INMAGHUK NEWS AND SOME
COMMENTS ON CORRENT EVENTS
(Special Correspondence.)
Swan Enerson and Gus Ferbert have
started on the long trek to the Kuskok
wlm. They have good advices from
some friends in that section and ex
pect to get in on a good thing. We
wish them luck.
The Caudle Bloods drop in on us
occasionally while exercising their rac
ing team, they arc also acquainting
their dogs with the route to he travers
ed in the round trip race to he pulled
off early next month. Rod Dlmmiok’s
team seems to have the edge in the
betting.
Harry Courtney, one of our up-river
operators, had to enter the hospital
the other duy on account of a severe
attack of neuraliga.
“Formation” Jack McCartney, the big
Good Hope mining magnate is here on
a \ iait.
Hr Tteplogle, the government school
teacher at this point, is a very Inisv
man these days, getting everything
ready for the removal of the Eskimo
village to its new site on the Kobuk.
He has sent over some advance fork
era to start cabins and make ready for
the balunee of the people. The TCs
kimos have progressed greatly under
the doctor’s regime. Sickness lias been
almost entirely eliminated and their
mental and physical vigor has been
Immensely enhanced. The doctor and
Mrs. Replogle are devoting their en
tire energies to the uplift of the Ks
kimos. Their hearts and souls are in
their work.
Mrs. Roust and her sister. Miss
T,owis, made a recent trip to Candle
on a %dsit. They have returned home.
We hope the increase in the Alaska
road fund will allow of our receiving
a sufficient amount to entile us to get
in a good summer's work on our road.
If the money Is not available until July
we would like to gel started in June;
wo would wait for payments. It is
necessary that the stretch of road we
got started last fall he finished with
proper ballasting as early as possible;
for freighting on it while wet will cut
it all to pieces. With a whole summer's
work we can put a good stretch of our
road in splendid condition. Wc under
stand road building, are acquainted
with the nature of the ground to hr
traversed and our hoys are interested
in doing good work -as a good road
! will benefit them in their operations.
and the money they make furnishes a
prospecting grubstake. We are all in
terested in the development of this
section and a good road will lie a great
aid to "Ur endeavors The heavy snows
of this winter will cause the river to be
greatly swollen this spring nnd the
crossings will undoubtedly he extra
dangerous There Is no sign of a river
channel now. the valley is deep with
snow from side to side.
Our representative, Nate Coomhs, is
rnther modest In his demands on the
Territorial treasury, he only asks for
$15,000 for each division. He .should
have cut out the First Division and
asked for $20,000 for each of the other
three—Senator Sulzor will take care of
tlie First, if anything gets by him It
must wear gun shoes, and puss him
when hts back Is turned.
It appears to us that hair seal bounty
and women on Jury bills could await
the enactment of more Important leg
islation.
Wo note that Frank Aldrich Is chair
man of the Taxation committee. If the
tax he advocates on association claims
is a criterion of his tux ideas, tax
payers should pray that Frank will not
dominate that committee.
JOKED HIS WAY THROUGH WAR;
JEST AT LAST COSTS HIS LIFE
HON 1 JON.— "What was the saddest
funeral that you conducted at the
front f’’
"Tou maj lake your pick between
two,’’ answered the young Irish priest
who reached here recently from the
trenches to spend a six days’ leave of
absence. "Here's the first one:
"There was a young Irish joker in
our regiment who was the idol of his
mates for his good humor. He used to
ivuke himself up laughing, his com
rades said, one day lie wont into a
cottage and whispered io ihe woman
there: ’I'm a German; get me some
thing to eat.’ The woman put the din
ner out for him and while he was eat
ing slipped away to the English cavalry
outpost and told them that there was
a German disguised as an English
soldier in her house.
"The cavalrymen dashed up to the
house. I suppose the joker took fright,
as he really was close to the German
lines, and mistook the British for Ger
mans. And he went to the window
with his rifle raised for action and the
troopers riddled him. Fie was stone
dead when picked up.
"Tho soldiers stood around and cried
like women when we put the little Irish
Tommy away. And I had to write a
letter home to his wife telling her that
ho had been killed in action. She has
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ilit'Pa little daughters, the youngest 4.
and even It' l didn’t tell the whole truth
they'll never know that their daddj
didn’t die in battle.
"And then there was the funeral of
tlie old cure in a little town in France.
The whole village loved him like a
father. He had guided the lives of
most of the folks since they were able
to walk.
"tine afternoon a German flyer drop
ped a bomb on the little church where
jtlie cure was at prayer. All they ever
found of him was tlie right hand with
| which ho had blessed the villagers.
The people washed the powder black
ened hand and prepared it for burial
in an old walnut jewel box as tenderly
as If they were laying their beloved
priest in u magnificent casket.
"The grave was a small one, but all
the village folks gethered beside It and
wept their hearts out while 1 rend the
funeral services. The German shell fin
forced me to cut the burial service
short, but the people all stayed there
until the end.
"In four months on the firing line
you see many sights that you would
like to forget. Curiously, though, those
that leave the most vivid impressions
are those that seem unimportant. 1
have seen many aeroplanes fall, three
In one day, but there is a single incident
that causes troubled dreams.
"There had been a fight in llie sky
between a German and an English avi
ator. The German machine had been
broken and it begun to flutter down
ward like an injured bird. Suddenly
out of the wreck a black object fell.
It was the pilot, who had been jarred
from his seal, lie must have fell a mile,
it seemed to me as though it look hint
ton minutes to drop, 1 can't describe
my feelings—they were too terrible
express.”
When asked whether he hud Imd
lastly close calls himself the priest n
plied:
"Of course. Vou cannot live so near
war anil not have many narrow
squeaks. One night a soldier guided
me to a house where I wanted to see an
officer. The soldier watted out side for
mo while 1 went in. X had Just left
him when a shell fell and when we i n
out ho was dead. And, by tho way, ir
is at sucXi times that you get the sick
feeling. While tho firing is going on
you’re not disturbed in tho least. Hut
it’s always after one of these narrow
ntlssoa that you feel weak and sick and
flutters’ The best men feel that wav.
They tell me so.”
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_ ITT' " ■' 11'. i I .. IP'mi -
FRANCIS JOSEPH ASKS
PRAYERS OF CHILDREN
LONDON.—The Daily News prims
a dispatch from Vienna which says a
letter has been issued by Emperor
Erancis Joseph to the children of Aus
tria-Hungary which is remarkable for
its pathetic expression of the senti
ments which agitate the aged monarch
at this critical moment in his empire’s
history. The letter runs as follows:
“To the Dear Childx’en of Our Em
pire: In addressing you, beloved chil
dren, on the threashold of my grave at
this serious hour, I am moved by mani
fold motives. For one thing you al
ways have been, in the difficult hours
of my long life, the sole consolation
and the sole Joy of your emperor and
king. Whenever I saw you it was like
a xwj’ of joy in the shadow of my ex
istence. You it is, my children, who
are nearest the heart of jour emperor
and king, the flowers of mj- empire, the
ornaments of my peoples, and the bless-:
ffig of the future.
"Hut not onlj’ to your emperor and
king do you star.d nearest; j'ou also
stand nearest to one before whom even
the mtghteet of this world are but
helpless creatures. 1 mean to God, cur
Lord.
“In your eye there still shines the
light of the morning of creation; above
you there is still the paradise and
heaven.
"That the all powerful J.ord God may
protect and preserve Austria-Hungary
and give her a victory over her num
erous enemies and may strengthen h r
in the triumphs to the glory and honor
of God, is the only wish which still re
mains to me after o life so rich in suf
fering.
“This was my wish as I was still
young and full of hopes; when I as
cended the throne of my fathers; apd
this is my present wish, which per
haps will soon Host from my dying
lips as a word of last iove and concern
for my lands and for my peoples.
"God shapes everything according to
his will. We men can do nothing out
side or without him, and as you. dear
children, stand nearest to God, your i
emperor and king usks you to pray thatl
lie may bless us and grunt bis grace to
our cause.
“God listens to the prayer of inno
cence because he loves it and sees in it
his own image. Therefore do not
cease praying with folded hands, you
little ones mid least ones, for when the
children of the empire are praying for
the fatherland, l know that our star
is in the ascendant.
"When you are taking part in the
empire’s days of victory and honor,
when you will have obtained a blessing
for our banners and for our armies,
dear children, do not then forget the
empire to which you belong on this
earth and its old emperor.’’
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