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Taverns (vide Acts xxviii. 15), I thanked God and took 

 courage. 



All honor to the man who, with noble spirit and fer- 

 tile brain, conceived the thought, and all honor to the 

 agricultural board which so nobly carried out the plans. 



GEO. W. MINIER. 



FROM ROBT. W. FURNAS. 



BROWNVILLE, NEB., April 9, 1888. 



DEAR SIR In matter of honors, some one once said, 

 or wrote, it matters not who or which, he would " rather 

 be right than to be president." A lover of trees and tree 

 planting might appropriately move an amendment : Sub- 

 stitute for the word "right" the words "author of Arbor 

 Day." 



With me it is a matter of pride that Arbor Day origi- 

 nated in Nebraska, and that my warm personal friend and 

 long time intimate associate, J. Sterling Morton, is the 

 author thereof. He, perhaps, thought little when he 

 drafted the resolutions which created Arbor Day that, in 

 his life-time, results would become world-wide and incal- 

 culable, as they have. 



In fancied dreams I sometimes think if the flora and 

 sylva work of the here-life could be translated, accom- 

 panied by characteristic Divine revision and improve- 



