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VOL. I. DOUGLAS OITV AND TR10ADWKLL, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, MAY 17, 1899. NO. 26.
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RESTAURANT
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CHURCH DIRECTORY. I
CATHOLIC CHURCH;
Muss with Sermon ... 10;00 A. M. i
/ Sunday School ? ? 3;(KI P. M. !
Rosary. Lecture ami Benediction 7;CX) P. M.
Priest, Rev. Father P. C. Boufris, S. J. .
CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH-Rev. Loyal
L. Wirt, pastor. Services will 1h? held every
Sunday at 7:45 p. m. Sunday School meets at
2:30 p. m. Society of Christian Endeavor!
Wednesday evenings at 7:30. Ladies League i
every alternate Thursday afternoon.
EPISCOPAL CHURCH Services held at Odd J
Fellows Hall every Monday evening, except- 1
ing last in month, when the service will he
.held on Sunday evening. Rev. H. J. Gurr.
FRIENDS CHURCH?Regular services at the !
Mission School house.
Sabbath School .... jo a.m.
Native Services - 11 a. m.
Evening Services _ - - 7:45
Prayer meeting, Wednesday evening at 7:45
Teachers' meeting every Friday evening at
8 o'clock at private houses. _ |
Any and all arc cordially invited and wel
comed at all of these services.
Rev. C. N. Replogle, Pastor.
METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH?At j
Peniel Mission. Tuesday evenings at 7:15
o'clock. Scandinavian services at the Peniel
Mission Friday evenings at 7:45 o'clock.
A cordial invitation extended to all. Rev. C.
J. Larsen, Pastor.
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Hall. Douglas, on neauesuay evemu^s m u
o'clock.
Visiting brothers arc cordially invited to
attend. 4. G. McDONALD, N. G.
C. A. WECK, Secretary.
DR. W. L. HARRISON, I
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Hunter Mock, between Front
and 2nd Sts. Douglus City. f1
FRED PAGE-TUSTIN,
ATTORNEY AT LAW. j
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ATTORNEY AT LAW. i
NOTARY PUBLIC.
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ATTORNEY AT LAW. 1
Will practice in all the Courts of Alaska.
Post Office Building', JUNEAU, ALASKA.
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Juneau, ..... Alaska.
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BANDS ID MIMES
Riley and the Band. How
They Got a Band in Doug
las Last Fourth,
ANOTHER 4TH COMING j
The following story from the Atlanta
Constitution illustrates the wonderful
effectiveness of some village bauds:
Riley riles the band.?This story of
the poet, Riley, now published for the
first time, originated in a little town
where the poet was stopping over night.
The leader of the village band, know
ing that Riley had written a poem iu
which he expressed a preference for
hearing "the old baud play," thought it
would be a good idea to serenade him I
with "such tunes as 'Swanny River'
and 'John Anderson, My Jo,' " and ac
cordingly the band surrounded his
house iu full force.
The poet was tired and had been sleep
ing soundly for some time; but, being
awakened by the jarring discords with
out, took in the situation, thanked them
in a neat speech for the midnight com
pliment, retired and addressed himself
to sleep again. But it was no use. The
band kept on playing. Finally there
was a lull in the music and the poet con
gratulated himself that the worst was
over. In this he was mistaken. The
band had only stopped for a breathing
spell and a chew of tobacco. In a few
minutes it was "making night hideous" |
again.
Riley stood it for two mortal hours.
Ihen rendered desperate he raised the
window sash and shouted:
"Boys, I like to hear the old band
play; but, God bless you! I don't want
to hear it play all night long!"
"Less go, boys,7' said the indignant
leader. "That feller don't appreciate
music!"
Speaking of bands reminds us of the
way a band was created for the Fourth
of July celebration on Douglas Island
last year, as told us by one of the prin
cipal actors in the comedy, which came
near being a farce, or perhaps a trage
dy.
Douglas Island always celebrates the
Fourth with much vigor. The great
Tread well mines are closed down on
that day?the only holiday in the year,
except Christmas?and the men who
have not had a holiday for six months
or more celebrate from early morning
till late at night.
Last Fourth was no exception, and
weeks before preparations and arrange- j
ments were begun and committees ap
pointed. Now, the committee on mu
sic decided that, in order to make the ?
celebration a success, a brass band was
needed. There was a set of instruments
in Juaeau, and a strong effort was made
to secure them, but as that w ould have
left Juneau entirely without music, it
was a failure and the energetic com
mitteeman was only laughed at for his
pains.
In the agony of despair, Mr. R. D.'
Taylor (now postmaster), a member of
the music committee, said that if lie1
had the money he would go to the Sound
and buy a set of instruments and bring
them up on the first boat. Well, Jack
McDonald?everybody knows Jack, |
who has gone to the Atlin gold fields
and we all hope ho will get more gold
than ho can carry?this same Jack
heard the remark and he "never said a
word,"but started out to hustle the,
cash. In a little while he came to Mr. ?
Taylor, and, placing the necessary {
funds in his hand, said: "Thore's the
money, now go buy the horns."
The Cottage City was at Juneau and
had blown her half-hour whistle. Mr.
Taylor grabbed his overcoat, poked a
pair of clean cuffs in one pocket and a
collar in the other, and started for the
wharf, but before he could get a ferry
the boat had left Juneau. She stopped
for a few minutes at Tread wolf, and .
that few minutes saved the day. The J
conductor of the steamboat had cried
all aboard, when a boat neared the!
Treadwell slip, with Jack McDonald
pulling at the oars like a fiend and Mr.
Taylor crying out in his clear tencr
voice, " wait a minute, please."
Mr. Taylor got aboard and in a few
days was in Seattle, but there he was
again disappointed, for he found only
four band instruments at the various
music stores in the city. A trip to Ta- j
coma only produced two more. What |
was he to do? He visited pawn shops, \
second-hand stores, and saloons, and
interviewed musical men of every kind
and caliber, and finally had his list of
instruments complete, but the Cottage
City had sailed away to the North with
out him and he could only wait for the ;
Seattle which was to sail in a few days.
When the Cottage City reached the j
wharf at Douglas, many were the anx-j
ious eyes eagerly watching for Mr. Tay
lor, but he was not there; and the spirit
of hope in the breasts of the Douglas-!
ites fell to the lowest ebb.
For two hours before the Seattle
sailed for Alaska on her last trip be- !
fore that memorable Fourth of July,
Mr. Taylor was busily engaged iu car- j
ryiug musical instruments of every j
conceivable shape into liis stateroom,
and when on the trip North fellow pas
sengers would catch a chance glimpse
of the assortment, they would close
their eyes and silently pray for the sal
vation of Alaska.
The Seattle did not land at Douglas,
but went on to Juueau, where a few ex
ulting spirits were crowing over the
thought that they had the only brass
band in Alaska. They were dumb with
amazement to see unloaded upon the
dock such a collection of band instru
ments as they had never seen before.
There were big horns and little horns,
bass horns and tenor horns, trombones
and cornets, bass drums and tenor
drums, claronets and cymbals. Mr.
Taylor immediately placed them in a
row boat and brought them to Douglas
City. A band practice was held that
night, which developed the fact that
there was plenty of talent on the Island j
and all that they needed was horns, and
they had the horns.
They had a band here last Fourth
that was first-class and we still have it.
That reminds us that another Fourth
will soon bo here, but from the hustling
character of our citizens, as exhibited
in the above, we don't think any ob
stacle can present itself that will not
be overcome.
A Lay Sermon.
As the sermon will be short we will
take three texts. The first is from
Josh Billings: "If you would have
your children go in the road which
they should travel you should walk in
it a few times yourself."
These words contain a great truth:
?"Example is better than precept."
"Do as 1 tell you, not as I do," is very
poor instruction, the lowest specimens
of fallen manhood and womanhood can
and do tell us that. An army will fol
low a single bravo leader, and children
are not supposed to be wiser then men.
My second text is from this month's
Cosmopolitan, and while applicable to
both parents is especially addressed to
the mothers:
"It is a great pity for her (the moth
er) to become so much absorbed in the
practical details of the household that
she has no timo for reading, thinking
and mental development. It is a seri
ous mistake to allow herSeJf to grow
rusty in the things she used to know,
which her children are now studying.
No woman can afford to lose prestige
in the eyes of her children. Too much
emphasis cannot be laid on the fact |
that it is far more important for a |
woman to bo the alert and congenial
intellectual companion of her husband
and children than for the stockings to
be mended always by Saturday night."
These words, when you think of them
seriously, express one of the saddest
conditions in human experience.
When a child discovers that the mother
is ignorant, no matter how strong the
love and attachment may be the moth-!
er has lost a certain prestige. The !
woman who has had the advantage of a
college education should never stop in
her pursuit of knowledge or suffer her
self to grow rusty in her school studies
if she has children to rear. She should
be intellectually superior to her son and
daughter when they return as college
graduates, and if she is, her superior
advantages of age and experience will
enable her to wield an influence which
110 uneducated woman possesses, other
things being equal.
? i tt; i. i.?n 1U(1?
IMSllOp V1UCCI1L U.'iis u uti-iu 6un^ ui
a mother who studied her children's
school books so as to be able to help
them, and how they looked up to her
with a certain admiration as the source
of superior wisdom, but the time came
when her two sons wont away to col
lege. She had never taken a college
course and when they would come back
in four years they would bo so far
ahead and see how ignorant she was,
and she sat down and cried. No, it;
must not be, she couldn't bear it, they ,
should never be ashamed of her on
that score, and she commenced read
ing?not the dry text books of the col
lego, b^t- history, the poets, biography,
the great novels, criticisms on art and
literature, and kept herself posted on
the new discoveries in scionce and the
progress of the busy world. She read
along the lines the world was discuss
ing and as her sons returned during ?
their school vacations they still found 1
her better posted in general informa-:
tion and history than they were and
often able to help them. When they
graduated and the mother expressed
her pleasure through tears of joy they
still found her a critical companion,
and sometiihes more than an equal in
intellectual discussions. If it was the
Bacon-Shakespeare controversy she
was familiar with it; if it was Darwin
ism she could discuss evolution from
both the scientific and theologic
al standpoint; if the un-Americanism
of Lowell's criticisms, she had definite
ideas; she could not measure the dis
tances or weigh the stars, but she could
point out the constellations and tell
many interesting stories of the heavens.
She had the true idea of a practical,
general education which is very clearly
j stated in the following words from the
current number of Self Culture:
"The idea that education is a thing
to be concluded definitely within a few
| of the earlier years of life, then to bo
regarded as forever over and done, and
that it consists of some disagreeable
preliminaries of syntax, Latin gram
mar, and rhetoric, to be gotten out of
the way as speedily as possible,?this
idea of education we understand to bo
thoroughly obsolete. Rather do wo
understand that education, if it means
anything, means the continual enrich
ment of the resources of the individual;
that, as such, it is by no means con
fined to thoso who are found within
the schools, nor to youth, but that it is
just as much for the adult as for tho
young; that in fact, just so long as wo
have our faculties and the world is
about us, we are to add to our re
sources and to strengthen our facul
ties for tho enrichment of life and tho
improvement of citizenship. Educa
tion, therefore, for the individual, i
never finished. It is one of the great
abiding, permanent interests of life,
along with politics and religion."
My third and last text is a little sto
ry which we will entitle "Where Do You
Live?" A young man expressed his
surprise that the great Mr. Blank
should live in so poor a house amid
such mean surroundings, down in a
valley where he could see so little of the
world ho so well understood and had
so graphicly pictured with his pen.
The young man's companion was
something of a philosopher, and lie re
plied with a little laugh: "Oh, Mr.
Blank don't live there; nnanciai condi
tions may render it necessary for him
to eat and sleep there, but he lives
with the master minds of the world.
He sits down with the artist and the
poet; he walks the streets of Paris and
ancient Athens, sings with Sappho,
talks with Plato, laughs with Aristoph
anes. He lives over again his rambles
through the old cathedrals and picturo
galleries; he communes with Shake
speare, Milton, Dickens, and the great
and good of every age. It matters
little where such a man eats and sleeps.
Live there! No, he don't live there."
My friends, where do you expect to
live in old age?
Jack Johnson the popular and cuter
prising saloon man of Douglas took his
departure on the Cottage City for a
summer vacation in his Eastern home.
Jack is a fine fellow, aside from being
the best all around sport in Alaska, and
while east, pleasure bound, nothing too
good can befall him. He goes from
here to Chicago, thence to all the prin
cipal cities east. While in New York
he expects to witness the fight between
"Fitz" and "Jeff" and will return to tell
tlie boys "Why he sawed the wood."