St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-04-17
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estry," Edwin j. Houston, A. NJ, has
stated in simple untechnical language
the grounds on which certain wise and
far-seeing men have!built their claim for
consideration, and their reasons for or
ganlZing themselves into an association.
This aggregation Is called the Forestry
association. That there Is great need
for some such association to protect our
splendid forests, no one acquainted with
the methods by which America is being
steadily denuded Of one of her greatest
treasures can for moment doubt. The
irreparable loss that destruction of our
forests entails upon the country, the
author insists, should be prevented
by the enactment of judIcious
question little considered and therefore
little known, the contents Of this in
structiye book are divided into primers
of forestry. You may thus begin at
the beginning of the question and adj
vance by gradual stages until your
mind is thoroughly convinced Of the
truth of his arguments. I'm order to
enable the readers of this little book to
carry their reading beyond the jele-
mentary principles which it dlscl0ses
appropriate extracts, taken from stand.
ard authors and published by permls-
sion of the authors or publishers, have
been added at the end of each primer.
That the extent of the book may the
more readily be seen, a mention of
some of the titles of the primers may
not be amiSs: Forestry" conditions
Necessary for the Growth of Plants"
The Formation of Soil" 1.-The Ami
mate Enemies of the Forest, 1.-THE
Earth's Ocean of Vapor, Rain, Drain
age, Climate" "Cllmate as Influenced
by the Presence of Forests" "Puriiica-
ton of the Atmosphere, The Balance
OF Nature" 1t is a book well worth
serious study.
prince Como H.. or An Helress
Abroad" by Samuel l.. Phillips, is about
as silly book as one can imagine. 1t
IS story of the usual marriage made by
the usual supervise young people, who
marry in spite of the old folks and
everything else. The young husband,
who Is everything that is lovely, but
Door, marrieS an only daughter of a
purSe-proud Mohawk valley farmer; a
wonderful creature, who knew nothing
OF work or the practical things of life,
and, moreover, who did not learn any
thing of homework. though she married
Il poor man, for later i'll the story, as if
to explain why she has a pretty hand,
we are Informed that she had
never done any manual labor
to spoil its symmetry. The hus-
band becomes a gold hunter, shows
the idiocy of all ''tenderfeet" as found
in books, but succeeds in leaving his
wife and daughter at his death several
millions of dollars. The wife ambitious,
as all American mothers are supposed
to be, takes her daughter abroad. There
seems TO be some Subtle something
about crossing the Atlantic that takes
what little sense women are conceded
to have from them. This woman is no
exception to the rule. She lands OH the
other side as big fool as one cOuld
imagine; meets Prince Como II.and tries
to induce her daughter to marry him.
The prince is of the typical brand, has
a mistress of whom he is afraid,
but marries the pretty Am erican
for htI money, having first
intercepted the letters of the man she
really loved and rendered her desperate.
A faint CLEAN of sense just before the
fatal knot is tied. enables her 10 refuse
any marriage settlement, and thus she
keeps the money in her own hands. The
mother thinks that as her daughter has
MAJ lSN pilACC oilO ClSCiI DCCOlNo q
princess, and raises fuss in the Como
family by wearing their plumes, SO they
make her life so disagreeable that she
HES herself back to America, and the
mistress of the prince appearing at the
same time, the wife begins to suspect
that things will not be so pleasant for
her, and follows the mother home. Then
the lost lover is found. The prince fol-
lows to get more money, gets into a
gamblers fight and is killed. The re-
united lovers are wed and all are happy
ever afterWard.
The history faith ofthe church for the
first thousand years after its establish
ment is set forth in little book by the
author of Not on Calvary" and called
The First Millennial Faith" which he
Introduces in this wise: IF in the i'm
partial presentation of evidence TO prove
what were the ethical. the intellectual,
and the theological conditions of the
period that produced the Monk AnSelm
and his theory of the necessity of the
sacrifice of Christ to appeaSe the justice
OF God, II becomes necessary to repro.
duce some of the dark pages of eccle-
slastlcal history, 1t is with pro-
found regret that in no other
hoJ NOoiN NOiiNitlOii VI JlluU lOu
be fully understood; and only when the
force of these conditions are fully COM
pretended can we make just estimate
of the first scholastic and his dogma.
Yet essential as they are, the compiler
of these pages would not present those
sad records did he not believe that the
day is near when the universal church
will no longer permit itself TO be man
acled to a dead and ignoble past, but
will be free to restore again the First
Millennial Faith"
The testimony of an eye witness has
ever an attraction for us that the writ
ten records OF the compiler of facts can
never have, so this interesting book of
personal "Reminiscences" of l.. E.
Chittenden, who was register of the trea-
sury under President Lincoln, and that
tells of his impressions of those who
ii lied the stage OF life from 1910 to 1890,
the most important thirty years in our
country's history, is doubly interesting.
He shows to us these men as they
looked to their friends and everyday
associates. He paints the scenes OF thai
wonderful political struggle that pre-
ceded and opened the way for the
mighty battles that broke the power of
slavery and made our land, in
truth. what we boastingly claimed
it was, ''the land Of the tree
and the home of the brave" He tells
of the birth of the Free Soil party, that
bud that bloomed later into the Repub-
iican party, and whose pungent life
breath has purified and elevated the
Democratic party of today. Through
his eyes we catch glimpse of that de-
lightful pair, father and son, the Van
Burens. He illustrates the early bench
and bar of Vermont, whose prototype
could be found i'll almost any of the
later states. He talks of Judge Lynch
and of his stern melting out of justice
during early Pacific railroad times.
Sportsmen will like his Adirondack
Region" and see through his eyes the
deer come down to the dusky pools to
drink, hear with him the scream
of the wildcat. the whistle of the
game birds, the song of the boat
men who padded his party to the beau
tiful camp among the hills. DOctOrl
will enjoy and appreciate the chapte,
that tells of quacks and quackery; laws
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