The
Man With a
(Sermon by ‘•Rev." \V. F. Thompson in Fairbanks News-Miner. August 11)
Never was there an ancient maxim which is subject to mute mis
taken application than that which reads: ''Bin g up a child in the wav
he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it.’’ Apply
the moral understanding to the rule and you create from a childish hit
of divine lile that which in old age will resemble thiity cents' worth ol
human dog meat. Apply the human interpretation to the word
should, bring a child up "wise” in his day and generation, and he
is sale to slide gracefully through his declining years without bringing
dishonor upon his family.
A case in point is that of an old Fairbattksau who became mixed
up in a family low in Iditarod, which ended in the seveiance of old
business relations as related in this paper yesterday, and which is now
before the Iditarod courts upon moral and legal grounds. There are
few better fellows in the North than our old friend who is now the hero
ot the drama. He is an uptight business man, a haul worker, was a
deacon in the church, and a leader of the village band- a man among
men. He had a nice home, a wife and child, was regular in attend
ance at church, where lie pushed the contribution box around Sunday
alter Sunday, and was a model husband and father. He yvas brought
up in that way, and the example and practice of years weighed heavily
upon him. Business demanded that iast year his firm should get into
the game in Iditarod, and he moved there and opened up a snap. The
neyv camp yvas too rough and uncouth for him to take his family into it,
and he tried the camp alone and unprotected, in its rough and ready
stagesThere was no church to give him occupation, no home lies u
keep him traveling the wav of his progenitors; no anything of the old
familial and time-honored system of living. He was a maverick upon
a wild and woolly range. It yvas up to him to gird up his loins am
reform the whole blamed camp or drop his Sunday go-to-meeting ways
and get into the game, while the red lights shed a soft radiance ovei
tlie scene and hid in rosy shades the frightiul death-heads ot the morn
ing after. History does not tell to wiiat lengths he strove to reform
the other fellows, but it snows in the post mortem that he finally shoved
his straight laced boots under the banquet table and rolled ’em as high
as his next-door neighbor.
Our old friend was not brought up in the way he yvas intended by
nature to go, but to the contrary. Had they turned him loose anwm
the herd in his youth, to take his chances on the range and in bo li tin
allalla and the cactus, allowed to eat his portion of loco yveed yvith tin
rest, and to recover Irotn it in his own due time, he would have mad.
a finish that would have pleased the churchgoers Instead, they tied a
censer-can to him and compelled him to live in ihe atmosphere ot sane
.T.y until it made him sick in the stomach, and he was ripe lor a breath
ot the odor of violet talcum powder which might escape from the right
location, attended by other and human, adorf which loco men. Wher
ever mail is, and in a condition to be tempted, right around the corner
bet.ind the first board fence you come to lies in wail a Miss Grace win
is there with the temptation goods; and he found her, just as all men
find their Miss or His Grace. A case in court, a family breakup a no
the usual prattle ol the he and she gossips is the finish, and anothei
happy family has gone to pot.
All who desire may rise upon their hind legs and howl, piously,
against the yvreck ot a man, but we cannot accompany them along that
trail, having traveled it for forty-odd years and knowing every turning
point on it. It is the yvreck of a fallacious system ol child rearing, bu
not the yvreck of the man upon whom the system yvas tried. Peopit
yvho look for the locotd man to make a frightful finish to which they
may point their children as a moral incident, are apt to be looking
through the wrong glasses. He is over in the cactus field today, with
the alfalfa crowd hee-hawing at him to their hearts’ content, but when
he has had his fill of the cactus, as we all have had and all must liavt
and as he will have, some bright morning the human held yviil awakt
to the fact that he is back iu the alfalfa field again, there ahead of them,
eating the tenderest plants and traveling the straightest path of them
all. Thereafter they will never have it over him, for he yviil have
learned the game of lite and know the proper system of mixing secretly
and unknown the seductive cactus with the upright alfalfa—the pleas
ant mix'tire which yve all thrive upon, greatly to the honor and glory
of the world of “upright” men and women.
The court will judge him. The press and the people yviil try him
and convict him, from their point of view. When the case is endec
and all the findings are turned in, the net result yviil he the verdict
that we are now prepared to render—that his sin consisted iu being
found out.
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Mahmout is coming to America. He has changed managers
and will now be able to get into the game with the big fellows. As
long as An tone Peirri was looking after his affairs there wasn't
a chance for the rl urk to get into the big money. Many labored
under the impression that the big fellows didn't care to take a
chance with him. That was all rot, for there are two - Gotch and
Hackenschmidt—that can throw him sure any time they get hold
of him. The troubl was on account of Peirri, who did all sorts of
things on the other side and then came back here and expected the
men he had injured to give him a chance to gather in some good
American dollars. Hut they saw him coining and his last season
was a loss and the wrestler was unemployed for months in Chicago.
Mahout finally cut himself adrift from the man who was making it
impossible to earn a living in America.
Mahmout will come over and challenge the winner of the
Gotch-Hackenschmidt bout in Chicago. If the Russian wins lie
will give the Turk a chance, but Gotch has given it out that he
will retire, win or lose. I know that the management of Hacken
schmidt will agree to take on Mahmout if it can be shown that the
Turk is a drawing card. Hackenschmidt has made up his mind to
take in all the wrestlers, one after the other, and then go back
home and live on his estate in Surrey, England, for the rest of his
days.—Denver Post.
White Duck Killed
Bruce Harne recently killed a pure
white duck on the Clearwater river,
and it was taken to Fairbanks and
mounted. It is believed not to repre
sent a distinct species, but to be an
albino freak.
Mutchler Bros., freighters, have
announced a big reduction in their
reight rate to the creeks, and state
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Accusations Against
Rev. John Parsons
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f'barges of a grave nature have been preferred against Rev.
•John Parsons, former pastor ol the Methodist church at Fair
banks. Besides being tried out by the regularly constituted author
ities of the church, there is a likelihood of an airing of the
matter in the district court in connection with an application for an
order directing the delivery of the church records to Mr. Parsons.
The formal charges laid before Bishop C. W. Smith by Church
Treasurer I. J. Wheeler are highly sensational. They contain ten
specifications, as follows:
1. On September 0, 1900, the said John Parsons wrote a letter to the
district Judge in favor of the issuance of a saloon license to one John Moe—
said saloon to be situated within less than H)0 feet of the Methodist church.
•Said license would not have Been issued and said saloon could not have been
opened except for said letter favoring it. Said John Parsons not only wrote
surh letter, but, in effect, received $1000 f r so doing. Ho was ; trther guilty
of deliberate lying in stating in such letter that no member of his church
objected to the opening of sail', ,,aioon, as he positively knew to the contrary,
i’his letter was quoted by the no.i district judge as his reason for renewing
tile license for this saloon again this year.
2. The said John Parsons also owned and knowingly rented a house for
purposes of prostitution.
3. Fraudulently convey ing to the Home Missionary society a house, and lot
bought by the Ladies’ Aid with tin distinct understanding that it was to he a
temporary investment of their own funds for later local use.
4. Failure to account for moneys contributed for building the M. E. church
at Fairbanks.
o. Various falsifications as. to expenditures of church funds, as witnessed
by a comparison of the different church rtcords.
(i. Embezzlement of a balance of more than fflOO due the church when he
left, as shown by liis own figure.-,.
7. V, iwn the town of Fairbanks was burning, in May, 190G, provisions were
donated, to the local M. E. church with the understanding that said provisions;
were to be prep ’ and served free to those fighting the fire. But the said
John Par,ons, in face of this fact, and in face of the fact that the M. E. church
as well as the other buiklii gs near, was in grave danger from the fire these
men were lighting, took advantage of the fact that all the testaurants had been
burned, and charged the lire lighters c-xot biiant prices for refreshments served,
and never accounted to the church (or to any one else) for these receij ts.
8. The said John Parsons, with at least grave imprudence, habitually
peddled in person eggs, and oil r produce to the fallen women of the “red
light" or restricted district, tbrreby causing grave and lasting prejudice
against the M. E. church, as well as the most serious popular rutuots against
his own alleged immorality with said women.
9. The said John Parsons also made a business and practice of loaning
money to those in distress at extremely usurious rates of interest, in violation
oi the statutes ol the F. S. government as weli as against common humanity
from such well-known: practice gaining the popular nickname of “The Ten-Per
Cent- a-Month) Kid.” to the great scandal of the M. 7. church and ministry.
1U. The said John Parsons also borrowed or rented from a local saloon
their machine and gave in the Method!-,t church a “moving picture show” of a
bullfight, and at another picture show most scandalously and irreverently
mixed up political and partisan cartoons with scenes from the Crucifixion and
other events in the last week of our Lord’s life on earth.
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