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The daily Alaskan., 1914-11-11
THE POOR PLANTER

Through the southern members failed to induce congress to vote S25O,O0O,OOO or some other huge sum of public money as a subsidy to the distressed planters Of the South, the poor cotton grower does not lack sympathetic and influential friends in Washing ton and is not to go without sub stantial assistance, says the Cleye- land Leader.
 In his announcement that the new regional reserve banks will be- sin operation November 16, though their directors asked for two weeks moro for preparation, Secretary of the Treasury McAdoo makes plain the reason for his haste in distributing S4OO,0OO.OOO Of national bank reserve funds, "as large au amount of government funds as possible" where it will be available for loans to bank GUS toners. By this means" says the secretary, and through the agency of the federal reserve banks l hope to give additional assistance to that already given by the treas ury department to the cotton pro ducers, the cotton industry and the business men of the South"
 Simultaneously with MT. Me Adoo's announcement The Leader published a letter from a northern man in Texas, relating his obserya- tions Of the poor cotton grower and his companion in distress, the southern business man. Readers must have found the letter highly instructive, both as to the need of So much substituting and as to the probable methods Of it's manage ment.
 Briefly, the writer pictured the Texas cotton grower as more often than not a wandering, shiftless, impecunious tenant farmer, Operat- ing on borrowed money and fore ing the landlord to do the same. Though the department of agricul- ture has been urging them for years to raise food crops, the let ter state, both classes refuse to plant anything but cotton, the leg islature has failed to lim& the cot
The daily Alaskan., 1914-11-11
C-cfaad and Ships.

Thr dru;ard for morc ships was heard ju England aS far back as the sixteenth rrncury. In l5IT-eIeven years before the ArmUda-Dr. John Dec published his proposals for the es- tab,sMmvui uf a petty navy royal" It was tu consist or three score tall shfpS or more. but in no case fewer; that hpnrefo;th neither France. Den, mark. Scotland. Spain nor any other country can have such liberty for iE- vaslon or their mutual conSpiracies or aids. uhy way transporting, to annoy the hleSSed state of our tranquility; as either they have in times past had. or else may have. whenSover they will forget the observing of their sworn or pretended ty."-London Spectator.
The daily Alaskan., 1914-11-11
NOTICE TO TAXPAYERS

The assessment books of taxable property in the Town of Skagway, (both real and personaD for the year 1914, is now in my hands, and taxes levied upon same are now due and payable.
 Taxes will be received at the office of the Town Treasurer be tween the hours of 9 q. ID. and 9 p. m.
 All unpaid RXes upon real pro perty, as shown by the revised as sessment book, will be delinquent at 6 o'clock D. m. on the last day of February next preceding, an unless such taxes are paid prior thereto they will become delinquent, and twenty per Cent of the amount thereof will be added thereto, as penalty, and interest charged at the rate Of eight per cent per annum from date of delinquency un- til paid.
 All unpaid taxes upon personal property, as shown by the revised assessment book, will become de- linquent on the last day of No vember 1914, and unless such taxes are paid prior thereto, pen alty of twenty per cent will be added thereto, and interest charg- ed at the rate of eight per cent per annum, from date of delinquenc until paid:
 And that thereafter if said de- linquent personal property taxes, to- gether with the penalty and inter est, are not paid on demand from the Chief of Police, sufficient of the personal property belonging to the person whom the property was assessed, will be immediately seiz- ed and sold go satisfy said taxes, penalty and interest, as provided by Sec. 19. Ordinance No. 69-
 MARTIN CONWAY
 Town Treasurer of
 the Town of Skagway,
 Alaska. 11-5-d2w.
The daily Alaskan., 1914-11-11
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- Druggists refund money if PAZO OINTMENT fails to cure itching, blind, bleeding or protruding piles. First application gives relief, soc.
The daily Alaskan., 1914-11-11

Have you seen the Skagway Booster Remnants at Keller Bros. Tiey are classy glassy, sassy pen ants, Ger one for youE home
The daily Alaskan., 1914-11-11

FIVE GOOD ONES TO DRAW TO.
 Pebblerord and Gibson Rye. Bud weiser, Blue Ribbon and Pale Rain Ter Beer at the Board of Trade.
The daily Alaskan., 1914-11-11
MARTIN CONWAY

Town Treasurer of the Town of Skagway, Alaska. 11-5-d2W.
The Washington herald., 1914-01-11

Pinchot. I approved IL. The necessary
papers were Immediately prepared I
signed the last proclamation a couple Of
days before, by my signature, the bill
became law: and, when the friends of the
special interests in the Senate got their
amendment through and woke UP. they
discovered that 100000 acres of timber
land had been saved for the people by
putting them in the national forests be-
fore the land-grabbers could get at them.
The opponents OF the Forest Service
turned handsprings in their wrath; and
dire were their threats against the Execu-
tive; but the threats could not be carried
out, and were really only a tribute to the
emciency Of our action.
Fire I'm the Forests.
By 1908, the fire prevention work Of the
Forest Service had become so successful
that S. per cent of the fires that did
occur were held down to an area of nye
acres or less. and the timber sales. which
yielded $4,000 In 1906, in 1898 produced
$4,000. In the same year, in addition to
the work on the national forests, the
responsibility for the proper handling Of
Indian timberlands was laid upon the
Forest Service, where il remained with
great benefit to the Indians until IL was
withdrawn, as a part Of the attack on the
conservation policy made after 1 left
Office.
Half q Million Acres.
By March 4. 1909, nearly half a million
acres of agricultural land in the national
forests had been opened to settlement
under the act of June II, 1906 The
business management OF the Forest
Service became so excellent, thanks to
the remarkable executive capacity OF the
associated forester, Overton W. Price
(removed after 1 left office). that ii was
declared by a well known firm of business
organizers TO compare favorably with the
best managed OF the great private corpo-
rations, an opinion which was confirmed
by the report of a Congressional investi-
cation. and by the report OF the Presi-
Dental committee on department method,
The area OF the national forests had in
creased from 5000 to ls4 O00 900 acres:
the force from about 500 TO more than
500. There was saved for public use
in the national forests more government
timberland during the seven and One-haIf
years prior to March 4, 1919. than during
all previous and succeeding years put
together.
The Washington herald., 1914-01-11
THE EMOTIONAL DRONE.
By ANNIE HINRICHsEN.
Copyright. lsll


Look at that couple" There was good
natured derision in Edward Vernon:
voice.
What is the matter with them?'
Phyllis Lane asked.
The couple was a young man and q
grass near the road eating thick han
sandwiches-lunch counter ham sand
wiches.
"They are evidently living in a blissfu
DREAM said Vernon. "A man and q
woman must be madly in love when they
ca sit on the damp grass by the road
side, eat cold trash and beam rapturously
at each other between bites He is q
clerk in Hilton's Bank. She Is a stenog
ra" er This is a holiday and they ars
spending 1t in the country. They drove
out in a decrepit livery rig. Can you
imagine how two intelligent persons, an6
they are intelligent, can be so deeply ir
lovs as to enjoy that sort of outing just
because they are together"
There was a wistful look In Phillis
eyes. They are very happy" she said
The girls face is really tender with joy
and the man has the exalted look of q
conquering hero.
why shouldn't they be happy and en-,
joy their ham sandwiches" she went or
little savagely. They have their love
for each other. What more is needed -
Il should like to be so much in love
with a girl that could consider that sort
OF excursion bowling JOY" he said
cynically.
And t. said Phyllis earnestly. "ex,
pect to love a man so dearly that a ham
sandwich with him will be a banquet
and a decrepit livery rig will be a
chariot"
Vernon turned suddenly toward her.
what do You mean?' he asked a-,azed-
y. You viii marry me and I shall not
taxi you on pastoral excursions"
Il shall not marry your
why, Phyllis, it has always been
understood that We should be married
some day."
have never understood anything OF
the kind. You are not at all the sort
OF man 1 wish to marry. You are emo
tionally lazy. You are good-looking,
clever and successfulN Your family
tree Is one of the finest in the State.
Our families and friends-and perhaps
you-have always taken it for granted
that we are perfectly suited to each
other. We are not. / want a man who
does not believe that the material
things of life are all that constitute
happiness. The man and the girl We
passed have very little money. But
they are gloriously happy because love
Is everything to them. They are hap
pier in that ramshackle livery rig than
you and I are in this stunning automo-
bile. Their sandwiches have a finer
navor than the expensive luncheon we
shall eat at the country club. l like
you, Edward, but / shall marry for
love, and the man will not be an emo
tional drone. He will be thoroughly
alive to the value Of immaterial
DO you mean that red-headed doc
tor?' Vernon demanded. Phyllis, have
you engaged yourself to him? He is
Just the sort Of man romantic girl
would lose her head over"
'Dr. Melford Is one of the finest men
have ever known He will never
marry a woman just because he has, al
ways known her or because their fami-
lies approve, or because their fortunes
are equal. or for any other dull. stupid
reason He win marry because he
The Washington herald., 1914-01-11
CUNNINGHAM'S TURN.
By CHESTER HARRINGTON.
Copyright, 1914,


The door of the private Office opened,
Cunningham looked up from the litter
of papers on his desk to see Miss Craig
standing there with a sheaf OF letters
for him to sign. Cunningham pulled
forward a chair.
..sit down a moment. won't your" he
asked.
Some more letters?" she asked.
No" said Cunningham. mo, I want
your opinion"
Miss Craig sat down. Cunningham pre-
tended to be busy with the letters she
had just brought in. In reality he was
looking at her out of the tail of his
eye. She was an amazingly pretty girl.
Moreover, she was young. She couldn't
be over twenty at the most. Cunningham
was suddenly aware that he was thirty
six and that his hair was beginning TO
thin out alarmingly On top. He had
been aware for some time that Miss
Craig was a very pretty and a very
charming young woman. and the more he
had become aware of IL, the more he had
realized also how nearly bald he was.
Taken together. they were dangerous
symptoms.
Cunningham had worked up by his
own efforts to the position of general
manager of the Crawford Motor Com
pany. He hadn't had time to think of
much else but work until lately. Now
he was beginning to think Of other things
. that bald head-o- nearly bald head
obtruded itself persistently in his line OF
vision.
Cunningham took another glance at
Miss Craig out of the tail of his eye
and his heart sank. He felt sixty il he
felt day.
Miss Craig sighed softly. That made
Cunningham aware-even as it was in
tended to do-that it was nearly five.
He sprawled his signature across the
tcpmost sheaf of letters and turned In
his chair. Miss Craig had all her
poise with her that day. Cunningham
gulped and felt decidedly foolish. But
he had to say something. So he began,
lamely enough:
Have they grated you for it, too?'
For what?" said she.
THE present for Billy Coyle?'
She smiled.
81 gave them ST. she said.
Cunningham frowned.
I'm against this sort of thing" said
he I'm my opinion it should be stop
ped. Every time any one in tins Office
gets married they give him present.
That's all right enough in itself. But
each time it's a better present; each
tune they expect yon to come up with
a little more
Miss Craig nodded, as If in complete
sympathy with his mood.
Now me-" said Cunningham. I've
given this past year by strict account
s57 for wedding presents to the office
force, and the year Is young yet: also,
there are a great many unmarried peo-
pie, male and female, yet on the force.
The end Is not In sight, you see"
Miss Craig said: They have gone IL
pretty steep on some of the last pres
ents'
Cunningham nodded vigorously
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Il don't know how I'm going to get
back even with 'em unless / go and ger
married myself" said he.
Miss Craig smiled She seemed u
take it as a joke. Hang 1t! Why
should it be a joke. his getting married
Only 1 wouldn't know where TO look
for the girl or how to ask her." said he
Miss Craig smiled again. I've put n
over SO this year. I've been wondering
IL there was any way for me to get
square outside OF matrimony. It's been
an awful nuisance sometimes. Why
when they took up the subscription fol
Alice Marr's present I needed a new
dress. 1t strapped me dreadfully.
needed the $3.50 I had to give toward
the present to go into the dress"
"Matrimony's the only way to get back
at EN-" said Cunningham oracularly.
i've known that for some time. I be-
lieve l will get married, just to get my
present that's long over. Why don't you
do the same?"
Miss Craig flushed. CUNNINGHAM
thought for the moment she was angry.
but she made no motion to leave. SO he
took heart.
He picked up a pencil and began to
scrawl little curlicues on the blotter.
Say, what a whale of an idea 1t would
be for two people, both in this office, to
get married. That would have 'em cold.
They'd have to come up with a regular
old elephant OF a present, a regular double
one, wouldn't they? Say, that's one
bright little idea. What do you think of
it,"
1T would depend entirely on who the
two people were" said she.
Something in her level tones sent Cum
ningham's risen hopes dashing downward
We'll, say Peter Gregg and Miss Stiles" I"
he said desperately.
Those two? Goodness! Why she's old
enough to be Peters grandmother"
Cunningham drew more curlicues. He
drew an amazing amount of them, in
fact.
'swell, might say you and I, IL I
weren't afraid you'd say was old enough
to be your grandfather"
Miss Craig Redeemed. She arose from
the chair.
II think that witticism is in very poor
taste" said she.
1T isn't a witticism," said Cunning
ham. I'm in dead earnest"
She looked at him doubtfully.
81 am he declared with hoarse des-
peration.
Then somehow his hand went up to that
thinning hair OF his.
uOOu HSdNcue, WHdt dIll Saying ne
cried.
"Oh, you may take IL back" said she,
moving toward the door.
But say, don't want to take it back"
he declared.
She halted. Cunningham hesitated,
then he darted across the little room
and caught her hand.
Miss Craig-er-Olga-er," he was
stammering wretchedly now. We've
got to get that present out of 'em.
Look, they owe you. by your own con-
fession, some SO for this year alone.
They owe me s57. Then there's back
dues for us both. II we get married
and they do as they should, it'll Just.
about break the whole crowd, and
that's what I want. There's SO few
of the single ones left now that I
don't hesitate. Lets-let's do it; dare
you"
She said, her head turned away: IT'S
very foolish to be married to make
some one give you a present"
Good mercifu1 heavens, you don't
think I care a darn about their old
present if I get you. do your"
Whereupon. thinning hair or no, he
caught her in his arms.
"But-but think, for discipline, we
better let 'em give us the present just
The Washington herald., 1914-01-11
Colonel Says When He Became President Government Re
serves Were IN Care Of Division Of the General Land
Office Under Management Of Clerks, Few Of Whom
Ever Had Seen Foot Of the Ground for
Which They Were Responsible.

bulletins; and at the same time the
bureau undertook, through the newspa-
per and periodical press, TO make all the
people OF the United States acquainted
with the needs and the purposes of prac-
tical forestry.
1t is doubtful whether there has even
been elsewhere under the government
such effective publicity-publicity purely
in the interest of ti-s people-at 80 low q
cost. Before the educational work Of
the Forest Service was stopped by the
Taft administration. ii was securing the
publication of facts about forestry in
fifty million copies Of newspapers a
month at a total expense Of 5000 a year.
Not ! cent has ever been paid by the
Forest Serxice to any publication of any
kind for the printing of this material
1t was given out freely, and published
without cost because 1t was news. With
out this publicity the Forest Service could
not have survived the attacks made upon
it by the representatives OF the great
special interests in Congress; nor could
forestry in America have made the rapid
progress IL has
A Fine Force of Experts.
The result of all the work outlined
above was to bring together in the
Bureau of Forectry, by the end of 1904,
government, and practically all of the
nrst-hand Information about the public
forests which was then in existence. In
1905, the obvious foolishness of continu-
ing to separate the foresters and the for
ests. he-enforced by the action of ths
First National Forest Congress, held in
Washington, brought about the act of
February ], 1906, which transferred the
national forests from the care of the
Interior Department to the Department
of Agriculture. and resulted in the crea-
ton of the present United States Forest
Service.
The men upon whom the responsibility
of handling some 100000 acres of ma
ti:nal forest lands was thus thrown were
ready for the work, both in the office
and in the field, because they had been
preparing for it for more than five years
Without delay they proceeded, under the
leadership OF Pinchot, to apply to the
new work the principles they had al
ready formulated. One of these was to
open all the resources of the national
forests to regulated use. Another was
that OF putting every part Of the land
TO that use in which II would best serve
the public. Following this principle, the
act Of June II, 1o6 was drawn and its
Passage was secured from Congress. This
law throws open to settlement all land
In the national forests that is found, on
examination, to be chiefly valuable for
agriculture. Hitherto all such land had
been closed to the settler.
The principles thus formulated and ap-
Piled may be summed up in the statement
The Washington herald., 1914-01-11

Copyright. lsliD
1t was about two years after the death
of Amos Taylor's wife that he sat on a
sawlog in his mill yard one day with
Deacon Goodhue.
Brother Amos" the deacon began.
there are reports about that you are to
take another wife,
Reports be darned" replied the hearty
widower.
at is reported that you have selected
Miss Hannah Rathburn."
"The report lies. deaconr'
"a very estimable lady"
She's an old maid,'
cretion."
You mean years OF Stiffness and home
iness. Say, deacon, she's over forty. and
yet she's as kittenish as a girl of fifteen"
Hannah can neither help her age nor
her looks, and It is well that she has
bounding spirits" sagely observed the
deacon.
'I guess they wouldn't bound quite so
high If she had the care Of houseI No.
she can't help her LONELINESS. but
wouldn't have 1t sitting opposite me at
table three times q day for no money.
Hannah is a good woman, but she is not
for me-not for Amos Taylor"
Mrs. Goodhue will be quite disappoint-
ed"
''Then she'll have to get over it,
'And the dear Miss Rathburn-'
She'll have to do the same. Say. dea-
con, the only time / ever spoke ten words
to her at once was at the church straw
berry festival. last year, and then what
strawberries than huckleberries any day
in the week" ........
."And what did she say asked the
deacon.
.She said she had, too"
The deacon arose with a sigh and
brushed OF the dust.
"Then II any one should ask Mrs.
Goodhue-T'
''She can tell them that I'm getting
along too well to want to marry any
woman on earth. can cook, sweep,
make bed. darn my own socks, and
patch my own trousers. and what do
want to get married again for?'
The deacon sighed again and wandered
away. and Amos looked after him and
growled: me marry Hammer Rathburn!
Well, 1t will be when bull thistIes grow
grapes!"
Mrs. George Ross. widow of the late
George Ross, the village carpenter. had
been q widow about as long as Amos
pie had wondered II she would marry
again. but no one had connected her name
with any widower.
Had Amos Taylor been thinking of re-
marriage her name would have headed
his list of elisibles. as he knew her to be
q bright, smart woman.
Who can fathom a widows heart?
Who can guard against a widows
wiles?
It came to the ears Of Mrs. Ross that
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I You did"
And it was Hammer that hollered At
me?"
1T was. She not only shouted at you.
| but dashed forward and grabbed you by
the coat-tails and hauled you back from
the brink OF DEATH
THE brink of = mud puddle: Did I
| marry her again?''
You did"
Then / ought to be kicked. even II
| 1t was a dream. Do You fgger that it's
Hammers thinking of me all the time that
| makes you dreamT'
why. it's hard to tell about that. II
Hannah is dreaming the same dreams
and a spiritualist would probably say she
was. then-then-"
! Then what?'
Then she must naturally reason that
you are thinking of her.
But 1 amt, only when We are talking
of her"
Everybody says that Hannah would
make a good wife for somebody" quietly
observed the widow.
Then why in heck don't somebody
marry her!'
II know that she is saving and econom-
icaL She can make a patr Of shoes last
one-third longer than I can"
Probably goes Darefoot half the time"'
"She is a great hand to hunt for bar
gains at the store"
Saves a cent a week by it,
''She is good-tempered and always
cheerful"
But I'm telling you. widow. that don't
want herr almost shouted Amos. And
I'll say further that IL Hammer Rathburn
don't stop butting in and saving my life
she's going to hear from me, and don't
you forget II! I won't stand to be
chased around by a homely old maid!'
Poor. poor Hannah was the tribute
of the widow as she turned homeward.
When four days had passed without an
other call at the sawmill Amos appeared
on Mrs. Ross doorsteps. On being in
vited in he almost whispered: ANY more
dreams?'
please don't ask me-"
But I want to know-I must know.
This thing is gittin' mighty serious for
me. Has Hammer saved my life again?'
You have a water jug at the sawmill,
haven't you9"
Yes"
"a lot of potato bugs which had been
eating Paris green might crawl into II
out?"
Yes. by George. and the cork is out
half the timet"
And IL you were about to drink and
Hannah Rathburn suddenly appeared and
dashed the jug from your handsr'
"Butted In again, did she? Now, by the
Lord Harry. this has got to stop. and you
have got to help me stop it!'
But poor Hannah couldn't stand by
and see you poison yourself"
Poor Hannah to Texas! This evening
I'm coming to ask you to marry me,
Think 1t over
who can fathom a widows heartr
Who can guard against . widows
wilesg'