The Alaska citizen., 1915-12-13

son of the fact that he had pre- yiously been heralded as the original Dan Appleton in Rex Beach's ia. nous novel. The Iron Trail.' La ter he told them of his work in the interior and of his recent strike Cf pay gravel in the Toloyana country, ending with the boost for Alaska generally which is a chara cteristiC of all true sons of the northland.
 Mac" says that it is just like living three lives in travelling from Fairbanks to Iowa Tn Fairbanks and vicinity Is the life which he s,enrs to have always known " reason of his long residence in Alaska Seattle and other coast cities present another varied exist enCe, while, according to Mac" the change 10 the east cannot easily until he takes a trip back to the old home
 lie did not spend much time ir | Seattle on his way out. Instead, after stopping over there to see a show or two, he started east At the station he was met by old home folks and on the way to the place he calls hone on the Outside he met a preacher who had first in jected the principles of religion into his infantile brain.
 And before he knew it Mac" had promised to occupy pew at church the next day. Gle lad arrived home on Saturday.. He says that the experience was real novelty (There are TO churches at Brooks you know).
 At any rate, he stuck aroun'' home for a while visiting the folks. excepting an occasional trip to Des Moines to see old college "chumps," :" during which trips he regaled the news gatherers of that city with his northern experiences and had them written up in real romantic style. Then he took the folks to the fair at Frisco and went back home with them.
 About two weeks of life. at home. however, was all Mac" could stand so he started west again. He says his reasons for doing so were many and various, the chief one being that he wanted to get sight of face from Alaska And then his funds were running low-which ac. counts for lis reason for wishing to see Alashan faces. And, accord ing to his statement, he saw them all as fast as he came to them.
 Mac" and Dan McCarty had agreed to meet in Seattle and Dan was there when Mac" arrived The eyes of the Seattleites The best suite of rooms at the Frye was none too good for them, and night after night the best seats at the Seattle theatres were communicated for them and party of sOurdoughs with which they travelled around In fact, according to Mac" Dan lost so much sleep that he would drop off into dreamland while watch ing a play, no matter how interest ing it was. And just here, in tell ing the story, Mac broke in with little detailed account of one of Dams slumher fests.
 ing Dan about his propensity for sleep. The joshing was kept up all through one evening in particu- lar, and to use Macs expression, Dan was some peeved thereat There fore, just before everybody retired for the night, Dan made the state ment that he was going to stay up all night and take the party out to breakfast the next morning.
 Mac" says that he himself went to bed and that he was awakened the next morning by phone mes sage from the office, telling him that he had better come down and look liter his partner. Of course Mac" imagined that the least he would have to do would be 10 go and bail Dan out, bur when he went out on the street the first object which met his eye was Dan asleep in an open taxlcab, with his feet high up in the air And the taxi was stand ing immediately n front of the doors of the Frye, and 1t was then about 9 o'clock in the morning.
 The first thing that Mac" did was to hunt up the taXicab driver, who told him that Dan had char tered the car about o'clock that morning and was waiting to take party of friends out to breakfast So, telling the chauffeur that he would see that the car was paid for, Mac" went back into the hotel secured a good scat and waited de velopments.
 And Dan slept on. He was natur- ally an object of curiosity to all who passed on the street and one or two policemen even glanced his