Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-05-11

trail of the man-eating tiger. Other
stories following more familiar paths
are James rarnes' 1.-THE Silly ASS"
THE Radical Judge" by Anita Fitch;
1.-The Lie Direct" by Caroline Duer,
and 1.-THE Misadventures of Cassidy"
by Edward S. Moffatt.
Among the timely articles in Country
Life in America for May is an account
of private aviary, "A Bird Home on
Country Estate" by Henry H. Say
Tor, which sets forth the possibility of
keeping wild birds without cruelty. In
May Wild Flowers" A. Radcliffe
Dugmore gives interesting informa ton
and photographs of our spring flowers,
from skunk cabbage to lady's slipper.
Other illustrated articles are: "The
Great Dane" by S. L. De Fabry; "A
Garden That Charms Both Night and
Day." by Thomas McAdam; '"The
Beautiful ottery of Wedgwood," by
Walter A. Dyer; 1.-THE Gardens Patron
Saint, the Toad" by Frances Duncan;
THE Framing of Home Pictures" by
Warren H. Manning; "Some Facts
about Broiler Raising" by r. B. San
do; 1.-THE Dangerous House-Fly,"
symposium, by w. Frost, C. It. Vorhies.
and E. v. Wilcox; "Growing Daffodils
for Market" by Dalton Wylie and A.
M. Kirby; Automobile Troubles That
May Be Avoided" several shorter ar
ticles, The Homebuilders' Supplement,
and the usual departments.
The Atlantic Monthly is perennially
interesting, and the May issue Is no ex-
ception to this rule. The leader is an
article by Thomas Mott Osborne, for
merly mayor of Auburn, New York,
now a member of the public service
commission, and is entitled HAS the
Democratic Party a Future?" Andrew
ID. White contributes an excellent arti-
Gle entitled 1.-THE Statesmanship of
Stein," the first of series of two pa
pers dealing with the famous German
minister. prohibition in the South in
its most recent phases is discussed by
Frank Foxcroft; Max Eastman of CO.
lumbia university writes a brilliant es-
say on THE New Art of Healing"
which deals with the wonderful recent
cures of nervous diseases by sugges-
ton, and John L. Mathews contributes
an important paper on "The Conserya-
ton of Our National Resources
1.-THE five indispensably essential
materials in our civilization" saws
Mr. Clifford Pinchot, United States
forester, in the Worlds Work for May,
are wood, water, coal, iron and ag-
ricultural products.
we nave TIMBER Tor less than thir-
ty years at the present rate of cut
ting. The figures indicate that our
demands upon the forest have in
creased twice as fast as our popula-
ton.
1--WE have anthracite coal for but
fifty years, Id bituminous coal for
one hundred.
Our supplies of iron ore, mineral
oil and natural gas are being rapidly
depleted, and many of the great fields
are already exhausted. Mineral re-
sources such as these when once gone
are gone forever.
1--WE have allowed erosion, that
great enemy of agriculture, to i'm
poverish and, over hundreds of square
miles, to destroy our farms. The Mis-
sissippi alone carries yearly to the sea
more than 4,009, 900 tons of the rich
est soil within its drainage basin. If
this soil is worth a dollar a ton. it is
probable that the total loss of fer
tility from soil wash to the farmers
of the United States is not far from
a billion dollars a year"
The conservation of the resources
that yet remain is what Mr.. Pinchot
considers our next public duty.