1IIIE PUSS I
=1101 R0UTE=
The COMFORT
Gate-way i } service
Route of SAFiiTY
To Yukon Territory, Atlin District, Interlof Alaska.
During the -winter season of 1917-18 cur ragular train ser
vice will be maintained No rtk sad South B«un<l between Skag
way and Whlteiorse, trains learlsg both terminals oa Tuesdays
aud Fridays. " ■ ^ '
WINTER STAGE SERVICE
Our through. Mall, Passenger and Freight Serrlce will be
operated between Whltehoree and Dawson, affording pYedy pos
sible facility for comfortable wiatar trayel by mean* of a
THOROUGHLY EQUIPPED STAGE AND AUTOMOBILE LINE.
For full information apply to
C. \V. CASH
Supt. Mail Service Department
WHITEHORSE. Y. T.
A. F. Z1PF
Traffic Manager
612 Second Ave., SEATTLE, Wash
White Pass & Yukon Route
TIME TABLE No. 4a
Every Tuesday and Friday
Xo 1. X. Bound _ & >. ,, No. 2, 8. Bound
1st Class '• "• 1 1st Class
8:30 a. m. Leave* SKAGWAY Arrive* 3:50 p. m.
11:03 a. m. " WHITE PASS Lntve* 2:Sfe p. so.
11:43 a. m - LOO CABIN , " j!. 1:30 p. m.
12:40 p. m. n BENNETT ; M •: 12:50 p. ni.
2:20 p. m. " ('AK GROSS I " V. 10:48 a. m.
4:30 p. m. Arrive* W'HITEHORSE ** 8:00 a. m.
Passengers must be at depot In time to have Baggage In
spected and checked. Iu»i>eotlon is stopped SO minutes before
leaving time of trains.
130 pounds of baggage will be checked tree with each full
fare ticket and 73 pounds wltil each balf tare ticket.
Relieves CATARRH of
the
BLADDER
and all
Discharges 'a
-I.i-.'x J.C
niureCj* / \
Baearref BlIlOW
OTC'.'/rtl. V /
S't K* »!l rfrog-riJU.
You make a mistake it
vou d< not stoo at
THE
Pullen House
Electric Lights
Rooms Single or en Suite
Baths on each floor
Famous for its Home C«)king,
Milk, Cream, Cottage Cheese and
Butterjpilk from our own da^v
Fresh Eggs, etc*
Rates $3.00 Per Day and Up
Well Lighted, Large Sample
Rooms for Traveling Men.
H. S. PL'U-EN. Piop.
Skagway. Alaska
YOUR HAT
*■7 B« • S. yllafc Ome, Bat It Makes
Trouble.
A man usually buys a hat that's "in
style," but the modern hat for men has
tots to answer" for.
lialdheads ar» growing more numer
ous every day. Hats mr.ke excellent
breeding places for the parasitic germs
which sap the lit e from the roots of the
hair.
i ^VJre^. your 'bair berlns to fall out and
your jicalp Is fuS of Dandruff it is a
surt- s£;,-n «haf th«te countless germs ara
busll'- at work.
There is birt one way to overcome the
trouble i.nd ki.I the germs.—that way Is
to app!.* Nwwbro's Herpicide to the
icalp—it 'til! kilt the germs and healthy
hair Is sire to result.
Sold b? [c»l<ng drugadsts. Sond 10c. In
stamps flr.r .v»mple tw The Herpicide Co.
Detroit. Mich.
On# DoJlar bottle, guaranteed.
At. all Drag Stoj*e. Adr.
If you want a Box of
Lowney's
Candy
Go To
Tony Dortero
428 Broadway"
WILLIAM J. ROBINSON
FOURTEEN
MONT#
THfe^RONT
An American Boy't
. Baptism of Fire
By WILLIAM J. ROBINSON
Copyright, Little, Browa A Co.
The moat graphic account of ths
great war that has y»t bean wrltte®
cornea from tha peD of a twenty-two
year-old Boston boy, who has Just re
turned from Franca, wtiara aa dragoon
guardsman, dispatch rider tad motor
car driver he served fourteen months
under the Brtttah flag. Out of thirty
one motorcycle dlapatch riders be *raa
one of four survivors.
At first it amused me greatly to near
the men talk about the regiments they
belonged to, but later I came to under
stand that their regiments meant more
to them than any tiling else. In peace
time when a man joins the army he Is
obliged to learn the history of the regi
ment he Joins from the day it was
formed to the present day. Tradition
plays a great part in the life of a reg
ular soldier, and if theie is a delicate
spot In the history cf his regiment he
Is Vjund to hear of it from the men of
other units, und If any derogatory re
marks are passed he feels himself hon
or bound to tight the one who is re
sponsible for the remark.
If you should chance to ask a Royal
Horse artilleryman what regiment he
belonged to he would immediately
straighten up and answer you some
what after thiS fashion:
"I belong to the Iioyal Horse artil
lery, the extreme right of the line
and the pride of the British army."
Then he would go on to tell when
his regiment was formed, what it had
Accomplished, how many honors It has,
how many Victoria crosses the men be
longing to it have won, how many ti
tled officers belong to it. and so on, al
most Indefinitely.
Nearly nil t'.ie regiments have nlcfc
nnmes, and t'ic -e names lire very pop
ular. The Iioyal Scots claim to be the
oldest regiment in the British army,
so they are popularly known as 'Ton
this Pilate's bodyguard." The Glouces
ter regiment is the only one in the
British army eutitled t,o wear cap
badges in the b:; I; as well as in the
front, and t!n< reason this privilege has
been granted them is that In some pre
vious war the regiment became sur
rounded by the euetuy, and, turning
back to bads, they fought until relief
reached them.
Another regiment Ins the nickname
of the "Cherry Pickers." In some war
of long ago this regiment was ordered
to make a charge through a cherry or
chard. and while passing through they
forgot their duty and stopped to pick
the cherries, l'roiu that day to this
they have been known as the "Cherry
Pickers," and the trousers of their dress
uniform are of cherry colored mate
rial.
There Is a certain Scotch regiment
which for some reason had its kilts
taken away and now has to wenr
trousers us.ide of the same kind of
plaid that the kilts were made of. The
men are woiUin;; like Trojaus lu this
war to win their kilts back again, and
they will very probably be successful,
as they have done .»-mie wonderful
work.
Each regiment linds something to
boast about, mid ilic wen never miss nn
opj)ortunity. The Seventeenth Lancers
are known as the "I>uath or Glory
Boys," as their regimental bailee is the
skull and crossed Ijlies and "Death or
Glory" is their tnr.tto.
The Iioyal Mntriiioefa have more Vic
toria crosses than any other regiment
In the British army, and it is no won
der, for theirs is a very daugerous
work and alTc.ds plenty of opportu
nities for men to distinguish them
selves. The first Victoria cross award
ed In the present war was won by a
driver of an automobile, a member of
the Army Service corps.
Two days later word came around
that the regiment was going to the
front within the week. By that time
I was corei ed with saddle sores and
was in agony the whole time. Al
though It requires nine months' tralu
lng to turn out a full fledged cavalry
man, I decided to try to go with the
regiment somehow, and I didn't care
how I went. Anything to get out of
that riding school. So I went to a
captain and told him the whole story,
and I begged him to take me. He
was certainly mighty nice about It,
and in the end he attached me to his
personal staff and took me that way.
Up to this time I hadn't thought
much about what was going to happen
when we reached the front, but what
we got Just before we sailed certainly
made me do some tall thinking. We
were Issued ideutity disks first. These
are hung around the neck, and on them
are stamped the soldier's name, regi
mental number and bis religion. Then
we were given our pay books and told
to make our wills in the back of them.
The chaplain nest addressed us and
prayed over us.
When this was all over 1 was so
scared I was beginning to think that
the riding school inlgl^ have Its ad
vantages. And all the way over on
the transport I was feeling mighty
blue, and I was certain that I was
never going to see England again, let
alone the old U. S. A.
Crossing the channel, we landed at
Ostend at 4 o'clock In the morning on
| the eighth day of October, 1014. We
' had had nothing but bullybeef and
The Germans Were In There at 6 the 1
Same Night.
hard biscuits all the way over, so the
first place we sought when off duty
was a restaurant. |
I had chummed up with a fellow
named Harry McGarrow and also with
the heavyweight. The latter was an
old soldier and had served more than
twenty years In tha army. Nine years
of his service had been done In India,
so he knew the ropes pretty well
As soou as we were off duty we three
made for the nearest estaminet (or
small cafe) iu the Flemish town. We
were Just putting away some bread
and eggs and coffee when the general
commanding the division walked In
with two of his officers. Of course
we Jumped to attention and were about
to withdraw, but he told us to finish
our meal.
We wore the ouly British troops to
land at Ostend. and. being the first the
Belgians In that part had ever seen,
we attracted a great deal of attention.
Our horses und equipment seemed to
amaze them. They would come up
and handle the saddlery and ask, "offl
eler?" When we would tell them that
it was just a trooper's equipment and
that all the others were the same they
could not seem to get over it.
Although It was after 4 o'clock in
the morning, everybody seemed to be
up and at work. The Belgian peasant
lias no interest In the eight hour law.
He works from before daylight until
long after dark. The peasants seem to
be very poor, and a frur:* means more
to them than several dollars would to
our farmers.
We left O.stend about 0 o'clock in a
hurry. No one seemed to know where
we were going, and all sorts of wild
rumors were flying. As a matter of
fact, jve left it nii'I the Germans
IN THE COLUMNS OF
The Daily Alaskan
You will find advertising that bring results
Skagway Merchants
Put your offerings before the public in a
way that will bring 100 per cent, re
turns.
i^dvertise in The Daily Alaskan
Printing of Quality
were 111 tliere at'G the same nlglfifbut
we didn't know this until long after
ward. The Belgians were most kind
to us. They would bring us bread,
eggs, wine, etc., aud wouid not take
any pay for the things. They were
kindness itself and couldn't seem to
do enough for us.
We did most of our traveling at
night, and It wasn't much fun. We
were not allowed to show a light of
any kind and were even forbidden to
smoke. As I said before, we hadn't
any idea where we were going, but we
were all sure we were on our way to
meet the Germans, and there was a
great deal of speculation as to when
the meeting would come.
On the morning of the third day we
came to the town of Roulers. A halt
was called, and we went about mak
ing ourselves comfortable. The peo
ple were extremely cordial, too, and
there was nothing that was too much
trouble for them to do ft>r us. I got
Into a bouse where the man spoke
English. He bad been In the shipping
business In Antwerp and knew a great
many of the firms my father had dealt
with. I really felt quite at home.
They asked me If I thought they had
better move or whether the Germans
would ever get as far as Roulers. I'll
never forget how I scorned the Idea
and assured them that they were as
safe there as they would be In Eng
land.
(Continued Tomorrow) |
Piles Cured In fl to 14 Days
Druggist* refund money If PAZO
OINTMBNT fails to cure Itching,
Blind, Bleeding or Protruding Piles.
First application glTea relief. 50c.
Warfare In the Air.
A liigli powered airplane engine of
the best type—say 120 to 150 horse
power—cannot be pure-based for much
less than $.%000. And the whole air
plane, a big one, may readily cost $10,
000 to §20,000.
A fast modern airplane has an aver
age life of only about two or three hun
dred hours of active service—say two
months nt the outside. This means
that to keep 10,0o0 airplanes on a bat
tle line you have to be able to build
5,000 per month or more. The cost
would be almost unthinkable. That is
why warfare in the air for any length
of time would bankrupt the world. And
that In turn Is why warfare in the air
means tbeeud of all warfare.—Collier's.
THE 8KAGWAX
Pioneer Dairy
H. F. SEEMAN, Prop.
1HE SW Will BBNCH
The largest aad be»t oor
d acted dairy i* Alaska.
Dally shipment* of pure
milk and cream to all potfnt
on White Pas» & Yukoa
Route.
SAN-TOX COUGH DROPS. Admin
istered on sugar. Acta almost In
stantly. The prescription, of
an eminent physician. Keller
Bros The fian-Toi Drug Store.
If It Isn't An Eastman
It Isn't A Kodak
Brownies At $1.00 Up
Kodaks At $6.00 Up
Print Papers Ph°t° Supplies
-• Keller Bros. Drug Co,