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[ provement through the casting out of
| all forms of open tyranny but, aside
1 lrom this, the general advance toward
me perfect government has been com
paratively slight. China is today fac
ing the problem that men have strus
gled with for ages. Through countless
centuries she has existed unde rthe
most severe form of monarchical power
and has been so crushed beneath the
weight of tyrannical domination that
her people had grown servile and
apathetic toward th* evils which they
could not repel. Now has come the
awakening and China has risen from
her centuries of sleep to carve for her
self a newer, brighter future. The yoke
of tyranny and despotism has been
cast aside and in agonized travail she
risen to face the light. The road is
open to her halting footsteps and she
Is stumbling onward toward the goal
that countless nations have striven to
attain. Whether her progress will
mark a new advance In the history of
humanity time alone can tell. Like
all the nations of the past she is at
present endeavoring to combine the old
with the new fearful lest a too radical
change should bring disruption. To
us of the western world the perpetuat
ing of individual power Is viewed more
or less as a step in the wrong direc
tion hut to China such action, combined
' with the stable features of the repub
lican form of government, may ulti
mately spell salvation.
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Practical demonstration of the pos
sibilities of Alaska in agriculture 4are
soon to he supplied by the farmers of
the Tanana valley. Those who are not
informed of tile real resources of the
territory, and who have regarded it as
an ice-hound country in which the only
excuse for occupation by man is its
treasure of gold, are to he disillusioned.
Aluska's frienus everywhere, we arc
told, will he given food for pride in
the agricultural showing made by the
j valley farmers this season,
i l uiiana valley farmers have under
| taken to supply interior Alaska with
its potatoes and ordinary garden vege
tables. Fairbanks, pretty well north
' and well in the interior of the territroy,
is the center of this area of offort. Next
year the valley hopes to raise enough
potatoes and vegetables for the whole
territory.
As an earnest of ability to do this,
Fairbanksw ill have an agricultural fair
this month, and assurances are given
that it will furnish surprises even for
Alaskans.
What tile Tanana is doing so well
will later he done by the valleys farther
south. The federal government is con
structing a railroad into the heart of
a rich agricultural country where
abundant crops will ultimately he rais
ed. That district, we are now assured
by the Tanana example, will furnish
homes for a large agricultural popula
tion.
If there is any necessary resource
that Alaska has not been endowed with
it is not apparent—Seattle P.-I.
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er told a story she had heard often.
One sees so much of Inattention and
smirking deprecation of father or moth
er's hobbies that it was u pleasant
thing. We credit that little woman
with far more than mere good train
ing, with the right kind of heart. For
truly good manners mean more than
technique; they bespeak the true man
—and the true Woman, too.
The Valdez Miner will invest $lu,0(10
in a new plant.
J. J. Kennedy has been appointed
postmaster at Haines.
The Alaska gold production for the
year H»14 was $15,704,250.
Skagway is beginning to talk about
its annual horticultural fair.
A till tapper touched up a Wrangel
candy store for $10 one day last week.
Wrangel is about to install a salt
water pumping system for lire protec
tion.
I J. E. Chilberg, a Seattle capitalist,
has recently acquired a mining prop
lerty at Devil's Elbow, on the Stlkine.
As a result of hot weather, the Skag
way river was on a rampage last week
and threatened to flood the town.
Kailroad work in the interior of Al
aska will not start until July, 1010, is
the statement of Thomas Kiggs, jr.
Another sale of lots in the new gov
ernment townsite at Anchorage is an
nounced to commence on August 15th
next.
A million a week was the value of the
copper ore shipped from Cordova, the
output of the Bonanza and Jumbo
mines.
Forty-two hours actual running time
from Fairbanks to Chitina is the record
made by Bobby Sheldon with a new
six passenger car.
tiity Official Paper
NOME, ALASKA, SEPT. 9, 1915.
The new governmental venture of the
Chinese republic will be doubtless
watched with interest by the world as
liable to furnish a still further advance
toward the ideal government. Kuch
ami every experiment in this direction
may result in some development which
will tend to solve the great problem of
governing a nation to the best possible
advantage to the governed. Through
out the ages it has been the constant
desire of human kind to better the con
ditions of existence by remodelling and
improving the form of state sovereign
ty under which it existed. Always it
has been man's wish and aim to bring
about a condition of government which
should bring the greatest freedom and
benefit to himself and his descendants.
Always his inclination has been to dis
card that which was found inhibiting
or detrimental to growth or advance
ment and to accept that which might
seen to offer relief from what was un
desirable. And yet. despite this over
whelming desire, man lias made no
really great advance along the lines ot
truly beneficial government. The sys
tems have been somewhat Improved
through the casting out of such forms
as permitted of tyranny, or the wield
ing of an exaggerated power, in favor
ot such as granted a greater individual
freedom, but aside from this there has
been but little deviation from the gen
eral forms of centuries ago. Always
what is termed the republican, the form
where the will of the people should be
tlie dominating Influence, was looked
upon as approximating the ideal and
It has ever been the tendency to bring
about reforms in the existing method
which should border as closely on that
form of government as was possible
without completely upsetting the exist
ing order of things. And yet with this
supposed ideal reposing close to his
heart he has taken numberless centur
ies to bring about even the trifling
changes in that direction which con
stitute the primary features of the
highest developed governments of to
day. True, there has been great im
.,_ "a—_u _
A soda fountain tank left standing
in the hot sun*at Skagway exploded
one day last week, causing considerable
damage to the tank.
Jerry Quinlan, formerly with the
White Pass Co., has been chosen to
take out the first construction train on
the government railroad.
"See America first, and see Alaska
before the rest of the country.” This
should be a slogan promoted by the
people of this territory.—Ex.
Eighty-seven acres of land adjoining
the town of Seward, Alaska, has been
withdrawn for townsite and railroad
purposes by the government.
Anchorage elected a school board on
Aug. 2. It was predicted that he pub
lic school at this place will start off
with 90 pupils and three teachers.
Six months in the Valdez jail was
drawn by George McFall, who con
fessed having ttaken $35.50 from the
cash register of the Horseshoe Bar at
Cordova.
The Cordova Times says that the
city council of that place will soon pass
an ordinance taxing itinerant peddlers
under the new act of the territorial
legislature.
A young lady of Seward, walking
home at night, stumbled over a porcu
pine and it took two hour to pull the
quills out of her shins.
According to the July number of the
MANNERS AND GOOD MORALS.
"Manners," some one says, "are the
minor morals." Say rather they are
the outside symptoms of good morals.
For good manners rise from considera
tion for others; they are the testimony
to our recognition of the principle that
no man liveth to himself.
So little a thing as not interrupting
another person is our acceptance of
every one’s right to that same privilege
we challenge for ourselves of being
heard. A green youth overcome by his
own sapience, making himself heard
oludly and litsening little, is least down
not merely as deficient in training and
etiquette, but ns lacking in common
sense. And any one "whom the music
of his own vain tongue doth ravish like
enchanting harmony” exhibits a rardly
poor judgment of the relative Import
ance of things. Mayhap it doesnt seem
closely allied to morality that a man
rises when awoman enters the room,
I hut it is. Among savages they don't
do that sort of thing; force alone com
pels respect. The homage of civilized
man to other qualities is the reflection
of his truer sense of values.
The other day we saw a young girl
17 or 18 years old, perhaps, listening
quietly and attentively while her fath
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All-Alaska Review there were forty
five births, twenty-six deaths and
twenty-five marriages in all Alaska
since the issue of the June number ol’
the Review.
The forestry service will allow the
Alaska railroad engineering commis
sion to cut eighty-tive million feet of
timber in the Chugach forest reserve
for use in the, construction of the rail
road.
A rumor is current to the effect that
the grand Jury of the Knlk court term
has been Investigating alleged irregu
larities in connection with the govern
ment ruilroad construction work and
that one official hag resigned.
Kataila is reported to be very lively
tills summer, and all the idle men In
town have found employment. Some
are with the government party, survey
ing the Bering river coal fields, while
others are installing a light at Cape
St. Elias.
The Iditnrod Pioneer in Its most
recent issue to hand comes out editori
ally in favor of establishing the capital
uf Alaska at Seward. The paper says
that the completion of the government
railroad will make Seward the most
central place in the territory for the
capital.
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