Show AUTHOR OF ARBOR DAY Short Sketch of tho Career of Mr Morton Washington April 27 JudUD Sterling Morton was In Washington for four years as Secretary of Agriculture In President Clevelands second administration Ito was a man of steadfast convictions un swerving honesty t and undoubted ability By nature a controversialist Mr Morton came to the Ciblivot with many fixed Ideas about the Government service IIo was a practical farmer and ran hla dc parlment along practical lines but nevertheless nev-ertheless not without many squabbles Ho regarded the distribution of seeds oa paternalistic and on that uubjcct found himself In to opposition Congress Tho exSecretary was the author of Arbor day April 22nd which began to bo observed generally during Ills Incumbency Incumben-cy as head of the Department of Agriculture Agri-culture and which lo now generally ob Bcrvcd In nil the States Ills constant motto was Plant trees and these words ho had stamped In large letters under n picture of a tree on his stationery sta-tionery Ho was nn Inveterate letterwriter lIe fomd kctMi enjoyment In answering tho communications from farmers and It wan no miUHUal occurrence for him to call newflpapcr mon Into his office to read the answers ho was writing to farmers publication often giving out portions of them for The cxSecrolary was i yearn old tony to-ny this having been the anniversary of his birthday Ho wno of ScotrhIingllsh dwrccnt lie was born In Jefferson county coun-ty N V his parents moving to Michigan Michi-gan when ho was very young Ho I was a graduate of Union college Now York Mr Morton Wit connected editorially ditorlllv for a i llmo with the Detroit Free Press aria tho Chicago Times and then located Ht Belleville Neb In November 1S3I l I where In the following April he Issued thu first number of tho Nebraska City NOWH U t was elected to the Territorial legis lature lie same your and rocleclcd In 157 Ho was appointed Secretary of the Territory In 1R3S to III the vacancy caused by tho death of Thomas B Cum big and served until May IfSl part of the time an acting Governor lie was clocled to Congress In lSCQ hut was un nratrd DR the result of a contest Ito wts four times nominated by his party ua Governor of Nebraska but WUH defeated each lime He wnH a stalwart gold man and had an early fulling out with lion William J carl whoso political aftplratons ho opposed wh08 ously HP was Idrntlllcd officially with mal agricultural nnl horticultural of I |