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U'dN LAW K\KORCKME\T I)KI*KN US LIKE OF GOVERNMENT
The government will endure on the rock of law enforcement or It will
perish in the quicksands of lawlessness. Those wlfo do not believe iu our
government ;<nd the enforcement of our laws should go to a couutry wh.ch
gives them their peculiar liberty.
Any new law which interferes with so-called personal liberty of the
community must pass through t':e stages of open violation, secret viola
tion, passive entorceu em a.:d then universal observance throughout the
laud.
As a citizen may not choose what laws he will obey, so likewise those
charged with law enforcement cannot choose what laws they will enforce.
The only sound position for those who favor respect for law to take Is
that those charged with law enforcement must enforce all the laws and all
good citizens must obey all the laws. Neither can exercise any right of
choice in this matter without plac.ng themselves above the law.—Kxerpt,
address by Judge Uoff, First Assistant I*. S Attorney-Geueral.
i.i r him r \i k Tin: mi sic
If Jafet Lindeberg is Innoi; tit, Alaskans would like lo know why lis
does not return lo Tacoma and prove that he was not a party to the wreck
ing of the bank in which numerous Northerners had placed their savings
because former Alatkani were at the beud of the institution; and if he Is
guilty, how is it he can can avoid punishment merely by stepping over a
Mate Hue? Had he been driven to the extrem.ty of stealing a loaf of
bread to keep his family from starving, lie »ould long ago have been drag
ged back to Taconia. even from the most remote corner of the country. The
case is of more than usual interest to Alaskans because of the fact that
Undeberg made most of his money in the Northland —Neiiana Newa.
1>IS<TP1.K <>K l'H.U'Tlt'AL KOI.SHKVISM
One who. in the matter of national prohibition, ho'ds his personal opin
ion and his claim of personal liberty to be of higher sanction than this
overwhelming constitutional expression of the people is a disciple of prac
tical bolshevism.—Excerpt, address of L'iitef Justice Taft.
tiKAI'KFRl'IT AT BUST
1\ LOW TKMl'KRATlKK
Washington.—The grapefruit ap- !
peariug ou t!ie American breakfast
t.ib'e may in fulute be one coaxiJ
lo r p°ness while reposing in a frigid
temperature of soue refrigerate ;|
piant.
OerariMenl of agriculture expe-ts
anno.inred tftet completion of a -er
i"t of e.\: ••r.cients begun in 1917
that contrary to the prevalent opin-i
ion. rt'.'ui f; uit * 11 ripen off t!?e'
tree and. like pears and apples, will'
develop 'u.ttior eating quality ni
ter a : >•: ,<id of one to three montn*
ir. cold s'orcge The fruit, how
ever. must be suitably "cured" bo-1
fore being placed in cold storage, it■
»as determined. This curing pho
resis involving keeping the fruit In
a temperature of tbout seventy dt I
frees for a period of two or three
weeks. It is then Jransferred to a1
tenipertaure of 32 degrees for nj
longer storage.
The government experts found, it
was said, that whits the sugar con
tent of the fruit remained about the
same, the acid content decreased
markedly during the -storage, and i
apparently the bitterness was brok-1
eu down, thus enhancing the palat
ableness of the fru.t. The process
was also said to eliminate the ten
dency of the fruit to "pit" or form
he annken spots, which sometimes
on tbe skin and Impair the
"^iruits' market value..
Fuel From House Re'use.
The annual production of Great Brit
ain's house refuse, which amounts tr
some lontiooon tons, could he mtv'e
to yield 3.000.1)00 tons of fuel without
touching Its three to four million tons
fertiliser content. J. A. Priestly, pres
ident of the London conference of the
lns-ttute of Clearing Superintendents,
declares. He also states the fuel con
tent represents approximately one
tenth of the annual domestic coat con
tinuation ui Uie couutiT anil eveu tak
Ills Info fun sMeratton Its compara
tively small nilor'flc value, the sav
ing to the na'ion from its utilization
would he enormous. This system of
re-.,wry of fuel In domestic refuse Is
no longer an experiment, he says. and
Is practical for universal adoption hi
eept for conflict with vested lute sts.
Early Astronomical Instruments.
The earliest known astronomical In
struments of (ierman make have re
cently beer desi rlbed by Dr. J. Hart
tiinn of liottlngen. They lielonged to
tie philosopher and astronomer. Cardl
nul Xlkolatis of Ciisa. who lived from
1401 to 1-P'>4. ami comprised a "tor
Hiietiim." for measuring the longitude
ait.! latitude of the celestial bodies, an
astrolabe and two celestial globes.
A note has been found In the cardl
: ill - own handwriting. stating that he
purchased three of tl.ese Instruments
in the jtur 1444 together with 1(J as
rror oi»ical treatises, for the sum of 3S
florins. I loo tor Hartman believes that
at least two of the Instruments were
made by one Nlkoluus Iiybech of Lr
rurt. who was born tn l.'tTO.
"Musical Calls" of Birds.
It Is strange that ornithologists and
musicians who give such credit to the
rooster. Bob White and whlppoorwlll
do not include among highly distinctive
bint calls :liose of the crow, cardinal
and catbird, for while most ordinary
Iic. > .ii> cannot identify the culls of the
robin, wren, bluebird. Quch. bunting
and the like. It Is not to be believed
that anyb -.!y. once having heard tne
"caw" of a crow, the "s-n-a-k-e" of
the catbird and the "chuck-chucfe
•huok." followed by a long clear
.vhls'le which the cardinal gives out,
■ouid over fall thereafter to recognize
these culls. Hut It may be that those
•n'is do not fall within the classifica
tion of ul.at Is said to be the "musical
culls."
Relief.
"Tliatik the Lord that's over." sa'd
.tones, as he got up from his knees.
"I appreciate your kindness. Miss
Kdith."
"My kindness, in refusing you?"
"Yeah. 1 either had to save board
money by marrying you or theater
muucj yy lUa uiiuiyj."
i
The Voice
of the Pack
By Edison Marshall
(Cop/right, IKU. LltUe, Brows * Oxnp.aj)
'^fears a tan tiatT"
that's the niau."
"1 know hltn—and 1 wish you'd
punctured htm. That's Falllng—flie
teuderfoot that's been staying at Len
nox'!). He's a lunger."
"He didn't look like no lunger to
me."
"But no matter about that—It's Just
as 1 thought. And I'll get 'em back—
mark my little words."
In the meantime the best thing to
do was to move at once to his winter
trapping grounds—a certain neglected
region on the lower levels of the North
Fork. If at auy time within the next
few weeks. I»an should attempt to
carry word down to the settlements,
ha would be certain to t>a«-' xirtim
view t of his camp. But he knew that
the chance of Dan starting upon any
such Journey before the snow bad
melted was not one In a thousand. To
be caught In the Divide in the winter
means to he snowed In as completely
us the Imiulta of upper Greenland. No
word could puss except by man ou
Snowshoes.
Yet If the chance did come. If the
house should he left unguarded. It
might pay Cmustou to uiake an Im
mediate search. Dun would have no
reason for supposing that Cranston
suspected his possession of the let
ters; he would not be particularly
watchful, and would probably pigeon
hole them until spriug lu Lennox's
desk.
And the truth was that Cranston
hail reasoued oul the .situation almost
perfectly. When Dan awakened In
the morning, and the snow lay already
a foot deep over the wilderness world,
he knew that he would have no chance
to act upon the Cranston case until
the snows melted iu the spring. So
he pushed all thought of It out of his
mind and turned his utientlou to more
pleasaut subjects. It was true that he
read the documents over twice as he
lay In bed. Theu he tied them Into u
Ileal packet and put them away where
they would be quickly available. Then
lie thrust his head out of tlie window
and Ipt the great siiowtlak sift dowp
U|h>ii his face. It was wi^.er ut Ins-'t.
the season that he loved.
He didn't stir from the house that
first day of the slonu. Snowbird and
he found plenty of pleasant things to
do and talk about before the roaring
fire that he built In the grute. He wus
glad of the great pile of wood that
lay outside the door. It meant life It
Self, lu this season. Then Snowbird
led him to the windows, and they
watched the white drifts pile up over
tbe low underbrush.
When nnaiiy me suingiwx.
five (lays later, tlie whole fHiv of (he
wilderness was changed. The buck
brush was mostly cove ml, the fences
were out of sight: the forest seemed
u clear, clean sweep of white, broken
only by an occasional tall thicket and
bv the great. Know-covered trees.
When the clouds blew away, and
the air grew clear, the temperature
began to fall. I>an hud no way of
knowing how low It went. Thermowe
ters were Dot considered essent'al at
the Lennox home. But when his eje
lids congealed with the frost, and his
mittens froze to the logs of firewood
that he carried through the door, and
ti e pine trees exploded anil cracked In
the darkness, he wus correct III Ills
belief that It wan very, very cold.
But he loved the cold, and the si
lence and austerity that went with It.
The wilderness claimed him as never
before. The rueged breed that were
Ms ancestors had struggled through
such seasons as this and passed u love
of them down through the years to
hltu.
When the Ice made a crust over the
snow, he learned to walk on snow
shoes. At first there were paii ed
unkles and endless floundering In 'lie
drifts. But between the fall of fresh
snow and the thaws that softened the
crust, he slowly mastered the art.
Snowbird—and Dnn never realized the
full significance of her name until he
saw her flying with Incredible grace
over the snow—laughed at him at i r«t
and ran him races that would ustisilly
end in his falling headfirst Into a ten
foot snowbank. She taught him how
to ski and more than once she would
stop In the middle of an earnest hit
of pedagogy to find that he wasu't lis
tening at all. He would seem to be
fairly devouring her with his eyes, de
lighting In the play of soft pinks and
reds In her cheeks, and drinking, as a
man drinks wine, the amazing change
of light and shadow In her eyes.
She seemed to blossom under his
gaze. Not one of those short winter
days went by without the discovery
of some new trail or little vanlf.v to
astonish or delight him—sometimes
an unlooked-for tenderness toward the
weak, often a sweet, untalned philos
oph.v of life, or perhaps Just a lower
Ing of her eyelids in which her eves
would show lustrous through the
lashes, or some sweeping, exuberant
gesture startling!}- graceful. ,
Lennox wakened one morning with
tti* reoUxutiuu iLul tins wus one of
r
the hitrcfcst wfnters of his ptppriencp.
Hp heftBn'to bp very clad of tlip Hbun
datit stores of provisions tluit over
crowded tils pantry wivopy linms and
bacons, ilrloil venison. sacks of pota
toes mill evaporated vegetables, nn«1.
of cnnrsp r:i i ni "'it goods I'll si count
Inc. Willi ill"' liltrli Hip roiirlne I" »•"*
■ grate. 'In* sen son li 'lil no Ills for till'ill
' lint sometimes, win n the hitter cold
came down lit twllleht. and the moon
looked liken thine of lee Itself over tlie
mum. lie heenn to wonder how the
». I'd creatures who wintered on the
1 111 vide were .farlnc. Of course most
of lliem were gone. Woof, lone since,
hud crunted and mumbled his way
Into a winter lair. Hut the wolves re
niiiltied, strange gr;n shadows on the
1 kiiow. and posslbiv a few of the
hardier smaller crei'ures.
More than once ill those Ions win
ter nlchts their talk was chopped ofT
short by the sons of the pack on sotne
I distant ridce. Sometime, when the
I world Is old, possibly a man will be
I born that can continue to talk nnd
keep his mind on his words while the
| wolf pack sines. Hut he Is cortnlnly
an unknown quantity today. The cry
sets In vibration curious memory
chords, nnd for a moment the llstenpr
sees In Ills mind's eye his ancient
home In an undent world—Pnrknes:
and l-'enr and Ryes shining about the
cave. It carries Idm hack, and he
knows the wilderness as It really Is;
and to have such knowledge dries up
ill Inclination to talk, us a sponge
li-ies water. Of course the picture
plain. It Is more a thing
guoispil at a photograph in some dark
j part of an uiider-conscioiisness that
' has constantly grown more dim as the
I centuries have passed. Possibly some
! time it will fade out altogether; and
I ti:en a man may continue to discuss
the weather while the Song from the
j ridge shudders In at the windows. But
| the world will he quite cold by then,
and no longer particularly Interesting.
And possibly even the , wolves tlietn
1 selves will then he tallied to play dead
| and s|ieak pieces—which means the
wilderness Itself will he tamed. For
us lone as the wild lasts, the pack will
run through it In the winter. They
j were here in the beginning, and In
| spile of constant war and constant
hatred on the part of men. they will
I he here In the end. T)ie reason Is Just
i that tbe.v are the symbol of the wll
I derness Itself, and the Idea of It con
I tinning to exist without them Is
; stranger than that of u tuition without
j a tlag.
j It wasn't finite the same sone thnt
Pan had listened to In the tlrst days
| of fall. It had been triumphant then.
i and proud with the wilderness pride.
^ of course it had been sail then, too,
I hut It was more sad now. And it was
! stranger. too, and crept farther Into
1 the souls of Its listeners. It was the
sone of strength that couldn't avail
1 against Ihe snow, possibly of cold and
j the despair and murage of starvation.
These tlin-e lhat heard it were inurpd
to the wilderness: but a moment was
' always needed" after Its last note had
died to reealn their gayety.
"They're getting lean nnd they're
getting savage." Lennox snld one
' night, strpteheil on his dlvnn before
the tlreplace. Hp was still unable to
walk; but the fractures were knitting
slowly nnd the doctor had promised
thnt the summer would find hhu well.
"IT Wl» IIIIfI II IIUR. I I «i.n
I much for his life. One of these days
I we'll find 'em In a Ms elrrle around
I the house—nnd then we'll have to
I open tip with the rifles."
I Hut this picture appalled neither of
J his two young listeners. No wolf paek
I ran stand against three marksmen,
| armed with rifles and behind oaken
j walls.
Christmas came and passed, and
January brought clear dais and nn
Ineffective sun shining on the snow.
' These were the best days of nil. Every
! afternoon lhin and Snowbird would
! so out on their skis or on snowshoes,
I unarmed except for the pistol that
j Snowbird carried In the deep pocket
• of her macklnaw. "Hut why not?" Pan
] replied to I.ennox*s objection. "She
! could kill live wolves with five shots,
or pretty near It, and yoti know well
I enough tlint th.it would hold 'em till
' we got home. They'd stop to eat the
I five. 1 have hard enough time kecp
| lug up with her as It Is, without carry
1 Ing a rifle." And Lennox was content
j Dan had told the truth when he said
j that live deaths or even fewer would
I repel the attack of any wolfhe
' had ever seen. There was Just one
! troubling thought. lie had heard, long
ago. and he had forgotten who had
1 told him. that In the most severe wln
i ters the wolves guther In particularly
i large packs; and a quality In the song
that they had heard at night seemed
to bear It ont. The chorus had been
exceptionally loud and strong, and he
had been unable to pick out individual
voices.
The snow was perfect for skiing.
I Previously their sport hail been many
I times interrupted either by the fall of
fresh snow or a thaw that had soft
ened the snow crust; but now every
afternoon was too perfect to remain
Indoors. They shouted nnd romped In
the silences, nnd they did not dream
hut that they had the wilderness all to
themselves. The fact that one night
Lennox's keen eyes hnd seen what
! looked like the glow of a camp fire
In the distance didn't affect this belief
of theirs at all. It was evidently Just
the phosphorus glowing In a rotten log
from which the winds had blown the
snow.
Once or twice they caught glimpses
of wild life: once n grouse thnt had
burled In the snow flushed from their
path nnd blew the snow-dust from Its
wings: nnd once or twice they saw
snnwshoe rabbits bounding away on
flat feet over the drifts. But Just one
day they caught sight of a wolf. They
were on snowshoes on a particularly
brjlllant afternoon late In January.
He wfis n Innp male, evidently n
Straggler from the pack, and he leaped
froin tlip fop of a tall thicket that had
remained above the snow. The man
j and the girl had entirely different re
! actions. Dan's first Impression was
! amazement at the animal's condition.
| It seemed to he In the lest stages of
| starvation: unbelievably gaunt, with
; rib hones showing plainly even through
the furry hide. Ordinarily the heavily
furred animals do not show signs nf
fnmlne: hut even an Inexperienced eye
could not make a mistake In this case.
The eyes were red. and they carried
[ Dan hack to his first adventure In the
| Oregon forest—the day he had shot
f the mad coyote. Snowbird thought of
the beast only as an enemy. The wolves
killed her father's stock: they were
brigands of the worst order; and she
shared the hatred of them that Is a
common trait of all primitive peoples.
ITer hand whipped buck, seined her pis
tol. and she fired twice at the fleeing
figure.
The second shot was a hit: hoth of
thein saw the wolf go to Its side, then
spring up and race on. Shouting, both
of them sped after him.
In a few moments he was out of
sight among the distant trees, but they
found the hlood-frall and mushed over
the ridge. They exrtected at any mo
ment to find him l>ing dead; but the
track le<| them on -lenr down the next
canyon. And now ;hey cared not of
all whether they f >nnd him: If was
simply n tramp in the out-of-doors
i end hoth of them were young with red
blood In their veins. __
But all at once Dan stopped In hit
tracks. The girl sped on for six paces
before she missed the sound of his
I snowshoes; then she turned to find
| hiin standing, wholly motionless, with
eyes fixed upon her.
It startled her. and she didn't know
why. A companion abruptly freezing
' In his path, his muscles Inert, and his
eyes filling with speculation, Is always
sturtllng. When this occurs It means
simply that a thought so compelling
and engrossing that even the half
' unconscious physical functions, such
| as walking, cannot continue, has come
' Into his mind. And It Is part of the
| old creed of self-preservation to dislike
• greatly to be left out on any such
I thought as this. If danger Is present,
i the sooner It Is Identified the better.
"What Is It?" she demanded.
He turned to her curiously Intent.
"How many shells have you In that
, pistol?"
She took one breath and answered
I hltu. "It holds five, and I shot twice.
I I haven't any others."
"And I don't suppose It ever oc
curred to you to carry extra ones In
your pocket?"
"Father Is always telling me to—and
several times 1 have. But I'd shoot
them away at target practice and for
' get to take any more. There was never
I any danger—except that night with a
| cougar. I did Intend to—but what does
I It matter powT"
(Continued on Thursday)
THAT'S THE QUESTION
She: Anything that It worth win
ning I* worth working for.
He: Yet, but the quettlon It, will
your father loosen up. or will I have
to keep on working for you attar I'va
won youT
Wlae Guy.
'The silent man'e no fool," said Penn,
"He knows wbat he's about;
He thinks mistakes like other men
But doesn't blurt t^em out."
• 8KAGWAT •
• FRATERNAL ORDERS •
• ••••••»•••
3Rk Camp Skajfway No. 1
m V • ■ meets every second and
fytriZW fourth Tuesday evening
>836^ at 8:80 o'clock. Visit
InjC brother# conllUly welcome.
J. M. Keller, L. 8. Keller,
Arctic Recorder. Arctic Chief
B. P. O. ELKS, Skag.
f way Lodge, No. 431, B.
P. O. Elkfc, moots everj
Thursday at 8 p. m.
Visiting brothers cor
I dially welcome.
dan Mcdonald, e. r.
! P. J. VAN DEW ALL, Secretary.
F. & A. M.
White Pass Lodge F. & A.
M. No. 118, 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. Standlsh, Secretary.
Prut era al Order of
Eagles
Skagway Aerie, No. 25,
Fraternal Order of
Ragles, meet the first
and third Wednesday night of each
I month at their hall on Fifth Ave
; liue. Visiting brothers cordially ln
! vited to attend.
C. H. ROGERS, W. P.
J. M. Grlcsbach, Sec'y.
Naomi Chapter No. 9
O. K. 6., meet* In Ms
sonic hull, first and
third Friday of each
month, at 8 o'clock.
Msulng members welcome.
FOLLY WEBSTER
Worthy Matron
Fanny Speer, Secretary.
• PROFESSIONAL CARDS •
• ••••••••••
W. B. STOUT
Attorney at Law
Practice In all courts
In Territory of Alaska
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