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employees along the submarine line. As the
will be no danger of rock slides or the roof
caving In.
Gold ha Vast Quantities.
Then there are other thinEs to be con-
sidered. Some mining engineers say there
Is enough gold under Behring Sea, which
the tunnel would crosscut. to pay for
building the road. II men not engineers
can dig fortunes out Of the soil almost
anywhere in Alaska, and especially along
the sea coast around Nome, which Is not
far comparatively from the Straits, II
would seem reasonable to expect the en-
gineers to find rich veins of gold, silver
and perhaps platinum, II not copper and
other valuable metals. Almost anything
that the imagination may fancy has been
predicted by experts in the Northwest.
The great Northern Pacific railways, both
in the United States and Canada, have
made fortunes for their companies and
opened uD fortunes for the settlers.
M. de Lobol says further:-'tBetween the
Bdbsrian and Alaskan coasts lie the Do
meee Islands. There are two OF them, and
the larger will permit US 10 divide the tun-
mel Into two sections of nearly equal
length Here we can erect works neces-
sary during construction as well as a mo-
tive power plant for moving trains either
by electricity or compressed air and also
for ventilation OF the tunnel.
Including the approaches, the tunnel
win be about thirty-eight miles In Length
and this, with the 1850 miles OF railroad
which we purpose constructing In Siberia
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Costly Typographical Errors.

were a declaration against the Papal claim
10 govern Rome.
In another case the spacing OF words IN
certain bank notes were 80 arranged that
by drawing pencil line In a particular
way, rude outline Of the arms OF Savoy
resulted. These notes, OF course, never
saw the light, the device being too obvious
70 escape detection.
In 1901 a Spanish engraver was heard
boasting that he had signed his name"
on every one OF ten thousand bank notes
just about to be issued. When called up
and asked for an explanation he declared
that he had been Joking. But an examina-
ton OF the notes showed that certain let
ters In one line were raised a mleroscopicai
distance above those next TO them. These
raised letters spelled the employees name
One hundred and fifty pounds was the
price paid by the authorities for their en-
graver's joke.
The Kaiser's persistent interference In
all matters OF art has cost the Fatherland
heavy losses In cancelled printed matter.
One OF his first acts as sovereign was to
shSw his subordlnates how the imperial
arms should be printed. After many thou
sand forms and documents had been i'm
pressed with these arms an antiquary OF
high authority proved TO His Majesty that
the new design was not only wrong. but
also humihating TO himself. Fifteen hun
dred pounds worth Of papers were prompt-
ly reduced 10 ashes.
In another case the Kaiser 'sub-edited''
the German money order form In such a
way ehat the public could not make bead
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forest. under the Arctic Sea and amid au-
roral splendors Of the North.
Capital ApafTabie.
Yet all this Is but link in tine world en-
circling railway system which capitalists
are projecting, Read this from Mr.. A. II.
Ford in the Independent. He says:-
From Cape Horn to the Cape of Good
Hope by rail Is the latest project OF our
giants of fnance who have control of limit
less capital,
This round the world trunk line, which
Is already more than half completed II
to be some 1000 miles in length. Begin
ming at the tip of the South American con-
tinent, It is surveyed to follow the crest
OF the Andes, winding up through the
Isthmus OF Panama into Central America,
then across Mexico the United States, and
Canada into Alaska, under Behring Straits
and across arctic Siberia and torrid Cen
trail Asia to the Holy Land and Egypt,
where It is to connect with the Rhodes
trans-African railway now in course OF
construction from Cairo TO Cape Town,
distance in all equal to the circumference
OF the globe, and the building of but 10000
miles of additional railway remains to I'LL
in the gaps and complete this most re-
markable project of modern times.
Half billion dollars, sum Congress
appropriates every winter, will compiete
the Cape Horn TO Cape of Good Hope rail-
way, which is little more than the amount
already expended on the construction OF
the Trans-Siberfan Railway. This sum mas
already been subscribed, II the projectors
Of the great world uniting scheme are 10
be credited.
THE plan of a round the world railway
Is the Joint idea of an American, an Eng
lishman and Frenchman. Andrew Car
negie has offered to finance the New YORK
to Buenos Ayres project, having subscribed
n M 90 he fr1in and NJ.
Loco de Lobel has had a survey made OF
the New York to Paris air line tnat, wnen
built, will serve to connect the Cecn
Rhodes Cairo to Cape Town" with the
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or tail Of this. Finally the new form had
TO be called in and thousands of unissued
copies destroyed
b1rteen thousand pounds worth of the
eleven shilling postal orders had to be de-
stroyed by the General Post Once some
time ago owing to the poundage stamped
on the face having been Id. instead of I'D,
as II should have been. The estimated
loss TO the country was R100
England seldom has TO put up with such
losses, but foreign governments are less
lucky, Both on the Continent and In
America carelessness or wantonness IN
misprinting money orders, telegraph forms
and bank notes have led 10 serious loss
ana curious complications.
Francs has been bad sufferer. In 1898
more than twenty thousand hundred francs
credit notes were printed with a word
badly misspelled. the error not being no
ticed until some OF the notes had been
issued to banks.
A couple Of years later an engraver, I'M
der notice OF dismissal, cOntrived 70 num-
Der a series inaccurately, with the result
that the notes had 10 be cancelled
During the 9rimean War, foreign nrm
Of enEravers settled in Russia. printed
half a million credit notes with the i'm
perial arms reversed. The government. OF
course, refused 70 accept the notes, and
the engravers had to pat up with a loss Of
nearly e5.OOO
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banks, connecting at point about one
hundred miles south of Dawson City with
the Grand Trunk Pacific, which Is planning
an extension to that point.
The Russian government approves our
plans and our concession, a strip sixteen
miles wide the entire length of the road in
Siberia, means about 100000 acres Of
good land. To complete the road will re-
quire about $3.50, 100000. have assurances
from men high in finance In Russia,
France, England and the United States
that they will give us s3O0, 900, 900 IL neces-
sary to make the enterprise a success. 1t
Is estimated that the fare to Paris would
be just about what 1t now Is by transat-
lantio steamer and the trip would take
from forty to fifty days.
It is safe TO say that such journey
would give a man the experience of his
life Think Of it. The New York man
bound for Paris would step aboard the
train in Herald Square, roll through the
magnificent States to Chicago and Duluth,
thence onward through the great noun
tain ranges Of the Rockies. through
canyons and over great rivers to Alaska,
where the scenery stands on end and q
man gasps for Joy as he realizes the
boundless wealth of the country, the vast
ness OF the mountain slopes and the stu
pendousness OF the glaciers which are
showing millions of gold and silver into
the ocean every time the earth trembles
under the weight Of wealth. Thence up
the coast, the views of the great ocean,
and the countless Islands dotting the sea
shore will keep a mans nerves thrilling
until ne reaches the Nome country, where
every back yard is full of fish and gold.
There the traveller dives under Behring
Strait where all things movable plough
their way southwark and you can hear
icebergs and whales scratching the roof
Of the big tunnel as the train glides on its
way into the vastness OF Siberia.
According to all accounts, that land of
the exile Is really a rich country, wonder
full for wheat and other possibilities in
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- HE Arabian Nights dream OF
travelling by train from New
York to Paris, via Alaska and
Behring Straits, seems about to be
realized.
Among the wonders of the Paris
Exhibition Of 1900 was railway
trip through Siberia. Passengers took
passage in real Pullman cars, heard bells
ringing and whistles blowing, and as they
said goodby 30 friends the imperial over
land express rolled away. Through towns
and cities, through long stretches OF coun-
try, they went up into a wilderness of ice
and snow and then across the wilds OF
Siberia. II all seemed like magic, yet was
simple enough.
With panorama moving at high speed,
on either side the country seemed flying by
the car windows and the illusion was per-
feet. But no one Imagined It foreshadowed
a coming reality soon to be commercial
success.
A st. Petersburg cablegram from NJ.
Loica de Lobei, protector Of the trans
Siberian-Alaska railroad, to william Har-
man Black, his New York counsel. the
other day said the Tsar had signed a
ukase authorizing a commission named by
the Russian Railroad Commissioners and
the making of a survey by the route pro-
posed for the nter-Cohtinental road from
Irkutsk to East Cape, or Behring Sea
This link connecting with lines already
finished there and lines to be built mere
will make an unbrolten route of steel raj
from Herald square to Paris.
NJ de Lobel first Interested Partisan cap
ital IN his plan few years ago. and 9
survey was made at a cost of half a mill
ion OF dollars of a strip sixteen miles wide
from Irkutsk, on the trans-Siberian road
to Behring Sea. a distance OF $500 miles
the line following the richest agricultural
and mineral regions In Russia The com
pany asked for a grant of this strip as
bonus from the Tsar to aid In building tn.
great railway. Now that the concession
has been signed, nothing remains but t
push on the work.
1t Is an interesting fact that while M. d
Lobel was proposing a ferry or bridge
across Behring Strait ne met with no ap
proval here. But later, when he planned
TO tunnel the strait, he received encourage
ment everywhere from capitalists and en-
gineers.
Behrlng Strait Is thirty-sx miles w.ds
with depth of from 100 TO $50 feet in the
deepest place. Fortunately, there are two
Islands between shores. which will greatly
aid In Fastening the tunnel work, because
Il will give the engineers places In mid.
channel 10 sink shafts below the level OF
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the sea, from which the excavators can
work both ways toward the men digging
from the shore ends OF the tunnel.
When M. de Dobel was in New York last
summer he formed an advisory committee
composed of Alfred Craven, deputy chief
engineer of the Rapid Transit Commits
sion; Edward Bond, Albany chairman Of
the Advisory Board of Canal Consulting
Engineers of the state; Elmer L. Cort-
bell a member OF that Board and a con-
STRUGGLING engineer OF the West Shore road :
DR. John A. L. Waddell, Kansas CITY,
bridge engineer. and ]. L. Harrington
chief engineer Of the Montreal Locomotive
and Machine Company. Mr.. Black, re-
Gently commissioner OF accounts of this
CITY, Il the Wall street attorney for M. de
Lobers great enterprise.
In the Waldorf Hotel the other day Mr..
Black said the great problem had been
neither the tunnel nor the raising OF money
to build lines through Alaska, but to get
the Tsar to ofiicially authorize the build
ing of the four thousand mile link of new
railway through Siberia. This was what
kept things at standstiIl 90 long.
Now that the ukase has been signed
there would be no difffculty in raising
money TO construct lines through Alaska
and Siberia. as we'll as the great tunnel
under Behring Straits.
1t Is believed that these thousands OF
miles OF railway, including the tunnel It.
self. can be finished and trains running n
from four to i've years-ten years less
time than it took to build the first Brook
Ign bridge.
One Of the Last words said by M. ID
Lobel when he stood on the deck OF q
French steamer about sailing for Franc,
was that II will be possible within a few
years to enter a Pullman train in New
York and 90 straight through to Paris BY
the way of Behring Strait without lAav.
ing the cars In comparison with a journey
like this a trip to San Francisco seeml
like journey to Harlem by trolley.
Since 1883, when N. de Lobel visited Alas
la az a member Of the Paris qographioa
Society, he has been Enthusiastically push.
Ing along his gigantic enterprise. At IN,
point where his railway would reach sal
water In Alaska, az Cape Prince OF wales
ana Siberia, at East Cape, BehrinR Strait
/ Is only about as far across as It Is from
New York TO Fire Island by the Long IsI-
and Railroad, or to Kruger's by the Hud.
son River, or to New Brunswick by this
pennsylvania The amount of excavatins
required to build the New York subwayS
would more than put double track under
Behring Strait, vita enough snace Ia
spare for sidings. depot buildings ana Nv
Ing accommodations for the oficials and
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bridges. lay railroad tracks, in fact, do
almost any kind OF skilled work when
necessary. During the troubles In Brook
lyn few years ago they took charge OF
the trolley system and ran the cars sue
cessfuuy,
TO have a special regiment would he
ike calling attention to their particular
ONCE and would create bad feeling. l think
there should be no special regiments OF any
particular class. either Of race, religion or
profession. What we want is an effective,
homogeneous National Guard, representing
all classes, the more the better, and then
you will ma enough skilled men 10 meet
any emergency. OF the fifteen thousand
men In our regiments. about half are al
ready skilled mechanics, able to put up
machinery and run locomotives ana trains
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Staf1o1>- on The Tra1As- Siberian
Railway

"Pan-Amerlcan' railway. thus bringing
Paris and New York In touch by Pullman
service with every great city OF the hVe
continents
within five years" Is the promise OF the
enthusiastic Erenehman. I'm about dec
ade," Is the surmise Of the cautious SCOTCH
American, that the various trans-cont-
mental railways will become united in one
Ieonnected world system"
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ohAIlsnge q Leonardo.

7 was twilight, and with feverish haste
Leonardo da Vinci wac putting the I'm
] ishing touches on The Last Supper"
Suddenly in the Stiffness he heard a
never dol" Sir. what Do you mean By
stealing in upon me at this hour as II
were a crimnnal9'' Not quite a criminal
but almost" answered The interioper. by
order OF the National Bund Of Bun-balxers
/ have been watching here for fully ten
days to discover whether or not you in
tend to paint the regulation union label
on the Apostles crusts yonder, and II not,
Whsrefore7'
1t Is said that Leonardo was never a
many Of many Wopds. but his observations
on this occasion peeled several feet OF
frescO from the ceiling and bulged the
walls of the chapel four inches out OF
plumb.
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agriculture, with mines punctuating the
miles during the long journey to Paris.
Thus the traveller proceeds on the other
side Of the world, running swiftly down the
slopes OF Russia, along Napoleon's great
line az march, through Poland Austria, in
to France and at last reaching Paris, the
inonerial city of the world. isn't such a
trim worth the money and the thousands of
miles Journey through mountains and
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pay into the state treasury a sum equal
to the wages paid skilled men, with the
regular State pay of each, trooper EN-
ployed in maintaining efficient public seB-
vice, and any and all damages TO the arms
and equipment OF each and every man,
With the full State rations for each man
and horse while thun employed. or travel
hng to and from such employment"
Here Is the business mans IDEAS as to
how the various skilled trades should be
represented and proportioned in a negi-
ment OF National Guard artisans.-
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: - 81 NAFNIt IIIIIIIIIII UTITIUU on IUTH
suggestion, representatives OF the United
states army and the New York National
Guards were interviewed General GRAM
at his headquarters on Governors Isiand
said:-
Il think the proposed plan good one. II
properly carried out-that Is. to have regi-
ments Of educated men, trained electricians
and railroad experts ready to operate
transportation lines and the telegraph 10
p6bteot life and property IN case Of nnlaw-
fdl outbreaks during riots and strikes.
'But whether the necessary law au-
thorizing II could be passed Is another
matter. To do It would require State leg
islatlon- whioh would mean consultation
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anu the LOO we intend building IN Alaska,
will go to make up our Trans-Alaslka-Si-
berian Railroad. We will connect IN 81
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IBERIA with the Trans-Slberian road at r.
kutsk, while our Alaskan road will pass
through Council City, Nulato and Fair
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Japan has at last a newspaper in which
the same type Is used as In our journals.
II V called the RomajL
The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1906-08-29
NOTES OF INTEREST

lh"t Miss Helen Miller Gould should have q cb,ro,,
named Tor her is not her doing but the work If hiId
~ ''o o"''ich III question is virtually hers rhe
church Is neatlooking white structure and is b,t
ior the Comanche Indians, who in former times ol,
devastation IN Texas and Southern Tennessee Those
VINO are familiar with the proceedings of - Mobonl,
=, conferences are aware that many of the In
uians nave become converted in the last few wars
ana Indian churches beginning to SPRING nm in
various portions of Southwestern Oklahoma MANY
OF the Comanehes Presbyterians some are Motbo.
diSts' while majority of the Kiowas are Baptists
Lone WolI, the kiowa chief is Baptist minister and
Geronimo, the aged Apache warrior often preocbe.
Nethodlsm to his ribesmen. He was converted about
seven years ago at Methodist camp meeting Ir
httle white church is situated on n beautiful ro1ro
tract OF prairie land, near Chattanooga in Comanche
county ana Is the source of much pride to the Indian
tribes IN that region. We congratulate tbe no
manches at procuring the new church. and we tender
our especial fluctuations to that gifted Indian preocb
er ana missionary the Rev Frank A. Wright who
mas done and is still doing such good work among tbe
Comanches and Apaches.-Christian Work.
The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1906-08-29
TO THE ELDERS, DEACONS AND THOUGHTFUL
LAYMEN OF THE SOUTHERN PRESBY-
TERRAIN CHURCH.

The first thing to which we would call your atten-
ton in the endeavor to point out your duty in the
present crisis is the widespread detection from Chris
uan truth which is general Characteristic of the
present age. For about seventy years this detection
has been going gradually on, increasing in force and
Widening in extent Mr. Froude, a distinguished
English historian, remarked quarter of century
Gu IN Europe at that time than at any period since
'e days of Constantine. The truth and authority
" the Scriptures have been discredited by large
erS OF intelligent and learned men, who have been
"o"ed by larger numbers of those who take their
V"S rom the more learned class, and armed with
-" Suggestions of what appears superior informa-
n, oDtrude their sceptcism upon the public notice.
Wv roots of this detection which most conspicu-
~ are scientific infdelity--the radical Higher Crit
n "-and the French Jacobin philosophy With
~; who have become infected with the virus of
| Oh these forms of the old disease of discomfort
L 'ne teachings of Christianity, it is almost hope
eI " dispute. They array themselves around the
EniT, enable Rock of Holy Scripture" the great
cali 'u statesman-the late William T.. Gladstone
vb ~ with a confidence which is amazing to all
fla, e really acquainted with the basis of the Chris
hand SPel' 1t is not germaine to the purpose liz
g,l 90 into the subject of this detection in gen
effect '"' II Is germaine to design to notice the
nam Ihls detection upon the Church of Christ in
Ill., ~ prts of Christendom. That effect has been
men confidence in the Scriptures-to unsettle
The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1906-08-29
THE CENTRAL PRESBYTERIAN.

cate with the Father interceding for our adoption
noners and the Father Himself loyeth rs and would
fain make His heirs, while the Holy Spirit is call
cd the Spirit of Adoption" 'the earnest of orr
Inheritance" for He beareth witness with our spirits
that we the children of God"
But there not be son-ship without lkeness +o
Christ "the express image of God, our Elder Broth
en- To gain His asked-for Kingdom He gave Him.
self; to reign with Him we must be willing to suffer
with Him;' to share Ellis travail of sou' for man.
kind, must, like Him, "offer up prayers and sup
plieations with strong crying and tears" 1--WE must
he obedient unto DEATH"
DANGER OUR INHERITANCE
Sometimes father disnherits son, sometimes
the having already squandered his portion, in,
herits much less than the other children; can we
though children of Cod miss our Inheritance? Hear
the inspired writer of Hebrews in chapter after chap
ter, warning that we ''be not slothful but fol-
lowers of them who through faith patience inherit
the promises. To like intent does Paul use the ex
ample of the Israetes who never reached their in
heritance the land of promise, (even Noses because
"he spoke unadvisedy with his lips had to give
place to another leader into the goody and) to adj
monish us "to fear lest fail of full reward"
In the midst of glowing thanksgiving for the
Ephesan Christians for their faith in the Lord
Jesus and their love to all the saints" he interecs
the prayer that the "eyes of your understanding be
enlightened that "ye may know the hope of His call
ing the riches of the glory of His inheritance
saints
Then it is impossible to disappont "His hope
when He called us not to add to the riches of His
inheritance and oh! the fearful loss to if 'un-
profitable servants" gain no increase for Him!
1t is choice whether it be "ten cities Give
cities" 'haye authority OVER when He receives
His Kingdom, 'to be faithful in very little is ALI
required to win for Him and ourselves those cities.
Our share" is not only then to feel with Christ
"all pain that hearts made for feeling not
only to feel all joy and peace Christ left parting
legacy, "our share is to make His, to put
wrongs down. to prove His claims to dsarm His foes
to crown Him King, ''our shared" to 'the
of righteousness which the Lord shall give to all who
nave fought His fight with Him overcome, for he
that Overcometh shall inherit all things, being Joint
heirs of Christ" whom God hath appointed heir
OF all things"
Therefore, whatsoever We do do it heartily, to
the Lord and not unto knowing that of the Lord
We shall receive the reward of the inheritance for We
serve the Lord Christ" Thanks be unto Cod 'the
Father who hath meet to be partakers of the in
heritance of the saints in light"
The Washington times., 1906-12-09

Examples Of this. more or less modi-
fed. are seen IN the vermlform appen-
dix % man, which presumably. Is his
aJrophied and out-of-date second stom-
ach. once useful when he digested his
meals IN the tree tops. The dewcla~
on a dogs hind leg IS a weakened rem
uaHt, lJ IS said or the time when Fido's
entire louer leg. up 90 the knee Joint.
was q ;75- and laid fat or the ground.
The facility with which some persons
are able TO move at will the scalp and
ears. is considered a relic OF the days
when man. as an anthropoid ape. thus
could move his skin, after the man
ner of the horse. 10 shake or flies In
man such a trick Is regarded as a re
version 10 type Most persons bear
some OF the hall marks OF atavism.
There Is a brutal lower law. with
prominent canine teeth; there are
widely divergent ears. there are eye
sockets OF remarkable OrbitsI capacity:
there Is agility without endurance.
there is the low. retreatluE forehead
there Is nearly always something,
somewhere 10 mar the perfect tvpe.
even when natural selection is fol-
lowed
What might be the results OF the fur
tner domesticatjon OF man. on the
livestock plan can only be imagined