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The daily Alaskan., 1913-01-03
PACIFIC COAST STATES
 ARE ALL REPRESENTED

San Francisco, Jan. S-The New Mexico Commission, appointed by Governor Mcdonald, as a result of a bill passed by the Legislature, ar rived in this city on Dec. 30th, to select a site for New MeNicO's Build ing at the Panama-Pacific Interna- tional Exposition.
 The Commission consists of EX- Governor Herbert J. Hagerman of Roswell. Ex-Governor W. T. Thorn ton of Santa Fe, R. E. Twitchell of Los Vegas, Mayor J. J. Shuler of Ranton and H. A. Jastro of Deming.
 This makes the twenty-fourth state to select a site for participa- tion in the coming worlds fair, and is the last of the Pacific Coast states, all others having made their selections.
 With the exception of Texas and Oklahoma, every state west of the
The daily Alaskan., 1913-01-03
|. If American RepublicFallS
 It Will Be
 Due to ! Indifference
By CARDINAL GIBBONS of Bal timore, Senior American Prelate of the Roman
 Catholic Church

A3OU and your fathers have for century and quarter
 experienced and enjoyed the blessings of strong and free
 government and if you compare the results of our political
 system with those of other civilized nations do not think that our republic with drawbacks and shortcomings will suffer in the comparison You say, AMERICA WITH ALL THY FAULTS. I LOVE THEE STILL"
 Cod indeed and torpid obtu and aphetic the soul that not aroused to warmth and enthusiasm contemplating the history the United States been the home of liberty and the haven of rest to lowntrodden millions in other lands
 NO MAN SHOULD BE DROVE IN THE SOCIAL BEE HIVE No man should INDIFFERENT spectator of the Po c and economical questions which confront him. Indifference and apathy in civic political life HURTFUL TO THE STATE as indifference religion hurfu to the Christian common wealth.
 IT'S MY PROFOUND CONVICTION THAT IF EVER THE RsPUs IIc IS DOOMED TO DECAY FUTURE HISTORIAN SHALL EVER RECORD THE DECLINE FALL OF THE AMERICAN RE- PUBLIC ITS DOWNFALL DUE, NOT TO HOSTILE IN vAsoN BUT TO THE INDIFFERENCE LETHAReY AND POLITICAL APosTAsY HER OWN SONS
 And if all citizens are BOUND TO TAKE AN INTEREST IN PUBLIC AFFAIRS that duty especially devolye on those who are endowed with superior intelligence and education and who ought to be the leaders ezemprs of the people guiding them in the path of political recitude.
 May God so enghen the mind and quicken the conscience ot the peope to sense of their civic duties arouse in them an EARNEST AND PRACTICAL INTEREST IN POLITICS
The daily Alaskan., 1913-01-03
LAY ON MAC DUFF, AND
 SEE WHO CRIES ENOUGH

Albany. Jan. Ex-Governor Sulzer has thrown down the gauntlet to the would-be leaders of New York democracy. He issued the state meut this morning that the election of himself as the chief officer of the State makes him the leader of the State democracy, there is no other way around it, claims Mir. Sul- ger and on those lines he has thrown down the gage of battle. So NIT. Sulzer has issued the challenge to fight it to the finish.
The daily Alaskan., 1913-01-03
PRINCE GHOSH CLAIMS
 HINDUs DISCOVERED AMERICA

Seattle. July 3-PriEce Sarah Ghosh of India, author Of "The Prince of Destiny" and the "Thous- and and One Nights in India, has added his race to the Norsemen. the Italians aud the spaniards as claimants for the honor Of having discovered America In his ad- dress before the Cosmopolitan club of the University Of Washington. given recently on the campus Of the state institution, the prince said
 An expedition Of HIudus, under the personal direction of Prince Ar tuna Of India, came over to this country about 20OO B c. Prince Arjuna in his memoirs speaks iu glowing terms Of the civilization he found in parts of this continent.
The daily Alaskan., 1913-01-03

London. Jan. S-The peace dele gates to the London ambassadorial conference which began its session yesterday after the holiday recess, have about given up the hope that there can be any settlement with Turkey. They announced yesterday that no more concessions would be given Co the Ottoman government. The allies insist on retaining Adrian ople. and Turkey absolutely refuses to give it up; and therein lies the stumbling block over which peace may trip and start anew the deadly conflict.
 Several attempts already have been made unotficially by members of the Turkish delegation to get the Montenegrin, Servian and Greek delegates to recede from the demand that Adrianople be surrendered, promising in return that Turkey will not object Go their respective en- Iargements territorially.
 These advances, and reports eman ating from Constantinople that Bull garia Is negotiating terms direct with Turkey there, are considered to have as their basic purposes an at tempt to divide the allies.
 The representatives of the Balkan
The daily Alaskan., 1913-01-03
PEACE ENVOYS ABOUT
 ID RESIGN IN DESPAIR

states have resisted all temptations placed in their way and present to- day as united a front as they did the first day of the negotiations and are just as determined as ever to have their own way in concluding peace.
 Instead of diminishing, excite meut is growing among the Servian and Montenegrin delegations over what are considered Austria's plans in the Balkans. That the dual mon- archy seems determined to carry out these plans is considered proved by the fact that she has not yet begun Co demobilize the big army she re- gently called to the cOlors.
 Meanwhile, Austria is tempting Montenegro by proposing in eN- change for Austria's support and the occupation of Scutari by Mon tenegro that Austria be given pos session of the mountains dominating Cattaro, which thus would become such an impregnable naval strong hold as to make the vienna govern ment the real master of the Adri- attic sea.
 Italy. the only power chiefly in terested, oppose a scheme that gives her rival the coveted suprem- acy Nn the spa
The daily Alaskan., 1913-01-03

Marshal Davies was summoned to the Montana Restaurant in Ketchi- kan to look into the condition of a man found, writhing on the floor. The restaurant proprietors did not know whether the man was in a fit or had taken poison. An inves- tlgation revealed the fact that the mans name was Charles Halverson' a trapper and fisherman, well known in the north, and that he
The daily Alaskan., 1913-01-03
NEW PLACER MINING LAW
 HELPS THE LOCATOR

Nome. Jan. 3-There is a big rush in Nome Co restake claims, since the discovery Of pay on the extension of the fourth beach line Under the new placer laws only two claims may be staked during each month. and with the coming Of the new year many of the old associa- ton claims have lapsed. which gives opportunity for more people to take advantage Of the general distribu- ton of claims
The daily Alaskan., 1913-01-03
JIM KEENE. MINER
 AND HORsEMAN. DEAD

New York. Jan. 3-James Robt. Ketne. the noted financier and horseman. died last night shortly af- ter being operated upon for ab- domlual trouble. at his home in Cedarhurst. Long Island.
 Keene was born in London in 1888 and went with his family Co California in 1852. became min CT in California and Nevada and a speculator In mining stocks from which he cleanqd up Ss.000,0o dur ing the bonanza period Of the 7o's. He vas vice-president Of the West chester Racing Association at the time of his death.
The daily Alaskan., 1913-01-03
PETERSBURG CONCERN
 BUILDS GAS ENGINES

Petersburg, Jan. 3--Petersburg has another new industry-the Pet ersburg Machine & Iron Works The concern, with shops here, will make a speciality of manufacturing and re- pairing gasoline engines An engine of the company's own make is call ed the Traveller" and is especial Iy adapted for small trawling boats, used for salmon. These engines are four horse power.
The daily Alaskan., 1913-01-03
IRON WORKERS STICK
 TO MAN IN TROUBLE

Milwaukee, Jan. 3-William Red ling, one of the men who was con victed in the Indianapolis dynamite case and sentenced to three years in the federal penitentiary at Leav- enworth, was reelected business agent for the Milwaukee local union of Iron Workers at their meeting held last night.
The daily Alaskan., 1913-01-03
ROCKEFELLER SLIPS AWAY
 ON UNKNOWN VOYAGE

Brunswick. Ca, Jan. civilian Rockefeller, New York capitalist. left this port at an early hour Tues day morning, on a small steamer, bound for an unknown port All kinds of rumors are afloat regard ing his intended destination, some saying that he is In touch with the government Of Mexico for the purpose of supplying financial need.
The daily Alaskan., 1913-01-03

Little Rock, Jan 3-U. S. Sen ator Jeff Davis from Arkansas. died at his home In this city early this morning from a stroke of apoplexy
 Mir Davis served three cousecut- i've terms as governor Of his state,
The daily Alaskan., 1913-01-03

Missouri river has selected its state building site at the Exposition.
 New Mexico has in mind the erection of a building of Mexican architecture, to be of adobe, sur rounding a patio and the plantings are to be of cactus and other des- ert growths.
The daily Alaskan., 1913-01-03

had taken strychnine sulf, as a package at hand showed. The man was carried to the hospital and he is on the high road toward recovery. HaIverson gave no reason for his rash act.
The daily Alaskan., 1913-01-03
NEW YORK NOT KIND TO
 MEN WHO ARE BROKE

New York, Jan. 3-Cipriano Gas tro, the Venezuelan soldier and for mer president of that South Ameri- can republic, sailed from this port this morning on his way back Co Europe. Castro is broke, and came here for the purpose Of getting some financial and political help. but failed.
The daily Alaskan., 1913-01-03
PURSER SHEPARD RELEASED
 ON SECURITY BONDS

Seattle, Jan. 3-Purser Glen Shepard of the sS. Jefferson, &C., cused Of having brought stolen goods into the State of Washington while serving as purser on the Hum boldt. was released this morning under bonds Of S7,50O A number of his friends went surety for him
The daily Alaskan., 1913-01-03
SENATOR JEFF DAVIS
 DIES IN LITTLE ROCK

being the only man who vas ever elected three times to the governor ship of Arkansas He was a dele gate Co the National Democratic convention in 1ssi and vas chosen for United states Senator in 1907. Mr. Davis was fifty years old
The daily Alaskan., 1913-01-03

It is reported from Haines that the Hegg will arrive here this af- ternoon.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-12-28

characterize our modern age: Adventure,
Revolution, Emergence. But in saying
this have I sketched the world you know +?
If so. what can be its literary reflection? !?
I appeal to you to decide whether what
| have rudely indicated has not brought
to mind the names of books you have
read or determined that you must read.
l. | shall first mention certain types or
classes in the host of recent books and
then partieuarize BRIEFLY
"a There is the growing literature of
feminism. Woman is suffering from 'un-
rest" say the wiseacres. The better
statement Is that man is again indulgng
in adventure among untried seas, again
revaluing things physical moral, social.
The result is the Emergence that we see
new concepts of liberty, a new mascu-
Unity, a new womanhood, a closer feder-
alton prophesied between man and wom-
an In the worlds work, especially the
work of the worlds practical redemp-
tion.
t9 Thus there is a general revival of
poetry because of the new outlook, a
passion of spiritual emotion rising to
greet the new day, chanting of Prone
theus unbound and of dragons slain. Fic-
tion and drama throb with this romance.
g. Strangely enough this results in vast
numbers of books, dealing with applied
science, showing how to build houses bet
ter and more available for all, how to
grow better crops, how to know the souls
OF men, how to save the future from the
scourge of the past. Why? Because we
are creating a new world.
4. Methods of applied socialism are ex-
pounded on every modern bookshelf. The
war on privileged persons is a pastime
for thousands of writer's. Henry George
has risen from the dead and his doctrines
are getting into statute books on both
sides of the Atlantic.
.. Beyond all these Is the antithesis of
all them-the new mysticism, the resource
of those souls who flee from the notion
that conditions make life.
2. Do you ask that I become more spe-
cific? 1t remains not to catalogue IL
braries. but to give only few concrete
of the elements already indi-
Gated.
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ghostly larva, and youe blow falls on
your twice-offended cheek
THE LOSS OF INSPIRATION.
lit is ever thus with all mortal strife.
In proportion as it possesses, or is void
of, the diviner something that qulckens
the pulse of the heart, and elevates the
wing of the imagination, it presents a
mockery TO the philosopher. or an nspi
ration to the bard. Feel that something,
and no contest is mean. Feel it not, and
like Byron, you may class with the
slaughter Cannae that field which, at
Waterloo restored the landmarks of ma
tions; or may jeer with juvenal at the
dust of Hannibal because he sought to
deliver Carthage from ruin, and fraa
world from Rome
WIVES OF SCHOLARS.
IT know how it is, but your very clever
man never seems to care as much as
your less gifted mortals for cieverness
in his helpmate. Your scholars, and
poets, and ministers of state, are more Of
ten than not, found assorted with ex-
ceedingly humdrum, good sort of women,
and apparently like them all the better
for their deficiencies. Just see how hap
PLY Racine lived with his wife, and what
an angel he thought her, yet she had
never read his plays. Certainly Goethe
never troubled the lady who called him
Mr.. Privy Councillor with whims about
'monads, and speculations on color, nor
those stiff metaphysical problems on
which one breaks ones shins in the Sec
ond part of Faust"
DILUTED POETRY
ITO many minds, at the commence
ment of our grave and earnest pilgrim
age. I am Vandal enough to think that
the indulgence of poetic taste and reverie
does great and lasting harm; that it
serves to enervate the character, give
false ideas of life, impart the semblance
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-12-28

of drudgery to the noble tolls and du-
ties of the active man. All poetry would
not do this-not. for instance, the clas-
poetry of Homer. of Virgil, of sophocles,
not perhaps that even of the indolent
Horace. But the poetry which youth
usually loves and appreciates the best
the poetry of mere sentiment-does so in
many minds already over-predisposed to
the sentiment, and which require bracing
to grow into healthful manhood"
KNOWLEDGE is POWER.
$50 far from considering that we
do all that is needful to accomplish
ourselves as, men when we cultivate
only the intellect, we should remem-
Der that thereby we continually in
crease the range of our desires and
therefore, of our temptations; and we
should endeayor. simultaneously, TO
cultivate both those affections of the
heart which prove the ignorant to he
Gods children no less than the wise,
and those moral qualities which have
made men great and good when read
ing and writing were scarcely known:
to-wit, patience and fortitude under
poverty and Distress humility and be-
neficence amidst grandeur and wealth;
and, in counteraction to that egotism
which all superiority mental or world
ly, is apt to inspire. Justice, the faith
er of all the more solid virtues, soft
ened by Character, which is their low
ing mother. Thus accompanied knowl-
edge indeed becomes the magnificent
crown of humanity-not the imperious
despot, but the checked and tempered
sovereign of the soul"
A LITTLE MORE
"A friend of mine once said to a
millionaire whom he saw forever en-
gagged in making money which he never
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(c). Do you sing OF Duty? But what is
Duty? Can there be a permanent measure,
clear distinction between eternal righ.
and wrong? Is experiment a final test ?
Can duty be apart from pleasure? Is
the age of the martyrs forever gone?
I'D Some answer to all this comes from
a Jane Adams, or a Helen Keller. These
gifted souls see how no answer is pos
sible for the individual alone. Family
ties become unholy when they bind gen.
erations and souls In worse than blind
ness, deafness, dumbness. Why should
society base itself on a rite that sane
titles a wrenching of souls asunder by
agonized strife and a ghastly racking
process
We dare do all that may become a
man; who dares do more Is none" The
synthetic manhood of today is demand
ing that conventions justify themselves
anew. We will weigh the mountains in
scales and the hills in a balance, for we
must needs reva1ue all our stock in trade
The very earth, and all its magazines OF
wealth, all It's currents of power, we must
estimate afresh. Who holds the title
deeds? What can it do that it has not
done? Can it grow nobler men as well
as more corn and wine and cotton? Can
1t be filled with cooperative sanity, CO.
operative welfare?
o. HiotHSi way VI sdylls thls Is TO as
sert that we are present at the Birth of
the Soul of the Race The difference has
appeared between this Psyche, or racial
Soul, self-willed and visionary, beautiful
and nearly insane, victorious in earth and
sea and sky, flying safe in the dark
poised secure on her spread wings. and
speaking, calm and confident, above the
storms-between this Psyche and the true
and august Spirit that environs us, burn
ing with deep and calm, unfickering GER
tainty, as of the age to come, the Dawn
World that yet shall be. Silently, inn
periously, the Spiritual presses upon the
Psychic, coercing 1t toward the service
of a humanity just about to be born,
subduing its wilfulness, and presaging a
new world, not of the superman, but of
Man.
II.
These three distinctive marks then
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and commercial circles will be extreme,
and the downfall of the mdoern interna-
tional credit system itself is not consid-
cred beyond possibility. A banking
panic of greater or less intensity is to
be feared, leading to widespread ruin,
impoverishment and unemployment. The
disorganization of industrial and COM
mercial circles due to the above and
other causes, will be enormous, and many
factories will have to close or partially
close and dismiss or partially dismiss
their workmen. The interruption of our
commerce due to the delayed arrival of
cargoes owing to fear will play havoc
both amongst our employing and en-
ployed classes. The price OF food, owing
to various war causes, will rise to famine
heights, and the result will be that mill
lions of our poor will be forced on to
the rates, which are quite unprepared
to deal with such multirudes The sud-
den loss of the markets OF Germany, It.
ally and Austria will throw our export
trade into confusion at the outset of
war, add to the banking panic, and throw
further multitudes out of work. All Of
these causes will act and react upon
each other. If adequate precautions are
not taken beforehand it is probable that
this state of affairs will produce an ex-
plosion of those volcanic forces which
underlie every modern democracy. and
a disastrous peace.
Sir Robert Giffen in 1903 considered then
purely hypothetical case OF war between
two or more of the great monetary DOW
ers of Europe. He pointed out that the
International credit system, on which the
whole industrial life of Europe at pres
ent depends, is almost thing of yes
terday, having grown up during the last
20 years. 1t has never yet lad to stand
the ordeal of a great war in which all
the chief monetary powers, including
Britain, the center of the system, shall
tie simultaneously engaged, so that they
cannot derive monetary aid from each
ether In emergency. Such a war will
be, as he said, totally unprecedented
When 1t breaks out it will bring upon
Us, as we'll as upon the whole commun-
ity of civilized states to which the sys-
tenn of international credit extends, quite
unprecedented calamities and dangers
This would result from the breakdown Of
the credit system itself and the Interrupt
tion of international commerce. Now
adays there would be vast indirect as
we'll as direct, effects if any important
factors in the International circle were
to be displaced, still more il two or three
81 eat commercial communities were af-
fected by a general suspension of pay
ment" He continued: II would mention
first of all the stoppage or great contrac-
ton OF the volume Of imports and ex-
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snappish at whist; and I have seen the
most testy and peevish in the ordinary
affairs of life bear their losses with
the stoicism of Epictetus"
LIFE A WHIRLING
Life has been subjected to many in
genious comparisons; and if we do not
understand it any better, it is not for
want of what is called reasoning by H.
lustration.' Among other resemblances
there are moments when, to a quiet con-
templator. 1t suggests the image of one
of those rotary entertainments commonly
seen in fairs and known by the name of
'whirligigs or roundabouts, in which each
participator of the pastime. seated on his
COLBY, is always In the act of pursuing
some one before him, while he is pursued
by some one behind. men and women,
too, are naturally animals of chase the
greatest still find something to follow,
and there is no one too humble not to
be an object of prey to another"
IN SERIOUS MOOD.
Viewing this life as our infancy, and
the next as our spiritual maturity, where
in the ages to como He may show the
exceeding riches of His grace 1t is His
tenderness, as in His wisdom to permit
the toll and the pain which, in tasking
the powers and developing the virtues of
the soul, prepare it for the earnest of
our Inheritance Hence 1t is that every
man has his burden. Brethren, IL you
believe that God is good, yea, but as
tender as a human father, you will know
that your troubles in life are a proof that
you are ready for eternity"
BURDENS UNIVERSAL.
Each man thinks his own burden
hardest to bear: the poor man groans
under his poverty, the rich man under
the cares that multiply with wealth.
For, so far from wealth freeing us
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best life, the shrewdest thought, is being
harnessed to the physical commonwealth,
the common welfare.
Surely high adventure! Beside 1t the
story of the Argonauts is trivial, the
taking OF Troy battle of ants, the
myths of the gods made commonplace,
the crash of Rome's empire or Europe's S
feudalism a mere predatory triumph. For
this is the victorious adventure of the
ripest period of time, and must secure
for every human soul its fullest life
2. But see the social counterpart
of all this:
Was ever mankind so harried by packs
of ideas, like wolves, that beset him in
life's cosy corner and bay him out? No
cosy corner. no conventional and time
honored usage, no piled up shelter of
pecuniary profits. is left UNMARRIED of the
wolves. Yesterday theologies and re-
ligious were being shaken. Today the
foundations of society are shuddering
(a) What, for instance, can be said
about the equality of the sexes? Ev-
eryone has said everything. talked till
all are tired. But the fact is really ac-
complished. Social conventions have
snapped like masts in the gale because
they carried too much canvasl
(b) And in the process what is not
revolutionized? Everything seems gone
woman is all there is left. We may
almost say that home is gone, dress
gone, baby gone, reticence gone, and
the shade of Queen Victoria passes
wringing her hands.
(c) No wonder that individualism is
getting its lesson, like a Ounce in the
corner! We are challenging the right
of men to make money out of blood
by the toll of women and children
by the sweatshop and the seven-day
week, by neglect of safety devices, by
watering stock, or by catching the
gulls from the air or the suckers from
the stream. We are upsetting the rights
of property and of free contract. Wages
and housing and children and health
have become common interests. Even
charity is stolen from the individual
and made a community adventure. The
hand that leads us betokens strange
scenes ahead. In politics we already see
democracy and paternalism on the same