tree, and from mountain crest to mountain crest. We enjoy the 

 beauty of their gorgeous colors. We enjoy their comedies and deplore 

 their tragedies. We can lessen the dangers that lurk along their 

 pathway if we only stop to think. We can put up nesting boxes for 

 them, and we can give them a morsel to eat during the hard winter 

 months when their natural food supply is scarce. We can love 

 them and befriend them in return for the great good they do us, and 

 is this not worth while ? R. J. H. DELOACH. 



The State Geologist of West Virginia. 



" Just as sure as the sun shines, and the sum of two and two make 

 four, unless this insane riot of destruction and waste of our fuel re- 

 sources which has characterized the past century shall be speedily 

 ended, our industrial power and supremacy will, after a meteor-like 

 existence, revert, before the close of the present century, to those 

 nations which conserve and prize at their proper value their priceless 

 treasures of carbon." I. C. WHITE. 



A Captain of the Steel Industry. 



"We are nationally in the position of a large family receiving a 

 rich patrimony from thrifty parents deceased intestate. * * * Now* 

 the first duty of such a family is to take stock of its patrimony; the 

 next to manage the assets in such manner that none shall be wasted, 

 that all be put to the greatest good of the living and their descendants. ' ' 



ANDREW CARNEGIE. 



Logged and burned-over area. If fire bad been kept out the forest cover would 

 again have become established in a few years. After the fire, however, the area 

 becomes virtually a waste unless planted to trees. 



