More Fable.
Once upon a time a Man went
into a new country, and pitched
his camp on the shore of a bay fed
by streams which swarmed with
fish, and the tributaries of which
Were rich in gold. Back of his
camp througth the mountains were
great deposits of copper and rich
placers, and nature had opened a
pass through the hills which made
them comparatively easy of access.
The Man labored hard for a few
years and his cache increased.
Things went well with him. He
opened up copper mines, took the
gold from the ground, and during
the summer laid by enough fish
and game to carry him through
the winter.
Al>out the fifth year a Misguided
Investor located on another bay
nearby, where the conditions were
not as favorable. No gold was
lying ready to be taken from the
ground, no copper mines were to
he found, and the Misguided In
vestor could not find a pass through
the mountains to the rich country
beyond.
>ow when the .Misguided Invest
or located on his bay, the Man
said: “There is a fool, and I will
tell the world about it.” And he
laid awake nights thinking up ad
jectives strong enough to express
his opinion of the Misguided In
vestor.
He let his pick and shovel and
fish lines lay idle while he spent
his time writing long-winded dis
sertations on the folly of the Mis
guided Investor. He quit fishing
and became artistic, drawing pict
ures of the M. I. which he scat
tered broadcast.
The Wise Investors who saw
these pictures and read the articles
said to themselves: “This Man
must he in a poor locality for he
devotes his whole time to telling
what a fool the M. I. is, and makes
no showing for himself. We will
stay away from him.”
The summer passed and the win
ter came and the Man awoke to
a realization of the fact that he
had put in no supplies for the win
ter. Then he saw who the fool was,
for he had kept the Wise Investors
• away from his bay by his foolish
tirades, and his cache was depleted.
Moral—Don’t neglect your own
cache to war against a Mis
guided Investor, who will surely
kill himself.
America’s “Treasure Islands.”
Capt. McClellan, whose reeent
voyage to the Aleutian islands in
revenue cutter Manning has had
such memorable results, found the
streams of the Attu and the other
islands crowded with salmon. On
Bnldir island, in 52 degrees and 00
miuutes noith, he found new fnr
seal rookeries. That this discov
ery may prove to be of great finan
cial value when it is considered
that the revenue from the Pribiloff
islands has ami a ited thus far to
over $50,000,000. On Unimak is
land the revenue cutter steamed
into a harbor two miles long and
three-fourths of a mile wide.
So strongly convinced are some
of the alert men of the northwest
that the Aleutians are destined to
| assume great importance in the af- 1
! fairs of the Pacific that a company
1 has been formed to colonize the
archipelago. Wharves and store-'
| houses are to be built, and trading
stations established. Stock raising
is to begun first on Akun island.
There, it is estimated, 50,000 head
of cattle can find abundant pasture
the year through.
It is claimed that on account of
the modifying influence of the Jap
an current, the Aleutian islands
have a more desirable climate than
any part of the Atlantic seaboard
north of Cape Hatteras. Aside
from stock raising general agricul
ture is to be inaugurated. It is
stated that copper, gold, oil and
coal are to be found on the islands,
and that there is a great abund
ance of water power, as in Japan.
One town, called Jarvis, has al
ready bten started in Lost Harbor.
The problem of transportation will
not have to lie solved, as in the in
terior of Alaska, for steamers to
and from the Orient, Siberia, St.
Michal and Nome now pass daily
within a few miles of some of the
best harbors in the archi]>elago.
Plant Life In The Arctic.
Alaska cannot be said to have n
tropical climate, but iu the Nation
al Geographic Magazine there is an
account of some gardening at Point
Barrow, north of the Arctic circle,
which shows that crops grow very
fast there. They have to, as the
summer season is very short. The
seed of lettuce, radish and mustard
were sown on June 13, and on July
10 the crop was ripe. “The condi
tion of the vegetables," says the
magazine, “at the time of harvest
was i>erfect. The quality could not
be excelled by any growth any
where in lower latitudes.” Yet
during the nineteen days while the
crop was maturing the minimum
temperature was for nine days be
low 32 degrees, and the maximum
of 50 degrees or above was for
three days only. So mysterious is
the rapidity of growth at this tem
perature that the magazine writer
ventures the guess that it is due to
abundant atmospheric electricity.
Democratic Convention.
The Democratic territorial com
mittee had a meeting at Juneau
and issued a call for a convention
at Juneau, May 25th. The repre
sentation of the principal Alaskan
towns is as follows: Nome, 12;
Juneau, 10; Douglas, Skagway and
Treadwell, 8; Ketchikan and Val
dez, 6. -
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END OF A FAD. \
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■T MU. K U WULnm,
Mart in Benedict ms an adopter aad pro
moter of fade, aad but for the common erne#
of bia excellent wife, he mat hare come to
grief at an early period of h» career, both
in a financial way and aa a personal matter.
Hi* latest exploit, however, nunc so near
being a fatality that he ha* pulled himself
together and mads a solemn promise to
Mr*. Benedict not to promulgate any new
theories in the next five yean. She hopes
that by the expiration of that time-limit
be will be satisfied to leave the occult, the
illimitable, and the unfathomable to tha
investigation of posterity, sml take a more
immediate interest in tilings mundane which
nre necessary to tha comfort of mortals
whose wings are not grown.
Mrs. Benedict did not seriously object
to an invasion of her borne by heard*,
•stake* and Gila monster*—for brr hue
band assured her that these interesting
horror* war* to illustrate the hook he wa»
writing on the subject of evolution *nd re
incarnation, nor was she angry when be
came home half-leading, half-dragging an
immense rfiaggy animal, which she be
lieved to be a mastiff. On the contrary,she
patted his tawgy head, and was about to
pomcws herself of one of its great pawa,
when her hiwlmnd said:
"Isn’t he a beauty? 1 got him from tha
keeper of the too. Only a cub, but such a
magnificent fellow! 1 know now why I have
always been ao attracted to the lion's cage—
I was a lion in my first stage of existence.
Can’t you believe that, Maliel?"
“I think you are a donkey," answered
Mr*. Benedict, with emphasis, as *ba
climbed on the library table and eyed the
lion cub with strong di*favor. “I never
heard of such nonsense in my life. I just
tell you, Martis Benedict, thnt if that brute
stay*, 1 leave. It’s bad enough living with
a crazy man, without having a mcnageria.
I draw the line right here.”
"My dear, there i* not the slightest dan
ger. for you know I have the |>ower that
control* the wildest animal*, let me look
in the eye, and I can hypnotise it to do my
bidding. This fine fellow open** new world
of investigation before me. I will show a
power that can taiue the king of beast*, a
feat never yet performed. Hypnotism shall
conquer him."
'Martin, you couldn't hypnotize a cat—
you tried it and the cat had a fit from
fright and that'* all your hypnotic will ac
complished. Keep hold of the strap until I
get out of the room. I'gh! he looks as if ha
would like to eat me!” ami Mrs. Benedict
edged from th« room, closing the folding
doors after her.
Whether Mr. Benedict could hypnotize
the lion cub remained to be seen, but he did
hypnotize his wife into permitting him to
keep the great brute, but almost any wife
can tell how that is done. There is noth
ing occult about the method, |iersisu-nce and
blarney bringing the desired result. And
for once Mrs. Benedict was getting her re
venge without knowing it. Instead of Mr.
Benedict hypnotizing the lion it wus hypno
tizing him. He could not take his e.vea
from that cruel face, and it did really seem
an if hia own featurea were taking on the
expression of sleepy alertness and wicked
watchfulness expressed in the leonine fea
turea. He neglected every other pursuit to
feed and fondle his strange |>et. and when
he took hia walks abroad was shunned by
the townspeople, who fell over each ether
in their haste to get out of the lion's way.
The small boy followed at a respectful dis
tance, awed (or once by supetior faculties
'or destroying, and horses instinctively
shied aa they recognized an enemy from
the jungle. The animal keeper at the zoo
did not want the animal returned, and
Mr. Benedict dare not let it go at large.
He waa in cotnniumcation with several cir
rus managers, and hoped some of them
would come to the rescue before be himself
died of nervous prostration.
Mrs. Benedict, good woman, dad not
know anything of this. She had accepted
the cub as she would have accepted any
oilier fate, and made the best of it. When
her friends called, she saw to it that the
animal waa licked up, and she had been
to busy with her own fads of pickling and
preserving to make her home comfortable
that she had not luthered her head about
Martin's idiosyncratic* except once, and
the whole character of the woman showed
in that one action. It was not the first
time she had taken time by the forelock.
In a neighborhood where burglaiits were
imminent, Mrs. Benedict had supplied her
self with a revolver, every chamber of which
was loaded. This revolver traveled up and
downstairs with the basket of solid silver,
which was the joy of her housekeeping soul.
So that night or day that w eapon was w ithin
easy reach, for, as she naively said: “When
I need it I shall need it quick,” a man’a
phrase unadorned by unnecessary adjec
tive!.
erne aay nr. nenraict was sleeping on a
lounge in the library, when Mrs. Benedict
looked in to see if everything was right. The
cub lay at full length on the floor.*facing
him and watching Ilia slumbers. The ani
mal's immense paws, the claws of which
were always sheathed, gave such an idea
of repressed strength that even with her
dislike unabated Mrs. Benedict gave the
massive brute his meed of piaise. But she
did not care to attract hia attention, and
wondered how her husband could sleep un
der the baleful light of those green-gray
eyes. Then she closed the door and sat
down to some needlework in tbe next
room.
She was disturbed by • growl. It did not
reach the dimension of a roar, but sbe had
heard her husband say that when the cub
(fowled it would want meat, and then it
would be dangerous and must be shut up.
$hf waited a moment, another and deeper
growl. Why did not Martin speak to it?
Was he using his hypnotic influence*? She
ruse softly, reached her hand into the draw
er of the sideboard, took out the revolver
and opened the door of the library. And
this was what she saw. Mr Benedict lying
white and still on the lounge his hand hang
ing over the side, the blood dripping from
it as the eub licked it with horrible inten
sity, while the unfortunate man dared not
move an eyelash lest the savage brute hav
ing tasted blood should rend him limb front
limb. And tbe next moment the animal
crawled under the lounge with aix bullets
in his body, while Mrs. Benedict stood half
fainting by her husband. When a woman
■hoots she always shoots to kill.
Neither of the two are squeamish about
• fine rug with a mounted heed which
■domes the library, but while Mr Benedict
is proud of it as a trophy of hia wife's marks
manship, to her it represents tbe complete
deliverance of her husband from fade of
grotesque proportions that threatened to
wreck their happiness.—Chicago Record
Herald.
Bully Exytwined.
**I don’t see bow Jiblina, the knmoriat,
manages to write so many jokes for every
day publications.’’ “H'm! that’s the sim
plest thing in the world. Yon see, the
shrewd management pays him oB on Sat
urdays, and that tickles him so he feels
tunny nil the nest week.’’—BaHinore Mew*.
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Application.
1’. 8. Laud Office, Juneau, Alaska Mar. 7,1001
Notice I* hereby given that :
I, Carl N. Crary, of Valdez. Alaska,
assignee of Thompson (iardeuhJer, being etili-,
tl d to the benefit* of Section 23UG of the Revised
Matutea of the Cnited State*, graining addi
tional land* to Moldier* and sailor* who served
in the War of the Rebellion, do hereby apply
lo enter C\ 8. Survey No. 337, containing 10
iere* and more particularly described a* fol
lows, tow it:
Said survey No. 237 i* situated w ithin the
Valdez Recording District, I'rincc William
•ound, described by inete* and bouuds, course*
and distance*, a* fol.ow*:
beginning at Corner No. 1, which is 18.1U
• bain* N. 44 deg. E. from Corner No 1 of Valdez
townsite, and 1>.32 chain* N 41 deg. 3U min E
from the initial monument of C.s. Survey No.
!4*», thence N. 28 deg.33 min. W. lti.2T. chain* to
C* ruer No. 2; thence N. til deg. 27 min. E. H.HTi
chain* to Corner No 2; thence 8. 28 deg. 22 min.
E. 1«'*.2»> chains to Corner No. 4; thence S. ill deg.
27 mill. W. 0.85 chains to Corner No. 1. tin* place
of beginning. ( ontaiiiing Hi acre*. Variation
.8 deg. 57 min E.
A* additional to his original homestead on
the N. U of the NE'4 See > T I»i N R 28 W,
which he entered on the 27th day of January,
IHiV.i, per homestead entry No l*>7*» at the Cnited
State* Land office at Clarksville, Arkansas.
Notice U hereby given to any und all parties
claiming adversely any portion of the above
described tract, to tile with the Register of the
L’. S. f.aud Office at Juneau, Alaska, au adverse
daiui in accordance with law during the i**r
iod of publication or within 30 days thereafter.
CARL N. CRARY.
Assignee of Thompson Oardenhier.
1, John W Dudley, Register of the l*. S. Land
office, at Juueau, Alaska, do hereby order that
a copy of the Notice of Application of Soldier’*
Additional Homestead of Carl N. Crary, t\ S.
Survey No. 327, he published in the Alaska
I’rospectok, a weekly paper, published in Val
dez, Alaska, for a period of *ixty todays, or ten
to consecutive week*.
JOHN W. DCDLEY
Register
Coodellit Edwards, Attorneys 7
IS THE l*. S. COMMISSIONER'S COURT,
THIRD DIVISION, DISTRICT OK ALASKA.
COOK INLET PRECINCT.
A. K. Da vim, Plaiutiff, \
v*. S Summon*.
Fred Smith, Defendant.. >
You are hereby required to appear in an ac
tion brought against you hy the above named
Plaiutiff, in the United States Commissioner's
Court, for the Precinct of Cook Inlet, Third
Division, District of Alaska, at Sunrise to au
MWer before said Commissioner, at his office at
Sunrise, in said Precinct amt District, the com
plaint Hied therein, within thirty days-exclu
sive of the day of service—after the service on
you of this summons.
The said action ia brought to obtain judg
ment against you to recover the sum of $Ui>..Vi,
for work aud labor alleged to have been per
formed by plaintiff for you on >our mining
•-Uinis in the Sunrise Mining District, in said
Precinct and District, ax a laborer, between
the.'ilh day of April, ISwn. and the lstli day of
September. 11*10, aud costs of suit, ax more fully
appears by the complaint on Hie herein, a copy
of which is attached hereto.
Aud you are hereby notified that if you fail
to so appear and answer said complaint, as
above required, said plaintiff will take judg
ment against you for the sum of flu'i.&i, togeth
er with the costs.
Make legal service and due return hereof,
(iivcu uuder my hand and seal of the above
Court, this 2Htb day of November, 19U3.
II. 11. Hll DRETH,
U. S. Commissioner.
Coodei.l a Edwards. Attorneys for Plaintiff.
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