| Show I m CT l ivery vely g i S at to ll lit Its Own on time thu most t imp flut Dut fluta i a 11 close ot history II i int I ent nt that events are nrc tow and far between It Iii IH ably all true tru though tha lint t even in III time Ule light o history the that Is jU just t br nil as one OM ut of the Ole more moore In the tho annals or of Tho rho accession o of the Jutted tates to time commercial throne of o th world hall lios become more tt UI ever even doming durIn this year car and the tho fact I Is ot of so eon con that hl history tolY Is bound to take ot of the events that lell up to ott It The ciot tn In ce comparatively speaking Ahll is III due large I iy to Ie 1 for rei but fur cOf h JotI 10 peal today would I in I nil probability lie bl trampling down American ground and nor be figh fighting one for tor the IIII 9 Ii l tho In III Ven Venezuela Iii i with du ct to the Iho doctrine euphonIously called and the ct It itt ot of a l termination Jt It Is nun ot of the he grandest of at thc lie age that nations no longer nerd I armies und and navle to maintain their rights It they ure ar willing to 10 to reason amid justice Yet Yd there Is peace In the world at atthe the tho clo c or of your South Is at ra rest t after u a tong rie rho In the Philip s Is much better tItan It has hall hasteen teen Leen ncI the of oC lie tho there Hut for tor tho th movements In Venezuela anti nod the Ito agitation of the b In Africa would b be general throughout tho lie world It I is to look 1001 back upon the lie tact Year without being moved h I gratitude Cor or the and material enjoyed In itch the tho o of the tho soil soli un am the Of the mines fai ex cx ceded anything hi time history of tin State And nd the rattle ilia milay ho bo said Qt o of the other branches ot of and 1 sources fit t Wu e notice that the limo total ot of time the arm for tor the tho Is placed at and the tho amine nt at almost till An e equa luul sum Amid this lila Is b but bul a sample of at thi general conditions In this country The M Janti ot of Jos lh today time tho aspect of f fruitful a bough een uvena a fruitful bough by a ell 1 branche run over the wall willi Perhaps no better veller proof can be given of at this than Ihan the tho growth ot of the rail railways ways for tor they tile give n a good Indication ot of the conditions Accord lag Ing to th tte the pMt past year has hali no le less 9 than to time the railroads oT of the country COUll try ox elusive ot of second J sidings arid all electric lines Last ears Ins r 6 miles that ot of 1900 Was The Thc total for Cor time the nation la Is noW nos within tt n Cow reW hundreds ot of tha liu mark its ot of ma tonal l But the yur has haJJ further been II a l r to the world of oC the tho Instability of at all 1111 timings thIngs earthly It has been a 11 year ot of In the chape of at earthquakes and disturbances ancel ancelot ot nt limo rho terrIble erupt eruptions or of ilont Moat Pelee and ond La IQ during May taY or aro stilt In tresh memory and It Is doubtful Whether the chapter ot of horrors Is yet cl finished rd The Tho outbreaks In the West ludlOn n islands were 10 toll followed owed by morn or 01 Ie less severe dIsturbances In other places indicating that the earth cacti crust has hils bent In the tho most recent of at th e disturbances were the earthquakes In where hundreds lost their lives On tec 23 tIme shock were so violent there that the theet they set et nil all the rolling stock k on the railway In motion and naturally created n a among the railroad men has sInce been suspended TIme The dam dum lN ago to hI Ii at several millions of dollars This Is considered all 1111 th the more remarkable because Tur Turkestan Is not a 0 volcanic country That ThatIs h Is It rio no evidences ot of volcanIc activity In any period In Its lis history and the tatter extends back to the ear earliest liest times In antiquity It t Is true that place on earth Is real safe against the destructIve forces of oC nature except as far us as the hand ot of Is over oer It Tile The entire year car Is with elm liar c calamities In January Januar there was nn an nt at Mexico with heavy loss lose ot of life lICe In l February I there Was vae a 11 I enes rles of In and thousands ot of homes were destroyed Ind nd so on through throughOUt OUt ou tile Year r Tornadoes and wind windstorms windstorms storms have accompanied the tho convulsions ot of the earth crust Time The month of June Was wail particularly rous During that month 21 were killed and many injured b by 1 a ton tor nado on the White J Indian reser Minnesota A tornado with for Cor the storm center swept over oer Illinois Ii 11 were killed and property damaged to the tho Indiana was also swept by 1 a windstorm damage 2 and damagIng wind and ond rain rainstorms rainstorms storms lwIN 1 Ill 11 loss Such Rueh testimonies have hae been veen given abundantly to the earth during the past year ear earThe Time The past ast year has hall be been n unusually Ich In ot of a 0 nature And nd foremost among must be the wireless mrs meso sagas sent across the Atlantic b by nr noni coni The Italian scientist claims to have transmitted dispatches by lila his telegraphic system from Glace Olac hay I osa oa Scotia across the Atlantic ocean t to 1 In England The One ot these Was remit feut to iCing Victor ot of Hal Italy and the other to King Edward idward ot of l The Tho rang mile of this thie achievement Is to realize But think ot of the Immense cIvilIzation has hll d from the time Oral first landed big trail frail Crafts In Inland Vinland down to the time when Ihen tAn can stand on the horo or of America and speak without wire and anel the gray waste wast of waves raes to the lab Ish sovereIgn I Speak about miracles Wp Vp are aN aware that thai some have hasl quell ques the Iho accuracy of the report but I Ithe the tra Islon ot of wireless messages over short distances lots for tor some sometime sometime time an e t 1 filet fact Why sho hl It then ho bo to send sand such messages II a lon r Another of years gr great nt events was the th ot of the 1110 cHic cable Dy 13 tills lila time anti Is now en b by 1 a slender Time great till ret of oceans is now spanned In Aim enter euter pricing has mn sent 1 a to around the lie world In forty hours That Is nn an whIch lii In Itself is III U a What It meanS to Is III thus up b by bythe the American new cable calile brings the Austra Ja colonIes nearer to Canada than they Were cre b before rore anti lit itt the lime sumac sUllie time up UI pos ot or other jthN substantial In Im 11 cOIn Ions the tho Ill Ia chic from Vancouver to the cable coble touches s only British territory and now there Is completed it a ot of tIme the world which touches tot tOl territory only nt at tint St Ht Vincent iii the CUP Verde both to on an old nil ally Thus the tho Is bound tog ther by I I whet what lii all but bat un an nil line gir I tug un aim menu ot of cation from tIme tho groo gravo dangers which lit u critical wOUld IJ connection wHIm the colonies b by the th existing route The Tho TholOW now lOW to aUto te will viiI further great nd ad tim sneed since Inca It has onlY three limo nil all on h soli oi In III ot of over u a to a national I tl ties I It Its tariff will b less leas halt that of thu ho other route foutt prior to reduce l na are duo to II its com coin Is no reason to doubt that tha t It tilt be run ul ed nor any reason to tear that It tb any to rho reductions In their rates which nothing else elso would I loWe induced thom them to lunko havo hao been balanced IJ by tin increase lIt of business nut further reductions would edly In time tho present condItions ot of the tho 1011 othI to u a yet greater Increase of PUblic rho fhe tier or of the long distance tables hns lma boon terrIbly hampered by tive rates and the ito social tiso 1st of them can hardly lie be raid fluid to exist There Is 19 Indefinite expansion to bo looked for In both holh directions proportioned to the to fa dItties that caim be obtained ll at rea reason reasonable on 1 able bIll Another great achievement ot of tb Ih yeam COl Is tM opening ot of time the Nile dam al a I rho fhe damn dam is III across tM tin rapids ot of the cataract to tl north ot of the Island of oC Plume and ond the thi height to which the water Is to net has hils been so that time the ancient temples on this will not DC be en cn met submerged Its his total co cost t Is 3 3 OOOO Egyptian pounds Time Tho ot tile reservoir I is estimated ted at cubia metres or of water Th wilt wIll be filled between D December and March tarch after the th flood lood has hns passed and will be ed dUJ du lug May Moy June and July There are 14 sluices H 11 metres In area 41 40 upper sluices aeten square me metres tree tres In ar area n lii 11 flood time the sluIces wilt will willbe be full fully open SO O DB not to lessen th the velocity or of time tho river fiver ants and to avoid th tIme deposIt ot of slit silt After ACter the whOn the water avater Is time the Nile Hood brings down time rich slIt sili which is III the fertilizer of oC will lie be gradually closed and an the reservoir filled In nil all probability this work worl wilt prove proe one great step the restoration ci Egypt to something like Its lis ancient glory and One of oC time tho greatest die ot of recent times belongs to the past year Ills it is that of at Proto Prof ot of the ot of In t l i he fount a which is IR thought to hoe have been ven In existence at least years eaN ago nn and probably much farther back and which con can tame the oldest records of the human race This collection Is of at clay mind of at the events given ghen to their keeping transpired In nn an ng age so fur far tomato remote that only on an estimate of th the date Is This to be tI jive ve Is given II at t from flom to ears ngo These cia Ila books we ve are told arc be beIng being Ing deciphered slowly anti and many years earl must necessarily elapse before time tho roe ree oril they holi II its given hen to the Mor e bait o OO tablets tablet have been re removed moved from title this ancient depository deposItor t f learning but l kitely tely unearthed In Bab Jonia and It Is iii that six times all as man maim mute In the mounds which have hac not lot yet been explored It lii III believed that I they hey ha have 0 lain where h re rethe time the now ore are In the ruins of oC the library of the Temple ot of Lie Del ever since the l overran nearly 1300 years before ChrIs It If this theory Is correct the tue tau tablets lets must hove have been bee 11 before d to toward ward Palestine From what imas hils been It Is learned that nt tile the time of which they tile deal there was 1 a abight high bight state or of civilization In the Volley Valley or of the historical texts hymns astronomical cal architectural calculations Ions and accountS ot of temple revenues ore are amon the bits bite of ancIent chronIcles that have been to tIme the world through the readIng of these tablets Some Bible have h been slow show to accept the he high antiquity given to maim on earth b by as well geologIsts The They have b been n afraid of accepting a theory that seemed to come In conflict with snored history htmL there thele Is no need for anxiety on thIs account Science may prove that the tho generally accepted chronology Is faulty but that does loes not prove proc the sacred lila hIs hIstory tory untrue The Tue Bible history does not prOfess to give n a complete chron There Thera are several gaps aps that must be fitted In ScientifIc disCoveries many prove U wrong tonG but tho hi acts given In Inthe time the ate IO not touched thereby Tho rh question ot of time the high antiquity ot of on earth hOi has also been veen cu sd In this country anti It must be ad the tho evidence produced does not sustain the extremist t vIew on that subject The con gras In October a human hutnan skull found on one 0 farm tarm In Lansing last ninny having expressed the tho t that the coil 1011 In which the skull and bones were found dated back to the glacIal peri period M cay years 03 01 more the Inference wall made that the owner oVner ot of the remains lIved lied In this country oL at time Proto Prof Chamberlin of the tho University ot of ChIcago Is however hocer not satisfied with the tho testimony of It the eminent geologists In nn an article il In Iho lie Journal ot of hI It appears from tIme reports ot of time the engineers ra that the tho ls rIver higher r up imp than the of Lansing lAn n a reo re le acton Action on I its md bU bottom m it eats down ii iron fron te to ninety feet teet II depth It n a 11 ir qt tl t else elsewhere where 11 lii ot of the Mimi t Is its tI II 11 In it liot where once there was nIne ninety I of but lii Is no now hIgh and aud dry thinks In 1 ll cleaned clearl aWa away soil Holl was M leC heft In Lansing by byth th ho ICI ire ot of glacial times have left there n a mixture ot of rein lef fUrther up tip stream 10 lie regards th ot of this deposit 11 mi not tm le lie to 11 Iii or near Lansing certain terraces or that exIst In and which ar are characteristIc ot of fhern Is it tack hick or of such uch M as might 10 ho 1 expeCted from glacial lul mud Although th there Is WiO orno loose II in th the t Jon deposit It Is IF nt not pure mind IA U hoc have been brol brought ht there there froni else On ot of 11 associates who th 1 scene ceno lii In Chum Cham company compan calls attention 1011 mome over ocr to or of P n of and ah ll which have before found lii In Iq RI And RInd nd thul thus the ll all as far tor ni ns the tho MY Coy light upon I It romaIne where I it 18 before It H would 10 ho in n a Iret brief sir ar Ilce tick to even een audi upon al alt time tho IU S 11 mud en events lint t h 1 held public interest oin or shorter during tile PI past t year Those reterre to ar are only ute a few of the tho mot rums oun Tim Tho year leaves lS us with a record ot of prOfI In ul mill I It the worl bele better wo we trust than I It 11 it Time he boundaries 1 ot of time tho king ibm or of od hod have haa certainly been e n t Tho cause ot of truth has hall found CI llla and time Influences tar for forb b truth 1111 and justIce mire ure more marc no ac at t vork than ever oer or urn tar tor congratulation also alMa for tOI fora n a determInatIon to continuo continue In the tho ot of n 18 change chang anI amid cause changes but In time I midst of oC al all alt all 1 storms torm al perplexing 1111 trials truth remains Sh BI will own even wh when n mortals shall shah have ceased to number their years itS hOW I IL I lit safe to 10 by truth even else ee In 1st oppositIon Thore I Is |
