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DON'T DESTROY Dire Consequences Invited bj One of the questions of vital inter-1 CBt which confronts this country to day ia the question of forest preser vation. It is, moreover, of peculiar interest to tho people of the Soath. The recent agitation for an appropria tion by Congress providing for an Appalachian forest reserve has brought tho matter homo to the at tention of many of our people, but there are many others who are strange ly blind to the importanoe of this great movement. The following ar ticle, prepared by M. P. P. MoCsin, of Due West, S. C., in connection with his course in goology at Erskine Collage, sets forth very clearly the ressoas why the matter should be taken in hand with as little delay as is poer (Me. Mr. McCain's article is as follows: ^ When our forefathers landed upon this Continent they found a land decked over hill and valley with all the beauty and splendor of forest ver dure. The three centuries' maroh of civilization has boon so rapid that the forest has had to give way to the de mand of civilised man. These demands may be olsssed un der two heads. In th ; first place, there is a demand for the ares ou which the forest stands, suoh ss for buildings, for roads, for railroads and for agricultural purposes. In this CMS, of course, the destruction of the forest is necessarily complete. In the seoond plaoe, the demanda of men on the forest are for their producto, such as for building materiel, for fuel, for bark, etc. In this case the de struction should not be complete. In fsot, the prinoiples of forestry tesoh that the truest economy will permit certain areas to be covered with trees. It is for the purpose of regulating the necessary removal of the forest and of pointing out the the manner in whioh the products of the forest osn be more advantageously harvested, thst forestry assortions and forestry lsws sre so imperatively demanded. Like-all other forms of animate ns turo, the forest is compelled to make a continual struggle for ezistenoe. Its enemies may be divided into two classes. The animate end the inani mate. t ' The prinoipsl inanimate enemies of the forest are fire, winds, floods aud avalsnehes. Of these, the most im portant is fire. Forest fires, started by camp fires, by the burning of brush, by the locomotive spark, or by the eleotrie bolt, often sweep away greet stretches of valuable forests and leave their areas exposed to the de? nuding power of the rainfall. Winds, floods, and avalanches are rarely so destructive, and so there is only time to mention them in passing. The principe animate enemies of the forest are plants, animals and matt. The influence bf tho planto OD the destruction of the forest is limited to parasitic plants and the natural struggle which exists between the different forms of plant life for titi? posession of the soil. The animal enemies of the forest *re too sumer ons to be more than merely mention ed. (Josie of them are rabbits, mioe, gopher?, beavers, insects and goats; and they do vastly more damage to the forest than one would imagine. In Greece, Italy and Spain large areas of forests have been destroyed, be cause the goats have ettten the bark from the trees? The most powerful enemy of the forest, however. ?s man. The exe of the pioneer, so often regarded ss the emblem of civilization, is perhaps moire correctly to be regarded ss sn emblem of an entirely different char acter. Men/ indeed, is the lord of ( the forest and is entitled to the ?so of the wood thus provided for him. If, however, instead nf recklessly de vastating the forests, he would exer cise judgment and ears ia obts;ning the material a furnished by nature, lin could con ti nue, to reap ?s hxrre?t?; for the earth would yield in abun dance all the wood required for thia Bat there are other ressons for sus taining our foresto than . fer the. par pose of securing their wood. This is the faoat obvious reason for their pre nervation, but perhaps not tin most s - - ~-iid continu?^1 ' =~- ' ' - 'fl THE FORESTS. \ c ... m- t E r the Wastefulness of Mane ? i J ;.!" important; for although many of us may never have realized it, the forest is a powerful agency in the mainten ance of our soil, our water supply and a proper conpcituted atmosphere. In helping to control these conditions, therefore, the forests exert a powerful influence both cn the physical and fi nancial condition of man'B lifo. In the first place, let us notice tho influence of the forests on our water supply. Whee the hills* and tho mountain slopes of its birthplace are clothed with .fo/ests, the little brook oan truly say: **I chatter, chatter as I flow To join the brimming river; For men may come and men may go, But I go on forever." But let the trees bo removed from the hills, and the brook will cease its merry song. It may. indeed, chatter for a time, but not in a ceaseless rip ple. But let us note the reason for all this: The soil of a forest region is interseoted and intertwined by num berless roots, which renner it firm, but very porous. In addition to this the surface soil is rendered firm by fallon leaves and by the growth of vegetation. When, therefore, the rain fslls it does not drsin rspidly off, but DOk.a.5 along the roots into thc ground. It sinks deeper into thc earth, gradually seeps into the reser voirs of the springs, the birthplsces ol the rivers, and thus even during ai extended drought maintains the pro per flow of water in the beds of th< streams. On the other hand, Che soil of ai area stripped of its forests has Doth tag to make it porous, and benet becomes so oompsot end solid tha very little water can enter it. When thefeiore, the rain falls on suoh ai ares, not being ebie to soak into tb? soil, it drains rapidly down the hil sides and immediately finds its wa; into the ebionels of the streams, in stead of into the reservoirs of th springs. Then even little brooks ar oonverted into rushing torrents, an destructive floods are often the rc suits. The floods carry all kinds c trash and sediment into the .owe courses of the rivers and there deposi it. This oauses the channels of th river to become filled, and often dil astron- results ensue. Navigation i obstructed. The river spreads ot over extended areas, inf eating the ri gion with disease and destroy lu both life snd property. When drought ooours in such a barren r gion, the wella fail, the branches ( dry, and even in the ;Mvn there is supply. In olose connection with this is tl influence of the forests in preservii our soil. Although the soil of a fo est srea is lighter and more porous, is protected, as ht?? been seid again the denuding notion of water by covering of leaves and vegetation, ai by a network of roots, Over expos* aress, however, there is no such pi section, and the soil, which throng the disintegration of the rooks m the deo ay of vegetable matter, has 1 quired untold ages for its formatfc ia rapidly swept away* Thus, in short while a fertile end fruitful nt may be robbed pf its soil and con ve: ed into one of rook barrenness. I Especially is it important to pi serve forests onv hills and sao an ta slopes, because tsuch slopes are ti regions of greatest rainfall, beoati the rivers are born in the moontah and because when the forests are l mojpd, the water gushes ic torres down the mountain Tai!?, sweep! swsy the soil sod causing disastro Booda. Although it is not folly realise the forests also exert a powerful i fluenoe on our climate. When the sunshine falls on an ai sovered by trees, the heat is rn? thoroughly absorbed and . p?n?tr?t the,Soil nore easily than when it fal ;n an arid and : uncovered surf ac rbis is true bennie th?1 forest an >y Us treas and shrubbery, presents jraatar extent of surface; because he porous and better absorbing cht LOtor ^of the leaves which eb ver eu m area; and because of the presen >f a greater amount of moisture in t ir of a forest region than in the i >f a rer'.on void of vegetation. Whe m the other hand, the rays of thea all ou a dry, bare surface, they pei rato the ground to but email dept tod sin*;? they heat a ?mailer arbons oust necessarily produce a ^greater i re??* o? *****-nra. . ?arfsn? ?arte as regsrds the' h if neat. Forest districts, wbioh ts thile bare, uncovered aurfaoea, wh! aka; in' heat quickly, ' part with io ^not* become excessively hot ' ' ' W?????m Ummer, and B?UCO they part with heir heat slowly, they do not become cry cold in winter. Thia fact exerts a greater influence n tho depth to which tho frost ex ends downward into the soil. If tho now, which is a non-conduotor of ieat, falls before the frost penetrates bo ground io any great extent, it will ot as a covering to prevent the earth rom losing heat. The frost will, hcrcforc be prevented from entering rory deep into the ground. In the :arl> spring, when the thaws come, he water derived from tho melting of ho snow can then soak quietly into he grouod and fills thc resivoira c< he springs. If, however, tho forests are re moved tho ground easily IOBCS its heat ind freezes beforo tho first snow falls. Dbe snow then shuts out the heat, and .bo ground remains frozen long after .he snow ia melted. The water from .ho melting BOOW then drains rapidly )tf and often oauoos floods. Forests exert a marked influonoo on the olimate of a country especially at the time of the year when the crops aro to suffer injury from lato and ear ly frosts. Tyndall ha? shown that the powei of the air to absorb heat both from th! sun and from the earth depends upor the amount of water vapor present it the air. Over a forest area, the air ii moister, and consequently, better abl< to absorb the heat. The difference o! even a fraotion of a degree often deter mines'the occurrence or non-occurrenot of a froBt. The destruction of a fores therefore may be the cauco of a Ut? frost in an agricultural or a fruit grow ing seotion whioh may destroy mil lions of dollars worth of property in i single night. In the same manner also the forests prevent the ocourrene of early frosts in lutnmn. Generally, the air of the forest i cooler and damper in onmmer thai that of the open fields io the seme dil triot, heeanse the air of the forests i shielded from the direot rays of th son and because it is chilled by evspoi ation from the moister ground. ? greater frequency of hail storm is another phono mo on accompany i nj the destruction of the forests. Th exsot causea of hail are not definitel known, but voe of the conditions neeei Bary for its occurrence) appears to b the rapid mixture of very warm an very cold moist air. As has airead been shown, the forests mcdh'y G normalise the temperature, and heno tend to prevent such extreme ohacgeE while over bare regions suoh ohange are exaotly what we would expect. 'Ti said that over the Saraha desert th temperature often falls 80 degrees o more in one night. It has been ac ti ally observed in parts of the worl from which the forests have been rt moved that thc number of hailstorm has undoubtedly increased. The d< atruotive^ character of hail storms i known to every one. A single ha! storm in France caused a loss,to th apicultura! distriots amounting to on - ltt?__ _-S_ immuu pvunuB. Again the forest serve as a protec tion against the wind. It is generali recognised *n the western part of th United States that when trees ai planted in the plots on the side of c around ??75* i?sds, the protection tbs afforded che rest of the land again* the ' winds is greater tn aotual men? value than the rent of the lands o coi pied by suoh forests. They exert sheltering influence by keeping th land to the leeward warmer than the toward ?he windward in the time c frosts. They th UR screen not onl the land immediately on the lee war side, but ?extend this protecting jil fluencee tc ? much greater'- distsno than might be expected beyond th immediate neighborhood of the forest The wind? of countries bordarte on deserts is often ladened with sand Whenever suoh a land io covered b extensive forests on the windward sid? the g rea tor. part of the sand is de poa i ted ou the edge of tba forest. When however, the forests on Bnob. aw are ire destroyed, the sands sweep ove the land and have been known to con pert some of the most fertile portion >f the earth into bare and arid regions 3n account of the destruction of th forests east of the Mount of Olives befand ht* covered'that region, 'si .hst it now requires an immensi ?mount of 1 abor to culture the ol i vi rees, where formerly they natural!; prory in great abundance. Through the agency of plant an< aeinttined In' the - composition of on tmosphere. The pleats take in car ion 4le*U*iV?m sffiffi't?liilf?M x?g?n, while the animals breathe ii hie oxygen i and breathe out ?*rb6s ioxide fer the 'awteninoW.of-p?an m ItU?iketheeaaeof ihemew d Jack Sprat and his remarkable wife rho between them kept both plate ac !iiier Wk*l ?Unta reieofc od animalB need for their existence nd vice versa, v Thus the proper ooo titution of our atmosphere is main ly are'/lifV different"parts aesooia ted with each other, and so exact is tho balance winch is maintained be tween them, that no one can be chang ed either in amount or distribution without markedly affecting all the oth ers. Thia exact balance of nature that is required to be maintained in order that the present life of the earth may exist, eau be disturbed by many means. In perhaps no other way does man tond moro to disturb this balanec than by the destruction of the forest. Tho pr?servation of the forests in at least certain localities is, therefore, imperatively demanded in order to preserve nature's perfect equilibrium and to secure on the earth a place for the comfortable habitation of man. How to be Yei y Popular. Never hesitate to talk about your self and your affairs. This will inter est everybody. Do not fail to throw cold water on the people's plans and to discourage their ambition. Nobody is sensitive about this. Be sure to dwell upon the defects | and failings of othere, and call every body's attention to them. Everyt edy likes gossip. Never try to stop gossip, no matter if it does drive an innooent person insane or to suicido. There ls no rea son why you should be deprived of a little innooent pastime just because of others' sensitiveness. Pass the gossip along. Add to its spiciness: . Always be on the watoh for slights sod insults. Remember, most people are your sooial superiors and aie try-' iog to out you. There is nothing which will endear one to othere like selfishness. Every body admires it. v Always Uko the best seat wherever you go, and after you ar? jrtll seated, offer your seat to others without the slightest intention of getting up. - Just look out for your o?s com forts. Let other people do the tame. Never do anything that you do not feel like doing. 1 Never try to force your moods. Let them take o aro of themselves. No* 1 body will mlod if you gat into a raga, or nag or scold, or if you have the "blues." It is, pleasant to have 1 gloomy, silent, moody people with ' long faces- around the house; it ii so uplifting to everybody. It is much pleasanter to let other ' people entertain you than for you to entertain them.. Thoy are not ?noah 1 interested in their own affairs. They see so muon themselves they get tired 1 of their own company. They would much rather talk , about your affairs sud what you are doing. Do not talf unless you feel like it. Just get in a corner and read, or lie down and take a u sp. Never mind who is present, hti some on? ?'?e entertain too gueaij. Do' not bother i about trying to kr* agreeable at the breakfast table. Just 1 hide yourself behind your paper, find j fin?t with the food, and snap at the j servante. ' ?'o'j I "vu popular with ':the servants, vent your spleen upon them at every opportunity. Find fault with every thing they do for you at home or soy wucro oleo, xacy m BSITMIW ?a-; aro used te it. They have no buei ness to be thin-skinned. . V Never hesitate to show St when your feelings are hurt, or to indicate your jealousy when others receive more ! attention o r aro ' hotter drosaed th au you.'. . . ' . ' ,' If thiutfa do not suit you, slam things around the house. Bs just as disagreeable aa possible. Never mind If yow bre?k a thing or two now and then. It will relieve the blood pres sure on the brain. -, ii V-J splendid thing for you, but very bad j t for others. It encourages vanity, and I i people who are praised get so "puffed up" and "big headed'1 that them io no j t living with them.-O. 8. Marden in I i Success Msgsziue. Bronchos aro Going Fast. The outlaw horse, for years the hero of bronoho-bustisg in the Sooth and West, is rapidly becoming a thing of tho past, and in ten years will be moro scarce than tho fast-dying buffalo and the old time cowboy, according to John M. Kuykendall, who makes a specialty of collecting the wildest horses that can bc procured for buck ing contests. "Ten years ago the outlaw was as plentiful as jack rabbits," said Mr. Kuykendall, "but I have only been able to get about *hirty real buekera that will put up a good fight out of 50,000 horses that I have looked at during the year. "The outlaw horse comeo from the poorest blooded that roam tho ranges j of the V/est," he continued. "He is I a criminal among horses, just as sure ly as meu who go wrong have had bad blood in their veins. His parents are in nearly every case mustangs and the stock is the same as that which roamed the plains of the West in the carly days and degenerated through uselessness. "Nearly every horse will buck," he deelcred, "if you turo him loose io a pasture for seversl months and then try to ride him, but he will only kick up a few tir: 20 and then quit. The outlaw will buck, though, after he baa been ridden successfully, just as coon aa another man gets ba bia back, ft taken years to break him of the habit, and he io never safe. lt bo. ever gets a chanco he will start out, bucking again, end he ts always dangerous. ) .< "You rarely hear of B famous buck er now, although ten or. twenty years ago every large range bed aevetral out laws that nobody could ride. Hie cowboys can tide aa well ?a the old* The trouble ?S, y out liver9! 'tiefe One of its products, "bile," is overflowing hjf? your Mood* ? ; Yow car/4 digest yous food, suffer dreadfully ?rom- head ache, stomach ache, dizzi . etc?What you need ? sj? ? dose of salts, cathartic water or pills-but a liver tosiis li fhednun^s^ 1 I ilfapIr.OraiSitfif I Immuvn VBUUgiss^ tili, thia great medldne acts gently on. S the sick ll ver. jt purifies ??eJ>loa?, g Ij *? renews The appw io ivcsa? tm soiyes^ ?? mm clears tho brain and cures const!- s '. patton. r '..^/.',<*;;',B; V-:-, it is 'a vue tM?ns for alcklivejr 9 ona kidney?, and regulates &M aa H ,v???esuve^MucBoos? ??ry lt?1 -'^ *-~ ~;H ?, At aU debiera in medicines. m g ;. 25cpaeimges?:'. .. .v;."';*i'^* J. L. SHERAR?, sees* f\pRna nv-.- aHB?nsraBHw i ?sj? Money to land on m ?' ' 1 1 '? 1 ? i i j. i i . II m i I, ? i I I I I ? I II , . . , . , , | | | BY CLINKSCALES ? CHESH??7 ANDERSON, S. C., WEDNESDAY, JULY 18,1906. VOLUME XLII--NO. 5 imo boye, and they sre not degenerat es ''The breed of hones throughout be oountry is improving steadily and .his is the death knell of the outlaw, it will take away some of the most jioturosquo Western life when they 50 entirely, but that is ?oicg rapidly my way, and horse owners will be the gainers.-Denver News. Does the Deg Reason? A dog I owned suffered a great deal ; with indigestion. The least indis creet diet would briog on these at- ' ;sokB, and as they occurred very fra- ; -uoutly I had a large bottle of medi- j sine always on hand and kept it on a 1 ihelf in his kennel. The dog seemed * Lo have acquired a thorough compre- r, ?en&iou as to thc relief-bringing quail- J ] by of that bottle. Whenever bo< was I ill and food was placed before him, be 1 would scent it, walk away without! touching it, then turn to the shelf I and, gazing steadily at the bottle, in- j dioate plainly bis wants. He took tho medicine without the slightest j balking, whioh is rather exceptional, I as any one who ever tried to dose a j dog will sgree. . " I This dog, when let out, would never I disturb anything in the poultry yard, but, the mouK-Tjt a stray chick lost ber I way into his yard the savage got the better of him; he would ostoh the un- j fortunate straggler, kill and devour it, I leaving only a few feathers as evi-1 dence of the "murder." Punishment J always followed. The rompants of! feathers were shown to the dog so as j to impress on him his wrong doings I and make tho cause of the punishment I olear . td^hfei-^W^t???*5 to 'tia?l young ohiokens would be missing, and I sdi efforts ii to locate the guilty one J were vain. ,,#he, dog's yard was always scrutinized,' bdt nothing fotfhuT"' ? - . I . ; My best broilers were dlsappearieg j at a rapid rate, and I decided to have the dog watched. Soon he was caught i? the act and the mystery solved. Tho moment.the dog had finished his meal, he scratched the feathers io a hosp and carried them with his: teeth, to a corner of his yard, where ho bu ried them. The dog had the most embarrassed and helpless expression at.'the time he was oaught that I over noticed oa a dog. An es tra nevero punishment tras dealt out,, and Ida? not know if the mortification of being trapped or the punishment did thV work, but the deg waa cured from that raoment on. The related observations show rea soning in order to accomplish some thing for a set purpose.' I believe most animals possess the quality in? some degree, more or less, according; to their mental development. In the last case described the dog's instinct led him to catch and kill the* chicken, but memory told him that punishment would follow if found out. He reasoned that by hiding the evi* ienoe of his guilt he would escape punishment for his actions, whioh bo understood to be wrong. Tho very faot of being able to discriminate be tween right and wrong and trying to sheck the consequences of the latter abo es the necessity of thinking and therefore of reasoning power.-S. I*. De Febry in Outisg. THE STATE OF SC UT H CAROLINA, Cenety of Anderson. COURT OP COMMON PI.EA8. JD o. N. Bleckloy, F lalutlff, against Elijah PJ7tcn_ Petor fr. y ton, Joo Payton, Georgia Pajton aacfi Waddy Payton, Dei'endauu.-flommoaj for Re lief-Complaint Benred. To tho Defendant!, Elijah Payton, Peter Payton, Joo Fay too, Georgia Payton ?od Waddy Payton s. YOU ave hereby essraoned and required to an swer the Ovuplalnt In this cet lon, of walch ?copy la herewith esrred apon yon, etd to serre a cov.y of your answer to ?aid Complaint on thc? EuWrilore at thur ofico. at Anderton, t?. C., with in twenty dan after tho & avlea hereof, exel wive* of the day of mch service ; and If yon adi toan irn the Complaint within the time aforesaid, tn? 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