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Alaska sentinel., 1908-03-19

returns In other callings and vacations are so much better that young men will not enlist. While the salary may have something to do with the small num- Der entering the service of Uncle Sam and while the wages should be increas- ed so as to provide at least the amount paid a farm hand for labor, there Is reason to believe that reforms in the army and navy are needed In order that recruits may be attracted. The glamour of army life would hold young men if the prlvates were treat ed as they should be, instead of being made to serve petty officers who wish to show their authority. There Is too much flunkeyism in both the 1 y and navy, and If something more of dem ocratic spirit existed between the men and the officers, there would not be the great number of deserters as now reported. Any young man who has red blood in him objects to being made a menial and compelled to blacken the officers shoes or perform other humil
 ating tasks that are often assigned him. A conspicuous example of the insolence of some of the petty officers was shown few years ago In Con necticut. when private resented tht insult of sergeant at a theater bl shooting him, and the story is well known of Gunner Morgan in the navy who was denied promotion because he was not up In ball room etiquette. The tendency of some of the officers to Dc on dress parade was shown recently, when objection was made to the as sgnment of the Philippine squadron to Subig bay. which Admiral Dewey urged was the most effective point for service, the ridiculous argument being advanced that this assignment would deprive the officers of the social privi leges of Manila. In the civil and Spanish wars. men did not desert their colors. Despite the carping critics of the regular army, the volunteer sol dier in the militia who was treated somewhat on an equality by his officers was on hand when wanted Disci' pline in the ranks Is essential to ef- fective service. but when of duty a feeling of fellowship between officers and men should be encouraged as tending to improve the morale of the army. America is a democratic na- ton and must depend on the patriot ism of its citizens for defense in time of peril. But the tendency to make a lot of strutting peacocks out of army and naval officers and allow them to wipe their feet on the private soldier Is rapidly bringing the military into disfavor. To invoke conscription would be fatal. The American people would never consent to 1t In time of peace, and they would eliminate the present standing army rather than force young men into the army now. Improve con ditions surrounding the life of the reg ular soldier stop the monarchial fun keyism, give the private chance to advance, provide a system of training where he can reach even the positions now held exclusively by West Point graduates, and, above all, inject lit tie democratic spirit into the army and navy, and the young men of the coun' try will do the rest.
Alaska sentinel., 1908-03-19

Two feathers rubbed together in the natural position are so electrified that their lower surface Is negative and upper positive.
 These experiments and others have been utilized to study the vital rela. tions of animals and the biological significatlon of these phenomena. Most feathers stick together and remain sc even after being dried; if they are even waved through the air, the barbs of the feathers separate, owing to the differences of identification.
 No bird need attend to its plumage at the end of long flight, for, while the large feathers are positively cleo. trihed by friction against the air, the white down has become negative, and so there Is attraction between 1t and the feathers. Among consequences of this production of electricity during flight Is that during winds, even the most violent, the plumage does not be- come ruffled, but rests tight against the birds body. for In this case the wing feathers, which overlap, rub against each other and become electrified ID contrary senses. If the bird flies to ward the ground, Tapping its wings. Ii congresses the air below them, and, supposing that the wing feathers can bend aside, the experiments of Exner show that by friction the upper side Of one feather and the lower of that which Is just above are electrified op positely the more powerfully, AS the rubbing is greater, which always causes them to resume the normal DO sition.
Alaska sentinel., 1908-03-19
A Modern Meditation.

A Modern MedftRt1on.
 Idle not; for likeness Is the mother of all sins.
 Neither dawdle nor dilly-dally; for the dawdler groweth weary and accom- plisheth naught
 Delay not, nor postpone; for more crimes are due to postponement than to deliberate intention.
 Hesitate not an hour in perform ing thy tasks; for the only way to get thing done is to do 1t now.
 Glover not, nor grouch; for 1t is a fearful crime to make other people un- happy.
 Never indulge myself In despair; for there Is no surer way to miss all the good things that are coming to you.
 Neither Indulge in vain retrospec- ton; for what Is done is done forever, and the only wise thing Is to forget It.
 Blame not myself nor any other per son too much; for there are laws stronger than any of us that govern the universe.
 Make hope and industry thy habits {; for by these two practices shall a man reach the highest place-eyen content ment.
Alaska sentinel., 1908-03-19
A Midnight Journey.

IT. 1901 a number of Vermont men removed to northern Pennsylvania, then an uncultivated region, bought lands of the State for one dollar an acre and settled with their families. The au- thor of Early Times on the Susque- hanna" records some of the hardshIps that the little settlement experienced.
 Squire Kellogg, when eighty years old, related some incidents of his new country life At one time he went away to work for bread, leaving, as be thought sufficient supplies for his fam fly until he should return. He toiled hard for three weeks, earning about thirty bushels of grain, and took 1t to a mill to be ground, then hired team to carry 1t part of the way home, where 1t was left on the river road in safe keeping until he could return for 1t.
 It was becoming dark. and he start ed for home on foot. Ills way led for six miles through a dense forest. He arrived home at midnight, and found that his family had eaten their last uOTScl.
 Expecting her husbands return with supplies. the mother had that night borrowed a half-pint of Indian meal to make porridge. The children had gone to bed with hunger unsatisfed, the mother promised them that their fath- CT would bring food, and that he would soon arrive. To her dismay, be had brought no supplies
 The weary man started back at mid. night to secure food. Through the woods and snow, amid the bowling of wild beasts he went and came alone. He reached home early the next morn- ing. The mother was waiting, and the children were supplied with a nourIsh- ing breakfast
Alaska sentinel., 1908-03-19

That woman can be a wage earner and at the same time care for her home Is possible, Mrs. Nathan says, and there are many cases in which 1t ls emnently satisfactory to have a man and his wife both wage earners. Mrs. Nathan gives the following two as tho principal reasons why married women are wage earners: Men waste so much money h smoking, gambling and drinking that they have none left for family expenses Many women have minds superior to their husbands and can earn more. In that case 1t Is the woman's plain duty-and should be her pleasure-to earn whatever her talents will bring"
Alaska sentinel., 1908-03-19
"Am ericanitfs."

The manner In which Americans do" Europe is a constant source oi bewilderment and amusement to the foreign mind. The Rev. John Watson Ian Maclaren-whose death occurred in this country, gives in Our Neigh bors" an account of snapshot visit he once received.
 It Is now several years ago that 6 tall, thin man followed his card Into my study with such rapidity had barely time to read it before the visit or was In the room.
 My name Is Elijah K. Higgins and I am a busy man. You are also busy and have no time to fool away. Four days Is all I can give to the United Kingdom and I wished to shake hands with you. Goodbye, I am of to Drumtochty."
 I calculate that MT. Higgins spent thirty seconds In my study. He left so swiftly I only overlook him at the front door. I asked him If he knew where Drumtochty was.
 Guess I do. Got route in pocket Northwest from Perth"
 In two seconds he was whirling away In a fast hanson. AS returned and imagined my visitor composing Great Britain in four days, I was for a moment reused from that state of com. parative lethargy which we in England call work, and added six more engage ments to the afternoons program. For days after, as often as I was tempted to rest In my chair, the remembrance of that whirlwind gave me renewed yigor.
Alaska sentinel., 1908-03-19

An unusual method of construction has been adopted for the Michigan Gen. tral Railroad tunnel under the Detroit river. Instead of boring a hole under the river and lining 1t with masonry or iron, the tunnel Is built in sections at shipyard in St. Clair and floated down the St. Clair river and across St Clair Lake to the place In the Detroit river where It Is desired to run trains across. A trench has already been dredged In the bottom of the river, and the tunnel section is sunk into the trench and encased with enough ce- ment to hold 1t down. Each end of the section Is, of course, plugged to keep the water out, and as new section Is sunk Its ends are bolted to the ends of the section already in place. Each section Is a steel tube two-hundred and sixty feet long and twenty-three feet and four inches in diameter. Ten of these will be laid in the trench In the river bottom, making total subaque- ous length for the tunnel of more than twenty-six hundred feet The total length of the excavation, including the land approaches will be nearly two and one-half miles. The tunnel Is to be completed in June, 1909, at a cost of S10,OOO,OOO. The St. Clair river, under which the trains of the Grand Trunk Railway are carried, was tunneled by the more common method of boring a hole through the ground under the rlv- CT bed.
Alaska sentinel., 1908-03-19
ANGEL OF THE BATTLEFIELD. J
The Name of Florence Nightingale,
 Known Everywhere.


 Known Everywhere.
 Florence Nightingale, who has re- gently been decorated by King Edward VII. with the Order of Merit, carries a name that has brought solace and comfort to thousands of soldiers on the battleflelds of Europe. She was the first woman to organize a nursing corps for an army in action, and since her noble and energetic work during the Crimean war, her advice has been sought with regard to the handling of the wounded In battle.
 She Is now ST years old, and though the methods she employed in the Cri- mea have long been superseded by modern methods, she Is still known as the "angel of the battlefield" because she first turned the attention of the civilized world to the needs of the men fighting for their country's honor.
 Florence Nightingale has been desig- mated 'the queen of nurses" because
Alaska sentinel., 1908-03-19

Queen victorias letters, which have recently been published, are an impor- tant contribution to the intimate his tory of an age of English thought and literature which bears her name. Her letters to Tennyson, published some years ago, and other first-hand records of her which have trickled into print, have long since dlspelled the idea that she was only symbol and a name. The new volumes show more abundant ly that she was keen, vigorous think CT about men and events. If she had a genius for statesmanship she had also a genius for an art quite as rare, the art of letter-writlng.
Alaska sentinel., 1908-03-19
Husbaud Breaker.

The ingenuity of the modern woman has discovered a new method of earn ing a competence.
 She breaks husbands.
 There have been women who made their living at breaking horses. but not until very lately did some emancipated feminine genius go in for husband breaking.
 Ingenious woman!
 For a moderate fee she Is prepared to make a heightened stay, and grad ually mold the newly-marrled husband according to the pattern that his wife requires. Since Adam was driven from Paradise 1t Is doubtful if man has ever felt the effects of the fall so severely as he does at this moment.
Alaska sentinel., 1908-03-19

able when the child Is grown up. The growth of scanty elebrows can, how ever, be encouraged by brushing light ly with soft brush, and this also tends to make them arched, but on no account should they be clipped to h. sure their thickness. Clipping the eye lashes to promote their growth Is also practice that should be abolished, as if the child should move while they are being clipped 1t may result in injury to the eyesight.
Alaska sentinel., 1908-03-19
The Modern Way.

"Will you have this here woman to be your lawful welded wife?"
 That's what I lowed I would"
 evil you love, honor and obey her" "Aln't you got that switched around, parson?" asked the bridegroom.
 "John," said the bride-elect, don't you reckon the parson knows his busi- ness7 Answer the, question:"
 "Yes, sir" said the bridegroom meek ly. "I reckon I'll have to."-Atlanta Constitution.
Alaska sentinel., 1908-03-19
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Mrs Frances Hodgson Burnett is an enthusiastic gardener and her country home in Kent, England, is noted for Its rose garden, where In summer she does much of her brilliant writing.
 Dr. Mary Merritt Crawford has been appointed house physician in the Will iamsburg hospital, Brooklyn, having won In a competitive examination over thirty-four men. She is but g years old.
 A widow living in the Brightlingsea almshouses, England, recently celebrat- ed her ninetieth birthday by inviting two old sweethearts to tea. One of them was 90 and the other 93 years of age.
 MT. and Mrs. Christopher Lawrence, of Hucknall Torkard, Notts, claim to be the oldest married couple In Eng land. On May day they will have been married seventy-two years. MT. Law. renee Is 92 and his wife 9l.
 An aged beggar woman, known among her neighbors as "Old Mother Snuff," was lately found dead in her house in Paris. The place was searched and the search revealed Sl5,SOO In bank notes and s4OOO in gold hidden in . mattress.
 Queen Victoria had twenty-one grand daughters, and of this number only four remain single. They are Princess Victoria of England, Princess Beatrice of Saxe-C Coburg, Princess Patricia of Connaught, and Princess Victoria of Schleswig- Holstein.
Alaska sentinel., 1908-03-19
The Girl in Gold,

One of the colors which the girl In her first season has taken up more en- Enthusiastically than any other this year Is yellow. Buttercup, daffodil, old-gold and the soft tones of crocus yellow are all included In her colony card, and these, when softened with veilings of cream ninon or lace, are taking the place even of the all-white gown when the import ceremony of the debut itself is over.
Alaska sentinel., 1908-03-19

The little coat on the standing figure Is made of bright red cloth, trimmed with black braid and straps of the cloth, finished with gilt buttons. It Is cut with very full flare in the skirt. The dress Is navy blue cashmere, trim med with parallel crimson silk folds, with stitches between them done In blue saddler's silk. The guimpe Is white challie, trimmed with navy blue soutache.
Alaska sentinel., 1908-03-19
wolnan's Enemy.

Tt is not the work that tires you at all; 1t Is the way you do It," said a wise counselor to a discouraged and broken-down school teacher.
 The word fits the case of many a woman who Is not school teacher The farmers wife who does the whole weeks work in her imagination after she goes to bed Sunday night; the bookkeeper who in her dreams adds columns of figures to bring out an ob- stinate balance; the school girl who grows hot and cold in anticipation of an examination; the dressmaker who never forgets her apprehension lest her customer shall not be pleased-all these and a score of other kinds of women need to learn the lesson of the value of the mind at ease.
 A conscientious, worrying wife of Maine farmer hurried to the hen house one icy day with pan of food. She slipped and fell-and a broken hip stopped the quick footstep and dulled the keen vision for things which must be done" For three months the pa tient lay in bed. alone many hours of each day, thinking over her life and habits and responsibilities-her sue cesses and her failure. When she could hobble to wheeled chair, she was a different creature from the anx- ious, nervous woman who had been forced to submit to imprisonment.
 A perspective of the months and years of life, a new conviction that peace of mind is more important than pies and cakes, sense of proportion which Included herself and the claims of her own nature as well as the appe- ttes of her hungry family and the profits of the farm, had revealed them selves to her in the long days of en- forced inactivity.
 "My broken hip saved my life and my soul, too, guess" the grateful woman used to say, with the smile of one who had found that the worst enc my of good work Is worry.-Youth's Companion.
Alaska sentinel., 1908-03-19

A tea kettle containing S3,000 in gold was dug up recently on Connecticut farm where 1t had evidently been bur fed many years ago. The man who buried 1t was probably one of the fool ish people who insist on boarding, and it Is only proper, therefore, that some body else is to have fun with his money
Alaska sentinel., 1908-03-19

Talk of conscrption to i'll the Unit ed States army and navy naturally brings the inquiry why conditions are such that there are not plenty of young men willing and eager to enter the service of Uncle Sam. Although vari- ous theories have been advanced, few of them are satisfactory. One gener- ally accepted theory is that young men have been offered better inducements in business life and that the financial
Alaska sentinel., 1908-03-19

The Greek coiffure Is much in evl- dence with opera costumes.
 Fancy color effects In shoes for day wear are gaining in popularity.
 Banana brown and cinnamon form a favored combination of coloring in many costumes.
 Some of the winter muffs are made of tippet pieces, laid on fatly and hang Ing like flap.
 Patent leather shoes are being worn this season, decorated with little folded bows of leather
 A trig little red English morocco bag Is fitted with folding opera glasses powder puff, and mirror.
 An applied cloak tuck, three inches wide, furnishes tunic effect on many of the long-cloth skirts.
 For handsome gowns matrons are wearing black or dark, rich colored silks brocaded In velvet.
 Lovely are the evening bags of white Irish crochet, lined with white silk and mounted in gold frames.
 A new fad Is the evening cloak of the same color of the gown, especially to wear at little theater and restaurant functions
 One of the most striking gowns seen at recent wedding was of bottle green satin trimmed with green lace and yell low panne.
 A chic departure in theater waists Is the separate waist in chiffon, generally black, and worn over pale colored or white foundation.
 When the Frenchwoman wants her decollete gown for restaurant or thea ter wear she adds transparent guimpe of white tulle and tiny era vat of fur.
 The return of the tight skirt Is per haps the harbinger of tight sleeves and waists that have been banlshed so long, to say nothing of the waistline and its natural position.
 The new sleeve, called the "step lad der" Is an outgrowth of the kimono sleeve, and consists of a succession of deep folds, one over the other, narrow ing in as they reach below the elbow. Married Women as Breadwinners.
 Twenty-seven thousand women In New York support their husbands, ac- cording to Mrs. Frederick Nathan, leader In the movement for women's suffrage in New York. Mrs. Nathan does not either approve or disapprove of a woman making a living for her spouse, but makes her statement as one of fac.- Women who support their husbands, she says, are not In any one class, but are found in all classes, from that of the woman who scrubs floors to that of the woman who marrles a title.
Alaska sentinel., 1908-03-19
All BluH.

"Yes," boasted the fortune hunting count, "all of our old family castles were on high mountalns My ancestors all lived on big bluffs"
 Indeed" replied the wise heiress, "and I see that you take after them, count"
Alaska sentinel., 1908-03-19
A Tempting Chance.

Jones-That young man who playu the cornet Is Ill. Green-Do you thinA he will recover? Jones-I am afraid not. The doctor who is attending him lives next door.-London Tit-Blts.
Alaska sentinel., 1908-03-19

Mrs. Cobden-Sanderson. the English suffragette, says American women are interested in nothing but themselves. Mrs. Golden Sanderson has evidently never heard two or more American women discussing clothes.
Alaska sentinel., 1908-03-19

James O'Neill announces that he has played the title role In "The Count or Monte Cristo" 2,O00 times People who have had to see the play three or four times will extend to him their heartfelt sympathy.
Alaska sentinel., 1908-03-19

"Richmond Pearson Hobson's fame Is secure" says an exchange, but who are these pert paragraphers who are continually jabbing him." Why, they are the hard-working gentlemen who have helped to make his name secure
Alaska sentinel., 1908-03-19
About the Eyebrows.

Many children possess beautiful heads of hair, which Is often allowed to hang loosely over their faces, with out being confined in any way. This may certainly show the hair of to the base advantage, but quite hides the bet points of the childs face and often is the cause of scanty eyebrows-a dis hgusemsnt which will be mors notice
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CTS and hauls them out towards the crib upon the other side.
 The advantage of this aerial tram over the old method of loading the rock upon rafts and towing 1t ashore Is that the ice will not interfere with the work In winter.-St. Louis Post Dispatch.
Alaska sentinel., 1908-03-19

wNot ia to become of our boasted llo- erties t!n lordly sophomore cannot haze the peblan freshman without pe- ing dragged before an uneducated court and made to pay vulgar fine!
Alaska sentinel., 1908-03-19

The judge who says that marriage Is a cure for drunkenness should produce a few statistics as an evidence of good faith
Alaska sentinel., 1908-03-19

Father of twelve loses his liberty announces a morning paper. Evidently the poor man was sentenced to support bis family.
Alaska sentinel., 1908-03-19

It certainly wearies one, after ra- dium has gone down to S1,oo,Uo an ounce. to hear people declare that the cost of living is as high as 1t ever was.
Alaska sentinel., 1908-03-19

These new dogs for the New York police "are trained to regard with sus- picion everyone who does not wear uniform" The average American citi- zen Is trained just the other way ro,,pd
Alaska sentinel., 1908-03-19

The reappearance of the Congress sIonal Record has also relieved the wrapping paper stringency in the couA- try newspaper offices.
Alaska sentinel., 1908-03-19

An australian physician Is booming sour milk as the elixir of life. Well have to admit that sour milk Is all right for people with whom It agrees,
Alaska sentinel., 1908-03-19

It costs s15,OO0' to paint the Eiffel tower. It Is cheaper to have a white elephant on hand.
Alaska sentinel., 1908-03-19

The case of Carnegie and Weston vs. Osler seems to be going against the de- fendant,
Alaska sentinel., 1908-03-19

Teach Children Care of Clothes.
 Teach children to fold their hair ribbons and put under weight on dress CT every night. The heater appearance pays for the effort.
Alaska sentinel., 1908-03-19

When the bandits near Fez stole those harems we suppose they mur- mured the Moor the merrier.
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There Is only one thing that pleases a woman more than to be referred to as a dove, and that Is to hear a man referred to as a hawk.
Alaska sentinel., 1908-03-19

Don't expect others to take up your quarrels: They will not do 1t.
Alaska sentinel., 1908-03-19

We never knew any one who did nos talk shop" too much.