Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1898-04-07
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Some notes on Natural Science were
read before tho Current Events Glass
by Miss H. Edna n. Taylor, whn
Quoted from an article in the Yale
Scientific Monthly on THE Futurs OF
Our Forests. . by Henry s. Canhr,
who said: When the first settlers
reached America they found the
country to be one continuous forest,
and before they could plant their acre
or so Of grain, this growth had to be
removed: they naturally looked upon
the trees as their worst enemies, and
the first lesson the growing class of
farmars learned was how TO WELD an
axe and get rid of the woods by cut
ting, burning ard girdllng. There was
an over abundance OF forest then, and
the bitter war against the woods
played a necessary part in the develop
ment of tho country: then the over
abundance became only sutficiency.
and is rapidly growing to scarcity ut
available timber, yet the same spirit
OF wanton destruction prevails. and
fires run unchecked in forest lands,
and greedy lumber corporations steal
the available timber from the public
domain with scarcely word of protest
from the mass Of people whom it con-
Germs. Now, when it is on the very
verge OF being too late for anything
effective, Precautions which should
| have been taken years ago, are being
made. Although it is impossible TO
estimate how much timber Ia left or
how long ii will last, 10 years OF sach
destruction, by lire and by axe, as tho
last 10 years have witnessed, will SEES
| tine end close at hand. Once exhaust
our forest supply and the countless in
dustrieB and the hundreds of thousands
of men who depend upon il must look
abroad for the lumber they need. 1t
is hard 10 realize what an enormous
part in the economy OF our civilization
wuud bears, and bow many branches
of manufacture the wood supply affects;
one pine tree may be put to hundred
different uses, and be sold, and Tesold
dozen times before it reaches it's final
conditions. Prospectors, that
they may better search for mine indi
cations, have burnt over thousands Of
acres, and consumed milliona of dollars
worth OF timber in week that has
taken many years to produce and as
result the land ia threatened with
water famine. and Just as forest
denudation produces droughts, IL also
produ foods. A forest covering may
be compared TO a great sponge, which
soaka in the rRinfalls OF year and dis
tributes their moisture, gently AMI
regularly, through dry times and wet.
, Burn over great tracts Of forest land
about the head waters OF stream, and
, the melting snows and spring rains.
which had oozed through the network
,, of roots aud filtered gently into the
brook, pour down ths bare billsidss,
/ and rush along the stream bed in
, foaming torrent, earring destruction
before them, while in SUNNI, when
. most needed, the stream is reuuced to
: trickling rill
' The forest reservations, recently sat
4 inside by the Forest Commissioner, was
/ the longest step forward taken for many
a day. The refusal TO confirm them
was hortsightec blundar that will
!. probably delay their adoption until. the
n best Of the timber has been stolen.
Il Forest reproduction is the next step,
4 and may become the only Il ing left to
4 do. Germany derives all enormous
q reysnus from her forests ana yet does
y not Lessen their arsa. Under similar
|. system, our country might "eat its
!, cake and have it too. y
, Mrs j. P. Pyle read a bill lately
in introduced into this United States
II Senate by Mr.. Iioar Ut Massach ts,
d which was passed by that body, for
bidding the importation into the
At United States Of birds. feathers. OF
ii parts of birds for ornamental purpoes.
', and also forbidding The sale. keeping,
a or offering for sale OF such within the
,e United States This bill does moi
an prohibit the importation of birds fol
" museums. geological gardens or scien
a. Ill In AZ t,n 80
al living birds, or of feathers taken from
IN living birds, without injury to tbs
1e birds. The Natural History Society Of
n. Delaware will forward memorial Il
rs our representative in Congress-, asking
~ him 10 further tho passage by tht
pe House of this bill and the society
an asks the New Century Club to siGr
az this memorial. This involves delay al
ay there will be no meeting OF the clut
10 before fortnight, but it ia hopeC
ne members will then be prepared to en-
n durse tho signing of such memorial
"a DR.. Josephine r. White. in al
n, article on 'tHeredity" told of TIL,
= certainty with which parental trait,
o. are transmitted to offspring and sine
ne acquired characteristics may. TO Sum
n. extent, aIao BIO transmitted, and in
en- hefil6u trRlts successfully comhattbn
nd 1t is worth while to learn the physical
nj moral, and mental traits ono is heir Il
as in order TO cultivate only tho dssirnbl
ed ones. Acquired habits arc often trans
Dr. mitted and in the second generatio
'pl become fixed family traits. aud dc
NO ternine the tendencies Of those whor
,re their founder shall mover soc till b
en- stands faco to face with them ut th
10 judgment,
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nI ZoIa'5 Sentence Ouabhcu.