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ViOLINS OF QUALITY
It bat loni been (jmrrnliy undera-mid
hi the musical world th:ir violins of
real quality cuulil be made only by h
handful of patriarchs. the most noted
of whom was Antonio StraUivurius of
Cremona, who piled his trade In the
Seventeenth century. The consequence
Is tbat these choice lastrm.H-nt» are
very scarce, very high-priced and
rarely heanJ In public. Hut mm come
advices from Paris that an audl>-noe
at the Conservatoire. Iwlng requested
to vote on the respective merits of a
Stradivarlus ami sotue violins of
nutlern make, as played before them
In the dark, showed a considerable
preference for the latter. Of course
there is no reason why modern* should
not break In upon the legend of the
patriarchs If they are utilinic I" de
vote as uiuch patlemv and Inte-est
to the subject as dlil their forbear*.
The only type of vlolit -linker who
naturally could not compete >vould he
the devotee of efflclency whose Interest
centered rather upon the number of
Instruments turned out than upo Uie
pertectiou of euch.
Three attempts to rpsrue the cargo
of the *t»-aiuer Merlda. «:* k t. n jmp<
ago oft the Virginia rapes, have fai'e.l.
The cargo consisted of gold ami silver
bars and coin. The failures are at
tributed to storms whl"h tiillli-ted
damage uyon the salvaging ■•■|iiipi:u<t i
on each occasion. The vessels Ib'S
In only thirty-tive fathoms of water so
that the project of raising her is en
tire!;. feasible and within ilie limits of
recorded achievements. Four million
dollars, however. Is quickly absorbed
In maritime engineering and another
failure will render further attempts
unprofitable. The iilea of rvsculng
sunken treasure from the sea lias al
ways had a hold on the Imagination
•md pert aps there will be etlorts made
toward accomplishing the salvage for
the sport of the thing.
A recent Issue of the monthly huM»
tln of the Italian emigration commis
sion states that the remittance* of
Italian emigrants to their native
country auiouuled ro lire
($I.9X2 par) in Itrjo as a. :.st
4M.386.6tfI lire ($!».">,-llH.trjt; pur. in
11*1$. Of the total amount of the
remlttan<-es made In !"«• per cent
came from the United Sta'e*. a< '!
most of the rest from Canada and
Rrazll. All other countries c<n
trlbuted Insignificant amounts to tile
total. Tne total amount of the re
mittances was twiie a* large hi 1!VJ0
as In In it»Il» the average »-\
change vulue of tie dollar was S.TO
lire and In HO) If was I'l.lS.
The man who makes a f»o| of him
self Is different fr"iu others only in
the respect that lie I'un l ct.n'i-ol his
impulses. That sort »f impulse is
human. The man who ke.-ps his fi>oi
on the brske and isn't al«a.vs feeding
g»s to his Utdiliittiuns is to be en
vied.
\\> ran srar<e!y blame Japan f>*r
trying'tV »,-t « <-on>--sl"n Mint would
&{!ow h«-r a little blKSt*r rteoi than tie*
American program provides; bur
the otl.er hand the L'niJed Stains and
Great Britain would be making a mis
take U it were to give Japan what it
wants.
An Tastern pitrasrapher want* to
know what has become of the old
fashioned editor who used to write
that Bolshevism was netirins its fall
In KuMSla. Perhaps he is tel'lng how
Bolshevism saied itself by chunking
all its clothes.
Although the rc/ent of Ahy««ln1a
owns an automobile he often 1ms li s
chauffeur go on ahead while he fol
lows on a mile. We take it thai if
anyone wants to buy an A-t automo
tive rlo'l't cheap here's a chance.
While the owner of the niitofPoMle
ti.^i.kful u> the jiuitce lor
IIS alovi: :iir I arresting t*e siranp'r
.\ fin >»ns cranking It. lie would be more
thankful ii they had lield off a bit ud
Ml the f.'tli.w ir«>f her started.
\nv somebody wants to educate
i nptipN' in live HHi years, all of which
j is pi Hie. bunk and tommyrot. says the
Hi'list «n I'"St. Even If it were P'l
sIMe. why punish folks SO years lonirar
wlrh toothlessness, ssiiil-blindnes*.
creaky J*tnts and ether Infirmities? If
henven is so good what would we
want to »tay for. nnyhowT
(iver In Chit a all motorcars are said
to have bells attached to frorit
wheels, so that pedestrians may know
of the vehicles' approach. "Don't the
motorcars in China have cutouts?"
a<l;s an editor. Maybe, but not so
many cutups
According to a newspaper article,
few know *h:it tunny of the beautiful
funis v«ri l«y tiulii'l> are made from
rablc' fin' All that a lot of peopls
knew about it was that the price can
lump.
Thmtsli tl»* inl'lf* are slli-nt wi>
feel iii .1 Switzerland too. will approve
a !lini':iii"ii ■>! naval armament*. to
• a-, hothitii: i»f ti reduction In tourist
nite.s iluit will send uinre Ainerlcau
dollar* across.
of rtuirse, thi' automatic pistol* of
the I'niteil States cannot be beaten
Into plowshares or pruning hooks,
but It might not he a bad Idea to con
vert them Into safety pins.
It does no good for the pnraernph
ers to make fun of the emaciated
Herman mark. A Oennan mark at
•>ar now would he .rorth hundreds of
millions to American Industry.
There are nearly 8,000.000 men un
<!er arms In the world, and the feed
Ine »f them Is mak: lg millions of oth
er people hungry.
If. as a Princeton professor says,
"wealth Is a disease" he Is uot koIiik
to make himself popular by hunting (
np a remedy.
It mlcht complicate matters If the
•latives of the I'aelflc Islands were to
look the sltuatiou over to see whether I
they had any vested right* which j
ot;. lit to he !Vs|iecteil in a civilized re- (
adjust mettt. '
An Kiistcrn clergyman asks: "May
wr hope for a world without war?" I
Surely u man has the privilege of
hoping for anything lie desires to hope I
for.
MICKIE SAYS
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[SUCKER VAAVIE SOUR ORDERS (
FOR JOB VUORK.« VJE CAM DO
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The Voice
of the Pack
By Edison Marshall
(Copyright, 19ft), Little, Brown A Company)
Hut Dnn was not thinking; about
this now. All his perceptions hart
sharpened dotvn to the finest focal
point, und he was trying to catch the
spirit of the endless forest that
stretched In front of the house. His
pipe had gone out, and for a long time
Lennox hadn't spoken. He seemed to
be straining too. with Ineffective
senses, trying to recognize and name
the faint sounds that came so tingling
and tremulous out of the darkness. As
always, they heard the stir and rustle
»f the gnawing people; the chipmunks
In the shrubbery, the gophers who,
like blind misers, had ventured forth
from their dark burrows; and per
hnps even the scaly glide of those
most-dreaded poison people that had
lairs In the rock piles.
Pan felt that at last the wilderness
Itself was speaking to hlin. He had
waited a long time to hear Its voice.
His thought went back to the wise
men of the ancient world, waiting to
hear the riddle of the universe from
the lips of the Sphinx, and how he
himself—more In his unconscious self,
rather than conscious—had sought the
eternal riddle of the wilderness. He
had asked questions—never In the
form of words but only Ineffable
yearnings of his soul—and at last it
had responded. The strange rising
and falling song was its own voice, the
artlculutlon of the very heart and soul
of the wilderness.
"It's the wolf pack." Lennox told
him softly. "The wolves have Just
joined together for the fall rutting."
"Then this means the end of the
summer?" Dan asked.
"In a way, but yet we don't count
tlie summer elided until ihe rains
break. Heavens. I wish they would
start! I've never seen the hills so
dry, and l'ui afraid that either llert
Cranston or some of his friends will
deride It's time to make a little mon
ev fighting forest fires. Pan I'm sus
"Dan, I'm Suspicious of That Gang."
piclous of thm gang. I believe they've
got a regular arson ring, ainybe with
unscrupulous stockmen behind tliein.
ami perhrps Just a penny-wiimlng deal
of their own I suppose you know
about Landy Hlldreth—hon he's prom
ised to turn state's evidence that will I
send about a dozen of these vipers to
the penitentiary?"
"Snowbird told me something about i
It."
"He's pot a cabin over toward the I
marshes*, and It has come to me that i
he's going to start tomorrow, or maybe j
has already started today, down Into
the valley to give his evidence. Of
course, that Is deeply contldemlal be
tween you and me. If the sans knew
about It. he'il never get through the '
thickets alive."
Hut Pan was hardly listening. Ills
attention was causht by the husl.ed
Intermittent sounds that are alw«v* ri
be heard. If one listens keenly •■no'igl
In the wilderness al nlghl. "1 wN*t
the pack would sound again." he said.
"1 suppose It was hunting."
"Of course. And there Is no Itvln™
thing In these woods that can staml
against a wolf pack 1q lis full
strength."
"Except man. of course."
"A strong man. with an accurate
ride, of course, and except possibly •
in the starving times In winter he'd
never have to fight them. All tl:e I
beasts of prey are out tonight. You '•
see. Pan. when the moon shines, the
deer feed at night Insiead of in the .
twilights and the dawn. And of I
course the wolves and the cougars '
hum the deer. It uia.v be that they i
are running cattle, or even shjep."
Bui Pan's Imagination was afire.
He wasn't content yet. "Thev couldn't I
be—huuliiu: UiaiiJ" lie
"N'o. If It was midwinter snn me
pnck ^ starvlnc. we'd have IP lis
ten heller. Ii always looked to me a?
If the wild creatures had » l»w 1
nmlnsi killing men. Inst ax humans
have. They're learned It doesn't i>av
—aomeihln: the wolves and hears of
Europe nnd Asia hp vent found om.
The naturalists say that the reason Is
rather simple—that th< European
pensant. his soul scared out nf him hy
the eiivernment he lived under, has
always fled from wild heasts. They
were tillers of the x<i|l, nnd they car
ried lu» s Instead of nms. They never
pnt the fear of Ood Into the animal*
and a* a result there are quite n nnm
her of tme stories ahent tlpers and
wolves that arvn't pleasant to listen
to. Rut onr own frontiersmen were
not men to stand any nonsense from
wolves or contrar*. They had suns,
and they knew how to ti<e them. And
they were preceded hy as brave and
as warlike a race as ever lived on the
earth—a-med with how* nnd arrows.
Anv anlmnl that hunted men was 1m
niedlately killed, and the rest found
ont It didn't pay.
"Jnst as htiman helnw have fonnd
ont the same thine—that It doesn't
pay to hunt their fellow men. The
laws of life as well as the laws of na
tions are asnlnst It."
[ Put the words sonnded weak and .
dim under the we'eht of the throhhtnc |
darkness: and Dan cottldn't ret away |
jfrom 'he Idea that the codes of life hy j
which most men lived were forcotten
quickly In the shadows of the pines.
Even as he spoke man was huntlnc
man on the distant rldce where Whla
, perfoot the cm ear had howled.
! Port Cranston. head of the ar«on j
|r'nc that operated on the Fmp^tia *11
'rlde. was nor on'y beyond the pale In
regard to the laws of the valleys. but !
he could have learned valuable logons
from the boasts in regard to keeping
the laws of the bills. The moon looked
down to And lilm wafting on a certain
trail that wound down to tbe settle- j
nients. his ritle loaded and ready for |
another kind of game than deer or j
wolf, lie was waiting for 1.atidy Hll
dreth: and The cr«»etlnc he had for |
him was to destroy all chances of the !
prosecuting attorney in the valley be- I
low learning certain names that he ;
particularly wantod 'o know.
There was no breath of wind. The
emit pines fall and dark pas belief, |
stood alnsolutolv motionless, like
s»ranco pillars of eNony. Port Cran
ston knelt in a bm<!» eovert. his rifle i
loaded and ready in his lean, dark !
bands.
No wolf that ran tbe ridge*. no
ma car that waited on the d«*er trails
knew a wilder passion, a more terrible I
blood-lust than be. It showed In his !
eyes, narrow and never resting from j
their watch of tbe trail: It was In bis ;
posture: and It revealed i'self nnmls j
takablv (n the curl of his lips. Some
tbfnsr like hot s^eatn was in bis brain,
blurring b:s sight and heating his
blood j
Tbe pine needles banc wholly mo |
t!on1«"*s above bis bond: bnt yet th*3
dead leave* on wftirb he knelt crinkled
and rustled under hint. Only the keen
est ear c*>uld have beard tbe sonnd . j
and pos<ibi- in b's madness. Cranston I
himself was not awn re of it. And one j
woijM have wandered a lone time as .
to what caused it Tt was simply tbat 1
be was shivering all over with hate I
and fury.
A fw'c cracked, far on tbe Hdgr |
above him. He leaned forward, peer- j
Inc and the moon He lit showed his
face In nr«par|np detail. It revealed |
the d-ep lines, the terrible, drawn i
I'ps. the nglv hair lone over the dark
ears. Ills str.<nc bands tlditened (
npon tbe breech of the ritle. His wiry
flirure g»*ew tense.
Of eorr«e It wouldn't do to let bis
prey come too close. I.atidy H'ldreth [
was a co'Hi shot too. yonnc as Cran
ston and of equal strength: and no I
sporting eh an Of rould l»e taken In this
hnntinff. Crar<ion bad no intention '
of irlvlnc h'-e enemv evon the slightest 1
chance to defend himself. If Hildreth
pot down into the ral'ey. bis test!- '
niony would ma\*e «bort work of tbe
ars.»n rinc. He had tbe goods; be had |
been a member of the disreputable
crowd himself.
T'c mar. - steps were qu'te d^tlnrt
hy now heard him flehtinc
his way through 111.' brash thicket?,
nml once a flock of grouse. friphtened
from their perc''«s hy the approaching
'flrure. flow down iho trail In front. ,
Cranston pressed back the hammer of \
his rifle. The dirk sounded loud In
the silence. He hnd grown tense and
still ami the leaves no loncer rustled.
Ills eyes were Intent on n little
rlearlng. possibly one hundred yn nls '
Dp the trail. The trail Itself went
strnlcht through It. And In an In
stant more M'Mreih pushed through
the hnckhrush and stood revealed Id
the moonlight.
If there Is one qnsllty that means
«in-resv in the mountains It Is con- i
smut, nm-easlna «elf-«>nirol. Cran- !
• -hough' ihnt he had It. But nor- j
haps he li-id nn'ted too Ions for ITTV
dreth to cotnc; and the strain had told |
on hint. He had sworn to take no I
false steps; that every motion he |
made should he cool and sure. He j
didn't want to attract Hildreth's at- :
tentlon by any sudden movement All ,
must be cautious and stealthy. Hut .
In spite of all the-e (rood resolutions, |
Cranston's gun simply leaped to his •
shoulder in one convulsive motloD at
the first glimpse of his enemy as he
emerged into the moonlight.
The end of the barrel struck a
branch of the shrubl>ery as It went >
tip. It was only a soft sound: bnt In j
the utter silence It traveled far. The
gun barrel i-aucht the moonlight as It
leaped, and Ilildrelh saw its glint In !
the darkness.
He was looking for trouble. He had
dreaded this lone walk to the settle
uuila iiioie Uiuu any ouxr-CQit oS
hi* Rh. He didn't know why the lif
ter he had written **klng for tn
armed won down to the coflft*. bad
nor hroncht result*. Rnt tt was
wholly possible that Omnstnti woMd
hare answered this question for him.
This same letter had fallen Into a eer- j
tain soiled, deadly pair of hand*
which was the la«t place In the world 1
that Hlldreth wotild have cho«on. and I
It had been all the evidence that was
needed, at the meeting of the Tine the
right before, to adjudge Hlldreth a
merciless and Immediate end. Hll
dreth wonld hare preferred to wait l» i
the hill* and possibly to write another 1
letter, hnt a chill that kept growing '
»t his flnper tips forbade It And all
these thing* combined to stretch his I
nerves almost to the breaking point :
fs he stole along the moonlit mill on- |
tier the pines.
A moment before the m«h and whir
of the gmnse flock had dried the roof
of his month with terror. The tall
trees appalled him. the shadows fen
upon his spirit. And when he heard
this final sound, when he saw the I
glint that might so easily have beer a
pun-barrel. his nerves and mosclos re
acted at once. Not even a friction of
f second Intervened. His rnn fleshed
np and a little, angry cylinder of
flame darted, as a snake's head dart*,
from the mnnle.
Hlldreth didn't take aim. There
wasn't time. The report ma red In the
darkness; The bullet san* harmlessly
unci thudded Into ttw- earth: and both
of them were the law tttlnrs In the
world that Cranston had expect
ed. And they were not a moment too
***!. Even at that Instant hi* fincer
was closlnjt down upon the trirpT.
HHdreth standlnc clenr and revealed
through the sirhtR. Hie nervous re
sponse that few men In the world
would be pelf dlwlpttred enoucti to
prevent occurred at the same instant
that he pressed the triirper. HI* own
fire answered so near to the other
that both of thero sounded as one re
port.
Most hunters ear nsnally tell even '
If they cannoi see their t»w fall
whether they have hit or misled This
was ,->ne of The few times In hs life
that Cranston could not have told H<
knew thaT as his fincer ptvssi-d he had
held as accurate a "head" as ai any i
time In hi* life. He did not know still
another circumstance—that In the
moonlight he had overestimated the
distance to the clearing, and Instead
of one hundred yard* It was scar.-e ty
fifty. He had held rather high. And -
he looked np. nnkrowlng whether he
had succeeded or whether he «at face
to face with the pro*j»ecT of a duel
to the death In the darkness.
And all he saw was Hlldreth. rock
ing hack and for;h In the moonlight—
a strance picture that he wan never
(Continued on ToffdaF)
Good Form.
A lady writer ha» bar •'ttyl#**
Which Isn't bad
And crltlct tal! her all the whll«
Si.e muiin i pad
A Cruel Condition.
Fdfth—Why is AHce *h*-iiy* «o short
of money; didn't her father lc«ve her j
a lot?
Mndce—Yen hnr yon «ee she** not
to cet it till she s thirty and nhe'll !
nexer own up to that.—Boston Tran
RKAGWAY
fraternal orders
Camp Nkmfw at So. 1
pwhii rw7 wHtm'! ai»<1
fourth IVwlnj rrm'nt
at ft:30 o'rlwk, Vi*ft
TTifi MMMn rorrtlt-lj nrlrmw.
J, M. Kdlrr, L R. Krilff,
Amir Rerwrdw. Arrtlc CkM
| B. P. O. ELKS, Sknc
» «> I io<lg«t No. «St. B.
P. O. Klks bim» prrrj
Tlmrwlay at S p. m.
Visiting bmfiwm mr.
dial I) welcome.
j. c. woon, e. n
F. J. rAM»KWAI,U Secretary.
F. A A. M.
Whltf r»*« IxvltP F. * V
M. Xo. IIS. mw ffixl ami
4th Kauri)*) prrnlnr* <>J
i\*rh month at H n'rlnc-fc
Visiting Brvthrrn are »rl
romp.
F. J. Van <V Wall, W. M
T. 3. Sfv-rrturj.
!Y»(rr»*l Onkt nl
l«tl«
SkMrwi} A«Th\ \o. —V
Fratrnil Order of
IWs mrrt the (lr«»
and 1 hlrd S Mni^ny ntcht of ci»rh
month at Ihcit hall on Fifth A>^
nnr. Visiting hmtl>*r» rxmlinllj i»
tltnl to atirn-1.
c. h. r«h.i:rs « r.
J. M. OiIwtmh, Sn 'f.
Vnranl Chap'w P
O. E. S„ m«i« In Mft
icnnlr hall, flr«t and
tlilnl PHilay of rarh
ntfmth, at S o'Hok.
ilstflng twninrr* Wrlcomc,
h>!XV TI KBSTKK
Worthy
Spc*r\ Swrrtary.
PROFESSION"XI. C\RPS
w. n. STOIT
Aiiotbpj at Law
Pr*rMcr In »tl ronrt*
In Territory of ,Ala«U
HArXKS Al.ASKA
PR, L. S. KKl.I.KR
Der*i«t
Mo«t
Offlrr Hnnr*. P-12 n. m.—l-fl p. m
Fifth Avrnnr — »\1
T>oor to IWIj .\:.r»U*n
SRACVAT Al.ASK %
A large list of tb» very lat"*t ' ■'t>
on the Edison An.bereola cyllni*f»r
hare been received by Kellera a: a
nay be heard at a:.y time
Paid Advertisement
VOTE FOR
James L. Galen
for
Delegate to Congress
in
Republican Primary
April 25y 1922
He Is a sterling Republican, standing for no clique or fart;on. bnt
truly representative of the sound Principles which put the prpc.it
national administration in power.4
He has lived practically all of the last 21 years In Alaska -md is
familiar with all portions of the Territory.
He is broad minded, vigorous, aggressive, and his name is sjnonv
mous with Square Deal among those who know hira.
He stands for Alaska as a whole. Alaska for Alaskans. an<< lersla
tion to bring renewed prosperity to the Territory.
The problem of the merchant, the miner and the fisherman will
each and all receive fair and intell.gent consideration if he rrprc
aents Alaska at Washington.
••WATCH THIS SPACK FOR FTRTHER ANXOtA'CKMKVTS OF
WHAT MR. GALEVS CANDIDACY MKAN'S TO ALASKA."