Show LESSONS IN TREES We e are glad the president has visited Yosemite md the big trees lie wilt rill never ue again think o of th west ivest just as lie he has haH alwa always s 's before t thought of or it We Ve arc glad l John Muir lu 1 was with him for he hc has hm studied those Yos mite t gla glaciers has hus learned d the their 1 language and c can i tell more moro of them and ami give gie a n more mOI e de description of their majesty in Ia hundred iv words I than luau any other man mun could in a n whole book Then if the president found one o othe ot the trees that flint had fallen and took the tho I trouble to tu count up lip the circles circle by l' which they fhe make Juke their ages he lie would have seen that the tree was ws 1200 years old when Columbus sailed from to fin find l a new world that it was a healthy sapling when Constantine Constantino- the Great s saw w w. w the thc cross eross in ip the sky ik when Alsace invaded Greece and was 20 years ears old when Att Attilla ilIa the thc terrible hun lIun started ll llou ou his career carcer of conquest And nIl all the presidents president's nn an ancestors est rs were barbarians bar during luring the first years eHrs of the big tre trees trees' s' s have havo been their on-their growth They The on mountain moan moun tam tain tops while sixteen centuries have haYe been un tuti woUl wound l and they ther must have haye impressed the president I dent ent and made him hini feel Tot for the time being that Je c e ewas was in a new world lIe He must have ha thought too that there must b be something different in the thes the's s soil and climate where such vegetation front from anything he lie had ever known before and following that would naturally come conic the thought of what kind of a race would naturally mature under s sui condit conditions ons and there should be be- enough il ii in that visit t to keep t the e mind of a thoughtful l man busy huo for or many da days s not the thc least being that Yellowstone Yellowstone Yellowstone Yellow Yellow- stone park paik the Columbia Rainier Hood Shasta Yosemite all arc under the flag fill and that clear t ti tithe the he western seashore all the tIme millions of the lan land lookS look up to him and hope that he lie will make no mistakes mistakes mis mis- takes in his high office It all ought to impress him rim au anew is' is with the thc majesty of his office and arid the th immense responsibilities which he hc as assumed when he no took th the oath of chief of this re reo re- re public I a |