SEWARD DAILY GATEWAY
OF SEWARD, ALASKA
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THE WASTED WOODS
The forest was blazing with fury
amazing, the smoke wreaths wTere
drifting like clouds overhead; the
ashes were flying and heroes were try
ing to conquer the fire fiend, the mon
ster in red. Great trees that were
standing when Noah was landing his
arkload of flivvers on Ararat gray,
were felling with crashes 'mid cinders
and ashes — long centuries growing,
and slain in a day. And farms that
were smiling and landscapes beguiling
were ruined and wrecked in the space
of a breath; and homes that were low
ly and kirks that w’ere holy were lost
in the ashes and grayness of death.
*‘0h, how wras it started?” I asked,
heavy-hearted, of William the w’arden,
who watches the woods; “some camp
ers were reckless, boneheaded and
feckless, they scattered their stogies
and similar goods. They slung around
matches in dangerous batches, they
broke up their camps without quench
ing the fires; the wardens and rang
ers admonish such strangers, who
laugh while the forest burns up and
expires. The trees that wrere waving
when Aesop was slaving, the trees
that were ancient when Caesar was
young, must fall in disaster since cam
pers won’t master the lessons we war
ders have ceaselessly sprung. The
trees that were splendid! Their glory
is ended, they’ll wrhisper no more in
the rush of the breeze; still campers
will chatter and shout w hile they scat
ter their smoldering snipes in the
woodlands and leas. —Walt Mason.
WHO LIKES WOODCHUCK
From Cordova Times)
Pennsylvania is talking about mak
ing the woodchuck or groundhog le
gally a game animal, entitled to the
protection of the majestic statute. It
is even suggested by Keystone state
admirers of the groundhog that the
animal Is mighty fine eating when pro
perly roasted.
What is the Alaska view of the
woodchuck as a table delicacy, and
how should the overgrown pasture
rat be made attractive?
The Pennsylvania way is to “pop” a
nice, fat woodchuck, or groundhog, in
to a red hot oven to be quickly brown
ed and then roasted with a lowered
heat. Plenty of sage and onion dress
ing are supposed to be used, probably
to prevent the groundhog from tasting
of woodchuck.
It is intimated that with a red ap
ple placed in the mouth the roasted
woodchuck may be mistaken for a
suckling pig, served old-style.
It is reasonable to suppose that the
groundhog ought to be toothsome. He
feeds on clover, on lettuce and on cel
ery when he can get some. It is re
ported that woodchuck fed on celery
proved to be a Lucullan treat, wheth
er baked or roasted. We are also told
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Seward, Alaska
that the fox and the skunk enjoy a
feast of woodchuck meat.
So the plump and pugnacious deni
zen of our hillside pastures may be
edible. We dunno. The proof of the
woodchuck is in the eating. #
“A BOY OF FLANDERS” PROVES
TO BE A CLASSIC
Everyone who saw the show last
night at the Liberty Theater is en
thusiastic in praise of this latest
Jackie Coogan picture. And well they
should be, for it is a perfect story
perfectly acted in perfect settings.
Jackie does some wonderful immo
tional acting in three parts of the
play, acting that an older star would
be proud of, and the bits of comedy
are perfectly brought in. Plays of
this type should bring everybody out
because they are rare. You want to
cry and laugh in the same breath.
We don’t begrudge the millions Jac
kie has earned, for he sure is some
boy—the greatest actor of his age that
ever lived. If you want to see some
thing good take in this show tonight.
Every so often some freak starts a
chain letter, wherein each person re
ceiving a copy is requested to make
other copies and send them to a cer
tain number of friends. This letter
usually contains some form of prayer
and the receipient is warned not to
break the chain under penalty of dire
misfortune. Many persons are su
perstitious enough to take these let
ters seriously, thus demonstrating that
belief in hocus pocus is still potent.
Under the title “I Seek the Truth”
the former German crown prince will
issue a book intended to refute Ger
many’s war guilt. It will probably
be as convincing as the famous pro
duction of his distinguished eighteenth
century countryman, Baron Munch
hausen.
Two women candidates were nomi
nated in Constantinople, for the Turk
ish National Assembly, but as women
have not yet the right to vote and pre
sumably not the right to sit in the as
sembly, their candidacy is looked up
on as suffrage propaganda. Those of
our readers •who can remember that
far back may recall a similar instance
when Mrs. Belya Ann Lockwood ran
for the presidency.
Bagdad Comments Keenly
On 1925 Model Antos
BAGDAD, May 9.—Tourists are
showing an increasing fondness for
traveling over the desert in automo
biles, and the recent death of a
French woman at the hands of des
ert marauders does not deter them.
The traffic is growing, and the va
rious cross-desert services have re
corded a total of 1,0Q0,000 miles of
transit.
Something of a mild motor boom is
beginning in Bagdad, to which the
arrival of cars of recent model from
Syria has added measurably. New
hotels are going up, one English and
one French, and better tourist bus
iness confidently is expected. Nev
ertheless, general business is far
from satisfactory. Poverty among
the working classes is acute in both
town and country, though the ad
vent of warmer weather has done
something to ameliorate conditions.
Since the opening of the desert
line between Syria and Mesopotam
ia two routes have been followed by
automobiles traveling between these
two countries. In leaving Damascus
one follows a straight line through
the desert to Bagdad, w’hile the sec
ond route points slightly to the
north to pass through Pannyra, the
well known historic site, which at
tracts thousands of tourists, and then
comes direct to Bagdad.
WOHLMOSS & CO. of CHICAGO
have advised me to offer extra pair
pants with all suit orders absolute
ly free of charge. Remember this
holds good for one month only,
tf. JORDON’S VALET SERVICE.
MANURE FOR SALE
Good Manure for Fertilizer. Call
Seward Dairy. Fine for that
Garden Your Are Going to
Put In Soon.
Shotgun Fails to Splinter
New Glass for Spectacles
, . » (By Associated Press)
LONDON, May 5.—Unsplinterable
glass for spectacles has at las^ been
perfected, according to scientists?. who
witnessed a demonstration in London
recently when hammers and even a
shot gun were used to prove the con
tention of the manufacturers. This
glass, it is claimed, may be ground
to any lens curvature required for
eyeglasses and spectacles, and is in
tended particularly for the use of
sportsmen and football players who
othewise might have their sight in
jured by splinters or broken glass in
a crash thru accident.
Though unsplinterable sheet glass
has been in existence several years,
being used for motor wind ‘screens,
aviators’ goggles and the like, sci
entists declared they had not been
able to produce a hard, clear, safety
glass that would take the curves
prescribed by opticians for specta
cle lenses.
Famous Copper Mine Paid
Many Millions in Dividends
(By Associated Press)
CALUMET, Mich., May 5.—When
the Wolverine mine suspended oper
ations recently after 35 years of al
most constant activity, there passed
into history one of the most success
ful openings ever drilled in the Mich
igan copper region. Exhaustion of
mineral resources in four shafts, all
of which had reached a depth of
nearly 4,000 feet, caused abandon
ment of the mine. The Wolverine
was discovered originally in 1882,
but it was not until 1890 that the
property was placed on a paying ba
sis. During its banner years the
mine recovered aa high as 26.82
pounds iTom each ton of rock.
An original investment of $300,000
in the property brought total divi
dends of $10,350,000 before the re
serves began to show signs of dim
inishing* Production at one time
reached a maximum of 10,000,000
pounds of refined copper a year.
Air Route Properous
in Far-away Australia
PERTH, West Australia, May 6.—
Between Perth and Derby, two cit
ies 1,500 miles apart, what is assert
ed to be the longest regular passen
ger air service in the world is op
erated by the Western Australia Air
ways Limited.
There are six intermediate calling
points*, and a weekly schedule is
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Prices for complete outfits, including
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25 h. p.2200.00
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60 h p. 4300.00
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UNGA, ALASKA
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LIBERTY THEATRE
ONE SHOW AT 8:00 SHARP
Jackie
Coogan
-IN
BOY OF FLANDERS
Just the Picture everyone is looking for. An im
mortal story.
Jack e has never been so lovable as in this new play.
SOMETHING YOU MUST NOT MISS
From Ouida’s great story. A treat in every sense of
the word.
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maintained. The service, which is
well patronized, has the outstand
ing advantage of having neither rail
roads nor fast mail steamers with
which to compete, and has flourished
almost from the time of its inaugura
tion. Western Australia is one of
the most thinly populated white coun
tries in the world.
Miss Chu, 18-year-old daughter of
a Chinese army officer, is a skilled air
plane pilot and saved, her father's life
during a recent uprisinb by flying to
his rescue.
Miss Ruth McRae, telegraph opera
tor at Curtis, Okla., was recently mar
ried to T* W. Harmon, holding a simi
lar position at Canadian* Tex., after
two years of courship over the wires.
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