THE CHANGES
Alast
a and Its Two Sides
fZME
rS ALASKA a. good place In which
to make a stake?" "Do you think
could better inyself by. golngr .
there?" - , ,'-
, ' ''Not once, but scores of times
questions similar to these . have ; been
asked me since returning from- Alaska,"
said Sidney D. Clfarles, a former news
paper man of Portland, who has boen
enraged In that work for the past four
years In Fairbanks, the metropolis of
the Tanana placer gold fields. , He came
out this winter, over the Ail-American
Voute to Valdez, bringing 'his two little
girls, aged four and five, respectively,
and brought, along a number Of . inter
esting views.
"I have been sought out by entire
ptrangers, even," continued Mr. Charles,
"eager to hear about the so-called
'golden opportunities' of the far north
land. Sometimes, by way of introduc
tion, the callers would begin, 'I knew a
' fellow at Nome who made a fortune and
bought a farm in eastern Oregon,' or
another would, observe, 'An acquaint
ance of mine at Salem took out 110,000
from the Tariana last summer.'
Alaska Gold.
"Indeed, many farms, fruit orchards
and considerable town property have
been purchased in Oregon wjth gold ex
tracted from Alaska. Seattle Is a good
example of what the outpouring of
wealth from the northland may do, and
whole business blocks in Tacoma have
been built from money made In Alaskan
enterprises. The product of the farm,
the factory and the orchard In Oregon
lias found a ready market in the north.
Oregon woolen goods and shirts, etc.,
made by the local factories, have almost
entirely replaced eastern made goods,
and Carnation milk is preferred and
used above all other brands.
"The fact that many Oregonians are
in the front rank of those who have
pioneered the way for commercial en
terprises In Alaska, has fired the de
fires of others to follow their examplea
T am acquainted with many former
Portlanders In the Tanana. Some of
these are doing well, a few have made
their stake, but the majority what of
them? What about the rank and file
of people we hear so little about? Per
haps the Mount Tabor sanatorium, where
Alaska's insane are cared for, could
sound
of the
. grlevi
. written
formation about her boy, or. possibly a
wife who has had to call on neighbors
Tor the support or her utile ones, might
sdd h few more somber shadows. While
th band is playing stirring martial
music and the field is all a-glltter with
nay trappings.' and the girls are throw
ing roses, war seems fascinating Is
one grand symphony. But what of the
reverse side?
Two Sides of Life.
"This, in a measure, illustrates the
two sides of Alaskan life. Dr. Matthews
of Seattle, while In Portland, remarked
that 'Alaska was a boneyard of broken
hearts." and the statement is justified
to a certain extent for the many family
ties broken and the heartaches caused.
Fresh in the minds of Portlanders Is
the Btorv of the 'Baby Richards' Stock
ing Fund,' which would wring tears
from a heart of stone. It fell to my lot
to write the first news of the father s
death and the finding of the
trwklno- In his effects, which
baby's
caiiea
forth the generous outpouring of gold
for the little one. I have written many
obituaries of men killed in the mines,
frozen to death on the trail, or meeting
death In some of the many forms, the
details of some of which, for downright
Ki B7I e "W - 1 Nv nil ; w - QgN IfTTV.
. ,lulr. . h VTt ViV. nieV.,- r i 8tte and Canada, received from those
Lfl7h,M,,? J.P. whn h anxious to come north in the hopes of
ng mother, for Instance, who has, K.,,..-t., i,i. ti.
and written in vain for In- w.'ri'j.
HOW KOOLAU HELD THE PASS-Like
T f 11 1 T'fc 1 .
field the JDndge
THIS Isthe story of how one man,
fighting for life and liberty and
the pursuit of happiness, and
aided only by a woman and a 10-year-old
boy, defeated an army,
shook his ftst in the face of an outraged
government, laughed to scorn the laws
and statutes provided, and escaped with
Ms life. r jt ri..
Leonidas held the past of Iher
mopylae against the Persian hosts, but
not alone. He had his 300 Spartans and
700 Thespians--and he and his army lost
their lives.
Horatlus held the bridge for Rome
against Lars Poraena but he was net
alone, Spurius Lartius fought at his
right hand and Hermlnlus at his left,
though Horatlus appears to have cor
ralled all the glory.
Koolau, the Hawaiian, held a mountain
pass In Kalalau. Island of Kauai, Ha
waii, against the entire army of the pro
visional government, consisting of sev
eral hundred men and two mountain
Howitzers and he defeated them clean
ly and decisively.
Rut the name of Koolau has not been
enrolled among the heroes of the world,
for he was not fighting for his country,
or for a great principle, but only for his
own life and liberty and the right to
live and die with his wife and child.
And he was a leper.
Today all the lepers of Hawaii, con
sisting of some 900. with the exception
of the few who are hidden away by tho
relatives and friend are kept at the leper
settlement on the Island of Molokal.
But 14 years ago the lepers of the Island
of Kauai had tneir own leper settlement
in the vallev of Kalalau, on the north
west coast of the Island. Here the lep
ers lived much like other people. They
had their own houses and garden
patches, caught their own fish and
raised their own tare and bananas. Also
thev stole those of their neighbors, for
on account of being left mostly to them
selves and being to a great extent under
no law. they had become bold and reck
less of the rights of others.
About 14 years ago, during the time of
the provisional government which ruled
the islands for a part of the time -that
Intervened between the overturn of the
kingdom bv the white residents of Ha
waii and the formal annexation or Ha
waii by the United States, It was de--rlded
that the lepers of Kauai should
be collected and sent to the leper settle-:
ment on Molokal. The sheriff of Kauai,
a man named 8tolts, was instructed to
carry out this plan. . '
It Is whispered that there was more
animating the actions bf Stolts than
ever appeared in the official reports
af the newspaper accounts of what took
place. BtoKs is said to have wished to
get rid of Koolau in order to get posses
sion1 of Koolau s wife, an extraordinarily
THE
of Life as Seen ty Sydney
sadness, have
fiction.
"For the benefit of those who might
too li-jhtly count the cost, or be carried
at almost any straw In order to escape
the 'grind' of a routine life, I shall
give the exact facts as I know them
based on a four years' residence in
the Tanana.
Central Alaska.
"""In speaking of Alaska,
so advisedly, since it is
one must do
such a vast
country, for the climatic and; other
conditions vary in the different dls-
trlcts as much as they do between New
York city and Portland. Therefore I
speak for the central portion only.
While assistant secretary of the Fair
banks Chamber of Commerce it was
part of my duties to answer letters of
ir
Is, clerks, school teachers and median
ics and professional people. Most of
them seemed to be imbued with tho
Idea that there were brilliant openings
for them and that money would be for
warded them for their expenses, when,
as a matter of fact, the only demand
was for what are termed 'ro'ughnecka'
In the parlance of the north: in other
words, the laborer, the man with
brawn and muscle. Many of those
working with a pick and shovel or tot
ing a wheelbarrow In the mines of the
Tanana are college graduates, expert
electricians and first class mechanics,
as well as professional men.
to find
trained
Staying Qualities.
They went north
the work to which
and were forced to
expecting
they were
take whatever
of-
fered. Take a 'soft man' unused to
hard, physical labor, and place him in
a tunnel where he must work, bent
over, for 10 hours, and keep his wheel-
oarrow moving witn clockwork regu
larity, for he is paced by the steam
hoist whicli sends the self-dumping
bucket down ever so often, and it Is
not hard to realize his finish, unless
he has exceptional staying powers and
a will of Iron. That's what killed the
T T f ! 1
ne Vuontributed
beautiful . Hawaiian woman. It appears
incredible. In view of the fact that
Koolau was a leper, but the woman so
far as anybody knew, at least was free
from the disease. Anyway, she never
showed any outward signs of having it.
frt'hatever the animating reason, the
sheriff went to Kalalau to arrest Koolau
and Koolau shot him dead. The two
men who had accompanied the aherlff
dropped their guns and fled.
Koolau took the captured weapons, in
addition to his own, and with his wife
and 10-year-old boy, the latter alrendv
arrlicted with the dread disease, took to
the mountains, where be defied the po
lice to capture him.
I An Increased force of officers was
sent out from Hanalet to take the des
perate leper, but Koolau, from a vantage
point on the side of the mountain, shot
one of them dead and drove the others
back.
From a strategic standpoint Koolau's
position was admirable. The valley of
Kalalau is one of the numerous narrow
gashes that indent tho coast of Hawaii.
Running back from the sea a distance
of a little over two nilles, It is shut in
on each side by a high pall, or precipice,
that it Is practically impossible for man
or beast to climb, and it ends abruptly
in another precipice almost equally dif
ficult of ascent From one of the side
precipices, however, juts out a rough
shoulder which la less steep than the
rest-and which can be climbed with com
parative ease. It was on this shoulder
that Koolau nad taken refuge. His hid
ing place, however, was unknown to the
officers, -though It was suspected that he
was In one of the many caves that occur
in the sides of these volcanic mountains.
Most of the rest of the police force of
the island of Kauai was sent against
Koolsu, but they met with no better suc
cess than had the first force. They were
utterly unable to reach him. The moun
tains are covered with a dense growth of
latana and other thorny shrubbery,
through which It was almost impossible
for them, encumbered with their rifles,
to make their way, and In which the
refugee could hide in ambush until his
pursuers were almost upon him, take a
pot shot at them and disappear.
The situation finally became so .seri
ous that it was decided to send to Hon
olulu for government aid. A message
was dispatched to President Dole outlin
ing the situation and asking him to send
reinforcements. Dole responded by sending-
two companies? of men, comprising
virtually the entire army of the country,
anA with them two small cannon -
These troops were embarked in an Inter-Island
steamer and sent to Kauai
snd taken to the valley of Kalalau,
Here, the army practically laid selge to
Koolau's stronghold with . the Idea of
Starving him out. . . . r
But the leper had many friends in.
Che Vallcr, relatives and other lepers
iqulry from all - parts or the Unltea
OREGON SUNDAY JOURNAL', PORTLAND, ' SUNDAY
OF MAN IN THE FAR NORTH WE;
B. CLarles, Former Portland Newspaper Man Tanana, Its Good Features and
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father of Baby Richards. The work
on top. shoveling into the sluice boxes
when the water runs, is no less exact
ing, but is robbed of many of the. ter
rors which accompany underground
work, where frozen slabs of gravel
have crushed the life out of many a
poor devil.
"At the present time the demand for
laborers even is llmlted The popula
tion of the Tanana is placed at 12,000
and that of Fairbanks between 3000 and
4000. There Is a war on between the
United Mine Workers of the Tanana,
a hratinU nf ii .. W .... .... , u IS.,,. n-
j,abor, and the Protective Jllncowners
and Operators' association. Last, win-
ter. through the efforts of the mine-
owners, over 2000 worklngmen were in
duced to go over the winter trail. Part
of them were under contract to work
several months at $5 per day, 10 hours
and found, and the others, driven des
perate by the hard times prevailing out
side and attracted by the big wages of
fered, without knowing .the expenses of
getting there and the 'cost of living,
went in on their own hook. One road
house man in the Interior told me that
he gave away meals to 300 men.
Couldn't See Them Starve.
"Why did I do It?'
couldn't turn them out
starve and freeze, could
he
repeated. 'I
n the cold to
I? But what
makes me 'sore' is that
some of them
boasted about landing in Fairbanks with
money and told how easy it was to beat
the roadhouse men.'
"This winter the roadhouse proprie
tors had circulars printed and distrib
uted warning 'mushers' not to attempt
th trip unless they were able to oav
their way. The Influx of laborers last
winter and last summer supplied the
demar.d ajid gave the mine owners s
temporary victory ovec-the union forces
80 far ",at tlie most of them were
luii- mi iiiatiiiaiu a iv-nuur m:n-uun,
although harrassed by the union forces
now and again getting away their crews
In individual instances. The union Is
still fighting for an eight-hour camp
snd hopes to organize enough of tho
workinRmen to make It effective tho
coming summer.
How Labor Suffers.
"It must be confessed,
tial observer, that the
by an impar
labor laws of
T T .
to ITistory
who had no love for the government
that would take- them to Molokai and
shut them away forever from all they
loved and held dear. These probably
aided him with provisions. At other
times he crept down the mountain side
and foraged for himself.
Finding that the starving tactics were
without results, an assault was ordered.
The army was sent to scale the moun
tain side and take Koolau, dead or
alive.
Clambering heavily up through tho
tangle of tropic shrubbery beneath the
blazing sun. thev came finally upon
the place where Koolau was hidden. It
was In a sort, ef a half cave a recess
beneath an overhanging ledge before
which the fugitive had built up a rude
breastwork of rocks.
But the soldiers .never reached it. A
puff of smoke sprang out from the
mouth of the cave and one of the men
loosened his hold on the latana and fell
backward down the slope. Another shot
brought oVwn another, seriously, wound
ed. The soldiers responded with a vol
ley, but Koolau, hiding behind a rock
and with the woman and boy to load the
extra rifles for him. poured down upon
them so hot a fire that they retired in
confusion.
From tho valley the howitzers were
brought into plav snd the mountain
side shelled to dislodge one lone man
who had defeated the army of Hawaii.
But a reconnolsance showed conclusive
ly that he was still there, another man
coming bark to camp with a bullet hole
In his body.
Seeing the apparent futility of win
ning the contest by assault the army
settled down to the seige sgnin. Mean
time letters were sent to Honolulu tell
ing of how the outlaw was held at bay
but could not be taken. As proof of his
marksmanship and desperation the
wounded men and the bodies of two
dead were Sent on the same steamer.
The news caused the greatest excite
ment In Honolulu and consternation at
the capital. It seemed Incredible that
one man could whip the army of the
country, but the story told by the
wounded men left no room for doubt.
President Dole ordered that additional
men be sent to Kauai to take Koolau.
The reinforcements, under the command
of Attorney General W. O. Smith, set
out like a conquering armada, accom
panied by war correspondents represent
ing the Honolulu newspapers. Smith
trok charge of the war on arriving at
Kalalau, rebuking the officer whonv bs
superseded In command for Inefficiency.
It seemed to him incredible that one
man could successfully defy the entire
army. (
Rut the attorney general changed his
opinion the first time he ordered an
advance yi Koolau's stronghold. Koolau
again defeated his opponents as easily
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Alaska are very crude. For instance,
the merchant, the machinery man, the
bunks and every ' firm supplying the
mine owner, takes precedence over tiie
laborer in mortgaging tho dump or out
put. After the dumps are sluiced all
of these bills must be paid before the
laborer la paid, and if there is not
enough to- go around the latter has
nothing save a worthless time check to
show for several months' hard labor.
For instance, 'John Doe' has a promis
ing piece of ground. He deems that t'.ie
pay found justifies him in putting on a
$SO00 plant, and secures the. machinery
and gives n mortgage. He then gets his
supplies and gives a second mortgage.
Then he arranges for his crews and is
sues time checks good when the dumps
Horatio Wko
as ho had before and added another
scalp, figura'tively, to his belt.
The situation appeared almost ridicu
lous but there was nothing ridiculous
about the dead men who fell under the
fire of the leper, nothing ridiculous
about the men with shattered limbs
and bullet holes through their lungs,
who were sent to the hospital In Hono
lulu. Koolau was fighting now for his
life as well as his liberty and he know
how to shoot.
A flanking movement was Impossible
on account of the steepness of Uie pall.
There was only one way to reach the
place where Koolaii ami his wife and
boy lay hidden, and that was straight
up the mountain side. And any attempt
to climb up was met with the unerring
shots of the leper outlaw.
For two weeks the army lav en
camped In the valley of Kalalau at
tempting to capture or kill this one lone
man. And for two weeks Koolau from
the mouth of his cave laughed at them
and answered their cannon fire with his
rifle.
And then the attorney general for
Hawaii gave it up. He took back all
he had said about Inefficiency on the
part of the former commanding officer
and announced that In his opinion Koo
lau's position was impregnable.
And once more In history an armv.
having marched up a hill, marched down
again. Ahe attorney general gave up
the fight and ordered the troops to
pack up and go home. And so thev
marched back to the steamer, got
aboard, and sailed for Honolulu, leav
ing Koolau, the leper, holding the fort.
Koolau was never captured. Bv a
sort of tacit consent he was allowed to
go his way. No further effort was made
to capture him, and he came down from
his cave on the mountain side and lived
in the valley of Kalalau for awhile
Later he went back Into the interior of
the Island and lived In a small village
there. Everybody knew who he was
and the government was well enough
aware that he was living there. But
he was never again molested. Only
four years ago he died in his bed of the
incurable malady that made life a hor
ror to him. But he died a free man
the only man who ever whipped an en
tire army and lived to tell of it. His
wife is still living In Hawaii.
BagandA Manners.
From the Strand .
Neither manners nor 'Clothes make the
man. Nevertheless, manners are so .vital
a part of the conduct that by them one
can form some idea of character. The
Baganda. natives of Uganda. . In East
Africa, are, so far as courtesy is con
cerned, the ptnk of , perfection. Sir
Harry Johnston has called them :the
Japanese of Africa."
If you say good morning to a stran
ger on an English road, it Is as like as
not that his surprise wilt throw him
Into a posture of self-defense; but when
two Baganda meet they begin to sa-
MORNING, JANUARY 24, v
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K TYPICAlx KOAD HOUcSEIN"
are sluiced. If the ground Is rich,
he makes good all his obligations and
has a neat balance to his credit. Other
wise the laborer sufers. I do not want
to convey the Impression that this Is the
rule, for many of the operators pay
cash for all they get, but the practice
has been common enough to force to the
wall more than one business miin be
cause rf a too liberal credit extended,
srtd the union claims that there Is owing
to laborers at the present time the sum
of $150,000 In worthless time checks.
Demanded New Laws.
"Former Judge Wickcrsha m. who was
elected delegate from Alaska last fall,
pledged himself, if elected, that one of
lute each other as thev come within
earshot.
"How arc you?" cries the one.
"Who am I that you should care to
know?" replies the other.
"Humble though I be, yet I have
dared." rejoins the first.
"But say tlrst how you are," contin
ued the second.
"The bettor for the honor you have
done me." is the answer
By this time they have already passed
each other, and there is only tlmo for
Parthian affability.
"The honor is mine, and I shall treas
ure It. Then follows a quavering of
delicately modulated, long drawn "A -a
a s' of contentment and good will,
which gradually die away In the dis
tance, leaving neither of them the worse
circumstanced or the better Informed.
1 must add, for the reader's caution,
that this dialogue Is not an invariable
ritual. The phrases may be varied ad
infinitum to suit the occasion; but It
will suffice as an illustration of these
roadside courtesies.
If you wish to make a Bagaflda per
fectly happy, all you need to do is to
say "Way wally!" which means a sort
of supremely earnest "Well done!"
The moment" this talismanic expres
sion hajs left you lips the native to
whom it Is addressed will probably fall
on Ids knees, and. clasping his two
hands together, will sway them from
side to side, as if he were playing a
concertina, while all the time his face
beams with a most benignant and com
pulsive smile, and he purrs, "A o! a
o a! a o" as much as to say, "My
cup of Joy is overflowing."
This action, as performed bv the Ba
ganda. Involves no servility. Once you
are used to it they, do not seem to lose
at all in dignity. Only they win your
heart.
Prospectus.
Oh. 1 rha!l write a rural play,
I'll name the village "Squash,"
Ami tesct. the characters to sav
"I swan!" likewise "By gosh'!''
And next a novel I shall write
My zeal shall know1 no bounds
Of heroes old who as thev fight
Say "Sdeath!" "Gadsooks:1 and
"Zounds!"
And after that a western tale
In Its due turn shall come;
My local color cannot, fall
. If I say "thar" and "plumb:"
. Washington Star. .
As the Twfe Is Bent.
From Harper's Weekly.
"I hope you were a good little boy
while at your aunt's and ' didn't tell'
any stories." said his toother. L
"Only the one you put me up to, ma,"
replied her young hopeful.
."W'hy,! what do you man, child?"
Hf.haM .h. . 1 1 . ... hi,. t
nave a second piece, of etAe I said, 'No,
thank you; I've had enough. "
. .... - . Mit" '' -
1909.
Its Endless Litigations Country Varying in Resources
TVLZ INTERIOR.
the first things ho would do upon as
suming his duties In congress would be
to have enacted a Hen law. with a view
of protecting the rights of labor, and se
cuve the appointment nf a mining In
spector to sea that underground works
were timbered, when necessary.
"To reach the interior of Alaska at
any time of the year costs money and
no one should go north without at least
$500. In tho deep ground directly trib
utary to Fairbanks it costs from 1500
to $1000 to sink one hole to bedrock.
Seldom is pay found in the .first hole.
The creek valleys are wide and as many
as 30 and 40 holes have been sunk to
crosscut some of them. Usually it
requires an expenditure of from $3000
to $5000 before pay is found, and
IF DEATH WERE SLEEP
By $Iaurice Maeterlinck.
0NK foremost truth, pending others
which the future will no doubt
reveal, is that, In questions of
life and death, our Imagination
has remained very childish. Al
most everywhere else it precedes rea
son, but here it still loiters over the
games of the earliest ages. It sur
rounds Itself with the dreams and the
barbarous longings wherewith, it lulled
the hopes and fears of cave dwelling
man.
It asks for things that are impossible
because they are too small. It claims
privileges which. If obtained, were more
to be y'readed than the most enormous
disasters with which nihility threat
ens us.
Can we think without shuddering of
an eternity contained wholly within our
infinitesimal actual consciousness? And
behold how in all this we obey the Il
logical whims of what used to be called
"la foils du logis!" Which of us. If he
Went to sleep tonight In the scientific
certainty of awaking in 100 hundred
years as he Is today, with his body in
tact, even on condition that he lost all
memory of his previous life would
those memories not be useless? which
of us would not welcome that secular
sleep with the same confidence as the
brief gentle slumbers of his every
night?
Far from dreading it. would not many
hasten to make the trial with eager
curiosity? Should we not see numbers
of men assail the dispenser of the; fairy
sleep with their prayers and Implore as
a favor what they deem a miraculous
prolongation of their life?
And yet. during that sleep, how much
would remain and how much of them
selves would they find again on awak
ing? What link, at the moment they
closed their eyes, would connect them
with the being that was to awake with
out memories, unknown In a new world?
Nevertheless their consent and all their
hopes at the beginning of that long
night would depend upon that non-existing
link.
There is. In fact, between real death
and this - sleep only the difference of
thit awakening deferred for a century,
an awakening here as alien to him who
had gone to sleep as the birth would ba
of a posthumous child.
On the other hand, what answer do
we make to the question when , It has
to do not with us. but with the things
that breathe with us pa earth? Are we
concerned, for Instance, about the after
life of the animals? The most faithful,
affectionate and intelligent dog. nee
dead, becomes but a repulsive csrrnss.
which we hasten to get rid of. It does
not even seem possible to ask ourselves
if any part of the already spiritual life
wnicn we toveo in mm subBlt elsewhere
in our memory, or If there be another
world for .dogs.
manv Instances are known wher 19.
000. $20,000 and $30,000 hava been ex
pended and the pay Is not always located
even then. After the pay Is found it
ln necessary to do the 'deadwork' drive
a working shaft, run tunnels and drifts
and block out the pay preparatory to
taking out a dump or for summer sluic
ing, whichever tho case may be. . This
costs from $10,000 to $20,000.
Too Much Litigation.
"The curse of litigation also hangs
over the camp like a dark cloud, and
after a man secures ground he Is often
forced to fight for It through the courts.
In the mora shallow diggings of the
Ilotsprings district, the Chandalar, the
Koyukuk, the Innoko, tho Birch creek
section and the upper Sushltna. there
are better opportunities for poor men,
but it requires money to outfit and m
man must be possessed of more than the
average determination and grit or he
will be a sure failure,- for Alaska is no
place for weaklings.
"After having observed the way Port
land anil- adjacent districts have de
veloped in the past six years, I am
confident that it the average young
man would work as hard here and at
tend strictly to business and be alive
to the opportunities expanding and open
ing on every hand, as he would have to
work in Alaska to make a stake, he
would be much farther ahead of the
game in a stated number of years. It
is seldom that the 'chschaco' or new-
comer strikes ft rich in Alaska. He
usually has his eye-teeth cut first
Country Right.
"I wish to add, however, that the
Tanana itself is a splendid country. It
is practically self-supporting. In all
kinds of home grown vegetables and
berries. The drawbacks are fierce fac
tional fights, the curse of litigation, and
high transportation rates. There are
thousands of square miles of mineral
bearing ground which cannot be worked
at a profit under the present adverse
conditions, but which, under more fa
vorable ones, will add millions to the
output yearly. Those looking for easy
money will do well to give the plaee a
wiue Derm, ji uiwai mt.i vl an mrii
of the pioneer stock, the kind that'
opened Oregon to civilization. I have
often heard newcomers envying old tim
ers the wealth they -now enjoy front
donation claims and landed property,
but I dare say if they had to go through
and endure what the pioneers endured
to hold this land, they would not take
it on audi terms. The same holds trus
of the 'sourdoughs' of Alaska.- They
are a generous, fine people, and to have
known tnem or been associated with
them is an honor I shall treasure all
my life."
It would appear rather ridiculous to
us that time and space should preserve
preciously, for all eternity, among;. the
stars and the boundless mansions of
the sky, the soul of a poor beast, made
up of five or six touching-but vary un
sophisticated habits and of the longing
to eat and drink, to sleep warm and to
greet his -kind In the manner which we
know. .';..
Besides, what could remain- of that
sul, composed etfrelr of the few needs
of a rudimentary body, when that body
had ceased to exist? .
Yet by what right do we Imagine be
tween ourselves and the animal an
"abyss that does not exist even between
the mineral and the vegetable, the veg
etable and the animal? This right to
believe ourselves so far. so different
from all that lives upon earth, this pre
tension to place ourselves in a cate
gory and a kingdom to which the very
Sods whom we have created would not
always have access, has never been auf
flclently explained. . , .
Cheer Up J ft'
What If you should break your leg, '-'
. , Cheer up!
You can get a wooden peg,
v. . . :. .ch ttpf I
i'"" i w uuinui ii yours oroae,'
Treat the matter as a Joke
You can put your watch In soak- "
Cheer p! ! 1
Should you get into a fight, - , -
. . Cheer up!
Perhaps the licking served vou right
.. . Cheer up!
t se your heart and use your head;
What's A week or two in bed.
When you'd have to work Instead -
1 Cheer up! I t
Should an autqi knock you far.
i , . . . . . Cheer Up!
It might have been a trolley ear,
. . - .Cheer up! !
If a fire destroys your flat.
Please coasider where you're at. '
Paying rent is worse than that
Cheer up! J !
If you're married to a wife,
1 " Cheer n'
Remember, there's another I! fe
lt you find yoorself In jalu''CCr '
And the Judge refuses ball.
Uon't look, dismal.-don't lo..k rtI '
: t i .-. r . , ' I
- v - Sevr lork - Anx i n
- Just ihf Tiling.
Krnfrl ftji.-en,.
i ' Vrotnl triottier A r;1 . rr..' f
-what do you think t.f nn ii. ,
exeeuti'.n?
Great n'i:!"'nti I I,:ik t j
a DlOet n .t i ., j.