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A PLACID DEPARTURE.
(.Philadelphia Ledger.;
Xewman Erb, the financier who by
s mistake look bichloride of mercury
uts( Tuesday night, lies at hls hume
u walling death with complete calmness.
uansquility recallB that of Sanders
W.,iker, the young Macon hanker, who
men in May two years ago, and of a
score of other victims of bichloride
who died quietly after a gradual numb
ness had crept over them for a week.
All these men went out of life in the
same spirit in which they lived. Their
deaths did not fit ttjp common belief
that, "however careless a man may be
while in health, at least on the ‘low,
dark verge of life he Is appalled at the
prospect of leaving these warm pre
cincts to go he knows not where."
Medical men agree with Sir William
(isler that “this popular belief is er- I
roneous;” and that "as a rule a man
dies as he has lived, uninfluenced
|c Helically by the thought of a future
life.” i| i
Mr. Erb, drawn suddenly to the brink
of the flammantla moenla mundl, is
interested much as usual in the cm
mon, trifling details of life. And why
not'.’ He has polBon within him. But
have not all of us poison working slow
ly within us? What difference that
II r e years or thirty years, instead of
three days, are likely to pass before it
giips us. We are all on our way to lie
six feet under ground, where it is quiet.
Mr. Erb's calm is no more to be won
dered at than that of any other of his
ft- low voyagers to death.
THE PASSING OF GRANDPARENTS.
i (Vogue.)
“A man is as old as he feels,” con
tains more truth than most aporisms.
The present generation of American
children has been robbed of Its grand
parents, for the old lady and the old
gentleman no longer sit by the fire and
spoil their grandchildren. Grandmoth
er is off to a dance or a suffrage meet
ing while grandfather plays golf the 1
whole season through. Grandmother’s
caps are a drug on the market, while
grandfather’s stick has been banished ,
to the garret. The old lady and her
husband feel a dozen years younger ,
than their parents felt at their age.
it Is no longer an impropriety for
grandparents to do the things once !
thought twenty years too young for
them. The grandchildren really miss
a delightful something that genuine
grandparents used to contribute to
domestic life, but, strangely enough,
the youngsters have not abandoned the
traditional deference due from youth
to age. It survives as a sort of chiv
alrie tradition, though how long It can
survive in so practical a society as ours,
who can guess':’ Perhaps-the grand
children like it better than the grand
parents. It is paently absurd for all
the young people of the house to be
constantly on the watch for the com
fort and safety of an old couple who
decline to grow old, and who come and
go with a briskness and vigor hardly
surpassed by youth Itself. Perhaps the
fiction of venerating grandparents will
continue indefinitely, unless, Indeed,
great-grandparents shall take the place
once occupied by a younger genera
tion In American households.
COL. SLEICHER'S IDEA8
CONCERNING ALA8KA
The following Interview with Colonel
John A. Sleicher, proprietor of Leslies’
Weekly and Judge magazine, Is taken
from the Chicago Tribune.
"Aluska Is a land of magnificent dis
tances and every section naturally
seeks development before any other.
This Is all right. Fair competition does
good, not harm, but there Is room for
everybody in Alaska and the lighten
ed effect of sectional Jealousies should
not gain a foothold there.
"Secondly, Alaska should not only
send out photographs of its wonder
ful glaciers, the most remarkable In
Lite world, and us snow-capped moun
tains, lls dog sleds and its icebergs. It
aituuld do what the Swiss mountaineers
always do, accompany the pictures of
icy peaks wait pnotographs of green
pastures and lofty Umber and the enor
muus potatoes, turnips and other root
crops that nourish so amazingly in its
rich soil.
thirdly, stop Lite tendency to muck- i
taking and trust abusing. What good
nave they done? Is any poor man
ticher? Is the cost of living any lower?
tlas Alaska grown?
"Fourth, Alaska should have laws
i, a> will airact and not repel the man
with money tile man who wants to
go into business, whether he be a big
man or a little man. If the big man
cannot find an investment profitable
in Alaska, then surely the little man
cannot.
"Alaska will learn by experience. Xt
is learning. It is a territory of toilers,
with no idlers or tramps. Providence :
has bust it with inestimable natural I
wealth. The harvest Is getting ready |
for the husbandman. Uet Alaska's J
doors be open to him and in another !
decade all will be transformed.
“My suggestion for the relief and 1
development of Alaska is a provision !
for the appointment of an assistant
or deputy secretary of the interior to
x'eshle in Alaska- someone thoroughly
familiar with its conditions and re
quirements, who shall have plenty au
thority to issue mineral and land
grants, subject of course to the ap
proval of the secretary
"From a scenic standpoint there is
nothing in the world to equal the Al
askan trip and it Is all made in com
plete comfort.o The tourist travel to
Alaska will grow by leaps and bounds.”
DEFENDING OUR LANGUUAGE.
(New York Sun.)
At this time the people call a man
a "guy,” a woman a "skirt,” and a dog
a "mutt.” Other samples of the speech
j of the people are not essential. The
truth Is that few can say anything
:n the old-fashioned direct way. All
have become so accustomed to the use
of slang that the common speech is no
|longer common: it is become a surl
josity, relegated to the obscure haunts
of the "highbrows" and treated with
i scorn by the workers of the world.
■ While this undoubtedly gives much Joy
to Prof. Rrander Matthews, it saddens
'some old foggies, who mourn the de
parture of earlier and more elegant
wavs of rpeaking, ns they mourn the
• decadence of earlier and better man
ners. Perhaps {lie two were unrelated,
but they were at elast campanlons.
It is not probabl that if the young
ceased to call their elders "old guys”
NOTICE OF SETTLEMENT OF FIN
AL ACCOUNT.
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j In the United States Commissioner’s
■Court, Council City Precinct, Second
Division, District of Alaska. In pro
bate.
In the matter of the estate of E. R.
Patton, deceased.
Notice is hereby given that under
direction of an order issued in the pro
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hate court for said precinct in the
i
above entitled matter, that the hearing
Ion the final account of the undersign -
ledas administrator of the estate of E.
j R. Patton, deceased, is set for the hour
I of 11 o’clock a. m. on the 16th day of
January, 116, to be held in the office
of the United States Commissioner in
: Council, Council City Precinct, Dis
trict of Alaska.
j Said account is now on file In the
office of the Probate Judge in said
Precinct, where same may be exam
ined.
Objections, if any to be made, to be
in writing, and filed at or prior to date
of hearing.
Dated at Council. Alaska, this 16th
day of October, 1916.
JOHN J. STICH,
Administrator of estate of E. R. Pat
ton, deceased.
or geezers," to refer to other people's
nmhers as "skirts" or "rags” and gen
■ rally began to lift their terminology
, toward levels of a decorum less figura
1 live, if more prosaic, they might also
Improve their manners? At any rate
is there any overwhelming reason why
the youth of this time should be al
most unacquainted with the plain En
lish tongue and unable to say the '
•simplest thing except in slang? It Is
a matter worthy of the consideration
of those teachers and professors who
may perhaps agree with the Columbia
sage that "everything goes."
A GREAT COUNTRY.
(Douglas News.)
-\ few weeks ago a young woman
came north to an Alaska sanitarium
j seeking health. She found It and some
thing else. Now she is the cherished
bride of a sturdy Alaska mine operator.
| What a wonderful land this is.
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