PUZZLING
By Grace E. Hall
How shall I keep
My love my own?
I have no charms
That are mine alone;
Others there be
Who are doubly fair,
With iheir peach-bloom cheeks
And sun-stained hair;
Eyes like pansies
And pouting lips
Touched with the dew
That the love-god sips;
How shall I battle
Against the foe
And keep my love?
I would like to know.
Over and over
I think and plan,
But I am woman
And he is man—
I cannot tell
What his views may be,
I only know
That he favors me.
I worry my heart,
But I praise all girls—
Their peach-hued cheeks
And their spun-gold curls;
Then he scoffs and says
With a lofty air;
“They’re vixens, all,
With their yellow hair!”
And I look surprised
(While my heart sings high),
“No, they are darlings!’ ’
Then say I;
And my blood runs wild
With a sweet delight
As he snatches me up
And holds me tight;
And I wonder anew
Why he loves me best
When I am plainer
Than all the rest!
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SELF-SEEKING POLITICIANS
The above phrase changes meaning
with the spokesman. When Stroller
uses it, it means those citizens who
are opposing the bi-partisan Demo
Republicans.
But do you remember, Stroller,
when you held down a soft snap of
a job and drew $5,000.00 a year from
this Territory? What did you do
for the money?
Your title wras “Publicity Manag
er” and the argument that got you
that piece of “easy money” wras that
Alaska needed the kind of advertis
ing which you could give her.
And during the time you were our
publicity manager, the population of
the whites decreased 25 per cent.
And you, Johnnie Troy, don’t you
mourn for the return of the day when
you could get all the printing jobs
from the court house and the gover
nor’s office without submitting a
bid?
Do you remember the time when
the Juneau Capital beat you out on
a job, and Gov. Riggs got mad, and
recalled the bid, on the theory that
the advertisement was irregular in
that a late was not specified when
the job must be completed.
And don’t you remember, the sec
ond time, you were the only bidder,
but your price was considerably low
er than the First price offered by
you ?
Tell us, was the difference in the
two prices pure graft? or did you
lower the price because you loved
your country so much that you want
ed Alaska to have the difference?
And do you remember how your
man would whisper to a certain re
presentative from the first division
and immediately he would switch his
vote from one side to the other.
And do you remember how you be
trayed Governor Strong, your bene
factor ?
There are worse crimes than il
furacy and ingratitude is the basest
of these. An ingrate is the lowest
trim in the English language. Even
‘ sheep-minds” must admit that much
TRAPS IN SCOTLAND
From Annual Report 1914 of Pro
ceeding’s by Board of Agriculture and
Fisheries of Great Britain—Docu
ment Cd. 8072.
Page XVI—With few and unim
portant exceptions all the fixed en
gines in the estuary and in the rivers
on the English side were abolished
in 1861.
Page XVI—Throughout Scotland,
ever since 1563 all fixed engines in
rivers and in the estuaries of rivers
were illegal except on the Scottish
side of the Solway exempted by the
Scots because so often it was in
British hands.
Sometimes, an Indian who pays the
$o tax to support the “white” schools
gets a rather foolish notion that he
has a right to send his own little
girl or boy to the “white” school,
hut he soon learns that his little
brown daughter or son is not wanted.
Only white children are entitled to
use the schools supported by the
money from the dirty Indians.
* * * *
We have heard that our Governor
from New York told the people of
Sitka and the American Legion that
he would see to it that no illiterate
Indian voted in Juneau.
* * * *
Has anybody heard our Governor
from New York saying that the Na
tive citizens of Alaska must have
better schools, schools at least equal
to the schools of the more favored
races ?
GEORGE COWAN
Watchmaker and Jeweler
Mail Orders Solicited
_Wrangell, Alaska_
CAPT. JINKS CO.
DRY GOODS, GROCERIES
The Fisherman’s Friend
WRANGELL
Wrangell Steam
Laundry
M. O. JOHNSON, Prop.
First Class Work
Telephone 28
SORSET’S MEAT
MARKET
ARNT SORSET, Prop.
Fine Meats and Fresh Fish
WRANGELL
THE BOSTON CAFE
H. SAITO, Prop.
Tasty Noodles and Chop Suey
WRANGELL
VIOLIN MAKER
and Repairer of Muiscal
Instruments
P. B. HOGAN
Ketchikan, Alaska
Newtown Laundry
GEORGE S. SATOW, Prop.
Cleaning and Pressing
Phone 221Ketchikan j
Alaska Home Bakery
132 Stedman Street
Ketchikan - - Alaska
C. E. REYNOLDS,
D. C. Ph. C.
Palmer Graduate
CHIROPRACTOR
Phone White 167
Gilmore Building_Ketchikan