Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1903-11-14

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Kansas City Journal.
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The slow sinking OF the Atlantic
coast is n fact well known to Amer
lean geolOgists, but the definite meas.
urements of the path of that subsi.
dence IL II matter of scientific interest.
AS long ago as 1868. the late Prof
George II. Cook, state gco!Ogist Of
New Jersey. investigated this matter
very carefully. collecting numerous oh.
servntiOns Indicative Of the cncrOnch.
ment Of the sea on the New Jersey
shore. Later Investigations made by
the United states geological survey
have demonstrated that this Is no To-
cal occurrence, but condition char.
ncteristic Of the entire Atlantic sea.
board.
In other parts Of the world similar
observations have been made. Along
the eastern coast Of England the sink.
Ing Of the land relative to sen level
has been serious matter during
recorded history: villages lie buried
under the salt marshes and the waves
now sweep over submerged forests
On the other side OF the North sen, the
Norwegian coast is rising rapidly. that
IL. gcOlOgically speaking. Observations
show that the Scandinavian coasts are
being elevated ut mean rate OF 30
feet per century; the maximum rate
mt the North Cape being nearly twice
as much. The Pacific side of South
America is rising rapidly. Charles
Darwin. when on the Beagle. having
been one OF the first to draw attention
to the raised beaches on the coast OF
Chill, where plated reeds and other
evidences of human handiwOrk were
found buried among marine shell de.
pOsts at II height Of S5 feet above tide
water.
Such observations as these. usually
dlsrcgar,led by the non-scientihc. be.
come impressive to the average man
when he finds. by the evidence of
landmarks, that the ground under his
feet Is very unstable. 1t brings home
the great facts which underlie the
study Of geology. and suggests that
even the apparently catastrophe
events of geologic history, as written
on the pages of rock and stone. are the
result of quiet forces acting with that
unwcarled patience (which hardens
the ruby in Il million years When Sir
Charles I.yell saw the stupendOus folds
and diversions of strata which charac.
terize the Swiss Alps, he remarked that
all such apparently violent results
might well have taken place without
any interruption OF the habltable state
of these mountains, had man been then
In existence, which he was not. Con
sideratiOns such as these enlarge the
Imagination and serve, as astronomy
does, TO illustrate the poetry which lies
often buried deep In dust, amid the dry
pages Of science.-Engineering anu
Mining Journal.
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W. Il. Burghardt du Bois, the autho,
of "SOuls of Black Folk" was educat
ed at Harvard and Berlin, and la:
Travelled much. At present NJ. du Bois
Is n member of the faculty OF Atlanta
University, says the Kansas City Jour
nal.
About as different from my own
people us the day is from the night,
he said the other day, "are the Scots
/ cherish story ! once heard In Scot
land-a story that Is, ! think, typical
of certain portion of the people,
This story concerns minister who
caught a member of his congregation
sleeping and rebuked him from the pul
pit. Awake, Saunders he said. Man
it's disgrace to sleep In the kirk
saunders was much hurt. lie spok'
up and said:
"I.Ook to yer ain pew, an mayfair
yell find ithrs sleepin' here besides
myself
"The minister looked and there wal
his wife slumbering soundly II,
awakened her. and he told Saunder.
that if she fell asleep again he nigh
call attention to her by holding III
his hand. Then he proceeded with hi
sermon.
"Some weeks went by and one Sun
day Saunders, sure enough, put hi
hand up. The wife was asleep again
The minister thundered out her name