Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1890-01-10

%. ,ur man anu oiru sing oerter AFTER
rain than in dry and close air.
The tree has its hours of animation.
Science has discovered that the life of a
plant Is strongest under the influence of
the light, specially ia the hours before
midday.
In April there was another snow. All
the branches were laden. all day long
the fakes whirled about. and it was all
still and quiet. except now and then
complaint from the finch. \ chill per-
vaded nature: even people in heated
rooms could not keep warm. 1t seemed
as il life and soul were in sympathy with
the miilionfold sorrow of the scared
away birds and newly opened blossoms.
Whoever enjoys the life of nature must
also suffer with it. Natures life is harsh
and sharp for all life Is 4 struggle. Even
if thousand blossoms. which have
scarcely bloomed. pass away. the devel-
opment of natures forces is OVERLOOKING:
also in human life only little comes to
pass which blossoms in the mind as wish
and aspiration.
The tree takes in only fluid food, and
corresponds in this point with the first
life of the child or animal.
A child destroying a plaything which
is put together by strange hands is forced
to do so by its curiosity to examine the
inner works. Neither can science act
differently than To follow natural life,
and by investigation it kills that taken
in hand To he separated from nature
h,s , o., f,sl-a tender
\ hail storm has broken of a branch
and another will not grow again in its
place, but the tree may add new branches
and twirs, and the wound of the torn
OFF branch may heal up.
A thunder storm IL TIE vicinity has
snapped off trees and uprooted others,
and when a tree is down and its roots
are exposed it is not Questioned how 1t
was thrown down and uprooted, but
how il could have existed and grown in
such thin layer of soil. So it is with
many so called heroes; when they have
fallen one can scarcely conceive the pos
sibility of their former state.
Autumn comes with such force that
you feel as though you We're parting with
the dearest associates: that you had not
fully returned their friendship, and that
you had not enjoyed them as you could
and should have done. The reflection
returns how you could have hoped in
the spring to take in the life of summer
in full draughts, and. having neglected
it, it is now too late; and SO it will be in
the autumn of your life.
Cease remorse, which overcomes you
with the falling of the leaves. Wake up
and work in the new day Inasmuch as
the fallen leaf returns to its stem, SO will
a day passed return to you, but there
will be new leaves and new days as long
as life is allowed to you.
The stripping of the leaves seems to
go on more quickly than the lcafing. be-
cause the falling of the leaves is more
plainly visible. although the dying off of
the tree really lasts as long as its return
to life
He who studies nature in winter is
nearer to it than the season enjoying
ones. the city people. who only go into
the country when the table of nature is
set. Can one say of such persons, who
are unfaithful to natures Yesterday
they seemed SO near to you, and today
they act almost as though they would
ask: Who are you? Yes, there arc
people whose perception of life is only
quickly whitening grass, and many per
sons moods very like the weather But
in the firmer ones it is like the tree-al-
though it is leatess you fully understand
it.-German of Berthold Auerbach.