It has been left for a Philadelphia
tenderfoot to teach former President
llrover Cleveland aud the world in gen
eral that tUe I>est way to hunt wild
ducks and Reese Is with a phonograph.
AceGcodnlll. champion bird shooter of
the Indian river (Delaware) breakwater
country aud sometime suUle to Mr.
Cleveland, came into Georgetown to re
load his shells with powder aud shot,
lie gave au account of the latest
achievement of Mr. Edison** wonder
ful Invention.
"Couple o" days ago." said Ace, "a
pink faced little whlppersnapper sim
pers Into my shack up at th' hed o' th'
breakwater an' unloads a brand new
two dollar an' a half fowlln' piece, a
THEY CAJIK IS SWAliUS.
dinner pail. *011:0 :?.? Kcgin's
nn' a queer lod!;ln' box. with a Horn
thing strapped f Its ilde.
" "You're Qoodnlll.' he says f me In
his In-st ribbon counter soprano. To
Agernon Plnckney Bourke. connected
us floorwalker with th' biggest depart
! nient store In Phlladelphy. I've come
out here t* shoo'. du?ks.' he says. "an"
I hereby engage your services.'
" 'It cannot be,' I answers. This Is a
wild country, an' In scourln' th' bot
toms an' preclpjous bills I often risk
death pereuin* my hazardjous psrfes
slon of guide. Yet life Is still too pre
cious fer me t' tiust It with you an'
your gun In th' same boat'
"But Algernon Insists most contuma
cious. an' Anally when he offers .$15 a
day, with grub an' sperlts t' boot, I
say my prayers, an' we start* up th*
bayou. I never seen ducks an' geese
so scarceful. Algernon Plnckney don't
even have one excuse all day t' shoot
me by mistake. Second day It's like
wise till Just dusk one lone, homeless
blackwing staggers over th* boat. 1
shed think that pore duck was llmpln'
along 'bout three an' a half knots an
hour. Jest able t' keep steerageway,
ten feet pr so top th' water. Algernon
Plnckney lets fly both barrels straight
fer my head. I ducks lu time, brings
my own piece t' bear an' wings th'
hungry blackwing so he falls into th*
water. We rows up, an' I'm fixln' f
put th' lonesome ciltter out'u his mis
ery when Algernon Plnckney says,
?Oh, desist.' 'What fer?' I says.
'Can't you see It's sufferln'?
" Til show you,' says Algernon, an'
he drags his box with th' horn tied
on from under his seat an' in a minute
has a whole dumbed phony graft rig
ged out, with th' horn polntin' at me
an' th' wounded duck. He sets th'
cylinder thing turnin'. 'Now, Good
nill.' he says, 'squees'.e th' duck so he'll
bark.'
? "I squeezes, an' the pore duck honks,
nn" th' phonygraft takes in all th'
cries. 'All right.' says Algernon pres
ently when I'd squeezed th' bird dumb
:iu" liiup. 'Th' record's full,' says Al
gernon. 'You can kill him now.'
"I puts th' weary blackwing out o'
trouble, an' Algernon Plnckney re
verses his machine. 'Now. me wise
gtiv-de," says he. 'we'll get some duck
shootln'.' An* he p'lnts his blamed
machine at tU' morass off th' port side,
sticks it in th' prow an' starts it goln*.
j I never beard such duck calls In all
my life. Plnckney would speed 'er up
every onet in awhile, an' you'd think
500 flocks was holdin' high jinks. You
oujjhter seen th' live ducks _an" gee^e
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BAGGAGE? i'ol is wm oe collected on Checked Baggage Onlt. No
charge for ba<?s and (jrips when unchecked.
The wharf gate will be clo-?jd to tho -public when steamer Is nearin?
dock and will be ope'j ;donly when paasen^ers have disembarked.
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It is very simple to
have a Bank Account
even if you do live in
Alaska.
We have hundreds of customers living in Alaska
who send all of their deposits to us by mail. If
you. would like to keep your money in the
Oldest Bank in Washington, write us about it.
Dexter Horton & Co., Bankers,
S E A T T L E
Capital and Surplus, $1,000 000.00
taEe Algernon rimUney's phon.vgraft
Imlt. They come In swarms that cloud
?l th' river. There was a thousand
birds in gunshot In no time. I got ir>0 j
In three-quarters of an hour. Even |
I'lnckney shot down twenty, an' '
think he flred every other charge at
toe or Inter th' bottom o' th' boat.
"Well, we shot till our ammunition
give out an' the cylinder got we*K
from overwork. An' on our way In we
meets a Delaware legislator, who looks
I us over an' gets our story o' th' phonv
graft decoy.
j "Ah' I see by th' papers that he'?
i drafted a bill fer th' assembly forbid
din' any more phonygrafts beln" pok*
In th' Indian river duck couutry."
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Humor and Philosophy
By DUNCAN M. SMITH
PERT PARAGRAPHS.
Quick wit usually goes with a sharp
tongue, and thus Is the eternal fitness
of things exemplified, for the sharp
tongue has need of It.
Some men are such perfect ladlos
that the only fitting place for them
seems to be on the social committee o f
a woman's club.
Be kind to all you chance to touch,
for at the best they are bound to suf
fer overmuch.
A cold snap always seems hard to
the most of us. but doubtless the coal
men regard all such as a soft snap.
It Is now time for those who have
something laid by for a rainy day to
take it out and see If It does uot need
to be turned over to the man who
mends things.
A hired girl works cheerfully seven
days out of the week for her little two
and a half, while a niald gets double
the money and her caps and apron9
and bosses the house at that.
An excellent way to save men from
aln Is to see to It that the sin Is saved
from men.
It Is an easy matter to make enemies,
but they really don't amount to much
nor stay made long.
Pulkn Rouse
Foot of S xth Avsnut
Most elejjnntly furnished house
in Alaska
]?very modern convenience
Electric lights? Hot and cold
water? Telephones
Porcelain baths on every floor
Board and room by the dry, week
or month
Table supplied with cream and
butter from our own Jersey
Dairy
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Proprietress
Established 1897
Phil Abrahams
Real Estate
BROKER
Collections
NOTARY PUBLIC
<2 FOURTH AVE., SKAGWA"*
We have a large stock
Louiney's Candy
Peter's. Gboeo!ate<
| Also every kind of
Fresh Nuts
Dont' Forget the Number. 428,Brdw'
Tony Dortero's
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Havintr completed reliable arrange
meota for an adequate supply of the
be?t
<;ritish Columbia Coi
for the coming winter we offer for
Ska^way Coal Consumers, Coals at
following p-ioes;?
Wellington (Dep-mire Bay)
Run of Mine $12]per U
Wellington (Liivsnit'i)
Selected Lumps (13 per t<
Anthracite (Banff B. C.)
Chestnut size $20 per t
Prices ?bovd art on wharf and in hu
c r sacked ?nd for cash. Delivery 81
per ton ext>a.
SHAW & JOHNSON
Phones 11 or 109 Skagway, Alas
When you Sod the person who
doesn't w-rm up to u little pr?:8e, you
have foun.l a dead one.
FROM THE NORTHERN LIGHT"
Tho school typewriter again 6hows
signs of rtfusiojj to perf rm Its a t\.
but so fur bus oot ubnnlutely balked.
Little "Johnny" O od is still "pood '*
and is improving dally, according to
the hospital au horities.
MOKE LIBRARY DOOKS RECEIVED
The JetT-rson brot jrbt in another lot
of the books recently ordered for th
school libr.try. Tl is will prob*bly b?
th'- l?st recei v< d be'ore about a hundr d
and twentj-live volumes slipped from
Chic*go, January 24, by freight arrive*
The books rtceived on the Jefferson
follows:
How natme study should be taugbt?
Bigeiow.
Mother Goose nurs. ry tales? EUlur
by Marriott W-nson, and others.
Six numbers of the "Heroic" serte :
U yssts S. Grant, George Washington.
Abraham Lincoln. Captain Paul Jones,
and Our naval ber<>e?.|
Five volumes of the story book series:
Cat s'ories, dot stories, fairyland
stories, New Testctnent ?t rle?, storiet.
from the Bible, and stories of bird life.
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WHAT IS BLACKMAIL?
With regard to the charge of blaCK
trail brought agnlnst the Northern
Light by the Daily Alaskan, our con
temporary may Hod the following In
teresting reading:
BldCkmail? Puyment of money ex
acted by intimidation; also, exaction
of money from a pe'son by threats of
pub ic accusation exposure or censure.
Webster's dictionary,
B'ackmail? Ext rtion In any ra d>
by means of intimidation, as tho ex
T.ct us show you how easy It Is to do
velop and print by the Kodak system
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We Frame Pictures
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tortioo of money by threats of accusa
tion or exposure, or of unfavorable crti
i ism In the presj. It usiraily implies
onat the payment Is Invoiuntary, and
the ground for demanding it ualawful
or protend id and fraudulent.? Century
dictionary.
Majbo the Alaskan would not have a
merry time in shoeing (hot weaemand
td money. A 1 we nuked for was a re
retraction. And just to show that we
bear no 11! will, we herebv tender our'
contemporary ti e use of any part of j
our small reference library, which
-mall anil inadequate as it is, would!
euable aq intclig' nt reader to avoid
such a blunder as tbe Alaskan has
made.
Mr. John fciozan is temporarily laid!
up with h lame buck, atd is unable to
work. While transporting somr wood
on a push cart he fell down an em
bankment.
Are the chairs gftinir weak or Is j
\Ir. Telf rd pelting henv>? Two ac
cidents io Oi.e we k are p.tMiig s'< ange
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ELECTION OF CLASS OFFICERS
The cia^s ol 10oo competed its'
organization yesf> rd?v by Hec intr tb'
following officers: Lewis siiocb.iueh,
v:ce-pr s dent; N llie Orchard, 'reasur
ur, and Eloaner Leslie, secretary, a
meeting will be be d next week at
wnich the class will decide npon several
matters concerning lis future policy.
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Turn victory into failure,
Dou't let your courage fade,
And if you get a lemon,
Just make the lemon (ade).
? Exobange.
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BASKET BALL
The most exciting game yet playid
occurred yesterday moruiog ac recei-s.
when the boys o * the class of 1908 met
'he Soccers and kept up their uubr> ken
record of victories by a four to one vie
?ory, Both teams put forth tbeir best
efforts under the stimulus of wild ap?
p ause from the other pupils of tbelr
r. spectivo rooms. At first the Soccers
held their l?rger opponents even, but
an awarded point and a fit-id goal set
tled the matter. At the afternoon re
cess a team from Mrs. Draper's room
defeated a team from Mies Doerrer'a
room, three to nothing. This was the
first, game for the smal er boy 8, and
they made many fouls owin to their
i/norance of the ru es.
After ?ch >ol the c'ass of 1908 played a
picked team, but out-plxjed them so
biidly that after a few minutes the game
was ca'led off, the scor>; landing eleven
to one. a team from Mr. Telforu's
room then defeaed a u-am from Mrs.
Draper's room, nine to notbirg. Two
teams were then chosen by Adelbert
Baker uod Clifford Beavers, the form
er's team winning, twelve to eleven,
aftir m ezciti'ig struggle.
The schedule for today follows:
Morni g r cess claes of I9O8 a? inn
the occ- r>; aftfrioo rei*ss, >.i s of
the cUss of 1908 again t anoth r girla'
team.
Fallowing s the roster of several
teams that h? ?>? or^ao'zed:
CUss of 1908? Lou s JStioebaugl-, raj ?
tain; Clarence Achison, H rry Ask.
Adelbert ^ak-r, Cl fford Beavers.
Soccers? Cassie Kossuth, capt> i< ;
Ernest Wolff, Sam Stinebaugh, George
Matthews, Louie Rapuzzi.
Tigers? Clyde Talbot, c ptaln; Har
old Eagle. John Maca, Maj >r Leslie,
A I ford Dcee.
Wi d Cats? Leonard Haslett, captain;
Edwin DUIod, Frjnk Doree, Wi'.lis
Boone, Arthur Boooe.
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The Northern Light wishes to ex
plain to the Pally Alaskan that there is
only one Thursday in each week. Also,
that if there were two, there la little
doubt they would not be consecutive
d?ys.
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