CREMATION OF KAISER
BE BIG EVENT DAWSON
"Alec” Seeley is preparing the
grandest event of his life, to take
place when the peacetreaty is signed.
Seeley has gathered his chattels in
a vacant lot in the heart of the city,
and piled them high, and will cremate
the kaiser thereon. Accumulations of
years are there. When the signal
comes flashing through to him from
Marshal Foch that the Huns have put
their fists to the paper that binds them
forever, Seeley will strike the match.
The blaze will be on, and Seeley says
it will be great enough to be seen in
Berlin. The dummy form of the kaiser
will be cast into the flames and con
sumed while Seeley and his friends
do the victory dance. Seeley has
many sleighs and lots of good wood
beside the present heap of waste
material, and it is expected he will
become excited and throw the good in
with the bad. At any rate, he prom
ises to burn all the accumulations of
years. The material, torn from old
buildings, forms a high mass, and is
on the lot near Princess and Fourth.
Seeley has arranged for a line of hose
with which to guard the flames.
A pile of refuse also has been placed
on the beach, to be used for one of
the big peace bonfires. Fire Chief
Andy Hart, who is dismantling an old
building on First avenue, opposite the
fire hall, also is sending much material
to the beach for the bonfire.—Dawson
News.
ROAD COMMISSION To
DO ALL TRAIL WORK
It is reported that the Alaska Road
Commission is making preparations to
take over all the road work in the
territory.
Under the allied road law, enacted
by the late legislature, the co-opera
tion of the two commissions, terri
torial and federal, is authorized and
where it is put into effect, the work
undertaken is put in charge of the
federal board. Under the new law al
lotments from both federal and ter
ritorial funds will be made. The ter
ritorial divisional boards are required
to submit recommendations and esti
mates for work which will go before
the newly created road bureau con
sisting of the governor, surveyor gen
eral and the territorial treasurer for
action.
Best coffee* in town at the City
Bakery. 2-6t
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i PEACE TREATIES
By H. IRVING KING j
i* opynirnt. 1919. I" '»<■ MeCluro syndir-aie.)
TREATY OF FOUNTAIN INN, OR BLOIS, 1499.
King Louis XII of France, Courting His Predecessor's Widow, In 1499, Turned
the Barroom of an Inn Into a Royal Peace Conference Hall and
Helped Frame a Treaty That Caused War.
One of the earliest treaties or mod
ern history was that concluded be
tween France and Venice, In 1499.
Charles vm, king of France, had
overrun Italy, but lost the fruits of
his conquests largely through the war
like activities of Venice. His succes
sor Louis XH, a fortnight after his ac
cession to the French throne, sent a
message to the Venetians proposing a
lasting peace. The ^oge at once sent
ambassadors to France. The ambas
sadors found Louis at Etampes, where
they arrived on August 12, 1498.
Nearly four months had elapsed since
the setting out of the king's courier
to Venice with the peace proposals.
Louis was on a visit to the widow of
his predecessor, who lived In the royal
castle above the little town when the
news of the approach of the envoys
reached him. He wanted to Invite the
ambassadors to the castle but the
dowager said she was not going to
have her housekeeping broken up by
a swarm of Italians, and the castle
was out of repair and not fit to be
seen, anyway. Now, Louis had come
there courting the dowager and, king
or common, the lady’s word Is law In
such cases.
King Stood on a Dais.
Louis ran down to his friend, the
landlord of the Fountain Inn, a most
excellent hostelry, where he had
“crushed many a cup of sack” when
he was only duke of Orleans. The
tavern was large, the landlord a man
of resource. Hangings were brought
down from the castle, and when the
Venetians arrived a great barroom
had been converted Into a great hall
of audience, all hung with Alexandrine
velvet thickly sprinkled with golden
lilies at the end where the king stood
on a dais hastily knocked together by
the village carpenter—possibly out of
the wood-box. Mine host’s great arm
chair with cloth of gold thrown over
It served very well as a throne. Here
the ambassadors presented their cre
dentials and the king received them
with a smiling face and a gracious
speech. The next day he received the
envoys In private audience and the
negotiations began, the Fountain Inn
serving as the conference place.
For weeks and weeks the negotia
tions went on; the town was swamped
by great men and their retinues. The
dowager looking down from her castle
walla on the turmoil below with com
placency. Finally the king and the
ambassadors removed to the castle of
rwois, wnere a treaty wan guuauucu
on February 9, 1499, the negotiation*
having lasted nearly six months.
The Treaty of Peace.
When the treaty was finally signed
It proved to be a treaty of peace, In
deed, between Venice and France, but
a league of war against about every oth
er Italian potentate except the doge,
Louis threw an army Into the Milanese
and Duke Sfroza, loading 30 mules
with money, decamped from Milan.
Like William of Hohenzollern, he took
his cash-box with him when he fled.
As he left Milan he said to the Ve
netian ambassador: “You have
brought the king of France to dine
with me, but he will sup with you."
And he was right.
As for the treaty of the Fountain
Inn which was to Insure peace forever
between France and Venice, for the
next 16 years Venice sided In arms
many times over, alternately with and
against Louis, as her Interests seemed
to dictate.
The treaty begun In the Fountain
barroom which was to have Imposed
peace and caused war was, according
to Machlavelll, the ruin of Venice;
end he holds It up as warning against
weak states allying themselves with
strong ones.
Genius and Matrimony.
Boyle, who would not suffer his stud
ies to be Interrupted by “household af
fairs," lived as a boarder with hi*
sister, Lady Ranelagh. Bayle and
Hobbs and Hume, as well as Gibbon
and Adam Smith, decided for celibacy.
Regarding the literary genius, Disraeli
says: “If the literary man united him
self to a woman whose taste and whose
temper are adverse to his pur
suits, he must courageously prepare
for a martyrdom.” And thus the
wife of Bishop Cooper, while her hus
band was employed on his lexicon, on#
day consigned the work of many years
to the flames, and obliged that scholar
to begin a second siege of Troy In *
second lexicon.
They Are Kept That Way.
"Say, pa, what are the dark ages?”
“Any age after twenty-five," said pa,
drawing on his vast reservoir of knowl
edge.
Their Weakness.
Some men are great successes at
making money, but terrible failure*
In selecting ways to spend It—Boston
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If only to call.
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