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TRY A DOSE
Opportunity yawns around this neck of the woods like
a funnel waiting for the water, but there are many who
will lie able to get by without falling in. The ease with
which people can avoid opportunities is a worthy subject
for a congressional investigation.
But off the lighter vein to facts.
The demand for food products is greater at present
than at any time since the Napoleonic era. because so
many of the producers under normal conditions are en
gaged in war.
One of the principal food supplies is fish. Fish throng
every little stream on the Alaskan coast during the sal
mon run, the streams leading to lakes favored by the aris
tocrats of the tribe, while most any old stream has its
quota of plebeian humpbacks.
A beach seine, a gill net or two. a few barrels, a little
salt and plenty of pep comprise the necessary elements of
the prescription for mild cure salmon and once in the bar
rel these salmon are just that much capital on which to
base future operations.
V
THE LESSER HALF
Mothers will agree with the writer of these lines, who
evidently undertook to lookafter matters in the house
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for a time. After experiencing the difficulties of the task
he took pen in hand as follows:
If any gentleman has the notion that he is dragging
the whole domestic load by doing his ordinary work, and
the incidental chores about the home like getting in wood
and water and making firesand such, he hasadisillusion
ment coming, if illness of the weaker vessel should sud
denly require that he assume her work.
Such an experience is guaranteed to cure permanent
ly any lurking suspicion that he is even a little bit more
than half the works. Indeed, if there’s a baby to care for.
h»’s pretty likely to emerge feeling that he is no part of
the real works at all. Experience is a great teacher; also
an eye-opener in some cases.
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NOT IN THE GAME
His esteemed whiskers, the Honorable Signor Don
Victoriano Carranza, impresses us as one who has drawn
a spade to four interesting diamonds, and who has hesi
tated just a fraction too long in pushing his chips to the
center in perpetration of that strategy by which victory
is sometimes snatched from the jaws of defeat.
It is safe to assume that the greatlv-bewhiskered Don
' - at least a fair to middling player or he would not be hold
ing down his present job; and it is almost equally safe to
assume that the bitter hatred of Americans, which long
since turned his blood to flame and his heart to steel, is
tempting him to use our German mix-up as the occasion
i'<»r one big, desperate chance.
His discretion ought to triumph over such temptation
for even a mediocre player should see that our backs are
rlimped not only to call all bluffs, but to tap any frivolous
player who chances to peeve us during this present deal.
NEWSPAPERS AND WAR
One of the persistent slanders of the mixed group of
pro-Germans, professional pacifists and plain cowards
who make up the opposition to active participation in the
war which has been thrust upon us and to adequate prep
arations for doing our share in it, is that the newspapers
which are backing the president and the country are doing
so for ulterior motives, for the profits which will come
to them from the sale of newspapers during the war.
It is a fact, sufficiently exploited to be thoroughly
veil known to everybody, whether it is so known or not,
that the one industry of this and of every country which
suffered the heaviest pecuniary damage by war conditions
is the business of making newspapers. In every belliger
ent country newspapers have been crippled; thousands
have been ruined.
In this country the war has placed unconscionable
burdens on the daily press and even on the weekly news
papers. Hundreds of the latter have succumbed, unable
to pay the advancing cost of white paper, one of the heavy
items in the cost of making newspapers. While this has
been the heaviest burden on the smaller newspapers, the
big dailies ha\e had even heavier ones. The cost of news
sen-ice has been greatly expanded. The tens of thousands
of words of daily cable accounts of the war from feu rope
mean enormous expenditures, none of which has been re
couped from the public.
During the Spanish war, small as that was, the news
REAL PATRIOTISM.
—Taylor in Log Angeles T'^e*.
papers bore a heavy burden from this increased expendi
ture for news alone, although they had then no additional
burden of heavy increase in the cost of white paper. In
the settlement of the estate of the late Joseph Pulitzer it
was brought out that during the Spanish war one of his
newspapers, which the year before that war had earned
a profit of a million dollars, just barely cleared expenses
during the year 181)8, because of the additional expenses
incurred by it in covering the news of the war. From the
standpoint of profit, war is the last thing any newspaper
ever wants.—(Post-Intelligencer.)
Cheer Up Folks
MQUK 1*1 K IX THK Kl'lVUKX
We have a “watchful waiter” who
is also a disciple of “preparedness” in
this office. He likes lemon pie. The
other day the society editor made
conversation • after the paper wa. on
the press about the gastronomic
beauties of a certain creation of crust
and filling which she had produced
and devoured. The haid working
printer with an appetite left over
from his hastily snatched coffc * and
sandwich at noon fairly writhed while
listening to the exquisite description
j »f the effect of a mouthful of this
pastry.
Would the society editor make a
pie of similar quality for him V
1 She would?
But—
She was so busy attending dances,
bridge parties, coming out parties,
No. 31 ~
NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT OF
ADMINISTRATRIX WITH WILL
ANNEXED, and NOTICE TO
CREDITORS.
IN THE PROBATE COURT FOR
THE TERRITORY OF ALASKA,
THIRD DIVISION, KENAI PREC
CINCT.
In the matter of the estate of
ADAM BLOCH, Deceased.
Notice is hereby given by the un- j
dersigned that she has been appoint
ed administratrix with the will an
nexed of the estate of Adam Bloch,
deceased.
All persons having claims against
the said deceased are hereby notified
to exhibit and present such claims,
with the necessary vouchers, within
six (6) months from the date of this
notice, and the first publication there
i of, to the undersigned, ANNIE
CHRISTIANSEN, said administra
i trix, at the office of L. L. James, Jr.,
in the town of Seward, Territory of
i Alaska, which said office the under
i signed selects as her place of business
in all matters connected with said
| estate of ADAM BLOCH, deceased.
Dated: Seward, Alaska, April 19,
11917. ANNIE CHRISTIANSEN,
Administratrix with the will annexed
of the Estate of Adam Bloch, De
ceased.
L. L. JAMES, Jr.,
Attorney for said Administratrix.
April 21-28-May 5-12.
dinner dances and such that she has
not had a chance at the oven since.
The long suffering printer readied
the end of his patience this morning.
End of “watchful waiting."
Having come across a recipe for
lemon pie he gave a fine demonstra
tion of “preparedness."
This morning the societv lady of
the office found a box on her desk
marked “this side up with care." It
contained in gbusses and packages all
the raw materials for one whopping
big pie.
There are several “watchful wait
ers" about the office now.
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