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The daily Alaskan., 1912-08-27

Eoudea whtSSAeS-tS5bson, Nom Vernon and Belmont The best ot Bcer-Rl1e Ribbon. BudwetSe- and Pale Rainier, a. the Mascot Tele- rhuBe G. S
The daily Alaskan., 1912-08-27
BAKERY GOODS,

Rrgad-an klaas--tresh from the cvea cakes and pies, cookies and aooEhnats. an fSSt S first class line NaKery gOcss will be found at the vienna Bakery. Broadwsy, between FlftA and S&xSA Avenues. q
The daily Alaskan., 1912-08-27

Go Co the "white Pass Cate'' Tor the lest meals m whiteAoCse Now under the management ot Mrs, Orlotf King. if
The daily Alaskan., 1912-08-27
eRaso SEDUCTION SALE

The PsCF Tram Is now selling s big lot Of Gccd Goods at reduced prices as they are getting too old to hold and sell at & profit Yours,
 q He-uan Grimm.
The daily Alaskan., 1912-08-27

SSc for n home cooked meal quick, clean service. Where? Al the New Home Restaurant Ffth Avenue baR \ minute from BroSdwS
The daily Alaskan., 1912-08-27
FL lSFINITO CLEAR
HAVANA CIGARS.

5000 just received from the fac tory at Tampa. Fla 1T you want the best don't fail to give these goods \ triNl.
The daily Alaskan., 1912-08-27
CHEAT C, ARRANGE SALE

GREAT C, ARRANGE SALE Sold at a Loss! Malt Rainier, % cents per bottle. Especially prepared tor slek people and invalids, and ex oelleut for nursing mothers. only two barrels left After that price wa be s cents per bottle
 Pack Train Bar
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Mice on Trains.

GIN my last trip across the continent !
met a man who showed ME a hith-
erto unsupported danger OF sleeping
cars a travelling man said. 1.-THE first
night out from Denver he occupied the
berth across the aisle from mine. Short
~ after everybody had turned in for the
night I heard him fussing around.
looked out. He had baited an old-fashs
toned mousetrap with cheese. and waa
leaning out to set il on the floor undes
his berth.
along i'm the night l thought I hearl
the trap click The next morning j got
up ahead of my neighbor 10 watch his
maneuvers with the mousetrap. I felt
kind of creepy when I saw him pick up
the trap with a dead mouse dangling
from the wire moose. Later i expressed
establishment AT my neighbours baggine
that kind OF game on a transcontinentai
train
- oh. that's nothing said he. L catch
a mouse about every other night In sea-
sons when / am on the road most OF the
time ] don't know where they make
their nests. but there are few of the ordi-
nary coaches that do not carry theit
share OF mice
I'm Chicago bought five-cent mouse-
trap OF my own and set II the way
home. but l did not catch a mouse"
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Good Weight.

THE very latest trick Of the trade was
! taught to the young butcher by the
marketman who gave him his first en-
ployment. The old dealer pointed To
trays of beef lamb and pork trimmings
beneath the counter.
when customers ask to have all the
waste that has been cut from their OWL
meat wrapped up with their order be sure
to put in few of these trimmings be-
Sides" he said. "Most always they want
the scraps sent home SO they can weigh
the whole business and find out wnethel
they are getting full weight or not.
Enough extra pieces to tip the scales
half an ounce beyond the supposed weight
won't hurt anybody and will give US
good name
Shortly after that the new clerk heard
one frugal housewife say to another:
ooh, why don't you trade at blank ):
He gives such good measure ol'en al
most an ounce more than you pay for.
The clerk smiled.
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buoy. contains in It's center a cylindrical
chamber filled with calcium carbide, into
contact with which water is admitted, by
means of a valve, to generate the gas Tor
the lantern. Such a buoy can be charged
with carbides to burn as long as a year
without attention.
The United States government became
interested in acetylene lighting in 1906
but it was not until 1908 that this gov
eminent adopted the Improvement in
earnest. Since that time the powers of
the new illuminant have gained foremost
recognition. Already old kerosene lamps
have been discarded in some forty buoys
and beacons on the coasts, and the light
house bureau Is installing acetylene as
new stations are established.
There are other lamps far more wonder
full than that in Point Judith's busy tower.
They will barn for three years unattended.
They flash automatically and each char
acteristically If desired. And they light
themselves up at sunset and cut off their
light with the sunrise without human
aid or control. Not cloud or fog or tenn
perature disturbS their regularity or OBJ
structs this operation.
A light can reach through darkness. and
acetylene light. the nearest toe sunlight
in quality, pierces far through fog
farther than any other artificial light.
But in fog no light can be always effec-
tive and fog whistles are VIGOROUSLY I'M
trustworthy. So combined with the magic
lamps down under water nowadays is a
new and sure fog signal, a device that
means to the mariner only little less
than the wireless telegraph.
The acetylene light makes it's appeal to
the navigator through its superior tllum-
mating power and adaptability. and to
the government through it's cheapness
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Musical Walls.

NTS il possible" said the renting agent
that all my apartments VIII have
TO undergo a musical test? Ii looks than
way. Half dozen prospective tenants
have refused to rent until they have
tested the acoustics of the apartments,
They were singers. pianists, violinists and
harpists. and they said that unless the
walls were sufficiently resonant they
would be unable to tell whether they vera
producing satisfactory tones.
1T appears that there is a great diff
ference in the musical qualities OF fats.
Some are so constructed that they arc
very sensitive TO music, They give tbs
best results TO students and profession
ais. When ] divide my musical sheep
from the goats shall be able to rent 10
better satisfaction all around. Those who
like music can take the musical apart
ments; those who don't like II the non
musical. That will do away with big
lot Of kicking"
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conspicuous branch OF the government
service known as the bureau OF light
houses, with it's Washington headauar-
tiers in a corner of the old District build
ing on Louisiana avenue. which also
houses several other bureaus OF the De-
rartment of Commerce and Labor.
Looking beyond the administrative front
Of the system. which In itself is q Won
derful thing, one meets revelations of
human achievement that are only less
astonishing than wireless telegraphy and
airships The picturesque charm of the
old lighthouse has been lost, it is true,
but it has yielded to science and modern
mechanics of amazing efficiency. The
newest of navigation aids seem little shor.
OF uncanny.
Some of the past years activities of the
lighthouse bureau are visible at Wash
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n MONG the handiworks OF men which
~ progress through the years and
= centuries, has led to Improvement
is the baby's cradle. From the time
when baby was fastened in his roughly
made wooden cradle and carried on his
mothers back by means Of strap
around her forehead to the present-day
cradle that rolls easily around on wheels
and i'm nowise disturbs the little ones
sleep IS rather a long step. Many sam
pies of these primitive little resting places
for a baby may be found among the
various Indian models and other groups
at the National Museum.
Investigations and the numerous col
lections belonging to the museum give
rather a detailed account OF the transi
tons through which the baby's cradle
has passed TO reach its present state OF
improvement. According to history, the
first cradle constructed was a board COW
cred with either moss or furs. and on this
the baby was strapped and wrapped
around with fur or leather skins. The
various birch-bark. wooden and leather
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Maids One Good Quality.

Q ERVANT girls know their own good
~ points, and they take care that ev-
erybody else shall know them. One maid
who was obliged to look for new situa-
ton because her employers were leaving
town listened critically to the enumera-
ton of her virtues as set down in the
recommendation that had just been writ
ten by her former mistress
There's one thing you've left out.
ma'am" she said. 1T never cut my fin
gers. / wish you'd put that right up at
the head Of the list. Ladies will like
that. Some girls cut their fingers terri
BILE, and 1t looks bad.
'Why, that is true; you never do
said her mistress. and the unusual point
of efficichcy. ''She never cuts her nm
gers" was inserted as requested.
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Among other cradles that investigation
has revealed as used by these Eskimos
and northern Indians is a sort OF diminu-
tive chair. The body of the infant is
dashed to the high back Of the seat.
Again, the infant is dashed in a kind of
coal-scuttle-sha cradle and often sleeps
at night in a hammock. In the posses
sion of the museum is the model Of a
trough-shaped cradle used among the Es-
kimos in the western part Of the United
States. 1t is made from three pieces OF
birch bark, the bottom. the top and hood,
and the awning The two pieces forming
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Forgot the Fringe.

HIS chief characteristics to tine
Gus manner and an assertively bald head.
For about an hour he had monopoiized
the conversation around the club fire.
place by the recital of the struggle that
had raised from poverty one youth to at
fiuence in mature manhood.
Yes. gentlemen" he continued. proud
ly. "I4m a self-made man"
4 wearied voice came from the recesses
of an armchair: Il should think, then,
that you would have put more hair on
the top Of your head"
And the conversation was at last
turned.
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this purpose are scattered throughout the
museum. One used by the Chinuk In
dams is known as a dugout cradle. 1t Is
trough roughly hewed out of cedar
wood. The bedding consists of mats of
cedar bark The baby Is wrapped in fur
and tied into this cradle by means of
strings fastened at the sides.
The compress or piece that is used to
hatten the infants head is made of tight
ly woven cedar bark. This piece curves
over and is held down tightly by means of
cords to the sides of the cradle. The lit
tie ones head is thus pressed, the OBJ
ject being to make it as nearly as posi-.
BILE a straight line from the back of the
head along the nose. handle Is made
on the lower end Of the cradle and the
cradle itself suspended by strings to plant
poles. With her hand or her foot the
mother swings this back and forth.
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QueerC Cradles for Babies in National Museum

dler's pack and carries him across her
shoulder.
The Eskimo mother in Greenland
Labrador, Canada and Alaska has the
hood of her skin-robe, or parka, made
very large, so as to carry her baby in
il. The little one nestles around its
mothers neck secure from the cold. The
people than in other more or less bar
barrie tribes Thus 1t is that baby has
little need Of a cradle for transportation.
The Indians, however, who are contiguous
to the Eskimo in ALASKA and northeastern
Canada, use some sort of a device in
which to lash their children during the
first year.
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and thus permits OF no waste. Conse-
quently. while fourth-order. one-wicK
flashing kerosene burner of 5O-candle-
power costs in fuel and maintenance
81, 40 year, at 5O-candlepOwer acetylene
flasher costs only $15 a year.
The new flashing device, moreover, Of
fers widest variety in signals, for the
great luminosity of acetylene and the
even pressure in the automatic burner
permit great range of intervals and COM
binations for flashes. 1t Is possible to
have luminous periods as short as one
tenth of a second, and making con-
stantly twinkling light, or there can be
short flashes and long flashes, short and
any ratio and numerical design and dis
tinguishing them from each other. These
fiashers can, moreover, be used as range
lights. marking. from shore, some tortu-
Gus channel shown hitherto by the series
Of UNMARRIED fixed lights only.
But the browning achievement of ma
rine Illuminating invention is the sun
valve. It is this that lights up the buoy
by night and extinguishes it by day. Yet,
like so many marvellous things. this re-
markable appliance seems almost ridicu-
lousy simple-after one knows.
The sunvalve depends upon the modern
scientific knowledge that light waves be-
come transformed in different degrees ac-
cording to the nature Of the intercepting
body. Sunlight upon dark surfaces is
converted into heat. and heat produces
expansion, especially perceptible in met
ais. These principles have been inge-
niously adapted to regulate the flow of gas
to the burner of the acetylene light.
The sunvalve has very little in its ex-
ternal appearance to suggest a valve. 1t
looks somewhat like a carefully sealed
and substantially mounted glass jar, about
ten inches high and three inches in diam
eter, containing a central perpendicular,
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dates and accounts of battles. Right after
that came the account of the Schley
court of inquiry. Just about that time
also came an account of the progress in
wireless telegraphy and the fight against
the alcoholic liquor traffic and the army
canteen question. Sometimes there are
historical pamphlets issued, such as the
statement Of the abolition of the African
Of recent discoveries. One of the most
noted and sought-after of these special
publications was that which contained
McKinley's last speech at the Buffalo ex-
position.
Perhaps the most persistent OF special
publications which Uncle Sam produces
annually are the reports Of the hearings
on woman suffrage. They have appeared
regularly since 1894. In a notification let
ter sent to one Of the members the
credit numbered from five to twenty-six.
The last on the list capped them all. 1t
was the report of the hearings on worn-
an suffrage, and there were $50 copies
placed to his credit. Some Of those ac-
count books also show that many OF the
scientiously to their constituents since
they first appeared.
The special list has developed a decided
advantage. both to the reader and the
government. Thus the geological survey
reports used to be issued annually-great
heavy books through which one would
have to search for hours in order to
find what one wanted. Now they are is
sued in pamphlet form, describing the
work OF the survey by subjects and
states. and when an applicant now ap-
plies for any particular report he gets
what he wants and no more.
When these publications are ready for
distribution they are sent from the gov
eminent printing Office to the warehouses
of the Capitol. Some OF these are in the
the House of Representatives on the
other side of the Capitol. But even these
modern spaces are cramped. and the old
car barn on the B street hill south OF
the Capitol and q part Of the old Maltby
house are still used to store these vol
umes. Inside of these big warehouses,
therefore, one gets the impression OF a
big brick yard from the stacks Of wrap
ped and sealed books. each representing
the allotment OF q member of Congress-
In the distribution OF these publica.
lions the dispositions of the members
vary. Many of them will send only on
request, and there are others who dis
as they are placed to their credit ac oc.
castonally some member will not ex-
haust his allotment before he retires
from Office which has resulted in an
accumulation Of years that will some
day land in the waste basket.
i:
1t IL just about this season in the
political calendar that the men in the
folding rooms are beginning to get
busy, for 1t is one of the methods of
modern politics to make full use of
this privilege in campaign work. The
fact that a member can hold his al
lOtment Of publications until any time
he desires to send them out allows him,
when his campaign for reelection
comes due. to fire hroadside after broad
aide Of all kinds of reading matter
into his district which sometimes has
Ne erect
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HE lighthouse is a

HE lighthouse is a
part OF the poetry
of the sea- 1t seems
almost q thing Of
primeval nature, so
remote appears the
human agency re-
sponsible for its ex-
istence. But the
human q & g n c y
may be found. as
everybody knows,
first I'm that in
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The Man and the Place.

A NDREW CARNEGIE was giving ad-
4 \ vice on a recent Sunday to one or
the younger members Of the Rockefeller
Bible class.
Il am an advocate of early marriages."
he said. 1.-The right man, in the right
mace. at the right time. lis very good
saving and to my mind the right man
in the right place at the right time Is un-
uuestionably a husband reading to his
wife on q winters night beside the radis-
tor.
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7 AsHINGToN Hea d

" ASHINGTON H ca d.
w quarters in Old Dis
trict Building on Louisiana
Avenue Past Years Ac-
tivities of the Bureau-Ex-
periments of the Canadian
Government-The Submarine
Bell-The New Flashing De-
vice-Crowning Achievement
Is the Sun Valve-Precision
of Device Is Amazing and
Uncanny.
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ITO send accounts of the latest dis
coveries in science, reports of the
developments in trade and COM
merce, descriptions Of the improvements
in agriculture, and lot Of various other
reading matter to the folks back homo is
one Of the means by which Uncle Sans
lawmakers acknowledge the compliments
Of the votes that sent them to Washing
ton Also 1t is somewhat OF q privilege
to many. because. they are able to send
speeches that they make. and speeches
that they do not make. in neatly printed
FORM for perusal just before the next
campaign comes around
Ordinarily the output of the folding
rooms Of the Senate and House of Repre-
sentatives runs along from year to year
at an annual output Of 100000 volumes,
and one glance inside those great ware
houses of printed and bound knowledge
would convince one that they rival some
of the great publishing concerns. There
are piles upon piles of books that have
grown from year to year. Back as far as
1873 1t used to he nearly. impossible to get
a government publication 1t was in that
year the government first began its own
printing, and that printing has increased
with the growth of the nation. In the
last ten years it has grown three times
faster than in the years prior thereto.
~
What the folding rooms Of Congress
look after mainly is to see that each
member of the national legislature gets
his share and no more. Congress has
provided that they shall each receive a
certain allotment, and the offices OF these
flo hnvnn
Like the banks they keep a debit and
credit account. For instance. when the
publications are ready for distribution
each member is notified by letter of the
amount placed to his credit. and he Is
supplied with long, slim book that looks
like a check book.
When he proceeds with his distribution
he writes the order for so many publica-
lions, together with the address to which
they are to be sent tears off the slip, and
enters the equivalent amount on the stub
When it passes through the office 1t Is
entered on the debit side or the ledger be-
fore it goes to the mailing room.
The publications that go out from the
folding rooms of Congress come under
two heads There Is what Is known as
the regular list. which constitutes the re-
ports Of all the departments of the gov
eminent Some of them originated long
before 1873 but the serial volumes, most
of them great, bulky affairs form a con-
tinuous set from that year. The regular
list totals about sixty.
But it is the special list which some
times worries the members of Congress In
it's distribution. Its composition depends
ON what Uncle Sam is doing, and there
are years when it contains a lot of very
interesting reading matter and much use
ful information. For instance, shortly
after the Spanisl-American war there APP
peared small volume entitled Spanish
American War Notes." 1t was greatly
sought after by veterans of that war, cit
izens throughout the states and histo-
rians. because it contained data Of the
amount and movement Of troops ana the
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by compressed air, electricity, automatic
spring or hand. The pneumatic and
electric bells are readily adapted to light
ships and pierheads, while buoys are fit
ted with the automatic arrangement.
Electric power is also used for the deep
water bells, which are swung in heavy
twelve-foot tripods set up on the ocean
bottom. an electric cable connecting them
with the shore.
Lightships and deep-water stations have
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and convenience besides Canada eXper-
imented with it in 1904 and adopted the
Canadian inventor. The United States
became interested in 1904. but it was not
until two years later that this govern
ment adopted the improvement in ear
nest.
Since that time acetylene devices have
undergone a wonderful development. and.
lights OF the latest perfection are being
rapidly installed by our lighthouse bureau
both at newly established stations and at
some hundreds Of others. where they su-
persede old gas buoys and the kerosene
lanterns of shore structures. The great
lakes have them and the Delaware river.
coastwise channels Of the Atlantic and
lightships off shore. while fifty-four new
acetylene beacons have been purchased for
Alaska this year.
The up-to-date lights discard the auto
matte carbide generator in favor OF dis
solved acetylene. which is stored under
pressure in portable steel cylinders con-
tanning 100 times their own volume. This
would not be possible with free acety-
lene, which under pressure Is dangerously
explosive, but the same gas dissolved
in the liquid acetone is absolutely safe.
stance Of about so per cent porosity. This
is then saturated with acetone, which is
capable of absorbing twenty-five times
its volume of acetylene gas under atmos-
pheric pressure and normal temperature.
In the portable cylinders 1t is charged
to ten times It's volume and stored under
ten atmospheres. which makes a content
of gas 100 times the volume Of It's cham
Der.
These storage chambers can be made to
contain sufficient fuel to supply the eco
nomical acetylene burners as long as three
years. This is more than Is needed
in buoys, which for general purposes
must be overhauled and painted every six
months or so. But for beacons and I'M
attended lighthouses this storage capacity
is an immense convenience. The gas mag
azine may be as large as desired, SIM
ply by providing more cylinders.
And since the consuming power Of the
light is ,computable, the visits of the
lighthouse tender can be predetermined
as desired, and the ready made gas.
ready for use. can be delivered at
required intervals. The buoy may be
taken to the generating station to have
it's cylinders recharged, or to have new
cylinders, ready filled, inserted in the
pockets. For the beacons or shore sta
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The Work Of Distributing Uncle Sans Literature.

tons of euogies of deceased members
have never been exhausted, which has
caused an accumulation of over 800 In
the folding room warehouses.
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the bottom and hood overlap and are
sewed together with pine root. The hood
is formed by pickering the birch bark
ard to this Is attached the awning. The
baby is strapped in this cradle so as to
leave his arms free. Playthings of vari-
GUS kinds are hung to the awning for the
little ones amusement.
Among the customs of the sayages in
habiting the land west of the Rocky
mountains was that Of head fattening.
Models Of the various cradles made for