Show THE FOREST FIRES The forest fires this year have become a horror As many lives have been be n lost through them as are aie lost Jost in an ordinary battle battIe while the destruction tion Q QI tf f fI I has been greater than thau would follow an ordinary earthquake The Time trouble lc is they cannot be br prevented in such a year ear as this There have be beri n ri practically no DO rains for weeks the time brush and grass have be become ome dry dr as tinder a spark is sufficient to fire a volcano Then rhen there are men who live by h. cutting and marketing dead timber and aid when th tima supply begins to fail they do not hesitate to start sta t ta a fire to make more Better policing the timber would help some sonic but there is n preventive against a long spell without rain in midsummer |