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A Dog Sentry.
Out on Southport avenue there is a
dog which mounts guard as regularly
as most people eat their meals. He
Is a black dog, with the marks of a
Scotch terrier. He is no longer young,
as his gray beard shows, but he makes
up in vigilance what he may lack in
activity. Ho sits in the sentry box in
the corner of the yard, and with loud
barkings warns off all intruders.
That sentry box is of itself a pe-
culiar thing. In one corner of the
front yard about ten feet from the
gate a platform has been erected The t»o
w oi to is u Deyond , the .. surface . of the street
and entrance to tho yard is accom-
plished by descending a short flight of
Ilirm epS P^ a *-f° .____. rm extends . .. up
-
t to within ,.,. a foot of the top of the fence,
which is of heavy boards, and of the
closed variety. The fence about the
P .orm . surmounted . , by , of .
is a row
spikes. These extend along tho front
and side fences, making the whole re-
semble a sentry box with a spiked top.
As soon as the aay s work com-
mences the terrier makes the rounds
of the premises. He looks into the
b„rn 1. tho rear. H. crawl, u„a,r «>,
house and drives out strange cats, &c.
Having satisfied himself that all is
sale, he f gravely proceeds to the front '
yard and , hops up on that ^ platform. ,
There he sits erect, his head and
shoulders appearing above the spikes.
Ho He is a „ ..w.- sober and reliable soldier.
btrange dogs pass by and challenge
him to battle. He glances down at
them in high disdain and returns no
________. response to their ,, . jeers. , _ T He T is • on duty , .
and is not to be seduced therefrom,
But let a stranger attempt to enter
the gate and he is all changed. Towser
flies into rage and „ , action .. at . the .. same
time. He drops from his' perch and
attacks the stranger with teeth and
voice voice, If it a a member memDer of 01 tno the ramliy familv
passes his beat he wags ais tail and :
receives the countersign, but does not :
leave his seat. In fact, he is a well
behaved sentry who is always on duty
and who takes a pride in duty well
done.—San Francisco Chronicle.
Egotistical Weakness.
“Have a care, oh, my daughter,”
saith the wise woman, “how thou tak-
est man at his word, when he speaketh
concerning himself. He glories in his
strength and vauntetk it before bis
fellows, and most of all before thee,
but be would be handled as a frail
piece of bric-a-brac.”
Invitations Necessary.
“Opportunities,” said Uncle Eben,
“is pretty sho’ ter come to ebry man.
But it’s a mighty good idee, jes’de
same, foh him ter hustle roun’ an’
send out a few invitations.”—Wash¬
ington Star.
The Pursuit of Happiness.
When the Declaration of Independence as¬
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immortal truth. The bilious sufferer is on
the road to happiness when ho begins to take
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The Archbishop of Canterbury talks of
resigning. In view of the fact that he gets a
salary of about $50,000 a year, many understand patriotic
Americans will find it difficult to
how the idea of quitting entered his head.
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The controversy as to whether Adam or
George Washington was the first man may
be decided in favor of Washington if it
turns out that Adam was a Chinaman.
Chew Star Tobacco—The Best.
Smoke Sledge Cigarettes.
The sun shines for all, but the sleeping car
porter docs it for a quarter.
There is more Catarrh in this section of the
country than all other diseases put together,
and until the last few years was supposed to
be incurable. For local a great disease many and years prescribed doctors
local pronounced remedies, it a and by constantly failing to
cure with local treatment, pronounced catarrh it in-
curable. Science has proved to be a
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ENTHUSIASM. |
SERMON BY A. ti. CASS.VU1), CHAP-’,
LAIN AT FORTRESS MONROE.
Tlic Fourth of the New York Herald’s
Competitive Sermons Is on “Enthus¬
iasm,” and the Author is William G.
Cassard, Chaplain at Fortress Monroe.
Text: “Whatsoever thy hand flndoth to
do, do it with thy might.”—Eeoles., ix., 10 .
Solomon in this text gives us one very
essential plank In the platform of success.
“ '» ”°‘ 0B0H « l1 tlmt ??» ho » ldflmi '! ork ;
but to this must be , added the quality of
lntenso enthusiasm lu its performance,
Enthusiasm is at once the proof of sin-
oerit Y and the adVftnoe guard of victory.
There aro two ways of working—as a hlre-
ji n g nn( j aa au enthusiast. The hireling
gets through with his work and is glad
be is done. 80 is his employ er. The en-
thusiast does his work finds happiness and
profit and further and more remunerative
employment. I sat at my window watch-
ing a boy shoveling coal into the cellar,
Hi 9 steps were toilsome and slow, his coun-
“^ 0 ^ almos? ^.“W^ew'S:
dow to escape a painful sight,
An hour later I crossed a nearby vacant
lot and fo,md the street S amin » a K a ge d in
with lordly mien and seized the bat, eager
for the fray. How ho did bang the ball!
How he did run tbe bases! 1 was quite as-
tounded to discover in Jones, the hero of
the ball Acid, my erstwhile martyr of the
coal pile! At putting playing away baseball coal ho ho was a
dismal failure; at was
first ohoioe on a scrub nine. At tho one he
was tho uireUng , a t the other the enthusi-
ast. The conqueror, the discoverer, the
inventor, the great loader of men have all
been enthusiasts. They have blazed the
pathway of triumph along the march of
age3 am j me diocrity has gleaned after
them.
Enthusiasm is not permitted to work in
isolation, but begets enthusiasm, compels
a hearing, secures a constituency. A one-
armed newsboy in Baltimore is an cen¬
thusiastic paper seller. Ho has the first
morning edition and the last ovoning
“extra.” Workmen hurrying to their
vork Bape rs as they return hU cheery,
business-like greeting, while the tired mer-
chant on his homeward way nt evening is a
willing investor in the wares of this en-
ie^pTelge^t^futureTuc"ess! opportunity
Men do not need so much as
opportunity needs men. An enthusiastic
quest will discover countless opportuni¬
ties. This continent ‘waited through un¬
known centuries for’’Columbus. A mate¬
rial world with resources little more than
dreamed of awaits the coming of countless
enthusiastic searchers, who will pre-empt
their rich claims. The spiritual world
aw’aits the coming of the enthusiastic
church. The Divineteaclierbas shown the
way. A life of righteousness, faith and sac¬
rifice will win victories and receive a crown.
There is one point at which we must
watch. Enthusiasm must not be con¬
founded with the mero effervescence of
spirit aroused by 0 passing all novelty. Some
really brilliant men waste their energies
in running after some new thing only to
lose interest when the newness is gone.
True enthusiasm is a great purpose per¬
sistently, earnestly and intelligently ad¬
hered to, and as such has been and will
continue to be a conquering force in what¬
ever field Us activities may be employed.
William G. Cassabd,
Chaplain U. S. Navy, Fortress Monroe, Ya.
GRANDEURS OF THE FROST.
Dr. Talmage Discourses of the Winters of
the Bible.
Text: “By tho breath of God frost is
given.”—Job xxxvii., 10.
Nothing is more embarrassing to an
organist or pianist instrument than to put and his have finger
on a key of the it
make no response. Though all the other
keys are in full play, that one silence de¬
stroys the music. So in tho great cathe¬
dral of nature if one part fails to praise
the Lord tho harmony is halted and lost.
While fire and hail, snow and vapor re¬
spond to the touch of inspiration, if the
frost made no utterance the orchestral
rendering would be hopelessly damaged
and the harmony forever incomplete. I
am more than glad that I can tell that the
white key of the frost sounds forth as
mightily ns any of the other keys, and
when David touches it in the Psalms it
sounds, forth the words: “He scattereth
the hoar frost like ashes,” and when Job
touches it in nay text, it resounds with the
words: “By tho breath of God frost is
j given.”
In this course of Sabbath morning ser-
: mons on “God Everywhere” I have already
addressed you on tho astronomy of tlie
Bible; or, God among the stars; the con-
j etiology of the Bible; or, God among the
shells; the ornithology of the Bible; or,
God among the birds; tho pomology of the
Bible; or, God among tbe orchards; and to¬
day I speak to you of tho winters of tho
Bible; or, God among tho frosts,
Ag j±o 0Tie seems disposed to discuss the
mission of frost, depending upon Divine
help, I undertake it. This is the first
Sabbath of winter. The leaves are down.
The warmth has gone out of tho air. Tho
birds liavo mado their winged march
southward. Tho landscape has been
scarred by tho autumnal equinox. The
buskers have rifled tho corn shocks. The
night sky has-shown tho usual meteoric
restlessness of November. Three seasons
of tho year aro past, and, the fourth and
last has entered. Another element now
comes in to bless and adorn and instruct
the world. It is the frost. The palaces of
this King are far up in the arctic. Their
walls are glittering congelation. Windsor
Castles and Tuileries and Winter Palaces
and Kenilworths and Alhambras of ice.
Temples with pendant chandeliers of ice.
Thrones of iceberg, on which eternal si¬
lence reigns. Theatres on wboso stage
eternal cold dramatizes eternal winter.
Pillars of ice. Arches of ice. Crowns of
ice. Chariots of ice. Sepulchres of ice.
Mountains of ice. Dominions of ice. Eter¬
nal frigidity. From these hard, white, bur¬
nished portals King Frost descends and
waves his silvery scepter over our temper¬ heel
ate zone. You will soon hear liis on
tho skating pond. You already feel his
breath in tho night wind. By most con¬
sidered an enemy coming here to benumb
and hinder and slay, 1 shall show you that
the frost is a friend, with benediction
divinely pronounced lessons and charged beneficent and sur¬
charged with potent,
and tremendous. The Bibio seven times
alludes to the frost, and wo must not
ignore it. “By the breath of God frost is
given.” the
I know that to many season of frost
is a season of suffering. I remember two
rough wood cuts years ago, in a book or
newspaper. They were called “A Winter
Scene.” The snow had begun to fall, and
in the door of a comfortable home stood a
healthy boy, with ruddy cheek, tippeted
and mittened, shouting with glee: “It
snows! It snows!” In the wood cut op¬
posite stood a boy looking out of the broken
window of a wretched tenement, himself
wan and hungry and shivering with cold,
and as he sees the white flakes begin to
fall ho cries out with apprehension and
horror: “Ob, my God! It snows! It snows!”
But while the frost means to some severe
privation, we who have the comforts of this
life ought to be able to take an intelligent
and inspiring view of my intense text, “By
the breath of God frost is given.”
First, I think of Frost as a painter. Ho
begins his work on the leaves and con¬
tinues it on tho window panes. With pa¬
lette covered with all manner of colors in
his left hand, and pencil of crystal in his
right hand, he sits down before humblest
bush in the latter part of September, and
begins the sketching of the leaves. AU are
penciled, ono by one, but sometimes n
whole forest in the oourse of a few days
shows great volooity of work. Weenlx, tho
Dutch painter, could make in a summer
day three portraits of life size, but the frost
in ten days can paint ten mountains In llfo
size.
Miohnel Angelo put upon one ceiling his
representation reproseiitsuniversal of.the“Lost Judgment,” conflagration but
the frost
upon three thousand miles of stretohod-out
grandeur. Leonardo da Vinci put upon a
few feet ofcnuvas our Lord’s "Last Supper”
lor nil ages to admire, but tho frost puts the
gleaming chalices of the imperial glories
of the last supper of tho dying year on the
heights and lengths and breadths of tho
AUeghanles.
You will soon wakon on a oold morning
and ilnd that the windows of your homo
have during the night been adorned with
curves, with coronets, with exquisitoness,
with pomp, with almost supernatural spec¬
tacle. Then you will nppreolnte what my o’f
text says, as it deolaros, “l!y tho breath
God frost Is given.” You will see on the
window pane, traced there by tho frost,
whole gardens of beauty, ferns, orchids,
daffodils, heliotropes, china asters, foun¬
tains, statues, hounds on tho chase, roe¬
bucks plunging into tho stream, battle
scones with dying and dead, catafalques of
kings, triumphant processions, and as tho
morning sun breaks through you will see
cities on Are and bombardment with burst¬
ing shell and illuminations ns for some
great wing. victory, coronations while and angels on
the All night long, you wero
sleeping, the frost was working, and you
ought not to let tho warmth obliterate tho
sceno until you have admired it, studied it,
absorbed it, set it up in your memory for
perpetual refreshment, and and intensity realize of the
force nnd magnitude my
text: “By the breath of God frost is given.”
He is a stupid Christian who thinks so
much of the printed and bound Bible that
he neglects the Old Testament of tho fields,
nor reads the wisdom and kindness nnd
beauty of God written iu blossoms on the
orchard, in sparkles on the lake, in stars
in the sky, in frost on the meadows. Thu
greatest jeweler of all the earth is tho
frost.
But I go a step further, and spenk of tho
frost ns an evangelist, nnd a text of Scrip¬
ture is not of much use to mo unless I can
And the gospel iu it. Tho Israelites in the
wilderness breakfasted on something that
looked like frozen dew. The manna fell on
the dew and the dew evaporated nnd loft a
pulverized materia], white and looking
like frost; but it was manna, and of that
they ate. So now, this morning, mixed
with the frozen dew of Iny text, there is
manna on which we may breakfast our
souls. You say the frost kills. Yes, It
kills some things, but wo have already
seen that it gives health and life to others.
This gospel is the saver of life unto life, or
death unto death. As thg frost is mighty,
tho gospel is mighty. As the frost de¬
scends from heaven, the gospel God descends
from heaven. (By the breath of frost
is given. By the breath of God the gospel
is given. As the frost purifies, so tho grace
of God purifies. As tho frost vests the
earth, so grace bejewels tho soul. As the
frost prepares for food many things the thnt
otherwise would he inedible, so frost
of trial ripens and prepares food for the
soul.
Thank God for frosts. IVhnt helped
make Milton the greatest of poets? The
frost of blindness. What helped make
Washington the greatest of generals? Tho
frosts of Valley Forge. What mako it ap¬
propriate for one passing John Bunyau’s
grave to exclaim, “Sleepon, thou prince of
dreamers?” The frosts of imprisonment.
The greatest college from which we can
graduate is the College of Frosts. Especial
trials fit for especial work. .Tust now
watch, and you will see that trouble is pre¬
parative and educational. That is the
grindstone on which battle axes are sharp¬
ened. Without complaint take tho hard
knocks. You will see that after a while,
though you may not appreciate it now,
that by tbe breath of God frost is given.
Let the corners of your mouth, so long
drawn down in complaint, be drawn up in
smiles of content.
For years poets and essayists have cele¬
brated the grace and swiftness of tho Ara¬
bian horses. Do you know where these
Arab horsos get their Aeetness and poetry
of motion? Long centuries ago Mnhotn-
med, with 30,000 cavalry horses on the
march, could And for them not a drop of
water for three days. Coming to the top of
a hill a river was in sight. With wild dash
tho 30,000 horses started for tho stream.
A minute after an armed host was seen ad¬
vancing, and at Mohammed’s command
one hundred bugles blew for the horses to
fall in line, but all the 30,000 continued tho
wild gallop to the river, except Ave, and
they, almost dead with thirst, wheeled into
line of battle. Nothing in human bravery
nnd self-sacriAco excels that bravery and
self-sacriAce of those Ave Arabian war
horses. Those Ave splendid steeds Moham¬
med ohose for his own use, and from those
five came that race of Arabian horses, for
ages the glory of the equestrian world.
And let mo say that, in this great war of
truth against error, of holiness against sin,
and heaven against hell, the • best war
horses are descended from those who, after
pang and self-denial nnd trouble, answered
the Gospel trumpet nnd wheeled into line.
Out of great tribulation, out of great Ares,
out of great frosts they came. And let me
say, it will not take long for God to mako
up to you in the next world for nil you
have suffered in this.
As you enter heaven God may say “Gtvo
this man one of those towered and colon¬
naded palaces on that ridge of gold over¬
looking tho Sea of Glass. Give tins wom¬
an a home among those amarathine blooms
nnd between those fountains tossing in the
everlasting sunlight. Give her a oouch
canopied with rainbows to pay her for all
the fatigues of wifehood and motherhood
and housekeeping, from which she had no
rest for forty years. Cup-bearers of lieavon,
givo these newly-arrived souls from tho
earth the costliest beverages and roll to
their door the grandest chariots, and hang
on their walls tho sweetest harps that ever
thuinmed to Angers seraphic. Givo to
them rapture on rapture, celebration on
celebration, jubilee on jubilee, heaven earth on
heaven. They had a hard time on
earning a livelihood, or nursing sick chil¬
dren, or waiting on querulous old age, or
battling falsehoods that wore told about
them, or were compelled to work after they
got short-breathed and rheumatic and dim-
sighted. Chamberlains of heaven! Keepers
of the King’s robesl Banqueters of eternal
royaltyl Make up to them a hundredfold,
a thousandfold, u millionfold, for all they
suffered from swaddling clothes to shroud,
and let all those who, whether on tho hills,
orin the temples, or on the thrones, or on
jasper wall, were helped and sanctified and
prepared for this heavenly realm by the
Mission of the Frosts stand up and wave
their scepters!” And Hooked, and, behold,
nine-tenths of tho ransomed rose to their
feet, and nine-tenths of the scepters swayed
to and fro in the light of the sun that neve."
sets, and then I understood, fur better than
I ever did before, that trouble comes for
beneAcent purpose, and that on the cold¬
est nights the Aurora is brightest in tho
Northern heavens, anil that “by the breath
of God frost is given.”
New Electric Light Plant.
In accordance with the policy of economy
adopted by the Receivers of the Baltimore
and Ohio Railroad an electric lighting plant
lias been installed at Philadelphia for tho
purpose of lighting tho passenger station,
yards, freight stations, freight yards, docks,
roundhouses, machine shops, etc. Twice
as many lights are in service now as when
local thq company purchased tlie current from
lighting companies, yet the expenses It took
have been reduced one-half,
twenty miles of wire for the overhead con¬
struction and a sub-marino cable is used in
crossing the Schuylkill River.
Japan Opposes Hawaiian Annexation,
Japanese Minister Hashi, who has
reached San Francisco from Japan, says
the sentiment in his countryisstlllunal-
terably opposed to the annexation of Ha-
wall by the United States,
WORDS OF WISDOM.
A beautiful woman pleases the eye,
a good woman pleases the heart; one
is a jewel, the other a treasure.—Na-
poleon I.
Brooding over trouble is like sur¬
rounding one’s self with a fog; it
magnifies all the objects seen through
it. Occupation of the mind prevents
this.
The only faith that wears well and
bolds its color in all weather is that
which ip woven of conviction nnd set
with the sharp mordant of experience.
—J. It. Lowell.
The heaviest words in our language
are the two briefest ones, yes and
no. One stands for the surrender of
will, the other for denial; one for
gratification, the other for character.
—Theodore T. Manger.
Silence is, in truth, the attribute of
God, and those who seek Him from
that side invariably learn that medita-
tion is not the dream, but tbe reality
of life; not its illusion, lmt its truth;
not its weakness, but its strength.—
James Martineau.
The new dignity that comes to hu¬
man life by regarding it in its ti-ue re¬
lation to the divine is a significant
factor in its transformation. It lifts
it from selfishness to service, from
the passivity of desiring to be helped
to tho noble activity of desiring to
help.—Lilian Whiting.
These glimpses into tho inner re¬
gions of a great sonl do one good.
Contact of this kind strengthens, re¬
stores, refreshes. Courage returns
as we gaze. When we see what has
been, we doubt no more that it can be
again. At the sight of a man we, too,
say to ourselves, let us also bo men.
—Amiel’s Journal.
If you wish to be miserable you
must think about yourself, about what
you want, what you like, what respect
people ought to pay you, and then to
you nothing will be pure. You will
spoil everything you touch, you will
make sin and misery for yourself out
of everything which God sends you;
will ho as wretched as you choose.—
Charles Kingsley.
Take up your duty, , whatever , , you
can do to make the world more bright
and good. Do whatever you can to
"help every struggling soul, to add
strength to any staggering cause tlie
poor, sick man who is by you; the
poor, wronged man whom you with
your influence can vindicate; the poor
boy in your shop that the you road may of life set
with new hope upon
that is already beginning to look dark
to him. You know your duty. No
man ever looked for it and did not find
it.—Phillips Brooks.
Horses Were Not Fed.
A boy out of breath rushed into
the office of Woodruff M. Vance, agent
of the Society for Prevention of Cruelty
to Animals at Morristown, Penn., and
informed him that tlierewas a ear load
of horses at the freight station of tho
D.,L. and W. Railroad which had not
been fed or watered for three days,
Would the agent investigate the case?
Hastily putting on his coat Mr. Vance
left tlie office, full of indignation at
the act and sympathy for the suffering
animals. On his way he met Senator
John B. Vreeland and J. Frank Lind-
say. editor of the Chronicle, to each
of whom he related the story, and
induced them to accompany him on
the humane mission. Arriving at
tbeir destination they marched up to
Superintendent Carr and denounced
him in a severe manner for the shame-
ful treatment of the horses.
Mr. Carr was thunderstruck with
amazement. “What do you mean?”
he finally gasped. Why, how
“What do you mean?
could you let that car load of horses
stand three days without water or
food? Show them to us and let us
minister to their needs.”
A light dawned upon Mr. Carr.
“Come with me,” he said. He led
the men into the freight yard and
without a word pointed out a lot of
inanimate wooden liorses which an
enterprising earoussel proprietor bad
shipped in. The victims are now look-
ing for the joker who sent the boy to
Mr. Yance.—Philadelphia Press.
Peaches Kept Seventy-Five Years,
Canned peaches at least seventy-five
yearsold, which, like friends,seemed to
have improved with long standing,
were a feast a few days ago for the
family of Charles Zellman of Had ding-
ton. It was while digging with fellow
workmen for the cellars of a row of
new houses on ground that was once
part of the old Dalton farm that Zell-
man struck his pick into a cavity. In-
yestigatiou revealed a sort of stone-
lined°well not more than six feet deep,
which had been covrred over and con-
cealed. There was a footof clean cold
water at the bottom, in which stood an
old-fashioned glazed earthenware jar,
with the lid sealed tightly on with wax.
It was not without some difficulty that
the jar was opened, but it was finally
done by forcing it with the edge of a
spade. The men had expected to see
treasure of some kind, and were sur-
prised, not to say disappointed, when
only bright yellow peaches met their
gaze. The fruit was perfectly pre-
served. Zellman claimed the prize by
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present century. How the good wife
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If you want to know how old the
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Department at Washington, the cal¬
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temperate part of the United States
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j accuracy has been tested by thousands
! of experiments.
! Pa the trees referred to the wood of
the stem is laid on in sheets or lay¬
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as so many concentric rings, one being
fomed each growing seas on. The
r j ng g appear as alternate narrow
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j j ng t j ie ou t er portion of one ring and
, being sharply contrasted against the
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commonly averaging from one-eighth
0 f an j nR b { 0 three-eighths in hard
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rare where a whole century’s growth
of a spruce or balsam amounts to but
to or three inches on the radius of
the stem. In all young, sound and
j thrifty trees, Mr. Fernow says, the
■ rings are laid on with the utmost reg-
j i ularity and a cross section of a stem
furnishes not only information as to
j the fair age of the grown section, life history but of is
; a indication of the
i the tree, periods of suppression and
j thrift being indicated respectively by
j zones of correspondingly narrow or
broad rings. In such timber the
i countings along different radii always
g t V e the same result.
In very old, slow grown trees a dif¬
ference may appear of from one to five
j j rings, f the which to if detect not due to extremely the inability
0 eye an nar-
j row ring, is based on the actual ab-
gence of the ring, or rings, along a
, given radius, unfavorable circum-
! stances having Jed to a failure of their
j regular, continuous development. A
’ similar irregularity has been observed
in densely shaded or otherwise stunted
j timber, smoke; and also that in timber injured ring, by
i C oai so a given or
year’s growth, was found developed
I twenty feet from the ground, but en-
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; same stem.
| To determine the age of a tree it is
1 desirable to make clean, smooth cut.
a
Frequently a magnifying glass will be
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1 only one foot high when five years
i old, says Mr. Fernow, and since the
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' feet from the ground does not include
this five-year-old tree at all. So, if the
number ot rings on the stump section
.
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when greater accuracy is desired, the
cut must be made level with the
ground, so as to include the seedling
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