SEWARD DAILY GATEWAY
OF SEWARD, ALASKA
Established, August 19, 1904
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EVOLUTION.
When you were a tadpole and I was a fish
In the Paleozoic time;
And side by side on the ebbing tide
We crawled through the ooze and slime *
Or skittered with many a caudal flip
Through the depths of the Cambrian fen ;
My heart was rife with the joys of life,
For I loved you, even then.
Mindless we lived and mindless we loved
And mindless at last we died,
And deep in the rifts of the Carados drifts
We slumbered on side by side;
The aeons came and aeons fled
And the hot lands heaved amain,
Till we caught our breath from the womb
of death
And crept into life again.
We were amphibians scaled and tailed,
And drab as a dead man's hand;
We coiled at ease 'neath the dripping trees,
Or crawled through the mud and sand;
Croaking and blind with cur three-clawed feet
Writing a language dumb,
With never a spark in the empty dark
To hint at a life to come.
Then light and swift through the jungle trees
We flung our airy flights,
Or breathed in the balm of the smouldering
palm
In the hush of the moonlit nights.
And Oh! what wonderful years were these,
When our hearts clung each to each,
And the shadows broke and our souls awoke
In the first faint dawn of speech.
Thus life by life and love by love,
We passed through the cycles strange,
And breath by breath, and death by death,
Wre followed the change on change,
Till there came a time in the law of life,
When over the nursing sod,
The shadows broke, and our souls awoke
In a vague, dim dream of God.
1 was thewed like the Auroch bull.
And tusked like the great cave bear;
And you, my sweet, from head to feet,
Was gowned in your glorious hair;
And in the gloom of a fireless cave,
While the night hung over the plain,
And the moon hung red o'er the river bed,
Wre munched the bones of the slain.
I flaked a flint to a cutting edge,
And shaped it with brutish craft;
I broke a shank from the woodland dank,
And fitted it head and haft;
Then I hid me close to the reedy tarn
Where the mammoth came to drink.
Through brawn and bone, I drove that stone
And slew him upon the brink.
Loud I howled through the moonlit wastes,
Loud answered our kith and kin ;
hrom west and east to the crimson feast,
The clans came trooping in ;
Through joint and gristle and padded hoof,
We fought and clawed and tore
And cheek by jowl with many a howl,
We talked the marvel o'er.
I carved that fight on a reindeer bone,
With a rude and hairy hand ;
I pictured his fall on the cavern wall,
That men might understand ;
For we lived by blood and the might of right,
Ere human laws were drawn.
And the age of sin did not begin
Till our brutal tusks were gone.
And that was a million years ago,
In a time which no man knows ;
Yet here tonight in the mellow light,
We sit at Delmonico’s.
Your eyes are as deep as the Devon springs ;
Your hair is as dark as jet;
Your time is new, your lives are few ;
Your soul untried and yet
Our trail lies on the Kimmeridge clay,
And the scarp of the Purbec flags ;
We have left our bones on the Bagshot stones,
And in the heart of the Coraling crags;
Our love is cold, our lives are old,
And death shall come again;
Shall it come today, what man shall say
That we shall not live again?
God wrought our souls from the Tremadoc
beds,
And furnished us wings to fly ;
He sowed our spawn in the world's dim down,
And I know that we shall not die ;
™_°ugh citieB have grown above the graves,
Where the crook-boned men made war,
And the oxswain creaks o'er the buried caves
Wnere the mummied mammoths are.
So as we linger at luncheon here.
O’er many a dainty dish,
Let us drink anew to the time when you
W ere a tadpole and I was a fish.
ENGINE BREAKS DOWN
Engine trouble on the local freight
due last night, occurred at Hunter and
the local yard engine was sent out
and towed the train in.
Ephriam Brewster’s brother is vis
iting him from Johnson.
SUNDAY’S TRAIN OUT AT 8 A M
Sunday’s train will leave at 8 a. m.
instead of 7:30 as formerly.
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BUREAU SEATTLE
SEWARD VISITOR
SEATTLE ATTORNEY SAYS THAT
ALASKA IS HOBBY WITH
HIM—IS FIRST TRIP
HAS ALASKA LIBRARY
Makes Business Trip to Nakeen Can
nery Bristol Bay—Enjoyed Trip
He Declares, Very Much
Reputed to be the first Seattle at
torney to have visited the Bristol Bay
district, Edward Weber Allen of the
firm of Wright, Froude, Allen & Hilen
returned to Seward last week after a
business trip to the Nakeen cannery,
owned by the A. & P„ Products Corpo- j
ration of the Great Atlantic and Pa
cific Tea Company, of New Jersey.
Mr. Allen, accompanied Haakon
Beyer Friele, general manager of the
company, on, the trip of inspection.
Mr. Allen was particularly interest
ed in the trip, because for many years
Alaska has been a hobby with him.
and in his Seattle home he has one
of the best private libraries on the
Pacific coast. He has maintained the
library for years just for his own en
joyment. “Therefore,” Mr. Allen ex
claimed. on the first possible excuse
to visit this district which I had never
had the pleasure to make, 1 grasped it
and here I am.”
Mr. Allen is a member of the Alaska
Bureau of the Seattle Chamber of
Commerce and is also on the Board
of Control of the University of Wash
ington, of which he is a graduate.
He was formerly Assistant Attorney
General of the State of Washington,
from 1914 to 1916.
Referring to his trip to Bristol Bay
Mr. Allen said he visited many can
neries in Southeastern Alaska but he
has never before seen such a modern
and up-to-the-minute cannery as this
new one at Nakeen, erected of sheet
steel in record time this spring. What
particularly impressed him was the
young personnel of the cannery crew,
which with the exception of two or
three men, were all around or a.bout
80 years of age.
The Seward Gateway representa
tive asked General Manager Friele for
further information regarding Mr. Al
len, and Mr. Friele replied: “Just tell
them he is' the best lawyer there is
in the fishing game.”
Mr. Friele stated that he intends
returning to Alaska next spring and
would bring Mr. Allen along with him.
GOLD LEAF INDUSTRY IS
UNCHANGED IN 20 CENTURIES
There are very few manufacturing
businesses that are still carried out in
exactly the same way as they were
when Julius Caesar was winning his
"way to power at the head of his le
gions in Gaul. But there is one. It
is the manufacture of gold leaf, of
those unbelievably thin and fragile
sheets of gold that painters use to
make, the signs on glass windows.
These sheets of gold tissue are so
thin that as many as 200,000 of them
have to be piled on top of the other
to make the thickness of one inch.
They are still made by beating out the
gold with hammers between layers of
a special kind of skin made from the
guts of oxen. Gold leaf has never
been made any other way. Doubtless
the gold decorations on the shrines
of Tutankhamen were beaten out in
exactly the same way.
MEN GOING TO DOMINION
CREEK FOR NEW COMPANY
About twenty men went out to Do
minion Creek on Tuesday to work for
the new' Northwest Corporation, who
are operating dredge No. 1 belonging
to that company. Much new machin
ery came in on the steamer Dawson
last evening for this company, all of
which will be on the move within a
few’ days. Included in this machin
ery is an erector which will also be
taken to Dominion—Dawson News.
PIONEER TO FORTYMILE
Lee W. Steele, wife and two chil
dren, arrived in Daw’son recently on
his way to Fortymile, where he and
associates w'ill drill this season.
BISHOP CRIMONT ON ALASKA
The Rt. Rev. Bishop Crimont will be
an arrival in Sewrard on the steamship
Alaska.
DANCE TONIGHT
ODD FELLOWS
HALL
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MUSIC BY
THE JOLLY THREE
RETURNS TO YUKON.
E. C. Bredenberg, who was a pas
senger on the Casca, is returning to
the place of his birth after about 20
years’ absence. He i3 a son of Ed
Bredenberg, who was closely connect
ed in business with A. N. C. Treadgold
and in touch with all his mining oper
ations in the North. The elder Bre
denberg is in Vancouver.—Dawson
News.
TEA USED TO BE RAISED IN
UNITED STATES AT PROFIT
SUMMERVILLE, S. C„ July 9 (/P)—
Hundreds of old tea plants gathered
from over the world at a time when
tea growing in the United States was
a profitable industry, have grown to
the size of small trees and are being
transplanted for landscape purposes.
Before the Chinese tea growers dis
covered that they could produce the
leaf and market it in the United
States at a greater profit than the
American growers, the cultivation of
tea in this section was enormous and
it was raised at a profit.
IMMERSES BOY IN SCALDING
HOT WATER AND KILLS HIM
MONTREAL, July 8 (JP)—Brother
Usmar, who is connected with the or
phanage at Hubertdeau, Quebec, was
found guilty of manslaughter by a
French Canadian jury. He has been
standing trial for the fatal scalding
at the orphanage on January 21 of
Hector Galarneau, an inmate, who
succumbed to burns received in a tub
of scalding water in which he was
placed by the accused following the
soiling of clothes owing to intestinal
trouble. Brother Usmer had previ
ously beaten the boy for being sick,
while never asking for medical aid
for him.
TRAP FOR TAKING OF
BEAVER ALIVE IS SHOWN
JUNEAU—A model of a new trap
for taking beaver alive has been re
ceived by E. P. Walker, of the U. S.
biological survey. It was developed
for field use by Vernon Bailey, chief
field naturalist of the bureau from a
design made by another bureau em
ploye, Mr. Walker said.
The trap, he said, will probably be
used in taking beaver to be planted
in various barren areas in the Terri
tory under the game and fur bearing
animal stocking program adopted by
the legislature last spring. It is ex
pected the traps will be placed in the
hands of reliable trappers for use, the
game commission to contract for the
animals taken.
The trap in shape is similar to a
large traveling bag. It is built of
heavy wire netting on a framework of
steel or iron. Springs are made from
coils of tempered steel wire. A trig
ger when touched by the animals re
leases the trap which encloses but
does not harm them. Some modifica
tion in structure may be necessary
before the trap is adapted to local field
conditions. Experiments conducted in
the States are said to have demon
strated its practicability.
COOLIDGE WATCHES CLOUDS.
SWAMPSCOTT, Mass., July 9 (/P)—
President Coolidge is preparing to act
promptly in case the issue between
the miners and operators threatens to
result in a coal strike. The President
is seeking all the facts bearing on the
situation.
Gateway want-ads bring results.
"To the Ladies”
A comedy drama that’s a wonder a s an enter
tainment.
Directed by James Cruze who also directed
“THE COVERED WAGON”
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There is also a two-reel comedy entitled
NO NOISE
And a PATHE NEWS
SPECIAL MUSIC TONIGHT
The “LIBERTY ORCHESTRA” has been reor
ganized and it will pl^y again every Thursday
night, giving fine selections this evening.
At the Liberty
Attend .the Liberty tonight.
Gateway want-ads bring results.
It appears that some terrible stuff
is being sold in New York. The
American relates that a citizen drop
ped a penny in a Madison Square
letter box, looked up at the tower
clock and cried: “Great Scott, I’ve
lost 14 pounds.”
SALE
on
House Dresses
BANBURY & OGLE
TRY OUR
“Special Merchants’ Plate Lunch,”
choice of two kinds of meat and one
kind of fish served from 11:30 to 1:30
for 50c. Starting Wednesday, July
8th, 1925. We invite the laboring men
especially.
169 tf SEWARD GRILL.
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classy, and speedy.—Ogles Gar
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SPECIAL—Garden Hoes at 50c.
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Paris tailors have agreed to charge
men with more than 43-inch waist *
beasurement a ten per cent advance
for their suits in future.
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