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Alaska sentinel., 1906-11-08
IS A "cHEERFUL LIAR"
Druggist Helps Customers by Pre-
 tending to Have Ills.

Druggist Helps Customers by Pre- tending to Have Ills. A pale, weak girl entered downtown drug store the other day, says the New York Press. She seemed about to col lapse. The proprietor assisted her into chair and prepared mild stimulant for her. The druggists manner was so sympathetic that little later she con. fided to him that she suffered with her heart and feared she had not much longer to live.
 Heart disease" inquired the drug glst genially. "Why, I have heart dis ease myself-haye had 1t for years. That's nothing. I don't worry myself about it-I don't look like man with load on his mind, do I? You proba. ply think that you are liable to drop eff any time. On the contrary, any doc tor will you that the average person with heart disease generally lives to a good old age. The very care that sui. ferer from heart disease takes of him. self or herself ls calculated to lengthen his years indefinitely. You see man with a weak heart naturally Is careful of himself bit, he doesn't commit any sxcesses, never overdoes anything, lives in moderation and thus keeps his vital ity unimpaired That's all you have to do, just take care of yourself. What's the use of worrying.
 The druggists cheerfulness was In. fectious, the genial interest of his talk made depression appear foolish, and the girl soon began to look more hope full and even smile. After the druggist had gayly chatted with her a while she rose and walked out of the store with firm step.
 This druggist, though he would scorn the Idea If suggested to him, is bene- factor to humanity. He Is a believer in the power of cheerfulness, and the good that he does In his peculiar way is not easy to estimate.
Alaska sentinel., 1906-11-08
BEAN HARVESTING.
Cutting by Machinery-Storing in
 Barns and Thrashfng.


 Formerly beans were pulled by hand, but now the work is done almost ex- clusiyely by machinery In the main dis tricts. The bean harvester or cutter shown here is a two wheeled machine, having two long steel blades so ad- justed that as the machine passes over the ground they sweep along just at or below the surface and cut the bean stalks or pull them up. The blades are set obllquely, sloping backward toward one another and left in a single row. Soon after the beans are pulled men pass along with forks, throwing them into small punches.
 After dying perhaps for one day the punches are turned and so moved that three rows, as left by the puller, are made into one, leaving space between the rows to drive through with a wagon. If drying weather prevails they will become fit for drawing and storing in the barns without further turning. but If the weather Is unfavor. able the punches must be frequently
Alaska sentinel., 1906-11-08
"The American Lady"

The home life of a typical American lady is the sincerest index of her ego In It she indelibly expresses herself Here 1t is that she exercises to the maximum her potentiality and that her personality scores. Presumably she l.. a wife and mother. Her age? Pouf ! lady of cleverness nonpluses Time.
 She Is her sons best girl, her daugh ter's chum, a hostess sans reproche She rules her home with thrift and skill. Her husband safely trusts in her and her price Is above her birthstone.
 Her house is beautiful. Its atmos- phere fine and clear. She Is never too busy to listen to her boy" or advise her ''girl' or read to their father. Young people en masse delight in her She Is their ideal mother and friend. Laughter is never hushed in her home Music is welcomed and budding merit of whatever sort finds in her an ear. nest and sympathetic ear.-Thomas An. trim, in Lippncott's.
Alaska sentinel., 1906-11-08

each plant will produce there are no data to base an estimate upon.
 Although the landolphias form the main source of the African rubber sup ply, yet there is at least one family of trees which yields supplementary contribution to the sum total The funtumia or klcksia, of which there are two species, elastica and Africania, was worked to a considerable extent A quarter of a century ago, but 1t does not now seem to be a fashionable plant to cultivate a close aSsociatonship with. It resembles the hevea to some degree, but Is smaller of softer growth, and requires a little less rainfall to luxuriate
 Turning to India, and to Asia eener- ally, 1t will not be found that the con- tinent is rich In indigenous rubber bearing plants. The ficus elastica, the Indian rubber plant of the window gardener, Is found In Assam and Bur ma and the federated Malay states, but its produce Is of very inferior quality. Certain climbers also yield rubber. the three chief ones being the urceola, chonemorpha, and the Willoughbia. The fact that Para and other rubbers are being cultivated In India, etc, Is sufficient proof of the poorness of the continent of Asia in indigenous rubber bearing plants.
 Ceara rubber is collected by stabbing the tree In a number of places close together, and as the juice exudes 1t coagulates in the air, and Is rolled up into balls by the collectors. It Is usually In dirty state when 1t comes to the market.
 The product of the ficus elastica and the other Asiatic plants Is usually sim ply sun-dried; the rubber from the former can be identified at glance by Its peculiar red color.
Alaska sentinel., 1906-11-08
keepfnR Cool.

A popular article of household fdrni- ture among Americans In the Philip pines Is said to be the "refrigerating stove" This stove Is designed to keep people cool insead of hot. Just as we heat our houses in the States in winter with coal stoves, 50 the wanderer who has set up housekeeping in the Philip pines cools his house with a cold stove.
 These cold stoves are made to look something like an ordinary stove, and, being fed with ammonia and chemicals, give out radiations of cold waves in- stead of heat. One can imagine a fam lily gathering around the refrigeratins stove for coolness on a hot night in the Philippines just as on cold night in the States they had been accustomed to gather around the parlor stove for warmth.
Alaska sentinel., 1906-11-08
MINE FOUND BY A BADGER.
Prospectors Digging Him Out Dis
 covered q Rich Claim.

covered q Rich Claim.
 N. II. George, Santa Fe yardmaster, has taken a layoff of three weeks and gone to Nevada to develop a gold min ing claim which he has there There is quite a story back of his going
 Mir George grubstaked an old miner who had struck a streak of bad luck. This miner finally found some excel lent surface indications in the Nevada mountains and staked his claim. The prospects were so good that Mir. George, his brother and his brother-in-law took three adjoining claims. The old griz- zled miner worked away all winter on the funds supplied him by Mir. George. His developments were encouraging, but did not pan out large quantities of the yellow metal.
 A short time since another old miner in hard luck came past the first miners claim carrying his kit of tools with him. Mfr Georges friend was natural ly lonesome and invited the stranger to take a claim. After looking over the situation this stranger decided to uo so. All cNehlHS oi b"o Idtci IhC two miners sat on ledge of rock talk Ing when a badger came into sight. The miners gave chase and the badger ran into hole on the strangers claim.
 They went to work with their picks and soon dug the badger out, and In so doing they made a remarka able discoy- cry. His bed in the bottom of the hole was made on a big chunk of the very richest of gold ore. The gold in the stone on which he lay was worth $1O,- GOO. In this way they discovered rich vein of gold bearing quartz which runs through both their mines as well as those belonging to MT. George, his brother and the brother-in-law. Mir. Georges trip to Nevada Is for the pur- pose of fully Investigating his new gold Wellington Mail.
Alaska sentinel., 1906-11-08

ed at Jamestown. V., in 1907. The re cent appropriation by Congress of more than n million dollars for the ex hibiton serves to remind us that 1907 will be the tercentenary of the found ing of Jamestown, the first permanent English colony in America. Most Amer ican fairs have commemorated events In history, national independence, the landing of Columbus, the purchase or Louisiana, the Lewis and Clark expe- dition, but they have been exhibitions of modern art and indutry, displays of the wonders of the present. The Jamestown fair will be the first to be historical not only In occasion, but in character. It will be designed to afford study of our national beginnings. Looking out upon Hampton Roads to- ward Fortress Monroe will stand group of buildings of finely executed colonial architecture, ranging from the administration building, which will re semble a colonial or early State capi- tol, down to the smaller buildings de- signed like colonial dwellings. In the Arts and Crafts Village will be repro duced the industries and home life of early Virginia. Every obtainable relic that will reveal the Southern forefath- CTS of the nation Is to be placed In or dered collections; and at forge, bench and loom, workers representing the daily labor of the old colonists will produce wares like those that have survived from the elder days. In the department of education and social economics will be revealed not merely the instructive continuity of Virginia life for three centuries, but the devel- opment of the entire nation. The ex- hibItion will do good in forwarding acquaintance and sympathy between people of widely separated parts of the country. No American, whether or not he Is fortunate enough to visit James town, can fail to benefit by the patri- otic embodiment of great national story.
Alaska sentinel., 1906-11-08
PROTECT IT IN TIME.
Law to Stop Alteration of "Star
 SpangIed Banner" Needed.

SpanGle0 banner' Needed.
 The continued carping at "The Star Spangled Banner" words and music as a national hymn, has evidently I'm. pressed some minds with the idea that the text of the anthem is entitled to nc respect whatever, and that any one who can write rhyme Is at liberty to gar ble 1t to suit himself.
 Recently one of the leading music publishers of the country issued an edi, tion of ''The Star Spangled Banner in which the authors original third stanza has been radically and consider ably amended" by some unknown bard. The amendment, though plainly ana chronistic, will probably be accepted by the public and in the course of time supersede the correct version. If this sort of thing keeps on there will soon be nothing left of the original poem.
 There is no law to prevent any one who pleases from rewriting the words of ''The Star Spangled Banner" to suit himself, but no one has the right to pre- sent his own alterations as If they were the original words written by Francis Scott Key and first published in the Baltimore American in September, 1874. Laws to protect the national flag have been found necessary. There seems to be need, too, of a law to pro- tect the national hymn.-Rochester Democrat and Chronicle.
Alaska sentinel., 1906-11-08
SODA FOUNTAINS PAY WELL.
They Draw Customers to the Drug
 Store in Every Town.

They Draw Customers to the Drug Store in Every Town.
 It would be hard to imagine live, up-to-date American drug store these days without good soda fountain, but probably there are many cities in the world where this luxury is not found. Retail druggists who have never h. stalled soda fountains would do well to consider their money making possi- strange If any good druggist in a town of any size, whether north or south of the equator or In the Eastern or West ern Hemisphere, could not make good soda fountain profitable enterprise.
 The soda fountain itself need not be all expensive affair, but on the other hand fountains can be obtained which cost many hundreds of dollars and which It would take many months of business to pay for The old idea that soda fountains were profitable only dur ing few months of the year no longer prevails in this country. This is proved by the experience of New York drug store which in one evening early in the spring accommodated 800 customers within four hours. There are few American drug stores or confectionery shops which do not operate their foun- tains through the entire twelve months. It is not necessarily true, moreover, that people patronize soda fountains simply for the urpose of quenching their thirst The large variety of liquid foods" such as egg drinks, matted milk, fermented milk, etc, provide the busy man with the opportunity to "steal a bite' hurrledly at any time of the day, speaking figuratively at least, if not lit erally.
 Another variety of soda thinker is the business woman who prefers a luncheon dessert in the form of cool. ing drink rather than the stereotyped styles of pastry usually found in the restaurant In the winter time the de- mand is for hot drinks, such as choco- late, coffee, tea, or whatever may please the taste of the customer.
 The soda fountain Is a great draw. ing card always for other departments of the drug store. It brings in scores of customers whose attention may be often directed to other goods in the shop, and in this respect 1t is a great advertisement for the regular lines of the drug store, aside from its own money eymaking possibilities.
 The percentage of profits which drug gists make on their soda fountains Is subject that they naturally prefer to keep to themselves, but It Is easy enough for novice to calculate that there is very little danger of loss In the sale of soda fountain products, whereas 1t would perhaps surprise peo- pie to be told that the druggist or con- fectioner Is more likely to double his money than not on every glass of re freshment which he serves In fact, it Is asserted that soda fountain Is rare ly known to fall as a money making en- terprise. It Is bound to be a great suc- cess If 1t Is properly conducted and If only little regard Is had for the con- fort and tastes of customers.
Alaska sentinel., 1906-11-08
SEARCH GLOBE FOR RUBBER.
Many PerfIs Are Encountered in
 Gathering the Gum.

Gathering the Cum.
 From Southern Mexico in the north to Northern Paraguay In the south :; from the Atlantic on the east, right through the devious wandering of the many branches and tributaries of the mighty Amazon and right on, out to the Pacific, on the west; through the mys- terious, trackless and utterly unknown soltudes of the Paraguayan and Bo- livian Chocos out into Peru, the rub Der hunters are at work on the plants and trees put ready to their use by the go on their journeys or precisely what they do, no white man knows to this day, or Is ever likely to know, says the Philadelphia Ledger.
 Less than year ago I met with and spoke in English to an Italian mer- chant in the wilds of Matto Crosse, the northwestern province of Brazil, whose capital city Is five weeks journey from fro. For twenty years he had not heard the sound of English voice and during all those years rubber has been flow ing through his hands, down the giant River Paraguay, on Its way to the mar kets of the world, via Buenos Ayres or Montevideo. Yet of its actual produc- tion he knows little.
 To skip, In spirit, from the north east coast of South America across the south Atlantic to tropical Africa, the Congo, the Gold Coast, the Zambesi, Uganda and other parts, is not diff ficult undertaking. But here all is changed, and, instead of having noble forest trees at his disposal, the rub berhunter finds himself dependent on snaky, climbing, twisting vines for his rubber supplies, vines which usurp ev- cry inch of territory they can invade, and render a passage through the for ests a matter of great difficulty and some danger.
 These vines, known as "landolphias," of which there are several species, are members of the natural order apocy- nacep and are common to the whole of tropical Africa. They differ from the American trees, In that they pro duce rubber in the center of the stem,
 . we'll as from the cells underlying the inner combium, but what quantity
Alaska sentinel., 1906-11-08

In spite of the growing condemna- ton of burning gunpowder on the Fourth of July. twenty eight persons were Filled as result of the celcbra- ton this year, and more than two thcu. sand were wounded. Although public sentiment against the toy pistol and the cannon cracker grows stronger ev- cry year, the number of deaths and wounds caused by them increases also. Whyf Because those who allow their children to celebrate" with the mur- derous articles are not these whose thinking apparatus is affected by pub lie sentiment.
Alaska sentinel., 1906-11-08

There is an interesting report to the effect that somebody has discovered a process by which the stalk of the cot ton plant, heretofore a waste product save as 1t may be devoted to fertilizng uses, can be converted into paper of excellent quality by the same processes that are now applied to wood pulp and other materials and with little or no modification of paper-maklng plants. It is estimated that general use In this way of the cotton stalk will add s1Oo,. 100000 annually to the product value of the cotton States, will put an end to the boil weevil, bring along with the paper made four or five byproducts of paying value and greatly check the destruction of forests In paper-making If these claims shall be half Justified by the event the descoverer will de. serve to be ranked among the great benefactors of humanity.
Alaska sentinel., 1906-11-08
The Retort Humorous,

You don't seem to understand" clustered the man who was trying to make his point with university pro- lessor. ''I tell you, sir, ought to know. I'm an alumni of this institu- ton myself" Are you? That's noth- Ing singular" was the witty rejoinder, uttered so quietly that the clustering man never knew what had happened.
 On another occasion the same pro- lessor, having ordered from a music publishing house a copy of "Valse Impromptu" by certain French con- poser. received an 'Impromptu Waltz" by another man. The publishers, when
Alaska sentinel., 1906-11-08
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Professor Ernst Haeckel's important work, "The Riddle of the Universe" has recently been translated into Jap anese, Chinese and Hebrew. At differ ent times the volume has appeared in twelve other languages, while more than 100000 copies of the German original have been sold.
 Rev. John Francis Lee, pastor of the Metropolitan African Methodist Epis- copal Zion Church. of Norfolk, Va, is attracting much attention in the South as a poet, many believing that he is the coming negro poet of America, taking up the minstrel harp dropped by the late Paul Laurence Dunbar. ..~ The Russian military commander, Gen. Kuropatkin, has finished his his torical work in relation to the causes of the Russian defeat in the far east and the English translation will doubt less soon be got under way. Gen. Ku rOpatkin undertakes to prove that his plans were repeatedly upset by orders , from St Petersburg.
 The astonishing fact has just come to light that Professor Richard Gar nett, librarian of the British Museum, who died recently, for years had de- voted much time to the black art" of astrology. Even more extraordinary is the circumstance that the business men of New York and other cities regular ly consulted him regarding contempla- ted ventures.
 The noyel-reader who fondly believes that his favorite "refreshers" are of imagination all compact Is much de ceived. The novelist of genius Is even more given to the taking of notes than is the lesser writer who turns off sto- ries "in the way of trade" Bakac, his sister has told us, wherever he went studied what he saw, setting down or painted situation. His meat safe" was the odd name he gave to the book which held these notes. Dick ems recorded diligently his observations
 
 strange incidents, suggestive names available scenery and the like. Even one so little given to realism" in the modern sense as Hawthorne had an ample store of useful notes. Wilkie Collins Is quoted by an old acqualnt- ance, In Chambers Journal, as declar- ing that he founded nearly all his plots on facts, on incidents he had pose or correct some abuse of his time. Great was his wrath when he was ac- cused of introducing sensational and improbable episodes in his book, ''The Woman in White" He knew, he said, of very few instances in which fiction exceeded the probability of reality ; and then he revealed the source of many of his plots in the shape of a dilapi- crime picked up on an old bookstall in Paris. Here Is a prize" he exclaim- ed, and so 1t turned out to be. "The Woman in White" was derived from those mouldering records. ''The plot of that" said Collins, has been called outrageous; the substitution and burial of the mad girl for Lady Clyde, and the incarceration of Lady Clyde as the mad girl. It was true, and 1t was from the trial of the villain of the plot Count Fosco of the novel; got my story"
Alaska sentinel., 1906-11-08
Every little while we hear a stor

Every little while we hear story about persecution" by the Cuban gov ernment of Americans in the Isle of Pines. We should not close our ears to truth, of course. but It will be safe to take these stories with plenty of salt. We should remember that certain Americans have set up an unfounded claim that the Isle of Pines Is Ameri- can territory and 1t seems to be their determined purpose to keep up an irrl. tation until they involve the govern ment at Washington in trouble with the Cuban government and get that Island away from Cuba in one way or anoth- CT.
Alaska sentinel., 1906-11-08
Ants Are Tough Ones.

Ants are really very long lived. con- sidering their minuteness. Janet had two queens under observation for ten years, and one of Sir John Lubbock's ant pets lived into her fifteenth year.
 Ants are very tenacious of life after severe injury. Following loss of the entire abdomen they sometimes live two weeks, and In one case a head less ant, carefully decapitated by an tlseptic surgery, lived for forty one days. A carpenter ant after being sub merged eight days in distilled water came to life upon being dried, so that they are practically proof against drowning.
 They can live for long periods with out food; In one case the fast lasted nearly nine months before the ant starved to death.-Sclentific American.
Alaska sentinel., 1906-11-08

Admiral Rozhdestvensky played the willing scapegoat by taking full blame for the loss of his fleet In the Sea of Japan. He satisfied Russian official dom by saying, II alone am guilty" but was acquitted on the ground that when he surrendered he was lncapacltated by his wound and not in possession of his full powers.
Alaska sentinel., 1906-11-08
Their Only Chance.

"Why do bears sleep In winter?" a writer in the Washington Times says a small boy of that city asked his fa- ther.
 Because the President does not go hunting them," replied his father. They have to sleep some time"
Alaska sentinel., 1906-11-08

A New York physician says people can get along without stomachs. At last reports, however, he still main tained possession of his, not caring to go to the bother of presenting any evi. dence of good faith in hls theory.
Alaska sentinel., 1906-11-08

Our soil Is now producing radlum, dia- monds, gold, silver, copper and nickel. With a little more training 1t may be that we will be able to grow automo- piles. cash registers and agricultural implements.
Alaska sentinel., 1906-11-08

Divers have found a good deal of damage was done to the Illinois and the Alabama when those two battle ships collided the other day. It is re- ally unfortunate that the ocean isn't bigger
Alaska sentinel., 1906-11-08

In France they use the knife to cure criminals after the crime. The Phila- del' la surgeons way of using the kn to cure the potential criminal is .,ng advance toward the millen. niun.
Alaska sentinel., 1906-11-08

Think what a difference It would have made in the histories If the peo- pie of the olden time had been provided with telephones.
Alaska sentinel., 1906-11-08
Brittle.

Gunner-They say he Is a man of clay. Now what use is a man of clay, anyway?
 Guyer-Well-er-th might make a pipe out of him.
Alaska sentinel., 1906-11-08

It can plainly be seen from Russell sage's will that If the old man could have taken It with him his money would not have been left to anybody.