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SCHOOL NOTES
Louise Ahrens
I learned my poem
I played with Janus and Graham.
We skied and rode on the sleighs.
We played that the one who pull
ed the sleigh was the horse, and
the one who rode on the sleigh
was the teamster.
Sometimes Janus and Grab
am would come over to our house
and get ns to play with them. We
played with daddy too.
We went up to the cook and
got a piece of pie or a piece of
cake and ice cream. We laid app
les and oranges too. We gave
daddy and mother some id the
apples and oranges.
We had a ver,> nice Thanks
giving dinner. We had mashed
potatoes, gravy, peas, chicken
cranberries, and jello.
THE SPELL OF THE YUKON
1 wanted the gold, and I
sought it;
i scrabbled anp mucked like a
slave.
Was it famine or scurvy —
I fought it;
1 hurled my youth into a
grave.
I wanted the gold, and I got it,
Came out with a fortune
last fall,—
Yet somehow life’s not what
1 thought it,
And somehow the gold
isn’t all.
No! Taere’s the land. (Have you
seen it?)
It’s the enssedest land
that l know,
From tiie big, dizzy mountains
that screen it
To the deep, deathlike
valleys below.
Some say Goa was tired when
He m de it;
Some say it’s a tine land
to stum;
Maybe; but there’s some
as would trade it
For no land on earth—and
I’m one.
You come to yet rich (damned
good reason);
You feel like an exile at first;
You hate it like nell for
a season,
And ilmn you are worse
than the worst.
1; yrij.is you lif e some kinds
of sinning;
It twists you from foe to
a friend;
It seems it’s been since the
beyi lining;
It seems it wdl he to the end.
The summer, no sweeter
was ever;
The sunshiny woods all athrill;
The grayling aleap in
the river,
The bighorn asledp on
the hill.
The strong life that never
knows harness;
The wilds where the caribou
call;
The freshness, the freedom,
the farness,
OGod! how I'm stuck on
it all.
The winter! the brightness
that blinds you,
The white land locked tight
as a d rum,
The cold fear follows and
finds you,
The silence that bludgeons
you dumb.
The snows that are older
than history,
The woods where the weird
shadows slant;
The stillness, the moonlight,
the mystery,
I’ve bade ’em good-by, but
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I can’t.
i There’s gold, and it’s haunting
and haunting;
i Its luring me on as of old;
Vet it isn't the gold that
i’ni wanting
So much as just finding
the gold.
It’s the great, big, broad land
’way up yonder,
It's the forests where silence
lias lease;
| it’s the beauty that thrills me
with wonder,
It’s the stillness that fills me
with peace.
Service
Gold digger (to aviator)—
Would you take me for a little fly?
Aviator—Why, not at all, you
look much more like a little girl.
LARGEST RUSH
SINCE DISCOVERY
OF FAIRBANKS
ANCHORAGE, —The largest
stampede since the Fairbanks
strike is expected to follow the
Nelson discovery of a 43 ounce
! nugget. Nelson found the large
I nugget on a tributary to the Ka
J ntishna below a large glacier,
j More, than $1000 was picked up
against the ledge, mostly in
large nuggets.
Nelson obtained a loan on
his big nugget and bought an
outfit which he is taking in via
Kobe and the Alaska Railroad 60
miles to the fork of the Kantish
na and Toklat where he will win
ter.
Nelson said the region had
been little prospected and inclu
ded many unexplored creeks.