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E. L. PUlmss — •— Atlln, B. C.
EDITORIAL
"OLD GLORY"
"America For Americans
THE NATIONAL SPIRIT
"War. if it finally comes to the
luited states, should bring its
people a needed rebaptism. in the
natiraa] faith. The fatness of a
haif ctiiturrq of peace has relegat
ed patriotism to the backgroun
01' our national life. The public
mind ha* not dwelt upon the citi
sen's duty to the nation because
the obligation has been taken for
granted, and ws have been very
busy with personal concerns, 'with,
business with commerce, with our
d^tilv rcutitie of duty and with the
urgent concerns of bread-winning.
We have assumed that our peace
ful conditions were settled condi
ticcs and that life in America was
but the contest of individuals for
preferment, and the collective du
ties of citizenship have been too
of-en forgotten obligations.
But war brings a different aspect.
It has taken England more than
fwo years to rub peace out of its
ejes anil acquire the war eerspect
ive. The island life was sodden
wi'h *he selfishness of peace. As
well think of drawing the sun from
its position in the universe as Eng
land 'rom its settled and peaceful
posi'icu of industry and trade. Yet
there has come to the people at
last the slow realization that the
sovereignty of England might pass
to aliens. It has dawned upon
the masses that they may become
tenan's of a German landlord, and
the national spirit ha^ risen to th§
danger.
So wi'h America, though. tnore
is uo though, of changing sovereign
ty. The interests of our govem
mwi», of all our people- have been
invaded by a foreign nation, and It
has become necessary to hold it to
accoun*, to defend out authority
over cur own affairs. Citizens are
required to take their minds from
their private business to the con
cerns of the nation, and ail of its
people, and the need is bringing an
awakening of the national spirit.
Men and women of America are
raisinc their eyes to their coun
try's flag with a new Interest and!
devotion, and its bright colors ap
pear in a new light,
We gee it thus, with Folger Mc
Kir.sey. the Baltimore poet:
"Every day is the flag's birthday,
Every day it is gleaming,
Fresh a a a fose on the lips of May
In its azure eyrie streaming.
Every day it is—break it out,
To the loving winds unbend it!
Flag of the nation that leaps with
a shout
To lift and love and defend it!
"Evtry day on the rolling tide
Where the ships of the line are
sailing, I
Under the blue of the heavens wide,
Its stars and stripes go trailing. ^
fcvery day It Ja—seamfeu al!
Dio to the darling colore.
And so they eoho the bugle call
From the decks the great steel
fullers!" <* !
The civil war brought iu its
stress a rebaptjsm of the nation
al spirit, and for many years there
after the men of tu* t*rand Army
held us to account tor an insistent
patriotism. The eld. heroes ;lT«
dyin? off, and such as remain aire
tco few to keeft Americans always
reminded of patriotic duties.
War is and has been the great
cementer of our national faith, and
If i' comes to us it shall find Am
ericans reanimated With an unsel
fisn spirit—Seattle P.-I.
Til YX JLAKUE OKDER FOB STEEL
Thirteen hundred' tons of 50
pound rails were recently ordered
for "our railroad,"' and th$ con
tract was let to the United States
Steel Company and the event called
for tinkling cymbal and sounding
brass. There was much rejoicing
in th« land of "eternal snow" un
tii out statistician got out his
oencil, and then our hopes tobog
ganed to the gravel Bit with a dull
thu''. Fifty-pound rails would
mean one-hundred pounds to the
yard of track laid; and in 41300
tuns there are 2,600,000 pounds;
a* 100 pounds to the running yard
this would equal 26,000 yards of
track this "large order" would
complete, or about 15 miles. As
'ho road, when completed, will be
somewhere in the neighborhood of
370 miles long it will take nearly
30 years to complete it at the
rate the contract lor Bteel are
being let. And 50-pound rails in
a country which gets 45 to 80 be
low will be a constant menace to
life, as the frost yill render them
so brittle that they will break un
der the slightest strain. Fifty
pound rails are considered too light
for a Shay logging engine, and they
cannot be expected to transport
very heavy loads where the frost
renders steel a# brittle as ice. The
steel should be at least heavy
enough to stand the immense 50
ton engines ordered' for the road—
Valdez Prospector, Feb. 15.
WHATCHAMA COLUMN
By G. M.
INVENTORS
Inventors are men with, some
thin" ♦» do and 110 way to do it
who do it. We say inventors are
men. They are men. You don'*
find any inventors among the low
er animals. No sir. You never
hear' of a lightning- bug trying to
ou* more candle power in his
tai,, did you? Or a hen trying to
lay s'-dewalks instead of eggs? No.
Nor a toad with a patent cure for
waru>. either. Inventors are not
only men but they are the type
of men who prove absolutely that
men never were monkeys, or tad
poles, or tuna fish or anything else
but men.
SKAGWAY COMMERCIAL CLUB
AWAKENS FROM IX)ZE
In an effort to have the $500,000
appropriation, placed back in fhe
Army appropriation bill, which, it
appears, was stricken out by the
House of Representatives in the
Btre*s of granting additional ap
propriations to meet the emergen
cies iu case the United States
was involved in the world war, Ju
neau and several other Gastinau
city towns have kept the cable hot
with telegrams, and from the fol
lowing it would appear as though
thf Sfcagway Commercial club, with
its ever promptness to come to
the aid of others, has awakened
frcm its peaceful slumbers long
euough to dictate a telegram,
which the Juneau Empire states was
as follows:
SKAGWAY SENDS STRONG
MESSAGE TO CHAMBERLAIN
Skagwa>-, Feb. 26 — The Skag
'waj; Commercial club sent the fol
lowing telegram to Senator Cham
berlain.
"Sfcagway, Feb. 25, 1917.
"Hon. George E. Chamberlain,
"Chairman Military Affairs Com
mittee, United States Senate,
Washington, D. C.
"Please use every; effort have ap
propriation roads and trails in
Alaska reinstated In bill. It Is
absolutely necessary for welfare of
people of Alaska^ that this money
ehould be appropriated to finish
work already started.
"PHIL, ABRAHAMS,
"Secretary."
The Club paying put itself to
such a terrible strain, should now
again seek its bumble couch and
take another nap.
The Courage of Life
The two vll'tues that help us along
most iu llfo are trust aud courage.
Apart from the tragedies invited by
sin and violence and self indulgence,
a large part of our trouble icmes from
anxiety, distrust, apprehension. It was
not all frivolity that dictated the an
swer of a young girl <"ho, lelng urge J to
prepare herself for a profession cr a def
lnlte work, responded: "I'm not going
to look ahead aud worry. I can do a lot
of useful things. I can mend, and make
salad, and amuse child ion. and be pa
tient aud economical, and help people
to enjoy themselves, and I don't be
lleve ukc girls starve." Courage auJ
faith are always assets. Even if lift
goes back upon them and fails to come
up to expectations the practice of these
virtues is Just that much to the good,
and wo have at least not lived In the
evil moment until it arrived.
The Money Power.
Braggs—It is positively absurd to
talk about a "money power" iu this
country. There is no such thing.
Waggs— I'd just like to discuss that
with you. Have you got a minute to
spare? Braggs-Not u minute. I've
got a note due at the bank, and they're
bothering me to death about it.—Life.
Eighty Per Cent.
"The Browns are celebrating their
silver wedding ".est Saturday."
"Their silver wedding? Why, they've
been married only five years!"
"I know, but that's five times as long
as anybody expected them to stay mar
ried. so they feel that (Ley are entitled
to a Jliscount."—New York World.
ORDER AND NOTICE OF SPEC
IAL ELECTION TO BE HELD
ON TUESDAY., MARCH 6th,
1917.
In th6 Town of Skagway, Alaaka,
Firs' Judicial Division, pursuant
to an order for an election to
fill a vacancy in the office of mem
ber of the House of Representa
tives from the First Judicial Di
vision of Alaska, made and Issued
en the 31st day of January 1917,
by the Hon. J. F. A. Strong, Gov
ernor of th« Territory of Alaska,
uuder and by virtue of the authori
ty conferred on him by section 4,
of th.e Organic Act, approved March
24, 1912 and in conformity there
with:
Notice la hereby given that
election will be held on Tuesday,
March 6, 1917, between the hours
of eight, o'clock a. m. and seven
o'clock p. m. of said date.
The Common Council of Skag
way, Alaska, having heretofore by
resolution duly designated the vot
ing precinct of caid town and the
polif place ther«ln the electors re
siding within the boundary of the
s*>!d Town of Skagway, Alaska,
which are as follows:
Ail cf the platted townsite of
the Town of Skagway, Alaska, will
vote at the Town Hall building
which is located on Lot Three (3)
Block Eigh' (8) situated on Fifth
Avenue between State and Main
streets the same being the duly
designated poling place in and for
the voting precinct of the Town of
Skagway.
Dafed at Skagway, Alaska, Feb
ruary 8th, 1917
(Signed) The Common Council of
the Town of Skagway, Territory
of Alaska.
(Seal) D. McKAY, AcUng Clerk.
CRYING FOR HELP
Lots of It in Alaska But Daily
Growing Less.
Ihe kidneys often cry for help.
Not another organ in the whole
body more delicately constructed;
Not cne more important to health,
The kidneys are the filters of the
blood.
When they fail the fclood be
comes foul and poisonous.
Th6re can be no health where
therp is poisoned blood.
Backache is one of the frequent
indications of kidney trouble.
It is often the kidneys' cry for
help. Heed it.
Read what Doan's Kidney Pills
have done for overworked kidneys.
Proof of merit in the following
statement:
C. C. White, barber, 1646 Mis
sion St., Salem, Ore., says: "I
have been taking Doan's Kidney
Pills off and on for a number of
years and they have never failed
to do good work. Standing in one
position go much was hard on my
back and kidneys. At times I
could hardly stand up) straight.
After I had taken a hox or two
of Doan's Kidney Pills, my back
felt as strong as ever."
Price 50c, at all dealers. Don't
8imply ask for a kidney remedy —
get Doan's Kidney Pills—the same
| that Mr. White h^d. Foster-Mil
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FRATERNAL ORDERS
Arctic Brotherhood. —
Camp Skagw&v No. 1.
A. B. meets every sec
ond and fourth.1 Tues
day evening at 8:30 p.
m. snarp. Visiting brothers cordial
ly wt-'ccme. W. L. stevau&ou, Arc
tic Chief. W. H. Burford, Arctic
Heot rder.
Fraternal Order
Eaglefe—
Skogway Aei-ie
No. 25, Frater
nal Oixler of
Eaglet* meets thq first and third
W c<iiiea«Vaj' night of each month ut
tDPlt hall ou Fifth Avenue. Visit
ing brothers cwdiftlly invitc*l to
attend. J. M. Gielshacii, \V. P.
J. V. Miller, Secretaj-y.
F. & A. M.
Whit<> Piles Lodge j
F. & "A. M. No. 113 |
meeta 2d and 4th |
FrI. Ev'gs, of each
montic. Visiting brothers are wel
come.
Harold Talbot, W. M.
Address all communications to
the Secretary.
B. P. O. ELKS |
Bkagway Lodge
NO. 431, B. P. O.
E. meets every
Thursday night
&t 8:00 o'clock.
Visiting brothers
cordially welcome.
HENRY FRIEDENTHAL, E. R
T. J. VAWDEWALL, Secretary.
Plpnecr of Alaska Igloo, No. 12,
meet* hi A. B. Hall first Monday lu
every month at 8:30 p. m.
Visiting Brothers cordially wel
come.
W. L. STEVENSON, Pres.
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eye, e*ar, nose and throat.
Office: Goldstein Building, Ju
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Practice in all courts
In Territory of Alaska
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