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11w" 1 touch“ I I Hn'l Mint main in Mult- and gun a fur hm. or some Millionaire's wife had one like it and was hunting for It. match, or whether the war inc-e m Mt hubby no hnvy that he waddn’t stand for the buy. “We uh 1 H3 chm (or a big profit,” he all. [will send it outside for tannin. .1] making up 3nd let it try for u nan. If the war wasn’t on, the chance would be a ml (N. J. Brown) I saw an lntlhn huh. a fox skin hunnN.C.Co.M-dgfl$fifi0 for it, in train "An" the a“: l ‘94 with the tndermdnshdhfluvumn- cry «by oecurnnce ft tear kind of misto'lwbmgscluirnmu tool ten minutes to “G I hrgnin? And ho told no a M Ihout (m (an “mt I did mt how. H9 said "w lmli- H had this skin for lbont thy-H- m‘l and had born to every trad", M of fur buyer within 200 milns, drivhg g bargain, and had finally come bark tn him. The skin was that of a jet black fox, wry are in Mask; or anyvhorn who. I asknd what price he would got for “It skin, and In- mplied that it wan about 35 big I speculum: as gold prospecting: that it: price might go mWorfilmo,orhemlthegl-d to get his $650 had. He explained thithepflcvofitdqmdedonwhethâ€" Bonn-In! Ruth-0d in n I. link "a" d Pop-hu- cl Almi- Hu If“ This Int 6010, [HRS All) flSll All! Al- ASKA'S ASSIIS DOWNERS GROVE PUBLISHING CO Belmont 0 Forest Aves. Phone l88. what wé are t ed for. Your mien [at let . statements. enve- low. office forms. and in fact anything will be appreciated. Anything in the Priptjng Lin; is The Cooperating Churches invite You to Be Present at Their Services Next Sunday. Big Union Meeting at Night in the Baptist Church. See News Columns for olher Announcemcnls. ED . ._..,‘ fl 6 ,' w w Let Us Figure W it]: You. AN INVITATION And In." llle dealer Ind told me all about fox fanning. l concludfil I would rather lake chances 0n hen» raising in tin statesâ€""lat this M fox business was his ranch like (he job llw lellow in "aim havl -â€" picking blossoms from a century plant. I traveled many hundred miles with n gowrnml revenue «filter. whose bushes: it was to see that every sa- loon and joint that sold liqu‘or came through will: its mommt license to Uncle Sam. He aid he traveled moo miles every year in Alaska. but that tlw mrrltory would soon be dry and then lw was going into the fur buying, which ho had been doing as a side line for some time, and he gavn me than? outside market prices on lhe Alaskan furs: Silver Fox. $500 to $1. 200: black fox, $1500; red fox. $l8 to $35: whit» fox. :20. Then there are the otter. amine, marlin, wolf. all varivllt-s 0f bears, woolvorina, lynx. beau-r, skunk and so on. Martin are forbiddm to be tapped in Alaska and l hrlieve seals also, except the dog meal. These can be bough {or one dol- lar spleen. The walrus grow to an enormous sin in Alaska, as large no the largest ox and often weights 3 and timber. are queationn that have often been asked of me, and a New York newapaper sends me the follow- ing clipping, mid to have been in an Irticle wfltkn by Funk Carpenter: The cloud Huh fox akin '3 hr mnrr ‘11qu than live diver-grey. The Mummy an to hull with mod-kw: 0N0 «miMy. but uh- full black fox Is I (ml. 3 "patch." an accident of hit-flu. TM: an animal is a hybrI-d. 3 mt". the mind 0! emu-Meal- in. n «A and silver fox. but "w alum thing is mon- in no natural mud. A brood" my wait (or yarn for u Had (I): and hr may rt nm in the first “It". But "m chums on long in favor of (In wait. hem-t- l‘he scan-fly «C Wu fur. What about farming, flock mixing Men go up thvre to mine, or to fiikw nth" mn- or Imus Mrmtu- ma pursuits. nnvl may of tin-m «main to fnnn or to rain M. In many mgions thr plow thins up mom Inkl~ultl mom rasilyâ€"4han do" thr pith-x . Tho [mnrnmont railrnotl is being built not to bring out gold. but cool and flipper, and for miles around it thrrr- Ifl‘: vat lays whirl» haw- noil and (Main that comp-r1! favor-1N1 with many "ions in the L'nitMl States prop". The math" records for tho past winter show that the tomprraturo "paged IniMrr at the port of Sew- nrvl than at New York and it is chimed they pick stnwhrrrios in th- rich Hatnnuska "flay nu oar-i, u we do here in Oregon. ll‘ Frank Carpenter wrote the alum- he must have anon Mash (run: a dif- ferent shut than i did. Lot mu state elm the territory is not a farming country and never rm lie-4mm the climate undergoes n grout change. Anyont- knows that n hnd that stays solidly (men two 1nd I half or thrive fed hemath the surf-cc will never ha I worth-while undue! country. and anyone who knows anything about thv very short summer senons and tho grout (humor of killing frosts, knows that when a profit-Mr cmp is raised it is when I 20 to 1 chance comm: through. The mfmancn to vaard hm: little to do with Alaska. I: i< an “r ox- twmo smitht‘rn roast. You “'5” not:- tho nhm-v clipping slale‘s‘fit is claim- ed." and I could fill a volume with that kind of dope. "It is claimed" of warty all the towns on thv .~~.uthnrn Alaskan coast that the snowfall is from 20 foe: up and it has to rain every day in the summer to melt it off. Yet. with this almost constant rainfall "IPIT‘ aw- lhousands of acres on which the snowfall gains on the rain, hence the wonderfull glacirrsrA great. lakqa and rivers of solid ice. slowly moving to the ocoan. The lower count may lie the country for turnips, hut dnn't tako n chnnon on going up there for menu! farming. ~--V' And am you hm Mud I m M: I. w. .-.,- m (M.- ”man or' und- mun- ac III-mum uh m. Hakim “I mu.- 4. "pm“! «I! I. no if your hat I- M IMHO-w (My "m .II mum "II Isms duo-41m I. m along or Ion- )‘wr Aim IM- co-MII. TM» (My gradu- papal-my ;nlly mod up "k' halos. chugnla TM"- Mfl' Mn mums 30'0""! "wit mum" of [Max anal bee-aw a Imp-mn- III the MIMI” nf lhlsmufim I'm", '08.: II" 5|" WI If?“ *I’W'j Tm In lndhn or IZ-Ilimo. dn-IuI Moth-rnduadum-IM Mm In Annie-II «mm MI I will: m to "De 50in M 1'0 )‘Ofl’flve I who to "your Ho an M (My my the mud will Ir mpldul‘mm out from . Inna. of Japan ran-u. lid Indy far nonh‘ I may 5' I Homily "I" ”kindly mm («In mid nu "morn. hm I wot-hr MI Chin In Japan. my hmr II» mm m of 0» Int H ti" h' In wwkv‘yvnowm «my. my. my. ‘eIu-oImI’ wmI IM omnm- sun-fa" In think", and a slid“ p,» slant. 'nr‘ 0' ““h- "N. *“h "'1' """NM 11w MHIM run link for gold In Hood: in “lo nut-nor month. my army. The,- would unm- lawn-n9 'KIR” ‘9 "‘3‘ H W" h" m ’05 ‘0 K at I trifling “on than [old in Choir 'm that Human! in durationâ€"4""! path-I.- They Irv In" and “film"! if the" ll I “HUI!“ '07 “3 ”NH." ambition Hwy rah-h fish and III-wt Iflnwncr this is but an apininn. M" “up. In" 20 Ina" IhI- innumo of ;I may have to mix on. the rhin- man has had link «mm on! " Alaska today is hitting Ibo that". "arm. The) am mutt-m In (‘xisL i 'TM ”"4“"? 5" M'iflifll. Half MITMn‘ In nxmpliomx in "If llrgor rix I Alaska today is him»; "to ehnhm. The unitary in «dining. mar of Hw populatim of the country has left um year. In m-vry town. camp and mim I risilod lht- mk‘ wow knvlng or making pup-ruin" to go out on Hu- lut boats. Then- was gloom and dopnukm everywhere. TM "was I found were mm: No new strikes of size or pvmamnty, “w oxmnive cost of living in "It mininl ramps and the stories of high wag“ and gut“ activity on tho outsidr. This Mo wls landing the ”sump-r accom- morhtions of all the last bouts. dirt. and mom of [host- dny: wlwn he had mmulntod 'onough mom-y to “hold him up" for a scam. they wnrc all going back and makr good. If these fellow: could only cash in all their hours. if they mnM dew-lop one-tenth of thr'ir pmspv‘rts. Dawson would lost» its famv as tho om great- v~st mold camp on narth. They all haw a “prospt‘d” and a rtory with it‘ and "man storiesriwoll, Hwy just got you. got into your blood and make you want to chuck the whole work-a-day world. get an outfit and twat it back to the unpcoplod silence. hack into the rugged hills \vhm‘o proâ€" prieties and worries don't go, back whore ynu just let: go of cwrythlng you were ever tangled with, rough it “ hunt for the decaying gold. A peculiarity I found in Alaska is that them arr almost as many Indi- an dink-«ts as thorn aro Indian towns. and that rmo community is almost (“5‘ tinct in talk and customs from the om porhaps 50 miles away. A nowepnpm- mnn‘ statod the Indians and Eskimos are not wanderer-s; that in the early And yd almost awry miner or pro!- prdor who was leaving would statr that some day he was going back. Aim-oat every man of them know when. .or about Winn. them was rich Thrn- Mrr hm momma unlorm. {My m "prun- 6n n..- eom-tmdm of IMQg‘fluim nod; Ihn‘ [In W [mt wuhouln 1'.” at! other "tinted" M dun-l ’ Mm u. AdulkrmanW-lovof and: Mia-- at “a menu-hm It in «II I. no if your Don I: am about duo-Mm I. m dong or Imu- your popular“ y. ‘tha m. um! buck mmllm In WIIMMIM ml 0m (Ml "do do- poofln m‘l MI. and hot IN yum go. in; h I’II' it than!!! of mile- (a cumm- nfl umw cm. "w W filfl oi! in thu- “M?” ‘ Around Fairbanku and Tenant: you hear nothing but the glad music. The ”fiction of the nilnod I: going to ac ml emu boom. The [rt-1|! coal field: will be developed. thousand. of unwnlbcmplowd.lnduumn to“ n- “Ncnm rill din Damon (or "But." I mun-nu. “rm! deposit: 0! can! lie undeveloped h Wuhlnflun "day traum- hl mud mph- with they Or «and. mud how an- you go- lu to mums! your all to Sow-M. but II to Stank In! 01”“:qu do" _tion of at least kwping warm while yon “no bmko." { As to “hm tln‘ mwmment‘u mil« i «and will do for the can) section of South-m Alaska, it in but a nutter n! 1opinlon. and m) hound. opinionwan oplnlon funndvd on all the information ] oould xnthm from all Mumt'irâ€"«ls that It will mwvr ht' a paying inwa- mcnt, and that tho govornnn-nt took 3 china: that own the (iumnhoinls «land not tackle. bring on I mhr old-{Wand 3m: E And with u..- i-xéoption or this one imam: section. mm in No son. in lAlamo. and it will be thousands of ryears yot before there will be. A few finches under the tundra. the soil licenses. Even {ho [rm-s cannot subsist. ‘Ovor the millions of news of A'flfikl} you will nee fowsta grown up to scrub dimensions and dead. 0n the entin‘ length of the Yukon there is no timber ‘worth whilo, for when it roaches a cer- ltain site it dim: for want of mot sul» 'stance. The famous Alaska spruce ‘you mad about is not in Alaska pro- per. but far down in the panhandle, ‘north of Prince Rupert. If you want to go into the fishing or fur business. don’t look for any- thing bum-r than the north land. but] if you want to take a long rhnnco on" fanning or stock raising. lake llu-alhf Valid-y as u. ln-uvr chance than Alaska; for there you will have the sutixfau-l If there is stock ralsiugén Alask- I would like to be cited. There is mm- lng for cows to eat. They sure would stave on tundra and the stuff reln~ deem live on. There may be a few cows around the fawn-d section of Fairbanks, but in my 2200 mile trlp through the interior of Alaska I never saw a head of stock. 51m rm a. gun. to hr dom- wm. ‘Ship It In 8am; and {turn the rims Gnovg -_ mom tPOSlTlON OF THE ‘ AMERICAN FARMER do” any item forced by unity to mm in mull number: when the hunting and flaking m ml; that 1000)- [Munlly burr-mo [til-ea III. (II tlhe Minimi- of yarn tho law :W into dhkdu lid [in original ,umm brain“ practically kid. Will: practically m‘ery [mt foodâ€" pmdun'ng rountry in the "w world. Arr-Mina excepted, now engaged in the gum: wovM war, the tillers of the soil find nations lamina to them for hwad. This nr has prm‘ed n gold mine to the farm". not only hone in Almeria, but all ovt‘r the world. A man with food to sell has made money whonsver he marketed his produce. TIN American {firmer has bmn par- licularly fortunaln. The UnitMl States hold aloof from (he slrugglo for hm years and Ihfi American farm" m- fl‘ivfil top prirns fnr bumper traps. Tho “‘ralth of the world flowed inlo his lap. while Swmlr. Dane, Franchâ€" man. Englishman and Italian hrvakâ€" faslod. dined and summl all“ tho amps (Ind rultlo he soul abroad. . All that is changed now. The Unit- r-vl Slatr‘s has entered lhr war. and what. for two yr‘m‘s. moanl lho Amer- ican fm‘mor's opportunity to make money. now mvans his opportunity to show hard. common some and patriotâ€" ism. . ln the first place. his (‘mern- mnt must he supported in this war n‘gainst Gvrmzm autocmcy in the form of submarinns. or his crops will not gnt to market and he will not be able to get his share of thn world’s wealth. That is the hard. cornmon some of it. And. if his Govemmvnt is not sup- ported by his monoy, it will not be able to puwlmsn from him here in tho home markets. That also is hard, common sense. rr town: who" then an- mission-tins and schoola. and splnnlid work has hum done by Haw (nu-Mrs. Ford weekly, Bray Pic-(09mph, and a very good comedy featuring Edward Earle and Betty Howe Epoch] uni-cc swam-tuto- knoll. lvcnm mcmuowncmmn 10-341mm: tul m 2: lllIllfiIlll’ ’vwm Alll ”Minn-cc.) JV Mguerite cm in “Seven Swans" l évmm In “lire FairBarbarian” W 77'” Victor loan: in “The mum m" Evan-Laverton-Maflan Fouche in “SOLDIERS OF CHANGE” lo! a mm of «a: Work“ and War Burton Holmes Travel Picture?- . , , ' > “The Land of Madam Butterfly” ’Q p» Also a 813 V Comedy Mam 3:30 W to can to all. Evening one Us Show: 7:45: W low I5c. m Ml. Evening one BM Show a! 7:45: Admission o and 13:. DICKE THEATRE Thursday, Mar. 7111 Matinee 3:30 Saturday, Mar. 2nd Matinee 3:30 Tuesday, Mar. 5th g’l'hcn than: is the first Moutenunt -, Who gives orders in a tone, [That makes thom work the hauler. These brave knights of the ‘phoao. Why don't we fight for 31017 In that land across the sea? ;an, \vo mn‘t for we're the ' Home Guards of the C. T. C. j-â€"Marie Mulligan, Randolph Exchange Evening Operator. THE HOME GUARDS Tim following verses an from II. Primary issno of the 8'“ 11m Nowa. Thry wen min": by one d "If ommtnrs. Tho “C T C" ‘8 Ch last lino wfrrn In Chicago Tam Company. We never mt a helmet to < Keep out the My gut, Which sometimes comes in win. In the form of brutal sun. And we never shoulder rifle! We have our stat! of doctor: And a nurse to hold our hand; And all thosn other Iitfle thing- That makns army Me so mad. To "Meet us all the while, For we win most all our battles With a voice that seems to smile. Thnrn's Um fiery little comm! Who marrhos up and down. And if her soldier‘s arn’t working, Gee, you ought to see her frown. mar mry null nor livm TM Amrdrnn ram-r i:- («din him-r" and his (firmly whm he rub hard and low: In pmducr Wt tray: in "H's war [II-riot. I'll M I. spnnvlml his money MI him" and his fulurr. u up" m "at if his amen. when hr snppnfls (hr- Cowman-M by purrhasing Lil-arty Druids. We lake city after city Trr‘ming rich and poor the all And wt- never flinch in battle-â€" We‘w the uamest of the guns. In "in mud plum Ibo (Ar-nil palflounm would Ml Mm M ch Gan-mm»! It Wuhimm I» 3”. him lawn sad so ”bur-m cl pn- lrdion for Ma prvwrly Mu O. O lm dam. MM In «mud by Inl- mwnd ham “to Gonn- mt n Wuhln'lon h mm 9 port (run Mn. but lama-t a» On- "mm-m In Mum-ll and M! In!” to "w numb and MI- MM to IE. cal and 3" Mn night"! II 00 mu and In the tun-d sum. n- Gm‘crmnrnt £- mmrivn and '0 should how magi: lo dhphy puc- Mal ”must-sun foe our mm [00‘ (onuur and our 0"» idea of M II rigM and lawful amt Inflow. All iMivals ta hark mu opinion I". I‘ve oniistod in an Irmy That wars no uniform. But we’m always «I! on duty In sunshine or in “firm. Friday;_m;i;gmw