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TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 1915
THE GOVERNMENT.
The Government has always exist
ed and always will exist. Men curse
and rail at the government,- and talk
of it as a tangible thing, fallible and
to be controlled by the individual.
This is an error. Were the President
to die tomorrow, and every head of
every department also cease to exist,
the Government would still live.
Men have killed kings and rulers, j
presidents and potentates, in a vain
effort to rid themselves of imaginary |
wrongs, which they believed were ,
foisted upon them by a tyrannical ,
and despotic government. Too la.te ,
they found that they had only re- ,
moved the temporary agent of the
government, and that authority, jus
tice and right ruled as before. Gov- ,
ernment has existed from the time
the world first began, and started ,
with the emoebus and ended with
man. The lowest tribe of savages ]
have their tribal laws; and the high- ]
er the grade of intelligence the less
onerous are the laws. Without gov
ernment this world would be a hell; .
a seething, snarling mass of discon- .
tent, with no belief in a hereafter, j
or no law but force.
TRUTH.
What is truth? said jesting Pilate, '
and would not stay for an answer.
Certainly there be that delight in
giddiness; and count it a bondage to -
fix a belief; affecting free-will in
thinking, as well as in acting. And
though the sects of philosophers of
that kind be gone, yet there remain
certain discoursing wits, which of the
same veins, though there be not so
much blood in them as was in those
of the ancients. But it is not only
the difficulty and labor which men
take in finding out the fact of a cer
tain thing; nor again, that when it is
found, it imposes upon men’s
thoughts that bring lives in favor;
but a natural though corrupt love of
the lie itself. One of the ltfter schools
of the Grecians examined the mat
ter, and is at a stand to think what
should be'in it, that men should love
lies; where neither they make for
pleasure, nor for advantage, but for
the lie’s sake.
But I cannot tell. This same truth
is a naked and open daylight, that
doth not show the masks and mum
meries and triumps of the world half
so stately and daintily as candle
lights. Truth may, perhaps, come to
the price of a pearl, that shows the
best by day, but it will rise to the
price of a diamond or carbuncle, that
shows the best in a varied light. A
mixture of a lie does ever add pleas
ure. Does any man doubt, that if
there were taken out of men’s lives
vain opinions, flattering hopes, false
valuations, imaginations as one would
and the like, but it would leave the
minds of a number of men poor
shrunken things, rattling like a pea
in a pod, full of melancholy and in
disposition, and unpleasing even to
themselves? One of the fathers, in
great severity, called poesy, “The
wine of evil spirits,” because it filled
the imagination, and yet was but the
shadow of a lie. But it is not the lie
that passes through the mind, but the
lie that sinks in and settles upon it,
mat uuch me uuri.
But however these things are in
men’s depraved judgments and af
fections, yet truth, which only doth
judge itself, teacheth that the inquiry
of truth, which is the love-making,
or wooing of it, the knowledge of
truth, which is the presence of it,
and the belief of truth, which is the
enjoying of it, is the sovereign good
of human nature.
The first creation of God in the
works of the days, was the light of
the sense. He said, “Let there be
light, and there was light; the last
was the light of reason, “The Lord
God formed man out of the dust of
the ground, and breathed into his
nostrils the breath of life; and man
became a living soul.” His Sabbath
work ever since is the illumination of
his Spirt. First, he breathed light
or truth upon the face of the matter,
or chaos; then he breathed light, or
truth into the face of man; and still
he breathes and inspires light and
truth into the face of his chosen.
The poet says: "It is a pleasure to
stand upon the shore and see ships
tossed upon the sea; a pleasure to
stand In the windows of a castle and
see a battle, and the adventure there
of below; but no pleasure is com
parable with standing upon the solid
[round of truth and see the errors
ind the wanderings, and mists and
empests in the vale below. Certaln
y it is heaven upon earth to have a
nan’s mind move in charity; with
teace and goodwill toward all man
tind.
A clear and square dealing is the
>roof of a man’s nature, and that
nixture of falsehood is like the alloy
n the metal, which may make the
netal better, but debases it. For
0 the truthful man the windings
ind goings of a crooked course are
he goings of a serpent, which crawls
>asely upon Its belly and not upon
he feet.
There is no vice that does so cover
1 man with shame as to be found
’alsp and- perfidious. A lie faces
}od ,a|d shrinjks frdm man.
Surely the wickedness of falsehood
ind breach of faith cannot possibly
>e so highly expressed as in that it
ihall be the last peal to call the judg
nents of God upon the generations
>f men; it being foretold that when
Christ again comes to the earth "He
ihall not find faith among men.”—
3 aeon.
A1 G. Spaulding, the great sport
ng goods manufacturer, and the man
vho Invented the great American
;ame, is dead. Before Spaulding’s
idvent baseball consisted of “one
de-cat” and “rounders,” played with
lelther rule nor rote. Spaulding took
ip the game, drew up rules and regu
ations, put his popular “League
3all” upon the market, and the na
ioq enthusiastically adopted it as the
National game. From a small and
>bscure beginning Spaulding arose to
ame, and at the time of his death
lad amassed a huge fortune. In Illi
lois, Spaulding’s name was a house
lold work. At a large High School
n Chicago, during Cleveland’s first
idministration, a certain politician
isked the scholars whom the most
>opular man in the Uuited States was,
iupposing, of course, the answer
vould be "Cleveland.” Judge of his
mrprise when the boy scholars, en
nasse, arose in their seats and shout
id “Spaulding!”
Let your light so shine that when
rour summons comes to join that in
lumerable caravan, you may pull a
580 parka over your head and thank
Jod that ou have lived to see the
mice of flour get back somewhere
vithin reach. Pancakes have been
setting so small over at Anchorage
;hat the old prospectors take their
sold pans to breakfast and pan for
hem.
At five hundred millions a shot,
Lhis country could not afford many
visits from that Loan commission,
from the warring countries of Eu
rope. The terrible waste of this war
srows more appalling each day. The
present cost would have laid gold
lighways in every state in the Union
ivitli pearl studded silver monuments
tor mileposts. Or it would buy every
uan, woman and child in the United
States a tea-bone steak until the mil
lennium, and leave quite a bit over
Cor dessert.
SAYS VAL STEFFANSSON
IS PRINCE OF FAKERS
Two years ago after the loss of the
Karluk a man who is now on the staff
of the Gateway wrote in an outside
publication that the whole thing was
i fake pure and simple, and that Stef
ansson would come to life again
after having disappeared long enough
to advertise himself.
That Steffansson is a faker is a be
lief shared by many other pe >ple who
know the man, including that fine
type of churchman, Bishop llowe of
the Episcopal church of Alaska
Anyone who knows anything about
those coasts up around Herschell Isl
and knows that Steffansson could
have let it be known that he was alive
long ago if he wanted to. As a mat
ter of fact the whole expedition was
a fiasco from beginning to end. Men
who have been in the places where
3teffansson said he found white-hair
ad Eskimos say there is no such thing,
if you except those who could safely
lay claim to white whalers as their
fathers. When Steffansson left Nome
lie declined to give anything out to
the Associated Press correspondent,
and said he had a representative of
that press service with the expedition
and he did, perhaps, but he was Stef
fapsson’s own secretary, a half baked
kid, who would be most likely to say
what Steffansson wanted.
Steffansson has been accused of
having a half breed family of his own
In that region, and if this is the case
one can hardly blame him for wishing
to spend a winter or two in the bos
om of his family at the expense of
the Canadian government, but, it
must be said, that this story, while
vouched for by church ministers, can
not be positively proven. However,
the whole thtfig from the time he
left t£e Karluk looked fishy. One
well known mail carrier who went
from Nome, or Teller, left after a
short time and came ashore. On
reaching Nome he told the editor of
the paper, there that he could say
nothing as he had given his word be
fore leaving the Karluk that he would
not knock the outfit. ' This man Is the
son of a man who was United States
Commissioner at Teller.
After the blowing away of the Kar
luk StefTansson telegraphed outside
that he left her on September 20,
when he thought she was held safely
In the ice for the winter, but any old
timer in those waters will tell you
that any man who believed a vessel
was securely held in the ice at that
time of the year must have known
nothing about it. If StefTansson did
know it he could only mean that he
deserted the ship and left his com
panions to their fate while securing
his own safety.
While on his trips StefTansson
spoke of his position by speaking of
"meridians,” “longitudes,” etc., when
speaking of places close in, Just as
one might speak of the head of Res
urrection Bay and tell its longitude
and latitude instead of its real name.
This was to impress eastern people
and papers and make it look as if he
were at the end of the world and a lit
tle beyond when he never was farther
than some old whalers go every year.
This is only spoken of here thro
a dislike for attempts to fool the pub
lic. There are hundreds of prospec
tors who go out in the hills of Alaska
constantly and go through far great
er hardships than those so-called ex
plorers and also do more good and
travel over more unknown territory.
Some day the people will get wise to
those rotten fakers in all lines, ex
ploring, mining and all other sorts.
One had only to know StefTansson
and outfit to become mighty skepti
cal to say the least.—Seward Gate
way.
GOVERNOR IS WAITING
FOR AN OPINION.
The terrtorial legislature passed a
law authorizing the creation of school
districts outside of incorporated
towns, with 12 or more children of
school age.
There is about ? 15,000 apportion
ed from the road fund into the school
fund which could be used for that
purpose.
So far, however, no applications
under the territorial law for new
school districts have been made by
residents.
In order to be sure of his ground
when the time arrived, Governor
Strong has asked the department of
justice at Washington for an opinion.
The territorial law might conflict in
authority with the federal law creat
ing school districts outside of incor
porated towns.
For the same reason the governor
has hesitated in making an appoint
ment of a school superintendent for
the territory, desiring first to secure
an opinion from the department of
justice concerning the points in
doubt. t
CORWIN ARRIVES AFTER
SOME THRILLING HUNTS
The famouB ship Corwin, Captain
Dick Healey, recently passed south
after a most remarkable hunting trip
in the Arctic ice. The hunting ex
pedition was in charge of Captain O.
A. Annevik, for many years in com
mand of the Arctic expeditions on
the Norwegian ice breaking steamer
Kit. On the Corwin as a result of
the hunt are 1533 walrus hides, 8000
pounds of ivory and 343 barrels of
oil. The total weight of the hides
is 430,000 poupds, and the average
price for them is five cents a pound.
Captain Annevik calls it the record
walrus cargo for the world. The Cor
win was altogether, seventy days in
the ice. The manner of hunting the
walrus was to run right up to the
floes and start shooting. On some
floes the captain has seen every inch
covered with the brutes and one herd
encountered numbered two thousand.
When shooting begins the herd takes
to the water and out of the whole
acre of ice filled with the animals,
less than twenty can be expected to
be bagged. The last cake shot up
was about an acre in extent and the
walrus covered completely every bit
of the ice from view. Some of the
hides are 500 pounds in weight each.
Some of the ivory is thirty-six inches
long and is worth thirty cents a
pound. The oil is worth $15 a barrel.
Captains Healey and Annevik have
some wonderful photographs. They
also killed four Polar bears, one of
which attacked the boat and got its
front paws over, but the launch kept
up such speed that the brute had to
give up.
COPPER RIVER ROAD
PLACES A LARGE ORDER.
The Copper River & Northwestern
railroad has just placed orders for
new rolling stock and equipment that
will aggregate In price one hundred
thousand dollars. Amongst the' new
equipment ordered are three locomo
tives, a rotary plow, fifteen box carB
and three bunk and eating cars.
From the order It is concluded that
the Guggenhelms intend to do a large
amount of mining soon.
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