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Alaska sentinel., 1905-11-23

mirers had heard every word He stood looking after her with open mouth. Was the pretty lady, His Hearts Delight, 80 very poor then He had always thought her rich, she wore such beautiful clothes. But one might have plenty to eat and wear and not much money, Billy knew. That was his own case.
 He tiptoed up to the counter and asked the price of the little tray.
 Two dollars" replied the smiling salesgirl.
 Billy fairly staggered out of the Store. No wonder the pretty lady could not buy 1t. Then he sat down and took account of stock.
 There were three cents, and never did pennies look so small. Out of the tangle that crammed his pockets he ex- tracted three marbles and a flshhook that seemed commercially available. Could one small boy earn the required balance in few weeks? One small boy would certainly try.
 During the long, hot days that fol- lowed the pennies accumulated slowly. Onion rows are long and time is fleet ing: and the value set on a small boys time is deplorably low. Billy worked cheerfully, but discourage cement over- took him at times as 1t does all great souls. Then he would trot down to take another look at the china heart, and incidentally to bask in the light of the salesgirls smile.
 She had wonderfully winning smile, and Billy had long ago told her his secret. That was the reason she kept the china heart hidden In an Indian moccasin until she saw Billy coming, otherwise some one else might have bought 1t and broken the china heart Billy's and all.
 She did not approve of the pretty lady with her coquettish airs, but she never told Billy so, for she did most heartily approve of him.
 He came into the store one night with despair In his face.
 They're beginnin' to go. She'll be goin' away any day. can't make it." he said, huskily.
 To him the comings and goings of the summer 'boarders were as aimless as the fittings of the birds and butter flies. and quite as uncertain.
 T wouldn't be discouraged" said the salesgirl, brightly. Its getting 90 late in the season that we have had a mark down since you were here last"
 How much ?"'chirped Billy, with re- turning hope.
 T can let you have 1t for dollar and a half now"
 "Jeminee! I've got one forty-hve" cried, Billy, fumbling wildly in his pockets.
 T think I could take one forty-hve for it." said the salesgirl, thoughtfully.
Alaska sentinel., 1905-11-23

The suggestion that commission be created for the purpose of looking after railroad wrecks brings to mind that this sort of thing Is finding a prominent place in the government of this country. We have commissions for almost everything, yet 1t is not no- ticed that affairs are administered with more efficiency than when this institution first appeared. There are times when the commission is demand. ed by some unusual condition, when it becomes necessary to reach a con cluslon quickly, and without addi- ional assistance the properly consti- tuted authority would fail in its duty. But these cases are rare and do not call for the appointment of a number of men at given salary, usually more than they are worth, for work that should be done by men already paid for the service.
Alaska sentinel., 1905-11-23

worlds music are multiplied It is but a short half-century since "The Car nival of Venice" and The Maiden's Prayer" might represent the reper- toire of a whole town. Today one may hear an air from grand opera. a move ment from a Beethoven Sonata and a Song Without Words" by Mendels- sohn as one strolls in the twilight along a village street One of the New York papers recently asked It's readers to vote for their favorite mu- sical composition. Nearly eight thous- and responded to the invitation. In due time New York orchestra gave a concert made up of the twelve pieces having the largest number of votes. The list Is somewhat heterogeneous, for 1t includes some pieces which are merely catching to the ear, IS well as selections from Wagner. Gounod, Ros- sini, Mendelssohn and Liszt. But, on the whole, 1t shows knowledge and good taste. It is greatly to the credit of those who participated in the voting that no ''ragtime" selection or really trashy piece obtained enough votes to be placed in the list.
Alaska sentinel., 1905-11-23

Japan made magnificent reply 10 the charge that 1t was commerciallz' ing war It waived entirely its de mand for money indemnity from
 Russia. granting peace on terms which cause tine Russian plenipoten- tiary to declare that he could not anticipate such a great and happy ls- sue" War was declared by Japan in February, 1904, to save the life of the empire. which the arrogant policy of Russia threatened with extinction. The Czar's government was preparing to dominate Korea, lying at Japan's very door. By series of wonderful victories by land and sea the island empire pushed Russia to the northern edge of Manchuria and swept It's fleets out of existence. It captured Sakhalin island. Nowhere did 1t fail of success. Now, in the full tide of victory, 1t has the wisdom and mag nanimity to agree to stop the war on terms only sufficient to give to it. self the promise of permanent peace. For the southern half of Sakhalin island, which 1t receives from Russia, merely rounds out its frontier and strengthens 1t against attack from the north. There Is no hint of the vel low peril" in the terms granted to Russia. On the contrary they demon gtrate that Japan is now content to take as the price of Its warriors high efficiency and heroic devotion safety for the empire and no more. It will not do to say that Japan obtained all 1t could obtain; that, peace being necessary to it, liberal terms were al lowed because Russia would take no others. To say these things Is merely to point out that the Japanese gov ernment is not drunk with victory, is not blinded by greed and arrogance, that 1t is not indifferent to the heart sick longings of the world for the end ing of the dreadful war, that 1t has no aroused hunger for conquest. Sane, calm, magnanimous to defeated en- emy which lately threatened Its very
 existence as nation, the island em. plre grants an honorable peace freely
 and apparently with no regrets. It Is grandly done. The end of the war has come in way to take from the perturbed western nations much of tho alarm which they have permitted
 themselves to feel while marking the amazing proficiency of the sons of Japan in the arts of war. In his declaration of hostllities a year and a
 half ago the island emperor said: "The course adopted by this country
 has been to seek civlllza ton by peace
 ful means, to increase its friendship
 with the powers, maintain permanent peace in the Far East and guarantee
 the safety of the empire by means
 which do not damage the interests and
 rights of the powers, and we are de-
 termined not to abandon the forego-
 ing course" These words, uttered at
 the beginning of huge and perilons
 undertaking, bear the test of the terms
 of peace granted to the beaten enemy.
Alaska sentinel., 1905-11-23
Reward of Virtue.

The famous British Order of the Garter has so far been conferred on only one oriental ruler. viz, the Shah of Persia. Before many months, how ever, 1t will be bestowed on the Elm. peror of Japan, between whose coun. try and Great Britain the closest rela. tions now exist. It is the present in. tention to have the Prince and Prin- cess of ', ales, at the end of their visit to India, sail ill great war ship to Japan. bearing the coveted decoration with them.-Leslie's Weekly.
Alaska sentinel., 1905-11-23

Music is taking its proper place in American family life as a source of healthful joy and a means of sound education. There is scarcely a ham, let 50 small or so remote that there may not be found fin it piano or a
 cabinet organ. Now that the slight abilities of the village musician may be supplemented by the almost human skill of the various mechanical piano. players. the opportunities for famili. aEity with the masterpieces of the
Alaska sentinel., 1905-11-23
EUTHANASIA.

With the faces the dearest in sight. With a kiss on the lips l love best, To whisper Il tender Good night"
 And pass 10 my pillow of rest. To kneel. all my service complete.
 All duties accomplished. and then To finish my prisons sweet,
 With a trustful and joyous Amen" And softly, when slumber was deep,
 Unwarned by shadow before, On halcyon pillow of sleep,
 To float to the Ththerward shore. Without a farewell or a tear.
 A sob or futter or breath; Unharmed by the phantom of fear,
 To glide through the darkness of
 death. Just so would I choose to depart,
 Just so let the summons be given; A quiver, a pause of the heart,
 A vision of angels-then Heaven! Margaret J. Preston.
Alaska sentinel., 1905-11-23
Perhaps the Time Viii Come

Visitor-Who Is the benevolent-look- ing convict with the bald head and side whiskers?
 Warden-That's Steel, the notorious bank wrecker, who got away with three millions. He's in for life.
 And the gaunt one next to him
 Hes only ninety-day-er-held up a man at night and robbed him of s3 to get food for his starving family. Puck.
Alaska sentinel., 1905-11-23

Eight Rules for Boys Who Work.
 First. Be honest and straightfor- ward.
 Second. Don't get job through influence. No true success Is built on the influence of others. Depend on yourself.
 Third. Do what you are employed to do better than any one else em- ployed about you can do 1t. Promo ton will surely follow.
 Fourth. Be interested in what you are doing, and don't watch the clock for quitting time. Be too absorbed in your work to know what time of day it is,
 Fifth. Manual education excels for a life of business and for manufactur- CTS.
 Sixth. Get an early start In life. Begin work as soon as you can. A boy who begins at 15 or 18 years has the advantage of a boy who has a college education, unless he is seek ing a professional life.
 Seventh. A college education is not necessary for successful business career.
 Eighth. Work. Work. Work,.!
Alaska sentinel., 1905-11-23

Lecturing to London working men, an English economist said, You can. not always judge mans brains by his salary. Admiral Togo gets six hundred and forty-eight pounds a year. and Admiral Rozhdestvensky' 8 salary is eleven thousand pounds" Put 1t another way-you cannot al- ways tell the success of corporation by the salaries 1t pays.
Alaska sentinel., 1905-11-23

An Ohio man who was supposed to be pauper died few days ago, leay- ing SS0,00O. There is no likelihood that the one who gets the money will permit himself to be mistaken for pauper while it lasts.
Alaska sentinel., 1905-11-23

The leprosy cure reported from Man fla is very much like surgical opera tion in this country. It required liver disorder to drive out the leprosy, and the patient died of the liver dis. order
Alaska sentinel., 1905-11-23

Are college athletics physically in jurious?" asks the New York Sun Well, when football player is carried home from the field with a broken nose, dislocated shoulder and three fractured ribs, it is fair to assume that he has sustained slight physi cal injury. In some cases, too, the in. juries are sufficiently serious to re. quire an appropriation for funeral ex. penses.
Alaska sentinel., 1905-11-23
Tired of Waiting.

Abner slopoak (desperately)-"M may 1 name the dayT
 Jemima Jones (decisively)-"No"
 Abner Slopoak Gin alarm)-"WhyT
 Jemima Jones (frankly)-"Because # you put 1t off as long as you did your proposal we never will be mar. ried. I'll name the day myself"- Cleveland Leader.
Alaska sentinel., 1905-11-23
Dressed for tLe Occasion.

Take good look at all those wom. en in the boxes," said Gilman, who had brought his country cousin to the opera, swell society people. all of them; they're all in the swim"
 "Cracky" exclaimed the country cousin, T s'pose that's why they're wearin' so few clothes" es."-Philadelphia Press.
Alaska sentinel., 1905-11-23

Lord Curzon's resignation is report ed to have increased Kitchener's pres tige in India. Sir Redvers Butler is worrying along these days without any prestige.
Alaska sentinel., 1905-11-23

editor was Just an American hoy, and believed he was n typical one. Was he right? Every boy and girl who goes back to school after the long va. cation might well ask whether he or she is as appreciative of that privi. lege as were those less fortunate UT chins from other lands = Youths Communion.
Alaska sentinel., 1905-11-23

Joe Letter says Lord Curzon would make a good American citizen If he were to give up his titles and come over here. Joe is probably right, too. We can think of lot of people whom we would be willing. if an exchange could be effected, to trade for Curzon.
Alaska sentinel., 1905-11-23
Getting Out of a Difficulty.

She-Which would you rather lose, Jack-me or my money?
 He-You, sweetheart
 She-Oh, Jack!
 He-But I would. Because, don't you see, dearest, if lost you would have the money to offer large rewards for your recovery and get you back again.
 She-Dear Jack!"Judge.
Alaska sentinel., 1905-11-23
Experience Teaches,

Mother-"Why arn't you and Geor. gie as good boys as your little broth err"
 Young Hopeful-"I s'pose it's cause you'd had more experience bringin' up boys when you commenced on him."
Alaska sentinel., 1905-11-23
Going Back to School,


 On the first day of school in Sep tember year or so ago the city editor of an afternoon paper in Chi cago sent one of his newest reporters out to get story" of the event After turn through the downtown wards the reporter wrote a descrip- ton of happy care-free children, dancing back to the reopened school houses with all the gaiety and delight sf so many urchins going to candy pull. When the article was in proof the managing editor sent for him.
 Here he said, this thing wont do. Children don't go to school that way. They lag. They loiter. It's like going into prison. All summer this first day of school has loomed ahead like some future punishment. It's the end of all happiness. I know. I was boy once"
 But that is not true now" pro- tested the reporter. Here in the city, among the poor, vacation is the pun ishment and school the release from 1t. It may be that they find more to interest them there than outside; it may be that the teachers have learn- ed the secret of inspiring them; 1t may be partly because they have 50 few pleasures at home. Anyway, they were the happiest children have seen in long time. Why, sir; half of those children were studying volun- tarily till the middle of August in the vacation school"
 The managing editor. growing in- terested, went and saw for himself, and the story stood" It should have an inspiration in 1t for other boys and girls. and for their teachers. too. For these children who were going so merrily to the classrooms were for the most part foreign-born themselves or the children of immi- grants, who were turning to study with the avidity of those deprived of all such privilege. The managing
Alaska sentinel., 1905-11-23

Russell Sage says he expects to go to 100, at the same time predicting that Missouri Pacific will go to 200. Observe Uncle Russ modesty in pure ly personal matters.
Alaska sentinel., 1905-11-23
One or the Other.

Cobbs (holding up hsh)-"Isn't he a beauty"
 Dobbs-"Buy it from some kid?" Cobbs-"No, sir!'
 Dobbs-"Good heavens, old man! You don't mean to say you stole it?"- Detroit Tribune.
Alaska sentinel., 1905-11-23

A Wall street writer is credited with the remark that what the world needs is a new definition of honesty" What Wall street needs is the old practice of honesty according to the ancient definition
Alaska sentinel., 1905-11-23

The jA.nt "dch resorts to the com- mercial boycott is much more formid- able than the old China which relied on gongs. pictorial dragons and stink pots
Alaska sentinel., 1905-11-23

People taint themselves for money, but the money isn't tainted Even If It were it would take of the taint to apply it to a good purpose.
Alaska sentinel., 1905-11-23

Sailors say the Gulf stream has never before been as strong as 1t Is at present. Perhaps 1t has merely caught the fever for fast going.
Alaska sentinel., 1905-11-23

A mind reader has a snap when he encounters two souls with but a sin gle thought.
Alaska sentinel., 1905-11-23

"The Russian army thlrsts for bat tle," says a St. Petersburg paper. That's probably Il typographical error. Should be bottle.
Alaska sentinel., 1905-11-23

In the next edition of the lexicon of diplomacy the term "irreducible minmGm'' will be defined as mini mum that drops 90 per cent in seven days
Alaska sentinel., 1905-11-23

Is there any significance in the Rus sians selecting the Town of Ma.kop as place to honor the name of Roose- welt?
Alaska sentinel., 1905-11-23

Russell Sage. now s9, is expected to go to par in just eleven years unless something happens.
Alaska sentinel., 1905-11-23

A Paterson, N. J., woman confesses that she has seven husbands. If the authorities had let her alone little longer she might have had baseball team of her own.
Alaska sentinel., 1905-11-23

The motor car will have to do a good deal of life-saying to get even.
Alaska sentinel., 1905-11-23

It's fine thing to be your own master if you don't care about pay days.
Alaska sentinel., 1905-11-23

A spinster says that stolen kiss 1. better than no kiss at all
Alaska sentinel., 1905-11-23

The laugh will be on the men when they become angels, and pit on their drst dresses.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-11-27
A Degenerated Sport.

With the foot ball season not yet closed,
the list of gridiron casualties for the year
1898 is shockingly long. There have been
nineteen killed and one hundred and TWEEN
ty-seven seriously injured in foot bali
games this year. The death-hst is more
than double the average. of the past hVe
years. in which time there have been forty
five fatalities on the field. Eleven of the
killed were high school players, ten OF them
being immature boys of seventeen ana
under Three were college men, and were
presumably well trained and were fit TO go
into the game One was a girl. OF the in
jured seventy-eight were college players
thlrty-nine were high school players, seven
were members of grade school teams seven
members of athletic clubs.
The supposedly careful training of the col
Iege athlete is apparently not safeguard
against death and dlsablement in the game
of foot ball. The trouble, it is plain lies
not in the condition of the player, but in
the game itself. 1t Is rough. to the point
of brutality. Success in it depends mainly
upon the ability of the players of one side
to block. throw trip and disable those on
the other side. In the rushing and tackling
and the interference, all of which constitute
the major portion of the games activities,
the man with the hardest muscle, the swift
est punch. the tlghtest graphic and the most
calloused spirit makes the best showing.
Skill in kicking the ball, or in running
really constitutes a small fraction of the
games requirements. There must of
course, be good l1ickers and swift runners,
but the mainstay of hesteam lies in the
pugnacity and Drawn and recklessness of
fully eight of the eleven men.
Injuries are unavoidable in a game of this
kind, where the rules permit mass plays
and call for the frequent lining up of the
teams to struggle for the possession of>the
ball However the rules may forbid punch
ing or kicking or foul tackling or buttlng
or biting such practices are inevitable in
some degree under the cloak Of the crowd.
The cry is win the game" The players
become Indifferent to all else but the object
of pushing the ball over the line, or getting
1t away from the other side. A species of
mania sezes them. They are for the time
being irresponsible.
The solution of this evil Is to make the
game more open, forbid mass plays, penal
ize all holding by expulsion, cut down the
taCkling and interference and make the
game once more what 1t used to be, and
should be today. true foot ball. with the
palm of victory going to the team that can
kick and catch and run the better, and not
the team that can slug and chew and butt
and break bones and gouge eyes with the
greater luck.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-11-27

percentage of collisions can be eliminated
by the adoption of mechanical systems. but
for economic reasons their adoption Is de-
layed from season to season on some ROADS
and the dea. list mounts higher. In the
case of the Boston and Maine an open de-
rail switch behind the local would have
saved the corporation several hundred
thousand dollars in death and injury DAM
ages at the cost of two disabled or per-
haps demolished locomotives.
The fact is being steadily demonstrated
that light signals are unreliable. Inc
great desire of all railroad operatives who
do not consider questions of cost is for
an automatic device which will positively
shut off the steam and apply the brakes
when a train enters a prohibited block
There a few of such devices now IN
process of perfection. and the hope OF
the travelling public is that the federal
government will some day step in and re-
quire the railroads to find and apply
system of this sort The stimulus OF
statutory compulsion will probably hasten
the development of the device. And mean
while there should be requirement that
all lines which run trains on close head
way should establish deraillng switches
at all points where trains are likely to be
held for orders.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-11-27
Mr. Watterson Declines ONCE.

Mr.. Watterson puts away the crown of
office That IS to say. he wishes that no
offer of office be made to him. He prefers
the profession in which ne was educated,
and upon which he has shed no little re-
nown. The deliverance suggests the old
camp meeting refrain slightly altered to
suit the occasion:
And when I'm dead and buried
There'l be another poor journalist gone.
1t is wise choice so far as personal COM
fort is concerned, but the democratic party
of Kentucky, and measurably the country
a. large will lose by it.
The blue grass democracy is at present in
as serious snarl as the republican party
of the same state was ten years ago, and in
danger of meeting a like fate After years
OF intelligent and fruitless opposition, the
republicans found themselves masters of the
situation. They had elected their state
ticket and a majority of the legislature, and
the world TO them was beautiful The
whskey tasted better. the horses ran faster,
and the table stakes at cards were larger
than ever before. Then the devil took a
hand. In the contest for the senatorship
the strong men of the party all went to
grass, and the choice fell in the angry con
fusion upon an obscure and mediocre man
who was buried under the toga The out
side world was unable to understand him,
his party at home was unable to expla n
him, and the great Office thus was thrown
away. From that day the party began to
lose prestige.
1t is now the democraCy's turn. They are
in control and a senatOrship is dangling
before the eyes of the ambitious men of the
party. Three candidates are announced
all well known. and each with loyal fol-
Iowing-and hot fight is a certainty. If
an outsider becomes necessary shall he be
a mediocrity and an obscurity? Shall the
office again be thrown away? Or shall we
witness the democracy rising to the occa-
sion and bestowing the place upon man
altogether worthy of it?
The governorShp comes next year, and s
not so important. 1t might be decided by
a wise selection for the senatorship now.
Mr. Watterson is not a lawyer nor a leg
islator. nor yet philosopher But he
would bring 10 the Senate a good deal OF
breeze and a pronounced individuality, and
prove its best drawing card since the dis
appearance of Mr.. ingalls, of Kansas and
Mr. Wolcott of Colorado-two men who
never slept themselves nor permitted any
. body else in their neghborhood to sleep.