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EDITORIAL
"I always think of Skagwaj as
Home." That is the remark Will
Clavsk.ii in a do whea ho was speaking
of leaving tlu^ city.
That is a broad remark for a
business man to make, and when a
man who has reached tlig years that
Mr. Clayson has ,i* means a great
deal more.
Skagway regrets the loss of sucij
a man as Will from her circles of
business men, for he has always
been a "progressive" and has al
ways mkeu an active part in all
matters that might be for the bet
terment of the town. He has occupi.|
a prominent posi'ion in social and
lodge affairs, and in his business
dealings he has always been. fair
and generous. There is not one
single case in the court records
which will show that Will Clayson
has ever invoked the law in try
ing collect a bill from a debt
or, uor is there a record in court
wherein the law has ever been in
voked to force a collection from
him. Ho has given credit where
credi' was needed, and has never
bo'. u unreasonable in demanding his
pay .
It cas been with pride that we
have pointed to the Clayson store
us one of 'he prominent ones of
'his city, and Skagway has had uo
n$ed to be ashamed of doing so, for
i' has always presented the ap
pearance of a store which a city
pf many times the size of Skagway
might rightfully be proud of.
In parting we extend to Mr. Clay
son our hearties* wishes that he
may continue to prosper, and we
feel sure that in his new field his
neighbors will find that any con
fidence they may entrust to him
will not be misplaced
RIVAL ALASKA CITIES
The tapping of the Matanuska
cr.al fields and progress in the Al
aska railroad construction have
stimulated a strong rivalry between
Sen-aid and Anchorage as to which
shall be the ultimate commercial
metropolis and terminal of the gov
ernment line.
Seward is just now asking for the
construction of bunkers and a fuel
snoilv station for the vessels of
the navy, to which Matanuska coa>
may be delivered next spring or
summer. It is already the termin
al cf seventy-one miles of road on
the Alaska Northern railway, and
will be connected with the new line
in another season.
Tse Anchorage Times hears that
th' government engineering commis
sic 11 is to remove its headquarters
from Seward to Anchorage on Janu
aiy 1; that an army pest is to
be established there; that harbo
''ai-irovements will be followed by
the installation of coal bunkers;
that bi^ operators have applied for
Matanuska coal leases and are to
develop mines next spring. The
Times calls for a United States land
office and judicial division, with
headquarters and a court house at
Anchorage. "We've go* the votes
an'' we're a political power," says
tha Times; "let us employ our
TMjver to get what rightfully be
longs to us."
Seward, in turn, contends that it
has a deep-water harbor, open the
year around, and that Anchorage is
fronted by shallow waters, closed to
navigation durin" a portion of the
year, and that the future metropoli?|
of the Alaska coast will be found
at Seward.— Seattle P. I.
FAME IN A FEW WORDS.
Author* Who Ar» Now Known Only
by a Single Work or Paaaage.
Philip James Bailey wrote "Festus"
when be was twenty-three and lived
to be elgbty-alx without adding appre
ciably to his early laurels. His "Fes
tua" was compared by enthusiastic ad
mirers to the works of Shakespeare
and Goethe. No one reads "Festus"
now, but its memory survives In one
familiar quotation, a one time favorite
for use in autograph albums:
We live In deeds, not ycara; In thoughts.
not breaths;
In feelings, not in figures on a dial.
W« should count time by heart throbs.
He most lives
Who thinks most, feels the noblest, acts
the best
Bailey is very fur from being the
only author to live in men's minds by
virtue of a single line, stanza or pas
sage. It is a narrow margin by which
to escape oblivion, but It serves. True,
It is not the writer himself that is re
membered, but as long as some spark
from his brain stlU glimmers he is not
totally dead. It may be a line from a
song. "Meet me by moonlight alone"'
and "Don't you remember sweet Alice,
Ben Bolt?" are related as catchwords
by thousiftids who never heard of J.
Augustus Wade or Thomas Dunn Eng
lish. Very often, however, the lines
that survive are of high literary value.
Theodore O'Hara, ooldler of fortune,
wrote:
On fame's eternal campin# ground
Their silent tents are spread.
And glory guards with solemn round
The bivouac of the dead.
By these four lines he won for him
self admission to the eternal camping
ground of poetry.
William Knox, a Scotch versifier
(178SMS25), owes his fragmentary sur
vival not so much to any great poetic
merit in his mortuary couplets as to
the indorsement of Abraham Lincoln,
who loved to repeat:
Oh, why should the spirit of mortal be
proud ?
Like a fast flitting meteor, a fast flying
cloud,
A flash of the lightning, a break of the
wave.
He passes from life to rest in the grave.
—Philadelphia Ledger.
SAVAGE DISCIPLINE.
The Way Unruly Indian Boy» Were
Punished In Former Days.
My grandmother had twelve chil
dren, and one uacle undertook to teach
me the art of worship. He used to
lead me to the sandbanks of the Mis
souri river, where he would set fire
to a pile of driftwood, and then, tak
ing me by the hand, sing sacred songs
to the tire and river. In the mean
time he threw into them offerings of
tobacco, red feathers, and sometimes
oak twigs. I never knew the meaning
of these offerings, but I always felt
that some living thing actuated both
the fire and the river.
Another uncle < :imc to visit us peri
odically, and every time he came my
brother or 1 suffered at his hands.
Sometimes he would rush to the
spring, carrying me horizontally under
his arm and would plunge my head
into the water until I almost suffo
cated.
His common form of discipline was
to let me hang by my hands on the
cross poles of the wigwam until my
arms ached. My body writhed before
I dropped. This uncle seemed to like
best to commaud my older brother to
tie my hands and feet with a rope.
Then he would order me to resist—
an ordeal that would make us both
cry. In the winter he would also
sometimes roll us in snow naked.
The punishment of Indian children
Is usually in the hands of some uncle
rather than the parents. Our punish
ments were Inflicted generally because
we had disobeyed grandmother by
failing to get wood at evening, had
resisted fasting, had fought some In
dian boys or had cried without suf
ficient cause.—Southern Workmen.
The Scots in Ulster first established
linen manufactories during the reign
of James I., and from this beginning
has the business of the present day
developed.
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WHAT OUGHT TO
BE DONE FOR G. Q. P.
Prominent Republicans Seek
to Make It Winning Party.
NEAR VICTORY IN NOVEMBER
Patched Up Truce Between Progres
sives and Strict Partisans Nearly
Brought Success In Last Election, It
Is Pointed Out—Victory Would See
Return of Complete Harmony.
By AflTHUR W. DUNN.
Washington, Deo. 30.—[Special.]—
From time to time men who are prom
inent enough to speak for the Repub
lican party or sections of it—that is,
governors, ex-cabl^t members, sena
tors and representatives—turning their
attention from the recent defeat to the
prospects for the future, try to say
what ought to be done to make it a
winning organization.
Very few meu concede that the Re
publican party is dead or disintegrat
ing, although a few extremists hold
that view. Most of those who have
analyzed the conditions and know how
near they were to victory, with a patch
ed up truce between the factions, be
lieve that the future is not hopeless
and that another campaign may see a
winning organization.
Demands of Factions.
Washington is quite a place to hear
the expressions of opinions on politics.
Men who are privileged to speak fre
quently come to Washington and have
their word of advice. So far it ap
pears from those men of progressive
tendencies that the party was not pro
gressive enough In the last campaign
and that the reactionaries were in com
mand. On the other hand, there is a
note of distrust among the old guard
or stand pat element of the party in
the loyalty of those who came back,
or who were supposed to come back,
when Hughes was nominated and con
cessions were made to the Progres
sives. Both sides are making demands
and complaints. Indicating a still bit
ter feeling.
What Will Win.
There is one important fact in poli
tics, which is that conditions of the
country make or break parties and In
sure the success or defeat of a party.
Good times continued the Democrats
In power. Ilad hard times been upon
the country the divisions in the ranks
of the Republicans inixht have disap
peared and they might have won a
great victory.
As long as the Republicans are near
ly equal to a victory, as long as they
are Just short of enough votes, there
will be a pronounced Independent ele
ment or elements making demands and
Insisting upon the elimination of this
or that man or idea. As soon as the
conditions In the country restore the
Republicans to power tlien the party
will become the same forceful, domi
nating factor, provided it has a strong
one man power to guide it and make
all factions and men bow to his will.
The unity of purpose in politics, it
would seem, depends, like in a grc
many other things. ui>on the sum
of the party.
Missouri and Kansas Clash.
That old spirit of sixty years ago,
created in the days of the "jayhawker"
and the "border ruffian," still lives and
crops out when Missouri and Kan
sas are in disagreement It matters
not what may be the politics of the
Kansas men, when they differ with
Missouri men they are fighting over
an old issue which did not die with
the civil war.
Senator Heed and Senator Thompson
gave au exhibition of the Missouri
Kansas feeling when talking about the
liquor question in the senate. Kansas
is prohibiting and, according to Thomp
son, is corrupted by the wicked Mis
sourians who send their wet goods
across the border or tempt the Kan
sans over the line to get a drink.
Publishers Aroused.
From reports received in the way of
telegrams and letters publishers all
over the country are very much dis
turbed over the proposition to iucrease
the rates o» second class mail, which
is a very great burden coming on top
of the increased cost of paper. While
it hits the big periodicals the hardest,
it hits a lot of smaller fellows hard
enough to make it a very great burden
at this time, it ailixts the country
papers to some extent and numerous
farm papers that have a circulation
beyond the 300 mile first zone.
Stiil Missing.
Members of the ways and means
;ommittee who must get up a bill to
.-alse revenue have been unable to find
iiat method of taxation which will
prove popular. Just now it is more
difficult than ever, because so many
methods of taxation were tried and all
the least unpopular were put into the
last revenue bill.
"Verbal Ferocity."
Clashing over the prohibition bill,
Senator Reed of Missouri and Senator
Ashurst of Arizona indulged in rather
sharp talk, and Reed, as usual, was
very fierce and seemingly ferocious,
which moved Ashurst to say:
"The ferocity of my friend from Mis
souri is only verbal. He dearly loves
a joke on all persons except himself,
and when the joke is on him he is like
i a hen on a hot griddle."
FRATERNAL ORDEPS
Arctic Brotherhood. —
Camp Slcagway No. 1.
A. B. meo<3 every sec
ond anil fourth' Tues
day evening at S:30 P
m. snarp. Vlsuiug brouiars ooruiui
ly wfr.Vcane. w. L. Stevenson, Arc
tic Chief. W. E. Burford, Arctic
Iteci rder.
Fraternal Order
i Eaglets—
Skagway Aerie
No. 25, Prater
nal Oitler of
Kttgleg meets tlie| first and tluru
\\ CMliiesduy night of each month at
tm'ii hall oil Fifth Avenue. Visit
ing brothers cotrdialiy iiivitcjil to
Attend. L. E. Hudsou, W. 1'.,
J. M. Graisbacli, Secretary.
P. & A. M.
White Pass Lodge
F. & A. M. No. 113
meeta 2d and 4th
Prl. Ev'gs, of &ach
montc. Visiting brothers are wel
come.
Elmer L. Wheeler, W. M.
Address all communications to
the Secretary.
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. VASJDEWAlAi, Secretary
Pioneer of Alaska Igloo, No. 12,
meet* in A. B. Hall first Monday in
every month at 8:80 p. ni.
Visiting Brotlkcrs cordially wel
come.
W. L. STEVENSON, Pres.
V. T. DORTERO. Rec. Soc.
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(Formerly of Seattle)
Sprinligt in the trea|tmcpit of
disease and deformities of the
eye, ear, nose and throat.
Office: Goldstein Building, Ju
neau. Alaska.
W. B. STOUT
Attorney At Law
Practice in all courts
In Territory of Alaska
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