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rni,M)()\ A, ALASKA, S vTl’IfDAV. DECEMBER 1, 1917
THE DIVINE RIGHT.
The kaiser, according to
press dispatches, is refusing to
open peace overtures with the
Russian socialists. William*
it is asserted, will deal with
the czar, and with tho czar.I
alone.
Germany wants peace with i
Russia, and with any and alii
of her other enemies. It,
therefore, appears a paradox]
that the kaiser should refuse!
to treat with the Russian revo-1
lutionists.
But it only appears so. The1
kaiser is consistent, entirely
consistent. He is tin* present
supreme embodiment in this
world of the old Divine Right
idea of kings; an idea that has
been steadily dying out these
hundred and fifty years.
The kaiser really believes
that he is the appointed of
God, that his line was selected
from among thousands of Ger
man families to rule the Ger
man empire.
This obsession of the kaiser
goes so far that he believes
other rulers, even his enemies,
are likewise the appointed of
God.
Whenever a ruler is deposed
by his subjects, there is an at
tack on the Divine Right phil
osophy.- There was probably
not a crowned head in the
world that did not gasp when
the czar was deposed so quick
ly and so easily. Rut most of
tile Rings are so thoroughly,
muzzled that they did not dare
to express their opinions.
The kaiser, the incarnation
par excellence of the pivine
Right theory, is the only ruler
who has thus far expressed his
sentiments on his brother ruler
losing his crown. And the sen
timents are precisely those of
the united European monarchs
when King Louis lost his scep
ter and his head with the re
sult that the “king’s union”
immediately took steps to put
his heirs on the throne by
force.
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Alaska Uncle Sam’s Bargain
’Tisn’t what money you
pay that makes the value; it
is what you get, get, G-E-T,
for the money you pay. That’s
what counts!”
It was a thrifty oldtime
country hanker speaking, and
he clinched the argument home
with a thrust of his closed fist
into the palm of the other
hand. “It’s what you get—
that’s what counts!” he re
peated again and again.
When the United States
bought Alaska from Russia for
the then huge sum of $7,200,
000 there was adverse comment
aplenty throughout the coun
try. \\ hat a sum to squander
for‘a barren waste of rock and
snowland', far up in the Arctic
, zone, undeveloped, unvege
tabled, and of no possible use
or interest to a nation whose
chief wealth was agricultural,
they said.
We Americans have a world
wide reputation for making a
good bargain. And assuredly
Uncle Sam made the best kind
of a good bargain when he
paid.over that same $7,200,000
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and the investment is proving
a veritable storehouse of trea
sure. The gold rushes of the
Klondike and the Yukon are
still recent memories; while
silver, copper, platinum, and
the rarer minerals whose uses
are mostly scientific, contrib
ute a pretty large total to the
estimated of national wealth.
v The other day Dr. H. M.
Smith, I nited States commis
sioner of fisheries, estimated
that in fine furs alone Alas
ka has already more than paid
for itself. The Alaska seals,
which with the blue foxes of
the Pribilof islands, are the
property of the United States
are his especial hobby. When
the Alaska sealskins were put
on sale at the Funsten fur auc
tion at St. Louis recently—the
exchange where buyers from
all over the world come to fill
their fur needs—he represent
ed the United States govern
ment in that transaction.
•Tust then Dr. Smith, talking
on Alaska and seals, and the i
enthusiasm of the true scien- ■
tist shines forth. For manyl
years private individuals'
bought the Alaska sealing!
lights on long lease. They!
made* no efforts to preserve
this valuable property; kill-1
ings were enormous, and the
entire herd was almost exterm
inated. Females, baby pups,
yearlings, were sacrificed
ruthlessly to the greed of the
lessees.
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COL. HOUSE IN ENGLAND
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Col. House, unknown when
\\ ilson was elected President,
is the head of the American
delegation to the allied war
conference in Paris.
The colonel has been stop
ping in England, taking lunch
with lung George, talking with
Lloyd George and letting all
the plain Georges make his
stay pleasant.
Col. House has come to be
the confidential man of the ad
ministration. Little is known
of him except that he is a
| sphinx and that the President
sends him wherever there is
any tangle to be ironed out or
any bi^ talk to be accomplish
ed.
The colonel is retiring, and
speaks little of his exploits.
But he must have been a busy
man in the past two years, and
many hard tasks must have
been his. When he reached
England after passage through
the submarine zone, a report
er asked him how he liked the
t «
trip.
“Just lovely,” responded
the colonel. “Nice and pleas
ant and quiet. In fact it is thd
first real restful time I have
had in the past two years.”
A good deal might be said of
the man who can get rest and
peace while the ship he is on
is dodging submarines-—Ex.
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THINK IT OVER.
It' the women folks in the
States believe they can force a
weekly* * smokeless ’ May on the
men folks, we would advise
them of the fact that they have
the wrong pig by the ear. If
it is money they are after and
want men to give the money
they consume in smoking dur
ing a given day in each week,
wo Avon Id advise them to ask
tor the money outright.
Supposing a man smokes
ten cents worth of tobacco in
a day, In* would rather and by
far give the ten cents than
agree to stop smoking for a
day, because he can beg or
borrow tobacco; The same
may he said of a cigar smoker.
Besides, if a cigar smoker can
afford to smoke a dollar's
worth of cigars a day, he can
afford to give an extra dollar
occasionally and keep on smok
ing. But supposing the men
would come back at the wo
men and demand a corsetless
day a week; would thev agree
to.that? Women without that
do not go shopping, and what
ever they would have spent on
that corsetless day had they
gone out shopping, might help
some. Think it over.—Ex.
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“The robe of authority, like
charity, may cover a multitude
of sins,” says a “sports” writ
er at the head of a column of
dramatic criticism and other
matter foreign to his depart
ment. It is .just like these
foolish youngsters to start
hurling brickbats to relieve
their pent-up feelings, entirely
unmindful of the dangers of
wrecking their Boss’ glass
house.
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The man who carelessly
dropped ashes from his pipe in
a powder factory in British i
Columbia, evidently never read j
the safety first rules saying
that a man who smokes in a
powder factory should use the
utmost care. Such little ne
glects as tliis cause good men
to die.
A young woman in Indiana
canned 400 quarts of vege-|
tables and finished the seas
on’s work by canning a cyjy,s
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The British and French guni
ners on the Italian front seen*
to be puttings some holes ill
Mackensen’s moving picturd
film.
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Riding on a rail is no longer*
fashionable in the South, hash
es on the back with a coat of
tar and feathers is all that is
necessary for admission into
the upper-ten of I. \V. W. so
ciety.
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The Russian socialists have
a simple program. All they
want to do is to make a peace
and divide up the land. They
will soon discover that it is “a
long way to NUtopia.”
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There will be no German
slush money offered to the
butchers to go on a strike hut
it would pay the food conser
vators to do a little in that line.
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The yong woman who goes
into the slums to get “color”
for a story generally fells blue
the next morning.
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Course dinners of the past
will he something to brag
about in the future.
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The news from Russia is as
conflicting as the reports of an*
] executive session of the Amor
‘ ican senate.
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NOTICE
The Common Council of the Town
of Cordova will meet as a Board of
Equalization Dec. 3, 1917, at the Town
Hall at 8 p. m.,‘ and continue in ses
sion until the hour of 9 p. m. of said
day, and shall continue in session un
til Dec. 10, 1917, between the hours
of 8 p. m. ancT 9 p. m. of each day.
EDWARD F. MEDLEY, Town Clerk
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I CAPITAL AND SURPLUS $105,500.00
Resources Over $1,000,000.00
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! resident \ ice-Pres. (Mnmurinn)
B. R. COLKETT
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