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CATCH THK COD
With the salmon run negligible as
compared to other years and halibut
sticking up around the fourteen-cent
mark at Seattle, the importance of in
creasing the catch of sea food during
the coming year, by extending the
cod tishing industry, is apparent
While most people prefer a nice
chicken halibut to cod, it is well to re
member that the people in many ot
the countries now at war prefer white
bread to brown as a steady diet, but
they are eating the brown, just the |
same.
Through wastage of hsh as a result
of the lack of cold storage in western
canneries, it is probable that the sal
mon are being depleted anil that un
less something is done to protect the
future supply, packs will be less and
less.
The halibut banks of Southeastern
Alaska are being tished out as were
those of Puget Sound and further
south. Whether the new rule of a
closet! season in midwinter will help,
remains to be seen, but the cod is still
in the ascendancy in Alaskan waters.
THE NUMBER OF THE BEAST
I have never been much a believer
in astrology, necromancy, “spirits
that peek and mutter,” and such like,
but recently 1 came across something
so curious and uncanny 1 thought your
readers might like to see it, too. Here
it is:
Did you know the Kaisers number
is 6?
The Kaiser is the man who started
the war; Serbia is the country where
the war started. There are six letters
in each of these words, and if writ
ten together and divided in halves also
spell Kaiser and Serbia.
KAI-SER
SER-BIA
The greatest man in France is Jof
fre, commander at the Marne. Apply
the same rule as above, we have:
JOF-FRE
FRE-NCH
Germany claims to be the most cul
tured nation in the world, and this
superculture is called Kultur. Turkey
has the least culture. Apply the rule:
KUL-TUR
TUR-KEY
And now for the Kaiser’s number.
If the word Kaiser is written with
each letter followed by the number
of its place in the alphabet and after
these is placed the significant number
tf, we have:
K—116
A—16
1—96
S—196
E—56
R—186
The total of these is 666, the Kai
ser’s number.
Six times G is 3G, plus G equals. 42
months.
Also note that when the Kaiser
started the war he was 55 years and
6 months old—GGG months—which
again fixes the Kaiser’s number. Hav
ing established this fact, you will be
interested in reading from the 13th
chapter of Revelation, the 4th, 5th
and 18th verses:
4th. “And they worshipped the
dragon which gave power unto the
beast and they worshipped the beast
saying, who is like unto the beast?
Who is able to make war with him?”
5th. “And there was given unto
him a mouth speaking great things
and blasphemies, and power was giv
en unto him to continue forty and two
months.”
18th. “Here is wisdom. Let him
that hath understanding count the
number of the beast, for it is the
number of a man and his number is
six hundred and three score and six.”
The war started in 1914, plus 42
months, brings you up to February,
1918.—A nonymous.
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A LETTER TO THE GATEWAY
“Can you explain this? We clap
our hands when our flag waves be
fore us at the movies; we shed a tear
when our orators proclaim with
beautiful phrases our duty to the
country’s flag. We grow hysterical if
a negro in South America steps on
the flag. We know that our flag is
the only emblem of this great coun
try that we love so much; and we be
lieve it should be held in greater re
spect and veneration by us than any
other symbol on earth. Yes, and
there isn’t a man in town who would
resent strenuously the charge that he
was disrespectful to it. But how’s
this? When I walk up Broadway and
lift my eyes to beautiful Marathon
Mountain, appreciating it, the picture
is completely spoiled, for between me
and it, fluttering from a flag pole, is
a rag, torn and faded.
By close scrutiny you can see that
it was once colored in places; and yet
that’s our flag; the emblem of our
glorious nation; the symbol of our
boasted patriotism.
“Mr. Editor, 1, for one, think it is
a shame and disgrace to hoist our
beautiful flag to a conspicuous posi
tion and there leave it to rot and
fade and tear until it is an eyesore.
If the people who fly or display the
flag cannot afford to hoist a new one
so soon as the old one shows weather
worn. (and cannot show sufficient pa
triotism to take it down each evening
and put it up again each morning, un
der the National rule for flying the
flag), then it would be far better to
display the flag only a few times a
year. I protest against this disre
spect. Sincrely, Don Carlos Brownell.”
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—Robert Carter in Philadelphia Press.
the principal indictment against those
who hoist a flag and leave it up till it
wears out.
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If there were in .Judge Bunnell’s au
dience at Flat last Wednesday disloy
alists of whatever persuasion, their
ears- must have tingled at his plain
words in denunciation of the man who
withholds support from his country in
time of war.—(Iditarod Pioneer.).
Liberia, the nepro republic on the
coast of Africa, also has declared war
on Germany. The prospect before the
Kaiser prows blacker day by day.—
Seattle Times.
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If you haven’t room for a war par
den, prow whiskers to make mattres
ses for the soldiers at the front.—
Fairbanks Citizen.
I SUNDAY’S 1
j SERMONS |
METHODIST
At the Methodist church Sunday
evening Rev. Patton chose as his
theme, “The Religion of the Child,”
from Luke 10:14-16. The pastor said
that it was evident that Jesus had
proven himself very attractive to
children, otherwise the parents would
not be thus bold to present those lit
tle ones in the face of criticism for
Christ’s blessings* The text tells us
that Jesus had good ground in de
fending himself against objections.
The revised version says, “Suffer the
little children to come unto me; for
bid them not: for to such belongeth
the kingdom of God.” Turn to Mat
thew 18:1-6 and we find where the
disciples were anxious to know who
should be greatest in the kingdom of
heaven. Here our Saviour used a lit
tle child to illustrate, saying, “Except
ye turn, and become as little children,
ye shall in no wise enter into the king
dom of heaven.” The fact is that it
was impossible for even Christ to have
found better examples of faith and
humility than in a child. They trust
a loving parent just as God would
have us trust him. They are inno
cent just as God would have a newly
forgiven soul free from sin.
COMMUNITY CHRISTIAN
The theme of the evenrng worship
was the great doctrine of the atone-j
ment. After reading a short paper j
briefly outlining various views of this
central Christian doctrine, Mr. Munro
discussed what would seem to be the
most helpful view for the modern
thinker. The suffering and death of;
Jesus were not a ransom paid to Sa-'
tan for men’s souls, nor a penalty
paid to an outraged God. They were
the natural result of a sinless life in
a sinful world. The atonement or at
one-ment, is a reconciliation, an at
tempt on the part of the God-man to
break down the unwillingness of a
prodigal world to “arise and go to
our Father.” Jesus’ suffering is best
illustrated by that of a loving wife
seeking to reclaim for manhood a dis
solute husband or a mother breaking
her heart over a wayward son. So,
every good person who takes upon his
heart the burden of another’s failure
and weakness, seeking to reclaim and,
rebuild character, fellowships with j
Christ in sacrificial suffering. How
ever, the cross is unique among sacri
fices because it bore the sinless son
of (iori. The highest call that comes
to the Christian is to fellowship with
Christ in thus bearing the burden of
another’s failure.
EPISCOPALIAN
Archdeacon Hudson Stuck spoke at
the morning service at St. Peter’s, fol
lowing which communion was held.
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Northwestern....Aug. 27 Alaska.Sept. 7
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TERRITORIAL PUBLICIST
JUNEAU, Aug. 18, (By Mail).—
J. J. McGrath, for many years en
gaged in newspaper work in Alaska
and editor and owner of the All
Alaska Review, has been appointed to
the position of publicist for the Ter
ritory of Alaska. Gov. Strong stated
that the publicity department has not
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be until next Spring, but that in or
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gathered and compiled.
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