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The Alaska citizen., 1914-06-08

WASHINGTON. D. C., June B. President Wilson has accepted the invitation of the officials Of the Naval Academy at Annapolis, to be present at the graduating exercises at the college on Friday, and present inc diplomas to the graduating class.
The Alaska citizen., 1914-06-08

VERA CRUZ. June 1. Jack Lon don. the author who is acting as war correspondent in Mexico, was taken seriously ill today. He is suffering from intestinal trouble.
 RERElS 6 DENIED HEARING
The Alaska citizen., 1914-06-08

Sulzer, at present holding a position as state assemblyman, to which place he was elected shortly after being busted from the governorship, an- nounces that he will run independent ly in the forthcoming gubernatorial race.
 ANOTHER" JONES BARRED.
 VICTORIA, B. C.. June Hear ing that Mother Jones might cause trouble among the coal miners of British Columbia, the Canadian i'm migration officials have sent word to the little old woman of the mines" warning her that she will not be permitted to cross the line from the United States.
 Mother Jones is now making a tour of the coal mines of the North west, and it was feared that she would invade Canadian territory.
 GARRISON INVITED.
 WASHINGTON, D. C., June B. Secretary of War Garrison has ac- cepted an invitation to do the hon. ors at the West Point graduating exercises, which will be held at the military academy next Wednesday. The secretary will make the chief address of the day and present the diplomas to the graduates.
 STORM KILLS FOUR.
 CLEVELAND, O., June 5.-Four persons were killed and many in jured during an electrical storm which visited this section this aft ernoon Considerable property loss also was sustained
 TALLEST FLAGPoLE RAISED.
 SAN FRANCISCO, June 5.-The longest single-piece flagpole in the world was raised into place at the Panana-Pacific International expo sition grounds this afternoon, and from it's top now floats an exposition flag of corresponding proportions. The pole was presented to the eX- position officials by the people of Astoria, Oregon, and measures 222 feet in length.
 MORGAN HAS OPERATION.
 NEW YORK, June 5.-Henry Nor gan, youngest son of the late J. Pierpont Morgan. was operated on today for appendicitis. He will re- cover
 coRPoRATiO IN TROUBLE.
 PORTLAND, Ore, June 5.-That more than a million and half dol lars of the funds of the United
The Alaska citizen., 1914-06-08

MADRID, June 4.-klng AIphonso and Kermit Roosevelt were the guests of honor at an elaborate func ton which was given at the Ameri- can legation last night by Ambas- sador Willard in honor of the ap- preaching marriage of his daughter to the son of the former President of the United States.
 The wedding is scheduled to take ,,lo1o payt ThIlrc6av
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hickory, and then when we examine
Kim to see why he is laughing. he
smirks and purrs and his iron sides
resound with promises to act like
well behaved hot-water plant when the
/ fire within him is lighted.
You know he is a demon, because
when Mary begins to say:
Goodness, what a cold morning! We
must have the furnace lighted soon,
the furnace loses one of its most i'm
portant long pokerS 1t is poker that
YOU must have to get the fire going,
mention is made of the approaching
frost. No dumb animal would act like
that unless it had a devil within him.
No regular furnace would start off the
season by deliberately losing it's poker
unless it were demon.
Mary'S card club decides to meet at
our house, and that day the Demon de-
! cides to be lighted for the winter. The
house has been swept aloft and below,
and vacuum cleaned until the carpets
all say Ouch and the weave and the
warp and the wool and the patterns
shah's own choicest prayer rug could
shine no better. There is a spirit of
band-boxiness about the house that
BODIES we'll for a smart little card party,
with things to eat and much gossip.
So we light the Demons innards in
the morning. early. We put in news
papers, shavinss. kindling, and touch
match to the paper, and away goes
the blaze, cracking and leaping up the
chimney with roar. The little boys
in the neighborhood-God bless 'em,
every one-run to see the white smoke
coming from the chimney as If it were
a seven days wonder. and the pillar
| of white marks a new era in the house,
hold year, an era of deep distress.
Suddenly the smoke stops going up
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drafts, hoping the clogged CRATE won't
interfere too much with the draft, and
within an hour there really is a marked
Improvement in the fire, but l know
that the CRATE means trouble. ! know
, that unless it moves. sooner or later that
fire will die out, Choked to death with
ashes Every now and again during the
evening I go down and try to shake it.
but it is firmly stuck Once | put on
rubber -soled shoes and sneaked up on II
in the dark. grabbed il furiously and
suddenly and with a murderous grip en-
deavored to choke it loose. but all the
Demon did was to gurgle in its pipes.
That night | had troubled dreams.
Early next morning | was about with
long handled steel rod, showing the ashes
down into the belly of the Demon. for
the CRATE would not move AN inch. and
discovered that AS soon as | put coal
into the fire it turned to unburnable
slate. The weather was getting worse
and worse outside, and the Demon vas
getting worse and worse inside and the
coal was scarcely burning at all.
And so it went for several days, until
one day when granite itself would freeze
the Demon chuckled AT me. and his fire
went out absolutely. because the CRATE
wouldn't move, There were ashes clog
ged in that Demons innards hard and
fast that l almost had TO get dynamite
and blast them out. They made worse
clouds of choking atmosphere than the
| smoke did. and filed the house ami the
| neighborhood. They made pile bigger
than the Demon itself. How can a furnace
conceal much ashes
And | Was AS black as SCOT and gray
AS a rat; my hair vas gritty and my eyes
We're filled from one lid to the other. and
al every NOV" the Demon either bit me
or burned me. and " hands We're raw
and bloody. and the hes sifted into the
sore places. and woe heavy upon ne
Not only ashes came out but huge
piles of slate and great masses of
clinkers which look like lava, and
finally, after many weary hours, the
Demon--cleaned within and without
but the CRATE refuses to move.
There is nothing in the CRATE No
ashes. no slate. no coal. no clinkers.
know it. for I have crawled into the
head in the underneath part of the
Demon and have gazed through my
ash strewn eyes at every profane part
of that CRATE. and ! know that it is
just the Demons Economical perversity
which keeps the CRATE hard and fast
SO at last with a roar ! beat the
CRATE with a BROW bar-and 10. it
glided easily beneath the touch as
toy yacht The crate bars moved
up and down in unison. the handle re-
sponded to the touch-thcre was
naught wrong. And there was the
Demon looking at me with an injured
And that has happened five times
1t will probably happen five times
again, and five times more after that
and keep on until the river of trouble
reaches the gulf of despair and swells
out into the boundless seas and the
| waters shall rush over me and the
waves shall cover my head. Selah.
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Why Unc' Billy Possum Was
Worried.

1t isn't often that Unc' Billy Postum
worries. He says he can't afford to
that the surest way to get gray and old
is to worry. So it is seldom that Unc'
Billy allows anything to worry him.
But tonight he was worried. There
was no denying it. He admitted it to
himself.
"Ah wish All had stayed at home. All
sho'ly do he muttered to himself as
he put one hand behind an ear and
listened. From the edge of the Old
Orchard came the clear. ringing voice
of dog, an excited dog Then an
other voice Joined in. This was great,
deep voice. Unc' Billy knew it right
away. He had heard it before. 1t was
the voice of Bowser the Hound.
Louder and louder and more and more
excited sounded the two voices. They
were coming nearer and nearer. He
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THEY WERE MUCH TOGETHER
SITTING ON THE. ROCKS

strong breeze. She sprang up and
ran after it. but it was headed for
the water, and she would never have
got il again had it not been for Mr..
Dempster. He had come out on the
sands to smoke, had seen the runaway
parasol and was quicker than she. He
snatched 1t just as it was about to
collide with wave, and restored it
to her. Miss Sue was very grateful,
and she tried to tell him so. The in
cident acted as an Introduction, and
after that they always spoke. Once
or twice he even talked to her a lit
tie while at the table, much to the
annoyance of the lady at his right
and the other lady opposite him. 1t
other women should find her so diff
ferent as to feel it remarkable that Mr..
Dempster should even speak to her:
1t was joyful surprise to her when.
without any previous announcements,
old Mrs. Dollar returned--so joyful that
she gave a little cry and kissed the
ugly cheek nearest her. Old Mrs DOL
lar did not look displeased.
MY dear child. believe you've
missed me- she said.
missed you" stammered Miss Sue.
We'll. perhaps you'll understand how
much / have missed you when l tell
you that only one person has talked to
me all the time you've been gone, and
that's MIR. Dempster."
Mr.. Dempster, eh?" returned old Mrs.
Dollar. And who introduced your
Miss Sue told her that they had not
been introduced properly. but that he
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TIES KNOTS IN EYE MUSCLE.
The Latest Method of Curing
SQUIRTING.

From the Philadelphia Ledger
A remarkable operation, representing
the latest step in eye surgery and consist
inp of a method of tying knots III one of
the muscles Of the eye to shorten 1t ana
restore muscular balance. thereby curing
su,,int ewes. was described by DR.. Will
liam Zentmayer at u meeting of the Wits
Hospital Ophthalmic Society, which met
at the Wills Eye Hospital. 1t attracted
great attention from the eye specialists
present.
The operation has been named the
"C'Counor method, after the originator,
a western physician, who formerly was
connected with the Wills Eye Hospital.
The usual surgical operation for squi!lt
ewes is to shorten one Of the eye muscles
by taking out a section, but it has the dis
advantage that frequently the sutures
used to refasten the muscle will tear loose
because of the strain. In the new method
the strain is taken up by the muscle itself
and there is no tearing Of the sutures.
One of the hospital physicians said:
In the few cases in which the new
operation has been applied the suture
seems to be soon absorbed. the knots of
muscle gradually fiatten out without.
however making the muscle longer, and
the shortened muscle perfectly does its
work of moving the eye5all and exerting
the pulling action which brings the eye
in alignment with the other one. The
opera ton can be used in both types of
sauint, convergent well as divergent,
by shortening the proper muscle. The new
operation is considered most interesting
and is distinct advance in the surgery
of the eye.
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There is 4 demon in my house. 1t
has eyes of spite and malice: swollen
body of iron and woe; a mouth of ha-
tired and its innards are molten fire He
consumes me. and my days and nights
are given over to lamentations.
There is d demon in my house, / re-
peat, and it's name is Furnace. This
is an expensive demon. a hot-water
plant, with all the didos and fixins
that The Man said would insure an
even temperature To hear The Man
talk, you would think that the furnace
got down and attended itself, absorbed
coal by itself. elected ashes, opened its
own drafts and regulated the heat
which RACES through the pipes on
warm days and disappears utterly
when the north wind brings billiards.
and frozen plumbing You would think
that the furnace would be as simple to
light and to burn as the smallest and
simplest Kerosene stove, or as easily
dealt with as a primitive lamp.
Yes. perhaps it would if l knew the
secret Perhaps if l had an Arabian
Nights lamp to rub and transform
that hateful demon into a beneticent
genii who would glow with effulgent
life, giving heat and warm up the
pipes. l. too, would like the furnace
Hu, l. have no lamp to rub All / have
IS trouble.
In the late summer we go over the
demon and massage him and rub him,
clean him within and without. take
from him SCOT and ashes and whatever
ha; been tossed into his capac1ous
nav during the summer by vagrom
wanderers, who stay erStwhile and
take money under the utterly false
pretense that they know something
about the housemaid's art. We draw
the water from the coils which are
cunningly placed about the house. and
then refill the pipes. We look at the
CRATE Its teeth are sharp and it's
Segments work up and down beauti-
fully, promising to shake the ashes
evenly and never. never, never become
clogged with clin<ers.
And then we have the coal put in.
Many tons of two kinds of coal, and
near it hard shaving men pile cords of
hickory. It's going to be cold WIN
ter, the weather. wise say, and it's best
to put the fuel in early.
And close AT hand sits the Demon. He
grins at the men putting in the coal.
and almost laughs aloud in his pipes
at the kindling wood and the tWo-foot
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didn't need to see them to know that
these two dogs were heading straight
for the Green Forest and that their
noses were in the tracks Of somebody.
The thing that worried INC Billy
Postum was the fact that he had no
way of knowing just which somebody
they were following the tracks of, and
it made a difference. very great dit
ference, to inc Billy.
"Brer Fox and Brer Coon both done
been up through the or Orchard this
evening, and both done come back this
way to the Green Forest" muttered
INC Billy, as he peered anxiously back
among the trees the way he had come.
We done all three come down the
Lone Little Path. and now An don
know which OF US those dogs are fol-
lowing. If it's po' iii me All wants to
be moving right smart TO nah old
holler tree, but if it isn't me All don
want to move no NOR TO fear they
will find nah tracks If it was jes'
dogs All wouldn't mind. No. sir. All
wouldn't mind. All All would have
to do would be to climb tree and
laugh at EN-. But Ali done be power
full suspicious that there are men with
those dogs, and that they wouldn't
like anything better than to catch po'
OF INC Billy Postum. and If that is so
this isn't any place TO your Unc'
BILL
Poor Uncle Bill<', One minute he was
ready to hurry ON and the next he de-
cided not to. In the first place, he
was so fat that the very thought of
running far OF fast gave him a tired
feeling. For weeks, while food was
! plentiful and easy to get. he had been
stufting himself with good things. You
see. he knew that when the cold
| wea Their. the season of snow and ice,
came IL would not be easy to get food.
So he had been getting fat that he
might not need it then and could sleep
much of the time when il was uncom-
Portable to be abroad.
Bow wow-ow- ow-ow Bow-ow WOW
/ ow- ow- ow." roared the voices, drawing
very near. There were other voices.
the voices OF men, too. Unc' Billy
once more started to run, then changed
| his mind again and climbed thick
heInlock tree instead.
! When yo' don know what to do, sit
| tight" muttered Unc Billy. and pro-
ceeded to take his own advice. 1t was
the wisest and best thing he could have
done, for just minute later there
a patch of moonlight Bowser the Hound
and another dog running with their
noses to the ground following the
tracks Of Unc' Billy leaned for
ward and looked down eagerly. They
kept right on past the tree he was hid
ing in. inc Billy gave a little sigh of
relief. Then a grin wrinkled his sharp
little, old face as he saw Farmer
Browns Boy and some others, each
with q lantern in his hand. following
after the dogs
Wouldn't yo'alIs like to know who $
hiding up in this OF tree?' he mutter-
ed. Then the grin gave way to a
frown. "Ah don see what yo'alls want
10 hunt weuns like this for, anyway
he added.
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HEARD AND SEEN HERE AND THERE
By Earl Goodwin.
BY Webster.

the chimney. and pours through the
house. More smoke than ever went up
any chimney bursts from the tightly
closed Demons mouth and percolates
through hardwood floors and rushes
upward through cracks that never had
existence before. People in the house
cough and choke and call down the
cellar:
IT'S smoking dreadfully.'
And the answer comes back
Don't you suppose l know it,"
The Demon is getting in his prelimi-
naries. His door is so hot you can't
touch it without the lost poker or some
other instrument. and the wreath of
smoke about him is thicker than the
human lungs can stand. If I determine
to be hero like my ancestors, who
fought for glory under various flags.
and kick the brutal door open. 1t re-
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Sue. He sat down with them while
Miss Sues parasol did its best to shell
ter all three.
"How's the cottage coming on asked
Mr.. Dempster. Familiarity.
Just finished my dear replied Mrs.
Dollar I'VE can move back in tomor-
row My little seaside place has neen
under repairs" she explained TO MISS
Sue; that's why I've been staying mere
why we've both been staying mere
Dempster is my brother
They left next day. and MISS sue "ehI
With them Old Mrs. Dollar would not
consent to anything less than a months
visit from her We're so consenlai,
my dear" she said. I've never me.
any one more So And ! want you ana
.Iohn to become better acquainted. .
SO JOY and romance and wonderful
love found little Miss Sue And they
say, though she has been married soiie
=, 49,. now she still considers her John
che finest gentleman in the world
(THE ENID
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quireS as much courage and as much
physical endurance as it does TO rush
up to d cannon's mouth. and l am like
~ to get a burn as painful as Il Saber
cut, but no Victoria Cross is mine.
Nothing but Trouble. And when the
door flies open what do l see? a great
sea of flame reaches out and HckS me
in the face. smuggling me and disfguring
my eyebrows and bringing more smoke
than ever. There is nothing the mat
ter with the chimney. the draft is ele-
CANT, but the furnace is a demon and
prefers to pour it's smoke out into the
house. while those above who are fix
ing up for the card party grope about
fog.
Coal must be heaped on, and. of
course. when the card party assemblies
the Demon is cooling gleefully, but the
card party smells as if it were staged
in the midst of Wisconsin forest fire.
The Demon subsidies for a week. for
it is fair weather outside. and even if
he did refuse to work, the open fire
places would give enough heat. He
shakes easily, the ashes fall in an even
rain and the coal burns gloriouslE.
But there comes an evening when the
windows rattle and the wind comes
through them when they are shut just
as if they were wide open, and the
mercury slides down the scale rapidly.
The damp places on the streets ana
sidewalks turn to ice and there Is every
prospect of sudden bitterly cold spell.
go down to tell the Demon what's
expected of him and he laughs with
glee. The thermometer he wears on
his forehead says 12o degrees, which
is 40 degrees below what is necessary
TO keep the place at 6S. There are
ashes within the Demon and he must
he shaken Il grasp the lever which
shakes the CRATE and it refuses to move.
l lunge forward upon it and nearly
break my ribs in, but the CRATE sticks
as if it We're an integral portion OF the
Rock of Gibraltar.
1 surge backward with the mightiest
pull my ITS pounds are capable of
Iexerting-yet the CRATE remains calm
and placid, with the blizzard approach
ing outside Then l push and pull
quickly, and nothing happens. A series
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Chinese Marriage.

rom 1ii' Ntts:ihI
No longer need the poor little Chinrr~
girl look forward with dread TO her
wedding day. Today she can man =
the man she loves and not walk hlinu-
folded into mntrimonv with the nIn
who has been chosen as her hushai 4
from earliest childhood. tutil the r"N"-
luton in clina in 1873. 1t was the r'.i
eral custom il. the east FOR the parents
to allot their daughters husbands from
ia byhood. and with tn" consent uf
both families n huge party would b."
given and the children be considered
ngaged. But Il VAS no. permissible fer
either the future bride or groom Ia
know of the arrangements made on
their behalf The families might even
drift apart, leaving the young ones in
total ignorance Of the existence 81
each other. between the ages of ii
teen and eighteen the Chinese girl m"s
told that she was to be married soon.
and arrangements would be made tor
the wedding. but the Young bride never
became acquainted with her tutur" bus
band till after the ceremony. when h'r
thick. beautifully embroidered. but i'm
peuetrablc veil was removed. Tl' u
would she behold Cor the first tim. TIL"
husband to whom she Was tied "i"T
better or for worse. know ing that She
must resign herself to her lot ana ca
deavor to live her NE through with a
man whom perhaps she could meS"f
like Many "A Young Chinese bride iE'r
been known to attempt suicide, often
attaining her freedom through that "U'
omen gate-death. But such thing haH
not been heard of since thina Adopted
the forms N modern civilization. TIN
Chinese gentleman has learned the arr
of counting and winning mis- bride, .rd
the happy couple enter int" their MAR
monial compact with open eyes. 'i'
Chinese are gradually ADOPTING OF
| y
No lonper a drearv and almost weird
ordeal. In fact, in the matter of dr"s<.
as well as in custom. til" thiheSc are
Incoming very Europeanlzed.
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had saved her parasol for her and she
felt she must show her gratitude by
recognizing him when they met there
after. II haven't met many men in my
life she added. but he seems to be
the finest gentleman in the world. How
ever, you may not have that opinion"
You seem to think that my opinion
is infallible,' chuckled old Mrs. Dollar.
Il think you've got a tremendous lot
of good sense" cried Miss Sue, ear
nestly.
"Pshaw"' said old Mrs. Dollar, and
patted Miss Sues shoulder.
The next morning as they sat in the
sands together Mrs. Dollar suddenly
said: "Ah, Here comes the finest gen.
tleman in the world.
Miss Sue tried to demonstrate. but 1t
seemed old Mrs. Dollar was disposed
to be jovial. When Mr.. Dempster ap-
preached she introduced him to Miss
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of short, sharp pushes. and series Of
short, sharp pulls. Then, series Of
long, drawnout pulls and series OF
long. drawnout pushes. Yet nothing
stirs in the CRATE Nothing happens. ex-
cept the Demon grins at me, and from
the regions above comes this voice:
please hurry and get the furnace
hotter. We're all. freezing"
SO I pile in coal and open up the
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BR|TONS ARE TOLD
NAVY IS ALL RIGHT
In No Danger of Losing Its Su-
premacy, Churchill Assures
House of Commons.
CAN LOSE SHIP A MONTH
AND STILL KEEP AHEAD
Thinks Enemy Is Gradually Being
Starved Out, While Seas Are
Kept Open to Allies.

LONDON, November 2S.-Winston
Spencer Churchill, first lord of the ad-
miralty. in a speech in the house of
commons last evening before the ad-
journment of parliament told the
country that. despite the loss of some
of the older ships of the British navy,
there was no cause for nervousness
but every reason for complete conf
dence in the power of the navy TO
give effect to the wishes and purposes
of the empire.
The first lord told Of the danger TO
British ships from mines ard subtna-
rines and of the possibility Of armored
and fast enemy liners escaping to the
high seas to prey on the allies ship
ping. which, he added. had been pre-
vented thus far He closed his speech
with the statement that there was
another danger. that OF an oversee
ilyasion-an enterprise full Of danger
for those who might attempt it.