COMMENTS OF THE PRESS
Newspaper Comment on live
topics of the day
DEEP FISHING.
(American Magazine.)
The Albatross ilsnes with a line
three miles long, often four miles long,
sometimes six miles long or over, a
line of slender cable, but wonderfully
strong, rolled off a deck winch by a
sputtering steam engine, that will bring
up from the ocean floor, a three or four
ton haul, of sponges, crinoids, Jelly fish,
sea urchins, giant crabs, long white
worms that break in two if you touch
them, phosphorescent trees (really an
imals), sea cucumbers with hideous
heads, star fish, devil flsh, pelican fish,
lantern fish sharks' teeth, whales' ear
bones, sea cow's ribs and scores of
other extraordinary things.
The Albatross follows no beaten patns
of commerce. She goes where other
vessels rarely go. She explores for
gotten corners of the seven seas, drops
her great nets by day and by night,
takes hundreds of soundings in un
1 charted waters and, after a cruise of
months, brings home her trophies for
final safe-keeping in jars filled with
alcohol and labeled with Greek and
Gatin names. This sort of work sue
has been doing for thirty-odd years,
evei since George W. Baird designed
her engines for the United Suites fish
eries service in 1882.
RUSSIA OPENING UP.
(Boston Record.;
Two items from Russia interest llie
world today. One is the prospect for
an army of 8,000,000 men—of whom
only a portion could be armed and
equipped; the other, and more signi- ;
(leant, is the report that the czar has
pardoned all political prisoners, which
means that about 100,000 will be set
free.
If il were not so well understood that
the policy of punishment for political
freedom of speech and act in Russia
Is what it is, this would be an amazing
revelation of the last tyranny of that
great country. But the political of
fenders has been the peculiar prey of
Russian government; no other land
has pursued this victim so viciously.
is significant that the czar, pre- ,
aumably under advice, sees ttie wisdom j
of this present move. Let's hope it
has something of the nature of perm
anency.
It is worth note that since the war
has been well under way there have
been several indications of a broad
ening policy in the Russian empire,
particularly emphasized in the more
liberal treatment of Jews. That Rus
sia is undergoing some processes of
moral regeneration is believed. It is
bound to come. Russia is a great
country of undeveloped resources, and
the biggest resources of all is Its human
population.
A liberalization of the government
may set free great and admirable
forces—not military conquerors, but
other powers better worthy of culti
vation and expansion. This release of
100,000 political prisoners is one little
indication of the inevitable change.
THE BEST SOLDIER.
(Seattle P.-X.)
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If there has been any official justi
fication needed for tho short man he
has it In the recent reports of medical
officers with the British army, who say
that the little fellow Is the best sol
dier, in point of endurance, In ability
to move quickly In times of emergency.
There Is no distinction made between
the tall and the short man as to cour
age or disposition to fight, but there
is claimed a higher efficiency for the
short man on account of his economic
physical equipment.
On the long marches, on short ra
tions, in emergency actions requiring
celerity and dash, tho little man has
been found greatly superior as a fight
ing unit to his beefy brother and much
less likely to be killed or wounded.
Df. Pembrey, of London, contends
that while the chief differences in men
are in tho length of their legs, the
weight of brain is relatively greater
In the short man than in the tall man
and the mental reaction is moro rapid.
The short man needs, relatively, “less
steam" to maintain the human ma
chine at its highest efficiency and he
is lighter and quicker on his feet.
With this high official commendation,
the little man’s stock ought to rise in
the market. Certainly he has no cause
to humble himself In tho presence of
his altltudlnous brother. About the
only place, according to official advices,
where the tall man has any advantage
Is in baseball, and the efforts of short
men. have not been entirely wasted
there.
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WINTER SPORT IN KANSAS.
(Concordia Kansan. >
The old man of the Kansan fell full
length on a West Fifth street side
walk at noon today. It was one solid
sheet of ice underneath the slight cov
ering of snow. The fall did no dam
age, but the m d of rising from the
lull was very ban.Plating and quite la
borious. It s so slippery he could
get no toehoh nd he had to resort to
the execution oi a forward movement,
sliding about twenty feet on his coat
tails across the parking to court the j
i assistance of a small shade tree,
tirasping the tree firmly by both hands
tie made a lurch like a contestant in a .
tug-of-war. but instead of urising to l
the occasion he landed again, squarely |
on his back, gazing seriously straight I
at the sky through the tree top, with j
its base firmly clinched in his hands.
A peg-legged man pulling oil a stunt
of that so.rt is worth going miles to
see. yet we hope but few witnessed this
one. Had It not been lor the timely !
assistance of a boy who was so kind
about it he didn't even laugh, we think
! hat old man would yet be rosslin' with |
that tree and hopin’ the fire depart
ment would come to Ills relief.
THE AMERICAN CALF.
U’hiladelphai Record.)
Ueer hunters are forbidden to kill
lawns in most American stales. There
are laws to protect the baby seal, j
uume tish under a certain size have
tneir lives insured by olficial regula- j
tion. j
How does it happen then that the]
American butcher goes on slaughter- j
.ng tiie American calf, slashing at the j
iIn oat of the nation’s meat and dairy |
supply, without audible protest from
.my quarter?
The heifer calf's place in our system |
of table economy is not a matter of j
guess work or theory. The calf that I
is eaten as veal never develops into j
oeef, nor can it continue the race of its |
. aluable kind. It is a contention of I
xperis that a very definite reason for
our dwindling beef supply is the unre
stricted slaughter of very young heif
ers.
Consider the. country's growing pop- |
! illation, side by side with Its shrink- !
! .ng pasture plains, and the conviction t
,s born that some precise national pol
| icy of cattle conservation should have
j aeen inaugurated in the United Statec
| years ago.
FUTURE CITY EXPANSION.
(Countryside Magazine.)
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The great city expansion in the end
will be horizontal ratl\er than perpen
dicular. We shall have many knots,
clustered about factories and other en
terprises, and we shall learn how to
distribute the satisfaction In life ruth
er than merely to assemble them. Be
fore this time comes, we shall have
passed our present insistence on so
called economic efficiency, as if it were
the sole measure of a civilization, and
higher ends shall come to have control.
All this will rest on the partitioning of
the land.
It Is common ' assumption that tho
solution of these problems lies in fa
cilities of transportation, and, to an
extent, this Is true, but this assump
tion usually rests on the other assump
tion, that tho method of the present
city vortez Is the method of all time,
with its violent rush into the vortex
and out of it, consuming vastly of time
and energy, preventing home leisure
and destroying locality feeling, herding
the people like cattle. The question of
transportation Is indeed a major prob
lem, but It must be met in part by a
different philosophy of human effort,
settling tho people in many small or
moderate assemblages rather than In
a few mighty congestions. It will be
easier and cheaper to move the goods
than to move tho people .
THE JITNEY FUTURE.
(Sunset Magazine.)
But the Jitney business, despite its
mushroom growth, will neither kill the
street car companies nor will It crip
ple them, for the simple reason that
the average Jitney bus as at present
conducted does not pay.
The fact of the matter is that tour
ing cars are not built to provide tho
owner with revenue. It Is almost cer
tain that specially built light busses
will appear on the streets to compete
with the electric cars. They will have
a far larger seating capacity than the
touring-car Jitney. Such vehicles.
■ though, will require a heavy capital
outlay. This type of conveyance will
lie. fur less popular than the jitney
because it will of necessity be slower
and give a less frequent service. And
. it is the frequent service of the jitney
i fhat has made them popular.
Along the Paciflc coast, where cli
: mate conditions make all-the-year op
| ' ration feasible, motor transportation
j has come to stay. Both in and outside j
i tlie cities it will cntlnue to be a boon i
I to the traveling public. But tbfc present- i
day jitney craze Will be short-lUed
unless the touring car owners raise the j
! fare to a level that will give them an
| idequate Income.
THE LAST BOAT OF THE SEASON
IS QONE.
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] 'i leased to meet our old friends and
j o make new one*.
Give us a chance to prove to you
hat we do the beet werk in Nome.
W« make alterations.
W# make and repair fara
We clean, press and rspalr both
i adlee and gsntlsmen'e clothing.
Wa guarantee all work and oar ‘
| prices are reasonable.
NOME TAILORING CO,
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For fir** otaee werk and prompt de
livery phone Main 151 and the People’s
Steam Laundry will call end get your
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on# to your frienda- Th# Nugget Min- )
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! Roof Garden, December 18.
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32 .Torbay's Cigar Store I
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