BIRDS AND ALL NATURE. ILLUSTRATED BY COLOR PHOTOGRAPHY. VOL. VI. OCTOBER, 1899. No. 3 [Illustration: FORESTS. CHICAGO: A. W. MUMFORD, PUBLISHER.] CONTENTS Page FORESTS. 97 THE BRAVE OLD OAK. 102 "CHEEPER," A SPARROW BABY. 103 THE HERMIT THRUSH. 104 THE GRAND CAÑON OF THE COLORADO. 107 OPTIMUS. 109 HOW THE EARTH WAS FORMED. 110 RETURNING HOME. 115 THE PLANT PRODUCTS OF THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS. 115 HONEY BIRDS. 116 FARM-YARD FOWLS. 119 THE GRAND CAÑON OF THE COLORADO RIVER IN ARIZONA. 120 OIL WELLS. 122 THE BADGE OF CRUELTY. 128 FINISHED WOODS. 131 THAT ROOSTER. 132 BROOK TROUT. 137 CUBA AND THE SPORTSMAN. 140 NIAGARA FALLS. 143 HOW THE WOODPECKER KNOWS. 144 FORESTS. JOHN M. COULTER, Ph.D. _Head Professor of Botany, University of Chicago._ Forests have always been admired, and in ancient times they were often considered sacred, the special dwelling-places of gods and various strange beings. We can easily understand how forests thus affected men. There is a solemnity about them, a quiet grandeur, which is very impressive, and the rustling of their branches and leaves has that mysterious sound which caused the ancients to people them with spirits. We still recognize the feeling of awe that comes in the presence of forests, although we have long since ceased to explain it by peopling them with spirits. Once forests covered all parts of the earth where plants could grow well, and no country had greater forests than North America. When America was discovered, there was a huge, unbroken forest from the Atlantic west to the prairies. Now much of this has been cut away, and we see only small patches of it. Men must use the forest, and still they must save it, and they are now trying to find out how they may do both.