ALASKA
STEAMSHIP
COMPANY
Fast and commodious steamers sailing between Seattle, Ketchikan,
Wrangell, Juneau, Skagway, Cordova, Valdez and Seward.
Sail Seattle " Arrive Seward
FEB. 16 .ALAMEDA. FEB. 22
FEB. 24 .ALASKA.. MAR. 2
MAR. 1 .MARIPOSA. MAR. G
This company reserves the right to change schedule of steamers with*
out notice. Tickets on sale at up-town office, Empress Building.
J. J. LANKIN,
Agent.
F. B. TRACY.
General Agent.
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ADMIRAL LINE
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ALASKAN SAILING DATES
Leave Seattle Leave Seward
Peb. 25 .. WATSON .. Mar. 4
Mar. 2.EVANS.Mar. 9
Mar. 9. .FARRAGUT. .Mar. 16
Mar. 19 ..WATSON.. Mar. 26
Mar. 26 ...EVANS... April 3
Sailings from Seattle to
CALIFORNIA
Mondays, Fridays & Saturdays
Steamers
President, Governor, Queen,
Senator, Umatilla, Admiral
Schley and Admiral Dewey.
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SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ROUTE.
San Francisco to Los Angeles, daily except Sunday.
San Francisco to San Diego, Monday, Thursday and Saturday.
STEAMERS HARVARD, YALE, PRESIDENT, GOVERNOR,
ADMIRAL SCHLEY AND ADMIRAL DEWEY.
Schedule Subject to Change Without Notice.
For Full Particulars, T. B. WATSON, Agent, Anchorage, Alaska.
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Alaska Men
Going Outside This Winter Outfit at
CHEASTY’S
The Specialty Men's Shop
in Seattle*
nJU A C'TrV,C Inn 0. C. GRAVES, Pres,
11111 1 I O Hit/. 2a Av. and Spring
Men's and Young Men’s Wear
Sundberg’s Grocery
PLANT EARLY. WE HAVE THE SEEDS.
EAT GOOD EGGS. WE HAVE THEM.
SWIFT’S PREMIUM HAMS AND BACON, THE BEST
TEAS—Folger’s, Reliance, Crescent and Blue Ribbon.
Staple and fancy pastry at the
North Pole Bakery. 429
Best music and entertainers at Pe
terson’s. 399
OF OLDEST ARTS
Dancing, in the earliest form
among primitive races, was a mode of
expression for strong emotion, such as
joy or sorrow, love and passion, and
even the most solemn religious senti
ment, but in later ages it has become
an amusement and has lost its high
significance.
In most ancient religions dancing
was one of the chief acts of worship.
Terpsichore, one of the daughters of
Jupiter, was the first patroness of
the art. Dance, with song, was an
intergral part of the processions to
the Egyptian temples. The Cretan
chorus, moving in a stately fashion,
sang hymns to Appollo.
Among the ancient Jews dancing
was the sacred expression of joy or
sorrow. Miriam danced to a song of
triumph. David, told of the death of
his son, danced before the Ark of God.
In the sacred dances of Greece lay
the beginning of all modem dramatic
art. Aristotle placed the dance as
the highest expression of poetry.
Among the cruder and sterner races
dancing was at all times the medium
for display of warlike or savage pas
sion, as in the case of the Pyrrhic
dance of the Spartans, the dance of
our American Indians and of the Zulu
warriors.
The ancient Romans would seem,
according to Tacitus and Cicero, to
have tabooed the dance as a form of
recreation. Cicero says: “No one
dances when sober unless he chances
to be mad.” Yet the patriarchs did
not disdain to complacently witness
the evolutions of Nautch girls import
ed from India.
That dancing found no place among
Christian peoples in modem Europe
until well into the Middle Ages was
largely due to the opposition of the
clergy. Many of the priesthood, led
by St. Augustine, condemned the prac
tice as fervently as the Puritans of
New England, who saw only deadly sin
in dancing.
St. Chrysostom held that dancing
originated with the devil. Father
Juan de Mariana, in one of his ser
mons, insisted that the dance1 had
worked more mischief than the plague.
Yet the Fandango, object of his spe
cial aversion, so charmed the rever
end of the Sacred college invited to
sit in judgment upon it, that in place
of condemnation they gave it their
unanimous approval.
It is to France that we owe the or
igination of most forms of the modem
dance. To the age of the Fourteenth
Louis we are indebted for the minuet,
then as now the supreme illustration
of grace and art in movement. Fyom
France we get the quadrille, of which
all of us now in our fifties have pleas
ant memories; the galop, which died
during the Mid-Victorian era; the cot
illon, beloved in the days of the Second
empire and by our own four hundred
up to within a recent decade; the polka
first danced in 1840 and which in later
years was supplanted by the schott
ische, which in its turn has degener
ated into the two step. The lanciers
was introduced in 1836 by Laborde,
and finally the waltz, still supreme
likely to maintain its place for all
time.
STINGING NETTLE
TO SUPPLANT COTTON
Perfection of a method for making
cloth out of the fiber of the stinging
nettle, it » said, may make Austria
and Germany independent of cotton
imports. Reports to the department
of commerce telling of the invention
of the method of Dr. Richter of Vien
na, say that samples of the cloth prove
that the fabric produced from the net
tle can be used for any purpose to
which pure cotton fabrics heretofore
have been put. Experiments already
conducted in districts along the Dan
ube indicate that the lands are well
adapted to the cultivation of the net
tle. Ten million acres of the land, it
is said, not now utilized, could be used
for that purpose.
Arrest—You may rest assured that
the best meals are at Cameron’s
Cafe. 354
The Store For All the People.
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WHY BE WITHOUT EGOS?
26c CAN EOIS EQUAL TO 3 DOZEN EGOS
MERRILL & SON POWDERED EGGS. KEITH’S DRIED GRANULATED EGGS
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PRICES REASONABLE
PHONES: STORE 7-R
PROMPT DELIVERY—
—COURTEOUS TREATMENT
OFFICE 20-R
GERMANS HAVE LOST
MANY SUBMARINES
AMSTERDAM, Feb. 6.—The Tele
graaf publishes an interview with a
neutral who since the beginning of the
war has been residing at Kiel. He
says the people of Kiel are suffering
from a scarcity of foodstuffs, and have
had enough of the war. Disturbances
have been frequent, but have not been
of a serious character. Workmen at
the Germania works became rebellious
owing to bad treatment and low
wages. Malcontents were sent to the
front and replaced by others. A con
siderable number of Bulgarian and
Austrian officers are at Kiel visiting
the training school and submarines.
Seventy per cent of the German sub
marine officers belong to the reserves.
A vast number of submarines and tor
pedo boats are being constructed at
Kiel. The submarine losses have been
enormous.
The super-dreadnought Bismarck,
Germany’s largest warship, is now
ready. Sailors who participated in the
Skagerrak battle were not proud of
the result. The Koenig Seylitz and
the Derfflinger were very badly dam
aged.
Shoe Shine Stand—Robarts.
Fresh-killed veal and pork at Mint.
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3 IN 1 LAUNDRY
AND BATHS
Now Reopened on the New
Premises.
Between G and H on 5th Ave.
Next to Harry Cribb.
P. H. RINGSTAD - Prop.
NEW CRESCENT HOTEL
F. W. REDWOOD & CO., Props.
Warm Rooms. Moderate Rates. Hot
Baths.
Cor. Fourth and C. Anchorage
FRATERNAL ORDERS.
MASONS
Anchorage Masonic Club
meets first and third Thursday
in month. G.C.HAMMOND, Sec.
L. 0. O. M. 1534
Regular meeting every Wed
nesday night at 8 o’clock,
at A. L. U. Hall.
JAS. L. CORT, Sec.
BILL’S CLUB.
J. T. WESTERMANN, Secy.
Meets at Club Rooms every
Tuesday evening at 8 o’clock.
EAGLES CLUB
Meets every Friday night
at the Anchor club, Lathrop
Block.
Wood Undertaking Co,
FUNERAL DIRECTORS
LICENSED EMBALMERS
Anchorage
Matanuska
...
Alaska, Pool Rooi
Fourth Ave., Near D.
I Cigars, Tobaccos, Candies, Soft Drinks, Fruits, Concord
Grape Juice.
MUSIC
: JOSEPH SCHMITBAUER, - - Proprietor.
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LAU RITZ
“THE SIGN MAN”
PAINTING AND PAPERHANGING.
DESIGNING DECORATING
5th and D Street.
ITS A REAL PLEASURE
to view the new wall decorations on (
view here exclusively. They are so
unconventional, so out of the common
and so unusually artistically attrac
tive. If you plan to repaper you
should by all means see these new
papers. To decide without doing so
is apt to result in regret later.
EVANS & FRANTZEN
Hotel Anchorage
NEWEST AND MOST MODERN IN THE CITY
SUNNY ROOMS ELECTRIC LIGHTS
HOT AND COLD WATER.
REASONABLE RATES
Dohrmann ■ - Herning & Co.
BUILDERS’ HARDWARE
TOOLS AND SPORTING GOODS.
HOUSEHOLD FURNISHINGS.
PHONE 76R.
111 > I Mill
New Matanuska Hotel
MATANUSKA JUNCTION.
M.J. ROCHE, Prop.
CAFE IN CONNECTION
A. LYALL, Prop.
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C. HENNING
TAILOR.
Ladies' and Gentlemen’s
Suits Cleaned, Pressed and
Repaired. 4th Ave. and D St.
Fancy cakes to order at the North
Pole Bakery. 429
BANK OF ANCHORAGE
Territorial Depository Foreign Exchange
SAFE DEPOSIT BOXES FOR RENT
ESTABLISHED 1916
THE BANK OF SERVICE