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When we make a mistake and say
a b'-at is due a day after the agent
says it is due, why that agent gets J
awfully angry, and takes long]
stridas up the street a:id musses up
the beautiful white snow ia his anx
iety 'o get up to us and tell us
how terrible our mistake is, but—
when we say that a boat is du« to
arrive, according to latest adyic§ at
steen o'clock on the morning of
day liter tomorrow, and it does not
get ia until uuiph o'clock week afte
next, why, then 'tis all right.
For a long time the word "Jitney
was overworked, now it has Bettled
comfortably baik into its place, and
we read jitney with the same
amount of interest that we read
launch, or street car. Bootlgeging
•is not a new expression, still it
has come into greater prominence
during the last few months than
any other term, and now there is
'-> bo a new one. "Blind Pig"
h is been reducd, it has been
abreviated, it has been shaved, its
•ail has been amputated, and to
day the latest expression used by
the newspapers iu speaking of a
a oersou who deals illegally in li
quor is, he is a " 'Pigger'. " Some
class that.
LIVE AND KZE? C.J LEARNING.
Look Ahead i.i Diir.3 Ycur Best Work
Aftor Yo.i Aro Sixty.
"If you «: ' ' -<• vi ii ar»» eighty-five
years old ym n :ne to an untimely
end." Karl i am. of New York, an
exponent 1 • a::d d *8er of I»r.
Osier, inc.' a I: v audience sit up
aii'l ta!■■■' ,' i lie made this
statement retvui'y.
••Thirty li. • | " < t of the world's
greatest v >r:. ! ' a done ia the ag>
decade betu tt 1 seventy
Vi irs, 21 | er : vonty and
•
Mr. Earn - . .• *•-..• of political,
seu-nriii;*. |!. commercial
and military who aro just tie
.
"The man v. <! • •s one tiling con
tim* ■us' • : - i■ I . ' fi> ;y." he said.
"But gi-t < • t Is: 'y. travel aiul
broad:'!! yoni . • If you are a wo
man. d >:.'t *.a in the same
come.' ev : Hi'e it. Break up
your rout:::.1 ■ r y.i are lost.
"The farmer tTry years terns the
farm over t.» t*. • i oys. raoves to the
c'ty and si-en.N tl i miiudcr of his
life v. itrblti: ;in trains arrive is wtr-t
in;i his 1: "e. II.• 'i» well lie dead,
and he so a
"There is i: » reason why you can't
l>e learning every ; of your life."—
St. Paul Pioneer Iv.
Arreniirn'j Capital.
Buenos Aires i; to Argentina what
Paris Is to I':a <-t tli.- < enter of the
national ladt tries, thought and cul
ture. C'OJan.i r e. jour:.. I'stn. politics,
the drama, n u<i'\ liter :t::re. art and
Social life are Intensely f >euscd there.
The bril'lant a .i-- of the greatest
city of tl >• < >ut!ii-rii h«■•::!<j»here (the
fonrtn city <-f t!ie Americas after New
York, Chicago an-! Philadelphia i draws
the Argentine^ t > li :s a llauie attracts
ninths, and one tifth of the population
of the country struggles there fn fever
ish compt :i hi for pleasure and gain.
No trav» • r t > tl." s uthern countries
but s.ops as long :.s he may ia Buenos
Aires to enjoy or t'j study the most
cosmo(iolitaii, yet most Latinized, of
the Spanish American cities. The me
tropolis is at once the heart and the
brain of tlw country.—National Geo
graph
of the cot
:c Magazine
Pen N'ar's Name.
Tea Mar is so called because it is on
the Mason-Dixon line, with Pennsyl
vania on one side and Maryland on the
other, the tirst three letters of each
state name lieing used to form the
word.—1 - i- .. :h Aau'i'tcan.
(Special Correspondence)
Haines, Jan. 24—Tim Vogel has
returned from Seattle where he has
been for several weeks on business
[combined with pleasure.
G. A. Baldwin, one of the old
est settlers in Haines, has }>een in
town for several days visiting- old
friends and acquaintances. While
here he made the round trip to
Klukwan. He returned to his
home in Juneau on the last boat.
R. H. Virch has moved his fam
ily to Tread well, .where Mr. Virch i
has accepted a position With the
Treadwell Alining Company.
F. J. Larsen, who has been em
ployed at the Elite Laundry at
this place, has severed his connec
tion, and accepted a position with
the Skasway steam Laundry.
Curly Chamberlain and his part
ner have returned from a prospect
us and trapping trip. They have
been gone about one month and
were out in the terrible storms that
have prevailed during that time.
They stood the trip well, and are
both looking fine.
Airs. Frank Heller, the wife oC
oar popular barber >vho has been
seriously ill in the Presbyterian hos
pital, is reported to be steadily im
prcviug, and her many friends hope
to soon see her out again.
A. J. DaimerlLne has been ap
pointed Postmaster at Haines to fill
the vacancy caused by the resigna
tion of J. J. Kennedy.
HOW SOAP WORKS.
It Cleans Because It Emulsifies the Oil
That Holds the Dirt.
Why dot's soap take out the dirt?
The answer to this question has been
argued niauy times by cheiAts, and
as cleanliness is necessary and enor
mous quantities of soap have to be
used it is well that we should know
how soap does its work.
It is fat or oil that especially makes
things dirty. If only we can melt or
get rid of the oil on hands or clothes
we soon can make them clean, and the
real use of soap is that it disposes of
oil. It docs this in at least two ways.
Most soaps have in them a great deal
of alkali. This alkali dissolves the oil.
But soup takes the dirt from things
in another way, as we know when we
use soaps that have no alkali in them
at nil. It has the power of breaking up
oil into a num'ter of tiny little drops,
with all the dirt that the Oil has col
lected.
A collection of tiny drops of oil held
in some other fluid is called an emul
sion. Water alone will not form an
emulsion of any oil, because oil and
water will not mis. That is the reason
why we cannot get clean with water
alone. But when water has soap dis
solved in it it is able to make an emul
sion of the oil on anything we are
washing and so make it clean.—Ex
change.
Hindsight.
Mkkleby—Old chap, didn't your bet
ter Judgment tell you not to make that
investment? Pingie—N'o; my better
judgment never tells me anything
until after I've gone and made a fool
of myself:
LAME EVERY
MORNING
A Uad Back is Utwrally Wonse iu
The Morning. Alaska I people
Should lie Finding
Belief
A back that aches all day and
causes discomfort at night is usual
ly worsp in the morning, JIakes you
feel as If you hadn't slept at all.
You can't get rill of kidney back
ache, until you reach; the cause—
the kidneys.
Doan's Kidney Pills are especial
ly prepared for jyeakened or disor*
dered kidneys—beau gratefully re
commended by thousands.
The following statement proves
the merit of Doan's.
Mrs. J. Conneen, 445 Second Ave.
San Francisco, Gal., says: "The
first symptom of kidney; complaint
in my case was backache. I had a
constant lame back and mornings I
could hardly stoop over, I felt
tii»d all the time and never seem
ed to have much, ambition. I didn't
let mvself ge* in. bad shape be
cause I used Do&n'a Kidney Pills
and they cured me. Th.a backache
disapueared and I felt better all
around."
Price 50c, at all dealers. Don't
simply ask for a kidney remedy •—
ge' Doan's Kidney Pills—t}ie same
that Mrs, Conneen had. Foster-Mil
bu-n Co., Props., Buffalo, N. Y.
THE 3ANTOX STORE IS THE
SAFE 3TORE IN WHICH TO
TRADE. If it wore not, it corald
not, eft the San-Toac exclusive
agency. Keller Bros. Drug Store
DUELS IN THE NAVY
They Were Frequent and Deadly
From 1799 to 1836.
HONOR WAS THEN A FETISH.
In Those Days a Challenge Was Held to
Be a Sort of Diploma For Naval Men,
and the Victims of tho Field of Com
bat Were Lauded as Heroes.
Tlio number of United States naval
officers killed In duels In tbo half cen
tury from 179S to 1S4S was two-thirds
the number of officers who lost their
lives in the naval wars of the United
States in that same period.
In the eighty-two duels which were
fought in that period thirty-sis men
were killed, of whom thirty-three were
naval officers. Of those who were not
killed in those naval duels one-half
were wounded.
In those days of the old navy the
duel was held to be a sort of indis
pensable diploma for the naval officers.
Men were sensitive as to their honor,
and very fantastic were their notions
as to the necessity of its defense.
Duels were fought between officers
high in rank and more often between
the midshipmen. The commissioned
officers dealt with these "affairs of
honor" between the youngsters with
pompous solemnity.
Verses were printed upon their vic
tims in the literary journals of the day,
and their relatives caused epitaphs in
the Johnsonian style to be placed upon
their tombs. Occasionally duels as
sumed the character almost of an In
ternational incident, and sometimes
they became small wars.
Early in the war with Tripoli offi
cers became involved in quarrels
among themselves and with the offi
cers of the British navy who were on
service in the Mediterranean. In 1819
the Americans and the British officers
who were connected with the garri
son at Gibraltar fought duels so fre
quently that the governor prohibited
tie harbor to American ships:
Those old time middies wero exceed
ingly bellicose. They were very jeal
ous of their rank. They had their own
exalted ideas as to the meaning of the
terms "gentleman" and "officer;" there
fore many a sanguinary duel was pre
cipitated by causes the most trivial.
What nowadays would be considered
a practical joke then became an affair
of ten paces with pistols.
Once a middy amused himself by
sprinkling a letter that another middy
was writing. Thereui»on the letter
writer sprinkled the waistcoat of tho
offender with the contents of the ink
bottle. A few days later the two faced
each other in a duel.
That the number of deaths and seri
ous wounds in these duels was so great
is not surprising in view of the fact
mill lue uisiautv ui'inivu mt- ivun
batants measured about thirty feet
A marksman of fair ability could hit
his adversary at that distance with
out much trouble If his nerves were
steady. In some cases the distance
was much leas. In the Balnbridge
Cochrau duel it was twelve feet. In
another duel the pistols almost touch
ed, and both combatants were killed
at tho first shot.
The largest number of the duels
which were fought in the United States
took place in the neighborhood of Nor
folk, of New York and of Bladensburg,
which Is near the city of Washing
ton. But duels were also fought on
Castle island, in Boston harbor; at New
Orleans and in various other places.
It was at Weehnwken that Commo
dore Oliver II. Pern' fought his duel
with Captain John Heath. There wero
grounds t broad also which in the na
ture of the circumstances saw many
of these naval encounters — for in
stance, Rio Janeiro, Valparaiso, Port
Mahon and in various places in the
Mediterranean and hi the East Indies
These naval duels were most fre
quent between the years 1799 and
183tX The best known of them all
probably was that between Decatur
and Barron in 1S20. This year marks
the beginniug of the slow decline of
tho practice, and the last of the duels
In the old navy of which there is a
record took place In ISoO.
Pistols were not always used, but
the sword was sometimes resorted to—
as, for Instance, in what was practical
ly, the first of the duels in. the Unite;!
States navy. This took place lii 1779.
The combatants were Captain P. K.
Landais and Captain D. X. Cottineaji,
both Frenchmen, who were in com
mand of vessels muter John Paul Jones
at the battle with tho Sera pis. Junes
found evidence of insubordination upon
the part of Landais in that engagement
and accused him of firing intentional
ly into the Bonhomme Richard. There
ensued a bitter quarrel, and .in an In
quiry made by Benjamin Franklin
Cottineau gave testimony that causctl
Landais to issue a challenge. The duel
came off in Holland, and as Landais
was a skilled swordsman he wound
ed Cottineau severely. — Philadelphia
Press.
Didn't Know McKinley.
Once when William McKinley was
governor of Ohio he and Corbett had a
long chat in a parlor of the principal
hotel in Columbus. As they walked
down the steps into the office a drum
mer standing near said, "There goes
CorbettI" Instantly there was a furore
and another drummer standing near
asked, "Who is the little man with [
him?"—From "The Fighting Man," by
William A. Brady.
The first steel pens were sold for !
about 40 cents each. .
* FRATERNAL ORDERS *
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♦ * * *
Arctic Brotherhood. —
Camp Skagway No. 1,
A. B. meets every sec
ond anil £ouirtli! Tues
day evening at 8:30 P
m. snarp. Visiting brothers cordial
iy wtU-cim©. W. L. Stevuisoo, Arc
tic Chief. W. E. Burford, Arctic
Uecc rder.
Fratei iuvl Oitl»r
Skagwny Aoiio
^ No. 125, FratcT.
^ ual Oitlei- of
111C| 11131, <WU WIU\1
Wednesday night of each month at
tni'ii hall on Fifth Avcaiucs. Visit
ing brothel's cordially invitejd to
attend. L. E. Hudson, W. P.,
J. M. Gr«isbacb, Secretary.
P. & A. M.
Whito Pass Lodge |
F. & A. M. No. 113,
meets 2d and 4th I
FYi. Ev'gs, of eaclij
come.
Elmer L. Wheeler, W. M;
Address all eommimicationa to ,
the Secretary.
B. P. O. ELKS
Skagway Lodge
No. 421, B. P. O.
K. meets every
Thursday night
'at 8:00 o'clock.
Visiting brothers
cordially welcome.
HENRY FRIEDENTHAL, E. R.
F. J. V-A^DEWALL, Secretary
Pioneer of Alaska Isloo, No. 12,
uieetfc In A. 15. Hall first Momlay in
every month at 8:80 p. m.
Visiting Brotliers cordially wel
come.
W. L. STEVENSON, Pres.
V. T. DORTERO, Rec. Sec.
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(Formerly of Seattle)
Specialist in tbo treatment of
disease and defornuties of the)
eye, ear, nose and throat.
Office: Goldstein Building, Ju
neau. Alaska.
W. B. STOUT
Attorney At Law
Pra<1ic<j in all courts
In Territory of Alaska
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i Juneau, Alaska Skagway, Alaska
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