THE OUTDOOR WORLD 



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DRAWING THE LUMBER OUT OF THE WOODS. 



good from an inspirational and educa- 

 tional aspect, and every one who has 

 known these beautiful woods will re- 

 gret the loss of the stately chestnut 

 trees that only a few years ago were so 

 thrifty. 



But the owner is doing the right 

 thing. He is removing them as speed- 

 ily and as skillfully as possible. This 

 is being done under the management 

 of Contractor Hawks, with his sub- 

 contractor, Bailey of the portable saw- 

 mill. While the sawmill has been in 

 action hundreds of visitors have been 

 attracted to the place because here 

 logging has been carried on in as pic- 

 turesque and as skilled a manner as it 

 is in the primitive forests of northern 

 New England. One can hardly realize 

 in looking at the accompanying illus- 

 trations that these scenes are only a 

 short distance from modern residences, 

 a railroad and a trolley car track. 



Today is your day and mine — the 

 only day we have ; the day in which 

 we play our part. What our part may 

 signify in the great whole we may not 

 understand; but we are here to play it, 

 and now is our time. This we know: 

 it is a part of acting, not of whining. — 

 David Starr Jordan. 



SOON THE CHESTNUT BLOOM WILL 

 RARER THAN THE RAREST ORCHIDS. 



Your magazine is a constant pleas- 

 BE ure to me. — Josephine Grant, Franklin, 

 Pennsylvania. 



