£ <war& $atlij ^ateraotj
•OF SEWARD, ALASKA — Established August 19, 1904
Published daily except Sunday by
THE GATEWAY PUBLISHING COMPANY
Entered in the postoffice at Seward, Alaska
as second-class mail matter.
H. V. HOBEN—WM. A WOLFGRAM—E. F. JESSEN
Proprietors
E. F. Jessen, Editor and Manager
Wm. A. Wolfgram, Associate
SUBSCRIPTION RATES
Daily, by carrier, per month ......$ 1.25
Daily, by mail, per month ...... 1.00
Daily, by mail, per year .... 10.00
Weekly Gateway, per year .... . 3.00
ADVERTISING RATES
Per single column, one to six issues, per inch . $ .50 '
Per single column inch, per month .. 3.50
Legal Notices, per line per issue .... .15
Classified Advertisements, per line .10
Notice of Final Proof Notices____ 12.00
Notice to Creditors Notices __ 15.00 I
MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use
!or republication of all news dispatches credited to it or
lot otherwise in this paper and also the local news pub- i
ished herein.
__|
All rights for republication of special dispatches here
n are reserved.
GREATEST OF OUTDOOR SPORTS
Now that May is well in hand, towns and
communities thruout Alaska are turning
their thoughts to things of spring. Seward,
favored with an unusual early season, has
been busy with gardens, these weeks past,
but now the great sport of the year is be- j
coming general. All over Seward gardensI
and yards are being turned over fcr practi
cal and beautifying purposes- The home
is aglow with seductive seed envelopes.
Orange and scarlet and green and blue they
gleam upon the living root amble like unto
all the jewels of Aladdin.
Cabbages of a size to make a Roman holi
day bedeck the pages. Asparagus with
stalks which might lead to the lair of Jack
the Giant Killer. Tomatoes fit to feed a
kingdom of Gargantua. i
The evening stillness is broken by the1
angry strike of pick and hoe upon it and
rocky soil.
The evening meal resounds with the heat
ed debate of whether those plain but good
wenches of the garden kingdom, radishes,’
beets, peas and cabbage, shall give wTay to
such bedizined beauties as Brussels sprouts,
chard and romaine.
What if the yield from a sowing of blis
tered hands and breaking backs be but a
handful of speckled tomatoes and a wither
ed radish? Without their family gardens
the nations perish. Cincinnatus was called
from his plow and oxen team to lead the
army against the Sabines. Victorious, the
Mussolini of his day, was offered rich re
wards. He only asked to return to his farm ;
and Jus nelds.
“In the happy simplicity of the Homeric
ages” the great heroes sought rest and
peace in their garden plots or over a mess
of pulse or herbage.
Legend tells us of the cooking skill of
such heroes as the mighty Ulysses, who
kindled the fire and laid the cloth, Achilles
turning the spit, Patroclus drawing the
wine.
But ancient poetry and essay are one con
tinuous chronicle of the hero, the gardener.
Cicero waxed eulogistic, even in the midst
of his caustic larnbasts, upon the succulent
beet green and tender lettuce grown in his
garden plot. j
The Egyptians raised altars to cabbages,
adoring the huge obese heads as so many
gods. And the Egyptian bowed lowest to
the cabbage tilled in his own soil.
The mighty Alexander found the onion in
Egypt and sped the war so that he could get
home to grow tender onions and consume
them each morning with honey dripping
from the comb.
The pages of Ovid, Livy and Horace tell
again and again of the delights of garden
ing, and what profit it a man if he rule the
whole world or write a mighty saga and
connot hoe his own ? .
HE TOOK A NEW PARTNER
Thirty-two years ago Noah H Slee start
ed making “3-in-One” oil in a back shed at
Asbury Park, N. J. He had a partner with
him at the time, but within a few months
the partner decided to withdraw and Mr.
Slee promptly began spending on advertis
ing the amount the former member of the
firm had been drawing in salary.
‘Thus,” states Walter L Willis, the pre
sent vice president of the company, in n&r-1
rating the story of the company's success,
“in a sense, Advertising was engaged as
Mr. Slee’s partner.”
In short, advertising expenditures be
came a fixed expense of the business. It
wasn’t a frill stuck on because the firm was
making huge profits and wanted to “spread
themselves.”
Advertising was hired to do -work that a
partner had formerly done.
It didn’t come out of profits. All that
time there weren’t any profits.
The profits came out of the advertising.
Today “3-inOne” oil is sold by more than
400,000 retailers in the United States, Can
ada and other parts of the world.
And the “partner” hired in 1894 to super
sede the one who had cold feet is still work
ing, and is still bringing home profits.
NO TOWN NEWSPAPERS
Think of a city of 50,000 people with no
newspaper! Frank P. Glass, veteran Amer
ican newspaper man, who has recently com
pleted a tour of the world, found such a
city, not in an uncivilized country, but in
F ranee.
Excepting in the largest cities, according
to Mr. Glass, newspapers in France are few !
and far between, and there are practically
no small town paper,s such as we have in j
America.
In some of the towns, men go about the
streets calling out the news gleaned from
city newspapers, often several days old. Yet
the newspapers of Paris have enormous
circulations, that of LePetit Journal reach
ing over a million, the largest in the world.
But for the great mass of the people of
France there is no such thing as the publi- '
cation of local news. Only the most prom
inent people and the most notorious crimi
nals ever get their names into the newspa- j
pers.
Quite a contrast with this country, where
the news of every rural community is wel
coined by home town editors and gladly
published for the benefit of their readers. ■
KINDNESS THAT WINS MEN
There is a quality of gentlemanly kind
ness that inspires leaders and wins men.
That may be one reason why the soldiers of j
the confederacy were ready to follow Gen. j
Robert E. Lee to the cannon’s mouth. The I
little incident, related by an ex-soldier to
one of Lee’s biographers, Maj. Gen. Sir
Fredericy Maurice of the British army, is
an example.
In May, 1864, the private and a friend ]
wTere foraging, and entered a little farm
house near Fredericksburg. A kind old
lady invited them to eat, saying she was
just about to feed some other of the sol
diers- The two privates washed up in prey
paration for the meal.
Upon entering the dining room, they
were amazed and confused to find, sitting
at the table, Gen Lee and Gen. Wade Hamp
ton. Here was a situation for you, the com
manding officer of an army, and one of his
cavalry chiefs, paired for dinner with two
plain privates of the rear-most rank!
The privates backed away, stammering
excuses, making for the door. But they did
not reach it. They were stopped by" Lee
himself.
“Men, you need this food more than we
do,” he said. “Sit down and help your
selves. Come, general, we will be moving
on.”
Is it any wonder that Lee’s men were
ready to die for him?
“PETTING” ON BUNKER HILL”
Bunker Hill is the placf*where they fired
the shot heard ’round the world. The first
battle for American independence was
fought there. Now the city of Boston is
going to light up the hill. But why? Be
cause the only inspiration the young people
of Boston find in Bunker Hill is a crood place
to “pet”.
Kentucky has just adopted the goiden ;
rod as the state flower. This can’t be ex
pected to make a big hit with hay fever suf- :
ferers.
Dbrrtu (Lhratrr
OXK SHOW TONIGHT—S OTT.OCK SHART
P
TO ALL MARRIED FOLK
we dedicate this drama of marriage as told by
a woman who -earned about marriage through
the greatest experiences and adventures that
ever befell a beauty,
‘If I Marry Again'
featuring
DORIS KENTON
and a f.ve-star cast •
Anna Q. \Hssoo, Robert Boswerth, Myrtle
Stedman, Lloyd Hi;dies. Frank Mar ,
Z3 Ql
] f »t ■" —i rxl f
SEW ARD NEWS COMPANY
GEOfffiE
I
BOOKSELLERS
S~*T10V£«S
NE*S 0€AlE*«
CLASSIFIED ADVERTISING
eOR SALE—Two cat ns *©• -ent_ See
Dougherty, tf
! LOST—-Gold wrist watch. Finder
please return to Gateway. i~
FOR SALE—Bundles of old papers*,
25c per bundle; Gateway office.
WANTED TO BET—Clean cotton
raps; will pay 5c per pound. Gate
way office.
FOR SALE—Our borne on 2nd Ave
$25Wi. Part terms E A Crawford
7-t
For Garden and Flower Seeds See
Brown 4 Hawkins Corporation tt
GBddec’s paint e vsmisbiis and
Lacq J. L Gmed,
POE SALE—Piping and fitting* tor
power plant construction. Write
Consolidated Fisheries Inc.. Port
lock, Alaska
FOR SALE—Lumber anc feoildS&f;
material of mT ktacK M Bre*
Stas. Sward, Alaska.
POrXT4—Keys, owner car lime
same by applying at the Gase-way
and paying for this ad tf
Special on Books in Xw? window,
1.00—Schallerers' Alaska Shop. ft
Import Duka Ante Paints at J.
L. Greers.
PIONEER CLUB
John Nash prop?.
SOFT DRINKS. CANDY
CIGARS AND FRUITS
MAIL BOAT
PRINCESS PAT
Capt. Tot* Pp-nr
cfivn So dev s e- Ft4- and 20t»*
of eat* iwntk fw Cook Inlet
f»*t* anc Aocbe-ago. Once a
moot*, about fbe IStK, *eave*
SeWevia fer f at***.
KPooe-n oassenpe* acccnmoda
t*ows; a st-*>n§ and fast boat.
Pt>r fs’tf'er iBfcmat'Cfi wWtt
Cape f*e—> at Seideva or Ancb
a raja.
I
HOTE MUSE
F. L Reed. Proprietor
SHct!y bedtn
S-ieae *eaooneb»a
Stoaf Heat—Good Se-vice
So* meet* aL rraio* aad boat a
**CHO**G£- ALASKA
STOTRO'S
tN* Atfmlmi d<v*c'
Candies — Soft Drinks
Cigars — Tobaccos
S^OTKO, Pn*.
P+>or* K6amt tl
i
THE FLOWERS GROCERY
GOOD GROCERIES AT
MODERATE TRICES
WE SOLICIT YOCR PATRON AGE
Order? promptly attend to
Phone Main £5 Semari Alaska