The Alaska citizen., 1915-10-04

anu iiiN Np SA't u bp. ii' " 'AS icA merly an expert swimmer. particu- larly in the back floating position and says he is going to be a regular patron of the nat until he learns again.
 The natatorium continues to draw big crowds nightly, many Fairbank ans taking the chance offered them to take a good swim. if they are apt at the art. or a paddle if they are not.
 The Money To the average Fair Looked Big banksan a salary of $500 To Her. per year looks very
 small, but in the eyes of l Outsiders it sometimes looks very large When people from the Out side come north they are almost crushed when they are told Of the enormous expense of living here and of the salaries which must be paid if the salaried individual has to live on his earnings.
 This story, however, has little to do with expenses in the North, but is for the purpose of explaining how I local minister, not long from the | Outside himself, so far forgot him self as to make the statement that the salary of a certain position here was only" $500 year. The minister in question is Rev. H. H. Lumpkin, who while he had to be a cheechaco once like everybody else, is now so | thoroughly northerner that he has | forgotten that on the Outside, $500 | is an extremely large amount Of money, particularly in some places. It seems that not long ago MT | Lumpkin received a letter from young lady in the east in which said lady made application for the position of librarian at the George l c. Thomas Memorial library, hay l ing heard that such a thing existed here. She stated in the letter that she had loneed for some time for chance to see Alaska, and that if she could get the position, she wou'f start North as soon as she could get ready
 MT. Lumpk in, however, knowing that the position could easily be filled by local people, decided that he would tell her that she had bet ter not come He therefore wrote her a short letter, and, thinking to discourage her told her that the pay for librarian would "only be $500 per year"
 Last week MT. Lumpkin received a telegram. It said Save position for me l am starting west at once"
 Now MT. Lumpkin is casting about for way tC stop this adventure some young lady, who evidently thought that she would be em ployed if she cared to accept $500 per year for her work. He has wired her not to come, but has yet received no answer to his message. ris Stamps Along with other ar Smell Good ticles too numerous to To Them. mention, George L. Bel
 lows, of the Bijou Cigar and Confectionery store, on Front street sells stamps He advertises that postage stamps can be ob- tained at all hours and he has there fore worked up good business in the commodity. The only trouble George has about the stamps is that occasionally somebody wants to get one of his profit sharing certifi- cent purchase, when he gets 20 cents worth Of stamps, but George says that, while he is good hearted he cant see his way clear to be in profit sharing scheme of that kind.
 Georges chief patrons in the stamp business are the ladies who pass his store. He always tries to accommodate the ladies in every way possible, but he never could quite understand why they were buying their stamps of him. He is modest and is therefore certain that it is not his prepossessing appear ance which is the drawing card.
 However, George got ''wised up last week when lady came in and told him that she liked to buy stamps from him because they smell ed so good. And that is the reason MT. Bellows keeps his stamps in