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Alaska sentinel., 1905-10-19
CATHERINE THE GREAT.
An Odd Woman Was This Empress of
 the Russians.

An Odd Woman Was This Empress of
 the Russians.
 A recent writer says of Catherine the Great, Empress of Russia from the year 1I62 to 1196:
 She rose at 6 and lit her own fire. Her table was ideally simple. From the .reproach of overeatIng and over drinking she was free. Though she could not sing note. she and Prince Dashkoff, who could sing no better, oc- casionally performed in a concert. A sudden burst of the most exalted and ridiculous discordant tones was the consequence, one seconding the other. with scientific shrugs and all the sol emn. self complacent airs and grim aces of musicians. From this perhaps she passed to cat concert and imi- tated the purring of cat in the most droll and ludicrous manner, always taking care to add appropriate half comic, half sentimental words, which she invented for the occasion, or else, splitting like a cat In a. passion, with her back up, she suddenly boxed the first person in her way, making up her hand into paw and moving outrage ously."
 While playing whist one night Cath erine could not get her page to answer the bell After she had rung twice, again without effect, she left the room, looking daggers, and did not reappear for a considerable time. The company
Alaska sentinel., 1905-10-19
G7tAdpESnNpdE GAAtsoA,

Chagres river. Whether the final de- cision be for tide level or for a lock canal, a method must be devised to control the Chagres when It becomes q raging torrent, to store water in the rainy season for use in the dry season and to send the surplus through some other channel to the sea.
 Under plans of French engineers, made on a basis of controlling the flood waters on an eighty-flve foot level, the cost was estimated at S360O0, ,0O0 and many Americans have doubted whether even this enormous expenditure would protect the canal. As result of sur yeys made by Americans within the last year 1t Is announced here that the water can absolutely be controlled by means of a dam at an elevation of 1855 feet and at an approximate say Ing of s27 ,9O8 GOO from the French esti- mate.
 In the dry seasons the flow of the river becomes almost insignificant for control: the discharge becomes two hundred times smaller than In periods of the greatest floods. Near where the Chagres crosses the canal location its tributary, the Bas Obispo river, en- ters with the water from the drainage up to the continental divide. Below Obispo the Chagres flows to San Pablo through a somewhat restricted valley with tortuous windings In narrow alluvial plain, requiring con- siderable rectification. High, steep, densely wooded hills narrow In and af- ford the dam sites of the various canal projects.
 Actual conditions do not show any
Alaska sentinel., 1905-10-19

supposed that the unfortunate page was destined to Siberia or at least the knout As a matter of fact, Catherine on entering the antechamber found the page, like his betters, busy at whist.
 When the bell rang he happened to have so interesting a hand that he could not make up his mind to quit 1t. Now, what did the empress do? She dispatched the page on her errand and then quietly sat down to hold his cards until he should return"
Alaska sentinel., 1905-10-19

different sets of may select Ben Davis Baldwin Stark Missouri pppn Taste is the growers prn. cipal test of apple If he has to 1t himself differ ent qualities of chief importance when he considers buying consumers in general of whom are towns people
 In the estimation of the old lovers of buckwheat cakes buckwheat flower has suffered because growing de- mand for wheness Formerly buckwheat four slight brown and the buckwheat flavor unmistakabe and easily detected but recent milling processes have made this flour much whiter and, besides thls has neglected opportunity to promote the white ness by combining with the buckwhea cheaper and whter wheat four
 Butter and cheese almost universally coored the popular demand demand y3res in different sections Of the country that it Is necessary manufac turers and shippers prepare their shipments especially the sections of country in which they be consumed for instance Washington demands darker butter than Chicago, and New Orleans demands still darker than Washington.
Alaska sentinel., 1905-10-19

Encouraged by its success in putting . trolley car of the track, the autono- conquer, but 1t will not tackle the loco- motive yet a while It Is to be observed that the into1ication of speed rarely affects the reckless chauffeur to such an extent as to render him obliyious to the danger signals at railroad cross tngs. This indicates that speed in- torication-which is the fashionable term for criminal indifference to other peoples rights-is less a disease than . vice.
Alaska sentinel., 1905-10-19

have no doubt that those opposed to the building of battleships will to extract arguments rom the opera
 ons of the torpedo the Korean strait They will still claim battleshp costing millions is at the mercy of torpedo boat costing few hundred thousand dollars That sort of argument has been used for century
 There great lesson of the Togo RoJesyensky battle which the United States and maritime powers must take to heart the education and training Of the crews of the warshps The failure of Rojestvensky can only be attributed the lack of training of his ocers and men You cannot make sailors gunners within year. You
 must take ample time educate your crews and you must require them observe constant application At Manila the guns of the Spanish equal to those had and of them larger but it was the accuracy Of aim and the discipline of the that won the battle So far as human power is concerned.
Alaska sentinel., 1905-10-19

Potomac. For six months he was a prisoner of war and three times was wounded. Gen. King took an active part in organizing the Boys in Blue, which organization subsequently, was merged into the Grand Army. In 1900 he was unanimously elected Com mander of the Department of Mary land, and now Is a member of Wilson Post No l.
Alaska sentinel., 1905-10-19

delphia bank note expert succeeded Tn engraving the entire English alphabet on the head of pin. Now Clarence K. Young, a skilled government empioye of Uncle Sam, has put two alphabets, a date and a name on the head of a pin only sixty-ive one-thousandths Of an inch in diameter. As shown In the cut 1t is magnifed more than 5000 times. The second alphabet is on the underside of the pin head.
Alaska sentinel., 1905-10-19
IncopRruous,

"'Pleasant duty" snorted the chronic kicker, that's another rldlcu- lous expression"
 "Why so:" demanded the speaker who had used 1t.
 Because no duty could really be pleasant if it's actually duty Philadelphia Press.
Alaska sentinel., 1905-10-19

John D. Rockefeller has just given s10,OOO,0OO to be used as an endow- ment for higher education in the United States. Ida Tarbell's grammar has doubtless caused him to realize how sorely higher education is needed.
Alaska sentinel., 1905-10-19

A London literary man has had the MSS of his latest book burned twice. It was history of Venice, but he must have made 1t dreadful dry. He made four drafts of 1t, but evidently forgot to open the damper.
Alaska sentinel., 1905-10-19

w. W. Blackmar, is one of the oldest members of the or ga Il i ga t 1 o D and holds the position of pension agent in
 Washington. H e was born in Mary land and at the age of T. became a sol dler, and participa- ted in many of the battles fought by
 the Army of the
Alaska sentinel., 1905-10-19
Bl6 BATILESHIP SIill SUP2EM :.
By Admiral 6eorKe DeEey.

The battleship Is still the supreme factor in the modern navy, and the pol icy of this government should be that Of every other nation-build more battle ships. The torpedo craft cannot be re lied upon; its radius of action Is lilnited' 1t cannot do effective work in rough weather; it is liable to get out of order easily, and in the battle of the Sea of Japan these boats were not able to get close to the battleships until the latter had been virtually destroyed and their ...,,,,o.,- bo,+ariaS randarad uspleSS
Alaska sentinel., 1905-10-19

e Il gr ay 1 n g and
 printing at Wash ington. The limit of the engravcr's skill was believed to be reached when the Lords prayer was in scrlDed on a gold dollar. About a year ago a Phiia-
Alaska sentinel., 1905-10-19
Not His Fault.
Bliggins

Tt seems to me that Bliggtns doesn't know his own mind" Well, you can't blame the man. He has been on the jury and has listened to arguments of opposing lawyers so much that he doesn't feel sure of any thing"
Alaska sentinel., 1905-10-19

The Chicago Record-Herald, after making careful collection of statis- tics, has discovered that co-educauon Is resulting in the humiliation of man, for in almost every case the girl un- dergraduates outrank their masculine classmates. This will never do. O. education must go.
Alaska sentinel., 1905-10-19
all of 1t The principal advantage a

all of it The principal advantage a lawyer has over the blacksmith in practicing law, is that he has license, knows where the library is and knows how to hunt up references. And 1t sometimes happens that Judges are such slaves of law books and prece- dents that they dispense too much law and too little justice. Every once In awhile we read of some learned judge who ecolds jury for not weighing the evidence as he weighs 1t, snd bring ing in a verdict not in accord with his judgment of evidence. But it Is prob ably 6 good thing for errlng humanity that juries keep on tempering Justice with mercy because their minds are not beclouded by too much book law.
 And the swelling of the judges will probably go down in time.
Alaska sentinel., 1905-10-19

A clever fioriculturist has succeeded in producing rose with coal-black petals, and the highest professors of this kind of culture do not yet despair of producing hyacinth that will smell like an onion.
Alaska sentinel., 1905-10-19

A young woman committed suicide because her lover postponed the mar riage. In a great many cases putting o1 the evil day would be cause for rejoicing.
Alaska sentinel., 1905-10-19

Plush car seats have been banished from Kentucky, owning to their dan- gerousness. The gun is still regarded as harmless there.
Alaska sentinel., 1905-10-19

Yes, the newspapers eive Tom Law son lot of advertising, but, on the other hand, Tom gives the newspapers a lot of live topics for discussion.
Alaska sentinel., 1905-10-19

TT T""ama zone will be more popu- lar With v-.c cIrsionists when the yellow fever germ is permanently retired from the reception committee.
Alaska sentinel., 1905-10-19

A Chicago insurance man has failed, with liabilities of s357,645 and assets of S260. There is no accounting for the turns that genius sometimes takes.
Alaska sentinel., 1905-10-19

A Connecticut man who set trap to catch a deer and caught his mother-in' law is trying awfully hard to show his disappointment.
Alaska sentinel., 1905-10-19
Po,iteness of Irish Peasantry.

A friend sends me the following de
 lightful bit, cut from some paper: Tt is well known that the Irish peasant (no doubt from sense of .pollteness),
Alaska sentinel., 1905-10-19

The question as to why the colleges are conferring so many degrees on prominent men is easily answered. It adyertises the colleges and costs noth- Ing.
Alaska sentinel., 1905-10-19
Cannot Escape.

Ted-Do you think that old million aire will do any good with his money ? Ned-He'll have to. He has six mar riageable daughters.
Alaska sentinel., 1905-10-19

It is base-almost wicked, in fact for the American pupils at Oxford to try to supplant cricket with the great Yankee game.
Alaska sentinel., 1905-10-19

As is the case with the other dn- nominations the new S2o bill will be about as hard to acquire as to initiate.
Alaska sentinel., 1905-10-19
REMARKABLE ENGRAVING FEAT.

The cut shows a feat in engraving recently performed by one of the ex- perts in the United States bureau Of
Alaska sentinel., 1905-10-19

Now that John D. Rockefeller has learned that it's tainted, maybe heS trying, to unload.
Alaska sentinel., 1905-10-19

Never strike a man when he's down you are sure he will never be able to get up again.
Alaska sentinel., 1905-10-19
NEW HEAD OF THE @. A. R.
Gen. John R. King Has a Brilliant
 Record as a Soldier.

Gen. John k. King, the new Con- mander-in-C Chief of the Grand Army of the Republic, succeeding the late Gen.
Alaska sentinel., 1905-10-19

Sarah Bernhardt says mems attire Ia ridiculous. Someone must have told Sarah how she looked in 1t
Alaska sentinel., 1905-10-19

Yale Is glad to get s1,oOoOoo in good cash. even if 1t does smell of coal oil.
Alaska sentinel., 1905-10-19

the education elevation and uplifting of the people as the construction of railroads through different parts of the
 islands. Nothing else will contribute their commer- prosperity. because the will make 1t possible
 bring the enormous which be raised var.- parts of the islands, the exporation
Alaska sentinel., 1905-10-19
NEED or RAILROADS IN PHILIPPINES,
By William 4, Tasf.

There are only 120 miles of railroad in the Philippine Islands In barbarous Algeria there are 2,O00 miles, although the territory is very
 little larger and the population not as great by one-thlrd. This gives a fair idea of the dispropor
 tion in the matter of railway mileage in the Philippines, when you compare it with that of tropical colonies similarly situated in other parts of the world. Nothing else will so contribute to
Alaska sentinel., 1905-10-19

become Independent of employer Carpenters, plumbers painters, printers and cgarmakers.
 The other class may be said to include machinsts, metal workers architectural iron workers boot workers, electrical workers tallors woodworkers These only the principal lines of each class there ing several minor which might included in one or the other But these the principal trades man who wishes to learn craft. They include In their ranks the greater share of skilled aborers country They the most important.
 That there Is chance nr the journeyman to become contractor in these trades Is shown by nearly all the employers in these lines worked wages at trade themselves. This means that 1t has done and can be done again. Through working trades for several the workman becomes acquainted with the men who have such work done often they leave their positions to work themselves through the suggestion of others.
Alaska sentinel., 1905-10-19

One of the great problems of canal con struction never satis- factorlly solved by the engineers of the French Canal Com pany in- wolves the disposal of
Alaska sentinel., 1905-10-19

Some people never do anything but turn up at the wrong time.
Alaska sentinel., 1905-10-19
FOOD FADS STUDIED BY FARMERS.
By George \. Holmes

So precise have many farmers and dealers become In their estimation O. the nature and val ue of consumers fancies that they analyze them and translate them into sense impressions, and give numerical weights to these impressions more accurately than they could guess the weight of a hog or the number of bushels in corn crib.
 Place a farmer and a city bred man in the presence of large variety of apples and the
Alaska sentinel., 1905-10-19

prove their and habits It question of the sub merged tenth the swimming tenth and more can be done by helping those who help themselves.
 have given tremendous amount of thought to this great question and have the conclusion that the least rewarded of all professions Is that of the teacher In American higher educational institutions New York City genefousy and very wisely provides retiring pensions for teachers in her public schools Very few of our col leges able do The consequences greyous Able hesitate adopt teaching and many old professors whose places should be occupied by men cannot be retired
Alaska sentinel., 1905-10-19

A woman gossip Is bad enough, but . man gossip is the limit
Alaska sentinel., 1905-10-19

farmer, likely will select for his eating such apples
 Rhode Island greening, northern spy Grimes golden Jonathan and the city governed in his choice b.
Alaska sentinel., 1905-10-19
HELP THOSE WHO HELP THEMSELVES.
BY Andrew Carnegie

A library requires the recipient to read and study He becomes more sensible and rises in the social scale. I have little faith in benef1tlng people who do not benefit themselves. You can not boost man up the ladder unless he does
 some of the climbing himself. If people read they will soon learn how to better the conditions under which they live. In other words, the only way to improve the submerged tenth Is to i'm
Alaska sentinel., 1905-10-19
IN THE BUSINESS WORLD.
By Jonas HoEard,

Which trade is the best to enter for a man ambitious to secure his own shop or business through trade, no one would have the temerity to say absolutely. There are several of nature similar that will run strong fayorites on this question. As class they stand quite separate from those in which the chance for the worker is reduced to a minimum. To the writer the trades which might be classed as the easiest to
La correspondencia de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 1890-1943, 1905-12-30
S1cIzlAD

Una brillafate fiesta Asi puede calif-
carse q baile que anoche celebrara Ell
Union Club que result6 De t0nOs alta
nlente aristocraticos i de una extraordi-
maria animaci6n.
El editiclo que ocupa en- Miramar la in
dicada sociedad estaba decorado con tanto
gusto como aencillez. Hoias dc palnaas
eHtTelazadas con las banderas de Espafia,
Franeia, Alemania, Turouia, Italia. y
otras naciones de Europa America ador-
naban las galerfas exteriores del edifcio.
En- el gran salon de bale, servia de doseI.
ocupando todo el techo, una gran bandera
Americana, cen ramos de flores en- los hue
cos de las franjas, lfneas de luces electri-
cas- de colores dabanle fantastieo aspecto.
La concurrencia conlenz6 4 llegar 4 las
oCho y media y las nueve en punto Sc
ejecut6 q primer Walls. El grupo de-. da-
mas, taLto nativas como del continente, era
encantador y distinguido. Entire otras, vi
mos ALI las bellas compatriotas sef1oritas
Maria Guillermina Gonz6lez, Juanita
Carmelita Finlay, Isabel Romero. Ines
Guilermety, Maria MoQserrat, Joaquina
Euro. Maria del Vale, Celia Cesteros,
Haydee Marin, Aurora i Carmen VilIo-
das, Rosalfa Fuertes, Iriarte, Fernandez,
Latimer, Orbeta, Noble, Nadal, Denton,
Korber; sefioras de Saldana, Latimer,
Guzman Benftez, Korber, del Vale Att
les, Soto de del Valle, Monserrat, Wolf,
Stubbe, Sanchez Morales, Fuertes, Romero
y Gonzalez. Escojido ramiIlete de DANES
americans form6 grato consorcio de esqui-
sitos tonos y entire elias pudimos anotar 4
las de Post, Cook, Beames, Dix, Cendon,
Carpenter, Bennet, Sinner, Noodson, Coo
Ike, McCurdy, Edward, Wilson, Matheny,
Blackwell, Causten, Arnold, Rice, Nichols
Smith, -Grahame, Mott, Kwoulton, FaIk-
ner, senora seforita del Coronel del Re
gimiento de Puerto Rico, muchas mas
que no nos fue possible retener. Todas lu-
clan trajes de mucho gusto sus tocados
femeniles eran de buen tono Y mucha graz
cia. El conjunto magnffco el gran sa-
Ion, donde Sc mov1an al suave compass de
las inimitables danzas airosos waits mas
de ciento cincuenta parejas, era deslum-
bradoT y por demas atrayente.
FL sefor Iandis,. presidente del Club,
como los otros selores de la directiva muy
atentos y obsequiosos con todos Bonitos
'earnets' fueron donados & las da1nas CO.
mo recuerdo de la fiesta
El Gobernador Post Coronel Hamill,
jefes Y ofciales de Ia marina, Ia mayor
parte de los empleados del gobierno insu-
la1, los jefes y ofciales del Regimiento de
Puerto Rico, y un buen ndmero de la ju-
ventud pueftorriquefia de San Juan, CON
tribuy6 al mejor resultado de la fiesta.
A las doce i media de la noche, que Sc
estaba a la mitad de la segunda parte del
programa, el cual contaba is pleas ho-
ra en- que nos retiramos, no habfa decaido
la animation, mas de Glen parejas Ia sos
tenfan, como en- los primeros momentos.
Ell bale de anoche ''del Union Club"
ha resultado, pues, uno de los mas espI6n-
didos que Sc han dado en- esta ciudad, en- Ia
presente temporada.
.> sEMPER.
La correspondencia de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 1890-1943, 1905-12-30

cuarto de soeorros de la ciudad, por los
practicantes Segnet y Llauger, leves.
Hoy las de la mafIana fue curado
Policarpo Ayuso, leve. ...
-Inf6rmase que Ell policla Gumersindo
Oxio no detuvo 4 la mujer que lie acuHa
de haberla atropellado. Sc asegura que
ell guardia no estaba de servicio, cuando
la ocurrencia. La mujer fu& curada en- ell
cuarto de socorros y antes quej6se del he
cho, en- ell cuartel. ~.
La sefiora Mercedes Escalona de
Pons, ha donado para los pobres la suma
de pesos.
Ell policfa Blanco, destacado en- Ca
n6vanas, arrest6 aver Damaso Dfaz,
Nacusado de seduction.
-rDe Ponce comunica ell captain Silep,
que el individuo Alfonso Correa hiri6 de
un tiro de revolver Reyes Melendez. FL
hecho ocurri6 en- la hacienda "Matilde"
el presunto agresor fu6 detenido, ocupan-
dosele Ell arma.
-Manana domingo las dos de la tar
de Sc verifcara, con ell ndmero que concu-
IRA, por ser segunda convocatoria, la Jun
ia general de socios propietarios del Casino
Espafiol de San Juan. Es la Junta gene
raj reglamentaria que, entire otros obietos,
tiene el de la election de Directiva para el
afio pr6ximo,
-Comunican al cuartel general de la
policfa insular que el individuo Ramon
Rivera Sc suicide aver en- la hacienda ''Ma-
tilde," Ponce, ahorcandose en- un arbol.
Ell teniente Soto, de Ia insular, comu-
MICA desde Cayey, que Ell cabo Santos y
guardia Colon detuvieron Pedro Santa
go Nicolas Vazquez, acusados de esca-
lamiento en- una casa particular.
Ell detective Ortiz comunica desde
Ponce, que ha sido vista ante aquella Cor
te Municipal la denuncia que presentara
contra Antonio Acosta (a) Masoota, Fell
pc Hernandez y .Bartolom6 Coll, por jue-
gos prohibidos, resultando condenado Ell
Acosta a dos meses de arresto y 200 do
liars de multa y { 100 dollars los demas
-Inf6rmase que la boca de alcantarilla,
que noticiaramos hallarse descubierta en-
tire los callejones de Gamboro y O'Donell,
orden6se por el inspector senior Berries
fuese tapada en- las primeras horas de la
mafiana de hoy.
--Ha sido separado honrosamente del
cuerpo de la policfa insular, el guardia
Leo Baiz Molinario, por imposibilidad fl
sica.