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A L A S K A
(From the McCarthy News.)
There is, perhaps, on this whole Earth no one
piece of territory with greater future or greater
promise than our ‘‘little corner’—Alaska.
Up to the present time the wealth taken from
the Territory is a mere atom compared with the
wealth still lying undeveloped. The enormous nat
ural resources of the country are, as yet, scarcely
tapped and an immense store of wealth still lies in
its bosom while towering mountains and raging riv
ers guard jealously the secret of its existence until
intrepid man shall come to wrest from them the
hoarded treasure.
In spite of over one-third of a century of search
ing through its fastnesses; in spite of the hordes
of men who have roamed over its valleys Alaska re
mains today the same ragged, old land of mystery
and silence; still hostile to those who steal her boun
ty and go away; sitll dealing death and destruction
to the unwary but nourishing and keeping those
who understand her and who live in sympathy with
her eternal spaces. She stands today, as of old,
with a silent longing, a longing *or those who will
come, discover her store of wealth and return it to
her again. These will sue io\e and to them unfold
her secrets.
Xo place on Earth offers the opportunity to
youth and manhood to start clean the road to sue
place is so reeking with
temptation to lure the weak mind to destruction.
It is cruel and inflexible. There are no half way
measures.
There are two classes oi people working out
the destiny of our country. One is the Pioneers in
spirit if not in years, who cusses but loves her, who,
though unaware of it,*is giving his best to the coun
try. Then there is the other class—those whose
sole purpose is to prey on all and sundry under the
guise of friendship, and finally, when his ill-gotten
gains have mounted to satisfying proportions, to go
away and spend elsewhere the profits and forget his
debt to the country.
When a happy medium is struck; when the pre
dominant class consist of men whose vision beyond
the end of the nose is not so hazy; who will help
instead of exploit their fellowmen then will Alaska
cease to be the “Frozen North” and become a land
of golden prosperity, justifying the faith of those
who love her.
SIMPLE PRAYER BEST.
In these days when it is not uncommon to heal
a minister praised because of his “beautiful pray
ers,” by “beautiful” being meant ornateness of
phraseology, it is refreshing and timely that a cler
gyman has been seen fit to declare that simple pray
ers, like that taught by the'Founder of Christianity,
are best.
Prayers hardly are a fit subject for studied ora
tory. Those that come from the heart not infre
quently are marked by unconscious eloquence. But
it is contrary to the spriit of Christianity that one
should compose supplications to the Almighty with
regard rather to what men will think of them tLan
to how the Deity will view them. And it is to be
feared that it is the effect on the congregation rath
er than the effect on God which is in the minds of
some of these elaborate prayers against which we are
veined. Moren o, the eleci ot such prayer.-, on
te.ercongregation is likely to be other than what the
n blister intended; for the very complexity of the
language maj divert the listerens’ thoughts from
God to the orat > \
Christians have bene counsleled by the Supreme
Authority on such matters not be pray ostentatious
ly, as the hypocrites do, “that they may be seen of
men,” but to address God in the simple, earnest way
in which a child would present a plea to his father.
And it wTould seem that that advice was intended
to apply to public prayers as well as to those spo
ken in the secrecy of the closet.
YOU MIGHT MEET A FOOL
On a road at the foot of the Rockies is a sign
that reads: .“Danger—Sharp Curve—You Might
Meet a Fool.” Such a sign is calculated to make a
driver sit up and take notice. The latter sees at
ulmost every sharp turn a notice to proceed with
caution, or to blow his horn, and comes to be little
impressed by them. He has confidence in his abil
ity to avoid running into another car. But if
there is a fool in the other car the efforts of the
most skillful driver to escape a collision may be fu
tile.
There would be far fewer automobile mishaps
if every driver would bear constantly in mind the
l egibility that the/.- may be a fool ahead, not only
on sharp curves, but on stretches of straight road.
It is unwise to assume that each car on the high
way is in charge of an experienced driver who knows
the traffic rules and will obey them. You may
think that inasmuch as you are keeping on your side
of the road there is no danger in running your car
at high speed. But you might meet a fool who will
not stick to his side of the road.
The fool whom you might meet is not neces
sarily another driver. . He may be a pedestrian.
Bearing in mind at all times that there are slow
witted folk in the world, who may be found in all
places, and that there is a possibility that you may
encounter one, you will not be so likely to meet with
nrsihaps as if you took it for granted that all presons
are level-headed and know enough to keep out of
harm’s way.
CRITICISM UR TO DATE
“Of late years,” said a distinguished profes
sor to his class the other day, “litterary criticism
has greatly gained in breadth and geniality.”" There
is much‘color to the statement. The personalities
that marked differences of opinion in the age of
Dryden and Pope, and made rival reviewers fierce
antagonists of the literal- yarena as well as in it,
have been, on the whole, conspicuous by their ab
sence in these more sedate times. Even the petu
lant flippancy with which Jeffrey assailed Words
worth, or the Quarterly Castigated Keats, has been
more or less relegated to the discard, and for a long
time nothing has appeared in print to equal the sav
agery of the attack made on Montgomery by Macau
lay.
The veneer of conventionality is, however, very
thin and not difficult to pierce, and there are some
temperaments that are eternally on the ache to
pierce it. When a literateur of some note -wrote
a few- of his works and used the locution, “You
should not allow your man to take such liberties.”
he was, and he meant to be, deliberately insulting
to the reviewer in question.
Only the other day a lady novelist and critic
arrived at New York from London to take up her
residence in this country. She at once showed the
mettle of her posture by firing off certain broad
sides at some of her fellow--citizens in the republic
of letter. Of one of them, well known for the pro
duction of a fewr whimsical works, she said, “So
and-So is the ass wrho sits in the Cafe Royale.” She
is apparently found of that short and ugly word,
for speaking of a much discussed book by another
writer, she damned it with faint praise by the as
sertion, “Genius ought to be alknved occasionally
to make an ass of itself.”
Li is to De nopea tnat tnese eiierveseences will
be toned down by contact with the hard facts of
literature as it is practiced and of life as it is lived
in the United Statees. If not, and the samples giv
en are to be regarded as symptomatic of a new era
in criticism, the prospect is startling, not to say
terrifying.
In Boston, a man asks divorce because she let
men kiss her. Why not feed her on onions f
As A testimonial for her goods, the pie-faced
beauty parlor proprietor ranks with the bald-head
ed barber.
Many a man thinks himself a philosopher just
because he remains cheerful in spite of aches and
pains suffered by his wife.
When you see a bloom of health in a distant
cheek, you can’t tell whether the girl has been
roughing it or rouging it.
Two heads may be better but a double chin
isn’t.
Some people remind us of auto tail lights be
cause they only know where they have been.
The connubial S. 0. S. stands for Some One
Sulking.
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Simple Football Rule
Proves Hard to Define
NEW YORK, Dec. 3.—An eastern
football coach asks a question of the
football rules, as now spread on the
books. He wants to know just what
should be defined as the action
known as “roughing the receiver,”
whether the roughing takes place at
the termination of a formal pass or
a kick.
The rule governing this infraction
as regards the forward pass is
brief enough and sufficiently clear,
so that there appears to be small
chance for misunderstanding; yet
when Pennsylvania and Lafayette
met at Philadelphia recently, doubt
over rulings expressed itself to such
an extent that the unusual spectacles
of protesting fans was observed.
Football always has been reason
ably free from abuse of officials
generally accepted as part and par
cel of baseball. Criticism was voic
ed openly and not at all half-heart
edly on at least two occasions dur
ing the game referred to, even
though it was brief.
There was no intent to charge
officials with discrimination. The
impression seemed to be that none
of them was strict enough in en
forcing the rule in question. It
merely was a happening that La
fayette was more unfortunate than
Pennsylvania.
The first play to call for criti
cism from spectators occurred when
Berry, captain and star end of the
Lafayette team, shot downfield on a
punt by Khikleskie. Thomas, re
ceiving the ball for Pennsylvania,
was tackled just as the ball struck
his arms. That was apparent to
everyone.
On three separate occasions it
appeared that Lafayette -would have
successfully completed forward
passes, but a plunging body knocked
a receiver off his feet on each oc
casion. These occurrences were not
so palpable as the offense against
Thomas, but they were open to criti- f
cism in the minds of spectators, who '*
did not fail to voice it.
The rule says:
“No player of the side which did
not put the ball in play shall, after
the. pass has been made , in any
manher interfere with an eligible
opponent who has crossed the line
of scrimmage until the ball has been
touched, except in an actual at
tempt to bat or catch the ball him
self.”
“An actual attempt” would be
hard In some cases to really define,
but not in all. It sirrtply happened
that spectators at the Pennsylvania
Lafayette game, thought the inter
ference was illegal.
The Pennsylvania-Lafayette game
is cited only as an example, and
not because it offered more “cases”
than any other. Also, it was one
of the few where spectators offered
objection.
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