The Ketchikan miner., 1907-11-16

One year, in nce.'...........sS.n n
 NOVEMBER g, 1907
 That clerical person in Philadelphia who wants to burn heretics again should look out. According to one rsy of looking at i., he is s heretic, and his views would no doubt undergo revision if lynching committee from an opposition church were to call on him some dark night.
 That so few of our army officers get moral crooks into their systems, speaks world of good for the train ing they get, and the loyalty they all have for the country that gave IL to them. West Point has turned out mighty few soldiers who were not all that the term implies.
 The Juneau Record says that four teen-hfteenths of Alaska, embraces $500, 900 square miles with only little more than two thirds of it's whole pop ulasion. Now, who would think Alas ka larger than the whole of the United States, proper.
 I. is the reverse of depressing to be told that the opinion prevails amongst the jobbers of Chicago that the present disturbance of financial conditions may bring in it's wake general and substantial reduction in the cost of living all over the conti- nens.
 When several months ago prize Of s5 and a cradle was offered for the frs. child born at Prince Rupert the chances are that only white children were reckoned on. However. it fell 10 s Japanese baby, and gal" baby a. that, to knock the persimmon. - Whitehorse Star.
 I. is well that halt has been called in the soaring flight of prices. Had they continued much longer Uncle Samuel might have been compelled to raise the price of postage stamps to enable his postmasters to make money enough to live.
 They not only have headache pow ders, and stonach-ache powders. but temper powders. Judging from the spleen of the papers up there it is safe to say that the last named specific Is not ''sold by all druggists" in Juneau.
 Why, certainly Why not make Mr. Bryan president of a theological semi- nary? The poor man will never be satisfied till somebody makes him president of something, and that is about as non-political job as any to which he can be appointed.
 Rather queer that while the price of everything else is going up, the price of stocks is coming down. Makes it look as if the people did not re- gard stocks as necessaries of life. The Wall Street man finds them necessary for his.
 The average Thanksgiving dinner this year will cost sl. ? more than II did last year. Ah. but consider the national prosperity, and how much the sl. 5 will add to it. Then you won't mind, provided you have the price.
 An Eastern paper suggests that there was a time when gold mines were not regarded as wise invest men.s, but it now looks as if most of the gold bricks were being taken out of copper minees by the class of pro- moters who find most of their victims through the medium of the stock e1- changes, principally that of New York.
 The John D. Rockefeller who was fined BIO in Providence for undue gay ety. isn't. That is. he may De, yet he is not the one he thinks everyone else thinks he is. And the other one would have paid the BIO fine with in terest rather than have the fact print ed. though why need he care since his conscience tells him he is not the one who is possibly supposed to be him: Brooklyn Eagle.
 There's doctor in Chicago who wants to penalize delay in operating for appendicitis. Yes, but how about the poor fellow who isn't sure that he has it? Must he be cut up before it is decided that he shouldn't have been? Better penalize too much haste in the matter of cutting fellow wide open as a means of enabling the average doctor to find out what is the matter with him.
 They got up an indignation meeting in down east city few days ago be-