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APPALACHIAN RESERVE
Victory is Won By the Advo
cates of Measure.
FAVORABLE REPORT iS MADE
On Weeks Bill Ordered By the House
Committee—The Passage of the
Bill is Assured.
Washington, D. C. —Advocates of
forest reserves in the White moun
tains of New England, and the Ap
palachian mountains of the southern
states, consider that they won a sig
nificant victory, when the house com
mittee on agriculture, by the close
vote of 9 to 8, agreed to make a fa
vorable report to the house on the
Weeks bill, having the creation of
these reserves in view.
While the Weeks bill is entitled
“For the appointment of a commis
sion for the acquisition of lands tor
the purpose of conserving the navi
gability of navigable rivers,” and
"For the protection of water sheds, ’
without mentioning specifically either
the White mountains or the Appa
lachians, it was designed for the im
mediate relief of conditions said to
exist in sections included in the pro
posed reserves.
The bill was drafted by Represen
tatives Weeks of Massachusetts; Cur
rier of New Hampshire and Lever of
South Carolina, and is agreeable to
nearly all the advocates of the re
serves.
The bill authorizes the secretary
of agriculture for the protection of
water sheds of navigable streams to
administer and protect, for a num
ber of years, private forest lands up
on any watershed, “whereon lands
may be permanently reserved, held
or administered as national forest
lands.” It is provided that no tim
ber shall be cut or removed from
these lands except under, regulations
approved by the secretary.
Another provision is that all mon
eyes received # from public lands uy
the United States shall be set asiae
for the acquirement of lands located
on watersheds, and that a commis
sion, to be known as the national for
est reservation commission, shall oe
appointed to consider and pass upon
lands recommended by the secretary
of agriculture for purchase “for the
regulation of flow of navigable
streams.” This commission would
consist of the secretary of the interi
or, secretary of war and secretary
of agriculture, one senator and one
member of the • house.
Still another provision is that 25
per cent of the money received from
each of the national forests created
under this act shall be paid to the
state in which the forest is located,
for the benefit of the public schools
and public roads.
LET JAPANESE ALONE
Says Governor of California in Spe
cial Message to Legislature.
Sacramento, Cal. —With a warning
against aDy anti-Japanese legislation,
under the recommendation that the
labor commissioner be given money
to take a census of the Japanese in
the state, Governor James N. Gillette
sent a special message to the legis
lature.
After stating that the bills under
consideration are causing a serious
agitation, both here and in Japan,
and have been the subject of an ad
dress to the national authorities by
the Japanese government, the govern
or reviews the negotiations between
the two powers to stop immigration.
The governor says that the ques
tion of immigration is one for the
federal government alone to settle.
NO PBDHIBITFuN FUB TEXAS.
Senate Refuses to Pass Bill to Make
State “Dry.”
Austin, Texas. —The senate com
mittee killed by a vote of 6 to 1 the
senate bill providing for the estab
lishment of statutory prohibition in
Texas.
This effectually terminates that
feature of the prohibition fight in the
Texas legislature, but still leaves the
state-wide prohibition submission bill
pending which is now being vigor
ously debated in the senate, and the
bill providing that no liquor shall be
sold within ten miles of any school
house, which is pending in the
house.
REPUBLIC OF LIBERIA
In Tottering State According to Re
ports Received in Washington.
Washington, D. C. President
Roosevelt has transmitted to con
gress, with his approval, a letter from
Secretary of State Root, asking tha
authority be given for the appoint
ment of a commission of three Amer
icans to go to Liberia and assist that
republic in strengthening its hold on
the reins of government. The presi
dent in his endorsement of the
prpo’sition, asks for an a PPropri a tion
of $20,000 for the pajment of the
expenses of the commission.
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TO SAVE COUNTRY'S RESERVES.
Report of the Com.nittee on Conserva
tion Sent to Congress.
Washington, D. C. —President Roose
velt has transmitted to congress the j
ieport of the commission of conserv
ation of the national resources.
He gl V 63 it the sweeping designa
tion of "the first inventory of its nat
ural resources ever made by any na
tion.” Every recommendation is cor
dially indorsed, he stresses the duty
of the national posterity and the com
mon sense side of the conservatism;
and recommends that $50,000 be ap
propriated to perpetuate the work of
the commission, since the present re
port may be viewed as only a tenta
tive survey of the nation’s assets.
Opening with the declaration that
“the duty of man to man, on which
the integrity of nations must rest, is
no higher than the duty of each gen
eration to the next, the report refers
to the marvelous mineral, land, for
est and water resources of the coun
try, and the manner in which they
have been prodigaliy wasted.
The awakening of the public to
the importance of conservation is viv
idly pictured.
The report cites present wasteful
methods of treating al lour resources,
and declares that in their conserva
tion "our dual system of government,
state and federal, should be brought
into harmonious co-operation and col
laboration.” .
LUEAI tl) lit A TEAPOT.
■
How American Consulate at Messina
Was Found.
Washington, D. C. —it was by a
battered teapot, the property of Mrs
Cheney, wife of the American consul
at Messina, at the time of the recent
earthquake, both of whom lost tueir
lives, that Stuart K. Lupton, vice con
sul at Messina, succeeded, on the
morning of the catastrophe, in fixing
the location of the American consul
ate.
In a letter to the state department,
Mr. Lupton says that immeuiately al
ter the terrible shock he started for
the consulate.
"I had not proceeded more than 50
yards when 1 found myself walking
in water up to my knees in a place
where it should have been eight feet
above the water level,” he says. "At
the place where 1 supposed the con
sulate to be there was nothing but a
heap of ruins, iron beams, splinter
ed wood, bricks and stone in hapless
confusion. I was not sure of the
spot, and climbed over the ruins to
see if 1 could find anything familiar.
Finally, 1 came across a battered tea
pot, which I recognized as the prop
erty of Mrs. Cheney, and, remember
ing the spot where It had stood, was
aule to get my bearings.”
MUSI PUSI KATES.
Interstate Commerce Commission
Modifies Regulations.
Washington, D. C. Regulations
were issued by the interstate com
merce commission in modification of
the requirements of the act to regu
late commerce with respect to ex
press companies. The companies are
given the option of complying strict
ly with the law or accepting tne mod
mcation suggested by the commis
sion.
The regulations, in brief, require
the companies to afford to express
shippers every reasonable opportuni
ty to know what the tariffs are and
to give them facilities through post
ing tariffs in the stations and the sup
plying of files of tariffs by agents
that will enable the shippers to know
in advance just what any offered
shipment may cost. These files must
be accessible at all times to shippers
so that no misunderstanding may
arise over the tariffs. By the terms
of the order compliance is required
not later than July 1, 1909.
A similar order affecting the Pull
man company and other sleeping car
companies also w T as issued
NEW MAINE AT HAVANA.
Just Eleven Years Ago Old Maine
Reached That City.
Havana, Cuba. —On the eleventh an
niversary of the arrival of the oid
battleship Maine on her ill-fated mis
sion to Cuban waters, the new Maine,
with the still more modern Mississip
pi following in her wake, sailed into
Havana harbor to be present at the
inauguration of General Jose Miguel
Gomez and the new Cuban govern
ment.
This is the first visit of the name
sake of the wrecked warship, and the
two American battleships are moored
to anchorage buoys within a few hun
dred yards of the tangled mass of
steel and the old fighting top, the
visible remnants of the vessel de
stroyed February 15, 1898.
The new Maine arrived at 11 a. in.,
precisely the hour at which the old
Maine steamed into the harbor on
January 25, 1898. The old Maine sa
luted the Spanish flag over Morro
Castle. Today the new Maine salut
ed the Cuban pennant flying from the
historic fortress. _ .. . -
DEFINITE MILITIA POLICY
Oliver Acts on Suggestion By
National Board.
TO INCREASE ITS EFFICIENCY
Recommendations Made By the National
Militia Board Are Designed to
Help Soldiers.
Washington, D. C. —As the repre
sentative of the war department, As
sistant Secretary Oliver has acted up
on a number of recommeuaations
made by the national militia board,
designed to increase the efficiency of
the organized militia. The recom
mendation for detail of the non-com
missioned officers of the army for
duty with the organized militia was
approved, conditioned upon the set
tlement of the question of the rigm
to pay the expense for quarters, heat,
light, medical attendance and travel
ing expenses out of the federal ap
propriations for the militia.
Approval was give mo the recom
mendations for a second series of in
spections, with the view to reporting
on the organization, armament and
discipline (instruction) of the organ
ized militia; for a system of corre
spondence schools for the militia; ana
the issue of horses for militia field
artillery, to be charged against fed
eral appropriations.
Mr. Oliver disapproved recommenda
tions for the allowance of pay and
traveling expenses' of officers of the
militia engaged in giving instruction
in rifle practice, or on continuous
duty at rifle ranges, on the ground
that such payments are not author
ized by law. '
Adoption of cap and collar insignia
to identify the wearer as a member
of the first line of the national forces,
etc., was approved, with the proviso,
however that the time is not yet ripe
for the adoption of such Insignia. TUe
recommendation for an allowance for
ammunition crises, bandoleers and
clips is still under consideration.
in its report the national militia
board said it regarded as of very
great importance the question of tno
adoption of a definite military policy
for tne United S ates, with particular
reference to a complete co-ordination
of effort between the regular army
and the organized militia, and a com
bined organization of the two brancu
es of the first line of defense. Gen
eral Oliver said that tnis matter is
already under consideration by the
general staff. The iniuua board ex
pressed its approval of the bill pend
ing in congress, providing for an ad
dition of (il2 officers to the regular
army, and said that the organized mi
litia will make every effort to secure
its passage.
12,667,231 BALES UINNED.
Census Bureau Report on the Cotton
Crop Issued.
Washington, D. C.—There were 12,-
667,231 running bales of cotton ginn
ed from the growth of 190 a to Jan
uary 16 last, against 10,339,551 bales
a year ago, according to the census
bureau report. The report counts
round as half bales and excludes lln
ters It includes 232,521 round bales
tor 19i>9; 188,037 for 1908 and 90,456
sea island bales for 1909, and 80,190
for 1908. The total bales ginned in
1907 up to January 16 was 179,199
bales, representing 93.8 per cent of
the crop of that year, and of the 1908
crop 93.5 per cent was ginned by Jan
uary 16.
The report shows bales ginned and
number of ginneries operated res
pectively by states as follows:
Alabama, 1,317,266 and 3,477.
Arkansas, 931,540 and_ 2,115.
Florida, 68,578 and 254.
Georgia, 1,951,740 and 4j458.
Kansas, Kentucky and New Mexico,
1,787 and 6.
Louisiana, 458,723 and 1,696.
Mississippi, 1,551,265 and 3,476.
Missouri, 55,182 and 78.
North Carolina, 661,618 and 2,756.
Oklahoma, 612,618 and 984.
South Carolina, 1,193,520 and 3,229
Tennessee, 321,677 and 649.
Texas, 3,529,426 and 4,148.
Virginia. 12,614 and 115.
Distribution of sea island cotton
for 1908 by states is: Florida, 34,00< ;
-«rgia, 43,244; South Carolina, 13,-
205
ihe corrected statistics of the
Quantity of cotton einned this season
to January 1, are 12,465,298 bales.
AMERILAN HOIIIiHLV TREATED.
Naval Officers in Conflict with the
French Police Officers.
Marseilles, France.—A party of
American officers came into conflict
with the police officers and one of the
Americans was taken to the police
station, where, it is alleged, after a
violent scene, the officer was sub
jected to violent treatment.
Rear Admiral Waitiwright has pro
tested to the authorities against the
action of the police, and the case
W UI be investigated.
MODEL LIQUOR LICENSE LEAGUE
As!* for Regulation but Not Prohibition
of Whiskey.
Louisville, Ky. Denunciation of
prohibition as insincere and tallaci
ous gave way to a taking of the
sense of the delegates to the second
annual convention of the National
Model License League upon the ques
tion of regulating properly the liquor
trade of the country. This census
resulted in the approval of one of
the strongest sets oi resolutions along
the llue of self-government advanced
by tradesmen of any particular in
the United States.
The resolutions were adopted with
great enthusiasm by the several hun
dred delegates from all parts of the
United States who are attending the
convention.
The principal address of the day
was delivered by Mayor David A. Rose
of Milwaukee. In introducing him,
President Gilmore of the league caus
ed something of a sensation by stat
ing that among the men who had
been invited to the convention were
many ministers, all of whom indors
ed the purposes and methods of the
league, but said they were afraid to
come as they might be misunder
stood.
“We will consede absolutely,” said
Mr. Rose, “that if prohibition in fact
prohibits; if it operates to promote
the well-being of the people; if in
truth it is elevating to society and
is beneficial to humanity, then prac
tical considerations should be set
aside. Whatever the result to vest
ed interests might be, whatever loss
it might produce, all should be sac
rificed in the interest of the general
welfare, just as the buildings may
be blown up or razed to prevent the
spread of the conflagration. But, if
the opposite of these is true, tnen
not only should prohibition be re
fused as an ethical proposition, but
questions of investment of capital,
business profits, employment of labor,
consumption and markets for farm
products, municipal, state and federal
revenue and the many other elements
so inseparably connected with them,
should weigh in the balance in favor
of the other remedy.
“But we cannot reject prohibition
as the remedy unless we can offer
something better, and with the think
ing, the query is, What shall it be?
"My experience as the official heaijr
of u city of 400,000 inhabitants for
ten years, as well as my observation
of the conduct of other large cities,
wet and dry, and the study and in
vestigation 1 have prosecuted to gain
the fullest Information upon the sub
ject, teaches me to begin to believe
that regulation is the remedy.”
The following rules were suggest
ed by Mayor Rose:
“License should never be granted
to an unworthy person.
"License should never be granted
to keepers of illegal places or to per
sons who could permit open or secret
gambling.
"Minors should be excluded from sa
loons, and sales to minors should be
prohibited.
"Habitual drunkards should be de
nied.”
He also said that loungers should
not be allowed in a saloon.
PRESfcttVATLUN UE itiE HOME
Conference on Care of Dependent
Children at White House.
Washington, D. C. —The importance
of the preservation of the home in
tact was the central theme around
which the discussion revolved at the
conferences on the care of depend
ent children, which formally was
opened by President Roosevelt at the
white house. The subject under con
sideration was "Should the breaking
the home be permitted, for reasons
of poverty, or only for reasons of in
efficiency or immorality?’’
It was the unanimous opinion of an
array of notable charity workers and
others who took part in the discus
sion that the child can best be reared
under the influence of the home, and
that it should be removed from the
family circle only when proper super
vision at home has become impossi
ble. It was also the concensus of
opinion that where poverty exists in
the home, state aid should be given.
The hitsoric east room of the white
house was the scene of this notrble
conference.
AUTOMOBILE FAG I UiiltS BUSY.
Cleveland’s 1909 Output Expected to
Be Worth Twenty-one Millions.
Cleveland, Ohio. —In marked con
trast with the business depression
which prevailed a year ago, the auto
mobile factories in this city are now
being operated to their full capacity.
In some instances plants are being
worked overtime. At the present
rate of output it is estimated that ful
ly 21,500,000 worth of automobiles
will be turned out by Cleveland man
ufacturers during the present year.
More than 50,000 men are now em
ployed in the automobile factories
here.
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INTER NATIONAL LESSON COM
MENTS FOR JANUARY 31.
Subject; The Trial of Peter and John,
Acts -4:1 -.*> I—Golden Text, Acts
4:3l—Commit Versos 11,12
Exposition of the Lesson.
TIME.—A. D 30. PLACE.—
Jerusalem.
EXPOSITION.—I. Peter’s First
Answer to the Sanhedrim, 3-12. The
Jewish Sanhedrin was the great court
of Jewish law. composed of seventy
one leading men of the nation. Caia
phas, the nominal high priest by Ro
man appointment: Annas, the real
high priest, according to the Jewish
way of looking at things, were both
there. It was a very august assem
bly. composed for the most part of
Sadducees. Peter and John s being
brought before It, and their treat
ment by it was an exact literal ful
fillment of the prediction of Jesus
(Matt. 10:17). Their attemnt to
hinder the preaching of the gospel
really gave wings to the gospel. Pet
er had seen this body together once
before when Jesus was tried and con
demned. On that occasion he was
thoroughly frightened and cowed and
played the poltroon, but now he is
calm and fearless. The resurrection
of Jesus from the dead and his own
baptism with the Spirit has wrought
this great change. The Jewish and
other wonder workers were accus
tomed to perform their marvels by
the power of some name (as e. g.,
the name of one of the Patriarchs, or
the name of Solomon, or the unspeak
able name of Jehovah), so the coun
cil very naturally asked Peter and
John “in what name” they had healed
the lame man. The real object of the
question was to trap them into an an
swer that would be the basis of accu
sation and condemnation. Just at
that moment the Holy Spirit came
upon Peter and took possession of
him and “filled” him. Jesus' ever
gracious promise for such an emer
gency as this was fulfilled (Matt. 10:'
19. 20; cf. Lu. 12:11, 12; Acts 13:
8,9). This promise is for us In any
emergency of Christian service and
testimony. Peter had already been
filled with the Snirit at Pentecost (ch.
2:4), and will be again a little fur
ther on (v. 31). It was very clear
then that the filling with the Spirit is
not something that occurs once for
all, but needs to be repeated with
each new emergency of service. Here
in lies the need of continual prayer
for that which we already possess.
Peter’s answer is wonderfully skill
ful. But its wisdom was not due to
Peter’s natural endowments, but to
the Spirit. Left to himself Petqr
was a famous blunderer. Peter was
extremely deferential and courteous.
He acknowledges the high position
and authority of his interrogators.
•The Holy Spirit does not make the
men He controls rude and overbear
ing, but gentle and courteous (Gal.
5:22, 23; cf. Jude 8,9). Yet Peter
was bold, fearless, frank and outspo
ken. There was no compromising of
the truth, no glossing over of their
guilt. The council nad spoken eva
sively of the thing done as simple
“this.” It is a keen and discomfort
ing thrust of Peter in his reply to
say, “if you refer to a good deed done
to a strengthless (Impotent) man”
(cf. Jno. 10:32). The council doubt
less winced. Then without hesitation
Peter tells them that It was In the
name of Jesus Christ, the one whom
they had crucified, the one whom God,
on the other hand, had raised from
the dead. But before he closes his
one tremendous overwhelming sen
tence, he points at the man standing
right there, a living testimony to the
power of Jesus’ name, and adds “tills
man stands here before you whole.”
The scene has changed— the
accused, has become the accuser; fhe
council had become the culprit at the
bar, indicted and condemned. Peter
follows up his advantage and drives
his charge home with a swinging blow
of God’s hammer, the Scriptures (v.
11; cf. Ps. 118:22). If the Acts of
the Apostles is fiction its author is a
master hand; t»ut this cannot be fic
tion, it is plainly the record of the
deft utterances of a Spirit-filled man.
Peter closes with an appeal (v. 12).
There is salvation for any one in that
name, salvation for no one outside of
It.
11. The Council Were in a Dilem
ma, 13-20. Peter and John declared
that it was in the name of Jesus that
the deed had been done, and there
the man stood right before their eyes
and they could say nothing against it.
They marveled at the fearless frank
ness of men who had never enjoyed
the teaching of the rabbinical schools
and naturally would be overawed in
so august and learned an assembly as
their own. Holy Ghost boldness in
untutored men is always a perplexity
to mere scholastics. Peter’s sermon
and bearing probably led ultimately
to the conversion of some of his hear
ers (chs. 6,7). The only solution
they could give of the puzzle was that
“these men have been with Jesus.”
That is the solution of many myste
ries. Companionship with Jesus
makes ordinary men extraordinary.
They were just like the average mod
ern skeptic who, when he comes up
against facts he cannot explain away,
dodges the question. They asked,
“What shall we do with these men?”
They should have put the question a
trifle differently. “What shall we do
to be saved?” As they could not deny
the fact of the power of Jesus’ name
and were unwilling to admit it, they
hit upon the expedience of trying to
silence all report of the fact.