THE NORTHERN LIGHT
Mr. J. A. fcY&ser, Atlin gold commis
sioner, Kin In SkatfWiy yesterday. He
met bit wife who arrived on the Prin
cess May. They returned to the Inter
ior on the train this mornlnjc, From
Mr. Fra^er'a report our Atlin friends
watch the 'Alaskan" closely for "The
Northern Light " We thank them (or.
the interest they take in us.
Yesterday morniDg at recess the fol
lowing played basketball: Nellie Shea,
Delia Rapuzzi, Nellie Flynn, Goldie
Stinebaugn and Elsie Dillon, against
Helen Ross, Veronica Mulvihill, May
Parker, Lorraine Sundeen and Audrey
Rosa, The score was four to nothing
in favor of Nellie Shea's team.
In the afternoon Talbot's team de
feated Haslett's team, four to nothing
although there were regulars missing
from both teams. The four points
were mtde on the free tjoal by Talbot,
a field goal by Wurzb;ch<r, an J an
award point. Fjr the first time in
his life,' Harry Wurzbacher got a field
goal i? a re.l game.
The following pupils were dismissed
last Friday afternoon after recess for
being neither absent nor tardy during
the past month:
3Jrs. Rosenberg's room? Jakie Pat
rick, Wade Olsen, Emerson Rogers,
Edward L ddicoat, Grace Russell and
Marion Wurzbicher. Tutal, 6; 4 boys,
2 girls. -
Misk Ddfcrrer's room? Rosie Dortero,
George Dill, Arnold Gutfeld, Willie
Fiynn, Roy Mulvihill, Vincent Dortero
ana Eiwird Matthews. Total, 7, 8 boys,
1 girl.
Mrs. Draper's room? Nellie Shes,
Major Leslie, Cassie Kosj-uth, Charley
DeWitt, Harold Eagle, Grant Carlson,
Alford Doree, Sam Stinebaugh and
Ernest Wolff. Total, 9; 8 boys, 1 girl.
..lr. Telford's room? Edith Liddicoat,
Lo!o DeWitt, Veronica Mulvihill, Fran
ces Liddicoit, Arthur Boone, Lewis
Stinebaugh, Harry Ask, Adelbeft
Baker and Louie Gutfell. Total, 9; 5
boys, 4 girls.
Grand total, 31; 23 boys, 8 girls.
WARNING !
Yesterday we gave a warning to con
tributors to bring in their items. The
following warning applies to advertis
ers, and has in mind the annual:
There lived a man in a far-away town,
Who thought him wondrous wise;
He swore by all the fabled gods,
He'd never advertise.
His goods were advertised at last,
And thereby haogs a tale?
Tbe ad was set in nonpareil,
And heaoed "Sheriff's Sale."
Their Wedding Siiencs.
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This story was told to me by a crusty
bachelor.
"Listen to this. Alec," and MaM
Buruet read: ""hi Korea during th?
whole marriage day the bride must be
mute, if she says a word she become*
an object of ridicule. It may be *
week or even a month before her hus
band hears the sound of her vole?.'
Singular custom. Isn't it? How would
you like to adopt it when we are mar
ried?"
Her father and mother were sitting
near, the father reading his paper, the
mother sewing. The latter said: "That
remind* me of the night we became
enjjagiJ!. I>o you remember I made
you wait a long while for your an
swer? I kept you a whole hour with
out giving von a word."
"Happy d-iyl" observed the husband
dryly and v. ithout lowering his paper
A smile passed over his wife's face,
and a tender light shone In her daugh
ter's eyes. As for Alec, he cast a sus
picious glance at his prospective fa
ther-in-law.
Nothing would do for Mabel but to
Introduce the Korean custom at her
wedding. On account of the recent
death of an aunt who had made her
life miserable, but had left her $10,000.
the ceremony was to Include only the
family. Alec protested against the In
troduction of a custom taken from a
degenerate eastern race, but Mr. Bur
net's remark, "Happy day!" had fas
tened the idea upon Mabel, and it
could not be removed.
On the day of th? wedding the bride
did not speak from 'he moment of her
awakening. After che ceremony she
kissed the family ail round, but spoke
never a word. Ail agreed that ht-r si
lence added a solemn charm to the
most Impressive occasion In a woman's
life.
Mr. and Mrs. ,\!ec Hicks started Im
mediately after a wedding breakfast
(at which the bride sat mute) on their
wedding journey. As they rolled along
In a parlor coach the young husband
remarked upon, the presents they had
received, the interest taken In tuelr
marriage, the concourse of people who
would gladly have been present had
not the_vereuionj been privaj^ His
wlfi> listened, buf spoke not. Then ho
directed her attention to passing ob
jects. There was a happy, dreamy
look on her face, but she uttered no
word. They dined In a buffet car; but,
though there was a bottle of wine, her
tongue was not loosed. Aftwr dinner
Alec surprised her by telling her that
he was going luto the smoking room
for an after dinner cigar. Half an
hour wns enough for the cigar, but he
took an hour. When he returned sho
received him with a lowering brow.
"How Ions," he asked her coldly, **is
this beautiful Korean custom to bp
kept up?"
She made no reply, but inwardly re
solved that It should be kept up until
he learned not to leave her for a whole
hour on the evening of their marriage
for a nasty cigar.
Meanwhile there was much talk
among the women left behind In com
mendation of the custom introduced at
the Hicks wedding. One elderly spin
ster of practical views declared that
since men were forever commenting
011 women not being able to hold their
tongues perhaps one man would get
all he wanted of woman's silence.
Many young girls said that they would
adopt it at their own wedding. A few
feminine gabblers dissented, consider
ing It a shame that a man might say
what he pleased to his wife without
retort No such silence for them. The
matter brought about a number of mar
ital differences where husbauds took
occasion to sneer at their wives under
cover of this Korean custom. Great
interest centered in how long th? si
lence of Mrs. Hicks was to endure.
The sneering husbands declared that
the second hand to a watch would not
divide time delicately enough to meas
ure her silence after the first sign of
Independence on the part of her hus
band. Other cynical men said the
whole afTair was paradoxical, for in
stead of a wife muzzling herself her
first act after marriage was to muzzle
her husband. Oue woman forgot her
selt eo far as to remark, "How can shft
get him under"? but checked herself.
The wedding trip was to cover the
honeymoon, but it lasted only three
days, when the bride and groom re
turned, aud. instead of going to thu
house thi-i had been prepared for
them, the bride went to her mother
and the groom to bachelor quarters.
"For heaven's sake, what's the mat
ter?" cried the mother as her daughter
fell on her neck weeping.
"He's a brute."
"What ha.s he done?"
"We hadn't Iteea gone half a day be
fore he ceased to say a word to me."
"But you didn't say a\word to him.
did you V" ?
"No."
"Is this all the complaint you hare
to make of him?"
"Yes."
"Foolish child! You have a model
husband. Would that your father were
6Uch a man! He could never have kept
Silence for a single day? no, not for
twelve hours! Alec must be a wonder.
Think of possessing a husband who Is
able to hold his tongue Indefinitely and
let his wife do all the talking!"
The good lady sent for her son-in
law at once, and the quarrel was made
up. Alec Hicks Is now a middle aged
man. He is deaf In one ear. He says
he finds It very convenient. When his
wife talks to him, as she frequently
does while he Is In bed and she Is do
ing her ha)r for the night, ho turns
over on the side of his well ear, and
he doesn't hear her.
ALEXANDER ELY.
NOT MERELY IDLING.
Wherein the Writer Resembled the
Man on the Buoy.
"That writer." said a publisher, re
ferring to an author who seemed to be
Idling away his time, "is in reality try
ing hard to work, to get bis ideas flow
ing, but he hi stuck.
"He said to me himself that he re
sembled a man who made a bet one
summer day at the Bhore that he
would swim out a mile and a half to a
certain buoy. The bet was accepted, and
the man stripped and plunged in. His
friend retired to the hotel to watch his
progress from the window.
"From the window with a fleldglass
the friend saw the swimmer reach the
buoy In due course, draw himself up
out of the water and sit down com
fortably. with his legs dangling over.
So far so good. Evidently he was rest
ing, well pleased with his feat.
"Some minutes passed, and the swim
mer had not moved. The watcher re
turned to his twok. But every now
and then he looked up, and still the
swimmer sat in the same position on
the buoy.
"An hour, two hours went by. Still
the swimmer remained. A white, slim
figure seen against the oncoming dark,
he sat on the buoy's edge. His feet
dangled in the sea. He seemed to be
musing.
"Finally it began to grow quite dark,
and, thoroughly alarmed at last, the
watcher got a boat and a couple of
bargees and rowed out to his friend.
"Out there the mystery was soon ex
plained. The man was stuck fast to
the buoy, which had been freshly
tarred that morning." ? Washington
Star.
MEN OF EARLIER AGES.
Were They the Mental Peers of the
Men of Today?
The general Idea that our enormous
advances hi science aud command over
nature serve as demonstrations of our
mental superiority to the men of ear
Her ages is totally unfounded. The
evidence of history aud of the earliest
monuments alike goes to indicate that
our intellectual snd monl uature has
not advanced In any perceptible degree
In the second place, we find that the
supposed great mental Inferiority of
sarag*?_ is equally, ' qufouniJed., Xhe
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more tliey aresymanthetlcally studied
the more they are found to resemble
ourselves lu their Inherent Intellectual
powers.
Even the so long despised Australian
savages, almost the lowest in material
progress, yet show by their complex
language, their social regulations and
often by an Innate nobility of char
acter indications of a very similar in
ner nature to our own. If they pos
sess fewer philosophers and moralists,
they are also free from so large a
proportion of unbalanced minds? idiots
and lunatics? as we possess. On the
other hand, we find lu the higher Pa
cific types men who, though savages
as regards material progress, are yet
generally admitted to be physically, in
tellectually and morally our equals, if
not our superiors. ? ? * Thirdly, we
have no proof whatever that even the
men of the stone age were mentally or
morally inferior to ourselves.? Alfred
Russel Wallace in Fortnightly Review.
One Kind of Talent.
"He doesu't strike me as very
bright."
"But he is a positive genius."
"Where Is the evidence?"
"He owes everybody lu town."
The Pack Train Restaurant will serve
wine with dinner orders, free in plac?
of tea or coffee. Come on boys.
Job printing at the Alaskan office.
Hear Thosn Mandolin Ringing
Eight of them in one instrument, with
Piano accompaniment. Hear them at
the Mascot. It is great, and fills the
place of a vaudeville entertainment.
NOTICE TO VOTERS
From and after this date the registra
tion book, provided for in Ordinance
No. 90, will be found at the office of the
City Clerk (U. S. Customs office) where
citizens may register from 9 a. m. to 4
p. m, Matthew Bridge,
City Clerk.
March 2, 1908. 339-15t
Office of Road Commission rrs,
Skagway, Alaska, Feb. 1. 1908. Sealed
irroposals for constructing a wagon
road from the end of the completed
road near Qindustuckl, on the Chilkat
River, three and one half miles, from
the town of Haines, to Wells, on the
Chilcat river, a distance of approxi
mately twenty and one half miles will be
received at this office until 12 noon,
May 1, 1908, and then publicly opened.
Information on application. Sam .C.
Orchard, 1st Lt.,3rd. Inf., Secretary of
the Board.
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