The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1902-11-16
MONIES ONLY DRESS SUIT.
A. First Looked Upon With DisfayOr. II
Came to he Regarded As . Mascot.


In those first days of the thrush at Nome
acquaintances of day were reckoned as
friendships. Men met men Oh the street.
shook hands, bought drinks and were sworn
allies forever after, After six months Tom
Culver was regarded as one OF the oldest and
foremost citizens He was 20 years old and
had been there four months. Few knew
whittier he had come. or what he meant to
do. but he had money. spent II like true
blue klondiker. and. In spite OF his tender
foot ways, WAS beloved OF men.
The struggle for quick eminence In a min
Ing town v as feverish as the desire for sud-
den wealth. Nome was full OF men WHO
didn't know a shale sink from a true assure.
Not half OF them were miners In the real
sense. but they were there for business. and
meant to do It. Politics Is almost az good a ;
mining II you get away right and can boss
the dicgings There are restaurants in the
Klondike that pay better than prize Chains.
one saloon up there made nearly 500. 90 in
seven months. and some OF the luckicst pros
pectors In Alaska went broke across It's rou-
lette wheel
Caste Is unknown. II you are a man YOU
are IA man. woman is a TRANSPORTED Great
ure. deihed by memories and almost for
gotten lon gings. apotheosi5ed In proportion
to her beauty. her youth. her virtue ard her
ISOLATION A beautiful girl in an Arctic
mining camp Is a radiant presence. the en-
bodiment OF all good and tender me morie-,
the par-onifcaton of all sacrifices made. oil
assumes an exaggerated value which j. IN"
Gu minaton Of dreams. the ruerdon, of toll,
incc ! 70 o. Even ' bad. lonely, coarse mor-
cenary woman achieves comet hing OF this cN-
allied condition in the reSard OF men. In such
thing wiusomely reminiscent Of man Sac has
Z he same form n hi- mother, lister. sweet
Of h.r l.
Tom Culver met the Kian girl In the
fair. modest, Intelligent She seemed ex;
cessively beautiful. Thornton introduced
them and she invited him 70 her party Per-
form and comely face. Thornton didn't. but
they had set elbow TO elbow in :tud-pok"r
game At the ChiIkat Palace. and the, men
was lust finished and had in II eight rooms
q palace for those days in that plnc. Every
lection OF the law. Culver came NJ and
the festivities stoned to give the guest
time to son'npse Mn M h. n9mp}ny dih
was unavoidable. Involuntary, purely emo
Ion Culver was in full dress,
To enhance the cclat OF lis appearance he
wore white chrysanthenum IN his lapel
Neither dress SUI nor chr&santhemum had
gold dust washed from remote placers, mug
gets Of yellow quartz from the hills. iorlornn
and faintinC ArgOrHuts who hld traNef>"d
the pass without dogs. men who, had lived
upon dog meat. women who had braved the
avalanche and the endless nights all OF
these we're already old stories in Nome. But
a dress suit fresh flower Thornton,
who was with Miss killian when culver came
in. looked as If he would faint The rlrl
beamed upon him " ith an excess of radiance.
His presence alone. IN that array, would
have made her party the event Of the sea-
son" She made much of him, favored him.
danced more with him than with any one
The men decided he must BE- millionaire
as well as g tenderioot. and asked him 70 TAX,
TO dance With Miss killian Then they
hated him. When he ~, on his gray ktd
too long Thornton was glowerins at them
from the window, AZ o'clock in the morn.
ing Culver , nm bEoEe II ne Ms dIess sq bs
Chilkat Palace and went to bed The next
day he and his sartorial sensationalism OF
umn and. with rare delicacy. predicted his
tnnt the fulI dress game s was the only way to
buck the tiger. He went to see the girl.
but she was less complac"nt probably be-
Where did you get that nower?" she asked.
My mother. sent 1t to me in cotton from the
States" he said
The only one''.
The only one from the only woman-but
one" he whispered. but she was looking across
the hall at Thornton who came In.
That night the Chilkat dealer won bnck
| most o. his luck. The regulars said that he
couldn't win in plain clothes. One OF them
Ali right" he said. I'm broke. III let
You have II Tor s2S IN evening sSotor all day +.
| the suit and prospered Culver staked that
money and lost, He always lost after that
except when he wore his evening dress Bnt
play. He got hundred for lending it To an
ambitious young politician who aspiIsd to be
snow e not .Sds S: nil si' Soi
s the vnnsr TIE SnY se hnd sd f'
agreed TIA. wsf masG0t TnSrptGn hired
price II cost a hundred now TO wear it for
day. The money vent across the green
cloth at hot tes sHa i. to Thornton
all But most OF his time was spent NJ the
Chilk9t. and dress suits looked de trop g. a
kiiln did not smile upon him He had
called. but was told that she was out. lie
watched the house from the corner and pres
ments. come Visiting down the street and
enter the killian Louise. Tom must have
couldn't get out In the morning He was
coughing up blood and HIS back ached. He
sp sI iw9 days in d1e,ssminnd and when ;.
ss All fsHpF ffs% se %%:d 'F'dl'
all that day The man Of medicine wrote let
ters back to the only woman-but one" In
the evening, Thornton called-tho first time
and after inquiries. said lie wanted to Dor
row the dress suit
I'm to be married, Culver. he explained.
whisper.
Yes, Culver. We expected to have you
there, but as you can't 20. and as I'd like to
suit?"
You can't have II. Thornton
mo, Thornton, You can't have a. IN
need IL myself, You-see-I mean-to-be-
wall
And he was-two days after. But the odd
Part Of It was that Busby, the undertaken
| funeral-in q dress suit. "