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Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1911-04-21

cured, necessary buildings erected for the health
of workmen and the preservation of antiquities
Not only are actual remains to be sought. but
also important historical or artistic questions are
to be solved Indeed the Egyptian Exploration
Fund was the first to employ this method of
clearing old monuments and Of showing the world
what they were.
Such stupendous undertakings call for equip
ment on a considerable scale. BY the courtesy
of Sir CASTOR Maspero, the government has
loaned to the Fund light railway with equip
ment. Work must be rapid December l to
April l marks the working year. Every moment
is precious. Every load must count Every
shovelful of earth must be carefully sifted wher-
ever there is possibility of find. Even a bas-
ket brigade is sometimes pressed into use. AS
soon as some apparently valuable piece of To-
Gated workmen called off, experts are sent
in every man is on guard; carefully every inch
of soil is watched the last few baskets of
earth are removed. Every fragment must be
saved and laid away until everything has been
recovered. Think of the disappointment when
a magnificent statue comes out headless, for ex-
ample. Think OF the conjectures as to the where
abouts of the missing piece and the furore when,
perhaps weeks afterward, the lost Is found.
There is an air of hushed expectancy. suppress
ed excitement lowering over, that keeps men up
under the most tense strain under which the
work is of necessity conducted
America has joined hands with the old world
in prosecuting the work. An American profes
sor DR.. Whittemore, is now with the staff In the
field An American secretary, Mrs. Marie NJ
Buckman, has been assigned to the direction OF
the American office, located in fremont temple.
Boston Wonderful are the results attained
Every student of history and literature, every
student of the Bible is vitally concerned in the
combinations yearly coming to light from the
sands of Egypt.
There is need of haste. To extend the arabic
district of Egypt Is economic necessity. Ac
cordingly, the British government has erected at
Assuan great dam, whose 95foot head has sent
the waters of the Nile back over great areas of
hitherto dry ground Already dozen great tenn
pies have been flooded and ere long will be for
ever lost to sight. Already beautiful ?hilae at
the head of the first cataract, Is gone. The soil
is becoming infltrated, and the stores of treas
ures, especially the papyrus manuscripts, he
ing ruined before the waters cover the
ground above.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1911-04-21
THE PRICE OF
LAND INCREASING
THE "BAcK TO THE LAND" CRY
is EFFECTIVE.

Travelling through the state of Iowa
the other day, and Iowa is no excep-
ton to the story about to be related,
the writer was shown farm that was
offered three years ago for $3.50 an
acre. That appeared to be a high fig
ure for land upon which the owner
depended upon the crops of corn, hogs
and cattle that could be raised upon
It. But Il wasn't a few weeks since
the farm changed hands at 1925 an
acre. Over in Illinois, down in In
diana, up in Wisconsin, across the
line in Minnesota, the same eNperi-
ence was met with. And then atten-
ton is directed to Canada, which has
been the Mecca of so many hundred
thousand Americans during the past
few years. Not only in Eastern Can
ada has the price of lands increased,
but in Western Canada, during the
past few weeks farm lands have in
creased from three to five dollars an
acre, with the prospect of a similar
advance during the next three months.
The reason for this is very apparent,
and in q few words IL may be pointed
out that the lands are worth great
deal more than the present prices.
The Northwestern Agriculturist Of
Minneapolis, a paper that was one of
the first of the American farm papers
to discover the real merits of the
lands of Manitoba, Saskatchewan and
Alberta, says: THE reciprocity sched-
ule would encourage American farm
ers to move to Canada, where the vir-
gin soil will produce greater crops of
grain with less labor than can be pro-
duced in our own farms in the North
west. The result viii be to enhance
land values in Canada" This paper
is afraid land values in Canada VIII be
enhanced at the expense of land
values in the United States. In face
of the fact that land values in the
United States are increasing the rea-
soning scarcely holds. The reason for
the advance in value of Canadian
lands is partly accounted from the
fact. admitted by this paper. that Can
| ada's virgin soil will produce greater
crops of grain with less labor" But
that is not the only reason. During
| the past twelve months 100000 peo-
pie have made Canada their home and
these are mostly of the farming class.
They want farms, and the demand as
we'll as the wealth of the soil is regu-
lating the price. A study of the In
crease in the acreage of land put un.
der crop last year. which can be had
from any Canadian government repre-
sentative. will prove the point, that
the demand is increasing at a greater
ratio than even the most sanguine
would have predicted.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1911-04-21
UNWRlTTEN LAWS

There is a class of unwritten law which does
not and cannot become written law, says Case
and Comment, because 1t approaches so near the
danger line that man dare not recognize 1t to the
extent of publishing 1t and declaring it AS part
of the positive law.
1t is the unwTtten law of the sea that cap
tain must go down with his ship. Men dare not
write It into the contract and nations dare not
incorporate II in their navy or marine regulations
yet the tyrants of the sea know the law, and be-
lieve that to obey it betters their service, and
there are few instances Of its being disregarded.
1t is the unwrltten law Of the army and navy
that an officer shall not seek cover, or at least
shall not show apprehensicr of danger to his per
son, in time OF battle ana in the presence OF en-
listed men or common sailors. In the Franco
Prussian war nearly four thousand officers of the
German army were killed and the great majority
of them gave up their lives hccause they believed
In this law Of conduct
In obedience to this law Farragut bound him
sell to the mast, Lee rode TO the head of his
chLiHing column at the bloody angle and Lawton
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1911-04-21
Traditions Which Have Almost the
Force of Statutes

walked coolly in front of the line and was shot in
the presence of his men,
The law of the right of revolution has been
much talked about and much written about. Every
intelligent citizen believes that he has the right
under certain conditions to oppose the established
government of his own land and join In effort
to establish another in its place. Just prior to
and during the Civil war there much discus
sion in this country by learned men either
side of the right of revolution and the higher
power" and the greater law"
The law justifyiug one person in the killing of
another has required the serious consideration of
every country, Every criminal code provides
tain punshments for homicide, and many Of them
graduate the punishment with minute particular
ity, according the circumstances of the killing
so that any one of six crimes Lay be involved in
sihgle tragedy. Such codes also attempt to de.
fine what Killing is justiAoble and what is ex.
cusable and with their Interpretation by the
courts attempt to describe the only conditions un-
der which one human being can kill another
The Hebrew code almost stands alone in it's
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1911-04-21

recognition of mans desire to kill and his right
20 have that desire and that climax of all salts
factions which comes to him who under great
provocaon Stays another. 1t Is not at all strange
that in his branch there should be an extended
code of unwritten written law, unwrtten now
and always to be unwritten for the that the
recognition given by its embodiment in the
statutes would be taken license by dishonest
men and would result In harm rather than good.
1t is an unwrtten law among the officers of the
army that If subordinate officer kills a superior
officer because that officer has publicly degraded
him by striking him or by other action equally
humatng then the court-martial will not con
vict During the Civil war at Louisville. KY,
General Nelson said to General Davis:
"How many men have your"
General Davis replied. About" giving ap-
proXimate number,
Nelson said 'iYou an army officer and say
'aboutl Why don't you know how many men
you haye?' And with that he struck Davis in the
face with his glove. Davis shot and killed him
and the court-martla acquitted Davis
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1911-04-21

Not only are there such outward evidences of
Egypts wealth From the burials the very
objects with which the people wont to
round themselves The tombs of the kings have
given the grave of Ioua and Tioua with its
chariot, funeral sledges, mummy cases. chairs,
beds, and jewel box-all gilded and paneled; ala
baster vases and larder still stored with food.
Even the feather cushions have been preserved
these 1900 years.
The excavations of 1906 brought to light the
wonderful Hathor shrine with its statue of
Egypts cow-goddess plumed and crowned with
the lunar Disc trailing lotus blossoms from her
splendid head and with the stars of heaven gleam-
ing along her form. Beneath her kneels the in
fant king whom she nourshes; before her stands
the dead king whom she protects.
The excavating of ancient sites is a tack that
calls for expert knowledge, the utmost skill, pune
tilious care, and small diplomacy. Often own
ers, more less real. must be placated and
bought off. Before money Is expended the ut
Site Trial trenches and shafts must be driven
to confirm disprove, IL possible, expectations
When at last the site feasible, the work
begins in earnest
The excavations of ancient sites is task that
neers in the field. has just entered upon the
work at Abydos. Following the methods of scien
tifc excavators, they settling for long Pc
riod A considerable tract of land has been Sc
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1911-04-21
Good Reason for IL.

'T see premiere danseuse is ad-
vertised to dance with five snakes
twined about her"
Should think she would. If a
snake got on me I'd bet I'd dance
Stray Stories
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1911-04-21
SHON>U HUvT mn ms CALLS[D MZE To
FZCOD AH(>E1W TZ1zZE
W W

and before England had been snatched from
the continent by the arms of the
Think of the rubbish heaps of these
cient cities being dug up and of there be-
Ing sifted out from the debris the story of
the daily life of people 5000 and even 5000 II
years gone by. Think of bundle of let I
ters 5000 years old that retold and in points I
corroborated the story of Palestine when IA@@
the patriarchs still alive. Think of -
digging from the ruins of an ancient me-
uopois the records of 1000 years.
The Egyptians were a people of great
deeds, of Incredible achievements Their
first great structures. the pyramids sur. ~
pass In magnitude the works of these modern
times. Khufus pyramid covered thirteen acres
and was 500 feet high. Seven hundred and
fifty square feet-more than a seventh of
mile. Over 94.0O0,OOO cubic feet of mate
rial quarred out, dragged to the Nile foated
down the stream. dragged up to the desert, and
into place. How they did it engineers are still
puzzled to know. So closely these stones
fitted together that in the outside courses which
now are in place only at the base, beneath the
sand. the lines Were scarcely visible and must
be outlined with charcoal to be photographed
Scarcely less wonderful were the temples of
the mighty Ramses. The gateway at Luxor was
100 feet wide and 80 feet high and was fanked
by obelisks 80 feet high Before the temple at
Tanis stood 90foot statue of the king. Leading
from Luxor to Karnak great avenue more
than mile and quarter long, so feet wide and
fanked either side the entire distance by
colossal sphinxes. In the great Hall of Columns
at Karnak stands 12 columns 35 feet in circum-
ference and go feet high. Flanking these are
-? columns 27 feet in girth and 40 feet high.
Crowning these hundred-ton architectraves.
Here stood huge obelisks 98 and 1875 feet high,
one obelsk weighed thousand tons In one
city were IA of these huge monoliths. More than
5000 years ago the genius of man carved these
cyclopean blocks from the rock transported them
for miles down stream and across country, and
finally lifted them onto high walls set them
up on end, an enigma to modern engineers
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1911-04-21

Sore Throat is no trfing ailment. 1t
r'ny carry disease germs to any part of
he body through the food you eat When
yon feel sore throat coming on, use Ham
Inns Wizard Oil.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1911-04-21

Constipation slowly impairs the genera
health Garfield Tea correets constipation
and benefits the entire system.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1911-04-21

The errors of a great mind are
more edifying than the truths of {
little.-Borne.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1911-04-21
Preliminary Suspension.

How did Jobbles wife manage to
hang up lace curtains"
81 think by making Jobble hang up
his watch"
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1911-04-21

To do two things at once is to do
neither.-Publius Syrus.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1911-04-21

Wanted to Know.
Mistress-Are you fond of children? ?
Observation-Disclosures. Are you?
The Nome daily nugget., 1911-06-03
WHAT WE NEED IS FRIEND PEACE

Germany. which Is country peopled with a race that is very slow about coming forward in giving credit to other rulers and sayings of powers. has come out in favor of President Tafts speech that "Friend Peace is the enemy Of war"
 There is fund of truth in the statement and could the powers of the world see it in the same light the cause of civilization would be ad- yanced one thousand per cent.
 We seem to be working up toward the perfect state of civilization against pressure-that Is we are allowing the shackles of barbarity to act as a break to keep us from making headway.
 Could all nations once break away from this excessive load labeled all over with marks and signs that belong to anything but a civilized nation the world would become a better place and the dawn ot a new civilization will come OCT the face of the globe.
The Nome daily nugget., 1911-06-03
DREAMS AND GRUB.

I wandered OCT the sunllt lea. and gathered roses as went, and all the wild birds sang to me. and filled me with a sweet content: my neighbor, of a grosser mould. toiled in the field the
 whole day long. lured ever on by lust for gold. and blind to beauty, deaf to song. I lay beside the sobbIng stream. all through the golden summer day. and journeyed on a magic dream to fairy regions far away; the sky was blue, the day was hot-as hot as ever weather was; and still my neighbor sternly wrought, and hood his beans without a pause. Alas. the days of June were gone; I heard the voice of winter rave. and shivered in the Arctic dawn. and wept for summers in their grave: my empty cupboard brought to
 mind my sordid neighbor's bounteous
The Nome daily nugget., 1911-06-03
LOST OPPORTUNITIES.

The world. sings the poet "is al- ways with us; late and soon: getting and spending We lay waste our pow ers;" thus, and again. commiserating with man upon his lost occasions There are no problems of modern life that are not easy of solution: poverty, disease, the physical inetficiency that we call laziness the horror of immor- ality that stalks at night through all our cities: could all he recovered for usefulness and sanity. if only thought ful deliberation ruled the world
 But the doctors of psychology affirm that not five per cent of the actions of mankind are directed by intellectual resolution. the other ninety five per cent are the result of passion, habit, imitation. animal desire
 Even our national elections are de- cided by the inherited prejudice which We call party allegiance" and issues that. while pretending to appeal to the intelligence. blind thought in a psychic storm cloud of emotions. The man who says "T know" musters his battalions to the corporaIs guard ot the man who says "I think" It seems vast waste of energy: but we see that the amenities of human life are not so far behind the performances of exact science when we remember that. out of the ton of coal fed to the fur naces of a modern boiler, only ten per cent Is converted into power" There of some measure of modesty in our at titude to even the trivialities of life.
The Nome daily nugget., 1911-06-03
NEWS" AND VIEWS. .

In our literature-in that most au- thentic and spontaneous form of our literature. the daily press-custom, and popular demand. have compelled the elision of much that is gentle and hope inspiring. Murder. graft" adultery: the chicaneries of politics and the fail ure of law are themes demanding space" and color. The public taste is supposed to be seasoned up to high sensations, and the papers that hold that theory prove it's soundness by their success. But a life is moving around us unrecorded, shaping our destinies we know not how. There was more significance for this country in the last shipload of emigrants debarked into Els island than in all the "decrees absolute" our courts have granted. but that is views" and not news '' News" said Horace Greeley dogmati- ally, to a reporter. lis this IT a dog bites a man that's nothing. but if a man bites a dog, that's news" Of sourse that example. like all other dogma. depends '" If the man were a president. for instance. the Greeley rule would not apply. Primarily news is the unusual; and news" must con tinue to be the unusual until every citi- zen is doctor of philosophy. and Dr. Eliots shelf of books" has covered the four walls.
The Nome daily nugget., 1911-06-03
OFFICIAL BUSINESS CITY OF NOME
NOTICE OF MARsHAL's SALE.

Public notice is hereby given that by virtue of writ of execution dated June 1. 1911, issued out of the district court for the Second Division, District of Alaska, on a judgment rendered ir said court on the 1st day of June, 1911 in favor of the town of Nome, muni- cipal corporation and against l.. J May. I will offer for sale at public vendue on the 1st day of July, 1911. al D. m., at the front door of the United States District Court House, Nome, Alaska, all of the right. title and in- terest of the said defendant in and to the following described real property: Lot eighteen Qs) in block twenty seven (21) according to the official plat of the townsite of Nome.
 Dated at Nome. Alaska, June 2, 1911
 T. c. POWELL, United States Marshal, Second Di-
 vision, District of Alaska.
 Date of first publication June 2, 1911 Date of last publication June 30, 1911
The Nome daily nugget., 1911-06-03

Attorney General Wickersham was between the devil and the deep sea a few days ago when being questioned fat fees from the Steel and Sugar Trusts. He has now been instructed to commence criminal actions against the men from whom he has in the past received thousands of dollars for teach ing them how to keep out of the clutches of the law and they may have been following his instructions during the past two or three years when the supreme court has held that, they were breaking the law.
The Nome daily nugget., 1911-06-03

The pilgrims over in Japan who wit messed the destruction of life and prop erty when they were on their pilgrim age 10 the shrine of their God, must have had their faith shaken to cer- tain extent.
 If they believe in a hot place in the hereafter no doubt they must have thought it must be located just below Mount Asama, which belched forth so much fire and death when they were offering up prayers to their ancestors.
The Nome daily nugget., 1911-06-03

Snohomish will now have to ris, from the ashes of what has been and no doubt the inland city will rebuild upon more extensive lines and con- struct fire proof instead of wooden buildings in the heart of the business center
 In lumber states there is a tendency to build all business blocks of that material, but in the end it never pays All cities of any size have had the lesson well driven home, that fire proof material in the end is far cheaper and more safe.
The Nome daily nugget., 1911-06-03

The government is dispatching the revenue cutters North to patrol the waters of Boring sea near the Seal islands It is only a question of time when the seals will become extinct if the government does not make an ef. fort to preserve them. If the poachers were given a free hand they would be driven from their present rookeriesein few years.
The Nome daily nugget., 1911-06-03
OFFICIAL PAPER.
NOME, ALASKA, JUNE 3, 1911.
OUR SUMMER POPULATION.


 With the van of the first fleet now en route to Nome We can commence 10 get line on the population of Sew ard Peninsula for the summer That several hundred people will arrive all will admit for the great demand for reservations on the steamers warrant such belief
 True many believe that the majority of passengers are headed toward fdit- arod, but We can safely state tha. fly per cent win never get any f..,her than Seward Peninsula. And twenty five per cent of the balance after try ing their luck in the up river country will return to see what Nome, the metropolis and the surrounding coun- try. has to offer
 Many of the working men headed this way believe there will be work in plenty for a few hundred day laborers in the Squirrel river country, but they will meet with disappointment upon hiitAI liN dl titit anu lfttn bA dtludi conditions pertaining to that camp.
 Such wage workers will be diverted into other channels and they will no doubt find employment. either in town or on the creeks The Pioneer Mining Company will give steady employment to several hundred men during the summer for they are returning North prepared to inaugurate extensive i'm provements which win require an ex- penditurc of a quarter of a million dollars.
 No doubt many mea now headed for Nome have been promised work. or a steady job for the summer with this company. for they know the season is short and are familiar with labor con ditions here in the North
 Many of the laborers now in camp are expecting work from this company and the Nugget believes that all things being equal the miners who have spent the winter in here, and who make Nome their home should be given pre- cedence over strangers or birds of passage"
 We can expect to see our population swell at least one thousand if not two thousand before the season Is over and with the dredging and other large in stitutions to be installed for working our low grade deposits We can look forward 10 a lively summer.
 Sleeping room only is the sign now posted on the steamer Senator churn- ing the waters of the Pacific bound to Nome and many believe she may ar rive in the roadstead ahead of the Cor win There Is little or no chance for her doing that for the ice may sepa- rate any moment and Captain West come sailing into the roadstead
 Today Is the third of June and many believe the Corwin will show up before twelve o'clock tonight. We hope such faith is well founded but SO many Nomeites are from the state that made corn cob pipes famous, they will have to be shown in the form Of dozen or two eggs, a dozen bananas and a juicy lemon before taking any stock in the same.
The Nome daily nugget., 1911-06-03

Juneau as mining camp was sup- posed to have been worked out years ago but they are making new disc 'v- cries every year and in time the whole mountain back If the city wnl be worked for the goll st-iug,rs it con tains.
 The life of a placer emp is limited,
 but where quartz abound il may out . last several generations.