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OUR FLAG
EDITORIAL
WHV \VK S,V\ "lMM'tfE"
To the Kditor of The Stars and
-■"tripos:— t'{'
Why aro th« Uermans called
I3oches? 4|t:
Lony before the Fnuted States
enteie-1 the war, I asked a German
of mv acquaintance in an American
citv that question. He replied
very gravely that it was a "fight-;
i:'.* wmc,'' equivalent to the very
orst name one nian can can
a'lotP in America, and that siiv.*
th^ French seemed to have forfait-.
ten the origin, the German purple
«cre not disposed to recalll it far
t ;e benefit of literary peopl^ liu t
t!;ey would revenge themsel*^ ju-st
the samp fur the insulting epichet
i'e added that his f^th'sr !iad
i» €u an officer in the iSwrman army
■'uritu the occupation, of. Paris in
► war of lsTu-71, ana had told
aDout it I cvxil^ get noth
ia' mcr* out of hiru
When we finally got into the ">var
I hecime more ourious as to the
uri.-iu of [he a am* aud asked •
uuiPtrs of people in France, all of!
whom merely shrugged their shoul
der and saii it wag a term al"
w;'}3 aoplied to Germans and every
thing German. That standard of
assir'ied knowledge in France.)
Vti* I.arousse, sa>s it wag prob
ably derived from a German word
-V.bosche. meaning a dulT fitted
l.eavr sort of man. / / *
Finally, i billeted' with a: Frenc'tv
m-ir. who possessed aa- eacyel«r
I'-'dic dictionary, with a, Ja^ ghtw
i: i tat his edition, .vas pritaced
tn th» early SO's. .'dim 1 ariced
and he looked' up t'-*i wj d, finding
tha» i: was PJ,-nsiaa slang for
"iiberUne.' ' J j
This got us Utth ics'teresUd. anil*
we visited ar old retired Frenc&i
army officer, r*ao tarj us tiat th»
wor-5 is, derived fruoi the Frencfc
word tambocheur \vhich. iudicatus
a mar of rathe? loose habits,
shown in El well's dictionary; bara
oocheuse. meanio/; a toose giri
Ia Cassi s new French- dictionary,
bambocheur is defined as •"liber
tine." / • ...fttf.'JU :W
However, a number of Freneh
mtn have to'.d me that a bam
taocfleur is not a nbertine, being
merely a 'rather gay young chap.
Thpy say that bambocheus* does
not stawf. for a bad woman, but
m .-ely tor a woman out for a good
time and not so careful off her
reputation as sh shanld be.
This old French officer, howev,,
said that about the time of thei
Franco-Prussian war in 1870-71.
the vord "boche," derived from
bambocheur, had a very distinct
meaning. It implies a libertine °f
tne vrey lowest and most abandoned,
tvpe and. for all he iknows, it may
be so used today in certain cir- I
cles cf Parisian low life- He sa'd
that the habits of th,^ majority of j
ts-» German offficer* in Paris were!
such that the name described them j
exactly and that Germany owes the ^
Vf'ri "boche" ispejled, you see,.
in tha Froach and hot lb tkio &er
man way) to thd representatives
of Prussiaii militarism and junker
Ism who had their feet for a time
oa the necks of the Frelich people.
This meaning for the word
"boche" supplies th£ American
soldier with au epithet vbich de*
scribes a mail as he la. without
reference to accidental occurrences
in the family history. A Boche IB
a boche because he would rather
be a t>cche than be d«ecent. It Is a
goo^ word and sounds Detter than
several other words now used as
"cuss words," and, being: pregnant
with meaning, should be incorpor
ated in the English-American lan
guage as capable of definition in
a family dictionary, yet with num
erous attriotues well understood.
Hereafter, our dictionaries can say:
"Boche. A depraved type of man."
INVESTIGATOR.
(This is very likely the true ex
planation of th origin of "Ooche."
There is at least one other, how
ever, which has as logical a his
tory. In the days of tb© Franco
Prussian war, the Parisian gamin
used "boche" as a termination in
slanglfying his daily speech, much
in the manner of our own "hog
Latin." Thus, ailemand, only .one
of any number of words to be so
us»d, become al boche, and the Ger
mans of that day were called that
trie" forgotten, but alboche,
Later, as slang stales changed, the
subsequently shoo-tened to boche,
still survived. It took the present
war to make ft eternal. The ter
mination probablq worked itself
into the Parisian vocabulary
througn the fearful and wonderful
argct <ies Sisncherbems, the dialect
of the Parisian butchers, whjen
13 a« clear to an ordinary French
man ?s real French is to a Yank
wh • has just stepped off a trans
port It is interesting to note
(purely as a coincidence, for th#
words have :no etymological signi
ficance) that the German word
boshaft means spiteful, and the
worit Bosheit malice.—Editor—Stais
and Jtripes. >'
XOHK COAST GUARDSMEN
J ' TAKE COURSE IN ALSKA
Seattle,—Six patriotic Americans,
ffiem&exs of the coast guard, miles
?.bcvo Nome, Alaska, are taking a
/lone distance course In navigation
I to ft themselves for active service
in the merchant marine through the
extension department of Washington
To accommodate the men, the
university devised a system whereby
the lessons could be sent from here,
encased in cylindrical tubes to Nome
*)y boat and then on a dog-drawn
sled to the little group of students.
After completing one lesson the
men advised the university by cable
tbaf they were ready for 'be next.
daavson victory drive
I CHIEF CONGRATULATED
1 ■
Frank Lowe, chairman of the
Daws-'n Victory !oan*committee, is
busv planning for the teie doings in
'Dawson. He received a telegram
of congratulations today from W.
H. Malkin, chairman of the Brit
ish Columbia Victory loan commit
tee. Mr. Maikin will act in con
Junction with Mr. Lowe and the
British Columbia headquarters Will
bo th<* Dase for the Dawson supply.
Mr. Malkin stated in bis tele
gram today that P. Shallcross, the
district organizer, has forward
ed under registered mail, everything
that is necesssary to proceed with
the loan.
CHIT IVY SUBSCRIBES
I k LIBERTY LOAN QUOTA
Cordova, Oct. 1".—Chitina yes
terday went "over the top'' in the
Fourth Liberty Loan campaign by
m iking additional bond subscrip
tions of $1,100, bringing the to
tal to $2,100. The quota allot
ted' is $2,500. •
jHcCarthy reports pledges of
$6'J0, or 53,350 to date.
Strelna also announced $1,000
i subscribed. -i
t
Anton Stander returned- this
moaning irom a. two-weeks' pros
oectin,T ti.ro on Turnagain Arm, says
I the Anehorage Times, which he a*
! vqw's should be changed to Windy
i Arm. Anton is stopping at the
j Crescynt and ;?ays that he was again
unsuccessful in- locating gold in pav
ing quantities, but armed with
. tha recofil«»ctions of the millions h
has 'afcen from other Alaska placer
fields, he Js sublime in the faith
that lock will change andt some
day the cre»ek that will make him
rich ^nd Amcborage famous will be
disciiveretl in thl§ vicinity.
A
Change of Scene.
"Do you think Josh will be Kind to
net back to tlu1 old place?" asked Mrs.
Corntosstl.
"I'm sure hi? will," replied her hus
band. "What I've read about 'no man's
land' makes me think a sight of plain,
peaccable. plowed ground ought to be
I rlnht satisfactory and soothln'."
Fcrtur.ats Man.
Weary—Soy, mister, would yousc
mind stakln' a pore man wot ain't got
[ no home t" a few pennies?
Mr. Jar—(lot no home? Say. old fol
I low, you are playing In great luck.
Why. you can stay out all night any
old time you want to.
Between Girls.
"Young ladles in offices meet many
nice men."
"I know."
"And often make happy marriages."
"That's what. 1 think 1 could get a
husband myself if 1 could give my
chaperone the slip once in a while."
Money Talks.
Bill—Do you believe that money
talks?
csill—Certainly. I do.
"Well, do you remember that $r> I
borrowed from you?"
"Sure; and I happen to know It's
saying 'Forget it,' all right."
Try It.
Puggs—Yes. 1 helped my wife to re
duce all right.
Muggs—How diil you do it
Puggs—Took her to high-priced res
taurants where everything was so high
sh» couldn't afford to eat.
BLOWN UP.
Dlggs—Our cook left very suddenly |
this morning.
Wiggs—What was the trouble'
Dlggs—Gasoline.
Mary's Lamb.
Mary had a little lamb
But how that lamb has grown!
Now Marv'd rather walk a mile
Than face that lamb alone.
The Proper Caper.
"Did you see whore two army men
escaped from a station house by get
ting out on the roof and dropping
down?"
"Well, that was all right. They
were practicing going over the top."
Infinitesimal Capacity.
"What do you thiuk? Jiggers Is
boasting of how well he can drive a
car."
"Drive a car! Why, that dub can't
even drive a nail."
The Real Match.
"She's quit trying to land a rich
man for a husband." t
"Yes. She says she'd pass up a mil
lionaire any time now to marry an offi
cer in the army or the navy."
Prussian Fashions.
"The Iron cross Is still highly es- j
teemed."
"I should say so. So many of them
are worn now that they are a regular
fad."
Vindication.
"The English sometimes employ the ]
letter 'h' peculiarly in their speech."
"I'm not sure they haven't got It J
right. We used to say 'unprepared.' I
Now we say. 'Hun prepared.'"
Heeds Win.
Mrs. Mix—Look at the 11 nverleys
tossing up a dollar. Gambling?
Mr. Mis—No. Iliads they puint the
auto; tails, the house.
Their Class.
"I see where the Turks are going to
organize women's battalions."
"I suppose they will be of the tmrem
scarum sort."
His Sort.
"Molly's husband Is a fine, manly
young fellow, Isn't he?"
"Well, from what I have seen of
him when with her, I should say he
is something of a Molly coddler,"
'c. R. & S. \V. m4V BE FOfcCJfctt
'ro change to goal
The Copper River and Northwest
ern railway is now experiencing a
shortage of fuel oil, says the Cordo\a
Herald, and may find it neces
sary to change to ooal, according
to a statement mad^ yesterday by
Caleb Corser, superintendent.
Thr- railway and the Kennecott
and Latouche mines are supplied
with fuel oil by the Standard Oil
company. The supplies at present
ar* short and the oil company will
not guarantee oil in sufficient
quantity to supply the railway and
mines. < i
The exact reason for the shortage
is not known but It is said recent
seve"» storms on the Mexican ooast
have curtailed the amount brought
in'o the United States from Central
America. Also, some of the tank
ers of the company have been sunk
by enemy submarines and others
taken over by the government.
A change from oil to coal on the
ralKay will entail considerable
work and expense in altering the
engines to handle the coal, accord
ing to Mr. Corser. He declares,
however, he expects the Sandard Oil
company to give a month or six
weeks' notice if it finds it cannot
continue to supply the railway,
CARIBOU REPORTED IN'
THE TANANA FLATS
Maty? herds of caribou hay© been
reported as being In the flats of the
ranan* river, several being 6een on
the trpil between the 18-mlie house
ftid Munson's. Yesterday an outo
returned to town w'th ' four nice
specimens on board', the result of a
twc-dav hunt. They were killed a
few miles this' fiide of the trading
Dost station.—Citizen.
SPLITTING MG ESTATES
London ,Oct. 17.—Business in
reai estate is boomins as it hfl8
D.ot done for many years. Auction
s-era say they know no parallel to
l.he i>resent demand1 for farms and
portions of big estates which are
gradually being split UP over
h'- country.
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PAPERS IN PBTKltSBUftO i
Ketchikan.—Th© office of the
District Attorney here received the
following message today from Dep* i
uty Marshal Si Howell at Peters- j
bur? regarding the turning in of ,
citizenship papery of Scandinavians
who do .not wish to fight for the
United States:
"Following are the names of men
who turned in their first papers to
the local board at Petersbur to date:)
Ole EkJe, Charleston Hotel, Se
attle
Haivar Otness, Burk0 Hotel, Se
attle.
John Greastad, Petersburg.
Christian Refness, Petersburg.
Aine Rafdal, Juneau.
John Systad, Big Port Walter.
Ivar O. Strand«n, Petersburg."
M. H. Dobbs, of local board> No.
4, reoorts that to date eight men
have turned in their papers to the
Ketchikan board, although a num
ber of these men are under thcs jur
isdiction of other boards. The
|name? of the men here are: Olai
, Christjanson, Olaf Knibe, Emil
Nels' n, Martin Hanson, Evn Seines,
Arne Sandvick. Men of the Sitka
board turning in their papers are (
01e Jorgensen a®d Conrad Olsen.
WHAT LODGE WANTS
Washington, Oct. 17.—Senator
Hnirv Cabot Lodge introduced a|
resolution in the Setnate declar
ine that it was the sense of the
Senate that no further communica
tion be had with Germany on the
juDject of an armistice, and that i
no communication be had' with Ger
man? except on the subject of un-,
conditional surrender.
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