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til 3 SAM J. CALLAHAN. EDITOR No. 16
Css. M. Arbnckle. Manager
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GRUBSTAKING
Accepting ns fact the belief of many intelligent and
experienced men that the Iditarod placers hold exceptional
fortunes for the lucky persons “in” on the good creeks,
what proportion of the winners in the game will owe their
success to their presence in the new district at the critical
time ?
We should say scarcely half—perhaps not a third. The
balance are men who were staked in by others — through
friendship, in return for favors received, or in accordance
with bona fide grubstake agreements. In either case it
would perhaps be hard to convince the parties directly in
terested that the transactions were not legitimate.
For the purposes of this article it does not matter
whether they were or not. What is intended is to direct
attention to their value in a strictly business sense.
At Dawson, at Fairbanks, at Nome and everywhere in
Alaska and elsewhere where mining has been carried on
the same agencies have played an important part in the
general development.
The great things accomplished at Fairbanks had theii
inception in favors advanced to Barnette. Tabor of Color
ado backed his judgment of men and mining ground by
putting out even the money his wife earned at the washtut
in grubstakes to prospectors.
Eliminating the matter of friendship—which should
always rest on the same liberal spirit guided by a clear in
sight into human nature that is essential in mining-country
business—grubstaking is an investment in human talent,
and, win or lose, there is no obligation on either side. At
a purely speculative investment—always providing that
good judgment of men is used—the results are constantly
vindicating it. If one venture out of twenty-five should
result favorably the speculator might come out far to tin
good.
Not infrequently we hear the business of grubstakin'
condemned indiscriminately. To our mind the only reason
that it is not more extensively engaged in is that tin
moneyed men of a speculative turn and the prospectors o'
ability and character are not better acquainted.
FAIR WOMAN’S INVASION
Women arc now tackling every profession and style of bnsine s
There is hardly a path of life adown whose shaded paths we do not fun
the young lady sauntering in her charmingly careless manner.
Many of them are becoming barbers, and successful ones, too
There is a gentle touch required by a barber which is very gratetul t«
the victim, and which is easily picked up by the lady apprentice.
There is a nameless joy steals into a man’s soul when a musica
voice tickles a man’s ears as he lies in the chair with his eyes closed
while the tips of rosy fingers take him by the nose and pry open hi
mouth and a dainty twist of the wrist fills his back teeth full of soaj
and rain water.
O, woman! Little do you know what a power for good do yo>
possess. When you jab a man’s head back against the gable end of tli
barber chair, and hang it over behind so that his Adam’s apple stick
up into the scented air like the breast bone of aii old gobbler that ha
died of starvation, you have the great, manly lord of creation where hi
is as weak and tractab.kaas a child.
Then you can wear him out with an old razor that you have shaver
the whole broad universe with. Then you can peel off one feature aftei
another and throw it into an old nail keg, and while you slice him in
into sausage meat you can talk to him and make him think he is bavin*
a chunk of luxury ladled out to him such as no other living man ever
got.
If a female barber is handsome, she can shave her customers with a
bed-slat and powder their faces with cayenne pepper and giant powder,
and it will be all right.
A homely female barber, however, would have nothing to do bu
to hone up old razors and think about tlie sombre past —Bill Nye.
Patrick .Henry’s Defense
It is said of Patrick Henry that
during bis practice of law in Vir
ginia courts and when he was
familiarly addressed as “Govern
or,” a man who had been arrested
for stealing a hog, and who was 6ut i
on bail, went to the governor to
have him defend him.
The governor said: “Did you
walk away with that shoat?”
“I don’t like to say.” ' ■
“Out with it.”
"Yes, sir.”
“Have ygu got the carcass?”
“Yes. sir.”
“You go home, you wretch; cut
the pig lengthwise in half, and
hang as much of it in my smoke
house as you keep in yours
At court the governor said.
“Your honor, this man has no
more of that stolen shoat than I
have.”
The man was cleared.—Mack’s
National Monthly.
A Question of Time
A conductor on the O’Fallon
Park division of the St. Louis and
Subu. ban railway bad such a good
run of business Sunday afternooi
that he had difficulty iii,.'.keeping
himself supplied wivJi small change
Many persons who patronized the
car handed him dollars and hills of
larger denominations in payment ol
th^ir 'fares,'says the Globe-Demo
crat. ‘The conductor managed to
get along fairly well until a woman
carrying a small infant b&arded his
car. When he approached * the
woman for her fare she handed him
a $5 hill.
“Is that the smallest you have,
madam/* queried the conductor,
fearing another stringency in
change.
-The woman looked at the con
ductor and then at the baby,and
made this surprising reply:
“Yes. I have been married only
12 months."
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REST IN PEACE
Leave them alone, the sinned Against and sinning,
Locked in the dead, still sleep of death.
Dare we to jodge, though it be past our knowing
What was the longing "of their-latest, breath?
Leave them alone. The Father knows the burden
That pressed upon each struggling soul.
Dare we to mete to each his guerdon?
Dare we to say who wins the heavenly goal?
Leave them alor.e? Nay, pause and breathe a blessing,
All ye who pass. No prayer more true
Than that of Calvary, in mercy pleading,
"Father, forgive: they know not what they do."
April 13, 1910. % F. G. L.
HINDU THEORY OF WOMAN'S CREATION
According to a Hindu legend this is the proper origin of
woman. Twastri, the god Vulcan of the Hindu mythology,
created the world, but on his commencing to create woman he
discovered that for man he had exhausted all his creative mate
rials and that not one solid element had been left. This, of
course, greatly perplexed Twashtri and caused him to fall into
a profound meditation. When lie arose from it he proceeded
as follows. lie took:
The roundness of the moon.
The undulating curve of the serpent.
The graceful twist of the creeping plant.
The light shivering of the grass blade and the slenderness
of the willow.
The velvet of the flowers.
The lightness of the feather.
The gentle gaze of the doe.
The frolicsomeness of the dancing sunbeam.
The tears of the cloud.
The inconsistency of the wind.
The timidity of the hare.
The vanity of the peacock.
The hardness of the diamond. -
The cruelty of the tiger.
The chill of the snow.
The cackling of the parrot.
The cooing of the turtle dove.
All these he mixed together and formed a woman.
HELP WANTED
“I need a man.” said the merchant prince, “to work in my
stately store; I'll pay him well when he starts to work, and
soon I'll pay him more. I want a man with a spirit clean, and
an honest, hopeful face; I want a man with an earnest wish to
climb to the highest place. I have sought, him high, I have
sought him low, and I'm almost in despair; I've hunted all
through the billiard halls, and I didn’t find him there. I want
a min with a purpose high that always he keeps in view; I
want a man with a soul attuned to the things that are good and
true; a youth who knows that the rich rewards are not for the
idle shirk; a youth who comes from a pleasant home, and
comes with a zest for work; I have sought this youth till my
feet are tired, and my mind is filled with care; I looked for him
in the grog bazaars, and l didn’t find him there. I want a
youth with a healthy mind, who sees that the world is good;
who knows that the men who win belong to industry’s brother- :
hood. I want a youth who would rather own a dime that is
fairly earned, than rolls of gold th.it were won at night in a
room where the cards are turned. Alas, alas! such a golden
youth in this weary world is rare! I’ve looked and looked where
the loafers rest, and I didn’t him there.” -Walt Mason.
“THE NATIONAL GAME”
Hot Sprincs, April 7, 1910.
Editor Leader: Why should not A say to B “That’s good”
and give him the pot? As long as A is satisfied what business
is it of others what he had? “Dad.” ,
No reason why he should not if the other players stand for i
it. The rule that all hands in the call must be shown is made •
only to catch rascals when their presence is suspected. Play
eis who know each other can waive as many rules as they
please. When that is done it is what may be called a “friendly
little game.” _
Mouse Point, April 16, 1910. j
Mr. Editor: A and B have been jollying each other all I
evening and playing swift. In one pot A.bets and B says 'Til
divide.” A says “All right, kid,” and both throw up their
cards and start to count the chips when C says “Hold on, I'm
in this pot.” A and B have two witnesses that they both had
better hands than C. Must they share the pot with him?
Hot Cake Kid.
C takes the whole pot if he still has five cards, both A and
B having thrown their mitts away.
SULLIVAN WAS
“EASY MARK”
The following paragraph is from
a Chicago paper of recent date:
SCATTERS MONEY IN: HOTEL
Alaskaii Miner Then Leaves for
New York to Spend More
Leaving behind him as he left the
Congress hotel Monday a trail of
gold, silver and currency, Dr. Mark
Lawrence Sullivan of Fairbanks,
Alaska, started for New York to
spend money lie lias made during
ihe past ten years. He reached
Chicago yesterday morning, and
when be registered at the Congress
hotel lie told John Burke, a clerk,
that he went to Alaska-'ten-years
ago to do what he could in the
practice of medicine. and, getting
into a mining venture, he made a
fin tune. “T am now going to
spend it,” he -said, as he,.handed
Mr Burke a $20 gold certificate
and a $10 l>ill to his .assistant,
Frank Florentine. . He gave Mi-s
M I_. Monroe, the cashier, $2 ;
Mrs. Minnie Logan, the book
keeper, $20, and then scattered 50*
cent pieces and silver dollars among
the bellmen..
Maud and Andy Return
Andy Vachon; with a loaded sled
drawn by the celebrated Maud
mule, returned home last Saturday
Irom a two-weeks’ trip to Fair
banks. _
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