I WHITE PASS 5
-TUMI BOI =
The
Route of j
Comfort,
Speed,
Service
Safety.
Darin* the winter season of 1914—15 our regular train ser
vice will be maintained North and South bound between
Sk.»ijuay ani White Horse, trains leaving both terminals
every Tuesday and Friday.
GUINTER STAGH SERVICE
Our through Mail, Passenger an- Freight Service will be
operated between White Horse an J Dawson, affording al
possible comfort by means of a
Thoroughly Equipped Stage and Automobile Line
For full information apply to
H. Wheeler,
^upt., MailSsrvice Dep't..
Whitehorse, \. T.
A. F. Zipf, Traffic Manager,
612 Second Avenue,
Seattle, Wash.
heWhitePass &Yukon Route
TIME TABLE No. 34.
Tuesday and Friday.
Xo. 1, X. Bound
1st class
:3l> a. in. Leaves
No. 2, S. Bound
1st class
Arrives 8.-2o p. ni.
Leaves. 1:43 p. in.
" 12:47 p. m.
'* 12:13 p. ni.
" 10:23 a. in.
" 8:13 a. m.
SKAGUAY
I Oil p. m. " WHITE PASS
11: 4o p. m. " LOO CABIN
-:;$3 p. nv. " BEN'XETT
^ p. tn. « CARIBOU
:11p.m. Arrives WH1TEHORSE
must be at depots la time t« bare Baggage luspecn-i.
■becked luapectloa Is stopped 30 mln ?es before learlng time c
• lis
16f uouadi of baggage will be checked free with each full tarf
i«<i 7R pouada with each half fare ticket.
FULL
QUART
■BOTTLED IN BOND^
Has Had no Peers for Fifty Years
SOLD BY ALL DEALERS
OLDEST BANK IN ALASKA
THE B. M. BEHRENDS BANK
Juneau, Alaska
Capital. $30,000.00. Surplus, $20,000.00
8. M BEHRENDS.
Pre«dent
R. W1LLJS C.UY McNAUGHTON.
Vice Pre*. Cashier
A Flesh and
Blood Fortune
By DWIGHT NORWOOD
Edward Claverlng Inherited $10,000
on the death of his father, and not be
I ing iucllned to settle down to a hnm
; dram business life ho looked about him
i for something more exciting. That
was a time when gold was discovered
in the Klondike, and ho decided to go
out there, look about hlra and If ho
saw a chance for a fortune Invest hla
money.
The first thing he came across to In
terest hliu was a girl In the house In
which lie lodged. She was not the
daughter of the proprietor, but nn or
I phai) who was trying to keep soul and
I bod.v together as hired help. He noticed
j h< r from her personal attractiveness, a
sadness that was on her young face
and the fact that she was far more
rellned and-better educated than her
employers. He wondered that she did
nut occupy a higher and more lucrative
position than servant In a boarding
house In a mining district But this
was explained by her having been left
unprotected and uncared for when she
was but sixteen years of age. She was
only eighteen when Ned tirst saw her.
Her father, a well to do merchant in
Pennsylvania, had been seized by the
gold fever aud taken her and her moth
er to Alaska. Her mother had died on
the way out; her father had been re
lieved of tils money by mining sharps
and had died from disease Induced by
expnsuie in a vigorous climate.
! This is a bare synopsis of the story
! Nrd -ot from Alice Woodvllle and was
! quite enough to excite Ills sympathy
I Sympathy induces love, and he soon
I found himself interested in llie unfor
tunate girl But Ned was one ot those
fellows who look upward instead of
downward in all that pertained to the
life on the threshold ot which he
stood His family held their heads
I nigh. being all persons of social prom
inence The bare thought of writing
! his uwthiar that lie was about to mar
| ry a servant appalled him He there
I tore refrained from making love to
I Alice Woodvllle. and in order to sepa
{ rate himself from her went Into an un
: occupied cabin, where he kept house as
I a bachelor
j Wherever there is money lor invest
I meat, especially in new countries,
there mv persons who are latent upon
| ut'ttiiii: it without a return flavoring
bad listened to Alice Woodvllle'S story
i us to bow her father bail bought a
worthless mine and resolved to profit
{ Ly the information. lie would bold
! on tii his money till be bad proved tbat
! what be proposed to purchase was
I what it purported to be.
1 One day a woman came to blm, who
I said that she bad understood that he
I was looking for mining property. Her
I husband had been prospecting for n
| long while and bad finally struck a
j vein tbat would make him ricb. Ue
owned, however, but Ufty feet of
! ground, and it was essential that be
i should buy at least Ufty feet more od
the west of bis property, since the vein
widened In that direction. He dared
not reveal bis secret because there
were so many rascals about tbat be
feared be would be beaten out of his
find. She had. unknown to him, come
to Ned to beg him to beip them out
| and share their good fortune.
| Ned spent some time, looking into
| the matter, which seemed to promise
a large return. lie finally agreed tbat
I he would select from the tuine himself
| certain specimens of the earth, have it
analyzed and If It was as bad been
represented be would buy the adjoin
I ing ground, put in what other money
i was required and take a half interest
in the whole
j He selected an assayer whose repu
tation tor Integrity was ot the highest
and gave blm the specimens of dirt be
bad taken from the mine. The report
was far beyond what had been claim
ed Ned's sense of honor led him to
give the results of the analyses to the
wife «>f the owner, offering Ills con
sent that she should u<e It elsewhere
to her and her husbands advantage
After consulting with linn she told Ned
that they woul.l prefei to carry out
the arrangement with him. since he
had convinced them that they could
t-i t him The papers were drawn up
■ a option was seeiired on the adjoin
I!;: property, and the transaction was
; > be siuned anil sealed on the follow
■:>g morning
That night Ned went to sleep think
mi: of the fortune he was to take back
with hint when be returned south
ward In the middle of ihe li ght he
was awakened by a rap on the cabin
i Mir Getting out of lied and p itting
on a fur overcoat, for the uighf was
••old. he opened the door. There stood
a girl whom he recognized by her
I'oicp as Alice Woodville
"Iion't sign those papers." she said
mirriedly
"Wliv nut?"
"The mine has been salted "
■•flow do you know?"
"Mr Hawkins told those people
iiiioiit you. They have planned to
*uindle yoti." Hawkins kept the
hoarding house where Alice was em
pitiyctl. and "salting" a uiitie means
'iiixlug gold dust with tlie ore to be
i<sayed. "They were talking about
lie matter tonight In the tiext room to
• so. nnd I heard them."
"But I selected the ore myself."
'I heard them say that they had
-! :>!)t a lot of money for gold dust to
i t in the hole they had dug."
I'lie papers were not signed. Clav
im ina took a fortune back with him
•vhen he returned, but not In gold. It
vas a flesh nnd blood fortune 1c the
1*ts' i of Alice Woodvllle.
A Bachelor's
Complaint
Bt F a M1TCHEL
1 am a bachelor, and I propose to rc
main a bachelor. Heaven forbid that
I should be tied by unbreakable chains
to one of those paradoxical, unreason
able, Illogical creatures, a woman.
Why my bosom friend, Jim Brown,
had to put a firebrand between him
self aud nie 1 can't Imagine. We were
Inseparable. I never felt at home with
any other person as with him, and
without me he did not know what to
[ do with himself. Suddenly there pop
ped up between us—what? Clothes—
I many clothes, clothes varying In cut
I with every season. And within these
clothes was a woman.
| There is nothing unreasonable about
j me. I would have been perfectly will
j ing that Jim should go to see this
j much adorned grownup child once a
I week and stay till 3 In the morning
j if he liked. I certainly would never
I have thought of being jealous of one
who Is not endowed with n spark of
J manliness. But she was not satisfied
with tills. She wanted him all the
time. And Jim. poor beggar, was so
under her thumb that she did what
I she liked with him.
! Then she must needs nag at him to
! bring me to see her. Why she wished
{ to meet me was a puzzle. I certainly
, had no desire to meet her. "Do bring
I your friend. He must be a lovely man
| since you are so foud of him." And
i Jim was fool enough to believe that
i she wnnted to meet me because I was
1 "a lovely man."
; Just as soou as they were engaged I
there was Motion as to the evenings
i she wanted Jim and those 1 wanted
him I. being a reasonable creature,
was willing to divide Jim's evenings
with her Not so she. If Jim made
an engagement with me she would
make hiui break it.
Despite nil this pulling and hauling
for Jim's companionship, he must
bring that "lovely" friend of his to see
her. I refused to go. This frightened
Jim for he said that It would create j
an enmity between her aud me that
would be unpleasant all round. 1 gave
In to Jim—not to her.
Considering what she wanted me for
her treatment of me was remarkable
You would have thought she was In
love with me Instead of Jim. "I'm aw
fully glad to see you!" she said, all
smiles. "I've beard so much about
you that it seems 1 have known you
a long while. You have no idea how
fond Jim is of you. You must come
and see me often. Any one that Jim
speaks of so highly must be very nice."
If you bad heard the Intonation she
gave the words "very nice" you would
have realized the Irony between the
beginning aud ending of this sentence.
Mind you. 1 didn't see through all
this then. 1 confess I was fooled
while she was showing plainly that
she had an object In fooling me. No
one but a woman can coddle a man
and let him kuow that she is stuffing
him without repelling him. instead of
repelling she winds him round her fin
ger while she Is feeding him poison.
Cut I know It all now. Jim was
married, and when he returned from
his wedding trip he tried to grasp my
hand with fervor, but it was not the
same fervor as before. I knew that
I had been supplanted, and, more than
this, 1 knew that bis wife bad under
mined his good opinion of roe. Then
it became apparent why she wished
Jim to bring me to see her. She
couldn't attack one she had never seen, j
or if she did her onslaught would have |
had no weight She must have som^ J
thing tangible to attack.
"So this Is the wonderful man," 1 J
doubt not she said after seeing me. ,
"that you have been lauding to the j
skies. Why did he not say some of j
those bright things that .vou have so j
often spoken of? Didn't feel well
enough acquainted? 1 suppose 1 shall |
have to wait till he does. Some day
when he feels more at home here 1 pre
sume he will deluge us with his wit."
What a melancholy awakening Jim
must have had after this first in
speotion by liis ladylove of his bosom
friend to discover that 1 was after ail
a commonplace person! And how sin
gular it is that these creatures, who do
not know the difference between a
syllogism and -ole leather, can produce
on a man of Intellectual vigor the effect
they require by mere irony! Jim had
known me intimately for years, and
yet by a few words a woman bad shat
tered his idol
Jim bus a relapse occasionally and j
drops into my room for a bit of "old
times." as he calls tUem Hut he j
knows they are not old times; they are !
altered times Doubtless he thinks
that for him they are changed for the
better; that he is leaving me in n sta j
tionary position, while he has ad
canoed. At any rate. 1 hare uoticed
that those things I continue to enjoy
or think I enjoy, are beginning to bore
him. If I speak or a uew play on tlie
boards he will turn the subject to the
smart sayings of his little Jim. Then,
too, lie has become absorbed in piling
up money for his wife and children
after he has gone. £Ie says it is awful
to think of leaving them without sup- I
port it seems to me that in getting |
married he gave up all the fun there I
is In life to make a slave of himself.
Sometimes 1 wonder whether if Jim
and I had grown old as bachelors we
would have maintained the same In
terest in each other. 1 fear not Men
develop on different lines. Some men
don't develop at all. At any rate. J
find that association with any one does
not interest nie as it once did. I won
der if I will some day regret not hav
lng put my head In one of these pestif
erous matrimonial nooses
How a Dowry
Was Procured
By MARGARET C. DEVEREAUX
Between Switzerland and France
there is a chain of mountains running
In a northeasterly direction to Basel.
Within the Swiss border there lived
n watchmaker named Cremieux. His
daughter, Clochette, was a very pret
ty girl, seventeen years old. with black
hair and eyes and an olive complexion,
through which ou each cheek shone a
roseate color like that on a ripe peach.
Alphon.se Boyer. a young woodcutter,
met Clochette at a dance and there
upon came one of those quick love af
fairs that spring up like mushrooms
between young persons of opposite sex.
For awhile l.'iocliette concealed the
affair from her father, for woodcutting
has never been a profitable occupation,
and Alplionse was poor as a church
mouse. She did not think, therefore,
that her father would permit her to
marry her lorer. especially since there
was no dowry for her. But those who
love and are kept apart soon are worn
out. and at last Clochette told her fa
ther her secret, adding that if she
could not marry Alplionse she (lid not 1
care to li> e. Cremieux, fearing that
his daugLter would destroy herself,
after much thought said to her:
"I will consent to your marrying Al
phonse on condition that you or he
can make enough money for your dow
ry. You will need 2.000 francs with
which to begin housekeeping and have
a nest egg. 1 will help you. I know
a manufacturer In Geneva who will
furnish me on credit with watch
springs. There Is a heavy duty on
them when transported to auother
country. We are near the border of
France. If you or Alplionse .'ail smug
gle enough watch springs into that
country to produce a profit of 4.000
francs I will consent to the marriage.
The duty Is 40 per cent. Therefore to
produce 4.<>00 francs you mu t get 10.
000 francs' worth of watch springs into
France free of duty. But if you are
caught smuggling the goods will lie
confiscated. Therefore you must not
risk doing all at one time. Bisk only
2.000 francs' worth at each attempt."
Clochette conveyed this information
to her lover, and they agreed to acceji;
the conditions, making alternate trips
with each other ai ross the mountains
into France The customs officers
were alert, and ingenious devices were
nettled to deceive them Clochette
agreed to make the first trip, and Al
plionse made for her a pair of wooden
shoes Imnieh fashion that when the
outside and inside, which were sep
arate, were placed together the whole
would look like one shoe. But between
them he left a space, which would con
tain the watch springs Using tills
device. Clochette passed the ctfstoms
officers successfully, and the first in
stallment of the dowry was won.
Alphonse uext started with an equal
number of springs. Since it was the
hunting season, he took liis gun and
game bag nr ' going up into the moun
tains. began to shoot squirrels and otb
er game. A customs officer, hearing
the reports, approached and, seeing a
huntsman, made the necessary exami
nation. then let him go where he liked
Alphonse's gun had two barrels, and
one was full of watch springs.
Clochette'a turn coming nest, she
carried her consignment through In a
bandbox with a false bottom An offi
cer took everything out of the box, but
did not discover the trick.
This left one more trip for each. Al
phonse's turn coming nest He as
cended the mountains with an ax ou
his shoulder and ou reaching the sum
mit began to chop A customs officer
joined him, and unluckily lie was the
same man who had seen him as a
huntsman. This made him suspicious.
"1 thought you hunted?" he said to
Alphonse.
"Oh, that was only for a day's sport
I am a woodchopper. 1 am to cut
twenty cords of wood and must do it
at once."
"Nevertheless I must search you,"
said the other.
He made a careful investigation, but
found nothing on Alphonse that was
dutiable. Having satisfied himself, he
went away, and the woodchopper soon
slipped down the mountain side to the
westward His ax handle was hollow
and full of watch springs.
There was now but one more trip to
be made by Clocbette, but having
made two and met a different customs
officer each time, she feared that she
might meet one of the two. in which
case his suspicious would be excited.
When she went op the mountain
with her watch springs she carried a
large bouquet of flowers. She did not
attempt to go through by any unfre
quented route, but by a paved road.
When she came to the summit there
stood a man who was expected to look
out for smugglers As soon as Clo
chette saw him she winced He was
the man she had passed with the band
box
"Ton come this way very often," he
said, eying her suspiciously.
"Only once before."
"Twice before. The first time I saw
you. but you did not see me Come lu
here."
lie took ber into a customs station,
where he turned her over to a woman
to be searched. Nothing was found ou
her, and. picking up her bouquet, she
held it under their noses, then walked
away, saying:
"You customs people are very sus
plcious."
This time the last consignment of
watch springs was in the bouquet
Alphonse nnd Cloehette wero married
and lived happily.
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The largest and best coa
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Dally ghlpment# of pure
milk and cream to ail point*
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Sailing Dates ud Steamer Sub
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Juneau-Sitka Route
Leave® Juneau for Douglaa, Fun
jt Hoonah, Gyp«um, Tenakee,
'Klllisuoo, Chatham aid Sitka
1 KVEItV WEDNESDAY AT 12:01
i®. m.
I Juneau-Skagway Route H
| Leaves Skagway for Halnee, El
' dred Kock, Comet, Jualin, Senti*
J el Island, Eagle Hirer, Douglas
land Juneau.
| EX EKY SUNDAY AT 12:01 a. m.
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