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The daily sentinel., 1901-10-03
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Prof. w. H. Lynch of Mountain
Grove Academy at Mountain Grove,
Mo-, is credited with reading more paid
for newspapers than any other man in
the United States. He subscribes for
fifty-eight newspapers, six of them
dailies. The professor was in Kansas
City recently, and in discussing news-
papers, said: 81 use the newspapers
in my classes. They are the best in
strument in the world for teaching cur
rent history and geography. The real
drama of life in its varied forms Of
commercial, political and social rela-
tions must be seen and learned through
the mirror OF the world the newspa-
per. Every Friday morning in the
academy is devoted to the reading Of
newspapers. kansas City Times.
The daily sentinel., 1901-10-03
Emp.,u... of scotch ch.roh..

There is much complaint Of the
emptiness of the churches in Presbyte-
rian Scotland. A census taken by the
Dundee Advertiser shows these re-
suits: 1881, sittings, 60,064, attend
ance, 30,66S; 1891. sittings, 63,o33; at
tendance. 26,13s. There are 101
churches in and around Dundee now,
and the average attendance is only
forty-ons.
The daily sentinel., 1901-10-03
sAsvLoNIAN EXPLORATIONS.
Discovery of Great Temple Library u
City of Nippur

Discovery of Great Temple Library u
City of Nippur
Prof. Hilprecht of the University Of
Pennsylvania, the Babylonian expler-
er. has discovered the Great Temple
library of the ancient city Of Nippur,
which was destroyed by the Elumnites
in the year 22S B. c. For eleven years
the professor has been exploring the
mounds of ancient Nippur, the city
that antedated Babylon by centuries as
the capital of Babylonia. Within tho
past year he has found among those
prehistoric ruins the library of the
Temple of Nippur. This is the first
Babylonian temple library that has
ever been discovered and it contains
the Oldest and most important records
of the earliest civilization Of which
even an echo has come down to our
own age. Already $4,000 volumes
have been taken from the ruins. and it
is expected that many more thousands
will be recovered Inscribed on clay
tablets in the cuneiform characters
which the explorations of Nineveh and
Egypt have made familiar to archaeo-
logical students. these literary works
of men who lived 5000 years before
the Christian era began include die
tionaries, architectural plans, histori-
cal and chronological data, legal and
commercial as we'll as religious liter
ature, that bear witness to the form
and pressure of time" in which Abra-
ham lived. They also show, says Prof.
Lof~ ka tAA
appearance of Adam man was not only
existing but that developed a high
state of civilization. comparable In all
its essential points with that which we
ourselves possess.
The daily sentinel., 1901-10-03
Hot weather Stop. watches.

A clerk in q jewelry store says: Ex-
cessively hot weather stops watches
that are wound up and are supposed
to be in good running order. During
three days this summer. fifty people
brought their watches into our store
because they stopped. In nearly every
instance it was found that the main
spring was broken. 1t 10 always SO
when the temperature gets up around
the hundred mark and stays there for
several days.-Indianapolis News.
The daily sentinel., 1901-10-03
s.lv.tis. Arny's csl..y.

The Salvation army commander
some three years ago bought 1000
acres of land in Colorado. to which
has lately been added 1000 more. and
the task Of colonizing great farms In
the west with the surplus poor of the
cities is being prosecuted with great
earnestness and with great success as
well. These farm colonies are now
being multiplied in all parts Of the
country.
The daily sentinel., 1901-10-03
GRAND JuNCT. CHAPTEI

No "a, A M, meets second Thursday in
each month at Masonic hall, Canon Block.
corner Main and Fourth Streets.
VIM Carlyle Sec. Orson Adams, Jr., EHI
The daily sentinel., 1901-10-03
LIKES THE PROBLEM PLAY.
1t Mas Ono Virtue in the Opinion of .
Young Man.

Young Man.
"They can say what they like OF the
problem play" said Reggie, "but it's
been good friend to us fellows that
haven't much money to spend on
other people. Why, before the problem
play came into existence chap was
expected to take the girls to the thea
ter to see all the new things, and, OF
course, in many cases that meant the
girls mother. too, and supper for three
after the play and carriage, and. by
Jove, to do that twice week made
big hole in a fellows allowance. But
~the playwriting fellows got wicked
and wrote frisky pieces and now one
can 90 alone or stay away altogether.
just as one pleases. It's = case Of free
country and rights Of the Individual.
We owe those dramatic chaps a big
debt and we ought to be grateful. No
one expects us to invite the girls, with
or without their mammas. to SEQ
shocking plays. I don't suppose the
mammas would mind going II We ask
ed them. but the girls won't 60. prin-
cipally because they've already seen
the plays at matinees and secondly be-
cause 1t looks and sounds bad to go
with a young man to see play that
the ministers are denouncing. OF
course some of the girls would go. but
they don't expect you to ask 'em. and
I don't. For my part hope the plays
will continue to be shocking, at least
until my allowance Is increased two
fold, for with bouquets and studio teas
and country clubs and bridge I don't
know how I ever should be able to
keep out Of Ludlow street Jail II 1t were
not for the present tendency toward
nau8htiness in the drama."-New
York Commercial Advertiser.
The daily sentinel., 1901-10-03
Crime In Ho. Weather.

The police authorities always look
for an epidemic of crime as soon as
the hot weather sets In. Statistics
prove that the taking of human life,
either by murder or suicide, is nearly
so per cent higher in summer than in
winter
The daily sentinel., 1901-10-03

Smiths dandercide positively prevents
the hair froa falling out.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1901-03-23
A BRILLIANT SPECTACLE.
There viii be Forty Thousand Lights
on the Exposition Tower

The electric tower OF the Pan-Ameri-
can exposition Is designed to be the
most brilliant diamond Of the illumlna-
tion. In height this tower is 400 feet
tho base being so feet square, on the
cast and west sides OF which two colon
nades. rs feet high, turn TO the south.
II will be a structure which by day VIII
be INTELLECTUALLY graceful, attractive
and beautiful and by night, when II Is
under full illumination, II VIII present
a spectacle beyond the possibility OF a
word plcture. From top 70 bottom
from the highest point TO the water IN
the basin In front OF II, on all sides, TINS
wonderful tower will be covered with
lncandescent lamps. In all, over 49, Vo
of these lamps will be used on the
tower. and the highest skill Is demand
ed In placing them In order that the en-
tire surface may be covered so mat
there will be an equality OF light on
every mart. Never has the human eye
looked upon such gorgeous spectacle
as this electric tower Is TO be, so that y
Is impossible to make comparison with
ANYTHING the world has yet witnessed
From every point the tower structure
will present a starry appearance, the
whole effect being such ne 10 command
the most sincere admiration on the
interior the tower will be hive OF IN.
dustry. There will be restaurants, roof
gardens. loggIas. pavlllons and cupolas
through which the tide OF appreciatiye
humanity will pour from dawn 10 mid
night. and when the days sightseeing
NJ the exposition Is ended. the visitor
viii have an Impressive mental record
az the wonders of the Electric Tower.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1901-03-23

guard-r0Om and sentry boxes OF the
Moorish s0ldlery. From us summit
the view is one Of unparalleled grand
eur. have seen many famous views
from various points in the Andes, from
the castle Of Chapultepec overlooking
the valley OF Mexico, from CorcoVada
above the bay Of Rio de Janeiro-
but never anything to compare with
this. Fur above the sharp peaks Of the
sierra rise range upon range thelf
ridges heaped together in Wild o0nfu-
sion like the pillows OF mighty ocean
suddenly turned TO stone Below lies
the city, with Its concentric wallis
outworks Of three nations, Roman,
Saracen and Spanlard. so distinct In
blood and religion, its massive houses
enclosed and barred like 50 many Sc
ragllos, and lts lovely Alhambra frag-
rant with roses and myrtes orange
and oleandcr trees. though overhanging
q clif whence Is a sheer descent Of al.
most thousand feet 10 the valley The
very heart OF the town IL pierced by
the frightfu chasm. its walls SCARED
and scanned by the action OF the ele-
ments. and its mysterious depths to
which the sun never penetrates. belIev-
ed 10 be haunted by ghosts OF the
.
WkElChhp CA1llNES'
who pelished there in the merciess
crusade OF the fifteenth century. be-
yond the city spreads the green and
smiling vega, through which the
Guadaleyin. V'deep gtream'D, no long
en- roaring torrent. black as Styx--
having escaped from the Tajo. gnues
tranquilly over its marble bed amid
what nelds. gardens, and groves Of
lemon, citron and olive, cherries and
peaches. The primitive mills which
line the river for miles, have been
grinding almost continuously for nine
hundred years while their builders
have been long. long forgotten. Nations
have risen ana fallen, new world has
been discovered and come into greater
prominence than the old-and still, like
1.-The mills OF the gods" those ponder-
Gus wheels 20 round furnishing food
for passing generations. Scattered over
the adjacent valley are numerous
threshing foors-clrcular platforms,
slightly raised above the ground. from
forty 10 eighty feet in dameter--upon
which wheat is threshed by means Of
the trlllo, a kind OF drag. furnished
with spikes and drawn by horses driy-
en- at a gallon. The grain Is cleared Of
chaff by being tossed into the air from
broad. shallow baskets-an extremely
lahorlous method but adhered 10 ev-
erywhere In Spain. because of the ig-
norant prejudice existing against mod
ern machinery.
From the gateway OF the Alhambra
n street leads past the bull-ring, (the
most nonular Institution IN Ronda), 10
~ nawest br,dge which spans the Ia
10 a. lts narrowest noint. But this
''modern" structure was built In 1851.
u consists of one impressive arch Of
in feet. and the architect celebrated
us completion by accidentally falling
~ - ~ arn,,at ond heino dashed Ia.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1901-03-23
GRATEFUL CARICATUR,sTs.

No more genuine piece OF good for
tune has befallen the carlcaturist than
that the personality OF MIR Kruger
should be what II Is. am no pro-Boer
but upon my word, my feeling Of graft
tude 70 hlm-and may add to HIS tai.
Tor. his halter. and bootmaker-has
been so warmly affectlonate at times
n am certain my brother caricaturists
mug, have felt the samel that the mar
vel il that no tell-tale and semi,trea.
sonable letters NJ ours have hten found
M Pretoria - r. T. Reed. Of Punch, ="
In "MaaazIne OF Art"
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1901-03-23
IL saved His Leg.

p A. Danforth, OF LAGRANGE. Ga,
suffered for six months with frishlful
running sore on his leg; but writes that
Bucklens Arnica Salve wholly cured
il In five days, For Ulcers, Wounds.
piles its the best salve In the world.
cure guaranteed Only Csc. Sold by z.
G. NJ l. Drug Dept.
New-York tribune., 1901-03-08
BLACKWELL'S ISLAND FOR 4 PARK.

The scheme for converting Blackwels Island
into park, which suggested and intelIi
gently advocated last summer by the Civic
Club. has been revived Of late by Captain f.
Norton Goddard and others. II must, we think
be generally regarded as worthy Of discussion
even by those who are pretty sure that il ought
not TO he adopted. There is little need of argll-
ment TO prove that a park surrounded by water
in close proximity to exceedingly populous dis
tricts would serve useful purpose and become
more and more valuable with the growth of the
city. If the island were unOccupied the pro-
posal TO convert It into a park would probably
encounter opposition but the city has vari-
Gus important institutions there which would
have 10 be provided for elsewhere if the park
plan were carried out, and TO some Of them AT
least their present location and surroundings are
supposed 10 be peculiarly adapted. This is the
chief objection which Controller COler raises
and IT is entitled to respectful consideration
But the mere statement of il is not quite con
elusive
In reply II Is urged that If BlackwelTs Island
has some special advantages as site for hos
pitfalls and other municipal establishments il
would make n still greater contribution TO the
general welfare if ii were devoted 10 park DUR
poses; that the buildings now existing there are
not fit for the uses 10 which they are put and
must be replaced before long in any case: that
the cost Of suitable sites elsewhere would not he
large, and therefore that the investment in
new buildings which the city will have to make
within few years would not be much increased
by the proposed removal, and that other
suitable site for park which is greatly needed
in that neighbOrhood, is to be had. In addition,
ii is pointed out that island park would pos
sess extraordinary attractions and utilities and
confer inestimable benefits on an immense pop
ulation.
The recent proposal made on behalf of the
navy, with the approval of Secretary Long, that
the upper end of Blackwelrs Island should be
converted at the expense of the government into
drill and recreation ground for sailors and
marines stationed at the Brooklyn Navy Yard
has not. we believe. been formally rejected; but
some strong objections 10 il have been made
Though an alienation of city property is not
contemplated, the scheme might easily involve
unpleasant complications. If for example the
government should incur considerable expense
In laying out parade ground on the island and
he well satisfied with the results, a summary
eJectment. though fully authorized by the terms
oi It's agreement with the city, would he likely
| 10 be regarded a hardship and might increase
! The disfavor with which New-York usually has
/ 10 contend when il appeals to Congress for
/ an appropriation. But if the city should take
not minor part of the island but all of it-one
hundred and twenty acres-for a park ii would
presumably be practicable to let the navy use as
] much as ii needed for drill ground. and in so
doing 10 secure for the public special point of
interest and attraction
l 1T appears to us that these and other consd-
New-York tribune., 1901-03-08
RASTEN THE TTNNEL.

The Municipal Assembly is now devotlng its
wisdom 10 a review of the plans of the Rapid
Transit Commission for a tunnel from Broad
way in Manhattan 10 Flatbushave., Brooklyn
That is an extension of the rapid transit SyS-
tenn of the utmost deSirahty. and il ought
not to take any councilman or alderman fifteen
minutes to make up his mind 10 give the pro
poSa his prompt and hearty support 10 the end
that this essential link in the chain of com
Portable communications in this city be com
pleted as soon as the rest Of the system
Every hours delay means loss in rentals and
business inconvenience TO the people of New
York Those who do business in Manhattan
are desirous of easy and quick transit to homes
at distance. and the tunnel under the East
River is one of the necessary instruments 10
the accomplishment of that desire. over
million people live beyond the East River who
are tributary to the business section of the city
concentrated on this island. They demand ac-
cess to ii without the present annoying changes
and delays and il is for the welfare Of every
body from the Battery to Mount Vernon that
they should have such access. 1t is also essen
tial to the growth Of common municipal life
that the residents of one borough should quick
~ get 10 another. and a tunnel rs part of the
rapid transit system. making the shopping, club
and theatre district of Manhattan as accessible
from Brooklyn from Harlem. is the great
need if consolidation is TO be anything but an
empty name.
The objections brought against the plan of
the Rapid Transit Commissioners are without
weight The route has been wisely selected by
men better qualified to consider all the ques
tons involved than any real estate owners who
may wish the tunnel to run nearer their lands.
The notion that the tunnel should avoid the
Long Island Railroad station lest il contribute
to the business of that corporation is prepos-
ferrous. AS we'll say that the tunnel should
carefully avoid Forty-second-str lest incoming
and outgoing passengers should find IT a con
venienee. Where the traffic is there the tun-
mel should be. The enlightened policy is so
to lay out new transit facilities to make all
existing lines tributary parts of one great sys-
TEN. The Rapid Transit Commissioners are
doing admirable work. and nobody should
dream of putting obstacles in their way. New
York wants them 10 have a free hand and
means that they shall have IT,
New-York tribune., 1901-03-08

ordnates 10 provoke disorder. Hess and Abel
were as complacent the prOfessed Tammany
men. They supported Devery. and they con
tinued 10 support him whether he was trying to
encourage ballot box suffers or protect vice It
would be an insult TO Republicans. mere mock
cry of the law. 10 place men with such records
once more as Republicans in control Of the cleo
ton machinery.
One anxiety of anti-Tammany citizens to-day
with regard 10 the police administration is the
menace 10 hon ast elections next fall Police
blackmail can be endured as il has been. The
more Devery and his gambling combine shock
people the stronger will be the public sentiment
working to overthrow Tammany. But if Tam
many can use the police force and the elections
bureau without restraint, it may perhaps he
able to grasp new lease of power despite
hostile majorities. At least voters will not CON
template with confidence the surrender of the
conduct of elections absolutely TO Tammany and
Tammany assistants like Hess and Abel, who
have already shown themselves tolerant of at
tempts 10 provoke disorder at the ballot box.
Nothing would be more likely 10 give "A new
impulse 10 A constabulary scheme and lead re-
luctant Republicans to agree to a complete re-
moval of the police power from Tammany
hands than supplementing Devery in control OF
the police by the appointment of assistant Tam
MANY men already notorious for their patronage
of crime 10 ll the places in the Elections Boards
belonging 10 honorable and representative Re
puhlicans The conservative wisdom of the
Governor might restrain them from radical leg
islation. hut the temptation would he strong, III
spite Of all arguments for home rule. If the
popularity feared alternative should he the I'M
restrained freedom of Tammany to count for
itself next fall any majority il pleased.
New-York tribune., 1901-03-08
TO WIDEN FIFTY-NINTH-ST.

The plan to broaden West Fifty-ninthst be-
! tween Fifth and Eighth aves. ought TO be
| adopted and the work should be finished at an
early date This is an important artery of
/ crosstown travel and must be considered one
| of the chief thoroughfares of all those on Man
haitian Island which run east and west. 1t is
much too narrow for the pressure upon its
scanty breadth. In that part of it between the
Circle around the Columbus statue and the
eastern edge of Sixthave. the multitude Of
kbuIky cars moving at high speed is great
that carriages of all kinds and pedestrians en-
! counter serious peril on the southern border of
Central Park.
1t would he public Improvement of marked
value if F'ifty-nfnth-st were made wider
throughout its entire length from the East
River to the Hudson. But that undertaking
would involve an enormous outlay. especially
In the block from Fifth-aYe. to MadSOn-ave.
which contains two immense hotels. 1t is not
10 he expected that the whole thorOughfare will
he made broader in this generation at least
hut fortunately it can be enlarged between
Fifth-ave and the Circle at moderate eXpendi
ture The northern sidewalk bordering Cen
trail Park is exceptionally broad: in fact, much
broader than public requirements demand
There is n row of trees along that sidewalk
but that can be sacrificed without serious detri-
ment, because II is in so close proximity 10 the
abundant plantations, the groves and all the
grePnery of the park itself. Now that the
streetcar companies have been admitted 10
Fifty-ninths st. from end TO end, it will he
practically impossible to eXpel them. And it
must be confessed that the people of New York
do not want them excluded from the street, be
cause the necessities of croSStoWn tranSpOrta
ton in that part of Manhattan Island are inn
perative And the companies run so many big
cars at a high velocity, especially in the region
between upper Broadway formerly called the
Boulevard) and Sixth-ave.. that more room
must be made for travel of all sorts in that
oongeSted area. strip OF the sidewalk then
should he transformed into roadway. 1t can
he spared for that purpose. and welcome relief
from the present difficulties and dangers can be
obtained in that manner.
Moreover as The Tribune has said before,
another entrance To Central Park on the south
boundary is needed. II can be opened at no
extravagant expense and without destroying or
gravely damaging the picturesque features Of
the southern part of the city's superb pleasure
ground. The tremendous growth Of the
metropolis in recent years and the extensive
changes which that growth has brought about
must result in suitable adaptations to the con
ditons now existing.
New-York tribune., 1901-03-08
Az ALL TAMuAyF ELECTIONS BoARD

Mlth any other than Tammany administra-
ton in power the talk that Abel and Hess
might be made the Republican representatives
IN the Elections Board would he set down as the
most idle and impossible rumor Tnhappily. II
must be confessed that il is by no means i'm
possible for Mayor Van Wyck 10 do such a
1hlng. There may be absolutely nothing in the
report that he contemplates such appointments
nut nobody would think il unsuitable TO his
Character 10 do so. He seems determined 10
defy every decent instinct of the community
Ahell and Hess are merely Tammany men mas
querading in Republican livery They have
been the subservient tools Of Devery and Van
Nyck and Croker. and were not in the lea 81 rem
resentative of the opposition whose interest in
bipartisan police administration they were sup
posed 10 protect under the cid law.
The function Of the Commissioners of FIec-
tons is 10 secure an honest vote and a fair and
Impartial count The principal PARTIES are on
Titled TO. representation by men faithfully de-
voted TO their interests. who will not sell ont TO
the enemy and leave the ballot box practically
ih me hands Of one party. Ii is a plain viola
lion OF the spirit of the constitution which nro-
Floes that "all laws creating. regulating or
ahecuhS boards or officers charged with the
DUTY OF registering voters. or of receiving re-
" N'~A'AhN Notts al elections, shall
secure equal representation TO the two noliti-
cai parties. All such boards and off
GERS snail he appointed or elected in sucb
manner and upon the nomination of sucb ron
I"sehtatiNes OF said parties respectively as tbe
ieSlsiafure may direct" The Elections Cam
ulsslohers may possibly not be in terms in
eluoed within The scope OF this section but
"S"Ii! ule constitution meant that all hinar,i
sih erection machinery should be firmly renro-
sentative OF the respective parties. and that ena
il hoi attained If the supervising power created
bE the legislature for any districts with mr.
vision that II, too, be bipartisan is really NO,
representative of both parties, but merely tho
creature of one. The Republican party renudiates
Hess and Abel. has no relations with ,hem 70.
ceiyes no service from them and is utterly nm
able 10 trust either their power or their pur,
pose 10 insure TO Republicans free chance II
cast their ballots and have them counted and
returned as cast.
Republicans have already had cxper;ence
with these two men as election officers. The
bipartisan Police Board formerly performed
the functions now 10 he inirusted 10 a snecial
commission. Last fall, when Devery was
breathing out threatenings against the State
Superintendent OF Elections and urging his sinh