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THE TRADE OK Ml'HDER
That murder has become a trade seems justilied by the statistics of the
past several years. Nine thousand murders for the past year is a slight do
crease from the previous year's record, but it is enough to show that sav
agery and the lust for revenge :• itd murd. rous greed still lurk iu the human
heart. I
In the old days the west and southwest were notorious for their gun- I
men and their indiscriminate killings. There were some reasons for sucli J
conditions in the circumstances. Those were pioneering days, the days of i
quest and conquest, when the east traveled towards the lands of the setting j
sun in search of homes atid fortunes. Lawlessness was inevitable. The
str ing hand had to make its own law until decency and order were imposed
by the force of the real builders of civil zation. But for years the gamblers
and gunmen, the wastrels ar.d train robbers, bandits high and bandits low
enjoyed their red regime.
Today the west in this respect seems civilized when compared with tne
old ard cultured east The early enterprising adventures of Deadwood.
Cripple Creek. Tombsto- 'nd otj'er lurid centers would have regarded
present New York. Chicago aud Memphis as really hot towns, which indeed'
they are So must be characterized Petroit."Boston. St. Louis, and Use rest
of the "wild east."
And this red business ,s going to go right on until the law Is enforced as
It should be enforced. Public sentiment must be stimulated to command
this rlsid enforcement. Police department* should be revised and system
atized in such manner as to secure in their administration the best men in '
any community. The "understandings" existent among politicians, crooks,
gunmen and forsworn police authorities must he forever destroyed, and this
can only be done by cleaning lip politics in evercity and making it an hon- ,
or for any man to occupy a position as a pol.ce commissioner, chief, officer I
or patrolman.
Murders will not be so plentiful when murderers promptly are meted 1
the punishment the crime demands atid deserves.—Cincinnati Enquirer.
I»A\<iKR IN I"\K\IXK1 > BOOSTING
Mr Faulkner's suggestion at rlie Juneau Commercial association meet
ing Thursday, that a great deal of tl e advertising that Alaska is getting in
the Kast just now is working against as well as (or the territory, is timely.
Ti:e frequently reiterated Statement that Alaska's resources would pay off
the national debt, unless it is an nnpunfrd by a statement that would ex
plain how they could be made to di> so. is water on the wheel of the Piu
chotites. These statements, in t. fir skillful hands, cause Easterners to
think there is a great storehous here tt at belongs to them and that their 1
representatives should not permit the government to part with its title to j
It. but should use it for the purpose of paying the war bonds. They do not ^
stop to think that the resources are absolutely worthless as they are—thut ,
the storehouse is a liability and '.till continue to be such until the resourc
es are developed by capital.
The only way the people of the country can realize on Alaskan resourc- 1
es is to give them to those who ruin* here and develop them, and thus
create a commonwelath that will help to bear the cost of the government
and provide a market for the products of the rest of the nation. Suppose '
the forefathers had taken the Pinchol view of the country west of the Al- !
lei:hanies and locked up the great storehouses of the Mississippi valley, the I
Louisiana purchase, the Floridas. the acquisitions from Mexico and the i
Oregon country to hold the resources for the original thirteen states! The '
fact that they threw them open ard gave the soil and the natural resourc- '
es to those who would claim them and develop them made this the great- j
est nation in the world and brought riches beyond the imagination of those I
who remained behind to run the factories and hanks and transportation J
companies and other activities of the fringe of states along the Atlantic, i
Alaska can serve the nation If treated in tl e same manner. If the unde- !
\eloped resources are retained by the 1'nited States government they will
continue to be as worthless as they are now Kmpire.
The alms whlih have »Im'>«T always
rolled along In *tvret. have arrive'!
much more pure into the bosom of
Oo<1 himself than those which. e.\|*>se«l
even against our will to the eyes of
men. have been some- hat befouled anil
disturbed on their course b.v the. mi
avoidable complaisances of self-love
and the praise of the spectators; like
those stw us which have almost al
ways rolle«l tinder the ground. and
which carry Into the bosom of the sen
waters living and pure; while, on the
Contrary. those which have traveled
level and exposed tracts in the open
ordinarily carry there only defiled
waters, which are always dragging
along the rubbish, the corpses. the
alirtw which they have amassed on
their ron»«.
^ Xurk restaurant relies ou tiie
hungry *>i its quests b.v permitting
rh-'in t« write their own checks fnr I
preseiiiari"n to the cashier. The i
system l> proving. the proprietor j
seems to infer in his first report as ,
to In. t t .• thins: Is working ont. that I
• ritin ••{<• ii Imth our common schools i
art i-o'ti 1» helng tadly neglected.
Amerlrtin w-i>men explain the fact
hut Ciisit Kritaiu maintains more I
•ti:\n fifty woman's socker foothall
f emus l.y saying there are more women )
lien men In Great Britain, whereas '
the re\er?e is true In the United 1
Slates, where the women are not i
given time or opportunity to go In for i
foothall.
Russia's "white winter" Is proving
quite us disastrous to the people »f I
rhst nnhnnpv region as the "Red" gov- I
ertH.it.-llt. |
The Voice
of the Pack
By EoispN Marshall
(Copyright, 1930, Little, Brown A 0>mp»uy)
Lerfho* was so intrigueo ny me
sounds that he was not even observ
ant of the peculiar, subdued quality
In Dan's voice. Otherwise, he would
have wondered at It. "I'm free to
confess I don't know," he said. "It's
booming right toward us, like most
animals don't care to do. . Of course
ft may be a human being. You must
watch out for that."
They waited. The sound ended.
They stood straining for a long mo
ment without speech.
'That was the dumdest thing P
Lennox went on. "Of course It might
have been a heap—you never know
whut they're going to do. It might
have got sight of us and turned off.
Rut I can't believe that It was Just a
deer—"
But then his words chopped sqmire
ly olT In Ills throat. The plodding ad
vance commenced again. And the
next Instunt a gray form revealed It
self at the edge of the thicket.
It was Grayeoat the coyote, half
blind with his madness, and des
perate In his agony.
There was no more deadly thine In
all the hills than he. Even the lilte
of a rattlesnnke would have been wel
comed beside his. He stood a lone !
Instant, and all his Instincts and re- [
flexes that would have ordinarily i
made htm flee In ab.lect terror were
thwarted and twisted by the fever of
his madness. He stared a moment at
the two figures, and his red eyes could
not interpret them. They were simply
foes, for It was True that when this j
melting agony was u|>on him. even
lifeless trees «eetned foes sometimes.
He (teemed eerie and unreal as he
gazed at them out of his burning eyes:
am) the white foam gathered at his !
fangs. And then, wholly without
warning, he charged down at them.
He came with unbelievable speed.
The elder l.ennox cneil once In warn
ing and cursed himself for ventur
ing forth on the ridge without a gun.
He was fully twenty feet distant from
Dan; yet he saw In an Instant his
only course. This was no time to
trust their lives to the marksmanship
of an amateur. He sprang toward
Pan. Intending to wrench the weapon
from his hand.
But he didn't achieve his purpos»
At the first «tep his foot caught In a
projecting root, and he was shot to
his face on the trail. But h long life
III the wilderness had developed Ix»n
nox's reflexes to an ahnornml degree;
many crises had taught him musele
and nerve control; and only for a
fraction of an Instant, a period of
time that few Instruments are fine
enough <o measure, did he lie supinely
upon the ground. He rolled on. Into
a position of defense. But he knew
now he eould not reach the younger
ninn before the mad coyote would he
upon them. The matter was out of
his hands. Everything depended on
the aim and self-control of the tender
fo< >t.
Hp looked up, ami tne wnoie n-piro
picture was thrown upon the re'lna of
his eye*. TIip covote was still racing
slralelit toward Pan, a gray demon
that In his madness was more terr:ble
than any charging bear or plk. Foj
there Is an element of horror about
the Insane, whether beasts or men.
tliat cannot hp denied. Both men felt
tt. with a chill thar seamed to pene
trate clear to their hearts. Thp eyes
flamed, the white fanes of Ornycoat
caught the sunlight. And Pan stood
erect In his path, his rifle half raised
t>> his shoulder; and even In thnt first
frenzied Instant In which Lennox
looked at him. he saw there was a
strange Impasslveness. a singular Im
perturbability on his face.
"Shoot, man!" Lennox shouted. ,
"What are yon waiting for?"
Rut Pan didn't shoot. His hand
whipped to his face, and he snatched
off his thlck-lensed glasses. The eyes
that were revealed were narrow and I
deeply Intent. And hy now. the frvn- ,
7.1 I'd coyote was no; fifty feet distant.
All that had occurred since the anl- i
tnal charged had possibly taken live |
seconds. Sometimes tive seconds Is ,
just a breath; but as Lennox waited
for Pan to shoot. It seemed like a
period wholly without limit. He won- j
dered If the younger man had fallen i
Into that strange paralysis that a i
great terror sometimes imbues. |
"Shoot I" he screamed again.
Rut It Is doubtful If Pan even heard ]
his shout At that Instant his gnu
slid Into place, his head lowered, his j
eyes seemed to bnrn along the glitter
ing bnrrel. His finger pressed back
against the trigger, and' the roar of j
the report rocked through the summer
air.
The gun was of large caliber; and '
no living creature eould stand against I
the furious, shocking power of the
great bullet The lead went straight
home, full through ihe neck and slant
ing down through the breast, and the
coyote recoiled as If an Irresistible
hand had smitten him. It Is doubtful
If there was even a muscular quiver
after Gray coat struck the ground, not
twenty Jey from wliery Pun jitOoU.
The Lead Went Straight Home.
Arm the rifle report ecnoetl nncu to
flml only silence.
Lennox cut up off the ground and
moved over toward the dead coyote.
I!i> looked h Ions time at the cray
body. And then he stepped hack to
where Pan united oil the trail.
"I tnfee it all hrifk.™ he said simply.
"You take what hack?"
"What I thoucht about yon—that
th" rall'nc line had cone to the docs.
I'll never call you a tenderfoot acaln.
Itut tell me one thins. 1 saw the
way you looked down the barrel. 1
Could sfe how firm you held tie rifle
—the way you kept your head. And
that N all like your crand'ath r. Hat
why. when you had n repeating rifle,
did you wait so lone to sh.iot?'
"I Just hud one rant ' e in my cun.
I didn't think of it until the coyote
charged."
Lennox's answer was the ln«t thine
In the world to be expected. He
opened his straight nioiiili and uttered
a creat. boyish jell ni .1 y. His eyes
seemed to I rit. Th»* eyos of the two
men met. and Lennox shook him by
the shoulder.
"You're not I-n Fal'lnc's cr: '^on
—you're Pan >'11111112 himself' he
shouted "No one hut him wonld l ave
had self-control to wait till th>- came
was aln "st on top of him -no nn> but
hltn would have kept h < head in a
time like this. You're Han Kalllne
himself, I tell you. come back to
earth. Grandson nothli'.c! You're a
throwback, and now you've cot those
Clflsce* off I can See I s r\.'< looking
rlcht out of yours. Step on 'cm Pan.
You'll never 'em a en In. And dve
itV 'hat Idea of dylns In four months
.■i'.'hi now; I'm ^'ttlri: to make y.ei live.
We'll flpht tl at disease to a finish—
and win
Ami that Is th" *vny that Pin Fall
ing came lm> l.'« horlM-r In Itip land
of his own t'l'ni'o. ami In wh'oh n
new spirit »■:»« horn !r\ him to liplit—
and wlu—nml llviv
BOCK TWO
The Pebt.
CHAPTER I.
September was at Its Inst days on
flip I'tnpnoa div'de—t' it far wilder
ness of end'ess. •r>M»-elad rdees where
Pan Falling bad pone for his Inst
days. Bvervwhe-o tlie for.st people
were preparing f'>r the winter that
wotlld fall «o quiet ly nbon these gold
or September days were done. The
rmler Plane of the forest—those
smaller peoples that live In the dust
and have beautiful, tropical forests In
the ferns—found ti e: -elves digging
holes ami filling them with stores of
food. Of course they had no Idea on
earth why thev were do'ng it, except
that a quiver at the erd of the'r tails
told them to do so: hut the result was
entirely the same. They would have
a shelter for the winter.
But the most noticeable chance of
nil. In these days of summer, was a
distinct tone of sndncss that sound
ed thronchout the forest. Of course
the wilderness rote Is always some
what sad: hut. now, as the leaves fell
and the jrras<e« d'ed. It seemed par
ticularly pronounced. All the forest
voices added to It—(he wall of the
geese, the sad fluttering of fallen
leaves, and even the whisper of the
north wind. Of course all the tones
and voices of the wilderness sound '
clearest at night—for that !s the time
that the forest really comes to life—
and Pan Fali'ng. sitting Id front of
Lennox's hou-e. watch'ng the late
September moon r!«e over Raid moun
tain. could hear them very plainly. j
It was true that In the two months
he had spent In the mountains he had 1
learned to he very receptive to the |
voices of the wilderness. I.ennox had
not been mistaken In thinking him a
natural woodsman. He had Imaglna- .
tlon and Insight and sympathy: hot
most of all he had a heritage of wood- '
lore from his frontiersmen ancestors. |
Two months before he had been a
resident of cities. Now the wilder |
ness had ela'med him. body and soul. ;
These had been rare days. At first !
he had to limit his expeditions to a
few miles each day and even then he .
would come In at night staggering .
from weariness. He climbed hills I
;hat seemed to tear his diseased lung* j
to shreds. I.ennox wouldn't have been
afraid. In a crisis, to trust his marks
uuuusliip now.. He luiil llic natural '
cold npr*e of a marksman. and one
twilight hp brought thp body of a lynx
tumbling through Ihp hranchps of a
pine at a dlstancp of two hundred
yards. Hp got so he could shatter a
grouse out of thp air In ttie half of a
second or so In which Its bronze wine*
jrllnlert In thp shrubbery: and when
a man may do this a fair number of
times out of ten he Is on the straight
road toward greatness.
Then there enme a day when Dan
caught his first steelhpad In the North
Fork. There Is no more beautiful
thing In the wilderness world thati a
steelhpad tront In action. He simply
seems to dance on the surface of the
water. Ipaplng again and again, and
racing at an unhenrd-of spe*-d down
die ripples. He weighs only from
three to fifteen pounds. But now and
again amateur fishermen without souls
hnye tried to pull him In with main
strength, and are still somewhat
dazed by thp result It might be done
with a steel cable, hut an ordinary
line or leader breaks like a cobweb.
When his majesty thp stpelhcad take«
the fly and decides to run. It can lie
learned after a time that the one
thing that may be done is to let out all
the line and with prayer and humble
ness try to keep up with him.
Dan no lontrcr wore his glassen
Every day his eyes had stivngthened
He could s>>e more clearly now. with
his unaided eyes, than he had ev«
seen before with the help of the lens.
Ami the moonlight came down through
a rift In the trees and showed that his
face had changed, too. It was no
longer so white. The eyes were more
Intent. The lips were srralghter.
"It's been two months." Silas l-en
nox told him. "half the four that yon
gave yourself after yon arrived here
And you're twice as goou now as when
fou came."
Dan no<Med. "Tw'ce! Ten time*
fiS poixl! 1 was n wreck when 1 came.
Today I cllral>ed halfway up Raldy—
within a half mile of Snowbird's rah
lti—without stopping to rest
Lennox looked thoughtful. More
thun once, of late. Dan had climbed up
toward Snowbird's* cabin. It whs true
tliat his guest and his daughter had
become the best of companions In the
two months; hut on second thought.
I.<nnox was not in the least afraid of
complications. The love of the moun
tain women does not go out to phys
ical interiors. "Whoever gets her."
he had said, "will have to tame her."
and his words still held good. The
mottntHln women rarely mistook a ma
ternal tenderness for an api>e»Iing
man for love. It wasn't that Dan was
weak except from the ravages of Ills
disease; bnt he was still a long way
from Snowbird's Ideal. Although Dan
hail courage and that same rigid self
control that was an old quality In his
loved, he was still a long way from
n physically strong man. It was still
an even break whether he would ever
wholly recover from his malady.
(Continued on Saint-day)
A Pest You've Met.
■*ns« ho much of a voir*?"
"No. But that does not prevent him
•rom s|y>ii<1lne most of his time singing
his own praises."
At the Capitol.
"Call a lanltor ami hare the coba-eh*
swept out of this room Who meet*
r-ere, anyhow T"
"An Invest Ijwtlnt committee."
8KAGWAY
FRATERNAL ORDERS
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at 8:30 o'clork. Visit
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Arctic Recorder. Arctic Clilet
B. P. O. ELKS, Skn«.
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romp.
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Naomi Chapter No. 9
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Visiting niCDil^t* wolcomr.
IMI.LV WKRSTKR
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PROFESSION A1 CARPS
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In Territory of Alaska
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SK ACHAT ALASKA
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Taid Advertisement
VOTE FOR
James L. Galen
for
Delegate to Congress
in
Republican Primary
April 25, 1922
He is a sterling Republican, standing for no clique or factiot: brt
truly representative of the sound Prinriplps which put the present
national administration In power.
He has lived practically all of the last 2J year* is Alaska nnd i«
familiar with all portions of the Territory.
He is broad minded, vigorous, aggressive, and his name is synony
mous with Square Deal among those who know him.
He stands for Alaska as a whole. Alaska for Alaskans, and log sta
tion to bring renewed prosperity to the Territory.
The problem of the merchant, the miner and tbe fisherman will
each and all receive fair and intelligent consideration If lie rrpre
sents Alaska at Washington.
"WATCH Tins SPACE FOR FURTHER ANNOfXCEMEYTS OK
WHAT MR- GALEN'S CANDIDACY MEANS TO AI.ASK A."