The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, January 14, 1900, Page 8

THE SUNDAY CALL. of results of deforestation and ods for preventing its injuries. a man should be in the apparently ous position of attempting to save with one hand what he is helping to de- gtroy with the other presents an interést- ing situation. He who has signed the applied knowledge step in to prevent the present waste of resources, which con- served would be inexhaustible. ““Humboldt, Mendocino and Trinity counties show the disastrous effects of in- discriminate lumbering, where but the best is taken and the rest is left to cum- SMALL EES AND BRANCHES \ NISTED \} G Y FOREST ,-U_?E\S <> N TS am sellir r the « ral Pacific wer nted it n the The land was T by it. A i mor ised o the L v 2 1 cut st coupons ¢ ' »e sold to meet t me LOST ON THE BATTLEFIELD. TO FIND AN OWNER THIRTY-SIX YEARS LATER sllver watch was tle of Gettysburg in -six years later that same watch was restored to its owner in Honolulu. The story with those whose nameh alone re- maln. George Dietz lives the seclud- ed life of a petty jeweler to-day, but his memory wanders back to the great struggle of the Rebellion. As he tinkers at a balking watch or pries the hinge of a locket he hums busily some of the good old tunes that stirred men’'s hearts—"Tramp, Tramp, Tramp.” maybe, or “We're i Tenting To-night.” Citizens of Ho- nolulu passing the back door of the this wise Dietz lived and fought through | War. Strong on the side of the he battled side by side wear the G. A. R veteran dignity, o now Y DESTRUCTIVE THE. COAST REDWoOCD BELT LUMBERING IN ber the ground and dry into fuel for for ires which destroy i yut ngs, which might otherwise r rge tre “All that has been done in lum lacks impertance compared with will begin in 2 few yea The prese. ition of atfair: rezards the of the United opreciate “Broadly speak East are exh them are = little shop on Nuuanu street hear the mu- sic ad say, “George Dietz is living over the Civil War again.” iiis youth passes in review before him. Of all the long days of weary marching or bloody meeting none {s stamped =o in- delibly on his mind as the 8d of July, 1863. In the morning of that day occurred the second battle of Gettysburg. It was a day of carnage, the most deadly in all his reminiscence. “ His company was Company D of the * Bixth Connecticut Volunteers. They were brave men that went to form it, brave and ambitious and true to their flag. But the Bouth fought hard, and it, too, was #trong. and the plucky volunteer com- pany found itself, with some other com- mands, hemmed ‘in between two advanc~ ing columns of rebels. The Confederates maintained a merciless fire, and the “Yanks” were compelled to retreat. The retreat soon became a rout. Company K of the Thirty-elghth New York Volunteers. followed Dietz's party in its helter-skelter departure from a tight place. Dietz was young in those times, young and proud besides, for he was the pos- sessor of a silver watch such as makes . through Michigan and Wisconsin they are sawing lumber from poles that will square ich stripping as thi areas where not shows its results even the preciot omise of seedling trees is shown, by reason of utter lack of shade and moisture. ‘ “The wooded regions of Minnesota ar adjoining States private propert with a constantly incre the lumber interesis of many ot of the East have dwindled to cance. The great Mississippi, that flowed from 2) to 30 feet deep stream below Rock Island, has been so affected by the c ¢ change induced by deforestin v can wade it at lo Such being the case, | time before the ‘entire 1 be forced to rely en Califorr Oregon and Washington for timber. Already 1 ropean countries are buying ship spars and timbers here. “When the Eastern demand commences it will work a sudden and astonishing revolution in the popular idea concerning are usually in even RETUPNMV estimation, to the owner o one on Puget Sound, wk 100,000,000 feet of lumber pe “Take the ene item of INCRIe- Ton ON glad the heart of youth. Tt was solid sil- ver, a key-winder of course, and his name and company were graven within. So when, in the scramble of retreat, this watch fell from his pocket, the loss cost him a pang that for the moment threw the battle’s loss into shadow. When 1t fell to the brown, tramped ground he hesitated for a second as to whether he should stop and look for it or run on with his comrades. The ques- tion was decided for him by trose behind, and he was soon hustled far from the spot where he had lost the silver watch. All that night as Dietz slept orokerly, disturbed ever and again by the crack of a rifle, the thought of his treasure re- curred to his mind. “My, but it seemed queer to turn in to-night without winding that faithful old watch,” he said to him- self. “Bless it, it never ran down in all its life before, but I guess it's asleep for- ever now. It didn’t take many of thcse crazy footprints to bury {t beyond find- ing. Some day somebody’ll be digging or plowing In that place, perhaps, and find it if it isn’t already smashed past recognizing for a watch, BURNT FOREST IN WHI%H| | THE YOUNG TREES ARE | of storage has g ing incres Millibns in California, w filled with frui res in be sawec and this ted States @ usi timber—185,000 miles of a3 well as br n and term in man m nnoying, as those the on their ho emand on A few days ago the o watchmaker was waiting for a customer in his little Nuuanu street store. While he waited, I had the bad fortune to break the cr; of my time-piece, and as I, too, was Nuuanu street and near store stepped in. While Mr. Dietz was tryin different crystals in my watch, another customer appeared upon the scene. A soldier boy he was, short of money, and desirous pawn an old silver key-wind watch which he carried. The courteous jeweler explalned that key-wind watches wera of no value ex- cept as old silver. He could advance nothing upon it, he said. The soldier was urgent. He begged Dietz to examine the watch more closely. “It is in good condition, even though old- fashioned,” he sald. “And It's the purest of silver.” Dietz looked closely, merely out of po- liteness. Suddenly his expression changed to one of real Interest. His lips twitched in excitement. With the cld self-posse: sion he calmed himself and spoke deliber- ately. “There are several reasons why I should not advance money on this watch. For one, I am not a pawnbroker. For an- other, it has no value except as old sil- ver. Last, but not least, it is not yours to sell or pawn.” That is my watch!™ The soldler was indignant, e: that this watch was given mmXC[:;ml;:li father, away back in lowa, and that his father had possessed it since 1883. Diets replied: “‘::s‘.nml can r’ellllm _:'ou the day that 1t your father's 3 the 3 of July, Teesn possession. It was “There is nothing to hide—certainly, that was the date. But that fact does not prove your right. My father was Walter > W A > a s > the s is 18 ¥ being abse: r 2 wa B mo: v o pros . N a a L st s 2 w <3 g of g re. ale He gave Philippines, and 1 wa 2s been through one wa t gt another and then k an h it for your chil¢ “I am hard up. I only wa paw the wateh thing om it the re: Young mar A opened the wat to yot Itis w Ppost passes ¢ rough a gla ar fa The a ver. Now, if you wil pr and look at the bevel ring w hic! Company I ticut Volun- teers. That | George Diet he young man was sati »mp mised. Dietz v wateh and 3 » of two wars. And so came ab hat young soldier brought back soldier his treasure lost from . PIERRE N. SER B o ke - The ‘year 47 B. C. was the record. rder of Ju Caes: tained 45 days. The additional days wers put in to nake the sea 8 ¢ rm nearly as possible with the s ear Turkey has been engaged in war 33 years of the pre t century, eonsiderad more than one-third ime. Spa comes next, with 3 has 27 year Britaln, 21; Germany, 13. years of war Russia, 24; o= Italy, wall