Feb. i, 1908.] 
FOREST AND STREAM. 
165 
PHILIPPINE GUNSTOCK WOOD. 
New light has been thrown on the resources 
t the Philippines by Major Ahern, head of the 
forestry Bureau there. The Major arrived re- 
ently and is here to interest American enter- 
rise in the development of forests on the island. 
"Few Americans realize the possibilities of 
he forests of our possessions in the East,” he 
aid to a Press representative. “In the less pop- 
lated islands of the Philippines there are im- 
lense forests for the valuable woods that have 
»econie scarce in Europe and America. We 
iave there the wood of the narra, similar to 
he padouk of Burma and also like the ma- 
ogany we know here; the acle wood is more 
■eautiful than black walnut and is used exten¬ 
sively for the same purpose of making gun 
tocks; molava is a light yellow wood, used for 
eneral building purposes, while tanguile and 
auna, soft woods, are excellent substitutes for 
•me. 
“The forests of yacal and malave are extensive 
nough to produce millions of railway ties, to 
,'hich use their woods are adapted, and as I 
ame East over the Siberian Railway I ob- 
erved that the Russian government is substi- 
uting ties of these two woods for pine, which 
asts only a few years, while the yacal and 
nalave ties last for a quarter of a century. 
“The government is selling no timber lands, 
>ut is disposing of the standing timber as fast 
b possible under restrictions against cutting 
mall trees, and thus providing against denuding 
he land. Half of the profits from the timber 
old have thus far gone to the Bureau of 
j'orestry. The bureau employs ten graduates of 
\merican forestry schools and is equipped to do 
fficient work.” 
THE TIGER IS GOOD. 
A London dispatch quotes J. D. Reed, M.P., 
*.s writing to the Times in behalf of the tigers 
>f India, and urging that the Government re- 
vard for killing tigers be paid only for man- 
eaters. These he says are all perfectly well 
mown to the natives and are no more common 
imong tigers than murderers are among men. 
He admits that tigers kill a certain amount 
>f deer and cattle, but he adds: “The deer 
talker is a gentleman and sportsman whose 
ife is spent in well doing, for he kills the deer 
hat eat the crops which maintain the Indian 
empire; while the cattle lifters, although no 
loubt they have much of the poacher in their 
imposition, prey only upon the feebler and less 
'aluable members of the herd. The villagers 
ire willing that they take this toll in recognition 
)f the good they do in destroying the crop de- 
■troyers.” 
Mr. Reed scoffs at the idea that the ignorant 
mtertain of tigers walking about seeking whom 
hey may devour. He says: “The only tiger 
ever knew who acted in this manner it was 
liscovered after death had been suffering from 
; ome abnormal pressure on the brain, so that 
le was not accountable for his actions.” 
TOOK NO CHANCES. 
Recently some wretch tied a tin kettle to the 
ail of John Fallon’s dog. The dog started off 
vith the kettle about 3 o’clock one afternoon, 
nd after running up to Park City and down to 
7 armington, came back in the evening without 
he kettle and very much fatigued. The guests 
t the Clift House extended their consolation 
o the dog, who was manifestly in need of sym- 
>athy. Everything went well with the dog until 
ibout 9 o’clock, when a young lady from Juab 
vas requested to play “The Irish Patrol” on the 
)iano. She played the faint, weird music of the 
opening bars, when the dog began to prick up 
tis ears. The girl strolled by degrees into the 
leavier staccato passages which indicates the near 
pproach of the advance guard, and with a yelp 
>f terror he rose up and went through the win- 
low, taking sash, panes and all, under the plau¬ 
sible impression that the tin kettle was again 
tdvancing upon him from the rear.—Salt Lake 
T ribune. 
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