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EDITORIAL 1
OL.D Ci LORV "
"America For Americans"
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j FOOD WINS THE WAR j
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LKK V1\IA.\ 1TEACK 1\UT
Tsp separate peace between the
central powers an.il the new* Ukrain
ian republic in Southern Kussia is
the fulfillment of tho promise made
bv Baron von KuehLmann -weeks
"go. if it were not tor the fad
'that rh«» L'kraine is tho richest part
of Russia and had immense re
sources in grain, oil aud coal, th«<
peac« pact woulii not disturb the
entente allies. It is feared that
t>i« friendly arrangement >\ill open
tue way to the replenishment of
Uerx-iny's a»tl Austria's depleted
BtOlPS.
Tuo Ukraine republic was repre
seuf^rj at Brest Lilovsk by two sets
of delegates, one of which was in
gympatny with the Bjlsheviki. When
Trotz'rv decided that the German
p<*a-ee program was impossible, Von
Kueclmanu secretly ngeotiatedi with
the opposition delegates, with the
resui* that a separate peace was
arranged. That the Bolsheviki,
who recently captured Odessa, prin
cipal city in the L'kraiue republic,
will find the developments dis
tasteful is certain, but, » without
the means of resisting, it is un
likely that German plans will meet
with serious interference.
jince th« purpose of the Teu
tons to hold all the conquered Rus
sian. territory became known to
'frotzky aad .Lenine, the efforts of
the Germans have- been directed to
ward keeping Russia iu a turmoil.
'l«e Russian army h«s been disor
ganized, so there is no longer any
chauce of attack. The remnants of
t' e empire are therefore left to
tas kaiser's mercy.
Early in. the y^-r Germany spread
its propaganda in the Ukraine. The
German population in the district
vaa considerable, and with this
as a aucleus, German sentiment
was manufactured just as it was at
Petrograd. The Teutons are now
preparing to harvest the fruit of
toat campaign of "peaceful pene
tration." t
"Whoa the Bolsheviki came in
to control, the Ukraine declared its
independence of Russia and an
nounced a plan of organizing a fed
eration of Russiaa republics based
upon nationalities. Seeing that
the Ukraine had the only stable gov
ernment in Russia, France recog-l
n'zed if as a separate conutry and
sent «. mission. Great Britain al
s« displayed a friendly interest in
the republic's affairs, but it now
develops that the bourgeois rada, J
the Ukrainian legislative assembly,
found it advantageous to abandon
♦fle entente allies and negotiate!
with Germ;|uj'.—Seattle P.-I.
ALASKA AMES!
. IN FORI
r y "\
Th° gas boat Alaska, under com
mand of an old experienced "Salt,"
Captain Peterson, arrived in Skag-j
way- yesterday afternoon at four!
o'clock from Haines, bringing four|
oasspi'gers. The day ideal, and!
a light south breeze, a favorable
tide, and a 16 horse power engine
an worked together to bring the
ehio Alaska to Skagway in reoord
time. i I
Anions: th© passengs were M. C.
Rugg. traveling salesman represent
ing the Cudahy Packing company.
I' anybody can sell goods, he can,
ai- l he'll get you if you don't watch
out. ,
R. A. Kskew, of the Marshall
Wells Hardware firm of Portland,
Oregon, is agent for everything good
and useful in the hardware line.
On tho side, Mr. Eskew is a very
shar*1 bargainer in fur buying.
A Van Mavern is a familiar figure
in Skaiway and elsewhere in Alas
ka, representing the West Coast
Grocery Company. While in Haines
Mr. Van Mavern took a "mush" to
IvluckT\ an. making the distance
e»ch way in about eight hours. He
s.«!d "we" had a most enjoyable
time.
After canvassing Skagway today
thrsa popular "knights of the grip"
will l°ave on the Jefferson for Ju
■eau. I
DIPLOMATIC FORMS.
The "Protocol" Is "th» Cod* of Inter
national Politeness."
In these days of official notes and
replies the public is becoming familiar
with the language of the diplomatic
document, and even those who never
heard of the famous protocol, wlilch
lies in the archives of the foreign office
in Paris, must have noticed the simi
larity of form which characterizes such
expressions. The "protocole diploma
tique," which was probably drawn up
In the time of Louis XIV., is a body
of ceremonial rules to lie observed In
all writteu or ins'sonal official Inter
course between the heads of different
states or their ministers. It goes into
the minutest detail as to the styles and
title to be given to states, their heads
and their public ministers, and indi
cates "the forms and courtesies to be
observed in all international acts."
The protocol is. in fact, what M.
Pradier-Fodcre, u well knowu authority
on the subject, has described it, "the
code of international politeness," for,
as time weat on. all nations gradually
began to adopt the same forms, until
today the c<-1' may be said to be prac
tically universal In Its application. It
devotqs speeial attention to such mat
ters as the endiuu of a letter. Thus,
as a recent wruer has pointed out,
when the British lor.-igu minister con
cludes 11 letter t«> the British ambassa
dor at Washington with the Words, "I
am. with fctwit truth and respect, sir,
your ex''e!!e'icy\- most obedient, hum
ble servant." he is governed by prece
dent even in such a detail as giving
"sir" 11 line to itself. -Christian Silence
Monitor.
FIGHTS TO THE LAST GASP.
J°ha Fec.ury Is a Vicious Pifl, and l«
Without Ft:r cr Mercy.
An old "At'.;: :im.v, razorback" Is con
sidered liy native [maters ns no less
da amorous ta hour and as far more
likely to attach a ijuiuaii being with
out provocation, Jiii- wild boar of Eng- j
land ami tile • uuti.iuut «'as renowned
in sport b-'au-e it would .tight and J
iight hard: :...j A:'ri< an svart hot. wJjJflj
weighs C'K) pounds and has tusks eight 1
iueLes li ws !ittk» fear of any an
tagonist mf-aner than a lion, but of al!
the Uo- tribe the most vicious, "Stick
at nothing" «iar"i!cvll Is the Javellna.
Not only does it tight to its last breath
with a berstrkir :'.;g.'. but is a disci
plined wasiit-r tint :»ever was known i
to ignore tiiu "battle i?ry" of its clan.
In the s.'.itUr.est a hunter before j
drln«r into a dr >ve of javelin** rs.reful
iy inspects the trees lor one that iij>
can easily climb, liowever skillful bo !
was wlili a rli!e, he could hardly ex- j
pect to stop the charge of a dozen or
I more javel!aas. and If they reached I
bim he would have no cbance. Once I
the peccarl<*s cot him down they would |
never eeaso tb»*ir shrill. lighting squeals 1
until they had torn him to shreds;
hence the rule iu the javellna country
Is to climb your trio Jjrst aii4 shoot
your pig aiterwai'd- shoot It so dead
that it cannot emit a siagto squeal:
otherwise you must be prepared to
roost in the tree for half a day or so.—
Youth's Companion.
They Simply Won't Be Married. !
Several young ineu were recently j
asked by a writer iu the Woman's
Home L'ompauiou why they refused to
be married. Their answers throw con
siderable light on what is becoming a
national problem. One said that girls
are too clever for the men nowadays—
that he wanted "just a wife." and the
girl he had been engaged to marry was
making more money than he was and j
refused to give up her work. Another j
complained of the expensive tastes of
the modern young woman, another
that he had set out to accomplish cer
tain things before marrying. Still an
other refused to be sentenced to hard
labor for life and one complained that
the lo-'ul gL'is acre "& bit narrow."
XEfeP THE TOWN CLEAN.
Make It a Campaign to Laat aa Long
as There's Work to Do.
Don't call It a cleanup day or a
cleanup week when you start out to
really do something to make your town
or community a cleaner, safer, health
ier place in which to live, suggests a
state board of health bulletin. Or,
rather, don't lot it be the prevailing
idea that one day or one week la suffi
cient in which to clean up and get rid
of all nuisances and health dangers.
And. what is still more important,
don't think that when you have
•cleaned off a few vacant lots and al
leys, set out n few trees and carted off
the trash and papers from a few back
yards that you have had a successful
■cleanup campaign. Aa a matter of
fact, you haven't touched the dirty dirt
or removed any of the real dangers to
.health aud safety.
It is true that trash aud rubbish are J
unsightly aud should be removed, but
In comparison to flies and the feeding
aud breeding places of flies rubbish ts
not the filthy tilth that we think It la. J
To some people tiles may nut look as
bad as trash, but it is ouly to those
who don't know where they breed,
what they eat and the number and
kind of disease germs they carry oif
their feet. -It is this kind of filth that a
cleanup campaign should go after and
clean up.
A. cleanup campaign should.not slop |
at a week, at a month or a season un
less the town or community has In
reality reached the point where It can
clean up and keep clean. .No spasmodic
effort at cleanliness gets results. It
does not only fait to get a clean and
attractive town, but it is worse than
nothing as a means of safeguarding
health. The cleanup campaign that Is
worth while Is that which induces the
people to clean up and keep clean all
the year round aud which goes after
the dangerous filth—flies, surface clos
ets that admit flies and breeding places
for flies. Breeding places for mosqui
toes might well be added to the list.
CHINESE FARMS SMALL
Hardly More Than Gardens, and the
Cultivation la Intensive.
It is incorrect to speak of the Chinese
as farmers iu the strict sense of the
word, for they are gardeners rather
than farmers. A so called Chinese
farm is no larger than what In Ameri
ca would he called a good sized gar
den, and the methods of cultivation are
of the most iuteusive sort.
I Generally speaking, |t seems that the
greater the i>rosperity of the agricul
tural family the larger the number of
children; hense in turn the greater the
number of mouths to feed. In addition
prosperous conditions always bring
with them greater expenses iucident to
family festivities, such as weddings,
which stand out as ail important con
siderations in the lives of the Chinese.
In Mauchuria the conditions are
somewhat different, for there are vast
stretches of land open to cultivation on
a much larger scale than in China
proper. These tracts are generally
worked by hired farmers, who come In
hundreds of thousands from the more
densely populated sections of China to
spend the short farming seusuu in
northern portions, returning again
when the cold weather makes further
labor iu the fields impossible.—United
States Consular Report.
A Turkish Lovo 8tory.
A Turk knocked at his beloved's door,
and a^ voice answered from within,
"Who is there?"
Then he answered, "It Is I."
Then the voice said, "This house will
not hold thee and me."
And the door was not opened.
Then went the lover Into the desert,
where there is nothing but Allah, and
fasted and prayed in solitude.
And after a year he returned and
knocked again at the door.
And again the voice asked, "Who Is
there?"
And he said, "It Is thyself."
And the door was opened to him.
Dipken» and a Faca Ache.
Dickens wanted to lie uu a<'tor before
he was an author. He would have been
but for a face ache. When he was a
lad and a lawyer's clerk he had attain
ed a trial of his power of reproducing
"character and oddity" before Mathews
and Charles Kembie. But a face ache
kept him at home, and soon after he
"made a great splash" as a newspaper
reporter. Thereafter he reproduced
''character and oddity" on paper In
stead of the stage.
The Optimiit.
"You're looking blue, doc. What'*
the matter?"
"Well, I'll tell you. A pntient I be
gan to treat died this morning."
"Ah. cheer up. He might have died
even if you hadn't been called."—To
ledo Blade.
The Problem.
She (delightedly)—Father saya If we
want to get married he will pay half
the expenses of furnishing a house for
us. He (despondently)—But who will
pay the other half ?—Chicago neraid.
Speaking of "Turn*."
What goes around the corner with
out moving?
A curbstone.
What turns without moving?
Milk.—Boys' Life.
Musical Criticism.
The Musician—Haug it, Bill, don't
you realize that one of your shoes j ]
squeaks in B flat and the other in O |,
major?—Life. i
<
Truth is as impossible to be soiled by
any outward touch as the sunbeam.—
Milton.
♦ FRATERNAL ORDERS ♦
Arctic Brotherhood. —
Camp Skagway No. 1,
meets every second and
fourth Tuesday evening
at 8:30 o'clock. Visit
ing brothers cordially welcome.
Kdw.-ml A. Rasmuson, Arctlcl Chief.
William R. Gray, Arctic Recorder.
Fitttemal Oi der
Eagles—
Skagway Aerie,
A'a. 25, Fiwtei^
ual Order of
jc.av.H-s meet uie llret aiul tiiliti
Wednesday night of each month at
their liall on Fifth Avenue. ViaiC
in* brotliers cordially invited to
atleud.
John M. Kollcr, W. P.
J. M. Uriesbach, Secretary.
F. <£ A. M.
Wliitu Paag Lodge
F. & A. M. No. 113
meet# 2d and 4th
Saturday EJv«nlnga
u-t rnuuius. , v lsuiujj tjretnreii
«r« welcome.
HAROLD TALBOT, W. M.
JAMH3 WALLACE, Secretary.
B. P. O. ELKS
Bk&g Lod<«
No. 431, B. P. a
E. met'ta every
Tkurtday qt 8:30
p. m. Visiting
uruvu«rB coramny vatcome.
W. B. BAT80N, B. R.
r. 1. VAtfDEWALL, Secretary.
Pioneer of AlMk* Igloo, No. 12,
meet* In A. B. HM1 first Moniiay In
ewry month at 8:80 p. m. *
Vteltlug Brother* cordially wel
come.
J. C. WOOD, Pres.
F. H. Doree, Hoc. Bee.
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BAIAKS _ _ _ _ ALASKA
ONE WEAK SPOT
>Iiuiy Skagway People Have a Weak
Fart ami Too Often It's the Back
Many people have a weak spot.
Too often it's a bad back.
Twinges follow every sudden
Lwist.
Dull aching keeps up, day and
light.
Backache is often from weak
iidaeys.
In such cases a kidney medicine is
leeded. i
Doan's Kidney Pills are £or weak
iidneys.
For backache and urinary Ills.
Good proof of merit in the follow
ng statement.
James Cubbon, mgr. Victor Clean
ng and Dye Works, 1203 Yesler
SVay, Seattle, Wash., says: "My
ddneys were in bad shape and everj;
;ime I ben.t over it seemed as tho'
n* back would break. The kidney
(Pcretions were unnatural, being
icanty. painful and irregular in
passage. My work as a tailor kept
ne bent over«nd that made me suf
er all the more. I was lame and
tic all over and could hardly
itraighten up. It wasn't any time
»efore Doan's Kidney Pills ^ had
leloed me and I was cured of every
ign of the trouble."
Price 60c, at ail dealers. Don't
imoly ask for a kidney remedy—
;et Doan'c Kidney Pills—the same
hat Mr. Cubbon ha<^ Foster-Mil
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5AN-T0X COUGH DROPS, Admin
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stantly. Th«i prescription, of
aa emlment physician. Keller,
Bror The flea-Tox Drug store.
Catarrhal Deafness Cannot Be Cured
by local applications, a3 they cannot reach
the diseased portion of the car. There Is
only one way to cure catarrhal deainvsa.
and that is by a constitutional remedy.
Catarrhal Doafnesn Is caused by an in
flamed condition o' the mucous lining of
the Eustachian Tube Wi.en this tube la
Inflamed you have a rumbling sound or Im
perfect hearing, and when it Is entirely
closed. Deafness Is the result. Unless the
Inflammation ean be reduced and this tube
restored to Its normal condition, hearing
will be destroyed forever. Many cases of
deafness are caused by catarrh, which Is
an inflamed condition of the mucous sur
faces. Hall's Catarrh Medicine acts thru
the blood on the mucous surfaced of the
Bystem.
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