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HKASSI KING \K\YS.
There is certainly an element ot
materialism in that consolation that
is coming forth from London for
American businessmen. in that
there is no reason to feel alarmed
that the war will result in a gen
eral depression. It is pointed out
by way of encouragement that bus
iness in London lias been above nor
mal s!nce the war began.
Are we to take it that this will
explain why war is regarded with
considerable satisfaction in the
British metropolis, and is it to be
expected that if business is good
America can accept the eventuality
of war without any sort of misgiv
ing?
To hear some of the exponents of
hostilities support the war one
would nave thought that it moved
itself altogether away rrom any
such a materialistic and debasing
consideration as profit and loss. Yet
here we have the very consoling
Londoners removing the spiritual
and ethereal element altogether,
and saying that the war must not
dismay because business is just as
good if not better, than ever.
ft certainly is inspiring to note
that Americans are asked to forget
every other consideration by these
advices, and to regard as all well
when the balances on the right side
of the ledgers are all that they
should be.
It is refreshing to leave the higher
plane upon which so many elevate
war and to get it down to the basis
where every man knows a good ot
bad thing when he sees it: to wit
the profit and loss of the business.
THK EDISON WOM1KH.
Modern magic is scientific. But
it is not inclined to erupt. It
tomes slowly, the result of accumu
lated experiences, acquired learning
immense pains and constant appli
cation and experiment.
The gifts of the gods to mortals
come grudgingly and only after in
tense labor.
The mind of man is not given to
sudden notions which revolutionize
.science ai d reform the world. The ,
process is most gradual; an evolu-j
tion not an eruption.
We hate wonders of science that
would have been regarded imposs
ible a decade ago: we have common
scientific equipment the very con
ception of which would have caused
him who used them a century ago
to be charged with witchcraft or
■worse.
Scientific necromancy however
comes not by waving of hands nor
by the uttering of incantations.
It is the handmaiden of hard
work and tremendous pains. It is
slowly evolved after exceedingly
patient experiment and the one
achievement is built upon the other
in a natural process of development
Today we still gape at the wond
ers of radiography. But it was
premised in the discovery of the
Hertzian ray. Sir William Crookes
experiments with the passage of
an electrical spark through a
vacuum evolved mathematically
the existence of the x-ray long be
fore Professor Roentgen discovered
It in his workshop by a tell tale ne
gative plate containing a blackened
picture of his office key.
If Edison has made a great "dis
covery", that discovery will bo
Dimply the improvement or the de
velopment of some already known
■scientific fact applied to the purpose
of his work.
it will discover no new physical
theory: no transformation of the
•chemical laws. These are stable
enough.
The laws of energy will not sud
denly be anihilated by the genius
of the man. They may he harnessed
in a novel manner or In a manner
heretofore untoughts of. But they
will still persist.
Imagination is given little enough
room in modern science. But it has i
its uses. It may dream dreams, but
those can be only realized by pati
ent research and endless labor.
And they will be realized in ac
cordance with the known laws as to
matter and energy. They will not
change the inevitable nor will they
perform the impossible.
It is a strange thing how ignor
ance is as superstitious concerning
mysteries ot science as about the re
religious mysteries which it is cal
led upon to credit.
Because they who have no under
standing of physical facts, beyond
the mere sensibility to their exist
ence as manifested through their
senses, and because men of science
have accomplished wonders in a
far from wonderful manner, every
thing is believed to be possible in
the name ol science. Nothing is re
garded as impossible and hence
when the mind of the literary hack
diverts itself in. fancies in the
Sunday Supplements, the people
who know no better accept all at
its wiitten value.
Scientific superstition is not a
whit better than religious supersti
tion and is just as extravangant.
We doubt not did some scientific
man append his name to an asser
tijn that lie had discovered a means
of neutralizing the laws of gravita
tion. and had discovered a new my
sterious force which applied to
matter would ait in an exactly op
posite manner, there would not be
one but thousands and millions
who would fully believe it and be
quite angry if incredulity was mani
fested by any one.
THU l'OOD Ql'KSTIOX.
W hile men of means are flattering
lliemsehes that they are quite safe
during the war because business
will suffer hut little interruption
and the profits are rather likely to
be increased, little or no attention
is being paid to the important food
[)iiestion.
It is true that a food controller
lies been appointed and excellent !
advice has been given out by him. j
Hoover’s Belgian experience ought
to make him a practical man, but he
is likely to discover, as the govern
ment will discover, that dealers in
foodstuffs want the same shake ot
the tree of war opportunity as do
the dealers in other commodities.
It would be a daring official who
would summarily commandeer the
product of the fields. The fatrner
may not be monkeyed with by ar
bitary war measures as may be the
workingman. He stands to be
fleeced by the broker and the rail
roader: by the speculator and the
ranker But he -vill insist upon
having some sort of a free hand It.
die distribution o' the product o'
d.o '.•■•dor. The farmer who watched
i paternal government take posses
iion of the product of his fields in
the interest of society at large will
?,vince a disposition to demand sim
ilar and summary procedure in to
ward to the product of other indus
tries, and he is not likely to be put
all by any sort of fanciful argu
ments at all.
It will be all very wTell for the
munition maker and military con
tractor and the railroad to make
its handsome profit if the farmer is
let indulge his longing for gain
to the same extent. But it will
lead to all kinds of disquieting sug
gestions if he is not.
The farmer is a man to be reckoned
with. He has a full department at
liis disposal and he insists upon
bossing that department. He may
be beset by usurious bankers and
bv grasping railroads and by greedy
speculators, but as he is sitting in
it the game of grab himself, he
[lays his losses with a wry face, but
?ays them just the same.
But he insists upon sitting in at
:he game. To tell him that in ordet
o run this republic the government
tas got to take charge of his oats,
tis hay, his wheat, his barley, Ills
otatoes-t-that’s quite a different
proposition. He wants to know
the reason and he will not be put
off. The farmer may be a reube,
but he asks disquieting questions.
He will insist if he quits the profit
game, the other fellows do the
same and then there will be trouble.
The other fellows will not. They
did not boost war to quit when the
greatest opportunity for succulent
profits seemed to come within easy
reach. There is no chance of that.
Aikd the farmer will not give up
just as easily as will the workers
In other fields who will not be
asked their choice in the matter.
The farmer is a man who still is
the key to the food question and
as he is some pumpkins, it is not
easy to handle him. The labor
question is easily “adjusted", but
the food question is likely to be a
serious one before settlement.
It is quite, apparent that before
peace comes there is not one sec
tion of society will not have ample
opportunity of knowing that it is
at war. It will be pressed home in
a variety of ways am: ways that will
not be all smooth sailing at that.
There are all kin 1.; of patriots with
all kinds of loyalty, but the struggle
for existence has been so hard and
stern and insistent that when any
section of them is threatened with
complete sacrifice in the interest
r,i the rest or of ait. they will net
sacrifice themselves eery freriv.
Men will do most anything to
hold what they have. The fa.ru.cr
has a particularly tenacious grasp
and lie will relinquish what he has
got and what he lias gained by
years of toil with no more alacrity
than the rest.
The food question of the other
fellow is not going to keep him
awake. He is not farming because
it is healthy any more than the
manufacturer of explosives engages
in that pursuit because of its par
ticularly wholesome vocation. He is
there to live and to raise his fa
mily: to enjoy a certain modicum
of freedom and to do with the pro
duct of the fields he owns as he
pleases, and not as any one else
pleases. The right to do w-itli his
property he holds, rests within him
self and he will concede it to tlie
rest only after he is satisfied simi
lar sacrifices have been made by
the rest.
He will have to be shown, lie
will point interrogating fingers at
balance sheets and war babies and
contracts and want to know all
about them in a most irritating and
irreconcilable way.
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Let as estimate on your Job Work
NOTICE OF FORFEITURE.
To Herman Nelson your Heirs, ex
ecutors, assigns or personal repre
sentatives:
You are hereby notified that I
have expended in labor and im
provements the sum of one hund
red dollars each year for the years
of 1912, 1913, 1914, 1915 and
1916 on the Plutus. a placer mining
claim situated on the left limit of Dry
creek and recorded and more fully
described in Vol. 190, Page 5 in
the records of the Cape Nome Min
ing and Recording District, Second
Division, Territory of Alaska.
The above amount has been ex
pended under the provisions of the
law concerning annual labor upon
mining claims, being the amount re
quired to hold said claim.
And you are further notified that
if you fail to contribute your pro
portion of said expenditure within
ninety days after the last publica
j tion of this notice, your interest in
said claim will become the property
of the undersigned, your co-owner,
under section 2324 Revised Statutes
of the United States.
ARCHIE MCDONALD.
Co-Owner.
Date of first publ., Feb. 14. 1917.
Date of last publ., May 16, 1917.
NOTICE OK FORFEITURE.
To Joo Wise, vour heirs, ex
ecutors, assigns or personal re
presentatives:
You are hereby notified that I
have expended in labor and improve
ments the sum of one hundred dol
lars each year for the years of 1914,
1915 and 1916 on the Hidden Treas
ure claim, a lode claim situated on
right limit of Negsue Creek and re
corded and more fully described in
the records of the Cape Nome Min
ing and Recording District, Second
Division, Territory of Alaska.
The above amount has been ex
pended under the provisions of the
law concerning annual labor upon
mining claims, being the amount
required to hold said claim.
And you are further notified that
if you fail to contribute your pro
portion of said expenditure within
ninety days after the last publica
tion of this notice, your interest in
said claim will become the property
of the undersigned, your co-owner,
under section 2324 Revised Statutes
of the United States.
MARTIN STEINER.
Co-Owner.
Date of first publ., Jan. 31, 1917.
Date of last publ., May 2, 1917.
NOTICE OF FORFEITURE.
To John J. Meyer, your heirs, ex
ecutors, assigns or personal re
presentatives:
You are hereby notified that 1
have expended in labor and improve
ments the sum of one hundred dol
lars each year for the years of 1914,
1915 and 1916 on the Happy Home
Stake claim a lode claim situated on
right limit of Negsue Creek and re
corded and more fully described in
the records of the Cape Nome Min
ing and Recording District, Second
Division, Territory of Alaska.
The above amount has been ex
pended under the provisions of the
law concerning annual labor upon
mining claims, being the amount
required to hold said claim.
And you are further notified that
if you fail to contribute your propor
tion of said expenditure within
ninety days after the last publica
tion of this notice, your interest in
said claim will become the property
of the undersigned, your co-owner,
under section 2324 Revised Statutes
of the United States.
MARTIN STEINER.
Co-Owner.
Date of first publ., Jan. 31, 1917.
Date of last publ., May 2, 1917.
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