The Coluratms Day tramp of the Field 

 and Forest Cluti was enlivened by a num- 

 TVo-^^o,. t\„^ ^^"^ incidents, the ferll- 

 Trampera Out ^^^^^y „t weahher and 

 on the deliglitful views. A 



ColuMbus Day jra;^"f„d "ta; 

 the focusing point of half a dozen cam- 

 eras. There are but tew who realize the 

 quality of the cross-country wallsing in the 

 Blue Hill Reservation. Rattlesnake, which 

 can be gained with only a few dozen yards 

 of real road walking, is the hill that gives 

 the most in point of view for the labor of 

 ascending it. The landscape is land and 

 water in fairly equal proportions and the 

 contrasts on the opposite sides of the hori- 

 zon are most marked. There is a rock 

 slide of a hundred feet and more In verti- 

 cal height that Is a fair sample of the 

 White Mountain work, while above the 

 rambler at its foot the castles of R,attla- 

 snake tower In rejil majpstv. Rattle Rock 

 Is a little Chocorua, and the de.soeiU of Its 

 almost vertiral shlc is a scramble that 

 suggests the .Six Husbands or Huntington 

 Ravine. Then there are the scarps of 

 Satsamon Notch, a tern garden of exceed- 

 ing beauty and a riprap of prisms broken 

 from the cliffs above. The top of Chlok- 

 atawbut is now civilized; it has been sand- 

 papered and smooth paths lead up on two 

 of Its Bides. It divides wllih Great Blue 

 the honors of tlie reservation, and many 

 aro the parties that now And Its summit a 

 delightful picnicking place. 



At this ^ season of the year there aro few 

 amphitheatres more filled with color than 

 the side of Chlckatawbut, looklnig to the 

 old Glover place. Here Is a good lunch- 

 ing: place, for, unlike others of the pumps 

 In tho reservation, this one never runs dry. 



Unless one can strike the swath cut up 

 Buck ha is likely to encounter the scrub 

 for which this hill has always teen fa- 

 mous, but at the summit running to the 

 west is a general clearing of tho biishes 

 that makes the tramp to the foot of Tucker 

 a rapid and easy one, and even the rough- 

 ness of the last-named hill has been much 

 smoothed away. Tho southern view from 

 Tucker remains easily the best autumn 

 prospect in the whole range, for the coun- 

 try is well dl-sposed and the trees of kinds 

 that lend themselves to brilliant fall dec- 

 orations. 



The striking thing observed on Monday's 

 walk was the number of persons who are 

 availing themselves of this great recrea- 

 tion ground for the people. It .Is tho sea- 

 son for chestnuts, and many of the 

 younger companies were bent on collecting 

 them, and Indepd everywhwro tho amateurs 

 were scdm-i-d by the beauty of th,. brown 

 nuts to poke about and jret thtm The dis- 

 tribution of the ramblers is an interesting 

 feat which shows that the reservation is 

 coming to Its own. Rattle Crag is so well 

 known and so easy of access that it is rare 

 not to find some one In possession of it 

 or on the way thither. In the valley at 

 its foot, children's calls were heard, and 

 on the farther side of Chlckatawbut were 

 a dozen picturesque forms scattered about 

 the slopes. Along Administration roa<S 

 half a dozen parties were sauntering, and 

 on tho top of Chlckatawbut a dozen or 

 more hail pn-liiiiptcd the minor summit for 

 a, dlniriK-ionrn TSralntree pas.s had a 

 dozen anJ ' ■ ■"i '-riniT about, half a 

 dozen caii-. n the Monatiquot 



side of tl- rora the adminis- 



tration bin I ;lie path to Wild 



Cat Notch thf i < wfire gniups of saunterers 

 every hundred yards. The notch path It- 

 self, being a thoroughfare to Haosl(sJtwhl8- 

 sick, was quite filled with a procession, 

 while all the adjacent woods sprouted 

 chestnut hunters. The Eliot Brldsfe was 

 !t boulevard with at least one couple a 

 minute, while the top of Qreat Blue had 

 its customary holiday hundreds. Such use 

 Of the park syatcm is most gratifying evi- 

 dence of the fitness of the reservations for 

 the needs of tho people- 



MORAL TURPITUDE \ 

 The Interpretation that has t>een given ' 

 to the Immigration act in the case of Mrs. 

 Pankhui-st seem.-) to imparl to that instru- 

 ment a flexibility equal to that of the 

 Mexican constitution. The diametrically 

 opposing comments that the action of the 

 national authorities has called forth would 

 indicate either that its terms were very 

 vague and confusing, or that the law was 

 one to 5h ,1.1 suspended according 



to the Hie desires of those 



admini. i i the words of the 



act aro \ i i ; ,ii,im. ft excludes all "per- 

 sons who have been convicted of or admit 

 having committed a felony or other crime 

 or misdemeanor Involving moral turpi- 

 tude." Moreover, "no person who advo- 

 cates or teaches the duty, necessity or 

 propriety of the unlawful assaulting of 

 any officer of the United States or of any 

 organized government because of his of- 

 ficial ciiaracter shall be permitted to enter 

 the United States." 



It is apparently not a question of ex- 

 pedieacy but of law that is involved, yet 

 quite as apparently law has been sacrificed 

 to supposed expediency. The situation has 

 seemed to turn upon tho question of "moral 

 turpitude." Mr.s. Pankhurst's attorneys as- 

 sured the President and the Secretary of 

 Labor that her offences were purely political 

 and did not involve moral turpitude and 

 tliose high officials accepted their state- 

 ments at their face value. Mrs. Pankhurst 

 claims to be simply a rebel against her 

 Government. But if a political offender 

 cannot be guilty of moral turpitude, why 

 Is the Pretideiil so uncommonly hot against 

 Huerta and su Ii-nient toward her? We 

 hardly suppose that Huerta fired the shot 

 that killed Madero; at least there is no 

 proof ot It. 



One definition ot arson, of accepted au- 

 thority, is that "in the la.ws o£ all civilized 

 countries arson Is a crime of the deep- 

 est atrocity." Even without the definition 

 society has long so regarded It. It stands 

 next to murder, and was long a capital 

 offence. In fact, we believe in some places 

 it still remains so. If loss of Ufa results 

 from it, it is murder and is so treated. But 

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The 515th meeting was held in the hall of the 

 Cosmos Club, November 1, 1913, with President E. 

 W. Nelson in the chair and about 50 members 

 present. 



Under the heading "Brief Notes and Exhibition 

 of Specimens," C. Dwight Marsh related an ob- 

 servation in Montana of a noise made by a bull 

 snake {Fituophis sayi) which was in close imita- 

 tion of that made by a rattlesnake. The sounds 

 were made by the respiratory organs and were ob- 

 served by a number of persons. 



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 And in ecstasy bid earth adieu evermore. 

 — William Ausustus Muhieabers. 



