THE COUNTRY HOME 



they may be saved ; and there is not a street in that 

 city in which the attempt is made to bring the side- 

 walk down to the grade of the street, if valuable 

 trees must be destroyed." It is said of Judge Con- 

 ger, that when a man hitched his horse to a valu- 

 able tree, he was well scored ; and when he offered 

 to pay for the tree, the Judge said, "You poor fool! 

 it took God Almighty one hundred years to make 

 that tree, and you won't live long enough to pay 

 your debt." Man who spoils is the same man who 

 can create and improve. We have a century be- 

 hind of us of mutilation; we must have a century 

 ahead of sympathy and cooperation with nature. 

 This must involve not only work on the part of our 

 government, but on the part of individuals. We 

 must learn the great truth that man can cultivate 

 the beautiful and make money at it. The eco- 

 nomics of the country home take in the flowers 

 and the trees, as well as the beets and the turnips. 



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