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EDITORIAL
"CHILDREN WILL BE FLOGGED"
The following lg a translation of
au order posted in Belgium, and
was translated from the original
which was photographed' during
the «arly days of war. This shows
to what methods the Germans re
sorted to enforce the children of
war wracked Belgium to labor.
Holnon, July 20, 1915.
All workmen, and women and
children of 15 years and upwards.
mas: work in the fields dally,
Sundays included, from 4 a. m. till
S p. m. (French time). A break
is allowed of half an hour in the
morion?, one hour at midday, and
hal' an hour in the afternoon.
Ac./ breach of these regulations
will be punished as follows:—
(1) Men refusing to work will
duriug the harvest be formed into
labor companies and detained in
barracks under the supervision of
ilermaa corporals.
A'ter the harvest those refusing
to work will be sent to prison for
six months; on the third' day the
rations will be simply bread and
wa*€ r.
Women unwilling to work
wil' be exiled to Holnon to labor.
Alter the harvest these women
will be imprisoned for six months.
i S) Children refusing to work
will be flogged.
The Commandant will, further, at
his discretion order the punishment
of refractory workmen with a
flogging of 20 strokes daily.
The workmen of the parish of
Veudelles are now undergoing se
vt ro ounishment.
(Signature of the Commandant)
To t>r oosted in Public.
THE FIGHTING L1XE
When Jimmy went to fight the Hun
Across the briny sea
It seemed like setting of the sun
To Jimmy's ma and me,
An.' i opine we would repine.
But we've no time, you see.
For now that Jimmy's gone to light,
To finish off the Hun,
it° he's to do his fighting right,
Ani *et 'em on the run.
We've got to hustle day andf night
A-backing up of son.
We don't get up at reveille
Or go to bed at "taps,"
i'.iit when the morning whistle blows
There's no more time for naps—
We've sot to hustle shot and shell
And guns for all those chaps.
Jim's ma is raising ga-rden truck,
One sister's making "sass,"
Another's in munitions.
And our only other lass
Will be a Red Cross nurse right
soon,
She's leading in her class,
I'm working fifteen hours a day
And yet I'm feeling fine,
An<* when I do get tired I say, -
Well, that's a certain sign
Tha* I'm a soldier in my way
And on the fighting !ine.
—Ellis Meredith.
Not In Aimerica!
' * %
FOURTH LIBERTY BONDS BEST INSURANCE
Having lectured at Dawson for
the benefit of the R«*t Cross so
ciety ot that place, the local of
ficials of the Skagway branch of
'he Red Cross decided to request
Vilhjaiinur Stefansson, th$ noted
Arctic explorer to do likewise here
upon his arrival fiorn the interior.
In accordance with this plan, a
telc-gram was sent to Mr. Stefans
son today, requesting him to favor
dkagway with a talk, and late this
Afternoon Mr. Cole, of the Red
Cross society received reply that
it would be impossible to comply
with the requect.
Mr. tefansson replied that he
w?g walking out over the trail from
Bennet-t, and this would bring him
into 3kagway probably late tomor
row, <»nd as he intends to sail sout
on the Princess Sophia leaving this
oort at 7 o'clock tomorrow night,
time would not permit him to give
aUli- i lu
The following taken from the
Dawson News tells in part what
»hc iWted explorer said' in that
city;
Mr. Stefansson, although a man o
years of experience, is comparatviely
young, and evidently good for much
more extensive exploration wort
whleJi he has planned*. He states
tha* the siege of typhoid, pneutuon a
ard Dleurisy which, he. experienced
successively last winter has dragged
him down so that he feels he will
not be ready for fresh exploration
work for another year at least,
hut Ue is desirous, of doing what
he can for the patriotic srevice, and
clans to start in immediately by
lecturing for the Red' Cross. He is
under contract to begin his first
fo>-m%l and official lecture in New
York city, the center of big things
and big money, but on the way
there is giving only unofficial talks.
He eipecta that after arrival East
he will have a fine series ox pic
tares, elides and equipment with
which fullv to elaborate his theme.
However, he has a very interesting
story to tell now, and is a man of
most pleasant address, speaking the
clearest and most incisive English
and belnjj thoroughly acquainted
with all the history of great Arctic
explorations aside from his own. He
is a man of slighlty more than
medium height, erect and broad
shouldered, with broad and rugged
yet kindly features, ia which Scan
dinavian lineage is sharply marked.
He has a massive shock of chest
nut hair, and keen and earnest yet
kindly eyes, and' tak^ an intense
interest in. everything about him an
in all whom he meets.
"On leaving Dawson," says Mr.
Steransson, "I Bhail g0 direct to Es
quimau, near Victoria, to report re
specting my expedition tQ the North.
will De remembered that the ex
pedition sailed from Esqulmalt in
1913, and was under the direction t(
the naval service of the Canadian
g vernment. Some had the mistaken
idea l» was directed* by th, marine
oranch.
"I expect to be in Esquimalt a
few days, and then to proceed to
Wynward, near Saskatoon, Sas
katchewan, where my mother and
brother and sister lire, and to vis
it there a short time, after whicl* I
"ill proceed to Ottawa and' New
York. Beyond that I have no im
mediate plans exoeptign to give Red
Cross lectures. I hope later, when
strong enough, perhaps a year or
more from now, to be able to re
r.ew the Arctic explorations. While
I look well enough now, and have
1 a good appetjte, I have not re"
' covered the o'.d time endurance. The
sl.'kness which I experienced last
winter cut me down frightfully.
"The sickness cam^ on me early
in January last winter, while 1 was
at (he Royal Northwest Mounted
Pfilke headquaiters at Herschel
ISl*d.1. I first had typhoid, then
pneumonia and later pleurisy. Con
stable Lament, of the police force,
also took siek at the same place
one week after I did, and he sue*
curnocd. An Eskimo interpreter
there also took sick and died. Ty
phoid took us a'l down. We could
not account for the origin of the
typhoid, unless it waB In Butter,
as it '6 understood typhoid germs
can do conveyed long distances in
butter, which is supposed to obtain
'K, infection sometimes from water
in which it is worked.
' "l had a long, hard fight of It.
due to th<j kind services of
I the police boys and' others, I pull
jed through. Captain, Phillips, of
tho police, seeing I was not gaining
strength as rapidly as I should
kindly arranged for me to be tak
en to the Porcupine country, which
meant a long trip, hundreds of
miles >jv toboggan. Constable Brock
ie and two Eskimos accompanied
m.-, and we crossed the divide and'
droppfd down into the Porcupine
watershed at the mouth of Old
Crow river, where Schults and John
ansvn have a trading post. I was
anxious to go there for the rea
son we had heard Mrs. Schults was
a trained nurse, aud we thought she
might be able to give practice ad
v'-e on the best care for acon
valescent from typhoid', and, fortun
a'ely, such proved the case. I
found Mr. and Mrs. Schults and
others there most affable and kind.
We proceeded down the Porcupine,
and Dr. Grafton Burke, of the A
meriC'in Episcopal mission, who had
started for Herschel Island1, met ua
at Ramnart House, where hig pro
fessional advice was received and
much appreciated. He escorted me
to hl3 headquarters at the mouth of
'he Porcupine, at Fort Yukon, Alas
ka, where I remained until leaving
there on the present journey a few
? bro. I was there a total of 151
days. }• • " ilJh
"At Herschel Island they were bo
carefu of my health they held, me
down to a very close diet, for fear
I might overeat. But on hitting the
trail I consumed- a can of Eagle
mil' a day, and during the thirteen
days we were traveling to reach
Old Crow I gained three-quarters of
a Dound a day. After meeting Dr
Burk<> he told me that I should eat
freely and take quite a variety of
food, so I could then unbuckled; my
appetite and gained a pound and a
quarter a day. At Fort Yukon I
rested thoroughly and gradually re
gained Brtength, and feel quite ft
no*" Tor lecturing. However, I
know that a long lecture course
mea-~ constant traveling and go
ing over the same story day ftttejr
'day, fetid wlH b« faQ slaociire, but 1
aai anxioug to do what I can tai
the cause.
"Although 1 had many and varied
exnerlences in the Arctic on the
ion* tripe since 1913, I must say I
never missed a meal, but, of course,
som* of the meala were not Bo el
aNjrstc as I had samDled in the
f?ood old land far to the south.
"I was pretty much out of the
world so far as mail was concerned
while in the Arctic. It will t>e re
membered wo met with a number of
reverses. The steamr Karluk, whicK
was crushed in the ic« in January,
1914, northwesterly of Bering strait,
was in charge fo Capt. Bartlett. He
had to make a long trip ontover
the ice to the Siberian coast. I prac
tically was three years without mail.
I had advanced to Melville island,
far <o the eastward from Herschel
island, and had left two men at Kel*
let ooint to get thQ mall from the
ships and to brin* U through to me.
Contrary to nlaua and Instructions,
they attempted' an ill-advised trip
to me during the adverse season,
with the consequence the two men
and the mail were lost. We found
the body of on© man, the next
sprite, but never found th® other
nor the mail. It wae in 1916 this
loss occurred. During 1915 I receiv'
ed no official mail, for the reason I
was supposed to be dead, and what'
ever mall was dispatched was sent
in the name of my assistant.
"When I was taken 111, last Jan
uary 1 had just secured an outfit
and had planned to start north
ward over the ice from Cross is
land, west of Herechel island, and
to swing later and go eastward to
Melville island, a distance of a
bout 800 miles. That would make
a journey eight times as long as
Capt. Bartlett made hi mushing fro
the Karluk to the Siberian coast.
When I was unable to carry out the
expedition, my first assistant, S. T.
Storkerson, took charge, and went
forward over the ice, with Eskimos
and dogs and supplies. He smarted
in Varch, 1914 going northerly
'rom Cross 'sland, Alaska. He had!
sleds. After going fifty miles three
aledi were emptied and Bent back.
After *oing due north 175 miles, he
sent back all the other sleds but two
The last sent back reached the ship
Pol-r Bear at Barker island in
April.
"At the 175-mile point Storkerson
was 75 miles beyond: the point
reached by the Lethingwell-Mikkel"
sen expedition, the farthest norlhi
definitely explored' In that -region.
Stoikerson has been on new ground,
and had planned to go northward
till 300 miles north of the Alas
Iran coast line, and then easterly to
Melville island, or at least that vi
cKity. There is no way of telling
whs' success he has had. I am a*
wallln* anxiously the bringing of
news from that region by ships. He
did not have much to travel with
after sending back the last sleds,
and h»d three or four men still with
him. They would be traveling Drac
tically all the time on the mass of
moving ice which gathers about the
region of the pole."'
IUSKS LIFE TO STAY IN
ALASKA
Anchorage , Sept. 10, — While
thousands of persons are abandon
in< assured positions ana stable
business Interets In Alaska for
temporarily high wages and Uncer
tain trade conditions in the states,
one resident of Anchorage lmp-eril
ed his life to stay in the northland.
From a steamship that wag - an
hour out of Anchorage on her voy
age to Seattle, he jumped? overboard
and swam ashore, the distance h»
negotiated in the cold waatera of
Cook Inlet being estimated at fif
teen miles. He was fourteen houj-s
rescuing land. Hia voluntarily im
posed task waa accomplished with
out the aid of a log, a stick of tim
ber or any other floating thing. Hia
absence from the vessel wag noted
soou after he had leaped over the
side, and on the arrival of the
craf* in Seward the fact of his dis
appearance waa telephoned to An
chorage. Just a short while be
fore the receipt of the message, h e
had returned to Anchorage and as
surancp of his safety surprised and
elated everybody on the southbound
boat.
He is a little fellow, with brown
curly hair and gray, intelligent
eyas. He possesses a well-knit physi
cal frame, with sturdy limbs. As
might be supposed from his sea
faring achievement, he is endowed
with youth—the youth, that is ju*t
merging into maturity an^ that In
i» hopeful exuberance knows no
such word as fall, no such thing as
fear. He is called by his familiars
Jim.
Jim is a mongrel dog, with the
spaniel breed predominating. Hia
owner, A. M. L. R&mfley, who was
^mpioyed on the government rail
road in Anchorage, waa a passenger
for Seattle on the steamship Jim
soaudoaed at sea. j
<hisD Vanks
Bjr J. J. Montague
They walk thripugh barrages as If
thaj were rain;
Tho^ rush through the rivers pel'.4
men,
And the terrified Huns drOp their
'awa arid: their guns
At the sound of that wild-western
. Jflli.
In vain the machine guns sp.it ha
tred and death,
Thev keep coming up: on the hop;
They have learned how to fight ftn
offensive aJl right,
Bu» neglected to learn how to
atop.
Like so many; wildcats; just out of
the woodfe,.
TVy jail on the enemy's flanks—
The savage and terrible
Wholly unscarable,
Fierce, do-and-dape-able
Yanks!
Thev haven't been disciplined sev
enteen years,
They often forget to salute;
They're & little bit r°ugh in the
tactic*! stuff,
But they certainly know how to
fahoot.
And many a German who thought
the; were ftoft
And never could count in the war,
In the combat and strife of a belli
cose life
W'll not take a hand any;, more,
W hile others are rushing like maj
to the rear
In advance of the oncoming ranks
Of the Bcowllng and glowering,
Hun-overpower'ng,
Kaiser-devouring
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T* v'rb &ntl« U lambs If jW
let them tJoue,
But their fury la dreadful to &•**"
When a Gotha glides by; half a mil*
in the sky
And a hospitals' bombed la the
rear,
And 1 riles them clean through
when a treacherous foe
Walks out with a smile of good;
cheer
And oDserves "Kamerad" while *
camouflaged squad
'uts loose with a gun in the rear.
It is then thai they go through Vaa
IlindonOurg's lines
Like a squadron of armor'ciad
tanks> - *
With purpose unshakable,
With vengeance unslakable,
They're simply lnplacabla
Yanks!
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ADMINISTRATORS NOTICE
Nolic« is hereby given, that the
undersigned has been appointed Ad
ministrator of the estate of Mile*
Creegan, deceased, by the pro*
bate court for the territory of M"
ask& sitting in probate at Hainta.
Alaska, and any and all peiwoaa
having; claims against said estate,
are required to present them -to
me, with the proper voucher*, at
my rffice in the said town «C
Haines:, within six month* from
date of first publication, of thja
notice. ♦*
Dated the 19th day of August,
1918.
J. G. Morrison, Administrator.
W. B. Stout, Attorney for Adjniitfa
trator.
First Publication, Aug 22, 10M,
Final Publication, Sept. 26, 19I.fi.
NOTICE OP FIN AL AOOOUNOQ
In the U. S. Commissioner'* Court
for the Territory of Alaska at Ska**
way m probate In the matter of
the estate to S. H. Yeoman*, exe
cutrix of the estate above Mated
. has filed in the above entitled «»urt
her final account of the estate - of
the said deceased, and th» hearing
of same hag bean llxed for Bator
da j the 28th day of September,
1918 at two o'clock In the after*
noon of said day at the court 'Mom
in the federal court hous* at Sky
way, and all persons having inter*
est In said estate are notified tbeu
and there to appear and file an/
objections they may have to aald ac
count and to show cause, If any the
hare, why said final account should
not be allowed.
Mrs. Ella Mary Yeomana,
Administratrix.
Dated at Skagwsy, Alaska, thta
27th day of July, 1918.
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