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Alaska sentinel., 1909-01-21

dropped over his head and frightened The reptile was then lifted into a bag At the end of each days hunt the venom was extracted
 In doing this a small platinum spoon was used. The operator, with his hands ircased in protective glove, removed the snakes from the bag by looping them with the stick containing the silk thread. After grasplng the rept Q firmly well up to the neck, the moose was removed and the serpent's jaws were then forced open by a squeeze The spoon was then inserted In It's mouth and pressed against the fangs n the upper jaw, causing them to pres. on the poison duct, forcing the venom through the hollow fang into the bowl of the spoon. It was seldom that more than two or three drops of venom vas secured from the largest rattler. After its venom was taken the snake vas killed. The poison was bottled for ship ment in small phials and securely sealed.
Alaska sentinel., 1909-01-21

snakes and copperheads in the noun tains, near Emmitsburg, says tue Balti- more Sun. They captured number of large reptiles. from which they ob- tained about S1,5OO worth of venom which will be shipped to the Patholosi, cal institute in Paris.
 They enjoyed their outing in the mountains. A number of times they had exciting adventures, but managed to escape mishap. They carried an antidote for rattlesnake bites, but did not have occasion to use 1t.
 In catching the snakes they used two sticks of modeI ate thickness. One had ' fork enl, while the other had a silk line running through guides, end ing in loop. The snake was usually found in a coll ready to strike, but before striking the silk loon was
Alaska sentinel., 1909-01-21
A POET AFLOAT.
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Joseph Fletcher, a fisherman of Lowestoft, England, was one of the close friends of Edward Fitzgerald, the translator of the Persian poet, Omar. But the pair were not so i'll assorted as might seem, for although the sailor was no poet, the poet was pretty good sal Tor, as an adventure incorporated by James Blyth in his recent book, Ed ward Fitzgerald and 'Posh," clearly shows. "Posh." 1t may be added, was Fitzgeralds name for Fletcher.
 The gov 'nor"-it is the old long shoreman speaking of the poet to Mir. Blyth-"always went to sea In a silk hat, size or two overlarge and worn at an unusual angle, and he generally wore cross-oyer or a lady's boa round his neck. But he was no coddle for all that
 "One day the Scandal. the goy'nor's yacht, was lying at the wharf ready to get under way, and a fresh O wind was a-blowing. The gov'nor was a-reading of letter as had just been brought down by the post.
 "'Posh,' be says, here's letter with some money I never expected to get he says. That's a good job Just then the boom come over, wallop, and caught him fair on the side of his head, and knocked him over into the harbor.
 He was a-wearing of his topper, as usual, and all of sudden up he came again, just as Jack and me was reach ing over after him. His topper came up easy Ike, as though twas a life buoy, If I may say so, and underneath 1t came the fur boa, and then the gov nor. And, as true as I sit here, he was still a-holding that letter out in front of him in both hands.
 "Well, couldn't help 1t. burst out a-laughing, and so did Jack and all, and then we reached down, copped hold of him, and hoisted him aboard all right and tight, but as wet as soused herring.
 "He come up a-laughing, pleased as Punch, and gave orders to cast of and get up head sail at once. And would yCu believe me, he wouldn't go below to shift afore we got right out to Cor ton Light"
Alaska sentinel., 1909-01-21

CTS in this and other countries. Miss Peck and two trained guides from tha Swiss Alps gained the summit of the South American peak after many hard ships. their ascent having gone beyond 2j.OOO feet. Edward Whymper, The Eng fish Alpine scaler, whose recent years have been passed in the Selkirks and other ranges of the Canadian Rocky mountains. which he has described as fifty Switzerlands rolled into one," is a Mont Blanc pioneer, and after him followed the intrepid Miss Peck.
 One of the most trying and at the same time picturesque features in con nection with the ascent of Mont Blanc with which Mount AssinabOine, near Banff, in the Canadian Alps, has been compared. is the junction of the Des Blossoms and Taconnaz glaciers, passed at Grand Mulets. a height of 10,030 feet
Alaska sentinel., 1909-01-21
CURIOUS HOTEL CUSTOMS.
Cuss Words a Penny Each at an
 Edinburg Hotel.


 A curious custom prevails at an Ed inburgh hotel. Whenever a customer Is heard to swear he Is required to place Il penny in a box on the bar counter. It is not matter for surprise, says Tit Bits. that the landlord hears much less bal language than some of hls fellow publicans in the capital of Scotland.
 The following Is quaint Idea fol providing funds for picnics and social evenings. It is carried on with much success at an Ashton on- Mersey inn: A 'knocking club" Is connected with the inn, and when customer calls for refreshment he is expected to knock on the table or counter before drinking If he fails to do this he Is fined one penny. Anyone who wrongfully accuses another of breaking this unique rule is also fined. The money thus obtained provides funds for many enjoyable out ings and pleasant evenings during the course of the year.
 At another hotel, known as the Old Hundred. customers are allowed only one drink. If one Is not sufficient to quench their thirst, they are obliged to go out of the hotel and take walk be fore they are allowed to have another.
 Till recently the proprietor of an old time hotel In Warwickshlre used to ln- vlte all his customers to accompany him and his wife to the service at the par ish church on Sunday mornings, which was situated on the opposite side of the road, the house being closed while they were away. On returning, each customer was Invited to partake of re- treatments offered by the hospitable landlord free of charge.
 Visitors to q certain hotel In Aber- deenshre who wear brown boots must remember to keep them In their room overnight. Otherwise the boots will be blacked, regardless of the original col or of the same. Tn one of the rooms of a Dumfries public house Is an old armchair which is said to have been frequently used by the poet Burns. All who sit in this chair are expected to treat everyone who Is in the room at the time, and often the immortal mem- cry of the famous Scottish national poet is drunk.
 A small hotel In Wales until quite re gently was used by the Catholics as place of worship on Sundays, and the police court proceedings were held on tue premises during the week.
Alaska sentinel., 1909-01-21

There are 77,0OO,OoO bricks In the fa- nous Severn tunnel.
 Liverpool makes nearly $S00,00o year by municipal trading.
 There are more women members of clubs in New York city than in any two other cities in the world.
 The Hong Kong harbor has a water area of ten miles, and Is regarded as one of the finest in the world.
 A Colorado currant bush will pro duce at least one gallon of fruit. Some plants will yield ten times this amount.
 New York's death rate Is less than 1t was one year ago, about in the pro- portion of 1,219 a week, as against 1,343.
 fuses to have a telephone in his home, saying 1t causes more bother than any thing else In life.
 The latest species of professional beggar in New York city asks for a nickel with which to pay his fare to the nearest hospital.
 Some of the finest French tapestry is manufactured so slowly that an artist can not produce more than quarter of square yard in year.
 The German Baptist brethren have organizations in forty-one of the States. with 1,154 churches, an increase Of fifty-eight over the last report.
 The Australian regulation for I'm. ports deal very strictly with patent medicines, the labels of which make extravagant claims as to their cura- tive properties.
 Shlzuoka prefecture, Japan, Is to have a $l0.00O,0O0 hydro-electric con- pany, and a large paper material con- pany-the latter being engaged in sur veying the forests there for felling tim- ber
 It Is stated that the building of a large new electric power station in Lapland Is shortly to be taken In hand. Either the Norr or Soderland falls will be used, and 1t is proposed to erect the power. station close to the Braunland railway station and within about ten miles of the sea. The power available Is estimated at SS,OOO horsepower.
Alaska sentinel., 1909-01-21

It would seem that there has been hardly any stronger argument adduced in favor of postal savings banks than these figures, showing how much money Is sent abroad by alien laborers on this continent: Last year over s17,0O0,0OO went to Austria-Hungary, and nearly S10,0O0,O00 to Russia, in postal orders. That money was all earned here, and. of course, the men who earned it had a right to do what they chose with 1t 1; but it does seem a shame that the American people, who paid this money in wages. should be deprived of the benefit that would accrue from its be- ing deposited in American banks. Un- doubtedly the question will come up before this session of Congress. and such has been popular education and argument on the subject that 1t seems more than likely that the necessary legislation will be enacted.
Alaska sentinel., 1909-01-21

The old-fashioned covered wooden bridge across the Connecticut river at Hartford has been replaced by a beau tiful granite structure described as the largest stone bridge in the world. Both the Carlsbrucke across the Moldau al Prague and the Waterloo bridge over the Thames at London are longer, but they do not approach the eighty-two-feet width of the Hartford structure. What ever may be said of the advantage of iron or steel bridges, they do not pro- duce the restful impression of strength and permanence which Is one Of the great attractions of a stone bridge.
Alaska sentinel., 1909-01-21
BRoADwAY's ONE LITTLE LAWN.
Precious Plot at Forty-second Street, Worth s65,OOO & Square Foot.

PrectOus PlOt at fOrty-secOnd street,
 Worth s65,OOO a Square Foot. There is only one patch of lawn along the whole length of New York k's Great White Way, and 1t Is more than probable that not one In a hundred of those who pass it daily has ever no- tIced 1t. dropped into the Astor the other day shortly after noon and found an animated conversation on among ] half dozen well known women of tlle stage who had got their chairs together In the lobby. It looked for all the world like a sewing circle and sounded just ike one.
 "Is 1t flannel underclothes for the heather or some errant sister making googOo eyes at the new minister" I Inquired as I stopped at the char Of one of them.
 Neither, and this isn't church social" was the reply. I've are sim to any mere man. We are talking fash ions.
 "why don't you get out on the lawn?" asked.
 ''The lawni" they all echoed in sur prise. Not one of them had ever no- ti:td 1t.
 coaxed them outside There It Is cn either side of the main entrance \ little plot about 10 by 20 feet. After great expense and several years of effort the manager succeeded in eyolv- ing the only lawn on the White Way. And maybe he isn't proud of 1t, Why, if any profane foot would dare to press those tiny blades of grass there'd be hurry call for the reserves. It is the only one and there will probably never be another. That lawn Is the highest priced one in the world. It is worth something like s65. 900 per square foot.--New York Telegraph.
Alaska sentinel., 1909-01-21

Mir. Baer of the coal trust casually announces that there is no reason why the price of coal should be reduced as long as the people can pay the rates he demands. Mir. Baer's philosophy, sum- med up in a few words, is: While there's blood to be sucked. suck it."
Alaska sentinel., 1909-01-21

The double veil has made its appear ance in fashionable society, and men are complaining that they cannot rec ognize their women friends. It Is some thing of an odd coincidence that just as the women of semi-ciyilized Turkey are rejoicing in finging off their con cealing yeils as disadvantages the high ly civilized women of the West are adopting them.
Alaska sentinel., 1909-01-21

The highest court of the State of New York has decided that no adver- Using concern may employ ones DOT trait for purposes of booming break fast foods, patent medicines. tooth powders, or for any other wares except with full and free consent. The ruling Is of the utmost importance. It is a declaration from the loftiest fount of justice that persons face is his own, that nobody may feloniously, malicious ly or otherwise employ your counten- ance. handsome or plain. your figure. stout or slim. with intent to boost some article with which perhaps you have only an intestinal acquaintance. If evsrT maker of pills. or packer of saw
Alaska sentinel., 1909-01-21

It Is much to be proud of that on the occasion of the visit of the fleet to Japan not only did the thousands of sailors who were given shore liberty conduct themselves well, but when Ad- miral Sperry sailed away there was not a single deserter.
Alaska sentinel., 1909-01-21

Men are something like school gil & If school girl gets letter from away of, she will carry it in her books to school, and use 1t as a book mark. It gives her an air of importance with her schoolmates. A man will carry a telegram around with him until 1t is worn threadbare, for the same reason.
Alaska sentinel., 1909-01-21

We look forward with keen relish to the time when Editor Roosevelt and Marse Henry Watterson unlimber their vocabularies and start something across the chasm that separates the sanctumS
Alaska sentinel., 1909-01-21
The Real Sequence,

Mrs. Premiere-You always get s new gown before you go away on visit, don't you? Mrs. Seconde-No. I always go away on visit after I get a new gown.-Woman's Home Companion.
Alaska sentinel., 1909-01-21

Ohio, according to Professor Starr, is the father of baseball as well as the mother Of presidents. Anthropolo- gy always did impress us as complex study.
Alaska sentinel., 1909-01-21

Emma Goldman announces that she is a follower of Satan" And there are times when she seems to be step ping on his heels.
Alaska sentinel., 1909-01-21

One New York newspaper learns that Mir. Roosevelt will receive S30,0o0 a year as assistant editor of The Out look. That isn't such bad outlook.
Alaska sentinel., 1909-01-21

The Princess de Sagan, formerly Anna Gould, is causing alarm among her friends in Paris because she has developed a fondness for the ins.des of old watches. It may be that she has taken to them in lieu of snails.
Alaska sentinel., 1909-01-21
IncOnsistency.

"Pa, what is the meaning of incon. sistency!" asked Freddy.
 inconsistency, my son." exclaimed pa, means a man who growls all day and then goes home and kicks the dog for barking at night."-Human Life
Alaska sentinel., 1909-01-21

dust, Is to use your illness as he sees fit, then what is the use of having an individual face? Any old mug would do, that of your homely neighbor. as well as any. The New York courts are an eminently sensible body.
Alaska sentinel., 1909-01-21
ParadOxfcal,

Military Officer-Have you any posi- tive results from your visits to the enemy's forts?
 Secret Agent-Yes, colonel. I have some decisive negatives.-Baltimor American.
Alaska sentinel., 1909-01-21

Apparently there are lot of Ger man people who impertinently cling to the theory that Emperor William is mistaken in his belief that be is the state
Alaska sentinel., 1909-01-21
What He Watches,

"Is he a keen observer" "Only of one thing" And what Is thatT' "The clock. ."-Birmingham Age Her i'd
Alaska sentinel., 1909-01-21

The height of Mont Blanc is 15.7S2 feet and the cost of an ascent Is between $50 and SG0
Alaska sentinel., 1909-01-21

Mrs. Howard Gould says her hus- band tried to starye her by cutting her allowance to s60,o00 a year. Ever hear of such cruelty?
Alaska sentinel., 1909-01-21

The number of persons that can be crowded into an elevator depends largely on the number of Merry Widow hats that are worn by the passengers.
Alaska sentinel., 1909-01-21

What has become of the old-fashioned woman who had her photograph taken with one hand holding a half-opened book?
Alaska sentinel., 1909-01-21
Wafst-Lfns Woes,

When you would put your dexter fin Around a girl, it is a sin,
 A crying shame,
 To get, claim, All lacerated by pin. The Gossip.
Alaska sentinel., 1909-01-21

doubt that eprosy is much commoner than Is generally supposed for its period of incubation is unusually long and fails itself definitely for years Until adequate provision Is made for the victims how they will continue spread the plague among their neighbor State governments have been slow to make the necessary provisions for their comfort The Federal authorities would be in q better position deal with the stuation.-Chicago Record-uerad.
Alaska sentinel., 1909-01-21
MISS PECK GREAT PEAK scALER.
Recent Achievement Places Amer
 ican Woman nt Ton of Glass

Miss Anna Peck's recent achievement in scaling the almost insurmountable Mount Husscaran peak in South Amer
 lea places that American woman in the same rank as Sir Martin Conway. Ed ward Whymper and other celebrities known to the world of mountain climb
Alaska sentinel., 1909-01-21
OBEY WHAT LAWS WE HAVE.

":: : 5: AR more than need laws need to obey the laws have. We need H' great revival of obedience to and respect for law. and that feeling Is not encouraged EE&SaI by enactng many statutes that even kSzf3S8/ lawyers no longer pretend to know the law
 until they look 1t up.-Brooklyn Eagle.
Alaska sentinel., 1909-01-21

The millionaire who marries his stenographer never gets any sympathy from the haters of wealth.
Alaska sentinel., 1909-01-21

An American has been asked to aid the Chinese mint to make metal money. To help the Chinks chink. as 1t were.
Alaska sentinel., 1909-01-21

Let the pickle trust also be dealt with as it deserves. It cucumbereth the ground.
Alaska sentinel., 1909-01-21

No mother can understand why the chlldren's noise should annoy their father so long as they are having good time.
Alaska sentinel., 1909-01-21
PUBLISHED WEEKLY

We believe it is about time for the formation of an anti-gun-carrying par ty
Alaska sentinel., 1909-01-21

on the One takes chair and starts of, another seizes sofa, five six ten twelve get u~der piano and march along and by the otl
 CTS follow each bearing some piece of household goods. The things put in place they reach the new house, and in a few hours the moving has been accomplished and everything is shipshaDe. The human vans seldom walk unless their load Is unusually heavy
 man with sofa with four five chairs piled
Alaska sentinel., 1909-01-21
MOVING DAY IN CAIRO.

NE of the strangest sights of Cairo streets Is 6 household moving. There are no vans for the purpose. When family wishes to move the head of the house contracts with native mover, and on the day ap- pointed this man. with his assistants, some
 times as many as thirty or forty, appears
Alaska sentinel., 1909-01-21
LEPERS.

HE victims of leprosy are now the only physical defectives who are treated still
 as they were in medieval times. They ln- spire all almost superstitious terror in the clean of flesh. More scientific study is re- quired and q more humane method of deal. ing with the sufferers. There can be no
Alaska sentinel., 1909-01-21
CONVERTED BY MEDICINE.

WOMAN missionary, who was also s doc tor, had curious expel fence in Burmah. where upon her arrival, she found a vil- lage community dying of like flies with cholera. She made house-to-house inspec- ton. administered specific, and. having broken the back of the malady, left behind
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his back will keep up continuous jog trot for hours without appearing to tire-Leslies Weekly.
Alaska sentinel., 1909-01-21
PEOPLE. PROTECT YOUR PROPERTY.

~@ EEP of the grass" signs have been entirely EM6 abolished in the progressive cities. It Is HXf \ held that the trivial damage done by the sSSSA<x-8 throngs who walk on the grass on Sundays ESgENAf and holidays Is more than compensated for EsS9N9sAg by the pleasure bestowed in the knowledge
 that everything in the public property is free and open to all The only admoniton to the public which still finds favor is the sign used in Glasgow Scotland People. protect your property This hinder said to operate effectively than any of the old prohibitions.-Kansas City Journal
Alaska sentinel., 1909-01-21

several bottles of the medicine be used during het absence. Upon her return the headman cheered her heart by the greeting: Teacher have come your side; the medicine did us so much good that have accepted your God He led her his house and Into the apartment sacred his worship. There. rayed upon the shelf the medicine bottles and he with all his household instantly bowed down and prayed to them with thankful and contrte hearts-DuRdee Ad vertiser.
Alaska sentinel., 1909-01-21
STUDENTS CATCH RATTLERs.
Spend Their Vacation Collecting
 Snake Venom,

Two students of the Medico-Chirur g!cal college. Philadelphia. put in thei vacation this summer hunting rattle
Alaska sentinel., 1909-01-21

spite of Dolly Warden pettcoas and Dame Burden bon nets, yield the palm of superiority to Never again. perhaps, shall be allowed to arrogate to ourselves the title of lord and master"-Washington (D. @ Herald.
Alaska sentinel., 1909-01-21

settlers and pay considerable return to the gov ernment instead of enrichng unprincped grafers And there are probably millions of more elsewhere which may be reclaimed in the same way.-New York Tribune.
Alaska sentinel., 1909-01-21
NEVERMoRE!

N N many ways a return of our womankind
 < ;. .:. <. < <: ]: <: <: : 5
 to the sweet-mannered customs of the
 Dickens period would be sheer delight. ~ but, alas. what with the growth of female 11 suffrage and the general emancipa ton Of e5 women-as they call tive fear that the
 girls of this nge could never be Induced. in
Alaska sentinel., 1909-01-21
REGULATIONS FROM LAND THIEVES.

HE recovery by the government within
 three years of 1.201 959 acres of land In Nebraska from the clutches of land grab bers is a gratifying achievement and dem- onstrates that It Is well worth while to try to enforce the law. That splendid area will
 afford homesteads for a multitude of hon.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-06-25
LINCOLN
WALpORORO.

Mrs. j. Fl. Bates of Winthrop is at
NJ. NJ. Richards for two days
Miss Marcia Blaney returned Mon
day from a three-weeks visit in Bos-
ton.
Mr.. and Mrs. F. A. Hovey are at
tending Commencement exercises at
Bowdoin College this week. their son
Dudley being one of the graduates.
Capt. and Mrs. Al Stahl are in
Brunswick this week, attending the ex-
ercises at Bowdon College.
Miss Jessie Keene came home from
Gorham Saturday for her summer va
alton
News was received here Tuesday of
the death of r. F. Gilman at Saranac
Lake, N. Y. Mr.. Gilman had been in
poor health since last August, but had
attended to his business during the
winter. In May he came to Maine by
advice of his physician to stop during
the summer, thinking that four
months rest would restore him to
health. The collapse came three weeks
ago at Bath. he and his wife being on
the way to Waldoboro to pass Memorial
day He was removed to Saranac Lake,
n. Y, one week ago, where everything
was done for him to arrest the disease,
but to no avail. The disease was dag
nosei as acute tuberculosis with ty-
phoid symptoms and meningitis. The
father Theophelus Gilman, one brother.
Lester of Brooklyn, N. Y, and the
widow, Mabelle Reed Gilman, survive.
Funeral held at Brooklyn at s P. NJ.
Wednesday.