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The Seward gateway daily edition, and the Alaska weekly post., 1920-04-06
C|dSSifiedS

HELP WANTED BY Alaskan Engineering Commission apply Employment Office Seward l2 Timbermen.
 bull cooks.
 flunkeys.
 teamsters. % LaborerS. at Mile 52 WANTED Night jan;tor at the Commission building in Seward. Herring fish bait for sale at Hali- hut Cove, price three cents a pound.
 - FOR SALE Water front proper " for Industrial purposes, in lots to suit. Apply J. s. Hoffman, owner. A 19
 .!.-- WANTED 4 small range, must be in good condition and cheap. In. form Adams 156. AZ .
 -s
 SKIS at J. l.. GRAEF'S.
  Lady Torrington vaccum sweepcrs st CRAFTS Sleds for boys and girls at Graefs.
  RAYO lamps with shades 8 so st Graef's.
 Electric Sewing Machine motors si Graefs.
 National Water Motor Washers at J. l.. Graefs. Elaine Eocene and Pearl Oil ut Graef's.
 --------.:------- Ice Creepers and Skates Gracfs Fishermen's Supplies at Graefs-
  FLASH LIGHTS and batteries at ]. L. Graefs.
The Seward gateway daily edition, and the Alaska weekly post., 1920-04-06
What I Stand For

anu candidate National Committeeman of the Republican rty April for the following principles:
 m not politician for office beOre belong political machine under obligations to clique Jr faction.
 am opposed domination Alaska and elect take my rom the people and nobody else.
 While home Anchorage where received the unanimous Republican Club composed of hundred and fifty members will work for the entire lerrof' o Alaska first asst all the time.
 elect will do utmost to that each locality o' Division officers of that locality dysion and will flight bitterly the appointment of outside of Alaska to an Alaska office
 my 23 years winter and and II feel know what Alaska needs
 The has end to outside dctatiOn in affairs md believe what Alaska needs redes and fewer carpet aggers
 The only rid Alaska of machine politicians Is to vote them People Alaska making this fight for and want help You deliver the and will deliver the goods
The state herald., 1920-12-17

BY MARJORIE
written for The United Presc.) J


for Presc)
New
Have you Turner M
questions which bouses
be at all in the Senatorial Christmas waist
boxes that tell
sashes
landscape murae
hem
One house
chewing her ud harvesters grain field old windmill flock of
chickens picking milking
illustrated in coor
gargoyes and other Oriental figures has waned
houses develop this combination making the half
the
vertib variety
Although most the bouses silks
lingerie bouses
Conventional flesh white o bastes with their hand
linen with scaoped white
lilies the valley white
med
cnder linen scaloped
thus making
model
ble collar
spoye stepn biouses with senced realistic
Thus shrimp
Eeogete has blackeyed Susans atraling it.
Darker blouses black employ
tih
they have been the chemise this winter
models
loose style popular than For immediate
trimmed with chenille hoke
or
The state herald., 1920-12-17

"The center Of the country is
great plateau. rising from 1900 to g..
600 feet, and crossed by frequent
chains of mountains, while n lofty
mountain barrier bounds 1t on the
north and south.
"ln the whole Persian empire there
were In 1910 only six miles of railway,
and only four roads, their totnl length
amounting to fewer than 800 miles.
There is only one navfgable river, the
karun, that flows Into the head Of
the Persian Gulf, and on this sen the
socalled ports are merely oaen road
steads, at which cargo cannot be land
ed In stormy weather.
''rhe merchandise Of Persia is prac-
tically carried on the backs of cam
els, mules and donkeys, a slow and
expensive mode of transport.
"The Persian is of Aryan stock, and
has the same words as ourselves for
father, mother, brother and daughter
(pldnr, madar, bradar, and dukhtar),
and the construction Of his language Is
like that of English.
MANY Perslans have no home life
In the usual sense OF the word A
Persian house is divided Into the BIZ
ROOM, or mems apartments, and the
anderoom. or part cohsccrated to the
women. A strong door, set in n high
/ blank wall, gives entrance to mar
row passage that leads into a square
courtyard on which open several
rooms. Here the men live, and here
they usually entertain their friends.
while their women dwell in rooms set
round an inner courtyard, the only
entrance to which is through the
birooni.
"As a Persian is instructed from
earliest youth that woman's advice
is Of no account-in fact the priests
tell him that he had better do the
exact opposite Of what woman coun-
sels-it can he understood that as a
rule he has no exalted opinion of his
wife or wives, and seldom turns to
them for companionship."
The state herald., 1920-12-17
HOW ARMAGEDDoN
PRCFlTED PERSIA

That cXcoodiugly 100 wind. ihe World
war. blew much good TO one nation.
Persia. for the higher prlcc Of silver
doubled her capital mndr her raw
materials sought nfter by the world.
and removed her from comparative
isolation 10 place among CONNER
cinl nations Of high importance. Writ
Ing TO the National Geographic society
concerning this rcmyenuted ancient
land. Ella c. Sykes says:
"Pcrsin Il one of the oldest empires
IN existence II has been kingdom
for % contnrles-eycr since Cyrus the
Great. about $50 u. c.. conquered
Medln and united the country TO HIS
under the name OF Persia. II has had
many glorious episodes In Its long his.
tory; bns produced the grent tencher
Zoronster; such world-famous poets ns
Firdnwsi. Omnr Khnyyam. Sand and
IInfs. md such great soldiers ind rul
ers ns Darius I. shapur I nnd Sinh
Abbns
Again and ngnln the empire hns
been n prey TO anarchy ng0ln and
agnin conqucrlnF hosts have swept
through the country, Alexander ihr
Great having many n successor thr
most destructive rnnqueror henF
Gouehia Khnn with his hor'lca Of Uig
nre Mongols lcndor who bon 'ul
lint he had Hfin ihiriooH millions of
Ms fellow creatures.
The state herald., 1920-12-17

Great Dome" spreading over sub
terranean cavity nearly as long as the
United States capitol and hundred
feet higher than the capitol dome.
Despite Its inclusion In Austrian ter.
ritory. Trieste's population ana archi-
lecture are Italian. II was the Ter
geste Of Roman history. and today the
walls and pillars Of Roman temple
may be seen encascd In the cathedral
Of San Giusto, n highly composite
structure which also has built into It
three adjacent structures OF the six
teenth century-a Christian bnsilica,
n baptIstery and Byzantine church.
Traces OF Trlcstc's early history
were TO be found before the war In
the Museo Lapidarie. which contains
many Roman antiquities from the vi
cinity.
The state herald., 1920-12-17
TRIESTE: A PLUM OF THE
ADRIATIC DISPUTE

Trieste is one OF the major AdrIatic
pluIns In dispute between Italy and
the newly-forined Jugo-Slav state. the
kingdom of the Serbs, Croats and
Slovenes.
Though Trieste was Austrian. ex-
cept for brief Interval from the
fourteenth century until the World
war dlssipated the. Austrian empire.
the city has had n marked effect upon
Italian history. Its chief Importance
to Austria was commercial. for 1t was
the dual monarchys only great sea-
port.
Tired of double allegiance to
Venice and to AQuieleia. Trieste re-
quested that she be annexed to Aus
tria in 1882. Leopold the pious was
on the Austrian throne. He was
rival to King James Of England In
being ''the wisest fool In NIL Christen-
DOM" Though he expanded his ter
ritory elsewhere. the only acquisition
Of consequence was that OF Trieste.
won through no effort on his part.
Thus Austria gained what was des-
tined to become not only seaport Of
Importance. but also a channel for ex-
erting frequent influence upon the af-
fairs of Italian towns and their rulers
The city is situated on the Gulf Of
Trieste, 3G7 miles southwest of Vienna
by rail. II lies on the eaward slope
OF the karst. or Carso, n strip Of lime
stone hills extending inland from GO to
90 miles. furrowed with ravlnes and
pierced by cayerns. into which many
small streams disappear.
Not far from Trieste. nj Brisciki. Is
the Grotto Giganta. n stalactitc cave.
where tourists throng to see the
The state herald., 1920-12-17
COMMISSIONERS PROCEEDINGS
Continued from page 6.)

State Compensation Insurance Fund,
for the sum Of $39.05. said sum to be
q premium on the insurance OF Phil
lips County employees and run to
June 80. 1921.
On motion the following bills were
allowed:
Big Brick Drug store ....... 36.0l
]. w. McEwen ........... s7s1
On motion the County Attorney was
instructed to draw up proper appii-
cation for federal money for roads
in the sum OF ss0.o0O.0o. Said money
to be used on State road No. 20. he
ginning at the north city limits of
IIclyoke and continuing north and
west on said State rord No. 20 as far
as said money would complete said
road according to government speci-
fications.
on motion Board adjourned 10 meet
January 3 1921, at . o'clocli a. m.
C. l., COLEMAN. Clerk.
The state herald., 1920-12-17

latlon Of 60.OO0: Its manufactured
products include soap. cigars. candles,
cotton cloth and spirits: and Its com.
pulsory education laws. university,
theaters and scientific institutions ut.
test Its regard for culture.
Izaico. perhaps the most famous vol
cano Of the San Salvador republic
belched forth from fine cd hacienda
In 1870. and ever since has tIfelessly
thrown aioft Its mighty volume OF
ashes and gases. With the regularity
OF mammoth natural timepiccc II Is
said not TO have missed n rumbling.
luminous explosion within any half
hour fo,'a century aud half; hence
It's nll; Ne. the Lighthouse of
SALVADOR
Of san Miguel, occasionally active,
one writer said. after seeing the
eruption of isiS; "it Is difficult 10
conceive II Firnder natural object than
this volcano. lis base Is shrouded IN
dansost green. blending with the light
er hucs of tho grussps which succeed
the forest. Above these the yarinu'
The state herald., 1920-12-17

colors melt imperceptibiy into each
other. First comes the rich umber OF
the scOslne. and then the silver tint
of the ncwly-fallen ashes at the sum
nit; and still above all. floating In
heavy opalescent volumes, or rising
like plume to heaven. IL the smoke,
which rolls up eternally from Its In
candescent depths"
There is lake in the republic,
Ilopango. supposed to lie in the. bed
of an old volcanic crater. Out of this
lake volcanic island arose to height
Of l5O odd feet 80 years ago.
Though In no single instance. per-
haps. was great city buried, the con-
stant exhalations of Salvador vol
canoes and Unfolding processes Of its
earth0uakes gradually submerged re.
mains of pre-Columbian civilization.
These traces just now are beginning
to reveal to patient students fasci-
mating facts about this ancient "New
World"
Curious pyramids and rampnrts he
token Il civilization known as Maynn,
even before the region was settled by
the Plplles an early Mexican speaking
people. From such slender threads us
the fact that steps of these pre-his-
torlc temples are higher than they are
wide. must science piece out the re-
lntions of the various ancient states
and cities that flourished on this con-
tlnent during the halcyon days Of
Egypt, PhoenicIa and China. on the
other side Of the globe.
The state herald., 1920-12-17
SAN SALVADOR: DEFER
OF EARTHQUAKES

San Salvador, scene of recent earth
quake shocks. Is the capital Of the
smallest and most populous of Central
American republics. The city is no
stranger to the twin terrors Of earth
quake and volcano.
Within ten seconds an earthquake all
hut destroyed II In 1854, another laid
1t low In 1878, and that of 1917, when
millions of dollars worth of property
was destroyed Is still remembered.
In spite of these fateful blows from
nature. and devastating waves Of man
made revolutions, San Salvador today
is reckoned among the important cities
of the mid-contlneni II has popu-
The state herald., 1920-12-17
RHODESIA: THE LAND OF
MEN, WILD BEASTS AND
NATURAL BEAUTY

Africa. not SO long ago regarded, for
the most part, as ''sepulcher Of the
worlds most daring explorers" now
engages the attention Of the world be-
cause Of Its vast natural resources and
Its industrial possibilities.
Material furnished the National
Geographic society by II. d. Parsons.
Is the basis for the following descrip-
ton Of Rhodesla:
Interior RhOdesla must be ira.
versed by native carriers over noun.
tains, through primeval forest, across
rivers, through almost impenetrable
jungle and underbrush. In peril from
elephants. lions, leopards. hyenas, SER
pents, the tsetse fly, wild men as well
us wild beasts. Each carrier has
mail bag Of 80 pounds. On an average
carriers make 25 miles a day, and even
on runs Of 5000 miles, from Broken
Hill to Abercorn, they are seldom
more than an hour behind schedule
time and generally only half that.
They make better time In the wet
season than In the dry as. In the wet,
they travel In bare feet. while in the
dry the earth Is baked. the ground IA
hot like The Valley OF Ten Thousand
Smokes and they are compelled to
wear sandals.
There Is one great drawback to the
wet; no material hns yet been pro-
duced that can resist African rain.
II laughs at the average rubbcrlzed
fabrics. One OF the few partly sue
ccssful materials is n peculiarly WOW
en- canvas made In England. and even
when mall bags OF this material are
opened, the contents are simply pulp
valuelcss. ord frequently undecipher-
able. Glazeu pdpe' suffers most; why.
| do not know. suppose II is the
combination Of heat and water
"'rhc plunge of Victoria Falls on the
Znmhezl Is three times that of Our
Niagara; the roar Is heard for 10 miles
and the column OF yupor Is miles high
In the dialect OF Mashonalnnd aud
Mniabclelnnd. lis name means the
water that smokes
From Knsempa TO Livingstone
tyictorla Falls) is $50 miles. from
Livingstone TO Bulawayo 200. aud from
Kascmpa to Cape Town 900 miles
The fauna Of Rhodesin Is wonderful;
think Of II kinds OF antelopcsl
"Although the isetso fly Is an abom-
lnablc pest, 1t takes second place as
destroyer OF property value to our
American pest. the boil weeyll. a
singular popularity OF the first named
consists In It's habit OF biting human
beings horses and oxen ON the feet
when animals are shipped from Cape
Town to North RhodcsIa, the shipping
is done at night. because, unlike the
mosquito. the tsctse ily works only in
the daytime. II prefers to work ON
the legs and IN case of horses these
are done up IN purafiln mud cloths
II should lic understood thnt this foe
10 man aud beast Is confined TO certain
districts"
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1920-07-25

Bucks hand. Some of the women
keep on crying, for it's a custom of
the sex TO cry when they have sor-
row, 10 weep when they have JOY
and 10 shed tears whenever they find
themselves without either
The old woman's fingers shake
when they stuff the skads in the
bosom Of their rusty dresses. The
factory girls just stoop over and
Flap their dry goods a second. and
YOU hear the elastic 80 pop as the
! currency goes down in the ladies' de-
partment of the odd Domestic
Lisle-Thread Bank"
Some of the stockholders that had
been doing the Jermiah act the loud
est outside had spasms of restored
confidence and wanted 20 leave the
money invested. salt away that
chicken feeds in your buds. and
skip along" says Buck What
! business have you got investing in
/ bonds The teapot or the crack in
the wall behind the clock for your
hoard of pennies
When the pretty girl in the red
shawl Cashes in Buck hands her
| an extra twenty.
"A wedding present" says our
\ treasurer. from the GolCandO Co.
/ And say-if Jakey ever follows his
nose even at a respectful distance.
around the corner where Rosa Stein
/ field lives YOU are hereby author
lied 20 knock a couple of inches Of
! it off.
When they was all paid off and
gone. Buck calls the newspaper re
porter and shoves the rest Of the
money over to him.
You begun this" says Buck.
now finish it. over there are the
books. showing every share and
| bond issued. Here's the money 10
\ cover. except what we've spent to
I live on. You'll have 10 act as re-
/ ceiver. I guess you'll do the square
/ thing on account Of your paper. This
+ is the best way we know how TO
settle IT, Me and our substantial but
/ applc-weary vice pT esident are going
. 10 followed the example OF our
/ revered president. and skip. Now.
, have you got enough news for to-
/ day. or do you want 10 interview US
on etiquette and the best way 10
make over an old taffeta skirt 20
"News!" says the newspa per man.
taking his pipe out; do you think
lose my Job. Suppose 1 go around
pened What'n the managing edi-
tor say? Hell just hand me "A pass
10 Bellevue and tell me 20 come back
. when I get cured ! might turn in
/ a story about a sea serpent wigglinE
up Broadway. but I haven't got the
nerve 10 try EN- with a pipe ike
this -rich-quick-eNcuse me
gang giving back the Doodle, Oh,
no. I'm not on the comic supple
ment"
You can't understand II. OF
course" says Buck. with his hand
on the door knob. Me and Pick
I amt Wall Streeters like YOU know
EN-. We never allowed 70 swindle
sick old women and working girls
and take nickels off Of kids. In the
lines OF graft we've worked we took
money from the people the Lord
I made 20 be buncOed-sports and
FOUNDERS and smart Alexis and
street crowds. that always have a
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1920-07-25

Now. my literary friend" saws
Buck. take a chair, and keep still,
and III give you an interview You
see before you two grafters from
Graftersville, CRATER county, Arkan-
sas. Me and Pick have sold brass
jewelry, hair tonic. song books,
marked cards. patent medicines,
Connecticut Smyrna rugs, furniture
polish. and albums IN every town
from Old Point Com tort 70 the Col
den Gate. We've grated dollar
whenever we saw one that had a
surplus look 20 IT. But we never
went after the simOleon in the toe
Of the sock, under the loose brick
in the corner of the kitchen hearth
There's n old saying YOU may have
heard-'fusSily decenCy averni'-
which means it's an easy slide from
the street takers dry goods box TO
a desk in Wall ST. We've took that
slide. but we didn't know exactly
what was at the bottom Of il. Now
YOU ought 10 be wise. but your amt.
You've got New York wiseness,
which means that YOU Judge a man
by the outside OF his clothes. That
amt right You ought 10 look at
the lining and seams and the button
holes While we are waiting for
the patrol wagon YOU might get out
your little stub pencil and take notes
for another funny piece in the
paper"
And then Buck turns 10 me and
says, L don't care what Atterbury
thinks. He only put in brains. and
If he gets his capital out he's lucky.
But what do you say. Pick 80
"Me2" says !. You ought 20
. q Il ~
was buying the stock"
All right" says Buck. And then
he goes through the inside door into
the main office and looks az the
gang trying 10 squeeze through the
railing. Atterbury and his hat was
gone. And Buck makes EN- a short
speech.
"Au YOU lambs get in line. You're
going 20 get your wool back. Don Z
shove so. Get in a line-a line
not in a pile. Lady. will YOU please
stop bleating? Your moneys wait
ing for you. Here. sonny. don't
climb over that railing your dimes
are safe. Don't cry. sis YOU amt
out a cent Get in line. I say. Here,
( Pick. come and straighten EN- out
and let EN- through and out by the
other door"
Buck takes of his coats. pushes
his silk hat on the back OF his head
and light up a reina victoria. He
sets at the bile with the Doodle
before him. all done up in neat pack
ages I gets the stockholders strung
I out and marches 'em. single file.
through from the main room. and
I the reporter man passes 'em out OF
7 the side door into the hall again AS
\ they go by. Buck takes up the stock
and the Gold Bonds. paying 'em
I cash. dollar for dollar. the same as
\ they paid i'm. The shareholders OF
! the Golconda Gold Bond and In
/ vestment Co. can't hardly believe IT,
/ They almost grabs the money out OF
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1920-07-25

Madam, do you own any of this
Il put in a hundred dollars" says
the woman. faint like. 1T was all
j had saved in a year. one Of my
children is dying at home now and I
haven't a cent in the house / came
20 see If / could draw out some. The
circulars said YOU could draw IL at
any time. But they say now / will
lose fl ALL"
There was a smart kind or a kid
IN the gang guess he was a news
boy. Il got in twenty-fi'. mister. "
he says. looking hopeful at Bucks
silk hat and clothes. "Dey paid me
two-tlfty a mont on t. Say. a man
tells me dey can't do dat and be
on de square. Is dat straight? DO
YOU guess / can get out my twenty
III
There was one girl-a pretty one
in a red shawl. crying in a corner
like her heart would dissolve. Buck
goes over and asks her about it.
1t amt so much losing the
money. mister" says she shaking
an over. though I've been two
years saving II up, but Jakey won't
marry me now. He'll take Rosa
u
got $500 in the savings bank. At.
az, al she sings out.
Buck looks all around with that
same funny look on his face And
then we see leaning against the wall,
putting al his pipe, with his eve
shining al US. this newspaper re
porter. Buck and me walks over
10 him
You're a real interesting writer. "
says Buck. How far do YOU mean
10 carry IL? Anything more up your
sleeve '
"Oh. I'm just waiting around. d
says the reporter smoking away "iu
+ case any news turns up. It's up %
+ Your stockholders now. Some OF
/ them might complain. YOU know
I Ism Q that the patrol wagon now 90
/ he says. listening 20 sound outside
/ No. he goes on. that's Dock Whit
/ tleford's old cadaver coupe from the
/ Roosevelt. I ought 10 know that
/ gong. Yes. j suppose I've written
1 some interesting stun at times. p"
You wait says Buck. I'm
going 20 throw an item of news in
+ your way"
Buck reaches I'm his pocket and
\ hands me a key. I knew what he
I meant before he spoke. Confound-
\ ed old buccaneer-I knew what ne
. meant They don't make them any
+ better than Buck.
Pick says he, looking at me
hard. "ain't this graft "A little on
OF our hue2 DO we want Jakey &c
/ marry Rosa Steinfeld?"
You've got my vote" says !
I III have r. here i'm 10 minutes
\ And I starts for the safety deposit
/ vaults
I comes back with the money done
mp in a big bundle. and then Buck
and me takes the journalist reporter
around 20 another door and We le
| ourselves info one OF the Office
I rooms.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1920-07-25

frothy frivolous OF looseness which has swept
world in the past few years
And it appears TO a mere onlOoker that must
look the of country for leadership in
love Not the class Of who carried prohibit
ton successful issue. though their work done
nobly and well. But the problem Of love making and
the ethics attached thereto must be guided by the
younger ladies Of today because their work will not
be carried through the columns of publication
nor banners carried in parades. Rather their
propaganda will be put half-darkened porch
swings. with light save that Of a kindly moon and
no music other than summer breeze.
AN INDIVIDUAL BATTLE.
Their battle ground will be opened the public
view, each has individual fight to win and each
must be her captain, marshalling In tempting
array all the wiles and guies of womanhood. then
carrying the battle straight the heart
Of him she would
win that fght-must make him believe
that he shall do his utmost toward making the world
better for her sweet sake.
And then, if it is that love is the burial Of
the eternal she shall have added another soldier
to the legion who believe that ideals live Just
as they did when knighthood in flower.