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which it rested. After the friction thus 
developed had been kept up for many 
hours, avers this courageous engineer, 
the dead wood upon which it was exerted 
first began to glow, then burst into flame, 
and a fire that swept through miles and 
miles of valuable timber was the result. 
The story is one which it is hard, but not 
impossible, to believe, and it is more than 
likely that several times since the world 
began w^oodlands have been devastated 
in just this way. There is much doubt, 
however, if any appreciable amount of 
responsibility will be taken from careless 
campers by the engineer’s discovery. 
Not once in a thousand years could the 
circumstances he records be duplicated, 
while the reckless hunter and prospector 
regularly endangers the forests at least 
three times a day. Simplest explana¬ 
tions are usually best.— N. T. Tunes. 
PLANTING STREET TREES 
I ^HE planting of street trees requires 
as much care as does their selec¬ 
tion. It is not enough to merely dig a 
hole and crowd the roots into it. Any 
expectations based on such planting are 
doomed to end in disappointment. In 
laying out for street planting, let the 
first stakes be set at the street crossings. 
When the abutting streets also are to be 
planted, place two stakes at each corner, 
about thirty feet from the point of inter¬ 
section of the curb line, on each street. 
Then space off the intervening distance, 
setting the stakes equally distant apart, 
but not less than sixty-five feet, as the 
shortest distance. 
Street trees generally are planted too 
closely together. Sometimes this is done 
with the intention of cutting out alternate 
ones, as the growth of the trees require. 
This, however, is seldom done, and the 
trees grow up too thickly, thereby over¬ 
crowding and injuring each other, de¬ 
stroying all the individual beauty of the 
trees and the symmetrical arrangement 
which an avenue of trees should have.— 
Park and Cemetery. 
THE HOUSE IN WARSAW WHICH 
NAPOLEON ONCE OCCUPIED 
^ I ^HE French representative at War- 
saw has just received a curious 
petition from a Polish peasant, who asks 
that his house should be rebuilt at the 
expense of the French Government. 
The ground for the request is that the 
building in question is really almost 
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