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ABE LINCOLN
February 12th, 1809,—April 14th,
1865
On a bed of poles, a mattress of
corn husks and under bearskin cov
ers, Abraham Lincoln was born on
the 12th day of February, 1809.
The house that sheltered mother
and child was of rough logs and
there was but one door and a single
half-sash window. The floor was
just ordinary dirt. There you have
a picture of the birthplace of one ot
the greatest men who ever lived.
As to Lincoln’s parents:—Tom
Lincoln, the father, was a tall raw
boned forest wanderer and rancher.
Those who knew him liked him.
Quiet in manner, slow of speech,
industrious, but unsettled. As the
region around him would grow to
settlements, he’d shoulder ax and
rifle and move off to where no one
would tread on his heels. In one
of these wandering jaunt3 he met
Nancy Hanks, the adopted daught
er of Thomas and Elizabeth Spar
row. Nancy was a brunette. Here’s
her historical description: “Dark
skin, dark brown liair, sharp hazel
gray eyes, outstanding forehead,
cheekbones and chin a bit accented,
slender of body and weighing 130
pounds. She was sad with sorrow
like dark stars in blue mist.”
Tom Lincoln and Nancy Hanks
had a June wedding—the 12th of
June,—1800. After the ceremony,
each on horseback, they wandered
off on a red clay trail to Elizabeth
town. The couple didn't stay here
long. The wanderlust again smote
the pioneering Tom. So, horseback
again, with a girl baby, Sarah, the
three jogged into the wilderness on
the green banks of Nolan’s Creek.
Tom didn’t farm a great deal.
Too many trees. Too much brush.
But he made doors and windows,
door and window casings, cabinets
and coffins.
There, in the primitive log cabin
Abe Lincoln was born. He came
into the world red faced, wrinkled
and crying, and Aunt Betty Spar
row sized him up at once as a skin
ny boy who would never come to
much. So, you see, the lad started
with a handicap from birth—. He
wouldn’t amount to much. In silence
and agony, from a wilderness moth
er, he came to us; as our leader in
the trying time of the nation he
was shot down and taken away.
Sixty-three years dead is Abe Lin
coln according to record, but his
spirit lives with us stronger today
than when he stepped up to the
doors of the nation’s* capitol be
neath the gathering clouds of one
of the greatest civil wars the world
has known.
Beneath the foliage of forest trees
that broke the sunshine into flecks
of dancing light on the mossy
ground, rsancy taught Abe his “let
ters” from a well thumbed speller
of American tradition. His “read
er” was the frayed copy of the stat
utes of Indiana.
Growing up, Lincoln became in
terested in things political in Illi
nois in 18 32. He educated himseif
as he grew and out of this raw,
rough and ready school of the fron
tier, out of the law as it came to
him in the stillness of the woods,
he somehow gained the power and
experience needed for the nation’s
greatest emergency.
Much of the man’s greatness was
born with him. It included a great
depth of understanding, generosity
beyond the average and a wonderful
vision. Malice, resentment and vin
dictiveness were total strangers to
him. In him from childhood was
a strain no diplomat could equal
and no king ever excelled. This has
been aaid of Lincoln: “When he 1
conquered, it was by the power o!
truth. That may be why no other
American statesman has left so
deep an impress upon the thought
and the imagination of the world.
There is no more romantic figure
in the annals of statecraft than this
tall and strangely sorrowful, some
times morose and always burdened
child of the clearing and the prair
ies.”
The following, 'April lltli, I860,
at the evacuation of Petersburg and
the fall of Richmond, was his last
public address: “We meet this even
ing not in sorrow, but in gladness
of heart. The evacuation of Peters
burg and Richmond, the surrender
of the principal insurgent army,
gives hope of a righteous and speedy
peace, whose joyous expression can
not be restrained. I11 the midst of
this, however, He from whom all
blessings flow must not be forgot
ten. Nor must those whose harder
part give 11s the cause of rejoicing
be overlooked. Their honor must
not be parcelled out to others.
‘‘I, myself, was near the front,
and had the high pleasure of trans
mitting the good news to you; but
no pArt of the honor, nor plan or
execution, is mine. To General
Grant, his skillful officers and brave
men, all honor belongs.”
ST. VALENTINE
The world owes much to St. Val
entine even if for nothing more than
the establishment of a pretty cus
om. And it’s a far hail back to the
year 270 to tote a custom, isn’t it?
We don’t just know when the ob
servance of St. Valentine’s Day be
gan, but we know that there was
much conflict about that time be
tween the so-called pagans and the
growi ng christianity.
St. Valentine was a Christian
priest, and in the squabbles of the
time he was captured, clubbed, laid
over a block and his head cut off.
The few Christians took this rather
hard. It taught them that if Christ
ianity was to succeed they would
have to move slow, for there were
many pagan customs. Also, many
of the Christian leaders were afraid
of their heads, too.
Anyway, they refnembered how
st. Valentine died and every Feb- j
ruary alter Ins death there was
something of a program gotten up
in memorial. As the years have drop
ped astern the program has varied
As the celebration of St. Valentine
comes down to the present genera
tion, it is one of purely sentiment
al remembrance, emphasizing the
modern tendency to dust away the
settlings of antiquity and to make
clearer the sociable customs that
ippeal. Its real religious signifi
cance has been lost for some time.
Here’s THE ALASKAN’S valen
tine to all, young and old:
Young hearts are sending many a
rime
To other hearts today,
And I’ve been thinking all the time
What old hearts have to say.
Young hearts are finding love is bliss.
And life is full of song,
And what shall old hearts say to this
Who knew it all along?
[Well, here’s a line to you, my dear,
From this old heart of mine;
The festal day of love is here,
And here’s your valentine.
Young hearts are sending, many a
vow.
The way that young hearts do.
So let an old heart send one now,
And send it all to you.
So here’s a heart, a simple heart,
A heart of other days—
Although we meet, although we
part—
rhat loves the same old
ways.
Yes, here’s a heart a littl%.old,
For much the heart endures,
A little fluttery I’m told,
But ALL that heart is yours.
— (Malloch)
“BED TIME STORY FOR
ALASKA CHILDREN”
“It may be that we lived too long
in the country of Jim Crow cars,
but wo can not refrain from observ
ing that if the Fairbanks College
basket ball team would draw the
color line in arranging its game
schedules it would add to the dig
nity of the institution it represents
and to tlie self respect of the in
dividual players as well.”—Stroller’s
Weekly, Juneau, January 14th.
We should say that he had lived
too long in the country of Jim
Crow cars. If White, Ihe stroller,
rambler, hobo, is beyond his depth
here, there are many highways open
back to Gawga or Alabam.
The crack, quoted above, marked
and mailed to us from Juneau by
one of Juneau’s best citiens, proves
(hat he (White) lived narrowly and
with clouded vision, wherever it
was. Alaska has a tendency to
broaden one. Its rugged beauty
'iur Ilv/i ii icil II let II IS SUlli
and he becomes a lover of all things.
It. is the lure of the country.
Sure enough, you’ll run across
a warped specimen of the genus
homo once in awhile even in this
land of wonder and charm. White,
apparently, is one of those. Nurs
ed in prejudice, weaned in selfish
ness and raised in the gloom of in
tolerance, he doesn’t fit. This is
a land of big people. White is
small. He’s a runt.
There was no occasion for the
dirty fling like the one he’s made.
It doesn’t get him anywhere, but
it does show the man up as one of
those velvet jacketed, frill shirted,
lace pantied individuals who is to ->
damp nice to swallow his own spit.
The stroller, rambler, hobo of the
peep-hole intelligentia, is peeved be
cause the Fairbanks College basket
ball team has among its players
some athletes who are of Indian
blood. Evidently, the Fairbanks
College is as broad as White is nar
row',—and that’s very broad.
The stroller, the rambler, the
hobo savs that the dignity of the
college is injured. Oh, no it isn’t
White is injured. +hat’s all.
There wrere ten thounsand Indians
on the firing line in the World War
program. What were they doing
there? The Whites, the Browns,
the Blacks, the Greens, the Jonses
and the Smiths, who didn’t go
across the pond, cheered them o"
They were doing their part—will
ing’ly—in making the country safe [
for those at home, and Stroller *
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V. hite was one. Now he weeps and J
snarls when he sees an occasional }
one in a ball team’s uniform. Poor *j
man! 1
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Scientists say that the human j
race hasn’t improved in any way *j
in the last ten thousand years. If *j
there were many of the stroller sort *|
we’d be tempted to say that there, *!
had been something of a retrogres jj
sion. "n
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Any how, White doesn’t need to ! ♦]
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associate with those he doesn’t care j
tor. There are no strings on his j 4
social schedule; there is no urging
him to witness ball games - where ,
there are First Americans on the
ball teams. The players won’t miss
him if he stays away, and White ,
will be in better humor if he
doesn’t go. j
And let’3 see—Stroller fsought a j
public office one time. He wanted
votes. We take it that he didn't
ca-’e a whole lot where the votes
came, from,"*as long as they were
lor E. J. White. How did he run?
He didn’t get enough support to stop
a. hearse from going: up hill. Evi
dently, there were many with hides
the same shade as White’s who did
n’t think much of him, at least po
litically. He had lived too long
where they had Jim Crow care.
We don’t think any Indian will
feel sore at White. They are will
ing he should have a big half of the
road, but they’ll not forget. They
have enough sense of humor to take
ihe Juneau bed time story writer as
a joke worth remembering.
We had seen the item as quoted
before we got the one from a well
known Juneau citizen and we had
it on the hook for future conside’*
atio. Hearing from the Capitol
City relative thereto, we took it
down for a slant at it this week.
We hope. Mr. White approves our
action.
NEW PULP AND .PAPER .CO.—
OUTSIDE OF ALASKA
A company has purchased the site
of the Columbia Box and Lumber
Co., on the Willapa River, Washing
ton, and will erect thereon a large
pulp and paper manufacturing plant.
Lime for pulp purposes will be tak
en from the lime ledges on Bear Riv
er. some 40 miles distant. The pres
ent plan is to use steam power to
generate electric current for mach
inery.
ALASKA COULD BE SETTLED
QUICKLY THIS WAY
Colonists coming into Buenos
Aires can now take advantage of a
new colonization program of Argen
tina. However, colonists must be
physically fit and capable of living
up to what real pioneering may of
l'er. Little farms of 25 acres each
are piatiea on ana awemiigs win
be erected thereon. Water will also
be supplied along with all the neces
sary tools to work the soil. Advance
ments will he made on what the land
produces and payments range over
a 30 year period for the land and
equipment. Arrangements are under
way to market and transport the
product of the new farms.
Two new oil tankers for the Stan
dard Oil Co., have lately been added
tc the fleet of oil transports. They
are the largest deisel-driven tank
ers in the world. Built in Kiel, Ger
many. The S. O. Co., makes its in
itial oil money in the U. S., then
it goes to a foreign port to have its
ships built. No wonder many of
the ship yards of this country are
idle.
Almost a year has passed since
Arthur Kirk, a miner, was last seen
in the Kuskokwim district. Last
August an officer and a couple of
Kirk’s friends went to the camp
where "Kirk and Charles Lindforst
mined -quicksilver and now it is re
ported that Kirk’s bones have been
I found 3n a mining retort. Lind
forst is missing and he is accused
of havin.g murdered his partner.
NOTICE
l
United States, Dept, of the Interior
U. S. Land Oilice, Anchorage, Alaska
January 8, 1928.
Notice is hereby given that Arnold
Schneider, entryman, together with
his witnesses, John Ambrose Parks,
and Joseph L. MacKecknie, ail of
Petersburg, Alaska, has submitted
final proof on his homestead entry
serial 05582, for lands embraced
in Forest List 8-11, H. E. No. 173,
Latitude 56° 53' N. Longitude 132°
67' W. and it is now in the files of
the U. S. Land Office, at Anchorage.
Alaska, and if no protest is filed in
tne local land office within a period
ot publication or thirty days there
after said final proof will oe ac
cepted and final certificates issued
J. Lindley Green
Registered
1st Publication Feb. 4, 1928
Last Publication March 30, 1928.
There are GO00 barrels of pond
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Siverson about ’em.
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| KETCHIKAN, ALASKA j
'Tne Spine
is the tinman
S^itckboard
controlling
tiealth, and
HEART.
LUNGS
LIVER
STOMACH
PANCREAS
SPLEEN—
BLADDER.
Chiropractic
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WHEN THE SAFET YVALVE 18
CLOSED
When human elimination is de
ficient the body is like a boiler with
out a safety-valve. The ferment of
the waste products over-long retain
ed results in inumerable ills, some of
very grave character.
Elimination fails because there is
spinal pressure on the motor nerves
serving the intestine. To correct
this cause, Chiropractic spinal ad
justments will be found most effi
cient in bringing a return of normal
health.
Minister Regains Health
“Two years ago this fall I found
myself with stomach and intestines
very much disordered; my head
paining me almost incessantly; my
eyes giving me much trouble and in
a run-down condition generally. I
took Chiropractic adjustments for
about three months, at the expration
of which time I felt like a new man.
Since then it is a delight to live,
things are bright and happy and 1
am doing the best work of my life.”
—Rev. W. N. P. Bacon, Chiropractic
Research Bureau, Statement No.
2274-D.
LEON ENSCH, D. C.
Palmer Graduate 1014
PETERSBURG,
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