Kstablbhcil 1898
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EDITORIAL
Forget the syni'itomsT of disease
o'er which you're pr one to cry alack,
those signs of stringhall iu you'
knees, and hints of criiVs aiong
your back: forgetting all stch
tilings as those, you'!! be surprised
how high you stack, F'jr brooding
over ailtnen's dire may Otitis them
to you. all i 'ine: far '•••' er hear
the wooui'im: choir, or cat'"h a fish
where stres slots sMne: iar l<e"i«
buy a wh:ti • 'one lyre, and tura
out madri :. is !i»> mine. An'l talk
ins of your divou" ills is rurely
hound to make litem worse: Cornet
the doctor and his pill -, the under
taker .<nd his h -;irs.-. .mil wu!k i'long
the sunlit hills, iitrl •a,n! a glad
and grateful v^rs.v II.• 10 the t'teat
est age survives .vuo -lo. ..i t ft the
briny pour. who romps and geni
liols with his wives. ai;d rjown his
lirad is never so-e id if >• . talk
of itch and In »"<■». yo.i • n!y* mike
yourself a boiv. dismil talkeia
;. c required in tit:?. • >::t uotuil <ar
avun: no lam't: > .on.! asv de<irrd
tu programs ■ :•. the uru*ey.i:tl 11;>u.
forret the themes that make men
tired, and l»- t sunbeam if }t»-s c.n.
Forget the r.-lof of yesterday, for
get the ache >ott 'tad last nigtit.
when peopl" v.ot.l 1 be lilithe ;in*1
uay. the loue-t> •• be>Oer is a ' iiht.
be joyful, and .vl."a dusk is gray,
the boys will .•!>. '(iood sc '.it!
Sleep tight! '—War ?>!asop.
wivri i: mah. si; \s<>\
The Yukon mail service for the
winter of closed with the
passage of the first steamers thru
I.ake Labarge within tile last few
days. During that long period the
contractors fulfilled all conditions of
their contract.
It is true that some second class
mail whii-h reached Whilehurse was
delayed there and came down l>y
boat, but the contractors hauled
over the trail all the first class mail
and every pound for which they cou
tra. ted to deliver.
Notwithstanding the fact they did
not receive the contract until about
the time for the service to begin
last fall, they hustled the rigs and
feed and equipment in general, and
secured the use of roadhouses and
gave an unbroken service all winter.
Every rig got through exactly on
schedule.
It is noteworthy that, despite the
severest jveather and a number of
heavy storms, the mail arrived in
Dawson every day in the winter ser
vicee on the scheduled day. namely,
on Sunday. K.en the launches at
the end of t!-e season got through
every Sunday, thus giving Dawsou
a regular and dependable service.
Every pouvt the government paid
for was delivered Those who
claimed the service vr >;:ld not and
could not be delivered by the new
contractors have learned differently.
There is no roason to say the con
tract should have gone to others.
The bid was by far the lowest ot
tered, and for a period of a whole
week or more set for tenders to be
submitted originally there was no
offer made to give the service. Those
who got the contract proved that
there is always someone ready and
capable of rendering service when
demanded.—Dawson News.
VAXCM'VKR PA1»KR OX THE
1XKOX WIXTKR MAILS
Vancouver World: In the early
days of the Klondike rush, when
facilities were crude and transporta
tion arrangements had frequently to
be improvised the government adopt
ed an easy-going method of handling
the winter mails into the Yukon.
This was to take in a limited num
ber of pounds of mail first class
mail, of course, having priority, and
the residue being made up of as
much second class mail as could be
brought within the statutory limit.
I A quarter of a century ha3 passed.
We know there is no longer a con
gestion of traffic in either winter or
summer in the Yukon. Facilities of
all kinds have beui improved and
standardized, but the old practice of
the government continues. Onlvj
those who have spent the winter in
the darkness and cold of the Far
North can actually understand how
sharp The deprivation involved in
this practice. At a period when men
are idle and when they have the
long nights and the short, dark, mo
notonous days to fill in. they are un
able to secure the reading matter
which would contribute so largely to
their comfort and content. The ef
fect is to deprive Vukoners of read
ing matter when they have the lib
erty to peruse it. and to provide
them with reading matter when
every minute of the day is crowded
with the rush of the summer work.
It is a small matter in the affairs
of the postoflice department, and a
trilling expense in its huge annual
budget, but it is a vital matter to
the hardy group of men who occupy
that part of the Dominion. We are
sure that a little attention to the
problem would suggest to depart
mental officials some simple solu
tion.—Dawson News
THE RELIGIONS (>!■' THE WORLD
The "Freedom of India" gives the
following statistics of the religions
of the wold:
Christians. 564.510.000
Confuciauisis and Taoists, 300,
S25.000.
Mohammedans. 21' 1.825.000.
Hindus. 210.540.000
Atiimlsts. I5S.270.000.
ISuddhists. 13S.031.000
Shintoists. 25.000.000.
Jews. 12.205.000
In Europe tm>rt" are .''.74,760.000
Christians, and 14.050.175 members
of other faiths.
In Asia. 2S.700.000 Christians, and
Sfi3.500.000 of other faiths.
In North America there are 102.
700.000 Christians, and 10,235.000
of other faiths.
In South America. 36.600,000
Christians and 1.40o,000 of other
faiths.
In Oceania. 12,700.000 Christians
and 42.925.1100 of oilier faiths.
The total population of Europe is
350.S72.561. and that of Asia S72.
522.000.
TERRITORIAL TATTLE
'•Owing to oil in&rcations in this
vicinity the Crescent hotel is not
for sale" according to an ad in the
Anchorage times.
"Asbestos Sam." of Dawson, well
known oldtimer. is prospecting a
claim on Lightning creek, uear the
mouth of Canyon creek at Mayo.
Joe Kemper, formerly of Knik,
an insane patient at Morningside
sanitarium, died in that institution
after being there since June 1920.
John Fawcett, pioneer miner, and
Louis Krouse. well known Dawson
merchant, left recently for a trip
Outside. The former will return
but Mr. Krause will locate in San
Francisco.
Announcement by the postoffice
department that Kantishna mail is
' to be dumped at Roosevelt during
the summer as was done last year
has aroused a storm of indignation
a petition being circulated request
ing delivery at the Kantishna post
office instead of at a deserted cabin
given last summer was worse than
no service at all as the mails were
left unprotected and exposed to the
elements.
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CHAPTER I.
Rain hud boon fulling for five days
when 1 first saw Hartley house. The
plnec hart so mneh local distinct lor.
that :i village not fur from the estate
was named Hartley, for it.
Even when drcuclted and dripping
In a storm which had lasted for five
days In late May, the spot was beau
tiful and charming; it had antiquity,
that rare thing in a new land. Its two
thousand acres, handsomely arranged
for decorative and agricultural pur
poses, lay along the river hunk, with
an Indented and interesting littoral
where the river was two miles wide.
I hud been nn interne In St. Julian's
hospital, and at the close of my last
year Pr. Brownell had asked iho if my
arrangements would make It possible
for me to undertake a case which he
thought might be profitable and in
teresting to a young physician. It was
that of .Mr. Homer Sidney, the owner
of Hartley house.
"I never saw so strange a will to
live." said the doctor when he dis
cussed the circumstances with me.
"The old man Is indomitable. For that
reason he Is Interesting. He lives be
cause he wills to live, for some tre
mendous reason of which I know noth
ing. It is enormous. You may live to
see him die: I am afraid I shall .not—
and he Is seventy and I am fifty."
I decided to accept. It may have
been professional weakness, but In ad
dition to the financial certainty offered
there was a professional Interest
aroused. If Pr. Brownell were at
tracted by a human being's will to
live there certainly was something su
perhumanly interesting cbout that hu
man being.
The recollection of Hartley as 1
first saw it remains as an enduring
Impression. The long downpour of
rain had given the place a spiritual ac
cent. One felt as If the soul were
saturated.
I It Is only occasionally In a normal
j mind that weathor works a spiritual
effect. I thought my mind was nor
mal, but I fi'lt the spiritual depres
sion.
The way from the station for three
miles was through ordinary American
small farm land. Then It changed ab
ruptly. Antiquity began to show. The
driver said we were in the Hartley
grounds.
I was so depressed by the rain, by
my own uncertainty, by thinking over
the decision I had made and seemed
about to regret, by the dismal pros
pects—or at least the uncertain pros
pects—that I should have been glad
for any sustaining human association.
At the end of my Journey I soon found
such association and was thereafter
happy in It. but approaching the place
I I was apprehensive. My driver had
been, if not unapproachable, at least
stupid and dismal.
It somewhat astonished me when
suddenly he began to talk. We were
then about a half mile from the house.
"I wish you had come an hour
earlier," he said.
"wnyv" i aswu.
"I'm not u coward," said the driver,
"—at least, no more than usual, but I
don't like to be In here alone, and
I've got to co home alone."
In u lashlou lie expressed what
might have been my mood If I had
known more of the place. I could
sympathize with him. The rain had
done this for me.
"What have you to be'afraid of?"
j I asked. "Is something haunted
around here?" It seemed as if so
beautiful a spot ought to have this In
terest. He stopped his horse.
"I'm going bark out of here like a
j scared pig." he said, "—that is, If the
I old horse can stand it. But you're go
| lng to live here for a while, and I'll
I stop a minute to show you where they
isay the ghost walks."
He pointed to where the river had
eaten a substantial bit out of the bank,
making a pool or tiny bay. The road,
swerving toward the river here, was
within thirty feet of It.
"It isn't natural for a- man to kill
his brother," said my driver, "and
something unnatural comes of it. A
man killed his brother there, and some
thing unnatural has come of it. That's
why I'll be just as well satisfied to
) get you to the house and myself back
t out of here before dark."
| "Get along, then," I said. "It looks
j like an ordinary place to me."
"To me too." said my driver. "And
I don't want It ever to look extraor
dinary."
"Who was killed there?" I asked.
! "You'll learn the story soon enough,"
I said the driver, "if you're going to stay
' In this house. You'll leant it better
j than I can tell you."
j At the great conch entrance of the
i old house I paid the driver and let him
go. He was anxious to be gone. It
I was growing dark. Then I began ring
ing the bell.
At the third ringing there was a re
sponse, in the form of a servant, n
man, butler or doorman, past middle
age. He was crusty.
"What do you want?" he asked.
I explained that l was Dr. Alichel
son and wanted nothing that I was not
wanted for. I did not like his manner
and was not Inclined to Ignore It or to
propitiate lilm as ordinarily one
would. He had, at first sight, an ex
traordinary power of exasperation. At
vlie time I did not understand my
weakness, but afterward I did. The
man was abnormal as an Irritant.
I Thus my appearance at Hartley
house was so unfortunate that If the
servant's contumacy and my resent
ment had had another moment, the
door would have been slammed In my
face and I should have been walking
back to Hartley station. At that hesi
tant moment In my fortunes, a wom
an's voice intervened.
[ "Jed," It said, "who's there?"
The servant opened the door wider,
and I saw a lady, u South American, I
I thought.
j "1 am Dr. Michelson," I said.
"Yes, doctor," she replied, "we hnve
been expecting you. I am Mrs. Sidney.
Where Is your baggage?"
i "I have only a handbag with me
here," I said.
I "Come In," she said, "Jed will take
| It."
i He did, but made me see the HI na
ture of his reception of me and of his
I duty. lie had also, at the direction
| of Mrs. Sidney, to show me to my
[ quarters.
I "Jed," I said, in my room, "we have
not made the best start for two people
who may have to live together for
I some time."
I offered him n dollar as a peace
offering.
"Are you going to stay here?" he
| asked.
"I am supposed to," I said.
"A dollar won't make you welcome,"
■ tWf*
f*y |OJ.
I "A Dollar Won't Make You Welcome,"
{ He Said, and Left Me Looking at '.he
Coin in My Hand.
! he said, tint! left me looking at the
I coin in my hand.
| I was culleil to dinner Had had it
j alone in a large dining room. When
I I had finished n maid told me that Mr.
j Sidney would he glad to see me if it
, were convenient for me—that ho did
! not need me professionally, but that
j socially lie *would be delighted if I
j could come to him.
' lie was sitting in a large arm chair
i in a great room with a grent flre
i place. Later I perceived the fasclnat
I log details of the room, but Just tliea
I Sir. Sidney had a.'l my attention.
Dr. Urownell had told me of the re
I innrknble will to live which I should
i find. It was Instantly appareut. The
( old man was wonderfully alive. He
j was abrupt but smilingly and eliarra
| ingly courteous. We talked for a quur
' ter of an hour, casually. Then he
said:
"I know you are tired, doctor."
"Not at all." I said. Interested to
see more of him if 1 might.
'•That's your good nature," lie said.
"And we certainly do not want to wear
you out in one day. We only wanted
| to see you. We shall get better ac
quainted. nnd we hope you'll like us
I and be comfortable and happy here,
j We have a fashion of trying to be
; happy. We are going to soy gout! night
| and allow you to settle yourself to
i new surroundings in privacy. It is the
| kindest thing we caa do. Jed will
show you to your room. Jed, take
j care of Dr. Jllchelson. Good night,
doctor."
Mrs. Sidney stood beside Mr. Sidney
as he was speaking. I had thought at
| first seeing her that she had been
very beauliful and that n>>w she was
very unhappy. Seeing her again, I
' retained my first impressions.
(Continued on Thursday)
I "1 am the black sheep of the fnm
J ily," declared u young man who has
admitted a long list of crimes to the
police. The trouble with this particu
lar I lack sheep seems to have been a
lamb chop appetite on a pot roast in
come..
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