HORRIBLE CONDITION IS
EPXOSED BY COMMISSION
BALTIMORE. Dec- H—In an
exhaustive. detailed report, the
state'. vice commission par* e.t
fey Got. Guidertbwotfh in January
1915. today made public the results
of its inquiry.
Probably the most sensational of
the features dealt with in the re
port is the alleged traffic in babies.
It is asserted that investigators
found there are institutions in Bal
timore to which the mother of an
illegitimate child may consign her
offspring upon the payment of an
agreed-upon sum. and forever rid
herself of legal responsibility for
it. Of the hundreds of children so
taken in charge by the institutions,
the committee avers. £0 to per
oer.:„ die and are buried in heaps
ir, small plots of ground, one such
plot approximately fifty-five feet
square baring teen tie tomb of
f •»!' babies since 18S6.
Tie high death rate is attrib
uted to the separation of the infant
from, its mother at birth, thereby
depriving of the individual at
tention irwould otherwise have re
ceived. No evidence was adduced
that the babies were neglected at
the ipstiittticns
5: nee the commissioa began its
work the police have closed the re
sorts in the ■'red light’ districts
here, formerly tolerated by the
authorit ies. A cording to the re
port. however, there is no evidence
that immorality is not practiced as
extensively as ever.
Much attention is given to sods’
conditions in factories, stores and
office buildings and many in
stances are stiver, of immorality
forced upon stir's by their employ
g v.- -• -» ’ w C~v“,g CT*^ St w
olaees cf employment, the penalty
of refusal beir.r the loss of rosi
tioa.
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REMAINS OF PREHISTORIC
ANIMALS IMPORTANT KEY
Tie meti :«is used hr geologists
is waking cut tie distribution of
ground waters are camples. bat it
is noteworthy that among the ~:re
significant criteria use-d are tie
f:ssEe remain? ou.silting in the dif
ferer.t beds- Each cte of the geo
logical icrinrn? usually has rs
nist:r*rt:v« fossils, and by an ac
curate knowledge of these vesvsres
of organisms the geologist is aid
ed in recognizing parrlcular rec
logical formations. In this way he
may be able to determine, by j
means of tie samples *ak?s from!
tie bore, tie depth to a certain.
water ic-riier.
That this science cf r.i'e?ctt»l
ogy. so generally regarded as a
purely scientific study, has a great
value is tie investigation of
economic resources may not he
generally recognised,
however, to urderstan
tions cor.trcl'.ing tie
any one of three of the most im- j
p-ortant mineral resc-*———rrtunt
waters, coal, and e:l and gas—an
accsrate knowledge cf tie suc
cession of tie different rock sheets
and their geological structure Is
essential . and tie determination
of that order of succession depends•
upon tie studs' of tie fossil re- ’
vs*-. _
mains included in these rotks. Tie
value of ’he work of the palentol
= who have studied tie gee
logic formations in the Costa' Plain ,
area is therefor- inestimable. A
~r.tr z tie men -who have aided In
tie aaJeento'cgde ckaracterdiatlor
<f horsooa and "hereby assisted
is the development f ground water
and oil and rass raccrew of the
Costal Plain, W. H DaE. G D.
Harris and E. T. Hf.l should he
specially mentioned. Additional
a-urate information —assist in
tie further development of many
of tie Coastal Plain region. ( Enr
SWi Annua! Report. Director U.
S. Geological Survey.
HAD TO LIE TO KEEP HIS JOB'
It is related that one of the
prominent western congressman
onfessed the other dap/ that for
the last two years he had to lie
to his const:rater:; every time he
returned home fro ma session, and
as he was to return home again
for a long stay, he made tip kis
mind that he would see the Pres
ident and avoid lying anymore. He
went to a fellow representative
who was supposed to have the
President's ear and begged for his
aid In getting an Interview, and
said: Tt the two years the Presi
dent has keen here I have sever
met him. Every time I go home
the folks ask ire what the Presi
dent thinks about this or that. I
rav. to E'e and teil them what I
think he is thinking cr I’d !«* my
job. New. I ar. going kore for
long stay, and for the sake of
my eternal sots! I want to he able
to say truthfully when I get home
this time: “Oh. T saw the Presi
dent the other day and he said to
me. "By the way. Smith, what do
..on think cf our foreign rela
tions?"
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AT THE HOTELS
AT THE STEDMAN
G. H. McDonald, City.
AT THE RETILLA
A. Kimball. Ed Fosm.o, W. P.
Powers. City; B. Ini ora, Ben ~ad
FkU, Wa.4
THE MINISTERS WIFE WANT
ED THE WHOLE TRITH
(From the Weekly Unity)
Whenever Mrs. Jlos'sua Ely de
clared that for her mrt she believ
ed in speaking the truth ana net
mincing matters, her hearers knew
that somebody's reputation was a
boot to suffer. Mrs. Ely. her
self said lhas she always had beer,
outspoken, and -h ■> always intend
ed to be- Her neigh bat's said var
ious things- The fact of the 3«»t-;
ter was. that as Mrs. Ely was the
possessor, in addition to her sharp
tongue, of an imposing presence
and much force of character, no
body in the village dared openly
oppose her. Nobody, that is until
the new minister's wife came. The
minister's wife was a slender. g:rl
■sh.-looking creature whom Mr>. Ely
“sited up" once as being one
-se women who need some
body to form their opinions for
them, and this responsible duty she
took promptly upon herself. She
was the first to call, and in the
course of a long monologue she_ li
ghtened the minister's wife in re
gard to the failing of a large num
ber of her husband's tvarshioners
“I think it is better to know the
truth in the first place." she de
clared. “slowing up" a moment for
breath.
The minister’s wif* spoke with
quick earnestness: “1 quite agree
with you. Mrs. Ely. only don't you
think that after all. there is noth
ing so difficult to know as the
truth. ? Because, of course, the
truth about a person means the
whole person: it is no more fair to
pick out one trait and call that the
truth than it would be to define j
a rose bush, a hush with thorns
That is true, bat it is only a part,
and a very small part of the truth
I've thought a good deal about this
since I’ve beer, a minister’s wife
and I’ve made up my mind to learn
just as much cf the truth as T
possibly can. This is esveciaHy
necessary in comm.g to a sew
place where w^ don’t know any
body. an-d that’s why I’m so glad
that you came in this afternoon.
You are just the one to help me.
you’ve lived here so long and know
everybody so well. I’m g dm to
ask vcu. just a= a begim-ng to
—and the truth, if you won’- go
evfir the Its- of church members
with me. and tell me the finest arc
bravest thing you know a Horn
everybody. You've no idea how
it will help.
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rNORERS ARE SAFEGUARDED
Because sis of its eleven occu
pants sa >red and kept awake the
five other sleepers not adicted tc
the habit. Sergeant Reardon, in
charge of the sleeping room of the
United States barracks for the
.-.arise corps at Washington. D. C..
has replaced the silent r.onsnorins
by others who sonorously and
wonderfully snore- j
“So they!) ever, other a
-"ase when they sa w wood and
won’t disturb the rest of some per
son not a member of their lodge."
said Sergeant Reardon by way of
explanation.
The new arrangement suits the
e.ever. snore rs perfectly, and the
five who vacated are pleased be
rr r£ measure.
It has beer, said of United States
marines that they can readily a
dapt themselves to any and all cir
cumstances. under any and all con
ditions. and the sergeant thinks
his strategy Is positive proof of
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Don’t forget Red Men’s Ball New
Year’s Eve. Dec. 31, 1915.
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BASKET BALL
Ket. vika- >. .1 play the first Met
akakc a teat t Metlakahtla cr.
New- Year’s Day, end the gams wiF
be a dandy.
The El Paso has been chartered
and will leave the City Float at the
foot of Dock street Saturday at
I.p.m. sharp. Those wishing to go
leave their names a- the Rexall -
store. Tickets one dol’ar for the
round trip. Come along and bopst. i
srtTKSSFl'L COOPERATIVE
COLON V IS ESTABLISHED
. 1
Histog.: - failures of communistic
atopias, apparently, have not de
-ered the present generation front
vying, once more, to solve social
tnd economic problems by the es
tablishment of communities where
*11 hold wealth equally. In the
shadow of the Sierra Msdre tuoun
tains in California a co-operative
colony has been oragnisec’. which
now farms hundreds of acres of ir
rigated land and is said to be es
tablished on a firm business basis
The enterprise is called the Liana
-el Rio Co-operative Color'-. I?
has a site and plans for a city o'
S.000 people. Any one willing to
work devoted to socialistic co-oper
ation. and possessed of $5tX> cas1'
is eligible to admittance into the
-omrrunity. The $8X7 is paid as thi
first installment, for stock in the
community, of which every mem
ber must hold an equal amount
Tlte remainder of the stock assess
ment. which totals t2.000. is paid
out of lb earnings of the individ
ual at the rate of a dollar a day.
The board of directors enters in
*o an agreement with each stock
holder. agreeing to pay him $4 a
Lay for employment, under such
•errrss and conditions as may tv
mutually agreed upon. Four dollars
a day is the standard wage, which
*’! receive alike, no matter what
the nature of the work performed,
if this one dollar is retained to
make the deferred stock payment
After deducting the dollar »h’
member is also charged with what
ever supiies or service he obtains
front the community, all furnished
a? cost. Whatever remains after
deducting the values consumed 1«
-redited to the account of the w-ork
-r and is payable in cash after the
consummation of the contract.
Absolute equality is the goa'.Every
body works for the same employer
and all receive ar. equal wage.
The enterprise is incorporated un
der the law* of the state of Ca’i
'emia. and is conducted like any
other business. Stockholders elect
a board of directors, .’-hies 1 as
charge of the management of the
concern, selecting the men best
oua’ified for the different depart
ments and services, buying land,
making contracts for employment of
stockholders and transa-ring all of
the business of the corporation. A
writer in the Illustrated World .-ays
the mitsakes of other idealistic
communities have been, avoided and
that the Llano del Rio plan promis
es to be a business and social suc
cess.
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REFLECTIONS OF A
R.VCHELOR GIRL
(By Helen Rc-wand in P.-I.)
Don’t waste time trying to
break a man’s heart: be satisfied
if you can just manage to chip it
In a brand new place.
Alas ’ it is so hard for a girl
to find a man who dresses like
those or. the magazine covers,
makes love like a moving-picture
1-ero and yet has time to earn a
living!
A bachelor likes your Tatters
delicately disguised and slightly
dilated—but a married man can
swallow it “straight" whitout a
quiver.
What man calls “conscience” is
either a pain in his vanity when he
knows that he has done something
particularly foolish, the moral ache
that comes and goes with a head
ache, or the mental action that |
follows a sentimental reaction.
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DIDN’T LIKE THE SOUND
A New England man tells of a
man in Westfield, Mass., who had
been married four tiroes and been
so unfortunate as to lose all his
wives. Such a matter of course
had this roan’s weddings come to
be in Westfield, that, when, after a
year of wkiowerhocei, he announced
his fifth engagement, one of the
neighbor vors said:
"Richard, 1 suppose getting mar
ried comes pretty natural to you by
PROGRAM
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Metlakahtla Concert Band
RED MEN’S HALL
Wednesday Evening, December 29,1915
PROGRAM BEGINS AT 8 p.B.
1
1. March Irtverc argil], Lithgow
2. Orciture Hajia ond Thomas
2. Trombone Solo, “The Sweetest Story Ever Told, Stolts
Mr. M. F. Verne y
4. Largo, Hande!
5. “Lost Chord,” Herbert March;- on, Band Accompaniment
<5. W a:tz Loin do Bail, Gillet
IL
T. Hawaiian Patrol, ‘'Kilaii ea” Stewart
8. Selection, Mart ha, Moses-Tobani
9. Serenade, Titl’s Titl
Clarinet, Mr. F. Williams
Sazapbone, Mr. P. Verne y
19. Overtare Norma, Beilina
II. March American Re public i
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Eetrjbod? Dance -j
.his time, doesn't it ?"
"Well,'' said Richard, after due
reflection. "this fifth marriage
ain't going to see ntso natural. Old
Parson Begg's off on a trip to
Europe, and he’s never failed to tie
die knot for me.
"I said to Mary that I didn’t think
it wouli s,om !')-•' a voiding with
out Parson Begg, hut she said that
it v ms her turn to choose, and that
she meant to start out with that
voung minister that just come to
town, and that if ho did well she
guessed she’d stick to him. She
:id- ' explain what she meant, but
!H sounded kinder ominous to me."
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For a Short Time Only
THF DAILY PROGRESSIVE- Ml"
EF FIGHT MONTHS FOR no
CASH.
THANK YOU!
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Launches
Rough Rider and Teddy
Monday, 8 a. m.—Chomlc)
Sunny Point), connecting
«vith mail carrier for Suucr
and all points on West Coast
Prince of Wales Island.
Tuesday, 8 a. m.—Metlakahtlo
and Dolomi.
Wednesday, S a. m,—Loring
Yes Bay (Cannery Hatchery)
Bell Is'and Hot Springs and
-'hrimp Bay.
Thursday, 8 a m•—Same as
Monday.
Friday, 8 a. m.—Kasaan, It
Camp, Rush A Brown and
Saturday. 8 a. m.— Hadley
Hollis.
Carries Passengers and
Freight
Ed. J. Wiliimas
Master
Agents for
WADHAMS OIL CO
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Table of Distances from
Ketchikan
Seattle, W range!’
Petersburg 11-5 .Juneau 223
Skagwar 3M Sitka 292
MeUakahtla 15 Dolomi 27j
Nibiack 30 Chomley 3»j
Kasaan 29* Hollis 39
Kiaotj 32 Loring 21
Yes Bay 39 Cape Chacon 4'
tjulzer 62 Howkan 73
Waterfall 103 Craig 121
Kiawak 12r> Karheen 150
Shakan via. Chacon 132
Beil Island 50 ft mi At Kimr ?c
- rsary Island 23 Hadley
IhreeTree Point 45 Stewart B. O. I5(>
Prince Kupert 95
This table is complied in nautical
miles which are<-»30 feet. Tlie larg
est part- of this list was complied fo>
; the Post Office by the Captain of th
j Gedney and is authentic.
SL MR. AGISTS CALLED
HYPHEN ATED CIT1 ZK N S
WASHINGTON Dec. 29—Spokcs
■ii: of the National Association
Opposed. to Woman Suffrage argued
before the senate committee recent
ly iciginst the proposed federal
amendment,
f's A. I. George, of Brookline.
" - secretary of the association’s
cone legated committee, denounced
the tactics of the suffragettes in
‘‘tormenting congress."
"Questions of international re
lationship, of preparedness, of the
national defense, of finance, are
vexing the wisest minds," she sai l.
::Is it any time to further the
rops stands of this new crop of
hypenated Americans, who place
their wishes ahov0 every other need
t f the lO'intry?”
At the )
TONIGHT
Mary pick ford
“In The Sultan’s Garden”
“Rescued by Wireless”
A Military Romance in two parts featuring
William Clifford and Marie Walcamp
“Aunty’s Money Bag”
Enacted Solely by Children
Universal Ikes Legacy Comedy
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CANNON’S BAKERY
AND GROCERY
«*
Butter, 35 cents per lb.
EGGS 35 cents a Dozen'
The fact that I am*
shipping in Six hundred
dozen a week, should*
recommend the eggs.
But if you are in doubt
as to the quality, stop
in and I will break a
few for you.
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rtend in yuur fur* and got tile
oosl market price for them
! from P ,t. Gilmore. adv.
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