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FRIDAY. APRIL. 4th.. 1919
WORK
(By (leorge Matthew Adams.)
The other night [ saw a juggler. Hr was tlie most wonderful artist
in his line that I had ever seen. He threw great butchers’ knives into tlio
air by the dozen, caught them all, and actually played with them while they
paced a circle in the air.
I watched a dancer whose lithe, subtle form seemed like some super
fairy, just dropped from Imaginarylaml. Her form seemed to move in unison
with the notes that gave rythm to her movements back and forth. Bound and
lound she moved, and smiled.
T listened to a man play upon a strangely buikled instrument. It
seemed as though the tones, at times, play hide and seek—and then, like
lightening.-they would meet again, to trot in single, now double, now triple
file, while the audience sat spellbound, their hearts almost in stop-wateli
The crowd applauded. But I sat still, fascinated—buried in thought that
wouldn’t leave me. For, 1 had been watching and listening to artists ALB!
And then I wondered about the secret of it. But it wasn’t difficult.
For this was the secret—■‘WORK.
Houdini, who is probably the greatest magician in the world, recently
told in a magazine story, of some of his methods in attaining his mavelous
success. But the one that interested me most, was where he told how, on
reaching a town whcie ! c was to perforin, he immediately hired a loft build
ing. put up his traps and things, and began to—WORK! And lie told how,
( n trains, lie would sit for hours and hours and evolve new tricks and myster
ies, with which the next season, to dazzle millions.
The greatest actor that lever sat before, was JoseprAi Jefferson. Be
cause you never felt that he played a part — ho WAS the part. But the secret,
here, again, was—WORK.
There never was, and never will be. a royal road to achievement—or
anything. But the road called "Work", is paved with stones so precious that
any man may walk with impunit.v over it—without one word of apology.
Jf you want the immortal gods on your side—WORK! If you want
Jour dreams to come true-WORK!
There is nothing distributed free, in this world,' without payment in—
WORK. Unless it bo the air—and even that is taken away from you unless
you—WORK!
HEADING NORTH
(Dawson News)
With the dose of war and the advent of the New Year comes many
tidings from the boundless outside that people from every quarter will be
starting soon for the Northland.
An exodus took place last fall. The reflex action is about to begin.
As was predicted by many cool-headed observers, a great number of those
who went out have found the conditions in other countries anything but to
their liking.
Conditions in the land of dense population and close competition do
not appeal to the man accustomed to this nortliland realm of freedom and
opportunity.
The conventionalities and the self-submersion to which one must sub
mit in going into old communities robs one of initiative and of hope.
Li a virgin empire, such as Yukon and Alaska, every man has a chance
He who is poor today may be wealthy tomorrow. The wheel of chance here
turns constantly, and the winning numbers are many and not alone to those
who boast of pull, influence or favor with the gods. Dynamic manhood is no)
stifled, or thwarted, while ancestry, blue blood and pedigrees are no prerequl
site to success. Merit counts.
Outside it is different. Those without fortune or influential friends fine
themselves at the bottom of a mighty mass of selfish and grasping humanity
Many who left here last fall found that in order to merly exist the]
had to poke their necks in the collar from sunrise to sunset, and toil for tin
little masters with no margin for a pinch for the rainy day. The promise o
fat pokes from service in shipyards and construction works proved a granc
illusion.
Now those who were stung arc writing back. Letters are coming b]
every mail in which former Yukoners are applying for work with the opera
tors of tliis region or stating that they are coming back to the land of the I
1 itch-string And the open door. They have found thcv did not fit in. Even i
where they did get a toe-hold in war works, those works are being closed down
by cancellation of war contracts. The mushroom industries are bursting daily.
Tho situation, outside already is aggravated, and it will be all the more aggra-j
vated. When the several million soldiers who crossed from this continent get
back they will affect the situation in n way not known heretofore. In addi
tion there will come other adventuresome spirits who quit the shop and the,
counter in Europe, and are determined to follow up the outdoor life. Labor|
markets will bo^flooded. The country will lie taxed to its utmost to preserve
order and and the prices of commodities and to satisfy those who produce.
If Australia dumps her long blockaded crops on the markets of Europe and this
continent all at once, there is no telling how much discouragement will in
vade the ranks of producers of the midlands of this continent.
But no discouragement is possible in the land of gold. The yellow
metal will Increase in demand. When other commodities are cheap it will he
at a premium.
It is inevitable that the world eventually assume an even keel, but
whether there be hard times or good, the land of gold is the land of safety, and
not only will the Yukon sourdoughs come back but others will come with them'.
(1 dd is one of the big things that allures them. Once here they will develop
other properties also, and when the normal ■world conditions are assumed the
North will be a big and steady source of supply.
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