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The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-06-04

dicatng that sed gurm is working, they should begin g system of treetment on the spot.
 Yung men should be kept stedly dyet of cut
 ting cord wood riding in the onneau of two horse blow and kept away rum the Lorry Geen Libby brand of fictsion and poitry. in cooking mite be good thing for yung wmmin-try to impress both of them that getting married without mature delibera- sion, is joke and that aftur mature deliberasion it is a life sentence.
 We do not want to discourage matrymony-tis is dis curraging enuff without enny thing add to it. And then besides it can't be dun Of aftur it is dun heere is nuthing to it. but to go rite ahed and make the best of it. When yung marries gurl he takes hur for bettur and for wu1st and he'll find out that theere is hole lot wurst than he fig gered on to begin with. If "wurst" ant oh the job all the time putting in majority report he'll be verry lucky and ought to go out behind the woodshed or sum uther conveninet phase evvery morning and shake hands with himself He should prepare him. self for dissappointments. All he knows about the fair dame he has obtained claim on is what he has been abul to Tern about her Sundays such week mites he found it possibull to spend hur company when she all dressed up like street perade at the expense of hur reasons. When she
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-06-04
UP AND DOWN BROADWAY--By Allen Griffin Johnson

natives know it is there only because they have been told so, or have had to take their visitors out to see it.
 You have visited New York-yes? Very well, you have seen the places men toned; you have also. in all probability, seen the Museum of Natural History, the aquarium, down in Battery park and the
 Woolworth building. and while going from one to the other, you have glanced hurriedly at the spots pointed out to you by the spieler in the sightseeing car Then-then, when night had fallen, you grew absolutely, joyously reckless, and basked in the glow of the white lights that illuminate the theatre section and the lobster area. From there on, convinced that you had seen, heard and indulged in everything, you spent your spare time open the eyes and mouths of the folks back home' with your experiences and impressions of the wonder city.
 Fact is, you have merely put yourself through the regulation visitors drill, and what you have really learned about New York life could be printed in large type upon the southwest corner of q Canadian dime. You know about as much about it as I did about Chattanooga after I had been there six hours-I thought the place was all made up of cannon balls. monuments and civil war anecdotes. It took long term of residence there to find out the truth. but now know that the beautiful Mountain City is composed of Lookout mountain and Market street.
 And so with the visitor to Manhattan. The sights of any city are vastly diff ferent from the real life thereof, and that which has come to be called "the life in New York-largely by people from e'sewhere-is almost wholly made up of display and superfciality. It is
 the life' that is shown to the visitor,
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''He spent 1t as fast as it came. and when he was killed he had nothing to speak of except about $500 of the gold dust he had taken from Stewart. This was found in poke in his trunk. Soapy gave good deal to the men who were with him, and he was the most charitable man that ever came to Alaska. He paid the expenses of many who went broke, and helped them out of the country. If man died, Soapy was always ready to spend several hundred dollars on gro- .ceries to send to his widow and children. He was free also in his gifts of money, and his orders for provisions to be sent to the poor were such that his trade was worth hundreds of dollars week to sev- eral of the Skagway stores. It was for this, reason that some of the citizens said nothing against him. Moreover, every one knew that Soapys enemies had strange way of disappearing and being nevermore heard from"
 The Skagway of today is an orderly community It has good schools, water works and sewers, electric lights and tele- phones, daily newspaper and several churches. It has courthouse of its own, and a jail for possible criminals. The chief business of the town seems to be Selilng or curlOS to the lOuIlStS. IHcie are a half dozen stores that sell jewelry, carvings, moccasns and baskets. The jewelry is made by the Indians, being pounded out of silver dollars. The carv- ings are of walrus tusl1s ut by the Esl1i- mos, and the moccasns and baskets are manufactured by the natives about Skag- way and in other parts of Alaska. None of these things is cheap. The finest bas- kets, little ones that will not hold more than a quart, bring from $50 to $lOo while cigarette cases of the same charac- ter sell for S15 apiece No basket of fine workmanship can be bought for less than SS or S10 The best are made under water. They are of straw woven finer than the finest panama hat; and so delicate and intricate that 1t takes several months to make a basket as big as the head of a baby. The very finest come from the Aleutian Islands. They are woven by the older of the Indian women. The art is dying out and it will probably pass away with this generation.
 The most of the carvings come from Nome and the Indian settlements about the mouth of the Yukon, although some very good carvings are cut out by the Indians about Skagway and Sitka. The Indians make their own carving tools grinding them out of old razor blades using only the thick part of the razor. In working they pull the instrument toward them, digging out the ivory after the style of the Japanese. This is the di- rect opposite of the way our carvers work
 These natives of Alaska seem to have high sense of the artistic. They are initiative and they can carve any like ness if they have only a model to work
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-06-04
Contemplating
 Matrimony

So when yung peepul air seeriusy contimplating matrymoney they should pawse and ponder the situa sion for long time. If they'll pile up enuff ponder 1t may prevent them frum piling up large colectsion of saffron hued regrets laur in life Afur the plung is taken then each must make up theere minds that they air stung for good and deurn to be sport and fool evvery boddy into the beleef that they air as happy nigger picknick with pros poets of rain, and aftur while they feel that way about it.
 It is perfectly proper for yung peepu to get mar red and get married early in lfe-that is reesuna- bully early. If they wait till they have moor sense and mummy they may not do so. The best way them to tell that it is time for them get married is to fall desperately in love with one that evvery time they eat ennyhng it feels like they had swallowed and trying to digest a billiard ball or a munkey rench. Loss of appetite may be frum bil- iousness-and love and billiousness have a good menny symptums in and can be easily fooled.
 Enny uther infermasion that furnish will cheerfully do upon application.
 Yours trooly,
 BILL VINES. Washington, D. c.
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But the vast majority of our visitors still come here, take look at Grant s Tomb and then get in the glow of the white lights. and return with impressions which by no means represent what New York city really is. They go where the spotlight is gleaming. and they behold in its concentrated illumination much that does not exist in reality.
 They located in the section mentioned several times already, and they will go on locating there as long as they con- tinue to honor Manhattan with their presence. and enrich the Manhattan snowman with their freely spent shekels As Kiping puts it, Be warned by my lot, which I'm sure you will not" and on your next visit get away from the lights and the monuments and find out a little. at least. about the real life of one of the most real of cities, in spite of all that has been said of it's un- rea'ity-by the very people who know it only as does the visitor who fingers but a brief while, which is equivalent to no knowledge of the place whatever
 But Kipling knew what he was writ ing about and you will never do it-you will not be warned by anybody's lot-wil, you? And as long as you continue to visit this city. just so long will you con- tlnue to return to your various home towns with vague descriptions of Grants Tomb the Woolworth building and the delirious dementia of the giddy, giddy night life of the lobster and theatre sec tion.
 And perhaps it is as well for if the visitors didn't keep the shows running. and the artificial features well adver- tised New York might miss them before very long, and then our visitors would have to go back home with lot of cor rect impressions of our existence here which would not be nearly so thrilling.
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depart, and you will probably know less about it than. you would have had you never caught a glimpse of it.
 Outside of the section referred to in the foregoing, there is saner, truer life lived here. and certainly safer life. This is the case in almost all directions, as well. In upper Manhattan there are those who seldom get down as far as Times Square. Why should they, unless they care for what we have just called the life?" as the lobster area knows it. and some such people may be found around old Washington Square. Over on the lower East Side there are those who may never have been as far wst as Broadway since they landed-any why should they, for if they should land on that thoroughfare they would probably not be able to make themselves understood.
 So you see. I have not attempted Guide to New York;" by any means, but have merely given you a rugged out line of how not to get correct impress sion of real life as it is lived in the me- tropolis. The show places of New York do not represent the life of the city by great deal, nor do I believe it possible for one to get in close touch with it un- less one lives here at least a year, and it would hardly be to ones best advan- tage to select his place of residence any where between Fifty-ninth and Twenty third streets.
 On the whole, New York is more than just one city; there are sections of Man haitian alone wherein the English lam guage is never spoken save when a visi- tor appears; there are other sections wherein honesty and fair dealing are looked upon almost in the light of a weakness; and there. are still other sec tions where prayer meetings are held just as regularly as they are in Gallatin, Tenn, or Gadsden. Ala.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-06-04
SKAGWAY, ALASKA, IN 1916

to the wonders of Alaska and know they can be comfortable housed and fed while they enjoy them.
 The interesting things of Alaska are not confined to the rocks the noun tains, the snow and the ice. As far as this part of the country is concerned, the latter is found only in the glaciers. The winters are such that there is no ice to speak of, and in summer Skag- way is of the greenest of green. Just now great beds of white clover grow on the sides of the streets and the hills are covered with bushes and wild flow CTS. Many of the residents have gar den patches, where they grow all the vegetables used by the town. saw one patch of raspberries this morning which had bushes as high as my head and berries as thick as my thumb. 1 saw rhubarb with leaves as big as two pages of this newspaper, and stems that reached to my shoulders.
 One of the flower gardens I visited was that of MT. F. J. Weber, who is in charge of the shops of the White Pass railway. He is business man with a great love for nature. He has more than 40 varieties of dahlias and those of every color and tint. Some are snow white, some blood red, and others of a deli : cate salmon. He has even blue dahlias of the deep hue of the mountains far off in the distance.
 And such dahlias! The stems of some of the plants reached to height of nine feet, and their blossoms were as big around as dinner plates I took my two-foot rule and found that this was so by actual measure One blossom was nine inches wire. Its color was purple. Another, a geisha dahlia with blossoms of old gold and fiery red, measured more than 10 inches from side to side. In- deed, the size of the flowers was so great that I had myself photographed standing at the roots on one of the plants to make the sun give his testimony to the truth of my story. The stem reached so high above me that I could just touch the blossom, and as I looked up. the flower seemed as big as pie pan. Never theless, it grew from a bulb that was planted this spring, having been sprouted out in the open, just about two months ago. The bulb from which it came is in it's fourth year, having been first planted in 1912
 The most of these dahlias are growing. not in hothOuses, but right out in the open. They are on beds in a lawn and their only protection is a windshield, a wire fence, walled with glass which faces the channel to keep off the cold blasts from the sea and the mountains. Among the other flowers in Mr. Weber's garden I saw marigolds five inches wide and red geraniums equally large. There were also Japanese golden banded lilies with flowers as long as your hand. I counted nineteen such lilies on one single plant.
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and linen. One family departed leaving table half set for dinner. All were crazy to get to the gold mines and to take part in the prosperity which it was thought Skagway would have. After had left with the exception of man named Emil Klatt,' who took up home- stead on the site of the abandoned city. He plowed the streets and laid out his fields among the town lots. He farmed there for years, and became generally known as the mayor of Dyea, although his only subjects were cattle and sheep. do not think he made any money. At all events, he sold the property, and it now belongs, as I have said, to Mrs. Pullen, who is running it in connection with her hotel M
 It Is interesting to hear the Skagway- ans tell of the days when their town was in the height of it's drunken pros- perity. It was, to use slang phrase. a wide-open community having 61 sa- loons each with it's dance hall adjoining There were neither courts nor police. At that time there was no law in Alaska under which municipal government could be organized and the only repre- sentative of Uncle Sam was the deputy
 
 and was supposed to be in league with the criminal element. At least he did nothing to control it, and there were bands of thugs who held up the tender foot, or, as he is called there, the chee-, chako, and even robbed the old miners as they came from the Klondike
 A little later the criminal element was combined by one Jefferson Smith, who has traditional fame here, something like that of Slade of Mark Twain s "Roughing It." Smith went by the nick name of Soapy He got the title from having peddled soap wrapped in bank notes on the streets of the towns of Colorado. He would pretend to wrap up the soap in ten or twenty-dollar bills, selling it from boxes, which contained both blanks and prizes auctioning off the packages. The game is swindle, well known throughout the west.
 Soapy Smith came to Skagway at just about the time of the beginning of the war between our country and Spain. He got together about four hundred of the vicious element of the place and offered them to President Mckinley as. band of rough riders, ready to fight the Span- iards. The President, who had been post ed as to their character, was obliged to decline them. Soapy then armed and drilled them and used them to prey upon the community. They robbed strangers, singly and in crowds. They committed large number of murders. and it was almost sure death, to oppose them. The people were afraid of them. honest men were intimidated and a reign of terror arose and lasted forsmonths. The gang
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-06-04

Nv EW YORK, June 3.-(Specal) IlN Any number of publications en-
 titled, Guide to New York"
 are thrust under the noses of
 visitors to Manhattan who, by their clothes, their manners or their con- versation proclaim themselves such. yet almost anyone of these little booklets might just as truthfully be entitled, How to Asquire an Erroneous Impress sion of the Metropolis" or How Not to Learn About Life on Manhattan Island"
 Quite naturally, suspecting from the foregoing that l am going to attempt an- other Guide" you who have visited this city are now prepared to peruse yet an- other chronicle anent Grants Tomb, the Statue of Liberty. the Bronx Park zoo or 9 fulsome fanfare in the interests of those gentlemen who charge us g to see what is often poorer show than any one of the entire six or more that we see on the screen at 10 cents the half dozen, or thereabouts.
 Why? Because 1t is true that an aver age of about 99 out of every 75 visitors to Manhattan go home with vague idea of the tomb, the Statue and the monkey house. in addition to gushing, you-ought- to-have-seen-it description of at least 10 or. dozen theatrical attractions after weeks visit.
 As matter of fact, though the native points with pride' 10 the Tomb. the Goddess ct aL. when with visitors, at all other times and upon all other occa- sions he passes them up, while many rarely or never gaze upon them. They hold a relation to New York city similar to that held by the Hermitage thome of Andrew Jackson) near Nashville. All visitors to the Tennessee capital are straightway hustled out-i2 miles-to the Hermitage. while g great many of the
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safer and saner variety of human beings. Or else they are those who seek to profit by human weakness and gullibility. { In that section, people on the streets play roles as frequently as do those who strut upon the many stages. Do you know anything about the world thought" Well, the idea is that what the world is thinking has a material eff feet upon your own thought. And the world thought which is in control in the white light section is the thought of mummery, and he is strong indeed who does not feel it's influence in a greater or less degree a
 If you want to get yourself crammed full of false impressions about Gotham, just stick around the Times Square sec tion, listen to. the ceaseless chatter of actors, in and out of work, see those people who are not actors, endeavoring to act just the same, fly close to the white lights, hang around the lobster pal aces and the dances de, etc.; see the soap bubble ecstacy of the people who look upon the wine when it is any old color. just so it has a kick to it, talk about the shows you have seen, as if that were worthy accomplishment, re- main up always until sunrise-to save daylight-and then, by way of securing a contrast, ride up and look over Grants tomb. There will then be nothing left for you to learn of Manhattan And, as one visitor recently put it, Some of you fellows back home will have to go some to beat the tales I'll >have to tell about New York when get back
 Travel. I know. broadens one. but I cannot believe that there is much broad ening in such travel as stops only long enough at each place to get false inn pression of it to take on to the next step. It is the same with any city-look at any one of them hurriedly, and then
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"the life which, but for the visitor, might not exist certainly would not be so very much in evidence.
 Unless a visitor has friend, or rela- tive in New York with whom he or she stays while in the city, it is almost in- variably true that he takes up his tenn porary abode somewhere between Twen- ty-third street and Fifty-ninth. between Madison Square and Columbus circle, and he seldom goes south of the one. nor north of the other during his visit
 It is a we'll known fact that between those boundaries with. the ere's-where- -of-your-money Plaza ho- tel on the one, and the varied entertain ments offered in Madison Square Garden on the other. lies the most superficial. the showiest, the most unreal Manhat- tan. It is, in the theatre sense and in the world sense as well. the stage where on the actors do their parts, in the eff fort to make mummery seem reality, and as well is it done as a rule that the ma jority of people are wholly deceived thereby.
 If one goes "back stage often enough and stays there long enough. the play is sure to lose some of it's charm from him when witnessed from the dark side of the footights. And so it is with those of us who live in the atmosphere of the sec ton referred to; we are "back stage al- most all the time, we see the methods of obtaining effects, we see the shifting of the scenery, and the unpainted side thereof, and we know the actors. often, when the makeup is off The old fasci- nation fades materially for. most of us, and the visitor is necessity in order to keep things lively and to keep the show going.
 It Is not denied that the life led there has fascination for many residents: it has, but they are seldom if ever of the
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 ter.) Skagway.
 ~ IGHTEEN years ago Skagway
 was one of the most talked of k<s3gaz towns in the world. It was t94e&J the chief gate to the rich gold fields of the Klondike, and miners came by the thousands to tramp their way over the passes in order that they might get to the headwaters of the Yukon and float down to Dawson. A little later it became the terminus of the White Pass railway, which runs from here to White Horse, the head of the navigation of the Yukon; and with in a. short time it sprang from a vil- lage of tents to a bustling city of wood and stone of 15,00O population. The most of the citizens were transit ents who were moving: back and forth from the gold mines. Then the mines began to play out, and the blood of Skagaway grew weak. ~ Drunk with prosperity, it demanded the gold cure, but the cream had been skinned from the Klondike and the bottle was empty The miners grew fewer and fewer, and the city dwindled and pined until it now has, all told only 500 or 6O0
 The saloons and dance halls of the past have all disappeared. The hotels and rooming shacks have routed away and many of the better class houses are vacant. The town has changed from wide-open community of gam b1ers, fortune hunters and miners, to staid little settlement which lives on. the travellers who pass through on their way to Yukon territory and the interior of Alaska, and on the tourists who come north every season to see glaciers and other wonders of this southeastern part of the territory.
 As it is now, several hundred steam CTS call at Skagway every season and they, bring thousands of passengers Many take the continuous round trip, but many also stop off at Skagway for few days or weeks. The place is fast becoming a summer resort. It has a mild climate with much less rain than other parts of the panhandle In the immediate vicinity are half dozen glaciers and not far away is Glacier bay, one of the greatest glacier gar dens of the whole world. It is the scene or much of the work of John MuirY and there are the Muir glacier and others which he discovered In addition Skagway offers no end of ex- cursions which one can make on horse- back, on foot or by motorboat, and he will find new things at every step or at every chug of the engine. Just now there is talk of building a great tourist hotel here, and the travel will increase al s soon as our people awake
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Treatment All Laid Ont

An Irish quack doctor was being ex. amined at an inquest upon the treatmens of patient who had been in his care. ''I gave him ipecacuanha.'' he said.
 You might just as we'll have given hirA the aurora borealis.' replied the coroner.
 sIndade, yer honor. an that's jist what Oid have given him nextn if he hadn't unfortunately dicd."