GIVES WAY
Rockefeller Preparing For
Death Kednces Fortune
[Special Dispatch to Daily Alaskan)
Clevland, O., April 29? John D. Rock
efeller is preparing (or his death which
he thinks cannot be very long
delayed. He is giving away
his great fortune, deeding and willing
yro*ef'Jt to relatives and institutions
of learning ?nd charity. lie is rapidly
attending to all the loose ends, and
will soon hare his business and affairs
In such shape that no furthed attention
will be required.
Chicago Oat* Another S2.000.000
Chicago, April 29? John D. Rocke
feller has just given the University of
Chicago lands to the value of #2,000,000
TO BE GOOD
Library Dance Will Eu
j tyable Attair
The committee in charge of the
?'Library Dance" at the White Puss
Club Wednesday evening. May 1st, has
planned to make the event one of the
most enjoyable of the season.
Over J UK) hare been expended in
l-laining, scraping and sandpapering
the large flor, and a preparation of
liquid caratine wax has been put 'on
that makes the floor, for dancing pur
poses. the best in Southeastern Alaska.
The unique idea of having ,the
admission a book instead of money has
excited a good deal of interest and a
'arge attendance is expected.
Ad orchestra of si.x pieces will ,be [in
attendance led by E. M. Mclntyre.
Only cloth bound book* suitable for
library uses will be acceptel and each
person is expected to bring at least one
book, thus every couple will bring two
books.
It is the desire of the club to estab
lish a circulating library at once and
donations of more than one book, such
as sets of Dickens, shaksuere, Hugo,
etc . will be very acceptable.
Donors are requested to place their
names on th? !'.? leaf of tbair books so
lbat due creded may be given them in
the catalogue.
THE HEWEIT CO.
T0-NIG1T
The Hewett Company present tonight
the latest moving picture the uThaw
Wbite Tragedy" prounced as a most
remarkable master piece of photogra
phy, Mr. Hewett would not produce
this picture unless it was suitable for
ladles and children. There is nothing
objectionable in any scene from start to
finish. Dr. Keller and bis talented
orchestra have kindly volunteered to
play for the Hewetts tonight. Seats
selling at Brill's 25, jO and 75 ctnts.
Gaological Surveyors Coqa
D. C. Witherspoon, of the United
States geological survey, with a party
of surveyors and he'pers, came North
as far as Hadley on the Humboldt.
All the delicac'.es'of the season at the
Hack 1 rain Restaurant.
BUY ON?;
Start Busy Year With Good
\Y atch
Do you neeii a watch? You do unless
you ha?e one already that is thoroughly
reliable. There is nothing so needful
lo busy xan? workman or business
man a? a watch that will correctly
maik time.
We sell all the leading makes o
watches at PRICES THAT ARL
RIGHT, at prices as low as those which
obtain in New York, Chicago or any of
the other great metropolitan centers.
We sell gold watches, silver watches,
Dlckel watches, and all kinds of wa'ches
of ail the standard makes.
We carry the most comp'ete and
most up-to-date stock of jewelry, China
wars and cut glassware in Alaska.
Our repair department is the most mod
ern m all its appointments and the
most thorough in the work t turns out.
We examine the eyes free of cost and
fit them with the kind of glasses 'that
scientific tests demonstrate that they
require.
J. Ikutj, Optician and Jeweler.
RUJori's Too <imterul Soulier.
During Itletori's (list engagement at
Madrid an elderly woman one night
gained access to her dressing room and
tearfully begged her Intervention on
behalf .of her son, a young soldier con
demned to death for a serious breach
of discipline. At the close of the per
formance Itlstorl was presented _ to
Qneeu lsal>ella, made the required ap
peal and obtained the young man's
free pardon, perlnps because it gave to
the queen the opportmilty of a mot?
that she was certain the actress had
never before played in a tragedy with
such a happy ending. Some years later
I!; st or I again visited Madrid. During
the first performance a soldier among
tlu> audience made a disturbance, was
ejected oidy after severely damaging
a number of policemen and was sub
sequently sentenced to a long term of
Imprisonment. lie proved to be Itls
tori's former protege, who. hearlug of
her return, had come to the theater In
order to renew his expression of grati
tude. I'nfortunately lie had drunk her
health tin) (" thuslastically beforehand,
with the result that he finally owed
her not only his life, but five board
and lodging for several years Into the
bargain.? I.oudou Truth.
X??w uud 01?! H.mk Hilh.
According to the Washington Post,
quotiug a cashier, Iwuk oHielals do uot
prefer fresh new bills to old ones.
"Everybody doesn't care for new
greenbacks." said a cashier. "It Is a
common idea that bank tellers do uot
care to give up crisp paper money. As
a matter of fact, nine cashiers out of
every ten try to get rid of new mouey
as quickly as |H>sslble after receiving
It There is grave danger to the aver
age payiug teller in handling unused
money. New bank notes stick togeth
er. Frequently the ink is not thor
oughly dry. During our rush period
we handle n great deal of money. It is
the easiest thin,' hi the world to make
mistakes with new bills when in a
hurry to relieve a Ion,' line of waiting
patrons. When po-sible we give out
the new bills during hours when there
is nj rush. I'd rather pay out a mil
lion old bills than a hundred new
ones."
Rnnnlnsr For Kxprolw,
A profession ! runner gives the" fol
lowing sujig >ns fur exercise: Illse
at ?:3# a. m. Put on old clothing, easy
shoe* and s'.veatcr. Time for dress
ing. five minutes. Walk one-f mith of
a mile: time, live minutes. Then run
a mile at a do; t ot i i eight minutes,
arranging y air circuit of a mile and
a quarter ? that y >u will finish at
your door thirteen minutes after start
lug. Th.it > \oreise will expand your
lungs an I .-ilnuil to your heart action
aud land y >u at yotir do <rstep at ??:-48
a. en. pantlic.' f >r breath, thoroughly
exhauste 1 . id perspiring at every pore.
Yon are then ready for your bath and
shave, nn i breakfast aud for the nat
ural routine of the day. The man of
?edeutary lubits who patiently pur
Bees this exercise may kiss all drugs
good by.
How lie i.enrneil tindUh.
Carl S.-htirz once told n friend some
thing of bis early stru^cles with the
English language. lie knew It about
as American college boys know their
German? that is to say, barely at all.
One day. "deciding such nousense must
end," he entered a bookstore and asked
for the classic of the English language.
A wise clerk gave him "The Vicar of
Waketiel l." lie carefully translated It
into German and put his work away
for six weeks. At the end of that thno
he translated his translation back Into
English and ti n made a searching
comparison between his version and
that of Goldsmith's original. "After
that," he said, "I knew English."
Six Flittered Monkeys.
Ill several places In Cape Colony aud
the Orange l'ree State of S.mth Africa
caves have been discovered which
yielded hundreds of mummified re
mains of a queer si>eeies of six lingered
monkeys. All of the full grown spec
imens of this remarkable race have
the tail situ led hi::h up on the back?
from three to five inches farther up
than on the modern monkey and other
distinguishing marks, such as two sets
of canine teeth, beards ou the males,
etc.
Municipal N'rwupaper.
Dnsdi'u is on? of the fe w cities pos
Bcssing a municipal newspaper, ami
this was Imihu- !il?ed t > the city by the
late I>r. ( tiint. The bequest is a very
valuable property and consists of a
daily newspaper, wliich lu consequence
of its extensive circulation is the prin
cipal advertising medium in the neigh
borhood. The profits are applied to
the beautifying and improvement of
the city and to charity.
I The (iermnn 1 ami Vou.
It is surprising when any one takes
j the trouble to notice how many letters
| begin with the pruuoun "1." To Ger
mans this is egotistical, and their eti
tiuette in letter writing forbids it. It
Is probably <>u the same principle that
they write I tlch) always with a small
letter and you (Sie'i with a capital, re
versing the English custom.
Character.
The first thing that a human being
should recognize about himself is that
his character is ids distinguishing fea
ture. It Is not the amount of money,
the amount of power, the amount of
brains, that a man has, but his char
acter.
Swells.
She (sentimentally) ? How like life
are the waves of the sea! He ? Yon
bet. Come to the shore hi great style
iiud go away broke.? Detroit News.
The gifted man is he who sees the
essential point and leaves all the rest
aside as surplusage.? Carlyle.
The Iraueible DUmireka.
Herbert Bismarck had nono of his
father's bright wit la conversation, bill
had his overbearing temper and hU
mother's violent Irascibility. Sho had
the disposition of the Fraaklsb woman
as exeaipllfied la Fredegoada, but hell)
In check by modern conditions. Bis
rnarck la aager was as terrible as o
ferocious mastiff. She, far from re
stralalng him, kept oa saying: "Good
dog: tss-s-ss. Qo at him (or at her),
good dog, tss-s-ss," or tantamount
words. The mastiff that lay below the
surface la Bismarck grew more ami
more Infuriated, especially If the even
lag before he had eaten and druRb eo
piously. With these parents, Herbert,
Jane aad Bill Bismarck could not be
expected to have courteous maimers.
Herbert, who was no straager la Tarls
aad whom the fond father hoped one
day to send there as ambassador, was
bulky, sullen and of a complexion that
revealed an aagry state of the blood.
Gambetta said of him, "He reminds
me of a limb of the law hardened to
the work of laying on executions? la
short, of a low class bailiff (recors)."?
London Truth.
The Machine Worker.
The American boy Is thoroughly im
bued with the get-rlch-qulck spirit,
whether In a greater or lesser degree.
The learning of a trade Is too slow,
too tedious aad offers too little laiaiedl
ate lnducemeat. Why should he work
as au apprentice at 4 to 8 cents an
hour after reaching the age of seven
teen or elghteeu when he can earu 10
to 15 cents at piecework running a ma
chine? Once he has entered the door
of the piecework shop the boy Is doom
ed to the pieceworker's life. Ouce the
machine gets Its grip upoa him he nev
er escaiies. The rare exception only
proves the rule. Not only does the
monotony of the reduplicative work
upoa which he enters choke his arnbi
tion and devitalize his life, but usually
he enters upon this narrow life work
with very little equipment and a view
bounded by a horizon equally narrow
There Is little to develop, even when
there Is some ambition to l>egln wlth.
O. M. Becker In Engineering Magazine.
Seven In (he Ilible.
The number seveu plays a prominent
part la events In the Bible. The crea
tion took six days, and on the seventh
there was re<t. On the seventh day of
the seventh month a holy observance
was ordained, and the Israelites feast
ed seven days and rested seveu days.
Noah had sevea days' warning of the
flood, and the seven years of plenty
were foretold In Pharaoh's dream by
seven fat beasts, as were the seven
years by seven lean beasts. We speak
of the seven heavens, and the seventh
son was supposed to be endowed with
pre-eminent wisdom. In short, there i>
no other numlier which enters Into the
Bible so often as seven. No doubt the
wide popularity of the uunrber nnil the
superstitions which are coaaected with
It came from its wide use la the Bible.
Woman*** Opportunity.
Meettag a. negro, a certain southern
gentleman asked him how he was get
ting on. The negro assumed a troubled
look and replied:
"Oh, so far's physlcallty goes I'm all
right, but I sure do have ma troubles
wlf ma wife."
"Well, Sam, I'm sorry to hear that.
What seems to be the mutter?"
"She thinks money grows on trees, I
reckon. All de time she keeps pester
In' me for pin<,-h o' change. If It uln't
a dollah It's half or a quarter Fhc
wants."
"What on earth does shir do with the
money?"
"I duaao. Ain't nevah give her none
yet."? Philadelphia Lodger. ?
Pliny'* Jewel Storlen.
Pliny declares that a diamond was
so hard that If placed on an anvil and
struck with a sledge hammer It would
give back a blow of such force as to
shiver both auvll anil hammer to
pieces. Another of his wonderful tales
states that "on the shore of the island
of Cyprus there was a stone lion hav
ing eyes foraied of emeralds, which
shone so b'rightlji. that all the fishes
were inglorlously frightened away. The
fishermen accordingly pulled the emer
alds out and put la glass eyes iastead.
whereupon the wise fishes became
bolder and returned to their accustom
ed nets."
A Mean Inmlnaatlon.
"Very gratifying!" said a young and
conceited novelist. "A gentleman
writes me that lie took a copy o f my
last work to read durlug a railway
Journey, and as a result suddenly dis
covered he had gone twenty miles be
yond his destination."
"Pear me," commented the young
author's friend; "sleeping in tralua Is a
bad habit!"
How It U'ui Done.
"Oh," remarked the first fox hunter,
"you should hare seen Mr. Nuritcb
take that high hedge!"
"You surprise mo," exclaimed the
other.' "I thought the horse he rode
wasn't much of a jumper."
"Oh, the horse didn't take the hedge!
Mr. N'uritch did it alone."? Philadel
phia Tress.
The Facta.
The One? And you say this, horse
hasn't any faults? The Other? Not n
single fault. The One? But he ap
pears to be blind in his right eyo. The
Other? Well, that's not his fault; lfs
tils misfortune.? Chicago News.
Ills Literary Bent.
"Father, when I leave school I am
going to follow my literary bent and
write for money."
"Humph! My son, you ought to tx
successful. That's all you've don*
since you've b?en at school."
SPECIAL SALES
SPECIAL SALE Ladies Winter hats
Commencing Monday 1-2 off.
SPECIAL SALE in Men Overcoats
and Suits 25 per cent. off. For the
next ten days.
SPECIAL SALE in dress goods and
fancy trimmings. We must make
room for our Spring lines.
! Martin Conway
(HE BEST
COFFEE
can be
SPOILED
by the old bit
or rciss pla?
used in ?om?
household*!
BUT
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Swttaal
Vkw.
?METEOR"
COFFEE PERCOLATOR
even-thing is so arranged that by
following tho simple instruction!
the quality is always delidon*.
See our several styles and Jet pn
explain the perfect way.
P. E. KERN
Gold sod Silversmith.
We have a large stock j
Louiney's Gandy
Peter's Gbocolates[
Also a 'large stock ot
Fresh Nuts
Dont' Forget the.Number. 428 Brdw'y
Tony Dortero's
and Importer of
MILLINERY
orders solicited and filled Immediatly.
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Hoonah, Tenakei Sitka and Way ports
SAILS
April. 4,10,16, 22, 28
at 8 a. m.
V7. W. BODGHTON, Agent
Broadway and Fifth Ave, Phone 90
Jeer
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ing? good flavored and
good for you
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The
Nugget jewelry of all
kinds, Indian curios,
sovenir spoons
H. D. Kirmse, Pioneer Jeweler
Official Timekeeper for the W. P/& Y. R.
Mail Orders a Soecialty
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Dew Olater and Eight Rates
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7.50
5.00
5.00
On and after the 1st of October, 1905, the following will be the
Minthly rates for water and light service from the Northwest Light
& P owerCompany:
WATER
First Faucet $ 2.00
Each " additional (except wash basins, free) 25
Bath Tubs in Hotels or other Public Houses 50
Water Closets " " " " 50
Urinals ~ " " " " " 50
Wash Basins " " " " " 25
Hotels, per room additional 10
Beer Pumps 1.00
Restaurants 5.00
Steam Laundries
Hand "
Motors, special per horsepower, minimum rate
Hose Connection for Fire Protection. 1.00
Families carrying water 1.50
Individuals " " 1 1.00
Hauling water, per load 1.00
Lawn and Street sprinkling Free
ELECTRIC LIGHT RATES '
COMMERCIAL SERVICE _
All Yo?r Winter
Stores, OfTices, Shops and Residences
Each lti cp lights $ 1.00
Enclosed Arcs 10.00
ALL NI-3HT SERVICE "
Each 16 cp lights 1.50
Enclosed Arcs 15 00
32 cp lights double 18 cp
Meter Rates will be. 10 cents per 1000 watts.
1.50
12.50
2.00
(.7 50'
EDWIN BROWNE. Manager.