The Republican journal., 1914-07-23

termine. Wherever possible 10 Drlng
these within the view of the traveller,
we hope you will do so. Wherever pos
sible to save them-even by the devla-
ton of contemplated straight road
we hope you will do so. Where the trees
come close to the travelled road, and
there are no dangerous curves, we hope
you will permit them to remain.
Apart from the beauty of the trees,
there is an economic value as well, IN the
shade they give, the protection to the
road surface from blowing away, the
protection afforded by their roots to the
road-bed ITSELF Furthermore, the trees,
when once destroyed, long years ana
money cannot replace.
From earliest childhood ] was great
lover of the sea, and of maritime att FAIRS
generally, and for more than half CEN
tury my chief recreation was on the sea
and shore. There was no sweeter music
than that made by the water ripping
under the bows of yacht, the whistling
/ of the wind through the rigging or the
surf beating on rocky shore. In later
years, when confined most of the year
within city walls, this love for salt water
was intensified and vacations were spent
in voyaging or yachting and at such
widely different points as the Gulf OF
/ Mexico, the Potomac river and the Bay
of Fundy. Of the country and its at
fractions | knew but little. Now my
''sea dreams have vanished and the
! charms of the country are paramount.
The great attraction of seascape is the
Kaleidoscope changes produced by the
winds, the clouds, and the sun at its diff
ferent attitudes, so that the view is new
err monotonous. Under certain conditions
| have found the same variety in land
scape. Charnock Lodge, on hilltop IN
Rutland. the highest town in Massachu-
sets, overlooks wide expanse of hills
and valleys, with mountain tops showing
above the distant horizon. Look in
what direction you may the view is con-
stantly changing. Here passing cloud
asts a deep shadow over wooded hill
side or valley; then the sun lights up the
foliage or reveals cultivated areas and
farm buildings. In the early morning a
fog or mist steals up the deep valley on
the west and produces the effect OF
lake or river, with here and there a
clump of trees rising above 1t like an ls-
land. Then the sunsets are wonderful; and
fyoi S n
lance. Leaving the hilltop and seated in
a 1914 6-cylinder Packard car, which
C aries you swiftly and surely over the
s mooth, shaded roads through groves of
chestnut Trees, with occasional white
birches like slim summer girls In their
white gowns standing among the ever
preens-past stone walls covered with
wild grape vines, cozy farm houses,
lakes and streams, there is rapid sue
cession of enhancing views that makes
such a ride exhilarating and inspiring,
and the saying that God made the coun'
try. man made the town, comes forcibly
to mind.
In the record of former visit men
ton was made of the wild berries and
wild game on the Charnock Hill estate.
Last year the high bush blueberries were
ripe and bushes eight feet high were
seen. This year the wild strawberries
were unusually abundant, and at the
time of which l write the raspberries
were about giving out and the low bush
blueberries coming in. The latter ber-
ries were the largest have seen since
the days when blueberries were most
abundant on Isle au Haut and people
went down the bay in schooners to gather
them. AS to game, deer make their
home in adjacent woods, and are ire
quently seen in the grounds-the fawns
quite fearless. Later in the season part
ridges will be much in evidence. Some
years ago the Thayers of Lancaster
and Boston brought from England some
pheasants and set them free, and they
have been quite plentiful in Central
Massachusetts, and particularly is Wor-
cester county. The nests are frequently
found and a caller at the Lodge told of
running his moving machine over hen
pheasant, taking off some Of her tail
feathers and the feathers on her back,
but said she flew off apparently unln-
jured. One would expect to hear OF such
things in woodlands remote from the
haunts of men; but only 16 miles away is
the busy, bustling city of Worcester
with it's 100, 900 inhabitants.
Speaking of Worcester we rode into
the city Wednesday afternoon and found
practically all the shops. banks and BUSH
ness places closed, as there is half holi-
day on that day. The sidewalks on the
principal streets, usually as crowded as
Washington street, Boston, were COM
paratively deserted, but autos and auto
trucks, while not as numerous as at 9TH
er timer, were much in evidence. Stop
ping at grocery store in Rutland on the
way home we saw card in the window
stating that it was closed on Thursday
afternoons, and the grocery store across