crib Flour
Trea dwell strikers Ob'eet
to Stomach Trettment
The strikers at Treadwell are not
out contending over a matter of wages
so much as fot better board acd the
privilege of boarding where they
desire. They object to the kind of food
that is served to them and ask that
the steward be discharged an. I that
those who do not board at the company
house be given a greater allowance I
than now received on that account.
The present arrangement is that
married men can board at home instead
of the company boardicg house and
they are allowed $20 per month
additional wages for boarding them
salve*. The single men are compelled j
to board at the company house.
7he strikers ask that they be allowed
to board where they please irrespective
of (whether thsy are married or not
and that tho?e who board themselves
be allowed t> per day extra ?ages.
To this tirst cause of the strike is
now added a demand by the strikers
that the union be recognized.
Supertendent Kinzle has refused to
treat w>th the men as union men, or
to consider any of their grievances
other than the request to discharge the
steward
SUN04V CAMPERS
CAUSE tXCIFEMENI
A dozen or so people, beot on a Sun
cay recreation, came near causing a
? ampede to Dyea Saturday evening
and yesterday. Four or five people
left Skagw*y Saturdnv evening for the
deatrted village across the inlet. I
While they said little they did not get
away so quietly but teat it was known
before dark that they haa purchas- d
prospectors'p:ck9 and had taken a camp
ing outfit. Yesterday morning, bright
and early, according to a prearranged
plan, a ha..' dozen others took the Hegg
and left for the c<cp at the southren
terminus of the old Chilkoot route. *
That settled it. A strike had b;en
made, and there was more or less
smothered excitraent about town all
day. Some people, even yet. refuse to ?
believe the statement that a few people
who have spent manySund<ys hovering
over hot coal tires had taken advantage
of the first warm Sunday of Spring to
try their legs and wings in the country.
I he excursionists were C. C. Ruoner,
M.S. Whittier, M.A. Sno*. Mr. Littler.
B. Derbyshire, C. H Schtffle.-, G. C,
Lawrence. L.H. Bayiass. A.Manshreck,
and W. R. Biliary.
HAhES WliL
HAVE GOOD YEAR
R. M Odell, the veteran merchant of
Haines and one of the leading citizens '
of Lynn canal, who was in Skagwuy '
Saturday, thinks the coming year trill
be a go d one for Haines. Hi> says the j
new owners of the Porcupine placer i
properties will worn them extensively
and more activity Is expected in the
Raioy Hollow and other mining
districts than usual.
Mr. Odell says Mr. Harvey and Lis
associates, who h?ve purchased the
interest* of the Porcupine Trading
Company have already sent some men !
ioto the mines and that they will send
mor? later iu the season. They are
moving tneir supplies .up the Cbilkat
now.
Mr. Odell returned to Haines on the
Humboldt.
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Spring should be thj cleaning season
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The MINISTER S
SURPRISE
...?By...
K_athcrine younii Thajcter
Copyright. 1900, by iJ. Ea?im#ut
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The Kev. Calvin Morris was quite an
noyed.
He was in anything but a ministerial
mood when he tossed his hat on the
table amid the co-ifusion of books aud
papers aud sat down in his study to
think it over. It was such a ridiculous
situation that at tirst he had been mild
ly amused at it. but uow? pshaw! Why
couldn't he ignore it?
But it had passed the stage when
It could be Ignored. In the past three <
days he had been told five times that .
his congregation would like very much
to see him married. Nor had these re- !
marks been the half jocular words on |
bis bachelor condition that he had of- |
ten heard since coming to the church i
at Littleton, but had beeu earnest
words of advice expressed by the most
prominent members of his Book.
He was popular in the parish, and
his two years' pastorate had beeu pro
ductive of good results, but there had
beeu one thing lacking.
Accustomed for years l>efore his ad
Tent to the service of a most devoted
minister and his able wife whose home
had been the center for a vigorous
church life, the people simply could
not get used to a minister iu a board
ing house. Besides, there stood the
tine new parsonage empty. Certainly
it was his duty to live up to the de
mauds of his people. When Miss (fil
bert, the wealthy maiden lady who had
contributed <o much to the church,
both iu motley and good deeds, died
two years aso the parsonage she was
building for the church was not <iuite
finished.
The' Kev. Calvin Morris knew he
would use it in time In leed. all un
knowu to his people, va: e plans had
beeu floating through the minister's
head for soaie mouths, and he had fre
quently looked very retie, < ively at the
quiet house beside the cli ch.
But the real vexing disiiuietiug
point of the whole matter wis that the
he should marry, but :?i ireutlv had
tixed ou win-in lie sluilld marry. Thi>
was assured the tusilit lie ? '??. tea with
Mrs. Thorpe, one ? f the nm-t active
ladies in his church. ?!? mi the chief
topic of conversation was Miss Nell
Gilbert.
Now, Mr. Morris bad l-ikeu a most
unreasonable and imtniuNterial dislike
to Miss Gilbert, a member of his
church whom he had never seen. She
was the niece of the great Miss Gil
bert and had lived with her aunt until
the latter'- death, when the great
house on the hill had been elosed.
Since then the young lady had travel
ed. so the tt. ulster had never seen h -r.
He had heard a great deal of her.
thouch. and had formed au impression
of a person of undoubted energy and
ability, accustomed to have things just
as she wanted and inclined to be dom
ineering.' "Miss Nell" had ideas of her
own ou church music. "M;ss Neil" had
designed this and had attended to that
It seemed to the miuisiter there was a
little too much of "Miss Nell" every
where.
Tail atul muscular ana aggressive
biuis-if. accustomed to shouldering
bunlem: mil clearing difficulties. the
liev. Calvin li.nl if course, an Ideal of
feuiiuinc grace very different from his
own vigorous personality, Indeed. as
be sat thinking in his study that morn
ing a smile rose to the tirm lips aud
softened I bo austere lilies into which
he had framed tliem as he saw In his
rnlud's eye a |>etite. graceful form,
soft, appealing dark eyes and masses
of cloudy tirnv'ii hair. Alas for the
plans of tlie p<-n>le who h ;?! made up
their minds that "Miss Nell" and the
minister would !>?? an eminently well
fitted pair.
But the \ -i-'ii t ided quickly, and
the many hints that had been dropped
during the last few days Hashed In
rapid succession through his uiind.
"Miss Nell" w.is coieiug home next
week. lie would l>e thrown at her
head and she at his by his well mean
lug tlocU until something happened.
Oh. lie well knew how it would be
done. The opportunities a congrega
tion possesses for annoying its minis
ter and making him do things he does
not want to do are legion, lie suppos
ed every lady of the aid society had
planned some function to which he
must go and meet "Miss Nell," The
minister groaned. Already the sub
ject bad assumed alarming propor
tions. He could not. he would not
stay round and be made a football of.
to he tossed into any won ui's arras.
Again came uubiddeu that alluring
vision of brown hair and eloquent
eyes. It was preposterous How could
tbey badger him now. jus; as his heart
was beating more madh ever? day
for some one'.- Ah. if I. ? were ouly
jure! Did that friendsli >. farmed a
few sh irt months ago. th : soul satis
fying friendship, mean )? the girl of
the vision v.-bat it bad ne to mean
to him? Could he. dare e, offer her
his love? He had been living since
then In a beautiful Tiream. Suppose
that dream should be fuili.ied?
He hesitated. Dreaming had been
so sweet be feared the awakening.
Dare he risk "the last leaf?" With a
bound he sprang to his feet. He coTild
and he would. He would please him
self In the choice of a wife anyway,
and, if fortune favored him, give bis
officious congregation a surprise and a
sharp lesson.
A shtrt phone message to a neigh
boring town secured a supply for nest
Sunday's pulpit. "Urgent buslcess out
of town" was the message left for ttis
cliurcli officers, *nd the minister found
himself ou the train bound for the
east and the "vlslou."
The minister's wooing was brief and
blunt, but Miss Helen Atwater was
not very much taken by surprise. The
acquaintance begun In Scotland the
previous summer had ripened fast on
shipboard on the return passage nud
been brought to fruition by some
months of correspondence. She even
consented to a speedy marriage, and
as she was living with a married
cousin In Boston the minister took his
bride from there ten days from the
day he left Littleton.
But the blissful days of his honey
moon failed to blot out entirely the re
membrance of his church and his work
and his people. True, In the tumult of
happiness that bad possessed him since
that day when their clumsy Interfer
ence had driven him," actually driven
him, Into the Joy that was now his be
had almost forgotten their plans for
him, but now it all came back to him
and he realized that he did owe them
something, for who knows how long
he would have doubted and feared had
not the terror of "Miss Nell" been
upon him?
Suddenly the minister laughed aloud.
It was all so funny to him now. Mrs.
Morris, sitting beside her husband, was
astonished at bis mirth and looked it.
"Well, dearest. I know you'll think
me crazy, but it is really too good to
keep. You didn't know that 1 asked
you to marry nie so as to prevent my
congregation marrying me to some one
else, did you?" And out came the
whole story, his mental picture of
"Miss Nell" and all.
"You know," be coucluded, "I never
for a moment thought of her side of it.
I was concerned for my own safety.
What in the world a woman like her.
with money and property nud Uie
world at her feet, would want with a
poor struggling minister 1 can't cou- '
ceive. But I had beard so much of her
and the people so evidently had set
their minds ou It. 1 tell you I was in a j
regular funk over it. It drove me to
put my timid hopes to the test for you,
sweetheart."
There was a peculiar smile hovering
around Mrs. Morris' lips, and for a
minute or two she said nothing.
"What Is it. dear?" asked the minis
ter anxiously. "You are not vexed, are
you
"N-no." hesitatingly, "not exactly,
but I am just thinking how beautifully
you have played into your congrega
tion's bands, for. do you know, Calvin,
you have really and truly married that
domiueeriug person, 'Miss Nell." "
"Married "Miss Nell!' " repented the
minister blankly, staring at his wife's
flushed, laughing face.
"Yes. truly. 1 atn Helen Gilbert At
water. called "Miss Nell' at the old home
in Littleton. Listen, dear. 1 had no
thought of deceiving you at first I did
not kuow you were in the church at
Littleton till we reached New York ou
our voyage home. You kuow we were
pivttv well acquainted then, but I?
neither of us knew our own heart. I
often intended to tell you in a letter,
but somehow I couldn't. I felt that if
you knew it might make a difference.
You were poor, comparatively. I had
all that money auJ property. And?
and 1 loved you. dear, too much then
to have you leave me.
"Then at the end you took me by
storm. I have been too happy to talk
of anything like that, and I had been
waiting till you would say something
of your work to tell you all about my
self."
"But. m.v dear, why At water/ 11
was always Miss Nell Gilbert." The
minister was still bewildered.
"Yes, my aunt dl?l not like my father,
the man whom her young sister mar
ried. and never mentioned bis name.
"I was always called Gilbert at
home, but of course I bad no reason
for discarding my name. There are
plenty of people In Littleton who know
my real name, but never used It. for I
was but a baby when I went to live
with my aunt after tny father's death.
Really, dear, you needn't be alarmed.
I am not half as bad as I was painted.
I won't try to run the church or man
age the organist or? or"?
"Or any one except the minister,"
finished tier husband. "Well, the sur
prise is certainly on me, but I must get
even with those people some way."
The news of the minister's marriage
spread like wildfire through the town.
He bad sent u laconic message to one
of his church officers to the effect that
he had been married in Boston and
would occupy bis pulpit the following
Sunday. That was all. Married, after
all, and none of his congregation knew
a word about It. Who was she? No
body knew. Conjecture was rife on
every point and one version after an
other of the story of his wedding found
quick credence. Some of the older
members of his flock were thunder
struck. To think that Mr. Morris should
trick them like that and be engaged all
the time. They had Just set their
hearts on his marrying "Miss Nell."
whom everybody knew and loved.
They were accustomed to "Miss Nell"
and her ways. But a stranger to steal
their beloved minister!
All week long the tongues wagged
Incessantly over the minister and his
bride, but at Saturday midnight no one
had seen either of theni. The church
was packed Sunday morning. The bells
had ceased ringing, and only a few late
comers saw the Gilbert carriage drive
up to the dor and the minister and a
lady alight f-om it.
Straight v> the middle aisle ho led
her. sweet P-i.d demure looking, while
fhe orirm pHyed softly and the silence
of the .'hurt-; could be felt. At the Gil
bert pew he left her, and the congrega
tion had a sx>d view of the sweet facte
framed In t-ie masses of soft brow#
hair. Mrs. Thorpe almost Jumped out
of her seat. It was none other than
"Miss Noll." Glance followed glance
?U over the church. The minister cer
tain!/ had surprised his congregation.
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SPECIAL SALE in Men Overcoats
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SPECIAL SALE in dress goods and I
fancy trimmings. We must make J
room for our Spring lines.
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