Schneider’s Appeal for Alaska.
Mu. Prospector.—Dot time dat
der mass meeding no send liulitical
candidates to Juneau make me
mad, und I say hodings more. But
now to-duy,tliis July fourth arous
es mine love of country, und I vail
haf somedings to say.
1 haf read mack aboud der terri
torial government racket, und as a
citizen of Alaska vant to give my
opinion. In der faderland dey call
ed me an anarchist, but. here I vas
an American citizen L loaded down
mit God-given rights. I am full
mit patriotsm, und I dink der gov
ernment is von tyrant und a great
grafter after the riches of Alaska.
I am a prospector; I bring me
here in der steamer Excelsior; I go
von trip in dcr Newport, as first
assistant steward, clear to Dutch
Harbor und back; I bin up in der
Mineral creek, but I dink der snow
up there look just like der snow in
dcr llarU mountains, Switzerland.
Von day in Al. White's I speak
mit Pete Monahan und Jim McHic
und anoder time I see Kobt. Blei
on dcr street—oh, I am a prospect
or of Alaska.
Oh, dat congress vas a bad one!
I haf nodings to say aboud vat dey
do do, because dey do much vat is
good; but it is vat dey don’t do
und won’t do dat I must kick aboud
yust like all der rest of der grafters
dat vant changes so as to make
chances und pickings. Dat’s vat
is der matter.
Not only congress but nil branch
es of der government wrong und
swindle Alaska und its noble, self
sacrificing citizens. Der latest dia
bolical scheme exposed is der con
tract for der cable office. We here
haf bin ignored und robin*! of our
God-given rights, und von of our
great home industries vas given a
bad black eye. Dey von’t give us
der contract und dey say our lum
ber vas no good. Dat vas nit
business. Vat right has dis up
start signal corps to say und do
such dings? Who vas dey anyhow?
Dis makes my blood boil. Now,
as an Alaskan eitizsn, as a hard
mushing prospector, I appeal to all
who roar for a change to rise up
und sit down on thiB upstart signal
coriie; let us organize a league, as
sert our God-given rights und defy
everybody. Dat is der only vay
ve vill get anydings. Und ve all ^
vant somedings, pretty bad.
Schneider.
P.S.—Don\l let der Valdei News
get dis letter, for dat editor Till use
it as a leading editorial, sure, be- \
cause it is so full of coherent wis
dom und bubbling patriotism.
Can’t Cope With Crowds.
Mr. Cope, postmaster at Kodiak,
left this spring to visit the fair and
also to take a trip to Europe. He
was met at the fair ground early in
June, when he signified his inten
tion of returning immediately to
Alaska and forego the trip across
the Atlantic, lie found that the
states were too crowded for his com
fort and he had about enough of it,
hence his desire to return to more
congenial surroundings.
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Slate Creek News.
Jr»E 11.—The roW weather has
been continuous, therefore we have
had but very little water in Slate
creek, and practically none in Mil
ler gulch; there were one or two
warm days which raised the water j
sufficiently to ground sluice.
On Hale tin* ground is froze to
bedrock arid places on Miller gulch
are solid ice, so it seems that the
season will l»c short, as most of the
claims cannot l>egin until late. On
the Four Black Dogs there is fifteen
feet of frost. To-day the Clifornia
claim is the only one that is sluic
ing, and Han berg ground sluicing.
It is rumored that the Tacoma
has purchased the water rights of
Bartlett <fc Newcomb and will soon
begin work.
A man was scon the other day
with a bucket in his hand intently
searching in the creek bed in Mil
ler gulch, uj»nn ln-ing asked what
lie was looking for, lie simply re
plied—water.
Xiel Uohcson’s (log, Jim, was
mistaken for a wolf and shot, while
digging ont a squirrel the other
day.
Wells a short time ago received
a slight cut in the leg, blood pois
oning was soon in evidence, and
before it could be checked the limb
was frightfully swollen, lie is im
proving now and soon will be able
to use it.
Crittenden - arrived to-day with
hit pack train, being the first con
signment of freight which he is
bringing in for different parties.
Xiel Corrigan arrived several
days ago with pack train, the first
from tlio freight stranded at Tal
sona.
Following are the names of those
located on Whitehorse creek by
Garrett & Jacobson;
No. 1, Wm. Dobbin.
No. 2, Jim Garrett.
No. 3, Shelley, the packer.
No. 4, Frank Leslie.
No. 5, — Thomas.
No. 6, Jake Jacobson.
No. 7, Chas. Kracmer. •
No. 10, Jim Dogget, Dooley and
Davidson.
No. 11, Hebe Smith and John
Hansen.
No. 15, J. G. Bartlett.
No. 17, Norval.
No. 18, Jim Baker and Frank Aus
tin.
No. 20, Sam Miller, Niel Robe
son and Myers.
No. 24, Swanson and J. Nelson.
E. W. M.
Mr. Lulu-lie, formerly of the Lion |
clothing store of Valdez, having i
purcliased the three mummies that
were on exhibition at Kllamar,
brought them to St. Louis for ex
hibit, and at hist rei>orts they were
not placed though he could very
radily have found a purchaser.
Free sample to agents. Practi
cal ready call device for telephones
Saves bruin work and hours of time.
Sells itself. One sale sells dozens.
Seeing is believing. Send stamp, j
The Telephone Appliance Co., One
Madison Ave., Dept. F. A. D., New
York City.
For Sale on Installment Plan,
two 3-room cottages, good location.
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HEALTH TO THE FIGHTING MAN.
A health to the lighting man I The ana
with a red gltnr In hie eys—
A glint that glows to a tender gltam for the
old flag In the sky.
Td the man who dares—and the man wfca
cares for the good old U. 8 A..
Who bears the brunt In the battle frontaad
hurriee to the fray
A health to him—our soldier grim—with the
warllght In Ms eye.
Who tunes his life to the shrilling life sag
knows the way to die.
A health t» the lighting man! The man all
Innocent of sham.
Who pays the due of a loyal heart at ths
shrine of Uncle Bern;
Who bears our load on the weary road Chat
lead* to a distant peace.
And aaka no ha.t till he line* the fault, and
the roar* of cannon oenae;
May the throb and thrum of the rolling
drum be promise to hi* ears
Of the Joyous day when he'll come away ta
hear a nation’s cheers.
A health to theflgMIng man! The man with
Impulse clean and clear;
Wo hold him light as a gallant knight
without reproach or frar.
When the bugle sir gw and the* bullet rings
are! the s.ibcr flashes bright.
May he feed the aid of the prayers prayed to
guard him In the fight;
May good luck ride on either ride and saws
him for the grasp
Of the friendly hand In hla native Mad
that's yearning for the clasp.
—Josh Wink, In IkUtlmor* American. 1
A Cluster of
V iolets ^ ^
By ELLA S. WITHEHILL.
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Laurence mayhew was the
quietest of nil the traveling men
Connected with the iirin of Knight,
I'.iwent & Co. the most jirosalc. un
si ntimcntal, mnttcr-of-foct fellow
one would And In a month's search.
4*o when Horace Worth, another
drummer for the mmo house—one
n.w, chilly duy in March, chanced, to
si:-|>inti• Frantz. Karter's. the florist's.
Just in time to hear Mr. Mayhew say:
“.Tow. Mr. Karter, do not. fail to get
tl e violets olf liy to-day's express.
Sumo address ns usual, you have It, I
suppose. And here, put this card in
tl e box; my train leaves In IS mln
u es, or I would stay until you got
tl jm (lacked,” and when Worth uccl
di ntally saw that the can! bore the
If, icription: "To my darling, with a
heart's best love—Laurence,” to put
It mildly, he was astonished.
'"Hello, old fellow,” said lie, “seiWW
Ing violets to your i>cst girl, eh?”
“Yes, I thought they would surely
be appreciated such a dismal day aa
this.”
“Well, you are the last man T would
ever suspect of being guilty of failing
In love; a confirmed old bachelor like
you, with plenty of gruy hairs, llut
they say when a man of 40 or over
dues get hit with Cupid's arrow he to
bit hard.”
"At any rate," laughed Mayhew, “la
this instance I confess it is true, I am
*hit linrd,’ as you say, and my ‘best
girl' is the dearest girl on earth," and
he liastcned away to the depot, where
his sample ease hnd preceded him.
Worth had only entered the employ
of Knight, Powers & Co. six months
before, but during tbe time lie had
met Mayhew severnl times and had
liked him from the first, mentally
dubbing him a good fellow, with a
been sense of humor, ready to take
or give a joke in ills quiet way, but
seldom entering into the story-telling
of his brother knights of the grip,
when—as was occasionally the case
some of them met at the end of their
several trips; and he hnd never been
heard to boast of the pretty girls he
had met, or flirted with, as some of
the others were wout to do. So the
above incident impressed itself upon
the memory of Horace Worth, who,
although a voluble, easy-going man,
was kind henrted almost to a fault,
ami possessed of. a strict sense of
honor.
Two months Inter Mr. Worth hap
pened to be spending Sunday ot a
■mall town some 30 miles out from
the eity. Saturday evening the la
dies of one of the churches were
serving iee cream ami strawberries in
a ball near the hotel where Worth
was Stopping, and to while away ua
Idle hour us much as to help In a
good cause, he strolled in about nine
o’clock, ami took a sent at one of tho
tables.
A bright little woman cnnieforward
to serve hint, and he instinctively
noted her plain, but attractive face, lit
up by large gray eyes, and crowned
with a wealth of hair, once dark
brown, but now thickly threaded
with silver. The rush of the earlier
part of the evening being over, he
was the only one at that tabic, while
disposing of the daintily served re
freshments the little woman brought
in response to his request; so, seeing
that he was a stranger in town, and
seemed to know no one, she remained
by the table pleasantly chatting in a
manner that showed her to be a lady
In every sense of the word.
noon some one cnlled, .“Oh, Mrs.
Mayhew, please come here a minute,”
and saying “Excuse me,” she has
tened away.
Five initiates later she returned.
Mr. Worth not yet having paid for
his refreshments. As he handed her
the amount he said: “I'ardon me, but
I beard your name called, and it is a
familiar one to ms, ns another trav
eling man with the firm I represent
bears it, Mr. Laurence Mayhew. la he
• relative of yours?”
Quickly smiling, ahe said: “Oh, do
you know Laurence? Why, he is my
husband. I am glad, sir to meat n
friend of his; may I ask your name?”
“Horace Worth, at your service,”
replied he, bowing, “but you surprise
tne. I did not know that Mr. Mnyhsw
had married; may I Inquire how long
since the happy event took place?"
“Did not know that Laurence was
married? That in strange," laughed
«h«i “*et perhaps not Strangs, eitbsc
for he 1* »o reticent regarding hie
awn affairs. Why, we hare been mar
ried 15 years, though were it not for i
my non ami daughter, both of whom
will noon lie as tall an I am, I could
hardly realise R had been so long by
hnlf,” and again she laughed mer
rily.
It was with difficulty that Ilorace
restrained hin astonishment, and as
the scene st the florist's two months
before flnshed across hin mind, his in*
dignntion knew no bounds, llut by
an effort he quietly made a few more
comihonplnre remarks, hade her good
night and returned to the hotel.
"The icon norm I thought he, to
he untrue to iuch a fine little woman
no that, anil the mother of his chil
dren, too, just because he has been »V
tracteil by the pretty face of some
young girl, while his wife's hair is
gray, like hia own! 1 feel like shoot
ing him!"
lie sought hi* room and bed, but it
was nearly dawn before sleep visited
bis eyelids, so wrought up wns he
over his discovery of the evening, lie
felt he ought to wnrn her, the poor
little, unsuspecting, wronged wife,
end yet he dreaded to be the exeeu
( incr of the love anil trust with
which her fnce wns radiant while
s)>cnking of her husband. At length
lie dropped into a troubled sleep, to
dream that Mrs. Mnyliew. pale-faced
and wan, stood by his side piteously
•uying:
“till, why didn’t you tell me? If
you had it might have Iwen in time
1 >r me to bnve led him back out of
the snares ti nt wicked girl laid for
him. Anil now—he is gone, gone, and
my heart is broken!”
i*nte in trio morning ho awoke,
more improved than ever that it was
his duty to warn the **\ nged wife,
di-.agreeable though it might he. So
ho secured writing material, ami
n? er do: troving sheet after sheet of
poper, he finally compose*! a not** in
which lie told her, in as gentle a man
ner as possible, of the epis< de at the
florist’*, and dosed l»y begging her
not to think ill of him for being the
lx nrer of gtich news, as he very
gi ally regretted the necessity he
felt he was under to warn her, and
expressing the hope that with her
knowledge of the affair, an IntlimneC
might ! e brought to hear that would
eov.iu«rac?t any evil toil: into v.-l mb
her husband hud—probably uncon
sciously fallen. nivl that hnppine s
might once again be In rs. This note
he di**.pr tr.hed by the lx'11 boy, about
the time he judgod she might have
returned from church. A half hour
later a white Indus ure was handed in
at his door, lie tore It open and
read:
"Mr. Horace Worth—Dear Sir: To rar
tha» I wa* am ixr<3 at tha content* i f yom
no*, falls fsr .-.hor: of xpr^**in#f my !«<>!•
i ‘nK> If not asking !r*i> much r*l ycr. w!'
you .5**.«» 0.1 H at my home at four o'clock
| tfci* ::.t* iii.mr? 1 Hppr. elate youi ir.U i.< C.
Kii cr«v I rtferv* *.ik to **y to you in
pfcrvon. Sincerely your*.
"A'lATHA MATHEW."
The wrIMnif 1 kwj:ik of f.j»5*n«
tior. and It 'vii* wl'ii q-dcldv in-.
hen-* tlint Mr. \Y -r'~ prr onte 1 hi- -
j self at Mrs. Mayhcw's door. at «' <>
nppointnl hour, lie was admitted I y
the mah- -inil shown Into the prr'or,
where he was at one a join <i by Mrs.
Mathew. The pallid face and stvoli.-n
eyes, for which he was prepared,
were absent. Instead she greeted him
with smiling countenance.
“Mr. Worth,** said she, “I sunt for
you, not—ns you probably supposed
to question you fnrther concerning
my dear husband, but to free your
mind front the unjust charges which
1 give you the credit of honestly be
lieving. At first I was angry over
your intimntion, but I itelieve you to
be a gentleman, nnd that you took
the course that you (till front a sense
of duty. Fifteen years ago the 2oth
of last March we were married. On
that never-to-be-forgotten day, I
wore a bunch of violets, nnd' the
table where the simple lunehcon was
Hgreuu WHS nccorntcil with the same.
Since that day, the 2<>th of March
has never failed to bring from iny
dcar, thoughtful husband, a fragrant
cluster of violets; and two months
ago, as usual, when he is absent at
that time, there came by express a
box of the sweet flowers, containing
this card.” and she held out the well
remembered bit of hristol hoard, on
which was written, “To my darling,
with a heart's best love—Laurence.”
"The next mail." continued she,
“brought his usual daily letter. In
which he told the joke of your suji
posing he was a bachelor, how you
asked If he was sending flowers to
his best girl, and of his reply. That
is just like Laurence, to have a little
quiet fun at your expense, by never
correcting your erroneous supposi
tion. I hope you will forgive him
for it, just as I have forgiven you
for your slanderous thoughts of my
husband.” and she smilingly ex
tended her hand.
Just how Mr. Worth mnnnged to
take her hand and bow over It, stam
mer out Ids sincere apologies, ami
get out Into the street, he never
could clearly remember. Hut it is a
fact that when he Anally found ref
uge in his room at the hotel, he feel
ingly remarked to himself:
“I wish I had three feet, so T
could stand on two of them, and
kick myself with the other 1”—Lum
ber He view. •
■•w ta Avoid Trooblat
A young cock law a weathercock on
top of the house, and, thinking him a
rival, began crowing fiercely.
“If you keep on making a noise like
that,” said the old bird, “they’ll wring
your neck for you.”
The young cock looked thoughtful.
“Take example by me. I’ve got along
and have been looked up to for half
a century by simply keeping my biH
shut and turning with the wind.”
The moral is obvious.—Philadelphia
North American.
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