Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1910-01-28

for Incurables, and American Geo
graphical society; $4,000 to the
Bronx Park Geological gardens and
the Metropolitan Museum OF Arts,
$25,000 to the American Red Cross
society, and the balance to his son,
Ogden Mills, and his daughter, Mrs.
Elizabeth Reid, the wife Of the am
bassador.
Washington.
President Taft was elected an &C.
tive member of the society OF May
flower descendants by virtue of q dis
covery that he is a descendant OF
Francis Cook, one of the pilgrims
who landed at Plymouth. in 1920.
Hereafter when President Taft
goes forth as commander-in-chief OF
the army he will have q flag more
in keeping with his size. War de-
partment officials decreed that his
flag SHOULD be changed In order to
make it more symmetrical. It will
be fashioned on pike eleven feet
long, instead Of ten feet. The four
inch American eagle that has stood
alert on the globe that adorned the
top of the pike during all these years,
is to give way to a bird measuring
five -three-eighths inches. The globe
is to be reduced from three to two
inches in diameter.
Preparatory to the: increased num-
ber of stamps which the internal
revenue department will have to keep
on hand on account of the growth OF
the country's trade and on account
of the new stamps which will be 10
sued to meet the demands OF the
new tariff, orders have been given to
have the present, storage vault OF tho
bureau enlarged. When completed
the vault of the bureau will be about
seventy.five feet long and twenty feet
wide.s At present the bureau sends
annually by registered mail to vari-
GUS parts of the United States about
eighteen tons Of stamps. 1t Is be-
lieved that during the present fiscal
year there will be issued from the
revenue Office about three billion
stamps. =
Domestic exports for 1909. were
81, 7,O0O, 900, less than in 1908. Cotton
alone is the one redeeming feature.
1t shows an increase of over 81, ,000,.
900. Breadstuffs led the decline with
a falling of of more than $4,000. 900.
and meat and dairy products fell on
more tnan $2S,000,000. Mineral oils
about held their own. with losses Of
little more than $5.O0O.000. The In
dividual losses in four classes brings
the gross decrease to more than
500, 100000, but this is reduced by
the increase in cotton exports. Z.
The agricultural appropriation bill
reported to the house takes good care
of the south. Two hundred and fif.
teen thousand dollars is appropriated
for the study and demonstration OF
the best method of meeting the raw
ages of the boil weevfi. sFors the In
yestigation of insects affecting south
ern field crops, $4,000 is given. The
bill also carries $12,900 for the con
troll of diseases of cotton and truck
crops. The secretary Is authorized
by the existing law to fix the stand
ards of certain grades OF cotton and
to prepare sets of samples which will
illustrate these standards. The work
of Standardization has been cOmplet
ed and 1t is believed that at least one
hundred sets of samples will be call
ed for during the coming year. T6<
law requires that these samples shall
be paid for at the actual cost OF prep
aration, but OF course the expense
must first be incurred and the com
mittee gives $25.00e for that purpose
Horace MacFarland,. president q
the American Civic association, made
a plea for state legislation to promote
public control of privately owned Tor
ests before the conference on uni
form state legislation. Using ever
| day three times as much as we grow
and wasting as much as we use, W.
can see the end of wood in the Unit
ed States" declared Mr.. MacFarland
"Four-fifths of the timber, standing
| in the United States is privately own
ed. and all is being cut destructiyely
| The remaining one-fifth is in govern
| ment possession, and If 1t were Gu
| clean there would only be enougl
left to last the United States tel
| years at the present rate OF consum
| tion." :.
JOAQUIN Nabuco, Brazilian ambas
sador to Washington, died suddenl,
at the embassy in Washington. h
was sixty years old. The immediat
cause of death is said to have beel
the rupture OF an artery in the brain
All but four or five of the thre
hundred and twenty-nine supervisor
of the census appointed by Presiden
Taft were favorably reported to th
senate.
The east and south have a right
ask the same attention to the: deve
opment of the forests on the waite
sheds of the Appalachians at tn
hands of the national government q
has been already given to the ives
declared former Governor Curtis
Guild, Jr., OF Massachusetts, pres
dent of the American Forestry ass
ciation, at it's annual dinner