A CENTURY OF EXTERMINATION 



carpeting sphagnum and the sprawling 

 hobble bush, disappear through changed 

 conditions ; others, as the medicinal 

 spikenard, sarsaparilla, and ginseng, and 

 the decorative running pine and the arbu- 

 tus, through ruthless, greedy gathering, 

 which leaves no root nor ripened seed 

 to perpetuate their kind. 



An old man may be glad that his eyes 

 are not to behold the coming desolation, 

 but he must be sad when he thinks of 

 the poor inheritance of his children. 

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