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ROBUST AMERICA X ISM
The ancient ideals of robust Am
ericanism survive among the older
men who won distinction in this
country a generation ago. John
Wanamaker, who has just been
selected by newspaper vote as the
most distinguished citizen ot" Penn
sylvania, celebrated his seventy
seventh birthday the other day and
commemorated it by an address to
his employes, touching on ovonts of
the day. Among other things he
Baid: __ »
-The flag of the United
Statts from this day on has got
to mean more to the world
than It ever did before. This
nation is not going to ask per
mission from any foreign coun
try to travel across the ocean
that belongs to the whole
world, and don't forget that."
George Franklin Edmunds, a
conspicuous and commanding figure
i:i thu ranks of the republican party
tr^ai the birth of that party down
to his own voluntary retirement
from public life in 1S91, after twen
ty-four years' service in the Unit
ed States senate, and who is now
It. his eighty-eighth year, has ad
dressed a letter to President Wil
son 011 the international issues pre
sented by ve present war. He
treats the latest German note in
sound vigorous English, and says:
"I am an old mail and have
for long worn the badge of the
Massachusetts Peace Society,
bi'i I can no longer endure the
a«ful spectacle without an ex
pression of my opposition to
further discussion under the
.'•resent circumstances."
No nr.:i who has the remotest
familiarity with the public records
of these t'.vo nieu would dare to
characterize them as "jingoes" or
as men eager to involve this coun
try in an avoidable war. They
simply hold to the older American
trad'tion that war 'is an evil less
to be feared than a peace purchased
by unlimited indulgence in futile
dipl< matic discussion or by a shame"
ful retreat from a position which
*e 'lave once assumed in the pro
tection of American rights, dignity
and honor.—P.-I.
THE CHINESE FLOODS
The present year will long be re
mecibvred as on? ot widespread dis
aster. ,-outh America is the only'
continent which has been untouched
by serious misfortune. In North
Ameiica the Mexican -war will pass
iuto history as a dark blot on civili
zation and in Europe and Africa the
great war has still its daily stories
of bloody encounters. Australia will j
nevfr forget this year, marked by j
the loss of so many thousands of
brave young men, wlio went to the
Dazdauelles to fight the battlg of
the allies. And now China reports a
trorcendous loss of life by the Can
ton river floods. Unless help goes
to Chink from this couutry, none
can be had in any quarter. In addi
tion to the 100,000 people who have
beta drownd in these floods It is
probable that millions of unfortun
ates wil! be threatened by starva
tion, for the same force which
snuffed out so many lives in that
terrbie inuudatiou has destroyed
a great area of cultivated fields, on
which tho millions of villagers were
depending for food. Probably the
next generation of inhabitants or
this world will wonder at the tales
of such tremendous losses all over
the world, from floods, wheu com
mon sense methods could easily
utili/c this force for helping, insteai
of destroying mankind.—Boston Ad
vertiser.
CORDOVA SMELTER
HINGES ON COAL
» LAND Ol'ENINti
R. W. Baxter, vice president of
tile Alaska Stoamship company and
the Copper River & Northwestern
railroad, arrived in Cordova this
morning and will continue to the
westward on the steamer Northwest
ern, stopping at EUamar, Yaldez,
Latouche, Seward and Anchorage.
Upon his return Mr. Baxter will
stop over here long e-nough to make
a trip over the local railway as
far as Kennecott. Mr.'Baxter is on
his annual tour of inspection and
while he has nothing definite to
give the public in reference to the
plans of the Alaska Syndicate, he ex
pressed a most ootimistic view of
the future for Cordova. Ho said:
"The extension of the Copper
River railway from Mile 3S to the
Bering River coal fields will na
turally depend on the basis upon
which the government intends to
allow this vast area of fuel to be
opened up and developed. If tho
preseut leasing bill is put into worfc
ifg shape, many of the claims will
undoubtedly be worked and we arc
a'ter all the tonnage we can get.
"With tho opening of the coal
mines, coke would be available for
a smelter at Cordova. As you
Snow Prince William Sound has the
fluxing ore for the rich copper
glance at Kennecott, but everything
hinges on' the marketing of your
ccnl. Just what will be the out
corn? of the government's plans no
one can say, but I share the hope
of all Alaskans that at no distant
time the whole territory will be
thrown 0De:i to development and th
patience and fortitude of its resi
dents, who have so nobly carried
tue burden for a number of years,
wi'l be fully rewarded."—Cordova
Times.
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By LOUSE B. CUMMINGS
I was a reader for a prominent mag
azine. Peril!1 ;>s I should explain to
those who ate not familiar with edi
torial work that a reader Is one who
reads manuscripts of unknown au
thors. A manuscript Is brought In to
the editor, who- sits at a mahogany
desk and listens with apparent Intents
ness to a long account of the merits
of the work submitted, smiles benign
ly on the author aud as soon as he Is
gone tosses the manuscript to the read
er without a word.
The magazine I was with being for
women, most of tho readers were wom
eu, I being one of tho women.
At one time when the editor was
ill those who Insisted on seeing the
editor were referred to mo. One of
those who left a manuscript with me
was a mau who seemed to mo to be
of such caliber that either ho should
be a successful writer or should not
be a writer at all. But successful
writers were not used to asking us to
publish their works; we asked them to
do us the honor to permit us to pub
lish iheui. i was certainly Impressed
with Mr. Horatio Bt-ardsley—the name
on the title page of his story—and
promised him that 1 would give his
story a careful reading.
I did most of my work at home and
took Mr. Beardsley's story, called "A
l-'ool For His Pains," there to read it
Hut a great many manuscripts were
crowding upon us at the time, and we
were especially successful In getting
recognized literary lights in the liter
ary world to give us tlielr works for
publication. The consequence was that
1 omitted to read "A Fool For His
I'alns" for some time.
One day 1 looked In my closet for
the manuscript, where I had left It,
and did not tlnd It there. I asked my
mother what had bocorne of it and
learned that she had burned an accu
mulation of pasteboard boxes recently.
The manuscript was In a pasteboard
box, and it was apparent to me that
It had gone up In smoke.
I was terror stricken. If through my
.•arelessness a manuscript committed
'o my care were destroyed and there
was no other copy in existence I would
n<>t only suffer a terrible mortification,
but would lose my position, on which
I was dci»endcut for a living for both
I my mother aud myself.
When I went again to the office of
the magazine a letter from Horatio
Beardsky was handed me, stating that
lie liad made arrangements for the pub
lication of "A Fool For His Pains"
and asking them to return the manu
script I said nothing at the office
•ibout Its destruction, for I had not
sufficiently recovered from the shock
to make up my mind what to do or say
in the matter. 1 went home and tried to
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HilniTouflTw-ny by which I might save
myself from the loss of my position,
though there was no possible way of
escaping the mortification to which 1
wonlil bo subjected.
What I decided upon was this: I
wrote a note to Mr. Reardsiey, con
fessing that his manuscript hud been
burned and asking hiui if he had an
other copy end begging him for tho
present to say nothing about the mat
ter. My note brought him to see ine
at my home, and It was plain that he
was much chagrined at the loss of his
manuscript. I told him I could raise
$50, which I knew was more than any
author unknown to the public conld
get for a story of the same length as
the one he had submitted. lie looked
up at me with a curious expression
when I said this, but made no reply.
Lie left me, saying that he would think
over what was best to do, but in tho
meanwhile I need give myself no un
easiness concerning it. This was very
good of him, and I felt very grateful.
A few days later l reccivea a noro
from him saying that be had decided
to rewrite the lost story. Work ho did
over a second time was always better
than his first effort. If I could spare
the time to become his amanuensis for
tho work he would not only excuse me
for tho destruction of tho original man
uscript but if he received a higher
price for the second draft than he had
been offered for the first he would
dlvhV the excess with ine.
I wss only too glad to escapc with
j this penalty and accepted the propo
! sltion except as to any pecuniary inter
j est In what he received for his story.
I gave him a couple of hours every
working day for a month, at the end
of which time the story was finished.
In the course of another week I re
ceived n note from the author contain
ing a check for ?250, which lie said
was my share of the excess over what
he had been offered for the first draft
of his story. And what was my con
jteraatlon to Bee in Ills signature the
namo of one of the most gifted writ
era before the public.
He had made a bet with a friend
that he would submit a story to our
magazine under an assumed namo and
nothing would come of it. Something
more than he expected did come of It:
his story was burned. Time showed
why he treated me so nicely. It seems
that ho had taken tho same fancy to
mo that I had taken to him. That is
why he wished me for his amanuensis.
Ho desired to be with me, to become
acquainted with me, and as It turned
out he was afforded an opportunity to
mako love to me. I have been his wife
several years and have not yet heard
the last of the burning of his produc
tion. Indeed, I never expect to hear
the last of it. What troubled me at
the time was that I could not tell a
gifted writer from 11 common scribbler.
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