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, ALASKA
By Ruffi James Woolverton
When I was a child of just aboutThree
I thought that Alaska was cold as could be.
Thought ’twas a land of ice and snow
Where nothing at all could,live or grow.
But now that Fm older, and know much more,
Fm ashamed to confess what I thought of yore.
For somehow or other, perhaps Twas fate,
Fve come here to live, and think it’s great!
Mighty mountains rise up from the sea
Like princes proud, snow-crowned and free,
Their sides are cloaked in purple and green
Girdled around with glacier-gleam.
About their peaks the clouds hang low—
While along the ridges and deep ravines,
Stretch miles and miles of ice-blue snow
Which in the spring-time melts and flows
In thunderous rushings to down-belows.
O’er pebbles and cobbles, sand and mud,
Roaring and rushing into a flood—
Cold as the glacier from which it came
Onward tumbling—never tame.
And running inland from the sea,
A wide road roams for you and me;
Leaving Seward, a sea-port town,
To skirt the mountains which on it frown.
Grasses tall and flowers fair
Nod and wave in bright clear air
Bordering the road and inviting you,dear,
To see what God has planted here—
(A regular Fairyland you’ll find,
As the roadway climbs and twists and winds.)
It follows the cliffs and icy streams
In which king-salmon and brook-trout gleam;
Through forests’ jungle-like green and gold
Where ferns and trees seem centuries old.
Giant ferns and aged pines,
Devils’ claws, and running vines—
Most of them grow berries red,
And mosses green hang o’er head.
Now and then, a sea-gull screams,
A black crow caws and flies unseen.
Reindeer and moose, sometimes a bear,
Come down from the mountain and find food there.
Of course we have horses and dogs for teams,
And a railroad, and ships, and strange tho’ it seems,
Cows, and their calves, way up on a hill,
In a dairy that has a red wind-mill.
Tennis, and golf,and what do you think?
The courts will soon be a skating rink!
I know that these things are bound to surprise
And a visit up here would open your eyes.
| HOMESTEAD FOR SALE CHEAP
$2000
Worth $5,000
Henry Coulliard Moose Pass
20 acres cleared; 7 acres under cultivation
Includes house and barn, cattle, three head of
horse, 200 chickens, impliments of all kinds; in
fact everything on the farm. i
160 ACRES PATENTED IN 1927
Reason: III health necessitates this sale
ON THE S. S. YUKON
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ter. Ralph T. Rivers, L. C. Me rravy,
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CORDOVA—Mrs. M. Thompson, W.
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mond, L. F. Rice, Ross J. Kinney, Eli
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MY OFFICIAL WIFE"
AT LIBERTY TONIGHT.
LOOKS, SOUNDS GOOD
“My Official Wife,” the melodramat
ic picture, which comes to the Liberty
theatre tonight is the first American
production to be made by Paul Stein,
the Austrian director, ttho was im
porter to this country by Warner Bros,
and wrho has been hailed as a second
Lubitsch.
The story he hats (handled deals
with Petrograd $nd Vienna before the
war. Helene, Countess Orloff, is af
fianced to Ivan, a Russian nobleman,
and they have an engagement to go
to a masquerade ball together. Ivan
however, has mixed his dates, and he
finds it more important to his happi-;*
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ness to keep an engagement for thatii
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evening with a notorious demi-mon- ^»
daine. As a result, Helene, who is]*
wearing a peasant costume, decides to j*
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go to the ball alone.
Her peasant disguise and her dis
tinguished beauty take the eye of six;
roystering young nobles, who force;
her to accompany them to a wayside :
inn. There, is a riotous orgy, they
cast lots for her, and she is won by a
Grand Duke’s son, named Alexander.
She escapes at dawn and at home
confesses her humiliation to her fath
er and Ivan. They are furious and '
Ivan breaks his engagement. Helene
swears revenge upon her betrayer,
and the sensational story that de
from the road to Siberia, to the gay;
cafes of Vienna, and back* thru the j
turmoil of post-war Russia.
Irene Rich, who embarked upon aj
career of playing gay Continental J
ladies when she scored her big sue-;
cess as the erring mother in “Lady:
Windermere’s Fan’’, has a vividly pic
turesque role as Helene, and she acts
it up to the hilt. Conway Tearle adds
another excellent portrait to his long
gallery of screen heroes, as the gay
and festive Alexander. Jane Winton
is cast as the lady of the half-world,
who toys with his affections; Gustav
von Seyffertitz as the Grand Duke;
Stewart Holmes as Ivan; Emil Chaut
ard as Count Orloff, and John Miljan,
as Nicholas, one of the roystering
noblemen.
Frye-Bruhn’s Baby Beef
celled.
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See our ad. Seward Trad
ing Co.
LIBERTY
THEATER
8 O’CLOCK — ONE SHOW — 3 O’CLOCK
V
This great cast
IRENE RICH—CONWAY TEARLE— JANE
WINTON —GUSTAV von SEYFFERTITZ
and STUART HOLMES
In the great Russian drama
“ My Official Wife ”
A BIG 8—REEL FEATURE
A drama t>f mad gaiety and seething intensity.
The story of a Russian exile who posed as her
betrayers wife to accomplish her revenge.
COSSACKS— NIHILISTS— SPORTING ARIS
TOCRATS— BEAUTIFUL GIRLS— VODKA
AUSTRIAN DANCES
The whirl of Russian and Austrian life on the
brink of the war
A play of the Class who have no strong morals. A young and
beautiful Countess, mistaken for a peasant, is abducted by six
young nobles and made their plaything.
A STRONG PLAY OF MEN’S PASSION AND
A GIRL’S REVENGE
Staged in beautiful Russian and Austrian sets
AND AN INTERESTING PATHE
NOTE: We are informed this play is rather raw for youthful
diet and therefore ADVISE keeping children under 16 years
away, but we will NOT REFUSE them admittance if they come.
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Next to the Overland Hotel
Open Day and Night
Private Boxes
Gabriel Santos Proprietor and Chef
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like an arrow from a bow
Buick for 1928 gets away in traffic like
an arrow from a*bow!
Watch the Buicks next time you drive
downtown. See how easily they step out
in front when the signal changes. And
note how they give other cars the slip
in the friendly rivalry of traffic.
You cannot say you know the full
meaning of “performance” until you’ve
driven a Buick for 1928.
BUICK MOTOR COMPANY, FLINT, MICH.
Division of General Motors Corporation
BUIOOI928
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