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EDITORIAL PAGE
"DOING" THE COUNTRY
.Wars la which, the United
States is involved have had
foul tcauJala caused by the greed
of those who have sought to fat
tea dishonestly upon the needs of
the nation. Nov it appears that
fcveu & -wax still entirely outside of
the American sphere of action
prompt* raids upon the people's
pockets through the agency of the
federal government itself.
The Wall Street journal poiuts
out that the terms of the Smoot
silver purchase bill passed by the
senate in August would virtually
make a present, at the cost of tue
taxpayers of the country, of no
l«sa than $378,250 to the silver
mining interest* of the mountain
states. it would give them almost
six cents aa ounce more, for 15.
000,000 ounces of sil^r, than they
have been getting from other buy
ers or from the federal government
itself. .... „.
I w. • —M I ■ I. ■ ^ ■
This made-ln-Utah b'll provides
that the 15,000,000 ouixes of sil
ver shall be purchased at the aver
age price piyrailing from January
15 to JUne 15, 19H. That aver
age price was about 57 S5 cents an
ounce. For the last tv/o weeks
the miuts and the Uniied States
assay offices have been buying sil
ver at 52 cents an ounce. That
is what foreign governments art
paying now.
In other terms, the taxpayers are
to be compelled, if the Smoot bill
shall become a law, to give nearly
six cents an ounce, on 15,000,000
ounces of silver, to mine owners
who ara "dooirouu" of keeping
miners employed. Will the House
pasg this t>lN? If it does, will the
president sign it?
Lille, being "crowded with fugi
tives and wild rumors," must in
deed have been short of elbow room
Maybe the $375,000 shortage in
the new city hall fund could be
offset by leaving out the manicure
parlor.
Those Americans in Paris who
volunteered to fight for France
could hardly have been guilty of
carrying the Stars and Stripes.
Not the most surprising thing
on® sees in the papers is that the
Colorado court-martial lias exon
erated all the National Guard de
fendants.
From that Chicago story it
might be inferred that golfers
have need of caddies to kill
snakes.
The announcement that 264
Michigan precincts gave such and
such .men bo many votes, indicates
that not all the world has gone
»*r y.
Xojr the province of Brabant is
said to h&va been ordered to raise
$90,000,000 in five days—and
perhaps leave It in a "secluded
»P°t." j j».
A prisoner killed by a guard at
the Mansfield reformatory had
been there nearly a year without
being paroled!
The supply of champagne in
Brussels is reported to be running
short. Possibly It has been flow
ing like beer.
Russia probably asks nothing
better than that her army
should show an "altogether dif
ferent" spirit from that which it
showed in Manchuria.
Mr. Joseph Benson Foraker is
reported to have spent $4,277 in
his "unsuccessful race," but the
Inference that It was £ race is not
confirmed. ~ * "
1
The Zeppelin airships have at
least every opportunity to provo
themselves as deadly in war as in
peace.
It might be well tor military
hospitals to fly Red Cross flags
horizontally, bo as to be visible
from airships.
If he is still around, the Louvre
authorities might turn the Venus
of Milo over to the man who stole
the Moua Lisa.
If Emperor Francis Joseph's
death is, indeed, only "a question
of hours," why does the United
Press hesitate?
And of course the country might
bo able to worry along if West
Point and Annapolis never played
a football frame.
CURIOUS CARD TRICK.
It Deals With Odd Numbers, and the
Explanation Is a Mystery.
There is a fUizzle which niny he per
formed with any odd number of ob
jects, playing cards being usually em
ployed, and which any one can do, but
no one seems able to explain the rea
son for It Let us suppose the ournber
selected to be twenty-seven cards, al
though fifteen or twenty-one wonld do
Just as well.
After having them shuffled hold them
In the left hand face upward and then
deal them face upward one at a time
in three piles so that the fourth card
comes on the first and the fifth on the
top of the second and so on until you
have three piles of nine cards each.
Request any person who Is watching
you to make a silent note of any card
he pleases, and when you have finished
dealing to tell you in which pile the
card lies. By picking up the three piles
again one at a time as before, the not
ed card will reappear. Ask In which
pile it came that time and place that
pile in the middle as before.
Upon dealing the cards Into three
plies for the third time note carefully
the card that comes In the middle of
each pile. With twenty-seven there
will be nine in each pile and the fifth
will be the middle card. Now, when
the person who selected the card names
the pile in which his card comes you
will know It was the middle card of
that pile. With this knowledge in your
possession you can finish the trick In
any manner you please.
This !s only a statement of results,
but what Is the explanation or reason
for it? What is the rule that makes it
always come ont right, regardless of
the number of objects used, so that It
is odd?—New York Sun.
Where the Fault Lay.
A newspaper man tells of a friend
who edited, with uiore or less success,
a paper In a small town. That he was
somewhat discouraged by the lack of
Interest shown In his Journal was evi
denced by this notice which one after
noon appeared on the editorial page:
"Burglars entered our house last
night To the everlasting shame of the
community for whose welfare we have
labored, be it said, they got nothing."—
Harper's Magazine.
Bewildered Him.
"I snv, Weggie, I'm In an awful
mess. Miss Smart means to sue me
for "bweath of pwomise' or somethio'
howwld like that"
"Wealiy?"
"Yaas 1 said 1 was awfuliy sowwy
not to ask her to mawwy me, but dad
would cnt me off if I did, and nH she
said was, 'You needn't imagine I'm the
kind of a girl that accepts an apology
for a man.' "—New York Tribune.
Relieves CATARRH of'
the
Have you seen tie Skagway
Booster Pennants at Keller Bros.
Tiiey are classy glassy, sassy pen
ants. Got one lor your home.
Pacific Alaska Navigation Co,
44THE ADMIRAL LINE"
westbound
S.S. ADMIRAL EVANS Sept 12
AVESTBOUKD
S.S. ADMIRAL WATSON Sept. 19
LEAVING SEATTLE ON THE 51h, IStli AND 25t& OF
EVERY MONTH AM) ARRIVING IN SKAGWA1 ON THE OUi,
19th AND 29th., WESTBOUND.
RETURNING FROM THE WESTWARD, SHOULD LEAVE
S1CAGWAY, SOUTHBOUND, AlTRt.XIMATELi' ON THE Oth,
19th., AND 29tli.
Direct ^onuettiou ami through servico, Seattle to Sua Fran
cisco, on the Steamship Admiral Farragut and Admiral Watson,
sailing from Seattle on a five-day schedule.
Special atteulion to Tourist Business, both west and south
bound.
For Information call at Ticket Office, or write.
Pacific*Alaska Navigation Co., Skagway, Alaska
Women Can Get Ballot
1 Quicker Through the
States Than They
Can Through
Congress
13 by American Press
Association.
CHAMP CLARK In Address to Suffragists
OMAN suffrage. is as inevitable as the rising of tomorrow's sun
For six thousand years men have been trying to run the world,
and some people think we have made a bad mess of il. If you
women run it I hope you will improve over us.
YOU ARE GOING AT THIS THING IN THE RIGHT WAY. THE FIRST
ARTICLE OF THE UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION PROVIDES THAT
EVERY ONE SHALL HAVE THE RIGHT TO PETITION CONGRESS OR
THE GOVERNMENT. I HOPE THAT YOU WILL CONTINUE IN THE
PEACEABLE METHODS YOU ARE NOW USING.
The only question for you folks to consider is h«w you enn expedi
tiously get what you want because 1 think you arc g<>in.Lf to L<'t it,. M;
own judgment is that you can get it quicker through the states th. .
through congress. At the rate you are going now it looks to m» a- if
you might get it in three, four or five years.
MY OWN POSITION, AND I MIGHT AS WELL MAKE THAT CLEAR
TO YOU NOW BECAUSE I HAVE GOT TO DO IT'SOME TIME, IS THAT l
THINK WOMEN SHOULD VOTE. WHENEVER IT 13 SUBMITTED IN
MISSOURI I AM GOING TO VOTE FOR IT. WHEN YOU DO GET THE
VOTE I HOPE THAT YOU WILL V0TE FOR THE BEST PRINCIFLE3
AND THE BEST MEN.
PROFESSIONAL I'.XUDS.
Dentists.
DU. L. S. KELLER.
Dentist.
M«st Modern Methods.
Ope a Evenings.
Office Hours: 9-12 a. xl. 16 p. m.
Alaskan Muililiug - Broadway
3KAGWAY ALASKA
W. B. STOUT.
Attorney At Law.
Practices lu all courts
In Territory of Alaska
Ha!-"3 Alaska.
F. & A. 3L
Whlto Paas Lodge
F\ & A.M. No. 113
meets 2d and 4th
frL Ev'gs. of each
montii. VlslUijg brother* ore wel- j
come. Phil Abrahams, Secretary.
W. C. Wright. W. M.
Fraternal Order
K*gles—
Skagway Aerie
No. 25, Frater
nal Order ot
caries uwii uie a rat ana tnira
Wednesday night of each month at
their ha'1 on Fifth avouue. visiting
brothers cordially Invited to attend.
Elmer Wheeler, W. P., J. M. Keller,
Secretary.
B. P. O. ELKS
Skagway Lodg
No. 431, B. P. O.
E. meets every
1st and 3rd Thurs
■ days at S o'clock.
Viaitlnp- hrnth
era cordially welcome. Ja3 Ken
nedy, Ex. R. Geo. Magee Secretary.
Arctic Brotherhood.—
Camp Stag-way No. 1
A B. meet* every Tues
day eveniag at 8:00 p
m. snarp. /isitinp brothers cordial
ly welcome D. J. Rich, Arctic Chief
W. R. Hillery, Arctic Recorder.
Pack Train
Restaurant
TONY STANICH, Proprietor
For 14 Year* We Have Served only
The Best in the Markets
arM today it it the
Most Popular Eating
House in the North
New Location
Broadway, between 3rd and 4th
The Delmonico of Alaska
Raleig
Hotel
FIRE PROOF
MANAGEMENT
Stock Rumsey of Nome i
Joe Rumseyof Dawson \
i
J ieasonable Rates
Every Convenience
1408 FOURTH AVENUE
Seattle
"BEN" GULBERTSON
Expressing and Cartage
Phone 34, day 01 nigl.fc, for
quick sorvice
Office: The Pool Room
Wood, Coal and Ico delivered ou
Sliort Notice,
Seattle, Tacoma, Victoria
Vancouver, Prince Rupert
Juneau, Petersburg, Wrangell, and Ketchikan
Leave Skaguuay
S*S*City of Seattle, Sept 4,15,27, Oct 9,--21
S.S+ Spokane, Sept 10, 22, Oct* 4, 16, 28
And every six days following. Modern comfortable ships, ex
cellent service. Connects at Seattle with through passen
ger steamers.
CONGRESS, GOVERNOR, PRESIDENT AND QTJEEN.
Sailing Tuesday, 10 a. m. and Friday, 5 p. m.
FOR SAN FRANCISCO, LOS ANGELES, SAN DIEGO.
Through tickets sold and baggage checked to all points in
Untied States and Canada. For folders and full particulars,
address V. A. PETERSON, Agent
II. BRANDT, G. A. P. D. Phone 50, SKAGWAY
COS second Ave., Seattle, Wash.
ALASKA STEAMSHIP CO.
FAST TIME TO SEATTLE 31-2 DAYS
Making but two stops (Juneau and Ketchikan)
THE OCEAN GOING STEAMSHIPS
S. S. MARIPOSA, Aug. 17, Sep. 4-23, Oct 11-29
S.S. ALAMEDA, Aug. 23, Sep. 10-29, Oct 17, Nov. 4
S. S. NORTHWESTERN, Sep. 18, Oct 6-24, Nov. 11
ALSO THE POPULAR
-S. S. JEFFERSON, Aug. 26. Sept 8-20, Oct 2-14-26
S. S. DOLPHIN, Sept 1-14-26, Oct 8
Transfer to Tacoma, Vancouver and Victoria, without additional charge.
For Cordova and Westward Points
S.S.MARIPOSA. .... Aug. 28, Sep. 16. Oct 4-22
S.S.ALAMEDA. Sep. 3-22, Oct 10-28
S. S. NORTHWESTERN. Aug. 23, Sep. 11-29, Oct 17, Nov. 4
All dates subject to change without notice
T KI.KPHOXE NO. CO. 15. J. SHAW, Agent, SKAGWAY.
Famous
Icanadsan]
\PACinc/ "Princess" Steamers
Leave Skagway Every Thursday
AS ADVERTISED
P. SOPHIA, Sept. 17, Oct. 1-15-29
P. MAY, Sept. 24, Oct. 8-22, Nov. 5
Particulars and Reservations, " Rail or Sail," from
F. F.W. LOWLE, Gen'l Agt. Phone 87 SKAGWAY
[Steamship Humboldt j
THE ONLY INDEPENDENT STEAMSHIP OPERATING TO S. E. ALASKA |
Sailings from Skagway to Seattle.
i June 27, Julv 7- 18, 29- Aug. 8, 18, 29
$50 Round Trip to Seattle and Return
Sailing dates subject to change without notice.
THROUGH TICKKTS HONORED
[ Seattle Office: Robert, Browning, 5(li & Broadway.
718 Second Avenue. Tickets and all {(.formation.
THE
'OLYMPIAN'
The Train of Luxury
TO
1KTTE, MILKS CITY, SIOUX CITV, MINNEAPOLIS,
AND ST. PAUIi, MILWAUKEE, CHICAGO
ALL POINTS EAST, via the
" MILWAUKEE "
I.EAVES SEATTLE DAILY AT 10:15 A. 3L
"A TOUR DE LUXE" is an oppression supremely fitting in con
nection with a trip to the East on tills palatial all-steel
transcontinental train. It combines the enjoyment of rare scenic
beauties with the pleasure of a journey in absolute ease and
comfort.
VO EXTRA FARE ON THIS TRAIN
For further information regarding fares, train service, res
ervations, etc, call on or address
E. J. SHAW
Agent, Alaska Steamship Co.
SKAGWAY, ALASKA.
City Ticket Office, Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway,
443 Hastings St. West, VANCOUVER, B. C.
SECOND AVE. AND CHERRY ST. SEATTLE.