Show AKHOU IY IN CATJIOUMV Arbor day was for tho first time ob served last Saturday in California Na tnll with sunshine and quiet smiled on the oicasion Trees were planted by old ion and children fong after tho plant ers are dead and most of them forgotten the trees will live and furnish citeful shade for succeeding generations In one view of the matter human beings be-ings are most Inslgnlflcant and short hired The exceeding brevity of human lift stands in marked contrast with rop esentatlves of animal and forest life int tho changes and transformations of conscious mtcllltontand spiritual life are lore rapid than thoso of mere material existence Absolute forgetfulness of per sons and things in connection with indi idnal life is in Impossibility Wo nro addoned by the thought that wo arc to die and to be forgotten but in tho ever widening life which lies before us tho ripples of thought and affection which oven tho brief earthly life of the dying nfaiit has evoked will extend in over en arging circles on the shoreless Boa of the future The influences which forever go and come like a weavers shuttle milking up the well of human life con inuo unbroken beyond this infanc of our existence Let no man be depressed h 1 tho thought that tho tree which ho ilnnls shall live timid flourish after ho has lisippearcd from mortal sight but let inn rather plant tho more for the com fort of thoso who will bless tho giver in ho enjoyment of tho gift let us have an Arbor day in Utah and lot it ho made so joyful to all tho children that it will originate itself to ho latest exoneration Wo shall not only continue to live with tho generation with whom wo have passed from this life into tho moro complex life of tho unseen future fu-ture but vvo shall also live hero In tho kindly thought of those we have benefit ted hy our labors of lovo |