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ARBORICULTURE 



THE PILGRIM. 



That bright, cherry, ever-welcome maga- 

 zine. The Pilgrim, for January, is already 

 before us. The cover represents a trapper 

 hard at work at it in the north woods, and 

 is a beautiful piece of color work — one of 

 the very best we have ever seen. It is 

 certainly a delight to sit down with this 

 sane, wholesome magazine and get a right 

 perspective of life again. 



The magazine proper has many things of 

 peculiar interest this month. This is a sort 

 of anniversary number with The Pilgrim — 

 the first issue of Volume XV — and is an- 

 other advance step, of which this "maga/ine 

 for the home" has made iiiaay diiri'Tj,- Tue 

 past year. 



The leading article, "When the President 

 Goes to Church," by Allen Day; "From 

 Kindergarten to College," by Florence Mil- 

 ner; "Brain Surgery to Cure Criminality," 

 by Frederic Blount Warren, is another enter- 

 taining article. "Why American Shipping 

 Declined," by Wiliam W. Bates, is of peculi- 

 ar interest just now. 



There are four pages of advance fashion 

 styles — toilets for indoors and out, gowns 

 for the schoolgirl, dresses for the little tots, 

 etc. "Our American Club Women" has three 

 strong features. "The Mount and the Mul- 

 titudes" is the first of a series of addresses 

 by the noted Welsh preacher, Rev. Gwilym 

 O. Griffith. $1 per year, 10c per copy. 

 Pilgrim Publishing Co., Detroit, Mich. 



THE VILLAGE. 



We are in receipt of "The Village," a new 

 publication devoted to Village Life. This 

 journal is well prepared, finely illustrated 

 with many excellent engravings, one article 

 "Our Forest Fires," by Clifton Johnsen, is of 

 special interest, as it illustrates the origin 

 of fires in the woodlands and methods of 

 combatting them. So long as Americans are 

 so extremely careless of the disposition of 

 matches and cigar stumps, and have so lit- 

 tle thought of the value of our forests, there 

 will be fires; and until the railways have 

 better trained section men who will ex- 

 tinguish fires which have spread from their 

 engines, there must be serious fire losses in 

 forest lands adjoining the track. It must 

 depend upon the vigorous action of com- 

 munities to compel railways to perform this 

 duty. Any man who loses property by such 

 fires may collect a small amount of damage, 

 but not sufficient to influence railway com- 

 panies in taking care of the fires which 

 they have caused. 



Some roads use every precaution to pre- 

 vent the spread of flames, but a majority do 

 not. The land owner, however, who strews 



JRTHUR CO WEE 



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powder along the track, in shape of leaves, 

 is more to blame than the enginemen whose 

 sparks touch off this inflammable material. 

 A greater respect for the forest, a highe.' 

 legard for the young trees which are to 

 be the future forests, will go far to pre- 

 vent destructive fires in timber lands, '^he 

 Village" is published at Hyde Park, Mass., 

 $1.50 a year. 



FOREST LAND WITHDRAWN. 

 Four Large Tracts Set Aside as Re- 

 serves by order of Acting Com- 

 missioner at Washington. 



Washington, Dec. 88. — The acting 

 commissioner of the general land of- 

 fice today announced the withdrawal of 

 537,920 acres for forest reserve pur- 

 poses within the Sacramento range of 

 mountains in south central New Mexi- 

 co. The lands are in Otero and Chaves 

 counties, south and east of the Mes- 

 calero-Apache reservation. The acting- 

 commissioner announced the with- 

 drawal of 318,720 acres in Routt 

 county, northwest Colorado, west of 

 the continental divide, for similar pur- 

 poses. He also withdrew for forest re- 

 serve purposes 483,000 acres in south- 

 western Colorado north and east of 

 the southern Ute reservation, near Du- 

 rango, and 155,580 acres in northwest- 

 ern California, lying in Del Norte 

 county, adjoining the Klamath forest 

 reservation on the west and the Ore- 

 eon border on the north. 



