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KEEP SK \<i\V AY CLEAN
Teurisrs and ewn government officials arc thrilled with the wild story
of Soapy Smith, who Hashed in lawlessness for a few months and then tiled
as lie had lived. It was the spirit of decent manhood and womanhood in
protest that cut short his career. It was the sa. le spirit which early took
advantage of the local option law passed by the Legislature. - and voted
Skagway dry. A few of the saloon keepers determined to rnn in spite of
the law and the decisive vote But determined citizens soon taught tliera
their lesson, and after the court had imposed heavy fines they concluded
t:.e game was not worth the >and!e. and left, some to ply their trade in
other parts. From time to time someone has tried bootlegging, and some
of it has been goiug on. while a patient citizenry has kept its eye open
without saying very much. Of all classes of lawbreakers the bootlegger is
one of the most despicable. A parasite type, whose one aim is the de
bauching of his fellows that he may obtain a few dollars. He will set his
net for an honest man who is seek ng to go straight, and who for years has
done so. and by his wiles inveigle his viitiui to break truce with himself
and give to the wily rascal the savings of years in money and character.
Justice in Seattle, as exhibited in Judge Ronald's recent sentence of
William i'erriu to two years In the pen for this crime, has made Seattle a
less favorable place for pi' :>ir the trade than heretofore and some of this
class are going into other places. Skagway citizens cannot be too careful
cor too watchful. We have a small but a splendid town, and the decent
citizenry of this place are determi d to keep it so. We want our boys and
girls, our young men and young women to grow up under conditions which
make for the best manhood and womanhood.
This will be possible to the largest degree by cleaning out and keep
ing out every gang of moral lepers who seek to ply the trade of bootleg
ging.
CK1KK FOR THK I5<)OTI.K(i<.Ki;s.—Here's the saddest news of all for
thOM bootleggers and moonshiners in Oklahoma who have been congratu
lating themselves upon light tines and sentences imposed by courts. It's ttie
news tl .it a federal revenue agent has arrived in the state and begau col
lecting the fines.
From Ponca City conies the word that fines ranging from $2,500 to
£9.001- are being collected from those who have been convicted of selling
or making whiskey. It's easy for the revenue agent to assess the fines, be
cause he has the court record? on which to base his decision.
Ti.ese lines are for selling or making 1 i«t'.tor without a federal license
If they are not pa:d. the judgment will remain over the head of the con
victed persons, and if they are ever able to accumulate anything of value,
it will be confiscated to apply upon the fines.
for those good citizens who have been complaining about low fines of
the courts and short sentences, this will be good news. There will be Ut
tl cause for complaint about sen'en.'s w> en the revenue agent completes
his rounds in Oklahoma, it is anticipated, for the booze peddlers will "ge'
what's coming to them."—Oklahoma City Oklahoman.
HEART INTEREST IN MOVIES
In Aiming the combat of havid and
Goliath on its «>rli; mt! terrain. Hip holy
land, the movies have taken tin* liberty
of introducing a love scene Immedi
ately after the iluel. observes the Boa
tun Globe. We must have "heart in
terest." And I!Il>le stories do not In
variably supply It. They often seem
strangely preoccupied with thoughts
»s remote from s^x as religions aspira
tions, moral heroism. srtf-<i>nc|i:est or
even plain robust adventure of life
and limb. This, of course. dis«|t:. lities
t! es>- stately and sublime le^onds for
duty as scenarios—utdess a little In
jtenulty Is brought to the rescue.
Lacking In sentiment tboJ^h Moses,
Klijah. Isaiah and Amos may be. their
careers are stormy enough to admit
of the introduction of sentimental In
terest so as to show that it was a dis
appointment In love that drove them
Into their careers as prophets and re
formers. and ihat all they needed whs
the love of some sweet young girl to
have induced them to settle down and
live a happy hotne life. One suspects
that thf movies have missed their
way. Heap Interest Is their stock In
trade. Then why waste time looking
for It In the Old Testament? Why not
film tiie private lives of the movie
stars themselves?
The National Union of Hungarian
Physicians Is a co-operative factory
fur the manufacture of surgical instru
ments. At first organization proceeded
slowly, for the medical faculty had
little knowledge of the co-operative
idea. As a result, however, of power
ful moral support by the Hangya {n>n
suroers' co-operative wholesale), work
shops for»the manufacture of surgtai>
Instruments and orthopedic appliances
£-ere opened iy~V. Shortly aiter
ward a shop was opened Tor the sale
of instruments. followed a few weeks
later by a smithy ond locksmiths'
workshop, where hospital furniture,
laboratory requisites, operating tables
hH'I the like are manufactured. In the
workshops for the manufacture of
surgical Instruments there are from
thirty to forty expert workmen. In
connection with the workshops about
fifteen persons are employed waking
orthopedic appliances.
James Gamble Rogers, architect of
|T;i' tics- Memorial quadrangle at Yale
university, lias I explaining how
beautiful the college will be a hun
j i|re<! years hence. The proposed build
int developments provide for a series
1 of lar^e buildings of Gothic type set In
surroundings where long and beautiful
! vistas will form the approach to every
princitiat piece of architecture. But Mr.
t Itogers forgot to note the beauties that
age will give to Yale. Part of the charra
I of oxford is its antiquity, and as Awer
j ican colleges uiellow they will take on
that dignity that only useful years
[ uiay give.
Yo'itb does not change. It Is the
same today as yesterday. It Is the
parents, trainers of youth, who have
changed. Hence we have Jazz-life
youngsters. This Is the theory of Al
fred K. Stearns, principal of Phillips
Academy. Andover. Mass. His reason
ing is sound. Katlier in his youth
would have been the same as son is
roilay if the old-fasldoned home had
been put on a 1922 basis. We are the
products of early trailing and environ
ment. regardless of which generation
we live in.
One of the big delights of sprlnit
tiine is the consciousness that the
annual vucuuuAt season i» stil] ahead.
INDIAN DRUM
biiWilliam AWHarq and Ecwtn B aimer
Illustrations by ^
ltynsftyevs^
Cbpxjriqhf- by Edwir\Balmor >— <T,
He drew hack his anil and with all
his might hurled the flashlight at
Alan. It missed and crashed some
where behind hlra, bu* did not go out;
the beam of light shot back and wa
vered and dickered over both of them,
ns the torch rolled on the floor. Alan
rushed forward and. thrusting through
the dark, his hand struck the man's
chest and seized his coat.
The man caught at and seized Al
an's arm; he seemed to feel of It and
assure himself of Its realt'y.
"Klesh! Flesh!" he roared In re
lief: and his big arms grappled Alan.
As they struggled, they stumbled ami
fell to the floor, the big man under
oeath. Mis hand shifted Its hold and
caught Alan's throat; Alan got an arm
free and. with all his force, struck the
man's face. The man struck back—
a heavy blow on the side of Alan's
head which dizzied hlra bu» left him
strength to strike again, and his
knuckles reached the man's face once
more, but he got another heavy blow
in return. The man was grappling
no longer; he swung Alun to one side
and off of him, and rolled himself
away. He scrambled to his feet and
dashed out through the library, across
the hall, and Into the service room.
Alan ?ot to his fee*; dizzied and not
yet familiar with the house, he blun
dered against a wall and had to feel
his way along It to the service room;
as he sllp|>t'il mid stumbled down the
stairway. :i door loudly at the
eml of rhi> corridor hp had seen at
tlie foot of the s'alrs. He nin along
the corridor to the door: It had closed
with :i sprltie look, mid seconds passed
while he fell In the dark f.-r rhe cntcb :
he found it ami tore the door open,
and rnrne out suddenly Into the cold
air of the niirht In a paved passage
wiiv beside the house which led In one
direction 'o the street ami In the
oilier to a pate opening on the alley.
He ran forward to the srreet and
lonked ill- and down, hot foind It emp
ty: tin n he ran back to the alley. At
tbe end of the alley, where It Inter
sected "he cross street, the tltruce <>t
the man running awav appeared sud
denly out of the shadows, then dis
appeared : Alan following as far
the street, could see nothing more of
him: this street too was empty.
He ran a little farther nnd looked,
then he went hack to the house. The
side door had swung shut attain and
In ched, lie le" himself in at the front
door and turned on the light In the
rending lamp in the library. The
electric torch stin was burning on the
fl'ior and he picke<l it up and extin
guished it: he went upstairs nnd
brought do'.vt his shoes. He had seen
a wood fire set ready for lighting In
the library, and now he ilghjcd It and
sa* before It drying Ills wet socks be
fore he put on his shoes. He was stlil
shaking and breathing fast from Ills
struggle with the man anil his chase
after him. and by the strangeness of
what had taken place.
When the shaft of llrht from the
torch had Unshed across Alcfs face
In the dark library, the man had not
taken hitn for wlia* he was—a living
person: he had taken hitn for a spec
ter. His terror and the things he had
cried out Could mean only that. The
specter of whom? Not of Benjamin
Corvet: for one of the things Alan
had remarked when he saw Benjamin
C>rvet's nicfure was that he himself
did not look at all like his father. Re
sides. what the man had said made It
certain that he did not think the spec
ter was "Ben": for the specter had
"got Ben." Oid Alan look like some
one else, then? Like whom? Kvl
dentlv like the man—now dead, for
be had a ghost—who had "rot" Ben.
In "he big man's opinion. Who could
that he?
Alnn go* yp and wont to look lit
hinist-lf In !he mirror he had.seen In
the hull, rie was white, now that the
flush of the fighting was going; he
probably had been pale before with
excitement, and over his right eye
there was a round black mark. Alan
looked down at his hands; a ll'tle
skin was r>ff one knuckle, where he
had struck the man. and his fingers
were smudged with a black and sotty
dust. He had smudged them on the
papers upstairs or else In feeling his
way about the dark house, and at
some time he had touched his fore
head and left the black mark. That
had been the "bullet hole."
The res* that the man had said had
beeu a reference to some name; Alan
bad no trouble to recollect the name,
and. while he did not understand it
at all, It stirred htiu queerly—"the Ml
waka." What was that: The queer
excltemen' and questioning that the
name brought, when he repeated it
to himself, was not recollection: for
he could not recall ever having heard
the name before; but It was not com
pletely strange to hlin. He could de
fine the excitement It stirred only in
that way.
Sherrill had believed that here In
this house Benjamin Corvet had left—
or misht hjive ict't—st jneuujrttiiduiu, a
- — -r
record. or nil account of some <ort
which would explain to Alan. Ills son,
j the blight which hung over his life.
I Slierrlll had said that It could have
been no mere intrigue, no vulgar per
sonal sin; and the events of the night
had made that very certain; for, plain
ly, whatever was hidden In that house
Involved some one else seriously, des
perately. There was no other way to
explain the intrusion of the sort of
man whom Alan had surprised there
an hour ago.
The fact that this other man
searched also did not prove that Ben
jamin Corvet had left a record In the
bouse, as Slierriil believed; hut It
certainly showed that another person
believed—or feared—it. Whether or
I not guilt had sent Benjamin Coivet
; a«ay four days ago, whether or not
tle're had been guilt behind the ghost
which had "got Ben." there was guilt
In the big man's superstitious terror
when he had seen Alan. A bold; pow
erful man like that one. when his con
science Is clear, does not see a ghost.
And the ghost which he had seen had
a bullet hole above the brows!
Alan took up his hat and looked
almut the house; he was going to re
turn and sleep here, of course; he was
not going to ieave the house unguard
ed tor any long time lifter this, but.
alter what bad Just happened, lie felt
he could leave It safely for half an
hour, particularly If lie Ict't a light
burning within.
I He did tlits and stepped over to the
Sherrills'. The man who answered Ids
ring recognized him at once and ad
mitted him; in reply to Alan's ques
tion. the servant said that .Mr. Slierrlll
j had not yet returned. When Alan
went to Ids room, the valet appeared
and. finding that Alan was packing,
the man offered his service. Alan let
' him pack ami went downstairs; a mo
I tor had Just driven up to ti e house.
It proved to have brought Constance
| and her mother: Mrs. Slierrlll, after
, Informing Alan that Mr. Slierrlll might
| not return until some time later, went
"You're Not Staying Here Tonight?"
She Asked.
upstairs mid Old not Appear again.
Constance followed her mother hut.
ten minutes later, came downstairs.
"You're not staying here tonight?"
she asked.
"I wanted to say to your father,"
Alan explained, "that 1 believe 1 had
better go over to the other house."
"Are you taking any one with you?"
she inquired.
"Any one?"
"A servant, I mean."
"No."
"Then you'll let us lend you a man
from here."
"You're awfully good; but I don't
think I'll need anyone tonight. Mr.
Curvet's—iuy father's man—is coming
hack tomorrow, 1 understand. I'll get
along very well until then."
She was silent a moment as she
looked away. Her shoulders suddenly
jerked a little. "1 wish you'd take
some one with you," she persisted. "I
don't like to think of you alone over
there."
"My father must have been often
alone there."
"Yes," she said. "Yes." She looked
at hiin quickly, then away, checking a
question. She wanted to ask. he knew,
what he had discovered in that lonely
house which hail so agitated him; for
of course she had noticed agitation in
him. And he had Intended to tell her,
or. rather, her father. He had been
rehearsing to himself the description
of the man he had met there in order
to ask Sherrill about him; but now
Alan knew that he was not going to
refer the matter even to Sherrill Just
yet.
Sherrill had believed that Benjamin
fnrvet's disappearance was from clr
cuustunces loo UL'rsona.l tju.d intimate
tn hb'TViflifc A sufject nfpnbllp Inquiry,
><nd whnt Alnn hnd encountered In
t'orvi'V* hntw )m>1 confirmed thnr be
lief. Slierrlll further had said that
Benjutuin Curvet, 1/ he hnd wfshw
Sherrill to know those circumstances
1 would have told them to him; but Cor
> vet bail nut dune that; Instead, be hue
! sent for Alan. Ids sun. He bud given
I Jils sun Ills contidence.
! Slierrlll hud admitted that he wuf
| withholding from Alun, for the Un«
being, something tlmt be knew aboul
Benjamin Curvet; It was nothing, he
i bud said, which would help Alan tc
| leurn about bis father, or what hud
I become of him; but perhaps Sherrlll.
! not knowing these other things, could
I noi speak accurately as to that. Alun
| determined to ask Slierrlll what h«
] had been withholding, before he told
1 him all of whut hud happened In Cor
vet's house. There was one other cir
cumstance which Slierrlll had men
tioned but not explained; It uccurred
to Alun now.
"Miss SherrlU—" be checked him
1 self.
| "What is itr
"This afternoon your father said
] that you believed that Mr. Corvet's
I dlsapiieiiranee was In some way con
' neoted with you: he said that he did
| not think that was so; but do you
I want to tell me why you thought it?"
"Yes; 1 will tell you." She colored
quickly. "One of the last things Mr.
| Corvet did—in fact, the last tiling we
kO'iw of ills doing before he sent for
, you—was to come to ine and warn me
i against one of m.v friends."
"Warn you. Miss Sherrili? HowT I
mean, warn you against what7"
"Against thinking too much of him."
She fumed away.
"I think I'll come to see your father
la the morning." Alan said, when Con
stance looked back to him.
"Hut you'll coine over here for
breakfast In the morning?"
"You want me?"
"Certainly."
I "I'd like to come very mtich."
"Then I'll expect you." She followed
him to the door when he had put on
Ids things, and lie made no objection
| when she asked that the man be al
lowed to carry Ills bag around to 'the
! other house.
When he had dismissed Simons and
' re-entered the house on Astor street,
i he found no evidences of any disturb
I uiice while he bad been gone. On the
second floor, to the east of the room
I which bad been his father's, was a
j bedroom which evidently had been
I kept as a guest chamber; Alan carried
his suitcase there and made ready for
i bed.
The sight of Constance snerrw
standing aud watching after him Id
concern as he started back to this
house, vaiue to hlui again and again
and, also, her flush when she had
| spoken of the friend against whom
Benjamin Corvet had warned her.
| Who was he? It had heen Impossible
j at that moment for Alan to ask her
I more; besides, If he had asked and she
had told him, he would have learned
only a name which he could tfot place
.vet In any connection with her or with
j Benjamin Corvet. Whoever he was. It
was plain that Constance Sherrlll
"thought of himlucky man. Alan
said to himself. Yet Corvet had
warned her not to think of him. . . .
Alan turned back hi* bed. It had
been for him a tremendous day. Bare
ly twelve hours before he had come to
that house. Alan Conrad from Blue
ItupUls. Kan., now . . , phrases
from what Lawrence Sherrlll had told
I him of his father were running
| through his inlnd as he opened the
j door of the room to be able to hear
I any noise In Benjamin Corvet'3 house,
j of which he was sole protector. The
emotion roused by his first sight of the
j lake went through him again as be
■ opened the window to the eas1:.
Now—hf was in bed—he seemed to
| be standing, a specter before a man
blaspheming Benjamin Corvet and the
souls of meu dead. "And the tt»ie
above the eye! . . . The bullet got
j you! ... So It's you that got Ben!
I . . . I'll get you! . . . You can't
I save the Mlwaka !"
The Mlwaka! The stir of that name
was stronger now even than before; It
had been running through his cou
| sclousness almost constantly since he
I had heard It. He Jumped up and
| turned on the light and found a pencil.
He did not know how to spell the
name and It was not necessary to
j write It down; the name ha<T taken on
that definlteness and Ineffaceableness
of a thing which, once heard, can
never again be forgotten. But, In
1 panic that he might forget, he wrote
j It, guessing nt the spelling—"Mlwaka."
(Continued on Saturday)
Steel makers nil over the world are
waiting for developments from a plant
being built by M. Basset at Domicile,
I France. Basset says be has a process
of making high-grade steel direct from
iron ore, without the intermediate
stage of turning it Into pig Iron. A
discovery like that, if the cost were
iow, would be more valuable to civili
zation than the lifetime work of sev
eral million plodders. Short-cut pro
duction is the future key to wealth.
4.
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