THEDYING
EARTH
According to This Theory The
Deserts Are Spreading.
EPO PHP PNP IN PUPPIES Ny
Deserts already exist on the earth,
and the nameless horror that at-
taches to the word in the thoughts ot
all who have had experience of them
or are gifted with imagination to con-
celve is in truth greater than we com-
monly suppose. For the cosmie cir-
cumstance about them which is most
terrible is not that deserts are jut
that deserts have begun to be. Not
as local evitable evils are they only |
to be pletured but as the general un- |
escapable death grip on our world.
For it is the beginning of the end.
What depauperates the forests to
grass lands and thence 10 wastes must |
in turn attack the sea bottoms when |
they shall have parted with their seas. i
Last of the fertile spots upon the |
planet because of the salts the |
streams have for ages washed down |
and of remnant of moisture that |
would still drain into them, eventually |
they must share the fortune of their
predecessors and the planet roll
parched orb through space. The pic-
ture is forbidding: but the fact seems
one to which we are constructively
pledged and into which we in |
some already adventyred
Girdling the earth with what it
takes but litle personification to ltken
to the life extinguis!
coils run two desert belts of country.
The roughly
the Tropic of Cancer, extending north-
ward from it; the the Tropic
of Capricorn. Arizona is in the norta. |
ern band, as the Sahara, Arabia |
and the deserts of Central Asia.
Now, ars
ing. In
Arizona traveller
Way across a sage-brush and cacti
plain shut in by abrupt sided shelves |
of land rising here and some |
hundreds of feet higher, suddenly |
comes upon a petrified forest.
Trunks of in all stages of
fracture str ground over a
Space some in extent. So per
fect are rms he almost
minded to think the usual wasteful
wood chopper has been by and
the scattered products of his art in
littered confusion upon the scene of
his exploit. Only their beautiful color i
conveys a sense of strangeness to the |
eye, and leaning down and touching |
them he finds that they are—stone. |
Chalcedony, not carbon! Form has
outlived substance and kept the
semblance, while the particles of the
original matter have all been spirit-|
ed away. Yet so perfect is the pre. |
sentment one can hardly believe the
fact, and where one fallen giant spans |
a little canon one almost thinks to |
hear the sound of water rushing down |
the creek
the
ai
are
sort
ng serpacts
one follows, speaking,
other,
are
these desert belts ZIrowW-
of northern
thread
the great d
esert
or
ing his |
the
there
trees
w the
miles
their f is
af 3
ieft
re-
But it is some millions of years and |
more since this catastrophe befell, |
and the torrent uprooting it
prone, with limbs outstretched in fu. |
tile grasp upon the other side. A |
conifer it was, cousin only to such
as grow today and flourished prob- |
ably In the Cretaceous era, for the |
land has not been under water here
since the advent of tertiary times.
Nowhere near it, except for the
rare cottonwoods along the bank of |
the Little Colorado, grows anything |
today. The land which once sup
ported these forests is incompetent |
to do so now.” Yet nothing has chang-
ed there since except the decreasing |
water supply. During terfiary and
quarternary time the rainfall has |
been growing less and Jess,
of thiseis offered by the great pine
oasis that caps the plafean of which
these petrified forests form a part
and is kernelled by the San Francisco |
peaks. The height above sea level of
the spot where the chalcedony trunks |
are strewn is about 4.500 feet; the |
lower present limit of the pine io its |
full development fs 6500 feet. Two |
thousand feet upward the verdures line
has retreated since the former for- |
ests were. And this is no local alter
ation, for upon the other side of the |
platean petrified remains of trees |
are similarly found.
The line of perpetual green has ris
en because in desert regions the mols.
ture is found most plentiful nearest
to the clouds, from which it falls upon |
a parching earth. Streams instead of |
gathering volume as they go are larg:
@ot near their source, and grow less |
“and less with each fresh mile of |
flow. The brooks descending from the |
Anti-Lebanon in Syria, water the ger.
dens of Damascus, and, thence isan
ing upon the plain, lose themselves
just beyond the threshold of its gates.
So in the Arizona desert, though in |
a less degree, and those who live
there know it but too Wwell-~Century. |
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CONNECTICUT'S NEW
BRIDGE.
STONE
One of the Finest and Most Remark.
able of Its Kind in the World.
Across the Connecticut River at
Hartford the last stone has just been
laid In the construction of a stone
bridge which is of more than ordi
nary lotorest. It has taken nearly
thee years to bulld it, and the cost
has reached nearly $32,000,000. There
are nine spans, making a total length
of 1,185 feet, This structure out
ranks the famous London Bridge,
which is 62 feet wide and 1,005 feet
Jons while the new bridge is 82 feet
car lines on a roadway 60 feet wide
and has a 10-foot sidewalk on either
side. In the construction of the bride
concrete was used for the foundations,
Leete's Island granite, a stone of a
neutral color, for the top of the foun.
dation to the springing line of the
arches, and Stony Creek granite, a
stone of lght pinkish hue, for ihe
arches and all of the structures above
The foundations were made by the
pneumatie caisson process, end tbe
below ordinary low water mark. One
of the largest calssons (46 by 171
feet) was used. The largest finished
stone used in the construction of ithe
bridge weighed forty tons, Aboot
125 000 Darrels of cement were used
in the construction of the bridge.
A novel method was employed to
make the intrados, or curve of the
arch, a perfect semiellipse, it being
customary to approximate this ellipti
cal shape by the use of six or seven
radii, A large loft without columns
rectangle, 22 by 100 feet was covered
planed boards screwed down
The two axes of an ellipse were then
lald out by the use of a transit,
upon the transverse axis poinis one
fcot apart marked on square
pieces of the centres being
were
zinc,
perpendicular lines were
them were marked
of the as
its equation. The
were joined by 7%
drawn, and upon
off
ound by
ints thus found
AHR
the ‘ordinates ellipse,
solving
“ao
Fo
from the
to con
of an Inch
required and sprung
form to The stones form
ing the border of the arch were ther
laid with semi-ellipse as
base, sheo! 3 cut ou!
with These
vard
ace
ly in place
position
the
curve
out this
ard
a diamond to
templets were gent to the stone
enabling the be
curately to size Yorz
zine temple
:
3
made
Tribune
stones 10
Now
WHAT “CAPABLE” MINERS EARN
Day's Pay Kept Up Despite the
Financia! Depression.
Figures ccmpiled from the payrolls
of some of the anthracite coal-mining
of
the
that the
i belter
than
showing the earnings
ont miners
indicate
workers fare
won
capable ract since
November
anthra
during the
almost any
At one
the middle
panic,
cite mine
depres
of
business
other class
of the large
field the net
labor.
in
of
collieries
earnings
hat each of the sixty
average, $4.44 for
Several of them
$100 a month for
the table shows
on the
each working day.
earned more thao
the three months considered. At an
there were six miners
who earned, respectively, $5.03, $6.14,
$6.52, $6.75, $5.00 and $9.15 a day. The
record of eighteen capable men at
still another mine shows average dally
variation
as the
Commission
nat
There is considerable
individuals, because
Coal Strike
report “experience,
said In its
materially affect the amount
is earned.”
Under the award of the Strike Com
mission, now in force, the minimum
briety
regardless of business
with
the rise in the price of coal in ac
commission. With
5 cents above $4.50
golling price of the
by the
in the
the mine workers’ pay Is Increasad 1
It happens, owing to lane
is the
only month in the year during waich
the minimum wage prevails,
In a Hst of sixty miners, working
in the colliery of one company, there
three months ending with January.
this collery there are employed
the company.-—New York Evening
Newspaper Making.
Considered as a manufacturing
business, newspaper making fs en
With other manufac
turing concerns the rule is that if
They always have moral and
political reasons for clinging to life
long after there has ceased to be
any pecuniary warrant for it. A
newspaper in these days ia about as
to declare a dividend as a
Competition between pa
all of them Is too low, the cost of
white paper and manufacture too high
atl they give a great deal too much
for the one meagre cent that most
of them now sell for. We hope our
Great Regulator will make 4 law soon
that no newspaper shall be more than
four pages long on week days and
less than two cents. Life.
French Optimism,
We are not so blind ng not to gee
that manners are becoming more gen.
tle, that the number of honest people
increases, that morality is spreading
more and more into the social masses.
Tf thirteenth century people conld
witness our mid-Lent they would
doubtless reproach us with becoming
much 190 virtuous. —~Le Siecle, Paris.
~Lnr oon
i by Berryman, in the Wasbingi n Star
———
Washington, D. C
leaves behind a record of
: dented expenditures. Coming
| Washington fresh from the scenes of
"the financial disturbance of the early
i fall, it has pushe” the
i for the first session
: Congress above the
! mark.
Bixtieth
dollar
the
billion
of
er Reed and his billion doliar Con-
i gress startled the country. Now the
{ country has reached billion dollar
sessions, and it takes two ssssions
make a Congress
Not only does the billion dollar ses-
sion follow closely the receding wave
of a financial flurry, but It comes with
a Treasury depleted and facing a de-
ficit estimated for the fiscal yea:
to
at
- $60,000,900, and for the current year
ending December 31, 1908, at §100,-
000,000. The official statement of
, the Treasury Department
{ showed an excess
above receipts of
“5 -
$53.018.829
tures was $68.410.542.53 one year
ago, making a difference on the wrong
side of the ledger of $111,429.271.99
Nearly all the annual supply bilis
have received consideration from the
{ House of Representatives, in which
they originate. Not one has be2n
passed by this Congress which does
t not show a substantial increase above
; the amount carried last year. The
! increase runs from $300,000, added
to the amount of the Indian bill, to
; $26,000,000 in the annual appropria-
| tion for the navy
Exceeding Last Session’s Figures.
Making a conservative estimate,
iand adding the actual increases
{ shown in those passed or under con-
; sideration, the appropriations of this
; session exceed those of the second
i the amount in the public building bill
i demanded by those having close dis.
‘ tricts, where the judicious distribu-
! tion of the contents of the “pork bar-
! rel” helps to turn the tide of voles. A
{ conservative estimate of the provis-
i fons of this bill is $20,600,000
| Added to the Increases carried in
i the appropriation bills this gives wn
aggregate of $124,.200,.000, and ralses
the estimate of the appropriations
1 300,000. To this sum must be added
:
ent
248,879.63
of the jast
amounted 8.63
The Increases, snctual and
i mated, are, in round numbers
Navy $26,000,
17.000,
10.0600,
1.500
BERSION
aan
Han
15.000 900
2.100,
Deficiencie
Agriculture
Army .
Diplomat
sula; hsb ns 45
Fortifications . ire e701
1
’
indian ch awa . S00,
»
3
G04
409
O60
Legisniatiy © 400 000
Miscellaneous ..a 4.250.000
Permanent annusnl
propriat #% ’ 4
Public Building 20,600
nono
300
Guy
Total cas+3124.300
Totals of Money Bills,
of
000
the expenditures author
fiscal
numbers,
the
in
for
the
Some
ized by Congress fo
190% are, in round
000 000 carried in
bill: $223.08 0.060
bill; $3%.000,000
$122 800 060 for
r the
the
the
navy;
army;
000 in the sundry civil bill;
000 in the Indian bill;
in the legislative,
idicial bill, and $24,000,000
{urgent deficiency bill
i The leaders have raised
{voices and urged the eutting down
in
| gress These suggestions have not
‘little good effect
i
Democrats are already
| ments, and are hoping for success on
| the record of the party in
Most, if not all, of the committees
{making up the money
executive departments
has been always to
The tendency
increass rather
in former years
I Newest “ashion Too Mach
Parisians al Longchamps, Ha
Paris.—Disturbanees which threat
ened to become a riot arose at the
Longchamps race course on Sunday
from the appearance in the members’
: enclosure of four young women at.
! tired in ultra-fashionable gowns. The
j dressmakers of Rus de la Paix fre-
: gently boom their latest creations at
Longchamps, but Sunday's experi-
ment was too daring even for
i Parisians.
The gowns were so classic, so tight-
fitting and so transparent that some
| of the onlookers rubbed their eyes in
| amazement. Othérs blushed, others
turned indignantly away, while some
men laughed and jeered. The wear-
ers had been sent by their employers
to advirtise the so-called sheath
| gowns, an attempted revival of the
Directoire fashion. The most sensa-
tional of them have a divided skirt
showing the outlines of the lower
limbs,
!{ The excitement became so great
{that the police were obliged to re-
| move the young women from the en-
closure. A blushing policeman
| wrapped his cloak around a divided
| skirt and conducted the owner to a
jcab. Summonses were talked of, but
| the police decided not to act. Director
I Touny, of the municipal police, said:
“It seems these dresses are the
| latest fashion. 1 think them some-
what darifig, but if it is the prevall-
ing fashion, there is nothing more to
be said.”
One eynic' remarks: “As Paris
thinks to-day, the world thinks to-
morrow. This fashion will spread
over the whole world.”
!
Chicago, Ill.-—Ifarnessed between
the shafts of a wagon heavily laden
with old iron, botties and rags, Mrs.
Frank Muleaski, fifty-five years old,
wife of an Evanston junk dealer, has
taken up the task left off by the fam.
fly horse at its death two weeks ago.
Supplied with specially fitted harness,
she has made it possible for her hus.
: band to continue in business.
Daily she draws the wagon through
the streets of Evanston and Wilmette,
responding with alacrity to her hus
band’s cries of “whoa” and “giddap.”
Philadelphia Doctor Says
“Fatal to Pick Buttercaps.”
Philadelphig.— That the pleking of
buttercups Is injurious to the health
of children fs the theory of Dr. W.
W. Chalfonte. He declared at a meot-
ing of physicians that some cases
called measles are no: measles at all,
but are the effects of Sathering but.
tercups and inhaling their perfume,
| “Buttercup fever” is the term Dr.
halfonte §ives the disease, “In Ger.
| any and land Sheveq
blading t A
buttercups,” said the
pleking of
With HMasband Driving, and
Muleaski kept to the outskirts of
the town at first with his novel
“steed.” As long as Mrs. Mulcaski
is willing to perform the task the
Humane Society can not interfere, it
Is paid, and there is no other agency
which would be empowered to act.
At times Mulcaski stops to consult
with his wife concerning purchasers
and routes to be taken. In addition
she is watchful for chance custome
ers, pointing them out whea her has.
band fails to notice them. This is an
advantage he did not enjoy before.
Squeezing of Heart May a
Save “Drowned” Men.
Hartford, Conn. — Wonders are pres
dicted by Dr. D. F. Sullivan for the
new method of resuscitation which
he employed on Nuncio Chial who
was saved twice from death after his
heart had st beating by th
squeezing’ gn in Bae with
Hormal Pulse
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The College and
Good Literature
By WILLIAM SEAVER WOODS, Ed.
itor of the Literary Digest.
The number of students in the
various colleges in America to-day is
reckoned at about 150,000, and if
150,000 every four years, charged
with the leaven of idealism, I think
that before long there will begin to
be results. Over on the other side of
lies, and the young man who is born
poor is pretty sure to stay'poor. It is
easier for such a young man to turn
to the consolations of literature and
accept the assurance of the philoso-
brings happiness.
nates are winning great .ortunes in
the far East, he writes stories and
poems about it. In America the
young man of abllity can take his
choice. He can either go into busi
ness and wish later that he had gone
into literature, and he can go into iit.
erature and wish he had gone into
ful
one who was sorry for it. We cannot
founded on the denial of opportunity
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the best minds to seek
things;
the
and when we have that,
A Country of Patriots,
it is the
tion. But in Georgia in the Caucasus
is ignorance, Even in England some
of the educated classes are not mare
vels of learning, and we cannot ex-
pect a much higher standing in the
Caucasus. As to the Georgian peas-
young enthusiast who for the first
time attended a Social Democratic
lecture given by a follower of Karl
Marx, and was afterward heard pray-
ing before a sacred icon: “O Lord,
make me a proletariat! Make me a
proletariat soon!” )
But in peasants and nobility alike
I found the same quickness of intelli.
gence, the same freedom of mind and
eagerness to .earn.
This alertness of mind is naturally
accompanied by the passion for equal-
ity, and a peculiar readine® to shake
off the droll social and political tra-
ditions that generally survive much
too long. “Your name proves your
noble family,” said my Georglan com-
panion to a dripping boy who had
walked miles through a raging storm
to pass on a borrowed book and was
now drying his thin cotton clothes
before our fire. “Then 1 must change
it,” answered the peasant, simply. “1
refuse to be noble.” He also refused
to touch wine, because it pays duty
to the Russian Government. —H, W,
Nevinson, in Harper's.
A 5 ANS ly
We sometimes wonder if newspa-
per men generally appreciate the old
subscriber at his true value, says the
Lansing (lowa) Mirror. We mean
the old stand-by who takes the home
paper year after year, through evil as
well as through good report, and
the same as he would any othr
est debt. As a general thing the old
subscriber is patient and slow to
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