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the importance of trees to us as a nation. The
American people have suddenly awakened to the
fact that not only is the lumber supply of the
country being exhausted at a dangerously rapid
rate, with no prospect of replenishing, but, worse
yet, the wanton waste of our forests has a sequel
In climatic changes that may mean hardship for
many citizens of the republic. Indeed, some ex
perts go so far as to attribute to this cause the
terrific heat of last summer and the approxi
mately exceptional cold of the past winter.
“Tree Day” would be quite as appropriate a
name as Arbor Day for the spring holiday and a
notable feature of its observance in the average
community consists in the planting of trees and
shrubs along roadsides and in other suitable
places. In some instances, the work devolves, by
decree of time-honored custom, upon magistrates,
local officials or public-spirited citizens, but for
the most part it is in the hands of the teachers
and pupils of public and private schools. It is
not too much to say that Arbor Day, like sev
eral other of the spring festivals, is primarily a
young people’s holiday.
For all that most communities observe Arbor
Day in April, the fact remains that it is a mov
able festival, and there are some sections of the
■country where, owing to the climate, it is desir
able to have the tree planting exercises at some
■other time of year. In a majority of our states
the date for Arbor Day is either selected by the
state legislature or by the governor of the state
acting under legislative authority. Usually, su
perintendents of schools supplement the guberna
torial proclamations on the subject of Arbor Day
by the issuance of open letters bearing upon the
aim and object of the holiday and with due ref*
erence to the lessons it teaches.
The state of Nebraska gets credit for originat
ing Arbor Day, for it was the pioneer in what
has become a national movement. The individ
ual who was the original author of the scheme
was none other than Mr. J. Sterling Morton, who
afterward became Secretary of Agriculture in the
Cabinet of President Cleveland during the lat-
Hurt Her Womanly Dignity
Fair American Would Not “Stand for”
Time-Honored Custom of House
of Lords.
“At bis wife’s behest, a travel-stain
ed American whom I met in London
wrote Innumerable letters and made
six different trips to the American
embassy to secure a ticket admitting
them to the House of Lords,” said the
traveler. “Even when backed up by
an embassy, gaining admission to the
House of Lords is no trivial perform
ance. Through historic halls and lob
bies and up staircases guarded by
policemen the applicant makes his
halting progress until the door of the
’ords is reaobad, where he sits cool-
ter’s second term in the White House. It was in
1872 that Mr. Morton conceived the idea of this
unique holiday and he forthwith introduced be
fore the Nebraska State Board of Agriculture, of
which he was a member, a resolution setting
apart April 10 of that year as “tree planting day.”
The legislature finally adopted the resolution
as proposed by Mr. Morton, although some of
his colleagues thought that “Sylvan Day” would
be a better title for the newly-created festival,
and there is a portion of the public that inclines
to this belief today. The new scheme proved an
emphatic success and more than one million
trees were planted throughout Nebraska on that
first Arbor Day. Not only were the children of
the public schools interested from the outset, but
individuals and local societies of various kinds
participated. This was due in part, no doubt, to
the fact that the Nebraska State Board of Agri
culture, which created the holiday, offered a prize
of one hundred dollars to the agricultural society
of that county which planted properly the largest
number of trees, and provided a farm library
and a purse of twenty-five dollars for the person
who planted the largest number of trees.
The next year Arbor Day was observed through
out Nebraska with increasing enthusiasm and in
1874 the governor, by official proclamation, desig
nated the second Wednesday of April as Arbor
Day for Nebraska. In 1885, when the legislature
of the state formally designated Arbor Day as a
holiday the date was changed to April 22. If Ne
braska can be taken as an example, the influence
of Arbor Day is certainly most beneficial and the
only pity is that other states could not have
placed the holiday on their official calendars as
early as did Nebraska. Statistics show that in
a period of sixteen years following the date on
which Farmer Morton secured the adoption of
the Arbor Day project a total of three hundred
and fifty million trees and vines were planted in
Nebraska as the direct outcome of this move
ment
The first states to follow the example of Ne
braska In adopting Arbor Day were Michigan and
ing his heels for another ten minutes
while the seal-bedecked doorkeeper
without and the Black Rod within
debate the genuineness of his creden
tials. After an interval which strain
ed the Americans’ patience to the
breaking point they were ushered im
to the august chamber, where the
woman was given a seat in a little
back pew on the main floor, while the
man was accorded the privilege oF
standing behind her. Once inside the
hall, the man’s political instinct as
serted itself, and he became deeply
interested the debate, but, to his
dismay, his wife got up after about
five minutes and said:
“ ‘Como oa. I can’t stand this.’
“Wonderingly he followed her in
to the lobby. ‘What on earth is the
matter?’ he asked.
“ ‘Matter?’ she said. ‘Just look at
those men. They’ve got their hats
on. You don’t suppose lam going to
stay any place where men keep their
hats on in my presence, do you? I’ve
never been used to it at home, and I
shan’t get used to it here.’
“With one regretful look backward
at the noble earl who then held the
floor, the man said, ‘Very well,’ and
humbly accompanied her home.”
Bath of Sentimentality.
Of John Grier Hibben, the new pres
ident of Princeton, a Peoria man said
the other day: “Hibben had a keen
intellect. Hence I’m not surprised at
his success. Why, his fine, strong
mind, his hatred of sentimentality and
Minnesota, which took action in 1876. Thereafter
there followed a steady prdcession of other states,
the legislatures of which became converts to the
popular idea. In 1887 the movement took root
in Canada, the Educational Department of On
tario setting apart a day on which the trustees of
every rural school and incorporated village were
desired to plant shade trees and make flower
beds. Oddly enough, the State of New York did
not fall into line in this movement until the year
1888, but when the state legislature did take up
the matter it enacted very explicit legislation,
prescribing for exercises in the public schools
tending to encourage the planting, protection and
preservation of trees and shrubs.
Thus far only one foreign country has adopted
the American holiday known as Arbor Day. The
nation that has paid us this compliment of imi
tation is Spain, but in the land of the Dons the
festival is known as Festa del Arbol, meaning
the Fete of the Tree. The Spanish holiday was
inaugurated in 1896 and is celebrated earlier than
in this country—namely, on March 28. On the
first. Tree Day in Spain the young King Alfonso
with the queen regent and the ladies of the court
proceeded to grounds situated near the village of
Hortazela, some two miles distant from Madricj.
Here the king planted a pine sapling and two
thousand children selected from the schools of
Madrid, immediately followed his example. Then
gold medals commemorative of the event and
duly inscribed with the date were distributed
among the youthful tree planters. Although only
Spain has actually copied the Yankee customs of
Arbor Day, several other countries, notably
France, Great Britain, Japan and New Zealand,
have holidays that are very similar to our tree
planting festival.
It is probable that very few of the children who
plant trees or assist in planting trees on Arbor
Day realize that the United States government
maintains a big institution the primary purpose
of which is not .merely to encourage but actually
to carry on tree planting. This establishment,
for the employes of which every day in the year
is Arbor Day, is known as the Division of Silvi
culture and is a branch of the U. S. Forest Serv
ice. In the average year Uncle Sam’s official
tree planters set out upwards of half a million
trees, most of them located in the national for
ests. Moreover, not only does Uncle Sam main
tain his own nurseries as a source of supply for
his perpetual tree planting campaign, but he also
aids private owners who desire to set out trees
on their property. Finally, Uncle Sam is con
ducting valuable experiments in nursery opera
tions and planting work in co-operation with nine
different universities and state agricultural ex
periment stations. The object of these experi
ments Is to ascertain what species are best adapt
ed to different regions and to improve methods
of planting and cultivation.
gush, were remarkable even In his
boyhood here in Peoria.
“As a boy I was rather a gusher
myself. I once went to a matinee with
Hibben. The play was one of Daly’s
—a sentimental piece—and in the sec
ond act I began to blubber. Miss Re
han spoke beautifully her silly, sen
timental lines, and big tears flowed,
one from my eyes.
“ ‘Why, you’re crying,” whispered
Hibben.
“ ‘Weil,’ said I, ‘in a play as sad as
this I ain’t ashamed to show a lit
tle feeling.’
u ‘Feeling?’ Hibben looked at my
wet and teary cheeks, ‘Oh, he said,
‘feeling is all right, but you don’t need
to wash your face in it.’ ”
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suitor and at the same time firmly rejected the offer.
Then someone whispered to the disappointed sultan that Mme. Duga
was brought up in a more conventional manner, and that European wom<
were not accustomed to sharing their affections with a hundred or more oth<
wives.
Forthwith the sultan sought the handsome explorer and offered his hai
and heart, together with his title, and promised that he would dismiss h
harem and marry her in the more conventional way, a la European mode.
Mme. Dugast found it more difficult this time to refuse the proposal, bi
managed to do so without giving offense and jeopardizing her life-work amor
the tribes.
SECURES A STRENUOUS POST
Ambassador Henry Lane Wilson ac
cepted the post in Mexico City two
years ago because he had become
weary of the inactivity at the Brus
sels legation, where the only diplo
matic excitement was the wearisome
controversy over the Belgian atroci
ties in the Congo. President Taft was
anxious to have him accept one of the
European posts, as fortunately he is
rich enough to pay the bills for house
rent and hospitality which these ap
pointments demand, but he chose
Mexico City just for the pleasure of
downright hard work and hard fight
ing.
And he has certainly obtained it. It
would be difficult to overestimate the
difficulties of his position. The in
trigues and cabals against him have
been legion, and they have been espe
cially strong and bitter among his
own countrymen.
Before Mr. Wilson left the Amer
ican legation in Brussels for his ap-
pointment at Mexico City he was besieged by representatives of differen
American interests in Mexico, who made overtures to bargain for his influ
ence in pushing their enterprises. His mail brought frequent letters inclosinj
blocks of stock made out in his name, and when they were returned the pro
moters promptly sent them back, made out to Mrs. Wilson.
It was not until the ambassador had been in Mexico City several months
that his vehement denunciation of these capitalists made them realize finallj
that he could not be induced to work for them except in a legitimate way
And since that time his path has certainly been a thorny way.
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in consequence of this state of affairs, and was required, at the height o
court season, to abstain from further participation in it. It was annou
at the time that she was suffering from an “affection of the throat.’
As soon as the season ended the kaiser and kaiserin decided to
their daughter to St. Moritz with the crown prince and princess, in tie
that she would forget her troubles amid the joys of the Swiss winter sp
This “cure” was apparently not a complete success, because it was foun
sirable that the princess should not remain in Germany over the spring
’the kaiserin, as originally planned, but should instead sojourn on the Me
ranean and at Corfu with the kaiser until the end of the season.
MIGUEL TO FIGHT FOR MANUEL
The proposed movement to restore
King Manuel of Portugal to the
throne from which he was deposed by
his people will be one of the most
formidable ever prepared against an
existing government, according to the
man who expects to lead it, Dom
Miguel of Braganza.
The former pretender, who has en
tered into an offensive and defensive
agreement with Manuel, discussed his
plans freely the other day, only in
sisting that such portions as might
be of benefit to the Portuguese gov
ernment be withheld.
Dom Miguel prefaced his remarks
by praising Americans he has met,
paying especial compliment to Mrs.
J. H. Smith, mother of his daughter
in-law and widow of the American
speculator, “Silent” Smith.
He emphasized his belief that it is
only a question of time when the Por
tuguese monarchy will be restored,
citing recent outbreaks in various
parts of that country to support his contention that the presen
government is unstable. sieged*
Neither property nor personal rights are respected at present, he a •
Mme. Camille Dugast,
explorer, autoist and aeronaut <
now is trying to civilize the tri'
of southern Morocco, bearing a J
cial commission from the French n
ister of education. ®
While her task is a stupendous o
and fraught with many dangers fr (
poisonous insects and jungle plag u
and is forced to put up with nianv.
conveniences, Mme. Dugast writes
a friend here that civilizing savai
is mere child’s play compared w
the work of trying to ward off p
posals from the marriageable tri
chiefs and even the sultan himself
The sultan is one of Mme. Dugas
most consistent admirers and ev
since she became interested in Mori
co he has paid persistent court to hi
First, he offered her the superint
dency of his harem, whicn is the sai
as to say he wanted to make her 1
principal wife. Mme. Dugast ve
cleverly avoided offending her roy
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learned that Princess Victoria Luise
of Prussia, only daughter of the kai
ser, is the unhappy heroine of a “true
love” romance, which is now finding
a sequel in the princess’ “rest cure
with her father on the Mediterranean.
The princess, who will be 20 years
old next September, fell deeply in
love during the recent court season,
according to reports current in so
ciety, with the hereditary Count Fug
ger, a lieutenant in the elite gardes
du corps at Potsdam and a descendant
of an ancient Bavarian famfly, which
was once the wealthiest in Europe.
The affection was mutual, but it
was necessary to represent to the
princess that marriage was imposs •
ble, not only on account of the diner
ence in the lovers’ rank, but also be
cause the Fuggers are devout Roman
Catholics. .
The princess succumbed to a
tressing attack of nervous prostrat on
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