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The Elk Mountain pilot., 1908-03-26

Several excellent prospects, all
Of which have quite an amount Of
work done on them. For sale cheap
or an interest will be given in the
same for money with which to de.
yelope.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1908-03-26

For sale new first class sewing
machine. Call aud examine the
same at the PILOT office.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1908-03-26

Fine zinc lead mine within hulf
mile of -. & L. q. railway, and
from which a Thousand tons OF ore
have been mined for the lead alone
conai:esd sn7th. ore.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1908-03-26

An improved ranch near I'll
mouth of Cement creek, will |
sold for part cash and balance Q
time.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1908-03-26

A group of eight patented min
ing claims. al of which have ore
in sight. A fine proposition for
tuunellng viii sell or lease.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1908-03-26

An elegant four room cottage
almost new, with two lots, can be
purchased for one half the original
cost.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1908-03-26

The season of '0S will be one of
great activity in the Elk Mountain
mining district. An exceptionally
early Spriug is almost assured.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1908-03-26
TIMING, REAL ESTATE AND
BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES

Times and Equipment
Six Frue Vauners tcr sale. Com
plete with pulleys and shaftings,
boxed ready for shipment.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1908-03-26
Real Estate

List your property with the
PILOT if it is for sale or trade.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1908-03-26

Pilot ads bring results.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-04-05

is well established to be larger than that of any other monarch. To the crown there are attached more than 1,00O,0o0 square miles of cultivated land and forests, and the Czar also enjoys the revenue from rich gold and other mines in Siberia Tine income of the Sultan of Turkey likewise is q guess, as it is mainly derived from the crown domains It probably Is much larger than $7,500,0 coo.
 All Presidents of recent years have made use of government vessels for pleas ure trips President Mckinley was not q good sailor, and did not often go abroad, but President Cleveland frequently used a lighthouse tender for hunting trips down the Chesapeake bay.
 The number of policemen stationed at the White House has been greatly h. creased since the assassination of Pres ident Mckinley. The number now on duty there is officially stated to be 3S, with a salary roll approximating s40.000 a year. It is difficult to even approximate the cost of the secret service men who guard the President Sometimes a dozen or more are on duty, while at other times there are but one or two; but the estimate of s400O q year for this item is certainly low enough In the good old days before the United States became world power and Washington world capital the Presi- dent was able 10 save coHlioi ldoiS sum each year out of his salary of $5O,o5o. Even when the republic was young ana the presidential salary was $25,000 the job was much more profitable from a finan- cial viewpoint than it is today. Life was simpler then, and there were fewer so- cial demands upon the chief executive. It is probable that MT. Roosevelt not only uses up his salary, but that he draws upon his private fortune to pay Tor the elaborate social functions which mark his administration.
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he amounts voted directly to the rulers
 What European Rulers Cost.

Tho civil lists of European sovere3ns, however furnish an interesting compari- son. It is small and unimportant coun- try, indeed, which does not vote it's ruler for his personal use more than the entire amount charged up as expenditures on behalf of the American President. The civil lists of the rulers of l6 European statos are as follows: Austria. Hungary s3.S75, GOO; Bavaria, $1,412.000; Belgium s6toCGo; Denmark, S227.775; Great Britain $2, ,350, ,O00; Italy, s2,S5S, 900: Netherlands, s250,O0O; Portugal. s567.0o0; Prussia, $3,s52, TO; Roumania. S20l O0o; Russia s10,000 ,Oo0; Saxony. $735 000; Servia, S204,000; Spain, s1. .T65 o0O Turkey $7,500.00o; Wuertemberg $403, ,000
 These figures do not by any means rep resent what the royal families of Europe cost as in almost all the countries there are further grants of relatives of the rul- ing prince, and in d number of cases the ruler has sources of official income aside from his civil list. For instance, in Great Britain the remaining members of the royal family are allowed a70,000 year and in addition the revenues of the ducny of Lancaster, about S600,00 a year, go to the King, and those of the duchy of Cornwall, about S300,000 a year, to the Prince of Wales. The German Emperor has vast estates, castles and forests, from which he derives an enormous revenue. Even impoverished Spain, after allowing the King $1,76500O, gives a further $6O0,Oo0 for the support of the royal family.
 The Czar's Enormous Income. It is impossible to accurately estimate the income of the Czar of Russia, but it
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-04-05
THE ANNUAL EXPENSE
 OF THE WHITE HOUSE

From the Washington Herald.
 It costs the American people little less than $5O0,0oO year to pay the salary of the President of the United States, to maintain his mansion and executive of fees, and the naval vessels which are held at his disposal. This is tax of about six-eights of a cent upon each man, woman and child-certainly not a heavy burden. compared with what it costs to support the royal families of the old world. The cost of keeping in commission two naval yachts is included. As 70 whether the whole of these sums is prop erly chargeable against the President is a matter upon which there is a differ ence of opinion.
 The naval vessels were not built ex- pressly for the Presidents use, nor are they officially assigned to that duty, says me Kansas City Journal. They are held however, at his disposal, and while they gre subject to any other business which may be required of them, there is not much else for them to do in these piping times of peace Those who insist that fine cost of keeping in commission the Mayf1ower and Sylph is proper charge against the cost of the chief executive argue that were it not for the fact that the President uses them the vessels would be placed out of commission, thus effecting an annual saving of about s175,O00. The answering argument is that
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-04-05
The Moon and Mount Hood.

Speaking of recent moon erect on Mount Hood, the Portland Oregonian says:
 Perching itself for a few moments on the very top of Mount Hood, the big new moon illuminated that majestic peak at Il o'clock last night so clearly that is mantle of glistening white, toned to a soft yellow hue, could be distinguished IIainly from Portland and vicinity. Never re fore, says old time Oregonians, has the moon been observed to scale the summit so lairly and with such perfect balance as last night The big yellow disk apparently could not have been IT ore accurately adjusted to the top of the mountain. And as 1t passed on up ward the top of the mellow circle buried i: self in big black cloud, so that no eieat xtretch of the imagination was re- cuired to fil in the picture of an eruption
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great systems of charity at home; the cold, clammy fact remains that the sons of Nippon in their war with Russia treated their prisoners with far more humanity than our nation does its owa soldiers" says Appleton's Magazine Tor April.
 "In the great Orient conflict, not once did the Muscovite win victory. but from the Yalu to Mukden was driven from the field and often left t3 his victors the care of his sick, his wounded, and his dead. Sixty seven thousand sick Russian prisoners were brought to Japan from Manchurfa and nursed back to health. And to the eternal credit and glory of Japan let it be rememb cred that from the first aid dressing on the firing line. to the transport, the subsistence, the medi- cal care, and the gentle nursing In her II ome hospitals, no difference was made between the treatment of her own sold- iers and those of the enemy.
 "Therefore, without minimizing the splendor of CT victories on land or sea, at the tYalu, Port Arthur Mukden. Shaho, Laioyang, or with Togo at Tsu- shima the fact remains that Japan's most splendid evolution, and her grea. . est triumphs have been in the humani- ties of war. By careful preparation and organization. the use of simple easily digested rations for her troops. and the application of practical san:- tation by a. fully equipped and em- powered medical department, she a. most obilterated infections and pre- ventable diseases from her army. ani saved it's units for the legitimate pur- poses of war, to wit, the smashing or the enemy in the field. She reduced tho mortality in her own army by over so per cent, and treated her prisoners with a charity and consideration here tofore unheard of in the history of war, establishing a standard in the human ities which the rest of the civilized world will do well to attain"
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from the peaceful old mountain. From an artistic standpoint the spectacle was che to be hoarded in the fond memory, and those who saw it may regard them. selves as having been peculiarly fortu- nate. Every year the moon pays a visit to the big peak, but possibly not oncs in centuries would it clin.o to the pre- else central point on tho summit and pr esent picture so perfect.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-04-05


 mendous indirect expenditures, aside from tie same would hold true of all the othel vessels of the navy, were it deemed wise policy to lay them up and discharge thei : crews just because we nave not war on hand.
 $25,o0o for Travelling.
 The second item, that of $25,000 for the Presidents travelling expenses, was voted fol the first time at the last session of Congress. The enactment states that the sum is to 'defray the travelling expenses of the President and his invited guests, and the item was subject of heated de- late in both houses of Congress. Op Ionents of the appropriation declared # was an attempt to indirectly increase the salary of the chief executive. The law swing the President this money to en- able him to go travelling was the indi- rect outcome of the aroused public sen tiInent against transportation abuses. In years past 1t was not considered improper for the President to travel in special trains furnished by the railroads without cost to him or to the government but tEis practice came in for condemnation, along with the acceptances of passes by members of Congress and the judiciary. In response to this aroused public Senti- timent, MT. Roosevelt announced that in The future he would accept no transporta- ten favors from the railroads. Congress had to make an appropriation or the President would have been obliged to stay at home or pay out of his own pocket the cost of his trips.
 The total of $472,000 includes substan- tially every expense in which the Presi- dent involves the American people. aside from the enormous cost each four years of the presidential eleetion There is no available way in which comparative fig- tres can be secured from other countries.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-04-05
Jauanese Lesson In Humanity.

Boast as we may of our nationai patriotism and philanthropy, our altru- ism in freeing Cuba from the tyranny of Spain, and in elevating the status Of that bunch of trouble, the Philip
 pines our foreign missions, and our
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-04-05
RIcORD,S VITAL h RESTORATIVE

Restores Mems Vitality. Price S1. At all druggists. Always on hand at Collier Drug Co.,, f00 North 4oth street. Mail orders solicited,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-04-05
Silk C10 En
 Suits at 9lA.0V

Ladies' and Misses costumes, Dime costumes, Jumper Suits and One-piece dresses, of Rajahs in all colors. silk in solid colors and stripes and checks; Foulards in a great variety of patterns. Others S14o5, $16.5O, $185O, $19.95, $2495, $29.95, $34.95 and up to $IO0.00.
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ton of revolution in their domains where the bread
fruit tree fourishes without overmuch watering.
Neither of these potentates acquired his envable
position by the accident of birth They were both
Kings by achievement, each having achieved in his
own peculiar way South Sea maiden Queen, and
now one is dead at least the lawyers say he IS
and the other deposed All, the pity of the thing!
l King Harry not long ago in Paris riding on
the knife board of bus; and with half an eye
although the international lawyers wrangling
over his estate and his widows are fighting over
questions of precedence rather the respective
dates of their matrimonial contracts, will yet again.
l am sure. be cast up by the sea on the shores of
new kingdom The may be cruel, as the poets
sing but still incapable think, of swallowing up
the very salt of the earth.
The deposition of King Harry of zap was one of
the most unexpected consequences of our war with
Spain The pessimsts who maintain that wars
never change anything should be made to fasten
their optics zap, where to-day the indolent
islanders must walk the goosestep and pay tribute
to the Emperor of Germany every time they light
a cigarette In 1896 and again in 81 King Harry,
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SUNDAY MAGAZINE FOR JUNE 20. 1908

forth for the first time his side of the controversy
1t not true charged that when he returned
from his last cruise the entries of three months
missing from his log; but he frankly admitted that
all this time had been spent in beautiful bay by
nameless atol where it had been necessary for him
to take refuge, his schooner having sprung leak,
and he frankly admitted further that the little isle
inhabited by mighty pleasant people.
Perhaps O Keefe would have been we'll advised if
he had rested his here and not concluded with
virulent attack upon his in the Queens
affections. He stated that this unworthy individual
island during his absence in cutter laden to the
gunwales with silk kerchiefs and many colored
petticoats by distributing which he laid the founda
ton of his political fortunes. One day O'keefe
sailed away again in his schooner, and has
turned. Some say he drowned along with
Black Ben his colored boy and his crew of Kanakas;
but only the waves know, and they will not tell.
The Authors Ambition
OF course, should have been more or less than
~ human if 1, who have touched elbows with so
many American Kings both in power and in exile,
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as was his annual custom,
sailed up to Yokohama to
do a little shopping. Mrs.
Harry came too to buy
f1ounces and furbelows
and orange petticoats;
and King Harry read the
English papers and tried
to get in touch with in
ternational politics. OF
course he knew, and in
deed we all knew, that
Spain had some sort of
superannuated claim on
zap; but in practical
politics this did not
amount to a hill of beans.
Why. they used to
own the Chesapeake, and
call it the Baia Santa
Maria, and they own it
now just as much as they
own my Yap." said King
Harry. But, as all the
world knows. Spain had a
good enough title for
Germany to accept. and
just before, in blissful ig-
norance of our future, we
by the treaty of Paris be-
came sponsors for the
other Sna nish islands in
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The Authors Ambition

should have entirely escaped
the microbe of ambition. /
did not. 1 burned for a
mighty Office in the land of
the Great Khan. No one
knew the secret ambition of
my soul, as l stood with
those who believe that the
office should seek out the
man. Until to-day l never
breathed to anyone the fact
that l coveted the director
generalship of the Yellow
River, sometimes called
China's Sorrow-not the Of
fee, but the river of course.
The bossing of this VOLT
minous continental stream
is the largest. latest job in
all the Land of Squeeze. l
would not like to mention
the amount of graft that
some lucky individuals have
drawn from this Office, for
fear of making the pickings
of Tweed and Tammany, of
Weyler and Castro. seem
paltry. Every boat that
sails the Yellow River has
to grease the palm of the
Director General. True,
4l.>
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is free: but lust as soon as foolish fish is caught
he too has to pay taxes to the Director General in
direct proportion to his avoirdupolS. You ap
proach the river bank through a tolgate, at which
all who embark have to pay tribute, part of which
but not the greater part, trow-goes to the i'm
perial treasury in Picking. And along the banks of
Chna's Sorrow there almost many temples
and shrnes there tolgates. and none of these
can be regarded as poorhouse, and they too pay
tribute to the Director General; though these
shrines devoted to the gods that rule the winds
and the river, all who pray there must indirectly
pay tithes to the Director General:
No American has held this office, though
doubtless many besides myself have coveted it;
but General Wilson of Delaware the famous cavalry
leader of the Civil War, while travelling in China,
captvated Ii Hung Chang by his engaging qualities,
and almost had the office thrust upon him. How
ever General Wilson looked the Yellow River over.
made report upon its eccentrcities, and then re-
turned to the banks of the Delaware. He probably
found out that even in this, the greatest plum on
the tree, there bitter streak. The Director
General has to keep his river in order, or he is
mulcted for heavy damages in every direction. If
his pay great, his liabilities by means light
If the waters behave unruy and sink junk he
must do something handsome for the widows and
orphans. If the river Overf1owS its banks and dis
turbS the gravemoundS and the ancestral acres,
severe reprimand would not be slow in coming from
Picking. On second offense of this kind the Di-
rector General might and probably would suffer
the humiliation of seeing his picture sent in exile to
the Siberian border Indeed, circumstances have
shaped themselves that on two or three occasions
with friends grown cold and exhausted treasury.
the Director General has felt compelled to make the
supreme sacrifice and spring into the raging torrent
which would not obey his behest.
Dignitaries in the Orient
SINCE the recent retirement of General Dye,
- of Mexican War veterans, who for many
years commanded the Korean army l cannot recall
any of our soldiers holding high rank under
foreign flags though of course for all l know the
ubiquitous General MacIver who has fought under
fourteen flags, may be engaged on his fifteenth
campaign. To-day, and for few years back. it
has been rather our wise men of the law that have
tcularly Asatc. potentates The first of these was
Arson Burlingame of Massachusetts,, who became
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O'Keefe's Strange Case

nKEEFE was born in Charleston, South Carolina,
~ and he of that family, at least this was
his impression, of whom Tom Moore sang l am
quoting his very words
In that proud honored race
The OKeefes will always occupy first class place.
/ shall not go into his prosaic antecedents into
which the international lawyers delving now
Napoleon dated his dynasty from the bridge at
up by the sea, without even bathing suit, on
the coral strand The affections of the Queen of
the island were in very few days thrust upon him.
and soon he became king of the copra trade under
the protection of plural marriages.
OF course when / say King / something
quite different. In the Cocos the old system of
matriarchy still obtains, and mere never
be King He can only hope to be the most INDUCED
slave of the Queen. And this was O'Keefe. The
Hongkong papers always called him the Prince Con-
sort when he came to Victoria town; but of course
these sheets are written by very ignorant fellows
and 0 keefe never could get, for some reason or
other, true statement of facts inserted in the AL
1nanach de Gotha. Soon O Keefe had his schooners
to the distant Peews, and while loves young dream
upon her the Queen did all she could to please
her consort. All the cocoanutS that were not abso
uely necessary for the subsistence of the islanders
dried in the sun and packed on board O keefe's
boats Everybody seemed pleased to help make
him multnillionare but like Ulysses of old he
could not rest from travel.
His mind wandered too, and his Queen was the
first to find it out The King got in the habit of
making long schooner voyages to look after his
talk, and on his return from one of his trips he
confronted with a situation that would have
been staggering to smaller man. He had been de-
posed There another Prince Consort, this years
cocoanuts were being picked for him exclusively.
O'keefe sailed away in high dudgeon. All the
traders took sides, and for time there was any
thing but peace brooding over Polynesia Once in
Hongkong, O'Keefe issued proclamation setting
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You're Sorry-But Then
By Kate Thyson MARI

How oft you think of the thoughtess word
You wish had ne'er been spoken;
How oft you think of the promise made,
Though made but to be broken;
How oft recall some imprudent act
With shame! How you regret it,
And wish some magical pOw'r were yours
To help you to forget -
Because
You're sory-but then
How oft you think of the sighted BOOM
Perchance 'twere but trifle -
You're sorry now when perhaps too Late
A sigh you cannot Stif1e.
The little things that you might have done
And felt joy in the doing,
Had made you glad where you are now sad
The sadness of your ruing!-
Because
You're sorry-but then
How oft as life goes speeding on
We miss the songs of gladneSS,
And hear but the tones OF moaning dirge
That chillS us with its SadneSS!-
Life is so short, and careless word
Fills other hearts with aching;
We hush regrets till tits too late,
And our hearts too are breaking
Because
We're sOny-but then.
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the Pacific and Yap in exchange for few pesos be,
himself that his subjects would not throw a
cocoanut in defense of their lege sailed away in his
swift schooner the night before the German man of
war arrived.
The daily Alaskan., 1908-12-26
H. D. KIRMsE

The originator of low prices.
The daily Alaskan., 1908-12-26
FISH SHUT 0FF
 THE WATER

Wm. L. Hawkes., manager of the Home Power company, is confined to his bed by a severe attack of pleurlsy. Mir. Hawkes. on yesterday af. ternoon was at work at the power house. He became aware that the water at the reservoir had suddenly been shut off. He ran up the hill to learn the cause. Dragging at the net that is spread before the intake of the supply pipe at the reservoir found 1t filled with fish. With great effort he removed them. The climb up the hill had overloaded Mir. Hawkes.. The plunge into the water had chilled him. He returned to the Pullen house encased in ice. At about five o'clock he was seized with the pain from which he has since been suffer ing.
The daily Alaskan., 1908-12-26
TOWN TALK

Lieut., Terry came up on the Peter son.
 A. R. o'Brlen came up on the Cottage City from Juneau.
 Harry YOungquist of Clifton, came down to spend Christmas with friends MT. J. McBriOn came over from whitehorse to spend the holidays with his family.
 Miss Case and Miss Doyle were round trippers from Haines on the Peterson today,
 Dr. Gassett of Haines, was a Skag. way visitor today having made the round trip on the Peterson.
 LoST-Ladies small black pocket book containing P. o. and other keys. Finder please return to this office. 2t
 
 Will Seymour arrived home on the Cottage City, having been excused from jury duty until the Jefferson. See those Arctic fox furs in Draper & Co.'S display window.