The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-10-23
A TALK ABOUT TREES.
No. 3.

NSA St1IOG H1hnC AlVS1NCllS tbltb Lip NetI lls And after he had made the Armament, put each planet in it's orbit and set them all revolving round the central power-the sun- He said, 'Let the wat CTS under the heavens be gathered to- gether in one place." and it was done. At that period the earth (so we are told) consisted of broad plains, rocks and tall mountains. The mighty ocean as if in rebellion against the parting, commenced moving backward and for ward, flashing its billowy waves against the land, deluging the rocky headlands with mighty force of wat CT. The air trying to make peace, sur rounded both land and sea, and when the waters refused to be calm, the war between wind and waves became fierce, and the earth trembled. This must have been Q sad time for the earth. Peace has never been declared since that time between sea and air. The ocean tides ebb and flow and all who ''go down to the sea in ships bear wit ness to the conflict between wind and waves.
 How brown and bare, how desolate the earth must have appeared, how bleak the hills. The earth was nothing but earth, air and water. The eastern poets tell how on "the third day" there sprang up millions of tiny blades of grass, and the trees some of them yield ing fruit. Others bore rich and luxuri- ant foliage, and earth put on a look of delight, and appeared beneath the sun and stars in her mantle of living green, which has never changed it's color, only in those seasons where her forehead is crowned with a@cap of snow. The grass, herbs and tress were the most perfect of Gods handiwork till man ap- peared, and he was thrown in the shade by the coming of his superior compan- ion, woman. It is said by ancient wri- ters that on the fifth day God made music to float through the trees in the form of birds, or winged fowl, singing many different songs, and through the still turbulent restless waters whales and innumerable fishes made their ap- pearance; and on the sixth day there came all forms of life-animals and creeping things cattle after their kind, horses and sheep each after their own kind. All things without life were called minerals. and all life-like trees and grasses vegetable life" The fishes, whales cattle and all things of that kind were called animal life. . So there were the mineral kingdom, ? the vegetable kingdom" and the "ani- nal kingdom which make up the three grand divisions of nature, all gov erned by natural or infinite law
 The animal Kingdom will be a mys- tery till the day the Creator reveals the art by which he puts each specimen in its place, and tells why the animal kingdom requires certain portions of both of the others, to sustain her own vitality.
 Put stone into the earth, or soil and 1t will remain, as far as human knowl- edge goes, a stone. Thousands of years may be required to resolve it to dust. Put seeds or an acorn into well cultiva- ted earth and the seeds will swell and burst their fetters and put forth tiny roots which develop and reach out like small hands taking fast hold of the soils of earth, and finally push up green shoots which rise above the ground feeling like children for tender care reaching up for air and water Plant food from the earth is absorbed through the roots, which are unseen. The leaves which appear later are the lungs through which air, moisture and warmth from the solar rays are i'm parted, which are like smiles from the sun giving strength and tender encour- agement to the growing plant, whict yearly gains progressive development 4:II F ic,t ta1 ctr0n O able to withstand the storms of the seasons. Thus every tree in the great forests grows into life, and the process is so grand, yet simple that it seems al most impossible to count their numbers or define the work of God and nature Frees increase their thickness every year and it requires many years tt make them stately trees. The differen forest trees spread their branches 1T the air while the roots go down deeper and deeper into the soil, putting fortf buds in spring time, which open, dis closing the miniature leaves and adorf their wide-spreading branches witt leaves and blossoms, and in time re pays the earth for all her care. Th' trees continue their growth thousand of years and generations after genera tions of men come and go while th' oaks and naples and mountain pine' maintain their dignity unless they re ceive injury from the woodman's axe or the lightning's bolt or receiv' wounds from the wintry blasts. Pores trees maintain their standing as lord of the soil, and their power never weak ems. The forests of America may b among the oldest. This continent il covered in some portions with the no bIest specimens of trees that can b. found on the globe. There are othe lands that can boast of mighty forests but none brighter or more rich in foli age. Nothing can match our forests il autumn Their beauty is beyond tn language of man to express, or the col ors of art to illustrate.
 Take it in October, before the leave commence to fall, when nature is pre- pairing for a long rest and recuperatini
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