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EDITORIAL PAGE
MOKE AMERICAN SHIPS
la the first week of August four
.Norwegian steamshics averag
ing more than 4,000 tons measure
ment—16,316 tons for the four
vessels—were added to the mer
chant marine of the L'uited States.
They were transferred to an
American company for the benefits
and opportunities enjoyed by ships
sailing under the American flag.
Such gains are encouraging to
thosa who realize how greatly the
foreign commerce of the country
cau be stimulated by a more ade
quate supply of American tonnage
on the high seas. The shipyards
of the Atlantic coast are very busy
and several lake steamers have
bt?tn bought for service on the sea
board. All available means of in
creasing the American tonnage on
ttt Atlantic are being employed to
the fullest extent and this move
ment has gained such momentum
that it will go on for a long time,
however conditions may change in
Europe.
Clearly there is no need of the
ttftVAriuaeui ownershin venture In
of American ship owners and sea
»en ia foreign waters and on the
• fih seas and reasonable govern
1110111 e«couragement for shipping
*"ed and °»«*ed under the
- and stripes—cieveland Lead
SURVEY CORDOVA BAY
HAS BEEN" POSTPONED
Cordova Times: Captain A. R
Ehrnbec1'. cf the engineer corps of
t!:e U. S. army has received orders
to go to Nome and survey the har
bor and make a report upon the ad
visabiitr o' building a breakwater.
Captain Ehmbeck had expected to
make a survey of the aaval reserva
tion near Orca, but the plans of the
war department were altered and
tbc Nome work will be done first.
RAPIDl.Y RECOVERING FROM
OPERATION BY MAYO BROS.
Former C. S. Commissioner Johi
• ion, of Fairbanks, who passed
enm^ Skagway a few weeks ago
enroute to Mayo Bros, hospital at
Rochester. Minn
cr, jamn., for the purpose
t undergoing- treatment for a
chronic ailment, wires friends in
the north that he has passed
through the ordeal and is recover
y's rapidly.
The wire also states that Judse1
Wi°a arrived at Rochester on
- 27, and that he went oa the
operating table on July 30. He was
UP and around nine days
--W 4UC ^rauon was performed.
.ri f * Judse Di'lons Mends
are or the opinion tha* he will re
turn north as soon as he is able
to. travel in order that he may look
»Z , many buain«a interests
in Fairbanks, but bef(>re hf? ]eft I
for the outside he stated that as
f°°n 38 he was o"t Qt the hospital
he would rvisit his old home in
Wisconsin, which he had not seen
Jn nearly 30 yearss.
e reason for the operation was
« compilation of stomach troubles
with which Judge Dillon had been i
a sufferer for many years.
education* causes a
LOSS Df POPULATION"
San Francisco, Sept. 1—That edu
cation is causing a decrease in the
iwpulation of the so-called upper
classes of American people was de
clared by Prof s. J. Holmes,. 0{ the, i
University of California" fc, au ad.
dress to the National Educational
association last week. On this
account, he said, eugenics is a
legitimate subject for treatment by
the educators of the country.
Prcf. Holmes declared:
"The net fecundity of the edu
cated classed is markedly; below
that of tb> uneducated, and during
the last half century, it has de
creased so rapidly that now the
edjcated classes of most civilized
countries and especially the United
States are far from producing
euodgh children to keep their
stock from diminishng in number,
liducate.d people, speaking general
ly, belong to strains that are ap
parently destined for extinction, and
as there are good reasons for be
lieving »hat the Inheritance of edu
cated people is, especially as re
gards mental employments, superior
to th-t of the general population,
society is suffering from a drain of
Ms b st Inheritance. Our increased
opportunities for education are af
fording meaus for all who are na
turally intelligent and enterprising
to rise into the ranks of the cul
tivated classes. But for those who
rise, posterity pays a heavy penalty.
There is probably no other way
of counteracting the unfortunate ra
cial influence of tlie ctf>rility of our
educated classes than by the
u results. 10c at Kellers'. tf.J
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PHIL ABRAHAMS
ESTABLISHED 1897
ACCIDENT AND FIRE
INSURANCE
REAL ESTATE
CONVEYANCER
NOTARY PUBLIC j
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4th Avenue I
| 4* You make a mistake if
I you do not stop at
'? . THE
jPullen House
■ EJectric Lights
!•! Rooms Sinplt or en[Suite
Batlis on each floor
g Famous for its Home Cooking, ,
Milk, Cream, Cottage Cheese and •
I Buttermilk from our own da-'v I
Fresh Egga. etc j
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Rates $2.50 Per Day and Up ®
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Well LigH't Large Samp'e •!
Rooms ic; Traveling Men. ?
H. S. PUU.EN. Prop. * ■
Skagway. Alaska 5
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I How's This?
ZlTt °"e Hundred dollars
thaf ?"y 0386 of Catarrh
c?Lc,rc°L cmed by Ha"'s
I
him perfectly honorable ^5?" ?,nct be|leve
SSK5
■va
Hall's Catarrh On™ >„ . . Toledo, o.
acting directly UD™ l!Sen'nternally,
cous surfaces of the ■; £ ",Ki
3ent free. Price ,5 c'en»i JH T.?stJ®°nla!s
i'J'x'l Dnifrjrtsts. per bott,«- Sold
6 "*" • Faml* *»• for con.tlp,tloa. I
OTHERS
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MONTAGUE GLASS;
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IV.—THE TRAIL OF
THE SILK
[Copyright, The Frank A. Munaey Co.)
Barney greenberg, foreman
In the cutting room of Potash
& Perlmutter's cloak and salt
establishment, boasted a dis
tinction that falls to few of hla race In
Now York. Ills brother was a police
man, a circumstance which Impelled
Potash & Perlmutter to pay him $2 a
week In excess of a foreman's normal
wages as a sort of Insurance premium
against theft Nor was this a poor in
vestment for the thought of Barney's
brother had prevented many a piece of
silk from going home with one of the
twenty odd operators who labored in
the cutting room.
In manner Barney was calm and self
possessed, not to say superior, and
therefore it came as a distinct shock to
We are missing in .ix pieCM black
sunk, ho announced.
hU employers when he burst Into the
arms show room and sank panting
mto a chair. ^
01 gewoldt!" he cried and ran both
L.'?1" .S tl"'0,1Kh hls tb,ol{ black hair.
», ';lt s 11,0 trouble now. Barney?"
Abe Potash asked. '
It was at least Uve minutes before I
Barney was calm enough to reply.
siiuk" r missi"K 111 s,s p,etes **<*
sMUk, he nuuounced Anally, "at sm
the piece, or $300." j
, *«.■* nundred dollars!" Abe cried.
Schaafskopf, make no jokos with us'"
Jokes I m making It." Unrney moan
ed. appealing to Morris Perlmutter
Jr 17s, . '"ak0 Jokos- Mr- I'erlmnt
. c aln 1 s°. believe w& We are I
missing in six pieces black silllk."
ata?if*v'La shortaee In delivery,
ain t it. Morris suggested.
Carney shook his h
iesterday we got It, and today we
ain t grot it," he snld.
Pinched it on us." S°me one
Abe sat down heavily and set his hat
back from his forehead. I
"Yes, Mawrusa." he sa!d bitterly
thats a foreman for youl We a£
missing ,n silk *300. Where is U? £
know. All be could say fa somA
one pinched It, and m!„d von \nZ
russ. his brother is a policeman r
■ | ..If _ uses.
"J" th^t . ex')et' y°u should find <i
» lha\ "»?• ' Abe continued, "you d0n'
* i .p 0 g"f n Policeman for n brother"
t bro;Trsb' ■"wSfti
2, ° e n- ^ou mourned good and
f Plenty by now. Barney Toil „ »
* you think done It." C" Us who
. Barney stopped rocking
® t"^'^kin," he said.
r I "Mfklu!" Abe exclaimed. "What nr«
B , you talking nonsense? Rlfkln! I know
I RI l*7 e from 0,0 old country yet
I His father was a rabbi." 1
l "I know it." said Barney -hnt m» I
. I brother, Aaron Rlfkin. is m' the
' i from ST**? kW" - SJS
IX." ' W°°'- re'Vet-°" Hester
He rocked to and fro for three min
utes, anil then stopped again.
"Near the corner of Eldrldge," he
,?sald. aud resumed his rocking.
* "Stop It!" Abe yelled. "You make
me dizzy In the head. Why do you
think Rlfkln done it?"
"Why?" Barney repeated In blank
astonishment. "Why? A question! 1
am just telling you Rlfkln's brother la
In the remnant business."
"Sure. I know." Abe concluded, "but
your brother Is in the policeman busi
ness, so Mr. Perl mutter and me. we
figure It out like thV*—either you would
find the silk by Monday, or you would
find another Job, and that's all there
Is to ltl"
Max Green berg. Barney's brother, 1
Ft*««ni*j Order
1 Eagle*—
Skofway Aerie
No. 26, Prater-1
Order of
WednaBday ni*ht ° , and third
their haU f 6aCh m°ntl1
hmM, lfth arenue. Vlsltine
]hom C- Wood. W. P.. j w p"£
Secretary. W' Prft"
Arctic BmWiertMod. I
Camp 8tafnraj No. i I
A. B. meets ersry Bee- '
oad ana fourth Tuee- I
o*y ereniie «* o.nn « 1
~T?" brotter* cordial
'm . ' "• •'' AJtUo
W «. BUIorr. tot*
had-rib veir read tEe workiTbf Gnborlau
or Conan Doyle, but he was thorpugh
ly conversant with the methods of de
tection In vogne with the metropolitan
police.
"Leave It to me, Barney," he said on
the following morning, when Barney
confidentially acquainted him with tho
circumstances of the theft
It being Max's day off, ho accompa
nied Barney to the cutting room of
Potash & Perlmutter. When they en
tered Plncus RLfltln was laying out his
cloth In long, smooth folds on a cutting
)ible, preparatory to chalking out the
pattern on the upper layer. He was
Humming a psulm to the traditional He
brew melody, for Plncus was a pious
man, as becomes the son of a rabbi.
By token of that same piety, his whis
kers had never known the refining in
duence of scissors since they first
sprouted. They gave him a venerable,
peaceful aspect, and In contemplating
their profusion one was apt to lose
sight of tho well developed chest over
which they cascaded. Moreover, Pln
cus had a jaunty way of carrying him
self that made the other cutters and
operators treat him respectfully. But
Mas saw only the flowing whiskers,
and he winked confidently at his
brother.
"Dis hero Is a pipe," he muttered.
"Come here," he growled, advancing
toward Plncus.
Plncus smiled and shrugged bis shoul
ders. Ills English was rather weak,
and he relied a great deal upon gesture.
"You're Rlfkln, ain't yer?" Max went
on.
"Sore." said Plncus.
Max thrust his cbln out until It was
at least six Inches in advance of the
rest of his body.
"Who pinched the silk ?" he bellowed.
"Sllllk?" said Plucus. "Whnt sllllk?"
"G'wan!" Max roared. "You ain't
never seen no silk, have you? You
don't know nurten about It, do you?"
Maybe dis'U make you remember!"
He threw back his right arm and,
clinching his fist, aimed straight for
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AND CITY OP PUEHLA
Sailing Tuesday, Thursday and Friday, 11 p. m.
FOR SAN FRANCISCO, IiOS ANGELHK, SAX DIEGO.
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I ALASKA STEAMSHIP CO.
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WESTBOUND
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MARIPOSA, Sept. 16, Oct. 4
Passengers will be transferred to Vaiicover or Victoria
without extra charge.
TELEPHONE NO. 60. E. J. SHAW, Agent, BKAGWAY.
SEASON 1915
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