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that the boats from Cordova go into and out from the lake, and during the sum- mer months the stream is gay with canoes, rowboats and power crafts of every description. The lake teens with the winter it is sometimes frozen over, and is then used for skating and sleigh ing. There is some fishing done at that time through holes in the ice.
 Leaving the lake we passed through dense forest of spruce, some of the trees of which were two feet in diameter. We then wound our way over the Copper river delta, crossing stream after stream, which come from the great glaciers of the interior. The flats extend for a dis tance of IS miles east and west, a wide expanse of green level land, half swamps, with water here and there showing out of the green. There are ducks and geese on the ponds They fly up and away as the train comes. We could often see walls of green ice from the train. The glaciers reached the clouds that dark rainy day. There was a dense forest between us and them. The ice seemed to be looking at us over the trees.
 We rode by several fox farms, com s, and black foxes within; and further on at one side we saw the graves of some miners who tried in vain to get through by this way to the Klondike in the gold rush of 1S9S
 Some parts of the flats are flooded by the ocean at high tide. There are many bridges. At Mile IS the bridges seem to go from island to island. We are crossing the mouths of the stream. As we left Round Island we passed through snowsheds on the flats. It is an unusual thing to build snowsheds on the level. A little further on we crossed Long Island, and at Mile 34 came to the Hot Cake Channel bridge. It is so called be- cause a party of engineers were shut up there during the railway construction and for weeks had nothing to eat but hot cakes They called the place Hot Cake channel, and so it is known to this day.
 The road goes over flats like these all the way to the foot of the mountains It winds about through the delta, cross wade through the mud to lay out the route, and it was hard to find a solid roadbed. At Mile g we were only B miles from the Boring river coal field, and 20 miles further on came to the narrow passage through which the road runs be- tween the Miles and Childs glaciers. Here the road crosses; the Miles Glacier bridge,
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THE COPPER RIVER RAILWAY

from where it was proposed to extend the road on to Fairbanks.
 The company has office buildings and machine and car shops at Cordova It has also built a large ocean wharf accessible to steamers at all stages of the tide. The cars bring their freight right to the steamers and are unloaded with the minimum of handling. There are ample warehouses and facilities for furnishing the steamers with fresh wa ter and fuel oil. There is an automo- bile service between the wharf and the town, which is about three quarters of a mile away. As soon as our ship came to anchor the matches were raised and we began to load copper ore. The ore cars were automatically dumped and the bags of copper, each holding about half-bushel, were shot from the cars right into the hold of the steamer. The loading went on for almost a day, and during that time we took in a cargo valued at about $500, ,000
 Among the arguments advanced in favor of the government buying the Copper River and Northwestern rail- road was that the traffic already devel- oped would have made the railroad a live working proposition from the very start. The route taps the Wrangell range, the richest known mineral sec tion of Alaska This range has gold, copper and silver. It has the richest copper mines of the world. and some which are now producing 60,000, 900 pounds Of copper a year at cost of less than cents pound. The road is now bringing down from the Kennicott mines 200 carloads of such ore per month, and it's yearly revenue from that source is something like g., ,O00, 900. The ore is charged freight according to it's value, and that now coming down averages over 70 per cent pure copper and pays at the rate of s1000 carload. Some of the lower grade ores pay only $7 or $S ton.
 Another argument made for the Cop per River railroad was it's accessibility to the, Boring river coal field, which is only 32 miles from the present tracks and about 75 miles from Cordova This Is the coal that was so widely discussed when Mir. Clifford Pinchor and others made their great campaign for conser- vation. It is of excellent character, and it could be brought here to Cordova for smelting and reducing the ores. There are at present being mined about Prince William sound and in the mountains nearby ores amounting to 5000 tons per month. Much of this goes over the railway to Cordova, and
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-05-14
Why 12 O'Clock Was Late
m Youths Companion

From Youths Companion.
 certain village in northern Mexico did not boast of a town clock. When 12 o'clock arrived the parish priest used to tell his servant to mount the helfry and strike the church bell 12 times, so that the villagers would know that it was high noon.
 One of the neighbors, who had a watch. noticed that for some days 12 o'clock had struck few minutes late. Thinking that perhaps the priests watch was slow. he asked the mozo (servanD why it waa that he had delayed in striking the hour The mozo answered:
 It IS this way: The padrecito tel,u me It IS time to strike 12. but just as [ am ready to start up the ladder the cook tells me to get the tortillas So I have 10 go after the tortillas, and when get back and climb the ladder again it makes the noon late''
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Studying Law

audiense rose up and presented him with lot os diseased eggs token of theere appreciation but yet he did not falter. That's what you must do Car rot if at times the future does not brite but the horrizun is overcast and gloomy and you have been defeeted for cunstabull by a red heded man rum the tburd presinct just brase up and think of Demosthesneeze and go rite ahed deturmined that you will be polytisian Also theere Patrick Hennery of whom doubt, you have herd, Carrot who a grate orrater Patrick Hennery, if you remember Carrot, threw down ultimattum to the tloody tyrent that if he could not have 1bberty he wanted deeth He wanted deeth he sed, but theere spesiaI hurry about it. You mite reed up all the frery utterenses orratorrical effurts of Demosthesneeze and Patrick Hennery, in which they sed if theere must be war, '1et Ter cum theere by hildng up grate reputasion without having to fe for it.
 If theere is ennything else you want to know at erny time Carrot, you mite rite to and will tell you if l know what you want and if don't know I'll tell you enny way. discuss grate menny things quite freely. Carrot, that I don't know enny thing about. Hoping you air the same,
 Yours trooly,
 BILL VINES Washington, D. c.
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who does not observe very closely would hardly notice the difference.
 Hello, New York;" is announced as the summer show for the Columbia thea tre. It will have it's premiere Monday evening, and will run all summer, unless well, you understand.
 Some of the attractions which may TOW be called meritorious beyond all question, on account of the length of runs, they have had and in view of the con- tnued crowds that attend them are: Re- public. Common Clay;' Longacre, Leo Ditrchstein in ''The Great Lover" Astor. the Conan Revue, 1916; Candler's Jus tice;" Belasco "The Boomerang;" Atop the New Amsterdam; ''Ziegfelds Mid right Frolic;' Princess, Very Good Ed die;' Casino, ''The Blue Paradise;" Booth, The Correspondent" Winter Garden, Robinson Cruesoe, Jr.," Thirty-ninth Street. "A King of No- where with Lou Tellegen Empire. "Rio Grande; Gaiety, Mrs Fiske, in "Erst- While Susan" the Conan, Mitz Hajos in "Pom-Pom.' Liberty "Sybil;" Hudson. The Cinderella Man" Fulton "A Woman of no Importance" with Mar garet Anglin; Criterion, '"The Melody of ioulh, Eltlhge, falr ana warmer, Hippodrome, Hip, Hip Hooray:s' Punch and Judy, Treasure Island"
 One of the prettiest sights New Workers have recently beheld was seen Tuesday when nearly 10000 school girls danced upon Sheep Meadow. in Central park. They were all dressed in white. and in the center was a pavilion whereon 100 musicians played for them. The occasion was the annual fete of the girls branch of the Public Schools Athletic league.
 Some things are more dangerous than the movies: Pearl White. movie &C., tress recently climbed from the roof of 20-story building to that of a six-story
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across the Atlantic, or Mexl- |can ovation in honor of the United States flag That doesn't mean that we are
 short on rations-no, death by starvation |here is rapidly becoming but memory of |other days, but 1t does mean that the
 chef. or cooks, who cannot fill the re-
 quirements of some one of the 5000 or
 more restaurants, or of the hotels in .Gotham, had best go into vaudeville or
 some other lucrative business-families that want them are getting scarce indeed. All these eating places would not con- |tinue to keep their doors open; would not .be continually enlarging and improving, if they were not getting the business, and .they would not be getting the business kf people were eating home-cooked meals
 as much as they did in other days Thus
 much a visitor may easily deduce from
 a mere stroll along Broadway and few
 glances at the crowded interiors of all kinds of restaurants, from the Cafes des .Enfants" (Childs restaurants), to the
 more pretentious Rector's, Shanley's, .Churchill's and such hotels as the Astor,
 Claridge, Wallick. McAlpn, Martinique Imperial, Breslin, etc.-confning one s
 self, of course. to Broadway only
 There was day, back in the south,
 when an invitation to dinner, unaccom-
 panied by further explanation, might be understood to mean that one was expect
 ed at the home of the person doing the Inviting. That is not the case here today. | If one is invited to dinner, he should be
 pr epared to accompany his host or hos .tess, to any place from quiet, French |cafe, where they serve a 6O-cent dinner. |ncludng pint of red ink" to the pa- |latial Sherrys. on the avenue the last
 named being a unique place, by the way,
 m that 1t has marvellous success, yet
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tipping. Recently a young woman told me of dining with man who after pay ing se for the dinner, tipped the waiter only 50 cents. She declared it had em- barrassed her so that she would not care to dine with him again.
 The average New Yorker knowing the delights, and side attraction of dining at hotel or restaurant, therefore, consid- CTS the home dinner a dreary sort of a proposition. and is willing and even eager to take on the additional expense. Yea, truly, there are many who pay $1 for their daily dinner and receive not more than s for their daily work.
 This attitude no doubt has a discOur- aging effect upon the wife, who may even be willing still to prepare an appetizing home meal, but if she be fortunate enough to hold her husbands affections sufficiently oretain her position as his wis wis at dinner. she often gets the habit herself, and learns to prefer the restaurant dinner to one of her own or of her cooks preparation
 And this brings us to the distinction between the home meal and the meal that is home cooked. Leaving Broadway for a few minutes we shall visit some of the rather imposing. often quite gorgeous apartment buildings which have shat. tered the architectural possibilities of Riverside Drive. At the door of one of these we find uniformed "g' emmun" who seems imbued with a desire to prove to you that he is absolutely devoid of even shred of respect for the members of the nor epallid visaged race.
 He is the first thing to impress one. entering the hall, or court of the build ing, one is next impressed by that. Sometimes fountain plays therein, flow CTS are blooming round about, and the atmosphere of prosperity is unmistakable. Mir. and Mrs. de Smythe live on the sixth view of the Hudson, in summer, in win
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are an infinitesimal part of what can be procured at the modern Manhattan deli catessen. Delcacies that were never recently, and everything that could be cooked at home has been cooked and pre- pared at the delicatessen. All kinds of salads from lobster to chicken, and on down to potato salad: chicken itself can be had there, all done to turn and ready to serve at a moments notice. l am not in the delicatessen business, and, not be- ing desirous of having my money accum- ulate too rapidly eat at restaurants and hotels therefore l can not enter into a detailed description of all they handle, the average delicatessen store here holds everything possible for an elaborate meal, from soup to nuts, from appetizer to aft ermath, and that the prices are such as to make it easy for the Riverside Drive dweller to maintain an apartment that would otherwise necessitate much larger income. And one of the commonest sights along the drive. about dinner time, is the head of the house hurricdly hauling in d large paper bag, or several of them, and trying to look as if he were bring home presents for the baby. But there Isn't hallboy who isn't wise, and all the other apartment dwellers are cock sure of the character of the contents of the bags they handle them themselves. For by this method they save gas, cooks salary. time, trouble, or else the grand total of 8 restaurant table d hote and tips.
 But home cooking-well. the mere smell of it would probably cause gossip. and a for hot biscuit--why, most of us have forgotten whether you eat them with spoon or drink them from teacup
 We are now turning in the direction of summer entertainment. It is never supposed to be quite so lively along the White Way in the summer time but nna
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|T HAVE crossed Prince William fIWl sound from Seward to Cor dova. Seward is the terminus |lS1sRl of the Copper River railway, which was built by the Morgan |Guggenheim syndicate to ops. up their |great copper mines which are at Kenni- |cott, about 200 miles in the interior. The two ports lie almost opposite each other lat the western and eastern ends of the |great bay known as Prince William |sound. Their distance apart is the width of the bay, which is 200 miles.
 Both ports have excellent harbors, free
 |from ice all the year round. Both are close to valuable coal fields, and each
 forms a natural gateway for railroad Ito the interior of the country.
 The railroad commission appointed |by President Taft to plan out the best Hines of transportation for the develop |ment of Alaska chose Cordova and the Copper River road for extension to Fair banks in preference to Seward and the Alaska Northern, but it advised that a |second road be built from Seward around Cook inlet and across to the Yukon by way of the Iditarod gold region. It |also proposed branch line to the Matan- uShd cOdl IieluS. In6 present dQfnlnlS- |tration has decided that the Seward Fair banks line is the better, and the road
 along that route is now being built. It lis not improbable that the Copper River
 road may be extended at sometime in the future.
 During my stay in Cordova I have taken a trip over this railroad. It's Technical name is the Copper River and Northwestern railway The cars go |smoothly. The passenger coaches are Hike those of the states. Their finish
 lis oak and the seats are upholstered in
 wicker The road is well built and we'll
 ballasted. It has the standard gauge track, with 70-pound rails similar to those on the new government railway |The road crosses the mountains by easy
 grades, having a maximum of not over IS-1O or S-10 per cent, and it is so made |that trainload of about 700 tons can be carried each way. The construction of 'the road began in 1906, and was completed lin 1911 It's cost, it is said, is somewhere
 between $15,000,000 and $2o,O0O, O00 and
 some of it's building shows great skill
 |and scientific engineering. There are 196 miles of road now in operation and upon Ithis there are daily freight trains on the Kennicott branch, and thre trains week between Cordova and Chitina, the station
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building next door where she painted her ihltiafs upon some new framework She c'lmbed back up again and reached tho top In safety. Tuesday, however. John Martin. sign fxer and remover climbed down to rub out the initials placed there by Miss White, fell and was instantly killed.
 Three thousand babies were paraded m Madison and Lexington avenues Thurs day The merchants got together and kept them off Fifth avenue. saving thev would hurt their business They are talk ing an awful chance-the merchants They may be able to handle a strike of their employees, but suppose they precip- ftted baby strike. and the babies re- fused to be born--there would be real trouble in this war-ridden world. mavbe what?
 Ernest Parsons tried to flrt with his own wife, and was naled into court. Ha offered her bunch of flowers-a bououet -on Fifth avenue, but she was with an officer and had him arrested for annov- ing her. Probably. had he tried it on some other wife. he might have "got bv.''
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My Deer Bill I heer that one of the best things
 you do is to give peepul advise need little advise land get it frum you free asking you. II have desided to study law I have sirculer that
 tells me that Tern to be first class lawyer by male What have always craved to do is to be
 lawyer and drift into polyticks think you air in |Washingtun wheere you have had the opportunity
 of studying the polytisians in theere native lair,
 you ought to be abu to tell hole lot about them
 What ought to reed to becum a good polytsian and lawyer? Enny uther infermasion you can throw in. peese do
 Air all lawyers dsonnest?
 Corjully.
 L. FENNYMOOR CARROT. My Deer Carrot: So you would like to becum
 first class lawyer and polytisian, would you? How |nse First class lawyers, Carrot old top-you don't mind calling you old top, do you?-first class lawyers, about to say, air verry scattering birds. Still see reesun why you should hesitate, you becum first class lawyer perhaps in
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-05-14
Countering on the Muse m Browning's Magazine.

' have written poem on--''
 The editor looked up weariIy The blue-eyed blonde young woman was merciless.
 T have written poem on The Old Red Barn on the Farm and
 The weary look disappeared from tho editors face
 An. Delighted. Written it on the old red barn. eh? Fine, I'll be coin~ along by the farm in day or so. and I'll stop at the old red barn ard read it."
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-=AISTUR EDDITUR: I have just reserved the H following lettur frum constituent asking Ms my advise about the best methods for him &MS to persue to becum successful lawyer and
 nolYtisian-the lettur explains itself:
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-05-14
By FRANK G. CARPENTER
Copyright. 1916. by Frank G. Carpenter

NCASi V v ~A, ~AiehoAAe1.
 HAVE crossed Prince William sound from Seward to Cor dova. Seward is the terminus of the Copper River railway, which was built by the Morgan
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-05-14

We are now turning in the direction of summer entertainment. It is never supposed to be quite so lively along the White Way in the summer time, but one
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-05-14

FEW YORK. May 1S.-(Special.)
 The home-cooked, home-eaten
 meal is becoming as rare in New York city as safe passage
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1916-03-21
Keeps Old Age at Bay.

BY establishing in my home d re-
uge spot" to which flee when house
hold tasks appall | have kept Old age
at bay My refuge contains books
cheerful, happy books. When task fol-
lows task, until it seems as if there
would not be hours enough in the day
for their accomplishment; when find
myself becoming nervous and hurry
ing from one thing to another frantic
ally; when a fit of the blues seems
imminent, | simply drop everything,
anywhere and at any hour, and flee TO
my refuge and read myself calm.
Sometimes a few minutes, sometimes
longer. l remain in the land of mag
inaticn, but when / return to my work
am calm and deliberate and can
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1916-03-21
SHIP NINE MONTHS AT SEA;
ITS CARGO VALUE DOUBLES

New York. March 21.-The Ameri-
has reached port after voyage from
Manila. via Honolulu, POnta Arenas
and Colon, that was commenced on
MAY 80, 1915.
During the nine and a half months
THAT the A. j. West was on the way
lhome her cargo of $4,000 feet of ma
lhogany almost doubled in value, Cap
Itain Chapman's little son, Charlie,
learned to walk and the schooner
Isafely weathered three of the worst
|typhoons the Pacific ocean ever has
seen. tt
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1916-03-21
Grandma's EVENING Meal.

!. never wore corsetS or tight fit
ting shoes, and the consequence is |
am free from corns and dyspepsia sor
other distressing ailments. | do all
kinds OF housework weave rugs, and
do variety of fancy work. | belong
to half a dozen social organizations.
| raised family of six children and
have fourteen grandchildren and sew
eral great grandchildren. | am Is
years old. We celebrated our golden
wedding anniversary seven years ago.
My husband is an old soldier of the
civil war. | can eat raw onion and
Il doughnut and so to bed and sleep
like baby. Mrs. E. S.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1916-03-21
LINEN FAMINE PREDICTED

| Columbus. March 81. Columbus
merchants predict linen famine this
year.
| Women, they claim, who have been
accustomed to wearing linen waists
land skirts during summer will find it
practically impossible to secure such
linen. The foreign supply of the cloth
is almost entirely shut off. The
american output is small.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1916-03-21
NEW YORK PAYS $1,5OOOOO
TO HAVE SNOW REMOVED

New York, March 21.-New YOrk's
snow removal this winter has cost
$1,500.000, it was stated by Street
Commissioner FetherstOne. while 5000
extra men battled with the seventh
heavy storm of the winter.
Last year snow cost the city 81
100000.
Suburban passenger lines suffered
delay in the last snowfall.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1916-03-21

NO sooner had Newton D. Baker,
former mayor of Cleveland, taken his
desk as the new secretary of war
than he had to issue the order for
the invasion Of Mexico to catch the
Villa bandits who attacked Columbus.
N. M. He started the machinery
which has resulted in the hunt for
the Mexican bandit leader.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1916-03-21
HOW I KEPT YOUNG

/ accomplish twice at much in half the
time. M. S.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-03-11
TWO GERMAN COMEDIES.

The Concordia German dramatic actors will give their second enter tainment at Bayljes' Hall next Friday evening, on which occasion will be Iroduced two standard German com edjes; one entitled, Mueller and Mil Ter, oder Vie Soil Das Enden, in 3 acts, by Eiz, to be followed by the singing of duet in English, by two little girls, and to conclude with a light comedy in two acts, entitled, Der Sohn auf Roisen, oder Peter ih dei Fremde, by L. Fe1dman- The principal female characters in both pieces will be sustained by Mime. En- geImann,i of New York city. The profits of these entertainments are to be applied to purchase a frst-class German library.