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which dominates the earlier historian, we en-
counter In Thucydides an economical and
political conception OF life. II Is not the
idea Of retribution or divine envy, which
guides him ia his Interpretation of events, but
rather the power Of wealth. which enables
cities TO build walls and ships and put down
plracies; the ambition which seeks to acquire
empire, and the pride which defends at any
cost what has been won, He does not wish TO
astonish his readers by descriptions OF what
Is vast or strange: he does not measure the
importance Of things by their remotenesS; Inc
p"rceivcs the greatness Of events which are
taking place around him and seeks to Interpret
them for all time. In his eyes the task OF the
historian is not only to tell what has happened,
or in other words. to record events with the
greatest possible accuracy. but also to explain
why IL happened. Herodotus Is Impressed
with the mutability OF things, tn" decline OF
the great and the rise Of the insignificant, TINS
is the inference which we naturally draw from
a first acquaintance with history. Thucy-
dides. on the other hand, believes that the
motives which influence mankind are AT all
times and everywhere much the same. con-
sequently by a study Of the past and the
present, we may advance forearmed TO IN"
future. From this point Of view. he Ia the hrSt
and perhaps the greatest of historians
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Ill.

The tragic poet OF the Periclean age, The age
Of the Parthenon and the sculptures Of Phidias.
is Sophocles. In him there Is nothing Of the
rugEled splendor Of Hschylus. his predecessor,
nothing superhuman or demoniaC; W move
within limits in which everything is subducd
and perfected with Consummate art. In some
respects Sophocles loses by this self-restraint
nobody, for instance. would compare his con-
ception Of Clytemnestra with Fschylus's: but
what he loses in one particular he gains in an
other; in some Of his plays his plots are admlrl-
BILE. each scene being evolved out Of what has
gone before. The chorus and the argument"
are brought into the proper relation 10 each
other: 50. also, are the characters and incidents.
II l. an artistic rendering Of selected situations
which Sophocles presents, often he gives 10
answer Ia the grayer questions which arise; yet
OF him. nevertheless. IL has been said with
truth that h. saw life steadily and
saw It whole In his boyhood he had
beheld the Persians driven back In ruinous
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VII.

In spite OF the lavish outlay ~ the reve-
nues upon temples and public buildings. little
was done for the comfort and convenience
Of the residents in Athens during the Peri
c'e1n Age. There is no reason TO suppose
that Athens was worse cared for than were
most Greek towns. IL was probably better
cared for than were many; yet what a picture
do We get Of the. streets from the comedians
and the orators. In the Wdsps Of Aristophanes.
the old men who visit their fellow juror in
the early morning grope their way through
the gloom by the light Of a few lanterns carried
by boys. Hold the lantern lower" cries
one, that we may not do ourselves n mischief
on a stone. Take care, replies the hoy.
and step clear Of the mud" Conscious Of
Their own danger. they imagine that their
friend is unable to join them because he is
suffering from some accident OF this kind.
Water used In the house was thrown into the
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VII.

In all the departments OF fine art. though
not equally In all, a new impulse seems
TO have stimulated Greece in the fifth century.
The art Of painting had long been employed
In a subordinate manner for the decoration
Of houses and OF marble tombs. and on a smaller
scale for the decoration Of vases. OF pictures
In the modern sense, pictures on wood, We
hear Of one executed at the command OF Man
drocles, on the bridge built for him over the
Bospouls. There i also a legend that a picture
of a battle with the Magnetes was painted by
Bularchus for CANDIDATES. Of Lydia. who paid
for it with its weight in gold, At the end
Of the sixth and beginning Of the
Nth century there was a remark
able development in vase painting. the
black figures which had been long In use being
discarded for red. The creator Of painting,
however, considered as "A fine art, was Polyg-
notus OF Thasos. who in Cimon's time deco
rated the walls OF the Painted Porch at Athens,
The most famous Of his works were the paint
ings In the porch Of the Cnidians at Delphi,
in which he depicted the under world and the
destruction Of Troy. OF these Pausanius
has given n minute description. The skill 81
Polygnotus was shown not 50 much in color
ing as in tho expression which he gave to tho
face and figure and In the composition Of his
figures. A painter who did much 10 improve
the decoration Of the stage was Agatharchus
OF Samok. a younger contemporary Of Polyg-
notus. and as a good scene could hardly be
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SOME Y BOOKS.
Greek Life and Thought In the Periclean
Age.

The third part Of 4 History o. Greece'b ~ EYE
LYS ABBOTT. lecturer in Greek History al Balllol
College, Oxford. deals with the period from
Ne conclusion Of the Thirty Years Peace 10
~ Fall Of the Thirty at Athens, 4t5-i'3 u Z.
Rutnams). In the course Of this volume 'h'
author examines the causes Of the Pelopoh-
nesian war and recounts the story Of mat
struggle, while at the same time following the
progress OF events In Sicily 10 tho peace ar
ranged between that state and Carthage. SO
far as the political aspects are concerned. this
book has many competitors. but It deserves
particular attention by reason Of tho chapters
devoted TO the social md intellectual condition
OF Athens during the last half Of the nfth cen-
fury n C.. 1t is on Mr.. Abbott's discussion Of
thee phases Of the subject that We -hq!! prin-
cipally dwell.
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OF great actions and the investigation OF truth;
for his own part, Democritus would rather
be- the discovercr Of a single new truth than
sit on the throne of the Great Kline.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1900-04-28
CAPE NOME OPEN TO ALL.
Exclusive Privilege Net to be
Granted by the Government.

So many inquiries have been made
concerning Alaska that S. A. Clarke,
librarian of the general land Office,
has prepared statement from the
government records in which he has
endeavored to embody all the infor-
nation asked for, says the Washing
ton correspondent of the Chicago
imes-Herald. He says that since
the discovery of gold on the beach
at Cape Nome the general land
Office has received continual appli-
cations from pretended discoveries.
inventors and schemers in general
for exclusive rights and privileges
connected with beach mining and
deep sea dredging. Offers have been
made to construct a railway along
the beach as far as it can be mined
if granted an exclusive privilege.
Commissioner Hermann of the
land bureau has had many such
propositions, but has declined to en-
terrain them. As for rights to
mine the beach sands, all have been
declined on the ground that theye is
no authority in existing law to dis
pose of beach diggings. The AuesA
ton is not entirely new to HIN, as
there are extensive beach grounds
on the southern Oregon coast, where
gold is found richly mixed with tide
sands near his own home. But
southern Oregon beach mines are
strongly mixed with black sand, or
iron sand, and no practicable meth
cd has been invented for separating
the iron sand from the fine gold, as.
the beach sand is fine as -four, but
the Cape Nome beach has no black
sand, and the gold is easily sep
arated.
AS the government holds all lands
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1900-04-28
between high and low water in

between high and low water in
trust for future states congress will
legislate to grant temporary privil-
eyes pending statehood and regula-
tions miners meetings may estab
lish in the meantime. AS for min
ing by dredging the sands under the
high seas within the three mile
limit there is disagreement in con-
gress, as it is serious question if
it is within the power of the govern
ment to convey rights that can con
fiict with navigation and fisher es.
The commissioners of the general
land Office has declined to consider
app ications for beach or deep sea
mining, but the secretary of war
has granted such privileges. Many
have been granted within the past
few weeks on the claim that the war
department has a right to make
these grants, but they will not be
exclusive. AS under the law any
miner would be a trespasser the de-
partment gives it's sanction to
legalize their work. The interior
department and general land office
recognize the validity Of miners
meetings and regulations passed
there, as confirmed by experience
for half century in mining districts
of our country.
Complaints have been made that
mining clai ms have often been To-
Gated by attorney, which has been
greatly abused. For instance, a
Boston man may have filed by at
torney on valuable locations and
held for long time. There have
been instances where entire gulches
have thus been appropriated with
no ownership visible or pres
ent. Commissioner Herman decides
against this as illegal, and congress
is recommended to legislate that
personal presence is necessary to
establish title. Mr.. Hermann has
been consulted by Judge Tracey, of
the house public lands committee,
as to the advisability of legalizing
miners meetings for regulating
claims to mine on Cape Nome beach
or elsewhere, which he strongly
There have been three land offices
in Alaska lately, but two were found
to be practically useless, as there
was no important business and ex-
penses were enormous. Peavy,
which/was discontinued, was on the
Koypkuk, $50 miles south OF the
arctic circle. Circle, also discon-
tnued, is near the international
line. Rampard, which was retained,
is on the Yukon, and will assume
the business expected to have been
transacted at Circle and Peavy.
The new Office is located at st.
Michael's, though great effort was
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1900-04-28
Mrs. John Thoney, who was one

Mrs. John Thoney, who was one
OF the very old settlers of Marquette,
died Saturday at her home in that
city. Her funeral was held Tuesday
afternoon. Mrs. Thoney was one
OF the oldest settlers Of Marquette,
having been continuous resident
of the place for the past forty-one
years. During her lifetime she has
seen it grow from struggling little
back woods settlement to flourish
ing city.
Odd Fellows day for Houghton,
Ontonagon, Baraga and Keweenaw
counties, will be celebrated in Lake
Linden this year under the auspices
of Lake Linden lodge, and no effort
is being spared to make it one of
the biggest events in the history Of
Odd Fellowship in this section Of
the country. Already committees
are at work making the necessary
arrangements to properly care for
the large number of visitors ex
pected in Lake Linden on that day.
Owing to the unsettled weather in
early spring the date for the cele-
bration has been placed on May Goth
instead of in April, in which month
the anniversary of the order
properly belongs.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1900-04-28
Covington school Board Meeting.
OFFICIAL

Meeting of the board OF education
of the township OF Covington, held
in the township clerks Office on the
10th day of April, 1900; there were
present, Oliver Trombley, president,
Inspector VIM. Larson, Trustee
Nicholson and Clerk p F. Tracy.
Minutes of meeting of March 10,
1900, were read and approved as read.
On motion Lewis Nicholson was
appointed treasurer by the follow
ing vote: Yeas, Nicholson, from
bley, Tracy, Larson; nays, none.
On motion p. F. Tracy was APP
pointed purchasing agent for the
township school district by the fol-
lowing vote: Yeas, Nicholson,
Trombley, Tracy, Larson; nays, none.
On motion Geo. G. Jackman was
allowed $500 for printing the pro-
ceedings of the board of education
for the ensuing year by the follow
ing vote: Yeas, Nicholson, Tracy,
Trombley, Larson; nays, none.
The following resolution was Of
fered by Lewis Nicholson:
Whereas, it appears by the rec
ords of the board of education that
the clerk S accounts with the treas
urer are incomplete; therefore be it
Resolved, that p. F.aTracy be APP
pointed as committee of one to
complete said accounts.
The above resolution was passed
and adopted by the following vote:
Yeas, Nicholson, Trombley, Tracy,
Larson; nays, none.
On motion p. f. Tracy was in
structed to hire janitor for school
No. 2 for the remainder of the term,
and also to purchase point for
pump at School No. l. On motion
p. f. Tracy was appointed truant
officer. Yeas, Nicholson, Trombley,
Larson; nays, none.
The following rules were adopted:
Rule No. mo teacher shall alb
sent himself from school during
school hours, except on account OF
sickness or other unavoidable me-
cessity.
Rule No. 2-It shall be the duty
OF the teachers where any of the
pupils absent themselves from school
for more than one school day to send
special reports to the parents or
guardians notifying them of the
absence of the pupils. And in case
said pupils shall absent themselves
from school for more than the time
heretofore mentioned it shall be the
duty of the teachers TO Immediately
notify the truant officer or some
member of the board of education of
said township. Yeas, Nicholson,
Trombley, Tracy, Larson; nays, none.
On motion the following bills were
audited and allowed:
Freddy Talbut, 9salary as janitor $40 90
Freddy Talbut, cutting cords of wood i 90
Fred Talbut, dry wood .................. 5 90
Ed Tromblay, dry wood. school No e.. "
Oliver Trombley, meeting of board" ! 80
wn larson 80
Lewis Nlch lson, 20
p. f. Iracy, ! D.
Yeas, Nicholson, Trombley, Tracy,
Larson; nays, none.
There being no further business
tie meeting adjourned sine die.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1900-04-28

A gentleman from Iron Mountain
offers this: Last week some sus-
picious looking characters came to
town aud the chief of police thought
the occasion necessitated the APP
pointing OF some special police, so
he appointed gentleman with in
structions to shadow the suspects
in citizens clothes, but failed TO re-
port the appointment to the regular
police. Late that night one Of the
regular policemen noticed man
skulking through the alleys and
peeking in at windows aud followed
him around for time until salts
fled that he should be taken into
custody, He summoned couple OF
his brother policemen and they
pounced upon the fellow; who hap
pened to be the special policeman.
He demonstrated but the REGULARS"
would listen to no argument and
when he resisted they used their
clubs. The fellow showed his star
to no purpose and finally the three
policemen succeeded in landing the
the extra" IN Jail more dead than
alive. Next morning they began to
investigate and found that they had
been clubbing and Juggling one Of
the force.
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made to secure it at Cape Nome.
The commissioner recognized that
when the Nome sands should be
worked out there might not be any
business of Importance pertaining to
Cape Nome, while ST. Michael will
always be commercial port where
vessels must discharge cargo and
trade exist.
Commissioner Hermann predicts
that the mining excitement will
grow when prospectors shall find
their way to the coasts of Siberia,
across the Bering sea, northwest
from the mouth of the Yukon. His
information is that gold shipments
fro Cape Nome to the minis have
aggregated $1,000, 1000 within the
year since the beach diggings were
discovered and that amounts car
ried away by miners and individuals
should increase the total to 81, 600,
600.
The land laws of the United States
are not yet fully extended to Alas
ka, but congress will soon act on
the question Of its needs. The
mineral land law is in operation
there, and homesteads can be To-
Gated to the extent Of so acres.
Provision has been made for trad
ing needs, manufactures, town sites
and right of way for certain pur-
poses.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1900-04-28

Yeas, Nicholson, Trombley, Tracy,
Larson; nays, none.
There being no further business
tle meeting adjourned sine die.
p. f. Tracy, Clerk.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-08-05

same name, and so it was Nc some
thing everywhere. If mans name
begins with Nc in that region it is a
guarantee of good stock. 1t is a fine
farming region and these people are
almost all farmers. / never saw finer
corn and cotton in upper Georgia. The
women, matrons and maidens were all
well and neatly dressed and were good
looking, good size and healthy. They
could handle their skirts as graceful
~ as a city lady and as my old friend
Bill Rainey used to say, Major, these
women are well coupled and stand up
square on their paster joints" Raj
ney had dealt in horses for fifty years
and talked horse-talll about women
and everything else. He was a gen
uine David Harum. | have most pleas,
ing recollections of Longpond and its
people.
My next call was at Hagan-Claxton,
a double town only three miles apart,
but whose people work in harmony
and have a very fine high school and
school building called the Hagan-Clax-
ton Institute. that is just midway be-
tween them and is sustained by both.
The teachers convention was in SEES
sion there-about a hundred teachers
from Tattnall and other counties
and | say truthfully | never looked
upon a more thoughtful, intelligent
and earnest body of teachers, both
men and women. BY request, l made
some fatherly remarks to them and
then had to stand up and receive a
hearty handshake from every one.
That night l gave my lecture Behind
the Scenes" in the beautiful large
hall where $50 good people from the
twin towns and adjacent country gath
cred. How easy it is for lecturer or
a preacher to please and magnetic a
large audience when they are packed
close together. The standard Of
teaching is rising higher in this re-
gion. The county school commission
ers are good scholars, graduates of
our colleges, and they are eXacting in
their examinations. Nineteen appli-
cants were rejected recently in one
county. This is an interesting re-
giop and farming is easy and pros
porous. The long staple cotton is
grown here. / did not know until now
that the bloom was first yellow-a
bright canary-and then turned red.
The seed are black and are rolled out
instead of being ginned out. 1t is
harder to pick this cotton from the
bolls and seventy-fve pounds is a
good days work. 1t is now 20 cents
a pound. Sugar cane abounds here
and is the most luXuriant crop | know
of. But it is the turpentine and lum-
Der business that scatters money so
freely in all this region. L visited the
Perkins mills. They are up to date
in all respects and cut and Biln-dry
and dress $4,000 feet in a day. and
give employment to several hundred
hands. Pine lands are now bringing
IS to $40 an acre for the timber and
the owner keeps the land after the
pines are cut away. it is right sad
to see all these beautiful forests pass
ing away, but this is destiny. While
soiourning here | was the guest OF
Judge Williams. ! felt very much at
home for his lovely wife and twelve
children adorn the large, inviting
home These children are from two
to twenty years and are well behaved,
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1t is good for man to travel and
study geography without book. |
am down here in the wiregrass talk
ing to the people living along the line
from Cordele to Savannah. This is
new road to me. 1t is only ten years
old and is called the ''SAM' road. The
Seaboard has got it now. Sal has
bought Sam and is running him. If
railroads have sex the feminine is
ahead. Some mighty big things are
feminine. Ships are called she, but
that they say Isl because the rigging
costs more than the hull.
An old man showed me the spot at
Mt. Vernon where the old log school
house stood in which my father
taught school some eighty years ago.
Father used to tell us his varied eX-
perience there. How some bad boys
had run three teachers off in success
sion and broke up the school and
how reluctantly he undertook the
work of reforming them. lie had
about sixty scholars, boys and girls,
and their ages ranged from eight to
eighteen years. The Oldest boy was
six feet tall, sapling with long arms
and legs, red head and freckled
face. He was the ringleader in run
ming the teachers off and father was
cautioned about him. The first day
he made them good kind, friendly
talk, told them he came to do them
good, to teach them books and morals
and manners, and he wanted them to
obey the rules and help him to make
the school a success. You can't af-
ford" he said, ito grow up without
some education. No nice young man
would marry the girls, and no smart
girl would marry an uneducated boy.
Now, boys, when you come into
school after dinner | want you to
come in good order. Don't rush and
crowd the doorway like you did this
morning. You ran over a little girl
and threw her down and hurt her.
BE quiet and orderly and come in
two or three at a time, and before
you take your seat make a little bow
to me. That's nice; that's good man
ners. ] will like that and | want all
of you boys and girls to do that. Will
you do it? If yon will please hold UP
your hands" All hands went up
promptly except those of Bill Jen-
kins, the red headed rebel. Next
morning he declined to make bow,
but looked sour and defiant. When
school turned out that evening, faith
or heard him say: "Fll be burned
if III make q bow to any Yankee.
Next morning two other big boys
failed to bow Bill Jenkins had work
ed on them. That evening father
told Bib to stay in a little while, as
he wished to see him after school
broke up. He stayed and the door was
shut. The ether boys peeped through
the cracks between the logs to see
and to hear what was going on. Faith
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