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MONDAY, AUGUST II, 1913.
“AUDACITtf.”
President Wilson is reported
to have said that it was unthink
able that any president of the
United StaLes should have the
“audacity” fo use the powers
granted by the currency bill “for
political purposes.” \\ ilh all due
respect, we are of the opinion
(hat it would require something
like audacity, that is, it would re
quire. unusual courage and inde
pendence, for a president to use
this power without regard to po
litical effect.
Primarily me power consists
in the appointment of the Feder
al Reserve Hoard of Directors.
Three of these are ex officio
members—Ihe Secretary ol the
Treasury, the Secretary ot Ag
riculture and the Controller of
the Currency. These are usually
political appointees. It would he
an extraordinary occurrence, in
deed, if these officers were chos
en solely for their lilness to their
own work, to say nothing of
their lilness to do the difficult
and intricate work the currency
bill assigns to them. They are
habitually chosen from the party
in power, and their ch'Oice is in
evitably inlluenced by political
and party considerations. In Lhe
choice of the remaining four
members of Ihe board the pres
ident would have a freer hand.
Hut it is extremey doubtful
w.iether he could acl entirely in
dependent of political considera
tions. For instance, it would be
wise for him to select four ex
perienced bankers, and most ex
perienced bankers would try to
conduct the system with the least
possible intervention by the gov
ernment. Hut he has to secure
confirmation in Ihe Senate for his
nominations. Could he count on
that if he entirely disregarded
polil ieal considerations'!
Perhaps the most important
function of the Federal Board ol
Reserve would he in connection
with the issue of government im
pel-. .Many hankers regard such
issue as a vicious device, fraught
with unlimited danger to the
community. The Democratic
party strongly inclines *Lo the
doctrine that all notes issued
should he government issues.
Does Mr. W ilson think that that
fact would he ignored in the
choice of directors, and does he
deny that to lake it into account
is a purely political mal l ter, and
a party matter at that? The
truth is that when and if Ihe gov
ernment passes the houndary of
regulation and supervision and
enters on tin* function of de
termining the volume of issues,
and, even further, Ihe condition
of credit, as this hill provides,
politics heroines an essential and
unavoidable element in business.
That constitutes the radical er
ror of the whole system, and Ihe
president cannot escape it. If he
does not see it, let him ask Mr.
Bryan what his view of political
action under this bill will be.
The failure is always ready to
advise the successful man, but,
is unable to make a success of
his own failures.
Uncle Sam has just bought a
forest of more than 100,000 ac
res in the. East. Inasmuch as
he owned it and gave it away
once. It would be interesting to
know who,,will get it next time
the trees are big dhotigh' to be
worth cutting.
A Chicago grand jury is trying
to find out why a barrel of sil
ver dollars was used there in a
recent . aldermanic campaign.
The silver dollars were probably
used because the purchasable
vote of the ward did not demand
coin of a higher denomination.
If you want all the news all the
time, read the Prospector.
TRAVELS ...OF- A - COMET. 1
This Celestial Visitor Orests Ue Only
Onoe In 676 Years.
There'is a comet that comes with
in sight of the earth every 575
years. Its tail is millions of miles in
thickness and many more millions
of miles in length. It was first seen,
so far as history records, 1,769 years
before the birth of Christ. In a few
weeks it faded from the sky, only
to return in 1194 and 619 B. C.
The year that Julius Caesar died—
14 B. C.—it came again, returning
in 531 and 1106 A. D. The last
time it was seen was in 1681, when
Sir Isaac Newton beheld it and dis
covered that comets are kept in
their orbits by the sun, the same
as the earth and the other planets.
Over two and a quarter centuries
have now passed since the comet
disappeared. Even if it has been
traveling no more rapidly than the
earth goes around the sun its enor
mous bulk has been shooting
through space at the rate of about
1,500,000 miles a day. Yet in the
year 2256 this same old comet that
was already a well known visitor
when it looked down upon the
deathbed of J ulius Caesar will again
come within sight of those human
beings yet unborn who will then in
habit the earth.
Talk about a railroad train going
halfway across a continent in three
days and reaching its destination
on time! What is such a perform
ance as compared with that of a
comet that makes a trip of 310,000,
000,000 miles in 575 years and
keeps so closely to its schedule that
it always bursts from the darkness
at the moment when the astrono
mers expect it?—New York Press.
Held Hie Audience.
Evangelist Moody was invited in
his early days to preach in a church
whose congregation was notorious
for leaving before the end of the
sermon. Moody was warned of this,
but he said confidently:
“I’ll try to fix them.”
And he cast about in his mind,
and the morning he entered the
notorious congregation’s pulpit he
said:
“My sermon will be divided into
two parts. One part is addressed
to saints, the other part is address
ed to sinners. Let us take the sin
ners first.”
He preached for twenty minutes.
Then he said:
“I have now finished with the sin
ners. They may, if they please,
take their hats and go. The saints
will remain.”
But nobody departed. That con
gregation for the first time in its
History remained in a body till the
end of the service. — New York
Tribune.
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A Dog and His Name.
“There was a dog case which ex
cited much attention in Berlin
some years ago,” said a former resi
dent of that city. “A citizen com
plained to the authorities against a
neighbor who, he said, to annoy
him, gave his name to a mongrel
cur. ‘He calls my name,’ he said,
‘and when I turn around he laughs
and says he was calling his dog.’
“ ‘What’s your name ?’ asked the
magistrate.
“ ‘My name is Schulz.’
“ ‘And do you call the dog
Schultz ?’ he asked the other man.
“‘Yes, your honor, but I spell it
with a ‘t—Schultz.’
“ ‘Call him without the t,’ com
manded the magistrate, trying to
look serious. The man did so, the
dog came to him, and an order to
change the name or be fined fol
lowed.”
Our Source of Strength.
We do not flatter ourselves that
the intellect of our time, judged by
the power of individuals, is excep
tionally great. No doubt men of
commanding genius are still with
ns, but they are not more numerous
or more original than in former
times. What then is the peculiar
ity that has produced such great re
sults ? In my opinion what has been
accomplished is due in great part to
the spread of higher education,
which has evolved an army of com
petent investigators possessing en
thusiasm for research which now,
for the first time, is led into useful
paths by the few great minds, whose
powers thus receive a wider range
and beepipe more productive. It is
in this that our great strength lies.
—Professor Arthur Schuster in Sci
ence.
Love.
I am inclined to believe that, for
a woman, love ip the supreme au
thority—that which jiidges the rest
and decides what is good or evil.
For a man, love is subordinate to
right. It is a groat passion, but it
is not the source of order, the syno
nym of reason, the criterion of ex
cellence. It would seem, then, that
a woman placed her ideal in the per
fection of love and a man in the
perfection of justice.—Henri Fred
eric Amiei.
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BARGAINS
ADLER will sell
A Bailey piano in first class
shape at a bargain.
A Five-room house with ten
foot shed for less than lumber
cost.
When In Seward Stop at the
COLEMAN HOUSE
GEORGE BEXTON, Prop.
S'iRICTLY FIRST CLASS
Fourth Avc Scwaro, Alaska
FOR SALE—“Quick Meal” oil
stove. Suitable for camp use.
Perfect order, Imp-iiiti Mia.
Shepard.
They are all good live pictures
at the Orpheum toiiight.
Bring your job work to the
Prospector office.
Cable Office Hours.
Week days 9 a. m. to 9 p. in.
Sundays and holidays 9 to 10
. m. and 5 to 6 p. m.
The Order of Alaskan Moose
For Sale Cheap.
Twenty-eight foot Racine mo
tor boat hull. Inquire of E. P.
Cashma.i
NOTICE OF SEIZURE.
In tlu? District Court for the
Territory of Alaska, Third Di
vision.
United States of America, Lib
elant, vs. one ship’s boat, her
tackle, apparel, furniture and
equipment.
Whereas a libel of information
has been tiled in the above court
on the iith day of July 1913. on
behalf of the United States again
st the above mentioned ship's
boat, her tackle, apparel, furni
ture and equipment; and where
as the substance of said libel of
information, is that the said
ship’s boat, her tackle, apparel,
furniture and equipment were
seized on the 25th day of July,
1910, and turned over to the Unit
ed Stales Marshal who now holds
the same at the Port of Unalas
ka, Alaska, as forfeited to the
United States for the reason that
the same was then and there
found engaged in unlawfully kil
ling fur seals within, the waters
of Alaska, and praying that the
said ship’s boat, her tackle, ap
parel, furniture and equipment
be condemned and sold for use of
the United States.
Now therefore, in pursuance
of the monition under the seal
of said Court to me. directed and
delivered, 1 do hereby give public
notice to all persons claiming
the said ship’s boat, the tackle,
apparel, furniture and equipment
or. in any manner interested
therein, that they be and appear
befhrd'the United states District
Court for the Territory of Alas
ka, Third Division, to be held at
Unalaska, in and for the feaid
Territory and Division, on the
18th day August 1913, at 10
o’clcok in the forenoon of that
day, provided the same shall be a
day of jurisdiction, otherwise cn
the next day of jurisdiction there
after, then and there to inter
pose their claims and to make
their allegations in that behalf,
and that in event of their fail
ure so to do default and condem
ni.tion will be ordered,
H. P. SULLIVAN.
United States Marshal for the
Territory of Alaska, Third Divi
sion .
GEORGE R. WALKER.
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