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while it runs swiftly, and how it clears again as it 

 slackens on more level stretches, dropping the soil 

 to the bottom. On any steep, plowed hillside, or 

 on any railroad or trolley embankment, exposed soil 

 may be seen washing with the rain. A forest on a 

 mountain slope may be pictured by a cloth upon a 

 tilted table; then if water be poured on the higher 

 edge it will creep downward through the cloth and 

 drip slowly from the lower edge, as would rain falling 

 upon the forest. If now the cloth be plucked off, 

 and the water still poured, we may observe at once 

 what happens when such a forest is destroyed. 



WARNINGS FROM HISTORY 



(Compiled in 1885 by the National Bureau o] 

 Education) 



PALESTINE 



BY EMIL ROTHE 



AT THE time when Joshua conquered the Promised 

 Land, milk and honey were flowing into Canaan; 

 that is, it was a country of wonderful fertility, 

 blessed with a delightful climate. Both ranges of 

 the Lebanon and its Spur Mountains were then 

 densely covered with forests, in which the famous 

 cedar predominated, that stately tree so masterfully 

 and poetically described by the psalmist and the 

 prophets. The large and continually increasing 



