The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-12-03

lldu uepenueu upon tnlS power alone the country would not have become the barren treeless waste that it now pre- sents in different parts of it.
 The forest trees have been robbed of their beauty by the earlier treatment of men. Our American forests have suffered from the rude and destructive hands of human nature. Men who neither spared the fields or forests in their eXtravagant desires to gain riches without labor. The earth has suffered in all places, and the forests bear wit ness to this fact. The hills and val leys have been robbed of their crown ing beauty to satisfy the selfish wants of men. Time was when the earth pre- sented a far different scene. The mountain sides, the lofty hills, the wide plains, were clothed in sumptuous gar ments of living green, and even the hardy rugged rocks were covered with green mosses and climbing vines, and all things of earth's production came under the one grand code of natural law. But this was in what is now termed the barbarous age, before the days of science" and invention, when skill and arts and architecture were dull in design and clumsy in execution. So the wise ones tell us. Advancing science and the progressive march of fashion have trampled nature under their feet, and the forests have suffered in the conflict. Natural beauty has given place to loveliness invented by human genius and the inferior power of the human.
 The groves that men have planted are inferior to those ancient forests where the red men wandered free, and regarded the oaks and naples as the Great Spirits dwelling place, and therefore sacred. That was before the great discovery by Columbus With the coming of civilization the forests fell slowly but surely beneath the ad- vancing car of human progression. Art and science with civilization fol- lowing, have robbed the forests. of their l beauty, and the laws of nature have been broken. The fields and groves of human planting bear testimony to mans destructive powers. They can not hold places of equality with those made beautiful by Deity, and without any of mans skill or fertilizers. The chariot wheels of progression have crushed our ancient forests and de- stroyed all the footprints of One who gave the trees their majesty and the l leaves their autumnal beauty.
 1 The beauty loving people of the earth have immortalized the glory of the for l est in poetry and song. Poets have l written of the beauty of the ancient l forests and the peaceful inhabitants who once dwelt like Israers wandering l tribes beneath their sacred shades, and one in particular pointed with glowing colors to the brilliancy of an American October, when the trees in their bright autumnal colors whispered softly Of l Eden's faded beauty and a lost Para disc which must have been like one l grand forest where even God rested in peace at the ''cool of the day" As the swift shadows of clouds chase each other through the autumnal skies, changing the brilliant color of quiver- ing leaves, so have years followed each other, ages coming and going have l flung their destructive shadows over 1 the ancient forests, and cities, with 1 their temples and lofty church spires, l occupy the places where once the ma- ple. oak pine, hemlock, walnut and l birches grew in clusters, and covered the broad earth with sheltering forests. l The ancient forest trees are fast dis appearing, the newer growths are in measure taking their places and the commercial value of forests are doing for the trees what humanity failed to do till the market value of lumber makes every ancient tree worth It's weight in gold. Now men gaze upon their forest trees as they look upon their bank books, knowing they repre- sent a title to so much money
 Thus the forests have come under the law of protection. Men in our large ! agricultural states gaze upon then trees in spring time, noting with pleas ure that they are growing larger and still larger as the seasons go by; and il they have no eyes for the beauty of the leaves in autumn, they know they will add a certain amount of growth to the trees when they moulder at their roots in the fall and winter seasons.
 The unfolding of the leaves and growth of the limbs and branches are beautiful, and, to intelligent minds exceedingly interesting. As the hort1' culturist watches the growth of plants from day to day to see how slowly but surely each plant takes from the soi
 the nourishment required for the
 steady growth of the plants; there car
 be no failure in nature, neither in the
 growth of the plants and trees, or II
 mans faith in Him whose wisdom ere
 ated the forest and other vegetable
 substances for the pleasure and com
 fort of the animal and human king
 dom of the earth.
 When seeds fall into the earth tht
 germination takes place and the roots
 go down into the ground attracted
 there by the food required for it's de
 yelopment. It is the work of those
 small roots to absorb nourishment anC
 growth is sure to follow. The roots ac
 for the plant or tree, as the stomach O
 A. child does for the human organism
 No root takes more than is required fo
 daily use and never touches that whicl
 is not needed.
 Indigestion is never known amons plants, though they are often poisoned
 or killed through mans carelessness
 It requires an intelligent mind and on
 well versed in chemical agriculture t follow the many changes that a tre
 passes through before 1t gets a firn
 hold of the soil and is strong enough t.
 withstand the winds and storms o
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