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The Cordova daily times., 1915-11-09
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To make the Boring coal field de- velopment successful as a commercial neterprise, S3,OOO,OOO must be spent to connect the coal mines by railroad with Cordova. by building an eNten- sion of the present Copper River Rail road now running from Cordova to the Copper River co1atrv. The Guegen- helms are using the railroad for ship ments from their extensive and val uable copper mines in the interior. If a railroad connection could be made with the Bering coal field, Cordova, Seward, Juneau, Valdez and all the coast cities and interior places within reach of the Copper River railroad, or accessible by water route from Cor dova, would have a new lease of pros perity. The United States Govern ment too would have an invaluable coaling station for it's fleet at the deep
 
 harbor of Cordova. The Federal Gov ernment is providing for a coaling station at Seward. which has a superb harbor, by building the great railroad now constructing to the Matanuska coal fields, which will be completed within a year or two.
 A Mysterious Purchase.
 The question is often asked, "Why did the U. S. Government buy the Alaska Central Railroad running into the interior from Seward instead of the Copper River & Northwestern run ming from Cordova northwest" Out side of Washington. the answer seems to be a mystery It is said that the government asked the Morgan inter ests, in control of the Copper River Railroad, to name the terms upon which the former could secure posses sion I am told that the government was offered a choice of three proposi- tions: one, that it could purchase the railroad at a valuation to be fixed by the Interstate Commerce Commission; two, that it could lease the road on satisfactory terms; three, that it could utilize the road and build such connec- tions to the coal fields as it might de sire. The story is that this proposi tion was so fair that the government was too glad to consider it favorably. But without discussion or explanation it suddenly took up ,ne offer or the Alaska Central and accepted it. The Cordova people feel offened at the outcome, but there is room in Alaska for both railroads to grow and pros per.
 Nobody knows how fast an Ameri- can city, state or town may grow. I recall some 25 years age meeting a friend in Denver. He was an investor from the East. l think Denver had about 30OOO people then. He had come to buy real estate. He said to me, This place is overgrown. Real estate Is too high. None for mel" And he went away. Had he invested wisely at that time. he could have mul- tiplied his money ten to twenty fold. was in Los Angeles about the same time, It had had a serious reaction after a sudden boom. It was a little place, not one-tenth its present size. It seemed like doomed city. An in- vestment of $500 then in outlying acreage property. am told. would be worth $500,0O0 today So nobody can tell what may be the future of Sew ard, Cordova, Anchorage, or in fact any of the new, wide-awake cities of Alaska All of them are nearly new and all, from Ketchikan to Nome, have hnpaS - aSIia'c Weakly
The Cordova daily times., 1915-11-09

A meeting of the Cordova Fire De. partment will be held Thursday even ing and full attendance of the mem bers is requested.
The Cordova daily times., 1915-11-09

Seattle in about week or ten days.
 The Admiral Evans is still to the westward and will leave here the lat ter part of the week for the outside.
The Cordova daily times., 1915-11-09

The latest faces in type for job printing received at the Tines othee. Place your order now.
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! The Blum, O'Neill Co.,, announces a decline in Centennial Best Flour to $1.75 a 49fb sack.
The Cordova daily times., 1915-11-09
Notice.

I want to state that l never have or ever will be a dog poisner.
 C. R. NORMAN.
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All the Real News in the Times.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-10-25
Euening Chat
Mountains and valleys.
BY RUTH CAMERON.

"Is there any way in which you can
renew the first glamor of lover" is the
pathtic, revealing, inevitable question
a young married woman puts to me
I don't suppose there is a woman
who has been married. long enough
to come down from the mountain
top of the first. ecstacy who hasn't
put that question to herself. OF
course she probably doesn't put it
in that particular form. Very like
ly she doesn't put it into definite
form at all. just half feels and half
thinks it.
Folks. if I could give you = recipe
for renewing that first glamor L
could be the richest woman in the
world, for every woman. and some
men, would be willing to give me
their most precious treasures to
know it.
We all want to go back to the
mountain top of that first happiness;
we all look back at it lovingly and
lingeringly and in the golden light
of memory we see it fairer than It
was. And that's just the trouble
We look back when he should be
looking forward. We don't realize
that although We have come down
from that first mountain peak onto
the plain there are other peaks
ahead.
No life, married or otherwise, can
be lived always on tie heights. We
go down into the dark valley of de-
preston and discoura cement we
tread the level plain of daily life,
and we ascend again onto the peaks
of our great moments.
Look forward not backward in your
love life. The best is yet to be, #
you will only make yourselves fit
for it.
Don't cheaper love by being glut-
ton. Nothing sickens like safety.
Again. don't kill love by monotony
1t is the woman who is not always the
same who keeps her husbands love
But how can one be continually differ
emit? is the great question. Usually II
is answered by the suggestion that
woman hide some of her selves from
her husband and keep bringing them
out like a pack of tricks. I don't like
that answer. 1t seems to lie rather
cheap way to do, and besides, sooner
or later, one must come to the end or
ones pack My answer is this-Grow.
If you grow, you change and are con-
tinually different. Grow in character
and mind and heart. Determine that
each year shall see your mind en-
your character strengthened and
sweetened- If any two people will live
by that ideal there will be no monot-
any in their life, for Zach will be con-
tinually changing.
Stevenson has a description of the
mountain tops anu the valleys IF a
true love that is very dear to me- l
recommend it to the woman who is
temporarily in the valley as an en-
couragement and an ideal
THE fa-lts of married people on
tinually spur each of Them hour by
hour, to do better and p meet and
love upon higher ground. And ever,
between the failures, there will come
glimpses of kind virtues to encourage
and console - Protected by The
Adams Newspaper Service-)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-10-25

900, 900, grain and grain products fol-
lowing with $50. 100000 and forest
products are fourth with 500, 100000.
Some distance behind these leaders in
the export trade are tobacco, fruits,
oil cake and oil cake meal, vegetable
oils, live animals. vegetables and cof-
fee, in the order of their importance.
The principal imports of farm and
forest products, also named in the
order of their Importance, are pack
ing house products, coffee, animal fl
bers and sugar, the average annual
value of the imports of each of these
exceeding s10O,OO0.O0O. The combined
value of the imports of these four
articles is more than one-haf OF the
total imports of farm and forest pro-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-10-25
AMERICA FIRST.

The Department of the Interior,
through its Bureau of Education, has
issued autographed poster, 80 by 20
inches in size, which is being sent to
the various postoffices, public schools
and Industrial establishments of the
country, urging immigrants to edu-
cate themselves for American citizen
ship.
In the foreground of the poster
Uncle Sam is represented as grasp
ing the hand of an immigrant work.
ingman, while in the background is
seen a residence, a public school, and
a naturalization judge handing "citi-
zen's papers" to an immigrant.
Under the bold-faced title, "Ameri-
ca First are urgent invitations to at
tend night school, learn English, and
become citizens. These invitations,
with brief sentences setting forth the
advantages of such action, are given
in English and in six immigrant Ian
guages. viz: Italian. Polish, Yiddish,
Lithuanian, Bohemian, and Hun
garian.
Investigation has shown that there
are in this country 100000 foreign
born whites, 10 years and over, who
are unable to read or even speak
English More than onehalf of these
immigrants are unable to read or
write in any language
1t is hoped that by means of this
pictorial and written invitation immi-
grants will have their attention called
to the night schools of their communi-
ties; and that where there is any
considerable number of immigrants
and no night schools the poster may
inspire the authorities in these COM
munities to establish such schools
This is a part of a more comprehen-
sive plan for preparing immigrants
for American life and citizenship
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-10-25
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.

IFrom the Chicago News.l
Be satisfied with the best you can
get.
And lots of people are too slow to
make fast friends.
Opinions and visits should never be
forced upon people.
A woman's idea of a hideous gown
is one that isn't in style.
After a man is married he seldom
buys a hammock built for two.
Some men can't even blame ciga--
cites for their failure to make good.
It's awfully hard to give away some
of the things you want to get rid of.
True love is always able to dispense
with the valuable advice of outsiders.
Still, man never seems anxious to
marry a woman VIII isn't afraid of a
mouse.
People who are always saying Lis
teni" never have anything of impor-
tance to say.
But instead of marrying a man to
reform him, the average woman mar
ries him to inform him.
We often feel sorry for the rich.
There is Rockefeller, for instance; he
once had as much hair as anybody.
Time and tide wait for no man."
quoted the Wise Guy. ''StiH, many a
man tides over the years by serving
time" added the Simple Mug.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-10-25
FULL LEASED WIRE REPORT
OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS.
MEMBER:
Associated Press.
Audit Bureau of C9rCUla&10n@.
American Newspaper PuhaisheE@
Association.

a sixth of the mileage of all the
railroads in the United States is be-
ing operated by receivers, and two
thirds of all the roads in receivers
hands are in the southwest, according
to statistics published by The Railway
Age Gazette. Of the mileage in re-
ceivers' hands, almost one-half has
been so placed since the beginning of
the year. On January 1, 1915, 21,-
04S miles of road, with a capitalization
of $1,265, 32S,52S was in receivership.
and since that late 20,940 miles. with
a capitalization of $1,29S, 673,65 has
been added to the mortality list, MAX
ing a total of 41,9SS miles, with $685.,
616,42 outstanding stock and S1,475,-
1857 funded debt, total capitaliza-
ton of s2,264,OO2, IT'S. 1t is said that
one of the main reasons for the heavy
mortality in the southwest is that~the
railroads in that section have too large
a proportion of their capital securities
in the form of interest bearing obliga-
tons
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-10-25

vIclousls yellow. some attempt to live
by taking. ignoring the simple truth,
and seeking the notoriety which
.'snappy sterIeS born in irresponsible
reporters h.ads will afford them. An
Intelligent public. however. soon
learns which newspaper is endeavor-
ing to tell the truth.
Much has been said in accusation
of the "funnies.'' The .funnies"
teach many lessons in manner COM
prehensible to the child mind. The
newspapers would like to eliminate
them, howe>e on account of the
heavy cost. 'Funnies' are printed
only because there is a tremendous de-
mand for them. The very great ma
jority of parents see no harm in them,
and furnish them to their children as
a proper diversion.
There is infinite good in the con-
servatWe newspaper and by that
term conservative is meant not po-
litical reaction nor capitalistic ten
denotes, but merely a desire to print
facts in a pleasing, but not flamboy-
ant or f1ippant manner. News is not
news if it is untrue.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-10-25
Clio be Sights
BY THE ATCHIsON GLOBE.

So many of the patent cigar lighters
won't light.
Women often remind one of canary
birds in a flutter.
Men used to be good, but now they
are only careful.
1t is when you pay that it is hard
est to have your way.
Only old-fashioned men now ask
the question, Does advertising pay :?
Sometimes it seems that journalism
consists of being painfully careful.
One of the finest things you can
do now, following the worlds series,
is to go to work.
An able agent is one who can con-
vince his victim that he (the agent)
is a public benefactor
Father often makes a rapid re-
covery from his illness because no one
pays any attention to him.
A lot of young ladies are led to be-
lieve that dancing is wicked after
some big mutt" has stepped on their
feet.
What was the most memora BILE oc-
casion in your life? Personally we
have always considered the day we
were born to have been very important
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-10-25
FACTS ABOUT SUGAR.

Instead of suffering ruin, as was
predicted by the opponents of re-
duction in the sugar tariff, the beet
sugar industry appears to be thriving
as it has never done before.
For the first time in the history of
the sugar industry. American-grown
beet sugar is now on sale in every
state of the Union with. the possible
exception of Louisiana.
During the past few weeks the price
of sugar in all parts of the United
States has declined to the lowest point
it has reached during the entire year.
Beet sugar is produced by sixty-slX
separate factories scattered across the
country from Ohio and Michigan to
the Pacific coast. The eastern fac
tories did not begin the seasons oper-
alton of extracting sugar from the
beets until October 1. The output of
these factories is just coming upon the
market. In California, the beet sugar
factories began operating in August.
A few of them opened as early as
T111u
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-10-25
Kansas Comment
RIGHT AND WRONG.


We are always getting pfhlosophi-
Leavenworth Times. Recently, the
sion of the relation of the church 70
of politics is changing. while the NOR
atty of the church is eternal. Which
is all right, except that it isn't true
right for Solomon to keep r.istresses.
wrong to do it today. David did lot
of things that would get him churched
today. Seventy-five years ago it was
that are accepted today. Sixty years
ago church members held slaves.
Twenty years ago an editor could ac-
cept lottery advertising. Today even
patent medicine advertising is getting
off color. 1t is always wrong to steal;
but definitions of theft change. 1t is
always wrong to murder, but things
like, for instance, putting men and
women in phosphorus match fac
tories and killing them-that are
murder today were not murder ten
or twenty years ago. Lying, adultery,
covetousnesS-all the moralities-are
expanding in their scope. And many
things that our fathers did without
thought, we are forbidden. Tomor-
row many of the things we do will be
barred. Right and wrong, in politics
and out of it, in the church and in
the state, change with the passing
years. There are no absCl'iies in
morality.-Emporia Gazette.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-10-25
Jayh ker Jots

There is nothing so rare as a day
in June, says the Wichita Eagle, ex-
cept a perfect October day in Kansas.
Larned has begun making improve
ments by first paving the residence
streets and allowing the business thor
| oughfares to wait
A Beloit colored citizen, is insistant
in his endeavor to keep something go
ing on in that town to prevent stag
nation by changing the color of the
wool on his head, by. dyeins it every
week. The last change, according to
the Daily Call, was from a light tow
color to a brilliant red. He's bound to
have something going on in that town.
if his genius is equal to the emergency.
The board of education of Newton
has decided to grant pay to teachers
who attend the State Teachers asso-
citation and also to give to each teach
er an extra $500 to apply on the ex-
pense of the trip. The board has stat
ed that it expects" the teachers all
to attend. That means that any
teacher who does not attend without
rea sonable excuse will to say the least,
be rather conspicuous
The press dispatches about the suf-
frage parade in Boston, says the New
ton Republican. did not have line
about Billy Morgan and his inimitable
smile. True, a few grapevine mes
sages have been worked out by his
friendly fellow newspaper men here at
home, but the eastern correspondents
ought to more fully appreciate their
opportunities Billy Mo gan is the
biggest little suffragette of them all.
October in Kansas: No goblet
sparkling with the royalty Of vintage
ever contained half the eXhilaration
every minute one of these perfect days
radiates. No painting of inspired
genius ever had such exquisite color
ings No jewels were ever so flawless,
and the person who can live through
one and still nourish a crouch in his
gizzard might just as well go out be-
hind the barn and hang himself, for
his case is hopelcss.-Herbert Cave
ness.
The Paola Republican prints the
following regarding it's fellow towns
man, Barney Sheridan: Editor B. J.
Sheridan is dabhling some in farm
property and stockraising. Recently
his son-in-law, Frank l<oerler, re-
moved from Kansas City to farm in
West Valley in which Mr.. Sheridan
has an equity. Frank was not feeding
the hogs exactly to suit the boss, SO
the big man laid aside the many and
out to the farm and mixed up a barrel
of slop for the hogs after his own no.
ton. Shorts did not carry weight
enough to suit the town man and his
eyesight is becoming a. trifle defective,
so he mixed a sack Of agatite and |
filled the troughs. At last accounts
the hogs were alive, but A. B. Reed, |
who was doing some mason and plas-
tering work at the farm, was sonle-
what annoyed to have his agatite
used for such purpose"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-10-25

ninpav Rat walked up in the pleas
ant autumn twilight and stretched out
his wings as far they would 60
don't know whether to hunt for food
TONIGHT or not" he said thoughtfully.
s.The eating is far from good these
DAYS. That old fellow they call Jack
Frost certainly does interfere with my
meals Since he paid a visit to the
garden the other night, have had
the greatest trouble finding enough
bugs to eati'
He crawled down toward the door
of the house and was just deciding
whether or not he should start out
when who should come running in but
Tommy Tittle-mouse himsen'
"Good evening, Dingey Bat, said
Tommy pleasantly "Going out?''
.@That 1 am" replied Dingey, de-
Gliding all of a sudden that he must
have some breakfast (of course his
breakfast was Tommy's supper, be-
cause he slept an the day)- Are you
coming in?"
yes" said Tommy. these autumn
davs 1 get very sleepy and 1 like to
turn in early. What do you mean to
do for the winter
.aThe winter does not worry me
very much" laughed Dingey, be
cause 1 sleep all the time anyway.
All have to do is to get myself SO
fat that I can sleep with comfort
through all the cold. / shall stay
in the far corner or your. mousse ana
Won won't hear a sound from me all
the winter through But I must eat
more before l sleep.
Eat rnore?" asked Tommy. why,
pingey. you are SO fat now you can
not fly straight
Really ?'f exclaimed Dingey in
great delight. You couldn't tell me
anv better news, Tommy 1 was
afraid I was not putting on fat enough.
But perhaps 1 am worrying for moth
ing. Maybe I will be fat enough with
out eating more
Better not stop too soon.' advised
Tommy MIR. Garden Toad tells me
that the winter win be long and cold
this year I am storing up all the
food I can get. Mrs. Tommy has it
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-10-25
ABOUT NEWSPAPERS.

The receipt of a complimentary
letter from q subscriber leads the
Tacoma News to make the following
comment on newspapers in general:
After ali the newspaper is very
human institution. If it is a real
newspaper, it is very, very human, for
it is, as often has been said, a true
mirror of human conduct. If the
newspaper at times seems to be re-
fleeing the evil, rather than the good
side of men, its human traits are the
more plainly revealed. For is not that
one of tn. most protuberant of hui
man characteristics? Most congrega-
lions of women and men will be
found discussing their neighbors
faults, rather than their virtues; and
the majority seems to be at the tape,
fully conditioned and logged, to run
down ABOUT any person praised by
newspaper or by an individual. Isn't
it the truth?
If the newspaper may seem to be
mirroring more of the unlikable than
the likable side of humanity, it is be-
cause that is the unusual side. We
assume it to be plain duty of man
to support and protect his wife and
children-a duty to which no bou-
quets are thrown because it is simple
duty. If ne mistreats his family, that
is a violation of duty, an unusual cpl
sode in contravention of the usual rule,
and ii is this unusual thing that makes
news. 1t also points a moral BY the
contrasts the tr-s way is pointed out.
But the real newspaper does not by
any means concern itself wholly with
the seamy side of life. The good that
men do finds it's place in the prints.
The worlds forward movements are
given abundant space. The bright
side of human conduct is pictured.
The upward trend is emphasized.
Good hunol and optimism abound.
The honorable newspapers chief mis-
sion is to establish a sound public
opinion.
The newspaper is created for thou
sands of readers. Some of them like
baseball; some like marine news;
some like editorials; some like Euro
pean news SOM like society news.
Some like AMI read everything in
newspaper, and read it from cover to
cover. Il a rea er is not fond of
sports he should not condemn the
newspaper for printing sporting news.
because that IS a one-sided and self
ish view. Why not condemn a grocery
store for Offering kippered salmon for
sale when one does not like kippered
salmon?
made for all newspapers. Some are
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-10-25
On the Spur
of the Moment
By ROY K. MOUL-ON.

Pirates.
The pirate of old
Went forth for gold
ana sailed on a perilous deck.
BY the skull and cross-bones
and the weird Davy Jones
lie got 1t and gems by the peck.
The old pirate chief
was picturesque thief
VINO never would stoop to disguise.
In the open he fought
When it CHANGED that he caught
strange ship that looked like a prize.
The pirate todays
Has different way:
lie does not fare forth on the sea
with an ak or a knife
To fight for his life
smooth proposition is he.
He knows in advance
Ihat he takes no chance
or facing the plank or the rack.
For legal advice
He has paid a long price;
his victim can never fight back.
In mad money lust
He gets up a trust,
And corners a thing people need,
Or some mining scheme
That sounds like q dream.
Get the dough-" is his undying creed.
The pirate of old
If the truth should be told,
Was an honest old thief in a way.
He was surely a gent,
With q sincere intent,
When compared with the pirate today.