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The daily progressive-miner., 1919-04-23

while he was playing politics in Texas, he would
 have thrown political fit. Of course everybody knows that it costs more to operate the wires under the government, but the remedy is not to raise rates, but to hand the property back to the companies which can ouerate more cheaply. This is in keeping with the doings of the present administration, which has been to raise wages and reduce the quality of the service just to please labor
The daily progressive-miner., 1919-04-23

fore the Register and Receiver on July 5. 1919, by said Nordstrom claimant and by the following it. nesses, Erica Spray and Lafe Spray, both of Juneau, Alaska.
 c. B. Walker.
 Register. { f f < + F + E Having been repeatedly re- !. !. requested to take Music Pupils, !. E am at liberty to teach a limited ! r number. f Terms: + F 3 hours a week $10 a moh.h | + hour or two half hours a week + < $500 a month. ! F No lessons given unless pupil l. s' has practiced at least, on an aver + i- age one hour day. + f Mrs. Alexander A. Brindle + f P. o. Box 523. F
The daily progressive-miner., 1919-04-23
KETCHIKAN STEAM LAUNDRY
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 Department of the Interior, United States Land Office, Juneau, Alaska. February 12, 1919
 NOTICE IS HEREBY given that Paul Nerdstrom of Hadley, Alaska, has filed in this office notice of his in tention to submit final five. year proof fn support of his homestead applica- tion for the following described tract, situated in Lat. 55' 32.5 N, Leng 1922 18' w, on the east coast of Prince of Wales Island, Lyman Anc- horage and west shore of small blight known as Hole-in the Wall describ. ed as U. S. Forest Survey 43 and as follows:
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The daily progressive-miner., 1919-04-23

Czar Burleson's defense of the advance in tele- phone rates does not iibo with his action regard ing telegraph rates. Tn the latter case he raised operators wages 10 per cent, then raised rates 20 per cent. If @ corporation had done that
The daily progressive-miner., 1919-04-23

Where is that Russian Baltic fleet that was ordered by Lenine only few days ago to attack the allies?
The daily progressive-miner., 1919-04-23
IMITATION

is the sincerest form of flattery, that is why it pleases us to hear that other laundries claim to do work just like ours. It is tribute to tle excellence or our iaudering which we fully ap preciate. But why not have the origl- nal? Send us your WasnaDIes and you won't nave to say they are as perfect as ours. The work will be ours and the real thing.
Evening star., 1919-04-06

one owns and runs at least a gaso
line street kettle and arrests for vio-
lation of traffic laws are numerous
nobody is more unpopular than po-
liceman. Can you fail to appreciate
then, the surge of friendlness that
would come over an investor the
owner of a car who had recently
emerged from the humiliation of hav-
ing 50 fine plastered on him for hav-
ing no lights, upon reading such a
sign. Naturally, he would simply be
overcome with love for our fair city
and would move right in whith his
skippered herring factory or what
ever he happened to be interested in.
There also is the great advantage Of
us District residents being voteless
that must not he overlooked. Like
everything which has two sides-and
most everything. I guess, except base
balls. oranges and the like have two
sides-this great situation is not
without it's merits.
Why not sign like this to drive
home the fact that we have no vote
Other places have election days.
but here nobody ever gives you a
f1ve-cent cigar"
/ can see how this sign would ap-
peal to some artistic manufacturer Of
say-let's see-well. talking machine
records Establishing a factory here
Evening star., 1919-04-06

in the District, where there are no
elections. of course. he would be GER
tain that there would be no campaign
speeches made by his great artist
such as Alma Gluck. Galli-Curci John
Mccormick. Raymond Hitchcock and
others. and. hence, they always would
be in voice, Any Tuesday that he de-
sired to. therefore. he could call up
Mccormick something like this:
John. l want you to come down
and sing Hot Time in the Old Town
Tonight And. of course. John being
without the excuse that he was out
campaigning the night before. would
have to come right along.
OF more SURPRISING interest. how
ever would be the last sign which
1 suggest. which is:
washington is the souvenir post
card center of the world"
There you are. Can you imagine
anything that would bring more con-
tentment to a vast body of workers
that new industries are bound to
move here than the knowledge that
the post card facilities here were un-
surpassed by any other city in the
world? I think not. Half the fun of
moving to a new town consists in
sending post cards to the folks back
home. Therefore, advertise we'll our
post cards and we shall get the peo-
pie. THE OBSERVER.
Evening star., 1919-04-06
A Typical Pessimist.

A CONGRESSMAN was defending his
bill for the unscrambling Of the
railroads.
II believe in the railroads." he said.
Il am an optimist. Pessimists. you'll
find, are poor stuff all around.
"A preacher said to Wisconsin
pessimist:
How dare you rail at Providence
nothing to be thankful for? Why.
man, you look at your neighbor, Cur
tis. His wife has just been carried Off
by the grippe
WELL snarled the pessimist. what
good does that do me? amt Curtis
Evening star., 1919-04-06
The Cynic Loser.

SECRETARY CARTER GLASS was
defending the league Of nations
against cynic.
You cynics." he said. lose out all
round. You're like the schoolboy.I.
This schoolboy: born cynic, re
fused to play during the recess hour.
AS he sat on hard, pointed, uneom-
Portable rock, contemplate with
cynical sneer the games of the other
lads, comrade said:
why ain't YOU playin', Jack?'
"He shifted
"Catch me playin'!' he said. If
played the recess hour would go too
FAST"
Evening star., 1919-04-06
On an Old Battlefield.

may be of peace or war: 1t is too bro
ken down for any one to say. A great
bar of iron lies cracked across as
though one of the elder giants had
nearby, with an old green beam stick
ing out of 1t. was also once a house.
trench runs by. A German bomb
with its wooden handle; some bottles
a bucket, petrol tin and some bricks
and stones lie in the trench. A young
elder tree grows among them. And
over all the ruin and rubbish nature,
with all her wealth and luxury, comes
back to her old inheritance. holding
again the land that she held so long
before the houses came.
A garden gate of iron has been flung
across a we'll. Then a deep cellar. into
which whole house seems to have
slanted down. In the midst of all
this is an orchard. A huge shell has
uprooted, but not killed, an apple
tree; another apple tree stands stone
dead on the edge of crater; most Of
the trees are dead
British airplanes drone over con-
ward Bapaume, dragged by a slow
engine with caterpillar wheels. The
gun is all blotched green and yellow.
Four or five men sit on the huge
barrel alone.
Dark old steps near the orchard
run down into a dugout, with a cart
ridge case tied to piece of wood
beside it to beat when the gas came.
A telephone wire lies listlessly by the
opening A patch of michaelnas dais-
les, deep mauve and pale mauve, and
a bright yellow flower beside them
hTy 10 nr1n
nearby. Above the dugout a patch
of jagged earth shows in three clear
layers under the weeds; four inches
of gray road metal, imported, for all
this country is chalk and clay; two
inches of flint below 1t, and under
that an inch of bright red stone
We are looking, then, at road, a
road through a village trodden by
men and women and the hoofs of
horses aud familiar modern things
road SO buried. so shattered, so
overgrown, showing by chance an
that l could seem rather to have
discovered the track of the dinosaur
in prehistoric clays than the highway
of little village that only five years
ago was full of human faults and
joys and songs and tiny tears.
Down that road before The plans
OF the kaiser began to tumble with
the earth--down that road--but 1t Is
useless to look back; we are too far
away from five years ago, too far
away from thousands of ordinary
things. that never seemed as though
they would ever peer at us over
chasms Of time. out of another age,
utterly far off, irrevocably removed
from our ways and days. They are
gone. those times. gone like the
dinosaur, gone with bows and ar
rows and the old knightlier days. No
splendor marks their sunset where
sit. no dignity of ruined houses or
derelict engines Of war: all equally
are scattered dirtily in the mud, and
common weeds overpower them. 1t
is not ruin but rubbish that covers
the ground here and spreads its un-
tidy flood for hundreds and hum
dreds of miles.
AS l left 1t a rat, with something
in its mouth, holding it's head high,
ran right across the village
Evening star., 1919-04-06
By CAPT. LORD DUNsANY,
ENTERED an old battlefield
through a garden gate. a pale
green gate, by the Bapaume-Arras

through a garden gate. a pale
i green gate. by the Bapaume-Arras
road. The cheerful green at
tracted me in the deeps of the desola-
tion as an emerald might in a dust
bin.
entered through that homely gar
den gate; 1t had no hinges, no pillars:
1t lolled on a heap Of stone. came
to 1t from the road: this alone was not
battlefields: the road alone was made
and tended and kept; all the rest was
battlefield as far as the eye could see.
Over large whitish heap lay Vir-
ginia creeper. turning q dull crimson.
And the presence Of this creeper
mourning there in the waste showed
unmistakably that the heap had been
a house.
All the living things were gone that
had called this white heap home; the
father would be fighting somewhere;
the children would have fed, If there
had been time; the dog would have
gone with them, or perhaps, If there
was not time, he served other mas.
ters; the cat would have made lair
for herself and stalked mice a. night
through the trenches, All the live
things that we ever consider are gone
the creeper alone remained. the onl I
mourner. clinging to fallen stone )
that had supported it once. And [
know by its presence that here thei e
had been a house. And by the texture
or composition Of the ruin all arou al
1 saw that village had stood there,
There are calamities one does not con-
template when one thinks of time and
ri a
ruin, are all the human lot; but one
contemplates ruin as brought by
kindly ages, coming slowly at last,
with lichen and ivy moss, its harsher
aspects all hidden with green, coming
with dignity and In due season. Thus
our works should pass away, our
worst fears contemplated no more
than this,
But here. In a. single day. perhaps
in moment, with one discharge from
a battery. all the little things that
one family cared for. their house,
their garden and the garden paths,
and then the village and the road
through the village and the old land
marks that the. old people remem-
bered, and countless treasured things,
were all turned into rubbish.
And these things that one did not
contemplate have happened for hun
dreds Of miles; with such disaster
cause of the German war.
Deep wells. old cellars. battered
trenches and dugouts lie In the rub
bish and weeds under the intricate
wreckage OF peace and war. 1t will
be a bad place years hence for wan
derers lost at night.
In the same storm that had crum :
bled the village. the trenches with
cred too, but peace and war alike have
deserted the village. Grass had be-
gun to return over torn earth on
edges of trenches. Abundant wire
rusts away by its twisted stakes of
steel, Not path of'old, not lane
nor doorway there but Is barred
and cut off by wire: and the wire in
Its turn has been cut by shells and
lies in ungathered swathes pair
of wheels molders among weeds, and
Evening star., 1919-04-06
Brutal MateriaIiSm.

U'T>OO many husbands" said a sem
ator in discussion of divorce,
take a brutally materialistic view of
marriage.
"I don't want my wife to go away
a banker said In my hearing the other
day. III
Moved. I patted him on the arm,
'Ah. you dread the separation. HhT
l said. M
"'Yeh.' he answered. curtly. the sep
aration from the COIN"
Evening star., 1919-04-06
An Object Lesson.

CTEPHEN CONDON, secretary Of the
marine workers. said In an ad-
dress. during the marine workers
strike In New York:
"Our opponents are too uppish.
They'd better learn lesson from the
Germans.
"The Germans started out to lick
the world. and they wind up licking
the worlds boots" .0l o.
Evening star., 1919-04-06
Around the City.

tour that must have reminded her es.
cort Of the ruins of Carthage. pro.
vided his name was Marius. And she
was rattling away In q giggiy-Giri-
ish fashion to Martus between acts
at the neutrality-suspicious." II You
II Just love M-careme affairs; they
are such dead loads of fun. Don't
you wish you knew what character
am going to take? You know y"u're
just dying to find out!"
was possibly due to good nature. or.
possibly again. to the lady's having
treated to the tickets. Either way
1t satisfied hort doesn't take much
to feed the vanity of a Circe who Is
fair and fat. but will never again be
forty In this world.
I'll have to crafty you II you promise
not to breathe 1t to a soul"
So she told him. But honest. 1t
cannot be repeated because In case
it got out she would blamh 1t on
Marius-and. besides. you can't laugh
over middle age logging itself out as
at, and. IL one has temperament
of that sort. to cuss over. SIN. when
you come down to 1t
If every woman who had lost her
Hogarthian line Of beauty was to
sit down and snivel a. "r bereave-
ment 1t would be a mi 'ugubrious
world.
And nobody wants rid of that
sort.
X
A PLAIN. stout woman was crossing
the cobbles of a street downtown.
1t was street broken out all over In
a business rash of secondhand cloth
ing and noisy with foreign tongues.
The woman. herself had the saffron
glazed skin and soot-black hair of an
other land than ours. Her shabby
black gown was somber enough for
chief mourner, except for an outburst
of red flower on her breast and her
head was partly covered with rusty
lace shawl
a thousand other stout women in
shabby black with shawls over their
heads might have crossed the street
without attracting attention. This one
was the exception. And it is the ex-
ception that counts.
Two young women Of Vanity Fair.
who must have been making short
cut to somewhere to account for so
much style In SO dubious quarter,
stopped Snort at sight of the woman
with the saffron skin. the rusty black
with Its red rose and the rustier black
lace shawl.
Look at that will you? Did you
ever see anything SO picturesque Off the
stage2 II could look like that woman
Id spend the rest Of my life with a
shawl over my head"
Lets start IT. Grandma's got a
lovely lace shawl. It's white. but she
might let me dye it,"
SILLY. haven't we been wearing
scarfs right along? My silver gauze
isn't a patch on that old lace thing.
I'll bet it's full OF holes"
1T isn't the veil. Its that odd red
flower. If she makes a red rag look
like that, l wonder what she could do
with these sweetpeas?"
The stylish two started on to where
they were going. and the other woman
sauntered along on the sunny side Of
the street. The blood-red flower glowed
in dramatic contrast to its somber set
ting. but 1t was the rusty lace shawl
that made her different from that
thousand other women.
For In the lace mantilla of her coun-
try Is folded the romance of old Spain.
The mystery of its grace cannot be
learned from a fashion page. 1t must
be taught in Spain.
And by way of first lesson one
must be born there.
MAMIE LANCASTER.
Evening star., 1919-04-06

A BAGGY chin is the furled banner
OF youth. But there Is one woman
in this town who doesn't know IT,
She was wearing a flapper suit that
ralrly shrieked attention to a con-
Evening star., 1919-04-06

A SMALL girl stood by door in a
dusky street and looked up a stair
way that was swallowed in shadows
big, black ones full of bugaboos N
everything.
She had to go up that stairway to her
nome over a store that had shut up for
the night and she was af.aid. She was
so afraid that she just had to stand there
and wait until somebody came along to
help her. Many people made up the
crowd that swarmed by, going and com
ing, but the small girl kept on waiting
until with the inscrutable instinct thai
the good God has given to children and
dogs to recognize kindness when II
comes their way, she halted a passing
man: 's
Please. mister. will you rush me lin
the steps? I'm afraid Of the dark ); VIZ
Sir Galahad stood guard until n hannv
nttle voice piped down.
All right. I'm up now" And that
was all there was to 1t, except that
lf this world were made up of chijdIi,.a
trustfulness and man -strong kindnass
1t would be such fine place to live in
that none OF us would want TO die and ri
go 70 heaven, now. would we? A
sun, It's a right nice world no n 10
Evening star., 1919-04-06

All good employers. of course. want
their help to learn thrift. so they
would be glad to have them talk
with some of the government help
that seldom. If ever, get raise in
pay. Think what decently paid help
could learn from some of the men
and women who have been working
for the government for forty or fifty
years without getting raise in pay,
Also, in the economy line:
You can wear a collar two days
In Washington"
How do you think that would do for
one Of the signs? Ridiculous and alb
surd. you say. Very we'll. let us see
This is the only city in the country
where that feat can be performed
] make that statement advisedly, for
,Hpecently I made a canvass of the
clean and dirty collar situation and
found that q clean collar dirties be-
yond possible further wearing as fol-
lows: Chicago. ten minutes: Philadel-
phia, eleven minutes; st. Louis. eleven
and half minutes, aud New York.
half day, some days.
Consider the strong appeal. such a
sign would have to the economical
employer. One. for instance who got
his start in life by saving his old
pen wipers. boiling them and turn
ing in the ink thus saved to the firm
Would not the saving of collar a
day have strong appeal to him? 1t
would. and there are many such cap
tains OF industry.
Still another sign that should be
displayed prominently is this:
I'VE are short on cops and have
been for a long time"
In these days, when almost every
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1919-02-13
REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS

Elizabeth X. Robinson and Anthony
Robinson to Rachael Louise Driscol,
$40, and o. c.. Lots IA and Is, block
Z, Thatcher addition to Boise.
Len Dobson, ct ux, to John f. Free
man and Homer S. Levander, $40 and
v. C. Sh NEA section SAL E. sub
ject to $4,000 mortgage to American
Freehold Land Modtgage Co.
George M. Pethtel, ct ux. to d. c.
Pethtel, ct Tx, $3.50, 81 acres in SEA
NWA section 3-2-1 w.
Eunice T. Folsom, widow, to l.. l..
Folsom, $40 and o. ". c., NE sen sec
tion 23, NJ NWA, SEA NWA, MEL
SWA and irregular tract in Sc SEQ.
ticn 24-3-1 e.
Eunice T. Folsom, widow, to L. l..
Folsom, $10 lot 5, block SO, o. T., Of
Boise.
John M. Mcbride. ct ux, to Pierce
Suburban Syndicate Ltd, $500, iot4
10, 20 and S. IT. lot IS, block 81, Ellis
addition, subject to $500 mortgage 10
7. A. Butts.
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1919-02-13

Brown and Edward Cruzen. The stu
dent council passed upon the selec-
tions at the meeting held Wednesday
afternoon.
The news and organization depart
ment is to be managed by Margaret
Blackenger, with the aid of Margaret
Franklin as assistant. HAIL Hawley
was chosen as the artist Of the paper
and Donald Cunningham as the car
toonist. The debate and forum society
reporter chosen was David McFadden,
while Mcdonald Ewing was made ath-
letic reporter. The joke department,
one of the most popular in the paper,
will be edited by Theadore Sherman,
and the exchanges will be in charge of
Clara Jones. Doris Fisher is to take
the alumni notes. and the photo or snap
shot department will be handled by
Helen Macarthur and ZENITH Davidson.
Margaret Kutnewsky, secretary of the
student council, will write up the hap
penings of that body.
The special annual staff, which will
have charge of the annual edition of
the Courier" will not be chosen until
farther along in the spring. The "Cour-
ier' this year has had an exceptionally
slow start because of the long closing
OF the schools on account of the in :
fluenza, but now with all the appoint
ments filled, things should move along
better.
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1919-02-13
why DRUGGISTS REC
0MMEND SWAMP ROOT

For many years druggists have
watched with much interest the re-
markable record maintained by DR..
kilmer's Swamp Root, the great kid
ney liver and bladder medicine.
1t is physicians prescription.
Swamp Root is strengthening
medicine. 1t helps the kidneys, liver
and bladder do the work nature in
tended they should do.
Swamp Root has stood the test of
years. 1t is sold by all druggists on its
merit and it should help you. No
other kidney medicine has so many
friends.
Be sure to get Swamp Root and start
treatment at once.
However, IL you wish first to test
this great preparation send ten cents
to DR.. Kilmer & Co, Binghamton, N.
Y, for a sample bottle. When writ
ing be sure and mention the Boise Daily
Capital News.-Adv.
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1919-02-13

TO MOTHERS! While all children detest castor OIL caomel
pills and axaes they really love take Cascares they
like candy Cascarets wo nasty bile sour lamentations and
constipation poison from the chlds tender stomach liver and
without pain gng Cascarets dsappon
Each ten cent box contains directions for children aged year old
and upwards,
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1919-02-13

housed and well fed. Thousands fell
i'll of diarrhoea and dysentery and
hundreds from pneumonia because OF
it.
"At no time was this remedied, yet
at all times we had labor battalions
there ami engineers to do the work,
but were too busy building France a
port Of entry that is excelled by none,
to properly house and care for our SOL
diers. Pages could be written and then
half would not be told you. Some of
us were sent home that way and found
conditions no better than last May and
June. Yet the secretary Of war says
it was ideal when he saw 1t a few
months ago. We only wish he had to
spend the time there under the condi-
tons we did,
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1919-02-13
TX. p" DUTY THE PENALTY

The Cadet Corps of the local high
school has inaugurated an exceedingly
novel method OF punishment to
their members for minor offenses of
misconduct or Hardness. The Cadets
at their meeting Wednesday during the
noon hour voted that any member who
was reported late for drill or who was
absent without an excuse should be
made to serve one hour of kitchen po-
lice, or TX. p" duty, as it is called in
the army, in the high school cafeteria
Miss Stevenson, who has charge of the
cafeteria has promised to see that the
guilty ones are kept at work peellng
potatoes or washing dishes, and help
to wait on table.
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1919-02-13
CREAM FOR CATARRH
OPENS UP N0STRlLS
Tells How To Get Quick Relief
from Head-Colds. It's Splendid!

In one minute your clogged nostrils
viii open, the air passages of your head
Will clear and you can breathe freely.
No more hawking, snuffing. blowing,
headache, dryness. No struggling for
breath at night, your cold or catarrh
will be gone.
Get small bottle of Ely's Cream
Balm from your druggist now. Apply
a little of this fragrant, antiseptic,
healing cream in your nostrils. 1t pen
etrates through every air passage of
the head, soothes the inflamed or swol-
len mucous membrane and relief comes
instantly.
It's just fine. Don't stay stuffed up
with q cold or nasty catarrh-Relie
comes so quickly.-Adv.