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Alaska sentinel., 1907-01-24
DINING IN JAPAN.
If It's Your First Japanest Meal You
 Will Have Trying Time.

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 If it's your first Japanese dinner you're having a dreadfully hard time
 In the first place you must sit on the floor. for they don't have any chairs in Japan. You kneel down, and then you turn your toes in till one laps over the other, and then you sit back be- tween your heels. At first you are quite proud to find how well you do 1t, and you don't think it's so very un- comfortable. But pretty soon you get cramped, and your legs ache as if you had a toothache in them. You don't say anything, because you think that if the Japanese can sit this way all day long you ought to be able to stand It a few minutes. Finally both your feet go to sleep, and then you can't bear 1t moment longer, and you have to get up and stamp around the room to drive the prickles out Of your feet, and all the little dancing girls giggle at you. This isn't your only trouble either. All you have to eat with is a pair of chop sticks, and. you're in terror lest you spill something on the dainty white mating floor. Now the floor of Jap anese house isn't just the floor; it's the | chairs and sofas and tables and beds as well. At home 1t would be mortify- ing enough to go out to dinner and spill something on the floor, but in Japan, where people sit and sleep on the floor, 1t seems even worse. So you are unhappy till your little nesan (who l is the waitress and almost as prettily dressed as the dancing girls, but not quite) comes laughing to your aid and shows you how to hold your chop sticks. After that you manage nicely the rice and the omelet, but the fish and the chicken you can't contrive to shred apart without dropping your chopsticks all the time. So between dances the maiko-the little girls about 12 years old-kneel down beside you and help you. They can't keep from giggling at your awkwardness, but you don't mind; you just giggle, too, and everybody giggles and has a lovely time.-St. Nicholas.
Alaska sentinel., 1907-01-24
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Among the best needle workers in the world are the men of Japan. their chief rivals being the women of Persia.
 At Quito, the only city in the world on the line of the Equator, the sun sets and rises at six o'clock the year round. California has the smallest horse in the world. It is only twenty-two inches high and weighs seven pounds when shod.
 A bank note tha. passed through the Chicago fire Is one of the curios pre- served iD the Bank of England. The paper was consumed, but the ashes held together, and the printing is quite legi- ble, and it Is kept under glass. The bank paid the note.
 Comparatively few persons know that ringing a bell ruins 1t. That is. bell has aa-ddefiPite q length of life, and after so many blows will break. A 960-pound bell, struck blows of IFS pounds Of force, broke after eleven thousand blows. 4 four-hundred pound bell broke after eighteen thousand blows of 350-foot pounds force.
 4 tree that is freak of nature is the Asiatic star tree. It grows from sixty to eighty feet tall, and for a height of about forty feet the trunk is wholly bare. From that point there spring a number of tangled limbs, which shoot out clusters of long pointed leaves, and these, grouped together, emit at night phosphorescent light.
 Prof. Goldwin Smith some time ago formally willed his brains to Cornell University. Some remarkable brains have been sold, not given. An English man has disposed of his to an American university for S1O,OOO. He Is a man of little education, and for many years worked as a coal miner. He has a marvellous memory, especially for dates, and Is now earning good salary on the music hall stage.
 The fox is an excellent mouser. He will lie and watch for a field mouse in the long grass like a cat, bounce upon 1t, kill it with a bite and lay 1t one side until he has caught another, when. picking them all up, as many as he can | carry in his mouth, he will canter away with them to serve them out to the cubs. This fact was confirmed by witnesses in Scotland who were exam ined by a committee of the Board of Agriculture when taking evidence on the occasion of the plague of field voles on the lowland sheep farms in 1893.
 A considerable industry has recently been developed in Sweden on the basis of an invention made by Joseph Phister, an Austrian. whereby coloring matter Is forced into fresh cut wood. It takes the place of the sap, and gives to the wood a brilliant color, which does not fade after the wood has become sea soned Birch, beech, alder, maple, and
Alaska sentinel., 1907-01-24

simple method of spelling than it has been since the Alabama award, or the Venezuela war scare.
 While the humor of the situation ap- peals more strongly to Judge Tree than any other phase of the subject, because the English themselves take 1t so seri- ously, 1t also has another side, in that 1t casts new light on the English character. Because the utterance has come from the man whom the English regard as the ruler of the United States all arguments to convince them that the Presidents dictum possesses no more force than the opinion of one man have no weight. For the time being. Judge Tree declares the English press has shelyed all utterances concerning the beef question and the papers are deyoting their time to excorlating the man who has the temerity to tamper with the language of Shakespeare and Chaucer, Sir Walter Scott and Dickens. That the English of Chaucer differs In as many respects from the English Of Dickens as some of Mfr. Roosevelt'S amended words differ from present day spelling has no weight. He declares that English journalists are falling over themselves to unsay many of the thingr favorable to the President that they have been writing fer the last few years
Alaska sentinel., 1907-01-24

when desired and as readily dlsassem- bled when its contents have been re moved. It can then be packed in a small space to facilitate transportation. This barrel Is made In two sections. preferably Of sheet metal, and in form resembles the common type of barrel. The longitudinal edges are divided into tongues, each alternate tongue having double edges, forming recesses into which the interlocking tongues on the opposite section connect. Perfect joints are thus provided. preventing any dam- age to the barrel should 1t be handled carelessly in transportation. The cir cular heads of the barrel fit into grooves top and bottom on the outside of the barrel; fitting into the grooves are bands of wire, both ends of which are connected to a lever. By turning the lever in the direction of the arrow In the illustration. the band contracts, causing the end of the barrel to con- tract also.
Alaska sentinel., 1907-01-24

support of the family by selling papers
 The struggles and hardships of the
 street waif's life make lasting in,- presslon on his mind, and he vowed that
 he would make it one of his chief aims in life to give big dinner once a year to newsboys, If he ever should achieve success. How well he succeeded in this ambition is part of the history Of .newsboydom" In Chicago. In the late 'IOs he started in business at the north east corner of West Madison and Hal sted streets. There The next fall ha gave his first Thanksgiving dinner to the "newsies." He fed about 100 the first year, but gradually the number of
Alaska sentinel., 1907-01-24

Surfaces for the toe and heel of the shoe are provided. directly below which are slots for guiding the strap. At the strap, and at the ankle two rings, one on each side. The advantage of this construction is the fact that it obyi- ates the use of two or more buckles tone for the toe and one for the ankle) :, as Is usual. With this arrangement there is no undue pressure on the foot at any point. the pressure of the strap being capitalized. By taking up the buckle the entire strap (both heel and toe) is frightened. while letting out of tSe buckle eases the strap at every point of the foot.
Alaska sentinel., 1907-01-24

walfs for whom he annually played host increased until In the last few years he has had 10000 Thanksgiving guests, and the expense for each feed reached $5,- 600.
 One of Mir. Woolfs last acts was to hold q conference with his brother and arrange for a continuance of the annual feast after hls death.
Alaska sentinel., 1907-01-24

plify spelling in the English language by the utterance of J u d 2 e Lambert Tree. Chicago's dis
 tinguished states man citizen, who has returned from a four months so- journ in England. According to Judge Tree the British nation Is more stir. red up over the
Alaska sentinel., 1907-01-24
Dame Nature's Poor Taste.

An Englishman who has been visit ing in the suburbs recently is hyper critical. to say the least. Ever since he has been visiting this gentleman he has been finding fault with everything The other evening they were on rhe hosts beautiful lawn. This would b. charming, MT. Blank, If 1t were moi for the color Of the grass" "Why what is the matter with the grassy inquired the surprised host "Too green, too green" sighed the English man; 1t spells the color effect-Bos ton Record.
Alaska sentinel., 1907-01-24

patented his im- proved ice skate. This skate is c O n structe ed mainly for speed
 and not for do- ing stunts of any kind. It Is made of wood, shaped as shown
 In the illustra- ton. the bottom
 edge being GOV cred with steel.
Alaska sentinel., 1907-01-24

basswood are the varieties most sue cessfully treated. The dye can be forced through lengths of wood as great as thirteen feet. When seasoned and polished the colored wood presents a beautiful appearance, and Is used for making furniture, and also for the fit tings of ships and street cars.
Alaska sentinel., 1907-01-24

A Pottsyille (Pa.) man fell 400 feet down the shaft of an abandoned mine and was rescued without broken bone. If he carries an accident insur- ance policy he must feel now that he Is wasting his money.
Alaska sentinel., 1907-01-24

Viewing a sleeping car as hotci. there should be a clerk Instead of a porter to receive and take care of whatever money the lodger may hap pen to have about him.
Alaska sentinel., 1907-01-24

O f carpenters, which will per init of the cut ting of nails or other metal ob- jects embedded
 in the article to
 be cut or repair ed without in- turing the saw. Carpenters are very often com pelled to sever nails, etc. with
Alaska sentinel., 1907-01-24

crates and boxes of every concriy- able kind are re quired for the purpose. In the great majority
 of cases these barrels, etc, are used but once as the cost of re
 turning them to the shipper Is greater than the
Alaska sentinel., 1907-01-24

An Englishman says the American face Is joyless. Perhaps he has been making study of the faces of Ameri- can girls who have married titled En- glishmen.
Alaska sentinel., 1907-01-24

Boys who were named after Grover marry. This will remind the middle aged citizen that he is not as young as he used to be.
Alaska sentinel., 1907-01-24

Sometimes one thinks that perhaps tellane fate, and then again. upon sec ond thought, one feels that he would like to have a chance to kick Boni.
Alaska sentinel., 1907-01-24
Practical.

I'm sure my 2-year-old son Is going to have good business ability said the proud father.
 "what's the reason? asked a friend.
 "We tried every way to force him to stop putting his thumb in his mouth, but he never paid the least attention to us till we offered to buy him off.'- Detroit Free Press
Alaska sentinel., 1907-01-24
In Which They Don't Speak.

Gerald-Gracye and Gladys are such dear girl friends.
 George-Yes; but like other dear girl friends their friendship reminds me of an old-fashioned drama.
 Gerald-In what way?
 George-There are so many intermis- sions.-Louisyille Courier-Journal.
Alaska sentinel., 1907-01-24
Blood Diamond d.

Patience-You know you can't get blood out of a stone.
 Patrice-No; but know girl friend who got a stone out of blood" -Yonkers Statesman.
Alaska sentinel., 1907-01-24

Nebraska farmers asked the Gov ernor to parole conyicts in the prisons, that they might help in the corn husk- ing But what's the use of going to jail if a man has to 80 out and work just the same?
Alaska sentinel., 1907-01-24

en every year 10 the thousands of boys who sell news papers In Chicago. Is dead. Mir. Woolf was born in Lon don, Eng, In 1850,
 and when a boy came to America with his parents, who settled In La fayette, Ind. At the age of 10 he be pnn to aid in thp
Alaska sentinel., 1907-01-24

The protests against his spelling re- form scheme have probably convinced MT. Roosevelt that 1t Is difficult to be both right and President
Alaska sentinel., 1907-01-24

CAN BE TAKEN APART. cost of new bar rels. A New York man has patented
 a barrel that seems to have solved the problem. an illustration of which is shown here. It is termed knock
Alaska sentinel., 1907-01-24

A train robber was captured out West a few days ago while he was asleep. It probably surprised the de- tecdves to find that a train robber ever found 1t necessary to go to sleep
Alaska sentinel., 1907-01-24
THE NEWssoYs' FRIEND.
Isaac Wolf Had O.OOO Guests Every
 Thanksgiving Day.

Isaac Wolf, known for twenty-five years as "the newsboys' friend" because of the Thanksgiving dinner be had giy-
Alaska sentinel., 1907-01-24

"Money Is dangerously plentiful in summer" says Secretary Shaw. A be lated warning. Scarcely any of us even remotely suspected our peril
Alaska sentinel., 1907-01-24

There appears to have been some thing sympathetic and large hearted about the late Russell Sage after all. We refer, of course, to Mrs. Sage.
Alaska sentinel., 1907-01-24

Japan intimates that she has passed the point where she Is willing to sit still and allow any nation to make faces at her.
Alaska sentinel., 1907-01-24
Of Interest to Carpenter.

In the illustration below Is shown man, consisting of a saw for the use
Alaska sentinel., 1907-01-24

When some people have as much as S11 they think they can afford every thing that Is for sale.
Alaska sentinel., 1907-01-24

General Picquart, who defended Dreyfus, is the new war minister of France. Colonel du Paty de Clam will now lose all confidence in the French q rrnV
Alaska sentinel., 1907-01-24
New Idea in Skates.

Out in Wisconsin they are thinking of skating on the ice already, an in- ventor of that State having recently
Alaska sentinel., 1907-01-24
"Knockdown" Barrel.

The problems confronting shippers In the transporting of fruit and vege- tables are many. Millions of barrels.
Alaska sentinel., 1907-01-24

Instead of killing its spirit, calamity acts merely as a stimulus to mos American cities.
Alaska sentinel., 1907-01-24

If a man can't make good at any thing else he Is apt to make good ez cuses.
Alaska sentinel., 1907-01-24

pr. Parkhurst says "deeency and politics have been divorced DesertioD or incompatibility:
Alaska sentinel., 1907-01-24

A successful business man who died In Buffalo, N. l., leaving a wife and twelve children a fortune of several millionse of dollars, also left a proyis- lon In his will reducing the share of his estate to be giyen to his widow in the event of her remarriage. The fear that the mother of his twelve children might become the wife of some other man was manifested in more than one paragraph of this mans will. In con. trast with the Buffalo millionaire's so- licitude lest the wife of his bosom should take another husband is the conduct of Joseph widrewitz, a He brew citizen of New York, who died not long ago, leaving an estate of s20OOO. He willed a good share of his wealth to his widow, with stipulation that If she shall remarry she shall get an addi- ttonal $2,00O as a wedding present
Alaska sentinel., 1907-01-24

S-ill, 1t will be some time before everyone can spell just as be Is dis ooged"
Alaska sentinel., 1907-01-24

The quiet honest citizen who lives well within his income, having what he needs In the way of comfortable living, adequate feeding, tasteful dressing, with some relaxations and pleasures, all in such proportion as his means jus. tify, stands agape at his neighbor who earns no more but who makes a deal of show with what be has and what ne does and doubts his own ability to man. age. But the difference is not so much apparently In ability to make a given sum of money go its fullest length as of willingness to Incur debt and forget it.
Alaska sentinel., 1907-01-24

Some people pay as they go and oth- e-s go without paying.
Alaska sentinel., 1907-01-24

The Russian reyolutionists may need cash, but why raise It with dyn- amite?
Alaska sentinel., 1907-01-24

Every time we see a fat dog rolling oyer, We envy him the pleasure
Alaska sentinel., 1907-01-24
BRITISH ARE WRATHY.
Resent Attempt to Hamper with the
 English Language.

A new and to Americans, a some what humorous light has been cast up- on President Roosevelt's efforts to sim
Alaska sentinel., 1907-01-24

"when my husband was 21 and was IT, and he was getting $14 Q
Alaska sentinel., 1907-01-24

To say a man lacks tact is polite way of saying he is impolite
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1907-12-24
NOTICE OF SALE.

Notice is Hereby Given, that the un- dersigned Ex-Officio Tax Collector with in and for the County of Gila and Ter ritory of Arizona, in pursuance of an assessment made upon the property of George Ashby for the purpose of tax ation, county and territorial, and the neglect and refusal of .the said George Ashby to pay said taxes; and the seizure by the undersigned Ex-Officio Tax Collector of the personal property hereinafter described, in accordance with the statutes in such case made and provided, will expose for sale and sell at public auction, on the 2Sth day of December, 1907, at ? O clock p. m., at the Court House in the said County of Gila and Territoryo Arizona, to the highest bidder in cash, lawful currency of the United States, sufficient amount of the following described per sonal property, to-wit: eight (s) pair of shoes, to pay and satisfy the sum of $4.03 tax under said assessment and to pay and satisfy all costs and ex penses incurred in the assessment, seiz- ure and sale of said property.
 Dated this 20th day of December, 1907. D. R. WILLIAMSON,
 Ex-Oficio Tax Collector
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1907-12-24

MINERAL APPLICATION No. 32l. United States Land Office, Phoenix, Arizona, Oct. 3l, 1907. Notice is hereby given that Albert Steinfelt, of Tucson, Arizona, for himself and his co-owner, w. E. Murphy, by M. E. Leverich, at torney in fact, has made application for patent to the Victoria lode mining claim, Survey No. 2416, situated in the Stanley Butte Mining District, Graham County, in approximately Tp. 4 South, R. 20 E., unsurveyed, c. & s. R. B. & M., described as follows: Beginning at Cor. No. l, whence 19 mile cor. of Amended Southern Boundary of White Mountain Indian Reservation brs. S. l6 deg. B min. w., 1910 ft, dist; thence N. o deg. 10 min. W. 779.6 fit. intersect the boundary line of the White Mountain Indian Reservation, as estab- lished by Congress, approved March 2, 1901; 13SS.6 it. to Cor. No. 2; thence N. s9 deg. E., 600 fit. to Cor. No. 3; at which point intersect the boundary line of the White Mountain Indian Reserva- tion, as established by said Act; thence S. 0 deg. min. E. 13SS.6 it. to cor. No. 4; thence s. s9 deg. W. 599 it. to Cor. No. l, place of begin ming. Net area 14.915 acres. This claim is located between the 1872 mile and 19 mile corner monuments of the Amended Southern Boundary of the White Mountain Indian Reservation, about miles south of the San Carlos Indian Reservation, near Kelley Gulch, in approximately Tp. 4 S., R. 20 E., unsurveyed, in Graham County, Terri tory of Arizona. Adjoining claims are on the West and Will Ryan and Nettie lodes; of Survey No. 2372; on the south by the same lodes; on the east by the Erie and Kelley lodes of Survey No. 2372 and on the north by the White Mountain Indian Reservation. Location notices of the Victoria are recorded in Record of Mines, County Recorder s Office, Graham County, as follows: Book IA, page s7. LYMAN W. WAKE FIELD, Register.
 First publication October 31, 1907.
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1907-12-24
AMERICAS OLDEST JUDGE
At the Age of Ninety. three He Still
 Dispenses Justice in Able Manner.

In the tiny town of Athol, Mass, lives the oldest justice in this country. Although Judge Charles Field is in his ninety-third year, he sits regularly in the First District Court of northern Worcester county, holding sometimes as many as five sessions a week in Athol and Gardenr. He has two assistants to share his labors, but he does not tuck his share of the work on them.
 There is no reason why he should not regularly attend to the work he loves best, for he can read law book, a legal document, or newspaper without glasses, and his hearing is only slightly affected. His voice is thin, and he never was roubust looking man, but his mind is as clear and his memory as tenacious as 1t was fifty years ago.
 In many ways Justice Field has claims for distinctino. He is the oldest lawyer practising at the Massachusetts bar, and is vice president of the West. ern Massachusetts Bar association. He one was a presidential eIector, and is the only living member of the Massa. chusetts body who voted directly for Loncoln for president and for Hamlin for vice president.
 His life spans tic entire history of the United States since the final strug. gle with the mother country. For near. ly eighty years he has witnessed Amer. lea s marvellous development. He has watched the growth of the railroad, of steam navigation, of the telegraph, the telephone, photography, the cotton gin, the sewing machine, the breech-loading gun, the submarine boat, the automobile and the airship. When he was but nine days old the battle of Waterloo was fought, and his natal years was also the year of the close of the war of 1872.
 He went west seventy years ago long before Horace Greeley gave his famous advice to young men. He knew Abraham Lincoln when Lincoln was a struggling young lawyer, and he heard several of his speeches in 1s40. He is one of the few living men who knew the martyred president so early in his career.
 He cast his first Presidential vote in 1886 for William Henry Harrison, and
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1907-12-24

has voted for every whig and republican, presidential candidate since. He was on the stump in Illinois for Harrison in the celebrated "hard eider' cam paign in lS40.
 When he went west in 1S37 he was three weeks making the journey from Troy to St. Louis. The only railroad in the whole journey was from Perth Amboy to Camden, N. J. The rest of the way was by stages and boats. From Pittsburg the route was by fatboat down the Ohio and Mississippi rivers. We went aground every day. says Judge Field, "and remained hung up for many hours
 Judge Field can recall going from Athol to Boston cighty-two years ago, when, the start was made by stage early in the morning and Boston was not reached until late at night.
 He was veteran in western experi- ence when the fever of '49 started, and had been practicing law there eight years when the gold fever was rushing men to California.
 Although he was seventy years old when appointed to the bench, he has been steadily in active service there for twenty-three years. Before that time he was regularly practicing law, and in fact has been connected with the law in some way for seventy-fve years.
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1907-12-24

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