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be where they can have Immediately
and see being worn-the newest things
in gowns, hats wraps ana )ifcrdcks,
and comment how they look, and
whether they will take and how they
ought to be worn. The life fascinates
a certain type of discontented Ameri-
can woman-when she has money
They do not love Europe, but the
dress centers.
..They live in the great dressmakinG
establishments. They are not acquaint-
ed with the actresses and demimon-
DANES, whom they so admire. but they
bump up against them, know their
names and love to talk about them.
The tearooms. theaters and night res
taurants continue the excitement
cloak observe So-and-So; she's got
on the hat we priced at Lewis
As to cheap American tourists. his
heart bleeds for them.
Il have seen American tourist parties
ON schedule drop their sick members all
across Europe" he said What else
can they do? Stop. each time. for the
sick one? 1t would be a fragrant in
Justice to all the others. And the others
pant on, to keep up with the process
sion. They are like a pack OF wolves
in winter-woe to the animal that
falls
Cheap American tourists on their
own resources NIL him with equal pity
They lack even the safeguard of a
party" he said. isolated in a hostile
land, $500 miles from their base. every
mistake is a snare. every misunder-
standing a trap, every extortion a sur
prise, every surprise an extortion-and
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New York. he said. my secretary Will
have TO hold me. I'll be liable to jump
the boat Yes. l hired a secretary
TO converse with
ITO hear the dear old language" l
suggested.
No, i said converse. You don't hear
anything but English in Europe;
they've all learned 1t, to get at our
money. No, said converse. The
americans / met were too busy cuss-
ing"
Yet he begrudges neither time nor
money.
II count them years we'll spent. al
though I've suffered" he said when
we first came abroad. my wife had to
tie a rope to our daughters ankle to
keep her from clipping with title, and
] had to watch my wife to stop her
buying diamonds from hotel peddlers
Now we are united family
You have lived the giIded life"
said.
we furnished the gilt he answered
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gamble? No. but you are forced to see
and hear it. The gambling concession
pays for the gardens, fountains. music
fireworks, opera. theater, races, fetes and
promenades. You can see that they eX-
pect you to gamble. hope you will gam
BILE. consider that you ought to gamble
and watch you hungrily when You throw
down your first gold piece. not to rob
them! You cannot get way from the
baccarat, roulette and boule. Where is
every, one after tea? At the Kursaal
Where shall we take turn after din
ner? Naturally. to the tables. don't
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want my old wife to become a gam
bler!''
Americans who won't gamble, he
says. are charged dearcr for their ac-
commodations, and will even be turned
out if good gambler wants them
Gamblers are spenders. That is why
/ order expensive wines, eat a la carte
and tip heavily. Do you know how
we Americans got our reputation for
lavish tipping? BY being forced to do
it. Each American family is alone in
Europe-up against a blank wall of
silence and inertia. Money is our only
weapon. 1t is a magic wand. It turns
sneers and frowns into laughter The
walters laugh behind our backs and the
headwaiter laughs in our face.'
Tip the chambermaid, valet, room
waiter, bath, lift, maitre d'hotel. din
ing room walters, lounge ditto, porter.
groom. chasseur chauffeur porters
and cellarmen-or have your trunk $
marked.
They will mark your trunks with
cabalistic signs" he said, "and YOU
will arrive a dead one at your next
stop. To break down that wall of i'll
will you'll have to tip double"
In spite of all this he did not enioy
himself
we have been lonely in the crowd"
he said. "Of course, the American
abroad can buy company. Quantities
of titled parties, even, will eat our
dinners and ride in our automobiles,
but it is such a strain to keep an eye
on the wife's diamonds. Why should
the right kind of Europeans hobnob
with US? For our charm? Why, we
don't even speak their language. We
see crowds of nice Europeans all around
us. They avoid us like the pest"
The incest foreign acquaintances are
the hotel peddlers. 1t Is a new and
high profession. Its practitioners are
cultivated. tactful, instructive, anus
ing-and pay a commission to the hotel
he says. You meet a gentleman or
lady guest. You take tea together go
sightseeing together. And so it goes
on perfectly. until your tastes and
fads are drawn out. Then, the heavy
batteries-the special bargain oppor-
tunity to pick up just the valuables of
which you have been dreaming.
In London I got talking with Percy
Bivvins, in the palm lounge. Finally.
he took me TO see some wonderful old
family plate-it was his own. In Flor
ence my wife met a contessa whose
daughters husband was brute. To
save her family diamonds from him
she would part with them-to an Ameri-
can. She did not want Italian society
to learn of the transaction"
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every snare. trap. surprise and eA
tortion source of new and unpre-
meditated expense, They have but one
gether. in some hospitable second-class
European town. to rest when dog
tired"
He puts the whole blame on the dis
tance.
Europe is too far and different for
happy American travel" he said.
Nothing is as we expected. The whole
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tail-said it was the style. | pass
them gently
The men are bored to death. he
says. Only the women are sincere.
They are the laughing stock of
Paris and the watering places. those
frivolous expatriated. exaggerated,
Europeanized American women who
jabber mixture of English and bad
French. They stick to the centerS,
where they can get their finery. That
is what they live for. They want to
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MERIC4tNS are
tolerated in Eu-
rope for the r
money"
A cry ri c II
American, W h o
has spent several
years a b r o a d
makes this state
ment. He Is now
in Paris. on his
way home.
Nv hen we sight
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orchestras-out into the blackness and
the night. They drive me daffy. Every-
where in Europe you see those red coats
and wild whiskers. the dulcimer trem-
bling in the midst! Cardas and ragtime
at dinner. supper. promenade and gam
bling What for? Evidently to hypno-
tiZe the mind, to throw the stranger
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dreary round is foreign to US. Take the
theaters. We don't understand a word
that is being said-it is German,
French. Italian. And when we buy q
libretto were afraid that our wife and
child will understand. The American
is clean minded. He sees nothing but
the bare argument of the play-and is
disgusted. He misses the delicate
humor and fancy which the natives ap-
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resting Take the gambling. l don't
care whoop-hurrah for gambling
Americans certainly are not used to
public gambling as social function.
In Europe we find it open and above
board, protected by government, in pre-
tentious surroundings. the social center
OIL each famous resort Not forced to
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head waiter. The grand dukes are bun
koed worse than we are
] begged him to explain.
The fault Is with the leisure class of
Europe" he said. 1T is very mixed, but
1t knows the game, lives the spot and
can run to shelter. 1t makes possible
the so-called life of pleasure-followinG
the seasons, dIing in resorts the life of
fads, fashions and mutual rubbering
Those who profit are smooth sharps of
Europe-hotel men. resort managers re-
taIl shopkeepers, amusement purveyors,
etc. They have the support of the press
because they work for their locality.
Each locality has its turn, called it's
season And the American and the
grand duke are thrown into it all with
out defense,''
He shook his finger at me
There is no deliberate conspiracy, but
II amounts to the same thing The les-
ure class takes its fling and runs to
cover The American must stand his
ground. From the day he lands he is
exposed, he gets no rest, finds no shelter.
must compete. Spend, Spend. Do the
right thing. We want to do the right
thing-we are here to play the game In
winter it Is Monte Carlo or Egypt BY
Easter II will be Biarritz or Rome. Then
the Paris season, then the seacoast, then
the German spas. And during their
season. the hotels, restaurants. thea
ters and shopekeepers double their
prices.
gullible. but because he is clear-sighted
that he plays the part of main goat.
Coming to Europe for the life Of
leisure he must lead it," said the soured
one Leisure? l have been tired ever
since | quit America. The minute We
stop we fall into a hole-emptiness and
boredom. Take the dress suit bunko.
lou must put on your dress suit every
night or else go out IN the back ward
ana smoke with the servants Even the
pest dining room is reserved to even
ing clothes And SO Observation-Disclosures.
casino even with the music under the
trees. you are yellow dog unless YOU
are dressed. Why? Evidently, because
man spends better, gambles higher
and is too polite to kick when in his
dress suit
The gypsy orchestra is OF the same
order of bunk.
I've been running away from gypsy
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into an unreal world of Fictitious gayety
and recklessness. l don't say it's done
for that, but 1t does it.
Americans are the greatest victims. for
a second reason. because they are new
to all this.
I'VE soon catch on he said. but
what's the use? We are always new to
it, and always will be. because it's not
our way-its their game. and we have
to play it, even wi 8e they're home and
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Have your fling and make the Of while chance
lasts Squander yourself play the spend thrift frer away
sspae forces gut and poison your system
will suggests
But don't forget that settling days ahead There be an
accounting-and And if your books aren't balanced
you'll suffer-
o, this isn't a moral hon,iI, a shares
nothing in with copy book naxs does take
inspiration from the tracts and of the and
enenoned old gentlemen who for have sought
insl respect Of self in the bosom Of headong YOUTH
Somehow other society hasn't succeeded sqnay in her
attempt to protect man from himself by attacking his raies
through appeal has taken the situation
in hand and the questions of morality and health being
reduced business equation. The spirit which inspires
lack the dsinerested nobility Of SCIENCE
religion and philanthropy but promises succeed where
theory has failed.
Humanitarann take little credit for the promotion
of eugenics by industry
The market place cold blooded institution
but it develops uison and common
Your employer refuses suffer from your late hours
afford your taby and headaches has your bad
teeth and poor for far long, and ouvnng the
figures which eab ish the cost of ruined Digestion
The efficiency engineer have whetted his appetite for
REFORM They have initiated him the mysteries fuel and
its relation to to his layan
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The Disappointment
of a Rich Man With
the Life Abroad-The
Dress Suit Conspiracy
Guile of the Red
Coated Musicians
Scorn of American
Snobs Tourists AL
ways Pay-Danger of
Being Labeled as a
"Tight-Wad."
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Stand Investigate

the problems Of lost otion and kindred which he
did dream that he Interested Now they training
him to look his units in general scheme Of
production regard them high types of machinery
to the broad law of be engines
which they handle
Just flaued tibers unreliable and likely break
under strain just with faup in his his
body poor selection for post Of responsibility
Just wheels must be examined betting overlooked gears
scrunzed and equipment overhaued regular
likewise and advisable policy periodically subject all
employees exhaustive medical survey that uaLuabe
dudals be taken hand while there yet
for further usefulness and the physically Dorthess eliminated
before personal incompetence deeply affect their
Poor teeth threaten discount alert crucial
moment When jaw is humping with agony mind can't at
the same time jump at opportunity
Unsuspeced weak lungs may force the val
liable aid at the of campaign leopard
izlng the success of a decisiue uenfure
These are the things that business is thinking
Because it pays to have right inevitable ougrowh
OF the spirit will be system of espionage make that
not going What's that-his is republic you
land of liberty? But don't forget that land
in which those who hire liberty guard
Nobody wants to interfere with the other uy around
payaster make that you do interfere
with his rights
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He grinned.

He grinned.
And get bunkoed. What gals me is
the forced consumption l don't mind
spending. I'm glad to spend. but l hate
to be forced. to know that otherwise the
very walters will turn insolent. I have
seen grand duke knuckle down to a
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preciate. No. bar the theater,'
Bar everything.
It's nothing doing" he concluded.
Europe is blind alley. Whenever,
abroad, you see an earnest-faced man
studying, with mixed doubt and pain.
no matter what billboard. guide or
printed notice, set him down for fellow
citizen and sufferer. We are always
seeking. And we never find what we
are seeking STERLING HEILIG
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Special Correspondence of The Star.
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PARIS, March 2s 1914
The Alaska daily empire., 1914-07-17
NrExCo's IMMEDIATE FUTURE.

THE departure of Huerta from
 Mexico by no means settles the
 problems of that country. It slmplifes them and clears the way for their settlement, but they are still there. The situation in Mexico today is not far different from that in the Balkans which followed the London peace treaty. The war Is over and the time for constructive statesman. ship is at hand
 The course Of 5iexico's immediate future will depend largely upon the patriotism of Carranza. Villa and the other generals who have been con. nected with the Constitutlonalist move, ment. They have the necessary army and resources at their command to es, tablish order and to institute and main tain constitutional government in their country. and they have amply proved their capacity to handle the army and resources. If they can curb jealousies and subordinate ambitions such as seen to be the bane Of Latin America. in the interest of the com mon good they can and will succeed
The Alaska daily empire., 1914-07-17
HEARST AND THE COLONEL.

HEARST says the anti,administra- ri tion Democrats should join with
 others of like kidney and sup port The Colonel for the Presidency in 1916. That is being logical on the part of Hearst. Hearst and The Col ouel have much in common. Both are high tarlN men; both are jiugoists and imperiallsts; both are for strong,arm government; both have contempt for lawful and orderly procedure; both be. ueve in those Of the Big Interests" who will work with them and contrib, ute to their ambitions; their methods are similar: both are interruptions Of truth in lighting enemies or in serving those who serve them; both love pow CT: both adore spectacular prominence tlnseltrappings. and applause, and both are careless as to whether the applause Is that Of approval or mere, Iy a sycophantIc bid for favors.
 Only two obstacles seem to stand in the way of the formation of an ad mirable working team in Hearst and The Colonel. One of these is past filled with mouthings at each other and the other the disinclInatiou of eith CT to share the spotlight with anybody else. However the Quarrels between the men have been purely personal. and do not involve princI' ples or beliefs; and both are reaching an age when they might be induced to accept the philosophy that "hali loaf is better than no bread"
The Alaska daily empire., 1914-07-17
Barber Shop for sale for $25o.

A three-chair shop with bath and hot and cold water, lights, carpet sit- ting chairs and table In Day building Douglas. This Is the best location In Douglas; can be inspected at the premises, or inquire of Pete Schramen' 228 Waterfront, back of Pacific Coast dock, Juneau. 6-SO'l'
The Alaska daily empire., 1914-07-17
Avalanche Lode.

Beginning at Corner No. l whence U.S.L.M. No. 1 bears s. S7' 42' w. 50S1.7S 1t. distant; thence N. 3S0 0S' E. $50 1t to Cor. ner No. 2; thence S. 45' 4S' D. 149S 1t. to Corner No. 8; thence s. 3S' 0S' W. 482 1t to Corner No. 4; thence N. 36' 26' W. S2.40 1t. to Corner No. 5; thence N. 590 59' W. 431.60 1t. to Corner No. 6; thence N. 40' AZ W. 401. go 1t. to Corner No. z; thence N. 540 37' w. 2S0.60 1t to Corner No. s; thence N. 39' 57' ". 315 1t, to Cor ner No. 1, the place of beginning. Containing an area of IS. .639 acres. Variation 31o 45' B.
 The names of the adjoining claims Ire the Mammon, North Star, Evening Star Morning Star,( unpatented lode claims and the Homestead patented ode claim. So far as Is at present inown there are no outstanding. valid md subsisting conflicting claims. The location notices of the Cross Bay and ETpector lode claims were re. 'orded on the 18th day of June, 1894. n Book 9 of Lodes, at pages 2S6 and 'S7, respectively, of the records of he Recorder for the Juneau Recording Alaska. The location notice f the Avalanche lode claim was re. orded on the 23rd day of May, 1901, in Book 16 of Lodes, at page 73, of the ecords of the Recorder for the Ju. eau Recording Precinct, Alaska. This notice was posted on the round on the 14th day of May, 1914.
 ALASKA GASTINEAU MINING
 COMPANY, 'y-B L. THANE, Agent and Att
 torney in fact.
 United States Land Office, Juneau, .laska
 It is hereby ordered that the fore oing notice be published in the Daily 'mpire. a newspaper of general circu- Ition published at Juneau, Alaska, for le statutory period of sixty days.
 c. B. WALKER,
 Register. First publication, May 29, 1914. Last publication, |
The Alaska daily empire., 1914-07-17

Circumstances have made the Dem. ocratic party the most available organ ization to be of service to Alaska at the present time. This has added to the ordinary obligations of citizenship of those who are Democrats. They should give their political party their best thought and some of their time.
The Alaska daily empire., 1914-07-17
NELsoNs AUTO STAGE
Juneau.sheop Creek Route

Leaves the Alaskan hotel on schedule, 7:3O a. m., 11:30 a. m. and 5:OO D. m. Leaves Than
 S:OO am. 100, 6:SO, and 9:OO pm.
 Saturdays- Leaves Juneau 11:30 a. m., $500 p. m., 9:00 p. m., and 10:00 D. m. Leaves Sheep Creek 1:OO p. m., 5:30 p. m., 9:30 p. m., and 10:30 D. n. Sunday schedule: as Saturady, last two trips omitted. Special trips between schedule trips can be arranged. Leaves Juneau Office, f29 Front St.. at the Ford Agency. Phone 294
The Alaska daily empire., 1914-07-17
Expeetor Lode.

Beginning at Cor. No. l whence U. S. L. NJ. No. 1 bears N. S2' 45' w. 6243.64 1t. distant; thence x. 38o OS' E. 4S2 1t. to Corner No. 9, thence S. 45' 0S' E. 149S.S0 1t. to Corner No. 3; thence S. 3S0 OS' W. 535 1t. to Corner No. 4; thence N. 620 O2' W. 1920 it. to Corner No. 5; thence N. 45' 41' W. 32O.3O 1t. to Corner No. 6; thence N. 49' 41' w. 159.20 1t. to Corner No. 2; thence N. 390 4S' w. 394.50 1t. to Corner No. 8; thence N. 3S' 02' W. 314.70 it. to Corner No. g.; thence N. 36' 26' w. 199.6O 1t to Corner No. 1, the place of beginning. Containing an area of 1S.920 acres. Variation 31' 45' p.
The Alaska daily empire., 1914-07-17

Those people Of Alaska who would
 use their citizenship to some good pur. pose should utilize the election that takes place this year as an OppOrtuu, ity 10 boost the Territory along the
The Alaska daily empire., 1914-07-17

road of progress and not as a chance to punish a real or fancied enemy or to gratity a grudge. The need of the hour in the North is construction, not destruction.
The Alaska daily empire., 1914-07-17

LOST-Gold locket, initials "J. B." between 4th St.. and City Dock, Doug las. Reward: return to R. R. Hub bard Douglas. f-l44I
The Alaska daily empire., 1914-07-17

WANTED-Girl or woman for gen S50 Distin ave, 7.6.ti
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APPLICATION NO o1s72.
Inlted states Land Office, Juneau, AL
 aska, May 14, 1s14.
NoTIcE E

NOTICE
 Notice is hereby given that the Al ska Gastineau Mining Con pany, a organized and exStlnG un der the laws of the State Of New York and qualified to do and doing business as a corporation at Juneau Alaska, has made application for pat ent for the Cross Bay, Expector ant Avalanche lode claims, Survey No 9S9. situated on the north shore o' Gastineau Channel about three miles southeast of the town of Juneau, Al aska. in the Harris Mining District Territory of Alaska, particularly de scribed as follows, to-wit:
 crosS Bay Lode.
 Beginning at Corner No. whence U.S.L.M. No. 1 bears N. 750 22' w. 7465.16 1t. distant; thence N. 3S' 0S' E. to Corner No. 2; thence 47' 26' E. 1492.20 1t, to Corner No. 8; thence SS0 0S W. 3S5 1t. to Corner No. 4; thence N. 650 39' w. 152 1t to Corner No. 3; thence N. 43' 59' W. 352.7O 1t. to Corner No. s; thence N. 6S' or w. l06.70 1t. to Corner No. z; thence N. 2O' 16' W. 94.70 it. to Corner No. 8; thence N. 57' 39' w. 291.50 1t. to Corner No. 9; thence N. 4O' 46' W. 25770 1t. to Corner No. 10; thence N. 46' 26' W. 265.9O 1t. to Corner No. 1, the place of beginning. Contain. ing an area of 14.603 acres. Va riatlon at all corners 31' 45' E.
Arizona republican., 1914-03-01

was the tables effective centerpiece. Asked to meet the complimented guests were MT. and Mrs. Joe Green, MT. and Mrs. John H. Page and pr. and Mrs Robert Wallace Craig.
 The tennis luncheon at the Country club Wednesday attracted Mrs. Webb Criffen, Mrs. Homer King, Mrs. War ren McArthur, Mrs. Ernest Lewis, Mrs. Roy Parsons, Miss Henrietta Olney, Miss Bunton Turner, Miss FL eanor Sloan and Miss Ruth Jessop. Among those who dropped in later for tea were Mrs. F.. T. Ceilings, Mrs. George Spahr. Mrs Gordon Tweed, Mrs. William M. Seabury, Mrs A. M. Peabody, Mrs. James Westervelt, Mrs. Fen Hildreth and Miss Harriet Hurley.
 Mrs. Aaron Goldberg and Mrs. David Goldberg were hostesses at the Country club yesterday, the tea be- ing one of the most largely attended and delightful of the season.
 Mrs. D. K. Mason made the highest score at auction, which was a feature of the afternoon.
 Among those present were Judge and Mrs. Richard E. Sloan, MT and Mrs. Roy s. Goodrich, MT. and Mrs. William M. Seabury, Mrs. Gordon Tweed. Mrs. William G. Hartranft, Mrs. J. w. Doris, Mrs. Warren Me- Arthur, Mrs c. D. Doris, Mrs George Olney, Mrs c. B. King, Mrs. E. T. Ceilings, Mrs. George Spahr, Mrs. James Westervelt, Mrs Evans Darby, Mrs. Harry Kay, Mrs Fen Hildreth, Mrs. Daniel Francis, Mrs. Roy Wahlen, Mrs. Joseph Lobit, Mrs. Andrew Miller, Mrs. D. H. Burtis, Mrs. Herman Perry De Mund, Mrs. Harry Kennedy. Mrs. Isaac Taft Stoddard, Mrs. J. M. Swetnam, Mrs John Aitken, Mrs. Royal Lescher, Mrs. Sidney J. Ross, Miss Eleanor Sloan, Miss Margaret Bryan. Miss Rose Bell Goldman, Miss Bunton Turner, Miss Selma Goldberg, Miss Harriet Hurley, Miss Butler Miss Ruth Goldberg, Paul Renau Ingles, stephen Jennings. Laurence Holden, Irving de R. Miller. J. E. Rowlands, Chester Goldberg and Walter Martin.
 Several theatre parties have been formed for Margaret Ellington. Tues day evening. A congenial coterie at tending Within the Law" will be Dr. and Mrs. Robert Dunlap, MT and Mrs. Ned Creighton, Miss Adalessa Wilson and William Fickas.
 Mrs. Joseph H. Kibbey, who en- tertained with auction on several oc- casions this winter, has postponed the remainder of the series until after Lent. The afternoons will be among springs attractive affairs. Congratulations are being extend CT MT. and Mrs. Clarence Cole, of Los Angeles, over the arrival of a daughter, who will be called Barbara Jean.
 Assistant Secretary of State and Mrs. R. E. McGillen (Eleanor Mur- phy) will arrive Wednesday from Colorado Springs. where they passed their honeymoon. Their marriage