iDITAROD PIONEER
Published Every Sunday Morning at Iditarod, Alaska.
FRANK F. BECKER, EDITOR
2 Oeo. M. Arbuckle, Publisher No. 7
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JUST A WORD IN PASSING
I here is a plight that working men will find themselves
all bound round with next year, if they don’t watch out.
This plight is not one that you plight to your dearly be
loved,—it is one that will be thrown at you when the
autumn leaves are turned to gold and the whip-poor-will
whimpers wistfully near Waco.
This is the lesson for the week, Gwendolyn. This camp
is not a good one for the workingman, you can say what
you dam please. They will corns in here next summer,
several thousand strong and they will be thewed like
Aurock bulls, mayhap. Vet even at that, they will get a
chance to toy with a Number Two but a brief and fleeting
moment.
Having investigated the mysteries of certain bed rock
drains where tin1 water wanders, and large, burly truck
drivers boss them around to the content of the operator and
the bacon-hoarder, they will earn just about enough to
keep going the next winter, providing they have a small
cabin and don’t eat too much.
Operators will not like to read this. They want ;i
bunch of men to hurry them through the critical period
next summer when they will pay for the wood and the fod
der of the past twelvemonth and maybe place a corpulent
poke in the local depository. They need help and plenty
of it, next summer, but its unfortunate that they can’t use
it long.
The operators would like to work the men all winter if
they could, and the men would like the work, no doubt,
but as said in the beginning, she is a bum camp for the
really, truly man with the hoe, shovel or piekusax.
We have dwelt on the beauties and surpassing virtues
of this district for several months and we have seen it in all
its enchanting phases. Incidentally we have boosted it be
cause we think it the best camp in Alaska. The printed
word sometimes gets to places entirely beyond are ken, and
with all other brain food that we have disseminated we
would like to send this word,—the Iditarod is a good p :c
for the workingman in the summer, but in der vinter lime,
let him be prepared with a warm mackintosh and an um
brella.
TEMPUS IS r UGITING
There is need for a united time and a united people.
One without the other spells pestilance, p< stiferousne.- s
and peluk. We have neither in this sainted city. We have
a people chasing their divided ways. We have sects, sec
tions and seconds, we have thoughts, thinks and thunders,
we have more brain food than any ordinary community
could properly digest, but we have no more time than a
book agent.
It seems to have come about this way. There was an
hegira in the year 1910, one that wrested many a stunted
root from its native bed to cast its tendrils in a foreign
clime. Ordinarily a root cares neither here nor there, but
in this cataclsym there was a chasing away with goods,
chattels and Ingersolls,—a combination that* left everyone
in doubt but the man with the jeweler’s maul.
We came here and settled down in peace and confidence
hoping that a higher judgment would put us wise when it
was time to milk the cows or bed down the goslins in the
tomato patch. We came here in that frame of mind, hope
ful that the American race would justify its traditions and
the Waterbury watch would fulfill all the prognostications
of those dear, old days when we wound it for hours at a
time while mother did the knitting and father put out the
cat.
But we were doomed to a bitter disappointment. We
came hoping for peace and quiet. We looked with hopeful
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of obtaining check assays if desired.
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careful attention combined with fair treatment, whether
your account may be large or small.
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eyes upon a land where the cuckoo clock sang joyously its
harmonious matin. Instead we found a land wheie every
doggoned timepiece beanie i wisely and said too much.
Time is a lleeting thing. It is on its airy, fairy way
each hour of the day and it never tires. It makes us sore,
that the watches and the alarm clocks and tiie solemn old
hall pieces can never keep up with it. Why is it I—we ask,
and Old Man Time simply pokes his linger al us and slides
along, leaving us, gazing foolishly into the face of an im
potent timepiece that cares not but spins regardless
Frequently have we sat in the midst of gentlemen,
serene and true. Frequently have we lacked diveision and
inquired in a guileless way, the time of day. Frequently
nave w-e seen tliat same group of gentlemen good and true,
rise up and wax wroth and wish to vent their spleen, each
upon the other because everyone of them would have a
different time.
This is no indictment against timepieces. They are
bad enough, but the keeper of human serenity knows that
timepieces are strictly up against it when there is no time.
1 his is a plea for a united time and a united people.
It is also a plea for some sense in regard to regulating from
a standard time. There is no reason why one should find
himself a half hour behind Flat or six bits ahead of Dis
covery. There is no reason why man should look askance
at man, and brothers leave their paternal snubbing post in
anger and mutual distrust.
Let them as does savy this here time business, get busy
and harken unto our plea. Fix the clocks of the country
in unison and the hearts of all true patriots will beat a
gladsome symphony.
SAYING AND DOING
It doesn’t matter what you say, if you do wrong from day
to day. Your moral lectures may be sound, with gems of
thought they may abound, but when you spring them men will
grin, and say: “Old Nick’s rebuking sin.” Sometimes I see my
neighbor do a thing that jars me through and through, and I
swell up with virtue’s fire, my heart is filled with noble ire, and
to myself I say, “I trow, I must rebuke my neighbor now.
When he performs some scurvy deed that makes my moral
bosom bleed, it is my duty to protest, and plant some precepts
in his breast.” And while I’m training for the job, an Inner
Voice begins to throb, and whisper in my spirit’s ear: “You’re
too blamed virtuous I fear; it jars you horribly to see your
neighbor rob an apple tree or give the melon graft a boost, or
lift a chicken from its roost; but you whom these deeds make so
sore, have done the same thing o’er and o'er.” And then I
sort o’ shrivel up, and take a large enamel cup and pour ice
water on my head, and leave those moral things unsaid. The
man who preaches and rebukes about men’s little sins and
flukes, should have a record snowy white; his deeds should
make his words seem right —Walt Mason
SAY SKEE SKIDDING
SHOULD SUCCEED!
The suggestion has been made
that a skee race is about the next
best thing to tackle while the dog
days are in the making These
tulks what know insist that there
are enough skee enthusiasts to pull
off a hair-raising race and that any
one of them will bet on his own
pro wness.
There is a particular mountain
side where sk e tunnets are wont
to whiz, and they go some lrom all
r>poits It would be par iculath
fanciful ii all t lie people could
ga.her on the side lines and hea>
them whiz and see them jump
The suggestion is worth con
'idering because it gives pronii e
of a new, enlivening and exciting
sport. The weather is right, tne
hilis are tough and thete is enough
s ow to satisfy the most fastidious
Being j rty to the t eed of te
laxa ion and wi e to the fact that
the thraildom ol trouble lends n t
a wit to t te avoitdttpi ise, ti e idea
ot a kee rat e or a skee j imping
contest appeals to us and must
• ccessatilv invite the interest <lj
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DR. B. F. 3RD 3X3,
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Over Merchants f'tifo, First Avenue. ■
Telephone 30
Dr. Heinrich Wcrtmann, i
Office at City Drug Store. Tel. 33
First Ave., 15et. Willow anti Richmond
DR. T. B. CRAIG,
Temporary Office, Red Cross Drugstore
DR. E. T. BRADBURY,
Dentist
Over Merchants Cafe, First Avenue
Telephone 30 B
CM AS. D. CARTER,
Dentist
Offices, Pioneer Drug Stores,
Flat Creek
McGowan, Clark & Albrecht
ATTORNEYS AT LAW
fditauod, Alaska Phone No. 7
The Pioneer Attorneys of This Camp
ALFRED E. MALT BY,
fU. S. Commissioner]
Attorney at Lav/
Notary Public
Practice only in District Conrt. IDiTAROI
BIGIIAM & BECKER,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW
Office—Anslev Bldg., Richmond St.
CHAS. E. TAYLOR,
Attorney at Law*
Notary Public, Conveyancing,
Abstracts of Titles
Iditarod City
J. S. HARDING,
Attorney at Law
Room 1, Iditarod Hotel
Iditarod, Alaska
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.very reader. Therefore let us
alk this thing over.
People with ideas about skees
should speak up in meeting and
hurl a few weighty facts at this!
family journal. If a skee jump is
die thing, then it is best thrrt we
proceed nbout it pronto.
If the race is what thev want,
let’s do that. Addiess a remark or
two to the sportv editor of this
piper and wait for results.
GOT iT AT LAST
He criticised her pudding,
And lie criteised her cake;
He wished she’d make the biscuits
That his mother used to make;
She didn't wash the dishes,
She didn’t make the stew,
She didn’t mend the stockings
As his mother use to do.
Oh, well, she wasn't perfect,
But she tried to do her best
Until at length she thought
It time for her to have a rest,
So when one day this man bad growled
And whined the whole day through,
■She turned him up and fanned his pants
As his mother used to do.
—The Jolly Elk.
Russia has appropriated neaily i!,
000,000 for a complete army aeroplane
equiim-nt, llie largest sum expended
for the purpose by any government.
Better Buy Bonds
By Per Brotherhood
You certainly' will enchoy dem
broderhood bonds. If anv body
should stop to cross-examine you,
explain to the benighted individual
that they aie going tor 25 bones
per, which said bones will un
questionably be returned to von be
fore the end ol the year with the
acc -.mutated n-ufruct.
'1 lie object is tlie construction of
a ball. It is a public pleasure, a
communal enterprise and an indi
vidual duty. Should you get
amotous for one of these 1 it ho
graphs, go around to the M. & M.
baud, the Merchants cafe or inter
view the board of trustees of the
A 1!. Club, Charles Ross, Joe
Snitli, Ciias. Miller, Bob Simpson
and I. Goldstein.
The old steamship Al-Ki, which was
taken off the Alaskan run several
months ago on account of worn-ont
boilers, was recently sold for $3,00;).
The hull o: the Al-Ki was of wood,
built ir 18s4, and was not considered
worth rc-boilering.
Job Printing at the Pioneer
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