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SMALL SCHOOL 1USTOBIES BK Bl'BXED
In a recent commencement address at Lincoln college. Lawrence \
Merman, formerly l'uited States senate r, took a needlessly gloomy view
of the teaching of history. "All school histories," he said, "ought to be
burned." Tl>e commencement'season is opening with exceptional vigor;
it will be hard for the most pessimistic of orators to go further. "Js'3«
ideals must be taught." be told his young uearers. "or civilization wll.
be quenched lu a new dark age." This we have beard before, but Mr.
Shen::an is perhaps the first to put the responsibility upon the teacher of
history. The ancient and melieval history taught inschools he calls
menace soiling the mind of a child." His scared listeners may have
wondered how much of it had rubbed off their minds.
History as it is taught is "an approving recital of crime by whole
sale." I'nder this malign influence the present generation "knows more
3i Uelshazzar's last toyal drunk and Alexander's butcheries than of human
Justice. Julius Ciesar and Attlla the Hun are more familiar spirits than
A-istotle and the apostles. Battlefields are depicted as scenes of human
progress." Such a depiction was made of them from 1914 to 191S; it
r.mv 1 i«J2 but in his study of history even a commencement orator should
not forget events and points of view only four years old. When the war
began the National Education association was discussing this very ques
tion of taking war out oi ..-.story; the debate was adjourned, and if it is re
sumed it will have to be from a very different point of view.
The whole question of teaching history, indeed may be transformed
by the new ideals embodied by ti. G. Wells in his outline of history. He
di.es not ignore war, and he gives more space to Alexander than to Aris
totle. but he puts battles und conquest into their place us a part of the
long story of the ascent of man. To the professors of history he may be
a mere amateur, but he has shown how to get people interested In his
tory . and this after all is the real problem.—Ketchikan Chronicle.
XKKD FOK XKW « AIJI.K IS IMI'KKATIYK
The need for a new cable between Seattle and Alaska is very great.
Anyone who has gone through the frequent interruptions to the Signal
i orps communication service knows thai fact to be outstanding. None
is more familiar with the condition of the present cable than the -men
who operate it and those who are responsible for keep.ug It lu repair. All
of them are unanimous in the conviction that it must be replaced without
delay.
The telegraph and cable lines operated by the Signal Corps in the
North probably form the only self-suporting Government institution lu
Alaska. The stretch of cable between S.tka and Seattle is a vital sec
tion. When it goes out of commission it cuts off from direct communi
cation to the States. It is true tnat the Naval Kadio Service affords some
communication facilities but it Is not equipped to handle ail of the busi
ness that is gathered by the Signal Corps' 1 ties throughout the Territory.
It does not attempt to handle all of such business, and delays to the! it
does handle are common and frequently expensive. The radio service
generally, does not replace that artorded by submarine cables In any part
of the world. The old idea that it would do so, Inst advanced when
radio development began, bus been exploded long ago. Ti.e ore merel>
supplements the other.
Cable experts engaged in repairs on the Sitka-Seattle c;.b'a, many
months ago reported that its life had about been lived and owii'fc to its
weakened condition it was next to impossible to repair when a break oc
curred. There is do real reason existing why it should not be replaced
by a new and more modern one. In actuality there is no economy In re
fusing to appropriate funds for th.s purpose and it is to be hoped tiiat the
Signal Corps and Alaska's Delegate will be able to make i casij i 'i Uull}
strong to secure the necessary money.—Juneau Empire.
ONE OK THK CAVSKS
Nearly every day we read about divorce cases here aud there. Of
course, there are many causes for dlvoree. but one of the most prolific
is the unresponsiveness of husbands. Inis has been demonstrated tim«
w.tuout number. Take business men who are rushed ail day long or
laborers who work hard, these men go home from their day's wark tired
and worn, aud slinking into the easiest chair bury themselves lu thoug'iU
or newspaper. The busiuessman has been extremely busy with many
tasks aud probably has discussed the news of the day with djzens of peo
ple. He has exhausted both his physical and mental "r;>g-shewiug" en
durance. All he wants then is rest aud comfort. Naturally he is in no
mood for gossip. Meanwhile, his wife has possibly been shut in from
the world all day doing her everlasting bouse works. To her his home
coming is the event of the day and her rising spirit is ready for an ex
change of news or conlidence. But be cannot rise to the occasion and
(,u:te often he makes no attempt to do so. After a whi'.e the wife con
cludes t! at he uo longer loves her c.nd proceeds to drink the bitterest cup
that fate raises to the lips of a woman. As a matter of fact, half of the
bitterness and woe of the marital relation that lead to divorce has its
origin in the husband's unresponsiveness to his wife's mental needs. Of
course, a woman should consider her husband's condition, but that works
both ways, aud the mau should at lor.st try to be pleasant. But, we had
torgotte^—It is too much to expect of men.—Ketchikan.
NOW THERE!
biiWilliam MacHara cmd ^HwinBalmer
(bpuriqhf bu EdwirvBulmer^
Illustrations by
lpwinrtyevs'
It was possible tTSai none 01 cn<-s<
people knew about Corvet; Alan liail
uot known about lilui In Kansas, but
bad known only tliat some unknown
person hud sent money for bis support
But he appreciated that It did not
matter whether they knew about him <
or u<>t; .or at some point common to
all of l hem, the lives of these people
must i.ave touched Corvet's life. When
\lan knew what had been fhat point
of contact, he would know about Cor
vet ; lie would know about himself.
Alan hud seen among Corvet's
hooks u sei of charts of the Great
Lakes. He went and pot that now und
aii atlas. Opening them upon the ta
ble, he looked up the addresses given
on Corvet's list. Tliev were most
them, he found, towns about the north
ern end of the lake; a very few upon
other lakes—Superior and Huron—
but most were upon or very close to
Lake Michigan. These people lived by
means of the lake; they got their sus
irimnce from It, as Corvet had lived,
and as Corvet had got his wealth. Alan
was feeling like one who, bound, bus
been suddenly unloosed. From the time
when, coining to see Corvet. he had
found Corvet gone, until now. he had
felt the Impossibility of explaining
from anything he knew or seemed like
ly to learn the mystery which had sur
rounded himself and which bad sur
rounded Corvet. But these names and
addresses! They Indeed ottered some
thing to go upou. though Luke now
was forever still, and his pockets hud
toU Alan nothing.
He found Kiiuuet county on trio mnp
and put lils ftn^er on lt> S|>euruiaii.
VVassaquutn hml said, came from
there. "The Lap.I of the [irinu!" lie
said aloud. Peep Mini sudden feeling
stirred In hlui us he trmvd out this
land on the chart—the little towns ami
villages, the Islands mid headlands,
their lights and their uneven shores.
A feeling of "home" had come to him,
which he had not had on coming to Chi
cago. There were Indian numes und
French up there ahout the meetings
of the greut waters. The sense that
lie was of these lakes, that surge of
feeling which he had fell tlrst In con
versation with Constance Sherrtli wus
strengthened an hundredfold.
He gazed down at the lists of names
which Benjamin Curvet had kept so
carefully and so secretly: these were
his father's people, too; these ragged
shores and the Islands studding the
channels were the lands where his fa
ther had spent the luost active part
of his life. There, then—tl -se lists
now made it certain—that events had
hup|>etied by which tlint life had heen
blighted. North, there hy the meeting
of the waters, was the region of the
wrong which was dime.
| "That's where I must go!" he said
aloud. "That's where I must go!"
| Constance Sherrlll, on the following
afternoon, received a telephone call
'roui her father; he was coming liotue
earlier than usual, he said; If she had
planned to go out, would she wait mi
| til after he got there? The afternoon's
[ mall was upon u stand In the hull. She
turned It over, looking through It—In
I citations, social notes. She picked
from among tin in au envelope ad
dressed to herself In a Brni, clear
hand, which, unfamiliar to her, still
queerly startled her, and tore It open.
"Dear Miss Sherrlll." she read.
"1 am closing, for the titue being,
the house which, for default of other
ownership, I must call mine. The pos
sibility that what has occurred here
would cuuse you and your father anxi
ety ahout me in case I went away
without telling you of my Intention Is
the reason for tills Uote, But It Is uot
the only reason. I count not go away
without telling you how deeply 1 up
preelute the generosity and delicacy
you ond your futher have shown me
In spite of my positlou here and of the
fact that 1 hud no claim at ull upon
you. I shall not forget those, even
though what huppened here last night
makes it Impossible for me to try to
see you again or even lo write to you.
"ALAN CO Nit AD."
She heard her father's motor enter
the drive Htul ran to him with the let
ter In her hand.
"He's written to you, then?" he said,
at sight of it.
"Yes.1
"I had « note from hlra this after
noon at the ol!ice. asking ine to hold
In abeyance for the time l>el»g tlie
trust that Ben hail left oie .ind return
lng the key of the house to me for
safekeeping."
"lias he already gon«?"
"I suppose so; I don't knov."
"We must find out." She caught U|i
her wraps and began to put them on.
Sherrill liesltated, then assented; anil
they went round the block together to
the Corvet h« use. Sherrill. after u few
lactams' hesitation, look the key from
his pocket and unlocked the door ami
pent In. The rooms, they saw. wen
all In perfect order; summer covers
had been put upon the furniture; pro
tectliiK clollis had been spreau ovei
vba hud* uu»lnir&. Altec, their uisuec
tlon, tney cume our again hi ilie rront ;
door, mill her fnther closed It with h
sniippiiiK spring look.
Constance, as they walked away,
turned unr] looked hack lit I lie oltl
house, gloomy and ilnrk among Its
newer, fresher-looking neighbors, mid I
suddenly she choked, and her eyeg |
grew wet. That feeling wus not for j
Uncle Benny; the drain of days past]
had exhausted sueli a surge of feeling |
for Mm. Thilt which she could not |
wink away was for the boy who had
com? to thai house u few weeks ago
and fur the man who Just now had
gone.
CHAPTER XII
The Things From Corvet'« Pocket*. '
"Miss Constance Sherrlll.
Harbor Springs, Michigan."
The address, in large scrawling let
ters. wus written across the brown
paper of the package whicii bad been
brought from the post olllce i the lit
tle resort village only a few moments
before. The paper covered n shoe box,
crushed and old, hcuring (lie name of
"S. Klug. Dealer In Fine Shoes, Mani
towoc, Wisconsin." The box/ like the
outside wrapping, was carefully tied
with a string.
Constance, knowing no "in" in 3iiii»i
towoc ami surprised al Hit' nature of
the packuge. glanced at llir postmark
oh tlie brown puper which sin- had re
moved ; il too was stamped Manito
woc. She cut the string ahoul the
box and took olT ihe cover. A block
and bro>\u dotted silk cloth tilled ilie
bus; and. seeing II, Constance caught
her breath. It was—at least It was
very like—the mtiirier wlileh t'licle
Benny used to wear in winter.
She started with trembling lingers
to take it from the box; then, realiz
ing from the weight of the package
Lliut the cloth was only a wrapping or,
at least, thai other things were in the
box, she picked lip box and wrapping
and ran up to her room. Slit' locked
the door mid put the box upon the
bed; now she lifted out the cloth. It
was a wrapping, for ilie heavier things
came with it; and now, also. It re
vealed Itself plainly as the scarf—Un
cle Benny's s'urf! A paper liuttered
out as she began to unroll it—a little
cross-lined leaf evidently torn from a
pocket memorandum book. It had
been folded and rolled tip. She spread
It out; writing was upuii It, the small
Irregular letters of L'ncle Benny's
hand.
"Send to Alan Conrad." she read;
there followed u Chicago address—the
number of Uncle Benuy's house on
Astor street. Below this wits another
line:
"Better carp of Constance Slerrill
(Miss)." There followed the .Jier
rills' address upi.u the Drive. And to
this was another correction:
"Not after June 12; then to Harbor
Spring*, Mich. Ask some one of unit;
be sure the date: after June 12."
Constance, trembling, unrolled the
scarf; now coins showed from a fold,
next a pocketknlfe, ruined and rusty,
next a watch—a man's large gold
watch with the case queerlv pitted
and worn completely through In places,
and Inst a plain little hand of gold of
the size for a woman's linger—a wed
ding ring. Constance, gasping and
with fingers shaking so from excite
ment that she could scarcely hold
these objects, picked them up and ex
amined them—the ring first.
It very evidently was, as she had
Immediately thought, a wedding ring
once fitted for a finger only n trifle
less slender than her own. One side
of the gold band was very ranch worn,
not with the sort of wear which a
ring gets on a hand, lint by some dif
ferent sort of abrasion. The other
side of the bnnd was roughened and
pitted but not so much worn; the In
side still bore the traces of un in
scription. "As long in we bo . . .
all alive," Constance could read, and
the date, "June 2, 1S01."
It was in January, 1896, Constance
remembered, that Alan Conrad had
been brought to the people In Kansas;
he then was "about three years old."
If thli wedding ring was his mother's,
the dnte would be about right; It was
a date probably something more than
a year before Alan was born. -Con
stance put down the ring and picked
up the watch. It was like Uncle Ben
ny's watch—or like one of his watches.
He had several, she knew, presented
to him at various times—watches nl
most always were the- testimonials
given to seamen for acts of sacrifice i
and bravery. The spring which op-1
erated the cover would not work, but :
Constance forced the cover open.
There, Inside the cover a| she had j
thought It would be, was engraved
writing. Sand had seei>ed Into the j
case; the Inscription was obliterated
lo part.
"For bis courage and skill tn j
seam . . . master of . . . which he1
brought to the rescue of the passen
sers and crew of the steamer Winne
bago rounderlng . . . Point. Lake
Erie. Nov. 2rt. 1*!V), this watch Is
donated, by the liuttalo Merchants' EJk
change."
Uncle, Benny's name, evidently, hud
heon engraved upon the outside. Con
fctonoe con Id not particularly remem
ber the rescue of the people of tb«
Constince Choked, and Her Eyes Filled
With Tear*.
Winnebago; 1890 was years before she
was born, nml Uncle Benny did net
tell her tliut sort of thing about hlw
nelf.
Constance left the watch open anil,
shivering a little, she gently laid It
down upon her bed. The pocketknlfe
had no distinguishing murk of any
sort. The coins were abraded and pit
ted disks—11 silver dollar, a half dol
lar and three quarters, not so much
abraded, three nickels, and two pen
nies.
Constance choked, and her eyes filled
with tears. These tilings—plainly
tl^ey were the things found In Uncle
Benny's pockets — corroborated only
too fully what Wassaquam believed
and what her father bad been coining
to believe—that Uiicle Benny was
dead. The muffler and the scrap of
jiajier had not been In water or In
sand. The paper was written In pen
cil ; it bad not even been moistened or
It would have Idurred. There was
nothing upon It to tell how long ago
It had been written; but It bad been
written certainly before June 12.
"After June 12," It said.
That day was Aueust the el^tetyth.
(Continued on Saturday)
WISCONSIN REPUBLICANS
AC.A INST L V FOI.LETTE
More tlian onca in recent years
Wisconsin Repitil.<aus have j,re
priec' to unload Senator 1-a f'oleite
a*ii! free ttie or^aiii/ation from the
coi ti-ol of a poillu'iar. who has beei.
unt:ue to the pi.'iy an J il* jo.cleis
Ito, nlaiiy they h.iv.j railed in ll.Cir
efforts. UndisqotiraQi'd :.y past re
veijop. they are laying plans again
thi? year to ca:vv thy fight to a de
cisive issue.
Ii is a Ion,; "itue since Fenator
I,j /"olette win a Repuulican In any
true sense of the word. He has re
tained the" name aii'l kept his hold
on the party organisation in Wis
cl.:sIii. At the proper time he col
loot, the votes ani^is'-s t: ••■•i for hia
o mi political ends Hut toward the
Republican Party as a national cr
Biiiiization, or toward Republican
J-Jr.iinistrations in Washington, he
has regularly hJ ! a t osition of onett
bcsiility. No ona vonld class him as
a temocrat, least of ail locrats.
He it always an israelii* by choice
and by character. And he stloUii ir.
tit3 Senate 'tern after term, to the
annoyance of Ke;iu'.lican Fenatoro
wV>n know that they cannot count
on him in any emergency. s
The Citizens Republican .ctate
Conference, which has raised the
standard of revolt against Senator
La Folette, charges him with being
in alliance with the Socialist Party
and the Non-Partisan League. How
ever, that may be, he is what he is
—a United States Senator and mas
ter of the Republican oragnization
in Wisconsin—by ihe power of re
publicans votes. lie will be displac
ed whenever enough Republican
voters decide that the time has come
to disown him. Until then he will
not be read out of the party because
of his irregularity and self-isolation,
for the reason that the Republican
Party affords him a foothold in pol
itics that he could obtain nowhere
else.—New York World.
A dollar a month will bring th«
Alaskan to rour door.
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B. P. O. ELKS, Skag.
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Thursday ot 8 p. m.
Visiting brothers eor
ilially welcome.
dan Mcdonald, e. r.
P. J. VANDEWALL, Secretary.
P. & A. M.
White Pass Lodge P. & A.
M. No. 113, meets 2n<l and
4tb Saturday evenings ot
each month at 8 o'clock.
Visiting Brethren are wel
T' come.
P. J. Van de Wall, W. M.
j T. J. Standlsh, Secretary.
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Fraternal Order of
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J nue. Visiting brothers cordially In
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Fanny Speer, Secretary.
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