St Nicholas [serial] . and seventy-five thousand feet. The saw-ing begins in the early spring as soon as thelogs come down from the drive, and continues until late autumn, or even into the early winterif the season be an open one. At last our pine board is piled up with manythousands of others in a high pile so arrangedthat it seems to be in danger of toppling alleys or streets run between the hugepiles, and give room for the teams, heavilyladen with more lumber from the saws, to passin and unload. And the next time we shall seeour pine board it may be in a house in somefar Western c
St Nicholas [serial] . and seventy-five thousand feet. The saw-ing begins in the early spring as soon as thelogs come down from the drive, and continues until late autumn, or even into the early winterif the season be an open one. At last our pine board is piled up with manythousands of others in a high pile so arrangedthat it seems to be in danger of toppling alleys or streets run between the hugepiles, and give room for the teams, heavilyladen with more lumber from the saws, to passin and unload. And the next time we shall seeour pine board it may be in a house in somefar Western city, or form part of a sidewalk insome country town; or perhaps it is nailed toa fence in some lonesome prairie region, or hasbeen eastward, to be put to some one of themany uses which people find for this cheap andsubstantial lumber. Wherever it goes, we maybe sure it right worthily fulfils the mission onwhich it started as a little winged seed a centuryand a half ago, down in the cone-brown moldof the land of AN ANXIOUS MOMENT. FISHERMEN, BLOWN OUT TO SEA IN A GALE, SIGNALLING A STEAMSHIP FOR RESCUE. THE KITTEN AND THE BEAR. (A Trite Story.) By Lieut. Charles D. Rhodes, U. S. A. The safest place for the big game of this Wyoming, Idaho, and Montana, persist in de-country at present is within the limits of the fying the law, and repeatedly attempt to eludebeautiful Yellowstone Park. Here, protected the vigilance of the patrols. Thanks to recentfrom the rifle of thehunter by two troopsof United States cav-alry, immense herdsof elk, deer, and an-telope wander aboutas securely as beforethe march of civiliza-tion reduced theirfeeding-grounds tothe wildest and mostinaccessible parts ofthe great West. Herealso the wilder ani-mals — bears, panth-ers, and wolves — areprotected by law, andhave increased tosuch numbers as tobe very much in evi-dence to dwellers inthe park. Even a fewbuffalo, survivors ofan almost extinct spe-cies, are seen now andthen, their lives inconstant
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