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SEWARD. Al.\SKA. SMI RDAY. JCLY S, 1016.
It is very evident now that our old friend Villa is
alive and terribly active and that some more troubles aie
bound to arise. He is a peculiar individual and belongs
to the fifteenth or sixteenth century rather than to the
present, indeed till Mexico is still very much medie\al.
Were Mexico a prosperous country with great manu
factories and industries ot all sorts it would he much nioie
peaceful. Clearly modern industry and scrapping do not
make good bedfellows. Not that a country with capital
ists will not light. It w ill, but its light will be to secure
more capital. People like the Mexicans are really more
to be admired in one respect than some ot the great pow
ers that tight each other for increased commerce. Even
Villa has something of the nature of the picturesque mar
auders of old and it would be impossible to have avoided
a feeling of sympathy with him had he only confined his
activities to his own country and avoided murdering
Americans. Villa belongs to the mental and moral type
from which a Robin Hood or a Jack Cade may be produced
but never a Napoleon or a Lincoln. He is doomed by his
verv nourishing to be nothing but a glorified sort of free
hooter, but even at that he will live for centuries, no doubt,
in the traditions and folklore of his people. W ho can say,
anyhow, that he is not just as good a man as the bewhisk
ered and wily Carranza whose fortunes he made. Had
Villa been the citizen of some remote country. Had he
been a Sicilian bandit, a free lance of the Tyrol, a maraud
er of the Persian desert or something like that American
literature would be produced in which lie would be the
chief character, and a character that would by no means
lack virtues and lovable faults. It is easy to make a thing
far off look beautiful.
This paper now has on hand quite a stock of original
“poetry” contributed by amateurs. No matter how much
one writes about the uselessness of writing “poems” the
supply continues. The real trouble is that the people who
do not know enough about the art of writing poetry natur
ally are the people who cannot discern the difficulties of
the art. Everything that looks easy is supposed to be
easy. Even in prose writing of the ordinary kind there
is something required and the higher class of prose is so
grand and difficult an art that one only begins to discern
what it means after years of effort. People who can just
string verses and believe them poetry are in the same
class as the man who might call himself an astronomer be
cause he could tell the difference between the moon and
the planet Mars.
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and main points of tin* East _
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When a man begins to outfit to go out in the hills, his
first consideration should be QUALITY. We are
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encouraging prices
Everything in the Clothing line for men
The MINERS STORE
FRANK J. COTTER.
Buy a Home in Woodrow
The Beautiful Suburb
Of Seward
WOODROW is located 6% miles from Seward.
The Govt Railroad runs through this beautiful tract.
Woodrow lies near Bear Lake the famous fishing
ground of Seward.
Woodrow may he said to be in the warm belt as the
hills are so situated as to shelter this tract trom the winter
winds.
Woodrow is situated just this side of the Bungalow
and plotted on the most desirable portion of the Johnson
Homestead.
A tract in Woodrow is equivalent to more than 12 lots
in Seward.
The price is so low that no one can complain.
You can buy a tract of about one third the size of a
block in Seward for $125. — Some fractional tracts arc
selling as low as $25—$50 and $75.
The title is clear—A warranty deed, first handed.
Woodrow is plotted in tracts situated each on a street
and corner on an alley. Each plot is easy to access.
Woodrow is a beautifully wooded tract and a veri
table park.
ROMIG & ROMIG a.e handling this property and
will he pleased to interest you in the best olfer for a suber
ban home ever made in Seward.
ADDRESS:—
Fourth Avenue,
Seward, Alaska.
PHONE ADAMS 48
PHONE ADAMS 93
MEAT ON THE TABLE
IS A GREAT EVENT
By WILLIAM G. SHEPHERD
(Special to Gateway by United Press)
ROTTERDAM, July 1. — Many
families in Germany go meatless for
days and weeks at a time. This 1
have from a neutral business man of
Dresden.
“It’s as bad as housecleaning to get
meat. It upsets our whole household
economy as well as our financial
economy. It’s a dreadful operation
and we don’t go through it oftener
than we have to. In the last sixteen
days we have had meat twice.
“Fish, new asparagus just in the j
market, potatoes, spinach and dry,!
crumbling war bread made largely of
potato flour, make up our list of edi
bles. We get so tired of it we hate
to go to the table. Sometimes we
even get so tired of it we decided
we’ll have meat. Then there’s
trouble."
He was requested to go into the de
tails of a meat purchase in a Ger
man town.
“Well, it’s like this,” he said, light
ing a good cigar; (in some mysterious
way a huge shipment of Havana
cigars direct from Cuba reached Ber
lin the other day); “When we
decide to have meat my wife and I
talk it over the night before. If the
next day is Tuesday or Friday we
can’t buy anything but fish, for those
are meatless days.
“My wife calls our maid, and says:
“ ‘Elizabeth, we want you to buy a
beefsteak for us tomorrow. ‘Eliza
beth frowns and goes out.
“This means that Elizabeth must
get up at four o’clock the next morn
ing ami go to the nearest butcher shop
and stand in line until her turn comes
to buy meat or until the butcher
comes to the door and says to the
waiting line: ‘I am all sold out ot
meat.’
“It is always a four or five hour job
I for her, unless she wants to get into
the line at 1 o’clock in the morn
ing, as some maids do.”
IS BAD WEATHER DUE
TO THE WAR IN EUROPE?
The Springfield Republican has
gone back a hundred years, 1816, and
digs up the following summer record
of that year:
“Some of our contemporaries are
speculating over the possibilities that
the year 1916 will be summerless.
The year 1816, after the disastrous
end of the Napoleonic w’ars, had
scarcely enough summer to be worth
mentioning and the theory seemed to
be that the terrible bombardments on
European battlefields are bound to
have a similar effect upon the weath
or this year.
“June 1810, we are told was *
month of frost and ice. New Eng
land, Ohio and Pennsylvania wen
covered with snow. June 17 there
was a great snowstorm and Hocks ol
sheep were overwhelmed and sulToeat-.
ed. The ice was an inch thick on the !
Fourth of July and August 20 wit-1
nessed a heavy fall of snow. Not
until September were normal condi-,
tions restored.
“The notion is that history will re- [
peat itself after the passage of a
century and the alarming thought in
this connection is that if the amount j
of explosives used in the Napoleonic |
war caused all that derangement of
meterological conditions, then the
amount used in the present war is
likely to keep the temperature zero
all summer. If that should prove to
be the case it is surely high time for
universal disarmament.”
Duchess Trousers—for work and
dress. $1.50 to $0.00. 10c a button—
$1.00 a rip. Drown & Hawkins,
“Quality First."
Jimmie, the Messenger. Main 10.
Any time. Service P. D. Q.
Waterfill & brazier whiskey at
“The Branch."
Mackinaws, Panxs, Socks, Boots,
Packs, Underwear. Anything you
need. SENVARD COMMERCIAL CO.
Special mail delivery. Phone Main
13 for particulars. tf
“Something new." "lliluilla Tea"
—makes a pleasing and satisfying
drink. Three sizes—25c—40c—7bc.
Brown & Hawkins, “Quality First."
CATHOLIC CHURCH
Sundays: Communwn Mass at 8:00
a. m.
Mass and Sermon at 10:30 a. m.
Sunday school after Mass.
Rosary, Instruction and Benediction
at 7:30 p. m.
Weekdays: Daily Mass at 7:30 a.
m.
Launch “Pioneer”
Tom Parker with the
Launch “Pioneer” will
hereafter be at Kern
Creek on the day fol
lowing the day that train leaves
Seward prepared to take freight
and Passengers for Anchorage.
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Horns 9 A M. to 5 l’. M.
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SEWARD, - ALASKA
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Low Round Trip Fares Fast ;£ ‘MILWAUKEE*
June 1st to September 30th. 1916
Hot urn Limit three months, hut not beyond <>et. .'*lst. In
‘THE OLYMPIAN”—* 111! COLUMBIAN”
Two Fast ALL•STKLL Trains every day
For information and literature write
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WAYNE BLUE, The Admiral Line, Seward. Alaska
Agents for tin4
Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railwa)
A. K. Harris, Traveling Pass. Agent. ,Tuueati, Alaska
ORE TREATED
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A Complete Equipment for .Mining AlrKkd
and Technical Determinations Ov"UI filU*3l\U
FURNITURE AND HARDWARE
COAL MINER'S AND COLD MiMfR’S SUPPLIES
Doors & Windows
Lanff’s llanffes
1 XL Parlor Heaters
Gasoline Stoves
Cook Stoves
Camp Stoves
Air Tiffht Heaters
Oil Stoves
Alcohol Stoves
Spark Fluffs
Jump Coils
Batteries
Granite Ware
Aluminum Ware
Asbestos
P & B Paper
Maithoid Rooflnff
Tar Paper
Deafeninff felt
Weather Strips
Gasoline
Gas Kmrine Oil
Marine Kn^ine On
Valve Oil
Klaine Oil
Floor Oil
Linseed Oil
Cup Grease
Paints
Lacqueret Paint
Asphaltum Paint
Brushes
Varnishes
Turpentine
Japan
Denatured Alcohol
Coal Tar
Lamps
Lanterns
Tents
PltONt M\DI$0N 87
Rifles
Shot Guns
Ammunition
Fishing Tackle
Giant Fowder
Caps
Fuse
Bench Forges
Blacksmith’s Goal
Bellows
Wheel Barrows
Cutlery
Fire Clay
Fire Brick
Lime
Cement
Glass
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Mercury
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