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Show FORESTS HELP GIVE HEALTH Mitigate Hest and Cold and Check Ttncrncy of Earth to Excessive Exces-sive Dryness. Forests contribute to tbe general health by breaking the force of steadily stead-ily blowing winds. They mitigate the heat of summer by tbe vast amount of evaporation that occurs In their leaves by day. ity night the corresponding corre-sponding condensation of mntMure upon up-on the leaves still further atmorb tbe beat on the evaporation or the moisture mois-ture tbe next morning. Tbey also promote pro-mote rainfalls Thus tbey rbeck tbe tendency of the earth to too great dryness, which Is almost as Injurious to health as It 1 to vegetation, for epidemic diseases are sure to do their fatal work where the soil mater Is bo-tow bo-tow the ordinary standard. Hence cholera often passes a wood-ex wood-ex district and revels In a treeless one. There are numerous farts like the following: A certsln road In India In-dia leads for sixty miles through a dene forest Further on It run for ninety miles through a barren plain. Hundred of persons travel the entire road dally. Now, In the first or wood ed section, rases of cholera seldom occur, while within the latter It bai been of frequent occurrence. One yeat cholera raged In Allahabad. Holdlers whose bnrrarks were on a hill suffered the n ost from the epidemic; those In barracks surrounded by four row of trees much less. Iut not a single rase occurred among the voWler whoso barracks were In a thicket. It was the same the neit year. |