Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 October 1883 — “Only a Poplar.” [ARTICLE]

“Only a Poplar.”

It won't do, to be exclusive in our taste about trees. There is hardly one of them which has not peculiar, beauties in some fitting place. I remember a tall poplar of monumental proportions and aspect, a vast pillar of glossy green, placed on the summit of a lofty hill and a beacon to all the country around. A native of that region saw fit to build his house very near it, and, having a fancy that it might blow down some time and exterminate himself and any incidental relatives who might be “stopping" or “tarrying" with him —also laboring under the delusion .that human life is under all dircumstnnces to be preferred to vegetable existence—had the groat poplar cut down. It is so easy to say: “It is only a poplar!” and so much harder to replace its living cone than tc build a gigantic obelisk! , v ' V Vaulting ambition—The design of J the bank-burglar.