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of an Inch in diameter. and looks like a section of hazel nut. being rounded on one side and flat on the other two sides. There Is nothing remarkable In Its ap- pearance. but lay it on the table and t will soon begin to move around, some. times gently, and sometimes with quick, energetic little jumps. as if It were in. hablted by q restless spirit.
 And so, indeed, it k inhabited, for + contains the larva of q moth called the carpocapsa saltitans, and it Is the move. ments of thls larva that make the bean lump. The bean Is the seed of q Mex. ican plant of the cuphorbia kind, and the larya occupies 1t as q home and I feeding place until it is ready to emerge as a moth.
 It Is hardly worth while to explain the presence of the larya in the seed by saying that the mother moth lays the egg in the fruit so that the larva may have a ready-made larder for its sup port until 1t comes out into the world to struggle for itself. It Is just like the worm In the chestnut
Alaska sentinel., 1906-11-01

If Frank K. Nipple, president of the Philadelphia Real Estate Trust com pany, had not been so conspicuous In church work his wrecking of that con cern would have been no less serious blow to one of the leading financial in stitutions of the city and would have caused no less distress. But had he not been so prominently identified with re ligious affairs he could scarcely have acquired such confidence as placed him in a position where 1t was possible for him to misinves., by a system amount ing to theft. ST,000000 deposited with the institution of which he was the head. The downfall of no other man in Philadelphia, save John Wanamaker. could have created such a sensation as the crash which followed the suicide of MT. Nipple. So carefully were the his family that 1t was not until after the exposure of his financial misdeeds that 1t became known how he died. He took laudanum and then lay down ip his bathtub and turned on the water.
 For years AIr. Nipple had been a prominent figuer In charitable, relig- ious and financial circles. He was su perintendent of the Sunday school of the Tenth Presbyterian church, as well as one of the trustees of Bryn Mawr Presbyterian church. He was also treasurer of church institutions, among them the Presbyterian General Assem- bly,. In several financial institutions he was a director. Nipple had an ab horence for tobacco and liquor. His Sundays were spent In church or In religious meditation. Sunday newspa. pers he would not read, nor would he ride in street cars. unless the necessity was most urgent He could not be In. ,luced to discuss matters of business nature on the Sabbath. His charities were large and every one who appealed to him was generously helped. Nipple acquitted himself well In all positions He was deemed by all men as of un- questioned probity.
 Since its organization, twenty-one years ago, he had been president of the Real Estate Trust company, and d. rector In the Franklin National bank. He was also treasurer of the general assembly of the Presbyterian church, treasurer of the sustenance committee of the Synod of Pennsylvania, treasurer of the Presbyterian hospital. and Amer jean treasurer of the western section of the Reformed church holding the Presbyterian system. He worked ac- lively in the Tenth Presbyterian church. He was the counsellor of the aged and the widows In their financial difficult ties, the guardian of orphans and the trustee of estates. Owing to his con-
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nection herewith the Real Estate Trust company was made the deposi- tory of the Presbyterian church, from the general assembly down to the smallest organizations which found It convenient to make deposits there.
 It Is not suggested that MT. Nipple maintained these associations for fraud. were dishonest. But 1t Is certain that after these affiliations had gained for bm a great financial power nis relig- ious professions did not intervene be- tween himself and the temptation to !n- vest trust funds in wildcat speculation, nor to practice fraud to enable him to carry out his schemes. Whether re- morse. the belief that he could not re- cover his losses or the fear of discovery and disgrace led him to take his life will never be known. but It Is a fact that there was no suspicion against him until after his death.
 From the officers of the Real Estate Trust company Nipple concealed his DJtL q l4pLS bs q LltluDu Ol iAo ON II Iu- vention. He kept list of real loans and a list of bogus loans. The real loans were never seen by the directors The bogus loans were supposed to be good ones To the auditor making ex- aminatlons of the company's loans Nipple would present list of what appeared to be first-class loans In ev- cry respect and those the auditor would certify as correct To the board of di- rectors, who had an amazing amount of confidence In their president, Nipple would take the auditors certificate that the loans were correct and the direct DTS at their regular meetings would un suspectlngly and unheSltatlngly pass them In reality Nipple loaned the company's money to an amount core spending exactly with the bogus list on collateral of doubtful value, not ne- gotlable or readily convertible. Neither the auditor nor the directors ever saw Hipples real list of wildcat loans.
 Nipple was CT years old and up to the time of his terrible exposure hls fife was without blemish.
Alaska sentinel., 1906-11-01
Queer Salt.

They have no salt In Lapland, and the people use the bark of the fir tree as a substitute. They peel the bark from the tree, carefully remove the cpl dermis, and then divide the inner bark into thin layers. The layers are ex- posed to the sun, during their short but hot summer, until they are thoroughly dried, and are then torn Into narrow strips and placed In boxes made of the fresh bark of other trees. The boxes are buried In the sand where they are allowed to remain for three days. The second day fires are made over the places where the boxes are buried, the heat from which penetrates deep into the sand, turns the dr-bark deep red color, and gives 1t pleasing taste and odor. When the boxes are taken up the fir strips are pounded into a coarse powder, and the Lapps use this as We use salt, but much more sparingly, be- cause 1t takes so much trouble to pre- pare it.
Alaska sentinel., 1906-11-01
GREATEST NAVAL PAGEANT.
Best Part of America's Navy Re-
 viewed by the President.

The most imposing naval pageant ever seen In American waters passed h review recently before President Roosevelt In Long Island sound. 4 combined fleet of slxty-one naval yes sels, representing every type of ship In use Ill the navy except hospital ship and a marine ship, greeted the Pres! dent and vast throng of sightseers on hundreds of yachts. excursion boats, launches and rowboats There were forty-three fighting ships, ranging from the massive battleShlpS, like the Rhode Island. of 10000 tons, costing $5,000,- 0CO, and from the powerful and fast armored cruiser, Ike the West Eir- ginia, of 15,0O0 tons, costing S5,S0O0OO, down to the submarine Shark. of l20 tons. costing probably S150000. The combined cost of the ships, so far as construction was concerned, was prob. ably more than $125, 100000.
 There were 15,235 men on the fleet. including 500 officers, if each ship had Its full complement, and most of them did. This means that there were enough men afioat on the warships to supply city of 10000 people with men. There were something like 1,10O guns on the combined fleet Three-fourths of the fleet upon which the President gazed has been built since the war with Spain.
 The President. on board the May. flower, passed through and around the line of ships anchored In three lines, each 450 yards apart. Then the May flower anchored and the three admirals of the feet and all the commanding officers called on him and had lunch con. Then the President visited the three fagships and troopship Yankee, just back from a years arduous work
Alaska sentinel., 1906-11-01
GLASGOW TELEPHONE SYSTEM
Municipal Ownership Experiment
 Hns Not Been n Success.

Uns Not Been Success.
 The city of Glasgow, whose enthusias- tic devotion to the principal of mu nicipal ownership of public utilities has attracted worldwide attention, has had little too much of what it once con. sidered good thing, says the New York Tribune. Among ts experiments was an investment three or four years ago in a telephone plant, which was to rescue the citizens from the clutches of a grasping monopoly-a private cor. poration which was doing business at the great seaport on the Clyde. But nearly twice as large q sum as was originally estimated was required for the municipal equipment which Is al ready too old-faShioned to give perfect ly satisfactory service. X new switch board, costing about $jO0,0OO, is much needed, and to procure 1t the city would be obliged to borrow money. Besides, there Is no assurance of an increase in revenue, even should thls additional ex. penditure be made. The best way out of the dilemma seemed to be to sell
 
 which was finally adopted.
 Everything considered, the munlci- pallty seems to have got out of it's scrape in fortunate manner. Usually when competition Is unsuccessful there is only one possible buyer in the field. and q sale must be effected at large pecuniary sacrifice. There were two offers for the Glasgow plant. One came from the corporation which the city au- thorities had been fighting, the Ma tional Company, and the other from the Post office Department, which In Eng land conducts the telegraph service in addition to carrying the mails, and which In some places operates tele- phone system also. For reasons which may be imagined, the city accepted the government bid, though T. was Sl0O,- 100 lower than that of the old com. pany, which is said to have covered the full book" valuation of the property Had tue Post Office Department made no proposition whatsoever, the old com pany would have had the city entirely at its mercy.
 While the taxpayers of Glasgow are to be congratulated on their escape from a worse fate, It is yet uncertain what is In store for users of telephones there. A continuation of the recent rivalry Is, of course, to be expected, but the government will probably find 1t can derive much benefit from its pur- chase, and if the present rates are not large enough to preclude deficit they may soon be raised.
Alaska sentinel., 1906-11-01
In snRnr Loaf Town.

In Sugar Loaf Town. There's a Sugar Loaf Hill in the town of
 Deerfeld,
 All covered with frosting so nice; It stands by the side of a lemonade
 stream,
 In which there are big chunks of lee. That Sugar Loaf Hill Is indeed very high,
 To climb It would take you all day; For it leans up against the far-away sky,
 Where the bright little cloud-babies play. That Sugar Loaf Hill is indeed very queer, With its sides of chocolate brown, You could eat every day and need never fear You ever could nibble It down. On the top of the hill table Is spread, Where the skygods may come down and eat;
 But the far-away view from smooth table rock In itself is wonderful treat. By this Sugar Loaf Hill tall sugar-trees grow
 And when frost goes before a warm sun, Though the ground be yet covered with plenty of snow,
 Then will the sugar sap run. And If you are fleet, the runaway sweet You can catch and presently make, By the aid of some heat, some syrup to eat,
 Some taffy, or nice candy cake. In Sugar Loaf Land there Is plenty to eat, In hunger no one ever begs; There are oceans of milk and a mountain of sweet
 And the ground grows butter and eggs Christian Register.
Alaska sentinel., 1906-11-01

Judge Ben B. Lindsey, of Denver who has had notable success In dealing with juvenile delinquents and who has mastered the art of getting In close touch with boy life, declares that "One million children ln this country are an. nually drifting into crime" This cer. tainly Is an Important statement, If true. But Is 1t true? Anybody who has eyes to see and ears to hear knows that there are great many juveniles who have developing tendencies in that direction. But to say that a million boys and girls are drifting Into crime every year in the United States strikes us as absurd. We think that the judge Is too prodigal In the use of ciphers in his statistical utterances.
Alaska sentinel., 1906-11-01

The railroads In China now in oper-
 ation, under construction or projected have an approximate length Of 5000
 miles, according to report made to the
 government by our consul at Nankin.
 That is a smaller mileage than Illinois
 possesses, but 1t Is larger than the rail
 road mileage of Spain, and within a
 thousand miles of the mileage of Italy.
 And of course It Is only the beginning,
 for China seems to have started fairly
 on a policy of internal development, with prospects for rapid growth In the future. A few years ago in discussing Chinese railroads little or no attention would have been paid to concessions to Chinese companies. Such concessions
 would have been regarded as jokes,
 tered on the lines of political or stra- teglcal importance dominated by Euro pean companies. Now the list of con- sessions shows almost as many In Chi- nese hands as In the hanls of all other countries together. Sixteen Chinese
 concessions are listed, some of them of minor importance, but others con- manding main lines of railroad devel- opment In the empire. Such. for h.
 stance, is the Canton-Hankow line. re-
 gently taken over from American capi. tallsts, which will forra one-half of the
 great trunk tine from north to south.
 Another line, the Hang chow -Spochow road, will form the basis for q great east and west trunk line. It Is true the Chinese capitalists and govern ment officials are in many cases quar-
 -eling over the control of these lines and delaying their construction, and
 much will depend on their ability to
 smooth out their jealousies. The fact
 remains that in the majority of eases Chinese engineers are busily engaged in construction work and Chinese rail-
 road men are personally operating fines for Chinese owners. The other conces-
 slons are divided between the British.
 Germans, French, Belgians and Portu- guese. American capital. after It's one unpleasant experience, Is not apt to enter the field In the immediate future,
 nor, Indeed, to have any opportunity
 to enter, should 1t wish IL
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We have reform schools for way. ward children, which doubtless do the best they can. But If there could be reform schools for parents there would be little or no need of reform schools for children. Delinquent parents are to blame for delinquent chlldrep-in nine cases out of ten. If parents would do their duty, if they could be forced by state. church, society, press, public opinion or the whips and scorns of the time, to realize their responsibility for the children they have brought Into the world-then there would be no need of the State reform school. The parents would keep that school. Its course of instruction would be admonitory and preventive. It Is seldom that a child brought up in the right way by the parents will afterward take the wrong way.
Alaska sentinel., 1906-11-01
SOUNDS DOOM OF FARM HORSE.
Agricultural Motor Car Is Destined
 to Do His Mnrk.


 Good-by to Dobbin, the faithful and sturdy old farm horse, writes David Beecroft in Technical World Magazine. No longer will the plowman homeward plod his weary way" Instead he will simply turn on the second speed of his agricultural motOrcar and go dashing up the lane to the farm house at tho rate of twenty miles an hour.
 In the early months of 1902, what proved to be the first successful gasoline agricultural motor appeared, coutesting at nearly all of the great agricultural competitions of the season in England, and carrying off the gold medals from the horse In every contest.
 Flowing proved to be the first phase of farm labor to which the agricultural motor was introduced and at which, four years ago, 1t made its Initial repu- heavy for the soft st and db belhngg hnggobs6pw bs6pw{e9G2 {e92 and here the asriculturlst expected to mire ,he internal combustion motor. but he signally failed. For a blowing test among horses, steam power and the gasoline mosor, two and three-quarter acres of very heavy clay soil were se- Iected. It was u condition that the furrows were to be nine inches wide and six inches deep. In doing the work nine horses, three to blow, With three drivers and three boys, did the work at a total cost of eight dollars and twenty eioht cents, or at the rate of three dol lars and sixty eight cents per acre By steam power the total cost of blowing the same area amounted to a total of nine dollars and eight cents, or at four dollars and eight cents per acre, and with the gasoline motor the cost total ed four dollars and lorty-four cents, or At one dollar and ninety yseven cents per acre. For blowing purposes three furrowed blow Is invariably used ex- cept in heavy clay soils where a couple of furrows prove sufficient
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extreme organization and subordination of the individual the farmer still re- tans hIs traditional individualism and economic separateness. His entire scheme of life rests on intrinsic earn ing by means of his own efforts. If the farmer steps outside his own realm he Is met on the one side by organized capital and on the other by organized labor. He Is confronted by fixed earn ings. What he himself secures Is a remainder left at the end of years husinoss
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Few men In America have had more newspaper space devoted to them dur ing the last forty years than the late Russell Sage, and yet there are prob ably few men about whose real charac- ter the public knew less. His great wealth naturally made him prominent in the business world, but the things that were written about him had to do mostly with his idiosyncrasies-or rather with the one idiosyncrasy which made him an unusual and picturesque character among American millionaires, namely his excessive personal economy Anecdotes of his extraordinarily cheap luncheons, or of his anxiety to save penny whenever It was possible. never failed to excite amusement, not to say ridicule It may readily be granted that Mir. Sage's outward life had In 1t little to appeal to popular sympathy or affection; yet there was much In It to appeal to common sense. His inde- pendence of public opinion, the sim plicity of life led amid much sense less and disgusting ostentation, his busi- ness probity and foresight his religious constancy and the purity of his domes- tic life, are all facts upon which young men may ponder with profit More over, no man can be judged with abso- lute justice by his fellows, least of all, one who lived so reserved and self contained life as MT. Sage.
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Hoy Isuon.

Bad habits grow without cultivation. A good purpose leads to a good posi- ton in life.
 Live each hour as though there were only thirty minutes In 1t.
 The word "can't" sounds all right when 1t refers to telling He.
 The fellow who does nothing always gets tired the quickest.
 The cock crows early In the morning because he goes to roost early.
 Every boy should post himself-but not against a street corner.
 Practice makes perfect, except the practice of sin. which makes lmper- feet.
 A boy Is never too young to begin to think of what he will do when a man.
 The telling of one He Is all that Is necessary to make you a liar. Like wise the stealing of one apple will makt you a thief
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E. H. Hartman Is said to have made profits amounting to S10,000,000 ln a recent railroad deal. We hope he didn't get any of it from poor scrub women or hardworking men who have been saving little at time in order to have something for the rainy day.
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Farming Is virtually the only great series of occupations that Is unorgan. ized, unsyndicated, unmonopollzed, .un. controlled, except as 1t Is dominated by natural laws of commerce and the arbi. trary limitations imposed by organiza. ton In other business. In a time ot
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There are nearly 16,000 uninhablted islands in the Indian Ocean. We might add that the world still has a large supply of Sancho PanZas.
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Between Friends,

Askltt-Isn't that a new umbrella? Noitt-No 1t has been In my posses sion for nearly two years.
 Askitt-Don't you think It abou, time you returned It?
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Means It.

Greene-I don't believe in forcing children to study music.
 White-But you gave your daughter thorough musical education.
 Greene-That's just It. She has the education all right, but she can neither play nor sing.-Detroit Free Presa
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And now they have gone and organ. lzed rhlnoceros trust and cornered the market. What chance has a poor man to own a menagerie while such goings on are permitted to the rich and powerful?
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The chief of police of Seattle has or. dered all prize fighters to leave that town or go to work. Cruel man! Per. haps the poor fighters are too strong to work
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History. having run as far back as 4241 B. C., has become weary and stopped there.
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A farmer Is kicking on the opening of so much Indian land. Gosh! We can't get enough rain on the land that Is already opened" he said.
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Near Hays City, Kan, they have dis covered a chalk bed that Is nearly 90 per cent pure. That ought to insure an almost pure milk supply.
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bank cashier has been arrested for being S300oO short in his accounts. It Is not explained how the examiner happened to catch him at it so early.
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at the American people, and the Amer lean people still continue to keep Cor ky at arms length with a pair of tOQpS
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It is promised that this years apple crcp will beat the record harvest of 1896. After this let the election news do Its worSt-or best.
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It Is the easiest thing In the world to hurt the feelings of any one who Is getting too thin or too fat
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Let us hope that earthquake may wear itself out before 1t gets started up the Atlantic coast.
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If girl of sixteen or seventeen Isn't pretty and attractive, her mother should whip her.
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A woman who takes good photo graph has always one consolation in times of stress.
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King Edward. though conspicuously a man of peace. is believed to have m"'n big killing in American railway
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A fool and his money are parted none too soon, In view of the mischief fool can do with his money.
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In Chicago Prof. C. II. Frye neglect ed to go home for thirty-one years Some men are very neglectful.
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An actor was arrested h New York because he looked like Banker Stems land. We'll, anyone who looks like Stensland ought to be punished in some way.
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Because sisters call each other "honey" before people Is no sign they do not fuss In private life.
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At last we have 1t figured out to our own satisfaction. The men who de- sign circus posters never saw show.
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The crop of college graduates this year Is not at all commensurate with the Kansas wheat crop.
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Half the worlds troubles are due to an overestimation of the other fellows money, and ( belief that 1t can be had by "work" instead of labor.
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Lots of people think they have been cheated unless they get more than their moneys worth.
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Cue of the ocean steamship lines has named a new vessel the Samsland Hereupon Uncle sam will please look gratifed.
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The rhlnoceros trust Is the latest and the toughest.
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The Jumping Bean,

Did you ever see jumping bean? It l. little brown thing, about one-fourth
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