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A Very Timely
Subject
Forest Planting on State's Over
flow Lands Discussed.
Settlers in this part of the country
for may years have grappled with the
problem of forest planting on lands
subject to overflow. Many have suc
ceeded in their planting experiments,
and some have failed, but interest in
the matter ha.s never lagged among
progressive owners of land. The ques
tion of utilizing to the best advantage
the thousands of acres of overflow
lands throughout the Ohio, Mississippi,
and Missouri Valleys is becoming of in
creasing importance.
The effect of the recurrent floods has
been to permanently damage by ero
sion, or to render temporarily worth
less for Egriculture by deposits of sand,
large areas of previously feitile plow
land. Because of the uncertainty of
field crops, an 1 Ihe danger of future
erosion, much of the flood-damaged
land can be devoted profitably to tree
planting.
The .cottonwood and the black wal
nut, two native trees, and the hardy
catalpa fulfill the requirements admir
ably. The cottonwood may be planted
where erosion has more or less com
pletely ruined the land, and on areas
which have been covered by deep
layers of sand. The partially eroded
land and land covered with only a
shallow laeer of sand, and also such
areas which through the protection of
surrounding natural forests have be
come silted, may bo profitably planted
to black walnut or hardy catalpa.
Cottonwood is least exacting as to
soil fertility and has the advantage of
quich growth. It can bo, depended upon
to produce large quantities of fuel,
box-bjard material, and rough lumber.
Seedlings or cuttings spaced G feet by
6 feet or 4 feet by 8 feet apart may be
used in establishing plantations. At
eight to ten years after planting about
one-half of the trees should be thinned
out. A second thinning, at the end of
fifteen to eighteen years, removes the
least promising of the remaining trees.
A plantation should begin to yield saw
logs when twenty to twenty-five years
old.
The catalpa requires a fairly rich
Boil, but its roots will quickly penetrate
to the fertile soil if planted or areas
covered with thin layers of sand.
Plantations of this tree have been
' known to survive frequent and even
prolonged, overflows. The records for
a certain plantation in southern Illinois
how tjiat within twenty years it had
suffered fifteen inundations and that
the ground had been under water a
month at a time. A three-year-old
plantation in Shawnee county, Kansas,
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was overflowed for about four weeks
by the Kansas river flood in June, 1!M)8.
On a adjacent tract planted in the
spring of l!l08, the newly planted seed
lings were completely submerged for
an entire week. Some of the leaves
were killed and the growth of the trees
temporarily checked, as a result of the
Hooding, but the trees were not killed.
One-year-old seedlings, cither home
grown or purchased from a nursery,
should be used and it is of the utmost
importance to secure seed or seedlings
I of the genuine Catalpa speciosa, as this
is the only commercially valuable
catalpa. Trees may be planted 5 feet
by ( feet to 5 by 8 feet apart. To en
sure the best results, trees must be
given good cultivation for two or three
seasons. The plantations ahould also
be gone over in the spring for the first
two or three years and the surplus buds
rubbed off while still tender. This will
obviate pruning in later years.
Catalpa produces excellent posts,
which can be used at a small size.
Where the quality of the growth in
sures good, straight trees the produc
tion of small telephone poles has been
found very profitable. For ordinary
situations a twenty year rotation is
a .visable. Since hardy catalpa is likely
to be frozen back by extreme cold
weather, it can not be planted with
safety north of Nebraska, Iowa, or
Illinois.
The walnut is suitable for planting
on sites which are flooded for only com
paratively short periods of time. Where
this tree is desired, it would probably
be more profitable to plant it in mix
ture rather than in pure plantations. If
planted in mixture with catalpa, the
walnut seed should be planted in the
permanent site two or three years be
fore the catalpa is introduced. This
would be necessary to keep it from be
ing overtopped by the more rapid grow
ing catalpa. The lacter species makes
its most rapid growth during the first
tail years of its life and matures early,
while the walnut persists in its growth
for a century or more.
The fact has been demonstrated that
trees can be profitably grown on land
subject to frequent overflows, and that
lands damaged by extraordinary Hoods
cin be reclaimed by this method, while
in planting land of this character to
annual crops, recurrent Hoods will not
only destroy the crops but also inflict
additional and permanent injury to the
land. '
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; S. Johnson and a bevy of girls,
j "The Wrong Bottle, "-IJen Windham
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An Easter
Message
Jesus met the world with a great con
tradiction. He did it in his life and
character and purpose and teaching.
Let me lead you to think on that
thought.
The world looks on reputation and
measures a man by that. If he is loved,
petted, honored, if he stands high in
the community, though he may not have
a particle of morl sense or character,
the world passes him as a man. Hut if
he is poor or obscure or hated, though
it may be unjustly, woe to him.
Jesus reversed that. He was despised
and hated. The prophet said "He was
despised and rejected of men." And
yet his character outshines the char
cater of all the Kings of earth and the
chara"ter of the greatest archangel of
heaven. Then Jesus says "Seek ye
first the kingdom of God and his right
eousness." The world says "Gain
first; get, accumulate pile u.j miike
a bank account.". The whole Gospel
story contradicts the world.
Doctor Weston, a pastor in New York
called a number of young business men
and asked them each to give a thousand
dollars toward a certain purpose in the
church. One of these young men said
"Doctor, does this commend itself to
you as a good business proposition?"
"No," sahl the doctor, "my whole life
is a contradiction of business proposi
tions. I could advance my own inter
ests better at something else." He was
simply saying "The world's idea is "to
take care of self; Christ's idea is to
care for others."
Hut there is no greater contradiction
to the thoughts of men than the open
grave on that first Easter morning.
Death is life; that is what it says.
Somebody has written "Death ends
all." Hut does it? Not under the teach
ings of theEaster day. Somebody else
has said "The grave is a charnel-house,
dark and dreary and desolate." But is
it? Not under the lessons of the old
Book that reveals the resurrection
power. Hear it. "When this corrup
tible shall have put on incorruption.and
this mortal shall have put on immorality
then shall be brought to pass the saying
that is written, Death is swallowed up
in victory. O death, where is thy sting?
0 grave, where is thy victory? Thanks
he unto God, who giveth us the victory
through our Lord Jesus Christ."
Then men have always said "Life is
swallowed up of death." Who has not
said it as he stood looking at friends
and loved ones that have slipped away
from him, and the grave is about to
shut out their faces in this
world forever. A young man, whose
mother I had buried and left him des
solate and homeless, said to mp "I get
up sometimes and go all over the house
up stairs and down, and out into the
door yard; it seems to me I must find
her somewhere." But she wasn't
there. He did not find her, and he was
compelled to think of the little mound
out yonder in the cemetery and mother
there cold in death. So we have writ
ten "Life is swallowed up of death."
But is it? Not under the light shining
all about Joseph's tomb on that first
Easter morning.
Look at that scene. There is the stone
and the seal and the guard. Oh, how
dark it is. But wait. The angle de
scends his countenance is like lightning
and his raiment as white as snow. Watch
him. The seal is broken, the stone is
rolled away, light shines from the grave
and Jesus lives.
Turn now in your thought to Paul
a id hear him as he says "Now is Christ
risen from the dead, and become the
tirstfruits of them that slept." Then
after you have heard that listen to this
same risen Jesus as he says "Hecate 1
live, ye shall live also." That is the
mi'ssage of Easter morning. Jesus lives
and he lives in the hearts of men.
A. Al.l.KN Uanuau..
Divine Origin
of Easter
The divine origin of the Christian
religion depends for ils proof on the
evidence that Jesus of Nazareth is "the
Christ, the son of the living God. If
it he proved that lie is the Christ whose
c .iming was predicted by the prophets
of the Old Testament and proclaimed
as having come by the apostles of the
New Testament, his religion is proved
to be divine. Unbelief may raise ten
thousand questions concerning the
Bible, but the religion of Jesus has
been so constructed that the man of
fuiih has1 but the one question to deal
with. The supreme oracle of the Bible
is that Jesus Christ is the Son of God
and while the Bible presents many
proofs of this truth, in reality, all
' pro if depends upon the fact of the
! resurrection of Jesus Chrut. from the
jdeiul. If he did no: rise from the d. '.'id.
I all is lo.-t, if he d:1, ho is the Sun of
pastors
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God, the Bible is true and Christianity
is divine Infidelity may hurl len
thousand criticisms into tie Bible, as
sail its miracles with scalping knife and
trample its message into the mire, but
not one stone can be shaken from its
place in the temple of faith until it
shall be proven that ghouls, and not
God, took that crucified body from its
Arinathiam grave. Not until the
angels shall come down and tell us that
our Christ is neither here nor there,
and that they were mistaken when they
proclaimed two-thousand years ago
that he was risen, will our Easter
songs of hope cease ringing through
the galleries of the temple of faith be
low or the anthems of redeeming love
be hushed in the chairs of glory ab:ve.
No fact in human history is one-half so
; well authenticated as the fact of the
resurrection of Jesus Christ. Infidelity,
j i:i order to secure its cause, demanded
j that a guard of Koman soldiers be
j thrown around the grave of the sleep-
ing Nazarene that his- body might not
be stolen. This was all that mortal
' man could do to prevent trickery or
deception and had Jesus been no more
than human the promulgation of the
fact of the resurrection of Jesus which
was made a few days later would have
S been an intellectual, moral and physical
.'impossibility. What infidelity did to
I save its cause proved to be the very
thing that establishes the fact of the
resurrection oi Jesus beyond all Rea
sonable ground of controversy. It is a
very noteworthy fact that the only evi
dence infidelity ever offered in rebuttal
to the testimony of the resurrection of
Jesus was that his disciples came
"while they slept and stole his body
away." Preposterous! What court
on earth will accept the testimony of a
man who relates what happoncd while
he was asleep? Do you call these com
petent witnesses? Preposterous! Whero
1 13 the man who can believe that sixty
four Human soldiers under penalty of
j death would all go to sleep at one time?
jAnd where is the single man who
; would go to sleep under such a charge
and at the very moment when it had
j been predicted that the resurrection
j would take place? But infidelity has to
believe these impossible things in order
to deny the fact of resurrection. When
we consider that Jesus in all his teach
ing threw all his chances of success into
his death and resurrection, piled them'
all upon Calvary and buried them in
that grave, we have a proposition which
only God could dare to risk. He did,
ami the world knows the result. False
Christs have arisen but not one of them
I ever selected the grave in which to
j work out his supreme achievement and
j upon the ruins of which to erect, the
I monument of his glory or stronghold of
his power. Men may blaspheme the
j name of Christ and imitate him by a',1
'manners of fraud and imposture but
J they all stopped this side of the cross.
I That Arimathian grave is alone and
unique for it is empty. Its holy oc-
cupant, soul and body, has risen. The
starry aisles of heaven have opened
their azure portals to the touch of his
crucified hand md his feet have walked
in triumph back to "the house of many
mansions." What mortal folly and
suicide to disdain the church of the
living God. She is builded upon the
j reality of a stingless death, a ruined
! grave and a vanquished hell. Eternity
will not be long enough to finish the
notes of her Eastersong nor high
enough for the octaves of its triumph
ant melody "unto the Lamb which was
slain."
Kenan, the infidel, once wrote: "De
vine power of love! sacred moments in
which the passion of n hallucinated
woman gives to the world a resurrected
God!" But death is not so easily de
feated. The passion of love pours its
tears in vain upon its victim's brow.
But for the passion of Christ, the world
would never have heard the story of a
l resurrected God and the tears of the
Magdakne would be flowing styi.
Kf,v. .Moor.E.
The Origin
! of Easter
j This great day is justly called . the
i Queen of festivals, and is kept annual
, ly in commemoration of the Resurrection
of our Lord Jesus Christ. According to
Bode it is derived fiom Eostre. the
Anglo-Saxon goddess of Snrimr. and to'
. whom the fourth month -April was do-;
dicated. No doubt it comes down from
: the Hebrew Pas. or Chaldee Pascha,
alluding to the Angel passing over the
houses of those of the children of Israel
who washed their door-posts with the
blood of a lamb slain in sacrifice. All
others perished, as Lord Byron sang:
"The Angel of death spread his wings
on the blast,
And breathed in the face of the foe
as he passed."
There is no express authority for its
observance in th" New Testament. It
evidently grew up gradually and the
eastern churches e!i 1 not follow the rule
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of keeping the same day as the western
churches. At the present time the
modern churches are keeping it more
and more. This difference in the time
of keeping it, brought in an unhappy
severance of the Christian union. With
the Jewish Christians the death of
Christ was the chief thought and they
kept the 14th of Nisan. With the Gen
tiles the Festival grew out of the doc
trine of the Bessurreciion. At first, it
may be that every Sunday was an
Easter, then there was craved an an
nual festival. St. Paul seems to allude
to it. But there is no express authority
for it anywhere in the New Testament.
It is simply a custom, and a very beau
tiful one. For centuries it has been
growing in importance to the comfort
a id instruction of Christian believers.
Hymnologists as well as preachers
have kindled the flame and the flow of
solemn gladness. After the Council of
Nicea in 'Vl'i, called by Constantine to
settle the controversy pertaining to
that time, it was agreed that the Bishop
of Alexandria should settle the date by
astronomical data, then publish it in his
his own See and send it to the Bishop
of Home to announce it to those
Churches under his jurisdiction. The
early Brittish and Irish churches always
kept Friday for the Cricilixion and the
Sunday following as the Resurrection
Festival.
In 17."2, when the New Style of time
reckoning was adopted in the United
Kingdom, the standing rule of deter
mining Easter is to make it fall "after
the first full moon after the vernal
equinox; that is, the following Sunday."
The day is kept with varying cere
monials and chiefly as one of the days
of obligation for the celebration of the
Holy Communion, Christmas, Easter
and Ascension being the three days f
obligation. As a custom it well de
serves the approbation of all devout
minds. Just as custom often counts for
more than law, children have their
share in the joyous festival. They
I wk forward to their olored Easter
eggs with great delight. They may
not always know of the eymbolism of
"Omnc vivun ex ovo," alls life come
from an egg. That certainly is a strik
ing idea. An egg apparently without
life, or motion, and from it coming
the swiftest moving creature that can
be found. The greatest and most sacred
of all thoughts is that Christ hath sure
ly brought life and immortality no light
by his gospel and given to us the certi
tude of a joyful resurrection through
Him. .
"He will not be in glory;
And leave us behind."
The whole of Easter Day is redolent
with "glory, honor, immortality, eter
nal bliss," in body, soul and spirit.
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Easter
Reflections
j Broken bonds, release, confinement,
escape, imprisonment, liberty, sorrow,
joy, interrogation, amazement. Possi
j bly man, surely God. 'Work in its in
I ception, work accomplished. Earthly
i duty preformed, the divine seal atiixed.
The human life went out on a bleak
i hill; the Divine re-expresses itself in
i the garden, midst flowers and beauty,
j Day was turned into mid-night darkness
' at His death, but He came forth trium
j phant in the full flush of the rose color
; ed dawn. No sun ever climebd to the
zenith surrounded by more of glory than
! did He whom we praise on Easter,
j Had Christ sought the spectacular, he
; would have burst the tomb at mid-day
i when men were about. Every lesson of
: Christian teaching receives some new
emphasis when we contemplate the
, scenes which shaped themselves around
j this remarkable character on the day of
; His resurrection. Humility, retirement
; philanthropy, charity, singleness of
purpose, hope confirmed, strength bo
I stowed, and atonement accomplished.
! It was a keen people who sought to
' cast a cloud upon the authenticity of
1 these happenings and to throw back in
j to Egyptian darkness a race of people,
; but they failed, and they did far more
I than some of their kind are willing to
do today, they perforce acknowledged
their failure.
BENEDICTION-May the joy of a
true Easter the resurrection of Chi.-t in
many lives, where up to this time, he
has been imprisoned -be given to mul-
! titudes today. And may the grace of
our risen Lord, and the power of the
Holy Spirit, open our lips to shout with
gladness that "Christ is risen from the
dead." Amen. '
J. II. Salsbury.
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