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COTTON—STILL SACKED, BIT
>C YKKO
Tne af* revenue bill, with
which tine Democrat* purpose to
hide itt deficitacks» of th^ L'nder
wooU lanit, was originally drafted
to impose a tax of ten i>er cent
upon ;Dc ntt profits oi manufac
turers of munitiuns oi war and up
ou the manufacturers ui materials
entering iuio such munitions.. Tbis
looktd *ood to tUa thrifty Souther:#,
ers who control congress and who
draft our fiscal legislation, and the
measure was in a fair way to be
agreed ut>oa in the Democratic cau
cus, when it occurred to some of
the idolaters of sacred cotton that
the hallowed product would thus
become sutjwct to the imposition.
Immediately there was a row. The
high prles's of cotton set up a roar
like tha' wrtti which the devotees
of ijaal sought to arouse their god.
To »htm a Lsoc on cotton, especially
a tax of 'be same proportions as
that levied upon the products of th
North, teemed an impious laying of
h mds upv n the ark of the covenant
—and ihey stormed and they thata
ened until they fiually had their
way.
The manufacturers of munitions
are still to be taxed ten per cent—
they *11 live in the North. But
tae manuiacturers of cottun in the
form iu which it is chiefly made
use cf in the manufacture of ex
plosives— aad they all live in the
South—are to pay only five per
cent.
For a time cotton was badly
scared. But it still remains sa
cred.
AN API'KJSCIA'UO.V
Fraukliu K. Lain* is tiie musi
eminently successful, ^ecrtuiry ot
the .'.nic.-ior iu 'he history tat
I i.iied States. Couteoiiporury juut
ment us to thtj importance ui rntu
■iiuii events is ulleu oliowu to be
faulty iu the light uC roUos^oUi^n,
but historians of the coming years
c-uinot overlook tae acuioteuienU
ol Lane
For over half a century the in
terior department established iu
laty. stems to have been able to
dg little mure th&u to evolve a
tu® be»t that can be said of it
in issue system of red tape, and
merely damns with faint yrabe.
Ia previous cabinets the secre
taries of state, or war, or navy
proved the dominant factors either
btcause the chief executives of the
time picked from these ;.rt.ui ti| them
•the strongest men for tnese places,
o: because incidents of the time
brought the holdtsrs of these port
folios to the fronL. it would
not be fair to past secretaries to
say they were not great men, for
in a nation oi this size a man pos
sessing the qualification to even
be though' of as a possible sec
retary of the interior must have
some elements of character worth
while.
Uu* was there ever a seereary
like Lane? When there is a va
cancy in the supreme court. Lane
is mentioned. The secretary of
state and secretary of war quit and
Lane was mentioned in both in
stances as the most likely man to
succeed them, but no, the head
of the interior department was too
husw with real things. After oil
his department is more important
to the we!fa>re of those whoi live
jioiital iiyeji lium, eitl-er, lor the
iHe stats dtpartmect is a pKice of
d.^kUL.u \ and Uia war secretary
c..u do naught but keoy prepared
to ik^troi—vanity and veudioa ot
spirit.
Lane has put his dep-rtmen.t ou
the map, made us reaiiae the val
ue ol lur national paaks and our
mineral reso>urce6j in. fact^ our do
main; tlNit OtU wfricti' aud by whku
«i) ha\e been enabled lo establish
a mighty nation.—Seward Post.
CABLE I1ATKS
Old Rto. New Rto.
Cordova, 1.S0 1.40 1.00 .SO
DoueLu .50 .40 .30 .25
Fairbanks 2.50 2.10 1.50 1.10
Juneau .40 .30 .30 .25
Ke'chikau 1.00 .30 .50 .40
Nome 3.30 2.50 2.50 1.90
Nulato 2.SO 2.10 2.00 1.50
Petersburg1 1.20 .90 .60 .50
St. Michael 2.40 2.10 2.50 1.90
Seattle 1.90 1.40 1.00 .SO
Seward 2.40 1.S0 1.00 .SO
Sitka .90 .70 .50 .40
V&ldex 1.90 1.40 1.00 .80
Wraugell .80 .80 .40 .30
Dawson 3.25 2 65 2.25 1.85
Tex. word day message and 50
wcrd night letter same price. Tea
word NIGHT MESSAGE shown In
stcoud column.
uitvnounoi
"A greyhound Is probably the fa«t«"<t
creature that moves upon the earth."
says a breeder of dogs. "It Is on rec
ord that h K-reyhound beat the famous
race horse Flying Chllders. An abso
lute trial between horse and greyhound
Is difficult, because, while the horse
can be ridden at top speed, tt Is Im
possible to Insure that the greyhound
will rtiu all he can. But a dog that
can start fifty yards behind n hare and
overtake It within another fifty—and
this Is about what the greyhound does
-mu-t surely be faster than anything
else that runs and has his superior
only among the birds."—Detroit Free
I»re"ss.
A Rothschild Maxim.
"Be cautious, but bold." the grea?
Roths' hikl claimed as his chosen bus!
uess maxim.
When Turkey Barred Coffee.
It Is hard to realize that there was «
time when the sultans of Turkey pass
ed the most stringent laws against
coffee drinking. The same time these
laws were parsed Turks were forbid
den to smoke tobacco. Yet at the pres
ent day the Turk v an hardly t>e thought
of without his pi|>e or cigarette and
his cup of coffee.
Sultan Murad IV. made It an offense
■n 1G33. punishable by death, to drink
coffee or to smoke. It is related that
so determined was he to abolish these
•'bad indulgences" that he used to
walk about Constantinople In disguise
to detect any offender against the law
In those early days coffee was de
oounced by preachers as one of the
four ministers of the devtl. the other
three being tobaci-o. opium and wine
The Chess Automaton.
Barou Kempeleu of Hungary began
to ustonlsb the civilized world of Eu
rope about with his chess autorn
aton Tills was apparently a figure
controlled by mechauical devices and
wbi.'h was able, notwithstanding the
fact that apparently no intelligence
was concerned in Its movements and
decisions, generally to beat Its human
antagonists The cabinet connected
with the automaton appeured entirely
too small to contain a hidden operator
And yet It did conceal a man who was
an expert chess player. He was a
Polish |>ati1ot who had lost both of his
legs—perhaps In the war over Poland.
This man. Woronsky by name, was an
expert player With him hidden In the
cabinet and yet really on the spot the
rest was easy
It Is recorded that about the yeaT
174S a resident at Twickenham planted
a "weeping willow" tree which had
been sent to him from the river
Euphrates, western Asia The tree
flourished, and subsequently It became
the custom to plant It In cemeteries,
owing to the graceful droop of Its
branches. There is a legend to the ef
feet that this was the tiee upon which
the exiled Jews hnng their harps as
they sat down and wept by the waters
of Babylon and that it was the weight
of their harps that first caused the
boughs to droop.
(I CNlCijlkt'e:
STMiS'U. TN16HT.
TH\5 FUSHN
TAE VIM
A. NXNOVI
LOTS 0' SCPsUtS BUT
Weeping Willowa.
£/VP> 'SMPPER.
TELEGRAPH WITH LIGHTS.
B«ttleahipa Can Send Signals Twatv*
Mi las In Daylight
Although searchlight signaling be
tween battleship* was a means of
communication at sea long before the
Introduction of wireless telegraphy, It
I* still utilized.
The latest battleships of our nary
are equipped with projectors designed
especially for this puri>ose. while the
older vessels use their regular search
lights, for which auxiliary shutters are
supplied. Levers oiwrate these latter
members, flushing the lights on and off
quietly so that messages may he spell
ed out In dots and dashes, either at day
or nlgbL
For day signaling the light shaft Is
directed squarely at the observer, and
for enabling this a lelescoi* Is mount
ed with the projector. When etinos
pberic conditions Hre good the radius
of communication is abont twelve
miles In any direction At night this Is
obviously much Increased, for light
may be played on some prominent
cloud and seen for a distance of forty
or fifty miles.
When there are no clouds the search
lights may be directed skyward and
their shafts of light seen ai closer
range. The feasibility of launching
captive balloons as substitutes for
cloud banks has been suggested.—Pop
alar Mechanics.
EARLY TRADEMARKS.
When Firet Used They War* Without
Any Protection In Law.
The recognition of trademarks by
English law may be said to date oni%
from the beginning of the nineteenth
century, but the use of trademarks
was. of course, of far earlier date.
So fi.r back as the reign of .lames 1
a certain clothier applied the mark of
another clothier to his own Uiferku
goods, but the rei>orts of the lawsuit
which ensued leave it doubtful whether
the uctlon was brought by the owner of
the mark or by an indignant customer
In which latter case It would simply be
an ordinary action for fraud
In 1742 Lord Hnnlwlcke declared
that "every particular trader has some
particular mark or stamp." At the
same time his lordship refused to grant
the protection of the law to the "Great
Mogul" stamp o;i cards. He was ap
parently under the impression that the
legal recognition of trademarks meant
the creation of a new kind of monop
oly, and he made up his mind to obvi
ate such possibility
Lord Eldon. on the other hand, re
peatedly granted Injunctions to re
strain one trader from fraudulently
"passing off" bis goods as those of an
otber and thus helped to lay a founda
tlon on which the present trademark
law has been built up In successive
stages.—London Standard
Shakespeare Plus Cervantee.
Tbere la an old tradition which links
Cervantes with Shake»i>eare In connec
tion with the lose play "Carilenno." or
"Cartlenna." which was twice acted at
court by Shakespeare's company In
1613 and was announced for publlca
tlon some forty years later as "The
History of Cardeulo, by Fletcher and
Shake»|>eare." The publication never
took place, and nothing la otherwise
known of the piece with certainty, but
Sir Sidney Lee believes It to have been
a dramatic version of the adventures
of the lovelorn Cardenio. related lu the
first part of "Don yuixote." Shelton's
translation of which appeared In 1G12
Why Salt Cauaea Thirst.
Salt has been described as a natural
element of the blood In about the same
proportion as In the water of the ocean
Under general conditions we do not
feel the existence of salt in our bodies
because its effect Is counteracted by a
due proportion of water
When we eat an excessive amount
of salt thirst Is created by the demand
of nature that wp also take a propor
tlonate amount of water and dilute the
salt to Its projier relative amount Any
food that tends to absorb the moisture
of the body will cause thirst for the
same reason—that our physical welfare
require# a balanced quantity of water
8cared by the Elephant.
Tradition has It that Caesar brought
elephants with him to Britain and that
they contributed to his conquest of the
Island Having unsuccessfully attempt
ed to cross the Thames. Caesar built a
large turret on an elephant and. load
lag It with bowmen and slingera, or
dered them to pass the stream, where
upon the Britons, terrified at the sight
of the unknown monster, fled in confu
sion.—London Chronicle.
Tabby.
•Tabby" cat ought to be really
"atabe." being derived from "atab."
the uame of a famous street in Bagdad
which used to be the great market
for silks. A tabby cat's coat was
thought to be like the wavy markings
of watered silk
Questions and Answers.
The time elapsing between a qties
tlon and an answer Is almost as lmpor
tant as the answer Itself It may be
wisely long or short but the louger It
Is the wiser must be the answer.
Manipulating Bones. ,
"Pop. what's osteopathy?"
"The art of manipulating bones, mr
son."
"Then Is an osteopath a minstrel ond
man?"—Baltimore American.
The Disappointing Movie.
"I've seen It—'tain't no good."
" 'E gets 'ung. don't 'e?"
"Yns. but they don't show yer that"
—London Punch
Be a whole man to one thing at a
, time.—Carlyie.
; la rwalJty Um -mn of tie Juir"
; mtauB Um "cat# ol u« »*-Up." A®
| plr •PUBOLA" Hair Tom acoordiu*
to diroctlauj {urajabed with oacft
botti*, and you will aot only be
Aurpriaed, but plaaaed wiUt the
wcnderial result*. A satisfactory
Ai lot k tot b*ir be&ltn; sold on
1U mentt and satiatactioa guarau
vo«u n your money back.
♦ KRA1KUAAJL UKUKltS ♦
m. saarr Visiting biotnei* cordial
ly welcome. W. L. SteTeunoa, Arc
tic Cbltl, W. K. Burford, Arctic
Recorder.
Arctic Uro Una-hex <1—
Camp Skagway .No. 1,
A B. meets every sec
ond and fourth Tues
day evening at 8:30 p.
t T»u-ni»j Order
9 Aerie
No Jib, Vii^ter
' «»j Order oi
Kusitte lusol* Uie ri.B: auo UilTu
v\ txln<*>duj iughl 01 edct) in on Lli a<
Uoir AtUi OK Jr'UUi HTeuue Vutbliu^
roioerb cordially 10 o-iujuu
U E. Kadiom, W. P., J. K. Mo
UUt«r. secretary.
F. &. A. M.
WliRe TasB Lodge
F. & A. M. No. 113
moeU> 2d and 4th
Frl. Ev'g». ot eaflk
UI.IUIU. vitiuDg Droiueig are
oome.
Elmer L. Winder, W. M.
Addrase ali communication® to
t'ie Secretary.
B. P. O. KLKS
Skagway Lodge
No. 421, B. P. a
E. meet® every
1st &ud 3d Thui*
3 d~iy at 8:30 p. m.
Visiting broth
jps cordially welcome.
I HENRY FR1EDENTHAL, E. R
1 T. J. VAAt'DEWALi,, Stcreuury
I IMoneer of Alaska Igloo, No. 12,
: nutlfc In A. B. H»U first Monday in
every month at 8:30 p. in.
I Vbitiiig Brothers cordially wel
; come.
W. L. STEVENSON, Pres.
V. T. DORTERO. Rec. Sec.
Alaska Junk Co.
<4 Jnaewi Alaska,
De&lerc lm
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ROPE, SCRAP IRON
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at or*.
Whitehorse
Kluane Stage
Line
The Royal Mail Stage
leavet» Whitehorse the
fourth of every month
for Kluane and way
poiut? and aluo ou the
seventeenth of every
month for Chanipaigne
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icited, Rates Reasonable
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