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Alaska sentinel., 1907-01-17

be back In a moment, Mabel" she said hurriedly. Dick has" The rest of the sentence was lost When she returned to the kitchen Mabel was standing In the middle of the room, with white face, and wide, frightened eyes. The dyestick, clutched in one trembling hand, was slowly making a little blue pool on the white floor.
 "Dickw she gasped. What Is itf"
 Nothing, dear" said Eleanor sooth- ingly he has tickets for the opera to- night and wants us to come in on the o'clock car. Something's wrong with our teilephone, so he wired. I'm going to send an answer"
 "Oh" Mabel breathed, while the warm color crept back Into her white face.
 "Of course we can't go In this pour ing rain," Eleanor said decidedly. 1T don't know what he was thinking of to get tickets!'
 She stepped Into the library to write her reply, while the messenger waited patiently In the hall.
 T wish I could write q long letter." she said to herself, "and make him come home right away. and propose to her. She loves hlml The telegram decided that-I wish Dick had seen her face when It camew She bit the end of her pencil In per plexlty, then her eyes grew bright and she laughed aloud while her fingers fairly flew over the paper.
 Cant come,' she wrote. Mabel Is dyeing. ELEANOR" It was the truth, and she laughed again exultantly. That will bring him down on the next car," she said, "and I spelled 'dyelng' correctly, too! Dick will never notice the addition of one letter to that dreadful word-if he does he will lay 1t all to my notori- ously poor spelling"
 She gave her message to the boy, and hastened to the kitchen. Most done, Mabel?' she asked cheerfully.
 "Yes, now she can set 1t away to cool. The dress Is too hot to be han dled at present Things do look blue to-day!" She held up her hands and gazed ruefully at the floor.
 Poor dear" Eleanor cried. You've been doing all the work, and I know you are tired! Come into the sitting room and lie down on the couch. I'll pull down the shades and perhaps you can sleep"
 In vain Mabel protested-Eleano seemed determined that she should rest. "Shut your eyes. Mabel" she said, "if you love mew When her friend had laughlngly
Alaska sentinel., 1907-01-17
Making It Plain.

Tn the lower Amazon country the temperature ranges about S7 degrees In the shade all the year round says the author of Ten Thousand Miles In a Yacht" At Manaos, 1000 miles up the river, the temperature Is six or eight degrees higher. Thermometers are little used in that country and little understood. So when a yachtsman re- turned down river and was asked by an official at Para, How Is the tenn perature at Manaos" his reply. Eight degrees hotter than here." ellclted 6 stare of n-comprehension.
 At Manaos," said the yachtsman in explanation, "I used to wilt six collars a day; here in Para l only need three a day"
 This was perfectly clear to the Bra gillian, whose face lighted with under. standing
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yielded to her entreatles, she crept out Into the hall, and with her eyes on the tall clock listened for her brothers footsteps.
 Ten, twenty, thirty minutes passed. and then she tiptoed to the sitting room door, and gazed at the pretty girlish figure on the couch. The eyes were closed, and she seemed to bs asleep.
 Eleanor sat nervously on the very edge of her chair, ready to open the door before Dick could ring the bell l and wake the slumberer. Her quick ear caught the sound of hIs step on the porch. At the sight of his white face her conscience smote her keenly.
 "Mabel?" be said hoarsely. "Is she Is she" He could not finish the | sentence.
 She's on the couch in the sitting. room," Eleanor said guiltlly, and things look blue to-day but"
 He waited to hear no more, but strode down the hall toward the sit. ting-room door. Eleanor never forgot the cry he gave at the sight of the woman be loved, lying there with eyes closed, as If In | death.
 Mabel" :" he cried, despalringly, throwing himself on his knees beside the couch. Speak to me, dearest!"
 The big gray eyes opened wide and looked straight into Richard Mallard's honest blue ones. A moment she gazed. then the long lashes fell and the color flooded her face.
 I've been asleep,' she said con fusedly.
 "I-I-thought you were dying he stammered; "the telegram said so. I see now what Eleanor meant" and he glanced at her blue finger tips. And you cared7" she added softly. "Cared! Oh, Mabel.' 
 T made that match" Eleanor al- ways declares proudly. when her friends commented on the perfect hap piness of her brother and his wife, and" she would say, "'twas I who suggested the color scheme of the wed. ding-nayy blue and whlte-rather odd, but so appropriate ."-IndIanap- oils Sun
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various known yet unknown technical expedents seek
 ing to make visible the shadow of the escaping soul or ganism, if such there be.
 This soul organism which hope to find by the new method of research will be material organism although of different kind of matter than the atoms composing present visible bodes-a matter, for instance, con. sistng of solids liquids and composed of particles much smaller than chemical atoms, smaller than ions which thousand times smaller than atoms Per haps the soul composed of the particles out of which Ions built up, still smaller particles And If find physical evidences of such organism then by expermentay studying that organism may hope to arrive at a few facts about the future life
Alaska sentinel., 1907-01-17
HEN A CLEVER PIckPockET.
Short of Leg and Long of Neck, Is
 Won Many a Penny,

Won Many a Penny.
 hen with neck like a turkey and one leg an inch shorter than the other attracted attention here a few days ago and caused as much merriment as a one-ring circus, says the New York World man at McKeever, N. Y.
 The fowl, which was said to be ? years old, was the property of an or. gan grinder, who carried 1t on top of his organ instead of a monkey. He had taught 1t to do several tracks, and 1t Is safe to say that 1t collected more pennies than the average simian.
 When the organ grinder struck the village the hen was perched on top of one shoulder, emitting sounds between a crow and a squeal. This naturally attracted attention and soon a small crowd was assembled. As soon as enough had arrived the hen dropped to the ground and began to navigate in a series of circles toward possible donat- ors of coin. Owing to the fact that one leg was shorter than the other ie could not proceed in straight line, and Its efforts to pick up pennies tossed on the ground were extremely ludi- crous.
 Once 1t had a coin In It's beak the hen would futter and squawk and cir. cle back to the grinder and place the treasure in his brooches pocket. Then 1t would navigate back to the crowd and look for more. The long neck of the fowl was of advantage, for. by standing on the toes of Its long leg. 1t could search vest pockets for pennleA In this way several were added to the collection. The hen, in fact, was as good a plckpocket as was ever found operating at the county fair.
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A Plucky Policeman.

Policeman Jacob Farra, of West Chester. Pa., who has the reputation of being afraid of no dog. attacked a dog which was apparently mad, drag ged 1t from a porch and shot 1t. The dog was on the porch of W. R. Ottey and had chewed the legs of a rocking chair when the policeman arrived. He did not hesitate, but grasped the anil nal by the tail, threw 1t over . fence and then shot 1t in an alley.
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main the nation of great industrial and commercial en- terprises
 Art Is by means absent from commercial America, only its manifestations must be sought elsewhere than In France. To demand French in America Is rldcu ous required Lapander to dress like an in- habitant of the tropics reciprocay denzen of the equator to don white furs for the chase Supercaltes of this unquesonably committed constantly; the German philosophers reproach the Americans for not be- ing metaphysicians, and vice the American psy chologss hot the German speculatons; the French artist despses the uaransm of the American while the latter shrugs his shoulders viewing the sculptures of Notre Dame whose practical utility es- capes him.
 As the sky with nnumerable constelatons inspires n the idea of the dependence of world Infinite supernatural power the thousands of eyes of the sky scrapers in revealing the world as 1t governed by human intelligence And In ruth the power Of na the superterrestria force incomparaby Is grander than that of intelligence this idea well erbaanced by the sentiment of pride experienced in the thought that this intellect is and this imposing spectacle the result of the creative faculties of the to which we belong.
Alaska sentinel., 1907-01-17

Many Americans are astonished be- cause they see grave discontent In the midst of unprecedented prosperity. They can not understand the unrest of many citizens native born and natural ized alike, when the times are better than ever before. It Is nothing strange. Human ambition feeds on success. The farther from actual want men and women get the more they desire. Com. fort Is conservative. but It Is not an opiate. If 1t were the world would stagnate when It was best able to un- dertake and carry out great enter prises. There Is never enough prosper ity to go around, In the important sense of approximate equality.
Alaska sentinel., 1907-01-17

Certain Chinese who led the boycott on American goods in Canton last year and were punished by imprisonment, were released the other day. A crowd of enthusiastic Chinese gathered and applauded the men, and a magistrate gave a luncheon in their honor. Indeed, the boycott leaders were treated very much as the leaders of the anti-Chinese agitation used to be treated in the sand-lot days of San Francisco.
Alaska sentinel., 1907-01-17

Holding up railroad trains has be- come so common that 1t attracts no more attention than the killing Of few people on a trolley car, but the exploit of lone bandit in holding up a train near Glasgow, Mo-, Is little more interesting In this case single robber, masked and with a pistol in each hand, compelled a sleeping car conductor, a porter and a fagman to go before him and wake up all the pas sengers in a sleeper, and as fast as he came to them demanded and received their money. He then left the train and there was the usual fruitless effort to follow and arrest him. He got only a small amount because the door of the other sleeper was locked. This Is the climax of what has always been an astonishing thing, which Is the ab. ject and unnecessary cowardice dis played by both train hands and tray elers on such occasions. That women will scream and that nine out of ten men will cover and tremble is to be expected. The wonder Is that with 100 men on a train never Is one found of sufficient nerve and daring to put a train robber out of business This Is remarkable because 1t is something that could be easily done. It would not be necessary to face the bandit and begin duel with him. Any man with a pistol and moderate share of nerve could conceal himself In some dark nook In the train and blow the bandits brains out as he passed, without ever being seen. The facilities for such strategy on railroad train are ln- numerable. The way most men reason about It Is: This man will certainly shoot me if give him any provocation. My life Is worth more to me and my family than my money. It would even be cheaper to give up my money than to receive serious wound. It Is the business of the railroad company to protect me and I am not going to do its police work at the risk of my If" " No one will blame man for reasoning in this way, but the wonder Is that there Is not occasionally some plucky individual who will risk his life to kill a villain and protect trainful of pas sengers. This Is wonderful because every newspaper contains an account of some feat of heroic daring in other walks of life In the last year hun dreds of people have risked their lives to save others from drowning or from burning to death. Even women rush Into burning buildings to save a pet dog or parrot Mir. Carnegie has estab- lished a mill to turn out medals, d. plomas and pensions for heroes and the applicants are innumerable. When will 1t happen that Carnegie medal was given to man who rushed at a railroad bandit with pistols In his hand and choked him to death in the presence of the passengers? It may be that not many men on a railroad train have pistols with them, but if that Is so they ought to carry them when they take long railroad journeys In this country.
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Not to Be Beaten.

'The station at Savannah" says a traveller through the South, "ls sur. rounded in all directions with lot of saloons and cheap restaurants In great illuminated letters over one of these saloons was the sign:
 "'Open all night
 "Next to 1t was a restaurant bearing with equal prominence the legend, We never close
 Third in order was a Chinese laun. dry in a litle tumbledown hovel, and upon the front of this building was the sign in great scrawling letters: Me wakee. too.'"
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reluctantly, T will, if you think we can do It before cook has to prepare dinner. She objects to my 'fussin' round In the kitchen afternoons"
 70, It cannot take long," Mabel sald reassurlngly, and in a short time the two girls. enveloped In big glngham
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some absolutely irrelevant subject, I was startled by suddenly having him ask me: What Is the capital of Flor idar Tallahassee I answered, and he thereupon began to ask me the names of capitals of State after State. I an- swered correctly thirty or more until we came to a distant State. Think as l would I could not remember the capi- tai of that State. When be saw he had me cornered my friend told me Of the theory he had that only one man out of every ten had more than a superficial knowledge of these little things. Ac- cording to him was the eighth man he had tackled and not one of them could tell without break the capitals of all the States in the Union"
Alaska sentinel., 1907-01-17
A Blue Day
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, T was dismal day; the rain had

7 T was dismal day; the rain had
 fallen all the morning-was falling
 stlll-and the streets of the little suburban town were of the consistency of pancake batter.
 Eleanor Willard drummed llstlessly 1n the window pane. What shall we do with ourselves. Mabel?" she asked. II should have had an agreement with the weather man before I invited you down here. Poor child! Things look blue today"
 "The very thing!" her guest exclaim. ed joyfully. "The very thing! We still make things look blue" You said yes terday that you intended to color that cream dress of yours a navy blue-that you had the dyestuff in the house bring It down immediately-I'm an ex. pert at cOlorlng."
 Eleanor smiled. "Well.' she said
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creeping them It Is not pleasant always-especiay if one had experience that relying oneself Is not always satisfactory.
 From the two stages of what Lord Pamerston de- scribed "cocksureness of ones wisdom eer- tainty of ones folly the person who relies him or her self emerges into the third fashioned" as Longfe low expressed It, "on failure and great Jap anese philosopher when stranger asked him how he employed during the last twenty years replied that he had spent ten of them In learning what could not do. and ten In learning what he could
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The Futuro Fire.

"Do you really believe" asked the interruptions business man that hon esty Is the best policyT"
 "I believe" replied the Rev. Mir Eoodley, "that 1t is the very best eter bal fire insurance pollcy."-Philadel. phia Press.
Alaska sentinel., 1907-01-17

While this is an age of intellectual. ity and brains and all that sort of stuff," said young business man yes. terday, "you've no idea of the absolute lack of knowledge of little things that most of US have. For instance, yester- day I was in conversation with friend and, although We were talking upon
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All the old clerks employed by Rus. sell Sage have had their salaries dou. bled by Mrs. Sage. This must put them in the embarrassing position of trying to mourn Uncle Russell's death and look pleased at the same time.
Alaska sentinel., 1907-01-17

There are likely any number of pa. trlotic American citizens who feel that an opportunity to kick Count Boni de Castellane should be added to the man. fold blessings of this country.
Alaska sentinel., 1907-01-17

These are the real facts about the standing of the noblest work of God man. He Is first known as the son of this mother; then the husband of his wife, and ends by being known as the father of his children.
Alaska sentinel., 1907-01-17

Harper's Weekly publishes a story to the effect that in the reading-room of one of the most exclusive clubs of Boston there Is sign that says: "Only low conversation permitted here" In view of the fact that 1t Is an exclusive club, perhaps the joke Is on those peo- pie who think Boston doesn't know how to say what she means.
Alaska sentinel., 1907-01-17

In view of the general advance in wages the walking delegate Is begin ming to think 1t is time for him to strike for an increase
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Swiss hotels are about to bar Rus. sians, the proprietors having no desire to See their furniture and crockery mussed up by a bomb explosion.
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Accoit.iug to Anthony Comstock, Adam hid behind the skirts of Eve" :" It will be recalled that on that memor- able occasion Eve wore her applegreen
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A man in Pittsburg, Mass, killed his wife and himself because she spilled a cup of tea at the supper table. There's nothing like thoroughness He never will be bothered in that way again.
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When one reads of the actions of Count Boni de Castellane 1t seems a pity that Mrs. Jay Gould never taught her daughters how to use a rolling pin.
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Governor Magoon Is dischargins government officials in order to cut down Cuba's expenses. Cubans will regard such a proceeding as poor way to try to save the country.
Alaska sentinel., 1907-01-17

"I see 1t stated here that the deer are actually driving the children away from school in western Massachusetts"
 No doubt the wise brutes are en. deavorlng to prevent the young Ideas from being taught how to shoot"- Cleveland Plain Dealer.
Alaska sentinel., 1907-01-17

Possibly MT. Hughes wears that beard in fulfllment of a rash VOW made at some earlier period of his ca reer.
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Peary hasn't found the pole, but be has pentrated farther north than any other navigator, giving America the record
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YOUNG MAN OFTEN TOO sELF.coNF1DENT.
By E. T. Minnick,

"I went away from home when I was young, with only little money in my pocket" writes a correspondent. If had not been careful to avoid the pitfalls set In my path-well, cer. tainly should not have been In the good posi- ton I am in now"
 wonder how many there are beginning somewhere where he began In the world, and with that "only oneself to rely on" sensation
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electric currents which always present in functonay active and muscles, and not far have any evidence to the passing of the soul When the body Is alive 1t bundle of electric and electric cannot through those currents but when they at death the body becomes transparent to electric If anything like soul organism passes away at death these electric fail to give evidence of that fact by means of shadow otherwise. But electric waves not the only kind of ether waves known to science and recently has been most remarkable extension of our knowledge of rays and and of these various kinds of may accomplish for psychic
 search the electric failed to show-namely:
 If there In the present visible and atomic body another kind body, invisible to 1t be that this other body will opaque of these various other kinds waves and my hypothetical case may turn out to be
 new method psychic research which consists In placing the dying body of animal In the path of rays of all known kinds and kinds yet to be discovered and by
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PUBLISHED WEEKLY

Some people display the best of taste by cutting out originality from their conversation.
Alaska sentinel., 1907-01-17

Mrs. Sage will not aid rich beggars ITO him that hath shall be given" she does not take literally.
Alaska sentinel., 1907-01-17

Governor Magoon Is going to abolish dueling In Cuba. He must be afraid that somebody will get hurt
Alaska sentinel., 1907-01-17

Many women have a way about them that Is calculated to drive sensitive men to drink.
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WILL SCIENCE DISCOVER A MATERIAL soULi
By Dr. Elmer Gates,

Several years ago. as an incident to other researches connected with my study of mat ters of scientific research discovered that certain wave lengths of electric waves, not X-rays or ultraviolet light, pass more freely through the body of a dead than of a living organism, and I proposed this as a test for death This greater transparency at death found to be due to the absence of the normal
Alaska sentinel., 1907-01-17
NATION OF GREAT ENTERPRISES.
By Albert Schinz.

Despite the cosmopolitan spirit which more and more invades modern society, every nation nevertheless continues, If not to contine Itself absolutely. certainly to specialize in partlcu- lar domain of human activity. If Germany
 by preference places its grand men In the domain of thought, France in that of art In It's diverse phases, America places hers in bus- ness 1t more and more seems destined to re
Alaska sentinel., 1907-01-17

The trouble with the man who bragg is that he has nothing to brag on.
Alaska sentinel., 1907-01-17
More than an Invitation.

Ascum-Hello! old man, you seem {, be enjoying a vacation.
 Loeffer-Yes; the boss told me I'd better travel.
 Ascum-Did he, really"
 IoefYer-Well-er-s thing. He said; Get outv v"-Philadelphia Presx
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DISCIPLINE MAY BE CARRIED TO EXTREME.
By John A. Howiand.

There Is a Puritanlcal type of man In the business world who stands always for the Puritanlcal, strict observance of discipline. His word and method are the law If either
 Is challenged by so little as an employe doing something to the lasting benefit of the busi- ness, that employe Is called to some form I account. He has acted without authority of either law or precedent. By some sort of
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Not Among the ElisibIes.

Edith--You would hardly know Bob bie since he got back from Europe. He lost all his money there and
 Ethel-Hnrdly know him-why, shan't know him at all !-New York Press.
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Don't accuse men of acting the fool perhaps they are not really acting
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good luck disaster has followed the act-but nferen tally nothing of the kind must take place again
 As general proposition the stern exacons of grooved discipline show weakness of true management The of business who needs to take seriously der supervision the machinery by which his results reached is in the position of the machlnst working the machine which he suspects will fail him at ment He giving too much attention to the machine Its products dropping from 1t perhaps without inspection
 In thousand ways in community life the over-dsci- plned takes his of discipline that is tyran ny The business management of the great house. which confidently looks for loyalty in the great of its ployes Is The great businesses which the other hand feel that they suffering from dsoyalty might be counted In hundreds Why does this dsoyaty exist? The Is easy More disloyalty of the ployers tyranncal ruling of employees than from other cause In all the field of the worlds work