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-SEEING Al.VSKA
Many excursion parties are being made i:i» in the States for the pur-J
rose of "seeing" Alaska. These excursion trips will be confined to south
eastern Alaskan only, and may come as far uorth as Juneau. Unfortunate
ly these excursionists will see about as much of Alaska as a tourist would
of California. if he poked iiis uose one hundred yards over the northern
border. The Territory of Alaska does not begin until one reaches the 141st
decree of longitude, m ar rape St. Klias All below this Is really as much
of Alaska as the tip of the tail might be said to compose the dog. The tip
could be cut off and the dog would still be there. The residents of south
eastern Alaska rightly speaking, are not really Alaskans. Their sympa
thies. aims and ambitions are not of Alaska nor for Alaska. They work
in .1 circle without end and without beginning Their Interests are Can
adian. their territory is properly I'anad an, and the greater part of thsir
trade is derived by transportation to and from the Yukon valley.
Any question touching Canud an interests is fought bitterly by the flrst
division, irrespective of i.arm done to ti e northern majority Their tishli.g
1>-ats outfit and trad-' v. h Canad an ports, and the majority of inhabitants
c'riuk Canadian Whiskei Lipiou * teas are a staple, and on holidays t'te
Canadian flag flvxts proudly h s (le that of the I'nited States.
(Jod forbid that we sho..'d -.icise our neighbors for their display of
t>attiotism towari j country »< ot elves -ste»un highly, but it is a case in
point i-i "seei:i{ Alaska. ' I e to-ifist parties gain a wrot. * inpresslon of
'he territory In routining theii • : - to ti • alie . part of it The*' should
s, •• d a few dulhus mere .'i u •■ ■•it the towns north of t'i» v-rmlfom a;
( ■ nd'x. They ».,i; Id go o'.er tilt- government railroad to Fai*-han!:s. where
the old sourdough may be seen in his native habitat, and over the Valdez
r'airbanks trail, where nature is at iter best and t!:e country has not cmiug
ed since the tertiary period. Contii uiny. i •• tourist may take the boat
from Seward and journey to Nome, pass i:g along the Aleutian islands and
through I'nimak Pass nto li- r g i From Nome he can journey to St.
Michael, passing up the mighty Yukon, a river ten times as large as the
Mississippi, and take the government railway at Nenana. After he has
done this he may be said to have "seen" but a very small part of Alaska. A
country as large as the I nited Statis west of the Mississippi cannot be
"seen" by a steamship voyage of two days.—Seward Gateway.
mST.VM K LK.MIS ENCHANTMENT TO THE SONG
A suspcion is growing upon every! -ody who has been so fortunate as to
be invited to "listen in" of an •-veiling. at one of these domestic radio con
certs. that in order to get p.-ople to enjoy music with repose and keen at
tention it is only necessary to remove it a few thousand miles.
Whoever plays the piano has noticed that while the company is always
ke^n about forcing him to perform, ii loses interest once he starts for the
instrument. It is the same with sinners. elocutionists, orators, raconteurs.
It we know them to be masters ot the art we are determined that they
shall exhibit it. and guests will r< n furiously for an anecdote or a song.
Put as soon as ;t is apparent that t:ieir request is to lie gratltred. nobody
any longer pays much attention. Such is the effect of proximity.
It's just the other way when the same commodities are furnished thru
a long-distance or a wireless telephone. The family listens raptlv, to the
very end. For what delight to sit in ISalrimore and hear a prima donna in
I hiladelphia' How different the Maid-Mi's Prayer sounds when relayed
across the continent at considerable e->st' Naturally the songs and pieces
provided near by lose their charm. It is only a matter of time, perhaps
tefore we shall be able to sit around t c evening lamp and listen to sounds
from beyond the ocean which proclaim t> at the carnival Is on in Home or
that the Faster procession is passing through the streets of Madrid.—Now
York Post.
FOREST DEVASTATION
In itxiMUvntii; a national !"■
policy we must consider u
That li pase Is forest devastation. the
American Kurwiry ussin i»[KMI points
(XIt. Its effect .s a slow Supping of
national re tii—through the steady
exhaustion of tin* national timber
supply. The effect will he-inne fatal
when through the shortage and high
rout of timber. the I'nited States is
reduced to the le^el of western Kurnpe
when »owl Is priced as an Imported
luxury, when not only manufactures
and trade are handicapped by luck of
It l»ut the comfort o: our owu people
and the efficiency of our agriculture
are straitened hy i*s scarcity. Ahtin
dance of wood for home and farm
use. for varied niai ufKcturers and for
export trade has bcei. a primary factor
lii our commercial supremacy, «o Im
portant right now. and it is a factor
which we are not going to surrender.
The problem must not he met by using
lens and less wood, down to the»level
of civilized existence, «s fYsnco lis*
i,uu.AKii<vl lo meet it U inu*l
'
j In- incr m>! hy decreased use hut hy
i , [.r>> luciiiiii. tlie association
wf'l armies. It must he tnvf in the
\iii.-fii'iili spirit <>f development, of
enterprise. of an organized and far
! -iij'-teil handling of our resource* that
will supply the future requirements of
a continued liberal use of timber of
r.ation; l development and industries.
The Italian deficit for the year Is
• inly l".T : tmo.mio lire, par value of
whleh in dollars would be about $2.
We make no remarks
about our neighbors, remarks tlie
Hous-mii I'ost. but merely say that we
are not entity enough to believe I hat
Italy i>r any other continental nation
can meet Its obligations In good
money. *
' Speaking of tough luck, Germany j
saved up 3,000,000.000 paper marks to
pay ■# 'he 190,000.000 gold marks due
to 'he allies In December, and when
lie time to pay came the paper marks
Vol jhrtir.k so they wnnld not stretch I
fur cuuu^u wu uiaLe t&c *ciUeiueut- J
The Voice
of the Pack
By Edison Marshall
IVAjpjngai, ivjj, uiue, arown m t^vaip»uji
In spite of Hie preponderant odds
against lilm, the charge was almost a
success. He went fully half the ins
tance between them before the deer
perceived him. Then she leaped.
There seemed to be no Interlude of
time between the Instant that she be
held the ditn, tawny figure In the air
and that In which her long less pushed
out In a spring. But she didu't leap
straight ahead. She knew enough of
the cougars to know that the great
cat would certainly aim for her head
and neck In the same way that a duck
hunter leads a fast-flying duck—hop
ing to Intercept her leap. Even as her
feet left the ground she seemed to
whirl In the air. and the deadly talons
whipped down In vain. Then, cutting
back In front, she raced down wind.
It Is usually the most unmitigated
folly for a cougar to chase a deer
against which he has missed his
stroke; and It Is also quite fatal to his
dignity. And whoever doubts for a
minute that the larger creatures have
no dignity, and that It Is not very dear
to them, simply knows nothing about
the ways of animals. They cling to
It to the death. But tonight one dis
appointment after another had crum
bled. as the rains crumble leaves, the
last vestige of Whlsperfonf's self-con
trol. Snarling In fury, he bounded
after tlie doe.
She was lost to sight at once In
the darkness, but for fully thirty yards
he raced In her pursuit. If he had
stopped to think. It would have been
one of the really great surprises of
his life to hear the suddeu, unmis
takable stir and movement of a large,
living ereatnre not fifteen feet distant
In the thicket.
He didn't stop to think at all. ne
didn't puzzle on the extreme nnllkell
hood of a iloe halting Iti her flight from
a cougar It Is doubtful whether. In
the thickets he had any perceptions
of the creature other than Its mme
merits. He was running down wind,
so It Is certain that he didn't smell It.
If he saw It at all. It was .Inst as a
shadow, sufficiently large to be that
of a deer. It was moving, crawling as
Woof the hear sometime* crawled,
seemingly to get out of his path. And
Whlsperfoot leaped straight at It.
It was a perfect shot. He landed
high on Its shoulders. His hend lashed
down, and the white teeth closed. All
the long life of hl.s 'aie he had known
that pungent essen-e that flowed forth.
His senses perce: >ed It. a tnessuge
shot afong his ner-« to h's hraln. And
then he opened h s mouth In a high,
far-carrylug squeal of utter, abject
terror.
He sprang a run nueen ieei unr»
Into the thickets: then crouched. The
hnlr stood still at his shoulders. hl«
(lam were bnred: he ws« prepared
to fight to the death. He didn't under
stand. He only knew the worst single
terror of his life It was not a doe
that he had attacked In the darkness
It was not t'rson the porcupine, or
even Woof. It was that Imperial mas
ter of all things. man himself. I'n
knowlne. he had attacked I.andv nil
dreth. lying wounded from Cranston's
bullet beside the trail. Word of the
iirson ring would never reach the set
tlements. after all.
And as for Whlsnerfoot—the terror
that eh»k°d his heart with blood be
gnn to wear off In a little while. The
man lav so still In the thickets. Be
sides. there was a strange, wild smell
!n the nlr. Whisperfoot's stroke had
gone home so true [here had not even
been a fight. The darkness began to
lift around him. and a strange exulta
tion. a rapture unknown before In all
his hunting, hegan to creep Into his
wild blood. Then, as a shadow steals,
he went creeping back to his dead.
Pan Falling had been studying na
ture on the high ridges: and he went
home by a back trail that led to old
Raid mountain. The trail was Juki
a narrow serpent In the brush: and
It had not been mRde by gangs of
laborers, working with shovels and
picks. Possibly half a dozen white
men. In all. had ever walked along It.
It was Just the path of the wild crea
tures. worn down by hoof and paw
and cushion since the young days of
the world.
It was a roundabout trail home
but yet it had Its advantages. It took
him within two miles of Snowbird's
lookont station, and at this hour of
day he had been particularly fortunate
in finding her at a certain spring on
the mountain side. It was rather a sin
gular coincidence. Along about four
he would usually find himself wander
ing up that way. Strangely enongh.
at the saine time. It was true that
she had an Irresistible Impulse to go
down and sit In the green ferns besld
the same spring. The.v always seemed
to be surprised to see one another. In
reality, either of them would ' have
been considerably more surprised had
the other failed to put In an appear
ance. And always they had long talks
as the afternoon drew to twilight.
"But I don't think yon ought to wa!'
<0 late before starting home." the girl
would aiwais saj. "You're not a
human h'aVrk. and It Is easier fo get
lost tbnn von thin':."
And this sollrirude. Dan rightly fig
ured. wns » cond sign. Thorp wj«
only one oMection to It. It resulted
In nn nnmlstnkble Inference that she
considered hlin unable to take care
of himself—and tl.Ht was the Ian* .
thine on earth that hp wanted her
to think. He understood her well
enough to know that her standard*
were the standards of the motihlainn.
valuing strength and self-rellanr®
ahove all things. He didn't stop to
question why. every day. he trod so
many weary miles to lie with her.
She was as natural as a fawn: and
many times she had quite taken awa?
his breath. And once she did It liter
ally. He didn't think that so lone as
death spared him he would ever he
ahle to forget that experience. It was
her birthday, and knowing of It In
time he had arranged for the delivery
of a certain package, dear to a girlish
heart, at her father's house. In the
trystlnc hour he had come trudging
over the hills with It. and few experi
ences In his life had ever yielded such
unmitigated pleasure as the sight of
her. glowing white and red. as she took
off Its wrapping paper. It was a jolly
old gift, he recollected—and when she j
had seen It. she fairly leaped at him. J
Her warm, round anus around It's
neck, and the softest, loveliest lips In
the world pressed his. lint In those j
days he didn't have the strength that
he had now. He felt he could endure
the same experience again with no
embarrassment whatever. His first Im
pression then, besides abounding. In
credible astonishment, was that she
had quite knocked out his breath B'lt
let It be said for him lhat he recov
ered with notable promptness. His
own arms had rone up anil closed
around her, and the girl had wriggled
fr. e.
"lint yo« niu«tn t <10 tint! sne toin
him.
"Hut. poorl T.ord. sr*r! * You did It
to me! Is thw no Justice tn women?**
"Hut 1 did !? to thank yon for this
lovely g'ft. For remembering me—
for hejng so — and eonsidpmt®.
Yon haven't any cause to thank mo.**
Ho had many serious difficulties In
tli'nklne !t out. And only one ron
clnsfon was o'^ilnahle—that Snowbird
as naturally as «he did any
thing else and the kis« tm pnt exactly
what she snfd It r1f«! And no more.
Hnt fho fan remained that h«* would
have walked n good many miles far
ther If lie thought there was any pos
sibility of h repeat.
r.nt nil n! once his fantasies wer^
suddenly am! rudely diswlli'd hy the
Intrusion of realities. Pan had hern
walking silently himself In the pine
needles. As T,ennox had wondered at
lone ago. he knew how hy instinct;
and Instinctively he practiced this «t
talnrnent as soon as he go! out Into
the wild. The creature ho had h«rril
was fully one hundred yard** distant,
yet P.'\n could hear him with entire
plainness. And for n wh'le he couldn't
even guess what manner of thing It
D'ighf he.
.\ cougar that made so mnch no'*e
would he Immedlatelv expelled fn 11
the union. A wolf pack, running hy
sight, might crack brush as freely;
hut a wolf pack would also hny *o
wal e 'he dead. <V course l! mlgh* i>e
an elk or a steer. end «tlll more likely,
a hear. He stood s,:ll and listened.
The sound grew nearer.
Soon It became evldpnt tlia* (tie orea
turo was plther walking w ith two Iocs,
or pise wns 11 four-footed animal put
ting two feet down at the same In
stant. Pun had learned to wait. He
stood perfectly still. And gi.idually
hp came to the conclusion that he
was listening to the footfall of to
other roan.
Hut It was rath»r hard to Itnae'ns
what a man might hp doing on this
lonely hill. Of course It might hp a
deer hnntpr: hut fpw were the vallpy
sportsmen v *10 had penetrated to this
far land. The footfall was much too
heavy for Snowbird. Thp steps were
! evidently on another trail that Inter
sected his own trail onp hundred yards
farther up the hill. He hail only to
stand still, and In an Instant the man
would come In sight.
He took one step Into the thicket*.
I prepared to conceal himself If It he
eanie necpssary. Then he waited. Soon
the man stepped out on the trail.
Even at the distance of one hundred
yards, Dan hail no difficulty whaiever
In recognizing him. He could not
mistake this tall, dark form, the soiled,
glouehy cloihes. the rough hair, the
Intent, dark features. It was a man
aliout his own nee. his own height,
but weighing fuliy twenty pounds
uiore. and the dark, narrow eyes could
belong to no one out Bert Cranston.
He carried Ills ritle loosely In his arms.
Hp 8tup|>ed nt the forks In thp trail
and looked carefully In all directions.
I>un had every reason to think that
Cranston would see hitu at tirst plance.
Onl> one clump of thicket sheltered
him. Hut because l>an tn'd learned
the lesson of standing still, because
his olive-drab sporting clothes blended
sofily with the colored leaves, Crans
ton did not detect him. He turned
and strode on down the trail.
He ditlu't move quite like a man
with innocent purposes. There was
something stealthy, something sinister
in his stride, and the way he kept
such a sharp lookout In all directions.
Yet he never glanced to the trail for
deer tracks, as he would have done
had he been hunting. Without even
waiting to meditate on the matter,
l)an started to shadow hiid.
Before one hundred yards had been
traversed, he could better understand
the Joy the cougar takes in his hunt- |
Ing. It was the same process—a cau- |
tious. silent advance in the trail of j
prey. He had to walk with the same
caution, he had to take advantage of
the thickets. He began to feel a curi
ous ei.cueweuu
Dan Saw Hi* PurpoM
Cranston woraed to be moving trior*
carefully now. examining the hrnsh
niong the trull. Now and then he
planced up a; the tree tops. And all
at once he Mopped and knelt In the
dry shrubbery
At first all that Pan could see was
the glitter of a knife blade. Orana
ton seemed to he whittling a piece of
d<-«d pine Into fine shavinir*. Now
he was cather'ng pine n»n|ii«i and
small twigs, making a little pile of
them. And then. Just a« Cranston
dn-w his match Pan saw M« pwrjtose.
Cranston was at hla old trade—set
tlnc a forest fire.
For two very (ro.vd reasons. T>an
didn't call to him at onee The two
reasons r»-ere that Crnnstoti had a rifle
nnd that Pan was unarmed, ft might
l>e extremely likely that Cranston
would choose the most planslhle atxl
effective means of preventing an inter
motion of hN crime and by the same
token prevent word of the crime evp
reachlne the authorities The rifle
contained five cartrldces. and only one
wa« needed.
Hut the Idea of hacking out. unseen,
never even occurred to Pan. The tire
v uuld have a tremendous headway l>e
fore lie could summon help. Although
It was near the lookout station, every
condition pointed to a disastrous tire.
The brush was dry aa tinder, not so
heavy a> to choke the wind, hot yet
tail enough to carry the flame toto
the tree tops. The stiff breeze up the
ridge would certainly carry the flame
for niile» through ihe parched Divide
before help could coine. In the mean
time stock and fives and homes would
be endangered. besides the Irreparable
lo>s of tltulier. There were many
thincs thai Pan might do. but glvtDg
up was not one of tbcui.
After all he did the wisest thing of
till. He simply came out in plain sight
and unconcernedly walked down the
trail toward Cranston. At the same
iu>*nn' 'lie Inner viniek his match.
(Continued ou-Saturday)
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Camp Sikaptaf Xn. 1
meet* every iccoih) ind
fourth Tuf*1»j ermlnj
at 8: SO o'clock. Vlnlt
tnft fclWlltn ronltkJIr wflitunr.
J. M. Keller, L. 8. Keller,
Arctic Recorder. Arctic Chief
B. P. O. ELKS, Kka«.
way Lodge. No. 431, R.
P. O. Elkfc, bimj rvrrj
Thnr»day «t 8 p. m.
ViAlttng brother* oor»
dUlly welcome.
j. c. woon, k. a
P. J. VANDEWAIA, 8e<r»>l*rj.
P. & A. M.
Whit* Pubs F. * A.
M. So. IIS, mwtf 2nd and
4th Saturday rTrtitng* of
oach month at S o'clock.
VUltlns Brethren are wel
com*.
F. J. Van dp Wall. W. SL
T. J. Hmndhih. SwUrj.
FrttmiU Order of
K«cici
n) Aerie, No. 215,
fraternal Order of
Ktgin, miTl the fir*t
and third Wednesday night of eneh
month at their h»U on Fifth Ave
nue. Visiting brother* cordially in
vited to attend.
C. H. ROGERS, W. P.
J. M. Griesbaoh, Sec'y.
Naomi Chapter No. P
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sonic hRll, first and
third Friday of each
month, al 8 o'clock.
Vl«ttlng member* wlrame.
POLLY WEBSTER
Worthy Matron
Fanny Spcer, Secretary.
PROFESSIONAL, CARDS
W. B. STOI T
Attorney at I.«w
Prart lie fn all conrta
In Territory of Alaska
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Paid Advertisement
VOTE FOR
James L. Galen
Delegate to Congress
No man in Alaska more thoroughly understands the value of roads
m aiding the development of the Territory.
He pledges his untiring efforts in support of all road building agen
cies of the government in Alaska.
He stands for encouraging the building of trails and roads in al!
sections of the Territory, including necessary feeders to make the
government railroad of more service and valne to the prospector and
miner.
Mr. Galen has been a prospector and miner and believes In encour
aging by liberal legislation, as well as intelligent road and trail
building, all projects designed to aid those who are pioneers in the
Territory, and whose sacrifices and hardships tiave opened up ai:d
will open up the great mining districts of the North.
A vote for Galen brings prosperity to the miner, the prospector, the
fisherman, the merchant and the wdrktngoan.
"WATCH THIS SPACE FOR FURTHER ANNOUNCEMENTS OF
WHAT MR. GALEN STANDS FOR."
L,
in
Republican Primary
1922