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The Nome daily nugget., 1917-05-12

The first clean up of the Cuba mine, at Valdez, which recently installed a mill and other machinery, will occur on March 5. It is expected that a large amount of gold will be secured as the ore is exceptionally rich.
The Nome daily nugget., 1917-05-12
ALASKA
 NOTES

On the night of February the thermometer at Mccarthy dropped to 5s below zero, the coldest weather experienced this winter
The Nome daily nugget., 1917-05-12

Every home in Nome should have the Nugget delivered to it--Subseribe now and keep the household enIishten- ed-$200 per month by carrier.
The Nome daily nugget., 1917-05-12

Do you subscribe for your home town paper or do you let the other fellow pay for your reading.
The Nome daily nugget., 1917-05-12
luRED TO HIS DEATH WHEN
 HE ACCEPTED INVITATION

the Neva river. It is said that those who participated in the crime would not be prosecuted. One already has
The Nome daily nugget., 1917-05-12

sufficient capital to put the mine on a shipping basis.
The Nome daily nugget., 1917-05-12

We want every one to be sub scriber to the Nuoeet-Do it NOW.
The Nome daily nugget., 1917-05-12

been allowed to leave Petrograd and no arrests have been made.
New-York tribune., 1917-11-04

and suppose that he is also his hero-then
the dream disperses. II fades before one Of
TWO sensations A deep sense Of revenge
may come 10 him, knowledge Of what the
avenger In man has felt from all time. II il
born OF the human justice and the animal in
stnct OF retaliation which have met together
IN his loving yet savage little heart. IL he
Is old enough TO feel deep sorrow-that is.
70 realize, not the horror Of death, which
is physical. hut the sense of missing. in it's
highest degree which is Of the soul, though
not, We hope, eternal-then he will never be
a child again, and war however he comes
to~regard IT, if he lives to be a general, an
archbishop. or n conscientious objector. will
always be war.
But the experience may take him differ
emily. He may have no sense of revenge
whether he has or not is largely tenn
peramental question. The sword in mis- own
heart may reveal to him that sorrow is not
thing confined to himself or even to those
whom he loves, or even those whom he ap-
proves. II is the great black cloud Of which
no skies are clear which threatens the just
and the unjust and obscures the division
which once seemed so clear between them.
Sick at heart, he looks back upon his dream,
which decomposes and cannot recompose be-
cause he stands now in broad daylight, face
20 face with the actual"
New-York tribune., 1917-11-04
Liquid Oxygen as an
Explosive

IF USED within 10 minutes after the
saturation of the cartridge, liquid
oxygen is as effective as dyrapite for
blasting purposes, according to expert
ments Of the Bureau of Mines. In view
Of the successful work done with this ex-
plosive, a large liquid-air manufacturing
company has agreed to erect a test plant
on a commercial scale. This will be at q
large mine or quarry, TO give opportunity
for determining the extent Of the value Of
liquid oxygen as commercial explosive.
The Bureau Of Mines is studying the
best methods Of handling the substance
and the development Of satisfactory con-
tainers. The cost Of the carbonaceous
material composing the stick, the liquid
oxygen for one cartridge and the consainer
is insignificant. The problem is largely
that Of reducing wastage and securing the
requisite standardization.-From The En-
sineey1ng ard Mining Journal.
New-York tribune., 1917-11-04

one-fourth that of the State Of Washing
ton. Her population. however, about equals
that Of Newark, y. J., II that city's imme-
diate suburbs are included il equals that
OF San Francisco and is about twc-thirds
that of Boston or 81. Louis. In other words,
although her area is somewhat larger than
that Of Switzerland, the little European re-
public has eight inhabitants 20 Costa Rica's
one.
when the number OF her people is known
il is not surprising to learn that there has
been comparatively little development Of her
natural resources. But no one should i'm
agine her leaders are not enterprising.
Costa Rica was the first Central American
republic TO enjoy the advantages of the
telegraph. The building Of line was dis
cussed in 1857, and one was in actual opera
tion in 1859. Thirty years ago the total
telegraph mileage in the country, exclusive
of a private lire owned by a railroad was
almost four hundred, and messages of ten
words were sent for twenty cents! Tele.
phone service was established in San Jose
in 1855 Electricity is widely used not only
for lighting, but also for domestic purposes
and for driving machinery. In fact, it has
been estimated that the number Of kilowatts
per capita is greater than in the United
States. o."
New-York tribune., 1917-11-04
Indian Laurel in Limon Park, Costa Rica

to head a movement to oust William Walker,
an American slave traficker who had in
vaded Nicaragua, and she was the first TO
declare war against Rufno Barrios when in
1855 that Guatemalan dictator proclaimed
himself supreme chief OF the republic OF
Her army in time Of peace does not num-
Der more than one thousand, and has never
exceeded FIVE thousand. No public official
has ever been sssassnated, and political
tranquility has been the rule rather than
the exception.
"An essential difference between Switzer-
land and Costa Rica is that the one Is
hemmed in on all sides By France. Italy,
Germany and Austria, with no outlet to the
seas, whereas the other has a splendid coast
line on the Pacific, and also on the Atlantic
side Of the continent, close to the greatest
international highway that man has ever
made. These advantages are destined to at
tract worldwide attention within the next
generation indeed. they have already been
noted by the commercial leaders in every
civilized land.
~Her lands lie between Nicaragua and
Panama. and their area is about twice that
OF New Jersey or Massachusetts,, about a
third that Of Iowa and little more than
New-York tribune., 1917-11-04
Largest Reservoir in
North America

TTHE masonry dam which is being
thrown across the st. Maurice
u River in Quebec 10 create the
largest reservoir in North America is 50
per cent completed The work has been
pushed with dispatch in spite of difficulties
in securing deliveries of material and IN
the employment of labor, and in spite of
the isolation of the dam site-l70 miles
north of Montreal in unsettled bush, which
heretofore has been traversed only by the
wandering Indian, the lumber cruiser and
the fur trader.
This work has been projected for many
years, rs the regulation of the st. Maurice
River is Of the greatest value TO the i'm
rortant developed powers at La Tuque,
Grandmere and Shawenegan Falls. But
there are many undeyeloped power sites,
and the equitable assessment of the cost
Of the regulation work was not possible
until after the creation Of the Quebec
Streams Commission as a provincial con-
servation body. This commission investi-
GATED the possibilities Of regulation, de-
signed the dam, let the contracts and issued
bonds 20 cover the cost.
The permanent sluices through the dam
are Of interest. Steel conduits Of square
cross-section and sloping bottom have been
embedded in the masonry from the gate
chambers down to the outlets. The gates
themselves are simple steel frames and are
hand or motor operated.
The nearest railway connection is the
Canadian Government Railway National
Transcontinental Line), 1873 miles north OF
Montreal. The st. Maurice River is navi'
gable for light draft boats for thirty
two miles above the railway, although
there is much swift water. The river has
been used for all Of the material and sup
plies needed. For covering the hnal
twenty miles from the head Of navigation
70 the dam site, standard gauge railway
has been built, employing Sh per cent
maximum grade and seventeen curves
uncompensated.-From The Engineering
Neus-Reeord.
New-York tribune., 1917-11-04
The Child Throws His Whole
Being Into the War

TO him. then, the conflict which now
touches mis- life at every turn IS one INTO
which ne can throw bis whole beng ms
dramatic Imagination, his power OF sef-aD-
ne-ation. his high spirits, his justice-loying
ron .eience-his all He does not throw 1t IN
boDe. but in faith, or more truly IN knowl-
edge. His vague. false, childish conception
of history, his nursery picture OF erusaaerS
and armadas, ToyaEsts and rounoh eauS'
Knights and dragons, aeroplanes ana O's
vr,s bas come 10 life. These splendid toys
these tin soldiers who slaughter or IN ehlYa' ,
- mare the amazed and black-hearted
-, are more real than the people next
a. The wicked A. ever before their face
a. +be child ike Jehovah of the Jews,
hpg,s them 20 scorn and has them IN de-
rsioo OF course there are thrilling mo-
-e--. v,hon they seem about 20 turn, "neE
-. 1erirg opponents Of might and rl2nt
,ss-, for An instant 10 be working their VIII
Hs has known such moments himself ana ne
y,r,srobers without resentment or question.
ir~ how transient was his JOY re" wei
u-le-.-ood reverses are necessary 20 the ara
MAJ Incidents Of his little play; but even
tbs baby herself must not be LEFT IN lgho-
rareo n ,beir nature. They can come 10
nstb.ng. A we'll NAV she kick the nurse.
aRr. = children are born diseipiinarIahs-
AID On q sense they are born mlIltarsIS
,asy are also logical The command TO ioys
Ais enemies gives the modern child occasion,
Al psase What does IL mean. that par' OF
she reading in church = he asks. Probably
IN the 6rst lesson OF the Psalms he may mo
a el,y Of refuge for bis soul, or perhaps u
h eonfdes in his mother, she Will explain
% him that it is the nursery maid or ms
sdes. little cousin, not the enemies OF h,s
,oqrtrv. for whom the Scripture oemahos
HI, forbesranee Most probably he Will cast
aside both ideals as impossibs and 20 on
Eith his dream Of war and Joy He mas not
sxskened. ne has only turned over never
heless. The thought Of the reading may re,
err The following Is true story: CovId
We no, have made plan instead Of making
vlrT raid = little boy Of six years old VINO
tal beer eonstsntly eKhoTted % resort 20
msternsi arbitration instead OF using ms
fsa. snd ingtraeted in the practical siae
a religion. II wss explained to him that a a
plan would never have been aeeepteo oy ~
snsmy-wouid have been, In THIS case, I'M I'M
pssIlbls. Would IL have been Hnp'sslps. 10, t.
II We had had God in p he tsked' NO '''''
he IergDle vas soon at rest
New-York tribune., 1917-11-04
Tolstoy, Russia's Symbol

sex. Herewith, also. he was ever an egoist.
indeed inevitably, for the man who is much
occupied in sna.yziRg or in condemung mis-
ego cannot fail TO fortify that ego. OF all
Tolstoy's heroes none so clearly represents
himself as Levine, and Iurgoney wrote OF
Levine that he was AN egoist &c the mar
row. while Dostoisysky, who is sometimes re-
gsrded as the first 10 point out Tolstoy's
worldwide significance, WAS Of q similar
opinion
"rolstoy's ego was eonsti,utonally OF peeu-
liarly robust and really immutsble texture.
Although throughout life he was rerpetu-
ally liable 20 great meatal revolutions,
revolutions that sometimes seemed quite
radical and even led him 70 repuiiate all
his best work OF the past, these revolu-
,ions were yet in rsslity surprisingly super
iciaL Even religious conversion never liber-
2ted him from his ego; he accepted the doe
trines of a sort OF democratic Christian
mysticism; but We never detect in him, or
even in his books, the genuine spirit Of the
mystic which shines so clearly in Dostoisy-
sky and is embodied with such loneliness in
his Father Zossima. For all his self-eon-
sciousnsss and contempt Of society. there
was always something in him Of the we'll
born officer and man Of the world, the con-
yentiondl view Of woman, the love Of horses,
the instructive delight in sport
He was always pleased 20 be regarded as
great writer and at the same time was as
ashamed as Congreve in his old-fashioned
way that gentleman should be a man Of
letters. Even in the midst OF the throes OF
religious conversion 20 a faith in humility
and abnegstion he had the family portraits
cleaned and the family seals repaired.
New-York tribune., 1917-11-04
Cantonment Road Building

A RECORD breaking piece Of road
~ building recently was completed IN
connection with the army cantonment at
Louisville, says the publication quoted
above, which continues:
This IL one Of the few military establish
rnents that have built permanent roads IN
sixty-three working days the contractor com,
Dleted 1890 square yards % Trinidad
Asphaltie concrete highway laid on a concrete
base. or about six miles Of road eighteen
feet wide. A mile Of the road was over
four-foot hll, and Immediately upon its com
,letlon a traffic count showed that 1000
vebieles passed over il within the first hour
wost Of these vehicles were motor trucks and
..,..on. carrying loads Of from one TO nve
80. The record is all the more re-
s,ksbie in view OF the fact that II was
~seessary 20 haul and crush all the stone
ussd on the work
New-York tribune., 1917-11-04

TT is said that Dostoievsky and Iolstoy
together epitomize the Russian soul.
- This is not view in which all stu
dents of Russia concur. But Hayelock
Ellis goes further even than this and
maintains that the former may be
dropped, leaving Tolstoy alone to sum up
in his life and his work "all the charac-
taristics of Russian genius" Mr.. Ellis
mentions the fact that even to IurgeneV'
"who himself has a good claim 10 be the
representative of Russia" and whose
friendship with his great rival was so
long broken, Tolstoy seemed the great ma
tional writer. In notable article called
THE Supreme Russian" published IN
"The New Statesman" Haveloek Elis
goes on TO say:
"Tols,oy's work in all its phases, unfalI-
ingly strong and direct from hrst 10 ias'' mas
long been clear to the world. The personal
ity behind the work remains somewhat more
/ difficult to discern. in part from the dazzling
effect of his immense fame and yet more
from MS real inconsistencies.
I ne primary tAdttNJf ~''NN
personality and his work, seems TO DC rne
intensity of his sensory impressions. ms
friends noted his keen delight in smells MS
satisfaction in shifting hay and tramp'hs
through manure. lie always liked 70 nave
sweet-scented flower near him or IN his pei.
70 smell from time to time, and was roma OF
French perfumes and scented linen IN
/ piquant contrast, as many have not tSheu "
/ remark. with his austere creed. ou' 'is'o'
was the sense that was chiefly developed II,
Tolstoy. and this, not with the tender ana
emotional tone Of his sense Of smell out oo-
/ iective. penetrating, relentless
This power of vision and the aoilty 70
give il expression are fully developed IN
early works like The Cossacks, and never
ceased TO predominate. His whole person,
aIity seemed TO be seated in his eyes, SAID
Sergeyenko. eyes that fash and blaze ana
suddenly acquire sort Of boring and pene-
trating character Behrs, his brother-in-iaw'
speaks Of his deep-set gray eyes oeneatn
the overhanging brows as literally piercing
the soul Of the man on whom they we're bent
/ In all literature, it has been said, there Is no
writer equal 20 Tolstoy in depicting the hu-
man body But even more than ms grasp
Of the vision Of the external world was MS
penetration, as of actual vision, into the In
ternal world.
New-York tribune., 1917-11-04
The Child and the War

VOW about the children? How is the
~ Great War affecting them. and how
4 Il must it influence their future? A
liter in The Spectator" (London)
no;.ss and discusses these questions in
,,e following manner:
aWhsn peace comes there will be many
.huSren who have no clear recollection Of
s,vthing before the war. In after years.
.Lsp they turn back-as We all turn-to
,erutinize their memories, they will see
80 dawn. and recognize their earliest selves
!. the light Of a stormy morning. To them,
as children. the signs Of tempest portended'
-othing-they rejoieed in the crimson light
~Rhat is the war 70 the child to-day? To
o,s 10 whom il has not meant the loss of his
,ssrest and dearest il is simply a pageant
~ the Imagination. His day-dreams are il
ly-,ined by il. The confused noise wars
,sttle, garments rolled in blood and the
.rroans Of the dying he may have heard of
in his Bible or his poetry book, but they are
optside the picture as he coneeives it. I'm
less the screen which mercifully divides
,bs childs mind from actual facts is suddenly
,ierced by the realization Of death, unless
terrible message makes known to him what
IL lr 70 miss SNlAI V4AN NiADiA itN aAAN9 eDbfN
an things and 10 feel that he will always
miss him. war is simply the fulflment of his
faneies.
~He does not want to get away from the
thought Of Il as his elders do; he knows
nothing Of the wild recurrent wish which
comes 70 them 70 bar it out Of their minds.
He could not forget it if he did wish. Even
4 he lives where he sees no marching, even
II his elders restrain their speech before him,
it is brought home 70 him at every meal
time. His food has become q constant sym
bol Of sacrifice. IL is a symbol only, for
he has so far plenty to eat, but he is always
hearing and believing that he must give up
something Perhaps he only dimly remem-
hers when sugar was not scarce-its absence
nav be but a ceremonial deprivation 20 him.
IN, he hears deprivation talked Of. and IS
proud 70 feel himself deprived.
New-York tribune., 1917-11-04
A True Child of the Land Which
~ Produces Few Abstractions

"A profound seer, a supreme artist. A
dominating and representative personality, II
cannot be said that Tolstoy was a great
thinker. For all his cold analysis he was
too vivacious, too impetuous. He was the
true child Of land which has produced few
abstract thinkers in this respect singularly
unlike China TO the east and Germany 20 the
west, the two great countries which in some
respects Russia bridges. His Intelligence
was keen, the intelligence Of his vision, and
ne was Immensely receptive. he long re-
tanned ehlldlike capacity for learning; he
was over forty when he learned Greek in a
few months, and learned IL 80 well that a
little later be was able 10 correct a profess
sor Of Greek in the translation of a tragic
poet. Yet, while he possessed an the Rus
sian versatility and i'm pressionabii!ty his in
tellect was always narrow and his receptiy-
ity unaccompanied by originality IN youth
he studied Rousseau with ardent admiration.
So had Kant. But Kant speedily developed
an intellectual system Of his own and left
Rousseau behind. Tolstoy never left Rous-
seau behind even though he ceased 70 speak
Of him, and never developed any system OF
his own.
His new mental developments we're al
ways the outcome Of new enthusiasms-fo
Thoreau, Basunin, Proudhon, Henry George,
Kropotkin, Edward Carpenter, Whomeyer it
might be. Even his religious conversion was
connected with the influence Of the peasant
mystic, Sutaiey. Tostoy was ever too i'm
patient, too eager 20 drive az immediate
practical ends, 70 become a fine thinker. For
even that sense Of impotence which so often
oyercomes the Russian is a part Of his
eagerress to pass swiftly from theory 20
practice This esgerness marked Tolstoy as
y has ever marked Russians. They forget,
as Plekhanov remarked lately, that not those
Crusaders reached the Holy Land who az
sight Of every new town cried, Jerusaieml
Jerusalemn but those who knew geography.
"It is a ehildlke trait. Not only in the
everlasting freshness o. his mind, even TO
the end but In his whole makeup Tolstoy
vas a child. As an old man Of seventy, he
wrote in early life, 4 shall dream in just
as ehildishly impractical way as DO now
And when az length he reached that age il
was just 80 that his friends spoke o. him
as a self-wiled, refractory and helples.
child Z. was because he was such child
tha, he was 30 interested in children and
possessed the key 70 their hearts. Il was
natural % him 70 play as a child 20 exert
sli TIE spontaneous vitality Of the child
Behrs tells how he once went % see Tolstoy
in old age and found him sad, unlike him
self. A. Behrs was walking across the draw
ing room Tostoy suddenly jumped on TO
his back, 20 the general delight; and Behrs
at once recognized the Tolstoy he knew. The
image OF Toistoy as the colossal and eternal
child. tho symbol Of Russia herself, may we'll
be the hnal image he leaves on cur minds
New-York tribune., 1917-11-04
Benzol to the Rescue

Experiments recently conducted by q
large oil company, notes 4 writer in
Power" proved that
mot only Is benzol more valuable than gsso-
lene as motor fuel when used straight, but
its effective value is increased by being mixed
with gssolene. These experiments indicate
that mixture Of equal parts Of gssolene and
benzol gives q value over 10 per cent greater
than that Of straight gAsolene, which shows
% per cegt increased value for the benrol
half. In many quarters alcohol is locked
upon as the ultimate fuel. but IL cannot bs
employed except with great dilieultes, owing
to its high hydrogen content"
New-York tribune., 1917-11-04
LIE Had Little Sympathy With
/ j The Russian Tradition

THE unfinching truth and direetness Of
Iolstoys vision was associated not only
with an attitude of egoism, but also with
certain coldness, and even hardness. d.
With this coldness of vision we can scarce
ly fail 20 connect not only Tolstoy's attitude
toward women, but also his opinions Of wom-
en-. Although he never definitely broke with
the Russian literary tradition which has so
persistently exalted women az the expense
OF men, 1t is clear that he had little sympa-
thy with that tradition His deadly
skill in the analysis Of women was the out
come Of his self-torturing obsession with
that mysterious being so dear delicious
and exeerable' IL was only after his mar
rage that woman assumed prominence in his
WORK and that he became recognizable as
'Iolstoy the woman-hater'; almost immedi.
ately after II, indeed, that he wrote the won
derfui story in which he calmly dissolves
Family Happiness into illusion
The climax OF Tolstoys antagonism 20
woman and sex is reached in The Kreutzer
Sonata The great artist wisely put that
narrative into the mouth OF madman. Yet
his own sympathy with the madman is indi-
Gated not only by the Postscript, written a
year later but by many remarks which fell
from him in conversation. He had a faithful
and loving wife, yet he could never quite
forgive even her devotion TO her family's
interests. No woman he once said, in ref
erenee to her, can take the place Of a friend
to me- Why do We lie to our wivesY he
said again In Sergeysnko's presence, and as
sure them that We regard them as our true
friendsP And to ". Jules Hurets question
whether he considered woman mans equal:
/ reply that know she is, in all respects,
morally his Inferior