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ji offlwtp j&amjnr me fmt? a w/rrem w tw* Qfourtf •MMy'ifM i^W T is but natural that the people of the United States shortld take an especial interest in Arbor Day, be­ cause Arbor Day has been from the outset a distinctly American holi­ day. Year by year it has come to have a more and more general ob­ servance. All over this country and in parts of Canada this inter­ esting annual occasion receives, jach successive year, an Increasing imount of attention from the pub­ lic. It has also become the custom in later years for the president of th« United States to issue a procla­ mation to tb« school children urging them to de­ vote the day not only to special exercises but also to actual tree planting. Nor Is it difficult to discover the main cause of this growing attention to the observance of Arbor Day. It lies in a deepening realisation of y sl <_ BMiMZSS Of M&r the; importance of trees to us as a nation. The American people have suddenly awakened to the fact that not only is the lumber supply of the fountry being exhausted at a dangerously rapid rate, with no prospect of replenishing, but, worse yet, the wanton waste of our forests has a sequel in climatic changes that may mean hardship for many citizens of the republic. Indeed, some ex­ perts go so far aa to attribute to this cause the terrific heat of last summer and the approxi­ mately exceptional cold of the past winter. "Tree Day" would be quite as appropriate a »me as Arbor Day for the spring holiday and a notable feature of it* observance in the average community consists 1& the planting of trees and •lirubs £long roadsides and in other suitable places. In some instances the work devolves, by decree of time-honored Custom, upon magistrates, local officials or public-spirited citizens, but for the most part it is in the hands of the teachers and pupils of public and private schools. It is not too much to say that Arbor Day, like sev- eral othfr of the spring festivals, is primarily a young people's holiday. for all that most communities observe Arbor in April, the fact remains that it is a mov­ able festival, and there are some sections of the country where, owing to the climate, it is desir­ able to have the tree planting exercises at some other time of year. In a majority of our states the date for Arbor Day is either selected by the state legislature or by the governor of the state acting under legislative authority. Usually, su­ perintendents of schools supplement the guberna­ torial proclamations on the subjec'. of Arbor Day by the issuance of open letters bearing upon the aim and object of the holiday and with due ref­ erence to the lessons it teaches. The state of Nebraska gets credit for originat­ ing Arbor Day, for it was the pioneer in what has become a national movement. The individ­ ual who was the original author of the scheme was none other than Mr. J. Sterling Morton, who afterward became Secretary of Agriculture in the Cabinet of President Cleveland during the lat- ter's second term in the White House. It was In 1872 that Mr. Morton conceived the idea of this unique holiday and he forthwith introduced be* fore the Nebraska State Board of Agriculture, of which he was a member, a resolution setting apart April 10 of that year as "tree planting day." The legislature finally adopted the resolution as proposed by Mr. Morton, although some of his colleagues thought that "Sylvan Day" would be a better title for the newly-created festival, and there is a portion of the public that inclines to this belief today. The new scheme proved an emphatic success and more than one million trees were planted throughout Nebraska on that first Arbor Day. Not only were the children of the public schools interested from the outset, but individuals and local societies of various kinds participated. This was due in part, no doubt, to the fact that the Nebraska State Board of Agri­ culture, which created the holiday, offered a prize of one hundred dollars to the agricultural society of that county which planted properly the largest number of trees, and provided a farm library and a purse of twenty-five dollars for the person who planted the largest number of trees. The next year Arbor Day was observed through­ out Nebraska with increasing enthusiasm and in 1874 the governor, by official proclamation, desig­ nated the second Wednesday of April as Arbor Day for Nebraska. In 1885, when the legislature of the state formally designated Arbor Day as a holiday the date was changed to April 22. If Ne­ braska can be taken as an example, the influence of Arbor Day is certainly most beneficial and the only pity is that other states could not have placed the holiday on their official calendars as early as did Nebraska. Statistics show that in a period of sixteen years following the date on which Farmer Morton secured the adoption of the Arbor Day project a total of three hundred and fifty million trees and vines were planted in Nebraska as the direct outcome of this move­ ment , The first states to follow the example of Ne­ braska in adopting Arbor Day were Michigan and 3l<£OOW£&rHfMAfZ Wtf' iNCZSCUMf Minnesota, which took action in 1876. Thereafter there followed a steady procession of other states, the legislatures of which became converts to the popular idea. In 1887 the movement took root in Canada, the Educational Department of On­ tario setting apart a day on which the trustees of every rural school and Incorporated village were desired to plant shade trees and make flower beds. Oddly enough, the State of New York did not fall into line in this movement until the year 1888, but when the state legislature did t&ks up the matter it enacted very explicit legislation, prescribing for exercises in the public schools tending to encourage the planting, protect!cm and preservation of trees and shrubs. Thus far only one foreign country has adopted the American holiday known as Arbor Day. The nation that has paid us *this compliment of Imi­ tation is Spain, but in the land of the Dons the festival is known as Festa del Arbol, meaning the Pete of the Tree. The Spanish holiday was inaugurated in 1896 and Is celebrated earlier than in this country--namely, cm March 28. On ths first Tree Day in Spain the young King Alfonso with the queen regent and the ladles of the court proceeded to grounds situated near the village of Hortazela, some two mileB distant from Madrid. Here the king planted a pine sapling and two thousand children selected from the Bchools of Madrid, immediately followed his example. Then gold medals commemorative of the event and duly Inscribed with the date were distributed among the youthful tree plasters. Although only Spain has actually copied the Yankee customs of Arbor Day, several other countries, notably France, Great Britain, Japan and New Zealand, have holidays that are very similar to our tree- planting festival. It is probable that very few of the children who plant trees or assist in planting trees on Arbor Day realize that the United States government maintains a big institution tue primary purpose of which is not merely to encourage but actually to carry on tree planting. This establishment for the employes of which every day in the yeal is Arbor Day, is known as the Division of Silvi­ culture and Is a branch of the U. S. Forest Serv­ ice. In the average year Uncle Sam's official tree planters set out upwards of half a million trees, most of them located in the national for­ ests. Moreover, not only does Uncle Sam main­ tain his own nurseries as a source of supply for his perpetual tree planting campaign, but he alsr aids private owners who desire to set out trees on their property. Finally, Uncle Sam Is con­ ducting valuable experiments in nursery opera­ tions and planting work in co-operation with nine different universities and state agriculturalex­ periment stations. The object of these experi­ ments is to ascertain what species are best adapt­ ed to different regions and to Improve methods of planting and cultivation. Hurt Her Womanly Dignity Fair American Would Not "Stand for" Time-Honored Custom of House of Lords. At his wife's behest, a travel-stain- ed American whom 1 met in I^ondon wrote innumerable letters and made six different trips to the American , embassy to secure a ticket admitting | them to the House ot LordB," said the j traveler. "Even when backed up by an embassy, gaining admission to the House of Lords is no trivial perform­ ance. Through historic halls and lob­ bies and up staircases guarded by policemen the applicant makes his halting progress until the door of the lords is reached, where he Bits cool- ing his heels for another ten minuteB while the 6eal-bedecked doorkeeper without and the Black Rod within debate the genuineness of his creden­ tials. After an interval which strain­ ed the Americans' patience to the breaking point they were ushered in­ to the august chamber, where the woman was given a 6eat in a little back pew on the main floor, while the man was accorded the privilege of standing behind her. Once inside the hall, the man's political instinct as­ serted itself, and he became deeply interested in the debate, but, to his dismay, his wife got up after about five minutes and said: " Come on. I can't stand this.' "Wonderlngly he followed her In­ to the lobby. What on earth is the matter?' he asked. " 'Matter?" she said. 'Just look at those men. They've got their hats on. You don't suppose I am going to stay any place where men keep their hats on in my presence, do you? I've never been used to It at home, and I shan't get used to it here.' "With one regretful look backward at the noble earl who fhen held the floor, the man said, 'Very well,' and humbly accompanied her home." Bath of Sentimentality. Of John Grler Hibben, the new pres­ ident of Princeton, a Peoria man said the other day: "Hibben had a keen intellect. Hence I'm not surprised at his success. Why, his fine, strong mind, his hatred of sentimentality and gush, were remarkable even In his boyhood here in Peoria. "As a boy I was rather a gusher myself. I once went to a matinee with Hibben. The play was one of Daly's --a sentimental piece--and in the sec­ ond act I began to blubber. Miss Re- han spoke beautifully her silly, sen­ timental lines, and big tears flowed, one after another, from my eyes. " 'Why, you're crying," whispered Hibben. " 'Well,' said I, 'in a play as sad as this 1 ain't ashamed to show a lit­ tle feeling.' " 'Feeling?' Hibben looked at my wet and teary cheeks, 'Oh, he said, 'feeling is all right, but you don't S«ed to wash your face in it.' " I L L I N O I S BREVITIES Make it easier for your Cat friends by calling them portly. - Wants a Rational Calendar Columbia Man Boldly Asserts He Can Improve on the Present One. calendar and the hours of the •day seem to most of us almost like part of the natural and immutable order of things, and however much trouble the present indefensible sys- ' caused, n*en have felt that it was -to^suggest a change in it. "Give us back our •lev- en days!" cried the mob when the Gregorian calendar was introduced into Great Britain. From the days of Julius Caesar to our own he has been a bold reformer indeed who would suggest changes in the disorderly pro­ cession of months. Now enters Moses B. Cotsworth of Victoria, B. C., with a proposal for a rational calendar. He would divide the year into thirteen months, each of twenty-eight days, which would leave one extra day in the year, and this he beautifully plans as a free day for every one--free from interest charges on money, the necessity of work, the wage scale, etc. Then each month would commence on Sunday, and the first, eighth, fifteenth and twenty-second days of each month would be Sundaj&. President Hadley * Yale is quoted as saying that the month of four weeks "will come as a commercial necessity." Ttw adjust­ ment to the chance ifbnld be vuj Joliet.--John Horton, former pastor of a church at Beeches plead­ ed not guilty to bigamy .when .ar« raigned. Two months ago he was con­ victed and sentenced to the peniten­ tiary on the evidence of his alleged affinity, Amanda B. Renker, but was freed because of a court error. .. H« was rearrested on the same charge. Joliet.--^Stripped of . his psychlcr divine and telepathic powers by the Interference of a rude officer of the law, Professor Hilderbrand. spirit medium, clairvoyant and organ­ izer of a new religious sect, began preparations for his departure for Chicago, where he believes the men­ tal influence of the divinely empow­ ered Is regarded with more sanctity and where women seeking messages from the dead don't "tell tales out of school." "Chicago is the only city in the United States where the people are intelligent enough to appreciate the work of a real appointee of God," he told the police. Rock Island.--Because Swede* Immigrating to this country at present are not settling in Scan- daviaru colonies the Horn* Mission Board of Augustana synod at a meet­ ing here passed a resolution to be presented at the annual meeting of the synod in Chicago in June Tecom- mending that the Swedish church body organise colonization companies, acquire land and make it an object to the Swedish immigrants to locate among their fellow countrymen. Springfield. -- Arrangements have been made by James E. Egan. secretary of the state board of health, with laboratories in New York, whereby a limited quantity of diphtheria anti-toxin will be fur­ nished for free distribution until July 1, when the new appropriation Is available to the agent of the state board of health. It will only be Is­ sued on personal application to the physician having the cases in prac­ tice. * Champaign.--The ninth annual gymnastic, wrestling and fencing meet of conference colleges was held at the University of Illinois. The preliminary fencing and wrestling bouts -^ere held at the varsity gym­ nasium here. The following colleges entered: Minnesota, Wisconsin, Illi­ nois, Chicago, Indiana, Nebraska. Ifeloit, James Mlllikin, University of Missouri, Washington university and Northwestern university. Cairo.--The Ohio river fell one- tenth of a foot during the night and the gauge registered 53.6 feet. Women and children who were sent from the city when the river rose above the level of the city have tyegtwr to retunf despite the fact thai the water outside the levee is still ten feet above the level of the city. The only way to get Into the city is by boat, as the railroads have not been able as yet to get their tracks re­ paired. Springfield.--The State Charities commission in its 1911 report vitalizes the growing public sent­ iment in favor of "the establishment of a state industrial colony for Unprov­ able epileptics by defining exactly what such an institution should be. It calls attention to the danger that the general assembly will not make the proper discrimination in treating epileptics. Chicago.--Efforts to recover the body of Miss Sarah Gardner, 63 years old, 6908 Midway park, Aus­ tin, a former school teacher, who >ls believed to have ended her life by drowning In the Desplaines river, will be renewed. Miss Gardner left a note - stating that she Intended to end her life in the river and it is believed that 3he leaped to her death from the Wis­ consin Central railroad bridge in River Forest. i ^ Pontiac.--Worry over the serious Illness of several members of his family is believed to be the mo­ tive which prompted John Hennl, a farmer, to commit suicide by drinking carbolic acid. Bloomington.--The Canton Gun club has been accepted as a member of the Illinois State Sportsmen's association. Rock Island.--Grand Jury investiga­ tion of the recent fatal riots here was halted when that body adjourned for week without making a report. Cairo.--The first train In or out of Cairo for more than a week arrived over the Mobile & Ohio railroad. t Rockford.--Frank O. Lowden, for­ mer representative in congress, has sent his check of $1,000 to the trustees of the Mount Morris college to aid In replacing a building burned. Chester--Albert Alexander of Little Rock, Ark., was run down and killed by an Iron Mountain train near Ches> ter. Chicago.--Sergt. Henry Van Reed and Private Frank COonfleld, members of a troop of United States cavalry stationed at Fort Sheridan, were held to the grand jury by Municipal Judge Caverly on a charge of having robbed D. A. Caldwell, a tailor, of a gold watch, a diamond stick pin and a purse containing $8. small compared to that necesitated when standard time was introduced on transcontinental railways. Mr. Cotsworth has literature to distribute, poking fun at the present system. If be wins, school children need no longer learn "Thirty days hath Sep­ tember."--Medical Journal. 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