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NOME, ALASKA, SEPT. 7, 1916.
A Iiuiu.Ii ol the erudite divinity pro
lessors are doing a large amount of
talking eoiueriiiiig an alleged "spit -
Haul awakening' that is taking place
tit l.urope as a result ot ttie war and
oltci file opinion that out ol thill
bloody holocaust that is swamping'
Kutopo with misery and desolation is
arising a more sublime spiritual failli,
a deeper regard tor the precepts of
redigion and a linnet belief in the ex -
isiencc of an omnipresent deify. For
instance one of them, In. Francis J.
• a hotly, ol Harvard, who recently re
turned from a visit lo Kurope ten
,ies iin- opinion ihut: "War has
brought about a great spiritual trans
lormainm; lliere lias liecn tt great
spiritual awakening ami throngs enter
. elmrehes that were empty before,"
and then proceds to point out lliat it
is all because l lie peoples of the war
stricken lands have been able to wit
ness in the trials and privations and
horrors lo which they have been sub
jected the visible evidences ,of the
existence and workings of an infinite
being. Standing safe and secure be
yond the range of belching guns and
l he soul scarring sights of the buttle
Helds these shurpsighted "uplift" find
ers iigure it out that the throngs of
sorrow si l a-ken women, and the few
men Unit are left behind, who seek the
sanctuary of the church for relief from
the pain of hearts bereft or the fear
and uncertainty of the future are the
visible evidences of "a great spiritual
awakening;" a reerudesence of
"spiritual failli.”
I'ossihly il is as far as the women
arc concerned, ll is all very nalnrul
that human misery should fly to the
sanctuaries which centuries of preach
ing have taugiit them are the earthly
abode of the divine being who can
console human sorrow; and relieve
human pain when all else fails. But,
we wonder how much of this "spiritual
awakening" is going on in the trenches
whi te shot and shell rend and shatter
flesh and bone, where human beings
ile rotting for days in the desolate
awfulnoss of "No Alan's Band,” where
the shrieks of the wounded and dying
i cho in the ears in such heartrending
i ones that those who are deaf from the
shattering roar of guns are envied that
they c-.nnot hear; where the ruthlesa
nass iind brutality of humankind
s’rikes down the strong and brave,
converting them into bloody and man
gied things than cry to an unanswer
ing heaven for relief from their awful
pains.
Is the fact that hysterical and sor
row stricken women seek relief for
their misery in the spot where they
have been taught to believe resides
the Great Consider of all human woes
an evidence of a “great spiritual
awakening” of an increase of spiritual
faith or of a greater belief in the love
anti compassion of a divine creator?
„ Are I lie learned doctors not mistak
ing tlie hysteria of fear and sorrow,
the agonized desire of the suffering
heart and mind for something to tell
its misery to, as an evidence of some
thing that it is not. In the hour of
darkness and distress the human soul
turns eternally above tlie things of
earth, seeking in the unknowable the
consolation that it knows cannot be
found in the things of life. When
sorrow and misery grow so great that
earth hold no relief, humanity holds
out its hands to the inscrutable hop
ing that there may be found some
thing that will relieve its woe. What
more natural then that the nervous
and distraught beings of the war strick
en lands should seek to find in the
churches that which will relieve their
sorrow and dissipate their pain—that
they fly to the only place where there
appears to be the remotest prospect
of realizing that which they seek.
Does this mean a spiritual transform
ion? Is it the evidence of a renewal
or revival of belief in the omniscence
and omnipresence of a super mundane
deity or is it merely the turning of
frenzied minds and distraught souls
i the blank and cheerless realities
of the known to the hopes of the un
known?
We believe the learned doctors
should go into the trenches to test
their theories of a spiritual awaken
ing. There where the sights and
sounds sicken men’s souls; where is
the ultimate of human distress and
suffering; amid the groans and cries
of the wounded and dying—where hu
man passions are at their worst—is
the place to see how much greater has
grown man’s spiritual sensibilities. We
wonder how much of a spiritual uplift
they would find among those who have
looked upon the wreck, the fury, the
awfulness of war. Not much we think.
There is little about such scenes to
iimpress a deeper belief in divinity or
create a spiritual transformation. It
is hard to reconcile divine beneflcance
with such unutterable horrors as arc
witnessed daily and hourly by the men
who lie behind trench and parpot
av ailing the crashing onslaught of the
foe. There is little of the uplifting,
spiritual or otherwise about such
things.
It is easy enough for the Dr. Pea
body's to watch the manifestations of
hysterical womankind and deduce
therefrom that human souls are com
mencing to look upward to heaven but
let them lay aside their broadcloth
and take a spell in the trenches amid
the mud, and blood, and death and
then make their estimates of the spir
ituality that is being developed as a
result of war.
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ALASKAN IN TOILS
OF MURDER CHARGE
A man falling himself Perclval A1A
I<■ 11, posing as an osteopath and claim
ing to lie an Alaskan, was an'ested
today pending full investigation into
the death of Anna Marie Danielson,
a Minneapolis girl about thirty two
years of age, whom Allen recently
duped into a supposed marriage, says
a Seattle dispatch of August 13, Allen
tlist met the young woman on the
steamer Queen, about July 1, while en
route to Seattle from San Diego and
made violent love to her.
When they arrived in Seattle they
were regarded as man and wife. Later
they secured a marriage license in Ta
coma, which- license, however, was
never validated. They then returned
lo Seattle and visited the girl’s rela
jtlteS for a time.
I Later the girl became violently ill
I while stopping at the Frye hotel, in
Seattle. A few days after her sup
I Jscd marriage she died at the Sheri
dan apartments. When an autopsy
was held, no traces of p.‘»on were
found in the girls' stomach.
The girl is said to be worth sixty
thousand dollars. Her brother, a na
val lieutenant, by name Wilmot Dan
ielson, was the one who started the
investigation into the cause of his sis
ter's death.
Allen disappeared for a time, and
it was thought that he had left the
city, but he was finally located yes
: terday. He admits that hu was for
1 merly a cook for a time in a mining
I camp in interior Alaska. It has been
I discovered that Allen has a wife liv
ing now in Los Angeles.
MORGAN FORTUNE
DOUBLED BY WAR
NEW YOHK.—The war in Europe
has had the effect of doubling the
Morgan family fortune, according to
the Wall Street finacial statisticians,
who are keeping track of the cost of
the great conflict and where the money
goes to. Most of the money has been
made out of commissions paid to the
house of J. 1‘ierpont Morgan & Co.,
by Great Britain. In fact, during the
two years of the war just over Mor
al n * Co. made $(>0,000,000, or more
than the $03,000,000 inherited by .1.
I’ierpont Morgan, Jr., from his father.
The Morgan policy of efficiency and
Professional Cards
Dr. A. F. Heimlich
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tiomy has therefore proven a bene
fit to the Morgan fortunes.
Great Britain pays Morgan & Co. a
commission of two per cent on till
munitions purchased through that
concern, aggregating fully one billion
dollars annually, or $20,000,000. The
banking and commission house also
draws a banking commission for nego
tiating foreign loans, which so far
aggregate fully one and one-half bil
lions of dollars.
• Estimate place the buying move
ment of Great Britain at $360,000,000
for the week ending August 13, which
means that Morgan A- Co. will draw
down ;i commission of $7,1100,000 for
their week’s work in making the pur
chases.
UNCLE SAM'S TRADE
STOLEN BY ENGLAND
CHICAGO.—A. S. Posnikoff, n Rus
sian- American, and president of the
international sales service, has filed a
complaint in the federal court hero
charging that the British censorship of
telegraph service to the United States
since the war started has cost Amer
ican business concerns fully $100,000,
000. It is stated that the messages
passing through the hands of the Brit
iish censors have been censored so as
to he directed to British firms doing
business in the United States and
Canada, and not sent to the Arms to
whom the messages were directed. Mr.
Posnikoff asserts in the complaint that
out of 5o messages which he has
learned were directed lo the Interna
tional Sales Service, only five wore
delivered in their original form, tie
remainder either being sent to other
firms by the censors or else mutilated
to such an extent that they became
1 unintelligible.
Albert Matson will leave Tuesday
morning for the fishing camp on Pil
grim river. Will leave every Tuesday
and Friday for the camp. Information
: can he secured at Streeten's office.
Snake river harbor improvement and
the necessity for same—pictures show
ing wrecks of schooners and barges at
mouth of river Pictorial edition of
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