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The Destruction of Our Forests. of a desolation which is recorded far lack of the days of Roman or even of tirecian glory, we read that “a man was Elmous according as he had lifted up axes upon the thick trees." In the days when American forests were considered pmct cally limitless, our fathers were far too famous for lifting up axes upon the thick trees, and the resultant dc‘ struction is even now upon Us, like the Philistines upon Samson. 'l'his destruc tion comes upon us in many forms, most of which are, in fact, rapidly and terribly cumulative. Here is a beautiful stream of water, for example, which was a great eiement of - wealth, to the re gion through which it flowed. It might not only have continued to do so, but to have gained in usefulness instead of be ing either dead ‘or surely and swiftly passing away; 'The numberless little hollows on the hills where were the springs which grew into rivulets to feed it have been stripped of the moisture economizing verdure with which the Creator clothed them, and so the springs are dry, and the rills no longer murmur their once glad songs of labor as they hastened down the Valleys to turn the mill-wheels of mechanical in. dustry. In this one matter of destruc tion of hydraulic power with which we have already been smitten, hundreds of millions of dollars of annual damage has, been and is the actual result. That this drying up of the streams is attributable not only chietly to dcforcsting, but al most solely to it, common. sense-«which is, in fact, the very essence of both fact and philosophy—must make plain to every candid mind. .ltain feeds the‘ springs. To feed them economically it should be gentle and frequent, "not rio lant and at long intervals. ; Intclligent, forest engineering would require that such portion of hills be clothed with a mantle of green trees, as by its cooling influence it would more frequently so contract the aerial sponge as to give us showers at shortintervals. This is the case in fomstolartlred, beiutiful Britain. ‘ The reverse is true in tree-stripped Spain, whose people have become as proverbial for their hatred of trees as their country has for sterilityof soil and sleeping stream. There, andvon east ward all through the Orient, a relent lessly brilliant sky and an appalling ab sence of verdure will teach one as nothing else can, how beautiful are clouds that weep, and, in its proper time, how deliciou‘s'a drizzling rainy. day. These‘deforested Eastern lands are as famous for storms, and valleys torn by terrible torrents, as they are for the re verse. They will soon find their coun terpart in all these characteristics in America, unless we rouse ourselves with a will to understand and to master these evils. Forests premote streams aVailable for precious manufacturing interests, also, by furnishing vast and innummer able. beds of fallen leaves and moss, which act on tho'earth like a huge over lying sponge, to check the sudden rush of ’Lllt‘ rain-fall into the valleys and down into the streams.- Very lrapidly in recent years are mournful instance multiplying in :JWliich manufacturing streams are trauslormi-d by freshets from spirits of blessing-rte ‘gitc homes and food and clothing to thousands who live in the lialulots,rl)y turning tlie'lnuehincry which helps them by their labor to help themselves—«to demons of destruction. Forests also promote such steadiness of tlow of the ‘ streams as to make them sources of national ‘ wealth in giving employment to skilled labor, by» preventing 'the rapid c‘-'apt)ratit)ti‘bt' moisture. Probably '1 acre than haltl the wateavthat fallaon a do forested regio ' payliy emu-mu iswhislced off by evapori§ffnyflst at the time when it is most. new ed tp _‘trengthen the dc-. plen-ul mill-s “PM ”ihe steam-engine: to it» 01:41:? practical use, as a motive power, must rave its action; controlled by the conseifitfi'e'ihflnalm of 'thehal anew-“heel. ' tight-wise its” wheels would whirl at. one time with a fury which Would result only in destruction, and then they Would move too slowly to be of service. 'l'hen the forest, by increas ing thefretpte'uey of gentle rains, and so decreasing the lmltune and length of in tel‘tals betwucn showers, also by regu lating their too sudden plunge into the arr-mus, is the great regulator provided by nature for their control in the service of near. .UL mer the manufacturing portions 'of our country we may find instances where large amounts of capi' tu‘. have been invested tn tht‘lOl’ and make available our ' once "nignitiouut . and almost numln-r --'9‘“ hydmuih powers. Trusting to winu. scern‘ml r 1 m-rtuiuty of mnplnynmm for rho-machim and their fumilh-s, thou sanls oi Lshfilled lp’borém have in many Cows contitlinglynlmide their holm-H at u point when- tln- menu: seemed abund antlypowm-ful njmll“ permanent. Then, as tho ate moi-r; Emma and went, the riwr seen": to nickel. 'and grow more and mom feeble, till cham- wouhl be a. Week or two em'haymr in which tho Spindles.und the looms would he silent. AS time wont On these periods have; lengthened into months, in which the labor struggle for bread and clothing, for means to pay for the humble little home, or debts incurred in Sickness, was compelled to be suspended. The cause of all this was that the sources of the river’s life had been destroyedgby the ignorance, cupidity or recklessness of men who “lifted up axes on the thick trees" fer up the mountains, where the mill Htrenms had their bl!‘th.--G. W. Powell, in Harper’s Magazine for Au gust. The Beggar Boy‘ “Please give me a penny?" You would expect from such an appeal as that, to see a pale, wasted, rugged and desolate child, who begged because he was hungry. But an the contrary, it was the rosint, plumpest, most dimpled~cheeked little fellow you would care to meet anywhere, somewhat dirty, it is true, as to hands and face, but looking as if he had never had a wish gratified. Such a boy it was who begged for a penny, and that boy was Teddy l The reason for his begging was, to be gin with, his papa’s friends were in the habit of dropping into his hands pennies for candy. It was very nice to have pennies, and when they did not come without, he asked for them. From -that he got into the way of ask ing the first person he happened to meet, and he was usually successful. When his mamnm found this out, she rcprovcd, shamed, and finally punished him, but all to no purpose; he could not see the harm or disgrace in it. ' At last his aunty devised a plan which cured him at the first trial. She told if he would beg, he might as well have a basket, and go about as other beggars did—little freckle-faced Mary McCarty, for example. This idea did not please him. But one evening just before tea, when she discovered that he had a new kite, bought with two pennies which strangers had given him for the asking, she felt it was time to deal with him in earnest. So she said, “Now, Teddy, you may just as well beg for your supper as for a kite.” - _ So she put a; little old sunbonnet on him and pinned a. little shoulder shawl about him, gave him a basket, and told him to start. He burst out of the door, for he felt obliged to obey, and fled wildly down the street, sobbing as if his heart would break. He threw the basket from him in a perfect passion of anger and shame, and it would be hard to tell where he might have gone, had not his aunty run after him and brought him home. The hateful bonnet was taken OE and his tears dried, but he never after that said to anybody, “Please give me a penny T" Age 0: Man A man is. ordinarily said to be young, even in thin country, where we live preternaturally fast up' to 35 or 40, to be middle-aged from 40 to 50, and not to be positively old, if he be of sound health and well preserved, until he shall have reached 00 or thereabout. This rstinmte of years would indicute the normal age of man to be 100, (as Bull'on declares it should be), though his average age is scarcely 50, and 60 is much beyond it. \tht reason is there, then, for speaking of 35 to 40 as young, and 40 to 50 as middleage’l None. unless we consider that we begin prac (ical and useful existence, as_ We really do, with the attainment of our legal inn iority. and, us a rule. people have very little life—3o to 3!) years~after thut. It is common torspea‘ic of men, cspeciully in public positions,‘of 60, as in their prime. _A very few appear ,to be so, notably in Europe; but they rue not ac tually, since at 75 the public diatrusts them merely from their age. The great majority of men ure lmried and for gotten before they have gnined three score, and he who is in his prime then, in n seeming some, in us exceptional as he who lives to 90 or 95). We all like to delude ourselves in respect to life. Win-n our neighbor is (30. he appears ‘to be very olul. When we are of that age \w- are not young, to be sure: butvwe feel 111-l young, We say, as ever; in fact, we are in our prime. \Vhile we cun creep around, and me in posmmsionof our fnculties, we insist that we are not very old; but our friends, Smith and Brown, with ‘not :1 your more than We, if the truth were know, make themselves ridiculous by trying to appear young. A young lady gradual:- in n nvighlmr ing county read an i-ssuy eiitillvd “Elu ployinmit 05 Time." Her composition was based on the te-xt, "Time wasted in existence; used, is life.” 'l‘iw next day she purchased eight ounces pf zepliyr‘ ‘of different. shades and ..ommenced work ing a sky blue dog with sen-green (ms and a pink tail on a piece of yellow cun ms. She expects to have it done by next Christmas.—Norristowu Herald. Fasmona 1n Physic. There are fashions in physi‘: as welli as in pctticoats, and the growth, decline' and fall of certain remedial agents! would furnish an interesting theme, for. an essayist with a taste for drugs and] an aptitude for figures. Two French: physicians, Dre. Lasegue an<lllegualllt,} have published some figules as the result l of their partial research into the French hospital reports. Bromide of potassium a quarter of a century ago was very: little employed; three thousand grammes ‘ only were. prescribed in 1855. ;A year later the consumption had arisen to seven thousand grammes: in the neigh borhood of that figure it remained stationary till 1864, when suddenly iti bounded up to 22,300; in'lß6s itl reached 73,530; in 1866, 133,000;.aud' so it went‘ on an in‘ 1875 it had attained a totai of 739,910 grammes. Another very interesting array of statistics re cites the grandeur and decadence of the leech. From 1820 to 1823 inclusive the sick sons and"daughtezs.o£ Fra'nct in her hospitals furnished pasture an nually for 180,000 leeches. In 1824:l bleeding seems to have become more popular, for all at once the consumption! of leeches rose to 457,000. ‘ltsvent on: rapidly increasing till in 1834 the figure was 1,030,000, and in 1836 it had reached 1,280,000. Till 1840 phle botomy continued in frightful favor,. then the demand for leeches decreased so rapidly that by 1844 the consumption‘ was only 300,000; by 1855 it had reached the figures of a generation be fore,—lßo,ooo——and half a generation’ later, in 1871, it was more than 41,900. I As leeches Went out liquor came in. The consumption of alcohol in 1855 was 1,270 litrcs;m 1860, 7,836; in 1865, 19,991, and in 1870, 40,500,, which figure has since been maintained. ‘ Brandy is not mentioned till 1862, when ; 4 litres were used; in 1863 the quantity‘ was 133; in 1867 it was 1,504; in 1868, 2,826, and by 1875 it had risen to 5,108 litres. A like increase is noted in the case of rum—from 35 litres in 1862 to 2,548 in 1865 and 5,682 in 1868—and the prescriptions of party sherry, claret and other wines have gone on growing as rapidly and as steadily. .‘ Buttered Tweulv Years. “I have suffered for twenty years with itching and ulcerated piles, having used every remedy that came to my no tice without benefit, until I used Dr William's Indian Ointment and received immediate relief.” J was CARROLL. (An old miner) Teconm, Nevada. If you am going to pamt. your house, barn, wagon or machinery, the wonder,- ful Imperishable Mixed Paint is surely the best, for it is warranted by their agents in your own town not to chalk, crack, peel or blister; to cover better and work ennler thm any other palm. Tue 'mper luhahla Point was uwnrded me no»: premlum, nvnr all other pu mum. the Callfornln. Slate Falr. ms unrl Hu- (mm Medal ill the Oregon Hume Fulr, 187'. 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