The Cordova Daily Times
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CORDOVA, ALASKA, FRIDAY, APRIL 9, 1915.
THE STEADY SUBSCRIBER.
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How dear to our heart is the steady subscriber
Who pays in advance at the birth of each year.
And casts round the office a halo of cheer.
He never says: “Stop it; I cannot afford it.
I'm gettirffe more papers than now I can read"
But always says: “Send it; our people all like it—
In fact, we all think it a help and a need.”
How welcome his check when it reaches our sanctum,
How it makes our pulse throb; how it makes our heart dance
We outwardly thank him; we inwardly bless him—
The steady subscriber who pays in advance.
—The liberal News.
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SECRETARY LANE TELLS OF WOMAN WHO
GOT A HOMESTEAD FOR TEN CENTS
HE possibility of securing sufficient ground upon which
to raise products to keep body and soul together for the
insignificant sum of 10 cents seems too absurd to talk
about, yet that is the good fortune that has befallen a Minneso
ta young woman, according to an announcement just made by
Secretary of Interior Lane.
Secretary Lane, who formerly was an enditor lias a good
nose for news, thought so much of the story that lie tiad some
“art” printed to go with it at a cost of many times the price
of the homestead, the said “art” being a picture of the small
homestead and cabin, with the smoke curling peacefully heaven
ward from the only chimney of the latter. And here is the
story, as given out by Secretary Lane.
‘'Miss Serena Helen Blue went to the United States land office at Class
Lake, Minn., a few days ago and paid the government 10 cents for a deed to
her homestead on Turtle Lake, in that state. Miss Blue's homestead consists
of a triangular point of land jutting into the lake, 189 feet long in its longest
part and 38 feet wide in its widest part. The entire area of the homestead
Is eight hundredths of an acre, and the land office authorities say it is prob
bly the smallest entry ever proved up.
“The young woman who made the entry Is 27 years old. To comply
with the homestead law and obtain patent to her lake-side land she built a
log house, 14x16 feet, and lived in it for 17 months. The 10 cents paid into
the land office was the price fixed by the government for commuting the entry
to eash. In consideration of the 10 cents she will be required to complete the
three years of residence on the land that would otherwise have been required.
"Of the 3,484 square feet In Miss Blue's homestead the law required her
to cultivate 218 square feet. Instead, she cultivated and grew crops on nearly
half the area of the lot. Her crops included tomatoes, cabbage and clover.”
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SPRING POETS DIRECT THEIR EFFORTS
TO PRESIDENT AND HIS SECRETARY
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THK White House is being bombarded.
Don’t get frightened. This is not a piece of war
news. The attacking force is not a foreign foe. The
besiegers are the spring poets of the United States and' their
missives, if not more deadly, are at least more sporific than the
missiles of heavy artillery.
When the sap begins to run the poets get busy. Just why
they should select the President of the United States for their
target will ever remain a mystery unless it is on the theory that
the biggest light attracts the most moths.
Poems galore are going to the White House through the
mails these days. Some of the poets display clever, artistic
work, while others write like blacksmiths. Usually when
Secretary Tumulty spies a poem in manuscript he heaves a
heavy sigh and tosses it toward the waste basket.
One came the other day, however, that was a little out of the
ordinary. It told of Tumulty and his troubles. It appeared to
be such a god thing that “Suffering Joe,” as some of his friends
call him, consented to rescue it from oblivion in order that it
may be given to a waiting world. Here it is.
Who’s got to listen to the bores
Who ooze in through the White House doors.
And hear all the kicks and roars?,,
Tumulty.
Who’s got to open all the mall
And answer letters without fail
And send regrets out by the bale?
Tumulty.
Who’s got to be polite,
Prom early morn till late at night
And never lose his temper—quite.
Tumulty.
Who’s got to spread the salve ail day
When he feels quite the other way?
Who must be ever glad and gay?
Tumulty.
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Who’s got to read the proofs on all ’
Of Woodrow’s speeches, great and small,
And bear the brunt of every squall?
Tumulty.
Who’s got to be right on the spot
And be the goat an awful lot? 1
Who’s welcome to the job he’s got?
Tumulty.
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Ah the Mexicans never hit anything, their sniping at
American vessels doesn’t amount to much.
HARDEST BURDEN OF PRESENT WAR
FALLS UPON THOSE WHO ARE LEFT BEHIND
HE march of the feminist movement, from all indications,
will be accelerated, rather than slackened, by the Eu
ropean war. The news reports show the women loom
ing large in the economic situation in the warripg nations, and
with the proposed woman’s peace congress at The Hague the
moral influence of the women is likely to have its effect upon the
political situation.
War’s mardest burden, in spite of the fact that the men bear
the brunt of the battle, fall upon the women, and this war prob
ably more than any other in the world’s history is likely to
bring tin* greatest hardship upon the mothers, sisters and
daughters. Therefore, the congress of women at The Hague
should speak with authority.
The enrolling of women in the European countries in men’s
work is sure to give them an importance in the political struc
ture, and the cause ol woman suffrage is sure to be advanced by
woman’s suffering heroically borne.
Not only has the war brought conspiciously to the front,
but it has brought an enormous rebuke to that poet who just a
short time ago coined a phrase that was widely quoted to dis
credit womans cause. In view of the savagery' of man, as dis
played during the past half year, who will subscribe to the sen
timent.: “The female of the species is moro deadly than the
male?”
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A Cleveland man lias figured it out that if workers will
contribute one cent a day out of their wages while they are ut
work they will have a sum sufficient to draw $1 each vear per
diem when there is no w’ork. Insurance for the unemployed is
a working reality in some of tin* foreign countries and it will
become a reality in the United States at no distant day. It
is an ideal form of protction, encouraging independence of
workers.
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The Turk is in his seventh heaven. He loves to kill a
( hi istian as a spider loves to kill flies, and there is mighty little
difference in the ethical aspects of the case.
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Kliliu Hoot describes this nation as a man in a boy’s suit,
and he might have added that the taxpayers for years have been
footing the bill for adult clothing.
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President Wilson demands that fools quit rocking the boat,
an Amen’8 the word’.
DR. W. H. CHASE
PHYSICIAN and SURGEON
Office over Cordova Drug Store.
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Rainier-Grand Hotel
DR. W. W. COUNCIL
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Office at Company Hospital
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