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...dread of that New York organized a Board of Health that set about teaching the new world the a, b, c of sanitation. Pigs were banished from streets and cellars, and that first year 40,000 windows were cut to let light into 40,000 tenement bedrooms that were dark and unventilated. Forty years we have wrestled with the powers of darkness and at last the law forbids the building of a tenement with a dark and airless room in it. The day is coming when it will forbid a man to own one. Meanwhile the sanitarians are trying...
...efficiency along this line was superior to what it had ever before been in the United States Navy. Speaking of the new ships now being built, he brought out the fact that the United States was building not because war was wanted, but because war is contemplated as a dread possibility. Mr. Moody closed with an appeal for American citizens to find out what they could do for the country and then to do it to the best of their ability...
...This quality, and a certain unpretentious sincerity of style makes "Ike Peavey, a Bushwhacker," by G. H. Scull, decidedly pleasant reading in spite of its length and of its touches of improbability. Two other tales of a highly tragic nature are "As Told by the First Mate," and "The Dread of the Deep...
...life of the colony. The cultivation of the former being especially unhealthy, and negroes being cheap, it became more profitable to work the slaves to their utmost capacity while they lived. This did much to keep the slaves in a state of savagery, and the people lived in constant dread of negro revolts. Accordingly none of the planters lived on their estates, but left them to the management of overseers, while they went to live in Charleston, where a brilliant society existed...
...guilty of such offenses has doubtless in most cases passed the point where remonstrance, or representation of his conduct in its true light, could be of any avail. He would still, however, be influenced by the dread of detection and consequent summary punishment. We would urge that measures be taken to make that dread a very living one. If it were generally understood that not only the various library officials, but the students themselves, were sharply on the watch for violations of privilege, and would do their utmost to trace all concealed books to the responsible parties, the number...