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Milford chronicle., 1906-07-27
FOREST FIRE FIGHTERS.
Uncle SANS Big Organization For
the Protection of Trees.

Uncle SANS Big Organization For
the Protection of Trees.
The worst enemy of the forests is
FIRE. To combat it the United States
forest service maintains fire fighting
system
only since Feb. 1, 1905, have the
reserves been under the adm 1istra-
tion of the forest service. The work.
ing out of a system of effective control
of fire on the reserves is still in its
infancy. Even with the best possible
system of protection there are bound
TO be wide fluctuations between indi-
vidual years. But it is believed that
under expert care the injury to the
national forests can be rapidly and
permanently cut down. The direct
loss from forest fires in the United
States runs annually into many mil
lions Of dollars. while the indirect loss
IS beyond estimate.
In developing its system Of protec-
fion the forest service availed itself of
! mist experience, home and foreign.
Tie reserve officers-forest guards, as
sistant forest rangers, deputy forest
rangers. forest rangers, deputy forest
supervisors and forest supervisors
are under the direct supervision of
.the office of the service at Washing
ION. guided by, definite code of in
.structions, bnt large authority, with
. corresponding responsibility. is placed
upon. the local officers themselves. All
except the forest guards are civil serv-
ice employees, and the salaries paid
range from S72O to $1,000 year. Each
supervisor is responsible for the patrol
of his. reserve and is expected to de-
; wise systems best suited to his locality.
Already in the brief period since the
organization of this system high
standard of efficiency has been devel-
oped. and much higher is expected.
A constant lookout for fires is kept
from ridge trails and commanding
points during the danger season, and
The reserves are patrolled as efficiently
- possible with the force available
Roads. trails and fire lines are con
structed. affording means Of rapid
communication and points Of vantage
at which to arrest the progress of
fire. and telephone lines are being run
to help give warning and summon as
sistance.
Every forest supervisor is authoriz
ed. in person or through subordinate
to hire temporary men, purchase mate
rial and supplies and pay for theil
transportation from place to place tt
extinguish a fire. When the cost is
likely to exceed $500 the supervisor
telegraphs the forester for authority t.
incur the additional expense.
During the calendar year of 1907
thirty-six of the ninety-three reserves
escaped fires altogether. On the re
naming fifty-seven. areas were burned
over ranging from 1 to 79,0S3 acres
northern division of the Sierra re
serve) and amounting to 279,592 acres
The largest amount of timber was de
stroyed on the Lewis and Clark re
serve (southern divisiOn) - A, ,993,OO'
board feet. The total for all reserves
was 1872, $4,000 board feet, with
value of S101 ,2S2, but the greatest los
in money value was S27,320 on tn
Priest river reserve. The total cost o
extra labor and supplies for fire fight
ing was So. .573. -Harper's Weekly.
Milford chronicle., 1906-07-27
Dean shaIer.

Few men at Harvard have had more
influence with the students there than
Dean Nathaniel S. Shaler, geologist,
of the Lawrence Scientific school, who
died recently. Some years ago an ir-
reverent volume of skits Of college
professors was published by some un-
dereraduates and entitled Harvard
Celebrities" This is what it had to
say of him:
This is Shaler,
Fairy taller,
Scientific mountain scaler,
Penetrator
OF each crater
From the poles to the equator
Tanner Of the hurricane.
Prophet of the wind and rain
HypnOtizer
OF the geyser,
Wizard of the frozen plain.
t4arlxi What Is that deep and subterra-
mean roar
Arising near Memorial and reaching out
to Gore?
'Tis the rumble of applause
When the speaker makes pause
n relating an adventure from his fund OF
earthquake lore.
Milford chronicle., 1906-07-27
CARRIAGES.

We have few more of our carriages left. These are
bargains from the word go They are all top carriages
Tbev are the cheapest in price sod here consider
inc the quality if you want of these bargains
Come quickly,
The Grit-advocate., 1906-02-09
s FOR VALENTINES DAY
The Heart Hunt and Other Amusing Games and
Pastimes.
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Pastines.

If you have a Valentine day party
you will serve refreshments, and the
idea of the day of hearts and love
must be carried out as far as pos
sible in everything arranged.
A very pretty way to send your
guests to the dining room is to have
some pink flowers in two separate
baskets, pink carnations for the boys
and pink roses for the girls. for pink
is the special color of the god of love.
Write beforehand on small cards the
names of some famous lovers of his.
tory and fiction, fastening the cards
with the names of men to the carna-
tions and those with the names OF
women to the roses. Such names
should be selected as Romeo and
Juliet, Orlando and Rosalind, Hamlet
and Ophelia, Petrarch and Laura,
Dante and Beatrice, Leicester and
Queen Elizabeth, John Alden and
Priscilla, Queen Victoria and Prince
Albert, and so on.
Then as each boy takes a carnation
and reads the name on the card, he
must find the card with the CORE.
spending rose card; that is to say,
Romeo must find Juliet, Orlando must
find Rosalind. and so on. and they 60
to the dining room matched in that
way.
The dining-room decorations should
The Grit-advocate., 1906-02-09

The observance of Lincoln's birth
day is evidently destined to become
universal with the American people.
If it is not yet SO general as the obser-
vance of Washington's birthday, that
is because Lincoln is still too near
for all to forget, as all have forgotten,
of Washington. that he was party
leader as well as the savior of his
cou1try.
When the healing hand of time shall
have brought that forgetfulness, the
American people will celebrate the
birthday of Lincoln with a more inti-
mate affection, though not with great
er reverence or gratitude, than they
will that of washington.
The reasons for this distinction are
apparent when we remember that a
man of Washington's character might
have been produced in some other
though he never was-whilc
man OF Linco!n's character obvious,
ly could not have been produced else
where than in the United States.
Recognition Of this fact has led
English historians to claim washing
sop as a great EnglishmGn no less
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MADE PLEDGE AND HELD TO IT..
Lincoln Always Teetotaler, According
to National Advocate.


A kentuckian by birth, rocked in the
cabin. unchinked. upholstered, and
scantily furnished; trained in the uni
versity Of necessity; attending school
twice In the neighborhood for few
weeks at time, being compelled to
walk four miles each way to do so;
transplanted to Indiana to home life
of poverty, poverty so great that the
family lacked protection from the rain
and cold. Out of such a childhood
grew the farmland, the rail-splitter,
the fat-boatman, the captain of the
Black Hawk war, the country mer-
chant, the country lawyer, the four
times elected legislator. the represen-
tative in Congress and the war Presi-
dent.
Such in brief. says cne, is the story
of Abraham Lincoln, the great typical
American, as in him were found in a
pre-eminent degree the best features
of our New World life-honesty and
simplicity and truthfulness.
When Lincoln was a boy almost
everybody drank, and temperance had
less advocates than at present. Among
those who were working for temper
ance in that early day was "Old Uncle
John" as he was called, who gathered,
the people together for meetings in
the rough log schoolhouses of the
sparsely settled communities in that
section of the country. People came
out of curiosity. but he often found
little sympathy for his cause.
One long-to- night he
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o. 81 a. N@ND@N %INz

Oliver Wendell Holmes said that
one man is always three men, the
man as he sees himself, the man as
others see him, and the man as God
sees him.
We know how Abraham Lincoln
saw himself. Lincoln's estimate of
Lincoln was very modest. humble
and moderate one
We know how other people now
see Abraham Lincoln in the light of
the translations of his actions by re-
suits and by time.
We can reverently believe that
Abraham Lincoln as God saw him
brought neither reproach nor contra
diction, to say the least, to the con-
ception of him by the People of the
earth, when they cane to understand
him in the light of the events to
which he will ever be sublimely relat-
ed in human estimate.
While his is fame and a service
this republic for manifest reasons,
mainly remembers and observes, all
nations of the world write him among
the immortals, and the ascent of every
one of them to better things is SYM
patheticallV assisted by the force and
the fragrance of his career here.
He is gradually becoming idealized
That is not to be regretted. His ideal.
izallon Is only that revelation of him
from the skies to men, as God saw
him when the heavens received him
out OF our sight.
We are glad our government and
our people make his birthday holi.
day. We are aware that it Is difficult
to hold the observance of his birthday
to solemn ceremonies or within memo.
rial services. That is the law of
the effect of holidays among free peo.
pie, as distances in time increases
from the death of the entirely great.
The significance is less in the celebra-
tion of the time than in the fact of
setting it forth by law and by senti-
ment as a holiday at all
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That fact is in itself tranScendant
tribute. Individuals will act accord
ing to their temperament or their con-
ditions. but the nation as an individu-
ality, by sGspcnding its business. by
ceasing from its contentious, by bring
ing its activities of government to
halt on this birthday of its pre-emi-
nently great modern man, pays tri-
bute's crown of tribute to his work
and to lis worth, and that is the su-
preme ;.nd the universal homage.
We t.hst that the idealiZation OF
Lincoln will always continue; that the
endeavor to reduce the measurement
of him will cease, or will never sue
ceed We have no sympathy with
the petty endeavors which have been
put forth to that effect in the case of
Washington. The instincts of man
kind have measured them small. who
have tried to reduce the heroic ap-
praisul OF Washington in the alleged
interest of truth" The endeavor has
never enlisted large minds or large
souls. and the little ones it has en-
listed have reduced even themselves
by the endeavor.
As it is with Washington. so should
it be with his one peer in OUT history.
whose anniversary is now at hand
The idealization of both gives us the
real men. Puny efforts to impair that
idealization affect not the proportions
of the men any more than the slime
of flies affects the stately columns
on which flies may light-or crawl.
Those of us who saw and met Lincoln
in our boyhood are not yet far beyond
the middle period of life. They can
never feel that their experience in
meeting him did not register the high
water mark of their lives here. So
felt those who, in former generations.
net Washington. The two. Washing
ton the grandest of human characters.
and Lincoln, the most human or
grand characters, should never be diff
ferentiated in the minds or hearts or
Americans.-Brookly Eagle.
The Grit-advocate., 1906-02-09
1.-THE FIRST AMERICAN"

than a great American. No FOREIGNER,
however has ever dreamed OF so
claiming Abraham Lincoln. His char
acter was too racy of his native soil
to be claimed as anything but Amer.
ica1.
AS they perceive the peculiarly Amer.
lean quality of Linco!n's genius, the
American people will celebrate ever
more widely his natal day as one
of their greater festivals. While they
will revere more the memory of Wash
ington, they will love more that of
Lincoln. He was of themselves-the
common people, whom he said God
must love, because he made SO many
of them
Abraham Lincoln was in6eed "the
first American AS such his memory
will be more than honored. It will
be loved as long as the republic en-.
dures.
The Grit-advocate., 1906-02-09

Her Valentine.
Beneath the spread of valentines
A song unnoticed lay;
Yet too suggestive were its lines
For fate to hide away.
Some careless hand disclosed to view
Its message. us a prayer.
For Old Times sake nor ever knew
1t left blessing there.
For deep within each heart there lies
The germ of precious seed:
And wistful, tender grew the eyes
OF one who CHANGED to read
The pleading words: For Old Times
sake"
With pathos and with pain.
Sad mem'ries in her breast did wake.
That night not sleep again.
For through the years there seemed tc
sft
Bright thoughts Of other days,
Until there came the little rift
Where friends walked separate ways
The heart owns what the lip denies.
Held close by Pride's stern fingers.
And softly sings: True love ne'er
Its answering echo fingers.
And so at last. for Old Times sake,
The one wrote words full tender.
Despite VOW she once did make.
Since none would know the sender;
The other read that valentine.
Nor guessed that tears and kisses
Were fairly mingled in each line
BY one whose name she misses.
-Lu.LA w. S1CkLER.
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the center was pen and ink sketch
of herself and beneath the words.
"All men look alike to me-"
Often copies of Gibson, Underwood
and Christy are sent and little
dumping of girl once received a
yard of Fanny Cory's children.
The licorice buttons. which the chill
dren buy in penny candy store, will
be sent in large lunches to the maid
ems who never have time to sew on a
button. A ludcrous valentine which
was sent last year to very fat girl
was plump sofa cushion so pulled
and twisted as to look exactly like its
recipient And a very tall girl re-
ceived a scrap of music of the song.
Just take little bit off the top
for me-"
There is a reckless disregard of
meter or rhythm In the poems which
accompany the valentines, but If the
hit Is considered satisfactory. With
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made his plea, ending with an invita-
tion to come forward and sign the
pledge. There was only one VIII"
moved, as the story goes. A tall and
far from handsome boy got to his feet
and came up the aisle. Even in that
rough audience he made an ungafnly
appearance in his sadly outgrown
clothes. coarse and too short in trous-
ers and sleeves. But hush fell on
the rough men as that boy, with deter
mination in his face, stopped to write
the name Abraham Lincoln" on the
pledge.
The work Of that night lives in his
tory. Lincoln always attributed much
of his success in live to his temper
ance principles, and years afterwards
when, as President of the United
States. he had the pleasure of enter
tanning "Old Uncle John" in the White
House, he said to him: II owe more to
you than to almost any one of whom
can think. If | had not signed the
pledge with you In the days OF my
youthful temptation I should probably
have gone the way of majority of MY
early companions, who lived drunk
ards lives and now fill drunkards'
graves"
There was never any letting down
in Lincoln's principles whatever the
circumstances.
When l was a young man-long
ago-before the Sons of Temperance,
as an organization, had an existence
I, in a humble way, made temperance
speeches, and think I may say that
to this day have never. by my ex-
ample, belied what | then said."-
National Advocate
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)f buttons, or a little work basket, as
he will have to learn the use of them
in his bachelorhOod,
Another game appropriate to the
day is Broken Hearts" Cut out IF
red cardboard as many hearts. about
six inches across, as you will have
pairs of guests. Then. with sharp
shears, cut each of these into many
small pieces, square. crescent shaped
wedge shaped, and so on. keeping the
pieces of each heart separate from
the others by putting them into an
envelope.
Now, from different colored papers
cut small hearts, two of each, and put
them into two bowls. The players
then select one each the girls from
one bowl, the boys from another. and
the boys then find their partners in
the girls who have hearts matching
! In color those they have selected.
| The envelopes are then distributed
one to each couple, and they must
try to put the pieces together to form
perfect heart. The two who first
do this stand up and are crowned with
red roses made of paper. as this was
classic honor bestowed upon Cupid
the god of love If you prefer, the girl
may be crowned with roses and the
boy with laurel wreath.
This diversion is especially good
fun. Get sheet of heavy cardboard
twenty-five or thirty inches square,
and draw on it as large heart as
you can. Then cut the heart out
and cover 1t with white muslin to
strengthen it: it may also be braced
at the back by strips of wood.
Around the edge of the heart paint
border in green, about three inches
wide, which of course, gives you the
outlines Of green heart. Inside this
paint black heart Of the same width
ind again third in yellow, fourth
in blue, a fifth in red. and In the cen
ter bull's-eye of gold paint, leaving
space of white unpainted.
Having prepared as many arrows as
there are guests and gilded Cupid S
bow of classic shape, set up the heart
as a target at the end of long room
from which you have removed as
much of the furniture as possible.
Dress small boy as King OF
Hearts in coat of turkey red, with
knee breeches cut at the knees in
| points and covered with hearts of
| red paper. He should have a collar
of three hearts, the points fastened
to a band around his neck, and he
should also have a cloak of hearts or
covered with hearts. A crown of gilt
| paper, with heart in the front, will
complete the costume.
Cupid, the King, presides at the
target, and, as each guest shoots his
arrow, recites or reads one of the fol.
lowing couplets, according to the C N,
or hit:
If your arrow hit the red.
You will very shortly wed.
Should your arrow pierce the green
No wedding bells for you. queen.
When your arrow hits the blue,
Cupid takes Il shot at you.
II the arrow touch the black.
A true love you'll never lack.
II 1t chance to hit the white,
You will meet your fate tonight.
All alone your years will t.eliow.
Should your arrow meet the yellow.
| Il the dart go wide astray.
| You Will throw your heart away.
Should It pierce the heart of gold,
Joy for you. and love untold!
The Grit-advocate., 1906-02-09
JOKES AMONG COLLEGE GIRLS.

Have Much Fun Every Fourteenth
Day OF February.
II it were not for the college girls
st. Valentine would be in danger of
becoming a cad, but they regard him
as huge joke Gnd jolly him unmerci-
fully. They do not let his day go by
uRnoticea.
On the contrary they herald it with
10Y and make great preparations for
1t. but there is hardly bit of senti-
ment in their worship. For three or
four weeks before the 14th of Febru-
airy. huge signs appear on the bulletin
boards in the dormitories- soliciting
orders for valentines, for the girls
deft fingers seize the opportunity to
make little money and the girls who
have money are quite ready to pay for
an original valentine.
And college valentine must be
original above everything else Some
times the girl with money supplies
the idea and the deft.finSered girl
works 1t out.
The character of these valentines is
mostly in the way of grind and it is
carried out by every conceivable de-
yice; by water colors, by sketches, hy
poems. by iccongruous articles.
OF course there is the little fresh
.man who feels bound to send her SEN
Tor "crush," flowers and confection-
ary. but the true college valentine is
a sharp dig. Woe to the girl who
has obtrusivc manlerisms, for she will
be raped right and left, although the
jokes are never hateful. Cupid re.
ceiyes some attention. but it is of
the frivolous sort for he is jeered and
saeered at.
Contrary to popular opinion, college
girls give and take knocks" as good
naturcdly as do college boys. and the
lazy girl who receives bunch of fire.
crackers on st. Valentines day laughs
heartily It the joke.
The girl with big ambition to join
one OF the societies, an ambition
which she has been trying to conceal
Is little startled when she receives
an enormous Greek letter made out
Of rcd paper nd on it in black let
ters;
Sure as sim
l want n pin.
A clever valentine sent one year to
young woman who was extremely
popular with the men was q circle of
hearts with the face OF one of her
mcn friends peering on, Of each. In
The Grit-advocate., 1906-02-09

search for the hearts. and the one
who finds the greatest number of pa
ger ones. which are the real counters
In the game. wins the first prize.
The first prize should be something
in the form of heart say photo
graph holder. a charm. locket, or a
bOnbonniere. Some of the hearts
should be broken into two pieces if
candy ones, or torn if paper, and spe-
cial prizes offered to those who find
the pieces that fiji together.
The player who finds most hearts
ts supposed to be the one who will
first be married. To the one who
finds least, consolation prize should
be given. If a girl, a suitable prize
wHuld be a tea cup and saucer, or a
wei sted kitten. as she is destined to
be- an ''old maid A suitable conso-
lation prize for boy would be card
The Grit-advocate., 1906-02-09
Custom Very Old.

The origin of the valentine IS said
to have existed for long time. That
originally the old maids and bache'
written on slips and drawn and the
one each drew was to be his or her
valentine for a year, and that often
these temporary engagements became
permanent. Later the custom has
driftcd into the sending of pictures,
first representing Cupid with his ar
rows at work, but later still to the
sending Of horrible caricatures OF one
sort or another, intended as a sort Of
joke on the one receiving the valen.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. (Mo.) Tribune.
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rhymelet. peculiarly appropriate:

rhymelet. peculiarly appropriate:
AS you're always a sec,
You can use this peck.
To chatting dish expert was once
sent a water color of chatting disi
very cleverly painted, and near it was
pink saucer in which reposed very
large heart. Underneath was the in
vitation:
Thou, lady of the chatting dish.
I'd stake much on thy cookery;
Take my heart. my valentine,
And serve it in thy nookery.
An engaged girl once made the mis-
take of bidding her fiance good nigh
on a part CT the piazza which was sc
lighted as to throw their shadows
clearly on the snow. On Feb. IA, te
her amaZemcnt, she received repre-
sentations of that good night in sill
houettes, water color and pen and inl
drawings, all so well done that the
participants could not be mistaken.
The star golf player received from
an admiring freshman, with a framed
copy of Gibson girl:
Though You are no cad.
You need a caddie.
Since that Is your fad.
Let me be that laddle.
There are college maidens who
have the prom habit" which means
that they have numerous invitations
to proms at the mems colleges, sd
are constantly asking leave of alb
sence to attend. One Of these maid
ems received bunch of leave-of-ab
sence blanks, cunningly copied in per
and ink. and each one was made out
the set giving her permission to &c
to proms in every college in the coun
try.
The eternal feminine crops out in
the keen observation of peculiarities
of dress. The girl who does not keep
her skirt and belt properly fastened in
the back, receives an enormous safe
ty pin; the girl who poses by wear
ing her hair in braid down her back
receives a water color of tiny girl
with an immense pigtail, and the girl
who affects nannish attire receives
tiny pair of trousers.
Some of the seniors who are begin
ming to realize that college friendships
will soon be over, send one another
poems of friendship written on or
dinary stationery, and art students
often send bit of their work to a
particularly beloved friend. Photo
graphs of college scenes are sent to
alumnae, and popular members Of tie
faculty receive pretty gifts. But for
the greater part, the college valen.
tine is a college joke.