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NoMfc, Alaska, NOV, kS, 1916.
'a oo lilcu beau.y pans; sttunr is
beautirul.
Blunuermg is one ol lue deadliest
crimes but we aon t prombit it be
cause a laige majority are tor 1C
Yesteruay villa was ueieated and
taking m the bills; today be is vic
torious wi.h me city at bis mercy.
That a the way It goes.
Germany's appeal to neutral nations
seems to be rounded on right. 11 Ger
many weren't m the war sne’d get in
or make neutrality respected.
Billy Sunday has lots ol enemies
Irom whicn it may be interred that he
is a pretty good man, and a live
member.
About three days ago Bondon wires
told us that a hundred thousand Kou
manlans were near Orsova. yester
day Berlin sent word that the Austro
Germans had captured Orsova and the
region round about but not a word
as to the hundred thousand. The
Koumamans didn't eat up the Ger
mans, that is plain, whatever else
may have happened.
Kev. Billy Sunday was Intemperate
—In his preaching. That's why he had
ot quit, lus t it queer how some peo
ple will inveigh against another’s In
temperance and be guilty of the same
fault themselves7 intemperance in
eating, drinaing, preaching, dancing
or any other thing is against the law
of nature and brings on Us own pun
ishment.
A number of the nations at war are
going to great trouble to provide arti
ficial arms and bands which will be
of more use to the maimed than clubs.
Only a small part of the thought given
to repairing the ravages of war would
have obviated the need for wooden
hands and feet and would have al
lowed nearly seven million men to
have lived out their natural term of
years, as well.
Jack London» death hus suggested
along with other things the complaint
oi ten Heard from Alaskans, especially
prospectors, trappers und those who
know the wilds and their diitlcultles,
that it uid not happen and could not
have happen,d. touch tueas are ut
tered after reading a story In which
some exploit is wrongly described.
The woodsman knows from his own
experience that the thing could not
have been done und the story is spoil
ed for him. The author struck a fulso
note but he himself did not know it
because he was. not expert enough to
detect It
Kuch a case as this occurred In one
of London's tales wherein the hero,
starving and exhauated, fell under a
spruce tree and slept It was towards
spring. He awoke to see nine ptarmi
gan on the branches of the spruce.
Aiming his 80-40 Winchester he missed
his bird. He rallied his nerves and
shot again, until he had killed all of
the nine ptarmigan. Now that did not
happen and never could happen, and
for these reasons; ptarmigan seldom
tt ever eu on a spruce tree, they
perch on willows and cottonwoods but
only to eat buds, and they rest on
me ground; one snot at a flock of ptar
migan with a 3U-4U will nine times out
of ten scare them all away especially
in the spring ume when they are wild,
and it the man had been so ravenous
as be was described he would have
eaten ths first hint ha It Ml art la fact
the man-did eat si bind, bat not onui
he bad Jailed mne Band on ruined a
story otherwise .Cawless by _ making
his hero do the impossible.
As we understand it, fiction deals
with characters that do not necessar
ily exist but could exist. They art
humanly possible. And so with thi
things the characters do in ScUon; the
things may not have been done but
they are possible of accomplishment.
NS hen the characters are unreal and
the deeds impossible it is not UcUon
but Just plain lying. The sea captain
who told about his horse that could
run forty tmies in forty minutes was
not a story teller but a liar and his
tale was received with amusement and
ridicule instead of rapt attention.
in "The Barrier" Hex Beach had one
of .bis characteis do something which
so tar as we know has never be<-n
done but which could be done and all
Alaskans will agree that the incident
aas described without a false note.
One of the characters wanted to pun
ish the villain by lnllicling a horrible
death so he led him biinmolued into u
uense patch of high willows on the
Yukon fiats and stripped him naked
and left him for the mosquitoes to
kill. He must have bad a honble
death, the author makes one feel. Here
was a thing that had never happened
out it wmi true nevertheless. The
reader felt it was true, if Beach had
lclt him there tur snakes or taran
tulas to enu his iue it would have
been un.rue, tor so such creatures
cannot be found in Alasaa except on
ounent-s oi bananas.
The purpose of the fiction writer
then must be to dehnea.e characters
wun uai.8 so real trial the readers
recognises them as true, and to create
the sceneiy, houses, an min is and ac
tion so trutiiiuny that they will be
known us entirely possible. A very
nen man ur.got eoncen'aDly live in a
house oi gold. A s.ory uealmg with
some marajah of India mignt contain
such a house and no; slraro the cred
ulity ot uie leauer. But saouid on
au.iior describe a sulutns palace as
being hewed out of a Single pearl the
story could not be classed as fiction,
it might be a fairy' tale or a fable or
Just plain lie, but not fiction.
Kor the- last year or two one of the
great American weeklies has been
printing irom lime to Ume tales oi
Alaska. The author came to Alaska
to get material and the fairy tales
he has written were accepted and
praised by the editor who sent him
ana are doubtless read by many peo
ple. These stones are dashing stories
about real men. The characters are
true enough. Bui lire setting and the
action are nothing short of ndiculouk
the uinoriunate author (he will be
such if we ever get him in a smokiug
room on a long voyage) simply took
his characters from life and his ac
tion irom his uninstrucied imagina
tion. i.very story rings false to Al
askans from beginning to end but to
those not knowing the country they
must seem to be excellent tale3. An
example of the unreality of this writ
ers work may be given. A river
steamer is wrecked on the upper Yu
kon in the fall when the Ice Is run
ning heavily. The author wants to
send three men up river a ways so be
has them lash two hatches to
gether and pole them against the cur
rent of the Yukon which is Jammed
from shore to shore with thick ice.
Think ot it, against the Yukon run of
ice and In mid stream at that! And
those two hatches as well; The author
had been reading sea tales probably
where hatches were used as rafts for
the hero and heroine. The little
hatches on a river boat wouldn’t bstr
up a child. Nor could they be poll’d,
towed, pushed or in any other way
conducted up streuun against that flow
of ice.
Such Impossibilities as this mar the
pleasure derived from fiction. When
the editors are conversant with the
scenes portrayed such unrealities do
not often gel by. But Alaska is so
remote and the talcs about it have
been so untrue that wrong ideas w-re
fostered from the start. Alaskan lie
tlomsts have been getting falser year
by yeur until now tt seems that pJi •
tors and public will accept anythlig
ua true to life, and the more untrue
»’ 1s the more they accept it as true
delineation.
A LADY LEAVES U8.
The passing of Lady Eglantine la to
bo regretted not merely because a I
wonderfully productive hen has gone
hence, but because a torch bearer Is
lest front the great procession of
poultry development. Lady E^ta tl.o
of Maryland was a mysteryt.Uad she
lived under the care of the scientists
v.hom she made famous, new truths
of poult, jr raising would have been
established, new poultry Ideals would
have been created.
Eglantine was natural. The alco
hol treatment, inoculation and all
the other fancy and freehand
mshods of forcing egg production
were even forbidden mention m her
presence. She lived and laid with
the wholesome poise of one of na
ture’s own creatures, scratching wise
ly, chucking modestly, cackling with
the decent restraint of a respectable
married ben. She went about fre
quently, being seen at all the best ex
hibitions, but she was instinctive
attached to her home, and it was
there that the true purity of her
character shone brightest. She was
but little atir.ed by the tremendous
problems of her day. She never
heard of birth control—her folks
vouldn't let her.
Here, in fact, was a creature fit rare
virtues; docile, and yet wlth^the vi
vacity of beauty; active, and yet with
the soft passivity of those who have
much to give; proud, but without van
ity.
Lady Eglantine wns an 'inmrle to
Professional Cards
Dr. A. F. Heimlich
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her species, her class and her sex —
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