“SAYINGS”
Solomon Forgot to Say
Said By ANNA FRA DA
ABOUT “TOMATO GROWERS.’
Well, I heard from some of the
“Tomato Growers,” a few of the
“Optimists” called me up.
One lady phoned me and said; ”1
want to tell you, I thought that was
awfully good what you said about
jne, how in this world did you ever
know that I grew tomatoes?”
”Par4pn me madam. I didn't
know you ever grew them in this
world or the next, and if you’ll par
don me twice, you're not the only
“optimist” in Nome. I know of at
least one more.
One man wanted to be .convinced
as to what I was. “You must be
an "optimist” your self to talk as
you do, aren’t you Mrs. Frada?”
“No, pardon me, I thought I was,
but now that I’m in Nome trying to
make the people understand, that
when I refer to them as "optimists”
and “pesimists,” I’m not calling
them names—I can’t be; never the
less they can’t discourage me from
encouraging “Tomato Growers’’
just the same.
One sweet sour dough, with the
enthusiasm of a Burbank, stopped
me right in the middle of the snow,
just to tell me how grateful he was
that I didn’t stop off some where
else. "I’m glad.” he said, "you
came to Nome, your encouraging
the fruit growers here is all we need
to make this a fruit producing
country; there’s no limit to what
can take place with the right en
couragement, such as you are giv
ing us. While I'm convinced, that
this country might have been con
verted into a tropical region by now.
If you had come in sooner. I don’t
know whether he meant this as a
compliment or as a come back.
Well any how. I found at least
one understanding soul, who must
have feU sure of his welcome, for
he burst into my cabin with the
light hunch. “Say, what would
you say to a young fellow like me
trying to grow lemons?” “I’d say.
splendid, go to it. we need them to
hand around to a species of Noble
Nomens; the kind who are always
coming and going in and out of
Nbme, thru and out and down Al
aska; coming In to get all they can,
going out to knock all they can,
then down to doing any one they
can; the Bnll-winded-bllizard-blow
ers, wte are fill! of wind, ride the
ball and curry the blizzards with
them where ever they go.
You’ve heart? about the single
swallow that eouldn’t make the
summer famous, well, one "Tomato
Grower” can’t make Alaska Pros
if only more of you fellows would
try tomato growing before you went
out ride, SO that you would learn
to talk about “tomatoes" and would
tell about the other fellows you left
up here who hare fine vegetable
gardens with as fine a variety of
tropical geraniums to be found any
where, instead of talking about 'ice
bergs’ and yourselves; because
when you talk about icebergs, peo
ple. can feel what you are. but when
you talk about ‘tomatoes' they have
hopes for you.
In that way you would be builder*
boosters and constructive elements
instead of canned-hot-air, all inflat
ed with self’stcam mostly for self,
and just because you can’t keep it
canned every body suffers; but if
you became a real optimist, one of
these positive, hope-a-tive, go-to-a
tive, stick-like-glue-a-tive, work
like- “-” a-tive, it wouldn't take
you long to build up Alaska, and
the “Tomato- Growers-Association
and increase their exporting and
importing facilities, so that the fel
lows who own the Lighterage Plants
and Steamship Companies, who live
in summer-resorts the year around
and conduct their business by wire
less, thru fellows who get them
crossed accidently for some purpose,
wouldn't have the heart to charge
for freight what the goods are
worth and take or leave it on the
docks unless stimulated to freight
it at their'price as a special favor
because of their deep affection for
you; your merchants wouldn’t have
to advertise “out-side-prices” you’d
know it, while more of us could
afford bath tubs because it wouldn’t
cost so much to bring them in.
Instead, just because you couldn’t
carry away a whole gold mine you
get sore, go out side to get even,
and talk about us that remain up
here and tell a lot of stories about
‘terrible blizzards' in which a few
stiffs like yourselves who are never
missed got frozen; describe ‘glacial
mountains’ unsurmountable, encir
cled by frozen snakes, that lie
stretched rigid in forms of rivers
for miles and miles around; you
vividily picture ‘inaccessible seas'
with inumerable ice-bergs, like the
recks of Gibraltar sticking up thru
it every where, all over run with
polar bears, as if the sea were the
only land, the bears the only in
habitants, and you the only surviv
ing explorer Alaska ever had.
You talk about the ‘freez-ups’ as
though you were the only fellows
who had it to boast about, as if
Dakota and Montana were uninhab
ited for the same reason; as if no
body lived in Minnesota where Min
neapolis wjw made, and which can’t
be so very far from Norway and
Sweden because a lot of the fellows
from both these cold countries came
over and made the place and then
made it famous; while you forget
all about a few samples of tbe best
varieties you knew, who am’l
“Oles” and “Hanses” right up here
in Alaska; while Sweden and Nor
way and Minnesota are still on the
| map where you can import more
| from. Just like the Minnesota boys.
| All this you know, if you would
; only stop talking long enough so
j that you could think long enough
. to remember it; but you go right
on talking until the gullibles listen
I ing to you get funny feelings runn
! ing thru their hair that makes them
lose their permanent wave', and
| wish that they were bald, while
' you're chasing the chills up and
( down their backs, until their back
bones are like pieces of spaghetti
and those of your intense audience
who have a breath left that you
didn't take away, repeat your bl*z
zardous-blustering, permanent-wav *
j destroying stories to some more gul
I libles who also get softening of the
i spine and wish that they were bald;
1 until they lose all sense of differ
i ence between a stringer and a piece
of genuine • rope. You string the-n
a.one. and string them up on all
the stufT. so that every time the
word Alaska is mentioned people
want shawls and move to the near
est radiator.
• Think how different it would be
1* you only learned to grow toma
toes and saw how beautiful they
unfolded themselves right before
| your very eyes. You would learn a
j great many things ami truths you
j couldn't learn In colleges and books
I and are not even to be found in
' gold mines; that the really great
j and most wonderful things in life to
J live for can not even be bought with
.all the gold in the world, and that
most of these wonderful, beautiful
things are right within your very
selves and in all people arouna you.
The instincts for co-operation,
for companionship, for great friend
ships. that teaches ns consideration,
sacrifice, and all the noble qualities,
upon which great laws are build,
that fit us for association in the
world in which we live; the great
imaginative faculties from which
come all arts, sciences and every
mechanical phenomenon that make j
this world adequate and beautiful
to live in, the great motives for love,
the capacities for divine sympathies
that reveal to us all the secrets of
nature, and the exaltation of the
human soul that seeks and under
stands them. All these things are
not to be found in the marts of cre
ated wealth, nor in the accumulated
gold productions, but rather in the
means, efforts, energies, sacrifices,
and labors thru processes put in to
the achievement of them.
Then you would talk about Alas
ka as she can become; for the possi
bilities of Alaska are as yet virgin
and dormant with her, just as the
potentialities are in a lot of people
_maybe as in you—and until these
latent talents, and faculties are de
veloped and brought out in you, can
you become the REAL you—YOU
can be. So Alaska, can not be the
real Alaska until her resources,
possibilities and forces are develop
ed and made applicable to the facul
ties and labors that shall bring
forth her vast riches to aid in the
sane, steady, normal growth toward
civilization; for the uses, happiness
and development of man.
LEGIONNAIRES
American Legion Meeting, Mon
day 2:80 p. m. Coast Guard Sta
tion. Election of officers. Import
mat business.
NEW METHOD OP
pkkpakim; roasts
Last Saturday evening one of
Nome's charming Cheechako house
wife* prepared a toothsome roast
and placed it In the stove oven and
then became so engrossed with
thoughts of who would have the
most, appropriate costume at the
Eagle Mask Ball that evening, that
she forgot all about her stove.
When the lady came down to
earth she discovered the rooms fill
ed with smoke, a perfect cloud issu
ing from the kitchen, and upon in
vestigation she found her beautiful
roast burning, A hurry up call was
sent to the Ftre Department and the
boys responded prepared for any
emergency. The Chief arromodat
tngly carried the roast «nto a snow
bank and after extinguishing the
fire returned the meat apparently
none the worse for wear.
Realizing the high price of meat
the housewife examined the roast
and decided to remove the outer
covering of char and to her delight
found that the flavor of the meat
had not at all been impaired, in
fact the flavor had been improved.
While the above method may ul
timately prove successful, there are
few who oare to experiment along
the same lines, they prefer to take
some one ..lse’s word for it.
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NOME (City) .| 292 82 213 . 194 208 183 128 129 193 137 97 143 4 148 192 237 97
CAPS NOME .| 23 3 17 10 14 12 11 6 10 8 12 8 7 17 13 7
CHINK.| 19 4 14 9 19 4 12 11 17 6 8 5 8 1 2 22 4
8T. MICHAEL .| 8 8 879 84 10 11 134 248 3
«*NpL* ..... ... .| 21 18 20 26 31 14 16 22 38 4 12 19 22 9 30 6
COUNCIL ..| 33 1 33 2 23 9 6 8 26 7 8 26 6 14 16 9
90LPNON.I 13 8 8 8 3 1 6 9 2 4 12 2 9 8
DBHUNO .| 14 1 11 8 16 2 6 11 7 6 4 10 1 4 6 11
PTICA. | 13 1 11 8 8 4 7 12 6 3 3 6 1 6 6 3
BLUET.,| 10 6 4 3 3 4 68221 |6 3 8 ?
KIANA.[ 11 6 1 14 7 7 3 11 6 3 1 10 10 1 3 7 1
CNALAKLVET . ..( 18 2 14 6 19 1 1 16 10 1C 6 7 7 1 7 9 1
TELLER.| 12 2 6 11 14 2 11 4 12 1 1 6 6 3 3 If 0
TAYLOR...) '9 0 0 9 6 3 9 3 8 6 2 2 0 1 1 1 0
HAYCOCK.| 27 9 10 28 ‘ 29 7 9 17 27 6 6 9 4 22 8 22 7
8TUYAHOK.I* # * 7 7 ■ 3 1 » ® 2 2 * • ? 2 * 7
WILLOW..,.. .... .[ 9 0 * 0 0 9 0 4 J 2 6 I • J 6 * • j
TOTAL..) 641 134 379 337 426 272 226 2fl 3ff 21» 3Jf 3f 2)1 32) 416 Iff
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Telephone Main 11.
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of Deposit.
3% per annum
On tt month deposit*.
4% per annum
On 12 month deposits.
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$1.00 Per Month
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Suits made to order
Repairing, Pressing and Cleaning
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frank Martin
(LEADING FUR DEALER)
RAW FUB8 AND MADE VP GARMENTS.
LARGE STOCK OF MUKLUKS AND PARKAS.
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ORDERS TAKEN FOR MANUFACTURED GARMENTS.
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WB PAY THE HIGHEST PRICE FOR RAW FURS. J
Hudson Bay fur Co.:
OF SEATTLE
FRANK MARTIN, Agent. i
h * ♦ ♦. /Jr. A. •». >
Nome Sheet Metal Works
Wm. SINHOLD, Prop.
TIN, SHEET IRON AND
COPPER WORK ESPECIALTY
Patented Super-Heaters
OPPOSITE DREAM THEATRE
7
JUST RECEIVED A LOT OF
YEAST
OCR BRUD FROM NOW ON WILL HE MADE
WITH NOTHIN<i BUT FLKIBHMAN’8 YEABT
Meals 50 cts. up
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