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and ever-changing foliage, and murmuring with 

 rustling music by day and night. The thoughtful 

 youth will see a noble image of the strong man 

 struggling with obstacles that he overcomes in a 

 great tree wrestling mightily with the wintry gales, 

 and extorting a glorious music from the storms which 

 it triumphantly defies. 



Arbor Day will make the country visibly more 

 beautiful every year. Every little community, 

 every school district, will contribute to the good work. 

 The school-house will gradually become an orna- 

 ment, as it is already the great benefit of the village, 

 and the children will be put in the way of living 

 upon more friendly and intelligent terms with the 

 bountiful nature which is so friendly to us. 



ARBOR DAY* 



BY NICHOLAS JARCHOW, LL.D. 



IT is not long since some of our treeless Western 

 States, desiring to promote the culture of trees, 

 appointed a day early in spring for popular tree 

 planting. But up to 1883 no state had advanced 

 this movement by the institution of an Arbor Day 

 to be celebrated and observed in schools. Ohio 

 was the first state to move in this matter and to 

 interest the schools in this work. Cincinnati's 



* Reprinted from the Independent. 



