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o Review of the Kingdom of Judah Sunday School Lesion for Sept. 3, 1911 Spocially Arranced for This Paper "T A T A o fK ' fens? 1 tw m?mmm$Mwmi pfpPSl $I$5P wi Waste n Our " fO much has been .aid and t , f 1 If&Sg written in recent years teV. W jJt08W about the woeful waste of W the logging and lumbering W 11 if Pf WmmKm methods pursued in the S: aWMS':l WC'Wft United States that the ftirff average person without a yl very intimate knowledge J lJl fee?, sme that the case if .$1 1 HU must be exaggerated. And - ' :3rr f in some degree he is fe;.. , ! right. Great as have been I? 'ILthl sins of the Umber bar- k. Sg Miasms &iMvi JtSiafe?sirii '1 rri 6 forests in some degree he is right. Great as have been the sins of the timber har vesters who have gar nered the wealth of our with a free hand, they have scarcely been guilty in the (measure that has been charged in jEome quarters. And, moreover, there lis no doubt but that in most cases the (prodigal policy has been the result of (ignorance rather than prompted by a 1 wanton spirit as some of the critics would have us believe. The general public has heard most (regarding the wastefulness and extravagance !of American methods of lumbering since the (development within the past few years of the (movement in behalf of the conservation of our natural resources. However, for years before (that crusade began, and with redoubled energy since, returned European travelers have been exclaiming upon the contrast between forestry ! methods in the old world and the new. Now, ft has been very Impressive to hear how In France and Germany great forests are culti- (vated with the care of a well-ordered garden, and how even the twigs that fall from the , trees are picked up and sold for fuel, but as ia matter of fact the boasted German methods 'of forestry would not be at all suited to the i United States. However, for all that, as has been hinted, there are two sides to this question of the i wasteful American methods of lumbering, the fact remains that our people have not made the most of the priceless heritage of our for ests. Nor has all the fault in this respect , been at the door of the professional lumber men who, given a seemingly almost inexhaust able source of supply, naturally gained a con tempt for small sources of waste. In some measure responsible, also, have been the farmers who were the pioneers in the settle ment of the various sections of our country. 'Eager to clear the land they had taken up and to get to the actual work of tilling the soil, these settlers were prone In many instances to think only of the quickest and cheapest ways of getting rid of the timber. In many cases they took no pains to get the most out e" the standing timber or to so cut it that a maximum yield would be insured. It is the professional lumbermen who have, figuratively Epeaking, slashed right and left without much regard to consequences in get ting out their timber. Trees have been felled without the proper regard to the damage done to other forest monarchs in the crash of the heavy trunks to earth, and logs have been "snaked" or dragged out of the forest with few, if any, precautions against damage to the young growth the source of the lumber sup ply of tomorrow. Added to these, and w-orse than all else in efTect, is the deadly destruc tion wrought by forest fires. These wholesale annihilations of standing timber have been largely traceable to human carelessness and shortsightedness carelessness In extinguish ing camp fires and other forms of human neg ligence that precipitate the fires, and short sightedness in not providing adequate alarm systems and fire-fighting facilities to combat the flames, once they have gained headway. A very spectacular form of lumber waste, and one that never fails to astound Europeans who tour the United States, is the lavish use made of marketable timber in providing facil ities for logging operations. In the states of Oregon and Washington, for instance, there may be seen in the lumber regions ponderous bridges, the piers of which pre formed from crossed logs placed criss-cross on top of ore another. It ia no exaggeration to say that ench a bridge contains the makings of lumber sufficient to build all the houses and other frame structures in a good-sized village. An other utility of fh Amerk-an Irgginc system m. 'iKiiprt 1 iiTi ii n '""i "" ' V ?j ' ' i ' ... -4 - - z Sr JWWPKr' It "$t& ft v;4 -w--. If TVh"VK w -1 V . J , ri 1 I 3 HP J ' r .'"in C' C' a-. '-iV that consumes a surprising quantity of ma terial Is the "skid road" which forms the artery of commerce between a logging scene and the nearest loading point on the railroad. A "skid road" may be several miles In length and it is composed throughout this en tire length of logs or greased skids placed crosswisa of the highway to form a smooth and comparatively level pathway over or along which the logs fresh from the forest are dragged by a heavy steel cable attached to a donkey engine of several hundred horse power. Similarly the familiarity that breeds contempt has prompted many of the loggers to act as spendthrifts in the use of large and sound logs to form a skidded platform, load )ng stage, etc., at the railroad siding where the logs are placed aboard the cars that are to carry them to the mills. To pursue this same subject further there might be cited the Immense amounts of lumber that have been used in the construction of the flumes or artificial canals mounted on trestlework in which logs are floated when other mean3 of transportation are not available, some of these flumes being 40 miles in length a costing nearly as much as a railroad. Perhaps the greatest hue and cry that has been precipitated by any phase of Americas wasteful lumbering methods has gone up as a result of the plan employed in felling tne giant trees of the Pacific northwest. It i one of the first principles of the new con servative policy of lumbering that the sever ing of the trunk of a tree by sawing or chop ping should be done at a point as near to the ground as possible, so that the waste rem nant in the form of the stump should be re duced to a minimum. No wonder, then, that people who are of this way of thinking gasp with astonishment when they go to northern California and the famous Puget Sound coun try and witness the methods of felling trees In vogue in this region, so plentifully endowed with timber wealth. The timber "jacks" of this favored region, far from attempting to make their "cut" as near the ground as possible, are not even content to stand on the ground and swing their axes on a level with their waists, as did the old-time lumbermen of Maine a.nd Michi gan. Instead, these Pacific coast fellows con struct a "shelf" on the side of the tree to b felled and at such a height that the chopping and sawing is done at a point at least ten or twelve feet above ground. The result is, of course, to leave a huge stump containing enough material to builda small house. The lumbermen justify their action by the tradi tion that the Vswell" at the base of one of these big trees is of inferior material pre sumably too poor to bother with. However, most of the expert foresters of the country say that this is not true, at least not in the majority of cases and that this method of mutilating timber in the cutting is a flag rantly wasteful one. One of the most seriously wasteful methods of lumbering in vogue in the United States looked at from the standpoint of future gener ationsis the practice of taking from a forest annually an amount of lumber far In excess of new growth. . Obviously this will serve to either speedily wipe out a forest or else to render it of little value for many years to come, whereas it might be made to serve as a regular and permanent source of income. Indeed, thi3 plan of intelligent harvesting of the timber with reference to the supply of fu ture years is what renders so steadily profit able the admirably conducted forests of Ger many and Switzerland. Of course the American lumberman is en gaged in logging as a source of livelihood and his main defense against every charge of wasteful lumbering is that there is so much timber in proportion to the population that it does not pay, as a business proposition, to take any more than the better part of each tree felled. Unquestionable there is a grain of truth in this, provided a lumberman ia thinking only of prosperity in the present gen eration, but at the same time there is much waste in lumbering that is not only unneces sary but is actually costly to the lumberman himself. However, conservative lumbering is making headway and Is supplanting the old wasteful methods in many sections of the country. The new ideas of conservative lum bering are based on three principles. First, the forest is treated as a working capital the purpose of which is to produce successive crops. Second, a systematic working plan is followed in harvesting the forest crop. Third, the work In the woods is carried on in such manner as to leave the standine trees and the young growth as nearly unharmed by the lumbering as is possible. ' In the s-ctual oper ations of tree felling the new policy calls for greater care, so that no tree trunk may be spilt or broken in falling and likewise are there precautions so that the bark of valuable standing trees will not be rubbed or torn by the tree trunks that are being "skidded" out of the forest. Finally a ban has been placed on the wasteful practice of cutting promising youtg trees for corduroy or skids simply be cause these happen to be convenient and are straight. Under the old plan the waste does not end when a log gets to the saw milL There is a further loss of nearly all the slabs and edgings and all the sawdust not used for fuel, so that it is doubtful if more than half of the cubic contents of the standing tree ia finally used. Bullet Wound Saves Life Remarkable Result of Old-Time Com bat on So-Called "Field of Honor." Alexander Grailhe fought two duels at The Oaks, with consequences which were remakable, though he came off Fceond best In both, relates the New Orleans Picayune. The first of these duel-i was with M. Augustln, who after ward became district judge and gen eral of the Louisiana Legion. Angus- tin ran his sword Into Grailhe's lungs and the litter hovered for a long time between life and death, and when at last he did come out of his room he was bowed like an octogenarian. Complications had ensued and sur gery was not what it is now. The doctors declared that it was only a matter of a short time until he would die. However, that did not prevent htm from getting into a quarrel with Colonel M&ndevllle de Maringy and challenging him to a duel. It was fought at The Oaks. The weapons were pistols at 15 paces, each to have two hots, advance five paces and fire at will. At the first shot Grailhe fell forward pierced by Marlngy's bullet, which ptruck the exact place where Augustin's sword had entered. Ma ringy, pistol in hand, advanced to the utmost limit, when Grailhe, although suffering intense pain, said, "Shoot again; you have another shot." Mar ingy raised hls pistol and fired into the air, saying: "I never strike a fallen foe." Grailhe was carried home more dead thai alive, but instead of sinking rapidly, began to mend and some time afterward walked out of his room as erect as ever and soon regained his health and stately bear ing. Maringy's bullet had penetrated the abscess which threatened his life and made an exit by which it was drained and his life saved. Noiseless Lawn Mowers. "My noiseless lawn mowers," proud ly remarked a suburbanite to a vis itor, pointing to a cage full of guinea pigs. "When I get a few more I'm going to hire them out to the golf club to keep the green clipped, "I put a low barrier of wire netting around the lawn that I want cut and then turn in the guinea pigs. They attack the worst weeds first plan tains, dandelions, etc. because they like them the best. Then they take a little rest and tackle the grass. In a short time the lawn looks as though it had been cut by the closest ma chine. I'm sure that a golf green clipped In thl3 way would be as faBt again as it would be mowed in the or dinary way." GOLDEN TEXT. "Depart from ev and do good; seelc peace, and pursue it." Psa. 34:14. Tho principal characters and the leading events of these Bible lessons should be impressed on the memory of all. This should be done in such a way as: To show what were tho marked characteristics of each per son, the relation of each person to the course of the history, the relation of each event to the movement of tho history, the bearing of each person and event on the progress of tho world toward the divine Goal, the com ing of tho kingdom of God, the prin ciples which each one sets forth; clearly to shed light upon tho path of life and progress today. Rehoboam. First king, B. C. 982 first year of the kingdom. Bad Ad vice. Folly. Threw away five-sixths of his kingdom. Event. Division of: the kingdom. Asa. Third king, B. C. 962 twenty first year of kingdom. Reformer. Prosperous kingdom. Event. Great revival of religion. Jehoshaphat. Fourth king, B. C. 921 sixty-second year of kingdom. Strong character. General, successful, religious. Events. Intellectual, mor el and religious progress. Suffered from bad alliance with Jezebel. Moab ite stone. Several bad rulers. Jehoram, Aha ziah, Athaliah. Introduction of Baal worship. Temple desecrated. Decline in morals and prosperity. Joash. Eighth king, B. C. 8S6 ninety-seventh year of kingdom. Tho bad king. Good so long as under good advisers. Events. Temple re stored, and its worship. Black obe lisk. I Ahaz. Twelfth king, B. C. 73S two hundred ' and forty-fifth year of the kingdom. Events. Assyrians come in contact with Palestine. Dial of Ahaz. Isaiah prophesying. Hezekiah. Thirteenth king, B. CV 723 two hundred and sixtieth year of the kingdom. Good, religious, active reformer. Taylor cylinder. Events. Fall of Samaria end of Israel. De struction of Sennacherib wide ex tended revival. Life prolonged 15 years in answer to prayer. Manasseh. Fourteenth king, B. C 694 two hundred and eighty-ninth year of the kingdom. The bad king suffered captivity changed life. Events. Assyrian domination par tial reformation. Josiah. Sixteenth king, B. C. 63S three hundred and forty-Sfth year of kingdom. Youthful consecration, cleansing of temple, widespread revi val. Events. Finding the book of the law. Bible study, Jeremiah. Jehoiakim. Eighteenth king, B. CV 607 three hundred and seventy-sixth year of the kingdom. Weak, wicked, defiant of God. Events. Burns the bock of Jeremith. Beginning of the captivity. Nebuchadnezzar besieges Jerusalem. Daniel carried to Babylon. The second captivity began at the close of his reign when many captives were carried to Babylon, with his son. King Jehoiachin. Zedekiah. Twentieth and last king, B. C. 596-387. Weak and false to his agreements. Events. Jeremiah im prisoned. At the close of his reign, Jerusalem and the temple were de stroyed by Nebuchadnezzar, and the end of the kingdom of Judah came in, B. C. E86, after 397 years of existence., There were three deportations by. Nebuchadnezzar: 1. The fourth year of Jehoiakim, Daniel, etc 2. 10,000 at the close of his reign. 3. 4,600 in the three deportations of the final canx paign. Georgraphy. Study the map for tha three kingdoms involved. Egypt, Pal-t estine, Assyria, the great routes of travel, and the situation of Palestine! between the two world powers; Jeru salem being off one side from the. routes between the other two. This is the key to the situation. . Note, in this history, what were th things that urged or attracted the na-i tion to the downward course. What; was the essential element that would! have enabled the nation to move up-i ward to true success and character., No nation and no individual can at tain the highest good from life with-, out Bupreme consecration to God, a lofty ideal and a holy enthusiasm ini the service of God and man. Trace? in the history what God did for the people to inspire and move them to the upward course, as prophets, writ ten scriptures, revivals, prosperity, re wards of obedience. What obstacles' did God put in the way of the down ward course of the nation and puts, them In the way of sinners today; as, warnings, adversity, losses. The rise and fall of Israel I3 ai picture of what is going on continu-i ally among Individuals. The whole course of the history is a magic mir-, ror in which sinners may see them-' selves. Cm the bank of the Niagara river,, a sign board bears this startling, legend, 'Past Redemption Point,' be cause it is believed in the neighbor hood that nothing can pass that point' and escape destruction. One day a! vessel was being towed across thai river when the hawser broke and shai drifted helplessly down stream, in full' view of the horrified thousands on thei shore. Just as she reached Past Re demption point a breeze sprang up, all sails were set and she escaped. The wind of God's mercy blew upon the Hebrew ship of state,' but no sail were set, and she was engulfed. M V
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