Show with the high school classics by MARGARET BOYD 0 by ua boyd where the father of water waters elzee seizes the hills in hie his hande hands and drags them down to the ocean evangeline Evangel lne we speak of the everlasting hills bills yet even tho the mountains do not last forever bit by bit the rill rius and rivulets carry the mountain to the brooks and the creeks these carry it to the rivers and they in turn to the ocean when a mountain tream stream ie is muddy it Is at work dragging down the mountain the th the stream the quicker it Is in carrying away the mountain the beat best place to see streams at work on hItI hillsides tc Is where the hill eldes sides are farmed so lone long as a lope slope in covered with forest it washes tie tle no matter how bow steep it may be even after the umber timber has been bein cut off and the slope turned into pasturage the roots ot of the sod nod prevent washing except during severe storms but when the mountaineer plows hl his fields and puts in corn or wheat you I 1 can f fairly irly I see the hillside go every I 1 rain 1 washes great cu gullens gul leys lloys and in to nol no time at all the top soil soll has bits all been carried away it Is not taken at one once to the ocean but Is left for a period to enrich the valley land we have helped tremendously in natures leveling work by cutting the forests that once clothed our bill hill sides there Is nothing like a net work of roots plus a covering of fallen leaves when it comes to keeping a hillside in place the forest furnished both one of the country richest rail rall toads runs in part through hills and mountains their engineers tried all sorts of devices to keep the slopes and cuts from washing finally they tried planting cuttings of virginia creeper along all bare slopes and that seems to have solved the problem many of the th patrons of the road took it for granted that the railroad was trying to beautify its lines when they first noticed the cuttings planted on the th banks because bemuse banks and cuts covered with green creeper in the summer and with flaming creeper in lb abe autumn are much lovelier sights slots than washed wished clay slopes in old countries where the value of jin ie Is better recognized than it te Is with QS us humanity hax ban checked the rate at which streams can carry CUTY way away hillsides by term terracing cing the slopes walled wailed terraces are most expensive but eo so far humanity has his not found any MW other device that will enable it to a steep etc slope without hutlas the nearby near by streams seize the top AWU oil aa ad cany carry it on off toward the |