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RATS ! :
K?ts are a recognized ia"nace to
t""alth , und tli# destroyers of im
st^re^s every y^ar. The
-.10 "s-'at tl." fhas resulted"
tr. awakening the people to the
dans' r a:.J death w'ii' h lies In
t' .ti di: . "icn. Death ®o rats'ought
;<< !>•' a s'ogan la every con;munity.
\vc may liav0 t'Air, and
Utile cause to ti-r bubonic placu"
m our to'vn, but It Is obvious'tha
ruts arc on the increas*.
This is probably due to the
fat t o-: so many buildings "•'hic'i
nnk- ••ju-ltect tsbitatlons for
I'..'These wUo o»u such prop
iu to'xn should, s * to it that
th ir place* ar- looked s:rr and
trips or o:i.tr ni't'iOd utilized t
k - ;• dou'tt the rodents.
VSis is i'i° tjm« of; ear " iteu the
ar* king i!;-Hr wi-:*"r quarters aa i
u:.d"r ho;Uf3 sad 0C1 >r
lira .3 i>:-" which they can s-1
d Ishould bo carefully,,
• r t ;'ore too ground.
EQUABLE CLiMAIE
v. th'- ;.<'0I>1'-' in Kansas are.
suX (.rtcg frcai the »"v»rly o the.
v"-a'-Vr and pitying us poor peol'e
in aWs'ko. we iu S. E. Aaska,
Vt : ri ::c" a severe frost
The leaves on the tree's on th
mountain sides are turning from
'-•r a to gold, and th* sljas of
ar0 only visible on tops of the
mountains, but as y«t things in th
gardens ar-' storing and fe» people
iiave dug tifir potatoes and other
vegetable's ia the gardens.
V.'s liave tad one frost thus
far, and It was co!d enough to kill
some of tUo fiow'-Ts la the gardens,
bi t sweot p ar, astors and A varied,
assortment of other flowers are
still la fuil bloom, and as lor®
ari fragrant as during th« 'ull
s-umaier s easoa.
What the wittier man, has io
s!c;o fop us no on« can tel' but all
a.-« unit-d ia praising lilm for the
eXv- pilonal'y beautiful ve<fther,whlch
v e hive had ia September. A mont
of perfect "father "'as the month
just pest.
Crops in t is s"ction nave be«i
good, wuh the exception of straw
tKS. which »erc bndiy frozen last,
winter owing to th- warm sp"il in
PfinKT. Cr?s3 tas bein good a::d
weather has b°®n favorable for
hajlng bo that farrmora have a
good supply, of hay in. Tho seaa
ou cn the whole has besa. a v®r;
'avorabl® on,®. >
Scm« of the o'd time r®aders,
o£ th« Daily Alaskan, ^'11' look'ov*i
the paper and note th.> absence of
a name on. its pages, which "'ill
bring a pans of sorrow. Thru all
Mie varying history of &kagway and
thru th® Vlsclsituid<^ which a
newspaper win run la th° opening'
and develo:*m®ut of a town. Tt® nam*
of Tony Dortero has always y©?.r
In and out com^ befor® the people
of this town, and the outlying1
tori's.
It Is like having on® of th,a
family withdraw from the circle'
fox unknown, parts to have this
name withdrawn from the pag®s of
th® paper. The occasion Is simply
that of closing lip the afairs tho
merchaatlio business whlch th® Dor
tero 3 have conducted in Skagway.
The good wishes of all th8 r®ad
ers« of the ^"^an, wjij E0 wjth
this family tO'wliatev®r place there
may »>hict to go. Th® sorrowfu'
d«"ath of fiitcer and son. has
!ca.\» necessiry tho change 0f plans,
and the closing out of th
business whlch wm b0 effected a
soon as it can now fc" done.
it docs nof .vet i"i;>enr that In their
spendthrift nii.tu.i tl.i; newly rich have
thought to piirclmse a grammar.
Koch has nor at any time commit
ted himself with emphasis to any ex
pectation of retiring to private Ufa
A court lias ruled that a man can
not rob his wife. In actual practice
It generally works out the other way.
"Restaurant Holdup Fails." accord
ing to a headline. Customer must
have changed ids mind and walked
out.
What has became of the old-fash
ioned harbor who used to talk your
arm ofT In railing against the high
prices?
Those cow s found Intoxicated from
their invr-intliilreiice In moonshine
quiib oaj.ht to be valuable for milk
punch.
Some 'ple howl for free speech
nn.l then work like the dickens to
Iiwiail a dictatorship of the pro
ur.aiiat.
i. per ?ti:o:nehi!!vts and n.-destrl
ans will lave to quit colliding or the
hitman r«Rv \»il! have to grow some
India ruhi-er babies.
The United Stales' government Is re
port e<l to "hoi af.er C(>al brokers."
hut even that hriugs a shiver as one
contemplated iu.-\t winter.
To show thai they are capable of
self-government. L'.UpIno employee* of
.American concerns fci Manila walk oat
Just like regular Americans.
Incidentally, some suarar hoarders
are being punished without snv legal
action whatever—those who stocketi
up at 30 cents or. more, you know.
A Califoriilan has patented a de
vice for gathering nuts, but they never
will be able to improve on Niagara
:fslls when they eome with barrels.
Airplanes may be the transporta
tion medium of -li" future, but that Is
, -no reason why the railroads need not
I he made elRcient for present uses.
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Mexican securities are steadily ad
vancing. acrordins to recent reports.
InuU-atUiz more surely than anything
I else the returning stability of the na
tion. .
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; C OPYBIGHT BY" THE BOBBS-MER.RILL COMPANY
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The Iron-Gray-Woman.
A young man stood on the after
I deck of n small and very dingy house
j boat filing a tlsh spear. Riding at the
end of :i storm-blackened rope strung
from a cleat at the bow to a tree on
shore, the boat rose and fell with the
pulse of the river, lazy and languid
under the beat of the hot afternoon
sun.
He was so tall, with such a spread
of shoulder, that he seemed out of
place upon so small a deck. Wind
season and weather wear had worked
their will upon him. But there are
forces that grave deeper than wind
and weather. Youth can hold wind
and weather ut bay. It is powerless
against those other forces—those In
ner forces that grave the soul. Under
the chafe of them his face had become
the face of a man who had looked
upon life and found It not to his lik
ing. Ills eyes held the keen, quick
hardness that comes to eyes that see
only life's sterner side.
The rearlhunter, they called him.
the river men, not that he had found
his pearl, possibly because he had not
found it. Failure names men, as well
as success, in the wilderness.
The space between the fore and
after decks of the houseboat was occu
pied by a kind of cabin, with a cur
tained entrance fore and aft and a
single small window on each side. The
man suddenly stopped filing the fish
spear and glanced with quick anxiety
toward this cabin. A woman was
coughing, lie crossed the narrow deck
at a stride, shoved aside the soiled and
rumpled curtain and entered. A dark,
iron-gray woman sat humped forward
In a rickety old rocklngclialr by the
window on the shore side. As If con
scious of his inability to help, possibly
calloused bv long familiarity with sim
ilar scenes, he stood looking down
upon her. with no expression of sym
pathy other than a wince of pity in
his eyes.
| oik: -
lay Itat'K against the bed quilt spread
In* the clwilr, spent and quivering. the
' trembling shell nf what had once been
j n very beautiful woman. Tlie man
crossed tlie ealiin. dipped tip a tinr'nl
of water out of a bucket by the couk
j stove and offered it to iter. She
waved It away.
••It's so warm—and flat! It •has
been long from the spring!"
Without a word he set tlie nip back
on the bench, picked tip the bucket,
passed out to the front deck, crossed
the narrow gangplank, and hurried
away up the slope toward the cliffs
1 that rost^above the trees a few rods
back from the river shore.
The spot was known the length of
the Wabash, for who has not heard of
Fallen Rock, with the broad, thin wa
! terfull pitching over the sharp-edged
shelf between Its two breasts and lap
ping the stone-strewn pool at its base?
And the spring breaking out from un
der the shale ledges of the cliff near
the west end of the old cabin and
trickling its waters down a little sul
phur-stained cutter Into the pool—who
has not heard of It? Not to have
drunk of its waters was considered a
misfortune in the Flatwoods, just as
in ancient Greece It was considered
a calamity to die without having seen
the statue of Olympian Zeus.
Fallen Bock Is the highest front of
naked stone along the Wabash. At
the present day seven towns can be
seen from Its summit; In the late for
ties. two: Buckeye, a mile up the river,
and the City twenty miles farther on.
When tlie man returned to the
houseboat the Tron-Gray-Woman still
lay back In the shaky rocking chair.
| Dipping tiie battered cup full of fresh
| water, the man stepped to her side.
"Your cool drink, mother."
The thin lids raised. The eyes she
turned toward htm must have been
wonderfully beautiful in her day—
large and deep and lustrous. The
cough that wasted her breast seemed
powerless to dim their luster.
The man crossed tlie cabin and laid
ills hand on the rumpled curtain over
the doorway, about to return to his
task of sharpening the fish spear.
"It looks cool—and calm—up there."
He paused; glanced back over his
shoulder at ber, and waited for her
to go on.
"Is that a log house I see up there
under the cliffs?"
The floor of the houseboat creaked
under the weight of him as he came
to the window. He had to stoop low
to bring his'eyes level with the open
ing.
"A log house; old and empty."
The Iron-Gray-Woman sat musing a
moment, her eyes astray among the
trees nodding languidly In the serene
June afternoon.
"I wish I might live again upon the
shore. The sun beats down so hot
upon the houseboat, and I grow weary
of the eternal throb of the river. If
1 could only live u little wiuie up uiere
I should grow strong."
"And why not? It's empty, and no
body would care. In these deep woods
there's nobody to care."
A flicker of light crossed her face.
_ "I'd get well up there, under the
strong cliffs, with the cool spring so
near. And I've lived so long—since
you were a child In arms—on the river
—the Ohio; the White; the Wabash I"
"Always, mother I Always the house
boat—drifting; drifting—and you so
frail, so beautiful!"
The man left the window and knelt
by the rocking chair. The Iron-Oray
Wotnan saw the question In his eyes—
a hunger for seme word out of the
past; a word that had never come. All
his life she had kept It from him—
whatever It bad been that happened
Imrk there behind the veil of her si
lence that left him nameless; a river
waif; a nomad In an orderly world; a
fisher of pearls; a pcarlhunter. Her
eyes came back and faltered over him.
No longer a child; a boy—the reflec
tion startled her. A man knelt at her
side-—the question written big upon
his face. And It was his right to
know. Her head dropped back against
the quilt that cushioned the chair. It's
a solemn thing to be the mother of a
man—glorious but solemn.
J IIP IUSUUUK '»■
fever wasting them—came buck to him
after a time. He saw a far-flung
thoughtfulne.«9 in then); knew they
had strayed into that past from which
he was barred. The thin lips parted.
The man's lingers curled tense upon
■ the clinir arm.
"To a city on the Wabash, in early
(lavs, came three families of Virginia's
purest blood—my family, your father's
family, and the family of—of—another
man."
The Iron-Gray-Woman shuddered
and was. silent for a moment. The
man picked up a wasted hand; stroked
* u softly between his own. and she
went on, strained and slow, like one
desperately nerved to a long-dreaded
task.
"Sly parents both died when I was
so small that 1 can barely remember
them, leaving me. their only child, to
the care of a distant relative, a great
uncle of my father's. This great-great
tincle—well, as I look back upon my
life I cannot remember that he ever
gave me a pleasant word.
"Sly aunt was as different as dawn
to dark. She was everything that he
was not. A thousand times she loved
my hurt away.
"They had a daughter, an only child,
almost my age, and of the same name
—surname and all. When uncle was
away on business trips, as be often
was for weeks, it was like sunshine
after rain. Such happy times! They
are high among the few pleasant
memories of my life."
The Iron-Gray-Woman paused, her
dark, deep eyes seeming to search
back Into the dead past, like a traveler
straining his gaze across a stretch of
desert to where the oasis lies. The
man shifted to his other knee and she
went on.
"My aunt died when we were In our
girlhood. After that—the gray days
were ever more than the bright. A
petulance settled deep upon my uncle.
His best word was a growl. The serv
ants moved about the house like silent
shadows.
"In this same city upon the Wabash
lived two other families, as I have told
you—your father's family and the
family of—of—another man. Your
father and this other man were both
my suitors.. But my uncle tried every
means In ills power to turn your fa
ther away from me to my cousin,
while he secretly encouraged the at
tentions of the other man to tne.
'Tour father's blood was of the
best in Virginia. A soldier, as the men
of bis family had-always been, he had
already won, by conspicuous gallantry,
the rank of colonel In the Indian
wars."
"What was he like?"
The Iron-Gray-Woraan turned her
eyes and studied him so long, so in
tently, that he trembled lest his ques
tion—a question that came in spite of
him—had startled her into silence.
"Like you," she resumed, "and not
like you. Ills eyes were blue, his hair
light. Vour hair Is dark, like mine.
Your eyes are like mine. But he had
the same height and breadth of shoul
der; like yrfu, slow of speech, slow to
strike, till the right Instant came—
tlie;>. as the hawk strikes.
"I never liked the—other man;
though my uncle made it impossible
for me completely to discourage his
attentions." Uer words dropped back
into the memory groove worn deep
by the years. "I kept up a show of
Interest in him, for the sake of my
cousin, file really loved him, and it
was the only way she could get to see
him. He was a very handsome man;
though, as it afterward turned out, the
black sheep of bis family, and deeolv'
Involved in debt. It was to repair hl3
wasted fortunes, as I now relieve, tliat
he deliberately planned to win my
cousin's heart—and hand."
The cough threatened to come hack.
She held her hands tight ui">n her
breast till she had mustered it, and
then hurried on as if afraid iter
strength mlglit not hold to say all that
hnd to he snld
n outlnued on Thursday)
Thee Golden No^th Oafo is now
f.^rving short orders from 7 a. in
to 1 p. m. and lun,cheon is ser
ved from 12 until n o'clock. Tli»|
dinner hous is G to 7 p. m on
week days and a to 7 Sundays.
Keep tfour Skin Gear
By Using Cutfcura j
The Soap, for daily use in the toilet, j
cleanses and purif es, the Ointment soothes
and heals little irritations, roughness or
pimples. Cuticura Talcum iOOtbei and
cool3 the skin and overcomes heavy per
spiration. Delicate, delightful, distinguS. I
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S^CuticuraToiletTrio
Consisting of Soap. Ointment and Talcum
are indispensable adjuncts ot the daily toi
let in maintaining skin purity and skin
health. By bringing these delicately medi
cated emollients in frequent contact with
your sk'.n as in U3e for all toilet purposes,
you keep the skin, scalp, hair and hands
clear, sweet and healthy.
The Soap, Ointment and Talcum 23c. each
everywhere. For sample of each free, ad- ,
dress: "Cuticurn,Dcpt.3T.McHjr.,Mftsa."
£&4FaXuticur& Soup shaves without mug.
MTU
in ill
Skagu ay people Have Foundo This
To B© True,
'lie of ov®rwork tells on
tbe weakened kldney3, Th0 hurry
and won-7 of buslne^ men, tha
lifting and stooping of work
men, Mie women's household cares,
fnij to wot, weak -n and injur®,
the kidneys unti1 they can no
lunger filter tho poison from the
b:. r v> and the whole 1-ody suffers
fiom 4ho waste matte? that ac
cumulate3. veaken'd kidneys need
tl'iilpk a/^ist^LCe. Down's Kldney'Plll
are especially preared for weaken
ed kidneys; tired, worn-out bacijj
—hav© prov6u their merit la thou
sa* -a of cas^s. Below is convmc
lng prcof of jflerlt from this loca
ity: I
I. SIcGee, blackLmjth, 115 Day
tnno Ave; Dayton, Wash; Lays
•'JlaDy years of hard work as a
blacVsmltlLjvoakcued my kidney3
as • caused backach-3. I had Such
'-ev jp pains in the smaU of my
ba^a that when I was down. *
coul 1 hardly get up. j had a
rrequent da=lre to pasti the kldiO'
tecri lions and they btirued. aiso<
had HeTere headaches and dizzy
Sjieli'?. Three boxe» of Doam's'Ki
cey Pills, cUre-l mo".
JTlrp 60c. at all dealers. Don't
simply ask for a kidney remedy" —
get Doau's ICldeny Pilla — the
«u , that Mr. McQoa had Fost
er-Mllburn Co; llfgrs. Buf'alo. N. Y
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> Relieves C ATARRH of <
35$^- -ibo 5
\ BLADDER $
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Discharges in >
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White Pass & Yukon Route
TIME TABLE NO. 45
Dally except Sunday
No. I, N. fionnd
ISt 01*53
9:30 &. m. Leaves
It:59 a. hi. 1
1:?5 p. m.
3:10 p. m, „
6:8ft 9. m. Arrives
SKAGWAY
■vrarra PASS
BEINNETT
CARCROSS
WHITEHORSE
14 X. O. IK»LU1U
tst Class
Arr'v« 4:45 p. m
Le».TBB 3:15 p. m
• 1:50 jx. m
, 11:40 a. m.
„ 9:15 ft. m.
Fa»aeHg®T8 mu^t pe M depot ■& i>iuo w u»>« — .
pected and checked. luspeci Ion '* ^topped 30 m'autea before |
leaving time of trains.
1B0 pou.-id3 of Baggage w'l be checked free w'th each full
are t'cfcet and 75 pound* srltn ea;h half fare t'cket.