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IfDN1Dul. SEED SPOT NFANT1NG OF WESTERN ELLoWFM

pensive, costing from 81 to So acre
on the average, as compared with an
average of from s. to 81 by the seeding
plan. With experience and the use or
various improved devices, the forest serv-
ice hopes to be able to reduce the cost
of the planting method. This will en-
able 1t to introduce 1t more extensive
ly, which will be an advantage, as the
results in most cases are more salts
factory.
The little seedlings are cared for in
the nurseries for one or two years, being
cared for In glass-covered hotbeds, SO
as to be fully protected from wind,
storms and destructive animals. They are
carefully weeded, the small and inferior
looking seedlings being thrown out. Then
at the end of the first year, or in the
case of some varieties of tree not until
the end of the second year. they are
transplanted into the open, where they
are kept for one, two or even three
years before they are taken to the areas
in which their final growth into new
forest Is to proceed There are at pres
ent in the nurseries scattered throughout
the 100 national forests in the United
States about $4,000, OCO tiny tree seedlings
and transplanIs, about one-fOurth being
of the latter class. The forest service is
now testing a device invented by a west
ern farmer which may facilitate the
work OF planting the young trees and
permit the work to be done three or
four times rapidly at present.
A word as to the economic value of re-
foresting. One of the governments eX-
perts has figured out that d white pine
forest artificially established on second
class forest soil will yield 800 board
feet per acre in fifty years. worth at
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least $50 an acre. Taking the cost of
planting at 81 an acre and the cost of
care and protection at ; cents per acre
per year, and reckoning both at 3 per
a total cost of S34.O7 an acre at the time
the timber is cut. This would be a net
profit per acre at the end of fifty years
of $430.93.
The United States. it has been esti-
mated. is using wood ten times as fast
Germany. The former country already
has spent $33,OO0OOO planting trees on
the watersheds of important streams.
Much reforestry work is done also in
Germany.
This country uses every year about
$50 cubic feet of wood per capita,
while in France the per capita con-
sumption is only twenty-five cubic feet
and in Germany thirty-seven. While
Germany is using thirty-seven cubic
feet for each person in the kingdom
she makes her state forests produce an
average of forty eight cubic feet per
acre.
The human element enters strongly
into this reforestry work. To begin
with, tree has about it more of in
dividuality than have most inanimate
things. Trees often stand out on the
pages of history with almost as startling
a personality as some of the human fig
urfes portrayed therein. The famous
Charter oak of Connecticut, the old tree
at Cambridge. Mass, where Washington
assumed command of the Continental
army, the tree under which William Penn
signed his peace pact with the Indians
the peace tree in the Botanic Gardens
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10 one of his ancestors, the colonial mag
nate Thomas Nelson: and his father,
MAJ Page, owned plantation and
slaves. and was well-to-do The war
came, however, when Thomas Nelson
rage was boy of eight. and at its end
came poverty. with which the boy had
10 make a hand-to-hand fight, working
IN the fields. milking the cows and tend
ing the cattle. The atmosphere in which
ne worked, however, was that of books
lie was surrounded by the old Nelson and
rage libraries. and some of his reading
was done by the light of pine knots.
Among the first of his book loves was
waiter Scott, whom he read and re-
read in that way, and the same is true
OF Dickens and Thackeray. Even as a boy
ne ilked to imagine stories, and his little
mead was filled with battles and sieges,
ana with plumed knights and tourna-
ments In which love and fair ladies
played their parts.
As the times grew better the boy was
prepared for college, and at sixteen he
entered the Washington and Lee Uni
sersity, where he stood high In the lit
erary societies and was the editor of the
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Sowetl, tina. SF2H ne also redp. WIZ
hardly hold true. for in most CAGES the
planter will have been dead years before
his crop is gathered for Use.
Uncle Sam has started to reforest-re-
establish his forests-at the rate OF 20
700 acres or more a year That would
make a hundred good-sized farms 1t
would be tract of more than thirty -one
square miles. or a square area more than
Ave and a half miles on each side. To
cover such an area with new forest
growth requires the planting OF 6,OOro
little trees and in addition the sowing of
100000 pounds of tree seed.
Two systems of reforesting have been
started by the government One Is
known as direct seeding" and consists
of scattering seed over the land. letting
il take a chance of coming up without
artificial assistance. The other method.
planting, consists of taking care in
nurseries of the tender tree seedlings
until they are from two to five years of
age. then setting them out on the given
areas. The latter method naturally is
more expensive, but in the short time
that the federal government has been en-
gagged in reforesting work the planting
system has given SO much better results
future operations. So far the work has
been largely of an experimental charac-
ter, and TO a certain extent will continue
to be so in the future. but it is hoped to
increase rapidly as possible the area
TO be turned into new forest.
Refreshing IS with the possible excep-
ton of forest fire fighting. the branch of
national forest service activity which has
most fascination. There is nothing to
charm the general reader in accounts of
timber sales and of contracts with lum-
Der companies. He can find nothing Of
absorbing interest in reading of tests of
tensile strength and of why one kind of
wood is so many per cent better than
another for shingles or scaffolding or
railroad cross-ties
But about reforesting there is much
that Is novel and picturesque. Further
more. besides being of immediate interest
IL looks both backward and forward;
backward to the early days of extrava-
gance and timber waste, when 1t was
thought that the forests We're inexhausti-
BILE: forward TO the day when future gen.
erations. supplied with plenty of lumber
for their manifold uses. will rise up and
call the present blessed.
The government now has in its nurs-
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If you will look on tf.e book counters
you will see a volume OF delightful sto.
ries entitled THE Land OF the Spirit.
which has just been published by
Scribner's. He has also a book OF essays
" hich is almost completed, long novel
which is well under way, and history OF
Washington city. upon which he mas been
working for several years, and one-thlrd
of which is yet to be done.
At the time of Mr.. fage marriage 20
Mrs. Florence Lathrop Field, now over
twenty years ago, il was predicted that
his labors as an author We're ended, and
that he would join the ranks of our gem
tleman loafers. The truth is that his
literary product has been twice as large
since then as during the ten years pre-
ceding His wife is woman or broad
culture and fine literary taste, and she
has been an aid rather than hindrance
to his work Since his marriage he has
written fifteen different books and some
of his best work has been the product OF
that period.
Thomas Nelson Page began his life as
a worker He comes of one OF the oldest
families of Virginia. His boyhood home.
Oakland, in Hanover county, was granted
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The girl had. it seemed. trif1ed with the
man. and it was only after he had left for
the var that she realized how she loved
him. In her letter she wrote:
/ know 1 have treated you mean.
amt never done right with you all my
life, and l loved you all the time. When
You asked me to marry you 1 laughed
and said l wouldn't have you. 1t makes
me cry now to think you are gone away
to the war. But l want you to know 1
love you. / want you to git a furlough
and come home and I'll marry YOU
1.-The letter closed with this postscript:
Don't come home without a furlough
for unless you come home honorable /
won't marry YOU
This letter was found in the breast
pocket of the soldier when he lay dying
on the battlefield of Seven Pines. The
ball which killed him had gone through
it as it lay there in his breast pocket
just over his heart. The pathos of the
incident was such that 1t made me write
'Marse Chan. ;"
During my stay in this workshop of
Thomas Nelson Page / asked many ques-
tons as to his literary methods, and in
reply was shown some of his copy I'm its
various stages of its preparation for the
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printed nor returned. 1 concluded that
had been mistaken in my ability to write,
and I put all my force on the law. In
the meantime the old Scribner Magazine
changed hands and became the Century
and one of the new editors in clearing
up the papers found among them bulky
roll of manuscript which had been
damned into pigeonhole SO tightly that
it would hardly come out. He opened II
and began to glance through. Ii inter
ested him, and Men Lady was printed:
1t attracted favorable attention, and
have been writing, more or less, from
that time to this
What was the origin of .Marse Chan,
Mr. Page?" asked 1.
1T was written before Meh Lady.
but was not published until afterward.
1t may have been held back on account
of the feeling which still existed between
the north and the south at the close OF
the civil war. The story dealt largely
with the southern side. AS to its origin,
il came from an old letter which q friend
of mine showed me- This letter was writ
ten to a Confederate soldier by his hit
crate sweetheart in Georgia.
at was poorly penned and poorly SPELL
ed, but the sentiment in 1t attracted me.
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tract, Of no use for anything but tim
Der. The men will keep about six feet
apart, and after each plant of seed will
take two good PAGES, which is about six
feet, forward before using the corn
planter for thrusting more tree seed into
the soil.
Again three men may start out to
plant by what is technically known as
the ''seed-spot method" 1t is a form Of
direct seeding, as are the previous two,
broadcasting and corn planting, which
have been mentioned. OF the three men.
two are armed with mattocks or heavy
hoes or rakes for loosening the earth.
Each of them digs a shallow hole at
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intervals Of from two to nine feet, &C
cording to the kind of trees which are
being planted The third man drops the
seed In the holes and with his rake COW
ers it over. Much has to be learned by
these men as to the depth at which seeds
should be planted, as to how far apart
they should be to produce best results.
as to what season is best for planting
Engelmann spruce, what season for
Douglas fir, western yellow pine, lodge
so on.
AS opposed to reforesting by seed SOW
ing, the other method-that of planting
young trees-is considerably more ex-
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pointmentS began in the days of George
Washington. when Joel Barlow, the
author of THE Columbiad.'' was made
our consul to Algiers, and was con-
tinued during the jefferson aiministra-
ton when Barlow was appointed min
lister to France. Even before that We
had Benjamin Franklin, the newspaper
man and the author OF Poor Richards
Almanac" to represent Us in Paris. and
a little later John Quincy Adams.
the author of the longest diary known
to literature, began his diplomatic work
as secretary of our legation at the court
of St. Petersburg.
Farther on down the list come Wash
ington Irving, who got the materials for
his Life Of Columbus and other vol
unes while serving in a diplomatic ca
pacity at Madrid. and Bayard Taylor.
the traveller, who. with his many other
volumes. wrote studies in German litera-
ture and translation OF Faust during
the time he was minister To Germany.
While John Hay was IN Spain he pen
ned his delightful ''Castilian Days and
W D. HoweIIs wrote his beautiful Italian
sketches while he MAS consul 1T Venice.
A. 10 Germany. another diplomat who
was also a literary light was George Ban
croft the historian, and at the court OF
st James We have had such men as
John Bigelow. James Russell Lowell and
Whitelaw Reid. Every one OF these men
has 1Iled We'll the place to which he was
APPOINTED, and | predict the same Tor
Thomas Nelson Page. Like the most OF
his predecessors OF literary note, he -
almost as well known in Europe as in the
United States. His stories have been
translated into many languages and they
nave delighted the Engiish-speakins
world.
/ wish | could make you acquainted
/ do not mean that, 1t is not the am
bassador that i wish yoH TO know. 1t is
the author of 'tMarse Chan" "Meh Lady"
me stories of the Old Dominion. Tommy
Trots Visit to Santa Claus, John Mar
vel Assistant" and that wonderful Life
of Robert r.. Lee. Southerner 1t Is
Thomas Nelson Page. the friend OF the
north and the beloved of the south, the
man whose thorough Americanisln and
broad sympathy with the people and the
country stand strikingly out among those
who know him best. IL is Mr. Page. your
friend and servant OF the public in the
highest sense OF the word, and that not
withstanding the arduous literary work
ne has always in hand.
Mr.. Page has always been hard work
err and now. when he is approaching the
age that DR. Osler has fixed for the
chioroforming process. he is doing more
of actual literary composition and has
more work on hand than when he left
~ literature, almost generation ago.
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Uncle Sam Has
Started to Re-es2blish
His Forests at the Rate
of 10000 or More Acres
a Year" Direct Seed
ing and planting
Are Two of the Meth
DDS In Use - So Far
the Work Has Been
Largely of an Expert
mental Nature-Novel
and Picturesque Work
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ABLY NNY mar

EARLY sNGy man,
WOMAN nd child
m tfN L Mi G d
STAT es nas seen ii
farm e = planting
sprn o. wheat or
cps3pn- dUt not one
m 100. COO has seen
a man planting
forests In the
case OF forests. the
old say ing, hat
so Ve- g man
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-07-20
Copyrighted. 1913. By Frank G. Csrpenter.)
He selection OF

Thomas Nelson
Page as our am
bassador to Rome
is a worthy addi-
ton to the long
list of eminent
literary men who
have been chosen
to represent US at
the great courts of
Europe. The fash
ion Of such ap-
The Washington herald., 1913-11-09
MICHIGAN Wins
FROM CORNELL
Wolverines Capture Hard
Earned Victory from ltha-
cans, Score II to 0.
TOBERT REGAINS TUMBLE
Western Full Back Secures Miscue on
Kick-0f-GaIt Scores on
Forward Pass.
TOBERT REGAINS TUMBLE

Ithaca, Nov. s.-Michigan triumphed
over Cornell this afternoon by the score
of Il to o. and the Wolverines won a
welI-earned victory. They outplayed
Cornell in most Of the departments Of
the game and defeated the Ithacans on
the merits. The Wolverines scored their
first touchdown in the first period by
catching Cornell of her guard and send
ing Craig over the line on a delayed
pass. Michigan scored this touchdown
on a series of rushes from kickoff,
taking the bail from their 30-yard line
straight down the field. Cornell then
started and fought into Michigan terri
tory Twice in the second period Bar
rett tried for field goals from the 20 and
4O-yard lines. in the third period Michi-
gan came back again.
Fritz fumbled a kickoff and Tobert
recovered for Michigan. He took the
ball to the I2-yard line, and on for
ward pass to Gait took the oval to the
l-yard line. From this point Hughitt
went over for a touchdown. Just be-
fore this Patterson had kicked a goal
from the 30-yard line after a series OF
Michigan advances had been blocked
In the fourth period Cornell tried in
vain to recuperate. Lineup:
The Washington herald., 1913-11-09
{, j, Will PLAY
STRONG CUNTS
Brooklanders Announce Their
Basketball Schedule for
the Coming Season.
YALE IS COMING HERE
New Haven Collesians on the List,
Also Games with Virginia
and the Middie,.
YALE IS COMING HERE

William II. Furey. manager of basket
ball at Catholic University. has COM
pleted his schedule for the season of
lslS-Igl4
The schedule includes some of the best
college fives in the Middle States. and
II Is looked upon by many as the best
ever arranged by a manager OF basket
ball at the Brookland institution.
Swarthmore and Yale will be seen here
this winter, also Washington and Lee
and Virginia. Fred Rice has been en-
gagged again as coach and prospects look
bright for a winning team this year
Last years team was OF championship
caliber, and the only real defeat It re-
ceived was at the hands OF the Md
dies, but this years five expects to do
even better. Capt Lambert will be seen
at center. with Keegan and Donnelly
at guards. AS to the forward positions,
left vacant by Horan and Mcdonnell.
Rice Is having a great deal of trouble.
Many OF the new men have shown up
Wen In these positions and are fighting
hard for place. Bennett. Letters, and
Macey seem to have the edge on the
rest, but IL being so early in the season
no one seems to be playing at their
best.
Light practice is being held during
for football. Rice does not want to
work his men too hard this early in the
season.
c. U. opens its season with GaIlaudet
College and closes with George Wash
ington University. Three games have
been arranged with the last named team
and each of these games ought to prove
very interesting, as George Washington
and c. U. are both Washington team
The schedule follows:
December l3-GAIlaudet Collese at Washington
December 5-George Washington University a
Washington.
Decsmbcr aD-Naval Academy at Annapolis, Nd
December g-Yae University at Washington.
January Io-Cfty CoIlese of New York at Wash
fngtou-
January II-Mnrylsnd AEriGultunl College a
Washington.
January r-GeOrEe Washington University a
Washington.
Janua7y 22-wsshfnston and Lee at Lexington, v.
January 2S-virxinia Military Institute AZ Lex
ington, Va
January a-Virinia University at Chanottes
Vile, Va
January s-st. Johns iBrcoklyn) at Washington
January A-MaryiAnd Agricultural College at Col
lege Park.
February T-Fordharn University at Washington
February II-Manhattm College al Washington.
February l4-GaIlaudet College at Washington
February Is-washington and Lee at washington
February ls-MAnhattan College at New York.
February 1-St Johns coDege at Brooklyn
n Y.
February H-Fordham University at FOrdhan
Ny
February z-swsrthuore College at Washington
February E--virEinia University at Washington
February 3-George Washington University q
Washington
The Washington herald., 1913-11-09
WHITE SOX POUND
CHRISTY MATHEWSON
Chicago Outfit Captures Close Game
from New York Giants Before
Crowd at Los Angeles.

Los Angeles. Cal, Nov. S-with Math-
ewson in the box, the Giants were
beaten, to 3, by the White Sox here
today. Twelve thousand persons saw the
game. Weaver hit the first ball pitched
by Mathewson for n single 10 right field.
Rath singled to center and Weaver
scored on Speakers single, and Rath
came home on a single by Crawford. A
triple by Weaver and another single by
Crawford scored the Sox' third run In
the third inning. In the Giants half
Meyers opened with a single to right
Mathewson famed and Snodgrass hit. TO
left, putting Meyers on second Magee
flied to left field. but Evans lost the
bounce and Meyers and Snodgrass scored.
Magee scored the tying run on Loberts $
out, Weaver TO Chase. Mathewson was
famed again in the sixth, Schacfer scor-
ing on two singles and steal Schaefer
tailed the final count in the eighth on
his force of Daley at third and three
base hit by Schalk. The score by innings
R.HB
white sox......... 2e1 o 0 O-5 i
Giants ............ OO3 0 0 O-3
Batteries-Russell and Schalk. Mathewson anf
Meyers. Uupire-Messrs KLEIN and Sheridan
The Washington herald., 1913-11-09
CLARENDONS MEET
NATIONAL ELEVEN
Good Game Booked at National Park
Today-Piedmonts Tackle
Stantons.

A good game Is expected this afternoon
at National Park. First and M Streets
Northeast, when the champion National
A c. hooks up with the strong Car
endon A. c. of Virginia at p. m. A
large delegation OF rooters will accom-
pany the team.
"Curley" Costello. one Of the fastest
ends In the city. who has been playing
this season with the Vigilants. has
signed up with the Nationals, and Is ex-
pected to star In the game today. The
Nationals win present their strongest
lineup. as this game means much tc
them II they win. as It will give them
chance to play the Vigilants. The
Clarendon team will present a fast
heavy team, and are confident of VIC
tory. Eddie Carroll. the big half back
OF the Virginians, who was injured last
Sunday, will be back In the game and
Is expected TO prove tower OF strength
for the boys across the river. Speed
Kelley. OF Business, will referee. The
teams will line up as follows:
The Washington herald., 1913-11-09
CARDINAL ELEVEN
TO MEET SOLDIERS
Alexandra Gridiron Warriors to Clash
with Strong Fort Myer Outfit
at Baseball Park.
20 me Washingfon H41ld.

Special 10 me Washtngfon Heald-
Alexandria, Va, Nov. S-The Cardinal
football team will play the Fort Myer
eleven in the Alexandria Baseball Park,
North Alfred Street, at . o'clock today,
and a hard-fought game is expected.
Manager Carl Mueller will have his reg
ular players in the lineup and will also
work Frank Cain, q new man.
In last Sundays game with the Ma
tionaIs the Cardinals did not use Its
full strength, but had in the lineup
many substitutes in the places Of some
of its stars. When the Nationals play its
return game with the Cardinals in Alex
andria. Sunday, December Z, the home
team will put In its best warriors. and
grand battle il In store for the local
lovers Of the pigskin game
Those desiring information concern
ing championship games to be played in
the Alexandria Baseball Park, or else
where. will receive courteous treatment
If they Will call on either Carl Mueller.
manager, 81 Duke Street. or Sylvester
A. Breen, 1s2e King Street. Alexandria,
Va. Chief Goods, OF the Alexandria po-
lice department. win guarantee protec-
tion to all teams visiting the city. but
his services viii not be needed, for IL
the Cardinals lose they take defeat as
true sports, because they are fully aware
that they cannot win all games