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For Alaska Railroad.

WASHINGTON, August 10. - The resignation of General Goethals has revived here the talk that he will be placed in charge of the work started in Alaska for railroad building and naval bases.
 What strengthens this belief is the fact that while the we'll known canal builder has resigned as governor of the Panama canal zone he has not re- signed his position in the army or the engineering corps.
 It IS also indicated that the United States intends to make the canal zone and the Panama canal effective against being used by any foreign foe in case of trouble with the United States.
 The government is said to have in mind extensive plans for national de- fense which include both the canal zone and Alaska. In the latter field the government is said to include in it's plans the quickest method of reaching the coal fields for naval pur- poses and the establishment of an im- portant naval base in Alaska to sup ply the naval stations along the Pa Cifc coast.
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morning to spend a few days at the Oasis.
 Frank Skeen and John Stevenson came in from their property in the Moose Pass Saturday afternoon. They say that it looks very good. The property has been bonded by Jack Roman who now has some men at work. He has gotten down ten feet and will soon commence work on driving the tunnels.
 Mrs. Carlson was the winner in the Home Bakery contest.
 The small donkey engine sold by contractor Mantell to the Engineering commission has been loaded and stor- ed on a siding in the railway yards, apparently to be used at this end of the line. It was originally purchased to be sent to Anchorage to be used on the new construction connecting An chorage with Seward.
 The large road donkey engine which was employed in the grading of Fourth avenue has been leased by the Railway Engineering Commission
 It is stated that plans have been perfected and prepared for a round house and machine shop for the rail way. It will cover a ground space of 40 by 12O feet.
 Mrs. J. w. Wright, wife of the fore man of the Gateway, and their son Arthur arrived last Saturday on the Watson to make their home here. Soon after arriving Arthur had the misfortune to be attacked by the humps and is now under treatment.
 Mir. and Mrs. Guy Whitehead have returned from the island where Mir. Whitehead is interested in a fox farm.
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NOTICE SPECIAL ASSESSMENT.

Notice is hereby given that the Municipal Clerk has delivered the Special Assessment Roll District No. 8 Improvement on both sides of Third Avenue between North side of Washington Street and South side of Adams Street. Town of Seward, AL aska, to the Tax Collector. That un- less payment is made on or before the 24th day of September, 1915, such special assessment shall become de- linquent and unless paid prior there to, five (5) percent will be added to the amount thereof.
 Said special assessment may be paid at the office of the Municipal Treasurer in the Pioneer Hospital on Third Avenue, Seward, Alaska, be- tween the hours of ten A. M. and three P. NJ. except Sundays and holi- days.
 Dated at Seward, Alaska, this l4th, day of August, 1915.
 w. T. LUCAS,
 Municipal Clerk. 8-14-6t Town of Seward, Alaska.
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CoRwIN MAKING BIG CATCHES

The steamer Corwin which passed this way during the big fire on the way to fish for walrus is reported by passengers on the Victoria to be hay. inc wonderful success. On her first hunting trip she brought eight hun dred and thirty-fve skins to Nome She will visit Seward on the way south late in the fall and may bring several Nome people who intend to settle here.
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CALL FOR BIDS.

Sealed bids will be received by the Common Council, Town of Seward, Alaska, up to 8 p. m. August IT, 1915, for remodelling and constructing the Public School Building, in accordance with the plans and specifications of c. w. Winstedt, Architect, to be filed in the office of the Municipal Clerk in said Seward, August 16, 1915, at 9 A. NJ. Separate bids will be taken for the plumbing and heating plant, also electric wiring.
 A certified check for at least ten per cent QO per cenD of amount of bid, shall accompany each and every bid
 The Council reserves the right to reject any or all bids.
 Checks of unsuccessful bidders will be returned upon signing of the con- | tract.
 Dated at Seward Alaska August 13, 1915.
 w. T. LUCAS.
 Municipal Clerk 8-13-4t.
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WILLOW CREEK
 LOOKING GOOD. William BarthOlf Goes Out side to Bring in 4O-Stamp
 Mill.
WILLOW CREEK

William Barthof passed through on the Mariposa yesterday on the way out to Denver, where he will purchase a stamp mill of 40 tons capacity for the Mabel Group of mining claims in the Willow creek country, owned by himself and others. He reports that the season at the Mabel Group has been very good and they have taken out a good bit of dust Mr. Bcrtholf says that the Independence and the Gold Bullion properties also had a very successful season.
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The Seward Gateway, published daily and weekly, is the only estab- lished publication of this kind in the district included in government plans.
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Have one thousand dollars to in vest in legitimate business. State particulars in first letter. Box lS5, City. S-I4-zV
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The Gateway can do any sort ot printing done in the states. Do not forget that
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FOR RENT.

Cabin, near business center. Furn- ished. $lOOO per month. Inquire Gateway office. 8-l6-3t
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Visiting cards, invitations, anything pretty l. done by the Gateway jast as well as outside.
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Largest stock of furniture in AL aska at Brown & Hawkins, Equality First"
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No advertiser can afford to omit the Seward Gateway.
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Ladies' and childrens' furnishings at Butts.
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No reader can afford to omit the Seward Gateway.
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Rooms for rent Enquire Mrs. Krefting. 8-14-3t'
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Long distance telephone booth at The Branch.
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WANTED.

Position as housekeeper or cook. First class references. Apply, Gate way office. S-lO-6t
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See us before sending outside foI your job printing.
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Waterfll & Frazier whiskey at "The Branch"
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Meet me at The Branch.
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Just "talk, don't walk" we dc the rest And it is not too far,
 In 40 winks We land the goods From the Famous Palace Bar.
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When the trail is clear to Kenai Lake Then we'll charter Ashland's car, And you'll have a picnic as the guests Of the Famous Palace Bar.
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When once the streets are graded, And this town takes on the air Of a camp that has grown permanent, Of a city that is "there;"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-08-26
QUAKER MEDITATONS.

[From the Philadelphia Record
The world is full of possible impos-
sibilities.
The man with a level head is not
apt to develop into a rounder.
You never can tell. Many a man
who is well-brad needs the dough.
In accepting an engagement ring a
girl exchanges her heart for a dia-
mond.
The self-made man sneers at the
idea that it takes nine tailors to make
a man.
some of us don't even have to wait
| that long.
Politeness is like a new broom The
longer we know people the more it
wears out.
A sense of humor may be a good
asset, but the people who make light
of everything never set the world on
fire.
Tommy-"Pop, what are preju-
dices?" Tommy's Pop-"Prejudices,
my son, are merely other peoples
opinions
hereafter" Cynicus-"Oh, a sort of
post graduate course in the school OF
experience
Willie Mamma. can God see all
our faults?" Willie's Mamma-"Yes
dear" WiIlfe-'Then what can't
| understand is where He gets all His
angels
''The years bring wisdom" quoted
the Wise Guy. 'tAnd yet the woman
who tries to conceal her age is gener-
| ally old enough to know better add
| ed the Simple Mug.
MY life is tinged with one regret. ~
| sighed the Egotist. "Ah, then there is
a regret?" exclaimed the Mere Man.
Eyes, feel sorry" replied the Egotist
that 1 have nothing to feel sorry
| for''
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-08-26
Clio b e Sights
BY THE ATCHIsoN GLOBE.

A real sport seldom screams
Frame Up"
Think of the time wasted by the
men who discovered zoe species of
fleaS.
Good nature is fine thing but it
must be put back where it won't be
run over.
Complimentary tickets are nearly
always for those who don't care to
use them.
If a man won't back down when he
is wrong it won't do any good to
knock him down.
Use a second thought in business
and a second sight in love. That rule
will save you u lot of discontinue
No man who doesn't keep his city
lot free of weeds has g right to urge
the farmers to keep the roads good.
WELL said the man today, Il must
be a standpatter, for l absolutely re-
fuse to call a hen house a hennery."
Sometimes it appears to a fellow
that by the time he captures the
fruits of victory the bananas are rot
ten.
It is fine for a young man to be
chivalrous, but # he doesn't devote
some attention to his work he Will
lose his job.
Aside from a child'S why" ask
ing yourself if you should not have
left well enough alone is the most
common question.
When a mans wife won't let him
sleep on Sunday morning it is hard to
make him believe that Where the
Spirit of the Lord is, there is Liberty
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-08-26
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.

LFrom the Chicago News1
Some good people enjoy telling bad
news.
Gallons of trouble may come out of
a pint flask.
About the only satisfactory substi-
tute for wisdom is silence.
To err is human; to forgive may be
a brand of diplomacy.
Before declining an offer of mar
riage a girl should be sure of it.
If marriage is a failure Solomon's
wisdom didn't count for. very much.
Occasionally you meet a woman so
homely that she is willing to admit it.
There is much better market for
good mules than there is for bad men.
Marriage is usually a failure when
the female in the case iS in a hurry
to wed.
If man could read his own biog-
raphy it would probably surprise him
more than any one else.
Our idea of a hustler is a man who
can work as fast all day as he can
dress in a cold room in the morning.
When a fool hen takes a notion to
sit she doesn't care a rap whether
there are any eggs in the nest or not.
Lazy men are built on the same plan.
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time to go to press. He was just ham
mering out the last paragraph of his
big story, and from what Jane had
told him and additional information
ne had cleaned from the back door of
the Dabney residence he had produced
O. story that would make the manag-
ing editor open his eyes and would
mean real scoop for the Morning
Star" for none of the other papers
could possibly have got wind of the
scandalous elopement of the beautiful
Doris.
Tom felt pressure on his arm and
a sweet voice at his side. 1t was Jane,
Jane shorn of her jewels and with a
simple street suit in place of Doris's
finery.
rs it too late?'' she asked breath
lessly. 81 came as soon as / could.
know when 1 ask you that you won
make use of the story I gave you. 1
told you because you are friend
the Morris-Norris nuptials, shorn of
all its sensation, having gone to press,
Tom and Jane left the Office of the
Morning Star" 1t was in a deserted
surface car that leo to the Morris
home that Jane pressed Toms hand to
thank him for what he had done.
1T was hard admitted Tom, land
1 wouldn't have done it for any one
else in the world. But I've always
loved you, Jane, and for you 1 would
give up the biggest story 1 ever
trapped down. And now I've found
you, little Jane, 1 am not going to let
you co.
And something in James smile as
sured Tom that he had not made his
sacrifice in vain.-(Copyright, 1915,
by the Mcclure Newspaper Syndi-
"a t0
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will miscarry and he will not be able
to repay you.
Rule II-Never invest in q. bust
ness with which you are not familiar
without first having a careful investi-
CATION made by disinterested experts
of established skill and responsibility
This precaution would save IN
vestors from, at least nine-tenths of
the bad investments that are made.
Rule III-Never take stock or in
vest in any new enterprise unless you
are willing to devote to it your own
time and energy.
When solicited for such an in
vestment you will be told that the
mana cement is well provided for, and
that success is certain, but it is alto
gether proba BILE that within two years
you will have to choose between losing
your money or putting your own time
into the business; and even with this
labor you may not escape loss. This
rule does not apply to an established
business already paying a good in
come, but you will rarely be solicited
to invest in such.
Rule IV-If you are conducting
any other business unless so closely
related to it that the one helps the
other
Almost any business is capable
of expansion. There is only a certain
amount of energy in a man, and it
will produce larger results if restrict
ed to one business than if divided be-
tween two or more
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-08-26
GOOD RULES FOR INVESTORS

In the September American Maya
zine appears a new department, en-
titled The Family's Money" which
is devoted to saving, spending and
investing. In this department ap
pears an extract from a book, pri-
vately published, by DR.. Lucien c.
manufacturers and business men in
this country. DR.. Warner, with his
brother. established the Warner
Brothers company, and the book re-
ferred to was written solely for the
benefit of his children and grandchil
dren. The following extract is taken
from his chapter entitled, Business
Investments and Mistakes
Most failures in life grow out of
the unwilIingness of a person to prof
it by the experiences of others. My
own mistakes would nearly all have
been avoided by observing a few SIM
pie principles. which / will endeavor
to embody under four short rules.
L am quite certain that I knew
these principles as a theory before
began my business career, but it was
only as 1 worked them out in my own
experience that they came to have a
real and vital meaning. Following
has taught me:
Rule Never loan 81 needy
friend any more money than you can
afford to lose.
Your friend probably intends in
good faith to pay back the money,
but the chances are that his schemes
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-08-26
Jayhawker Jots

Think of it, Here it is nosing into
the last of August, and a rural Kansas
paper here and there reports that the
ground is too wet to pfow.
There is only one real way to enter
tain a sick man, advises the Olathe
Register; that is to let him tell all the
CHASTITY details of his ailment.
On the theory that there is nothing
in a name, 1T is more than reasonable
to assume that Mrs. Cough, of
one.
The spitework fence has gone, points
out the Salina Journal. If your neigh
Dor wants to get even she buys a
graphophone and plays the same rec
ords at the same time you do.
There were old men out at the ball
game here last Saturday who have not
been to ball game before in years, re-
ports the Erie Record, and it then
gives the reason, thusly: Eries OPP
ponents at this particular game were
the Boston Bloomer Girls.
About a dozen boys in the com
munity have new motorcycles this
year, reports the Kimeo correspondent
of the Washington Palladium, and he
or she adds: 1t used to be when the
boys would get a new buggy we would
say: Look out boys" But now we
can well say: Look out everybody"
Maybe everybody hasn't heard this
Ford story before 1t is taken from
the Beloit Call. A man drove up to
the curb in his Ford car, stopped and
stepped out, standing with one foot on
the running board of the car and the
other on the curb. What did you do
with your other roller skater" asked
loafer.
Evidently a man, and a homely one
at that, officiateS for the Kansas
Zepnyrs column in the Barber County
Index. He observes: 1.-The most
handsome man on the face of the
earth looks like a Darwinian with a.
weekS accumulation of beard; and
the homeliest man under the sun with
a clean shaver face and combed hair
is always handsome" STILL that does
sound more like the work of love-
man locks good.
The Mixed Pickles department of
the Leavenworth Labor Chronicle
credits Potter Pete with the author
ship of these jingles about the fly and
the chigger:
We mortals have to swat and shoe
The flies from dawn till dark
Cause Noah didn't swat the two,
That roasted in the ark
The funny little chigger
lent any bigger
Then the point of the smallest pin,
But the welt that he raises
Itches like blazes
And that's where the rub comes in.
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One night Mr. Garden Toad was just
settling down for a nice long sleep
when he heard a curious rustling in
the grass beside him.
who's there?' he called quickly.
No answer.
81 must have imagined that sound, -
he said to himself, and he lazily closed
his eyes
But hardly had he begun a pleasant
dream when, close by him, he again
heard rustling.
81 know 1 never imagined thati' he
exclaimed with a jump, land 1 must
find out at once who is there. Who's
there? What do you want?" he
croaked, but no one answered.
Mr.. Garden Toad was puzzled.
IF somebody is there, why can't
they answer?' he asked himself. II
can't see any sense acting this way.
I'll speak again and maybe I'll find
who it isl
So he again croaEed his question.
And again there was no answer.
II guess I'll have to hunt around, -
said Mr.. Garden Toad thoughtfully;
maybe some one is in trouble and
cannot answer. You see Mr. Garden
Toad was so well acquainted with all
the garden creatures and SO sure that
they were every one friends of his, that
a thought of fear never entered his
smooth green head
Lightly he hoped out into the grass
where he thought the sound came
from No one was to be seen.
Mr.. Garden Toad blinked his left
eye and winked his right eye thought
fully and was about to hop back and
finish his nap, when he heard a soft
flop in the nasturtium bed close by.
'-Humph.' said he, this must be
hide and seek we are playing: That
is somebody and I'm going to find out
who.'
He gave one big hop right into the
middle of the nasIurtium bed, and
what do you suppose he saw there2
You never could guesSi
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-08-26
GERMANY AWAKE AT LAST.

With Berlin actually asking Uncle
Sam not to be hasty and to await ex-
plantations before reaching a concur
sion and deciding a course of action
that the destruction of the Arabic
would seem to demand, it would ap-
pear that Germany is at last alive to
the temper of the United States in the
premises and realizes what a serious
blow would be struck her should the
relations between Germany and the
United States be terminated. And
Germany would have reached this
frame of mind long ago had not Mr..
Bryan gummed the cards in such a
miserable manner. Germany I'M
doubtedly got the idea that Mr.. Bryan
and his compromising peace-at-any-
price propaganda represented the sem
timents of a considerable element of
the people of these United States.
Never was there a more mistaken
idea. We don't want war. it is true,
but it is simply impossible that we
maintain friendly relations with pi-
rates.
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Journal Entries

The harder you work, the better
you'll enjoy your leisure.
II :. j.
Some folk can attract no attention
in company except by whispering.
y - i
Had you not prepared for tomor-
row how would you be getting along
today?
When others ask your opinion con-
corning their work they expect a ia
vora BILE one.
- j. s&
Many people don't need automo-
b1IeS for the purpose of running
down their neighbors
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-08-26
BRYAN STILL ENAGGERATING.

In a plea for peace and urging a
compromise to prevent the United
States from entering the European
war-a contingency that isn't at all
likely to happen-William Jellyfsh
Bryan takes occasion to score the
press of this country for its militant
policy But, with exceptions, of
course, and they are few, the news
papers of these United States are not
in anything that approaches a militant
mood. and their attitude is no more
than reflection of the sentiments of
their clientele.
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En- enin g Chat
WOnlan'S Place
BY RUTH CAMERON.

There is a woman in cur neighbOr-
hood who is always criticising one OF
her neighbors because the latter is
interested in certain civic reforms
and philanthropies and gives a good
deal of her time to them.
There's scarcely a day. she frets,
that that women doesn't go to a
committee meeting
Now the woman in the case has
two children who are in school, she
has small easily cared-for home and
a competent maid. She doesn't care
much for the small society of a sub
urban town; she is a woman of con-
siderable vitality and it is not all
needed in her home and so she puts
it into pnilanthropic and civic work.
What possible wrong is there in
that?
And yet, there are many women,
of whom the one of whom 1 spoke is
typical, who continually criticise the
woman with interests outside her
home.
To my mind it is they themselves
who are often more desc rving of crit
icism.
believe there are thousands OF
women who are Sinking their full
duty in not interesting themselves in
any work, church or civic or philan-
thropic, outside the hcme.
1 mean the women who are so sit
uated that their home does not re-
quire all their vitality.
Mind you, do not mean the
woman with small children, the wo-
man with sickness in the home, the
woman whose strength is so slender
that the days work completely saps
it, the woman who has to help sup
port the home as well as run it.
Nor do l mean any ether class OF
woman who has a legitimate use
within the home for all her energy
But after all these have been mus
tered out there still remains a large
class of women who have vitality to
spare and who owe some of that vi
tally to some good cause.
What are you doing to help not
just your family, but the big human
family? What are you doing to
back your convictions with actions
Something made me ask myself
astonished to find how I had permit
ted myself to be absorbed in my small
home routine. Since then 1 have bee,l
trying to do better.
/ believe that womans place is in
the home-her larger home, the com
munity.
No woman who has1 t the strength
is called on to give it. But those
who have are called to give and will
find themselves blessed in the giving
with a broader outlook, widened
sympathies and a mind refreshed by
being turned to new activities
Question: am spending the sum-
mer with my children in the country.
Ny husband can only come down
week-ends- On the evenings that he
is at home he is often asked to join
little dancing parties by those of our
crowd wEo are in town. Do you think
/ should be willing?
Answer don't see what harm oc-
casional diversion of that sort can do.
It's mighty lonesome IN the summer
for the man whose house is just the
empty shell of a home. He's earning
the money to give you a va cation.
Don't you want him to have all the
harmless pleasure he can get out of
his lonely life2