'Cbe Conservative.
AT LAST.
When on my clay of life the night Is falling
And , in the winds , from unsunned spaces
blown ,
I hear far voices out of darkness calling
My foot to paths unknown ,
Thou , Who hast made my homo of life so
pleasant ,
Leave not its tenant when its walls decay :
0 Love Divine , O Helper ever present ,
Bo Thou my strength and stay 1
Be near mo when all else is from mo drifting
Earth , sky , homo's pictures , days of shade
and shine ,
And kindly faces to my own uplifting
The love which answers mine.
1 have but Thee , my Father I let Thy Spirit
Be with mo then to comfort and uphold ;
No gate of pearl , no branch of palm I merit ,
Nor street of shining gold.
Suffice it if my good and ill unreckoned
And both forgiven through Thy abounding
grace
I find myself by hands familiar beckoned
Unto my .fitting place ;
Some humble door among Thy many mansions ,
Some sheltering shade where sin and striving
cease ,
And flows forever through heaven's green
expansions
The river of Thy peace.
There , from the music round about mo
stealing ,
I fain would learn the now and holy song ,
And find at last , beneath Thy trees of healing ,
The life for which I long.
JOHN GHEKM/EAK WHITTIKH.
HIS WORKS LIVE.
The following letter received from
England after the death of Mr. Morton
is one of many which indicate the
length and breadth of the tree-planting
movement , inaugurated by him :
"To the Honorable J. Sterling Morton ,
Nebraska Oity , Nebraska , U. S. A. :
"Dear Sir : I had the honour to
transmit to you for your kind accept
ance , a copy of an essay on the best
means of establishing Arbor Day custom
in this country , a week or so since , and
I have now received from the American
Ambassador the portrait and valuable
papers which you have so promptly sent
over to him.
"I am deeply grateful to you and to
him for thus furnishing us with the
very information which is calculated
above all else to the furthering of our
object that of transplanting your
splendid notion to thia country and
cause it 'to bring forth and bud. ' Sin
cerely do we hope , as I have told the
Ambassador , that you may live long to
enjoy the work of your hands , and see
Arbor custom firmly established , noi
only in Britain , but in every other
civilized land.
"The copy of the 'Omaha Bee' and
the 'Special Day Program' pamphlet
which you have sent , affords us information
mation of the greatest value. I have
been asked by the Royal Horticultural
Society ( as I think I told you in my
previous letter ) to write a short pnpei
n their- forthcoming journal. I will
iake care to send you a copy when it
comes out. I have also been asked by
other editors to write on the subject ,
and in order not to repeat myself too
nuch , I need the very information
which you have sent ; moreover , by the
publication of your fine portrait , the
people of this country will become
acquainted with the man who has been
the providential instrument of making
so great a change in the American
landscape , and elsewhere.
"I believe I am right in thinking that
the system of tenure is largely different
in the U. S. as compared with the pre
vailing system here. Our farmers are
so rarely owners of their land , our
villagers are housed in urban , rather
than in rural fashion , and though land
abounds for which the owners get but a
poor return , none can be had at reason
able price on which the labourer may
possess a fair-sized holding. You will
see by the slip enclosed how I am op
posed in my endeavour to alter these
conditions in our own parish ! Perhaps
you can hardly credit what I say , but
you will understand how this militates
against the 'love of locality , ' or what
we call the idea of 'home. ' So different
would it be if every labourer had a hold
ing to attach him , in a double sense ,
to the land he lives in.
"I must conclude by giving you an
extract from a letter I had this morning
from a young couple to whom I sent
my Arbor Essay. They are on their
own freehold , though in quite a small
way.
" 'Dear Mr. Till : I am writing in
stead of Dudley ( as I do most of the
letters , for he gets so little time ) to
thank you for the book in which we are
very interested. Strange to say
the day after we were married Dudley
had four walnuts ready for me to sow ,
to commemorate the day , and they are
all now about six inches high. The
walnuts were from a tree at the back
of our house ( almost as big as the house )
which itself was sown by the grand
mother of the former tenant. We also
have on the ground a horse chestnut six
feet high , which was raised from seed
brought from the battlefield of Water
loo. Dudley moved it the first year he
was here. We have , a little at a time
been buying fruit trees to cover the
vacant ground. '
"This letter came by the same post as
that by which I also received your wel
come packet. I am , dear sir ,
"Sincerely and gratefully yours ,
"E. D. TILL. "
The Priory , Eyusford , Kent.
April 18th , 1902.
EDISON'S ADVICE TO SANTOS-DD
MONT.
The successful flying machine of
the future , with which man is one
day to navigate the air , must got
along without a gas bag. It must fly
as 'the eagle flies , from peak to peak ,
defying the elements and riding the
storms.
This is the belief of Sir Hiram
Maxim and nearly every other prac-
iical inventor who has given any
serious thought to the problem of
aerial navigation. This opinion is
now affirmed by Thomas A. Edison
ill some very practical advice which
lie gave M. Santos-Dumont , the
Brazilian aeronaut , in a recent in
terview in Now York. After prais
ing the pluck and enterprise of
Santos-Dnmont and declaring that
the problem of aerial navigation
should have been solved long ago ,
Mr. Edison said :
"When you got your balloon part
smaller and yet smaller until it is so
small that you cannot see it with a
microscope then you will have it.
Then you will have solved the prob
lem. "
This was another way of saying
that Santos-Dumout must get rid of
the balloon idea entirely , and that
instead of a contrivance lighter than
air , the flying machine must be
heavier than air , the power of flota
tion in air being furnished by the
high speed at which the motor
mechanism moves it. The machine
must ascend by means of its own pro
pelling energy and not by the aid of
balloons or gas bags , which , being
lighter than air , are at the mercy of
winds and storms.
When Mr. Edison says that the fly
ing machine that will be of any com
mercial value will not bo an airship ,
it would be well for M. Santos-
Dumont and other builders of "fly
ing machines" to begin getting rid
of their gas bags. Chicago Record-
Herald.
ABOUT TREES.
One of the tributes to Mr. Morton's
memory , which was most highly ap
preciated , was the presence at his
funeral of Mr. W. R. Nelson , pro
prietor of the Kansas Oity Star ,
who arose from a sick-bed to pay this
testimonial of regard to his friend.
Mr. Nelson was impressed by the
importance of Mr. Morton's work in
advocating the planting and care of
trees , and was struck by the proposi
tion , advanced while he was here ,
of converting Arbor Lodge into an
arboretum , or a typical collection 011
a large scale of the trees suitable to
this soil and climate. He treated of
the matter in an editorial in the Star
upon his return homo , saying "It
will glorify his achievements as a
friend and lever of trnos as nothing
else could do. It will be in the
highest degree educative and instruc
tive. It will draw to the homo
which lie himself greatly beautified
a multitude of visitors. It will bo an
attraction that will bo noted through
out the land. ' '
