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Clancy
Kids
Tinrtvie's Friend Bucks Up
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|Dy PERCY L. CROSBY
I vv cj in* McCur* New%»*pci Sf od cat.
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GROWLS OF A GROUCH
! : i \er saw a caveman who wouldn't
if tin' right wouiau got after
I ilo not have a very high regard
. ai.-in who Is always bragging
it his honesty.
1 uever knew a tin-horn lawyer
• ili' n't viant lo save his country
I.. U'»ing to emigres*.
I l.elieve llie greatest cause of di
« ''e is marriage, and I shall never
I <'»it«lua'iij 10 the contrary.
I always take my kids to the cir
' I ;.*o i iitlrely on their account—
! then I stand tip In front of them
. \ e.1111 s« e anything.
' • leve telephone operators
thrir time listening to cou
• *11 the wire. -Most of them
punk to he listened to.
I «••• everything Is romlng ilown.
- a u.ik to lie there when It
IU 'lo- time I get there it has
- . ■ up uguin.—Chicago Amer
— y I
His'<orv C'.it Down ar j
It Reaches 10? Yea-s *
r.I! 1 N. Y.—I*r«»h»b!y •
?'. <}><t Mi«k»»rv r»v*» in rhi> sit- f
•:••«! :t» I.i.«iur «»f Andrew J
•• •» hm* h*»en our down t
!» ' r.\:iiv county he- i
• t %v:is tuidly «!eca.vwl •
n .!:»( ' sun was elected i
• i i 1S2S. C»l. John t
<! *«■? nut th«» sapling, f
• .••• nf "Old 11 irk opt." A *
in 'lie wood f
•nrtlttj; shoved the J
•» •• hundred and eight ♦
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SWEDEN IN RECORD GuOWTH
Increase of 56,725 in Population
Greatest in 100 Years, Official
Figures Show.
Stockholm.—The population of
Swt iIimi numbered ti'»- (htmiiis in
Jatiuary this year. according to offi
cial figure^ jusi no»v published. TUe
Increase during 1920 was ."iti.T-'ri.
Tills Increase Is tlie highest reoml
eil iti Sweden in the lust 1(H) years,
both absolutely nnd relatively.
The inoriaHty was 13.1V per thou
sand. « liii'li is the lowest hitherto re
rorded in Sweden, and Swedish statis
ticians proudly report this tigure as u
world's record. They affirm that
Sweden Is the healthiest place en
earth.
Fur Farming Increases.
Otta \a. ('lunula. The growing Im
portance ot fur fanning In Canada la
Illustrated .11 the Iioiuiulon bureau of
statistic- report covering the Industry
for lSKiO. At the end of the yeai
tltere were "»S- fur farms, us rtgainst
414 In lOlit. and the • ulues li.nl in
ereaseil from $H,l)(!S.;V. in S4.0:!J.i>>5.
I?
300 Years Total Ages
of 4 Women Diners
Mlddletown. N. Y.- -Four wom
en whose iHunhiiieil age* aggre
gate :«ki wars have Just enjoyed
a guinea lien dinner ut ({looming
I'urg, Sullivan onnnty, talking
o\er old limes, people and places.
They are: Mrs. Salter, seven
ty-oiie: .Mrs. Evans, eighty; Mrs.
Kraii'V. seventy, and Mrs. Mills
of Hawthorne, N. J., seventy
nine.
The dinner was cooked by
Mrs. France. the menu consisting
of guineu hen, spinach, boiled
onions, cabbage, salad, upple pie,
cheese and tea.
[}VI the idle hours
with pleasure!
lime never hangs heavy on your hanils when you have a "
victrolM
in the house
*
By our liberal
Installment Plan
you can now have any instrument we have In stock put
in your home at once and enjoy all the great mu
sical artists while you are paying for It.
Remember, all we ask Is a small
payment down and the bal
ance to suit your
convenience \
KELLFR BROTHERS
I JAPANESE GIRLS
GIVE UP SMOKING
j Women's Influence Slowly Ap
proximating That of British
and American Women.
DISCARD SAN.DALS FDD SHOES j
' City Population of Japan increasing [
Thirteen Times as Fast as That of |
Country—Million Men Engaged
in Factory Work.
II<<11<1I11I11. T. II.—A unii|iu' feature
of (lit' gradual rise of women's intlu- |
truce 111 Japan, until tln-ir |ni.sitUm is |
1 uuw slowly approximating lliut of j
I American ami British Women, is itiat j
they are giving up smoking, just at the
time when great comment has arisen
over the Increase of smoking among
their sisters in America uml Kngland.
The subject was discussed liy Dr. T.
H. Llad<'U, deun of the theological de
partments of Kwansel Gakuin, u mis- 1
siou college In Japan, who attended |
sessions here of the Pan-American edu- j
cutionai conference as one of the eui
pi re's representatives.
"Formerly all classes of women In
| Japan smoked in public as well as in (
! their homes," Doctor linden said. "The ,
I Influence of the West has almost
, stopped this custom, although it Is t«
the Interest of the government to fos
! ter It, as tobacco Is a government mo- I
! nopoly."
New Word for "nerve" L.oir,ea. |
Doctor II a den said tlmt n new word I
for home—"katei"—has I iron coined in
Japan to express the inclining uml idea !
of home life in Western civilization as i
Is being learned l»y the Japanese.
"The changing condition;) of Japa
nese women Is only begun, but it Is pro- |
' ceeding with a rapidit\ uml intensity
| which are very significant and hope
| ful," he said. "The Japanese language
has a word expressing house and I
I household, but they had no conception
| of home life In the Occident, where
women are on an equal footing with |
I men. This Is now expressed hv j
| 'katel.' with the new appreciation of
I home as a thing to be shared by hus
j band and wife and the gradual rise of .
the Japanese women to the position of
their American and British sisters."
Doctor Iladen said that the city pop- I
j ulatlon of Japan Is Increasing 13 times
I as fast as that of the country, due to
the chnnge of Industry from agricul
ture to manufacturing. More than 1.
0(10.000 are engaged In factory work i
and more than one-half of these are |
under twenty years of age, he said.
Women Discard Sandals for Shoes.
"A slgnllicant and interesting indi
cation of the change In progress In
Japan now," said Doctor linden, "is
the fact that, while the Japanese wom
en retain the kimono as their chief at
tire, they hnrc discarded the old—the
folded square of cloth worn on the
hack—and over their kimonos many
of the women now wear a full, divided
skirt, which ties around the waist with
a wide sash hanginc at the side.
Many of them also wear shoes Instead
of their sandals.
"Divorce lavs also have been re- i
vised In accord with other transi
tions. Formerly a man could send his |
wife hnck to her parents without ex
cuse or explanation. This act consti
tuted legal freedom for him. Now he
can only divorce her for infidelity or
by agreement wlili lier. The woman
as ym has no recourse a-aInst the In
fidelity of her husband, not even
though he bring a concubine Into the
home, as frequently has been done.
"The example of Americans, their
homes and schools In Japan, gradually
tins altered the hearts and feelings of
the Japanese until now they have been
Induced to effect these changes."
ENGLISH TRATn1^TS~REC0RD
Cornish Express Scheduled for 228
Miles in 257 Minutes With
out a Stop.
London.—What Is . said to he the
longest no-stop railroad run In the
world, of the Cornish Itlverla express
from Paddiivjton Station, I.ondon, to
Plymouth—a distance of 226*4 miles
—has been accelerated by a quarter of
an hour, thus reverting to the prewar
time of four hours and seven minutes. I
This time is sometimes beaten by the
ocean mail special trains from Ply
mouth to Paddlngton, which have
made the Journey in four hours. The
express passes through 6S stations.
ViCKREY RECOUNTS
SCENES OF HORROR
National Relief Leader Views
heiLs of Near East Trage
dies; Pleads for Help.
BY CHARLES V. VICKREY
General Secretary Near East Relief,
151 Fifth Avenue, New York.
I have been In (he Caucasus and in
the heart of Armenia. I have seen
the dead arid dying of starvation. I
walked through streets of once pros
perous cities, where not one particle
of worth-while merchandise could be
seen for sale. Streets and market
places are used chiefly as bartering
places where people endeavor to ex
change a second-hand garment, or other
personal property for food with which
to satisfy hunger.
This was last August. One's imagin
ation recoils before the picture of
what conditions will be in February
and March!
The question naturally occurs—are
the people to blame, and why do they
not regain self-support?
One of the main reasons is that these
lands were occupied by enemy foroes
until the 21st of April, 1921, with
no transportation or communication to
the outside world. After April 21,
it was Impossible to procure sufficient
seed and plant enough land to pro
duce adequate food supplies. Then, too,
the fact that I have stood beside heaps
of human bones and half-decomposed
bodies representing the remains of 500
women and children killed In one spot
within the year—and these were only
a part of the 12,000 non-combatants
who perished in that vicinity—sug
gests the reign of terror that has para
lyzed all normal self-supporting activi
ties.
themselves and the existing govern
ment is doing all that is humanly pos
sible for a government to do under
present conditions, but without outside
help—help from the whole of America
—there will be a death rate In the
Caucasus during the coming year com
parable only with that which many of
our workers witnessed three years ago.
Happy In America's Care.
Of course there Is a brighter side—
within our orphanage compounds,
where the children are no longer
hungry, and where they laugh and sing
and play. It is a gratifying sight to
see these children, thousands of them,
at work making their own clothing for
the w inter from cast-off American gar
ments and empty flour sacks, and
otherwise bending every effort to meet
their own needs.
These children we will probably, on
present prospects, be able to keep alive,
but we must face the question of bow
much we can do toward taking in those
naked, starving little orphaned crea
tures outside. Because funds so far
received have not come in sufficient
quantity, we cannot salvage these hu
man atoms who are pounding at our
orphanage gates and on our hearts.
Americans, in your after-war calm, I
plead with you, stretch out a hand to
these victims of relentless war, beside
whoaa tragedies and sufferings our
gravest problems here at home are
trivial. To the land where there Is no
food to be bought, nor money with
which to buy it, I ask you to send
your practical American dollars to save
from death this remnant of suffering
human-ty that is struggling so bravely
Nd irsperatelv to save itself.
Alibis for Umpires
Umpire Tom Connolly has two j
fiJlbls. One Is that managers ;;;
v and players, not umpires, are to
v blame for games being long 'ij
drawn out, which probably Is ;
y correct. His other alibi Is that :
v umpires find it hard to follow
J the ball when overflow crowds ;
11 are on the field and thus can't
i do good work calling halls and
; strikes—with which players at ;
i lenst may agree when they fall
to bit the ball.
Five Teaspoons in Her Stomach.
Bodkinsvllle, Ky.—Five teaspoons
were removed from the stomach of
Mrs. Rosle Tucker Cowan of Todd
county when she was operated on here
at the Jennie Stuart hospital. She had
been of unsound mind and was under
treatment at the Western State hos
pital, where she often claimed to have
swallowed spoons, but no one ever saw
her do so. She will probably recover;
ANCIENT LIBRARIES
The library of the Ommlades of
Spain cumulus 000,000 volumes.
The kingdom of Andalusia had 70
libraries supported by public funds.
The first private library Is believed
tu have been that owned by Aristotle
in :s:m b. c.
A public library at Athens founded
by Plslstratus was In operation in the
year 540 B. C.
Oetavlanus Caesar founded two of
Rome's public libraries, the Palatine
and the Octavlan.
The library of the monastery of
Cnrydon, which was burned in 1091,
contained nearly a thousand Moiuiues.
Tiie famous library at Alexandria,
Egypt, founded by I'tolemy I, was de
stroyed by fire by the order of Caliph
Omar in the year 041 A. P.
A library of 200,000 volumes, which
fell Into his hands during a victorious
campaign, was one of the notable gifts
made by Marc Antony to Cleopatra.
Many historians claim the credit for
ihe fir-t public library should be zlven
the Assyrians, tlie date of its founda
tion being fixed In Eighth century 15. C.
Rome's first nubile library was
founded by Julius Caesar. His ea,rly
death ended his ambition to secure the
most complete collection of writings
of tliar nerlod.
According to reports the chief rea
son who hiccoughs make one so road
nowadays is {hut they are not acquired
In the old-fashioned way.
• PROFESSIONAL CARDS
W. B. 8TOVT
Attorney at La*
Practice in all courts
In Territory of Alaska
HAINES W.A-H
DR. U 8. KEM-KR
Dentist
Most Modern Methods
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Visiting brothers ecr^
dially welcome.
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_ and 4th Saturday eTenlugj
•\ of each month at 8 o'clock.
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TIME TABLE NO. 48.
Tuesdays and Fridays
8:30 a. m
10:45 a. m
12:30 p. m
2:00 p. m
4:25 p. m
Leaves
, Arrives
SKAGWAX
WHITE PASS
BENNETT
CARCROSS
WHITEHORSE
Arrives
Leaves
3:3d p. m
2:05 p. m
.2:45 p. n:
10:55 a. m. '
8:30 a. in.
1 a trtrn ce% tn.
passengers iuuoi uo aw iu« uc^ui. ««
spected, and checked. Inspection Is stopped thirty minutes befo.e
leaving time of train*.
150 pounds of Baggage will bo checked free wit.t rach foil fare
ticket, and T6 pounds with each half fare ticket