The Alaska citizen., 1915-09-13

Name. night, and had the tune
 of his life He danced every time he wanted to, and that was all the time Now there must be something suggestive about his name. or the fact that. he is now q Tolovana king might have some thing to do with it. but the fact remains that every time he got around where there was a bunch of ladies he got an introduction.
 On one occa sion. however, one of the ladies doing the introducing forgot his cognOmen for the moment Try as she might she could not re call it. She knew it was some kind of wine. but just which brand was a mystery to her. She thought or Bubbles" in connection with cham pagne. but tiat did not sound just right. She thought of every known brand except snerry. The time was getting short, as Sherry was com ing her way to claim her for the next dance and she wanted to in troduce him to her companions.
 She grasped the name of the last remaining liquid, and when the in troduction was acknowledged he was known to the ladies as Mir Claret. He some men are so anN- Is A lous to keep their names Joke. before the people that
 they will even violate the law fo: the purpose of being fined and thus secure newspaper notoriety.
 A stunt of this kind was pulled off the other day on Second avenue when the marshal of the Fourth di- vision shot a chicken off the roof of one Of the warehouses.
 The limelieht-loving marshal was dled) down the street when he spied the chicken. He went into store and borrowed a gun. He shot the chicken.
 He expected the notoriety of hay ing to pay a fine, but he was beau tifully fooled The city officials paid no attention to the joke.
 That part of the joke may be all right. but sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander. Had it been anyone else in town, or even roughneck from the creeks. who, in a moment of eXuberance, had fired a gun within the incorporate limits of the city of Fairbanks. he would have been given what the book of ordinances calls for
 But inasmuch as it was a joke perpetrating joke the matter was passed over and this fool newspaper is giving him the notoriety he craves so much.
 Bats This only goes to show in His what nutty freak will Befry. do. No one who is not
 bothered with bats in his belfly will resort to the tactics adopted by our honored marshal to attract the attention of the people. He has become so common that he is not getting the attention he thinks is due him, and he must re sort to some other method of ad vertising his diminutive stature.
 He has a horse which he dearly loves to ride because it shows off his shape to such good advantage. He has ridden him around the streets for several weeks and people have gotten tired of the sight"
 Therefore he must resort to some thing else 70 attract attention, so he ties the hore up to the tele- phone pole at the corner of HIS federal office building and commences to worry the animal. He will take the whip which he always carries with him and tickle the horses back and otherwise annoy the steed until he is almost frantic, after which he will mount and go down Front street. with the frightened horse jumping sidewise. Of course the people have to look, and the lion is satisfied He has been noticed. Initiates Years ago the same Dude" thing, or practically the Lewis. same, was common
 sight on the main streets of Seattle. When Dude Lewis was in his prime and wanted the admira- tion of the people of his home town, he would go to the livery stable and have cockle-burr put under the saddle blanket, then he would sail forth and go down the whole length of First and Second avenues with the horse slantwise across the street, and he people noticed him. That was what he wanted, and that is what the little marshal is after. He wants people to notice him.
 Of course the cockle-burr stunt