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Alaska sentinel., 1908-01-23
WRITE THEM ALETTER TONIGHT

Don't go to the theater, concert or ball, But stay in your room tonight. Deny yourself to the friends that call, And a good, long letter write. Write to the sad old folks at home, Who sit, when the day is done, With folded hands and downcast eyes And think of the absent one. Don't selfshly scribble, Excuse my
 haste,
 have scarcely time to write," Lest their drooping thoughts so wander
 ing back
 To many a bygone night When they lost their needed sleep and
 rest,
 And every breath was a prayer That God would leave their darling babe To their tender love and care. Don't let them feel that you have no more Of their love or their counsel wise; For the heart grows strangely sensitive When age has dimmed the eyes. It might be well to make them feel That you never forget them quite That you deem 1t a pleasure, when far
 away,
 A good letter home to write. Don't think that the young and giddy
 friends
 Who make your pastime gay Have half the anxious thought for you That the old folks have to-day. Postpone not the duty of writing home Let sleep or pleasure wait Lest the letter for which they looked and
 longed
 Be day or an hour too late. The sad old folks back there at home, With locks fast turning white, Are longing to hear from the absent one Write them a letter tonight
Alaska sentinel., 1908-01-23
Rails Are Eyener,

The fact that within the past twenty years two-thirds of the uneyenness In railroad tracks has been done away with on certain lines was discussed at a recent meeting of the American Academy of Sciences.
 The improvement has been brought about principally through new designs and methods of manufacture of rails. 4 track indicator" caS travelling twenty or thirty miles an hour, sums up the inequalities, the ups and downs" in the rails for each mile tra- versed. Formerly the total inequall- ty" per mile amounted to six or seven feet, even for the best roads; now 1t has been reduced to only eighteen or twenty inches, and this remnant Is said to be due to dents in the rails.
 It has been pointed out that the im- provement, which may be carried far ther, brings with 1t heavier locomo- lives and cars, longer trains and higher speed.
Alaska sentinel., 1908-01-23

The Department of Agriculture is taking a paternal interest In the pros. perity of the farmer. It Is teaching him to have better crops, better ma- chinery and better buildings. Now comes Postmaster General yon Meyer with an intimation that the Postoffice Department also wants to take a pater- nal interest in the farmers. It wants to give rural residents the parcels post. This" according to MT. yon Meyer, in a Philadelphia speech, will be a great boon to the farmers on the rural routes, because when they are able to order their goods by telephone or postal card it will relieve them of the incon- venience of going to town to obtain the necessarles of life" The Postmaster General admits that country storekeep- CTS strongly object to this form of be. nevolence to the farmers. But he says he will quiet their objections by giving farmers a lower parcels post rate on their local delivery routes than from
Alaska sentinel., 1908-01-23
COUNTRY.

just how worry does kill. It Is be- lieved by many scientists who have followed most carefully the growth of the science of brain diseases that scores of the deaths set down to other causes are due to worry and that alone.
 The theory Is simple one-so sim pie that any one can readily under stand It. Briefly put, 1t amounts to this: Worry injures beyond repair cer- tain cells of the brain, and the brain, being the nutritiye center of the body, the other organs become gradually in- jured, and when some disease of these organs, or a combination of them,~ arises, death finally ensues. Thus does worry kill.
 Insldlously, like many other diseases, 1t creeps upon the brain in the form of single, constant, never-lost idea; and, as dropping of water over a per lod of years will wear groove in a stone, so does worry gradually, lmper- ceptibly, but no less surely, destroy the brain cells that lead all the rest; that are, so to speak, the commanding off, cers of mental power, health and mo- ton.
 Worry, to make the theory stil. stronger, Is an irrItant at certain points, which produces little harm If 1t comes at intervals or irregularly. Occasional worry the brain can cope with, but the iteration and reiteration of one idea of diSquietlng sort the cells of the brain are not proof against It is as If the skull were laid bare and the surface of the brain struck lightly with q hammer every few sec onds with mechanical precision, with never sign of a let-up or the failure of a stroke.
 Just In this way does the annoying idea, the maddenlng thought that will not be done away with, strike or fall upon certain nerve cells, never ceasing, and week by week diminishing the vi- tallty of these delicate organisms, so minute that they can only be seen un. der the microscope.
Alaska sentinel., 1908-01-23
Casey's Catch.

Casey was on his way home from a fishing trip down by the bell-buoy, says a writer in the New York Sun. And livery wan of us," he said, winding up his story of the days work, "wint away wid fifteen foine fish on his string"
 How many fish did you catch in all?" some one asked.
 Sixty" said Casey. There were four of us."
 "Who were they?"
 Well, I was wan, and the two Kel- leys was two, and Finnegan was three, and-Finnegan. he was three, and-and I'm sure there were four of us! But who was the other fellow?"
 Casey began again.
 'sTry 1t this way" he said. "Flnne- gan was wan, and the two Kelleys was two, and I was three, and-and-l'm blest if I can think who was the other wan"
 Then Casey laid~down his string of fish and began counting off the mem bers of the fishing party on his disen- gagged hahu
 "I was wan," he said, doubling up g finger as he went along, ''and the two Kelleys was two, and Finnegan was three"
 But the two Kelleys was three," some one broke In.
 Do you know the two KelleysY' asked Casey, warmly.
 "No."
 Well, then, how can you say the two Kelleys was three? Go on, man"
 Casey stood thinking 1t over for a minute, and then picked up bis string of fish.
 I'm blest," he said, wagging his head, "if the rascals didn't do me out of-there Is In sixty twenty times-out of five fishes!"
Alaska sentinel., 1908-01-23

King Alfonso of Spain kept his wife awake with his snoring, and to pre- serve peace In the family he has had adenoids cut from his nose, 30 that he may breathe through 1t when asleep. His physicians have ordered him not to smoke so many cigarettes, If he would retain his nasal health, and he doubtless will do as he is told. Kings and slaves alike must obey their phy- sicians and their wives.
Alaska sentinel., 1908-01-23

together such nice man, poor fel- low, and a real gentleman, too."
 What is his namef"
 "I don't know-he has never said we only call him the lrishman-he's good looking, isn't he? It's very sad to come down like this before he's even old"
 But my friend will probably help him; she is very generous and open hearted, and she seems 80 interested in his case"
 "Oh, yes, she Is, indeed" agreed the nurse, flor she has been down every day this week and I think she has already spoken about him to the guard ians."
 "Really?" I said How kind of her She lives In America, and has heaps of servants and secretaries and odd people about her, so hope she will find him a berth; it would be such lovely start for him."
 Tt would, indeed" said the nurse, "and it's very kind of her to trouble. I WISH tAClc hClC a 1Cn uOIS IlhC her."
 
 I had just returned to town on my way to Scotland about three months later when I suddenly received a note from Mrs. Vanderson, who was still In town. Do come to tea if you are in town by any happy chance" she wrote, "and If you have moment to spare, I want to introduce my second husband you know, I've been married again for nearly a month. and we're up in town for two or three days, but we're going abroad next week, hope"
 I accordingly went round to the Sa- voy at about o'clock and found Cora yanderson looking radiantly happy.
 What bombshells you throw at your friends" I said, laughing "I seem to have only been away few weeks, and I come back and find you are married again-you might have let me know be fore. You really take my breath away"
 "It was all so quiet" she said; "just a special license and the whole thing hustled through one early morning."
 "Who is her" I asked, and wondered if she had found the title she told me she intended to marry.
 ''The Marquis of Bllkenny," she said. Its a very old Irish title, and nothing to keep 1t up on, until he found me- and she laughed. "and my dollars"
 She was too pretty and charming to far or be really vulgar. and she looked so radiantly pleased that I added aI- most involuntarily:
 But there must be more than a mere title to make you look like that. Cora
Alaska sentinel., 1908-01-23

Mechanical traction has been substi- tuted for horses on the Ladoga canal In Russia. When the traction engines appeared POGO peasants seized them and stopped all traffic so effectually that troops had to be called out to re- store order. There were riots of this sort in England a hundred years ago, when power sawmills were introduced there, but In the more advanced coun- tries the laborer and the mechanic now adjust themselves quickly to new in- ventions Russia is about one hundred years behind the times. When one realizes this, one will understand many things that happen there that are oth- >rwise inexplicable.
Alaska sentinel., 1908-01-23
# w~m x A Real 2 2 Romance

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 And so you have really come over here on matrimony intent" my dear CoraT
 Mrs Vanderson nodded "Yes," she said, T have" and added with empha- sis: "Why not? I married for love, foolish child that was, and 1t was the deadest of failures right away from the very beginning, SO"
 "Now you are going to try and fall In love again."
 "No, not love-" she said quickly. "I've had enough of that silly nonsense, you bet-and now I've come here to marry one of your"
 "We have no dukes left" interrupt ed-"at least none," I stopped myself from saying "old enough" and added :: "None to spare, you know"
 q know" said Cora Fanderson, her slightest of accents slightly accentuated by her earnestness. "I made real sure of that before I started. and I know what you call your society Bible, Burke, right through and through"
 Have you thought of any particular person yet on whom you are going to bestow your beauty and incidentally
 My dollars" laughed Cora Wander son. "Yes. realize all the possibilities of the Inevitable dollar and exactly what can buy over here"
 Tt seems to buy most things, I must admit" said, with unpatriotic sheer ity.
 "Yes; but my difficulty was, I didn't know any of your society people," said Mrs Vanderson.
 And do you know now? asked.
 She shook her head. "No, but I've lovely plan, oh !-such a romantic idea"-and she screwed up her pret- ty mouth. You think we Americans aren't prepared to buy romance-when there's any to be had over here but I am dead certain we have a real capaci- ty for business. too. My romance didn't die out, just because I had to dI- yorce Yanderson, with whom I couldn't get on, and now I'm going to buy a real romance with my papa's dollars, Say" she added, suddenly, "am I real pret- ty still?"
 My dear Cora, you are lovelier than eyer," said, with perfect truth, but I doubt if love can ever be bought, even by unlimited dollars and unde- niable loveliness.
 Love" she echoed. with much con- tempt, q don't want love-besldes, it's not to be had, anyway, from what see of English husbands. I want a title of real, ancient, British title, and mean to get 1t in a real romantic way" 
 "Where are you going3 Say, can't you come with me" Cora vanderson stopped her motor and called to me one morning as was going through Dover street to my club.
 "Im going to my club-and youT"
 "I'm going to the workhouse," said Mrs. yanderson. Cant you comer" Going to the workhouse" I echoed, In amazement. "Where-why-wha workhouseT
 "It's down in the country at Blank, | in Landshire," she said, as though 1t were the most ordinary thing for an American visitor to go to a workhouse "It's only about seventeen miles or so Come with me if you've not anything on that you must do. I'll bring you back in time for dinner" Without demur I stepped into her motor. This hardly looks like the workhouse," said, as I leant comfort ably back in the luxurious and silently gliding brougham. Has poppa lost his
 That's it," she said. "I'm what you call over here-district visiting" dollars, or are you merely going as a l sightseerT
Alaska sentinel., 1908-01-23

The King of Aysbonia Is offering his realm for sale, advertising in a number of European papers that be will accept S200,00O for his kingdom, together with all his subjects. He even offers to throw in thirty of his wives. Aysbonia Is in Africa and is 250 miles long and ninety miles wide. Why doesn't some heiress who has unfortunately married a bogus count or a spurious duke buy this kingdom for him, and thus estab- fish her right to the possession of a Itle?
Alaska sentinel., 1908-01-23
he outside. Does Mir von Meyer i'm

the outside. Does Mir. v6n Meyer i'm agine that even this concession will protect country stores from the aggres- sive city mail order houses? The fatal flaw In Mir. yon Meyers reasoning, as quoted above, is the supposition that the farmer needs to be pampered until his conditions of living are as artificial as those of the average city resident He Is to have the trolley car at his door, the telephone in his house, his daily mail delivery, which will include all his groceries and store supplies. Neither the farmer, nor his wife, nor going to town" One may well doubt whether the average rural resident ap- preciates or needs quite So much atten- tion on the governments part. The country storeNeeper needs as much pro- tection as the farmer, perhaps more, says the Chicago Journal. The farmer should be encouraged to deal in the nearest town or village. The parcels post Is an enemy to this rural com munity life. It will increase the artifl- cial markets in the cities and curtail the natural home markets. The govern ment's paternalism could find more le- gitimate objects than the suppression of normal healthy neighborhood ex' change In the rural centers.
Alaska sentinel., 1908-01-23

Brazil, distinguished In the merry comedy, "Charley's Aunt" as the place "where the nuts come from" Is also distinguished as a place where ideas grow. Thirty Brazilian merchants and professional men, have been visiting this country, in obedience to the advice which Secretary Root gave to all the Americans to get acquainted.
Alaska sentinel., 1908-01-23

One photographer reports that be has taken 1000 pictures of Mars. Still, there is no likelihood that pictures of Mars will take the places of the pie lures of pretty girls on the covers of the magazines.
Alaska sentinel., 1908-01-23
Two Tragedies.

A poet had a wife and the wife had little to eat After several weeks of failure to get money wherewlth to pur- chase food she ran away with a cab driver who owned his outfit and acted as though he owned the city.
 'sThe blow will kill him." cried peo- pie. "She has ruined his career"
 It didn't kill him, for he turned his sorrow into a sonnet that he sold for S5, and reviewers said that the font of inspiration had at last been opened to him.
 A mans wife deserted him, and the neighbors were more interested than he was.
 Poor fellow" they said, "it will drive him to drink"
 It did, for he was one who never lost an opportunity, and his wife was a strict tee-totaler.-New York Sun. /
Alaska sentinel., 1908-01-23

New York has a young engineer named Herbert Spencer. He begins life either with brilliant prospects or under a fearful handicap.
Alaska sentinel., 1908-01-23

If ever the complete story of arctic exploration is written 1t will be found, doubtless, that the astronomers on Mars discovered the north pole ages egu.
Alaska sentinel., 1908-01-23

Having attained to that degree of common sense where they ignore the panic" cry, 1t Is not too much to hope that some day the people will keep their seats and laugh when the idiot shouts fire" In the theater.
Alaska sentinel., 1908-01-23

Although Uncle Joe' Cannon has ex- pressed the opinion that "boys will be boys" he Is not likely to overlook the fact that a good many become voters.
Alaska sentinel., 1908-01-23

A girl walks to the gate to gaze at the stars, explaining that she has such a feeling of unrest. After she has mar ried this feeling of unrest takes another form: Uncertainty at night If the hired girl will be back next morning to get breakfast.
Alaska sentinel., 1908-01-23

The American who was arrested In Russia while gathering material for a lecture will soon be back here with some material that he hadn't figured on getting
Alaska sentinel., 1908-01-23

A contemporary describes a simple and effective burglar alarm, operated by means of a string. The burglars doubtless have read of 1t with interest and will know what to do when they meet It.
Alaska sentinel., 1908-01-23

According to recent estimates there are s,00O0o0 telephone girls in the world. Most of them are at this mo- uent giving the busy signal.
Alaska sentinel., 1908-01-23
WORRY CAUSES DEATH.
Brooding over Trouble Injures the
 Brain Cells.

Modern science, says German med teal contempsrary, has brought to light nothing more curiously interesting than the fact that worry will kill. More remarkable still, 1t has been able to determine from recent discoveries
Alaska sentinel., 1908-01-23

An Australian physician claims that sour milk Is the only real elixir of life. That ought to suit people who have dis positions to match 1t.
Alaska sentinel., 1908-01-23

If the lines of thought affect the lines of the figure 1t Is remarkable that more women do not resemble the interroga- ton point,
Alaska sentinel., 1908-01-23

King Edward of England wears a green hat, but Ireland refuses to give up the hope of gaining home rule even tua1iy
Alaska sentinel., 1908-01-23

Anyway Ananias was never accused of being the author of a tombstone in- scription.
Alaska sentinel., 1908-01-23
PUBLISHED WEEKLY

Money talks, and what 1t says has a soothing effect on a wild and bolsterous panic
Alaska sentinel., 1908-01-23

Some women marry for love, some for money, and some for a home. It Is not known why men marry.
Alaska sentinel., 1908-01-23

And many a girls shirt waist ia rumpled because of too much pressing
Alaska sentinel., 1908-01-23

together; such a nice man, poor fel- low, and a real gentleman, too"
 "What Is his nameI"
El Democrata fronterizo. [volume] (Laredo, Tex.) 1896-1920, 1908-01-25
MUY AGRADABLF
Su Influenza es conocida
de muchos habitantes de
Laredo.

La Influenza agradable del ali
vic. Despues de sufrir de almorra
mas, Eczema 8 irritaciones de la
piel. Hace que Sc sienta agradeci.
miento por este remedio. Ell Lini.
mento de Doan ha dado ell alivio 4
cientos dc enfermos.
j. T. Kimball, misionero Bau.
tista de la Am. Bap. Home Mis-.
sion Society, N. Y, que vive en-
Nuevo Laredo, Mexico, Gale de
Gonzalez, No. 421, dice: "Hace ur
aho aparecio una mancha en- la ca
beza de nuestro pequeEo hiio, que
parecia eczema 8 sarpullido. Guam
do la notamos estaba SEGA Y esca-
mosa. Sc extendi6 y Sc abland6,
v por 1ltimo creci0 del tamano de
un peso. Algunas veces causaba
dolor y comeZon y era muy moles-
ia. Estabamos inquietos, por que
resistia todos nuestros esfuerzos
para combatirla, sin embargo de
que lie poniamos inumerables re-
medios, muy rccomendados para
esas Intermediates. Por 1lttmo,
vi un anuncio del Linimento de
Doan en- los peri6dicos de Laredo,
Texas, y un dia pase q comprar
una GAIA en- Ia Botica de la Ciudad,
Prob6 ser 10 que ofrece. Muy po-
cas- aplicaciones fueron necesarias
para aliviar la erupcion completa-
mente. La piel qued6 tan bien,
que nadie dice ahora que hubo una
llaga.
Lo hemos usado en- otras ocacio-
nes, y ha sido muy benefco.
Vivamente agradecido, reco-
miendo ell Linimento de Doan como
una preparation one cumple 10 que
ofrece.
De venta por todos los droguis-
tas.
Precio, so cts. Foster Milburn
Co., Buffalo, New York, 1nicos
agentes para los Estados Unidos,
Recuerdese ell nombre-Doan-
Y no Sc acepte ningun otro.
El Democrata fronterizo. [volume] (Laredo, Tex.) 1896-1920, 1908-01-25

ell Catesismo internal que
prepara la destruction de la
inocencia?
impossible! Impossible es
Greer, sino es que los padres
nos tomemos una tarea muy
afanosa, en- que ell future de
la familia pueda ser dichcso;
Y todas esas invenciones de
caminar en- globo y en- ferro-
carril y alumbrarnos con luz
electrica, no parece sino que
los hombres las preparan pa
ra llegar mas pronto a nues-
ira desgracia y alumbrar
mas claramente nuestras mi
serias.
Por ESQ, mi coraz6n de pa
Dire de familia, siente ell mas
triste desencanto, cuando ell
egoismo carinoso hacia mis-
hijos me hace pensar que
ellos tendran su participa-
ci6n ''equitativa" en- la gran
desgracia, que Sc prepara
para ell future del hogar.
Nuevo Laredo, 1am., Enc
no 19, de 1908.
O. Gonzalez.
El Democrata fronterizo. [volume] (Laredo, Tex.) 1896-1920, 1908-01-25
Autoridades que
abusan.
Para la Prensa.

Eel Popular" de fecha %
de Diciembre 1ltimo, dice:
''De algun tempo a. esta
parte, Sc han estado come
tiendo en- los diversos Esta-
dos de la Repdblica Mexica-
ma, crfmenes y delitos de la
mayer gravedad, y en- oca-
stones por funcionarios y per-
sonas encargadas de la auto
ridad pdblica, delincuencia
tanto mas lamentable, GUAM
to que procede precisamente
de semejante origen, es de-
cir, de aquellos individuos a
quienes Sc ha encomendado
el cumplimiento de Ia ley y
la custodia de los derechos e
intereses p1blicos."
Gun factor esencial, puede
decirse dnico, existe en- este
fen6meno, cue por modo tan
deplorable contradict todos
nuestros adelantos, y pugna
con el grado de cultura ma
cional que hemos alcanzado.
Y ese factor no es otro, que
la poca entereza de los ciu-
dadanos, su falta de energia
para exijir que Sc cumplan
las garantfas que a todos los
El Democrata fronterizo. [volume] (Laredo, Tex.) 1896-1920, 1908-01-25
Honor MereCidO.

Nuestro muy estimado
amigo, ell correcto y fecundo
escrltor Don Manuel Barero
Arguelles, Director Gle Gel
Espectadcr," diario de Mon
terrey, ha recibido una nue.
va honra, como premio a sus
brillantes labores literarias,
pues ha sido nombrado
Miembro Correspondence de
la Academia Nacional de la
Historic en- Venezuela, como
puede verse en- ell siguiente
documento: =
El Democrata fronterizo. [volume] (Laredo, Tex.) 1896-1920, 1908-01-25

nidad de hablar a grandlsl-
mas distancias; pero todos
esos Congresses, todos esos
Gobiernos no han podido 6 no
han pensado en- garantizar-
nos la tranquilidad y la di-
cha en- ell hogar, y sin que yo
pretenda echar la culpa a
determinado grupo, sino a la
humanidad entera, 10 cierto
es que los hombres estan pre-
parando ell mas grande cata-
clismo en- ell future dal hogar.
iDe que modo?
En- nombre de la libertad
de costumbres; en- nombre de
la falsa civilization, que para
que sea buena, Sc ha exclude
de ella a Dios, guiador indis-
pensable de toda accion para
que sea provechosa a la hu-
manidad.
iDe que nos sirve a los po-
cos que profesamos la idea de
instruir a nuestros hijos en-
ell tenor de Dios, 81 una vez
fuera del hogar, tienen macs
tros amillares que les ense-
nan 10 contrario?
De que sirve ala amorosa
madre inculcar a la inocen-
tie nina los mas sanos princi-
pios, sipara ir a la. Escuela y
a la Iglesia, tiene qte pasar
antes por frente a diez VEIN
te cantinas de donde salen
voces y expresiones que son