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States, comprising nearly a million 

 members, and embracing practically all 

 the women's clubs in the country, have 

 taken up conservation in the following 

 order, and that your chairman is the 

 one who urged them to take up the 

 work, who wrote the resolutions, and 

 who addressed them on the subject of 

 conservation : 



"i. The District of Columbia Fed- 

 eration of Women's Clubs, with sev- 

 enteen affiliated clubs and 5,000 mem- 

 bers, adopted conservation November, 

 1907. 



"2. The National Society of the 

 Daughters of the American Revolution, 

 with 956 chapters and over 58,000 ac- 

 tive members, represented in every state 

 in the Union and in Mexico, Havana. 



and Hawaii, adopted conservation in 

 April, 1908. 



"3. The General Federation of Wom- 

 en's Clubs, with over 5,000 affiliated 

 clubs and a membership of 800,000, with 

 clubs in every state and in China, Eng- 

 land, India, Mexico, South America, 

 and West Australia, added a waterways 

 committee to the forestry committee, 'to 

 form a conservation committee,' in Sep- 

 tember, 1908. 



"4. The Woman's National Rivers 

 and Harbors Congress, organized in 

 June, 1908, with seven members, which 

 has now grown to a strength of 12,000, 

 adopted conservation of the natural re- 

 sources as a part of the constitution at 

 the biennial meeting at Washington, 

 D. C, in December, 1908." 



THE GREAT TREES OF CALIFORNIA 



By ARCHIBALD HOPKINS 



Deep rooted in the bosom of the earth, 



Thirsting for light, they thrust their tops on high, 

 To hold communion with the bending sky, 



Whispering their ancient lineage and birth, 

 And far-off memories of a slender girth. 



They listen to the swooping eagle's cry ; 

 They murmur gently to the zephyr's sigh 



Mingling soft breathings with the songster's mirth. 

 Unmoved, they see the centuries come and go ; 

 Thousands of years their towering, titan forms 

 Have stood defiant to the fiercest storms. 



Like sculptured pillars toward the blue they soar ; 

 The dim, majestic forest aisles below 



Nature's vast temple, mystical and hoar. 



