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R°ute of Safety
To Yukon Territory, Atlin District
Interior Alaska
During the winter season of 1916-17 our regular train serv ice 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 a
Thoroughly Equipped Stage and Automobile Line
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F or full information apply to
C. W. CASH A. p. z.irr
Sup:. Mail Service Dept. —OR— .Traffic Manager
WHITEHORSE. Y. T. 612 Second Ave., SEATTLE, Wash.
White Pass & Yukon Route
TLHE TABLE No. 38.
. Morday, 'Wednesday and Friday
Xul 1, X. Bound
1st CUm
8;30 a. m. Leave*
11:03 ®. in. "
11:45 a. m. "
12:40 p. in- **
2.20 p. m. "
4:50 p. in. Arrives
KKAGWAY
WHITE PASS
LOG CAIIIX
BENNETT
CARIBOU
WHITXHOKSK
N o. 2, ». BO una
1st Class
Arrives 8:50 p. m.
l eave* 3:20 p. m.
M . f 1:30 p. m.
" 13:50 p. ni.
'• 10:48 a. m.
•» 8:00 a. m.
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spectad iod checked. Lwpection to stopped 80 minutea betox*
teartig Usm of traina. #11 " " -•—
ISO poandi of baggage will b* checked free with each full
tare tick** and 75 pouada with each half fare ticket.
Relieves CATARRH of;
the
BLADDER;
and ali
Discharges in
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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 da-nr
Fresh Eggs, etc
• Rales $3.00 Per Day and Up
Well Lighted, Large Sample
Rooms for Traveling Men.
H. S. PUU£N. Pi op.
Skagway. Alaska
SYSTEM AND PRINTING
Don't put U off, but order your
prlHtlnjt now '"whlchi you will need
when you put la yosa-'new system.
The Dally !Alaskaa, job deipa-rtment
Is be'ter Equipped than ever to do
your -work. Prices'right and work
promptly executed. tf.
FIRE INSURANCE
ON DWELtlNGS
[AT LOWEST RATES FOR
THREE]
YEAR 1
'■ POLICY
IN GOOD STRONG COMPANIES
REGISTERED IN
talaska:
AND REPRESENTED BY
PHIL. ABRAHAMS
licensed agent at skagway.
TRAPPED IN A STOKEHOLE.
Yha Fat# That Firaman on a Warahip
Ara Liable to Maat
The soldiers who fight with least rec
ognition in the battles at sea are the
stokers of the destroyers running at
full speed. Eight men work under foe
command of a stoker petty officer In a
space so narrow that movement of any
kind Meerns Impossible. There is a fur
nace In front and one lit the back.
Sandwiched in between is a maze of
levers, pipes, pumps and gear.
Yet within these close quarters the
stoker? find space to perfprm their
heartbreaking toll in an atmosphere al
most too hot to breathe, says the Pop
ular Science Monthly. When the men
are at their posts the iron hatch is
closed down, and the air sucked In
through a . ventilator has to pass
•through tbe furnace before It gets to
them. i < t
So long as the pumps work well and
the evaporated water I4 displaced with
automatic regularity, by fresh neither
the tubes nor the boiler casting can
get dangerously hot But sometimes
without apparent cause the water slow
ly descends below the level. Some
times the cause of mischief is a leak
age—a pipe broken or a joint strained
that allows the water to escape. {
If it can be remedied, weil and good.
But if not and the water continues
to drop steadily the stoker petty officer
has but one duty to perform—to keep
the hatchway from being opened by
the frenzied stokers, thus allowing
the flames to escape and destroy the
entire vessel. The heroes who perish
in the stokeholds like so many rats
caught in a fiery trap are not even
listed.
THE ODOR OF SPICES.
Often Used by Writers to Stimulate
Their Imagination.
On some portions of the globe spices
are worth more than gold or silver.
"In thfe arctic region spices are es
sential to health and happiness," writes
an explorer. "A dash of pepper, a
pinch of ground cinnamon, a little nut
meg or a pinch of ginger root revives
the Jaded appetite wonderfully in the
north. I have seen shipwrecked sailors
fight over an ounce of spices with
more fierceness than they ever did for
money."
The psychological effecf of spices is
of more importance than the physiolog
ical. Many writers have confessed
their inability to write without the
odor of spices in their rooms. One
great musician composed his master
piece under the Influence of cinnamon
and cloves steaming in a kettle of pre
serves in a neighbor's kitchen. There
after he composed only when steamed
cloves and cinnamon were on haud.
The food of one man, however, very
often happens to 'be more or less vio
lent poison for another. In the annals
of insane asylums there are many cases
on record where the odor of cloves,
cinnamon, pepper, allspice or ginger
has driven patients into violent par
oxysms.
Yet all the world loves spices. In
the fear that the source of supply
would eventually become exhausted
chemists have sought to make spices
synthetically. They have succeeded in
a number of instances to such an ex
tent that cheap adulterations are some
times used.—Exchange.
Force of Light.
Light has an actual mechanical pres
sure and can be measured in the lab
oratory. It has been found that the
sun's light in itself presses against the
earth with a force something like 70,
000 tons. As the surface of a sphere
varies as the square of the radius, and
as the volume or mass varies as the
cube of the radius, and as the me
chanical pressure of light on the wfclble
surface varies as that surface, and as
the force of gravity varies as the mass,
if a sphere is made smaller and smaller
It Is easily seen that the pressure of
light does not decrease so fast as the
force of gravity, so bodies beyond a
certain minuteness could not reach the
sun, but would be repelled by the me
chanical fcJrce of its light
Saving.
Some women formed a resolution to
do something about the high cost of
living. "Something," they Insisted,
with lofty courage, "that will count!"
Accordingly they banded together
and so perfected themselves in the art
of making up their minds that whereas
it htfd hitherto taken a salesgirl an
average of two hours to sell a yard of
ribbon she could now turn the trick In
twenty minutes flat
The economic saving,, of course, was
in the aggregate enormous, making It
self feft all down the line.—New York
Post
4 . > " . S . / <
Mapping Our Country.
Although the geological survey has
been busily at work for thirty-five
years, only about 40 per cent of the
land of the United States Is yet accu
rately mapped. W. M. Davis of Har
vard university remarks in Science that
at the present rate It will take about ft
century to complete the map.
Opan to Conviction.
"Do you, Mr. Stacks, think that a
rich man can go through the eye of a
needle?"
"I don't know. I will, however, ad
mit that, my lawyers have dragged me
through some very small loopholes."—
Puck.
How It Workt.
Mrs. Crawford—Her mother slaved
all her life in order to give her an ed
ucation. Mrs. Crabshaw—Now she's
turned around and is trying to educate
her mother.—Life.
Forty is the old age of youth; fifty
Is the youth of old age.—Victor Hugo.
THE GREAT
GAME
By M. QUAD
Copyright, 1916, by the McClure
Newspaper Syndicate.
The villagers of Chatham and Co
burg were four miles apart, and there
had been rivalry between them ever
slncethey were founded. If one claim
ed 400 population the other claimed
450. When the one built a church
building with a spire thirty feet high,
the other built a church building with
the spite seven feet higher.
There was one point which had never
been settled between the towns. This
was the championship checker player.
Sometimes one village held the cham
pionship for a year or two and then
had to relinquish It to the other. There
was talk for several years of having
the question permanently settled, but
it hung fire until a man named Bob
Wlttlker moved over to Chatham from
a village forty miles away. He had
played checkers ever since he was five
yearg old. At ten he could beat any
man they could bring against him. At
fifteen ho won the championship of the
state. But no one In either village
knew of this. It was given out that
he played a pretty good game, and
when the Coburg people heard of It
they sent to Chicago and hired a man
to become a resident of the town long
enough to settle the question of cham
pionship. Each town made up a purse,
and the victor in the game was to re
ceive $25.
Ten men went over rrom unaioam
with their champion, and another ten
men met them. The twenty were to
see that the game was a fair one. It
was to be the best three games in five
and wag played in the town hall.
The game began on Thursday morn
ing, and that night nobody turned out
to the regular prayer meeting. The
first game lasted all that day and all
that night And was not-ddcided until
Friday noon. The champion of Chat
ham won it This fact was telephoned
over to Chatham, and it set the village
wild with delight. New wagers were
made. New boasts were made. A lec
turer was to give a talk Friday night,
but ho had to skip it
The second game lasted through Fri
day night and all day Saturday. Now
aud then the champions fell asleep for
five minutes, but they were aroused
by the pricks of pins. At 7 o'clock at
night the second game was won by the
Coburg man. This made a game apiece,
and the excitement went up to fever
heat
There were two churches in each
village, and the Sunday congregations
counted up about five women apiece.
Not all the sermons ever preached
could have induced the men to come
away from the telephones. About 2
o'clock Sunday afternoon both checker
players were allowed to sleep for twen
ty minutes and then given a rub down
with hot vinegar and red pepper. They
started out playing again feeling pret
ty lively. The four churches were
closed Sunday night
All day Monday passed and that
third game of checkers was not yet
decided. The champions were allowed
a little sleep and given another rub
down, and they got through the night
fairly well. At noon Tuesday old
Ephraim Watkins, eighty-five years,
who was the greatest weather prophet
for fifty miles around, sat on the post
office step9 at Chatham and said to the
dozen men about him:
"Boys, we are going to have a
change of weather within a few hours.
I'll bet my old hat agin a chip that
we'll have the rippln^st old thunder
storm any of you have seen in ten
years."
HC1 i| let VI WU1C) VMV v/*
the men. "It won't make any differ
ence to the checker players over at
Coburg."
"Don't you be too sure about that,"
piped tu& old man. "I don't say that
a friendly game of checkers is wicked,
but I do say that keepin' up a game of
checkers until it interferes with prayer
meetin's and sermons is kinder defyiu'
the Lord."
In about two hours a black cloud
arose in the west, and all could see that
a thunderstorm was coming. The lat
est news from Coburg was that the
third game was about an even thing so
far and would probably not be decided
before the next morning. Old Ephraim
.had come back just as the announce
ment was made, and on hearing it he
exclaimed:
"That 'ere game of checkers will be
decided within an hour, no matter
what the telephone says."
He would not say more, though hard
pressed to do so, and half an hour
later the first flash of lightning and
the first roll of thunder came to an
nounce a hard storm. It was a hard
one both in Chatham and in Coburg.
The hall where the game was being
played held a big crowd, and the light
ning picked it out first It struck on
the roof, and most of the boards and
shingles were ripped off, and the bolt
knocked down every man who was on
his feet. Both champion checker play
ers fell off their chairs unconscious,
and the checkerboard was split Into a
dozen pieces. There was a call for ev
ery doctor in town, and, though no one
was actually killed, there was a heavy
call for medical services. Such a thing
as going on with the champion game
was not to be thought of and has not
been thought of since. All took it as a
warning from heaven, and the minis
ters on the next Sunday clinched the
matter by saying if it was not punish
ment for such dreadful wickedness
why didn't the lightning strike one of
the churches or Deacon Bennett# big
barn?
Pack
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T HAS BEEN Demonstrated
that when a man has some
thing to sell worth selling his
success is assured by letting
the people know about it
Many business enterprises that should be
prosperous die of neglect because the
public attention and interest have not
been stimulated and attracted to the wares
No matter what it may be if it is reason
ably priced and good in quality your
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