ADDRESSES OF MAJOR LACEY 73 



Men may come, and men may go, 

 But I go on forever. 



But in the land of Holy Writ, where the forests were 

 but few, the brook was no such type of constancy. In 

 Job, the brook is described as an emblem of deceit, frozen 

 up in the winter and dried up in the summer. "My 

 brethren have dealt deceitfully as a brook, and as a 

 stream of brooks they pass away. . . The paths of 

 their way are turned aside; they come to nothing and 

 perish." 



The brook that Horace describes in his journey to 

 Brundusium still flows in the same banks, and seems like 

 a living thing, speaking of the poet of two thousand years 

 ago. 



The Hon. Timothy Brown, one of the leading lawyers 

 of Iowa, has a discouraging theory which he supports 

 with a considerable array of corroborating facts. He 

 assures us that the magnetic pole is moving eastward at 

 the rate of seven miles a year, and as it moves the area 

 of drought in the Rocky Mountain region progresses at 

 the same rate, and in due time Ohio will be as arid as 

 Wyoming or Nevada. 



We must not mistake mere weather for climate. We 

 may have a scarcity of rainfall, and that scarcity may be- 

 come serious enough to lead us to apprehend a danger- 

 ous permanent change of climate, whilst it may be true 

 that a similar condition of things has prevailed many 

 times in the past in the same region, followed by a return 

 of sufficient moisture. 



But it seems to be the united opinion of all ages and in 

 all countries that rain produces forests, and that forests 

 produce rain; that great and injurious changes of cli- 

 mate almost certainly follow any sweeping and general 

 destruction of the woods. 



Trees set out along hedge rows will undoubtedly do 



