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The result of all the work outlined above was to bring together in the Bureau of Forestry, by the end of 1904, the only body of forest experts under the Government, and practically all of the first-hand information about the public forests which was then in existence.
My mother asks to have her kind regards extended to you and yours. Very sincerely yours, WESTOVER, January 2, 1904. Percy Johnston, Esq., Winterbine, Ill. MY DEAR FRIEND: We were all pleased to receive your letter informing us of your safe journey back to Illinois.
The little babe in Bethlehem set all this in motion, the wreath, the holly, are all from him." When we read the above and more to the same effect, we wrote to the Rev. We reproduce herewith a copy of our letter: DEC, 20, 1904. Rev. W. A. Bartlett, Washington Boul. and Ann St., Chicago
The United States presented a large marble group of statuary called "Peace Through Justice." Two notable congresses were held in the United States during the year 1904, for the purpose of promoting the peace of the world. The Inter-Parliamentary Union held a meeting, the twelfth in its history, in connection with the World's Fair at St. Louis.
A tabulation of the decisions reported in the various States in their last volumes published prior to June, 1904, shows that on a general average, in sixty-three out of every hundred appeals the judgment of the inferior court was affirmed. In Massachusetts the percentage was eighty-seven per cent. Many more appeals are taken by convicted persons in criminal cases at the South than in the North.
The naval program of 1903 and 1904 also included the Duncan, Albemarle, Russell, Cornwallis, and Exmouth, each 1,000 tons lighter than the ships of the Implacable type, but with the same equipment, defensive and offensive, and of the same speed.
After a series of accidents and delays, the Baltic fleet under Admiral Rojdestvensky 8 battleships, 5 cruisers, 8 destroyers, and numerous auxiliaries left Libau Oct. 18, 1904, on its 18,000-mile cruise. Off the Dogger Bank in the North Sea, the ships fired into English trawlers under the impression that they were enemy torpedo craft, and thus nearly stirred England to war.
Lapierre and Madame Reddon accordingly sailed for America and arrived in New York on the fourth of December, 1904, where they were met on the dock by the General, who, freshly barbered, and with a rose in his buttonhole, invited them, as soon as they had recovered from the fatigue of landing, to make a personal inspection of their properties.
This remark proves more than anything else how very superficial must have been her examination of the manuscript, for even the garbled edition of 1886 contains nearly 400 lines of verse, while that of 1904 probably contains over a thousand. For example, there are twenty-three lines of the poet Abu Nowas's.
HIROSHIMA, May, 1904. Well commencement is over and my first class is graduated. Now if you have ever heard of anything more ridiculous than that please cable me! If you could have seen me standing on the platform dealing out diplomas, you would have been highly edified. Last night I gave the class a dinner. There were fourteen girls, only two of whom had ever been at a foreign table before.
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