Take a Victrola
on your camping trip
A Victrola is looK.*d upon as a regular part of
a camping outfit nowadays.
It is always sure of a rousing welcome.
Its delightful music is one of the real joys of
camp life.
Whether you are g ramping or not, come in and get acquainted
| with th • Vicfmla. We’ t ully pla\ anv music yw wish t • hear. \
Virtrolas $15 to $1.60. Victors $10 to $100. Terms to suit your
convenience. . . '1
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First Avenue Below Alaskan Hotel
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Fine Job Printing At The Times Office
FIRST NIGHT IN FRONT LINE
EPOCH-MAKING EXPERIENCE
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In* I '-ill I lie lirsf night in 11).
I niu h' ." be j> ;i <111«- - f i< m ih.it | Imu
•mi ol Aim in ,hi soldiers li.ivc i.ic-d
perhaps with sonic misgi, in.cer
tainly with lively anticipation 'fie
experience of many of them must he
Jii.e that of a Dritish plow hoy-soldier
ues< t ihed b\ Lord Dmisany. captain
nj the Inniskiliing Pusilirrs
“ \ man's first night in the trout
line is an epo hmaking experience.'
he writ* - “It is like a man's first
vote or his L’lst birthday it is a mile
stone in his life, marking tin* change
from the mimic warfare behind the
lines to the grim realities of actual
conflict.
“Perhaps I can best explain how this
experience affects a soldier by telling
you the story of a recruit’s first night
in the trenches Dick Chesser, one of
m > men. was a plow boy just past IS
when he enlisted, and not yet l!» when
he went on his lirsf sentry *go' in the
front line.
"P was a quiet night, ami dawn was
only an hour or so distant when Chee
ser took his post. The corpora! fold
him where to stand, warned him to
keep a good lookout, and left him.
“Then* was Dick Cheeser, alone in
the dark, with an army in front of
him, eighty yards away, a resource
fill, crafty and desperate enemy. The
stillness of the night only added to
Cheeser s feeling of responsibility The
stillness awed him There had not
been a shell all night He put his
head over the parapet gingerly and
waited Nobody fired at him. He felt
somehow that the night was waiting
for him, that something uncanny and
unexpected would happen soon. He
heard voices in a communication
trench somewhere behind him; there
were a few sentences of gruff, unin
telligible conversation; the voices
died away. There was a long silence.
Cheeser fell to wondering whether
the night was black or gray; he
stared hard at the night to study its
exact color; the night stared back at
him. and seemed to be threatening
him; it was gray, gray and artful, like
a cat or a fox.
“It was uncannav, thought Cheeser.
If shells would come, or Germans, or
anything at ail. you would know how
to take it; but this deathly quiet, like
a mist over huge valleys! Anything
might happen. Cheeser waited and
waited, and the night waited too. He
l*jt that thev v.cii \ ,i i liing i . h
other. Hie night anil lie. both t riaieh
ing. loth ready to spring
"His mind grew active that his
Head throbbed itli tie physical ever
lion of thinking lie was watching
with eyes and ears ami imagination,
hoping to anticipate by a second or
two tin dread something that lie felt
was tile to happen soon in tin- omi
nous mist Of -.No Man s Land.’ lie
t(ionchi oi throwing a alone out Into
tile Mat kness. just to see what would
happen ’I lien lie begun to w ish for
his lioyhood's slingshot, so Unit lie
eoiihi ‘atapult a nice, round stone
r.gltt a ross tin blackness into the
Herman line.
A little wind blew in tile night,
too cold for the I.. iit year. It made
for a moment a lane in tin* mist over
No-Mans I .ami. ('heeser peered into
It, I'it tin- mi t closed round again.
'No, N'glU seemed to say. 'win run j
t-'uess my secret' \nd the awesome
hush Intensified What are they up
lo now" thought the sentry What
are those crafty enemies planning in
ail those miles of silence?
I'.vet' llte very lights were few and
far between. When one went up lor
hills oi shadow seemed to ait and
brood over the valley; black shapes
grew u and vanished in the shadow
The rocket faded and the hills went
hack into mystery again, and ('heeser
still peered level over the ominous'
valid.
"Ail lhe dangers and sinister shapes
and evil destinies that the sentry
faced that night cannot lie pictured or
described in mere words. It was only
two hours that lit* stood there, and not I
a shell tell in all that time, not a Her
man stirred.
"It Is a weird and awful experience,;
that first night in the trenches. The
next time it Is an easy matter."
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FORMERLY THE SLATER CAFE «**»
Boxes And Tables Reserved For Private
_ Dinner Parties _
>' OPEN DAY AND NIGHT :W
NORTHERN MEAT MARKET
Wholesale and Retail Dealers in
FRESH BEEF, PORK, VEAL, MUTTON AND PRO- il
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Particular Attention and Prompt Service Given to Orders from
Mining Camps, Roadhouses and Interior Points
Halibut and Other Fresh Fish of All Kinds Will Be Kept
in Stock When Available
SMITH & GLASSBRENNER, Props.
When You Are In McCarthy
-STOP AT THE —
2 Ketterer House
The Very Finest Rooms and Bath
in McCarthy, Alaska
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IIKE th’ Irishman sez: “One
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an’ a durn sight better.”
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"* can’t get no better
■J tobacco ’n another
^ ef they both get
VELVET.
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smoking qualities that gave Kentucky Burley its title of
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