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Vol. 11 No. 21 1
THE APATH1ST
( By Thomas Addison, of the Vigilantes, i
in The Outlook.)
Apathy! I’m beginning to think that :
yo if apathist (to coin a word) is jtrefy j
nearly as bad as v< u ■ pacifist. You cun i
at least )>iilory tho pacifist, plant the!
the red tlag over him, and warn!
straight-out Americans to give him a!
wide berth. But apathist! What, in j
heaven's name, are you going 10 do j
with this chap? He isn’t a traitor, he j
isn't a false propagandist tie isn’t even j
a willful obstructionist. He is simply;
a human invertebrate a dead weight j
in a war. working community that has'
got to be lugged along because there’s!
nothing else to do with him.
1 know Mr. Apathist, and you know
him. As a rule he hasn’t any one of
his immediate blood in the Army—he j
and his are all safe, sound, aud snug. ;
You seldom see him at a patriotic rally, 1
or on a committee to boost the Red j
Cross, or in a Y. M. C. A. “over there” ;
drive, or buying smokes for Sammies. :
But he buys Liberty bonds—you list!
And War Saving Stamps and Thrift!
Stamps. Good business, that: you can’t
lose. But these other tilings they are j
begging fot—there’s plenty of time to •
come across for them when we really i
begin to fight. And, you know, it’s
not so sure that we wHi have to fight. !
Something is likely to happen be fore !
we get to tlie firing line -peace or a j
revolution in Germany, or something. !
And, anyway, the government is run-,
ning this show, and taxing the life out ;
I
of us to do it. Tho government doesn’t ;
need my help. I’m just one in a bun- |
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dred million. Let the fellows who have
the money and time to spare do the
shouting. I’ve got all 1 can attend to
keeping up with mv growing business
You've hoard Mr. Ap&thlst talk just
like that. ! have, anyway. He has
ten tons of coal in his Cellar witeu the
State fuel administrator says the limit
is two; there are a hundred pounds of
sugar ic his pantry when the grocer is
allowing but three pounds a week to a
family of four; he burns up gasoline
joy riding on Sundays when the (Jov
ermnent begs the people to help con
serve the supply on hand.
What’s the matter with this chap?
I'll tell you. He is afflicted with mental
myopia. He is d .aid imagination.
He is a. materialist, a hedonist an im
spiritual clod of clay—self-centered as
a turtle buried in the mud. He believes
only in what is jammed up to his nose
what he can taste, touch, smell and
and hear. He can’t visualize this war;
he couldn’t do it if ho was furnished
with a telescope that would give-him a
close-up of the bloody trendies in Flan
ders, or an audiphone that would let
him hear the roar of the great guns.
The moment lie put the instrument
aside he would lap.se into his former
sense of aloofness from the scene.
Three thousand miles away! What
interest could he have in a thing so re
mote? If the Germans were fighting on
the next block—why, yes! He’d grab his
gun and go out with the neighbors to
head ’em off. He’d fight for his home
with any man. Hut across the seas!
Thai’s your apathi.st! Dear Lord,
how f would like to but a pin in every
chair he sits in—in every bed he lies
in —in every shoe he walks in —in every
hat he sticks his had in. If I could
only prod him, body and soul, until he
was all awake and alive, and would
pitch in and do a he-man's work for
the holiest cause humanity’s sun ever
flamed on! If I only could!
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MAGNANIMOUS DEED
At the very beginning of the war it
was evident that there were going to
be in it not only bad deeds, brutal
deeds, but also good deeds, magnani
mous deeds. One such is found in
Coningsby Dawson's "Carry On: ’
During one fierce engagementa Brit
ish officer saw a German officer impaled
on the barbed wire writhing in anguish.
The fire was dreadful, yet he stiil hung
there unscathed. At length the British
officer could stand it no longer. He
said, quietly: ‘‘I can't bear to look at
that poor chap any longer." So he
went out. under the hail of shell, re
leased him, took him on his shoulders,
and carried him to the German trench.
The firing ceased. Both sides watched
the act with wonder. Then the com
mander in the Get man trench came
forward, took from his own bosom the
the Tron Gross, and pinned it, on the
breast of the British officer. Such an
episode is true to the holiest idea of
chivalry; and it is all the more welcome
because the German record is stained
bv so many acts of barbarism which
the world cannot forgive.
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SHOULD W£ SOON FORGET THE DEAD-ODE HONORED DEAD? j
On Sunday morning May 5, Tom j
Taylor walked into the Flat. City hotel i
and inquired if the judge was up yet. j
1 said: ‘‘I don’t know; I just, got up j
myself. You may go up and look in j
his room.”
This being about 10.119.
He asked the number.
1 said: ‘‘N'utnher 1?, at head of the
stairs ” i
T saw ho was excited, and 1 could tell
by the quick conversation up there;
that something unusual had happened. >
When Mr. Taylor came down T said:
‘‘Tom, what’s up?”
lie said: "George Hilev was shut. 1
I said: ‘‘Not killed?”
Fie said: “1 guess so.
It was about my usual breakfast time.
As I stepped out F saw the people in
front of the business places and on the
corners in sorrowful conversation, and
of a gloomy appearance. I went into
the restaurant, men were talking about,
the circumstance, and who tlie man
could he. One man said:
‘‘Fie was a Montenegrin, and lie had
been lodging a few nights at the Flat
City hotel.”
T said: “I don’t think that man done
that killing. Fie sleeps in that corner
room over there,” pointing to the win
dow of the room. I said: “I met that
man three or four times last week, and
he spoke in a mild way with a pleasant
smile.”
One man spoke, and said: “That’s the
man.”
When I returned to the hotel I told
the landlady it was thought that the
fellow who shot Riley is the man who
-deeps in No. 1. I went upstairs to see
if he was up, and the door was locked.
I told her, and she went upstairs with
a bunch of keys in her hand. \\ hen
she came down she said tie had not
stayed there last night. Then 1 be
lieved he might he the man that did
the shooting- which was hard for me
to believe at the time.
i
Now, no living man can see where
there was anything to be gained by
Milling a man for a debt, if there were,
one-half the people might kill the other
half. Ft don't pay the debt, or give
the debtor a chance to pay it. Besides,
this is a world of credit and indebted
ness. If til's was not the case there
would be several hundred thousand
bookkeepers out of employment.
George Riley was a leader among la
boring men. I heard men inquire
about him who had just come in over
the trail this winter—who had never
met him—and they said they heard all
along the trail he was a good man to
work for, and I know they wanted to
work for him. He was always pleasant
when you met him. And defeat ! he
knew not what it was. The harder!
anything came, the harder lie met it.
He never gave way to foolish sorrow,
but always kept in good cheer He
never let little trifles worry him.
I met him down the river by Slip
pern’s mill one morning. He had a lot
of tanks of oil landed there. He asked
me if I saw anybody take a tank of oil
from there.
I said no.
He said: “There seems to be one
short; perhaps the high water carried
it into the river.”
I said: “No, George; the water never
was this high since the town was lo
cated.”
“Well,” he said, “perhaps some of
! the boys rolled it into the river.”
That was all he said—he spoke of it
as though it didn’t amount to anything
anyway.
I have heard men say that worked
for him that if anything broke around
the claim, he would say, “I expected it
would break two weeks ago.”
I spoke to him ence about that tank
of oil and of other things that he made
so trifling of, as if it were nothing. He
said:
“It did not help things, Uncle Dan,
for a man to got on his high horse and
curse and swear; that didn’t get any
thing for a man.”
George Riley liked to see fun, and he
was as “pussy” and playful as a kitten.
George Riley is not dead: his body
will go to dust, but this is not spoken
of the soul. He was not an infidel—in
fidelity is the giant sin, the monarch
sin, the unpardonable sin; for any per
son to deny their Creator. If any
persons don’t see where they are, let
them look at their home in space
earth, sun, moon and stars—God owns
them all, and holds them all in space.
Ask a student what holds the earth in
apace and ho will answer, gravity. He
might, as well teli you gravity holds
the sun, moon and stars in space. No
man can tell what, gravity is, nor can j
lie prove its existence. Scientists ac- j
knowledge that it is only a force be- j
Sieved to exLt. <
Our salvation is Hope and Faith — |
two in one and one in two. God’s mys j
terious ways is what man is seeking, j
hut he is as rnueh in darkness today as!
he was 0,000 years ago, but ho can see
God’s ways in God’s nature.
Life, T know not. what thou art,
ifut know that you and i must part;
And when, or how. or where we met,
[ own, to me, is a secret yet.
Then don’t steal away away and give
little warning,
Choose thine own time,
Say not ‘‘Good night,”—but in some
fairer clime
Bid me ‘‘Good morning.”
Birds in their hour of transmigration
feel the impulse of Southern land, and
gladly spread their wings for the realm
of light and bloom. So may we in the
death hour feel the sweet solicitation
of the life beyond, and joyfully soar
from the chill and shadow of the earth,
to fold our wings and sing in the sum
mer of our eternal heaven.
Mr. Publisher: I've written this ar
ticle that George Riley may not be
forgotten so soon. We will all miss
him, for he was a character of force,
and I would like to read on his head
stone—
Stranger, stop as you pass by;
As you aro now, so once was I.
As I am now so you shall be;
So prepare for death and follow me.
Dan Hartnett.
Plat City, Alaska, May 20, 1018.
WHAT THE U. S. ASKS
One meatless meal each day.
One wheatless ineal each day.
A wheatless Monday.
A meatless Tuesday each week.
A wheatless Wednesday.
A porkless Saturday each week.
(Meatless means without beef, mutton
or pork.)
(Wheatless means without bread,
cracker or cakes made of wheat flour
alone.)
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A shortage of torpodoes in Germany
is said to be restricting the activities
of submarines.
PROBATE NOTICE
In the Probate Court for Otter Pre
cinct, Fourth Division, Territory of
Alaska; before Honorable A. M. Kil
gore, Commissioner and ex officio
Probate Judge.
In the Matter of the Estate of Joseph
E. Riley, Deceased.—No. 40.—Notice
to Creditors.
Notice is hereby given that letters of
administration of the estate of Joseph
E. Riley, deceased, having this day
been issued to the undersigned, all per
sons having claims against said estate
are required to present the same to the
administrator, each duly verified and
with proper vouchers, at the office of
Geo. W. Albrecht, attorney for the es
tate, in the town of Iditarod, Alaska,
within six months of the date of this
notice.
Claudf, Baker, Administrator.
Dated: May 6, 1918.
Wishing to do ray bit, notice 13
hereby given to those men who are
going out as soldiers, on tho steamer
Washburn that I will give the time
each day from ten to eleven in the
morning jo doing whatever dental
work may no necessary to put them all
in first-class condition.
No charge whatever for my work:
come early and get the work or make
an appointment.
Dr. O. Behla.
Flat Cite. Msv 15, 1918.
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Quakesr and Seventh-Day Adventists
will he drafted for non-combatant
service.
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Alaska, 1910
George Woodruff Albrecht
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