The Wrangell Sentinel (Wrangell, Alaska) 1909-Current
July 22, 1909

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4 Immense Tidal Wave Repeats Cataclysm Of Nine Years Ago—Town Wiped Off Map—Scores Of People Perish A Fine New Coat on the Run Several days overdue owing to encountering ice in Bering Sea, the fine new steamer St. Croix, of the Scfcubach-Hamiiion Steamship Co,, made port Mondov evening. She is certainly a handsome ves sel, and it is to be hoped that busi ness enough will develope to keep her on the run steadily. She is built cn the same general lines as the Cottage City though latger, and being of newer and more modern construction is a much finer and betteT vessel. She is fitted with wireless, and has many conveni ences not found on the other \es sels operating on this run. Her staterooms are all large ar.d airy, containing but two berths, each of which is fitted with a portable read Work Moving Right Along Word comes down from the res ervoir site on the hill, that every thing there is progressing finely. The small crew of men at work are making a very creditable showing and the work will be finished well within the figure set by the town council. f- t 4 ing lamp. The interior work and the fittings of the boat were all new this year, so that, all in all, she is a very desirable addition to the Southeastern Alaska fleet, She is scheduled to sail from Se attle on this run, July 25, and ev ery twelve days thereafter as lcng as business warrants, making the regular ports of call, including Sitka. P which wo have the SULK AGENCY for Wrangell, are advertised in 11 different languages. No other brand of shoes is advertised in so many tongues. Their reputa tion for excellent quality anil style has been established throughout Alaska for many years. We carry them in all descriptions-Heavy shoes for loggers and prospectors, Walking and Dress shoes for Ladies and Gentlemen, etc., THERE’S NOTHING MADE In oi-dei u> make room for some 20 cases of these SHOES in the iate.it styl es which we have now in transit ;'rom Washington and Milwaukee, we will sell for this week AT REDUCED PRICES the following numbers which we are cutting out. They are splendid value. Get in on the sale before it is too late. 5 pairs Gent's l>ox calf. 85.40, reduced to 83.15 17 5.00, .3.15 2 4.50, 2.75 2 2.00, 2.(0 4 Congress 5.0o, 2'75 a Tan 5.50, 3.15 4 Pat. leather 5.00, 3.00 3 fl Lea'er lined 5.50, 3.00 10 Ladies Oxfords 2 50, 1.85 Canvas Shoes 1-3 off enuring the Sale F. MATHESON Department Store Jewelers, Forwardersf News Agents NEW ORLEANS, July 22nd— The particulars of the immense ti dal wave which devastated the Gulf coast yesterday, are slowly reach ing this city. The damage is great est at Galveston, Texas, wb re. in spite of the millions of dollars ex pended to guard against just such an occurence, conditions appear to be equally as bad as ihose of Sept. 4, 1900, when the coast was laidr waste by a similar disturbance. Particulars are not as yet obtain able. but it appors that practically all of Galveston was engulphed without a moment's warning, and scores of the inhabitants drowned. From the smaller towns along the coast come like reports of wholesale dt ath ard destruction. Aid is pouring in from every hand, the different states and the national government uniting to aid the sufferers. Later—At noon today the water was slowly recedeing. but was still over eight feet deep all over the city of Galveston. Steamers Galore Monday of this week was a red letter day on the boat question, with a total of five to its credit. The fun began early, when the steamers Spokane and Queen ar rived bright and early, about six o’clock, with ever fourhundred pas sengers bet we. n them, who quick ly scattered over the town, before the most of us had surrounded our breakfasts. They took in every point of interest and kept every body at the stores busy until elev en o’clock, when, with much toot ing of whistles, they sailed for the north. The Port Simpson was the next to appear, arriving just about noon after a pleasant trip from Tele graph creek. Right on the schedule as usual, the Humboldt tied up to the wharf a little before three, with a passen ger list taxing her capacity. The cut rate of S50.00 for the round trip, which she is now making is certainly getting all the business for her that she can handle. Shortly after six the fifth and last vessel of the day appeared the St. Croix. She was on her way south from an excursion trip to Nome, with a fair sized passenger list. She took a couple af passen gers south from this port. A Long Trip Alone A recent copy of the Seattle P-I. contained the following under an Aberdeen, Wash., date line' Braving the waves oi the Pacific in an open gasoline launch not more than twenty-eight feet in length, unaccompanied by a simile companion, and provisioned and equipped for a ten-day run, is the feat which is being attempted by George Pott, a resident of Aber been who sailed July 13, for Wran gell, Alaska, in an open gasoline launch, the Dutch Pott declared that he would make no stop until his destination was reached, and plans to accomplish the trip in not to exceed a week. He will spend the summer fishing in the vicinity of Wrangell and ex pects to return in the fall. Ons Poor Little Deer 11 took half a dozen hoys, more or less, 14 guns, the schooner Ik, mouth Rock, and one Scripps mo tor etc., to capture one poor link motherless deer on its way horn from Sunday School lust Sun l i on Zarembo Island. The story th* boys tell of th incidents of the tru would fill a Sunday edition of th* Seattle Times, and their descrip tion of the midnight fishing for sandwiches would be a seller any where, An exchange tells of a man who was severely injured in tin pay streak. Wonder what part ot th. anatomy that is. Suppose though that it must be near the pocket book. The CITY lT DONALD SINCLAIR, Proprietor Dealers in GENERAL MERCHANDISE Clothing, Hats, Caps, Boots, and Shoes, Dry Goods, Gro ceries and Provisions, Paints, Oils and Gasoline, Rubber Goods and Oil Clothing. Fresh Fruits and Vegetables in Season. Mining, Hunting, Prospecting, Trapping and Logging Outfits a Specialty. i i Wrangell Alaska

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i Note and Comment j The question of an Income tax it ot very little Interest to most of us. To the woman -with that kind of a hat every ''peaah basket” Joke must ^look like a whole crate of lemons.

Japan has excluded Tolstoi's writ ings. The Cxar and Mikado have at tast managed to agree on something President Taft has abandoned sim plified spelling in favor of the com plicated brand which is easier under stood. Copenhagen has elected seven fe male Aldermen, and it is thought that the city hall will have to be dusted this year. We do not find it difficult in the least to think of things that would be more pleasant than being caught in an airship by a sixty-mile gale. The woman who loaned a strange fortune teller 1327 is not altogether a loser. She will win the leather medal for being the easiest mark in town. A New York paper publishes an edi torial on "Why Girls Leave Home In the majority of cases they go because they are Invited by young men to do so Let us hope the Prince of the Neth erlands and the queen grandmother may not engage In any serloua clashes over the manner In which the baby is to be raised. Rudyard Kipling, while not so pes simistic as Prof. Starr, predicts that Mr. Roosevelt will ruin his liver. But Mr. Kipling frequently takes a bilious view of things. It Is given out from time to time that Federal expenses are to be re duced. What's the use, when the cor porations are paying $2,000,000 fines •n actual money? Little Juliana Louise Emma Marie Wllhelmlna will need only one of these names when she succeeds to the crown of Holland, but It Is a good thing to have an estenslve collection #rom which to make a choice. It actually seems safer now in this country to kill a man than to wreck a bank. In the case of the former crime. It appears, an acquittal may al ways be depended on. If the reputa tion of feminine relatives Is blackened with the theoretical purpose of show ing the Jurymen the mental condition Of the murderer. Notwithstanding the old saying, fa mlllarity does not always breed con tempt. There Is no disrespect in the minds of the organizers of “Bill Club □umber one, of the world," who have sleeted President Taft to membership. All the other members are also famil iarly called ''Bill” by their most inti mate friends. One of the first lessons that philan thropists must learn Is that it Is not always easy to do good. There Is a perversity In human nature, even when inspired by the best Intentions, which sometimes seems to operate in vinclbly In favor of wrong. If the mis chief that Is done by those who mean nothing but good could be eliminated from the world the sum total of error would be noticeably reduced. Among the problems In which soci ologists and charity workers are deep ly interested, the care of dependent children holds an important place And there is none to which united effort can be better exercised for good. Under modern conditions of life, espe cially in congested districts, it is in evitable that hundreds of future citl tens shall be left orphaned and with out means of livelihood. Society owes It to these to provide that they shall be reared under the best possible in fluences. The peanut is often taken as the type of the small and unimportant. “Peanut politics" has become a cur rent phrase, and to "run my own busi ness, if it's only a peanut stand." Is also a common expression. The Amer can peanut Industry is, however, of considerable importance. The annual product of the United States is about one hundred million pounds, or one sixth of the entire crop of the world, and Americans eat four million bush els a year. The shells, usually consid ered a waste, are now shipped in large Quantities to Germany, where they are ground up. mixed with molasses, and made into food for cattle. On a New Jersey farm a few weeks ago there was a celebration in honor »f a remarkable woman. As maid, waitress, cook and nurse, she had been eontinuously in service to one family for fifty years, and the whole family, Including the grandchildren, gathered to commemorate the occasion. The master of the house led her to her seat at the head of the table, and the young women took turns in waiting on her. There are two unusual elements In this story. Probably there are few servants who have presided so long over one kitchen, and there are proba bly few families which could be gath ered together with such united enthu siasm to show their affection, their ap preciation, their gratitude. One reason why Mary stayed so long is to be found In her faithful soul, the other in the goodness of her employers. If Amerl cans have more difficulty with "the servant problem" than other people. It Is not only because they are not good servants; but because they are not good employers of service. The twe relations ars one in any nation taken as a whole. Our Democracy has be come, if not perverted, at leaet Invert ed; we interpret equality to mean that we are all too good to be eervants: whereas It ought to mean that nobody is too good to be a servant, that eer vice Is honorable and beautiful and dignified. D'fficulties with private ser rants are strikingly like difficulties with public servants. The true public servant who has been doing his work day In and day out quietly for hall a century seldom finds the great dem ocratlc family he has been tolling fot united to recognize his value at the end of the long term. Not that In gratitude or any other fault Is peculiar to democracies, but democracies have a proverbial deficiency of gratitude It may be profitable to consider wheth er as a people we shall not find that the ability to render private and public service and the disposition to honot private and public service are the same thing. The limitation of the membership oi any profession, business, or trade is s difficult and delicate matter. When too many follow a pursuit it reduces the profit for every one engaged. Trade unionism recognizes this and bases one of the most important of its policiee upon it. In business, and especially in the professions, it is left to work itself out almost unchecked save by its own natural action. That la. a cer tain profession, because of especial cir cumstances, begins to attract more than are really needed in its ranks. At first, and, Indeed, for a long time after the damage is done, it is not gener ally known. Finally it is realized that this professional work 13 underpaid as compared to other work on the same intellectual plant. Its profits are so small as compared to the cost of living that the other considerations, personal and social, which always enters into the choice of a professional no longer compensate. But by this time thou sands have committed themselves, and the tragedy of hope deferred and oi crushed ambitions is dragged out to its end. We recur to this well known evil at this time because of an article on the oversupply in the medical profe3 3lon published in a recent number of the Journal of the American Medical Association. The warning conveyed by the facts recited should be given the widest possible currency. The propo sal that medical schools refuse matric ulants and confine themselves during a sort of "close season” to graduate in struction is hardly practicable. But it is certainly desirable that whatever can be done through publicity to deter young men from an unconsidered and uninformed choice of the medical pro fession should be done. A campaign of discouragement, as it were, would of course, be subject to the suspicion of selfish interest. But that injustice should be endured for the sake of the larger good involved. The secular press and periodicals can do much to make the situation known, and that Is the only legitimate and effective treat ment. The problem is the more diffi cult that the cheapness of education in America makes access to the profes sions relatively easy, though not, per haps, too easy. A less commendable factor is the undemocratic valuation of professional service as superior so cially. The social consideration un doubtedlv Induces many young men to enter professions who would not only earn a securer and better living in a skilled trade but would be more use ful members of society. HI* Day of Reckoning. As the stout man whose appetite had excited the envy of the other boarders turned to leave the parlor, he looked down at his waistcoat. “I declare. I've lost two buttons off my vest," he said, ruefully. He was a new boarder, but his land lady saw no reason for further delay in showing her banner, "Watchfulness and Economy for all." She gave him the benefit of the chill gaze so familiar to her older boarders. “I think without doubt you will find them both in the dining room," she announced, clearly. It is nice in the books to have a masterful man for a hero, but such a man is called downright bossy by the neighbors in real life. Some young men haven’t even lame j ex-rise for carrying a cane. iCMMLimSiMR Laying close siege to the century mark, Uncle Sam's oldest soldier re cently celebrated his ninety-seventh birthday in Washington. He is Major General Daniel H. Rucker, U. S. A., re tired, born ninety-seven years ago— April 28. 1S12. la the whole history of the military service of the United States there is no record to parallel his, declares O. F. Schuette in the Chicago Inter Ocean, Probably in all the world there is no soldier who can look back seventy-two years to the date of his first commission For it was in 1S37 that the future general re ceived his first commission as a second lieutenant from President Andrew Jackson. He was then a man of 25— little dreaming that he had before him three-quarters of a century of life If he lives three years longer, and with his present vigorous vitality there is no reason he should not. he will cross the century mark of life and celebrate the end of three-quar ters of a century of membership on the military lists of the United States government. Away back in the dawn of our na tional greatness, our school book his tories tell of the war of 1812. Yet Daniel Rucker was two months old before the first shot of that war was fired. A year later came the first Creek Indian war. Five years later came the hostilities with the Semln oles in Florida. And then came out break after outbreak of Indian con flicts. It was in this Indian warfare away back in the '30s that he saw his first service. He won his first pro motion for bravery in the Mexican war. Then again he participated in Indian warfare. He was 49 years old when^Fort Sumter was fired on. When the Spanish war broke out he was 86 years of age. But he had retired from active service sixteen years be fore. with forty-five years of service to his credit. It Is a far cry from the clumsy, muzzle-loading flint lock to the noise less, smokeless, rapid-fire rifle of to day. And it is a further cry from the wooden frigates that formed the fleet of the United States and won those splendid naval victories on the great lakes, when he was a babe In 1812, to the marvelous squadron of fighting ships that sailed home from a triumphant trip around the world. ■When General Rucker first joined the ranks of Uncle Sam's defenders there was no such thing as breech loading muskets, no sixteen inch guns, no torpedoes, no mines, no lyddite shells. No warship was propelled by steam and all the fleets of the world were at the mercy of the wind and of the waves. Then came the Civil War and the first ironclads. General Rucker had passed the half century mark of his life when the first battle of armored ships was fought and the triumph of the Monitor in beating off the Merrimae and turning the tide of the Confederacy on the seas. Yet that was but a toy experiment of what was to follow. Progress was slow, and it was thirty years before the armored vessel of to-day really came Into be Ing. Genera! Rucker was 87 vear3 old when the navy of the United States— worthy successor of the plucky little fighters of 1812—sent to the bottom in two hemispheres the successors of the proud Spanish armada. It is a long Jump from the clumsy frigate, with its muzzle loading guns, Its shaking sails and its limited range of action, to the Dreadnoughts of to day, with their heavy armor, their speed, their powerful engines and their wonderful range; and there have been other marvels just as great in the progress of his profession. When he took his first commission, and rode 200 miles on horseback alone to his post, no ore had thought of auto mobiles or airships or wireless tele graph, much less of their revolution ary use in acftial warfare. When General Rucker was born Ab raham Lincoln was a 3-year-old babe !n the backwoods of Kentucky. Gen eral Rucker was 10 years old, minus Just one day. When General Grant saw the light of day, April 27, 1822. Only one President of the United States died before General Rucker was born—George Washington. He was 14 years oid when John Adams and Thomas Jefferson died on that same Fourth of July in 1826. When James Monroe, the fourth ex-President to die. succumbed, on July 4. 1831, General Rucker was 19 years old. And out of the nation’s twenty-six ex-Presidents General Rucker has survived all save one. Theodore Roosevelt. General Rucker was but a boy when his parents moved from New Jersey to Michigan. It was there he got his first taste of army life, at a frontier Michigan army post. His father was averse to his joining the army, and his mother even more so; but the fu ture general won out, and he applied for a commission as second lieutenant. There was plenty of work for Uncle Barn's soldiers in those days, with the boundless West Just opening its I wealth to the onward march of civil ization. He was assigned to the First dragoons, then on duty at Fort Leav enworth. Lieutenant Rucker made his way overland by stage coach until he got to the nearest point which the stage coach service of those days could bring him to the Kansas outpost. He was then still 200 miles from his desti nation. He had hardly settled down to the comparative ease of his frontier post before he was ordered Into the heart of the Cherokee country, and for half a dozen years he was kept busy with his soldiers driving off marauding In dians, protecting settlers and emi grants' caravans and holding the hos tile reds in check. He was still busy in this hazardous campaigning when the First dragoons were ordered off to Mexico as part of General Zachary Taylor's expedition. He took part in the battle of Buena Vista, and dis tinguished himself by an act of per sonal gallantry in the field. It was an act of bravery under the eye of a commanding officer, who recommended him for a brevet commission as major. When peace was declared Major Ruck er's command was sent across the continent to Los Angeles. The discovery of gold brought the rush of '49. and then there was more than plenty to do. It was a feverish time, and the soldiers of Fncle Sam had to hold in check the madness of the men that swarmed into the new El Dorado. Few of those who started across the mountains and the deserts that fenced off California knew of the hardships they must face. Each new arrival brought tales of horror from the trail. Lost and starving, the im migrants straggled off their paths, un til sacrifice of life made terrible the days. Finally Rucker was ordered east. He left San Francisco in a steamer for Panama, with Lieutenant Sherman —afterward General Sherman—as one of his companions. They made the trip across the isthmus of Panama by ponies and small boats and then sailed for Jamaica, where Sherman and Rucker paid a friendly call on General Santa Ana. whom they had worsted at Buena Vista. Major Rucker saw several years of comparatively peaceful service in the East and then he was again sent out to the frontier. This time his battlefields covered New Mexico, In constant warfare with the Apaches. While he was In this work the civil war broke out and he was ordered back to Washington. In September, 1861, he was pro moted to Colonel of volunteers and in May, 1863. President Lincoln made him Brigadier General of volunteers. In 1865 he was made Brevet Major General of volunteers and in 1866 he was mustered out of the volunteer ranks. But he was made a Colonel and as sistant quartermaster general of the regular service and served as such un til February 13, 1882, when he was made Brigadier General and quarter master general. At that time he had seen forty-five years of service and seventy-one years of life. He was then placed on the retired list as a Major General. He is still hale and hearty and de lights in walks in the beautiful por tion of residential Washington, near his home; but he is leading a quiet life, and even the excitement of recall ing the hard days of fighting is too much for his strength. With him lives his daughter. Miss Sarah Rucker. Another daughter. Mrs. Philip H. Sheridan, widow of the hero of Win chester, lives but a few blocks away, where she can see the statue of her husband that a grateful nation erected. In all his years of service General Rucker was never wounded. What is j more remarkable, in all the years of service and hardship he was never ill for a single day. ATLANTIC GARDEN IN DANGER. Old Belle of \ew X ork’e Bowery Is Marked for De»fmotion. The Atlantic garden, one of the few remaining buildings binding the Bow ery of to-day to the old Bowery—the Bowery which saw the wealth and fashion of the town go nightly to the Thalia theater and slip into the gar den next door for a bite and a sip be tween the acts—celebrated its fifty first birthday Friday evening under a shadow. The shadow was cast by the Manhattan bridge, already looming large to the east and projecting itself nearer and nearer to the spot that still has the savor of the old days. A rumor to the effect that the city, desirous of making a fitting approach to the great bridge, had already mark ed the garden for destruction, brought the oldtlmers there in droves Friday night, the New York Sun says. They told stories of the old days, the days when if you wanted to hear German opera you had to journey to the Tha lia. where Conried worked as a supe and where Mme. Geistinger drew her crowds. The old passageway between the theater and the garden is still there. The garden was opened on May 8, 185S. by the father of the present Kra mers, and part of it is the original Bull's Head tavern of the Revolution, one of Washington's many headquar ters. It was the center of the German life of the town, and there Kramer first showed the great orchestra, the won der of its time, which he bought from the grand duke of Baden. There, too. the German regiments of the Civil War made their headquarters and re cruiting station, and there played all the famous bands of half a century ago. All this those at the long table recalled Friday night as they drained their schooners of Rhine wine and lit the candles one by one. CLIMATE MADE IN FRANCE. Mean* of Providing Pari* Vegetable* Week* A bead of Sea*on, The gardeners of Paris get their products on the market weeks before the regular season for them. This forcing of nature is described by Ern est Poole in Success Magazine. The secret is simply this: The French maraichers have manufactured a climate to suit them. As one ob serves has said, "They have moved the climate of Monte Carlo up to the suburbs of Paris." Some new prodigy of modern sci ence, this? Not at all. Only enor mous expense in money and in time. The gardens, whenever possible, are placed on land with a slope to the south, and are well protected by the walls on the north and east—wall3 built to reflect light as well as to give protection from the northeast winds. The ground is practically covered with glass, not as in a greenhouse, but by glass frames in the open, "three light” frames of uniform size, 12 by feet; and also by glass^bells. These, too, are of a uniform* size, about the shape of a chapel bell, a lit tle less than 17 Inches in diameter and from 14 to 15 Inches high. The French call them cloches. You may often see over a thousand frames and over teu thousand glass bells in one two-acre plot in the suburbs of Paris. A more recent innovation is the em ployment of hot-water pipes run un der the soil, making of the earth a veritable steam-heated hotel, with this essential difference, that the hotel keeper here is desperately eager, not to keep his guests, but to persuade them to leave on the earliest possible j day.

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muni AND PUBLIC SCHOOLS; to or vrmw educator. HAT are termed by the author "some rather sweeping generalizations" on the subject of medical inspection of school chil dren are contained in an article entitled “A Lesson From Medical Inspection of Schools," published in the Psychological Clinic, a journal edited by Professor Lightner Witmer of the University of Pennsyl vania and published in Philadelphia. The author of the article is George H. Martin, w-ho has been an educator for forty-four years, supervisor of the schools of Boston and since 1904 secre tary of the Massachusetts board of education. The medical Inspection of children in schools has been so beneficial, ac cording to Mr. Martin, that “a com munity which has not provided through its proper authorities for a thorough-going inspection of its schoob is guilty of criminal negligence." He points to the discovery that out of more than 400,000 children examined in Massachusetts 81,000 were found defective in vision and 22,000 in hear ing. and to the results of other ex aminations as throwing much light on the subject of backward and per haps delinquent children. Concerning the Immediate results of the examinations he writes: "Then we consign the unfortunates to the care of the family physician, send them to the public dispensary or the public clinic, or send the school nurse to look after the cases In the home, and by these means we patch up a few. Some glasses are provided, some teeth cleaned and filled, some adenoids removed, and many children begin to know the joy of living. "All this is good. It is worth many times what it has cost. But is it enough? Have school people done all their duty when they have admitted the school physician and the school 1 nurse to the sacred precincts of the schoolroom, when they have sent out the warning notices to the parents? "Supposing that all defects have been discovered and remedied, so that school life goes on without its aches and pains. Must we go all over It next year and the next and forever? The Massachusetts law says that every child shall be examined annually for defects and disabilities. There Is no statute of limitations. Is there any hope of limitation? Is there any mode of limitation? Or is the social mill to go on grinding out diseased and en feebled children by the thousands In definitely?" Dealing in the advance in personal and domestic hygiene. Mr. Martin re- cords signs of hopeful progress. He finds “that the Ignorance of the laws of health and conditions of health is less dense than it once was is un doubtedly true." The educational forces that have brought about this change are many—the medical pro fession. the press, discussion in women's clubs and the influence of the public schools. The teaching of physi ology and hygiene in many schools he thinks is good. To-day the physicians, general and special, are more alive to the needs of the times than are the school peo ple. Xo permanent results of the pres ent agitation for better sanitary con ditions. domestic and public, can be honed for unless the schools co-operate with all the other agencies. The uni versal need is for the higher order of intelligence respecting the things that make for health, and the founda tion of such intelligence must be laid in the schools.” I Hardening? of the Arteries. "A man is as old as his arteries." was said some time ago by a French physician; and the saying, like so many others of the phrase-loving French, has a good deal of truth in it and not a little error. There Is many a man. old in years but young in spirit, whose arteries are like pipe-stems. So brittle do they seem, indeed, that the physician hard ly dares feel the pulse, lest he crush the friable artery under his finger; yet theFe old people are active In mind and body, and seem often much younger than men of but two-thirds their years. Again, one meets old and feeble folk whose lives seem to flicker danger ously, like a candle flame in a draft, whose arteries are as soft and com pressive as those of a child. In general, however, the saying is true, and especially in premature old age it will usually be found that the arteries are hard, with fibrous thick ening. if not already more or less cal cified. Hardening of the blood-vessels —arteriosclerosis Is the accepted med ical term1—consists in a fibrous over growth of the walls of the arteries, usually following more or less degen eration of the normal tissues of the vessels. As to just how this comes about, physicians are not entirely agreed. It Is probable that the change occurs first in the very minute vessels, those that run through the walls of the larger vessels supplying them with blood for their nourishment. When these are hardened by the deposit of fibrous tissue they carry less blood and carry it more slowly, and so the nutrition of the walls of the larger vessels is reduced. This leads to soft ening. and then Nature tries to repair the damage by the only new tissue at her hand—namely, fibrous tissue. Later, these fibrous and thickened walls of the larger arteries may be hardened still more by a deposit of lime salts from the blood. The arteriosclerosis so common In old age Is the result of “wear and tear." An elastic tube dilated by hy draulic pressure and then contracting ten thousand times a day will have (done much work by the end of seventy years. In younger life arteriosclerosis Is most commonly caused by Intem perance—not In drinking only, but In eating, especially meat-eating, without enough exercise to consume the ex cess of nutrient material. Overwork,

worry and chronic poisoning, such as lead-poisoning, are also factors. The best thing for arteriosclerosis is not to get it, and the best way not to get it is to be moderate in everything. People growing old should be exam ined medically every six months, and then incipient arteriosclerosis may be detected and perhaps arrested by proper diet, drugs and regimen.— Youth's Companion. BAX) PARROT A PRISONER. Profane Bird Hnnled Oat of a Tree by a Policeman and Arrented. Charged with resisting an officer, using profane language, being a dis orderly person, causing a crowd to collect, trespassing on park lands pro hibited by law, and being disrespect ful to a policeman without cause, a parrot is a prisoner in the offices of the Essex County Park Commission in Newark waiting for its owner to square things with the authorities, ac cording to the New York Times. When Sergeant Wilson passed a tree in Branch Brook Park he noticed a crowd gathered around the foot of it. He hastened to the spot and was in formed by a boy that some one wa3 up In the branches “swearin’ awful.” "Here, you, come down out of that," yelled Wilson. "You're violating the law." "Oh, you bonehead! You hamfat!” came the answer from the new and thick foliage. “I'll give you a minute to come down. Then I’ll pull you down," said the angry sergeant! “Robber: Help! Take him out! Bonehead! Strike one!” said the voice from the tree. “He thinks he's at a baseball game," said one of the crowd. "I'll go up and bring him down.” said Sergeant Wilson, who was con vinced by that time that he was deal ing with a crazy baseball crank. The crowd admiringly watched him climb the tree, and looked at the commotion in the branches, there being sounds of deep breathing, Imprecations, and struggles. In a few minutes the po liceman reached earth somewhat rum pled, but triumphant, with an angry, profane parrot in his hands. The park commission Is waiting for a man with an extensive baseball vernacular to lay claim to the bird. Highly Esteemed. "Do you think that most people nowadays worship money?" "No; I won't go as far as that." answered the home grown philosopher, "but I will say that the love of money Is seldom platonic.”—Washington Her ald. The women regard it as nothing against a man if he has buried sev eral wives, providing he keeps their graves looking trim. Chicken-hearted people are always ready to hatch up an excuse. The jPirate of A^stair HOLLAND Author of “The Count at Harvard," etc. Copyright, 1S08, by J. B. Llppincott Company. All rights reserved. CHAPTER II.— fConrlnuocJA She walked away and leaned on th*' bulwark on the other side. “The water’s getting quite deep.” I followed. “There's quite q rise of tide. It’s nearly full, and then it will j turn—in about an hour. I should say.” She looked at the little chatelaine! watch she wore, and gave a cry of dis may. “But that will be 7 o’clock, and then dine at the club at that time, and my aunt will be worried half out of her poor old head.” “They dine too early: they miss the best part of the day.” She turned a tritfe imperiously to- j wards me. “Still, that is the hour, and j I must be getting back. What answers to the problem have your frequ *nt studies brought?” “The first is' to wait until the cause way is dry,” I answered, avoiding her eyes and looking out to sea. “But that is out of the question,** she said, with the faint hint of a tapping foot upon the deck. The touch of au thority made me stubborn. “There’s a fine view of the sunset from here, though not so fine as from the cliff beyond my house. You should j see that some evening when you’re not 1 afraid of missing dinner.” She looked me over while I kept my face away, and I could feel the struggle whether resentment or amusement should have the upper hand. The latrer finally won. “Please help me to get home, Mr. she began. “Felix Selden,” I supplied her, “though I’d much rather you stayed here. Miss and I in my turn hung question ing. “Barbara Graham,” she answered quite frankly. Then suddenly she laughed, and I was forced to join her. “Come, Mr. Pirate, now that are properly known to each other, and I have thanked you for your compliment, will you think of a way to save my poor auut from nervous pros tration? If you will, I promise some day to go wirhout dinner and come to see the sunset from your cliff.” “It’s a bargain,” I said, and strode res olutely across the deck to the side where the causeway ran. “But how? What are you doing to do?” came in surprised accents from Miss Graham. I stopped and turned. “You will not wait for the tide, and you must not wet the slippers, so there’s only one way left.” "And what is that? she asked. "For me to carry you ashore.” I happened to be looking at her, and her face went pink of a second, pink over the brown of the sun. "But.” she stammered, "I don't think that would do.” “It’s the only alternativce," I said, positively. “Are you sure.’ she said, “that you are strong enough?" I looked at her slender figure and laughed: "I have not lived out of doors for nothing.” I answered. “I- could car ry you from here to the Shifting Shoal yonder without tiring." Again came the infectious laugh, ap parently at the thrill of the adventure, and I found it impossible to keep from joining her. “But it's time I made the boast good.” I answered, and, leaning towards her, picked her up in my arms, careful to keep the little slippers and her skirts clear of the waves. “You must put your arms about my neck to keep the balance.” I said, “or I'll not guarantee the consequences.” “Must I?" she said quite demurely, and did as I commanded. Feeling my way cautiously, I started to cross the causeway. A false step and I should have slipped into the deeper water, so I went slowly, feeling for safe footing as I took each step. Once I glanced momentarily at the face which was so close to mine, but Miss Graham's eyes were fixed on the shore ahead, and would not look at me. We reached the sand at the foot of the cliff and I put the girl down. She looked a her slippers. “Splendidly done,” she said. “Not a drop of water touched me. You're quite as strong as you said.” “Remember the cause.” I answered. "But you're frightfully wet.” she ob jected, looking at my heavy riding breech es and leggings, which were soaked through. "You must run back to the cot tage as fast as you can, to save yourself a cold.” “I must see you to the club nrst. I answered. “I know a short cut back of the cliff and through the woods.” ‘‘Hurry, then,” she said. “I’ll not have you catching cold on my account.” We scrambled up the headland and struck into the pine woods. I leading, she following close behind. We went along nt a dog trot, and, although I often stopped to insure against her tiring, I found that she was a strong runner and wanted no rest. At last we came to a clearing just this side of the club en trance. “I’ll say good-by here,” she said, “and •part you the sight of a civilization that you dislike." She held out her hand. Then I remembered our bargain. “You said that if I set you ashore you would eotne to see the sunset from my cliff. You haven't forgotten that'?" "Xo; but I must think out a way. They dine here at such a stupid hour. Hut I promise you that some afternoon you'll see me strolling down the beach, and then if there's a sunset I'll let you show it to me. Y'ou deserve that much, at least, for coming to my rescue." She gave me her hand a second time, and turned into the grounds of the Pen guin Club. I looked at my watch; she would lie just in time for dinner. I walked hack through the woods and tip the beach. The western sky was fair ly ahiaze with color. It seemed that a beacon flamed through the pines ui>on my cliff. "Have you ever known such a beauti ful afternoon, Charles?" 1 asked my man at supper. “Never, Mr. Felix, never." 1 was sitting so that I could look out of the window at the sea. “It was unusually glorious, even for Alastair, wasn’t it?" 1 pursued. "Yes. sir. it certainly was, sir, even for Alastair. sir." After supper I had my coffee on the balcony and sat there and smoked and wondered how long it had been since a petticoat had boarded the Ship. CHAPTER III. The weather next morning was just right for a ride, and sending for my horse. I made a great circuit of the woods, coming back by the marshes about noon. As I galloped past the up per end of the lowlands I heard a voice calling to me, and. drawing rein, waited until the voice's owner appeared. This proved to be an extremely sunburned young man dressed in very loud tweeds. He carried a fishing-rod over his arm, and a fish-basket dangled from his shoul der. “I say, do you know the country here abouts?" he inquired. "I've lost my way. and I'm infernally hot and tired." He looked it; his lips were almost as mutinous as those of n spoiled child, and even the tilt of his soft felt had had a dejected aid. Where do you want ro go: i asKen in return. "The Penguin Hub lies about three miles off to the east." "Yes, that't it," he said. "Pm a Pen guinite, worse luck.” Me dropped the fishing-rod and tried to kick some of the mud from his boots. "I oame out to get some fishing at this morning, and not a bite have I had. nor a morsel of food tasted since. My legs ache .at the thought of that three miles yet to go. Isn't there a farm-house somewhere near where I could get something to eat?” The appeal in his eyes was so plaintive that I could not help smiling. Thereat he smiled back. “It’s a beastly pickle, isn't it?” he said. “The next time I'll arrange to have a man follow me with lunch.” It was only a quarter of a mile to my cottage. "Come along with me,” I said. "I'll fir you tip.” He grinned gratefully, and trudged along beside me until we came to the cot tage. I called for Charles and sent him off with the horse. By the time he re turned. my guest was feeling consider ably better, having postponed famine by the aid of whisky and soda. He sat down to dinner with the air of a king come into his own. For a time he ate silently but strenuously, then he looked up at me. "They don't give us sueh food at the club, no. sir-ee, and as for the wines, they can't compare with your claret. Funny to think of finding such things down here in the country, away of at the end of an empty beach. I didn't know there was a civilized man within fifty miles of here. Mo you happen to come from New York?" "Originally," I made answer. “But it was some time ago.” "Funny thing. New York.” said my guest. “When I'm back there I think I'd like to be out in the open country, but as soon as I have my wish I'm crazy for the old burg. I’ve been down at the Penguin now for more than two weeks, and I don’t suppose an hour of the day passes when I don’t long for the scenery of Broadway. The worst time is at night. I can sit on the club porch and fairly hear the Klevated sizzle by. Some times it seems as if I really couldn’t stand it any longer.*’ hy do you l asked. “There are reasons, good and suffi cient reasons," he answered, with a slow smile. "Reasons for which I might he living in Kamchatka as well as any where else.” He looked at me intently for a fen seconds, then lighted a cigarette. “You're not inquisitive, are you? First rule to success in any business affair. However, there are certain facts you are entitled to have: my name is Rodney Islip. and I'm a broker, offices at 57 Wall Street, where I’d be glad to execute any orders for you at any time of year— though between you and me the present is a particularly bad time to invest in anything, not even including British con sola or government bonds. This reeeot French smash put lo^s of people out o£ business. You’ve heard of it. 1 suppose —the most outrageous swindle since Whitaker Wright.” “I read of it in the papers. It seems this man Etienne induced half the poor of Paris to trust their savings to him, and then pi a yeti one company into the bands of another until the bubble burst —isn’t that about it?” The man in tweeds nodded. He threw back his head and blew a cloud of smoke in an upward spiral. “So little differ ence,’’ said he, “between absolute triumph and absolute defeat. A jerk of the tick er may convert the greatest benefactor into the deepest villain. For Etienne— though I think that’s only a pseudonyn of his—is undoubtedly a villain when you think of the numberless lifetime sav ings he has swept away. Why will peo ple trust a promoter? Haven’t they all of history to judge by?” “History teaches that people are al ways ready to he fooled,’* l answered. “However. 1 don’t blame them. Im a man’s nerve was only big enough Fd fol low him myself.** I.slip looked at me with a merry twin kle. “The solitary life makes you a philoso pher.” be said. “I envy you. I’m as restless as a hawk.” 1 smiled. An uneasy conscience: “No: I’m no Etienne. I believe the only plaoe for such men is under lock and key. Hut I hate to sit still and think—in my present condition/ lie did not seem disposed to explain that position, and l would not press him. After a time we adjourned to toy bal cony and sat there enjoying the day, car rying on a somewhat desultory conver sation. I found that I liked this man; there was a frank camaraderie about him, an openness of face and spirit, that irresistibly appealed. He seemed the better sort of young NVw Yorker, thor oughly optimistic, always at his ease. I could see he had the knack of knowing how to dress; even his loose, baggy out ing clothes set well upon him. "I\> you ever shoot at gulls?** hi asked, noting the birds that wheeled con tinually in from sea and over the cliffs. "No; it’s bad luck to shoot them. In stormy weather, when sailors can't see their hands before their faces, they can hear the beating of gulls' wings and look out for hidden rocks. One comes to think a great deal of seafarers down this way/* "I dare say. It must be beastly work in a storm at sea." "I often think that when I'm in bed on a bad night. The Shoal Light yonder keeps most of the ships away.” We smoked for a time in silence. “What a contrast," Islip said at length, "between this quiet beach and the folks at the chib! I think I like this the bet ter of the two, but l should want com pany." ".Many people over there now?” I jasked. "A goodish number." "Who are they?” I inquired idly. "Oh, file usual crowd of city mag nates wiih their wives and families. James G. Purviance of Oil, with the Mrs. ami two marriageable daughters. The Mrs. has her eyes on Colonel Fel lowes. the man who judges the hackneys at all the shows. I think he’d rather stay single, but the nets are tightening, and Mrs. Purviance isn’t going to let hi in slip. Then there’s the Gregory family. The old man sits at the telephone most of th** day. giving orders how to run his rai.road, though he thinks he is off on a summer holiday and the three girls and the boy cut capers on the golf-links, and get up theatricals in the evening. Then t here are two very decent unattended bachelors, Philip Leroy and Arthur Sav age—well, 1 suppose I might say three, because 1’in a bachelor/* "Yes?” I asked in a tone that asked delicately for more. “Oh, there’s Mr. Divine of Rock Bot tom Lead, and—let me see—there’s a Miss Elizabeth Corey and her niece, Miss Graham, of New York.’* 1 watched him out of tin* corner of my eye, but his tanned face was placidity it self. “What are they like?” I ask**d. “Very nice. Miss Corey is quite tht grande dame, in a gentle way.” “And the niece?** Now I detected a shift in lslips posi tion. “Well, she’s very nice, too, very nice. I knew her quite well in town.” lie broke off definitely. I changed tlie subject. I didn’t care very much about the rest o£ the guests at the club. A little later Islip took up his fishing rod and his empty basket, and we walked up the beach together. At the farther end I pointed him out his road home. “May 1 drop in on you again if I'm in the neighborhood’/” he asked as we said good-by. ”1 wish you would. Next time I’ll put you on to a place where you’ll get all the fish your basket will hold. I’ve a lit* tie place of my own.” "Thanks. I know you don't care for' the club, or I’d ask you up to dinner. If I get word of a sudden break in the market, I’ll let you hear.' It was plain that he couldn't keep his thoughts long from Wall Street. I smiled at the apparent incongruity of his words there on the beach, then I watched him climb the rocks and disappear. It was pleasant to have company, l considered, but for some reason I found the Ship, when 1 climbed on board to try my paints, rather lonely. I was not used t<* having two visitors in as many days. (To be continued.) The Proper Thing. Myer—In writing to the secretary of the navy, would It be proper to addresa him as “your excellency?” Guyer—No. "Your warship” would be more appropriate.

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THE WRANGELL SENTINEL RICHARD BUSHELL. JR., Editor and Proprietor Published at Wrangell, Alaska, every Thursday Afternoon $2.50 per gear in advance, otherwise $3.00 Foreign Countries 50^ extra A GOLDEN opportunity r i _ it seems to this paper that the business men of Wrangell, shrewd chough they are as a rule, are miss ing a golden opportunity in not getting together, organizing a t stock company and building a suit able vessel for the Stlckine River J trade. A very low estimate would figure out that every year there is pas sengers and freight business en ough to bring the total gross in come for carrying the same to from ten to twelve thousand dollars per year. On several different occa sions The Sentinel’s editor has heard it stated that the Hudsons Bay Company would be more than willing to turn over the business of river transportation to some local concern, for a number pf years at feast. Just how true this is it were hard to say without getting the in formation at first hand. There is every likelihood though this is true especially while the de mand for steamers on the British Columbia rivers continues so strong owing to the immense amount of railroad construction, under way or contemplated. There is of course considerable room for argument as to what stamp of a vessel were the best for the business, whether it be power ed with a gasoline engine, or driv en by steam, but these are minor matters. The point for us to' con sider is whether or not it is possi ble to raise cash enough here in Wrangell to stari the ball rolling. The construction work cou'd all be done right here at home by town people, and the cost of building the boat thus kept here, The hunting season on the Brit ish side of the line, doesn’t open until the first of September, and the river steamer according td her present schedule makes her last trip out of here early in August. As a result, several of the big game hunters who had b^en figuring on coming this way, may be compelled to forego the trip, and Che town will have that much less business. The remedy for future years at 1 least is in ouf own hands. Let us have a boat whose home port is Wrangell, built by Wrangell peo ple, manned by Wrangell people, and plugging for Wrangell and her people; and. every man, woman ar\d child in Wrangell will feel the ben efit of it. The law recently passed by Con I JP gress under which the district at torneys TE5

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1 DEPARTMENTS V3MEN Don’t Narrow Yonr l*Ife. A woman said: “I'm getting so I Just hate to meet strangers. I would rather walk around the block a dozen times than meet some one whom I would have to talk to for half an hour. I like my family and friends, but I don't want any outsiders about.” She was only about 30. but she was acquiring an earmark of age. And that is unwise for any one, and partic ularly the woman of business. No one can afford to give all her time even to friends. And to fritter It away on casual acquaintances Is de plorable. Time 13 the gold that Is given us freely. But on the other hand, it is unwise to shut oneself away entirely from making new ac quaintances, to live so content with one's present circle of friends that no message from other worlds can reach you. The woman who doe.s this is go ing to narrow her life. Whether she is the mother of a family, a business woman or a young girl just facing the world, she will shut out interests that may menn help, inspiration, happi ness. Every life is a little world, and you do not know what message may come to you from the stranger you welcome to your gates. One grows or stagnates. Stagnation Is not good for any one. To be in touch w ith the progress of the world one must keep in touch with the life that makes it progress, and every man and woman plays some part in this. If there 13 the least inclination to do this, the tendency is apt to grow on one until it becomes a fixed habit. It may come in the beginning from iner tia. from morbidness. Whatever' the cause, if you find you are facing in that direction pause awhile and see if you want the narrow, isolated, few Interests life to which it will surely lead you. The fuller the life with human kindly interests the happier. Few have such resources within them selves that all tiie riches of this won derful life is theirs in their own ex perience. Hnml*nnie l.nncheon Gown Here’s a magnificent creation of •oral crepe cut en princes3e, with long train. As sketch indicates, there is a long, sleeveless coat of heavy Russian lace, trimmed with covered buttons down the sides in groups of three. The square yoke and stock of white Irish crochet lace is the only decora tion other than the handsome coat. The artistic finish to this gorgeous costume i3 a huge peach basket cha peau of soft purple straw, adorned with two immense cabbage roses, In lovely shades of coral harmonizing with the gown. It is faced with coral satin and strings of brown velvet rib bon fall gracefully over right shoulder. To Rest and -\ot Sleep. Few women know how to rest prop erly without sleeping. The average woman when she has a few moments to rest will sit in a rocking chair and reck vigorously. Nothing shatters the nerves more than this habit, which seems chronic with the American wom an. To rest so as to obtain the most HANDSOME DINNER GOWN. One of the handsomest gowns seen this season Is here pictured. The illustration shows the design of the decollete bodice, which was made almost entirely of braided brown silk net—the stoie ends and slashed sleeves edged with a narrow band of fancy brown silk soutache braid. The V front of mauve satin matched the satin foundation of whole gown, and the flat collar was brown mirror velvet. The long sleeves were of tucked chiffon match ing that used in front of bodice. The net skirt, cut in tunic effect, was also elaborately braided at bottom. benefit when you have no couch and but a little time to spare, loosen collar and anything else which is tight if possible. Then select a comfortable chair and lie back and put the feet on a comfortable footstool. Do not sleep, read or think. Let your mind be as near perfect blankness as is possible. After a little practice one really can achieve a blank mind. After half an hour of complete relaxation of all the nerves one feels rested. The Sprlnft-ClennliiK Mania. There is a lingering fallacy in the minds of many folk that if you are a woman—moreover, a woman blessed or cursed as the case may be with the care of a household, it is your bounden duty in the spring of the year to evince nothing short of a passion for spring cleaning. For a love of spring cleaning is one of the essential foundations of that fabric of deceit and dissimulation that goes toward the making of a womanly woman. For there is only one way to achieve a reputation for being truly womanly, and that is to be—or else pretend to bo —given over heart and soul to the care of all those little details of every day exercise that make for domestic ity. This is the theory that still rules the world, even in these enlightened days, when women are clamoring loud and long for more than ever they'll get in every walk of life. Consequent ly the majority of mankind still clings to the belief that the great upheaval of their household gods, sacred to this season of the year, provides or should provide every properly constituted daughter of Eve with absorbing inter est and undiluted pleasure. And who is to prove that the majority is mis taken? At any rate, its opinion is too strong to be ignored. Hn%)/vssk Heels are higher on the street shoes. Long lace veils will be used to drape the hats. Buttons grow larger and dressier day by day. Among the new lingerie are the princess ch'emlses. Loose lace coats to wear over muslin robes will be stylish. For trimming the lingerie frocks Irish crochet takes the lead. Figured serge and figured tussore are both exceedingly popular. The separate coat will have a greater vogue this summer than It has for years. It seems that Irish crochet is to be the popular lace of the year. Many of the attractive trimmings show a touch of gold or silver. Some of the new lingerie have slight touches of colored embroidery. Boy’* Snlt of Linen. Built on very similar lines to the popular Russian blouse Is a trig little suit of brown linen, the sailor collar trimmed with band of white braid and finished with a tie of black satin. The belt Is white patent leather. _ Milk to Kxtinvrntnh Flame. Did you ever try extinguishing a flame from a coal oil lamp with milk? It Is much better than water If it happens to be on hand, as it mixes with the oil and puts out the flame quickly. .Sandpaper Worn Collar*. Old collars and cuffs that have be come worn on the edges from wear and laundering can be used again by sandpapering the edges of same with a fine piece of sandpaper. C'leanlitf? Kid Sllppera. To clean delicate colored kid slip pers or baby's kid shoes use sweet milk and white soap by wetting a cloth first In the milk and then rub bing the soap to form a lather. Chlneae Marrlajre Reform. There Is a growing desire on the part of the young of both sexes In China to choose their own mates. In stead of having parents choosing them for them. To nrlghlrn Carpet*. After washing your carpets well put about a teaspoonful of beef gall in a tub of rinsing water and It will brighten and perfume your carpet. 'FMRi/JiPSPP Water for the Bee*. Give the bees plenty of water. They need a great deal and will fly a long distance to get it. If there is no running stream or lake of pure water near it Is well to place a pail of fresh water near the apairy every day. Bees use water to dilute the heavy, thick honey left over from winter to make it suitable for the young larvae and also to make the cell wax pliable. Bees should be protected from the wind on the north and west by a close set hedge or high fence. All the weeds should be kept down In front of the hives. Slow a plot 6 feet wide and then cut the weeds and grass close to the ground with a hoe An hour once a week spent on the care of the bees will bring larger re turns for the effort than any other labor on the farm. A newspaper man In Chicago, who lives a few miles out in the country, last year sold $225 worth of honey to three big hotels. He say3 he did not spend more than an hour a week look ing after his bees during the season. —F. and D. Journal. Feed fur Chicks. Feed chickens the first day or two upon a mixture of bread crumbs grated fine and hard-boiled egg chop ped fine. Keep water before them in a small fountain, so they can drink but not get into it. In a few days feed upon rolled oats, finely cracked corn and any small seeds. Add a for several seasons the land washes but little and the vines grow better aud bear betterd. The cow peas make sufficient cover, so one does not get into the mud when pruning in wet weather in late winter or early spring Whether grown in the orchard or vine yard the peas should usually be plow ed under the following spring. In this way they protect the soil without los ing any essential part of their fertiliz ing value. Alffilfn I'lunttnff, It should not be forgotten that ths spring is the proper time to prepare the alfalfa crop that is to be planted next fall. The ground which Is ex pected to be used for this crop should not be planted to small grain; neither should corn precede alfalfa, because the ground will not be kept free weeds and grass. The best prepara tory crop for alfalfa is cow peas: then after the vines are removed or plowed under the ground should be well broken and kept clean of weeds and grass by surface cultivation until It is seeded in alfalfa the following fall. Peanuts may be grown instead of cow peas, if the crop Is considered more desirable, as It Is perhaps, but they must be kept well cultivated and es pecially allow no earth grass to grow in the crop.—Chicago Inter Ocean. Ynlue nf a Sitiiill Stream. An interesting example of the value of a small stream for light and power purposes may be found near Sacra mento, Cal. A trout stream has been damned up and the power in the form of electricity has been used for doing such light work as washing and iron ing. also for cooking and lighting in the home of the owner. As the stream DRAFT ON DOUBLETREE. There Is a difference of opinion regarding the pulling ability of each horse in a team. Some are of the opinion that the horse ahead is pulling the most, and vice versa. The draft on each horse depends entirely on the relative lengths of the lever arms, and the lengths of the lever arms depend on the position of the clevis pins with respect to the draw pin. In upper diagram 1) the clevis pins and the draw pin are in a straight line, hence the lever arm is the per pendicular distance from the draw pin (A) to the line of draft of each horse. The lever arms in this case are A. B. and A. C.. which are equal, no matter how much one horse is ahead of the other. One horse always pulls the same amount as the other. In diagram (2) the clevis pins are behind the draw pin. and when one horse pulls ahead of the other his lever arm (A. C.) becomes longer and (A. B.) the lever arm of the one behind becomes shorter. In this case the horse ahead, having a large lever arm, has the advantage and pulls less than the one behind. In diagram (3) the clevis pins are ahead of the draw pin. and when one horse pulls ahead his lever arm shortens and the lever arm of the one behind lengthens. The horse ahead, having the lever arm shorter, pulls more than the horse behind. little beef scraps to the food. In the course of two weeks whole wheat can be given. This Is the dry method of feeding, which is coming into vogue quite extensively. Here is another method of feeding: Mix dry two parts of corn meal, one part of finely ground wheat bran and one part of beef scraps. After they are thoroughly mixed add boiling water in sufficient quantity to make a stiff dough. Cover the vessel and let it cook. Feed the dough warm or cold, but never hot.— Denver Field and Farm. Halalntf Pig*. The cheapest way to put gains on young pigs is through the sow. She has a strong digestion and can turn coarse grains and pasture into easily digested milk. Careful experiments show that a pound of weight taken from the sow will make more than 1 pound of gain on the pigs, the flesh of the young animals containing more water. The sow should be fed to pro duce a high milk yield, and the pigs should be kept with her until they get to eating a full feed of grain and pas ture. Cow Pom for Vineyard*. Cow peas are a good crop for vine yards. The grapes are given thorough cultivation until late June, when the cow peas are sown. Before this prac tice was begun, says the Farmers and Drovers’ Journal, It was a problem to hold the soil about the roots of the vines. After cropping with cow peas !s very small during the dry months, an old miner's ditch has been dammed to form a reservoir of 100,000 cubic feet capacity. The plant cost $1,500 and In a single year has done $700 worth of work. Portable t'anniuur Machine. A machine by which the farmer can prepare and can his fruits, tomatoes, corn, beans, or any other farm produce which can be canned, in the fields or orchards in which the vegetable or fruit is growing, is described in Popu lar Mechanics. Mounted on a wheel barrow arrangement, the machine can be pushed from one orchard to another or from a tomato patch to a cornfield as necessity requires. Water for the process Is heated by a kerosene burner. How to Set Fence PtMitn. Any timber will last quite well 1/ set In this way: Dig a square hole about a foot deep, throwing the dirt well back. Sharpen the post and drive well into the bottom, then put a flat stone against each side and a chunk against the post, the boards holding It the other way. This prevents their rotting off at the surface of the ground as they always do. Value of Quality. Extra large specimens of vegetables are all right for exhibition purposes and to win prizes with, but they are not what the average consumer wants and is willing to pay freight on.. .Quality, uniformity of size and smooth ness are what the average man want*

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gOLE LOCAL AGENTS L ,J. It is with pleasure that we are able to announce that we have secured the exclus

ive local agency for Cheney’s Photos and Postal Cards. SHURICK DRUG CO. Proprietor THE PALATIAL S. S. ST. CROIX Will sail for Seattle on or about August 2 via the inside passage. The most modern up-to-date steamer in the Alaska ..adf. TWO BERTH STATEROOMS Portable ekctric reading lamps in each berth Special Dining Saloon Features Tickets sold on board at prevailing rates SCHUBACH HAMILTON STEAMSHIP CO. Plessages From Afar Although the local wireless sta lion is unable to send messages owing to inefficient equipment, it is still aide to receive, and many and varied are tlv? stray aerograms which are gatl: red in apparently from nowhere. The other evening one was heard from a steamship off the ccast of Washington, notifying San Francisco of the condition of the weather arc! the hour at which they would arrive at that port. Several times have Tatoosh and Bremerton navy yard stations been overheard; and one afternoon re cently, with atmosphere conditions just right, Operator Johnston ffi ard a faint tapping of the message from some steamer far out upon the broad Pacific, relaying a message I jto distant Japan. If government red tape ever gets around to it and installs an ade quate outfit here, there is no doubt but that messages can be sent to Ketchikan, Sitka and other places more remote, and when the British Columbia government shall have completed the installation of the stations now contemplated, commu nication can then be had by relay to Seattle, so that in the event of Occident to the cable, we should gtill be in touch with the Puget Sound metropolis. Crab fishing seems to have Struck Wrangell in fourteen places all at once, and one is apt to stum ble over crabs, crabbers or crab nets, in most any old prace. The market fishermen are meeting with fair luck,, and will ship on every trip of the Humboldt. Fred Johnston and F. D. Chen ey left Sunday in the latter’s boat for a peotracted trip, Their first stop will be at Petersburg, where they expect to remain several days. From there, weather permitting, they will go th the whaling station at Tyee, and return by way of the West Coast, stopping at Shakan Had the other points of interest. Committed to the Asylum After an investigation, Court Commissioner Snyder committed Charles McMinamin to the asylum for the insane, yesterday morning. The boy has been deranged for a number of years, 1 ut until recent lv had never been violent. Of late however he has become much worse so it was thought best to place him under restraint to prevent him harming himself or another. Jeff Casson, who was out after “mowich” the latter part of last week, is home again. The Antelope made port at an early hour Sunday morning, and left the same evening with provi sions for the salmon fishermen at Santa Anna. Mrs. R. L. Milligan and her friend, Miss Green, of Flagstaff, Arizona, were round trippers to Sitka on the Seattie, returning yes terday morning. John Kolb has been papering the upstairs rooms over the Wrangell Drug Store this week. John is a first-class mechanic, and the work he does is all right. The first pears of the season, California Bartlets, arrived up on the Cottage, and looked and tasted just as good as they did a year ago. Rev. Corser’s lectures at the church, seem to meet with the ap proval of the tourists and is some thing the}' all should hear. Mr. Corser has probably delved as deeply into the mythology of the Alaskan native as any man in Alas ka, and is therefore the more able to tell the stranger of the old life of the Indian. Job Printing at The Sentinel. Shipping Shingles Up River The Wrangle Shingle Co. is do ing an international business these days. On the last trip of the Port Simpson they shipped 12,000 shing les ttp the river, and that vessel has 30.000 more on hoard this voy age. Business has been rather quiet at the mill for the past month or so, but these orders will clean out their stock on hand, and thus start the wheels to revolving once again. Theatrics! Co. on Humboldt Among the two hundred and ov er passengers which the Humboldt carried no th this trip, was a the atrical company under the manage ment and direction of T. Darnel Frawley, a well -'inown actor of the Pacific Coast. They are on their way inside to Fairbanks, where they will show until the close of navigation. Mrs. Fred Leonard was a round trip passenger on the last trip of the Uncle Dan. Though Johnnie Grant was away on a trip to the West Coast, the Wrangell Hotel kept up its reputa tion for. hospitality Tuesday night by throwing open its doors to the Cottage City’s passengers who glad ly availed themselves of the oppor tunity io “tip the light fantastic toe.’’ The run of salmon has slacked up somewhat, and Manager Babler once more has time to demonstrate the finer points of ‘solo” playing to Wrangell’s card sharks. Don't fail to tend Matheson’s “ad” this week. The bargains mentioned therein will interest you. Word comes from Juneau that Antone Bergseth is rallying from his accident of a couple of weeks ago, and doing finely. Leonard Campbell is Ole John son’s right hand man at the City Store during Donald Sinclair’s ab sence, and can hand out souvenir post cards to the tourists as grace fully as the best of ’em. Frank Spaulding has just fin ished painting and overhauling his gas boat, and she is once more on the job. The little launch is a staunch one, and the engine can be depended on to keep on running. St. Michael Trading Co. We are Headquarters for the fol lowing Lines of Merchandise Boots and shoes Dry Goods, Rubber Goods Groceries Hardware, Ship Chandlery Crockery, etc. Authorized Agents Victor Talking Machines Tin Shop in Connection CAMP STOVES, GASOLINE TANKS, FTC. Made To Order UNDERTAKING PARLORS CASKETS TRII1MED AND SHIPPED TO ALL POINTS We outfit Miners, Fishermen, Prospectors Sole Local Agents for Hercules Blasting Powder Mail Orders Given Prompt Attention Wrangell Alaska i ii i i i nn. -rv .•»*n*muLui_ urwiim/:kum-m 'Wirimk,rnu jjtc itefmtnmt BANDO BRCS., Proprietors BEST MEALS GOOD BAKING Bread, Pies and Cakes for sale WRANGELL ALASKA Frank Coulter Sells Launch

Local gas boat men seem to be of the general opinion that Sam Cunningham made a very good buy when he purchased the Comet for the price he did recently. To be sure the engine has not been run ning any too well of late, but those j who claim to know, seem to think I that the trouble can be remedied at very little cost. Judging from the fact that he had a half-dozen or more lady pas sengers to one man, on his trip up the river last Wednesday, Capt. Kenig Johannson continues in the good graces of the fair sex. Subscribe for The Sentinel. VIEWS OF WRANGELL AND VICINITY POST CARDS $1.00 Per Dozen Developing and Printing Done for Amateurs Our V'iews and Postcards Foi Stile bij The Shurick Drug Company F. D. CHENEY Hello, Fellers! Don’t forget the Number, WRANGELL DRUG CO., Wholesale and Retail Druggists