Sam’i Applebaum
Groceries
Sole Agents for
Interior Alaska
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Retailed Locally
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Soraci’s Pool Room,
Mullen’s Pool Room,
IDITAROD
Finnegan’s Pool Room,
Rollback's Pool Room,
DISCOVERY
Manhel Gularte,
Branch Pool Room,
FLAT CITY
Itwo fine cleandps
j The cleanup of the Riley Investment
| Co.’s dredge, made last Saturday, to
i taled $24,700—after a run of seven and
a half days. This is the most sattsfac
1 factory cleanup of the year. Beaton &
I Donnelley’s last cleanup amounted to
I nearly $13,000.
; Form New Law Partnership
j Under the firm name of Albrecht. &
Taylor, Major George VV. Albrecht and
I Charles E. Taylor, two of Iditarod’s
! oldest, attorneys, have formed a part
| nership for the practice of law. Both
\ have been members of the local since
early in 1910. It is their intention to
i establish an office in a Pacific-coast
!city, most likely Seattle, which will be
j in charge of Mr. Taylor, who is uow on
| his wav to select a location. Major
! Albrecht will look after the firm's prac
i lice in Alaska except during terms of
court, when Mr. Taylor will be here to
assist his partner.
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Dr. Behla Closes Kis Hospital
Dr. B. Behla, the Flat physician, has
disposed of the Behla hospital, and has
j for the present retired from the bos
| pital business. The doctor is having a
I new office fitted up for himself in Flat.
! The hospital building will,shortly tie
| occupied by t he commissioner's office
| and the posioffice.
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Trespass Case Trial Monday
The heating of John Jacobson, Einar
j Makeia and Charles Uolila on a charge
I of criminal trespass, preferred against
| them by J. G. Rivers, was postponed
from last, Monday to next Monday, Sep
tember 8. at 1 p. m.
La Follette’s Idea Didn’t Go
Washington, Sept 3. — Western sena
tors today succeeded in defeating Sena
tor La Follette's amendment to the oil
land leasing bill, authorizing the Pres
ident to lix and control the prices of
coal oil and other products from gov
ernment lands leased under the meas
ure.
! Washington, Sept. 4,—The Senate
j today passed a bill which makes possi
. ble the leasing of public lands bearing
| deposits of coal, oil, gas, phosphate so
dium, and other products.
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; Railroads Show a Net Gain
! Washington, Sepi. 3.—For the first
jtinae since the middle of 1918, the Rail
i wav Administrator is able to show a
net gain in the operation of the rail
roads. _
Bomb Thrower’s Bad Work
Tokio, Sept. 3.—A bomb was thrown
last evening at Governor-General
Sainlo at Seoul, the Korean capital,
and 2o people were injured. Sainto
was formerly an admiral in the Japan
ese navy._
New Zealand Ratifies Treaty
Wellington, N. Z., Sept. 3.—The
peace treaty with Germany was unani
mously ratified by the parliament of
New Zealand today, after members of
the Labor party had criticized it.
i May Fight in Merry Bngland
| Decatur, 111., Sept. 2 —Jack Deuapsev
! and Georges Oarpentier, the French
| heavyweight champion pugilist, will
meet in England for a purse of $185,000
if present plans are consummated.
The N. C. Co.’s big gas-power
freighter Ozmo was due to arrive at
Bethel, mouth of Kuskokwim river,
yesterday, with her second cargo of the
! season._
! Soraci’s bath house is now equipped
| with neat and attractive sleeping apart
ments.
NOW IS THE TIME TO BUY YOlffl
Underwear
“ Overshirts
Our present prices on the lines we carry are 25 per
cent, lower than what they are retailing at Outside.
A. J. WEISS
The Home o^ Hart, Schaffner & Marx Good Clothes^
FLAT
/J/J CCIp Loose Tongue More to be
^ Feared Than a Rattlesnake
That, was a good piece in the Post
tbe other day, written by Cliff Jenkins,
secret ary of the police hoard, on the
subject Of gossip. It was especially
apropos in view of certain press dis
patches telling of a couple of deaths by
suicide or otherwise, directly traceable
to gossip.
There are t wo kinds of gossip: good,
harmless gossip; and vicious, wicked
goss' p.
Most of t lie ordinary chit-chat about
persons is perfectly harmless. Such
gossip as that, Cliff Jenkins did not as
sail.
There is a gossip, however, that,is
deadly and. most of the time, false. For
yossi pers of this sort there is no penalty
too heavy, since the consequences are
often worse than death.
Such people cart sully a reputation;
plant doubts that are never eradicated,
do damage that is irreparable.
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One great trouble about vicious gos
sip is tlmi it may start, from a perfectly
terrible thing. Lawyers say that the
most unreliable testimony in courts is
the attempted reporting of conversa
tions, especially in which several per
sons are involved.
It is altogether trite to cite instances
in which such utterances are gradually
twisted and colored until an innocent
word can come out a hideous, crawling
thing.
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Another disheartening thing about
gossip is its revelation of the unlovely
aspect of human nature in gloating
over unfavorable statements concerning
our fellow man.
It makes one almost inclined to be
lieve in the good, old doctrine of total
hereditary depravity.
Why is it that the best of ustoooften
have a sort of pleasurable thrill when
we hear of the misfortunes, the mis
steps, *-.t,he faults aDd foibles of our
frieDds, our acquaintances?
Perfectly wretched of us, isn’t it?
We ought all to undergo surgical op
erations for the eradication of this trait.
We would be so much better off with
out it and our appendixes.
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If this is true of the best of us, what
shall be said of the worst of us who
gloat in ghoulish glee over the pecca
dillo of another, roll it under our
tongues like a delicate, sweet thing,
and spit it out into the ears of every
body we meet?
Such people as that, ought to have
both l heir appendixes and their tongues
cut out.
The tongue is a very little member,
but what an awful tire it can kindle !.
The helm is a very small thing, but
what a tremendous ship it can turn
and govern.
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General Traub told in his office the
other day of a civilian in one branch of
army work who very nearly caused the
death of 500 men because he went back
from the front and gossiped among the
Alsatiau population concerning a little
surprise party 'that the general was
about to pul on.
The Alsatians virtually all were
spies, and seut the news promptly
across to the Germans.
The gossiping man was not a traitor
and did not intend to damage his coun
try's cause. He just had a luscious,
new story to tell, and he whispered it
around into the ears of a few of his
best friends whom he could absolutely
trust.
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That is the story of all gossip. It -is
told in strictest confidence to one of two
good friends, and from them it goes
over the known world.
It goes too, in an ugly, distorted
form, and people who have nothing
better to do roll it up like a huge snow
ball and with it crush out lives and
reputations.—Burris Jenkins in Kansas
‘Jity Post._
Carnegie Wasn’t Quite Broke
New York, Sept. 2.—The will of An
drew Carnegie, “the iron master,” dis
closes an estate valued at 430,000.000,
and leaves his real estate and works of
art to the widow. Numerous public be
quests are provided for. During his
life Mr. Carnegie gave in gifts $35,000,
000. _
Joe Saxsmith, the well-known team- -
ster, was a passenger for the Outside
last Wednesday.
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