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prices. One Brooklyn concern pays
 $S0,000 to janitors for the privilege of
 doing business. The milk and ice rights of new apartments are sold before the buildings are completed at prices from
 s1o to $50. The Wicks legislative com mittee has discovered Janitor to be one who receives his rent ice, milk. bread, rolls and newspapers free, be-
 sides getting cash bonus from deal-
 CTS in various products for his influ- ence in gaining trade. One milk so- licitor testified that physicians got 10 per cent off on their milk for recom-
 mending raw instead of pasteurized
 milk. A large real estate agency was
 found which for 13 years had been furnishing lists of prospective occu- pants of it's properties for which 1t re- ceived about s100 month from a big milk concern. Petty graft amounting in the aggregate to tens of thousands of dollars Is one of many things that is forcing up the cost of living in every city. Does any one hear about any prosecutions of these grafters by the trust busters?
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but nowhere are they of any importance except as a race curiosity, and in a small way as trappers of furs for the markets of the world.
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Natives Along Boring Sea Are Gradually Forming
 New Habits
GOING TO SCHOOL
 TO LEARN ENGLISH
Artistic Ability and Trading Quail ties Are RecOgnized-SOmething About Their Various Sports
 and Pastimes
scoDyright, lsr7 by Frank G. carpenter9

4Copyright, 1917, by Frank G. Carpenter)
 Nome, Alaska
 For the past month have been trav- cling among the Eskimos. I saw them first on the lower Yukon. I met them again on the Island of St. Michael, and ! find many of them here on the Seward peninsula The general idea is that the snost of our Eskimos live along the coast of the Arctic ocean. This is not true. Tour-fifths of them are to be found south of the Arctic circle and the most on the coastal plains that slope down to Boring sea There are many EskiQos in the deltas of the Kuskokwim and Yukon Stvers, and their settlements are to be found also on the Alaskan peninsula. There are said to be $500 of them on the Seward peninsula, and this number is perhaps one-third of all the Esl1imos un- der the American flag.
 So much has been published about the Eskimos one might think them an im- portant part of the human race. The truth is they number, all told. not more than S0.Ooo. and of these 10000 or 15,ooo are to be found in Alaska. Of the remainder there are few thousand in Greenland some of whom are civilized; few in Labrador, also civilized, and a greater number scattered through the northern part of the Canadian dominion from Hud- son bay to the mouth of the Mackenzie river. There are also few in Siberia,
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Some of the Eskimos near the white set dement's are changing the style of their architecture. They are building homes above ground, buying window sash and
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hotels to sell to the tourists They use the tusks of the walrus, carving upon
 them images of men, bears seals and wolves. They make cribbage boards of these tusks, and paper knives, and han dles for canes and umbrellas. A very large Walrus tusk was recently carved and sent to the President of the United States. It represented animals and hunt ing scenes, and was a. mass of artistic workmanship.
 Within the past few years the Es6imos have been making ivory billikens, after the funny 'anghing figure that has been sold in one shape or another all over the world Their blllikens make one think of the brownies of Palmer Cox. They are of all sizes, some no bigger than a thim- ble, and others as long as your thumb or hand.
 Among the carvings sold are some of mammoth ivory. These come from the tusks of the prehistoric animals which roamed Siberia and Alaska thousands of years ago. I have seen many such tusks since 1 came 10 this part of the world They have been unearthed along the hlondike river, and are to be seen in Dawson and Fairbanks, either preserved indoors, or standing against the sides of buildings cut in the open. I found one at Ia mining camp on the north fork of the Nioiulhe- IL was OH the ground outside d cabin. Ths thickness of the tusk was that of my leg.
 All of the Eskimo carving today is done with steel tools, but there Is work in existence that dates back to the stone age. The older Eskimos say that their ancestors used tools of flint, and it is known that they have been carving ivory for many generations. Some of the very poorest of them and those that live in the most out of the way places are noted for their work of this kind They seem to do it for past;me, and make many toys and dolls for their children. They have way of softening the bone, horn ivory be- fore they work it, and to make the carv- ings mere distinct they etcn lines on the
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surface with g. black paint made of 8 mixture of gunpowder and blood. This, when put on the freshly cut bone makes a permanent stain. Nearly every travel CT who comes to Alaska carries away some of their carvings Considering the work upon them, they are remarkably cheap. One can get a cribbage board of a whole ivory tusk, beautifully carved for $5 or $10. The same article when sold by the curio dealers may bring a much higher price.
 The Eskimos of today are rapidly those described in the books of arctic travel. On the Seward peninsula they have houses of wood and skin, and the snow house is comparatively unknown, except in the heart of midwinter. Most of their winter houses are cellars dug out of the ground. (. This cellar is usually four or five feet deep and 20 or 9 feet square. Poles of driftwood are laid about it to heighten the walls and timbers are placed across the top. Then dirt and sod are piled around the hole, until they have what looks like a great mount of earth. In the center of the top is an opening, about as large as page of a newspa- per. across which Is stretched a sheet of seal or walrus bladder. This Is trans- parent and 1t gives light to the house be- low. The house is entered by tunnel, which is connected with a shaft or well six or seven feet deep. In the we'll is a crude ladder, up which the people climb after crawling through the tun- nel, when they wish to go out of doors. Around the walls of the living room is a platform, which is the sleeping place of the family. Such houses are so warm that the Eskimos often go almost naked while indoors. The dwellings are dark and badly ventilated. They are often in- fested with unmentionable vermin.
 Some of the Eskimos near the white set dement's are changing the style of their architecture. They are building homes above ground, buying window sash and
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but nowhere are they of any importance
 except as a race curiosity, and in
 small way as trappers of furs for the
 markets of the world
 l The Eskimos about Nome make their ] living by fishing and hunting and selling | ivory carvings. The stores here are full of their workmanship and they bring ivory curios to the hotels and sell them
 to the tourists. They have a village on i the edge of the town. It is made up :, of frame shacks and cabins constructed l of all sorts of material from driftwood logs to galvanized iron. These are the abandoned homes of the miners who came here to wash gold from the sands of the seashore. There are also many tents of white canvas. The tents rest
 right on the sand, with skins as car pets None of these dwellings is large,
 and but 8 few of. them will cover more
 than a space eight or ten feet square There are no streets to speak of, and
 the houses are jumbled together as though they had been pitched out of the sky and let fall where they would. Going through the village in the morning. one finds every house tightly closed The Eskimos do not rise until late, and now, in the simmer they sit up or move about half the night. They have their dances at night, and the village is often alive in the wee sma' hours of the morning.
 These Eskimos are dressed in half civ ilized fashion. Many of the women have parkas of calico, trimmed with fur, and hoods of cloth with a fringe of wolverine standing far out around their copper skinned faces. Under the calico parka, cloth trousers and long boots or mukluks of hide are to be seen. the leather reach- ing half way to the knee. Other Eskimos will be clad all in fur. Some will wear fur suits and cloth caps, and some Amer ican clothes from head to foot.
 It is easy to tell the Eskimos, no mat tier what their dress may be. Their faces are Mongolian in character. I have seen many just like them in my travels through Siberia and along the great wall in north China, and the same types are in the Himalayan mountains on the edge of Tibet They have eyes which slant like those of the people of the desert of Gobi, and their faces are Of the same bronze Or copper color. They are lighter in color than the North American h. dians. but they have the same high cheekbones and much the same features. Their faces are rather square than long, and flat with little fat noses. The young men and women have rosy cheeks, and their lips are bright red. Most of the elderly women have tattooed stripes ex- tending vertically from the lower lip down the chin; and now and then you see a
 man with cuff button of bone thrust through a hole in the skin near the edge of his mouth The Nome Eskimos have black eyes and jet black hair The hair is parted in the center. and the women wear it in long braids that hang down the back. The eyes of the people are friendly, and their look is open and hon est. They are full of fun, and it takes
 but little to bring out a smile. They are good traders, and I am told they
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High Cost of Grating

Charlton Bates Strayer in Leslie's.
 While denouncing big food distribu- tors manipulators and midd1emen for 1, the high cost of living, as astonishing disclosure is made in New York city of the part of the janitor in boosting
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window glass and doors like ours. Many of them are now using cook stoves in place of the old seal-oi1 lamps, and the white traders tell me that the Eskimo women are learning to cook. They bake an excellent bread with the aid of yeast made from hops, which they buy at the store. These traders laugh at the story, so often published, of a tallow candle being the stick candy of the Eskimo boy. They say the natives are fond of fat, but that their chief use of 1t Is in connec- ton with other foods.
 I asked one of these traders to tell me what goods he sold to the Eskimos. He replied:
 '.Everything under the sun. The staples are sugar and flour, and especially sugar. They like sweets and one Eskimo will eat more sugar than a whole family of whites. We sell them all sorts of canned goods, such as peaches, apricots, jams and preserves. Of late they have been buying clothes, including underwear and socks. They even buy thermos bottles to take along with tAem on their sealing trips. They want steel fishhooks and the best of guns. The Eskimo knows a good rifle He usually buys a repeater, and will pay as much ss $35 for it''
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1.-two ~ who were rescued by Ai responded Ito the signal There po O the c O f IX e and sank ohunded
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1917-03-31
HE CAN'T DO TT!

Still playing the same old game, Chan
cellor Bethmann-Hollweg has made an
other speech in the reiehstag, washing
Germany's hands of the whole business.
The people have to be told about the mar
tyrdom of Kaiserism every so often; be-
sides. there arr lot of mills-fed pacifsts
and tunkertum propagandists in the
United States who need someone to lead
the lamentations by which they hope to
deafen the president and congress to their
duty next week and put the convict stripes
ON our ships.
Germany" says Bethmann, "never had
the slightest intention of attacking the
United States, and does not now have any
such intention. 1t never did desire war
against the United States, and does not de-
sire it today" Which is hardly as strong
as scrap of paper-but never mind men
tioning disagreeabie things. Bethmann
adds that U-mania is necessary for Ger
many, and says that if the United States
can't see it that way, on our own wicked
head be the responsibility.
If instead of committing and planning
acts, ever since the Lusitania, which could
not fail to drive nation into armed up
! holding of its basic rights, Germany had
shown herself in deeds-not words-to be
3esirous of retaining the friendship of the
'nited States, Bethmann would not be
under the necessity Spf shedding SO many
! crocodile tears today.
Unrestrained U-warfare may or NAV
II be necessary to Germany in its alleged
for existence-in our opinion it is
"A hoc IL II.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1917-03-31
VIOLATING THE VOLUNTEER
CENSORSHIP.

Violations of the volunteer censorship
have been astonishingly few, due, for the
most part, to a misconception. They have
consisted mainly of minor disclosures. To
our regret, be it stated, however that the
only fragrant violation that has come to
our notice was committed by a southern
newspaper. We allude to the Columbus
(Ga.) Ledger, of March 90, which prints
despatch under Pensacola date line,
under the probably fictitious signature of
III. L. Watkins" referring to the alleged
departure of certain warships from Pensa-
cola, possibly ito join the main body of
the Atlantic fleet . to take an active
part in the fighting across the Atlantic -
The story was played under conspicuous
headline
It is inconceivable that this could have
been misconception, for the clause in the
volunteer censorship regulations, to which
the principal press associations and news
papers in the United States have assented,
is plain. We quote:
he SS cn tsnd to scr should be
ssts ar sH IF s' or their
arrival at departure any port "
Exception is made only in cases where
authority is given by the proper officials.
Even in publishing such routine news as
the fact of airplane flights by students at
the aeronautic base here, The Journal
secures such authorization, and it has tenn
porarily abandoned its marine column
simply because of the precautionary sug-
gestion that departure of merchant YES
sells should not be mentioned, and it is de-
sired that the name of the port of arrival
be omitted
But can the Columbus Ledger show any
authorization for printing its story about
the alleged fleet movement?
The best excuse will be determination
to offend no further. Making the volunteer
censorship unanimous is the opportunity
of the press to avoid compulsory one
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1917-03-31
WAR LOAN FOR ALLIES.

AS w. g. Harding, governor of the Fed
eral Reserve Board, said "Although we
are confronted with the greatest crisis in
American history, do not believe we ever
approached crisis so we'll prepared from
financial point of view"
Of our twelve federal reserve banks the
resources aggregate over billion dollars.
Their note issuing capacity exceeds ST.
@oO,OOO,O0O. Our gold stock has increased
by $1,015, 600, O00-more than the entire
gold production of the world since the wax
began.
These figures are significant, for our
principal contribution to the cause of civ
ilization must-for the present at any
rate-be money. Not that we should wage
a dollar war, but when it is remembered
that it takes 10000 men to hold mile of
trenches, any expeditionary force that we
could send would not be of much moment.
1t will be year, before we can muster an
army of any size or efficiency. Of course
our fleet will be of tremendous assistance.
but the real issue will be fought on land,
and Mr.. Harding is right when he says
that if the United States enters the war
congress should Immediately enact legis-
lation enabling the government to- extend
a tremendous credit to the allies.
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State Press Comment
Blood viii Tell

The difference between live stock
with a pedigree and live stock with
none was strikingly exemplified one
day recently when J. G. DeBevoise
sold one young bull calf for one hun
dred dollars and another for one dol
lar. The two were of the same age
an were sold to the same man. He
felt that the $500 calf was fully
worth the price, but his conscience
hurt him, he says, when he accepted
a dollar for the other.
One was a Holstein calf from pedi-
greed stock, the other being out of an
ordinary Jersey COW, it's sire I'M
known. Yet the latter was such an
animal as under the ordinary careless
conditions might be allowed to grow
up to have numerous progeny.
When the first bull has been reared
to maturity it will probably command
many times the 500 for which 1t was
sold. The other could never bring
more than it's value as beef. The
value of the first is due to the per-
Torrance of a line of known ancqs-
tors.
It's mother and another of equally
good blood are giving one-half as
much milk~as the combined yield of
fourteen other cows in the same herd,
the latter "the best so-called tick-im-
mune Florida cows" the owner could
find. Each of these sixteen cows con-
sumes the same amount of feed and,
presumably, needs the same amount
of care. If two full-blooded heifers
can equal in performance seven or
binary cows, does more need to be
said regarding the advisability of in
Producing pure-blood dairy animals in
Floria?
There is but one obstacle. Bringing
pure-bred stock into Florida is risky
The risk is of the loss of these costly
animals in few months from Teaxs
fever. The obstacle is the cattle tick
The remedy lies in the dipping vat
Jacksonville Times-Union.
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The SCRATCH PAD
BY THOMAS EWING DA5NEY.

Soon the country will be 80 dry
that when a man wants a "bun" he
will have to cook it.
Sweet Sanders is the name of a
negro arrested on the charge of run
ming blind tiger; but it is an open
secret that he feels very sour.
Napolean's retreat from Moscow
was just as necessary for military
reasons as Germany's retreat from
the Somme.
The government has done a wise
thing in refusing to allow a pacifst
parade in Washington on Monday. 1t
would end in a fight.
Several thousand people were need
ed to stage "The Birth of Nation"
in this country, but the Russian YER
sion required a good many million.
A st. Lou ,@ly has trained a
potato bug, but we'll wager the
hole of a doughnut that it wasn't to
leave potatoes alone.
From the way enlistment is going
on, it is easy to infer that the short
age Of men will soon be transferred
from the army and navy to the June
brides.
Deprived of their beer, the German
sailors interned at Fort Oglethorpe,
though far from the cannon's roar,
are learning what the horrors of
war are.
The pro-German and anti-American
takers who were so offensive but a
little time ago are subsiding into a
cold and clammy silence and the only
way you can tell them now is by
their CHASTITY grins.
Now that a man has been moved by
Gypsy Smith to pay his debts, we
strongly advise that subpoenas be
served on few thousand people who
have not been to a revival, requiring
their attendance.
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Be Ready for Anything,
Red Cross is Told
Continued From Page One)

may be no delay in registration. Send
your names in to the secretary to-
day.
Men Urged to Join.
All men of Pensacola and Escambia
county are urged to enroll at once
as members of the Red Cross chap
ter. The enrolment fee is one dol
lar, fifty cents going to headquarters
in Washington, and fifty cents re-
tanned by the local chapter. Men are
especially urged to enter the first
aid classes and are requested to send
in their names at once to the secre-
tary, at Red Cross headquarters,
Brent building, in order that these
classes may be opened Immediately
on the receipt of the charts, etc,
which have been already shipped from
Washington.
The classes will be held at the state
laboratory on North Palafox, and will
be opened in morning, afternoon and
evening for instruction. The fee for
these classes is one dollar, making
the entire expense for membership
and class work two dollars. The
physicians who have consented to
give their services receive nothing at
all, their instruction being entirely
voluntary.
Among the physicians who have
consented to teach the first aid
classes are DR.. Alfred j. Toulon, DIR.
G.. w. D'Alemberte, DIR. H. H. Spen-
GER, DR.. s. R. NJ. Kennedy, DR.. NJ.
E. Quina, DR.. J. H. Pierpont, DR..
w. c. Payne, DR.. A. NJ. Ames, DIR.
Clarence Hutchinson, DR.. H. l. Simp-
son, DR.. J. Whiting Hargis, DR.. NJ.
A. Lischkoff, DR.. L. dem. Blocker.
Chairman Surgical Dressing.
Mrs. C. M. Sweeney. at a meeting
of the executive board, was appoint
ed act as chairman of the surgical
dressing committee, Mrs. George H.
Berry, formerly chairman of this
committee, having been forced to re-
sign, owing to her departure for New
York at an early date, where she will
make her home. Mrs. Berry has con-
scented, however to remain in Pensa-
cola, for some time longer, giving in
struction in surgical dressings. A
number of those who have been study
ing under Mrs. Berry will complete
this course, and after their gradua-
ton, will act as instructors for other
members of the surgical dressing
class.
q call has been sent out from head
quarters for the salvage of old rags,
papers, etc, which will be sold by the
local Red Cross chapter, in order to
secure a fund for the work All per-
sons having such articles which they
will contribute are asked to COM
municate at once with the Pensacola
Red Cross chapter.
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feel himself or herself better American
than before.
Response to The Journals appeal has
been immediate and well-nigh ovecwhelm-
ing; twill be still greater as time goes on
and the country returns come in, and as
all those who intend to sign, do so. 1t is
human nature to procrastinate.- but this is
a matter that, with self respect, can not be
put off any longer.
The returns from the Loyalty referen-
dunn will soon be sent to the president.
Will your name be among them?
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1917-03-31
MUCH EXTRA WORK IN MARCH.

It's between seasons now when few
persons perspire as much as health
demands. The result is double work
for the kidneys, for the kidneys must
throw out waste matter from the sys-
tenn that is eliminated through the
pores when persons perspire. Over
worked, weak or disordered kidneys
need help now. H. B. Stone, Reading,
Pa, writes: whenever I need kid
ney remedy I rely on Foley Kidney
Pills. They have been worth their
weight in gold to me-" D'Alemberte's
Pharmacy.-Adv.
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whiskey, poured into the street, drank
her fill and in her drunken paradise
layed two eggs ON tha CONT house
steps.
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ODD, ISN'T TT?

Smithville, Tenn.-A hen, taking
advantage of SO pints of confiscated
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Weather, barometer readings, wind
direction and wind velocity at z p
m, along the gulf coast:
Brownsville, cldy, 29.80-S-12.
Corpus Christi, cldv. 29.84-SE-18.
Galveston, cldy, 29.92-SE-18.
New Orleans, clear, 30.04-S.
Mobile, clear, 30.08-S-10.
Pensacola, clear, 30.09-S.
Tampa, clear, 30.10-NE-10.
Miami, cldy, 80. 10-E-14.
The Journals WANT Ad
columns is a frst-class me
dunn.
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WHY Colds are to be Dreaded

It is not the cold itself but the Sc
rious diseases it so often leads to
that makes common cold by far the
most dangerous of any of the minor
ailments. The cold prepares your
system for the reception and de-
velopment of the germs of pneu-
monia, consumption, diphtheria and
other germ diseases. The quicker
you cure the cold the less the danger.
To accomplish this you will find
Chamberlain's Cough Remedy most
effectual. Obtainable everywhere
Adv.