Show Sam Has Sunlit Nation Too I shall not forget my first sight of the Aleutian Islands writes Frank Frani G. G Carpenter from Alaska We lia tad had passed no land lan for two days ays when we came curne to the Island of which Is at the end of ot the Alaska peninsula an and which forms the beginning of the great chain of Islets ts that reaches from Alaska almost to Asia The islands lie He in a great grent crescent which look like stepping stones on the face of the sea sen They form the arc of a great circle reaching from the western to the eastern eastern eastern east east- ern hemisphere lies on our sl side e of the world worl and Attu the last of our islands is in the orient 1500 miles distant and not far from Kam Kam- We have a coaling station on the Island Islan of ot Kiska which is in Ix inthe the eastern hemisphere an and there the evening e twilight has not disappeared when the sun is rising in Maine John Bull often boasts that the sun sun never sets on British possessions The same is true of Uncle Sams Sam's dominions when we take in island Islan and the Philippine archipelago |