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enter their mind is the thought of utility, and so we have the low log 

 houses, the rude cabins of our forefathers, built with the idea of the 

 useful. Gradually as they grow older the thought of the beautiful 

 enters with the useful, and we have some of them building anew, while 

 many of the others who never can have the idea of the useful and the 

 beautiful in their minds together, move their location to points where 

 they can only think of the useful. So, many of our first settlers can- 

 not look upon the beautifying of their country, and so go to a newer 

 again. 



The useful and the beautiful are the moving factors in all our busi- 

 ness transactions. To those who think of the useful, in our day and 

 age, the beautiful is the attractive quality. If it be nothing more than 

 a mop, the thought of attractiveness is in your mind. The farmer 

 thinks of this when he buys his plow, harness, wagon, horses, cows, 

 hogs and sheep. Beauty is what attracts the eye. In fact, let the two 

 be just as useful in this day and age, yet the idea of beauty will settle 

 the idea of utility, and ofttimes overbalance it. If you wish a piece of 

 cloth or a suit of clothes, it never occurs to you to take the useful 

 when you can get the useful and beautiful together. The lady in search 

 of the dress goods, after the first thought of utility, next looks to the 

 beautiful, and ofttimes lets the latter run away .with the former. 



Yet for these ideas we know that the first thought of man in his 

 work is the useful, and the great moving power of the world is the 

 useful. 



Today we have thousands upon thousands of persons working 

 with this as their moving power ; we have thousands who are using 

 their brains for the furtherance of this idea; thousands who are in- 

 venting, day after day, the useful. 



Scarcely a paper do we pick up but we see the list of patents, all 

 more or less useful ; and when these are perfected, then the thought of 

 the inventor or some other is to make it beautiful, and the two must 

 grow together as we grow. 



So the first thought of man, I say, is to the useful, and the second 

 thought is to the useful and the beautiful, and the last thought is to the 

 beautiful alone. 



This has been the growth in the line of horticulture as well. First 

 a few apple, peach, cherry, pear — perhaps some berries, if there are no 

 ^ild ones ; utility, and that alone, is the thought of too many of our 

 pioneers. They will cut down trees and shrubs, which in after years 

 they would give thousands to have, and years of time to replace. I 

 have known men to go into the evergreen forests and cut down every 

 specimen within reach of the house and yard, and in ten years begin 



