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f,f.r* .'.V... What the Alaska natives are doing and are willing to do as p/oof posi tive of their fitness to live under the Stars and Stripes is impressed on all who come in contact with the natives and their numerous activities along lines of advanced citizenship and pa triotism. By way of a minor illustration that shows which way the wind blows with them: The natives in Juneau, through the press, advocated the killing of dogs, that there might be more food for human consumption. They ad vised their native friends to protect the deer from their dogs that might kill aeer during their helpless con dition following this last winter's deep snows, when many starved and all were weakened for lack of food. Down at Kake the natives have only about one-third to one-quarter the number of dogs that they had last year. One who went through the village last fall and again this spring remarked on the fact that there were almost no dogs In town. "Yes," said a representative citi zen, "the natives became convinced that from a sanitary standpoint and an economical standpoint they were keeping too many pets. As a result of this conviction they began reducing on dogs and improving on health and food supply." Another point that Impresses even a casual observer is that the natives all take local newspapers and read carefullyoften very slowlythe events that are taking place locally and throughout the world. If a native is not a regular subscriber to a news paper, you may be sure it is because he cannot read, one word of English or any other printed language. OUR CAPTURED FLAGS ABROAD Emblems Taken During the War of 1E12 Are Safely Preserved in London. A recent walk through Chelsea brought me to several places of inter est to Americans. Firstly, the old Roy al hospital, built in the reign of King Charles II, the great hall of which is now used as a recreation room for the old pensioners and from whose walls a number of flags captured dur ing the 1812-1815 war are suspended. The colors hang sedately side by side with Napoleonic eagles and other war trophies, and if it were not for the records it would be almost im possible to discern their story. Among them are flags of the Sixty-eighth and Eighty-fifth regiments captured at Blandensberg the Kentucky regimen tal flag, the Fourth regiment of United States infantry, taken at Detroit the Second regiment of the United States infantry and another taken at Queens town Heights. I wonder how many Americans know of their existence. It would cer tainly be a graceful act of the British government to return them to Amer ica. No doubt the American author ities have some similar trophies which they would be pleased to exchange. London Landmark. Assists Visits to Graves. According to a report received here the American Young Women's Chris tian association overseas has been re quested by the United States army to open hotels to care for relatives vis iting the four large American military cemeteries in France. The first hotel will be opened at .Revigny, near the cemetery where is a small town, and prior to this had no hotel accommoda tions. A cable also states that hotel Petrograd, the Y. W. C. A. hostess house in Paris, which was to have been turned Into an American women's club with an information bureau and guides, for the benefit of woman rel atives going to France to visit sol dier's graves, is now being used for the emergency housing of 200 British and French girls working ,with the American army. Life One Leap Year After Another. There exists at least one place In the world where men consider it below their dignity to notice women at all, much less make overtures of marriage. Consequently the proposing is left to the women. When a New Guinea wom an falls in love with a man she sends a piece of string to his sister, or, if he has no sister, to, his mother or to another of his lady relatives. Then the lady who receives the string tells the favored man that the particular wom an is in love with him. No courting follows, however, for it is considered heneath the dignity of a New Guinea man to waste his time in such a pur suit. If the man thinks that he would like to wed the lady, he meets her alone, and they decide whether to mar-' ry or drop the Idea. Albanians Glad of Pajamas. It ,1s .estimated that several hundred miles of unbleached muslin has re cently been cut Into pajamas for the Albanians, most of whom are in rags. Indeed, the shirt of one Albanian had scraps of 287 different kinds of cloth fcl it, when he "traded it in" for the stylish and neat suit of pajamas which he now wears proudly through the treats. Always Soma Drawback." "They sa Maud's second husband 510,000y A"^c- 'v'{-^r?ha a year Ho contented Isn*td" W'i/H''^-'^ ^"'"he must "kku*r V^v^-"^ "t exactly. A man rbe.though,t"* Sh ha -t~i%"M,-.-HV/ j^%/- M* \M |W* Pfly doesn' hand his wif a envelope, frou know." By RALPH HAMILTON (Copyright. 1919. by the Witt Nws P*Pr Union.) $ "Dear, dear!" mourned and pitied Alvin Prince, and .stood looking down at a human form lying prone upon the straw-littered floor of an abandoned shelter shed at a remote corner of his farm. He was a genial old soul, this pleas ant-faced, kind-hearted deacon, select man and the prop and stay of sterling uprightness and dignity in the com munity^ He had been passing the shed, when he fancied that a groan proceed ed from within. He stepped across the threshold and. startled and puz zled, gazed down at the recumbent fig ure. It was that of a young man with a refined cast of features, his eyes closed in sleep. Two further discov eries of the farmer brought a serious expression to his face. One hand was abrased and bleeding, and a cut in the head showed a second recent injury. "A convictan escaped convict." so liloquized Prince. "Poor fellow! And he's badly hurt. What is my duty in the case? He looks likely, and per haps a mother, a sister is worrying about him. There isn't anything of the criminal In that face. Shall I pro tect him?" The decision was quickly made. Prince proceeded across^ the farm, got to the house, made up a bundle and. hitching up a horse to the old family carryall, started back the route he had come. "Mother and Zelda away," he solilo quized, "and I don't see Zeph anywhere around. That just suits me." Zeph Barnes was the handy man about the farm. At that moment he was making bis way past the old shed. His coarse lips puckered as he dis covered its inmate. He scented a mys tery as he saw Prince returning. He wondered if there was any reward ofr fered for the apprehension of con victs and, climbing to the shallow loft in the structure, waited for develop ments. These materialized with the arrival of Prince. The latter proceeded to dis robe the stranger. He made a bundle of the incriminating convict garb and thrust it into an old manger, attired him in a suit of his own, lifted him into the wagon and drove to the house. He got his involuntary guest to bed, applied lotions to his wounds, and won dered what his story would be. When consciousness was restored, Alvin Prince gently inquired if the injuries were painful. "I think only a stumbling fall," re plied his guest. "Let me see, I was Where was I? What was I doing? I'm all dazed. My name is Wilbur Thome. I have a home, but I left it for wandering a long time ago. Fve kept going with all kinds of jobs. You must be a pretty kind sort of a man to take in a stranger this way." "Oh, that is all right." declared Prince lightly, and felt a certain deli cacy about referring to his convict sus picions. Mrs. Prince and her daughter Zelda came home two days later from a week's visit, to a relative, to find the interesting-looking stranger insisting upon doing some light work about the farm. They were so used to the chari table impulses of the husband and fa ther, that they did not question him when he told them that he was taking care of his visitor until he got on his feet'again. o, His frank, engaging ways won the favorable opinion of Zelda and her mother, and as the weeks drifted on Wilbur Thorne became so useful and so happy that Prince had not the heart to either question him or turn him away. He had not noticed that a bond of mutual liking-was being cemented be tween the two young people, but Zeph Barnes, himself secretly, in love with Zelda, though the latter detested him, was witness to an interview between Thorne and herself when the latter confessed his deep affection for- the farmer's daughter. Just before dusk that evening, just as the family were seated on the lawn. Mr. Prince read ing, Mrs. Prince at her knitting and Zelda and Thorne looking over a pic torial magazine, there appeared Zeph Barnes and a man whom the fanner at once recognized as the town marshal. "There's the man," spoke Zeph, pointing to Thorne. "He's an escaped convict, and here" and he tore open a bundle under his arm, revealing the convict's garb in which Prince had first seen Thorne. "Why! you give me a link In the past always a mystery to me," exclaim ed Thorne abruptly, arising to his feet with an animated expression on his face. "I wore that suit the day I got hurt. Where did you ever get It, Zeph? You see. Mr. Prince, my last job was playing the convict for some movie people over beyond the village. I took a casual stroll In It while wait ing for my part in the scenario, had a bad fall, andand I guess you can tell how you found me." $'- Zeph drew back crestfallen. The marshal, however, Insisted on some close questioning, and Wilbur Thorne was forced to tell that he was the son of a wealthy man with whom,he had quarreled to become a wanderer. A repentant truant, now that he had won Zelda's love, he was willing to ask pa rental forgiveness, abd a week later Alvin Prince was glad to accept- Wil- ^jur Thorne as his son-in-law. Howley Had Been in Poor Health for ^~%i"i Twenty YearsRestored by Tanlac. 7^.^ "I have been in bad health for over twenty years and my condition has gradually been getting worse all the time, but about a month ago I com menced taking Tanlac and now I feel like a different man altogether," said William Howley, who lives at Deer River, Minn., while at Abott's Drug store in Duluth the other day. "As far back as I can remember," continued Mr. Howley, "I have been bothered with stomach trouble and in digestion. Even as a small boy I would often have spells of sick head aches after meals, and would have in digestion in the worst way. As I grew up I gradually got worse until I finally reached the' point to where ev erything I ate would'Cause me to suf fer' something awful afterwards. Those terrible lieadaches kept up, too, and sometimes the pain was so severe it would almost drive me wild. This trouble just kept on until I was jubt about all in, and "had to lose a lot of time from my work. Handling lum ber is no easy job, and I was simply too weak and run down to keep at it. "Finally Tanlac came along, and to tell the truth, I had very little faith in it, but I thought I would try a bot tle of it anyway, and that first bottle did me so much good that I just kept right on taking this wonderful medi cine. The more Tanlac I took the bet ter I got, and now am in better con dition in every way than I have been since I was a boy six years old. I haven't had a headache since I took my first bottle of Tanlac, and my stomach is in such fine condition that I can eat just anything I want and never suffer any afterwards. It is simply wonderful to feel like this af ter suffering for twenty long years, and a medicine that will do that much for a man deserves all the good things that are. said dr it. I have gained eight pounds already, and am so well and strong that I am getting ready to go back liome and get on the job again.- I sleep like a top evesy night now, and I feel so fine every morning that I just know I can get around and handle as much lumber in a day as any of the boys. You can put me down as a regular booster for Tanlac, for it lias been a godsend to me." Tanlac is sold in Princeton by C. A. Jack Drug Co., in Fdreston by T. H. Onstad, in Milaca by I. W. Dennison, in Onamia by Harris Bros. Drug Co., and in Wahkon by Wahkon Drug Co. Adv LEFT FALSE TEETH IN GUTTER Kansas City Man Prouder Than Rail road Engineer Who Was Victim of Same Accident. A man left the office of a Kansas City dentist the other day with a full complement of new false teeth. Hard ly had he reached the street when he was seized with a fit of sneezing, and when the storm had passfd over, the upper plate was gone. It had rolled into the gutter, much to the iimusement of the crowds. The man, being greatly humiliated, turned away and went directly back to the dentist. "1 couldn't stoop down and pick up those teeth in front of all those peopie, you know," he told the dentist, and proceeded to order a new plate. This man was considerably more sensitive than a certain engineer on a Santa Fe branch road in Kansas a few years ago. The engineer, while leaning out of his cab window, sneezed and lost his teeth. He stopped the train, walked back half a mile until he found them. 1 On his return the passengers nat urally wanted to know what he had been doing, and so pleased was he with his success that he told them. And the passengers in turn were so pleased with the explanation that no one complained of the delay except the conductor, who said he had left his spectacles at home that morning, but nobody offered to hold the train for him while he went back after them. Both Friend and Foe of Farmer. Crows do the farmer about as much harm as good, according to .the bio logical survey of the department of agriculture which has completed a monograph on the relation of crows to man. The essential conclusions are that crows are about equally bene ficial and injurious, and that they are 80 wary and sagacious as not to need legal protection. Lack of this, while not endangering the species, will per mit farmers to protect their crops or other property whenever necessary. -fi ,Mi TRE BEST TEST w^L Is the Test of Time."*' Years ago Mrs. H. Stahnke of Princeton told of good results from using Doan's Kidney Pills. Now Mrs. Stahnke confirms the former state mentsays there has been no return of the trouble. Can Princeton people ask for more convincing testimony? "I had headaches, dizziness and pains and lameness in-my back," says Mrs. Stahnke. "Doan's Kidney Pills removed all that trouble and after I How to Get Better Farm Telephone Service :H.: had used them, I didn't feel tired and weary in the morning, but my sleep rested me. Before using Doan's Kid ney Pills, I had also suffered with pains in the back of my head. I am al ways ready to recommend Doan's Kid ney Pills to .anyone having backache or other .kidney complaint" (State ment given October 17, 1910). 5$ Lasting Results/ &>'* On October 14, 1917, Mrs. Stahnke said^ "I praise Doan's Kidney Pills just as much as ever. I haven't had any backache or other kidney trouble for a long time so I believe Doan's Kidney Pills permanently cured me.'' Price 60c, at all dealers. Don't sim ply ask for a kidney remedyget Doan's' Kidney Pillsthe same that Mrs. Stahnke had. Foster-Milburn Co., Mfgrs., Buffalo, N. Y. Adv. W'vSf' *w&* JK'Si*** i. Good telephone service for.the farms, and for town people calling those in the coun try, can not he provided unless the Hues are kept in good repair. 'i. A broken insulator, a sagging vrire, a leaning pole or a loose connection may cause trouble, and interrupt telephone service for everybody on the line. OVERLOADED LINES UNSATISFACTORY Townsind Produce N Then, too, good service can not be pro vided if rural telephone companies permit a large number of people to be connected to one line. More lines and fewer patrons on each are much more satisfactory. OUR PART IN SERVING Our part in providing good rural service comes in keeping our lines in town, our switchboard and our central office equipment in good repair and employing capable and efficient employes. We want to co-operate with rural tele phone companies in furnishing good service. 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