Alaska sentinel., 1903-02-05
ENCOURAGING WORDS FROM
 FAR OFF ILLINOIS!
OREGON, H., Jan. 20, '03.

Hold steady on your helm, lad; you're on the right tack now. The influence of your little craft in this wide world, unpretentious though it may be, is scarcely realized by you who are part and parcel of its every day life; but were you to see the SENTINEL in the hands of peo- pie here-3,000 ta.4 ,000 miles from the genius that gavci it birth; to see how they scan the paper and study it and comment upon it and its subjects. note the enterprises and public interests it portrays, and marvel at the thought that such things can be possible "away up there in Alaska, where it must be awful cold. ."-were you to witness these demonstrations once, you could then take courage and "throw bouquet at yourself" for having made a stir in the world that you had little dreamed of.
 And so you are having a little dose of "Rockefeller's philanthro- py," eh? You ought to shake hands with yourself over the fact that you are no worse off in the coal oil deal than we are in this country. You see John D. recent ly fared out in d grand endowment to the Chicago University. John, you see, is a sort of automatic cuss, for when he signs big check for philanthropy" with his right hand he also turns the stock-jobbery screws with his left and wrings from the people fifty to an hundred times as much as he donated to "phil" aforesaid. John is a good Baptist, however, and undoubtedly adjusts his conscience to the scrip tural injunction, Let not your right hand know what your left hand is up to-or words to that effect.- [Once more up goes the lamp wick, That's what suggested this item.
 It is a pleasing thought in your behalf, that you have no weather to reach the zero point this winter, as the SENTINEL states. For the past month or more our tempera- ture has been oscillating down about zero and from that to freez- ing, most of the time. Snow, while not abundant, has been visible on | the landScaDe since abOut the first of December.
 Well, one advantage we have at present that you may thank your stars you are escaping, namely, a thoroughbred, bowling, bragging whining legislature, with a ring in it's nose and another "ring" all smashed to "ballihack." The sto- ry is familiar one. Concisely ii embraces spoilsmen-dictatorial arrogant and interruptions on the one hand, and the conservative pie bian combination, with patience we'll worn but with honor still aglow. as their antagonists. The former, we'll organized and en- trenched in machine methods were forminable; the latter, embracing stalwart principles and a full de. termination to stand for the higher grade of politics, proved a valiant host that supported unyieldingly it's convictions and planted its pen non over a victorious field. Thus it remains that Dick Yates-the son of his father, is still Governor with big "Gee!" A. J. Hopkins is our new U. s. Senator, and the gang" says-if it says anything "How does our eye look since we blacked it2"
 SENTINEL, in a recent ue,spoke rather deprecatingly of the alleged high price of firewood there. When. ever you feel like "kicking" on that score, just get good ready on and-don't do it. Think of the sufferings and deaths in the large cities, and the general deprivations and costly inconveniences through out the country-to say nothing of the wholesale demoralization to manufacturing entailed by the late coal embroglio and it's consequent coal famine: To one who is right here in the midst of it and knows all its details and causes, the story is appalling. Rejoice, then, and be glad, that you are 4,OOO miles away from it, even if wood is $2O a cord.
 Nufced.
 SCRIBBLER.