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TREES.
JMMENSE FORESTS THAT HAVE TURN
ED TO STONE.
In Insight Into the Mighty Operation* of
Nature—tine of the Many Wonders- of
the Great YelZowatone Nation
FomII Forest Kidfe. ^ .
-The Yellpwstone Natiohiuj
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A SWEET ELEPHANT.
.THE WAYCROSS HERALD, SATURDAY, AUG; 3, 1895,
z&lled the wonderland of Aricrlrn; rifid
since the destruction of t!yj »Ne\C'»i»-
land geyser area it i* perhaps entitled
to be called the wonderland of the
world, for within' its limits the m*.*t
varied of nature's working* may be ob
served. Its hundreds of hot spring.* and
geysers, its precipitous canyons mid rush
ing cataracts, its snowcapped mountain
peaks and mirrored lakes make it of
surpassing interest. The lover of uat
oral scenery may linger long over its
beauties and its wonders. • ■
From the geological point of view it
is also of great interest, for here may
lx- found rocks that range in age from
the most ancient of wliich we have any
knowledge to those in process of forma
tion at the present moment. The su
perheated waters of the hot springs and
geysers holds a large amount of fock-
making material in solution, wliich is
deposited about the openings of the
springs on the cooling of the waters, and
in this way building u^ii mass of great
magnitude. These springs and geysers
are constantly hre;udog out in new
places, often on the borders or in the
forests of living trees. The trees are
killed at once by the hot'Vater, and'on
becoming withered and dry begin soon
to take up the rockmaking solution by
which they are bathed, and thus to pass
into the fossil stafie.^*' *y> '
Conditions similar to these, or at least
favorable to the preservation of fossil
forests, appear to have existed from a
remote time, for-there is evidence to
show--that the fossil forests were -pre
served before the most active <4 the hot
spring phenomena were inaugurated.
These fossil forests sire located in the
northeastern corner of the Yellowstone
National park, at si place known locally
as Amethyst, mountain, or Fossil Forest
ridge. This is really a mountain some
ten miles long and ritVAguealry or quite
2,<>00 U < t above the general level of the
. valley. Jf it tferv possib’.q to cur sec
tion down through this mountain, as a
slice is cut from si liiaf of bread, there
would be found si succession of at least
15 fossil forests, one above another—
thsit is to say, at some remote dsiy, geo
logically speaking, there grew a gresit
forest, which was covered up by tho
ejected material from a great volcano,
rivaling in size Mount Etna, that is
known to have existed some miles to
the north. The trees were entombed in
an upright position, and under the ac
tion of silica charged waters were fossil
ized. Tho action of the volcano ceased, I
and quit t was restored for a sufficient
length of time for a second forest to be
developed above the first. Then came a
second outburst from the volcano, and I
this forest was buried and fossilized like !
the first, and so, in turn, have the dozen j
or more forests flourished and been en
gulfed.
Then came the final quiet, tho rum
bling of the volcano ceased, and its fires
were extinguished. But immediately
the action of the elements began, and
the wearing forces of rain and frost, act
ing through long ages, have carved out
this mountain, in the heart of which
may be read the story of Its origin. This
denudation appears to have been tuiac-
Bov to Get Rid of S5.000.000 Gallons of
Molasses—A Solution of tho Difficulty.
There are 25,000,000 gallops of mo
lasses stored in tanks on the various
sugar plantations throughout Louisiana
that is an elephant on the sngar plum
pers’ hands. They do not know what to
"7 do with it. They cannot sell it, for Shy
* profit In sight by'its sale won Id'be edben
np in transportation. Besides it would
require a cool $500,000 to barrel it.
The- question of what disposition to
make of this molasses is a knotty one to
the sngar planters, and at the lost two
meetings of their association uo other
subject has been discussed. The planters
say that it la a problem that has to be
solved, for before the next crop is taken
off this surplus molasses has to be got
rid of in order to make room for the
new crop.—New Orleans Tixnes-Demo-
crat.
Perhaps the oddest pavement ever laid
is one just completed at Chino, CaL It
is made mostly of molasses, and if it
proves all of the success claimed for it
it may point a way for the sngar plant
ers of the south to profitably dispose of
the millions of gallons of useless mo
lasses which they are said to have on
hand. 1
The head chemist of a sugaT factory
at Chino, Mr. E. Turke, was led to make
certain experiments, of which the new
sidewalk, a thousand feet long from the
factory to the main street, is the result.
The molasses used is a refuse product
hitherto believed to be of no value. It
is simply mixed with a certain kind of
sand to about the consistency of asphalt
and laid like an asphalt pavement. The
composition dries quickly and becomes
quite hard and remains sa Thoipeculiar
point of it is that the sun onl^ makes it
drier and harder instead of softening it,
us might be expected.
A block of tho composition, two feet
long, a foot wide, and an inch, thick,
was submitted to severe tests apd stood
them well. Laid with an inch or so of
its edges only resting on supports, it
withstood repeated blows of a machine
hummer without showing any effects of
cruckiug or bending.—New York Sun.
GOV. GREENHALGE A POET. ' STORiES OF THE DAY.
B* Gets tU Place of Honor In the Poetry
Corner of S Teachers’ Animal.
The present governor of Massachusetts
is a poet. He has long been known as a
successful lawyer, au astute politician
and a fair congressman. That he had
the literary bee in his bonnet, however,
nobody dreamed until he'came out over
his own signature a few days ago and
acknowledged the fact.
His native city of Lowell is the cen
ter of an association known as the
Schoolteachers’ guild, and once a year
the association lets loose a sheet called
the Lowell Guild Courier. The teachers
have been in the habit cf depositing
6tray verses in the poetry corner of this
journal and covering them up with quo
tations from Shakespeare, Longfellow,
Holmes, Tennyson, Shelley and others
too numerous to mention. This year the
same general rule prevailed, but the
name of Frederic T. Gieeuhalge led all
the rest. He lays claim to tlie follow
ing:
As naiads l
To the cU
So, love, tfc
With all e
IN A DIARY,
bilip m a crystal rill
waters lend a clearer plory,
Some Late and Pertinent Additions to the
Slug Dictionary.
Thanks to most able collaboration we
have been amply supplied with a rich
fund of material from which to select
the present addition to its inyaluable re
pository of phrases “caught in passing. ”
Dream.—Something desirable beyond
all description. “No doubt about it,
and on this I will stake my reputation,
Defender is ‘a dream. ’ ”—Nat Herre-
shoff. “She was a ‘vision’ of delight. ”—
Wordsworth.
Dirt.—The reshuffled discard in the
national game of poker. “I believe that
any man who’d seek a third term for
the presidency would ‘monkey’with the
‘dirt.’ ”—G. C. (dated Buzzards Bay).
Growler.—Any vessel used to convey
beer from a saloon to a residence
(N. B.—This word is often used as
synonymous with “duck.” The two
are carefully to be distinguished. A
“duck” is always concealed in a carpet
bag, top hat or basket.)
Darkened Is the Sunday doorway.
A Head of All
New Goods and New Styles
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of lu
wling \
«-bud June breathes fragrance through
the
id cheers a little grim Decernber’s gloom
Thy life shines roselike in Time’s pathway-
drear
And gladdens troubled hearts with its soft
FOR A NEGRO TOWN.
sehexnt
foot betwei
From one eweet fault, dear girl, thou art i
free:
a sinner is that single
The precious lave that cheers my iifo makes
th«
A truer woman—and, so, less a saint.
Frederic T. CM-fienhalge.
At first the teachers w£re in the sev
enth heaven of delight. It was a great
card for them to have the -governor as
a contributor, and it was not until some
of the more critical began dissecting the
poem that the little offering of the chief
magistrate of the state seemed less than
perfect. Some thought the minds of
as thy
' ‘duck
-Ballade of Better Days.
Curves, to get on to.—To solve any
one’s motives or line of action. “ l did
not see how they could escape, for 1
‘wasn’t on to their curves.’ ”—Land
lord Tamsen of the Ludlow Street Hos-
telrie.
High Hat.—An unusually large glass
of whisky. (Not to be confounded with
“high collar.” which is a term applied
to the unnecessary amount of foam
found on Coney Island beer.) ‘‘Among
those who’ ’last Sunday abandoned the
‘high hats’ of the city and quaffed the
‘high collars’ by old ocean were-Cherry
Hill Katie, 1 Reddy the Rogue. Tony the
Rat, Morty McTliird and Micky Me-
Phin. ’’—Society’ Note.
Pal.—Companion, associate, friend.
Syn., “Pardy,” “traveling mate,”
chum.” 1 “I have 400 visaing cards,
W ayerossClothing S tore
ZZT iTHE^ LEADING CLOTHIERS-
Successsors to IFranls. C. Owens
youth might be contaminated by the j au(l [ am billing to use every one ot
references to bathing naiads. Others ; them in calling on big folks with Wales,
1 m - v ‘pal-”’—From “A Peach Abroad.”
* * u ~ * 41 Pencil Pusher.—An author, or uews-
ed the
ally ccn
of objoe
sentime
ed from
more •
than
aiued in a rill. Another group
i ook umbrage at tho moral
i f the last stanza and dissent-
ihe governor’s argument that a
lead
truer woman is less a saint.
The Democrats are satisfied with the j
poem. They —111 n<e it in the next cam- !
paigu. —N. . i.. jiz Sun.
< Cit;
; to select ;
.e on one ot
the railroads within ten miles of Kansas
City, lay off a city and populate it with
colored people who may desire to buy
homes for themselves. The object is to
afford a chance to the negro of living on
his own land in preference to paying
rentals. Such wealthy colored men as
T. J. Grove of Edwardsville, Kan., and
Charles Ewing of Loriug, Kan., will be
invited to invest their money for the
benefit of the race.
The scheme is to purchase 800 acres
of laud in a body at prices ranging from
$20 to $40 an acre. It is intended to set
apart laud for public buildiugs, park and
cemetery,the remainder to be sold for $25
per let of one-half acre each. The busi
ness portion of the town will be divided
into lots 25 by 1G0 feet. Subscriptions
will be solicited from all over the south.
After the town is platted arrange
ments will be made for £heap rates be
tween the new city and Kansas City
and the workmen who move their fam
ilies to their new homes can get to thei;
daily labor, in Kansas City and get back
to tjieir homes every night at a rate as
cheap as cpr fare. The projectors of the
A NOVEL BRIDGE
f I K-bemeintend topnt 800 families
nr,. th®‘ new town to start with, and Whim
building, and consequently when the
softer material is .’froth J away.~ from
wound the trunks they stmidufaright in
the exact positions in which they grew
originally.
4, Tho tUt forest to be visited is in
the vicinity of Yancey’s, a stage station j
on the mail route from tho Mammoth I
Efct Spriugs to Cooke.City, Mon. It is 1
about a mile west of the junction of the J
Lamar river and the Yellowstone, and
on the middle slope of a low hill. As I
one approaches the locality, several i
trunks are observed standing on the hill- j
which at a distance seem quite like
"the stumps of living trees, and even a
nearer approach barely suffices to reveal
their true nature, as they are covered
with lichens and blackened and discol
ored by frost and rain. They are, how
ever, veritable fossil trunks, standing
upright on the steep hillside, in the
same positions in which they grew. The
largest trunk is 13*^ feet in circumfer
ence and about 15 feet in height. It is
considerably weathered and must have
been much larger when living, for the
hark Is in no place preserved. The oth
ers—and there are dozens of them—are
•lightly smaller, and have been weath
ered down until, in most cases, only a
few inches can be seen above the sur
face. So perfectly are they preserved
that each stump shows the annual rings
as distinctly visible as in a freshly cut
living tree, and even each tiny cell, with
its fine and delicate markings, is abso
lutely perfect.
The next forest is some 10 or 12 miles
distant, along the Lamar river, on the
•oath side of which faces the Fossil For
est ridge. In some places perpendicular
cliffs many feet in height may be seen.
These cliffs have worn away, leaving ex
posed huge trees, which may be observed
from a distance of a mile or more from
the valley, standing out in relief,
as it has been aptly said, “like the pil
lars of some ancient temple.” A closer
view shows these trees to be from 4 to
6 feet in diameter, and often 20 or 80
feet high, with their great roots run
ning off into the solid rock. A great
niche in the face of the wall marks the
place from which one of these trunks
has fallen. Borne of the remaining ones
appear just ready to fall, while others
project but little beyond the face—show
ing that the mountain is filled with the
remains of these trees.—Epoch.
>yothers outside capital
add industries stoned.
Sis Months’ Fatalities at Sea.
The latest marine horror is the sink
ing of tho Italian steamer Maria P. in
tho harbor of Genoa, involving thf* loss
of 148 lives. The present year is likely
to have on unusual record of great ma
rine disaster, as will be seen by the fol
lowing list of wtcA.-J steamers thus
far:
T*ort Nictheroy, Rio Janeiro harbor,
120; Nordsee, North sea, 25 j Intria
hull, English coast, 26; Prescott, al 6ea,
23; Chicora, Lake Michigan, 26; Elbe,
North sea, 382; Terciera, Rio Janeiro
harbor. 100; Kingdon, at sea, 40; Reia
Regeute, Algerian coast, 425; Marie,
English coast, 20; Billiton, at sea, 20;
Graviua, at sea, 168; Dom Pedro, Span
ish coast, 103; Colima, Mexican coast,
188; Washtenaw, at sea, 80; Maria P.,
gulf of Genoa, 148.—Chicago Tribune.
Gr-vRy Will :i- !r. Transferrin- Pr.s-
Dura; -lie Paris Exposition.
It may be worth while to call atten
tion to an idea in tnuisflnvial transpor
tation which has been adopted in France
and is to b.: put in operation for the
first time in connection with the com
ing Paris exposition to be held on both
sides of the Peine.
While there are many bridges cross
ing the Seine in the exposition grounds
the visitor to the exposition will not be
compelled to resort to this dull and pro
saic method of crossing. Between the
Eiffel tower on one side of the river and
the hill of the Trocadero on tho other
side there will be rigged np a set of ca
bles designed as an improvement on the
well known c;ish carrier system in use
in all our leading retail stores. The
traveling baskets will carry passengers
instead of packages and cash tubes. The
basket load of passengers Will be shot
up to au elevation which will permit
them to descend to the other side of the
river merely by the force of gravity.
Thus will they not only enjoy a pleas
ant ride, bat also illustrate one of the
most beautiful laws of physics.
It does not speak well for our inven
tiveness that France should be the first
12 utjliz« jiovel improvement.—
paper man. “I am a ‘pencil pusher’
and my digital muscles are highly de
veloped. ”—R. Harding Van Bibber in |
“An Open Confession Is Good For My 1
Sales. ”
Dough.—Money. Syn., “long green, ” j
“frog skin," “oof. ”
i 4 Let me make the ‘dough’ of the j
! country. I'll care for who make the I
1 laws.”—John D. Rockefeller.
| Tire, to lose one’s.—To be mentally
[ unbalanced or incapacitated. (The figi-
j ure is taken-from “biking.”) Syn.,
4 ‘ nutty, ” “woozy. ’’
. “It seems to me that every lawyer I
! employ‘loses his tire. ’ ”—Hetty Green.
| Sight, out of.—Superlatively excel-
] lent. Syn., 1 * very superior, ” “ way np. * ’
i (Perhaps a corruption of the German
| ausgezeichnet.) “if anybody should ask
( you my opinion of myself, either as a
| gentleman, an actor or a fighter, you
To Buy-Goods Right
Where TheyHave
est
Stock,
Variety,
Business.
New York ^or^d.
Boston’s Great Project.
Boston proposes to have a hotel that
will rival in magnificence and size any
structure of the kind in the United
States. The lot will contain 150,000
feet, and tbs building will be 500 feet
long, 285 feet deep and 11 stories high.
The plans provide for three pavilions
separated by courtyards 70 feet wide.
There will be 2,250 guestrooms, 21 ele
vators, a grand ballroom, banquet halls
and parlors.
The estimated cost of such a building
is $3,500,000, and the fact that so large
an amount can be raised for such a pur
pose is a splendid proof of prosperity
and good times.
The Editor’s Word For It.
Owing to increased household dnties
in consequence of the arrival of a new
boy, adcied’to the Fourth of July cele
bration, The* Herald dges got get out
until Saturday evening. Our readers
are assured that these incidents do not
happen every week, and we will endeav
or to be on time in future.—Chelan
Herald.
- with
She’s Strictly In It.
Minnesota, which was once consider
ed outside the corn belt, reports this
year 1,252,000 acres planted to com, or
200,000 more than last year. The crop
is in a finer condition than ever before.
A grand plaut is the maize, and the
boom it promises means hundreds of
millions.—St. Louis Globe-Democrat
out of
Sullivan in “What I
ps and Champions. ”
ug very estimable
Ludatory expression
equal force to any-
thing. bvu a baseball player to a pos
sible presidential candidate. Syn.,
“Lally cooler,” “bird,” “daisy” (obs.)
“There is only one ‘peach’ in America,
find I am it.”—From “Harmony or
Hominy,” py au Anonymous Author.
(N. Y., 18f)5.)
Finger, to give the.—To request that
a bill be charged. Syn., “to hang up,”
“to put on the slate. ” “I have lived in
many lands and known many men, but
I hay§ uevfcr yet had occasion to ‘give
Sie finger.’ ”—Thomas Ochiltree in
“L’Art de Vivre. ”
Glad hand, to give the.—To greet
effusively, with the expectation of re
ceiving favors either bibulous, mone
tary or hospitable. *‘I gave every re
former the ‘glad hand, ’ and all I got
was the ‘marble heart. ’ ”—Ollie Teall’s
‘ ‘ Mr. Whisker. ’ ’ (See * ‘ Marble Heart. ’ ’)
Heart, marble.—A refusal to aid one’s
fellow man.
Kelly, John.—In pool, the green balL
String, to.—To trifle with truth in
such a way as to deceive. Also to make
game of. Syn., “to jolly,” “to guy”
(old English and straight American, to
lie.) “He strings me to the top of my
bent.”—The New Woman’s “Ham
let,” Edited by Elizabeth Cady Stanton.
—New York Recorder.
GRACE Co
FILL THE BILL
B;ij Mi tones ai Sips.
Altefermentine,
The Bowles Boy.
Who should come up the rood one
But the doctor man in his two wheeled shay,
Ami he whoa’d his horse, and he cried “Ahoy,
I have brought you folk* a bowleg boy!
Such a cute little boy!
Such a funny little boy!
Such a dear little bowleg boy!”
A Pauper For Ninety Years.
Pbebe Walton, who was 90 years of
age, died at the Backs County poorhouse
recently. All of her long life, with the
exception of five weeks, was spent in
the poorhouse, where she died. She was
well known to almost every person in
Bucks county.—Philadelphia Record.
What a dear little bowleg boy!’’
Observing a strict geometrical law.
They cut his panti*« vritU a circular saw.
Which gave *uch a stress to his oval stride
That the people he met invariably cried:
“What a cute little boy!
What a funny little boy!
What a dear little bowleg bpy!”
A New Factor la Politics.
Secretary Olney’s new tennis blazer
is so aggressive in its hues as to lend
color to the report that he is for a vig
orous national policy.—Chicago Record.
Bwton'i Horrible Awakening.
“Table board” in Commonwealth
•TOmel l>tbJj th* beginning of the j Dirp-tti'
end?—Boston Herald.
A correspondent wants to know
“whether soda water is s better dv uk
than ice water in summer. ” Well, wv
They gave him a wheel, and away he went.
Speeding along to his heart’s content, .
AnA he sits so straight, and he pedals so strong
That the folks all say aa be bowls along:
“What a cute little boy!
What a funny little hoy!
What a dear little bowleg boy!”
Arwi the world is filled and thrilled with the
Of that jolly little human, the bowleg boy—
The cute little boy!
The funny little boy!
The dear little bowleg boy!
The Result of Not Advertising.
The Boston Traveller says that a few
weeks ago a Maine young man bought a
pair of socks containing a note saying
the writer was an employee of the Ken
osha (Wis.) knitting works and wanted
a good husband. She gave her name and
requested the buyer, if an unmarried
man, to write with a view to matri
mony.
The young man who found the note
considered the matter in all its phases
And decided to write to the girL He
did. Awaiting the answer with consid
erable anxiety, he was at last rewarded
with a curt letter stating that the girl
was now the mother of two children
and had been married four years, and
the letter he had answered had been
written ever so long ago.
It was a “sock dollager,” and the
young man hunted for a solution. He
found it. The merchant of whom he
bought the socks doesn’t advertise.
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Fruit, Cider, Milk, Butter, Tomatoes, Catsup and Pickles.
Its use does away with labar, is profitable and
economical. For cider it is unsurpassed. Stops
formentation. It is not injurous, as it has
been tested by the most emenent chemists.
FOLl LINE OF C0L6HTES SORPS H H.
Perfumery, the Choice Selection of the
Best Perfumers always on Hand.
Casli Drug Store,
\ S. PAINE, Manager. Next dooi to Bank of Wrycross.
Geo ^
OWENSIBIiOCE, Waycross,lGa.
DIAMONDS, ♦ WATCHES,
FINE JSW6LRY, StO.
=^R '
Si-=p=:
Paid His Subscription With u Rattlesnake.
Rural newspaper subscribers frequent
ly offer to pay their subscriptions with
stove wood, produce and other farm
products, but it remained for George
Lucas of Henryville to send. - Editor
Daily of the Jeffersonville News a rat
tlesnake in settlement of his arrears.
Mr. Daily values the reptile at $5. It
has ten rattles. —Cincinnati Enquirer.
Clot
If ever tbo doctor man cornea my way | Among the slang terms used in com-
Witt hu wcoderfal bo» to tu. t.o „„ tfa, Horr-Harrey debate are
IH oak for tha twsiaw I d ram pomicsa l ... . , . ....
sSJThoe~tI»Ja»! Qui-tyoop—? | "month mdnirtry." gabfett” and “jaw-
VThy, a cuto little boy— • j smiths. ” Nothing beats American slang
▲ fuany little bov- i for accurate description.—Waterbary
A d*«r little howlec hoy! j . • r
—Eugene Field in Chicago Record. [ American.
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on terms to suit the times. V
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