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BY GEORGE M. ARBUCKLE
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Vol. 8No. 40
YUKON PAYS FOR WAR
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Figures collected by the Daw-1
son News show that Yukon ter
xi^sry had raised $95,031 94 for!
Isttkoa Patriotic Fund up to1
JUdy £1: This is more than $10
■pvt -bead fpr the men, women I
and children of the territory.!
Most of the Yukon patriotic con-1
tributions have been made to1
this fund, and its collections
have been distributed among
various other Canadian funds,
among them being $12,562.60 to
the Canadian Red Cross. The
fund was started at Dawson in
December, 1914, and was de
signed to care for all demands
for patriotic purposes upon the
people of Yukon territory. ,
Perhaps in time the people of;
United States will be officially'
exhorted to exercise in eating
the same common sense nine
tenths of them have always ex
ercised.—New York World.
Germany is learning rapidly
that it doesn’t pay to assume
that mankind is divided into
classes—Germans and fools.—
New York Morning Telegraph.
Maybe the real reason of the
Russian disorders is that Rus
sians have to call one another
such terrible names. —New York
Morning Telegraph.
The kaiser willingly concedes
the freedom of the bottom of the
seas to ’most anybody.
THRICE ARMED
Thric® is he armed, the sages say,
who hath his quarrel just-, thrice,
armed, therefore, is Uncle Sam. who's
out to win or bust. For never since
the world began has nation gone to
light, with nobler purposes in view,
with cause more truly right. We
covet not a perch or rood of any j
foreign soil, no treasure chests of
friend or foe do wo desire to spoil. We
were not hunting for a scraD, peace
was our end and aim, we heaved a sigh
of true regret when we broke in the
game. We sighed in pity wtieo we
saw tiie old earth painted red. we suf
fered wrong with, patient, hearts, and
laid away our dead. But patience can
not always last, nor pity still endure
when wrong is heaped on bitter wrong;
such wrongs the sword must cure.
And so we took our harness down, and
and strapped it on our breast, and
readied for claymore, helm and laece,
and trusty arbalest. And now the
fateful die is thrown, and crimson
war shall last, till autocrats and lords
of war are relics of the past. And
ever as we pot the foe, and bag the
kaiser’s men, true Inspiration shall we
find, again, and yet again, in that
great tiuth the sages wrote in volumes!
filmed with dust: “Thrice is he
armed," so runs the rede, “who hath
his quarrel just.’’—Walt Mason.
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One by Mark Twain
Mark Twain teils of a man who,
when he came home drunk, explained
to his wife that he had mixed his
drinks.
“John," his wife advised, “when
vou have drunk all the whisky you
want, you ought to ask for sarsa
parilla."
“Yes," retorted her husband, "but
when I have drunk all the whisky I
want I can’t say sarsaparilla."—Ex.
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Jog Riau, an old time Dawsonite,
who is working on the Williams creek
coppor mines, recently located a fox
nest within 200 feet of where he was
working. He captured the inmates,
aecuring two fine black fox pups and
four cross pups, which were sent to
the Northern fox farm at Dawson.
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AMERICAN SONG INSPIRES ALLIES
Victory came to the Americans in the naval battle at Santiago de
Cuba io 1898 as the navies lustily sang that negro tnelody, “Therel'l Be a
Hot Time in the Old Town Tonight,” and a new song recently released by
Upton Sinclair, of “Jungle" fame, and aung by Americans in Europe to
the tune of “Marching Through Georgia,” has completely won the hearts
of the allies, and it is now said to be heard all along the front in France at
all hours of the day and night The song follows:
Bring the good old bugle, boys, we’ll sing another song,
Sing it with a spirit that will move the world along,
Sing it as we need to sing it, half a million strong—
While we are canning the kaiser.
CHORUS
Oh, Bill ! Oh, Bill ! We're on tha job today !
Oh, Bill! Oh, Bill! We'll.seal you so you'll stay !
We'll put you up with ginger in the good old Yankee way—
While we aro canning the kaiser.
Hear the song we’re singing on the shining roads of Franoe;
Hear the Tommies cheering, and see the Poiius prance;
Africanders and Canucks and Scots without their pants—
While we are canning the kaiser.
Bring the guns from Bethlehem, by way of old New York;
Bring ihe beans from Boston, and don’t leare out the pork;
Bring a load of soda pop, and pull the grape-juice cork—
While we are canning the kaiser.
Come, you men from Dixieland, you lumber-jacks of Maine;
Come, you Texas cowboys, and you farmers of the plain;
From Florida to Oregon we boast the Yankee Strain
While we are oannine the kaiser.
Now weVe started on the job, we mean to put it through;
Ship the Huns and kaisers all, and make the world anew;
Clear the way for commonfolk, for men like me and you—
While we are canning the kaiser.
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KILLS ELEVEN
Milwaukee, Nov. 26.—Eleven
persons, including seven po
liceman, detectives and women,
were killed by a bomb explosion
last Saturday night at a police
station in this city, whore tin
bomb had been taken after it>
discovery in an Italian church.
It is stated that the infernal ma
chine was intended to slay Pas
tor August GiUant.
GRAND DUCHESS
TIRES OF EXILE
New York, Nov. 26. — Former
Grand Duchess Tatiana Nicola
evna Romanoff, the second
daughter of the deposed Em
peror Nicholas of Russia, re
cently escaped from the exhe
home of the royal family in Si
beria bjr means of a fictitious
marriage with the son of the for
mer chamberlain of the czar.
The grand duchess is now on
her way across the Pacific ocean
chaperoned by an English
woman.
CARRANZISTAS AFRAID TO
GO HOME IN THE DARK
El Paso, Tpx., Nov. 24.
Guaided by United States sol
diers1 six hundred Carranzistas,
the troops of the command of
General Cordova, who surren
dered last week to the American
forces after the capture of Ojin
a(ga by Pancho Villa, were trans
fered to Juarez today.
CUBA DONATES SHIPS
Havana.—At the presidential palace
recently, in the presence of General
Marti, secretary of war and navy, and
William E. Gonzales, United States
minister to Cuba, President Menocal
signed a decree transferring to the
United Stales government four large
German steamships, the Batavia, Oli
vant, Adelht'id, and Constantia, of an
aggregate tonnage of approximately
20,000 tons which were seized as prizes
of war by the Cuban government on
tiie day this country declared war on
on Germany
Minister Gonz iles, acting as the re
presentative of the United States
shipping board, when asked the
amount the United States government
was paying to Cuba for these ships, re
plied, “absolutely nothing.”
“President Menocal.” lie continued,
“declined to consider offers to pur
chase or lease, whether made by gov
ernments, navigation companies or in
dividuals. He regards these prizes of
war not as agencies for commercial
profits, but to be used, as he stated in
his decree, for the common bem^it in
aiding to bring the war against the
government of Germany to a prompt
and victorious end.”
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SIGEL’S GRANDSON
The grandson of Gen. Franz Sigel
has gone to war for the United States,
and in doing so he, and his mother,
who permitted and urged him to go,
have upheld the highest ideals and
traditions of the Sigel family, to fight
for human liberty whenever the need
is and the call comes.
Franz Sigel was one of that sturdy
band of Germans who struck for Ger
man freedom against German autocracy
and cruelty in 1848. Their revolution
was put down by the reigning king of
that day and Sigel and Carl Schurz
and other leaders fled to America
to save their lives. They gave life to
the great German immigration to
America which began about that time
Sigel and thousands of other German
Atnericans went into the civir war and
and fought for freedom. *
The daughter of Gen. 8igel depended
upon her only son. He asked for ex
emption from war service because of
that, and the exemption was about to
be granted. But when his mother
learned of it she went with him before
the draft board and said:
“We have thought It over and I
think we can manage if mjr son goes
to war. His grandfather, Gen. Sigel,
fought for Lincoln and liberty. It is
only right that his grandson should
have his opportunity to do his share in
the new fight for freedom."
r Noblemiotherl She will have to do
her share, too, white her son is away.
—Kansas City Star,
THE NEW JOURNALISM
Certainly a decline in dignity and seri-1
ousness has during the last twenty years [
endangered the high reputation of the Lon-1
don daily press. It is about twenty years |
since the peculiar qualities of “American
ism” invaded it—the chatter of snobbery,
the staring “scare-heads," the scalp hunt
for a sensation new every morning with
he coffee and the train. Every' evening an
distinctive scent, keen as a bloodhound's,
was put on the track of what the pubi c i
would want next day, and, in full cry, the
logs gave tongue.
What the public want* is not at ,a'l nee- i
essarily truth at any price. “A mixture
f a lie doth ever add pleasure,” and people
Town accustomed to their morning dram
feel shrunken and unfortified without those
“vain opinions, flattering hopes, fal^e valv
ations and imaginations as one would,” of
which Bncon speaks as pleasurable in his
essay “Of Truth.”
Perhaps those outside fleet street hardly
reside what a guileful repti'.e insinuated
itself into the public mind when Meet
street, about fifteen years ago, began to
talk of a “story” instead of a “repor:” or
"article.” It then became the reporter’s
or correspondent’s duty to send “a good
story,” and a good story does not invari
ably imply truth. The purpose of a report
became pleasure rather than accuracy, and
because the “good story” gives pleasure, the
people loved to have it so. Under such in
fluence the news of the daily world, with
all its incalculable issue of continuous des
tiny and far-reaching decisions, becomes a
cinema show of startling events, raoid, dis
connected, melodramatic, and faked: “The
'•esl'hv vi count marries the pretty seam
stress." “The Hon. Mrs. Bridewell loves
her dog arid parrot.” “Lera Grey repuui
ates American swank.”
Another danger to which Americanism
has exposed us is the decline of the leading
artic e. It was thoneht tl at “1-a’ers”
'•ere not what the public wanted. Perhaps
‘hey were not, though for insny years the
present writer heard long passages from
his own "leaders” hurled about the rail
way carriage by strangers every morning
before he had well recovered fr-m writir.
♦hern, and often hurled at himself. But it
did not much matter whether “l-v’ers"
were read or not. So long as the “leader"
was there it expounded the opinion of the
paper, and the news was left alone. As
“leaders" declined, the opinion of the paper
had to be expounded in the nows.—London
Nation.
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PRICE OF ALASKA SPRUCE
As the result of a conference held in
Washington recently between authorized
representatives of spruce manufacturers of
Oregon and Washington and representatives
of the si-mal corps, the aircraft production
board, the British, French and Italian mis
sions now in Washington, and the lumber
Tommittec of the national council of de
fense. Howard E. Jayne and F. A. Dmty
of Oregon proposed on behalf of the spruce
men to furnish aircraft spruce for the com
ing year’s big program at $105 per 1.000
feet. This price is about one-half that
which has been paid up to now by many
of the airplane manufacturers. The price
applies to the al ies’ needs as well to
those of the United States.
If it is finally approved by government
authorities it will in the opinion of the
lumber committee, unquestionably result in
a big saving on spruce requirements.
Harry Mehan, who has been pros
pecting in the district at the headwa
ters of the Dima, reacted this camp
last Sunday evening.
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Tom Hanlon started for Ruby last
I Sunday morning, to remain untii
about the middle of Febru try.
Robert Forbes Dead
Bellingham. Wash., Nor. 24.—Robert
Forbes, superintended of Alaska can
neries for the F acifit Anti cat Fish
eries ( i mpany. died hete yesterday of
apoplexy.
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