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UKTTlXt; ACQl.UXTKl) WITH ALASKANS.
N'ot the least of the ends served by the visit here of Secretary Huston
and the members of his party was in their meeting and talking over with
real Alaskans the problems confronting them and the industries of the Ter
ritory .Maybe Mr. Huston did not find the solution of any of the subjects
which he discussed with local business but he left here without any shadow
of doubt In his mind regarding their position on thera.
That he realized the value of their personal touch was Indicated by
the statement to the effect that he wanted to meet Alaskan business meu
not only to talk over pending questions in which his department as weel as
Alaskans are interested but so that in the future when other questions
might arise, he and the department would know where to go after facts and
t it much of what he heard here and at Ketchikan and what he will hear in
other places was already known to him but what he got here and elsewhero
was obtained first hand, In man to man talk. As such it cannot be with
out its effect.
It ts a matter of regret that more members of President Harding's offi
cial family have not been able to get better acquainted with the people who
live in Alaska, have their homes here and have invested the earnings and
and savings of a lifetime in industries and businesses In the Territory. In
fact. Mr. Huston's vls.t was all too short, as he himself realized. It is
largely the personal equaiiuti that counts in many instances, throwing light
on many matters otherwise obscured by a confusion of testimony, the real
weight of which cannot lie accura ely determined unless there is more or
less personal knowledge of the important factors in the cases. It is in this
respect that both Alaska and the department of Commerce will gain by the
tisit of Mr. Huston.
In his conference with local business men. his sincerity in seeking in
formation. in wanting to get the personal viewpoint of each was apparent
His d>-ep interest in t> e fisheries question, upbuild ng of the fresh flsh in
dustry. and the preservation of the salmon fishing, reflecting us it does the
views of his chief. Secretary Hoover, is pleasiug to Alaskans and an indica
tion of betterment of both of these branches of the fisheries If Congress
fives the department the authority sought.—Juneau Empire.
AM HORACE OITIMISM SOMEWHAT DIMMED.
I
Will wonders never cease? Just when we thot the new city of Anch
orage was a unit in effort and optimism, along comes the Dally Times and
informs us that "there Is an undercurrant of pessimism prevailing in
Anchorage today that is absolutely without foundatiou." Then it tells
us that the reliable and sound citizens are "not discouraged over the tem
porary business slump." It says "this slump is to be expected; it follows
the natural course of events and will right Itself to the betterment of Anch
orage."
And we were under the impression that "the city of government offi
cials" was composed of high-cless. capable men. so that it seems more than
passing strange to have the Times declare that "Anchorage is not depend
ent upon the biased or unbiased opinion of any one government official; It
is not dependent upon the opinion of Alaska railroad offic.uls who arc
merely engineers and contractors, not businessmen."
It would seem as though the city that sprung from government rail
way construction is expecting some c':ange in the personnel of its official
dom. as the Times Is prompted to remark that "Anchorage and this partic
ular section will certainly welcome a combination of technical and prac
tical brains to govern affairs: men who realize that Anchorage and Alaska
pay part of their salaries and men who will forget selfishness in the en
d-'avor to promote Alaska's welfare. There is no question but that Anch
orage will come into its own."
Let us hope so. surely. In fact we had always thought Anchorage
had early struck the real pay streak and would forever continue the one
bright spot where the personification of peace, plenty of harmony would
ever be in evidence. But the deuce of it Is. that when a slump starts in a
community the glamour of brighter days soon begins to fade and the real!
t es of life In their most gruesome aspects bear with heavy weight upon the
men and women, who. under more pleasing circumstances se^- and feel onlj
the sunshine and warmth of pleasant existence.—Juneau Capital.
NEW BUGGY SOLD IN OREGON
It It Only One in State, So Far as
Vehicle Haute Can Lsarn.
The only new buggy In Oregon. so
far as a leading vehicle house of
Portland was aide to discern, lias Just
been sold at the little town of On
tral Point.
A man at Condon. Ore., wanted t«:
purchase a bu^gy, and sent his order
to a flrni In Portland. The ttrni re
ported It had none In stock. He was
Insistent, however, and wrote the flrni
to set him a buggy If possible. A
search of Portland vehicle houses
was made unsuccessfully and then In
quiries were sent In vain to Solera.
Eugene. Pendleton, Medford and other
points. Flni'Uv a traveling salemnan
remembered having seen a buggy at
a store nt Central Point. The buggy
lu uorcluiJeU.
SCOUTING IN PORTO RICO
Si-out* are hs enter to he helpful In
Porto Rico a.« their brothers In the
StHles nre. A scoutmaster of A guar
•lllli' re|Mirts tliHI during a recent epl
ileiulc of bubonic plague his scouts
made n house-to-house canvass distrib
uting board of health Instructions. On
another occasion when a tire broke out
In the center of the tow n at two o'clock
in the morning, the scoutmaster cot In
to his uniform and hurried along the
street blowing his whistle. The signal
was heard am obeyed. In a moment
six proud scouts were by his side,
ready to do whatever was required of
rheni. The two who had charge of the
tlrst-ald pouch bad occasion to demon
strate their skill In this line by render
ing assistance to a fireman who had
cut his hand, and the others stood on
guard duty over property when It was j
orrltfl u> a DJactt ai uoXeur. . . .
INDIAN DRUM
mVilliatn AVacHdrq arid Edwin B aimer
v i £ *,-» rft iiat -fcrV
^ Illustrations by J
IrwiN f\yevs^
Gbpvjriqht by Edwirxoalmer^
Alan weiil; to the door and opened
It, as lie "heard spearman upon rne
steps again. Speanuan waited only
until the door hud been reclosed be
hlud him.
"Well. Conrad, what was the Idea of
bringing Miss Sherrlll Into this?"
"1 dl>!n't bring her In; 1 tried the
best I could to ke«p her out."
"Out of what—exactly?"
"You know better than I do. You
know ("tartly what It Is. You know
ihnt mail. Spearman; you know what
he came heri for. I don't mean money;
I noun you Know why he came here
for money, and why he Rot It. I tried,
as well as 1 could, to make him tell
me; but he wouldn't do It. There's
disgrace of some sort here, of course—
disgrace that Involves my father and.
I think, you too. If you're not guilty
with my father, you'll help me now; If
you are guilty, then, at least, your re
fusal to help will let me know that."
"I don't know what you're talking
about. I told yon this man may have
been a wheelsman on the Corvet; I
don't know more about him than that;
I don't even know that certainly. Of
course. 1 knew Hen Corvet was paying
blackmail; I've known for ye-irs that
he was giving up money to some one.
I don't know who he paid It to; o." for
what."
The strain of the lust few hours wns
telling upon Alan; Ills skin flushed hot
anil cold by turns. He paced up anil
down while he controlled himself.
"That's not enough. Spearman." he
wild filially. "1—I've felt you. some
how. underneath all tnese things The
first time I saw yon. you were In this
house doing something you ought not
to have been dolnc: you fought me
then: you would have killed me ruther
than not get away. Two weeks ago.
some one attacked me on the street—
for rolibery. they said; but 1 know It
wasn't robbery—"
"You're not so crazy as to be trying
to Involve me iu that—"
There came a sound to them fr<>m
the hall, a sound unmlstakuhly denot
ing some presence. Spearman Jerked
suddenly up; Alan, going to the door
and looking Into the hall, saw Wassa
quam. The Indian evidently had re
turned to the house some time before;
he had been bringing to Alan now the
accounts which he hail settled. He
seemed to iiave been standing In the
hall for some time. Ilsteniug; but he
came In now, looking inquiringly from
one to the other of them.
"Not friends?" he Inquired. "You
and Henry?"
Alan's pussion broke out suddenly.
"We're anything but that. Judith. I
found him, the first night 1 go; here
and while you were away, going
through my father's things. I fought
with him. and he ran away. He was
the one that broke Into my father's
desks; maybe you'll believe tliat, even
If no one else will."
"Yes?" the Indian questioned.
"Yes?" It was plain that he not only
believed but that believing gave hf:u
immense satisfaction, lie took Alan's
arm and led him into the smaller li
brary. He knell before one of the draw
ers under the bookshelves—the drawer.
Alan reculled. which be himself had
been examining when he bad found
M'assuquuui unfiling him. He drew
out the drawer and dumped lis con
tents out upon the floor; be turned
the drawer about then, and pulled the
bottom out of It. Beneath the bottom
wh.ch he had removed appeared now
another bottom and a few sheets of
paper scrawled In an uneven hand and
with different colored Inks.
At sight of them, Speurinan. who
had followed them Into the room, ut
tered an outh and sprang forward. The
Indian's small dark hand grasped
Spearman's wrist, and his face
twitched Itsnf Into a fierce grin
which showed how little civilization
had modified In him the aboriginal
passions. Hut Spearman did nut try
to force his way; liu>;eud, he drew
back suddenly.
Alan stooped and picked up the pa
pers and put them in his pocket. If
the Indian had not been there. It
would not have been so easy for lilm
to do that, he thought.
CHAPTER XI
The Land of the Drum.
Alan went with \Vassai]uum into the
front library, after the Inillau had
shown Spearman out.
"This was the man, Jiulah, who came
for Mr. Corvet that night I was hurt 7"
"Yes, Alan." Wassaquam said.
"He was the man, then, who oumi
here twice a year, ut least, to see Mr
Corvet ?"
"Yes."
"I was sure of It," Alan said. "Can
you tell me now why he came here
JndahT'
"1 have told you T do not know,"
Waeaaquara replied. "Ben always saw
him; Hen gave him money. I do not
know why."
Alnn had been holding his hand over
the uaot-rs which he had thrust Into
tils pocket: M' went nacK inm trie
smaller library aiul spread them tinder
the rending Inmp to examine them.
But, as he Jooked the pages over now,
he felt a chill of disappointment and
chagrin. They did not contain any
narrative concerning Benjamin Cor
vet's life: thev did not even relate to
a single event. They were no nnria
tlve at all. They were—In his first
examination of them, he could not tell
what they were.
They consisted In nil of some d07.cn
sheets of irregular size, some of which
had heeti kept much longer than oth
ers. a few of which even appeared
fresh and new. The three pages
which Alan thought, from their yel
lowed and worn look, must be the oili
est and which must have been kept
for many years, contained only 11 list
of names and addresses. The remain
ing pages, which he counted ns ten
In number, contained nearly a hun
dred brief clipping* from newspapers;
the clipping# had been very carefully
cut nut. they hnd been pasted with
painful regularity on the sheets, and
ea''h had been dated acre's |fs face—
dates made with ninny different pens
and with many different Ink*, but all
In the same Irregular handwriting ns
the letter which Alan had received
from Benjamin Corvct.
Alan. Ms finrers nmtih i*> h". itlsnp
po|"tn>ent turned and ermulned -il!
thee nages; but thev contained noth
Ins eNe Hp rend i>nc of flic dippings,
which wn« dated "Feb. ir>!2."
"The p-Ks'nc awn- of one of the
«l lost residents of Finwet county op.
enrred nt the poorfarm on Thursday
of lust week. Mr. Fred \Ye«! house
was one of four brother* brnwrht by
their parents Into Kmroet comity In
IR-lfl Hp established himself liprp as
a farmer and was well known among
our people for mnnv years. Up was
nearly the last of his family, which
was quite well of at one time Mr.
Westhoiise's three brothers ami his
father ha vine perished In various ills
asters npon the lake. Ills wife died
two years ago. He Is survived by a
danchter. Mrs. Arthur I'eiirl. of Flint."
Hp read another:
"Hallford-Spen*. On Tnp-dny last
Miss Audrev Hnllfor1' I'aneh'er of
Mr. and Mrs. Pert H djford. of this
plaep. was nnltpd in tl e bonds of holy
matrimony to Mr Robert Spans, of
Ksrannba. All wish the young eouple
well."
He read another:
"Rorn to Mr. and Mrs. Hal French,
a daughter. Saturday afteruno:i last.
Miss Vera Arabella French, at her ar
rival weighed seven and one-hnlf
pounds."
This clipping was dated. In Benja
ndn Corvet's hand. "Sturgeon Ray,
Wis., Aug. 1914." Alan put It aside
In bewilderment and amaxe and took
up aga'n tUe sheets he first had looked
nt. The names and addresses on these
oldest, yeUowed pages had heen first
written. It was plain, all at the same
time and with the same pen and Ink,
and each sheet In the beginning bad
contained seven or eight names. Some ]
of these original fames and even the |
addresses had been left unchanged,
but most of them had been scratched
out and filtered ninny times—other
and quite different names had been
substituted: the pages had become
filially almost Illegible. crowded
scrawls, rewritten again and again In
Corvet's cramped hand. Alan strained
forward, holding the first sheet to the
light.
A!nn seized the clippings he had
looked at before and compared them
•w Iftly with the page he had .Inst read ;
two of the names—West house and
French—were the same as those upon
this list. Suddenly he grasped the
other pages of the list and looked
them through for his own name; but
It was not there. He dropped the
sheets upon tho table and got up and
began to stride about the mom.
Hp felt flint In this list and In these
clippings there must be, somehow,
some one general meaning—the? must
rehite In some way to one tiling: they
must have deeply, Intensely concerned
Benjamin Corvet'n disappearance and
his present fate, whatever that might
be. and they must concern Alan's fnte
as well. But In their disconnection,
their Incoherence, he could discern no
common thread. What conceivable
bond could there have been unltlnr
Benjamin Corvet at once with nn old
man dying upon a ponrfnnn In Emmet
county, wherever that might be, and
with a baby girl, now some two years
old, In Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin?
He called Wassaquam Into the II- I
hrury nnd brought the lists and clip
pings out again.
"Do you know at all what these are,
Judah?" he asked.
"Ho, Alau. I have seen Ben lmve
them, and take them out and put them
back. That Is all I know."
"Do you know any of these peo
ple?"
He gnve the llsls to Wassaquam,
who studied them through attentively,
holding thou* to the lump.
"Su, Alan.™
"Have yon ever heard of sny of
their names before?"
"That may be. I do not know. They
.ire common name*."
"Do you know the places?"
"Yes—the places. They are lake
ports or little villages or the lakes. I
have been In most of them. Alan. Em
met county, Alan. I cutne from there.
Henry comes from there, too."
"Then that Is where they hear the
Drum?"
"Yes, Alan."
"My father took newspapers from
those places, did he not?"
Wassuquam looked over the ad
dresses again. "Yes; from all. He
took tlipni fyr the shippli)&,news. he
"Do You Know At All What These Are,
Judah?" He Asked.
said. And sometimes ne cut piPfes
out of them—these pieces, 1 see now;
mill afterward I burned the papers,
he would not let lue only throw them
away."
"That's all you know ahout thew,
Judah?"
"Vi'S. Alan: that Is all."
Alan dismissed Hie Indian, who,
stolidly methodical In tiie midst of
these events, went downstairs and
commenced to prepare a dinner which
Alan knew he could not eat. Alan trot
up and moved about the rooms; he
went hack and looked over the lists
and clippings once more; then he
moved about attain. How strange a
picture of his fattier did these things
call up to him! When he had thought
of Benjamin Corvet before. It had been
as Slierrill had described him. pur
sued by some thought he could not
conquer, seeking relief in study, in cor
respondence with scientific societies,
in anything which could engross him
and shut out memory. Hut now he
must think of him. not merely as one
trying to forget: what had thwarted
Curvet's life was not only in the past;
it was something still going on. It had
amazed Slierrill to learn that Corvet.
for twenty years, had kept trace of
Alan; but Corvet bail kept trace In the
same way urn! with the snme secrecy
of many other people—of about a
score of people. When Alan thought
of Corvet. alone In Ills silent house,
be must think of Mm as solicitous
about these people; as seeking for
their names in the newspapers which
lie took for that purpose, and as re
cording tlie changes in their lives. The
deaths, the births, the marriages
among these people had been of the
Intensest interest to Corvet.
(Continued on Thursday)
Appropriate, What?
The Church at Work, published by
the National Council of the Episcopal
church, tells of u resourceful nutlveor
guuist who was culled upon suddenly
to furnish the music for a mission
wedding yeremony at Hankow, China.
The bridegroom had recently become
u Christian. Following the custom,
he sent a beautiful sedan chair and a
brass band to escort the bride to his
home, where the ceremony was to be
performed. Something delayed the
bride, and the impatient young man
hurried down to the mission house,
where it was decided to have tli#
wedding on the spot. A meeting was
In progress In the church, so It was
impossible to have the brass hand j
play. Whereupon one Elsie LI was |
commandeered to play the wedding
march, 'rtiere was no sheet music on
hand, and Elsie was not equal to the
tnsk of playing Mendelssohn from
memory. She wns 'ttrong, however,
on one good old march tune, and ac
cordingly the wedding party were dum
founded and amused u few minutes
later when the bride and bridegroom
man-bed blithely forward to the altar
to the tune of "Onward Christian
Soldiers, Marcljlng as to War."
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