Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1890-05-29
MY NEIGHBOURS TREE.
AESSON TAUGHT BY CLOSE STUDY
OF THE MYSTERIES OF NATURE.

and Winter-The Glitter After a Spripe
shower-The Thunder Storms and Au-
tums of Life-what They Mean
My room, which is in high house. is
on an even height with the crown of the
tfee opposite. For seven years this tree
mas been true friend to me- How often
it mas refreshed my sight. l have here
at different times jotted down what /
saw, thought and dreamed about it.
Everything in nature has its fixed des-
tmy-man alone has the worry. In ma
tUre there is a must" with man it is
you shall" and, therefore, there is a
desire of freedom in the heart of man.
KIND, an endeavor to discern our natural
destination. Schiller SAYS:
seek you the highest, the greatests the plant can
teach you it:
What it is without a viii Won shouI1 Ia x,ilIinc.v
The history of religion begins with di-
vine alteration of certain trees. and this
culture became 50 deeply rooted that it
was difficult to destroy it. The envovs
oil Christianity had to apply the AK to
the holy trees to destroy this kind of
worship
The crown of the tree is too high to be
reached by regulating garden shears; il
~ONAANNS itoS-l. ItlAc ltoSDtl IEDlIl luc
tree, raise yourself up man; learn to
stand high in yourself and the world
cannot mold You against your will.
Ny tree stands in my neighbor's gar
den. 1t is not mine, and yet NV pleas
ure is not decreased By the thought that
it is not my property. In the contem-
plation of that which is eternal there is
no mine and thine, and the pleasure
LOO,
whence it came.
1t is 4 withered tree during the winter,
and the thought arises, Who knows if
1t YET lives: Will leaves, branches and
fruit thrive again:' Spring-new or re-
turning life-will show
After spring sun shower, how all the
branches glitter with the hanging drops,
which play in wonderful colors What
an absorption there must be III the trees.
As soon as the rain ceases the finch APP
pears and sings his song SO gayly that it
seems the merry fellow had freshly
Inoistened his throat; and indeed, it is
SO. for man and bird sing better after 4
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, especially in the hours before |
midday.
In April there was another snow. All |
the branches Were laden, all day long
the flakes whirled about, and it was all
still and quiet, except now and then a
complaint from the finch. y chill per-
Taded nature; even people in heated
rooms could not keep warm. 1t seemed
as If life and soul were in sympathy with
tn Il |
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 a struggle Even
If thousand blossoms, which have
scarcely bloomed, pass away, the devel-
oDInent 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 i'll this point with the first
life of the child or animal
child destroying plaything which
Is put together by strange hands, is forced
to Go 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
IL A-StAiSi- 10 NC st from
has q tendency to make tender.
Y hail storm has broken off a branch ,
and another will not grow again in its
place, but the tree may add new branches
and twigs, and the wound of the torn
oil branch may heal up.
y thunder storm in the vicinity has
snapped off trees and uprooted others,
and when n tree is down and its roots
n oN-rnca1 j., -. | Il
was thrown down and uprooted, but
how it 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
sibllity of their former state
Autumn comes with such force that
you feel as though you were parting with
the dearest associates: that YOU had not
iully 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
III full draughts, and. having neglected
1t, 1t Is now too late; and SO it will be in q
the autumn of your life.
Cease remorse, which overcomes YOU
with the falling of the leaves. Wake up
'-4N' p" VI - III tilc IlcN udN. lndSlnuCn
the fallen leaf returns to it's stem. SO will u
! day passed return to you, but there -
will be new leaves and new days as long
As life Is allowed to you. l.
The stripping of the leaves seems tc
70 on more quickly than the leafing, be-
';stse the falling of the leaves is more a
plainly visible, although the dying off of B
he tree really lasts as long as its return
% life. ~
lie who studies nature in winter is
bearer to it than the season ENJOYING
,neS, the city people, who only go into
ne country when the table of nature is II
ef Can one say of such persons, who
IRE unialthful to nature: yesterday
hey seemed so near to you, and today
hey act almost as though they would
'sk: w no are you?'" Yes. there are a
people whose perception of life is only e
quickly whitening grass, and MANY per Y
o2s moods very like the weather. But 81
Il the frmcr ones it is like the tree-al- &
houSh 1t Is ieatless you fully understand =
of Berthold Auerbach. -
How 1t Happened. =
1ounSchap-How does it happen that
our hair Is so much grayer than your
'hishers? ~