Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 54, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 March 1917 — Rare Branches. [ARTICLE]

Rare Branches.

The thing next in beauty to a tree in full leaf is a tree bare; its every exquisiteness of shape revealed, and its hold on the sky seeming so unspeakably assured ; and, xnore than the beautiful of shape and the outlining on the sky, is the grace of prophecy and promise , which every slender twig boars and reveals in its tiny gray buds.—Helen Hunt Jackson,