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Alaska sentinel., 1903-03-05
The Coolest of Eakirs:

Describing the Simbury lCt) fair. the Hartford Courant says the fakrs were many and their devices to catch the unwary were varied, but one fel- low out did the rest, and did the crowd handsomely. His only appa- ratus was an unblushing cheek and a nimble tongue His style was much like this-"Now who will you give me dollar? What, No one will give me dollar? An thank you, l have one. Now who will give me the next dollar?" and so 1t went on for few minutes. the crowd which gathered be- ing anxious to see what new scheme he had up his sleeve. After he had gathered in twenty-seven dollars and the crowd began to look pretty well squeezed he said: Well, now gentle men, you deliberately give me this money to do what l please with it? I can buy a present for my wife or smoke 1t upT' "YesY" and crowd nod ded assent or remained silent while the fakir jammed the twenty-seven dollars into his pocket saving, Thank you. gentlemen will be here at nine o'clock in the morning. Perhaps he was.
Alaska sentinel., 1903-03-05
HOME DISTlLLING PlANT.

There is no question but that large proportion of the sickness with which mankind is afflicted Is due to impure water, taken when the system is weak ened from some cause and unable to exert it's strength to fight the disease microbes with which the water abounds. It is common practice for the physician to recommend the use of distilled water for patient i'll with one disease in order to guard against the liability of other disease germs be- ing taken into the stomach, and it is likely that distilled water would be prescribed for constant use were it not for the difficulty of securing it. It Is to provide a constant supply of this pure water, with as little trouble as possible, that the household still shown
 in the illustrationd has been invented
Alaska sentinel., 1903-03-05
BRIsTLEs MOVE ONLY IN ONE DIRECTION.

dleS are relaxed for giving a fresh im- petus to the brush. As will be seen, the handle is designed to contract in the hand. and is expanded again by the y-shaped spring at the ends. The shaft which carries the circular brush has a toothed wheel at the opposite end, and reversible rack bar is at- tached to the upper handle to rotate the shaft as the handles are contract ed This rack bar can be shifted to either side of the shaft to move the brush in opposite directions, and as q rachet Is located inside the gear wheel to transmit the motion to the shaft the latter remains motionless while the rack bar is moving backward. With Il little practice the operator can pro- duce a rapid rotation of the bristles in the proper direction on either side of the face, cleaning the teeth much more rapidly and effectively than with the old style brush. The inventor is Ho- mer Polling of Curtain w. Va.
Alaska sentinel., 1903-03-05

After China and India the order of world Is: European Russia. 106000,- GOO; United States, T6,oO0,000; Ger. many, 56,00O,OO0: Austria, 41,0O0000; Japan, 100000; United Kingdom, 41,O00000. In all these countries ex. cept the United States the increase from decade to decade Is for the most part from the native stock. Of the United States 1t is said that Its popu- lation would decline if 1t were not foI immigration, and this fact or assump. ton is treated in quite an alarming style by J. Weston, writer for the Nineteenth Century. whose article is entitled "rhe Weak Spot in the Amer. ican Republic" MT. Weston appeals to statistics to show that in Massachu. setts there are 1,T43,710 persons of foreign birth and foreign percentage in total population of 2,SO6 346. The population of Illinois, he adds, ''is 4,S21 ,550 Of these 966.741 are foreign born and 1,49S,473 of foreign parent, age, so that the proportion of genuine Americans In this typical Western State is no greater than 1t is in Penn sylvania. In California it Is less. The native element Is stronger in the South, but 1t is not due to the produc- dyeness of the American, but to the productiyeness of the Negro" Taking the country as a whole, the foreign birth date has gained on the American birth rate until it is four to one It is the rule for families to decline as they are more and more removed from their foreign origin. Nowhere, not even in France, is the problem so serious as 1t Is in the United States History may be searched In vain to find par allel for a country dependent on for eigners for its vital strength" Mir
 Weston does not go into the causes of the decline, but he quotes approvingly from a writer in the Popular Science Monthly as follows: We have not so many people as We should have had if immigration had never come to us and the native stock had continued their old rate of increase" It Is question, however If this old rate would have been continued, and 1t is doubtful if there Is much force in Mir. Weston's warning that 'only homogeneous peo- pies ever become great" Homogen- eous at most Is only a relative term, and the French, whom he does not rank among the great, are perhaps nearer homogeneous than the British.
Alaska sentinel., 1903-03-05

by Edward Warren and George w. Healy of Fort Thomas, Ariz. The in tention Is to utilize the waste steam from the teakettle, and the invention, therefore, comprises double reser- voir, having a receiver for the steam and cold water cha mber surrounding the condenser. A curved tube Is slip ped over the spout of the kettle to conduct the steam into the condensing chamber, and as fast as the distilled water collects in this chamber It Is drawn off for use or bottling. The cold water reservoir is filled from time to time, and has faucet to feed the kettle through an opening in the tube which covers the spout. Thus the steam from the boiling water is constantly producing the distilled product, instead of wasting itself in the air.
Alaska sentinel., 1903-03-05

So they were placed under a clucking bantam hen. who proved to be most excellent mother. Tiner birds could hardly be imagined than the little part ridges, which matched in three weeks. They were no larger than good-slzed bumblebee and just about the same color. Yet three hours after matching they ran so fast that it was difficult to catch them, and when cornered they would crouch flat. with head and body pressed close to the sand resembling d little dried leaf or tiny clod of earth. Their wings grew with aston ishing rapidity, while for a week or two their bodies remained as small as ever. The bantam hen was a particu- larly small one, yet she looked gigantic when compared with these tiny bun dies of down. One of them died when about two weeks old, and it's body slipped easily into half-ouncc >iaL When about fifteen days old one escap- ed from its runway and went straight up into the air almost twenty feet. It was found necessary, in order to recap ture the little bird. to let the hen loose and wait until the mites of a partridge crept under her.
 One very amusing thing happened daily. The partridges would snuggle under the bantam and gradually work up under her wings until close to her shoulders. When she stood up to feed she would naturally hold her wings more closely to her body than when breeding, and as a result the little birds would be held prisoners in the hollow under her wing. Their little feet would dangle down and kick viz orously as their owners tried to get out. The hen could hear their peeping and would look all around the runway for them, ignora mt of their where abouts. AS she walked about or scratched she looked exactly as per son does who carries bundle under each arm. Before long something would cause her to flap or stretch her wings, when the little fellows would drop out. They were comfortable enough in their unusual position, but the movements and clucks of the hen made them eager to get out.-Country Life in America.
Alaska sentinel., 1903-03-05

T HE increase of urban population the expense of
 the rural population is commonly deplored but a
 | closer study of the character of the depletion of
 country districts Is desirable. Statistics in the
 tell very little about the real of the migra ton from country town There farmers in that have gone the rural districts the cities being in fact farm laborers but mechanics who formerly produced locally what is manufactured more cheapy few of industry Seventy years ago. says the Times country districts had to be self sutfcing a far greater than at present Com municaons imperfect and many things had to be produced on the spot which more economically produced urban cheapy delivered the Therefore large rural population which engaged in rural labor, but only in supplying those who engaged transferred to the towns The transfer does really such general with drawal agricultural laboers agricultural labor assumed and bewailed. To considerable ex argues wholesale instead of retail production easy difficult distribution Machinery has invaded agriculture and by increasing the efficiency individual enabled agricultural work to be done by smaller number of hands,"
 is another fact which initiates against the con- agriculture restricted by the deserton of agrcultursts Where agriculture is prosperous business large rewards there to be no lack of men 10 carry on The rush for Oklahoma a few years like present and laborers into Canada shows agriculture still attracts. In the South the have grown rapidly but not it appears at the ex the real farming population The mechanics that served the local population have left the country dis trics large proportion of the tiers of the soil No doubt the high offered by municipalities and by manufacturers together with the attraction of easier city life bring many but this movement has, haps. been exaggerated.-Batimore Sun.
Alaska sentinel., 1903-03-05

The child born in the United States a hundred years hence will live longer than the child born in 1900. That is to say, his chances of greater longev- ity will be assured under normal con- ditions of birth and living. This does not interest the youngsters born in 1900 or those born in 1860, but 1t Is the most important fact disclosed by the vital statistics of the twelfth cen sus. It shows that the average length of life in the United States is slowly but steadily increasing Ten years ago the average length of life was thirty one years, while the last census shows 1t to be thirty-two. This means-if the same rate of increase is maintain ed-that the average length of life in the year 2G00 will be forty-two years, and, incidentally of course, the num- Der of centenarians, as well as those who pass the scriptural milestone of threescore and ten, will be greatly in creased. While this advance of one year in length of life in decade may strike the ordinary individual as very slow progress, if he will only keep in mind the littleness of a century when 1t comes to measuring the age of the human race he will find himself grow ing very skeptical as to whether such rapid increase can be maintained.
Alaska sentinel., 1903-03-05

The affair of honor," as the duel is called in France, is, fortunately, dis reputable in the United States. Never theless, this country has its own af- fairs of truest honor. A New York banker, who eight years ago was over whelmed in financial crash, recently paid the S700,000 from which the bank ruptcy courts had relieved him. In 1894 he was so poor that he had to borrow money for railway fare. To- day, by honorable business methods, he is again millionaire. Some years ago another New York banker, who had once failed for a large amount, gave a dinner to all his former credit ors. Under each plate, attached to the name card, was a check covering the debt and interest which, in honor, all though not bound by law, he owed to each guest.
Alaska sentinel., 1903-03-05
IN AN AVALANCHE.
Terrible Experience of an English
 Traveller in the Alps.

The sense of helplessness is said to be one of the most terrible parts of the experience of falling in an ava lanche of snow. In writing of the dangers of the Alps in the Pail Mall Magazine, Harold Spender recounts the adventure of Mir. Gossett, who was actually covered up by wave of snow which came from behind him and closed over his head. He managed to work himself to the surface, where he was so borne along that he could watch all that took place, although unable at the time to free or even to help himself much. This is his own story:
 II was on the wave of the avalanche, and saw it before me as l was car ried down. It was the most awful sight l ever witnessed. The head of the avalanche was already at the spot where we had made our last halt The head alone was preceded by Il thick cloud of snow-dust; the rest of the avalanche was clear.
 Around ne 1 heard the horrid hiss ing of the snow, and far before me the laundering of the foremost part of the avalanche To prevent myself from sinking again l made use of my arms much in the same way as when swimming in standing position
 At last 1 noticed that 1 was nov ing more slowly; then l saw the pieces of snow in front of me stop at some yards distance; then the snow straight before me stopped, and heard on a large scale the same creak- ing sound that is produced when heavy cart passes over hard-froZen snow in winter. felt that l also stopped, and instantly threw up both arms to protect my head in case should again be covered up.'
 Mir. Gossett and three of his com panions escaped. The other two were buried by the avalanche.
Alaska sentinel., 1903-03-05
Last Chance.

The keeper in attendance on a guest at Norfolk shooting party recently looked on with disgust at the gentle mans cratic marksmanship. He WAS banging away here, there and every where, but no birds fell.
 Aim 'igher. sir" advised the keeper.
 Still the birds flew untouched.
 Tt aint the gun, sir, and it aint the cartridges" remarked the Norfolk man. ''Try shuttin' your right eye instead Of the left, sir"
 But not pheasant fell.
 The keeper scratched his head.
 1.-The birds Is very strong on the wing this year." he remarked, but there's one more chance. If l was you, sir, I should ave pop with both eyes shut" London Answers.
Alaska sentinel., 1903-03-05
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the people, make the easier increase business and enhance the value of farm an That this
 is the view which many If of the Pennsylvania farmers take is shown by that the State Grange
 is urging the Legislature pass providing for the $2000000 expenditure There Is difference Of opinion how the money Is be raised and there are formidable obstacles in the way of creating an effective good roads system for the But with united sen
 ment the main question there should be se
 difficulties inaugurating satisfactory action Pennsylvania is well situated to carry such scheme It is wealthy State 1t has ample from which the necessary money can be drawn without ncting hardship or injustice any and it has large surplus in It's treasury which can utilized for the public good It is well placed join the good roads procession-Troy Times
Alaska sentinel., 1903-03-05

Ibraham Khan Dovleti, who has re- gently been appointed Persian ambas- sador at Athens, is said to be the first ambassador sent from Persia to Greece to demand earth and water from the Greeks as symbols of submission to him. The Athenians made arrange ments to welcome the Persian this time with imposing ceremonies, as they do not intend to kill him, as their ances- tors did the messenger of Darius Al though Persia has had no minister in Greece for more than twenty centuries, 1t has been represented in Athens by a consul in recent years.
Alaska sentinel., 1903-03-05

Advertisements signed by Shanghai Chinaman which have recently appear ed in some of our American periodicals have quaint. delightful flavor of that wisdom which is world wide. T want smart youth sell my Chinese curios," announces the Shanghai man. If he catch much business, he earn many cash" This is worthy or Ben Frank lin himself. To be sure, Franklin would have used different words, but he could not have stated the fact more concisely.
Alaska sentinel., 1903-03-05
Winning the Fight with Consumption.

TT HE decline in the death rate by consumption from
 254 per 1000 in 1890 to 1.S7 in 1900 proves the
 prising advance in the success with which the white death' is fought and conquered. Most of this
 change has been wrought by common meth treating the disease Yet the figures in detail demosh the theory of extremists that climate has little do with Damp Rhode Island Is, far white population is concerned the State where consump ton rages 'accmated" natives suffer less than migrants and of the foreign born those least suscep ble who from Eastern Europe. and who there habituaed Contnental climate" like in its variations of heat and cold.
 The three hygenic specifies rest good food and air with favorable climate is possible and safeguards against infection will yet consumption most of it's rcm torrors-Naw York
Alaska sentinel., 1903-03-05
Money the Blood of Civilization.

ONEY Is civilization what blood is to the animal M body the carrier. Money Is portable and per manent form the equivalent of labor and useful \ Where there is money the farmer raises
 what he can, and that has to do him. If there is
 shortage he suffers. If there Is surplus he the year. But he get very ahead can never accumulate than enough to keep him few years His crops will rot In his granaries after while and having wealth be has no leisure Conse- quenty he does improve in either social intellectual 
 But there Is money in circulation the whole world be- his neghbor. His surplus crop turned into which will bring him various from other climes His life becomes varied, more elegant He travel for he may with him what will pay hs way. He accumulate enough educate his children and to give himself and them power Money creates con- nerce into strange lands develops new regions carries ideas back and forth enarges scope every human being-San Francisco Bulletin.
Alaska sentinel., 1903-03-05

wiser than a babbling simpleton.
 Better be a good servant than a bad son.
 Preaching for wages never won the world
 Conceit is not an ingredient of con secration.
 The losses of childhood are the gains of manhood.
 The will of God to-day waits on the will of man.
 There can be no communion where there Is no union.
 Everything comes to the man who waits-and keeps on walking.
 It is easier to preach patience in the church than it is to practice 1t with our children.
 The prayers that, like Jacobs ladder. rise from hard pillows, may reach a blessed peace.
 The man who says there is no truth in the world has mistaken a mirror for the universe.
 hen you can honorably do so the best way to conquer your enemy is 10 concur with him.
 It will be time enough to indict oth- CTS when we have finished the invcn- tory of our own faults.
 It takes less of fools brain energy to doubt all things than it does for q wise man to accept one fact.
 The Gospel would soon reach all men If We were as anxious to tell the virtues of Christ as We are 10 publish the faults of others.
 It will not help your husband to heaven to leave him at home with cold victuals while you go to warm your heart at the prayermeeting.
Alaska sentinel., 1903-03-05
An Equal Safety.

An Irish clergyman during his first curacy found the ladies of the parish too helpful. He soon left the place. One day thereafter he met his success sor.
 How are you getting on with the la. dies?" asked the escaped curate.
 "Oh, very we'll" was the answer. There's safety in numbers"
 q found 1t in Exodus" was the quick reply.
Alaska sentinel., 1903-03-05
Good Roads Movement.

@ENNSYLVAN1A Is waking up to the importance of D good roads also and is discussing proposition | spend S2OO0OOO in highway improvement The
 Pennsylvania farmers, like their brethren elsewhere
 realizing that they have special St in this them directly than does any else The Philadelphia Record puts concsely when says Good roads facilitate intercourse among
Alaska sentinel., 1903-03-05

Much less significance attaches to the figures giving the number of centen- arians in this country in 1900, for an occasional centenarian may be found In localities that appear to present few conditions favorable to longevity. The important conclusion to be drawn from the vital statistics is that the conditions of life, including a wider observance of hygienic and sanitary laws, are growing more favorable to longevity of the American people.
Alaska sentinel., 1903-03-05
Stop the Handshakinq.

@N New Years Day, President Roosevelt made to | stand before a surgng of men and women TOT
 three hours half and to shake the hands of
 6,SOO of his fellow There many ridicu-
 lous things in this world of ours but Is there any thing ridiculous than that? In It's origin the custom of handshaking reasonable and necessary Men almost savage in those distant days and when two them wished hold each the other his weapon yielding hand pledge of truce in their nor nal relations, which hostile But nowadays not even the mdest soul that shuddered the thought of sudden death would suspect President Roosevelt of an in tenton murder him. and if the President should find an assassin in the hrong at reception the avoided handshake proved in the case of President Mckinley would prepare him for his danger Such experience the President compelled submit to on New Years Day does nobody good and it imposition his good and a his health.
 Mark Twain somewhere that the only people Pikes Peak is say that they have been there but for himself he could that just well without taking the trouble to make the Let the people who to tell their neghbors that they have shaken the hand of the President of the United go ahead and but in the of common let them the President the ordeal of gratifying their vantyChcago Journal.
Alaska sentinel., 1903-03-05

A man who had lived by begging, who had slept in ash barrels, and whose clothes were the cast-off gar ments of other people, died in Toron- to the other day leaving $1O0000 in cash. This proves conclusiyely that 1t cant be taken along
Alaska sentinel., 1903-03-05

Although the paragraphers are aware that the name of the new French min ister to Venezuela is Weiner, none of them has yet suggested that he is probably the Wurst.
Alaska sentinel., 1903-03-05

Dr. Lorenz says he is going to work only half the time after he is 50 years old. Dr. Lorenz isn't working on a railroad. If he were he might be glad to have chance to work even quar- ter of the time after he has had his fiftieth birthday
Alaska sentinel., 1903-03-05
Constitutional Demand.

.'It was pure contrarlness, that's what it was my husbands Joining the football team."
 Why, l don't-"
 "No. of course yon don't; but I know he joined that team because he just had to have something to kick abouv Baltimore News.
Alaska sentinel., 1903-03-05

An Ann Arbor professor has discover ed seven new posons The old favor ties, however, will still continue in de- mand, and answer all legitimate and illegitimate purposes of destruction.
Alaska sentinel., 1903-03-05

Sitting Bulls son now stands on western railroad embankment as the motive power of a shovel. In the long run the spade is mightier than the tomahawk
Alaska sentinel., 1903-03-05

The cake walk has been exported to Paris, and, like many California wines, will doubtless be imported after little as the genuine French article. They call it the danse du gateau.
Alaska sentinel., 1903-03-05
sTRANGIEO A LEOPARD.

A Fierce Fight in Which the Man
 Finally Emerges Victorious.
 An inhabitant of the British East Africa protectorate tells the following interesting story in the London Field of an adventure with leopard.
 "I had a most extraordinary adven- ture with a leopard the other day at
Alaska sentinel., 1903-03-05

Nearly every wife says to her hus band: I've taken a good deal from you, and I suppose I'll take a good deal more. but there's one thing won't stand, and you might as well know It."
Alaska sentinel., 1903-03-05
CALIFORNIA PARTRlDGES.

Raised Under Bantam Hen and Look
 Like Bumb1ebees.
 The little hen partridge was far too timid to be trusted with her own eggs, for whenever in the least disturbed she would go booming off the nest, the eggs in imminent danger of being crushed.
Alaska sentinel., 1903-03-05

Just as the Pacific cable is being laid Marconi has fixed things so that cables are not needed. Why couldn't he have made his plans public little earlier?