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EING quite full of food, the king was in a fairly 

 good humor — for him. At first he chewed his 

 whiskers a bit, thinking to himself what a chump 

 he was to have forgotten and left out of his curse the 

 great use of trees. Then he rather admired the prince 

 for being clever enough to have thought of it. and to 

 have worked out with so much skill the plan for the house 

 and the big dinner. 



Did the old king put his arms around the prince and 

 say, " Bless you, my son ; you have done nobly? " And 

 did they make up and go back home together, and live 

 happily ever after ? No indeed, nothing so dull and tame 

 as that. They still managed to fight now and then 

 when they felt like it, and thereby to have just as much 

 excitement as ever, but with a bit more respect for 

 each other. 



The prince mended his ways and, because the trees 

 had been so useful to him, he spent the rest of his 

 days in caring for them. He planted them and tended 

 them, kept fires away and helped them to grow. Having 

 something now in which he was interested, he found it 

 easier to keep out of mischief. And he lived a long 

 time to teach others the mighty use of trees, which 

 the old king had forgotten all about when he made his 

 list of forbidden items. 



NUW the moral of this tale," I went on, " is that 

 we must — " But looking down, I saw that the 

 littlest boy was fast asleep. The tousled head was 

 drooped and the brown little hands which had clutched 

 some shiny chestnuts were unclasped, so that the nuts 

 rolled down onto the floor when I lifted the lad and 

 carried him up to bed. Anyhow, it won't hurt to keep 

 in mind all the good things that the trees furnish us, 

 and to try to do what we can to repay the trees by 

 treating them well in turn. 



THE LASSEN VOLCANIC NATIONAL PARK 



THE Lassen Volcanic National Park, the bill creating 

 which President Wilson has signed, is California's 

 fourth national park. Lassen Peak, which showed 

 volcanic activity only a few years ago, was set apart as a 

 national monument in 1906. Cinder Cone, in its imme- 

 diate neighborhood, was also thus distinguished at the 

 same time. The new national park includes both of these 

 remarkable volcanic monuments within its area of 

 82,880 acres. 



The region is one of extraordinary interest and the 

 only one in the United States exhibiting recent volcanic 

 action. Among its features are Lassen Peak, 10,437 feet 

 elevation and still exhibiting some volcanic activity ; North 

 Peak, 8,600 feet elevation; Southwest Peak, over 9,200 

 feet elevation ; Prospect Peak, over 9,200 feet elevation ; 

 Cinder Cone, 6,907 feet elevation ; the Devil's Half Acre, 

 showing hot springs and mud geysers ; Bumpass, Morgan 

 and other hot springs ; seven lakes, many interesting ice 

 caves and lakes of volcanic glass, numerous trout streams ; 

 and beautiful and majestic canyons. There are forests of 

 yellow pine, fir, white pine, and lodgepole. 



ROCK PROFILE OF V^ASHINGTON 



'HE illustration of a profile of George Washington 

 seen in the gorge of the Natural Bridge of Virginia 

 and published in American Forestry for May has 

 brought to American Forestry photographs and stories 



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ROCK PROFILE OF GEORGE WASHINGTON 



of several other profiles of the Father of his country 

 formed by some scenic feature. 



Among the most interesting of these is the accompany- 

 ing picture of one of the best of the rock profiles of 

 George Washington. It was sent to American Forestry 

 by Dr. Henry Sturgis Drinker, President of Lehigh Uni- 

 versity, who was for three years President, and is now a 

 director, of the American Forestry Association. The rock 

 is in the Lehigh University Park. 



SHOE-BLACKING owes its peculiar aromatic odor, 

 faintly suggestive of the deep woods where spruce 

 or hemlock needles pad the ground, to an oil which 

 is manufactured from these same kinds of needles. 

 Similar oils are obtained from the foliage and small 

 twigs of various cone-bearing trees, and find use for a 

 number of purposes. In Europe the finer of these oils 

 are used extensively as perfume in soap. They 

 are common components of liniments and other medic- 

 inal preparations. Cedar oil is chiefly used in the prep- 

 aration of insecticides, and, to some extent, in making 

 liniment. 



