The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1902-06-21

Coming home most travellers, and all
NnO l...0 ahy sense "a sOVd tnp,
bop oStr a, ,.aoOMa, anu sp.nu a.
la ,Ae 0ig lrees. Ine Oig trees az
vna. 90 reau aDOut la Jour geogia.
phy. and tney are ali Iney are saiu ~
De. A Tree whose base cOaia not set "a
tne Oazette omfee winouL wIoenlng Ine
wans 10 Dls .lee ahd waon o..s
leanzes mat lne average Dig tree ~
.Ac l,.al4 4pVsa IOios 40 snrce or Iour.
times as nigh as the Normal buIialns
ne Gets the luea OF prelty serYlcap.e
SORT OF tree. Ine tees s,And III d
great forest OF p,nes ana frs and ceoars
aD4 req wUOd ,rtos anu il.o liVl.A .ie
FOREST about Jnem hKe waves Oh har-
mony in an anlnem-not inherent from
the beauty ABOUT them, but alner the
beauty glorlned. Sclenusts say the D.g
trees are TOUR or nye thousand years
old. BlDie history taken .-.erally vy
/ geuerations provides for but three
thousand years. These trees stoOu
wnen Moses smotu the water and Ine
sea gave way. Iney we're Ola trees.
may Ue a thousand years old, in the
year OF the big S9on IN Ninnegeh, ana
when solomon bunL ms temple tney
had seen more years OF NE man the
Christian rLdsiou has seen touay. TbeY
may pave seen other clYilzauOns rise
anu hourisn aDout mem as ours noui-
ishes touHy anu tney may see our ciNh-
ization crumDIe ahu pAss intO earn
mold as OIners nave uone, with oniy
crytograms ana enIgmas TO puzzle
scientists in ages 10 come. Perhaps
God has lett Inese trees with all their
age to mock the vanity OF human
ac.. sement There is such divine
scorn in their mute indifference 10
I humanity.
OF course, the first question a boy
asks of a tree is Can Climb you 1
hAnd the man does not live TO whom
this question does not recur. one
never looks at a tree, large or small,
without seeing instinculvely the
branches where ne may put ms feet or
his knees or where he may get toe
hold going up. Maybe II Is mental
su. yival OF mans arDoreai state where
We were ascending through the missing
links from the monkeys. scientists
should consider this suggestion. But
however this may be, the big trees
baffle one as much as what may be
called their unclimbableness, as by
their age and size. They are so blg
around that there is no chance to
grapple them with arms or legs, knees,
or hands, or toes. II is hundred feet
and more TO the lowest limb and the
bark is too soft to hold artificial steel
climbers very steadily. One man could
do nothing with the big trees. The
story is told of three Kansas Populists
who agreed to climb one of the big
trees on the cooperative OF sociaiist,c
plan: each TO climb third of the way.
II was agreed that the hardest third
would be the first third because LnGro
were no limbs there. and when one
man had finally taken that aud ahOther
4 the second third, the last man fcund
/ that the first two men had cUne their
work 80 poorly that he would have TO
I do ii all over himself; so he refused 10
have anything to do with the co opera
tive scheme and it failed. rhe moral
ol this story (which may be apocrapn-
all is that the only way 90 get TO TIE
top In any business is to climb all the
way yourself Cooperation is a good
/ thing for those who are content to stay
i at the bottom, but not for she man who
wants to go to the tor. William Allen
WHIT in the Empcria Gazette.