The Belmont chronicle, and farmers, mechanics and manufacturers advocate. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1848-1855, 1854-10-20
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follow its.own Impulse upward, outward. ia
form and motion Of the leaf, twig, bough aud

Hollow it's own Impulse, upward, outward,i ia
form and motion Of the leaf, twig, boush aud
trunk. Where trees cannot help thsmsclvss
they had better grow in forests, long-drawn
and lean, with no side-brancbes, but only q
| top, spread to the sun, far up. Thus grow
ing, they will hold each other up, and being
shalow-rooted, resist the storm BY their com.
mon strength. They will be COED timber
for fuel, and for solitude Of shades. But Il il
be given to the tree to stand out where the
east and the west, the north and south, all
look at it at once, and give it gifts Of beauty,
rounding it up ints mighty tower Of strength,
SO letit stand to tell the world what God
thought Of ,chen he first thought Of tres!"
pEsoUscIno TREr-nUrf1Ass.
! "Fof remorseless men there are crawling
yet upon the face of the earth, smitten blind,
and inwardly dead, whose only thought Of
tree OF ages is that it is food for the axe and
the saw! These are the wretches of whom
the Scripture speaks: "A man pas famous ac-
cord ing as he had lifted up ares upon The thick
treeS-'
"Thus famous, or rather infamous, was the
last owner but one, before me, of this
Upon the crown of :he bill, just where an
artist would have planted them, had he wished
to have them exactly in the right place,
grew some two hundred stalworth and ancient
naples, beeches, ashes and oaks, narrow
belt-like forest, forming screen from the
northern western winds in winter and harp
Of endless music for the summer. The
wretched.o owner of this farm, tempted OF the
devil, cut down the whole blessed band and
brotherhood Of trees, that he might fill his
pocket with two pitiful dollars cord for the
wood! Well, his pocket was the best part
ihim TIE iron furnaces have devoursd nv
grove, and their. huge stumps that stood like
grave-s;ones, have been cleared away, that a
grove may be planted in the same spot, for
the next hundred years to nourish into the
statue and glory of that which is gone. And,
in other places, I find the memorial Of many
noble trees slain; here hemlock that carried
up its eternal green hundred feet into the
winter air; there huge double-,runked ches.
nut, dear old grandfather of hundreds of chill
dren tina; have Ter generations clubbed its
boughs or shook its nut-iaden top, ,andIshoutea
as bushels of chesnuts ratified down. Now,
the tree exists only as loop holed post and
weather-browned rails. | hope. the fellow
got silver in his finger every time he touch
ed the hemlock plank, OF let down the bars
made of those chesnut rails!
"What, then it will be said, must no one
touch a treel must there be no fuel, no tim
Der! Go to the forest for both There are
no individual trees there, only forest. One
trunk here, and one there, leaves the forest
just as perfect as before, and gives rssm for
young aspiring trees to come up in the world.
But for a man to cut down q large we'll form.
ed, healthy tree from the roadside, or from
pastures or fields, is an objectionable piece
Of Vandalism. 1t is worse than Puritan ham
mers upon painted windows and ieolatrous
statues. Money can buy houses, build walls
dig and drain the coil, cover the bills with
grass, and :he grass with herds and focks.
But NJ money can buy the growth Of trees.
They are born of time. Years are the only
coin in which they can be paid for. Beside,
SO noble thing is wel-grown tree, that
il is treason to the community, just as Is a
work of art. If monarch were to blot out
Ru6ens' Decent from the Cross, or Angeles
Last Judgment, or to batter to pieces the
marbles OF Greece, the whole world would
curse him. and forever Trees are the only
art-treasures thst belong to our villages.
They should be precious as gold.