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The Washington herald., 1914-03-08
lCopynEht, leA.)

AY, honest! l could have married
- Perky yesterday if ! had been
~ mean enough. Give little red
head credit for passing the boss one
square deal, please. l don't know yet
whether I'm sorry or not. My con-
science has a regular silk-lined, rose
tinted, melt-in-the-mouth feeling, and
that's something; but when l think ]
might have had Perky calling me
Mrs" by now / get such a crouch
that want TO take my conscience out
in the hall and step on its face.
A red-headed stenographer has about
as much right to luxury like a calm
conscience as she has to sealskin coat
with diamond buttons. Her motto
ought to be, marry a gent if you can
but if you can't, marry anything that
can pay alimony."
Every since l pulled down this jot
of pounding the keys for Perkins OF
Portland, at twelve per, I've been get
ting surer and surer that Perky is the
one man in New York I'd be willing
to fry breakfast eggs for. And what
does he care? He's been about as
eager to enter matrimony as T. Roose.
welt is to enter a convent and become
silent nun. Good chance, what?
Algy is different. 1t is not much oi
a josh to say that Algy has proposed
the holy bonds to me so often during
business hours, and before and after
that if the government made his pro-
posals legal tender it would have to
give them serial letter-A56432IS7 and
C6543eoSo4-like bank notes.
As a would-be husband, little Algy
can issue more wildcat currency to the
square minute than you could print or
rotary press; but when he tries to
cash in with me the perfectly ladylike
answer l hand him is ''Oh, mushl" I'm
such a real New Yorker that until ]
was fourteen l thought the words "si-
lent night" meant anything no noisier
than a fiat on Ninth avenue, with the
elevated alongside the window and a
night shift of riveters putting up q
The Washington herald., 1914-03-08

the handkerchief, and $40 for those
same old stickpin presents for the ush-
ers, and there you are! Twenty-Five
fifty outgo against SIo saved.
But only the first year." said Per-
kins. 'In three years.
an three years." ! said, looking him
square in the eye. "In three years the
saving of $40 per year would wipe out
the $3.50 Is that it? And you call
yourself business mani Say!" / said.
do you know the market price of pa-e-
goric right here in New York today
Then he went back and sat down.
Douglas Island news., 1914-11-25
The NOrthIand
The Latest News, from Reliable Sources, Concerning the Great
 North. Condensed.
Information for Everybody.

Dr. W. J. Pigg, of Sulzer has located at Wrangeu.
 Basket ball on roller skates is a new pastime at Kelchikan.
 CBishop Rowe has returned to Seattle after visiting an parts of Alaska.
 The Yukon river closed in front of Dawson on Nov. 10th, one of the latest dates on record.
 The Juneau fire department has been reorgauized by the town council on a more economical basis.
 Sixteen hundred pounds of turkey for ouelittle Alaska town shows pla nly that the North has something to be thankful for.
 It is said that Sam Wall is again casting wishful eyes toward Alaska. sam had a valuable reputation in Alas. ka a few years ago.
 M. Jordan, of Seattle, has made application for patent to 1900 acres of marble land on the west coast of Prince of Wales island, near Shakau. Skagway boasts that its main street. called State, is the finest street in the North? Have any of the other towns anything Go say on this subject? Senator Wesley Jones, of the state of Washington, has announced his iuten. ton of coming to Alaska next summer to see what the people of the North do want now.
 The German mayor of Juneau called a mass meeting of the citizens last night, to take action in the matter of furnishing relief for the suffering people of Belgium.
 Miss Marie Bernholer, a Skagway girl who has been singing grand opera in Germany, lost her job on account of the war, aud is back in the windy city amusing the home folks.
 A naval board of inquiry at Wash ingtou, D. c. has decided that neither officers nor crew were responsible for the wreck of the U. s. revenue cutter Tahoma in Alaska waters.
 R. Roth, recently confrmeda as dis  tict attorney at Fairbanks, has ap- pointed Reed Heiig and Harry Pratt as his assistants. Harry Prattis a son of Judge l.. K. Pratt, well known throughout the Northlaud
 In Commissioner Albrechts court at Iditarod recently the unique spectacle was presented of a woman on trial for the crime of gambling The case was 1 that of the United States vs Matilda M. Moses, and The complaint alleged that the defendant on September 15 ! last, at Discovery, Otter, participated in game of poker "for money or other valuable consideration
Douglas Island news., 1914-11-25


 After having lain for years after she sank in the harbor at Unalaska, a menace to navigation, the old steam whaler Fearless was blown up by the captain of the revenue cutter McCul- loch on August l5, according Co an off, Gcial report of the Photographic Bul letiu, issued by the U. s. navy.
 The news came Saturday of the death of Surveyor General William l.. DistiD, at Chicago, Ill.,, on Friday evening. For sixteen years he served in the i'm portaut position of surveyor general and ex odicio secretary of Alaska, re. tiriug about a year ago, when he left the North. His home was at Quincy, III. His age was 70 years.
 The Stevens hotel at Seattle has hanging from the lobby ceiling a spIeu- did specimen of the American eagle, which was shot by Miss A. Mathisou, of Cordova, who was a recent guest at the hotel The bird is mounted with outstretched wiugs, aud is suspended by a black and almost invisible cord Oh which it swings in the slightest air movement From wing tip to wing tip the bid measures eight feet and a half
 In letter to the Ruby Record Citi zen, Archdeacon Stuck denies that he made the sweeping charges against all the white men in Alaska attributed to him by newspaper reports. He says: "Nothiug ever went into any state meut of mine Outside that [ have not made again and again in public in numerous places in Alaska l have said that the chief hindrance to the work of Christianizing and civilizing the Indians is the evil influence of the low down whites.'"
 Actual mining for Che precious metal as we'll as development work of prop critics has been going steadily forward in the O'Donnell river placer camp in the Atlin district during the past sum- mer on a more extensive scale, in a more systematic manner and with far better results than have ever before been experienced in that section of the country, which is now coming to be recognized by mining men as one of the most promising fields for invest ment in the North.
 A Nome despatch of Nov. 9th says: The gasoline schooner Silver Wave will leave Nome tomorrow for the Out. side, carrying mail and six passengers, including Senator Aldrich and Repre- sentatives Daly and Moran, of the ter. ritorial legislature. Slush ice appeared on the roadstead early today, but north breeze kept it away from shore. Conditions are unfavorable for the trip of the Silver Wave, as the cold weather will cause spray to form lee on her deck, weighting her down.
 In sending herd of a few thousand caribou to within gunshot of Dawson, the Lord is certainly temperiug the wind Go the shoru lambs-not that Dawsouites are particularly lam6like; but Chat they have been shoru so often and consistently that anything coming to them like caribou on which there are no freight charges is like unto mama from heaven Some enterprise ing Dawsouite might supply White horse with caribou meat by parcel post with mutual profit We are willing Go be experimented on in tEat llne.-Slar.
Douglas Island news., 1914-11-25

The Valdez Prospector is engaged in exposing the shortcomings of United States Attorney Spence, who, it says, closed up a moving picture show in Seward on Sundays, but refused to apply the same rule to a Valdez iusti tuition, where his son finds employ ment
 Reports come from all parts of Southeastern Alaska stating that her. ring are very scarce this year. A re- cent number of the Ketchikan Miner says: Capt. A. W. Thomas, who was in port last night, reports that the uu- precedented shortage of herring con- tinues. He has prospected the entire country from Portland canal to Wran- cell uarrows without results. He found some Gsh near the head of Portland canal the other day, but in the entire school he was unable to find fish over four inches in length.
 The Seward Gateway voices the mild protest: The more oue thinks of that SO called Sunday closing law and the more one thinks of how it is admiuis- tered in this territory, the more does he feel like using strong language. In Cordova, Valdez, Juneau and other cities in Alaska the moving picture shows keep open on Sundays just the same as ever and Seward would prob ably have the same privilege today were it not for the unfortunate visita- uon of a district attorney who came 10 this city as an Eastern mogul might travel into the wilds of some pagan country aud inAict punishment on his slavish subjects.
 Every now and then an old-timer from the North goes down to Seattle, where he is regarded as curio, and not without reason. The P. I. says: Hugo Eyer, of most any place in Alas ka that might be mentioned, is soend- ing the winter at the Arlington. Mir. Eyer is one more of the string of old time Alaskans who have joined in the rush for the outside during the season of inactivity. He has been in the North most of the time since 1896, and his present visit is his first in eight years. "When l first weDt to Alaska there weren't any regular steamships running there" he said yesterday. "We went up from here on the old Port land, which had been plying between points from Portland down to Mexico" Mir. Eyer has alternated between min ing and trading, "and I'm not rich man yet" he said with a grin. "I was on the first boat up the Yukon to the Kloudike after the gold strike. There were thousands there then, and prices were unbelievably high. An egg, for instance, cost a dollar and a half. Other things were in proportion. The SUD- plies that weCarried were all sold from the boat and were unloaded and de- livered direct to the user" Mir. Eyer didn't leave the boat for the chance at a fortune, but he was early on the spot at many of the finds that have followed that of the Klondike, sometimes min ing, sometimes trading. "pve been on the Koyukuk, the Kobuk, in the Fair banks district, Iditarod, Nome, Candle, Council, most all of them" he said, "But then everybody travels around in Alaska. Seems like the harder it is to get around in a place, the more the people travel"
Douglas Island news., 1914-11-25

The White Pass & Yukon company has been notified by telegram to it's manager at Whitehorse that the Do- minion government will insist on ali mail being carried from Whitehorse to Dawson each trip of the stage this winter. There will be no reduction in weight each trip during the freezeup on account of the condition of the overland trail as in former years. This has been made possible by the govern meut expenditure of over two hun- dred thousand dollars on the road in three years in maintenance, repairs, shortcuts and ferries on the Yukon, Pelly aud the Stewart rivers. From now on the Yukon territory will be on the same mail basis as any other part of Canada, as all former ouerous re- strictions of the postofiice department have been removed.
 The Dawson News, having nothing to steal. thus pokes fuu at a number of people who have been 7icimized by burglars: The News now boasts it's own burglar as we'll as it's own corres- poudeuts aud telegraph service. Thus day night five bucks were lifted from the News office, and last night so- ciable fellow entered the place by coal chute, and made fashionable o'clock call. He failed to count on the presence of the News nightwatchman, who was all ears. The watchman called ont to the fellow, and he made dash and escaped through the hole through which he had entered before the watch man could bring his artillery into action. Hereafter some change always will be left in the cigar box at the edge of the desk and the safe will be open, and lunch ready for the callers. The doors will be unlocked, and the coal chute open. The News also is now rigged up with all kinds of patent traps, pitfalls, burglar alarms, auto matic arresters and other devices with which to give the visitors an interesting welcome. The News would feel it was getting the best of good thing were it receiving exclusive attention, but of late several other calls have been made. Among places understood to have been visited are: John Helwinkle's where two calls were made and storm win- dows taken off once; Carlin's, where forty dollars was secured from the tilli Okada, the Japanese mechanic; Pacific Cold Storage, where ten simoleons were obtained, while wedding bells were ringing in honor of Manager Docks Ross Bakery, where the vis' itor trussed up the doughnut maker aud a neighbor, and got S79 out of the cash register, .and failed to get S2OO in a we'll concealed vest pocket; k. T. M. stores, where they got the price of a meal ticket and left Johnson "most everything" else, including guns and padlocks; Dan McDonald's cabin, where fifty dollars worth of nuggets and a rifle were pilfered, while Dan was on the creek; Jack Spence's where the premises were left intact; Yukon Sheet Metal Works, where Bill Strathie set up all night to give the caller warm reception on bis return, and missed the chap only by having to go across the street at Q a. m. to get cup of teai and Ellingsen's where the back door was tried, but care taken not Co peek into
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-08-05
THINKS THE WAR WILL
FOSTER ARBITRATION
Vice President Says No National
Question That Tribunal
Cannot Settle.

Vice President Marshall. discussing the
European situation, said in an interview
today:
MY dream is that without a great war
the impending danger will teach the
nations of the world. the United States
included, that as there is no personal
dishonor which may not honorably be
left to the settlement Of the courts. so
there is no national dishonor which may
not safely be left to d tribunal for pea>e-
able settlement. II the dream does
not come true the horrors OF war
will result in the practical disarmament
of the great powers, the establishment of
an international tribunal to settle con-
troversies and world police force to en-
force, if needful, the DEGREES of that
court.
when we consider that We have start
ed out to build a great navy and that
payment of pensions and preparations
for future pensions has absorbed 63 per
cent of the governments revenues, the
public sentiment Of America will soon
or late drive us to arbitration.
eff the fight goes on, one of the prob
lens of craftsmanship will be to devise
plans for carrying the products of our
fields and factories to those who may
need them and yet maintain not only a
diplomatic, but genuine impartiality be-
tween the nations engaged in the con-
flict.''
The Vice President made it clear that
he was giving only his personal opinion
and that he spoke only for himself.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-08-05
France Aids Foreigners.

The French government. according to
Americans arriving from the area Of the
war, is doing everything compatible with
the necessary movements of troops to
get foreigners out of the country.
The ports of the French coast are
crowded with Americans and English
men awaiting an opportunity to cross the
channel Many Americans who have
been motoring on the continent have ar
rived at Boulogne.
While they can find room for them
selves they cannot obtain accommoda-
tons on the steamers for their cars. The
steamers that leave France with crowds
of American and English passengers re-
turn with an equal number of French
men and Swiss. who are on the way to
join their colors.
Some of the tourists travelled long dis
tances to reach England. Mrs. James T.
Harahan. widow of the former president
Of the Illinois Central railroad, with her
niece. Miss Martha Marris of Memphis.
Tenn. came from st. Petersburg. having
left that city Sunday. They Travelled by
way of Denmark. but sent their baggage
through Germany. where it was lost.
When they left the Russian capital was
quiet, they said except for the movement
of troops
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-08-05
BELGIANS CALLED TO C0LoRS.
Vandervelde, Great Socialist Leader
Made Member of Cabinet.

BRl SSELS, August 5.-Premier
Charles de Broqueville announced in
parliament today that Emile Wander
velde, the great socialist leader. who was
one Of the chiefs in the general political
strike and is regarded as one OF the most
able Of the opponents OF the clerical
ministry, had Joined the cabinet. being
appointed minister Of state.
The premier also stated that all mer
trained in the past fifteen years had
been called TO the colors. He read the
Belgian reply to the last German note
which informed this government that II
Belgium raised difficulties against the
passage of German troops through Bel
GUM the necessary force would be used
by Germany to accomplish her end.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-08-05
GAZETTE PUBLISHES WAR CALL
English Paper Specifies What Is
Held Contraband.

LONDON, August 1.-THE Gazette
the official newspaper. today publishes
the notification of the state of war eN-
listing between Germany and England
as well as an order in council, signed
by the king, relating to the merchant
vessels of the country with which the
British empire is at war.
The order specifies as absolutely con-
traband arms Of all kinds. clothing and
harness of a military character and
animals suitable for war purposes.
Articles specified as conditional con-
traband are. foodstuffs, fuel, harness.
telescopes and field glasses.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-08-05
STOCK SALES IN WAR PLOT.
London Paper Charges Germany
With Attempt to Smash Markets.

LONDON, August 1.-The Pail Mall Ga
zette today makes public reports current
in the city to the effect that the heavy
selling orders from Germany during the
past week or two were really a deliber-
ate attempt to smash the London mar
ket and cause scare in the financial
and commercial world so as to keep Great
Britain out of the war.
The newspaper says it hears that the
sum of 100000 was expended or had
been arranged to be expanded for this
object with the cognizance Of the Ger
man government,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-08-05
MONEY BEING PRINTED
ALL DAY AND NIGHT
Saturday Holidays Cancelled at En-
craving Bureau and 100 Extra
Workmen Employed.

A discontinuance of the Saturday half
holidays to the clerks of the bureau of
engraving and printing was ordered by
Joseph E. Ralph, director of the bureau,
today at the request of President Wilson.
The clerks will work in shifts all night
and Sundays until the present rush order
for money making is filed
All of the available printers of the Dis
trict who have taken the civil service ex-
aminations have been engaged for work
on the one-hundred- million-d dollar gold
and silver bill currency order at the bu-
reau of engraving and printing.
The big amount, which is to be sent to
New York. and a surplus of S2O,OO0OOO in
gold and silver notes will be handled by
the regular force and the 100 extra men
and women who We're put on the pay rol!
yesterday by Director Ralph.
Rush the Printing.
Secretary McAdoo has asked for an
emergency deficiency appropriation OF
$40, 600 to provide sufficient fund to exc
cute the heavy additional work.
The required amount for the big order
will be turned out by the large force OF
printers in bills ranging from the green
one-dollar note to the less familiar ten
thousand-dollar gold certificate. All OF
the machinery III tHe puIlullS Is III COf-
slant use. and the department employees
are apparently fired with the ambition to
turn out the order in record time.
Work in Three Shifts.
The men and women work in three
shifts The regular day shift goes on al
S am. and quits at $50, and the frs,
night shift then takes up the work anG
carries it forward until l1:3O pm. The
late night shift then goes on and is ir
turn relieved by the regular day workers
The printers are paid by the piece, earn
ing SO cents side per hundred on the
gold notes and 20 cents per hundred fol
| faces and 81 cents per hundred for backs
| in the silver currency.
| Director Ralph yesterday said the bu
reau would be IN a position to fill al
| orders for currency inside of thirty days
| which indicates that the big order or
which he is now working will be com
pleted within that time.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-08-05

Balkan-Turkish War-Montenegri
army attacked the Turks at Podgo-
rita December Q, 1912.
Russo-Japanese Wharf.-The Japa-
nese main battle fleet, under COM
mand of Vice Admiral Togo. sur
prised a Russian squadron near Port
Arthur and inflicted serious damage,
February S, 1904.
Boer War.-Boers attacked a Brit
ish armored train at Kraaipan, Cape
Colony, October u. 1899.
Spanish-American Wharf.-The Unit
ed States battleship Maine sunk by
explosion in Havana harbor. Feb
ruary 10, 1895.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-08-05
FIRST BLOWS THAT STARTED
HOSTILITIES IN MODERN WARS.

Russo-Turkish Wharf.-The Russian
army advanced on Bucharest against
the Turkish troops April "a. 1877.
Franco-Prussian War.-French de-
feated by Prussians in skirmish in
Baden, July 81. 1870. ..
Civil Observation-Disclosures fred on
Fort Sumter, near Charleston, S. c..
April II, 1861
Crimean War.-Russian army in
vaded Turkey In October, 1853.
American War of 1S12.-Gen. Hull
invaded Canada, July IL, 1872.
War of the American Revolution
Massachusetts, minutemen attacked
British forces at Lexington, Mass,
April 10, ITO.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-08-05
INCREASE IN IMPORTS.
Last Fiscal Years Operations Total
$1,893,925,657.

Imports into the United States dur
ing the fiscal year ending in June.
which included nine months operation
of the new tariff. totaled to s1,s93.925,-
657, or SS0.917.423 more than during
the preceding fiscal year
Increased imports of foodstufs ac-
counted for s69.0S1. 900 of the total II
There was a decrease in total exports
70 rthe fiscal year of $9S.S22 600. ac-
counted for largely by falling off in
shipments OF foodstuffs.
June imports were s157.52e450, COM
Exports were 1854. %, 400. against $780,
1I3,SS0 last year.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-08-05

little nation turned out army Of a
quarter of a million men, which success
fully maintained the integrity of Belgian
soil.
On a war footing the Belgium troops
now number 275,OGO. according to the
last report
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-08-05
ENTHUSIASM IN ARGENTINE.
People Favor England and France a.
Against Germany.

BEENOS AIRES, Argentina, August
5.-The news of the declaration OF wal
between Great Britain and Germany was
received with enthusiasm by the popula'
lation here and there were numerous
demonstra tons of friendliness to Eng
land and France.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-08-05
GERMAN ENVOY IN SWEDEN.
Ambassador to Russia Reaches Stock
holm on Ship Under U. S. Colors.

STOCKHOLM. Sweden, August 5.-The
German ambassador to Russia with his
staff arrived here yesterday from ST.
Petersburg on steamer flying the Amer
lean nag. They proceeded to Berlin.
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o. S. Legation Besieged.

COPENHAGEN. August 5.-The Ameri-
can legation here was practically in a
state of siege today Nearly 1000 NAmeri-
can citizens have reached this city from
Hamburg. whence they had intended sail
ing for America on the Imperator and
other liners. Most of them left their bag
gage behind them in Germany. Some of
the Americans will enueavor to reach
America by way of England. while others
will sail on the Danish liner United
States.