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EDITORIAL PAGE
ROTTEN MAIL SERVICE
The rotten winter mail service
that Skagway has been fighting for
years, without avail, to have the
United States postoffice depart
ment remedy was forcefully Illustrat
ed when the Georgia cam0 in on
S'inday without any outside
mail matter whatever when,
if the postal authorities in
Seattle had looked after the
business In a proper manner, there
should have been a three days' ac
cumulation for Skagway and the in
ter!^ to the uorth on board.
03 the last northern yoyage of
the Mariposa there was, through
gross carlessness on the part of
the postal authorities in Seattle,
three days' mail left behind which
shealu have been placed on board
that vessel and brought to #uueau,
from which point it should have
been forwarded to Skagway on the
Georgia and reached here on Sun
day afternoon at 4 o'clock, been
distributed by 'he small postoffice
torc« at preset't employed here
and the people would have had their
mail very nearly a week in advance
of the time some of it will now be
received.
-As matters stand there will bo
six days' mail matter on t!}e City
of 3eattle, which is due to reach
here at 3 o'clock tomorrow morn
ing, and that means Postmaster
Kindeli and his one assistant will
be compelled to handle at leajt
250 sacks of mail, which is no small
task. It also means that interior
mail, which should have gone out
on th© W. P. & Y. R. train this
morning, will not now leave here
| uutil Friday of this week and pos
sibly Tuesday of next week.
If this was the first time such
a thing had occurred, or it was even
an occasional occurrence, it could be
overlooked, but it is not; it is the
rule rather than the exception, and
obtains even in the summer season
when there are daily boats in port,
for upon their arrival it is very of
ten found that the mail has been
sent from Seattle to northern ports
boats that visit canneries, and
other out-of-the-way places and are
la consequence all the way from
five to seven days in reaching Skag
way, while other carriers that left
that city probably 24 hours behind
them reached here 24 hours or
niore in advance of their coming.
The postofflce department at
Washington City pays for and
contemplates in the con
tracts it lets to mail carriers, the
procuring of the best and most re
liable service obtainable and that it
is not doing so is clearly the fault
of those in subordinate positions,
whose manifest duty to forward all
mail matter with the utmost dis
patch is being sadly neglected.
Although former appeals have
met with but slight encouragement,
and with no increase of efficiency,
the matter is again being taken up
with the postoffce department at
Washington City with strong hopes
that the interest now being mani
fested in Alaskan affairs may ex
tend to and include a betterment In
this branch of thee public service.
We See Everywhere Increasing Limitations
PLced Upon Monarchical Authority
WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN on "The Star Spangled Banner"
© by American Press
Association.
WHILE THE GENIUS OF THE AUTHOR FINDS
EXPRESSION IN THE BRILLIANCY OF ITS
PHRASEOLOGY, THE FERVENT SPIRIT
WHICH PERVADES IT IS THE PRODUCT OF THE
CIRCUMSTANCES WHICH BROUGHT IT FORTH
THE AGONIZING SUSPENSE AND THE ANXIOUS
LONGING OF THE CAPTIVE ARE MOLDED INTO
STIRRING SENTENCES THAT CANNOT FAIL TO
CALL FORTH A RESPONSE FROM EVERY LOYAL
HEART.
Our starry banner, beautiful as it is to the eye—
and there is none more beautiful—derives its real
splendor from the fact that it floats o'er the land
of the free and the home of the brave.
OUR CONSTITUTION HAS BECOME THE PAT
TERN COPIED BY OTHER NATIONS, AND THE sucttss ui- uuk w
PERIMENT IN SELF GOVERNMENT HAS ANSWERED ALL THE ARGU
MENTS FORMERLY ADVANCED IN BEHALF OF ARBITRARY POWER.
THE TRIUMPHANT DEMOCRACY OF THE NEW WORLD HAS STIMU
LATED THE FRIENDS OF LIBERTY IN THE OLD TO NEW ADVANCES.
UNTIL WE SEE EVERYWHERE INCREASING LIMITATIONS PLACED
UPON MONARCHICAL AUTHORITY—EVERYWHERE THE WANING OF
HEREDITARY POWER.
Coercive Part of Government Will Dimin
ish as Civilization Advances
* = I
By Secretary of State WILLIAM J BRYAN
WE are entering upon a new age in which freedom will be given new
interpretations and bravery find new forms of expression. The
DOCTRINE OF THE DIVINE RIGHT OF KINGS HAS
BEEN DISCARDED to no purpose if the divine right of man does
not lead to man's elevation. He has become his own master, not that
he may be brutish or brutal, but that he may be free to develop the best
that is in him and to aspire to all the heights that the heavenly Father
has put within his reach. And no matter how high he rises or upon how
lofty a plane he plans his life the flag will still wave above him.
THE THEORETICAL ANARCHIST DELUDES HIMSELF WITH THE
BELIEF THAT MAN WILL HAVE NO NEED OF GOVERNMENT WHEN
HE BECOMES A "LAW UNTO HIMSELF." BUT HE COMPREHENDS BUT
A PART OF THE PROBLEM. THE COERCIVE PART OF GOVERNMENT ,
WILL DIMINISH AS CIVILIZATION ADVANCES—EVEN NOW A LARGE j
PROPORTION OF THE PEOPLE HAVE NO NEED OF THE "THOU j
SHALT NOTS" OF THE CRIMINAL LAW. BUT WHILE THE RE- I
STRAINTS OF THE STATUTES MAY BE EXPECTED TO FALL INTO-,
DISUSE BECAUSE UNNECESSARY, THE CO OPERATIVE PART OF |
GOVERNMENT IS EVER INCREASING.
£Ik Admiral Cine
Westbound
S. S. Admiral Evans
Dec. 9
LEAVING SEATTLE ON THE Oth, 13th AND 25th OF
EVERY MONTH AND ARRIVING IN SKAGWAl ON THE 9th,
Itfth AND 28th., WESTBOUND.
RETURNING FROM THE WESTWARD, SHOULD LEAVE
SKAGWAY, SOUTHBOUND, APPROXIMATELY ON THE 8th,
10th., AND 29tb.
Seattle to San Francisco
S. S. ADMIRAL DEWEY 8. 8. ADMIRAL FAQgAGUT
8. 8. ADMIRAL SCHLEY
Leaving Seattle every Wednesday and Sunday for San Franclaoo
and Southern California porta. ConnwMoni at San Franclaco
PACIFIC NAVIGATION CO- STEAMERS
S. S. YALE 8. 8. HARVARD
For Los Angeles, San Diego and Southern California points.
i'AClFlC ALASKA NAVIGATION CO.
HUGH P. GALLAGHER, Agent. Skayway, Aloaka.
An Instrument
i of Providence
By WILLARD BLAKEMAN
1 was wulkiug ou tiiie beach, watch
ing tile waves come rolliug In before
a sale urnl throwing up driftwood,
when a iHJtthf was tossed at my feet.
I extracted a i«|HT from It ou which
wa9 written:
SSwS
drawer. '
This was alt-uo date, no signature,
no address as to where -Norman D
Carlisle would be found.
That ulubt I went to bed thinking
about the message. Suppose It was
genuine. Somebody was enjoying prop
erty that belouged to another. But it
seemed to me that if it* were genuine
the writer would have given at least
the city iu whleh the person for whom
U was intended lived, if the perpe
trator was dolus the thing for sport or
to pass the Hme V ^cause he hadn I
auv more .ense he would have given it
And yet perhaps that's Just what
he wouldn't do. He might not like to
particularize. On the other hand, a
Lu Who is about to be dumped Into
a roaring oc •;-ii might leave something
out that he should have put in.
1 was Impelled to find Norman I>.
Carlisle. I OMnt wish to engage in
looking for a needle in a haystack, but
I couldn't tcsist the feeling that .1
was u.v b»m.,len duty to do so. t here
were then *ome $0,000,000 people in
The t;»ited States alone. The name
was Anglo-Saxon, and the person
might l.e somewhere in the Breat BHt
t«h countries. Nevertheless when 1
found ^hat I couldn't let the, matter
alone 1 went into it methodically. I
put a personal advertisement In one
newspaper iu every city in the tnite
mates whose inhabitants numbered
500.000 or over for the said Norman D.
Carlisle I received several replies
signed Norman I). Carlisle, the middle
name usually dilTerlng. 1 wrote each
of Them', asking if he had lost a rela
tlve at sea. but they all answered lo
the negative—that Is. so far as the.
kD\fter six months 1 put In another
advertisement for Mr. Carlisle and re
celved a reply from a Norman I) Car
lisle living In a town of abotit W.000
people He had seen the ad. while in
the city where it had been inserted,
asked him if he tiad lost a relative
«eaand he replied "No." I dropped
the matler so far as he wasconcem,
ed. but liter he wrote me that he
a lawyer and had had a client wh
hnrt sailed from Rio de Janeiro In
missing ships. he sent
After some correspondence he ^en
me a check for expenses, and I went
™V, tiim H,
for me to meet a lady In his ornce
and 1 was Introduced to Miss Edl
parks, twenty one years old ^ come
ly She appeared to be a lad ,
was shabbllv dressed. I was informed
tha t her uncle h.ul -en lost^the
iSlbc paper 1 had found, which I
oui iu* I * I soon »»
u had heen written by her uncle. Some
of his letters were produced, and a
d'ubt was Tr^llyratss
STwTlfil to correspond with
been brought np by this uncle.
without ' flpnd tbe courts had
iTaTout administering his estate and
iSl SSi found forty Persons -ho
W^nce ^r" Weatherby. the man who
fv tO her But the desk-where was
It? Mr Weatherby's furniture had
Sen sold u year before. Who had
H i. ! he desk0 No one could tell.
, m »»> «
Artvertisli.s having availed. 1 adver
Adverting wbo had bought
"X.,•»"««"■ "."SI
t-,.Ill due time 1 received a
• . ,,uTvlia~-er. l wrote him
He said be would sen u ror w*i. nun*
Parks had n«» money to pay for it, «o
I mailed the man a chock for the
amount. The desk was sent to me,
and. taking it into a cellar, 1 chopped
it into kindling wood. Among the rub
bish lay the papers in a secret draw
er, and, taking this up, 1 found one
marked "LasJ Will and Testament of
Cyrus Blake Weatherbj." I read It
and found that he left all his property
to his beloved niece Edith Parks.
That same evening 1 called on Miss
Parks with the will that changed her
condition from poverty to wealth. She
sat like a statue staring at the paper
as thyogh she were looking through It
rather than at it. I asked her what
she was thinking about, hut she did
not hear me. I repeated the question,
and. apparently awakening from a
dream, she said:
"It doesn't seem possible that uncle,
about to die on a boundless ocean, too
wrought upon to give my address,
could have reached me among the rail
lions of people of the earth."
I did not tell her so. but she soon
came to recognize me as the instru-.
ment chosen by Proi ldence to find her.
After awhile she lewarded me by'
glviug me herself.
$100 REWARD, *100
The, readers of this paper will bo
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Seattle, Tacoma, Victoria
Vancouver, Prince Rupert
Juneau, Petersburg, Wrangell, and Ketchikan
Leave Skaguuay
S*S* City of Seattle, Dec* 2, 12, 22
And every ten days following. Modern comfortable ships,
nodlent service. Connects- at Seattle with through passen
ger steamers.
CONGRESS, GOVERNOR, PRESIDENT AND QUEEN.
Sailing Tuesday, 10 a. rn. and Friday, 0 p. m.
FOB SAN FRANCISCO, LOS ANGELHS, SAN DIEGO.
Through tickets sold and baggage checked to all points in
United States and Canada. For folders and full particulars,
•ddresa V. A. PETERSON, Agent
H. BRANDT, G. A. P. D. Phone 50. SKAGWAY
80S Second Ave., Seattle, Wash.
ALASKA STEAMSHIP CO.
•» Jefferson-November 14-24 December 5
TEIjEPHO.NE NO. 66.
E. J. SHAW, Agent, SKAGWAY.
'ACIFICi
Twin Screw S. S.
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1914 Winter Sailings from Skagway 1915
Alternate Wednesdays
Dec. 2-16-30
Jan. 13-27
Feb. 10-24
(Subject to Change)
Prince Rupert, Vancouver, Victoria, Seattle, ect.
All Information "Rail of Sail," from
F. F^W, LQWLE, Geii'l Agt. Phone 87 aad 141 SKAGWAY
Steamship Humboldt
THE ONLY INDEPENDENT STEAMSHIP OPERATING TO S. E. ALASKA
Sailings from Skagway to Seattle.
November 27 Dec. 5
$50 Round Trip to Seattle and Return
Sailing dates aubject to change without notice.
THROUGH TICKETS HONORED
Se^Ult) Office;. Robert Browning, 5th & Broadway.
716 Second Avenue. Tickets aiiti all Ih/ormation.
THE
'OLYMPIAN'
The Train of Luxury
TO
BUTT.fi, MILES CITY, SIOUX CI1V, MINNEAPOLIS,
AND ST. PAUL, MILWAUKEE, CHICAGO
ALL POINTS EAST, via Uio
"MILWAUKEE "
LEAVES SEATTLE DAILY AT 10:13 A. M.
""A TOUR DE LUXE" is an expression supremely fitting in con
nection with a trip to the East on this palatial all-steel
transcontinental train. It combines the enjoyment of rare scenic
De&uties with the pleasure of a journey in absolute ease and
comfort.
NO EXTRA FARE ON THIS TRAIN
For further Information regarding fares, train service, res
ervations, etc, call on or addresa
E. J. SHAW
Agent, Alaska Steamship Co.
' . , SKAflWAY, ALASKA.
City Ticket Offlc«, Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway,
44J Hastings St. West, VANCOUVER, B. C.
SECOND AVE. AND CHERRY ST. SEATTLE.