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First M. E. Church
Sunday Church service 11 a. m. sod
1:30 p. m.
Wednesday Prayer Meeting 7:30.
Friday choir meets 8 o’clock.
First and third Wednesday after
•oons at J:30 Ladies Aid 8ociety.
H. W. MICHEN'EB, Pastor.
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CATHOLIC CHURCH
Low Mass at 8:30 a. m.
High Mass at 10:30 a. m.
Sunday School at 2:30p.m.
Sunday Vespers at 7:30 p. m.
Wjfeek Day Mass at 8 a. m.
Rev. PAUL P. KERNS.
Pastor.
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Saint John’s Church
Rev. Harry P. Corser, Priest ii
charge.
Sunday 8 a.m. (second Sun
day of the month) Holy Com
munion.
9:45 a.m. Native Sunday
School.
11 a.m. Morning Prayer and
Sermon. During December, 2mj
and 4th Sundays.
^ 7:30 p.m. Evening Prayei
with Sermon. 2pd and 4th Sun
days of December. Musical
service 1st and 3rd Sundays.
Thursday 8 p.m. Choir prac
tice.
Meeting of VeSlry first Mon
day night of each month;
Woman’s Guild, alternate
Thursdays.
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Christian Science Society
Subject for February 21,
“MIND”
Front street, Ketchikan,
Hegular Services Sunday 11 am
Wednesday evening rending
and Song Services, at 7:30 p.m.
Ali Are Welcome
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edITo r FaTTage
“A MILLION FR1SONEBS”
Horlin officials asssert that tin
Austro-German Allies hare, up b
date, captured more than 800,000 sol
diets of the Allied forces.
The same authorities are said tc
concede the capture by the Allies of
200.000 men—making u grand totn
of more than 1.000,000 troops in tie
hands of the enemy.
Leaving aside all question of the
veracity of this alleged compllatiei
the mere enumeration of such fig
tires conjures up some interesting cjii
parisons which, if they do naught
else, at least demonstrate the Immense
number thus cited.
In the first place, it is stated
that the German prisoners to date
are double the number taken In
the Franco-Prussian war ef 1870. It
will lie remembered that in two liicin
arable catstrophes in that struggle,
the French regular army was all but
annihilated.
Even more astonishing is the state
ment that the total is more titan the
total of all the troops summoned to
arms when that struggle was perticip
atated in. France is credited wut put
ting 28(1000 men in the filed, while
all the Gertttan forces totaled 000,000.
Other striking comparisons are
found in our own Civil war. For in
stance at Vickburg Grant enmmanded
only 45.000 men. Lee, in Ids tremen
dous fight at Gettysburg eontniandet!
only 75,000, while Meade is credited
with 150,000—a total fighting force
less than one-quarter of a million.
Sherntan on his famous march to
the sea was in command of only
100.000 men, while Johnson command
ed about 65,000.
Still more remarkable—at the close
of the epochal struggle, the army that
Grant hurled at Lee’s thinning leg
ions numbered only 124,700, against
which the Southern arrayed 57,000
Coming down to more modern times
Field Marshal Oyama, at the battle of
Lino-Yang commanded 240.000 troops
I with ICuropatkin marshaling 200,000.
j The succeeding and culimatlng battle
nf Mukden saw 400,000 Japanese «r
l ayed against 350,000 Russians—few
er fighting men than the number of
urisoners cited above.
Such figures, by comparison, give
one an appreciation of the titanic
nature of this conflict 5Vhen it is
I conceeded that it is possible to re
! tire a million men from the battle
j line through capture, without serious
; ly imparing the fighting strength of
| (lie nations at war, the mind lias less
difficulty in appreciating the enor
mity of the armed forces in Europe.
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W. C. T. U. CONVENTION
TO BE AT SKAGWAY
The first Territorial Convention of
the W. ('. T. I", will meet in Skng
way some time in May. Mrs. Cor
nelia Jewett Hatcher president of the
Alaska branch of the W. C. T. U.,
! will conduct the meetings. Mrs.
| Hatcher will be accompanied by a
i dramatic reader, who will give enter:
j taiuments during the session. This
! promises to lie an event worthy of
! malic praise and will further the
good" work commenced by Mrs.
: Hatcher some years ago when she
; was Mrs. Templeton Jewett, and since
j lias been kept alive by the wakeful
■ 'nergy of the local branch, of whom
not enough can be said of the work
, accomplished. More from time to
: time will be mentioned of the conven
1 tion. Every one in favor of a clear
| town with a clean administration
shnulil lend n helping hand and fur
ther along a good cause_Skagway
' Alaskan.
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JAMFAIGNING AGAINST
COMMUNITY UNTIDINESS
In Toledo a few days ago, and in
he course of a few hours, a man
walked to the curb, tore a letter ln
,o little bits and threw them In tlie
blitter; a conductor picked a news
taper from tlie floor of his car and
lirew it into tlie street, and a rtib
'isli wangon went through tlie busin
ss quarter leaving a trail of litter
oeltind it. All these tilings were wit
icssed by an editorial representative
if tlie Blade.
“Congratulations to Ogden on beat
ng Salt Bake City.” says tlie Desert
Cvening News of the latter place,
‘even though only by three points
n tlie dean-town contest between
'tali cities of the first class; and con
'ratulations especially to Manti for
lecisively carrying off all honors in
he state-wide contest among tlie iinlf
lundred cities and towns which the
:Adges scored.”
“Mayor Bosse of Evansville,” ac
■ording to the Indianapolis News,
‘says he is very much in earnest n
Jout cleaning up that city, and the
irogram, even thus far outlined of
what is to be done, shows that it
ieeds to lie.” Tn New York city
his week a city cleaners’ show is in
■rogress. It was opened with a street
oaratle taken up largely with a new
nid improved street cleaning appli
inees. The exhibit itself is the first
ittempt made in tlie metropolis to
ring together for comparison and test
he most modern machinery for
itreet-eleaning work.
The evidences of renewed interest
n community tidiness, extending from
Hie Atlantic seaboard through tlie
niddle West and into the Rocky
nountains are in no way related.
Nothing in particular appears to have
started what seems to be a new na
tion wide elean-up movement. In
jach ease, as far as can be seen,
’oeal conditions and influences only
ire operating. In the United States
igitations against street litter arc
’requent. Nearly every considerable
town and city has passed through
toveral campaigns for cleanliness
'lost of these have done good. It it
in encouraging thing that dwellers
n towns and cities become restless
leriodieally over carelessness such as
hat reported in Tolledo, over condi
ions such as are now being corrected
n Evansville. The towns and cities
if Utah, it would seem, have united
n a happy plan to arouse state-wide
interest in municipal neatness. Wc
•annot thing of any form of conipe
ition for American communities that
would be at once more Interesting
ind useful than contests for preced
‘nee in general physical appearance.
The modern street cleaning imple
nents on exhibition in New York
ill have their place and their value,
•lit there is one thing in tills eonnee
ion that is even more desirable than
he cleaning of streets, that Is, the
seeping of them clean. To accomplish
lie latter result something must be
lone in every community toward th<
'duention of the people disposed t<
lo tlie things that fell under the ob
servation of tlie Toledo editor_
hristian Science Monitor.
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STARRY WONDERS
The Changing, Drifting, Crum
bling Constellations.
NOT SO PLACID AS THEY SEEM
They Are All In a Whirling, Restless
Rush, Preparing to Assemble In Oth
er Formations—Wild Flight Earth
ward of the Andromeda Nebula.
"That spectacle," said a friend of
mine one night, pointing up to the
■•tarry sky, "always overwhelm.- me
with a sense of unchnngenbleness "
"Yet." I replied. "It Is the grandest
type of ••minimal nnd stupendous
change that the Imagination could pos
slbly conceive. Its apparent tlliehailge
ubleliess ts that of a distant landscape
Seen by a Hash of lightning, the wheel
of a racing auto seems to lie mutton
.ess. Your whole lifetime Is lint a
lightning Hash against the spinning
wheels of the universe The entire
history of the world since the trmll
clonal time of Adam Is lint a lightning
Hash In the existence of the sidereal
systems.
"They are all in motion, and they are
ill changing within themselves Look
"bonder at that rich pert ot the Milky
way, where the millions of apparent
ly crowded stars resemble luminous
•louds If yotl could stand watching
those star clouds for n million years
instead of a few moments they would
sliift nnd roll before your eyes like the
whirling vapors of an advancing tlino
lerstorm
"Tile astronomer arrives at a knovvl
■dge of the fluctuations of the universe
i.v projecting his Imagination hack Into
the past and forward into the future
He gazes through a telescope which
penetrates time Instead of space Its
•eases gather together and bend to a
focus beams ot ages Instead of rays ot
iglit. With Its aid he sweeps all past
ind coming neons Into the Held of his
ueninl vision and strives to view them
in the mass, as they are seen hy the
undent of days' himself
“It Is In tliis way that we know that
il1 these brilliant cunstelhitliuis. which
to the eye of tile casual lonkei have
not uttered their outlines since record
ed history began, are In reality as
mutable and ephemeral ns so many
swarms of snow crystals.
"Yes; It Is no exaggeration to nflirm
that the firmament of stars would ap
near to an eye endowed with Immortal
vision as restless and as swiftly raid
tble as a winter storm sky tilled with
•d.dying flakes.
•Ursa Major, the (Ireat Bear. Leo
;ho Lion. Taurus the charging Bull
Arlan tile mighty Hunter, the Southern
t'ross, the Northern frown, the Lyre
rbe Whale, the Scorpion, the Scales
Virgo the Virgin, Hercules the Doer of
Deeds, Draco the (Treat Dragon, Ophi
•lelins the Serpent Bearer, the whole
■efulgent cycle of the zodiac from
tries round to IMsces. all these, with
oit exception, and every starry com
inny hi the whole sky that mankind
ins admired nnd made legends about
ire breaking up, crumbling, drifting
isunder and preparing to assemble in
ither formations, like the new heaven
hat l< to shine upon tile new earth or
he Apocalypse
"liOrik ui> at Aldebarnn. the red first
Magnitude star In the eye of Taurus,
t is going away from you at a speed
• f thi -ty live miles per second, seventy
lines ns fast ns the swiftest cannon
inII. Every successive night It Is
S.000.000 miles farther than It was
wentv-four hours before, and yet Its
listnnee Is so great that It has not ap
ireciably diminished In brightness lu
i thousand years.
"Th?n tlx your eyes on n little star
irider the feet of Orion, which nstrono
nors call Delta l.eporls. It Is flying
i way from us at the rate of sixty-two
lilies per second That means a re
rent of more than {Y.UTid.tMiO miles he
ween one night nnd the next, and yet
Aelta l.eporls does not sensibly fade
t Is like a distant steamer's light- so
ar away to begin with that no altera
ion of Its distance can produce a
tinngc in Its apparent magnitude until
lie time elapsed begins to hear some
ppreclahle proportion to the spare thnt
ii terrenes
‘If yon will regard another 111 tie star
a the Whale, called Eta Ccphet. you
rill hr looking at a projectile as big as
, sun. which Is shooting toward us
-lore than fifty miles a second. The
rent dog star. Sirius, which crossed
Me milky way hundreds of centuries
efore hlstorj began, is speeding in our
ireetlon at the rate of fifteen miles a
,-cond. nnd the little dog star. I’rocy
n. Is .basing aftei him with the los
ig stride of ten miles per second
"The magnificent Arcturus Is retiring
ito the depths of space with dtguikeri
tep— three miles a second while Al
Aha Ontaurus. a twin star, each ol
hose components equals our sun. Is
rawing h million miles nearer every
venty lour hours The vast Orion
elrnln Is retreating eleven miles a see
nd. hill that whirling wonder called
de Andromeda Nebula Is rushing liitti
rward ISO miles a second. 01 more
lan 15.000.000 miles per day!
"Luckily for us It has plenty of skv
mm!
"In riew of all this, do the heavens
till seem to you so placid and an
hangeahleV" — (Jnrrett i’ Servlss in
Vashlngton Post
There Is no man that has not nts
our. nor Is there anything that has
ot Its place.- Rabbi Ben Asi.
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Will Weld Anything
Agent—Atlas Gas Engines
General Machine Shop
Bring your machine work to people who will
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SHOUT THE GLAD TIDINGS
That at last there is a laundry
where you can have your shirts
collars, etc., done up so that
they are fit to wear Xmas or
any other time. _For that is
what this laundry does, and
does it promptly too. Shall we
send for your washables this
week? Better say “yes.”
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Because the type is shifted—not the carriage.
The only movement of the carriage is back and
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