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The
Gate-way
Route ot
Comfort
Service
Safety
To Yukon Territory, Atlin District
—Interior Alaska =
During the winter season of 1916-1 7 our regular train service will
be maintained North and South Bound between Skaguay
and Whitehorse, trains leaving both terminals Mondays,
Wednesdays and] Fridays.] •
WINTER STAGE SERVICE
Our Through Mail, Passenger and Freight Service will be "oper
ated between Whitehorse and Dawson, affording every possible
facility for comfortable winter travel by means of la
Thoroughly Equipped Stage and Antomobile Line^
f
For full information apply to
C. W. CASH
SupL Mail Service Dept
WHITEHORSE. Y. T.
A. F. Z1PF
OR [Traffic Manager 3
612 Second Ave., SEATTLE, Wash.
White Pass & Yukon Route
TIME TABLE No. 88.
Morriay, Wtxlnesday and Friday
No. 1, N. Bound [_J | ... No. a, 8. Bound
1st Clau let Claet
H:SO a. m. Leave* 8KAGWAY Arrives 3:50 p. m.
11:03 a. m. " WH1TU FASS Leave* 3:80 p. m.
11:45 a. m. • LOO CABIN M j 1:30 p. m.'
12:40 p. m. " BENNETT " 13:50 p. m.
2; 20 p. m. " CARIBOU " 10:48 a. m.
4:50 p. m. Arrives WHITSHORSE " 8:00 a. m.
Piseengers aanst be at depot li time to have Baggage in
spected and checked, bwpection is stopped SO ilnntf before
h»»ing time of trains. - •
160 pond* of baggage will be checked free with each fall
tea ticket and 75 panada with each half fare ticket.
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■ Famous for its Home Cooking,
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POLICY
IN GOOD STRONG COMPANIES
REGISTERED IN
ALASKA T v
, AND REPRESENTED BY
PHIL. ABRAHAMS
LICENSED AGENT AT SKAGWAY
j "ANY PLACE THAT IS WILD."
John Mulr Wanted to Get Far From th#
Madding Crowd.
Once, on reading a magazine article
by an enthusiastic young mountain
climber who dilated upon hia thrilling
adventures in scaling Mount Tyndall,
John Mulr commented dryly: "He must
have given himself a lot of trouble.
When I climbed Tyndall ran up and
back before breakfast'*
At a time when trallfl were few and
hard to find he explored the Sierra,
whlcli be said, should be called not
the Nevada or Snowy range, but the
Range of Light When night came he
selected the lee side of a log, made p
Are and went to sleep on a bed of pine
needles. If it was snowing he made
a bigger fire and lay closer to his log
shelter.
"Outdoors is the natural place for
man," he said "I begin to cough and
wheeze the minute I get within walls."
Never at a loss to make his way in
the wilderness, he was completely be
wildered in the midst of city streets.
"What is the nearest way out of
town?" he asked of a man in the busi
ness section of San Francisco soon aft
er he landed at the Golden Gate in
1SG8.
"But I don't know where you want
to go!" protested the surprised pedes
trian.
"To any place that is wild," he re
plied—Mary R. Parkman in St. Nich
olas.
EASY CHEMICAL FEATS.
How to Fireproof Cloth and to Make
Sympathetic Ink.
"Sympathetic ink," popularly consid
ered a "first aid" to war spies in writ
ing invisible communications, and
"fireproof cloth" offer two interesting
chemical experiments the formulas for
which have been supplied by a con
tributor to the Electrical Experimenter.
They follow;
Sympathetic Ink.—With a clean steel
pen write on white paper with a cobalt
chloride solution and let dry. When
the paper is held near a flre the writ
ing will gradually appear and disap
pear again when it cools because the
chloride absorbs moisture from the air.
Even though the paper is scorched, the
writing will still be visible.
Fireprooflng Cloth. — First get two
glass tumblers. Add two teaspoonfuls
of ammonium chloride to the water
in one glass and stir until dissolved
In the other glass put a piece of cot
ton cloth two or three inches square
and then pour the dissolved ammonium
chloride into the glass containing the
cloth and see that it is well soaked
with the solution. Hang the cloth up
and let It dry. Then touch It with a
lighted match. It will burn in the
flame, but will go out as soon as the
flame is removed
Serving Hie Country.
A certain public office has been the
object of much satire because of the
passive nature, as a rule, of the in
cumbent's duties. In this connection
the following extract from Moses Colt
Tyler's journal, written in Washington
| years ago, is interesting:
"President Grant never starts a con
. versation, but when it is started he
often says a neat thing. Last year
there was an excursion down the Po
tomac. He was on board, with his cab
inet and a quorum of both houses.
"'Mr. President,' said Mrs. Judd,
who sat near him, It would be a pretty
bad thing to have a great accident hap
pen to this party. Nearly the whole
government would be destroyed.'
"*yes, Mrs. Judd,' assented the pres
ident 'but you observe that the vice
president has very prudently stayed at
I home.'"
Insect Luminosity.
Luminosity Is normal in the well
known luminous beetles. Including the
various fireflies and glow worms, and
results naturally from the oxidation
of some organic secretion. Other in
sects are luminous in rare Instances.
Rev. J. Holroyde, vicar of Patehum,
England, lately noted luminous moth
larvae, similar to those observed once
or twice previously, and the chlrono
mous—a kind of gnat—and the "lan
tern beetles" of South America are
. among the creatures sometimes lighted
up. The occasional luminosity has
1 been attributed to disease or decom
. position from bacterial infection.
A Domestic Interlude.
' Marriageable Daughter—I think, fa
: ther, you do Arthur a great Injustice
when you say that he is penurious.
Precocious Brother — What's penuri
ous, father?
Father—Why, penurious means close
Precocious Brother — Then you'r*
right. That young man is awful penu
rious when he comee to see Sis.—Ex
change.
Willing to Bear It.
"WeU, dearest, I have Just asked
your father for your hand."
"What did he say?"
"He asked me If I felt capable of as
suming a heavy burden."
"And what did you tell him?"
"I told him I would take care of all
he would give us."—Boston Transcript
No Material Handy.
"Mrs. Comeup, can't you give us jusl
a little resume of your travels?"
"I'm awful sorry, but all our boxes
of sooveneers ain't come home yet"—
Baltimore American.
A Favorite Motto.
Blobbs—"Put Yourself In His place"
is a good motto. Slobbs—Yes, It is the
favorite motto of the office seeker.—
Philadelphia Record.
I Sharp wits, like sharp knives, do of
ten cut their owners' fingers.—Arrow
•1 smith.
CURIOUS COURTSHIP.
Chinese Girle Ailowod No Choio* In
Picking a Husband.
As sooa as the Chinese lady is
old enough to be married her father
chooses a husband for her. She Is nev
er allowed to see him herself. Her
father carries on all the courtship for
her. The poor Chinaman does not see
his girl until the day of the wedding;
He does not know whether she is pret
ty or whether she has a temper.
On the great day the bride is dressed
in very gay clothes and placed in a
sedan chair, and Bhe Is carried toward
her husband. A crowd of people go
with her, carrying torches which are
lighted even if it be a noon wedding.
A band of drums and fifes precedes
the chair, and, no matter how hard the
bride tried to get away, she could not,
as the chair is locked, and an old serv
ant carries the key. The key is then
given t^ the bridegroom, and he is
the only one privileged to open it
When he opens the doors of the se
dan chair he lifts the veil the little
Chinese lady wears over her face, and
if he does not like the face of his fu
ture bride he orders the servants to
take her back to her father's root, and
he pays the girl a sum of money to
make up for the loss of his compan
ionship. But if he thinks he is going
to like the little lady he asks her to
come in, and the chair Is sent back
empty. Then there is a grand feast,
and the Chinaman is married.
Queer, isn't it? Aren't you glad you
live in America and are free to wed
whom you love?—Cincinnati Commei>
clal Tribune.
STYLES AND THE WOMAN.
Fashions In Dress and Hair In the Ori
ent and Occident.
Styles of oriental dress differ wide
ly, but I can safely leave it to any un
prejudiced observer that the American
and European woman is the most hid
eously, inefficiently and uneconomically
dressed woman on earth. The Japa
nese kimono, familiar to all of us and
typical of oriental garb, is made of
straight lengths of material which, like
all the others, is usable after its first
freshness is gone.
We, boasting of our efficiency, cut
garments into inconceivable bits, have
them sewed together at great expense,
only to discard them as useless after
a few months' wear.
And consider halrdresslng. It's all a
matter of taste whether one smooths
each individual hair with coco butter,
as in India, or with a paste of slippery
elm bark, as in China. Both, are to be
preferred to the usual untidy appear
ance of the western coiffure that leads
the oriental to ask, "Do they ever comb
their hair?"
The more you know of oriental wom
en the more you know they are like us.
The seeming differences are largely a
matter of superficialities, like the color
of the skin. Indian women use saffron
to produce a beautiful yellow complex-,
ion. Chinese and Japanese women like*
a touch of carmine on their sallow
faces, while American women put on
first a carmine coating, then a white.
Each is plainly satisfied with the ef
fect— Estelle Paddock in World Out
look.
Odd North English Dialect.
A strange set of numerals was used
by the elder generation of farmers In
one of our northern dales, especially
for counting sheep, and the procedure
was as follows:
A gap was made In the wall Just
wide enough to admit one sheep at a
time, and as the sheep were driven
through the farmer counted them,
making a notch In his stick at every
fifteen.
Phonetically the numerals sound like
"yann, tane, tether, metber, pip, sax,
sane, catterrer, wheeler, dick, yflnn-er
dick, tane-er-dick, teth-er-dick, mether
er-dick, boomfit"
"Boomfit" was fifteen, and so a notch
was made in the stick, and the strange
chant began all over again.—London
Chronicle.
Postage Stamps and Germ*.
By wetting the gum on the stamp
with the tongue is the way disease may
be spread by a postage stamp. It has
been established by experimentation
in laboratories that postage stamps do
carry germs. In forty-eight tests out
of a total of fifty bacteria were found.
The fact that in only two cases were
the germs of a malignant type does
not lessen in any degree the danger
that lurks in wetting the gum on the
stamp with the tongue.
Instinctive Action In Death.
The cannon ball which plunged
through the head and tore out the
brain of Charles XII. did not prevent
him from seizing his sword hilt The
idea of attack and the necessity for de
fense were impressed upon his mind
by a blow which we would naturally
suppose to have been too tremendous
and Instantaneous to leave even the
slightest intefTal for thought—London
Spectator.
Plays Need Scouring.
"I am literally scouring the country
for plays," remarked the theatrical
manager.
"Why don't you scour some of those
that you already have?" suggested the
sharp tongued dramatic critic.—Town
Topics.
The Result.
"What would happen If two of the
baseball teams should come out ex
actly even at the end of the season?"
"About 10,000,000 fans would go
plumb crazy."—Exchange.
Dignity increases more easily than It
begins.—Seneca.
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Many business enterprises that should be
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