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MEMORIAL DAY
Today is Memorial day, and throughout the length and breadth
of the United States and its insular possessions will take place the
solemn ceremonies connected with this unique American holiday. The
veterans will parade, the children will strew flowers on the graves of
the heroic dead, and, the duties of remembrance being over, will at
tend baseball games and other recreations of a healthy-minded people.
Originally intended as a day set apart in which to do honor to the
soldiers of the civil war, the beautiful custom has grown to in
clude all the departed, and not only the military and naval heroes, but
the veterans of life's battles in whatever station of life are on this
day brought into the minds of mourning friends and their graves are
brightened with beautiful flowers.
It is a noble custom, and one which impresses on the minds of
the citizens of this favored land the fact that its glorious liberties and
privileges have been dearly bought, and therefore should be the more
highly prized. In this section of Alaska conditions do not lend them
selves readily to the observance of the custom in a public way, but
memory will recall the well-known customs and many a mind will
revert to the scenes being enacted today back in the old homes in
the States. _
THE PROHIBITION ISSUE IN 1014
While little has been said upon the subject by local newspapers,
almost everybody knows that the prohibition question is going to be
the uppermost one in the Pacific Northwest in 1914.
The liquor interests are marshalling their forces for a big de
fensive fight and have raised a large sum of money to pay for adver
tising space in the daily newspapers. This fund is reported to amount
to $200,000.
It is to be used in putting anti-prohibition arguments before the
public.
Every daily newspaper in Seattle, including the Sun, has been ud
proached with offers to purchase advertising space for this purpose.
The advertisements, it is stated, are to be signed by the repre
sentatives of the liquor interests.
The reason for this activity is not hard to discover.
The anti-saloon forces are preparing to submit to the people of
this state, by initiative cote, in 1914, the question of state-wide pro
hibition. 1 hey claim that it will carry.
Simultaneously, in Oregon and California, similar initiative votes
will be taken, at the behest of the anti-saloon forces, in an effort to
bring about prohibition in those states.
It is understood that a tri-state campaign is to be made, with in
terchange of speakers, and a close alliance of the prohibition forces
of the three states.
So far there has been no indication that the anti-saloon people
intend to raise funds for newspaper exploitation.
The people of the state of Washington may as well be getting
ready for this campaign.
It is coming, all right.—Seattle Sun.
PATERNALISM AND POTATOES
From Wisconsin, hailed as foremost in governmental progress,
there comes an interesting lesson in paternalism. Standing on the sid
ings at Fond du Lac are 450 freight cars awaiting their burden of pota
toes. They remain empty because the farmers have, acting in com
bination, decided to hold their product until the market betters in
price. They have heard that the potato crop in the South is likelv to
be small because of the appearance of the scab disease in the tubers.
The ultimate price they expect to receive is $1 a bushel.
Years ago the state of Wisconsin, operating through its remark
able university organization, developed the potato industry to its pres
ent enormous size. Experts sought out the best land and made experi
ments with different varieties of tubers until the most appropriate was
secured. This, of course, was at the expense of the general com
munity. Then another group of experts was sent out to teach the
farmers co-operation, advocating the pooling of crops and selling
through a general agent. This, quite naturally, appealed strongly
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to the agriculturalists, and the university officials felt that much glory
redounded to their credit when it was accepted and placed in opera
tion. They felt that the thousands of dollars expended had not been
| wasted.
Now the reverse of the successful (?) experiment is being looked
I upon. The people of Wisconsin, powerless against the scientifically
i constructed organization of the potato raisers, are facing the prospect
of paying $1 a bushel for their favorite spuds. No less a person than
Robert Marion La Follette would denounce as high treason any appeal
which the prospective purchasers of potatoes would make to invoke
the Sherman anti-trust law against these lords of the soil. Indeed,
there is even now pending at Washington a bill to specifically exclude
from the operations of the act all combinations of laborers and farm-:
' ers.
Yet the average Wisconsin citizen must feel outraged to think that
because in other fields in other states a shortage exists he must suffer
j at the hands of the fellow citizens whose robber baron strength was
! acquired at his own expense.—Cincinnati Enquirer.
Seattle rises to remark that she has some canal of her own nearing
completion, and that its operation is not complicated by an exemption
clause.
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The Illinois child labor law, prohibiting the employment of chil
dren under 16 years of age, was declared valid by the supreme court.
MINING LAW CONTRAST
Mining laws under which litigation is in
evitable every time there is a new creek
staked or a new camp discovered are some
how radically wrong. Such are the laws
existing in Alaska. Not a new locality is
opened there but what the courts soon are
full of lawsuits. The practice of permitting
anyone and everyone to record property
after one man has staked and the failure
to keep modern systematized records seems
to be the basis of the whole trouble in
Alaska.
The fact that Chisana's richest creeks are
now in litigation, and the whole camp
threatened with that dire experience, is
enough to make Alaskans shudder and to
look about for mining laws which are
working satisfactorily elsewhere and to use
them for a model for a new and up-to-date
system. Nelchina is reported threatened
| with the same blasting blight of litigation
I as Chisana. Throughout Alaska the same
l cry comes in respect to other creeks. Pros
: [lectors are discouraged and shyster lawyers
j and jumpers encouraged. Laws made forty
| years ago are antiquated. The Canadian
* Yukon w*as working under similar laws
1 when Klondike was struck, and the mix
ups and the litigation here were frightful.
Now the Canadian Yukon has a modern 1
mining code which works splendidly. It is’
enough to say that as many if not more
placer claims have been staked in the White
river valley and on the Sixtymile and on
other new creeks on the Canadian side since
last summer as in all the American White
river district, which includes the Chisana,
and not one case of dispute or litigation
has come to the Canadian Yukon courts.
The contrast with a special session of court
at Cordova to settle the Chisana troubles
alone is a commentary to move Alaskans to
reform.
The Canadian Yukon laws are codified, 1
making one complete set of simple laws. I
readily understood by any man who can ;
i read. Security of title is thus obtained, and
investor, grubstaker and prospector all pro- ’
tected and encouraged. The recording sys
tem keeps off the jumper. A certificate j
once granted to a locator makes that title
absolute while the assessment work is regu
larly performed. The staking process is
simplified. The iniquitous and useless re- ,
quirement of a discovery—source of end
less dispute and productive of no good, is!
eliminated, and no one hurt.
A writer in the Scientiric and Mining'
Press has been urging retention of the old i
American mining laws. He says what was j
good enough forty years ago is good enough
now. The Americans lead in many things,
but in many other things they do not. And j
modern mining law is one matter in which !
they do not load. Now that Uncle Sam j
has set a magnificent pace for the opening I
of Alaska with railroads, and is to spend i
millions on wagon roads as well in Alaska,
let him get down to business and bring his
laws governing the fundamental industry
of the region—mining—do an equally pro
gressive stage. It will pay handsomely.—
Dawson News.
LUCK SHIES AT “UNCLE JOE”
IN LSTTLC CAME OF DRAW
New \ ork, March 25.— A Washington
dispatch says:
They “wouldn’t stand up” for Uncle Joe
Cannon the other night.
Some of his former colleagues in the.
house had arranged a session at the na
tional game—not baseball for the old war
horse of stand-patism, and he renewed his
youth until well along in the morning.
Every time “Uncle Joe” tried to get away
with a nickel raise on a good hand every
body dropped. Every time he tried to make
“jacks up” do the work of a real hand he
was compelled to take a look at “three
small ones.” His “Hushes” would not flush
and his “straights” had kinks in them, and
after a seven-hour session in the big game
where the blues were worth a dime and
the chocolate drops stood for a quarter the
former speaker coughed up S3.08 in cur
rency and withdrew in disgust.
His downfall broke up the game. As
the group was separating one of the other
players took occasion to remark:
“Well, Uncle Joe, for a man that has
played draw' poker all his life you’re pretty
punk. To think of a man who sat in with
John Quincy Adams putting up such an
exhibition as you have tonight!”
Uncle Joe scratched his head and thought
a mmute. Then he drawled:
“It s a d lie. I never played poker
with the boy. It was his father.”
Assessment Work Blank® at Pioneer.
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ACCURACY OF MATE’S AIM
SAVES PASSENGER’S LIFE
Seattle, Jan. 12. Edwin F. Watts is the
sort of man upon who mDame Fortune
smiles. Mis friends today have good
grounds for the prediction that if he were
to fall off the Smith building a wagon
loaded with excelsior undoubtedly would be
passing in the street below’, so that he
could light easily.
Mr. Watts, who lives at the Colonial
hotel, First avenue and Pine street, was a
first cabin passenger on the steam schooner
Carlos, of the San Francisco, Portland &
Los Angeles Steamship Company’s lleet,
which left Seattle for San Francisco
last week for Los Angeles. Thirty-five
miles south of Cape Flattery, in a roaring
gale, the deck load of creosoted piling
slipped as the vessel swung into the trough
of the sea. Mr. Watts, who was on deck,
was hurtled over the Hying timber and
landed in a mountainous sea, which
snatched him away from the plunging
schooner.
The mate of the Carlos, who modestly
refuses to give his name, saw the accident.
He seized one of the ring life buoys hang
ing on the rail, and as he poised it he
recalled the days when he used to pitch
quoits with horseshoes on the village green.
The mate shied the buoy with the skill of
a champion quoit pitcher, and it dropped
over Watts’ head as neatly as the horseshoe
used to ring the quoits peg. A lifeboat |
from the schooner, after a hard quarter of
an hour in the big seas, rescued Watts.
With half of her deck load of creosoted
piling gone, two of her cargo booms broken
and trailing in the water, a starboard life
boat crushed and splintered and dangling at
the end of a line over the side, the Carlos
returned to Seattle yesterday with the story
of Watts’ rescue and landed her forty five j
passengers.
ARMY POETS WROTE THE
CARABAO SOCIETY SONGS
Officers of the United States army sta
tioned at Jefferson barracks and in St.
Louis, who have been entertaining their
friends for years with official songs of the
Carabao, are .sympathizing with Washing
ton members of the order who sang but
once and got into trouble with President
Wilson, who, by way of being commander
in-chief of the army, is a personage to be
considered, says the St. Louis Globe-Demo- i
crut.
The United States navy has a poet, a:
real one. named Stokes, anil by borrowing'
one of his poems Captain Coghlan got into j
a rough sea of trouble when he recited,
Ilnch der Kaiser” as an incident of an j
after-dinner program, which did not look,
like much, but was flashed around the
w< rid.
Officers of the army have contributed lib
erally to the literature of the Carabao car
ols, and occasionally they have borrowed
a clever thing from some soldier of the
line, the whole being compiled into a vol
ume which contains sufficient cause for
court-martialing every Carabao.
The order was founded at Manila in1
November, 1900. There are no honorary1
members, the list being limited to officers
of the regular and volunteer forces of the j
army who served in the Philippine islands!
between May 1, 190S. and July 4. 1902,
and the eldest son of such an officer, pro
viding he is of age.
The book of songs opens with a parody
on ‘‘Genevieve/’ by Colonel Robert R. Ste
vens. The second song, sung to the air
of “Benny Havens.” is by General Charles
A. Coolidge, and “The Legend of the Cara
bao," sung to the air of "Tit Willow,” is
by Major Frederick Hadra.
The song that was sung in Washington
and caused all the trouble has been fre
quently quoted. It is sung to the air of
“Tramp/ Tramp, Tramp,” etc,, and the
verse next to the one that started things is:
Social wants are very few;
All the ladies smoke and chew
And do other things the padres say are
wrong.
Presidentes cut no ice,
For they live on llsh and rice,
And the soldiers still will sing that same i
old song.
oijurus—
Damn, damn, damn the Filipinos,
Pockmarked, kakiak ladrones;
And beneath the starry llag,
Civilize ’em with a Krag
And return us to our own beloved
homes.
Kipling's masterpiece, “The Koad to
Mandalay," lends itself readily to parodists,
and is the basis of several clever songs. In
the first one the parody on Kipling's open
ing verse reads:
By the mudholes down at A’aiac, looking
lazy at the bay,
There’s a gugu girl a-awalting: and I think
1 hear her say:
“Come you back, you maio soldier; come
you back from o’er the sea;
Come you back and pay your Jawbone,
porque you jawbone me?”
This really requires a few lines of ex
planation, being written in the vernacular
of the regular army, with a few touches
of primitive Spanish interjected.
For instance, “malo” is “bad”; “jaw
bone,” about which the young woman
mourns, is credit; “porque” is “why,” and
being translated, means that the girl is won
dering why the American soldier had the
nerve to talk her out of money due, the
talk being indicated by the army expression,
“jawbone.”
In another “Road to Mandalay” parody
the most striking verse is:
Ship me off to h—1 or Texas; ship me any
where from here,
For although we’vv whipped these natives
they’ve got us by the ear.
And the Insurrecto treasury has gobbled
all our pay.
By the tricks well known to natives, down
by old Manila bay.
Still another parody on Kipling’s famous
poem has this verse:
Her petticoat was pina,
And it had a silken sheen,
Her name was Esmeralda dona Juanita,
She was like, a gypsy queen,
And l saw her first u-smokln’
Of a whacking white cheroot.
And a wasting Christian kisses
On a blooming second lieut.
Some army oHicer from Detroit wrote
this verse, for it mentions Woodward av
enue and America’s finest natural nark,
Belle Isle. Here is the verse by which the
author is located as a Detroiter:
Tho’ I walk with fifty white girls, down
from Woodward to Bell** Isle,
And they talk of love and loving, and even
try to smile.
What do they understand, painted race and
chubby hands?
I've a neater, sweeter maiden, in a fairer,
greener land.
Another verse of this song written by
A clever author, as yet unidentified, is:
For her little feet were shoeless and her
pretty shoulders bare,
And the cocoa oil shone glossy from her
mass of raven hair.
How her dark eyes gleamed with laughter,
and her teetii gleamed pearly white,
As she roquettishly answered: “Me no sabe
-yes- all right.”
It was George Ade, in his “Sultan of
Sulu,” who sprung the proposition, “The
constitution and the cocktail follow the
flag.” The highball is given a place in the
official songs of the Carabao, one verse be
ing:
Here's to the glorious highball that Mils
you full of vim:
Here’s to the Scotch and rye; Mil your
glasses to the brim;
bet jollity reign supremely, and drive away
all care,
Then Mil your glasses, fellows, with the
beverage rich and rare.
The above quotations are from only a
few of the songs of the Carabao. In his
present belligerent mood it is probably just
as well that President Wilson hasn’t a com
plete copy of the work at hand.
STATE RELIGION OPPOSED
FOR CHINA'S OWN GOOD
New York. April 2.— The American board
of foreign missions is not alarmed by the
effort to make Confucianism the state re
ligion of China, according to a statement
by Dr. Woodruff Halsey, secretary of the
home department. Cable dispatches from
Peking told of an anti-Confucianism meet
ing, attended by American missionaries, at
which a league was formed to oppose the
adoption of a state religion by the republic.
"We are opposing the move for the good
of China herself, rather than because we
believe it hampers the work of our mis
sionaries there,” Dr. Halsey said. “As a
matter of fact we do not believe it will
hamper their work. It would be a back
ward step, however, in the progress of
China, for it would permit the shrewd and
unscrupulous to mix religion with business
anti politics. It would tend to relegate
China to the plane of Mexico.
“Two years ago an attempt was made to
make Christianity the state religion. We
opposed that effort just as vigorously as
we are opposing the present effort on be
half of Confucianism. President Yuan Shi
Kai is the best possible man for the presi
dency of China, and he recently said to
H. II. Lowrie, president of Peking univer
sity: ‘I am not a Christian; I am a fol
lower of Confucianists, but only Christian
ethics can save China. Our morality is not
sufficient for the crisis.’
“The tendency to establish a state religion
ligious matters in China, but it will be a
is, of course, indicative of a crisis in re
crisis in the internal affairs of the republic
only, and will not be a crisis in our work.
We believe that will go on as usual.”
HUMAN PICTURE FILM
PUZZLING TO PHYSICIANS
Abbevville, N. V.. April 5.—A 13-year
old girl who is said to be a human film
is puzzling physicians here. The following
stories are told of her with more or less
authority:
While attending school she was endeav
oring one day to solve a problem in sub- 1
traction. She was hesitating over the re
sult when suddenly she felt an itching on
her arm. She scratched it and the figure
4 appeared, being an answer to the prob
lem she was trying to solve.
At another time the child heard a buzz
ing noise above her in the air, looked at
her hand, and, according to those who were
with her, an aeroplane was photographed
thereon. When callers inquire to see the
child she immediately shows them their
names and professions written on her skin.
The child has been sent to Paris, where
she will be examined by a medical com
mission.
Not That Kind of a Farm
The assessor was doing the best he could,
but the farmer was shrewd and wary.
“How many acres of farming land have
you?” he inquired, wearily.
Bout twenty, I guess,” said Reuben.
“Twenty! Why, it looks to me like
nearer 120. Come, now, can’t you increase
that a little There are surely more than
twenty acres in that tract. Suppose you
stretch that a little.”
“Say, feller,” said the farmer, “this ain’t
no rubber plantation.”—Denver Post.
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“They tell me you've lost your hired
man.”
“Yep; best farm hand I ever had.'
“Sho! What wuz the matter?”
“Nothin’. John's a German, you know,
and these here Germans hev what they call
the wanderlust. It's somethin’ thet keeps
’em movin’ from one place to t'other, an’
don’t let ’em stay long anywheres.”
“That’s queer, ain’t it’’ How long had
John been with you?”
“Only eleven years.”—Exchange,
Forfeiture Notice
You are hereby notified that I, the un
dersigned, have expended during the year
nineteen hundred and thirteen 1913 one
hundred dollars ($100> in labor and Im
provements upon the Mammy Association
placer mining claim, on left limit of Moore
creek, a tributary of the Takotna river, m
Mt McKinley mining district. Fourth divi
sion, ferritorv of Alaska, notice or
location or which is round in volume
i, at page i90, of Ihe records of said Mt.
McKinley mining district, in order to hold
said claim under the provisions of Section
2324 of the Revised Statutes, and the
amendments thereto approved January 22.
1880, concerning annual labor upon mining
claims, being the amount required to hold
said placer mining claim Tor the period
ending on the 31st day of December, t9U.
And if within ninety days after the pub
lication of this notice you Tall or reruse to
contribute your proportion or such expen
diture as a co-owner, your interest In the
Mammy Association placer mining claim
will become the property of the subscriber,
your co-owner, who has made the required
expenditure, by the terms of said section.
CECIL BARLOW.
First publication, Feb. 21. 1914.
Last publication, May 23, 1914.
Notice of Forfeiture
To A. Arndt, Theresa Arndt and Jos. Mlkuta.
their heirs and assigns, and to all
persons claiming by, through or under
them and each or them:
You and each of you are hereby notified
that the undersigned, co-owner, has ex
pended one hundred dollars during the
year 1913 In labor and improvements upon
that certain placer mining claim
known and described as the ‘‘Wild
Cat” Association Placer Mining Claim,
situate three miles below lower dls
covery on Bear creek, a tributary of the
Tultksak river, in the Kuskokwim mining
and recording precinct, Territory of Alaska.
Said claim was located on the 25th day or
February. 1912, ami recorded In Vol. 7 of
Locations, at page 33, of ttie records of
the recorder of the said Kuskokwim re
cording precinct.
Such labor was performed and Improve
ments made for the purpose of holding
said claim, and constituted the annual as
sessment work for the year ending Decem
ber 31, 1913.
You and each of you are hereby further
notified that unless you pay your propor
tion of said expenditures, together with the
cost of this advertisement, to the under
signed within ninety (90) days after the
date of the last publication of this notice,
your Interest In said claim will became the
property of the undersigned co-owner, un
der Section 2324, Revised Statutes of the
United States. DOMINICK SORAC1.
Co-Owner.
First publication. May 2, 1914.
Last publication, Aug', l, 1914. ,