Waterbury evening Democrat., 1894-08-15
TREE WITH 4 TEMPER.
D. F. KELLY.

tt Grows In Arizona With Another That
 Gives Light Like Electric Lamp
 There arc more queer things to the acre in Arizona than in any other part of this wide land. said Colonel Brace Dion of Houck's Tank, Apache county. ''and, according to my idea, and know pretty near what queer things are, the auccrCst thing in all Arizona is the tree that has n temper worse than a blond comic opera prima dcnna's and rets its dandcr up with just as small provocation They tell me out there that this trco belongs to the coniferUus species. It grows to Do something like 25 feet high and then stops. Its leaves arc long, slender and pointed. like DOT cupine quills- When this tree is in a good humor, these leaves lie close to the branches. and it spreads a pleasant arO- matic Odor all around But when 1t is angry every leaf on the tree rises up on end, and the aspect of that particular piece of timber is about as fierce and threatening as anything you would care to look at The pleasant resinOus odor the tree. sent forth in its peaceful mood gives way to an odor that will put wings on your feet to place as much distance us you can bctwecn the offensive tree and yourself.
 This tree is very tOuchy on the sub jcct of dogs, and the coming of canine anywhere near it will instantly make it furious Yet a wolf. q grizzly bear or a mountain lion never rufflcs the tenn per of this tree if those animals do not STan ifnr NN-rH it. They may lie around it as long as they care to, but if one of them so far forgets itself as to rub or scratch the trunk of the tree the hot tempered thing will fly into one of its tantrums in- stantly. and the way Mir. Bear. Wolf or Lion will make himself scarce in those parts is a whole circus to sec Nothing will work this tree up to concert pitch. though, SO quick and effectually as throwing stones at 1t. Then it will ac- tually rip and tear. and no living thing would think of going within gunshot of it. Some folks out at Houck's Tank call 1 this tree the purcupine tree, and some say its right name is skunk tree call it the holy terror tree. But. no matter what you call it. it is a queer job oi nature, and Arizona claims 1t as heI l own.
 While this tree is the only real, genuine vegetable kingdom crank we've got in Arizona, we point with som' more pride tn another tree that only | Arizona soil has the talent to produce l This one is the electric light tree. Thii tree is not as abundant as the holy ter TOT tree and is dwarf. seldom having the courage to get more than l2 fee high Its foliage is very dense, and a night it glcams like an arc light Tn | light that shines from this tree Is s'
 strong that one may sit 25 feet ava.
 and read fine print. The qucercst pOin
 of this tree is that its light begins [
 gruw dim with tho coming of the ncS
 moon and steadily loses brilliancy unri
 the moon is full. Then the tree is a
 dark ns a mine When the moon begin
 to wane, the tree's luminosity is gradu
 ally renewed. and by the time the moo
 has disappeared the trce is shining agai
 as brightly as ever. Sometimes tho ligh
 on this queer trI,e becomes faint eve
 in the dark of the moon Then we hay
 to do a queer thingsto restore it W
 drench it with bucketful or two
 water. and instantly the effulgent glo'
 will return in all it's brilliancy. "-Ne' |, | Work Sun