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editorial;
A SHAMEFlli LESbOX
Official dereliction ha# coat the
Jiie o' a battalion fire chief »ud the
maiming o.f other brave fire fight
ers and brought disgrace upon the
municipality. iloreorer, this offic
ial dereliction, chronic and of long
standing lias bean daily imperiling
the lives of thousands and inviting
u holaoaust of unspeakably horror.
Whv was the Urand opera. house,
•a recognized fire trip, condemne j
long ago, permitted to jeopardize
people's lives?
Whv was the report declaring it
ungate, unfit for public gatherings
and a menace to adj;wcent property,
property, allowed to become a mere
scra<> of paper?
Why? It is as plaia as the mose
on your face. Somebody had a pull
Official conscience was pliable; of
ficial courage nil. It was easier to
dose official eyes to a communit
hazard, to take a chance and trust
to luck, to compromise with danger,
"i.. a tr> offend somebody and possi
bly forfeit a bit of good will and
lose a handful of votes.
All thig is what the Grand opera
house disaster means, and is here
seated conservatively.
It speaks culpability ou tlie part
ol the authorities—a flagrant, inde
feasiolo violation of trust, a shame
ful d'sregard of duty, and coward
ice. While the blame falla prim
arilv upon the official or officials
who originally condooied the dan
ger wbea f rmally made cognizant
of i* and ret'usod to act, it reaches
affects subsequent adinioistra
t'.0113 that have been equally derelic
in oeipetuating fia danger.
If Seattle had a city manager, if
Its affairs received the attention
tney urgently need, -would such
^ine* happen and bring reproach
uoon 'he municipality? Would a
ca«e of criminal neglect thus be
staring the city in the face? Would
it ♦odaj; be paying the iriea of its
folly wi'h. the lives and limb# o1
its fluty-doing protectors? Would
'ts t uilding department be serving
no ^'ter purpose than to provide
jobs* Would it, year after year 1
telerate a fire trap and permit il
*o ♦hr.ve ag a place of amusemem.'?
No. Such, maladministration as it
now exemplified belongs only to an
inherently weak, unbuaiaess-like
system, and illustrate* official
alo'h.
Tlie lesson of thi* fire disaster—
diree'ly due to mismanagement —
will soon be forgotten, no doubt. II
is usually bo. A righteous pro
test. a little probing, tjie customary
dodging of responsibility and the
pass'Eg of the tjuclc—then the city
lap? » back into the easy-going,
♦ime-wcrn groove, ■with its loose,
inefficient methods, until something'
else 1 appens to produce another
shock ani furnish, new proof Of of
ficii1' Incapacity. But this lesson
should by its severity be an excep
tion and have lasting effect. The
penalty for official lrncompetence is
heovv and ought stimulate public
zeal for service and a form of city
government less susoeptible to pull
au;' more alert to public welfare.
Watering Plants When Absent.
When it becomes necessary to close
your apartment for a few days and
there is no one to attend to the water
ing of indoor plants try this method:
Place in tl^e bathtub or washtub as
many bricks as you have plants. Rest
each pot on a brick, then fill tub with
water till the bricks are well covered.
The plants keep fresb a long time this
way
PUSHBALLS AR£ COSTLY.
If They Were Choaper the Game Might
Bo More Popular.
If some one could invent a pushball
that could be made at a reasonable
coat the game would be more popular.
The enormous cost of pushballs has
made It possible for only a very few
to own them, and they have been rent
ed out at a high price to those wanting
to use them. The pushball is sis feet
in diameter and costs $300.
The outside covering of a pushball
is made of cowhide leather. This cov
ering is composed of twenty strips,
which are sewed together by baud.
Each of these strips is between nine
and ten feet long, or half the circum
ference of the ball. The strips are
widest in the middle, tapering uni
formly to points at either end, the
poles of the ball, where they are fur
ther secured by leather caps sewed
over them.
To get the leather needed for a push
ball it is necessary to cut up five or
six hides, which makes the cost of the
cover very high. It takes two men the
better part of a week, moreover, to
sew this material together.
The bladder for the ball Is made of
the best rubber, which Is cut into
strips and cemented together in such
shape that when Inflated it will form
a globe fitting the leather covering,
which is practically Indestructible. The
very best rubber bladders may give
out in two of three years, and a new
bladder costs $150. A large cylinder
foot pump suitable for Inflating this
mighty ball costs $10.
The game originatea in America.
The first pushball was made In New
ton, Mass., In 1S94. This ball had a
covering of leather Bhaped on a wood
en form built for the purpose. Four
big hides were required. These were
cut to form six zones, which were put
together with belting hooks. The blad
der wa9 inaJe of rubber cloth cut in
sections and cemented together. The
materials for this ball cost about $175.
The game Is played on a field with
a goal at each end, each team trying
to push the ball through the oppo
nents' goal. It is sometimes used to
get baseball teams in condition during
the early days. The game is played in
Europe, both in England and on the
continent
One of the most spectacular and
thrilling variants of the game is that
played by horsemen in the west. It
requires two teams of mounted play
ers, whose object also Is to drive the
ball through the goal of the opposing
side. It is pushed by the horses, which
must be as well trained as polo ponies
^to maneuver it dexterously, and the
game calls for great expertness in the
riders. Cowboy saddles and dress are
the correct outfit for this game.—St.
Nicholas.
8om«thing Wrong.
"There was a steep embankment on
my right and a high wall on my left,"
explained the bandaged motorist.
"Around a curve swept a big touring
car full of intoxicated joy riders. I was
between Seyila and Charybdis."
"Hold on." interrupted the interest*
ed listener. "You told me just now you
were on the road between Perkinsville
and Jackson's Gap when this accident
happened."—Spokane Review.
Bumineu.
Lawyer—If I bring a suit against
your husband I'll be able to get about
a third of his income as alimony for
you. Prospective Divorcee—Umph! I
can do better than that myself. For
years I've been getting nearly all his
salary out of him.—Lamb.
Religious.
"Is he a religious man?"
"I guess sc."
"Does he go to church?"
"I don't think he ever goes himself,
but he never kicks on his wife going
when she wants to."—Detroit Fr*e
Press.
Advice is not disliked because it U
adrice, but because so few people know
how to give it.—Leigh Hunt
Damp, Cold W eather
firings Its Toll of Sickness to AJ-' j
askaa Feotde.
Chilly, damp, changing weather < 1
hard on the kidneys.
Even mor$ irritating are colds, j
Sriu and pneumonia;
They congest the kidneys;
They bring backache and disor
dered kidney, action.
For weak kidneys use a tested
remedy.
40,000 people publicly recom
mend Doan's Kidney Pill®.
Prank Lang, 620 Savler St., Port
land, Ore., says: "Changes of tem
perature. together with bard work
brought on trouble with! my kidneys
A catch often took file in the small
of my back and threw me off a
ladder. I felt the pain ©attending
up mv spine and down into my
groins. It seemed a paralytic
stroke and for several days I was
oradically unable to do anything.
My kidneys acted too often, caus
ing mo a great deal of annoyance.
Doan's Kidney Pills fixed me up
in good shape."
Price 50c, at all dealers. Don't
s'mply ask for a kidney remedy —*
get Doan'e Kidnejr Pills—the same
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Religious wars in europi*.
V •
The Thirty Years' Conflict and the
Peace of Westphalia.
Osnabruck Is one of the most vener
able towns of Prussia. In the closing
years of the eighth century Charle
magne designated It lis the capital of a
bishopric, a distinction which it en
joyed without Interruption for more
than a thousand years. In 1S03 the see
was suppressed, the last bishop being
Frederick, duke of York, son of the
English Hanoverian monarch, George
III. In 1S58 the city was restored to
its religious eminence when it was
again made the seat of a Roman Cath
olic bishop.
It is on account of her share in the
preliminary negotiations which led to
the epochal peace of Westphalia that
Osnabruck is famous In history. In
1644, after all central Europe had been
devastated by the great struggle which
eventually became known as the
Thirty Years' war, representatives of
Sweden, the German empire and Ger
man Protestants met here, while in the
neighboring city of Munster, thirty
miles to the southwest, delegates from
France. Spain, the German Catholics
and the German empire gathered.
The negotiations extended over a pe
riod of four years. In October, 1648,
both groups of conferees having ar
rived at a common basis of settlement,
the Osnabruck diplomats repaired to
Munster, where a few days later the
peace was signed which guaranteed
the sovereignty and independence of
the several states of the empire and
which forbade religious persecution
throughout Germany. It was this
peace, in which Osnabruck played such
a vital part, that put an end to reli
gious wars In Europe.
As early as 8SS Osnabruck was
granted the right to establish Its own
mint, hut It was not until the fifteenth
century that the city reached the crest
of Is mediaeval prosperity. Following
the decline which was necessarily inci
dental to the ravages of the Thirty
Years' war, it enjoyed a second era of
growth.
The two most impressive architec
tural plies In Osnabruck are the spa
cious cathedral, dating back to the
twelfth century and representing a
combination of the Romanesque and
Transitional styles, and the royal pal
ace, built iu 1002-7").—National Geo
graphic Society Bulletin.
QUEENSLAND SAVAGES.
Soma Curious Customs of a Hac« That
Will Soon Be Extinct.
The aborigines of Queensland are
fast fading away, and iu view of the
fact that this race will soon be extinct
an examination of their social customs
Is Interesting.
The death bone or bone apparatus,
with Its supposed property of produc
ing death, is one of the most dreaded
and universal superstitious among the
natives of the Queensland interior.
The apparatus consists of a pointer
connected by string with an elongated
cylindrical receptacle. The pointer,
three to fiv^ Inches long. Is made from
a human forearm bone, the string Is
made from human hair, aud the recep
tacle. which Incloses the victim's life
blood. is fashioned from a shin bone.
The "medicine man" of the tribe-uses
the weapon by aiming the i>ointer at
the person selected for punishment.
One of the most curious of the abo
riginal weapons Is the "whirler," or
"bull roarer." It is made of a flat
tened piece of gidyea timber cut into
spindle shape, into one extremity of
which a hole Is drilled with a sharp
ened emu bone. By means of the aper
ture this whirler is attached to a plcice
of string fixed at the end of a small
stick. Revolving rapidly, the whirler
gives out a roaring sound.—London
Telegraph.
Venison, Venaison, Vonzon.
We have noted methods of cooking
venison, but how should It be pro
nounced—as a two or a three syllable
word? Most of us pronounce it as if
spelled with a "z" and, as it is derived
from the French venaison, this is as
it should be. Shakespeare, it is true,
treated it as a trisyllable and apparent
ly regarded the "s" as hard, for in
"As You lake It" the duke asks,
"Shall we go kill us venison?" But his
contemporary. Chapman, made but two
syllables of it and. that there might be
no doubt as to the pronunciation he
favored, even spelled it phonetically,
thus—venzon.—London Chronicle.
Hi« Ba'i Break.
"Why on earth do you come to me
to borrow nnney. Billus?" said Hark
away peevishly. "Why don't you go
to Jorrocks? lie's the prosperous
looking member of our set." /
"That's just it. Harkaway," said
Billups. "Jorrocks looks so very pros
perous that I am quite sure he spends
every penny he makes, but you, old
man—why. you dress like a man who
saves his money."
P. S.—Tie didn't get it.
Men Are So Uncertain.
"Why did you jilt that man who
wanted to marry you?"
"Because." replied the prima donna,
"I couldn't decide whether he was ac
tually in love with me or merely want
ed to hear me sing for nothing."—Ex
change.
Keeping U> the Supply.
First Man (with magazine)—What a
tremendous number of -Stories Penley
Penman writes! Second Man—Doesn't
he? They say he uses au incubator to
hatch his plpts—Stray Stories.
Virtue alone outbuilds the pyramids;
her monuments shall lust when Egypt's
fall—Young.
FRATERNAL ORDERS
Arctic Brotherhood. —
Camp Skagw&v No. 1.
A. B. meats everj^ sec
ond and. fourtli Tues
day evening at S:30 p.
m. stwrp. Visiting brothers cordial
ly weVcime. W. L. Stevenson, Arc
tie Chief. \V. E. Burford, Arctic
Keccrder.
Fraternal Order
Eagle}*-—
Skiigwaj- Aerie
No. 25, Prater
nal Oilier of
Kagies meets the) first and third
W edn cefltiy night of each month: at
tnrii hail on fifth Avenucu Visit
ing brothters cwdiully iuvitejd to
att<snd. J. M. Qieisbacu, AV. 1*.
J. V. Miller, Secretary.
month. Visiting brothers are wel
come.
Elmer L. Wheeler, W. M.
Address all communications to
the Secretary.
F. & A. M.
White Pass Lodge
F. & A. M. No. 113
meet9 2d and 4th
Fri. Ev'gs, of each
B. P. O. ELKS
Skagway Lodge
No. 431, B. P. O.
E. meets every
Thursday night
^ at 8:00 o'clock.
Visiting brothers
cordially welcome.
HENRY FRIEDEXTHAL, E. R
F. J. VAilDEWALL, secretary
Pioneer of Alaska Igloo, No. 12,
meet* tn A. B. Hall first Monday In
every month at 8:80 p. m.
Visiting Brothers cordially wel
come.
W. L. STEVENSON, Pres.
V. T. DORTERO, Rec. Sec.
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Spuria] 1st In the treatment of
disease and deformities of tlie|
eye, ear, nose and throat.
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