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"OLD GLORY"
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"America For Americans"
j FOOD WINS THE WAR j
DON'T WASTE IT j
KNDOIV .V COT FOK SK-UiW.U
BOIS
aiafivNav should be more thai
glad 10 aid in maintaining a cot it
ih«- .Washington »ard ot' the Neuill;
hospital ia France ja which its owi
boy* will receice especial care aiu
treatment. Skagwaj; has sent rnauj
ol iu sons to the anny, among tliei
bein^j Rov HuiYihiil, Fred Rosea
burg. Hairy Wurzba^her, Clarenci
Pike, George Magee, J. V. .Miller
Kddy Di'.lou, Barnette Ashley, Fran
Ash<ey, Clarence Achisou, Earl<
Lincoln, Chas Milues, Elden Dally
Bruco Harridan, Royal Pullen, J
T. Westermann, JLeo. liaslett, H. W
Kirbv, Clarksoa Gaucher, Johl
Griffith, W. K. Jachwechteu, Rufuj
iiailey, W'm. Brooke, and peruap:
others whom jvtj have overlooked.
la addition to this number, al
of whom at one time have mad<
their homes ia Skagway, others wil
leave soou when the draft take.1
place.
okagvvay should do something t
make these boys happier ivhea the.1
are wounded ia battle, and fall X'o;
those remaining behind and a
home. There is a way to do it
Watch for the Women's Patriotii
League meeting.
The l>aily Alaskan is very anxiou
to gtt a list of all our boys servinj
iu the United States amy. if, ii
the above list, we have overlookei
■ nycce. we should deem it a. t'avc
to b« told oi such.
AtbKA SC HOOL BILLJET1X
The Dally Alaskan is in receipl
of "The Ala<>ka School Bulle'iu'
Volume 1. Number 1. published b)
L. D. Henderson, commissioner ol
education for Alaska, stationed it
Junei*u. The Bulletin is a closelj
typewritten paper of It) pages.
Tae aim of the Bulletin, as stat
ed in the first issue, is three x'old:
(1) a medium tlirough which the
Terrtorial Education Deyartmeni
may send communications to the
teachers and Boards of Education
of tin Territory. (2) a means by
which national or foreign education,
al news may bo disseminated and
special activities of the schools in
anj£ state of the union brought to
th« attention t>f the Territorial
teac&ing force; (3; a clearing
iousa in -which special features ol
the work in any school of the Ter
ritory may Iki brought to the atten
tion of the other schools for their
inspiration or guidance.
Special space is given to Alaska
School News, and all schools are
asksd to contribute. What the
sc&ovU are doing in the larger wori
ot the world, Red Cross and patriot
ic aervkes.is mentioned on this
1 ' ,
savings certificates. Thrift
stamps, and War sayings societies'
ar» explained. A general infortiaa- I
tlon course for schools is advised.,
Tie loyalty pledge is printed. The!
comiulsory school last for AlHska!
is published in this first issue.
Anyone deLring to see the Alas-.
k*< School Bulletin may do so at;
the Daily Alaskan office.
OUR HOOKIES
The rookie rises at the dawn and
starts bis busy day, S
But ere he starts he smiles and
puts a man-sized meal .away,
And then he does four hours of dril
in trench and on the-run,
And charges with his bayonet, and
parries with his gun.
And digs a mile or two of trench,
and learns to throw a bomb,
And then he puts a man-sized meal
into his little itum.
Just when he's eating hia dessert
atraiu the bugle calls,
And he falls into line again in
knaki 'overalls;
And he does calisthenics for on
hour, or two or.three,
I And in a few weeks he is twice the
man hi used.to be), i
His every muscle's found and train
ed to help him in the row,
And then at night he sits down and
stows away some.chow .
And af'er chow when citizens are
sitfing on the lawn, 1
Surrounded by their little folk and
glad the day is ^gone,
Ths rcokey dives into the suds and
chases all the dirt J
Out of his only pair of pants and
go-lo-meeting shirt;
And then, if leave is to be had, he
hikes away ito town
And at a nifty retsaurant puts some
more provisions down. I
If armies travel on their turns, as
Brueparte once said,
Our rookies are provisioned to jump
in ar.d go ahead;
And they are trained at throwing
Koobs, and parrying the steel,
And they are trained above ! the
clcnds to volplane dip and wheel,
\nd they are trained to die if need
shall be for them to die
To drive the German eagles out for
ever from the sky.
Judd Mortimer Lewis, in Houston
Post. '
OH KELLER 18
1 DflAFl EO 81
i THE U.S.
The last mail brought word,
! frcm the military department, gov
. ernor s office, Juneau, Alaska, that
i Dr. I.. S. Keller, proprietor of the
Daily Alaskan, and dentist, has
been drafted to serve as a member
, of the Medical Advisory Board for
'he Kir^t Division of the Territory
( of Alaska.
It is understood that a dentist is
> bein< selected from each town of
rhe first division in Southeastern
• Alaska to serve on this board, and
and in pursuance of this policy, Dr.
Keller was selected from Skagway.
The letter of appointment says:
"Vou are advised that, pursuant
to recommendations made by the
5 Cove/nor, the President has ap
pointd you a membeer of the Medi
cal Advisory Board. Dr. J. P. Ma
hone, of Juneau, for the puposes
of organization, has been designated
temporary chairman of the Board.
Vou will please communicate with
him, at your earliest convenience,
relative to your duties as a mem
ber cf this organization.
"Your appointment isinthenatur
of a draft, and is without compensa
tion; but it is believed that your
patriotism and your sense of duty to
your country, in its hour of need,
will impel you to put forth your
best efforts to serve the National
ends.
By Direction of the GOVERNOR,
(Signed) J. F. Hunt,
Captain, Inf., ORC.,
Executive Officer."
The I erm "Prime Minister."
"Prime minister" is one of the rnauy
terms in K!<^li>h which seem to have 1
been s!ung :;t one tiiue. It was tirst
applied to Sir Robert \\ ulpole, but in
a reproachful sense. l-'eb. 11, 1742,
after tweuty years' tenure of office. Sir
Robert resigned all his employments,
"liuviug invested nte." he remarked,
"with a kind of mock dimity and
styled me prime minister, they impute
to me an unpardonable abuse of that
chimerical authority which they creat
ed and conferred." Such a personage
as the prime minister or the premier is
not eveu mentioned in the official table
of precedence and is unknown to the
written constitution of Great Britain.
A CZAR OF RUSSIA
Eccentric Alexander' II., Who
Gave Freedom to the Serfs.
AND THEN CRUSHED POLAND.
Out of the Reform He Started by the
Liberation of the Masses Grew the
Nihilist Movement, Which Brought
About Hie Own Death by a Bomb.
It Is a curious fact, says the Kansas
City Star, that one of the greatest re
forms that ever came to Russia—the
liberation of the serfs lu 1801—caiue
through Alexander II., a man educated
under the Prussian military system.
Born In 1818, the son of a sternly au
tocratic father, growing up In an at
mosphere in which it was looked upon
as treason to criticise the corner police
man since he was a representative of
the government, Alexander persisted
In cherishing au interest in all sorts of
bumble people.
He came to the throne In 1S35, when
Russia was floundering waist deep in
the Crimean war. Russia was defeated
aud demoralized, and it was au unusu
ally auspicious time for men with re
form Ideas to get a hearing. Feace
was made at the end of a year and
new laws passed encouraging industry
and commerce. 1'laas were laid for an
extensive railway system partly to de
velop the natural resources of the
country and partly to increase its mili
tary efficiency.
Then in 1858 Alexander received a
lietitlon from certain great landowners
in Lithuania praying for a more satis
factory adjustment of relations be
tween themselves aud their serfs. The
czar replied with lavish praises of their
public spirit and assumed that what
they wanted to do was to improve the
condition of the serfs, which in point
of fact was not true at all. Their peti
tion had given him an opening.
Without consulting his ministers the
czar caused copies of his instructions
to the governor general of Lithuania to
be forwarded to the governors of all the
other Russian provinces, "suggesting"
that the landowners of their provinces
might also care to consider emancipa
tion of the serfs. Local committees
went to work on the subject.
There were In Russia at this time
some 23.000,000 serfs, slaves of the
soli. They could not be sold away
from the land on which they were
born, but in all other respects their
bondage was virtually complete. The
czar set tue nan roiling ny ireeuiK iw
3,000,0ti0 serfs on the imperial estates.
The abolition of serfdom was inevita
ble, but the landowners tried to stave
it off as far as possible. They submit
ted a plan for making the serfs agri
cultural laborers, entirely dependent
upon them economically. The czar re
fused to accept it. If the serfs were
really to be free he decided they must
be able to own laud. A state loan,
payable annually at ti |>or cent for for
ty-nine years, enabled the former serfs
to buy a certabi share of farm hind of
Russia and become peasant proprie
tors. The laud was held by the village
communities and by them apportioned
to their members. The ukase freeing
the serfs was published March 3, 1801.
Hope flamed very hiirh in Russia at
that time, and men of the mure vision
ary sort looked forward t.> an imme
diate Utopia. They were disappointed,
of course, and they found that freeing
the serfs did not cure all the ills t"
which Russian flesh wa heir. Out of
their disappointment and their Impa
tience that Alexander did not make
Russia Into a Socialist community
there developed the nihilist movement,
whose passion for revolution Involved
a passion for assassination.
The czar in the meantime was en
deavoring to steer a middle course. It
is one of the curious contradictions of
his character that tills man, who car
ried through the freeing of the serfs
almost single handed, should have look
ed with entire coldness and disfavor
upon Poland's aspirations for freedom.
"Embrace the union with Russia,"
he told the Polish delegates, "and
abandon ail thoughts of independence,
□ow and forever impo.v !'•!?."
And in 18(>3 when revolt broke out in
Roland it was relentlessly repressed
under Alexander H„ and thereafter
every step was taken to uush the na
tional spirit of Pelaud, d? troy its lan
guage and traui:I':.: and make of It an
Integral part of Rus ia. The doctrine
of Paiisiavism took a strong hold on
bis imagination, and he v. cut to war
with Turkey in 1S77, feeling himself
the cliivalrie liberator of the Chris
tian peoples of the Rnlknu country.
But his hopes of a <oul'etieratiou of
Slav states under Rus-'iau ri'le m the
Balkan peninsula tvere dashed by the
congress of Berlin next year.
The last years of Alexander's life
were dreary ones. More and more he
yielded to depression as lie saw his
high hopes for Russia fail to mate
rialize. Numerous attempts were made
upon his life, and after the explosion
in the Winter palace in IKS') the czar
gave practically dictatorial power for
six months to General Loris Melikoff,
a distinguished liberal otiicer. Mell
lcoff advised the granting of a consti
tution to Russia, and Alexander was
on the point of issuing a ukase to that
effect—had indeed signed it—when he
was slain, March 13, 1381, by a nihilist
bomb.
Vanity.
Vanity isn't on the official list of vir
tues, yet unless a man has a good opin
ion of himself he will never amount to
much.—Chicago News.
Regard all new ways in the light of
fresh experience for you; if you see any
honey, gather it.—Charlotte Bronte.
* FRATERNAL ORDERS +
Arctic Brotherhood. —
Camp Skagway No. 1>
A. B. meets every sec
ond a ad fourth Tues
day evening at 8:30 P.
m. gliiArp. Visiting brother oordlal
ly welcome. Edward A. Raamu.son,
Arctic Chief, W. R. Gray, Arctic
Recorder.
.-rr . Nv Fraternal Order
Skagway Aerie
V' Ko- *» ***"
^ *<>• nal Order of
Eagle* moeta tlicj Hrst and third
W t'diiebiiaj- night of earl) month, at
tnPi« hal] on Fifth Avwaue. Visit
ing brothers cuaxUally Invltqd to
at(<Mid. J. M. Uieislmci:, \V. P.
J. V. Miller, socrolwjr,
F. & A- M.
Whlt<) Pass Lodge
F. & A. M. No. 113
meets 2d and 4th
Saturday Evenings
of euwh months. Visiting Brethren
ar« welcome.
HAROLD TALBOT, W. M.
JAMBS WALLACE, Secretary.
B. P. O. KLK8
Skagway Lodg«
No. 4J1, B. P. O.
E. meets every
Thursday at 8:SO
p. m. Visiting
WIIWW41/ » CiCUlUtJ.
W. B. BATSON, B. R.
r. J. VA#DEWALL, Secietary
rtom"<T of Ala.sk* Igloo, No. 12,
meet* lu A. II. Hall first Monday In
every month at 8:80 p. ni.
Visiting Brothers cordially wel
come.
J. C. WOOD, Pres.
P. H. Doree, I tec. gee.
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Pra<1lce In all courts
In Territory of Alaek*
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the large
SAFETY DEPOSIT
VAULT
will be in Kirmse's Store.
For any information see Wm.
Wright, at Kirmses
State of Ohio. City of Toledo,
Lucas County, ss.
Frank J. Cheney makes oath that he
Is senior partner of the firm of P. J.
Cheney & Co., doing business in the City
of Toledo. County and State aforesaid,
and that said Arm will pay the sum of
ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS for each
and every case of Catarrh that cannot be
cured by the use of HALL'S CATARRH
MEDICINE. FRANK J. CHENEY.
Sworn to before me and subscribed In
my presence, this 6th day of December.
A. D. 1886. A. W. GLEASON.
(Seal) Notary Public.
Hall's Catarrh Medicine Is taken In
ternally and acts through the Blood on
the Mucous Surfaces of the System. Send
for testimonials, free.
F. J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo. O.
Sold by all druggists. 76c.
Hall'* Family Plils for constipation
—Adrert lament.
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