r«;»l>Ka^ 1898 Old—t D»3y m Alaifr
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S'iberriptlona And Advertisements
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B. !«. PUlman Atlin; B. C.
C uK F k-\C
pIORIAL
V"V' Vt l»K\D!
Fort de V*
" tb° *,ru%- U w,
center
rduti Seven
t.rnes »he Geflfc. .
.. _ auJ sev
en times the Jkevv .
V 1 solus won it
rick. For thr«» s.-&
■\ ® p r»«' (*il
re^!m°rt held the cr.-\eai
.. . , acal position.
Ou> of from su||L* ^
octaia reinforcemeiii, ^
or w»ter, and under »ut4Wous
everjr moment these hei {-riA(,t.
me? 'ought the overwnlmi&g t
o' the Hun.
TK.e crucial minute arA^ -j,
f'to of the citadel of Verdun t
fate or i'arls, th© fate of |Vn
f nd civilization was the issue. !
ivaaity »nd the future of the Wv
huii>j on the isse of that fight;
handfj' of exhausted Frenchmet
giim a desperate German assau
Just at that mmoent General
t.iiii's message arrived at the I
at? Vaux. It told tfie starved
exhausted poilus that, must n°t
brutea. France depeni>ed on tl
an! they must hold.
At that moment the assault
launched Py the Boches, a Fre
lieutenant leaped to the parapet
*ull view of the remnant of
raiment aud shouted the wc
which have won many hard fig
since then:
"Deoout les morts!" "Stand up
deal, and fight with us for Fra
a:id victory!" »
Tnere was something in his tk>
in Vs manner, in his soul that w
iar beyond the ordinary. He 1
supernatural. He performed a n
ac'e. The dead of Vaux lay d<
•is oefore, but the indomitable si
i' of those iuen d<ead for France <
tyred into the Bouls of their 1
surviving comrades — put super:
;ural strength into their arms
miraculous courage into th
hearts—irristible energy into th
assault. "The Dead'' actually i
fi^htinr again for France and> F
d# Vaux was saved. The Gem
cream urince was defeated. \"
dun tv»s Baved, France was saved
Th® Fourth Liberty loan is 1
Fighting lo»n. No matter how mi
yr.u may nave subscribed for p
vioua Liberty loans your duty
the cresent time is to think of i
thin* but your duty to this one. 1
dead of Vaux couldn't fight; 1
taeif »onls could stand up and
iufcree the living. What you si
scribed for earlier issues of v
bonds hag been spent. That moi
v ent tor preparation. The Foui
Libarty loan is for fignting.
Catch the spirit of the rallyi
cry, M£>tand up, ye Dead!" T1
snirit will make the coming
berty loaa campaign a victory j1
li'-e 'tat at Fort de Vaux.
2 11 LIBERTY LOAN ~ 7
' Ta aDpo'inting Saturday i
twelfth day of October as Libei
Day »or Alaskans, Governor Thon
R. Rigs3, Jr-» struck a popu]
chord and the bbj&ct for %hlcli( the
day id se' tneets wifcii universal hp
oroval !>: , [ ■
The FoUrth Liberty Loan- looms
uo every day more ahd more »»
Vlctorv Loan and the news from
the front is the Incentive to every
loyal American to go the full
length of his resources to supply
the means whereby our army and na
vy c4n keeip up the figbt an# bring |
the day of victory nearer.
Let Skagway keep uu its repu
tation and make Liberty Day a day
of sacrifice by stretching every
sinew in going over the top by sua.
scribing to the Fourth Liberty Loan
to the very limit of its resources.
Do not wait but DO IT NOW! ! !
u. S. SERGEANT'S HAtL
Many capital Stories continue to
find the light In connection with
the American counter-attack on
tae first dry of the German offens
ive. It now appears that when
the Germans crossed the river the
Amcrlcaus refused' to leave their
positions, and soon the enemy was
in ereat distress, the American ma
chine-gunners and riflemen firing
into the Germans' backs and. quickly
compelling them to retire to the
norta of the Dank. At several
places the Germans were unable to
cross art terribln was the American
artillery and machine-gun fire. A
Grenadier regiment was shattered;
and one of its battalions had very
few men left. All round lay German
dead la heaps, both banks of the
Marne being covered with bodies.
Aa the Germans retired individual
Americans,went out to hunt them
down. Many stories are tol(5 of
acts of bravery and initiative which
are amazing. The story of Sergt
J. F. Brown is a good specimen. He
was wandering round looking for
Germans, and with his officer at
tacked a nest of four machine-guns
and capture two. The officer was
killed. Then, armed with an auto
mata rifle, he seized a thir<i ma
cnine^gun and, with a corPorarB
helo, attacked the fourth. He shot
a German private dead, and when
the German officer there reached
for his knife he killed him also.
Th« fourth machine-gun thus fell in
to his hands. He then brought in
Uome prisoners, maps, and- aouven
hrs landed them over to a military
W iceman, and asked, as he says in
report, for a receipt. He' went
^ \ou» again and, with a number of
r^jxnions, hunted again Soon
lu\ touud just over 100 Germans in
r, J? ttet>ch. In which there were many
,r^l. anj which was cut off by ar
L \UU,Ty lire. With his rifle' .resting
tlK *or N was 80 l^at
p4-» ,v
■ort^r Germans, who threw up
"*^L in surrender. He marcl*
w'th his captlvrt, safe*
aWj."'^ 154 prisoners, iu
era%:lBlaior 0n hls wa>' ev'
diedVl-" 5rla0nOr» fel1 °Ut and
WoodVa':.''6 ,iKhtinS ln Conde
all itsVy*. eHcan P'atoon lost
bugler Cot/- '" Immediately a
on so well :.*wai>«. and carried
talk of the lbi3 esplolt 18 the
of the Worn, ;111' "The News
\ -^Qon. Kng.
come
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P It O 0 1 \y
VVTIOS
Juneau, Alufe. v •
"Never before 1^18
greater need for the -v .'" t,Pen
zen to show his patriot^ ""
"Coincident with the
the Fourth Liberty Loan
th». drive of th0 Hun for a
made peace. Our answer
foun* in the efforts of our
and sailors in foreign parti
th« Liberty Loan drive by OUr
viiian population. It is the dttt>
every man. and every woman, citll
or alien, even through entailed ®
rificf, to purchase a bond. I
men >n uuiform offer their lives <
we 6x> less than to offer our mi
ey in the cause of humanity:
"Therefore, I, Thomas Ri£g8, .
Governor of Alaska do hereby p
claim Saturday, October twell
nineteen eighteen, a lgal holld&)
be observed as Liberty'Day throus
out th© territory. '
"Every effort must be made
assist our government. Let our s
Faa be 'At least twice over I
top.* "
Glveu under my hand and'the s
at the territory of Alaska in June
th* Capital, this ninth day of Oc
ber, in the year of our Lord, c
thousand nine hundred and elghte
and of the Independence of the
nitetf States, the one hundred a
forty second.
(Signed) THOMAS RIGGS, J
GQTem
By the Governor.
:lfi | (Signed) Chas, E. Davidson,
ar ' Ei-offlclo Secretary of Alaska.
I
CITV OF FILTH AND MISERY |
Bagdad Has Fp.llen Far From Proud j
Position She Is Said to Have Oc- j
cupled In the Past.
Bagdad Is glorious only by refllectlon '
froiu the past. The houses of the pres '
ent town are crude constructions of I
brick, mostly from undent ruins and f
adobe; living Is primitive; sanitation j
is non-existent; the streets or rather 1
lanes, so narrow at times that one j
beast of burden tills the whole space '■
from blank wall to blank wall, are I
sewers and rubbish heaps, and the res- |
ervoir for water supply is the Tigris i
river, which divides the city Into two j
parts, just wheAj all the filth of the j
city's lanes pours Into it. In the bus
iness sections, the bflzaars, the streets
are roofed over with rude screens of
palm logs covered with mats and reeds
us a protection against the burning
heat of the summer sun.
The houses are provided with ser
dabs, a sort of cellar, for household re
sort during daytime In the long sum
mer months and when there Is no ser
dab, with mats of thorny shrubs to
hang before the windows and keep
drenched with water. At that season
the whole town sleeps and eats on the
roof, and the main middle floor of the
•house, is practically unused. The heat
of summer Is Intense, and everything
is constructed to alleviate its discom
fort, consequently one suffers ujjser
ably during the brief rainy period from
the cold and damp at home and abroad.
The death rate is enormous.—Dr. John
P. Peters In American Review of Re
views.
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ALEUT YOUNGSTERS A! HLAT
Manage to Have Periods of "Fun,"
Much at Do the Children of More
Favored Nations.
The Aleut boys uiul girls are very
like boys and glfls In the States,
when you get under the furs and dirt
and brown skins. They like fun as
well as our children. ,One of them
writes: "I was at Atka all last win
ter. I trapped two blue fox, which I
am sending dowu to have sold for me.
I also learned how to use a gun. Yes
terdny we went out with one of the
teachers and I killed an eagle. The
marshal gave me 70 cents for killing it
because, he said, I was a girl."
Picking melinas (large raspberries)
is a favorite occupation. The bushes
grow on the side of the mountain, and
to pick the berries one must either sit
down and die his heels Into the bank
or He down and hang on with one hand.
In spite of care the picker often takes
an Involuntary coast down the hill.
Bogholes. pitfalls and mountain creeks
add to the difficulties of the quest.
Clam digging is another change from
home life that Is welcomed by the
children. They do this when, as one
of the small boys said, "the tide is get
ting downer and downer." Salmon
catching and curing Is another help to
the family larder.—Alice M. Guernsey
la World Outlook.
Many-Sided Missionary.
A missionary In India gives some
Idea of the multiplicity of a mission
ary's duties. He tells us that he Is:
a minister of the Gospel, preaching
whenever possible. A medical man
with a large practice. A schoolmaster j
with 30 to 40 small schools under his
supervision. A magistrate for the set
tlement of local disputes, the nearest
government official being 30 miles
away. A road contractor, being re
sponsible for the upkeep and repair of
60 miles of public roads. A tree plant
er. (This and the last office are means
of providing employment for the unem
ployed.) A builder, attending to the
erection of his own churches and hos
pitals. A meteorologist, reaching and
reporting the rainfall at the request of
the government. A money-lender and
the supervisor of a local agricultural
bank. A literary man. translator and
reviser. A colporteur. A seller of
soap und ten, to raise money for mis-'
slonary purposes.
Saul of Tarsus.
Saul of Tarsus, known as Paul
after his conversion, referring to him
self (IT Cor. 10:11), says "his bodily
presence Is weak and his speech con
temptible." Ernest Renan, the French
writer, after consulting Jewish and
iRoman writings, says of him: "Paul
\was small in size, and his personal ap
, Searance did not correspond with the
' i Neatness of his soul. He was ugly,
rvyt stout and stooping, and his
shoulders awkwardly sustained
#J>le bald hend. His sallow counte
was half hidden In a thick
|puA' his nose was aquiline, his eyes
and his eyebrows heavy and
MDs^ross his forehead. . . . His
at tW '"in was not healthy, though
proyetl time Its endurance was
portoiS hi 'he way in which he sup
sulfcifygv^itence full of fatigues and
da
The catauj-'^n's Speculum,
the photogwiiv^scura, prototype of
said to havjthp.'"amerft of today, is
con—who lived j^tfbwn to Roger Ba
turj. By sotiie thirteenth cen
belug credited Wlty'^'Hles he Is even
James Thomson to Invention, says
The "speciJurrt" ,'^o-Ern.
however, may have &oger Bacon,
Qjrder of the "busy>|)c» 'imply of the
employed in some ibo^" co:nmoi>iy
pean countries, and not ''"tnl Euro
Philadelphia, where In tA^nown in
the city they may be seefi in Parts of
any day. almost
The "busy-body" is a tnt*,
tened outside of a window at fas
single as to reflect the view J** an
ttroet . 1 the
I
WHEW CITY WAS "HARD UP"
New Ycrk Once 8ought Lejji»latlv«
Authority to Run Lottery to
Secure Needed Funds.
A hitherto unpublished letter of De
Wltt Clinton, writteu In 180^ to John
Platan!, clerk of the common council
while Mr. Canton was In the New
York state senate, on legislative bills
regarding city Improvements, was re
cently discovered In an Interesting
way during the editing of the New
York cotlimou council minutes from
T7S4 to 1S.11. The chief topic of In
terest In the letti'r Is a reference to a
hill introduced at the request of the
common council asking thnt the leg
islature authorize a lottery for $100,
000 for the purpose of raising suffi
cient funds for the completion of 'the
present city hall.
Dr. A. Everett Peterson, editor of
the common council minutes, found a
reference to the letter In the minutes
of the period and Instituted a-«earch
for It. His hunt was rewarded by
finding it nmong a mass of loose pa
pers in the custody of the city clerk
and It has been reproduced In fac
simile with the minutes of 1809, pub
lished In the fifth volume of the print
ed minutes. The letter Is dated from
Albany. March 12, 1809. Mr. Clinton
was mayor of New York city and also
a state senator, the mayor then being
appointed by the governor, and Mr.
Clinton held the office Reveral years.
On the subject of the lottery for com
pleting the city hall, Mr. Clinton said:
"There appears to be a determina
tion In the legislature not to grant any
more lotteries. The memorial of the
common council praying for one has
been committed In the assembly, and
a bill has been Introduced, but there
is no hope of its passing."
PEANUT PUT TO MANY USES
Nutritious Oil and Palatable Buttar
Derived From the Humble "Goob
er," Beloved of Childhood.
The peanut Isn't a nut nt all,' bot
a member of the pea, bean and .clover
family. It Is a legume and gathers
nitrogen from the air. Peanuts do not
prow from roots, but on shoots which
grow out from the plant above ground,
bear a little sterile yellow blossom and
then shoot directly Into the ground,
where they "peg," that Is, where pea
nuts begin to grow on them. The pea
nuts are pulled from the vines or roots,
and the roots are then plowed back
Into the ground to nllow the nitrogen
to feed the soil. The peanuts are then
taken to peanut factories. In these
buildings the peanuts are cleaned and
sorted. The largest are saved and put
through a rumbler, which polishes the
shells. These are sold In the shells.
Other first grades are shelled and sold
for salting; and one big packing com
pany buys only first grades for peanut
butter.
If the peanuts are pulled roots and
all, the peanuts are dried out by stack
ing on poles, then pulled off and sold.
Broken peanuts are pressed and the oil
extracted. Much of this oil Is sold as
"pure olive oil." In fact, It Is qult€
as rich and nutritious as olive oil. Th«
refuse Is pre cd Into cakes and sold
as oil caker for feeding stock and
especially dairy cows.—St. Nicholas.
Origin of Scottish Festival.
The origin of "hogmanay," whlct
used to be so dear to the youth of'.Scot
land, ay, and to the auld folks, too
has given rise to endless discussion
The following correspondence has ap
peared In the Scotsman as to th(
origin of the custom and the name:
"The derivation Hagla-mene, th<
holy raoon, has been suggested, thi
period of which corresponded to oui
December. Some, with considerable
plausibility, derive It from the Latin
Hoc In Anno, a persuasive to charltj
which reminded well-to-do patrons thai
the year had all but run Its course, bul
that there was still time to relieve
their needy supplicants. It Is not lm
probable that the term Is of Teuton!)
origin. It may be connected wltl
Hnegtld, a name applied to Christmas
and (or) other festivities. Hoeg-tidt
day would thus mean the laettlsslmui
dies, or gladdest season of the year."
l_lly*» Rapid Qrowth.
The great water lily of the botanl<
gardens In Loudon usually has a louj
season. Iu the spring It disappear!
beneath the water of its tank
How the Illy vanishes and Is re
produced Is explained by Mr. North
the curator. The thick root 'stocl
gradually rots away and the fruits
which are about the size of a baseball
remain at the bottom of the tank
They are fished up In the spring ant
the seeds are extracted. A single seed
though no larger than a pea, will li
four months produce a plant that wtl
cover an area of 1,000 feet. In Its na
tlve district, the Amazon, the VlctorU
Regla is largely used by the natives as
food. It grows on the lagoons and li
i perennial.
Purpose In Her Song.
Betty was spending the summer a
Aunt Kate's, whe.-e Mary, the eldes
daughter, was her special favorite
\Vben Mary announced one day tha
she was going away for a visit Bett:
was quite Inconsolable, and as the tlmi
drew near for her departure she wen
about looking sad and doleful. How
I ever, Just as the car drove up to th<
J door to take Mary to the station Bett;
| began to sing at the top of her voice
Mary turned laughingly to her am
| said, "I don't believe you feel so ver:
1 bad, after all, that I am going away
I If you can sing like that." ' Said Betty
, in the most pathetic way, "I'se Jus
singing to keep the tears away."
good mmNb" ~
SE ASON LOOKED
FOR IN 8HUSHAXNA
P. W. P. SmitE, who recently
came out from th£ Shushanna dis
tric*, says the majority of the peo
ple who will winter there this season
are well equipped for a good sea
son > trapping and it looks as
though the foxes, wolverines and
lynx wij! b© very, plentiful there
th's winter. A good season is
!oo<ced for. . Mr. and Mrs. Nelson,
Capt. Erickson audi wife, and Wm.
and Mrs. James will winter in
the Shushanna. Abaut twenty per
sons will bo left in the camp at the
end of the mining season. Mr.
James, who is the discoverer of this
camp, had a crew of men working
the 9ast season and did very well.
This is Mr. James' first season at) hy
drauliclnK and the result hag been
ver» satisfactory. Arrangements are
boin/r mad© to put ia new improve
menta and work on a larger scale
will be carried on next year. /
Zic». Mullet, one of the pioneers
«na trail breaker^ or the country,
ia especially well equipped for a
winter's trapping,
The government is building cabins
for «h-> protection of mushers' and
traveler* akm^ the trail from Mc
Carthy to the Shushanna diggings.
Dior Woodman and James Hussey
o» McCarthy will have the cabins
completed by this early fall.
Information from a reliable au
thority states that arrangements
have been made to have a trail built
to the diggings from McCarthy,
whjch can be used both summer
and winter. This will bee a great
help to the peoples of Shushanna,
who look forward to a very prosper
ous season next ^ar. —Cordova
Time»- " j ; .jt Ui ul ;
NOT INVENTOR OF CAMERA
Honor That Hat Been Given by Many
to Distinguished Italian Seems to
Bo Undeserved.
Because In the year 1569 Glambat
tlsta de la Porta, In his book on
"natural magic," gives a description of
the camera obscura the Invention of
that Instrument la ascribed generally
to him. It Is claimed for him that he
not only used a lens but an Inclined
mirror as well, thus anticipating by
hundreds of years cameras of a reflex
order. It Is not, however, to be Imag
ined that hla Instrument was of the
portable kind. Rather was It a dark
chamber In which an Image of the out
door-scene was thrown upon a whit
ened wall, through the medium of a
small hole on the opposite side.
It Is not at all unlikely that Porta
was simply the recorder of a phenom
enon known to others than himself,
but not by them reduced to writing.
There was one distinguished Individual,
at all events, who had observed the
sime optical effect, thus anticipating
Porta by some years. It was about
the beginning of the sixteenth century
that Leonardo da Vlncl said, "If you
will place yourself in an hermetically
closed room facing a building, a land
scape, or any other object directly
lighted by the sun, and then cut a hole
in the shutter, an Image of the object
outside will be thrown upon any sur
face facing the hole, and it will be re
versed (inverted)."
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Take LAXATIVE BROMO QUIN
INE Tablet*. Druggists f refund
money U It fails to cure. E. W.
QROVE'S signature la on each. box.
80a Wed.
"tttfir it AN LIKE ItEtii."
Amorlcan units, as already |t*t^
ed, took part In the. great counter
attack from the region of Solsaona
to the Marne. In cooperation
wltt the French they reached .*11
their objectives and at gace point
ev°n went beyond. Near Chateau.
Thierry, Torcy was taken In 15 min
utes, Belleau fell at 8.20, and' Glrry
was also captured and passed to a
sl'eht distance. Eighteen guna weri
caotured by the French and Ameri
cans in Oourchampe. An officer In
the fighting near Torcy, writes Mr.
Herbert Bailey, early sent back a
message that "we met the Boche
on his line of resistance. A sharp
figh-. took place, after which ttie
Boche turned tail and ran like hell
up the hill at the back of OlrrT.
pursued by our troops.' — "T
Nown of the World," London, En*.
What a Heap of Happlnes# It
Would Bring; to Slca£w»y
Home*
Hir^ to do housework with »ri
ing : ack.
BringB you hours of misery.at Iti*
suro or at work.
If women only knew the c«ia®—
♦Jm
backache pains often com# icojea
wf?*> kineys.
'I would save much neediest ftp*
Doan's Kidney Pills are for
w-?a* kidneys.
Thousands of grateful usees le*"
dorse them. •
Mrs. A. H. England, 7.28 W. O*
St., HUlsboro, Ore., says: 'Two
year: a?o I had such a had a tuck
of lumoago that I wasn't able to
get up or down stairs. When I ut
in s chair I could hardly get -tt>
aspin. Sharp .pains, like a knife
sti^iinj me in my back, nearly kill*
ed mc and I could hardly drag By
self about. I hPd taken only a. few
dos ,s of Doans Kidney Pills whan
mr l ack got stronger and one box
made me able to get about &« 4rt$
as ef;-r. Since then I have
iiarj an" trouble with my back #r
kidneys." .
| Price GO*5, at all dealers. " Don't
simply ask for a kidney rem^ffjr *—
gp* Doau's Kidney Pills—the 'JlUfit
thit Mrs. England bad! Foster~|tfil
; burn Co* Mfgrs., Buffalo, N. Y.
A fresh shipment of Eastman N.
0 Autographic and plaln film® for
ali sized cameras received op. ^ tfao
last boat. Better take advantga®
of this fine weather and get WM
siiaDDy fall pictures. Keller Bros
Fourth Liberty Loan
1 of^uc September 28th.
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lstered oa sugar. Act® almoot tm
stantly. Tha prescription ot
an eminent physician. K*U«r
Broi The ftaar-Toot Drue 8tor®.
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