The daily Alaskan., 1912-03-11

sist. for Eastern Washington
 The Elk ladies viii have charge Of Che affair which promises 6 very pleasant evening. It Is hoped by tAC committee having tin hand that al Elks and their ladies win be there.
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 The following choice bit of hamor appears in tho curnisat issue Of ths Whitehorse star relative to the de- cision of Fred A. Ciinarman Q for sake rhe protection of weekly wage and Go strike out sar fame and for tune fn the newspaptF field
 To Fred X. CaIlarmaa. skagway
 Ny Poor. Misguided famb.-
 What do you mean by resisalns your position as payaoaster for a rail- road to engage iR buancs for your sell, where you will have to pay out your own money? Better have a trepan or suspension bridge pat in the upper part of your head.
 The paymaster Is always the most popular CT an corporation offisia s and you. Freddie. have been 10 ex. eeption to the rule. Your coming has always been greeted with . howl of welcome and your name has been household word Hk,s castoria True. you may have been referred to as "The Ghost" but always iB eadea-- ing tones
 was deeply grievod when ! heard you had resigned year job. shudder cd when I learned you were to en- gage in the newspaper business and wept when it came to my knowledge that you had selected Pasco. Washing ton as the field In which Co shie your castor C'shie your caet9r7 is an expression which IS ncwspsporial and has nothing to do with casioJ lol) However, the largest sasebrush ever saw grows at pasco, and you being something of a sage-Well it is probably fitting tbat you should con sider saeebrpsh in selecting ioca ton.
 But the newspaper business after lhondliug corporation money, Hoy lhave you no friend 60 take y0u oa' Ihehipa the born and elve yo1 a heart to-hoazt takg Does no one ove you lDo you never pray2 ao noi HAt to go on record as ccnrariug you e | coon. but you make mo think o that song What yo ewiBc ter do when de rent come roun
 You win find. Freddie, that printers are a eold-blooied, noureponsiye selfish bunch who lmasine they have 1 a right Co i've the same a ollI | people and. being thus constituted they insist on being pad every few weeks. They do not for moment cons der that they should feel honor- ea by being permitted to employ the cir ume h a factory where gems of thought arc transferred to pure whise paper and sent forth Co leaven un- done and soadea huuaHity. No, ;he wsllopers, they insist on being paid tn good money. "even as you aad L..
 For the foregoing reason. you be. mghted scion Of ease and comfort you should have stayed where the payroll and the ready John Dayis to meet it were handed ont to you every month instead of resirui1g and putting headlong into that which is but sorrow and vexatiou Of spirit
 There is another, the moral phaze Of the situation. But Of this wiil not speak. Ia fact more than 20 years have elapsed since I was com potent to speak Of t. But this will say: Your chances for bless ed immortality beyond the grave will be greatly enhanced if you pause now and forget Benjamin Irranklin's con iributlon to mankind
 Does not the smell Of newly turn ed loam appeal to you? IT so. iHnocu- late yourself with the back-to-the- farm germ and return to Natnre-not the palm and fig-leaf brand of Nature but where you win hear the song Of birds and lowing of fulluddered Jer- seys Instead of Chat pittiless and in- sistent cry. Copy"
 I once knew young man. kind. affable and loyable. He rejoieed that he was more beautiful than the rose. He was traveiing a pathway which leads through flowery vistas twhat- ever they are) and. to use a figur. ative expression, bsd the world by the oaudal appendage In an evil moment he was overtakea by a yearning. The newspaper bee found harbor beneath his derby The rest is soon told. The mocking bird Is singing OCT his grave.
 Not drnm was heard, not a funeral
 note,
 Ks his course to the rampant we hur-