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THE NEUTRAL.
Brethren, how «haii it far* with
me
When the war Is laid aside
If It be proved that I am he
For whom a world has died?
If It be proved that all my good
And the greater good I will make
Were purchased me by a multitude
Who suffered for my sake?
That 1 was delivered by mere mankind
Vowed to one sacrifice,
And not. as I hold them, battle blind.
But dying with opened eyes?
If It be found when the battle clears
Their death has set me free,
Then how shall I live with myself
through the years
Which they have bought for me?
Brethren, how must It fare with me,
Or how am I Justified,
If It be proved that 1 am he
For whom mankind has died—
If It be proved that I am he
Who, being questioned, denied?
—Copyright by Rudyard Kipling, UU.
From "Sea Warfare."
ACCORDING to news received here
from Washington but a few more
days of Governor Strong’s regime re
mains for Alaskans. The Governor
will go to join the great majority of
men who picked the wrong winner.
Had he stayed with his party and
given out his political patronage to
those men to whom he owed his ap
pointment, he might have been gov
ernor unto the end of time, for while
he is a weak executive the governor
is a likeable personage, and makes
many warm friends, even among
those of opposite political faith. But
it is impossible for a man to play both
ends against the middle and expect
either end to remain long in ignor
ance of its being used as a catspaw.
The governor's one fault has been
that he not only loved unwisely but
too well, and had he remained a
democrat the democrats would have
remained with the governor. It is
another case of a man’s fool friends
bringing him a cropper, and had the
Dispatch and the Herron papers
ceased championing him he might
have got away with it. But the cur
tain will soon fall upon another poor
play badly staged.
TIMES are going to be hard in Al
aska this winter. Already thousands
of families have left the territory for
the outside, believing they can do
better there. Whether their views ]
prove correct depends solely upon
ourselves. The people of a town can
make or mar its advancement by
actions. Spend every dollar you get
at home, and you will have good
times. Send it out and you will have
hard times. A dollar kept at home
and in circulation pays hundreds of
dollars worth of bills in a few months
but send outside is lost forever. Those
of the old guard who remain here
this winter will probably experience
the toughest sledding in their career
in Alaska. These conditions are not
alone confined to Valdes, but prevail
in every town in the territory accord
ing to commercial travelers. Business
will stagnate during the period of
war, and the longer the war lasts the
worse will business become. We must
all pull together and help each oth
er, and nothing is so great a help to
a community as trading at home.
NEARLY every newspaper in Al
aska complains about the large
amount of money spent for outside
printing. In nearly every town in the
territory comes the report that thous
ands of dollars go to Seattle ami
Tacoma houses. We believe this to
be the wrong way to build up a town.
While in nearly every instance the
price of Alaska printing is far high
er than one the same job in the
States, so is the price on everything
else. The Prospector received a box
containing seven dollars worth of sta
tionery the past week on which the
freight, wharfage and hauling
amounted to eight seventy-five. This
compels us to raise the price on this
article 125 per cent over the Seattle
price to receive the same profit, and
this is probably true in every other
line of business. But if we pay high
prices for our goods and receive high
prices, we are just as well off as if
we paid low prices and received low
prices. In every community there are
people, however, who fudge on their
neighbors. In other words they ask
high prices for their labor or goods
and then send out for their wants.
This is manifestly unfair and shows
that such person would take an un
fair advantage of competitors of cus
tomers. To make matters even for all
alike, every person should spend his
money where he receives it. To an
outsider the first thing noticeable in
Alaska is the vast sums sent outside
for necessities, and the high prices
asked for things at home. A "Trade
at Home” club should be formed in
every city with the warning that par
ties trading away from home must
expect to get their trade away from
home. This is about the only effective
means of dealing with these'persons.
While a man has a right to trade
where he pleases he would remember
that his neighbor has the same right,
and that by exercising it he would
get very little trade.
LOCOMOTIVE AND BOX CARS
Kl'RLEI) INTO DEEP GULCH
SKAGWAY:—A rock slide struck
the mixed freight and passenger train
No. 1 near mile post 15, between
snow shed 15 and the steel bridge re
cently hurling the last locomotive and
three freight cars half a mile down
the steep embankment.
Engineer Robert D. McKenzie and
his son Bert, the latter the fireman,
were instantly killed.
The train was composed of a loco
motive and several freight cars, a
second engine and three freight cars,
a passenger locomotive, one box car
filled with mail, and baggage, three
passenger coaches and the parlor car,
the three box cars and the freight
locomotive, the latter four being
those which went down the embank
ment into the gulch below.
A huge rock cut completely thru
the train, taking the three box cars
and locomotive with t.
The body of McKenzie was soon
after recovered, but the body of Bert
McKenzie has not yet been located.
The passengers Were transferred to
train No. 2, southbound.
Doctors, nurses and employees
were rushed to the scene by a special
train as soon as meagre information
was received here.
Mrs. McKenzie, wife and mother is
prostrated. The dead trainmen are
well known White Pass employees,
the father having been in the service
for over 15 years.
This is the first fatal accident on
the famous White Pass Route.
The accident happened so sudden
ly that the fifteen passengers were
only slightly jarred and then witnes
sed the cars go tumbling down the
mountain side into the gulch with
huge quantities of dirt and rock.
District Attorney Spence, Mrs.
Spence and daughter Susan, will
leave on the steamer Alameda for the
States where they will go east to vis
it Mr. Spence’s son, a lieutenant, who
has been ordered to France.
Mr. and Mrs. Jack Ingram will
leave in a short time for the States
to spend the winter.
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VALDEZ ' ALASKA
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POWER OF MONEY.
And the Danger That May Come WKh
Undue Love of Wealth.
It la coavedlent to have money We
all aee many ways In which we would
like to dm It. > Bnt when we have
money we are all apt to wish It juat a
little more. Wbo la to say wbat la tbe
exact amount It la right that we should
possess? Wishes, tastes, desires, dif
fer. We ourselves do not know what
our limit should he.
"Tim too much money one is likely
to become conceited, to lose sympathy
and be bnrd hearted and more than
likely regardless of the means he takes
to add to his store if lie has too little
he may Ik* envious of others, embitter
ed toward society, tempted to dlshon
esty. or there may lie real suiTerlng
for need of what money can buy. No
one, not even the man in a prison coll
can live In any degree of comfort with
out money. It is necessary to life
Yet there are many things of greater
value tbuu money, things that money
cannot buy. that are necessary to our
welfare. Undue love of money Is a
poison In the soul, eating out what is
of most worth. We may pay too high
a price for its acquisition We should
Judge our desire for money by our
purpose, our motive In wanting It.
Money Is a power for good or evil, as
we choose to use 1L—Milwaukee Jour
nal.
THINK BIG THINGS.
Give Your Imagination Play and Try to
Livo Up to Your Dreams.
Isn’t it true that the only thing which
makes It possible for us to perform the
dally drudgeries of life Is the hope
for better things which blooms In our
hearts?
Hope Is romance. Ambition la ro
mance. All the fine, true Inspirations
of life are romantic. Romance leads
to achievement unless it blossoms in
tbe mind of a laxy, shiftless creature
who la Incapable of action.
The man who leads a forlorn hope Is
romantic. The hero who gives his life
fighting a dread disease to which he
succumbs, but against which he has
Insured humanity. Is romantic. Ro
mance is tbe thing which makes It
worth while for men to sacrifice ma
terlal comforts and die on strange
fields of honor.
In a materialistic world, where we
have to deal with tbe facta of earning
our living and fighting for place and
position, the thing which lifts us above
blind instinct is romance. Cherish
your dreams, for they give you a
glimpse of beauty and make yon will
ing to struggle over cruel mountains
and harsh plains to the pot of gold at
the rainbow’s end. Dreams give res
plte from dreary reality and urge on
to all that is big and fine.—Exchange
Whan Lafayatta Waa In Jail
After our Revolutionary war, while
Lafayette was trying to reach Holland
to escape enemies at home, he was
seized by the Austrian government and
Imprisoned as a dangerous character
His wife also was Imprisoned at Paris
during the reign of terror, bnt suc
ceeded in getting to Vienna and plead
ed with the emperor for her husband's
release. Lafayette’s friends in this
country did what they could in bis be
half, and finally, on the 25th of August.
1707, he was set at liberty after five
years' confinement in a dungeon. Dur
ing this imprisonment two American
friends of Lafayette—Francis K. Huger
of Charleston. S. C., and Dr. Eric Boll
man-made a daring attempt to liber
ate him, for which they both were 1m
prisoned.
Horses Have Quick Ears.
The horse ’ is really one of the best
listeners in the world. He is always
on the alert for sounds which concern
or interest him When be looks at any
thing be (urns bis ears toward It to ob
serve the better whether any sound
comes from it If a horse is particu
larly-interested in your driving of him
lie aways turns his ears backward to
ward you. but if he has no concern On
that subject or if be sees anything
ahead that interests him be keeps his
ears pricked forward. A horse bears
the whinny of another horse at a
greater distance than the average man
can bear It.—Boston' Transcript.
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Vegetable Cutlets.
Try the following recipe on your
“meetlese day:" Take eqnal quantities
of carrots, turnips, parsnips and on
ions and sufficient potatoes to form
half the mixture. Slice the onions and
brown in a little butter. Boil the other
vegetables and chop them up finely.
mixing them ultb the potatoes, which
should be mashed. Season and add
some' chopped parsley. - When cold
form Into cutlets and fry In egg and
breadcrumbs.—London Answers.
The Real Wonder Workers.
“Do you believe in fairies?" aslted
the sentimentalist
“Fairies!" grunted the practical per
son. “What did they ever do? It took
us human beings to put over things
like locomotives and telephones and
electric light*.”-Washington Star.
Glaciers Are Brittle.
The substance of a glacier is brittle,
though solid, and Its descent down a
valley is caused by its constant frac
ture, produced by gravitation and the
sliding forward of the whole mass
Money.
.T money Is the root of all evil there
are undoubtedly times when it is pos
sible to secure a medicinal extract
from the root.—Sir Hardman Lever.
Wheat, Barley end Oats.
A bushel of wheat weighs on an av
erage 00 pounds, barley 47 pounds aad
oats 88 to 40 pounds.
A Good JTpit
for $17!
To prove to you that
Trade-Mark
Refiltocd
Styleplus *|7
Clothes., jPl*.
"The Mine price the world overT
measure up to our definition of a
“Good Suit,” we enumerate the fol
lowing points: 1
1 All wool fabrics.
2 Uncommon patterns.
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3 Lined with high grade serge.
4 The understructure of the suit
is made of good grade canvas
and haircloth shrunk in water.
5 Tailoring by trained workmen
in the largest individual cloth
ing factory in the world. Hand
work is applied to all the im
portant parts.
6 Models for all men. Special
ones for young men.
7 One of the ablest fashion artists
has made a national reputation
by making STYLEPLUS.
8 Every STYLEPLUS has a
written guarantee.
t We alone have the sale of this
“Good Suit for $17° here.
S. Blum and Co. Inc.
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GOOD GOODS
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Henry Sonnebom ■
ft Co.. Inc. ]
A heavy fire is reported raging in
the woods about Tonsina today.
The local signal corps bulletin re
ports cloudy weather as far as Fair
banks. with the exception of Beaver
Dam, which is sunshiny.
Howard, the young son of J. L.
Steele, had the misfortune to break
his right clavicle by falling off a side
walk about twelve feet high at Land
lock bay. Dr. Silverman fixed the lit
tle fellow up and he is doing nicely.
Joe Braxton is recuperating rapid
ly from the effects of the operation
recently performed at the Valdez
Hospital.
LAUNCH
PATHFINDER
CAPT. BYRON SMITH
Sailing weekly out of Valdes
will deliver passengers, mail, ex
press and fast freight at any
point on Prince William Bound.
RATES REASONABLE
Periodical service by agree
ment to outlying camps a spe
cialty.
CAPT. BYRON SMITH
VALDEZ, ALASKA
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Rags $2.76 a hundred.
Cast iron $33 a ton.
Rope 6c a pound.
Brass 18c a pound.
Coppw 27 l*3c a pound.
Rubber 7 l-2c a pound.
Beer bottles 27c a dozen.
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Tillikum Club.
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(llarine Hospital)
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Oratsate National University.
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