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EDITORIAL
" OLD GLORY -
"America For Americans"
FOOD WINS THE WAR
DON'T WASTE IT
I'LL SKl'KDK
Colouel I>ryus uDstin. Ashes, fond of
r'ckeys, straights, and smashes,
with a blinking i>i eyelashes, push,
eu the door to tha buffet.
K« was not aa early riser, but on
rlsU? he x'eit wiser for a bit o'
appetizer just to cheer him oa his
way.
To the bar ho strode not knowing
how reform waves had beeu grow
ing. never ebbing, always flowing,
"iid declared hiiuslef for rye.
Whereat Bill, the big barkeeper,
felt his sympathies grow deeper.
a:id he rubbed his tearful peeper,
woieji is common slang for eye.
Bill wss used to thirsts diurnal,
tb rs's autumnal, and thirsts var
ifj aud he knew the fretful col
onel #; his bitters was in need;
But alas the new laws drastic were
no* D'iablo or plastic, even if for
reasons gastric rye was half the
coloi-el's feed.
So with courtesy and tritely he
aoclogiztd politely, smiling pleas
ant.'> aud brightly, and said he
had no grudge.
But as pity must not swerve him. or
cupM.'ty unnerve him. quite the
Strongestt he could serve him
would be buttermilk or fudge.
Then the colonel said: "Demnition,
demu this dueced Prohibition:
Who plunged us iu this condi
tion?" And the faithful Bill re
plied: ! -k |
'"Tis a law they've !>eeu enacting by
the states in concert acting, and
the Union is exacting, so the
fount of joy is dried."
And the colonel, fierce umbrageous.
sa:d, "By jove, sir. 'tis outrageous
that such blue laws should en
gaga us and make gallant hearts
to bleed.
"O* ti« I'nion I'm a lover, but by
all thf» skies above her, to peri
ditiou they may shove her, for
by jove. sir, I'll secede."
Curious Money.
Porcelain money Ls uswl in Rurma
and Siam, and feather money, manu
factured fnjiu tbe short red feathers
from beneath the wings of a species
of parrot, ls the ordinary currency of
the Santa Cruz islanders. The Loyal
ty Islands, which lie in the Pacific to
the east of Australia, are famous for
their fur money. The fur. which ls
taken from behind the ears of the so
called "dying fox." in reality a largn
fruit eating bat. is woven into cords
of various lengths, and these constitute
the ordinary currency of the Islander*.
The English Language.
The English language has nearly
three times the number of words of
either the Spanish or French language.
English has the largest vocabulary of
all the languages in its makeup. It Is
also the richest of all the languages in
■ynonyms, which is one of the reasons
Why foreigners tind learning it so diffi
cult. -InUiauayolia News.
in MB
t .• r i
A "national ghoo" has made Its
appearance ia Paris and. the women
have given it their approval. "Econ
omical but not tgo ugly" la the
way it is described.
While the French women, are not
opposed to wearing shoes of a uni
form pattern, the proposal that
they wear a national dress has rais
ed a storm of protest. i
"Don't ask us," pleada the Pari
s.au woman who has beea the fa
shion model of the world,*' to wear a
national dress—a uniform would be
the censor's shears clipping the
wings cf feminiue taste. >Ve French
women befcrre all others realize
the ueed for economy and we bow
smilingly before the necessity for
if. L.mit the amount of goods
but allow us tha liberty of individu
ality iu designing our gowns."
Par has a new apartment nouse,
reports Figaro, "which, will rent to
no ono without children. To rent
thtf smaller suites one child will do,
for the medium-sized apartments a
prospective tenant must have a
minimum o£ two children while the
large pnartmentts require a family
of at least four. t
A woman who defied the German
army *o save the archives of her
commune ivag recently; awarded the
Cross of War. She is a school teach
er in Marne district, a Mme Fi
quemeur. iter citation reads as
follows:
"A woman of the highest courage
toraye and devoted among all, at
T&isey, during the German occupa
tion, had the power, by her noble
and eueigetic attitude, to impose
her personality upon, the occupy
ing forces by refusing, evea under
the most brutal menaces, to give up
to them the archives and the maps
o£ the commune, la spite of th«
incessant bombardment undergone
by a village -now almost leveled tc
the ground, she continued up tc
the very hour fixed by the mili
tary authority for total evacuation
to administer, all by herself, tht
affairs of the commune. With s
couryju' and abnegation above al!
• ulogy, she rendered the very great
est services to her fellow citizens
giving toaii the beautiful exatnph
of energy and. of never failing de
votiou."
i
M;i'i / t'ussiUt. a well known Am
erican artis; wlio lias made lie]
home iu France for the last 2C
years, has invented surgical a]
plianccs l'or patients suffering fron
fractures, which have contributes
to the comfort and recovery of the
wounded in France. One of th<
inventions is a hammex-k for a frac
tured leg, with an arrangemeni
whereoy a peculiarly, accurate
counterbalance is made. It has
a double expanison splint with i
spring attachment to prevent the
foot from dropping. Another i!
an appliance for a fracturred arm
either 11 bed or walking, and the
third .• splint for dropped wrist
Miss ( assatt is devoting herelf tt
war work.
PEKClVAL .NOW WITH
AKMY AUTO SEVBICE
The Excnange editor is in receipi
of Vol. 1, No. 1, of "The BomV
Alougside of the heading in boxes
is printed, "Without a Mission" anc
"Without a Muzzle."
It s dated February 1, 1918
Camp Herring, East Peoria, 111.
and .9 edited by ou-r old friend
Percivsl.
The full title of this gentlema*
now !s Captain Charles G. Percival
indicating that he is with the Unlit
ed States army, and from the tone
of The Bomb, it is presumed thai
"Doc" is connected ia some mannei
with "h" motor instruction schoo,
f the army.
It w!U be remembered that oi
October 11, 1911, Doc Percival, to
aether wi'k his mechanician, George
Brown and Jack Chambers aa guide
and ballast, made trip over the
White Pass route in an Abbot-De
troit Bull Dog auto, driving the
machine over ihe ties of the. iroad
from ckagway to Carcross, and
thence over the wagon road tc
Whitehorse and on to Carmacks.
The wheel base was too narrow to
'run on the rails, so the machine wa
bumped over the tiea the entire dis
tance, making the heavy grade over
the White Pass ajid negotiating the
steel arch bridge in safety, al
though. whenever the trip is mentioc
ed to Chambers, he takes a hitch
over fo starboard. JHe rode on the
othersid® of the machine.
Discreet.
"Say, pa, I bad a fight with Billy
Brown today."
"That so? Did you whip him?"
"Sure. You don't suppose I'd be tell
ing you about it if I didn't, do you?"
—American Boy.
"poverty of wealth.
Thar* Are Many, Mar.y Thing* That
Money Cannot Buy.
If you have wealth you can purchase
a hundred outfits of wearing apparel,
but you can only wear one at a time.
Socrates never owned but one pair of
shoes, but his name is immortal. If
you have wealth you can purchase
beautiful paiutlugs and adorn your
home with statues. That wouldn't
bring you happiness. If you have
wealth you cau purchase furniture in
[ laid with gold and upholstered with
One fabrics. That doesn't mean con
tentment
If you have wealth you can purchase
a great park and erect a splendid man
sion, but tradltlou tells us that there
was a very happy man who lived in a
tub and when the king came to see
him and asked what he could desire
from the king Diogenes replied, "That
you would step from between me and
the sun." If you have wealth you cau
possess an organ with golden pipes,
but Beethoven composed his Immortal
symphonies on a cheap harplschord. If
you have wealth you can equip a lux
urious studio, but Turner painted In a
ganet and mixed his colors in a broken
teacup.
Money can purchase copies of Sir
Joshua Reynolds, but God gives the
sunset away free. Money can employ
musicians to perform for a private cou
cert, but the song of the lark In the
tree and the music of children's laugh
ter Is for the millionaire and the .poor
man alike. Wealth cannot purchase
the great things of life. It cannot buy
a contented mind and a serene life. It
cannot purchase goodness and beauty.
—Dale II. Carnagey in Leslie's.
CURBING THE MISSISSIPPI.
Father of Watara at Time* Becomaa an
Unwalcoma Gueat.
When the Father of Waters comes to
town with all his family, as he does
every ten or eleven years, we hope at
some near time hereafter to exert a
control over our visitor through the
many millions congress has provided.
The Father of Waters himself is a
genial old friend on most occasions,
but when he comes down the valley
with the swollen Illinois, Wisconsin,
Missouri, I'latte, Kaw and innumerable
other streams on his back St. Louis
tinds him like an Intoxicated guest,
hard to manuge and utterly unwelcome.
Old Mississippi is to be made to take
a more circumspect path and not stag
ger all over the adjacent country. In
fact, we do not wish hint to stop at all,
but hurry through and begone with
him to the gulf as fast.as he can make
his way. Most of our water is believed
to come from the gulf of Mexico, and
we wish to return It after we hav^
used all we can by absorption. We
are no gluttons, and enough Mississippi
Is enough. We adore it "fourteen feet
through the valley," but not forty-two.
We are not yet entirely familiar with
, the plans by which flood control is to
be brought about, but we judge that
the river is to be compelled to act with
? more deliberation hi its rising and fall
ing, which Is the best thing that can be
. done until man fluds a way to stay
or cut louse the rains.—St. Louis Globe
Democrat.
Spend Monay Wisely.
Sayg a prominent New York banker:
1 "It Is more Important to know how to
1 spend money wisely than to earn it
easily. If you want to give your boy
i and girl a good start teach them both
i the fine art of thrift. And what Is
thrift? Thrift Is all <>f prudence, econ
omy, frugality and industry—and then
some. Thrift Is that instinct of the
dog that buries the bone he does not
want today for tomorrow's wants, the
Instinct of the squirrel that knows
nutting is out of season in winter.
And there is thrift of earning i>ower
and thrift of spending as well as
I thrift of saving."
Too Much For Him.
Voltaire could not speak much Eng
lish. The reason why he refused to
study the language Is this: It was
drilled into him that "plague" was
pronounced "plalg," which he thought
very pretty and acceptable. But right
on top of It he was introduced to
"ague." which his teacher said must be
called "a-gue." Finding it impossible
to reconcile the difference, he went off
into a philosophical tantrum and drop
ped the study.
A Rash Bargain.
The minister dropped into the village
barber shop for a shave, at the close
of which he proffered the usual ten
cent price of the shop.
"I'll take it in preaching, sir," replied
the polite barber, refusing the offered
coin. "My friend." rejoined the minis
1 ter with some dignity, "I haven't a
ten cent sermon." "That's all right,
sir," quickly retorted the barber; "then
I'll go twice."—Christian Herald.
Fifty-Fifty.
"So she hns agreed to be yours?"
"That was not exactly the way she
expressed it."
"No?"
"Sha said she would be as much mine
as I would be hers."—Birmingham Age
Herald.
i Between Frienda.
Edith—Jack told me I was so Inters
eating and so beautiful. Marie—And
' yet you will trust yourself for life with
a man who begins deceiving you so
early.—Boston Transcript.
Sugar.
8ugar was discovered in the East In
dies by Nearchus, admiral of Alexan
der, In 325 B. C.
Judgment and reason have been
grand Jury men since before Noah was
a sailor.—Shakespeare.
* FRATERNAL ORDEK8 ♦
Arctic Brotherhood. —■
Camp Skagway No. 1,
meeta every second and
fourth Tuesday evening
at 8:30 o'clock. Visit
ing brottera cordially welcome.
Edward A. ltasmusoji, Arctic! Chief.
William K. Gray, Arctic Recorder.
m
Fraternal Oitle*
Eagles—
Skagway Aerie,
No. 25, Frater
n"J Order of
I<;*WS meet the first and tiurd
Wednesday night of each mojnUi at
their hall on fifth Avenue. VlsiC
ln* brothers cordially Invited to
'attend.
< John M. Holler, W. P.
J. M. Qrlesbtich, Secretary.
P. & A. M.
White Paag Lodge
F. & A. M. No. 11!
meetfl 2d and 4th
Saturday Evan In pi
ox eiicn montns. .visiting Brethxer
ar« welcome.
HAROLD TALBOT, W. M
JAMBS 'WALLACE, Secretary.
j B.rP. O. KLKfi
8ka*way Lodfil
NO. 431, B. P. O
E. meets erery
pP Tkurtday 8:3(
tagiOEtOr p. m. Vlaltinj
brothers cordially welcome.
W. B. BATSON, E. R
F. J. VAiJDEWALX^, Secretary
Plonfter of Alaska Igloo, No. 12
meet* in A. B. Hall first Monday li
every month at 8:30 p. m.
Vteltlug Brothers cordially wel
come.
J. C. WOOD, Pres
P. H. Doree, Rec. Sec
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Practice in ail court*
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Tho Expression of Many a IvJil^ey
Sufferer
A stubborn backache ia cause to
suspect kidney trouble. When the
kldneva aro inflamed and. swollen,
stooping brings a sharp twigne in
t'-e small of the back that almost
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Mrs. M. Holmes, 1016 Indian St.,
Bellingham, Wash., says: "For quite
awiil* I had a dull, heavy ache
acro&s the small of my back. Often
»v»eu I straightened after stooping,
Sham pains seized me in my sides.
I had terrible headaches and dizzy
spells and my kidneys didn't act
regularly. In the morning I was
always tired and worn out. After
I had used one box of Doan's Kidney
Pills I could see they were help
<ug me. My back got stronger and
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O* July 31, 1916, Mrs. Holmes
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Catarrhal Deafness Cannot Be Cured
by local applications, as they cannot reach
the diseased portion of the ear. There la
only one way to cure catarrhal deafness,
and that Js by a constitutional remedy.
Catarrhal Deafness Is caused by an In
flamed condition of the mucous lining of
the Eustachian Tube. Wuen this tube Is
inflamed you have a rumbling sound or im
perfect hearing, and when it Is entirely
closed. Deafness is the result. Unless the
Inflammation can be reduced and this tube
restored to its normal condition, hearing
will be destroyed forever. Many cases of
deafness are caused by catarrh, which is
an Inflamed condition of the mucous sur
faces. Hall's Catarrh Medicine acts thru
the blood on the mucous surfaces of the
system
We will give One Hundred Dollars for
any case of Catarrhal Deafness that cannot
be cured by Hall's Catarrh Medicine. Clr»
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