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Gunnison news-champion and tribune., 1905-04-28

The Doyleville merchant, C. F.
Bartlett was here on business Tues
day.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-12-17

The postmaster is just eager as the most inn
patient youngster-not that the children are one
whit more impatient than their elders to learn
what Santa has brought-to get the mail sorted
and distributed. His own box or letter has to
wait while the other Christmas packets are
handed about, and he treats the anxious on
the other side OF this strange Christmas board
like many children
Mail is public property up there after it has
been absorbed" by its rightful owners. No
where is such free generosity shown as in this
land where Inconsistencies and deprivations make
friends of all classes. Talk about one big family,
that's where to find that spirit in its truest
sense, up in Alaska where it is share crust to
keep brother from starving and ask bed in
return. But to return to the Christmas mail;
the fortunate share gifts with those less fa-
vored and the home letters are passed from shack
TO shack soon as they have been read coming
back TO the ones TO whom they have been sent
all tattered and torn and bearing the marks of
having been pored over and enjoyed as surely
no letters are enjoyed in the cities where the
postman is familiar figure. just to have folks
in Illinois, or Texas or Pennsylvania establishes
a relationship and gives you a right to read the
home news from the States if you live in Alaska.
No more bitter disappointment can be mag
ined than that experienced by the Alaskan who
Los Angeles herald., 1905-12-17

good to have the spiciness of Christmas the reg
ular evergreen-andturkey Christmas which was
ours but a year or so ago, brought to lis in box
or letter in this pesky land-a land beautiful
enough at any other tme-this land where cock
fighting and roast pig is the order of the day.
That's. it; roasted pig instead of turkey, in the
Philippines on Christmas Day. The bringing OF
the pig from market is quite ceremony and is
as much part of Christmas Eve on the Islands
as the carrying home of the turkey is with us
But even pig is eatabe and Christmassy when
favored with the well wishes of the friends who
are eating turkey These greetings and the gifts
found in the boxes from home make all the
Christmas there is in the Philippines, where the
nearest nation seems to be the unsympathetic
Chinese That's it again, the nearest nation is
China to many of the American minds in the
Philippines, whereas the nearest nation should
be their own United States. When that feeling
dominates the Island that Merry Christmas
heard at the wharf when the mail is being dis
tributed will be strong enough-or neary-to
reach the shores of California, and we will shout
back the greeting
1t is a lucky thought which makes some one
tuck bit of holly fir among the gifts in the
Philippine box. That's the thing to do, send
over as much of the familiar and longed-for Unit
ed States Christmas as possible. That's what
the homesck ones want, for it's just the strange
ness of things which makes Christmas in any
foreign land, even though it may float our own
flag such a sorry time
Los Angeles herald., 1905-12-17

heart during twelve months of hardship and dis.
comforts by the arrival of the Christmas boxes
from loved at home" and with the pass.
ing of one Christmas the anticipation of the one
to follow is born.
The brave who have been obliged to
keep close to their own bearskins since Novem.
ber brave the elements this day and bundle
up in layer upon layer of woolens, wrapping the
youngsters snugly in furs from toes to tippet.
Thus safeguarded against losing an ear or a
nose by frost bite they either buckle on their
snow shoes and swing out across the white land
towards the postoffce they and their little
ones are tucked into the dog-drawn sledges and
are off on the run in the same direction.
Merry Christmas! Merry Christmas! 1t rings
out love message and it sends cheer to lonely
hearts even in that desolate land, and there is
great swinging of arms, stamping of feet and
blowing of dogs to accompany the call as the
whole of Alaska or so it seems, dashes off in
mad and gladsome race to the postof6ce on
Christmas morning while we are comfortably
seated at the breakfast table or gathered around
the Christmas tree ladened with gifts It's
through the mail that we may send these far
north brothers the seasons greeting, aud oh,
how they welcome it at the tiny frame postoffoe
which is the centre Of attraction on this day of
days
Los Angeles herald., 1905-12-17

marked U. S. A, and much part of us as
is Massachusetts, California, where perhaps
the people, Americans remember, have not been
made to feel the family spirit of our land, about
which boast, although they are of a GER
tainty our kin.
Hearts keep time TO hope and joy, minds re-
spond to nirth and good cheer Just as eagerly
up in Alaska and out in the Philippines at this
season OF the year they do in our big East
ern and Western cities whose shores are swept
by the waters which to most of our minds in
close the United States.
Merry Christmas Dawson City or Sitka
under the Stars and Stripes and Merry Christ
mas around and about Manila has a very differ
ent aspect from that selfsame Merry Christmas
around the New England plum pudding. II is
up to us then to give grandtatherlv welcome
to our sturdy snowclad grandson and to stuff
the stocking of our almost Oriental granddaugh-
ter from toe to top: to draw them both into
the very centre of the family circle and wish
them Merry Christmas indeed
Cans of potted beef which have been boarded
for many months in anticipation of Christmas
are brought forth and called turkey in re
membrance of better times in the States Books
and magazines of not very recent date which
reached the land on the "before Christmas
steamer are carefully addressed to the various
members of the household with an attempt to
give a little air of festivity to the day These
second-handed gifts very welcome in a land
where there is such dearth of literature that
men have been known to fight for the posses
sion OF a patent medicine advertisement or
mining pamphlet, every word of which they care
fully and eagerly read.
Christmas in Alaska
The beef turkey" eaten and the gifts exam
ined, there is great shouting of men and bark
ing of dogs, up near Dawson or Sitka, as prep
arations TO start for the mail are made. Getting
the mail is the event of the day in Alaska and
should its arrival be much as four weeks de-
layed the day which it came would be called
Christmas by the anxious watchers. The post.
master is Santa Claus to the little folk of the
land, babies who have known no other kind of
a Christmas perhaps but whose courageous moth
ers have left fresides of comfort and plenty
"down in the States" that they might bring a
little cheer into the barren lives of the men
who are making our peninsula possession of
Importance. Surely Christmas is apt to be a
dreary day to them and the mail is a godsend.
Hope is kept alive and little song in the !
Los Angeles herald., 1905-12-17
How Christmas Is Celebrat-
ed in Alaska and the Phil
ippines

r. 1lHEN the hurry and hustle of the Christ
l wv mas sweep land,
- from the Atlantic to the Pacific, in a
tsA5eEaI straight line and on the bias, when
the general festive spirit makes itself
felt up among the Great Lakes and spreads like
flame clear down to the Gulf States, we Amer
leans rub our hands with sefsatisfed air and
declare that 1--WE a most united nation, Just
like one big family imbued with the holiday spir-
ii which makes brothers of us ALL
If we will just draw out 1905 map, however,
and pause long enough in our exchange of Ner-
ry Christmases to glance over our new posses
sions we will find peninsula and some islands
Los Angeles herald., 1905-12-17
The Wife Takes the Pay

ET1OU can rely upon it, said keen bus
ness man, that the man whose wife is
managing his salary for him is pros
INMlNl porous. When | see man that
S=--'--S happen to know hand all his earnings
over to his wife set him down as getting along
we'll He has started on the right road to get
rich, for in nine cases out of ten he is saving
something And fact which he is apt to over
look is that ii he only spends little less than
he makes, he is bound to get rich. A woman
who manages her husbands salary will help him
to do this nearly every time as women are
meaner than men Some men find it impossible
to save money and has got to spend less
than he makes before he can begin to get along
"'rhe man whose wife is enough of a mana
ger TO help him get TO this point by taking care
of his money for him may consider himself for
tunate."
Los Angeles herald., 1905-12-17

barred gate
"oh, please, sir" she asked pIaintivey. will
you open this gate for me-"
smilinely the kindly old gentleman lifted the
latch and pushed it back. 1t opened easily, and
ne took the opportunity to point moral
Because thing seems big, and heavy and
difllcult, my dear, is no reason that we should
not attempt, at any rate, to deal with it. This
gate, Tor instance, is in point Had YOU
Tired you could have opened it quite easily"
Yes, SIR she said demurely "But then |
should have got my hands all over wet paint"
Then her benefactor contemplated ruined
pair OF gloves, and sighed for the rising genera
ton
Los Angeles herald., 1905-12-17

For full-length picture throw your body, from
the waist upwards. little forward. Don't wear
your hat unless your picture is to be Just for
the Tune" The style in hats changes rapidly,
and what is correct now appears very odd
year later Don't wear satin or silk. 1t comes
out badly with its gloss and glimmer Look at
some of the old photographs in the big family
album if you want to prove this.
Velvet or wool is good wear from the photo.
crapher's point of view. You will look nice in
white. Don't forget that gray reproduces
white. and yellow and tan like black. Lace is
artistic and comes out splendidly. Do not ar
range your hair too eaborately. If your hair is
really light, touch with the powderpuff will
bring out it's color in the photograph.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-12-17
Better Than a Tip

THE elderly rear admiral, who was bet
III ter known than liked by the walters
in the hotels Of northern city for
L1gN1YI his opposition to the tipping" system,
S<z==sg finished his dinner, and was preparing
to leave the hotel, when the waiter
who had served him bowed and said: "Thsnk
YOU very much. sir"
"What are you thinking me for?" angrily de.
manded the old fellow. Il haven't given you any.
thing"
That's just it, responded the waiter. Il bet
another waiter-a new chap-haH dollar that
you wouldn't tip me-"
Los Angeles herald., 1905-12-17
Sitting for a Picture

+ you re not one Of the people who al
ways wear smile, do not attempt to
smile when you are having your pho
tograph taken. If you do the result is
likely to be unnatural and strained.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-12-17
Dear Little Soul

NE of those dear old gentlemen who
We're sent into the world to do good
to it recently happened upon a nice
little girl who was standing looking
somewhat Mistfullv at n biz frn-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-05-20

roof to keep the rain from beating in. II
intended for cold weather, as well, IL should
have a small room at the back, with a
stove, where the patient can get warm,
wash and dress row of such shacks I'M
der one roof. in the proximity of a cottage
where patients can go for their meals,
makes an ideal and cheap small sanato-
rum. The cost of an open-air shack is,
perhaps, less than tent, with a fly, plat
form, ETC., and these little buildings are
much more desirable.
Is every invalid benefited by sleeping out?
The majority of invalids are. undoubtedly,
benefited by sleeping out of doors, but some
cannot and should not. There is no danger
in trying the experiment. II the patient
sleeps as well out of doors as in a we'll
ventilated room, he may continue 10 do So
but many do not, and cannot get accus-
toned to sleeping out They are disturbed
by the light, the wind, the changes of tenn
perature the storms, the early morning
noises, and cannot get habituated to these
things Such patients will do better to live
out all day and sleep in a well-ventilated
room.
Sleeping out at night. though beneficial.
Is not apparently as necessary 10 the pa
tient who lives out all day and sleeps in
weil-ventilated room at night as 1t is for
those whom the necessity of earning their
living compels 10 be indoors most of the
day. To these sleeping out al night is al
most necessity, if they are 10 preserve
their health.
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Chesapeake 6 Ohio Ry.

Schedule Effective March "a l9U0.
Trains leave Pennsylvania Station.
2:so pm. Daily-CHICAGo AND ST. LOUIS SEE
CIAL Solid vestibule, electric-llghted Dining
Car train to Cincinnati. Reaches Cincinnati
500 am, Louisville loo an. st. Louis $3.50
Pm, Chicago $50 pm. Pullman service to
Louisville. Cincinnati, Indianapolis. Chicago
and st. Louis. Through parlor for Virginia
Hot Springs week Gays. Dining car from Wash
ington; meals q la carte.
il:10 pm. Daily-F. r. v. LIMITED. Solid YES
Thule. electric-llghted Dining Car train to Gin.
cinnati. Pullman sleepers to Cincinnati, Ley
ington and Louisville without change. Com
partmert sleeper to Virginia Hot Springs daily
except Sunday. Seepers Cincinnati TO Chicago
and St. Louis. Dining car serving meals q Ia
carte.
Reservation and tickets at Chesapeake and Ohio
office, OLD Pennsylvania avenue; COS Fourteenth
street +, and at the station. Telephone call
l6aO for Pennsylvania II. II. Cab Service.
IA. W. FULLER.
Telephone Main IOas. General Passenger Agent
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RAILROADS.
ATLANTICCOASTN INE.

Effective April g. 1905
$50 am. daily-Sleeping Cars New York to
Jacksonville, Fla.
S45 pm. daily-SIeeping Cars New York TO Jack.
sonville, Fla, New York TO Port Tampa, Fla, via
Jacksonville; New York to Thomasyille. Ga. Tues-
DAYS and Thursdays); New York to Augusta, Ga.
New York TO Charleston, s. c.: Washington, d. q,
TO Wilmington, n. c. Connects at Petersburg for
Norfolk via n. w. DINING CAR SERVICE on
this train.
For tickets and all Information apply at the
OFFICE OF THE LINE, COL PENNSYLVANIA
AVENUE NORTHWEST. AND PENNSYLVANIA
RAILROAD STATION.
A. L. REED,
District Passenger Agent. Washington D. G.
Gen. Pas. Agt Traffic Manager.
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Seaboard Air Line Railway.

TICb Ell OFFICE, 1921 PENNA. AVE.
Fer Petersburg Raleigh, Wilmington. Columbia.
Savannah, jacksonville, Tampa, Atlanta. Birming
nam, Mobile. Pensacola and New Orleans.
1890 A ii, DAILY-Seahoard Nail-Through'
Pullman Sleeper 10 Jacksonville. Fla. connecting
rt Hamle. with Pullman Sleeper to Atlanta. Cafe
Dining Car,
625 PM. DAILY-Seabosrd Express-Solid train
to Jacksonville and Tampa, with through Pullman
Sleepers. AlsJ sleeper to Atlanta this train.
Cafe Dining Car.
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The living skeleton at the dime museum
had fallen in love with the bearded lady.
No She said, when he offered himself
1T is impossible. l am welded to my art
L can never be anything more than a
brother to yoU."-Chicago Tribune.
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General Passenger Agent.
SOyjlTIH y[E.R.N RAILWAY,

Trains leave from Peunsy lyanis station.
1885 am. Daily. Local for HarrisonbGrg, War
rebtun, DanSille aud way stations.
1851 q. NJ. Daily. Washington and Florida Lin
tied Through coaches and sleeper TO Columbia.
1l:i5 am. Daily. United States Fast Mall.
First-Llass coaches and drawing room sleeper 10
New Orleans. Dining service.
40l pm. Week Days. LEGAL for Harriscnburf
and way stations on Manassas branch.
455 pm. Daily. Local for Warrenton and Char.
lottesyille.
press. First-class coach TO Atlanta, sleeper TO
Columbus Ga, via Atlanta, Sunset tourist, sleeper
Washington to San Francisco Mondays. Nvdnes-
$50 pm Daily. New York and Florida E1-
press. First-class coaches and sleepers to Coum-
ha, Savannah and Jacksonville. Sleeper TO Au-
gustR and Fort tampa. Dlblhg car service a Ia
1000 PIN. Daily. New York and Memphis Lin.
tied Uia Lynehbursl First-elass coach aud sleep.
Memphis; sleeper To New Orleans. Dining car
io:45 pm. Daily. Washington and Southwestern
cars to Atlanta and Macon; sleepers TO Nashville,
Atlanta. Macon, Memphis, New Orleans.
TRAINS On BLUEM0NT BRANCH
Leave Washington $40 an, $50 pm, AS
pm. week days, sos pm. daily, for Bluemont:
6:2s pm. week days for Leesburg only. Sunday
trains leave Washington 9:l0 am, 5:05 pm for
lueuont saturdays only for Leesfurg lI:4O pm
Through trains from the South arrive Washington
6:42 am, G52 am. 9:45 am. 900 am. 500
frC.n Harrisonburg 1855 a. week days aud $40
pm. daily. From Charlottesville, SIS a aud
0:20 pm. daily.
information can be had at ticket Offices, 700 18th
street 5ll Pennsylvania and PennsylYA-
MIA Station. Baggage checked throug. from huteis
NJ 'Ihon S,' $50 r. r. r. Cab Service.
H. b. SPENCER Gen. Man.
APRIL H. HAEPW WI ssP Pass st Iraf Mgr
L S. BROWN. Gen. Agent.
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SANATORIUMS.
Wills
fountain .SanatOrium,
CUMBERLAND, MD.
Write for booklet.
Geheral Geo. M. Sternberg,
myIb sot.14 DIRECTOR.
FIR ESH AIR u R E
SLEEPING OUT OF DOORS GOOD
TREATMENT FOR CONSUMPTION.
Suggestions on Fitting Up Quarters on
the Veranda and on Build
ing Balcony.
: EsH AIR CURE

Dr. r. L. Trudeau, in the Journal Of Outdoor Life.
With the more general adoption of the
open-air treatment of tuberculosis in recent
years a question that is frequently asked
by patients is whether they shall sleep out
of doors.
Before the doctor can answer this ques-
ton intelligently he should know something
as to how and where the patient intends 10
sleep out of doors. In the arid plains of
the southwest and in California, where.
owing to the peculiar climatic conditions,
no shelter is needed, and a good blanket is
the only real requisite sleeping out of doors
is a simple matter; but in less dry and
more rigorous climates sleeping out with
comfort and safety to the patient requires
some consideration as to his immedat e
surroundings.
Many patients are sent to the Adron-
dacks by their doctors with the simple dl-
rection, Sleep out Of DOORS; but when
they come to attempt it they meet SO much
difficulty in carrying out the advice that
Il Is rarely followed.
I am speaking now Of sleeping out in
spring, summer and fall only. In winter
the problem. in such a climate as that OF
the Adirondacks, is a much more difficult
enc, and really requires, If it is to be done
with comfort and without risk. a specially
constructed house, or, at least, that some
part of the house be altered to meet the
needs of the Invalid. In summer one may
sleep out In a suitably constructed tent, IN
a kean-to made of rough boards and m
closed on three sides, but entirely open in
front, or on properly sheltered piazza or
porch. For this climate | much prefer the
piazza or lean-to to the tent, the tent
is damper in wet weather. and its occu-
pants will be more troubled by the glare
in the early morning and the Tapping OF
the canvas on windy nights. On cold nights
the temptation is to close the tent, under
the impression that the canvas permits the
air to pass through; in this way all that is
produced is a cold and illy-ventilated sleep
ing place. Air does not pass through can
to any extent, or it would not be used
for sails
Prof. Fishers and Dr. Gardeners tents
are very well ventilated, and not open to
the same objection as ordinary tents, on
account of their more perfect, though some
what complicated, construction, which
makes 1t possible to obtain at will the ex-
act amount of fresh air and shelter re-
Quired. In the tents commonly in use the
only way to obtain proper ventilation is to
have one side of the wall raised and the
back or front entirely open.
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Baltimore and Ohio r. K

Baltimore and Ohio r. K.
LEAVE STATION. New Jersey ave. and At
ROYAL BLUE LINE
TRAINS EVERY OTHER HOUR
PHltApELPnIA AND new YORK.
200 am. Diner; Pullman Parlor.
1000 am. Buffet. PariOr. 5-h. Train.
5000 am. Diner and Pullman PArlor Car.
ill:00 am. Diner and Pullman psrlor Car.
800 pm. Royal Limited" All PGInIa
800 pm. Diner and Pullman Parlor.
FOO pm. Coaches TO Philadelphia
$500 pm. Coaches TO Philadelphia.
oil 80 pm. Sleepers-
Atlantic City. too. 1900. t11:oo an. ti:oo.
EVERY HOUR or THE aogE
Mees days PSI 800 esO MOO 30, 80 500
900. $50. I zoo, 500, 100; II so 1925 pm;
Sundays rs 25T 100 02 Zoo ss so soS 10
1000. 1880. 1855 p pm;
CHICAGO and NORTHWEST. '1i:oo a m. $3.50
CINCINNATI. ST LOUIS and LOUISVILLE.
TIT PiTrs s T ca md % cLEvEIANb. .11:oo an
'e Gn, P pm and ~. .i2;t0 night.
Wheeling, :I0:oS IN. $3.50 pm.
WINCHESTER fS:3S a m. "a :o5; = 90 o N;
noon & Zoo Teea d's ans s SIS gag
'l PR EIDE G ts:s5. ss:S siOOS tllOO am.
$o' ss n;s 300
aTHsssbsHf a9a as Ss' sos t5ss to- sss
ts:s5 so:i5 am. SI:i5. 1900. 1880 pm.
nDeFe cared for and Checked from nS,es and
residences by Union Transfer Co on orders left al
s. b. HEGE District Passenger Agent
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Second-Story Balcony.

The second-story balcony is the most
practical and successful agency l know of
in inducing invalds to acquire the out-of-
door habit, and when, in addition, the de-
tails of the patients daily life, to food,
rest and exercise are under the control OF
a wise physician, these little structures
bring most of the benefits to be obtained by
sanatorium treatment, at once and at small
cost within the reach of the invalid who
cannot leave his home. To tell such a pa
tient to live out of doors when he must
either walk or drive in order to remain out
Is of little avail, as he can spend but few
hours in this way without fatigue; but, II
he only has to step out of his room, he Will
soon form the habit of reading, writing-in
fact living out of doors, without finding II
in the least irksome, especially when he be-
gins to realize in his own person how pow
erful an influence fresh air when continu-
ouSly applied has upon his health.
Another advantage of the properly con-
structed second-story porch is the wide
range of it's usefulness for II is suitable for
the treatment of all the stages of the dis
ease, from the incipient case to the bed
ridden invalid. Early cases can perfectly
well follow out the open-air treatment. and
live and sleep out on one of these second
story balconies. though they may prefer
in some localities tent life or the open
shanty, which will do quite well for
them; but for the far advanced and acute
cases the Second-story porch is much to be
more easily be nursed when within easy ac-
cess of the other members of the house
hold and of a comfortable room and bath
room than in tent open shanty.
1t is evident also that the dangers of in
lection for the other members of the family
are greatly reduced If the invalid can spend
almost the entire time on the open-air
porch.
When the invalid has selected an ordinary
veranda for sleeping-out place his bed
should be placed in corner, If possible, so
that he is sheltered from the wind on two
sides, at least, and far enough back to pre-
vent the rain from beating on the bed. One
end of the veranda can thus, with bed,
rug. a table and a chair, be turned into
sort of open-air room where the patient can
spend not only the nights. but most of the
days, as well. A slender bowed switch will
do to attach the often indispensable mos
quito net, or the entire end of the veranda
can be screened off for this purpose.
The Lean-To Shack.
The open lean-to or shack is the best
construction for applying the open-air
method when camping or in the country
and at a distance from houses. Such
shack is practically like a sleeping We
randa described above, with the house re-
moved. 1t is closed on three sides, open in
'front.' can be built of rough boards and
rooted with rubberoid or some of the water
proof roofing papers, shingled as de-
sired. It's depth should be sufficient, when
combined with marked projection of the