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The
Gate-way
Route of
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 a
Thoroughly Equipped Stage and Automobile Line
For full information apply to
C. W. CASH
Supt. Mail Service Dept.
WHITEHORSE. Y. T.
-OR
A. F. ZIPF .
■Traffic Manager
612 Second Ave., SEATTLE. Wash.
White Pass & Yukon Route
TIME TABLE Na 38.
7^ _ . Mor»tay, \VetLn«nJay and Friday
No. 1, N. Bound { j [.J | No. a, S. Bound
1st Claaa 1st Cla«
8:30 a. m. Leaves SKAGW'AY Arrives 8:50 p. m.
11:05 ». m. " \VH1TK PASS Leaves 2:20 p. m.
11:45 a. n». ** LOO CABIN ** 1 1:80 p. m.
12:40 p. m. " BENNETT » 12:50 p. m.
2:20 p. in. " CARIBOU " - 10:48 a. in.
4:50 p. m. Arrives WH1T3HOBSE " 8:00 a. m.
PM—gW mast b« at depot ia time to have Baggage in
•pectad and checked. Inspection ia stopped SO ilnHtea before
leartag time of traina. —
159 pounds of baggage will bt checked free with each fall
tare ticket and 75 ponade with each half fare ticket.
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REBUKED THE DEAH
The Theological Student Got Hie Re
venge In a Few Words.
Thirty years ago Alexander Schmidt
was dean of th® university at Dorpat,
In the Russian province of Livonia.
"The Bloodsmlth," as the students
called him because of his researches
concerning the circulation of the blood,
was noted for the severity of his dis
cipline. An amusing incident is told
of him by an army chaplain in the
Zeltung der 10. Armee:
A certain theological student once
wanted to get leave from the universi
ty to attend his sister's wedding. The
dean refused the necessary permission
on the ground that the reason was too
trivial. The student was greatly of
fended both because he wanted to go
to the wedding and because he sus
pected that Dr. Schmidt had not be
lieved that his excuse was a true one.
Accordingly he was determined to get
some kind of revenge.
It chanced that on the day after the
affair he was reading St Paul's second
letter to Timothy when he suddenly
saw a very clever way to get satisfac
tion. Laying down the Bible, he wrote
to the Dorpat newspaper and ordered
an advertisement Inserted in large
type that said simply. "II Tim. lv,
14-15a."
Every reader of the paper, surprised
by that line, reached for his Bible and
looked up the verses. Imagine the
amusement of the university students
when they found that the passage was,
"Alexander, the coppersmith, did me
much evil; the Lord reward him ac
cording to his works; of whom be thou
ware also."
BURNING THE LEAVES.
A Foolish Waste of What Might Be a
Valuable Fertilizer.
Many tons of valuable fertilizer are
wasted every year through our practice
of raking the fallen leaves from lawns
anil parks into the street and burning
them. We destroy one of the best of
nature's fertilizers, that on which she
relies for the renewal of the vegetable
humus in the soil.
All nature's protection Is removed in
the interest of tidiness. Then we won
der why lawns must be so frequently
resodded and why grass seed "won't
catch." The fallen leaves protect the
roots of grass and shrubs from the
freezing and thawing of winter and,
deposited In a corner of the back yard
with a little earth thrown over them to
prevent their blowing away, In a year
or two are converted into what the
forester calls "duff," an organic ma
terial which makes the loam that
grows the farmer's best crops.
It is an excellent top dressing for the
lawn and enrichment for flowers and
shrubs and, mixed with a littlo ordinary
earth, a most desirable soil for filling
the window boxes and repotting plants,
something hard to get In town. It is
invaluable to the amateur gardener
who utilizes his back yard, and yet It is
almost invariably wasted. We pay
thousands of dollars every year for
phosphates and nitrates and overlook
this valuable product of nature's labor
atory.—Detroit Free Press.
Nature's Monument to Washington.
Among the many monuments to
Washington is the one which every
visitor to the Cape Verde islands will
remember as one of the most colossal
and marvelous freaks of natural sculp
ture In existence. Along the farther
side of the harbor of San Vicente, the
principal town, rises a bold ridge of
dark gray volcanic rocks, the crest of
which forms an exact likeness of our
immortal George, seemingly lying face
upward, as If in a peaceful sleep. The
hero's large, boJd features, the back
ward wave of the hair, his massive
shoulders and even the frill of the shirt
front are all reproduced on a gigantic
scale with wonderful exactness. The
strange monument, sharply outlined
against the deep blue of the tropical
sky, is one of the first objects that
meet one's eye in approaching the
island.
Venui and Jupiter.
The "earth's twin sister," Venus, Is
67,000,000 miles from the sun._ It re
ceives more heat than we do. \ery lit
tle Is known of Venus, and so few
markings are seen that it is not known
whether Venus rotates on its axis once
in twenty-four hours or once in 225
days.
Jupiter, the plant of the sun's fam
ily, is covered with a shell of clouds
which change so rapidly that condi
tions there can be Interpreted only in
one way—that Jupiter is so large and
it has cooled so slowly that it Is still
far too hot to support life.
Value of Knowledge.
Knowledge Is like the coin of ex
change. A man is justified, to a de
gree, In taking pride in its possession
if he himself worked over the gold of
it and tried to coin it or, at least, if
he came by it honestly, already tested
out But when he did not do anything
of the kind, but just got it from some
passerby who threw it into his face,
then what ground has he to boast of
it?—John Ruskin.
Abnormal Situation.
"It is a wonder the majority of
stenographers in business offices are
feminine."
"Why is it?"
"Because that is the only position
left in which a woman will let herself
be dictated to."—Baltimore American.
Clasaified.
Heiress—I want every one to know
that our engagement is broken.
"All right I'll have it put in the
papers under the heading 'Business
Troubles.' "—Life.
VALUE OF SKIMMILK.
Much Cheaper and More Nourishing
Than Round Steak.
Skimmilk Is a very economical food
which should be more largely used. It
Is the same as whole milk except that
the butter fat has been taken from It
In sklmmllk there remains all the sug
ar, about four and one-half parts In
every one hundred, all of the mineral
salts, all of the protein. The protein
la the most valuable constituent of
milk. It not only serves as fuel for
the body as does the fat and sugars,
but supplies nitrogenous tissue build
ing material.
Skimmilk should be classed, as whole
milk is, with eggs, meat, flsh, poultry
and cheese. The government's food
experts praise skimmilk and give us
these interesting figures to show its
value:
Two and a half quarts of skimmilk
contain almost as much protein and
yield about the same amount of en
ergy as a pound of round of beef.
When skimmilk sells for 4 cents a
quart, or about 2 cents a pound, and
round of beef for 20 cents a pound, a
dime spent for skimmilk will provide
nearly twice as much nourishment as
it will if spent for round steak.
When milk sours normally it still re
mains good food. It is not suitable for
the baby, but it will make good smear
case, or cottage cheese, one of the best
of foods.—New York Hail.
THAT UPPER BERTH.
Getting Into It Sometimes la a Good
Acrobatic Stunt.
The ascent to an upper berth Is an
art in itself, and, as one would expect
of an art, it is long. I do not mean
the ascent by stepladder. There are
those who climb mountains by rail
road, who let minions put on their bait,
who require caddies to tee their golf
balls, who hunt with beaters to drive
the game toward them. There are also
those who reach their uppers on car
peted steps.
l'et the heroic breed Is not extinct
Luxury has not yet completely sapped
our national virility. Some of us are
made of sterner stuff. We climb un
assisted and alone.
We are off. Quickly we assume po
sition A, with both hands grasping the
horizontal bar and with our right foot
firmly planted on the chest of the old
gentleman in the lower. We push off
vigorously. If the old gentleman's
chest be of a proper firmness and resil
iency this push brings us to position
B. with the left knee in the sharp knee
hold on the edge of the upper berth
and the right leg at large. The right
leg Is then brought convulsively up
ward and forward and laid carefully
In the upper berth, and the left leg If
at liberty to follow it From this point
on all Is plain squirming.—Frederick L.
Allen In Century.
Tennyson's Vanity.
The Intricacies of a great man's char
acter are often simplicities to his wife.
Once, when the late Alfred Austin
had paid a visit to Tennyson, hla Im
mediate predecessor, Tennyson walked
with him as far as the gate which led
to the highway. There, says Alfred
Austin in his autobiography, while the
elder poet stood leaning on the gate,
a party of wide eyed sightseers ap
peared.
"What a vulgar people the English
are!" Tennyson exclaimed. "They come
here to watch for me. and when they
see me they say quite loudly, 'There's
Tennyson!'"
Mr. Austin afterward repeated this to
Lady Tennyson, who smiled tenderly,
but archly.
"My husband would be much more
annoyed if the people didn't come,"
she said.
Invented the Check System.
John Palmer, who died some years
ago in rather straitened circumstances
in a little town In Michigan, was the
Inventor of the check system. Palmer
was a fiddler and assumed responsibil
ity for the hats, coats and wraps of
those who came to his dancing parties.
In keeping things straight he gave
numbered checks for the articles com
mitted to his care. Some railroad men
who attended one of the dances noticed
how perfectly the idea worked, appro
priated it and in a short time it was
adopted all over the country. As is
often the case, the inventor got noth
ing out of it—Philadelphia Press.
New England's Name.
The pilgrims had nothing to do with
the naming of New England. That
name was coined by Captain John
Smith of Pocahontas fame and one of
the founders of the Virginia colony.
In 1G14 he explored and mapped the
northern coast then called North Vir
ginia, and renamed it New England.
The Mayflower pilgrims did not arrive
until 1620, and the charter granted the
new colony adopted the name used in
Smith's map several years before.
Cheerful Surroundings.
Uncle Josh — Here's a letter from
Nephew Harry, that's gone to Africa,
and says that within twenty rods o'
his house there's a family o' laughing
hyenas. His Wife—Well, I am glad
he's got pleasant neighbors anyway—
that's something.—London Tit-Bits.
As Defined.
Little Mildred—What does "B. A"
stand for, mamma? Mamma—"Bache
lor of arts," my dear. Little Mildred—
And what is a "bachelor of arts," mam
ma? Mamma—Any bachelor who Is
trying to stay in the bachelor class,
darling.—Indianapolis Star.
Diplomats get more profit by listen
ing than by talking even when they
talk well.—Hanotaux.
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