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lilE GOLD EMPIRE
Mmaig cannot, o£ course, ac
count iur tile wUailing - itaid
very c. pious stream u£ gold which
uit.at Britain lias pourtd. into ttiis
cou atiy since the war Intfc'an »u>d it
is stal(* mystery w liere the great
suujs which axe promised trow the
same source are to bs> abtained, but
the gold fiaidu oX Ui« British! em
pue, nevertheless, or« am-important
I ictor U) the international financial
relatione o£ the United Kingdom.
1* is highly -advantageous to ike
allies that tUe -richest member ol
ti.e great league oi nations couti-ols
•eintory in whic& much. more than'
u.-lt ot tiie gold miued'm the wot id
is iiioduced. Gold Iielcs in the
British empire yield more tnan
»: j.i'Oit.uuo ox' the foremost money
metal tf the world every m^uth..
.Measured bytlia expend it uree oi
riife British. government upon tnj
war, ibat amount is yery-small but
it is cjoufh to at'ford abase (or
cr- uit operations uponj a vast, scale,
it is well within, the truth to say
tha; the great gold output oi tue
British empire is an Important lac
tor in the'busiutfee phases oi the
war ai d no intelligent observer ol
cur.ent events needs to be told that
the LusinetB side is of the utmost
iuiporuvnce. It is vitaj in its bear
i li upen munitions and material?,
of many 'kinds, Including the sus
tenance ot great armies which can
not be led wholly by the countries
they 6erve. •
if IV-eat Britain were not able to
pay enormous balls In neutral coiui
tries the position of the Una ted
Kingdom and of the entire alliance
if which the British; empire is the
{ Teiu'ts' member would immediate
ly become desperate in the extreme.
•KtOND .NAVY OF THE WOIUJ)
Whoever may be tae oonnicu;.g
■view3 of the people of the United
States on the question, of prepared
ness, ite government of the United
.-•utts is committed to'naval prtpar
e J loss. By a vote of 71 'o 8, the
ter.att favored aa appropriation] of
5-15 i 00,000 for & three-year Ccii
strurtloii program. This sum is
$4j,000,000 'more than the total in
'he h^use bill. When 1' gets into
conference'a. "bill mail tig appropria
tions somewhere near half way be
tween the two sums will daubtlese
b© agreed upon..
It may therefore be assumed
that by 1920 we shall 'have tire
second lavy of the world. Of courst
no one at 'this time may predict
what. Germany -will do toward in
creasing her navy. Eve.ything de
I>e'.ds on the outcome of her great
struggles oc French' arnd Russian
soil. Prior to the naval battle off
Ju'land eight weeks ago,-(>eriaai»y's
iiaval strength exceeded oura by
fibriit ore-fourth. Her losses, the
e.\t"nt of which is still in dispute,
make ui relatively stronger than w<
vere oo June'l.
la ihe coming national • cam
paign, preparedness will be one of
t'ie big Issues, but before the cam
paign is veil under way, the ques
tion of naval preparedness will be
tti posed of, and that,'too, without
iiivolvii.g bitter partisanship. Its
effect will be to simplify -the
other phases of preparedness. So
far as the people are concerned the
ques'Ru "of prefvarednes^ will be
x duced to its lowest terms. With
so mauv "other issues ta distract
t^ein, simplification of -the pre
jcj-tdness Issue i3 most welcome.
MARK TWAIN STORES] j
An Unintended Joke and & Bit/of the
Humorist'* Wit.
England fairly reveled In Mark
Twain. At one of the great banquets
a roll of the distinguished guests was
called and the names properly ap
plauded. Mark Twain, busily engag
ed In low conversation with his neigh
bor. applauded without listening, vig
orously or mildly as the others led.
Finally a name was followed by a
great burst of long and vehement clap
ping Thla must be some very great
person indeed, and Mark Twain, not
to be outdoue In his approval, stoutly
kept his hands going until all the oth
ers had finished.
"Whose name was that we were Just
applauding?" he asked of his neighbor.
"Mark Twain's!"
But it was no matter—they took It all
as one of his Jokes.
He was a wonder and a delight to
them. Whatever he did or said was
to them supremely amusing. When on
one occasion a speaker humorously re
ferred to his American habit of carry
ing a cotton umbrella, his reply that he
did so because it was the only kind of
an umbrella that an Englishman
wouldn't steal was repeated all over
England next day as one of the finest
examples of wit sine® the days of
Swift.—Palne's "Boys' Life of Mark
j Twain" In St. Nicholas.
USE OF THE TOOTHBRUSH, i
It Waa Unknown In England In Lord
Chaatarfiald'a Time.
When did the English Qrst adopt the
toothbrush ha bit. which In recent
times has been denounced by certain
medical authorities? In "Esmond"
Thackeray makes Lord Caatlewood
spend "a tenth part of bis day In the
brushing of bis teeth and the oiling of J
his hair," and In doing so the nofellst j
commits a double anachronism.
During the first half of the eighteenth j
century all fine gentlemen wore wigs j
and bad no use for oil on their hair,
while the toothbrush was so late as j
1754 unknown to Lord Chesterfield. I
Writing to his son. Chesterfield says: i
"I hope you take great care of your j
mouth and teeth and that you clean
them well every morning with a sponge
and tepid water, with a few drops of
•rquebusade water dropi>ed Into It. I
do Insist upon your never using those
sticks or any hard substance whatever,
which always rub away the gums and I
destroy the varnish of the teeth."— I
London Saturday Review.
Poiconfng a* a Diversion.
Poisoning Is never likely again to be
come a fashionable diversion, as it
was from time to time In ancient
Rome. In B. (1 331. for Instance,
there waa a mysterious pestilence
which seemed to be particularly fatal
to leading men. At last a slave girl
gave Information to the authorities,
and a consequent police raid resulted
In the discovery of about twenty ma
trons. some of them of high patrician
families, busily i>re;«rlng drugs over
a fire They Insisted that the drugs
were not poisonous, but, being com
pelled to drluk them publicly in the
forum as a guarantee of good faith,
perished miserably Further informa
tions followed, and 170 matrons in all
were condemned. But this record was
soundly beaten In B. C 184. when a
four months' Inquiry by the praetor Is
said to have led to the condemnation
of 2.000 persons.
A Resourceful Badger.
An English artist while painting a
sea piece discovered a bagger's lair
and thought to play the animal a prac
tlcal Joke Gathering togerher a bun
die of grass and weeds, he placed It In
side the mouth of the b«ie aud, Igniting
it with a mutch, waited for the Igno
mlnious Sight of the astonished house
bolder But Master Badger was a re
sourceful animal and not disposed to be
made a butt of practical Jokers. He
came up from the depths of bis hole
as soon as the penetratiug smoke told
him that there was a fire on the prem
Ises and deliberately scratched earth
on the burning gross with his strong
claws until all danger was past. No
human being could have grasped the
situation more quickly or displayed
greater skill tn dealing with an un
familiar event
The First Stock Exchange.
The Stock Exchange did not call It
self by that name till nearly the end
of the eighteenth century. A newspa
per of July 18. 1773, tells us how the
same of their place of business was
altered by resolution from " "New Jona
than's' to The 8tock Exchange' which
i ia to be wrote over the door The bro
| kers then collected sixpence each and
christened the house with punch."—
London Chronicle.
Hit Bagging Latter.
Poet — There goes a notorious and
confirmed begging letter writer Friend
—What! Why. I thought that chap
was an editor Poet—Well, he has
written me at least a dozen letters beg
glng me not to send him an; more of
my stuff.—Puck.
Helping the Diagnosis.
Doctor— iMy dear lady, you are In
perfect health. I cant find a thing th
matter with you Patient—I wish
you'd try again, doctor I do so wan'
to go away to recuperate.—Century
Mysterious.
I First Flapper-1 can't Imagine how
that secret leaked out. Second Ditto
I Nor I I am sure every one I told
promised to say nothing about It.
| London Passing Show
I Too most let your phlegm subdue
j your choler If you would not spoil your
: business.
I
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yaquis own
An Indian Tribe Notorious For Its
Savage Practices.
EVER DEFIANT AND ( WARLIKE.!
1
Never Thoroughly Conquered, They I
Have Been Fanatically FightingJFour
Centuriee For the Land They'Held
Before Columbue Was Born.
The story of tbe Yaquls of Mexico Is |
ont« of the most remarkable narratives
In history. It has never-been told in
English except In more/or less frag
mentary fashion, and the English
speaking world has missed thereby a
romance worth reading.
The tale is liberally blotted with
blood und 8tallied with incidents of
savage torture and treachery, for the
Yaquls are a savage people, but run
ning through it from beginning to end
are a fanatic love of country, an indom
itable courage and a hardihood that
have never been excelled.
In certain parts of Mexico tbe name
of Yaqul has acquired terrors almost
legendary among the Ignorant classes
It has become a term with which to
frighten children. Even on the Ameri
can side of the border the Yaqui often
gets credit for being a more terrible
person than he really is. In point of
tact the Yaquis are the Apaches of
Mexico, with rather more than the
Apaches' ability for organization and
stubborn resistance.
Aided by the fact that the govern
ment opposed to them has ulways been
considerably weaker than that of the
United States and by the inaccessible
nature of the country that they love so
devotedly, they have the distinction of
being the only Indian tribe that has
never been thoroughly und completely
conquered by the whites. There have
always been detiant Yaqui outlaws in
the hills.
The story of the Yaquls is the story
of their wars. Almost a century before
the landing of the Pilgrims in New
England un army of Spaniards with
their Indian allies moved northward
from Mexico City, conquering every
thing in their path When they reached
the bank of the Yaqui river they were
met by a large buud of Indians whose
leader drew a line in the soft earth.
That line he forbade the Spaniards to
cross. The white men opened tire with
their cannon, but ufter a brief en
gagement the Yaquls routed them
The old Spanish chronicler states that
he had fought with most of the Mexi
can Indian tribes, but. he says. "1 have
never seen Indians tight like these."
That was almost 400 years ago, and
since then the Yuquis have fought al
most without eessutiou. The Mexicans
estimate that there have been utmost
300 years of actual lighting between
Mexicans and Yuquis.
Of late years the Mexican govern
ment had been udopting tbe only policy
against tbe tribe whii-b gave promise
of eventual success In quelling their
fighting spirit. This was the plan of
deportation, by which the Indians were
sent from Souora to far away Yucatan
as laborers on the plantations. Tills is
said to be the only fate that frightens
the Yaquls.
It Is easy to Idealize the Yaquls at a
distance for their couruge. their hurdi
hood and their love of country. Just as
it is easy to paint them as Impossible
dernous for their cruelty aud treui hery
They have undoubtedly practl< ed sav
age tortures on their cuptives In the
past. Just us they have undoubtedly
broken treaties with the Mexican gov
eminent, but it is Just us true that
they are guided by a savage code of
ethics aud ure righting for lund that In
the last analysis belongs to them, for
they held it before Columbus was boru
In tlesh and blood the Yaqui Is not a
particularly romantic tigure. Ue is the
common laborer of Sonora. the peon
the herder of cuttle uud the tiller of
the soil in the Mexicuu towns of tbe
district many of the servants are
Yaquis. One of the chief difficulties in
subduing them has been the highly de
veloped clan spirit that prevails amoug
them
The outlaw from the hills, hard
pressed, slips his rille Into a mesquite
bush aud enters some peaceful village
of his people, where everybody will
swear that he has lived there for years
The Yaqul Is a medium sized Individ
ual as a rule, rather stockily built, with
a face broader and browner than that
of the North American Indian whom
the tourist sees in the west and who
adorns our buffalo nickels His wiry
endurance is truly remarkable Four
centuries of almost continual warfare.
Interspersed with the hardest of hard
work on the ranches, have made him
tough as leather Hp will travel for
days at high speed through desert and
mountain with little or no food: he will
work all day In the fields under u sun
glare that reaches 150 degrees heat In
the direct rays. In fact, one of the
chief problems In connection with the
deportation scheme for handling the
Yaqui is that of tilling his place as a
laborer in Sonora.—Cleveland Plain
Dealer -—
Some Famoua Old Men.
Palmerston was premier at eighty
one. Gladstone at eighty-three. Metter
nlch and Bismarck were driven out of
power at seventy-five. Talleyrand was
a power till hl9 death at eighty-four
Guizot till eighty-six. Von Moltke till
nearly eighty-eight. Ranke began his
history of the world at eighty ami
wrote twelve volumes l>efore he wa
ninety-one. while Button and (Joethc
were active octogenarians.—New York
Post.
A politician thinks of the next elec
tlon; a statesman of the next genera
tlon.—James Freeman Clark®.
Th« Way 61 It.
"Smith bus been having contrary
kinds of trouble."
"Sow so?"
"His salary was very much cut down,
and he was In consequence very much
cut up."—Baltimore American
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to directions furnished with each
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WILLIAM 1'ALLISTER, M. D.
(Formerly uf Seattle)
Specialist tn the treatment of
lineoMi and deioriultiee of tlie
Hye, ear, now Ami tin-oat.
/Offic«: Goldstein Building. Ju
leau, Alaska.
W. B. STOUT
Vttorney At L > w
Practice la all courts
la Territory of Alaska
Halueg Alaska
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ly welcome. W. L. Stevenson, Aro
:lc Chltf, W. KL Burford, Arctic
Itccorder.
Arctic Brotherhood.—
Camp Skagway No. 1,
A. B. meets every sec
ond and fourth Tues
day evening at 8:30 p.
KnU-e rn*l Order
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ueir UtUl ob U'trui aiauue vmtUu6
aOLbere cordially larlLe* to atUuicl
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Uistbr. Secretary.
P. & A. M.
White 1'a.a Uxl«o
F. & A. M. No. 113
meets 2d and 4 th
Fri. Ev'gB. of eaoh
moum. visiting Drouiei* are woi
Elmer L. Wheeler, W. M.
Address ail conunauicatlous to
t'ie Secretary.
B. P. O. KLKS
Skagway Lodge
No. 431, B. P. O.
E. meets every
let and 3d TIlui*
day at 8:30 p. m.
Visiting broth
srs cordially welcome.
HENRY FRIEDENTHAL, E. R.
F. J. VAWDEWALX., Secretary
Pioneer of Alaska Igloo, No. 12,
utett, in A. B. HaU first Monday ill
Bvery month at 8:30 p. m.
Visiting Brothers cordially wel
:ouie.
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Connects at Seattle with through passenger tfceamers.
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Sailing Tuesday 11 p. in »ud Friday at 11 p. m.
FOR SAN FRANCISCO, LOS ANGELES, SAN DIEGO.
Through tickets sold and baggage checked to all points In
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From JUNE 15th to NOVEMBER 9th Inclusive
Additional Sailings in July of JULY 10, 17, 24, 31
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the user. It Is a soothing, healing
nnd vanishing cream, which dries
quickly and la never sticky or
greasy. You will be surprised at
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fourth of every mouth
for Kluaue aud way
points anc( also on the
seventeenth of every
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