The Seward gateway and the Alaska evening post. [volume], February 08, 1917, Page 2, Image 2

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and THE ALASKA EVENING POST.
Published Daily Except Sunday by The Gateway Publishing Company.
R. G. CHAMBERS, Business Manager. E. 0. SAWYER, Jr., Editor.
Published Daily Except on Sundays and Holidays.
Entered as second-class matter September 2, 191*- at the postoffice at
Seward, Alaska, under the act of March 3, 1879.
SUBSCRIPTION RATES
One year, in advance....———.-.$10.00
Per month, delivered. ..—-.— —. 1.00
Ihe Alaska Weekly Post, by mail..—. 3.00
AN INDICATION
Of the most vital significance to
Seward, Cook inlet and the valley
country, was the passing yesterday of
the half million dollar appropriation
for wagon roads in Alaska by the
House at Washington.
Wars and rumors of war are not tv
be allowed to thwart the opening up
of Alaska, empire of the North.
America's most valuable possession.
It means, without a doubt, that
work will be continued on the gov
ernment railroad, perhaps rushed at
top speed.
While Seward with provisions for
handling the iish at hand could exist
as a larger community than it has
ever been so far, regardless of the
completion of the railroad, both are
necessary to complete the program
laid out by those who have establshed
themselves here to aid and protit in
this upbuilding.
Both are assured, but as nothing is
certain in this world, except death and
taxes, an indication of fulltilnient of
the blessings desired is always wel
come.
THE LIVES WE LIVE
People read with interest the
stories about other folks living in dis
tant towns and often overlook the
stories close at home.
The story of the little woman at
Roosevelt who throws whiskey bot
tles into the lake, as printed in the
Literary Digest, has a most charming
sequel in her marriage to “AL” and
yet there are other life stories going
on about us, which if chronicled would
make most interesting chapters in the
history of Alaska and the Alaskans.
What a story Clark Russell or Peter
LL Kvne could make out of the trip
of the Roscoe in her effort to make
Anchorage with gasoline, coal oil. and
the dynamite that became so warm
the nitro glycerine came out of it ami
trickled down to mingle in the bilge.
And what a railroad yarn could r»e
written around the opening of the old
Alaska Northern with its rickety
bridges and the temporary track
across the water torn waste of
gravel at Placer river to get supplies
through to Kern creek alter the at
tempt to take them up from Cook
inlet had failed. These are only two ;
of the greater stories. There are
others too numerous to mention—
some good, some evil; romance,
tragedy, and comedy without end.
LESS ARISl'MENTS AN WAY
1 B r I
Threat of war has resulted in a;
more strict compliance with Pres.
Wilson’s proclamation of neutrality,
than at any time since the outbreak
of the European conflict.
While loyal Americans are out- j
spoken in their opinion of Germany’s
unrestricted submarine warfare, there
is less wrangling between supporters
aiul sympathizers of the two sides of
the war already raging than at any
time since it commenced. Each real
izes that it is a sore spot not to be
rubbed with impunity and after all
nothing is to be gained by continually
stirring up the entangled alliances of
peoples over sea.
GENTLE ART OF NAGGING
Nagging your husband is a special
art by itself, and while some women
have a natural gift in that direction
others can only acquire it by constant
aplication. A husband in a house is
something like a hippopotamus. He
is often a dull, placid creature, hard
to move or dislodge, especially it he
gets accustomed to a favorite chair.
He often becomes toughened by ex
posure t# constant nagging, amt it
takes a powerful weapon with a fairly
higli trajectory to do him any dam
age. Occasionally, however, he de
volopes sensitive areas and can be
come a constant source of pleasure to
any lady who likes to nag. Every
woman knows, of course, that her
: husband is more susceptible about
half an hour before dinner, when he
; has come home from his oftice tired
out. By studying him carefully she
will also discover certain days in the
month when she can nag him with the
highest percentage of bull’s eyes. The
art of nagging, however, is not at all
objective. Much can be done from the
subjective standpoint. By intimating
to her husband in many ways, which
>he can easily learn to practice, that
she is the most abused lady on earth,
she can derive a whole program of
amusement. The historical method—
that of dragging up some dead, for
gotten thing and talking about it all
over again, and still over again—is
also a splendid form of naggiug.
Some wives, however, so blind are
thev, never see this at all. They just
go on. hopefully trying to make their
husbands happy. The high art of
nagging is not given to every woman.
—(Life.)
Kcr vnou BEATS I S TO IT!
I
Whatever the supreme court may
decide about the Adamson law, there
is one American country that has a
real, “watertight” eight-hour law.
It is Ecuador, that tiny triangular
country, squeezed in between Peru
and Colombia. Ecuador is the only
nation in the world with an eight-hour
law that includes every employee tn
the country, pays time and a quarter
or better for overtime, and has no
loopholes for any favored industries.
The whole meat of the law, which
has just been put into effect, is in
three short, simple articles:
(1.) Every laborer, workingman,
Cork in store, office, or industrial
establishment, and in general, every
employee of any kind shall not be
forced to work more than eight hours |
daily, six days a week, and is exempt;
Of Importance
to Men
We want you to know that our whole attention
is given to selecting merchandise ol higher qualit>
that our many customers may be sure of complete
satisfaction when dealing with us.
EVERYTHING you will need in the clothing
line can be found in the complete stock we have
selected for you and
THE PRICES ARE RIGHT—WHY GO
ELSEWHERE.
The Miners' Store
Frank J. Cotter
hotelse w ard
FORTY ROOMS-OUT OF FIRE ZONE
J. 0. PATTON, Prop. Rates by Day or Month
Modern Conveniences Well Lighted and Heated
WIFE OF AL ROBERTS GAINS FAME
AS “CARRIE NATION” OF ALASKA
Mrs. A1 Roberts, formerly Mrs.
Dabney at Roosevelt has gained na
tion wide fame through the pen of
Mrs. Ella A. Boole, temperance work
er and club woman of New York, who
visited Seward in the course of a ter
ritorial campaign last year. The fol
lowing appears in the recent issue of
the Literary Digest:
The Carrie Nation of Alaska
She doesn’t smash saloons, nor de
liver public lectures on temperance,
but she is doing a great work toward
eliminating the use of whiskey in the
huge Northwest Territory of Ameri
ca. Her name is Mrs. Dabney, first
name unknown, for in the Alaska
country men either call you by your
first name and forget your other one,
or, if they have a great deal oi re
spect for you, you are called Mr. and
Mrs., and the name your parents gave
you is forgotten. And respect is ex
actly what Mrs. Dabney gets—from
every miner and traveler, every trad
er and wandering wayfarer. Th?y
know better, she says, than to try lo
deceive her when they appear at the
camp with a bottle in the back pocket.
In The Union Signal, Miss Ella A.
Boole, of the W. C. T. U., tells Us
all about a visit to Mrs. Dabney. We
read:
Mile Twenty Three and a half is a
station on the new government rail
way between Seward and Anchorage,
Alaska. It is a square building made
of logs ami, although everything
about the place is primitive, it is
scrupulously clean. Sometimes
seventy-five men who work on the
railroad take heir meals there. Mrs.
Dabney is housekeeper and a good
cook and, with the help of a friend,
does all the work.
When the government began the
construction of' the railroad it estab
lished its base at Anchorage at the
head of Cook inlet. In two years’
time this has grown to be a town of
8,000. The government made it a
prohibition town and also let it be
definitely known that no drinking
would be tolerated among the em
ployees and no liquor could be sold at
the road-houses.
All types of men are at Mile iwen
ty-three and a half, and last h ourth
of July twenty-five of them secured a
demijohn of w’hiskey and several bot
tles. Mrs. Dabney walked in upon the
company wihle they w'ere drinking.
She ordered the owner of the house,
her employer, to go to his room, es
corting him there. She told him to
go to bed and locked the door. Going
back to the company, she attempted
to breag the demijohn, but the bottle
was too strong. She then poured out
the whiskey, smashed the receptacles,
and threw the bottle of whiskey into
Kenai lake. When one man called her
a second Carrie Nation she simply
said she did not propose to clean up
after men who got drunk, that the
government rules forbade the use of
from work on Sundays and legal holi
days.
(2.) No employer can evade the
accomplishment of this decree by any
stipulation with the employee or la
borer.
(3.) If the laborer, workingman,
clerk, etc., be requested to work long
er than eight hours he shall be paid
25 per cent overtime for the extra
w'ork done during the day, 50 per cent
from six in the evening to midnight,
and 100 per cent after that hour.
Long distance telephone Dootb at
The Branch.
Charles Crawford
General Blacksmith
Horseshoeing
Wheelwrighting
Comer Sixth Avenue and
Railway Avenue
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I liquor and she would see to it that
they were enforced, and that no man
could come to her table who had been
drinking. It is said she enforced
her words with a threatening finger.
The men submitted, and while they
were at dinner the construction “boss”
came in and, before all the men,
apologized. He said she was right
and that he would not ask her to
serve meals to him or anybody else
who had been drinking. No man took
offense at her action, knowing it to be
right.
We had heard the story from others
but it was interesting to hear Mrs.
Dabney tell it herself. She added, “I
qjtn find whisky any time they bring it;
in. The other day a man appeared with j
a suit-case. I suspected he had liquor;
and I went up to him and said, ‘Give i
me that whiskey/0. She said he
meekly opened his suitcase, took out
the bottle, and handed it to her. She
threw it into the lake!
If you could see this little white
haired woman and learn how firmly |
she stands for the enforcement of the
law, and then realize how seventy-five
men submit to her martial law, you
would appreciate it, ana you woum j
know how the men respect her. It,
had hurt her a little when the men:
called her Carrie Nation, but when I
told her how Carrie Nation never at- j
j tacked any saloon except illegal ones,|
* and how the people of Kansas so re
spected her memory that they were
about to build a memorial to her, she
was encouraged and permitted us to |
take her picture. We were there on j
the birthday of the mayor of Roose
velt, which is the other name for
Mile Twenty-three and a half. As we
went away, she said, “Al says he is
going to celebrate tonight,” and the*.,
I with a twingle in her eye, she turn
ed to me and said, “but he won’t, even
if he is mayor.”
Mrs. Dabney is providing those
men with a clean place in which to |
sleep and plenty of good, clean food,
and she demands that they obey the
government rules, and that they do
not do things which make her work
harder and cause her extra trouble.
There is no greater evidence of the
respect in which the men of Alaska
hold good women, than the way the;
men at Mile Twenty-three and a halt
submit to the law’s administration atj
the hands of Mrs. Dabney.
Cheer Up Folks
THERE'3 MORE IN THE KITCHEN
Would Be a School Teacher
Little 7-year-old James came home
from school the first day with a de
termined look on his face.
“Mother/’ he cried, “I’m going to
quit school and be a school teacher!” j
“Why, James,” said his mother
laughingly, “how can you? You
don't know enough yet!”
“Don't know enough?” exclaimed!
the would-be school teacher. “You
don’t have to know anything! All
vou’ve got to do is ask questions.”
—
Hiram Got His’n
Reckless Hiram Baker
Turned Munition maker.
Enter Undertaker.
—El Jay El.
Scandal
A watch may have no gender,
But you really can't efface
The fact that nearly always
There’s a woman in the case.
A Warrant Wouldn’t Suffice
A disheveled citizen rushed into the j
police station and shouted for ven
geance.
“The automobile that hit me was
No. 13033,” he sputtered. • “I can
prove that he was exceeding the speed
limit and I want—I—want ”
“You want a warrant for his ar
rest?”
“Warrant nothing? What good
would a warrant do me at the rate
of speed he was going? I want ex
tradition papers!”
Has No Use For New Bicycle
A man tried to sell a farmer a
brand new bicycle for $50.
“Why,” said the farmer, “if I had
$50 to spare I’d buy a cow.”
“But,” said the agent, you’d look
rather funny trying to ride a cow.”
“Aye,” said the farmer, “but 1
should look a darn sight funnier try
ing to milk a bicycle.”
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NORTHWESTERN sails Feb. 11
MARIPOSA will sail Feb. 8.
Seattle Sailing of 8th, connects with Dora to West
ward.
Right reserved to change this schedule without
notice.
F. B. TRACY, A. H. McDONALD,
General Agent. Agent.
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Sailings from Seattle to Seward and way ports 10th, 20th and
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Admiral Evans, January 24; Admiral Watson, February 3; Ad
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