GOOD ADVICE
Wisconsin Congrssman Talk
to Norwegians
Special Dispatch to Daily Alaskan.)
Chicago, May I?? Congressman Nel
son, of Wisconsin, delivered a speech at
a banquet aoU celebration of Norway's
national ho'idiy last night in this city.
He urged the Norwegians in the United
States to show their appreciation of
their adopted country by being good
citizens. He said the need of the hour
is for e'eaner and more honest men in
office, and that it is the duty of the
Norwegians of the land to use their in
rtutnee toward accomplishing that. He
*aid that the Majority of the members
of congress today are the creatures of
the trusts. This, he said,
Is no secret amoog the members of con
gress. He further urged that in local
affairs the men of bis country should
stand for decency and law arid order.
fiflUWAV
Bri:lei;room Deserter Mikes'
Good his Escape
George E. Stackhous-. the midoight
bridegroom, who deserted from the
United States army Monday evening,
has made good his escape. With his
bride of an hour, who was Miss Luc?
McKowen, St&ckhouse, who was Bueil
Id the army, left on the Princess May
at one o'clock Tuesday morning.
When the Princess May arrived at
Ketchikan an officer tried to serve a
warrant, charging Stackhouse with
desertion, but the runaway was locked
in his state-room and the master of
the vessel would not permit the door to
be forced.
W*lcom? for Ron
Donald Ross arrived yesterday even
ing from Skagway to take the position
as manager of the local branch of the
Canadian Bank ol Commerce. Mr. Ross
is a gentleman wi-o never fails to form
a large circle of friends wherever his
lot is cast.? Whitehorse Star.
Will Go Juw? Soma
Juneau may rest assured that the
Whitehorse baseball team will go there
this year ? not only go there, but defeat
her team in the great Ametiram game.
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THE CROAKER
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[Original.]
Hand and Katrlna Shaeffer were a
young couple who had "come to Amerl
! ca from Gertuauy and settled ou a
farm In the west. They were having
' a hard time of it, for they bud uo
money with which to stock their farm,
when a son was bora to them. The
father did not welcome the little stron
ger. giving as an excuse that he saw
nothing uhiyn! for the boy but a life
of poverty, and poverty meant slavery.
' Not so Katrlna. A mother Is too ab
, sorbed In her child to worry about Its
, future. She contented herself with the
j care of little Peter, as he was named,
; trusting to his owu strength wheu he
became a man to bring him comfort.
The father u^ver got over croaking,
as the mother called it, about Peter's
future, and when the boy was old
enough to play with little Gretcheu
Becker, the daughter of George Beck
er, who occupied the adjoining farm,
Hans said: "See, there is more misery
coming. By and by they will marry
and bring more children into the world
to suffer." This constant foreboding
hung like a dark cloud over Katrlna's
life. It tended to draw her nearer to
her son and estrange her from her hus
band. The mother gets the greater
i part of a child's affections, and little
Peter showed his preference for his
mother from the first This was nat
ural. How could he love a man who
was continually telling him and his
mother that he would grow up to beg
gary?
One matter especially tended to make
this division In the family of the father
ou one side and the mother and son ou
I the other. Hans had a secret which
he told neither of them. From little
Peter's birth every now and then he
would go somewhere at night after
they had gone to bed. ulways remain
ing away about the same length of
time, au hour. Katrtna did uot ask her
husband where he went. She knew
that If he wished her to know he would
tell her. When her sou became old
enough for her to talk with him about
his father's absences, the secret drew
them closer together and separated
them the more from the husband and
father. Peter suggested that he follow
hi* father to see where he went and
what he did. but Katrlnu said "No."
and Peter, though very young, had the
good sense to agree with her.
! As Peter emerged from childhood to
| enter upon youth It was noticed that
| he and Gretchen were as devoted
as ever. None but themselves knew
j when the change came between a
childish friendship and the love of
maturity, but there came a time wheu
all who knew them saw that the bridge
had be^n crossed. Katrlna dreaded the
moment when her busbaud would say
to her: "I told you so. There are two
fools sowing the wind to reap the
whirlwind." But for a long while Hans
| had ceased Ills croaking aud said noth
Ing about what he saw plainly.
Hans was a hardworking mau and a
good husband and father. Neither his
wife nor son had any complaint to
make of him except the morose view
he had always taken of the boy's fu
ture. As time went ou he got money
to buy stock and tools for his farm
and before Peter came of age had farm
and stock and tools paid for. But be
yond this he had nothing to show for
twenty years of toll.
One day Katrlna nerved herself to
speak to her husband about their boy's
love affair. She told Hans that Peter
was going to marry Gretchen.
"Yes: I know," said Hans. "When
will they be married?"
"As soon as the crops are gathered."
Hans turned away without a word
Katrlna sighed. She would have rath
er had him say, "I told you so!" than
nothing. People who will not either
oppose us or agree with us are the
most irritating. Peter had been told
that If he left his father's farm he
would be employed on Becker's farui,
but could only expect the wages of an
ordinary hand and that only wheu the
crops were being gathered. Peter had
javed enough to carry him and wife
through the first winter. He wanted
to ask bis father if he could continue
to work for him, but dreaded to speak
of the matter.
However, the wedding day came
round. The two families were sitting
at the wedding supper when Hans rose
and said:
"Katrlna, now I show you where I
have been going nights."
' Followed by the party, be went out.
taking a lantern with him, and across
to the barn, where he stopped for a
?pade. Then he weut ou to a corner
>f his laud farthest from the road and
Jccupled by a clump of trees. Iu the
.?enter of this thicket he began to dig
md soon unearthed an old trough with
a cover on it. Taking up the trough,
ae cameo it to tne nouse anu turueu
It over on the table. Out rolled a pro
miscuous heap of coins all the way
from cents to gold double eagles and
hills from one dollar to a hundred.
"Here, my boy," said Hans. "Is your
wedding gift, which I have befn sav
ng for more than twenty years. If I
mdn't done It my way, I couldn't have
tone It at all. There Is enough to buy
/ou a farm, put a bouse on tt and
Itock It well."
Katrina and Peter gavo each other
. look full of surprise, pleasure and
?ontrltion. Then I'eter ran to his fa
ther impulsively and threw his arms
ground his neck. Katrtim joined them.
Mid the three were looked In one em
brace. Then Peter went to Gretchen
and said:
"We have misjudged father by what
ae has said. Let us begin our married
life by taking people for what they
to Instead ot what they say."
HATHA# WHITS HOWS.
England'* Historic Miser.
John Camden Neild, whose mngnlfl
cent bequest to Qneen Victoria sup
plied tlie fund* out of which the prince
consort built the present Bulwonti
castle, deserves a place among the
great raisers nud was as remarkable u
man as any of them. He was educat
ed at Etou aud Trinity college. Cam
I bridge, anil was a barrister at Lin
coln's Inn. At the age of thirty-four
his father's death placed him In pos
session of a fortune of ?250,000, nnu
from that moment he became a con
flrmed miser. 'Neild lived at 5 Cheyne
walk, Chelsea. Ills big house was an
meanly furnished that It did not ever
>>oast of a bed. Two old women, who
t!id his chores, and a black cat were
his sole companions. When he visited
his large estates In the Midlands,
which he did frequently, he generally
walked unless he could get a lift foi*
nothing, and he was not even above
taking a gratuitous seat on a dung
cart. Sometimes ho was compelled by
the weather to take a seat on the
stagecoach, and there he would sit
outside, shivering end dripping, for he
never wore a great?oat, an object of
commiseration to his fellow ; issen
gers.
Lincoln's Ilrliukr.
The saying that there are few hon
est lawyers did not hold true In th?
case of Lincoln A man once called
to retain blm ou a suit
"State your case," said honest Aba
The man did, and then Lincoln said:
"I cannot represent you, for you are
wrong, and the other party Is right"
"That la noue of your business If ]
employ you," said the client.
"Pardon me," said the man who aft
erward became president; "my busi
ness Is never to defeud wrong. I nev
er take a case that Is manifestly
wrong."
"Well, but you can make trouble for
the other fellow."
"Yes," said Lincoln, "I can set a
whole community at loggerheads, I can
make trouble for this widow aud her
fatherless children and by so doing gel
you $U00 that rightfully belongs to her,
but 1 won't do It."
"Not if I pay you well?"
"Not for all the money you are
worth." was the reply.
A Warrior Too.
The wooden boards that had marked
the graves In a certain rural cemeterj
rotted off and were raked up In thr
spring cleaning. Consequently on
Memorial day when the delegation
from the G. A. R. arrived with flag;
and appropriate floral decorations foi
their departed comrades the decorat
ing committee found Itself somewhat
In doubt as to which grave belonged
to Captain Blodgett and which to
Hannah Erleson. The mistaken dele
gates heaped their offerings upon Han
nah's last resting place and departed.
That afternoon Erleson, the widower,
drifted, with the rest of his world, to
the cemetery. When he saw the flag
and the flowers above Hannah the
astonished Swede fell to chuckling
Joyously.
"Veil," he exclaimed delightedly,
"dose faller bane pooty smart too! Ay
tank dat vor all right and som gude
yoke on Hannah? he vor pooty gude
fighter herselluf."? Youth's Companion.
Devonshire Terrace
Pickens was twenty seven years old
when. In 1839, he moved from Doughty
[ street to Devonshire terrace. George
du Manrler lived for some years In 1
Devonshire terrace. In this celebrated
house Dickens wrote no fewer than
ten of his books-"The Old Curiosity
Shop," "Barnaby Rudge," "The Christ
mas Carol." "American Notes," "Mar
tin Chuzzlewrt," "The Haunted Man,"
"The Battle of Life," "Doinbey and
Son," "The Cricket on the Hearth" ami
"David Copperfleld." Devonshire ter
race was situated at the corner of the
Mar.vleboue road and used to be palled
the smallest terrace In I.oudon.
It Varied.
The late Judge Saunders of North
Carolina was noted as an angler, but
he had a poor memory as to the weight
of the fish he had taken. On one oe
caslou a friend, trying to entrap him.
said, "Say. judge, what was the'welght
of that big catfish you caught the other
day?"
The judge turned to his waiter ana
said, "Bob. what did I say that catfish
weighed?"
"What time yesterday, boss? in de
mawuln', at dinner or nfter suppah?"
The Moon.
Astronomers long since came to the
conclusion that the moon's surfact Is
very hot during the height of the lunar
day. which; as will be remembered,
lasts two weeks, and very cold during
the lunar night, which Is equally long.
These extremes of temperature reach
their height at the lunar noon and
midnight and are greater than a ay
natural temperatures on the earth.
The Golfer.
Bertie (to caddie, searching for lost
ball)? What are you looking there for?
Why, I must have driven It fifty yards
farther! Diplomatic Caddie? But some
times they hit a stone, sir. and bounce
back a terrible distance.
Willing to See.
Mrs. Enpeck? The philosophers tell
us that blessings often come to us In
disguise. Mr. Enpeck (with a sudden
show of spirit)? Maria, when are yon
going to uumask?
The Pale.
Little Margie (reading)-What is the
"pale of civilization," Tommy? Smalt
Tommy? Oh, some new brand of face
powder, I suppose.
The root of all discontent Is self low
?Clarke.
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.
I , MARTIN CONWAY
f Skagway, May 11th, 1907.
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