POLAR BEAR MAT!
YET GEI FREE
MICE
Dawson, Sept. 10. — Vilhj&lmur
Stelausson, the Arctic explorer, wno
vs'le visiting in this city received
a message from Jafet Lindwberg, the
well known Nome millionaire min
lux operator:'"The message read:
"A revenue cutter arrived here
this morutng, hut brings no news of
your expedition. The cutter first
m%t heavy ice lu Waiuwright inlet.
Th,- ice Became heavier as the cut
te* »orttd toward Barrow.
"August 15 the cutter got with
in thirty miles of Borrow, but
cou'" go ao farther. It returned
to W-tinwright and landed the
Harrow freight and mail.
"The schooner Herman passed
Point Hope August t>. working to
waid Barrow, but at np tim« was
sighted by the cutter.
"Reports are very adverse us to
ice conditions for vessels round
ing Barrow from the eastward."
Mr. atefanssou says that, in his
oplt-ion, a change of wind may in
one day drive the ic« completely
from the la-iKl and open a road for
shipd around Barrow before the
freezeap, which, in the average
year, comes in September, eo the
chance of trfe Polar Bear getting
out is still good?. The Polar Bear
is his ship which spent the last
winter at Barter island, 125 miles
we" of Herschel island. The ship
was frozen iu there.
Tlia Herman, mentioned in the
foregoing m^sage, Is carrying eup
pli-s for various trading companies,
and possbilv for the missionaries
au» others in. the Arctic at Hers
ch«i island aud vicinity. She Bhould
t> back to NoiBe late in September.
NATION AL REP CROSS
OFFERS ASSISTANCE
Washington, Sept. 10. — Red
Cross organizations of the Pacific
northwest are making plans to as |
sist women who enter war industries
in every way possible. Mrs. Anna
Y. Reed, social service director for
the Northwest division of the Red
Cross, -will make a careful study of
ts- effect or the entrance or wo
men into industrial work.
Tb* results of her investigations
■will be made public as soon as she
has ha* an ooportunity to compile
them, it is expected.
PACKERS IRK
10 PROFITEER
The Bureau of Fisheries has re
cently learned that some of the
Scotca-cured herring packed in Al
aska during the present season have
fallen far short of the high stand
ard attained by last years pack. Ap
parently a few curera are depart
ing in material features from the
methods used in Scotland with re
sulting inferiority of the product.
Thl. is particularly unfortunate as
♦he Bureau's work in 1917 paved
the way for the establishment of a
hiKh reputation for these Alas
ka fUh and laid the foundations
for fho development of a great
lierrinj industry in the territoy.
A few careless or unscrupulous
men eager for immediate profit
may utterly ruin all chance of this
development. The handlers and
consumers of Scotch-cured herring
in the principal centers of consump
tion cannot be fooled by these
shadv practices and the Jewish
housewife of New York is a bet
ter judge of herring than many of
the m?u who are packing them. Let
no one tnink that he can a "put
on<> over" on this trade, if he
tries i' he will but ruin his own
business and that of everybody else
e"j Xvri in the undertaking. Some
of tie packers of British Columbia
trie* i his last year with the re
sult tnat they cannot sell their pack
a* se>en dollars per barrel.
American packers are likely to
encounter trouble if they brand or
se'i a. Scotch-cured herring, fish
which are not prepared essentially
ad the." are in Scotland. The plac
ing o" the fish belly, up and arrang
ed in a certain way in the barrel
does not constitute Scotch-curing.
Th» Bureau of Chemistry authoriz
es the statement that it will regard
as aiis branded any herring which
are sold as Scotch-cured which do
no* satisty the following require
ments: ! |
1 Thev must be gutted and bled
immediately after being landed.
2. They must be salted1 and
"roused'' immediately after be
in? gutted.
3. They must be cured in. their
own b'ood olckle.
4. They must not be repacked, Dut
placed at once in the final con
tainer. i t
Miss C. Benson, Dressmaking and
Plain sewing by the day or at home.
Repairing a specialty. Fourth Ave.
near W. P. Club. Tue. Thu. Sat- 6t.
VVhit.2 p3ss &> Yukon Rojte
T1MK TABLE Ifo. 41 $
DMlr Except Sunday i
9:30 ». m (.eaves
12:05 p iu.
12:45 p. m.
1:40 p. Hi. "
8:20 p. m. H
0:50 p. to. ArrtvOi
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CARCROSS
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2:30 p. m.
1:50 p. ns.
21:48 a. m.
0:00 ft. m.
Passengers mast be at depot 1b time to hatb uaggage in
spected and cheeked. Inspect las is stopped 80 Minute* before
leaving time of trains.
ISO pounds of baggage wlQ ba checked Tree with Ccfa foD
fare ticket and 75 poonda witU each half tar* ticket.
SALVIA mm* CAftCdfcs
fixe Germans are already specu
lating on the amount of cargo likely
to be salved' from sunken vessels
round the coast of Great, Britain,
Prance and Belgium -when th« war
is over. In this the Huns have
been anticipated by the British and
Allied Governments.
Exoerts employed by the Brit
ish Government have already been
at work, and plans have been
prepared lor a gigantic scheme of
salvaxe in the hope of saving at
least a portion of the immense
stocka of cargo which have been
temporarily "lost" through enemy
aqtlbn. Exactly how this is to be
accomplished is known only to the
British Government official# en
trusted with this great scheme. Hun
dreda o£ the vessels sunk by sub
marine,mine, or other cause He in
comparatively shallow water, or, at
all events, at depths where salvage
operations can be carried out with
every prospect of success.
Many thousands of tons of food
stuffs in nermetically sealed ves
sel are likely to reclaimed with
comparatively little difficuty. Tinned
meals, Dreserved fruits, and con
centrated food- stuffg in vast quan
tities will asuredly be salved'. It
hag been proved in the casa of
sauk* of flour that the action of
salt water penetrates only to a
certain extent, and forms a kind
of "skin," thus preserving the great
er part of the contents of e&cn j
sack. 1 , '
When the Brae© Antarctic J«ye
ditk><- returned to this country it
was found that the foodstuffs in
hermetically sealed vessels were
perfectly fresh, or that cargoes sunk
in tae autumn of 1914 need not be
regarded as irretrievably lost. The
British a a throttles have not been so
rem'ss in anticipating the salvage
of sunken cargoes aa the public
may imagine.
Many commodities of an edible na
ture have been encased; in] tallow or
white lead to withstand th« action
of thf water. Most of the tea which
baa been arriving in this country for
som- time hag been doubly secured
against the action of salt water by
means of double lead casings.. And
many other instances might toe given
of the far-seeing measures adopted
by the British authorities.
Immense quantities of cotton have
been lost within the "barred zone."
Experiments conducted off the coast
of Havanna some years ago proved
that a bale of cotton sunk to the
bottom of the s®a for & period) of
two J ears was comparatively little
damaged tor the action of thg salt
water when raised to the surface.
On'y to something like three or
four laches round the outer edge of
the bale waa the cotton affected by
the sea. Once this was stripped off
the remainder waa found to be per
fectly sound. The possibilities of
successful alvage in this connection
are obvious.
Many of the stately ships sunk in
shallow water will also toe raised,
and even if they are so damage as
to preclude their-being repaired, the
material will at least be added to
the nation's stocks.
LOoT—Gold bar pm, smokey to
paz setting. Finder return to this
office and receive reward.
Mother never made better ice
crornn than thai which to served
U» Keller Bros, at their sanitary
8»dft fountain. Have you tried it?
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It Isn't A Kodak
Brownies At $1.00 Up
KodaksJAt $6.00 Up
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Fifteen Hours
in Durance
rvf»
By SU8AN CLAQGHTT
(Copyright, 1J18, by the McClur# Newapa
per Syndicate.)
Tlio train for Winchester and points
south pulled out on time, although
even then the tracks were deep with
the snow that had been falling stead
ily for 24 hours. Because of the storm
her friends had endeavored to per
Jsuade Louise Cochran to remain in
Washington, but she had laughed at
.their prophecies that unpleasant
things would happen and had wished
them good-by with apparent light
headedness.
In reality she was apprehensive.
She dreaded the delay to which she
might be subjected. She was in haste
to reach Staunton, at which place she
would still be 12 miles from home, and
the prospect of the long drive over
country roads late at night did not ap
peal to her.
But she made herself comfortable,
looked about, taking an inventory of
the passengers. Seeing no one whom
she knew, she applied herself to her
knitting with an occasional glance out
of the frost-rimmed window while the
train kept on its way with ever-in
creasing slowness. There was a pause
now and then for some passenger to
alight. Then the train would start on
again with ever-diminishing speed.
Finally it came to a dead stop, appar
ently miles from anywhere. The worst
had happened. They had run into a
drift and were stalled. And this oc
curred before they had reached Win
chester, not many miles from Wash
ington.
It Is one thins to be snowed up witn
plenty of warmth In the coaches, an
other when the thermometer gets
down to zero and there Is no heat.
Something went wrong with the steam.
The passengers were the usual crowd,
some among them making light of
the discomfort, others grumbling, but In
the end the women took out their
knitting and the men, having found
several packs of cards, settled down
to seven-up or poker.
Bnt after several hours one and all
smuggled down Into their wraps, and
accepted the Inevitable. It was cold,
horribly cold, and everyone was hun
gry. Louise had divided her lunch be
tween two little girls sitting near her.
Between hunger and cold she was feel
ing very forlorn, when a familiar voice
said to her:
"Even if you are not on speaking
terms with me, Louise, I think for the
moment you had better call a truce.
Stand up, please, while I put this
around you."
Her teeth were chattering, but she
managed a "X-no, I am c-comfort
able, thank you."
"Don't be silly, girl," Robert Lee
said roughly. "My coat cannot hurt
you. Stand up or I will pick you up.
Surely you do not want everyone In
the car craning their heads to see
what the fuss Is about."
"T-that Is the t-trouble with y-yon,"
Louise chattered. "Y-you always
t-try to make m-me do things I
don't want to."
"I pretty generally have my way,"
the young fellow said grimly, his Jaw
taking a set look. "When I don't,
things are bound to happen. Will you
' stand up?"
She did not move, and he stooped
over, slipping his arm behind her
shoulders. She shrank from him and
the boy—for he was little more than a
boy In spite of his six-feet-two—drew
back, his face white. *Then he took her
hand and drew her to her feet
"I must say," he muttered, "I had
no Idea you could act so foolishly. I
know you have quarreled with me, but
that is no reason you should freese to
death when I can make you comfort
able." He drew the coat well about
her, then seated himself. "What Is it
all about? Your ring is in my pocket
with a note that I haven't been able
to make anything of. After you are
warm you are going to give me an ex
planation. Here's some chocolate.
Nibble on it and perhaps your dispo
sition will Improve." He pushed the
package Into her reluctant hand, clos
ing her fingers upon It.
"I snw you when we left the union
station, and If It had not been for this
confounded storm I would have left
the train without speaking to you,
but now, believe me, there will be a
perfect understanding between us be
fore we are out of this."
The warmth of the fur-lined coat
was having its effect, and without con
sciously doing so, Louise was taking
little bites of chocolate, thereby find
ing a comfort she had not known be
fore. She looked at the big fellow and
remarked casually:
"It is very good of you to take this
trouble. I did not appreciate how cold
I was, nor how hungry." Here she bit
Into the chocolate with every evidence
of enjoyment. "Do you always carry
sweets about with you?"
But he was absorbed In the contents
of a note he had taken from his pocket
and did not answer. When at last he
raised his head there was a curious
contraction of his eyes and a bulldog
set to his chin that bespoke something
of that animal's tenacity.
"What made you write this, Louise 1
When I saw you a week ago there was
no friction between us, and last night
this reached me out of a clear sky,
What Is the meaning of It?"
"Are you sure you don't know?"
"My conscience Is clear." He looked
at her steadily. "There is no oso fene
Irig tot tlm<fi Vol) bad «ome tiotlvfi
that is beyond me. I must be stupid,
for I am completely In the dark." For
a moment his anger got the better of
•him. "I thought yon different from
thnt crowd of butterflies back there,"
nodding his head in the direction of
Washington. "It seems, however, that
I am mistaken."
"Butterflies!* Louise exclaimed in
dignantly. "Butterflies, Indeed! Every
one of the crowd is at work, and hard
at work, at that Do you think it easy
to spead all night at Union station
meeting troop trains and to stay there
until six o'clock In the morning hand
ing out coffeo and sandwiches to men
who have had nothing to eat for hours
and hours and—"
"The uniform is becoming," be re
torted in an ugly tone. *1 saw yon In
yours."
"To say nothing of the strain upon
one's sympathy. Only last night
Marlon Harland cried like a baby over
an old man and his wife who had come
for a glimpse of their boy who they
had heard was on his way to Oamp
Gordon. Did they find him? No.- In
stead, they were told his company had
left suddenly for Prance. The boy was
in the engineers. If the girls were
butterflies do yon think they wonld
have been moved over the sore trouble
of those two old people?" Her voice
was steady in its wrath. "Would but
terflies go day after day to surgical
dressing rooms; would they care for
three Belgian children and knit and
knit, and knit?"
"Hysteria," he returned stubbornly.
"There are a great many In dead earn
est, but there is also a certain number
that have gone Into the thing for ex
citement and effect But this Is aside
from the matter in which I am Inter
ested. Why did you write this note
and send back your ring?"
Of what he said she caught but one
word. "Hysteria! Oh 1 You great
brute." Two angry tears rolled down
her cheeks. He saw them, although
she had quickly turned her head.
Leaning forward he took her resist
ing hand firmly In his.
"We do not seem to be getting any
where, Louise, Just further and further
from the thing that means everything
to me, to both of us. In spite of my
bewilderment I know you think you
have some good reason for what you
have done. Leave the others out of it
Dear, I am very unhappy."
But she harked back to something
he had said. "Where did you see me
In uniform?" she asked, abruptly.
"At the station two nights ago."
"And you did not speak to met"
"Unfortunately, I could not I was
vfith the general."
"I did not see you." There was an
edge to the tone that caught his atten
tion.
"That would not be surprising In the
crowd."
"You were not in the crowd when I
saw you. There were but two, you
and—"
He took her hands now and forced
her to to turn toward him. "You saw
me? Did you see who was with me?"
"I saw a woman's head against your
shoulder. That was enough."
"Was that why you returned your
ring?"
"Wouldn't you call it a sufficient
reason?"
"Appearances are often deceptive,"
he said slowly. "I thought you trust
ed me."
"Against the evidence of my own
eyes?"
••res, ana Because yon say wai you
believe me unworthy of trust."
"If conditions were reversed, what
would you think?"
"That would be an entirely different
matter," he returned shortly. "Often
situations arise that place a man In
a position In nowise touching the loy
alty he owes the woman he loves, and
i I love you, Louise."
"You will not explain?"
"I cannot, dear. You must accept
my word that there was no disloy
alty."
She turned to him Impulsively. "1
would have given everything I pos
sessed to get that letter back. I beg
ged the carrier to give It to me, but
he wouldn't. He looked sympathetic
and said: 'Sure, If you've quarreled
with him, miss, you'll have to write
another. This now belongs to him.'
I was furious. And I was heartsick
and started home to have it out with
myself."
"That was what I was doing. I was
given a week's absence and was on
my way home. I have a dandy plan to
prevent future complications. What
do—"
Here the conductor Interrupted,
looming big In the dim light. "Pretty
bad, captain," he said In passing, "fif
teen hours of It. But we will be in
Winchester soon. They have dug us
oat from the other side. A terrible
storm."
"A blessed storm," Robert Lee
answered, aa his hand sought and
held the one deep In the pocket of his
coat
"Heh? What?" For a moment the
conductor looked on In amazement,
then a smile of understanding spread
over his face as his gaze rested upon
the flushed countenance of Louise
Cochran. "All In the point of view,
captain," he said, as he passed on.
"All in the point of view."
German Buyers Corner Hides.
According to an article in the Buenos
Aires Herald of October 10, 1917, en
titled "Three Countries Want Hides,"
at a moment when British and Ameri
can hide buyers are seeking Argentine
hides they find the market boosted tfl
extraordinary prices by a very keen
and active competition on the part ol
German buyers,- who are taking all the
dry cattle hides they can find, offering
higher prices than their enemjr conj
petitora. i • |
lOOO 1AXE3
Dot taxes are due the flrtt d*t
of September. Owner* or keeper®
of dog$ Are required to pay * U*
ceuae of $2.00 per dog each, year
or fraction thereof. Peoplg whb
have dogs should pay the tows
treasurer Immediately.
(Signed) Frank Page,
City Marthal:
LOST
Pain- silver round headed ehawl
pins Connected with chain. Will ap
precia'e their return it found.
Mrs. h. H. Pederaen.
©Arctic Brotherhood. —
Camp Skagway No. 1,
meet* every second and
fourth, Tuesday evening
at 8:30 o'clock. Vtelt
brrttms cordially welcome.
Bdwwt A. Rumuon, Arctid CSUsf.
WlHfcua B. Gray, Arctic fleoordor.
Fr*tcrn»l Ordet
Eagles—
SkfigWBJ Aerie*
No. 25, Fr»tfsr
n«l Order of
E* flea meet the tint and thfird
Wednesday night of each mopth tX
their hall an Fifth Avenue. Vlalt.
In* brothers cordially invited to
atleud
John M, Keller, W. P.
. J. M. Ciriesbach, Secretary.
P. & A. M.
WhiU Pas* Lodg«
F. 4b A. M. No. lit
meet# 2d and 4th
Saturday Rv«d1ok*
ci each months. Visiting Brethren
ar« welcome.
HAROLD TALBOT, W. M.
JAHJS3 'WALLACE, Secretary.
a p. a elks
8kagw*j IxxU*
No. 481, B. F. O.
E. meets every
Tiundajr qt 8:30
p. m. Vialtlon
brothers cordially welcome.
OSCAR SELMER, E. B
F. J. VA*iDEWALL, BeciWary.
Plonfer of AJuk* Igloo, No. in,
meet* to A. B. H*U first Monday U
everj month at 8:80 p. nu
Vkilting Brothers cordially wel
come.
W. J. MULVIHILL, Pre#.
J. C. PHELPS, Secy.
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