The Cordova Daily Times
GREATER CORDOVA'S GREATEST NEWSPAPER
ASSOCIATED PRESS TELEGRAPHIC REPORT8.
H. G. 8TEEL. C. H. WILCOX, C. H. SCHEFFLER, Pi,blither*
H. G. STEEL, Editor and Manager
C. H. WILCOX, City Editor.
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CORDOVA, ALASKA, THURSDAY, MARCH 25, 1915.
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A RED SPRING HARBINGER
HAS ARRIVED IN CORDOVA
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A .Joyous old robin, on h housetop was yesterday sing
ing a spring-time welcome to the neighbors whom she
lias learned to trust.
The Robin is much more reliable than the ground hog.
The ground' hog is an old-time grafter. His own comfort
is all that lie is concerned in. He has but two real cares, one
is to keep his back warm, the other to keep his stomach full
He is not bound by any family cares or any public spirit. He
is not worried over spualid' surroundings. A dug-out is all
house In* wants.
He has never devoted a half-hour study to the needs of
sanitation. He is not fastidious about his food, provided there
is plenty of it. He does not devote an hour a week to his own
family, nor care who his children associate with. He has
never been known to do an honest day’s work in all his life.
He just permits things to drift. It is different with Madam
Red Breast. When she comes in the spring, though her
throat is full of song, her heart is filled with anxiety lest she
make a mistake. She comes to make a summer home.
But she wants it where all the surroundings will be joyous;
where the boys have no small guns and do not know how to
climb trees; where children sing as they swing their satchels
on the way to and from school; where the leaves on the trees
will turn aside the rains from the house she is about to build ;
where all the surroundings will be pleasant to the children
which are to be hers.
So her coming is really an all hail to the spring which is
sure to follow swiftly her appearance.
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WRETCHED MEXICO MAY YET CAUSE
UNCLE SAM CONSIDERABLE TROUBLE
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ONCE more the aid of Brazil, Argentine and Chile should
be invoked to help out things in Mexico. The theory
of Mr- Secretary Bryan is that no man is good enough
to rule over his fellow man; that it is better to let the people
ot a rebellious state fight out their own differences than to in
tervene. YYre presume the president entertains the same view,
but children of the very best stock have to be disciplined,
and when children grow up, if they are still children in
thought and action, tliy discipline is still necessary.
That principle wus recognized when the United States
went down and redeemed Cuba.
The need is quite as great in Mexico, but while the war
across the sea continues, we should prefer to see the Spanish
states of the south work with Mexico. There is danger in
permitting matters to drift any longer in that region.
If either Great Britain or Germany, both of which have
immense interests in Mexico, should decide to take* a diversion
in that direction, it might precipitate a vast amount of troub
le upon us.
Japan would welcome such a movement on the part of
either country, as an ally of Great Britain sin* would at once
be ready to help, for she has long looked with covetous eyes
upon that west coast of Mexico, both for the lands and tin1
superb harbors there.
The man who was czar of Russia when Napoleon was
emperor of France said: “While Napoleon lives In* is my
wakefulness.”
Mexico is becoming “my wakefulness” to a great host of
people in the United States.
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HELLESPONT AN OLD STORM CENTER
FOR TWENTY FOUR CENTURIES
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PECIAL interest attaches to the news of the allied
fleets bombarding their way through the Hellespont
because that has been a storm center for the nations
for twenty-four centuries, while it is quite possible that it was
the same way for as many more centuries before the myths
became legends and the legends crystalized into history.
\\ hen all northern and western Europe was peopled by sav
age' tribes, around the Hellespont civilization had advanced
so far that nations had been created, art and architecture had
well-nigh reached perfection and the science of organizing and
handling great armies had been mastered.
The Hellespont first assumed form in history when tin*
army of Xerxes crossed that strait in the attempt to subdue
Greece and when after Salamis the remnant of that army re
turning was hurrying to hide itself from Greecian valor and
vengeance in the depths of Asia. That was 480 years before
the coming of the Messiah. What storms of war have swept
over it since! Persia, Egypt, Greece and Turkey, and a dozen
lesser nations whose identity is now well-nigh lost, took part
in these wars! Constantine captured the great city there,
that Byzantium that had' fought back the fleets of Phillip of
Macedon, that city which chiefs and kings had for centuries
dreamed of making the world’s capital; then the Turks took
it and swept westward. Not even the Crusaders could stop
their march; for a thousand years they were a terror, until
the half-barbarous tribes of the west and north subdued them
selves, and in turn learned' the art of war- Now they are there
with engines of destruction more terrible than were ever
dreamed of in the ancient days; they discount Jove’s thunder*
that were so dreaded of old.
About the only lesson that can be learned from it all is
that there is no power in mere civilization to quell the wild
beast instinct in men and nations.
DR. W. H. CHASE
PHY8ICIAN and SURGEON
Office over Cordova Drug Store.
Calls may be left at Cordova
Drug Store. Residence,
Rainier-Grand Hotel
DR. W. W. COUNCIL
Physician and Surgeon
Office at Company Hospital
Hours—10 to 12; 1 to 6 p. m.
DR. C. L. HALE
D E N T I 8 T
Office In Adams Building
E. F. MEDLEY
Attorney and Councellor at Law
Room 1
Adams Block CORDOVA, ALASKA.
THE MODERN LAUNDRY
Phone 66
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Hegg Bldg. C 8treet
THE NORTHERN LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY has
again to report a successful year, with marked gains
in every direction.
The assets were increased One hundred and Thirty-five
Thousand Dollars! the resrve for the protection of Policy
holders, One Hundred and Sixteen Thousand Dollars.
Accident and Sickness Claims of $28,478.00 were paid,
and Death Claims of $33,453.00.
No death Claim has ever been disputed.
All claims are paid immeditely on receipt of proofs.
Total paid to policyholders in 1914 was $116,209.26.
The Company's yearly Income was Increased to $415,
505.00.
After paying dividends of eight per cent, to stockholders
and dividends of $32,661.24 to policyholders—
The net surplus of the Company was increased more
than seventeen per cent, over the preceeding year.
T RUE you need Life Insurance for the benefit of the
wife and children, but you want insurance for more
than that alone.
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A. E. RANSOM
Olv. Supt. for Alaska
Age:. A. J. Adams, Local Represen
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Fast and commodious steamers sailing between Seattle, Ketch
ikan, Wrangell, Juneau, Skagway, Cordova, Valdez and Seward, via
INSIDE PASSAGE
Sails from Histtlr— Satis from Cordova—
March 24.NORTHWESTERN.March 31
March 30.MARIPOSA . April 6
Regular freight service for Ketchikan, Juneau, Sheep Creek,
Treadwell, Douglas, Cordova, Ellamar, Valdez ard Latouche. Explos
ives, S. S. Seward. 8. S. Seward, 5th; 8. S. Latouche, 15th; 8. 8.
Cordova, 25th of each month.
This company reserves the right to change schedule of steamers
without notice.
Tickets on sale at up-town office Alaska Steamship Bldg. Baggage
or freigh* will not be received at the dock later than one hour before
sailing time.
F. B. TRACY, T. J. TALLENT,
General Agent • Ticket Agent
Pacific-Alaska Navigation Co.
ALASKA PACIFIC 8. S. CO. ALA8KA COAST CO.
PUGET SOUND ALASKA ROUTE
Next sailing from Seattle will be
ADMIRAL WATSON, March 15
ADMIRAL EVANS, March 25
Via the INSIDE PASSAGE for Ketchikan, Juneau, Yakutat,
Katalla, Cordova, Valdez, Seward, Cook Inlet points and Kodiak
Island.
Seattle-San Francisco connecting with steamers Yale and Har
vard for Southern California Ports.
Schedule subject to change without Notica.
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Copper River &
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; EFFECTIVE NOVEMBER 24, 1914, i!
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!: Mondays, Thursdays and Saturdays ! 1
;; Chitina for Kennecott— ; ;
;; Tuesdays, Fridays and Sundays • •
;; Kennecott for Chitina— * 11
.. Wednesdays, Saturdays and Mondays. ■1
;; Chitina for Cordova— I!
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Freight received from 9 A. M. to 5 P. M. ;;
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