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COINS AND FACES ON THEM.
Features of Rulers Abroad, Here the
 Emblem of Liberty.

Features of Rulers Abroad, Here the Emblem of Liberty. Coins of most of the nations bear upon them the faces of their rulers. In the United States each coin has an em. blem of Liberty.
 The first coins struck after the for nation of the federal union bore the face of George Washington. General Washington disapproved of the custom and 1t was dropped. It has never been revived.
 Portraits of prominent Americans appear upon postage stamps, internal revenue stamps and paper money, but never on coins. And 1t has been the custom to use no portraits of living men even on the currency and the stamps.
 In England as soon as King Edward succeeded Queen Victoria the Queens face gave way to that of Edward on all the coins and stamps in the British empire. The accession of a new ruler in most monarchies means an instant change in the designs of the coins
 
 But there Is an exception to the rule of no portraits on American coins The emblem of Liberty on the 1-cent coin Is the goddess in an American Indian headdress. but the face shows no char acterlstics of the North American aborigine.
 It Is the face of little girl, Sarah Longacre Keen, upon whose head was placed the feathered ornament of a Sioux Indian. Her father was an en- graver and he placed his daughters head on the coin.
 Sarah Longacre Keen died in Phlla- delphia not long after having served thirty-flve years as the secretary of her city's branch of the Methodist Wom- ems Foreign Missionary Society.
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TO DRAIN TREASURE LAKE.
Georgia Woman's Husband Owns Waters Hiding Boats of Caesars.

Georgia Woman's Husband Owns
 Waters Hiding Boats of 2 Caesars.
 Few Americans who come to Italy fail to see the famous Lake of Menu, the Mirror of Diana" as the ancients called 1t, says the Rome correspondent of the New York World. The splendid castle mirrored in its waters, once the property of the Colonnas, then the Frangipanis, the Cencis and the Or sinis. is now owned by Don Enrico Rus poll, the second husband of an Ameri- can woman, whom he married In Wash ington six years years ago, Mrs Bru- tons. whose maiden name was Eugenia Berry, and whose girlhood home was at Oak Hill, Ga.
 On the borders of the lake, where now the strawberry beds cover the ruins, stood temple of Diana, once renowned for magnificence. It was pre- sided over by a priest whose sole quail ncatlon was that he killed his predeces- sor and always carried a sword in his hand to prevent being served likewise. Deep underneath the strawberry beds lie famous treasures. When the Or sinis owned the castle they dug up an-
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The Ananias Story.

Go to church and hear the pastor, In his pulpit large and wide, tell about the dead disaster that overwhelmed the man who lied. It was Colonel Ananias, who in the days long dead and gone, shocked the neighbors (who were pious) when he put the truth in pawn. An. he took the truth and hauled 1t through the cinders and the slack, and he slugged 1t, and he mauled 1t, and he split It up the back; so many bears came up and ate him. at the prophets stern command, and the generations hate him as they march adown the lahd He was cast into furnace that was full of coal and wood, and he nut tered, "This will learn us" (for his grammar wasn't good.) In the Red seas depths he widowed, with his chariots and men, till a whale came up and swallowed him. and he felt seedy then. Let us therefore shun the fable and the foolish, futile lie; do the best that we are able, camp in heaven by and by-Emporia Gazette.
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Is to whom falls in greater part the training of the population in the of beauty and in appreciation of the worth of beauty.
 Who keeps the flowers blooming In the average house loe? Who fills the southern window with plants in tL and broken pieces of crockeryf Who engages the florist to keep the rich house filled with flowers through all the seasons? For whom the beautiful ob jecs the rich home produced and forth? Always by and for the Who teaches the little children enjoy the beauties of nature and of art? Always almost always, the woman.
 look forward, therefore to the future of the higher education for great influence in the perfect ing of family fe of civic life of household joy and good -Harper's Bazar.
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INVENTED AS FAMINE FOOD.
Was Famous Boston Brown Bread When Breadstuns Were High.

Lovers of Boston brown bread are not generally aware of the fact that 1t was regarded in earlier days as famine food. It was invented by Maj. Nathaniel Thwlng, of Boston, In July, 1746.
 At that period there was great scarcity of the cereals. All sorts of provisions, but especially breadstuffs. were high. Wheat cost twenty shlll- ings a bushel, and white bread came at two cents an ounce, the sixteen ounce "household loaf" which was of coarse kind, selling for 12 cents.
 Thwing was baker by trade. When he asked permission of the selectmen of Boston to make and sell brown bread of certain specified compost ton, containing a stated proportion of cornmeal. the suggestion was kindly received; and, breadstuffs showing tendency to mount considerably higher thar the figures already mentioned, he proceeded to manufacture the article on a considerable scale, retaining a monopoly of the business for many years.
 It was not until parliament came tt the rescue of the colonists that bread stuffs fell In price, and even brown bread, though famine food, was at first more expensive than 1t Is today; but finally 1t dropped to 8 cents for loaf weighing about three pounds, and thus became an article available for the everyday diet of people of the most moderate means-though Boston ians today regard brown bread as a sort of Sunday bread most particular ly, eating 1t every Sabbath with baked beans-Saturday Evening Post
Alaska sentinel., 1908-09-24

The feeling of China for thIs coun try is unusually friendly, and it is for statesmen to maintain and promote the sentiment How far the ancient East can ever be an extension of the course of empire that for ages has taken its way westward is a problem that time alone can settle. But America and Asia can be friends and commercially inti- mate without trenching too far on race and socal traditions, habits, tastes and tendencies.
Alaska sentinel., 1908-09-24

Baron von Sternburg, German am- bassador to the United States, in an
 address at the University of Illinois, once showed that all the great leaders of nations. such as Frederick the Great and K'ang-Hi, the greatest Chinese emperor, have taught the same prin- ciples of citizenship. He drew an in teresting parallel between the teach ings of K'ang-Hl in the Holy Edict'' and the public utterances of President Roosevelt. It is a truth familiar to all students of comparative literature that under similar conditions men of moral purpose have much the same ideas. Devout scholars have always delighted in the fact that the noblest sentiments of Greek philosophy are not unlike those of the Bible. That modern man should preach what was preached by the ancients only bears out Lowells
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They are fitted into bony socket aEd the roots go almost up to the eyes
 A tusk eight feet long may have two feet of Its roots lmbedded in the skull, and If 1t Is taken away at once the head has to be chopped to pieces to get 1t cut
 In addition to the tusks, the elephant has six great teeth inside its mouth on each side Its jaw above and below and these are almost as firmly imbed- ded as the tusks themselves.
 The tusks are hollow about half way up The smallest forms big load for
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A M PEEEz{iEI9}!S PEE3z E9
By His Saving Grace.
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Who can save us from the power of sin? He who wins us from the love of It. 'The expulslve power of new af- fection," 1t Is well stated, "is the only thing that can supplant an old affec- tion, and therefore the only thing that can lessen its hold on us. If you want to be saved from the power of false hood, you must love truth If you would be free from the passion of selfishness you must love God, and through loving Him, come to love others around you ; If you would be strong on behalf of all that God loves, you must set your affec- tons on the things that are above, and not on the things that are on earth. y Many think that they can overcome the power and grip of evil on them by great effort Never! But If once we are safely held by the fear of God. by the love of Christ, then the old slavery Is gone, the chains and shackles fall of of themselves, and we walk forth out of our prison house free, In the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free.
 Therefore pray we, Our Father, which art in heaven, deliver us from evil emancipate us by Thy all-power- ful grace and love from the ache and wearlness, the struggle and the stress, of this ever-present enemy of mankind this clinging misery that weakens our will, and steals our love from Thee We cannot do 1t for ourselves, but Thou canst do 1t for us, and in us. For thine Is the kingdom and the power and the glory, for ever and ever' Amen !"- Rev. J. c. Greenhough.
Alaska sentinel., 1908-09-24

Many of the colleges and universities are in no-license towns. Leland Stan ford Is the largest non-sectarian insti- tuition to enforce prohibition within the university domain. Intoxicants are for bidden in boarding houses and fratern- ity buildings. Similar restriction has long obtained at several colleges which are under the control of influence of the churches.
Alaska sentinel., 1908-09-24
ELEPHANTS TUSKs.

Some of Them Are Nine Feet Long
 and Weigh 200 Pounds.
 Sixty-f1ye thousand elephants were killed In Africa last year and more than million and a half pounds of ivory were taken from them and shipped off to Europe. writes Frank c. Carpenter Of this fully one-third came from Zanzibar, another third was from Portuguese East and West Africa, and large part of the balance was from the valley of the Congo.
 Cape Colony furnished a hundred
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monzes organism to environment that each responds per
 ecy the other his pitful battles for existence will come end Wealth will abound Trivial toll will supply all gentle luxuries he needs and his superb mental and spiritual forces will at leisure to gage in those which their proper and worthy employment
Alaska sentinel., 1908-09-24
WOMEN AND COLLEGE EDUCATION
 By President EIiof of Harvard

The main object of the higher ed ucation of women has not been kept sufficiently in view. Of course, there are other objects, plenty of them training for the professions train Ing for all the varieties of work that women are now engaging In i; training for all that enjoyment and usefulness that come with knowl- edge of the fine arts, and with ap- preciation of the artistic spirit, and of what the artistic spirit can do for the activities of g nation. It
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A Good old World.

When the sun comes out An the clouds go way, An the little children
 Come out to play, An the grass looks green, An the cat sits curled On the gate post, ain't 1t A good old world? When the mocking bird
 Sings a lifting tune, An the air is liker
 The first O June Than midwinter air,
 Ain't your griefs all furled, An, honest, .ain't 1t
 A good old world? When sorrow comes,
 An your head droops low, An you've come to know All a chap can know Of grief, an your hopes Are in darkness hurled, An a friend comes, ain't 1t A good old world? It's a good old world
 It's a good world, yes! For the hope an love
 An the tenderness That comes when a chap By rough fate Is hurled In t Lopeless heap
 It's a good old world! For the little babies
 That laugh and run, For the cat a-nappin'
 Out in the sun On the high gatepost
 In a soft heap curled, For the singln' bird,
 It's a good old world! dd Mortimer Lewis.
Alaska sentinel., 1908-09-24

It is mortifying to learn that Aunt Carrie Nation was fined S25 and costs a day or two ago for scolding. Things have come to a pretty pass if Aunt Car rie cant express herself in her custom ary voice and manner without being punished for 1t.
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Baking Up the Past.

"Say, Burroughs" said Markley, ''how about that $10 you've owed me since last yearT
 "Oh, come, old man," said BorroughA "why can't you let bygones be by. gones?"-Philadelph Press.
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Prayer.

Our Heavenly Father, we thank Thee for Thy kind and loving care over the children of men. Thou art satisfying portion to every needy soul; with Thee is peace for every troubled heart and comfort for every afiliction of earth. Give us grace and strength to forbear
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According to Mark Twain, "a mine Is a hole in the ground owned by liar" Mark also has evidence that other busi- ness enterprises are owned by the same party.
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man, while one weighing 150 pounds requires four porters to carry It. Such men are paid from three to five cents a day for their labor, so that the cost of transportation Is not heavy.
Alaska sentinel., 1908-09-24

Human nature is funny thing, and after Anna Gould has had her second bitter lesson with fake '.noblemen," there will be plenty of her country people sorry for her.
Alaska sentinel., 1908-09-24

King Alfonso may as well give up the hope that he and Queen Victoria will ever be permitted to move into a fashionable fiat.
Alaska sentinel., 1908-09-24

Houston, Texas, has a woman who declares that she wouldn't marry the best man living Perhaps he ought to be congratulated.
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"The nation," says John c. Woolley, "is awake" Yes. It is even sitting up and noticing things, as old man Castro has found out.
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The Japanese government denies that 1t is in sore need of money. This may make 1t easier for Japanese tax-dodgers to sleep well.
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the buresque Hebrew and the impossible Irishman of vaudeville to a well-sustalned weacted play and you have found one who cannot discriminate between the merits of Raphaels Madonna and the "Newyweds' and Happy Hooligan' of the Sunday supplement.
 We cannot blame them, but educate them. Begin at the beginnugn the home in the schoolroom- give the men and of the future start In the right direction-the result will follow.
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By writing the story of his life and Bufferings himself MT. Rockefeller cleyerly forestalls Murat Halstead
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Some farmers are smaller potatoes than they raise.
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too easily led away by their immediate and objective side of things thus lose sight of their Inner mean ing, mysterious and divine
 The beautiful the good and the true are harmonious in and the glory of art consists in making this harmony apparent Left to themselves the uncutvated grasp only strikes their grosser they see nature its ugiest and most lusory aspect It Is the mission or art make them feel the indwellng beauty which, like truth always has existed Art IS so profoundly humanity that before knowing what the art of tomorrow will be must know what will be it's science and philosophy
 If art aim standardization of thought one we'll may ask the for its existence The average picture has no inspiration for Unimaginatve land scape is one legtImate ferns of art but the m- aginave landscape which suggests the cosmc beauty with which the artists soul has communed enters truly into domain of art and gives us no mere physical impression but a mental vision of nature.
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Dr. Koch's cure for the sleeping sickness" is good medicine to "try on' the boy whose job Is the early chores.
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epigram that the best things obiigingly got themselves said several thousand years ago.
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These mysterious" murders which are startling Paris would be easy to un- derstand if they were not done in Wrench.
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To choose friends for their appear ance is no worse than to judge book: by the cover.
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With the numerous courts in session 'hese are trying times.
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ADVANTAGES OF BEING RICH.
By Ada May krecker.

If riches have worth at all 1t is In relieving the mind of thoughts of money. It Is in letting soul and sense freely flower unimprisoned by paltry pennies. The ignominy of poverty Is the barbarous necessity of Interpreting all ones experience In terms of dimes and dollars of counting pennies over food shelter, amuse- ments, charities, everything; of choosing evil things for lack of pennies to get the good. It
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Jealousy is the trading stamp given with each case of true love.
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No Share in the Fun.

"What are you crying for, my little boyY
 "Boo-hoo! Pa fell downstairs!" "Don't take on 80. He'll get better soon."
 sister saw him fall all the way. ] never saw muffin !"-Answers.
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vulgar thus to do violence to ones taste to ones dell cacy elegance It is vulgar to solace with soft sentiments instead of expressing ourselves with art and beauty is vulgar to starve souls by denying them what they require chain them to earth when they winged to fly heaven For piteous povertys de formes the body her rayages the life of the are sadder By ugness and squalor the heart is bru talized the soul scared. Millions of and are crippled stultihed diseased of mind and morals by reason of their beggary
 Less idle as the world is ordered, the conso lations of philosophy and religion. There Is lot ever base and patry but yields Enthusiastically lavish compensation to heroic heart. And there Is soul so but buds and flowers In some beauty peculiar to itself be its environs they will When the civilized man 50 attunes his life to his surroundings, har-
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THE THEATER AND THE PUBLIC.
By Otis Skinner.

As Is the character of the community and the age, so is Its theater. It cannot lead; 1t must follow, for it reflects life and tendencies -"the very age and body of the time" If the public selects the trashy play or exposition on which to lavish its favor. 1t Is because that portion of the public possesses cheap and trashy minds and uncultured tastes.
 Find the man who prefers the educated dogs,
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When money begins to talk peorle sit up and take notice.
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Mankind is divided into happy peo- ple unhappy people, and the Gould fam
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The multiplication table doesn't sat isfy a small boys hunger.
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MISSION OF ART TO UPLIFT MAN.
By Jean DeiviIle.

There perhaps never has been period h the history of man or In the annals Of arr when nature was more beloved and more ap- preciatively studied than by the poets and men of science and artists of our own time. And unquestionably this has had fruitful infu- ence in many ways upon the modern mind and the sensibilities of mankind as whole But we are too greatly fascinated by the visible,
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For Others.

"For others"-what a glorious thought That we, so crowded on this busy earth Can learn this lesson with such blessings fraught, Living the only life of real worth
 For others. The cares and tolls that burden and an noy, The heart-aches that so keenly pierce to-day. The sorrows that oercloud the path of joy, Are frightened when, forgetting self, we pray
 For others. On let us, then. in kindly sympathy Be watchful e'er for every chance to bless; Following Him who cen on Calvary s tree "Pleased not Himself but suffered on the cross
 For others. Thus walking in His footsteps day by day, Trying to be like Jesus mid the earth ly strife, Thou'lt come in Gods appointed time and way To dwell with Him who gave His pre- cious life
 For others. Rev. G. NJ. Donohoo.
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The talk of a good many people sounds as If they had begun in the middle.
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If man has sense be sees other things in life beside dollars.
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PUBLISHED WEEKLY
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1908-09-04
FOOLB4RDY POLITICS.

President Roosevelt's interest in the renom-
ination of Governor Hughes. which he IS re
ported TO have declared to the political leaders
of this state TO be a necessity, is something
more than that of g citizen OF New York dc
slrous Of having the present high standard or
the state administration maintained and than
that of q Republican concerned over the sue
cess of his party. The President is more than
ANYTHING else interested in the future Of his
own policies in the carrying forward of the
unfinished work of his administration and in
rho nIacinr of This task in the hands best fitted
to carry it ont.
To nominate any other than Governor Hughes
would be to involve the national campaign In
doubt Elements of incalcuable danger would
be projected into it at once by the rejection Of
the Governor. A moral issue would be raised
against the party all through the state The
old cry against hossism. which surely has lost
none Of its vitality would certainly he taken
I'D. and it might affect the voters with the same
force with which 1t did in the cataclysmc cam
paicn of 1905. when Mr.. Jerome raised it. 1t
might sweep all before it and carry down into
indiscriminate defeat the national with the
state ticket Nor would it be likely that the
effects of such political excitement and such a
moral uprising against the Republican manage
n1ent in New York as are to be feared If the
will of the people should be defeated would
he confined TO this state. Other states would
he sympathetically affected. just as Boston re
sponded to the Jerome excitement and elected
Moran in 1865 Besides. there would be dis
n0sitfon in the Middle West. where Mr.. Hughes
and what he stands for admired, to judge
the whole Republican party by its fruits in New
York A placid situation would become dan
gerousy squally one. With Mr. Hughes on the
ticket no such doubt and confusion would eX-
ist He NAV have his weaknesses, even rs
great weaknesses as the opposition contends,
hut in him there is no threat of political con
vulslon whose extent no one can foresee. To
reject Mr. Hughes, therefore, would be 10 ex-
pose the Presidents policies TO great and I'M
necessary risk
The organization leaders who 10 oppose Mr.
Hughes have also TO oppose the President-not
only his personal wishes as Il citizen Of the
state and a Republican, and his interests rs the
Trainer of the present governmental policies
are also ieOparding the interests of the Repub-
Iican candidate for Vice-President, one of their
own number. on whose nomination they came
back from Chicago priding Themselves They
owe Mr.. Sherman the most loyal support and
should waive various personal considerations
rather than subject his prospects to unneces-
sarv risks In Mr.. Sherman they have given
hostage 10 political fortune. Yet no one is more
oUtspoken than Mr. Sherman for Mr.. Hughes's
denomination. He sees its necessity as clearly
as the President himself does