, 1896-03-16

itlSld, AlSnaUiSldn, northern
China, are covered by the Cobb desert
because the forests were destroyed.
The Euphrates valley, where the great
Babylon ruled. is a waste of sands and
all this can be traced to no other cause
than the destruction of the forests. be-
cause there have been no other
changes, and it is well known that
when forests covered that country all
the lands We're fertile. and there were
located tNo %granaries o. the world.
The northern pine forests are also
being destroyed. and if this is continu-
ed the hest portion OF the United States
ana Canada must become more and
Palmyra of old was overwhelmed by
the sands after the forests were de-
stroyed, so sure will the Ohio and up
per Mississippi valleys succumb to a
similar fate if the destructive hand of
man is not stayed.
THE forests are being destroyed to
satisfy greed, as the seal fisheries of
Alaska are being destroyed.
Many places have too much rainfall
and generally this may be remedied.
The greatest excuses of rainfall are
usually found along the coasts and in
marshy countries and if the forests
were destroyed and the marshes drain
ed the rainfall would cease to be ex-
CeSSiye.
From New York city southwark all
around the Atlantic and gulf coasts to
the southern line of Mexico are many
forests and marshes that not only
cause destructive floods on the coasts
but. by depriving the inilowing air of
its moisture. decrease the moun of
rainfall in the interior of the continent.
The wet lands and dense forests of
the Mississippi valleys included in a
circle drawn from Memphis by way of
Shreveport. New Orleans, Mobile,
Chattanooga and zach to Memphis are
a menace to all the other portions of
the United States lying east of the
Rockies.
The conditions of that lower Mis-
sissippi country are such that the
moisture ev%aporated on the Gulf of
Mexico and the Atlantic with which
nature intends to water the interior of
the continent is p~rematurely precipi-
tated resulting in great and damaging
foods where they are not needed and
causing aridity where rains would fall
were it o for this lower Mississippi
country which lies Immediately across
the inflow of moist atmosphere from
the Atlantic.
IF the forests of that lower Missis.
sippi river country We're cut and the
boys, marshes and lakes drained it
would not only aid in equalizing the
rainfall but the country inclosed in
that circle could be made to splendidly
support a population of 80, 900, 900 peo-
pie.
But if we have any statesmen they
have not yet been able to gain a hear
ing. Legislation that has no robber
scheme in it seems not to have any
charms. The public good seems to be
the very last consideration and thus
we are drifting onto the rocks in more
senses than one
The government did move a little
in the right direction in it's effort at
water storage on the sources of the
Mississippi. Millions of dollars should
be expended along that line on the
headwaters of all the great tributaries
of the Mississippi.
Water cannot be successfully stored
in the arid parts because of excessive
evaporation but evaporation from arti-
fetal lakes will supply the lows with
moisture and therefore is better thar
to permit the water to run back to the
sea through the rivers.
Twelve inches of rainfall is amply
sufficient for crop purposes and if this
amount could be retained in the soil
through the means suggested no crop
failures would occur for want of mois-
ture and this holding of moisture in
the soil would increase the rainfall in
the arid regions and more equally dis
tribute the moisture elsewhere.
Plant trees, let the small brush
grow in waste places, use undertow
irrigation, preserve the interior for
ests, cut the coast forests, drain the
coast marshes, build reservoirs, in.
crease the artesian wells, increase the
irrigation bitches. Give state and ma.
tional aid to these, induce Mexico ant
Canada to adopt the same practices
and policy and the desert sands will be
buried under the loam."
1t not only is SO, it must be so,
One Minute Cough Cure acts quickly
and THAT'S what noGac - M Ch,.