MASONS TO MEET TONIGHT.
A special meeting of Mt. McKinley
Lodge. No. 183, F. & A. M , will be
held tonight at 8:30 o'clock for work
in second degree. All visitring Ma
sonB invited.
A. McN. FIELD. W. M.»
John Sellen, Secretary.
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The Odd FellowB of Seward are
planning the erection of a handsome
new home at that place. The plans
call for a structure 32 feet wide by
86 feet deep and two stor:- s in
height.
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Expert watch repairing. Our work
gives satisfaction. Osborne, Tht
Jeweler.
GERMANY LACKS;
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AMSTERDAM, Netherlands. Aug. 3.
—Apart (Yom the Inroads made upon
(lermany's male population by the war
the check to the natural renewal of
her people is making llBelf very sharp
ly felt. The provisional birth stalls
cs for (016 show very clearly what
shrtnHhge will be evident In the
erman «rmy levies for these years
f wa.. an.ruming that the omi ro , or
t least his military system, have not
isappoared from the German empire
efore the time for their calling up
otnes round.
It ts clear that such a decline In the
lumber of births by no means be
•ounterbalanced by the simultaneous
lecrease shown in the mortality rate
pf Infants under one year old, al
l hough this Is relatively somewhat
greater than the shrinkage shown In
he number of births. The mortality
rate' of Infants under one year old.
measured by comparison with the
number of births, has continually do
dined since the year 1914. In the 20
largest German cities the r ile of sucl
Infant niortallty. as compared will
births, fell from 15.3 In the year 1914
to 13.0 In 1916. while in all Gertnar
towns of 15,000 the more Inhabitant!
tt declined in the same period fron
15.5 to 13.3,
4 %
As the German press emphasizes
with legitimate satisfaction, the rate
.rf Infant mortality in the war yeai
1916 was lower even than in the yeai
1912, when it stood at 14.1, hllhortc
i record low rate. Such a comparative
mortality decrease, however, can na
rurally have hut the very slighteai
■ffect on the shrinkage in the actua
number of births In Germany in the
past two years of war. and the ne.xi
population statistics of the countrj
nust show evidences of the died
which war has imposed.
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NEW YORK, July 3. — It may It
that the deal which sent Lee M ige
to the St. Louis Browns aud (trough
Armando Marsans front the Brown
to the Yankees will be the savit g o
two fine ball players.
When Magee was a member of th
Cardinals he was conceded to be on
of the finest ball players in the garni
Likewise when Marsans was a men
her of the ClfUAnnatl Reds he was m
knowledged to be one of the re;
whizzes among outfielders.
Then both players took a leap t
the Federal league, where Magee In
mediately began to hit and field lit;
a fiend, at the same time being hookf
to a Job as manager of the Urookly
, club.
It was said for Magee that he ws
the only real rival Ty Cobb had. nn
when the Federal league went on tb
rocks New York rejoiced that he wa
to become a member of the Yankee
His failure there now iH hist >ry.
Marsans’ record reads somethin
the same, although he found it iu
possible to hit Federal league pitcl
Ing with any success. His sojourn i
the American league has been Jut
as much of a famous flivver as M;
gee’s engagement with the Yanks.
Often it happens that a change c
clubs makes a ball player all ovc
again. It has happened many time
that men refused by one club hav
blossomed Into regular beings who
hitched to another. The cases of Die
Rudolph. Milton Stock and man
others make plenty of evidence t
back up this assertion.
It will be tragical if Magee fail
to come back, for he has all the mi
tions of a splendid ball players.
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. Your eyes fitted. Compound in
astigmatic lenses replaced. See O;
borne.
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City Bakery.
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the latest ttu Bone Corset. Mrs. Tui
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The following story has a peculiar
1: teiost for Alaskans. John Peter
G.-nnt, the principal, is the mining pro
moter who made a : payment to Mr.
>: urphy for his copper property on La
louche Island, thep fell down on me
remainder of the paymenls, taken
f om the Examiner at San Francisco:
Romance heightened Interest In the
I daring Colonel Jehn Peter Grant
;yesterday when the Inevitable beauti
f '• woman was brought Into the a to o’
f f how the adventurous globe trotSer
almost got away with a monumental
1 luff and 15,000 of Hind. Holph -fc Co.'s
paid.
When the eolonel came here recent
ly and sot about laying his neatly
" eccessful plans to soil Hind, Rolph &
t o. two Teutonic steamships interned
| i i Chinese waters, he ^wns accompan
ied by a charming woman, „2 years
of age. He Introduced her as h's
I daughter. Pauline. He affectionately
( ilied her "Polly.”
The colonel admitted yesterday Just
I efoie he hurriedly gave up his morns
nt the Stewart hotel ami departed from
the city that “Polly” Is not his daugh
ter. Where tlio colonel went no one
■ems to know. Ho left wotd at h’s
hotel that he wijs going to liyrou
I springs for a “few days' rest.' The
v. hereabouts of “Polly” Is also a mat
r of mere supposition.
The management of at least two
fashionable hotels In San Francisco
have been long under the Impression
ilhat the beautiful Pauline really was
the colonel's daughter. About a year
and a half ago the two registered at
the St. Francis, and on other occasions
when Colonel Grant's "business”
■ brought him here, his "daughter" ac
> « uuijmiiuju mill.
t Colonel Grant, although loath to do
i It, confessed that "Polly” Is angry
f > ith him because he has "interfered
with her matrimonial opportunities,”
r> s the colonel put it. He said she lutd
e, deserted him, which no dutiful daugh
or should do, complaining that his
i- Stow of affeojion ip public” hud been
he cause of the' breaking off of twe
1 ngagements In Shanghai and •hroe
ngagements In Yokohama. The col
0 >nel seemed ruther downcast about it
i- The confession of his romance Is
e not the only one Colonel Grant has
,1 nade. It Is known he made a com
n plote written confession of his nogo
Gallon wfth ilfcul, Rolph & Co., from
s ’ho time he approached S. V, Hodges,
,t if the steamship company with an if
e Ter to sell through a "Chinese dlplo
s oat" two German ships Interned by
i, China, up to rite time when he reluct
intly returned to Hind, Rolph & Co.
11 but $18U of $5,000 which ho was
i- liven by Hodges as a first payment
1 m the vessel*. ” sihe damaging docu
a nent Is In the hands of Attorney Hert
t -ichlostnger, who first discovered that
ablegrams which Colonel Grant ex
ilblted as having come from the "Clil
f tese diplomat" were reproductions,
r It develops that Colonel Grant Is, as
i te represented, the brother of £lr
3 iames Alexander Grant, M. D., K. C.
t M. G., consulting phyalclal to the gov
< ernor of Canada.
f Also Hind, Rolph & Co. have learn
> 'd that the two ships Colonel Grant
tegotiated to sell to them really exist
They are now loading hemp at Ma
nila for San Francisco and Seattle,
lint the Chinese government is oper
iting them; doesn't, as far as can be
I ascertained, want to sell them, and
the "Chinese diplomat,” the colonel
said, could swing the deal Is a purely
mythical character.
( Hind, Rolph ♦ Co., according to
'lodges, are nut disposed to seek the
attest of Grant. They consider the
•use closed. The company, It is said,
r ibthlnecj from the bank on it the $5,
•ou check it cave to the colonel and
t lostroyed It. In the company's check
book at the place from which the
Irani check was torn is written the
word "void." The $180 which the
colonel had spent was made up. it is
whispered, by Hodges personally and
he books of tbe corporation shows no
record of the negotiations whereby
Hind, Rolph & Co. were to have pur
chased from Colonel John Fetor Grant
two steamships for tjje sum of $2,
] 400,000.
Colonel Grant sent, a message to
; The Examiner yesterday. A stocky
name, called at the editorial rooms of
that newspaper and said he had a
message from Colonel Grant. He said
ho met the colonel Rtrolling In Union
.Square. and, having acquaintance with
him, stopped him and talked about
the exposure of Grant which was made
exclusively In The Examiner. The
stranger declared that the coluned
said to him:
"I want you to do me a special fa
vor. | am leaving this aft.wnon for
the hot springs, i want you to hunt
i up some one on the Examine* and toll
] them they have made It too hot for
| me and I am getting out of town. They
are clever. And have them tell Bert
, Schlesiuger I consider him th4 clever
est Yankee lawyer In the world. He
|sl,ro sot the best of me, and I am
a Britisher, too.”
Having delivered his message, the
I stocky stranger departed.
Interested persons who investigated
I the colonel, say he Is an Inveterate
traveler, that he has been around the
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world twenty time*. He ha* been ceen
In many part*^ of the Orient and In
many cltle* of the United State* dur
ing the last two year*—always accom
panied by "Holly,” hi* “daughter."
It is said the colonel was planning
to leave here the day after he received
the $5,000 check from Hind. Rolph &
Co., for a trip to Kngland, and that
with him was going Henry F. Davis,
who resides at the Pacific 8tates ho
tel, and who says he loaned $500 to
the colonel to help him put through
the steamship deal, which Davl* saj»
he believes was absolutely genuine.
The colonel has left town, but
whether for Kngland Is not known.
AMERICA—1917.
| To the -full-throated challenge of
of bugles
Th troops go up the street,
And far and wide, like a rising tide.
Comes the tramp of marching feet;
And over the khaki column.
Flung wide to the sun and sky.
A flag floats fair on the stirring air.
As our boys go marching by.
Blue for the skies of Dixie,
And white for our northern snows.
And red for the flower* that summer
, showers.
North, south, wherever she goes.
These for the flag of our country.
The Red, the White, and the Blue;
As It greets your eye from It* place
on high,
What does It mean to you?
Does It float as an emblem of honor,
Or droop as a badge of disgrace?
Is the flag^one sees as It snaps In the
breeze
The flag of a servile race?
Has our father’s spirit perished?
Shall we cringe from a foreign foe?
When comes the test, from each loyal
breast
Rings the mighty answer: “No!”
No! By our country’s sires,
By glorious Washington led!
By the wintry gorge at Valley Forge
»And the snow that their feet made
red.
No! In the name of Lincoln,
Great heart and hlgh-souled will,
Who freedom gave to the shackled
slave! x*
We are Freedom’s children still.
Whatever our birth or breeding.
Whatever our hopes or plans.
All these we lose and this we choose
To be only Americans,
Filled with the sense of honor,
And thrilled with a high Ideal.
God make It so that we may know
The shadow from the real.
When the blasts of war’s bugles thrill
us
We shall spring to the nation's call,
\nd the flag of our country must fill
us
With the will to do all for all.
Now the sword, not hate, our cause,
With faith In the midst of humanity's
right
To conquer by all Gods laws.
Red for the blood of our heroes.
And white for the faith they proved.
And blue for the thread that the loyal
dead •
Wove In the flag they loved.
Let the foe^ strive to tear down that
banner.
And Its stars with our blood to
Imbue;
Blow bugles! Draw Bword! in the
cause of our Lord.
We shall fight 'neath the Red. White
and Blue!
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See Osborne for optical work. Eyes
fitted. Broken lenses replaced.
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Road Superintendent R. J. Somers,
in charge of the construction work In
the Fairbanks district for the Alaska
road commission, has received Instruc
tions from Colonel Richardson, chair
man of the board, authorizing him tb
advance the wages of the employees of
the commission In that section 50
cents per day. The men are now get
ting $4.50 per day of eight hours. Em
ployes working by the month have
been granted an advance of $15.
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Where did you get thoae lovely
Doughnuts? Why, at the City
Bakery. -
The dock which R. V. Anderson has
been erecting at Seldovla will be com
pleted by the first of August, and an
arrangement has been made for the
docking of boats on the Seldovla side.
It is expected {bat this will bring more
huslness to that thriving little city.
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HELP WANTED
Oirl for housework, one
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Phone 176 or 200.
WANTED—A maid for general
housework, Apply to Mre. E. L. Har
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a $10 money order, finder please re
turn to Times Office.
FOR SALE—The launch T. N. a 33
feet long, t foot beam, Western Stan
dard engine, 'two hatches aft, pilot
house control. See Cooper, at float.
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