girls in ad- dition, and money was none too plenty. The boys all worked on the farm, and the future governor and senator was taught to wash and tron, to milk, cook and spin, and in addition to all these to pick the geese at the proper time of year. H's first school- ing was gotten in a log school house, and he hai to fight, as it were, for his educa- tion. It was at this time that he wore those famous coffee sack trousers of which you may have heard. He was only ten years old, and school was in full blast, wher he met with a serious accident which ruined his breeches. They were, in fact, so badly torn that they could not be patched. There was no cloth for a new pair within miles, and it looked for a time as though the school would have to be given up. Mrs. Foraker, however, brought out a coffee sack and asked the boy whether he would wear a pair of trousers made of it and continue his schooling or stay out a while and wait for a new pair. As young For- aker looked at the coffee sack he said: “I can wear them, mother, but I don't like to. If I do the boys are sure to make fun of me.” Never mind if they do,” said his mother. Tf you become a useful man nobody will ask what kind of pantalocns you wore as a child.” The result was that young Ben put them on, and although the boys and girls did laugh, he stuck to them until a new pair came to hand. Today Gov. Foraker wears as good a pair of breeches as any man in the United States senate, and so far no one has made any invidious remarks about the coffee sack trousers of his boyhood. He got his rd for wearing them by the strength which they added to his character in the withstanding the laughter of his fel lows, and they formed a very pretty plece of capital, too, in getting the votes of the people when Foraker became a candidate for governor of the state. Senator Fairbanks’ Trousers. And just here I want to tell you of a similar trouble thi: Senator Fairbanks had during his school days. He gave the story to me last night as we chatted together in the Arlington Hotel. I had mentioned the ‘wonderful popularity McKintey had gotten as President through his little kindne: and his unassuming ways. This ca the conversation to turn to the impor! of little things and how they affe life, when Senator Fair tration the incident of his torn pantaloc “It was,” said he, “when I was at col! in Delaware, Ohio. I was poor, you know, and only owned one good suit. One Satur- day afternoon in wrestling with my room- mate I ripped one of my pantaloons legs from the bo almost to the top. It was torn so bad!y that I could not mend it. The next y and I had to go one’s anks told in illus Senator Foraker. to chapei or be marked down for absence. My parents lived some distance away and I could not get money from home for at least a week. For a time I was in despair, and then I went out with my reommate, having pinned up my trousers, to get a pair of new ones on trust. Near where I lived there was a clothier named Frank We went into his store and asked to see some of his pantaloons. He laid out @ pair on the counter, which, he said, would cost me $3.50. I told him that they would suit me and that I would bring the money in next weck and pay for them. Upon this he took the pantaloons out of my hands and laid them upon the shelf, saying: My boy, I don’t do business that When you bring the money you can the nan can't way. have tell you how much that burt me.” said Senator Fairbanks. “I blushed hike a girl, I was much humiliated and very angry. There was, however, another tailor in the town. I remember the name of the man was Phumphery. Well, I went to him after f ‘eft Frank, fore ask ing to see his trousers I describe situation. He gave me a pair at one told me I could have other cloth wanted them. I can't tell you how ful I felt to that man. Try own clothes of him afterward, but 1 tried to get my fellows to go to him. I never go back to Delaware but that I call grate- I not only bought upon him, and when I enter his store he always wants to know if I would like to have another pair of trousers on credit. Now, the trusting of a boy for a week was a little thing, but it gave that man a strong friend. ‘eS aR “As to McKinley,” continued Senator Sn’ Senator Fairbanks. Fairbanks, “I have often noticed how care- ful he is of the comforts of others. I re- member being on the stump with him at one time. We were to speak together at Washington Court House. McKinley was then a candidate for governor, and he was, of course, the lion of the occasion. When we arrived the committee of the town had a carriage for him, and they were about to send me off with one of the lesser lights. McKinley, however, would not permit. it. He took me in with him, and I shared with him in the honor of the occasion.” Studying Law. “How did you come to go to Indianap- olis, senator?” I thought the town was a good one. I was a member of the Phi Gamma Delta College fraternit and my first visit to Indianapolis was to attend a fraternity convention. I also had friends there, and have never regretted that I chose the lo- cation. : “Do you like the law, senator?” “Yes, indeed I do,” was the reply. “I think it develops a man in an all around vay better than any other profession. I¢ fits him for any place in which his lot ma. I believe McKinley is a better Pri dent for having been a lawyer, and that Harrison was the better fitted for his ca- reer by his law practic “Would you advise a you § man to study , I think every man should study If he is a business man he shoulil know a great deal of the law. The law comes into every act of a man’s life, and the «ducation which leaves the law out is defictent.”” “Then you believe in every man being is own lawyer, senator?” 0, not that, fer, you know, it is said that the man who is his own lawyer has a fool for his client. I mean that every man should have a knowledge of the general principles of the law, and should so siudy that he would almost intuitively know what the law ought to be. If he shonld have a law case on hand, however, he ought to get a gcod lawyer to help him.” oo is as much chance r as ever?” bit, for the right man. has to a ¢ The ain extent been practice vided up into speci; but there is a much chance fer young men as in the past. “How ab farmer boys, senator? Do you t uve as good a chance to succeed in the world as the richer boy of the city “Yes, better,” rep? ed Senator Fairbanks. “It needs hard knocks and hard work to develop character. The boy cf the ci does not have enough difficulties to tend with. The h father cannot give them to him. I don't think it any advan- tage for a boy to be born rich. I remem- ber hearing of a party of successful 7 who were tclling how they became rica and famous. One after another described the trials he had had and the stens hy which he had climbed from nothing to succe At last a time came for the story of the most eminent of them all. He said: ‘I think I am entitled to more credit than any of you, for | was born ric ave succecded in spite of my How One Roy I here asked Se} me someth suppesed he was seales people. Hi know; t land to sducation. irbanks to tell family, saying I related to t irbanks he did not 2 from Eng- assachusetts and thence to Ver- Said he: My father when he Mass., born in vas a boy he mov where he had a brot who was er. He worked for some a woolen mill, but was Vermont, but 1 to Lowell, ime at sixteen he struck oui for Ohio. He’ * What he could find to di tting Umber and er work of that His wages were 5 He soon saw that in the tne » of Ohio there Sa yood demand for wagons, a cluded to go back to Massach lezen to be a wagon maker in his brothe and again com t to practice bh trade. He did this, and whe retur: mploye under y. He served at he Was soon taken d th om maker daughter in marriage. Th lived together v e old log cabin home. i leg cabin that I was bora 3 hio he got work as an oO well t rship, a. his him s cou folks in th that there I y boyhood. Father stoy ped mal a time bought he had acres at first. s timber and he had to clear s I grew older I helpe him, and I thus learned to ather ta 0 all kinds of 3 me also tools, and later ea 1 found t value. -It helped me to get for I was able to put in in doting carpenter work, ich I got $1.25 a day.” you work your way through schcol, senator?” €s and no,” was the reply. “My father 2 of the money I needed azd I made some, as I told and I earned something you, }durirg tay vacations. Delaware at that time was a cheap place to go to school. 1 re er one term cost me just about v4 How could you live so cheaply, sena- tor “Well, the tuition was very low, in the first plice. Then, I had a room mate, and, texether, we paid only $1.4) a week for our room. We did our own cooking. Our homes were about twenty miles away, and we could bring our supplies from our own tarms. We had plenty ef bread, which oar moth: baked, ard we learned how to make mush. We could boil potatoes, and when some one started our batter for buck- wheat cakes we could add to the batter from day to day and keep it alive, so that we had fresh buckwheats every morning. All this cost very little, and still we lived fairly well. “How old were you when you graduated?” ‘The Ibsen doormat, now popular in Boston.—Life, “I was twenty. I entered college at six- teen and graduated in 1872.” Fairbanks Talks of the Law. Senator Fairbanks is one of the leading lawyers of the west. Though he ts only forty-five, he has made a fortune at the Jaw, and his practice has for many years been worth many times as much as he will receive as his senatorial salary. As I *[thought of this I asked him how he came to study law. He replied: “The iaw was my first ambition. I stud- ied. Blackstone while I was in college, and I got through law school by studying be- %| tween the hours of newspaper work. While I was at Delaware I became the editor of the college paper, and after I left there I got an appointment as Associated Press agent at Pittsburg at $82 a month. I did this, thinking I could go to the law school ‘there, but when I learned that in Penn- Sylvania a man has to study law three years before he can be admitted, I had my- self transferred to Cleveland. It was there that"T was admitted to tne bar.” “Then if you were to be born again, sen- ator, and had the choice of the !ocation, yeu would choose to be born upon a farm.” “Yes, I should, emphatically,” replied Senator Fairbanks. “I believe in it. It was upon the farm that I learned how to work, and such success as I have had has come from hard work. It is from the farm that are to come the successful men of the fu- tere. The great writers, lawyers and bus- iness men of the next generation are wong the farmers’ boys of today. It is true that a few may come from the city, but the majority will come from the coun- try.” Where Foraker Learned to Work. Returning to Senator Foraker, it is won- @erful how the lines of his life and that of Senator Fairbanks have run along side by side. Both had to struggle during their Leyhood, both went to school at the same college for at least a part of their educa- tion, and both have made great success as lews and both are now influential men in the United States Senate. Foraker, like Fairbanks, learned to work on the farm, and his ambition to do well came to him in his cradle. When he was not yet in his teens his father ys that he thought he was able to do anything that any of the other boys could do. “One day,” so the old gentleman ‘Ben's elder brother, ch, put up thirty-three shucks of corn, ich I paid him $1, and Ben thought t to earn some money as well. I told him he was too small to do such hard work, but he sald he was going to try. That day I went to the fair, and when I came back I found that he had put up his thirty-three shocks. He was not tall enough to tie them, so he got his litile s' ter to stand on a chair and do it, while held the stalks in place. It was a big day's work for a boy, and I do: how he Gid it.” FRANK G. CARPENT —_ -EGG LORE. Curious Customs the Origin of Which Are Lost in Antiquity. From the New York World. The distribution of eg: at Easter has descended to us from the greatest of the Chinese spring festivals, inaugurated more than seven hundred years before the Chris- tian era. The custom was particularly popular during the fifteenth and sixteenth cen- turies in iZland. The pope sent Henry VIII an Easter egg in a silv In Res: are sent to the priests to be which they are carricd home and placed in the center of the table, In Spain and Germany ihe eggs are not ed, but the y colored and tributed tilers to he e to the tas indiv he custom, in one form or another, ex- Turks ists among the Jews, Greeks, and " was the ancient n 1 were often “pach” or * eRgs. In Scotland eggs are taken to churen to be ed. They are afterward distrib- ated among the membe household either The decoration of ord Ingland. Gilding the shell step. This was followed b: s of ribbons, pictu jevices to please th These exgs w Lewn eniid r of the hunted greatest. numb tones over W eges in on v rabbi How th imal t ster is know hildren began t eggs were laid by re all put not hill egg rolls without 4 Ww. White Hou eis p fren in rear of thi Menda In Germany there are tw wn which exch egg ma erferer boy whose ¢ h foot of the “toll” of his ap- ked. two boys a ho i , and sud- them together. : owner of y-shelled egg can, if he posses: break the exgs of seve his own is Injured. 1 ie of one, two, three or four cgg: y be. colored by means of the aniline addition of horns, ears, tails, Ss may be transformed into grotesque figu: © Song of the Hat. From the Chicago Times-Herald. un Hy Ken ter Hat. The Bob, bots, bo AS the ‘int And Lob, bob, When It's ob, Or to join a Where ind, wor a hat to wear, istian Iand! . bob, 1 the bruin begins to swin, bob, bob, bob dodge that bobbing brim. feather and flow er and bird— end of the second hour an awful word low Until at Oh, girls with brothe: ‘Oh, girls with oiit Be nee and love of those. [could only get a p Alas, ep! hats should be xo dear, ater seats so cheap! exant wi And whai is the prospe A hat of straw, ‘Or velvet, or felt and rags That ostrich plume and this pheasant’s wing, A buckle, a mop of hair; A bunch of bows and a cabbage rose! Do you wonder I want to swear? Oh, but to see the stage, ‘The heroine blonde and sweet! Oh, to behold the villain raze And watch the soubrette’s feet! y one short hou: as I used to see, knew the woes Wabbling in front of m With manner haughty and oud, At a crowded Saturday iat., A woman sat in unwomanly gear, Wearing a Theater Hat! Bob, bob, bod, Now this way and now that; And still with my voice at concert pitoh, Would that its tone could reach the rich? Tsing the Song of the Hat! —CAROLYN WELLS. ——_—__+e+—____ The Revised Version. From the Chicago Record. “What is your new painting called?” “The Gleaner.’ “Ah, a young girl with a sickle and a bundle of grain?” ‘"No; an elderly girl with a flat pocket book and an armful of bargain dry good: _ —-se0—— If you want enything, try an ad. In The Star. If anybody has what you wish, you will get an answer. —— LANDING BIG FIS A Place Whore Spértemon Have All They Wantto Do, ee IS THE LEAPING TUNA OF. THE PACIFIC Catching Sea Bass “That Weigh More Than 200 Pounds. AT SANTA CATALINA ISLAND Written for The Evening Star. Twenty miles out to sea from San Pedro, the seaport of Los Angeles, Cal., is a fish- erman’s paradise, and every year counts her hundreds of ‘sportsmen, who come from all over the country. Indeed, it has been jocosely referred to by a distinguish- 450 Pound Jew Fish. ec writer on piscatorial matters as the headquarters of the Ananias ‘Club of the whole Pacific coast. This is a misnomer, however, for more genuine big catches have been made in Cataijna waters than at any, other benks on the coast. It was only last year, however, that fish- ermen there discovered what rare sport was to be had in angling for the great leaping tuna. Before that the sport had mainly been confined to the gamy yellow- tail, and the giant jewlish, or rea lass, which frequently tips the scales at 400 pounds. Last spring a remendous school of tuna invaded the peaceful waters of Avalon bay, which is :the.uprincipal resort on the island, and chased! a swarm of fly- in fish, which are their special prey, al- me: to the very beach) This attracted the attention of the sportsmen, for though the tunes are alwayB to‘’be found round about the island, sucit!a tremendous school of this mysterious and magnificent fish was rather unusual. ¢ 1 Tuna fishing at once claimed the atten- tion of shermen, and some phenomenal catches were made. se The leaping tuna Of the Pacific ranges in weight from 9) to 400 poends,and is from six to ten feet in length. ‘Itis prey is the ng fish, and in Order’ to catch these winged fish, which skim “ver the waters with the pidity of a bird, the tuna leaps from the sea, sometimes tn or fifteen feet, as the flying fish darts up and away ant it sees its deadty enemy. cific tuna wil take no bait but a » and is most easily caught in the lignt or early evening. Indeed, some of larg: atches last season were made the mocniight. The largest tuna cap- weighed 200 pounds and towed the !skifl with two men fn it a mile out to sea. S scon as the tuna is hooked he in r- jably “makes a rush,’ taking with him line, boat, men and all, frequently towing | them oul to sea two or three miles, going with such violent rapidity as to le a wake of foaming spray behind the flying skiff. The plucky sportsman gcnerally kangs to his prey, however, and captures him, though it frequently ¢ battle of s 1-hours and torn and bleeding hands. Fishermen declare that the tunas have more vim end gu in them than a tarpon fof double their weight, and they have | broken more rods and ‘run away with more Jines than any other fish on the Pa- cifie coast—save only the big jewfish, Catalii portsmen inyaviably fish with and reel, a Canandaigua. Y., man well nigh breaking the world’s record there not long since, by taking a 2 dj fish with a light rod and a fifteen-thread cuttyhunk lire. A Battle Roy To hear an enthusiastic angler tell how he hauled in his first jewtish sets cne’s blood a-tingling. Professor Charles Frederick Holder, a most devoted ple of Izaak Walton, who has caught tarpon oif the Florida coast, and whose word is authority in sporting journals, tells his experience with the Catalira jewfish in a most graphic style. “Mexican Joe,” be say est fishermen of Santa Catalina, was my oarsman. We tossed the anchor over, the repe ran merrily out, and the hook, baited with a six-pound white fish, went hissing down. I sat silent for half an hour, hold- ing the throbbing line, when suddenly I became aware that its tension had in- creased to a steady pull—then came a jerk that carried my hand into the water. “ ‘Jewfish, sure,’ whispered Joe. “I paid out the lice, while he seized the anchor-line ready to haul up. When about six feet had gone over the gunwale I stop- ped, and when the line came taut jerked the hook into the fish. For a single sec- ond there was no response, then came a jerk that almost lifted me from the boat, and the line went hissing over the rail like a living thing. Nothing could stop such a , and I simply waited while Joe pulicd up the anchor, when I grasped the line and braced back for the fight. The light boat whirled around like a top, and away we went, an ominous wave of foam rising high around the bow. A ten-foot shark never pulled harder than this’ gamy fish, and for five minutes it was a question who was master. I took it in with the greatest diffi- culty, gaining ten feet, only to have the fish rush toward me and then dash away with an impetus that was more than irre- sistible. Occasionally it would turn and dash to the bottom, making everything sing and hum. After giving and taking, and hauling and easing off for twenty minutes, suddenly tHe fist? rushed up, and with a final effort I brought the black giant to the surface. For g moment I saw a pair of eyes as large as those pf an ox, a rich chestnut back, and then,' with a tremen- dous heave, the fish thtew itself over, deluging me with water and half capsizing the boat. It was the: last struggle, and with another haul I had the king of the Pacific coast fishes at hand’s length, where it rolled and tossed, its huge tail bathing us with spray, protesting ‘against its cap- ture.” In number and variety: the fish which inhabit Catalina wagers surpass those of any other fishing grounds on the coast. The slim, shining barracuda, the tawny sculnin and seep-sea grouper, the rock bass, salmon, albicpne, ,heepshead and rare little pompano,,a piscatorial delicacy that retails for $1 a-pourd in San Fran- cisco, abound here. And as for mackerel and sardines, they may always be had for tossing the bait or casting the net. A Good Fish Story. s A most remarkable thing occurred at White's Landing, a point on the island several miles below Avalon, one August morning in the summer of 1805, when a School of porpoise chased a drove of yel- lowtails into the cové. Ahead of the yel- lowtalls was a swarm of sardines, which, in the wild pursuit, were driven quite up onto the beach, where they were scooped up in baskets by the campers. The fisher- men at once cast their nets for the yellow- tails, and, ithe the disciples of old, were not able to draw it for the multitude of fishes. Old fishermen, who had lived on the island for years, united in saying this “one of the old- GOSOH0GSH000090GOHHS0000000000000000008 ” pay. truthful? You are. es) QOSG5OE was the largest draft of fishes ever seen on Catalina shores. Another story, which, while it is vouched for by reliable witnesses, staggers belief. A school of yellowtail chased a swarm of smaller fry into shallow waters near the beach, and a four-year-old boy took his stand among the fishermen to cast his line for sardines. An older brother took the precaution to tie the line round The “best people” in every community testify to the healing power of Ayer’s Sarsaparilla. The best people. The people who make the backbone of the country; the farmer, laborer, mechanic, preacher, doctor; Mrs. Smith, [rs. Brown, irs. Jones, and others of the world’s first families. Women whose honor. uphoids the home. Men whose word is sound in council or in business; whose names are as good signed to a testimonial as they are to a “promise to Is there any better testimony? Is there any stronger evidence? Would their word be worth more if they had been in the crowd at the Seeley dinner or the crush at the Bradley-Martin ball? They are not strangers. They are your neighbors. You know them. These are the people who write: “There is no blood purifier like Ayer’s Sarsa- parilla.” ‘When all other medicines failed | was cured by Ayer’s Sarsaparilla.” Ayer's “Curebook.” A story of cures told by the cured. Free. J. C. Ayer Co., Lowell, Mass. Sarsaparilia. : SSSOSSESS SESSE SSOSSSSO SOSH OOO western part of North Carolina. The finest | logs of this timber are to be found on the sloyes of the Blue Ridge and Cumberland mountains. of fine patterns that the leading walnut dealers inspect the trees themselves befure they are cut down. enced woodsmen to search over the whe region where months at a time and then, the finest trees Why shouldn’t these witnesses be —o eeeee THREE CURIOUS PLANTS, The Cannibal Tree, Grapple Pt and Vegetable Python. From the Los Angeles I Three of the most da tive plants in the world are tree” of Australia, the “de So important fs it to get woods They employ experi- pannibal or “grappla the best walnut lies for the little fellow’s waist to prevent his los- | havirg been marked, the dealers leave the | Plant” of South Africa, and the me ing hold of it. A scream from the child | city and travel through the woods on | python” of New Zealand. attracted the attention of the exelted fish- | horseback, selecting the most valuable | The “cannibal tree” grows up in the ermen, and they beheld him being towed | trees, afterward buying them from the out to sea, a gamy yellowtail in his pur- suit after a sardine having caught onto the hook, and, in his efforts to get away, was dragging line, boy and all out to sea. .The boy was rescued. Goat hunting on the mountains of the in- terior of the island {s a favorite pastime for sportsmen, and Robert Bonner of New York has the head of an old Catalina patriarch with a four-foot beard. NEW COSTLY WOODS YORK. Small Piles of Lumber Worth $50,000 and More. From the New York Trib: Lying in some of the great lumber yards of New York and only showing their value to the experis and the initiated ones are heaps of rare aid costly woods, some from the countries of the equator, cthers cut from American forests. In one single lum- ber yard it is no uncommon thing to sec a stock that is velued at $50,000 or more. In one block near the East river front there is often $1,000,000 worth piled up in the epen air or under the cover of réugh sheds. ‘The veining and mottling of a log and the veneers that are made from it fix its val- ue. While all these special woods of com- merce are costly, prices three and tour limes the average are paid for unusual patterns of rosewood, mahogany and black walnut. farmers or the owners of the land. An Ingenious Ruse to Keep a Woman From the Chicago Chronicle, Among the mcre prominent members of the medical fraternity of Chicago is a phy- sician who is his professional skill than for his cont: of his own nerves or temper. confreces able to control other people rather better is more or less of an invalid, constantly imagines herself to be in a much cenaition than she really is. ago the doctor was sent for post h with numerous new sy had discovered, which less. pelled to prolong shape of a uge pineapple, and attains a siete aS pe ss a It a x A FOXY DocToR. read, board-like leaves, growing gs fringe at the apex, which forcibly brings to mind a gigantic Central America agav: and these board-like leaves, from ten t twelve feet in the smaller specimens and from fifteen to tweuty feet in the larger, hang to the grou and are easily stron@® sun. enough to bear the weight of a man of i40 his renowned much more for | pounds or more. 1 | tree was worshiy under the name of the interc rifice of on In the anclent tim the native wil t eremony being the sac- rir number to its all too- The victim to be In fact, his that he is laughirgly remark of tr ready embrace than he is himself. was driven up the leaves of the tree to th A : - e doc- | #PeX, and the instant the so-called “pistiis” é ae a are aon se “al of the monster were touched the leaves or is ar elderly lady who is something | would fy together like a trap, crushing th: of a hypochondriac and who, though she | life out of the intruder. In this Way the tree would hold its victim until eve ticle of flesh would ber The “grapple y par- ame disappear from his days A few plant” is a prostrate herb, te, | growing in South Africa. Its flowers are and expected frem the urgency of the | purple and shaped like the English fox- summons to find her extremely ill. He | glove. Its fruit las formidable hooks, was somewhat disgusted when he found | which, by clinging to any passer-by, is con. that she was in usual condition, and | veyed to situations whe d may tind when he incautiously intimated that he | suitable conditions for growth. Sir John did not think her condition had materially | Lubbock says it has been known to. kill changed since he last saw her his patient | lions. launched into a recital of her woes, together | The “vegetable py’ which is know ptoms which she eemed almost end- sculapius was com- his visit until he was to the naturalist as the clusia or fig, is strangler of trees. The seeds of the clusia, being provided with a pulp and very pp ant to the tropical birds which feed The disciple of E There are several hundred varieties of | Gecidediy inconvenienced by the delay. He | on, are carr! to tree and fine woods brought each year into New y made his prescription and left the | posited on the branches. Here germination York, but of these only a few are known e, promising to return the next day begins. The leafy stem slowly rises up- to commerce to any extent. Mahogany, soon as he called the second time the roots flow, as it were, down French burl, rosewood, curly ash, Ameri | ja9y commenced telling her numerous phy- | the trunk until the soil Is reachel, Here can quartered oak, figured birch, black | sical troubles. The doctor had an import-| and there they branch, changing tier walnut, Circassian walnut and satinwood | ant appointment to keep in a half hour, | course according to the direction of any are the fa: Umber varieties that sell | and finally became distressingly nervous | obstructions met with. Meanwhile. from the best, gab prie 2 SnnING A Tone phe over the prospect, when a happy thought | these rootlets leafy branches have been de. cents a foot for veneers. : s give no adequate conception of values unul struck him. Drawing from his pocket one | veloped, which, pushing themselves through = Bi he cal- of the little themometers which physicians | the canopy abo get into the light, and they re examined carefully. But t Ea une to test temperature with, he sal enormous! ated their growth. Now culation is a simple one. A veneer is ay “SSyn.' . L wish to test your tempera- | @ metamorphosis takes place! For the hitn. thin strip cut from a board by a shaving | ture. Will you be so kind as to hold this | erto soft aerial roots begin to harden an machine, thirty veneers being allowed to each board of an inch thickness,the boards of these costly woods running about two feet in width. As a rule these boards are eight to ten feet long, and thus a single veneer of mahogany two feet wide and ten in length is worth, by itself, from 30 cents to $1. A double row of these vencers piled up five feet high is worth easily $2,000. n the log mahogany sells here at $1 to $1.50 a foot, board measurement. It comes from Mexico and Cuba and, brought to this city in logs, it is sold in veneers. These veneers, stacked up in piles in the sheds, are so brittle that the only way of ship- ping them to the furniture and piano man- ufacturers is to pack them in cases. A case usually holds 500 sheets or from $300 to $500 worth and Is so heavy that the strength of from four to six men, with rollers, is necessary to get it upon a truck. A case is known in the trade as a “‘flitch.” Even unvarnished and unpolished as these rare woods are in the rough the pat- terns are easily visible and the designs and veining are very beautiful. Nearly all in your mouth for a minute?” The lady did as directed, and while she was rendered incapable of conversation by reason of the impediment in her mouth the doctor felt her pulse and made out his pre- scription. ter and left, having saved a great deal of time by the use. peated for three days, when finally the | ters, causing the Do you think mamma is going to have a fever’ me nervous with her talking and I wanted a little quiet.” The mcther of the circumstance, and after a stormy interview the physictan was paid off and dismissed. At invalid had secured a doctor who, while he may not be the equal of the first in medical skill, is not made nervous by her endless chatter. spread wider and wider, throwing out side branches, which flow into and amalgamate with each other until the whole tree trunk is bound in a series of irregular living hoops. From this time on it is a struggle of life and death between the forest Fiant and the entwining clusia. Like an athlete the tree tries to expand and burst its f bark to bulge between every interlacing; but success and fre edom are not for the captive tree, for the mon- ster clusia has made its bands very numer- ous and wide. Not allowed expansion, the tree soon withers and dies, and the strang- ler is soon expanded into a great bush, al- most as large as the mass of branches and foliage it has effaced. It is truly a tragedy in the world of vegetation. —one—__—_ Any Old Watch Would Do. From the Strand Magazine. Practical Father—“I want to buy a watch for my boy—the cheapest you have. Honest Dealer—“I'm afraid I can’t war- rant the cheap ones to keep good time.” He then removed the thermome- The same thing was lid’s duughier asked him anxiously. replied the doctor. “She makes daughter” straightway told her last accounts the ——_—+--______ Just Like the Others. pi ne Practical Father—“Oh, that doesn't mat- Se ee tien are ta eigen imo |. “What brought the castler under was- | ter, Just make i oo that Be ‘can open the sclidly, and, second, all have a tendency | Picion?” back of the case. to warp. Next in popularity to mahogany comes American figured walnut, from Ken- tucky, West Virginia, Tennessee and the “Well, he had been in the bank’s employ forty years, and was one of its most trust- ed officials.” ere “Want” ads. in The Star pay because they bring answers. Frem Life. HE wore an Easter bonnet, With a little moss rose on it, And a lot of gauzy ribbons that flut- tered as she prayed. An6 my thoughts grew very tender, As I'watched her form se slender, In all its Easter splendor so gor- ~- . . geously arrayed. 9 3 DISENCHANTED. She hadsaid, with earnest unction. So I swore in lover's fashion That she wore to every function To declare that day my passion, Gowns that s4c herself had made “to When an object caught my eye thea save papa expense, you know.” keeps me still * upon the fence.” As to hats, she loved to trim them, Dangling down from that same bonne, Loved to shape them, crown them, brim With that self-same moss rose on it, them— ‘Was a little, round, white tickete “ It was awful waste,” she said, “to $40.50. throw away your money $0.”