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Alaska sentinel., 1908-03-05
"Mary, explain. Do you love thi,

"Mary, explain. Do you love thi, man?"
 John! love John!" she echoed Fred, Fred. what do you mean?"
 Just what say" he answered, firmly. Do you love him? Answer me-'yes' or mo-"
 "No."
 'Then why do you wreck your home for him?"
 What do you meanf Fred, tell me explain, I-"
 "The explanation must come from you"
 ''The explanatlon?" she repeated the word, dwelling on each syllable.
 Yes. I was In the garden before dinner"
 Mary did not remember what she had said to John. but she knew where In the trouble lay. while something In his persistency told her that he had guessed her secret about the jewels. But Fred knew nothing he had seen only falsehood in her eyes, and wondered at It.
 'I had to- she cried, wildly. "John | did 1t for me. Babbie was ill-oh Fred, you remember, and said 1t was little legacy. do you remember2 couldn't see Babbie die-of-of want ing the best. That's why did 1t. Fred l darling. Oh, I should have told you I know, but they were my jewels-to do with what I wllled. and knew you'd try to prevent me-perhaps run into debt yourself and be worried. Sc John did it. and I've been saving from how angry you were about the bonnet | Three years, you said, and a hat be came mummled millinery. But saved It at last, Fred. and now"
 Slowly the light was beating through to Fred. Babies illness-the legacy He drew a packet softly from bis breast pocket. Not love letters-what then? He handed them without word to his wife. She gave a great cry, and she broke the seal and the little tickets and contract notes fell to the ground
 Pawn tickets." he calculated, and then stared at his wife. For moment there was silence, then he gathered heI | into his arms. Forgive me, sweet he murmured. his lips almost touching hers. q was mad-jealous- Because heard those words there ir the garden I destroyed the trust of 6 life thought that John and you-'
 "Oh, Fred" she murmured, lifting her lips to his, "but-how did you gel them back?"
 "I-I-" Fred started at her, and held her close. T was a beast, Mary strustful-horrible But didn't opel the packet. dear. I-I was the bur glar. Philadelphia Telegraph.
Alaska sentinel., 1908-03-05

Tongue" in business Is at discount The modern salesman Is the man who knows when not to speak. So of ad. yertising, silence Is often golden.
 Increase your effort as your field mar. rows. It is easier to sell S10 worth of goods among a thousand people than to sell that amount among one hundred If you have only hundred prospects then work them hard.
 Good advertising cannot be called an expense, for 1t Is only an investment just as you place your money In shoe stock or line of furnishings, and you get your money out of 1t just as surely and with possibly a better margin on the investment
 No door Is thick enough to keep out the newspaper and its advertising; nc chamber is too remote, or too quiet, for the fayorlte family paper; DO surveil. lance Is so strict but the newspaper Is admitted. and 1t brings It's message of wars, of elections, accidents, marriages births and deaths-and advertisements
Alaska sentinel., 1908-03-05
A Nice Calculation,

A Flemish gentleman conceived the idea that he would only live certain time, so he made nice calculation of his fortune, which he so apportioned as to last just the same period as be guessed his life would extend to. Strangely enough. his calculations came correct to the letter, for he died pune tually at the time he had previously reckoned. He had so far exhausted his estate that after his debts had been dis charged a solitary pair of slippers rep resented the entire property he left His relatives buried him, and a rep resentation of the slippers was carved on the tomb. To-day In churchyard at Amsterdam his grave may be seen, the only inscription on the stone being two Flemish words. "Effen Nyt" q. e.. "E1actly").
Alaska sentinel., 1908-03-05

In 1905 the game of football COS. the lives of 24 players and injured 200 others. That was the worst record the game has ever made in this country Coming after several years of high ia. tallty lists, 1t excited a movement fol reform, which ended in a general agree ment that If the rules could not be SC revised as to eliminate the increasing perils of life and limb, and If the worst of the commercial evils of the game could not be removed, then the game It self would have to be banished from our colleges and high schools. Colum bia University put forth an edict oi banishment, but most other institutions contented themselves with a revision oi the rules, from which much Improve ment was hoped. That there has beer an improvement in the moral tone of the business management of the game is certain but the statistics of casual ties for this year have been the cause of great disappointment over the work ing of the new rules of playing. Last year the deaths were 14 and the in jured 160, and this year the deathI number 13 and the injured 152. Mean time Columbia Is giving the colleges ar object lesson in the possibility of pros perlng without the game. A committed of the faculty investigated last sprini the effects of the retirement from th, field of sports. and reported that at tendance at the university had grown that students took more interest 1T their studies and that no loss was ob servable. Recently the students hay, worked up enough interest In a mocl political campaign. with primaries, con ventions and the full machinery of gen. uine politics, to compensate them fol the loss of the football excitement. Il Is certainly incumbent on the peopl, who still believe In the future of foot bail to meet the present situation and show that 1t can be played with reason able safety. It Is true that the most fatalities are among high school pupils and other boys not In fit physical con dition, but the colleges cannot escape some of the responsibility for these deaths, since they furnish the incent i've to the noncollegiate players and since their rules are the rules the oth- CTS follow
Alaska sentinel., 1908-03-05

once more, and before Mary had half finished her prolonged and complicated story Larkspur Lane was deserted again.
 John Fenwycke tried to cut Mary short. but nothing short of a shaking could have accomplished that end, and the bathroom door was still between them. Even to talk to a gentleman in a state of nudity, although deal door lntervened, offended Mary's sense of the proprietfes.
 Tor, sir, let me throw somethin' on," she calculated In injured tones.
 "Is the house on fire7" asked John sternly. snifflng the while.
 "No, sir, twas a bur-gu-lar." slut tered Mary. her clothes clinging to her damp form.
 "A burglar. Where?' bawled John. stamping his foot in impatience. "Where?"
 "Climin' out of the staircase. win der" began the maid servant.
 John waited for no more. One bound took him to the bottom of the flight of stairs, and In a moment he leaned from the window and observed the bur glars means of escape. He climbed hastily down, and searched the lane, the garden, and the shed. Ills hostess, Mrs. Fossick. joined him from the garden, where they had been sitting
 What was It, John?" she queried. "Marys so hysterical-I suppose 1t was only mouse or black beetle"
 "No. 1t was a burglar" said John, laughing; but as far as I can make ont he has carried of no spells. The Mary heard him making his way up stairs, and startled him. He must have fled incontinently, for there's no trace | of him.
 MT. Fossick came back from his club about an hour later.
 "Why. Mary!" he exclaimed, you look as though you had seen ghost. He gazed from one to the other as though calling for an explanation. We've had burglar alarm in your absence" cried John, laughing; "lt wasn't discovered till his departure and Mrs. Fosslck was little upset"
 Burglars at 'Moneta.'" repeated Fossick. incredulity In his eyes; why there's nothing worth stealing"
 Ills eyes fell on his wlfe's face, and he went a step nearer her.
 ''The jewels are still at the bank,
Alaska sentinel., 1908-03-05
VALUE OF SALT TO MAN.
It Is an Important Constituent of
 the Blood.

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 Salt holds a prominent place in the list of our food accessories. From the most ancient times man has valued salt as apparently a needful item in his dietetic substances. and even lower animals exhibit an instinct for salt such as represents an inborn craving arising from a dictate of nature her self. The history of salt In relation to the body Is itself interesting. It seems to be mineral compound universally distributed throughout our tissues Even the freshest of our meats contain salt as part and parcel of their com position. Equally notable Is the fact that salt Is found In the excretions of the body. It Is given of In very ap- preciable quantity in the precipitation from our bodily wear and tear. So i'm portant a constituent of the blood Is salt that In cases of loss of blood the surgeon injects Into the circulation a solution of salt and water and thus contrives to replenish in a certain fash ion the depleted supply. In some way or other, as yet imperfectly understood, salt appears to be necessary for main- taining what we may call the chemical equilibrium of the blood. One of the punishments inflicted under the old laws of Holland and one regarded as in severity next to that of death was the keeping of prisoner for a certain length of time on a diet from which all salt was excluded The result was cancellation, and death If the depr,va. ton was long persisted in.
Alaska sentinel., 1908-03-05
LE-oH-DEAR.

See, what wonderful garden Is here,
 Dear! Posies so gaudy and grass of such
 brown Search ye the country and hunt ye the
 town And never yell meet with a garden so
 queer Az this one I've made for my Lttle-oh-
 Dearl Marigolds white and buttercups blue, Lilies all dabbled with honey and dew. The cactus that trails over trellis and
 wall, Roses and pansies and violets-al Make proper obeisance and reverent cheer When Into her garden steps Litue-Oh-
 Dear. And up at the top of that lavender tree A silver bird singeth as only can she; For, ever and only, she singeth the song "I love you-I love you v the happy day
 long; Then the echo-the echo that smiteth me
 here love you, love you," my Little-Oh-
 Dear. The garden may wither, the silver bird
 fly But what careth my little precious, or ' From her pathway of flowers that in
 springtime upstart She walketh the tenderer way in my
 heart And, oh, it is always the summer time
 here With that song of "I love you" my Little
 Oh-Dear Eugene Field.
Alaska sentinel., 1908-03-05

Public confidence has been shaken by
 the excessive exploitation not of the proper business of certain corporations. but of their stocks and securities to ad- vance the personal schemes of high off, cials. "Gentlemen's agreements" for doubtful, perhaps sinister. purposes, se- curing possession of chain of banks to further the ends of purely specula- tive pools and combinations, are among the abuses of high finance" revealed during the depression from which we are recovering The real property of the country is intact. The mines the
 railroads. the mills, the focks and herds still exist The land Is produc- fl 2, and will produce, at a tremendous rate. All the elements of abounding and continuing prosperity in office, field aud shoD are with us. The one thing
Alaska sentinel., 1908-03-05
INDICATES WEIGHT.

the scales. A Texas man has hit upon the Idea of having the scoop indicate the weight of the contents, eliminating the necessity of transferring It to the scales. His weighing scoop Is shown in the accompanying illustration. The pan for gathering up the article to be weighed Is piyoted to the handle and operates a pointer, which indicates the weigt of the contents on a scale. If a pound of sugar Is wanted, the grocer dips enough out of the bin to swing the pointer to the pound mark. The sugar is then transferred directly to a bag, doing away win the necessity of weigh. ing on the scales.
Alaska sentinel., 1908-03-05
Southern Exposure.

Little Charlie Is the bright son ot a poor downtown family. He goes to school every day and Is model in his studies and conduct, but he is much ashamed that his clothes are not as good as those of the other boys. His teacher was explaining the points of the compass the other day. She said |: You have In front of you the north, on your right the east, on your left the south. Charlie, tell me what have you behind you" Charlie turned crimson and, after a moments hesitation, said l: i've got patch on my pants; knew you'd see 1t. told mamma you would" Philadelphia Record.
Alaska sentinel., 1908-03-05

OI dSll6llOu III HIS NOlce.
 "Yes," she said mechanically.
 Fossick's eyes sought his wife's. For the first time in their married life he knew she was telling him He. For might she not have told him? He wlnced at the memory of the afternoon, and his hand went to his breast pocket
 He had sat down to work after tea that day while his wife and John had gone into the garden. After a while a longing for his wife's company had come over him. and he had wandered out In search of them.
 At first 1t had been unconscious and unavoidable, but later he had listened intently and on purpose.
 You will redeem themT' he had heard John say.
 "Yes, dear" Mrs. Fossick had an- swered. "Oh, how good you've been, dear, dear, John!' What promises had his wife made his friend? What intimate discussion was this In which he had no part?
 Tt was hard-it was impossible, when Babbie was alive, but now I can do 1t easily. It has been weight on my mind all these years, but at last I shall be happy"
 Mary unhappy in her married life !! Mary bound only to him so long as Babbie breathed! Mary faithiess-. Fossick had almost groaned aloud. He turned to go. then stopped.
 You will bring them to mei'
 "Yes, tonight, before you go. I have them locked away upstairs. think 1t would break Fred's heart-he's-he's so fond of me, and he'll think I've been poor and unhappy all these years. He mustn't know, John"
 Fossick came back from his Memor- les with a start.
 Where's Nary"
 parently absently; "she went out of the room a moment since. An. here she isw
 They heard her footsteps on the stairs, and detected her agitation before she burst In upon them. I've been robbed" she gasped. John, John. they're gone!" What havew demanded her hus- band. going to her. Why, Mary. don't be so perturbed. I've never had any thing very valuable to give you, I'm afraid. We'll soon get some more, and the jewels are safe at the bank, aren't theyT
 Yes" Mary's eyes were fixed on John, who stared back into hers with dlsmay written on his face. "Go," she cried to him stop them '"
 As John went away Fossick went to his wife.
Alaska sentinel., 1908-03-05

Reports from the surveyors who have been marking the line between Canada and Alaska indicate that as originally fixed in 1898 IL was six hundred feet too far west The United States Is to have a strip six hundred feet wide and many miles long. which, until the pres ent survey, the Canadians supposed be longed to them. The proper boundary Is the one hundred and forty-frst me
Alaska sentinel., 1908-03-05

Not long ago the manager of fash ionable London restaurant refused to allow an earl and his countess to eat In the dlning-room because they were not attired In the regula- ton evening dress. Admission to certain parts of the fashionable London theaters Is also denied to those not h evening clothes. Such rules are In accordance with the snob- bish definition of a gentleman as one who dresses for dinner;;" but most of us know that 1t takes more than that to make a man, to say nothing of a gentleman.
Alaska sentinel., 1908-03-05
But Still Out of the Union.

Nature is something of a manufac- turer herself In the case of certain cactus marvellous natural pottery is produced. Woodpeckers excayate nests in the trunk and branches, and to pro tect itself the plant exudes sticky juice, which hardens, forming a woody lining to the holes made by the birds Eventually the cactus dies and withera away. but the wooden bowls remain.
Alaska sentinel., 1908-03-05

needful Is the elimination of stock va. tering and stock jobbing directors and other officials to whom the organiza- tion of our industries and the conser- vatism of the wealth of the country is to a very great, to a commanding, ex- tent committed. We shall have gather. ed good from our financial ills If the obligations of trusteeship are more re ligiously observed.
Alaska sentinel., 1908-03-05

Leather is used for horseshoes ip iome parts of Australia
 Norway has twenty hospitals devoted 70 the treatment of leprosy.
 Key West has a salt water fire and anitary flushing system.
 The dragon fly moves through the air either backward or forward.
 The average temperature of the en. lire globe Is 50 degrees Fahrenheit
 A disease-proof potato has been h. roduced into France from Uruguay.
 The period of incubation Is shortest with humming birds, being ten days.
 The first locomotive west of the Ms Iissippi was put upon the track at St Louis h 1852.
 New naphtha springs and large naphtha lake have been discovered about eight miles from Nabilskaya bay. h the Russian portion of Saghalien.
 A diamond drill bore hole 6,TO0 feet ieep was put down In Upper sllesia In 1900. Another deep hole was put down on the Rand, South Africa, in 1905, the depth being 6,3o4 feet.
 The minting of nickel coins in the Republic of Colombia has been ordered. The new coins will be 25 per cent nickel and 75 per cent copper, and will take the place of one, two and five peso notes
 In remote villages of the Salzkam- mergut. Hungary. the mania for things English Is 30 strong that the pustboys frequently remove English stamps from letters and substitute Hungarian. thus delaying the delivery of the letters. It Is claimed that Massachusetts average crop of about 100000 bushels annually; New Jersey Is a close sec ond, with about 950OO0 bushels, and Wisconsin ranks third with an average If about 100000 bushels. It Is stated that so much had been learned by the flight of "Nulli Sc cundus" to London that It's use will be abandoned, and that new ship with experiences of the flight, will be put in hand.
 The wonders revealed by the ordin ary microscope are increased hun dredfold by a recent invention. whict enables the use of a high-power lem as large as six inches in diameter thus bringing the whole of objects in stead of details only under obserya 1 ton.
 Oscar P. Thrasher. age nine years of this town. claims the honor of beinl the youngest telephone exchange oper ator In the world. At the age of sever years he began to operate and soon ex hibited wonderful ability for tn, work.-Pindge correspondence Bostor Herald.
 In the Ch'anghl district wolf Lillet a Chinese child. The physician of th' local mission made ready his gun anC proposed to hunt down the beast Don't seek him at this season, bu wait until his pelt Is thick" was tht characteristically Chinese advice whlcl was offered to the would-be hunter.- 1 North China News.
 The wedding dress of the lilac poplir worn by Queen Alexandra on the oc casion of her marriage. forty-four year: ago. and in which she first won tn, hearts of her future subjects, Is stil very carefully preserved by her maJes 1 ty. This dress was chosen in compll ment to Queen Victoria, who alwayl had a love of lilac.
Alaska sentinel., 1908-03-05

G. Bernard Shaw sarcastically refers to us as a nation of villagers. If 1t is disgraceful to be a villager good many Of us have hitherto been unaware of the fact
Alaska sentinel., 1908-03-05

Judge Petit urges that engaged cou- ples should study the law of courtship. But that would not decide who Is to get up and light the fire of a morning six months after the wedding.
Alaska sentinel., 1908-03-05

Miss Mary Money, an American girl, has applied for a jockeys license in France. If the theory that money makes the mare go' is correct, Mary sho A.I be q srtccess.
Alaska sentinel., 1908-03-05

A New York bank teller complains that he finds 1t difficult to support a family on an income of S1,s0O year. A good many people have supposed hitherto that only mlllionaires were In any way connected with New York banks
Alaska sentinel., 1908-03-05

John D. Rockefeller thinks the op- portunities for young men are thou sandfold greater in this country than they ever have been in the past. Il must be understood, of course, that Mir Rockefeller does not include the oppor- tunities for getting along without work inp
Alaska sentinel., 1908-03-05

Lady Subscriber" Is hereby inform ed that money which Is carried in a womans stocking cannot properly be called elastic currency.
Alaska sentinel., 1908-03-05

"Why do women cultivate special voice for the telephone?" asks the Montgomery Advertiser Doubtless be cause the one they use on their hus- bands would put the transmltter on the b1i1k
Alaska sentinel., 1908-03-05

What If the eagle on the new S10 gold piece does look like a turkey? If the turkey wasn't such big fool about some things, as national bird he would be as appropriate as the eagle.
Alaska sentinel., 1908-03-05

4 South Norwalk (Conn.) man has just returned home from the civil war His wife certainly Is justified in sus- pecting that he stopped somewhere on fha WAY
Alaska sentinel., 1908-03-05

\ brunette says that the blondes are always selfish, and that they nre exceedingly affected in their manner toward gentlemen
Alaska sentinel., 1908-03-05

The New York Tribune heads hard times story Corset Factory Feels the Pinch" Fewer of Its patrons, then, must be feeling the squeeze.
Alaska sentinel., 1908-03-05
SCOOP THAT WEIGHS.
Does Away with the Necessity of
 Employing Counter Scales.

Every grocer can scoop up sugar or coffee, etc. from the storage bin and very closely gauge the correct quantity. Yet he would not be willing to give 1t to the customer as the full weight to
Alaska sentinel., 1908-03-05

We should like to rebuque those women of Dubuque who are forcing their husbands to learn to cuQue.
Alaska sentinel., 1908-03-05

If you are idle, your excuse for call ing on a busy man Is, 'I will not take up much of his time" But the busy man will have other callers during the Bay.
Alaska sentinel., 1908-03-05

A harp 414 years old has been found in Iowa. Perhaps 1t is the one that once through Taras halls
Alaska sentinel., 1908-03-05
PUBLISHED WEEKLY

Why not make -WoJdman, Spare That Tree" the national hymnl
Alaska sentinel., 1908-03-05

It doesn't take the averags woman one-third as long to mix up . cake and bake 1t, as 1t took her to run next door and borrow the eSeA
Alaska sentinel., 1908-03-05

A man never does justice to him. self as an entertainer when his wife is around
Alaska sentinel., 1908-03-05

Tell the truth, or some one will teD It for you
Bisbee daily review., 1908-07-30
SERVED AT ALL HOTELS, RESTAURANTS AND EARS.

the Albuquerque route by hundreds every day in the year. And as for the deserts spoken of, Lieutenant Mowry had no idea that before his own book was out of print people would be crossing them on overland palace car trains with dining car service, barber shops, easy chairs, libraries ana, In fact, all the comforts of city life to say nothing of an abundant water sup ply and ice water at that. It did not occur to him that if there was no water there white men knew how to take it there and if there was no ice, white man would make it. He could not conceive that before nIs book reached the second edition probably ten millions of people would nave crossed over that very route In great CT comfort than the people of his day travelled from New York to Boston Either that, or the climate has changed appreciably. Anyhow there was no snow in Phoenix yesterday and none reported at Albuquerque. Arizona has both railroads and still needs more.