The Seward Gateway
PUBLISHED DAILY
at Seward, Alaska
HAL B. SELBY
EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR
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Entered as Second Class Matter Sep.!
tember 2nd, 1915, at the Post Office at
Seward, Alaska, under the Act of
March Third, 1879.
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HOW BUSY IS A BEE
Man has been told to go to the ant
for thrift and to the bee for industry
since before the first stone of the pyr
amids was laid. Poets and philoso
phere have held up these insects as
our models and while we have held
no grudge against either the ant or
the bee for setting us such virtuous
examples we sometimes have wonder
ed whether they were as thrifty or in
dustrious as they seem. In particular,
we had our doubts about the bee
whose days were spent in sipping nec
tar.
Now science has settled our suspi
cions. Laboratory wizards have been
at work studying the working activity
of the bee, measuring his flight, esti
mating his endurance and weighing
his labors in honey. If the conclu
sions reached are anywhere near accu
rate, and the observers claim they are
so to the fraction of a grain, we pros
trate ourselves most dizzily before the
hive and we confess that human ac
tivity pales into insignificance when
compared with that of the honeyma
ker.
Scientific authority informs us that
in a pound jar of honey which can be
bought for less than half a dollar,
there is the concentrated essence of
t>2.000 flowers, necessitating about
2,500,000 visits to collect it. Not un
frequently the journey from the hive
to the flower and back may entail the
fiight of two miles, so that the storing
of a pound of honey in the hive may
call for journeys that may aggregate
more than 5,000,000 miles on the part
of the colony. And when we are told
that a single colony of bees will pro
duce from sixty to eighty pounds of
honey in a season we may come to
appreciate che fact that the distance
to ibe farthest star would not faze
i !iese tiny speeders.
And speaking of speed the bee, the
housefly and the mosquito can step
on the gas to the tune of eighty miles
an hour when their lives are endan
gered, though their ordinary gait "Is
between thirty and forty.
For every life that is taken away
one is given to the world. The last
century the ratio has increased, the
births greatly exceeding the deaths,
but when a certain stage of population
is reached either war or pestilence or
famine will wipe out the surplus and
restore the balance. If man had been
born slothful and contented the popu
lation of the world would have over
run its borders. Man was made in
tolerant and quarrelsome to overcome
this oalunce. Unlike the lower ani
mals and plants his brain quickly for
mulates plans of defense, and it be
comes necessary for his removal by
other means. This is why wars will
never cease; why ambition will never
die. Why man is the king of animate
objects.
While other towns are covered with
i a blanket of snow, Seward streets are
bare, autos being used the entire win
ter. When the clinuite is bad at Sew
; aid it is generally a little worse at
other places, so we have nothing to
complain of on that score. vVliile the
1 Stairs are blanketed with snow Sew
ard is enjoying bright, sunshiny wea
ther. and a high temperature. There
are lots worse places to live in than
Alaska, if you live in Seward.
j Every citizen of Alaska should re
: ceive a pension when he or she
reaches a certain age. There is no
question about the justice of such an
act; but we believe than these pen
! sions should be paid only to residents
of Alaska. When a man or woman
leaves Alaska to make their ohme in
the Slates they are no longer resi
dents, and the territory should not pay
them a pension. To do so would add
a tremendous burden in time to the
taxpayers remaining in the country. It
would be taxation without representa
tion. Give us the pension but require
that to get it we must be and remain
a resident.
KETSIL, Apr. 12.—A unique cere
mony occurred at the hospital at the
Washington Veterans’ home, March
27, when Mrs. Adeline Barton Kelly
was initiated into Kate B. Sherwood
Chapter No. 2. Dames of the Civil
War.
The interesting part of the affairs is
that Mrs. Kelly is 102 years of age.
j She retains her mental faculties and
| walks about the hospital more or less
every day.
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Physician ard Surgeon
Chronic Diseases a Specialty
Phone Madison 90, Seward, Alaska.
AARON E. RUCKER
Attorney at Law
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SEWARD, ALASKA
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Office of City Clerk
Bank cf Seward Bldg. Seward. Alaska.
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ORDER EASTERN
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days at 8 p. m. Visiting
Members Welcome.
CLARA PERRY, W. M.
ESTHER DOUGHERTY, Sec.
Seward Rebekah
Lodge No. 6-A,
I. O. O. F.
Meets 1st and Src
Monday’s of Each
Month, 8 p. m. Visit,
ins members welcome
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VIDA RICH, Sec.
Seward Lodge No. 219.
F. A A. M.
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visiting Brethern wel
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Chas. E. Smith, Sec.
Seward Lodgo
No. 1425.
L. O. O. M.
Will meet every
Tuesday night at
8 o’clock. Visiting
Brothers welcome
CHAS KREFTING, Dictator.
M. A. HORNER, Secretary
I. o. o. F.
Resurrection Lodge
No. A.7.
Meets Thursdays at 8 p. m. Visiting
Brothers welcome GERHARD JOHN
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IGLOO NO. NINE.
PIONEERS OF ALASKA
Meets every 2nd and 4th Friday at
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Meets Second and Fourth Tuesdays
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