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imperishable usefulness in those ever-living forces of nature 
which work the annually recurring miracles of leaf and 
blossom. 
Mr. Shaw’s example is an incentive to emulation. It 
teaches youth that 
“The ripening soul should ever yearn 
For something higher — 
Should for its noblest interests burn 
And thus aspire; 
Should, with the powers of manhood’s prime, 
The rugged hills of knowledge climb, 
Where, from the towering steeps sublime, 
The soul may view 
The flowers and fruits of well-spent time, 
Forever new.”’ 
The Chairman then called upon the Honorable John W. 
Noble, Secretary of the Interior, who responded in some 
well chosen remarks, closing in the following words: — 
To-day I walked a few moments with some of your Trust- 
ees, among the trees of the Park. It has been my priv- 
ilege as Secretary to take care of some of the trees of the 
United States. I have had an opportunity given me to say 
that the Sequota gigantea shall no longer be ravaged by 
the herder nor consumed by the fire of the man that wants 
to make a camp regardless of those wonders of the world 
that future generations ought to be allowed to admire. 
And I was complimented a few days ago by a no less dis- 
tinguished gentleman than Murat Halstead saying, «* When 
you ordered the cavalry, Noble, around the trunks of those 
great old trees you made a reputation for yourself that your 
learning as a lawyer ’’ (that was a pretty big draft on the 
imagination !) ‘* or in any other particular will never begin 
to attain.’ It was my privilege to advise with the President 
and with his codperation to add, I will say, almost twenty 
thousand square miles to Yellowstone Park, that the trees 
there might preserve the sources of our rivers and fertilize , 
our plains. It is my purpose, if I can, to have this ground 
