Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1885-05-02
HERE AND THERE.


Falls, and the surrounding grounds viii be- |
come great international park. The Cana
dian government had previously taken the |
necessary steps TO do Its share OF the enter |
prise; and the money necessary to make the |
greatest natural wonder of the country free |
TO all honeymoon comers, and TO preserve II |
from spoliation will be forthcoming. Sell |
dom has any public affair of such magnitude,
and involving the expenditure of 80 vast
sum OF the peoples money met with 80 little
popular opposition, and had such an active
unanimity Of sentiment in Its favor. But
then New York, which counts it not money
lost to spend twenty millions on its capitol
building,can well afford to devote two millions
TO preserving and making moro attractive It's
mightiest natural wonder. Now for the pre-
servation of the Adirondack forests! never
took any stock In the clamorous newspaper
report that Gov. Hill had mind TO veto the
niagara bill for nearly three months ago he
explained TO me In great partioularity and
win much enthusiasm the splendid project
TO make the Falls the feature of a public in
ternational park, and there never was any
good ground TO doubt his approval of 1t in
his own way and in due time.
Gov. Hill is a youngfsh man, and has .the
bare brow of bachelor" Whether he will
he his own successor is doubtful. The .Rei
| publicans at present mean to nominate Gen.s
Carr, their secretary Of state. He has run
well before, and they expect him TO be a
strong candidate; but 1t Is doubtful II he will
| 30 provo. The pitcher that goes to The well
often enough is sure to be smashed.
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Anybody who doubts that the guberna-
torisl bee is buzzing in the bonnet of the
present chief justice of Pennsylvania il
fooled. Mr.. Quay's ambition for the present
| Is to assert his mastery over Pennsylvania
Repubiicanism. lie feels that he has served
cameron, Magee Cooper and the rest of
them long enough; and he thinks they have
Deen Keeping the muzzle too long on
the OK that has trodden out the corn.
Years ago his cold gray eye was fixed on
| seat I'm the United States Senate as the goal
| at which he struck. The riot bill business
and Kemble pardon ruined him for time,
| and he has become restless, suffering for
| other peoples sins and serving other peo-
Pies ends. His present move means that he
| is going to make bold stroke for liberty or
death. He will set up shop for himself, and
| you may expect to sec a good deal of this
fight right here i'm the county of Lancaster.
The recent death Of Ex-Governor Conrad
Baker in indianapolis, recalls the fact that he
was an old Pennsylvania. Born in Frank
lin county, educated at Pennsylvania college,
he studied law with Thaddeus Stevens, prac-
ticed in Gettysburg two years, went West in
ls4l, and was colonel during the war
being elected lieutenant governor
with Morton, he acted governor while
he was in Europe, succeeded him when he
went to the Senate, and became his own sue
cessor at the next election beating Hendricks
Bl-on the faco of returns. Mr.. Hendricks
never felt quite certain that he had fair
count -Four years later he had his vindica-
ton and in 1872 when the Democrats went
| to pot everywhere else Hendricks was elect
ed governor of Indiana When went to
Mr.. hendricks law Office last summer to get
some material for his biography found that
the personal relations between him and his
political antagonist Baker, were of the friend
liest character. When Hendricks was in
augurated governor, the retiring governor,
and when Hendricks was through being gov
ernor the firm became Hendricks, Hord 4
Baker, and so remained until Bakers death
the other day.
There were tree-planters before "Arbor
Day." and the fine old trees which adorn the
landscape in many sections OF Lancaster
county outlast the oldest inhabitanta In
many of these "the century living crow''
has 'grOwn old and died" Who that has
seen it forgets the grand old sycamore in
front OF Minnich's store, in I,andisville ?
After one-half of II was shriveled and de-
stroyed by a fire, the remainder was a splen-
did relic of greatness. And then the big chest
nut down at Wash Walkers, in Little Britain.
and the balsarn at Col. Joel Lightner's, on
tho Philadelphia turnpike near Soudersburg,
which was brought as a sapling from Virginia
by the elder Lightner. Then what a mag
| niticent monster chestnut tree stood at the
gateway to the old Nef homestead on Bunker
Hill, in Strasbufg township-in every part
| OF this county there are trees which were old
when the buildings near them were erected
and which have an individuality as distinct
as that OF the citizens. The elm, as we have
II, not very numerous, but standing i'm some
of our most beautiful fields and meadows is
thing of beauty and joy forever. woodman
spare that tree
Who knew John n. Russell, late of Dru-
more, knew that he was model farmer,
whose place was well-kept and the improve
ments thereof of the most advanced order
1t was to him reference was had i'm this ex-
tract from speech TO the Grangers at their
Cumberland valley picnic in 1881, when the
subject of forestry, now more popular than
then, was urged upon their attention:
"Aboye the commercial view of this ques-
tion Is the sentimental consideration, which
must appeal with force to every lover of
nature, frem the dullest cold that ever rested
In the noon shade to the farmer enthusiast
who delights in the rugged beauty of the
gnaried and lightning -defying oak, who
watches each year with new interest the
wonder OF the Towering chestnut, its fruitage
/ anu inc iall Oh the leaI whose every sense OF
the aesthetic is gratified in the matchless
beauty of the single dropping elm, most
picturesque of all our trees, and who, in
the verlal freshness OF the woodlands or the
gorgeous autumn glory of the forests reads
over and over the miracle Of nature. In nv
] own county knew farmer whose eyesigEt
had been gratifed for many years by a
| splendid tree which stood in a little knoll
upon neighbOr's field. At last, when
cupidity and the calculation of its worth by
the the cord had resolved upon its destruc-
ton, the subject OF my admiration paid the
owner his full price of the wood 1t might
realize TO let 1t stand, crown to the land
scape and memorial to the right sense
OF Lancaster county farmer You will
believe me he was no mere sentimentalist
when tell you that his butter always
brought the highest price i'm the market
and the plough never struik stone on his
Principal 3. b. Heiges, of the Shippens-
burg state normal school, is a practical hor
ticulturist and has infused into the students
OF that institution no slight degree of enthu-
siasm for tree-planting and fruit-raising
which can hardly fail to be of educating in,
huence in their future work Ha hos