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FOREST FIRE PROTECTION"
Tlie forest fire, which Is steadily burning up a considerable portion of
The lew remaining trees ubout Skagwav. is goiug merrily on its way, with
out any effort being made on the part of the Forestry Service to put it out.
We understand, the forestry representative was up from Haines, the other
uay. and spent a few hours in town and went back on the Fornance. We
supposed it was within the province of his duty to look into such matters,
und secure men and tools for the putting out of the fire. A few men for
i few days would be able to put it out and thus save, not only the trees of
which we have altogether too few around Skagwav, but the vegetation upoc
the rocks, which has been accumulating for centuries and which cannot be
replaced for centuries to come. It seems a pity that the forestry service
• hrough its representative could not have seen the matter in this light ana
taken measures to put it out. before that whole section Is made a barron
»ocky waste.
Picnickers cannot be too careful in seeing that theii tamp fires are
thoroughly soaked with water before leaving them. An extra pail of water
•uay save valuable timber.
IS THERE ANY WO.VDKR?—Alask uts deplore the amazing Ignorance
dlspla\ed by people In the States regard ng the territory. Is it any won
tier when articles like the one in another column of this issue Is run In the
papers of the coast. To anyone who knows of the seas. fogs, and boat land
ings. before Fort Seward, this is either humourous or disgusting. Its of
the same nature as much of the misinformation which is broadcast about
Alaska. In the first place. Fort Seward seldom, if ever, has any fog. and
the seas in front of the Fort never attain such magnitude as to trouble a
real navigator of a steamer, the size the the transport Buford, and third, if
the Ktiford could not laud at the dock for high seas its very contain 110
jackies would be safe in attempting the landing in a skiff. Alaska for
tunately. is not the first and probably not the last section of our country
to suffer from lack of real information concerning conditions within her
> ouds. Brighter days are ahead and eventually people will acquire infor
mation which will be authentic.
WILL HISTORY RKI'KAT ITSKI.I-'—Greece stands ready and propose
to put the "Sick Man of Kurope" out of the place, lie has held so long to
the chagrin of all the right thinking people of the world, but not to a few
politicians. If ever there was m-ed to put a nation out of commission that
need is evident in the case of Turkey. She has more crimes to her credit
than any other nation, unless we are to charge some of her crimes to the
nations which have sustained her for politlc's sake.
The old crime is evdentlv to he reenacted. Britain is transferring
troops across the Bosphorus and France Is protesting against the entry of
the Greeks into Constantinople. It Is likely that these two nations com
Mned can and will stop Greece from putting an end to Turkish rule in
Kurope. They will thereby he responsible for the continuance of hideou.
horrors with which we have been ragaled for untold decades and we
can go on feeding the starving orphans of Armenia, when if Greece were
left to oust the Turk, these people who have regularly been massacred b>
the unspeakable Turk, might have a chance to live in peace and advance in
progress. But it will be expected that for politic'* sake. France an dBrit
afu will again prevent what so obviously should be done. Is li any wonder
that Lloyd George foresees much trouble uhaed?
IMMIGRATION'—Representative Johnson announces that at the nex:
session of congress he will introduce a bill to make our restrictive immi
gration law considerably more exclusive and stringent, and to render it per
manent. It now has two years to run on its present basis of three p«v
cent, and there's no gaiusaymg the fact that public sentiment will favor thv
enactment of just such a statute as Mr. Johinson has ia mind. It is unde
niable that the great uiapority of immigrants now seeking admission are
undesirables. They are the offscourings of Russia and of Southern Europe
and they come through our gates with a feeling of distinct hostility to Am
erican Institutions. Tbey are "agin" the government und they immed.ate
ly proceed to demonstrate. Imbued with communistic ideas and anarchic
schemes of dominion they assail our too liberal laws and proceed on the
theory that they enjoy rights which the descendants of revolutionary sire.
never even claimed. They boldly and openly seek to destroy our govern
ment and to set up in its place some such miserable rule as that which ob
tains in Russia.
Mr. Johnson proposes greatly to reduce the per cent, of immigrants ad
mitted and to submit those that are admitted to the severest tests of litness
including an intensive examination of their records as ctizens of the coun
nies of their nativity. There is no questioning the fact that our country
has not been capable of assimilating the great mass of sodden matter tha
has been herded through Kills Island during the past few years and that i
is not digesting even the greatly reduced quantity that it has taken into its
system during the two years just ended. There is already too much toxic
matter from previous years left in our innards to take any addition what
soever with advantage or even harmlessly. The trouble is that today far
too many Americans need to be schooled in the principles of Americanism
to talk of instructing foreigner*.—Fori Wayne News.
INDIAN DRUM
biiWiiliam/AaGHarq.and Ed^inBalmei? ;
Illustrations by £
Irwix JHyevs'
CbDuriaht bu EcKvip. Balmer
>Ir. Rpearmnn. tlu> operator snid. hncl
been at the otllee early In the day;
there hart been no nii-ssnge for him;
tu> hud left Instructions that any
which came were fo ho forwarded *o
hltn throuch the men who, under his
direction, were patrolling the shore
j fu twenty miles north of I.lttle Trav
| e-.o, watching for hunts.
' Constance crossed the frozen edges
I of the hay by sledge to llnrhor
| Point. Her distrust now had rteep
j ened to terrlhle dread. She had not
been hie hefure (Ids to form any defi
nite Id a of how Henry could threat
en Alan and Uncle Denny: she had
Imagined only vngue Interference and
, obsmiction of the search for them:
she hnd not foreseen that he could so
readily assume cltartie of the search
and direct, or misdirect, I*.
At the Point she discharged the
sled ire and went on foot to the house
of the caretaker who hnd charge of
the Sherrlll cottage during the winter,
letting the keys from hltn. she let
herself Into the house. Going to her
rcotn. she unpacked it heavy sweater
nt d woolen cap and short fur cunt—
winter things which were left I here
against use when they opened th"
house sometimes out of set-son—and
put thent on. Then she went down
and found her snow-shoes. Stopping
at the telephone, she culled long dis
tance and asked tliem to locate Mr.
Sherrlll. If possible, and Instruct him
to move south alone 'he shore with
whomever lie had with him. She went
out then, and fastened on her snow
shoes.
Constance hurried westward «nd
then north, following the I owl of the
shore The figure of n man—one ot
the shore patrols—pio'lng the Ice hum
mocks of the bench and staring out
upon the hike, appeared vaguely in
the dusk when she hart gone about
two miles. She came, three quarters
of n tulle farther oil. to a second limn;
about nil equal d 1st mice beyond she
found .1 third, but passed him and
went on.
Her legs ached now with the unac
customed travel upon snowshoes; the
cold, which had bei n only a piercing
chill at rtrst. wits st uping feeling, al
most stopping thought. She was hor
rified to find that she was growing
I' weak and that her senses wpre becom
ing confused. She had come. In All,
perhaps eight miles; and she was
I' "playing out." She descended to the
heach again nnrt went on; her gnze
continued to search the lake, but now,
wherever there was a break In the
blurt's, .she looked toward the shore as
well. At the tlilrrt of these breaks,
the yellow glow of u window appeared,
marking n house In a hollow between
snow-shrouded hills. Sle> turned ea
gerly that way; she could go only
very slowly now. There was no path;
at least. If there was. the snow drifts
hid It.
She struggled to the door and
"Who'* Here?" She Cried. "Who'»
Here?"
knocked upon It. and receiving nn re
ply. she heat ur -n It with both fists.
"Who's liere?" <he cried. "Who's
here?"
The door opened t! "n n very little,
and the frightened f»e> of nn Imllnn
woman appeared In the crack. The
woman evidently had expected—and
feured—some arrival, and was reas
sured when she saw only u girl. Sli"
threw the door wider op>n. n-id l.ent
to help unfasten Ooii«tancp's snow
shoes: having done that, she led her
in and closed the <lonr.
"Where Is your man?" Cons'unce
had caught the woman's arm.
"They sent him to the hearh. A
<hlp has sunk."
| "Are there houses near here? You
uHist run to one of them at once.
Bring whoever you can get; or If yon
i wuu't Uu Unit, mil me where to «>•"
The woman stared «t nor svmniy
and moved away. "None near," she
said. "Besides, you could not get
soiuehndy before some one will come."
"Who Is that?"
"He Is on the bench—Henry Spear
man. He comes here to warm him
self. It Is nearly time he comes
again."
Constance gazed at her; the woman
was plainly clad of her coming. Her
r?llef—relief from that fear she had
been feeling when she opened the door
—was very evident. I* was Henry,
then, who had frightened her.
The Indian woman set a chair for
her beside the stove, and put water In
a pan to heat; she shook tea leaves
from u box Into a bowl and brought u
Clip.
"How many on that ship?"
"Altogether there were 'hlrty
nlne," Constance replied.
"Seven are living then."
"Seven? What have you heard?
What makes you think so?"
"That Is what the Drum says."
The Drum! There was a Drum
then! At least there was «otue sound
which people heard and which they
called the Drum. For 'he woman had
I heard It.
Constance grew suddenly ci>M. For
twenty lives, the woman said, the
! Drum had beat; that meant to her.
anil to Constance too now. that seven
were left. Indefinite, desperate denial
! -hat nil from tlu> ferry must be dead—
j that denial which had been strength
j ened by the news that at least one
boat bad been ndrlft near Heaver—
altered In Constance to conviction of
; n boat with seven men from the ferry.
seven dying, perhaps, but no* yet
I dead. Seven out of twenty-seven;
The score were gone; the Drum hid
beat for them in little groups as they
| died. When the Drum bent a^aln,
would It beat beyond tlie score?
Having finished the tea. Constance
returned to the door tind reopened It;
the sounds outside were the same. A
[ solitary tlgure appeared moving along
! the edge of the Ice—the figure of a
I tall man. walking on snowshoes;
moonlight distorted the flimre. and It
whs muffled, too, in a great coat which
made It unrecognizable. He halted
I and stood looking out at the lake and
then, with a sudden movement, strode
I on; he halted again, and now Con
stance got the knowledge that he was
not looking; he was listening as she
was.
"Is the Drum sounding now?" she
asked the woman.
"No."
Constance gn'efl ttprtln nt the mm
and found his motion quite unmistak
able; lie was count!tig—If not counting
something that lie heard, or thought tie
heard, he was recounting and review
ing within hiin«' \i something that he
had heard before—some irregular
rhythm which had become so much a
part of him that It sounded now con
tinually within his own brain; so that,
instinctively, he moved In cadence to
It. He stepped forward again now,
and turned toward the house.
Her breath caught as she spoke to
the woman. "Mr. Spearman Is coming
here now!"
Her impulse was to remain where
she was, lest he should think she wns
afrnid of him; but realization came to
her that there might be advantage In
seeing hint before he knew that she
was there, so she reclosed the door and
drew back Into the cabin.
CHAPTER XIX
The Sounding of the Drum.
Noises of llie wind and the roaring
of the lake made Inaudible any sound
of his appronch to the cabin; she
heard his snowshoes, however, scrape
the cabin wall as, after taking them olT,
he leuned them beside the door. He
thrust the door open then and came
In; he did not see her ut first and. as
he turned to force the door shut again
ugalnst the wind she watched him
quietly.
He saw her now and started and,
ns though sight of her confused him,
he looked from the woman and then
back to Consiunce before he seemed
certain of her.
"TTe;u>!" he said tentatively. "Hel
lo r
"I'm here. Henry."
"Oh; you arel You are!" lie stood
drawn up. swaying a little as he
stared at her; whisky whs upon his
breath, and It became evident In the
heat of the room; but whisky could
not account for this condition she wit
nessed In him. Neither could It con
ceal that condition; some turmoil and
strain within him made him immune
to Its effects.
She had realized on her way up here
what, vaguely, that strain within him
niust be. Quilt—guilt of some awful
sort connected him. and had connected
Uncle Benny, with the Mlwnka—the
lost ship for which the Drum had
beaten the roll of the dead. Quilt wus
In his thought now—racking, tearing
at him. Kut there was something
mure th.au isJ'tlt Si'e iniset^i io
him when he lirxt cauynt sigm V>r tu'r
ivus fear—feur of her, of Constance
SherrHl.
"You came iip here about Bcu Cor
vet?" he challenged.
"Yes—no!"
"Which do you mean?"
* "No."
"I know, then. For him, then—eh!
For him?"
"For Alnn Conrad? Yes." she said.
"I knew It!" he repealed. "He's been
the trouble between you and me all
the time!"
She made no denial of that: she had
! Guilt Was In His Thought Now—Rack
ing, Tearing at Him.
begun tn Know during vne iaSi
days that it was so.
"So you come to And lilm?" Henry
went on. -
"He'll he found 1" she defied him.
"He found?"
"Sunte nrc dend." she admitted, "hut
not all. Twenty are dead; hut seven
Hre not!"
"Seven?" he echoed. "You say
seven are not! How do you know?"
"The Drum has been heating for
twenty, hut not for more!" Constance
said. "The Drum you've heen listen
j ing to all day upon the beach—the In
t itian Drum that sounded for (he dead
i of the Mtwnkn; sounded, one by one.
for all who died! Hut It didn't sound
for him! It's been sounding again, you
know; but, again, It doesn't sound for
him, Henry, not for him I"
"The Mlwnka! What do you mean
by that? What's that got to do with
tills?" His swollen face was thrust
forward «t her; there was threat
against her in his tense muscles and
his bloodshot eyes.
(Continued on Thursday)
I.OXG LOST MINE
IS KOI WD AGAIN'
Fori William.—Bringing reports
I of the discovery of a long'lost mine,
Dave .McQuaig and Gordon Ke.d
reached the Schreiber camp yester
day and. after arranging for food
and exploration supplies immediately
I set out again to make a close in
' speciion of what they term a bo
nanza. A veritable hill of gold-dust
quartz with enormous value lies
northwest of the settlement, the
prospectors said today, to eager list
eners around the camp-fires.
Wit.tin an hour of their departure
two other parties were on their trail
with the intention of staking nearby
locations.
About six weeks ago one of the
old-time prospectors told McQuaig of
a great discovery he had made which
he was later unable to find again.
That was back In the early days of
the Northwestern rush. Possessed
of a general description of the loca
tion, McQuaig and his companion
made a search of the torritory with
out avail. Still convinced of the
truthfulness of the story, they made
a second tour, this time apparently
with success, as they brought back
samples and photographs to verlf)
their story.—Dawson News.
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Visiting brothers tor
ilnilly welcome.
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