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MONDAY NOVEMBER 30, 1914.
WHEN THE PRESIDENT GOES TO
SEA.
The official program for the formal
opening of the Panama Canal, and
concurrently of the Panama-Pacific
Exposition at San Francisco, has been
made public. Its general features
have long been known, but we now
have precise dates fixed for the jour
ney of the president from Washing
ton by sea to San Francisco.
It will begin at Hampton Roads on
March 5 and with pauses at the canal
and at San Diego will end on March
24. This is the longest sea voyage
that a president of the United States
has ever undertaken. Time was when
such an expedition would have caused
much head-shaking on the part of
constitutional hair-splitters. We have
largely got over that sort of thing.
It is seated that seventeen American
and twenty-seven foreign vessels will
take part in the naval parade from
Hampton Roads as far as Colon at
least. It is not yet stated what na
tions will be represented. Unless the
naval situation of the European war
greatly changes it is to be feared that
the German and Austrian flags will
be rather conspicuous by their ab
sence. Should it greatly change the
British, French and Russian flags may
be equally consp'cuous.
Of course it may be that the war
will be over by that time, or may at
least have reached the armistice and
peace conference stage. While we may
not expect this we may still hope it.
Then what a glorious celebration the
formal opening of the Panama Canal
would be! It would celebrate the
successful completion of the greatest
single work of peaceful industry in
human history and the return to
peace of warring nations after the
world’s greatest war. That might
happen when the president of the
United States goes to sea to certify
the linking of the oceans. Let us
all hope and pray that it will!—Ex.
3,000,000 MEN LOST.
—
It is possible now, after more than
three months of war, to form some
idea of what the struggle is costing
the nations in their chief asse*—men.
Accuracy, of course, is impossible.
The best way we can do is to take
what definite figures have been giv
en by the belligerents and piece them
out according to the probabilities.
Let us try to estimate the casual
ties—the killed, wounded and missing
—of all the belligerents for the first
100 days of fighting. Take Germany
first. Her losses have been greatest,
because of her many enemies, and
because of the recklessness with
which the Germans risk their lives
in battle.
Official German lists give the casual
ties up to the first week in October
as 509,000. We shall have to add to
that all the officers and men wound
ed, killed or captured in the fight
ing around Antwerp, in the furious
assaults afterward on the French
English trenches along the Yser, in
the costly operations in Flanders,
near the coast, where the fiercest
struggle of the war has occurred, and
the ill-fated invasion of Poland, with
the rout at Warsaw and the subse
quent retreat. Let us say conserva
tively that the German losses in the
100 days’ fighting amount to 900,000.
Next in severity come the Austrian
losses, inflicted chiefly by the Rus
sians. No official report has been
made. Private advices, purporting to
be copied from army reports, declare
that the Austrian army operating
against Servia had lost 148,000 men
up to November 1, and the army op
erating against the Russians in Gali
cia and Poland had lost over 752,000,
making a total of 900,000. This is
possibly exaggerated. We shall prob
ably be safe in figuring the total Aus
trian casualties at 700,000 for the 100
days, however, particularly in view
of the heavy losses suffered in Po
land and the Carpathians since No
vember 1.
It is impossible to get at the losses
of the French army, in the absence
of official admissions. Germany claims
to have nearly 200,000 French pris
oners in her concentration camps. If
we add to that number, say 300,000
killed and wounded, which seems mod
erate, we get 500,000 French casual
ties.
About the same number of Rus
sians as of French have been cap
tured by the Germans. Where 200,
000 soldiers have been taken.alive,
300.000 or more must surely have been
killed or wounded, including the East
Prussian defeat, the hard Galician
campaign and the battle of Warsaw.
That makes another 500,000 for the
grand total.
Great Britain, having a compara
tively small force engaged, has had
far smaller losses. The government
admits 57,000 casualties up to No
vember 1. For 100 days, then, the
total must be 60,000 or more.
Servia must have lost no fewer than
50.000 in her fierce fighting against
superior Austrian numbers.
For Belgium the total can hardly
be less than 100,000.
These figures, then, give us a lit
tle more than 2,800,000 soldiers put
out of business in the first 100 days
of the war. It. may easily be 3,000,000,
and it certainly far exceeds that num
ber if we count those disabled from
sickness.
For the whole 100-day period the
total is overwhelming. That great
casualty list matches the total num
ber of efficient males in New York,
Chicago, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Bos
ton, Tacoma, Cincinnati, Cleveland,
Denver, Detroit, Indianapolis, Kansas
City, Los Angeles, Milwaukee, Min
neapolis, New Orleans, Pittsburg, St.
Louis, San Francisco and Washing
ton. Imgaine all those cities depop
ulated of all the males except boys
too young and men too old to carry
a gun or dig a trench, and you have
some conception of the havoc wrought
by war.
Of course, most of the wounded will
recover. A large part of them, doubt
less are already back on the firing
line. And the unwounded prisoners
will for the most part return home
safely. But it is quite bad enough.
And the longer the war lasts the
worse it is likely to become, for more
nations are entering the Armageddon,
and the fighting grows more ruthless
ar.d destructive.—Ex.
KINK IN THE KAISER?
Pascal once made a famous reflec
tion to the effect that the difference
of half an inch in the length of Cleo
patra’s nose might have changed the
history of the world.
Now a Philadelphia professor of os
teopathy puts the blame for Europe’s
agony on a kink in the kaiser’s spine.
A case of osteopathic lesion, argues
the doctor, producing abnormal and
terrific brain activity. Nor is the kai
ser’s case unique:
“Napoleon was almost a hunchback.
His great adversary, Wellington,
always stood with one shoulder high
er than the other. The Greeks said
Alexander was lopsided. Pericles had
a peculiarly shaped head and neck.
Archimedes walked with a terrible
stoop. Who knows but this malfor
mation indicated osteopathic lesions
which resulted in overstimulated
brains in these and other equally fa
mous instances?”
The idea is new. A society in Paris
has for years been accumulating da
ta to prove that genius, unusual ca
pacity or energy are invariably at
tended with asymmetry of head or
face. In exceptionally brainy or act
ive people the two sides of the head
are markedly different—one ear high
er than the other, jaw off 'evel, nose
or mouth deflected to one side.—Ex.
The Panama canal cost $353,000,
000—ten days’ cost of the European
f iaughter-fest.
BUILDING OF PETROGRAD.
Mar the Great's Ruthless Methods In
Erecting the Capital.
Most disadvantugeously situated of
all the capitals of Europe—indeed, of
the world— Petrograd is a monument
of the pride and energy of Peter the
Great He wanted a European capi
tal in order to signalize and immor
talize bis conquests. In 1703, when
the first foundations of the city were
laid on the marshy island on the delta
of the Neva, at the eastern end of the
gulf of Finland, the surrounding ter
ritory had even then not been entirely
conquered.
Peter went to work with bis usual
energy and with his usual ruthless
ness to create a capital in what was
worse than a desert. He himself su
perintended the building of the city
and gave the directions of the details
to half a dozen lieutenants. The work
was pushed with almost Incredible
rapidity, so that by 1712 sufficient ad
vance had beeii made to permit the
transfer of the Imperial family from
Moscow.
One measure ordered by Peier was
that thousands of peusnnts must set
tle In or near the new capital. A spe
cial tax was put on his empire to
meet the expenses of building the city.
Such a small difficulty as the scarcity
of masonB was nothing to a man like
Peter the Great He simply forbade
the erection of stone buildings any
where else in the empire until Petto
grad was finished.—New York Times.
PERSIAN GULF PEARLS.
Ths Divers Are Practically 8lavaa of
the Boat Maatera.
Bombay, noted for Its pearl markets,
Is not a pearl producer, though the
gems are bought there for shipment
to all parts of the world. The pearls
sold in Bombay come from the Bahrein
islands, a small archipelago on the
western side of the Persian gulf,
which, although adjacent to territory
under the control of Turkey, is gov
erned by an Independent sheik under
special British protection, the British
government maintaining a political
agent there.
Of this group of Islands only those
of Bahrein and Maharak are of any
size. Their importance, however. Is
out of all proportion to their extent,
for they are the great center of the
Persian gulf pearl fisheries, which are
She world’s chief source of supply for
pearls. The sheik of Bahrein is said
to nave a customs revenue amount
ing to about $400,000 per year, which
makes him the richest ruler in the
Persian gulf. The pearl* fisheries un
der his control may in a good year
bring to his islands aB much as $2,
500,000.
It is difficult for newcomers to ob
tain the services of good divers owing
to the system In vogue, which prac
tically makes this class of men slaves
to the masters of the pearling boats.
The men’s earnings in the majority of
cases are insufficient to keep them all
the year round, and consequently they
take advances from their masters year
after year to such an extent that they
can never repay their debt. When a
diver elects to engage himself to an
other boat the owner of the latter has
to pay up the debt due to the former
master should he engage him.—Argo
naut.
SCRAPS AND A DINNER.
A French Chef’s Feat With Food That
Had Been Discarded.
A year or two ago I was chef in a
country gentleman’s household in Eng
land. The morning after my arrival I
looked around the kitchen garden, and
in the dust bin that stood in the back
yard I saw a mixture of food that
could have been turned into a first
class dinner.
In about four quarts of milk that
had turned sour were swimming stale
half loaves, drumsticks of fowls, old
ham bones, cold boiled potatoes, trim
mings of dough made tor piecrusts,
cracked eggs, some old codfish and
some spoiled macaroni.
Next day 1 found a second consign
ment, very similar, about to be carried
away and thrown out. I stopped this
lot, sorted it out and, with the help of
a little stock, half a dozen eggs and
a hare that had been shot on the es
tate, served a seven course dinner for
a family of ten that night, and the
master of the household called me up
and complimented me before the whole
family on the best dinner they had
had for a year.
Afterward his wife sent for me and
told me that, though pleased with the
dinner, she feared I had been too ex
travagant and said that her rule was
not to allow more than 7 shillings per
head in housekeeping. It was a se
vere shock to her to hear I had fed
the family on the sins of the cook that
had left the day before, the cost being
not over uinepence per head.—From an
Interview With a French Chef in Na
tional Food Magazine,
The Market In Cauls.
We believe that there is still some
market for cauls among sailors, who
retain their belief in the efficacy of the
membranes as a protection against
shipwreck and drowning. Notices of
“Cauls For Sale Within" were to be
seen recently in windows in the vicin
ity of the docks of both London and
Liverpool, but it is some time since
we have noticed an advertisement of a
caul for sale in the daily press. It may
be remarked that the sale of cauls, so
far from being a very ancient custom.
Is a comparatively modern innovation.
The witchcraft of the middle ages de
clared against the caul retaining any
virtue whatever if parted with by gift
or sale to any but a member of the
child’s kindred.—London Lancet
The Struggle.
The road to eminence and power
from an obscure condition ought not
to be made too easy uor a thing too
much of course. If rare merit be the
rarest of all things It ought to pass
tbrongh some sort of probation. The
temple of honor ought to be seated on
an eminence. If it be open through
virtue let It be remembered, too, that
virtue Is never tried but by some diffi
culty and some struggle.—Burke.
Tangled Up In Boaton.
Hank—Ever in Boston. Bill? Bill—
Yep. Hank—Get tangled up any?
Bill-A little. 1 stole a pup from a
front porch, run two miles with him
vnd stopped to rest right on de same
front porch 1 stole him from.—Phila
delphia Bulletin.
A Spanking Team.
"Now, Tommy, this little story says.
The rich man hud a spanking team.’
Now, what’s a ‘spanking team?”'
•i know. My pa and ma’s one.”—
Baltimore American. *
Astronomy Versus Art.
Professor—Has anything ever been
discovered on Venus? Student—No,
sir, there has not—If the pictures are
correct.—Judge.
That action is not warrantable which
either blushes to beg a blessing or.
hating succeeded, does not present a
thanksgiving*-Quarien
Get Busy!
There Is a Lot to Do Before the Deep Snow Comes
YOU NEED WINTER CLOTHES
W Hare Them for Men, Women and Children.
Fur Caps,
Felt Shoes,
Overcoats,
Malone Pants
Fur Coats,
Wool Gloves,
Buckskin Lined
Corduroy Vests,
Roughneck Sweaters
Don’t Wait Any Longer.
Fur Band Caps,
Felt Slippers,
Mackinaw Coats,
Mackinaw Pants,
Parkas,
Wool Mittens,
Ladies’ and
Children’s Furs.
Come In and Buy Now.
LOCAL BREVITIES.
Mr. and Mrs. Raines will leave for
Seattle on the Mariposa.
Roger Bros. 1847 silverware and
sterling silverware at 50c on the dol
lar at Plant & Co.
Suits pressed ror $1.00 at Silver
man’s the tailor. Telephone 198.
District Attorney Spence will leave
for Washington on the Mariposa.
Excellent change of movies at the
Orpheum tonight.
Just received dressers, buffets and
sideboards that are beauties at Ru
dolph’s. tf
Harry Eaton, who has been confined
to his room for the past ten days,
is again able to be out.
Going out of business. The entire
stock of Jewelry at 50c on the dol
lar at Plant & Co.
Ladies leather ana silver hand bags
at 60 per cent. off. Plant & Co.
General Agent Fred Tracy of the
Alaska Steamship Company is mak
ing the round trip on the Mariposa
to Seward.
See Tod Winter ror your watch and
jewelry repairing at E. Winter’s store.
All work guaranteed. tf
If you want ail tne news all the
time, read the Prospector.
Suits pressed for $1.00 at Silver
man’s the tailor. Tel> phone 198.
?—Men’s heavy wool hose 25c pair
at Emporium. tf
The big generator of the Alaska
Water, Light and Telephone Com
pany was loaded on a scow this morn
ing by a crew of men directed by
Robert McIntosh, who has the contract
to take the big machine to the hydro
electric plant In Solomon basin.
Home cooked meals at Mrs. Matil
da Olson’s on Hobart street. Phone
219. Dinner served at 6 p. m. tf
Thitry-flve per cent, discount on
diamonds and nuggets. Plant & Co.
G. O. Reinke, tne watchmaker and
jeweler, Is at the Valdez Drug Co.
All work guaranteed.
FOR RENT . four room furnished
house. Enquire at Prospector office.
FOR SALE cheap one heating
stove. Call at the Prospector.
Select your Christmas presents now
at 60c on the dollar. Plant & Co.
Fine Crabs.
Another shipment of fine fresh
crabs received on the Mariposa this
morning. Telephone your order and
we will deliver. Listen for the born.
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