"Human Driftwood,” the World
Film five-part motion picture with
Robert Warwick and Frances Nelson
in the leading roles, which will be
the feature shown on the screen at
the Empress this, Thursday, and Fri
day evenings, July 13 and 14, tells
a strong story of life in and around
the New York dance hails and in
the mining camps of Alaska.
It is a play rich in scenic investi
ture and strong In dramatic action,
interpreted by a cast never before
equaled in point of ability and effi
ciency. The story, as usual, is up
to the high standard of Warwick ve
hicles, and one in which Mr. War
wick appears in just the sort of char
acters as the Empress theatre goers
like to see.
Many of the scenes In this big pic
ture were taken in the mining camps
of western Canada, and give absorb
ingly interesting climaxes of life in
the camps and 4lie c&nditions under
which the people live. How a young
man ip infatuated by a'beautiful but
evil dancer, who takes advantage of
his friendship to have her pals, a
band of crooks, enter his apartment
and rob hfs safe, is part of the story
of “Human Driftwood.” Such a
story always throbs with heart-inter
est.
ENDURE IF ABROAD
LONDON, July 12.—It has all
happened so gradually iu England
that nobody has particularly noticed
it. But if you hae been away from
London for six months you find up
on your return that the last hair
year has utterly changed the lives
of Englishmen.
Suppose for instance that your
town were London. What would the
war have done to it? Or to your
home life? And how would you take
these changes?
Would you be satisfied if half the
matches you bought didn’t light be
cause the stocks broke or the sulphur
tips are absent? And if the price on
matches went up, in spite of this?
Or, how would you take it if the
coal man didn’t make his deliveries
and you found your home coalless
some raw morning?
Or suppose the government put a
license tax of $95 a year on your lit
tle family automobile for which you
had paid only $500? And gasoline
went up to 35 cents a gallon?
Suppose your morning newspaper
kept getting smaller and smaller,
week by week because the newspaper
supply was getting low?
Suppose for every dollar you made
you had to turn a dime over to the
government for war purposes, just as
an income tax, not including the
many small taxes you would pay on
almost everything consumed in your
home?
Would you be bothered?
Strangely enough, if you had the
spirit of this new England you
wouldn’t. Your whole idea would
be to beat Germany and that idea
would keep your attention so closely
riveted to the battlefields that the
details of home inconveniences would
largely escape you.
At least, to the neutral onlooker,
they have escaped the folk df Lon
don.
It is difficult for a neutral to un
derstand this unless he is on the
ground but, if you had the new Eng
lish spirit—and such a spirit has
grotvn up within the last six montns
and reaches down to the very core
of English life—and your town
were London, you would be enduring
inconveniences that appear almost
unbelievable to you.
COLORADO, GONE DRY,
NOW DRINKS MILK
DENVER, Colo., July 12.—The
report of the city’s bureau of chari
ty and correction today shows that
since the Colorado prohibition law
became effective January 1 the peo
ple have been drinking more milk,
Prohibition did not create an unem
ployment problem because there
have been fewer “out of works” since
January than for several years. The
number of families asking relief
from the bureau has bjen about a
hundred a month less than for the
corresponding months last year. Gro
cers reported better collections.
BAXTER’S NEWS DEPOT
All the Magazines, Periodicals and
newspapers.
Read The Daily Timas and be an
Anchorage booster.
DOWN TRENCHES
SEE OLD FRIEND
LONDON’, June 28.—(By Mail) —
The British hold, at present, one
fourtli of the allies’ western front.
That is to say, their line is about yo
miles long.
“I shouldn't think,'' said a corre
spondent, “it would hardly be pos
sible for any one man to keep track
of what's doing along such a tre
mendous string of trenches.”
“You’d be surprised,” said the
young officer he spoke to, “to see
how sensitive a fighting line it.
“For instance, the other day, a
chap said to me, ‘Don't you know'
Bill Smith'.” “ 'Yes,’ I said. 'He
and I used to be great pals but he
went to Canada and I haven’t seen
him for years.’
“ ‘Well, said the c{iap, he's 45
miles down this line now. Why
don't you get leave and go see him?’
"I did. I made that 45-mile trip,
wading through trenches and taking
short cuts, traveling through country
I’d never seen before, meeting thou
sands and thousands and thousands
of men I’d never met. getting lost
and asking directions, mixing up with
convoys and ammunition trains and
having all sorts of experiences, until
finally I came to a jolly long tunnel
leading do9"ii to a thundering deep
dugout in a first line trench.
I xvent down this hole and as 1
landed in the dugout. Bill Smith got
up and said, 'I'm mighty glad to see
you, old chap.'
‘‘Just then a telephone bell rang
in the dugout. One of the other fel
lows answered it and after a minute,
said, ‘Yes, he just got here.’
"It was the chap who told me
about Bill Smith, asking if I'd arriv
ed safely.”
A British army supply base is a
wonderful thing, of course, but to
appreciate it is merely a matter of
multiplication.
Take any kind of an industrial,
or commercial institution—a packing
house, a bakery, a wholesale grocery,
a shot shop or a foundry, for in
stance—magnify it 100 times or so,
and you’ve got that particular detail
of a supply base.
A hospital ship is interesting,
likewise, but, after all, it’s mfereiy a
floating hospital, and everybody
knows what a hospital is like.
The hospital ship visited by the
three correspondents and the foreign
office official was chfefly remarkable
for a wonderfully spick-and-span di
rector with a single-barreled eyeglass
so firmly fixed that it appeared to be
rooted in his eyesocket.
“He takes it out and puts it in
eyeball and all, the captain men
tioned.
If you want the news subscribe
for The Times. $1.00 per month
delivered at your home.
Singer Sewing Machines sold on
easy terms. C. B. Wark, manufac
facturer’s agent. 6-13tf
All our yellow is on the car. You
will find us white. JOE. 7-3-tf
Watch page 7, columns 5 and 6.
Strathcona & Co., Brokers. 7-2-tf
V. A. SCHMITZ
OPTICIAN
OFFICE
Northern Drug Company. Empress
Block, Corner H and Fourth.
LOOK
For the btg (Special) in our win
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Bros. 7-ll-5t
For most reliable Fire insurance
see G. J. Swenson, Edison Studio,
Alaska Bldg. 7-7-tf
J. M. CORNELIUS
Watches & Jewelry
Eye Glasses Fitted, Watch Repair
ing, Jewelry Made to Order.
High-class. Prices Reasonable, j
Fourth and H St.
Chas.H. Mueller
MANUFACTURING} FURRIER
Honesty and Reliability.
Send your Raw Furs to me to
be made into Sets while Sum
mer Prices prevail.
Remodeling and Repairing.
1021 SECOND AVENUE
Seattle - - Wash.
Rooms $ 1.00 per Day and Up
Hotel Crist
GEO. CRIST, PROP.
Newly furnished and up-to
date. Rates by the week.
“Headquarters for Mining
Men."
Fourth Avenue and K Street.
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Jewelry
Special Agent for the Famous
GRUEN & SONS WATCHES
$40.00 to $650.00
Nothing .better in the trade.
GEORGE THE JEWELER
Seward, Alaska
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Central Barber Shop
and BATHS
Now Open for Business. Next
door to Polley Bros-’ Store.
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and Bath House
Fourth Ave., Between H and I,
Anchorage
OUR WORK IS GUARANTEED
—and—
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tslacksmithing General Repair Work
Horseshoeing a Specialty
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on your orders for Dry Goods of every descrip
tion, mailable under Parcel Post Reegnlation.
Send us your orders for such goods as can
not be supplied you by your home merchants,
and we will fill them carefully and promptly.
Dry Goods; Women’s and Children’s Ap
parel and Dress Accessories; Boys’ Clothing
and Men’s Furnishings; Complete Housefur
nishing Lines.
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SPECIAL SALE!!
50 DOZEN
Men’s Cashmere Hose
3 PAIR FOR 50c
MEN’S SILK LISLE HOSE
2 PAIR FOR 25c
Men’s Sandal Shoes, $2.50 Pan
Men’s Gymnasium Shoes, $2.00 Pair
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Men’s Canadian Wool Underwear, regular $5..00 value, >
Sale Price.$3.00 per Suit
Men’s Heavy Ribbed Underwear.$1.50 per Suit
Men’s Union Suits, Summer Weight.75c per Suit
Men’s President Suspenders. 35c
Men’s Extra Heavy Police Suspenders.35c
Men’s Light Dress Suspenders. 25c
Men’s Cotton Hose, 4 pair for.25c
Men’s Silk Lisle Hose, 2 pair for. 25c
Men’s Cashmere Hose. 25c
Men’s White Handkerchiefs, 4 for.25c
Men’s Heavy Wool Sox.35c
Men’s Work and Dress Pants, Iregularly $2.50 and $3
values, Sale Price $1.50
Men’s Silk Neckwear, regularly 50c and 75c values,
Sale Price 25c
Men’s Straw Hats, regularly $1.50 and $2 values,
Sale Price 50c
Men’s Heavy Kahki Pants, $2.50 values,
Sale Price $1.50
Men’s Work Shirts, 50c
Men’s Watches, the Pocket Ben and Ingersoll, $1.00
Clocks, the Big Ben and the Old America, at outside
prices. The Big Ben and Baby Ben at $2.50
Boys’ Suits at outside prices
The BON MARCHE
Opp. Postoffice
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