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Douglas Island news., 1909-12-29
Letter From Australia
Sydney, Nov. 22, 1909.


 Mir Editor.-I am at present in Aus tralia on a trip around the worlo Australia is all right; but the climate is somewhat like that of Alaska-it borders all the time on the extremes- While Alaska is rigid and cold, Aus traIia is hot and dry. The constantly menacing features about the Australia climate is the alternations Of drought and flood, and these extremes are equally distressing. In 1884, for ih' stance, ten million sheep died tro"' thirst. The capriees of Australian drought and flood are we'll ilustrateu in Lake George. In 1884 the whoie lake was dry. The following year It was 20 miles in diameter In l9oO' dFy' and the next year 40 miles across ane' 20 feet deep.
 The sombre uniform, olive shade or the foliage, alike on upper and under surface, is another strange sight. A the forest in the southern bemisphel is evergreen. Australia has also quantity of leadess trees, which allo" the radiation of the san's heat fui swing. The foliage is vertical whereVei it exists, hence the exceedingly dry sol in Australia. The birds are ditfereh here than elsewhere. The pogardI, wlth enormous mouths the musical magpl" the Tyre bird, the megapodrida birds so lazy that the san has to hatch thelr chickens-the emu, the cass oWary (os- triches), the regent bird, the brush tongued Tories, the paradise bird, With unusually fine plumages the cockatoos or parrots, of which there are so many that Australia in early days was calico sgThe Land of Parrots" The kangaro' the nocturnal opossum, the p!atypue being a mixture of cat, duck an rooster, all these animals and stFang birds draw-at once the attention of the newcomer.
 The natives have no fixed habitatioI Caves, as the famous Jenolan cave ID Eastern Australia, used 10 be then tenement.
 Australia is a large coantry-as large as Europe, and about four times as large as Alaska. 1t has about lO,OOl species of vegetation (more species than Europel and has 650 pecies ot birds, Europe only 500.
 The aurora borealis is here called aurora australjs. The starry heaven IS different. Here the southern cross takes the place of your north star Then the Sirius, the Canopy aud the Tandem are to be seen here, but not so in the northern zone.
 The natives are called "the blacks,' and they can never overcome the lnJus tice of John Bull taking away thei. land at the point of guns, while at the same time handing them the Bible. Australia was settled in 1789 by ship loads of convicts, landed without any permission, and without buying any land whatever from the "blacks." But such is the strange record of the English colonial policy Ask, however, a blooded Englishman about the rights of property" and he will quickly answer you. EvERT NYMANovER.
Douglas Island news., 1909-12-29

The department of commerce and labor has refused to pay the Alas ka Steamship company for the transpor- tation of 193 men who were brought to Seattle from Unalaska after having been wrecked on the Columb bia, big cannery vessel, last April. The Alaska Steamship company will appeal the case.
Douglas Island news., 1909-12-29
Humboldt Steamship Co.

The s. s. Humboldt will resume her regular sailings for all $. b. Alaska ports on or about January Is, 1910. Pay no attention to contrary reports made by interested parties.
 J. HEUBNER, Agt.
Douglas Island news., 1909-12-29

Every night you can see the moving pictures at the Douglas Opera House, and it is. free to all, New films each, week.
Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1909-06-17
Luck for a Fly Cop
Cot a Bride on the Run
Found His Old Long-Lost Sweet
heart When He Caught Team
of Runaways.

New York, June 14.-William
G. Steinblinet, twenty-eight years
old, a policeman attached to the
East Fifty-frst street station, and
Miss Mary Schroeder, twenty
three years old, of No. 8 Arion
Place, Brooklyn, were married
last night as the elimination of a
romance that began fifteen years
ago, when they were playmates
in Brooklyn. Not long after that
time Steinblinet moved to Man
haitian and three years ago he be-
came a policeman. Meantime, he
lost sight of Miss Schroeder.
One night last February, he
was in charge of the traffic ar
rangements in front of a hall, in
East Fifty-eighth street, where "a
carnival was being held, when the
horses attached to a carriage con-
tanning several women ran away.
He stopped them, and out of the
vehicle stepped his sweetheart of
the long ago. They renewed the
acquaintance, and in st. Johns
Catholic church, Brooklyn, last
night Father Moore made them
man and wife. A platoon of po-
licemen from the East Fifty-frst
street station attended the we'd
ding reception at the home of the
brides mother.
Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1909-06-17
COOL RETREAT FROM SUMNER HEAT
The HutChig on Garden Street Opens Its Doors to the
Blessed BeGZS Of the Gulf.

out which there is no real recrea-
ton or relaxation, is here offered.
Personally conducted hotels are
usually more in name than in
fact, but Mr.. and Mrs. Hutchins
are making it their daily business
to give their personal attention to
their guests and they spare moth
ing to make you feel good because
you are there. 1t is a pleasant
house without and within. You
find pleasant people there. 1t is
pleasantly shaded. That park
reaching down to the river is a
pleasant place to lounge in and
cultivate pleasant acquaintance.
The rooms are pleasant because
cool and shady and daintily APP
pointed and Immediately clean.
The reception rooms and the halls
and dining room are pleasant and
so is that open balcony on the sec
ond floor where scores can sit and
enjoy all the gulf breeze that is
loafing anywhere in the vicinity.
The host and hostess could not be
anything but pleasant in such
pleasant surroundings, and if you
are yourself a crank you will soon
grow pleasant yourself under
such pleasant associations. If
you are temporarily in the city or
for the summer, call at 205 Gar
den street and be pleasantly sur
prised at the good thing there is
there in the way of a guest house
of the best.
Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1909-06-17
Novel Cable Station
a Whaling Good One
Wound the Ocean Cable a Tougher
Job Than His Grandfather
Found Jonah.

Seattle, Wash, June IA
big whale tried to run away with
the cable connecting this city with
Alaska, according to a story
brought down from the North by
Captain Latin of the United
States cableship Burnside.
The Burnside was sent north
along the coast of Alaska to re-
pair the cable, because during the
last winter difficulty had been eX-
perienced in sending and receiv-
ing messages The Burnside
picked up the cable connecting
Valdez and Sitka few miles off
Cooks Inlet, not far from Sitka
The crew never had such a time
hauling a cable on board as they
did that day on the Alaska coast.
Finally the cause of the great
weight was found.
Some time during the winter a
whale feeding on the bottom of
the ocean with wide open mouth
cOllided with the wire rope.
Unable to shake the big wire
from the mass of whalebone in
It's jaws the big fish turned tur-
tie, rolled over once, turned
around, rolled again and dived.
In these few movements the fish
proved himself his own hang
man, for the cable was twisted
tighter about the head of the
whale than any mortal could have
done with the most powerful ma
Ghinery
The whale drowned and the
carcass was devoured on the
oceans bottom by other fish. The
crew of the Burnside hauled up
a great load of whalebone and
found a great twist in the govern
ment cable that had been the
cause of the unusual difficulty in
sending messages to and from
either end of the rope.
Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1909-06-17

The permanent guests at the
Hutchlns and the stranger with
IN its gates as well, felicitate them
selves on the comfort of their
placing. Summer has come to
this old town in its usual warm
hearted fashion and there are
none of the hundred thousand
now housed within its hospitable
gates who do not appreciate the
GOODNESS of these southeast breezes
that blow the whole summer
through from the shoreless waters
Of the great gulf. These southeast
breezes mark all the difference be-
tween GOODNESS and sultriness,
comfort and the other thing. The
rooms that open to this favored
quarter Of the globe are always in
demand, and happy is the habit
ant who finds himself in the
southeast corner of the guest
house. Those who travel to the
east by the way of the south are
all right. Those whose living and
sleeping rooms face to the south
and the east in this climate are
all right, too. The Hutchins was
constructed to give as many rooms
rs possible a south or an east ex-
POsure, and those not thus favored
open on the wide hall that sweep
ing through from east to west, is
never without a delightful air
current in the sultriest nights.
Every thing that makes for com
fort and that home feeling with
Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1909-06-17
DOG SAVED THE PREACHERS.

Morrisville, Pa, June IA
The Rev. E. P. Ferry, pastor of
the First Presbyterian church
here, and Rev. Asa Ferry, pastor
of the Bethany church in Phila-
delphia, would have been drown
ed when their canoe upset in the
Delaware river but for a big shep-
herd dog
When the boat upset both men
took it as joke, and the Morris
vile preacher started to swim for
shore, when his brother was ia
ken with cramps, threw up his
hands and sank. Seeing the
plight of his brother, Rev. E. P,
Ferry turned back to assist him,
and in the struggle both men be-
came exhausted, and would have
persisted.
Suddenly, there was a splash
along the shore. Bob, following
his masters canoe, swan out and
took one of the men to the shore
and then returned for the other.
By the time the animal had fin
ished his work all three were COM
pletely worn out.
Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1909-06-17
RATHER A LIVE RAT TRAP.

Mount Vernon, Ind, June IA.
Near New Harmony lives Rig
don johnson, who has a rat exter-
minator which he says beats a
whole pack of rat dogs. Mr.. John
sons rat exterminator is chicken
snake about six feet long, and it
has taken refuge in the barn and
granaries on the farm.
All the year it wages incessant
war on the rats and mice about
the place, and as a result of the
snakes strict attention to bust
ness Mr.. Johnson says he hasn't
a rat or mouse on his 260 acres
of land. He says he never has
any corn eaten by the rats.
He has given instructions to
members of his family not to in
jure or modest the snake in any
way, and intends to allow it to
make its home on his farm as
long as it cares to remain, A
chicken snake is not thing of
beauty and appears to be vicious
reptile. 1t is a black snake with
white spots covering the back.
Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1909-06-17
WANDERER.

(By Roscoe Brumbaugh.)
The whitethroats sing for him at
morn
Their most enchanting, plain
tive lay;
The bob-whites in the fragrant
corn
Call out to him along the way.
Mayhap he tarries here and there,
When weary, at some open
door,
Then leaves behind the weight of
care,
And journeys lightly as before.
There are no tales like those he
hears
Within the pages thousands
turn
He knows the secret joy of tears
Which we have found it hard
to learn.
His heart is free; and, unconfned,
His footsteps wander where they
will
A gypsy, like the rowing wind,
He starts across another hill.
Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1909-06-17
LIGHTNING DIVIDED THAT PAIR.

Guthrie, Okla, June 14.-Dur-
ing a heavy storm lightning
struck the home of G. A. Mari
and both Mari and his wife were
seriously injured. AT the time of
the accident Marr's daughter and
a young man were sitting on a
sofa in the parlor. The lightning
connected with the steel springs
Of the sofa and the young man
was hurled against the parlor
ceiling, severely injuring him.
The young woman escaped unin-
Iured,
Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1909-06-17

T. N. u, San Antonio, Texas, June Is, 1902
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1909-08-12
CHAPTER TX.
Procrastination,

The cab which picked Maitland up
at his lodgings carried him but a few
blocks to the club at which he had, the
previous evening, entertained his law.
yer. Maitland had selected 1t as the
one of all the clubs of which he and
Bannerman were members, wherein
he was least likely to meet the latter.
Neither frequented its sober precincts
by habit. Its severe and classical
building on corner of Madi.
son avenue overlooking the square, is
but the outward presentment of an in
stitution to be a member of which is
a duty, but emphatically no great
pleasure, to the sons of New York
family of any prominence. a..
But in its management the younger
generation holds no suffrage; and is
not slow to declare that the Primordial
Is rightly named, characterizing the
individual members OF the board of
governors as antediluvians, prehistoric
monsters who have never learned that
laughter lends a SAVIOR to existence.
And so it is that the younger genera
ton (Which is understood to include
Maitland and Bannerman), while it re-
ligiously pays its dues and has the
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1909-08-12

Ten seconds, perhaps, licked on into
eternity; seconds that were in them.
selves eternities. Then: mo one
here. O'Hagan."
The door was closed, and through
its panels more family came: Faith,
and the numbering divvle must we
few tn coop afore We come in, sor."
The girl tried to rise, to make again
for the window; but 1t was as though
her limbs had turned to water: there
was no strength in her; and the black
ness swan visibly before her eyes, IA.
dating away in whirling, streaky cir
cles.
Even such resolution and strong will
as was hers could not prevail against
that numbing, deathly exhaustion. Her
eyes closed and her head fell back
against the wall.
1t seemed but an instant Though
it was in point of fact full five min
utes) ere the sound of voice again
reused her.
She looked up, dazzled by a gush
of warm light.
He stood in the doorway, holding the
lamp high above his head, his face
pale, grave, and Swallowed as he
peered down at her.
Il have sent O'Hagan away" he
said, gently. IF you will please to
come, now"
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1909-08-12
Pathcs and Tragedy in the Leaves Of
the Old Album.

On every page of an old album is
written heartache, downfall disillu.
sion, loneliness. Here is the picture
of the boy whose every waking hour
outside of school was partly yours.
So genial a fellow he was, so ambi.
tious, so brilliant. Ycu saw him last
year, and hardly recognized the shah.
by wreck that drink had made,
hardly were able to exc out half an
hours conversation with him. Here
is the college chum with the fine
head who was to do great things in
life. Consumption. The blossom
blighted ere the fruit was get. This
other classmate with the face OF
Keats-the merest hairs breadth OF
misdirection in furrow OF his brain,
first manifested in a comic oddly.
After the flesh, our friend still lives;
only his mind is dead.
And here is one whose every line
ament shows forth engaging frank.
ness and the Joy OF life-worI e than
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1909-08-12

and misery. / advise all suffering
women to take Lydia E. Pinkham's
Vegetable Compound" MRS. EMMA
WHEATON, Vienna, w. Va.
Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Com
pound, made from native roots and
herbs, contains no narcotics or harm
full drugs, and to-day holds the record
for the largest number of actual cures
of female diseases of any similar medi-
cine in the country, and thousands of
voluntary testimonials are on file in
the Pinkham laboratory at Lynn,
Mass, from women who have been
cured from almost every form of
female complaints, inflammation, ul-
ceration, displacements, fibroid tumors,
irregularities, periodic pains, backache,
indigestion and nervous prostration.
Every such suffering woman owes it to
herself to give Lydia E. Pinkham's
Vegetable Compound trial
If you would like special advice
about your case write a cOnfiden-
tial letter to Mrs. Pinkham, at
Lynn, Mass. Her advice is free,
and always helpful.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1909-08-12
~ fsA- 4pNA III ~ ~ ~
Heartaches on Every Page

dead. Embezzler. guilty fugitive with
a neighbor's wife, His broken.heart.
ed old father. his wife, his children
all of us who trusted him. how much
rather would we have followed him
to his grave than have this come upon
him! And then the long list OF those
with whom our lives were interwined.
for whom We hoped, believed, expect.
ed-mere insipidities. trifies. failures.
half'successes, living along somehow
And we ourselves. What we meant
then to be: and what we are!-Eu
gene Wood.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1909-08-12

Laundry work at home would be
much more satisfactory II the right
Starch were used. In order to get the
desired stiffness, 1t is Usually neces-
sary to use so much starch that the
beauty and fneness of the fabric IL
hidden behind paste of varying
thickness, which not only destroys the
appearance, but also affecta the wear
ing quality of the goods. This trou-
BILE can be entirely overcome by using
Defiance Starch, Us II can be applied
much more thinly because of its great.
er strength than other makes.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1909-08-12
Tea Possibilities.

Il have just had an invitation TO an
electrical ten To be given by n woman
doctor" said the bachelor girl I'm
locking forward TO 1t and wondering
what Is going to happen 10 us
whether she will give us little bat
terry and let us entertain ourselves,
make the tea on an electric stove. or
just electrocute the bunch Of u.s."
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1909-08-12
AFTERMATH

Aftermath" is persistently III.
used word. Early July is the time Of
the "math;" that is, the first moving
Of the meadow. The short grass
with suficiency of rain-will grow
again, and later will come the second
NOW" or aftermath" The phrase
the storm and its aftermath" seems
a favorite with some story writer's,
but it is difficult to understand how
a storm can have a second moving!
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1909-08-12
Thu Norm Turned

The clerk in the shoe store was
tired. The day was insufferably hot.
The customer who was trying to catch
train was clanorous. Goaded to
desperation the hard-driven clerk ex.
postulated
mo, we don't have salesman for
each customer. This amt no Chinese
Sunday school"
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1909-08-12
Reslnol Is Appreciated and Highly
Recommended by Intelligent People
In All Parts Of the World.

highly recommend Resinol ONT
ment to all persons who are troubled
with skin eruptions of any kind.
have found these preparations most
useful and eiilcacious in many cases.
NJ. +. RYAN. bedford So. London.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1909-08-12

With a smooth iron and Defiance
Starch, you can launder your shirt
waist Just as we'll at home as the
steam laundry can; It will have the
proper stiffness and finish. there will
be less wear and tear of the goods,
and 1t will. be a positive pleasure to
use Starch that does not stick to the
iron.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1909-08-12
LUCKY MAN.

The extraordinary popularity of fine
white goods this summer makes the
choice of Starch matter of great i'm
portance. Defiance Starch, being free
from all injurious chemicals, is the
only one which is safe to use on fine
fabrics. 1t great strength as stiffen-
er makes half the usual quantity Of
Starch necessary, with the result of
perfect finish, equal to that when the
goods were new.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1909-08-12
A Trying Time.

Judge - Why did you strike this
man?
Prisoner - What would you do,
Judge. IL you kept a grocery store
and a man came in and asked II he
could take moving picture Of your
cheese?-Harper Weekly.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1909-08-12

E. Pinkham's Vege-
table Compound.
Eleven years ago I
was a walking
shadow. Ihad been
under the doctors
carebutgotn9relief.
My husband per-
suaded me to try
Lydia E. Pinkham's
ege stable Com
pound and itworked
like a charm. 1t re-
lieyed all nv pains
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1909-08-12

If a man never told a lie it's be
cause no young mother ever asked
him what he thought of her baby.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1909-08-12
True to Life.

Teacher - Johnnie, do you know
what a blotter is?
Johnnie--Yessum It's de ting wot
youse hunts fer while de ink gets dry.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1909-08-12

II you wish beautiful, clear white
clothes, use the new RUSS BLUE. All
grocers sell it.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1909-08-12

Sore throat is no triing ailment. II
will sometimes carry infection TO the en-
tire system through the food that is eaten.
Hamlins Wizard Oil il a sure, quick cure.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1909-08-12

Mrs. winslow's Soothing Syrup.
For children teething. softens the gums reduces In
mamma alIays pain cures wind colo. 25c bottle.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1909-08-12
Faith.

Faith makes us, and not we It; and
faith makes its own forms,--EmeTson.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1909-08-12

Nothing so good as the new RUSS
BLUE. Delights the laundress. Refuse
limitations.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1909-08-12

II thy friend is honey do not lick
him up altogether.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1909-08-12
Amonn Wnmen.

NtHSH9 "OHlVu'
"Why worry about the children"
Il cant help it."
But, my dear. you are hurting your
game of bridge"
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1909-08-12

A malicious truth may do more
harm than an innocent lie.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1909-08-12

Occasionally women try TO reform
a man by roasting him.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1909-08-12
OWES
" W .4H
HER
MW"~
LIFE TO
Lydia e. Pinkham's
Vegetable Compound

Vienna, w. Va.-"I feel that owe
the last ten years of my life to Lydia
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1909-08-12
The Retort unkind.

The Retort unkind.
Gerald-A gentleman Is defined as
one who never gives pain.
Geraldine-Then you're no gentle
man; you give me pain every time
you call.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1909-08-12
P/cTDRES
| ~
SYNOPSIS.
| COPYRIGHT 1907
me eoeeS-nGn6ilI co.

Mad" Dan Maitland, on reaching his
New York bachelor club, met an attrac-
tive young woman at the door. Janitor
OHagan assured him no one had been
within that day. Dan discovered wom-
ans finger prints in dust on his desk,
Maitland dined with Bannerman, his at
torney. Dan set out for Greenfields, to
get his family Jewels. During his walk
TO the country seat, he met the young
woman In gray, whom he had seen leav-
Ing his bachelors club, Her auto had
lost him. Maitland. on reaching home,
surprised lady in gray, cracking the safe
containing his gems. She, apparently,
TOOK him for a well-known crook, Daniel
Anisty. Half-hypnotized, Maitland opened
MS safe, took therefrom the jewels, and
nership ir crime. The real Dan Anisty
sought by police of the world, appeared
on the same mission. Maitland overcame
him. He met the girl outside the house
and they sped on to New York in her au-
to, He had the jewels and she promised
Mr.. Snaith." introducing himself as a
detective. To shield the girl in gray
Maitland, about to show him the jew
els supposedly lost, was felled by a blow
from "Snaiths" cane. The latter proved
to be Anisty himself and he secured the
BILE, rnasqueraded as the latter The
criminal kept MaitlGnd's engagement with
the girl in gray. He gave her the gems,
after falling in love at first sight. They
were to meet and divide the loot. Matt
land revived and regretted missing his
Maitland narrowly avoided capture
through mysterious tip. The girl in gray
visited Maitland's apartments during his
absence and returned gems.