| Show A pla for the weeds weed tile the foe of natural graro grace O an and d beauty is ii the road commissioner commission pr whose mistaken zeal is allowed a annually to remove the grass which seeks seek s to soften the dusty outline of the r road oad along its bordera r ders and gutters this chis is an eapen and wholly r Ba necessary give eive process emco adding to the dust capacity of the street is the only bervi service ce it accomplishes I 1 affording no obstruction t the he short thick turf is this st to carr carriage aage wheels called cleaning up the street when as a matter of fact it only adds to its dirt cle cleaning in up but a worse phase ahas e of the mania is apparent when the zealous I 1 commissioner proceeds to remove from the banks of the highway what he be terms weeds namely the gr graceful cebul mantle of I 1 vegetation with which nature ever fie emeka pcs to boncea con cea the wounds wound 5 which man ta to 3 watch kas has made it is interesting which the dev devastations lations tat iOns of the process procesa hy by t to 0 the eyo tempered the road cutter emitter are ro by the beautiful n natural screen of vines vinea and herbage which if let alone will soon cover the rou rough gh unsightly place of verdure e when the with a drapery reckless workman has left behind behill d him a ahorn and barren waste after his inroad inroads ds banks of sand band and gravel are left on each side 0 of f the wide of graz gra Z road from which every eairy spear has been banished Ia nihed the fences at stand and from up stiff and stark TOCKS the soil the trees which cannot be foiled felled have their lower bi branches aches rudely cut and so BO that their trunks are gaunt away left ICU along the unsightly soft t turf is ia edges of tho the fields fieldi and tho the so replaced by sandy slopes slope to be gullied by bir the rain begins begina without Vit hout wasting bastin an hour nature of her gent gentle but tireless work transforming thew ruins mina into beauty barden and fore forest foresi st |
