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EDITORIAL
"OLD GLORY"
"America For Americans"
AN INSPIRING RECORD
Tie American Red Cross is chart
ered by congress. It is 'the only
volunteer agency for relief commis
sioned by the Government in case
of war oir overwhelming disaster.
The President of the United Statt<
is President of the Society."
The Red Cross reports to Con
gress; its accounts are audited by
the Wax Department; all that it
does is open to scrutiny.
Since 1905 the American Red
Cross has rendered valuable aid
in "St> disasters. It has received
and expended more than. $15,000,
000 in money and relief 'supplies.
Thousands of families have been
helped and kept together; suffering
has been relieved; and great mis
ery prevented. Its work also in
cludes preventive and educational
measures.
No other agency provides so
practical an opportunity for help
ing humanity in times of great cri
ses, when need is urgent, and the
measures for relief'must be prompt
and adequate.
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ENROLL TODAY
Song of the Bird*.
Cased chutiiuches are celebrated for
their eagerness to compete with one
another in sinking. They deliver their
songs alternately until oue is exhaust
ed and unable to take up his turn. He
Is vanquished. So excited do the birds
become that it occasionally happens
that one of the competitors drops down
dead. The originating and directive I
causes of the particular song of differ- j
ent kinds of birds is not understood.
But it is well known that they have a
great gift of imitation. Parrots, piping
crows, ravens and other snch birds are
familiar Instances, while little birds,
such as bullflncbes, can be trained to
whistle the melodies which human be
ings have invented.—Exchange.
Byron and His Fat.
Poetry and a too pronounced plump
ness do not harmonize well, and no
one was more widely awake to this
ftict than Lord Byron. Many were the
means he adopted for ridding himself
of his unwelcome "adipose deposit"
In a letter to his solicitor he said:
"I wear seven waistcoats and a great
coat, run and play cricket In this dress
till quite exhausted by excessive per
■plraticn, use the bath daily, eat only
a quarter of a pound of butcher's meat
in twenty-four hours. By these means
my ribs display skin of no great thick
ness and my clothes have all been
taken in nearly half a yard."—London
Telegraph.
Between two worlds life hovers like
a star.—Byron.
! BONHgUR'S MASTERPIECE
1 Story of the Famous Frenoh Artisfe
Painting, "The Hone Fair.*
In her story of Rosa Bonheur la
Tales From the Okl World and the
New," Sophie M. Collmann, the author,
irritlng of the artist's masterpiece,
"The Horse Fair," says:
"Never, surely, had there been so
cany sketches of horses; they covered
the walls, the tables, the chairs, the
t&sels and even the floor, for the world
lust then held nothing for Rosa but
norses. She paluted away at them un
til she could have done It with her
»yes shut. Every horse In the great
picture had been sketched countless
times, and still Rosa felt that she must
jry Just one more pose.
"All things, however, must come to
an end, even sketches, and ao in the
course of time the 'Horse Fair* was
finished. The world has pronounced It
Rosa Bonheur's masterpiece, for al
though she was to paint many splendid
pictures in the years still to come, none
would ever quite equal this.
" 'My Parthenon frieze,' she called
it In Jest, but that is Just what it is—
i frieze of horses; there Is not much
landscape, and the men hardly count
and tiiey have usurped the entire can
vas, these ponderous Norman horses,
gray, brown and sorrel, ready to stam
pede out of the picture and taxing all
the strength of the blue blonsed hos
tlers to hold them in. Rosa had wish
ed to portray vigorous life and motion,
and she knew that she had succeeded.
"Many of her pictures went to for
eign lands, and she hoped that this
one might remain in France, but It,
too, rent on Its travels, and as though
the restless horses could not endure
quiet, never st'vped until it had cross
ed the ocean, and after many adven
tures was finally tethered In the Met
ropolitan museum, in New fork city,
far, far away from Rosa's studio."
PRAYER FLAGS OF TIBET.
Every Flutter Sends a Plea to Heaven,
the Natives Believe.
Encircling the buildings or Thasa,
Tit»et, Is the sacred road, merely to
walk along which absolves tha mortal
from all earthly sins, and many pil
grims prostrate themselves for lis en
tire length, thus securing everlasting
happiness In their future life.
The most interesting portion of tht
sacred road is where it runs throcgh
some sharp limestone rocks, carved
deeply with figures of Buddha painted
in many colors.
I From the rocks prayer Bags are aua
I pended on lines running to an island
h) the river. These prayere are uni
| vessal in Tibet, and so long as they ar»
moving they are recording prayen for
the benefit of those who put them tip.
All devotees, men and women, walk,
always turning a small hand prayer
wheel filled with minute prayont print
ed on thin paper, and larger prayer
wheels, ailed in some cases with tons
of paper prayers, are set revolving by
the devout or are sometimes worked
by water power. Smaller ones are
turned by the hot air rising from but
ler lamps.
Single prayers printed on thin cloth
art strung vertically on pole* or
stretched across open spaces to flutter
In the wind and thus send millions of
prayers vibrating toward the omnipo
I tent for the benefit of soma one's soul.
They are most picturesque. An old
lama 1 ouce questioned on the sub
ject told me "that If the peraon turn
ing the wheel truly believed that by
doing so he was accumulating merit
It would certainly count as a marl
| torlous action."—National Geographic
Magazine.
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VALUE OF SKIMMILk.
Much Cheaper and More NourlehMa
Than Round Steak.
Skimmllk is a very economical food
which should be more largely used. It
is the same as whole milk except that
the butter fat has been takea from It
In skimmllk there remains all the Bng
ar, about four and one-half parts In
every one hundred, all of the mineral
salts, all of the. protein. The protein
Is the most valuable constituent of
milk. It "not only serves as fuel for
the body as does the fat and sugars,
but supplies nitrogenous tissue build
ing material.
Skimmllk should be classed, as whol©
milk Is, with osrgs, meat, fish, poultry
and cheese. The government's food
experts praise skimmllk and give us
these Interesting figures to show lttf
value:
Two and a half quarts of skimmllk
contain almost as much protein and
yield about the same amount of en
ergy as a pound of round of beet
When skimmllk sells for 4 cents a
quart, or about 2 cents a pound, and
round of beef for 20 cents a pound, a
dime spent for skimmllk will provide
nearly twice as much nourishment as
it will If spent for round steak.
When milk sours normally It still re
mains good food It Is not suitable for
the baby, but it will make good smear
case, or cottage cheese, one of the best
of foods.—New York Mail.
THAT UPPER BERTH.
Getting Into It Sometimes It a Good
Acrobatic Stunt.
The ascent to au upper berth Is an
art in Itself, and. as one would expect
of an art, it is long. I do not mean
the ascent by stepladder. There are
those who climb mountains by rail
road, who let minions put on their bait,
who require caddies to tee their golf
balls, who bunt with beaters to drive
the game toward them. There are also
those who reach their uppers on car
peted steps.
Yet the heroic breed is not extinct
Luxury has not yet completely sapped
our national virility. Some of ua are
mado of sterner stuff. We climb un
assisted and alone.
We are off. Quickly we assume po
sition A. with both hands grasping the
horizontal bar and with our right foot
flrmly planted on the chest of the old
gentleman in the lower. We push off
rigorously. If the old gentleman's
chest be of a proper firmness and resil
iency this push brings us to position
B, with the left knee in the sharp knee
hold on the edge of the upper berth
and the right leg at large. The right
leg is then brought convulsively up
ward and forward and laid carefully
In the upper berth, and the left leg Is
at liberty to follow it. From this point
on all is plain squirming.—Frederick L.
Allen In Century.
Tennyson's Vanity.
The Intricacies of a great man's char
acter are often simplicities to his wife.
Once, when the late Alfred Austin
had paid a visit to Tennyson, his Im
mediate predecessor. Tennyson walked
with him as far as the gate which led
to the highway. There, says Alfred
Austin in his autobiography, while the
elder poet stood leaning on the gate,
a party of wide eyed sightseers ap
peared.
"What a vulgar people the English
are!" Tennyson exclaimed. "They come
here to watch for me, and when they
see me they say quite loudly. 'There's
Tennyson:'"
Mr. Austin afterward repeated this to
Lady Tennyson, who smiled tenderly,
but archly.
"My husband would be much more
annoyed if the people didn't come,"
she said.
Invented the Check System.
John Palmer, who died some years
ago In rather straitened circumstances
in a little town In Michigan, was tho
Inventor of the check system. Palmer
was a fiddler aud assumed responsibil
ity for the hats, coats and wraps of
those who came to his dancing parties.
In keeping things straight he gave
numbered checks for the articles com
mitted to his care. Some railroad men
who attended one of the dances noticed
how perfectly the Idea worked, appro
priated it and In a short time It was
adopted all over the country. As la
often the case, the Inventor got noth
ing out of it.—Philadelphia Press.
New England's Name.
The pilgrims had nothing to do with
the naming of New England. That
name was coined by Captain John
Smith of Pocahontas fame and one of
the founders of the Virginia colony.
In 1014 he explored and mapped the
northern coast, then called North Vir
ginia. and renamed It New England.
The Mayflower pilgrims did not arrive
until 1620. and the charter granted the
new colony adopted the name used in
Smith's map several years before.
Cheerful Surroundings.
Uncle Josh — Here's a letter from
Jfephew Harry, that's gone to Africa,
ind says that within twenty rods o'
lils house there's a family o' laughing
hyenas. His Wife—Well, I am glad
he's got pleasant neighbors anyway—
that's something.—London Tit-Bits.
As Defined.
Little Mildred—What does "B. A."
stand for, mamma? Mamma—"Bache
lor of arts.'" my dear. Little Mildred—
A.nd what Is a "bachelor of arts," mam
ma? Mamma—Any bachelor who is
trying to stay in the bachelor class,
iarling.—Indianapolis Star.
Diplomats got more profit by tteten
[ng than by talking even when they
talk well.—Hanotaur.
fraternal orders
©
Arstio Brotherhood. —
Camp 6kagw»y No. 1,
A. B. meets every sec
ond and fourth.' Tues
day evening at 8:30 P
m. sHarp. Visiting brothers oordiai
ly ■welcome. J. M. Tanmor, Arctic
CWif. W. B. Hargraves, Arotlc Re
corder.
Fraternal Order
Uael<$—
8k»gwny Aerie
No. 25, FVater
nal Order
*u*elQ| mflete thq lint and third
YVedncrfagr night ot each month at
toalr ball an Fifth Avenue. Visit
ins brotiitens cordJMlj Invited to
»tt#«id. J, M. (ireljbach, W. P.
J. V. Miller, Secretory.
P. & A. M.
White Pasg Lodge I
P. & A. M. No. 113
meet* 2d and 4th j
Saturday Evenings I
or each months. Visiting Brethren
»r« welcome.
HAROLD TALBOT, \V. M.
JAME3 WALLACE, Secretary.
B. P. G. ELKS
Skagway Lodge
No. 421, B. P. O.
E. meets every
lBt and 3rd Thurs
day night at 8:30
o'clock. Visiting
brothers cordially -welcome.
W. B. BATSON, E. R.
F. J. V-W4DEWAL.L, secretary.
rionrer of Alaska Igloo, No. 12,
meet* to A. B. Hall first Monday to
e*ery month at 8:80 p. m.
Visiting Brothers cordially wel
come.
W. U STEVEN SON, Pres.
F. H. Doree, Rec. Sec.
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Indian Baskets
China and Cut Glass
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Mm perfectly honorable in all business
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LEAVE SKAGWAY FOR
Haines, Juneau, Douglas, Pet
ersburg, Wrangel, Ketchikan,
Vancouver,
SEATTLE and TACOMA.
CONNECTS at JUNEAU FOR
Yakutat.Katalla, Cordova, Valdez
Seward, Seldovia, Anchorage
Steamships Admiral E\ani, Admiral Wal
ton. Admiral Farragut
S. S. City of Seattle July 17,29. Aug. 10
S.S. Spokane July 11, 23. Aug. 4
CALIFORNIA ROUTE—Leave Seattle Monday's, Friday s,
Saturday's for San Francisco, Los Angeles, San Diego.
If Your Ticket Readi PACIFIC STEAMSHIP Co. You are A.»ured the very Beit
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For Full Particulars, Address
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ALASKA STEAMSHIP CO.
SAILINGS FROM SKAGWAY JUNE I9I7
FOR SEATTLE and PUGET SOUND PORTS
8. S. JEFFERSON July 23, Aug. 4, 16°
s. a dolphin July 5°. 18°, 30°, Aug. 11°, 23°
S. S. ALAMEDA July 7°, 30°, Aug. 22°
S. a MARIPOSA July 25°, Aug. 13°
For Anchorage and Westward Ports
S. 8. ALASKA July 5°, 27°, Aug. 19°
8 <?. MARIPOSA July 1 1, Aug. 4°, 25°
S. 5. NORTHWESTERN July 16°, Aug. 8°
3. 9. ALAMEDA July 21°. Aug. 13°
Excursion Season opens with sailing of S. S. Dolphin from Seattle, June 18
and closes with sailing of same Steamer August 19. During
this period Sitka and Taku Glacier will be ports of call.
Phone 66 - E. J. SHAW, Agent Skagway
CANADIAN PACIFIC RAILWAY
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PALATIAL "PRINCESS " STEAMSHIPS
WILL LEAVE SKAGWAY 7 p. m..
July 12, 19, 23, 30
August 2, 9, 16, 23, 30
—TO—
Prince Rupert, Vancouver, Victoria, Seattle, Etc.
Connections with Solid Daily Transcontinental Trains
CHICAGO - TORONTO - MONTREAL
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Phones 87 or 118
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Juneau
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LEAVE SKAGWAY
EVERY SATURDAY P. M.
(AFTER ARRIVAL SATURDAY'S W.P. & Y.R. TRAIN)
—FOR—
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I'A.SSEXGEJiS ARR1 VE is SEA TTI.E EVERY TUESDAY^ P. if.
All Outside Two Berth Staterooms. Hot and Cold Running Water in Every Stateroom
Electric Readin? Lamps Both Upper and Lower Berths
Travel to the East Via Prince Rupert It Will Save You Time and Money
Direct connections made at Prince Rupert with the Grand Trunk Pacific
Railway for all points in United States and Canada
Reservations, Tickets and Full Information cheerfully furnished by
W. G. POWELL SKAGWAY, ALASKA
Frt. and Pass. Agent Telephone 43
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Waffles, Eggs in all Styles, Pies
Cakes, Ham and Cheese Sand
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Bread, Cream Puffs, Macaroons
Doughnuts. All Kinds of Pastry
James Tropea - Prop.
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CAFE
Breakfast 7 - to - 10
Lunch 12 - to 1.30
Dinner 5.30 to 7 p.m.
Only the best the market
affords, served
rREASONABLE PRICES.