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WEDNESDAY, FEB. 22, 1905.
NELSON TO THE RESCUE.
Senator Nelson has earned the
eternal gratitude of the people of
this part of Alaska. Even though
the bill intended to promote freer !
trade with the people of the out
> de may fail to become a law at this
session of congress, it will have an
immediate moral effect, and will
demonstrate that men at Washing
ton understand the situation here
If ever oppressive customs regu
l. tions were inexcusable this is a
tr.se in point. They are detrimen
tal alike to the consumers here and
the producers and manufacturers'
in the States. The delays and vex
atious and inconveniences, more
than the cost, tend to restrict pros
pecting and impede development.
Even the great company which
has heretofore controlled the carry
ing trade of the region would for
the less of its monopoly find some
comi>ensation in the revived energy
that would undoubtedly result from
a change from an artificial to a nat
ural system of business.
Senator Nelson has gratified the
situation; he will doubtless have
the president's approval, and he
ought to receive the plaudits of the
people of Alaska and of the States.
Thosk t»ctionwU whoa few year*
gave ptriudinl of liv
ing Mastodon* in Alaska to nn un
re* i*)ii»ive world re< eivcd their
coup vie grace when a worthier
rot her Invalid Xoah’a ark in the
refnM -*f the Koyukuh; and then
M.me one (dated the (.arden of
l.tlau in Ynkor Itrrilon Now
anbergra fttortaaawl the Mur>)c*ki
rul»y are dividing the honor*. One
..I the nee«U‘ of Ibi* country i* an
mrtua »l hr*t iU« lur*
WASHINGTON'S BIRTH
DAY.
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This is Washington’s birthday,
i He was born Feb. 22, 1732.
1 It bis life and times taught the
world any lesson of lasting useful
ness, it is that, sometimes, violent
resistance is better than nerveless
submission, and that the lion half
of human nature is a more potent
moral factor than the lamb half.
The world has constantly to un
learn the teaching of a numerous
class ol philosophers who deny to
mankind the right to resist oppres
sion, and who, by human law, en
deavor to stay the retributive jus
tice which is an unalterable result of
omnipotent law.
To some minds Washington must
remain a traitor; to others he is one
of the world’s wisest and best pa
triots. To us here on this frigid
fringe of tht continent which gave
him birth his public and private
life ought to be ;.n inspiration and
a hope.
CREDIT TO WHOM CREDIT
IS DUE.
On Feb. 8 this paper printed
some verses under the head of “A
Miners’ Experience.” The verses
were good and were enjoyed by
readers who bad not seen them be
fore. They were taken from the
Alaska Transetipt, of Juneau. That
paper had taken them from the
Record-Miner, and did not know
where the Record-Miner got them.
A fiicnd informed us that the
lines were from "The Lament of
the Old Sour Dough” in a volume
of verse by Sam C. Dunham. The!
author’s work is too meritorious to
be subjected to mutilation, as it was
in this instance. Mr. Dunham’s
book is entitled “The Goldsmith of
Nome, and Other Verse,” and the
following is from the preface, dated
March ». loot:
These verses were written while the
nuthor was under assignment to North
ern Alaska in 1897-1X98 as a statistical
expert of the department of labor, and in
■ fcpy-iqnnas a special agent of the twelfth
census. They are the free expression of
some sentiments which •official Courte
sy" nuite proparly eacluded from his
formal reports to the commissioner of
labor and the director of the census
Most ot them have appeared in ' anuua
newspapers . ■ They are presented
as an appeal from the tax-burdened and
unrepresented people of Alaska to the
goven ment at Washington for relief
from the wrongs winch they have Wne
too patiently (nr twenty sears.
In Kpo Alaska paid into tin treasury
of I lie I nited States ft.JoJ tl <”f every
•lav i» the year Kor what t
This i* the hint times season in
Alaska In some ronntiies the
pcrnal ealemls about three months
longer than an Alaska winter,
ronghls estimated it eitfb*.
N. V. HENDRICKS
ESTABLISHED 1904
Alaska Commission Buying Agency
SEATTLE, WASH.
We Buy Ship for you, Only on Commission
CfiLi on our Agent or write to us
I» There ti South
Magnetic Pole?
To the Yukon Valley News.
A tew words apparently spoken
in jest in Rampart last seek has
given me a subject for thought.
The question was asked. Is there a
south magnetic pole? My answer
was. There is not, and the only
proof necessary is to apply a strong
magnet to the north end ot a bal
anced needle, and it will be at
tracted; but apply the same magnet
to the south end, and it will be
repelled.
It is said, however, that the!
clamor of theorists is the world’s i
most dismal din. We must, how-1
ever, allow that if the mysteries of
the most commonplace acre are be
yond a man’s lifetime to unfold,
what of infinite space? We view
the north and south differently: the
north is associated in our minds'
with cold and death; the south with
warmth and life and light. Com
mon sense comes to our rescue.
We face the south and feel the
penetrating brightness that drives
all shadows from our path—the
glowing sky, the inviting moon,
the glorious sun: it is to walk from
chaos to cosmos, from uncertainty
to certainty, from desolation to
Eden, from death to life. Turn
again to the north: how strangely
desolate, forsaken, tmptv, and al
most chaotic! IDLER.
[Without presuming to give ex
pert information on this interesting
subject, it apjwars to us that, as the
(liiestiou is stated, the proper an
swer would I* in the affirmative.
Notwithstanding oue |>ole might
possess an attractive and the other
a repeilant force, the force in each
case would l>e "magnetic." Take,
for example, a magnet. It must
have a "north” and a "south” pole,
and we can never have one kind of
magnetism without having it asso
rted in the same magnet with the
same amount ot the opposite mag
netism Therefore it won It I seem
impro|a-r to designate one |*>le a*
magnetic and the other as non
magnetic Editor.)
Complaint is made that inr (war
ing animals are Iwiug dertuivwl l»v
potion on the upper Tanana,
V. H. GIBBONS, M. I>,
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Alaska Steamers* Sold.
Tlie Alaska Pacific Navigation
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its boats that are engaged in the
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exact purchase price has not as vet
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