Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 38, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 January 1906 — Untitled [ARTICLE]

doubtedly made to keep the secret until the evil deed was accomplished. Elaborate preparations were made for ths festivities. Were the Dakota on the way horns from Japan the situation would be reversed, and there would be two Christmas days aboard the ship, or, rather, one Christmas day forty-eight hours long, m the day line is generous enough aboiff paying back its debts to those who do not remain in the Orient. It is a kind of head tax he assesses, redeemable on demand If the face is in the right direction. This day line seems mystifying to many persons who observe its meanderings over the Pacific ocean on the map. Beginning away back up in the Arctic wastes, it follows the 180th degree south for some distance, and theu bends to go through Behring Strait. Thence it moves In an irregular line down almost to the Equator, and henda east to the 150th meridian. Then ite crooked pathway may be traced through the Southern Pacific until It finally gets back to the 180th meridian and disappears in the unknown region east of Wilkes Land.