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The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-10-12
RICH MEN OF A MONTH.

How Some Suddenly Acquired For tunes Have Been Quickly Squandered.
 The sudden acquisition of unaccus- toned wealth is responsible for many strange freaks on the part of the new ly enriched. Thus, a Durham collier, after inheriting the sum of 92O,OOO from an uncle who had emigrated to Australia, purchased a male and fe- male. elephant from a trveling mena- geries, had a large and gaudy carriage built, to which he harnessed them, and then drove out with his wife and children till stopped by the police. He spent his money in six months, chiefly at race meeting, and is now once more a humble collier, glad of the compara- lively scanty wage that he receives each week from the clerk in the pay shed.
 The case of once popular French novelist is still remembered in Parisian 1iteraty circles. Reaping a harvest from two or three capital books that took all Paris by storm, the author
The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-10-12

Miniature Hanging Clocks.
 Hanging Clocks, with weight. Value, 75c each. Thursday, at Soc each
The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-10-12
Couch Covers.
Pillow Covers.

They're already to slip the pillow into; Oriental striped covers with tasseled corners. Value, 25c. At 15C
The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-10-12
Women's Underwear.

Women's fleece lined, shap- ed vests, high neck and long sleeves, ankle length pants to match. At f2 1-2C ca.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-10-12
Tn the East Store Basement.

Tn the East Store Basement.
 Outing Flannels in a variety of stripes and checks. Value, Sc a yard. At Sc a Yard
 Daisy Cloth, the best twill ed flannel on the market white and colors. Value, 123c a yard. At Sc
 Dress Ginghams - checks, stipes and plaids; all new styles. Value, Sc. At Sc
 Comfortables, full size, light and dark colors. Value, $1. 19. At S9C
The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-10-12
Art Embroidery.

Scarfs and shams with hem stitched edges braided and lace trimmed. Value, 25c. Thurs day, at 19C
The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-10-12
Waists.
Small Wares Department.

Small Wares Department.
 Pad front hose supporters, in all colors. Value, 75c. Thursday, at ACC
 Back combs of shell and amber, mounted and plain. Value, soc. Thursday, at 29c
 Net shopping bags, extra large size. Value, 35c. Thurs day, at 23C
The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-10-12
TO CtRE A COLD IN ONE DAY

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The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-10-12

Take LAXATIVE PROMO ouinine Tab lets. Druggists refund money if 1t fails to cure E. w. GROVES signature is on each box. 25c.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-10-12
Suit Case.

24-inch Karatol Suit Cases, steel frame, strong leather corners and straps all around. Value, $2.50. At $1.95
The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-10-12
Fibre Lap Boards.

Fibre Lap Boards with measure. Regular price, 45c. Thursday, at 25c
Alaska sentinel., 1905-09-14

until they served him. If they de handed pay he would threaten to hay ye them put off the platform.
 The omnibus drivers and cabmen on Fifth avenue point out a crack across the top pane of glass In one of his parlor windows which. they say, has been there for 21 years. The story goes that Mrs. Sage negotiated with glazier to replace 1t with a whole pane for SIP. MT. Sage would not pay more than S1O. The glazler would not yield, and the deadlock has continued for almost a quarter of century.
 He has quiet little country place down on Long Island. with a good deal of lawn, but he does not keep the turf shaved down like his nelghbors. He lets the grass grow until 1t Is high enough to make good hay and then sells 1t for 8 to a livery stablekeeper in the vicinity.
Alaska sentinel., 1905-09-14
Told in Pantomine.

Theodore Thomas, in conducting an orchestra, seemed impassive, imper- turbable. A writer in the Outlook, commenting upon this, says that he was apparently without passion or feeling. Yet the appearance was not reality, and at one of MT. Thomas rehearsals 1t was fully contradicted.
 At a certain point In the symphony the orchestra was playing in perfect time and tune, but with certain mechanical effect which no one had noticed until MT. Thomas suddenly rapped the music-stand before him
 The orchestra stopped. Then with his hand he initiated the action of an organ-grinder.
 With only a word to indicate the bar at which the orchestra was to take up the music, he struck the rack before him for attention, and with a movement of his baton gave the signal.
 The orchestra repeated the passage he had criticized Hy dumb show, and this time they played with spirit and fire
Alaska sentinel., 1905-09-14
Jim Bludso.

Wall, no, I cant tell wha" he lives, Because he don't live, you see: Leastways he's got out of the habit Of Twin like you and me. Whar' have you been for the last three
 year
 That you haven't heard folks tell How Jimmy Bludso passed in his checks The night of the Prairie Belle? He weren't no saint-them engineers Is pretty much alike One wife in Natchez-under-the-h Another one here in Pike. A keerless man In his talk was Jim, An awkward hand in a row, But he never funked, and he never lied l reckon he never knowed how. And this was all the religion he had, To treat his engine well, Never be passed on the river,
 To mind the pilots bell; And if ever the Prairie Belle took fire A thousand times he swore He'd hold her nozzle agin the bank Till the last soul got ashore. All boats has their day on the Mississip. And her day come at last; The Movastar was a better boat, But the Belle, she wouldn't be passed; And so she come tarin' along that night The oldest craft on the line With nigger squat on her safety valve, And her furnace crammed, rosin and
 pine. ba Era I,r aha nlaa arn1 tha hQT And burnt a hole in the night; And, quick as a flash, she turned and
 made
 For that willer bank on the right. There was runnin' and cursin', but Jim
 yelled out
 Over all the internal roar; I'll hold her nozzle agln the bank Till the last galoot's ashore Through the hot, black breath of the
 burnin' boat
 Jim Bludso's voice was heard, And they all had trust in his cussedness, And knowed he would keep his word; And, sure's you're born, they all got oil Afore the smokestacks fell- And Bludso's ghost went up alone In the smoke of the Prairie Belle. He weren't no saint-but at judgment I'd run my chance with Jim 'Longside of some pious gentlemen
 That wouldn't shook hands with him. He seen his duty, q dead sure thing And went for 1t thar and then; And Christ aint a-going to be too hard On a man that died for men. John Hay.
Alaska sentinel., 1905-09-14
Natures Armored Cruisers.

Some of the papers are poking fun at the story which comes from the Bay of Biscay of crabs weighing sixteen pounds and possessing claws eighteen inches in circumference. The joke would have seemed the funnier, per haps, had the crabs been described as opening and eating oysters. As a mat ter of fact, there is a species which does crack cocoanuts. As students of Darwin will remember, this extraordi- nary creature grows to an enormous size; so large is 1t that in the larger ones there is sufficient fat to yield a quart of palm-oil, derived from their diet on cocoanut. These nuts they first denude of their tough fbrous GOV ering, then with their hammer-llke claws beat upon the shell until an opening Is made, and the rest is sim pie. These giants live on land, but bathe each night in the sea.
Alaska sentinel., 1905-09-14
NORTHAMPTON PRIMUS."
Argumentative Youth Gave the In- structor Something to Think About.

Argumentatiye Youth Gave the In- structor Something to Think About.
 The dignity of the old-time clergy man of a small town enwrapped him so entirely In the eyes of his people that Jests concerning the foibles of his youth were likely to be drowned upon rather than cherished. But of the col lege days of the estimable and much respected Nathaniel Niles, of West Fairlee, Vermont, who was graduat- ed from Princeton in 1166, N N. With ington in a recent interesting article tells us that traditions still survive.
 He and his younger brother Sam uel were both of them able but ex- cessively argumentative youths, and during their student days they were known as "Botheration Primus" and "Botheration Secundus'
 Just now much of bother the first botheradon could be to an unwary pro- lessor Is revealed in the famous anec- dote of the jack-knfe. It has been re- lated Of other men than Nathaniel Niles; but at least if he cannot be proved to be the one and only proper hero of 1t. his attested character lends strong support to his claim.
 His instructor in philosophy was lec- turing upon identity" and had just argued that parts of whole might be subtracted and other matter substi- tuted, yet the whole would remain the same, instancing the fact that every part of our bodies Is changed in seven years, yet we remain the same indiyid- uals.
 Then" said Niles, If had knife and lost the blade and had new blade put in, 1t would still be the identical knife?"
 Certainly" was the reply.
 "Then if l should lose the handle from the new blade and have another handle made to fit 1t, the knife would still be the same?'
 That is so," said the professor.
 "Then, in that case" triumphantly rejoined young Botheration Primus, If should find the old blade and the old handle and have the original parts put together, what knife would that be-"
Alaska sentinel., 1905-09-14

"Oh, most generally we get marked down on our department"
 "Barbarous." commented the old ster. T don't see how a teacher can have the heart to do such a thing. It must be pretty painful. isn't itT'
 "Oh, that don't hurt! You just get sixty or sl1ty-five average on your de- pertinent card"
 Well" said the oldster, "it may be all right but 1t sounds brutal to me. When I was at school the master we had never marked us down."
 Didn't he?" asked the youngster, in surprise.
 "No," resumed the oldster, reflect iyely. "He always marked us up. He had several ways of doing 1t. He could leave tolerably well-defned marks with his bare hand. His thumb and finger when they closed on a boys ear could lead that boy along the path of knowledge irresistibly. But his marks of absolute disapprov- al he usually laid on with hickory stick.
 He did suspend boy occasionally, however-by the collar of his jacket but never for as long as two weeks. We never made 1t necessary for him to speak 10 us twice. In fact, he never spoke to us at all-he parked. When he cleared his throat our knees knocked together.
 We strove to please him. We never walked out on strike, as I recently read some of your school fellows did. He had a monopoly of the striking. Yes, I think 1t would have done you good to attend his school"
 Did it do you goodT
 Well come to think of it," I don't know that 1t did," replied the oldster, candidly, but" he added, grimly. "I don't think we needed licking as bad ly as the present generation does"
Alaska sentinel., 1905-09-14
THE OLD AND THE NEW.
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 The "oldster" regarded the youngster thoughtfully. 50 your teacher doesn't whip you? What's the reason of that?" he asked, eagerly, for he was not one, or so the Chicago News in- inmates, who recoiled in horror from any discussion of the principles and practices of education. Don't you ever do anything that calls for a whippingf"
 The youngster grinned. Teachers ain't allowed to lick the children. If she licked us she'd get suspended" he explained "She reasons with us, and if We don't behave she suspends us"
 Hum" said the oldster, rubbing his chin. i've heard of something of the kind, but I never quite understood exactly how 1t worked. How often have you been suspended?'
 q never was. Ethan Taylor, he was suspended once. He set fire to a girls hair with a match, and when the teacher wanted him to say he was sorry he said bad words at her. They suspended him for two weeks"
 Hum" said the oldster again.
 And once we all got to hollering and laughing in the geography lesson, and when Miss Watson told us to stop we just kept right on.'
 "Why?"
 ooh, just for fun! Jimmy Willing, he was soaking paper balls In his ink and throwing them at the map when ever Miss Watson turned her back to point to it. She got awful mad, and she said she'd suspend us all if we didn't behave ourselves. She didn't, though" with faint scorn. "She weak ems easy"
 "she must be a pretty harsh sort of a person even to talk of sus- pending you for little thing like that" said the oldster, with irony that glanced off its object. "I suppose you whisper in school sometimes, and punch the boy in front of you in the back, and stick pins in him, and make faces, and shoot beans and peas and putty and things like thatT
 "I should sayp
 "And then you get suspended, shr'
Alaska sentinel., 1905-09-14

beginning the earth was a waste and barren wilderness in which there dwelt a dragon alone. Then God came down from heaven, fought with the dragon and yanqulshed 1t. From the dragons blood, which was water, the barren rock wilderness was made fertile, and the spot where the strug- gle between God and the dragon took place became paradise. Thereafter God created all thlngs-sun, moon, stars, plants and beasts and finally two hu- man beings. The man was sent down from heaven and was called Maitum- be, and the woman, Naitergorob, sprang from the bosom of the earth.
 God led them into paradise, where they lived an untroubled existence. Of all the fruits therein they might eat by Gods permission of one tree alone they might not taste. Often God came down to see them, when he climbed down ladder from heaven. But one day he was unable for long time to find them, but finally discovered them crouching among the bushes. On being asked the mean ing of his conduct Maitumbe replied that they were ashamed because they had eaten of the forbidden fruit. 'Naitergorob gave me of the fruit, he said, and persuaded me to eat 1t af- ter she had eaten of 1t herself
 "Saitergorob sought to excuse her self by saying, The three headed ser pent came to me and said that by tasting the fruit we should become like unto thee and almighty Then was 'Ngai (God) wroth and banished the two first human beings from para disc. He sent Rllegen. the morning star to drive man out of paradise and to keep watch thereover."
Alaska sentinel., 1905-09-14

millionaire Although his income Is reckoned at g, 5,0OO a day, at least and some people think 1t is twice that amount, he has lived at the rate of $5OOO a year or less, and his personal expenses have not been 5000 a year. That Is very liberal estimate. He has two suits of clothes, one for week days and the other for Sunday, and he has worn them as long as anybody can remember. He has not bought a new overcoat for 15 or 20 years. and his hat is quite as old as that if not older. A few years ago he sent for gentleman who had done him favor, and In a confidential way said that he was go- ing to reward him with tip" that he could work for profit. Then, to the mans astonishment, MT. Sage gave him the address of a store on Seventh avenue where he could get shoes for g pair.
 To save time the Western Union Telegraph Company serves a free lunch to its operators, and Mir. Sage appeared every day at certain hour. A seat was kept for him at certain table up to the last day he came down. town. He never paid fare on the ele- vated railroad, because he was a direc- tor, and the ticket takers had insruc- lions to let him go by without paying. He invariably helped himself to news papers from the stand at Fiftieth street in the morning when on his way downtown, and did the same at Rec tor street when he was going home in the afternoon. He has stolen his news papers for a generation in the same way, of the same men, and they never dared say a word about 1t. He has always compelled the bootblacks on the elevated stations to shine his shoes for nothing. At first, years ago, they used to remonstrate. He would climb into one of the chairs and vait
Alaska sentinel., 1905-09-14
Polite Way of Getting . Tip.

A shrewd old continental guide who, in conducting a lady around a grand old cathedral, had been assidu- ous in his courtesy and fascinating in his descriptive details anent the his toric pile, observed with pain that the visitor was evidently about to take her departure without bestowing the customary dole. To prevent this the willy old guide said: Pardon me, madam, but if, on her return to her hotel, madam should find that she had lost her purse, will madam kind ly remember that 1t was not in this place that she took 1t out?" This neat reminder immediately produced the desired effect.
Alaska sentinel., 1905-09-14
Story of a Woman Crusoe.

Beginning due west of Point Con- cepton on the California coast and continuing at irregular intervals as far south az the Bay of Todos Santos in Lower California He the Channel islands. In this ideal region for the yachtsman, the fisherman and the hunter one comes to feel like a new Crusoe on his primitive isle. And in very truth Crusoe's seml-mythica story was enacted upon one of these same islands, though minus the man Friday and the happy ending.
 The castaway in this case was 6 woman, Danish emigrant, left ashore through some mischance by the crew of vessel that had sought shelter behind San Nicholas during storm in the early '50s. For over seventeen years the lone creature had lived un- sought and forgotten, though the time at length came when, on the days the mist-clearing north winds blew, she could climb to the islands highest point and view the ranchers' herds grazing upon the mainland.
 And at last, when hope and reason had both long died, the poor, wild, gibberng creature was found in her wolrs burrow among the hills by the advance guard of the otter hunters fraternity, who had long wondered at the mysterious footprints they found marked upon the lonely sands.-For- est and Stream.
Alaska sentinel., 1905-09-14
Some apprehensive party has ex

Some apprehensive party has e1- pressed the opinion that the Amer ican people will outgrow baseball" and an editor has been thoughtless enough to print 1t. Thoughtless, in considerate; yes, and unpatriotic. AL most immoral. How dare an editor give publicity to an insidious breath hostile to one of our basic institutions! By all the memories of 'one-old- d-cat" and town ball." how can a man utter such thing and an editor circulate 1t? The American people rise up in the grand stand, so to speak, and resent 1t with a mighty hiss. Life would not be worth living to the glorious, free and independent spirit without base ball. We are a nation of rooters. We must root or die. Baseball will live as long as the nation. When the ghouls get to dancing on the dIa- monds there will be none of us to witness it. Baseball will be the last relic to crumble.
Alaska sentinel., 1905-09-14

Sanskrit literature, as Sir H. Arthur Blake has found, recognizes the trans mission of malaria by mosquitoes. A passage from the Greek historian Her pdotus is reproduced In London med ical journal as further evidence of the ancient interest in the insect: 'In the parts of Egypt above the marshes the inhabitants pass the night upon lofty towers, which are of great sery- ice, as the gnats are unable to fly to any height on account of the winds. In the marsh country, where there are no towers. each man possesses a net instead. By day 1t serves him to catch fish, while at night he spreads 1t over his bed in which he Is to rest, and, creeping In, goes to sleep under neath."
Alaska sentinel., 1905-09-14

After 1t has been heard that Jap aness troops do not keep step while marching and present a poor appear ance on parade the shocking climax comes to the effect that Admiral Togo does not know how to wear uni form, which on him is always wrin- kled where 1t should fit smoothly, and vice versa In short, 1t appears that in the military art of looking pretty the Japanese are a complete failure and that they are successful only in the incidental feature of fighting.
Alaska sentinel., 1905-09-14
PRINCE OF MiSERS.
Incidents Which Illustrate the Mean
 ness of Russell Sage.

While many of the stories that are told of Russell Sage's mlserly habits and eccentricities are fictitious, none of them are exaggerations. It would be almost impossible for anyone to Imagine a man more economical and stlngy than he, says writer who has been looking up facts about the multi-
Alaska sentinel., 1905-09-14

usual is shown with the results of the sys tenn
 The Census Bureau makes the population of Wash ngton city the year sS It happens there has just been an actual made there by the police which showed of 322572 This discrepancy Is curious comment on the system of the Census Bureau
 The government ought not to do for the people what they for themselves Any tolerabe mathematician can the of 19OO find the increase from 1890 to l9O0 add half of to the figures for the year. have the result of the bureaus estma
Alaska sentinel., 1905-09-14

for 1865 Why give the authority government to an estimate which schooboy make for himself?
 It Is the business Census Bureau to count and not to guess Thousands of people will guess free of charge and many of them will guess better than the sal ared guessers of the bureau bureaus major pre- mise Is that all large cities are increasing In uon Just as much per year they did years ago. which Is absurd The system borrowed from one in. vented oy Procruses robber of Attca 5000 years ago Louisville Courier Journal
Alaska sentinel., 1905-09-14

Literary and intellectual snobbery has insisted that the mass of books are bad and that the mass of people read the bad books. It Is always easy to islander the millions, for the mil. lions do not reply; they do not even heed No doubt most printed books
Alaska sentinel., 1905-09-14

fuence the United States the be limit Japans indemnity to territory rather than allow this indemnity to be collected from Russia in money, which would be invested at in still larger Japanese navy It is the grave duty of the Hon. Theodore r. Shonts to 1t that the Panama canal be completed with all possible speed double the earliest the efficiency of the United States navy.
 selfpreseryaton is the first law of nations and the of the United States in the Pacific Ocean must be preserved Japans power in the Pacific has been as bravely Englands in the Atlantic But It Is intolerabe Idea that this country should allow Japan to take in hand the naval keys to the Pacific England allowed through series of deporable to take in hand the naval keys to the Atlantic.
 The United States has been the first great power grasp naval supremacy In the great Perish the hand that through negligence weakness, would relax that grasp.-Chicago Inter Ocean.
Alaska sentinel., 1905-09-14

aration? Did the commonwea the fear of common danger bind them? Or the possibilities of great Scan dinavan union? It appears not On the contrary the genius for amagamaton seems lacking Least Of all is there any disposition fight for union And so the Nor wegian flag Is hosed and salued with twentyone guns Secession from Sweden is accomplished. Norway Is independent nation.
 The family quarrel Is ancient caused by ncom patbity of temper dual monarchy born of the Napoeonc but the peoples never became cemented The Morse has been asking for separate consular and diplomatic service That only for the fam
 fighting Neither member of the household would give in. Pickering and backsting led to dvorcement It is pity. There will come day when the separation will be regretted Sweden has lost Finland. Denmark Is reduced few islands. And Norway will be at the mercy of Russia History will write of Scandinavia that unlike the United States it stopped at federalism and failed. It neglected to form perfect union. It was house divided against itself.-Des Moines News
Alaska sentinel., 1905-09-14

Young Ziegler, who inherited the baking powder millions, will have an Income of s2s93 every minute. That boy, if he wants to buy something and doesn't happen to have the change, will only need to ask the storekeeper to wait a minute until he can earn 1t.
Alaska sentinel., 1905-09-14

A New. York woman lost S600O0 worth of jewelry the other day while going to have her hair dressed. It must have been terribly humiliat ting to her to have to appear before the hair dresser without her gems.