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OUR FLAG
EDITORIAL
PAKTY LINES INTACT
-Maine held her state election last
Monday. The result was "as usual.
W hile there was the customary lo*
cat activity, there was little °r no
outside interest, and this lack of in
' ert-st has been unknown since the
memory of man runneth to the
contrary. The September election
iu Maine, always t;lken by the coun
try to indicate accurately any
change in political sentiment, has
established the aphorism. "As
.Maine goes, so go**s the I'nion."*
Partisan JLtemocrats have tried to
make the people believe that party
lint's have been entirely broken down
ssnce we entered the war. The Maine
election proves that the contrary Is
true. The result may be taken to
c.eau that Republicans and Demo
crats all over the United States will
support as heretofore the party
candidates for state and congress
ioua! office Except iu a few cases
where the war record of the cantW
i!ato is assailable, the nominees
*:il receive the full party vote. Real
en'.tests will take place in November
onty in the very close districts and
states. Apart from them, the votes
n-'y be regarded as already count
ed. Districts considered safely Re
!,-il».icau ill return Republican con
gressmen, for there is not the slight
(•#' indication that wa- has worked
the slightest change in party senti
ment. This war is not beiug fought
by the Democratic party, but by the
u.nfied people of the United States.
All the issues in tha campaign of
I !• 15 have been set aside and the
winning issue, "he kept us out of
war.'' has been reversed. No new
I'iatforms have been constructed and
no new issues raised. So the two
major parties remain intact by the
"orce of cohesion. We believe that
the results in Maine w-ili be re*'
neated throughout the North. The
ritxt congress will be narrowly Re
publican or Democratic, and wheth
e- in small majority shall be on
one side or the other, the prosecu
tion of the war will b® almost
unanimously supported, with the
o'd oarty lines unbroken.—Portland
'1 elejram. J»: il£
UVPLl'TOCRATIC EDITORS
n«i'evillc Intelligencer: Ontario
l^raerg own 23,409 automobiles.
Ontario merchants and manufac
turers own 14,825 automooilee.
Ontario editors owning motor car*
£rg too tew to make a quorum, or
t'Ven raise a good sized dust. •
Patriotism.
A College avenue woman was enter
taining her card club. One of the
w oman members of the club brought i
her son John, about four years old,
along. John got unruly, and his moth
er put him upstairs and told him to
sit there until he could behave, while
she proceeded to play bridge. John
was quiet about 15 minutes, wben he
burst forth-singing "America." Imme
diately It broke up the card game and
the women stood up until John finished
singing.—IudiunapolU News.
PRESIDENT WfcLSON DRIVING FIRST RIVlT
m —- - - *
President Wilson is here seen driving the first rivet in the keel of a 10,000
ton cargo carrier, tliis being the flrst keel to be laid In the steel shipyards at
Alexandria, Va.
WATCH THE FIREWORKS
On the day when 13,000,000 A"
mericans at home signed up with
Uncle Sain to finish the Job of
driving Hunisin from the world, the
first American field army, under
command of General Pershing, s«nt
its *>reetings to the foe along the
St. Alihiel salient, and? within thir
*■ -six hours that palient was wiped
out and thousands of Boches were
taken as prisoners of war.
What a soul-inspiring achieve
ment ! And how appropriately
timed! What an answer it is to
the small, short-sighted cynicism of
"be Hun war authorities, who strain
ed hemtselvea in contemptuous ut
terances, to the effect that Ameri
cana were only money hunters;
thst all their war ability Is "mere
prfule without practice," that all
th«tr preparation to fight is bluff- —
and plenty more to similar effect!
Kven Derore tnis, me Auiernou
per ormance in the field of war)
wa« a convincing refutation of all
t' 3 German bombast, veiled' in j
an assumed contempt. Beginning at
Chateau Thierry and for more than)
» month *>ince, the Yanks have giv
en the German lines a taste of
«;r mettle, and it '"s for the Qer* j
mans themselves to give daily testi
mony in return that it was hot stuft
But the American boys were then
fighting under French offfioers,
who were gallant leaders. The *'»r
reports of that and the immediate
ly subsequent period were of Haig
at one end of the line, Humoert at
th» o'her end, and' in between Pau
and Mangi and others, with Ameri
can contingents ifghting all along
'he l.ne and always giving the same
glorious account of themselves.
But now it wi.ll be Pershing's ad
v?nce as well »s Haig's and Hum
bert's. The All-American fireworks
have started as well as th« French
and the British. The opening per
formance is a thriller for the A
merican people, and, indeed for all
the rest of the world.
Proud!—proud is no name for it.
Wp defy any red-blooded American
to *elt how oroud he is ftnd keep
within the bounds of decent re
stra.nt. Old Glory ripples in the'
cheers of the nation. Between!
shouts we will smile and' watch the
fireworks.—Portland Telegram.
Tin's Part in Woman's Finery.
Few women who are proud of the
fact thnt they wear hoisery, under
wear and dresses made of silk, realize
that old tin cans contribute from 20 to
300 per cent in weight to the glossy
silks worn by them. The price of slllc
has increased enormously and to en
able them to sell heuvy silks at a price
that will yield a reasonable profit and
yet be within the means of the average
purchasers, the manufacturers resort
to the practice of weighting the silk
with tin tetrachloride, derived from
old tin cans. Five thousand tons of tin
were used for that purpose In 1917.
Don't throw 8way the empty tomato
cans!—Popular Science Monthly.
War Is Informal Affair.
That the number of full dr*sa suits
purchased Ln America since Uncle 8am
threw down the gauntlet has fallen
off 60 per cent Is an Indication of a
realization on the part of the nation
that war Is no dress affair.
In the trenches the guests from
across the street don't stand on cere
mony or wait for an invitation. They
are real neighborly, and likely to drop
ln unexpectedly any time. In fact war
is an Infernally Informal business.
It has Its humorous side, too. Every
day many things occur that are per*
feetly killing. - ■ v
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POHTLAYD DOYS
IN HUN MUSOX
Portland, Sept. 27.—Robert Mc
Enany and Fred' K. McEnany, Port
land boys who enlisted ia the old
3d Oregon regiment, art> Prisoners
'« in enemy camp at Geissen, Ger
inaDy. This was learned recently
when the Portland chapter, Ameri
can Red Cross, received a photo
graph of a clippnn£ from a prison
c#ii>D newspaper, showing a nuinbe
of allied prisoners, among whom
were two Americans. The French
caption gave their names and they
were quickly identified' as having
ti»en members of the 3d Oregon regl
ment.
The boys are sons of Mr. and Mrs.
W. H. McEnany, 3500 V. street,
Vancouver, Wash., and brothers of
Was Margaret McEnany, 25 Trinity
Plav i, Portland, who holds a cleri
cal position with the U. S. signal
corps, in the Veon building.
Toe p'cture shows them to be wel
and uninjured. It will be presented
♦o 'fie McEnany family by the Port
land cnapter.
The McEnanay boys gave up their
employment with the Marshall Wellfl
H9rware company in Portland' three
weeks before war was declared to
enlist with the 3d Oregon.
They were stationed for a short
time with the regiment near Bor
deaux, France, and were then trans
ferred to the 127th regiment, the
3d Oregon, or the lG2d, as it is
no>v known, being used as a replace
ment regiment. They went into ac
tion with the 127th, and were re
oorted' missing in the casualty lists
o' Jun$ 18. They were part oj a
patrol that "went over the top'' in
b raid on the German trenches.
Separated from their companions as
the '>atrol ran to escape a hot gren
ade counter attack, the boys were
surrounded and captured.
The McEnany family today receiv
ed from the boys a postal card,
doted June 16, which said:
"Dear Mother: Here we are pris
oner# of war In Germany. We were
taken this morning by a large force
while on patrol. Except that we
wars wet when captured, we both
are all right and looking forward
to the end of the war. Please re
member our new address and write.
The boys naa scarcely nouuea mv
Rc>; Cross at Berae of their Dlt'h'
I#! e the first of the Red Cross
weekly food parcels reached t«-em.
Tftji Red Cross then notified their
V'.ents of their capture.
Rfibert was 23 years of aga laat
Sun lay and Fred 20 rn July 12.
The picture which proved the
story is a photograph from the Ga
zette des Ardennes. It is printed
<n French for the allied prisoners
In Cermanv. The print was phot:
graohed and sent broadcast foi
identification.
"I gm 90 delignted to know *'>e
boys are all right," »aid Miss Mc
Enany this morning. "After the Red
<><»•» notified us they were orison
"»8 we did not know vh»t might
happen."
It was a hanpy family at Vancou\"
er when the Red' Cross communi
cated the bigr news. Mr. McEnany,
'atner of the boys, is a former regu
lar army soldier, and wag in the
o!d 14th infantry.
Keller Bros, pure Ice cream is
the most delicious dessert you can
serve for your Sunday dinner. Phon
for a quart brick for dellvry to
emorrow. It 1
MKT VICTIMS OF ''BOOZE'1
Scientists Familiar With Many Varl*
tic* That Indulge In a tort of
Bacchanalian Festival.
There would seem to be no partic
ular reason from the human stand
point why the Ivy should be called the
plant of Bacchus, since 110 wine Is
! made from its berries. Entomologists,
however, hnve found that the Ivy
; flowers provide a veritable bacehana
j linn festival for a number of Insects.
! Men of srtence nre wont to sully forth
| at night \rlth lauterns to capture the
I intoxicated moths that crowd around
j the greenish blossoms. When the
I willow is : i blown they find a similar
scene of dissipation around Its yellow
I catkins.
The tippling Insect may be used to
j point a moral by the prohibitionist,
[ since rum not infrequently leads to its
ruin. There Is a fly so addicted to
wine that Linnaeus named it the "cel
lar fly," which appellation Klrby
changed to the more appropriate one
of tfre "cellar wlae flrlnker." Klrby
states that the larvae of this little fly,
whose diet he could attest from bis
own observations, disdains to feed on
anything but wine or beer, which, like
Boniface in the play. It may be said
both to eat and drink.
There are bees and flowers whose
random meetings result in the same
curious phenomenon. On the single
dahlias and gaillardlas of the garden
bees are often to be seen in the same
maudlin state, and these bees are more
frequently of the black and yellow
banded kind. If you takf sucti a bee
off the galllardla the inseef will re
main In your hand, indulging In'
quaint antics or simply trembling In
every member. Presently, however. It
will recover and fly off straight to
another galllardla flower and' In a
very short time is again in Its former
state of imbecility. One may pick It
up again and have a repetition of the
performance. ' i
LENT INSPIRATION TO ARTIST
How Glint In Ey« of Model Led Paint
er to Alter the Spirit of Hip
Masterpiece.
"The Spirit of Seventy-six"— the fa
mous drum and fife trio—cam*; from
the brush and genius of Archibald M.
Wlllard.
The artist emerged from overalls and
a Wellington, O., wagon shop. A pic
ture called "Pluck No. 1," displayed
In a Cleveland art dealer's window, at
tracted the attention of the dlucrlml-1
nntlng and paved the way to a kind of j
partnership with James H. Ryder,
through whose suggestion the "Seven-j
ty-slx" picture was began.
In Its early stages this pointing
was called "Yankee Doodle" und It
was first planned along serio-comic I
lines. "But one day," declares Mr.
Wlllard, "I caught a glint In the eye
of the old man who posed for the cen
ter figure, and In a flash It reyepled It
self to me what all this stood for, and
I could go no further. The r^il pic
ture pushed everything else aside and
went ahead and painted itself."
The old mnn whose flashing eyes
Inspired this change of conception was.
the artist's father, Rev. Daniel Wlllard,
a man of revolutionary stock.
Thus curiously It was only by the
merest switch (if an Inherited senti
ment that this symbol was prevented'
from becoming a fnndful burlesque to
live only for the brief day of Us cre
ation.—Everybody's Magazine.
Crow at Home on the Eartli.
"I have seen no bird walk the g.'ound
with just tlie same air the crpw does,"
writes John Burroughs In "An Idyll of
the Honey Bee." "It is not exactly
pride; there Is no strut or swagfier In
It, though perhaiw just a little con
descension ; it is the contented and self
possessed gait of a lord over hU do
mains. 'AH these acres are mint;,' he
says, 'and all these crops; men plow
and sow for me, and I stay here or go
there and find life sweet and good
wherever I arm*
"The hawk looks awkward »n(l out
of place on the ground;,the game-Mrds
hurry and skulk, but the croy :1s £t
home and treads the earth as If liiere
were none to molest pir make him
afralcL" o-ffe*
Opprobrious Epithets.
A correspondent informs us that A
woman defendant In a Brittany police
court has been fined 50 francs for call
ing another woman "an old tank." The
offense presumaby lay in the ungual,
as in the case of the fishwife whom
O'Connell silenced by calling a "paral
leloplped." Psychology has never yet
solved the problem why a compara
tively Innocuous phrase may cause
more offense than the vilest abuse.
For instance, "mort aux vaches" does
not strike the Englishman as so very
terrible, yet, to tell a French gende rme
of your desire for an Increase in the
mortality rate among cows is a surer
way of asking for trouble than to blan
der the Pope In a Home Rule strong
hold.—London Globe.
Wrens Valuable In the Garden.
The examination of 88 stomach.! of
I house wrens showed that 98 per cent
of their contents was composed oi ln
I sects or their allies, and only 2 per
I cent of vegetable matter, made up of
bits of grass and other vegetation evl
I dently taken In catching the Insects.
I As the \yren often raises in a season
: 12 to 16 young, all of which become
mature enough to forage for them
selves very soon after-they are a bio to
J leave the nest, it Is evident that a pair
of these lively little birds are very de
I slrabie tenants in garden or orchanL—
[ People's Home Journal, . *
AnbitHATlON OF1 LAUOR DI8.
ft'TES IN WAR TIMES
la discussing labor in war time
The Mining Congress Journal for
August says:
The right to conscript labor for
war service s as inherent in the
government for one kind of service,
as 'or another. Its right is not
questioned* as applied to civilians
who are called upon for actual
serv'ce at the front. This right
I" seriously Questioned as appnea
to the men wlio, free from danger,
live In their own homes in com
fortable surroundings, an<i with
T>y several times greater than
the soldier receives, who are en
gaged in tn® production of war ne
cessities, without which the soldier
in the trencheg is helpless and> at
thg mercy of the murderous asr
aaults of the enemy. The Mining
Congress Journal has repeatedly urg
ed that all industrial disputes
should be submitted to a judicial
court of arbitration before any
str'ke should be declared, andi that
until such time as a proper de
termination of the issues* involved
could be made by a proper tribunal,
th«t strikes should be declared il
legal.
Tfyis proposition may be open to
argument but there can be no rea
sonable defense for the stoppage
o' production of materials which
are essential for the protection of
ou»- 80ld"iem In the trenches.
Fourth Liberty Loan Campaign
of*ns September 28th.
A freah shipment of Eastman N.
P Autographic and plain films for
all sized cameras received on the
last boat. Better take advantgae
Of this fine weather and get some
fuaopy fall pictures. Keller Bros.
lilfilLIii
Many Skagway People la H*l«
Condition.,
There's little rest for maaya kid
' ney hufferer. The kidneys feel ooba
Rested, sore and palnful.
The urinary passages »r« oft**
j irregular and distressing.
| The sufferer, tired, worn-out and
deo.essed.
Weak: kidneys need quick help.
I They need a special kidney rem
edy,
I L'oan's Kidney Plllg hay4 ptood
the feet.
| A remedy especially for iddnqr
: ailments,
i Can any skagway reader doabt
tin's statement?
{ Mrs. A. M. Elliott, 589 8. Ore>H»f4
j St. San Jose, Calif., sayB: "Btirant
j years ago I suffered froja U4o9T
| eomulaint. I had* a tired aoh« in
the email of my back wMch aff«et«4
me most when I was ou my l«et dur
lug the day. I felt worn out j&nd
and run down. I had severe
in the back of my head and d'BJ
suells when specks came before
eyus. One box of Doan'a Kidney
Pills cured* m© of the attack."
Price 60c, at all deaJer*.
simply ask for a kidney remgijjr -7
j get Doan's Kidney Pilla—tk, Wfct
I that Mrs. Elliott had. F«t^4^t
burn Co., Mfgrs, Buffalo, N. T.
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