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placed by the factory-hand—weak-lunged, knock- 
kneed, and sallow. One has only to travel through 
the forests of the continent of Europe, and then visit 
a few of the large manufacturing towns of England, 
A ROAD THROUGH A GERMAN FOREST. 
to have this physical degeneration of the race brought 
home in the most forcible and unpleasant manner. 
The wood industries are mostly healthy (to a great ex- 
tent out-of-doors) occupations, and they usually em- 
ploy a robust country population, living partly on 
the forest and partly on their gardens and small 
agricultural allotments. But let us consider the one 
million people that in Germany live and labor in the 
forests. What a reserve of national strength! They 
