The Alaska citizen. (Fairbanks, Alaska) 1910-1917, 1914-01-05
BY THE WAY
BY ZOZ.

In some circumstances ''linocking'
is almost harmless and disregardcd,
but there are cases when the practice
| is highly danEerous-to life ev-
en-. AS long as human nature is hu-
man nature there will be knockers, l
suppose. The vice is not confined to
/ the low, ignorant and uneduca ted
classes, who make a pastime of 1t,
where it goes almost unnoticed and
is least hurtful. But when vice is
practiced by the professional classes,
who are supposed to know better, it
is quite a different matter altogeth-
er and may have serious consequences.
! True enough lawyers may abuse each
other in court and lead their audience
to think that there is an open rup-
! ture, quite an unbeatable one-but the
combatant lawyers, during recess, may
| go round the corner, have a shot AMI
there is end of it. The members
of the press-which is held by many
| to be the noblest of professions. an
engine of construction or destruction
may have a whack at each other, per
| haps to show they are alive and clev-
| er, but that does not hurt the public
perhaps it may do them good. But
with the members of the medical
| profession it is quite different. When
they knock and try, for selfish
sons, to boycott a member of their
! rofession-especially in cases of con
sultation, where it may be case of
life or death-it is crime. which sum
ming up of knockers" recalls to my
mind the chestnut story of the Ameri-
can judge finding an Irish laborer at
the same table with him having
breakfast Pat" said the judge pa
tronizingly, you'd be a long time in
! Ireland before you'd be eating with
a Judge Yes bedad," replied Pat,
"and you'd be a hell of long time
| in Ireland before you'd be a Judge"
To my mind this old story has = very
wide application.
The old adaee whats everybodys
business is nobody's business" per
haps accounts for the immunity of a
certain office from punishment To
see the price of certain document
floating like the prices on a stock
exchange strange. Now, when
a person subscribes for certain maya
zines and finds ones he didn't subscribe
for occasionally encased in his proper
wrappers he thinks it strange, too,
and begins to think. Verify the ways
of the heather Chinese are not a good
smile. 'Tis to be hoped these re
marks are not Lese Majestic
tbs wonderful what a wonderful lot
Of wonderful railroad builders have
cropped up lately in a wonderful man
ner in our wonderful camp. A year
ago these wonderful men turned from
understanding to be automobile road
builders and aeroplane builders. Since
the government proposed to build a
railroad they have dropped their 9TH
er plans and on the streets. in
the saloons, and at the movies
punches of these big, open-mouthed,
gawky fellows are telling each other
and the whole world for that matter
how to build railroads and that they
won't take any less of a contract
than so miles each. Poor old Heney
for the doubles" who resemble them
They are both dead now but it is
good job we have such dour men to
take their places
1t has often been noticed in the
North that a number of people here
have doubles" Some people of course
are not pleased when reminded that
their "doubles'' have criminal charac-
tiers. have read Jail journals" writ
ten by persons who were incarcerated
for trivial offences and if we are to
believe them some Of these double"
criminals have nothing but contempt
for the "boubles" who resemble them
in appearance but haven't a criminal
character like themselves. There's
ambition for you!
The weather has been favorable |
so far for all of us and especially |
for "Nichodemuski' who still goes
about with his head uncovered pro-
noting physical science culture. Per |
haps 1t is his actions that are keeping |
the season mild. Be that as it may |
he should be careful and be warned |
by the fate of my old Tom cat who |
stayed out one night without his CAP |
when 1t was So below, after birds Of |
course. and lost his ears in the spring. |
He looks more fierce since the frosty |
amputation. but I don't think the loss |
Of q lug would make much difference |