(From Douglas News)
Hoboken, N. J., Jan. 12, 1917.
Editor News,
Douglas, Alaska.
Dear Sir:—Last August 1 visited
Treadwell, which adjoins your town,
j and while walking around after visit
i Ing one of the mining mills, 1 met a
j man who gave me a very pleasant
smile. While I did not think much of
the matter at the time, it came to me
later and now I imagine I can see
that smile both day and night. It
hovers before me throughout the day
and at night it beams at mo aver the
foot of the bed. At the time 1 pie
tended not to notice the owner of the
smile, but I am sorry I was so prud
ish. The man was somewhere between
40 and 55, probably about 15. There
was nothing suggestive in his smile
further than its friendliness.
Now, Mr. Editor, I will give you my
name in confidence, and if you can
find the owner of that (mile and if he
is a real nice man, one that would he
worth a second thought on my part,
or one that you would recommend me
to enter into correspondence with, you
can reveal my name to him and if he
will write to me, 1 agree ta answer
and by an exchange of letters we will
be able to learn more of each other's
inward feelings. Provided, of course,
he is not a married man to start with,
and if he is — well, about all I can
say is that his wife had better hobble
him.
Now, about myseir: The tact (hat
I was seen and smiled at in Treadwell
as a tourist does not indicate that I
am wealthy. I am 38 years old and
k have been engaged at school leaching
w for fifteen years without missing a
term. The journey west and north
did not cost me a cent, as I whs there
as the companion of another lady, ard
she paid all the bills. However, I
have some money saved — it takes
four figures to count it. But as I
heard while in Alaska that nearly
every man there is a mine owner, it is
not likely that my little savings would
cut much figure with him — I mean
the man who smiled at me, as he
looked as though he might be a
wealthy man in disguise. If he owns
a claim and needs some money to buy
machinery or build cute little cabins,
my little dot might come in very
handy.
In appearance I am about the aver
age size — 135 pounds — neither tall
nor short, and am, as the man who
smiled at me will probably remember,
rest — well, 1 will tell all if corres
pondence is established. Begging
your pardon for thus addressing you,
I am, very respectfully.
The above letter was received by
the editor of the News in a late mail,
and as the editor never troubles him
self with affairs of the heart, either
his own or other peoples’, he turned
the letter over to the Stroller, as be
ing more In his line.
The Stroller believes he knows the
identity of the man who smiled at
the Hoboken school teacher and if he
is right in his conjecture, she will do
well to forget him in daylight and
throw a shoe or hot water bottle at
that smile the next time she sees It
beaming at her over the foot of the
bed. Put a skirt and basket hat on
a hitching post and that same man
would both smile and tip his hat to
it. When he is in a store and sees
a bolt of calico lying on a counter he
smiles at it. He will walk four miles
to see a pair of long stockings hang
ing on a clothesline. If is was the
habitual smiler, he is not a mine own.
er. He and the Stroller are about the
only men on the island who are not
mixed up with mining in some way,
either working in or for the mine or
owning a prospect back some place
in the hills. And the Stroller knows
it was not himself who smiled, for
he has not smiled since he was mar
ried 25 years ago.
There is a glaring possibility that
the man who smiled did so on im
pulse and not with the intention of
being classed as a "masher." He
may have seen something about the
lady — possibly her “rat” showing—
that caused him to smile, but as she
confides In her letter that she is very
-wm* t> conid scarcely have been tpji[
“rat.” Or recollection of some amus
ing incident may have flashed across
his memory just as his eyes met those
of the lady and his face may have
taken on a wreath that he might have
been wholly unconscious of. At any
rate, if the man who smiled was
neither of the two men mentioned, he
was a mine owner and possibly a fu
ture millionaire. Whoever he is,
there is no doubt that the savings of
the Hoboken school teacher would be
of great aid to him in buying machin
ery for and building cute little cabins
on his claim. It is a safe bet that the
man who smiled, whether he meant
it or not, needs the money.
One thing is certain, and that Is
that the man who smiled, if he knew
what he was doing — had a line on
his ac.ions at that time—knows his
own identity and, provided he Is not
the chronic smiler who tips his hat
to a boat because it Is “she,” will call
on the Stroller and submit himself to
Investigation a sto his merit and gen
oral worth, the latter will confide to
him the name and street number of
the Hoboken school teacher.
It will not be a surprise lf*a dozen
old hulks call in response to the In
vitation, bat the Stroller did not de
vote the early part of his life to ag
riculture not to know wheat from
chall, or early rose potatoes from bull
thistles. The man who gets that;
name and address will not be a slouch.
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sir
OFFICIALS
The geological survey calls atten
tion to the substantial accuracy of its
approximate figures concerning the
mineral and other outputs of the coun
try, published promptly on the first
of each year for the year preceding.
Until a few years ago these approxi
mate figures were not given out, and
no reports were made until months
afte rthe end of the year. The survey
prefering to wait for the complete
facts before making any public an
nouncement.
This delay frequently rendered the
reports of little practical value. Now,
however, there is a prompt announce
ment, and it is noteworthy that in
all cases it has been very close to
the complete official figures, as cer
tained later.
For instance, the survey's estimate
of the gold output of Alaska for 1915,
published January 1, 1916, was less
than 1.2 per cent in excesse of the
final figures made public four months
later, and Alaska's exceptionally large
yield of copper was 3 per cent. For
the last two years the preliminary
estimates of the coal output of the
United States were only about four-1
tenths of 1 per cent and 2.6 per cent
in error; for the more erratic petrol
eum industry the estimates of market
ed output published January 1 have
been within one-halt of one per cent
and five per cent of the final figures;
the preliminary estimates of cement
were within three-tenths of one per
cent and four-tenths of one per cent
of the actual output.
Oliver Winston and Miss Nora Ross
were seriously injured and several
others more or less bruised when a
bob sled on which they were sliding
down Newton hill at Ketchikan jump
ed the track, tore down 25 feet of
fence and then jumped over a ten foot
bluff to the beach below.
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Dr. R. A. Sargent, of Douglas, as
sisted by a trained nurse, will make
an examination of the school children
af that city as to their health. Fol
lowing the completion of the examin
ation the nurse, Miss Brady, will
make monthly examinations of the
children during the remainder of the
school year.
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A king hearted gentleman from the
City of Cleveland, Ohio, recently sent
a bundle of newspapers to the "Mayor
at Trading Post, Postoffice, Seward,
Alaska,” with instructions to distri
bute among the inhabitants about the
post. Seward has a dally paper so
his gift was rather superfluous.
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Times. Why not save a dollar by pay
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vance; $5 will do the trick.
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NOTICE.
We have sold our store to Flnkel
eteln & Sapiro. We will pay all bills
and collect 'all accounts contracted
previous to January 1, 1917.
All accounts due on that date should
be settled at once at our office in
the Co-operative store.
CORDOVA CO-OPERATIVE TRAD
ING COMPANY.
Dated January 27, 1917.
(By Associated Press)
WITH THE BRITISH ARMIES IN
FRANCE, Feb. 7. — To those wh<
have lived among them, the children
of the war zone In France will ever
remain a psychological riddle. It is
startling to the newcomer at the war
to find them here at all. It is post
tively uncanny to see them at play
where a shell might break almost any
moment, utterly oblivious to the sol
diers and scenes about them, and with
senses so attuned to the ordinary
nerve racking noises that only a pro
longed lull in the ceaseless roar of
guns would cause them the least con
cern.
They cling with their elders to the
remnants of their shell shattered
homes in the bombarded towns and
villages, where even yet the Herman
guns send their shells. Some have
been born within sound of the can
non, and others have come into their
first sense of being in the midst, of
battle. The strange phenomenon of
life to them will be the unwonted still
ness of peace.
A striking picture it is to see a lit
tle French girl, five or six years old,
with a plaited “pigtail" down her
back, tripping bareheaded along a
road wherever soldier men venture
only under the protection of their big
steel hats. Such a little girl sat and
softly sang and knitted in front of her
home near an old Flemish mill one
bright and warm December noon,
while a score of aeroplanes whirled
and fought overhead and the high blue
sky was filled with the fleecy cotton
balls that come from bursting shrap
nel shells. She could see the seared
and scarred lines on the distant hills
which were the enemy trenches, and
still further back the occasional white
hot flashes of enemy guns.
No stranger school can be found in
all the world than that at Arras. Ar
ras itself is a strange and ghostly
city. Some of the houses are just
as their owners left them during the
first bombardment in October two
years ago. Others have been pulver
ized along with the cathedral, the city
hall and the railway station — three
lavorue targets or tne uernian gun
ners. The enemy lines skirt the east
ern edge of the city and daily from
these messengers of death are sent
shrieking into Arras—bursting in fury
itom the sky.
In the midst of all this malignity of
war some two score children or more
go to school. Their class room Is in
the cellar of a house so well demol
ished that a few additional shells
would scarcely change the character
af the mess of debris that serves as a
protective roof. It would take a ter
rific bombardment to Interrupt them
at their lessons. The muffled sound
of shells crashing in the distance has
become far too commonplace to at
tract attention.
All Arras lives under ground. There
are quiet periods of the day when
the women, children and old men ven
ture abroad for friendly call at a
neighboring cel'lar or for the sake of
a stroll and breath of fresh air. Op
portunity after opportunity has been
given them to leave, but they prefer
to remain with what is, or was, their
very own. Three persons were killed
just outHide the school one day, but
the children in the cellar knew noth
ing of the tragedy. When school is
out each afternoon the children are
told to hurry home as fast as they
can go, and there is a great pattering
of little wooden soled shoeB down the
melancholy streets.
There are scores of other towns
within the fire zone, but not quite so
close to the war as Arras, where the
children live by hundreds. It is no
infrequent thing to hear mothers call
In* their children In from a desultory
: bombardment Just as they would from
1 a shower of rain.
Several months ago enemy aero
! planes dropped bombs In a village six
or seven miles behind the firing line.
It was Sunday afternoon and the
streets were thronged. Outside a sol
diers' moving picture theatre a line
of children were waiting for the doors
to open. One of the bombs fell near
where they stood. They scattered
like so many mice, but within a min
ute or two all were scrambling back
to their places in the queue as if noth
ing at all had happened.
English Tommies love children and
when billeted In a village can always
be seen playing with the tots, buying
all sorts of candles and sweetmeats,
and even wheeling them gaily along
in perambulators while fond mothers
look on.
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INSIDE INFORMATION ON
ALASKA GOLD STOCK.
In April, 1915, Alaska Gold stock
sold at 40 3-4. The convertible bonds,
of which there are two issues of $1 .
500,000 each, sold up to 160. On Sat
urday last the stock declined to a new
low point of 8 1-4, while the bonds
are down to 80. No unusual develop
ments have transpired at the proiv
erty, beyond those which are current
ly set forth in the monthly statements.
Combining these reports for 1916, it
is found that the company treated 1,
888,869 tons of ore, which had a gross
value of $1.23 per ton. Deducting
losses in the mill tailings of 22 cents
per ton. there is found to have been
$1.01 per ton net recovery for the
year. This compares with 93 cents
per ton in 1915. Theoretically the
company's net amount received for
the gold recovered amounted to $1,
907,757. Estimated costs were $1,
341,096, leaving a net profit of $566,
661, from which must be deducted in
terest charges of $100,000. Nothing is
here allowed for depreciation, which
in 1915 was $338,039. The promoters
firmly believed from experimental mill
runs and drill hole assays that the
ore would run not less than $1.75 per
ton, or $1.50 after losses in mill treet
men. Actual results to date show a
net return of $1, and this difference
of 50 cents a ton, small as it may
seem, spells either the success or fail
ure of the whole enterprise.—Boston
Transcript.
After bucking the head winds in
Cook Inlet until her water and fuel
supply gave out, the tug Roscoe,
which attempted to reach Anchorage
with a cargo of coal oil. gasoline and
powder, returned to Seward. She left
her cargo at Seldovia.
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Yosha Shetanda, a subject of the
Klowery Kingdom, more popularly
known to the old timers on Douglas
island as “Slim,” returned from a
year's visit to the country of his birih
on one of the last steamers and is
now located at the Owl Cafe in Doug
las. Slim states that Honorable Alas
ka is much better place to live in than
Honorable Japan.
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