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"OLD GLORY"
EDITORIAL
"America ror Amencans
TEASING TUMILTY
Someone has been peddling: the
ridiculous story that Joseph, P.
Tumulty, Secretary to the President,
ha$ been found to he a spy and haa
beeu confined in a military prison.
Air. Tumulty ia righteously and
rightly indignant; aud the secret
#€nrii.-« is trying to find out who
• larled the story. It will probably
remain on« of those things which
herd Dundreary used to classify as
s»uch that "no feller can find out."
ALL ALONE IX A CROWD
(San Antonio, Tex., Light)
Recently there arrived in New
Y»rk City from the interior of Al
aska, & little American woman nam
•J Mrs. Ida Lilly, who had gone to
the gold country a dozen years ago
■ad who h»d lived there most of
tie time since in a little cabin, sev
eral weeks travel by dog sledge
from the nearest seaport. She wag
asked by a. newspaper reporter what
her first impressions of New York
were, and she said:
**I have lived for months and
mouth# in the winter-bound campe
of Alaska; once I spent six weeks
absolutely alon« on a storm-bound
island off the Alaskan coast and
subsisted on what game I could
trap; x have been snowed "In when
the enow was sixty feet deep and I
h»C to dig my waj- out with a shov
el, but I have never been as lone
soue in my life as in New York
City This is the loneeomest spot
on earth to me."
It might strike a person as amus
ing that anyone would use the word
■"loneeime" to describe such a place
•• New York city, but to any one
who has lived much In isolated re
gions It is well known that lofty
mountains, deep clear rivers, great
f«.re#t trees, moss-covered rocks and,
doubtless too, -;he great wastes of
8uow and ice-bil!ocks of the far
sorth. take on a companionship
which is sorely missed at the part- i
In.
Aad it is true, too, that there Is
no Ionlier feeling in all the wide
world than to be set down in a
treat city without knowing a single
soul and watch the crowds go by.
To a atranger far from home and
•friends, far from familiar environ
m«nts and customary scenes, the
fe«llDff of utter desolation that can
come whea the first electric lights
of a strange city begin to glimmer,
la past description and can onlyj
be realized by experience.
There is nothing colder than a
cold heart and there 5s no greater
lanllaesa in the world than for a
person accustomed to solitude and
Isolation to be hurriedly swept along
la a crowd of a city's street.
There seems to be considerable of
ftaojr tnat has drifted on the site of
tfle listing rink. Perhaps the
soa will come out soon and melt it,
then will come » blast of cold weath
er and make ice. Never give up
fcCfiS, L.
HE'LL GIVE US ALL CHEAPER COAL
C Cltacdinst.
Appointed by President V^llson as government coal adjuster, Dr. Harry
A. Garfield, son of tbe late President OarBeld, says cheaper coal Is now as
sured at a fair price to all
STORIES FROM THE GERMAN
NEWSPAPERS
CLOTHING MADE OF PAPER
It has not yet been found pos- ,
sible, says Das Deutsche Wollen-1
Gewerbe, to make paper textile
fa' lies sufficiently supple for ex
trusive use in the clothing indus
try. The difficulty consists in mak
iu« the textile supple without cor
respondingly diminishing their ten
acity Alkaline substances which
g^ve good results in regard to
pliability unfortunately affect the
tenacity of the paper yarns in an
uusafisfactory manner.
SELFISHNESS OF -FOOD
EXCURSIONISTS."
The recent order of the military
authorities directed against the
food excursionists has given rise
to much agitation in Berlin. A
writer in the Lokal-Anzeiger points
out that a distinction should be
made between the hard pressed, anx
NOT A RIVAL OF THE SUN.
This Shows How Puny Is the World's
Biggest Artificial Light.
Perhaps the b'.g<cest artificial light in
the world is tiio " tM.ojti i j.idle puw
er light installed at tl:e lu.ls of Niag
ara. When (his gi^t-.ntic i.istaliatiosi
was wade it whs < l-iiu.ed to be the
nearest approach to t.al s;:>!..!i'.:;e e\et
devised by man, ui.d th.it Liny W true.
But it is interesting to ascertain. if
possible, how lu'dt h it fell :-hoit of the
actual output of Kgbt l>; o:*r great
luminary, and. sUuiigeiy i»io.sfeh. there
are figures in existence which enable
a eoznparisrn to be Esatle. Yet it may
be stated at once that these figures
are so stupendous ns to leave the hu
man mind absolutely "in I he dark."
Professor Young mad? a calculation
some years ago, based upon careful
and repeated experiments, of the total
quantity of sunlight given out by out
sun, and he fr'.md It to be a quan
tity reptvseatod by < .indies running to
twenty-eight tigur.; a:;i!ie power be
ing the offi- inl unit.
How many lights equal to the Niag
ara installation would it require to
match I'uuie Nature's big Installation
which appears alnive the horizon so
regularly day by day? More big fig
ures: It would require 3150U.000.<XX>.
OOO,OO0.i>OO lights just as powerful as
the biggest man has accomplished "on
his owu." So even Curie Sam will
have to try a?ain. The Niagara Illu
mination Is "some" lit 1st. but o'd Sol
is equal to three and one-half qulntil
lions of thew!—Pearson's Weekly.
Watson and Ireland.
Sir William Watson has earned the
right to be termed Ireland's poetical I
champion, although he was born in
Yorkshire and is of Yorkshire ancestry
on both sides. Home rulers say that
there Is no more terse description of the
position of Erin than that contained In
the famous lines of his "Ode on the
Day of the Coronation of King Ed
ward VII.:"
' • • The lovely and the lonely bride
Whom we have wedded but have never
won.
His first volume of poems was pub
ished at his father's expense. Ten
rears later not twenty copies had been
wld. Six years after the publication
>f his second volume he had gained no
juccess. Today he Is regarded as our
greatest living poet.—London Standard,
Subscribe for th^ D«Uy Alaskan. " £
icus housewife, who goes to seek
food to help her over the next
we^k, and the families who hunt
food for sport, and buy up large
quantities. The former do not
moan any great danger to the com
munity apart from the fact that
they often return with empty pock
ets, unable to compete with the
other class. The latter have been
carrying on their selfish work Bince
the war began, and care little how
their stores may he wasted. Against |
these the most drastic measures are
none tco drastic, but if they could
effectively be reached and brought
to reason one might close one's eyes
to ihe transgressions of the driven
housewife and the anxious father.
The same journal points out that
these reprehensible excursions
are but the inevitable re
sult of the inefficiency
of the official organization.
The food is, after all, there; it
cught not to be left to private ini
tiative to procure It.
A Confirmed
Statement
Evidence Skagway Readers Will
Appreciate
Doan's Kidsney Pills have don*
splendid work.
Have merited the unstinted praise
Lhey have received.
Here's evidence ol their value
that none can doubt.
It's testimony that's twice-told
md well confirmed.
Sucn endorsements are uuique in
:he annals of medicine .
Should convince the most skepti
sal reader.
F. A, Sutton, tents and awnings
lealer, 396 Hojt St., Salem, Ore.,
>ays: "I had kidney trouble and
'heumatic twinges ten years or
nore. My back gave me a great
leal of bother and BhArp pair.s ex
ended all through my body. I was
ill run down, lost weight and was
n poor health. Doan's Kidney
'ills made me feel like a different
nan. My appetite improved and
he aching and pains left me."
Statement given January 31, *06.)
On April 13, 1916, Mr. Sutton
,dded: "'Whenever my kidneys
.ren't acting right I take Doan's
Sidney Pills for a few days and the
lever fail to overcome the trouble."
Prioa 60c, at all dealers. Don't
imply ask for a kidney remedy—
:et Doan's Kidney Pills—the same
1 at Mr. Sutton had. Foster-Mil
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Camp Skagway No. 1,
A. B. meets every sec
ond aad fouirtk Tues
day eTenlug at 8:30 p.
m. eiMrp. Visiting brothers oordial
ly welcome. Edward A. Rasmu.,on,
Ar;:tlc Chief, W. R. Gray, Arctic
Recorder.
Fraternal Order
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F. & A. M.
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meats 2d and 4th
Saturday Evenings
v* chu uiuutiis. visiung uretnren
are welcome.
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JAMBS WALLACE, Secretary.
B. P. O. ELKS
Skagway Lodge
No. 431, B. P. 0.
E. meets every
Thursday at 8:30
P. m. Visiting
brothers cordially welcome.
W. B. BATSON, E. R.
F. J. VAtfDEWALl,, Sec: ataxy
rion<'-cr of Alaska Igloo, No. 12,
iiiot'tfc in A. B. Hall first Monday In
every month at 8:30 p. m.
Yloitlug Brothers cordially wel
come.
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one dreaded disease that science has
been able to cure In all its stages and
that la catarrh. Catarrh being greatly
Influenced by constitutional conditions
requires constitutional treatment. Hall's
Catarrh Medicine is taken internally and
acts thru the Blood on the Mucous Sur
faces of the System thereby destroying
the foundation of the disease, giving the
patient strength by building up the con
stitution and assisting nature in doing Its
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faith In the curative powers of Hall's
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