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Alaska sentinel., 1907-12-05
COLD PLATES AND HOT PLATES.
Many of Former still to Be Foundj the Latter. Happily, Spreading.

Many of Former still to Be Foundj
 the Latter, Happily, Spreading.
 We still find," said an old Washing tonian, many cold plates. Lots of peo- pie seem to regard hot plates as a su- perhuity, or even as an affectation of style that is not to be encouraged. and So give you cold plates to eat hot food from; thus really spelling many good neal
 T ate dinner yesterday at place where the food is excellent and admir- ably cooked, and where everything they give you is good and appetlzing, and ample in supply, but where the joy of the meal was marred by cold plates.
 Just why they give you cold plates at this place I don't know, but it is simply the survival of an ancient GUS tom. guess
 For hot plates are a modern GUS tom. Formerly people got along very well without them; but it Is different now, when it Is so easy to provide them. And yet they are by no means, even today, everywhere to be found.
 You might eat today at the abund- ant, the well-supplied and the we'll equipped table of family whose every member was the personitication of kindly grace and hospitality, and yet find here your food served to you on cod plates; rugged people, these, by whom, out of some feeling bred in the days when luxuries were less common, hot plates would still be considered as a mark of concession to effeminacy. And by such a reason, indeed, might the cold plates be accounted for in some small hotels, off the beaten track, though in many another hotel their presence is due simply to slackness, Indifference or a failure to rise to modern conditions.
 But the hot plate, by no means a sign of degeneracy; but one marking simply and ratlonally a desire to rise to our privileges, is everywhere spread ing it will some day everywhere pre- vail, and meanwhile when we eat where 1t has not yet come, let us be grateful then for the food. .'-Washing- ton Post.
Alaska sentinel., 1907-12-05

More Interesting to the many suffer- CTS, says the New York Evening Post, Is the fact that Il certain cure for the painful skin blisters Is found In a so- luton of potassium permanganate.
 This bllstering effect on the skin was taken advantage of by old-time doctors and administered in cases of skin disease. One reads that In 1910 the poison ivy was Introduced into England, and in 179S was used as a medicine In Europe. Even before this the juice of the plant had been used as marking ink, and Is to-day widely employed for that purpost. It resists soap, acids, alkalies and bleaching DOW ders, and yields only to ether. So, when the nature writer Is out in the wilds. away from stores and human dwellings, and his ink gives out. splendid substitute may be found in the juice of the poison lyy-which will guarantee the physical permanence of the record of hls observatlons-if not the veraclty of the facts themselves. Another commercial use for the juice of this plant Is In the manufacture of a blacking fluid for boots and shoes.
Alaska sentinel., 1907-12-05

itOugA itIders who went into action only "Eighty-sx were killed or wounded.'
 The record of the automobile Is writ ten ln red-aud that red Is the blood of its many victims. The vast majority of these persons were killed outright. In addition to these there were many oth- CTS who were so badly Injured that they died later, but their deaths went unrecorded In the teeming columns of the newspapers.
 But this roster of the dead, appalling as 1t Is, by no means represents the sum total of the destruction wrought by the automobile. In this country to-day there are hundreds of men, women and children with broken legs, arms, ribs and skulls, with crushed feet and marred faces, who have been perma- nently disfgured or crippled by the ruthless automobile.
 In almost every way that could be imagined have Injury and death been inflicted by the Red Peril In the hands of reckless drivers. In many cases the QrlNPFS IlleulStINtS nave SDlt uO"H tO destruction with the machines they pro pelled.
 The long list of accidents shows that many were killed and injured as a re- suit of racing. Speed lovers, crashing along the highway by day or night, have been hurled to death against rocks and trees and telegraph poles. 9th CTS have been thrown from skiddlng au- tomobiles on sharp corners and dashed to destruction on hard pavements. Many have been killed by collisions with street cars, fire engines, passing vehicles, railway trains and other au- tomoblles. Others have met their fate on the perilous race course. where mad men had assembled to risk their lives in breaking an old speed record or to established new one.
 The Red Peril ls a living and fearful thing.-Indlanapolls Sun.
Alaska sentinel., 1907-12-05
A FAD OF THE PAST.

Ha, that was footgear for you-the copper-toed boot. You couldn't wear 1t out You were defed to! That was in the days when one pair of boots was expected to last you all one winter. No such foolish notions prevail now.
 You have become accustomed to buy ing new pair of shoes for each of your children every six weeks. They would turn up their snubby little noses at copper-toed footwear now.
 As long as boots were worn by chill dren, the copper toes were entirely logl-
Alaska sentinel., 1907-12-05
WORLDS FINEST STABLES.
Most Luxurious Horse Quarters on
 Earth Are to Be Found in Newport

Most Luxurious Horse Quarters on
 Earth Are to Be Found in Newport
 No one feature of Newport extrava- money lavished on this playground of millionaires than the wonderful stables attached tn every establishment, says the Broadway Magazine.
 Take for instance, the o. H. P. Bel mont villa. It has a stable for its ground floor of such dimensions that coach and four can drive in, turn about and drive out again. It contains the most elaborate equipment of carriages and harness In the world Its walls are decorated with rare old prints and blue ribbon prizes. The estates of the broth CTS Vanderbilt, Alfred and Reginald, at Sands Point, are veritable villages of stables. As you pass. Dr. Austin Flint whlrls by In his motor, and you remem- Der that people from Maine to Califor- mia are reading that Miss Reginald Vanderbilt is confined to the house with a cold
 The mere incidentals impress you at first with the extravagance of Newport The prices of papers. periodicals. candy, flowers, etc, are doubled. The mill lonaire sets the pace even in the simple process of buying a paper of pins. But these details are not of importance what Is important Is the gigantic abort i've extravaganza that enters into every detail of existence dreamed of in the philosophy of the millionaire, and ably shown by the magnificent homes of the very horses and motor cars
Alaska sentinel., 1907-12-05

Francis Miles Finch, who died re gently at the age of 80 years, achieved in one poem, The Blue and the Cray" a more certain immortality than many poets of many volumes. The poem ap- peared two years after the close Of the Civil War, and appealed at once to the national heart It comes nearer than any other thing In American lit erature, except some great prose utter. ances of Lincoln, to putting Into words the best that men were thinking In time of sorrow and hope.
Alaska sentinel., 1907-12-05
The Telegraph Plant.

There is a queer shrub growing in India, whose tri-foliate leaves move in way much like railway telegraph sig nals. The two side leaves rise and fall alternately for a time, and then are still, soon starting into motion again. The leaves are most active in the early morning. Sometimes many or them are in motion at once; at other times only a few of them are which shows that their action does not de pend on the wind
Alaska sentinel., 1907-12-05
A WOODLAND DANGER.
However, the Poison Ivy Is Not
 Utterly Without Merit,

however, the Poison Ivy Is Not
 Utterly Without Merit.
 There are few persons In the eastern part of America who are not familiar with the common poison ivy-its sin ister hreefngered leaves creeping alongside the harmless fve-fngered woodblne or Virginia creeper. Some persons are immune and may pick the leaves at will, but others are so sus- ceptbble that the wind will carry the poisonous yapor and bring discomfort without contact with the plant itself.
 Cows and horses feed with impunity upon the vine. but 1t Is terribly polson- ons to dogs, producing convuslons which result In death. A volatile sub stance which forms salts when con- Dined with alkalls has been isolated from the leaves, known as toxicoden- drle acid. This resembles formic acid aud Is the source of the poisoning.
Alaska sentinel., 1907-12-05
PROSPERITY IN EGYPT.
Building Operations In Progress in
 Many Parts of Cairo.

Many Parts of Cairo.
 The charming residential town of Cairo of ten years ago I found disfig- ured by huge blocks of buildings five stories high: enormous hotels built and building; where was then park Is now studded with villas; tramways every where, even out to Cheops pyramid motors careering along, followed by clouds of dust and heralded by the deafening sounds of horn or hoot, says a writer In Blackwood's Magazine All the constructions are higgledy-pggledy. without line or order. Huge ungainly blocks alongside of unpretentious resi- dences; buildings being torn down or foundations being laid. The conversa- tiOns overheard were mostly of the price of plots of land, or the rise or fall of shares or of companies f1oated or being floated, or of people who had become millonaires or expected to be- come such.
 One realized at once that one was among community intoxicated with snrcess, In the fovcrlsh excitement of speculation. The luxurious hotel, open- ed only some seven years before, was, while I was staying in it. sold to a company for f4500O0 It's proprietor tthe seller). reputed to he a million aire, is laying the foundations for a still grander hotel, on site which was once a princes palace.
 Two well-authenticated transactions will give a fair conception of the enor- nous rise in the value of property In the best part of Cairo. A small villa erected some twelve years ago, at a cost of about f3,000 found purchaser recently at f32.00O. A property pur- chased for f17,OO0 eight years ago was being treated for while I was In Cairo at f15O,OOO. In fact, 1t Is no exaggera- tion to say that property In what was the residential part of Cairo has h. creased In value during tse last five or six years eightfold to tenfold. The price of land there may be said to vary from f46 to fs2 per square meter (3.1 yards), equal to the value of land In the crowded parts of the city of Lon don.
 In Alexandria nearly similar appre- citation In the value of town lands has taken place. Lands toward Gabari, which few years ago were only of a nominal and prospective value, have recently changed hands at fabulous rates. The site of the Victoria Col lege, bought about ten years ago for f1.300, was sold at the beginning of this year for f1OO0OO.
Alaska sentinel., 1907-12-05

If the government plans are success ful, fishpole farm may be the next profitable industry. One of the plant explorers of the Department of Agri- culture has already made experiments In raising bamboos in California and now, with grant of two thousand dol lars, Is about to try 1t in the Southern States. He believes that the Japanese bamboo can be made to yield a profita- ble crop wherever there is a Southern cane-brake.
Alaska sentinel., 1907-12-05

Mother, may I go ont to swim:"
 "Ies, my darling daughter.
 Hang your clothes on a hickory limb;
 But don't go near the water"
 One naturally concludes that the daughter will learn very little of the art of swimming If she obeys the com mand of her mother, for water always has been regarded as indispensable to swimming. It Is not so any more. A contrivance has been invented which does away with the necessity of Mary Ann going into the water when she wants to swim, and 1t even renders 1t unnecessary for her to hang her clothes
Alaska sentinel., 1907-12-05
Peanut Trade Increasing,

Peanuts are beginning to form an appreciable and rapidly growing item in the foreign commerce of the United States especially in the import trade Despite the fact that the United States produces probably 12G0O.OO0 bushels of peanuts per annum, her exportations have been In such inconsiderable Quan- titles that the Bureau of Statistics has only recently found 1t necessary to ln- clude peanuts in its list of articles ex- ported. Meantime the Imports have also rapidly increased, and the total foreign commerce In this article in the year about to end will aggregate nearly S1,0Oo,000, the Imports having grown in value from less than S6,000 In the year 1900 to about S500,000 in the present year, while exports for the year will approximate about S30O000.
 West Africa and the East Indies are the principal sources of supply of the peanuts entering the international mar kets of the world. The exports of pea nuts from the French colony of Sene- gal on the west coast of Africa, were In the latest available year more than 23O,0O0,O00 pounds; those of British h. dIa a little less than 20o,0O0,O0O; Gam bia, on the west coast of Africa, about 1O0,O0O,0O0; the Dutch East Indies. about 50,0O0O00, while China, Japan, Argentine, Spain and the United States also supply comparatively small quan- titiae
Alaska sentinel., 1907-12-05

platform, plunge the stick into the water, as shown in the cut.
 The weight should be heavy enough to keep about three-fourths of the stick under water. Having done all this. get a half-ounce, an ounce and two-ounee weight (you may borrow them from your druggist, and placing them, one at a time, upon the platform of your scale carefully mark on the stick the water level in each case.
 This scale Is somewhat crude, but It is good enough for all practical pur- poses.
Alaska sentinel., 1907-12-05
AUTOS DEADLY AS WAR.
Figures Prove that Automobile Is
 "Red Peril of civilizations"


 "Red Peril of CivilizatIon."
 The automobile, with it's terrifying and daily increasing list of permanent ly injured, dying and dead, abundantly proves itself the Red Peril of Clviliza- tion. Wherever 1t goes upon the high way. when guided by the hand of a speed-cTazed devotee, the motor car leaves In Its wake a trail of destruction, desolatlon and death.
 The long list of accidents thls year show that the execution wrought by the motor car Is more deadly by far than that of the spanish guns at San Juan hill
 Since Jan. 1, 19o7 at least 114 per sons have been killed and 382 Injured in the United States by automobiles a total of 47G. After the battle of San Juan hill Lieutenant Colonel Roose- velt's report showed that of the 49O
Alaska sentinel., 1907-12-05

It Is curious what a hold the suffix "less" has taken upon the affection of Americans. There have long been seedless oranges, and now there are coreless apples and spineless cactuses. Manufacturers of automobiles adver- tise waterless cars, news comes by wire less telegraphy, teeth are extracted by painless dentistry, educators are trying
 to devise studyless education. and ev- erybody is looking for some workless work. The latest failure Is an experi- ment In agriculture with stingless bees, from which better things had been hoped. The bees were brought from Venezuela and placed in the American Museum of Natural History, in New York. They gather less honey than the
 ordinary bee, but have greater pollen carrying capacity. This. it was hoped, would be a benefit to horticulturlsts in- terested In the cross breeding of fruit and flowers. It was hoped also that the bees might be crossed with tks
Alaska sentinel., 1907-12-05
On fn Him.

You know," said Bragg, "I expect to spend my vacation on steam yacht"
 How foolish." exclaimed Knox. "Why don't you take rest instead of looking for extra work? Besides stok- Ing is such a hot job."-Philadelphla Press
Alaska sentinel., 1907-12-05
Sure Enough,

Slick Pete seems to have got next to that young dude," said the first bunko man, but I wonder what's the use"
 "Oh, there must be somethIn' In It." replied the other, for Pete don't waste his time"
 Well, anyhow 1t looks as if he was tryin' to do somethin' foolish."-Phila. delphia Press.
Alaska sentinel., 1907-12-05
Currant Cake.

The heading of this paragraph will be sure to attract the attention of the boys and girls. for of course they all like currant cake. By this Is meant the cake that has little black specks all through it, which look, for all the world, like dead flies. if you will par don the expression. Everybody calls 1t currant cake. but the little black specks, you will probably be surprised to hear, are not entrants at all, but kind of raisin, made from little grapes that grow in the island Zante and in other Greek islands. The way they came to be called entrants is rather
Alaska sentinel., 1907-12-05
Positive,

Are you sure that the studies your sen is pursuing are really useful?"
 Positive" answered Farme Corntos- sel Anything Is useful that will keep Josh from goln' out an gettin' Into fights with the neighbors. s."-Washing- ton Star.
Alaska sentinel., 1907-12-05
Letter Scale.

A good scale for weighing letters may be made by any one without ex- pense. Get the handle of a worn-out broom and cut off about fifteen inches of 1t. Pour water into a wlde-mouthed jar until 1t Is nearly full. and having attached a weight to one end of the stick and tackled a square of cardboard to the other, the latter to serve as
Alaska sentinel., 1907-12-05
GuestiOns About Rirda.

There Is still great deal unknown about the birds migrating. Why do they leave when there is still food enough for all and pleasant weather? What tells them, or how do they know, winter is coming-a season of cold and famine? What birds mingle and what journey by themselves? And how do they know their course ?-St. Nicholas.
Alaska sentinel., 1907-12-05

Marine artists both in words and paint magazine illustrators, who act ors, boys and policemen will regret the approaching disappearance of Jacks fiat cap, rolling collar and f1aring trous- CTS. They are doomed. They are go- ing where poop deck and topgallant forecastle, martingale and spritsall yard, stuns'l booms and fore royal stays, breeching and side tackle went before them, into the dusty limbo of outliyed usefulness Modern ships and modern sailors are no more like the bullies of Isaac Hull's time than the Jackie's uniform of to-day is like that of Herman Melvllles White Jacket"
Alaska sentinel., 1907-12-05

on hickory limb. She can go swim ming with her clothes on. In brief, It is an apparatus to teach In schools and at home the movements of swim ming. From a stout wooden frame hangs series of slings, one broad one for the body and two narrow ones for the ankles. From bands the pupils swings, and makes the leg and arm mo- tions of swimming. The leg sings are balanced on weights and pulleys so as to allow of a compensatin motion. The invention Is German. and Is meeting with great popularity In gymnaslums and physical culture schools.
Alaska sentinel., 1907-12-05

Chicago pastor declares he would throw away biscuit any time for kiss. Ministers change with time, like everything else. For the old-time preacher life could offer no lnducement greater than hot biscuit and maple sErup.
Alaska sentinel., 1907-12-05

A French woman has been awarded a prize for discovering a reliable method of determining whether a person is dead. Still. e en her method may fail to convince some politicians that they are dead ones.
Alaska sentinel., 1907-12-05

Don't crush the railroads says Mir. Hartman in an appealing tone. All right; but there appears to be a dis position in some quarters to soak the railroad presidents.
Alaska sentinel., 1907-12-05
Nervous Prostration.

First Hobo-Meanderin Mikes i'll from overwork.
 Second Hobo-Poor old Nike! Wot's he bin a-workin'?
 First Hobo-Too many easy marks- Baltimore American.
Alaska sentinel., 1907-12-05

strange. In olden times they were called "corinths,' because they grew in great profusion near Cornth. and eith- CT from that fact, or from the name "currants,' as they were sometimes called, came our word currant. So "currant cake" is really "ralsin cake" but it's good, no matter what you call It.
Alaska sentinel., 1907-12-05

The self-restraint of Mark Twain Is the most wonderful thing of the age. In spite of the fact that he can get 30 cents word for what he writes, he refrains from writing unless he has something to write.
Alaska sentinel., 1907-12-05

Now that Englishmen can marry a deceased wife's sister, our British cousins may be careful, in selecting wife, to choose one of good-looking family.
Alaska sentinel., 1907-12-05
Couldn't.

Orator (excitedly) )-The American eagle, whether it is roaming the des- erts of India or climbing the forests of Canada, will not draw In its horns or retire into its shell.-Independen
Alaska sentinel., 1907-12-05
Too Economical,

"Your wlfe's very economical, Isn't she?" asked Mir. Pjones.
 Lord, yes!" groaned Mir. Tsmith. "she spent $500 in bargains last month."-Cleveland Plain Dealer.
Alaska sentinel., 1907-12-05

Naturally 1t will be gratifying to the daring explorer who first reaches the north pole to find that all winds will wait him southWard.
Alaska sentinel., 1907-12-05

common honey bee. "he experiment failed, apparently because the bees eould not stand the dryness of the ell mate
Alaska sentinel., 1907-12-05

In Nebraska man and woman have recently been married to each other for the fourth time. This Is what might be called intermittent matrimony.
Alaska sentinel., 1907-12-05

The Singer Building in New York has attained its thirty-sixth story and daily attracts crowds of spectators. Merely another Singer achieving high q
Alaska sentinel., 1907-12-05

A judge has decided that loud snor- ing constitutes an unlawful disturb ance of the peace. He probably sleeps near a thin partition.
Alaska sentinel., 1907-12-05

Puppy love" is always so serious at the time that the victim wonders af- terward how he ever recovered so mlickly
Alaska sentinel., 1907-12-05

John D. Rockefeller says he works for the good o' tae public. He of course, reserves to himself the right of determining what is good for the public
Alaska sentinel., 1907-12-05

When two political machines on the same track collide there Is no end of the dirt that Is put into circulation.
Alaska sentinel., 1907-12-05

Every young man in love with pretty and incapable girl, underesti- mates the time It will take to learn how to cook.
Alaska sentinel., 1907-12-05

Dr. Wiley says that centenarians soon will be as common as blackbirds White blackbirds?
Alaska sentinel., 1907-12-05

It costs more 10 live nowadays than 1t did in the old times, but you get more kinds of life.
Alaska sentinel., 1907-12-05

In this world the hardest knocks we get are delivered by our supposed friends.
Alaska sentinel., 1907-12-05

The thread trust Is not foollshly claiming to be a good thing for the con- sumer.
Alaska sentinel., 1907-12-05

Somehow blooded dog always re- minds W of boy dressed up
Alaska sentinel., 1907-12-05

A man isn't necessarily bald because he has 10 heir.
Alaska sentinel., 1907-12-05
N~~O~N~~-~~~
At Grandpa's.

I'd rather be to grandpa's house Than any place know; For grandpa says am his boy
 And grandma loves me so. When I get down to grandpa's house You bet I'll make things hum; There won't be no one then to say, Now, sonny, stop that drum.' I'll go barefooted in the grass
 And do just as l please; I'll paddle in mud puddles and
 I'll climb the biggest trees: I'll slide down on the banisters;
 I'll shin up every door; I won't be scolded when I track
 Up grandma's kitchen floor. When I get down to grandpa's house I'll be boy again. Folks ain't afraid of freckles there,
 Nor bother bout the rain. I'll ride the horses bareback and
 I'll walk on ey'ry fence; No one'll scold me when 1 tear
 My pants-gee, that's immense! I'd rather be to grandpa's house
 Because I have such fun, And I'll be awful sorry when
 Vacation time is done. I like to be at grandpa's house
 And be a boy once more, Where I don't get no scolding when
 l track up grandma's floor. New York Sun.