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NOME, ALASKA, NOV. 24, 1916.
Hughe3 cante through handsomely
thoufeu reiuc-ainty m last ana I’resi
deiu v* iison vvus not to be oumune in
courtesy.
More German euiciency—The New
York ielegiaiu says mat the noise of
buiue has unven alt the storks lo
Prussia.
The Austrian empress can hardly
escape suspicion so long as her two
brothers anu her countrymen are a*.
Austria's throaL
What could Mr. Wilson possibly’
have meant by tho3e sigmucant words
‘ my good wishes in the year3 to
come?" is he iook.ng four years
hcati? If so, he ui.gnt tell us who
Irugias' opponent will be.
The Austrian emperor'3 proclama
tion oc Clares that peace will not come
without complete victory. This is fo
■*he tuMic. In reality the central pow
ers are seeking a ces-n or of hos
tiilt < s.
Governor Strong’s eyes probably
twinkled with fun when he wrote
that month tilling phra3e "pursuant
to proclamation recently issued by
the president of the Lnlted Sta’es
and in accordance with the time hon
ored custom.”
IN MEMOMHIAM.
With the passing of Jack London
Alaskans will led a sense of personal
bereavement. Not that many of the
present day Alaskans knew' him as a
friend or even casually, for there are
probably only a few scores of those
earliest Dawson people who3e fortune
it W'as to have become acquainted
with that breezy, rollicking youth who
went over the pJss in the exhilerating
days of ’98 and has now gone over the
Great Divide. Thousands of Alaskans
however, will feel a sense of loss. He
has written much about them and
their country. He has attempted ta
fathom and portray the heart and un
derstanding of the Alaska dog. Hun
dreds of thousands of men and wo
men, boys and girls, have gone
through Alaskan forest3, over Alas
kan mountains with his heroes and
heroines. Because most Alaskans
have never met such sturdy heroes
and enchanting heroines as London
portrayed is no proof that they have
not been in our midst. So far as each
of us is concerned the people we meet
have those qualities, and those only,
with which our imagination Invests
thpm. London found his Smoke Bel
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lews and Shortys In the kaleidoscopic
human stream at Dawson because ho
was able to discern them. He found
the thrilling in occurrences which
seemed common-place to most others.
He found humor because ho looked
for it. and humor is only an attiutde
of mind anyway. His fancy found 'n
the hills und forests of Alaska a stage
for wonderful advanturea and so he
chose hie characters here Mid staged
hie play. His women he Blade beau*
tlful of body by the urge of hip artls
liy which most surely expressed In
this way his divination of feminine
l>\r and sacrifice which brought the
softer sex to this country of priva
tion. The exaltation of spirit which
accompanied the flood tide of the
Klondike stampede awoke in him the
ambition to use his talents. He be
gan to dissect human motives, human
emotions, and then to reconstruct them
again. He lived on the edge of two
v orlds; the real and a dream world.
He took from the real and built his
d'. earns. His dreams are the tales that
l.iil'iens have read and that many
("hers will read.
The strength he gathered by the
exercise of his abilities in Alaskan
situations called for wider fields. He
sought the broad Pacific, the great
disert of humanity in the London
slums. With the increase In power
which followed each effort he at
tempted more difficult Journeys and
irs Imagination went back to the be
ginnings of man. In the three or four
years preceding his death, as his mind
approached maturity, his work show
ed mors seriousness. He was coming
to ponder more and more the meaning
of the human soul—its essence, why
it had come and whither it would go.
His own reading had become philoso
phical and psychological. He began to
love the music of the classic masters.
Great works of art which in the■
thoughtless days of rebellious youth
had been almost hateful to him be
cause they were mostly enjoyed by J
the rich now appealed to him as the
rich heritnge of all people. His
brusque almost boorish manners of
early day3, which are supposed by
the thoughtless to accompany strength
and genuineness in man, now gave
way to grace and urbanity. Thus It
may be seen that London was grow
ing, broadening and becoming finer all
the time.
If he were to analyze h!s own life
and character he would doubtless say,
and with truth, that hU growth was
due to a favorable environment. And
his economic viewpoint was such *.hat
ho could have suid that a similar
favorable environment can exist and
should exist for every human being.
The products of man’s toil may be so
divided that each shall have enough
30 that culture may be the endow
ment of each one. There were times
in his life, as shown by autobiograph
ical sketches, when he might easily
have degenerated into a drunken
wharf rat. Then came the stimulus
of opportunity and the better part of
his nature got the upper hand which
it continues to hold during life.
Jack London has gone on—to a
larger life a3 we believe. He had
human faults which he strove to over
come. He was strong, sane and clean.
He was not a genuius but he did
have exceptional talent He led his
readers, not through peaceful green
fields but over the rugged mountains
and across tempe3tuous seas. His
people loved the arduous, the Insur
mountable and the Joy of combat He
has gone, but, in the trite phrase, his
works live after him. His memory is
wholesome, pleasant and Inspiring. If
the next world is as some think his
aspiring soul will not be content to
rest In peace. He found his rest In
work where it can only be found and
his sort will never be satisfied to stop
while there remains another ascent
to be climbed or another soul to be
lifted up.
FEWER FARMERS.
The Des Moines Capital calls at
tention to the fact, disclosed by an
alysis of census figures, that the rural
population of Iowa is steadily declin
ing in relative proportion to the urban
population and now constitutes but
46.8 per cent, of the whole. Iowa
seems to be showing tho same ten
dency as other states in a migration
of its rural population citywards.
Iowa has always been considered as
primarily an agricultural state. At
the time the census of 1910 was taken
95 per cent of the entire area of the
state was in farms. It has no largo
cities, in the modern sense. Yet the
! majority of the people of that state
have forsaken the farm. This cer
tainly cannot be on account of the
meager returns from farming. The
industry is being carried on us largely
as ever and hu3 been extraordinarily
profitable of recent years, as shown
by the rapid and large increase in
valuer l:
Inueed, the Iowa farmer ranks r-tally
as a capitalist. The averuge value el
the Iowa furms. Including buildings
and equipment, is given by the 19)o
census as over $17,000, and there are
over 200,000 farms in the state. One
explanation of the exodus from tlio
farm is seen in the steady increase in
the size of Iowa farms. In that state
there are 2,640 of over 600 acres in
extent and 214 over 1,000 acres each.
More than half of the Iowa ftfrms are
between 176 and 499 acres.
The successful farmer, apparently,
lias gradually been buying out the less
successful, actuated by the controlling
instinct of many farmers, who want
nothing 3ave all of the land which ad
joins them. The purpose? To raise
more corn, to feed more hogs to sell,
to buy more land on which to raise
Professional Cards
Dr. A. F. Heimlich
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON.
Office and Residence.
OVER HILL’S PHARMACY.
Office hours: 2-5 and 7-8 p. m.
Fhone Main 7.
John Hancock
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NIGHT SCHOOL. 212 FRONT ST.
From 6:30 to 8:30 p. m.
Reading, Writing and Arithmetic, als->
the Art of Bookk*eping.
Terms reasonable.
more corn, and so on Indefinitely.
One other item perhaps to bo con
1 sidered is the growing number of ten
ant farmers in that state. In the
I majority of cases, probably, this
means that the owner of the farm has
reached advanced life, hus decided to
quit work and lease his farm, retiring
lo town to live upon the income, thus
swelling the urban population.
NOTICE TO PUBLIC ®F NOMfc
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John Feyrer. Ladles and Gents suits
made to order. A large stock of
Fabrics and Fashions to select from.
£>Ulls cleaned, pressed and altered.
All Work Guaranteed
to fit and uk t with your approval.
M. PASCOFF.
Cor. Lane’s way and Front street.
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We make them look like new.
We make alterations.
We do cleuning, pressing and re
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We make and repair furs.
First lasa workmanship. Modern
methods aud prompt service. Onoe a
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Give us your work. Satisfaction
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Jewelers.
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U.Carsten* Cold Storage
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16 . Headquarters Salooi
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CThis Style at
$5.00
is one of the classy boots
we are showing for Fall
wear.
$3.50 to $7.00
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CHILLED BEEF ,
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NORTH POLE BAKERY
ANVIL BAKERY
BEGINNING MONDAY, juNE 7TH, THE PRICE OF BREAD
WILL BE 10 CENT8 PER .OAF OR THREE LOAVES FOR 29
CENTS. THE SIZE OF LOAVES HAVE BEEN INCREASED
WHICH INSURES MORE AND BETTER BREAD FOR OUR
PATRONS.
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Alaska Banking and
Safe Deposircipany
AUTHORIZED CAPITAL ....*125,000
PAID UP CAPITAL. 50,000
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