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THE MAN IN THE RAIN.
His n OF Managing Fin Apparel as
Compared With WOman's Way.

WV III y way.
"You would think. now. wouldn't YOU
she said. that lordly man would defy the
weather and not permit himself to be dis
turbed by such a little thing as rain2 But
myl I think mel are more particular
about their fine clothes than women are.
Take a man who is out. for instance,
in a light gray suit and let a shower come up.
Does the man in gray 60 blithely on and
let the rain fall upon him assit will2 Very
much not. sir! He seeks the nearest shelter
and there he waits for the rain entirely to
cease before no ventures on: more careful
OF his raiment, surely, than any woman
would be Of hers.
But 1t Ia what a man does with his straw
hat in the rain that interests me most. Why.
I nave seen a man take off his straw hat In
a shower and carry II under his coat, SO
careful In he abou 1t, and isn't a man going
along the street hatless. with his hat clutched
In that way under his coat, a funny figure?
Did you ever see a woman do that?
Its q common thing to see q man caught
in a shower carrying mis- straw hat sort of
casually down at his arms length at his
side, as II he was just sauntering that way,
but really to protect his hat 80 as much as
he can. And do we not even see men in
the rain holding newspapers over their
hats? Who ever saw O woman do that?
women seem somehow to be able to 20
through a shower without making con-
spicuous figures of themselves. They are
always serene, never troubled. and some
how they never seem to get as wet in the
rain as men do"
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the same ideas about he genuine pleasure
Of winding up the vacation, 1t appeared.
Wonderful and ~providential thing. this
way folks have OF adapting themselves TO
what is Inevitable; I don't know how we'd
possess the faculty Of doing this.
-Then the packing up n the long series
Of protraoted good-bys n the lodging Of. a
lot Of other good-bys, and the scramble
for the train. and the roll toward home.
the wife and |. upon talking 1t over. agreed
that It wasn't anything like as hot in the
chair car as 1t had been In our hotel room
at the beach for several nights previous
or so after shutdown We felt genuinely COM
Portable. 49,.
side we saw that there were little drying
pools scattered all along the pavement,
showing that there'd been rain, although
sweet and cool. 1t seemed good to rumble
along In the taxioab through the familiar
streets where there was no blare Of bands
and where there weren't any endless stream
the squeaky zipp Of the barking monographs
Of the boardwalk raree shows was not
there to trouble. We peered out at all Of the
familiar buildings to see IL any changes had
been made in any of them. and we were
content when we observed that they were
just the same as when we'd left New York
away back In the mists Of antiquity thirty
days ago.
then. getting up in u own neighbor-
hood, W. met q lot Of ok hat We knew.
and they recognized US and waved at US,
and we waved baok at them, nj it seemed
homely and neighborly and pleasant. the
whole ride up to the house In the cab, 1t sure
did, and by the time W. pulled up at the
door Of our place such again il the strength
Of human adaptability-the month down
at the beach had begun to seem like sort Of
q dream toboth OF us, and the natural thing
was that here we were in New York pulling
up at the front door we were used to. getting
home where we belonged and where we
ought to be.
Then the opening up Of the apartment.
Dye know that when / led the way In and
we'd thrown all the windows open and put
In the screens and lt the lights in all the
rooms-d'ye know II looked 30 neat and
oosey Int comfortable. with the furniture
all swaddled up In its summer linens and
the rugs up and the lace curtains down for
o~oolness. that we both fell to silently won
dering why we'd left 1t all for the sake Of
budding up In one comparatively small aud
stuffy room for q whole month at the sea-
shore.
well, Of course We were hungry, and I
hustled down the street to q deioatsssen
store and got some bacon and egg and
butter and coffee and bread and cheese and
bologna and pickles and things and trudged
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home with 'em as fast as I could. and pres
emily the wife had the gas range a-going
and the snack was on its way. Tit maid
wasn't due to show up until morning, OF
little meal herself, anyhow-said that she'd
been 30 lazy and trifing for a whole month
that she felt she really ought to be made to
get down on her marrowbones and scrub
And when she got the bacon and egg
on the table, and some hot biscuits that
she surprised me with, and the coffee, and
we sat down to 1t all like o couple OF folks
that had been rescued from a desert island
with the greatest solemnity Of which l am
capable that we never tasted anything in
our whole lives to compare with that re-
lection and ] guess / ought to remember
how good 1t tasted, for I only finished my
ago;
who'd been keeping for US during our alb
sence that ornery, no count but greatly
the neighbor saw the light in our. windows
and knew that we were home and brought
the dog over, and the dog had a wild fit Of
Mysteries over seeing us that lasted a full
twenty minutes, and I guess the wife and
l were just about as glad to see the mutt
as he was to see us.
Then, after being compelled for a whole
month to sit around smoking all kinds OF
soggy' seashore cigars-the wife never
stands for my smoking a pipe at all while
we're on our travels-I got out the old
dudeen that you zee clutohed In my ham
at this present instant. and here l am having
a sure enough white mans smoke n just
as glad to be back home and half settled
In the old nut again as ever a castaway
was to be taken of q chicken coop raft In
the middle Of the Indian Ocean after hang
ing on to the eame for thirty days. My
wife has gone down the street to her sis
ter's to get the canary bird. and she'll be
back presently with all the little amiable
gossip Of what's been going on up and
down the block since We went away q month
ago.
and turn on the cold water and then I'll
splash around in my own tub that's been
mine ever since IL came from the factory
and that / don't ave to regard with the
least suspicion on account OF any previous
associations 1t may have had-a feeling
with which ! have never been able to regard
bathtubs at seashore hotels or at any other
hotels, for tho matter Of that.
Blue about being homo from the vaoa-
tionf Well. l should say not! In fact I'm
beginning TO believe that the biggest part
Of the fun Of going away for a summer paca:
ton consists In the hiking back homo and
finding out what q soft and cosey thing
you have Of It for the other eleven months
OF the year.
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betyeep 10000, 900 and II .ooo, 900 board
feet OF marketable timber. nearly, nine
teptbs Of which is white pine. an article
nowadays sufficiently rare in the southern
New England States.
Some OF the pines are four feet in diameter
and many are from two to three and a half
feet In diameter and Of noble height. 1t
habvehs fortunately that pines al like age,
from the tiny sapling to the huge tree ripe
for marketing. are almost equally repre-
sented on separate areas, 80 that the tract
Is almost ideally fitted for profitable lum-'
berfng. for practical forestry and for the
instruction OF students.
Besides the white pines, which will fur
nish the bulk OF the marketable crop for
some years to come, there are oaks. mostly
red oaks, beeches, birches. chestnuts and
,other deciduous trees and a great variety
,ofsnative forest plants. At the same time
wild fruits. strawberries. raspberries. black
berries. blueberries and the like are album
dant In the thickets or the bits of recently
feied land. In fact theforest 10 an epitome
; Of the local flora. = .4--r. ~
geographically the tract is interesting
md beautiful 1t varies in elevation from
seven hundred to fourteen hundred feet
above sea level, reaching the latter height
in Prospect Hill. Swift River lows through
the forest in a strong stream. normally
about ,,ne hundred feet wide, but spread
ing at points into baylike ponds. There
10 eipond Of one hundred acres and there
are several smaller ponds Of two acres or
icas. besides springs and brooks. Trout.
piokerel. %bullpouts and smaller fish are
caught in the streams and ponds.
Tina fnrQat Ia alap thu homo ~ fpxaa
squirrels. hares. deer and other wild orea-
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BATTING SLUMPS.
Mike DonlIn PHILOSOPHERS About Inability
to Hit the Ball.

to HIT the Hal.
Mike Donlin, the Giants crack hitter,
who Is fighting It out with Wagner OF the
Pittsburg club for the hitting honors Of
the National League, had a batting slump
the other day. He talked about it. not
bitterly. but philosophically. with some
Of his friends.
life is pretty short to try to unooil an
explanation for such a fool thing as a bat
ting slump he said. IF I tried to unrayel
that problem I'd go mad and begin to gibber
like somebody hobbled In q BOBBY hatch.
aThe only way for a fellow to do when
he finds himself in the middle Of q batting
slump is to traipse up M take his medi-
cine like somebody that likes It and Just
let the squeenchy old thing wear itself out.
The slump tears holes in a fellows average
of course. and it's particular ly measly
when you're up around with the top
stickers; but there's no remedy.
mo ball player ever yet gave q reason
able explanation Of the meaning Of a bat
ting slump-what causes the slump. that IL.
There are weeks when the ball as 1t ad-
vanoes toward the plate looks as big as a
toy balloon. no matter who's pitching.
"Then right atop Of such a period comes
O week when the ball looks to me like a
mustard seed in a bowling gale, even when
some finger who hasn't got a thing is
lobbing EN- over. Explain iti You might
as well ask me to explain an earthquake.
4Iiast week there were days when Il
seemed il / couldn't hit O bunk IL I was too
sleepy to stand up, and I never felt better
in my life. either, thar / did last week..
I've been in the game long enough to know
that the way a fellow feels has little or
nothing to do with his walloping ability.
"of course II a player is run down In
health and weak, why. he can't be there
with the clouts. But there's a difference
between being actually sick and weak
and being just dopey. and out Of form.
did in my life was done when l felt dopey.
sick Of the game: when I didn't feel any
more. like playing ball than I did like
hitching up with a chain gang.
When In that shape, especially along
tirod Of railroad tr travelling and sort Of
harness sore. I've trudged up to the platter
and slapped the ball over the works, taking
everything the HEAVIER sent over for me
and mauling it around. no matter where l
.Then, to show the other side Of this
bafiiing business, there are times-like last
week. FOR instanoe-when I feel like pulling
out h tusks OF wildcats with my bare
hngers. appetite great, sleep line, sind
fghting, dog. when every time l nudge up
to the plate they get me. Can't hit a paw
paw tree with q two pound rock, standing
right under it. One day last week I was
fed all kinds Of swell ones right over, the
and spit out IL / had been there with the
ticks, and j couldn't have pasted one Of them
with a Japanese screen.
Right now to-day 1 feel as II my lamps
are all TO the Aim and as IL ! couldn't see a
glasses, and I'm Just as liable to glide Ia
to-day and make about four hits as NOT.
There's no answer TO that question about
what hes ut the bottom Of a batting slump.
nd I've stopped trying to look for it,
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GOES THROUGH A MOUNTAIN.
Colorado School Teachers Route on
stormy Days.

w HNvusC VII
stormy Days.
Getting to and from school in some parts
O. this country isn't as easy as 1t is in New
York. There ID one school teacher In
Colorado who on stormy days makes the
trip through a mountain. travelling nearly
four miles underground before she reaches
her school.
The school which this teacher teaches
is IN top OF a mountain near Idaho Springs.
Col. Idaho Springs 10 a busting place for
that part Of the world. but around 1t on ell
sides are the Rocky Mountains and many
The school law OF the State prescrbes
that wherever there are ten children there
must be some sort Of school. Up on. top
Of this mountain a little settlement Of miners
has grown up. Gilson's Guloh.
The mountain underneath 1t is honey
there was driven what is known as the
Newhouse tunnel. 1t runs into h base Of
the mountain nearly four miles, % wide
PEELED tram oars and carries the ore and
the miners working in the various mines
In the mountain,
1t is a ak mile ride on horseback from
the town OF Idaho Springs where the teacher
tain where her school Is. 1t isn't a bad nee
in nioc weather for a Colorado girl used 70
the saddle, but it's tough in winter.
Since the opening Of the tunne the teacher
gets into one OF the little ore cars at the
foot Of the mountain whenever the weather
is bid. The ore train takes her into the
mountain about three miles. Then she
gets out ct one of the mines. the Gem.
transfers to q bucket and is hoisted up q
shaft 2,i0O feet.
When she gets out of the shsf t she Is on
top Of tho mountcin, fifty feet from her
school house. IL q .kes her . bout In hour
70 mako the trip. The school hi q fourteen
pupils and they never know v neither their
teacher In coming up from tho bowels Of the
earth or over the mountain.
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JOYS OF GETTING BACK HOME
BEST PART OF A VACATION, SAYS
ONE WHO HAS JUST TRIED 1T.

Some reflections on the Superior Accom-
modations OF the Cty After. the Sea.
ode Month Has Begun TO PxI-Some
IL Wonder That One Ever Goes Away.
: 1hosnsn with a sun peeled nose looked
'Evtty comfortable. sprawled IN the linen
covered lounge in the living room Of his
'Apartn0nt and placidly %zephyring his
i,kanned taco with a ragged edged palm leaf
ikan. He was smoking an old black briar
sfpipe and watching the common but cher
i!fshed dog Of the household luxuriously roll
himself or the rug.
Nope said the man. sI'm not sorry to
Be back from the vacation. No cav Of
gloom at all. Find 1t pretty good. Not In
the least depressed about II. Not down in
The mouth at all. Only been home a couple
/ Of hours now and I'm already back In the
old groove. Haven't any worry at all
about the think OF taking UP the white
man's burden and going back to work to-
morrow morning.
About q week ago, though. down Mt the
beach. the thought that my vacation was
rapidly drawing to an end certainly made
me peevish. 1t made me snappy even to
think that soon I'd have to be pulling up
stakes and getting back to the old grind.
And my wife had pretty much the same line
Of reflections. could see that.
swell. only six days more now she
said 10 me one morning as we sat on the
big breezy hotel veranda overlooking the
dancing sea. and then she sighed. and her
vishul looks and her signing made me
sven more sore than ] had been without
being reminded Of IL.
s'Oh, that's il, go right ahead and re-
mind me OF all the Internally unpleasant
things you can think Of / barked at her;
and then, Of course, she said that she hadn't
meant TO say anything unpleasant, but
that naturally she felt sorry that all tho
good fun was drawing to n finish, and -
sand s'pose I'm just tickled to death
over il and ready to turn 6ipAaps and
handsprings and somcrsaults over it. am
~. ] kept on grouching, and then she saw
what a sore thing the come home part Of it
was with me. and she changed the subject
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HARVARD'S FOREST SCHOOL
NEW DEPARTMENT TO BE OPENED
THIS AUTUMN.

etudents OF Forestry VIII Receive Practical
instruction In q Tract or Native wilder.
'ness In western Observation-Disclosures.
= ward Plans to Maintain . Model Forest.
A large and unspoiled natural forest
with varied fauna and fora, streams, ponds,
hills, plains and valleys, where students OF
forestry may live and In the course OF their
studies take part In the culture and COM
merciai administration Of the tract. Is what
Harvard will offer to her students Of for
estry us soon after the opening Of the next
college year as they have had time TO gain
lathe classroom n few essential prelimlnaries
- their work. From about October until
vel into December and again IN the spring
Vor two months the classes In tho forestry
department will live In the forest Of Feter-
sham, a large tract Of fine natural woodland
situated In one Of the most delightful regions
Of western Massachusetts.
The village of Petersham, near which
lies Harvard's new forest tract, Is remote
from the din OF the world and reached by
an old stage line running from a distant
railway station. The forest lies within
an irregular ouadrilateral bounded by
four railway lines. no one Of which is at any
point as near as five miles. The nearest
railway station is six miles distant.
For three miles alorg The valley Of the
Swift River and on both sides Of the stream
extends the forest. 1t includes what Is
believed to be the. finest body OF timber
occupying an equal area any where in Maasa-
cbusetts. Upon the lind IL now staining
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PLACER MINING IN TOWN.
Prospectors Seek Copper Beneath the Fruit
- peiler's Harrow,

The push cart man at length took out the
stick from under the barrow n moved or.
At once three small boys leaped as one to
the spot where he had been and began
prospecting in a pool Of muddy water in
the gutter. ..'
h inquisitive one approached the small
boys and asked: What are you looking
fora" :
Fer de pennies de Dago's customers lets
drop inter de water replied n Of the
three.
Statistics are lacking which might prove
enterprise holds forth great profits. At
any event only a very small capital is needed,
and returns, when they do come In, arc
bound 10 be many times the original invest
ment
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lures. The foxes have kept down the
partridges. but the latter are often seen.
Black ducks breed on the edge OF the river
and there are many other native wild birds
In the forest.
From the forester's practical point Of
view the abundance Of fruit and game 10
not q desirable thing, for the tract has long
been q favorite haunt OF hunters. fisher-
men me berry pickers, and camping parties
sometimes stay for days together on the
tract, telling the trees for frewood and en-
dangering the timber with their camp
fires.
In entering upon possession OF the forests
for the purposes of cultivation, instruction
and administration the forestry depart
ment Of the university finds ready at hand
on the edge of the tract a building suitable
for dormitories. classrooms, laboratories
and library. This house, originally built
and occupied by a religious community,
affords twenty bedrooms, and the chapel
makes an amply large dining room and liv-
ing room.
Only q small part Of the students time
will be passed indoors, fog at Petersham
the forestry department will be essentially
an open air school. In fact in these days
when the Greek language is misprized one
Of The newest and most practical depart
ments Of the university is in some sort IN
academy as that term was understood by
the old Greek peripatetics. To be sure
the students in forestry will not walk about
in flowing robes discussing philosophy
beneath their trees, but they will have both
instruction and practice in the open air.
There will be lectures indoors, perhaps never
more than two day. or some days not more
than one.
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geology. Some Of the subjects taught In
the lecture room and In the field are silvi-
culture. forest mensuration. forest botany
and forest engineering.
1t will be the business Of he, student
actually on the ground to take part in the
practical administration Of the forest, and
the teaching force with the aid Of a fore
man experienced in commercial numbering
and Of such assistants as he may need viii
administer the forest in all Its details. The
numbering operations Of the mex year will
mean the cutting and marketing Of from
zoo, 600 to 500 900 feet Of lumber, and the
students will actually WELD the axe and
handle the logs. The income from the sale
Of lumber is expected to meet the cost OF
administration Immediately, INT to do even
more when the annual timber cut shall
reach 500 600 feet.
Already this tract has been systematically
administered, and the forestry department
expects to make it in all respects a model
forest, such as those that have made German
forestry famous the world over. Planting
win be carried on upon the most approved
systems, varieties Of soil will be studied.
diseases and forest pests will be dealt with.
and various styles Of cutting will be ap-
piled.
As a commercial undertaking the forest
will be administered with the s~triotest
economy and upon the best business prin-
ciples. The work will be attended with
hone Of the reckless waste which has marked
commercial numbering in most parts Of the
country, and one object will be. while maxi
ing the forest a source Of annually increas-
ing income, to make 1t also annually more
valuable in it's standing aggregate. White
will be the chief source Of income, but
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The work Of the student In forestry is to
be no soft thing. The day will begin at Z
o'clock, and work in the forest will usually
be preceded by a lecture. Outdoor work
will occupy most OF. the forenoon and part
Of the afternoon, and the students will carry
q luncheon afield like any woodsman.
Every student in forestry is presumed
to nave acquired from his undergraduate
studies some elementary knowledge Of
subjects related to the work in hand. but
as a matter Of fact a good many are likely
to find the fora Of Petersham an alien
tended mainly to fit men for professional
work as foresters either in private employ
ment or In that Of State or national govern
ment. Since Americans. after some CEN
turtles OF reckless waste. are waking up to
the fact that they are about to become as
poor in timber as they were once rich. the
demand for skilled foresters Is beginning
to be felt.
Students in forestry are ACCIDENTALLY
orientated as members Of the Graduate
School OF Applied Science. This school is
open as q matter OF course to any graduate
OF a college or OF q scientific school In good
standing. and to others OF suitable age and
attainments by special vote OF the committee
Of the school. Advanced special students
may be admitted to any part Of the course
for which their training prepares them.
The ordinary lumberman without scien-
tifc requirements could not enter the
school. and could not profit by what it has
to offer in the way Of formal instruction.
but a knowledge OF numbering would be Of
great use to a student with suitable scien-
tifc requirements. So. too. would a knowl-
edge OF surveying, Of civil engineering or OF
Martinsburg statesman-democrat. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1906-1921, 1908-04-17
"Ffends" AZ Rridue

The suggestion of Joseph H. Choate
that society women devote their win
nings at bridge to charity is not likely
to carried out. There are, of course.
a few women who play bridge merely
because it is fashionable, or because of
their love of testing their skill at the
game.
But the "brldse fiend.n be she rich
or in moderate circumstances, is a
"bridge fiend too often because she has
become gambler. That is the tragic
f, allure of the bridge craze.
AS well ask the bookmaker, the faro
dealer, or the habitual poker player to
part with his winnings as to ask the
devotee OF bridge TO partiwith her spoil.
The eagerness with which wome n
bend over the card table, the rancor
resulting from mlsplays or disput-
ed points, the Neglect of all other du-
tics for the game are not the result of
mere pleasure in pastime or OFFEND
ly rivalry.
Bridge has secured a grip upon
women in society and out of it, not be-
cause it furnishes an opportunity to
crafty an instinct altogether too COM
mon in both sexes-the instinct that
actuates the ordinary gambler.