Charley Chaplin's Comic Capers
His Life Is Saved
Copyright, 1915, by Keeloy-Handy Syr>dicat«.
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THE "BIG LADY"
OF SB
By Bessie^ Beatty
(Ou board Steamer Seattle en route
to Sitka)
From the San Francisco Call:
"Why did sho have tears la he;
eyes? Carolyn asked. "She wns
such a big, big lady. She shouldn't
cry-"
"Tears," said I to Carolyn, "are,
unfortunately, not a queston of
size, mv dear. For all that history
says to the contrary. Atlas may
have had lachrymal ducts."
No sooner had I spoken than I
realized myself guilty of no less an
indiscretion than a probable contra
diction of Carolyn's mother, 'who ha
doubtless been telling Carolyn, ever
since she was old euough to toddle,
that Shi was getting much too big
to cry.
Of course, Carolyn's mother
knows better. Sha knows, as we
all do, that a woman is never too
big to weep. She just lives up to
ail the old traditions In the up
bringing o* her child, and not far
worlds would I consciously contra
dict her behind her back.
But this 6tory has really nothing
to do with Carolyn or her mother.
It is about tha "big lady;."
llflr name is Harriet Pullen, and
she is a big lady la spile of the
tears. She 1s perhaps the biggest
lady in all the great Territory of
Alaska. At any rate, her fame has
gone lar beyond the range of the
northern lights.
We found her in quaint and ro
mantic iikagway, running a remark
able little hotel, tha Pullen House,
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and known to every tourist who
comes to this end of the world.
Mrs. Pullon's story, shouid fee in
teresticg to women, anywhere. To
tell it Li detail would be to tell the
whole passionate tale of the trail
of '9S, with the tragedy and ro
mance, courage and cowardice,
strength and weakness of that mad
rush for the yellow gold that works
its way with man.
I, in the limits of space, can
touch only the high places.
In the mld<ile '90s Airs. Pullen,
her husband and three sons were
living on a government reservation
in Washington to which Grover
Cleveland had granted them a pa
tent. Suddenly through one of
those strange governmental deci
sions that take no account of the
individual, they were deprived,
without compensation, of their home
and the fruits of all their labor.
W'r. Pullen died, and in 1S97 Airs
Pullen, with three small sons, the
oldest only ten, arrived at Skag
way. she brought with her four
head of horses, a wagon and a set
of harness. With this equipment
she expected to make a liviug for
herself and her three sons.
Thwe was no wharf at Skagway
then, and the horse were put over
board to swim ashore. By the time
sli9 aud the children were safely
landtd the harness had been stol
en, and there wasn't another set to
be had in Skagway for love or la
bour.
Hay was $ 150 a ton. JJiviae 11 d
four horses and you have a mathe
matical result capable ol staggering
one for lisa vulnerable than a
penniless widow with three small
bodies depending upon, her for
food might bo expected to be.
lira. Pullev-, in her own language,
"went to building p.ies." She took
a job cooking for a wharf crew un
til she had &aved up enough to
buy a new set o£ harness. Then she
went into> the buslnes of freighting
making daily trips over the moun
tains with her four horses pulling
ahead o' her. In the meantime she
built u^ a reputation for green ap
ple Pies that has outlived far more
romantic memories in the hearts
of hundreds of members of that
Arctic Brotherhood now scattered to
the four corners of the world.
I walked past the little boarded
up hole in the "wall which later be
came her rostaunmt, and listened
to a native explain that the shack
across the way was "Soapy" Smith's
saloon.
"Soapy' Smith, if you'll recall
the fact and fiction of thosg early
Alaskan days, was the desperado
who, with his gang, conducted a
profitable traffic in human life
along the trail of '98.
With a system of camps he fed,
housed, robbed and murdered (or
murdered and robbed, if in his
judgment this was the more expedi
tious way of plundering) unknown
and probably unbelievable numbers
of those who had escaped the na
tural daDgers of the frozen North.
No one can go to Skagway without
hearing his story and being shown
his grave and the grave of the
man who killed him in the fight,
as his tombstone tells, "to save the
honor of Skagway."
But though their shacks were
only the width of a street apart,
the stories of "Soapy" Smith ajid
Mrs. Pullem must have very differ
ent endings. j
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CHARLEY . JOHN
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Where ¥on Can Get what You Desire Coeval ma it Should Be !
M&te a specialty 0f Banqnet# <ad Prtrata Dlaaer Partlea.
A reSaed a»d oomfortabla place tor a »npper aftar the ehow
or dance—■erric* la «wy prlTaU bootlm U desired.
Ia the engineering corps of the
United States army there Is a
young red-headed giant who has a
place In the story, and oyer at
Dawson there is another husky
youn^ engineer occupying an envi
able position, who also belongs
here.
They are the two elder Bona of
Harriet Pullen. The older, Dan Pul
lon, was the first cadet appointed
to West Point from Alaska, and
to the credit of tho North and the
joy of his mother he carried off
moro different kinds of honors than
any other single cadet in the re
ceait history of the institution. When
in 1910 he was made captain of the I
West Point football team she
glowed with maternal pride, and
his appointment to the all-star Am
erican team could never have given
him half the thrill it gave her.
"And the third boy?" I asked.
It was than that the eyes of the
big, big lady filled with tears.
"He was drowned two years ago
while he was on his way back) to
Washington to college," she said.
How did you ever manage to do
so much for them?" 1 asked, try
ing to divert her from the one who
had gone to the two who remain.
"X didn't. They did it all for
themselves," she answered.
And though I kept my opinion
about the relative importance of
mothers, I said nothing.
In Defense of Conscience.
The meanest thing ever said about
conscience were the words put Into
Hamlet's mouth by William Shake
speare: "Thus conscience does make
cowards of us all."
TIi5 remark has caused many people
to believe that conscience was nothing
but a coward maker, and consequently
they have refused to have anything to
do with it. Never was anything more
unjust Shakespeare's assertion ia true
only on the assertion that we are all
sinners. To be fair, he should have
said: "Thus conscience does make cow
ards of all of us who havo sinned or
who are about to sin." Then he would
have been more in agreement with Sol
omon, who was wiser, and who said.
"Tho -wicked flee when no man pur
sueth, but the righteous, are as bold
as a lion."—Life.
Curious Old Drink Th«ory.
One of the most singular views on
drinking ever recorded occurs In a
letter from Sir Henry Ingelby on Aug.
21, 10G1, printed In "Prylngs Among
Private Papers."
"Sir William Is so 111," wrote the
baronet, "one of his doctors told me
yesterday there was no manner of
hope. * * * I bare been taught that
Jupiter allows every man who comes
Into the world a different proportion of
drink, which, when he has dispatched,
there remains nothing for him to do
but to die, and that the proportion and
expedition make great difference In
men's ages."—London Standard.
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