The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1877-08-16

TREES. ONCE MORE.
mon The pstreit Pest. - 80. =
: Dr. AShliemspn aays thst-tle Turks |
trr1srs ~ }Sl>ty sgenseel 1ons have
- Tito 1olne one nation wedn have
"a vlDe- out nj the Others, and then
oouf1h snicide itself, for they are all
nee ly ellmuy guilty. AYriter in the
PO MAJ BNs6 c0 Monthly declareathat
sin6c ~ b11namg-gf1ts- GhrisfinR
ara Mistp1anet hfs been steAdilH bes
coming = desert fhe desert beg 1htnS
Southern SYRIA and stretched eastward
and westward, until it now extends
from Eastern Persia, along both shores
of the Mediterranean tOfthe western
extremity Of Portugal. tits ehcroach-
ING upon Southern France and South
eastern Russia. All the present desert
regions, in Eastern Asia, he says. were
beyond dispute oncethe garden region
of this earth. The nations that "ceie'
brated life as d FESTIVAL lived along
the snow boundary, where snow TAILS
but always melts. All over this region
there were once opportunities OF nu,
man happiness which 1t 10 doubtful
| If modern science and industry can
supply, where now the struggle LOT eX-
istence Is 30 hard that TO the vast ma,
jority of people, life Is curse instead
of q blessing. A little more than q
| thousand years ago In Tripoli, on the
| northern coast of Africa, there was
nonulation of {. OOO. 900, which Is now
reduced to less than sc, 900. According
to authentic record, the climate then
| was like that of the mountain regions
of West Virginia and East Tennessee.
Now It is impossible to labor between
nine I'm the morning and five In the
afternoon. Steamboats, that pass near
the coast have to keep their deck
hands soaked I'm water I'm order to pre-
vent their fainting from the furnace
blasts that come from the land. The
woods that once grew on the eartn
i from India to Portugal have been des,
troved. and of the forests that existed
in italy. Greece, and Spain eighteen
hundred wears ago, only one or i've
j acres i'm a hundred survive. The Turk
!, kjsh provinces are still more desolate
although the Turks are not response
Bile for the whole of IL. The Meditera
: mean Sea was once n forest lake. 1t Il
, now surrounded "by burning coast TO
+ hundreds of miles without trace
. organic life" In the very center
/ the Desert of Sahara, ChampolliOn dis
, covered the courses of former river
3 and creeks, and the stumps OF trees al
most petrified six feet beneath TIL
sand. He says that this desert ma.
l once have ab0unded with groves am
, fountains, and been the abode of hap
. nv millions. The hand OF man ha
produced this desert, and, as he be
r iieves, every other desert OH the face G
i the earth, Earth was Eden once
= and our misery is the punishment {
: our sins against the world OF plants
g The burning sun OF the desert Ii III
!. angel with the flaming sword Tia
stands between US and Paradise.
4 Considering what history anu en-
d Iigbtened experience teach, the indi
n ference to the value OF forests whic
still pervades q large portion OF III
human race is very extraordinary. A
animal fiayed, says DIR. Oswald, tn
= author of the essay in the Popula
o Science Monthly, or tree stripped /.
9 it's bark, does not perish more surel
IT than a land deprived of its trees. III
q Duke of Burgundy's rule, "one-thir
e TO the hunter, twO-thirds to the hu
7; bandmen, !" il about the just proportio
l. of woodlands to cultivated fields. In
u country SO Astounding in forests as I'll
o United States the work or clearin
II could 90 ON pretty literally withol
Is transgressing the rule. But has no
We passed the limit i'm many OF the S0utl
r ern and Central States. Ohio, III
l, diana. and the Southern parts OF kel
le lucky and Michigan, SO recently pa
is of the forest reserve, has now agreat'
l. percentage of treeless area than Austr
L and the North German Empire, whic
{. have been settled and cultivated II
y, more than thousand years. Many
u Ihese regions begin to suffer from
s. nual drouth, and their springs IL
~ every summer. In the cotton and
1e bacco regions the woods have fast di
rs appeared. In Virginia, North CaI
n lima, South Carolina, MISSISSIPPI
h Georgia and Alabama, one may RI
er for hours without seeing more Til
q, four or five trees in group. Drou
u. Is becoming'mOre and more 1requei
III and the locust, which Is pioneer
the desert, has put in his appearan'
Forests perform many duties Ill
Q. economy of nature. which cannot
=. done by artificial means. They
of not ONLY reservoirs for the DISTRIBUTE
a IF water which is held in their roo
ng and moss, by brooks and rivers, d'
o. inc the summer, but they produ
u rain by giving out the vapOr in thu
he leaves under the influence of the ra
ng of the sun, which is precipitated
Rh rain as the vapora encounters coo
.ly current of air at night or mt any OIL
I'M time. Their moisture mOderates
of extremes of heat and cold. The
M moval of the trees has changed
of climate of what was once the Rom
ng Empire, from that of West Virginia
40. that of New Mexico and Arizol
rts Forests erect mechanical barrier
to floods and avalanches. They are
ht- home of insect destroying BIRDS. i
ns, Gusts and other insects always alta
vn the barren and naked districts. Tr
o. absorb and neutralize noxious gas
ice Affections of the skin and other
,m seases are dissipated by forests. VI
+, thalmia and leprosy are known OF
eat i'm barren regions. Formerly
on Madeira Islands were 1.-the Islands
S6O the Blessed. nait Persons died only
of wounds, the effects of poison. and
re- old age. Since the Portuguese fel
$50 the forests "these islands have beco
of the hot-beds of disease.o The val
ON of the Guadelquiver in Spain, 4
the hundred years ago, supported q pc
lly, lation of 900 600 Of the happiest
ted healthiest men in Europe. The pc
ian lation, since the removal of the fore
Of has shrunk to a million and qual
Ter of sickly wretches, scarcely able
ion support themselves on the bar
an plains, which are growing drier
900 sander every year. fH F..
3D. The Khedive of Egypt has q
s. something To reclaim that country II
o. it's desolation by planting date pa
ex- and olive trees, and the annual rain
rta- i'm the regenerated regions has alre
900 doubled. The temperature Is imp
de- ing, and currant bushes ana
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