Published by the HERNING FAMILY for the people in and near KNIK and WASILLA, ALASKA
You I. ‘ OCTOBEE, 1917 No. 5
A BIG DIFFERENCE
In olden ti es the hardy knight went
forth with lance and mace to fight.
He rode upon his foaming steed and
hoped to do some goodly deed. And
in the fray it often chanced that he
was shot or slugged or lanced, and he
would lie upon the field, encumbered
by his arms ..id shield, and die for
weary days on end, without a surgeon
or a friend. Oh, dying was a painful
stunt for old-time soldiers at the
front. But when the modern soldier
falls, struck down by shrapnel, shells
or balls, he wakes up—if he hasn’t
died—with Red Cross nurses at his
side. They tend his hurts and soothe
his pain, and make him think of home
again; sweet sympathy is in their
eyes; they are so gentle, patient, wise,
the stricken soldier pities those who
are not shot up by the foes. War is
the most atrocious thing e’er sprung
by an ambitious king, and it would be
so much the worse but for the gentle
Red Cross nurse, who strokes the
sick boy's tangled hair and brings
him hope who knew despair.—N. V.
Globe.
COULDN’T BE BOTHERED
According to Ed Stewart, chief clerk
of the Department of justice, there is
something to be said for the infantry,
after all.
I town in Ed’s town of Gadsden,
Ala., a very fine cullud beau had been
rampaging around endeavoring to en
list in some branch of the service
where his talents would best be of ser
vice. And finally.he got in.
He sailed down Gadsden's main
street one afternoon like the Chief of
Staff. He was stiffly dressed in
khaki and instead of having the look
of a rookie he had the appearance of
a veteran drum major.
"Ah see you is in de army,” said a
friend.
"Yes,” answered the soldier, "Ah
is.”
"An' what branch of de service is
you connected wif?”
“Ah is in de infantry."
“De infantry? Why, de las’ Ah
hears o’ you, you is incline to de
cavalry.”
Whereupon the soldier looked ex
tremely confidential, as he explained;
“Yes, Ah was. Hut Ah come to
PATRIOTISM
FOR TO-DAY
HOSE who go into the
horrors of war to
maintain with valor the
honor of our country and
preserve the liberty of
the world, shall never find
the glory that is theirs,
dimmed or clouded by any
lack of our appreciation.
But, there are millions of
us who cannot go. Upon
us rests the duty of sus
taining them. And, of a
sudden, business has be
come a duty. The money
the very life of these boys
in the trenches depends
on, must, in the last an
a lysis, come from Amer
ican business. It must be
leg and prosperous. The
niggard to-day is the
slacker. The man who
fails in his utmost duty as
a buyer, a maker or a
seller, is by just that
much reducing the effic
iency of the man in the
trench. The press and the
people must insist upon
such volume of buying
and selling as we never
saw before, if the enor
mous sums that are needed
shall be forthcoming,
flood business is good pa
triotism—William Ellis in
The Searchlight.
dc conclusion flat if dc gen'til \v;is tn
orner a retreat, Ah didn't want to he
bothered wif no boss."
SOME FEAT
“Ye young scallywag," said an Irish
woman to a hoy who had denied her
accusation, “ye're that brazen ye could
stand there an’ lie till ye wor black in
the face without iver changin' color."
Pick-Ups
These are glorious times when an
ambitious girl can aim to be either a
movie star or a Red Cross heroine.
Because a girl with pretty teeth
laughs at your joke is no sign that the
joke is especially amusing.
It is bad enough to make a mistake,
but making the mistake is not as bad
as saying, “T don’t care" about it.
If a girl cannot keep warm when she
puts her legs in stockings she ought
to put her stock in leggings.
The more a man finds out about
women the more interested he be
comes. and the more interested he
becomes the less he knows.
The peach crop of the United States
for 1!)i: is estimated by the Depart
ment of Agriculture at 43.500,000
bushels, an increase of al>out 15 per
c’l'.t. over last year.
Show your patriotism by contributing
to the American Red Cross bund.
And there are people who would
rather spend real money than crack
a smile.
Roasting is a |>oor means of boosting
one's self.
The way of the transgressor is down
grade.
Treat the rich man kindly. Von may
he willing to let him lend you money
some day.
The only thing more astonishing than
the length of time a man’s love will
subsist on nothing is the celerity with
which it is surfeited the moment U
has any encouragemon to feed on
Ry marrying a bachelor a girl does a
noble work in rescuing him from the
temptation to waste all his thoughts,
lime, money and admiration on him
self.
TOO TRUE
"Do you like shrimp?”
"No, hut 1 have to associate with
a good many.”