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CORDOVA, ALASKA, MONDAY, JUNE 28, 1915.
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FRANZ JOSEPH
When the work of the great law giver of Israel was finished
as the story runs—from the heights of Pisgah he was given a
view of the promised land toward which for forty years he had
been struggling, but was never to reach. From his cradle in
the bullrushes up to manhood; through the years in which he
acquired all the wisdom of the Egyptians; then his call to the
leadership of an enslaved people; his buffetings with kings and
priests; the plagues, the sorrows, the tragedy of the final exit;
the wanderings in the wilderness for two score years; the
splendor and terror of Sinai; the,marvelous code under which
men were, when advanced enough, to learn the necessity of a
government of law and the imperative need of proper sanita
tion; the trials; the triumphs through which he had wrought
out an immortal fame for himself; this was the picture that
shone behind him when lie climbed Pisgah, to be given before
his eyes were to finally close, a vision of the land which he had
dreamed' of for his people through the watches of half a century.
Reading that magnificent drama ones mind involuntarily
turns to a history of our own day. Was there ever a dream
with more sombre and tragic tints than the life of Franz
Joseph of Austria has been?
Given an empire to rule, there were doubtless thousands of
the world’s rulers and the scions of royal houses, who envied
him whop he ascended the throne, but could there be a Pisgah
for him to climb from the crest of which he was to see what
the future of his country was to be; would not his prayer be,
“If it is to be as sorrowful and dark and lonely as my life has
been, spare me from swing it?”
He stands today like a lonely oak in a dead forest. The
hurricanes of four score years have beat upon it; forest fires
have consumed surrounding trees and blasted its own limbs;
the cyclones have swept every bird that nested in its branches
away; the frosts of sorrow have withered its heart; its scant
foliage is shriveled and no longer is fit for it a crown—it seems
to no longer have an excuse for standing except that it is too
proud and brave to fall.
Ilis beautiful empress assassinated'; the first rightful heir
to the throne murdered or a suicide; the second heir and his
lovely wife assassinated; his brother who hoped to be an
emperor and to make a great name as the redeemer of a dis
tracted country captured and shot and his lovely empress left
a hopeless lunatic for whom no merciful death seems waiting;
a disastrous war with France, another with Prussiu; years of
fierce dissensions in his own dominions and now involved in a
war that threatens the very existence of his empire; what
listory in all the woi;ld is a parallel of his?
Often prostrated by fearful illness, more than once
•eported dead; the splendor of his surroundings a mockery;
lis people dying by tens of thousands to support his tottering
hrone; one would think that his prayer by day and by night
vould be, not for a vision of a Land of Promise, but for the
•est of that sleep which is not vexed by dreams or any fear of
m awakening.
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General Carranza’s feet press the pavement where but
ecently American sentries paced to and fro. From his window
ie can see the very spot where the American transport Prairie
ly at anchor and' hajmmered down the naval school with her
apid-fire guns. The majestic sight of the American battle
quadron off Vera Cruz has been described by General Car
anza in picturesque Spanish Truly, romantic surroundings
3r so great a general—surroundings which largely may be
^sponsible for Citizen Carranza’s desire to treat with Presi
ent Wilson.
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The mill men of the Pacific Coast have formed a trust to
intro! the markets of the world, outside of “the United States,
s possessions and dependencies.” The Sherman anti-trust
,w ceases its benign ministrations with the three-mile limit
T coast. And, anyway, what boots it if we swat the “foreign
jvils” with a plank?
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The English lambast the Germans for bombarding the
onfortified towns” on the east coast of England, while the
jjrmans excoriate the English for bombarding the “unfortified
wn” of Karlsruhe, but both go to bombarding. War, like
ditics, is just one damphule thing after another.
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The National Security league, which is endeavoring to
id the nation into investment in heavy guns, battleships, etc.,
is given its final and conclusive argument recently when the
tqui Indians in Mexico declared war on the United States.
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WHERE?
Five days ngo it was cabled that all the day long a new'
man army of half a million men had been pouring through
rlin, but that its destination was a profound secret. Would
lie hurled upon the retreating Russians in the east to scatter
j confound them before new ammunition could reach them?
mid it turn south to hurl back the Italians and keep a port
the Adriatic open for supplies, and open communication
ough Turkey with Constantinople; or would it be sent to
once more to shatter the allied armies in the west and
ke an open way to the west coast?
The latter is the more probable plan for none of the others,
n if successful, would be decisive while a signal triumph
the west would place both London and Paris in jeopardy,
ile the steady reinforcement of the allies in France, unless
ekly stopped, will soon become a menace to all western
•many, which though dotted' all over with fortresses might
■ Jer us Belgium suffered under the first onsets of this fearful
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If the most terrific fighting of the war is reported from
and eastern France, during the next few days, it
d cause no surprise.
“SOUND MONEY”
A dispatch tells of a town in Germany where the people
are using iron money. Those people must have h<*r-w reading
some of the learned essays on “Sound Money” put «ufcj>y the
late Grover Cleveland or the late Professor Sumner, or the late
Edward Atkinson, or the teamed Professor Laughlin.
It is a fine idea. Iron does not make light weight dollar^
no matter whether gold is inflated or not. It has other advan
tages. A man cannot carry enough of it down town to get
inebriated on, with it in use, there would be no hold' ups, and
there would be no occasion to let thieves go while under sus
picion of being highwaymen or thieves.
But how funny those essays on “Sound Money” read
under the financial lamp light of today.
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The testimony indicates that the management of the
Lusitania was inefficient ,another point of similarity between
her case* and the Titanic’s. The Lusitania was short of firemen
and fuel, and conducted, on the fatal voyage, but one boat drill,
that being unsatifactory. The evidence further has shown that
tin* crew was not competent—this being the captain’s testi
mony. The question is going to be raised one of these days,
whether a great steamship, carrying 2,000 or more passengers,
shall be allowed to go to sea carrying a crew of inefficients. It
is no place to experiment with novices. The time soon will
come the public will demand capable crews of trained men,
amply paid and well housed.
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In the line of renl public service, who are engaged in
greater work than the members of the anti-tuberculosis society?
It’s aim is to save life, and to prevent sorrow, suffering and
poverty through the generations. Tuberculosis, though a
preventable and curable disease, continues to claim thousands
of victims. Ignorance is this plague’s chief of staff. Tho
eliminate that ignorance, and to replace it with the simple infor
mation necessary to lead tin* afflicted to the means of restoring
health, and to show the able-bodied how to avoid the disease, is
the great work to which the society is devoted. It has saved
thousands of lives, has re-established homes happy with the
knoweledge that stricken ones are again on their feet and has
checked the spread of tin* dreadful malady.
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The war party wins in Greece, but the country won’t be
spilled into the fire for 40 days, at least, as parliament will not
meet until that time has elapsed. But never fret, some of the
“experts” say the war will continue for three years at least,
and that will be time enough for all of us to get into it.
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The Milwaukee schools are putting in billiard and pool
tables, these being regarded' as necessary to keep willful youth
out of mischief. Will it be proved that the cue is mightier than
the birch?
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General Obregon indignantly denies that lie is dead, just
as though he expected we had a real interest in the matter one
way or the other!
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It’s going to pay to open iron mines on European battle
fields after the war. Tons of metal are being buried by the big
guns.
DR. W. H. CHASE
PHYSICIAN and SURGEON
Office over Cordova Drug Store.
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DR. W. W. COUNCIL
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Office at Company Hospital
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DR. C. L. HALE
DENTIST
Office In Adams Building
E. F. MEDLEY
Attorney and Councellor at Law
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Adams Block CORDOVA, ALASKA.
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SHIP CREEK, via INSIDE PA9SAGE
Sails from Seattle— Sails from Cordova—
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