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Alaska sentinel., 1906-12-13

sat alone on the porch till 1t was very late. The west wing was deserted save for her. She was watching down the dry, dusty road over which he had driven. At length some one came rrudg- ing around the bend. It was man with a grip. It was he-he was com. Ing back.
 "Hello." she called In a vain attempt to be cheerful Did you miss your trainT
 "No, I didn't miss the train," he re- piled as he came up on the porch. His voice was as hoarse as his clothes were dusty. No, I didn't miss my train, but I drove clear Into town before I understood what It all meant. I regis tered that package and sent It special delivery, too" He was sitting close enough to whisper. And l walked back over six of the toughest miles l ever travelled just to ask you if I couldn't put another ring where the old one used to be-"
 The moon rolled back of a kindly cloud, casting an lmperyious shadow over 1t all and even the omnipotent story teller couldn't see.
 Late that night, sitting on the floor In her room, she held diamond ring between her fingers and contemplated 1t. It was the same ring she had worn all summer, the same ring that made the people talk, the same ring that at tracted him.
 With an air of satisfaction she re- turned 1t to her jewel case.
 And what would dear old papa think" she was musing, Eff he only knew can never wear his present again."-Columbia Monthly.
Alaska sentinel., 1906-12-13

It Is reported from Shanghai that for the first time in its history China will abandon its traditional policy and emit coins bearing the eftigy of the em- peror. In fact, 1t IS said silver rupees and half-rupees have already been struck bearing the likeness of Kuang- su. The reason given is that the cir culation of money adorned with the head of Edward VII. has materially increased British prestige In Tibet, and the Chinese government wishes to off set this.
Alaska sentinel., 1906-12-13
The kfnghsher.

Many and curious are the legends of the klngfisher. One of these Is to the effect that the bird was originally a plain gray In color, but upon being let loose from the ark flew toward the setting sun and had It's back stained blue by the sky and its lower plumage scorched by the sun to gorgeous hues. The dried body of the kingfisher was once used as charm against thunder bolts and moths, and it was hung up so that it might point with its bill to the winds quarter.
Alaska sentinel., 1906-12-13

One of the Smithsonian scientists calls attention to the fact that the du- ration of the lives of the lower anil mals differs from that of mems lives in being far more uniform. While hu- man beings die at all ages between in fancy and senility, among the lower animals, on the contrary, all individu- als of the same species live to very nearly the same age unless killed by violence. Some examples of remark. able longevity among animals may be cited. For instance, there is the story of the elephant Ajax, which Alexander captured at his victory over Porus. The conqueror affixed an inscription to the animal and set it at liberty. Three hun dred and fifty years later Ajax Is said to have been found still living. But little dependence can beplaced on most stories of long life among animals
Alaska sentinel., 1906-12-13

having the sweetest experience of their lives.
 "He cares for me-" she thought over and over again. He likes me, but why doesn't he-"
 She began to realize that his "efficien- cy for speed" was not so great.
 My engagement attracted him, and yet my engagement holds him off," she concluded. She knew it-his every word and act proved 1t. He need not speak; and yet he ought to.
 At length the days of field and wood were over. Their evening strolls were at an end. Even summer-end good bys" are sad, and there is no use re- beating them. All were sad-that is, all "goodbys" were said-but nothing more. He went to pack his grip. She retired to her room to weep, to dry her eyes and to weep some more. For a long time she lay on her bed, face down, and the pillow was tear stained.
 Its all over now" she was thinking.
 Then she walked to the window and nervously tied the shade string ln ever so many little bows and knots. She was looking at the two-carat stone on her engagement finger.
 "My ring attracted hlm-and alas :! my ring is driving him away" And she tied more knots In the window shade string.
 "I have it! she cried, and in burst of enthusiasm she jerked the string and snapped the shade to the top of the window. Her tears burned dry and beamed with determination and glowed with anticipated success. It took only few minutes to pull the ring from her finger, seal an envelope and wrap up a small, dark green box about an inch square.
 Every evening at o'clock the stage drove to town-not to return before the following morning. When she came down on the porch the horses were waiting and he was about to step up into the stage.
 twill you mail these in town for me" she asked, as with her left hand she gave him the letter and the pack age. He glanced from the package to the hand and back again to the pack age. It was addressed to a man In Colorado. The letter was directed to the same man.
 "Good-by," he said; "I'll mall them" She was expecting him to say more, when suddenly all the guests came hur- rying out of the hotel. They crowded around him and bade him a most dem- onstrative adieu.
 "Oh, pshaw!" she said, as the stage swept round the bend. q didn't think the whole house would be here."
 She ate no dinner that evening and
Alaska sentinel., 1906-12-13

yated the lower ones.
 A calculating piety is not calculated to be profitable.
 Our dlsappointments come from our misappointments.
 Facts are stubborn things, but faith looks beyond them.
 The sins we wink at today we drink of tomorrow.
 There are still some things too big for human ownership.
 Hygiene Is not holiness, but there is no holiness without 1t.
 No church Is organized until 1t has Its sympathetic nerves.
 Our rights become wrongs when they prevent another's righteousness.
 The polite make many new friends; they need to, for they have no old ones.
 The common way is to hate a man first, and find a reason for it after- wards.
 You cannot sit In the Kingdom above unless you strive for the King dom below.
Alaska sentinel., 1906-12-13

The women of Sinigaglia, Italy, may be noted in history, If they succeed in their recent efforts. Ten school-teach- CTS of the town went to the board of names be put on the voting list, and the board complied. The district at- torney took the matter to court, and the court confirmed the legality of the registration. The case will be carried cision stands, woman suffrage In Italy will have gained a battle in blood less revolution by the simple strategy of some women who asked for what they wanted.
Alaska sentinel., 1906-12-13
LIFE AND ITS HANDlckPs.
Indiana Educator Declares 1gnor-
 ance Is Greatest Barrier.

Indiana
 ance Is Greatest Barrier.
 pr. R. J. Alley of the State Univer- sity of Indiana delivered an address on "Life's Handicaps" at the annual meet ing of the Alumni Association of Val paralso University. He said In part:
 Most men attribute their lack of success to an unkind fate that has loaded them with some dead weight. The world In its pre-estimate of men usually predicts failure. It does this because it sees only what seems to be the handlcaps, The world predicted failure for Stanley, Dlsraeli, Webster, Lincoln, Moses and Jesus. The indi- vidual makes wrong diagnosis and the world fails entirely in its forecast.
 'There are many handicaps that may come into the life of any one. Evil habit may, like a vampire, suck the very life blood. It may turn the life current into so deep groove that finally the individual Is poweriess in self-direction.
 "Ignorance Is the greatest handicap of the present A generation ago one could make fair showing In the race, even though he knew but little. The competition of the present and the masterly methods now required in the doing of everything puts the ignorant man so far in the rear that ne is nard- ly recognized as being In the race at all. The timid man cannot solve the great problems of the present. The need of the hour is for men who have the courage to do hard things. The problems of adjusting the relation of capital and labor and of cleansing our municipal, State and national admin istrations call for a high degree of courage. We need men Of the pioneer type, men who will go into the jungle of corruption and graft with the same conquering spirit that was in our fla thers when they left the ease of the East and builded their homes In the unbroken wilderness af the West.
 "No man can hope to be punched with the winners in the battle of life unless he has perspective good enough to see things In their right proportions and a spirit so elastic that he can read fly adapt himself to conditions as they are.
 The real handicaps of life are cura. ble. They are within the power of the individual. He can form habits; he can remain ignorant; he can be a mis- erable pesslmist; he can allow fear to overcome him; he can pick piece of charcoal from the street and hold 1t SO close to his eye that he falls to see the acres of diamonds all about him j; he can do all these things, tEt he does not need to do them; he can do their opposites. He can form good habits ; he can banish ignorance; he can be a happy optimist; he can round out his life with the highest kind of courage i; he can push the bit of charcoal far enough away to let the light of dla- monds in. He can do all these and en- ter the race without single dead weight to carry and with the assur- ance that the great starter on high is anxious for him to win."-Chicago Chronicle.
Alaska sentinel., 1906-12-13
Sizing Up a stingy Man.

Two dollars that had been taken Into till were holding conversation to- gether. This was not an unusual cir constance, because everybody under. stands that money talks. T would hate to be the wife of the man who owns us now," said one dollar to the other.
 Here, too," said the other dollar. If he squeezes her as he does us he will break every bone In her body"
 T notice, however" answered the other coin, that the man who squeezes a dollar hardly ever squeezes his wife" " Council Grove (Kan.) Guard.
Alaska sentinel., 1906-12-13
Consistent Study.

How are you getting along with your nature study?"
 "Oh, finely; I am now studying to find out whether the cat-tails belong to the same family as the pussy will. lows."-Baltlmore American.
Alaska sentinel., 1906-12-13
Unappreciatiye.

Fond Mother-We are undecided now whether to have Dolly take les sons in painting or in singing Which would you advise?
 Bachelor Uncle-Give her lessons in painting, by all means. It Is so much less disturbing to the nelghbors.-Som- erville Journal.
Alaska sentinel., 1906-12-13
Rrirht Answers.

"Noah's wife" wrote boy In an examination, twas called Joan of Are" "Water," wrote another, "is composed of two gases, oxygen and cambrigen." Lava" said a third. lis what the bar Der puts on your face" "A blizzard" declared another child, lis the inside of n
Alaska sentinel., 1906-12-13
No Excursion Ticket,

Beenaway-Let me see! About No- goodson-when left he was going from bad to worse, and Staidhome It subsequently, developed that he had no return coupon.-Puek
Alaska sentinel., 1906-12-13

King Haakon of Norway says he finds 1t very pleasant to wear a crown and Is unable to understand why mon- archs should ever be worried. It should be remembered, however, that being king in Norway Is a good deal like being a vice president in the Unit ed States.
Alaska sentinel., 1906-12-13

HEY who buy what they do not need, soon need what they can. not buy.
 Sensation may be good as sea. soning, but poor as the main sub stance.
 The highest duties are en- trusted to those who have ele-
Alaska sentinel., 1906-12-13

Pittsburg has another scandal which, it is promised, will be just as filthy as any of those which have pre- ceded it. Somebody might bring about a welcome relief by cutting the Pittsburg wires.
Alaska sentinel., 1906-12-13
Proof Positive.

Daisy-Didn't the count have any money at all?
 Mazie-Mercy, do you suppose he would have married Birdie Follansbee If he had had any money?-Cleveland Plain Dealer.
Alaska sentinel., 1906-12-13
The Distinction.

Do you say that as lawyer or a man?" exclaimed an exasperated wit ness whom a lawyer was cross exam ming. If you say 1t as a man, 1t is a lie and a islander, but if you say 1t as a lawyer it's not of the slightest con- ce."-London Telegraph.
Alaska sentinel., 1906-12-13

Dr. Osler's mother Is living, at the age of 100, in Toronto. She Is report ed to be bright and spry, too. Long may she live on to exemplify the ab- surdity of her sons theory.
Alaska sentinel., 1906-12-13

The candy Is under something a lit- tie stronger than suspicion. Things unspeakable have been found ill 1t. Boil your candy.
Alaska sentinel., 1906-12-13

Again the learned doctors have come to the front and assured everybody that hydrophobia is wholly an imagin- ary malady. People ought to quit dy- ing of 1t.
Alaska sentinel., 1906-12-13

Nrr tN"t modern surgery has dis coyeicu ., az of splicing the spinal cord, there may be some hope for the fellow with a weak backbone.
Alaska sentinel., 1906-12-13

Perhaps Englishmen oppose the spelling reform because they foresee that they would be compelled to drop their hs altogether.
Alaska sentinel., 1906-12-13

Chicago bank deposits are greater than ever before In the history of that city. After all, Stenslands area of ruin was circumscribed.
Alaska sentinel., 1906-12-13

The train wrecker is possibly the most execrated of criminals. and yet he cannot cause as much suffering as does the bank wrecker.
Alaska sentinel., 1906-12-13

Reports from San Francisco say that there is work at high wages for thou sands. there. One great trouble with most of the people who are idle, how. ever, is that they have no taste for the kind of work that San Francisco of- ferS,
Alaska sentinel., 1906-12-13

Sarah Bernhardt says Patti would be foolish to retire as long as she has any voice left. Mime. Bernhardt is an expert on anti-retiring matters.
Alaska sentinel., 1906-12-13

A New York balloonlst went to sleep while two miles high. But, unlike good many other balloonists, he finally walked up and was able to tell about
Alaska sentinel., 1906-12-13

It's wonderful what depths of love are disclosed in the male heart when there's widow with half a million dollars In the case.
Alaska sentinel., 1906-12-13

Men In the penitentiary have just enough to eat, and think they do not have enough; free men have too much to eat
Alaska sentinel., 1906-12-13

growth of the cotton industry in the Bombay Presidency, Its chief center. The first mill was built fifty years ago. There are now one hundred and ninety seven mills, and fifteen or twenty more are under contraction, with over five million spindles, employing two hun dred thousand operatives, and consum. Ing one and three-quarters million bales of cotton. They produce nearly six hundred million pounds of yarn, half of which Is exported to China and other foreign countries. The dark side of the picture Is the condition of the mill hands and their wages. The work ing hours In most of the mills are from sunrise to sunset, and there Is a grow Ing tendency among some of the mill owners to prolong the hours of labor by the installation of electric light. In these mills the same set of hands work from five in the morning till eight at night, with only half an hour for rest. The hands are paid by the piece, and the average weaver, says our consul at Bombay, Mir. Fee, from whose re- port these facts are taken, working thirteen hours per day for twenty-six days In the month, would earn less than eight dollars and a half.
Alaska sentinel., 1906-12-13

Evidently the scorching bicycllsts of a few years ago are the scorching au' tomobillsts of to-day.
Alaska sentinel., 1906-12-13

Stripes are to be the style for the coming season. It is fashions not the courts decree, however.
Alaska sentinel., 1906-12-13

It Is not probable that the latest events in Cuba will cause any surprise to the Spanish nation.
Alaska sentinel., 1906-12-13
TRUMPET CAlLa

Ram's Horn Sounds a Warning Note
 to the Unredeemed.
Alaska sentinel., 1906-12-13

India's material development in the last half-century is Illustrated in the
Alaska sentinel., 1906-12-13

Krupp rousseau costs s250 Prob ably made of gun-cotton.
Alaska sentinel., 1906-12-13

Never judge the worth of an article by the amount of coin you give up for 1t
Alaska sentinel., 1906-12-13

If run should start on you, could you meet 1t all right2
Alaska sentinel., 1906-12-13

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The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-12-15

ples 'My brethren. He appointed free-aud- -easy Galilee as the place Of rendezvous. Even the salutatlon "All haiiv' which in our version seems so majestic, Is really just the common and happy greeting of friends.
 Faith in the resurrection of Jesus Is inseparable from the Scriptures. Cut off from them 1t withers as the branch severed from the vine. No amount of watering serves to keep it alive. Neg lect of the Bible. indifference to 1t, or contempt of 1t, Is the fruitful cause of unbelief
 We stin need the double opening of the Scriptures to our understandings and of our understanding to the Scpip- lures: to find the event correspohded to the prediction, as the tenon to the mortlse, Thus it Is written" that Christ should rise
 Only the resurrection adequately ac- counts for Christianity. It has been said that 1t is more rational to believe the system founded upon a miracle than upon a lie. Farrar affirms, con- sclous falsehood could never have had power to convince the disbelief and re- generate the morality of the world.
 Doematlsm and categorical statements concerning the nature of the resurrec rection body of Jesus, and of believers in general, had better be avoided EN- act, description. minute definition, are unnecessary, dangerous, and entang- ling. Paul affirms in general terms that the resurrection body shall be in corruptible. glorious. powerful, spirit Ual. That sufiices
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-12-15
INDIAN COAL LANDS.

Secretary Hitchcock Appears Before
 The sennfe Committee.
 Washington, Dec. t4--SecPetaTy Hitchcock today added his views . to those which have been gathered in h. dian Territory by the special Senate committee authorized to investigate the property rights and citizenship sit' uation of the five civilized tribes. An endeavor was made to arrive al the value of the coal lands of these tribes, 1t having been varlously esttm- ated at from si5,000, ,000 to- between four and i've billions of dollars. It was stated that application for the pur- chase of these lands was expected from the new state of Oklahoma. The Sec retary was unable to place value on the lands. .. The Geological sntvey had, estimated the deposits to coptaih nearly three billion tons of coal, while the govern ment mining inspeetcr for the Terri tory placed the amount at a billion and a quarter tons. The Secretary regard ed the latter estimate as more nearly correct.
 He added that a tair price for the mineral rights might be arrived at upon the basis of the royalty of eight cents a. ton, the amount the Indians now receive under coal land leases The Secretary expressed himself against any present sale of the lands saying he believed 1t would be impos- sible to get anything like a fair price for them.
 Senator Brendigel remarked that he had heard four billion dollars was to be offered for the lands.
 1T would accept that offer in wink, responded Mir. Hitchcock.
 The Secretary advocated the sale of the surface lands over the coal depos- lis, saving the way to accomplish this was by the sealed bid system.
 He approved generally plan tpro- posed by the commissioner of Indian afrairs that, the Indians incorporate and lease their coal lands
 Discussing the oil production In the territory. MT. Hitchcock asserted that inc Standard oil Company had mo- .nopoiy by controlling the pipe lines.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-12-15
DIR. BAnNwELi.'s LECTURE.
He Speaks tO Ionian Club of the Poet
 HruVynimu


 Dr. Charles Barnwell of the State University, edlfied an appreciativc au- aience last evening when he delivered a l lecture on Robert Browning, under the
 auspices of the members of the Ionian Club. in the auditorium of the Girls
 High School. sustaining the reputation
 gained by his lecture on Tennyson
 Thursday evening. for terseness, clear
 ness and Intelligent handling of his subject.
 Dr. Barnwell charmed his audience by the light shed on the works of Browning, by his lucid depletion of the methods and characteristics of this poet concerning whom the critics have so
 see sawed between eondemnatio@ and adoration.
 Dr. Barnwell spoke of the works of Browning as too original for popularity and of him as tho most unique of all modern poets He spoke of the poet s chilling indifference Co the verdict of his critics and of his signal disregard of lack of appreciation. "IIe was not" he said, "a poet to be
 snuffed out by public condemnation or fickieness."
 pr. Barnwell spoke of the blind con- Gemnation of Browning that turned in short time to blind admiration when all the world of letters were vieing one with another in praise of the won dEiAht FhNh %AA- craze was rampant, when commentaries on Browning and dictionaries on Rr0wuinE were bRing compilesk 2. To illustrate Browning's obscurity tDr Harnwefl told 'the story of critic who wrote the poet asking the meaning l 1f q line in one of his poems Brown" | ing wrote him: When I wrote that lire. just two in the world knew what hf nieart in it-God and l. Now, only Feed knows"
 ur. Barnwell spoke of the poets gro- tesuueness his obscurity. of the rapid ! ity of the flow of thought which caused in his writings the throwing aside or all established rules in the haste to put the thought into words before 1t es- capped.
 Speaking of the defect of obscurity | in Br9wning's writing pr. Barpwell said that any person who would take poetry seriously would only find it . | temporary obstacle and he said that.if 1 one would have the literary courage to read Browning g longer poems would meet with no mean reward. He said | the fame of the JgreatSpoet rested on his lyrics, Dramas and The Ring and Dr. Barnwel1's stay in Montgomery J has been one of great pleasure to those who have heard his two lectures and f their friends are indebted to Miss Bull | lock and to the Ionian Club for two lectures of highest merit.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-12-15
LUNcHED wITH BUELoN.
Emperor and CbanceiIor fn Accord O.
 CoIOnfal Gaseati0a.

Emperor and Chancellor fn Accord ou
 Colonial Guesti0n.
 Berlin, Dec. 14.-Emperoc William lunched with Prince von Buelow at the Chancellors palace and presumably they discussed tho political situation brought about by the dissolution of Parliament
 The Emperor ana Chancellor have been in complete accord throughout In the treatment of colonial questions and desire to relieve the Government from dependence oh the Clerical Party. This, 1t appears, will be as much an issue at the coming elections as the ques- tion of the retention or abandonment of the German colonies.
 The imperial government and the Vatican have got along fairly well since the beginning of the late Prince von Hohenlohe's chaneeIlOrBhip, but the critical attitude of the center. or Cler- ical Party of recent yearas has been annoying to administrative and court circles ~sl ss
 It is not intended to completely break with the members of the center party. but only to show them that they are not indispensable. The leaders of all the party groups and mspy of their followers held caycuses In fhe commit tee rooms of the Reichstag today.
 It is reported that the elections will be held January 20 and that the new Relchstag will assemble February :, but nothing appears to have been def inltely decided by the Government.