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be taken away and to which nothing can be added. I conceive that u 
apparent inertness it holds a high mystery of life and some accomplished + 
of God.’* Bask 
Cradled in the solitudes of the wild woods, the meadows, or the reedy mo- 
rasses, and warmed by the love that toregoes the ceaseless activities of the wing, 
it opens its portals in due time to the exit of a new life—a bird—helpless as a 
new born infant upon the mother’s breast. “It would die if it were not loved,” 
says the same enamored friend. Loved! Every mother loves from the ocean to 
the stars.’’ A few brief days and the warmth of the matured bosom has clothed 
it in downy robes, plumed its unfolding pinions and with a faith that honors the 
Infinite Goodness sends it forth upon the buoyant air, “‘a thing of beauty—a 
joy forever.”’ et 
And what shall we say of wings? Wings! Everything in nature sighs for 
wings. Compared by the measure of his aspirations, wingless man is the most 
impotent of all. His utmost dream of freedom clothes him with wings which 
bask upon the clouds. He looks down upon a world and would feign embrace it 
with his love. . 
From the rudimentary wing of the Penguin of the southern pole to the 
triumphant pinions of the Frigate Bird of mid-ocean, which science, not poetry, 
declares able to measure the trackless wastes at the almost unimaginable rate of 
240 miles an hour, we have a gathering prophecy of final freedom and immor- 
tality. 
When the last mentioned bird so chooses, all distance vanishes, he breakfasts 
at the Senegal and dines in America.”’ 
THURSDAY MORNING. 
TREES FOR FOREST PLANTING. 
The meeting was called to order by the President at 9.00, 
The Committee on trees for forest planting reported the follow- 
ing: 
Deeiduous Trees. 
Cottonwood. 
White Willow, on moist soil. 
White or Rock Elm, on moist soil. 
Sugar Maple. 
White Ash. 
Box Elder. 
Butternut. 
Evergreens. 
Scotch Pine. 
White Pine. 
Red Cedar. 
Arbor Vite. 
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