Sl<agwa\)'s Social Weel<
GIVING ADVICE
A woman there was an^) sh© wrote
for the press
(Asyou and I might do).
She told how to cut and fit a dress,
Ao<». how to steam many a savory
mess,
Bu1 she never did it Herself I guess
(Which none of the readers
knew).
Oh toe hours we spent and 'he
flour we spent.
And the augar we wasted like
sand,
At the behest of a woman who nev
er had cooked
(An ' now we know that she never
could cook).
And did not understand.
A woman there was, and she wrote
right fair
I As you or I mgiht do)
How out of a barrel to make a
chair,
To be covered with chints and stuff
ed with hair.
'Twould adorn any parlor and. give
it an air
(And we thought the tale was
true).
Oh the days we worked, and the
ways we worked
To hammer and saw and tack.
In makinguchair in which no one
would sit.
Without a crick in his back.
A wjman there was and she- had
her fun
(Better than you aud 1);
She wrote recipes, and sue never
tried one;
She wrote about childme—of course
she had none—
3he told us to do what she never
h:i<> done
(And never intended to try)'.
It isn't to toil and it isn't to spoil
That brims the cup of disgrace.
It'* *o follow the woman who didn't
know beans
(A woman who never h"d cooked
any beans).
But wrote and wag paid to fill
space.
—Cirolyn Welles in theB ookman.
1A.M1' LKWls HR.li TVl'K
Moscow, Id-'ho, J an. -3.—Camp
Lewis was the most inteiligent ar*
lliv camp in the United States, ac
cording to a statement byv l>r. K.
H. Liudlsy, president of the Uni
versity of Idaho, who has made a
careful study of the results of the
United States arm.y intelligence
tests. Similar tests are to be in
stituted i uthe University of Idaho.
'Soldiers in Camp Lewis are
typical of the northwest," accord
ine to President Undlev, "and the
results of these tests iudicate the
high average intelliegnce of the
north w est erners.-'
The high intelligence of the
at Camp Lewis is indicate^. by
the fact that 93.6 per cent received
a erade of A or B. camp Lewis
h*d nine times as many men of
marfced intelligence as any camp
In the United States. Only .9 of
t Q*r cent of the men at thecamp
wei * below C.
Mr. Albert Keinert is ul> from |
| Ketchikan busy w iih bis closing |
out sale.
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Mr. and Mrs. Lome A. AH Alister j
and 'heir little son Ward of summit,
j Wf-r-* dinner guests ol' Mr. A. R. Hil"
jler.v at the Golden -North cafe on
Sunday last.
The Reverend E. 1.. Winterberger, j
pastor of the Presbyterian church!
is living i nthf. parsonage next to
th« church. This building was foi'm
erly used by the Reverend 1-. 11. Ped
ersen as a study.
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Word has been received in Skag
ua»- from Mrs. Andrew StevenBon |
tha» she and' the »iiiidren stopped
over iu Moose Jaw for a brief visit J
wiU> friends and relatives.
The sk»tiiig rink is occupying thai
attention of all lovers of outdoor
sport and society is :: - t un'still in J
Skaguay. Bowling is one of the at
tractions this week cm account of |
the international tournament,
Mr. George R. Dediuan of the
Golden North hotel is visiting in
coast cities. On his way down he [
stopped at Victoria for a visit with
his daughter, Mrs. Geoffrey Butler. j
&nd ber family, from there lie ""'i'l
go *o Portland, Oregon, lor a visit I
with his son, Henry and other rela
tives. Mr. Dedman will be away
from honio for some tie :"id will
look after the interests of tourist
travel for the summer.
Cards were received on the last
boat announcing the birth of a fine
little daughter *o Mr. and Mrs. Vic-I
tor L. Sparks. This important event |
occurred on Januery 13 at Wins- I
low Island where Mr. Sparks built a j
pretty cottage home tor his family.
Mr. Sparks is at work in the ship
yards. Felicitations a-e extended toj
th$ happy parents ami als-o to the
grand parents, Mr. and Mrs. W.
Sparks and Mr. a :d Mrs Peter Cre
peau.
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If is reported that several fami
lies who protested so vigorously a
gainst the high cost df living in
ckaauav and who left lie:e for honi;
•Isewiiere are waiting patiently for
an opening in the old lionie town
or some other town iu tl»«- north ^nd
tha* they will retur nas soon as pos
siele. The high rents. i;,r fare and
othet expenses eat up all they can
eaia pnd have nothing on which to
again secur© a Rood home. Well, i
we will give them :i liea.ty welcome |
aii'l- never say once "I u»ld vou so.'"
BOKX
N1SWMARC1I — On 17th January'
1919, at AVhiichor-c. Yukon. Doris
(nee Bell) wife of J. C. Xewmarch.
Manager Canadian Hank of com
merce, Whiteliorse, of a son.
CLOSED DOWX TlOIl'i"ItAKII.Y
The Valerie mine at AVhitehorse
wa« closed down temporarily Weil-1
nesday ©n account of parts of the
diamond drill naviug become so bad
ly worn ag to bo useless. A new
d-ril is on the way.
TME
Ti e soul is the only thing topr»*e
Heed not the body; It la not wise.
Thou has five robbero to keep at
ba>,
smell,
Hearing and sight, touch, t«ste ttnd
So chain them up and govern them
well,
Some things are real and some but
seem;
The mundane things of the World ar
a dream,
131e;i is the soul that 13 lifted above
The paltry cares Self's selfish love,
Which adds no weight to another's
care
And gives no soul a burden to bear,
W hich takes what oomes as its part
and lot,
Wbicn laughs at troubles and
worries not,
TV'hlch sleeps without malice or
fraud in its breast
Auc'. rises pure from its daily rest.
—J^,MT
Interesting Items
About Alaska
^rom Our Exchanges)
Stag way is reorganizing her band
aud if the man in chrage of the
"oompuh" or basss horn can be'
found the members will be discours
ing music in the near future. —Val
dez Miner.
I rof. W. G. Beattie, of Metlakat
la. wno arrived in Ketchikan re*
cently from Beaver Fails, speaking
of ttie 'nfluenza at Metlakatla, de
nied the report circulated that 24
deaths had occurred from thl
malady. Only live deaths had
occurred three of which have been
presumably from influenba causes.
The old rumor that Cordova is
attempting to iret the court house
awav tram Valdez has again bobbed
up to pester the fearsome; but
taat the rumor ig without founda
tion goes without saying. Despite
the unfair discrimination of the
steamship company Cordova kaa ner
hand; full to hold on to what she
already has and so far as We are
aware nas no intention of adding to
hor 1 roubles by starting a scrap
with the three rival cities of this
division. The department of just
ice has spent too much lately on
th« buildings to throw the money
away. There is no reason for an
orehension over the hundred) ru
mors cont'nually flying around the
streets of every small town in Al
aska.
Seven solid' trains of flat cars
which if coupled together would
reach nearly a mile and a half will
taHc a sea voyage from Balboa to
3ew*rd as tie result of the con*
'raft signed recently by the com
mission and the Coastwise Shipping
and Barge eompny, opaerated by th
jQiopixig firm of Jame9 Griffith and
Soua, of Seattle. The equipment
ivOs used in the construction of the
Panama canal and' was formerly
If It Isn't An Eastman
It Isn't A Kodak
Brownies At $1.00 Up
Kodaks At $6.00 Up
Print Papers Photo Supplies
- Keller Bros. Drug Co. :
Many Million Letters To Soldiers
Remain Undelivered Overseas
Washington, Jan. 24.-~-Blame for
delays In the transmission of mail
to and from soldiers overseas was
placed on the War department today
by Second Assistant Postmaster Gen'
eral Praeger in testimony before
the senate postoffice committee.
Mos' of the trouble, lie Baid, was
due to "carelessness" on the p!,rt •of
military officials and the War de
partment's failure to cooperate with
the postal authorities.
"Probably millions of letters ad
dressed to-poldiers overseas, which
iiave accumulated and have not
been delivered, will arrive 'n New
York within a few days," Air. Prae
ger said, "and will be sent to the
|doad letter office, where an attempt
i will r>e made to return them to
toe writers." Mr. Praeger said a re"
Jjort from a poatoffice inspector in
France said that eight or ten car
'joads of mail in France have not
1 been delivered.
Mi-. Praeger said one way to im
prove conditions overseas would be
J to send a fore© of experience# mail
. clerks to France to deliver the mail
j to the soldiers..
"The trouble does not lie at the
Froncn ports," declared Mr. Prae
ger. "It lies in the interior. The
mali gets tied up Bomewhere be
tween army headquarters, censors
and the ports."
operated ou the Panama railioad.
As the big waterway is completed
theru is no further use for the cars
in the canal zone and it was decid
ed to ship them norili for Bervice
on the Alaska government railroad.
One thousand tons of hay per
year can be cut around Valdez, ac
cording to Road Commsisioner JameJ
Wilson, who also is the pioneer
freixnter of the Third division. Mr
Wilson has run thirty head of hors
es out of Valdez for years, and'
has p.ut up a great deal of the hay
necessary to winter th® animals jn
and around valdez. This year
despite the heavy crop of grass Mr
Wilson was -unable to secure labor
to put up the hay, and is there
fore paying high prices for the feed
fie uses. He states he could make
a. fine thousand acre farm near the
el(* 'ownsite on Mineral creek that
would- yield 100 tons of hay at
$100 per ton.
In the recent order designating
time zones for postal business it
was decided that Alaska cannot he
reached without special legislation.1
Thp Act provides that the standard I
time of the fifth zone which shall |
include only Alaska, shall be based
on mean astronomical time of the |
50th degree of longitude west from
Greenwich, and known as United I
States Standard Alaska timo.
A cup of Beef or Chicken Bul
lion with a salted waiter makes a
delicious after the show luncheon.
Trv «t at Kellers. ft.
CHURCH NOTES
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE
Sunday services will be held at
7:30 p. m. in the Church Edifice ol
Christian Science Society of Skag
way, corner Main St., and Fourth
Ave. ^
Subject—TRUTH.
The public la cordially invited.
Sunday School at 12:00 m.
Wednesday evening service 7:<3'J
o'clock.
Si. MAIlk'S CATHOLIC CHUItCH
9:30 Mass and Sermon. Sunday
School immediately after Mass.
7:30 o'clock Evening Devotion.
Fatherr Edt'ar Gallant, Pastor.
PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
Preaching' service on Sunday
morning at 11 o'clock.
Sunday school at 12:15.
Christian Endeavor at 6:45.
In 'he evening the Minister will
speaH on the topic: "Three relig
ious truths which have survived
the great war.
Invito your friends and come
with them to the service. They will
tliank you and you will be profited
thereby.
E. Jj. AVLnterlwrjfoi', P»stor.
Get a battery lor your flash 'ight
at Keller Brothers.
White Pass & Yukon Route
TIME TABLE NO. 42
Thursday and Friday
No
1. X. Bound
1st Class
9:00 a. iu. Leaves
11:25 a. ru. n
12:15 p. m, "
1:10 p. m. "
2:50 p. m. "
5:20 p. m. Arrives
No. 2, 8. Bound
1st Class
4:20 p. m.
2:50 p. m.
2:00 p. m.
1:20 p. m.
11:18 a. ro.
8:30 a. m.
8KAGWAT Arrives
WHITE PASS Leave*
LOG CABIN "
BENNETT "
CARCROBS »
WHITEHORSE "
Passengers must be at dep*t In time to have Baggage In
spected and chcckcd. Inspection Is stopped SO minutes before
leaving time of trains.
150 pounds of baggage wiU b? checked free wltb each fuD
fare ticket and 75 pounds with each half fare ticket.
Perfection Oil Healer
strafe reard anbut
dampness and emC fat
At k'mo- Ttmry to
c*rry about.
Lights at (he touch of a
caatch.. Gt«^ lose
hotira of cmt) r—nftirt •
vabe wxaata as «e
fnlmt with Duui Oh—
the M«-obt*fe»We fc«L
PERFECTION
OIL HEATER
P. H. GANTY, Grocer
Special ^Standard Oil Agent, Skagway
Mil ML) SB
\Ylw», a Heap of Happiness It Would
lining to Skugway H6ai<ts,
Haid to do housework with &a
aching back.
Brings you hours o£ miser}' at lei
sure or at worx.
If women only knew the cause—
that
Backache jjains often come from
weak kidneys, «
'Twouljl save iu«.h needless woe.
Boau's Kidney 1'illg &je for weak
kidneys.
Tou&auds Of eiaielul users en
dorse them,
Mrs. A K. England, 728 \V. Oak
St., iiillsboro, Ore, says; "Two
yearg ago 1 had such a h*d, at
tack of lumbago that I wasn't able
to get uo or down stairs. When
1 wut in a chair 1 could hardly get
up again. jjharp pains, like a knife
sticking me in my back, nearly kill*
ed me and I could hardly drag
myself about. I ha^ taken only
.a few doses of Boan'g Kidney Pills
when my back got stronger and
on© box made me able to get about
as well as ever. Since then I hav«
never had any trouble with my back
or kidneys."
Price 60c, at all dealers. Don't
simply ask for a kidney remedy—^
get Doa-n's Kidney Pills—the same
that Mrs. EngMnd had. Foster
Milburn Co., Mfgrs., Buffalo, N. Y.
•Snecial Opera Creams are the
*alk of th© town. There was never
anything better at any price. Take
< box home to your wife. She 'will
Pe mighty pleased. Kellers' have
them in pound boxes. tf.
THE POWEK OF STEAM.
Many May See nut It Take* (ienlna ts
lteallze.
When Jamw Watt saw the steam
causing the Settle 1M to Jump up anJ
down h'e said "There must he power In
that simm that it can lift euch a
we! fit: t."
There was.
Millions prior to him had seen til
game phenomenon and regarded it as
an unexplained mystery.
Recent scientific research has put its
finger on the "cause" of Dandruff, Fail
ing Hair, and consequent Baldness, and
has unearthed a tiny germ which c:it>
the life from the roots of human hair.
Newhro's Hcrpieide destroys this
germ a.id consequently restores the
hair to its natural state.
Sold hy leading druggists. Send 10c. In
stamps for sample to The Herplcido Cc.,
Detroit. M!eli.
One Dollar Dottle, guaranteed.
A» ail Drug Rtor»e. Adr.
Arctic Brotherhood. —
Camp Skagway No. 1,
rnoota every second and
fourth Tuesday orenJiig
at 8:30 o'clock. Visit
ux brexters cordially welcome.
Edward A. Baamuson, Arctic Chief.
William R. Gray, Arctic ileconler.
P. & X. M.
Wliite Pass Lodge F. &\
A. JM. No. 113, meets 2d
and 4th S:*tiu<dav evenings
of cach month. Visiting
WILLIAM E. FEERO, W. M.
T. J. STAND ISH, Secretary.
B. • P. O. ELKS
Stag-way Lode*
No. 431, B. P. O.
E. meets arery
; Thursday at 8:30
p. m. Visiting
brottxera cordially welcome.
OSCAR SELMER, E. B
T. J. VAtfDEWAUL, Secretary.
Pioneer of Alaska Igloo, No. 12,
meet* In A. B. Hall first Monday In
every month at 8:80 p. m.
Visiting Brothers cordially wel
come. j
W. J. MULVIH1LL, Pre#.
J. C. PHELPS, Secy.
Fraternal Order
Eagles—
Skagway Aerie.
No. 25, Frater
nal Order of
E* flea meet the first and third
WY-dnesday ajght of each month at
their hail on Fifth Avenue. Visit
in* brothers cordially invited to
atleud >
M. E. Rogers, \V. P. /j~* " - %
J. M. tiriesbach, Secretary.
+ professional cards ♦
DR. L. 8. KELLER
Dentist i
Most Modem Methods
Office Honrs: 9-12 a. m. 1-0 p. sh
Alaskan Building .... Broadway
8KAUWAY ALASKA
W. B. STOUT
Attorney At Law
PvMttaa in ail eourta (
la Territxwj of Alaska
HAINES ALASKA