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Slip S>putari> GiatPUtai! > AND vjhr Alaska Eurittnit Jlost rrni.i4Hitn uvilt kvk»*t ^i*m»avs a so roi.idath »v GATEWAY PUBLISHING COMPANY. (Inc.) Harry V. Hobrn. Preside. . F«"k ^ Elmer A. Fntnd, Editor ■— - —^ A“" * SUBSCRIPTION RATES: ONE YEAR, tn ........ THE ALASKA WEEKLY POST by m*H *00 PER MONT, delivered.,Y ADVERTISING RATES on application. MEMBER OK THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Thf Aj«ociated Press is exclusively entitled to tlu* use for republiia tion of alt news credited to it or not otherwise credited in this paper and al*o the local news published herein. All rights of republication of special dispatches herein are also reserved. ■ --————— “WATCHMAN. WHAT OF THE NIGHT"? We have l>een asked for an editorial opinion as to^ what changes this war will effect in the administration of government in various parts of the world! It is the same old question recorded in the prophecy of Isaih. “Watchman, what of the night?" The watchman answered: "The morning cometh and also the night." This is as much as we know ourselves. The forces which are shaking the world to its founda tions are too stupendous for us to measure either as to their nature or results. In ordinary periods, when events' are moving with the steadiness of a gieat river, we think ourselves able to predict the next, if not the ultimate, to morrow." But. now. the progress of the world is catas trophic rather than evolutionary, so that the wisest and boldest of watchmen confess with humility that they can not tell what a day nor an hour may bring forth. One has only to reflect upon the series of motion pic tures that are being thrown with lightning-like rapidity upon the Russian screen to discover his prophetic incapac ity. The changes are kaleidoscopic. They do not seem to possess connection with each other, hut to be heteregene ous and discordant. Each event appears to spring from an individual root; to burst upon the world like an isolated explosion of a separate and individual mine. 1 hat they are not discreet, hut intimately conjoined we know, but can not perceive the connections. Who of us at this distance from the so colossal scene could have predicted this recent outburst—this revolution within a revolution? Who would venture to pronosticate the next step to be taken hyj this blind and staggering giant on his way to the goal of a government of the people for the people and by the peo ple. And Russia is only a fragment of the world involved in the great catastrophe! If we cannot forecast her fu ture, how helpless we must he in trying to predict the; world's tomorrow? This dramatic denouement in Argen-j tina, for example, is quite enough to precipitate a series of events as unforeseen and unpredicable as any of those which have already happened. It may throw Sweden into the camp of the enemy and so drag other nations into the war, forming combinations to all present appearances in credible and impossible. With regard to the mighty drama lieing played upon! the stage of life today, we feel like little gamins sitting in the upper gallery while some such tragedy as Shakes They do the one thmg you iuvo *!• way* wished a cigarette would do; they satisfy and yet they’re MILD. LOOKING THROUGH THE WRONG ENO. jOH.THATS A I LQNC WAY OFF L . -* -• — / . —■hMJg \ AVERAGE | ||CITIZEN \ —Harding >r» Brooklyn _ ___-— -i peace’s “Hamlet” or Ibsen’s “Ghost” is going on. We gaze, bewildered. The scenes are too complex; the actors are too profound and subtle for our mental giusp. it scenes shift. The curtain rises and falls, but what it is all about or what ones of the actors are going to be left, or what situation affairs are going to be in when all is oyer, -we dinna ken.” “The morning coineth and also the night, and we live by faith.—Ex. -— Mr. Hoover announces his intention of placing wheat on a stable basis, but what we want to sec, is to have it on a table basis. -* Oh. well, if Sweden gets into the fight, we won’t have to lend her any money, anyway. -* Agent McDonald says they are talking about Seward all along the Pacific Coast. We are on the map and every word spoken is a boost for this city. _—*-* Uncle Sam has at last recognized Carranza and this in spite of his whiskers. And business is just as good in Seward as the weathei and that is “some.” C.W. PALMER KNIK, ALASKA SOME OF OUR SPECIALTIES: WELLMAN CANNED GOODS TIP TOP EGGS MARSHFIELD CHEESE RED CLOVER BUTTER SPERRY’S FLOURS AND A FULL LINE OF HARDWARE Stoves. Hay and Feed No Belter Goods tan Be Bought At Any Price G. W. PALMER, KNIK, ALASKA STEAMSHIP ««»» ' COMPANY ^jthb Sailings from Seattle: ^ Alaska .Sept. 9 Northwestern .Sept. 19 Mariposa Sept. 13 Alameda .Sept. 2.» The Northwestern, sailing September 19th, will connect at Sew ard with steamer for Alaska Peninsula Route points. All ships go through to Anchorage. For further particulars of service, rates,apply to Agent. A. H. MCDONALD, Agent. * ■ i ■————— i .. ■ ■ -. 1 1 ”—** " The Seward News Company GEORGE PHELPS Booksellers, Newsdealers and Stationers --- " "" I I mi ST eOMmlv?" Seward, Alaska Phone: Main HI /ADMIRAL EVANS.Oct. 2 ( Captain C. A. Glasscock SAILINGS ' ) ADMIRAL FARRAGUT.Oct. 10 FROM SEATTLE: „ y Captain A. McKay The Admiral Watson, sailing from Seattle, Sept. 24, goes to Kodiek. Through Tickets to Eastern Points at Reduced Kates. Eor full information on sailings from Seattle to San l*rancitco, ad dress Wayne Blue, Agent, Seward, Alaska. 4% LIBERTY LOAN UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT BONDS (□] i '-^i i-^=1 i ■■ ■' 1 ■ 1 ® The Undersigned are Authorized to Receive Subscriptions for the New LIBERTY LOAN Consisting of United States Government Bonds Bearing Interest yto ft/ ’ at the Rate of ^±T/0 Per Annum and Running for the Period of TWENTY-FIVE YEARS, with the Right to the Government, to Redeem the Same AFTER TEN \EARS SUBSCRIPTION' TERMS 2 Per Cent to be paid with Subscription 18 Per Cent to be paid by November 15* 1917 40 Per Cent to be paid by December lo, 1J1 < 40 Per Cent to be paid by January 15,1918 Thousands of our Fellow-Citizens are Offering their Lives for the Cause of Freedom Shall We Not Support Them with Our SAVINGS? Bank of Seward Harriman National Bank OF ALASKA at Seward.