ing for pack outfit. Meditates on the 

 Mexican situation: says he volun- 

 teered to go down and help, merely to 

 get some change and a bit of excite- 

 ment. He is versed in stumpage ap- 

 praisal, and takes kindly to Skeels' 

 Manual. He has a formula to use it 

 in brush, which reminds the Scribe 

 of the famous formulas for a Hon- 

 duras and Venezuela rebellion. The 

 results are accurate, but need correc- 

 tion for temperature. 



Bruner ('12) to Miss E. J. Tuttle; 

 a secret for six months, now leaking 

 out. Congratulations, the best ever! 

 Bruner likes the Appalachian work, 

 and now that they are going to pass 

 the Newlands Bill and buy Pisgah 

 Forest, he is getting chesty and sym- 

 pathizes with those benighted in the 

 far West. 



Strothman, ('10) just finished a five- 

 weeks "bug job": rain and snow 



nearly every day: fogs so dense that 

 men had to go roped together and the 

 mules would not go at all. One man 

 broke his leg, just to test Strothman 

 on the matter of "first aid": the mules 

 refused to go halfers on this part of 

 the job. Just now Strothman is in 

 with a sharp on topog. They use a 

 Ford car, but Stroth says that Ford 

 needs to provide special ways, a sort 

 of Giffort injector, to get the gaso- 

 line into the machine when the cylin- 

 ders are higher up than the tank. A 

 chance for a real inventor. In the 

 meantime, use Pegoult's biplane and 

 cross the range with a summersault 

 in the air. 



Baker ('12): A card from Port 

 Said, Egypt, Rue de Lesseps, says 

 that he "passed." "A queer place for 

 a forester, but it needs a skin of 

 leather," says Baker, as he sails for 

 the far East, where he is going to 

 raise rubber on Sumatra. R. 



