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A11 honor to the men who. in the gift of their best, have saved this fair
1; ml not once but again and again. They l.e i:i honored and in unmarked
grav.-i iu many places in our fair land, and in ot .»r lands. Not only the
men who have sacrificed in war. but men who i:i every walk of life have
s.en with larger visiou and clearer eye when dinger threatened, and have
thrust ; emselves into ti e breach and saved the day. All honor to the Moth
irs » nse sous haw caught the first Inspiration for noble living and heroic
dying from their lips and lives, who have dared because a cod-fearing and
country-loving mother imparted ti e impulse which led them to do the ex
ceptional. to see the higher things.
All honor to the fathers, whose example, in private and in public, have
led the r sons and daug :ters to look upon the nation and the good of the
bod; politii -is superior to any and all private interests and desires. And
these are found not only in the ranks of the army, not only among a na
t< '• - soldiery, but in every walk and station iu life Memorial Day is com
ing o mean more In tl.e life of the nation, with the recurrence of every an
no ersary.
11Y \\ \Y OF CONTRAST—Those who attended the celebration at the rlv
vr ci last Saturday had on n to ob.-erve and contrast what they sjw on
ih^t trip with what they usually see in our own town on a like occasion.
Some weal down to meet tie train, and there had opportunity to take note
«■:' t e awful mistake this country .i.ade wli.'ii it adopted prohibition. Yes.
»r have come to that conclusion. Think of what our boys and girls are
goiti'-. to miss, when they will ha v.- to see people coming from uuotlier
country, or themselves go into another country to behold such scenes!
Think of t :no: .ers who are ne'.er going to see their s,>ns and daughters
have all the pleasures of exh.biting themselves as some did Saturday and
Sunday' Think vf the wives whose husbands will probably never again
cause the surging of pride :u rise ■'! their hearts because of the manner in
which they come home' Imagine children who have never seen their fatl>
<-rs coming the llgUi ot a great insp tation clouding their eyes!
Ah n.e! low did we ever con > to do sue! a tiling as to bar liquor from our
I • d" Why d.d no' simply cnange from a - 1I0011 system to a system in
whii h you couid gt-' onl> a quart at a time under strick government con
trol? That would have done ti.>- business. >a\ed all the nausea, all the ex
cesses, all the drunkenness, and all the treating evil and every other hor
ror connect d with the bus.ness. Yes. we admit our mistake, prohibition
is an awful thine when seen in i;ie scenes that never take place under a
governmentally regulated s; stent of dispensation. .Next lime we vote we
are going to vote right.
Consolidation of Railway Lines or Government
Ownership and Operation
By SENATOR ALBERT B. Cl'MMIXS of lows.
I lie tntiif.' -r. «• !Si!(>u i» Hearing
the views of railroad mis and others on the various
ii'n-'i!i'lation .«:hi-nie» which :m.< been proposed to car
ry out the following provision of the transportation
act of 1920:
"A coi :ni>-ii'n shall, a- -ocn as practicable, pr»»
par an adopt a plan ft>r tl:<' r-<•nsolidutioti of the rail
way properties of the continental L'uneil States into a
limited number of systems."
1 rt-lii t that if we tin nf't succeed in earn ing out
the ]>r neiple of consolidation, which has already gone
f ruar : m a -ati.-liuti-ry u ..\, it w ill pn*-n;!\ r • _'Ui to appear 10 an uir
people of the country that there is just i>m- other solution—that is. govern*
nieut ownership ami o|fra:i"n. And I want it l<> Ik? understood timt 1 am
unalterably opp< » d to government ownu>ii| anil operation of our rail
Tv a> la.
Vmericao railroad problem w ill n -vrr hp finally wived unJe«s all
tradn-uds ar>* consolidated into «.,<>i*ijmrativ«»l. feu -v-tems, sav, fifteen
or tweutv. ami -ompetite in their ••hancter. 1 miu'ht add that there is
u<> competition in th»- railroad world. and ouht to be none, except the
competition of good service.
When that is done we can fix rare< ao tVnt the lowest schedules that
will sustain the.-e properties a^ a whole may he e^ablishcd.
Th>-re art* now pending b-fore con<rrt and e.-pccially in the senate,
a gTe't many bilU which have for tli ir pnrpoM. the modification of the
transportation act of 19\'0 in vital rcsects. T!ie farm organizations—
and the farmers nave my deei»->t sympathy because 1 know the hardships
through whi.-h they are pass in,'—demand the r< r>cal of what is known as
Section 15-A.
This - ction provides th'it the interstate commerce commission shall
consider transportation from a national standpoint: that we shall no lon
ger attempt to regulate cur common carriers by reference to the particular
condition of any specific carrier.
Some of the best people of the country impute tp it all tht? ills which
can flow from the most vicious legislation. But if 1 can prevent it, Sec
tion 15-A will not be repealed.
« INDIAN DRUM
bi|William AWHurq.aud -idwinBalmer
- J • •. **-V ■ -i
Illustrations by # |
Irwisttyeysr^ j
Cbp^riqhf by CdwiaBolmcr
CHAPTER I.
The Man Whom the Storm Haunted.
Near the northern eo<l • of Lake j
MIchlKiin, where the bluff-bowed ore
carriers and the big, low-lying, wheat- s
laden steel freighters from Lake Su- i
perlor push out from the Straits of
Mackinac and dispute the right of |
wny, In the Island-divided channel,
with the whlte-and-gold, electric-light
ed, wireless-equipped passenger steiuu
| ers hound for Detroit and Buffalo,
there Is a copse of pine and hemlock
back from the shingly beach. From
J this copse—dark. blue, primeval, silent
at most times as when the Great Maid
to u ruled his Inland waters—there
comes at time of storm a son rid like
the booming of an old Indian drum.
This drum beat, so the tradition suys.
whenever the lake ti>ok a life; and, I
| as a sign perhaps thut it Is still tile
I llanltou who rules the waters In spite
of all the commerce of the cities, the i
drum still beats Its roll for every ship
' lost on the lake, one beat for every
| life.
j etl the beatings of the drum to* thlrty
flve ii|ion the hour wheu. as afterward
tbe.v learned. the great steel steamer'
Weuotu sank with twenty-four of Its i
crew nntl eleven passengers; so—men
nay—they heard the requiem of the
j five who went down with the schooner
I Grant; and of the seventeen lost with
. the Stisiui Hart: and so of a score of
j ships more. Once onlT. Ir Is told. has
| the drum counti-d wrone.
| At the .Vlght of the great stonn of
December. ISPfl. the drum heat tlie
roll of a sinking ship. One. two.
three—the hearers counted the drum
beats, time and again In their Inter
mittent booming. to twenty-four. They
I waited, therefore, for repoit of 11 ship
J lost with twenty-four lives: no suclt
I n«w s cume. The new steel freighter
! Sll.vnka. on Iter maiden trip"during
ti e storm with twenty-live—not twen.
I tj four—aboard never made her port;
| no news was ever heard from h-r: no
I wreckage ever wits found. On this'ae
I* ci'unt. throughout the families whose
fti'liers. brothers and sons were the
officers anil crew of 'lie Mlwaka. there
' stirred for a time a desperate belief
. tbiit one of the men 011 the_XU$vak«
I wus saved: that somewhere, sonehovy.
j he was alive and might return. The
j day of the destruction of the Mlwaka
j was fixed as l>e<4eti)ber 5 by the time
1 at which she passed the government
j lockout at the straits; the hour was
I fixed as five o'clock In the morning
j ou'y by the sounding of the drutn.
Storm—the s'lnglng, frozen sleet
I slfsli of the February norther whls
I tHng down the floe-Jammed length of
! the lukf WHS HHSIIIlltltlK t'hleago. So
heavy was this frost on the panes of
' the Fort Dearborn club—one of the
I staidest of the down-town clubs for
men—that the treat lot: tires blazing
on the open hearths added appreciable
light as well as warmth to the rooms.
The few.members present at this
hour of the afternoon showed by their
lazy attitudes mid the de«ultorlness
of their conversation the dulling of
vitality which warmth nnd shelter
< brlnir on a day of cold and storm. On
I one, however, 'he storm had had a con
trary effect. With swift, uneven step*
he paced now one room, now another;
from time to time he stopped al>
I ru-itly by a window, scraped from 1'
with flDger nnll the frost, stared out
for an Instant through the little open
I Ing he had made, then resumed as ah
j ruptlv his nervous pacing with a man
I nor so uneasy and distraught that,
since his arrival at the club an hour
I before, none even among those who
knew him best had ventured to a pea I
I to hliu.
The man who was pacing restlessl.\
I and alone the rooms of the Fort Dear
j born club on this stormy afternooi,
i was the man who, to most people, bod
| led forth the life underlying all othe'
i commerce thereabouts but the lea>
j known, the life of the lakes.
| The lakes, which mark untnlstak
I ahly those who get their living froai
1 them, had put their marks on him
Though he was slight In frame with a
spare, almost ascetic leanness, he hai'
the wiry strength and endurance o(
the man whose youth had been passed
ui>on the water. He was very close
| to sixty now, hut his thick, straight
hair was still Jet black except for a
slash of pure white above one teliiple
his brows were black above his deep
blue eyes. His acquaintances, in ex
plaining him to strangers, said he had
lived too much by himself of late: he
and one man servant shared the great
! house which had been unchanged—ami
in which nothing appeared to have
needed replacing-—since his wife 'ef
him, suddenly and unaccountably
about twenty years before. People
said he looked more French, referring
to his father who was known to have
been a shin-hunter north of Lake Su
[ perlor in the 'COa but who later mai .
rled an English girl at Mackinac and
settled down to become a trailer In the '
woods of the North peninsula, where j
Benjamin Corvet was horn.
During his boyhood men came to the j
peninsula to cut Umber; young Corvet
worked with them and began building
ships. Thirt.v-tive years ago he had
been only one of the hundreds with '
his fortune In the fute of a single hot- 1
torn; hut today In Cleveland, in Du- 1
tilth. In Chicago, more than a score j
of great steamers under the names of
various Interdependent companies
were owned or controlled by him ttnd
his two partners, Sherrill and young
Spearman.
He was a quiet, gentle-mannered !
man. At times, however, he suffered i
from tits of Intense Irritability and '
the«e of late had Increased In fre- '
quenny and violence. It led been novj
tlced that these outbursts occurred .
generally at times of storm upon the i
lake, but the mere threat of financial
loss through the destruction of one or
even more of his ships uns not now j
enough to cause theiu: It was believed j
that they were the result of some ob
scure physical react'on to the storm, I
and that this bad grown upon him as
he grew older.
ToUiljr him «-«. — I
marked, his uneasiness so much j
Bremer than anyone had seen It tie- j
fore. thai the attendant whom Corvet 1
hail sent, it hnlf hour eiirllor, to re- ;
serve hi" nsuiil table for lilin In the j
jrrlll—"'I'll.' tuMr l»y the sfiund win
dow"—liml started away without dur
Inn to ask whether the tal'le whs to |
he set for one or more. Corvet him
self hml corrected the omission: "For
two." he hud shot Hfter the mnn.
The tables, «r this hour, were all
onoceupled. Corvet crossed to the
one he hurt reserved and sat down;
he mrncd Immediately to the window
at Ills side and scraped on It a little
clear opening through which he could
See the .storm outside. Ti n minutes
later he looked up sharply but did not
rise, as the man he had been await
ing—Spearman. the younger o( his
two partners—came hi.
Speurmati seated himself, his big.
powerful hands clasped on the fable,
his gray eyes studying Corvet closely.
The waiter look the order and weutj
unity.
When he returned, the two men were
obviously in Ml tor quarrel. Corvet'*
tone, low pitched but violent. sounded
steadily in tli" room, 'hoogh hK words
were inaudible. The wi'ltpr, as he set
the food upon 'lie 'dile. felt relief that
I'orvet's outburst had fai.eu on other
shoulders than his.
For nearly an hi ur the quarrel con
tinued with Intermitted truees of si
For Nearly an Hour the Quarrel Con
tinued, With Intermitted Truce* of
Silence.
lence. The waiter, listening, as wait
ers always do, caught at times single
sentences.
"You have linil that Idea fur some
time?" he heard from Corvet.
"We have hail an understanding for
more than a month."
"How definite?"
Spearman's answer was not audible,
hut It more Intensely agitated Corvet;
lie dropped his folic and. after that,
made no pretense of eating.
The waiter, following this, caught
.inly single words. "Sherrlll"—that,
of course, was the other partner. "Con
stance"—that was Sherrill's daughter.
The other names he heard were names
if ships. Rut. as the quarrel went on,
•he manners of the two men changed;
Spearman, who at first had been as
called by Corvet, now was assailing
him. Corvet sat hack In h!» seat,
while Shearman pulled at his djjar a£d
bow and (then took It from his lips and
gestured with It between his fingers,
as lie Jetked some ejaculation across
the mhle.
Corvet leaned over to the fronied
window, us he hud dune when alone,
and looked out. Spearman shot a com
ment which made Corvet wince and
draw back from the window; then
Spearman rose. Curvet looked up at
him once and asked a question, to
which Sjiearnian replied with a snap
of the burnt match down on the table;
he turned abruptly and strode from,
the room. Corvet sat motionless.
Tile revulsion to self-control, some
times even to apology, which ordina
rily followed Curvet's bursts of Irrita
tion hud not come' to him; his agita
tion plainly had Increased. He pushed
from him his uneaten luncheon and
got up slowly. He went out to the
coat room, where the attendant hand
ed blm his coat and hat.
He winced as he steppen out into
the smarting, blinding swirl of sleet. j
hut his shrinking was not physical; It
was mental, the unconscious reaction '
to tome thought the storm called up.
The hour was barely four o'clock, but I
so dark was It with the storm that j
the shop windows were lit; motorcars,
slipping and skidding np the- broad
boulevard, with headlights burning,
kept their signals clattering con
stantly to warn other drivers blinded
by the snow. , The sleet-swept side
walks were almost deserted; here or
there, before a hotel or one of the>J
shops, a limousine came to the curb,
and the passengers dashed swiftly
across the walk to shelter.
Curvet turned northward along
Michigan aveuue. facing Into the gale.
The sleet beat upon his face and
lodged In the folds of his clothing
without his heeding It.
lie continued to go north. He had
not seemed. In the beginning, to have
made conscious choice of this direc
tion ; but now he was following It pur
posely. He stopped once at a shi>p
which sold men's things to make a tel
epbn 'ne enll. He asked for Mis* Sher
rill when the number answered; but
he did not wish to s|>eak to her, he
said: he wanted merely to he sure she
would be there If he stopped In to
see her In half an hour. Then—north
again. He crossed the bridge. Now.
fifteen minutes later, he came In sight
of the lake once more.
< treat houses, the Sherrlll house
among them, here face the Drive, ttie
bridle path, the strip of park, and the
wide stone esplutiude which edges the
lake. Covert crossed to till* espla
nade. He did uot slop at the Sherrlll
house or look toward It. but went on
fully a quarter of a mile beyond It;
then he catue back, and with an oddly
stralued und queer expression and at
titude. he stood starlug out Into the
lake.
(Continued on Thursday)
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Transferred To and From
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PROFESSION &L CARDS
w. b. srovx
Attorney at L a-w
Practice Is all court*
In.Territory of Alaska.
HAI YES — —• —• — — ALASKA
DR. L. 8. KELLEB
Deatlflt
Most Modera Method*
Office Hours: 0-12 a. m.—1-6 p. m.
fifth Avenoe — Nwit
Door to DaU; Alaskan
&KAGWAY ALASKA
8KAGWAY
FRATERNAL ORDERS
Camp Skagway No. 1
meet* every second and
fourth Tuesday evening
at 8:SO o'clock. Visit
lng brother* coruIUIf welrom*.
J. M. Keller, L. 8. Keller,
Arctic Recorder. Arctic Chief
Ei P". O. ELKS, Sk*K
1 way Lodge, No. 481, a
P, O. Elk*, meeu everj
Thursday at 8 p. m.
VUtting brotbew cop
diall) welcome.
DAN MCDONALD, E. R.
P. J. VANDHWAU-, Secretary.
P. & A. M.
White Pass Lodge F. & A.
M. No. lis, meets 2nd and
4th Saturday evening* of
rich month at 8 o'clock.
VUltlng Brethren are wet*
come.
F. J. Van de W«U. W. H.
T. J. Standlsh, Secretary.
Fraternal Order ot
Eaftlea
SkJMCwaf Afrfe, No. 23,
Fnteru) Order of
Kiurtes, meet the first
amlUiird Wedneaday night of each
month-at their hall on Fifth Ato>
nup. Visiting brother* cordially in
vited to attend.
C. H. ROGERS, W. P.
1. M. Grleebach, Sec'y.
Naomi Chapter No. 9
O. K. 8., maeta In Ma
sonic hall, first anil
third Friday of each
month, at 8 o'clock.
Visiting member* welcome.
POLL* WEBSTKR
Worthy Mutro»
Fanny Speer, Secretary.
Baby Blinded
from Eczema
"The child'a bead and face were almost
• aolid an. Tbe erf pecfecti) blukl.
Doctor said the wont caae be bad erer
aeen. Oiw aa*&» ef D. D. D. did weo»
derful *'onr. A complete cur* iolr
lowed." Tbos. 1. Donainey. J canon. Ala.
Too write, too. to the D. D. a Company ot
Chicaro for a aample and *et immediate relief.
Ot, cooe to ud we will t*II you what D. D. D.
h*a scccoplisbed is roar own neixLbortwotL
Tour money hack go lea* tbe first boCXte rcliovaf
yoa. *5c, OOcandtJ.QO.
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
U. 8. LAND orrrcE
at Juneau, Alaska
April. 13. 1922
NOTICE la hereby given that Mi
chael J. O'Connor, of Hainea, Alas
ka,. who, on April 13, 1922. mad*
HE, No. 04908, (or lota 1 and 2.
Section 14; and lot 1, Section 23.
Township 30 S.. Range £8 E., Cop
per River Meridian, has died notice
of intention to make three-year
Proof, to establish claim to the
land above described, hefore R. M.
Odel, at Halaes, Alaska, on the 27 th
day of May, 1922.
Claimant names as witnesses: N.
0. Hanson, of Haines, Alaska; Chaa.
Anway, of Hainea. Alaska; Leon
Ballard, of Hainea, Alaska.
FRANK A. BOYLE,
Register.