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AMERICAN FORESTRY 



Piles of Cordwood axd Fagots 



showing how the germans utilize what is usually wasted in american woods and forests. schwartz- 



wald, baden, germany 



mentary history to your minds '1 In 1 806 

 Napoleon thrashed the Pmssian army 

 so thoroughly at Yena that it never 

 ceased running until it ran into the 

 arms of the Russian Alexander on the 

 banks of the Memel. Out of deference 

 to this Muscovite ally, the great 

 Corsican refrained from incorporating 

 Prussia as a province of France. He 

 only took away the best half of her 

 territory and compelled her miserable 

 King (Frederick William III) to disband 

 his army — leaving him but just enough 

 to police his diminished acres and parade 

 before him at Potsdam. 



Incidentally be it noted that in 1806 

 Napoleon not only robbed Prassia of 

 military stores and art treasures but 

 his army pillaged every cash box and 

 savings bank in the land and left the 

 land of Queen Louise so poor that even 



the Absolute King had to think twice 

 before ordering a new suit of clothes. 



In these straits God raised up the 

 Grand old SteirL He was not a 

 Prussian — few of Germany's great men 

 have been Prussian; but he was a great 

 political diagnostician and feared no 

 man — either on or off the throne. The 

 Prussian King cordially disliked this 

 man of iron as he disliked all but those 

 who flattered his many weaknesses. 

 But there are times when a surgeon 

 must be called — even a hated one. 

 And as it was with Prussia in the darkest 

 days of her history, the King needed 

 money — and it is usually only when the 

 Royal pockets are void that poptilar 

 clamor gets a voice. The Courtiers who 

 had helped Frederick William III to the 

 disgrace of Jena could do nothing for 



him but 



wring 



their hands and curse 



