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NEXT SAILINGS FROM KETCHIKAN
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RETURNING THREE DAYS LATER
PHONE 77..F. H. BOLD, Agent.
Border Line Transportation Co.
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OF PRINCE OF 'VAJ-K8 TSIr
S. S. NORTHLAND
Bight reserved to change schedule without notice.
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D. W. Hoot, Agent, Northland Dock- Phot. 60. j
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The Canadian Pacific Railway
THE PRINCESS LINE
L- • v. Scaitie and Vancouver. Nov. 27 Dec- 11-2 < Jan. 8-22
Arrive Ketchikan p.m. Nov. 29 Dec. 13-29 Jen- 10-24
Leave Ketchikan a.m. Dec. 3 Dec. 17 Jan.2-14-28
Arrive Victoria and Seattle Nov. 5 Dec. 19 Jan 4-16-30
Subject t* ebaage wjthoui notice
Steamer- connect at Vancouver with trams for all Eastern points.
We offer attractive rates to eastern rail destinations.
The i ■"-» .* Quality. Our Service is Unsurpassed on Water or
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Montreal, Ottawa, Quebec, Toronto and Winnepeg.
Steamers to southern points: including Seattle, Victoria, Van
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Lowest fares. Electric Lighted trains. Observation care. Un
excelled pining and Sleeping Car Service, including both Stan
dard and Tourist Sleepers.
GRAND TRUNK PACIFIC RAILWAY AND STEAMSHIPS.
For farther particulars apply to:
J. H. Davies, of J. R- Beegle & Co.
City Passenger and T-cket Agent,
Ketchikan, Alaska.
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T~Royal Hotel I
ENTIRELY REMODLED
HANS APSCH, Prop.
Beds 50 Cents Per Night
BEST BRAND OF
II Wines, L iquors, Cigars
FRONT STREET, KETCHIKAN
'visiting nurse to
WORK AMONG THE
LOCAL NATIVES
HOSPITAL ANNEX FOR CARE
OF SICK NATIVES
St. John’s Mission, which includes
the Churvh, Hospital and Indian
' school maintained by the Episcopal
| Church, is about to extend its work
by installing a Visiting Nurse to eo
' operate with the doctors in the care
: of sick Natives, and to e<iuipp what
will practically be a native ward or
“Hospital Annex.”
Mrs. Adella O. Cook, at present
one of the nurses at the Arthur
Yates Memorial Hospital, has been
appointed to take up the visiting
! nursing and will have charge of
the “Hospital Annex.” Mrs. Cook
is a trained nurse, and ever since
her arrival in Ketchikan last sum
j nier had a deep interest In the wel
i fare of the Natives and from the
beginmng has been anxious to nurse
among thgjn and to help in the care
of the sick. Living rooms for her.
a kitchen, bathroom and two rooms
; Sc.- the sick are to be built on the
j -emiid f.'oor of the Indian scaool as
i as funds can be raised This
' \nr.ex” will be reached !>. a sep
arate stairway from the ou s>je c'
he f adding, and will be eatirelv
shut off from the school room.
Tht general plans for the Church’s :
| co-opo:a:,on in the care ,. the si k
XuLve ft- pic were made; out l,y lo
cal mission workers and in consulta
tion with hte doctors Jt Net"', tan.
-.■1 of whom have gic n ;t the’r ap
1 r>val. The plan js the outgrowth
of Bishop Rowe’s instructions to
the Rev. Mr. Kelley at the time of
h:s appointment to .hc charge cl
’he t butch work in Ketchikan, viz., ■
that he study the problem of the
care of the sick Natives, and the
possibility of establishing a Native 1
•vird in connection with the Hospi
| tal ’■'he natives will now have the '
double advantage of hospital care
and a trained nurse to help them in
their homes. Mr. Kelley has been
in constant communication with the
Bishop, and has received from him
the approval of the plan.
The matter was laid before the
Natives at a special meeting in the I
church last night. Mr. Kelley out- j
lining the plans, and Dr. B. L. Myers j
explaining it from a doctor’s point i
of view. Dr. Beatrice Dickenson i
also spoke a few words of cordial
approval of the idea, and Mrs. Cook
spoke breifiy of her hopes in the
work.
Mrs. Cook will make a large nara- l
ber of house to house visits, inquir- j
ing for the sick, giving instruction
in sanitation, and doing many .of ■
the friendly acts which only a wo
man can think of in the home. She
will visit special cases of illness
brought to her attention by the
school teacher, the minister, the
friends or family of the sick person, i
If she discovers cases of illness she \
will urge the family to secure a doc- ;
tor immediately, choice of doctor to j
be made by the family, not by the !
nurse. Most important of all, Mrs. I
Cook will visit cases at the request
of the doctor already in charge, and
under the directions of the doctor
give the patient such help as may
be needed. She will only give
treatments under the care of the
doctor.
When the doctor and nurse feel
that the patients can be better car- i
ed far in the Annex than in their !
homes, they may be removed to the \
rooms over the school, where every j
provision will be made for their ;
comfort. Ordinarily a member of
the family or friend will assist the |
nurse in the care of the sick at the j
rooms over the school. This will j
be of double value, enabling Mrs. j
Cook to give instruction in the pro
per care of the patient, and allowing
her time to make her visits.
With the hope of making the work -
self-supporting, a small charge will
be made for Mrs. Cook’s services,
! and for the care of the patients in
the "Hospital Annex.” The Mis
sion will, however, welcome any ;
gifts of money or supplies which
will enable it to do such special
charity work as the visiting nurse
may find necessary.
HOW THE ART OF WRITING
WAS DEVELOPED
When did man begin to write?
If the geologists are to be believed
they are certain that men and wo
men lived in the caves of France at
least 250.000 years ago, if not be
fore that time; and we now know
that they had methods of communi
cation at a distance by scratching
pictures on bits of stone or bone and
sending these messages by carriers.
They went so far as to conventio
nalize these drawings, making a
very crude drawing of a fish stand
for a fish, and what could not have
been intended for a bird, but only
an indication of one, stand for a
bird in writing. Here we have the
real birth of writing. It starts with
i a picture and when the picture has
become familiar it is drawn only
' partially, and at last some part of
the picture stands for the whole and
; we get a real hieroglyph, as they
are found in Egypt.
This simplifying of pictures, or
conventionalizing, is reduced to a
’ science in the course of time, and the
■ hieroglyphs become fixed in the
minds of the people and are taught
to various and succeeding generat
j ions of children.
The next step upward, as men
and women came to acquire the ex
pression of more complex ideas, the
building of sentences was to use
these conventionalized pictures or
hieroglyph- as syllables, often tak
ing the first syllable of the word for
which they stood as the main sound
and in that way .spelling out words.
For, until words can be spelled, it is
almost impossible to build up sen
. tenees, the verbs being very diffi
cult to express by pictures.
Many generations later the sylla
bic language might develope into the
alphahatie language; but sometimes
i it did not attain this point, as was
the case with the cuneiform or Ba- ;
i bvlonian, writing. As far as we j
j know its highest development was to
syllables; but great poems were j
written in these syllables and there
seemed to be no difficulty in the
way of free correspondence in this
syllabic language. We have thou
sands of letters and contracts drawn
i up in these syllabic sentences. -
The more complicated the think
ing, the higher the type of writing ;
necessary for the expresion of that
\ thought, just as with the progress
of English thought and sentence we
have to manufacture new words
every day, and our unabridged dic
tionary grows to enormous pro
portions.
The ancient Peruvians invented
what have been called “quippos”—
bars with different colored cords,
tied in special knots to aid children
and men and women in remember
ing what they wished to.
The man who first discovered that I
he could draw a picture which would !
be recognized by other human be- !
ings began the art of writing and j
all that it has meant for human i
civilization.
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ACTRESS IS SHOT
DOWN AS SPY
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COMMUNICATIONS RECEIVED ;
TELL OF DEATH AT
BUDAPEST
CLEVELAND, Feb. 21.—Accord
ing to information received by the
Cleveland Hungarians, Sari Petrass, !
famous Hungarian actress, who was I
noted in Europe for her beauty, has I
been executed as a British spy In j
Budapest. Letters received in i
Cleveland declare that she was tried
by court-martial and convicted of
; getting military secrets from Aus
i trian and Hungarian officers and
| sending them to England.
The reports declare that some of
! her letters were intercepted and that
; one of her dupes confessed. She
I was well known in London, where
| she appeared in “The Marriage Mar
ket” at one of the big theaters when I
r the war started. The news of her j
I execution was kept secret and came 1
as a shock to the theater going pub
lic abroad when it became known j
the letters received here declare.
Miss Petrass fainted when the sen- j
; tence was passed and was shot be- I
fore she had completely regained !
| consciousness. Until she was put to
death the public was unaware that
; she was a prisoner, and the official
, announcement of the execution caus
ed a national shock. Miss Petrass
was not only a reigning favorite of
i the Hungarian theatergoers, but of
■ a family of famous Hungarian pat
riots. ’
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When war was declared the ac
tress left London and returned to
Budapest, but instead of continuing
on the stage began an elaborate
round of social activities. She gave
ball after ball to military and naval
officials.
Her letters to the British war of
fice, it is charged, were sent by way
of Switzerland, and In the care of
young army officers fascinated by
her beauty.
Her arrest, court martial and ex
ecution were conducted with the ut
most secrecy. She denied all charges,
but was confronted by several of
her letters, which were said to have
been turned over to the authorities
by a jealous officer. Then she broke
down and confessed.
Miss Petrass was the niece of
Countess Ilka Kinzky. Count Paul
Esterhazy, recently killed on the
battlefield, was said to have been
engaged to her.
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E. E. Sparhawk
DENTIST
Office in Residence
Hours, 10 a. m. to 4 p. m.
CHAS. H. COSGROVE
Attorney at Law
GENERAL PRACTICE
C. E. INGERSOLL
ATTORNEY AT LAW
Prompt attention given to perfect
ing land titles and securing patents
KETCHIKAN, AI ~*
James M. Shoup
Attorney at Law
Offices adjoining U. S. Customs
Office
Notary
S. A. PLUMLEY
Attorney and
Counselor at Law
Office—Town Council Chambers,
Ketchikan, Alaska.
MARY A. C- GIBSON
Stenographer
Notary Public
OFFICES
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People’s Meat Market
At The Old Stand Opposite
Sparahawk’s Store, Newtown
SWIFT & COMPANY’S MEATS
ED COOK, Propietor.
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General Hauling
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and work of all kinds
j
done by the
Independent Transfer
Company •
0. M. TAYLOR, Agent
Phone 64
Alaska Delivery
WALTER GRAY, prop
COAL DELIVERED FROM ALI
DOCKS
PHONES 61—71
Ketchikan Wharf Co.
COAL
COAL
NANAIMO
Lump Coal
$8.00 PER TOR.
Ketchikan Wharf Co.
C. M. Taylor
i Phone 64 Agent
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On Your Arrival in, or your Departure From
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The SIDEBOARD
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Arrival and Carry the Good Wishes of M. E. MARTIN
With You on Your Departure.
Congeniality, Goodfellowship and Fair Treatment
Combined, is our Long Suit.
the Cabinet
Is widely known; not only for the qairlity
of its Liquors, Wines and Cigars,
but for its hospitality to
its numerouspatrons.
Henry Goemaere and fl. W. Morgan
Ketchikan, Alaska.
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j “Thebest is n one too good for our Patrons”
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