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Alaska sentinel., 1907-08-22

Citizens of Spokane propose that ad- jacent portions of Idaho, Washington and Oregon be reassembled into a new State to be called Lincoln. Advocates of the plan maintain that this division is the natural one, with respect to the geographic formation, and also to the interests and occupations of the people. Strong opposition comes naturally from people in parts of the three States not included in the proposed new State. The idea is doubly interesting at pres ent when the feeling for State lines Is said to be dissolving all over the country; 1t indicates that the sense of the State unit is very strong, and that 1t Is a matter of deep importance to a man whether be lives in Oregon or Lincoln"
Alaska sentinel., 1907-08-22

he entered local politics in 1901 and won out as Mayor. To-day he is rated as millionaire. So also Is his right bower, Abe Ruef. The money-making activities of the two men are said to have included more forms of graft than ever before disgraced an American city.
 It was not until the expiration of his first term and he had been re-elect- ed that the public began to suspect that Schmltz was a beneficiary of the huge grating machines which spread over the city and controlled every depart ment of the municipal government. There were investigations from time to time, but the investigators, like those being investigated, were members of the Schmitz club and no damaging find. ings ever resulted.
 The license to practice every variety of crime and vice was practically auc-
Alaska sentinel., 1907-08-22
From the Bountiful East.

small proportion of the flora Is In- digenous. The majority came from the east, like all the great Ideas on which our culture Is founded, and were developed and improved on this classic soil. Italy received the lemon and the orange from the semites, who in their turn had obtained them from India The olive, the fig, the vine and the palm were grown by the Semites long before their cultivation penetrated to the west. The laurel and myrtle, h. deed, are indigenous in Italy, but their use for ceremonial purposes came across the Mediterranean from the east The home of the cypress Is not In Italy, but in the Greek archipelago, northern Persia, Cilicla and Lebanon. From Strasburger's Riviera"
Alaska sentinel., 1907-08-22
ORIGIN OF THE NAME GOTHAM.
First Applied to New York City by
 Irving in "salmagundi."

Irving fin "salmagundi."
 This name Gotham was first applied to the city of Manhattan In a book of humorous sketches called "Salmagun- di." written about 1897 by Washington Irving in collaboration with his broth CT Peter and the poet Pauldlng. It was evidently intended to suggest that the people of New York made undue pretensions to wisdom, and that there were both satire and wit in the sug- gestion Is shown by the story of the original Gothamites.
 Gotham was a parish in Noting hamshire, England. The old story tells how King John wished to pass through the parish. The people there, fancy ing that the passage of the king over a route made 1t public road, decided to prevent the transit by all pretend ing to be crazy.
 Therefore, when the king and his party arrived they found every one of the inhabitants employed in some pe- culiarly foolish task. Thus, a group were joining hands around a thorn bush to keep a cuckoo from getting away; some were trying to drown an eel. others dipping water with a sieve, and so on.
 When the king saw these perform ances he swore at tke people for pack of idiots, and, turning, departed with all his retinue. The Gothamites were delighted with the success of their scheme for turning aside the king, regarding 1t as superlatlvely clever.
 After thls Gotham came to have the reputation of being a sort of head quarters for conceited fools. In the time of Henry VIII. book entitled 'The Merry Tales of the Mad Men of Gotham" was published. Among these was the story of the Three Wise Men of Gotham," one of whose exploits was to go to sea In owl.-Housekeeper.
Alaska sentinel., 1907-08-22
The Wise Use of Mistakes.

It is not the chipping off of the dia- mond's surface that polishes the dia- mond, but 1t Is by the wise use of the diamond dust or clippings, in the hands of skilled lapidary, that the dia- mond's polish Is finally secured. It is not the making of mistakes that makes a man, but It Is the wise use of mis- takes that enables man to be made to become polished man In his best sphere. Whenever we see the light and glow of beautiful character, we may know that Its Illuminating power came through its slow polishing by Its own diamond dust, at the hands of the Great Lapidary.-H. Clay Trumbull.
Alaska sentinel., 1907-08-22
The Prayer Life.

Prayer, not only In the morning watch, but prayer sent voiceless from the heart from hour to hour, makes life wakeful, hallowed, calm. It be comes beautiful with that beauty of God which eye hath not seen. And day being hallowed thus, do not omit to make holy the night. Take by the power of prayer, through the wild land of dreams, the sanctifying presence of One who loves us. Prayer continually lived in, makes the presence of holy God the air which life breathes, and by which it lives, so that, as 1t mingles consciously with the work of the day, 1t becomes also a part of every dream. To us, then, it will be no strange thing to enter heaven. for we have been llv- ing in the things of heaven through prayer life here below.-Rev. J. C.. Jackson.
Alaska sentinel., 1907-08-22

Railway accidents have been usually ascribed to insufficient equipment. Prof. F. H. Dixon, in an article in the At lantic Monthly, concludes that the real difficulty is not mechanical but human. It is not the failure or the lack of the block-signal that causes the trou- ble, nor would the installation of auto matic stops and other devices cure the evil. ''The fundamental weakness of American railroading from the standpoint of safety Is the widespread and almost universal lack of disci- pline." This conclusion accords with the experience of the race. Disciplined armies poorly equipped have triumphed over armies we'll accoutered and pro- visioned, but lacking in discipline. It Is likely, however, that railroad en- ployes will point out at once the lack of discipline begins in the poor general ship of the managers who demand inn possible things of their soldiers.
Alaska sentinel., 1907-08-22
A Prayer.

Father in Heaven, Thy name Is love, and our hearts would be filled with the great passion. If we possess heavenly love We shall know the secret of life. May all that Is noblest and sweetest In thought and pure desire flow about us to-day. Give us tender sympathy for the downcast and sad and unfortu- nate. and give us true affection for those near and dear to us in the home. We seek rest to-day-may we find 1t. We want soul refreshment after the toll of the week-may It come to us. Touch the springs of our nature so that there shall arise In us joy that nothing on earth can take away. Wipe the tears of all faces, and give strength and courage to the weak, and a strong hope for good In the days before us.
Alaska sentinel., 1907-08-22

tlanity, but on Christ Mark that little but great word .'on." It Is not enough to believe "in" Christ Jesus Millions of unconverted people believe In Jesus, just as they believe in Howard as noble philanthroplst, or In Newton as teacher of science. But they do not trust their souls to Jesus. When a miner looks at the rope that Is to lower him Into the deep mine, he may coolly say, I have faith In that rope as we'll made and strong" But when he lays hold of 1t. and swings down by 1t into the tremendous chasn, then he Is be- lleving on the rope It Is not mere opinlon-it Is an act. The miner just lets go of everything else and bears his whole weight on those well-braided strands of hemp. Now that Is faith. And when a human soul lets go every other reliance in the wide universe and hangs entirely upon the atoning Jesus, that soul believes on Chrlst-Rey. T. L. Cuyler.
Alaska sentinel., 1907-08-22

The Norwegian storthing has passed a bill providing that women who ac- knowledge that they are more than -25 years of age and who pay taxes on an income of S110 or more, or who are married to men who pay taxes on such incomes, may vote. In arranging 1t 30 that the women will merely have to confess to more than 25 years the storthing has done one of the most gal lant acts recorded in the history of civ ilization.
Alaska sentinel., 1907-08-22

corporation methods the witness stand and how much to awakened sense of public responsibility. It Is also useless wonder whether the old insoence of corpora tlons merely the nsoence of subordlnates clothed with little brief authority, who felt themselves respon sible to their employers and not to the public.
 That which of importance is the growth of proper and wholesome respect for the people at large and the dawning of realization that every institution In the country with ndssouble bonds to every other instltutlon.-Youth's Companion.
Alaska sentinel., 1907-08-22

When the Queen of Spain wishes to call her baby to her she does not say "Alfonso Pic Cristino Eduardo Fran cisco Guillermo Carlos Enrique Flu genio Fernando Antonio yenancio, come here." It would take too long to use all the twelve names given to him at his christening. It is probable that she simply says. ''Oo tootsie, wootsie darling little p'ecious sweetkins, tome to Our own loving momsie womsie."
Alaska sentinel., 1907-08-22

A Kansas paper remarks that the al- titudinous price of bacon is not dc- counted for by any noticeable absence of hogs in the market. No, 1t is ac- counted for by the noticeable presence o1 hogs in the beef trust.
Alaska sentinel., 1907-08-22
Then There Was . Row,

"Now, slr," she commanded. Hook me in the face and deny, If you dare that you married me for moneyw
 He raised his eyes until they were directed to her countenance and fal. tered:
 "Well, think I earned the cash, don't you, dear ?'-London Mall.
Alaska sentinel., 1907-08-22
She Was the Girl.

The Widower-I've always said that If married again I should choose a girl who Is as good as she Is beauti- full. Miss Willing-Really, this Is very sudden, George, but I accept you, of course.-Pick- -Me-Up
Alaska sentinel., 1907-08-22

chosen ruler and with other indict- ments hanging over his head, which may keep him In jail the better part of his life, was a
 real hero In the fearful period fol- lowing the earth quake and cOnia- grafton of April IS, 1906. NJ e n W b o had e X e CT a [ Q d
 SchmitZ for the vile rottenness Into which the govern mauf of tho nifv
Alaska sentinel., 1907-08-22
NO WORTHLESS LAND.

n Is rather late in the day for the German fSf opponents of the colonial policy to raise the EWE cry that the imperial colonies are worthless EsAA1 There Is no such thing worthless land. ESSNAt Neither history science gives us any war E&GNGzsj for declaring that the human race shall
 not some day turn every acre of the land surface good The agricultural science of dry farming Is today suppementng irrigation in the reclamation of tens of thousands of acres In the Great American Desert of the old maps At the German set dement's Victoria Nyanza under the equatorial sun, they found way raise every month in the practically all the vegethables of Europe In the highest perfection. The French have found that well yielding
 thousand quarts of water minute assures the irri- gatlon of five thousand date palms. They tapping un derground sources In the Sahara. Of the wells they drilled in 1905. only failed to bring water, more than third yielding from 1000 to $500 quarts min ute others yielding substantial quantities, and they creating and fruitful in the desert Twenty years ago the first explorer of Mashonaand wrote could nothing there to attract European en- terprse To-day railways the country, hundreds of white farmers and miners thriving, schools have been opened young hopefus of British percentage and apple and grain harvests garnered every year. We may in the long run, to find use for every neglected of the world. When these regions are needed the scheme of human progress human skill and perseverance will the waste places into utilities New York Sun.
Alaska sentinel., 1907-08-22

A green monkey was born in one Of the New York zoos the other day, and a Massachusetts man claims that be has captured white robin. Have the animals and birds themselves be- come nature fakers?
Alaska sentinel., 1907-08-22

Judge Holdom of Chicago, who lik- encd the law in certain cases to kilnono because it covered everything and touched nothing" might have add ed that both supplied an opportunity for redress,
Alaska sentinel., 1907-08-22

A Boston preacher announces that in eight years the reign of the devil will come to an end. This is important If true, and we could name several gen. tlemen who would like to know whose presidential administration Mir Sa- tan's reign is to end with.
Alaska sentinel., 1907-08-22

Enter the Boo sisters-Peeka and Cari." says the New York Mail. Well, what's the matter with the others Buga, Gaza, Ia and Bam? Don't dis criminate.
Alaska sentinel., 1907-08-22

A tramp does not tramp. he rides
 This is one of the facts brought out by 0. F. Lewis of New York in paper read by him at the national conference of charities and correction at Minne-
Alaska sentinel., 1907-08-22

When two disagreeable people mar " We are led to believe that Cupid has had the help Of an invisible power Tn arranging matters in way not to spoil two families.
Alaska sentinel., 1907-08-22
Unusual.

"I understand she possesses mar velous memory"
 ''She certainly does. She can re- member what trumps are every time" Milwaukee Sentinel.
Alaska sentinel., 1907-08-22

''The crop of children is the best crop of the nation." says the President And It is in no danger from the little green bug.
Alaska sentinel., 1907-08-22
Two of a Kind,

"Well, Perkins," said the eminent parsonage, who was now an invalid, who Is 1t wishes to See me now, my biographerf"
 No, sir," replied the butler, your physician"
 "Ah! Perkins, almost the same thing, He's at work upon my life, too."-Phil- adelphia Press.
Alaska sentinel., 1907-08-22

MT. Rooseyelt's remark that the best crop of all is the crop of children IS probably all right, but nothing could be better than the crop of June brides iOOkS
Alaska sentinel., 1907-08-22

It takes more than an automobile to make gentleman, but it Is surprising how many counterfeits are in general circulation these days.
Alaska sentinel., 1907-08-22

If the Japanese should take San Francisco there is a probability that they would soon want to return It
Alaska sentinel., 1907-08-22

tioned to the highest bidder. A deter mined effort was made to beat Schmitz in the election of November. 1905, but the power of the Schmitz. machine, d. rected by Abe Reuf. won the day, and then the riot of license and graft broke out with renewed frenzy: The condi- tion of the city was rotten to the core when the earthquake and fire came on April IS, 1906, and all but wiped San Francisco out of existence.
Alaska sentinel., 1907-08-22

The physician who says that most germs exist only in the imagination has in all probability been trying to read some of the late offerings in cur rent fiction.
Alaska sentinel., 1907-08-22

Wh.l the umbrella trust is turned inside out may be we all can afford to buy umbrellas.
Alaska sentinel., 1907-08-22
Microscopic.

Thought you said you were a mind readerT said the caller.
 "So I am," replied the professor. "well, why do you hesitate? Why don't you read my mind?"
 "I'm searching for it"-Yonkers Statesman
Alaska sentinel., 1907-08-22
Literal.

"Well, what do you think of our rogues' gallery exhibit?"
 T call 1t bum show."-Baltimor American.
Alaska sentinel., 1907-08-22
CORPORATIONS AND THE PUBLIC.

- THIN recent years, almost within recent tE A ' months the attitude of of the great \ WY \ corporations toward the public has changed
 The in charge who came In contact ESEYEx[3 with the people used to give the impression ESsIeG,s5 that they did what any thought
 of the way their business done. In effect they sad The money Is the property Is and we can do what we wish with It."
 It is needless to remind ourselves that this Is ms taken view only for managers of corporations, but for men who have only their wages and families to man. age Every and every corporation which Is but aggregation of men, have obligations to the community respect the rights of his neghoors If he does not he Is punished in some way.
 Many of the corporations have acted If those with whom they dealt had rights which they bound to respect Events making clear to them that they are part of the complex social organization and anenabe to the laws that demand fair play
 This Is wholesome change It is needless to speculate how much of it is the decisions of the courts that an officer of corporation not refuse to disclose
Alaska sentinel., 1907-08-22

There are people who will bestow favor just for the pleasure they take in boasting of 1t
Alaska sentinel., 1907-08-22

reliable The only safe way is to employ who sober all the me and discharge them when they to be and this is the basis upon which the worlds important business Is being conducted. The who has the alcohol habit may keep sober for weeks perhaps months, but his employer knows, and usually he knows himself what day he may fail to show up at the shop office account of being in unfit condition to appear there The victim of such habits is deserving of pity sympathy perhaps, but he unsatisfactory employe and few business nowadays will tolerate him.-Kansas City Journal.
Alaska sentinel., 1907-08-22

Is comparatively new and illustration of the swift with which fresh adjustments of American industry can rise Though 260 miles of horse lines and 240 miles of cable lines still operated they looked upon curiositles that have been beated, and will disappear the traffic Is put In the best shape
 The trolley is developing in traction lines we'll In city and suburban traffic. and this is of Its most important phases It makes its way quietly, but uay combines its sections, and may be said to have future broad any State region, the continent itself. line recently admitted by St. Louis keeps tending itself Illinois and Is object of interest In adjacent States When 1t Is that billions accommodated by the trolley its utility In the daily bus ness of the masses be realized Forces work n the railroad situation are modifying and famliarzing 1t than rate any other form of legislation.-St Louis Globe Democrat
Alaska sentinel., 1907-08-22
THE HANDICAP OF DRINK.

ANY railroad companies and other large cor porations refuse to take men into their ser vice who drink intoxicating liquors. They cannot afford, they say, to have their busi- ness depending on men who are unreliable. and men who habitually or occasionally drink tno much are nronerly regarded as un-
Alaska sentinel., 1907-08-22
True Faith.

Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and thou shalt be saved" Not in Chris
Alaska sentinel., 1907-08-22
RISE OF THE TROLLEY.

AsT year about 5000 GOO 900 passengers trav-
 eled by trolley In the United States, which is four or five times as many as used steam cars. An average of 100000 trolley fares are collected daily In the country, and third of a million employees are connected
Alaska sentinel., 1907-08-22
WAS A REAL HERO.
But San Francisco's Mayor Plum
 dered City He Had Aided.

Eugene F. Schmitz, Mayor Of San Francisco. In prison for biackmailing dives in the city of which he was the
Alaska sentinel., 1907-08-22

green bug,
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1907-06-27
DELEGATES
PRESENT CLAIMS
NEW PROPOSITIONS BY UNITED
STATES AND ENGLAND.
ALL DOCUMENTS SECRET
Delegates Ready to Discuss New Pro-
posals-Bishop All Over the
World Present an Address Urging
the Conference to Make Worlds
Peace Sure and Secure

The Hague, June 26.-The official
documents of the peace conference
of the severest secrecy, to the $50
were distributed last night under seal
members. The documents contain the
text of some of the propositions pre-
sented to the conference.
The American proposition presented
by Joseph H. Choate Monday, runs as
follows:
'Private property OF all citizens of
Signa-Ory powers, with the exception
of contraband of war, shall be exempt
on the high seas or elsewhere from
capture or seizure by armed vessels
or military forces of said powers.
Nothing in this rule implies in any
way inviolability of vessels which will
attempt to enter a port blockaded by
naval forces of said powers, nor the
cargo of said vessels"
A British proposition of the same
date says:
I'm order to diminish the difficult
IlSS IuSI NY TIE commerce Oh neutral
powers in the case of war, the British
government is ready 10 abandon the
principle of contraband in case of
war between the powers which sign
a convention adopting this principle.
'The right of search will not be ex-
ercised, except to prove the neutral
character OF commercial vessels"
Another proposition submitted by
Great Britain says:
"The destruction of a neutral prize
by country capturing it is prohibited.
Country making the capture should
release any neutral vessel which it
cannot bring before the prize courts"
The president of the conference re
ceived a deputation from Christian
churches throughout the world who
presented an address urging the con-
ference to insure peace, justice and
Among the signers of the
address were nine American Catholic
bishops. These included: J. J. Keane
Of Dubuque, Iowa; ]. J. Hogan of Kan
sas City; j. McGolrick of Duluth; r.
BOnacum of Lincoln, Neb.; ]. P. Gar
rigan of Sioux City, Iowa.