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RED CLOUD, NEBRASKA, CHIEF ft SAW 'HER CLOWNS' i T vMSaa- i mirvzz7)iAT' .-. wn,-! s,-' vt -nrx.7 ,1 naw.iTTTfi:iuriHBHT.7a''- -KiHHrti ffmvKvw ' J, 3'fKV i rvjUujK-f-! K.wt rvjr . wniutf jrwfijwaHvi x Lts jws M-Hh ft i sons now living, lias moved from M'fl&mw; r-Wm.t'SKSi w W.S-T'j i -il Nv Knuluiid. to Pennsylvania, to RTO.-v'Wlllaf fi-.i M tl EIImi' tlio Lake states, to the Gulf slates. Pft'fMKffliK fffifi'- 'IMfll&MOTSv tOiJ: V l S&'K? Tho Southern IMne association now JilBlMMilKKlitJ $ felgl'IMEW V -4M "ports that wltliln eight years BJillSBBli( sWMmSmM' BtfTiM L YJfte) :M)()0 hl wijviiiIIIs will ho Junked BKBtrSSttmllBI Jt$L . gftH'fll&l 1 1 i hJZmj iwul that the output will he re- WNmffi&8aRmm$MKk ,.& &$& M 4 MSKm W M wjmYmi tvv-1( v hi. inn ivivj.- in Vvitt&I vttT37SLV&fJ&4&ti.j 'K V LXJftajSfj 4 IH12idH "i tUJ iiNf K!KsiEtKlKRa,iliJSlv,l''l Wfl A&, T&ZTF&m irJl Ml. ' Sick Child's Life Saved by Cele brated Comedians. By JOHN DICKINSON SHERMAN. UK center of the lumber Industry, within the lifetime of many per sons now living, has moved from New 1-hmlniid, to Pennsylvania, to thu Lake states, to the Gulf states. The Southern I'lne association now reports that within eight years :i,000 big sawmills will he junked ami that the output will he re duced f)() per cent. That leaves us the virgin forests of the I'ncltlc coast. Already the I'aclllc coast luiuher, with n 2,000 or :i,0(M) mile haul. Is to he found In the larger cities of the Hast. So the lumber Industry lias mnde Its last Jump. The United States Hu reau of Corporations gives us sixty years to use up all the log lumber at the present rate of con sumption. When the I'aclllc coast lumber begins to run short, wo can Import lumber or we can do without It. If we don't like cither of these alternatives, we can grow some more timber and pulp wood and cooperage ami box stulT and trees to yield turpen tine and resin and tannic and acetic acid and wood Alcohol and airplane propellers and lead pencils nnd clothes plus and nx handles and such things which come from the forests and nowhere else. Whenever we get ready wo can grow nil the timber we want. Growing timber Is a simple af fair if we go at Height. We can put It another way and say that origi nally there were 800,000,000 ncres of virgin for ests In the United States. There are now only 200,(HK).CKK) acres, or 15 per cent of this, left. The tiOO.OOO.GOO ncres that are gone were depleted In the last seventy years. Unless something Is done about It, the United States will some time be n treeless lnnd Its vast original forests laid low; those of Its Industries which depend upon timber for their existence, crippled or broken. There are healthy signs that n good many peo ple are of the opinion that something should bo lono about It. And one of the things to be done jibout It would seem to be a practical and com prehensive pulley of reforestation. All Interests seem to agree on the necessity of reforestation. There are now two reforestation bills before congress. One of these Is the Capper bill nii' the other Is the Snell bill. The former nlms at federal encouragement of state action. The latter provides federal regulation of forestry In tho states nnd proposes for tho next live years to Increase the government's appropriation for forestry to $10, 000,000 a year. Another Indication of the general feeling thnt something should bo done about It Is the hearings held In various parts of tho country by n "nntlonal forestry policy committee" appointed by tho United States Chamber of Commerce. This com mittee began operations In New York. It then went In succession to Chicago, Minneapolis, Spo kane, Seattle, Portland and San Francisco. David L. floodwlllle, n Chicago box manufac turer, Is chairman. Tho other members of the committee are Charles S. Keith, president Central Voal & Coke company, Kansjns City, Mo.; 1 C. Cnapp, president Peninsular Lumber company, Portland, Oregon; George L. Curtis, Curtis Com panies, Inc., Clinton, Iowa; John Fletcher, vice president Fort Dearborn National bank, Chicago, ill.; Charles F. Qulncy, president Q. nnd C. com pany, New York city; Dr. Henry S. Drinker. Merlon Station, Pa.; Dr. Hugh P. linker, secretary nnd treasurer American Paper it Pulp association, New York city; Harvey N. Shepart, attorney, Ilos ton, Mass.; .Junius II. Hrowne, vice-president Pa cllle Lumber company, New York city; Dr. W. II. llolncmnnn, president II. Ilelnemann Lumber com pany, Wausau, Wis.; W. Dull. Ilrooklngs, secre tary of the committee. Cunmhcr of Commerce of the United States, Washington, D. C. This committee has gone Into the subject In n broad way, seeking to get every viewpoint before tanking u report on which It Is hoped a policy can l)o formulated. The chairman appointed several Hiibcommlttees of the original committee to deal with speclllc subjects coming under the general heading of forestry. Some of these subjects are government regulation, prlvnto holdings, Individ ual versus public right, lire protection nnd ex penditures, acquisition of land, national forest sur vey, taxes and taxation, utilization of .wood and forest conservation, reforestation ami national forests. "Ah an example of how serious n problem our forestry problem Is, let mo point to the well known fact that In seven years M) per cent of tho saw mills of the South will bo out of business," saya Mr. Goodwlllle. "What this means Is better rea lized when wo consider thnt tho sawmills of tho South now prodlico .10 per cent of ull tho lumber used In tho country. "These meetings aro simply to get nt nil tho facts, to give us it thorough grasp of tho problem, to Inform us fully of its scope. When we havo finished we will make n report nnd recommenda tions to tho board of directors of tho chamber and they will consider whut uctlou la necessary. I J2&&T WVQLll OT "Taxation Is a big factor In this problem. If wo exempt certain timber lands from taxation, as they have seen wise to do In some of the older countries, It will encourage the seeding of that land to timber. As It now stands millions of acres that might, and really should, be yielding timber, are sown to other products and bringing a nig gurdly return. "This Is simply because this Is Umber land and timber should he on It. The farmers, however, consider that since It Is tnxed they must sow some thing which will bring an Immediate return. There aro 5,000,000 acres of nontlllnblo lnnd In Illinois alone. "We have in the United States 81,000,000 ncres of what Is called denuded lnnd, nnd more than 100,000,000 ncres of what we call cutover land. Denuded lnnd is lnnd on which forest fires havo occurred nnd where the fire has eaten Its way so deep Into the soil as to destroy the seedlings that might spring up. "Cutover land Is land from which tlmbir has been taken nnd on which a second growth- Is possi ble and often times springs up. Such land will make forests In n period of some forty years If It Is taken care of. Taking enre of such lutul Is another phase of tho forestry problem." The Natlonnl Forests, created In 100."), now con tain lon.OOO.OOO acres of forest and grazing lnnd. They are managed by tho forest service, n bureau of the agriculture department. Col. W. II. Greeley la forester. Presumably he Is well Informed on forestry conditions. Here aro some figures ho gives which show how tho changed and changing conditions havo affected a particular part of tho country. Snys Colonel Greeley: "Chicago Is tho greatest lumber market In the world. Slnco 1800 an average of over 2,000,000,000 feet of lumber has come Into Chicago every year. In 1020 the figure was nearly G.nOO.OOO.OOO feet, CO per cent of which went Into local construction anil manufacturing Industries. In 3000 tho average freight paid on lumber coming into Chicago was less than $.'! per thousand feet. Since that time the local sources of supply for this territory have been exhnusted one after another. Lumber ship ments havo traversed greater ami greater dis tances, and the average freight bill paid by the Chicago distributor has steadily risen to more than $12 per thousand feet. "In other words, tho lucrenscd transportation charge on lumber shipments Into Chicago, as u re sult of the exhaustion of the forest regions sur rounding It, represents a toll of $22,500,000 an nually. And while this has happened there havo accumulated In the central and lake states nearly 2:1,000,000 acres of logged-oiT forest land which Is producing neither farm crops nor timber; 22, fiOO.OOO Is the yearly tax which the wood-using In dustries nnd homo builders, supplied through Chi cago, pay for the Idleness of a largo part of tho soil In the surrounding states which should fur nlsh the natural supply for this district. This sum would plant every year 1,500,000 acres of land with forest trees. "This Illustration may be extended to cover tho four stntes of Illinois, Indiana, Wisconsin nnd Michigan. These states consumo annually be tween 4,000,000,000 nnd 5,000,000,000 feet of timber In furniture factories, sash and door mills, fac tories manufacturing agricultural Implements, wood-turning establishments und other wood-using lndusttlos. Sawmills aro excluded from this esti mate, also the requirements for general construc tion nnd housing, und tho consumption of lumber on farms. "The manufacturers referred to represent an Invested cnpltnl of $700,000,000 nnd enroll 250,000 skilled omployees. This great manufacturing In dustry was built up on tho softwood forest of tho lake states and the hnrdwood forests of the Ohio and tipper Mississippi valleys, whoso products were avallablo at a low transportation cost. Iu these four states enough forest land to supply Iu full tho needs of these Industries now stands Idle." Concerning the general situation ho says: "We are cutting our timber probably four times ns fast ns timber Is being grown. It Is useless to decry the generous use which Amcrlcnn Industry has mnde of our forests. 'It has contributed pow erfully to the Industrial development nnd com mercial supremacy of the United States. Tho for estry problem does not result from the liberal uso of our forests, but from our failure to use our forest-growing land. There Is an amplo urea of land In this country, which Is not tillable, to sup port nil of our timber requirements, all of our wood manufactures, all of our home building nnd agricultural use of lumber, Indeed an even larger export trade than nt present, If thnt laml can bo kept nt work growing timber. "Reforestation has not been taken seriously by the average business man In tho United States. Reforestation has been looked upon as a fad quite removed from the practical Interests of the manu facturer, ns something more concerned with parks or shade trees or rose bushes. Nevertheless, re forestation hns now beconio u commercial neces sity of the United Stntes." Hero Is how a .particular state Is affected says Prof. P. S. Lovejoy of the Forestry faculty, Uni versity of Michigan: "A third of Mlchlgnn virtually" Is bankrupt, un able to .pay its wny with schools and roads, get lug poorer Instead of richer from year to year, pro ducing less and less of value. This third of Michi gan takes 10.000,000 acres or so. the most of It being In the northern part of tho Lower Peninsula, the rest In the Upper Peninsula. Tho bulk of these bankrupt lands were originally In pine for est. From 1S70 to 1000 Michigan led the world In the quantity, quality and value of Its timber exports. Today Michigan Is n tremendous Im porter of timber nnd other forest products. This Is unusual but not In itself u proof that anything Is radically wrong. Ohio, also, was covered originally with timber and Is now n grent Im porter, and Is, nevertheless, prosperous and thriv ing. "Rut In the cn'so of Ohio, tho removal of the forests was followed promptly by Intensive agri cultural developments; the land went from u Tower to a higher kind of use. "Michigan-grown hemlock, shipped 200 miles, sells nt the same price In Detroit as does fir grown on the Paclllc coast and shipped 2,000 miles. The hickory for the wheels of Michigan automobiles Is coming from Arkansas and Mississippi. The dak for Grand Rapids furniture Is being cut In Louis! ami anrl Tennessee. Michigan does not even supply Itself with enough telephone poles mid railroad ties, but Imports poles from Idaho and ties from Virginia. Much of the paper on which our news papers are being printed Is made from Canadian spruce. Ilox-bonrds are being shipped In from Pennsylvania and Arkansas and California. The state imports much more timber than It cuts and cuts much inor timber than It grows, constantly grows and cuts less and constantly Imports more. "Tho freight bill on Imported lumber ulono Is costing Michigan around .$2,000,000 a year, and, each year tho freight bill Is duo to Increaso great ly ns the sources of supply recede with the steady devastation of tho forests of tho South nnd West Meanwhile Michigan continues to support 10,000, 000 ncres or so of Idle lands which n few ypars ago were producing tho most generally useful kinds of timber tho world ever had. Whlto plno lumber practically Is out of the market. Thero Is not a town of 5,000 In the state which does not Import yellow pine from tho Gulf states." Forest fires In tho United States annunlly de stroy nioro than 2,000,000,000 feet of timber. More thnn 100,000 forest fires havo occurred In tho United States during tho past five years, 80 per cent of which were duo to human agencies ajid therefore preventable. These conflagrations burned over 50.-18S.000 ncres an area greater than thr Included within the states of Ohio and pon-i-v. nla and, destroyed .$85,700,000 worth of 1 m , and property. Action of French Funmakers That Shines "Like Good Deed In a Nauahty World." Tho Frntolllnl brothers, celebrated clowns of Medrano (general favorites of the Continent), were recently the heroes of a singularly touching little Incident. It appears that tho nlne-yenr-old daughter of the Widow Collcotirt, .'II Rue Francoeitr, shortly after attend ing n performance in which the clowns had appeared, fell seriously III. Iu her delirium the child was obsessed with the desire to see them again the marvelous bufToons who made her laugh so on that evening of happy enchantment ; she kept calling lor "her clowns." MonMis passed while the mother stubbornly fought for the life of her child, and gradually the Illness re sponded to the treatment. The little girl, however, remained sad, pensive ami lacking animation. The doctor shook his head, puz.led ami alarmed by the child's llstlessness. "She should hnve something to distract her," he said. How entertain her? The mother was far from being n wealthy woman. Since, however, the child continually spoke of "her clowns," why should she not go to the FrateJllnl brothel's, themselves, and ask their help? She reflected that these celebrated artists were good men who gave generously to charity; that they sometimes went to the hospitals to entertain the In mates ami bring them cheer. Why should she not go to them and ask them to help save her child? The upshot was that two days later the widow went to the circus ami re quested 1111 audience with the Frntol llnl brothers. They were, nt the mo ment, on tho stoge; she could hear their silly laughter as she stood In the wings and waited. When, presently, panting from their exertions, they came tumbling off, she made her re quest hurriedly, stopping them, tears standing In her eyes. The three clowns aro the fathers of II children, nil told. They promised to go the very next day to see tho little sick girl, adding that It would not cost the widow n penny. And sure enough, the next day, ar rayed In their most gorgeous cos tumes, grotesque, hilarious, altogether marvelous, they enacted from full benrts before the little Invalid their most fantastic sketch, singing and dnnclng and grimacing. And the ec static child, mad with happiness and with a new light In her eyes, chipped her hands, laughing through exquisite tears, and shouted: "Fncorol En core I" The clowns entertnlned her for two hours; and when they left quietly and discreetly, as they had come they promised to come again. And that Is the end of the story, ns the mother told It tho other dny except that tho little girl Is well on the road to recovery. The widow came to the writer and related the facts, very simply. And tho story seemed' to the writer n very good sto ry, Indeed. From Le Petit Piuislen. Birth of a Star. Tho vast black mass. 20,000.000 times larger than tho sun, demon strated to exist In the heavens by the Dutch scientist, Dr. Pannekoek, seems to upset all earlier astronomical calcu lations. It Is, comparatively speaking, so near us that Doctor Pannekoek sug gests that the sun Itself must move round It once In 2,000,000 years draw ing the earth with It. "We believe that tho black body must consist of dust, ami that this Is the 'first stage In the birth of a star," said an expert. "As it condenses It gets hotter until It becomes luminous and visible. Sudden 'flares' or 'new slurs' have been seen Iu our lifetime, but the black cloud of dust appears to be the real beginning. ' , 'The amazing feature. Is the nenr ncss of the body. It Is relatively as close to the earth as a foot rule would appear to bo If only two feet away from the eye. It Is quite possible that even vaster bodies of thM kind exist." The neaine.s Is relative. The body Is 280,000,000,000,000 miles uwoy. Papal Titles More Costly. Papal tltlvs have gone up In cost according to n circular which has been sent out by the Vatican announcing an Increase in the fees chargeable for the award of papal titles. The following list of titles nnd costs Is given: Prince Personal title, 10.0S5 lire. Hereditary title, 21,000 lire. Duke. Personal title, 0,000 lire. Hereditary title, 10,500 lire. Marquis Personal title, 7,500 lire. Hereditary title, 15, (KM) lire. Huron. Personnl title, 5.-100 lire. Hereditary title, 1O.8S0 lire. Pay ment. It Is stlplated, is to be made In gold, which would bring the cost of a princely title to a hundred thous and lire. The nominal valuo of the lira Is about 10 cents. Circus to Travel In Motor Trucks. An eastern circus organization will tour the country this yenr In motor trucks costing from $12,000 to $30,000 apiece. It Is esttmnted the saving In rail charges will go a long wny to pay for this equipment. TJie motor Mzed circus will bo able to travel nny whore nnd, being Independent of train penice, may mnko towns not often visited by large shows. MINISTER DISCUSSES HIS WIFE'S TROUBLES Rev. A. II. Sykes, former pastor o( tho Watklns Park Presbyterian church, Nashville, Tenn., says: "After seeing what Tanlnc has ac complished In my wife's case, I urn convinced that It Is u medicine of great power ami extraordinary merit, I do not think I have ever seen any thing give such prompt results. Mrs, Skos had been In delicate health for ten mouths, sulTeiing from stomucu trouble and nervous breakdown. "1 frequently sought medical ad vice but Taulac Is the only thing thnt gave her any relief. After taking tho medicine only n short time, she was able to sit up and help with tho house hold duties. I think It only a short time until her health will be fully re stored." Tiinlao Is sold by lending druggists everywhere. Advertisement. Gosh I Prohibit Hugging. A New Jersey magistrate has lined u man for hugging u girl while driv ing an automobile. Cupid Is 110 moro viuecessfiil than llaciiius as 11 safety first patron for motorists. Cleveland Plain Dealer. Cuttcura Soothes Dnby Rashes That Itch and burn with hot baths of Cutlcurn Soup followed by gentlo anointings of Cutlcurn Ointment. Nothing better, purer, sweeter, espe cially If u little of the fragrant Cutl curn Talcum Is dusted on at tho fin ish. 25c each everywhere. Adver tlsemciit. Jury Duty. "Court procedure Is very dull." "Yes, they offer very little to Inter est it tired business man." An old bachelor says that, he never married because marriage Is a lottery and lotteries are Illegal. Stomach Catarrh Ctusc untoM misery and fullering. a I of wlilcli is ncmllavi . ro-ru-re ncU as quickly and aurtiy on ca una or mo eiomaca inu uowcuu ea ia cucn 01 . that common . form, niial . (catarrh. 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