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have just seen ! — the peace and quiet of a life remote from discordant arms, 

 the earth pouring forth the ready fruit from the soil, the unadorned pillars 

 of the house, the unadulterated oil, the natural wealth, the leisure which 

 all should enjoy, even the grottos and murmuring waters {speluncae 

 viviq7ie laais), the game from the forest, the youths enduring toil and 

 content with little, and the human and divine love. Good old Cowley 

 has translated it most beautifully, and has said many fine things about 

 the joys of an agricultural life, which Horace would not exchange even 

 for the splendor of an emperor's palace. "Husbandmen," he says, 

 "live by what they can get by industry from the earth, and others by 

 what they can catch by craft from men." 



As I go to sleep I hear once more the little children calling: " O, 

 little grandmother, what have you brought us?" 



[to be continued.] 



Our Forest Policy. 



By Hon. Theodore Roosevelt. 



[President Roosevelt delivered an address before the Society of American Forest- 

 ers on March 27, 1903, which has since been published by the Department of Agricul- 

 ture. It contains so much that is pertine\it and of interest to our readers that we 

 reprint here selected portions of the address. — Ed.] 



First and foremost, you can never afford to forget for one moment 

 what is the object of our forest polic}'. That object is not to preserve the 

 forests because they are beautiful, though that is good in itself; nor 

 because they are refuges for the wild creatures of the wilderness, though 

 that, too, is good in itself ; but the primary object of our forest policy, 

 as of the land policy of the United States, is the making of prosperous 

 homes. It is part of the traditional policy of home making of our coun- 

 try. Kver)'^ other consideration comes as secondary. The whole effort 

 of the Government in dealing with the forests must be directed to this 

 end, keeping in view the fact that it is not onl}^ necessary to start the 

 homes as prosperous, but to keep them so. That is why the forests have 

 got to be kept. You can start a prosperous home by destroying the 

 forests, but you can not keep it prosperous that way. 



And you are going to be able to make that policy permanently the 

 policy of the country only in so far as you are able to make the people 

 at large, and, above all, the people concretely interested in the results in 

 the different localities, appreciative of what it means. Impress upon 

 them the full recognition of the value of its policy, and make them earn- 

 est and zealous adherents of it. Keep in mind the fact that in a Govern- 



