parr and cemetery. 
SCENE IN AN ALGERIAN CEMETERY. 
IN AN ALGERIAN CEMETERY, 
This view in an Algerian Cemetery shows the Mara- 
bout or tomb of a Mohammedan saint or Marabout. 
The same name is applied to a priest who claims to 
work supernatural cures and to his final resting place. 
Several ordinary graves are also shown. With the 
abundant oriental stone work removed this ground 
would be quite an attractive little park, a purpose it 
and all other Algerian burial places serve, since it is 
the custom for women and children to resort to the 
cemetery every Friday with flowers and other offer- 
ings for the dead. On these visits they take their own 
work and lunches there and spend the day, picnic fash- 
ion, visiting and gossiping. 
F. C. Seavey. 
THE VALUE OF TREES ON THE HIGHWAY. 
The following thoughts on the value of trees on 
the highway are from a paper read before the Illinois 
Horticultural Society by T. J. Burrill, chief in Botany 
and Horticulture at the Illinois Colloge of Agriculture : 
“The commercial value actually added to property 
may often be much greater from ornamental trees than 
any common agricultural crops ever yield in total 
through a series of years. With all of our shortcom- 
ings in regard to the planting and care of trees, there 
are in every town of 5,000 or more people in Illinois 
specimens which would not be parted with for $1,000 
apiece. In numerous instances town lots have sold 
for double their value because of the trees someone 
else has planted. The following illustration is not an 
unusual case. Two lots were offered for sale on the 
same street and essentially similar in every way 
except that in one case there were four trees about 
25 years old, two in the street and two inside of the 
sidewalk, while in the other case the only trees were 
outside the sidewalk, and these were less than half the 
age of the others. The prices asked were respectively 
$2,500 and $1,500. A man wishing to build a home 
for himself compared the two lots and decided in favor 
of the former — $1,000 for four trees, or we might say 
for two trees — in connection with a lot of 66 feet front- 
age and containing about one-fourth of an acre. On 
such an area the net profit for twenty-five crops of corn 
might perhaps have been $25. If so each crop would 
have received more care than did the trees during the 
whole of the twenty-five years. 
“The comparison of $1,000 to $25 is instructive, yet 
there are to-day more than twenty-five to one persons 
of intelligence who in looking forward for results will 
prefer to trust the corn. This must always be so un- 
til men find themselves well established and until expe- 
rience in the past may confidently be used as a basis 
upon which to judge the future. 
“It is the wise man, the thoughtful man, the trust- 
ful man, the man of large views and of clear per- 
ceptions to whom we must look for successful tree 
planting. As we grow older as a people, as we gain 
in culture, as we come more highly to value the beauti- 
ful and as we recognize more fully that there are pos- 
sibilities of enjoyment in life higher in kind than those 
of eating and drinking, or of ostentatious exhibition 
of wealth, we shall plant more trees for ornament and 
especially for the decoration and better utilization of 
public grounds and thoroughfares, and we shall in some 
way find methods by which they can be much better 
cared for. 
“This has already come to pass in older countries. 
In our own country much advance has been made in 
the last century. In the eastern states especially village 
improvement societies have rendered excellent service 
in regard to tree planting and tree management upon 
the streets. The city of Washington, D. C., has be- 
come an example from which profitable inspiration and 
instruction may be gained. Here the work has long 
been under the direction of a special committee or 
commission appointed for the purpose, and the results 
clearly justify this kind of supervision. In some of 
the towns and cities of the middle west most attempts 
have been made through the voluntary co-operation 
of citizens in one way or another to improve the streets, 
including attention to the street trees, and encourag- 
ing, if not notable, results have been attained.” 
“But very much remains to be done even where the 
most has been done, and the possibilites are very con- 
siderable at the cost of inconsiderable effort and ex- 
pense.” 
