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THE PEOPLE HAVE SPOKEN.
The Municipal and School Hlectdon hekl i'n Nome Tuesday April
3rd wtm a complete victory tor the Old Ooundil-Jiarbor tucket, Mayor
Maynard and his co-workers were given, a handsome indorsement by the
people of Marne. The elected members wore chosen by an overwhelming
majority, proving that they stood and stand for a city government for
the people, of the people and by the- people. To be be a member of the
City Council is a thankless poeiitJon, there are no emoQnments for the
individuals, nothing but hard work that at all times is subject to un
reasonable, and senseless criticism. The members who stood for neelec
tkm have tried during their tenure of office to work for the best interests
of Nome and the opposition that developed during the' campaign was not
due to any official acts of the im euro bents, but was the result of persona!
animus directed against the candidates seeking reelectiion.
The people have spoken and by an overwhelming majority Vilen cod
the preelection calumniators.
The new members of the City Council and School Board are repre
sentative citizens of Nome, and have thru Bong residence in this commun
ity demonstrated .their fitness to conduct the affairs of Nome.
The completion of the Snake River Harbor project this summer
•pells a new economic condition for Nome and with the present personnel
of the City Council, carrying out the policy so unanimously approved last
year and again endorsed in this election (Municipal Control of the Snake
Jbfcver Wharf and Docks), the people of Nome can feel assured that ship
ping conditions are going to be Improved. Transportation. on both land
and waiter, are the two cod Titians at present con fronting this part of
Alaska and any means or measures to facilitate either or both naturally
redound to the increased prosperity of Oar Home Town.
Now is the time to bury the hatchets and hammers. Let us all
buy horns and boost for the comm unlit y welfare; united action, and elimi
nation of self aggrandisement will quickly bring about a civic rejuvina
ttan. L«t us join hands ad work, work, work tor Nome. Seward Penin
sula and Alaska.
ALASKA’S GREAT SHOWING.
It Is with a great deal of satisfaction that commercial interests
View the continue! activity in the Alaska trade, which gives promise of an
other .record year. January, usually one of the poorest months, has
witnessed a continuance of heavy northbound Shipments. In fact the
tonnage in general merchandise, in equipment and supplies manifested
from Seattle is greater than for any similar month tor yeare past, and
February now promises to make a similar showing, while early in March
will come the annual migration of cannery employes with all attendant
tonnage in supplies for the various fishing enterprises.—Railway and
Marine News.
THK OI»STK'l,K IMCJK
Lite wi‘tjh no difficulties isi it wou-ld b** a dull lift*, indeed.
No man of energy and ambitiV>n hope? to go Co a heaven wh*-n»
there are no struggles and no problems.
It is by overcoming difficulties and the solving of problem? that
the human race has developed mind.
'Hie chief reason that few inen of offairB ever want to retire is
that they cannot b»> content w*iilh u life of absolute ease
It does not s*svm natural to them. It iis not natural. No being
worth his salt can be content to think that he has nothing to do but rent
for the remainder of his life.
Bldorly business men who are forced by ill health to abandon
their work take up golf, which creates artificial problems - and problems
that are by no means easy to mossier.
Games have been invented as human pastimes because each of
them lnvoflvo some difficulties.
Utter rent—save for a very -little while-— is not at all pleasing to
the rightly constituted man or woman.
Reading is not rest, for when It Ib done faHefUgentbly it involves
thought, and thought is by no means easy.
The student of history discovers very soon that Tiife i-s really work
and that the more of it there 2s the happier is the (individual who does rt.
The youth who begins a career with the idea of amassing a for
tune which will enable him to loaf will never gain the fortune or get
the enjoyment out of loafing he expects.
Iiife is really an obstacle race. Hurdles are set up for us, and
we take them as best we can. Sometimes we stumble, but if we are tbe
right sort we pick ourselves up and go on.
The taking of the first hurdle* enables us hotter to take the
second. When we have taken a few thousand none of them seem so bdg
or so troublesome to us.
We have acquired the obstacle habit, and we are fairly well equip
ped for the rest of the Journey.
The work hater- -the man who seeks to have others do his work
for him—does mot belong in life. He will find fit very unpleasant and dis
tressing. unless he cultivates enough common sense to pitch in and do I
as thoee around him do—make an obstacle race of it. and get a Tot of fun j
out of running VI.
(MtiSH* A t'ARIHNAL HI*.
Gossip is one of the cardinal sins. It is not a single act. like mur
der, which stops one life and falls back to punish the offender; it is the
breath of the devil, soiling geivery ear it touches. It 1s -the most deadly
of poisons. It blights many lives; M smites the innocent with the guilty.
Recently, a mother, estranged from her family, ended her life
because gossip --groundless. vicious gossdp—had cut her off from those
who were dearest in aid the world to her.
Thoae who murdered first the happiness of a woman, and then
the life. won't scot fret*. No punishment in this wonkl, an less they have
j coji.sck-nc«H, can touch thorn. But we believe t-ha-t when tihe final judg
] ment cotneH, those who spnod the gossip which killed good name and
happiness—and life will rowtt the same punishment its that visited upon
Dr. Howard Eager, a Baptist minister in Baltimore, told this story,
wbwih is an Italian legend:
In the old days a peasant w>nf «sed to a priest that he had sland
j ered an innocent irum. The priew: -aid to him. "For your penance do
: this now: Take a bag of chicken down. Go to every yard in the town
and drop one hit of down into each garden. Do not miss one yard.
When you liave finished, ret urn to me.”
The sinner believed his punishment was hight. With his !»ag
of down he made the circuit of the village and caretfu-lly dropped one soft
feather into each garden. Then he reported to the priest saving: 'T
have done my penance.”
"No. my son,” replied the old abbe. “Yon will not have done your
penance until you take the bag, go again on your rounds, collect -very
feather you have dropped, and bring it here to me.”
The gossip protested that it would be isnvpossible: he could not
find the bits of down in a lifetime; many of them had blown far away.
“So it is with gossip.” replied the priest. “It is easily dropped.
But never again, no matter how hard you try. can you gather back the
words you have so thoughtlessly scattered.”—Exchange.
WORDS OF WISE MEN.
The worst of rfav** is he whom passion rules.
He that would govern others first should be the master of himself.
A girl in the courthouse thanks "The New Freedom” is a story
about divorcee.
The average girl seems to prefer to spoon with a fashion plate.
It’s all right to "brig'hten up the corner where you are.” but don’t
start to brighten up other comers until you’re sure the folks who live
in them want your brand of brightening.
A woman generally ge*ts over her foolishness after she marries,
which .in about the time a lot of meu begin.
It is sometimes necessary to play the food to avoid being deceived
by cunning, men.
He’R a wise man who knows when to speak, a wiser man that
knows when to be silent.
The man who gets the most out of life is the man who put most
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