Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1891-12-24

axe anu the ChrgtilN trees, llho
soldiers In some great battle, fall on
every side. Ifany potent grave nnd
reverend senior who had been sheltered
from bDyhUoi by those trees SHOULD APP |
pear on the sceue aud ierveuily utter |
tho petition 10 familiar TO uur gcnuol- |
boy ears during "doclamation uxcr- !
clses,"
y, woodman, tplfo ihlt troe,
he would DO ignomiuoully laughed 10
sCOru.
When these monArrhs-not Of the
forest but OF the Christmas heafth-are
iclled, their br inches AT" trimmed, anu
their chopped ends sawed - as to
maze them smooth. lhtn their
branches are drawn towards trunks
and tied with stout twiur $50 that thoy
will occupy lees room when shipped @
market. Then teams u stout oxen
haul them 10 the nearest railroad OF
navigable stream. The iit.uris prefer.
sblo because transportation by water
sis less than by rail, au1 the great
point Is ~ get the trees to market ns
chcsply ns possible. II, however, there
Il no alternative but 10 let the iron
horse haul them away, about two thou.
sand trees arc loaded upOn each ear.
But Mainc does not supply New
York with all her Christmas trees by
any means. New YORK state furnishes
many Christmas trees 10 her own great
metropolis. Away up In the CaFki'i
mountains there are annually cut
thousands Of these trees, among which
old HeudIlck Hudson aud his demon
crew have been playing sklttles and
drinking Hchuapp. nightly for
centuries, and under whose outrageous
shadows dear old Rip Van Wrinkle
took his long nap VI twenty years
duration. The Adirondack mountains
also furnish many OF these trees, aud
from the shores 81 Otsegp Lake come
many others. Tho Green mountains Of
Vermont also scud Christmas trees to
| the little desccndauts OF the Dutch
settlers ON Manhattan Island, rs Ike
wise do tho shores OF Lake Winni.
pisogee aud the White Mountains Of
| New Hampshire. / have known n
| Vermont farmer 10 bring down ten
| thousand Christmas trees 10 New York,
aud to realize ON thom In few day.
more than double what he could
make by working his old farm
up among the bushes for "a twelve
month, though he received from the
lobbur who brought them an average
/ Of only twenty cents piece for each
OF his trees. Very little, you VIII say,
TOR the trouble aud expense Of pros.
| pectlnV, aging the owner VI the land
| on which the trees grew, eating, haul
| ing, shipping aud marketing, baI you
must REMEMBER that the trees pass
| through the hands Of two other dcalsrs
| besides the Jobbor before they finally
reach the consumer, II | may be nl-
/ lowed that word in this Clec. The
4 jobber sells to the wholesaler, the
| Wholesaler 10 the Iotsilpr, aud oil
three must mako u proft out of the
transaction. What wonder, then, that
the trees which the farmer sold for
twenty cents r. piece, hriug nj retail
| from seynnty-nve cents 10 twelve dol.
larr. the latter ngurl-and even rs
much % fiuetn dollsra--hping paid for
unusually large aud handsome trees
purchased by benevolent people for
charitable instltuiions, SUNDAY school
celebrations, etc., but, mind you,
Christmss trees Of that kind like Rome,
are not made In day. 10 attain thai
mammoth Rlze they must grow and
fl0uri-h--cvnn ~ the Psalnist says he
mas seen the wicked flourish, like unto
q green tres - for quarter Ut n
century.
But though Sew York, Jelng the
largest city In orr county, IN naturally
our grast-sl mart Tor Christmas trees,
ead though Maine, New Hampshire,
Vermont and New York furnish our
great metropolis with those beautiful
cmblems " living green, II must not
he supposed that thut city or those
States have a msnopnly Of or n patent
right on Christmas trees. Almost al
over this great country, wherever The
wings OF the great American eagle
throw their shadow, as our sprea T.
eagle orators say on the Fourth Of
July, the Christmas tree IL purchase 1,
trimmed ami hung with gifts. Tue
only exceptions are some OF the treu.
less regions " the lar West whore
railroads and steamship lines have not
yot penetrated. Even In such spots
In our litila army posts on traCklrss
plains, smlug hostile lnli1hs--Christ.
mas trees are improvlsed from walking
canes aud umbrella hgndln- spliced To-
gether. So universal ~ the desire for
tree nj Christmas time that there
might well be written to the familiar
song "WhRt Ia Home without n
M,iherp n companion piece entitled
"what IL Christmas Without Christ.
mas Trea."
And what kind Of tree Is the best for
ChrirtmW.tree purposes? That I, n
hard question 10 answer, Hcmlpch,
pine, 6alsam, iir, cedar anu spruce
trees are used, Each has merits pecu'
liarly Its own, except, nerhaps, the
Pine and hemlncI, which arc often
shabby and whose only merit IL cheap
ness. The green Of the cedar is not so
bright as that Of the Othurs, and per.
hap. that Ia why It lasts 10 much long
or Cedar trees are sometimes TO be
obtained with branches bearing here
and there its lovely frosty berries, an
the effect OF such tree Ia slngliilrly
beautiful. Spruce trees ara very hand
some and stately aud from their
branches may he hung gifts heavier
than any other Christmas tree will
, support, but for my own part
prefer the halsam frs, inr they
are redolent with the delicious fra
GRANGE Of the piney woods, aud call,
up memories OF ver-to.be-f0rgottor
golden days, with loving friends Ia
sylvan camp and on the merry march
, In search OF flsh and game. Theirs I,
, n perfume that soOthes and calTs tn,
, troubled heart and excited brain, anc
lulls us into that sweet Intensity Of
sleeps that knows no reatlessneis MOI
! dreams, Nv all who have lain upon {
balssm fir boughs or upon u pillow
r Allied with their festhery needles car
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