The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-10-22

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 yielding fruit. Others bore rich and luxuriant foliage, and earth put on look of delight and appeared beneath the sun and stars in her mantle of living green. which has never changed its color, only in those seasons when her forehead is crowned with cap of snow. The grass, herbs and trees were the most perfect of Gods handiwork till man appeared, and he was thrown in the shade by the coming of his superior companion-wo- man. It is said by ancient writers 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 l innumerable fishes made their appear ance; 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 animal kingdom" which makes up the three grand divisions of nature. all gov erned by natural of 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 it's place, and tells why the animal kingdom requires certain portions of both of the others to sustain her own vitality.
 Put a stone into the earth or soil and it will remain, as far as human knowledge goes, a stone. Thousands of years may be required to resolve it to dust. Put seeds or an acorn into well cultivated earth and the seeds will swell and burst their letters, 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 imparted, which are like smiles from the sun, giving strength and tender encouragement to the growing plant, which yearly gains pro. gressive development, till the sturdy oak is tall and strong, able to with. stand the storms of the seasons. Thus every tree in the great forests grow into life, and the process is so grand yet simple, that it seems almost i'm. possible to count their numbers or de- fine the work of God and nature , Trees increase their thickness every : year, and it requires many years tt make them stately trees. The differ
 ent forest trees spread their branche! in the air, while the roots go doWr deeper into the soil, putting forth bud
 in spring time which open, disclosing the miniature leaves, and adorn thei
 
 and blossoms, and in time repays tn, earth for all her care. The trees con tinue their growth thousands of years and generations after generations O
 men come and go while the oaks anC
 naples and mountain pines maintain their dignity, unless they receive inju ry from the woodman's axe or thu
 lightning's bolt, or receive wound f from the wintry blasts. Forest tree , maintain their standing as lords of tn
 soil and the power never weakens
 The forests of America may be anon, , the oldest This continent is covere,
 in some portions with the noblest spec l imens of trees that can be found on tn l globe. There are other lands that cal
 boast of mighty forests but non brighter or more rich in foliage Moth l ing can match our forests in autumn
 Their beauty is beyond the languag ) of man to express or the colors of ar to illustrate.
 Take it in October before the leave
 fall, when nature is preparing for
 long rest and recupeTating from he = summer struggles with heat and fogs e Look at the highland forests, O :. those on the borders of the lakes an
 rivers, where every tree and vine an = open nook may be seen in royal gar : ments. The imperial oak in his kingl
 mantle of Tyrean purple, reminding tn h lovers of nature of the grand garmen = fringed with gold and precious gem
 which the King of Tyre sent as peac = offering to the majestic Solomon by hi }. trusted craftsman, Hyram Abiff. Ty
 rean purple is noble color and neve S fades. Beside the oak is the more ma F jestic walnut and the dignifed roc
 maple, whose foliage reflects the beat
 tiful colors of the prism, and radate
 all the solar rays as the winds pla e among their quivering leaves. Na IL lures harp may well claim golde 2, stings and send forth joyous anthem u for all her harp strings scene 1 touched with jeweled fingers. The ell 'e is in courtly robes and the chestnl
 crowned with a diadem of clusterir
 nuts which twinkle in the sun-lig.