The daily Nome industrial worker., 1914-04-14

 looms with an sagerness 10 drink of the bulletin boards with sven greater and more syid ssst than they eyince to partaks Of the liquid delights Of tue bar.
 The mysterious attraction Of the dog race will some 6ay be explained. but so far the phiiosopber has not yet arrived who wiii explain hos f is crowds stand with mouths agaps before board upon which sfs ehaiked up certain hisrogiyphic numerals indicating ths whsTsshsss:= of scotty Allan or ksgstsad. Sep pela or Alec fioimsen.
 Time was indeed when that dead game sport of painisF days. Albert Fink. declared that the race would foster q superior race Of dogs. but this gentle fiction might have attain cd greater ersdibiiiiy were 1t not known that much mors speculative pleasures were discovered by tas same Albert In areana of dog rae 'fzg
 Much ef the glory of the doG Fae- ing cult has been exploited with q good deal ef artistic color in the Sunday Magazine sections of the great newspapers and wherein every Alaskan. bearded Ike the pafd. isl a hero of such red blooded type as ia aiscoverable in the magnificent fiction Of Jack London or Rex Beach
 or late. following ws presume the fiction of the Sunday Magazine sports. which ia theif turn had been inspired by the exagsrationa Of the local correspondents, man who dss u.ta their attention to tho preyea. ton of cruelty to animals have view od aakanoe thia barbarte passime Of the north They read of the tefriile struggle of the Alaskan wilderness. of the nercs battle to the strong that victory might be theirs. and they came to she conclusion that il was just aa harmless aa bull lighting and Just as humane aa combat du eaque wherein the roostern ars arm. cd with three inch iaselina instead af spurs. And thareupon they placed il in their black books.
 This interference ln an AIaakan sport meets Inc same seorn aud tho same indignant repudlation as meets any other sort Of outside in.srser. nnce In anaira Alaskan, IL ls ths characteristic ot tho ooantry'a motto AlaakAna for Alaskana that lt Ia nos hody'a hiankotly blank business what tho blank Aiaakaaa do whom that nobody aforesaid ls an outside resident
 nnt after the pctfrryid dsnaneias lion ot thesa interfering ncraonali. ties has svaporatad and cooled ia Inc evaporatias proecsa. tho Alas kana proceed after the fact t0 prove that here Is ae such thing aa cruelty sn the racs at all. at least none al all to speak ot Occasionally dog comes back with lts hody h the sled and tsa aoN's #aul 70 tae deK ! paradise where the maiamptsa cease from troubling and wearted huAhiea are al rest. but that Is oaly an inei. don't. for Alaskane ls should he known ara muck the aame aa other folk aad in many respects are as humane and aa klud hearted aa can he
 Besides and moreover and h aa. dttion as we'll aa furthermore. it uaa be polluted out that this sport is unequalied tho world over, And it ia Q characteristic Alaskan apor, and it originated In Nomc. rs may he ahorn of few of tsa ancieAt slcrios; the parae that Is hans up may not be so proudly eerpaient aa ia days of yore: thr eupa may not have the same bulge of pirsheFsc wealth, and the sterling may net br aa far above reproaeh as ia thoaa golden days. bat ssill the spirit of dare aud de inspires tho mon and. II is intlmated hy those who eaa read the animal miad. the daifn alHe The glorious tide when ths odds were deaaisely placed upon tho board for bcttors to bet across may hayo nonc for ever. and paaaed away ike human sanitiea h icftier planes of life. but atili the race alia the sa- looms with anxious pleasure seekers who aland human indications of tho progress of the contest with an In tcnaity of purpose could he found sa no other cause however worthy CT however lofty And this brings aa back again to tho mysterious sates- est in tho race manifested by young and old. by hale and infsrm, They can follow t only in imagination. but it is followed n an imagination that aleeps not or If it does. then