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LARGE FIGURES IN ALASKA
Labor Receives High Wages Up There,
but Correspondingly Big Prices
Are Demanded for Produce.
Alaskan soil la spread with a thick
.mat of moss. This must be burned
off before the northern agriculturists.
;who sell their oats and potatoes to
fthe miners at stunning prices, can
plant their seeil and hustle through
their crop ere the short summer is
over. It Is absolutely essential to burn
this moss. If it is plowed under
elements of the moss inimical to agri
cultural plans spoil the crops. The
Alaskan farmers have invented a shal
low plow with which they loosen up
the moss and prepare it for the match.
Farming is expensive in Alaska,
With hired hands getting $G to $7.50
a day. Hut, on the other hand, hay
sells for $G0 to $100 per ton and
strawberries at $1.25 to $2 a quart.
J. P. Itlckert, who has a greenhouse
in Fairbanks, Alaska, sells tomatoes
at 50 cents to $1 a pound and cucum
bers at $2 to $0 a dozen.
It is hard to generalize about what
will grow in Alaska, because the cli
mate is so diversified—with almost
continuous rain, mild winters and fair
ly cool summers along stretches of
the south coart, and short, hot sum
mers with moderate rainfall and se
vere winters In the Interior valleys.
The frozen tundras of the north ate
out of the question for agriculture.
At Kadiak, off the south coast, the
minimum temperature wnn two de
grees last winter.
To find and develop things which
will thrive in Alaska the department
,of agriculture has three agricultural
stations, at Sitka, Rampart and Fair
banks, and a dairy farm at Kadiak on
the south coast.
One Impediment to agriculture in
Alaska is the big black ravens. C. C.
Georgeson, the government special
agent in charge, complains in his an
nual report that the birds have "an
Insatiable desire to destroy anything
they believe useful to man.” They
tore up his strawberry plants, and he
calls them a "veritable curse.”
Among the plants which thrive in
Alaska are currants, gooseberries,
raspberries, salmonberries, radishes,
tottuca and a strawberry hybridized
with a native variety at Sitka; cer
tain early maturing varieties of win
tar and spring wheat and rye, spring
barley, spring oats and spring emmer
*t Rampart; potatoes, oats and other
hardy grains at Fairbanks. Rarleys
imported from Pamir in Central Asia
and from Yakoutsk, Siberia, matured
at Rampart in 87 and 88 days, respec
tively.
Cultivate Tact.
If a woman Is blessed with tact she
has the supreme gift. It will bring
her all the things she needs. To her
it is a much more valuable asset than
beauty or even genius. Tact is cer
tainly the greatest of all gifts to a
woman.
The girl’s school In some far-distant
Utopia is going to include a course in
tact to correlate with its curriculum
from the primary grades on through
the post-graduate work. For when
the day of enlightenment does come
the sensible mother and the astute
father will realize that a working
knowledge of how to get along with
people Is more to be desired than
much wisdom In so-called higher
branches. Tact Is more important
than trigonometry. It stands a girl
In place of beauty; it takes her fur
ther than talent; It brings the world
to her feet to do her homage.
Tact! Speed the day when we
shall appreciate the importance of this
unconsiderorl trifle' Help us to real
ize that with it woman can wheedle
the world out of anything it has to
give; but with her feeble strength
she can't wrestle with it and get any
thing!
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Can Opening.
One of the smallest of the little
girls in a Philadelphia family had
often assisted her mother in prepar
ing the meals. She observed that her
mother, who was rather hasty, always
talked to herself w hen she had any
difficulty in opening cans of vege
tables. The little girl thought that the
hastiness was a part of the operation.
One day she was visiting a neigh
bor and went into the kitchen t.o help
prepare a meal.
She watched tiro neighbor take a
can of corn, apply the opener and re
move the top.
“That's not the way to open a can
of corn,” said the little girl .
“Why, what other way is there?*’
asked the neighbor.
"Well, you take the can of corn and
start to open it, and then you bear
down and the opener slips. Then you
say, ‘Darn this can,’ and finish it.
That's the way my mother opens a
can of corn.”
How Grant Swore.
A Capitol Hill girl tells this story
as having really happened at her
home. Her father is a great believer
■ in good manners. If the children don’t
act just so at the table he sends them
away. Recently the family had a man
up for dinner who was not quite as
“high toned” as the man of the house
desires his associates to be. The sub
ject of war came up, and with it that
of General Grant.
“Oh, he was a terribly profane man,"
said the guest to his host.
“Is that so?” replied the particular
host.
“Yes, Indeed,” came from the guest.
“He'd swear just as naturally as you
open your mouth when the knife
comes up.”
The host had very little to say after
that.—Denver Times.
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Overboard
at Sea
To be lost overboard on a dark
[night, hundreds of miles south of the
Capo of Good Hope, with a strong
wind blowing, and to live to tell the
'.tale, does not happen to many sailors.
William Galloway of the crew o£ tho
•British ship KilUrannnn had such an
•experience several years ago, and told
his story to a reporter of a San Fran
cisco newspaper of tho time, from
which the following account is ta
ken:
Galloway is a brown faced Scotch
laddie who says "mtther" for mother,
.and everything about him, from tho
frayed bottoms of his Jean trousers
to the wiry-looking tufts of hair which
peep from beneath the front peak of
his little fore-and-aft cap, betoken the
rollicking, happy-go-lucky deep sea;
sailor boy. Of his adventure, First
Mate William Coalfleet said:
"It was eight o'clock in tho even
ing. We were flfty-flve days out from
•Philadelphia, bound for Hlogo, Japan,
and near latitude forty-four one south,
llongitude fourteen forty-four cast. A
strong easterly wind was blowing. Iti
was dark and bitter cold, and the sea,
was running very high.
"Galloway was half-way up tho rat
lines, unhooking a block from the
;main-sheet, when the ship gave a
lurch and lie fell into the sea.
"The captain threw him a life buoy..
The ship wras brought up in tho wind!
as quickly as possible, and a boat)
lowered and manned. I took command
of her.
“We heard the boy shout ns wo were
lowering the boat, but he had yelled
himself hoarse, and w • had nothing to!
guide us as wo pulled aimlessly about,
in the heavy sea.
“We pulled round for over an hour,
and as we lost sight of the ship sev
eral times, and the night was getting
rougher and thicker, I was about tq
give up the search in despair, when
wo heard a feeble moan, and straining
our eyes, saw Galloway clinging to
the lifebuoy, almost under our how.
“We soon had him on hoard, hut it
took some slapping and rubbing to
put warmth Into his rigid limbs.”
Galloway said to the reporter: “I
am a good swimmer, and managed to
ride tho big seas that came along, but
it was terribly cold, and my legs be
gan to feel like lead. It was a good
job for me that the water was so
black, or I never could have seen the
white lifebuoy as it came to me oil the
crest of a wave.
“I got it under my arms and stopped
paddling. I was tired out. I shouted'
as long as I could, hut my volco grew,
husky.
“The albatrosses and mollyhawks,
swooped down on me, and I kept wa
ving my arms, thinking every momentj
that one of them would drive its
beak through my skull.
“I lost all hope and thought of moth
er and my sisters iu Glasgow. Then i
saw the white hull of the mate’s boat.
I tried hard to shout. They heard me
and I was soon hauled on board.
“Tho captain gave me medicine,
and with plenty of warm blankets and;
hot coffee, 1 soon began to feel my
self again.”—American Home Month
ly.
CHEERS FOR THE ANIMALS
Lecturer Annoyed by Being Interrupt
ed by Cheers and Jeers While
Delivering a Lecture.
The naturalist was delivering a lec- j
ture at West Point to the entire body
of cadets, and he was telling them a j
big bear story, “At that moment,” he
said, “the mother bear—”
His remarks were interrupted and
broken off short by a huge yell from
the cadets, with clapping and stamp- j
ing and cheers and jeers that gave j
him no opportunity to continue. Ho
simply had to wait, nonplussed, until
the noise had subsided. Then he took
up his discourse again. “1.don't know
what I said,” he remarked, “to bring
forth such an outburst. I suppose it |
must have been something queer. If j
nobody tells me I’ll simply have to go ,
on and do the best I can without that I
salutary information. As I was say
ing, the mother bear—” Again the
yells broke forth, but this time they
were brief and the lecturer was al
lowed to finish explaining about the
antics of I.ady Bruin. Then another
slide was slipped into the stereopticon
and a picture of a small animal was
thrown on the screen. “This little
fellow',” the lecturer stated, “is often
extremely annoying about camp. He
is a porcupine—” Howls and yells
again broke out, and the lecturer
shook his head in despair of being
able to have his lecture received seri
ously by these militant youths of tho
country, who evidently knew some
thing about animals that ho did not
know. Having been very much of a
boy himself, however, some years pre
vious, he knew the game well enough j
to join in with a cheerful grin, and
after a time he completed his talk,
though it was punctuated with yells
and laughter as the wolf, the badger,
the owl, the crane and even the malo-i
dorous skunk appeared on the screen
and made their respective bows to
the audience.
At the close of the talk the lecturer
sought Information from the officers.
They 6miled as one of them told him,
"Nicknames. We have a fellow here
that the boys call ‘the mother bear,’
another that goes by the name of
‘porcupine,’ and so on down your list.
It is a wondrr that you got through at
all.”
LOOK AT SHILLINGS
Why England's Big Race Track
Proved a Failure.
Those In Control of Brooklands, Auto
mobile Course, Have Experimented
for Years in Attempt to
Make Sports Pay.
London.—The problem of how to
make Itrooklnnds, England’s big au
tomobile track, pay, or at least prove
self-supporting, at last seeniB near so
lution. For four years, ever since tills,
the largest racing track in the world,
was opened to the public, those In
control of it have been experimenting
and out of bitter experience and the
lots of much money they have slowly
but surely learned thai Its appeal is
not to the man in the street, however
good a sportsman he may be, but to
the rich and well-to-do.
When the track was first opened
only automobile races were held on
the grcnl oval. Later on motorcycling
was introduced and finally aviation.
Now all three are combined nt every
meet. But attempts to get a popular
class crowd to witness the events
have been abandoned nnd the 2,000 or
more men and women who gather to
see the races are recruited almost en
tirely from the upper crust of Eng
lish 8ocioly—owners of motor cartf
and flying machines of their own.
a matter of fact many of the rnce^
put on are arranged for amateur dri*
vers nnd airmen piloting their owq
machines.
Motorcycling lias become a popular
pastime in England and interest ip
racing is intense. If Brooklands were
more accessible to London it is safe
to say that the motorcycle races
there would attract large crowds. But
it is a 60-cent traiu ride from Water
loo station, there is another charge
of GO cents to enter the grounds nttd
by the time a man has paid for hia
tea, a programme and a few other ln<
cidenlal expenses he has put the
equivalent of a $2 bill out of commls<
siun. The London sport can get so
much for $2, or eight shillings, it its
not strange that he docs not rush to
Brooklands on meet dnys no matter
how keen he may be on motorcycling.
These facts have their influence, of
course, on the incentives tliat are of
fered to the riders Who compete in the
motorcycle races. In the United
States the men race for substantial
purses and hold out for them If they
are not forthcoming. In England they
are willing to race for a silver mug
of little or no value or almost for a
sheet of paper stating that they won
such and such a race on such and
such a day at Brooklands. That, of
course, has been the trouble In trying
to match De Rozier against Collier,
the English champion rider. Quito
naturally I)e Rozier wants to race for
a fair sized purse, not being in busi
ness to collect mugs or diplomas of
merit, and efforts are being made to
get one of the club3 in England to
put up a bag of sovereigns for a
match between the Englishman and
the American.
Of the three sports now in full
swing at Brooklands aviation undoubt
edly draws the largest crowd. It still
possesses the elements of novelty and
danger which have to a large extent,
disappeared from automobile racing
and motorcycling. The flying contests
held at the big track are not what one
would call exciting. The flights made
at each meeting are added to the dis
tance covered by the same aviators at
previous meets and tlie one who com
piles (lie greatest total before the
close of the season is to get the prize.
Thus, unless one is keen enough to
follow the progress of the several air
men from meet to meet the flying re
solves itself into nothing more than
an exhibition of aeroplanlng. Never
theless, it attracts a goodly crowd of
spectators.
Interest has been added to the fly
ing by the fact that a growing num
ber of spectators have been up in the
air themselves. When races are not
being held at Brooklands there is a
corps of professional aviators con
stantly on the grounds for the pur
pose of taking passengers on more or
less lpngthy flights. Booking offices
have been opened in London ns well
as on the grounds and a flourishing
business is done.
STUDENTS EARN $85 A MONTH
New York University Men Also De
vote Eighteen Hours Each Week
to Different Classes.
New York.—Students of the New
York University School of Commerce,
Accounts and Finance, according to.a
statement issued by Dr. George C.
Sprague, the university registrar, earn
ed during tho year 1910 an average
salary of $85.58 a month. There are
1,150 students in attendance at the
school and the total earnings of the
student body amounted to $1,181,000.
While earning this amount the stu
dents devoted an average of nine
hours a week to classroom attendance
and a like amount of time to prepara
tion for recitations. Those who re
ported included bookkeepers, bank
clerks, accountants, stenographers,
teachers, salesmen and interpreters.
Possibility of the Future.
The nation Is glad congress is go
ing to Investigate the steel trust
and the woolen monopoly. If con
gress keeps trying and trying it may
ultimately get a committee that will
really investigate the subject as
signed to it.
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Open for Business
I have purchased the T. I. La
Forge general store on 9th and
Morton sts., and same is now
ready for business. A share of
your patronage is solicited. Be
ginning Saturday we will handle
fresh meat regularly. Butter and
Eggs bought. Prompt delivery
of goods. Phone 296.
Full line of cured meats.
C. T. LIPPOLD
Buy FURNITURE
of us. If you don’t, we both
lose money. We don’t claim to
have the largest stock in this
part of the state, but we do
claim to have the best assorted
stock, and it’s all new. l'rices
as low as you will find any
where. Give us a chance, we
will show you.
SMITH BROS.
Funeral Directors Falls City. Neb.
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for the Least Money.
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