SEWARD BREAKS UP WHIST GAME
TO PURCHASE THIS TERRITORY
There is n fragment of Frederick
W. Seward’s story, of his father’s
purchase of Alaska from Russia for
the United States In 1867, as told in
"Reminiscences of a Wartime States
ma and Diplomat:"
On the evening of Friday, March
29, Seward was playing whist in his
parlor with his fam'ily, when the Rus
sian minis w was announc'd.
”1 have n despatch, Mr. Seward,
from my government by cable. The
emperor give*) his c -nsent to the ces
sion. Tomorrow, if you like, I will
come to the department and we can
enter upon the treaty."
Seward, with a smile of satisfac
tion, pushed away the whist table,
saying:
"Why wait until tomorrow, Mr.
Stoeckl? l.et us make the treaty to
night!”
"But your department is closed.
You have no clerks, and my secre
tones are scattered about town.*’
"Never mind that,” responded Sew
ard. “If you can muster your lega
tion together before midnight you
will' find me waiting you at the de
partment, which will be open and
ready for business.”
In less than two hours afterward
light was streaming out of the win
dows of the state department, and
apparently business was going on as
at midday. By 4 o’clock Saturday
morning the treaty was signed, seal
ed and ready for tranesmisslon by
the president to the senate.
There was need of this haste in
order to have it acted upon before
the end of the session, now near at
hand.
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WALT MASON’S IDEAS
ON HORRORS OF WAR
Great Scott, 1 am weary of battle,
of fighting in Russia or France ! I’m
tired of the guns and their rattle,
I’m sick of the sword and the lance.
I would that each bloodthirsty ruler,
for whom countless soldiers have died,
were given ten days in the cooler,
and told to beak rock, on the side.
For when to the stores I go .shop
in g, to purchase some beewax and
pie. the merchants began their stale
yawping. ’’The war’s sent the prices
sky high! These pumpk'ms last year
we were selling at seventeen roubles
the peck, but now if you buy, you’ll be
shelling out four times that money,
by heck!”
1 would that the kings and the
pi'inces who manage the juggernaut
car, the captains, and all of those
quinces, were treated to feathers and
tar. Because of the carnage and
slaughter, because of the wrangling
and strife, 1 can’t buy new shoes for
my daughter, I can buy a lid-for my
wife.
Because of the tighting e’er yonder,
because of the idiot’s fray, the people
who butcher and launder are raising
the prices each day. Because the old j
GUNNER SANKEY
VERY HARD TO KILL!
International ..New* Service.
LONDON, April 30.—He Volun
teered on the thtrd day of the war
and in a few weeks was in France,
a gunner In the royal field artillery
ho fought at I,a Base, Givenchy, Plug
street, Festubert, Ypres three times,
Neuve Chapelle. Dlckebusch, Kenimel,
and Hill sixty.
He was shot in the I04 hand and
knee at La Basse, hit in the back by
a ptece of scrapnel at Keminel, gas
sed and hit 'in the forehead by schrap
nel and shot in the hip at Ypres, and
also knocked over twice by "Jack
I
Johnsons" at Ypres. The last time
he lay for dead for twenty four hours
bleeding from the back of the head
and left arm.
After his twenty second trip to the
operating table the army discharged
him on pension.
Sankey’s left hand* is useless, and
he limps from the hip wounds. At
the base of his skull there is a silver
plate, and in various parts of his
patched up body 124 stitches have
been taken. One doctor told him he
couldn't be Willed, and Sankey on a
pension of $6.26 a week, believes it.
SIGNAL SERGEANT
ENFORCES THE LAW
/if
Immediately after President Wilson
broka with Germany, a man not in
sympathy with that action, while sit
ting In the Tavern restaurant at Ne
nana, called the chief executive a very
vile name, at the same time remarking
that someone ought "to get him." First
Class Sergeant Chester B. Mulkln, op
erator In charge of the telegraph offlco
at the new railroad town, immediately
stepped up and with one blow to the
Jaw knocked him from the chair in
which he was sitting and followed this
up with more punishment. Ho then
made the slanderer kneel on the floor
of the restaurant and, before the
crowd of diners, apoligize to the j
l’resident and all present for making
such a remark. After receiving the
beating the man was in such a nervous
state that he cou’.d not collect Iris
thoughts sufficiently to word the apol
ogy, so Sergeant Mulkln dictated it,
making the man repeat it after him as
he worded it. The sergeant then
warned the man that he would do well
not to repeat any such utterances in
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the future, or he would “put him where
he belonged." As a result of the ac
tion of Sergeant JVIulkln a greater care
is being exercised by those inclined to
make remarks bordering .on the treas
onous, says the Fairbanks New-Miner,;
which reports the story, and also, as
a result of the fracas, Sergeant Mulkln
has become quite the hero of Nenana.
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world's in a pickle, and U boats are
scouring the sea, I get two cheroots
for a nlckle, where always before I
got three.
(lee whiz, I am weary of battle!
I’m weary of hearing you tell of men
who were butchered like cattle, and
showing the plfcce where they fe'l. I'm
tired of your tales of the trenches, of
ambush by tarn or by tor, for a'l
things from roosters to wrench#;, a -
higher, because of the war. 1 don’t
buy as much for a dollar as lately
I bought for six bits! I go without
necktie or collar; what wonder !'m
throwing some fits?
For peace, with the rest, I am
praying, and 'while I am playing I
groan; I'd set nl! the armies to hay
ing, if. I were a king on a throne.
I’d send all the cruisers in harbor,
with guns, to a wateiy grave, when
Thompson, my favorite barber, has
charged me two bits tor a shave.
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