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The evening world., 1916-09-20
The Jarr Family
BY Roy l.. NlcC ardcll

q %. I'm. Ns~ Ncrs E,-nips ws-,N
Mr.. Jarr reflected a moment. They
have all grown ur." he said. "nnd
married. and nowadays they vent
their hunor or each other by es-
changing 'tlivver' Jokes"
What 10 . 'f1ivver' toker" asktI
Mrs, JArr.
Master Willie Jnrr stirred 60
though to speak. bu, a stern rin0s
from his father checked him to silence.
Master Willie VAS about to explain
that the family motor car was Of ths
"f1ivver" brand. The chr In question
which now propelled thsm on their
golden journey had bcen secured on .
rental basis from qua. the GENIAL
(sometimcs) proprietor OF the cafe
on the
This had ,essened the glory OF the
tour In Mrs. Jarr's eyes; to be told
now that ous's motor car was a sub
jcct Of lest owing to the fact that Il
vas a "fl,vver" also might have re-
suited In the abandoning OF the tour.
"Not that the 'F1ivver' isn't q soeA
car" Mr.. Jarr FASTENED to explain IN
case HIS good win should learn tie
truth later. "lt's . very good car. le
viii 70 u far a. any VI them. ~ faat
~ most Of them and II rostS much kra
to buy and run Il than other cara
They used to make the aams Joke
about Waterbury wutchsa whom I vas
. boy. Yet . Waterbury watch wss
all hight. sscept Il ussl to take . halt
hour to wind Il up"
A. Mr., Jarr spoke the words the
the car. which had been gliding dewa
the hill like . real automooils. reached
the bottom. siowsd down on Q lsvA
stretch and cssus to . halt WITH .
hollow cough.
Mr., JArr turned on ell the levers
and attachments as hand, The cough
changed TO an attack Of hicSouEha the
car ~esvsd from side to aide. then
staggered. hiccoushed and stopped.
Why Sidn't you Tot . sober carr
asked Mira Jarr. II might have known
II We took q from that man 0us,
Il would b. like all that comes out Of
his establishment-addictsd to intoxi-
cants."
ITS . sober, industrious and re-
ltNhle car" said MIR, JArr, The car
ourc'er hooded going down hill. that's
all,"
Mira Jarr ala not know what the
ca%rbureter was or what ita flooding
sixnihed; she simply shifted ana ,aId
nothing, a. Mr., Jarr got out Of tho
machins and lAeortouSly turned the
crank again and again and again. Il
was not a self-starting . except
down hill
After a while the car hicoouEhed.
then eoughed. barked . few times and
started On docilely,
This In q Waterbury car. isn't itr"
asked Mira, Jarr swectly: but Mr.. Jar
! affected not to hear,
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A Rssessrt
Wsese.

CupcrAh,, 1918, y The rws f>ihleh,
n n II. JARR was on his vacation.
IVI and. like Mary's lamb. every.
> where that Mr.. Jarr wen, his
family wAs sure TO 90.
This time they were al, going In
state. for, ~ the Uptown Home News
chroniclcd Il under the general head
ing OF The whirl of soc,cty"-"Mr,
and Mrs. JArr. accompanied by Mas.
ter Willie and Miss Emma JArr. were
taking an early autumn automobile
Tour through the Berkshires,"
A. . matter Of fact. the JArrs yer
not touring through the Rsrkshircs,
They were beaded toward Hays Cor
nsrs and Pawpaw, and rural rela-
tivNs. A. every student 81 geography
knows. the delightful rural oommuni-
ties Of Hays Corners ana Pawpa~ are
not In the Berkshires. Hut the phrase
AN auto tour In the B~crkshires"
sounds classy. Just a. do the phrases
'Rummer,ne In Newport" or win
tsring In Palm Beach"
when the society reporter OF the
Uptown Homo News (who also So
iieitsd tea and coffee ordsrs) Ascsr
sAinsd from the janitor that the Jarrs
we're gone and had forgotten to pay
the milkmAn and . few others, a. In
usual. the socist< reporter made II =
case Of touring In the Rsrksh,rcs.
Had the JArrs gone away In early
summer without paying THAR bills.
but leaving their furniture behind ~
an evidence Of return In good faith.
the uptown socisty reporter and tea
and coffee order solicitor would have
made Il Newport. II In winter. Palm
Beach.
These wsrs always safe stAtemsnts,
lacking spscinc Information. for when
uptown residents returned from their
vacations they never denied being ~
the most fashionable Of the season
able resorts, - per the "whirl d
Society columns.
Besides. the Jarrs WERE on AZ
automobile tour. and they might ye
anywhere, gasoline money and tires
holding out.
A. they made = six mile detour &c
advance tho trips q mile and = hal,
or Whereabouts the Jarrs drove pas
y country pos, once. WHARF a noes
Of ,oafers regarded them with blss'
indifference when Mr.. Jarr halted th'
machine to ask further directions,
liant It strange" remarked Mrs
Jar a. the car whsssed away and VI
a dusty hill on second speed. Isn't I
strange that you don't hear boy
shoutiLs Get . horssl' 40 they uses
to shout years sEos What has be
come Of the boys who used to shou
Oct q horss,'r"
The evening world., 1916-09-20

II In easier to lead people into
temptation than To cad them away
from it.-Deseret News.
Psychologists are stili engaged on
the problem OF why girls kiss strange
soldiers. How curious that they don't
attribute II to the same Natural cause
thai makes soldiers kiss strange xirlsi
Cleveland Plain Dealer.
Few men have the nerve TO call the
datterer a liar,-Toledo Blade.
A cynic says that the rsason som,
people get married Ia because II take,
two to make a quarrel and some PEG,
ple are not happy unless they nav,
some one to quarrel with.-Milwauke,
News.
The corner most ~frcquented b,
' loafers 10 the seat Of wisdom In an,
community.-Toledo Blade.
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Hits From Sharp Wits

Those who have nothing want little.
but those who have much want more.
Memphis Commercial Appeal
Don't complain at the weather until
after Investigating and seeing n It's
really the weather that's the matter
With you.-knoxviile Journal.
The fellow who never misses an OPP
portunity to boast that he 10 "tust as
good ~ anybody else" really imaEtnes
That he r. better than others, and ID
aeVb'y mistaken.-Aibsny Journal
II looks like nearly everybody Is
striking these days except the fellow
Who isn't getting wages enough ia
eutit,e him to lose . day.-Nashvills
= Banner.
4 Hisa wise hon that cen keep VI
with the price OF her ownieggs. OF the
49, Of them.-Nacon Nets.
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How Our Cities
Were Named
BY Eleanor Clapp.
San k'soneisco.

San FsoNcisco.
{ 7 q no mission to Be built In honor
/. OF our father. 81. Francisr"
asked Eriar JunipssA Sierra. -.
proachfuily. rs he looked at . list oe
proposed mission stations and their
patron saints.
Now. these missisns whioA the
Franciscans had been oommissionsd
to establish In Upper California wsre.
for political 70, sonA. 70 b subsi4issA
by the 0ovsrnmsat. and each add.
tional mission wAs IN extra expense.
90 Jose Calves, the Inspector General.
replied to the good fathsrs protest
rather e~ynicaiiy.
"Is st. Francis desires . missioa let
him SEQ that his port 10 found and
We will sstAblish ons there"
| This conversation took place Ia i7es.
and for nearly . hundred ysars there
had been \ bay named AFTER the saint.
~ the inspector general implied. II
| happened In this way: In lS's that
| bold English sea rover Sir Francis
Drake. who had been busy plunderins
/ the Spanish ships and settlements on
tho Pacific coAsl OF Mexico and South
America. nndinH things were gettln.
q little too hot for him. made up
| his mind TO return home by WY OF
a passage supposed to exist In the
open sea north Of the American cen
fluent. When he got up as far IA
latitude az he was discouraged by
the intcna, cold and decided thai he
had rather run the risk OF being cap
tur,d by the S~paniards than freeze
10 death, so he turned south and on
the nth of June discovered tho en-
trance to u Wide waterway nat NJ
hoped might prove % DO a passase
,nrouyh to the Atlantic. but he va!
disappointed, for this vas only thai
mari, OF san Francisco hay that lay
under the shelter Of Point Reyes
nr,k, wrote an account of his voyage
and 40 the Hpaniards heard OF tn
bay and Ia their old mapa OF n,
time Il 10 called San Francisco (st
Francis>. partly, II 10 'soSsnS :.
honor OF Drake. whose nIs. "sm
nothing more than to give III ham'
had been done and no white mai
had visited the spot since thea.
Father J%unipera soon set o nv
great work Of converting the Indians
The frst mission established wAs .
san Diego. and from there. the 300
father sent out rriAr Crespi and sew
erNi others to establish another mia
sion al Monterey. When In thet
march north they reached h mout'
! Of the Salinas River they eou'd nm
Z no anchorage. 40 thinking that eithe
: they had made n mistake N the lati
tude or that In the hundred And ATT
a that had elapsed sincs thsi
= naviEators had been there plAc
might have become choked With SAINT
. ,hcy went northwArd IN search q
another harbor. and In Novsmhs
I reached the end Of tho peninsula an
discovered the Golden Gate, Whe
they saw that the bay could not pos
sihiy he hat Of Monterey. the
d. thought u Was the same water Int
ttvnlch Drake had penetrated 80 lon
a. 70 and that ~, Francis had tndss
Il mt them to his own port,
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Just a Wife
(Her Daryl
Edited by Janet Trevor
oEgnsht. 1918. by Tn. Pr~a I,lhlishins o..
rSs New yosh Evening word.l
rIg A DTl,n . vvssp

csgnsn,. 1918, by Tho rr~s Iah,i.hins O..
rSs New York Evening wor'd.l
CHAPTER LxvIiI.
CTOBER s5.--I have . head
~ ache and q heart-ache. Yet In
an hour I must 20 to . hot.
glazing theatre. TO talk and laugh
with persons whose conduct and
ideals r far removed from my own.
Ned wants me to 20, and perhaps the
&ayety will charm him from the black
mood which seems to hang over him
to-day.
was horribly disappointed when
he didn't come to mothers last night.
I told myself that I must not be UNI
Just, must not make too many de-
mands upon my husband. Hut Il
seemed to me that by a special effort
he could have been present at my
birthday feast.
l didn't want to spoil mothers
pleasure and ~ I tried to be cheer
full and gay during dinner. But
went home early. pleading that
must not sit up late II | we're to look
my best tonight.
When reached HON, Mary Damn
s., - .. .a. ~
""u so'' W "ef 'oo'" ana NED was
stu! out. l got into u dressing gown
and sat down to wait for him.
hoard the clock striL, .,.y., ,wo,.,
w.. -, 49, s'."' '"'N'
ana one 'heh 1 heard ms KEY In TIT
lock.
hogan IN crv with shc.r r.,,.,
r,.., .....a, , Wv"
". 's ''s'rPo,"''o nara
ly knew what ! was doing, l hur.
ried into the hall.
.oh my d.nr I'm, 81 ~ ,,,, ,.,,..
s"a y'"N'
come sasped half hysterically.
He turned In surprise. for no ha,
not heard my footsteps. His fac,
wns male and saw n dui, y,,,,.. 4,
Nj eyes S"'Ne' !"
.n.,y.,. uo,,,.,. r.. ....
,r,,,ohiv "..:yvhv hsv. "Sc.a,ne'
hhato ,o,t W., ~ .han, svne y
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KEEP 1T UP.

YHETHER the armored caterpillar tractors that have been
wv crawling over trenches and bomb cratcrs to the dscom-
future OF the Germans and the delight of the British Tom.
mics turn out to be American made or not, they have at least called
attention to the fact that the article can be had right here in the
United States, and Uncle Sam has put in an order for twcnty-sevcn
Of them to be delivered within ninety days.
Also, il We may accept the assurance Of the Times, the War De.
partment will somewhat tardily) study the merits of the machine
gun which the British and French coun, one of their most successful
weapons, and which was invented by Col. Isaac Newton Lewis, u. S.
A, who first offered it free to the United States War Department,
where, needless to say, it was turned down.
Our army and navy experts can make no better Use of their time
than to watch the fighting in Europe and note how many American
inventions 9aght to have been kept at home. Uncle Sans naval en-
gineers and ordnance sharps have become noted for always knowing
. good thing when some other nation sees it.
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qu,site thing, But there was no word.
no birthday grosting.
Ned has not been In all day. He
must come SOON. to dress for Mrs.
Denford's party. couldn't eat any
dinner. so l got ready early. am
wearing the new whit, satin frock I
tound-though not at Madame Fclice's
and Ned's gift. the pearl brooch.
| Mary Dunn helped ms to do my hair.
and she says that II looks lovely.
hut l Am horribly unhappy, It's my
! birthday. and the only words hnw,
had from my husband have been
angry ones, II only he had given m,
a klrs instead Of pearls!
The evening world., 1916-09-20
Facts Not Worth knowing
By Arthur Bacr

o~tAs is - ~ Pm. rs~Ans ~ tn S.- Yn r~hs wrAl,
~ 1RINkLEE oN BE- erased fvow sop BY strctchtno trmlv ond then
w treat~e smoothly wMA the nap
For propelaas food toward tAs mouth a French tnvewtor has perfected
Q spoom tet ~av " operated BY ha~d IN the assswcs Of electricity.
~ vsNne oWH NJ orat~ at a time . pou~d Of swoar co~ b wade to los
q tawIv Of tovv or ave tr q ysor,
A pMNA Of ce~crets added n ts batter o. tttevs VIII ada Al iea.t tue
vssrs 70 Ms Ms Of tie rtHsr s~d Give v sp,s~AI wsw%as qualities,
TIC ,~stds Of Ms stovs ptps c~ - MADE v.vy a'ir~~tps ~ siMss
Vita cold Ist
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OF her mother, A.
twins saw that
like Nine, rioncllc
ugly creature, NJ,
hANinR such A nit
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Stories Of Stories
Hots n Immortal F,dion Mastevpieoe'.
By Albert Payson Terhune

Pas ~ Immortal F,aion Msaevpieoss
~ Albert Payson Terhune
o-.asa' p. : y T~- T~~~. a. M 50. % s-s v-s
ySs NrAL RESEMBLANCE. d G"v d Ms"sssss"f.
tsc ARkLAk. painter, "a 10 love 81 lac,
ff pears he he'd tcn lossss spsn % . chfoh's bs'h'lof.
ss,o,sa 10 HE ~ and 10 the pleasant iy ns the, 10 The fsssA
- Of . satsesful sni popular s'is, 10 rAns
Then he met, Lass r1onsis And, ell a. ones. the world changed Toe
wiheu, . struggle. b. yielded 10 the wave o' ssorhs love that over
vhsimsa hin wtheu, . regret he prepared to divorce himself from he
". o.. n.t%aS
s~~~~~' elusive. clear Of voice radianhy beautiful aud With . hint
Of moekins ~itchsp In her look and In her laugh
The oay cloud o'sr the sunshine Of r.scarsnss wodns ss his sweet
hearts mother Not that old Nine rlonsne raised sn, objection to HE
sm' In tact. she was vey gtac.u. sud complaesnt and made the court
na, rc-oaTeie had 81 q true srt'ts love ~ hc,uy Ad Mn. i1oa'iis
vas 49, uEy - sin ~ uty wa she that u offended his seWs 81 beauty
every time h bad !" ioA al her iicro Is his "nnatrrns descrruo" 81 me
't1ahey chsshsi ridiculous iinpros, hair nned up by mN a use chni
bieachsi hair! lu.ul.-. ryrt, and = uue that ~ T, caricatut'"
lie thanked his lucky star TIA, i"cie was 80 dainty, - ethical %
One nirh'-ths nsh, q n witch he PLANNED to propose ieso"renc took
along to play propreN' ~ '"s at IN a boz
pescsrsis had 70 great ,n'er.s, tin the r"y. No he arranged his seat
evening his ~orshpns sue never left her face, lie re,shod In the io,c-
Illness Of her pohn,
daughter, The glow OF the foothghts struck the faces ~ mother and dauvh.
ter 1t precisely the same angle, throwing into view certain salient points
which the painters artistic training enabled him I" grasp at" once.
rcscarcne shuddrrcd as though u knife had been driven into hts side
Il don't know what shadow or play Of light has altered incrcs features"
.~~~~~: OF her mother As they sat there they seemed almost lks
A Rssrssns} twins aw that day inctc would grow to hook just
ugly creature My friends would pity me- years hence Tor
- having such a rtiabiy hcmoiy wife" .
The moment the curtain fell he rushed on, ~ he box leaving the two
women to ret themselves homo as hes, they could Tie Jumped into n cab.
drove over ITO the Moulin Rouge and proceeded to set himself excessively
'lloay.c:," exclaimed the SUI e, whom roscarcpc told the story. ~
mamma sxain,"
Iditarod pioneer., 1916-01-29
BREEZY LETTER RECEIVED
 FROM MRS. RAY D. CLARKE

Mrs M L. Peterson Las received most interesting letter from Mrs. Ray D. Clarke who left this city late in September last. It is dated at Nspa, Cal, December g. and gives description of her trip Outside, of having met many Iditarod people in Seattle, of her trip to the San Francisco exposition, with which she was greatly impressed, and a dissertation on business conditions, which, she says, are excellent, despite the talk of "hard times"
 Mrs Clarke mentions that her husband met Ed Rusk, formerly of Iditarod and that they saw G. M ArbuckIe at a ball game Ray also met Jim Chronister "at the horse races" and Chris Hansen and George Kay were among the 1ditaroders they met in San Francisco. An interesting paragraph of the letter is as follows:
 'Powder works are being blown up all around There are several plants within a short distance from us, and on Sunday our house shook and the report was plain from an explosion in the mixing room of the powder plant at Pinole about five miles away Fortunately no lives were lost.
 The letter concludes: "We long to be back in Alaska, thinking it is the best place of all Ray is particularly anxious to re- turn; but whether he will or not l can't yet tell"
Iditarod pioneer., 1916-01-29
GO AWAY FROM HOME
 TO LEARN THE HOME NEWS

The following from the Seward Gateway of December 27 although slightly in need of retouching in places, is another example of the old adage with reference to going away from home to learn the home news" /:
 With Bob Grifis, one of the old-timers of the Dawson, Nome and other Alaska trails in charge, accompanied by Jim Haley, Ern- est Beattie and William Lodge, other we'll known old-timers, the big shipment of 1dit- arod gold arrived in Seward Saturday. It amounted in weight to 2,416 pounds, and in value to almost S600,G00 all from the Iditarod camp. Of this amount, S401, ,OOO is for account of the Yukon Gold Company and $172O00 from the Miners & Merchants Bank at Iditarod for account of various op- orators in that camp,
 "The Yukon Gold Company is one of the Guggenhem corporations, and operates a tract of ground sub-leased from George C.. Friend, Bennett James and T. F, Lawson, who originally leased the ground from Riley X Aitken
 "The party left Iditarod November P, and consisted of three teams, composed of thirty eight dogs, all told. Nothing of par iticular importance occurred on the trip, and the entire party arrived in Seward safe and we'll"
Iditarod pioneer., 1916-01-29
SEWARD MAIL CONTRACTOR
 FIGURING ON NOME MAIL

When the contract for carrying the mail between Iditarod and Seward was awarded to Colonel Revell, nearly two years ago, he made trip over the mail route between the coast and this city for the purpose of perfecting his arrangements. At the time of his visit to this city he stated to The Pioneer that he was convinced that he could prove to the postof1ice department that a saving of one week in the time of trans porting the Nome mail from the coast to its destination could be made by using the route from Seward to Kaltag.
 The present route of the Nome mail car riers is from Cordova to Chitina and Farl- banks, Panama, kaitag and Unalakleet.
 Recently word came that Colonel Revell would make trip over the trail again this winter, and the Seward papers an nounce that the postal department has de- cided to test the trail between Seward and kaltag with a view to carrying the winter mails to Seward peninsula over that route, and it is presumed that the ap- preaching visit of the contractor Is in con nection with this test.
 The award of this mail contract to be carried over the Seward Iditarod trail would be of inestimable benefit to this dis trict The Nome mail consists of 800 pounds per week, and the freighting of the additional loads over the trail would help keep the trail open and facilitate the dis patch of mail for Idtarod. The time limit now between Seward and Idtarod is twenty five days; but it is believed that this could be cut to twenty days, and even less were the trail travelled more.
Iditarod pioneer., 1916-01-29
REINDEER MAN OFFERS
 BIG REWARD FOR WOLVES

A. H. Twltchel, the reindeer man. has been investigating the stories current here for some time to the effect that wolves were unusually numerous and ferocious this year in the Ditna and surrounding country, It is a matter of vital concern to him, and he has taken particular pains to find out the truth. As far as he has been able to learn, however, there are no great numbers of these predatory animals Ill these parts and while there have been instances lately in which wolves have been seen and been killed, there probably are no marauding bands as had been intimated. However so interested is Mir Twtchell in the matter that he IS offering a reward of $40 for the skin and skull of any wolf killed after January 9, 1915, not more than fifty miles from Iditarod, payable only to the person who killed the animal" on satisfactory evi, dence that the animal was killed as above stated
 The territorial law now provides 8 bounty of $l0 on wolves, but the bounty IS no in ducement to hunters and trappers in this section of Alaska because of the fact that the skin and both bones of the left forearm must be delivered to the authorities As wolf skins are worth from s5 to sl0 Out side, and as they are worth from Sl5 to s25 in this section of Alaska, acceptance of the bounty would not be profitable.
 The reason for the high valuation placed on wolf skins in Interior Alaska is that they are in great demand both by natives and whites who indulge in winter travel for the trimming of parkas, for which purpose they are especially adapted.
 Mir. Twitchell states that many wolk skins are shipped in from the Outside because the supply in this section of Alaska IS not equal to the demand.
 Mir. Twitchell has removed his reindeer herd to new feeding grounds, somewhat re- mote from Iditarod, because of scanty feed, and will not put his animals on the market for the present.
Iditarod pioneer., 1916-01-29
ANCHORAGE LIVELY PLACE

In private letter received by an lditarod resident from Anchorage mention is made of the many former Iditarod people in that new and promising city, among them being Arthur Shonbeck Billy Murray, George Lee, Mr Kemp, Jack Roberts, Breese, Ray Me Donald and Taylor, carpenter. The letter continues
 '"This is the levelest and biggest laid-ou town in Alaska today-that is going some. The streets are about two miles long, and all surveyed by the government. The lots are all sold, and brought from sl0O to s1,2O0" The weather (during the latter part of November had been extremely cold. There are said to be about four thousand persons there at present, and much anxiety is displayed as to the appropriation by con gress of the sS,000000 needed for the rail road work
Iditarod pioneer., 1916-01-29
INQUIRIES FOR MISSING ONES

The following inquiries for missing per sons have been received by Acting Post master Baker:
 Mrs. J. F. Todd, Lock Box 3S1, Neola, Kan, wants information concerning Reuben Earle Todd, who came to Alaska in 1903 He was last heard from in Dawson on his way. He is about 35 years old.
 s. M Leonard of 266 East Sixth street north, Portland, Ore, wants information concerning his brother, Homer Leonard. He says: "He left Ruby, Alaska, August 8, 1914, down the river, and we have traced him as far as Dave Lewis's store, about twenty eight miles down from Ruby. After he left Lewiss store we can tnd no trace of him" Letters from Dave Morris of Ruby express fear that some accident may have happened to him.