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CORDOVA^ ALASKA, KIM DA Y, NOVEMBER 1!>, 1915
HAVE TO HURRY.
Carranza and President Wilson had better hurry matters a
little down oil the border, lest the men of Texas, New Mexico
and Arizona, suddenly start a lire which it will require all the
engine companies in both countries to put out.
Should a few more Americans be killed down there, should
a few more raids be made upon the home down there on Ameri
can soil, it will be no surprise if a band of those southwestern
men take tire and undertake to stop that kind of work in their
own way.
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HAS BEEN BIG SUCCESS.
The Panama-Pacific Internal Exposition will close on
December 4th, but it has more than fulfilled its mission. With
half the world at war it stands today as the largest and most
comprehensive world-exhibition in history.
Despite the great war, the nations are well represented,
and the exposition has lost nothing of its international charc
ter. Forty one countries are taking official part and every
civilized portion of the world is represented either by official
display or by private exhibitors and associations of exhibitors.
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CIRCUMSTANTIAL EVIDENCE.
A correspondent asks us if we think it is right to convict
a person of a capital offense on circumstantial evidence.
Circumstantial evidence is not infrequently much more
conclusive than direct testimony. No two men can describe a
street fight alike, thoug both see it from beginging to end.
This is because human eyesight is fallible. But when a chain
of evidence is drawn around a man in such a way that a certain
conclusion must be reached, a conclusion that no reasonable
hypothesis can possibly turn aside, whe nthe evidence is com
plete.
WONDERFUL FRANCE.
That is a wonderful apostrophe which Edmund Rostand
pays the French army, but it is deserved. No people ever met
the fearful sacrifices of a mighty war with more fortitude, gal
lantly and unaffected’ devotion to native land than have the
French army and people since this unparalledled storm burst
upon them fifteen months ago.
Other armies have fought just as bravely as have the
French, but there is a difference. The difference is just the
same as that between “The Marseilles” and “God Save the
Queen” or “Die Wacht am Rhine;” that enthusiasm that
makes men smile when dying, hence as Rostand says: “ ’Tie
greater than a fighting army; it is a nation in arms moved by
one ideal.”
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THAT CULEBRA SLIDES.
The slides in the Culebra cut on the Panama canal are a
great drawback to the efficiency of the canal. Is there not a
way to stop them? When the first tunnel and drifts were in
the Comstock, the bane of the -miner’s life was the swelling
day. It would squeeze a 14-inch square timber down to half
its original thickness in a few days. It would fill a neglected
tunnel in a few weeks. At last a miner tried the expident of
driving a drift a foot or foot and a half wider than the usual
size; of lagging the sides as he progressed and filling in the
space between the lagging and the rock or clay behind the lag
ging with debris. So soon as the encroaching clay by its press
ure against the debris caused it to become airtight, the trouble
ceased. Would not a heavy concreate wall back of the canal,
and the filling of the space behind' the wall with debris effect a
cure. Of course the surface above, the canal would have to be
kept drained, for when that soapy stuff in that cut becomes
saturated with water, it loses its selfcontrol and begins to play
toboggan with itself, but with the base made firm and the top
above kept drained, the trouble ought to be reduced to a mini
mum. If a water pressure could be made to bear upon those
heights there would still be another way to handle it.
A great hydraulic plant would wash the hill above way.
The world down there has been tilted by earthquakes until it
stands on edge. If there is any place to which the debris could
be Hummed, it would be worth while to apply a hydraulic plant,
it should be tried even if the prssure had to be supplied by
pumps.
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London contiues to send out stories to the effect that the
(l, mans are about to sfibmit tentative terms for peace. The
Germans continue to insist that these stories are born in Lon
don and that they indicate a British, not a German, desire to
end the war. No doubt both sides would be tickled to death if
somebody could get them together. It is folly to imagine that
either is enjoying this thing.
National legislation for the conservation of human energy
is suggested by Samuel Gompers. Personal legislation along
the same line would not be amiss for those who fritter away
their time and strength in foolish diversions and dissipation.
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Sails from Seattle- Sails from Cordova
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Regular freight service Tor Ketchikan, Juneau, Sheep Creek,
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