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Delay of Great Britain In ratifying the armaments treaties must not he
t:i»en as any intention on the part of the British of evading their terms
'Ihe English law provides that treaties must receive the endorsement of the
dominions before they are ratified by the king The proceeding takes time
hut meanwhile the British adinirality has taken steps that practically make
the treaties operative. The personnel of the ships is being reduced to t"ie
point that the navy reduction treaty permits, stores of ammunition are be
ing cut down, preparations are under way for breaking up certain capital
ships, and a bill is being drafted for rarlinient that will enable the carry
ing out in full of the treaty obligations. It is expected that the measure
will pass at about the t.me the dominions have all signified their assent to
the undertakings.—CORDOVA DAILY TIMES
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The Lemp brewery plant, which was one of the Institutions that made
St. Louis famous, has been sold at auction under the order of the court. The
property was otflc ally appraised for the sale at $5.000,000, but under the
hammer it brought but $.".SV000. That is one of the things that the Eight
een h Amendment did to the brewing industry. Yet .t is found that when
the breweries and distilleries pass into other hands and become converted
to other industrial uses they employ more men and become a greater assei
to the community than ever before. From the new viewpoint it is the
general good rather than me private fortune that counts.—Ketchikan Daily
News.
NOTE AND COMMENT.
President Kbert very truly said at the funeral of Walter Rathenau thai
' "i" e bullet which slruek him was aimed at the German republic." It ma)
lie hoped that the assassin missed (hat more remote target.
Former Senator Cole. 99. tells the "boys" of (he senate that if the IStt
amendment had been presented to the constitutional convention in Phila
dtlphia it would not have been adopted. Very true; nor would the amend
u.eut abolishing slavery.
Sailing today for Europe, former Governor Cox of Ohio will have his
s.vond trip abroad since the last presidential election. He will have ample
opportunities to become the most-traveled man who ever tried to become
president of the I'nited Slates.
Chief Justice Tuffs social engagements in England seomed to interferi
seriously with his purpose of studying court procedure n that country, but
the) did not interfere In his notable service in strengthening Anglo-Ameri
can understanding and friendship.
King Alexander of Jugoslavia takes the occasion of his marriage to
show ro>al clemency by pardoning Steltch, who tr <-d to assassinate him a
>■ ar ago. There was a time when Serbia was in disgrace because of its
u»assinatlons, but the rest of Europe is no long a position to be critical.
The I'nited Mine Workers Aavo made a serious blunder in not begin
ning at once a vigorous attempt to bring the southern Illinois murderers to
;ust.ce. in co-operation with the legal authorties. Mere repudiation of the
acts of the murderers falls far short of t e demands of the situation. In
few. if any. other regions is the union so responsible for the maintenance of
taw and order.
The Next Generation May See a Good Part
of the World Ruled by Women
By PROF. RALPH L. POWER. University of California.
For a long period of years woman ha> been ranch written about,
discussed, analyzed and diagnosed from even possible angle Unques
tionably she holds first place in the daily news, and there are many more
nf vel movements affecting woman than man. She is marching toward
rulership and Ifadership.
Just now her foibles, psychology, dress, yearnings, moods, adventures,
reactions and all that concerns her form the subject of most magazine
ai tides and a large portion of newspaper stories.
It is within comparatively recent time that women has discovered
herself and been discovered. Woman with the franchise, woman in busi
ness, woman invading all the old male lines, woman bursting the fetters
of tradition and doing much as she likes—that is the gr»at discovery of
the age.
I can see it quite possible that within the next generation we may
find a ^ood part of the world ruled by women.
Illusfrxntorw by ^
lrwiHrtyci'S^
Cbpyriqhf by Edwu\Ba!m§r?J
The bridge answered the hall as the
searchlight pointed forward again. A
gust carried the snow In a fierce flurry
which the light failed to pierce; from
the flurry suddenly, silently, spar by
spar, a shadow emerged—the shadow
of a «Mn. It wus a steamer, Alan saw,
a Ioiib. tow-lying old vessel without
light* «r I without siuoke from the fun
nel k>uutlng up Just forward of the
after deckhouse; It rolled In the trough
ot the sea. The sides and all the lower
wink- '"iimed la ghostly phosphores
cence. It refraction of the search
light liiam ti hi the lee sheathing all
the ship Alan's brain told hlui; but
the ».gh; of that soundless, nhlniuiertng
ship materializing from behind the
screen of snow struck a tremor through
hlui.
"Ship!" he hailed. "Ahead! Dead
ahead, sir! Ship!"
The shout of quick commands
echoed to lilni from the bridge. Un
derfoot he could feel u new tumult of
the deck; the engines, Instnntly
stopped, were being set full speed as
tern. But Number 25. Instead of
sheering olT to right or left to uvold the
collision, steered straight oil.
The struggle of the engines umiinst
the momentum of the ferry told that
others :iad seen the gleaming ship, or.
at least, had heard the hall. The skl|>
per'g instant decision had been to put
to starboard; he had bawled that to
the wheelsman. "Hard over!" Hut.
though the screws turned full astern.
Number 2"> steered straight on. The
flurry was blowing before the how
agalu; back through the snow the Ice
shrouded shimmer ahead retreated.
Alan leaped away and up to the wheel
house.
Men were struggling there— the skl|>
per, a mate, and oid Kurr. who had
held the wheel. He citing to It yet. as
one In a trance, fixed, staring ahead;
his arms, stiff, had l«*en holding Num
ber 25 to her course. The skipper
struck him and beat him away, while
the mute tugged at the wheel. Burr
was torn from the wheel now, and he
made tio resistance to the skipper's
blows; but the skipper. In Ids frenzy,
struck him again and knocked him to
the deck.
I Slowly. steadily. .\niiinpr was re
sponding to tier helm. The how polnt
j eil away, and the benui of the ferry
I-anie beside the tieum of the silent
steamer; they were very close now. so
close that the searchlight. which hail
| turned to keep on the other vessel.
shot above Its shimmering deck and
j lighted only the spars; and. as the wa
Iter rose anil fell between them, the
ships surked closer. Number 25 shook
I with an effort: It seetned opposing with
nil the power «f Its screws some force
' fatally drawing It on—opposing with
the last resistance before giving way.
Then, as the witter fell again, the ferry
seemed to slip and be drawn toward
the other vessel; they mounted, side
by side . . . crushed . . . recoiled
. . . crashed apt In. That second crash
threw all who hud nothing to hold by
flat upon the deck: then Number il
moved by; astern her now the silent
steamer vanished In the snow,
i Gongs boomed below; through the
new confusion and the cries of men.
orders began to become audible. Alan,
scrambling to his knees, put an arm
under old Rtirr, half raising hint; the
form encircled by his arm struggled
up. The skipper, who had knocked
Kurr away from the wheel. Ignored him
now. The old man, dragging himself
up unU holding to Alan, was staring
wltU terror at the snow screen behind
which the vessel hud disappeared. His
lips moved.
'it was a ship!" he said; he seemed
speaking more to himself than to Alnn.
"Yes." Alan said. "It was a ship;
and you thought—"
"It wasn't there!" the wheelsman
cried. "It's—It's been there all the
time all nlgl.t. and I'd—I'd steered
through It ten times, twenty times,
every few minutes; and then—that
time It was a ship!"
Alan's excitement grew greater: he
seized the old man again. "You thought
it was the Miwaka !" Alan exclaimed.
"The Mlwiika ! And you tried to steel
through it again."
"The Miwakaold Burr's Hps reit
erated the woitL "Yes; yes—the Mi
waka !"
He struggled, writhing with some
agony not physical. Alun tried to hold
him. h'lt now the ol.l man was beside
himself with dismay. He broke away
and started aft. The captain's voice
recalled Alan to himself, as he was
about to follow, and lie turned back to
the wheelhouse.
The second officer, who had gone he
low to ascertain the damage done to
the ferry, came up to report. Two of
the compartments, those which had
taken the crush of the collision, bail
rt(s<ded Instantly; the bulkheads were
holding—only leaking a little, the olii
cer declared. Water was coming Int•
a third compartment, that at the stern:
the pumps were lighting this water
The shock bad spruug seams else
where; but If the after compartment
did not OH, the pumps ini^ht handle
. tUe rest
Ainu was nt the how again on look
out duty, u.-.Jered to listen and to look
for the llttie boats. He gave to thnt
duty nil his conscious attention; hut
through his thought, whether he willed
It or not, run a riotous exultation. As '
he paced from side to side and hailed
and answered halls troni the bridge,
nnd while he strained for sight and
hearing through the gale-swept snow,
the leaping pulse within repeated,
"I've found him I I've found him I"
Alan held no longer possibility of
douht of old Burr's Identity with Ben
jamin Corvet. since the old man had
made plain to him thnt be was haunt
ed by 'he Mlvvaka. Since that night
ill the house on Astor street, when
Spearman shouted to Alan that name,
everything having to do with the se
cret of Kenjamln Corvet'B life had led.
so far hs Alan could follow It. to the
Mlwaka ; all the change, which Slier
rill described but could not account
for, Alan had laid to that. Corvet
only could have been so haunted by
that ghostly ship, and there hail been
guilt of some awful sort In the old
man's cry. Alnn had found the man
who had sent hliu away to Kansas
when he was a child, who had support
ed him there and then, at last, sent
for him; who hud disappeared at Ills
coming and left him all his posses
sions and his heritage of disgrace. wln>
hail paid blackmail to Luke, and who
had sent, last, Captuln Stafford's
watch and ihe ring which came with
it—the wedding ring.
Alan pulled his hand from his glove
Rnd felt In his pocket for the little
band of gold. What would that mean
to him now; what of that was he to
learn? And, as he thought of that,
Constance Sherrlll came more insist
ently before him. What was he to
learn for her, for his friend and Ben
jamin Corvet's friend, whom he. Uncle
Benny, had warned not to cure for
Henry Spearmnn. and then had gone
away to leave her vo marry him? For
she was to marry him, Alan hud read.
More serious damage than drst re
ported! The pumps certainly must he
, losing their tight with the water in the
port compartment aft; for the bow
steadily was lifting, the stern sinking.
The starboard rail too was raised, and
the list had become so sharp that wa
ter washed the deck abaft the fore
castle to port. And the ferry was
pointed straight Into the gale now;
long ago she hnd ceased to circle and
steam slowly In search for boats: she
struggled with all her power against
the wind and the seas, a desperate In
sistence throbbing In the thrusts of
the engines; for Nlinjber 2.1 was flee
ing—fleeing for the western shore. She
dared not turn to the nearer eastern
shore to expose that shattered stern
to the seas.
Four bells heat behind Alan; It was
two o'clock. Itellef should have come
long before; but no one cunie. He
was numbed now; ice from the spray
crackled upon his clothing when he
moved, and It fell In flakes upon the
deck. The stark figure on the bridge
was that of the second officer; so the
thing which was happening below—
the thing which was sending strange,
violent, wanton tremors through the
ship—was serious enough to call the
skipper below, to make him abandon
the bridge at this time I The tremors,
quite distinct from the steady tremble
of the engines and the thudding of the
pumps, came Hgaln. Alan, feeling
them. Jerked up and stamped and beat
his arms to regain sensation. Some
one stumbled toward him from the
cabins now, a short figure In a great
coat, it was a woman, he saw as she
hailed him—the cabin muld.
"I'm taking your place!" she shouted
to Alan. "You're wanted—every one's
wanted on the car deck I The cars—"
The gale and her fright stopped her
voice as she struggled for speech,
'ffhe cars—the cars are loose!"
CHAPTER XVI
"He Killed Your Father."
Alan ran aft along the starboard
side, catching at the rail as the dock
tilted; the sounds within the hull and
trie tremors following each souno
came to him more distinctly as he ad
vanced. Taking the shortest way to
the car deck, he turned Into the cabins
to reach the pnssenwrs' companion
way. The noises from the car deck, no
longer mufTled by the cabins, -langed
and resounded In terrible tumult; with
the clang and rumble of metal roue
shouts and roars of men.
To liberate and throw overboard
heavily loaded cars from an endan
gered ship was so desperate an under
taking and so certain to cost life that
men attempted It only In final extremi
ties. when the ship must be lightened
at any cost. Alan had never seen the
effect of such an attempt, bnt he had
heurd of It as the fear which snt al
ways on the hearts of the men who
navigate the ferries—the cars loose on
a rolling, lurching ship! Fie was going
to that now. The car deck was n pitch
ing. swbjIiik .stoPf; the cars uuucvut
<*
hini were still upon llielr tracks', but
tliey tilled and swayed uglily from side
to side: the lacks were gone from un
der them; the next cHrs already vere
hurled from the rails, the'r wheels
screaming on the steel deck, clanging
and thudding together In their
couplings.
Alan ran aft between them. All the
crew who could be called from deck and
engine room and flrehold were strug
gling at the fantull, under the direction,
of the captain, to throw off the cars
The mute was working as one of the
men, and with him was Benjamin Cor
vet. The crew ulready must, have loos
ened and thrown over Mie stern three
cars from the two trucks on the port
side; for there was a space vacant;
and as a car charged Into that space
and the men threw themselves upon
It, Alan leaped with them.
It was a flat car laden with steel
beams. At Curvet's command, the crew
ranged themselves beside It with bars.
The bow of the ferry rose to some
great wave and, with a cry to the men.
Corvet pulled the pin. The others
thrust with their bars, and the car slid
down the sloping track; and Corvet.
caught by some lashing of the beams,
came with it. Alan leaped upon It and,
catching Corvet, freed him and flung
him down to the deck, nnd dropped
with him. A cheer rose as the car
cleared the fantall, dove and disap
peared.
(Continued on Tuesday)
TREADWELL INTV.RFmS \RE
ORGANIZED FOR .:«?\V YORK
Articles of incorporation if the
Treadwell Yukon company, Limited
have been filed in the cd>e of the
territorial secretary at Juneau. The
new company Is formed to develop
the quartz properties on Nixon
Fork, In the Kuskokwlm district,
and the silver claims in th» M«yo
district which are held under oplion
by the Treadwell interests.
F. W. Bradley is pres'dent -if the
new company, and F. A Hammer
smith. is secretary, P. R. Bradley,
of Juneau, is resident agent of the
company. The incorporators aro
F. A. Hammersmith, George F.
Arneson and Ashley C. Dickson. The
company is Incorporated undo:' the
laws of Oregon.
The capital stock Issue of the
company is $1,500,000, consisting of
a million and a half sharui having
a par value of one dollai- each. Of
this number 557,112 shares) have
been issued in exchange for the
properties mentioned aliovo, an
( which the sum of $o57,112 has been
expended.
A mill was crected last winter
by the Treadwell interests on the
Nixon Fork property and will pro
duce this summer. At Mayo a crew
under Livingston Wernicke is do
ing development wo;k and the
showing there is saM to he highly
] encouraging
The story is tol<* of a short line
railroad which never had, in the his
tory of the road, its train arrive at
its destination on schedule. One
bright sunshiny day a full load of
Tourists rolled intc the depot at the
| terminus, and as the train stopped,
the whistle blew for six o'clock, the
exact schedule time of th'j train.
The citizens of the town In high glee
! determined to make it a special oc
I cnsion, and in honor of the event,
collected a good sized purse, went
forward to the engineer and offered
the purse to him wita compliment
ary words on his getting the first
I train in on the scheduled hour fi p.m.
I The big-hearted engineer remem
bering the old addase, "Let your oon
| science be your guida," refused the
| purse. When pressed as to his rea
son, he said, "Tb.'a is yesterday's
'.lain, and I havu't the heart."
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Visiting brothers cor
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dan Mcdonald, e. it.
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each month at 8 o'clock.
Visiting Brethren are wel
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lin country, and can guarantee
hunting parties fine Bueclmens.
I have a good power boat
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»r*..
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