SEWARD DAILY GATEWAY
OF SEWARD, ALASKA
Established, August 19, 1904
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WHO IS RICH?
In a recent issue of the Nashville
Banner a Tennessee clergyman tells
a simple little story of two rich men,
which illustrated the fact that wealth
is not measured by worldly posses
sions alone.
In front of a little store at Thomp
sons’ Station the richest man in
Williamson county chatted with a
group of friends, when they were ap
proached by a neighbor fanner,
bearing three small packages in his
hands, who said in suhsttance:
“Well, I have sold ten bushels of
wheat and I am taking a few things
home to Mollie and the children.”
Holding the packages up one by one
he continued: “Here is a calico dress
for Mollie, some apples for Lizzie
and a dime’s worth of candy for lit
Tommy. They will all be wait
ing for me dowm by the lot gate.
Mollie is not expeoting this dress and
the children will be tickled to get the
apples and candy.”
As he drove aw-ay, the rich man in
the group turned to his • companions
and said:
“Boys, I would give every dollar
I possess if I could feel the happi
ness that man feels at this moment.
When he gets home he -will find
more affection and rejoicing than I
have experienced in ten years.”
In thousands of humble homes
•throughout thel and such scenes as
that which marked the Tennessee far
mers’ return are being enacted daily.
These are the home of those who
are truly rich.
PLOT AGAINST KING
News of a plot by Communists to
assassinate King George V. was made
public recently and extraordinary
steps have been taken to protect the
person of the sovereign. It appears
that deliberate plans had been made
(to execute the murderous design of
the Reds, but that these have been
frustrated for the time being by
the British secret service.
It is also stated that more vigor
ous action will be taken by England
to curb the activities of the Com
munists and that measures similar to
those adopted by the United States
will be employed to exclude revolu
tionary agitators.
There is no doubt that the Reds
have a definite plan for the over
throw of existing governments, which
is being promoted through a syste
matic campaign. Revolt in Africa,
Syra, India, China and other coun
tries appears to have been greatly
encouraged if not actually instigat
ed by the revolutionary organiza
tion.
It is well that the United States
has already made provision for the
excludes a: d de non of tlie:e
undesirable an 1 recent developments
indicate the necessity for exercising
increased vigilance.
“UNTO THE LEAST OF THESE”
An extremely happy yet touching
■incident of the recent session of the
Shriners’ imprial council at San
Francisco was the appearance of a
number of former crippled children,
cured by treatment in the Shriners’.
hospitals.
Moving pictures were shown of
children pitifully twisted or deform
ed by disease. At the end of each
picture the stage lights were turned
on and the same children in person
would come on the sitage, cured of
their deformities, and bow to the
Shriners present.
One little girl, who had never
walked until a few months before,
gave a gymnastic exhibition, ending
with turning a handspring. A little
boy, who had never stood, nor even
sat erect before treatment, walked
from the wings on his hands with
his legs kicking in the air, then walk
ed on his feet as straight as anyone
and made a short speech of thanks
to the Shriners.
Up to the present time more than
5,000 have received treatment in
these hospitals for crippled children,
which are supported by an annual
assessment from each Shriner in
the United States. Patients are
drawn from all classes, regardless of
fraternal, church or other affilia
tions. Trustees of the hospitals
serve without compensation, except
ing traveling expenses. Sam P.
'Cochran of Dallas, Tex., is chair
man and W. Freeland, Kendrick,
mayor of Philadelphia, is vice-chair
man of the board.
This is indeed a noble and ap
pealing charity. It reflects high
honor upon the order, through whose
generosity hundreds of distorted and
pain-racked little bodies arerestored
to health and usefulness every year.
AFRICA STILL DARK
Africa has long been figuratively
designated as the “dark continent.”
In view of its backwardness in
adopting modern lighting methods
the term now has a literal signifi
cance.
With 20 per cent of the world’s
area and 8 per cent of the world’s
population, Africa uses less than 1
•per cent of the world’s electric
lights. This is in striking contrast
with the United States, which has
only 5 per cent of the world’s area
and 6 per cent of its population, yet
uses 48 pr cent of all the electric
lights in existence.
North America and Europe com
bined have 88 per cent of the world’s
lights, leaving only 12 per .cent to be
distributed among the continents of
South America, Asia, Africa and Oce
ania.
These figures are based upon a
compilation recently made of the
number of electric light bulbs used
annu'ally by the several continents
The leading nations in the employ
ment of electric lighting are listed in
the following order: United States,
Germany, Japan, France, Great Bri
tain, Italy, Russia, Canada and
Spain. Even little Switzerland uses
more electric light bulbs than the
entire continent of Africa.
Captain A. R. Streatfield, a Brit
ish investigator, declares that Com
munist agitators in the United
States and England receive regular
salaries from Russia.
Playing with a loaded revolver, 6
year-old Edith Mason of St. Paul
shot her aunt in the neck.
Pierre Lespasseur, a wealthy vine
yard owner of Avignon, France, and
three employees fell into a vat of
wine and were drowned.
A sparrow killed at Montclair, N.
J., was found to have three legs.
In an election fight at Juarez,
Mexico, two men were injured, sev
eral seriously.
For the fourth time in three years
the altar of a Chicago church has
been robbed of its silver and other
.furnishings.
Robert Riddell and Miss Pearl Wil
kinson traveled from New Zealand to
Kansas to be married by Rev. Ru
dolph Mallech, a former missionary to
their far away home.
George Deloma, 2-year-old child of
Worcester, Mass., got a spool lodged
in his throat but was able to breathe
through the hole until doctors remov
ed the spool.
Judge John M. Patterson of Phila
delphia, died five hours after the
polls closed in an election in which
he was elected district attorney.
Robert Shroyer, 28, of Frederick
county, Mr., was given ten lashes at
the whipping post for beating his wife.
Jesse Lee Home Team
Challenges the Scoots
Not to be outdone by town athletes
the boya of the Jesse Lee Home have
issued a challenge to the Seward boy
scouts for a game of basketball to be
played as soon as possible. The chal
lege has been accepted by Ptarmigan
Troop No. 1 and a team was selected
from the members of the organization
at last evening’s meeting. Practice
will start immediately. The Jesse
Lee boys have a splendid gymnasium
and capable instructors. The Ptar
migan troop are up against a touch
tussle.
AT THE HOTELS
Van Gilder—Mrs. Jessie Murphy,
Sigurd Wallsteat, Juneau, Mrs. H.
F. Hemen, Fbks., Mrs. Violet L. El
liott, H. H. Bezowsky, George E. An
derson, Mrs. F. J. Spach, Harry Sel
ler, Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Mailer, L. A.
Powless, H. I. Staser, Anchorage; C.
F. Hoffman, Matanuska; Chas. M.
Jones, Juneau.
Overland—Sherman C. Fraser, Leon
B. Wood, George Edwards, Cecil K.
Kirk, Hubert Little, Walter Peder
son, Nickalai Sorkorkoff, K. Sorkor
koff, John Alex, Mrs. Colstad, Wm.
Dryden, Lenora Dryden, Harry Smith,
Sandy Wilson, J. W. Tinkler, Pat
Irish, John McLeod, J. W. Downing,
Fred E. Bowman, Mr. McMillan, of
Days Harbor.
Seward—Leonard Gran, Was ilia;
Andrew Edgar, W. Murphy, Irish
Collins, Wm. Engelbam, Clara Taul
man, Anchorage; Emil Ness, Mrs.
John H. Petersen, McGrath; Minnie
Hewitt, Ketchikan, E. Overend.
Because Albert Tucker had drown
ed himself in the vat, beer worth
$C.000 was destroyed at Uxbridge,
Eng.
Mayor Joseph Milner of Biloxi,
Miss., fined himself $5 for driving
over a fire hose which he failed to
see in time to stop his car.
Finding a bomb with fuse sputter
ing in the hallway, Miss Rose Taib
ble of Brooklyn carried it to a sink
and put it out with water.
Magistrate Jelfe, of Hamilton, Can
ada, released Margaret Towers, ar
rested for disobeying a policeman’s
order to roll up her stockings. The
judge decided that she could wear
her clothing in any manner she saw
fit so long as it was decent.
Isaac Adams, a carpenter of Elk
River, Ida., knocked out a bank ban
dit with his hammer, when the cash
ier called for help.
Wm. Dryden, and daughter of Sew
ard, Miss Lenora, arrived back on
the Yukon from a short stay in Val
dez.
Sigurd Wallsteat, of Juneau, organ
izer for the Moose lodge in Alaska
arrived in Seward on the Yukon in
the interests of his lodge.
Irish Collin, Anchorage hotel man
arrived in Seward on the Yukon on
his way to the Inlet town.
Helene Petellier, 18-year-old girl
of Bordeaux, killed a burglar in her
room with a revolver which she had
under her pillow.
Mrs. Fred Crane, wife of the for
mer district attorney at Fairbanks, is
a returning passenger on the Victoria
sailing from Seattle today.
Mrs. Clara Taulman, former ho
tel proprietor of Anchorage return
ed from Valdez on the Yukon on
her way to the Inlet town.
Tony Lazerre of the Salt Lake City
team of the Pacific Coast League,
made sixty home runs during the sea
son.
Pulling up a trot line attached to
the houseboat of Fritz Miller on the
Tennessee river near Chattanooga,
prohibition agents found five gallon
jugs of liquor.
Senora Anna Gallardo, of Marabella,
Spain, is reported to have given birth
to six babies, three boys and three
girls in one day.
Shoes for Skates, Urbach’s.
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The Liberty
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THE FAMOUS STAGE SUCCESS
made into a wonderful movie by
FRANCIS MARION
and directed by George Fitzmaurice.
THE GREAT AMERICAN DRAMA
Who’s reputation is free of tarnish?
What is real Tarnish in a Woman?
How far should it guide a man in his choice?
The plan is superbly acted by
MAY M’AVOY NORMAN KERRY
MARIE PREVOST RON. COLMAN
And a fine 1-reel comedy:
“FOLD UP”
SUNDAY ONLY: Claire Windsor in a fine dra
ma, entitled:
THE DENIAL
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While on his "way to be married,
J. L. Laffan of Tarrytown, N. Y., was
held up and chloroformed by a rival,
but recovered and was married next
day.
George Fritz of Newark, N. J..
charged with driving a taxi while in
toxicated, told the judge that he had
been made dizzy by eating Limburger
cheese.
Mrs. Joseph Learning o’ Derby,
Eng., presented her husband with
trip’ets, their first children, 20
years after their marriage.
A Chinese woman of Hong Kong
was arrested when she tried to sell
a kidnaped child to its parents.
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By a strange coincidence three
vomen met in an elevator at Port
and, Me, wearing dresses just alike,
ilthough one was from California,
mother from Boston and th* third
rom Kansas City.
Referring to thecapture of Ajidir
)y the Spanish, General Rivera said
n substance' that the Spanish Army
n Morocco has wiped out the dis
grace of its defeat by the Americans
n Cuba.
All ready to sail for England to be
narried, Miss Alice Matlack of Phila
lelphia called to bid J. M. Henkels
mod-bye. He proposed and she mar
ked him an hour later, sending re
grets to the Englishman.
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THE GOLDEN BELT
To the end that the countless places of scenic and other inter
ests in the Territory may be thoroughly enjoyed and understood, and
to enable them to acquire first hand and accurate information con
cerning all Alaskan activities and development; travelers to the
Northland are urged to visit
ALASKA’S “GOLDEN HEART”
Interior Alaska and places en route—including Kenai Lake, the
“Loop District,” Spencer and Bartlett Glaciers, Turnagain Arm,’ An
chorage, the Matanuska Valley, Curry, Nenana River Canyon, Mt. Me
kinley National Park, Nenana, the Tanana Valley and Fairbanks, hold
much of interest to everyone, whether on business or pleasure bent*
and a tour through these regions creates a true conception of the
good things that Alaska has to offer.
For train and automobile schedules, passenger rates and other in
formation, confer with any steamship agent, or
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
The Alaska Railroad
(McKinley Park Route)
Seward Anchorage Curry Nenana Fairbanks
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