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active in their opposition to the erection 
of the smelter. Strong efforts are being 
made to have work on the smelter discon¬ 
tinued. This the smelter company de¬ 
cline to do; they argue that the usual 
course of the winds would blow the 
poisonous fumes out to the ocean. But 
in case winds should veer, to be on 
the safe side, the company would pro¬ 
vide a chimney 400 feet high to prevent 
the wind from carrying gases over the 
park shrubbery. However, the park 
commissioners decided that the risk was 
too great, and a resolution was adopted 
asking the smelter company to discon¬ 
tinue the construction of a plant at that 
point. If the resolution is disregarded 
an injunction suit will be begun in the 
United States Court. There promises 
to be a big legal fight over the case. It 
is also claimed that the fumes will 
eventually destroy the forests, orchards, 
gardens, crops, berry plants, flowers, 
etc., in the country for a radius of miles 
around San Bruno. The company pro¬ 
pose to erect a smelter that will cost 
$>5,000,000, and have unlimited capital. 
—Landscape Gardening. 
A GROWING BARN 
T T is not often that a man builds a one- 
story structure and has it transformed 
into one of two stories almost without 
effort on his part. i bis, however, is 
the experience of }. W. Fesler, who lives 
north of Morgantown, a village a few 
miles southwest of Franklin, Ind. He 
has a barn which threatens to develop 
into a “skyscraper.” In 1891, having 
need of a new barn, he built a small 
structure, and in its construction he 
used green willow posts at the corners 
and along the sides. These he sunk 
into the ground in the usual manner, 
says the “Inter Ocean.” For some 
time nothing unusual was noticed, but 
after a year he saw that whereas he laid 
the floor near the ground, it was now 3 
feet above the soil. On examination he 
discovered thaf the willow posts, instead 
of being dead, as he supposed they were 
on putting them in, were in reality alive 
and had taken root and were growing. 
In their upward movement they carried 
the barn along. He watched this with 
interest month by month and year by 
year. Of course, he had to build 
another barn, for it was inconvenient 
to use the constantly rising structure. 
Last spring the first barn was on stilts 
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