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>m>(>VA, ALASKA, TIirKSDAV, DKrKMBKR 16, 1918.
SAY NOT SO, NEIGHBOR.
It wUf*bev#iae for the friends of Alaska to keep a sharp
■qkon^j^o'n the time comes for the appropriations to be made
.le coming Congress. Although to the ordinary observer
would' appear decidedly idiotic in the face of the present
ittleship program, and the public demand that something
> done at once to improve our present defenceless position,
>t to provide an adequate coal supply for the new navy, it
Hist also be borne in mind that Congress is very hard up, and
has been known to do some very peculiar things when tem
orarily embarrassed. Besides a great many congressmen
ever liked that Alaska railway, anyway.—Seattle Railway
fid Marine News.
It is to be hoped that Editor Kerr is unduly alarmed and
j not “speaking bv the book.” Alaska needs all the appropria
ons she can receive and tin* Times earnestly hopes, and real
r believes, that Secretary Lane will receive the appropria
(ui of $S,224,000 asked for by him to continue the const ruc
(•n of the government railroad.
I The price of copper has reached twenty cents, with the
respect of a further increase in price. And to think that
nrdova is the greatest copper port in the United States.
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f To be adequately prepared for defence, the President now
iys, is not a mere technical matter. Yet last spring and all
trough the summer he thought the country was adequately
(‘fended when a lone college professor locked himself up in
room at the White House and fired a volley of words from a
v'pewriter.
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(hir >ure way to have a woman carry news without “spill
lg“ it is to write it on her back in indelible ink.
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We’re waiting for tin1 testimony to show whether it was
lalian excitability or a submarine’s over-hasty shells that
■tuscd the heavy loss of life on the Ancona.
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THEIR VISION WAS CLOUDED.
Messrs. ,T. Henry Goeke and E. R. Batlirick, erstwhile
iomocratic congressmen from Ohio, blew into Washington re
■ntly and foretold the carrying of the Buckeye state for
j •resident Wilson in 1910 as a “foregone conclusion.” Some
i )retollers, these boys! Their power of prophecy is almost un
nnny. Each of them foretold his own re-election on the
lemocratic ticket to the next Congress, by a “rousing major
,y,” but if you will scan the list of congressmen who are go
ig to spend the next year patching up the joblot of legisla
ion enacted by the Democracy since 1913, you will find Hon.
. E. Bussell, Republican, will restore dignity to the seat lately
ccupied by Mr. Goeke, while Hon. J. G. Cooper, also Republi
an, will return Batlirick’s congressional district to its pristine
Igor. The more such political repudiatees predict Wilsonian
ictory the more confidence is inspired in the breasts of the
republicans.
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It’s a strange time for Kansas to cut loose with a cyclone,
’here’s plenty of news without it.
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Miss Margaret Wilson says her father has a beautiful
•nor voice and loves music. We must have guessed as much,
edging from his fondness for notes.
ONE KIND OF RETRENCHMENT.
Postmaster-General Burleson announces that the parcel
ost is paying a profit. While that is merely his opinion,
iven in the absence of any definite facts upon which a safe
| onclusion could lx1 based, it furnishes a proper occasion to re
uirk that the postmaster-general placed an additional burden
pon the railroads without giving them additional pay when
te required' them to transport, as parcel post matter, mail
diich had previously been carried by the railroads as express
natter. In various other ways he increased the amount of
mrcel post matters transported without increasing the pay
f the railroads. Perhaps litigation or an investigation will
ometime show the extent of this additional service required
, it limit corresponding compensation, but until that is shown
t will not be possible for anyone to say whether the parcel
,ost pays a profit above all rightful charges against it. It is
good bet that it doesn’t under the Burleson rates and
‘mights.
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“Cupid, though wearing nothing, still is the dressmakers’
est friend,” says the office bachelor.
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Baron Shibusawa will have to do a lot of big talking to
et Americans interested in his scheme for a six-power alli
. * nee, including the United’ States.
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A PRESERVE UAMrJJiJt.
Twenty years ago it was common to see a big stove in a
puse with a selfadjusting damper. When the tire was out
ie damper, contracted' by the cold, was wide open. When
ie fire was lighted, and the metal in the damper began to
xpand, the damper began to close and by the time the stove
'as red hot the damper was closed tight.
The clerk of the weather must have one of those stoves
us year, only he has the wrong metal in the damper—one that
xpands under cold and contracts under heat. Last August
ie damper was wide open during the entire month and the
;ove was kept red hot. Two weeks ago that mal-hammered
nmper began to expand and to shut off the draft and the fire
1 the stove seemed to go entirely out.
it That damper regulation should be cast out and one of the
kld fashioned kind substituted.
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[Copyright, 1915, by American Proas Asso
ciation.]
GOOD will unto men and
peace to the nations—
These were the glad tidings
the herald proclaimed
When brightly on high, mid the
vast constellations.
The star over Bethlehem quiv
ered and flamed.
THE wise men who saw H
* and journeyed with eager
And reverent spirit, their
presents to bring,
It guided until by the manger so
meager
They knelt by the Child Christ
and hailed him as King.
ANIGHT more momentous
through all the long story
Of earth and its races
ne'er stood out in time.
The rays of that star shall in
crease in their glory
And the tidings be heard in
each nation and dime.
IF we follow that star through
life’s labyrinth dreary
And look toward its light
with unfaltering faith,
Though the ways may seem hard
and our feet may grow weary.
Twill guide us right on through
the valley of death.
Che “Christmas
Grouch”
CUE Christinas grouch dies hard,
but he begins to breathe fee
bly. There Is scarcely a family
but has a Christmas grouch
some ono who thinks gifts are foolish
and that a great deal of money Is wast
ed at the season now upon us. He
hates to see money wasted; he hates
to see tho Christmas trees cut down;
he thinks It Is a sin to tell the children
the legend about Santa Claus; he scolds
about shopping; be Is sorry for the post
man who carries so many bundles; he
says everybody runs Into debt at Christ
mas and that the new year gets start
ed In all wrong on account of the debts;
he says tho sentiment has all gone out
of Christmas on account of its being
commercialized and that Christmas
trees are a menace to life and that once
^je knew of a house that caught fire
from a Chrlstmus tree; ho says it is
a sin to spend monjey for flowers at
Christmas.
The Christmas reformer has hundreds
of Ideas about how Christmas can be
improved. Ho says the Christmas hol
idays never mean anything to him and
he will be glad when they are all
over.
But Christmas remains Christmas
just the same, for all the grouch’s pro
tests, and will be the same forever;
will laugh at the grouch and his folllea
In such a wholesome, hearty way that
he will grow ashamed and will Join
In the merrymaking In spite of him
self.
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Office over Cordova Drug 8tore.
Calls may be left at Cordova
Drug Store. Residence,
Alaskan Hotel
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ASA C. BALDWIN
Civil Engineer
Patent Surveys
Address: Valdez, Alaska
E. F. MEDLEY
Attorney and Counsellor at Law
Room 1
Adams Block CORDOVA, ALASKA.
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, STEAMSHIP CO.
Fast and commodious steamers sailing between 8eattle, Ketch
ikan, Wrangell, Juneau, Skagwny, Cordova, Valdez, Seward and
ANCHORAGE, via INSIDE PASSAGE.
Sails from Seattle— Sails from Cordova—
December 10 . ALAMEDA . December 19
Oecember 21 .... NORTHWESTERN .... December 30
Regular freight service tor Ketchikan, Junsau, Sheep Creek,
Treadwell, Douglas, Cordova, Ellamar, Valdez ard Latouche. Explos
ives, S. S. Seward. 8. S. Seward, 5th; S. S. Latouche, 15th; 8. 8.
Cordova. 25th of each month.
This company reserves the right to change schedule of steamers
without notice.
Tickets pn sale at up-town office Alaska Steamship Bldg. Baggage
or freight 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. ALASKA COAST CO.
PUGET SOUND-ALASKA ROUTE
Next sailing from Seattle will be
ADMIRAL EVANS . December 15
\DMIRAL FARRAGUT . December 26
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 Notice.
ALASKA TRANSFER CO., Local Agents
| Copper River &
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Effective October 4th, 1915.
Two trains every six days between Cordova and |ij
if Chitina, one of these trains leaving Cordova making
$ connection with Alaska Steamship Co. steamers arriving g
if from Seattle.
•f Trains leave Cordova depot, at foot of Second Avenue, if
Mondays and Thursdays.
If Leave Kennecott, Tuesdays and Fridays.
If Leave Kennecott for Chitina, Wednesday and Saturdays, if
If Leave Chitina for Cordova, Tuesdays and Fridays,
if The above schedule subject to change without notice. $!
ij;. Dining Car in Connection With all Regular Petsenger Train* Be- <|i
i* tween Cordova and Chitina. fl
i| Freight received from 9 A. M. to 5 P. M.
Tickets on sale at Depot or lip-town office, Alaska 1
:.;i| Steamship Company building |lj:
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