The daily morning Alaskan., 1900-02-25
suNpAY SOCIAL.
BRApY's LITTLE TERRIER.

The man who turns the crank of the mangle on which Is printed the organ ot Governor Brady at Bradyville, still known to many by itS ancient Russian name of Si,ka. has received his pay in a political iob. Re is tO be census taker in the Cook Inlet country. and Juneau will probably miss him. That Is, in the sense that one may miss the ephemeral houSeGy, whose buzzlng Is irritating but whose bite is not feared
 For the editor Of the Sitka Alaskan is a terrible fellow in print, especially on the subject ot Juneau as a rival ,o the Brady cabbage ya,eh and Slwmill. Then he Is a briStling cocker spaniel fercely attacking dignifed St. Bemart-until the latter chances Co look his way. What a mag nihtent type he must be in the swelling pride with which he receives a visit in the Sanctum from his hero the governor. Then the mangle crank whirlS with frenzied vigor, and tears poo, Juneau up into ShredS and tltterS.
 In one of his recent issues he charges Juneau no, only with attempting to steal Bradv'S capital, but also, his climate and his beautiful scenery and "the garden spot of Alaska" bodily. He SarclStically animaivertS to JUneau'S claims that she has mines contiguous to the town, and refers to Sitka'S great mining develop ment in the inyidiouS and ungrammatieal sentence: "There are other digsingS just as rich as Juneau and you are not the only nugget in the sluice.'
 The fact iS," he goes on, Juneau was never so dead as she IS at the present time. Her business Is rapidly decreasing, and many Of her merchants are moving away, while others ale opening up branch houses in Skagwav with the intention of moving their entire business interests Co that city. Nearly every per>on coming to this place from Juneau or who has passed through that city, saws the same thing, Juneau IS dead.
 Juneau will probably ignore altogether this cross-evsd mental melndering, or pity the forlornneSS, the absolute dearth of promise about Sitka. which engenders such paltrv SpitefulneSS. lt Is Juneau'S big pay roll and her arm vol workers with families that give her She substantial prosperity that Sitka enyieS, and the bitter thought that with the removal Of the capital Ju- neau will become the graveyard of Si,Na'S aspirations, and that with the downfall of Brady the mlngle will rust in innOcuouS diSuetude.
 There Is another point Is thlS same issue of the Sitka Alaskan that is as worthy of serious thought as the rest of it, and aids the editor immenslv in trutEfully showing a comparison between dead Juneau" and enterpriSing Si,ka. In the very next col umn to that above quoted, there Is this reading notice ih regard to the Juneau steam laundry:
 Anyone wishing firSt-elaSS laundry work done, can leave the same at the AlaSkan ofice and it will be delivered as soon as it is returned, which Is no case will be more than two weeks.
 TheSe two quotations, it is painful to point out, show tha, either the governors henchman does not follow the good old maxim of washing his dirty linen at home or that his mangle Is inadequate to the needs Of the official life in Si,ka. But as Juneau Is dead. and the editor Is going as far north as KoSkOQulm on government iob, what IS Sitkl to do meantime?