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X EDITORIAL j
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"HOLD VOIR BONDS DON'T BE
A GUTTER; UK A
PATRIOT."
Hold your Liberty Bonds And War
Savings Certificates. Hold them
first, because they are & ? best in
vesuueat in the world backed by
every re«ource in the I'n.ted States
JS the appeal of Secretary of the
Treasury WUlia.ni g. .WcAdoo, as
sent to Twelfth federal He
servt. District Liberty Loan head
quarters:
following ig the Secretary's state
ment:
"HolO your Liberty Bonds and
War Savings Certificates. Hold
them first, because they art} the
aest investment in the world back
ed by ©very, resource in the United
State#. _ s
"Hold them because you have
made sacrifices ia order to buy then
Why pas§ on to somg on# elfie the
contract you hare entered into with
your government?
"Hold them because, even though
the war may be over ,it has not yet j
t>eea paid f°r« The Treasury De
partment must soon issue more
bonds. Every sale now made by
you make# future government is
sues more difficult and more ex
pensive. This expense can be
borne only by the people of the
I'uited States; therefore, why add
to the already large burden?
"Ho'-4 them because the time
may come when such an investment
will prove to be a true friend ia
time of need, a guarantee against th
fear of tSebt and insurance agajust
real hardship*.
".ttoid Lfiem mg ueea ivr
saying is not over. Government ex
penses ar® today larger than at any
time during the 'war.. Our boys
in Franc^ and Germany must be
I>ai 1 an(i Jed ulothed, and,
when their work is over transported
home. THEY HAVE NOT QUIT.
WHY SHOULD YOU?
"Hold your Liberty Bonds in
stead ot exchanging them for 6onxe
other so-called 'Security' because
j ou know the security of your U
nited Stages bond and cannot of
ten Jsnow the worth of what is
offered in exchange. The Get
Rich Quick' crook U ready to steal
your bonds from you at the first
opportunity.
"Hold them Oecausti of the in
terest they Pay. Holdt hem be
cause it is good business to do so..
"Wh»i good will the idle pleasure of
needless luxury bought today with
the proceeds of your bonds b© to
you & year from now? Your bond
works for you, drawing interest day
tnd night, week days and Sundays."
ALASKA STA>IPEDE IS DUE
a (Railway News)
Alaska is preparing to give the
world another surprise. Following
a year when th« Territory was reduc
ed in population to a most Seri*
oug ©stent, cornea the prediction,
from all the sourdoughs thatl March.
1919, -will witness a stampede to the
north eclipsed' only by- the Klondike
rush of Iond> memory. Th® rea
sons for this prediction are many.
Chiefly the retum of normal con
dition in this country and the less
ening of the urgent demand lor
laoo£ at fai^cy prices means that
it will possible for men to dig
or wash gold to Alaska at a profit,
which hag not been the case dur
ing the last two years. The coun
try ig still a most inviting one for
the experienced prospector, while
th® country now being opened Dy
the railroads is a virgin fiel<l a
bounding in hard rock possibilities.
The Alaskans, like the caribou,
lav* to stampede a!id haying stam
peded to the Stateg only to be
met by the newg of Germany's sur
render, followed by an industrial re
vival in this country, they are now
prearing to stampede back and
already the steamship ticket offices
are being visited by those who are
rignring on "going in" on one
of the e^rly spring boats.
Worth More As
Junk Than As
Railroad
Tonopa<h, Nev., Dec. 19. — Be
cause it ig more valuable a# junk
than as a railroad, that portion of
the Lag Vega# & Tonopah "system"
lying- between Las Vegas and Beatfty
ha$ oeen abandoned and will be
sold. The laalt train h-'s thundered
over its raila.
That portion of the railroad ex"
tending between iBeatty and Gold
field, a distance of 79 miles, will
b» operated by the Tonopah & Tide
water, the old F. 21. (Borax) smith
line. The total mileage of th© Las
Vega# and Tonopah rialroad .extend
ing from Lag Vega# to Goldfi'ield, is
197 miles.
The Laa Vega® & Tonopah was
projected by "Borax" smith 1111(1
financed by Senator William A.
Clark. Smith planned to operate th
road in conjunction with the Salt
Lake route and tap the mining dis*.
tricta of Bullfrog, Rhyclite, Beatty,
Green water, GoldfieJd and Tonopah,
as well a£ to remove borax from
Death valley,
•cince the taking over of most of
the railroajig by Vbe government
th® business o" the La$ Vegas &■
Tonopah has dwindled to almost
nothing. All freight and passenger
traffic wag routed over the Tonopah
& Tidewater.
After having been operated f°r
12 years, the railroad as a physi
cal property is worth more tdoay
than when the rail® .were laid. It
ig estimated* th3I the rails are worth
more than double^their value when
they were laid in 1906. It is es"
pected that part of railroad which
has been abandoned will bring &
good price.
MESSAGE WAS AT FAULT
la reporting the death of Ex-Gov
ernor Brady ia yqsierday'B issue of
tiiig paper, the name "Bradley" was
used, and' as our dispatc^ read that
■way very plainly, it is evident that
a mistake was made either in the
transmission of the message or the
receipt ol It here.
It la true that the mistake should
have been discovered and corrected
here» but In thQ stress of working
up the cahlg dispatches little time
in tad for the consideration of a
name, and' when a name with which
w& are nctt thoroughly familiar
oomes, the message is assumed to
be correct,
, It is regretted that this error
occured, and while the name should |
have been "John Green Brady," the
me .sage plainly read, "John Green
Bradley" former governo oEA lasJca,
!etc*. . J
DR. LIEBJCNECHT, RADICAL
SOCIALIST LEADER, SLEEPS !
j | TWO NIGHTS IX PALACE I
London, Dec. Id.—When the cor"*
respondent at The Hague o£ the
1 Daily Mail visited the royal palace
at Berlin recently, he found the.
aged servants there bursting with
indignation over the f*<* that Dr.
Llebinecht, the radical socialist j
leader, had slept in the former em- j
peror'a bed. The correspondent j
quotea the seirants as saying:
■"That cursed Liebknecht slept j
for two nights 1b the kaiser's bed" |
Subscribe far THe Dally Alaskan.
i-AICPLANS
By JACK LAWTON.
As fur buck us she could k:member,
Luurel had known of the enmity ex
is-tlng between her father's family and
that of their neighbor farther down
the rord. It was Laurel's mother who
hud told her the tale of her grand
father's crime.
"It was best," she had said, ''that the
chllil should learn of it from her own."
Laurel had longed to muke the
mountain neighbor's child her compan
ion, life was lonely among the hills.
So Laurel's mother had explained why
this could not be.
She had listened In frightened hor
ror. Her grandfather was a murderer.
That was the fact in all its brutal
plainness, as her mother told It.
Grandfather had killed the man who
would be this mountain child's grand
father. Ills crime had been vindi
cated because the deed was considered
one of self-defense.
But the grandfather had sought no
such excuse. "Murder." he said, was
in his heart at the time. "The man
hat? told a cruel lie to the woman he
loved, breaking the engagement be
tween them. On the narrow mountain
trail he had met and accused the vic
tim. and when they had struggled In
anger It had ended In the fall of
the man to his death below.
Self-confessed, I.aurel's grandfather
was a murderer, and the shadow lin
gered on those who followed. Recon
ciled, he had married his sweetheart,
but the enmity between the two fam
ilies concerned remained a thing of
reality.
When Laurel's own saddened mother
had gons forever from the mountain
home, it was at her wish that her
daughter be sent away to school, and
to learn what the great outer world
might- hold. Now. In all the sweetness
of !■ mountain summer, Laurel had
come back again, to be with her father.
It was In the weather-beaten ehurch
on Sabbath that she raised her eyes
from her singing book, to meet those
of a stranger. From the outer world
he, too. had come back to the primi
tive. I.ike Ijer's, his own eyes had
widened in question, "How come you
here?" asked tha stranger's eyes. "And
who." flashed Laurel's, "are you?"
After service both were answered.
"That." said her father. In a tone of
constraint. "Is the Jt.st of the Wiltons,
from down the road. He's been away
for years, studying, they say, an' get
ting rich."
On the following morning, she met
the man of tho uuestionlng gaze on a
narrow :-..-untnln trail. His pro
nounced avoidance of her proclaimed
that the last of the Wiltons still bore
nversion to the granddaughter of a
murderer.
Laurel's soft eyes clouded, but she
felt no resetitiaeat.
The next day Laurel took a dif
ferent path, hoping to avoid the man's
displeasure at sight of her, and as
Dan Wilton had started out with the
same purpose, the two came again
face to I'ace i:: the roadway. Laurel's
Impulsive smile met his frown. And
as he looked down upon her again In
"meeting" Laurel fancied that the
neighbor's eyes wore a kinder light,
as though against his own will he were
acting a part. She found it impossi
ble to banish his face from her
thoughts.
Grieved, yet wonaenug »uj ><•
should sr <rr!eve her. Laurel dtolded to
confine her walks to the wood; there,
fatefully, she met him. He siood for
a moment, watching the sunlight filter
ing down on her face, then apoke:
"Tou must not think," he s.-»ld slow
ly, "that rny avoidance of you has been
evidence of the foolish enmity of my
family. You will find it as difficult to
believe the truth as I—find It myself."
"I love you," said Dan Wilton. "I
have loved you from the moment I
looked into your eyes; "but," he
laughed harshly, "there Is no use. I
eannot reconcile (hat past stain In the
blood." 1
Laurel's Hp trembled; It did not oc
cur to her to resent his self-confidence,
to jell him that her own heart was not
for the winning.
"We must not meet again," she said.
"I always will take the upper path to
town, you the lower. When I come
to the wood, I shall leave always be
fore four; It is a dark stain; I am
sorry, and I understand."
Longing eyes followed her up the
trail. She forgot as she determinedly
kept to her stated routine, that the
best-laid plans have been known to
"gang aglee."
Pan Wilton had forsaken the meet
ing house. He realized that he must
resort to more rigid measures If he
would keep from seeing tl\e girl he
loved. He must go away, and after
four o'clock, therefore, through the
silent wood he walked, fighting his i
light.
True to her promise Laurel had left
eloquent spot of fir and pine. But
on her homeward way she paused con
cerned. Her wrist watch was gone;
she must have dropped It In the wood.
Hastily she retraced her steps, ab
solved In searching. So it was that
face downward bent. Laurel passed—
straight into Dan Wilton's arms.
"You eomc," he murmured, "In an
swer to' the call of my heart, I cannot
live without you. Laurel; it was a fool
ish fight. Love Is strong enough to
blot out any stain. Dearest, can you
forgive me, and come?"
And when fit last Lnnrel raised her
radiant face from her lover's shoulder,
her forgotten little watch lay glint
ing at her from the grass.
(Copyright, 191 J, Western Newspaper
Union.) ,
4—i
THE VISION GIRL
By MILDRED WHITE.
;»»»%» >»>v»w»w«wwwm
The duy hud started gloomily for I
Alan, bat that was before the dream I
began. He had gODe In his runabout,'
to make the usual pretense of medical j
visits, for Alan's well-equipped office,
showed as yet no mark of usage.
Upon this particular morning of the I
disastrous auto ride, he was wonder- I
Ing: "How bt was going to get his
rent money together." When, at the
knottiest point of his problem, the |
car was held In a deep rut of the coun
try road, then without further warn-1
Ing, turned turtle, leaving Alan face I
upward on a mossy bank.
This was the last he remembered,
the next development was his wonder
ful dream! With a realizing con
sciousness of pain, he endeavored to
turn his bandaged head and discovered
that he was lying In a gre&t curtain
draped bed of a fashion of a century
ago. Through the golden brocade of
the draperies, Alan saw the room of
princely appointment, chandeliers ani
wainscoting reminding him of stag*
scenery of an historic play.
The young doctor wrinkled his I
brows in perplexity, then smiled. It |
was all an illusion of course.
When he tried to stir the pain was
Intense, so he contented himself with
reaching over the satin coverlet to J
touch .something tnngfble. Inadver
tently his finger jfressed a button on
the mahogany, and around the canopy
over his head flashed a row of elec
trie lights. It was not the blow of j
the accident, he decided which caused
him to see these strange things, but
some dope a doctor had probably ad- j
ministered. When the effect wore off
he would find himself In the usual Iron
bed of a hospital. »
Rut now as the dream continued,
resting comfortably in his gold-draped
bed, he saw before him a panel of the
wainscoting slide aside, whlls In Its
opening appeared a beautiful radiant
creature—a girl who seemed to be
from that same past period of the
luxurious room.
Alan caught his breath as the living I
picture moved toward him. Then as
his eyes still gazed Into the girl's dark
ones, she lifted a small heuvlly-Hnged
hand to smooth his hair.
"Why," softly murmured the girl,
"did you turn on the reading lights? I
Sunshine streams through the win-1
dow.*
At her touch the electricity was I
turned off. Alan did not answer. Of j
what use to talk to a vision?
The girl sighed, as she turned from
hlin, another moment and she had I
passed through the panel In the wall.
Restlessly he endeavored to raise him
self as an elderly woman entered the
room.
A man, evidently a physician with 1
his bag, followed. "Weill" he ex
claimed cheerfully, looking down at |
the Injured one, "consciousness at last.
You have kept us guessing. How do j
you feel?"
"Tell me," Alan asked painfully,
"where I am."
"You are carefully housed In the I
old Judge Weller estate," the doctor [
replied.
"Then it was not all an Illusion?" |
Alan eagerly questioned. He smiled.
"I fancied that a lady In trailing bro
cade came walking through the wall."
The physician laughed. "You'll have
no more such fancies,J he said. "Your
Injury Is really slight. Judge Weller'a
widow died recently, and the only
ones at present In charge are family*
servants. They await the settling of
the estate by the Judge's granddaugh
ter who Is abroad. The place and the
Weller fortune are now hers."
When the doctor had gone, Alan
gazed Intently at the wall opposite.
And as he watched, the panel swung
again, and the girl was there.
A smiling, rose-clad figure this
time, us she advanced toward him.
"How do you do?" she asked. "Doc
tor tells me you are yourself at lost
He advises that we move you out to
the balcony for a little fresh air."
From the doorway the elderly wom
an came forward. "Jake says," she
announced, "that he won't carry no
body out to the balcony tonight."
The girlish rose-colored vision
whirled about sharply.
"Tell Jake," she said positively,
"that I am mistress here." It was
bewildering.
Light came suddenly to Alan. This
was the granddaughter, of course, re
turned unexpectedly from abroad.
Alan's mending was slower than the
doctor had hoped, and Alan was glad.
Days of enchantment like those spent
upon the balcony came but once In a
lifetime; his hostess was' kind. The
olden time frocks had given place to
those of newer sod simpler fashion.
Back to Alan's heart came the gloom
of that first disastrous morning. Love
had found him, and he must go away
with it burled in his bosom. A penni
less physician may not ask the hand
and heart of an heiress.
"Tell me," hi asked, "how you came
to me dressed In brocades, threugh a
panel in the wall?"
The girl laughed. "The panel Is
merely a door,"* she said. "Old Mrs.
Weller left her rings and gowns to
me. I happened to be trying them on
at that time to see If they could be
made over. I was her companion, you
krjflw, and am keeping charge here
until the heiress arrives."
Alan leaned toward the girl of his
vision. His facfi was radiant, for the
gloom of his morning bad vanished
again In a dream.
(Copytfrht, bis, Western N«w*papw
Union-)
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