1900. 



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That hits the nail on the head. We 

 have so few things in this country which 

 call for reverence on account of their age 

 that it seems a pity to lessen the number. 

 Those trees came out of the ground when 

 Noah's ark rested on Ararat, or about that 

 time, and they are likely to last, if let 

 alone, until Gabriel sounds his trumpet. 

 The man who would cut one of them 

 down and convert it into cash has no 

 more appreciation of the proprieties than 

 a rhinoceros has of music. New York 

 Herald. 



would have been sacrificed had the struc- 

 ture been moved away bodily ; and the 

 Boston Transcript rises to remark that 

 " if all citizens were like him the forestry 

 problem could be quickly settled."- Liim- 

 berman s Review. 



Save the Forests. 



The bill introduced into Congress to 

 remove the duty on pulp wood and paper 

 should become a law as soon as it possibly 

 may. Aside from the fact that there is 

 little foreign competition in the manufac- 

 ture of wood pulp paper, it should be 

 recognized as a necessity for the preserva- 

 tion of our already sadly decreasing forests 

 that the duty be removed. American 

 paper is exported in large quantities to 

 foreign countries and the result of the 

 tariff on the wood pulp of which it is 

 manufactured simply operates to raise the 

 price of paper, while at the same time it is 

 producing the certain destruction of our 

 forests, enormous inroads being made into 

 them each year, in order that the pulp 

 wood may be supplied to the paper fac- 

 tories. It is wellknown that the safety 

 of our water-supply depends upon the 

 preservation of the forests, and could the 

 vast resources of the unexplored Canadian 

 woods be thrown open to our paper 

 manufacturers by the abolition of the tariff 

 on wood pulp, the American forests would 

 be saved from a seriously threatened de- 

 struction, while the price of all paper 

 manufactured from the pulp would be 

 correspondingly reduced. Times- Union, 

 Albany, N. Y. 



Ingenuity in Woodwork. 



The most artistic and attractive of all 

 the beautiful specimens of the California 

 exhibit at Paris will be a table top, inlaid 

 with a mosaic of fifty-seven woods, the 

 cabinet work alone having cost $1500. 

 It is a veritable painting, this table top, 

 and the designs are akin' to those of the 

 wonderful Persian rugs of the past. No 

 expense or degree of ingenuity has been 

 spared to make the woods of California 

 impress the Paris visitors with the magni- 

 tude of this State's forest capabilities. 

 and Iron. 



Forest Destruction. 



The reckless destruction of our forests 

 is a national scandal and it is full time that 

 measures be taken, not only to preserve 

 what is left, but also to replace much that 

 has been destroyed. The experience of 

 other countries, particularly Germany, has 

 proved that a forest is not like a mine, but 

 rather like a farm. Yet Americans have 

 hitherto treated their forests almost en- 

 tirely upon the mining basis, assuming 

 that all that could be done was to cut down 

 the trees and then use the land for some- 

 thing else than growing trees. Denver 

 Field and Farm. 



From Different Standpoints. 



The aesthetic members of the forestry 



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associations are jubilant. A man in 

 Greenwich, Conn., recently tore down a 

 twenty-five-thousand-dollar-house in order 

 to save some Maple and Elm trees that 



Experience as a Teacher. 



All in all, it appears that forest culture 

 has taken hold of the people in places 

 where it will do the most good, and that 

 even the lumbermen are taking a great in- 

 terest in it. There is, therefore, good 

 reason for the hope that forest denudation 

 on a large scale has come to an end here, 

 and that fields which have been swept 

 as by the besom of destruction will by and 

 by be made once more to " blossom as the 

 rose," so to speak. Brooklyn (N. Y.) 

 Citizen. 



