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Alaska sentinel., 1902-12-11
A FABLE FROM REAL LIFE.
How Author of "Fabfcs in Slang''
 Lived Up to His Theory.

How Author of "Fabies in Slang"
 Lived Up to His Theory.
 There is class of people-and they are not all women, either-who can not be convinced that whatever an au- thor writes isn't autobiographical. If man writes love sonnet, he must be ill love, d theory which, If carefully applied to some of our poets, would prove that they out-Solomon Solomon. Such persons are rather yexing, for one Is sure they would never read Shakespeare's sonnets if they didn't believe there was q woman involved, and they simply glory in the fact that poor little David Copperfield is said to be the boy Dickens himself. To all such this story may have interest.
 It Is about a fable by George Ade, the postmaster of slang. The fable tells of two men. the one who wouldn't learn botany, but got out and Dug for the Rocks, or something of that sort; the other who said, Nay, nay. a cul- tured mind is the real thing; I'll go through college. and then be It," or something of that sort. Anyway, the first who had "bloodshot hands" (that quotation is eXact), got out and rustled for the cash so effectively that by the time the second was earning $50 a week as professor. and was still only an A. M, he came to the same college with S50,000 he had forgotten to take out of his pocket when he changed his pants" (the professor doubtless wore trousersD, saw a new gymnasium was needed, gave the $JO.00O and was made Ph. D. The laugh seemed to be on number two.
 Now, according to James O'Donnell Bennett, who Is well known in the atrical circles, being now connected with the business end of Miss Mar loves productions, George Ade him. self might stand for number one in some way, and Bennett and several more for number two.
 You see," said Bennett, "before Ade was famous. when he was just newspaper man with the rest, lot of us used to have quarters in Chi 
 the days grind was over, and stud iously set about improving our minds. But Ade wouldn't join us. While we were reading the sixty-seventh volume of the Life of Johnson he would be down in all sorts of joints. setting up cheap variety actors and the like to beer and ham sandwiches.
 "'George.' we would tell him. you are not doing right by yourself. You should study and improve your mind, not waste your spare time in cheap and riotous living Come with us; win culture, not slang
 But Ade kept on setting up the beer and learning slang. We cut the leaves in the sixty eighth volume of Boswell And now-and now, We have minds more or less improved, but Ade draws a salary of $500 a week, and goes to the Waldorf. There's your fable, to the life. New York Tribune.
Alaska sentinel., 1902-12-11

the street who is President of the Unit ed States and the odds are about even that he will reply:
 Johnny D'Mitch.' John Mitchell, President of the l.. M w. of America, is the only president a good many of them ever heard of.
 President Mitchell probably occupies a higher place in the confidence of his followers and of the public at large than any other labor leader America has known. His power for good or evil is something tremendous. Yet this young man of little more than 30, who has spent fourteen years of his life underground, pick In hand and lamp upon his cap, is not in the least changed by his elevation to such an exalted position. The only effect it has had on lim Is to make him keenly. all most painfully, alive to his responsi- bility. A man of heart and conscience he feels the burden. Ills daily and hourly prayer Is that he may make no blunder which will bring unnecessary hardship upon his faithful followers or deprive them of any advantage which properly belongs to them.
 MT. Mitchell not only carries tre- mendous responsibility as leader of the greatest labor strike known in the his tory of the United States. but he strug- gles along under prodigious amount of work. He has scores of callers daily. He gets an average of 150 let ters every twenty-four hours. and to every one of them he dictates an an- swer A world of detail connected with the management of the relief de- partment demands his attention, and the result of this activity is that the smooth-faced, black-eyed young Napo- leon of organized labor is at his task an average of about eighteen hours per day.
Alaska sentinel., 1902-12-11

A report k made by tile American consul at Liverpool upon municipal s1- cialism in Great Britain. Among the enterprises managed hy municipalities are Turkish baths owned hy Leaning ton and lIarrosate; rablit-warren by Torluay; an oyster-lishery. by C,lches;- ter; crematory, by Hull D ucaster and Chester own rarr-courseS. @nI in DoncaSter the town itself manages the races. St. lIelen'S supplies stcri,iZnd milk. The report says that nearly thousand municipalities in Great Brit ain own water-Works; about hundred own street railways: many more own gas works. Speaking generally. the consul finds that municipal government in the kingdom Is honest. intelligent and energetic, and, as q rule, political considerations have little to do with the engagement or retention of civic employees. e
Alaska sentinel., 1902-12-11
Where Wax Is Mined.

In several parts of the world a resin ous substance called ozocerite and bear ing considerable resemblance to bees wax is found, usually in connection with rock salt and coal. There are de- posits in Austria. Russia. Roumania, Egypt, Algeria, Canada and Mexico, but ozocerite has, so far, not been dis covered in sufficient quantities to pay for mining anywhere except in the dis trict of Roryslav. in Austrian Galicia. and on an island on the west coast of the Caspian Sea.
 In mining this mineral wax shafts are sunk until bed or nest" of ozo- cerite Is struck. Then connecting gal leries are driven. There Is considera ble danger and many lives have been lost in consequence of the sudden forcing up of the soft wax into the shafts by the enormous pressure to which 1t is subjected. It Is used largely for man ufacturing ceresin, says the Brooklyn Citizen, which Is employed, together with beeswax. for making wax candles, as we'll as in the manufacture of phono- graphic cylinders, and for many similar puruosaS
Alaska sentinel., 1902-12-11
NAPOLEON OF LABOR.
John Mitchell Fairly Worshiped by
 the Anthracite Coal Miners.

the Anthracite Coal Miners.
 X remarkable phase of the anthra- cite struggle in Pennsylvania is the blind confidence which the men place in their leader. John Mitchell writes Walter Wellman. There is not a breath of criticism upon his generalship. Usu- ally in big strike there are plenty of dissatisfied men who think things could have been better managed had they been at the helm, but here no word of dissatisfaction with Mitchell can be heard. Americans and foreign CTS alike. they simply idolize him. They are ready at all times to obey every order he issues. If he were to tell the foreigners to go jump Into the Wyo- ming River they would do 1t. They make a demi-god of him. Their faith in him Is completely sublime. They have no more doubt that he Is going to win the battle for them than they have of their joy over being in Ameri- ca instead of back in Poland. Italy or Hungary.
 To good many of the newly arrived miners John Mitchell is the one great man in the United States. Possibly they have heard of Pierpont Morgan, and have dim idea that there Is such q man as Theodore Roosevelt. But ask the first Hun or Polander you meet on
Alaska sentinel., 1902-12-11

Here Is q full-blooded. savage Yaqui Indian hard at work in the great So- noran desert. near Torres, Mexico. He is digging big Bisnaga cactus. and the result of his labor has recently been transferred to the New York Botanical gardens, where it is now growing as usual in the glass house.
 The peculiarity of this Yaqui and of nearly all his tribe is simply stated. When he can get work and pay he is the best of laborers. When he cannot get work he joins all of his fellow Yaquis who are idle and the troop pro- ceeds to sally forth 10 rob and pillage farms and small towns and massacre all who oppose them.
 They cheerfully engage the Mexican troops, exterminating and scattering an entire command. They have success fully fought the Mexican troops since the foundation of that country and are as unconquered to-day as ever. They must have work and pay or war.
Alaska sentinel., 1902-12-11

It will take time. but the nations, one after another. will round out the detini- ton of their respective attitudes to- ward the United States in the Spanish war, and according to present indca- tions, when the testimony is all in. it will signify that We had more friends among them than We thought At the outset some of them had queer ways of showing it. but We have forgotten all that and are now glad to see them manner
Alaska sentinel., 1902-12-11

A neglected cold is frequently the cause of death.
 It is more often, however, the cause of some chronic disease.
 There is not an organ in the body but what is liable to become seriously deranged by neglected cold. Diseas- es of the kidneys, bladder and digestive organs are all frequently the result of neglected cold.
 Hundreds of dollars are spent on doctors and medicines trying to cure these diseases, but until the true cause of them is discovered there will be no use in using medicine.
 Dyspepsia medicine, diarrhoea medi. cine and constipation medicine IS oi no good whatever when catarrh is the cause. The catarrh must be treated. The cause being removed, the derange- ments will disappear.
 Peruna cures catarrh of the digestive organs, the urinary organs or any of the internal organs.
 If you do not derive prompt and sat isiactory results from the use of Peruna write at once to Dr. Hartman, giving full statement of your case, and he will be pleased to send you his valuable ad- vice gratis.
 Address Dr. Hartman, President of the Hartman Sanitarium, Colum5 bus, 0.
Alaska sentinel., 1902-12-11
FISHING IN THE YELLOWSTONE.
Trout Caught and Boiled in the Same
 Stream.

People returning from the west ire to relate of how they caught trout in the Yellowstone Park and, without changing their seat, lifted the fish out of the stream of cold water, over into a boiling spring, and cooked it with out removing 1t from the hook. These stories are all very well In their way, but when told in the manner above outlined one can safely put them down as yarns without the slightest foun- dation in fact. To catch a fish in stream of cold water and lift it over into a spring of boiling water is one of the many curious things that are possible only in the Yellowstone Park, but should the person so doing at- tempt to draw the fish out of the boil ing spring the head would pull of the thoroughly boiled and perfectly soft body and he would thus lose the fish.
 The most wonderful phenomenon of this sort in the Yellowstone Park Is one that has thus far escaped those who are fond of telling big fish yarns, mainly for the reason that the locality lies outside the beaten track of travel and visitors and can only be reached after considerable difficulty. At the point in question a stream of clear, cold water flows through the park, receiving in its course the scalding hot waters of one of the numerous boiling springs of that region. This boiling water, as 1t reaches the cold stream, flows for a considerable dis tance along one bank before the waters finally mingle and become one in tenn perature.
 Into this spring of boiling water, in- sects, bugs, toads, grasshoppers and the like are continually dropping and thus losing their lives, and all such insects are, as matter of course, swept into the cold-water stream. Now in the cold water of this stream a number of hungry trout are continual ly skirmishing along the edge of the hot water, taking good care not to ven ture too close, for the purpose of snap ping up and deyouring the insects brought down by the hot water and which happen to float over into the cold water, or near enough the border for the trout to pick them up, so that 1t Is possible for a fisherman sitting on the bank, to catch a trout, with a hook and line, draw him two feet from where he took the hook, and boil him good and done, all in the same stream, and without even lifting the fish from the water.
 The fisherman would, of course, hare to have a scoop net to remove the boiled trout from the water, for other wise the head would pull off, leaving the body in the water. But. barring this, says the Washington Post, 1t Is within the bounds of truth for one to
Alaska sentinel., 1902-12-11

Telephone: Use your head to save your legs" one lawyer recently advised another. Oh was tie reply. .I use my legs to save my head. If walk five blocks and get the papers into my own hands, shall not be worrying the next three hours lest they are not de- livered in time. or are wrong when they are delivered Incidentally. I shall walk of headache and derive all the benefits of an expensive gymnasium without going there.''
Alaska sentinel., 1902-12-11
Making A Cautions Statement.

'I would like to ask you if you be- lieve the plaintiff to be in the habit of speaking the trutht"
 Must I answer the question, Judge"
 Yes"
 Well, don't see how I can give you a direct answer. l haven't spoken with some habits are very quickly formed you know."-Cleyeland Plaindealer.
Alaska sentinel., 1902-12-11

There ought not to be either political or industrial differences of opinion over the announced intention of the Amer ican Federation of Labor to support ill legislation directed toward the aboli- tion Of child labor. Most States al- ready protect their children. In bring ing pressure to bear upon those States which do not, the federation is pro noting the welfare of mankind. as well as furtheriny its own interests.
Alaska sentinel., 1902-12-11

If it were not for the American wom- en, especially the college women or those who have been educated in other ways, American life at the threshold of the busy twentieth century with Trade as its omnipresent and allur- ing motto in this strenuous nation would be dull, monotonous, sordid and without uplifting tendencies.
Alaska sentinel., 1902-12-11
Worlds Biggest Orchard.

The biggest orchard in the world is near Santa Barbara. In California. It covers HOO acres. and contains 10000 olive trees, 5000 walnuts, 10000 al monds, and nearly 5000 other fruit and nut trees.
Alaska sentinel., 1902-12-11

It seems that Washington has been expecting Turkey 10 keep her word without constant pushing. This is the climax of creduiity.
Alaska sentinel., 1902-12-11
Taking Her Down.

May-Yes, I have accepted him. He says Pm prize.
 Fay-Consolation prize, I presume. Nobody else would have him.-Phila- delphia Bulletin.
Alaska sentinel., 1902-12-11

California banks are going to pay a forger S500 q month to be good. Cali fornia may now look for an unprece dented crop of forgers.
Alaska sentinel., 1902-12-11

say that the Yellowstone is the only place on earth where it is possible to catch and cook fish in the same stream
Alaska sentinel., 1902-12-11
Worst Patients of All.

Young Doctor-Which kind of pa- tients do you find 1t the hardest to cure?
 Old Doctor-Those who have nothing the matter with them.-Judge.
Alaska sentinel., 1902-12-11

et7S Per1:--csr;y C.r.z, 70 f;s c. peryoususa ssS e.foT i.>; -E -fe.f iiT. Mines Great Eervy aestorer: Send F;: .3 .:ial bottle and treas lss. DR II kL.NE L;l.. .sl Arch St. PLiads sphiA n
Alaska sentinel., 1902-12-11
No Joke Either Way.

Tt must be horrible to be buried alive"
 '.Well,it's DO joke to be buried dead, either."-Ainslee's Magazine.
Alaska sentinel., 1902-12-11

You can't convince a girl that mar riage Is a failure until after she tries l.
Alaska sentinel., 1902-12-11

The girl who learns to play the piano well must be mighty tired
Alaska sentinel., 1902-12-11

Pain-Hamlin's Wizard Oil. Use the last on the first, and you will neither have one or the other,
Alaska sentinel., 1902-12-11

Mothers will find Mrs. Winslow's Sooth. ing Syrup tine best remedy to use tor their children during the teething period.
Alaska sentinel., 1902-12-11
MAZ ARIA ,,,.;s',,. ns,
 Means bad air. whether it Enemy 10 HeaElfs +ho1 1orla rdc
Means bad air, and whether it .s from the low lands and

fl om lands and country filthy pipes
 pisons bahed the and the foundation of long, facilitating illness d Cls and fever chronic dyspepsia torpid and enlarged liver kidney invisible gases unhealthy collect the fail and poured the blood until
 sluggish that literally through carbuncles bs ulcers and erupon depicting threatening life itself
 and that and weaken the and destroy the blood rendering thin and and carried the system before the patient hope geti do Malaria and its effects.
 SS. S. does this and quickly produces entire @ @ @ change in the blood reaching organ and srnu N N N aing them to healthy action.- S. S. S. possesses not only purifying but tonic properties almost from the first dose There Mercury Arsenic strictly and entirely vegetable
 and physicians will gladly help by health Book blood and skin diseases free SWIFT SPECIFIC tan. Co.
Alaska sentinel., 1902-12-11

the street who is President of the Unit ed States and the odds are about even fhnt hn n,.ill rnnl,-.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-09-08
ST. PAUL'S CHOIR.
Regular Rehearsais Will Be Resumed
 This Week.

High mass at St. Paurs church will not be resumed until the first Sunday in October, but at the low mass at I0:3J during the summer the Kyree, an offer tory piece, and the Agnus Der are sweet ly sung. At the offertory yesterday R. s. Chursh, a strong basso. sang 70 Saluta- ris "
 Full rehearsals for the fal and winter music will be held every Thursday night at St. Paul's church. beginning next Thursday. Phil Memoli, who enjoys the reputation of being one of the best di- rectors Birmingham has ever had, will. be the director at St. Pauls the coming season and Mrs. Memolfs will be the organist.
 The regular choir will number between twenty five and thirty voices and will include some of the most experienced sight readers of the city. Among others who will form the choir are Mrs Satter- field, Mrs. Putnam, Mrs. Sinnige, Mrs. Bacon, Mrs. Lynch. Miss Babitte, Mrs Houppert, the Misses Malone, Mrs. The Ian, Miss Ryan, MT. Arrico, MT. Houp- pert, Mir. Michaelson. Mr Herbert, Mir. Thielan. MT. Fitzgibbons. MT. Bacon and MT. Crackenberger. A full list will be given out next Sunday
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-09-08
BIRMINGHAM BOYe.
St. Bernard's College Has Twelve Stu
 dents from This City.

The Rev Father Giles, o. s. B., sec- retary of St. Bernards college, near Cullman, was the preacher at the 10:30 mass at St. Pauls yesterday his theme being "1'he Scandal Monger." He will remain here as the guest of the Rev Father OReilly until this evening or Tuesday.
 Father Giles says the prospects for St. Bernard's this session are very bright. Many new students are matriculating. Birmingham contributes this contingent:
 John D. York. Willie Wilkerson, P. Brice Gilreath. Harold Powell, Charles Powell, John Harrington, Harry Har- rlngton. Harry Rensford, Ben. L. Platto. John Gallagher, Eugene MernvIn, Ed ward Day.
 Before the eRd or the north tho num- Der of students from this secuon will be considerably increased. Two or three boys will probably accompany Father Giles on his return to the college Aside from the educational feature of St. Ser nard's, the healthfulness Of the iocation is known far and wide.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-09-08
SUNDAY RUSH AT
 THE POSTOFFICE
Number of Men Required in
 Handling Mail
SCENES BETWEEN g AND 10
Carriers and clerks Employed from an Early Hour Asserting and Dis trIbutlng letters and Packages.
 Large Business for One Hour.

The postoffice Is the busiest place in Birmingham on Sunday mornings-espe- cially between the hours of and 10 o'clock, when the carriers and general delivery clerks are giving out mall. The scene IS lively and the work the hardest done by the employees of Uncle Sam dur ing any enc hour during the week.
 In the postoffce building there gre em- ployed on Sundays thirty carriers four teen clerks, Che assistant postmaster ana the postmaster, all of whom are at their various posts of duty long before Q o'clock. preparing for the heavy rush of open hours. Some of these men even get down before the rest of the town awakes from its slunibers.
 During the hour beginning at o-cfocn sharp it is estimated that between eight and twelve thousand persons visit the postofficc every Sunday morning fin quest of their mall. This number varies with the degree of comfort declared by the weather man. If 1t be rainy the crowd is considerably less than at other time. Then hot mornings, cold mornings and many other kinds of mornings affect att tendence at the government building.
 But always, rain or shine, hot or cold. the carriers, the clerks. the assistant postmaster and, more important than all, the postmaster, are in their places serving those who do put in appearance. seeking to hear from business core spondents or relatives.
 Only two departments are not opened at all on Sunday. They are the money order department and the registry letter department. All other branches of tho office are open, including the general de- livery window. the carriers windows and the stamp window.
 And after their hours work a majority of the clerks are relieved from duty, and all carriers are relieved, but from eight to twelve clerks are kept in the building asserting mail putting up box mail, dis tributing incoming mail and making up outgoing mail. In the registry ana money order departments clerks are on outy to transmit packages end see that no delays or mistakes occur in the handling of im- portant matters.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-09-08
NEW LODGE OF I. o. o. F.
A Strong Body Recently Organized at
 LlttIeton.

A lodge of I. o. O. F. was recently organized at Littleton. Jefferson county, with twenty charter members by D. D. G. M. J. T. Suddeth of Fayette lodge, now of Coronado, assisted by D. D. G.. M J. N. Odom of America, and several visiting Odd Fellows from Palos and Oakman lodges
 The following officers were installed for the ensuing term Noble grand Dr. J. L odom; vice grand, W. V. Smith; secretary, O. L. Ekwurzel; treasurer, W. A. Robertson.
 The visiting brothers were very fat ering in their praise of the material which they found there for the building of live and working lodge, and pre- dict a bright future for Littleton lodge No. PA I. o. o. F.
 Each and every member of the new lodge feels grateful to all the visitors for carrying them through the mysteries of Odd Fellowship.