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STKOl.l.Elt IS THE HAl'PY ( AXI>II>ATK
Srroller White is a happy candidate these days. He just sits back, j
smokes his p:pe. and dreams ijf marble I .ills ind what he Is going to do (or |
.Alaskans when he fills the delegate's chair at the National Capital. Strol
ler serenely contemplates the hasty travel of Delegate Sutherland four or j
t ie thousand miles, and ti.c expenditure of possibly several thousand dol- ^
lars. In order that his constituents may place their approval on his past ef- ]
forts and again give him tLe Republican nomination. And Stroller com- j
placentlv reads of the mushing of Jim Galen thru the interior and later I
down thru the First division, and the possible expenditure of thousands of
d liars on his part, all with the hope of securing a place on the Republican '
ticket. Rut Stroller is not required to even make an effort for votes as he I
Is assured a place on the official ballot as the Democratic nominee, there
being no other candidate And if he can get enough disgruntled Repub- |
Iicaus to support him in November, lie feils that his dream may come true, |
and without effort or price.—Stroller's Weekly. j
VuLlTll'At. I'or IS COMMENCING TO SIMMER
Annual municipal election is just one week off and the political pot is '
commencing to simmer.
Altho there has not been a public announcement of any candidate there
have been many names mentioned for the several offices and the race for
the l>est paying ones will probably be heated and ntense.
The past year has been one of the best ar.d the city council and mayor
have served the people much better than they know.
The offices of ma>«r ai d councilman are thankless at best and many
hours of hard work are demanded of each of them, and there Is not a soul
in town who dares to say that the word graft would apply to any of them.
Nor has that been so at any time heretofore, altho the tights have been bit- |
ter at times, it has never been said that graft entered into the conflicts.
There will be at least one convention this week and it Is strongly hint- j
ed that there will be two tickets in the tie'.d. There seems to be a strong |
sentiment in favor of having one or two women on the council—and why I
not?
SEED NOT TE1.1. THKIR AGE
(
All voters must register in Seattle before the spring primaries if they t
wish to exercise ti eir prerogative of casting a ballot. And the officials had
decided that the women would lie required to definitely stale their ages
This they declined to do. insisting t it ' legal'age" should be sufficient. The '
officials insisted, the women proti -ted. and : nallv won out. But this is not j
a suggestion to the female voters of Juneau or Alaska.—Juneau Capital. ,
(iRKATEST REVOl.t'TIOX EVER KNOWN IN HAR1TS OF Hl'MAX RACE
"Time and gradual regeneration w ill establish as one of the inalienable I
principles of the American government 'It was the greatest revol
ution ever known in the habits of the human raL-e**,********I wouldn't j
\ote that prohibition be reversed."—Kroiu statement made by Ambassador
George Harvey.
I'nited States District Attorney Pucuan lias issued an order to Mar
shal Sullivan to put the lid ou gambling of any kind, including the inno
cent little punch board —-Stroller's Weekly.
Why du so tii.n.v people luik ut J1U.Z
'music"!
Hu«!ne<s is Improving e*|>eciully
awoi.g the l.ulidUs.
Di^tors of laws -ire getting almost
us coininou us laws.
The station crier lg another example
of every wuu 10 his calling.
Many a man has to ilrixe himself
so Uiut his wile way drive a car.
The wife who wuuts a squirrel cout
often puts her husband up a tree.
Tlie trouble Is that In reading about
the artus parley vou get uio.e dope
titan hope.
Every titue Mount Popocatepetl
breaks out It sprains the worlds or
thography.
»xt thing somebody will be prose
cuted for passing Kuss.au rubles for
cigar coupons.
Ph i .«■ r:: a in l» not
t-\. i.sive. out* cttii buy nu.uw pupfcr j
rubles fur Si.
Krance wants some Auierlcau plays.
.\iiii'i-|«n luis S"Uie that ll would be
ilun to e\port.
Indications are that the next naval
fashion «ill lif collapsible slays with
demountable guns. j
The ITincetou professor who says
wealth Is a disease hasn't the nerve
to pruphi-sy an epidemic.
Clieer up! A doctor says we are
going to live a hundred years. That
plumber will be buck yet.
In a football scrimmage a player
lust a to.>fh. which was later found im
bedded In the face of another player,
^fill. that isn't so bad as to lose a j
'"nee and find It later Imbedded lu |
the tooth of the other fellow.
It Is assorted by a well known stat
istician that American college girls
eed a course in "How to hold your
iitisband." Ttie t»Id fashioned hus
V-n«1 't-e«' to hold his wife, now and
J.en, but UiUi£S stem tu luivc diau^ed.
The Voice
of the Pack
By Edison Marshall
(Cup/right, 1VX, Little, Brown A C-xnpa aj)
CHAPTER III
Pan Falling was really not badly I
hurt. The quick, lashing blows hart i
hot done more thtn severely bruise
the flesh nf hlo face; and the mists of j
unconsciousness that hart heen falling ]
over him were more nearly the result
of his own tremendous physical ex
ertion. Now these mists were rising.
"Oo—go away." the girl was com
manding. ' "1 think you've killed him."
Dan opened hlr eyes to find her
kneeling close beside him. but still
covering franston with her pistol Her
hand was resting on his bruised cheek.
He couldn't have believed rha' a hu
man face could be as white, while life
still remained, as li«rs was then. All
the lovely tints that had heen such a
delight to him. the play of soft reds
and browns, had faded as au after- i
glow fades on the snot?.
Dan's glance moved with hers to '
Cranston. He tvas standing easily at
u distance of a dozen feel: ami except
for the faintest tremble all over his
body, a muscular reaction from the
violence of his passion, he had eiitlre- 1
ly regained his self-composure. This j
was quite characteristic of rhe moun
tain men. They share with the beast* j
a passion of living that Is wholly un- |
known on the plains; bill yet they have j
a certain quality of Imperturbability '
known nowhere else. Nor Is it limited J
to the native-horn mountaineers No
iniin who intimately knows a member
of that curious, keen-eyed little army ,
of naturalists and big-game hunters j
who go to the north woods every fall,
as regularly and seemingly as Inesc- i
orably as the tvaterfowl go In spring. !
can doubt this fa"t. They seem to i
have acquired from the silence and |
the snows an Impregnation nf that I
eternal calm and Imperturbability that
Is the wilderness Itself. Cranston j
wasn't In the lenst afraid. Kear is
usually a matter nf uncertainty, and
he knew exactly where he sto.'d.
It Is extremely doubtful If a plains
man would have possessed this knowl
edge. Hut a plainsman has not the !
knowledge of life 11self that the moun- |
taineer has. sltnplt because he due* |
tint see it In the ru>v. And he has n<>t
half the Intimate knowledge of death. !
an absolute requisite of self-coin- |
posure. The mout.ialneer knows life j
in Its simple phase.- with little tradi
tion or convention to blur the vision.
Death Is a very lutlmnte acquaintance
that may he met In anv snowdrift, on I
any rocky trail; and these conditions 1
are very deadly to my delusions that
he has In regard to himself. He ac- '
quires an ability to see Just wl.ere he
stands, and of course that means self
possesslou. This quality had something
to do with the remarkable record that
the mountain men. such as that mag- .
nlflcent warrior from Tennessee, made i
In the late war.
Cranston knew exactly wnai snow
Mrd would do. Although of u higher
order, she was a mountain creature,
even as himself. She meant exactly
what «he said. If he hadn't climbed
from Dan's prone body, she would
liave shot quickly and very straight. If ,
lie tried to attack either of them oo»v, j
her linger would press hack before he
could blink an eye, and she wouldn't '
weep any hysterical tears over bis !
dead body. If he kept his distance,
the wouldn't shoot at all. He me:'nt
to keep his distance. But he did know
that he could Insult her without dan
ger to himself. And by now tils lips
liad acquired their old curl of scorn.
"I'll go. Snowbird." he said. •'I'll
leave you with your slsgy. But I guess j
1111111
"I Guess You Saw What I Old to Him."
jou sajv what 1 Uiil u» lilrn—In two
minutes.
"1 saw. But yon must remember
he's sick. Now go."
"If he's sick, lei him slay in bed— I
un<i have a wet nurse. Maybe you can
lie lhat."
The lids drooped halfway over her
pray eyes, ami the slim tinser curled
more tightly about the trigger. "Oh,
I wish I could shoot you. Bert 1" she
•aid She didn't whisper It <ir hiss It.
or hurl It. or do any of the things most
people are supposed 10 do in moments '
of violent emotion. She simply said
It. and her meaning was all the
clearer.
"But you can't. And I'll pound that 1
milk sop of yours to a Jelly every time
I «ee lilin. I'd think. Snowbird, that
you'd want a man."
lie started up ihe trail; and then I
she did a strange thing. "He's more of
a man than you are right now. Bert." '
she told him. "lie'll prove It some I
day." Then her arm went about ban's 1
neck and lifted hlr. head upon her '
breast: and In Cranston's plain sight. I
she bent and kissed him, softiy. on
the Hps.
Cranston's answer was an oath. It ,
dripped from his lips, more poisonous,
more malicious than the venom of a '
snake. His features seemed to tight- |
en. the dnrk lips drew away from his |
teeth. No words could have made |
him such an effective answer as this |
little action of her- And as he turned i
up the trail, he culled down to her .
a name- that most dreadful epithet
that foul tongues have always used .
to women held In greatest scorn.
Pan struggled in her arms. The
kiss on his lips, the Instant before, i
had not called him out of his half- •
consciousness. It had scarcely seemed |
real, rather Just an Incident In a blls9- .
fill dri'iim. Bin the word called dowD !
the trail shot out clear and vivid from j
Ihe silence, just as a physician's face
ill often leap from the darkness af
ter the anesthesia. Something infinite
ly warm and tender was holding hltu. j
pressing him hiiek against a holy place ,
that throbbed and gave him life and |
strength: but he knew that this word
had to lie answered And only actions, J
not other words, could be its payment.
All the voices of Ills body called to I
him to lie still, but the voices of the ;
spirit, those higher, nobler prompting*
from which no man. to the glory of ■
the breed from which be sprung, can |
ever quite escape, were stronger yet. i
lie tugsi-d upward strainine. But he
didn't ev<?n have the strength to break i
the hold that the soft arm had about j
his neck.
"i>h. If 1 could only pull the trig- 1
ger!" she was crying. "If I could |
only kill him—"
"I.et inc." he pleaded. "Give me I
the pKtol. I'll kill him—"
Ami he would. There w-as no flinch- j
Inp in the pray eyes thai looked up |
to her. She leaned forwnnl. as If to
put the weapon in his hands, hut at j
once drew It hack. And then a single
snh rancht nt her rhnvt. An instant |
later they heard Cranston's laughter ,
n« he vanished around the turn of the "
nuin
For lone minutes the rwn of them
were «'ill The irirl stHI ht»M the man's I
head upon her breast. The pistol had |
fallen In the pine needles. find her ,
ncrvon* hand plucked strancely hi the ,
leaves of n mountain flower. To Pan's 1
eyes, there wa« soruethlnE trancellke. I
a hint of paralysis unrt Insensibility
about her posture. He hail never seen
her eyes like ibis The Msht that he
had always heheld In them had van- |
Ished. Their utter darkness startled I
him.
He sat up strnijht. and her arm that |
had hern ahoul his neck felt at her ,
side, ne took tier hand firmly In tils, I
and their eyes met.
"We must en home. Snowbird." he :
told her simply. "T'tn not so badly
hurt but that I mn make It."
She nodded; bilt otherwise scarcely
seemed to bear. Her eyes still flowed
with darkness. And then, before his
own eyes, their dark pupils heran to
contract. The hand he held filled and
throbbed with life, and the flneers
closed around his. She leaned towurd !
Iiltn.
"Listen. Pan." she said quickly. |
"Ton heard—didn't you—the last thing i
that he said?"
"I couldn't help but hear. Snow- !
bird."
Her other hand soucht for his. |
"Then If yon beard—pay nt must be j
made. Von see what 1 mean, Pan. '
Mavbe you can't see, knowing the girls |
tluit live on the j lalns. You were the \
canse of his saying It, and you must •
answer—"
If spemer to ITSU tnnr some mr™
code of tin' hills, imwrltten except In |
the hearts of their children. Inexorable i
ns nlpht. was speaking through her
lips. This wns no personal thine. In |
sntne dim. hrlf-understood way. It j
went hark to the h isip code of life.
"People must tisht their own flehts.
up here," she tolil liltn. "The laws
of the eonrts that the plains people I
ran appeal to are all too far away. '
There's no onp that can do It, except '
voti. Not my fathpr. My father can't i
fight yonr battles here. If your honor [
Is trolnc to stand. It's np to you. Dan. j
Vou can't pretend 'hat you didn't hear |
him. Such as you are. weak and sick
to be beaten to a ptllp In two minutes,
yon alone will have to make him an
swer for It. I came to your aid—and
now yon must come to mine."
flor fingers no longer clasped his.
Strength had come ba^k to him, and
his flncers closed down until the blood j
went out of hers, but she was wholly j
unconscious of thu pain. In reality, I
she was conscious of nothing except |
the growlne flame in his face. It held \
her eyes In passionate fascination. His 1
pupils were contracting to little bright |
dots In the gray Irises. The Jaw was ,
setting, as she had never seen It be
fore.
"Po you think. Snowbird, that you'd
evtii. iiiive lu asU ue?" Ue 4eji»ii(j£4
"Don't yon think I iin'JIerstantr? Arid
It won't he in yonr defense—only my
own dutv."
"But hp I* so strong—and yon are
so weak—"
"1 won't be so wesk forever. 1 nev
er really eiirvl much about living he
fore. HI try now and you'll we—
oh Snowhlrd wait nod trust me: I
understand everything, rt's my own
tleht— when yon kissed me. and he
cried down that word In anper and
Jealousy. It put the whole thing on roe.
No one else can make blm answer: no
one else has the rlgtit. If* my honor,
no ope else'*, thni stands or falls'*
He llftefl her hand to his lips and
kissed ft again and a en in.
And for the first time he saw the
tears gathering In her dark eyes "Bnt
yon fought here, didn't von. Dan?"
she asked with painful slowness. "Too
didn't pnt up you' arms—or rry to
run away? t didn't come till he had
yon done, so I didn't see." She looked
at him as If her whole Joy of life hung
on his answer.
"Fought! I wonld have rought fill
J died! Bill that Isn't enough. Snow
bird. It Isn't enough Just to fight. In
a case like this. A man's got to win'
I would have died I* you hndnt come
And that's another deht that I have
to pay—only that deht I owe to you."
She nodded slowly. The lives of
the mountain men are not saved hy
their women without Incurring obliga
tion. She attempted no barren de
nials. She made no effort to pretend
he had not Incurred a tremendous debt
when she had come with her pistol. It
was an unavoidable fact. A life for
a life Is the code of the mountains.
"Two things I mnst do before I can
ever dare to die," be told her soberly.
"One of them Is to pay you: the "tner
Is to pay Cranston for the thing he
said. Maybe the chance will never
cotne for the first of the two: onlv Dl
prnj that li will. Maybe 11 w.mld he
kinder ro you to pray that II wouldn't;
yet I pray that It will! Maybe I ran
pay that debt only by being always
ready nhvavs watching for a chance
to save you from any dancer, always
trying to protect you. Vou didn't
come In time to see the flght I made.
Besides— I lost and little else mat
ter*. And that debt to yon can't be
paid umil sometime I fight again—for
you—and win." He gasped fmtn his
weakness but went on bravely. "I'll
ne>er be able to feel at peace. Snow
bird. until I'm tested In the tire before
your eyes! 1 want to show you the
things Crnnston said of me are not
true—thai iny courage will stand the
test.
"It wouldn't be the satne. perhaps,
with an Eastern girl. Other things
matter In the valleys. Rut I see bow
It Is here: that there Is only one
standard for oien and by that stand
ard thev rise or fall. Things In the
mountains are down to the essen
tials."
He paused and struggled for
strength to continue. "And I know
what you said ro hlra." he went on.
"Half-unconscious as I was. I remem
ber every word. Each word lust seems
to burn Into me. Snowbird, and HI
make every one of them good. Tou
said 1 am a better man than he. and
sometime It would be proved—and It's
the truth I Maybe In a month, maybe
In a year. I'm not going to die from
this malady of mine now. Snowbird.
I've got too much to live for—too
ninny debts to pay. In the end. I'll
Drove vonr words ro hlpi "
(Continued on Thursday)
If It Only Could Be Oona.
Rubber—Why is the Juke editor hav
ing an X-ray machine installed In hl«
office ?
Neck—He wants to look through the
jokes he receives.—Science and Inven
tion.
Naturally.
First Olrl—Are you sure that h#
loves yon, and you alona?
Second Girl—Oh. yes; more then
than at any other time.—EdlDbutfh
Scotsman.
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FRATKRNAIi ORDERS
Camp Skaffwaj- So. 1
moon every *econd and
fourth Tuesday evening
at 8:50 o'clock. Visit
j lng l>r<Mher* cordUJIy wolrome.
4. M. Keller, U 8. Kcll.-r,
Arctic Recorder, Arctic Clilef
B. P. O. EI.KS, Skua
way Lodge, So. 431, II.
P. O. Elks niwis every
Thursday at 8 p. m.
Visiting brothers cop
dially wclcome.
J. c. woon, E. R.
F. 3. VAXDKWAI4L, Socrctary.
F. & A. M.
White Pass Lodge F. & A.
M. No. US, meets 2nd and
4th Saturday evenings of
each month at 8 o'clock.
Visiting Brethren are wel
come.
F. J. Tun <le Wall, W. M.
T. J. Standish, Secretary.
month at their h»U on Fifth Ave
nue. Visiting brothers cordially In
vited to attend.
C. H. ROGERS, W. P.
J. M. Grlesbacli, Sec'y.
Fraternal Order of
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Ska£-waj Aerie, No. 25,
Fraternal Order of
Waft/ Eagles, meet the first
and third Wednesday night of each
Naomi Chapter No. 9
O. K. 6., meets In Ma
sonic hall, first and
third Friday of each
month, at 8 o'clock.
Visiting members welcome.
POLLY WEBSTER
Worthy Matron
Fanny Sperr, Secretary.
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In Territory of Alaska
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For
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past year In Congress, by voting for his re-nomina
tion at the Republica primary on April 25, 1022.
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