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The daily Alaskan., 1904-05-11
IN ICE
Break Up Causing Great
 Damage in East

Especial Dispatch to Daily AlaSkan'l
 St. Johns, Newfoundland, May H. Two French fishing vessels were driven ashore by the ice Hoes on the west coas, of Newfoundland. The crews were saved. but the vessels were de- stroyed. Seven steamers bound for Montreal are fast in the ice at Cape Race.
The daily Alaskan., 1904-05-11
Elks' Meeting

There will be meeting of Skagway Lodge No. 431, Benevolent and Protec- tive Order of Elks, at their hall, Thurs day, May F, at p. m.
 All visiting Elks are invited to at- tend. E. A. MURPHY, oec'y'
The daily Alaskan., 1904-05-11

Japanese Matting-All lSO strands and good patterns, direct from the Orient. RegulaV price 5Oc, 35c, 4Oc and 4jc goods. Now 25c per yard, at E. R. Peoples.
The daily Alaskan., 1904-05-11
Get Spring SuitS

A large assortment of the latest pat terms in mems suitings have been re- ceived at the store of F. WOllsnd, Fifth avenue and State street.
The daily Alaskan., 1904-05-11
Mascot has New Music

The NIasUE saloon has just received a large consignment of new music for its popular Victor talking machine. It includes all the latest popular airs.
The daily Alaskan., 1904-05-11

Japanese Matting-All lSO strands and good patterns, direct from the Orient. Regular price BOG, S5c, 4Oc and 45e goods. Nov 25e per yard, st E R. Peoples.
The daily Alaskan., 1904-05-11
SkRgway Laundry

For frst-class work try Skagway Laundry. Twenty-twO yeras' eXperi- ence. Telephone S9. If.
The daily Alaskan., 1904-05-11

A fine lunch and large glass of Rainier beer, at the Seattle Saloon for 10 ceEts. d
The daily Alaskan., 1904-05-11

Get prices at Royal Laundry for family work, special rates in rough iry, next to new electric plant.
The daily Alaskan., 1904-05-11
Famous Oyster Cocktails

The Pack Tram saloon Is now serv- ing Elmer Chamberlain's famous oyster cocktails. tf
The daily Alaskan., 1904-05-11

Best of wines liquors and cigars at the To em.
The daily Alaskan., 1904-05-11

Barley's Views at your own price al the Skagway News Company.
The daily Alaskan., 1904-05-11
Fresh Meat

The Frye-Bruhn Co. keep all kinds of fresh meat constantly on hand. ti
The daily Alaskan., 1904-05-11
For Rent

For Rent Cheap-TwoSelegant fur. nished cottages, within two blocks ot schoolhouse. Inquire at the SkagWay Laundry. IO-Il-lI
The daily Alaskan., 1904-05-11
Now Spring Goods

New goods have arrived and are open for your inspection, at F. Wolland's.
The daily Alaskan., 1904-05-11

Summer goods now in at the Ameri- can TailOrS.
The daily Alaskan., 1904-05-11

Get your ice cream for Sunday dinner at the Boss Bakery. 421
The daily Alaskan., 1904-05-11

Fine free lunch at the Totem all day and night.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-03-14
pArr1,s FAREWELL

Adelina Patti's fame is so well assured as incomparably the foremost singer of her time, and her fortune, it may be added, has been so secured, that it would have seemed more dignified in her to rest upon the record of her achievement. She was under no press ure of necessity, like many super fluous veteran. and she could not possibly enhance her fame by re- appearance in the country where she had first gained recognition nearly half a century ago; and merely to show us, in fragmentary. and inartistic form, how well she had preserved her marvel ous art was not worth her while. But if the desire for continued activity still possessed her, which might conceivably have been the case, her long experience should have warned her to make this American tour under competent and responsible management or not at all.
 It is a known fact that this tour was not of Madame Patti's seeking She yielded to long importuning, and then only upon conditions which were quite justifiable under the circumstances, but which made the success of the specula- tion extremely doubtful. In the great cities there were enough people glad to pay high price for the mere privilege of seeing Patti to assure short series of profitable concerts. To carry her over a continent. at a cost requiring receipts which the smaller cities could
The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-03-14
.FIADA.

English tourist-"I suppose there is a great deal of work attached to the pres- idency of this country?n Annerican- "There is when you are looking for a renomination. Town Topics.
 Arthur. dear, don't you think it's rather extrayagant of you to eat butter with that delicious jam?s
 No, love: economical. Same piece of bread does for both.'-Tit Bits.
 Parker-"We've moved again."
 Barker-'You have?"
 Parker-"Yes; our children were SC noisy that we couldn't stand what the neighbors said about them. Detroit Free Press.
 'Golss," said the richest man in the world with enthusiasm, has made me twenty years younger" "Ge!" exclaim- ed the bystanders. What won't he be worth when he reaches his present e!"-Chicago Tribune.
 Customer-"That cheese you are sell ing is simply full of grit. We can't eat it." Grocer-"Oh. I can explain that One of the boys accidentally dropped ii into the sugar barrel and some of the sand stuck to it.'-Chicago News.
 She-'You'd better sit by this oper window, dearest, in case papa should come into the room suddenly
 He-"But there's a fierce bulldog out side, darling"
 T know it. But of two evils, always choose the lesser."--Life.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-03-14
THE HoNAsr oHISAMRN.

Much has been said by those who
 know something about China and the
 Chinese concerning the honesty of the Chinese in business matters. Some interesting testimony is given by
 Ronald Grieg, a merchant of Foo-Chow, who has been in China twenty-eight years. He has never had a written
 agreement with Chinamen in all the years he has been in business, and yet he has found that Chinaman always keeps his word. The Chinaman is a good trader, but is not trickster. He
 is generous: if he finds you in a hole,
 hc will do anything that is fair to help you out It is different with a Jap. He will put you in hole if he can, and
 he will keep you there if it will serve
 his immediate advantage. Most of the native merchants throughout China are Cantonese. They have been trained to business from their early youth. Sug-
 gesting the confidence reposed in Chi namen MT. Grieg cites the fact that his firm is under the necessity, in ob- taining some kinds of tea required for q portion of it's trade, to make advances of money early in March to Chinamen that they do not see again until they come down the river with their crop i the latter part of May or the first of
 June. They always put in an appear
 ance, and if the tea is not up to the standard of agreement there is no trou- ble in making it right. The Chinaman is appreciative and grateful for kind ness shown him. MT. Grieg taught 8 Chinaman the tea business twenty years ago, and of his own accord he
 sends him a box of tea as a present every year as surely as it comes round. According to this the heathen China
 men seem to be almost as honest and
 as safe to do business with as the busi- ness men of our own enlightened and
 Christian land.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-03-14
4 po1po URRr AND 4 vIcroRY.

Not long ago a wise Democrat warned other Democrats not to un- derestimate the Hearst boom. Since then evidences that that boom is waxing have cropped out. The lat est is in our neighbor, Rhode Island, where the presidential turkeys grow and where politics is queer. MT. Hearst seems to have captured all but one of the Rhode Island delegates to the Ma tional Democratic convention, and this is part of the description of the vic- tory in Mr. Hearst's New York paper '.It was five seconds before a voice rose high above the chatter that had begun by those in the gallery. Then, in an in- stant. it became a wave. volume of sound, a potpourri of guttural noises, the clapping of hands, the exultant shout, the cry of joy, the huzzahs of men who had worked, who had lost sleep. who had travelled dangerous po- litical paths in the advocacy of a man they had chosen. The victory had come triumphant, indisputabe"
 Bu. there is usually, not to say al- ways. a fly in the political ointment, and in this case the Providence Journal rises to calmly say: Tn reading this
The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-03-14
SOME ENTERTAINING T.ALK.

There is some interesting talk in Washington. Chairman Jesse Over street, of the Postoffice committee of the house, is coming in for considerable .criticism these days for permit ting the postal scandals to develop in a new phase and direction. By many he is blamed for the upheaval in the house, which for the past three days has been filled with denunciations of the Post office department officials by angry members of congress. The main criti- cism of MT. Overstreet is that he was the direct means of bringing to light the second edition of the Bristow re port, involving members of congress. It seems that Overstreet called on the Postmaster-Genera for the facts re- garding the connection of members of lawful allowances for clerk hire. He did so without realizing the nature of the information to be produced. Noth- ing loath, the department officials fixed up the record and fired it into the com mittee. Overstreet was aghast when he looked over the report. He realized at once that he had made a big blunder in calling for the matter, and that he had a white elephant on his hands. AL though the information had not been formally requested by the Postoffice committee, the Democratic members knew that it had been supplied, and immediately became interested in it too. They would not permit Overstreet to suppress it, and the latter was forced to bring 1t into the house.
 The idea seems to be that on account of the Republican party the violations of law in postal matters should have been concealed. This may be so, but it sounds a little queer to hear it open ly and violently said by good and wise men.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-03-14

not possibly supply, was so hazardous
 an undertaking that those most fa- niliar with the show business pre-
 dieted it's early collapse. It is no sur-
 prise, therefore, that the management of the enterprise has met with all man. ner of troubles and that a feeble and ill., directed attempt to try Philadelphia again resulted in fasco undeservedly humiliating to the diva.
 Patti, of course. is not financially con- cerned- Her expenses are paid. and when she does not receive her honerar- ium she simply does not sing. But she ought not to have subjected herself to the risk of a public Indifference that is not less pathetic because, under the conditions. it twas inevitable. Some thing she owed to herself and to her art Eand to those who hold her in grateful memory and have resented the mis-
 management that has associated her after all these years. with a cheap travelling show. The dignified thing for Patti to do now is to drop the whole
 business and rest upon the bright achievements of the past. There is no
 woman living to whom the world has owed more of pure elight-Philadel- phia Ledger.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-03-14

silly stuff one wonders whether the vac uous Hearst, whose leg is being so viz orously pulled, honestly believes that the rambustious Fitzgerald of Pawtuck- ct is in this deai with any notion that it Will aid the New Yorker. If Hearst sends checks here with that in mind, his motser really ought to be made his guardian" As the Journal knows Rhode Island it is possible that the potpourri of guttural noises and the triumphant, in disautabIe victory may not amount to so very much after all. There is talk that efforts are being made in connec- ticut to bring about similar potpourri and victory here.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-03-14
MoNpAY MARCH lls laO

carrie-"Oh, it's all very well for you to talk, but know he's a deceitful thing. Bessie-"Why. Carrie. How can you say such thing?n Carrie Did you ever hear him say anything against the weather? I know you did nit. You can't trust such a man as that. Boston Transcript.
 "A man should have every confidence in his wife" said Mrs. Marriedlong, and she in him. That is the only way that happiness can be secured. :, Yes. D replied Mrs. Girlbride. with tears in her eyes "and that is just what Charley hasn't got. I wanted to try and shave him the other morning to save barber's bills, and he wouldn't even let me try.'' -Cincinnati Times-Star
The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-03-14
OpnoriuMlsY ana Lohnny

Johnny made a lot of snowballs, Made them nice and round and hard, Then upon q box he piled them In corner of the yard, Saying: Wait till Wilhe Watkins Comes around this way again Oh, I'll bet I'll make him sorry
 He told teacher on me, thens' Through the night they lay there freezing They became as hard as rocks, In the morning Willie Watkins Glanced to see them on the box; Johnny had not risen early.
 Johnny was sleepy head: Willie Watkins took the snowballs While their maker lay in he'd, When. at last, the slothful Johnny Sauntered outward through the yard To prepare to batter Willie, He was hit by something hard! More than fourteen snowballs struck him
 Ere he bowling got away, Conscientiously believing
 It was his unlucky day. Thanks to thee o lazy Johnny, For the lesson thou hast taught! Oft we labor hard preparing
 And our efforts come to naught- Oft we spend long years in getting Ready to be great and grand, Just to fail through being absent
 When it's time to be on hand.
 Chicago Record Herald.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-03-14

An illustration of the stoicaI bravery of Russian soldiers is given by the story of captain who was unsuccessfuIly smelling battery at the siege of Var sovie. Field Marshal Pashkievitch gall loped up to the captain and sternly asked why his firing did not have some effect. The captain replied that the shells did not ignite. The marshal scoff- ed that theory and threatened to de- grade the officer. The captain picked up one of the shells, ignited the fuse, and, holding it in the palm of his hand, said to the marshal; See for yourself, sir The marshal. holding his arms across his breast, stood looking at the smoking shell. It was a solemn mo- ment. Both men stood motionless, awaiting the result. Finally the fuse burned out and the captain threw the shell to the ground. Its true" re- marked the marshal. turning away to consider other measures to silence the enemy's fire. In the evening, instead of punishment, the captain received the cross of the Order of St, Vladimir.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-03-14

Just imagine Mormon Smith. When 40 children scream, Papa won't you take us out And buy us some ice creams" Think-When all the Mrs. Smiths Demand an Easter hat, How old Smith must tear his beard And wonder where he's at. When his ma-in-laws drop in To spend week, or lunch, Mormon smith must howl with rage, When sizing up the bunch. When they all nag Smith at once, O. hot must be the time. Thus we see fis punishment Is made to fit his crime.
 IT W. J. in Brooklyn Times
The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-03-14

wrote of modern English noveIists. Things are written now to. be read once, and no more; that is, they are read as often as they deserve. A book in old times took five years to write, and
 was read 500 times by 800 people. Now it is written in three months, and read once by 5O0,OOO people. That's the prap- CT proportion. Thomas Wentworth Higginson in the March Atlantic.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-03-14
A BOOK THE ONLY IMMoRrAIITy

A BOOK THE ONLY IMMORTALITY.
 After all," as the brilliant and melancholy Rufus Cheate said, "a book is the only immortality;;" and, some times when a book is attached, and even denounced, it's destiny of fame is only confirmed, as the vivacious and cheery Pope. Pic Nomo, when asked by a too daring author to help on his latest pub lication, suggested that he could only aid it by putting it in the Index Exnurgatorius." Yet is to be left un- read at last, the fault must ultimately rest on the author, even as the brilliant Lady Eastlake complained. when she
The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-03-14
YIAGARA FALLS MKNACED

The question is asked, Shall Niagara falls be destroyed? and there ought to be such a prompt and efficient No! ut tered that the question wouldn't rise again. It appears that several Cana dian and New York companies, organ ized to make use of the water power at Niagara falls for the generation of electricity have already obtained char .ers that enable them to build works which. when operated at their full ca nacity, will divert one-third of the en- tire volume of the river above the falls. A New York corporation is now asking the legislature to give it unlimited rights to take and use the water. The com panys demands are so large that the commissioners of the Niagara reserva- ton, or park, have felt compelled to is- sue an urgent remonstrance on the ground that the bill threatens the very existence of the falls. This company now possesses limited rights granted ten years ago, with condition that it should begin operations within ten years. It has done nothing yet, and now asks the privilege of unlimited use of the Niagara river water without compensation.
 Is New York gives away or sells, Mi a=ara falls it ought to have the slow, unmoving finger of scorn pointed at it. And that is the least that ought to be done.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-03-14
zHE WEEKLY JoUkHAL. Issssd Thursd.y.. One Dollar Year
ADVERTISING RATES.

Situations, Wants. Rents and other small advertisements, One Cent q Word each in sertion. Five Cents Word for full week.
 Display advertisements. per inch, one m sertion, S1.20; each subsequent insertion, 4O cents; one week, $3.20; one month, SID; one year. $40 =
 Obituary Notices, in prose or verse, b cents per fine. Notices of Births, MarTl- ages, Deaths. and Funeral. 30 cents each. Local Notices, 15 cents per line.
 Yearly advertisers are limited to tnelr own immediate business Gall matter to be unobjectionablel, and their contracts do not Include Wants, To Let, For Sale, etc.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-03-14

The laws delay is illustrated by the fact that in Cook county, which is the city of Chicago and not much besides, there are 10000 civil cases awaiting trial in the county courts. The Chicago Tribune says that, if no new suits were begun, it would take the judges, work ing at the present rate of speed, two and one-half years to dispose of the cases.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-03-14

Mayor Collins, of Boston, tells the street laborers of that city that they are now getting shorter hours and full- CT wages and more holidays than aver age workers in private employment,
 and in view of this, taken together with the present tendency to reduce rather than raise wages, he discourages further agitation for a raise. Besides, he says. the city's financial resources are already exhausted by it's liberality.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-03-14

Corporal Grissolange, of the First Colonial French infantry, has devised a method of greatly increasing the ca pacity of small arms for rapid firing. Instead of one magazine, holding eight cartridges. as at present, Grissolange provides three magazines, holding alto gether eighteen cartridges, which by an easy mechanism worked with great rapidity are brought up in succession to the feeding tube. The army com- mission on military inventions has just nqtified Grissolange that the Minister of War has placed his invention before the commission, with instructions to examine and report upon it.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-03-14

The responsibility of a restaurant keeper for the result of carelessness or awkwardness on the part of his walters has just been defined in an opinion by the Appellate Term of the Supreme court of New York affirming q judg- nent for s1OO against Louis Sherry, ob- ttsssiiiiiedd by by Mrs, Clara Block She was dining at sherry's in June, 1903, and a glass of water was spilled upon her gown. Suit was at once brought by Mrs. Block. It was contended for Sher- ry that she had caused the disaster by striking her elbow against platter of ice being carried past her. The trial judge awarded Mrs. Block a judgment for $1O0.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-03-14

DELIVERED BY CARRIERS IN THE CIrY 1tCEsTs WEEK, 50 CENTS 4 MONTE, siroR SIX MONTHS. ss YEAR THE SAME TERMS BY MAT.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-03-14

M. Victor Turguan, an eminent statis- tician, states that during the last twenty years the fortune of every
 Erenchman has increased in only forty- =Eo departments. while it has dimin- 4shed in all the others. Tn the richest. sthe department of the Seine, it has fallen from 16,37O francs to 16.21O francs (ss, ,14o to sS,12S)' In the poorest, the de- partnent of Corsica, it has fallen from S60 francs to 269 francs (s69 to $57). The most alarming feature is the increas-
 ing absorption of fortunes by the fiscal taxes, which become a greater burden daily to taxpayers. Since 1870 the ground tax has increased 1S per cent, the personal and household tax S2 per
The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-03-14

cent, the tax on doors and windows [ per cent, and licenses 1oa per cent.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-03-14

The Rev. L. G. Jordan, of Louisville, Kentucky, general secretary of the for eign mission board of the National Baptist Convention, will sail shortly from Philadelphia for Cape Town as the representative of some two million colored Baptists in the United States. He will be the first American negro Baptist minister sent from this country to organize church work among the na- tives of South Africa. The object of his visit is. to secure proper recognition from the government for the American negro Baptist church and workers in South Africa, to found Baptist train ing school, and establish Baptist book depository where missionaries may be instructed, and appoint a general su- perintendent of the work
The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-03-14

Joseph Homan Manley. a resident of Augusta. Maine, a member of the Re- publican National Committee and an ardent total abstinence advocate. has just attracted renewed attention to himself by an article defending the pro hibition policy of Maine. He makes the surprising assertion that in the 440 towns and seventy-nine plantations of the State there is no liquor sold, even in secret, and that there are no hidden sideboards or illicit bars in the great hotels at the resorts. Only in the twen- ty-two cities is the law violated. They have numberless rural communities, he says, where people have never used liquor and are thankful for it.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-03-14
Final Low Prices Coats
 Before Storing For Summer. -~~~s%----

Prices Regular
 Now. Price. Persian Coat .......,..'s 45.oO s $500 Persian Coat .......... SOOO 10000 Persian Coat ......... 75oO 15o.Oo Alaska Seal Coats. ... s125oo $2oo.Oo Alaska Seal coats...... 175.oo sOOoo Alaska Seal coats...... 2Oooo s5oOo Near Seal Goats, x.....s 1900 $ $500 Near Seal Goats, xx.s... 22oO 45.oo Near Seal Goats, xxx. s7oo 5Ooe Near Seal Goats, xxxx. $500 5000 Near Seal Coats, xxxxx 4o6O 75Oo
The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-03-14

zHE OLDEST DAILY PAPER PUB
 LlsHED IN CONNECTICUT.