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EDITORIAL
LICHXOWSKY EXPELLED
The Prussian. Government, alter
due deliberation, has decided to ex
«el Priuc« Lichnowskv, a. proceed
ing which is perhaps of no great
cousequence to him, since he wa3
already iii Switzerland.
To the world at large, however,
the 'act Is of consideraole conse
quence. because the fewer the favors
he finds in Prussa the fewer his
friends there tne more likely he
will Ni *o keep on telling the
truth aoout the Prussian overlords,
who planned the war and started
it upon the apoearance of the first
usable Pretext.
But something had to be done, of
course, aoout the revelations which
Prince Liehnowsky caused. He migll
h-ive teen made the object of legal
proceedings, and if he came within
the jurisdiction of the German
courts he might have been tried*,
but a trial implies a defense, and
the defense mgiht have produced
evidence which, in the Prussian
view, would be better suppressed,
even though the law provides for
secret hearings.
Expulsion avoids that and 8ets
the seal of official disapproval up
on the expelled. Therefore, ex
pulsion was a punishment which
neatly if'? the crime, and every
body should be satisfied.
Mondsa is Labor Day. It is the
First Monday in the Month of Se
teuioer, and as such hag been set
aside by Uncle Sam out of respect
to his millions of toilers through
out all States of the Union, the
District Of Columbia, Hawaii and
Alaska territories.
Therefore as such, it should be
ot*sernd, and to set a fitting eX"
ample for the rest of the toilers in
SKagwav the Daily A!askan will per
mit its family to rest on that day
and w'll not be on hand Monday evr
ning to greet its many friends and
business associates. However, with
the battle raging on the western
front, an<* our boys lending a hand
to the Allies in their fight agjanst
the Frightful Hun, dispatches re
ceived Monday will be posted on
the "bulletin" window of the Alas
kan of'ice.
XKYIVG TO WRECK PARTY
"Everyone knows that the Demo
cratic r ne etuff is the bunk pure
and> simple. Commission govern
ment, booze, Strong and the Repub
lican party In A'-aaka are all feol'ti*
caller dead, and* It looks as if Wick
and his boosters are in the Bame
class. Ring off that booze, and
abuse Ituff and stat© what is going
to be fone for Alaska.'"—Anchor
age Democrat,
This '9 * fair sample of the demo
cratic deception which has been and
Is being carried on by the demo
cratic ring newspapers In Alaska.
The expression that the Republican
party Is dead in Alaska is the
"real iv.nk." Former leaders may
have surrendered to the democrats
but the rant and file of the Re
puSlitaii j>art£ will "so oyer the
HpMEJ
Kulturized.
too" la every division at th® No
vember e'ection.
It ?» relreshiug, at least, to have
the admission that ring papers
were attempting: to wreck the Repub
Hcan o3rty in Alaska by the »P"
oointment of Republicans to small
unsal&iied offices in the Territory
at the sam» time trying to bring dib"
jcord within the ranks of the party.
The Anchorage Democrat is 'Will
ing the beans."—Juneau Dispatch.
GOOD NAME OF FETERSBl*RG IS
ATTACKED
A v'clous libel on the good name
of the towt of Petersburg has Deen
uttered and spread broadcast by
one of ih» leading officials of the
Department of Justice in the First
Division, according to the story pub
lished lu th-> Alaska DaUy Dispatch,
of the issue of August 6th. Peters
burg bas been branded as a "hot
bed cf pro-Germanism" and the
statement as published intimated
that the red light district was
closed *s a result of pro-German
activities.
Assis'an* District Attorney Steve
Ragan. is credited by the Dispatch
with having ma<5e the statements
against the good name of Peters
burg.
This statement is far fiom the
truth and is hotly resented by loy
al residents, and they we legion,
of this community. Petersburg wiS^
stand rr her record and she is
proud of it. Petersburg wag the
first tity in the United States to
double her quota for the Third Lib
erty Loan and also trebledi her
share "f the Red Cross War Fund
Deputy Marshal Noah Howell has
been investigating reports of pro
German activities in this place and
has stai d to the members of the
city council that he is willing to
maku affidavit that there are prac
tically no pro-German activities J
here.
After making extensive investiga
tions the only pro-German activi
ties found here by Marshal Howell
consisted in a few remarks made
by three men while in one of the
nouses in the red light district. A
full reoort of these facts has been
forwarded to the proper officials.
Under 'te law it is classed as ''Sedi
tion'' (or any person to utter or
publish anything tending to detract
from tne respect and dignity of Gov
eminent officials. There should be
some law which would make it a
crime (tr these same officers to
brand an entire community because
one or two have leanings that way.
The r*d light district here was
closed as the result of a petition
of the citizens and was the dire
result of the shooting of Mrs. Nel
!son »t icow Bay some time ago.
That the district was closed on ac
count of pro-German activities as in
timattd is untrue. If Mr. Ragan hdl
any evidence or any suspicion of |
pro-German activities here he shou'd
step forward with the proof and I
i bring tbe guilty parties to justice- |
If he till do that, the town of!
Petersburg will be with him almost I
J to a man. j
The Petersburg City Council, as ;
the representative body of the town •
J has adopted resolutions of protest I
against 'he action of Mr. Ragan &nd'
copies of the resolution will be for
warded to the higher authorities
with recommendation that action
be taken to stop further mis-state
ments of this kind. — Petersburg
Weekly Report.
WILL SEIZE 50,000
ULSTERITES' RIFLES
London, Au,?.. (30.—Edward Short, i
chief secretary for Ireland, an- ]
nounced today; in the house of
commona the governments determin
ation to seize 50,000 rifles 'which
are said to be in the hand$ of
Ulsterites. Mr. Short added signifi
cantly that if the government could <
get them without trouble, bo much
I the better. This statement was
I loudly cheered Dy the Nationalist
members.
1918 A. G. Spaulding & Bros.
Championship Tannin balls now In
stock at K«ller Bros. Adv. tf. i
Vernon Pope
By JANE OSBORN
(Copyright, 19IS, by the McClure Newspa
per Syndicate.)
Whenever Ilester Fey hud ten cents
left in her purse after she had bought
her luncheon, paid her carfares and
bought her evening paper out of the
45 cents she allowed herself for
"spending money" every day, she went
to a little basement flower shop and
exchanged that silver piece for a rose
or a couple of carnations, a few daf
fodils or pausles, or any other bloom
that that small sum would secure.
"Don't you ever buy candy?" the
girls in the oflice would say to her
when she steadfastly refused to share
with them a little bag of licorice
drops or chocolates that they brought
back with them after luncheou.
"Every girl has a sweet tooth; it's
funny you haven't."
"Well, maybe I do like sweets," Hes
ter would say. "But to me flowers are
6o much sweeter than candy. And a
rose on your desk will stay sweet for
days, and the candy is all gone in an
afternoon."
Ou her way from business she used
to walk up the avenue past the big
florists' windows, and there look eager
ly In to see the flowers, whose names
she did not know, that were arranged
to tempt the folk who could afford to
pay as much for a box of flowers as
Hester received for working a whole
week.
Then Hester read in the paper that
a great flower show was to be held
early in the spring. The tickets were
f>0 cents, and that meant that five
dimes would have to be saved, and
that five times when she might have
bought a little nosegay she would have
to go without. To spend 50 cents
for a single evening's entertainment
seemed like extravagance to Hester,
so she determined to go to the flower
show, on the day that it opened, ss
soon us she was through work at her
office and remain there with the flow
ers till the doors closed. She would
have from half-past five till eleven
o'clock, if she chose Just to wander
about and smell the sweetness and
revel In the color of the flowers that
the paper said were to be even more
gorgeous than in previous years. To
be sure, t'cls would mean going, with
out dinner; hut she bought a sand
wich, which she nte rapidly at a lunch
counter on her way to the show, and
this satisfied her craving for food.
At first Hester wandered about the
great hall in a daze, now standing
transfixed before a table on which
nothing but roses were placed, nnd
then hurrying from one rock garden
to another, searching out In each new
und hidden beuuties. till she knew the
characteristics, but not the names, of
ull the plants that ever found place
in rock gird^ns. If any one stopped
to notice the enthusiastic yonng girl
as she stood with hands clasped and
eyes gleaming before one of the ex
hibits. Hester did not know it, for she
was too intent on enjoying the flowers
every minute of the hours she had to
spend to notice the other spectators
at all.
After sne nan wnnoereu mmui ii«
over an hour. she finally stood lost lu
admiration and almost perfect content
before the tulip exhibition that hud
been awarded the first prize. It was
the exhibition of the millionaire, L. K.
Pope, whose world-famous tulip hot
houses and gardens made certain his
taking the first prize for this class of
flowers every year. Hester had not
read her evening paper every day
without knowing the reputation that
Mr. Pope and his family" had pained
in fields other than tulip raising. Mr.
Pope himself, as every one knew, was
at the time seeking a divorce from
his third wife, and his only son, young
Vernon Pope, had given interesting
reading recently in the evening papers
because of his elopement with a musi
cal comedy star of considerable repu
tation.
lie ter didn't In the least approve
of the Popes, but she did love their
tulips, and when she heard one woman
who stood for a while beside her say
to her companion, "I can't even ad
mire the exhibition when I think what
kind of people the Popes are." Hester
wondered for a brief minute whether
she were weakening in her very rigid
standard, because she could admire
the Pope's tulips as much as she did.
It seemed to her, as she stood there
feasting her eyes on the sen of golden
tulips, as pure as morning sunlight,
that just to grow flowers like that
would make people want to be good
and decent.
The exhibit, ns every one said; was
the most attractive of any shown, for
tulips. In beds of red and yellow, pink,
white, and of that rich dark red char
acteristic of the "black" tulip, were
arranged about a little Dutch cottage
that had a real little door-and two
windows with white muslin curtains.
If Hester had any well-defined idea of
heavenly mansions It was of some
such little white-curtained Dutch cot
tage as this, surrounded by beds of
glorious popples and paths of pure
white pebbles like those she now gazed
upon.
A young man came out of the cot
tage, and Hester watched lilm eager
ly. Of course, It was young Vernon
Pope, and as he opened the door she
looked to see if there was a girl In
the cottage; if there was a girl, of
course it was the dancing girl he had
eloped with. For a moment Hester
envied th6 daaelnft girl, Just because
I she blight claim admittance to thp
white-curtained cottage. But no girl
followed Vernon, and there appeared to
be no one left In the cottage. Veriioii
crunched his way down the white
pebbled path to the whlte-palnted
fence that hemmed In the exhibit. A
young man that stood on the outside
of the fence appeared to be a friend
of Vernon.
"Ccnsiatulatlcns!" loIJ Uie nan on
thi outildc of the fcnce. "I knew you
would get tlio firit prize for tulips,
but you've taken the prize for the best
show of any sort In the exhibition. I
pot It straight from the Judges Just
now."
The sm<»oth-shaven young Vernon
showed supreme satisfaction. "You
don't say!" he commented. "That cer
tainly will make I'op happy. He was
so keen about this cottage effect, and
he spent so much importing those
Dutch bulbs this year."
"It's sure a slick show," commented
the brlnger of good news. "Couldn't
be better." t.
"Yes, It could," corrected Vernon,
and Hester permitted herself still to
overhear the conversation. "We were
going to get some nice little blonde
haired girl to dress In Dutch costume
and add local color to the cottage. Pop
got the costume straight from Hol
land, and we were going to get one of
the maids to dress .up; but the only
blonde one got huffed at the last min
ute, and the brunette ones wouldn't
do. Pm going to start out tomorrow
and get one. The trouble Is we don't
want the kind of show girl you'd get
from a theatrical agency. We want
a nice, fresh-looking girl, that looks
as if she had grown up In a tulip
bed."
Just then the young man's eyes
shifted, and for the first time he saw
Hester. There was a slight start In
his manner, and Hester somehow be
came nware that she had flaxen hair
and that she certainly did not look
like a show girl. The young heir to
the Pope millions lowered his voice
and drew the young man he was talk
ing to aside. Hester would have fol
lowed them to hear their conversation,
but It was obviously Impossible. How
ever, she still stood there by the white
fence drinking In the beauty of the
color, and waiting to hear what she
might when the young man returned
to the fence.
It was only a row minures later
when young Vernon returned, and,
coming very respectfully to her,
asked her with considerable embar
rassment If she would he willing to
he the Dutch girl. She was just the
type, he said, and If she didn't need
the money she could contribute It to
the Red Cross. He said that he was
very anxious to have some one by the
next afternoon—Saturday, because his
father was coming in to see the show
for the first time, and he had so
wanted a Dutch girl In the cottage.
Hester thought a minute. Saturday
afternoon was a half holiday. She
could "give notice" the first thing In
the morning. She was only a cog In
the wheel at her office; another girl
would do as well as she on Monday
morning. For a whole week she could
spi nd her days there In that wonder
ful tulip garden. She accepted, and
before long she found herself alone In
a little dressing room donning the
Dutch peasant costume that was ap
parently made Just to fit her small,
plump figure.
Of course, the young man fell in
love with her. and, of course, when at
the end of the week he told her so.
Hester, who was a very strict princi
pled little girl, was as troubled as she
iiad ever been In her Ufe before. She
really did like him; she felt that she
could not let him go. StUl—
"But. what about that beautiful
dancing lady you eloped with?" she
nsked him naively. And the young
man laughed and laid his hands on her
shoulders tenderly. They were Inside
the little Dutch cottage a few minutes
before the afternoon session of the
exhibition began.
"You didn't think I was Vernon
Pope, did you, little girl? Bless your
heart, you thought that, did you? Why,
I'm only the head gardener's son. But
father and I get more out of the
Pope millions than the Popes do, for
we are lords of the estate that young
Vernon is too sophisticated to enjoy.
They don't know one tulip from an
other. They Just 'go In' for them
because every millionaire has to go
in for something. So you'll ma^ry me,
won't you? Even If I am Tom Daw
kins, gardener, Instead of Vernon
Pope, millionaire!"
And Hester honestly could not see
why any girl would not a hundred
times rather have married Tom Daw
kins than Vernon Pope, with all his
millions.
Opakl Hard to Capture.
The home of the opakl. In the west
ern half of equatorial Africa, Is a Wr
est cloister 600 miles long, 180 miles
wide and 700 miles from the coast—
a dismal and inhospitable region of nn
broken wilderness. Into this retreat,
Inhabited by cannibals, strewn with the
graves of thousands of white men and
visited almost daily with terrific trop
ical thunderstorms, with Intervals of
Intense and humid heat from a torrid
sun, the Lang-Chapln expedition ven
tured In 1909.-'
For six years Its members stalked
the opakl, a mysterious creature, noc
turnal In Its habits, with a sense of
hearing Inconceivably acute, and so
wary that only one specimen had ever
been obtained. Few white men had
ever seen an opakl, bat, thanks to the
determined efforts of Sir Harry John
ston, the gifted explorer and colonial
administrator, the British museum
was In possession of the remains of
one of these animal recluses, ,
RAILROAD TO GOAL TO BE REM
10 PERMIT SHIPMENTS BT FALL
Cordova, Aug. 30.—The Alaska
Antnraclte railway -will be in full
operation and shipping coal; from the
Bering fiver field to Goose City
this fall, according to a, state
ment of A. J. Davis, son of Clark
Davis, head to that corporation,
while recently in Cordova Mr. Da
vis to.ok over a force of ten men
to get the camps in readiness for
more than a hundred lJUjoreiu who
will he in charge of Contractor
George Nelson and will go to the
mines at an early date
It is the intention to compelte the
road from Gooe© City to the mine
pa Carbon mountain ,a distance of
twenty miles, which will only re
Quire the laying of two more miles
of tracs, as eighteen miles of the
road was finished last fall. This
Work will require a month, but
DISTRICT ATTORNEY SMISER
OFF FOR WASHINGTON
Ju.-eau, Aug. 26.—United States
District Attorney James A. Smiser
and Mrs. Smiser left on the Prince
George for Wasnington, where Mr.
Smiser wiil report personally to Aa_
torney General Thomas Watt Greg
ory on the results of his investiga
tions at Nome.
Mr. an*' Mrs. Smiser will go East
over the Grand Trunk Pacific Rail
road. They will go direct to Wash
ington, stopping over a day or
two at Buffalo. They expect to
visit Tennessee before tney return
home, which will be in about one
month.
Ever Watchful
A Little Oare May Save Many Stag1
way Readers Future Trouble.
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get DOan's Kidney Pills—the same
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the palance of the season will be
spent in. ballasting the road'.
Some coal already has Deem mined
and about 600 tons is now sack
ed and awaiting transportation fa
cilities.
Two tunnels have been driven
from 1,200 to 1,500 feet, one follow
ing a tvelve-foot vein. With tha
■necessary railroad equipment and'
barges, Mr. Davis says tbat tha
mine is capable of producing 700
tons of coal a day, but for the pres
ent there will only be mined suf
ficient to supply the needs of Ka
talla, Cordova, and adjacent) camp*.
NOTICE OP FINAL lOOOUN®
In the U. S. Commissioner's Court
for the Territory of Alaska at 9kag
way in probate In the matter of
the estate to S. H. Yeom&ns, exe
cutrix of the estate above stated
has filed in the above entitled court
her final account of the estate of
the said deceased, and the hearing
of samo has bean fixed for Bator
day the 28th day of September,
1918 at two o'clock in the after
noon of said day at the court room
In the federal court bouse at Bkag
way, and all persons having Inter
est in said estate are notified then
and there to appear and file any
Objections they may have to said ac
count and to show cause, if any tba
have, why said final account should
not be allowed.
Mrs. Ella Mary Yeomans,
Administratrix.
Dated at Skagway, Alaska, tbl*
27th day of July, 1918.
ADMINISTRATORS NOTICE
Nolicp is hereby given, that the
undersigned has been appointed, Ad
ministrator of the estate of Miles
Creegan, deceased, by the Pro
bat© court for th® territory of Al
aska sitting in probate at Halne®.
Alaska, and any and all persons
having claims against Bald estate,
are required to present them to
me, with the proper vouchers, at
my /ffice in the said town of
Haines, within six months from
date of first publication. of this
notice.
Dated the 19th day of August,
1918.
J. G. Morrison, Administrator.
W. B. Stout, Attorney for Adminis
trator.
First Publication, Aug 22, 1918.
Final Publication, Sept. 26, 1918.
FOR SALE—Partly furnished tbrea
room cottage, $350. Inquire Dally
Alaskan. tf.
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