The Alaska citizen., 1915-12-06


 are some winsome maidens in Val dez. but all the bachelors We are personally acquainted with are storm proof and fire tested Nothing less than a grass widow with a bad cough and a paying claim could win those We know; and we suspect that the interior is full of the same hard hearted class
 But they are mighty fine men. and if a girl did happen to trap one. We would gamble that he would stand without hitching the rest of his life. At any rate. We would ad- wise our inquirer not to stampede a grubstake for, as we have re marked before, we have mighty fine bunch of young women in Val deg, and they appear to need a steam drill to penetrate the frozen hearts of some of our crusty bach elors"
 Another It is a well known fact Big Deal that furs, as a general In Furs. thing, represent value. In
 fact, they are so valu- ble that, to some Fairbanks people they are legal tender Sometimes they are tender for one reason and some times for another.
 Particularly is this true in view of the fact that they are sometimes offered on the altar e unrequited love and just as often taken away again. However, it seems that the tunrequited" part of the love busi- ness is not known until after the donor of the furs in the first instance gets wise to the fact that he is not the darling boy" he imagined he was
 Not long ago. so the story runs, well known Fairbanks man loaned $500 to woman in which to em- bark in business. She "embarked' all right, but failed at the end of the allotted time to return the five hundred. That fact, however, did not worry the man who had loaned her the money, for they were friends and he could afford to be without such a small sum, seeing that busi- ness was bad.
 One day during the past week, however, the woman received a mes sage How her gentleman friend learned about it is not stated, but at any rate she skipped out the trail still owing him the $500, and he went after her
 He caught her at the Nine-mile house, having made the trip in record time in his, trusty Ford. And when e did catch here there was a scene. for what did he do but deprive the lady of her fine set of furs, valued at s7oO, and bring them back to Fairbanks with him.
 The lady came back, too, but not in the same Ford. It is understood that she is now threatening to bring suit to recover her furs
 The Way Of "Of all sad words of A Man With tongue or pen, the A Maid. saddest are these two
 -stung again"
 The above couplet, distorted tra- vcsty on the almost immortal words penned by one of Americas greatest authors, are nevertheless more ap- pliCable to the story about to be re lated than John Greenleaf W's them selves would have been. The req son they are better is that it might have been" had a chance to be and wasn't, as far as is known-nor is it,
 The story is of a young wife who became tired of her fireside and decided to leave. She went from Fairbanks to Hot Springs, where she frolcked around for awhile ana then went Outside. Late in the fall she wrote her husband that she was tired of Outside life and asked him to take her back. At the same time she sent in requisition for a ticket from Seattle to Fairbanks and the sum of s25O to travel on.
 Being anxious for the welfare of her whom he had promised at the altar to cherish and protect. hubby" sent the money, together with the ticket and his forgiveness. Imagine his surprise when, on the last mail, Ne one which came on the stage which he thought would bring 'wifey" home, he received a letter which stated, in effect: "I just want ed to see how easy you are. didn't need the money, as am about fifteen hundred to the good and still going and have nineteen new dresses, but I will keep it any how, to remember you by. I can use the ticket when l take the no- ton to come back to Fairbanks" Arthur Hey! You guy! What Lands The yuh packin' yer heart Heart. around n yer sleeve
 like dat fer? Don't yuh know that some chicken is liable