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NOME. ALASKA, OCT. 5, 1915.
"Three hundred thousand men," the
dispatches said, "is the total losses on j
iho Flanders front in the- allies
smash' No more penetrating ex
ample of the awfulness of the bloody
horror across the water can well be ]
brought before ones eyes than is con
tained in this brief cold sentence.
"Three hundred thousand men” in less
than a wweek of fighting. Think of
it. Three hundred thousand maimed
and broken bodies, some writhing in
the agony of death, some lying cold
and still their whitened faces drawn
with the last pain that gave release
from earthly suffering. "Three hun
dred thousand” if what we term the
“children" of that benefieient One who
brought to earth the message. “Love
ye one another," lying stricken with
mortal agony beneath a smoky canopy
of death for nothing that can he called
a worthy cause, even by the most ex
aggerated stretch of the imagination.
"Three hundred thousand" souls
gasping with awful pain, with the
sweat of torture on their brow and
horror in their eyes, lying in the gore
stained trenches or prone upon the
storm shot plains beneath the smoke
of belching guns whose thunder
shakes the skies.
Three hundred thousand;'* some
with bloody gashes torn through their
writhing flesh by screaming shot and
onrsting shell; some seared with the
flame of blazing oil, their fiery scars
pulsing with awful pain; some clutch
ing it their throats, convulsed with
ill 1 iking poison of the deadly
"Three hundred thousand."
Aral ill this in less than a week de
ited tu that bloody game of kings
fa! rulers, war. And mind you all
awful work, (his mutilation and
.a n , and death, was for no greater
tin than a long thin strip of soil that
could h<, walked around in ft few brief
hour-. "Three hundred thousand"
tortured, tormented and dead for
■ “ly more than enough ground to
-fford them room to stand. And all
for what ? For that some ono might
1 rule wih mightier power: might hold
a larger earthly sway. Nothing more.
II is a noble game, ni.v masters, ‘Three
I hundred thousand” bleeding, writhing
bodies offered on the alar of deah as
a sacrifice to some one's ambition.
"Three hundred thousand” on the bat
tlefield and half three hundred thou
sand In the darkened, desolate homes
they left behind when war's olarlon
call was .sounded Half three hundred
thousand tortured souls who staid be
hind awaiting in agony the tale each
day might bring. These too must be
Included in the tcost. Are not their
tears and agony u part of the price
paid for that pitiful strip of blood
stained soli won in that awful week?
< >ne wonders how we can look with
equinanimity on such a tale as is told
in the brief sentence printed! above.
And still we do, and worse, some of
us gloat with unholy joy at the awful
story that is there disclosed and are
right willing to read with gladness
other tales of equal import. The
ghastly horror, the pain, the misery
are all lost on us and only the issue
has an Import which can touch our
souls. We have grown calloused,
hardened to the uwfulnes of it all.
And yet, tie it remembered, we are
those who uphold the virtues and
claim to be true followers of Him
who told us that the greaetst of all
human virtues was to love one's fel
low men.
INSANITY AND CRIME.
A hum or woman utficted with in
timity cannot tie punished lor crime,
aider the law. and the ordinary pro
cedure is lu return a verdict of not
guilty by reason of insanity. This
wipes out the criminal charge, hut
makes necessary the Uelention of the
of the insane person as a protection
to the public. Unce such a patient
i Hotels ins reason it is not possible
legally to deny linn liberty, except
.,1.11 a recurrence oi ins insanity be
a.eiy. These ure tile 'conditions oi
me law uuuer winch Harry Thaw
wilted a fellow-man, was found not
guilty of murder, spent eight years in
.hi Insane asylum and was restored to
liberty.
There seems rie injustice in the law
l ine not menially responsible should
lull tie punished for crime, if one is
insane lie should be in detention, If
one is mentally normal he should not
oe confined in an asylum. Vet under
his procedure murderers escape pun
ishment and eventually regain liberty.
We shall probably not escape from
the abuses possible under the law un
til the ascertainment of insanity and
us various gradations becomes an
exact science. Few people are men
tally normal when they commit mur
der. One is temporally aberrant un
der the influence of passion or of in
toxicating liquor, yet the normal bal
ance soon returns. The protection of
the insanity plea is not for his class
of criminals.
Conflicting testimony of alienists
confuses jurors and causes many
miscarriages of justice. Either rea
son is dethroned through natural
causes or it is not. The problem is
to determine this and the probable
duration of such insanity with pre
cision.—Ex.
AN ANCIENT SEA.
Many million years ago. long before
the birth of the Rocky Mountains, a
large inland sea spread over the west
ern and central parts of North Amer
ica In geologic language the invasion
of this sea occurred in Mlssisslppian
time a period just preceding the one
in which the bituminous and anthracite
coal beds that extend over portions of
central and eastern North America
were formed. This sea covered much
of the present site of the Rocky
Mountain area, the central plains,
and at times a part of the great plain*
in the United States. At different
times it opined into the Arctic ocean
>n the north, rise Pacific on the south
and prohaunty a- gulf of Mexico on
the soniP.bejyr
Ttui* <4 salt water WU not
th- favr a* last to invade the
,. merieun continent. At each incur
sion union.' sandy, or limy deposits
mixed will sea shells and other um
o.oi remains were lain down along
me in aen anu upon the sea floor.
. range us It may seem, most oi thdbe
rocks formed ages ago now siand
anose sen level and constitute pimps,
plateaus and even mountains.
-Viiimai llte was very abunuaui in
li.18 jiissis.ippiari sea. Nearly if not
at ali uio classes oi animals now liv
ing were present. Sharks and ilshes,
though different in appearance from
me present forms, sported along the
more or swam the deep, tiea lilies or
t.molds, animals built un the same
general piun us the starllsh but hav
ing a calcareous cup with an attached s
!
stem, decorated the sea floor. See j
Snells belonging to the same class as
the oysters and snails were there. The
1 imp shells, or more technically
speaking the brachiopods. resembling
butterflies, mingled with a corkscrew
like sea net. Other forms, minute and
large, figured in this life and have
been wonderfully well preserved to
the present time. Finally this sea
bottom began to rise, and at length it
emerged, the waters withdrew to
the deep basins, and land life was
substituted for marine.
CASES OF
LONGEVITY
(Continental News.)
i>f me oldest living people at the
i resent time is Cupt. Diamond, who lias
just eiiiupleied ins ll'Jtli year, lie is to
be menuoneU first on account ol an
cxtrordinary lissomeness. He directs
a gymnastical institute in California,
in Germany there exists a woman,
widow of a clergyman, named Duck
iwicki, in Posen, who has reached hei
131st year. But she is very stilt. The
Kussian sub-officer Budnikow has
celebraed his 133d birthday. In 1812
lie fought against Napoleon. A Rus
sian in Tomsk is aged 146 years. He
must be tlie oldest man alive. Franz
i irachenbei g, a Norwegian, now dead,
illumed the age of 146. An English
farmer named Thomas Parr, who died
in 1635, lived 152 years, and had»llved
under ten English rulers. Josef Sur
rington, who died in 1797 in Bergen,
was 160 years old and had two sons,
the one son 103 years old and the
oungest nine years of age. An En
glishman of the name of Jenkins, died
in 1670 at the age of 169 and when he
had reached 100 years was still a
champion swimmer. At one time he
had to appear in court to testify con
cerning something that had taken place
140 years before. He left tw'o sons
who reached the respective ages of
102 and 100 years. Thomas Carn, an
Englishman, reached the age of 207
years, Methusalom. as wo all know, is
said to have reached the age of 969
years.
A MIGHTY TOUGH
“SICK MAN”
(Collier's Weekly.)
Westerners have heard so long of the
Sick Man of Europe and hts imminent
decease that they are likely to asso
ciate political with physicial weak
ness, and think of the pale, brooding, ’
official type, familiar in photographs,
is the everyday Turk. As a matter of
fact, the everyday Turk is tough bod
ied and tough spirited, used to hard
living and hard work.
The soldiers you see swinging up
Peru hill or in from a practice march,
dust covered and sweating and send
ing up through dusty cedars a walling
sort of chant us they come—these are
as splendid looking follows as you will
see in any army in Europe.
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anil miuk breeches with puttees, and
fashion in dust colored woolen tunics
a.in suugvbreeches wiwth puttees, and
wear a rather rakish looking folded
tap; a sort of conventionalized turban
,,oi unlike the soldier hats children
sometimes make by folding newspa
|,eis. This protects the eyes and the
hack or the neck from the sun. They
aie strong and well made, with broad,
high cheekbones, a black mustache
generally, and hawk eye* Some look
as the Tartar warriors who swept over
eastern Europe must have looked;
some, with their good-natured faces
and vigorous compactness, remind one
of Japanese Infantrymen.
.NT . one didn't care to be hanging
onto that strip of beach with those
.Australians and New Zealanders—
clean \cuug pioneers, tennis playing
colonials like Wilding, who was killed
at s?"dd ul Bahr.—Arthur Ruhl.
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tSeattle Star.)
The "S” in sentiment,” as far as this
nation goes, should undoubtedly be
written
Our foreign friends call us it nation
of money grabbers. We guess they are
right.
Pncle Sam has just sold the famous
old front steps of the national capitol,
which have been the scene of the In
auguration of many of our presidents.
Numbers of famous gatherings have
been held on these steps, the Capitol's j
Hist. Hollowed out by the footsteps
of generations of America’s greatest i
men, they are being replaced by gran-1
lte steps.
Instead "f l.ielng preserved, or at any i
rate used for the thousand and one I
purposes to which they might be I
adapted, they are sold to private in
dividuals for, probably, a paltry sum. !
Sometimes we do feel a bit ashamed
of our commercial propensities.
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and reduced to 90 por cent, by U. 8
government by the bot**e ar gallon.
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crockery, hardware at Holt's.
School Supplies. Lomen Bros.
Mining Edition of Nome Nugget. 50c
per copy, $5.00 per dozen.
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