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DEFER SIGNING OF HILL. tiov. Johnson will Wait to Hear from Washington on Alien Law. Sacramento. Cal., May 4.?The CaliYornia Anti-Alien holding act, which passed both houses of the legislature "within twenty-four hours after bringing about one of the most unusual sit A - jy jli i.: nations in tne nistory 01 me uauuu, "will lie on Governor Johnson's desk "without his signature until Secretary of State Bryan can confer with President Wilson in Washington. This will mean a delay of nearly a "week, as Secretary Bryan left here last "week and will not reach the National Capital until Wednesday night or ^ Thursday morning. Governor Johnson wili wait, he says ^^a reasonable time" for whatever pro R; the government may make, after ;h he will sign th-e bill. He is reed by law to sign or veto all acts ed up to him by the legislature in ten days of final passage proi the enacting body remains in ion for that length of time. Otherhe has thirty days. 11 appeared tonight that the legislature would not adjourn until May 15 or later, which would require the governor to act on or t>efore Tuesday, May 13. There is much speculation here as to the next probable step to be taken by th-e government against the measure It is generally thought however, that President Wilson will state his objections once more to Governor Johnson and then seek through diplomacy to answer the possible protests from ; Tokio. n Opinion as to the effectiveness of the ^ act in accomplishing its purpose, th-e pi elimination of the Japanese farmer, is divided. Until the final amendment " was adopted, permitting aliens mengi ble to citizenship to lease agriculture lands for three years, the nreasure was most drastic. HOfTDfGr MOOSE. A >'OTa Scotia Story That Carries an % Appropriate Moral. A parsimonious sportsman, snooting over some wild lands in Nova Scotia, "being desirious to bring down a big moose, started out to engage a guide and moose caller. The usual pay of a Nova Scotia guide is $2 a day; but*the sportsman in question was too mean to pay the regular rates, and finding a . skillful guide, one Louis the Indian, temporarily out of a jot, after much wrangling managed to jam him down to $1 a day, and the two started out into the woods. All the conditions were favorable to finding a moose, but,, although each day before sunrise Louis the Indian took his birchbark cone, and placing it to his lips, whined and grunted in imitation of a vnose, f there was no answering call, no antlered giant of the forest stalked into view. After twenty days of this sort "of effort without result, the sportsman L~s rw botjh impatient and suspicious and, calling the guide to his tent, he , "began to upbraid him. - "Louis," he said. "I don't understand this kind of business. Here we are in ^ the best moose country in Nova Scoi tia. You are considered one of the [ "best callers in the province. Every t day you go out and call and call, yet Ino moose comes. % What does it mean?" h The wilv Indian took his pipe out of |>fris mouth for a moment and smiled a smile of Infinite ounning. "Me don't loiow what matter," he said. "Maybe moose no like dollar call?'' The very next day, our sportsman having halsed the ante to two dollars a moose "came to the call"?the right L call this time. Louis was a sly Indian.?Philadelphia Ledger. (DO FORESTS PRETEST FLOODS? Forecaster Scott Discusses Results of Inquiries. By J. F- Scott, Local Forecaster. The '.loods of the Ohio Valley have taken such fearful toll of life and property as to shock the entire country and cause thinking men everywhere to wonder if a way may not be found II to prevent like disaster m ruture. n I is a problem that may well concern us I and with which the National govern| ment will doubtless be called upon to I deal. In that event, the determination I of the best means to attain the desired end will probably be left to the en" gineering corps of the war department. ! It could not be placed in more capai bl-e hands. I My purpose is not tc discuss what I e.irtCt;on the^e should take, but . to Yndeavo-- ai best I may to remove ' - ? jj "from the minds or those wno may reau this article what I conceive to be a popular fallacy, viz, that the destruC tion of our forests has brought about disastrous floods and that, therefore, protection is to be gained through reforestation. If this popular idea be 1 f untru-e, much valuable time and effort J may be lost in reforestation, which, j when accomplished, will prove to be j utterly ..seless for Ue purpose for whicl? it ?/ns intend !t wT no: ue q iosta i;eJ tha* preexcitation is the primary cause of floods. It could be shown that forests I can have little or no effect on tn-e amount of precipitation, but this fact is now so generally accepted by meteorologists as to need no discussion. That being true, the question arises whether the forests restrict the runoff and by gradual feeding of the water into the stream prevent flood conditions. In this connection Prof. Cleveland Abbe, who has been called the father of the national weather ser vice, and who is a memDer or me ;\ational Academy of Science, says: "The cultivated soil outside the forest, when ploughed and broken open down to a depth of eight inches, acts as a sponge to retain water quite, as well as does the ordinary humus of a forest, especially when we consider that in a forest less rain actually enters the humus." Xore Absorbed by Ploughed Field. In other words, the ploughed field ab- J sorbs more water than the forest and ] retains it as well. To reach the point: of saturation then requires less rain- j fall in the forest than in {he. fieid With a given amount of rain the run j off will necessarily be as great from j the forest as from the field. That the \ amount and speed of the run-off de-. termines the character of the rise in: the river is self-evident. Stated dif- j ferently, the amount of rain that fa.'lsj on a saturated or impermeable sur-j face in a given length of time deter-j mines the suddenness and height of J floods in the smaller streams. In the j larger streams the flood height is de- j pendent on the time relation of floods i in the various tributaries. Floods I I may occur In every small tributary and yet fail to produce flood height at any point of the main stream. At i other times floods of no greater volume in the tributaries may be so timed as to produce a disastrous flood in the main channel. These facts are all well understood by the local forecasters of the weather bureau, who are charged with the duty and the responsibility of issuing warnings for the protection of lives and property. The engineers of the United States ' * ?o niiriHon or* Orl fl jjfp j a.1IIl,y eld wen ao uivxiiuu M ?. . . generally agreed that no connection j exists between forests and floods. Col. j B. M. Chittenden, member American i Society of Civil Engineers, has spoken as follows on this subject: "The constantly reiterated statement that floods are increasing in frequency j and intensity, as compared with for-j mer times, has nothing to support it. { Ther^ arp it is true. Deriods when j floods are more frequent than at others, and hasty conclusions are always drawn at such times, but, taking the records year after year for considerable periods, no change worth considering is discoverable. The explanation of these periods of high water, like the j one now prevailing, must, of course, I ho cnmrht in nreciDitation. That is where floods come from, and it is verystrange that those who are looking so eagerly for a cause of these floods jump at an indirect cause and leave the direct one entirely untouched. In rar>nr/ic r?f nrArinitation. wherever X V/Wi. V4M WJL ~ ?-J. y they exist, will be found a full and complete explanation of every one of the floods that have seemed unusually frequent and severe in recent years." At the request of the chairman of the committee on agriculture of the house of representatives in 1908, ProfWillis L. Moore, chief of the weather bureau, prepared a "Report on the Influence of Forests on Climate and on Floods." Prof. Moore's conclusions, reached after thorough investigation, are as follows: "1. Any marked climatic changes that may have taken place are of wide extent and not local, are appreciable only when evidence is strong that the cutting away of the forests has had nothing to do with the creating or the augmenting of droughts in any part j of the world. "2. Precipation controls foresta f tion, but for-estation has little or 110 effect on precipitation. "3. Any local modification of temperture and humidity caused by the presence or absence of forest covering the building of villages and cities, etc.,' could not extend upward more than a few hundred feet, and in this stratum rainfall whprpflc r>reo.ir>itation UU1 111 & lUil x of air saturation rarely occurs, even is the result of conditions that exist at such altitudes as not to be controlled or affected by the small thermal irregularities of the surface air. "4. During the period of accurate observations, the amount of precipitation has not increased or decreased 10 an t^XtfllL W UI til v ui tuuoiuciauva. I "5. Floods are caused by excessive precipitation, and the source of the precipitation over the central and eastern portions of the United States is the vapor borne by the warm southerly winds from the Gulf of Mexico and the adjacent ocean into the interior of the country, but little from the Pacific Ocean crossing the Rocky Mountains, j "6. Compared with the total area of a given watershed, that of the headwaters is usually small and, except locally in mountain streams, their runoff would not be sufficient to cause floods, even if deforestation allowed a gr-eater and quicker run-off. Granting for the sake or argument mat aeiorestation might be responsible for general. floods over a watershed, it would be n-ecessary, in order to prevent them, to reforest the lower levels with their greater areas, an impossibility unless valuable agricultural lands are to be abandoned as food-producing CLl cao. r I "7. The run-off of our rivers is not j materially affected by any other fac- j tor than the precipitation. "8. The high waters are not higher, and the low waters are not lower than formerly. In fact, there appears to be a tendency in late years toward a slightly better low-water flow in sum mer. "9. Floods are not of greater frequency and longer duration than for-! merly." While reforestation, where practica-! ble, is very desirable for the sake of j the timber supply, it will be unfortu-j nate if through lack of knowledge of] the cause of floods, our efforts are misdirected along a line barren of results, thus delaying tne nnai soiuuon 01 m-e i problem of flood control. A Remarkable Duel. Perhaps the most singular duel ever fought was one in which the hero was a dog, and this du&l was fought so long ago, and the chronicler thereof was so careless that the name of this gallant hero, except that he was called " the dog of Montarigis." did not flntv^ar thoueh we have the name of his antagonist. It happened in France, this duel, about the year 1280. A man named Aubry had been murd-ered in the forest of Hondy, near Paris. Aubry had a faithful dog. Unfortunately the i breed as well as the name of this ( four-footed friend is lost. After the disappearance of his master the dog every three or four days, for some time, would come to the house of his master's intimate friend to be fed. One day this friend followed the dog, and was led by him to the forest of Bondy. Here the dog scratched away the earth, disclosing the body of Monsieur Aubry. From that time the dog would never auit this friend, and it was no-! ticed that whenever he met a man named Macaire he would show ev^ry sign of anger, and once he flew upon him, and was with difficulty taken off. This caused Macaire to be suspected of the murder of the man whose body had been found in the forest, and a duel was resolved upon by the authorities to decide whether Macaire was guilty or not. This was so different from the French duel of today that an immense throng of people crowded to see it. The dog had his claws and a good set of teeth. More than this he had a tub. to which he could withdraw when he was weary. The man was only to have a stick and a shield. The combat lasted so long that Macaire, who had been severely bitten, fainted from loss of blood, and later confessed that he was the murderer. There is no record that the dog said anything to express his satisfaction, but doubtless he was for nine days at least a much admired dog and the talk of Paris.?Indianapolis News. Death at C??sg Hill. Cross Hill, May l.|?Mr. J. Y. Matthews died at his home on Saturday morning, after a Ion?, painful illness. "Capt. Jack," as he was affectionately knows was a staunch friend and will be missed by a large circle of friends and relatives. He leaves one son, Benton Matthews, of Clinton, and one young daughter, Caroline. His three sisters survive him. Miss Boo Matthews, Mrs. W. W. Griffin, of Williamston, and Mrs. Broaxton Watkins, of Chappells. The Chester County Teacher's association held its monthly meeting oil March 22. SEABOARD AIR MNE. Schedules. Effective April 27,1913. (Subject to Change without Notice.) Not Guaranteed. No. 4 Lv. 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