Show Tile Christmas Tree I With Christmas at hand the laud In j rent in twain by two fiercely opposed opinions about the Christmas tree A cad despairing wailing raucous note I 3 I comes from up the State and n i tone J of cheer and good will responds from I the balsam forests of Ttfalne Up New York State some of the newspapers I have been seized with a griping colic and they say that the Christmas tree Eiv Is an outrage on modern society The cutting of Christmas trees is the cutting 1 cut-ting off of the forests wIlt nil the horrors of 01 i rors which that Implies and It should N I be stopped forthwith and moreover Christmas trees are of no use It t On the other hand a dispatch to this I paper from Bangor says that the industry I indus-try In Christmas trees is nothing Rhort t of a blessing to the people of the State 4 of Maine and 1 blessing which works 1 both ways For not only do the fart far-t mers on whose land they grow get k good little amounts of money which j are needad and right welcome but the D removal of the trees is a positvc benefit bene-fit The fir tree is the one used anti I an-ti the farmers learned to cut it down cl and send it to Boston and New York they viewed It with positive dismay I for It crow like a weed and crowded out trees of more value Now when t they find the cities ready to bdy the fir I trees which are of superior beauty and 1 odor to others used at Christmas they get clear their land for more valuable J firrowth3xandffOtja little pay for doing it J Is indeed a calamity that forests 1 i should bo destroyed without good pur ii nose but to one who confesses himself no practical forester It seems that the Christmas trees demanded are almost oil small trees such o might be fairly t counteJ aa undergrowth and that even 4 if the perpetuation of their own species i for other purposes is desired the annual supply demanded should effect no more than 0 reasonable thinning out of the I crop leaving room for the better I growth of those which remain New Tork Tribune |