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j EDITORIAL
TRUE PATIENCE.
Patience should nevar be cort
^undod with pusillanimity. The
en* pvts mp with wirings frem
fsM tn the righting Dowtr of
tb« future, ths other besause It
>e the 'In* •' least reeietano*.
llilS IS AMERICA
A Kansas Xarmer sought to take
hu hoy out of tie public schools
a»ii place him in a private German
school. The right being contest
ed 'a the Suprema Court. Whit
er er the decision oj th« court may
be, a Kan sag newspaper preachy a
splendid sermon to all persons of
foreign birth in this country as
follows:
"We can'; hare a natiou built
uo cX warring nationalities. We
caa't permit citizens of German de
acc«» to go to German schools;
French to FrancJk schols. If G®r
saaas want to send their children,
to German schools there is an oasy
war to attain t^at eud; that is,
to s'ay iu Germany. The same can
fce s-^d with the French, Greek,
wr aay other nationality."
This is America—an English
shaking nation. It is made up of I
the peonle of all countries and their
desresdants, but English is tha lan
guage ot the nation—and must con
tisue to be. We owe much to the
peoyle of all natious; wq have be
come great because of the Inter-'
miauling of th« many races, not
because a few of the races hare
tried *o remain separate and apart.
Bu' wa shall frown upon racial pre
judice and waning nations with
in our midst. It ia America, and
mm' remain Amerira.—Douglas Is
land News
For more than a. year -we have re
ceived the Iditarod Pioneer and
each copy of the same has been
wrapped ia a sheet from one of the
big mail order house catalogues.
Th^'i Is certainly a norel method of
discr uraging mail order business In
Ali ska.
Waiting for the returns from Bri
Bar reminds ue very much of a
lata Incident where two other can
were up ia the air as to wh
waa «lected. Mr. "Wilson and Mr.
looked longingly for the
01*1 returns from ^California. Mr.
Wiekeraham and Mr. Sulzer are
anxiously for *he returns
h«a Bristol Bay.
"•«**» 1* Bad Thanks To Thaw."
SBiiat w«* the heading we noted ia ft
la'a impression o£ the Seward Alas
ka Ivealag Post, aad we grubbed
cntt th« »tory expecting to fiud
■ome,hln.r of Interest that Harry
had lately done, but, pshaw, the
story waj only about warm weather
thawing out the trails and the
•l«,%Lus win bo good. Such Is
fame. I s
Charleg Christensan haa commenc
ed hauling 50 tonj of hay which
was cut this summer at the head of
the bav to the h&nif of tha Alaska
TriBSfer. By use oX a derice which
kaa been dubbed "Hoben'a Hay
Holster and Pitch Fork! Eradicator,"
most of the labor of getting^ 'hi®
matire oroduct Into the loft U avoid*
—Seward Post. « .
YUKON RIVER
IN SOLDIERS
Vancouver — The first four Can
adian, officers to go io Mesopotamia
witJi tb.e transpoit service are all
oil-time British Columbia and Yu
kon liver men, known to ttiouaands
of people who have traveled in the
nor'h and on the interior lake wat
erways q* British Columbia. All
tour left Vancouver last summer
with Oa,»tainj Scharschmidt, who.
raided a company of Pioneers whicb,
wa« sent direct 10 England as a
draft reinforcement. After having
been in service for some time each
of '-a four men j/m offered a com
mission in the transport service,
au,<! all are now on active service
"sc mewhere in, Mesopotamia." Each
of 'hem holds second lieutenant's
commission in the Royal Engineers.
Ihey are: John, Halifax, marine
engineer, formerly in tha C. P. K.
Kootenay Lakes service; Gordon
iiaboji, captain's papers, and was
mate in the C. P. R. Kootenay
Lake service; Dugal Patterson, Yu
kon river steamboat captain, form
erly master of the steamer Strath
con a, and Thomas Montgomery, Yu
kon liver steamboat captain, ex
master of the Hudson's Bay com
pany's steamer on tufi Stikino river.
Cap'ain SchaxBchmidt, whp arriv
ed in tne city tfcia week from Ot
tawa, bit opened a recruiting of
fic« a» 432 Hom^r street, where he
is signing on men for the Inland wat
er transport service in. the different
field® of action. Presumbaly many
of the men will be sent to Mesopo
tamia, but many men are now being
used on the river and canal system
in France, and more will be wanted.
Captain Scharecfrmldt id taking a
contingent of five hundred men, and
has opened offices in Eastern Can
ada as well as in tha province. He
goes to Victoria today to open an
office there.
Speaking of the recruiting he is
engaged in, Captain, Scharschmidt
said: "This service affords a great
opportunity for many men who are
anxious to serve, but have been
turned do>a for the army by rea
son of some slight physical defect.
The age limit in thiB service is from
13 ♦o 56 years. The typo of of
men most desired are those who
have had some experience at sea
or in river or lake navigation, eith
er 39 sailors or engineers and fire
m«n. Gas boat men, men who can.
operate gas engines, gas engine me
chanics, longshoremen, and any ro
bust "handy man,' will find his
billet in the in land water IrauB
por*.,{
As men are enlisted they are
9en» foiward direct to England in
drafts of ten or twenty or more.
They will not be uniformed until
thev ariive in England, though
on "av from *ime of enlistment. It
is Captain Scharschmidt's expecta
*'on fo complete recruiting his five
hundred men by the first of the
year Applications in considerable
numbers awaited hiB arrival, and at >
other recruiting offices in the city
quite a number were received.
LAME EVERY
MORNING
A liml Buck la Utjieraljy Worae in
The Morning. Alaska People
Should Be PtndiJV
Belief
A back that aches all day and
causes discomfort at night is usual-^
ly wors<» ia the morning. Makes you
fe«l as if you hadn't slept at all.
You cau't get rid of kidney back
ache, until you reacln the cause—
'be kidneys.
Doaa's Kidney Pills are especial
ly pre oared for weakened or disor- ,
dered kidneys—been gratefully re
commended by thousands.
The following statement proves
'he merit of Doaa's.
Mrs. J. CJonneen, 445 Second Ave.,
Saa Francisco, fial., says: "The
first symptom of kidney complaint
in my case was backache. I had a
constant lame back and mornings I
could hardly etcop over, I felt
Und ali the time and. never seem
ed to have much ambition. I didn't
let mvself ge< ia bad shape be
cause I used Doaa's Kidney Pills
aad they cured me. The backache
disappeared and I felt better all
arc-und.'*
Price 50c, at all dealers. Don't
simply ask for a kidney remedy —
«e» Doaa's Kidney Pills—the same
that Mrs. Conneen had. Fostar-MiL
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THE 3ANTOX STORE IS THE
SAFE STORE IN WHICH TO
TRADE. If it *wa aot, it could
not eet the San-Toae exclusive
agoncy. Keller Bros. Drug Store
PEOPLE SICK OF
WAR WANT PEACE
President Knows the Value ol
Public Sentiment
CONGRESS WILLING TO AID
His Peace Efforts Have Already Been
Indorsed by Minority Leader Mann In
the House—District of Columbia
Vote on Prohibition May Be Again
Delayed.
By ARTHUR W. DUNN.
Washington Jan. 3. — [Special.] —
President Wilson, like Theodore Roose
velt when he was president, knowB the
power of public sentiment No doubt
the president was well aware that none
of the men who control nations, the
men who brought cn and continued the
great, terrible war in Europe, would ap
prove his interference in an effort to
bring about peace. He must have been
aware that those who were responsible
for the war and its failures would be
very much disturbed over an effort to
end the war when it was still a failure
from some poluts of view.
But he knew that the people, both iu
this country and in Europe, were so
sick of the war that they would do al
most anything to bring about peace
and would welcome every effort to end
the war. Wilson's peace proposal, no
matter how unwelcome it may bo to
those who have had the conduct of tho
war, is plainly very welcome to the
millions upon millions who have been
suffering in many ways on account of
the war.
Backed by Congress.
If the president desires the support
of congress in his peace efforts he will
get It. Already he has beeu indorsed
by the minority leader In the hoa3e.
Mr. Mann has never been overfriendly
toward England and has at times tab
en occasion to show that he did not
like the attitude of England in respect
to its dealings with this country as a
nation: consequently he could very
well indorse the proposal for peace,
which many consider was a greater
blow at England tiiau any other nation.
It was Mann who said In speaking
for the president's preparedness pro
gram last year that England was tue
nation which must be threatening this
country with the dangers Indicated In
the president's utterances, as England
was the only country In a position to
go to war with the United States—she
and her ally, Japan.
Gone Overboard.
The last day of the session before
adjournment showed that the volun
teer officers' retirement bill had gono
overboard. It is still the unfinished
business in the senate, but the filibus
tering tactics of its opponents showed
plainly that the bill cannot be passed
at this session.
Taking Long unances.
When Senator Shcppard of Tesas
consented to a postponement of a vote
on tlie District of Columbia prohibi
tion bill until Jan. !) he took long
chances upon completing the bill be
fore the session closes. It goes to the
house and must run the gantlet of the
committee on judiciary or the commit
tee on the District of Columbia. Then
it must go through the committee on
rules for a special rule setting apart a
time for its consideration. As time
will be very much in demand from now
until the end of the session, It is doubt
ful whether the prohibition bill can go
through all the stages necessary to its
final enactment before the close of the
session on March 4.
Confidence In Raker.
Congressman Raker of California Is
frequently talking In the house and
generally knows a lot. lie had the
floor on a land bill recently, and Win
go of Arkansas asked him to explain
Its provisions.
"I cannot give the information asked
at this time," said Haker. "I have only
five minutes."
"I did not think there was anything
that you could not explain in five min
utes," retorted Wingo.
Work For 435 of Them.
Congressman Bonnet of New York,
who retires involuntarily, and Con
gressman rage of North Carolina, who
retires voluntarily from the house, were
having a discussion, and Benuet re
marked:
"It always seemed to me that there
was one work for all of us, for 435 of
us from every part of the country, and
that Is to make an effort to make the
capital of the nation a model city of
the world."
"Amon? the many regrets I have us
I retire." rei lied Page. "is that I have
not been able to do more for the city
of Washington."
Of tho Son-in-law Club.
Dudley Field Malone. collector of the
port of New York, son-in-law of Sena
tor O'Gorman. does not relish being a
member of the son-in-law club any
more than Nick Longworth or Gussie
Gardner. Not long aso Malone was in
troduced to a man in Washington by
a mutual friend. Trying to find some
thing to say, the Washington man re
marked. "I know Senator O'Gorman
very well."
'That means nothing to me," pertly
responded Malone.
"It means $12,000 a year nnd a few
pickups to him," was the comment of
a man who overheard the remark and
knew of tho relationship.
* FRATERNAL ORDERS *
Arctic Brotherhood. —
Camp Skagw&r No. 1.
A. B. meets every sec
ond and fouirth! Tues
day evening at 8:30 P
m. stmrp. Visiting brothers cordial
ly wt-K-cme, \V. L. Stevenson, Arc
t.io Chief. W. E. Burlord, Arctic
Kocc rder.
Fraternal Order
Eaglef>—
Skagway) Aerie
No. 25, Frater
lial Order of
EagJeis m«cte Uio first and third
Wednesday night of cach month at
tnrh hall on Fifth Avenue. Visit
ing brothers cordially invitejd to
attend. L. E. Hudson, W. P.,
J. M. Greisbach, Secretary.
F. & A. M.
$yy\, White Pass Lodge
P. & A. M. No. 113
metta 2d and 4th
Pri. Ev'g9, of each
montc. Visiting brothers are wel
come.
Elmer L. Wheeler, W. M.
Address all communications to
the Secretary.
B. P. O. ELKS
Skagway Lodge
No. 431, B. P. O.
E. meets every
Thursday night
at 8:00 o'clock.
Visiting brothers
cordially welcome.
HENRY FRIEDENTHAL, E. R.
r. J. VAWDEWALL, secretary
Plpneer of Alaska Igloo, No. 12,
meet* in A. B. Hall first Monday in
every month at 8:80 p. m.
Visiting Brothers cordially wel
come.
W. L. STEVENSON, Pres.
V. T. DORTERO. Rec. Sec.
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Sp*vlalht in the treaitnunt of
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In Territory of Alaska
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