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NOME. ALASKA. MAY 8. 1915.
A HEEDLESS AGE.
Referem os to the present period of
history as the "age of miracles" has
been voiced with such frequency that
the majority of people have come to
accept the statement as u mere passive
description of conditions which are so
manifest as to hardly require a second
thought. Thus it has come about that
even the most startling manifestation
of ttie truth contained in the assertion
hardly causes the average person to
spend more than a moment’s reflec
tion as to just how true and how won
derful an age it really is.
In fact we have become so used to
living in an age of wonders that we
have in a great sense become indif
ferent to the real value of even the
most superlatively wonderful devolop
i
merits.
Day by day the delvers into the
mysterious realms of science are
hringitig forth from the unknown mini- ]
herless wonderful tilings, in the lubra
tories of the eartli devoted searchers
bend to Die task of drawing from the
unprobed infinite things unknown, un
guessed. while in the mill and work
shop, grimy toilers shape into form
and use the ideas which the students
and thinkers have evolved And each
discovery, each development adds in
greater or less degree to the stupen
dous total of wonderful things which
have won for the present the designa
tion of the “age of miracles.” ltut, as
previously remarked, the real wonder
of mankind's achievements is in a
large sense really lost upon us. We
have grown so used to the multiplicity
of wonderful things which are. forth
coming with such remarkable fre
quence Itiut we have grown indifferent.
The most wonderful developments in
the fields of science or mechanics
cause hut little comment or specula
tion. We have come to accept such
things as « matter of course, a trifle
added to the long list of wonders, and
nothing more. How few of us stop to
think of the stupendous w'onder that
man is able to talk through the air
through the medium of the wireless
telephone and tolograph How many
of us when seated in lhe movie show
or while listening to the phonograph,
devote even a moment to reflecting on
the wonderful thing that is being
manifested to our senses. That the
outward semblenco of things can thus
he preserved when the object itself has
crumbled into dusl: that the features
and acts of man. aye, even his voice,
can be preserved indefinitely, causes
little wonder and less thought. That
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Tllib prophecy of the poet, uttered long
ugo that:
—"the Heavens were tilled with
shouting
And there mined a ghastly dew.
Emm the nation's aerial navies.
Buttling in the central blue."
lis even now a reality which is being
demonstrated in the airy heights above
the battle fields of Europe, fails to
quicken our apprehension of the won
derful time in which we live. That
| man can lift himself above the lowly
[earth on a fragile thing of wood and
j cloth, can spurn the environment
Wherein his Maker placed him, can
mingle with the birds of air, causes us
hardly a brief minutes thought And
[this is equally true of our attitude to
. Ward the realization of that famous
[conception contained in .lules Verne’s
i novel "Twenty Thousand Leagues
ICnder the Sea.” the submarine The
! majority’ of us were prone to ridi
cule the idea that man could travel
at will beneath the surface of tlie
far-spreading sea at the time that
famous work first appeared and yet
today we read almost daily that man,
indeed, moves beneath the billows and
manifests his tmw»r In Europe’s
mighty struggle by causing » stu
pendous destruction to the ocean traffic
1
of bis enemy
This is indeed also a "miracle” but
1 low few of us realize it That tnun.
leased in a slender tube of iron and
steel, creeps through the oceans azure
depths or hurls himself with n speed
[akin to the thunderbolt through the
[lofty nut dies of the air is to us today
about one and the snrne thing, mere
Incidents in a lifetime of multitidnous'
strange incidents. That mankind is sc
: thoughtless regarding the real wonder
[of the age In which he at present lives
may be the result of a failure to grasp
till' idea of each particular manifest a - i
| lion but, that we as s w hole are «l
! mom indifferent to things that a can-;
tury ago would have caused the world
to hold its breath in wonder, not t« say ]
four, cannot he gainsaid Living in the
midst of a miraculous age we are vet
blind to its wonders.
KEEPING OUR HEADS
The interchanges between our gov
ernment anil those of Germany anil
Orem Britian up to the present time
have produced no concrete results
Without in either case having readied
an impasse they leave our several
queries and propositions still in a very
unsatisfying stage of polite discussion
The situation, it may not lie denied,
has lost none of its strain, and its un
happy possibilities are exactly what
they were when Great Britian and Ger
many first adopted their unprecedented
sen measures
Meanwhile the question in the public
mind is; Are we drifting into the
European whirlpool
The answer to that anxious query
ought to be and we trust is must em
phatically No We are not drifting
anywhere. The United States is mov
ing under its own steam. The most
important factor of safety is to retain
control of ourselves. In that way we
shull bo able best to master inevitable
events.
There is no war spirit in America.
We were perhaps never less bilUeose.
But it is well for us to think definitely
of our situation. The pressure of in
terests and partisanship on the gov
ernment evidently is persistant and
considerable. Public opinion should
keep itself dear of these forces and
consider what is host for the country
as a whole.
That we are among the innocent by
standers who are being hurt by the
fighting of the belligerents ts obvious,
i Our trade has suffered. Our tlnan
I ci.il condition has been unfortunately
j affected. And the war account Is not
yet closed nor will be for years to come.
I tut common sence will tell us that
in contrast not only to the fate of the
warring nations but to that of every
other neutral the I’nited States is
blessed by fortune. In a conflict of the
proportions of the present war nil the
world suffers, thut the people of the
I'nited States have been able to let
off something against unescapnlile los
ses No armies are trampling our fields j
n>» cities destroyed, no lives lost. A
good part of our surplus of raw nia- !
jterials and manufactured produce, sav- ■
ing cotton, has been sold at high prices. (
We have been able to escape ttie flnan- |
jci.it disaster and to meet unpreceden
ted conditions with far more steadiness’
and security than would have been!
i
possible ten years ago.
In short, our national lot is happy
compared to that of any other country.1
and we may well show Intelligent ap
preciation of our good fortune In- view’
ing what embarrassments and losses
we suffer with philosophy, and main
tain toward the rest of the world, es
pecially the nations undergoing the or
deal of war. an imperturbable good na
ture and generous patience This need |
riot degenerate into supineness or an
Unmanly fear to insist upon fair con
sideration of our interests. Hut a sen
sible recognition of our own essential
pood fortune will keep us steady under
greater provocations than we have vet
Suffered -New York American
ALASKA
NOTES
(From our litxchaagss i
Tint Alaska Road Commission has
arranged to huild a large warehouse
at t'hitna, where supplies may bn
stored bo use along the govern
ment trail leading to Fairbanks.
Fifty thousand foe! of lumber will he
Used in the construction
'Hie Alaska Treadwell mills crushed |
61.241 tuns of me in December yielding
a total of $127,714. Operating expenses j
totaled $35,217, and construction $ti2.- ]
443. leaving a loss of $21,024 The
stock of broken ore in stopes was de
creased by 32,137 tons
The new VV. 1*. iV V. dock at Skag
way. to take the place of the one re
cently destroyod by tire, will soon be
ready for boats to tie up The new
wharf will have a straight front lilO
feet long with a railroad track running
down the face for a distance of 520
feu
.1 .1 McGrath and Bernard M. Stone.
Seward newspapermen, ate about to
begin thy publication of a magazine
‘‘The All-Alaska Review." McGrath,
who is a veteran newspaperman in Al
aska, at one time published the “Al
aska Review” at Seattle
Bast month, a man in Juneau, who
sued for $35, was awarded twenty-two
cents. The costs amounting t<» about
$2t> had not been assessed as the com
missioner, owing to the size of th»
verdict, decided to investigate before
determining who should pay the costs.
The $1,500,000 crushing mill of the
i Alaska Qastineau Mining company at
Thane, which has been building for
the last two years, is running at al
most full blast. The mill’s initio! ca
pacity of 2,500 tons of roek will lie in
creased when the second section is
added in another sixty days.
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It now develops that I >r. Musso, who
recently made a successful test of a
new submarine telephone between
Valdez and Cordova, visited Alaska at
the suggestion of the war department
j to give the machine a thorough test,
j as the T’nited States government is I
j endeavoring to secure an Instrument
I which will make it possible to tele
| phone over the sea cables of tile world.
Xhout $13,000 was available last year I
t’er tiie indigents in the Third judicial
division of Alaska. Tills is 10 per cent,
i of the license money collected outside ,
of Incorporated towns. Such part as
was not used reverted to the fund for
building government roads and trails.
It is expected that an equal amount
will be available ihis year and there
is a strong probability lhat a larger
amount than usual could be Judiciously
expended
Cordova Is threatened with a Jitney
bus.
The Elks will organize a lodge at
Seward.
\t Seward the price of bread jumped
to 15 cents a loaf
'I'he reaI estate dealers of Seward
have organized a real estate exchange.
Archdeacon Stuck has returned to
Fairbanks, after an absence of two
years.
The Presbyterian church at Fair
banks has decided In install n moving
picture machine.
Because of (he mild weather, unusual
activity Is reported on the creeks in
the Fairbanks district
It Is now slated that James A Smiser
i tie new U. H attorney for Hie First
district, is a "dry" democrat.
V member of the Seward town coun
1 il for an assault made upon another
Member of the same body was fined
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STANDING OF CONTESTANTS.
TENTH COUNT. MAY S. 1915.
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Rowena Lewis.225,550
Ruby Martin.187,310 j
Katie Ban ward.131,065 |
Helen Allan.88,651
Mrs. Perry Moore.59,475
Mary Fox.54,900
Mrs. .T. P. .Jones.37,060 j
Mrs. .Tolianna Hansen.28,560
Mrs. Mary Smith.21,150
Mrs. Denny O’Brien.16,980
Carrie Stipi k.10,055
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