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"OLD G LORY"
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".America For Americans
THE Al.UKn FORCES
The war editors are divided in
thei,r opinions as to how long the
war against Germany; will last
There is considerable unanimity,
however, in the belief that the cam
paign. in case the Germans are not
oeateu ia the next two months, that
is before they harvest 'his year's
crops, will extend at least well in
to 1918.
A more optimistic view would
a?. a to bo taken by the Philadel
phia Public - Ledger which, after
recounting the odds now against
Germary, says: "William Hohen
zcl eru tan no more whip a united
K. r.d than Napoleon Bonapart
•could defeat a united Europe and
it took the latter only 100 days
to throw a bridge from Elba to St.
Helena."
The Ledger's summary of these
odd3 against the Kaiser, follows:
"Mor« than half the human race
Is now engaged in war against the
German's,
"The man strength of the Teuton
ic forces is outnumbeered six to
o:>t by their foes.
"Omit all India, and the allies,
backed by the United States, still
have four times the population to
draw upon that stands behind the
ka'ser
"Subtract all the wealth, of tlie
German fund from the wealth of
lho United States and there still
remains more than $50,000,000,000.
'•American farms grow more than
all the farms of Germany, Austria,
Turkey and Bulgaria combined.
"The United States alone can
m;<ke more steel and all the products
of a'eel than the whole Germanic
league.
"Our mines yield ten times as
much gold, far more silver, twice as
much iead and many times as much
copyer as the entire group of cen
tral powers.
"Germanys' national debt is now
nearly $200 per capita. Ours is on
ly ?io. i*i»!*U
' To pay a year's interest on his
share of his nation's debt coats a
German thirty times as much as
it ccsts an American."
Alaska.
Alaska is an outlying possession.
Seward bought it of Kussia in 1867 for
17.200,000. He and It became a na
tional Joke for that generation, and ex
cept for "Seward's Icebox" It attracted
but little attention. Having more than
half a million square miles In area. It
Is more than ten times larger than any
state east of the Mississippi and con
tains mountain systems, valleys and
mighty rivers. Switzerland could be
lost around the base of Mount McKin
ley. It Is only since Klondike days
that Alaska has at all been taken seri
ously, and even from that date the de
velopment has come slowly. But Alas
ka has only been scratched. Alaska is
the biggest prize In the Pacific ocean,
Its material possibilities are Illimitable,
and we are permitting it to stand ut
terly unprotected when with only a
little care on our part It could be made
tmpregnabie.-Ceniury.
Religious wars in europe.
Th« Thirty Y»«r»' Conflict and th*
Peac« of Wottphalia.
Osnabruck is one of the most vener
able towns of Prussia. In the closing
years of tbe eighth century Charle- |
magne designated it as the capital of a
bishopric, a distinction which It en
joyed without Interruption for more
than a thousand years, lu 1S03 the seo
was suppressed, the last bishop being
Frederick, duke of York, son of the
English Hanoverian monarch, Georg >
III. In 1858 the city was restored to
its religious eminence when it was
again made the seat of a Roman Cath
olic bishop.
It is on account of her share In th«
preliminary negotiations which led to
the epochal peace of Westphalia that
Osnabruck is famous in history. In
1644, after all central Europe had been
devastated by the great struggle which
eventually became known as the
Thirty Years' war, representatives of
Sweden, the German empire and Ger
man Protestants met here, while in the
neighboring city of Munster, thirty
miles to the southwest, delegates from
France. Spain, the German Catholics
and the German empire gathered.
The negotiations extended over a pe
riod of four years. In October, 1648.
both groups of conferees having ar
rived at a common bast* of settlement,
the Osnabruck diplomats repaired tc
Munster, where a few days later the
peace was signed which guaranteed
the sovereignty and independence of
the several states of the empire and
which forbade religious persecution
throughout Germany. It was this
peace, In which Osnabruck played such
a vital pjtrt. that put an end to reli
gious wars in Europe.
As early as 888 Osnabruck was
granted the right to establish Its own
mint, but It was not until the fifteenth
century that the city reached the crest
of Is mediaeval prosperity. Following
tha decline which was necessarily Inci
dental to the ravages of the Thirty
Years' war, it enjoyed a second era of
erowth.
The two most impressive architec
tural plies In Osnabruck are the spa
clous cathedral, dating back to the
twelfth century and representing a
combination of the Romanesque and
Transitional styles, and the royal pal
ace. built In 1062-75.—National Geo
graphic Society Bulletin.
QUEENSLAND SAVAGES.
Some Curious Custom* of a ftac* That
Will Soon Bs Extinct.
The aborigines of Queensland are
fast fading away, and in view of the
fact that this race will soon be extinct
an examination of their social customs
Is interesting.
The death bone or bone apparatus,
with its supposed property of produc
ing death, is one of the most dreaded
and universal superstitions among the
natives of the Queensland interior.
The apparatus consists of a pointer
connected by string with an elongated
cylindrical receptacle. The pointer,
three to fiv£ Inches long, is made from
a human forearm bone, the string Is
made from human hair, and the recep
tacle, which Incloses the victim's life
blood, is fashioned from a shin bone.
The "medicine man" of the tribe uses
the weapon by aiming the pointer at
the person selected for punishment.
One of the most curious of the abo
riginal weapons is the "whirler," or
"bull roarer." It is made of a flat
tened piece of gldyea timber cut Into
spindle shape, into one extremity of
which a hole is drilled with a sharp
ened emu bone. By means of the aper
ture this whirler is attached to a piece
of string fixed at the end of a small
stick. Revolving rapidly, the whirler
gives out a roaring sound.—London
Telegraph.
Vsnison, Venaison, Venxon.
We have noted methods of cooking
venison, but how should It be pro
nounced—as a two or a three syllable
word? Most of us pronounce It as If
spelled with a "z" and, as It Is derived
from the French venaison, il'ls Is as
It should be. Shakespeare. It is true,
treated It as a trisyllable and apparent
ly regarded the "s" as hard, for in
•'As You Like It" the duke asks,
"Shall we go kill us venison?" But his
contemporary. Chapman, made but two
syllables of It and, that there might be
no doubt as to the pronunciation he
favored, even spelled it phonetically,
thus—venzon.—London Chronicle.
Hi« Bad Break.
"Why on earth do you come to me
to borrow money, Billus?" said Herk
away peevishly. "Why don't you go
to Jorrocks? He's the prosperous
looking member of our set."
"That's Just it, Harkaway," said
Billups. "Jorrocks looks so very pros
perous that I am quite sure he spends
every penny he makes, but you, old
man—why, you dress like a man who
saves his money."
P. S.—He didn't get it.
Ven Are So Uncertain.
"Why did you Jilt that man who
wanted to marry you?"
"Because," replied the prima donna,
"I couldn't decide whether he was ac
tually in love with me or merely want
ed to hear me sing for nothing."—Ex
change.
Keeping Up the Supply,
First Man (with magazine)—What a
tremendous number of stories Penley
Penman writes! Second Man—Doesn't
he? They say he uses an incubator to
hatch his plots.—Stray Stories.
Virtue alone outbuilds the pyramids;
her monuments shall last when Egypt ■
fall—Young.
la <bg U. S. Commissioner's Court
for the Territory oX Alaska, Bk««
war Preeisct at Sksiffway, Alaefca.
Ia Probate.
I* the iUttoy ox the Equate of
Fre4 Mlilor, deceased..
iNOTICJB 18 HEREBY QIVBN,
Tbur A. J. Achlson, administrator el
tae estate oX Fred Miller, deceased,
has tiled ia the above entitled court
his Unal report oX the estate of
tlx# Mild deceased uud the hearing
QX tbe same b«a been fixed by said
eourt (or tbe 2»th day oX June,
1917, at 10 o'clock In tbe forenoon
of sal* day, at tbe Xederel eourt
House ia Skagway, Alaska, at tbe
eourt room thereof, and all pursoaj
Interested ia said estate are notified
to then and there appear aad file
a*T objection® they may bare to
ea'd aocouat and to show cause, IX
aay they hare, wy said Xlasl U
oo ant should not be allowed.
A. J. ACHISON,
Administrator.
First publication. May 3, 19IT. «
Fiu&l Publication, May 31, 1917.
», 8-16-17-24-11.
In tiw> Commiaaiomer'a Court for tie
Territory ot Alaaka, Skaeway*
PradBct, at SXagway, Alaska.
]■ Probate.
Ia tiia lt^ttftr oS tha E«tat0 of E.
W, d. Aehiaom, d«c«as#d.
NOTIC®
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN,
That the undersigned baa been, by
Edward A. Rasmuson, tha Unit
ed Stats* Commissioner and Probate
Jud«» of tha abora entitled Court,
by ordar duly made and entered, »p
pointed administratrix of the ae
tata ol EL W. B. Achison, deceased;
all parsons baring claimg against
•aid eat&te ara hareby notified to
yrnant them with proper Touchers
U legal form wlthia six (6)
moa'njj from tha data of thia BO~
Un tq th^ undersigned at hsr
realdeace in the Town of Skagway,
Alaska.
Dated this 2nd day ot May, 1617.
SARAH A CHI SON,
Administratrix.
Firs' publication May 8, 1917.
Final publication Way 31, 1917.
ADMINISTRATOR'S NOTICE OP
SALE OF REAL ESTATE
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN,
That in pursuance of an order of
Edward A Rasmuson, U. S. Com
missioner for the Territory of Al
aska i DiTision No. 1, sitting in
probate in Skagway Precinct, made
on the 23 day of May, A. D. 1917,
in the master of the estate of John
P, Brawand, deceased, the under
signed as administrator of the said
estate, will sell at public vendue
>o the highest and best bidder, and
subject to the confirmation of the
said Probate Court, on Friday the
22nd day of June, A. D. 1917, at 2
o'clock in the afternoon on the
front steps of thle U. S. Court House
in the Town and Precinct of Skag
way and Territory of Alaska, all
the right, title and interest and es
tate of *he said Joh<n P. Brawajid at
the time of its death, and all the
right, title and interest that the said
estate iai, b>y operation of law or
otherwise, in and to all those cer
tain tracts, lots or parcels of land,
situate, lying being ux tno Town »no
and Recording District and Pre
cinct of Skagway and Territory of
Alaska, particularly bounded and
described as follows, to-wlt:
Lots Three (3) and Four (4) la
Bfcxrk Onb Hundred and One (101);
Lots Two (2), Three (3), Four (4),
FiYe (6), Sis (6), Seven (7). Eight
(8), Nine (9), Ten (10) and Elevea
(11) in Block Ninety-five (95) of
the townsite of the Towai of Skag
way In the Territory of Alaska as
the same Is showa and designated
by a survey of th)e said towmulte and
bx a P.lat thereof made by Hill &
Wettrick, surveyors, and approved
by the Trustee for Baid townaite
on, April 29, 1909, and duly filed
in the office of the District Record
er for thu paid Skagway Recording
District,
The terms and conditions of said
sale are, alternatively, as said ad
ministrator shall judge most bene
ficial for the estate, ng follows:
To one person, for all of the land
and lots herein described; To sev
eral persons, respectively, for the
several parcels or lots herein above
described;
For cash.
For ©ash and on part credit to be
paid in time;
For part cash and on part credit
to be paid in installments.
P. H. Ganty,
Administrator.
First publication May 24, 1917.
Last publication June 21, 1917.
5-24,31;6-7,14,21.
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for every ordinary houseJiold ail
ment. There is room tor San
Tott Remedies in your medicine
chest Get a Saa-Toct Blu» Book
at Keller Bros., The San-To*
Drh< Store.
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Arctic Brotherhood. —
Camp Gkagwary No. 1,
A. B. meets every sec
ond and fourth' Tues
day evening at 8:30 p.
m. sttatp. Vteitln* brothera cordial
)y W. L. Stevenson, Arc
tlo Chief. W. E. Burford, Arctic
K»C( rder.
Fraternal Order
Kagle^j—
8k*gway Aerie
No. 25, Frater
nal Order oi
ua«ie» tDa first and third
Wjetla csday night ©f oocJi month at
Lamt hfiM eat Fifth Avenue. Visit
ing hroCitera cordially lnrit«td to
sttmJ. i. M. Cralibacii, W. P.
J. V, MJtlier, Secretary.
P. & A. M.
Whit© Pass Lodge'
P. & A. M. No. 113 j
meets 2d and 4th
Saturday Bvanlnc-a i
ot e*cb months. Visiting Brethren
•tv welcome.
H AHOLD TALBOT, W. M.
JAMES WALLACE. Secretary.
B. P. O. ELKS
Skagway Lodge
NO. 421, B. P. O.
E. meets every
Thursday night
'*t 8:00 o'clock.
Tflftva alcTCo Visiting brothers
cordially welcome.
W. B. BAT80N, E. R.
F. J. VAWDEWAU,, secretary
Phpntcr of Alaska Igloo, No. 12,
meet# In A. B. Hall first Monday In
e«ery month at 8:80 p. m.
Visiting Brothers cordially wel
come.
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