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Alaska sentinel., 1908-08-20

Ten years ago Congress formally de clared that war existed between the United States of America and the king dom of Spain. With that act fate turned the page upon a new chapter In the history of the American people This at least Is clear after ten years Perhaps to the wisest little else Is clear. The mood of the nation to-day has cer- tainly neither the enthusiasm of the so-called expansionist nor the anxiety and forebodlng of the anti-imperialist. The future looks neither so bright as It did to the one, nor so dark as It did to the other. If our mood could be en- compassed In a phrase 1t would prob ably best be described as somewhat uninsplring belief In the lneyitability of our present development. At times this Is brightly colored by sense of the new prestige of the nation before the world, but this Is not so new and keen as 1t might be, for consciousness of our greatness has never been altogether denied us. At times we grow restiye under knowledge of new and irksome responsibilities and obligations. But this does not last long either, since we are full blooded people, self-confident, and not normally anxious. The chap ter, therefore, thus far Is. In the main, plain prose. Whether It has meaning more poignant than we suspect is for the future to disclose. We know that the chapter is but begun. That the American imagination has not caught fire at the events of the Spanish war and Its really splendid results Is, per haps, explalnable from the fact that our energies are as yet so exactingly and so successfully engaged within our own continent. However that may be, there is still something imperlally insolent In Amerlca's easy and confident entry upon the stage of world politics-as though the country had bided Its time in cool assurance of welcome and con- plete success as protagonist in that great drama, an assurance not uniting In the latest born of history, the heir of all the ages. However, a decade has not been long enough to crystalline a foreign policy founded upon our new status and our new relations. That public opinion which arises out of a general recognition of needs and ten dencies Is not yet formed with regard to our situation in the far east, our ultimate duty to the Fllipinos, our re- lations with China and Japan. At this time 1t may be said to be In a state of solution, but comparatively slight shock would precipitate 1t. That we are awake to the Pacific and Its prob lens is much. That we realize more fully each year the significance of the Panama Canal, that South America rises more fully over the horizon of our national consciousness, that we are be- ginning to think in terms of world rela- tions-all this means that We are in a new epoch, and that we are pledgins ourselves to its Issues as consciously, perhaps, as nations ever do. Our dan ger is that we shall enter and grudge payment. To help rule the world Is to pay a great price not only in materiai treasure but In the precious coin of na- tional character. The reflex of worldly ambition and external success upon ourselves Is the main question. But the genius of the race must deal with that as 1t must in the generations to come.
Alaska sentinel., 1908-08-20

Prof. J. ". Burgess says that the German army is "a school of manners which transforms the rudest peasant into something like a gentleman" On the other hand, judging by certain of ficers, 1t transforms the gentleman into something like the rudest peasant.
Alaska sentinel., 1908-08-20
CHASE FOR TITLES.
Many Arc Real, but Others Are
 Merely Assumed.

AIo Ncalp Uut AEc
 Merely Assumed.
 At least fifty titles, more or less au- thentic, have been captured by Ameri can women in France. How many are real7 A good proportion. Others are papal others merely assumed. Since titles were abolished In France the "aristocracy" has increased flvefold. There are five times as many dukes, counts and all that in republican France to-day, says Vance Thompson In the Broadway, as there were in the royal France of old. They spring up like mushrooms. There Is no law against your butcher assuming the ti- tie of the Marquis de Tete de yeau If 1t so pleases him. And therefore comes 1t that many a girl does not get what ste pays for-poor child!
 However, authentic titles-reglster- ed in the Almanach de Goth-are go- ing cheap these days. One of the best known American women in Paris makes an excellent living as mar rlage broker. I have seen one of her lists which was brought to the atten- ton of girl with money-moncy made, curiously enough, out of wooden toothpicks. Among the titled men of fered to the wooden toothpick helress were Due de Montmorency. the Count de Chateaubriand and the Prince de Lecca. She hasn't chosen yet. I rec commended the Prince de Lecca. He is of the Corsican branch of the Co., lonnas and has been trying to marry an American girl for years and years.
 Of course he has no money, but the title Is a good one. He is known as the knight of the sorrowful visage ; he writes verses.
 Take him." said to the heiress.
 "Why?" she asked.
 Because he looks like a toothpick." :" But she didn't like the reason.
Alaska sentinel., 1908-08-20
FloMered Coat LininRs.

Foulard Is the preferred lining of spring suits and of summer serges and fiannels, the lining edges trimmed pret- tily in different ways. Dressy after noon cloaks are lined with loose layers of moussellne de sole, and enchanting ly fresh and dainty Is loose lining of
Alaska sentinel., 1908-08-20

We rather like this observation from the Washington Post: "The Smiths, Joneses and Browns are the butt of many jokes, but you never find their names in a list of wild-eyed, bomb throwing anarchists"
Alaska sentinel., 1908-08-20

Higher education for women has been justified in the eyes of the in- habitants of one New England town. Some college girls at home for va- cation entered a spelling-bee, and two of them spelled down their mates and all the natives" This will set at rest in one community the suspicion that college students are deficient in the ru- ailments.
Alaska sentinel., 1908-08-20

More than a hundred millions were spent for about fifty thousand new pleasure automobiles by Americans last year. Some of those who intended to buy an automobile this year have changed their minds since the panic.
Alaska sentinel., 1908-08-20

According to Chancellor Day, men get rich, get fat, get dyspepsia, and die. But there was Russell Sage, who got rich, but didn't get fat, and died anyway
Alaska sentinel., 1908-08-20

are most expensive, and therefore best of all.'
 "Violets." she shook her head. "beau tiful and fragrant and tenderly sincere, If you like, but oldfashioned, dread fully old-fashloned, and not even to be considered, you know"
Alaska sentinel., 1908-08-20

Possibly Congress has the absurd Idea that to build two battleships at a cost of S20,OOO,OOO will be doing fair ly well for a nation that is a trifle shy on revenue just now.
Alaska sentinel., 1908-08-20
Same old Growler.

don't care much bout springtime,
 Or where 1t comes, or when; It means the chills And doctor bills: l jest can't climb the mornin' hills
 For rheumatism then Atlanta Constitution.
Alaska sentinel., 1908-08-20

Owing to the hard times, Helen Gould Is suspending some of her pet charities. The hard times don't seem to have affected Madame Gould. She is thinking of taking on a new one.
Alaska sentinel., 1908-08-20

Well up toward the head of the list of mean men will be found the name of that Chicago father who deserted his wife as soon as he learned that she had become the mother of twins, and never came back.
Alaska sentinel., 1908-08-20

selling books. The change of feeling on this matter is interesting as showing a tendency to look at college sport more sanely than has lately been the prac' tice
Alaska sentinel., 1908-08-20

An Indiana woman claims to have discovered how to keep eggs for year. Some of the grocers appear to have discovered long ago how to do that.
Alaska sentinel., 1908-08-20

Summer baseball" is matter which fouses the interest of a great many high school and college boys, to some of whom will come excellent opportunl- ties to earn money during vacation by playing on professional or semi-profes- sIonal teams. By the athletic rules now most universally in use, those who accept such positions will be debarred from playing on any college team. The rule was established to keep college sport free from professionalism, and has been regarded as wise. Lately
 however. disposition to question Its wisdom has been shown by prominent college presidents and professors. They point out that what is wanted to pre- vent college boys from giving undue prominence to sport. To this end 1t Is desirable to keep professional ball players from entering college merely to play ball; but that Is no reason why a genuine student, under the necessity of earning his way through college, should not be left as free to do 1t by playing ball as by teaching school or
Alaska sentinel., 1908-08-20

A woman wants $75,OO0 for kiss. Wall street in Its palmiest days never saw a more fragrant attempt at over capitalization.
Alaska sentinel., 1908-08-20

"We need women to care for our souls," declares Hamilton Wright Ma bic. Which sounds all right, but as a matter of fact we keep them busy car ing for our socks and underwear.
Alaska sentinel., 1908-08-20

Farmers In the dark tobacco district of Kentucky are selling out and leay- ing the State. In some localities this is too free a country.
Alaska sentinel., 1908-08-20

After an affecting scene at play the men all blow their noses vigorous ly, and the women pat their eyes. A mans way of crying Is to blow his nose.
Alaska sentinel., 1908-08-20

The only woman who has a right to take advantage of leap year privileges, and propose, Is the woman who has lots of money In her own name.
Alaska sentinel., 1908-08-20

BOMBING PICKING IT, AND PACKING FOR MARKET
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Alaska sentinel., 1908-08-20

MT. Asquith, England's new premier, is a man with past, and 1t is past that Is highly to his credit.
Alaska sentinel., 1908-08-20

A doctor can hardly be blamed for losing his temper when he gets out of patients.
Alaska sentinel., 1908-08-20

Bishop Fallows thinks the average man ought to live to be 120 years old. Pass the word to Osler.
Alaska sentinel., 1908-08-20

If there Is one thing a garruous man detests more than another 1t h talkative woman
Alaska sentinel., 1908-08-20

A lightweight suiting of rich brown color was chosen for this suit. And satin was used for the collar and bands. The coat has the pointed front and back and is closed with fancy but tons. The skirt is plain circular with shaped bands.
Alaska sentinel., 1908-08-20

The recent burning of the town hall and other buildings in Guayaquil, Ecu ador, with a view to check the progress of the bubonic plague, suggests that many a structure In another place in- vites annihilation for similar purposes. There are tuberculosis blocks" in New York City, tenements so saturated with the disease that an occupant is almost certain to be stricken. In Paris the municipal council has just discovered that several hundred dwellings in the workingclass districts are dangerous for the same reason. There are noto- rious "cancer houses" in Lincolnshire, England; there Is at least ono plague tenement" In Bombay, India; and 1t is recorded that Amber, tAe ancient capi- tai of the Indian state of Jaipur, had to be dispeopled and deserted because 1t was so completely infected with lep- rosy. To all such dwellings of death the GuayaQuil treatment should be ap- piled. Any municipality could better afford to pay the cost of replacing a dlsease-ridden buildings than to let It stand and take perpetual toll of lives
Alaska sentinel., 1908-08-20

and to every two gallons add one pound of glue. The cracks must be filled solid and even with the boards.
Alaska sentinel., 1908-08-20

i've appearance as those younger, for, after all, the success of the toilet de- pends far more upon the hat than upon any other part of the costume.
Alaska sentinel., 1908-08-20
The Angry Girl.

She loses her sense of humor; often also the other sense she has goes with 1t. If getting angry ever did any good there would be more reason In 1t. The surest way to weaken a good cause is by bad temper.
 The girl who is easily angered pays the piper in broken friendships. A hot temper rarely finds a happy home big enough to hold 1t. The angry girl forgets that the peni- tence which follows her folly Is not pleasant company.
 Study from Nature.
 Mans little chunk of lee;
 Woman Is the sun she lets
 Herself beam on him. How nics
 And soft he gets! -Harper's Weekly.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-07-05

cube of water having sides 54.4 feet in length, or to reservoir 126.7 feet square ond 10 feet deep.
 One million blood corpuseles (which are each about 1-3200 inch in diameter) i, if laid in row, touching one another. would cover distance of 26 feet. and 1,0O0,0o0 bacteria (which are about 15000-inch in length and 1-25.O00-inch in diameter), if laid lengthwise, end to end. would extend to a distance of 16.66 feet; but, if laid side by side, they would be 3.33 feet long.
 gramme of street mud, which IS equivalent to a small cube of earth having sides -quarter-inch in length, contains about 7S,O00,0OO bac- teria, which, if placed in line side by side, would cover a length of 25974 feet, and a gramme of earth from a cultivated field will contain about II, : 000000 bacteria, which, if laid side by side, would extend a distance of 366O feet.
 In the Alpine mountains no bacteria were found in 10000 900 cubic centime- ters of air, which is equivalent in size to a cube of ' feet sides; but in tn air of the streets of Paris 55 900 were found in the same volume of air; whi,e in the rain water in Paris 33,SOO. .0uc bacteria were found in a cube having sides ' feet in length. This is equiva- lent to about 57 bacteria to one cubic inch.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-07-05
THE RE-BURIAL =
 OF NAPOLEON

At last-at last, the procession was seen coming down the Champs Elysees past our windows. First came innumer- able squadrons of all regiments, in all uniforms, preceded by body of trum- peteers. l cannot remember anything about them. except their splendid effect Neither can l remember any sounds. Music there must have been, shouts there may have been, but l remember nothing about them. We were breath less to see the real thing. It came-first in the shape of an old white horse said to be the son of Marengo who carried his master al Wagram. At any rate. the saddle, bridle and housings were those worn by Marengo on that occasion, and preserved in the Hotel Cluny
 Then, after it's guard of honor. came the imperial car-came Napoleon to the banks of the Seine On either side were the sailors of the Belle Poule marching two and two at the edge of the avenue, thus leaving broad golden space, along which the car moved lightly, gracefully, yet Srandly.
 l cannot recall any sounds as the Elm peror passed us. Men stood with barred heads in the biting wind silent it seems to me. till their pent-up emotion broke forth in a sort of sob as the remnants of
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-07-05
MIND CANNOT GRASP BIG
 FIGURES OF PRESENT AGE

bank of earth measuring one yard square and 56S.2 miles in length.
 The excavation in the construction of the Manchester ship canal amounted to 54.0000O0 cubic yards, of which 12,000, ,000 consisted of red sandstone rock. The total of 54,O0O,000 could be depicted by a wall of material one yard square and 30,6S3 miles in length. As the circumfer- ence of the earth at the equator is about 24,SS4 miles. this wall of excavated ma terial would be sufficient to form a girdle round the world, or it might be repre- sented by cube of material having sides 37S yards long.
 One million tons of rock following IA cubic feet to the ton) can be Illustrated by cube having sides about 241 feet Tn length.
 In the United States the coal raised per annum totals 30,S21 O00 tons, which are equal to cube having sides "A yards long; and in Germany the quantity raised is 119,3i9,oo0 tons, equivalent to a cube with sides 231 yards in length.
 One million building bricks, if piled carefully together so as to form a cube. could be contained in one whose sides were S9.S feet, or, say. 40 feet long, allow ing Is bricks to the cubic foot, laid with out mortar, or 100000 bricks can be de- picted by wall feet high, inches thic8 z 70
 In connection with the study of astron- omy it is difficult to realize the meaning of millions of miles, but some idea may be gathered from the time that would be taken by an express train, or the shot from cannon, to cover celestial spaces.
 The distance of the earth from the sun is about 92ooO,000 miles, and light travel ing at the rate of 1S6, 700 miles per second in vacuo, traverses this distance in eight and one-fourth minutes, but a railway train, going at speed of 60 miles per hour, would take 175 years to reach the sun.
 The circumference of the elipse form ing the orbit of the earth round the sun is about 9676oo00 miles in length, and the earth covers this distance in 365A days, traveling at the rate of 65,910 miles an hour, or 10sS miles per minute, or nearly HOO times as fast as a train going at one mile per- minute. Therefore, train travelling at this speed would re- quire nearly HOO Years to accomplish the journey round the earth's orbit.
 The velocity of u rifle bullet is about 2130 feet per second, or PAP miles per minute, and that of the projectle weigh ing 3SO pounds, from a quick firing nine inch gun, Is about 5000 feet per second, or 34 miles per minute, so that the veloc- ity of the earth is 32'a times as fast os the latter
 million gallons of water. weighing 10 pounds DOT sallon, is equivalent to 4,4642s tons, and allowing 36 cubic feet to 'he 'on' this will be equal to a
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-07-05
Folding Go-Cart The Best Made
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readers, arranged so that every reader has the light over his left shoulder and sits next to an aisle, and no reader faces another or will have another pass be- hind him in going or coming. This room contains the loan desk and the desk of the reference librarian and the catalogue. On the walls will be placed the reference books, the books reserved for the use of the classes, the current periodicals and several thousand volumes of general lit- erature. This room is about 70 rect In height: 1t is lighted by high windows which leave space for bookcases around the walls. Of the reading room on the north is the fourth floor of the stack, which Is expected to contain the college 1ibrary proper, or a collection of some 25OOO volumes specially selected for the use of the undergraduates. Adjoining the stack and connecting with the reading room is the large, high and well-lighted cataloe,1ing room, which fronts on the court. The catalogue trays are so ar ranged as to be accessible both rom the cataloguers room and the reading room' On the right of the vestibule are the pup lie stairs. with the mems and the wo- men's coat rooms on the two sides Of the nassape at the end of which are the iihrarians two rooms, one public and 
 Ascending the stairs the visitor reaches inc mezzanine floor, which contains large and handsome monumental room for the famous Harris collection or Amer ican poetry. a rare book room, In which sliding bookcases will be employed, ana A large study room over the catalogue room. lighted from the court. On this floor will be two balconies overiooRing the reading room.
 The second or top floor is devoted to special collections and study rooms. From it opens the eighth floor of the stack. Here are large room and study room In each case for the Rider Collection Of Rhode Island History and the Wheaton Collection of International Law, large unassigned room, map room three rooms for art folios and other art volumes, and three study rooms, besides large exhibition room. lighted from above.
 The simplicity and orderliness Of such an architectural plan exactly accords with the character of the great American whom the building commemorates. Per haps at some time subsequently, a sculp- tured memorial of Browns distinguished alumnus may be added to impress still further upon generations of students the woi thiness Of their heritage from the nineteenth century.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-07-05
From English Mechanic and World (

From English Mechanic and World of
 Science.
 This is the age of millions and million aires. A few centuries ago people thought in hundreds of thousands, but now one thinks In millions. If one studies political economy, finance, astronomy, the atomic theory, the age of the earth, the vibrations of heat-waves, or even the water supply of towns, one must think in millions, for each generation of mankind must be trained to think on higher scale than the preceding generation, in order to make progress.
 If the national expenditures, taxes and rates continue to increase annually in the future as they have done in the past the people of future generations will think in billions, or in millions of millions.
 One million persons collected together in a crowd, with an allowance of three square feet per person, would cover an area of 6S.S acres-say 70 acres-or could be contained in square having sides 6T7.6 yards long; or if one allows IS inches per person standing shoulder to shoulder i.000,0OO people would extend a distance Of 2S4.1 miles, or from London to Alnwick.
 The population of the county of London amounts to 6,549,000, and allowing IS inches per person standing shoulder to shoulder, IL would form a human mall 1860 miles long; or the whole population could be placed on an area of 0.7 square mile, or on a square having sides of O.S4 of a mile.
 New York has population of 3.43700O which would cover an area of 0.S7 of a square mile, which is equivalent to a square having sides 0.60 of mile long.
 Paris contains 2,714,0O0 persons, who could be accommodated comfortably on O.29 of a square mile, or 0.54 by 0.54 of mile. and the people of Berlin number 2,04O,OO0 souls, who would cover an area of 0.22 of square mile, and could be contained in square having sides 047 of a mile in length.
 The population of the United Kingdom consists of about 4S.29O,0OO persons. and If an area of three square feet be allowed Tor each person to stand on this great crowd could be accommodated on an area or 462 square miles, equal to a square of 2.l5 by 2.15 miles, or, if standing shoulder 10 shoulder, would form a human wall lz'zoo miles in length. which would ex- ceed half way round the earth at the equator
 one million cubic yards of excavation is equivalent to a cube having sides 100 yaros long. or 1t may be repressed by a
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-07-05
A WIIIina Tool.

From the Baltimore American.
 Since young Jim De Peyster. who De- longs to one of our best families, lost his money, he has gone into the social burglary business"
 Social burglary?"
 Yes; he chaperones rich parvenus.' How is that burglary?'
 He helps them to break into society with a Jimmy
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-07-05

the Grand Army followed their great leader An. what sight that was!- those old, maimed men, in faded uni- forms of every grade and color; sappers and miners, grenadiers, dragons, lanc- CTS, and, above all, the survivors of the Old Guard.
 On the following day we went to the Invalides to see Napoleon lying where he had prayed to lie. But it was all un- satisfactory. The crowd was terrible; women were fainting; the church was dark with black and purple hangings; the only light came from green and lurid flames belching from tripods; the air was suffocating and the Emperor's cof- fin was almost invisible within sort of gilded cage Nothing rewarded us but the idea-no, the reality-that Napoleon was therei
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-07-05
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