E%IKT.E %IKT. HAS COME ALREADY TO BE WELLNIGH INDISPENSABLE IN ONE PART OF OUR COUNTRY AT LEAST, fr-AI- LIONS SHOT BY YELLOW s~:ne gjards on skis r\i skis. P-tak^c his • --■ lessons- NEW-YORK DAILY TRlßl'Nfc. SUNDAY, JANUARY S, 1908. SKI RIDING WITH HOF.SES. twenty rest booses or stations in th^ great pre serve that must be kept in supplies. These sta tions are maintained for the contort of the patrolmen or keepers. They are simple "sha> ks " or cabins, fitted with bunks, a stove, cookin? utensils and a "gTub box." in which are stored bacon, flour, coffee and dried fruit. These rest houses are used by the men on patrol, since they are so placed that anybody on dJty may be able to reach one of them and stay for the night, no matter in what part of the park he may be at the time. The "grub b"x" of each of these cabins must be kept Oiled, of .-■ and t< carry supplies from Fort Yellowstone— the headquarters — to each of the "shacks" is par; of the work of the novices. The men who 1; su essfully taken the rough course of ski running and jurr.l '.r.z on Capil >1 Hill an- laden each With from forty to sixty pounds of provisions in a ..r.d sent out to supply the "grub boxes." And so they jet out. only to learn that while it Es uncomfortable enough to trip on a ski down Capitol Hi!!, it is much more disagree able to trip and fail with fifty pounds of pro visions to help drii ne's head into a snow bank. The men on this duty are game. Otherwise they would not be in the army. Hence they pass through this stage of their development ar.d soon are fit for the work of watching for ; ers. Such labor is the reason for the ski letaQ It means plodding up hills and over plains, sliding down inclines and keeping an eye open for unexpected crevasses and canyons. It means all night tramps over the flaky snow •when the thermometer is hovering- about 30 or 40 below zero. And it means danger not oniy from the guns of the poachers, but from the very temperature. One of the results of this is exemplified in a picture published herewith— a photograph of a ski runner brought back to the post on his own skis. He was frozen to dealh wbOc doing Eight patrol duty. Hardly a winter passes without some such fatal occurrence, but the men spend no time in reflecting on it. And so the teaching of the neophytes— lt -wrould be hardly fair to call them the awkward squad— goes on merrily every year at about this time on Capitol Hill. The candi dates for patrol duty swing down, shouting and TAKING A CURVE ON SKIS, OFF FOR A RUN. Officers' children in Yellowstone Park. waving their balancing poles, in a nimbus of snow dust, and there is not a thought of the long night tramps and vigils in the death!; cold when they go on actual duty. The spirit of the drill and the spirit of the army were ex pressed when on of the new ski runner? said: "Freezii g to death? That's what we're here for." TO MATCH MIS COAT. ri Walton Goelet, at a meeting of the Astor Trust Company's directors, in New York. said of a certain broker: "The man's nerve is amazing. It shocks me. It reminds me of a money lender to whom a friend of mine, a great rider to hounds, one-: resorted. • -Yes," said the money lender to my em barrassed friend. 1 will renew your note, but only on one condition, .-ir— namely, that during the next paper chase at I> nox you scatter from your bag these- five thousand pink slips bearing my name and the words. "Money advanced on easy terms." Is it a go, sir?' ' OXLY PIPE DREAM?. Fp in the choir l"ft the row- of painted angels which ornamented the apex of each organ pipe stared down into the pit of frivolity below. "Ah," g-ushed the tall soprano, as she gazed up at the remarkable looking seraphs, "aren't they dreams?" "Yes," murmured the short tenor, as he dis agTeeably spurned with his foot the double pile of hymnbooks which he stood upon to secure the dignity of height, "but, like ail the other angels we know anything about they are only pipe dreams.*' ONE OF THE DELIGHTS OF SKI-ING A FALL IN THE SNOW. MORE NATIONAL FORESTS. White Mountains and South cr\ Appalachians To Be Preserved. Tribune Bureau.] Washington, Jan. 3. — The first practical prog. ress toward the establishment of great national forests to preserve the Southern Appalai hum and White Mountain watershed- from destruc tion has just been announced by the Secretary of Agriculture, who, under orders of the last Congress, has completed a thorough investiga tion of the two great Atlantic Coast park r roj • ■ md hat now submitted to the present Con gr< estimates of their cost, which, it appears, will be comparatively insignificant, considering the vast gain which will accrue to the whole country. With the White Mountain forests the readers of The Tribune are already familiar, but hitherto the Appalachian region has been little known. The timber lands of the WLite ' Mountains are in the main held by a few large companies, nearly all of whom are engaged in cutting- extensively on the spruce stands for pulp or lumber manufacture, and the govern ment cannot hope to purchase in those moun tains more than small areas of virgin timber surrounding points of special scenic interest. Much larger areas in the South, where all ;h« land is cheap and where the rivers will be ruined unless great tracts around their head waters are preserved, will have to be taki mediately by the national government. Secretary Wilson and the National Forester, Gilford Pinchot, concur in the recommendation that about five million acres should be pur chased in the Southern Appalachian region to cover the higher watersheds of the following rivers: Potomac, James, Roanoke, Yadkin, Ca tawba, Broad, Saluda, Savannah, Chattah bee, Coosa. Tennessee, New, Cumberland, Kentucky and Monongahela. They fix the limit of average price at $3 50 an a< re and ask for an appropria tion of $3,560,000, to be made immediately available to begin the purchases. For the White Mountains they recommend the a- quisition of not more than six hundred and sixty thousand acres, to embrac* as much as possible ol the Presidential, Franconia, Sandwich and Carter- Moriah Mountain ranges, limiting the average price to $6 an acre for cut over lands, and ask fur an appropriation of $1,230,000 for immediate use, with an additional $250,000 to bu tracts of especial scenic \alu>- aggregating not !ii.>r.- than five thousand acres. "National forests." say-- s Wilson, In his letter t<> Congress, "will mean the develop ment of the Southern Appalachian and White Mountain regions beyond any point which would be possible without them. "Much of the Appalachan forest has been so damaged that years will be required for it to reach again a high state <>f productiveness Un til it does we