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MT. Bunnell was also sent to the Territory in 1900, taught school at Ko- diak for three years, and was then selected as the Principal of the Val. dez Schools and continued as such uni til 1907. During this time Mir. Bun nell received as salary about $12,5OO.
 In 1908 he became interested in the Copper River Lumber Company, and became it's secretary and treasurer, and as such has paid out in wages for that company, for logging and saw ing, total of S171,74S,S4.
 (An average of $25,OOO per year)
 January 1st, 1911, Mir. Bunnell pur- chased partnership in the Valdez Sheet Metal Works, and since that time the firm has paid out in wages the sum of S2S,954.79.
 (An average of S25,0O0 per year)
 NOT ONE DOLLAR OF WICKER SHAM'S SALARY HAS BEEN IN INVESTED IN ALASKA.
 EVERY DOLLAR EARNED BY MR. BUNNELL HAS BEEN INVESTED IN ALASKA.
 When Wickersham wrote the famous letter to Stephen Birch, begging an appointment as Attorney for the Gug- genheims, he said:
 q am longing for the flesh-pots of the Outside" and if he is elected on the Srd day of next November to "stay at home" he will, no doubt, take up his residence, in his S1S,0OO man. sion in Tacoma, and Alaska will see him no more.-James Fish.
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GERMANY SPENDS $11,oOOoOo
 DAILY ON THE WAR

BERLIN, Oct. 2O.-The Berliner Tag eblatt says Germnay's daily war ex- penses total $11OO00O0.
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FRENCH OBSERVE RULES
 OF THE HAGUE

PARIS, Oct. 2O.-France has laid mines in the Adriatic, but says that The Hague rules have been observed.
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GERMANS SINK SUBMARINE

Berlin, Oct. 20.-It is officially stated that the British new sub- marine E3 was sunk by a Ger man warship.
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a week at Estchonow. townlet south
west of Warsaw, near the Warsaw
Kalisch-Lodz railroad. The Russians
were intrenched mile in front. The
battle consisted in making approaches
and sniping. Within two days the
trenches were brought to within 300
yards. Russians and Germans began
to exchange visits. When the trenches
got to within 200 yards the Germans
sniped so successfully that the visits
had to cease.
This bored the Hamburger Geese"
They sent a message asking on what
terms the Russians would renew the
old friendly relations. A Russian Off
Ger promised to visit the German trench
on condition that he was not made
prisoner. An hour later there sat in
the trench a gigantic. very hungry
Russ, who devoured vast quantities Of
halter aufschnitt" and drank schnaps.
Schnaps, he said, he had not tasted
since the beginning of the war. The
schnaps went to his head and he fell
asleep.
In vain the Hamburger Geese" tried
to awaken him. They had promised
not to make him prisoner. and that
gave him a claim to their protection.
They reasoned that if he was not back
by nightfall he would be suspected OF
desertion, or even of treason. The Dig
Russ was a Baltic province native with
a German name, and that would IN
tensify suspicion The geese" decided
to carry him back to his trench.
AS they had no right to risk their
mems lives, the officers decided to do
the work themselves. They slung the
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captured at Quichy during the advance
to the Marine. The French surprised
the outpost with which he was station
ed. killed his senior officer and took
him prisoner. He was taken to Chateau
Thierry and lodged in a private house.
With him were taken nine prtvates.
These were locked into a stable
Meierholdt was to be taken to Paris
and later sent to Morocco. When Ger
man shells began to fall in the town
the French made off. taking with them
the nine prfvates. They forgot Meier
holdt. The German was afraid of being
shot by his own men. He sat at
found in the house When the German
infantry entered Chateau Thierry
Meierholdt put his head out of win
dow. A bullet went through his violin.
The Germans barred his house door,
refused to believe he was officer or
a comrade of any kind and kept him
two days in the house.
Capt. Boyes. adjutant of Brigade
Commander Gen. Won Hellingrath. got
out of captivity more Economically. He
was locked up in Lille early in the war.
He stunned his jailer and reached the
German lines after surviving a tempest
of bullets from outposts and sentries.
Only one German prisoner officer has
escaped from Russia. This is Lieut..
Cries, who arrived at Lyck last week
after being a week at Orenburg on the
edge of Asia. Cries is the son OF
Petrograd German merchant, and he
learned Russian in a Petrograd school.
by a Tartar, he travelled across all Eu-
ropean Russia, entered Warsaw when
the Germans were within eight miles
and by risking his life got into the
German lines.
Copyright. 1914. by Curtis Brown)
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N1TH S(5HE PAr1BLER9f[11D

fras trees. and that he estimated that
they were then 1000 years old
Alexander Won Humboldt was in
Washington in 1904. He stopped at the
Union Tavern, in Georgetown, and
though not as celebrated as he became
later in life, he was shown notable
attention by the prominent people OF
Georgetown and the federal officials
and the villagers of the little Washing
ton. The Rambler has been trying to
find in Humboldt's works the reference
which, it is said, he made to the two
old sassafras trees near Washington. It
must be remembered that the written
works of Humboldt are stupendous.
The Rambler tried his "Kosmos" with
out result and then turned to his
Travels and Researches in the Equi-
noctial Regions of America" In the
Personal Narrative of Travels to the
Equinoctial Regions of the New CONT
nent During the Years 1799-1S04. by
Alexander de Humboldt and Anne Bonp-
land written in French by Humboldt
and translated into English in 1915 by
Helen Maria Williams. the Rambler
made a water-haul so far as those
sassafras trees were concerned.
In Humboldt's Travels and Re
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George w. Riggs sold this. his country
place, for the uses of a soldiers home,
and on this and other lands subse-
quently purchased the noble institu-
ton of the Soldiers Home has grown
and fourished. Now, when the Riggs
lived there. the Riggs girls had
swing and bench seat between those
old sassafras trees, and they played at
house and dolls there. They knew them
as the twin trees" The neighbors liv-
ing around there were the Rev. Mr..
Breckenridge, whose home became the
summer cottage of w. W. Corcoran, and
John Agg. who in 1857 sold his place to
Conway Robinson.
Among all these families there was
great generation for the twin trees. and
the neighborhood legend was that Alex
ander Won humboldt, the last man who
knew everything. had visited those
trees and mad estimated their age as
1000 years
Baron Gerolt, long Prussian minister
at Washington, was a frequent visitor
at the Riggs country home. and he
was a friend of the great Humboldt.
He always showed a particular interest
in those sassafras trees. George W.
Riggs. W. w. Corcoran and Conway
Robinson always took visitors to look
at the twin trees. and the Riggs and
the Robinson girls remember clearly
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ing at Philadelphia and afterward Wis
iting Washington, they spent eight
weeks in that interesting country for
the purpose of studying its political
and commercial relations. In August,
1904. they returned to Europe, carry
ing with them the extensive collection
which they had made during their
perilous and fatiguing journeys"
The Rambler has not given over his
efforts to get at the root of this sassa
fras tree legend and promises a little
more digging unless in the meantime
some learned dendrologist in the for
est service or somebody down in the
Smithsonian comes to the rescue.
While you have spent SO much time
in contemplation of the twin trees it
will repay you to walk a few hundred
yards out of the Soldiers Home
grounds and into the garden on the
Robinson place. where the second
house Of John Agg stood. There Is the
stump or trunk of a chestnut tree,
twined round with mat of ivy so
thick that the dead trunk seems to be
green and fiourishing. Dickens. in his
Ivy Green says that the wall must
be crumbled and the stone decayed for
the ivy to make it's merry meal, and
pleasure its dainty within, but here is
ivy, noble, patriarchal and aristocratic.
feeding on rotting old chestnut tree.
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Next morning a Cossack patrol near
Vilianowo saw a beautifully made pom
toon bridge spanning the river. Ger
mans numbering 1900 had already
crossed. Their engineers were already
making a tete de pont redoubt to pro-
tect the bridge from a Russian blow
while the crossing of the rest of the
army was taking place. Forty thou
sand Germans were gathering in the
slams had arrived. They formed in a
crescent at a distance of six miles
from the pontoon bridge and began
to shell and pour shrapnel into the
1900 Germans already on the right
bank. Two crack regiments, the Sd
Pomeranian Infantry Regiment of
Count Schwerin and the Life Grena
der Regiment of King Friedrich VIII
helm III, crossed the bridge safely.
AS the last men of the Grenadier
regiment were crossing Russian shell
destroyed the two middle pontoons and
left a gap. The pontoon held together
only by ropes. Hindenburgs second in
command resolved to recall all the Ger
mans from the right bank and with
them their artillery Under cover of
a terrific artillery fire sent across the
river at the Russians, the retreat was
safely carried out. Three field guns
could not be got across the gap. They
were trundled into the river
The last men on the right bank were
a staff officer and two officers of engi-
neers who had been experimenting the
bridge building. They marched behind
the sappers who had built the tete de
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in the late summer and early autumn
of 1914 the Rambler has written Of
the capitulation of Alexandria to James
A. Gordon, captain of his majesty's
ship Sea Horse, and in command of the
squadron which caused the garrison
at Fort Washington to take to the
woods, and which exacted tribute from
Alexandra under threat of lombard
ment. There was one feature of this
story rather brighter than the re-
mainder of it, which the Rambler did
not mention because of lack of space
That was that after the capitulation
of Alexandra the government took
certain measures to hasten the de-
parture OF the hostile ships. and from
two places down the river. White
House and Indian Head. a good deal
of iron and lead was hurled at the
retreating invaders, and with some
effect.
A number of seamen were brought
overland from Baltimore, and these
were divided into several bodies and
put under the command of Commodore
Rodgers. Commodore Perry, Commo-
dore Porter and Capt. Creighton of the
navy. The late John s. Williams. who
in 1857 wrote a History of the In
vasion and Capture of Washington, and
of the Events Which Preceded and Fol-
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tipsy Russian in a hammock, swung
the hammock on two sticks and in
trusted it to two lieutenants. AS the
lieutenants moved forward there was
volley. A bullet cut the hammock
rope, and the gigantic Russian came
down with flop. This woke him. He
drew his sword and slashed one lieu
tenant on the arm. The other lieuten-
ant diSarmed him.
Even this did not induce the Ger
mans to break their promise not to
make the Russian prisoner. They
threw him on the ground and sat on
him. For two hours in the darkness
the Russians and Germans in the
trenches exchanged volleys over the
officers heads. At midnight a Russian
officer, carrying a white flag in the
glare of an electric protector. came
out of the trenches. He found the
three men lying on the ground The
big Russian was handed back to his
comrades and the Germans got back
to their trench.
Two days later the big Russian was
killed in an assault on the German
his body printed in Cyrillic characters.
and on the f1y-leaf a Russian address,
which they could not read. They cut
out the address. pasted it on the book
and sent the book back. The address.
they learned, was that of the dead
Russians mother.
Some German officers have been in
French or Russian captivity and have
got out of 1t. Lieut.. Meierholdt, re-
serve officer who is professional
spent three days as prisoner
at Chateau Thierry. Meierholdt was
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UNDER MANY MASTERS

Continued from Fifth Page)
to be whispered about that the king
was ruled absolutely by the beautiful
Draga, who was several years his
senior. Stories were concocted about
her which were eagerly spread abroad.
Like poor Marie Antoinette. nothing
was too bad for the people to believe
about her.
Although the peasantry were dis
gruntled, the so-called revolution" was
confined to the extreme radicals. The
and his clique of military friends. The
Servian people were even kept in COM
plete ignorance of it, and later cowed
into acquiescence. The plan of the
regicides, which was actually carried
out, was to fall upon the defenseless
king and queen in the dead of night.
The officers are known still as the
eighty-three." Fully armed. they muir
dered defenseless man and woman in
their own bedroom as they were about
to retire. They awaited the hour of
midnight murder. drinking champagne
at the Servian Crown and other open
air cafes. 1t is known that the eighty
three officers were under oath to fndi-
vidually run their swords through the
bodies of their hapless victims.
The king. with all his faults, died like
a man trying to protect the woman he
loved Maschin himself had stipulated
that he be permitted to kill Draga. He
fired point-blank at her as she crouched
behind the body of Alexander in an at
tempt to hide herself.
So great was the fear of Maschin and
the military gang who had organized
and carried out the infamy that the
regiments of soldiers drawn up outside
were deaf even to the cries OF the muir
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Lights That Never Go Out.

IN the vault of the fortress Cathedral
of St Peter and st. Paul in Petro-
grad, the place Of interment of tho
cars. two great candles are always kept
burning. one at the head and the other
at the foot of the casket of the car
last buried.
These candles, which are replaced i'm
mediately they are burned down, have
been kept burning constantly since the
burial Of Alexander II. in 1881. at the
head and foot of his tomb and were
transferred in 1894 to the head and foot
of the next car to die. There they
will remain until another emperor dies
and is buried.
guard Of officials in semi military
uniform is always on duty to keen the
candles trimmed and alight. with strict
orders never to let one go out.
The sacred fire Of Beheran in a temple
in the village Of Oodwada, India, has
been Kept burning. 1t is said, for 1000
years. and is a mecca for thousands of
pilgrims every year The tomb of Tip
poo Sahfb. at Seringapatam, is lit by
a number Of silver lamps which are al
ways kept ahame
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dered pair. After the assassination the
troops were permitted to swarm into
the Konak and completely loot it
Months after art treasures could he
purchased in Belgrade pawnshops for
song. it is said For days after the
murder the city was en- fete.
Col. Maschins detestation of Draga
did not end with her death. He had her
hideous corpse dressed in a pink ball
dress and displayed to the public view.
Alexander's mutilated body was clothed
in a plain suit without orders. Both
bodies were taken away secretly in a
cart at midnight and buried in the
pauper cemetery.
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Porter. assisted by Capt. Creighton
and other naval officers. established a
battery at the White House on the
right bank Of the river. and that Com
modore Perry erected another battery
on the left bank at a place called In
dian Head. According to Mr.. Williams.
They were both assisted by militia
of the District and of Virginia, who
behaved well enough to show tnat.
under the lead of men in whom they
had confidence. every reliance could
be placed in them
Commodore Porter in his report to the
Secretary of the Navy says: The in
trepidity of Capt. Griffith OF the Alex
andria Artillery. his officers and his men.
merit the highest eulogiums. They fought
their six-pounders until their ammunition
was expended. and coolly retired from
their guns when ordered to do so. under
a shower of the enemy's shot: and he
further reports that The militia who
came under my immediate notice and
were attached to my command. volun-
tarily or otherwise, conducted themselves
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pont. When the sappers had scram-
bl.d over planks placed across the gap
a shell from a Russian four-inch how
itzer burst the last rope holding the
two pontoon sections togelner. The
sections swung down stream and the
three officers found themselves on the
Russian side.
The Russians did not fire on them.
They sent cavalry from behind a wood
with the design to capture the Ger
mans. The German shrapnel caught the
cavalry column. wiped half of it out
and sent the rest racing back. The Ger
mans remained untouched for an hour.
during which a terrific artillery duel
was fought across the Vistula.
In the end the German artillery with
drew. Russian horsemen came back
and invited the Germans to surrender.
One Of the engineers did surrender
The staff officer and the other engineer
drew their swords. rushed on. the Rus
sian cavalry and we're hacked to bits.
German reports give Russian officers
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credit for equal courage. The Russian
officers are stated nearly always to
have behaved well. One redeeming
feature of the war is that the accusa-
lions of cowardice. brutality and
treachery which fly from Europe to
America and around the world are
mostly the inventions of stay-at-home
civilians Between the fighting men a
far more chivalrous spirit obtains.
With the nom commissioned ranks this
spirit is weakened by weeks of wait
ing in trenches carpeted with blood and
mud. The officers on both sides are all
right. Many officers report kindly and
chiyalrous treatment from the Rus
slams" and even from the French,
though the Franco-German opposition
is much fiercer than the so-German.
Sometimes the concern of inimical Off
GERS for one another transcends the
consideration they show to their own
comrades.
This happened with the 10th Infantry
Regiment, which gets its men from
HAMBURG and bears the title The
Hamburger Geese" A battalion of the
Hamburger Geese was intrenched for
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VENERABLE sAssAFRAs HOME,
have by

that the twin trees were always a fea-
ture of the Riggs place.
The Rambler was told. while standing
and shivering at the foot of those sassa :
fras trees on a cold and dismal after
noon about three weeks ago, that some
where in Won Humboldt's works it is
mentioned that while staying in Wash
ington he went out to farm near
the city and looked at some old sassa-
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attacks persons who have arrived from
the elevated districts as readily as
in a Spanish frigate for Ha-
vana, where they had lefe part of
their specimens. They remained there
two months, after which they set sail
for the United States. on their passage
to which they encountered a violent
storm that lasted seven days. Arriv-
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The main interest in this tree is
that under its shade Daniel Webster
drank many toddies and mint juleps
1t seems that Mr.. Webster did not
limit his convivial libations to Han
cocks. but practiced good fellowship
at the houses of his friends. He and
born Elizabeth Blackford. was one of
the best favored and brightest witted
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SECOND SOLDIERS SASSAFRAS
Said to be of Washington trees.

lowed" and who dedicated the book
to Col. William w. Seaton, treated very
briefly of the attack on the British
squadron by batteries on the banks of
the river after the ships had slipped
down from in front of Alexandria. He
does say, however. that Commodore
Rodgers, with boats and fire vessels.
attacked and annoyed the rear Of the
enemy's squadron; that Commodore
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searches" condensed and published in
1888 by W. MacGillivray, the Rambler
found reference to his visit to Wash
ington in the following paragraph:
Leaving the capital of New Spain
our travellers descended to the port of
Vera Cruz, which is situated among
sand hills in a burning and unhealthy
country. They happily escaped the
yellow fever which prevails here and
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in a manner which reflects on them and
their country the highest honor Many
before the battle requested to be posted
near me. and there was no instance where
one offered to retire until ! gave the or
der to retire"
Commodore Perry, who comma nded the
militia batteries and infantry at Indian
Head. reported that THE field pieces (six-
poundersJ.. under the direction of that ex-
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GEN. Won FALKENHAYN.
orussian war minister, who is acting
chief of the general staff of the Ger
man army. Gen. Won Falkenhayn In
now graphing with the task of ind
ing officers in the ranks to replace the
scions of the old German aristOcracy
who are being rapidly killed on.
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pontoon bridge at Vilianowo and hoped
to complete it during the night. By this
pontoon bridge his army was to pass.
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women of old Washington. Agg's
place was in charming situation and
the family legend is that he and Dan
iel Webster slipped, or otherwise. many
gladstone beverages beneath that
spreading chestnut tree. This legend
and John Agg's epitaph seem some
what out of tune, but perhaps it only
seems. On the memorial erected to
John Agg by ST. PauIs Church las a
grateful tribute to his memory it Is
chiseled that he was "a communicate.
long the senior member of the vestry
and a faithful and generous friend Of
the church."
AS the Rambler looked at the trunk
of this ivy-eaten chestnut tree his
thoughts strayed across the Eastern
branch to another old chestnut under
which were classic libations and pota-
tions. For under that tree, long ago
blown down, the owner of the place,
George w. Talburtt. and John Howard
Payne grew mellow and meditative or
mellow and vivacious over juleps.
Battery at White House Landing.
IN connection with the operation of
the British in the Potomac and Pa
tuxent rivers and around Washington