ALASKA CAMPFIRE
REFLECTIONS
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song; Mac never did, and I doubt if
the colonel ever did.
Then that wail of solitude, an old
squaw’s lament for the dead, came
drifting up the river from the far
lowlands below. I had often heard
that wail when a boy, and now it in
dicated the last wail of a passing race
« and to me it was a poignant sugges
tion of my vanished boyhood days.
My companions were asleep, and
even the murmur of the curling
.•^ream appeared as an intrusion. Sud
denly I heard the pat-a-pat of mocca
sins in the trail; then it stopped and
I heard a grunt. Looking round I
saw an old Indian, one of the most
intelligent of his tribe. I produced a
new cob pipe, carried for emergency
and invited him to a seat on the
rock. I desired to get him to talk of
his race and their superstitions.
He had smoked but a short time
when he compared the pipe to the
smoking of the volcano of Mt. Wrang
ell (uniletta). The tobacco was be
ginning to act conducively to the end
desired
' He was a fatalist and believed our
every act was predestined. He said
the Great Spirit had willed that the
Indians should give way to the white
people. He said he could feel it. He
explained the reason of the wail that
again drifted up +he river, and said
the world was alive; that the vol
cano was a sore place; that trees,
¥brush and grass (dough) were “a’l
same hair.” and that man, moose and
sheep were “all same lice.” Again
the lonesome wail w as heard and the
interesting child of the forest arose
and said “Chinan” (thanks) for the
pipe and tobacco and silently made
moccasin tracks down the trail.
1 looked at the start that were be
ginning to shine—the lights of w'hich
had traveled many thousand years to
reach this planet. Scientists tells us
that light travels 186,324 miles per
* second, and; as 31,558,149 seconds are
a sidereal year, w-'hen these numbers
are multiplied we have what they call
a light year with which they measure
the distance. Professor Larkin says
the largest telescope indicates 300,000
light years of distance. Ask them if
they can comprehend unlimited dis
tance and, with a shake of the head,
they reply that that is the nearest
* they can come to it.
ouuuemy tne curtain oi tne say ap
peared in beautiful aurora, evidently
being produced by favorable atmos
phereical conditions. The waves and
motions were so harmonious and ap
peared to possess such unity of action
as to suggest life.
Who kno-ws? If they represent life
that can act when conditions are fav
orable, then they may represent
thought and mental power and even
exert an influence over life incarnate.
For thousands of years an atom has
been considered by man to be the
smallest mite invisable and the
foundation of all things. Now they
have divided an atom into ninety-two
pieces, or parts, which represent act
ion—revolving action and circular
motion and those parts are known
as electrons possessing the same posi
tive and negative power that hold
W the plantes to their course. Is this
life in a limited form? If so, the
wine-befuddled brain of Omar Khay
yam was wrong, and so have been all
those who asserted that life was a
condition and not an element.
All astronomical movements are
circular, and I believe the earth has
a double circular movement, and the
gradual changing of the poles holds
all spheres of the sky in true form;
otherwise they -would become elong
ated with only one motion. If re
volving electrons represent life, then
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even planets and all astral bodies rep
resent a far superior life and intelli
gence than mere man, with but his
few electrons, can comprehend. Man
thought that Halley’s comet was a
burning ball of fire until its last ap
pearance. With unestimated rapidity
it shot like a bolt across orbits and
other moving bodies, and so nicely
was it timed that no collision happen
ed. It drove so near our earth that
it was revealed to man as not burn
ing, but that its trailing flame was
only compressed ether that could re
flect the rays of light; and we were
allowed to pass through those rays,
and thus, and only thus, could we
have been convinced.
It circled our sun as a belt would a
pulley, and left as it came, and on an
unknown mission regulated precisely
to time. What was its purpose? Did
it represent a supermind that was
acting according to a Divine law of
a greater mind? Man knows not. If
all represents life, then there is no
death, and the soul or spirit of man
—his electrons—live forever and ever,
time without limit.
Man may increase his knowledge
until he may be able to photograph
the electronic soul when leaving the
body, enveloped in the ether of the
body it had formd in its most perfect
condition. Thus the science of man
may also be moving in a circle, and
in time he may arrive where proven
facts demonstrate the truths ex
pounded by the great inspired phil
osopher of all time—Jesus Christ—
who taught that life was eternal
time without end!
Yes, we may follow the thought cer
cle to where we may jick up the phil
osophy of the child of the forest—
the greatest outdoorsman—the Indian
at just made moccasin tracks down
the trail!
I knocked the cold ashes from my
pipe as the last nightly wail died long
and low, and as the tips of the mount
ains were entering darkness. When
crawling into my sleeping bag I
slightly distrubed Mac, who mumbled:
If you’ll knock down a few spruce
hens tomorrow we’ll have chicken and
dumplin’s for supper.”
I replied, as much to myself as to
him, “Yes, we’ll have chicken and
dumplin’s for supper”—and we did.
I shall here inform the reader that
James McCarthy arrived at the end of
his trail on the banks of the Tonsina
river a few years later, where he was
drowned while attempting to ford the
stream.
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