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1," OLD GLORY"
"America ror Americans
OIK GOLD PIECES
An old time manufacturing Jeweler
tells how the Vnlted States goTern
ment stopped some forty odd years ago
the melting up of twenty dollar gold
pieces by persons who wished to use
the metal In the manufacture of gold
Jewelry.
In those days it was tiie custom of
many of the jewelry makers to use
these coins Instead of buying fine gold,
as a matter of convenience. So they
went to a tank a.id got twenty dollar
gold pieces enough or ten dollar ones, for
that matter, to supply sufficient mttal
for the work in hand. The gold pieces
being ~ carats tine. -4 carats lx/lng
absolutely pure gold. it was not diffl
cult for the jowelors to melt them up
and add the necessary alloys to pro
duce the degree of Luc:iess desired for
the Jewelry they v. ere going to make.
"However." says the Jeweler, "it
was not Ions after this practice be
came more or less general that the
government authorities began to wo*'
der what was becoming of the twenty
dollar goid coins. Thty began m.sslug
the ten dollar ones, too. but the dis
appearance of the former was by far
the more rapid. The officials did not
think that the people o! the country
were hoarding the gold, because most
of the smaller coius remained In cir
culation. So a quiet Investigation was
begun, and it was not long before It
was discovered that the makers of
gold Jewelry were melting them up
for trade purposes.
•Having found the rau--e, it was not
difficult for the officials to effect a cure.
They did It by 'peppering" the twenty
dollar coins with Iridium, which is
not altogether unlike black emery in
the crude state, requiring a heat of
3.M2 degrees F. to melt It. Gold, on
the other hand, can be melted at 1.913
degrees F. From this It Is easy to see
that the unsuspecting manufacturer,
melting up gold pieces at the temper
nture required, got a number of un
melted specks of iridium In his metal
when he let it cool. This made tronble
when the metal was worked up.
"At the time this was being done
there was a great vosue for fine Etrus
can work in solid gold, which required
a perfectly smooth surface In order to
be produced properly. Imagine the dis
may of the jewelers, therefor®, when
they found the much needed smooth
surface dotted here and there with lit
tle pepper-like specks of iridium. To
leave them in meant that the decora
tive work could not be done properly,
and to take them out meaut leaving
the piece pockmarked with tiny hole®.
It was not long before the gold pieces,
whether tTiey contained iridium or not.
were eyed with suspicion by the man
ufacturers, who then secured their
metal from other sources.
"Another way In which Iridium caus
ed some trouble for the gold jewelrj
trade had its birth In the assay office
While it was not often the case, It was
not a rare thing up until about ten
years ago to find a sprinkling of Iri
dium In the fine gold purchased from
the government assayer. While this
might possibly have been avoided by a
little more care on the part of the per
sons who had charge of preparing the
scrap metal for refining, it was genet*
ally regarded In the trade as acciden
tal. It happened because the clips and ]
filings that were turned In for refining
by the makers of gold pens contained
tiny bits ctf Iridium, .which because.j
PASSING OF THE BUFFALO.
Tfci» Tragedy of th« Fur Trade «n Ao*
cidant of Civilization.
Speaking of the buffalo, which Is now
becoming rare and which might hare
been saved for both food and gamo
purposes, the author of "Let Us Go
Afield," Emerson Hough, writes:
"All the high grade, well system
atized butchery In which the beef
trust did not plav a part ended only
about twenty yeuTs ago. The Indians
refuse to believe that it is ended. They
pray to their leaders among the white
men to take them north, far away,
'where the buffalo have gone.' Being
told there Is no such land, they take It
out ir praying for a hereafter In which
there shall be plenty of buffalo.
"The destruction of the buffalo was
the tragedy of the fur trade. It was
not so much a blunder In commerce as
It was an accident of civilization. The
belt of the machinery of progress got
loose when the railroads came and the
engine "raced.1 There was a time of
flurry and unpreparedness when our
transportation for the first time ran
ahead of us. It wt,i the great plains
railroads that killed off the buffata.
"We wiped the west off the earth. If
not off the map, long ago, and now we
seek to water its grave with national
irrigation. The terms clvfllied and sav
age are. however, but relative, and
there Is always some sort of balance
struck between them. Continually we
make war upon the wilderness. Its peo
pie. Its creatures; yet, having done so,
we covet again the wilderness, yearn
for It, depend upon It and ape It even
In our clothing. We may abolish the
wilderness from the earth and from
the map, but we cannot abolish It
from our blood. It is therefore a mat
ter of course after all that, having
eaten the heart out of our cake, we
shall manage to get along with the
fragments left around the edge. We
may pay a little more for the frag
ments than for all the rest, but we can
afford It. We are rich, rich!"
MOTION PICTURE ACTORS.
Coached In Emotional Expraaalon by
Phonograph Mualo.
The lot of a movie star has Its boors
ot trial and tribulation, as well as of
satisfaction. The sharp call of the di
rector to "register Joy" or "register
terror" or register any on* of the thou
sand and one human emotions which
are displayed upon the film most be
obeyed, whatever the emotion which
happens to be uppermost In the actor's
mind at the moment. It Is not easy
always to have such facile command of
the face, as Is demanded for this work,
either from the camera artist or the
worker In the "legitimate," and for the
former It Is perhaps even harder than
for the latter, since many of the acces
sories which go to throw the actor on
the stage into the spirit of his work
are absent in the studio. It cannot be
easy to register longing in the midst of
a babel of directors and property men
and disengaged performers, with the
camera grinding away in front of one
and a half dozen strange "seta" being
noisily erected on all sides.
To assist the actor In this thankless
task the phonograph has been called
Into play. Picture the sweet country
maid dreaming of her lover in a farofT
land. The director tells her to look
wistful, long*ng, melancholy or what
you will He gives the command "Go!"
which is the signal for action, the
talking machine Is staited, and the
strains of "I Hear Ton Calling Me"
are heard. A sympathetic not# is
struck in the heart of the actress, her
facial expression is indicative of the
effect of the music, and the proper
mood is called forth.
"We know how much music en
bances the effect of the motion picture
as presented in the theater," says the
director responsible for this in nova
tlon. "The audience does pot often re
alLze the importance of the musical
accompaniment, but omit the mnslc
and they will feel the difference la •
moment"—Philadelphia Press.
its naraness is usea ror tipping trie
pens. This does not happen any more.
"Twenty dollar geld pieces figured in
another interesting way in the old days
in the Jewelry trade, but in a way that
affected the trade much more indirect
ly than directly. Knowing that a good
price could be had for scrap gold from
the refiners, the gold probably finding
an ultimate purchaser In the Jewelry
trade, unscrupulous persons had sev
eral ways of obtaining this scrap and
still leaving enough of the coins to pass
them on unsuspecting tradesmen and
banks that were not careful enough to
weigh them when they were tendered.
"One way of doing this was to 'strip'
a coin by putting it Into au electro
chemical bath, getting thereby a slight
residue of gold on a copper plate, which
was afterward melted and the metals
separated. This method was not very
popular, as it had a tendency to dis
color the coin.
"One of the most successful schemes
was the use of a specially prepared
male and female die. The diameter of
the die was about one one-thousandth
of an Inch smaller than the diameter
of the coin, and it was so made that
ifter the resultant rim of metal was
:ut off the milled edges remained. The
jold thus obtained from a single twen
ty dollar coin was probably worth
ibout 50 cents, and the coin Itself, to
ill appearances, had not been tam
pered with. When the practice was
llscovered the banks installed scales
m which they weighed gold coins
before accepting them."—New Tori?
rimes.
Except that of China, San Marino
las the longest national hymn.
The United States produce# about 8S
>er cent of the world's oysters.
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In the Probate Court for the Ter
ritory ol Alaska, Division No. 1,
at Haines, before J. J. Kennedy,
IT. 3. Commissioner and Ex-Of
flolo Probata Judge.
In the matter of the estate of J.
S. Reynolds an lnsane person.. No
tice Is hereby given, that G. W.
Hinchinan, who was heretofore on
the 10th day of April, 1916, ap
pointed guardian of the estate of
J. X Rsysolda an lngane person, by
reason of the death of the said J.
B. Reynolds, is no longer authorized
to act as such guardian, and that
the Q. W. Hlnchman, has filed with
this court, his final account and re
port, n such guardian, which said
report will come on for hearing In
tills court, on the 11th day of June,
1917, at the hour of ten o'clock
la the forenoon of said day, at
wbluh *lm« and place objections to,
or protest may be heard against
said account.
J. J, KENNEDY,
United State* Commie
sloc«r and ex-offlelo
Probate Judge.
First publication, May 4, 1917.
Final publication, June 8, 1917.
la th# U. 8. Commissioner'! Court
lor the Territory of Alaeka, Bka^
war PreeUct at Sfc4r»ay, Alaska.
Is Probata.
I* tha Matter oI t&« Estate of
Fr»1 Miller, deceased..
NOTIC» IB HERHBT QIV®*,
Tha> a. /. Achiaon, adj*l*l#trator of
tn« aetata ot Fred Millar, deceased,
hat tiled Ik tin abort entitled court
his tlaal resort of the estate of
tl>« tald deceased and tha hearing
of the nmi h»e beea fixed by eald
aour» for the J 5th day of Juae,
1917, at 10 o'clock la tha foreaooa
of eald da/, at tha federal oouri
(loum la Bkagway, Alaska, at tha
oon?t room thereof, and all persona
interested la aald s&Uta ara notified
to them aad there appear and file
ajiT objectlosg tbey may hare to
aa'd account and to show c&uae, If
aay tkejr kara, wy aald final ac
count afcould not be allowed.
A. J. ACHISON,
Administrator.
First publication. May 8, 191T.
Final Publication, May Si, 1917.
t. S-10-17-24-11.
la th« Commissioner's Court for tke
Territory o1 Alaaka, Skagway
Precisct, at Bkagway, Alaaka.
in Probate.
In the Matter ot tha Estat8 of E.
W. A. Achiaon, deceased.
NOTICE
NOTICE) IB HEREBY GIVEN,
That tha undersigned has been, by
Edward K Rasmuaon, tha Unit
ed Statea Commissioner and Probata
Judff* of tha above entitled Court,
by order duly made and eat erred, ap
pointed administratrix of the ae
tata of fi. W. 8. Achlson, deceased;
all persons having claims against
said estate ara hereby notified to
preaant them with proper vouchers
la legal form within eix (6)
moa'tu from tha data of this mo
tlee tq th^ undersigned at h«r
residence la the Town of Bkagway,
Alaeka.
Dated this 2nd day of May, 1917.
SARAH AQH3SON,
Administratrix.
Tira* publication M&y 8, 1917.
Final publication May 31, 1917.
GO RIGHT AT IT
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Babbtog an acbln* Hack may rr
lift* it.
But yom't cure U If th« kidneys
art weak.
Yob mua* reach tlm root of It —
'fet kidneys.
Raech the cause; rollaYa tie P*l«
Bagta at qihc% wit4 Doaa't KW
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At* reoocamended by tbouaanoa.
Bar# Is proof wf their mcrlV
8. A. Tocum, retired caroamter,
731 Olorerdal# Bt., Seattle, Waab.,
»>•: "Hard work ruck n# 21ftlna
haary timbers ttraln®d my back and
waakaaed my kidney#. I bad Qatau
la tb» small of my back and aore
1HI acoaa my kidney* which
mada 1* bard for ma tQ atoop oror
or pick up anything. TUq irregular
action of my kidneys annoyed ma
d»T aad nighf- Doan't Kidney Pill
ral'avad tha pains aad aches, took
away tU« aoaeneaa aad regulated tbe
aoloa of my kidneya."
Price BOo, at all dealers. Don't
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gat Doaa's Kidney Pills—the tame
tka* Mr. Yocum bad. Toeter—Mtl
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