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EDITORIAL
GETTIXU TCKiEXHKR
The heads of the Seattle Cham
l»er or Commerce Irom its birth I
have uniformly been menol affairs,
animated by broad public Bpirit and
fcWjcg freely o£ their time and
mean* to promote the interests of
ci'y, sta'e and section. Judge Thom
as Burke is essentially that type of
man. For two year# and mcur?, as
president of the chamber, he has
b?en zealously enlisted in public ser
vice and constantly at the public's
call. Alert to the duties of the po
sition, he has ever been mindful of
the community's needs and obliga
♦iona and, with, characteristic fore
sight, often anticipated these needs.
lie is a man of vision, a scholar, a
reutleman and lias long occupied
eminent rank as a first, if not the
firs', citizen of this commonwealth.
Vo his influence and daily example
of fair-mindedness and readiness *©j
see ar.d hear both sides is due large
ly the merger of oirr commer
cial bodies and the present gratify
in,; reassertion of 'lie Seattle spirit
of old.
Ttie choice of A. J. Rhodes as
the new president of the chamber
typifies a get-together spirit and is
fully in keeping with the rule of
thus honoring men of substantial
position and standing. He re
tires* Eta *he business activities of
the city and- is admirably equipped
to fill »ne position.
Although the Chamber of Com
merce has manifes'.ly lacked popu
larity, due to divided forces in the
ijtv at'1 a consequent confusion of
effort, year after year it has had
notable achievements to its credit.
Tha' it has been a constructive,
upbuilding organization ia impossibl
of dispute or denial. If it lias not
done all it might have done, at any
rate it has accomplished much In
various directions. Concentration
•\nd unity under the amalgamation
and reorganization will mean in
creased oublic usefulness naturally.
This ia the bright promise of the
new equation. And Seattle, for
getting all past differences, should
be prepared now to give a loyal,
■whcle-hearted and generous sunport
to the consolidated body and so
hasten end insure an era of great
er achievement for general good. —
P.-I.
hi these (lays of the H. C. of L.,
»ven a cow's kick comes high. Jury
lu SeaUle awarded $200 to farm
hand who was "handed" a touch o
bossy's hoof.
To love playthings well a3 a child
to lead an adventurous and hon
orable youth, and to settle, when
the time arrives, into a greien and
smiling age, is to be a good artist
in lifo and deserve well of yourself
and your neighbor.—Steveaison.
Death of ■ Pearl.
Pearls are almost the only precious
gems whleh are subject to decay, and
this happens very rarely. When dis
ease attacks a pearl it turns color and
after a time crumbles away. The most
valuable pearl ever known Is supposed
to have become diseased. It belonged
to a Russian millionaire who kept it
carefully locked in a casket and re
fused to show It even to his most lnti
nista friends. One day some Jewel ex
perts prevailed upon him to let them
Bee the precious gem. When he opened
the casket he was dismayed to find
that the pearl had been attacked by
disease and was already changing
color. Soon afterward a heap of white
powder was aU that was left of the
Jewel. '
PASSING OF THE BUFFALO. |
Thie Tragedy of tha Pup Trade an Ao
cidant of Civilization. •
Speaking of tho buffalo, which is now
becoming rare and which might have
been saved for both food and game
purposes, the author of "Let Us Go
Afield," Emerson Hough, writes:
"All the high grade, well system
atized butchery In which the beef
trust did not piav a part ended only
about twenty yea.s ago. The Indians
refuse to believe that It is ended. They
■pray to their leaders' among the white
men to take them north, far away,
•where the buffalo have gone.' Being
told there is no such land, they take it
out in praying for a hereafter in which
there shall be plenty of buffalo.
"The destruction of the buffalo was
the tragedy of the fur trade. It was
not so much a blunder in commerce as
it was an accident of civilization. The
belt of the machinery of progress got
loose when the railroads came and the
engine 'raced.' There was a time of
flurry and unpreparedness when our
transportation for the first time ran
ahead of us. It was the great plains
railroads that killed off the buffalo.
"We wiped the west off the earth, if
not off the map. long ago, and now wo
seek to water its grave with national
irrigation. The terms civilized and sav
age are, however, but relative, and
there is always some sort of balance
struck between them. Continually we
make war upon the wilderness, its peo
ple, its cnjatures: yet, having done so,
we covet again the wilderpess, yearn
for it, depend upon It and ape it even
In our clothing. We may abolish the
wilderness from the earth and from
the map, but we cannot abolish it
from our blood It Is therefore a mat
ter of course after all that, having
eaten the heart out of our cake, we
shall manage to get along with the
fragment's left around the edge. We
may pay a little more for the frag
ments than for ail the rest, but we can
afford It. We are rich, rich!"
MOTION PICTURE ACTORS.
Coached in Emotional Expression by
Phonograph Music.
The lot of a movie star has its hours
of trial and tribulation, as well as of
satisfaction. The sharp call of the di
rector to "register Joy" or "register
terror" or register any one of the thou
sand and one human emotions which
are displayed upon the film must be
obeyed, whatever the emotion which
happens to be uppermost in the actor's
mind at the moment It is not easy
always to have such facile command of
the face, as is demanded for this work,
either from the camera artist or the
worker iu the "legitimate," and for the
former it Is perhaps even harder than
for the latter, since many of the acces
sories which go to throw the actor on
the stage Into the spirit of his work
are absent In the studio. It cannot be
easy to register longing in the midst of
a babel of directors and property men
and disengaged performers, with the
camera grinding away In front of one
and a half dozen strange "sets" being
noisily erected on all sides.
To assist the actor In this thankless
task the phonograph has been called
Into play. Picture the sweet country
maid dreaming of her lover In a faroff
land. The director tells her to look
wistful, longing, melancholy or what
you will. He gives the command "Go!"
which is the signal for action, the
talking machine Is started, and the
strains of "I Hear You Calling Me"
are heard. A sympathetic note Is
struck in the heart of the actress, her
facial expression Is indicative of the
effect of the music, and the proper
mood is called forth.
"We know how much music en
hances the effect of the motion picture
as presented in the theater," says the
director responsible for this lnnova
tlon. "The audience does not often re
alize the Importance of the musical
accompaniment, but omit the music
and they will feel the differAce In a
moment"—Philadelphia Press.
LAME EVERY
MORNING
A Bad Back is Generally 'Wore* in
The Morning. Alaska People
Should Be Finding
Relief
A back that aches all day and
causes discomfort at night is usual
ly worse in tlie morning. Makes you
feral as if you hadn't slept at all.
You can't get rid of kidney back
ache, until you reach th« cause—
'ha kidneys.
Doau's Kidney Pills are especial
ly prepared for weakened or disor
dered kidneys—been gratefully re
commended by thousands.
The following statement proves
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cause I used Doan's Kidney Pills
aad they cured me. The backache
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SHE ANSWERED NAPOLEON.
And Her Brave Reply Subdued the An
gry Conqueror.
Napoleon, the rough and ruthless con
queror, considered women as of no Im
portance In national affairs, and he
was always resentful of their interfer
ence. But in at least one Instance of
record, as a recent writer Las pointed
out, it was otherwise.
When, after the battle of Jena, Napo
leon entered "Weimar ho proceeded to
the palace of the duke to make it bis
headquarters. Tbo fighting and plun
dering in the town were not yet over
when, toward evening, he entered the
hall. As he did so the duchess, who
had been waiting in ^ier apartment
appeared at the top of the great stair
case to greet him.
"Who are you?" he demanded rough
ly, in surprise.
"I am the Duchess of Weimar," she
replied, with dignity.
"I pity you!" he cried fiercely. "lam
going to crush your husband!"
The next morning when they met
a£ain he Inquired, with brusque dis
pleasure:
"Madame, now couia your uuauauu ue
so mad as to make war against me?"
"Your majesty would have despiaed
him If he had not," was the reply.
"How so?" asked Napoleon.
"My husband has been In the serrlct
of the king of Prussia upward of thir
ty years," replied the duchess. "Surely
it was not at the moment that the king
had so mighty an enemy as your
majesty to contend against that the
duke could abandon him."
An answer at once so spirited, soble
and tactful softened even Napoleon's
arrogance. In the conversation that
followed the duchess was able to secur#
promises of consideration for the duke
and relief for the townspeople. At the
close of it the conqueror said to her,
"Madame, you are more worthy of re
spect than any woman I have known.
You have saved your husband. I par
don him, but remember it is wholly 09
your account As for him, he is a bad
case 1"
That was merely Napoleon's opinion.
The duke, at any rate, was properly ap
preciative of his duchess, for when tho
document that secured the independ
ence of Weimar was brought to him
by a French general he refused to tako
it into his hands, but said simply,
"Give it to my wife, the emperor In
tended it for her." — Youth's Compan
ion.
MUSICAL MOUNTAINS.
Singing Cliffs In tho Pyrenees and
Roaring Sands In Hawaii.
In certain parts of the world are
mountains and hills which are said by
the natives to sing. In the Pyrenees
certain cliffs emit plaintive sounds re
sembling the strains of a harp. Two
other cliffs in the same chain are called
the "snorers." When the wind la In
the southwest they send forth a pe
culiar sound not altogether musical.
The faces of these cliffs are marked by
deep gullies, open in front, which may
be compared to the pipes of an organ.
At certain times a stratum of air, held
between the cliffs and bordering trees,
closes the openings while the wind
blows freely between through the gul
lies, or organ pipes, behind; hence the
music that is heard.
At the confluence of the Orinoco and
the Rio Meta are granite cliffs which
sing at sunrise. Humboldt refers to
the phenomenon as the musical stones
t the Orinoco. The music is caused by
te rush of the expanding air through
Assures partly closed by mica.
0
Many more examples may be cited vto
show that nature makes use of prin
ciples which have been adopted by
man in the creation of musical sounds.
Nor are the musical sounds of nature
confined to rooks, mountains and hills,
for In Hawaii Is a sand bank fifty feet
high which, when the hand is moved
about in the loose sand, produces a
sound- like that of a melodeon. It Is
8aid that if the observer slides down
the bank on his back, dragging both
hands in the sand, the sound becomes
as loud as faint thunder.
The World's Worst Penman.
Most remarkable among execrable
writers was John Bell, the barrister of
whom Lord Elilon salcl to the prince
regent that he was the ablest equity
lawyer of his time, though he could
"neither read, write, walk nor talk."
Bell was a cripple, and his Westmore
land accent combined with his stam
mer to make his speech unintelligible.
The character of his writings appears
from his own statement that be had
three styles, one of which he could
read, but his clerk could not, while the
second was Intelligible to his clerk, but
not to himself, and the third baffled
both of them.
Nero's Fiddling.
The expression, or story, of Nero
fiddling while Home burned had Its
origin In the old story that the empe
ror forbade the flames of Rome to be
put out and went to a high tower,
where he watched his city burning and
sang verses to his lute "upon the burn
ing of old Troy."—New York Times.
How She Knew.
"I'm sure that grocer of ours gives us
short weight," said he.
"No, he doesn't," said ma. "His
scales are correct I know they are. 1
weighed myself on them this morning,
and they showed that I am twenty
pounds lighter than I thought I was."—
Detroit Free Press.
Plenty of Pain.
From a boy's essay: "Pain tells U3
that all Is not right where the pain Is.
There are many kinds of pain, enough
for every one to have some."—Boston
Transcript
FRATERNAL ORDERS
Arctic BrotlUSrliood. —
Camp Skagwary No. 1,
A. B. mVtts every sec
ond. a-ail fou/rtlil Tues
day evanlog at 8:30 P.
m. aiwrp. Visiting brothers oordial
ly we.'ecane. W. L. Steveaisoo, Arc
tic) Chief. W. E. Burford, Arctic
Hecc rder.
Fraternal Oixler
Eaglet—
Skagwnyl Aeriq
No. 25, Frater
nal Oilier of
Eagleg meets tiiq first and third
Wednesday eight of each month at
U11M1 hall on Fifth Avenue. Visit
ing brothers cotrdtelly invitejd to
attend. J. M. fiieisbacn, \\'. 1*.
J. V. Miller, Secretary.
P. & A. M.
White* Pass Lodge
F. & "A. M. No. 113
meets 2d and 4th
Frl. EVgs, of each
montc. Visiting orotners are wel- i
come.
Elmer L. Wheeler, W. M.
Address all commuuicatiouB to
t-tie Secretaay.
B. P. O. ELKS
Skagway Lodge
No. 421, B. P. O.
E. meets every
Thursday- night
8:00 o'clock.
TflKvtt mSTS visiting brothers
cordially welcome.
HENRY FRIEDENTHAL, E. R.
F. 1. VAWDBWALL, Secretary.
Plpnecr of Alaska Igloo, No. 12,
meet* hi A. B. Hall first Monday In
every month at 8:30 p. m.
Visiting Brothers cordially wel
come.
W. L. STEVENSON, Pres.
V. T. DORTERO. Rec. Sec.
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DR. L. S. KELLER
Dentist
Moet Modjero Metthods
Office Hours: 9-12 a. m. 1-0 p. m.
Alaeton Building - - Bttoadway
SHAG WAV ALASKA
WILLIAM PALLKTER, M. D.
(Formerly of Seattle)
Specialist ta the trea|tme>it of
disease and deformities of thq
eye, ear, nose and throat.
Offlre: Goldstein Building, Ju
Bftiu, Alaska.
XV. B. STOUT
Attorney At Law
Practice in all courts
In Territory of Alaska
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