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Now that a new Dominion parliament huj been elected and soon will
assemble. Yukon. sa>s the Dawson News, in common with the rest of Can
ada. is looking to the federal government to help in the development of
this territory at this, the most promising period of this territory. The
great silver strike in the Mayo area and the continued riches of the Yu
kon placers warrant the most thoughtful consideration and generous sup
port by the federal government on behalf of tl e Yukon. In soliciting this
support it Is to be hoped that Yukon will have the loyal backing of tho
l'ritish Columbia members and of all other trends.
British Columbia, being the nearest of the provinces to the Yukon, al
so is the chief beneficiary province in the Dominion in relation to Yukon.
Yukon buys most of her supplies from Vancouver wholesale houses, and
consume* vastly of Ilritish Columbia's raw and manufactured articles; In
vests largely in British Columbia real estate and other properties; ships
n illioas of virgin gold direct to British Columbia, and In time should pour
a vastly increased wealth from the hardrock mines into that province.
It will be good bn. !ness for the Vancouver. Victoria and I'rince Kup
eit wholesale houses ..i.>i eir boards of trad'' to keep awake to tho ben
efits they derive from Yukon, and to do their utmost to help promote uli
the n>'eds of Yukon The northern breadbasket of Yukon has filled many
a mouth in B. C. In years past, and the more support this region gets, the
more mouths It will be able to fill in the future in the big province to the
south. •• Vi
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The Vancouver World says that B ('. this j> ir will gnjov a great r^
viva! and urges the seeking of new markets. That province will find nc
belter market to develop than Y'ukun.
T< M) >11 I II lIM.iTH'S
The people of Alaska have again had a demonstration of the absurd
primary election law in this territory which makes it necessary for people
to begin preparations for an election more than eight months before the
ev«rit and Ions before public op nlon is directed toward the matters that
t. list come up for solution Alaska's primary election should be in August
instead of April, and the tilings for the primary should be In July instead
of February. » <#
The Alaska law, which requires those who desire to become the nom
lrinees of a political party for an office, must tile their declarations of can
U ducies in February, and imU'i ' tidetit nominations must be made in April.
The law in effect makes independent action on the part of the people out
of the question, because only those who are active In politics, those who
make it a large part of their activity, are ready to act so many months be
fore the ••lection. The campaigns, extending over eight months, make Al
aska a hotbed for the turmoil of politics. 1'eople who would give all their
attention to business and development have to listen to an almost contin
uous wrangling between political factions.
It is very unfortunate that the people rannot have the next four or five
months free from politics so that liie year's work could be well under way
before the campaign begins. Alaska's problems are more economic than
they are political, and the way to solve economic problems is through hard
work and devotion to business and industry, and not through political con
tests. Alaskans should have more time for work. They give the politic
ians far too much of their time.—Juneau Empire.
BOI.S1IKVISM 1H).\K FOK
t suppose that one could at present, with no chance of being misunder
stood or meeting any very ser.ous objection, declare without further proof
that the bolshevist experiment is pretty well done for, and that, from this
time on. every link is broken between tl e self-styled workers and peasants'
government on the oue hand aud the workers and peasants themselves on
the other.
One could go on to say that not only is this true In Russia itself, but
that to the same deuree in Europe the musses of workers, without being
completely freed from the obsessions of bolshevist hypnotism, are, never
theless, on the brink of a definite cure of that dangerous malady.
Expansion of bolshevism in any land has been in direct proportion to
the exhaustion resulting from the war and in iinerse proportion to the de
velopment and to the power of the organization of its proletariat.
There is another and no less characteristic method of judging. In the
Occident countries contaminated with bolshevism. the number of partizatis
among the workers diminishes in proportion as the ecotiontic life devel
ops and the power of organization of the working class increases.—Alex
ander Kerensky In L'ltidependance Beige (Brussels).
The "Post" has never made it an object to "point with pride" to Its
circulation, or to the numberless countries and climes in which its coming
Is eargerly awaited However, we make an exception In favor of this, our
first boost from sunny Hawaii: "The North Pole News is quite an Interest
ing news paper, the article on care and preservation of the snow shovel is
a humdinger, especially the sentence which tells us that wrapping a shovel
aiouud a liuuji post b prohibited."—CUilkat Post.
The Voice
of the Pack
By Edison Marshall
(Goyjrlghlt 1MU, Little, Brown £ Company)
'It Isn't tlmt." Silas Lennox thre\v
his cur into gear ami started up the
long grade. And he drove clear to the
top of It and Into another gleu before
he spoke again. Then he pointed to
what looked to Dan like a brown
streak that melted Into the thick
brush. "That was a deer," he said
slowly. "Just a glimpse, hut your
grandfather could have got him be
tween the eyes. Most like as not,
though, he'd have let him go He
never killed except when he needed
meat But that—as you say—ain't
the Impression I'm trying to convey."
He seemed to be groping for words.
"What Is It. Mr. Leunox?" Dun
asked.
"Instead of being sorry, I'm mighty
glad you've come." Lennox told him.
"It's not that I expect you to be like
your grandfather. You haven't had
his chance. But It's always the way
of true men, the world over, to come
hack to their own kind to die. That
deer we Just saw—he's your people,
and so are all these ranchers that
grub their lives out of the forests—
tliev are your people, too. And you
couldn't have pleased the old man's
old friends any better, or done more
for his memory, than to co-te hack
to his own land for your last days."
The words were strange, yet Dan
Intuitively understood. It was as if
a prodigal son hail returned at last,
and although his birthright was
Squandered and he came only to die.
the people of his home would give him
kindness and forgiveness, eveu though
they could not give him their respect.
CHAPTER III.
Tlio l.ennni home was a typical
mountain ranch-hou&e—square, solid,
comforting In storm «ml wind Hill
was out to the pile wlieu tin- rnr
drove up. He wa* n son of tils fa
titer, a strong mtin In hod> and per
sonality. Me ton had liehrd of 'lie
elder Falling, and lie opened Ills eye*
when lie saw the slender youth that
wiis his grandson. And ho led the
way Into the whlte-walled living rnoin.
"You mast he chilly and woni out
from the lone ride." Lennox suggest
ed quietly, lie spoke In the tone 11
strong man Invariably uses toward
an Invalid. Pan felt a curious re
sentment ut the words.
"I'm not cold," he snId. "It's Iwril
ly darl. yet. I'd sooner go outdoors
and look around."
The elder man retarded him curl
ously. perhaps with the faintest glim
tuer of admiration. "You'd better wait
"You'd Better Walt Till Tomorrow.
Dan."
till tomorrow. Dun.' he replied. "Hill
will have slipper soon, nnvunv. Yon
don't want to overdo too murb. rl^ht
at dr^t "
"But. food heavens! I'm not coins
to try 'o spare myself while I'm here
It's too late for that."
"Of course—but sit down now. any.
way. I'm sorry thut Snowbird Isn''
here."
"Snowbird Is—"
"My daughter. My boy. she ran
make a biscuit! That's not her name,
of cours-e. lull we've always called.her
that. She cot tired of keeping honsr
and Is worklnc this summer. Poor
Bill has to keep house for her. an<?
no wonder he's eager to take the sto'-k
down to the lower levels. I only wist
he hadn't brought 'em up this sprinc
at all: I've lost dozens from the
coyotes."
"Bui a coyote can't kill cattte—" |
"It can If It has hydrophobia, a com
mon thing In the varmints this time o'
vear. But as 1 say. Kill will take tb<>
stock duwu next seuaou, and iLou j
Snowhlrrt's wrk will he through, and
she'll ciime hack here."
'"I'lwn slut's down in the valley?"
"Far from tt. She's u mountain
plrl if one ever lived. Perhaps yon
don't know I he recent policy of the
forost service to hire women when
they chb he nhtulned. It whs a policy
martimI in war times am) kept up now
because It Is economical mid ettlelent.
She anil a elrl front enllece have a
rahln not the miles from here on old
Bald mountttlti. and they're dolnp look
out duty."
Dnn wondered Intensely what look
out duty inlcht he. "You see. Pan."
Lennox said in explanation, "the eov
ernment loses thousands of dollars
every year by forest tire. A fire can
be stopped easily If It Is seen soon
ufter It starts. Rut let It burn awhile.
In this dry season, and It's a terror—a
wall of flame that races thromrh the
forests and can hardly be stopped.
And maybe you don't realite how
enormotis this reclon is—literally hun
dreds of miles across. We're the last
outpost—there ate four cabins. If you
can find them. In the first seventy
miles buck to town. So they have to
put lookouts on the hlch points, and
now they're cumins to the use of air
planes so tbev can keep even a better
watch. Snowbird and a cirl friend
from college cot Jobs this summer as
lookouts—all thromrh the forest serv
ice they are hiring women for the
work. They are more vldlant than
men. less Inclined to take chances,
ami work cheaper. These two elrls
have a "abln near a snrinc. and they
cook their own food ami are tnak'nc
what Is big wares in the mountains.
I'm rather hoplne slie'll drop over for
n few minutes tonlcht."
M(««ind Lord— «U»e« slie travel over
these hills In the darkness?*"
The mountaineer laughed—a de
lighted sound flint onw somewhat
curious* v from the hpardwl llp^ of the
worn. dark mnn "Han. T'11 swear sh#»'s
afraid of nothing that walks the faee
of the earth—and it isn't because she
ha*n*t hail experience either. She's s
iVnd shot wltb a plsii-i for one thine.
She's physloally strong mid evorv
muscle l« hard as n-nlU. She used to
have Shnc too—the »>o«t dog In nil
those moiinrn»ns. She's a mountain
srirl. 1 toll yon: whoever wins her has
pot to he nhte to tame her!** The
ni«»unteln»%er laughed again.
The enll to supper came then and
Pan cof Ms first sight of mountain
fm»d. There wore pot n toes, newly
due. mountain vegetables that were
erlsp nnd eold. a steak of peculiar
shape, and a great howl «»f purpV ber
ries to he eaten with sugar and cream.
Pan'« appetite was not as a rule pnr
tleularly good. Rut evidently the Ion*
rido had affected him. lie simply
didn't have the moral eon race to re.
fuse when the elder Lennox heaped
his plate.
"Gop<1 heavens. I ean't eat all that/*
he said, ns 1t was passod to him. Hut
the others laughed and told him to
take heart.
He took heart. It was a singular
fh'ng. hut at that f^st hlle his sudden
confidence In his gustatory ah'lity nl
most overwhelmed him. So he rut
himself a hite of the tender steak—
fullv half »i« generous as the hltes that
Rill was consuming across the table.
And Its first fluvnr simply filled him
with delight.
"What Is till" most?" he nskeO.
"I've eertnln'y tnsted it before."
"I'll hot n few dollars thnt yen
haven't. If you've 11 vim) nil wnr life
In tin* M'iMIp West." Lennox nn
swered "Mnvbp you've cot what the
^elejitists rail nn Inherited memory of
It. It's the kind of went vonr srrnnd
fnther nseil to live on—venison."
Soon after dinner I.onnox lod him
• mt of the house for his first cllmpse
of the hills In the darkness.
They walked together out to the
cnte. nrms« the first of the wide pas
tures where. at certain season*. I.en
nox kept his eattle: and nt last they
eame out upon the treecover'Ml rld'je.
The moon was Jnst rlslnc. They eonld
see It enstlnc a curious clint over the
very tip* of the pines. Hut It couldn't
pet down between them. They stood
too elose. too tall and thick for that.
And for n moment. Dan's only sensa
tion was one of silence.
"Yon have to stand still a moment,
to really know anything." Ix>nn<>x told
him.
Thev both stood still. Pan wns us
motionless as that day In the park,
lone weeks before, when the squirrel
hnd climbed on his shoulder. The first
effect wns a son«ntlon that the silence
wns deepening nronnd them. It wasn't
really true. If was simply flint he
had heeomo aware of the little con
tinuous sonnds nf which nsnally he
wns nnconsclotis and thev tended to
accentuate the hush of the ntcht. ITe
knew. Inst ns all mountaineers know,
that the wilderness nbont him was
stlrrlnr and pnls'nc with life. Some
of the sounds were quite clear—an
occasional stir of a pebble or the crack
of a twfe. and some, like the faintest
txvltehlnc of leaves In the hmsh not
ten feet distant, could only be .messed
nt.
"What Is m.iklns the sonnds?" he
asked
He didn't know it. nt the time, hnt !
Lennox turned quickly townrd him. It
wnsn't thnt the^ues'lon had surprised
the mountaineer. Rr.tlier It was the
tone In which Han hnd spoken. It wns
perfectly cool, perfectly self-eon- I
tnlned.
"The one rlcht close t« n chipmunk. I
I don't know whnt the others are: no |
one ever does know Perhnp* rronnd
squirrels, or rabbit*, or birds, and 1
mnyhe one of those harmless old hlnok
henrs who Is curious ahout the house. ;
And tell me—enn yon smell any
thlnc—"
"Good I.ord. l.ennox! I can smell all
kinds of rhlncs."
•Tnt clad. Som" men cant. No one
can eujoj the wui :t if he can't sinril
I*art of (lie smells are or flowers, and
jmrt nf balsam. nml God only know*
what the other? are. Tliej are Just
the wildernpsa—*'
Pnn could not only perrelre the
smells and Found* hut he felt I hat
they were leaving mi lni|>nnt on the
very Alter of his soul. He knew one
thine rie knew he eoold never for
pet this first introduction to the moun
tain night. The whole scene moved
)ilm In strunce. deep way* In which
lie had nevpr hoen stirred before; It
left htm exultant and. In deep well* of
Ms nature far below the usual cur
rents of excitement, a little excited
too.
Then both of them were startled
out of their reflections hy the rlear,
unmistakable sound of footstpps on
the ridge. Roth of them turned, and
]<ennox laughed softly In the dark
ness. "My daughter," he said. "1
knew she wouldn't he afraid to come."
Dan could see only Snowhlrd"s out
line at first. Just her shadow against
the moonlit hillside, nis glasses were
none too eood at long ranee. And
possibly, when she camp within range,
the first thing that he noticed about
lier was her stride. The girls he
J;new didn't walk In qultp that free,
strong way. She took almost a man
Size slop; and yet It was ruriou* that
she did not spem uncracefnl. Pan had
a distinct Impression that she wa«
floating down to him on thp moonlight.
ShP sepmed to come with such unut
terable smoothness And then he
heard her call lightly through the
darkness
Tho sonnd rnvp Mm a dl«tinet con«e
of surprise. Some way he hadn't as
soeiatod a volee like this with a moun
tain Ctrl; he had supposed that thp*e
won If] he $o immv barshen ne Influ
ences In *his Trlld plane. Vet the tone
wns a? clear and full as a trained
sfneer's. Tt wn« not a hleh vo'ee; and
yet tt seemed simply hrlmmlnc. a« a
run brims with nine. with The rap
ture of life. It was a self-oonfldent
volee too wholly unaffected and sin
cere and wholly without embarrass
ment.
Then she name close. and Pan «aw
the tm»onllrht on her faoe And sn It
camp about, whether In drp«ms or
wakefulness. he eonld «oe nothJnc el«e
for many hours to eome
The c*rl who stood In the moonMcht
had health. She was simply vibrrsnt
xvtth health. It broucht a Hrhl to her
eyes, nnd a eolor to her oheefcs. and
life ard shimmer ta her trioonlit hair
It hrontrht curves to her body and
«t-<»nctb and to her limbs
and the craoe of a deer to her ear
r^ace. Whether she had regular fea
tures or not f>an would have l>een nn
ah'e to state. He d'dn*t even notlee
They weren't important when bo^lth
was presont. Tot there was nothing
of the coarse or hold or voluptuous
about her She was Inst n slender
c?n perhaps twenty years of are. and
\cp chine even less than the ftcurc op
ens ona'ly to hp road In the health
macaf.lres for girls of her hefrht And
shp was fresh and cool beyond all
words *o tell
(Continued on Tuesday)
Somewhpt D ff rent.
"That new star doesn't sseem to
want the center of the it ace."
"Naw, he's an ei-minstrel and was
always used to being end man.*'
—Louisville Courier-Journal.
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FRATERNAL OROKIW
Pump Skajrway So. 1
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fourth Tuesday cvrnlng
at 8:S« o'rlork. Visit
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Arctic ReoortJor. Arctic OtMf
B. P. O. KI.KS. Ska*
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