Show Will Lacks Ypym QHeart To Be Trapper Bn Far lorth' By WILL ROGERS i 1 IPirefeirs Loire ©on DsDainidl by Charles : story of a real Robinson Crusoe more HERE is the than the fjamous tale of shipwreck on a Robinson Crusoe undertook his adisland desert ventures in lonely living because he couldn't help it but Philip lAshton weiit voluntarily into exile Philip Ashton to escape a life of crime in the company of pirates chpse the hazards of life on Rattan island without weapons tools supplies and a He delibvery superficial knowledge of woodcraft erately risked the hardships of life alone upon an island jn the tropics rather than sacrifice his principles and spent two years on this lonely island in the Gulf of Honduras rather than become a pirate STRANGEST STORV The story is one of the strangest in the history of piracy B ¥© Driscoll - Career what is and cities in Alaska have mighty fine little papers They take all the big news and whittle lit down tin ou can read it and understand it You see with some of our big papers they have so mjuch in there about the subject till it gets you o confused These fellows pick out the main facts and hand it to you in concentrated form but they get in all the main things iboth Alaskan the mainland of the U S and international RADIO IS VAST They cover about all of Coh- cress that is fit to cove you see we cover a let that we shouldent An awful lot of small towns have dailys and good ones some towns twice a week and some three times They have a splendid radio ser ice for messages out land also all this vast country and brother its vast and vaster still A distance cf 500 miles is just about a jaunt down to Ihe post c5fi(e and back They speak of being over to some town 7 or 8 hundred miiles away like you would going to yoir next doer neighbors and they stlart down or up these rivers in bojats and the trip might be a thousand or 15 hun' miles dred That Yukon that you have read so much about that is formed away in the Yukon' Territory of Canada we flew down it from the head and it winds and twists till comes out away down near San in the Behring Sea three thousand miles away It was interesting to be fly: ng where the trip took you over whferejthe head of cne river went! to the Artie ocean arid a few miles jover a divide the waters of the other would be headed for the Pacific That happened coming out of Hershel Island in the Artie we eouldent land there oil account of the ice in the water but we circled ' it a time or so IS NOTED PLACE There is only a half dozen houses but-ita noted place Its where the told whalers the real old sailing ooats used to land and spend the 'winter They would cipme up from America or the various Scandinavian countries in one summer get in there and wintier and then that would give thera an early start the next summer when the ice went out Then they would hunt all that summer which was about three months then back into Her-sh- el for the second winjter and then out with the whalebohe the next v summer We saw old Capt Petersons big old boat in there he cpmes in and trades generally for the month of August I think he has quite a few Q I dt j s C -- - j Ctrading postsi established in! the who they let come inlto trade Its got to be an established firm I know they are over on the Canad- ian side and I think its almost the r same with us island— They are pretty strict about out-of-the-- For instance in Canada that TRADER UP THERE And say the old Injun and the Esquimo is a mighty smart trader up there sd they told me Time means nothing to himj in the way of an argument It dont take him in some sort of a telegraphic Clcng to find out what sort of wild the women have chosen as that seasons show (its got to be just v a show piece for old pece House Cat will keep you as warm as a silver fox) Well these old oays suspicion mighty quick what the buyers: are sorter secretly eying ! Well thatsbnp thlm T nrxrxr ha lieve I could ever be (One thing I I - : havent got the nerve to tne gaff and go through the stand great physical hardshinsi te so that Jm?- ni??' 1 cant Wttf be done Qn the other hand I expect I do SfLf ry 80daywe tha abouttrapper fS It ?L equal long run Each ' tlml ?retty hf rd Thospi! fr a man that lives away out would put us to absolute shame MUST MUSH THROUGH liere we pass folks every hour that we could everyday but dont go to the trouble! of helh dom'e it when we can well afford Ume or money but we dont do the Thev it would mush through! the winter fifty below for days to heln a We think they punish animalsfriend We punish humans only we dont think S m - ! 111 rc't 'SO (Copyright 1835 by the McNaught Syndicate Inc) (Editor's Note: This article was mailed from Fairbanks Alaska on Aug 14 the day before the last g- ' L"s L — r J tflilM fl!hiM (pmi t keel-haulin- gs i i 'ikn Tr —jJS f f ©iscoMVabedl r Pmv® "SiiBMd l?irftM- by Arthur Brisbane ural history collections for his great tutor Aristotle more money than he inherited from his father Philip Young Americans should read a good short history of Alexander an accurate history if possible Plutarch is better than nothing The life of that young Macedonian would stir ambition in a wooden Indian Read of Alexander conquering the world as far as he cared to travel j entering Babylon "the oldest "seat of earthly empire" then in existence Twenty-on- e hundred years bsfore Disraeli a Jewish boy originating in Asia had made Victoria empress of India and added "the'Punjab to the dominions of a European sovereign" Alexander had gathered in the Punjab and all that he wanted of vast Asia for his own ' HO HUM! - IUvSB Civilizations nations apd individual men climb un- til they reach a certain height then fall Every one adds something useful td the world's history The third great wor d battle at Arbela was fought 331 years before Christ! when Alexander entering" Persia with a small arnly conquered and took over the great Asiatic empire and hunted the proud kine Darius to hU death Scornfully Alexander rejected Darius offer of hhh caijghter in marriage half his land and a gigantic iium in gold Alexander's adviser Parmenion said: pjr I were Alexander I should offer Aleiaider that accept only replied: "So' should I if I Were? Parmenion" land passed on to other victories! Arbela gave Ajsiaj to Alexander and wherever he went "The language and the civilization of Greece were planted—from the ihorei of the Aegean to the banks bf the Indus! fronf the Caspian and the great Hyrcanian plain to the cataracts of the Nile—to exist 1 then-effect-s ' - yXv V - e -- European born and -eductaed he is the founder of the famous Coffee House club in New York a select first nighter and one of the of contemporary art - finest-judge- " " s Ben Hur Lampman Portland Oregon editorial writer who has recently authorized a : whimsical book is said to be an astonishing double for another writer of whim-se- y Don Marquis They look so much alike that almost every week or so each is mistakenly hailed for the other I have been reading with great interest the reminiscences pf J Gordon Selfridge once a partner of Marshall Field in Chicago about his Your little boy will be interested when you tell London experience In retail merhim how Alxander at 12 yeps of age conquered and chandising The Selfridge departrode the magnificent horse Bucephalus that his fath- ment store was hailed as a grand Just a brash er Philip was about to sell because no groom could joke when it opened American making a fool of himself! ride him Your boy will be interested also in the fact But Selfridge had faith in Amerthat when Bucephalus died having carried the great ican ideas of a department conqueror for years through many battles Alexander store clung torunning became one and them to show his appreciation of the dead horse gave or- of the foremost merchants Londers that every horse and mule in Persia should have don His is the old luck andof pluck its mane and tail shaved for a considerable period work and win theme r as a sign of mourning Conquerors are sometimes Two books enjoyed recently: foolish but they are often useful of Frightened Men" "The League The fourth of the great battles for "which there Stout and "King Lehr and ia no room here may be later discussed briefly on by Rex Gilded the by the widow of this page with some of the others' It was the Battle the famous Age" social fop And if you of the Metaurus fought in 207 B C destroying the read "Honey In the Horn" power of the Semitic Carthaginians that but for that havent i the prize novel by H L defeat might have been rulers over all Europe' ' DavisHarper slide down the brass pole and at top galThe world has seen great battles horrible wars romp to your lop worst of all that "called the "Big war" including TJnleas men show intelligence that they have hitherTo several: I have never talked to lacked the worst of all wars is ahead of us an an- over the radio There When and where will the new Marathon be n?urcer named O E Mclntyre on fought— with airplanes and tanks instead of horses one 'of the eastern stations submarines instead of galleys with many banks of oars poison gas Instead of darts hurled by hand— (Copyright 1925 McNaught Syndi-dicat' and decide again the supremacy ' of Asiatic or "European civilization? That war 'may never come real civilization may NEW YEAR'S BABY LUCKY prevent it although that in the light of the past1 INDEPENDENCE Mo (UP) — Lit1 seems too much to hope tle 'Rusrcll Allen first baby bom And who will restore "the glory that was Greece" here in 1S35 bears a charmed life that shone in Pericles Phidias Socrates Plato Arts- - The child pulled a hot electric iron-oftotle and the builders of the Parthenon? a ctove onto his hrfd and refor sHfht Nations grow old as men do the battles achieve- mained unhurt exc-ments and victories of their youth become sad mem- bums although the iron was broken ories The good remains evil is forgotten powerless when it struck the floor " con-Jueredm- ore BACHELOR FEATURED ' Probably no magazine editor In years so neatly and innocently grabbed page one publicity as Prank Crowninshield recently for Vanity Pair In publishing a satirical cartoon on a Japanese personage-hcaused a slight diplomatic bru&h that not only inspires thicker ban ner headlines but also thousands of editorials columnar cavorts cartocrtis and follow up essays in the tJical weeklies Crowninshield istegarded by many as the last of the aristocrats a gourmet bon vivant and thorough-goin- g gentleman of a school that is gone A bachelor Much of Asia still remains to be roused enlightened civilized according to' our notions This of course does not refer to energetic Japan or stately China but for" those that still live in the beliefs of 5000 years ago Alexander still little more than a boy died in Babylon 323 B C Alexander had traveled the world over on foot on horseback on elephants carried in palaquins accomplished everything without the aid of automobiles telephone telegraph bullets poison gas or airplane and died at the age of 33 Let young "men in a hurry think of that His victories created his greatness his temper and vices brought death his cruelty as with all ancient conquerors deserved it His life gives inspiration his death a warning— both useful 'When he was dead Alexander's captains formed empires' and kingdoms for themselves the most successful Seleucus who went farther into India than Alexander had gone Most Interesting to us of the soldiers dividing Alexander's power was Ptolemy ancestor of Cleopatra concerning whom Shakespeare wrote some fine lines She Is commonly described as ravishingly beautiful but in reality she was plain She was extremely rich with enormous treasures in gold" and according to Terrero Marc Antony sought her not for love but to get money to use fighting his enemies In Rome s - "' book-sell- er -- ' e) j j make - j -- spending i I Baffifliss-Comte- "TOP OF WORLD PAPER pen to Alexander FAIRBANKS Alaska (UP)-- WilCashen of Douglas Alaska diam edit the Farthest North The battle of defense this year The paper is publought at Marathon that lished by students of the University kept Asia from control ht Europe established "the of Alaska farthest north instituglory that was Greece" arid it was even more glorious tion cf higher learning in the when Alexander carried Greece into Asia taking world civilization with his troops to nat- - be-liev- If aw : I - j so-cau- ea -- : actually for nearly a thousand years and in to endure forever' Hundreds of cities were named "Alexandria" in addition to the great Alexandria mother of science and progress The first j application of steam power was exhibited there morj than two thousand years' ago It took a long timejj to reach the locomotive Napoleon envious oi Alexander who had than half he world at an age "when Napoleon had not even smarted his career gave credit to Alexander but asked? jWhat would have happened if he had been' beatdn at Arbela with the Euphrates the Tigris and he desert in his rear nine hundred leagues from Mkcedonia?" v The thing would have happened that has happened to many another adventurer but did not hap- o - any- j By O O McINTYRE - w TVVO things in histprjf have been important above others--t- he developr lent of science giving men real dominion over the earth and wars that have changed history ended 1 uman stagnation on a giant-scal- e compelled thought by fear and forced civilization upon those reluctant to receive it A week ago here y©ur narrator started grandly to tell "briefly" about the "15 Decisive Battles of the World" all useful because they put an end topower that had lost its usefulness or preserved civilization not yet fully developed Instead of telling briefly about all fifteen of Creasy's fifteen decisive battles it was only possible in space limits to telf with prolixity and inadequately- about tWo battles- aratlion where Greece beat Persia preventing Asiatic power from ruling in Eur- ope and the defeat Of the- Athenians by Syracuse making possible the independent rise of ancient Rome j ed i t Expert1-Say- so-call- ed GREAT HUDSON BAY where the great Hudsqn Bay Trading Co an organization that almost founded Canada (and a lot cf the U S before the Revolution they been going 250 years) well they dont allow any Hudson By trader to take a dog team or boat or any conveyance and go oift and trade for furs Or any trader its against f law to have let the Indians or Cthe bring em in and trade at the posts for em Canada haps a great system of pealing with their native population away up in the far North? Ydu look on a map and all the country that is north of the real mainland of Canada all these tremendous islands and gulfs up there a white man is not allowed to (fish hunt or trap in Its entirely for the support of the Indians that live up there We never had thought of harmless A retired naturalist who has poked about the pyramids of Egypt slept in camphortreea in Formosa invaded the fiercest g Amazon - jungles and crossed the blazing African veldta writes an inFEET INFECTED teresting letter shucking off many The greatest hardship aside from loneliness was of the superstitions: concerning the caused by walking barefooted over the hot sands and wild things of nature the stony ground Within a few months the young He asks to remain anonymous befellow's feet became so badly bruised and infected cause "I too my rethat his life was endangered He was not good enough tirement toaiahave tohappy in argue with half-bakat woodcraft even to make himself sandals But bedoe not beHe professors" fore you condemn him for this remember that he lieve there a is beast in dangerous had' no knife the if not alone left and jungle Ashton lost count of the days and months Several times he fainted from pain upon lacerating anew crossed He has- lived in a Colohis sore feet He did riot know how long he lay un- rado canyon with a wildcat as his Many times be conscious at these times But he began to feel that only neighbor he could not last much longer His health was sadly L passed it within leaping distance undermined by insufficient variety of food by hard- without harm He has had many lions trot off ship and by loneliness at his approach He believes hywas in the November following his It on is 99 per cent fear and Rattan island that Ashton sitting on thelanding drophobia beach in despair saw an old man paddling toward him In a that there have not been more than canoe The visitor landed and the ' two became ten authenticated cases in human friends The newcomer was an Englishman who for history He cites the incident in a some unstated reason had lived many years with the doctor's best selling book The of San Michele" of a man Spaniards on the mainland He was for another un- Story a : —s w i — stated reason then in flight from the Spaniards He j shared his belongings with the castaway he thought mad was proved by Thus came to Rattan island and its hermit the laboratory tests entirely normal v blessing of fire The old man left the island for a WHISKEY ANTIDOTE? hunting trip after three days and never returned It He firmly believes gulping whiskey was Ashton's belief that his friend was drowned in after snake bites has killed more a storm But he had left with Ashton flings powder victims than the poison Whiskey a knife and a little food Life was never so is the worst possible antidote he severe again for the lonely Inhabitant of quite Rattan says He has known several to reisland When Ashton landed in his isolated kingdom he cover normally from rattlesnake did not know how Jo swim During his long residence bites with complete rest for fou There is a raging fever also there be became a good swimmer At first he ven- days a swelling but no after effects tured out into the water by lying flat upon'a pole a remote South American In of bamboo Once having lost his supporting pole he he was bitten by a tarancountry was obliged to swim alone to shore After thathe and suffered nothing but a tula was a swimmer He swam to and from all the little islands that clustered about Rattan He chose a slight headache In California ht small windswept islet for a sleeping place because was called to visit a rancher who the wind there blew away the mosquitoes that so naa been Diiien Dy me "red widow" spider universally tormented him upon Rattan sorely v : death dealing in its sting CANOE FOUND Once the " hermit found a good canoe on the The spider had been killed and he beach washed up there from somewhere recognized it unmistakably as the life was still better and more comfortableThereafter fatal insect and the young man made many trips to and from neighborThe victim was a "heart case" and 30 miles from medicine ing islands The first Ashton had been marooned 16 months when he thing he did was to convince the acquired a large company of friends Eighteen white patient the spider was of a harmless men from the mainland in two canoes and variety He made him go to bed made the acquaintance of the recluse landed remain perfectly quiet He was had Theyx ruin as an added consolation for loneliness and in- and nauseated and feverish for 24 hours deed the young New Englander was in need of a stimbut recovered and lived eight years Ashton begged hard for his liberty ulant His health was bad and growing worse COBRA VICTIM LIVES i The 18 Bay men as they were called were He winds up with a clipping from roving tUJtlers: Whilc they resided upon the a uu'iuvu iucuaai SSS'LiiS A&mon casks and a small party to bring back to the ship a 4 weighed anchor and disappeared over the horizon juuiuai ui mere was an Sa"u by pirates English colonist bitten load of drinking water Ashton hailed trie cooper and this intrepid youngiter began !to look about him by a cobra These marauders were of Low's old attack crew and fought in India who lived asked if he might go ashore since he had never been without The island was about 30 miles long and possibly j for the fun of fighting Ashton receiving escaped harm by medical attention "We are allowed off the ship since his service jfor the pirates 12 miles wide at the widest part It was tim- I great good luck and the heavily pirates eventually sailed to think Nature viciously crueUprone began The cooper consented seeing that the young bered There were mountains high hills deep valhe man was without shoes and thinking that nobody leys streams of fresh water and sheltered harbors said whereas she is kindly and The rhen deDarted mvm tMr- nr k-- 1 Bay would run away upon so desolate an island j Ahton found an abundance of fruit Some of after six or seven months leaving one old man with healing always if left alone" sure was this he fruit felt Ashton was with and it Ashton gave the boat's company! the slip and upon Rattan poisonous Wallace Beery on' a recent visit It was in March 1725 that Ashton was delivered hid among the dense thickets of the island soms" great fear and nervousness that he ate of unknown fruits since he always expected to die soon after from his island A brigantine from Salem blown to New York en route to Europe distance from shore He heard his name called reoft r her course put in for water Ashton told his story turned heads in every block He peatedly when the boat was leaving for the ship that tasting them The 'young castaway knew nothing of woodcraft and was taken on as a hand He trembled but he did riot waver He evening years 10 months is one of the bulky screen figures Almost any Boy Scout of our own day could get along and 15 days after his capture Tw would escape from the pirates at any cost Low by Ashton was easily recognized But Chaplin Is v ell on a tropical island back in his father's home 'at Marblehead But not did fairly A'hton He had still top pivoting the populace For five days after that Ashton kept hlmsslf hidknow how td' make fire with dry sticks He had heard been upon his island for about two years den among the bushes in the interior of the island that it could be done and he spent hours of painful Ashton became a hero and a wonder in his home since during all that time he could see that the pirate effort rubbing dry sticks together ever striktown He married and van h fath without in a nearI heard an old vessel was still at anchor of f shore When the pirates ing a spark ' and his descendants live in New England to this day by building who codger is likely to be huzzahed by many He was coming down in the elevator with a brightly rouged lady who was smoking and inhaling a cigaret furiously After eyeing her for a few floors he suddenly blurted: "Madam you don't — — " mm mm 1 happen to have any chewing tobacco M U i U : with you have you? J Philip Ashton was only about 20 years old when he was captured off Shelbourne on the southern Nova Scotia coast by he pirate Ned Low This was dn Friday June 15 1722 Ashton was one of a large company of fishermen from Massachusetts bay making port for the week end after several days of hard labor at the nets on the high seas Low Mailing the brigantihe Rebecca made for the midst of the fishing fleet' and began looting the little vessels of whatever supplies he wanted The fishermeh were in consternation When he had taken every thing he wanted out of 13 boats Low oegan to Impress men from the fishing crews into his service Among those captured and carried off by the pirate was Philip Ashton who lived in Marblehead was unmarried and was very religious Low also took the largest and fleetestf of the fishing boats a schooner owned in Marblehead Ashton begged harp for his liberty CRIES LIKE CHILD He cried like a child at parting from his companions of the fleet ahd begged them to inform the world that! he was talen by the pirates against his will and would? never tonsent to adopt their way of life Tb4 COirmanions of Ashtnn nnt fwMtfiil On jJhy 9 they published in the Boston News-Lett- er a solemn legal notice With affidavits by several eyewitnesses to tell the world that Philip Ashton was forcibly taken by --the pirate New Low against his will No sooner was iiow out of sight of the fishing fleet than he had Ash on brought before him "You'rd a fine bkk of a young man" said the pirate captain j "Stick to me and I'll i make a good pirate of you" "I'll never be a pirate You can kill me but you can't make a pirate of me I don't want to be rich I don't want to kill pteople I don't want to steal You think! those thirils are all richt but I Why don't you! turn me loose next time you come to land and take on somebody that would like to be a pirate?" STARVATION DIET Low looked out to sea for a long time Maybe it was 20 seconds It jsfeemed much longer to Ashton Then the pirate captairj called one of his men "Take this psalmkinger below Lock him up Give him bread and wkter for a week Then bring him to melagairi" j But starvation rolibh usage floggings and failed to makef a pirate out of young Ashton Low was determined He was in fact stubborn But he had caught one whlise stubbornness was equal to his own Ashton finally was put to work He was made to swab the deck splite ropes serve aloft and do almost everything except fight when there was an engagement Low saw that it would be useless to try to make the boy handle a gun or a cutlass So Ashton did lus share of ilk work but did not share in the prize Aioney The '"young rebel determined on the very first of his servitude that he would escape at the first day opportunity fThat opportunity did not present itself until nine eventful anjd bloody months had passed In March 1723 Ashton was serving aboard the pirate schooner at the j usual drudgery The vessel lay at anchor near Rattln island in the Bay of Honduras where wood and water'! were being taken aboard in? preparation for another cruise against peaceful shipping in the Caribbean IS TAKEN ASHORE The cooper was goiftg ashore on the island with 5 and running about the island and its adjacent waters but he continued to live upon fruits He found a use for the hogs however He watched them eat fruits that he was in doubt about If the hogs didnt die Ashton thought he might risk the fruit also Thus he broadened his diet a little 9 s 1 R P raft© wiicMeasfs M Having no fire the young man could not hate cooked any meat even if he could have caught any There were wild animals in plenty on the island Among vthem were wild hogs that would have been most luscious if roasted by a crackling wood tire But Ashton knew of no way to kill the hogs and dress them and he couldn't provide himself with a fire There were fish of many varieties in the coves and also edible turtles Ashton spent many weary hours looking at all these good dinners swimming crawling i all I know just In the papers and I OWell tell you these jlittle towns Ti A fM ' fp ' " i f £m S f pt ' |