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THE OMATTA SUNT) AY BEE: DECEMBER 20, 1907.
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TO COMPLETELY CLEAR AWAY ALL SMALL LOTS AT ONCE!
Before Invoicing, All Odd Lots Must Go
Every
Item
Here Is
A Big
Special
Ba. rsxm
a.nd Stocks Must Be Reduced Way Down to a.
TREMENDOUS REDUCTIONS
FUR
All the high grade Mink Scarfs and
Muffs in our great stock will go at One
Ilalf Price:
Specials in This Section Are
1126.00 Mink Scarfs for . . 862-60
$139.00 Mink Scarfs for GOBO
98.00 Mink Scarfs for . . . . 49-00
85.00 Mink Scarfs for 42-50
76.00 Mink Scarfs for 37-00
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Minimum. These Prices Will Do It Monday U
You
Can't Af
ford to
miss this
Wonder-
ful event
sfIe Petticoats
of
Several hundreds of Petticoats,
black, many are very pret
tily trimmed. They
worth as high as $2.50,
tra special Monday,
mostly
SfSF
Our entire stock of
children's Dresses, ages
4, 12 and 14, that sold
up to $3.00, before In
voicing choice
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All, of out1 infants'
white embroidered
cashmere long Cloaks,
Worth up to $1.60, in
our Cloak Department
choice
re
All of our $1.00
wool eiderdown ' and
fleece lined Dressing
Sacks, . before invoic
ing cholci
SI ...u. I
WGS2SS&
Children's outing
flannel Sleeping Gar
ments, with or without
feet, worth 60c, on
sale at, each
1-ard wide strict
ly all wool Cheviots,
75c quality, in Dress
Goods Department, be
fore Invoicing, at, per
yard
Extra Special Monday
Thousands of yards of very fine embroid
eries, Swiss, nainsook and cambric many
in match sets excellent quality shadow
embroideries and English eyelet. This lot
includes embroideries, insertings and rib
bon galloons, including
r '" '-I i
corset cover widths
and skirting will
go on sale at ...
Y&ra
LADIES' COATS Up-to-date effects
have been selling for $20.00,
Smart Coats that have been sell
ing for $15.00 at
7.50
LADIKS' TAILORED SUITS Worth
$25.00 Special for Monday, at.
Ladles' Smart Suits that have been
$17.60 wll go on sale Monday,
for
14.85
selling at
.8.98
BIG BASEMENT BARGAINS-
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Mill lengths bleached
muslin and cambrics?
in all grades, yard
wide at EL 0
yard'-. ....
SILK PETTICOATS In a beautiful variety of
desirable colors worth $7.00 f nn
at XV O
Many very pretty Silk Petticoats that
have been selling up to $15.00, at. .
7.50
Checked, striped and fancy
Outing Flannel, baby blue,
white, and cream Flannels,
quality the very
best, yard,
at
Sic
Sheer quality print
ed batiste new pretty
patterns at -L
yard, .... 021
40-inch wide White
Lawns, sold from
the bolt Monday,
10c
SB
Dotted white Cur
tain Swiss in long
mill lengths, HM
at, yard . .
7ic
Pretty White Embroidered
Swisses for waists, dresses,
ana cniiaren s wear-
splendid qual
ity, yard,
at
I5c
Velvet finish warm Flannels,
styles suitable for gowns,
waists, kimonos, . dressing
sacques, etc., the most de
sirable of all
new flannels,
at, yard ....
- - -' - i - - J - - '--i. . i ... ii-.'-i-. '- ' m-uaw
s 111VU V VV
10c
Allover Embroideries 15c Yard
up to lb inches wide fine 1 FH
at, ,d OC
nainssoks and cambrics
worth up to 35c yard,
Dress Goods In Basement 36-lnch
and 40-inch fancy Suitings, Mo
hairs, Serges,' Henriettas, Broad
head Mills Suitings, Albatross
Veilings, in a good range of
colors, worth to
79c yard, all go
in Basement,
yard .......
35c
Narrow Embroidery Edgings
10,000 yds. of narrow, embroid
ery edgings and insrtings on
big bargain square, at, yard
2c
HANDKERCHIEFS
At Less Than Half Price
This includes all linen hemstitched and fine Initial
handkerchiefs. Some are the least bit mussed
but they are worth up to f 1 f "J 1
35c in 3 big bargain lots. . JC-OC'In-sC
WOMAN'S $7.50 WAISTS AT $2.50 All
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newest styles for evening and every
day wear to sell out every one, we
offer them for
Big Assortment f New Year's Cards, 1
including post cards up from .... 1C
BRANBEIS
Special Sale of Silks
All odd lines of plain and fancy Silks from our regular stock have
been priced for quick reduction. I
7,500 yards of our 50c and 69c Silks, consisting of Taffetas, Peau de
Cygnes, Jap Silks, Pongees, Crepe de Chines, Liberty Silks, Pretty
Foulards, as long as they last on bargain square, ft
yard . . JJC
All our broken lines of fancy DreBS Silks, 20 to 27-inch wide. Pompa
dour Silks, Peau de Crepe, Peau Radiant, dress and lining Taffetas,
black Peau de Sole and MesBalines, worth lfl J SO.
$1.00 to $1.50, at. yard tJZ 2M(X OJC
BLACK TAFFKTA8 Our celebrated "Lyons" black dressmaking
Taffetas are always reliable with our guarantee adlmlted quantity.
45-inch, worth $2.25, at, yard SI. 48
3G-lnch, worth $1.75, at, yard $1.25
27-inch, worth $1.25, at, yard 87V4
21-lnch, worth 85c, at, yard..,. 50
Special Sale of Dress Goods
45 pieces Wool Plaids,
worth 60c, yard, at yd.
156 pieces Fancy Suitings from 42
inch to 64 inch, worth
$1.25 yard, at yard. . .
29c
69c
49c
125 pieces all Wool Suit
ings, worth 85c yd., yd
173 pieces Imported and Domestic
high class Sutlngs, 44 to QC
64 in., worth up to $2, yd. .tJOL
Black Ptpss Goods, Lu
pin's French Voiles and
I'anamiiB. regular price
f 135 yard, ( AA
fed?f- $l.u
BLACK DRESS GOODS
Lupin's French Wool
taffeta, regular
price, $1.25 7 1
Monday, yd.Ol2
Lupin's Tamls In shadow
effects, stripes and
checks, regular
i.tu yard,
Monday
yard
price
l- $1.00
Hundreds of fine Dress floods Remnants In good lengths from 8 yards
to 10 yards consisting of this season's best selling styles broadcloths, Pop
lins. Taffetas, Panamas, Barred Dress Goods, French Plaids, 46 to 62 Inch
black and colored Panamas and Serges, on bargain square at a little over
half their value. v
taSsSErf BOOKS
Many books have become more or less in
jured through handling all these have
been gathered up and marked away down
to close them out. See the tables of
books, at
10cf 15c, 25c
and
up,
BRANBEIS
COAL ROADS TAKING COUNSEL
taw Requiring Railroad Companies to
. limit Business to Transportation.
ANTHRACITE BARONS PERPLEXED
intimation of Fosalble Saaprnaloa of
c Coal Attains;- A Tnorn In the
I'roan Flesh of Combinations.
'The executive officers of a number of the
coal owning and coal carrying roads will
meet In New York In the near future to
determine what. If any. action Is advisable
or possible to prevent loss to the public or
loss to the coal roads or both as a result
of the proposal of the railroad rate law
practically commanding every railroad com
pany In this country to dispose of Its coal
properties on or before May 1, 1908. The
provisions of this act, railroad attorneys
nay, are so drastic that In the event of
tbe enforcement of the law In Its present
form railroads with hard or soft coal prop
erties, manufacturing or producing Inter
est of any kind or outside business enter
prises of any nature whatever, excepting
the production of lumber and the manu
facture of products therefrom, will be com
pletely tied up in respect to these concerns.
They have the alternative of ceasing nan
Vfaoture or production on the one hand or
gunning the chance of heavy penalties,
Spending appeals to the courts on the other.
'The section of the railroad rate bill which
applies la as follows:
'.From and after May 1, 1908, It shall be
nlawful for any railroad company to
transport from any state, territory or the
District of Columbia to any ulh.-r state,
territory or the Umtrk-t of ColuniblH, or
t any foreign country and article or com
modity, other than timber or the manu
factured prod not a thereof, manufactured,
mined or produced by It or under its au
thority, or which It may own In whole or
fn part, or In mhich It may have any Inter
est, direct or indirect, except such articlus
or commodities as may be necessary or In
twnded for Its use In the conduct of Its
tuslnesa as a common farrier.
.' All Bonds Affected.
..The statute affects railroads all over the
ountry, but Its most Important bearing la
Vpon the railroads with anthracite eoal
properties in Pennsylvania. It affects the
Gould and Ilarrlman lines In the west
With their extensive ownership of soft coal
properties. It concerns railroads with soft
coal. Iron ore and manufacturing proper
ties in the south. But principally It Is of
Importance to the coal roads of the east
and the public which depends upon them
for Its supply of coal for home and factor-.
Thus, although western and south
ern railroads have a deep Interest In the
enforcement of the statute, the burden of
sevtslng a plan for the protection of either
private or public interests or both has been
left upon the coal carrying and coal own
ing roads of the east.
' The most Important of these roads are
(lie Heading, the Ihtgh Valley, the Dela
ware, iAckawanna at Western, the Jersey
Central (controlled by the Rending), the
Pennsylvania, the Brie and the Delaware
A Hudson. The New York, Ontario A
VVeetern Is also Interested as an owner of
Important ooal properties, but one of the
Msui ( that road said yeaUrdagr that
lils company knew nothing of the Impor
tant consultations that are In progress.
Itoada Own the Mines.
These so-called anthracite roads ownif
control, directly or Indirectly. 90 per cert
of the anthracite production of the country
and are engaged In the transportation C
practically all of the remainder on a basis
of 65 per cent of the. sales price to the mine
owner and 35 per cent to the railroad coir
pany. By any construction ot the statute,
officers of several of them said yesterday,
the companies must cease mining coal on
May 1 next or dispose of every Interest
direct or Indirect, which they have In coa"
mining or the wholesale or retail coal bus'
ness. According to the statute every shir
ment outside the state of Pennsylvania C
any coal in which a company has a direct
or Indirect Interest makes the company
liable to i0,000 or more In penalties In cae
a car of coal thus owned or controlled Is
shipped out of Pennsylvania.
Several of the attorneys ronsulted by the
executives of the anthracite roads, If net
all of them, contend that the provision Is
unconstitutional. The pertinent fact re
mains that there Is no provision In the lsw
whereby Its constitutionality can be teste!
without the risk of Incurring the rulnoi s
penalty In the period between bringing su't
and final adjudication. Accordingly one cf
the most Important matters now under dlp-
cussion Is whether or not railroad exe
cutives are Justified in shipping an ounce
of the anthracite coal produced by then!
in view of the possibility that the lar
might be upheld by the supreme court f
the United States and the railroads bank
rupted by penalties In the process of ad
judication. Plans for Sale.
Plans for the sale of the coal property a
have been under discussion since the h! I
was passed. One road, the Buffalo, Roches
ter A Pittsburg, seemingly solved tie
problem by the simple expedient of organi:
ing a separate company, turning over to t
the coal properties owned by the railroad
company and giving to every shareholder It
the railroad company shares of stock pr
rsta In the company to which was trani
ferred the coal properties. This plan wis
as easy as separating the money carried 'n
one pocket Into two pockets and It hea
long been believed thst a similar plat
would be adopted by the other coal roadv.
The plan was discussed at one of the recert
conferences between attorneys for the prin
clpacoal roads. It could not be adopter".
It was found, by most of them, the otheis
rejected It as Inadvisable.
"Nothing Is to be gained by any evasion
of the law," was the contention of
one of the most prominent attorneys li
the conference and one who represented 1
road with coal holdings free from mortgagf,
"In one section of the country and anoth.r
there has been too much technical evasion
of the law In the past. The only practicrlj
remedies now are repeal or modification
of the law. compliance with It at the cott I
of bankruptcy, Its overthrow by the higher j
vuuna or conservation or properties by
shutting down the mines except to such an
extent as may supply the coal needs tf
Pennsylvania."
segregatlan lntnoaslble.
Sale or segregation of the coal properties
owned by the Reading, the Erie, the Le
high Valley and, very likely, other roads
all over the country is Impossible for the
reason that these properties constitute part
oC the security under ta bond pt taaeo
railroads. The bondholders are scattered
all over the world and must bo paid before
the coal properties can bo released from
the mortgages. Up to the present there
has not been found a solitary lawyer, not
even a Philadelphia lawyer, who could de
vise a plan whereby this could bo accom
plished even If the railroads concerned
could raise money to redeem their bonds.
The bonds run for terms of years and In
most cases cannot bo redeemed or paid off
before maturity without the consent of all
the bondholders. Kntlrely apart from this
objection Is the well 1 known and Insur
mountable obstacle of money market con
ditions, which, ever since the rate law
was enacted, have effectually precluded
any proposition of this kind. ' '
The only practical flan that has been
discussed Is the organisation of a big cor
poration with a capitalization of at least
$1,000,000,000 to take over the properties
from the coal roads and persuade the bond
holders In these roads, If possible, to trans
fer their securities for securities of the
new company. Several months ago such a
proposition was seriously considered. It
was abandoned after thorough study for
the reason principally that it would mean
the organization of an actual and forma
Coal trust in which under prevailing con
ditions few investors, either here or abroad,
would care to take an Interest, The com
pany must perforce be a billion dollar cor
poration and in the opinion of . many of
the officers of the coal roads It Would, need
to be a two-bllllon-dollar - corporation In
order to represent fairly and actually the
value of the properties Involved. How
ever, as has been said, the "Coal , trust"
ldta alone brought about abandonment of
the proposition.
Coal Famine Possible.
None of the executives or other officers
of the coal roads, of course, wishes to see
a coal famine. A coal famine Is as dam
aging to coal mine owners and to the car
riers as It Is to the consumers. On the
other hand, none of them has the right to
Jeopardize the Interests of his stockholders
by keeplng ope the mines, carrying the
ccal and testing the law while running
a chance of a penalty of (5,000 a shipment.
None of them could well throw the prop
erty In his custody Into bankruptcy In or
der to release the mortgages given as col
lateral for bonds.
One of the most prominent and Influen
tial men In (he anthracite roads has sug
gested that the actual condition of affairs
be laid before the authorities in Washing
ton. Most of the directors of these roads,
of course, believe that the section pertain
ing to their business ought to be repealed
No such radical measure, however, Is likely
to be recommended. If anything is done
-in the way of a direct or Indirect appeal to
Jove It w'll simply be a request that the
penalty be suspended pending the adjudi
cation of the constitutionality of the stat
ute by the United States supreme court
and that the Interstate Commerce commis
sion be Instructed to bring the case before
the court of Ipst resort at the earliest pos
sible moment. Such an amendment would
permit settlement of the difficulty without
any further convulsion of business. New
York Sun.
t'alaeraeed Improving;.
WASHINGTON, Dec .-Representative
Calderhead of Kansas, who waa taken 11
with, an attack ef grift which, late da-
velopod Into pneumonia was reported to be
somewhat better today.
GUN MAN PASSED THE PLATE
Notorious Gambler Plays I'p and
Down the Aisle and Gathers
n Pile.
The old west, the: west of the period
when Indians roamed the plains and bad
men thronged the towns, each demanding
from the unwary what they thought was
their due In respect and contributions, has
long passed into history and that time
when every man regardful of his life car
ried a brace of six-shooters slung about
his hips exists only on the stage and In
the Imaginative mind of the novelist.
Stories of those days and of the hardy
people who laid the ' foundations for the
present great and productive country are
still read with Interest by the younger
generation, to whom they appeal as much
as do the tales of the romantic and chiv
alrous knights of old. So the following
yarn, told by one whose father aided In
a degree toward building up that section
and at the same time tried to instill into
the minds of the cowboys, miners and
settlers something of Christianity may
prove of interest.
Away back In the early days this gen
tleman,, who was a minister, arrived in a
little mining town, and as it was Sunday
he hit upon the scheme of holding services.
A small hall. Which at other periods re
sounded to the shuffle of cards and the
buzz of the roulette wheel, was secured,
and Into It on that Sunday afternoon there
thronged) a motely collection of gun-toting
westerners, some drawn there by curiosity
to hear what the parson would have to
say, and others, possibly, by a recollec
tion 1 of the time when back east It had
been their cub torn to gather at the little
church In their village or town.
Uninterrupted, the services went on, and
it la probable that never before had that
preacher a more attentive congregation.
Finally the time arrived for the collec
tion, and here the parson wavered, How
would these men relish giving up their
money for the church, and who would he
ask to pass the plate? Finally his eye set
tled on one fierce-looking individual who
throughout the sermon had paid the strict
est attention, and who had been pointed
out to the minister as one of the most
notorious gamblers and gun men In the
camp.
Looking straight at the walking armory,
the preacher said: "Brother Denver Jack
will now pass among you for the collec
tion." Now, Brother Jack had often faced
guns In the bands of bad men and never
had he been known to quail, but when
from among that outfit he was singled out
by the parson his courage left him and he
blushed; that Is, If a blush could arise
from beneath his tanned face.
Shuffling to his feet, the gambler picked
up his big sombrero from the floor and
started down the rows of boxes which
served as pews. The first man Into whose
face the hat was pushed fumbled In his
pockets for a time, and then, drawing forth
Ma hands, threw into the odd collection
plate a quarter. Right then Denver Jack's
natural Instinct asserted Itself, and, quick
as a flash, from Its holster at his side
cam liia big Colt .V and instead of the
i
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hat the miserly cowpuncher found himself
gazing down the barrel of an ugly-looking
revolver, while from the cavernous depths
of the gambler's chest there came the
words, much to the astonishment of the
preacher: "Come on, you; It costs a dol
lar to sit In this game with the sky pilot,"
and, persuaded by the sight of the gun,
the dollar was forthcoming. Turning and
addressing the rest of the outfit, he said:
"The same holds good for you all. The
parson holds the cards and it will cost the
bunch a dollar each to see his hand."
And a dollar It was, and when Dnver
Jack returned to the parson the sombrero
was overflowing with weighty silver dol
lars. Pittsburg Chronicle.
DOMINATION 0F THE RIGHT
A "Sinister Superstition" nnd Its Kf
feet Upon the Iloman
Mind.
It took a whole generation time of ex
periments and mechanics to learn that the
engineer must stand or sit on the right
side of his engine or tab in order that he
could look ahead with his right or domi
nant eye only, and without sticking his
entire head out, as he would have to do if
he sat or stood on the left side. The rail
road men never learned why this Is so, do
not know why today, and to make the de
sirable change In two American left pass
ing double track railroads, while it would
finally avoid expense and accidents, would
cost at once many millions of dollars.
Thousands of years ago knights and men
fighting on foot or horseback had to ap
proach and pass one another on the left
in order to strike or spear one another
with the right hand while the shield hand
held the shield or the reins. The railway
engineer, civil or locomotive, does not
know that the knight was his right-handed
and right-eyed progenitor and endower.
A flood of light is thrown upon history,
sociology, and medicine, especially upon
psychology, neurology and psychiatry, by
left-handedness and Its sequels. Of every
million born at least 30,000, probably more,
are naturally left-handed, so that in the
United States there are nearly 3,000,000 and
In the world more than 45.000,000, thus hand
icapped. An Indefinite proportion of these
have been or are being doubly cursed by
the efforts of the foolish parent or teachers
to make them right-handed. Sad sugges
tions and illustrations of the baleful re
sults of the work of these improvers of
nature exist In such simple facts as that
"right," which should mean only dextral
or right-handed, has come to mean good,
moral, advisable., and "left," or sinistral,
has become sinister, awkward, unlucky, to
be avoided, both person and thing. "Dex
terity" and "dextrousness," properly mean
ing only "dextrallty," have become synony
mous with expertness and exceptional pro
fleleicy, whereas everybody knows that the
left-handed person. If purely so. is as cun
ning of hand as the right-handed. Even
the superstition of the "evil eye" the non
dominant one teaches the same lesson. In
all ages, and now surely, there are every
where strange and unaccountable cases of
"failure In life," "peculiar," "odd," "awk
ward" folk, cranks of a hundred types,
mlHtlta, stutterers, and all thst. What a
light the misplacement of the cerebral
center for speech and writing, or Its per
nicious double, (lacing aud maleduotkio
and crippling by "ambldextrallsts," throws
upon the origin and fate of many stutter
ers, and upon many of the "hopelessly
stupid," the laggards In school! How many
of the medieval, court Jesters nnd the de
rided, the town fools, the kyphotlcs and
cripples were the products of the "sinister"
superstition of the right-handed tyrants?
And how many of the morbid minded and
insane? Medical Retford.
GROWTH OF LABOR UNIONS
Beajan More Than n Century Ago,
When the New York Shlj
Wrights Ora-anlsed.
The shipwrights formed a society In New
York City In 18tfl, and the tailors and a'?o
tho carpenters did this In 1808 In the same
town. This may be said to have been the
beginning of labor unionism In the United
States. '
In the next four or five decades organiza
tions were established In most of the great
Industries, some of which lasted only a
few years. Many of these gradually be
came national.
The printers were the first craft of any
consequence to extend their organization all
over the country. They established the
National Typographical union In 1K2. So
as to take In Canada they established the
International Typographical union In 186J.
being the leader also In this broader field.
The formation of great corporations and
the Immense expansion In Industry which
began -soon after the civil war Incited
larger labor combinations than had ex
isted prior to that time. Some of these
formed the National Labor union, estab
lished at a convention in Baltimore In 1S66,
which entered politic" 'n 18's y nominat
ing the labor reform ticket, putting Charles
O'Conor up for president.
Its votes were few, and It attracted no
general attention In the campaign. That
broke up the combination, and labor so
cieties, as societies, kept out of politics for
the next few years. As societies their most
extensive participation In politics was in
the congressional campaign of 1906.
Starting as a local secret society In Phila
delphia in 1W9 and holding Its first -general
assembly In 1878 the Knights of Labor was
the earliest society which aimed to gather
all the workers of all trades into a single
organization. It had 600,000 members in
1888, with Terence V. Powderly as the head.
Then began Its decline and fall. Its strike
on the Gould system of railways In St.
touts and the southwest In 1885 it won, but
the larger strike In 1888 on the same road
It lost.
From that time onward It gradually
shrunk In Importance. Today It Is only a
shadow of Its former greatness.
The American Federation of Labor r"se
ss the Knights of Labor fell. At a conven
tion in Columbus, Ohio, In 1888 tho Ameri
can Federation of Labor was formed and
It has gradually absorbed nine-tenths of all
the labor organizations of the United
States. In It the several crafts retain their
autonomy, but are federal for purposes of
co-operation.
In 1507 the American Federation of Labor
comprises lit national and international
unions and claims to have 2,000.0110 mem.
bers. The affiliated unions publish 2t.
weekly or monthly papers devoted to the
cause of labor
The federation' head Is Samuel flora.
pers and Its organ, of which he Is the edi
tor. Is tho American Federatlonlst.
Outside of the American Federation are
about fifteen labor organizations, the most
Important of which are tho Knights of
Labor, the Stone Masons' International
union, tho Bricklayers' and Masons' union
and the various switchmen, trainmen, con
ductors and others.
The sociotles not affiliated with the
American Federation of Iahor have ' a
membership of about 600,000, making trie
membership of all the labor societies of
the United States, in the aggregate, about
2,500,000.
PROFITS OF TIMBER CULTURE
Reforestation Intelligently Carried on
Shown to Re n Profitable '
In vest men I,
Tho AtchlBont Topeka & Santa Fe rail
road ha acquired a ranch In California,
10,0(10 acre a in area, on which It purposes
to grow timber for cross-ties. Rucalyptus
trees will be planted on 7,000 acres, and 3.000
acres will be devoted to experiments In
timber culture, the results of which are to
he minie known to all the land owners of
the slate. ,
Timber culture ought to be a leading
industry In our country. By vandal wasl
the finest forests of the continent hsve been
destroyed In the great valley ot tho Mis
sissippi, as woll as on tho Atlantic sea
board. To conserve the forests that re
main Is to preserve the fertility of the soil
and restrain placid brooks from becoming
roaring torrents. ,
But to the real philosopher the restoring
of the soil by means of timber culture is
sweetest pleasure. The political doctrinaire
takes delight In patching and half soling
and polishing political politics; but this
gentleman Is handicapped, in that he has
not dominion over the thing he is mending;
but your agricultural doctrinaire Is mon
arch of all he surveys. He plants and he
waters; he reaps or he piiHlurcs. This year
the ground Is nursed In legume, clover, pea,
or alfalfa. Then comes rotation, and In
a kindred but coarser sentiment the farmer
sees his soil Improve as the mother dotes
on the growing strength of her first bom.
There Is a farm In the Ohio valley,
cleared of a magnificent forest of giant
trees near forty years ago. It was planted
to corn and tobacco alternate years for a
quarter of a century, until it became, a
barren waste; without soil, tnd scarred all
over with gullies, down which the waters
rushed In torrents after every rain.
An agricultural philosopher bought It at
less than tl per acre. He stopped the
gullies with, brush, undergrowth of a near
by forest. He made humus on tho land
with leaves from the same forest and muck
from a near-by creek, mixed with limn
burned on the place. Then ha planted It
with black locust, 2.000 trees to the acre,
and a black walnut here and there. In five
years the ground was a bluegrass sod, on
which sheep or calves waxed fat.
Tho posts brought him more thsn $100
per acre, and the purchaser cut every one.
Today that land Is worth 1100 an arro. ami
could not be bought for half as much again.
There are mighty possibilities In Ameri
can agriculture, especially the timber phase
of It. Washington Pot.
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