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The Nome daily nugget., 1914-04-06

Having invested nearly S376.000.000 in the canal. the United States is in- tent upon safeguarding that tremend- ous outlay against the possibility of damage through foreign war. Fortih- cation of the canal has been under taken purely as an insurance matter. It Is sought to make it impossible in time of war for any enemy to take possession Of the waterway. or to damage 1t to such an extent that the skips of the United States could not use 1t at will.
 Guns of 14 and 1s-inch caliber will hc placed at forts guarding both the Pacific and Atlantic entrances. com manding radius of IS miles. The fcrts at the Pacific entrance are con- structed on three islands in Panama bay. at the very beginning of the canal. Flamenco. Perico. and Naos. These arc huge masses of volcanic rock behind which. safe from the Ire of any ship. no matter how powerful the forts stand The great Mlraflorea locks arc seven miles inland from the forts, and no gun at the present time is powerful enough to sand . shell the a milss intervening between the
The Nome daily nugget., 1914-04-06

A very interesting dispatch from
 Philadelphia announces that com
 plete history of the Navajo Indians
 fer 1900 years has bscn sent to the
 University of Pennsylvania by the chief of that tribe The translation Of this record will be awaited with great interest. for if it is what it ts alleged to be. t will cast light upon ono of the dark places in the history of mankind.
 The Navajos ars one of the most in- terssting of ail the native American peoples. They ere cultivators of the E.ii are . highly religious race and have preserved . great mass of myth and legends. They are very musical singing and dancing. playing an hn- portant part in their religious cere- monies. The spaniards first come Tn contact with them in 1888, and they were then . very waSifke people They fsai ofe in numbers very greatly until about half . century ago. since which time they have been rapidly increasing. They now number nearly 25.ooo. In their customs they exhibit what sesm to be the survivsls of d b,sher civilization, but upon this point. as well as upon others of great tn' terest we shall be better informed when the contents of tho records have teen made public. If the record cov- CTS 1900 years. 1t must be the oldest continuous chronicle in existence out side of Chin.-Coionist
The Nome daily nugget., 1914-04-06

A noticeable difference between the American and Canadian methods Of
 dealing with the question of high
 prices is the fact that the former are
 wasting no time on investigations into tho causes of this or that commercial condition which weighs heavily on the people. It is enough for them that the
 evil exists and they arc taking the
 shortest and most direct way to uproot it. Following close on President VII sons tariff changes . bill has been in- troduced in congress to put a stop ts. the manipulation of the prices Of fcodstuffs by the cold storage trust. This measure is second in importance cnly to the tarif reductions. It ta- tacks an abuse which is not only re- stonsible for high prices. but which enables dealers to palm on on the public foods which in many instances arc not in its inception hailed as heaven born invention has proved anything but a blessing except to the u.anipulators of prices and the Am orleans will show sound sense if they rlace it under restrictions which will ensure that 1t will be honestly con- ducted.
 The new measure if 1t becomes law. will prohibit the holding in storage of food products beyond a certain length of time it will compel all stor- age food to be tagged 90 that the rurchaser may know the age of the product he is buying and goods held the legal limit will be branded as aduiterated. Considering the almost universal use of cold storage the measure will be as far reaching as it will be beneficial If the law is rigid ly enforced one of the greatest re- sisictions to the freedom of trade in the United States will be removed Corners In Soodstuffs will be rendered rra :iically Impossible and the con- sum TOT will be able to purchase com. paratively fresh food at much lower cost than he can at present.
 Now that the high coast of living is becoming such . burning question would 1t not be well for our legislators to cast an eye on what our neighbors arc doing to give the people relief. Mir. Borden might have picked up a few valuable hints during his recent scjourn in Washington if he cared 10 carry them into effect.
The Nome daily nugget., 1914-04-06

stdsration of the council and in which every business man and every head 'f family of Nome are vitaliy interested and in the selection of councilmen to- morrow they ought to see ot 1t thnt men, regardless of party. cliques or combination are elected who are best oraiificd to conduct the affairs of the city in the interests of the whole com munity.
The Nome daily nugget., 1914-04-06
Official Paper
NOME, ALAskA, APRIL 6, 1s14.

Tomorrow Is election day-the day when the voters of Nome will select from the list of candidates, seven men. who will act for us as city council men for the coming year. It. does net seem likely. from casual remarks let drop here and there that any one ticket, as a whole. will be elected
 Much quiet work is going on, com binations being formed and candidates discussed. but the interest manifested seems to be similar to the interest taken in a dog racc-interest in who will win and who are going to receive the prizes.
 Frequently may be heard the ques- tion asked as to how this or that can didate stands towards this or that man for city clerk or for other ap- pt intive offices. or where the funds of the city will be deposited but the ouestion-what the policy of the vari GUS candidates may be regarding the manner of conducting the affairs 9: tho city is never heard nor does 1t seem to suggest itself. and people ir general, seem to bo obsessed with idea tfat this is to be an election to de- termine who are to get tho city plums.
 While not minifying the necessity of taking an interest in securing cap able and efficient servants for the city, it would seem that such matters. important as they are. might well be left in the hands of the incoming coun' cil and not be made the dominating factor in this election. To secure an election, it may be necessary for a e sndidate to have tho support of some aspirant for Q city position, or Of tIwse who are seeking some favor from the city-matters entirely dis trict from the general good of the city and mostly of general nature ,.ut these are matters of only second ary importance and should be so tieated.
 If the experience of the past Is any criterion to go by. we may expect to lear many complaints unjust pcr- haps. when the new council comes to handle the very serious financial prob- lem Of the city.
 It then will not be a question of where tho funds of the city shall be deposited. who shall be city clerk. etc. but where are tho funds to come from. what changes will be made in the fre and police departments and in the school made necessary by rec ducsd revenues of the city consequent upon the disastrous storm of last fall
 These sre the important thfnsl Nich win receive ths constant con.
The Nome daily nugget., 1914-04-06

outside of the gone of fire from the ft rts and those which control the canal. Even with the marvels of p1odern gunnery 1t would be as diffi- cult to place she'll even if 1t could be thrown that far. as for rifie- man to hit lead pencil at a distance cF 1000 yards.-From the March num- Der of Popular Mechanics Magazine.
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lT l9 UP TO YOU

To send to the friends who have been writing to you for information about Nome and its resources. copy of the l6inine and Dredging Edition of the Daily Nugget. price 60 cents. Send one on the next mail.
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The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-07-04
EVERYMAN'S LIBRARY.

The successive volumes OF every
mans Library 81. NJ. Dent and Com
pany; T.. =. Dutton and Company
maintain the very high standard of
quality and OF attractive typographical
dress that has marked the series from
the start as 1t has all the remarkable
cheap series that the Dents have issued.
The four recently issued volumes before
us, numbered from GIL to 675, in their
several ways are valuable additions to
those that have gone before. The AN
thology of English Prose" by Miss 8. l..
Edwards. Is a new selection made with
excellent taste: the extracts, covering
the whole range of English literature
from the once venerable Bede, now
beatiied for the qualification of Eng
fish Catholics. and the Anglo Saxon
Chronicle. to Stevenson and Sharp and
their elders still living, Austin Dobson
and Thomas Hardy. The editor wisely
concentrates on the writer's of tho eigh-
teenth and nineteenth centuries. For
the last half of the last century she
allows her personal tastes to prevail
somewhat. but IL IL an admirable an
thology that may serve as a model Of
English style.
one OF the most charming OF auto
biographical love stories is told in The
Letters From Dorothy Osborne to Sir
William Temple" in the edition by Judge
Edward A. Parry, which also give a
brilliant picture of English life in the
days of the civil war. As delightful an
introduction to folk lore as can be asked
for will be found in the Essays in the
Study OF Folk-Songs." by the Countess
Evelyn Martinengo-Ces the ex-
amples in which are taken mostly from
the lands on the Mediterranean. Finally
the stories OF all the Greek tragedies
written about Qdipus and his family
are retold by W. NJ. L. Hutchinson In
"The Legends OF Thebes," the third
volume of the collection called THE
Muses. Pageant
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-07-04
HUMORISTS ALL.

Whether Mr.. Samuel G.. Blythe pre-
fers to drink or not IL. we imagine a
matter OF perfect indifference to most
people. including his acquaintances;
presumably 1t Is better for him that
H. should not. That does not excuse,
however. the excessive realism of "The
Old Game" George II. Doran Com
pany), in which he infiicts on the pub
lie in the same terms that he would
use in conversation the satisfaction he
feels with himself and his condition
after two years and a half of absti-
hence. Here is no exhibition OF the
picturesque evils of intemperance, after
the fashion of reformed "horrid exam
pies" nor arguments against drinking;
only MIR. Blythe describing in full de-
tail the symptoms OF his own particu-
lar abstinence in the garrulous tone he
would use in describing any other dis
ease that might afflict him.
The affliction of professional humor
intcrfercd with the pleasure VI Irwin
s. Cobb's trip to the Grand Canyon,
the Pacific coast and San Francisco.
which he describes in "Roughing 1t de
Luxe" George IL. Doran Company.
He does not seem to have enjoyed the
trip much. or perhaps felt bound to
adopt a nil admirari tone, but he de-
scribes II faithfully and interrupts his
description at frequent stated intervals
with jests which sometimes tit in. Like
every visitor to San Francisco since G.
Burgess and Will Irwin started the
story. he repeats the formula THE best
Italian restaurant in the world Is a
little place on the fringe of the Barbary
Coast" John T. McCutcheon illustrates
the travels.
a guide to the places chat American
trippers crave to sec has been written
by Karl h. Kitchen in THE Night Side
OF Europe" CThe David Gibson Com
pany, Cleveland). The restaurants and
dance halls to which guides conduct
travellers are described with an air OF
familiarity. The cities visited are Ber-
lin, Paris. ST. Petersburg. Moscow, VII
emma. Athens, Rome, Constantinople,
Damascus, Cairo, Lisbon and London,
and many of the chapters are therefore
very brief. The illustrations are by
Herb Roth.
As a photograph of the English spoken
in New York at the moment 81 should
Say So" by James Montgomery Flagg
George II. Doran Company, has
pathological value. The jests have the
tenuity suited for summer audiences,
but the vocabulary is complex. The
authors pictures are funnier than his
text. so that We have a preference for
the pictorial variations on Love Me,
Love My Dog" for which no words
are provided.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-07-04
BROWNS SESQUICENTENNIAL.

Among the memorials Of the one hun
dred and fiftieth anniversary OF the
founding of Brown University, which
was celebrated this year, Is the publica-
ton OF the Historical Catalogue OF
Brown University, 1764-1914" CThe Uni
versity,, Providence, r. -. edited by
Mrs louise Prosser Bates. Apart
from the original charter establishing
the college in Rhode Island. the volume
contains only the catalogue of officers,
instructors. graduates aud others who
attended the college without graduating.
Graduates. undergraduates and special
students are enrolled In separate lists,
according to classes, and the women are
set apart from the men. The editor has
taken great palms in looking up the rec
ords of Brown students and under each
name. wherever facts were obtainable,
is a brief condensed biography, which
nevertheless gives more information
about each person than is usually found
In college records. Among the nom
graduates OF the class of 1878, for IN
stance. we find william Morris. mer-
chant, Providence, r. I. Engaged In
contraband trade to the Spanish Main
after the Revolution was captured and
sent to the mines and never heard from
again" Here and there other hints OF
romance appear among the epitomes OF
staid political or business or profess
sional careers. The list OF professors
seems remarkably short for such
period. though the proportion OF noted
names among them n large The index
OF names facilitates reference. We are
glad to see that the geographical index
has been omitted It IN n cumbersome
addition to many recent books Of ref
erence which Is hardly justified by any
considerable usefulness.
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haps contradiction in terms, but II
would he also commendable innova-
ton. In his History of the United
States" uippincotp Matthew Page An
drews approxmates that condition. He
uses paragraph headings and mar
iglnal topics, devices OF reasona-
bly, questionable value, certainly not
positively objectionable. He appends
tn each chapter some small type
"sidelights and suggestions" but
they are not pedantic or cumbersome.
His half dozen appendices are brief and
useful The illustrations are numerous
and well chosen besides the usual maps
there is a birdseye view OF the Canal
Zone. A striking and welcome omis-
sion Is that of the customary lists OF
Authorities; the book so TO speak.
stands on its own feet. 1t Is sufficiently
up to date to include mention. COM
mendably uncolored, OF the latest tar
iff. the Glass-O owen currency law and
the refusal of recognition to the Huerta
Government. No economic theory OF his
tory is obtruded. The text is good solid.
, grown up English. The Revolution has
only twenty-seven pages, the civil war
fifty-nine. More space is. quite prop
erly, given to the processes which Gull
minated in those disturbing events.
The compromises out OF which the Con-
stitution grew are stated. The point
OF view is fairly national; sectionalism,
partisanship and other prejudices seem
successfully avoided. The New Eng
land school of writer's Is placed in a
single paragraph. Commercial and in
dustrial growth is adequately indicated
Some episodes, like the Trent affair"
Lea, ffxt
the whole the book is we'll balanced. 1t
is decidedly not primer The high
school boy who masters it will be well
started toward the knowledge that
every citizen should have OF the history
of his own land
Supplementary or collateral reading
may or may not be desirable for high
school students OF history; it seems
likely that while it might be productive
of excellent results in individual cases
it would be worse than useless as a
general requirement. Prof. James AL
ton James of Northwestern University
has compiled volume OF Readings in
American History" (Scribner), in which
so-called SOURCES" are made available.
The possibilities OF selection are limit
less; the professor avoids constitutional
documents. and with the age and
tastes of his chosen audience in mind
he draws heaviest upon contemporary
letters. books Of travel. speeches, &c.
In twenty pages devoted to the causes
of the Revolution, for example, he repro
duces John Dickinson on the Effect Of
British Commercial Regulations, 1765,"
T. G. Hansard on parliamentary Pc
utions Against the Stamp Act" the
same authors report OF Franklln's ap-
pearance before Commons and letters
of John Adams to his wife describing
, the First Continental Congress. There
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-07-04

Kept marking time with various incohe-
rent persons and happenings till the
author IL ready to let her make her
great renunciation. This gives the right
quality to her voice. which her teachers
OF singing had previously found lacking.
IT suffering was what II needed, there
seems to be no reason why she could
not have sung well long before the end.
The first part of tho book hangs to-
gether pretty we'll and shows some
traces Of the authors skill; the last half
degenerates into the penny dreadful
style, the heroine drifts without develop
Ing character. the disagreeable people
She meets are not interesting and have
little to do with the story. The author
Keeps M her cynical talk mechanically.
but it Is directed at nothing in partlcu-
lar: she seems to have lost her way with
her story and It is a relief to have IT end
abruptly.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-07-04

Il should be used as a text book. While
practice In using it AZ a book of refer
ence would undoubtedly be of great
service in all schools. the Systematic
learning by heart the distinctions be
tween English words would be as
Chinese an exercise az using the die
tionary for a reading book. 1t will take
an unusually sensible teacher to secure
valuable results from tho regular study
of any book of this kind. For reference
however, like tho dictionary, no writer
can do without its help.
A sort of advanced course in auction
bridge has been prepared by Wilbur c.
Whitehead in 'VVhitehead's Conventions
of Auction Bridge" Frederick A.
Stokes Company. The author has
boiled down tho tactics in every possible
contingency into tabular form. The OK
perienced player on consulting ii will
find a clear decision as TO what should
be done In every case. The book has
the strong approval OF r. +. Foster.
It IL n gymnastic course of instruc-
ton that Emil Rath provides in
".Esthetic Dancing" crhe A. $. Barnes
Company, New York;. a system in
tended to develop the muscles and the
of dancing as a society diversion al
most disappears. The earnest, Intent
faces Of the students represented In
the photographs bear witness to their
seriousness OF purpose. Here are no
.ango or ragtime, not even the Greek
poses. but scientific dances every
movement in which is made with a spe-
cifc object.
Novelty IL the first requisite in the
directions foe liable Decorations and
Delicacics," by Hester Price (The John
G. Winston Company, Philadelphia) and
wo have no doubt that tho guests OH
whom they are tried will be surprised.
Whether the surprise in the case OF the
delicacdes will always be pleasant We
cannot say; tho author seems to have
tho qualification Of the eye In mind
rather than that of the palate. There
are many illustrations.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-07-04

wilder. George H. Ellis Company. Bos-
toni
THE Development Of Modern Turkey
Measured In It's Press" Ahmed Emin, Pm. n
columbia University. Longmsns, Green
and Company
The Currency Problem In china wAp
Pin Wei. PHI H. COLUMBIA University.
Longmans. Green and Company
THE system OF Taxation In China In the
Using Dynasty, l644-lSll" Shso Kwan
Chen. Ph. u. Columbia University; Long
mans. Green and Company
MY Love and l." Alice Brown. (Mac.
millansD
AT the Back Of tho North wind George
Macdonald, simpihed by Elizabeth Lewis
81. ID. LippincOtt Company
pennsylvania tho Keystone" Samuel
Whitaker Pennypackcr. christopher Sower
Company, Philadelphia
"A Nosegay OF EycrlastingS" Katherius
Tlnsley, (The Rata Yoga college Point
Iona. CALI
"Reencarnacion de Don ouiIots y Cirano
do Bcrgerac" de Rorja Moncayo,
tMeuccl. BarCclonal
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-07-04

is valuable matter in the book that only
special students ordinarily have access
to. and there IL also great deal that
can have neither Interest nor profit
for the ordinary schoolboy. A book
that should not be made subject of
required study and OF examination FOR
marks but in which the bright student
may profitaby browse undirccted or
which may be used to good purpose by
the Judicious and competent teacher.
Two civil war books are issued by
Neale. THE Strategy OF Robert Il. Lee"
by j. ]. Bowen, a Confederate veteran,
and The Valley Campaigns" by DIR.
Thomas A. Ashby. "reminiscences OF the
experiences OF a boy in the Shenan-
doah Valley in fighting days.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-07-04
ALAS. POOR YORICK!

History Is all things 10 all men. and
one mans meat of progress" n another
mans poison OF reaction. In "Clay and
Fire" (HolD Layton Crlppen traces a
"descendent curve" Of history, despon-
dent diagram. and prophesies an ascen-
dent curve soon to be assumed. The
reader will find more concrete evidence
adduced in support OF the disgraceful
past than props the hopeful future.
Christanity's body. he says. has out
lived its soul. Knowing more about
matter than ever man has known be-
fore, we are further than ever from
God. I'VE talk OF progress. and there
are more suicides and lunatics and in
ebriates than ever before" but there is