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as fuel TO the boiler. would he excellent
for slack cooperage purposes"
Moreover. the two industries emplov
To a large extent the same woods and
are conferred in the same regions II IL
clear that for tho saving Of needless
waste these two industries ought to he
combined. SO that the barrel slaves ~
the country might he made from the lun-
Der waste Census reports show that
this combination is slowly coming about.
but the wonder is that IL has not been
done before
other recommendations made are that
the lumber industry should not continue
simply cutting logs into boards II should
diversity It's products. Some OF the large
sawmills might profitably add box facto-
ries. as has already been done in few
instances. Others should put in pulp
mills. coorerage plants. preservative
treatment plants. turpentine or tannic
acid plants. stu another would md r.
profitable 10 introduce handle or wooden
ware works. by working such auxiliary
establishments. II is claimed. the lumber
industry viii make a profit out OF what
is now but waste and the public viii
observe a great cutting down Of the con-
sumption OF woodan important and
rapidly dnindling resource Of the nation
IF We insist on conservation Of the
timber supply. then the public. the ium-
hermen and tho wood-consuming indus
tries and the national government must
cooperate in bringing il about and in
bearing the expense. Another thing
which the public must he prepared TO do
Is to accept new kinds OF woods and new
forms Of manufacture. The farmer must
give up the use of cedar. white oak and
chestnut posts. and he content TO use
willow, cottonwood and pine. creosoted TO
make them durable. Railroads must
cease using white oak ties and turn to
treated pine apd other fast grown woods.
Builders must be prepared to accept short
lengths of lumber such as and feet,
also odd lengths
The lumbermen as their part of the
cooperation must go ahead to work ont
by every practicable means the reduction
OF the waste which now threatens the
perinanence of their Industry and be
clouds its standing before the bar of pub
lie opinion. They can do this by increas-
ing the variety of their products, through
the operation Of hy-rroduct plants In con-
nectlon with their sa wmillS
II X not too mu6G to expect that with
faithful cooperation between the public
the foreSt-dependent industries and the
national government, the important prob
elm OF forest utilization with a minimum
OF waste will ultimately be solved"
Copyright 1911 by William L. AltIorferl
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To Outstrip All Museums.

From the Chicago Tribune.
Chicagos Field Museum OF Natural
History, as il now is planned for jack
son Park, will be the greatest institution
of its kind. IL is the youngest OF the
great museums OF the world and now
ranks fifth In Importance. The building
will cost $o.00oooo. The treasures IL will
house at the outset will be worth $1,000
900. The total cost of the museum-Sl5.-
900, GOODWILL equal the total amount SUBJ
scribed for the worlds Columbian expo
sition.
Work of construction is TO begin at
once on the site opposite and facing the
old building in Jackson Park. II viii ex-
tend east and west 70i feet and have
depth north and south OF 336 feet Even
tually, when the annexes provided for are
built, the area will be 500 by GOO feet;
Only the main building is 10 be erected
at present. however. and il will be COM
pleted in three years. The old building
then will be removed.
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The Story of the Bachelor and the impairment Stork

servants in uniform, and all that sort Of
thing.
And instead Of prutting bread and
cheese on the shelf like another bachelor
in another story, he put Holsters and
champagne and things in a great refrig-
orator covered with white tiles. And
he wasn't a dried-up, crusty bachelor
either. He measured forty-eight inches
around the meridian. and people would
come long way just to hear him laugh.
Also he was some pumpkins in society.
But, somehow or another, he couldn t
stand children, and the smaller they were
the less he liked them
well, one cold night Mr. Camaralza-
man was sitting in his big, easy chair in
his library, watching ne smoke rise from
his cigar and thinking about a girl he
used to know a long time back, when all
OF sudden he heard a sound of tapping
wings. and there, right in front of him.
stood a stork, holding a bundle in his
beak.
The bachelor dropped his cigar on the
floor. clapped his hands on his knees, and
leaning over. looked hard Then he
rubbed his eyes with his knuckes and
looked again. The stork was still there
Jumping Jupiter. remarked the
bachelor.
NO. said the stork. after he had
carefully put the bundle on the rug, his
name is Clarence Algernon.'
But, say my long nosed friend,
cried the bachelor, you've certainly got
into the wrong pew. That-that-that
package e amt be tnn meant =, for me
ments? inquired the stork.
Yes
".Aint this No. 13?
Yes
Well?
Well? repeated the bachelor
Il think that's about ALL observed
the stork.
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lumber. The amount used nearly doubled
in 1890. and when get to 1907 the
amount has increased to more than 40
Oon,OO,OOO feet of this class Of lumber
alone.
Wood Is used for many purposes be-
sides that of lumber 1t has been fig
ured by many authorities that the people
Ct the United States use more than any
other nation in the world. There is used
in this country about 125 cubic feet per
person, while Germany uses only 81 cubic
feet and France but % cubic feet for
each person
Since 1907 however. a change has taken
place. Many substitutes are taking the
place of wood. In cities steel and cement
are being used for frames; slate. metal
and other materials for roofing: tile and
cement for flooring and marble for VAIN
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Our Citizens in Turkey.

From the Buffalo Express.
1t is stated that the United States is
the only country that will not permit
its citizens to be tried in Turkish courts.
but retains the consular court with its
claim Of extraterritorial jurisdiction.
which Japan and every other AWAKEN
ing sountry has cast off. Turkey should
be relieved from this incubus, but not
in return for a railroad concession for
Americans In Asia Minor, as is proposed.
Each proposition should stand on its own
merits.
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dollars annually. il a problem Uncle Sam
proposes to solve.
He has built for this purpose a well
equipped wood-testing laboratory at Madi-
son. Wis Here he intends to start at
the bottom, and with his corps OF sci
eutists 10 conduct thorough inyestga-
tion into the cause of the great waste
and 10 lind a remedy for it. In fact. he
has already found the principal causes
through work done at the laboratory and
in the field during the few months it has
been at work. Many remedies have been
suggested ny the experiments, but there
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Defective trees are often left uncut
Sound logs are overlooked in the forests
or sink in the streams while in cours'
of transportation to the mills. Alto
gether. the bureau says. il is probably
true that % per cent OF the wood which
Is produced by growth is never taken
from the forest at all
1t is claimed the waste which actually
occurs after the timber is put in service
is of the greatest value. and here is
where Uncle Sam proposes to put In his
first hard licks-to prevent the waste at
the point Of highest value first.
BY the use of personalities. upon which
the laboratory Is at present working, IL
is proposed to save the wood when 1t
reaches this highest value. Take. for in
stance, a railway tie. When the tie is
newly laid in the track ii has its highest
value. Decay there means not only tho
cost of new tie. but the cost of trans
po!tation and of placing 1t in The track
as we'll 1t Is the intention to nm! a pre-
servative that will protect the tie from
tie inroads OF decay and insects that
cause decay. so that the tie will last
much longer than II does at present.
Two personalities are widely used in
this country. One is creosote. a product
of coal tar. valuable in preventing both
decay and destruction by marine borers
the other is zinc-chloride. water-soluble
salt, and effective only against decay. In
1908 there We're 51..Dl.Oc gallons of creo-
sote and 100000 pounds of znc-chloride
used for preventative purposes and APP
piled to about 1.3I3. Ccn,o00 feet of timber.
The Investigation also revealed the fact
that much waste of good material has re-
suited from the inability Of lumbermen to
market short lengths of board. In the
past it has been imp possible to buy boards
or timbers less than ten feet long or
pieces of odd lengths. such as eleven.
thirteen or fifteen feet. Timbers that
would make such boards have been
thrown away in the forests. unless they
could be worked into laths or other small
forms. and pieces that readily would
make odd lengths without loss were cut
down to even lengths. I mis- is claimed to
be the result of the demand of custom.
Rather than buy four-foot boards the
American citizen seems to prefer to get
a twelve or sixteen foot board and do the
extra work himself of saving 1t into four
foot lengths.
Again. il appears waste results from
lack of knowledge Of the properties of
woods. There was time when lum-
herman went through the hardwood for
ests and cut only the walnut and the
cherry. All other kinds were left as use
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Wow" remarked Clarence Algernon.
Comm. replied the bachelor. Say.
my young friend he observed. as he
picked him up. you talk too much. Guess
III have to make an orator out of you.
Does 90 want somefin' to eat? Rings in
her fingers, bells on her toes There's a
bottle o milk in the ice box Maybe
thatll fix him Seems to me I've heard
somethin' about babies and milk. Rings
on her fingers. bells on her toes
Holding Clarence on one arm, he
poured some milk into cup and urged
the baby to drink. The youngster sput-
tered and choked.
THAT won't do admitted the bach
elor. How am goin' to get the stuff
down him. There's some kind OF a bottle
oh. | remember now
He got napkin. wrapped thickness
about his finger, stuck il into the milk
and then into the baby's mouth. Clarence
seized il with great joy and had no more
to say.
Pshawr chuckled the bachelor. its
the easiest thing in the world when you
know how / bet
There was a Tapping of wings and
the stork again stood before him. The
bachelor jumped to his feet.
Say, he cried, what do you take me
for, anyhow-an orphan asylum
Excuse me, said the stork, but L
made A mistake
Mistake How's that
why, you see, exclaimed the stork,
they got the wrong number on the de-
livery ticket. That belongs in No. Ia.
next floor above. Doggone these apart
ments. anyway.
The bachelor stared at the stor K
about a minute. Then he looked at
Clarence Algernon, shook his head with
q sigh and handed him over to the ear
rier.
Take him. he blazed, but if YOU ever
get into this apartment again Ill wiring
your neck for you.
Copyright, 1911. by C. 5. Yost)
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scoting. All of these have usurped the
places once belonging to wood.
On the railroads steel passenger and
freight cars disrlacing wooden ones.
steel and concrete bridges and trestles
are coming In and those of wood are going
out Railroads now consider frame de-
pots and board platforms as things of
the past.
The situation is similar on farms and
in rural communities Cement is reliev-
ing the pressure upon lumber supply
by coming into use where wood was
once the only material employed. A
list of such uses would be long and in
structive, and might properly begin with
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expected to remain large. and authorities
say it would be unwise to reason that
the forest and its products will be less
necessary to use in the years to come
than they are today.
According to recent Investigations by
the forest bureau. ii seems the waste or
that part of the tree which is thrown
away as useless, sums as high as 1S per
cent in some industries. In answer to the
question as to why this enormous waste
is permitted a peculiar answer is sub
mitted. The bureau says: Lumber is
sawed with square edges, but the trees
grow round. Our boards and timber
must be straight and of the same width
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dragging even those dinky diminutive
street cars OF the other time up the steep
nils was too much for two horses, and
50 an additional horse was tackled on TO
heip do the dragging. the lacking on
being done at the foot Of the long hill.
and the boys that drove the tacked-on
nags were called hill-horse boys.
think il used TO take one of the horse
drawn cars. even with the additional tug
ging power OF the extra horse. about If
teen minutes 70 make the ascent from
the foot OF street, on the south side of
the Capitol 10 the old Butler mansion.
Certainly il seemed that long TO passen-
gers with more or less frozen feet on
car TO make the top of the hill where lit
tie more-but, really, not so much more
speed could be put on. Very often, during
these ascents. especially during the slip
perry times, one or other OF the horses
would fall down, and then all OF the hill
horse boys, foregathering at the foot of
the hill in blustery converse, would rush
10 the aid of the doWned horse. so that
the next car TO come along TO the foot
OF the hill would have to wait for the
return OF hili-horse boy with his nag.
and IL was music TO ears "a music OF
which there is no echo left now to hear
the hill-horse boy returning down the
hill with the clanking of the chains of his
horse and his rough repartee exchange
with the impatient driver.
Strong boys, and alert and able. were
those hill-horse lads. I know where two
or three OF them are. There was one
who used to hitch his nag TO the old
green + street horse cars on the left
hand side OF the Capitol whom / met in
San Francisco quite a bunch OF years
ago. He had a big hardware store there
of his own. and how he did stare at me.
and then laugh and wiring mitts and
slap shoulders and all that stun when l
told him that / recognized him as the
apple checked hili-horse boy who had
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and thickness throughout, while the tree
often grows crooked and always tapers.
If the tree would accommodate us by
growing with square edges instead of
round. or even in the form of a cylinder
instead of a cone. the waste would be
less. But even then it would be con-
siderable"
Perhaps the greatest item of wood waste
is found in failure to use the tops
Branches and tops are Topped off and
left to decay on the ground. 1t is these
dead tops, with their clinging leaves and
small branches that form the slash
which burned with such uncomfortable
fierceness during the recent disastrous
forest fires all over the country.
Thus one form of waste leads directly
to another. Even this is not all the
waste that takes place in the woods.
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man. It has been used everywhere and
for everything.
So because of this universal demand
the consumption OF wood has assumed
vast proportions. And 1t Is now up to
our venerable uncle to devise ways and
means TO preserve that which is left
Realizing the situation has reached a
point where only the government may
hope to find the solution. he has rubbed
his Aladdins lamp and produced the lab
oratory to aid him In his work.
One of the largest demands upon the
forests Is for sawed lumber In 1850
there was used in the United States more
than 1S,OO0O0O.OOO board feet of sawed
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7 1NCLE SAM as a Lum-
~ harm Has R1Ii1f

I TNCLE SAM as Lum-
- berman-He Has Built
An Immense Laboratory at
Madison. Wis, to Help Him
Find Means of Saving the
Great Waste Going On in
His Forests-His Scientists
at Work on Problem of
Preservatives w aste in
Beech, Birch and Maple Suf-
fcient to Produce All the
Wood Alcohol and Acetate
of Lime Used in the United
States = Waste in Spruce,
Henlock. Poplar and Cotton
wood Sufficient to Make All
Paper Manufactured in United
States-Other Startling Facts
Revealed by Investigation.
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THE NEW LABORATORY AT MADISON, WIS

fence posts, we'll curbs and walks. Feed
ing troughs and watering trOughs for
stock were once followed out by ak and
adj from single logs. or formed of heavy
planks nailed together. Now they are
constructed of iron or cement.
Cement is rapidly coming into use for
numerous other purposes about the farm
where lumber was formerly employed al
most exclusively. In the same way
wooden culverts and bridges are pass
ing from use in progressive rural COM
munities to make room for those of
cement and steel, which should last as
many decades as the wooden structures
lasted years.
Though losing many Of its historic uses.
wood Is gaining some uses which are
new. So while fashions and industries
change, the actual demand for wood is
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Now whom dye suppose. of all mag
Unable human beings. used to take a sort
of almost boyish delight in getting the
front seat right by the money and ticket
box, and acting as ticket getter and money
depositor for all of the passengers enter
ing the car?
Why, no less renowned man than the
then Chief Justice of the Supreme Court
of the United States, Morrison r. Waite.
| saw him do that, | suppose. at least a
hundred times. He liked the work. 1t
amused him. 1t was a sort of diversion.
Yes. and there is another gentleman now
in Washington who used to like TO do
the same Office for passengers riding on
those three-cent cars. He was, and is,
Justice Harlan of that same Supreme
Court of the United States; the i'm
memorial un-age-able Mr.. Harlan, who |
positively vow. YUM and aver. looked pre-
ciSely and exactly the same. with the
same increased babyish rudy skin, way
back in those days. quarter of CEN
fury and more ago. as he looks this very
day aid hour of the independence of the
United States!
Those were the days. the gladstone
horse-car days, when a Teller could smoke
either on the front or back platform.
Generally the preference was given nv
the cognoscenti to the front platform, for
there were some quaint birds driving
horse cars in Washington in those days;
fellows with a supply of wit of the rough
stuff sort that could freshen up the day
for faded man whatever degree of Gull
tivation, and sort of throw q breeze of
humanity into the cares of workaday
life Thus the front platforms of the
horse cars generally were damned with
motley gang OF smokers, all engaged In
animated converse with the driver, or
among themselves; and on the summer
days, when the front doors of the horse
sengers. what mingled aroma of hemp
and onion and other compositions enter
ing into the hypothetical-synthetic to
bacco" thus being consumed did stream
car. But nobody minded much. Oh. yes.
forgot. DR.. Mary Walker minded. This
generation doesn't remember DR.. Mary
Walker and her years in Washington
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dashboard, and he hollers 70 me: Hello,
Finnegan, What's the score? Then he
commenced 10 laugh and | woke up.
Couldn't get back TO sleep to save my
life"
That's just too bad. soothed the
nurse; but. then, you can't reasonably
expect a perfect sleep so soon. IL takes
time 10 cure bad case of insomnia like
yours. You'll have to get back to nat
ural sleep by degrees. you know. Now,
I'm going 10 give you a story tonight
that. / think. will hold you until day
light Its called The Story OF the
Bachelor and the impertinent Stork.
Referrin to any bachelor in particu-
lar? inquired Mr. F1nnegan, suspi-
ciously.
No. oh no: this is just story. you
understand. like all OF the rest This
bachelor was named Camaralz aman hut
his friends-and he had a lot OF friends
usually called him Bill, il being more
convenient. He was an up-to-date
bachelor, and he lived in a swell apart
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Mr.. Finnegan. having frazzled his
nerves in the pursuit and capture Of many
dollars, was troubled with insomnia H
didn't have time to rest and he wouldn't
take any dope" So the doctor en-
gagged storytelling nurse, modern
SCheherszade, To talk him to sleep. Fin
negan was instructed 10 get into his led
NJ 10 O'Clock every night and then to
ring the bell for the nurse. When she
came and seated herself by his bedside
~ to fix his eyes on her chin for the
hypnotic effect. forget everything else on
earth and listen 10 her stories.
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has not been sufficient time to test these
remedies
The laboratory, which is under the di-
rection of the bureau of forestry. Is work
ing in cooperation with the University of
Wisconsin. It has been in operation a
little less than one year. During this
time many important things have been
discovered affecting the enormous waste.
t.
Experiments with preservatives are also
under way. Scientists at the laboratory
propose to find preservatives that will
preserve. Creosote and znc-chloride are
two well known preservatives. But there
are other new personalities which Uncle
Sans scientists are now developing at
the laboratory They expect to prove by
many elaborate tests tiat the new pre-
servatives may he even better than creo-
sote or zinc-chloride.
The investigation already made has re-
vealed some startling facts. For instance.
il has been found that the waste of beech,
birch and maple in the northern woods is
sufficient. if Il were properly utilized, 10
produce most of the wood alcohol and
acetate of lime used in this country. If
so used. the scientists claim il would
Weld a product worth annually more than
s1,HngO Most of the wood now used
IN TIE manufacture OF these products Is
cut especially for the purpose. This is
another phase of the problem it is pro-
posed to solve.
Another matter of great interest is the
waste from spruce. hemlock, poplar and
cottonwood woods chiefly used for
paperInaking. If the slabs. edgings, trim
mihgs and shavings-or. in other words,
the waste-from these woods cut for lum-
Der in 1910 had been used for papermak-
ing, they would have furnished more than
100000 cords This quantity, 1t Is
claimed, would have been amply suf-
ficient to make all the paper manufac-
tured in the United States.
In report on the work of the labora !.
tory just issued a number of recon-
mendations are made, chief among which
Is the suggestion that there are some
lumber industries now working indie
pendently of each other which would save
thousands of dollars each year if they
would work together by making use Of
the waste now thrown away as useless
by one or the other.
In the words of we'll known author,
our civilization is built on wood. From
the cradle to the grave, in some shape or
other. il surrounds a convenience
or a necessity" To enumerate the vast
number of uses of wood would fill q book
Wood has been the cheapest the most ac-
cessible and the most easily worked of
all materials available for the use of