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Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1908-10-15
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Signs.

"Do you believe in slgns?"
"Well, l must confess that when I
see man wearing one proclaiming
that he is deaf and dumb I get little
shaky. "-Philadelphia Ledger.
Alaska sentinel., 1908-01-09
MEXICANS IN TEXAS SCHOOLS.
Children of Many Wealthy Families
 Educated fin San Antonio.

Children of Many Wealthy Families Educated in San Antonio.
 Ten carloads of school children from Mexico have arrived in this city since the influx began about two weeks ago, says the San Antonio Express.
 Scoers of them were accompanied by their parents, and the hotels of the city have been indebted, in no small degree, to this class Of visitors for the brisk conditions which have been ex- perienced by them during the last sev eral weeks.
 Many of the children travelled from their distant homes alone or In pairs or trlos, while 1t was no uncommon sight to see parties of nine or ten from the same localities across the Rio Grande at the various hotels.
 Nearly all the school equipment and wearing apparel for the entire year Is purchased for these children here in San Antonio before they enter their respective schools, and the commer. clal importance of their annual visit can easily be imagined.
 Their parents, too, before returning home, spend several days In the city, purchasing large quantities of Ameri- can goods to take back to Mexico with them, and as the majority of them ar" persons of great wealth and socia. position at home, their expenditures | amount to thousands of dollars. Of all the children from Mexico who are educated in the United States the schools of San Antonio secure over 70 per cent Not only on account of the proximity of the city to the border, but also because of the general excellence of the schools and the healthful eli mate and surroundings experienced here. San Antonio has always been the favorite place with the Mexicans for their children to obtain an English education.
Alaska sentinel., 1908-01-09
Steering a Big Ship.

The work of steering big ship, even with the aid of all its machinery, Is much more delicate than one would i'm agine. The larger and faster the ship, the greater the difficulty. It is not enough to hold the. wheel In the same position to keep the ship on her course, for the wind and waves and the cur rents of the ocean tend constantly to knock her off. The great wall of steel offers broad target for the wind and the waves. The art in steering is to adapt the ship to these forces, and when she Is defected to bring her back quickly to her course. If you could watch the pinnacle especially in bad weather, you would see the needle of the compass constantly shifting from side to side, which means that the great steel prov is not going forward In perfectly straight line.
Alaska sentinel., 1908-01-09

Jamestown was the second successor of the little frame building in which Ann Barras was made bride. This third church, of which part of the foun- dations and ruined tower alone re main, was built in 1639; its predeces- sors probably were destroyed by the Indians, who, after Powhattan's death. developed ferocious hatred of the whites which led to many horrible massacres. The tower of the old church is IS feet square and 36 feet high, with walls three feet thick. The tower is perforated with loopholes for guns. grim reminder of the dangers which enveloped those early devetees. {. During the recent celebration ser vice of intense interest was conducted at the old Bruton Church in Williams burg, Va. To commemorate the res toration of this venerable edifice King Edward sent Bible and President Roosevelt presented lectern of bronze on which the holy book will rest. The desk of the lectern Is supported by the upright arms and folded wings of the Angel of Peace. which stands on a ter
Alaska sentinel., 1908-01-09
THREE HUNDRED YEARS OLD.
First Protestant Worship by Colo
 nists in 1907 Under SaiIcIOth.

First Protestant Worship by Colo
 nists in 1907 Under SailcIOth.
 The settlement of Jamestown, Va, by English colonists in 1907 has been fttingly commemorated by the James town Tercentenary Exposition. Re gently the Episcopal Church of the United States celebrated at Richmond, Va, the 3OOth anniversary of the Church of England on American soil. The settlement of Jamestown and the establishing of the Church of England were synonymous as to date, for of the 1O5 men sent over by the London Com pany in the expedition of 1907 nearly all were members of the Established Church, and almost the first thing they did aftr selecting what Is now known as Jamestown as the site for a colony was to hold the first regular service of the Protestant religion in America. A sailcloth spread between two trees served as the first sacred edifice and has been succeeded by thousands of splendid buildings throughout the country, for the Episcopal Church
Alaska sentinel., 1908-01-09
Threatened Catastrophe.

Expert engineers predict catastro- phe more fearful than anything that has ever happened in this country un- daily growing worse in the operation of the Brooklyn bridge are not correct ed. So writes Eugene S. Bisbee In the Technical World Magazine. Erected twenty-two years ago, before there was a cable line in the city of New York and before the trolley system of cleo tric propulsion had been perfected, the great structure, more than a mile long, was intended for the conditions then prevalent. Cars were not expected to be run across 1t, except the cable lines which began operations with the open ing of the bridge, and the great weight 1t then had to bear was not too great for the immense cables that support the roadway.
 Conditions have changed and there Is imminent danger that the growing strain may prove too much for even those elghteen-inch strands of steel, and that some day from five to fifteen thousand persons will be precipltated, amid mass of tangled wreckage, to the East River 135 feet below. The absolute loss of every life on the bridge at the time will be certain, and the destruction of property will total many millions of dollars. No one knows what chemical changes have taken place within those eighteen-inch cables during the past twenty-two years. They were never subjected to any tests for conditions surrounding electricity as motive power, and electricians are at sea as to what may have occurred to weaken them.
Alaska sentinel., 1908-01-09
"JACKASS BATTERIES. :"
Men and Mules Required for Work
 in the Mountains.

Men and Mules Required for Work
 in the Mountains.
 One of the most interesting organiza- tlons which took part in the maneu- vers at Camp Tacoma, Washington, of Western troops under General Freder- lon, field artillery, Major C. A. Ben nett commanding.
 This battalion consisted of the Sey. enteenth and Eighteenth batteries, sometimes referred to as "jackass" bat teries, says Leslie's Weekly because of the use of mules. The battery pieces are transported in sections on the backs of mules, the guns and carriages being divided into four parts, making four packs for the same number of animals.
 This enables the batteries to be transferred through the most difficult regions accessible to troops, and the guns can be brought Into action in mountainous country. In the United States army these batteries are con- paratively new, but they received their baptism in the Philippines and have proved their practical value in many skirhshes upon the cottas and forts of the Moros.
 It Is surprising how rapidly the mules are unloaded, the parts of the gun thrown together and the gun load ed, sighted and ready to be fired. At a test of the Eighteenth battery the men ran the mules back fifty paces, unloaded and assembled the gun and fired in forty-five seconds. This was a worlds record.
 The work requires not only intelli- gent but powerful men. The gun Itself weighs 236 pounds and the trail the same, but the men handle the pieces with ease.
 The mules, too, are familiar with the drill and perform their parts In a very intelligent manner. They know their respective positions, and when the load Is lifted they immediately jump forward, so the piece can be placed directly on the ground.
 The gun used In those batteries has a range of from $500 to 4,OOO feet. It fires large shell, but has a lower muzzle velocity than the larger field pieces. In design the piece Is some what similar to the ''screw" gun of the British army.
Alaska sentinel., 1908-01-09

The British youth of the present gen. eration Is not In quite so bad a way as the recent discussions of physical deterioration would indicate Atten- ton was lately called to the interest ing condition revealed by a study of the measurements of the school boys at Marlborough for the past twenty years. The 14-year-old boys of 1906 are five pounds heavier and one and one-half inches taller than the boys of the same age in 1886, and the 16-year-old boys are eight pounds heavier and three fourths of an inch taller. A natter who provides hats for the boys in six schools says that few years ago he rarely WAS asked for a hat twenty-ono and a half inches In circumference, but now he Is frequently called upon for hats an inch larger. It Is not at all unlikely that the revelation of the poor physique of the British youth that fol- lowed the Boer war recruiting aroused parents to a sense of the importance of getting their boys into the fresh air, where they could take proper amount of wholesome exercise.
Alaska sentinel., 1908-01-09
CANCER-HAUNTED HOUSES

Theory that Germs Pass from One
 Set of Residents to Another.
 The sanitary authorities of Paris have reached the conclusion that houses can be infected with cancer and that rooms which patients have inhabited will convey the disease long after the victims are dead, says the New York sun. Observation seems to prove that in houses where a death from cancer has appeared the disease often breaks out again when occupied by other fam. lilies. This fact has so often been noted that now census has been taken to see about houses where cancer patients died during the last six months of 1906.
 There are 1,OG2 houses on the lls, which Will be watched to see if the new residents become affected with the disease. Already in twelve of the houses there have been two successive cases, not counting twenty-six deaths from the same disease. There has not yet been sufficient time to draw abso. lute conclusions, but the facts broupbt forward by certain physicians are start. ling.
 Dr. Armande reports that In A vn. lase of only 400 inhabitants there were i'll the space of seven years eleven deaths from cancer, all practically oc. curing In the same block of houses Three years later seventeen of these houses had sheltered twenty patients The doctor concluded that the houses were hotbeds of cancer germs and that no amount of dislnfectlng would drive them away.
 Dr. Fillassler makes report of house where during thirty years there were five deaths from cancer. all in different families. Dr. Lambier men, tions a farm house at Gasny where eight families lived at various times. Each family developed one or two cases of the disease.
 The question as to whether canoe. Is hereditary Is not to be attributed to the same cause. Interesting results are expected from the observation which Is now going on.
Alaska sentinel., 1908-01-09
The Party of the Winds.

Big. clustering, bosterous Northeast invited all the little winds that live up in the sky to come and play. North east was so merry and mad that he briskly blew and frskily flew, getting ready for his party.
 He whisked the leaves and twisted the trees, and broke off twigs with greatest ease. He was awkward, too, and made a big hullabaloo, for the lit tie work he had to do. But at last all was ready and the guests began to arrive. North and East came togeth- CT; they were cousins in weather.
 North was quite bright chap, with a cool manner and clear complexion. He brought as present some glorious, glittering icicles.
 East was hlgh-splrited maiden, who could never keep still minute, and she brought gift of puffy, fluffy snow.
 The three winds played while. They made little twirls and whlrls in the snow, then they made little tossings and crossings of the twigs In the tree tops. They bristled and whistled, they hustled and hustled and tussled.
 But when they heard West Wind coming, the three went away and hid In the deep, dark wood.
 West was such mild, gentle little lady she was quite contented all by herself, and smiled sweetly and played little lonely but lively games of puff and whiff. Then she went away.
 She tried to find the hidden ones :; but although she blew into every crack and crevice, and raised a terrible dust. she could not find North, Northeast or East.
 Then South came, and finding no one to receive him. ate all the ice and snow. like the greedy fellow he was, and went back to his Orange-blossoms. What a strange party Youths Con- panion.
Alaska sentinel., 1908-01-09

never lost the impetus gained by that initial service under the trees in the great American wilderness three cen turies ago. The rector who conducted this first service was Rev Robert Hunt.
 Women were sent to join the colony in 1908, and, frame church having been erected, the first Protestant we'd ding in America occurred In that year, uniting John Laydon to Ann Barras. The church of which the ruins are still visible on the abandoned island of
Alaska sentinel., 1908-01-09
GOV. FOLK,

order that publicity may be given to what is going 1t should be provided that copies of the printed argu briefs be filed in the office of the Secretary of State and subject to public inspection.
 The sunlight of publicity is the greatest preventive of corruption. This measure would not prevent the average citizen from talking members of the Legislature about of public interest It only paid lobbying that is intended to prohibit It has been urged that such law would violate the right of free speech in venting any person. though professional lobbyist from talking to members of the General Assembly The right of free speech Is sacred right but the right of the people have their laws untanted by vendl niu is also sacred.
 man cannot talk to juror trying to influence him about the The right of free speech has limitations. This is of them, and interfering with legislation is another The right free speech extend to obstructg the administration of justice the courts of legislation.
Alaska sentinel., 1908-01-09
Ransack history from Eden to Chi

Ransack history from Eden to Chi. cago and Los Angeles and you will find few great men and fewer good men whose cradle was not rocked by a white-souled woman. Turn all the vile pages of history and you will find few men of brutal instincts and de graded lives whose cradle was rocked by a woman of clear intelligence, of high ideals and of ripe wisdom, says the Los Angeles Times. Pollute rad ically the source of human society at the fountain head, motherhood, and you may build school house on every
 crossroads; you may endow colleges with the wealth of all the mines in the
Alaska sentinel., 1908-01-09

restrial globe. One foot of the angel rests on Great Britain and the other on the United States. The globe Is sup ported jointly by the American eagle and the British Hon.
 Bruton Church was the court church of colonial Virginia. George Washing ton and other noted men worshiped there. The restoration of the church was the idea of the rector, W. A. R. Goodwin. D. D., and the proposition commanded the interest of prominent Episcopallans all over the world.
Alaska sentinel., 1908-01-09

It was explained few days aftel the uncompleted span of the bridge across the St. Lawrence at Quebec fell recently that the accident occurred be- cause the span was too heavily loaded with structural material at its outer river one hundred and eighty feet from the pier with no support Even though the average person may have general knowledge of the principles on which such a span Is constructed, he always wonders that It does not fall of it's own weight Engineers were afraid that It would fall until a bridge was built across the gorge of the Niagara river In 1885, the first cantileyer bridge in the world. Now, cantilever Is bracket projecting from the side of building or pier. In bridge two such brackets are built from adjoining piers till they come near enough to- gether to be connected by an indepen- dent truss. In its simplest form the cantilever, or bracket, for a bridge Is a series of connected trlangles. The side of the pier Is one side of the first triangle; beam projecting from It at right angles Is the second side, and brace running back to the pier from the outer end of the beam Is the third side. This third side forms the first side of the second triangle, and the end of the first beam Is at its up per apex, and the base of the triangle Is another beam extending from the lowest point of the first triangle at right angles with the pier and sup ported at its outer end by another beam running from the end of the first beam. AS 1t is impossible to change the shape of triangle so long as its sides and corners remain rigid, 1t is theoretically possible to extend series of connected triangles an indefinite distance into space. All that Is needed Is that the supporting pier should be strong enough and that the sides of the triangles should not buckle. The chief advantage of this method of bridge construction lies In the possibility of spanning deep gorges and rapid rivers without false work to support the uncompleted struc- tura
Alaska sentinel., 1908-01-09
No More.

Now the letter R appears;
 Now the oyster gaily steers Toward the scallop or the stew, For the summer days are through, No more freckles; no more tan; No more leisurely young man. No more strolling meath the moon No more ice cream no more spoon ; No more landlord smiling gay At the bills you have to pay. No more tunes in discords played; No more boardwalk promenade: No more sleeping rooms so small That your elbows hit the wall. Home again Despite the heat, A real town is hard to beat. Washington Star.
Alaska sentinel., 1908-01-09
GOOseberry.

Many young people have wondered how the gooseberry got its name, sup must have some connection with a goose. Here is the explanation: Goose berries are called In German johannis- beeren, that is. "St. Johns berries, !" because they ripen about the time of the feast of St John. St. John is called in Holland St. Jan, and the fruit Is there called jansbeeren. This word was centuries ago corrupted Into gans- beeren, of which our English word gooseberrles is literal translation, gans, in German, signifying a goose.
Alaska sentinel., 1908-01-09

ten letters. with two exceptions, of tho Egyptian alphabet. They are found on the mummy bandages almost iden- tical in form, with the exception of 5 and s. with the figures now In common use. The true Arabic numerals are to- tally unlike. The figures we use ap- peared for the first time In Europe in 124O Alphonso, son to Ferdinand, king of Castle, ordered table to be prepared and employed for the pur- pose Isaac Hazan, Je wsinger of the synagogue of Toledo, and Aben Ragel, an Arabian. and it was in this table that the figures were first given.
Alaska sentinel., 1908-01-09

Canadian government experts who have been prospecting In the Yukon re zion have lately announced that more than sixty million dollars worth of gold still remains In the valley, but that careful mining methods will be required to extract 1t. The superficial methods employed in the past have produced nearly hundred and twenty millions. This, of course, applies to the Canadian Yukon region.
Alaska sentinel., 1908-01-09
Not His Fault.

A first grade boy brought perfect spelling papers home for several weeks, and then suddenly began to miss i've and six out of ten.
 Flows this, son?" asked his father. Teachers fault,' replied the boy.
 How Is it the teachers fault?"
 "She moved the little boy that sat next to me. e."-Lippincott's Magazine.
Alaska sentinel., 1908-01-09

A Highmore (S. D. municipal ordi- nance prohibits young men and women from "loiterlng on the steps of any church building or doorway for the purpose of eating candy or peanuts. !" This is likely to break some young peo- ple of the habit Of going to church.
Alaska sentinel., 1908-01-09
AMERICAS DISAPPEARING FORESTS.
By Secretary Wilson.

If better care, more general propa- gation, and fostering of present conditions are not observed, the for. ests of the United States will be practically wiped out inside of an- other ten years. The pine timber of Michigan. Wisconsin and Minnesota is practically wiped out.
 Forest fire is the one great thing to be guarded against, and for that protection the government has en- ployed thousands of men to watch for fires. A person can ride for miles through Michigan, Wisconsin
Alaska sentinel., 1908-01-09

world; you may fill the chairs of phil losophy and science with prodigies of genius; you may make your cities like thickset woods with church steeples, and i'll their pulplts with men whose tongues are fire. Do all that. but you will not arrest the race In It's down. ward course In vice and degradation. Unless the mothers of the race lay the foundations of character, unless the sisters of the men set before their eyes a constant picture of purity and self devotion, and make virtue appear in its true attractixeness, and unless wives hold up before our eyes some reflex of the angelic qualities of the soul which makes the human reflect the Image of the divine, all your accessories of civ ilization are in vain and all efforts must fail. The bestial in the race must assert itself and drag us down to wal low in the mire of all uncleanness un- less we are guided by the gentle touch of white hand with woman's love of all that is pure and of good repute beating in every vibration of the heart which vlvifies that hand.
Alaska sentinel., 1908-01-09
Girls of sixteen think they a

Girls of sixteen think they are mighty pretty, and they are, but a little girl of six or seven, with her hair done up in knot on top of her head, md her starched skirts sticking out all around her, can give a six teen-year-old girl cards and spades and then beat her.
Alaska sentinel., 1908-01-09
On Pa.

"That'll be quite a swell wedding at your house tonight said the old friend of the family. "Of course you'll give your daughter away"
 "No," replied the girls father, q guess I'll only be lending her. I be- lieve they'll be back to live with us." Philadelphia Press.
Alaska sentinel., 1908-01-09
Possible.

Tommy-I did wash my face.
 Mother-How dare you tell mo that? Why, It's just as dirty as ever.
 Tommy-Well I washed 1t, but may. be 1t didn't take; you know my vacci- nation didn't the first tlme.-Philadal phia Press.
Alaska sentinel., 1908-01-09

and Minnesota and barren ons where formerly great pine forests Fires started either carelessy otherwise have wiped millions and millions of dollars worth of the best of hard wood. Unless something is done we will not have enough hard wood in fifteen years the latest to make an od-fashoned bedstead with
Alaska sentinel., 1908-01-09

according to the standard of the states of New York and Massachusetts for savings bank investments.
 These securities to be accepted 70 per cent of their market value and the United States to antee the payment and redemption of all used at charge of l per cent.
Alaska sentinel., 1908-01-09

A scientist says he has discovered the germ of laziness, but can't find nothing that will destroy It. Perhaps he hasn't tried hard enough. The germ may have nabbed him.
Alaska sentinel., 1908-01-09

&ys the St. Louis Globe-Democrat ::
 is better to be charitable than rich and you can't be both." The great majority, 1t seems, are finding it hard to be either.
Alaska sentinel., 1908-01-09

A French electrical scientist has dis- covered a means of transmitting energy without wires. Perhaps the tramp pr3f!am Is solved.
Alaska sentinel., 1908-01-09
open Season for Bandits.

Now is the time the plumber,
 Who's been humble all the summer, Begins to strut about with naughty mier And study the arithmetic
 Which will enable him to quick Ly prove that two and two make seven
 teen. Kansas City Times.
Alaska sentinel., 1908-01-09

A correspondent of one of our con- aporaries writes asking how one may Ne beautiful hands. Some people
 them by juggling with the cards.