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Norwich bulletin., 1915-03-20

Tomorrow is perpetual dream the thing upon which we base most of our hopes. What do we not plan to do tomorrow, even on the toner row of death, when the only hold we have is upon Now. The rogue finds a refuge in tomorrow for that is when he proposes to pay his debts and to live a different life. So many promises have been made for the morrow and never kept that Tomorrow is not far from being the liars refuge. '"To- morrow" says Shakespeare, "it is a period nowhere to be found in all the hoary registers of tine'' Tomor- row is the shadow land of a weak hope and the tocsin of Delay. It is rot a good use of the mind to think what you will do tomorrow-tomorrow is never a scene of action, that belongs to today, and formed the record of yesterday. Tomorrow applies wholly to things deferred.
Norwich bulletin., 1915-03-20

When an old man falls in love he not only breaks himself up, but he jars the whole community. It is a serious fall and too often his dignity and decency go with it. It is a rare exception when an old man makes out to fall in love with the acrobatic grace which marks the action of youth. It is this tendency of the old man which gave birth to that firm lily ground maxim: There is no fool like an old fool" It is really better that prayer books should be the toy of age than that women should No goo zoos become age, but gravity usually does. Some one has said: Woe to the man who becomes old without becoming wise;" and he is usually wise in declining new enterprises. It is thoughtless rather than thoughtful old age which rends itself or jars a neighborhood by such fall. To know how to grow old is splendor and respecta- bility is an accomplishment.
Norwich bulletin., 1915-03-20


 if we do not look out for ourselves
 in old age the corners of the mouth
 draw down and we come to repre-
 sent the vinegar of life as we'll as it's
 When there is no sugar in the bowl, of course, a condition of uncertainty has been set up; but that is the time when it is better to wait than to worry. Those who abide with Pa tience keep. sweet, for she always seems to have sugar enough to go round; but those who sit down with Despair soon grow sour and feel sour and look sour. When it gets a good hold upon us the Vinegar of life is capable of expressing itself through every pore. Vinegar is good apple juice in state of fermentation and decay. A little vinegar on the table goes a good ways-an excessive quan- tity is ruinous. It will curdle the milk of human kindness and give rs a faca becoming only to a nirata
Norwich bulletin., 1915-03-20

Do you know what a man thinks of money discloses what he is. The world recognizes that money is power, al though thought is more powerful and love more powerful still. It is really the thought back of it which gives money it's force for good or evil. What a person thinks of money discloses what he is. For instance, and this is undeniable, the person who thinks money will do anything is open to do anything with money. Money is Janus faced because it reflects the faces of it's devotees most of wh h'ch are as various as the gargoyles W 2 behold in architectural freizes; and as fierce as the worst of them. Money looks it's best when the thought of the Christlike sends it to clothe the naked and succor the famishine. Money is our personal representative in the affairs of men and it tells where we are mentally and what we are at heart.
Norwich bulletin., 1915-03-20

You may have heard the expression "When it comes to looks, what do they amount to-" An observing person knows they amount to a good deal, viewed from the winning side of life. Of course. no one can tell the quality of cigar by the wrapper, or the char acter of a man by his Sunday suit of clothes, or the charm of a woman by the style of her cloak. Looks has a well established reputation for being deceptive, as the highwayman discov- cred who killed printers apprentice to get diamond of plain glass under laid with tinfoil. I recall a fool who looked like a philosopher and he would always have been taken for one could he have kept his mouth shut. A man cannot be a success who looks like a misfft in the pulpit, in any business or on the water wagon. Looks from any point of view tell, and what they tell counts either for or against us, so it is well to have a care about our ap- pearance.
Norwich bulletin., 1915-03-20

Norwich, Saturday, March 20, 1915.
Norwich bulletin., 1915-03-20

Everywhere were guns, pistols
The Seward gateway., 1915-07-24
FAIRBANKS SWELTERS;
 SOL WORKS OVERTIME.

Fairbanks June 2S.-If the people throughout the United States think that the definition of the word Alaska is iceberg" they would have been disillusioned yesterday, had they the privilege of spending few hours in Fairbanks. Not in the his tory of the town has the thermometer been known to reach the point that it did yesterday, according to old-timers and records kept by the Northern Commercial Go.
 At Mcintosh & KubOn's drug store yesterday morning at 2 o'clock their guaranteed thermometer registered S2 degrees above zero. During the day the mercury went upward until ST degrees was reached At noon, during the shower that fell, the ther- mOmeter showed 8 drop of 22 de- grees.
 On June 22, 1913. the thermOm- eter at the Northern Commercial Co. registered 90 degrees above zero. The maximum temperature at the Red Cross drug store yesterday after noon was 94 degrees above zero.
 At his residence on COwles street Romeo HOyt put a thermometer in the sun yesterday morning and within a short time the mercury jumped to 115 degrees above zero. This prob ably is the highest ever recorded in interior Alaska within the memory of the oldest sOurdough.
The Seward gateway., 1915-07-24
WILL NOT EXTEND THE
 COPPER RIVER K. R.
Steve Birch Says the Government in Its Wisdom Saw Fit to
 Pass Up COrdOva.

That the Copper River railroad will not be extended to the Boring coal fields and that the Alaska Syndicate will not build a shelter at Cordova is the bad news received by the Cor dova Times from Stephen Birch, managing director of the Syndicate The times quotes Mir. Birch as saying;
 Tt was our original plan to build a snur to the coal fields with the pos sible extension of the railroad to the interior but the government, in its wisdom, saw fit to stop development of the Copper River valley and dis courage capital from further>railroad building. Now it is up to the govern ment to open up and develOpe what ever section of the territory it sees fit"
 The Times continues by calling on the people there not to "allOw Cor dova to be the football in the political game that is being played at Wash ington," because the government did not build there.
The Seward gateway., 1915-07-24
GERMAN GUNS HEARD IN THE CITY or WARSAW
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The Seward gateway., 1915-07-24
VALDEZ BUILDING UP,
 SAYS VIM. KINGSLEY

That the people of Valdez are full of ambition and determined to create a better town out of the ashes is the statement of William Kingsley, the architect, who came from that city last evening on the Watson. The debris is nearly all cleaned up, Mir. Kingsley says, and several are al ready preparing to build Some whose properties were not insured are heavy losers. One lady, Mrs Blackwell, had no insurance, and lost her house, money and jewelry. The ashes of her place are now being sluiced for whatever is left of her valuables. The approach to the dock was burned, but new approach has been improvised.
The Seward gateway., 1915-07-24
THUNDER CLAP
 SHAKES JUNEAU
BUILDINGS ROCK AND LIGHT MING FLASH RINGS FIRE
 BELL AND KILLS TREE.

JUNEAU, July 23.-A lightning flash of such frightful intensity visit ed this city today that it rang the fire bell. It was followed by a peal of thunder that shook the buildings of the city to their foundations and scar ed many of the residents. One bolt struck a tree about a mile south of the city and killed it, and struck the earth above the cemetery, only half a mile from the heart of the town. Had either hit the city itself the con sequences would probably have been awful but as it was no damage was inflicted except that the fuses blew out.
The Seward gateway., 1915-07-24
SHEEN REPORTS
 RICH STRIKE
SAYS SURFACE OF LEDGE AT MOOSE PASS PANS 3 TO
 DOLLARS.

What is probably the richest quartz strike ever made in Alaska has just been made by Frank Skeen and J. W. Stevenson in the Moose Pass. The strike was made on the eighth Of this month and the two lucky finders re- turned yesterday afternoon with five ounces of gold which they banned from the ledge on the surface. The extraordinary richness of the ore may be judged by the fact that they washed several pans worth two to three dollars and did this in a small twelve inch pan while part of the dirt banned was solid rock that of course, could not be washed. Mr. Skeen says the rock is the richest he has ever seen in a long career de- voted to mining. The ledge is four teen inches wide at its greatest width and has been traced for sixty feet The discoverers estimate the value of the rock for all that distance at Sl,- 900 to $2,5OO a ton and they believe that the amount of rock exposed carries not less than $15OOOO.
 The claims owned by Messrs Skeen and Stevenson are known as the Champion and the Gladiator. Another indication of the richness of the ledge is that one man can mortar out an ounce a day from the solid rock. Some of the ore was brought in by the discoyerers and shows free gold all over it. Dr. Baughman who has been visiting the place came back also yesterday and coincides with the view that the find is of amazing richness and of the most extreme importance to the whole district.
The Seward gateway., 1915-07-24
START TO SURVEY THE
 OLD TERMINAL TRACT.
All Doubt Put at Rest as to the Place Which Will be Divided
 Into Lots.

The party of engineers who came to survey the ground which will be used for railroad purposes, and also for city lots if there is any left, started to work yesterday and the start was made in the Terminal tract wn' h Chairman Edes of the Engineering Commission said was the place meant to be withdrawn by President Wilson. J. F. Warner, who is in charge of the surveying party, stated last night in answer to a question that the Termin- al tract is the place, sure enough, al luded to in the telegram which stated that the president had signed the withdrawal of eight-seven acres. The tract contains about sixty acres and the remainder is made up of ground to the north of the tract.
The Seward gateway., 1915-07-24
FORMER JUNEAU MAN
 IN BATTLE OF YPRES

JUNEAU, June 15.-Charles L. Hunt, former Seattle reporter, and at one time stationed at Juneau, on the United States revenue cutter Rush, went through the thick of the recent fighting at Ypres, when the Canadian troops suffered so severely, according to a brief letter received from him by a friend in Seattle. Hunt is lance corporal in No. 8 company fifteenth battalion, forty-eighth Highlanders of Toronto. The forty-eighth is part of the third brigade.
The Seward gateway., 1915-07-24
MISS SYLVIA MOLD IS
 NEW HIGH SCHOOL TEACHER.

At a meeting of the school board yesterday morning at the residence of Mrs. F. L. Ballaine the matter of next years teachers came up. Miss Sylvia Wold who has taught in Val deg, is a graduate of the University of Washington and has good recom- mendatiOns, was chosen as high school teacher. It will be remember ed that Miss WOld spent the Christ mas vacation in Seward three years ago as the guest of Miss Jeannette Dall, who was then the High school teacher. Mrs. FOrgy was elected to teach the higher grades. Miss Frances Root was reelected to teach the Primary grades.
The Seward gateway., 1915-07-24
COL. sLEICHER ARRIVES.

Colonel Sleicher, president of the Leslie-Judge Publishing Company, ar rived on the Watson last evening and was met by committee of the Com mercial Club. He and his boys were shown around the city by the com mittee and the Colonel expressed the greatest interest and pleasure at all he saw. Leslie's Weekly has recently done splendid work for Alaska. In the July 15 number of that publica- ton pictures of Seward are to ap- pear, or have appeared, according to information received by the Gateway
The Seward gateway., 1915-07-24
BECKER MAY SECURE ONE
 MORE CHANGE FOR LIFE
State Must Show Cause Why Con- demned Man Should Not Have
 Another Trial.

NEW YORK, July 24.-The court has decided that the state must show cause next Monday why Becker should not be granted a new trial. The order has been based on new evi- dence just obtained. The execution was fixed for the week beginning to- day and within seven days the ex- lieutenant Of police would have to face the electric chair if the new trial were not granted. It is believed by his lawyers that this trial cannot now be refused and the whole matter may have to be gone over again.
The Seward gateway., 1915-07-24
VIENNA SAYS RUSSIANS FAIL

VIENNA, July 24-The Russians have failed to stop the TeutOnc advance southeast of Warsaw and we are still advancing nOrthward with the purpose of threaten ing the rear of the garrison of the Polish capital The fighting in that quarter in desperate The enemy fight ing with the energy of desperation and leaving nothing undone to stop our advance The Germans are attacking to the west and north with fierce determination. The hostile positions are strong and the driving back of the Russians has had the effect of concentrating their power The task before us is still serious but we are coni dent of winning soon the supreme victory.
The Seward gateway., 1915-07-24
EMPLOYEES HOUSES TO BE
 BUILT BY COMMISSION
Architect Already Retained by Chair man of Engineering Com
 mission.

Chairman Edes, of the railroad commission, has issued orders for the erection of four houses to be occupied by employees, construction to be begun as soon as material can be brought up from Seattle. The houses will be frame, a story and half, with entrance hall, living room, dining room, kitchen, pantry, etc., on the first floor, with two bedrooms, bath room, linen closets, etc, on the attic floor.
 The houses will be equipped with modern plumbing and wiring and will be built on the tract of land recently cleared on the west side of Fourth avenue on the sixty-acre tract now being surveyed.
 However inexpensive, the houses will be of a very attractive design and substantial construction. A fea- ture in the living room will be a large brick fireplace.
 c. w. Winstedt, the well-known ar chitect, has been retained by Chair man Edes as architect and superin- tendent of construction for the four cottages, which are expected to be oc- cupied before October 1st.
The Seward gateway., 1915-07-24
HATCH DYNAMITE PLOTS
 AGAINST WAR FACTORIES.

CLEVELAND, July 23.-The Fed eral officials have formally warned the Peerless and White automobile companies and the American Wire company that plots are now being matched to blow them up with dyna- mite. All the companies named are manufacturing munitions of war and the supposition is that the alleged plots are being directed by German sympathizers.
The Seward gateway., 1915-07-24
TURKS MASS TROOPS

CONSTANTINOPLE, July 24.-Great forces of Turkish troops are now being massed on GaIpoi pen nsula with the probable intention of making the greatest effort of the campaign to drive out the invaders The in eference of Bulgaria is believed to have been rendered out of the question by the defeat ot the Russians Gac and Turkish troops may be detached without risk from Adranope and Constantinope for service at the front The newspapers of this city already victory ahead and are goatng over the discontinue Of the archenemy ot tbe Ottoman empire, Russia.
The Seward gateway., 1915-07-24
LEFT ON WATSON.

The following went out on the Watson this morning:
 L. L. Nelson, Jeannette Sanders, Mir. Koch and son, J. H. NichOld, c. c. Weir, George Degnan, Miss Ethel Bennett, A. c. Taylor, J. F. Coffee and fifteen second class.
The Seward gateway., 1915-07-24
WATSON ARRIVES.

The Watson arrived last night and proceeded to Anchorage at 1 o'clock this morning. She had from Seattle eight first class passengers for Se- ward. eleven for Anchorage and about twenty-five round trip passengers in addition to a large number of steer
The Seward gateway., 1915-07-24
GOVERNMENT RAISES
 MACHINIST WAGES

WASHINGTON, July 24. - The navy department has raised the wages of the machinists working in the arsenals to equal the wages paid the same class of workers by private concerns. Owing to the tremendous increase of such work wages have risen to an unprecedented status.
The Seward gateway., 1915-07-24
WILSON TO RESUME VACATION.

WASHINGTON, July 2S.-Presi- dent Wilson has decided to resume his vacation at Cornish as there is nothing in international affairs which is believed to demand immediate at tention.
The Seward gateway., 1915-07-24
Austrian Fleet Attacks Italian Coast and Italy Claims Vic tory on the Frontier--Turks Massing on Gallipoh.
WARSAW IMPROBABLE

PETROGRAD, July 24-The Russian military authorities consider Warsaw impregnabe and official German guns can now be heard booming from the heart of the city but not until few days ago did the enemy reach the really formidable obstacles which confront him. By the falling back of our lines in Gaca and in the north our defending forces have been rendered more pact while we have great Notifications along present line to Stiffen our front
The Seward gateway., 1915-07-24
FRENCH OFFICIAL SAYS FRANCE
 BLEFDS BUT WILL FIGHT 10 END
* * * * * .: * < (: .: * * .: TENSION IN MEXICAN * < AFFAIRS IS GROWING *

WASHINGTON, July 24.-The sit uation around Mexico City is very un- certain and the tension is growing. President Wilson is urging the Red Cross to persevere in its efforts to get supplies into the capital, but, al- though six cars of provisions are ready, there is no means of getting to the city and much suffering may occur.
The Seward gateway., 1915-07-24
HORRIBLE.

TACOMA, July 24.-Three hundred physicians and their wives ran the gauntlet of forest fires yesterday to visit Mount Rainier. The physicians have been attending a convention here.
The Seward gateway., 1915-07-24
< * .. * .: * < * < .: .: * ; EMPTY ESCAPES AND * * KIDNAPPER ARRESTED |:

IDAHO FALLS, July 24.-Empey the stock raiser who was kidnapped some days ago, has escaped from his jailors and the man who kidnapped him has been captured by cowboys.
The Seward gateway., 1915-07-24
ITALIANS CROSS ISONZO

ROME July 24-The Italian army has crossed the Isonzo river and has succeeded in blocking the Austrian communication with Placa The crossing effected Tn the face of strong opposition but for an operation of such nature it was accomplished with remarkable success The advance is regarded by military marking distinct period in the campaign.
The Seward gateway., 1915-07-24
BALTIC CARRIES MUNITIONS

NEW YORK, July M--The liner Baltic has sailed for Liverpool with fifty aeropanes and large cargo of general munitions of war for the Entente allies. That her departure known to the Germans cannot be doubted and submarines are almost certain to seek her destruc tion It is hoped that she will be conveyed the Brit ish shores by warships but this is doubted.
The Seward gateway., 1915-07-24
NOTE PUBLISHED

WASHINGTON, July 24-The text of the note sent by this country to Germany has been published but is found to contain nothing remarkably worthy of note which has not already been stated Its briefer docu ment than usual most of the detailed explanations have been included in former communications
The Seward gateway., 1915-07-24
FRANCE TO FIGHT ON

WASHINGTON, July 24-That France is one vast hospital but that it will fight on until Germany IS defeat ed is the statement made here last evening by Emil Hove laque French inspector general of public instruction who is on his way the Panama exposition at San Fran cisco He is confident that finally the central powers will be brought to their knees but he cndy admits that the slaughter of Frenchmen has been frightfu.
The Seward gateway., 1915-07-24
GOMPERS ENDORSES STRIKERS.

BRIDGEPORT, July 24.-Samuel Gompers, who has arrived hero, has endorsed the position of the strikers after having carefully investigated all the conditions.
The Seward gateway., 1915-07-24
AUSTRIANS DESTROY RAILROAD

ROME, July M.-The Austrian fleet visited the Italian shores yesterday and succeeded in destroying part of the railroad that runs from Orona Pedaso but the Italians have been victorious again on the frontier at place called Cara The opinion of the military authorities here is that Austria will not deach greater forces from the eastern front unless she afford to lessen her forces now operating against the Russians.
The Seward gateway., 1915-07-24
SHIPS LOST

BERLIN, July 24-The French submarine Joule is
 missing and is believed to have been lost The British steamer Theresa has been sunk in the Suez canal by Turkish mine Several mines are said to be now floating in the canal and threatening shippnk seriously The Canadian bark Dunsyre has been seized by the Germans
The Seward gateway., 1915-07-24
SWISS FEAR WAR

BERLIN, July 24-General Willie, the commander of the Swiss army, states that Switzerland will be lucky Ii she does not become involved in the war He seems to think that the gravest danger exists of the inability ot his nation to avoid the conflict and is assumed here that if the Swiss fight it will be on the side of Germany and its allies.
The Seward gateway., 1915-07-24

Rev. Father Van der Pol has re- turned to Seward after short ab- sence and will hold services tOmOr- row as usual.
The Seward gateway., 1915-07-24
WILSON GOES TO CORNISH.

WASHINGTON, July 24.-Presi- dent Wilson departed this morning for Cornish and will be absent for a week.
The Seward gateway., 1915-07-24
APOLOGIES TO NORWAY

CHRISTIANIA, July 24-The government of Great Britain has apOOgzed to Norway for having carried the war into Norwegian waters when German ship was forced ashore on the Norwegian coast and followed inside the three miles limit by British warship.