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ship of one of the Councilors. The thrill of new powers, and that the vic- 



boys are taught to light and care for a tims of ignorant passiveness have been 



fire and to do the camp cooking out 01 stimulated by informed aspirations, 

 doors. The warning against the threatened, 



ONE OF THE WIGWAMS. 



The tent life is also attractive and 

 the boys soon learn that cleanliness 

 and comforts are desirous and possible. 

 while living in a wigwam. Altogether, 

 a summer in camp is and will continue 

 to be more attractive to boys and par- 

 ents and there will be an increasing 

 number of boys spending the long 

 summer in the open camping. 



Conservation of Mankind. 



by john a. dix. governor of the state 



of new york, albany, n. y. 

 "ill fares the land, to hastening 



ills a prey, 

 where wealth accumulates and men 



decay/'' 

 The American people have been lis- 

 tening to a warning. For a time most 

 of them were heedless — some because 

 of blind selfishness, others because of 

 supposed helplessness, and still others 

 because of uninformed indifference. 

 To-day in every walk of life there are 

 unmistakable evidences that even 

 blind self-interest has seen a new light, 

 that the masses deluded into the be- 

 lief of self-impotence have felt the 



or already active, decadence in the 

 lives, liberties, and enjoyments of the 

 people has been expressed in various 

 forms and by a multitude of different 

 mediums, but by none so emphatically 

 and impressively as by the messages 

 and messengers of the conservation 

 of natural resources. These awaken- 

 ing advices have been carried in last- 

 ing letters of living fire of destroyed 

 forests, in ineffaceable lithographs of 

 eroded soil, in the burning books for- 

 merly found unscorched in "running 

 brooks" which have rushed uselessly 

 to the sea, leaving behind a dry bed 

 of reproach and unsightliness. 



The reassuring advices as to reme- 

 dial and preventive action have been 

 brought home to a distraught and de- 

 spoiled people by the apostles of con- 

 servation. It seems, therefore that no 

 synonym of conservation responds so 

 fittingly and opportunely to the invi- 

 tation of this subject's aim as salva- 

 tion — a beneficent "deliverance from 

 impending evil or destruction." Since 

 the usual meaning of the word applies 



