WHAT FRANCE HAS DONE
It Shows What a I'nited People
Are Capable Of
A political writer recently start
led France by a statement that ap
pea red in the Petit Journal of Paris
In the sta;ement, he point3 out that
which has been thought an impos- ,
sibility before the war began, had j
actually been accomplished and ha5
turned France into an arsenal. He ’
sr.ys in part:
“As against 80 factories which ir.
time of peace produced the cannon'
and the munitions for the Freach
army, over 2,000 industrial estab
lishments, consisting of two thirds
of the available resources of the
country, are now in operation. The
civilian workers in these factories
number 15.000 women and 175.000
men. In addition S0.000 skilled art
isans and engineers have alread' j
been recalled from the army. A* j
the time of writing, then, compar- j
ison shows that France has increas- '
ed her industrial munitions army j
something like tenfold since August ;
1st. 1914. It should not be forgot- j
ten that she has done this in spite
of war. invasion, and the loss of over !
SO ner cent, of her peace time
metallurgic assets. Yet she pro
poses to do even more. She in- :
tends to put in operation another i
1.000 factories and she will not be
content until the 3.000 factories sh»
will then posess shall be working
day and night with a total comple
ment of 300.000 reasonably skillful ]
men and women.
The next time France starts north j
ward her cannon will not go hunerv j
as they did at the Battle of the j
Maren. For France’s Industrie't
army is mobilized, and mobilizinr ;
and the French tricolor today floats i
as proudly over the factories of the !
republic as it does in the foreiron*
o' her battle array!'’
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BRITONS ARE RUSHING
TO ENLIST
LONDON. Not. 5—The newspa
pers report that thousands are
crowding the recruiting offices, so j
eager to enlist in the service of their
country. This is particularly so in!
Birmingham. Manchester and Lon
don. Apparently, a wave of enthu-1
siasm is sweeping through the coun
try. and young men who heretofore
held aloof, are fast enlisting.
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DON'T BE BACK NUMBER
From the Columbus Dispatch
One of the easiest things, these
swift moving days, is to become i
a back number. A lawyer may
school himself thoroughly in the
knowledge of his profession, but if
he is to win. he must continue his
study; there will be something for
him to leam every day. and then he
will wish for longer days in which
to leam more. So with a physician,
especialy with a specialist. Every
day he is sure to add something
to his particular science, and he
must know it. if he is to lead. What
is true of these two professions of
law and medicine is true of every
profession and skilled employment.
The knowledge, which is all the time
accumulating, one must have as
certainly as the carpenter must
have his tools.
That is why it is so easy to be
come a back number. Keeping a
bresst of the knowledge peculiar to
one’s occupation is hard work and
constant work, but the reward is
abundant for the man who thus
exerts himself. Years may come
•n si’ver hair, but he is still the
master of his task, and he will not
be distanced bv the newcomers in
his field of endeavor. Moreover, his
his keen interest wili keep him
voting, his continued success will
conserve his health, and he wilt
serve better and live longer. Don’t
by any sort of a let-down run the
wsk of becoming a hack number.
The Progressive-Miner, To reals per
n enth delivered.
REMEMBER 6th OF NOVEMBER
The Ladies’ Aid of the M. E.
Church will hold a’ sale of “goodies”
and some fancy work at the Ton
eass Store on that date. Watch the
windows.
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For Sale—Number 7, Standard
Visible Oliver Typewriter, practically
new for $40. Apply at this office.
PERSONAL MENTION
Fresh Alaska Kippered Salmon at
ii. R. Thompson’s Store. Adv. 2t.
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The launch Seaketch came down
from the Chickimen river this morn
ing for supplies for the searching
parties. They reported no new de
velopments ,-ince the finding of the
small boat- The Seaketch will not
return, as the FI Paso had already
arranged to take out supplies to
day.
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PUBLIC SCHOOL NOTES
The Physical Geography class
made a trip to the lake last Tues
day afternoon. They left the school
at two o'clock, returning about four.
The afternoon was spent in taking
not- > concerning the physical Ten
ures along the walk.
Ruth Johns, who has been in Seat
tle for some time, returned here
last week and is attending high
school.
Edith Lingerfelt, from Miss
Boor's roem left with her oarenis
for a visit to the exposition.
New- pup.i’s entered this week
have been Ruth Johns and Bertha
Gearisat, in Miss Mitchell’s room,
Frank Johns in Mrs. Enastrom’s
room and George Dohrer in Miss
Rent's room.
Visitors in the various rooms have
been Mrs. Michener, Mrs. Robinson
~.nd Mrs. Clemmts.
The long looked for trigonometry's
have come for the Senior class. This
will enable the pupils to accomplish
much more in their work.
MARTHA FOOSXFSS.
LEMONS—ALL KINDS
The crop of lemons for 1915 in
California is enormous and the
marketing of the same is a problem.
(This crop does not include such
lemons as Bryan, the billion dollar
lean or Mr. Dumba.)
The California Fruit Growers’ Ex
change, lemon shippers, have organ
ized a company to manufacture
lemon oil. citrate of lime and other
by-products of the lemon. These
products to be manufactured from
*he grade of lemons that is not
worth shipping, thus saving the im
porting of a large quantity of these
products.
If You Are Nervous
and are losing weight, we recommen4
that you take
Olive Oil
Emulsion
cr&timx/ hi
for a short time. A prescription which
we gladly endorse.
Ketchikan Drag Co.
AT THE HOTELS !
AT THE STEDMAA
Jos. Corbet, Seattle; A. J. Mc
Leod, Anchorage; M. Brenner, Seat
tle; M. Kellogg, Ketchikan; W. H.
GiUnour, City.
AT ... iLLA
Mr. and Mis. Stanley Oaksmith,
Hadley; 'V. W. Cole, Kasaan.
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BRYAN WANTS NO PITY
William Jennings Bryan, in a re- j
cent speech he made before a large
audience in Cleveland, Ohio, said in
part in speaking of his “unsuccess
iul political career.”
"Since 1 have been in politics, re
forms have been accomplished with
out the loss of a single life that
would have cost thousands of lives
in sacrifice twenty years ago.
"Pity me ? Don't do it. If I had
lived two certuries ago and advocat
ed what I do now, 1 would have
been hanged."
SWITZERLAND NOT "SLEEPING
From all accounts. Switzerland
has not been idle since the war be
r and “ likewise has no mind of
being caught unprepared should she
be invaded. From the beginning of
hostilities she has realized the great
benefit it would be to either Ger
many or France to turn the flank
of the other by going through her i
country, but in the face of the well
Trained Swiss army, there is little
likelihood of either power violating I
Swiss neutrality.
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ONLY LAND LINCOLN OWNED
The service bulletin issued by the
Iowa highway commission has un
earthed some interesting facts re
garding the only piece of farm land
Abraham Lincoln ever owned.
In 1832 he was captain of a com
pany of volunteers raised for the
Biackhawk Indian war, but his little
command saw no fighting, and in
side of five weeks it was disbanded.
Under an act of Congress, passed
in 1855, these soldiers were en
titled to a land grant, and on Sent.
10, I860, just before his election to
the presidency. Lincoln laid claim
to a share of the land in question
under a warrant signed to by his
predecessor in the White House.
•Tomes Buchanan.
This land remained in the Lincoln
family, it seems, until 1802. when
Robot- Todd Lincoln, son and then
■o'o heir of the Biackhawk war
captain, . deeded it to Henry Ed
wards, and in the same year it was
deeded to Peter F. Jepson. who still
owns it. The farm contains 120
acres, and is situated six miles and
a heif northwest of Denison, in
Crawford county. Iowa, not far
from the Lincoln highway. It is
doubtful if the ttran-ee ever saw J
sbp property.
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PINKS - - = - 4 cans for 25c. jl
CHUMS 5 cans for 25c. !|
Fresh Eastern |
SEALSHIPT IN PINT TINS - - - = - 40c. |
Fruits and Vegetables have '
ed
u our new prices in case lots
continuing during the winter I;
t 8 a. m. instead of 7. a. m.
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WAR’S HORRIBLE DETAILS
Stories Told By An Eye Witness!
Who Should Know
I
A man who has been on the front ;
since the war began, and known as
"Stretcher Rearer'’ recently return- i
rd to Paris on a leave of absence.
,rtd gave some of his experiences in
■ he following, which shows the hor
rors of war:
“It was in the early days of the
war. I had received a commission \
's stretcher bearer in a hospital ,
v N’ice. The first wounded arrived: 1
trains were filled with them; i
they had lain on the straw of the
■>r-' throughout the interminable
fourney across France in slow mil
itary trains, which were constantly
delftyed. Many died on the way; !
others were landed here and there
in heaps. How feverishly we had to ,
work: there was not a minute to bo j
“T recall one of the finest men I
have ever known, a charming com
rade. who was wounded in the foot, j
His wound was not serious; at the ■
and of two weeks it had healed,
fben one night he felt a stiffness
his neck: his mind began to,
wander, his muscles to contract. He :
was done for. AH we could do was
to relieve his sufferings.
They Are Sent To Die
“Whenever a patient had an at-!
♦ark of this nature we dared not i
tell him what it was. He was sent |
to a special hospital: it wasn’t a j
hosnital, it was a morgue. He
went there to die. And the awful |
suffering of that atrocious tetanus. ;
Tho heed dictor was distracted. I
feared he would lose his reason, j
Fach week many of the wounded j
died when they easily could have;
been saved. For the antitetanus,
serum is abolutelv certain to have j
effect; its action is sure.
“Finally, one day we heard that
serum could be procured at a fan
tr^ric price in Italy. The doctor
immediately requisitioned the swift
est automobiles he could find in
Xiee. The next day we had serum
and tetanus disappeared.
“The recollection of this period is
not more terrible than that of the
days I spent in Arras as stretcher
hearer during the fierce combats'
of Xorie Dame de Lorette. I was
there a month gathering the dead
and wounded: witnessing the most
horrible mutilations; my ears filled
with the groans of men. The work
was hard; we had to carry the men
CHOICE HOLIDAY LIQUORS
Mr. M. E. Martin, of the Side-'
board, has just received a large
‘.ock of fine liquors, A purchased i
especially for particular family [
trade. He announces that tele- '
phone orders will be delivered free *
of charge in any part of town from
2 to 5 pm., from now on till after
the holidays.
Cal! up phone 42. Adv. tf.
Job printing neatly and quickly
done at the Progressive-Miner.
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HEY THERE! THANKSGIVING
MASKQUE HALL GIVEN BY KET
CHIKAN F. O. E.. Adv. tf.
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FOR SALE—One Rip Saw Table,,
One Counter Shaft,
16—1 1-2 Steel Shafting
And numerous pulleys.
SULLY’S CARPENTER SHOP.
A BOWLING PRIZE
An eight pound turkey for the
best score up to Thanksgiving eve. j
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IS ON AND ALREADY A GREAT MANY PEOPLE HAVE AVAILED
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uway on our backs for the approach
ns were too narrow t-.i permit of
t ie use of stretchers. More than one
tiied on my buck.
An Old Man At 46
“I am old; I’m 46. I was taken
from the trenches, and I am now
one of the conductors of this train
of wounded. 1 live in this car,
s’eep and eat here. I am betterj
off here than in the trenches, but ;
not so comfortable as at Nice. But
i do not complain. I see such sad
sights.
v h fore yesterday we had
a wounded soldier whose head was
a mass of bandages, with a little
hole in the place of his mouth. An
other hospital attendant and I were
’f'.’s enough to raise his bandage.
!i's tag indicated that his nose and
’ e lowerpart of his face had been
tom away by the splinter of a
’■ 'll. By luck he had not lost his j
His wounds had been cleaned
and disinfectedg a piece of skin had
• a removed from his back and ap
plied to his face; in this a round
’"as made through which he
’ as fed .and another through which
be breathed. Liquid food was giv
en m by means of a rubber tube.
Part of Skull Removed
T atcr .another soldier arrived
with a wound in his head. He was
more fortunate. Part of his skull
had been removed, and this was re
’ ■•ed by a brain-pan of solid gold. ,
Nov, indeed, he can say his head is \
worth a fortune to him.
“And those poor unfortunates i
whose limbs have been amputated!
I saw one whose two arms and a
leg had been cut off. He had re
ceived more than 200 shell pn!tfite*p:
the greater part were small, like
ninheads.”
RUSSIAN STRIKERS STOP FOOD
PETROGRAD, Nov. 3—At an ex
traordinary meeting held by the
Russian council recently, u member
was empowered to take urgent
measures to cope with the food
problem. During a tour south after
his appointment, the minister ascer
tained that as many as 6,000 cars of
foodstuffs were being detained in
freight sheds at Moscow and other j
places and the extortionate charges JL
demanded by teamsters, together J
with the failure of municipalities tojr
adopt measures to faciliate the def
livery of freight, had curtailed tme
food supply alarmingly. i
The minister is now organizing
military companies consisting of ref
ugees and soldiers to discharge
freight, and also to requisition draiys
and horses. )
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\ SIDELIGHT ON THE >
MARIPOSA WEIRDING
The Progressive-Miner is re
ceipt of a copy of the Knightstown
Banner, nub'ished at Knightstown,
Tnd.t which is the home town of Miss
Florence Culbertson.
It ■fcil] be remembered that Miss
Culbertson and T. MacConnell were
married in Ketchikan at the time
’'o passengers of the wrecked Mari
posa were held here awaiting an
chor boat. At that time it was im
possible to learn the full partic
ulars. of the romance, but from the
above paper it appears that Miss
Culheidsoon was enroute to Sitka
to he married to another man, and
bad only met Mr. MacConnell, an
et-etrienl engineer, on board the
Mariposa. The adventure and ex
'itemcnt of the wreck appears to
have resulted disasterously for the
Sitka swain.
Have A Heart
by Lou i ;• . aph Varvce
THE GREAT ML* PROBLEM PLFN
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14th. Installment
GANNON'S BAKERY SGROGERY
% - . ■ . . -, — - —
14 lbs. cane sugar $1.00
Corn .15
Ail milk 3 cans ,25
8 oz. can Bakers cocoa .25
Amocat Coffee .40
Reliance Coffee .40
Gold Shield coffee .40
Canned Pineapple .15 & .20
String beans, .20c. two for .35
Sweet potatoes, 20c. 2 for .35
Krout, 20c. 2 for .35
E. J. Peas, 20c. 2 for .35
Golden Wax beans ,20c. 2 for .35
Pumpkin, 20c. 2 for .35
Hominy, 20c. 2 for .35
Solid Pack, Amocat and Reliance
Tomatoes, .16
Ranch Eggs per doz. .35
Lend fhrerer cocoanut per lb. .20
Baking powder, per lb. .15
Your money back if not satisfied.
Bread, Rolls, Pies, Cakes and Layer
Cakes, Angel Food, White Cake, Jel
ly Roll, Lemon Roll, Cup Cakes, Gin
ger Bread, Cocoanut Kisses, Maca
roons, Honey Jumbles, Frosted Creams,
Lemon, Sugar, Currant, Spiee and Co
coanut Cookies, Doughnuts and Toast.