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piece, while anothet is seen on another page. The Creator planted some of 

 these trees when Mfses was on Mount Horeb, and has cared for them during 

 eighty centuries. They have withstood the action of the glacial age, of a 



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thousand forest fires and of storms of greatest severity, yet America's boasted 

 civilization permits a scoundrel in man's guise to destroy them in a day, in 

 order that he may gain a few paltry dollars and thereby lose his own soul. 

 Shame upon such spoliation. 



