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Harry V Hobcn. P Frank L. Ballalne. Sec. Krlch Lucaa. Tiw.
Entered a. fCond-cL*. matter September. 2,W, at the poatoffice at Seward. Aluka.
under act of March 3. 18»». __ _
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THE PLAIN TRUTH
Chairman Flood, upon introducing the resolution de
claring war against Germany made a very remarkable
speech, a speech so remarkable for its amazing candor
that an editorial interpretation ot its meaning would onl\
weaken its significance.
Said Mr. Flood: “This is undoubtedly a declaration
of war against the imperial government of Germany.
The cost to us will he prodigious, not only in lives and
money, but a vast increase in the cost of living. W e enter
this war. which has been forced upon us, with no selfish
motives. We have nothing to gain but everything to lose;
we want no cessions of new territory, we have no ancient
grudges to settle: we enter this war solely for the vindica-!
lion of our national honor and the maintenance of our;
rights.” j
JAPANESE FARMING EFFICIENCY
Tim plan of the late Japanese statesman, Ayawo Hat
tori. for solving the immigration problem between the
United States and his own country, has been renewed,
and in furtherance of the scheme a number of gradu-’
ates of Japanese agricultural colleges are to be established
in the United States each year with a view to showing
their efficiency as farmers, and thus demonstrating their
desirability as residents.
Persons who have observed Japanese farming once,
will need no further proof of its efficiency. Indeed, its ef
ticiencv is such that where it comes in direct competition
with the farming of American citizens the latter are soon
forced out of business. It must be said only in a whisper,
but the chief opposition to the Japanese farmer is based
on his efficiency, economy, and intense industry, rather
than on any racial prejudice per se.
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HE TOOK HOOK. BAIT AND ALL
A copy of the Butte. (Montana) Miner of recent date
gives an interview on Alaska, with a Dr. Fred M. Spiers,
“United States commissioner for the second district of
Alaska." in which the versatile doctor puts over sontej
fakes of fancy as flattering to his power of imagination as
their publication is discreditable to the intelligence of a
newspaper man who would let such ‘piffelesque’ and
“piffelarious piffle get into his columns.
Not that we object so strenuously to the doctor’s
description of his home, 1200 miles directly north of
Nome, which he reaches by the White Pass & Yukon rail
way; nor yet do we resent particularly his ownership of
vast herds of domesticated caribou which he has taught
to swim in the adjacent Koyukuk river, drawing barges
laden with gold ore: those things arouse a degree of ad
miration: for good, ingenious, original lies are getting to
i>e monstrous scarce, but we cannot abide with patience
the stupidity of the reporter who was thus taken into
camp—it recalls too painfully some individual experiences
of strikingly similar character.
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A WIFE, A SPANK. AND A CIGARETTE j
(New Orleans Times-Picayune)
The New York citizen who spanked his wife for
smoking cigarettes at home has been sustained in his i
bizarre course by the court. The judge, indeed, warmly
commended the husband’s unusual discipline and advised
him to “do it again if necessary."
The wife, however, has no intention of allowing the
court to set up one standard of personal conduct for the
man and another for the woman. A reporter for a New
York newspaper called at her home and found the wife
determined to assert her right to smoke a cigarette when
ever she felt so inclined. Just now she is smoking two
cigarettes a day; one after she rocks the baby to sleep in
the morning, and another after she rocks him in the even
ing. She says it rests and quiets her nerves to take a few
drags of a cigarette when she is fatigued. “I could stop
it now. this minute," she told the reporter, “but why
should I?” But she is opposed to women smoking in pub
licTwhere it may have some aspect of dissipation.
Smoking, per se, as the New York woman handles it,
is not likely to have more serious effect than family
trouble. Probably both men and women would be better
off physically if they knew not the flavor of tobacco smoke.
The prejudice against the use of tobacco by women is
iargelv because the practice was for so long confined to
dissipated women. The objection of the New York hus
band was largely upon this score. But, though it may be
exceedingly bad taste, the spanked wife is standing on
INTO THE LIGHT.
— Kirby in Nona, York World
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firm ground when she claims an equal right with her hus
band to the privilege of cigarette smoking. While the
court may have handicapped her somewhat in pursuing
the practice, it is now only a question of whether two or
three cigarettes a day are really worth a spanking.
A GOOD SUGGESTION
A news item informs us that up at Fairbanks they l
are paying four bits apiece for both rabbits and rats,
those being wanted on farms to feed the foxes, which are
threatened with starvation because of scarcity of their:
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usual food.
At the risk of offending with a story so old that its
odor is rank, it might be suggested that the exj)edient of
the cat farmer be adopted. As everybody knows, that en
terprising genius skinned his cats for the fur and then fed
the carcasses to the rats; which, of course, were thus
maintained as a source of food for the cats, and, as the
diplomats would express it, the status quo was thus main
tained and both cats and rats increased.
One-sixth of the population of the United States, it
is estimated, go to moving picture shows every day. The
motion picture has surpassed baseball in interest. In
cidentally it has practically killed a large percentage of
the high-priced theatres. You will be able to bear up un
der this latter affliction if you had a sweetheart who was i
crazy about the theatre, and you had a very small salary,
and it cost you four bucks for seats every time you took
said sweetheart to see a show for which an admission
price of four bits would generally have been unwarranted
robbery. _
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Sailing of the ninth will connect with Dora trip to
the Westward All sailings as above, will go through to Anchorage.
Beginning with the sailing of the Northwestern from Seattle on May
4th, all passenger ships will touch at Skagway north-bound. The Ala
meda and Mariposa will be the only ships to touch at Skagway south
bound. The S. S. Victoria will sail from Seattle for Nome on June 2nd
She will make five trips from Seattle to Nome, during the season. On
the first four trips of the season she will call at SEWARD, VA1.DK/.
CORDOVA south-bound. For further particulars of service, rate*
apply to Agent. A. H. McDONALD, Agent.
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NOTICE TO CREDITORS j
IN THE PROBATE COURT FOR
KENAI PRECINCT, THIRD DIVI
SION OF THE TERRITORY OF
ALASKA, BEFORE THE HON.
FRANK ENNIS, U. S. COMMIS
SIONER AND EX-OFFICIO PRO
BATE JUDGE.
In the matter of the estate of ANNA
NIMMO, deceased.
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Notice is hereby given by the un
dersigned, administrator of the estate
of ANNA NIMMO, deceased, to the
creditors of, and all persons having
claims against the said deceased, to
exhibit such claims, with the neces
sary vouchers, within six months af
ter the first publication of this notice
to the said administrator, at the of
fice of the undersigned in the Bank of
Seward building, Seward, Alaska.
LEON C. BOOKER,
Admisistrator of the estate of Anna
Nimmo, deceased.
Dated and first published on this
18th day of April, 1917.
Apr. 18-25-May 2-9.
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