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The Wrangell sentinel., 1925-02-19
The Child vs. The Shilling

It is related of certain king, that, when embarked on a voyage, attended by some of his courtiers, and carrying with him some of his treasures, a storm arose, which made it necessary to tighten his ship; whereupon he commanded his courtiers to be thrown over board, but saved his money. How is it with parents who are em- parked with fortune and family on this voyage of life; when they need a better schoolhouse to save their children from i'll health, or a better teacher to rescue them from immortality and ignorance, or even slate or shilling's worth of paper to save them from idleness; have we any parents amongst us, or have we not, who, under such circumstances, will fling the child overheard and save the shilling?-Horace Mann.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1925-02-19
NOTICE
TO THE STOCKHOLDERS

TO THE SlOChf1ObDEsno UT
 WILSON & SYLVESTER MILL
 co. ING, TAKE NOTICE:
 That a special meeting of the Stockholders of Wilson & Sylvester Mill Co. Inc. will be held at its office in the City of Wrangell. Al aska on the 18th day of April 1925, at II o'clock A. M. pursuant to resolution adopted at a meet ing of the Board of Directors. of the Corporation held at it's office in the Citv of Wrangell, Alaska on February 11th, 1925.
 That the business to be trans acted at said meeting will be:
 1. Action upon a resolution to amend Article I of the Articles of Incorporation to change the name of the Corporation from Wilson & Sylvester Mill Go. Inc. to Wrangell Lumber & Power Company.
 2. Action upon a resolution to amend Article V to increase thu capital stock from s50,000 to s25O,0o0.
 3. Action upon a resolution to amend Article VI to increase the limit of indebtedness of the Cor poration from s50,000 to $150.000 and to ratify the action of the Stockholders in so amending said Article VI upon waiver of notice on February 11th, 1925.
 4. To >act upon resolution authorizing the sale of additional capital stock of the Corporation.
 5. To act upon a resolution amending Article VII of the Arti- cles of Incorporation to increase the number of directors from three to five.
 6. To take such other and fur ther action as may be necessary to the completion of the proposed amendments or authorizations above indicated.
 DATED .at Wrangell, Alaska, this 11th day of February, 1925.
 WILSON & SYLVESTER
 MILL co. INC.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1925-02-19
LINCOLN AND MARY
 OWENS

THE greatness of the leader has A put Into the shadow the intimate personal activities of the man, and 1t Is not generally known that Abraham Lincoln passed through the ordeal of two loves before he married Mary Todd. He fell In love in his early twenties with Anne Ruthledge. of New Salem, very charming girl. But Anne had formerly loved another and Lin. coln's love could not heal her heart and she died after becoming engaged to the future President.
 Lincoln's second love was Mary Owens whom he first met during his courtship of Anne. After Annes death he became interested in Mary. Mary Owens was wealthy and educated girl; pretty but inclined to fullness of figure. When Lincoln offered him. self to her she recognized in this un- gainly young man deficiency in the little links which make up the chain of . woman's happiness" as she keenly expressed 1t. and refused him.
 The following letter Is one of the few that are in existence addressed to the ladies of Lincoln's heart:
 "Friend Mary-I have commenced two letters to send to you before this, both of which displeased me before got half done and 50 tore them up. The first I thought wasn't serious enough and the second was on the other extreme. I shall send this, turn out as 1t may.
 "1 am often thinking of what we said about your coming to live in Springfield. I am afraid you would not be satisfied. There is great deal of fiourishing about in carriages here, which 1t would be your doom to see without sharing in 1t. You would have to be poor without the means ot hiding your poverty. Do you believe you could bear that patientlyI What. ever woman may cast her lot with me. should anyone ever do 70. 1t Is my in. tention to do all in my power to make her happy and contented and there is nothing can imagine that would make me more unhappy than to fail In the effort. know I should be much hap pier with you than the way am. pro vided I saw no signs of discontent h you. .r
 sYours, etc,
 Lincoln"
 Lincoln's romance with Mary Todd was stormy one. The young lady waS a belle in society and her friend. ship with other young men caused Lincoln, who was engaged to her, such agony of mind that he failed to appear at their wedding and was later found wandering about in distraction.
 The couple were later reunited by . mutual friend and eventually mar risd. though their lits was never . happy one.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1925-02-19

IN THE PROBATE COURT FOR WRANGELL PRECINCT, TER RITORY OF ALASKA, FIRST DIVISION
 In the Matter of the Estate of w. A. Eberly, deceased
 Notice to Creditors Notice is hereby given that the undersigned, A. E. Gurr, has been duly appointed Administrator of the Estate of the above named de- ceased.
 All persons having claims against said Estate, are hereby required to present same duly verified to the undersigned, at Wrangell, Alaska, within six months from the date of the first publication of this No tice.
 Dated at Wrangell Alaska, this 17th day of February, 1925.
 A. E. GURR,
 Administrator.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1925-02-19
P. c. Mccormack returned on the Alaska "Wednesday from short trip to Juneau.

William Jackson and James Hardeman arrived from Anchorage on the Alaska Wednesday. They will leave here shortly for the Cassiar.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1925-02-19
FISH SHIPMENTS

On the Alaska
 Wrangell Shellfish Cannery, $ boxes shrimp.
 Alaska Fish Brokerage Col box halibut and 1 box salmon.
 c. c. Mundy, box salmon.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1925-02-19

The food sale given on Saturday afternoon by the ladies of the Civ ic Club was we'll patronized. The sale netted over $52.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1925-02-19
REED BASKETS

Order now if you desire them as I am going east in April. if enough desire to learn. See
 IVAN T. soRNBERGER
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YOU MAY WIN $500

If you are able to make the most words out of the letters contained in the two words TOILET NECESS1- TIES" A total of $3,000 IN CASH prizes will be awarded to competit- ors in this
 Great Word Building Contest
 Send stamp for circular and rules. Address, Sheffield Laboratories. Dept. 12, Aurora, Illinois.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1925-02-19
Unmarried? Lonesome?

Let me find you Pal, Sweet heart or wife. Thousands of un- married women in the States; some of them would like to cor respond with you. If interested write the
 By Proxy Correspondence Club, Box 405 Fl Reno, Oklahoma.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1925-02-19
For Sale

For Sale One 150 fathom purse seine. Good condition. Inquire of
 ROBERT D. SHERMER. FOR SALE - Dining table. h. quire Sentinel.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1925-02-19

N. Nussbaumer took passage to Juneau on theAlameda.
Evening star., 1925-07-05

eliminate" The department asserts
that cheap" packing has always
proved false economy, adding that ''it
is a detriment not only to the indi-
vidual exporter but to our entire for
eign trade as we'll" 1t is the duty
of the carrier, says the department.
to use care and diligence to see that
chances of pilferage and breaking are
reduced to a minimum, but 1t Is also
to the interest of the shippers to
cooperate in this effort by packing
goods so that they will withstand
the unavoidable hazards incident to
the journey they are to make" Pack
ing which will be satisfactory for one
country or destination, 1t is pointed
out, may not be suitable for another.
1t being obvious, for instance, that
shipments destined to a port with
modern facilities and equipment will
not always require the same charac.
ter Of container or internal packing
as would a similar shipment which
is discharged where port facilities
either do not exist at ali or are of
a primitive character.
On the whole the United States
Department of Commerce is satisfied
with the way in which American ship
pers are now packing for foreign
markets, and with the showing which
this is making in the export figures
of the nation.
Copyright 1880
Evening star., 1925-07-05

drama of the last II years. And we
have just had the announcement that
the first will be achieved two months
hence, while the second may follow
with almost unexpected swiftness.
But underlying everything else is
the growing appreciation in allied
countries that the time has come
when, whatever the risks and
dangers, Germany must be permitted
to come back, must be recognized
not only as a sovereign state, but
as great power again, because the
risks incident to any other course
are clearly greater.
In word, the world does not know
and cannot know what kind of a
Germany will exist when the last
allied troops have been withdrawn
and the last allied commission of con-
troll or supervision has disappeared
from German SOIL but the world
and particularly the allied worlds
coming to know with rather terrify-
ing clarity what kind of a Germany
will exist if armies and commissions
do not disappear.
And that is why the announcement
of the evacuation of the Ruhr, which
excited singularly little comment in
contrast with the noise made by the
occupation less than three years ago.
marks an important date in current
history.
Copyright I925O
Evening star., 1925-07-05
Morocco Trouble Skaters
''Scientific War" Predictions

''darkening the sky" and "depopulat-
ing" vast areas of enemy territory
are either strangely absent or else
held in reserve for more serious oc-
casions.
Even such notable experts on mill.
tary air tactics as our own Col. briggs
have been impelled to come forward
with explanations" Their answer
is of course obvious. The most terri
bic weapons of modern warfare have
been evolved to coerce and terrify
highly advanced, and therefore highly
centralized and urban civilizations.
From these terrors the Riffian tribes
men are more or less derisively i'm
mune.
1t is. therefore. perhaps little un-
fair of Abd-el-Krim to resort in turn
to the highly modern weapon of
propaganda" Unquestionably guild
ed by European sympathizers, the
Riff1an chieftain has not only adopted
an exceedingly adroit policy of moral
sabotage toward the pacified natives
of the French zone of influence in
Morocco, but also appears to have
reached out across the Mediterranean
in a surprisingly effectual campaign
aimed at throwing difficulties in the
way of his enemies through an appeal
to European public opinion
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Td~ %~a +''4"-

of our house and seek work as mend
ers of our clogs or wooden shoes.
They were not permitted to come in
side our fence. We threw our clogs
out to them. they did their work,
threw the clogs back. and we tossed
the pay into their hands. We called
them unassimilable, while ourselves
denying them all opportunity of as
similation.
Error of Making Outcasts.
I'VE made a mistake. Our course
was politically, socially and econom-
ically wrong, as well as un-Christian
and inhuman. These persons are now
treated In every way as our equals.
But the antagonism fostered by CEN
turies cannot be swept away in a day.
They are still with us, still living in
their separate communities. still in
their hearts hostile to us, still prob
lem to veX social relations, perpleX
craftsmanship and grieYe huma nita-
rianism. We should have reached out
TO welcome them and not TO cast them
away. II we had done that they long
ago would have merged in our COM
munity beyond all trace. and today
there would be no Irritating problem
in Japan such as this particular class
presents"
Baron Shidehara was thinking and
speaking carefully, manifestly search
ing his mind for his real meaning and
for exact words to express it, impart-
Ing to his remarks precision and
solidfty. From time to time he looked
into my eyes as II to say, Are you
interested-do you understand me?"
His face now and again wore an un-
relenting expression, but as the talk
proceeded 1 found him capable of
smiling delightedly and of laughing in
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A RIVAL OF EGYPT IN YUCATAN

out the point from which the maidens
must have been thrown in, and then
l myself threw logs of wood equal in
weight to that of girl. In this way
I calculated the sector in which most
of the treasure must lie.
Dredging Sacred Well.
with all this completed, I went
back to Boston, where l had to raise
the money TO finance the work, and
met with committee of archeologists
and philanthropists. For several
hours 1 explained my theories and
they tried to show me that / was
dead wrong. Those were tense mo-
| ments, l can tell you. Finally they
told me to go ahead.
Immediately / started dredging the
| mud from the area within which l
| had thrown the logs. We pulled out
the fossil remains of a jaggur, a deer,
| q tree, a broken vase or two, but moth
| ing valuable At times l was afraid
| my advisers in Boston had been right,
and was almost ready to quit. But we
kept on. Finally the mud was all
cleared away and the well was ready
| for the actual diving.
II had sent for an experienced
| Greek diver, and together we took the
| first plunge, 80 feet. to the bottom
| The first trip was only to map out the
| bottom. The second began to yield us
results. We brought up two balls full
of incense, and a golden god.
/ Ninety Skeletons Discovered.
"Well, you know the rest" Mr..
| Thompson concluded. I'VE continued
| the diving for two years and discover
ed 90 skeletons, and a collection of
jade and golden images which 1 shan't
| try to describe and which you have
probably already seen In the Peabody
| Museum"
do you think there is anything
else remaining on the bottom of the
/ pool?" I asked.
Not of any value. We secured the
| bottom pretty thoroughly and prob
ably got everything except the stuff
which might have slipped down into
the crevices between the rocks. Before
we quit / was able to feel my way
around the bottom of that old pool like
my own bedroom in the dark
why were the maidens thrown into
the pool?" 1 asked my final question.
Messengers to Snake God.
I'VE believe that they were messen-
| gers to the Maya god, which was call
| ed the Great Snake God. According
to the tradition which has been hand
| ed down to the present-day Mayas,
these maidens were the most beautiful
in the tribe, and their selection as sa-
| cred messengers was considered a
great honor. If mole was found on
any part of their body, they were re-
jected as unfit. They were feasted and
waited upon for days before the sac
rifice, and when the great moment
came they leaped to the water in
sort Of religious frenzy such as ex-
perienced by the whirling dervishes
and some other Eastern religious
sects. Their neighbors threw in after
them their most precious belongings
of copper, jade and gold"
Mr.. Thompson now owns the planta-
tion on which stands most of the an
cient city of Chichen liza, and, having
concluded his own labors of explora-
ton, he has turned the plantation
over to the Carnegie Foundation to
| continue the work of resurrecting
Americas most ancient and cultured
civilization.
Evening star., 1925-07-05
BY DREW PEARSON.

~ OWN in Yucatan, half hidden
by dense jungles and tropic
Nvtnes, stand the temples and
~ sepulchers of an ancient
American civiliZation-that of
the Mayas.
This civilization fiourished and pros
pered before the time of Christ. 1t
rivaled the grandeur of ancient
Egypt in the days of King Tut But
despite the fact that 1t existed on the
shores of our own North American
continent just across the Gulf of
Mexico from New Orleans, 1t has
scarcely attracted the interest of
Americans. American explorers and
philanthropists have poured time and
money into the ruins of Egypt while
the Maya temples have slept peace
fully under their green growth of
jungle. And had 1t not been for the
energy and daring of one man, this
ancient civilization would be almost
unknown to Americans even today.
That man is Edward H. Thompson,
who has given 20 years of his life to
resurrecting the Maya ruins and
whose greatest single feat was to dive
to the bottom of the Sacred Well,
where, 80 feet under water, he
found the bodies of sacrificed maidens,
together with priceless quantities of
jade, gold and incense.
Explorer Tells Story.
Having introduced the Maya civili-
Zation to the world and given most
of his life to its exploration, Thomp-
son came north the other day, back
to the land of his birth, and very
quietly and unostentatious1y went
about doing his own business. until
bumped into him and made him tell
his story.
Thompson, suppose, must be past
so, but he looks 20 years young
er. His face has been Drowned
by years under a tropic sun and his
body has been toughened by count
less tramps through Mexican jungles.
He talks with the boyish, eager en-
thusiasm of all men who have given
their lives to some great cause.
mo one knows exactly where the
Mayas came from originally" said
Mr.. Thompson in reply to my first
question Some people claim they
are the lost tribe of Israel, because
many of them have Semitic features.
But I consider this no real proof, as
almost every race, even the Eskimos,
have some trace of Semitic features.
Once Lived in New Mexico.
my opinion is that the Mayas were
branch of the race which once in
habited most of Central America and
even lived as far north as New Mex
leo and Arizona We have found
stones in Yucatan which came from
New Mexico, and seem to prove at
least that trade relations existed be-
tween those two regions.
"One fact which complicates the
origin of the Mayas is the finding of
Jade. There is no Jade in any part
of Mexico today, and yet the Mayas
seem to have had a great supply of
1t. This has led some scientists to
believe that the Mayas first came
from China, where jade abounds.
AT any rate the Mayas once in
habited most of Mexico, and then,
because they were the most civilized
race, and therefore the least war
like, they were gradually pushed back
and back into the peninsula of Yucca
tan. This invasion might be COM
lpared with that of the Huns or the
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OF this ancient civilization reads like
nctfon and 1t was with difficulty that
got the explorer to tell it.
AS l had no money" Mr.. Thomp-
son finally explained, II got the Gov
ernment to appoint me as United
states consul at Merida with the
understanding that I could devote
part of my time to exploring.
Il dug around for a number of
years with surprisingly good luck.
The natives used to say that I read
the inscriptions on the buildings and
then knew where to dig; but of
course / could read very few of the
glyphs, and in fact even expert
archeologfsts can read only 20 per
cent of them
But all this time I had the idea
that the sacred we'll would yield up
more secrets than any other spot in
Chichen liza, and determined to see
what was at the bottom of it, The
Indians had confided to me their
legend that 1t was a sacrificial well,
and that in olden days beautiful
maidens and gold and jade were
thrown In to appease the gods.
Became Expert Diver.
'@The water in the well was about
40 feet deep, and there was 40 feet of
mud below that. Diving to the bottom
was a job to battle an expert, but 1
determined to become an expert. I
went to Boston and got a job scraping
the bottoms of deep sea vessels in a
diving suit. Then I returned to
Chichen Itza and laid out my cam
paign. The sacred we'll was 1853 feet
in diameter, and did not want to
have to explore the entire bottom of
this rather large area. So figured
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Goths. Always in history we find
that the least civilized and more war
like races push out the more cul-
tured people,"
when did all this happen?" 1 ask
ed Mr.. Thompson.
That is what / and a good many
others have been trying to figure out, &"
the explorer replied with quizzical
smile. 1--WE have found one stone
which gives us the date of 2S6 AID.
That is definite. But at that time, the
Maya civilization was at it's peak, so
that it must have existed long be-
fore that. 1 do know that the Maya
calendar was functioning $500 years
ago. That calendar, by the way, is
the best proof of Maya culture. Our
own calendar must be corrected every
four years-that is, we add one day
leap year-every four years. But
the Maya calendar was 50 perfect
that it was corrected only once every
10S years"
People of the Snake"
Mr.. Thompson explained how the
Mayas had finally built a beautiful
religious city on the Peninsula of
Yucatan, which served as their holy
of holies. The name of the city was
Chichen Itza, which means THE
Mouth Wells of the People of the
Snake" The wells" refer to two
great limestone sink-holes, one of
which was sacred and yielded much
rich treasure to Thompson's diving
exploits. The People of the Snake
was another name for the Mayas, be-
cause of their worship of the rattle
snake.
The story of one mans struggle
to prove to the world the importance
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DANGEROUS CONSTRUCTION.

" zEKIEL, xiii.10-11. "One built
- up a wall, and, 10, others
daubed it with untempered
IL mortar; say unto them which
daub 1t with untempered
mortar. that it shall fall
Man is essentially a builder. From
the earliest known periods of re-
corded history down to the latest
hour one of his most conspicuous
occupations has been that of construc-
ton. AS one travels through the
the cities and towns of the old world
he is amazed to note the stability and
strength that characterize the great
buildings erected in the most remote
periods of time. The Greek and the
Roman developed not alone the ar
tistic, they also disclosed amazing
genius in giving to the work of their
hands qualities that make it resist
the ravages of time. Even the con-
centrated fire of modern guns could
not wholly destroy the Cathedral at
Rheims.
Particular care and painstaking
methods pay In the long run. Apart
from the building of material fabrics
man has ever been engaged in the
more delicate task of building up what
he calls civilization. Great empires
able gifts and genius along many
lines, and that seemed to be so stably
built that they might stand indef-
initely. have come ultimately to show
the marks of weakness and decay.
Edward Gibbon as he surveyed from
the Capitol line hill the ancient city
of Rome saw In a vision the causes
that ultimately led to the decline of
the mighty Roman empire. He re-
called the days when it's legions vir-
tually conquered and ruled the world.
He saw the slow but inevitable proc
esses that gradually weakened and de-
stroyed the strength of Roman arms,
and that finally humbled in the dust
has ever known.
With like vision the great apostle,
st. Paul. standing on Mars Hill. told
the proud people of Athens that he
saw, as he surveyed their proud city,
the evidences of approaching decay.
x x
The study Of the worlds civilizations
as they have come and gone discloses
both the strength and the weakness
of the methods employed in their up
building. Our own time, possibly more
than any other, has witnessed an up
heaval the magnitude of which makes
whereon our present civilization is
builded. So far as America is con-
Cerned, we realize more than ever that
the fathers builded more wisely than
they knew. We dare not forget as