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Alaska sentinel., 1906-11-08
community, everybody was eager

community, everybody was eager to be of use. The men clubbed to- gether to bring a specialist to look into the case of the poor black smith. When the daughter of one of the poorer members developed musical talent fund was raised to send her to the east for training. A public library and a hospital were started. The little woman's scheme had been successful"
Alaska sentinel., 1906-11-08


 With all the projected new lines of steamers and the improved serv- ice intended by the old lines, this portion of Alaska should surely be favored by a great reduction of freight and passenger rates. But it is right. The Alaska and Pacific Coast companies have held a mo- nopoly long enough, and the rates which they have charged have held back the development and peopling of this section to great extent. A passenger rate of $10 from Seattle to Juneau could be maintained and would pay as well as the same rate from Seattle, to San Francisco. People are willing to pay reason- able sum to go into a new country looking for a place to settle, but when the rates of freight and pass age absorb the bulk of a comfort able bank account, they do not feel so much inclined to make the vsn- ture. If the steamship companies could see beyond the ends of their noses, they would readily see that fair rate would induce people to settle in Alaska. After they are seetled, it would require the carry ing of that much more provision for an indefinite period. So the companies are cutting of their own noses to spite their own faces by maintaining the present high rates.
Alaska sentinel., 1906-11-08
In the United States District Court for the
 District of Alaska, Division No. 1. c. E. Rodman. plaintiff
Petra Rodman, defendant

Us. SUMMONS Petra Rodman, defendant
 To Petra Rodnan. defendant, greeting:
 In the name of the United States of Amer ica, you are hereby commanded to be and appear in the above entitled court, holden at Ketchikan in said division of said district and answer the complaint filed against you in the above entitled action within thirty days from the date of the service of this summons and a copy of the said complaint upon you, and if you fail so to appear and answer for want thereof the plaintiff will apply to the conrt for the relief demanded in said complaint, copy of which is served herewith; that is to say to have the bonds of matrimony now existing between plaintiff and defendant annufled, and decree of ab- solute divorce granted plaintiff herein. summons by publication is October 15 1906; and said defendant is required to answer said complaint within thirty days from No4 vember 29, 1906.
 And you, tie United States Marshal of Division No. of the District of Alaska, or any deputy, are hereby required to make service of this summons upon the said de- fendant and each of them as by law required and you will make due return hereof to the clerk of the court within forty days from the date of delivery to you with an indorse- ment hereon of your doings in the premises. In witness whereof l have hereto set my hand and affixed the seal of the above court this 18th day of September A. D: 1906,
 c. c. PAGE, Clerk
 By D. c. Abrams, Deputy. First, Oct IS; last, Nov. g, 1908.
Alaska sentinel., 1906-11-08

Ketchikan is to have another newspaper with ex-Governor A. P. Swineford as editor and the bawdy houses and saloons of the town as the power behind the throne" or, in other words, furnishing the coin. The new sheet is to be put in for the purpose of punishing the Min ing Journal because Editor Coutant would not toady to the saloon ele. ment and misrepresent facts con- corning the population, which gov erns the amount of license to be paid by the saloons. The saloons were paying $500 per year each, but when it came to light that the population of the town exceeded 1 ,O0O, the license was accordingly raised to $1,000. This made the saloon people swell up and get very angry. They said well fix these s1 1,O0O.people by making Coutant help us on peril of losing our pat ronage." But Coutant told them to take their patronage and go hang, and 80 the new "rag" is to be foisted upon an already we'll filled field. Here's our ~, Bro. Coutant, shake! Egg them on. It is to your advantage, because they will soon find that mica sometimes glitters, and we will give the new sheet three months ih which to herald the news that there is lot of almost new printing office equip. ment for sale at a bargain.
Alaska sentinel., 1906-11-08
WHY NOT IN WRANGELL7

Following is a suggestion from ,the Ladies' Home Journal which would work out fine in Wrangell ,apd help us to enjoy the long win.
 .er r,nIghts, -
 r "Ten years ago sensible, ener- setic little woman, with her family, >emigrated to a new Western town.
 She soon found herself very lonely. The ether women, all newcomers, ..eyed each other askance and stood .aloof. There was no social life, no
 neighberly feeling among them. i T foresee nothing but starvation . t2r their minds and hearts," she said to her husband. "Something
 must be done."
 What she did was this: She call
 ed on every woman in the town, frpm the highest to the lowest in
 position. and persuaded them to . ioir an as,"ciation for the promo tioa of inn and good-fellowship.
 The a"sa,;.Jt.Ji. was made up of ! Bands, according to the differ ent . tastes of membeas: the lovers of music were in one, the lovers of l books in another. The jealous , housekeepers easily fell into line . together, while the needlewoman sat apart eager and happy discuss their embroidery and crochet patt-
 arns. There was one group of
 young people who thought they , could act, aud another who loved
 nothing so much as dancing,
 The bands met weekly on diff erent evenings at the schoolhouse, the refreshments being limited to tea and crackers. Once each month , an entertainment was given by one of the bands to all of the others, in- : cluding their husbands and sons. There was much zeal and ambition shown by the different bands in
 these hospitalities, each trying to outdo the others. The musicians gave a concert, the nsedlewomen
 an exhibition of embroidery, the literary people brought a famous ! author from Chicago to read one of his own poems and the dramatic
 corps actually produced As You
 Like It," without scenery or cos
 tumes, to the entire satisfaction of the town. The housekeepers gave
 great supper, at which all the old $ beloved eastern dishes appeared, l from the brown bread and codfsh balls of New England to the turkey
 of the South.
 , The little town was in a perpet- :; ual state of pleasure all winter by , these festivities. There were, of . course, jealousies and envyings. A
 few individuals who were naturally mean and petty now and then be- :, trayed these ugly qualities to the public. But as rule the temper of the community was generous
 and kind. Men and women had
 been brought together in a pleasant
 friendly humor, and they were glad
 to be pleased and to be friends. They had learned to measure their ! neighbors by other, rules than the , usual distinction made in this coun- . try by money, or the want of it. ! They were glad of the chance to s help each other. When there was
 ?. case of sickness or a death in the
Alaska sentinel., 1906-11-08
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Alaska sentinel., 1906-11-08
JOB WORK

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Alaska sentinel., 1906-11-08

Entered November 20, 1902, at the U. s. Postoffice in Wrangell, Alaska, as mail matter of the second class, accord ing to the act of congress, March 3, 1879.
The Yale expositor., 1906-03-02
INSVRAN CE OF OLDEN TINE

Marine insurance was a regular
business during the Roman empire,
Icing started in the form of loans on
cargoes for which a varied rate of in
terest was charged according to the
hazard. In explaining the origin Of
the term underwriters" he said that
when a ship was about to set out
upon a voyage from England. it was
the custom to pass around at Lloyds
a paper upon which was written des-
cription of the vessel and its cargo,
with the name of the master and the
character of the crew and the voyage
contemplated. Those of the mer-
chants and others present desiring to
tecome insurers would write there.
under their names. together with the
amount which each was willing TO
take or be liable for as an insurer.
When the total amount OF insur-
ance desired had been underwritten
the contract was complete. The term
underwriters" as now applied to in
surers arose by reason of this custom
OF Lloyds.
The Yale expositor., 1906-03-02
HONEY A VALUABLE FOOD

often the overtaxed stomach fails
properly to perform this digestion. and
then come sour stomach and various
phases of Indigestion and dyspepsia.
In the laboratory of the hive the
honey has been fully prepared by the
bees for prompt assimilation without
taxing either the stomach or the kid
neys, so that in eating honey the
digestive machinery is saved work
and health is maintained
Moreover, the same report says
that Gin many cases it will be real
economy TO lessen the butter bill by
letting honey in part take it's place.
One pound of honey will go as far as
a pound of butter, and il both articles
be of the same quality the honey will
cost the less. Honey is strongly rec
commended for children, while for per-
sens of all ages a pleasant and whole
some drink is called German honey
tea" This is made by pouring a tea
cupful of hot water on from one to
two teaspoonfuls of honey"
The Yale expositor., 1906-03-02
parenral parslmonN.

Everything is by comparison. SAID
a woman recently OF young married
couple whose families are counted
immensely rich. They really can not
live on their income; it is shocking t.
pinch as they must. Why. you know,
his father only gives him $4,000 a
year. He has a salary OF $4,000 and
she has an allowance from her family
OF s10,000-only $4,000, with $780,.
900 house to keep up. It's outrageous
with all the money there is in those
two families!" Twenty-Five thousand
dollars income and a completely fur
nished house and yet counted paupers
by the world in which they move. Bet.
ter change the orbit and come into
one of common sense. - Boston
Herald.
The Yale expositor., 1906-03-02

At the October meeting of the In
surance Society of New York Morris
p. Stevens, lecturer on insurance in
the University of New York, gave an
interesting review of the earliest
forms of insurance. Life insurance
lays claim to perhaps greater an
tiquity than marine insurance.
In a paper written by NJ. N. Adler
before the Institute of Actuaries in
1864 he mentions a Latin inscription
on a marble slab found at Lanuvium,
an ancient town in Latium, short
distance from Rome. bearing date dur
ing the reign of Emperor Hadrian.
4. D. HIPS, which inscription shows
that a club had been formed osten-
sibly for the worship of Diana, in real
ity II was to provide a sum at the
Ceath Of each member for his burial.
IL required an entrance fee and month
~ payments and whoever omitted pay
ment for a certain number of months
had no claim on the society for his
funeral rights.
The Yale expositor., 1906-03-02

Honey which is described as "one
OF natures best foods" is the sub
ject of a report by the Ontario depart
ment of agriculture. In this it is
pointed out that it is only within the
past few centuries that sugar has be-
come known, and only within the last
generation that refined sugars have
become so low in price that they may
be commonly used in the poorest fami-
lies. Formerly honey was the princi-
pal sweet, and 1t was highly valued
5000 years before the first sugar re-
finery was built. cit would add great
ly to the health of the present genera
tion," it is declared, "if honey could
be at least partially restored to its
former place as a common article of
diet"
Excessive use of sugar brings in its
train a long list of ills. When sugar
is taken into the stomach 1t cannot
be assimilated until first changed by
digestion into grape sugar. Only too
The Yale expositor., 1906-03-02
LOVES THE MOTHER WEST

{ have lived too long with my Mother
West
To care for the eastern land
For / drew life's milk from her mighty
breast;
She taught me to creep and stand;
And my baby eyes looked out and saw
Her spaces serene and vast,
For God carved deeply. the soul TO awe,
When the mold Of our west he cast.
Plains that merge I'm limitless plain.
Mountain on mountain hurled.
Tnhrite leagues of an infinite main,
For giants a giant world.
These / have loved since my heart was
young,
And ever I paid them toll
And their praise 1 breathed with lisp
ing tongue,
For they were my life and soul
Ay, I hid my face on her great, warm
And l loved right well my Mother West
The cast has mountains. hear them say
But the mountains are only hills
Wee hillocks that children might use In
And plains that a hiIlock frills;
And the ocean If only stage effect.
or so II seemeth 20 me,
But what would you have or what ex-
OF a gulf from Pacific sea?
Tfs y Tiny world and I've sometimes felt
That its people grew tiny. too,
The Yale expositor., 1906-03-02

A traveller in South Africa gives
some interesting incidents about the
women there. The mother gives her
infant four or five hot baths day,
considering it necessary for the health
and growth of the child. After the
bath the baby is rubbed with a sort
Of paint prepared by mixing a soft
clay with oil. It's toilet completed.
1t is fed and placed on its mat by
the fire to sleep.
"A mother does not leave her young
child in her kraal when she goes out
TO gather wood, fetch water or work
her farm, but carries II on her back
in sling, which, by the way, is made
by the man of the household. The
babies principal food, as soon as
they have learned to drink from a
gourd, is the whey which their
II others draw from the clabbered
milk prepared in great quantities for
the men of the household
you must not fancy that the WON.
en- think of themselves in preparing
the food for the family. A woman's
taste is of too little importance. In
deed. | think such a thing is not
known to exist Food is prepared for
the husband and his friends accord
Jig to his orders, and If there should
be anything left over, then the wom-
en- and girls may eat it in another
part of their little hut. If not, they
The Yale expositor., 1906-03-02
a WIND-FALL FOR AUNTIE

20 auntie," she said, 81 think you
dropped this" And she held out the
bill.
Auntie gave a wistful look at the
green bit of current specie, but shook
her head decidedly:
"No, chile; no, chile" she affirmed
with much politeness, dat warn't
mine nohow. didn't drop dat, chile"
81 reckon you didn't know it." per-
sisted the girl, struggling more with
the Boston terrier than with the fib,
'but you dropped it just the same"
and pushing the bill into auntie's hand
she allowed the impatient dog to lead
her run the turn of the path.
The old colored woman stared in a
dazed fashion at her hand for a full
half-minute. Then she turned slowly
toward a sympathetic woman on
locker:
go de Lawd, DID need dat mon
ey. An He done sent dat chile like
an angel to pick it up for me,
reck'n. New York Press.
The Yale expositor., 1906-03-02

She got YEARLY up from the Central
park bench and shambled aimlessly
westward toward the Mall. She was
an old colored woman with patched
habiliments kept in place by strings
and pins. But there was a certain
dignity in her face which those who
knew life could scarcely miss.
Even the Gibson girl giving her Bos-
ton terrier its morning exercise, who
did not know life, must have seen
something of this dignity. for she paus-
ed to look after the weary figure. Then
impulsively her daintily gloved hand
went into her chatelaine bag and
brought out a dollar bill.
Despite the protests Of the willful
terrier the girl turned and followed the
old woman; but as she came abreast Of
her her half-outstretched hand drop
ped.
"She might feel insulted," she MUIR
INJURED to herself, catching sight Of the
patrician, dignity again. Then she
touched the colored woman on the
arm.
The Yale expositor., 1906-03-02
NATIVES OF SOUTH AFRICA

must satisfy their hunger with whey
on fruits, for which the men are
known to care little.
1.-THE meals for the men usually
consist of several courses of which
Boiled or, broiled meat or fish is the
first; then follow vegetables of sew
eral varieties, fruits, the clabber of
which have spoken and a sort Of
hasty pudding, made of corn meal
with coarse brown sugar sprinkled
over it. Cooking is one OF the many
duties performed by the women and
most of it is done in the same YES
sci, an iron pot, with second pot OF
the same size fitted over it as a cover.
In these clumsy vessels they manage
10 do very creditable cooking. Besides
toiling their meats, vegetables and
buildings, they manage to steam loaf
Of bread.
Their houses or husband each
woman has one-are circular in shape.
They are so low that she can stand
erect only in the center. The Zulu
woman keeps it remarkably clean,
considering the fact that not only she
and her family abide in it, but that
when night comes the goats, dogs.
calves and chickens come in and
sleep in their respective corners. The
Coor that people and animals creep
through is only about two and one.
half feet high"
The Yale expositor., 1906-03-02

Content as they've stil to the gold god
knet
And maddened his will to do.
For the soul needs depth and the soul
needs height
And II needs the spaces Of God.
And II smaller grows when IL ceaseless
Where Mammon doth hold the rod.
But here we are taught by our Mother
That the soul is all and vain is the rest.
Unto him who was born where the world
is great
The duty Is clear and stern
TO stand as the heir to a gods estate
Nor eer TO the petty turn.
He dare not walk with the. shoddy crowd
Whose lives are hollow pretense.
Whose clamor. See mel" forever Is loud.
Whom glitter Of gold contents;
For the mountains murmur. stand
straight and tallp'
And the wide plains whisper. BE
hroadi"
And the ocean mutters. "Be not the small
Whom only the small applaud"
And he who doth turn from these regal
things
To the folly and sham Of life
Shall never stand with the uncrowned
kings
Who capture the prize OF strife.
Az, n thankless heir Is he. at best.
TO our mother OF mothers. the great.
San Francisco Can
The Yale expositor., 1906-03-02
treasure in Russian churches.

The treasures of the various Rus
sian churches are of fabulous value.
st. Isaac's cathedral, in st. Peters
burg, is said to have cost $4,000, 900.
It's copper roof is overlaid with pure
gold. In the Cathedral of Kazan the
name of the Almighty blazes in dia-
monds from a cloud of beaten gold,
under which are solid silver doors,
twenty feet high.
The Yale expositor., 1906-03-02

The enormous crops of our Northern
Grown Pedigree Seeds on our seed farms
the past year compel us to issue a spe-
cial catalogue called
sALzER's BARGAIN SEED BOOK.
This is brim full of bargain seeds at bar
gain prices.
SEND THIS NOTICE TO-DAY.
and receive free sufficient seed to grow 5
tons of grass on your lot or farm this
summer and our great Bargain Seed Book
with its wonderful surprises and great
bargains in seeds at bargain prices.
Remit &c and we add package of Cos
mos, the most. fashionable, serviceable,
beautiful annual flower.
John A. Salzer Seed Co., Lock Draw.
er W., La Crosse, Wis.
Even II London's starving hordes learn
that England has n $4,000 900 battleship.
The Yale expositor., 1906-03-02

How often do we hear women say: "It
seems as though my back would break, F"
or Don't speak to me, am all out of
sorts? These significant remarks prove
that the system requires attention.
Backache and the blues" are direct
symptoms of an inward trouble which
will sooner or later declare itself. 1t
may be caused by diseased kidneys or
some arrangement of the organs.
Nature requires assistance and at once,
and Lydia Il. Pinkham' Vegetable Com
pound instantly asserts it's curative
powers in all those peculiar ailments of
women. 1t has been the standby of
intelligent American women for twenty
years, and the best judges agree that
it is the most universally success
ful remedy for woman's ills known to
medicine.
Read the convincing testimonials of
Mrs. Holmes and Mrs. Cotrely.
Mrs. j. C. Holmes, of Larimore, North
Dakota, writes:
Dear Mrs. Pinkham:-
81 have suffered everything with backache
and female trouble let the trouble run on
until my system was in such a condition that
/ was unable TO be about, and then it was
commenced to use Lydia Pinkham's Vege-
table Compound. If | had only known how
much suffering would have saved should
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weeks treatment made me we'll and strong
My backaches and headaches are all gone and
l suffer no pain at my monthly periods,
whereas before took Lydia f. Pinkham's
Vegetable Compound 1 suffered intense pain. |"
Mrs. Emma Cotrely, 100 East 18th
Street, New York City, writes:
Dear Mrs. Pinkham:-
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The Yale expositor., 1906-03-02
Elow of Rivers.

The flow of rivers, as might be sup
posed, is the slowest at the bottom OF
the water and highest at the top. The
average velocity of the entire stream
is found. as a rule, at about six-tenths
Of the depth. The friction Of the bot
tom which retards the movement OF
the deepest water is much greater,
relatively to the whole volume OF the
stream, in a shallow river than In a
deep one
The Yale expositor., 1906-03-02
Deafness Cannot Be Cured

by local applications they cannot reach the dis
eased portion of the ear. There Is only one way to
cure deafness, and that is by constitutional remedies
Deafness Is caused by an innamed condition of the
mucous lining OF the EustachiaD Tube. When this
tube Is inhamed you have rumbling sound im-
perfect hearing and when IL is entirely closed Deaf
IA the result and unless the Inflammation be
taken out and this tube restored 20 s normal cOnd
ton hearing win be destroyed forever; nine
out Of ten caused by Catarrh, which Is nothing
but an inhamed condition OF che mucous surfaces.
We will give One Hundred Dollars for any case Of
Deafness Caused by catarrh) that cannot be cured
by Hairs Catarrh Cure. Send for circulars. free.
r. J. CHENEY q CO., Toledo, o.
Sold by Druggists, 75c.
Take Han sIamiiy Pills for constipation.