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with those whose nunes alone re main. George Dietz lives the seclud ed life of a petty Jeweler to-day, but his memory wanders back to the great struggle of the Rebellion. As he tinkers at a balking watch or pries the hinge of a locket he hums busily some of the good old tunes' that stirred men's hearts— "Tramp, Tramp, Tramp." maybe, or "We're Tenting To-night." Citizens of Ho nolulu nasslnar the back door of the »*w *• old-fashioned sliver watch w_i f I lost in. the battle of Gettysburg In I 1 1863. Thlrty-fslx years later that V. I same watch was restored to its X owrer in Honolulu. Tho story runs In this wise: George DJetz lived and fought through the Civil War. Strong on the eide of the f.rm-set North, he battled side by side with men who now wear lh« G. A. R. badge In Bolemn veteran dignity, and LOST ON THE BATTLEFIELD. TO FIND AN OWNER THIRTY-SIX TEAR LATER. ARE OUR GREAT FOREST DOOMED TO DESTRUCTION? THE SUNDAY CALL. no tree in its lonely canyon or on distant ridge Is safe from the batteries of saws which have replaced the old single saw system, and while we can for a while r* spend to the demand, the facility with which it Is done makes the period of sup ply more brief. "Without citing further instances, these are sufficient to show that the demand for timber now exceeds the capacity o. t.i^ forest to reproduce it, and danger grows imminent as each tree is felled without provisicn being made to. replace It. "Tho passing of the forest means not only the loss of that which should be a source of perpetual income, but more far-reaching and Important; it means t^e destruction of the State through the lo.^ of the climate which makes it profitably habitable, for it is a well-known fact that just as tho rain 3 are forest producers, so the forests are rain producers. An arid plain radiates heat and the temperature over It is higher than that over fore3te* areas. Hence masses of saturated •*. passing over a forest will precipitate thn moisture they hold, while in passing over plains they will expand by reason of the raise in temperature, which put 3 them In condition to absorb moisture rather than precipitate it. . "Should the entire western flank of th 9 Sierra Nevadas be denuded of forest, the clouds from which come our rainfall would precipitate but a portion of tha moisture which they now yield. as.A that only in the form of snow on the summits. Tho heat ol sprint: melting this *now would make raging torrents of tho mountain streams. The Sacramento and the San Joauqln would rise far above the danger point, and when this torrential flow had passed the stream beds would go tlry. "Local evaporation then heirs absent. a higher temperature than we hava known would result, and with Inunda tions in tho early months, followed by parching hoar, make California practicab ly uninhabitable. "Barrenness, desolation and abject pov erty would take the place of present fer tility, with its attending triumphant pros perity. "This may be prevented by the snmpla laws of forestry applied for "th«» preser vation of the forest." which does not d<s nianrt that we allow them to remain un touched by ax. but that we shall keep them up to their highest standard of production. Neglect in as bad for a forest as Ignorant attack. It should b« looked on as a timber orchard, and caro should be taken to gather its rrop as we gather others, at the season and in th« way Which will give us the greatest profit. "A tree ripens like a fruit and deraya like one. It should bo cut after tha ripen ing process is complete and before it is •doted' by age. when though great in siz». apparently sound and green leaved, tc will break to pieces when foiled. "Every year a-Wa to the value of a young tree a:i«l detracts from that of on« which ha 3 attained Its beat. Tree 3 or dinarily increase in diameter about one third of an inch each year, and the larger they get the greater is the mass of wood «.dded by each annual ring. The p»riod of the greatest growth is when they ar<» between three and live feet in diameter. lf cut at three feet opportunities for growth are wasted, and if allowed to re main in the forest after they have at tained a diameter of live feet thf* timber steadily deteriorates and the tree should give place to its younger companions. An old tree, one which has commenc?d to 'dote,' in the vernacular of the timber man, has no place in the timber orchard. The study of timber culture Is one that prove 3 interesting for the present an«l profitable for the future, jlean while tha destruction goes on." glad the heart of youth. It was solid sil ver, a key-winder of course, and his name and company were graven within. So when; in the scramble of retreat, this watch fell from his pocket, the loss cost him a pang that for, the moment threw the battle's loss into shadow. When it fell to the brown, tramped ' ground he hesitated for a second as to whether he should stop and look for It or run t>n with his comrades. The ques tion was decided for him by those behind, and he was soon' hustled far from the spot where he had lost the silver watch. All that night as Dietz slept orokeuly, disturbed ever and again by the crack of a rifle, the thought of his treasure re curred to his mind. "My, but it seemed queer to turn in to-night without winding that faithful old watch," he said to him self. "Bless it. it never ran down in all its life before, but I guess It's asleep for ever now. Tt didn't take many of these crazy footprints to bury ft beyond find ing.. Some day somebody'll be digging or plowing In. that place, perhaps, and find it if it "isn't already smashed past recognizing for a watch. A few days ago the oro watchmaker, was waiting for a customer in his little Nuuanu «-treet store. While he waited. I had the bad fortune to break the crystal "of my time-piece, and as I, too. was upon Nuuanu street and near hi 3 store. I stepped In. While Mr. Dietz was trying different crystals In my watch, another customer appeared upon the scene. A soldier boy he was, short of money, and desirous to pawn an old sliver key-wind watch which he carried. The courteous jeweler explained that key-wind watches were of no value ex cept as old silver. He could advance nothing upon it, he said. The soldier was urgent. He begged Dietz to examine the watch more clbstly. "It is in good condition, even though old fashioned." he said. "And It's the purest of silver." Dietz looked closely, merely out of po liteness. Suddenly hl 3 expression changed to one of real Interest. His Hp 3 twitched in excitement. With the old self-posses sion he calmed himself and spoke deliber ately. "There are several reasons why I should not advance money on this watch. For one, I am not a pawnbroker. For an other, it has no value except as old sli ver. Last, but not least, it is not yours to sell or pawn.' That Is my watch!" ?w e .£° ldler » ?** Indi E na nt- exclaiming that this watch was given him by his father away back in lowa, and that his l T A . DOSSessed since 1563. Dietz "Yes. I can Jell you -the day that It Se mm M tt o t f°j 3 s;:ss i .? r '" pos9es3ion - v ~ ."There Is nothing to hide-certainly, that was the date. But that fact doe* not Drove your right. Hy father was Walter r»_o t*<uicr little shop on Nuuanu street hear the mu sic ad say. "George Oletz Is living over the Civil Wai- again." *iia yputh passes In review before him. Of all the long; days of weary marching or bloody meeting none Is stamped so In delibly, on his mind as the 8d of July. ISG3. In the morning of that day occurred the second battle, of Gettysburg. It was a day of carnage, the most deadly In all his reminiscence. ";-,:'> * . -'¦-. -'¦"''•,. His- company -was Company D of the Sixth Connecticut Volunteers. They were brave men \that r went . to form it, brave and ambitious and true to their" flag. , But the • South fought hardY and it, too, was strong, and, the plucky volunteer com pany found Itself, with some. other, com mands,- hemmed 'in between two advanc ing columns of rebels. '..The Confederates maintained a merciless fire, and the "Yanks" were compelled to retreat. The retreat soon became a rout. Company X of the Thirty-eighth New York Volunteers, followed Dletz's party in its helter-skelter departure from a tight place. Dietz Was young in those times, young and proud besides, for he was the pos sessor of a silver watch such as makes * Ellis of Company IC. Thirty-eighth N*» York Volunteers. In the letreat of July 3 he found tills watch on the battlefield. He gave It to me as I left home for th« Philippines, and he said, 'This watch ha=» been through one war. Carry it through another and then keep it as an heirloom for your children.' "I am hard up. I only want to pawn the watch, and if you'll lend ma some thing on it I'll promise to redeem it be fore the regiment leaves Honolulu." "Young man," said Dietz, "1 hava not opened the watch, but I will describe i: to yon. It is wound with a key. The key post passes through a hole bored through a glass crystal, which Is a peculiar fact. Ihe works are of steel and German sil- VCT J , ,° Wt lf you wUI ta * e thi s Slasa out and look at the bevel ring which holds the crystal covering the works, you will fir.'i my name scratched upon It-George Dietz. Company D. Sixth Connecticut Volun teers. That is my watch." George Dietz spoke truly. The younj? man was satisfied, and the two compro mised. Dietz gave Ellis a new silver watch and $3 for this keepsake of two wars. And so it came about that tha young soldier brought back to the old soldier his treasure lost from IS-J3 to ISO 9. PIERRE. N. BERINGER. \t Wardbury. Norway, the longest day lasts from May 21 to July 22 without In terruption. th*» in-aSiaustlbJllty of our forest?. "Tho magnitude or extort of a resource must be judged by comparison with the demands made upon it. A grove of tree.* which would last one muu for his life time, vr.& would therefore be large in his estimation, would seem a mere nothing to the owner of a hungry sawmill like the one on Puget Sound, whicn turns out 100.000.000. feet of lumber per year. "Take the one item of packing boxes. The increase in the output of articles re quiring this method of protection during death warrant of countless giants of th«* fnr«?Fts Hives to The Sunday Cal! "he fol lowing explanation of the manner in which the tirabcr land is being lost to the. people, and why ar.d how it should be saved: "The timber lund:^ which I am selling for the Central pacific were' grunted it by the United States to aid in the con struction of the railroad. The land wVid then unsalable and money was raided hn mortgage bonds secured by' it. Afc the bonds and their interest coupons come due the land must bo sold to meet, them.! "Thn.-c of us who are conversant with what i-'j being and what has been dune to reduce the forested areas of California find occasion for forebod ing. We see the end <-~mmtaßa that will come unless pltlemtt ber the ground and dry into fuel for forest Hros which destroy seedlings, sprouts and saplings, which might otherwise replace the large trees. "All that has been done in lumbering lacks importance compared with what wiil begin ma few yeary. The present po sition of ulfairs as regards the lumber In dustry of the United States is not gener ally understood or appreciated. "Broadly speaking, the forests of the East are exhausted. The demands upon them are still increasing and their inaile- bo dangerous on account of the difficulty In securing ventilation. To. suppfy this division of tho Southern Pacific alone it takes all the wood from 40u0 acres of timber land each year for locomotive fuel. "The railroads are not the only drains on tho timber, for the mines swallow it as fast as big gangs of men can place it in the shafts and drifts; but the homes for seventy-live millions of people, with expensive tastes and a constant desire to enlarge and change their houses, really cause the principal demand on the for ests. • "Traction engines, chutes, flumes and lugging roads give us command of tim bered areas heretofore inaccessible, and er myself, so firm is my beliei BT^ in the necessity of forests to provide moisture for agricultural lands, that I say the farmer has as much right to enjoin the destruction of growing trees on adjacent moun tains as he has to enjoin hydraulic mining, and the time will come when this will be a principle of the law recognized by our courts." This is th« opinion of W. 11. Mills, land ngent of the Central Pacific Railroad Company, w!io has in his official capacity sold mere California timber land to the forest destroyers than any other person. While the railroad has boon an impor tant agent in the destruction of forests, those in charge of its affairs have been also the Jir*t to see the disastrous conse quences that will follow this attack on the greatest of nature's organic work, and Mr. Mills has spent much time in the The 'year 47 B. C. was the longest on record. By order of Julius Caesar it con tained 445 days. The additional days wer* put In to maUe the seasons conform as nearly as possible with tbe solar year. Turkey has been engaged in war 33 years of the present century, considerably more than one-third of the time. Spain comes next, with 31 years of war: Franca has 27 year 3, Russia, 24; Italy, 23; Great Britain, 21: Austr" *"• "«JUpri n. and Germany. 13. 8 study of results of deforestation and methods for preventing its injuries. That a man should be in the apparently anomalous position of attempting to cave with one hand what ho is helping to de- Ftroy with the other presents an interest ing situation. He who ' ha 3 ' signed the applied knowledge step in to prevent the present waste of resources, which con served would be inexhaustible. "Humboldt, Mendocino and Trinity counties show the disastrous effects of in discriminate lumbering, where but the best is taken and the rest is left to cum- quacy is demonstrated by the fact that through Michigan and Wisconsin they are sawing, lumber from poles that will square only four inches. Such stripping as this shows its results in large areas where not even the precious promise of seedling trees is shown, by reason of utter lack of shade and moisture. "The wooded regions of Minnesota and adjoining States are private property, with a Constantly increasing value, and the lumber interests of many other. parts of the East have dwindled to Insignitt cance^ The great Mississippi, that usually flowed from 20 to SO feet deep in even stream below Rock Island, has been so affected by the climatic change induced by deforesting that a cot/ can wade it at low stages of the -water in dry years. Such being the case, it will be but a short time before. the v cntire United States will be forced to rely on California, Oregon and Washington^or timber. Already Eu ropean countries are buying ship spars and timbers here. "When the Eastern demand commences it will work a sudden and astonishing revolution in the popular idea concerning the process 01 iranspuriauuii ur i'cuuu-. of storage has given rise to a correspond ing increase in the manufacture of cases. Millions of them are used each year here Jn California, while 4,000,000 are sent East filled with fruit. It is cheaper to make new ones than to reship the old for re tilling, so the old ones are destroyed and the box factories run full handed the year round to keep up with the demand. "Tens of thousands of acres of land are now being bought in California and Ore gon by Eastern lumbermen and sawmills are to be erected Immediately to cut on a larger scale than ever before. Forty thousand acres In the McCloud River Val ley are to be sawed up Immediately by new mills, and this In addition to what Is already going on. The railroads of the United States are using vast amounts of timber— lSs.ooo miles of track, with 2COO tica to the mile, as well as bridges, culverts and station and terminal buildings. Re sides this, in many parts of the country the locomotives are fired with wood in places where tunnels make coal smoke annoying, and Jn very long tunnels, such as those on the Shasta route. It might