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Show PUSHING PRINCIPLE TOO FAR Nephew's Logical Deduction That j 8omehow Displeased Uncle. Dr. W. J. McOee of the geological survey said in Washington, after a visit to' tho Adirondack, that the, forest for-est fires had cost, at a conservative estimate, $1,000,000 a day. "It aeem8. said Dr. McGee. "rather foolish to make laws against timber cutting so as to preserve our forests, and to make no laws to preserve them against thesVterrlble fires, which destroy de-stroy more' trees in a day than the ax could destrpy In a year. "The trouble Is carelessness. The hunter is careless, the Inhabitant Is careless, the railroad is caxeless. and the hunter's fire, ihe Inhabitant's match, the railroad's sparks, burn up every autumn an untold wealth of timber. tim-ber. "If every one would but take home this lesson of carelessness! We, none of us. though, care to take home lessons. les-sons. It Is like old Jacob Grimes. "Jacob was an Illinois farmer, and one summer his nephew from Chicago came to work on the farm for hlra. Jucob told the boy that the first principle prin-ciple of farming wan to use up and wear out thV old things first. " 'Don't touch this year's fodder." he would say, 'till last year's has been consumed. Don't use the new harness while the old holds out. The new red' cart runs better, but we will keep It in the barn till the old gray one breaks down.' 'Jacob sounded this princlplo of his till the boy got tired of it. He would get especially tired when he would bo obliged to eat last- week's bread and bo forth, according to the principle. "Jacob one stormy night said to his nephew : " 'William. I've got to go to the village vil-lage Fetch up and harness one of the horses from the four-acre field.' "'Which shall I fetch.' said William, 'the old horse or the young one?" "'The old one, of course,' said Jacob. 'Always wear out the old ones flrfet, you know.' 1 "William paused, in drawing on his rubber boots. " 'In that case, uncle,' he ald, 'hadn't you better go and fetch the horFe?'" |