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Evening star., 1928-12-20

the why's and wherefores Of their bar
gain. Was not the little volume proof
enough of Johns presence?
She pressed her lips to the page and
then sinking slowly into the deep chair
she laid her face on its arm and Wept
she who had believed all her tears were
shed. The loneliness, the futility OF
her life and love passed over her IN
devastating flood and she wondered II
she could 90 into future that seemed
to promise no L4ore than the past had
given.
Presently she lifted her face, dried
her eyes and, taking the little book,
went out, closing the doors softly behind
her one after the other until she came
to the outer door, which she locked. In
a moment she was at home. The fire
was making itself felt her canary want
ed his breakfast, her flowers needed
watering. There was meeting or the
womans club that afternoon. at which
she was scheduled to speak, and sew
ing bee for the hospital that evenings.
The telephone bell was ringing. 1t was
Mrs. Millard asking her to entertain
the Ladies Aid the following day
You are the only one Of us all who
has room enough"
1t came to her that too many threads
were attached to her. she could not
break them all without vital agony to
herself.
mo: I guess I'll stay right here. I'm
needed Maybe nowhere else could I
be as useful" she thought.
At that moment somebody knocked
at the side door. Without ceasing to
pour water on her primroses she
called Come in!" Then as heSita-
ton rather than neighborless seemed
to follow upon her words, she called
again: do come in. I'm busy"
Beecher's, as she expected. She looked
over her shoulder and saw a man
standing upon the threshold of the
room.
After ward she regretted the breakage
of the old majolica pitcher, but then
she could only realize dizzily that John
Boyd stood before her. She shook
hands with him, she gave him a chair,
she excused the broken pitcher ITS
nothing, really" Then she sat down to
visit with him,
Il came last night and spent the eve
ming in the den. In fact, fell asleep
and did not awaken unSl daylight.
Then I went down to the hotel, where
I had intended to stay, bathed and
breakfasted and hurried back up here
to see you" He smiled, winning smile
from her in return. Few women are
ever so happy as to see their boyish
sweethearts in the men who return
after many years. but Susanne saw
that John Boyd had scarcely changed.
I've come back to stay" he answered
quietly.
why, what-what put that in your
head?" she asked.
You. From a darkened room I
watched you last night, sitting here in
this lighted one, sewing, the same
Susanne that I realized suddenly I
cannot live without"
"Rllt I am a leftover John
Evening star., 1928-12-20
THE EVENING STORY

| If she wanted to see them she must go
where they were.
She arose from the table and going
to the window looked at the old house
next door. When John Boyd went
away for the last time he had given
her one the keys to the side door
You might want to go in there for
something, some time" he had told
her. "You are welcome to books or
anything else you may want John
Boyd was the last Boyd of all and the
house was his. He had left it just as it
stood except for few gifts to his par
entS friends. And he had sold it just
as it stood-furniture hangings, china
and all. The contents were old-fash-
ioned and not very valuable, for nothing
new had been bought during his moth
er'S latter years. Yet to SuSanne it was
filled with the most precious furnish
ings of all-memories of Johns youth
and of her own. She wished to bid
farewell to them while there was yet
time.
She took the key from the sideboard
drawer, where it had been undiSturbed
since John gave it to her almost five
years ago. and, leaving her breakfast
unfinished. she put on her fur coat and
her hat and went out of her house,
round by the walk to the side door of
the Boyd dwelling. "A storm of Sleet
last night had made footing treacher-
Gus. but there was no snow The lock
yielded easily to her key, and she en-
tered into the sitting room, which had
been the scene of SO many happy gath
erings.
It was not this room or the dining
room beyond or the great double parlors
she wished to see, but little room on
the other side of the house which the
Boyd boys, John and Ernest, had called
their den. Ernest was dead now and
NOBODY knew where John was, except
that he was wanderer on the face of
the earth She heSitated before the
door of this little room, then opened
it, and, trembling with emotion, looked
within.
A faint smell of tobacco smote her
in the face. The shades were down
but she could see even in the dimneSS
that somebody had sat in that deep
chair before the fireplace where fire
had certainly been lit. Upon the table
stood an old-fashioned kerosene lamp
by which somebody had been reading.
A book lay face downward beside the
lamp She lifted it and her glance fell
upon a well remembered page in "Au-
caSsin and Nicolette." She had given
John that book on his birthday long
ago. It was as if he had spoken to
her 1t was as if he were there i'll that
little memory-Sacred room with her.
She put away the possibility that the
agent had probably brought there the
purchaser a night or two before and
that they had lit the fire and hunted
I'D the lamp and sat there discussing
Evening star., 1928-12-20
Secrets of Happiness.

~ USANNE TAFT was eating toaS
and drinking cocoa alone at one
end of the big table in the high
cherries and rather chill dining
room of her house on Cedar
e4reet She had a blue wool scarf about
her fuIl shoulders and the hand that
held the thin Haviland cup to her lips
was cold. Winter was setting IN with q
vengeance and the new furnace boy dlo
not understand keeping fire. She
thought drearily that she was going 10
miss Mr.. Pease good deal. Alter
MANY wears of faithful service to the
residents of Cedar street he had oleo
suddenly a few days before.
There was another thing that made
Susanne sad that morning. She mao
heard lust last night that the old BOyd
house next door was sold. 1t had been
in the hands of the agent for long
time. but being a large and expensive
Mace 10 keep up. nobody had seemed
TO care for it. A stranger had bought
it. A stranger in the old Boyd house!
1t meant to Susanne the utter passing
of many things she had loved and val
ued in her life.
She was a woman of 46, amply pro-
portioned. with a clear skin, soft blue
ewes and q great quantity of smooth,
slightly graying hair. Not beautiful,
but sweet and good and gentle, the
kind of woman who makes men and
little children happy. But she was an
old maid The man she had loved all
her life had not wanted her and the
other men she would not have. There
fore she had arrived at time when
she was alone in her house. where
there had once been the joyous hustle
of many goingS and comings. Her sis
terS had married and gone forth INTO
lives of their own; yesterday Jane, the
youngest. had written from France.
Her oldest brother was IN South Amer
lea. In like manner everybody she
seemed to have known or cared about
in her youth had drifted away, leaving
her a bit of flotsam to float alone on
the current Of time.
1t came to her as she put down her
cocoa untasted that it was folly for her
to keep on living alone in this way,
maintaining a house that was alto
gether beyond her needs and her in
come. Much better for her to do as
her sister Helen wanted sell the place
to Mr.. Clifford, store such furniture as
she had an emotional fondnesS for,
auction off the rest and with the pro-
ceeds see a bit of the world, accom-
plish a new system Of living. You are
wasting your powers OF mind and body
there in dull OLD WeStmore," Helen had
written Perhaps it was true. And in
any event she no longer had an excuse
for keeping the old house on their &C
count; they never visited 1t any more.
Evening star., 1928-12-20

80 am L" He came and stood be-
aide her, looking down into her face.
1--WE nobody but you. want you very
much, Susanne."
She didn't tell him that she had al
ways wanted him. She didn't tell him
that she had been in the room so full
of memory and his presence and that
as long as she lived the little volume
of "AucaSsin and Nicolette" should be
her dearest treasure. And he didn't
tell her that upon returning to the room
he had smelled the familiar perfume she
always wore and had found in the chair
a small tear-wet handkerchief embroid-
Evening star., 1928-12-20
THE END.
(Copyright, 1929

The Cascade Tunnel Of the Great
Northern Railroad through the Cascade
Mountains is the largest in the United
States. 1t is miles long and will
shorten the transcontinental trip by
so miles.
Evening star., 1928-12-20

cred with her name. Thus each had a
secret from the other, but they were
secrets that made for happiness. Mean
while they had plans to make for long
and bliSsful future.
THE END.
Evening star., 1928-12-20
Two Gift Specials

Genuine leather case holds 20
cigarettes. Leather covered lighter.
A real gift for him.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1928-08-28
ALASKA BRINGS 51
 PASSENGERS HERE
 TODAY NORTHBOUND

The Alaska, Capt William Jen- sen, arrived in port from the south at s o'clock this morning with two days mail and the fol- lowing passengers for Juneau:
 Mrs. W D. Gross, Mrs. Lena Peterson, Miss I. A Anderson, Miss L. Harpster, Mrs. l.. V. Sparks, Master Sparks, II. Broad land. H. Gins, Mrs. Grace Purdue, I. Petersen, Miss Janice Lowe. Miss Thelma c. Wait, May l.. Rhodes, Miss L. Peterson, MT. and Mrs. w. A. Dorman, K. B. Dorman. M. w. Dorman, w Henry, H Bartolini, Alvina Petrich, Phyllis Petrich, Mrs r. H. Meyers, Joe L. Hill, Hazel Olson, Miss s. Peder- sen. Lucille Pepoon, Mrs. 2. H. Flory. Harry Flory, F. o. Martin, ". R. Garster, MT. and Mrs. T. II. White, H. J. Hansen M. A. Penney, H. Anderson and two steerage from Seattle.
 s. Hellenthal. Mary Hellenthal, John Mclaughlin, Sam Guyot, Karl Theile, B. W. Burke, NJ E. Fowler, Flory, J G. Watts, J. Steven3en MT. and Mrs. J. Keller, c. H. and Helen Hegberg from wayports.
 The steamer left here at 2.3O o'clock this afternoon with the following passengers from here: M. II. Sides for Cordoya; MT. and Mrs. Sydney Laurence, D. Rose, George Bailey. D. H. Gillette and two steerage for Seward
The Daily Alaska empire., 1928-08-28
NOTICE TO MARINERS

Wrangell Narrows-Confirming previous notices issued by the en- gineers of the War Department, masters of all boats. particularly gas boats, are warned that a con- crete pier is being constructed on the north entrance to the Mar rows on what is often called To- peka Rock and care should be exercised especially at night to avoid this obstruction, which has now been carried to a height of about two feet above mean lower low water and is marked by gaso- line drum moored over the pier. Gas boats should keep to the mid dle of the deep channel at this point or use the temporarily buoyed northwest channel The pier will be completed and light ed early in September
 San Ghristoval channel--piedros Island Reef Buoy. 5A. out of posi- tion approximately one half mile east southeast from red buoy, GA, will be replaced as soon as practi- cable.
 Prince William Sound-Point Helen Light, found extinguished August 19, was relighted same date.
 By the direction of the Commits siorer of Lighthouses. w. c. pib- rell. Superintendent.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1928-08-28
MARGNITA IN PORT
 FROM PETERSBURG

Motorship Margnita, Capt H. M. Peterson, arrived in port from Sit ka, Petersburg and wayports al passengers for Juneau. They 5:30 o'clock this morning with ten are:
 Louie Wright from Killisnoo; J. Raymond and Murray Johnson George ]. Beck from Hoonah; II. from Baranof; s. Sakai from Tena- kee; Annie Vooge from Funter Bay, MT and Mrs. August Peter son, Thomas Peterson and Julio Peterson from Petersburg.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1928-08-28
a SCHEDULED SAILlNGs

t Alameda scheduled to sail
 < from Seattle August 20 at
 < 3 am.
 1. Admiral Watson scheduled to 4 sail from Seattle August 29 | at 10 am.
 < Princess Charlotte scheduled i. to sail from Vancouver Au- < gust 20 at pm. < Queen scheduled to sail from !: Seattle Aug. 30. at 10 am. .s Dorothy Alexander scheduled # to sail from Seattle Aug. 31 + ! at 10 am. < Aleutian scheduled to sail < from Seattle Sept, l, at 9 l. am.
 # Prince George scheduled to 4 sail from Vancouver Sept. < 3 at 6 pm. !. Northwestern scheduled to * sail from Seattle Sept at 4 9 pm.
 < SoUTHBoUND sAlLIN0S 4 Yukon due southbound about < August 90.
 'S Admiral Rogers due south- + bound Friday.
 + Admiral Evans due south
 # bound about Sept. G. < Alaska due southbound about < Sept. 6.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1928-08-28
FAIRBANKS MARRIAGE

Mrs. Lila May Williams of New York City, was wed to Corporal Ralph Mitchell at Fairbanks is a recent arrival from the East. Corporal Mitchell of the United States Signal Corps is operator-in- charge at Grundler, where he ha5 been for the last three years.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1928-08-28
VIRGINIA w. HERE
 FROM CHATHAM SITS.

Motorship Virginia ". Capt Matt Nordness. arrived in port from Chatham Straits ports at 8:30 o'clock last evening with the fol- lowing for Juneau:
 Ernest Kirberger and H. A. Lund from Baranof: Miss Anna Goodman from Rake; Miss M. Milroy from Tenakee; John Sat kovich and A A Schense from FunteEsBay.
 She will sail at 6 o'clock tomor- row evening for Chiehagof and wayports.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1928-08-28
FAIRBANKS MAN MARRIED

Louis Stanley. employed by the Fairbanks Exploration Company, and Mrs. Bothilde Christine Aasen. of Seattle. who came north for the wedding, were married recently at Fairbanks, where they will re- side.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1928-08-28
THE EMPIRE
Is the Medium

Through which the general public can always have its wants supplied.
 Closing time for classified advertisements 2 F. M.
 Closing time for display ad- vertisements II A. M.
 Ten cents per line first in 5ertion.
 Five cents for continuous subsequent insertion.
 Count five average words to the line.
 Minimum charge, 50 cents.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1928-08-28
BOATS LOAD BAIT

The Attn, Capt Peter Wold and the Imperial Capt. J. C. Rohmen, tcok bait at the Juneau Cold Stor- age. the Attu this morning and the Imperial yesterday
The Daily Alaska empire., 1928-08-28
LOCAL SAlLlNGS

, Marginita scheduled to leave , for Sitka and way ports. a. , 8 o'clock Wednesday night. ] Virginia w sails for Chicha- , gof and way ports at 6 O. , clock every Wednesday
 7 night. For Chatham Straits
 route at 10 o'clock every
 , Saturday night.
 : America First leaves every
 : Wedh esday at l pm. for . Petersburg and Rake and
 , wayports.
 < < < <. !. ]. < !. . < < .s
The Daily Alaska empire., 1928-08-28
OLIVIA H BRINGS LOGS

The Oliva h., Capt. James flaw thorne, arrived In port yesterday with tow of spruce and hem lock logs from Ham Cove for the Juneau Lumber Mills.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1928-08-28
TIDES TOMORROW

Low tide, e:Oo am. -o.5 feet.
 High tide, 12:26 pm, 14.7 feet. Low tide, 6:OS pm. 80 feet.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1928-08-28

FIRE ALARM CALLS| 1-3 Third and Franklin. IA Front and Franklin. Is Front, near Ferry Way. 1-6 Front. opp. Film Exchange. IT Front, opp. City Wharf. Is Front. near Saw Mill. 2-1 Willoughby at Totem Gro. 2-3 Willoughby, opp. B. P. R. warehouse and garage. 2-4 Front and Seward. 2-5 Front and Main. 2-6 Second and Main. 2-7 Fifth and Seward. 2-9 Fire Hall. 3-2 Gastineau and Rawn Way.
 3-4 Second and Gold. 3-5 Fourth and Harris.
 3-6 Fifth and Gold.
 3-7 Fifth and East.
 3-8 Seventh and Gold.
 3-9 Fifth and Kennedy. Al Ninth, back of power house. Az Calhoun, opp. Juneau Apts. 4-3 Distin Ave, and Indian St. 4-5 Ninth and Calhoun.
 4-6 Seventh and Main.
 AZ Twelfth, Northern L'dry.
 AS Twelfth and Willoughby. 49 Home Grocery.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1928-08-28

SEATTLE, Aug. 2S.-one hun dred pounds of halibut sold here fred and forty thousand, five hun yesterday at Il to 13 cents and I to 8 cents.
 One thousand seven hundred pounds of sable sold for 51s to 513 cents and eleven thousand pounds of cod sold for 2 cents.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1928-08-28
FISH PRICES

KETCHIKAN, Aug. 2S.-Halibut sold for 10 and cents yesterday.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1928-08-28

Old papers for sale at the Empire.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1928-08-28
Marine News
Steamer Movements
NoRTHBoUND

: Princess Louise due this eve
 . ming. No adyiees at 3::30
 ! pm. : Prince Rupert due Thursday : : night.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1928-08-28

PRINCE RUPERT, B. C., Aug 28.-Two hundred and seventy three thousand pounds of halibut were sold here yesterday at 144O and s cents to II and 6 cents.
Evening star., 1928-06-10

very much in love with his able wife,
and she is a real helpmate. / do not
mean that she takes a hand in affairs
Of state. though she knows what is
going forward. but she is always at his
side to cheer and encourage him
There's one thing about my wife"
he told me with real pride. land that is
she knows how to keep a secret You
can tell her anything you like with the
perfect certainty that 1t will be safe III
her keeping
Get Idea He's Stupid.
The premier took a pull at the old
chcrrywood and added, with a twinkle
in his eve:
I'm like that, too I never talk
about private affairs. When people try
to quiz me put on stolid expression,
The result is that some OF them get the
idea I am stupid but l had rather be
considered stupid than have to give
away secrets"
have said that Mr. Baldwin Is a
man of imagination Listen to this:
Il like New York. When / was a lad.
back in 1890. lived there for time. l
loved the old city. from the Battery up
TO Gramercy Park. What world of
romance was there And what emo
tions 1t awakon"d t0 cnmn upon that
little Colonial church, with the cross
upon it. standing almost at the gate of
ono OF the worlds oldest marts.' He
was referring to old st. Paul's, in
lower Broadway But when was
back again, in 1923, l found that old
New York had all but disappeared and
most of the familiar landmarks had
been erased What pity! I expert
enced feeling Of personal loss
Washington Beautiful.
And again:
What beautiful place Washington
Is. And in days TO come It will grow
into the most wonderful city in the
world. with its Arlington. its monuments
and its parks Then there Is Mount
Vernon. How lovely! One PAGES along
the porch. looking down onto the Po-
tomac, and one secs within that ancient
house George Washington and his col
leagues slipping at their port and dis
cusSing-what? One wonders II in
those distant days they saw in their
minds eye anything of the America Of
today. with its tccming millions which
Evening star., 1928-06-10
Charming Luncheon Honors
Visiting Soroptomists

A charming entertainment of the for
eign delegates to the international meet
ing of the Soroptomist Club last week
was the luncheon Tuesday In the ball
room Of the Hotel Mayflower, and Nine.
Marie Won Unschuld was chairman
of the luncheon committee The table
was in the shape of a horseshoe and
the center filled with ferns and palms
and a large gold ball, from which the
flags Of the countries represented were
suspended.
Among those at the luncheon were
the attache of the British embassy and
Mrs Harold H. Sims, Lieut.. Jean Labat
of the military attaches Office of the
French embassy and Nine. Labat, Senor
Aljendro Eckart of the Argentine en-
bassy and Sonora de Eckart, M. Henri
Lazard of the Argentine embassy. Miss
A. Brans, chancellor of the Neither
lands legation. the president of the
Washington Chamber of Commerce and
Mrs. Ivan Weld; Mrs. J. GARFIELD Riley,
former president of the Women's City
Club, who spoke during the luncheon,
Mrs, Bruce Wallace of the Washington
branch of the EngliSh-Speaking Union;
Miss Lila Mechlin, who spoke as a
Evening star., 1928-06-10
CLUBWOMEN OF THE NATION
Organization Members Taking Active Part Political Cam
paigns-Republican Women Report Progress-Attend-
ance at Conventions-Pen Women.

national value. Books autographed by
the authors constitute one feature of
the collection but the Library of
States" dominates the collection in size.
The plan for each of the $4,000 clubs
I'm the general federation to contribute
at least one book, preferably by State
author has met with remarkable re-
Sponse.
A recent compilation of this section
of headquarters library reveals gifts
from State federations and by indi-
vidual clubs in the States as follows:
New Jersey 80; Indiana. 80; Maryland
IS: Massachusetts, SO; Iowa, 20; New
York, %: Alabama, %; Tennessee. %: !:
Connecticut. 81; Kentucky, 81; Texas
26; Arizona IS California. IS; Maine,
"a; Oklahoma. "a: Pennsylvania, 20;
West Virginia. 90; Wisconsin. 20; South
Carolina, 49, Vermont, 10; Michigan,
II; Virginia, 16; Delaware, Is; Missis-
sippi, l5 New Mexico. Is; South Da-
kota, IS; North Carolina, ID; North
Dakota, IA; Washington, IA Illinois,
10; Oregon, 13; Rhode Island, l3; Ne
braska, IL; Utah, II; Colorado. 8: Kan
sas, 9; Idaho, 8: Florida. 6: New Hamp-
shire, 4: Missouri 8; Wyoming, 3; Dis
trict Of Columbia, 2; Georgia, 2, and
Ohio. /.
COME weeks ago. in the early Spring,
- four prominent women we're gath
cred around luncheon table in Miami.
Fla. Each of them was candidate for
an Office of Importance, and all laugh
ingly agreed that II elected they would
Evening star., 1928-06-10

meet again for luncheon in the future
In Washington y. G.
It seems likely that the luncheon will
be held. for all four have been success
full. They we're Mrs. Ruth Bryan owen
of Cocoanut Grove. Fla who has won
the nomination for Representative from
Florida in the United States Congress,
and whose election to that office seems
assured; Mrs. Clarence M. Busch (Bon-
mic Busch) of Miami and Washington,
who was elected national president of
the National League of American Pen
Women ut the convention held at the
Willard Hotel in April; Mrs. John Sippel
of Baltimore, who has Just been chosen
as the head of the General Federation
of Women's Clubs and Judge Edith M.
Atkinson of Miami, Fla. who has been
nominated to succeed herself as Judge
of the Juvenile Court of Miami.
Mrs. Owen and Judge Atkinson are
both members of the Miami branch of
the League of American Pen Women,
and 1t was at the home of Mrs. Busch,
who was then president of the Miami
branch, that the first Ruth Bryan Owen
campaign club was formed Both the
Miami branch and the national league
arc rejoicing in Mrs. Owens success.
Mrs. Busch says of Mrs. Owen She
Is one of the most brilliant women /
have ever met. She has great charm.
is a splendid mother, woman's woman
in every way. consider her a mag
netic speaker, and believe she will be a
great addition to the Nations Repre-
SentatiVeS in Congress"