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AMERICAN FORESTRY 



quently devours. Doubtless the wolverene believes he 

 has quite as much right to kill and eat a young fox when 

 he conies across it, as a man has to murder a calf or a 

 lamb in the very presence of their distracted mothers, 

 when it strikes his fancy to want them for food. It is 

 a very excellent example of the old saying that it is a 

 "distinction without a difference." 



The stories of the wolverene given us by Doctor Coues 

 go to show, upon pretty good authority, that the eyesight 

 of this animal is poor. When one of them meets with a 

 man in the woods, it has been seen to rear up on its hind 

 legs and to shade its eyes with one of its forepaws, much 

 as we ourselves would do to cut off the sun's rays to get 

 a clearer view of the person we had fallen in with. Sev- 



eral of his stories illustrate the wonderful reasoning pow- 

 ers of the wolverene in avoiding being killed or caught 

 by the different kinds of traps man sets. It has also 

 been known to chew in two the string in gun-traps lead- 

 ing from bait to the trigger, and this not only in the case 

 of the same trap, but two or three times, leading the hun- 

 ter to believe that "that carcajou ought to live, as he must 

 be something at least human, if not worse." 



And so they go good stories and bad; by which is 

 meant fables about the poor, despised creature, which 

 every other living thing knows but to abhor and hate. 

 Still, perhaps wolverenes have, in a way, a pretty good 

 time among themselves, when their arch enemy does not 

 interfere with their affairs. 



A LAUDABLE TREE PLANTING 



THE PLANTERS OF THE ROCK ISLAND "HONOR ROW" 



Underwood and Underwood. 



To the Rock Island Lines goes the honor of establishing the first "Honor Row" of trees planted for employees fifty years or more 

 in the service. This "Honor Row" has been placed along the right of way at Midlothian, Illinois, where the youngest engineer or 

 conductor can see the Lombardy Poplar. The Rock Island Line is taking steps for the planting of memorial trees in honor of 

 their men who were in the service of their country during the World War, but the honor roll for "Old Timers" Is a very unique 

 move. 



In the picture from left to right are Charles Tinley, of Chicago, in the service since 1856; Sam N. Dickerman, of Chicago, 

 in the senrice since 1867; Charles H. Davis, of Rock Island, Illinois, in the service since 1857; John P. Lacey, of Chicago, in the 

 service since 1869; Jacob E. Binkley, of Des Moines, Iowa, in the service since 1867; E. B. Cropper, of Minneapolis, Minnesota, 

 in the service since 1865; James Sheahan, of Chicago, in the service since 1866. 



t^i!"''n' '^""'""r* *"'' conductors have all been retired on pension upon concluding their fiftieth year of service. The record 

 of John F. Lacey Is unparalleled in railroad history. He has traveled over ninety-five times around the world in his fifty-two years 

 oJ service without an accident. The trees have been registered in the Hall of Fame by the American Forestry .Association. 



