TO NIGHT
ftMale for Graduating
Exercises at Elks' Hall
The following will be the program at
the graduating exercise* at Elks' hall
this evening: 9
Overture? "Goddess of Night,'....
Orchestra
Invocation
The Rev. J. VV. Glenk.
Kssay? "The Salton Sea, "...Ida Dillon
Essay- "Manual Training,''
Ethel Weate
Essay?- The Japanese School
Ouestion" Katharine Wright
Songe - Seventh and Eighth Grade*.
[a] "The Floweret."
lb] "Early to Bed "
[c } "Wah-Hoo Ah-Hoo."
Lssav? "The American Indians"
Frank Doree
Essay? "The Mineral Resources of
Alaska." Vera Wilson
Essay? "Territorial Government
for Alaska," Alma McBrien
Overture? Selection from "The Of
fice Boy." Orchestra
Essay? "The Value of of a High
School Education.'' Lily Doran
Es.-'ay? "The Future of Alaska."
Ethel Black j
Son* Mr. M. A. Snow
Essay? "Child Labor.". .Floyd Bigger
Essay?' ''The Ignorance in Regard
to Alaska." Sophia Roll
Songs? Seventh and Eight Grades.
(a| "Flow Geotl.v Sweet AftoD."
[b] "Robert of Lincoln."
lc| "Long May She Live Our
Skasway Fair."
Presentation of Certificates?
Rev. J. W. Glenk
Benediction Rev, J. W. Glenk
Overture? "Hance of the Song ...
Birds" Orchestra
There will be several pieces in the
orchestra which will be under the di
rection of E. M. Mclntyre.
The program will begin at 8:15
o'clock.
RMirrail Suti
All the seats ou the first door, except
two rows, will be reserved until 8:10
p. ra. for those who have tickets. All
the members of the graduating class
h?ve been given a certain number of
tickets for distribution among their re
latives and fr.ends, and the holders of
these can take any of the reserved
seats before the hour mentioned. After
that time all the seats in the hail will
be open to any one.
CORCORAN
IS PROMOTED
W. S. Corcoran, who his been assist- \
aut superintendent of the Alaska ?
Steamship Company and Its allied com
panies, has been appointed to the
position of superintendent of those
companies, a position formerly held by
Frank E. Buros, who is now treasurer
of the companies, and the right-hand
man of President Peabody.
Mr. Corcoran once was purser in the i
Alaska Steamship Company service and .
was afterwards ticket ageut at Seattle. I
CBEAM
Pura Rv*
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of old honest goods and reputation ! t
Sftascway Laaadry
For first-class work try Skagway
Laundry. Twenty-five vears' experi
ence. Telephone 89. f".
NOW'S TIME
If Yon] Want .a Baseball
EjC.\ct_ynick
Now is the accepted time to have
your eyes examined by a speaciaiist
and to have them fitted with glasses
that wilt give them a vision that is per
fect. The baseball season is about to
be with us againjand every eood citizen
will want to get onto the curves of the
knights of the diamo id. That will be
impossible it the eyesight is not per
fect. And then, the spring Is the
season of the year when repairs are in
order, when everything should be put
in first-class condition for active work.
We ex.iuiine eyes free of charge; we
use the latest ^appliances approved by
science, and we GU ARANTEE SATIS
FACTION.
Our jewelry store and our repair and
manufacturing department are the
best.
J. Ikutj, Optician ard Jewels
\ A Woman Collector
[Original.) ?
"The firm uame was Shlrls & Shlnn,"
said tie retired hardware dealer, "?nd
we didn't got un from the start I
had a good trade and was obliged to
be on the road moat of the time. This
left the buying to my partner. The
trouble was that he wasn't any kind of
? buyer. If a salesman came along
with a cock aud bull story about a
elck wife aud a dozen or, so starring
children Shlnn would buy a bill of
goods of hiin whether we wanted them
or "jot. The consequence was that ev
ery time I came in I found the stock
growing In spite of my efforts to re
duce It.
"Well, the result of It all was that
weeping drummers finally succeeded
In turning the store Into a Juuk shop,
and we had to quit Shlnn, as tie
should have done, offered to stand the
loss, giving up all the capital he'd put
in. acknowledging that the outcome
had been eutirelv lils fault. If I could
have closed up at ?uco bin money
would have !<eeti just enough to square
us, with no loss to me. but the very
day we closed aloug comes a one leg
ged commercial traveler he called him
self? consumptive, wheezing through
oue lung, and Shinn had to order a
$600 bill of him. We closed the order
out at atmut ?U) cents on the dollar,
making a deficiency of $187.42. This
Shinn agreed to pay as soon he was
j able.
"Shlnn was a bachelor and removed
from his rooms In :in apartment house
to a little slwnty. 1 sent a man around
to collect Uls indebtedness, but he eame
back empty handed. I sent another
with orders to be more persistent, and
he came back, reporting that the door
had been slammed In his face. I used
to set* SUinn occasionally on the street.
He looked morose and shabby. One
day I saw him give a quarter to a beg
gar. That made nie mud. If he had
money to give such nuisances he had It
to pay his honest debts. I hired a reg
ular lighting collector and sent him
round to Shiuu's shanty. He came
back with his head bandaged up. a
black eye and a swelled lip, to say
nothing of the loss of a suit of clothes.
"I hired several men lu succession to i
go and get into the house and stay
there till Shlnn came down with the I
funds. The llrst one that came back j
reported he'd been thrown out. the sec- 1
oud shared the saii'e fate and the third ,
and the fourth and so on likewise. ]
"Theu It occurred to nie that I'd send
a woman. You see, a man can't tight a
woman, and there never was a woman
yet that couldn't got the better of a
man If she wanted to. There was no
woman's collecting agency in the town,
so I told several friends of mine that
I'd give half the debt to any woman
who'd collect it.
"About a month after making the
?nnoancemont a young, good looking
woman came to see me and said she'd j
heard I wanted u debt collected of
Ptrcy Shinn. She didn't look like a
business womlin at all, but I concluded
to try her. So I gave her an order for
the money and started her out.
"It was 3 o'clock when she left me,
uml I waited with a good deal of anx- j
lety to learn how Shlnn would meet !
this uew enemy. 1 expected her back
In about an hour. Four o'clock came,
but uo collector ? 5, 0, 7, and she
didn't show up. Iu fact, she didn't
show up that night nor the nest day
nor the next nor the next. A week
passed, and 1 began to think Shinn bad
murdered her. Funny, wasn't it? Ev
er} man I'd seut had couiu back after
having been thrown out; the only wo
man I'd seut didn't come back at all.
"Then I fancied maybe the woman
had collected the money or a part of It
and gone off with It. At the same time
It occurred to me that I had stupidly
omitted to take her address. I con
cluded to notify the police and started
out to do so, but thought I'd take u
look on the way at Shlnu's house. So
I went a roundabout way and brought
up opposite the shanty. Somehow It
didn't look so tumbledown as before.
There were white liollaud shades In the
windows and a few dowers In the yard
In front.
"A woman came out of a house near
where I was standing, and I asked her
who lived In the house opposite. She
said. 'Mr. Shlnn.' 'Any one with him?'
'His wife." 'I didn't know he was
married.' 'He wasn't a short time
ago. There's a story conuected with
it Mr. Shlnn owed some old curmudg
eon some money and sent a young wo
man to collect It. She was real smart.
She told blm she was to get half the
amount collected: that she was the on
ly support of a widowed mother and
?even brothers and sisters. She gave
such a pitiful picture that Shlnn, who
had been n long while starvlug himself
to pay the debt and had Just saved the
last p?cuy. went ar ' got it and gave |
It to her. You see somebody had told
her what kind of ?? man Shinn was. J
She was so cut up by his lovable man
ner that she told him to keep the moa
ey for all her, and he said he would
keep It till his creditor came for It j
himself. It was one of the quickest i
matches I ever heard of. They only
knew each other a week before they
were married."
"This was the story glveu out Tears
?fter I heard the true one. The wo
man was an old sweetheart of Shlnn'u
who bad refused him. On hearing of
his condition she had gone, disguised,
ostensibly to collect the money.
Knowing his soft spot, she had mack)
op the yarn. Then she threw off her
disguise, and there was a circus.
"Yes, I got the money? every cool
due. I w?t for it myself."
HER BEET DOTJSliAH.
Eased ills Conscience.
In an ordinary restaurant, according
to the London Chronicle, a waiter was
surprised at belug asked one Friday
with Ireland's Inimitable smite fot
"dlvlled whale." "Is It filleted shark
that ye have, thin!" pursued the Irish
man on being refused this delicacy.
Again receiving a reply In the negative,
he tried once more. "Thin ye can bring
me some roasted porpoise," he aald
The waiter showed signs of becoming
restive, and Paddy sank back In his
seat anil heaved a sigh of contentment.
"I'll take some roast beef and vegeta
bles," he said cheerfully, "and sure
ye'll not be for saying that I didn't
ask ye for fish."
OrepluK Sail.
Here Is something lu the course ot
natu-*al phenomena that will Interest
and Instruct the little folk ft they look
Into It curiously: Into a tumbler half
full of water dissolve Just as much
common table salt as can be held In
solution. Let It stand for a few days
and see how tbe salt creeps out of the
water, up the Inside of the glass and
down the outside? Just like a tiling of
life trying to escape from Its environ
ment. And when all tbe salt Is ap
parently out of prison the water re
mains as salty as before! It Is a pretty
demonstration.
Lustiuff.
"This butter seems strong," said the
young husband at their first breakfust
at home.
"Yes," Bhe answered. "I talked to
the market man about that, and he
said It was economy In the end never
to buy weak butter. He said that even
though this might cost a little more
people could get along with less of It,
and It would last longer."
Slander.
Slander Is a poison which extin
guishes charity, both In the slanderer
and In the person who listens to It, so
that a single calumny may prove fatal
to an Infinite number of souls, since It
kills not only those who circulate It,
but also all those who do not reject
It.? Woman's Life.
Cornea Ems; For the Son.
A man can't fool his wife with the
same excuse more than three times,
but her son can fool her with the same
promise 300 times, and It will Dot
show the least signs of wear. -Cass
County (Mo.J News.
I'nsncceaaful Ftahlnjf.
Esmeralda- -This Is uiy latest photo
graph. What do you think of It!
Gwendolen? Let me have one, dear.
It's absolutely perfect. Esmernlda?
You mean, spiteful thing!? Chicago
Tribune.
Fun has no limits. It Is like tbe hu
man race and face. There Is a family
likeness among all the species, but th*y
ill differ.? llallburtoa
Companionship of book*.
Will you go aud gossip with your
housemaid or your stable boy when
you may talk with kings and queens,
while this eternal court Is open to you,
with Its society wldt* as tbe world,
multitudinous as Its days, tbe chosen
and the mighty of every place and
time? Into that you may enter always.
In that you may take fellowship and
rank according to your wish. From
that, once entered into It, you can nev
er be outcast but by your own fault
?John Ruskln.
Mislaid the Pudding.
Dinner was late, but when the mis
tress started to make a mild remon
strance the new maid was on time
with her excuse.
"Sure," she said, with an Irresistible
Irish smile as she placed the soup on
tie table, "sure, I mislaid the pudd'ng,
aud there 1 was hunting the bouse for
It, and where would it be aftber all but
In the oveut"
Shopping.
There Is nothing liner for tbe temper
than a new hat, uo balm for hurt, feel
lugs like a. fresh gewgaw. Orderlug
new frocks takes ft woman out of her
self. Cut a woman oft her shopping,
and the result may be disastrous? Lon
don World.
The Polish He Needed.
"I stopped down the street," said the
man who prided himself on being
blunt, "to get a polish on my shoes."
"Don't you think," asked his sarcas
tic companion, "that you began at tbe
wrong end?"? Baltimore American.
The Dame* and Britain.
John Ackworth. an English dialed
i novelist who made a special study of
tbe dialects of Lancashire, Yorkshire,
the east coasts aud also of the Danes,
alow a that the Danes by tbelr early
landings and sojourning* in England
hare influenced the language of th*
east coasts of Britain to an extraor>
dlnary degree and that the Danes and
the British, In spite of apparent dif
ferences, are one practically In speech
and language as well as in the rela
tionship of blood. "So strong is thi
English of the east coasts of England
impregnated with Danish," John Ack
worth once said, "that I am sure that
if a fisherman from the east coasts of
England were to be wrecked on the
shores of Denmark and he would only
speak In his true native dtalect thai
fisherman would be able to make him
ralf understood."
Hot Evenly Matohrd.
"Have you anything to say why aeiv
tence (houid not be pronounced upon
you?" asked tbe Judge.
"Notiiing, your honor, except that I
hope you will make allowances for the
fact that the lawyer who convicted me
had a louder voice than the one who
defended me."? Milwaukee Sentinel.
TO My Patrons:
I will be at my old place of busi
ness until further notice and pre
pared to give receipts to all those
who desire to pay their account.
MARTIN CONWAY
Skagway, May 11th, 1907.
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