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EDITORIAL
COME ON, YOU FAK>£EKS
Farmers in the Matanuska are
being ur^ed to puf ever/ available
acre under cultivation during th©
coming season, that Alaska may
show to the outside world the val
ue oi its agricultural areas.
-Plant potatoes, timothy bay or
clover," is the advice given to those
who have uot time or inclination tp
go in for garden truck.
Similar activitty mig^t be ishown
in the vicinity of Sward.
During past years only a few
men have planted garden truck, j
There are cleared areas, including
considerable acreage around, all
of which should lie under cultiva
tion next year. Local merchants
will buy all of the potatoes raised,
while the hay produced is in contin
uous demand, and is profcajjle that
there will be a market for all gar
den truck either in town or for use
at the rail-road camps.
Investigate today, yop who are
agriculturally inclined. Hunt up
the owners of cleared ground and If
thsy do not intend to plant next
season ask them to let you have
the use of it. i
And you own erg of the groumi,
if you are not going to use it
this year, offer i' to those who will
ar a nominal figure it' you must
have your unearned increment, or
for nothing if you are willing that
♦he worker shall have the fruit of
his toil. You wlU yin in the long
run. for the very existence of the
crop enhances the value of your
holdings.
Get busy and let's see how many
tons of potatoes, hay, beets, car
rc's, tumij'3 we can. raise around
Resurrection bay next summer.
The above article, taken from the
Alaska Evening Post, Seward, and
the advise contained therein might
also be giv^u to the people of this
vicinity.
Truck farming in the Skagway
valley has long passed the experi
mental stage, and each year large
amounts of potatoes, beets, carrots,
turnips, celery, cabbage, rhubarb,
an<? other vegetables are profitably
raised.
There is much land in this val
ley which lies idle and it could be
mads to pay handsome interest on
,l> investment that would be neces
sary *o make it truck gardens. As
a means of reducing th© H. C. L.,
why not raise all the vegetables
that is consumed In Skagway at
home, thus elimjnatin. the cost
of transportation. It can be done.
SHIP'S CREW KNOCKS
OFF WORK, TAN'S GOLD
Sau Francisco, Jan. 13—Every
member of the crew of the steamer
Sa* Pedro, which arrived here to
day frcm Xavidad bay, thirty-five
miles from Manzanillo, Mexico, had
a bag of gold washed from the
sands cf a creek that tumbled into
♦Qe bay near •where the steamer
wag leading cedar logs,
One of the crew discovered the
£Old. All hands quit loading logs
and Vlth dippers pans and skillets
started gold mining. The skipper
Xiaally promised that If the men
would finish loading the steamer
!ha would give them & whole day to
hunt gold. He kept his word. They
average* for the day's work $60
aoiece. One man had more than
$200 'o precious dust.
LINCOLN UNDER FIR£.
A Salute That Might Have Carried
Death !n Ita Train.
In "Reminiscences of a Wartlmo
Statesman and Diplomat," by Freder
ick W. Seward, Is the story of a visit
to a French frigate, "I think the Gar
senal," on which the author accompa
nied Mr. Lincoln early in 1861. The
visit over the party was leaving the
frigate and the. parting salute was
about to be flred.
"As Mr. Lincoln took his seat In the
stern he said: 'Suppose we row around
her bows. I should like to look at her
build and rig from that direction.' Cap
tain Dahlgron, of course, shifted his
helm accordingly. The French officers
doubtless had not heard or understood
the president's rem»»"k and supposed
we were pulling off ^:eru In the ordi
nary way.
"We had hardly reached her bow
when on looking up 1 saw the officer
of the deck pacing the bridge, watch in
hand and counting off the seconds—'un,
deux, trois'—and then Immediately fol
lowed the flash and deafening roar of a
cannon apparently just over our heads.
Another followed, then another and an
other In rapid succession. We were j
enveloped in smoke and literally 'under !
dre' from the frigate's broadside. Cap- j
tain Dahlgren sprang to his feet, his
face aflame with indignation as he i
shouted: 'Full like the , boys! Pull
like r
"They obeyed with a will, and a few
sturdy strokes took us out of danger.
After he had resumed his seat and
calmed down I said In a low voice, 'Of
course those guns were not shotted,
and we were below their range?*
"He answered, gritting his teeth, 'Yes,
but to think of exposing the president
to the danger of having his head taken
Wf by a wad!'
| "I did not know until he explained
j that the wadding blown to pieces by
the explosion sometimes commences
dropping fragments, soon after leaving
the gun. Whether Mr. Lincoln realized
the danger or not I never knew. He
sat impassively through it and made
no reference to it afterward."
LIBELED THE KING.
Then He Turned Informer and Won •
Substantial Reward.
A colonel In the Prussian army, who
had been discharged et the close of the
Seven Years' war. Importuned Fred
erick the Great to be reinstated.
Weary of the Incessant solicitations of
his troublesome visitor, Frederick at
length gave orders that he should
never be admitted to his presence.
Some .reeks later a most bitter libel
against his majesty appeared. Freder
ick seldom gave himself any concern
about such attacks, but the present one
exasperated him so much that he of
fered a reward of 50 friedrlchs of gold
for the discovery of the author. The
day following the disgraced colonel de
manded and obtained an audience.
"Sire." he began, on being admitted,
'•your majesty has just promised 50
friedrlchs for the discovery of the au
thor of a recent publication. I am come
to claim that recompense. Behold in
me the unfortunate llbeler! My life I
j forfeit freely, but remember your royal
pledge, and while you punish me, send
| to my poor wife and children the re
ward due to the iuformer."
The king, although struck with the
sad extremity and self sacrifice of the
officer, said sternly:
"Go instantly to the fortress of Span
dau and there await my Judgment!"
"I obey," said the culprit "But the
money?"
"Within two hours your wife shall
receive it," said the king. "Take this
letter and give it to the commandant,
but he must not open it until after din
ner."
The colonel arrived at Spandau and
gave himself up as a prisoner. At the
prescribed moment the commandant
opened the royal mandate It ran:
To the bearer I give the command ol
Spandau. The present governor Is to tak«
the command of Berlin as a reward for
past eervlcea. FREDERICK.
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OLD SHIP CARVERS
Their Occupation Gone, Theirs Is
Now a Lost Art.
FIGUREHEADS OUT OF DATE.
These Famous Old Fanciful Figures,
Elaborately Fashioned In Wood, Find
No Place In the Decorative Scheme
of a Modern Windjammer.
While there Is a revival of wooden
shipbuilding iu Maine, giving employ
ment to the carpenter, rigger and sail
maker, there is not on the whole length
of the coast any job for the carver—
the sculptor in wood who used to make
tho figureheads. That is an occupation
now entirely gone, for the figurehead
is out of date and its carving a lost art.
One of the most famous of the ship
carvers was the late William L. Sea
vey of Bangor, who fashioned figure
heads for the best square riggers that
ever left Maine. He learned his trade
in a Bangor shipyard when the banks
of the Penobscot bristled with new
vessel frames, plied his cleaver, chisel
and gouge through all the years of
America's greatest maritime glory,
witnessed the decline of our ocean
commerce and lived to see his occupa
tion entirely gone.
For forty years or more aia seavey
carve angels and cherubs, kings and
queens, mermaids and dolphins, states
men and warriors, not to mention an
occasional lion and numerous eagles,
for the adornment of "down east" ves
sels, for every craft of any considera
ble size carried a figurehead, some sort
of ornament under the bowsprit be
ing regarded as necessary to complete
her outfit But now all that is gone.
Owners can see no sense in spending
money on such gewgaws as a blue eyed
and white robed queen wearing a yel
low crown. When they build a vessel
now—square riggers are no longer
thought of—they whittle her off for
ward to a billet head and let her go at
that. Maybe a gilt scrollwork tops her
stem, but nothing more.
Thus it is that Bangor knows the
wood sculptor no more, the sole re
minder of Seavey's art being a broken
and faded specimen of his work, once
carried by a big ship, but for many
years mounted as a sign over his shop
door in Exchange street In the days
of her youth this statuesque lady,
whittled and chiseled from a pine log,
had golden trimmings on her Grecian
robes and in one dainty hand held aloft
a golden goblet Now she Is weather
worn and grimy, and the goblet hnnd
is gone, but she is the most striking
memorial of Seavey, all his other paint
ed beauties being scattered to the
seven seas under foreign flags or gono
to the port of dead ships.
One of the finest figureheads in Its
day was that of the clipper ship West
ern Belle. It was the full sized figure
of a woman, with her left arm out
stretched, carrying a few spears of
wheat Iler right hand gathered the
folds of her skirt, the drapery of which,
considering that the material was
wood, was admirably executed.
From tne general ouumc uu koo
than from the careless curl lying along
tho breast it Is suspected that the car
ver had worked in marble or was a
natural genius. Ilis name was Samp
son. He neglected to cut his first
name on his masterpieces. He lived
and tolled In Bath, the home of Amer
ican shipbuilding, where the Western
Belle was built In 1S7U.
His handiwork was carried by Bath
built ships to the most remote parts
of the world, and It Is related that a
south sea Island chief was so Impress
ed with the Yankee carver's skill that
he sent him a commission by a friend
ly skipper to make a set of Idols to
meet the theological needs of the
chiefs heathen subjects.
The Western Belle Is spending the
evening of her days as a coal barge,
but the lady who graced her prow was
retired from the sea and now occupies
a place In a garden. Ope of her pecu
liarities was a detachable arm. the one
In which she held the wheat During
voyages it was unscrewed so that the
seas might not break it, being replaced
when the ship was about to make a
port. This was not known In the more
elaborate of the old wooden figure
heads, especially of-men-of-war, where
danger of shattering was greatest
Some figureheads were illustrative
of the vessel's name, others were
whims of the owners or the captains
and still others symbolic of events oc
curring at the time the vessels were
built. The schooner War Eagle, for In
stance. was built in wartime, and she
had for her 3gnrehead a fierce looking
eagle, perched on a heap of cannon
balls and with arrows clasped in Its
talons. The War Kagle was destroyed
some years ago at Boston by an explo
sion of naphtha in her cargo. The
schooner American Eagle was decorat
ed with a gorgeous bird of freedom,
and the brig American Union was lfo
erally ornamented, stern and bow.
with symbols of this nation.
The old steamer Expounder had a
figure of John Marshall holding the
constitution outspread, and the steam
er Daniel Webster carried on either
paddle box a medallion head of the
great orator, while in her saloon was
hung a life sized portrait of him, pre
sented by the citizens of Boston.—Bos
ton Globe.
Great men begin enterprises because
they think them great and fools be
cause they think them easy.—Vau.
venargues.
I
FRATERNAL ORDE1JS
Arctic Brotherhood. —
Camp Skagway No. 1,
A. B. meets every sec
ond and foiurthl Tues
day- evenius at 8:30 P
m. stwrp. Visiting brotnera och ui<u
]y wfrVcime. W. L. Stevensom, Arc
hie Chief. W. E. Burford, Arctic
Keccrder.
Fraternal o«l<'r
i Euglefj—
Skugwy Aerie
Ko. 25, Friiter
iml Order of
Eagles meets tliej first and third
Wednesday night of oach month at
tDPJt hall oil Fifth Aveiiuo. Visit
ing broth|ei-s cwdiAlly invitefl to
attend. L. E. Hudson, W. P.,,
J. M. Greisbach, Secretary.
P. & A. M.
White Pass Lodge
F. & A. M. No. 113
mett3 2d and 4th
Pri. EVgs, of each
moats. Visiting brotliers are ■wel
come.
Elmer L. Wheeler, W. M.
Address all communications to
the Secretary.
B. P. O. ELKS
Bkagway Lodge
No. 431, B. P. O.
E. metts every
Thursday night
y &t 8:00 o'clock.
Visiting brothers
cordially welcome.
HENRY FRIEDENTHAL, E. R.
r. J. yANDE WALL, Secretary.
Pioneer of Alaska Igloo, No. 12,
meetfc fai A. B. Hall first Monday in
every month at 8:30 p. m.
Vletting Brothers cordially wel
come.
W. L. STEVENSON, Pres.
V. T. DORTERO, Rec. Sac.
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WILLIAM PALLI6TEK, M. D.
(Formerly of Seattle)
Specialist la the tm»|tini»it of
disease and deformities of tlit?
eye, ear, nose and throat.
Office: Goldstein Building, Ju
neau, Alaska.
W. B. STOUT
Attorney At Law
Practice in all courts
In Territory of Alaska
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