The Alaska citizen., 1915-07-12
Sermon to the People


shift at the mine saw the fire. and the men on the next shift saw it also. They talked about it. wonder. ing what it could be. but later they heard about the fire at Seward. which seemed to explain to them the whole thing.
 English How easy il is for Confused foreigner to make ridicu- Student. lous mistakes in at
 tempting to write En- elish was explained by Mrs. Strong, wife of Alaskas governor, when she was in Fairbanks recently.
 l. was when Major and Mrs. Strong, before the former became governor. were visiting Germany. that Mrs. Strong took a special course in piano Cat that time being an accom- plished pianiste at conservatory in that country. When she was going to depart. one of the students who wanted to show his friendship for Mrs, Strong. sent her some flowers.
 What he intended to put on the note accompanying the flowers was the words, With fragrant greetings" which in German would be, Nit duftig srusse." He evidently was a poor student of English, and in order to get the phrase interpreted properly looked up the meaning of the words in dictionary.
 The word "grusse' he easily in terpreted into greetings" but he was at loss to know what word to use to take the meaning of 'duf- tende." the dictionary stating that it meant fragrant or smelling. So when the flowers were delivered Mrs. Strong she was amused to find the card accompanying them bearing the following words:
 With smelling greetings"
 " ei IilS W dI tdN btiSllltSS Tax On IS taking some new and People. interesting forms. The
 latest idea is that if you want to go to Canada you must pay an import duty on yourself. The plan of paying duties on various kinds of goods for the purpose of getting national revenue is an old one, and has largely constituted the difference in the policies of the Democratic and Republican parties, but this idea of having to pay duty on yourself is brand new one.
 If you buy a ticket from Fairbanks into Canada, you will have to buy, in addition to the ticket, a war stamp, costing from three to five dollars, if your ticket costs more than ten dollars. Thus if you buy ticket from here to Dawson it will cost you five dollars extra as a war tax on yourself.
 Passengers going to Seattle or to Skagway will not have to pay this war tax, as they will not remain in Canada. The tax applies only to tickets that are not between Ameri- can ports.
 Tropic Victor Fleischman had Spider an adventure few days Here. ago that has made him
 have cold chills in his ably will be more careful in the future in regard to unpacking banan- as received here from the tropics.
 Mr Fleischman is employed at the store of Lavery & Bailey and a part of his duty recently was to unpack a large bundle of bananas, which came on the stalk on which they were grown.
 When the wrappings had been re moved from the bundle, and the latter had been lifted from the floor, out fell a very large spider, which attracted MT. Fleischman's at tention. He started as though he would pick the curious little animal in his hands, when Bob Lavery saw him, and shouted for him to keep away from it. because it was tarantula, the most poisonous of all spiders. It took MT. Lavery only a minute to get his foot on the dread ed spider and end it's existence for all time.
 If MT. Fleischman ever goes to the tropics and sees another of these dreaded spiders, he will know what it is, and will never try again to take one in his hands.
 Mail One sign that Fairbanks Boxes In is growing is the fact Demand that the postoffice does not have half enough boxes to surply the demand. But the increased number of boxes can not be secured until new postof