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B. r O. E. No. 13il ham purchased the Anchorage Dally Times for one
d.i> Monday. February 13. the Anchorage KIks will issue the 36-page Pur
ple Edition The occasion is in celebrat.on of the completion of the magnl
r.i em Kiks' building that will be officially dedicated Monday night and
t •ri::ally opened Wednesday night. This building is the culmination of
earnest and faithful work on the part of the lodge members who have giv
en Alaska the grandest edifice of its kind in the territory. It Is appropriate
t L.r ihs nonunient to fratenalism and good fellowship is located in An- |
chorage, the home of th^ farthest north Elks' lodge.
With this edition Anchorage may also boast of tbe largest and most I
c»:::[>!eie newspaper edition ever attempted in Alaska: the thirty-six pages
w ill be replete with the day's current news, history of the local lodge, local
■ vents and articles, articles-dealing wit i Elkrtom at Cordova, Valdez and
Seward and throughout the whole wit! !»■ sprinkled the Indispensable hum
or and characteristic "Hello Rill sin."
The greater part of this monumental task has been exceptionally well I
performed by Fred A. Martin, l>dge secretary, who not only has capably
handled all business arrangements, but has been the souice of InspifatioD
a* the contributors.
Anchorage is proud of P. P O E. lodse N'o. 1331. not alone for the new
building and the "Purple Edition." but also for the manly part the mem
ters. Indiv dually und Collectively, have always played in the advancement
of Anchorage and community.—Anchorage Times.
ALASKA F.fHTOK IS VKKSATII.K
We are flesh today and irass tomorrow: today the proud, strutting |
turkey cork, tomorrow a fe.i'her dust r milling around. going and coming,
and setting nowhere permanently until we die and settle down. You never i
know what a day will bring forth, so .t is foolish to have settled convic- J
(Ions because tomorrow \\i:: up ar:d unserve t'>em. as tomorrows always do. '
Yesterday we were the happy miller who lives by the mill, which turns 1
around of its own free will or doesn't 'urn as the case may be. Today we j
are the advance agent of somthinfe else again. and which we did not know I
existed, never having had ..ny exrase for considering iis existence. Tester- |
day. all dressed in spotless white, we were selling Fairbanks flour in the |
busy marts of trade of the wor!d-awav-from-here: today in blouse and |
jumper with blackened fjice and grimy hands, we are driving an ornery I
team of .Missouri canary bird-, selling and delivering Anchorage blacksmith |
coal to all recliners under the Chestnut tree and to all foundries and ma- I
chine shops which have been at.d are here. We were in the flour selling '
business a week before we knew the price of flour and it will probubly be '
another week before we know trie price of coal, so until we do know the j
trice we will probably not do nucli selling —Fa rbanks News-Miner.
Co-Operation Is the Watchword
!.ast Thursday the school notes department was reorganized by the stu
dents' association and the new statf is planning to make the Anchorage
page as live as any in Alaska. The personnel of the new staff will endeav
or to cover all items of interest in the school which are thought to be of in
terest to the pubi.c and in tisis matter expect the co-operation of every stu
dent in the school The fact hus been long plain that a staf can do very lit
tle without the help of all the pupils and without the good will, and en
couragement of all the teachevs. We all want, and know full well that It
will take our co-operation to the last student, to boost the local notes up to
the high standard which has keen set by the other high schools of Alaska. I
This can be easily accomplished with the undiv ded support of everybody, j
I.et's so—put the Anchorage public school ou the map in big red letters' I
Anchorage Times (School Notes).
TWO MUX AKTKIl
MOIXTAIV <;o.\T
Charles Kavander and Tom Meil-!
tanen. old-timers who have been en
gaged In the fishing business • here
for some time, left this mornfng on
Kavander's boat, t!.e Ideal, fur the
vicin'ty of Sum Dum and Taku riv
er. where they will attempt trt caV j
ture six live goats. The men re
cently completed arrangements'with
K. P. Walker, chiif of the biolog-j
ical survey in Alaska, to land the
goats on tidewater, where they will
be taken over by the Survey.
The search i9 the result of "» re
cent announcement through the bio-1
logical survey that the Boone and
Crockett club of New York, an east
ern organization of game hunters,
had appropriated $180 a head for;
a li goals the goats arj to be placed 1
on Admiralty Island for the purpos
of populating the island with moun
tain goat.
Kavander and Melttanen took with
them provisions for two months.
They also' took one hale of hay, TO
fathoms of gill net. ice creepers,
snow shoes and sklis. They will go
up the Taku River in a 30-foot seine
boat.
The men are fap-lliar with travel
in the winter in this country and
are experienced mountaineers.
Kavander lives on Ninth street
arid Meittanen on Tenth street, in
the Casey-Shattack addition.
Meittanen is director of the Al-1
aska Union Kisher.es of Juneau.— (
Kmpire. j
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CAe
VOICE.
OF THE
MAn^HALJ^
svr,Jsi>rtfHT
Prologue.
If one can Just II* clou enough to the
breiut of the wilderness, he cun't help
but be Imbued with some of the life that
pulses therein.—From a Frontiersman'*
Diary.
Long ago. when the great city of
Gttoheapolls was a rather small. un
tl<ly lnmilet In the middle of a plain.
It used to be that a pool of water,
possibly two hundred feet square,
gathered every spring Immediately
hark of the courthouse. The snow
falls thick and heavy In Gltchenpolls
Id winter; and the pond was uo'hing
□iure thun snow water that the ineffi
cient drainage system of the city did
not quite absorb. Besides being the
despair of the plumbers and the city
engineer. It was a severe strain on
the beauty-loving Instincts of every
Inhabitant In the town who had any
such instincts. It was muddy and
murky and generally distasteful.
A little hoy played at the edge of
the water, this spring day of long ago.
Except for his Interest In the pond. It
wonld have been scarcely worth while
to go to the trouble of explaining that
It contained no fish He however,
bitterly regretted the fact. In truth,
he sometimes liked to believe that it
did contain fish, very sleepy fish that
never made a ripple, and as he had an
uncommon Imagination h>* was some
times able to convince himself that
this was so. But he never tool: hook j
and line and played at fishing He
was too mtieb afraid of the laughter
of his boy friends. His mother prob
ably wouldn't ohJe'\ if he fished here,
he thought, particularly If he were
careful not to get his shoes covered
with mud. Rut she wouldn't let liiin
go down to nitchcapolls creek to fish
with the other hovs for mod cat. He
was not very strong, she thought, and
It was a rough sport anyway, and be
sides—she didn't think he wanted to
go very badly. As mothers are usual- |
ly particularly understanding, this
was a curious thing.
The truth was that little Pan Fall- '
Ing wanted to fish almost as much a« <
he wanted to live. He wo'ild dream
about It of nights. His blood would
glow with the thought of It In the |
springtime Women the world over
will have r hard time neiievinc wnnt
an Intense, heart-devouring passion
the love of the chase can he. whether
It Is for fishing or huntlne or merely
knocking golf halls Into a little hole
upon a grppn. Sometime* thpy don't
remember that this Instinct Is lust as
much n part of most men. an<1 thus
most hoys, as their hands or their
Hps. It was acquired hy Just as la
borious a process—the lives of nn- 1
counted thousands of ancestors who
flshed and hunted for a living.
It was true that little Pan didn't :
I ok the part. Even then lie shmved
slims of physical frailty. His eyes
looked rathpr laree. and his ehppks |
were not the color of fresh idrloln. a«
they should have hppn. In fact, one
■would have had to look very hard to i
see any color n them at all. These j
facta are Interesting from the llshl j
they throw upon the next glimpse of
Dan. fully twenty years later.
Except for the fact that It was the '
background for the earliest picture of
little Pan. the pool hack of the court- I
house has very little Importance In
his story. It did. however, afford an
Illustration to him of one of the real
ly astonishing truths of life. Hp saw
a shadow In the water that he pre- i
tended he thought might he a fish. He j
threw a stone at It.
The only thine that happened was J
a splash, and then a slowly widening j
ripple. The circumference of the rip
ple crew ever larger, extended and
widened, and finally died at thp edge |
of the shore. It set little Pan to |
thinking. He wondered If. had the |
pool heen larger, the ripple still would
have spread: and If the pool had been |
eternity. whether the ripple would
have cone on forever. At the tline he '
did not know the iaws of cause and
effect. Later, whe.i Oltcheapolls was I
grpat and prosperous and no longer j
untidy, he whs gol.ig to find our thai I
a cause Is nothing hut a rock thrown i
Into a pond of Infinity, and the ripplt j
that Is its effect r. peps growing and i
growing forever.
The little Incident that Is the real [
beginning of this story was of no •
more Importance tl.iin a pehhle thrown I
Into the snow-water pond: but Its ef |
feet was to remote the life of Pan I
Palling, since grown up, far out of JI
the realms of the 'irdlnary.
And that brings all matters down |
ro 1919. in the las; days of a partlcn- (
larly sleepv summer. You would hard
ly know Gltcheapclts now. The husl |
ness district has Increased tenfold j
And the place where used to he thp i
pool and 'be plargeomid of Han Fall- I
Ing Is now laid o/V In as green and
oretty a olty park a* one could wish
to see.
Huiut Ju}', wlit'L the cltj becoiiii'i ,
wrer*'"-." .. "J ->
more |>ros;ieruu:>. u pan m a»un.
a herd of (leer are going to he Intro
duced. to restore souie of the natural
wild life of the park. But In the sum
mer of 1919, a few smnll hlrds and
possibly half a dozen pairs of squir
rels were the extent and limit of the
wild creatures. And at the moment
this story opens, one of these squir
rels was perched on a wide-spreading
llmh overnrchiug a travel path that
slanted through the sunlit park. The
squirrel was hungry. Me wished that
some one would come along with a
nut.
There was a bench beneath the tree.
If there had not been, the life of Diid
Failing would have been entirely dif
ferent. If the squirrel had been on
uii.v other tree, if he hadn't been
hungry. If any one of a dozen other
things hadn't been as they were. Pan
railing would have never gone hack
to the land of his people. The little
bushy tailed fellow on the tree limb
was the squirrel of Destiny I
BOOK ONE
Repatriation.
CHAPTER I.
Pan Falling stopped out of the ele
vator and was at once absorbed in
the crowd that ever surged up and
down Rroud street, lie was Ju<t one
of the ordinary drops of water, not
an Inter-sting, elaborate, physical and
chemical combination to be studied
on the slide of a microscope. He
wore fairly passable clothes, neither
rich nur shabby. Me was a tali man.
but gave no Impression of strength
because i>f the exceeding spareness of
his flame. As long a« be remained
In the crowd, be wasn't important
enough to be studied. Ilut soon he
turned off. through the park, and
straightway found himself alone.
The noise and hustle of the crowd—
never loud or startling, but so contin
uous that the senses are scarcely
more aware of them than of the beat
im of one's own heart—suddenly and
utterlv died almost at the very border
of »lit» park. The noise from the
street «eeriicd wholly tinnlile to pene
trate the thick branches of the trees.
He ronlil e\en hear the leaves whisk
Ins am) llleklnc together, anil when a
man ran discern tli>«. he can hear the
cushions of a mountain lion on a trail
at night. <>f conr^i Dan Failing had
never heard a mountain lion. Except
on the railroad tracks between, he
had never really been away from
cities In Ills life.
At once his thought went hack to
the doctor's words. They wore still
repealing themselves over and over
In his ears, and the doctor's face was
still before his eyes. It had been a
kind face; the lip* had even curled In
it little smile of emouragemeut. But
the doctor had been perfectly frank,
entirely atraightforward. There had
been no evaslou In his verdict.
"I've made eve'y test," he said.
"They're pretty well shot. Of course,
you can go to some sanitarium, If
you've got the money. If you huven't
—enjoy yourself all you can for about
six months."
Pan's voice had been perfectly cool
tnd sure when he replied. He had
smiled a little, too. He was still rath
er proud of that STlle. "Sis months?
Isn't (hat rather short?"
"Maybe n whole tot shorter. I think
that's the limit."
There was the situation: Dan Fall
ing had but six months to live. He
'■egan to wonder whether his mother
had been entirely wise in her effort to
keep him from the "rough games" of
:he boys of his own age. He realized i
jow that he had h-en an underweight I
til his life—that the frailty that had
thrust him to the edge of the grave
lud begun in his errllest boyhood. But j
t wasn't that he >vas born with phy
sical handicaps. He had weighed a '
'ull ten pounds; ind the doctor had
old his father that a sturdier little I
.'hap was not to h» found In any ma- I
:ernlty bod In the -'-hole city. But his I
nother was convinced that the child i
vas delicate and must be sheltered.
Sever In all the history of his family,
10 far as Dan knew, had there been a |
leath from the malady that afflicted
dm. Yet his sentence was signed and
iealed.
But he harbored no resentment
ignlnst his mother. It was all In the
raine. She had done what she thought
vas best. And he began to wonder
n wh8t way he could get the greatest
tleasure from his last sii months of
lfe.
"Good Lord!" he suddenly breathed.
1 may not he here to see the snows
•ome!" Dan had Always been partial
o the winter season. When the snow
ay all over the far it lands and bowed
lown the limbs of the trees. It had
ilwa.vs wakened it curious flood of
eeliufct lu Oil' wasted rnau. It neetued
to htm 1hnt he could remember other
winter*, wherein the snow lay for end
less miles over an endless wilderness,
and here and there were strange,
many-toed trucks that could be fol
lowed In the Icy dawns. But of course
; It wns Just a fancy. He wasn't In the
I least misled about It. He knew that
I he had never. In his lifetime, seen
I the wilderness. Of course his grand
. father had been a frontiersman of the
j first order, and all his ancestors be
fore him—a rangy. hardy breed whose
I wines would crumple In civilization—
but he himself had always lived In
i cities. Yet the falllnc snows, soft and
j Ken11e but with a kind of remorseless
, ness he could sense but could not un
: derstand. had always stirred him.
I He'd often Imagined that he would
I like to see the forests In winter.
In him you could see a reflection of
I the boy that played beside the pond
' of snow water, twenty years before.
| His dark gray eyes were still rather
large and perhaps the wasted flesh
| around them made them seem larger
than they were. But It was a little
I hard to see them, as he wore large
! glasses. His mother had been sure,
years before, that he needed glasses;
1 and she had easily found an oculist
i that agreed with her.
Now that he was alone on the path.
| the utter absence of color In his
cheeks wns startling. That meant the"
I absence of red—that warm glow of
i the blood eager and alive In his
veins. Perhaps an observer would
| have noticed lean hands, with hlg
knnckled lingers, a rather firm mouth,
and closely cropped dark hair. He ,
I was twenty-nine years of age, but he |
looked somewhat older. He know now
thai he was never going to be any !
' older. A doctor as sure of himself as
: the one he had Just consulted couldn't
posslhly be mistaken.
' He sat down on a park bench. Just
beneath the spreading limb of a great
| tree. He would sit here, he thought.
I until he finally decided what he would
do with his remaining six months.
I He hadn't been able to go to war.
The recruiting officer had been very
| kind hut most determined. The boys
I had brought him great tales of France.
| It might be nice to go to (-'ranee and
i live In some country inn. until he died.
But he didn't have very long to think
upon this vein. For at that Instant |
j the squirrel came down to see If he had I
' a nut.
I It wns the squirrel of Destiny. But 1
Dan didn't know It then
(Continued on Tuesday)
1 U. S. BUYS $100,000,000 TOYS
New York Bank Report* American
Manufacturers Treble Output
Since 1914.
! New York.—Mure tlutn $100,0(10.000
• wns s|H'nt by the American people
for toys and games during 1921. the
National City bank has Hgured. The
' factory value of toys manufactured In
Tins country has more than trebled. It <
wns estimated, since the war cut off the
| supply from Certuany. The value of |
toys made here in 1919 was given as
.<n; 1)110.1100. compared with J14.000.000
In 1914.
Toy imports declined from $S,000.000 ■
in 1913. to $1,000,000 in 191S. while lm- J
ports rose In 1920 to JiS.000,000 and to
*10 000000 in 1921. Exports of Ameri
can toys Jumped from less than $1,- j
(H U.OOO in 1913 to $4.000.000 last year I
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dreaa
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