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EDITORIAL
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.Alaska's development depends to]
a great extent upon the kind of re-'
presentation that we have in con
gref. For Alaska, to com*} into its
oa'u and receive its just quota of
appropriations and governmental
aid it will require the keen diplo
matic services of one thoroughly fa
m ,iar, not only with Alaska aud Al
askans but with, tue working ma
tliinery back at Washington. The
vorer should make it a strictly busi
ucss proposition. With adequate re
presentation and with congress par
tially- educated on Alaska affairs,
t!i« aids to Alaska this coming
year should be double fold as com
pared with those given ia the past, j
Wuo are the people of Alaska go
i:-6 to send bock ro th* capitol as
tiirir busiuejs representative, ready
at all times u> go to the mat and
s.cure for Alaska 'he kind of legis
lation taat will be beneficial to the
rj-t-^es who are choosing to make
'his laud their permanent home? In
Jamt> Wickaishani, the voter has
w; tchej Alaska forgo ahead and
Lai likewise seen, legislation, pass
e' favorable to eacU individual
Alaskan, His work hag placed
Al-'ska to the fom'ren.' and the ei
! a; thinking vo*er will not permit
thii wcrlr to go unrewarded. His
r-election this coming fall will be
outward evidences of the apprecia
tion of Hit* sincere work done by the
alert delegate in congress.
TOLOVA.N X MIM-NG
During 1&14 and 1S15 hundreds
of peoj te attracted by the reported
lindiu? of gold in the headwater re
gion of Icicvana River ia central
AUski' rushed into the district, and
s>stematic mining began there dur
ing tjie summer of 11'15. Although
considerable prospecting waa done
only about lu mines were commer
cialjv Dicuuctive, but these made
a gold output to tho value of $Sl>,
uol>. Cold-bearing gravels occur
in the teds of the present streams,
in turhd channels, and ia bench
gravels but most of the gold has
been won from the deep channels 01
i.ivengec-"' Creek, wliichi have prov
ed to be far richer than either
the stxtam of the bench.' placers.
Some shallow- places have also yield
ed gold, notably on Oive Creek, but
oul- profuects have been found in
the benches.
A report by A. H. Brooks, en
titled "Preliminary Report on the
Toiovana District, Alaska," has bee
issi'ed rectn'ly by the United States
Geological Survey, Departmnt of th
Interior, as Bulletin *>42-G, In
which tie facts known about this
new district are stated aud the
general relations are Illustrated by
a tWD. This report will be dis
tribute^ on requests addressed to
t'ie Directcr, United. States Geologi
cal Survc», "Washington, D. C.
PREPAREDNESS.
Look ahead and try to arm
against all dangers. Hope noth
ing from luck and the probabil
ity is that you will be so pre
pared, forewarned and forearm
ed that all shellcw ebservers
will call you lucky.—Qulwer
Lytton.
l" Where He Fell Down.
i "Can you spell well?"
"Well, not if it's in iirtesiau."— Bos
An Ingenious
Woman
A Story of the Days of
Witchcraft.
By F. A. MITCHEL
There was once a young man named
7onraU who. married a girl named
foau. They were vassals on the estate
,f a baron who owned and ruled over
i great territory. The man and the
voman were both poor, and their
lelgbbors wondered how they would
jet on. Nevertheless they prospered,
ind their prosperity was all on account
>f Joan, who was very shrewd. One
hlng puzzled those who knew her. She
lid everything In a way so queer that
lome of them thought her demented.
Vud yet her acts resulted to her bene
It
One person, and one person alone,
;ame to understand her—her husband.
Tonrad was a stupid mnn. and It Is
lkely this was the reason why be came
0 be an excellent auxiliary to his wife
Having no Ideas of his own, he was
■eadily recipient of hers. Ft>r teu
•ears"she kept lustllllng her way of
loins thing* Into him. so that at last
jot only could she trust hliu to follow
ler lead, but at times to take the ini
iatlve on her methods. -
There was much warfare In a small
vay In those days, attacks bclug made
>y "one suzerain upon another. In one
>f these Incursions upou the domain of
Jaron Elglnbrod. where Conrad and
lis wife lived, fount Hastings the in
urslonlst. tdok Conrad away with him
laving learned that ho nud his wife
iad aceumu'.atcd money, aud held his
>risouer for ransom.
Conrad was thrown into prison and
:old that he should stay there till he
iald the ransom. He remained a cap
lve some time, then sent word to his
■aptor to say that if he would give him
1 messenger he would send him to his
ivlfe with an order to pay the ratisoiu
The count at once furnished the mcs
lenger. and Conrad w" 'to the following
iiessa-ie to Joan:
aiy T*ear W-Jfo—I wish you to pay th«
■anso.ii demnndeJ by tVuitt Hastings for
ay r^'-ase. I will wait for you to di> so
•or 02® week. One week from loniyht If
I an not liberated I wlU hang myself In
;he chlnnev of tlie room where 1 ron
Ined. Tour loving husband. CONRAD.
This letter was submitted to the count,
rho read it with satisfaction, "for." said
ie. "if the woman is Inclined to dicker
is to the amount she sha'1 pay. the
:breat of her husband to hang himself
tvill influence her to pay any sum 1
isk." And he doubled the amount de
nanded for the ransoui.
When the messenger delivered the
lote to Joan and she read her htis
land's throat to hang hiui*e!f she fell
>ver In a faint. The messenger did
ivliat he could to revive her and en
leavored to reassure her by pointing
>ut the Impossibility of the prisoner
ranging himself In the chimney, since,
in the first place, he had no rope, au<\.
in the second place, even If he had
:here was nothing In the chimney to
ivblch he could attach a rope.
This seemed to romfort .loan, and,
gathering her strength, sin- wrote her
lusband a note stating that she would
>e unable to raise the money required
for the ransom In so short a time, but
ihe would do so as soon as possible.
She added a note begging him not to
Siang himself, thus depriving her and
he children of his care and the pleas
ire of having him with them.
The messenger went hack to the
count with Joan s letter, and it was
read with satisfaction, for It was evi
dent that she was so terrified at her
husband's threat, notwithstanding the
fact that it would be impossible to
carry It out, tha' she would do all in
tier power to raise the money for the
ransom. So the message was deliver
ed to Conrad, who read It. evldeutly
pleased at the prospect of getting his
liberty.
A week passed, and the night came
an which Conrad had threatened to
commit suicide unless liis wife had by
that time paid the ransom and set
him free. His Jailer, when he brougnt
In the prisoner's supper and set it
iown on the table, said jokingly:
"Well. Courad. are you going to hang
yourself tonight V"
"Why should 1? My wire has said'
that she might not be able to raise the
money for my ransom so soon, hot 1
am sure she will do s-> in time. 1 urn
aware that she must sell everything
we have, including our home, to raise
so large an amount and I don t ex
pect that she will be able to turn it all
Into ready money In tess than auotber
week, at least.'
"Why. then, did you name a period
insufficient for her to raise the ran
som?"
"Because I (lid not wish her to lose
any time."
"Well, I'm glad you have no reason
to hang yourself. For if you did 1
should have to sit up and watch you
tonight, and I prefer to be asleep In
my bed."
So the jailer left his prisoner to c-at
his supper, and when he returned Con
rad was snoring loudly on his cot. The
keeper went away satisfied toat there
was no danger of toe prisoner (.heat
ing the count out of his ransom by kill
ing himself, and he. too. betook him
self to his bed and was soon snoring
is loudly as Conrad.
When the nest morning the jailer
took Conrad's breakfast to him. ex
pecting to see his prisoner sitting, as
neiml it tlm tnliln waiting for it, he
vena astonished not t> nee lilm at all
Moreover, there was a strange stillness
In the room, the silence of absence of
any living thing. The rnau, thinking
that, after all, Ills prisoner might have
carried out his threat, went to the
chimney, fearing that be might see his
body dangling there. There v.as uoth
Ing in the lower part, aud, looking up,
he saw only a small patch of blue sky.
With fear and trembling the Jailer
sent word to the count that his prison
er had vanished. In order to shield
himself, he declared that he had beard
strange sounds overhead during the
night, lie believed tbut his prisoner
had carried out his threat to hang him
self aud that witches lmd carried off
the body.
That was an age when people, Instead
of looking for natural causes. Inferred
everything to supernatural Interfer
ence. The count so far leaned to the .
Jailer's opinion that he did not look far
for a means of the prisoner's escape. He (
examined the only outlet, the chimney, .
and satisfied himself that Conrad could
not have climbed the flue. In those J
days ihlmneys were very large, and
for one to work himself up a flue by '
his knees on one side and his back on
the other was Impossible. ^Conrad must
have hung himself, and there was no
accounting for the dlsap; earance of
tho body except that the witches had
carried It off.
The jailer's suggestion saved him
from punishment, and the count was '
obliged to forego the ransom. He was
becoming Reconciled to his disappoint
ment when one day a neighbor of Con
rad's came across tho border aud re- -
ported the suicide living at home In
comfort with his wife and children.
The count was astonished. Indeed,
he would not believe the report until
ho had sent a spy Into the enemy's
country to learn the truth. When the
spy returned and said that he had seen
Conrad sitting before his door, the
count was convinced that ho was there.
But the spy. believing that witches had
assisted Conrad to get away, supposed
himself to be under the Influence of his
Imagination. Conrad was sitting mo
tionless at the time, and the spy got the
Idea into his head„tbat he was a corpse.
He reported that he had watched the
figure ten long minutes. In all of which
time it made uo potion.
The count, disgruntled at having lost
liLs ransom and not satisfied with his
spy's report, sent another, who saw
Conrad chopping wood. This disposed
of the theory that witches had carried
back the corpse of a suicide, and the
count determined to make a raid Into
the domains of Count Kiglnbrod with
a view to again carrying off the wealthy
Conrad.
border, and all tbe count bad to do
was to send a force across, kidnap Con
rad and carry hlra away before any of
tbe baron's forces could be brought to
protect him. Cut ii bap|>ened tbat
Joan had been look lug out of tbe win
dow when the second spy saw her hus
band chopping wood and watched the
man slipping away, as he supposed,
unnoticed. Joan suspected what this
meant and straightway took precau
tions She sent one Oldershow, a
neighbor, to Count Hastings' domain
to win the eouiifleuce of tbe count and
agree for a consideration to eutice Con
rad away from his home so that he
could be readily captured. This man
succeeded in his object. At the same
time he was instructed by Joan to re
port that Joan was a witch.
This confirmed Count liastiugs' be
lief in the jailer's suggestion that
witches had been Instrumental la Con
rad's disappearance, but he attributed
the removal to one witch, Conrad's
wife. Nevertheless, he was so averse
to being beaten even by a witch that
he accepted Oldersbow's offer and,
having paid him a round sum. sent a
dozen men with him to kidnap Conrad.
The expedition approached Conrad's
house In the evening gloaming, and
what was their horror to see the man
they were after hanging by the neck
to a tree near his house. They at ouce
took to flight and never stopped run
ning till they had reached their start
ing point, having left Oldershow be
hind them. They reported what they
had seen to the count, and Oldershow,
returning, entered Conrad's house and
poured a heap of gold he had received
for his work in Joan's lap.
This ended Count Hastings' efforts
to regain possession of Conrad, for he
was convinced of his being managed
by a witch, that witch being Joan.
But he sent a messenger to Baron El
ginbrod to say that the baron had a
witch in his dominions, and if he did
not get rid of her she would infect the
whole country.
Upon this tbe baron sent for Joan
and asked her what truth there was
I in thf count's charge.
"Please, your worship," replied Joan,
"when Count Hastings raided your do
I main he carried off niy husband and
held him for ransom. When the pris
j oner wrote me tbat if I did not pa)
j the ransom by a certain date he would
j hang himself In the chimney I knew
I that there was a chimney in tbe room
I where he was confined and that be
I meant that 1 should on a certain night
! send some one or go myself, get on tbe
I roof and let a rope down by which he
could climb. I sent one Oldershow,
who succeeded in doiug that, and my
husband escaped.
"Suspecting that the count would try
again to make my husband his prison
er, I sent Oldershow to win his con
fidence and pilot a party to make the
capture. 1 made a stuffed figure of iny
husband and hung it to a tree near the
house. When they came to take him
they were frightened and ran away.
Instead of the count getting a ransom,
I got the mouey be paid my messenger
to lead his men into a trap."
The baron was so well pleased with
Joan's story that bo gavo her a tract
of land near his castle, where she and
her family would be in less danger
i from Count Hastings' Incursions.
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