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WEALTHY OK PtH)R
The newspapers make note of the fact that Charles P. Steinmeu, whose
salary is well over $100,000 a year, lives like a workman. The natural
inference is that the newspapers believe there is some wide divergence in
the degree of comfort enjoyed by the man with unlimited money nnd the
workman. It is, of a fact, a fundamental belief that a lot of money will
buy something worth while.
A good workman can live as comfortably as a millionaire. With a lew
exceptions, most of which are ariluial, he cau enjoy the same diversions.
All a rich man gets for his money. In excess of the comforts enjoyed by rbe
average man. are frills and responsibility. The reason a good workman
can live as comfortably as a millionaire Is that this is a grand and glorious
country.
Enjoying life largely is a matter of sound personal sense of proportion.
Money lias little to do with It. one way or the another. We happen to bo
e workman. We try to be a good one. Many could buy and sell us
thirty of forty times. We have all the comforts civilization has provided.
Many of the wealthy have none of them. And we've had more fun since we
U .irned to play pangingi than John D. Rockefeller has had ia his whole
life.
As you will have observed, this is our day to be philosophical.
ARK WK DISCOl RAt.KD
It Is well that Alaskans are a hardy, self-reliant people, inured to dis
appointment and reverses, and that despite their nany disappointment!: tliej
ere still able to go ahead with hopes for the future despite the disappoint
ments of the post. When it was announced that President Harding was
going o visit Alaska the people gathered together and made plans to v.-ol
come him and the officials who were to accompany him. It seemed too
good to be true, and so it proved. We were sure Secretary Fall was cjm- 1
iug anyway, because he said so. und we prepared to tell him lots of tl:hr;s !
bureaus had overlooked that might help the country along, and than j
came another crushing blow—He Isn't coming either. ' And that's the way
it cues year after year, just one disappointment after another. It is enough j
to discourage all but the stoutest-hearted of people, and that is jus', what I
Alaskans are. else the Territory would have been depopulated years ago.— I
Yuldez Miner.
ALASKA COMPANY
BEING FOKMKI)
A movement has been Jaunched
and is now well under way that will
result in irivins Alaska, as a whole,
n.any limes more and many times
better advertising than she has over
before received—exhibit everything
from mining industries to panzies.
tish canneries to carrots, to sixty
million picture fanj of America as
well as to uncouuteJ millions of tor
eign countries.
l.eorge t. L.ewis is planning 'o pro
duce a nine-reel picture which will
embrace practically everything in
Alaska from Ketchikan to Nome —
not glaciers, ice. snow-capped 'nouii
ta:us. polar bears and squaws as xpv
( al features, but Alaska as she is.
her towns, business houses, mines,
mills, homes, (arms, gardens, etc.
To do all this Mr. Lewis and asso
ciates have formed a company for
the purpose of Aiming and producing
the picture, only actual Alaska pic
tures. taken in Alaska from real life,
to be featured. The estimated cost
of tne picture complete and ready to
release is $150,000 of which amount
Mr l.ewis and associates w.ll absorb
>ue> half and the remaining $75,00«t
is being sold in shares of 110 each
to Aiaskans. more than half the am
ount being already taken up by :hree
towtis. Fairbanks. Anchorage and
Seward. Several of the biggest pic
ture concerns in America have al
ready spoken for the privilege of
staging the production and that it
will be a winner and. consequently, a
paying proposition is practically as
sured It is expected that the picture
can be released In about fourteen
months, possibly Ave months earlier
and from the date of its release
stockholders may expect proflts~lnan.v
times ia excess of the cost of their
stock.
Judge W. H. Whittlesey of Seward
treasurer of the company, is here
with Mr. Lewis and assisting him In
placing the proposition b#for* the
people of Juneau.
I .'KT G11U> ) • IMKS'f
is \ii\v dksi i:ti:i>
Fori GibboIs a deserted post, ae-]
e->riiicg to Miss Margaret Collins' re-j
;ti. of oond:ti'r; there at the pres-,
cut t me.
The order to move the camp fron>
Fort Gibbon to .An-..socage was re
ceived there ,n May ■■(•. The Signal
•"<>. ps. Quarter ,-»ri- Corps and the
!■»•! ral detachw. re not includ
•.•d in the o-dr" aud couser.ueutly
•>-o\ are to n iialu »t Fort Gibbon.
I he post is t> ing thoroughly strip
j-d The eli'tnt light plant, the
ij . dry equipment and telephone if
at the signal corp station. The tag
s'-; ranges no taken do-.u und all
'.Ue atheistic ■ tuipment including
bowiing ailey, tenuis nets, etc.. e>'en
hcvr to go. Fi t '4• bliou has nn more
i ;; Is call the boys who aro
t ore are not .e ,uired In have lea "e
c* bed checks.
Company u. unie- ''aptain Uord
n, Savage and I leu! Glnn. has al I
r dy left for ' uiior.-igu { apt. Uara }
uollar will go it Jul* or August
•vhicli leaves Pence of the Sig
•m: Corps. L:. nson Quartermas J
t and Dr. Hi •' -s.
MRS. MORTON WRITES
OP ALASKA TR1I
San Francisco. Cal., July 25.—
Mrs. Mortun, bride of Major-Getiorai
Charles U. Morton, commander of
the ninth Army Corps area, who ac
companied her husband on his tour
of inspection of tha Alaskan posts,
writes of her impressions of Alaska.
She declares that "Switzerland can
offer nothing more beautiful, mort
awe inspiring, than this thrilling
land of the Aurora Borcalis as seen
in this country she declares. "It is1
wonderful, majestic." The country
to Mrs. Morton is a storehouse of
undeveloped wealth, and the natives
were especially Interesting to her.
A dollar a montti will bring tb*
Ai&skan to jour door.
Cbpyrichf bu EcWipTBaimer
IrwiK jHyer.
Ainu clambered to his fwt. (Xrvet ,
already wai buck among the oars
again. shouting orders; tlie mate and
the men who had followed htm before
leaped at his yells. Corvet called to
thera to throw ropes and chain* td
blivl 'he loads which were letting go;
the heavier loads—steel beams, cast
ing* i.mchlnery—snapped their lash
ings, tipped from their flat cars and
thundered down the deck. The cars
Corvet Already Was Back Among the
Car* Again, Shouting Order*.
tipped further, turned over; others bal
anced hack; It was upon their wheels
that they charged forward, half riding
one another, crashing and demolishing,
as the ferry pitched; It was upon their
trucks that they tottered and battered
from side to side as the deck swayed.
Now the stem ugiilu descended; a Hue
of cars swept for the fantail. Cor vet'a
cry came to Alan through the scream
ing of steel and the clangor of destruc
tion. Corvet's cry sent men with bars
beside the cars as the fantail dipped
into the water; Corvet. again leading
the crew, cleared the lender of those
madly charging cars and ran it over
the gteni.
The fore trucks fell nnd. before the
reur trucks reached the edge. Ihe
stern lifted and caught the car in the
middle; it balanced, half over the wa- ,
ter. half over the deck. Corvet
crouched under the car with a "crow
bar; Alan and two others went with
him; they worked the car on until the
weight of the end over the water tipped
it down; tlie balance broke, and the
car tumbled and dived. Corvet, hav
ing cleared another hundred ton«.
leaped back, calling to the crew.
They followed him again, unques
tioning, obedient. Alan followed close
to him. It was not pity which stirred
him now for Benjamin Corvet; nor was
It bitterness; but it certainly was not
contempt. Of all the ways In which he
had funcied linding Henjamlu Corvet,
he bad never thought of seeing him
like this!
It was, pronamy. oniy ior n na*n;
but the groat quality of leadership
which he hail once |>ossessed, which
Shcrrlll tin J described to Alau and
which hud been destroyed by the threat
over hitu, had returned to him in this
desperate emergency w hich he hud ere
uted. How much or how tittle of Ills
own condition Corvet understood. Alan
could not tell; it was plain only that
he comprehended that he had been the
cause of the catastrophe, uud in his
tierce will to repair it he not only dis
regarded all risk to himself; he also
had summoned up from within him and
was opeinlim: tiie last strength of his
spirit. l>ut he was spending it In a
losing fight.
He got off two more cars; yet the
deck only dipped lower, and water
washed farther uud farther up over
the fit it all. Men. leaping from before
the charging cars, got cuught iii the
murderous melee of Iron and steel
and wheels; men's shrill cries came
aiuld the scream of metal. Alan, tug
ging ut a cruts which hud struck down
a man. felt aid beside htm and. turn
ing. he saw the priest whom he had
pussed ou the stairs. The priest was
bruised and bloody; this was not his
lirst effort to aid. Together they lifted
an end of the crnte; they bent—Alau
stepped back, and the priest knelt
alone, his lips repeating the prayer for
absolution. Screams of men came from
behind; and the priest rose and turned.
He saw men caught between two
wrecks of cars crushing together;
there was no moment to reach them;
he stood and raised his arms to them,
his head thrown back, his voice calling
to them, as they died, the words of
absolution.
Three more cars at the cost of two
lives the crew cleared, while the
sheathing ol ice spread over the steel
inbourd, and dissolution of all the
cargo btscuuie coi.-plete, Cut stone and
uutur uurts. chutes uud Castile, i.ur
nliure Hnu urams, i»v>ci>i una ouu
forth, while the cars, burst and splin
tered, became monstrous missiles hurt
ling forward, sldewlse, aslant, recoil
ing. Vet men, though scattered singly,
tried to stay them by ropes and chnlns
while the water washed higher and
higher. Dimly, far away, deafened out
by the clangor, the steatn whistle of
Number 25 was blowing the four long
blasts of distress; Alan heard the
sound uow and then with Indifferent
wonder. All destruction had come for
hlra to be contained within this car
deck; here the ship loosed on Itself all
elements of annlldlatlon; who could
aid If from without? Alan caught the
end of u chkln which Corvet flung him
and, thougn he knew It was useless,
he car-led It across from one stanchion
to the next. Something, sweeping
■cross the deck, caught him and car
ried him with It; It brought him be
fore the coupled line of trucks which
hurtled bHCk and forth where the rails
of track three had been. He whs
hurled before tliem and rolled over;
something cold and heavy pluued him
down; and upon biiu, the cur trucks
cams.
But. before them, something warm
and living—■ timid and liure arm
catching him quickly and pulling at
him, iugg«-d til in a little farther on.
Alan, looking up. saw Corvet heslde
htm; Corvet, unable to move 111tu
fartlier. was crouching down there
with lilm. Alan .veiled to him to leap,
to twist aside and get out of the way;
but Corvet only crouched closer and
put bis arms over Alan; then the
wreckage came upon them, driving
them apart. As the movement stopped,
Alan still could see Corvet dimly liy
the glow of the Incandescent lamps
overhead; the truck separated them.
It bore down upon Alan, holding him
motionless and. on the other side. It
crushed upon Corvet's legs.
lie turned over, as fur as he could,
and spoke to Alan. "You have been
saving me, so now 1 tried to save you,"
he said simply. "What reason did you
have for do'.ig that? Why have you
been keeping by raef
"I'm Alan Conrud of Blue Ilaplds.
Kansas," Alan cried to him. "And
you're Benjamin Corvet.' You know
tne; you sent for me! Why did you
do that?"
Corvet made no reply to this. Alan,
peering at lilm underneath the truck,
could see that his hands were pressed
against his face and that his body
shook. Whether tills was from some
new physical pain from the movement
of the wreckage. Alan did not know
till he lowered his hands after a mo
ment ; and now he did not heed Alan
or seem even to be aware of bltu.
"Dear little ConnUfl" he said aloud.
"Dear little Counlel She mustn't
marry blrn—not him I That must be
seen to. What ahull I do, what shall
I do?"
Alan worked nearer him. "Why
mustn't she msrry him?" he. cried to
Corvet. "Why? Ben Corvet, tell me I
Tell me whv I"
"Who are you 7" Corvet seemed ouly
with an effort to become conscious of
Alan's presence.
"I'm Alan Conrad, whom you used
to take care of. I'm from Blue Bap
Id*. You know about me; are you my
father, Ben Corvet? Are you my fa
ther or what—what are you to me?"
"Your father7" Corvet repeated.
"Did he tell you that? He killed your
father."
"Killed him? Killed him. how?"
"Of course. He killed them all—all.
But your father—he shot him; he shot
him through the headl"
Alan twinged. Sight of Spearman
came before him as he bad first seen
Spearmun, cowering In Corvefi li
brary In terror at an apparition. "And
the bullet hole above the eye!" So
that was the hole made by the shot
Spearman fired which had killed
Alan's father—which (hot him through
the head! Alan peered at Corvet and
called to him.
"Father Benltot!" Corvet called In
response, not directly lu reply to
Alan's question, rather In response to
what those questions stirred. "Father
Benltot I"
Some one, drawn by the cry, was
moving wreckage near them. A hand
at d arm with a torn sleeve showed;
Alan could not see the rest of the fig
ure, but by the sleeve he recognized
that It was the mate.
"Who's caught here?" he called
down.
"Benjamin Corvet of Corvet, Sher
rlll and Spearman, ship owners of Chi
cago," Corvet'* voice replied deeply.
Fully; there was authority In It and
wonder too—the wonder of a man find
ing himself In a situation which his
recollection cannot explain.
"Ben Corvet I" the mate shouted tn
surprise; he cried It to the others,
those who had followed Corvet and
obeyed him during the hour before and
had not known why. The mate tried to
pull the wreckage aside and make his
way to Corvet; but the old man stopped
him. "The priest. Father Benltot 1
tan ut ae. I S&&U never Leav#
here; i'end Father Bemtot r
The word was passed without the
mate moving away. The mate, after a .
minute. made no further attempt to
free Corret; that Indeed w«i useless,
and Oorvet demanded his right of sac
rament from the priest who came and
crouched under the wreckage beside
him.
"Father Benltotl"
"I am not Father Benltot I am Fa
ther Perron of L'AnRe."
"It was to Father Benl'ot of St. Ig
nace I should have gone, Fattier 1 . ..
The priest got a little closer as <3or
vet spoke, and Alan heard only voices
now and then through the sounds of
clanging metal und the drum of Ice
against the hull The mate and his
helpers were working to get him free.
They had abandoned all effort to save
the ship; It was settling. And with
the settling, the movement of the
wreckage Imprisoning Alan was In
creasing. This movement made useless
the efforts of the mate; It wouW free
Alnn of ItBelf In a moment, If It did
not kill him: It would free or finish
Corvet too. But he, as Alan saw him,
was wholly oblivious of that now. His
lips moved quietly, firmly; and hl« eye«
were fixed steadily on the eyes of the
priest.
(Continued on Thursday)
WHAT IS OUR
NATIONAL ANTKKM
There is a false Impression abroad,
that the "Star Spangled Banner" is
the national anthem of America. The
fact is we have no- official National
Anthem. With a large proportion of
our people, "America," is certainly
a greater favorite than the "Star
Spangle Banner." We are printing
from the "Pathfinder" an article of
interest.—Ed.
Dedicate Francis Scott Key Memorial
The idea of making "The Star
Spangled Banner" our national anth
em was revived by the dedication at
Baltimore of a monument to Francis
Scott Key, its author. Again has a
bill been introduced in congress with
that object in vie>v Other measures
have gone down in defeat at one time
or another because of strong opposi
tion to giving the historical song
such official distinction. This attitude
is based on the fact that "The Star
Spangled Banner" was written at a
time when hatred for the British
rankled in the American breast, as
the words of the song attest. Contra
ry to popular opinion, no anthem,
hymn or musical air of any kind is
recognized by any federal law as the
national anthem. However, army
and navy regulations provide that
"The Star Spangled Banner" be ac
corded due respect, a custom handed
down from its birth during the war
■of 1«H.
The memorial to its author was
erected by authority of congress on
the historical site of Fort McHenry.
Themonument represents a nude fig
ure of Orpheus, "The Spirit of Mus
ic." and stands over 42 feet high.
The figure itself Is 25 feet tall. It al
so commemorates the bravery of the
soldiers and sailors who took part in
the battle of North Point and ilie de
fense of Tort McHenry. The wirK is
by Charles Henry Niehaus. President
Harding was one of those who paid
tribute at its unveiling. He character
!zed Key as "a modest genius" who
was raised "in one flaming hour
to place among the imincrtals. In
his Impassionate self-sacrificing, ex
ulting and exulted Jove of country,"
the president said: "Key reached the
sublime heights and wrote the poetic
revelation of an American soul
aflame." The memorial stands in the
center of what will ultimately he »
national park that will :ake in the
star-shaped ramparts of The historic
old fort to which Key directed hia
gaze through the morning >nists to
find the "star-spangled banner," des
pite the British attack, yet waving
"o'er the land of the free and the
home of the brave."
WATER MOTORS—Two five h. p.
Pelton turbine wheels In good con
dition, with various nozzles, and
some two Inch pipe. Also one piece
1*4 inch shaft, 14 feet long. En
quire of Daily Alaskan office. Cheap
for cash or will trade. 3t
When In Skagway, Go to the
ST. JAMES LODGING HOUSE
John Williams, Proprietor
Rooms 50 Cents and Up
Bonded Trunks and Hand Baggage
Transferred To and From
BOATS and TRAINS
FIRE WOOD BOUGHT AND SOLD
f
Phones—Office, 10; Res., 89
Alaska Transfer Co.
FRANK SUFFECOOL, Prop.
General Forwarding Agents
Bonded Freight and Baggage
Transferred
Anto Service Day or Night
WOOD AXD COAIi
Agents for Ladysmlth Coal
Careful handling and prompt
delivery our Blog&n
• PROFESSIONAL CARDS •
W. B. STOUT
Attorney at Law
Practice in all courts
In Territory of Alaska
HAINES ALASKA
OR. L. S. KELLER
Dentist
Most Modera Methods
Office Hours: 0-12 a. in.—1-0 p. m.
Fifth Avenue — Next
Door to Daily Alaskan
8KAGWAY ALASKA
• SKAGWAT •
• FRATERNAL ORDERS •
Camp Skagway No. 1
meets every second and
fourth Tuesday evening
at 8:30 o'clock. Visit*
lag brothers cordinjly welcome.
J. M. Keller, L. S. Keller,
Arctic Recorder. Arctic Chief
B. P. O. ELKS, Skag
way Lodge, No. 431, B.
1'. O. Elks, meets everj
Thursday at 8 p. m.
Visiting brothers cor
dially welcome.
dan Mcdonald, e. r.
P. J. VAN DEW ALL, Secretary.
F. & A. M.
White Pass Lodge P. & A.
M. No. 113, meets 2nd and
4th Saturday evenings of
each month at 8 o'clock.
Visiting Brethren are wel
come.
P. J. Van de Wall, W. M
T. J. Stanuisn, Secretary.
Fraternal Order at
Eagles
Skagway Aerie, No. 25,
Fraternal Order oC
Eaglet*, meet the flnt
ami uuru ncunwun/ ui cam
month at their hall on Fifth Ave
nue. Visiting brothers cordially In
vited to attend.
M. A. G0D1.VG, W.P.
B. K. WALLACE, SECY.
Nuoinl Chapter No. 9
O. E. 8., meets In Ma
sonic hall, first and
third Friday of each
month, at 8 o'clock.
Visiting members welcome.
POLLY WEBSTER
Worthy Matron
Fanny Speer, Secretary.
Pile* Cored In • to 14 Day*
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Blind, Bleeding or Protruding Piles.
Instantly relieves Itcblng Piles, and
you can get restful sleep after first
application. COc.
Big Game Guide
Sportsmen who are Interest
ed in hunting big game tu the
Lower Yukon corns t ry are in
vited to call on n. .1 have
lireu for mnnjr jears In the At*
lin country, and can guarantee
hunting partiM fine luedmens.
I have a (jood power boat
for lake huntllng and fishing. .
For information call or ad
<Iref*
Tom Williams
ATL1N B. O.
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