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The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-09-14
"Ther Land of Tomorrow"

spawning ground in the streams and tribi
utaries.
The dogs and the Dog Derby, which has
been regular event in Alaska for num-
Der of years, would seem alone to be
worth the journey. Everybody has heard
of "Baldy of Nome" the Alaskan husky
that not only has the Croix de Guerre
from the French Government but, as Mr..
Stephenson says, 'fhe largest service flag
of any one of my acquaintance" Twenty
eight of Baldy's sons and grandsons went
TO the Vosges to do their bit, along with
the more than hundred Sbeepstake
dogs selected and taken to France by
Scotty Allen, a famous Dog Derby win
ner, along with Mrs. Darling, the owner
of Badly, popularity known as "The OAR
ling of the Dogs"
Among the many interesting pictures in
the book, that include "Simrock Mary'svy
herd of reindeer returning picturesquely
over the hill, and the thirty-three dog
team going across the snow to meet the
mail carrier, is one of Badly and Scotty-A
Badly, as we are told, now living in ease
and luxury on his Darling's California
ranch. .~,
st. Michael, where Mr.. Stephenson
was Commissioner, he describes as a
"quaint, historic little island, about TWEEN
ty-two miles long and six miles wide" 1t
is 125 miles south of Nome and is the
only thing in the book to which the adj
jective "little' can appropriately be app
piled. Mr.. Stephenson seems to have
found life very pleasant there notwith-
standing eighty below and the mosquitoes,
upon which he does not dwell. He is en-
thusiastic about Alaska, and sounds the
alarm, in italics, that Japan is too. He
almost makes us see 60,000,000 Japs spill
ling out of the crater of Mount Katmai
and all over the place.
Even as an alarmist, however, this
author is to be preferred to the moralist
he becomes in his later chapters, dealing
with the Esbimos and their own peculiar
morals, marriages and smells. g.,
He has been successful in what APP
parently was the purpose of his book
to make everybody want to see Alaska,
and see it first.
THE LAND OF TOMORROW. By
WILLIAM B. STEPHENSON, Jr. George H.
Doran Company.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-09-14
Five More Books for Children
By CONSTANCE MURRAY GREENE.

By CONSTANCE MURRAY GREENE.
A N unusually attractive number has
/ n been added to the Children of
Other Lands series in When Was Girl
in Iceland, by Miss Holmfridur Arnadot-
tir, who came to the United States year
and half ago and is now an instructor of
Icelandic and Danish languages in the ex-
tension department at Columbia. All the
books in this series make pleasant and in
structiye reading for young girls and
boys because they are written by people
who have actually spent their own child
hood in the lands they describe, but Miss
Arnadottir's is particularly charming ow-
ing to delightfully."- naive and often for
eign manner. In speaking of the great
hot springs she says:
"Many Of them have their proper
names, but the biggest and most active of
them all is Geysir. 1 am not going to
give you any formal description of him;
if you want that you can find it in books
of travel, and you will find that they count
him to be king of his namesakes in the
world.
eve made big snow men and women
with all the specifications possible" she
says later on, and adds for the benefit of
those who are wont to SILVER at the men,
ton of Iceland that the winter of 1918 in
New York was the coolest weather she had
ever felt. fan,
Rainbow Valley, by L. NJ. Montgom-
cry, the author of Anne of Green Gables
and several other Anne books, is another
story Of Prince Edward Island, in which
Anne once more takes a wholesome hand,
though light one. She has not been idle
during the years, as her six children will
prove, but she is as sweet and as under
standing-and as insipid, if you will al
low the discourtesy-a she ever was.
However, she plays small part here, as
do her children. The four young Mere
diths, motherless and Indigenous to the
village manse, are more prominently fea-
tured, and the book develops into a ro-
nance of their absent minded father.
There is an orphan also, discovered by
the combined youngsters starving in de-
serted barn, and rooster named Adam,
pet of Faith Meredith and enemy Of the
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-09-14

"Lo, And Behold Vel"
Some Irish Stories

C1VENTEEN Irish folk tales written
~ by Seumas MacManus and printed
in various periodicals over period of as
many years are now brought together in
one volume with title taken from ia
miliar. Irish speech, Lo, and Behold Vel
Mr.. MacManus says of them that he
heard most Of these thousand-year old
tales con many a merry night by the.
bright turf fire of my father, Pat Mac
Manus (God rest him y or round Shan
O'Quinn's golden hearth or in Jimminy
Moore's cricket haunted chimney corner,
and on many a glorious day mid the
story crowned fells and fairy haunted
dells of royal Donegal
He further confesses that so often has
he chanted them in Ireland and in this
: country "that, as will happen with story
tellers, the memory is long lost me Of
what in them is fact and what is fiction"
He adds, and here sticks out your real
freshman, "for me they have all grown
gospel true"
The tales are Irish up to the hilt.
Moreover they have the quality inherent
IN all very old tales of intoxicating some
profound truths of human nature or some
moral lesson. For sheer beauty it would
be hard to match the lovely story of The
Queens Conquest, for characteristic Irish
wit and action to find peer to the tale
OF The Mad Man, the Dead Man. and the
Derit;; and for its moral lesson the pic
turesque episode of Dark Patrick's Blood
Horse. There is Imagination of high
quality, animated by the Irish passion for
revenge, in The Bodach and the Boy; and
the comic quality in The Far Adventures
Of Billy Burns is as rich as one will find
anywhere in Irish broad humor. 1t is not
often that volume of reprinted pieces
of fiction is worth while nowadays. But
here is genuine exception to that rule.
+. 10. AND BEHOLD YET BY sEuMAs
MAcMANUs. Frederick A. Stokes Com
pany. e-.t. .D
W/ILLIAM MARION REEDY, who
w discovered Edgar Lee Masters
unless Mr.. Masters denies it, was at the
Hotel Commodore this week or going
around with Mitchell KennerleN
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-09-14


lowest.
But even the cold weather in Alaska
should not deter any Of us from starting
to-day in order to be early on hand for
this land of tomorrow, since it is learned
that there is enough coal in Alaska to keep
the world warm for 5000 years. For six
months in the year, to be sure, the average
temperature is below zero, and zero in
Alaska instead of being at the bottom Of
the thermometer is half way up. Fifty
below is often recorded; sixty below is no
reason why the mail carrier should not go
on his route; eighty below is not unusual,
and occasionally the mercury freezes, the
thermometer fails to register, and nobody
knows how cold it is and doubtless fears
the worst. But Mr.. Stephenson says this
has been colder in both Boston and Chi
cago than he ever was in Alaska, wearing
the same quality and weight Of clothes.
So climate need not keep us back from
this land where four sisters can net 800
a day with a wash tub; where Ga, 100000
acres of agricultural land are waiting to
be titled and grazed; where the farming
area of the country is as large as the COM
bined areas of the States of Pennsyl-
vania, Maryland, Delaware, New Jersey,
Connecticut, Massachusetts,, Vermont and
New Hampshire; where $400 will buy a
800 acre farm; where the valuable gold
and copper mines have as yet only been
scratched; where the great reindeer
ranches are destined to solve the cost of
meat problem for the United States, and
the seas to supply sea food to the world.
Kiphng has described how he saw a
ton of salmon caught on the Columbia
River in fish wheel Mr.. Stephenson
tells of five tons caught in the same way,
and he follows the fish through the can
neries, from their glittering entrance on
into the cans that solder themselves with
the neat label, "The finest salmon in the
world" In the Alaskan salmon industry
are apparently scenes and material for
another Jungle if Upton Sinclair cared to
write.it. But it is difficult to see how even
Sinclair could make anything but most
marvellous and romantic tale out of the
return of the salmon from the sea to its
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-09-14

.U/ILLIAM MARION REEDY, who
w discovered Edgar Lee Masters
unless Mr.. Masters denies it, was at the
Hotel Commodore this week or going
around with Mitchell KennerleN
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-01-19
BrasSieres and Bust COnfiners 49c

We have an odd line of bras sieres and bust confiners that we will sell Monday for 49c. Open back and front, very spe- cial 49c.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-01-19
JANUARY CLEANUP SALE
 Beautiful CamisOles For 98c

A beautiful line of camisoles in white and flesh, trimmed in val laces and hand em broid- cred. In all sizes. Special Mon- day for 9Sc.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-01-19

We are closing out our child ren's robes. Lot No. for s7.9S, lot No. for $2.9S, lot No. 2 for $3.98 These robes are wonder full at these prices.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-01-19

We are closing out our entire stock of children's and misses dresses. These dresses are made in new, hobby styles. $4.9S, $6.9S and $8.98.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-01-19
JANUARY CLEAN-up SALE
Bath
 Robes S6.98

We will sell our entire stock of ladies' bath robes Monday for $6.9S. These robes are in beautiful designs. trimmed in wide satin folds. Odd sizes.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-01-19

JANUARY CLEANUP SALE
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-01-19


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Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1919-07-19
Its Def.

THAT fog has no respect for the
language purists."
"Why not?"
Because it persists in taking things
into its mist"
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1919-07-19
John Henry Remembered.

John Henry, recently graduated from
the infants class in Sunday school,
is the source of much pride to his par
ents on account of his rather remark
able ability to memorize easily. He
seldom fails to repeat the text. One
Sunday the lesson had been taken from
the twenty-third Psalm: 1.-THE Lord is
my shepherd; l shall not want, he
maketh me lie down in green pastures;
he leadeth me beside the still waters"
Early the following Monday MORN
ing, before the sun had dried the grass
of dew, the little tot, literally wallow-
ing on the lawn, was discovered by his
mother.
"John Henry, get out of that wet
grass and come here this minute" she
exclaimed.
But, mamma" he called back, HE
maketh me to lie down In green pas
tures.'
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1919-07-19
Y0UNGSTER WAS A DIPLOMAT
After His Explanation, What Was
There for the "Slender" School,
mistress to Do?

The principal of a certain Indiana
school is very thin. Also she Is very
sensitive about this quality. At her
school no one mentions 1t.
Recently several of her boys had a
long series of quarrels with the boys
of the neighboring ward school. The
principal talked and talked against
fighting, but with no results. The
fighting continued. Finally, one day,
she announced that she would give the
combatants at her school thrashng
II any more trays followed. A long
time and all was quiet. Then one day
came the usual fight and, of course,
the inevitable lining up for the
'lickin'."
Before l punish you, want you
to tell me what you were fighting
about this time," the principal told
the recreant ones.
81 were silent, but finally the least
fighter spoke up. "Well, the boys up
at that building leased us and said
that we had the skinniest principal in
town, and we told them you weren't
skinny at all, but slender, and then
they began fighting.
Needless to say no one got thrashed.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1919-07-19
HARD TO TRACE ITS DESCENT
Story of the Standard Yard and Its
Origin Must Be Accepted With
Some Reservation.

The picturesque story of the rela-
ton between the length of Henry Us
arm and the standard yard which the
lord chancellor will disinter from the
walls of Westminster palace is one
we should all like to accept, writes
a correspondent of the Manchester
Guardian. But the historical stand
ards have changed so often that there
must be many gaps in the chain of
descent. II the yard and the pound
are as described they must be exact
copies of the less romantic standards
of the board of trade, which date from
no later than 1884. And why prosy
Victorians should have buried them in
wall is hard to understand. The
oldest standard in existence. so far as
l know, is the yard of Henry VII,
which should be In the Jewel house,
but ms 1t has only 35,9S3 inches 1t
fs no longer good measure. Parlia-
ment had standard troy pound and
a new yard constructed in 1850. They
We're deposited with the clerk to the
house of commons, but in the fire of
1894 the pound was lost and the yard
injured. This yard was then lost sight
of until 1891, when it was placed in
the lobby of the clerks residence. to-
gether with standard "stone" of ID
pounds.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1919-07-19
''CAN | BE
CURED?" SAYS
THE SUFFERER

How often have you heard that sad
cry from the victims of disease. Per-
haps the disorder has gone too far for
help, but oftener it is just in its first
stages and the pains and aches are only
natures first cries for help. Do not
despair. Find out the cause and give
nature all the help you can and she
will repay you with health. Look after
the kidneys. The kidneys are the most
overworked organs of the human body,
and when they fail in their work Of
fltering and throwing off the poison
that constantly accumulates in the sys-
tenn, everything goes wrong. GOLD
MEDAL HARLEM Oil Capsules will
give almost immediate relief from kid
ney and bladder troubles and their kin
dred ailments. They will free your
body from pain in short order. But be
sure to get GOLD MEDAL. Look for
the name on every box. In three sizes.
sealed packages. Money refunded Il
they do not help you. ADV.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1919-07-19
Such Is Life.

1t happened the other Sunday at one
of the downtown churches-the chris
tening of pair of twins. All went well
UP to the moment when the rector
asked land what is the child's nameT
The father drew himself up proudly
and answered:
"Pershing Foch Haig Marine Mons
Lloyd George Wilson JONES'"
The rector gasped. Then, taking a
deep breath he turned to the mother,
who was holding the other child. "And
the name of this?" he asked.
The meek little woman smoothed her
dress nervously and almost whispered
Maud"
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1919-07-19
War Statesmen Agreed.

The statesmen of all the belligerent
countries were agreed that such a
league must be created to sustain the
settlements that were to be effected.
But at first l think there was feel
ing among some Of them that, while
1t must be attempted, the formation of
such league was perhaps counsel
Of perfection which practical men,
long experience in the world of affairs,
must agree to very cautiously and
with many misgivings.
1t was only as the difficult work of
arranging an all but universal adjust
ment of the worlds affairs advanced
from day to day, from one stage of
conference to another, that it became
evident to them that what they were
seeking would be little more than
something written upon paper, to be
interpreted and applied by such meth
DDS as the chances of politics might
make available. if they did not provide
a means of common counsel which all
were obliged to accept, common au-
thority whose decisions would be rec
ognized as decisions which all must
respect.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1919-07-19
The Difference.

II received two requests for an in
crease In salary today"
THAT SO? Did you grant them?"
other"
why"
Because of a difference in the re-
quests. One of the young fellows came
In and simply asked for more money
on the ground that he needed it.
turned him down. The other young
fellow came In and said that he needed
more money, and asked If l couldn't
give him chance to earn more. ! did"
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1919-07-19
Matter of COVERING.

The war was over and woman's
dress had gone mad to make up for
lost time. 1t was very brief and
bright.
The young sub. on leave was stag
gered.
"How do you like my gown said
his sister when dressed for a victory
ball.
''It's-er-quite simpler stammered
the young man.
"Simple" she laughed. "Do you
know what it cost? Do you know
twenty golden sovereigns wouldn't
cover it?'
Perhaps not" said the disapprov-
ing youth, But thirty might, well
spread outr
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1919-07-19

to be the end of cooperative authority
and common counsel among the gov
ernments to which the world was look
ing to enforce justice and give pledges
of an enduring settlement. regions
ike the Saar basin could not be put
under temporary administrative re-
gime which did not involve n transfer
of political sovereignty and which
contemplated n final determination OF
its political connections by popular
vote TO be taken at a distant date:
no free city like DS.zig could be ere
ated which was under eiaaorate inter-
national guarantees TO accept eXcep-
tional obligations with regard to the
use of its port and exceptional rela-
tons with state of which il was not
to form part; properly Safeguarded
plebiscites could not be provided for,
where populations We're at some fu'
ture date to make choice what sover-
eighty they would live under; no GER
tain and uniform method of arbitra.
tion could be secured for the settle
ment of anticipated difficulties of final
decision. with regard to many matters
dealt with In the treaty itself; the
long-continued supervision of the task
of reparation which Germany was to
undertake to complete within the next
generation might entirely break down;
the reconsideration and revision of ad-
illustrative arrangements and restric-
lions which the treaty prescribed. but
which 1t was recognized might not
prove of fasting advantage or entirely
fair il too long enforced, would be I'M
practicable.
league of free nations had become
a practical necessity. Examine the
treaty of peace, and you will find that
everywhere throughout its manifold
provisions its trainers have felt obliged
to turn to the League of Nations as an
indispensable instrumentality for the
maintenance of the new order it has
been their purpose TO set up in the
world, the world of civilized men.
That there should be League of
Nations to steady the counsels and
maintain the peaceful understanding
or the world, to make, not treaties
alone, but the accepted principles of
international law as WELL the actual
rule of conduct among the govern
ments of the world, has been one of
the agreements accepted from the first
as the basis of peace with the central
powers.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1919-07-19
DOCTOR URGED
AN OPERATION
Instead l took Lydia E. Pink.
hams Vegetable Compound
and Was Cured.

Baltimore, Md.-"Neariy four years
7 suffered from organic troubles, ner.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1919-07-19
Skeptical Turn to League.

okepticaI ! urn TO League.
And so the most practical, the most
skeptical among them turned more
and more to the league as the author
ity through which international action
was to be secured, the authority with
out which, as they had come to see it,
it would be difficult to give assured
effect to this treaty or to any other in
ternational understanding upon which
they were to depend for the mainte-
nance Of peace.
The most practical of the con-
ferees were at last the most ready
to refer TO the league of nations
the .perintendanca of all interests
which did not admit of immediate
determination of all administrative
problems which were to require
continuing oversight. What bad
seemed counsel Of perfection had
come to seem plain counsel of neces-
sity. The league of nations was the
practical statesman's hope of success
in many of the most difficult things
he was attempting.
And 1t had validated itself in the
thought of every member of the con-
ference as something much bigger,
much greater every way than a mere
instrument for carrying out the pro
visions of particular treaty. 1t was
universally recognized that all The
peoples of the world demanded of the
conference that ii should create such
continuing concert of free nations
as would make wars of aggression
and spolation, such as this that has
just ended, forever impossible. A cry
had gone out from every home in
every stricken land from which sons
and brothers and fathers had gone
forth to the great sacrifice that such
a sacrifice should never again be
exacted.
II was manifest -shy ii had been
eXacted. 1t had beea eXacteG because
one nation desired dominion and other
nations had known no means of de-
Tense except ornaments and alliances.
Old Policy Meant Force.
War had lain at the heart of every
arrangement of Europe-of every
arrangement of the world-that pre-.
ceded the war. FESTIVE peoples had
been told that fleets and armies, which
they toiled to sustain, meant peace;
and they now know that they had been
lied to; that fleets and armies had
been maintained to promote national
ambitions and meant war They knew
that no old policy meant anything else
but force, force-atways force. And
they knew that it was intolerabls.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1919-07-19

work Is pleasure. tell all my friends
who have any trouble of this kind what
lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Com
hound has done for me. "-NELLIE B.
BRIrT1NcHAM, 600 Calverton Rd., Balti-
more, Md.
1t is only natural for any woman to
dread the thought of an operation. So
many women have been restored to
health by this famous remedy, Lydia E.
Pinkham's Vegetable Compound, after
an operation has been advised that it
will pay any woman who suffers from
such ailments to consider trying it be-
fore submitting to such trying ordeal.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1919-07-19
Nonchalance.

rs Jibway In comfortable circum-
stances?'
''He tries to create that impression. -
"How soT'
ale refers to his $4,000 bungalow
as a Shack"
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1919-07-19

V0uSneSS and head
aches and every
month would have to
stay in bed most of
the time. Treat
ments would relieve
me for a time but
my doctor was al
ways urging me to
have an operation.
My sister asked me
to try Lydia E. Pink
b a ms Vegetable
Compound b e f ore
consenting to an
I took
five bottles of it and
it has completely
cured me and my