The Alaska citizen., 1915-08-16

experience will gainsay 1t. The
 work in the trenches today is not
 very different from the work inside and in front Of the lines of Peters burg fifty years ago. and the vet
 erans of both the Union and Con federate armies testify that tobacco
 contributed to keeping up the spirits
 of the men.
 Order The rivalry among the
 Got barber shops of this city ] Mixed. has been quite strenuous
 and all over femaln l barber
 Up to recent date there was a
 lady barber working in Cushman
 street shop, and she was the envy
 of at least two other shops in the city. Then she resigned her situa- l ton in the Cushman street shop to accept another of like nature in a side street emporium. l Then the rivalry commenced. and both Cushman street establishments
 began looking about for the very l best-looking lady barber they could 1 find to offset the attraction of the side street shop.
 The proprietor of the shop that had never employed female did not | know just where to get the article desired, so confided his trouble 10 a friend, and that friend knew just ] where he could be supplied. he him self being personally acquainted with a female tonsorial artist. having made her acquaintance on his last i trip to Seattle
 i Now it happened that this lady
 friend had another lady friend for a roommate, who was a nurse by occupation, and the Fairbanksan had met her as well.
 i The barber then decided to have i his friend take the matter in hand and send for the female tonsorialist and for that purpose transferred to him the necessary amount in cash to satisfy the demands of the trans portation companies, and an order for a ticket was duly sent 10 Sc attle
 Now it seems that the barber's friends mixed, and in the sending of the order for transportation lie sent it to the nurse instead of the barber, and in due time the nurse arrived on the scene.
 In the bill of lading turned in there is now marked, "One barber short, one nurse over' Who will stand the expense of the mistake, as far as the cost of trans portation is concerned, has not vel been adjusted but in the meantime the nurse has the run of the streets and is not under particular sur Veilance
 New In the last mail letters Auto were pretty well distrib- Story. uted over the district from the Territorial ! treasurer at Juneau to the reputed auto owners, notifying them that i tax of $5 per annum had been placed upon that instrument of luxury by ] the last legislative body, notifying them what dire vengeance would befall all possessors of such seem ing wealth if they did not heed the warning and procure license from said treasurer
 Evidently having been supplied with list of all reputed auto own CTS in this district, and George Bel lows coming under this head by vir. l tue of his seniority in the "automo- | bile business,' he necessarily was not overlooked in the allotment, and his answer to the pleadings of the treasurer is hereby produced
 "Terlitorial Treasurer Juneau, Alas | ka
 ! DtdT DIT. III lle ldSJ lldIl l Was
 apprsed of the fact that l am sup posed to contribute to the territorial
 excheQuer in the way of license
 for the extreme pleasure @ of
 owning an automobile. Now, that
 would be all right with me if l had
 working machine-but !
 True, I have what was once an
 automobile, but at the present writ
 ing it is partially dismantled and
 am negotiating for the sale of the
 engine.
 "I am in about the same position
 with my automobile as the farmer
 who received a notice of a tax levy
 on his automobile. He admitted
 having bought one, and then de
 scrbed it's condition, to-wit: His
 boy was using the front wheels for
 sulky; the horn called the hired
 men from the fields for their meals;
 the headlights were used in the barn; l the seats Were in rustic bower where his daughter received her
 beau, the body of the truck was used
 as a hotbed to start onion sets, and last, but not least, the engine was