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 codéperation with nature. 
This must involve not only work on the part of our 
government, but on the part of individuals. We 
voust 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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