Douglas Island news., 1914-10-07
Raps the NorthIand

Seattle and Alaska have been dealt a cruel blow.
 Sen Bentley, village cut up and local oracle, of Wichita, Kan, "b'gsh," out
 of the store of his wonderful knowl- edge-qained in a trip of fifteen or twenty days-has passed judgment. And Seattle and Alaska have been con-
 demned as practically worthless. Any
 way they are not as good as Wichita "gosh ding itw
 And the worst of it is that Sens de- cision has been scattered broadcast
 to the world through the columns of a
 Wichita paper that may be has a greater
 circulation than the local journal pub
 lisbed at Medicine Hat, wherever that
 thriving metropolis may be.
 Like Max O'Rell, the French author
 who condemned the regulations of a
 nations women in order to coin an epi.
 gram, Sen Bentley condemned the Pa
 cifc Coast climate in order that he
 might embalm into immortal verse something about the Seattle weather, Hark to the voice of Wichita:
 "The great state of Washington greets you one and all,
 With niue months of winter and three months of fall"
 Clever, Senl Deucedly clever, "by
 hechw But, oh, Sen, how could you
 say them cro-o words?" And "they was SO original" too! It reminds one
 of that Englishman's subtle joke, who
 said the Alaska weather was eleven months of winter and one month of
 early spring
 Having returned from a trip into the rugged fastness and untrodden wilder
 ness of Seattle-and Skagway-Sen Bentley has become a social lion in Wichita. All the glamour that comes to the man who has passed through a daring adventure has been thrown ' around him. Therefore, "Sen's" judg ment on any subject, from the cause of I the European war 10 the reason why
 you can't get a good cigar for less than a nickel any more, is worth having aud is eagerly read by the populous Wich !, ita So:
 Seattle is overRrowD," says "Sen.' He probably strained his neck looking at the top of the 42-story l.. C. Smith building, which is a tride taller than the local "opery" house at Wichita. Be-
 sides, we have the woid of Sen Bentley for it that there are too many "non producers" in the state of Washington not all of them are engaged in that lucrative industry of growing pump. kins, SO assiduously followed iu Wichita.
 Sen Bentley also is an analyst. He's
 deer, is Bentley He analysed Seattle and found that the taxes are higher | than a cats back, but as "Sen" does
 not state whether Wichita feines have
 curvature of the spine, one can gain
 but little knowledge from bis altitud
 inous figure of speech.
 However, he has Seattle ou that Alaska trade, "by heckp It doesn't amount 10 any more than the trade which Wichita gets from KiDgman and Harper counties, where the crop of pumpkins is always good. "Sen" knows
 all about this, because he counted tbe people at Lake Bennett, which was de- [ serted years ago.
 "Sen" gives Seattle an awful "bawl- out" about that Alaska trade He tells the people of Wichita the facts about ! it by counting the people at Lake Ben nett, which happens to be in Cauada-
 but that doesn't make any difference to
 "Sen" Bentley. But, still, there is a day of reckoning coming for Sen ! Somebody will probably bring an atlas into Wichita some time, and then the joke will be on "Sen," for the people will find out that "Lake Bonnet" and
 most of the country which "Sen" de-