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Alaska is approaching an era of reconstruction far beyond the most
sanguine hopes of its proudest booster From every hand come evidence of
a resumption of minicg. prospecting, fishing. lumbering and fur farming,
steamships plying to southwestern Alaska ai> jammed w.th eager home
seekers. and while many will beconiediscouraged and return to the States
the Territory cannot help hut derive some good from the Influx. L'nlik"
the new West in the early days, Alaska starts with the advantages of
abundant transportation facilities. Pioneering on a 2.000 ton steainsh.p
t.tted with every modern luxury is different from the ox-cart and mule
trains of Forty-uine. It is a de luxe edition of a popular w:ork. It Is true
that conditions here may daunt the weak in spirit, or the enervated ofllce
slave, but the red-blooded and virile can find a nover-ending delight in the
mountains, the rivers, the tiny streams purling and leaping from lofty
heights to the valley below, the air. rich as wine, l ie myriad colors embla
zoned on every mouuui.u peak and chasm by a never-setting sun; the
ubundant flora and fauna, and with the calm optimism, and neverfaillng
courage of the men and women who call Alaska "home." It takes daunt
less courage and a true joy in living in the wild places to appreciate all that
Alaska offers the honieseeker and tiie adventurous, but when one conquers
her she is a kind and Inefficient mistress, a loving and tender companion
and a uever-etid.ng source of delight to her friends. To the newcomer,
who can adapt himself to conditions as he finds them, Alaska has more to
offer and takes less han any com'try we know of.
The investor or honieseeker who takes advantage of the present healthy
growth, will reap a rich reward. Those who have remaiued here are des
tined to see a greater influx of peoplethan in the boom ('ays of '98. and a
larger part of them will become permanent boosters.—Seward Gateway.
Mi PLACE FOR PESSIMISM.—Business men of Anchorage, property own
ers and citizens at large lime nothing to fear regarding tfie future of An
ihorage and surrounding country. There is an undercurrent of pessimism
prevailing in Anchorage toda> t at is absolutely without foundation. There
is no reason for this misspent expression; it is augmented by an undesira
ble class who neither own uur sell, but of that despicable nature finding
outlet to their feelings by consistent -knocking. The reliable and sound cit
uens of Anchorage, those who are financially and morally interested, are
not discouraged over the temporary business slump. This slump is to be
t spec ted. it fullows^he natural course of events and will right, itself to the
betterment of Anchorage. Anchorage is not dependent upon "he biase-l or
unbiased opinion of any one government official; .t is not dependent upon
tiie opinion of Alaska railroad officials who are merely engineers and con
tractors, not businessmen.
However, Anchorage and this particular section will certainly welcome
a combination of technical and pracl.cal brains to govern affairs; men who
realize that Anchorage and Alaska pay pa.'t of their salaries and meu who
will forget selfishness in the endeavor to promote Alaska's welfare.
There is no question but that Anchorage will come into its own.—An
chorage Times.
President Harding has sent to Congress an estimate for a deficiency ap
propriation of over S2s.000.U0U for refunding income taxes illegally col
lectod. This is a particularly aggravating holdover from the Wilson ad
ministration. After the Republicans have lowered the .tax burden and cut
expenditures to the bone to make them lit the deerased revenue, along
comes a court decision to the effect that tiie Democrats collected millions
of dollars in income taxes without warrant of law. Of course there is noth
ing to do but pay the refunds, regardless of how big a dent it may make
in the annual budget. Tiie former administration, of course, got the bene
ht of the illegal receipts and spent the money. Now the Republicans are
not only deprived of further taxes from the same source, but must pay back
the money taken in by their predecessors in office. The Republican ecou
(imy program gets hit both going and coming.—Pocatello Tribune.
LEGISLATIVE BHAM H
\T LOWEST EB1I, S.\> S
I". S. WAK KECKKTAKY
Cleveland.—In »n address madel
yesterday before t!ie Western lie-1
wrve University here. John W j
Weeks, secretary oi *-ar. frankly ex
pressed very pessimistic views on
predominate tendencies in the home. I
He declared that in recent years the j
drift of the A.nerican political
tiiought has been gradually weak
ening the nation's govemn:tutal
structure by under aiming the con
stitution and sweeoing away priu I
c t les and party responsibility. He j
asserted that in the public rjnnd the;
legislative branch was at the low-|
est ebb in the histo*y of the couutry,J
the direct primarv reason iur thij
teing the lessened quality of rm
willing to :%rve. aud declared st-ips
snould be* taken to modify this or
entirely repeal the powers invested
is IL
INCOMES FOR YEAR
GREATLY INCREASE
Washington.—Net incomes of In
dividuals reported to the govern
raent during 1921 increased by near
ly S4.000.000.000 and the number ol
returns made by 2,v00,000, over tht>
figures of 1919, although the
amount ol" taxes .eoeived fell ofl'
ilSa.onn. Commissioner Blair an
nounced today.
Alaska reported .ncomes totalling
$19,400,775, according to the fig
ures of Commissioner Blair.
H'CR THOISANO
M A'S IX Mlll.W
Shanghai, June 26.—Conservative
estimates place the number of the
dt'iid in Kianghi. '.lie placo where ti e
.irmy mutiny star'.a.l. as tour thous
and Some of thesd ware billed in
tr.e cities of Tiiho, Wanan, Kians
fo and Lungchua.
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CHAPTER IX.
A Walk Beside the Lake.
"The imme seems like Slierrlll," the
Interne agreed. "Me saiil It before
when we hud hliu on the tuhle up
stairs; and he has said It uow twice
distinctly—Slierrlll."
"His name, do you think?"
"I shouldn't say so; he seems trying
to speak to some one named Slierrlll.
There are only four Sherrlils In the
telephone book, two of them In Evuns
tou uud one way out In Mluoota."
"The other?"
"They're only about six blocks from
where he was picked up; but they're
on the Drive—the Lawrence Sherrlils."
The Interne whistled softly and
looked more Interestedly at his pa
tient's features, "lle'll be conscious
some time during the day. there's only
a slight fracture, and—perlnips you'd
better cull the Slierrlll bouse, any
way. If he's not known there, no luirni
done; and It he's one of their friends
and he should . , ."
The nurse nodded and moved off.
Thus it was thai at a quarter to
ttve Constance Slierrlll was uwakeneil
by the knocking of one of the serv
ants ut her father's door. Her father
went down stairs to the telephone In
strument where he might reply with
out disturbing Mrs. Slierrlll Constance,
kiuiouu over her snoulilers. stood ut
the top of the stairs and waited. It
became plain to her ut once that what
ever hud happened hud been to Alun
Conrad.
"Yes. . . . Yes. . . . You are
giving him everj possible care? . . .
At once."
She ran part way down the stairs
unci met her futlier as he cnnie up.
He told her of the situation briefly.
"He wus attacked on the street late
lust night, he was unconscious when
they found him und took lilui to the
hospital, ami bus been unconscious
ever since. No one cuu suy yet how
seriously he Is Injured."
She waited in the hull while her
futlier dressed, after calling the gu
nige on tlie house telephone for hiiu
and ordering the motor. When he had
gone, she returned anxiously fo her
rooms; he hud promised to cull her
, alter rcuchiug the hospital uud us soon
I us he liud leurued the particulars of
Alan's condition. It was ridiculous,
! of course, to attach uuy responsibility
I to Iter lather or herself for what hud
happened to Alun- a street uttuck such
| as uiighl have liuppeiied to uuy oue
I —yet sue felt that Uiey were in part
I responsible. They had let lilui go to
I In e alone in the house in Asior street
l with uo better adviser thuii Uassa
| quaiu. .Now, and perhaps because
ilie.i hud uul warned hiiu. lie had met
injur) uud, it uiigiit lie, more Hum
nu-re Injury; lie iniglil be dying.
Something which uud disturbed und
excited Aiau had liappeued to hliu on
> the first uiglit he iiau pussed in ihuf
. house; und now, it up|>eured. fie tiad
been oreieiiled from passing u secoud
night there. What hud prevented lilui
hud been an utteuipted robbery upon
| the street, her futlier hud said. But
I suppose ll liud been sotnuthlug else
| than robbery.
She could nut formulate more def
initely tins thought, but it persisted;
site could iioi deny it entirely und
shake it oil.
To Aluu Conrad, in the late after
iioou ol that day, this same thought
was coining fur more detiuitely and fur
mure persistently. He had heeii awake
and sane since shortly after noonday.
Ttie pain of a head which ached throb
hingly and of a body bruised and sore
was beginning to give place to a feel
ing merely of lassitude—a languor
which revisited incoherence upon him
when he tried to think. The uiuh w ho
hud assailed blui hud meant to kill;
he hud not been any ordinary robber.
That purpose, bliudly recognized and
fought agulust by Aluu iu their strut:
gle, had been unmistakable. Only the
chance presence of passersby, who hud
heard Alan's sHouts and responded to
them, had prevented the executluti of
his purpose, und hud driven the man
to swift tlight for his own safety.
A little before six Constance Sher
rltl and Spearman called to inquire
after him and were admitted for u few
moments to his room. She came to
him, bent over liliu, while she spoke
the few words of sympathy the nurse
allowed to her; she stood buck then
while Speurtnun spoke to hltn. In the
succeeding days lie saw her nearly
every day. accompanied always by her
futher or Speitrtuuii; It was the full
two weeks the doctors had iuslsted on
his remaining In the huspltu! before he
saw her alone.
They had brought hlra home, the
day before—she and her father. In the
motor—to the house on Astor street
He hud Insisted on returning there,
refusing the room In their house which
they hud offered; but the doctor had
enjoined outdoors and moderate exer
else for him, and she had made him
promise to come and walk with her
He went to the Sherrill house about
ten o'clock, and thtjy walked north
"There Is something 1 hnve been
wanting to ask you," she said.
"Yes."
"Thnl night when you were hurt—It
was for rolihery, they said. What do
yon think about It?" She watched
him ns ho looked ni her and then
awn.v: hilt his face was completely ex
pressionless.
"The proceedings were a little too
rapid for me to judge. Miss Sherrlll."
"15nt there was no demand upon you
to give over your money before you
were attacked?"
"No."
She breathed a little more quickly.
"It must he a strange sensation," she
observed, "to know that some one has
irled to kill you."
"It must. Indeed."
"Yon mean you didn't tldnk that
he tried to kill you?"
"I was hardly In a condition. MIM
Sherrlll. to appreciate anything about
the man at all. Wliy do you ask?"
"Because—" She hesitated an In
stunt. "If you were attacked to be
killed. It meant that you must have
been attacked as the son of—Mr. Cor- ]
vet Then that meant—at least It j
Implied—that Mr. Corvet was killed,
thai he did not j;o away. Vuu see j
lhat. of course."
"Were you the only one who thought i
that? Or ilid some one speak to you
about It?"
"Nil one did; I spoke to father. He
thought—" I
"Yes."
••Well. If Mr. Corvet wa« murdered— |
I'm following what father thought, you ,
understand—it Involved something a
"It Must Be a Strange Sensation," She [
Ooterved, "to Know That Somaona
Has Tried to Kill You."
good deal worse perhaps than any- j
thing that could have been Involved If
he had only gone away. The facts we
had made it certain that—If what had
happened to him was death at the
hands of another—he must have fore
seen that death and, seeking no pro
tection for himself ... It Implied,
that he preferred to die rather than to
ask protection—that there was some
thing whose concealment he thought
mattered even more to him than life.
It—It might have meant that he con
sidered his life was . . . due to whom
ever took It." Her voice, which had
become very low, now ceased. She
was sinking to Alan of tils father—a
father whom he had never known, and
whom he could not have recognized by
sight until she showed him the picture
a few weeks before; but she was
speaking of his father.
"Mr. Sherrill didn't feel that It was
necessary for him to do anything, even
though he thought that?"
"If Mr. Corvet was dead, we could
do him no good, surely, by telling this
to the police; If the police succeeded
In finding out all the facts, we would
be doing only what Uncle Benny did
not wish—what he preferred death to.
We could not tell the |>ollce about it
without telling them all about Mr. Cor
vet. too. So father would not let him
self believe that yoc had been attacked
to be killed. He had to believe the
police theory was sufficient"
Alan made no comment at once.
"Wassuquum believes Mr. Corvet la
dead," he said finally. "He told me so.
Does your father believe that?"
"1 think he is beginning to believe |
It"
"I've not told any one," he said, now
watching her, "how I happened to be
out of the house that night. I followed
a man who came there to the house.
Wussaquam did not know hlsNcume.
He did not know Mr. Corvet was gone;
for he cauie there to see Mr. Corvet
He was not an ordinary friend of Mr.
Corvet's; but he had come there often.
Wassaquam did not know why. Was
saquam had sent the man away, and
1 ran out after him: but 1 could not
find mm."
He stopped an Instant, itudylng her.
"That was not the first man who came
to the house." he went on quickly, as
she was about to speak. "I found a
man In Mr. Corvet's house the Hrst
night that I spent there. Wassaquain
was away, you remember, and I was
alone In the house."
"A man there In the house?" she re
peated.
"He was going through Mr. Corvet's
things—not the silver and all that, but
through his desks and flies and cases.
He was looking for something—some
thing which he seemed to want very
much; when I interfered. It greatly ex
cited him. I frightened blm. He
thought I was a ghost."
"A ghost. Whose ghost?"
He shrugged. "1 don't know; some
one whom he seemed to have known
pretty well—and whom Mr. Corvet
knew, he thought."
"Why didn't you tell us this before?"
"At least—I am telling you now,
Miss Sherrlll. I frightened him, and
he got away. But 1 had seen him
plainly. I can describe him. . . .
You've talked with your father of the
possibility that something might 'hap
pen' to me such as. perhaps, happened
to Mr. Corvet. If anything does hap
pen to me, a description of the man
may . . . prove useful."
Then clearly and definitely as he
could, he described Spearman to her.
She did not recognise the description;
he had known she would not. Had not
Spearman been in Duluth? Beyond
that, was not connection of Spearman
with the prowler In Corvet's house the
one connection of all most difficult for
her to make? But he saw her fixing
and recording the description Id her
mind.
They were silent as they went oil to
ward her home. He had said all he
could, or dared to say; to tell her that
the man hud been Spearuian would n«t
merely have awakened her Increduli
ty; It would have destroyed credence
utterly. A definite change In their re
lation to one another had taken plape
during their walk. The fullness, the
frankness of the sympathy there had
been between them almost from their
first meeting, had gone; she was
quite aware, he saw, that he had not
frankly answered her questions; she
was aware that In some way he had
drawn hack from her and shut her
out from his thoughts about his own
position here. Hut he had known that
this must be so; It had been Ills first
definite realization after ills return
to consciousness In the hospital when,
knowing now her relation to Spear
man, he had found all questions which
concerned his relations with the peo
ple here made immeasurably more
acute by the attack upon him.
She asked him to come In and stay
for luncheon, as they reached her
home, but she asked It without urg
ing: at his refusal she moved slowly
up the steps. Looking after him from
the window after she had entered the
house, she saw hint turn the corner In
the direction of Astor street.
(Continued on Thursday)
ANCIENT BUILDING A MARVEL
Magnificence of the Labyrinth Greek
Writer, Herodotue, Found Almost
Beyond Hii Description.
Tin* ancient Egyptian* bad at Ar
slnoe, near I.ake Moerls, In the Fayoum
district, west of the Nile, one of the
most noted buildings ever In the world
—the Labyrinth. There was one on
the Uland of Lemnos, In the Aegean
sea: another on the Island of Crete, In
the Mediterranean, and one In Italy.
But that of Egypt was by far the most
ancient.
Myth, tradition, legend, mystery and
awe are to be found In obscure say
ings about It In remnants of Greet
classical literature. It was composed
of tt.iMJO chamber*. l.SOO below the
earth's surface and 1,500 above. The
grand hlerophants permitted Herodo
tus to enter some of the chambers
above, but not below. The Greek writer
could scarcely find words with which
to describe the beauty and splendor of
the famous edifice. He says:
"The upper chambers I myself vis
Iced, and I pronounce them among the
grandest efforts of human industry and
trt. The almost Infinite number of
winding passages through the different
courts excited my highest admiration;
from spacious halls I passed through
smaller chambers, and from them again
to large and magnificent saloons almost
without end. The walls and ceilings
are marble, the latter embellished with
the most exquisite sculpture; around
each court pillars of the rlchcst and
most polished marble are arranged.
"At the termination of the Laby
rinth stands a pyramid 160 cubits high,
approached by a subterranean passage,
and with Its exterior enriched by huge
figures of animals."—Edgar Luclen
Larkln In Seattle Post-Dispatch.
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