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\\ ELL WORK OUT
It is a keen disappointment that
Colonel GoothaJa is not able to
guarantee an unobstructed passage
ihvough the Panama canal before
the formal opening of the Panama
Pacific Exposition. Yet there is
no reason for discouragement.
Colonel Goethala has more than
made good his promises. From
August 1 to December 1, last year,
257 ocean-going vessels passed
through the canal, which thereby
earned $1,135,000. And from the
first he has constantly kept hi the
toreground the impossibility of as
certainlns how long it will take to
conquer the Culebra cut.
Culebr i, as was perceived from
the first, is the sticking point in
the canal project. The cut Is in
the side of a small mountain of
soft rock which disintegrates when
exposed *o heavy tropical rains and
tends to slide toward the mam
moth caaal trench which has de
prived it of some of its former
lateral support. The softened mass
not only crowds into the canal
from the sides but pushes up from
Its bottom. In order to reduce the
pressure the cut has been widened
from 840 to 2,000 feet, but It is
not enough to prevent the slides
iron continuing.
The remedy and its certainty
are obvious. In time the slides,
to use a homely expression, will
slide tho^selves out, and that will
be the end of It. It remains only
to keep the dredges at work and
perhaps remove more of the top
weight. In the meantime the canal
will be in use except during these
temporary stoppages, which are
bound constantly to become more
infrequent
TWO EGYPT8
There is an Egypt which may be
described as political and another
which is actual and historical,
says the Cleveland Leader. The
first is far more extensive than the
second but much less interesting
and important.
When the dispatches say that
Turkish troops have invaded Egypt
they mean the political Egypt
which extends far eastward beyond
the limits of the fertile and popu
lous Egypt which has cities and
villages, swarming plains and a
wonderful past. There are no
Turkish forces in the real Egypt.
The most advanced of the Sul
tan's cavalry may be almost within
bight of the masts of vessels in the
Suez canal. Desert sands and hos
tile forces He between. The bulk
of the Ottoman army threatening
Egypt is fifty miles or more east
of the Suez canal, in the desert
region known as the Sinai Penin
sula. When Moses led his people
out of Esypt that district was con
sidered altogether beyond the
Egyptian boundaries. It is empty,
desolate and arid in the extreme.
In the north, not far from the
Mediterranean Sea, it is a waste
of sand and comparatively level
In the southern and central part
of the peninsula it is mountainous,
rugged and nearly waterless.
In recent times this desert
peninsula, lying, in part, between
the Gulf of Suez and the Gulf of
Abakah, the two arms into which
the Red Sea divides at its northern
end, has been counted a part of
Egypt, for governmental purposes.
In like manner Egypt has been held
to Include the Nubian desert and
jrreat stretches of the Libyan des
ert, the former east of the Nile,
the latter west. Politically, Egypt
is a country of about 400,000
square miles, note including the
Sudan region connected with it
and dependent, in large measure,
upon it But the inhabited and
cultivated part of Egypt means
only the Nile Delta and the thread
of $reen which borders the great
river from the southern boundary
of Egypt northward through the
barren wastes on both sides, down
to the Delta.
Egyptian history and Egyptian
commerce, the wonders of the past
and the industries of the present,
are the product of not more than
12,000 square miles, of which more
than 2,S00 square miles are occu
pied by lakes, marshes and patches
of desert. And in this area, not
equal to one-quarter of the land
surface of Ohio, about 12,000,000
people manage to find a living. If
this stale had as many inhabitants
in proportion to its size, there
would b& 60,000,000 people in
Ohio.
In the Sinai desert Turkish
armies are only a possible menace
to the British government which
holds Egypt. There they are an
enormous expense and burden to
Turkey. In Egypt, west of the
Suez canal—the real Egypt which
is rich, fertile, populous and im
portant—they would constitute a
tremendous peril to the British
empire because they would break
the prestige of Great Britain in all
Northern Africa and close the short
sea route to India.
Every situation has its recom
penses. The joy of predicting now
reigns unconfined.
No matter what else they may
have be«n accused of none of the
Mexican generals has yet been pho
tographed with a wrist watch on.
Good times In the Hawaiian
Islands. A Honolulu paper says
most of the hotel proprietors re
port that they are full.
The next question is, who Is to
be the president of Mexico for
March?
"The chief blessing of poverty la
that it enables you to distinguish
your true friends." And who can
measure the delight of finding out
that you haven't any?
Mr. Wilson can't be the father
ot his country, but he is one of Its
grandfathers.
And here, just as the atrocities
of war had begun to abate, Ger
many is tending out official newB
bulletins in Esperanto.
Comforting Words
I .Many an Alaskan Household Will
Find Them So
To have the pains and aches of
a uad baca removeu—to be entirely
trte from annoying, dangerous urin
ary disorders. Is enough to make
f-uv kidney sufferer graceful. The
following advice of one who has suf
tired will prove comforting words t
uuiidreds of Alaskan readers.
P. E. Sanderson, 81J First St,
San Diego, Cal., says: "A sever® at
tack of la grippe laid me up for
f ve weeks. My back got very
painful, lame and weae. My kid
neys were in bad shapa I felt all
rim down. I read about Doan's
Kidney Pills and got a box They
fixed me up all right. Whenever 1
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I have used Doan's Kidney Pills.
They have always brought good re
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WISE COUNSEL FOIl EVfcRYGntL
The Herald hopes, requests and
urges thai newspapers throughout
the country, and especially smaller
city and town dallies and weeklies
with a farm circulation In the mid
dle) West will print at least the
substance of certain passages In
thtj annual report of Mrs. Mary E
Holmes, head of tho travelers' aid
department of the Chicago X. M. C.
A. It 4s addressed to young wo
men who may be thinking of coming
to Chicago for employment and to
their parents, and is here sum
marized:
To parents.—Don't let your
girls come to the great cities
if there is anything for them
to do at home. On no account
allow your girl to leave
home with bo little money that
she will land In some big city
with only a dollar or two.
Young women are safer, better
able to find employment, aud of
more service to the community
at homo than in Chicago or
any other large city just- at
present.
To the girls.—If you must
leave home plan every detail of
your trip with your paieuts.
Bring enough money for at
least one mouih's living expens
es. Do not plan on meeting
any person unknown to your
parents. Do not make acquain
tances on the train. On arrival
find the travelers, aid agent—
she wears a uniform and a
badge—and take her advice
about a place to live. If ever
in need of help call on the
Young Women's Christian Asso
ciation.
For twenty years Mary E. Holmes
has been mother to Everygirl who j
sought her help. Over 100,000 girl9
have profited by her advice or |
found shelter in her arms. No
woman, certainly none in Chicago, Is
better fitted by experience to give
wise advice and counsel to girls.
And this is her counsel at this
time to Everygirl.—Chicago Herald. (
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List oT letters remaining unclaim
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the jveek ending .Feb. 8th, ial5.
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Arctic Tel. Co.,
Andrew, Mr. (native)
Anderson, W.
Berry, Miss Madge
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Fortin, Master Nelson
Halter man, Leroy W. "W.
Herrick, Mrs. Robert
Jones, Mrs. Betres -
Johnson, Mrs. L. W.
Keane, Mr. J. E.
Monroe. Mr. Harry A.
Morrison, Mr. Billy
Nelll, Mr. Prank S. (2)
Neill, Mr. F. S. (2)
Porter, Jim.
A. E. Kill del 1, P. M.
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Men and Women t'aanlmon* ikont It.
Many women weep and wail and Tefuse
to be comforted because their ones mag
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faded. Many men incline to profanity
because flies bite through the thin
tbatch on their craniums. It will be good
news to the miserable of both sexes, to
learn that Newbro's Herpicide has been
placed upon the market. This is the new
scalp germicide and antiseptic that acts
by destroying the germ or microbe that
Is the underlying cause of all hair de
struction. Herpicide Is a new prepara
tion. made after a new formula on an
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Fit Ev'gs. of each
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E. meets every
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Jhou C. Wood, W. P.. J. W. Prft
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Arctic Brotherhood.—
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(Formerly of Seattle)
Specialist in the treatment of
diseases and deformities of the eye,
car, nose and throat.
Office; Goldstein Building, Ju
neau, Alaska.
Dr. E. M. BEVIS
physician and Surgeon
JUNEAU ALASKA
Office—Second Street; 1* offices
tor me. ,y occupied by Dr. Simpson.
W. B. STOUT
Attorney At Law.
Practice la all courts
In Territory of Alaska.
Haines ------ Alaska.
I Whitehorse
Kluane Stage
Line
The Royal Mail Stage
leaves Whitehorse the
fourth of every month
for Kluane and way
points and also on the
seventeenth of every
month for Champaigne
Passengers and Freight sol
icited, Rates Reasonable
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And every ten day* following. Modern comfortable ships,
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address V. A. PETERSON, Agent
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May 5 35 26
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