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The Ketchikan miner., 1908-11-07

ing exhaustion, and it will be up to the congress to say what, if any other causes have contributed to bringing about such a result. It will be up to that body, too, to enquire il some of the other natural resources of the country are not threatened with ser ious diminution, if not practical ex- haustion. It will be found, on inquiry, IS far as the timber supply is concern
 i. US threatened exhaustion has not
 en due solely to the destructive
 res but that the blame rests largely with the government itself in having
 .vited the more rapid destruction of
 IT forests, through the operation of
 protective tariff, which enabled the
 ..nber barons to amass millions at
 he expense of the users of their pro- .uct. For long series of years this bounty was paid to men who had se- cured from the government, by hook or crook, the best timber lands in the country, and for the lumber out from hich they were enabled to charge a price equivalent to two dollars per thousand feet to the consumer, equiv alent to bounty of like amount for clearing the land.
 As has been suggested, with proper protection to the forest reserve and reforestration provided for aId made rigidly operative in the states and territories, such losses as may be caused by forest fires might, in time, be made good by reproduction. Not so, however, with some of the other natural resources of the country, which the conservation commission has under consideration. A ton of coal, for instance, heinz mined and consumed, while exhausting the nat ural source of supply, is gone and can not be replaced. So also with the iron deposits ot the country, upon which great inroads are being made under the inducements, in both in- tances, of the protective tariff policy maintained, ostensibly. under the tiimsy excuse of protection to Ameri- can lapor, whereas the fact is suscep- tible of demonstration that the labor cost of almost any article of iron man. ufacture is less here than abroad.
 It is pleasing to know that, both l pledged to revision of the tariff, it is altogether likely that the question of how far and to what extent high protective tariff can be held respon- sible for the cause which threaten the exhaustion of the natural resources of the country will be accorded candid inquiry and consideration such as it has not had for 10 these many years
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docking to Debs' meetings, ready to contribute money for the privilege of hearing him vociferate on socialism and the benefits which he claims will come if its principles eventuate into laws. These recruits of Debs' aud ierces are furnishing probable con. verts to the cause he advocates, and mean desertions in the hundreds from the Democratic and Republican par. ties. We'll may the leaders of these two parties be apprehensive as to the inroads of the SOcialistic propaganda.
 In the industrial centers and where ever man does congregate for hibitat in large numbers there will be found fertile field for socialism. The teachings of it's intense radicalism appeal to the discontented and dis satisfied, and to the ignorant and un- fortunate, who hold that the existing form of government is responsible for their material and social shortcom- ings, it affords an easy and reassuring explanation. The depression in busi- ness during the past year will bring thousands to the study and support of socialism who would have summed it had the times been better. Whethe the Socialist party can continue a phe- nomenal progress with the people of the country all enjoying prosperity is another question. But giving due weight to the figures of 1900 and 1904 and the size of the vote polled in the election of 1906 by the Socialists, there is much OF which to base the prophecy of greater strength for Debs and his followers. No man can give careful thought to the possibilities of this increase, hear the muttered ap- prehensions of the political wiseacres in regard thereto, ard consider the claims of the Socialists themselves without being startled into the con- viction that from now on the Socialist par ty is to be reckoned with in future political contests.
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WHEN THE FROST IS ON THE
 WINDOWS

WHEN THE FROST IS ON THE
 WINDOWS. Now the summer time is over and the leaves have quit the trees, And melancholy hits you as you listen to the breeze, For the goose flesh then is present and you find it is no joke When the frost is on the windows and your overcoat in soak. And 'tis then your summers wages you respectfully recall,
 And the fun you had in blowing them is not com forting at all When you shiver blue and chilly, and you know you're dead, fiat broke, And the frost is on the windows and your overcoat's In soak. Where are now the days of swelter and the nights so full of heat? Where the under wear all gauzy and the Panama so neat? Where are now the socks of openwork -iu To uO JOhC.
 When the frost is on the windows and your overcoat's in soak. You remember now with sorrow how you squandered all your dough- When you have to dig up money for more coal each day or so, Then you heart is filled with sadness and your woe is hard to cloak, When the frost is on the windows and youerr ovcoat s in soak. Oh, there's nothing half so mournful as the wintry, winter time, When the ice gets on your whiskers and your hair is white with rime :; When your pockets are all empty and your breath pours out like smoke, And the frost is on the windows and your overcoat's in soak. Oh, 'tis then you wish you'd wander ed to some far off southern isle, Where the costume most in fashion is palm leaf and smile; Where they have no pesky pockets, so they never can go broke, Where DO frost is on the windows and DO overcoat's in soak.
 JAMES J. DOYLE.
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NEW RACEOF MOUND BUILDERS

NEW RACE OF MOUND BUILDERS
 Interesting discoveries relating to mound dwellers have just been made in Man itoba by Professor Henry Montgomery, of Toronto University, who has also been on the faculties of Johns Hopkins and the Northwestern universities. For some weeks he has been engaged in digging up relics and skeletons of people who lived in Manitoba fifteen hundred years ago. He has discovered copper and sea shell ornaments, which demonstrate that the mound dwellers of Manitoba had communication with those oi whom relics have been found all through the Mississippi valley, from the gulf northward. All traces of their boats have passed away, but Professor Montgomery believes that they made use of the river in journey ing north. They made excellent pot tery, samples of which Professor Montgomery has discovered. Their weapons, especially the bone spears that they used for fish, are ingenious, and he is of belief that many centur- ies ago Manitoba had larger popula. tion than it has at the present time. At Pilot Mound he discovered paint er's palette made of species of granite. It has shallow bowl clever ly shaped to fit the left hand and it is adorned on the back with a most striking facsimile of the human hand He found earthern works ?, TOO feet long which he believes were used as stadium on which to witness crema- t ion ceremonies, evidence of which he found in the rotunda of the earth works. He is unable to connect the people who left these relics with any other prehistoric race, as the articles found are entirely different from any thing ever dug up on other conti- nents.
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mission to meet in the capitol was re- fused through the opposition Of Speaker Cannon and Mir. Mann, of Illinois, and the congress was com pelled to hold it's sessions in an un- finished museum upon which work men were still hammering. More over, instead of the usual appropria- tion by the Government, acting as host, funds for the expense had to | obtained from few Eastern capit;. ists, whose interests-he declares. is shrewdly suspected-were cons quently consulted in the action takei upon certain matters likely to be del rimental to the business of thes financial packers. One of the sores points was the discourtesy of Presi- dent Roosevelt in withholding his presence from the convention; send ing Mir. Cortelyou in to make the opening speech, and then, apparentl. as an afterthought, at the closing ses- sion, coming in unexpectedly to say Il fe W hasty words and rushing uncer. moniously out again. In regard te the contention over the Koch theory, which was about the only matter given publicity, He firmly be-
 ieves that behind it lies question of international politics, involving the Agrarian party in Germany, and hay ing to do with the known infection o1 German cattle
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LEARNED THE LESSON

The Onion Pacific railroad increas- ed it's net revenues during August STA, 900, as compared -with the same
 month a year ago and it gross earn ings were within s33, 900 of those of year. ago and the gr>ss earnings a year ago were $500, OO0, more than in August. 1906. This is tH most sig nifcant and encouraging report the country has received for some months.
 It shows two thipgs-that the rail- roads are being conducted on a more economical scale and that the west is rapidly regaining the prosperity which was checked by the panic. It is in the west that we must look for the beginning ot boom period and the gross earnings of the Union Pacific are away above those of the boom year 1906.
 The business of the country, though not so great in volume as it was dur ing the boom period, is on a much sounder basis and it may be question ed whether there is not even more real prosperity. Much of the prosper ity of the boom period was only an appearance of prosperity. The situa- tion is quite accurately pictured by New York banker recently in London. In newspaper interview he says:
 ''It must be remem bered that a year ago almost everybody had been living beyond his means and great many on credit. The automobiles of the latter and even their clothes were not paid for. When the crisis came every body shut of buying unnecessary things and tried to get along with only what was necessary. The effect of this was tremendous. Take any one branch of business, for instance. If every man and woman in America buys one extra suit of clothes or a dress in a year, think of the meaning to that one branch of trade and what the loss of that extra order means. In the event of good crops business will be normal, but we shall not have the extraordinary conditions of two years ago. Our business will grow again. to where it was but it will be grad ual, sound growth and there will not be so much piling up of extravagance on the credit system, tearing down perfectly good buildings and rearing enormous skyscrapers in their places just because the necessary money can be borrowed"
 The increased net earnings of the Union Pacific seem to show that the business affairs Of that road are on a more healthy basis than they were in ths boom period. It may be, of course. that the net earnings are in- creased by the postponement of nec- essary repairs. If that is the case the increased income is dearly obtained. So far as can be judged from the re- ports, however, the economies are not of this expensi ve kind. The manage ment is squandering less money in a careless and reckless way. This is just what all business institutions are doing. They learned the lesson of tn e panic, and are not spending money freely just because it is coming in freely, as so any of them did during the boom,
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iOnS.

It will come some what in the na- ture of surprise to most people to be told that international politics has any bearing on the recent tuberculosis congress at Washington, yet that is what is alleged by the representatives of the London Lancet, correspondent of which expresses great indignation over the treatment accorded the Inter- national Tuberculosis Congress, re- gently held in Washington at the hands of the United States govern n,ent, and who declare that the fight against tuberculosis has been put back at least three years in conse- quence. He says that in Paris the Congress was entertained in the Pal nee of.Fine Arts, was opened by the French President in person, and every possible courtesy was extended by the Government. In Washington, per-
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CONSERVATION OF NATURAL
 DECnTYD(,IfC

RESOURCES.
 If to the recent great forest fires be ascribed the direct cause of the very apparent awakening of the general public to the necessity of heartily sup porting the policy of the conservation of natural resources, now happily be- ing inaugurated, the loss entailed thereby will not have been in vain. It must be understood that protection of the government timber supply is not all that is implied in the term, con- servation of natural resources; it applies equally as well to all the other natural resources of the country, coal iron, etc. It must now be admitted by all who have given the matter honest and candid cosideration that even SO far as policy of forest protection is concerned, it came none too soon not only, but was much too long delayed. Had it been otherwise, had that measure been inaugurated many years ago, accompanied by some scheme of reforestration, supplemented by rigid state enactments, it is hazarding. little to say that there might now be grow ing trees in sufficient number to re- place those destroyed by fire and to that extent lessening the loss exper- fenced. Whether, or not, an ade- quate measure designed for renewal of forests by reforestration can be de- vised is question worthy of serious consideration and one likely to be sooner or later satisfactorily solved.
 It is claimed Tn report made by the conservation commission, as ap- pointed by the President, and which report will be submitted to congress, early in the session, that the timber supply ot the country is rapidly near.
The Ketchikan miner., 1908-11-07

This is the true nature of home-it is the place of peace; the shelter, not only from sll injury, but from all ter TOT, doubt, and division. In so far as it is not this, 1t is not home; so far as the anxieties of the outer life pene- trates into 1t, and the inconsistently minded, unknown, unloved, or hostile society of the outer world is allowed by either husband or wife to cross the threshold, it ceases to be home; it is then only part of the outer world which you have roofed over ana light ed fire in. But so far as it is a sacred place, a vestal temple, temple of the hearth watched over by household gods, before whose faces none may come but those whom they can receive with love-so far as it is this, and roof and fire are types only of nobler shade and light-shade as of the rock in 8 weary land, and light as of the Pharos in the stormy sea-so far 1t vindicates the name and fulfills the praise of home. e.-Ruskin.
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THE SOCIALIST VOTE.

The increase of nearly $50 per cent in the Socialist vote of 1904 over that polled in 1900, together with the en- thusiasm of the adherents of Debs in the present campaign, is a cause of anxiety to thoughtful watchers of po- litical events in this country, not only as to the voting strength of the So- cialists this year, but as to the prob- able power of that party in future elections. The well-advised in all the other parties are cognizant of the influence of the thousands who are
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COLLEGE DAYS-COLLEGE MEN

COLLEGE LA AIS-COLLEGE MI
 Dr. Woodrow Wilson, president of Princeton, does not think that the typical college man of today is the kind of man the world is in need of. In his address to Haverford upon the occasion of its seventy-ffth anniver- sary, the thoughtful president of Princeton spoke his mind freely on this subject. He said:
 "The nation needs trained and dis ciplined men men who know and can think men who -can preceive and in- terpret, whose minds are accustomed to o--difficult tasks, whose faculties are instruments of precision, and whose judgements are steadied by knowl- edge. Such men the nation is not getting from the present college life, and cannot get until that life is organ ized in a different spirit and for a different purpose.
 To those who have been through recent college life, and see it about them daily, this seems to be the truth in a nutshell. In their efforts to give American youth ''broad" education the American colleges hardly more than scratch the soil. The courses of study are scarcely courses at all, and the study involved in them is some what less than that devoted to foot ball and the arrangement of those curious sartorial effects by which the ''college man" is known wherever he is found. The learning administered in most of the larger colleges is laid on with an exceedingly thin brush ; it is a smatter composed of little bit of every thing, but in this variety there is neither unity or purpose. Neither in scholarship or in fitness for the business of life does the product of the great colleges of the present compare with the graduates turned out from the colleges of generation ago. Then, it is true, the boy with LUG LII plOlud WdS OltCb loo oouAOn "ieu Latin and Greek and philosophy to be much of a practical man; now he knows little about manners, more about clothes, something about "grinds, ''peacher, and ''profs, J but the summum bonum of his knowl- edge relates to drop kicks and line backing. The old type was better, because, though impractical, he had a trained mind and was inured to dis cipline. whereas the new product has gotten most of his training in the ways of good time.
 College life is, or should be, per iod of training which prepares the youth for the business of a broader
 life. It will not do to cultivate ex- clusively the superficialities, which the atmosphere of most of the larger universities is doing. One of the reasons why men who come up from the rude walks of Ii fe without the benefits of education frequently out strip the college graduates is because such men have trained their powers through hard work. while the college man has vitlated his power through overmuch play.
The Ketchikan miner., 1908-11-07

One of the old blue laws of Con- hectic makes it crime punishable by fine and imprisonment for man to publicly kiss his wife on Sunday, and was quite recently enforced in the case of & man who thus displayed his loving disposition on board an elec- tric street, car to the great displeas- ure of husbands who had DO wives present, as we'll as of wives who were similarly situated. It is claimed that Connecticut is doubtful" state, but 1t certainly ought not to be so eonsid- cred, if indeed it's liberal laws are any indication.
The Ketchikan miner., 1908-11-07

Thhoas A. Edison has accum ulated $25, 600, 600, and says he will work hereafter only on things in which he is interested. The average man who has accumulated s25, GOO, 900 is inter- ested only in mak ing 1t $50, GOO, 600. That assertion is based op heresay.
The Ketchikan miner., 1908-11-07

With President Roosevelt bound tor Africa on . hunting trip and Jack London circling the world in the "Snark," we may expect to read some thrilling accounts of different things iu the future from these two adven- furDra
The Ketchikan miner., 1908-11-07

Walter A. Wyatt, who was at one time associ ated with Walter $. Cou- tant in the publication of the ketchi- kan Mining Journal, is now manager and editor of the semi-weekly Signal ct Wsissr, Idaho. The Signal is not, as our local readers might infer, a socialistic paper, but flies the banner of the G. o. P.
The Ketchikan miner., 1908-11-07

Three days moro and the presiden- slal agony will be over for another four years at least. In the meantime guessing at the result can still be in- dulRsd in.
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Boston Is to have 8 weekly publica- tion devoted to the interests of Alaska, and to be called the Boston Alaskan. It is issued under tho auspices of the Boston-A Alaskan Society, and formerly appeared as . monthly. The amour cement and title page sent to the press of Alaska gives Valdez as the Alaska office of the publication and names Charles E. Bunnell as the Alaskan editor. H. D. Reynolds is interested in the publication. If the Alaskan shall prove something more than a mere organ for the promotion of ques- tionable Alaska mining schemes, it will have she best wishes of The Miner.
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The Washington dispatches, tell of . mum Der of federal officials who have been either suspended or dismissed from office for 'permicious activity" h the political campaign. This action can hardly have been ordered or countenanced by the President, otherwise he would hardly have over- looked the case of one Theodore Roosevelt, and his official advisers It is not possible that any officials anywhere can have been more per niciously or reprehensibly active in the campaign now drawing to close than the president himself, including the members of his official family.
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Many miner who goes into the mining camps in search of gold is dis appointed in his pursuit, but some oi them discover that not all of good is in gold. Recently prospector went forth from Seward with high hopes or bringing back a poke we'll filled with gold dust. He returned the other day not sader, but wiser man, wiser in the practical demonstration of the fact that not all of good is in gold. When this man went away on his prospecting trip, he was aldermanic In bis proportions and very much re- s.mbled Billy Bounce, but when he returned all that superHuous fat in the abdominal region had faded away, and the happy miner sprang about as lively as kid enjoying the sunshine of the first spring morning. A great burden had been lifted of his mind as we'll as taken from under his belt. Hencefortb when this man wants to take anti-fat he will take it not in pills but with the pick and ovel.-Seward Gateway.
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MT. Carnegie is going to extend the operation of his hero fund to the United Kingdom. He is going to give quarter of million pounds sterling to trust, and from the in- come the widows and families of per sons, who perform noble deeds in the peaceful avocation of life and lose their lives thereby are to be assisted. If the hero is unfortunately disabled. his family will get the benefit of the fund during his lifetime. This is much better than giving medals.
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The terrible disaster which over- took train load of people fleeing from . forest fire in Northern Michi. gan a few days since furnished dis dressing climax to a series of destruc- tive conhagrations which have ragged in the eastern portion of the continent of America. One of the impressive features about the matter is that to the very districts which are now be- ing laid waste by fire, a few days or at most few weeks, may bring all the rigors of winter, with it's bliz- zards and heavy snow storms. In the east extremes follow fast vn the heels of each other.
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Eugene V. Debs, the Socialist, as practical man hit upon Q plan for raising money for his campaign that can not be taken any exception to. While Mr. Taft and Mir. Bryan quar- reled over the publication of their campaign fund, Uncle Eugene quietly charged SO mcuh head for admission to the meetings he addressed and the money vas turned over to the Social ist campaign fund.
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A "blawstedn Britisher named Jones, who resides in Callam county, Washington, who claims to have vot' ed for Lincoln in 1860, and has exer- oissd the rights of an American citi- zen ever since, has been disfranchised by the U. $. court, and declared to be . subject of King Edward. He was expecting 70 cast his vote for presi- dential electors next Tuesday, but may consider himself lucky if he is permitted to go away back and sit down somewhere else than in jail.