STANTON H. KING, OF BOSTON, I
WILL TEACH SAILORS FA
MOUS SEA DITTIES.
MUSIC INSURES TEAM WORK. I
Instructor Is Old Salt and Learned j i
His Ocean Melodies When He Ship
ped Before the Mast Thirty-Eight
Years Ago.
BOSTON, Mass., April 6.—Stanton
H. King, of Boston, has the only war >v
job of its kind. He is official chantie 1
man for the American merchant mar- ■'
ine. His work will be to revive chantie
singing among merchant sailors who .
will join the country s new cargo ships
through the United States shipping ’
board recruiting service, national
headquarters of which are at Boston.
While chantie singing has declined
on all seas, owing to the change in re-j •
cent years from sailing vessels to , ■
steamers—there not being much op- U
portunity to "heave and haul” on 1
board a steamer—its revival is con- i
sidered important for two reasons.
Chanties insure team work when a
crew are pulling on ropes, even aboard j
steamers; while the building ol large
numbers of American schooner means
an increased demand for men who can 1
“reef, hand and steer” on sailing ves- i
stls, where chantie singing used to t
flourish.
The shipping board trains men to ’
serve on steamers, but if a certain ■
percentage ship on sailing vessels and
carry with them the almost lost knack
of chantie singing, the\ will he the
better equipped foi tl.ei work, ac- '
cording to sharps on the seafaring •
game. P
Stanton II. Kin*? probably is the '
country’s best known chant e singer. ’
Chantie singing is part of a w> ekly en
tertainme at he gives Jack a.-hore at a
mission of which he is head. ’1 he pro
gram is usually varied, and to hear :
Mr. King lead hi- .-ailor 'Yicnd • ;n
“Shenandoah.” “bound for the bio
Grande,” or ' blow the Man Dow; ” i
to understand the psy.dcgic pm <•'
of the well-sung c-ianti >.
Mr. King is an old s- It, and leanrc ; ‘
chantie singing in its home, on deep
water vesels. He lx gan going to s-xt
38 years ago, from the Barbados. in
the me; chant service, t or six years lie 1
served chiei’lv on deep-water Yankee
ships. ' ' I
In January, 1880, he found himself
at 1’ -ton and joined the navy there
for cruise around the world in the
Alliance.
Having become greatly interested in J
the welfare of the sailor while a sailor ^
himself, he next went to the Moody :
school for two years, and in the spring
of 18d.‘> Mai; ed the Sailors’ Haven at
Charlestown, .Mass., alongside a bar- 1
loom.
The Haven developed into a unique
i
institution, and it is widely known
among sailors.
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HOECAKES AM) THEIR ORIGIN.
1 he hoecake is the most common
form of corn bread found in the south.
It was named by the southern slaves
in early slavery davs. The women -
slaves hoed cotton and rice by the <
* task. When a task was begun in the '
morning it was completed before go
ing back home. Sometimes they would f
get hungry; then the hoe was de- I
tached from the helve, a fire started i
and a hoecake was cooked then and
there upon tlv hoe. It was discovered
by .ne planters that meal cooked thus j
was j aiatable, and the hoecake was t
hence made part and parcel of a com- 1
plete. plantation dinner. 1
For a hoecake take one pint of silt- 1
ed meal, one-half teaspoonful of salt; t
add lard or fried meat grease and mix
with enough lukewarm water to form ' i
a thin paste. Spread on a hot and t
greasy griddle. Hake both sides j \
brown. Serve hot with vegetables, j 1
fish, bacon, pork,etc.
For corn pone use the above form- ! t
ula, but make the dough or paste \
thicker. Make into loaves and bake
in a hot oven.—A. \V. Brabham in \
New York, Sun.
'HYSICAL EXAMINATIONS UN
DER DRAFT LAW REVEAL
LACK OF NOURISHMENT.
IOPE TO IMPROVE CONDITION.
hiblic Health Service’s Investigation
Shows Importance of Properly Bal
anced Diet in Early ^ ears of
Life.
WASHINGTON, D. C„ April 6.—
Secretary of the Treasury \\ illiam Ci.
IcAdoo announces that as a result of
Indies by the United States Public
lealth service of the causes for re
'vtions for physical defects under the
elective draft law, it has been estab
i.-hed that mal-nutrition during child
iood is one of the avoidable troubles.
The service is now considering a na
iona! program of co-operation with
late, county, and municipal health
.mhorities for the purpose of safe
guarding the health of school chil
iren. The public health service has
peer, engaged for some years now in
ollecting valuable data as to the state
if nutrition and mental and physical
lealth of school children.
In view of the increasing economic
tress occasioned by the war at least
ino valuable means of enabling the
ising generation to pass unscathed
hrough this period consists in taking
tops to see that school children are
•provided at midday with a warm,
■rcperly-balanced meal.
The value of the school luncheon
onsistiug of properly balanced arti
les of diet furnished to school chil
ircn either at cost or somewhat below
ost. has long been recognized as
a
riSill:
growth and development. Th
ost of living and lack of general
mowledge of healthful substitutes for
alliable articles of food, which are
keadiiy becoming scarcer, emphasizes
ic this time the necessity for making
m.vi. ion by health authorities of hot.
mint ions meals for school children
luring the noon hour.
Properly Balanced Ration.
The public health service, through.
Is iiive.-iigatio: ■, has linw'n in si
ng fashion the imnortanee of a prop
■vly balanced ration in childhood.
In certain orphan asylums of the
ountry, pellagra mysteriously made
s appearance, affecting a large num
ier of the inmates of an intermediate
mo group, avoiding the younger and
he older childi en.
The expert- of the public health
■ . r\lco on dietary diseases, invasti
rated the situation and found that
>oth the younger and the older or
il.ans received a better diet than
hoc in the middle-age group, the
nfiner because of their tender age,
he latter because they performed
,-ork around the orphanage.
Arrangements were at once made
>y the public health service to supple
ner,t the diet of the group of children
laving pellagra, whereupon the dis
:ise promptly disappeared.
CAST INDIAN ENGLISH.
A railway surgeon in India sends
ome curious messages he has recoiv
(i from time to time from the com
•any’s employes:
!. Honored Sir—1 am suffering
rom fever and swelling of my whole
i.-)dy, and my legs, too, are swellerned
p. Please take trouble to see me.
2. 1 beg to inform you that I am
offering by too much hot fever, but
ust now it is subsided somewhat and
here is much perspiration, and my
egs are trembling like riding horse,
'irst comes cold fever and then it
leeomes hotting. Inside a somewhat
lefected.
d. I tell you truly, sir. that 1 am
"'ally sick. Mr. Sprunk has refused
o leave, and if you don’t certify I
rill die like a dog. and my father will
>e issueless.
4. Sir—Now 1 pray that you will
lake me cure soon because I am a
ery familiar man.
5. Wife lingering near to next
,-orld. Come soon to prevent goodby.
-London Standard.
ITALIAN PRINCE
GETS INCOME
ON OLD TITLE
S C I A R R A FAMILY OBTAINS
| LARGE INCOME DERIVED FROM
K N I G H T S O F M A L T A .
—
ACCUMULATION OF 10 0 YEARS
Head of House, Until Lawsuit Was
Won, Was So Poor That He Had
Tried to Make Livelihood Selling
Automobile Insurance.
ROME, April 9.—War memories o!
the middle ages have been renewed
among the princely houses of Italy b\
the recent decision of the Roman civil
courts condemning the old and famous
families of Corsini and Barberini tc
restore to the young daughter of the
Prince of Sciarra property rights, in
volving a large money income, vestec
in the ancient older of the Knights oi
Malta.
Except among noble or Catho’iii
families the very existence of tin
militant religious order of the Knight,
of Malta had been forgotten here, yel
the decision of the court has showr
that large properties still are in the
possession of this order founded main
centuries ago at Jerusalem and whir;
successively controlled the islands ol
Rhodes and Malta until driven out b\
Napoleon.
The lawsuit was brought by Prince
Malien Sciarra in the interest of hi.
daughter. Formerly himself one ol
the richest princes of Rome, ho ha;
become so impoverished that he under
took several years ago the selling ol
automobile insurance in older to eau
a living. In his misfortune he remem
bered that his family had once beer
prominent in the Knights of 31a!';..
Then ho discovered that owing' t<
the groat wealth of his own fat!.',
and grandfather they had pi i*abh
neglected a handsome income of s'S,00(
to $10,000 a year as heirs of a KnigT.t.
of Malta title, an income which ‘ >r t’u
past hundred years had limn enjoyc
by his relatives of the princely house,
of Corsini and Barberini. Prince
Sciarra decided to sue for the accrue*
income.
After two years tlie court ha.- nov,
decided tha* the*Princes of Barbel"!a
end Corsini shall make joint rest in:
tion from the year 1810 until 1853
then tiiat the Prince Corsini shal
make full restitution from 1853 unti
1880. and the Barber!nis from ISSt
until the present time.
Prince Sciarra and hi.- wife r.ru
daughter have once more taken theii
place among the proud and exclusive
families of old Rome.
HKCI.INK OF Tl'HERCI LOSIS.
Only Poverty and Insanitation Wil
Prevent Its Extermination.
If tuberculosis shall continue tc
decrease in this country at the same
rate as in the past half century it wil
he obliterated in another decade. This
is the opinion of Dr. Cleaveland Floyd
expressed at the Harvard Medical
school. There are two conditions
however, which will prevent the com
plete obliteration of this loner diseasr
at present, and these are poverty and
lack of hygienic surroundings.
Dr. Floyd said that almost every
body has the germs of this disease in
his system, but that he is able to re
sist their attack through living a
healthy life and through the protec
tion of nature.
Inhalation and infection are the
two common ways by which a person
contracts tuberculosis. Children Tnay
get the germs in impure milk, but
outdoor play prevents the spread. It
often happens, however, that when
people go to work in shops or insani
tary offices, or live in crowded rooms
the disease show itself and grains a
foothold. That is why so many per
sons between the ages of nineteen
and thirty-two acquire tuberculosis.
Massachusetts, however, is making a
determined resistance against the dis
ease, and good food, fresh air and a
good blood circulation form a sure
prevntive. These should be guaran
eri to every child.—Boston Transcript.
REMS FIRST
ON PASSES IS
KEPT IN RECORD
NEW YORK NATIONAL LEAGUE
PLAYERS LEADS IN DRAW
ING BASE ON.BALLS.
I ALSO IN BEING HIT BY BALL.
| Harold II. Chase, of Cincinnati, Quali
fies as Baserunner on Twenty-Seven
Occasions As Result of Errors by
His Opponents.
NEW YORK, April 9.—New York’s
pennant winning team in the National
! Baseball league had the player who
1 drew more passes last year than any
one else and the player who was hit
the most frequently, according to the
last installment of official national
league records just made public In
the secretary of the league. These two
men were George J. Burns and Arthur
Fletcher, tire outfielder obtaining sev
enty-live bases on balls in 15& games
and the infielder being hit by nineteen
pitched balls in 151 games.
It is the first time the National
j league has reported the number of
men hit.
Another innovation in the figures is
to make public the number of times a
player reached first base on a fielding
error. Harold H. Chase, of Cincinnati,
was the leader in this respect, qualify
ing as a baserunner on twenty-seven
occasions through manual mistakes on
the part of the Reds’ opponents.
Runner Up to Burns.
Henrv Groh. of Cincinnati, was the
runner up to Burns in the total of
passes procured, with a total of sev
enty-one. He played in four more
games than the New Yorker.
Banking- second to Fletcher in gain
ing casualty passes v as his team mate.
Charles Herzog-, now the property o
the Boston club. He was hit thirteen
times.
David Bancroft, Philadelphia short
stop, had the second best record in
reaching first on errors, his total being
twenty or seven h . .5 than Chase’s.
There were sixty-one National
U agucrs 1 -st season who took part in
l')0 or more games, the greatest num
ber being member.- of the St. Lou:,
club—nine. Of these men the one win
■ ’equently \\ as : .,
Wingo, of Cincinnati.' ile missed thir
teen times in 12J contests. J. Edd
Roush, of the same club, champion Na
tional league batsman, struck* out
twenty-four times in Id 6 engage
ments.
The team lenders of the eight clubs
in dra rinj p es of b »th kinds and : i
reacnin::; iirsi on e» rors were as fol
Boston Team's Record.
Boston—Smith in passes, Bawling1,
in being hit by pitcher, Maranville in
reaching first on errors.
Brooklyn—Stengel in passes and in
reaching first on errors, Daubert in
being hit by pitchers.
Chicago—Flack in passes, Williams
in being hit by pitchers, Mann in
reaching first on errors.
Cincinnati—(troll in passes and in
b( ing hit by pitchers, Chase in reaeh
| ing first on errors.
New York—Burns in passes and
Fletcher in being hit by pitchers and
in reaching first on errors.
1 Philadelphia — Cravath in passes,
Luderus in being hit by pitchers and.
Bancroft in reaching first on errors.
Pittsburg—Carey in passes and in
| being hit by pitchers, Ward in reach
ing first on erors.
St. Louis—Hornsby in passes and in
being hit by pitchers, Long in reach-1
j ing first on errors.
RUSSIA’S RESOURCES.
Russia is a country of vast resour
ces, many of them undeveloped. They
raise great quantities of wheat, rye
and oats, and hemp and flax are ex
tensively cultivated. They raise a
great amount of live stock, while the
Obdorski and Ural mountains contain
very great mineral riches, and Russia
is now the largest producer of petro
leum in the world. There is an inex
haustible amount of coal in Russia.
OF 100 HE!
ARTILLERY FIRE INDICATES AN
OTHER INFANTRY ATTACK
TO REACH AMIENS.
WEATHER BAD FOR OPERATION
Teutons’ Activity Manifests Unusm
Violence Between La Bassee an
Armentieres and Between Montdic
ier and Coucy.
LONDON, April 9.—Extension c
the battlefront of intense activity t
a distance of 100 miles is the chit
development of the last twenty-foe
hours in the theatre of war in Franc
The line now runs from a point nea
Soissons, on the river Aisne in th
south, to the town of Armentieres i
the north.
Evidently in preparation for anotl
er heavy infantry attack on Amien
the German puns of all caliber ai
roaring along the hundred-mile frori
The country side is rocked with th
heavy detonations.
The sky is heavily overcast wit
low-lying clouds, and rain is fallin
occasionally. Weather conditior
make the battle ground undesirab
terrain for operations.
The first and most desperate a:
saults of the German infantry is e:
pected, according to reports of ei
tente airmen, along the line from A:
ras on the Scarpe river in the nortl
to Noyon on the Oise river in th
south.
In the new northern sector of acth
ity from Arras to Armentieres, th
most active German bombardment
between La Bassee and Armentieres
In the southern sector, the Germar
are unusually violent in their open
tions from Montdidier southeast 1
Coucy, a distance of about thirty-fh
miles. French troops have retired t
prepared positions south of Coucy.
Americans Attack Patrol.
WITH THK AMERICAN FORCE
IN FRANCE, April !).—America
outposts in the Lorraine sector attacl
ed a German patrol last night an
killed one German. The body of th
German was dragged into the Amer
can trenches for identification. Thei
were no American casualties.
BOSTON COMPANY FOUNT) GI F
TV OF DISOBEYING FOOD AD
MINISTRATION RULES.
BOSTON, Mass., April 6.—Viol
tions of the rules and regulations cm
ering sugar have caused the Bosto
Sugar & Jobbing Co., 76 Fulton stree
Boston, Mass., to lose its food admit
istration license.
The company was found guilty <
seling to individual consumers in ut
reasonable amounts, exacting a ma;
gin of profit larger than is allowe
under the regulation, and failing i
keep proper record of its business.
It was. shown that employes of th
New York, New Haven <& Hartfor
Railroad bought a broken keg contaii
ing fifty-three pounds of sugar at th
rate of 11 cents per pound.
The Boston Sugar & Jobbing Co. d<
nied that it had ever sold to these pec
pie, but after consultation with it
counsel, the company admitted th.
sale. It has kept no ledger and no pre
per books of accounts. The food at
ministration investigators found se-\
eral leaves had been torn from th
firm’s cash book.
The food administration revoked th
license of John D. Key, alias N. I
Keys, who operated as a wholesal
dealer in foodstuffs in Denver, Kar.sa
City and the middle western states.
Insects and Crops.
An annual loss of crops from in
sects in the United States is vtimat
ed at $1,200,000,000. In view of thi
every one ought to encourage a big
ger force of bird police.
- I SOUTHEASTERN TOWN SAID TO
I BE FIRST IN ALASKA TO
TAKE APPORTIONi MENT.
j _
< TOTAL AMOUNT WAS $56,000.
i _
! Many Cities in Western States Sub
d scribe More Than Quota—Machine
■ j Guns Mars Celebration in Ken
tucky Hamlet.
f KETCHIKAN, April 6.—Ketchi
0 kan’s quota of the third liberty loan,
^ $56,000, was over-subscribed by 10
r j o’clock this morning, the opening day
of the liberty loan campaign.
r Ketchikan is believed to be the fast
e town in Alaska to subscribe its quota
n of the loan.
! "_
. j West Responds Quickly.
SAN FRANCISCO, Cal., April 6.—
?,
Many towns in the western state
e
( oversubscribed their quota of the ti.' i
liberty loan the opening day of the
campaign.
h Three Persons Wounded.
g ELIZABETHTOWN, Ky., April 6.
is —Three persons, one of whom is a
e woman, were seriously wounded hcoe
' today when a machine gun, which was
._ on exhibition at a liberty loan dew .s
stration, suddenly began firing
the crowd surrounding it. ^
It is believed a small boy’s curio.'!'
1 led him to fool with the weapan and
e set it off.
RETURNS FROM SEATTLE.
Nicholas Balabanoff is a guest u
e the Hotel Anchorage. Mr. Bala ban
•' is sales agent for the Cache C vel:
Gold Mines company and arrived, Ir
Anchorage last week from be;
where for the past two months he has
0 been giving* his time to the affair.' o
e the company. He, with his associa*
0 expects to make a trip within the
ten days to the property and will r
in with them sufficient supplier •
additional prospecting.
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HISTORY OF PHONOGRAPH.
One year after the telephone v. a- •*.
*' vented the phonograph was produ<. <i.
e in 1876 the human voice was tr
'* mitted, and in 1877 it was reo hed
e and reproduced.
COVERS LOTS OF GROUND,
A good camel will travel 100 mi a
day. An ordinary camel travels *■*
i’s seventv-five miles.
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MANAGEMENT, CIRCUI.ATION.
ETC'., REOt'ISSB BY THE ACT
OF CONGRESS AEG. 24, 191'.
Wet k! v Times, >. . i’ • -
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W. <
1, 1
Territr
I >i\ ision
I; I v
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A lask;
a .Yotai
for the Territory aforesaid,
apnea rod .1. W. Watd, who, It i
< 1111 v .sworn accord ng : • law,
and says tltat !)t- Is ih.e Busin
gei of the Aik borage
that th.e following is.
knowledge and belief, a tru
of the ownership, man.igem
a dailv paper, the oirculaih
the aforesaid publication tv
siiown in the above caption,
the Act of August 31, ini’.
Section 1 Id, ! iist:il 1
lions, printed on tin
form, to-wit:
!. That the names
the publisher, editor,
klv Tin
the bes;
em'i
ild r<
Anchor;
Viaska.
and lmsjnef
l’ulilisher
BditoiC f>. I
Alaska.
Managing i
Business M
chorage. Alas
That tN
and addresses
if a corporation,
names and addr
Publishing
iVwk* sluiry, And
litor, X<
Ward, At
owners are: (Give :
of individual own- ;
its name am
of stockho
owning or holding 1 per cent t>r ■ or
of ilie total amount of stock.)
diaries K. Herron. Anchorage, Alaska
3. That tlie known hondholdt s
mortgagees, and other security ho' i •
owning or holding 1 per cent or more >>!
total amount of bonds, mortgage.-. <>
other securities are: (If there are none.
Bank of Anchorage.
4. That the two paragraphs ne>
above, giving the names of tlm own* s
stockholders, and security hobb---,
any, contain not only the list-of
holdejrs and security holders is f - v ap
pear upon tiie books of the enr>v ’
also, in cases where the stock;told*-; • -• -
curity holder appears upon tiie h■■ >ks
of the company as trustee or it
other fiduciary relation, the natm •
person or corporation for whom
trustee is acting, is given: also t
said two paragraphs contain sLU-e
embracing’ affiant's full knowledge
belief as to the circumstances and:
ditions under which stockhobh rs
security holders who do not api'm
on the hooks of the company a
tees, hold stock and securities in :
parity other than tliat >f t boa.
owner: and this affiant, has no r
to believe that any other person, -.sso.-i
ation, or corporation has any in' rest
direct or indirect in tiie said stock,
bonds, or other securities than as so
stated by him.
5. That the average number of • v,
ies of each issue of this publication sold
or distributed, through tiie mod's or
otherwise, to paid subscribers during
the six months preceding tiie date
shown above is .. (This information
is required from daily publications
J. W. WARD. Business Man iger.
Sworn to and subscribed before me
tiiis 8th day of April. 1918.
* I.KOROL!) DAVID.
(My commission expires Sept. 34, 1921.)’
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