Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 March 1908 — SOUGHT AND FOUND THEM NOT. [ARTICLE]

SOUGHT AND FOUND THEM NOT.

Few, Indeed, There Beem to Be Who Really Love Nature. t - ■ One came from another world. He went down Fleet street and saw the weary, witless men who wrote daily of Nature and her beauties. HA went to a theater and heard those who sang of her charm, He went Info the country, and heard peasants grumbling of their lot and sighing for the town. He watched “sportsmen,” who rent the magnificent Bilences with the harsh crack of rifles, and destroyed wantonly the blithesti birds and beasts. Then he met a philosopher. . “I have seen those who live with Nature, those who ravish her splendors, those who write and sing of her. Now, where are those who love her?" And, like all men with a reputation, the philosopher was silent. —Westminster Gate tie. ' .