I ME PASS 8
-TUKOI ROUTE =
The Comfort
Gate-way l MWJ Service
Route of Sahty
To Yukon Territory, Atlin District
—Interior Alaska^=
During the winter season of 1916-17 our regular train service will
be maintained North and South Bound betwe'en"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 |a
Thoroughly Equipped Stage and Aatomobile Line
For full'information apply to
C. W. CASH
SupL Mail Service Dept.
WHITEHORSE. Y. T.
A. F. ZIPF
OR— T raf ficJManager
612 Second Ave., SEATTLE, Wash.
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White Pass & Yukon Route
time table xa ss.
.. fc. Morriay, Wednesday and Friday
No. 1, N. Botmd | ^| , ij No. 8, 8. Bound
1st Class 1st Cbw
H.SO a. at. Leftvee 8KAGWAY Arrlres 8:50 p. m.
11:03 ». nu " "VVHITB PASS Leave* 2:20 p. in.
11:45 a.m. * LOO CABES' " I 1:80 p. m.
12r40 p. m. " BEXNETT * ! 18:50 p. m.
2:80 p. nu " CARIBOr " 10:48 ft. m.
•4:50 p. ni. Arrives WHITSHORSE " 8:00 «. m.
PwwenftMi mast be at depot 1« tone to have Baggage In
spected end cheeked. Inspection ie stopped 80 arfnuies before
tearing time of trains- «g 1—
150 poonds of baggage will be checked free with each foil
far* tickM sad 75 pooadi with each half fare ticket.
Relieves CATARRH of
the
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Discharges la
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Electric Lights
Rooms Single or en Suite
Baths on each floor
Famous for its Home Cooking,
Milk, Cream, Cottage Cheese and
. Buttermilk from our own d»i*v
Fresh Eggs, etc
Rates $3.00 Per Day and Up
I Well Lighted, Large Sample
(Rooms for Traveling Men.
IH. S. PiJLLEN, Ptop.
Skagway. Alaska
SYSTEM AND PRINTING
Doa't !put it off, but order y°ur
prlntiji*. now '"wJilcK you will ueed
when you put la yoar'new Bystem.
Tie DalUjr'Aliakajik job department
Is be'tey iteQuipPed than'erer to do
youT work, Pricee 'right and wort
! promptly arecuted. tf.
PHIL. ABRAHAMS
j PESTS THAT LIVE ON PESTS.
Tiny Scorpion-like Crabs • Deadly Foe
to Housefliea.
To the naturalist or to any one ac
customed to obseive nature closely the
fact Is apparent that the problems of
existence are proportionately the same
In every form or stratum of life. Even
the common housefly, which seemingly
has nothing else to do but to crawl
lazily o^r whatever Is left uncovered
and then go happily on Its way, doing
its best to bring about.an affiliation
between the clean and the unclean, oc
casionally meets Its Nemesis In the
form of a tiny crablike creature which
attaches Itself to the fly's legs.
These little creatures are known to
the scientists as pseudo scorpions, or
chellfers, says the Popular Science
Monthly. They may sometimes be
found between the leaves of old books
that have stood unused for a long
time and also beneath the bark of trees
and in mosses.
Although they are called false scor
pions, they resemble the true scorpion
closely in general structure except for
their minute size. But they have no
poison gland as the true scorpions
have. They attach themselves to other
insects also, but they seem to be "the
special pest of the houseflies. Scien
tists suppose that they seize the fly's
leg and hold on until the fly dies, either
worried or frightened to death by the
undesirable presence. When the fly is
dead the little creature feeds on the
body.
TRACING A CRIMINAL
The Most Expert Will Leave Some
Mark That Betray* Him,
Successful criminals nearly always
specialize in their work, and it is ow
ing to this fact that detectives in many
cases are able to track them down,
says the Philadelphia Ledger. Not
only do criminals make a practice of
committing one particular style of
crime, but the methods professional
crooks employ are practically always
on the same plan.
One burglar, for Instance, will al
ways enter through the fanlight over
the front door of a shop, another by
breaking in at the back. Most burglars,
too, will continually repeat a burglary
in the same neighborhood.
It is by carefully observing and not
ing the special systems notorious crooks
adopt that detectives can often effect
their arrests. Many a time a burglary
has occurred and the criminal vanish
ed, leaving apparently no marks by
which he could be traced, and police
officials have been able to produce him
in court within a few days, to the utter
astonishment of all concerned.
It does not matter how subtle or
careful a criminal may be, he always
leaves some betraying sign behind for
the well informed detective to act upon.
The Moral of the Story.
Professor John Spencer Bassett, au
thor of "A Life of Andrew Jackson,"
in one of his lectures at Smith college,
repeated a well known story in regard
to Stephen A. Douglas, closing with a
moral which aroused peculiar interest
Douglas, as the narrative runs, was
once sitting in a profound sleep in the
corridor of the capitol when Adeline
Cutts, a Washington belle, passed by.
She did not know the sleeper, but was
struck with compassion on seeing such
a splendidly intellectual face under
such conditions, and, stooping down,
laid her handkerchief over it to pro
tect it from the flies. Douglas on
awakening found the handkerchief,
sought the owner and eventually mar
ried her. There was a pause, and
then the professor added: "Young la
dies, the moral of this story is, have
your pocket handkerchief marked."
History of the Word "Telegram."
In the reminiscences o? Frederick
Seward, son of William H. Seward, he
tells of the day in the office of the
Albany Evening Journal, edited by
Thurlow Weed, the political Warwick
of his time, when the word "telegram"
was first used In that paper. Indeed,
it is intimated that the word was
there coined by one E. P. Smith and
soon taken up and used generally in
England as well as in the United
States. To pronounce on the validity
of this claim, who is competent? But
it is always interesting to get a side
light on the paternity of a word
Christian Science Monitor.
Hie Surprise.
"Learn to cook, darling, and I'll give j
you a surprise," said a tightwad to hia
wife.
She took a six months' cooking course
and then brought home her diploma
proudly. She could now cook like an
angel.
"Bring on my surprise," she said.
"This Is It," said her husband, smil
ing, and he rang for the cook and dis
charged her then and there.
A Rugged Ameriean.
"A belted earl once proposed to this
heiress on bended knee."
"Fancy that! I presume her family j
was pleased?"
"Her mother was delighted, but her
father expressed a savage wish to belt
the earl himself."—Birmingham Age
Herald.
No Allurement.
"Some day you'll be rich enough to
retire from business."
"Give up my nice pleasant office and
stay home?" rejoined Mr. Growcber.
"I should say not!"—Washington Star.
Where He Rules.
"Are you the head of the house?"
"I wouldn't say that exactly, but 1
do the driving when the missus and I
go out in the auto." — Detroit Free
Press.
MADE HIS WORKMEN-RIVALS}
How Charles M. Schwab Spurred Tbsm
on to Greater Effort*.
In telling houy he Increased the effi
ciency of one of Ills departments
Charles M. Schwab, the famous steel
man, says In the American Magazine:
"It was near the end of the day; la
a few minutes the night force would
come on duty. I turned to a workman
who was standing beside one of tho
red mouthed furnaces and asked him
for a piece of chalk.
" 'How many heats has your shift
made today?" I queried.
" 'Six,' he replied.
"I chalked a big '6* on the floor and
passed along without another word.
When the night shift came in they
saw the '6' and asked about it
"The big boss was in here today,"
said the day men. 'He asked us how
many heats we had made, and we told
him six. He chalked It down."
"The next morning I passed through
the same mill. I saw that the '6' had
been rubbed out and fl big T written
instead. The night shift had an
nounced itself. That night I went
back. The T had been erased, and a
'10* swaggered in its place. The day
force recognized no superiors. Thus a
fine competition was started, and It
went on until this mill, formerly the
poorest producer, was turning out
more than any other mill in the plant"
STING OF THE HONEYBEE
About the Most Effective Infernal Ma
chine In Existence.
In proportion to its size, the sting of
the honeybee is probably the most ef
fective infernal machine in existence.
The stinging apparatus is smaller
than that of a rattlesnake, yet a single
sting has been known to kill a man.
When we realize that it is almost in
visible and consider what it can do we
cannot fail to be astounded. It seems
the very quintessence of devilishness.
The honeybee's sting is complicated
—so complicated that many words and
mnch ink have been used in discuss
ing its construction and use.
It is generally conceded that the
sting consists of a shaft of three parts,
the principal one being a sheath within
which move two barbed lancets. Like
the barbs of a fishhook, the lancets are
not easily extracted from the flesh into
which they have been driven. The
sheath and the lancets combined form
a hollow tube through which the poi
son flows from the poison sac.
Two hairy, soft projections, evident
ly very sensitive, inform the bee when
she is in contact with a stlngable ob
ject—Popular Science Monthly.
Frohman's Little Safe.
When Charles Frohman was treas
urer with Haverly's minstrels he con
ceived a novel stunt of arousing curi
osity in small towns. He bought a
small iron safe, about three feet high,
and on it hud painted in big letters,
"Treasurer, Haverly's Mastodon Min
strels." Now actually there was little
need for this safe, but it was always
carried on the first load of baggage
that went to a hotel. It would be
placed in a conspicuous place, and then
Frohman, waiting until the proper mo
ment, would bustle up to it with an
air of great importance, open it put in
two or three $100 bills, close it and go
away. When the crowd had gone he
would slip back and get the money out
again. It proved a good advertising
stunt—"Charles Frohman, Manager
and Man."
The White House.
A prize of $500 was offered in Wash
ington's administration for the best de
sign for a house to serve as a home for
the president in Washington. James
Hoban, an Irishman from South Caro
lina, was the successful competitor. His
sketch contained so many wings and
colonnades that the public was horri
fied, and frills and gingerbread decora
tions were eliminated. The result was
the two story White House as we know
it now. Washington laid the corner
stone of the building in 1792. It was
completed in 1799, the year of Wash
ington's death.
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Liberty and Equality.
Liberty is never the fruit of philo
sophical deductions, but rather of ev
eryday experience and of the simple
ideas arising from facts.—Mirabeau.
Liberty—I say It with a sigh, men
are perhaps not worthy of thee. Equal
ity—they desire thee, but they cannot
attain thee.—Turgot
John o'Groat's to Land's End.
The distance in English miles be
tween John o'Groat's, at the extreme
north of England, to Land's End, In
the farthest south, is about 480 miles
as the crow flies, though by the ordi
nary lines of travel, of course, the dis
tance is something more than that
Cause of the Trouble.
Specialist — Your heart is acting
rather irregularly. Is there anything
worrying you? Patient—Not particu
larly. Only just now when you put
your hand In your pocket I thought for
a moment you were going to give me
your bill.—Puck.
When He Remembers.
"Willie, don't you know that It is
wrong to fight?"
"Yes, ma, I know it's wrong, but I
never think of it that way unless tha
fellow who tackles me is one I'm sure
I can't lick."—Detroit Free Press.
Must Have Been In the Dark Age.
"How many years ago did he live?"
"Who?"
"The man who said that two coold
live as cheaply as one?"—Detroit Free
Press.
He who is firm and resolute in will
molds the world to himself.—Goethe.
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Many business enterprises that should be
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public attention ' and interest have not
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