UEA1HER OF HUMAN SKIN
At a recent convention of shoe
makers in Toronto, Canada, a strip
of leather made from the skin of a
human being was on exhibition.
It was a dark reddish brown and
in color as well as thickness resem
led a cheap razor strop when new.
It was made from the skin of a
murderer, John Simpson, hanged
many years ago. Several instances
arc known where books have been
bound in leather made from human
skin. During the French revolution,
leather made from the skins of vic
tims was used commercially, princi
pally for breeches. Only the hide of
males was utilized for this purpose
as the female hide did not prove
durable enough.—Capper’s Weekly.
In The Probate Court For Otter
Precinct, Fourth Division Of Alaska,
Before T. M. Garland, Commissioner
And Ex-Officio Probate Judge._ .
In the matter of the estate of
George W. Adams, deceased. Pro
bate No. 64.
Notice to Creditors.
All persons having claims against
the Estate of George W. Adams,
deceased, are hereby required to
present the same under Oath, to the
undersigned, Executrix de bonis non
of the said Estate, at her office at
Flat, Alaska, on or before the 3rd.
day of January, 1935.
MRS. L. B. ADAMS,
Executrix of the Estate
■of George W. Adams,
deceased.
1st pub. Nov. 10, 1934.
Frank J„ Guskey
Notary Public
Takotna, Alaska.
HORRORS FOR THE NEXT WAR
Getting ready for “the next war”
European scientists are doing exten
sive research work with a variety of
agencies to bring about mass slaugh
ter not only of armies but whole civ
ilian popuations, women, children and
everybody as told by Wickman
Stead, veteran journalist, in an Eng
lish magazine. Chief among theso
deadly weapons are to be poison gas
and epidemic-producing disease
germs. These experimenters are
working on such problems as how to
contaminate the water supply if
large cities or scatter deadly bacteria
thru the air so as to wipe out
thousands and millions of men,
women and children like flies far
rom the battle fronts. The poison
gases used in the World War, hor
rible as they were, fade away by
comparison, with the death vapors
now-beipg developed, some to be re
leased in tunnels, subways and other
underground hideaways. All are
beiuK made ready for the “next war"
which only the people themselves
can prevent by driving their war
making leaders out of power.
In the Probate Court of Ophir,
Innoko Precinct, Fourth Division.
Territory of Alaska, Before Jessie
M. Howard, 'U. S. Commissioner
and, ex-officio Probate Judge.
In the matter of tb Estate of
Anna Miller, deceased.
Notice to Creditors.
In the matter of the Estate of
Anna Miller, deceased, notice is here
by given that the undersigned has
been duly appointed administrator of
the Estate of Anna Miller, deceased.
All persons having claims against
said estate are required to present
the same fully verified with proper
vouchers attached, to the undersign
ed, at my store in Ophir, Alaska,
within six mortths from the date of
this notice.
Dated at Ophir, Alaska, on Oct
ober 29, 1934.
E, W. CARLSON,
Administrator.
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Everyone Welcome.
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TAKOTNA’S PIONEER SHOP
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Drills and Boilers and all lands of ..Prospect
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THE CYNICISM OF YOUTH
By Ernest L. Meyers.
So they dropped in, these four or
five young people, and whoever says
that youth is the golden age is ro
mntic and mistaken. For after
the first animal enthusiasm of com
panionship had worn off and serious
talk had commenced—damme, how
seriously young people can talk—
aey began to speak of themselves,
and the wt rid, and life -not lifa
with a capital .etter, but life with
a; very mall and rather worthless “I.”
When you sprak of Life capitalized,
you speak the word shining-eyed, a
1 it breathless, as one who looks into
a window crammed with entrancing
novelties. But thes2 young people,
t seemed, had wearied of gazing;
perhaps they had detected here and
there a flaw in'the ginicracks in the
window and had grown suspicious
>f i.he whole stock of goods. . So
they talked of life with, a small “I,”
and in utter weariness; strange, to
contrast the vigor and flush of their
bodies with the anemia of their
mood.
Nor was the affectation of youth
wh'ch sometimes likes to parade in a
monk’s cowi of sobriety for love of
dramatic contrast. . No; ’their cynic
ism was deep and real; one could
see that it penetrated to the core of
them; there was no insincerity in
their talk. When young, friends,
speak together they are ruthlessly
honest; it is part of their fine faith
to spare neither themselves nor
their neighbours, and they uproot
into their darkest thoughts and their
neighbours’ deepest faults. They
are cold analysts, especially of their
own desires, and as modern science
has given them a grand new vocabu
lary with which to work they can
be articulate until the small hours o:i
the morning and have a splendidly
morose time.
So they spoke dmoirit'vfly of the
agnation of life. Education was a
** ivviuvi uoJ iw: ilia,
philosophy the clanking of old; wo
men quarreling over their knitting,
creative originality a lost art in the
machine age, ambition a boot kick
ing us ar.d then offering us the boot
to lick, families a medieval error,
and love—but when they got to love
thex-e was a general grimace of re
pugnance, as of a Catholic family
when one speaks of fish the day
after Lent. It was apparent that
they had squeezed life dry of its
values, and the husk that was left
stuck in their throats.
A gay little party of young people
with flushed faces and healthy bod
ies pei'ching on a tombstone. Spar
rows roosting with ravens in ruins.
There is a theory to the effect
that young people today are what
they are because of the war, because
of the new freedom, because of the
decline in the church census, because
of the depression, because of short
skirts or Fords, Freud, or feminism,
or Clara Bow. All these conjectures
err in the presumption that unrest
and cynicism are peculiar to the new
generation, when as a matter of
truth they are a common heritage
of adolescence and early manhood in
in every age. The characteristics
of modern youth seems strange to us
only because a kindly destiny has
hung a veil between us and the past;
we can see our own youth only ro
mantically, remembering its imagin
ed perfection, forgetting its fevers,
broken dreams and satiety. Come,
who of you just sliding into middle
age and still remembering a frag
ment of what you suffered in adolesc
ence, would care to return even an
hour to that spurious golde.n age?
Is there a voice that says “I?” Then
you were either miraculously fotu
nato, or miraoplmftdy . insensitive.
You did not stir with a thousand
desires and enthusiasms, .arid blunt
your head against the bricks of a
hostile wall.
It may be true that the cyncism of
young people today is more strident
because it is more frank and artic
ulate. They do not, as we did, hide
heir iconoclasms, but exhibited them
to the world and their bewildered
parents. And parents, even the
most tolerant of them, feel helpless
in the face of the hlast. They try
to recall the age of;their own rebel
ion. They try to remember just
'.■■vi and when they buri'-d their
reams and violentt demands, ..just
how and when they ..sailed into the
port of comparative peace . They try
to decide whether, the change came
about, through cowardice, weariness
■: wbdom, but the best solution they
can arrive at is that it came about
only because they grew older and
somehow age brought with it a
sense of shifting values. And if
they are wise parents they realize
that the only advice they can give
their children is to wait patiently
for age and the end of growing
pains. And if they are very wise
parents they wil not drcain of giv
ing this advice, .for nothing is,justly,
more irritating and ridiculous than
to be told itfcn one- is unhappy be
cause one is young—for how in
heaven’s najn<- can one help it?
Thus ."the A ery wise parent will re
main sympathetic, but discreetly
silent. Remembering that years
bring the gift of surrender, the wis
dom of contentment with the bits of
the shattered, glittering world that
our youth created. Not conscious
surrender, which is martyrdom and ,
rather depicable to parade; but an
unccncious and growing joy in the
simplicities of life which we in our
youth once scorned as trivial or *
* sentimental. \
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