The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1877-08-02

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NSlnce The ADVENT ~ The Chfisttsh'
sIcsl biStorY 81 our planned records tkS
'Steany growth Of dSseft, Which made
itedluks apPeeAAse on thu ldrys table
land 0fSouthern- Syria. and gradually
'spfe6aihe e3stWSfd down the Euphrsr
tea toward nietAn. and westward
along both Shores Of the Mediter-
imh6aNys new extends from Easterp,
Persla. 10, the weatarui extremity .of
Portugal. and sends its harbinRers into
Southotn france and thu s0ut heastern
provinces Of European. ,Russis. Like
. vitulent cancer. the azoic sand-drifts
ofvhe1MoSD desert have eaten their
way into Southern Europe and North
erp- Africa, and dried up tia He,
springs Of districts which beyond eli
dispute were once the garden regions
% the earth. ~ Southern Spain. from
Gibraltar to the ,head-vaterss OF the
Tagus, now supports only ne-tenth OF:
il FORMER population Greece about
one-twe1ltieth.> As late As '07Os A. D.,
Tripoli had pOpulation OF, 1900. 900
now only 10000 ara left. The eli.
q 81 this country once resembled
10 IL 70 hot thatinO: Opon.air laD6t can
be performed between the hours of
nine A. n. and Ave p, NJ, and steam
boats passihg near the coast In sumo
mer are compelled TO keep up con-
tinual shower 0fsayti6cial rain to pre-
vent their deck hands from being over.
come by the heated air which comes
nom the barren hills. The rivers
have sunk tofhe size OF some Of their
smallest trtbutsrtes, and the annual
rainfall has decreased till failure of
crops has become . chronic complaint.
itsAlft this change IL due 70 the whole
sale destruction OF the forests, which
have 20 far disappeared that Of the for
est area or Italy and Spain, In the days
OF Plfny the elder "a. ID, 79) about two
Acres In one hundred are left, and in
Greece hardly one. Even In the short,
inaccessible ,recesees OF the Taurus
range few remnants Of wood remain, |;
from Bokhara TO- tina Golden Horn
there u not . stick or brush that can
grow up before The natives lay violent
hands upon It. The Mediterranean,
once forest lake, is now surrounded
by dusty and barren coasts, often with
out . vestlge of organic life for. hum
dreds OF miles. IN
In some parts of our own country
the extentOf forest land Ia 90 vast that
. liberal clearing by the husbandman
is Of advantage In c0unteracting the
excess OF moisture and fniasmatic ten
denotes; but In many other parts the
limit has already been overstepped.
Ohio and Indiana and the southern
portions OF Kentucky and Michigan
have now q greater proportion of tree
less area than have Austria and the
North German Empire, where cultiva-
ton has been going on for q thousand
years. The northern part Of Ohio is
kept fertile by the lakes, but the cen-
trial portion and many of the river
counties have, begun to suffer, from
repeated drought. So arid has the
once famous Blue Grass region of Ken
lucky become that many Of. the stock
raisers are moving toward the Cumber-
land Mountains, because the creeks
and rivers dry up and the wells be-
come too low to furnish water for the
cattle. Tobacco and cotton quickly
dry up q country In the southeastern
counties Of Virginia and North Caro-
lima, and throughout mississippi Ala
bama, Georgia, and South Carolina
one may ride for hours without seems
more than four or!flve trees in q group.
Droughts are becoming more and more
frequent In these States, and the locust,
that ominous pioneer Of the desert, >,
has made its appearance.
It 10 important that the public should
thoroughly understand the sinfuence
which forests, have on, the climate.
Woods are Natures reservoirs. and in
the network d. their roots Is held the
moisture intended to supply our water
courses during the summefo Q One acre
OF full-grown beech trees absorbs and
dispenses as much humidity as twenty
sores on grapevines or tobacco, and
aSss '8se sss a1asssS iss sa q forests
actually produce rain, even In mid
sunhnef, and Ut great distance nom
the sea- Forests temper the extremes
Of heat and cold, end they are also the
homes ofinsectiverods birds. those best
friends o. the farmer. A country de-
stitute OF trees 10 abandoned by birds.
other insect. 9 u i the trssisss e.
psnss betw the Mississippi and the
Hocky 'Mcu nn which leeds the
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