The Alaska citizen., 1915-08-16


 Go the advertising men of Flshn.' the States get togethe~
 for the purpose of ex- changing ideas and telling stories and jokes one of these gettogether dinners was given at the Ritz-Carl- ton in New York. al which F. Frying Fletcher sprung this on the efficacy of adyertising
 There is only one logical objec- lion to advertising, and that is the one offered by Joe Dolittle, of the Cinraminson general store
 Joe why don't you advertiser" said the editor Of the Cnnaminson Srimitar
 Because I'm agin' advertisin , Joe answered, firmly
 But why Joe. are you against 1t" sad the editor.
 "It don't leave man no time. said Joe I advertised wunst in go and the consequence wuz didn't have no time to go fishing, by crimus, tII arter McKmley's second election in 1900"
 A good many merchants in Fair banks have all the time they want for hunting and fishin.'
 Rich How l., E. Rhoads hap By pened to discover the Accident. RhOads-H Hall mine only
 recently came to light and probably few of the people of Fairbanks have heard the true story of the discovery of the mine MT Rhoads and his partner, Walter Hall recently closed down the mine and have gone Outside until operating expenses become less.
 According to the story told by the intimate friends of Mr. Rhoads, he hunted a long time for a promising quartz prospect before he found it. and it was only through accident that he al last came upon it. It seems that he had been prospect ing d long time and was almost discouraged, when one day. af- ter a tiresome trip. he stared home in a roundabout way, and as he was walking along in a gulch where he had never been before, he acci- denta1ly stubbed his toe against rock
 lis first inclination was to say something to give expression 10 the pain in his foot but just as he re covered himself, he happened to catch sight of the rock on which he had tripped. Instinctively he picked it up, and, turning it over, beheld fine particles of gold glitter ing in it.
 He was too good a quartz miner to overlook the value of the find, and al once he began to search for the ledge. To locate the ledge proved a slow process, for the rock on the hillside was covered over with several feet of loose dirt. But patience was finally rewarded and it is asserted that both MT. Rhoads and Mr Hall. his brotherin-law, have already made enough out of their mine to last them the remain der of their lives.
 Wireless When wireless telegra From phy was first discovered Frisco. it was supposed that il
 would not be of service for more than two or three hundred miles. but since that time expert ments have proved that with the proper kind of plant it can be used for transmitting messages several thousand miles.
 A man who recently visited the wireless plant of the signal corps at Panama asked how far the plant would be effective. II was explain ed to him by the operator that ii was not uncommon for him to pick up messages sent out by the big wireless plant in San Francisco about $500 miles away.
 But can you converse with San Francisco?" the visitor asked
 No" was the reply, 'our plant is too small for the distance. Tha is, we can receive messages from there but We cannot send them that far
 Tobacco Alcoholic drinks of all A kinds have been rigor- Solace. ously excluded from the
 armies now engaged in the European war, but tobacco has not been placed on the blacklist, and is, in fact, one of the chief staples of military consumption
 Not so many years ago fixed daily ration of "grog' was distributed among the soldiers of both the Amer ican and European armies, both in times of war and times of peace, and one of the favorite methods of punishment was to deprive the private soldier of his allowance of ri This has all DacSa6 away