Show A VISITOR at OGDEN the clipper and aad the oak H eulor aitor clipper duppe ii the div davis is founty Cotil ltv is the mot mo t interesting t hol baill I 1 of I 1 ing news imper I 1 win cin gt g pd cad delight for the beno bene fit of those who are in doubt as to the CLIPPER PER having enrolled itself on the list with its contemporaries as a permanent and there to win I 1 will say I 1 think that the proprietors prie tors are are too much like the sturdy oak that lias has stood toi fox cent centuries gries they would not let its name sink away into oblivion rod and become a thing of the past unlike the high headed and lofty appearing poplar tree perhaps planted in the marsh that draws its branches unto itself as if wrape in a mantle and having I 1 risen nigh unto the third heaven so to speak in one short decade and at the approach of thunder and lightning from the shining shore and those dreaded east cast winds that we know of yore falls to the ground to be known no more the oak is planted not on the rock but in close proximity when all is stillness after a time when the winters snows have melted away and the sun has kissed the earth almost regularly and constantly for a few weeks almost accidentally some one will perhaps notice that in among the leaves and brush the acorn that was planted in solitude has sprung into life and being in more ore careful than the lofty appear ing poplar puts forth its growth more slowly and is careful ewt to get top heavy after after a season season the little sapling becomes somewhat more conspicuous and by and by some one iu in the pursuit of his or her occupation perhaps while driving cattle horses or tile the like will almost I 1 in fact will with their eyes wide open run against and stumble over the youthful twig perhaps breaking or even with the hoofs ironed dagger making or inflicting a bruise that would to the poplar have proven proven fatal but the young tried t wig twig getting into itself that ulous which it needed raised its head looked around aud and continued to grow in passing that way in after times the stranger perhaps camps or stops near by the little clot of tress trees and although not particularly a stranger to that class of trees is in deeda deeds stranger to this particular clot and is is led to make the remark that one among the number is very youthful in in its appearance and being surrounded by so many larger jarger ones it seems quite probable that they would choke it out he loaves leaves with that impression and at the same game time and in almost the same breath sighs well it might grow and thrive and become a pretty good sized tree yet time goes on and at subsequent periods from arm time to time other guests of the growing cluster call that way and some by accident to hers intentionally seem to hurl daggers at and try to make inroads against the new quiet thriving tree fin ally its years when the one once e young infant has grown to the full fall measure of the stature of a tree free and is is surrounded on all sides by trees of the same specie species sand and also by the mo more re lofty looking pines the woodsman plying his axe and cutting short the lives of maple trees and buaken asps alps but dont even cause the oak to tremble and in fact when he falls the lofty pines and they fall length across their supposed inferior the oak we refer to they harm it not it is now dow prepared to withstand all vicissitudes of life the storms may howl the thunders roar the lighting clash the east wind blows but the oak unhurt by frost or any of natures ills stands a gia giant n t with its rac race e and never winter kills As I 1 regard the editor and manager ot of the CLIPPER PLURIBUS |