The Cordova Daily Times
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CORDOVA, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, JULY 28, 1915.
THE SUMMER TASK
The days grow hot, and we must swat, with energy
incensing; yen, we must rise and soak the flies, to keep them
mm increasing. If we pass by a single fly, it soon will rear a
nillion, and they will raise, in summer days, four hundred
housand' billion. And they’ll produce, while running loose,
iicli swarms of filthy critters, such hosts of flies, they’ll hide
lie skies—so let us not be quitters. Go forth and swat in
iinihle cot, and in the lordly palace, swat left and right, keep
11 the fight until you break a galus. Strike stalwart blows,
nd crush the foes, or later you will rue it, and I’ll sit here
hroughout the year, and tell you how to do it. I’ll sing you
iws to cheer your days while you the flies are potting. I’ll
raise your zeal with gladsome spiel, but I’m too fat for swat
ng. I’ll urge you on from golden dawn until night’s shades
re falling, but like most guys whose words are wise, my acts
re mostly stnlling.—Walt Mason.
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LEST WE FORGET
Tt’s only the unknowing native son and the man who can’t
•member t hat complain of the present warmth in these parts.
Can you imagine yourself in an Illinois harvest field, with
head' or two of bearded wheat irritatingly impeding the flow
' sweat down your spine; the mercurty at 102; the drinking
ater lukewarm; the knats innumerable and voracious; the
>ss petulant and his wife on the edge of a strike, with pros
•cts of a mere shadow of a dinner; the horses half crazy from
•at and flies; your body stinging from fighting top to keel
ate with over-scratched chiggor bites; your bandana sopping,
smelly” and dirty; and not a shade tree within 200 rods?
Let’s make it worse: Imagine yourself in a crowded' city;
>ur work such that you can’t shed coat and collar; dead on
>ur feet from fanning a crying baby all night; your wife laid
) in the suffocating flat with cholera morbus; the smell of a
lid restaurant and the sickening odors of a nearby market
•evading the atmosphere; shirtband too tight; the mercury in
e street thermometer at 107; a water famine; too floor to buy
i electric fan and goss too stingy—lie’s away, anyhow, up on
e lakes, writing you daily letters describing cool delights and
arply urging you to double the business; everybody quarrel -
me; flies by the million and all “sticky;” and no relief in
jht!
Verily, we have a paradise in Alaska.
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THE CONVENTION BORE
The World’s Fair is in the heyday of the convention season
id the convention bore is having the time of his life, says
>wn Talk of San Francisco, which proceeds to attend to him
follows: All sorts of organizations are in our midst, fighting
•er the annual election of officers, paying polite inattention to
irned papers read by sabants who never studied elocution,
id enthusing momentarily over bronze plaques. Some of
esc conventions are the conventions of eminently respectable
ientists, some of them are the conventions of men not quite
spectable, and there are also the Eclectics. All of these con
ations are receiving a great deal of notice in the newspapers
lich, with an overstrained neutrality, devote as much space
a convention of nohodies as to a convention of somebodies,
id at all of these conventions the same phenomenon is to be
served. I refer to that curious person, the publicity seeker,
lis is the man who has studied the art of publicity more care
lly and to better effect than he has studied his specialty. Per
ps I should say that publicity is his specialty. He knows
at the easiest way to break into the newspapers is to be
(conventional at a more or less conventional convention. He
,h never dreamed of advancing science, but sleeping and
iking he dreams of advancing himself. And so, while the
ientists give to their brethren in convention assembled the
iture results of deep study and laborious research, this man
eks only to startle by being preposterous. Whether this man
the result of yellow journalism, or has helped to make
a nudism yellow is a puzzle. Perhaps he and the saffron press
ve interacted about equally. To the serious minded men who
tend conventions he is a dreadful bore, but to the reporter
10 reports scientific conventions he is the one man worth
file, since he is always good for a first page story.
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THJS WAil snuAnuw
The Kaiser and Emperor Francis Joseph must realize the
eessitv of putting forth their utmost strength at once, to try
crush one or all the powers arrayed against them. The Kaiser
1 half English. He knows that Great Britain has been slashing
Mind the world for centuries and that in the last 150 years
* has never given up a foot of land, once obtained, save the
nerican colonies, and that the utmost victory ever obtained
er the Russians has been to boat them back a little from
> seashore—the loudest thunders of any war have never
i iturbed the calm a little removed lrom the sea. Save perhaps
it while
By the Danube and the Dneister the Cossack hero sleeps,
By the Volga and the Don the Cossack mother weeps.
But the Teutonic emperors must know that the utmost that
ild be done against either the British or the Russian power
uld be to win a temporary victory, and that if the temporary
tory is to ever be won, it must be soon, for despite the
•sent anxiety in England' and the Russian reverses in Poland,
determination of neither of those powers is changed in the
si and will not be.
Then France is, despite its fearful losses, not in the least
t down, her faith in ultimate victory is increasing rather
n decreasing. The world sees what Italy is doing and it is
t as plain what The Netherlands are intending to do very
n.
Still no one can make anything like a shrewd forecast of
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what is to bo in the future.
The original plan of the Kaiser was frustrated by the
unexpected furious resistance made by Belgium. Since then the
Teutons have merely held their own. It is possible that the
Kaiser feels certain of resisting nny invasion of his territory
and’ believes he can neutralize the power of the czar in the com
ing few weeks, and that then the allies will be willing to desire
peace on such terms ns he may dictate. But that would he a
slender reed to lean upon, for on the one side* is the Xlnv, on the
other the Anglo-Saxon, the Gaul, the Gael and the Celt, and
none of those are quitters.
But the ordinary judgment would he that the thought of
the Teutons must be to try to nceonimplish something decisive
in the immediate future or play for a truce and a compromise
peace.
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\\ bile Cordova is experiencing a prolonged dry spell, tin*
interior is suffering from overflows that are doing considerable
damage to the railroad and’ trails.
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Port Wells gold quartz, on the properties of the Cordova
Mining & Development Company, looks good to those of our
townsmen who returned last, night from a trip to that camp,
and an effort will be made to develop the property.
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There are angles and angles to the trade at-home move
ment. That it is the “only wav” is ns plain ns a cow in a well,
and nearly everybody agrees with the philosophy of it. They
agree, and agree, and preach and preach, hut they sometimes
do not practice. In the future let every Cordovan do his buying
at homo and thus contribute towards making this a bigger and
better town.
DR. W. H. CHASE
PHY8ICIAN and 8URGE0N
Office over Cordova Drug Store.
Calls may be left at Cordova
Drug 8tore. 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
ASA C. BALDWIN
Civil Engineer
Patent Surveys
Address: Valdez, Alaska
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