The National tribune., 1907-10-17

offered in the small colleges. These
institutions which offer no manual
4 training at all nowadays are few in
deed. l predict that in another genera
ton this tendency will be enhanced,
and that the teaching of Greek and
i Latin will almost entirely disappear in
the high schools, because of its imprac-
ticaiity. Boys can get just as much
4 training in the languages by studying
i Spanish. French or. German. and at
the same time get much more use out
| of them
! Miss Sallfe NJ. Taylor. a great-grand-
daughter Of President Zachary Taylor.
| formerly the nurse of Mrs. Laura Bios
som. of st. Louis, has been removed
from the psychopathic ward of Belle
vue Hospital. New York, and taken to
st. Louis. She is said to be a mental
wreck.
The Forest Service has made ar
lrangements to- collect 5O,0OO,OOO seeds
of forest trees during September and
! October of this year. The collections
will be made in Montana, Wyoming,
colorado, Arizona and California from
the Douglas fir, Engelmann spruce.
| Western iarch, incense cedar and yell
low pine trees.
The seeds will be used for broadcast
sowing. and for planting in Forest Ser
vice nurseries. The broadcast sowing
will be experimental, to test the extent
ito which this method of renewing the
forests on denuded lands in the West
can be used Many large tracts have
been rendered treeless by repeated fires,
and only by planting or sowing can
timber be got to grow there again for
a long time to come.
officers of the Forestry Service say
the cost of planting nursery seedlings
! IS great when the area is large. For
| that reason it will be an immense saw
ing of money, labor and time if new
forest can be started by broadcast SOW
| ing. Many tests in different States Will
be necessary before the problem can be
worked out.
| Much of the tree seed to be collected
| this FAN will be used in the Forest
Service nurseries. The tiny seedlings
will begin their life in beds, to be later
| trarspiantsd for a year or more of
care and cultivation, and finally to be
set out on the denuded mountain slopes.
The gathering of tree seeds is an in
teresting process One method is to
rob squirrels nests. In the West,
where hickory nuts chestnuts and beech
nuts are scarce or wholly lacking, the
squirrel gives his attention to pine
cones. He stores them by the bushel
behind old logs, or in the hollow bases
of trees, to wait for them to open and
release the seeds. He collects good
qualities. for he climbs to the tops of
the tallest trees and to the tips of the
| longest limbs, and cuts down the choice
tcones. The seed gatherer searches out
and robS the squirrels hoard.
l. r.,
Also for the squirrel collects only GER
tain species for which he has a par
ticular taste. When men do the work
they usually go to some tract where d
lumber operation is in progress. Seeds
may be conveniently collected from the
felled trees, provided it is good seed
year.
The Government has nine planting
stations These are at Halsey, Neb.;
Fort Bayard, Las Vegas and Fort STAN
ton. \. NJ; Pixies Peak National For
est, Colo; the Wasatch National Forest.
Utah. Pocatelio, Idaho, and Pasadena
and San Marcos, Cal.
If all would grow, a ton of almost
any kind of tree seed would produce a
forest of large area. But no one ex-
poets all the seeds to grow. When the
tree 1pIants them in the natural way
very many perish where one survives
John Muir has estimated for certain
trees, 10000 seeds perish for every one
that lives. The ratio of the survivors
will be much higher, no doubt, when
man plants and cares for the seeds.
Senator Simon Guggenheim, of Colo
RADIO. who is already drawing pay as 4
Senator, but has not yet taken his seat,
believes that the entire country will
suffer from a financial recession for
cn tit,an he fnr h int tt-;1l
even reach the far West. where his vast
mining and smelling interests are CEN
tered. He came here last week for the
first time since his election last VIM
ter
"The money stringency in the East
| is. in my opinion, caused by general
| facts that are worldwide" said the
Senator 1.-The vast Industrial produc-
| ton and consequent consumption of
capital. brought on, in a measure, by
| the war between Russia and Japan, has
used up SO much of the funds at the
worlds disposal that It is difficult to
finance some of our operations here at
home. In Colorado and the West gen.
orally we have not yet felt this strin-
gency, but we shall feel it, for a recess
sion in New York always spreads over
the entire country sooner or later.
do not look for depression or serious
panic but a recession. Therefore, it be-
\ NDDNeS DuSIUeSS TfieH lHe country over
to be careful and conservative"
On the subject of politics the Sena-
tor was like the grave. Il have come
here to find a modest home in which
to house my family after Nov. 49," said
he. You may deny emphatically re-
port that / intend to take the Thomas
F.. Walsh or any other fine house here
| in Washington. My aim is to live mod
estly."
! My goodness, Just you listen to this
from John l.. Almutt, who was in WASH
ington the other day. and who regis
tered from Sumter, S. C. From his
talk one would suppose, that he does
not know yet that the flag that was
hauled down off Fort Sumter has been
raised again. He says:
Taft made a big mistake when he
4 tried to discuss the negro question
when he was down South. He has done
himself a great deal of harm by talk
ling on a subject he evidently doesn't
know anything about. Senator Tillman
is going to stay in the Senate just as
long as he likes. He is all right. and
we know that, no matter what others
may say or think about him."
Here is something 'by the book
from Serene Payne. of New York, the
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