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Presto—Presi! Like the voice of one from the wilderness come the
tidiugs from Clarence Oliver Prest. He is safe, and he says he will try
igain.
The eyes of the world have been on Prest the last few days. All are
indebted to him for creating some uew excitement and intensifyii.g the vi
brations of jaded humanity. Dispatches of his exploits have bee:i broad
casted over the earth, and he has helped bring Alaska and Yukon into the
eyes of the world the last few days. The northern color accompanying an
exploit such as he undertook, the element of suspense and the surprise and
sympathy are all prime factors in the making of a first class short story,
serial, novel, dim drama or human interest story. Prest supplied them all.
and by his bold, if not altogether discreet, dash across the Northland wil
•terness contributed thrills that It will be d fficult even for the round-the
world-flyer. Blake, and the north pole racers, soon to get away, to e.\ceed.
The dispatches going outside regard.ng Prest carry the story of the
ii:agn.ticeut distances of this realm, of the fact t:.e country in summer is
verdure-clad, and that he was flying over a land heavily timbered and pro
line with growth and big game, and that one well equipped can find an
abundance of big game and other wild lite and berr.es and tish on which to
lite. These facts are too often crowded intu the background by the aver
age person in me outside world adhering to the old belief that Yukon and
Alaska are perpetually lands of ice aud snow. The fact Prest lauded
turning a herd of caribou, and shot one with a revolver, will make the big
ganie hunters and others of the outer world sit up and marvel at the pleu
titude of such big game iu the North. Many might not otherwise tniuk
uf the fact.
The whole Prest exploit gives the Northland a great and gripping ad
vertisement far aud near. The tourist trade siiuuld receive a big Impetus.
*hen read ng ot the fact ships of tile air are navigating this region. The
starting of the hydroplane from Anchorage to look for Prest reveals the
.act there are other planes in the Northland. The coining of Koy Jones
•<p the Alaska coast within the last week means also other planes in this
• t-gion. A plane was at Nome recently, en route to the pole with Amund
nen, and .Major Blake soou will be touching Alaskan territory on his earth
girdliug (light. Prest says he will be back another year with a hydroplane
and will attempt the trans-Yukon-Aiaska B.ght once more. He prefers the
hydroplane after finding how extensively nature has favored the great
Northland with lakes and rivers.
It was pleasing to see how readily t!.e I'nited Stales and Alaskan odl
■ ials responded to the apparent need of send.ng aid to Prest. Had he fal
ieu iu Canadian territory no doubt similar ready relief expeditions would
have been dispatched by 'he Canadians.
The Prest expedition may have failed temporarily from the technical
Standpoints but .t has done much to bring the Northland to the public eye.
aLd to demonstrate how oue should prepare for flights iu this region, and to
further the general development of aerial navigation and exploltat.ou ot
the Northland.
Here's to Prest and all of the flying clan. May their pluck never fall
of reward —Dawson News.
TWELVE "GREATEST" WOMEN.—The press generally Is givitit
much attention to the request of the Brazilian lady who desires an authen
tic- list including the names of the twelve greatest living Americau women.
T:.at mortals still do not fear to "rush in wi.e e .mgelts fear to tieat'* is
evidenced by the facile glibness with which many individual* assume to ans
wer this futile ciuestio.
First, let us inquire what is it that constitutes true greatness in a '
woman? We think of Miriam and Deborah, of Semlramls, Cleopatra and
Cornelia, of Benobia, Boadicea, of Elizabeth of England—and we call ]
them great. We think of Julia Ward Howe, of Grace Darling, Charlotte j
Cushman, Alice Freeman Clark, Ida Tarbell—and we call them great. But |
what Is greatness in woman? All these were exceptional women, dis-|
languished, notable in achievement, but nothing that any of these eii.inent
members of their sex accomplished in her day of the texture of that true
Kreatuess which Is the inalienable dower of multiplied millions of women
who have lived and died "unhonored and unsung."
There are not twelve "greatest" women in this or any other land, but
in this and every other land will be found today, as always, multitudes of
women great la virtue, great in the capac.ty for sacrifice, great in moral
and physical endurance, great in love and loyally, great in sympathy and
human tenderness.
A good woman is great because of the qualities peculiar to her sex. She
ij the potential or actual mother of men. and the greatest personality in all
the world 13 the mother who teaches her children the ways of righteousness
and wisdom, who is the central sun of her family, whose divine function
holds civilization secure in Its idealism and perpetuates man's fealty to an
inlinite Creator.
Why talk of twelve "greatest ownien in America, meaning thereby
women who have distinguished themselves in politics, siciology, science,
philanthropy and the arts, wheu all about us move millions of women,
mothers, nurses, teachers, the fair daughters of an unfaltering faith, the
conservators of all tUe fluer and nobler things of life?—Cincinnati. En
quirer.
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Slie did not snrink ouck trom niui,
or move; and now lie was not" waiting
for tier answer. Something—a sound
—had caught hliu about. Once It
echoed, low In Its reverberation but
penetrating and quite distinct. It
! mine, so far as direction could be as
signed to It. from the trees toward the
! nore; but It was like no foresi sound.
I Distinct, too. was It from any noise of
the lake. It was like a Drum! Yet,
I when the echo had gone, It was a sen
I sutIon easy to deny—a hallucination,
that <vns nil. But now, low and dlstlnrt
It r:tme again; and, as before. Con
stance saw it catch Henry and hold
' him. Ills Hps moved, but he did not
s[«'ak; he was counting. "Two," she
saw his lips form.
The sound of the Drum was continu
ing. the beats a few seconds apart
"Twelve." Constance counted to her
self. The beats had seemed to be
quite measured" and regular at first;
but now Constance knew that this was
only roughly true; they beat rather In
rhythm than at regular Intervals,
"Twenty—twenty-one — twenty-two!"
Constance caught breath and waited
for the next beat; the time of the In
terval between the measures of the
rh.Whm passed, and still only the
whistle of the wind and the undertone
of water sounded. The Drum had
beaten its roll and. for the moment,
was done.
Twenty-two had been her.count, as
nearly as she could eounr at all: the
reckoning agreed with what the Indl m
woman had heard. Two had di'Ml,
then, since the Drum last had bent,
when its roll was twenty. Two more
than before; that meant flve were left!
Constance caught up her woolen
hood from the table and put It on. Her
action seeuied to call Henry to him
self.
"What are you going to do?" he de
manded.
"I'm going out."
He moved between her and the door.
"Not alone, you're not!" His heavy
voice had a deep tone of menace in It;
he seemed to consider and deride
I something about her. "There's a farm
house about a mile back; I'm going to
take you over there and leave you with
those people."
t "I will not go there 1"
lie swore. "I'll carry you. then!"
She shrank hack from him as he
lurched toward her with hands out
stretched to seize her; he followed
her. and she avoided him again; If his
guilt and terror had given her mental
ascendency over him, Ills physical
strength could still force her to Ills
wl|l and. realizing the Impossibility
of evading him or overcoming him.
she stopped.
"Not that!" she cried. "Don't touch
me I"
"Come w ith me. then!" he command
ed ; und he went to the door and laid
his snowshoes on the snow and
stepped Into them, stooping and tight
ening the straps; he stood by while
she put on hers. He did not attempt
again to put hands upon her as they
moved away from'the little cabin to
wurd the woods back of the clearing;
but went ahead, breaking the trail for
her with his snowshoes. lit* moved
forward slowly; he could travel. If he
had wished, three feet to every two
that she could cover, but be seemed
not wishing for speed but rather for
delay. A deep, dull resonance was
booming above the wood; It boomed
again and ran Into a rhythm. No
longer was It above; at least It was not
only abftve; It was all about them—
here, there, to right and to left, before,
behind—the booming of the Drum.
Doom was the substance of that sound
of the Drum beating the roll of the
dead.
Henry nan stopped in m>nt or ner,
half turned her way: his body swayed
and bent to tlie booming of the Drum,
us his swollen lips eouutcd ils sound
ings. She could see him plainly In the
moonlight. yet she drew nearer to him
as she followed Ills count. "Twenty
one." he counted—"Twenty-two!" The
drum was still go'ng t>n. "Twenty
four—twenty-live—twenty-six!" Would
he count another?
He did not; and her pulses, which
had halted, leaped with relief. He
moved on again, descending the steep
side of a little ravine, and she fol
lowed. One of Ids snowshoes caught
In a protruding root and. instead of
slowing to free It with cure he pulled
It violently out. and slip heard the dry,
seasoned wood crack. He looked down,
swore; saw that the wood .was not
hroken through and went 011; hut as
he reached the bottom of the slope, she
leaped downward from a little height
behind him and crashed down upon his
trailing snowshoe Just IVhlnd tin- heel.
The rending snap of the wood came
beneath her feet. Had she hroken
through his shoe or snapped her own?
She sprang hack, as he cried out and
swung in an attempt to grasp her; lie
lunged to follow her. atid she ran n
few steps away and stopped. At his
next step his foot entangled In the
mesh of the broken auo'vsiiue, he
IllttsiroTions by
Irwbi^Vyery -
stooped. cursing, to striV 11 on nnu
hurl It from him; then lie tore off the
one from the other foot, anil threw It
away, unci lurched lifter her again ; but
now he sunk uhove his knees and floun
dered In the snow. She stood for a
moment while the half-mud, hnlf
drunken figure struggled toward her
along the side of the ravine; then she
nm to where the Iree trunks hid her
from him. He gained the top of the
slope nnd turned In the direction she
had gone; assured then, apparently,
that she hud flown In fear of him. he
started, back more swiftly toward the
beach. She followed, keeping out of
his sight among the trees.
To twenty-six. he had counted—to
twenty-six, each time! That told that'
he knew one was living among those
who hud been upon the ferry I What
one? it could only be one of two to
dismay him so; there had been only
two on the ferry wjiose rescue he hud
feared; only two who. living, he would
have let lie upon Mils heneh which be
hud chosen and set aside for Ids pa
trol, while he wailed for him to die!
She forced herself on. unsparingly,
us she saw Henry gain the shore and
us. believing hlm^lf alone, he hurried
northward. She timid not rest; she
could not let herself be exhausted.
Merciless minute after mlnu'e she
k raced him thus— * dark shape—a lig
ure lay si retched upon the ice nlleudi
Beyond urn! still further out. souie
tl.ing which si emed th" fragments of
a lifeboat tossed up and down where
the waves thundered and gleamed at
the edge of the Hoe.
Henry's pace quickened: hers quick
ened desperately, too. She lefl the
shelter of the trees und scrambled
down the steep pitch of the bluff,
shouting, crying aloud. Henry turned
about and saw her; he halted, and site
passed him with a rush and got be
tween him and the form upon the ice,
before she turned und fared him.
Defeat—defeat of whatever purpose
he had had—was Ids now that she was
there to witness what he miu'lll do; and
In his realization of that, he hurst out
In initio against her— lie advanced;
she sttKitl. confronting—he swayed
slightly in Ills walk and s'wiing past
her and nwuy; lie went pusi those
things on the beach mill kept on along
the ice hummocks toward the north.
She run to (he huddled llgure of the
man in mackinaw ami cap; his face
was hidden partly by the position In
which he lay and partly l^y the drift
ing snow; hut, before she' swept the
snow away and turned him to her, she
knew that he was Alan. '
She cried to him, and, when he did
not answer, she shook lilni to get him |
nwuke; but she could not rouse him.
Praying In wild whispers to herself,
she opened his jacket ami fell within
Ills clothes; he was warm—ut leas-t be
She Tried to Lift Him, to Car"y Him;
Then to Drag Him. But She Could
Not.
was not frozen within! No; anj there
teemed some stir of his heart! She
tried to lift him. to curry lilm; then to
drug hlin. But she could nut; he fell
from her arms Into the snow again.
Hnd she snt down, pulling lilm upon
her lap and clasping h!m to hor.
She must have aid. she must (ret him |
to some house, she must take hltq out
of the terrlhle cold; hut dared she
leave him? Slight Henry return, if she
went awa.v? She arose and looked
about. Far up the shore she saw his
figure rising and falling with his flight
over the rough Ice. A sound came to
her, too, the low, deep reverberation of
the Drum beating once more along the
shore and In the woods and out upon
the lake; and it seemed to Iter tlmt
Henry's figure. In the stumbling steps
ul hU llijtuL was tccjjjui; lime t£ tile
wild rliytlun of tlmf sound. And she
stooped to Alan nnd covered him with
her "-oat, before leaving him;' for she
feared no longer Henry's return.
(Continued on Saturday)
FIRE THREATENS GOVERNOR'S
HOl'SE; $—,000 DAMAGE DONE
Fire In the roor of the. Gover
nor's Mansion, shortly before noon
today, caused by defective wiring, In
the gable on the south sfde , resulted
in damage to the Mansion of a total
loss of $2,000. The principle loss Is
the damage to the roof, where the
fire was kept, and to the rugs from
the water which dripped through the
Interior of the house. The fire was
stubborn and was extinguished in 45
minutes after a har9 fight by the lo
cal fire department.
Fire Discovered
The fire was discovered first by
W. S.^Pulleu, about 15 minutes of
noon, when a thin line of smoke was
running along the peak of the gables.
He Immediately turned in the alarm
and when the fire department ar
rived the smoke was pouring from
the top of the roof, near the peaks.
The fire started In the peak of the
gable of the south side and ran across
the peaks of the roof, except on the
corner nearest the road on Diston
Avenue. The flames burst through
the roof first around the chimney on
the north side, at the rear of the
house, where they were the worst.
Great d.fllculty was experienced by
the firemen in reaching the burning
parts because of the peculiar run the
flames took in keeping in the peak of
the roof. Three lines of hose were
played on the roof, all the chemicals
from the trucks and 10 fire extin
guishers were used. One line of hose
was used inside.
( nop floor.
It was necessary to chop the roof
to- get at the fire and three large
holes were made, one on the side
facing Ninth Street, a second in the
center of the roof and a third on the
side facing Diston Avenue.
The fire was fought in splendid
system and good generalship by J.
I.atimer Gray, Chief, and the fire
hoys. They did fine work in scal
ing ladders to the top of the roof
with hose, chopping holes through
the roof and working with the chem
icals and hose lines.
Personal Effects \<>t Damaged
Few personal effects of the family
were damaged. Mrs. Bone and her
daughters were at home. No at
tempt was made to carry out much
of t'fe furniture and personal effects
as it was evident shortly after the
fire boys began to work that the
tire was under control.
Governor Bone said work of re
pairing t'le damage to the house will
begin :oday.
PART OF INHERITED FORTUNE
GOIXG TO STARVING MINERS
New York, July 31.—The first
appropr atlon of $200,000 out of the
SS0O.000 given the American fund
for public service ly Chas. Carfield.
will go for relief of "starving min
ers In the Pennsylvania coal fields."
This was the announcement made to
day.
Garfield Is of Massachusetts and
lie is giving away his Inherited for
tune.
ALASKA TRAPPERS HAVING
BIG SALE IN TACOMA
Tacoma, July 31.—Alaska trap
pers are to receive nearly $150,000
for furs at the most -successful sale
held here. Buyers from all parts of
the United States and Canada have
been bidding for the past four days.
Beaver and marten predominated in
500 lots. White, red and silver fox.
muskrat, lynx and bear are prom
inent. The furs for the most part,
are from north of the Arctic Circle. '
WATER MOTORS—Two five h. p
Pelton turbine wheels in good con
dition, with various nozzles, and
some two inch pipe. Also one piece
t M inch shaft, 14 feet long. En •
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for cush or will trade. 3t (
When in Skagway, Go to the j
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John Williams, Proprietor
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Visiting brothers top*
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