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The Daily Alaska empire., 1933-02-06
CHAPTER 24.
ENCOUNTER NO. TWO

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 It was not on that evening, bu the next that Mark Lodely sat il ] the Novelty theatre and watched Patsy Raoul.
 He sat at the back of the box his eyes keen with excitement Down below on the stage, bare ex cept for a table and chair anC a screen, Patsy Raoul, thin, plain draped in greenish black, was be ing a whole dispensary, full O women, all of them were under nourished, some dandied infants one confessed to being nearly a! drunk as I was last Christmas.
 Patsy Raoul was also the dis penser, the nurse and the police man who came in once to restore order and once to ketch the drum ken woman home because her chilo had just been burned to death Doctor, you'll have to give me e drop of something for me nerves naow, woncher?"
 Then there was the crash oi hand -clapping and the wondering murmer that lifts a success to a sensation. Mark did not clap but he leaned forward, trying to will her to look up.
 She had eyes for no one yet She nodded, curtly enough, to the packed house and then moved the screen, revealing piano. She sat down to it and began to talk to muse aloud to the lisping com ment of the music. People began to smile, suddenly she was singing in French and smiles broadened, those who could not understand her showing a rather more open appreciation than those who could.
 Then she sang, surprisingly true and sweet, a little country love plaint. Mark peered at the pro- gram and discovered that this was a composition of her own. Hea had somehow thought it might be.
 When she had finished and ta- ken her last call, he had to sit back. She had not looked up He waited for the interval, then summoned an attendant.
 T want to see Miss Raoul before she leaves the theatre.
 T could take your card,s sir but"
 That will be all right She will see me"
 He waited, smiling to himself tapping a parcel with his long fin gers. The next turn" was over before the attendant returned with the message that Miss Raoul would see him. Even then he did not hurry. He adjusted his crutch his parcel and himself with care It was fully ten minutes later, af- ter an unhurried journey up and down stairs and along passages in the wake of a sympathetic dresser that he entered Miss Raoul's room
 It held a good many people none of whom paid him particu- lar attention. He did not resent tllis-he sank down on couch and undid his parcel From the welter of conversation he gather ed that amongst those present were a woman writer, a man dress maker and an in individual in a bowler hat who had come about little matter that was to have been settled on last Monday Or an opposite couch a man younger than Mark craned forward to set Miss Raoul and then huddled back again and drew frenziedly what he had seen.
 Mark watched him without ran. cour. He was quite sure the worl was very bad.
 After a reasonable time, as tht cris-cross of talk showed no pros. pect of abating, Mark dragged himself along the couch and bend ing a little, swung his parcel neat ly on to Miss Raouls table. It dis placed some jars and bottles ant the man -dressmaker turned tt
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doctor warns that much dancing is apt to affect the heart. Boy he ought to what too much sitting out does to it.
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Daily it becomes more and more evident that the Japanese use the word specification" only in the old Roman sense.-(Detroit Free Press)
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The individual who uses the shoes he wears as a paper weight is never successful at anything.
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The Japanese have been taking so many gates in the Chinese Wall they probably will inform the League of Nations it is nothing but Halloween prank.-Q Indianapolis Star)
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Among the best sellers this year may be tome by that very Dear Kunnen Fess entitled T am a Fugitive From the Anti-Saloon League"-ldacon Teegraph)
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pacity and you'll sit and make out it's the fault of being a crip- pie! You can't swing that pathet- ic stuff on me any more than the temperament So don't try!"
 Copyright, 1892, Julia Cleft ...
 Addams)
 Mark seizes curious chance to torture his hostess, to mor- row.
 Make Millions Tnink-and Buyl
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Now 1t is said that the country is crazy over tecnnocracy or in other words, is suffering from technochosia.-(Bos Transcripto
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On March the Democrats will rush into IT, 900 Federal jobs. They will rush in faster than ll7,000 Republican will rush out-(Atchison Glabe)
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fake Millions Tnink-and Buy,
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The proposal of the City of Ju- neau to enter into an agreement with the Alaska Steamship Com pany whereby the city would buy all of it's coal from the company end the company was to dock all it's ships tt the city wharf was turned down by the company, ac- cording to Judge J. R. Vim, who took the matter up with the steam ship officials on recent trip |south.
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Capt. Sid Harrington, well known Yukon navigator, and Jerry Quin- Ian, conductor of the White Pass Road, were in Mexico enjoying the bull fights and other things, according to word received from tEem
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A farewell party was given for Mrs. DeVighne, who planned to leave soon for the south, at the Congregational Church in Doug las.
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Word was received by Mrs. J. E. Barragar of the death of her mother. Mrs. Samuel Lind, of paralysis. The remains were to be sent to Portland, Ore. for inter ment
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Slocum Disaster

Many years ago, in the
bright month of June, an
old steamboat named the
General Slocum threshed
her way up the East River,
jammed with 1,40O women
and children-the annual
excursion and outing of st.
Marks Lutheran Church.
Fire started in the forward
part of the boat, leaped out
of control and swept the
old craft from end to end.
Hundreds of thousands
watched the dreadful spec
tacle from both banks of
the river, helpless to aid.
And after a while, the boat,
a charred hulk of death,
stranded ON North Brother
Island, in He'll Gate.
l was sent to cover the
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LISTEN, WORLD!
BY Elsie Robinson

So we rush joyously into
the new adventure.
But presently we are tagging,
halting, falling-hurt and Grip
pled-and crying angrily:
Something's wrong! Love
isn't what I thought it was go.
ing to be. I thought it would
change my whole life, but in
stead I am worse off. Things
are as tiresome and provoking
as ever, and I'm even more un-
happy. I've been tricked!
Loves a lie! This person I've
married is a malicious stranger.
Oh, why did this have 10 hap
pen to me?"
So we blame love-for what
really is our own fault. For why
should we expect love to per-
form such impossible miracles?
Contentment, good temper,
ambition, happiness II h eS e
things are OUR own job, part
of the development and adjust
ment of our own character for
which we alone are responsible,
They are NOT up to love. And
it's childish to blame love for
not doing a job which we should
do ourselves.
It's equally childish to blame
the other fellow because he
won't live up to your eXpecta-
tions.
Such beautiful expectations
as you had for him, or her!
How brave this partner Of
yours was to be: how patient,
and kind, and wise, and merry!
IN SHORT, HE OR SHE
WAS TO BE THE PERFECT
LIVING EXPRESSION OF ALL
THOSE NOBLE QUALITIES
WHICH YOU'VE NEVER
BOTHERED TO ACHIEVE
YOURSELF-AND WHAT A
.VICARIOUS KICK YOU WERE
GOING TO GET OUT OF ALL
THIS SECONDHAND SAINT
LINESS!
But look what happened! IN
stead of expressing YOUR fond
dreams, the witch insisted on
Being Himself, regardless of your
pleasure or comfort! That's
gratitude for you, after all your
wonderful faith in him or her!
But was it really faith? Or
was it just your own egotism,
trying to play God?
And are you really a pitiful
victim? Or did you just get
what was coming to you?
No, stranger; love doesn't
fail us. We fail love.
Love can help us.
Love can comfort us.
Love can inspire us.
But love can't MAKE us.
We must make ourselves
kill our own snakeS-consume
our own smoke.
And if we're too lazy or
cowardly or stupid or impatient
to do these things for our
selves, then what?
THEN THAT'S OUR BAD
LUCK-AND OUR OWN PRI-
VATE FAULT - WHETHER
WE'RE MARRIED OR SINGLE.
Copyright. 1898. by King Features
Syndicate, Inc.
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Mysterious Way

"Oh, Papa!' she cried,
"where is mamma and
brother and sister and
baby?"
The father, Charles Kreg-
Ter, of 257 Avenue B, caught
up his child in a perfect
agony of love and held her
close for minutes before he
could utter a word. His
wife and four children had
been on the boat, and all
were gone except this child,
Lizzie.
When he left the room he
was almost crushing her IN
his arms, and the last
glimpse we reporters had OF
them was a wealth of golden
hair and a red, red, dress
and a happy baby smile. l
wonder where she is now!
Tell me, how did that
child come alive out of a
holocaust and a peril OF
deep waters? How did she
get there, as neat and un-
spotted as when she was so
lovingly dressed by the
mother she was never to
see again? Was it, as Mil
ton says, "that power which
men call chance?" Or,
shall we say with the poet
Cowper, "God moves in a
mysterious way his wonders
to perform. -
Copyright, 1888, King Features
Syndicate, 1nc.)
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Chinatown Tragedy

One Of the girls who
taught in these Sunday
Schools for Chinese was the
granddaughter of a famous
general in the Union Army.
She was Elsie Siegel, and
her grandfather was Maj.
Gen. Franz Siegel, one of
Grants best commanders.
She became so obsessed with
the Chinese and their ways
that she spent most Of her
time in the dingy quarter
off Chatham Square.
Then she became infatu-
ated with a smooth short
haired Chinese named Leung
Linn. And one night my
city editor rushed me up
town to a squalid, miserable
room above a chop suey
joint in Eighth Avenue. I
got there with the police.
And presently an old man
hunter named Captain Carey
lifted the lid of a trunk.
Inside the trunk was all
that was left Of poor Elsie.
Her yellow lover had tired
of her. We found thirty
five of her letters in that
room, pathetic, imploring
letters. So1le weeks later
the hounds of the law ran
Leung Linn down and his
accomplices and they burned
in the chair. And after
that, missionary work by
young girls just about died
out in Chinatown. So you
see, there are fads in all
ages.
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SHORT JOURNEYS
Temple Manning

in gorgeous head-dresses OF the
province. Families go there
year after year to their own
villas or to the good hotels.
The bathing is excellent and so
is the beach.
On the Riviera are fashion
able beaches and tiny secluded
fishing hamlets, known to the
initiated few. Monte Carlo has
built a very grand beach, a
musical comedy affair that
doesn't seem real. Juan-les-Pins
used to be one of these favored
spots, but even though it has
been discovered it is still lovely
and well worth visit. The
beach is rather pebbly, but the
bathing is divine. There is a
splendid casino where one may
lunch, dine and dance al fresco.
st. Troppez has created a new
idea in beach clothes, but it's
beach is far from perfect. The
place is beautiful and you
should add it to your collection
of places that must be seen. 1t
is a fishing village. primarily,
and it hasn't altered much de-
spite its new popularity.
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Prim Perfection

A baby girl Of four, she
sat in an armchair on one
side of the room, her big
blue eyes wide with in
terest, her round little face
quite serene and untroubled.
She had come out of the
burned boat somehow-no-
body knew how then or
overland her yellow hair
and bright red dress were
as neat as a new doll s, with
not a drop of water or a
smudge of SCOT to sully
their prim perfection. Her
eyes travelled all about the
room, taking in the whole
dreadful scene, the silent
sheeted figures at her very
feet-her chubby, neat-slip-
pered feet which were a
long way from reaching the
floor.
And she gazed curiously
at the screaming women and
the moaning men, obviously
puzzled as to the meaning
of it all-this little child
who had never been intro
duced to the Dark Angel.
She wasn't frightened by
the dead or shaken by her
own experience. Hour after
hour she sat primly up
right, a quaint little maiden,
until a man burst into the
room, white-faced-frenzied.
She saw him at once and
scrambled from her chair.
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European Beaches

Beaches in Europe are many
and varied. # you are fond Of
swimming you could easily have
an enjoyable summer collecting
bathing beaches in European
style, ranging from England's
Blackpool, beloved resort of the
weavers and mill hands of Ian
cashire, to fashionable Biarritz
with its magnificent hotels, ca
banas and collection of impress
sive titles.
But if you are wise you'll keep
away from those beaches stud
ded with the imprint of count
less feet and find the smaller.
more interesting places. For in
stance, in France you can, if
you wish, go to LIE Toquet or
Deauville, that is, if you like
magnificent clothes, style, gems,
gambling and the like. But II
you want a real swimming holi-
day, you'll stick to the family
beaches of the lovely Brittany
coast, the best known of which
perhaps is Dinard. which is
crowded with children, very
often accompanied by nurses
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us all those ELSIE ROBINSON
things we've failed to find or
achieve in our years of lone
Illness.
Contentment - how we've
longed for that! We've always
been so discontented, so rest
less and dissatisfied with our
lot. But now that this new
glory of love has dawned,
surely we'll be satisfied! For
life will be made over. There'n
be no more boring monotony,
no more exasperating .shabb1-
ness; and the days will dawn
on tiptoe with delight.
We won't be cross any more,
either. We've always been
pretty peevish, flying into tan
trums over trifles. But love
will cure that, too. For how
can we ever be irritable again
with our hearts so flooded with
tenderness?
And we'll want to live. Well
show all these people who said
we were lazy, ambitionlesS, that
they were wrong. We weren't
really lazy, ever. But life
wasn't worth living; that was
the trouble. So why make the
effort? But now, with this
dear one by our side, no ef-
fort will be too great to make.
And We'll be happy! Some
one has come at last to give
us the JOY we've always
missed; the enduring ecstasy.
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ONCE OVERS

room and slippers in library,
just here you took them off,
but can you remember?
If they are put away by a neat
houSekeeper you blame her, and
if they are untouched where you
left them, you still blame others
for your out-of- place articles.
Your clothes would never be
together if left where you shed
them.
Don't blame others-blame
yourself that you have not
formed a habit of putting your
things in a certain right place
every time.
Must time is wasted and so
much unnecessary results from
dropping receipts, bills, letters.
and whatnot-to say nothing OF
wearing apparel-all over the
house.
Copyright 1898. King Features
Syndicate, 1nc.)
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Human Side of the News
All Girls Should Not Be Condemned for Folly of
Few-Elsie SiegePs Tragedy-Recol-
lections of the Slocum Disaster
.Bv EdUin C.. Hill.

At a dinner party the
other night a pompous and
loquacious gentleman was
denouncing the modern
young woman. He flayed
her. The general theme OF
his lecture was that the
modern young woman has
no balance; runs after
strange gods; and is the
slave of weird fads. In
short, practically a psyche
pathic case.
I think that's all nonsense.
There have always been
foolish, silly girls who do
foolish, silly things, but in
no age or time are all girls
to be condemned because of
the folly of the few.
I recall, back some years,
when it was a great fad
with some young women to
60 down into Chinatown
and read the Bible to freshly
imported coolies. A good
deal Of unhappiness and
tragedy came out of that.
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Wonderland Love

attractive husband, is always
tempered by her relief at not
having to keep her eyes on
either of them, any longer.
A mans artful neutrality
when he is trying to decide be-
tween two girls is like a wo-
mans careful way of sticking
a hand out at each side of the
car, until she decides which
way she wants to turn.
A sensitive woman can work
up a case of mental cruelty"
against her husband, if he
merely so much as squints at
her makeup or scrapeS the
burnt end off his toast.
# whole meals ever do come
all put up in cans, no bachelor
will feel sorry for himself
which looks pretty dark for
marriage. Because, if you can't
get a man feeling sorry for
himself, how are you ever go
ing to get him to the altar?
Marriage and an artistic ca
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Importance that interests the British people, interests also the
Royal Family and it GOES.
When the Royal Air Force maintained separate force
because the British intelligent not Of the
army navy gives exhibition the King himself his
oldest son. the Prince Of Wales is hand to cheer and
express delight.
The Prince himself flies in planes of all sorts
England is in fact republc the people rule absolutely
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WISE WORDS

Procrastination is the thief OF
time-Young.
Property has it's duties as we'll
as its rights.-MarquiS of Nor
mandy.
Proverbs are short sentences,
drawn from long experience
CervanteS.
Every unpublished delinquency
has a family of delinquencieS.-
Herbert Spencer.
He who puts off .impurity
thereby puts on purity.-Emer-
son,
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A Place for Everything

A PIaCe 1Or Everything
When you can't find some
thing you are looking for at
home, don't first blame mem
bers of the family for having
removed it from where you
placed it?
It is your boast that if others
would leave your things alone
you would never have to hunt
for anything.
But what an untidy home 1t
would be if everything were left
just where you dropped it.
Newspaper clippings, adver-
tisements, dozens of them,
tucked around, here and there,
because they were Of interest to
you and you wanted to save
them.
Shoes in most any section Of
the house, shoes in the bath;
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Alexander Avenue police
station, in the Bronx, to
which hundreds of bodies
were carried as they were
taken from the river. I do
not want to recall the
tragedy and the ghastliness
of the story, or to think Of
the row on row Of bodies
that covered the floor, or
of the pyramid of dead
children in one corner. I
want to tell you about the
little heroine of the mys-
tery-the child God had in
his keeping that day.
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broken mar
riage.
I doubt if
it does, my
dear. To the
contrary, I
su S p e c t we
fail love.
We h av e
such ch lid
ish, unreason-
able dreams
about oV e.
We expect it
to be a per-
petual Santa
Claus, giving
~ IL
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In England being member of the Royal Family is
sinecure The King the Queen their only daughter the
Princess Royal and all of their work hard constantly
few of the pictures printed here all taken in week.
show to what extent their lives devoted to matters that
interest their Subjects" .........
great cricket match darby Ascot race the opening
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The democratic elfgoverning of the British like
their royal family, to which they look up
The intelligent British believe that is good thing to
have an elastic government changing Prime Ministers often
as needed permanent King to make presidential elec
tons unnecessary.
Our system doubtless will be the best system the long
run. Perhaps it needs perfectng
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the King makes important statements those
written for him by the Prime Minister at the
He and all of his family unlike other royalties
NOT blind to the teachings of history.
They know that it is important for Royalty to be well liked
and that the way to be well liked is to DESERVE AP
PROVAL
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Love Doesn't Fail Us
We Fail Love

''Why does love fail us?"
she cries, facing the world en-
bittered and torn by her
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MARRY-GO-ROUND
BY Helen Rowland

reer are the oil and water that
won't mix-and the career, like
the oil, always comes out on
top.
A philandering husband seems
to be like a bed-sheet that is
too short-just something that
you can't do anything about.
Jealousy is regarded as a
very archaic emotion, now that
a man starts right in by Of
fering a girl merely a coopera-
tive interest in his kisses,
time and affection and a limited
parking-time in his telephone
list.
A man always loves an in
telligent girl-on theory; a
nice girl-on principle: and
a beautiful girl-on sight.
Love is the "homing instinct"
Of the heart-infatuation is the
hunting instinct.
Too many mothers think OF
their sons as confirmed bache-
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COTTON PRICES
TURN A BIT
LOWER

NEW YORK, July 10 GN.S0.
Pressure Of profit taking and re-
ports Of scattered showers in
Texas and Oklahoma forced cot
ton futures lower today. Liver
pool cables were / point higher
to 5 points lower than due.
Selling appeared principally
from the South and commission
houses and brokers with Japanese
connections offered scattered con-
tracts.
The trade offered the principal
source of profit, with some out,
side demand in evidence.
Worth Street reported a gray
goods market, advancing prices
on domestics and some finished
lines and pending deals in goods
for export to Russia.
Midday prices were off 7 to 8
points with October off 8 at II. .82,
December off 7 at 1902, January
off 7 at 1910, March off 7 at
1924, and May off 7 at 1899.
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GRAIN FUTURES
TREND DOWN

CHICAGO, July 19 G.N.SD.-
Grains favored the downside in
early dealings here today.
Near mid-Session wheat was a
to 1c lower, corn unchanged to
2sc down, oats 3s to 12c off and
rye y to lc down. Barley was
SC lower in more orderly trading.
restrictions being limited to five
cents a day.
May wheat was carried down
to 1241sc, May corn, 797sc.
Liverpool wheat was l to 1lsd
higher, Winnipeg "a to lac off.
Estimated carlotS receipts here
we're: Wheat, 174, corn 342 and
oats SO,
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CLOTH MARKET

NEW YORK. July 10 UNs.).-The
coarse cloths market continued quiet
today with the majority of buyers
awaiting some evidence Of the effect
Of the operation of the textile code.
Many buyers were worried over the
80 much because Of any fear 1t would
be a burden on the industry. but rather
because OF the Intricate detail of work
that must be done on 1t.
Several buyers were awaiting definite
information on how much added cost
they must pay on contracts already
placed. and for this reason. were re-
iuctant to nlace further business.