... Caribou Hotel..
E. W. Gideon, Proprietor.
CARCROSS, Y. T.
At the Meeting of Rail and Sail
Steamboats Connect Here
With W.P.& Y.
rRoute for
Atlin
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Ci<H)D HINTING AND FISHING AT THE DOOR
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'RATES REASONABLE
Whitehorse Yukon Territory
Big Game Hunters and Tourists
DODGE CAR SERVICE FOR SIGHT SEEING
WOMAN HOLDING RICHEST
OK ItiLlTICAL PLUMS
IS NO PRl'DFJ
New York.—There'll be no regula
tion of skirt lengths, no ban on bare
knees, no outcry against the bobbing
of tresses or the parking of corsets
by her employes when Miss Annie
Mathews takes over on January 1
the office to which she has Just been
elected as regtster of New York
•ounty—the richest political plum
that h:is ever fallen into the lap of
a woman in New York, if not in the
«*ritire I'nited States.
Not that the $12,000-a-year
register-elect hasn't very decided
ideas on clothes atd all the allied
arts so precious to women. Indeed,
she lias spent the greater part of
h.-r 40-odd years studying the
thes problem, first as dressmaker.
th>'n as designer and finally as an
importing modiste.
Put she has even more decided
ideas on the question of personal
liberty.
"I am opposed to all prohibition,"
ftha said.
"It is impossible to make women
or men moral by legislation. Ttiv
human rare can tie Improved only
by education that will make litem
appreciate the good and the artistic.
"If any of my young women em
ployes ask for my advice on clot lies.
I shall give it. .And the most im
portant thing I will tell them is to
wear something appropriate for the
occasion. A woman's business attire
or house attire certainly should be
simple."
Busy herself at the time receiv
ing congratulations at her campaign
headquarters. Miss Mathews' attire
emphasized her formula. A plain
blue serge dress, softened at the
throat by a bit of embroidered linen
coller. Black high shoes. No Jew
elry. Copper colored hair simply
coiffed.
"Skirt lengths, bobbed hair, the
question of corset% or none." she
went on. with a twinkle from behind
her pinc-nez glasses, "are largely
matters of taste—and of figure. All
this talk about depravity among
young worneu makes me a bit weary.
I believe the young peoples are as
good as young people ever were.
"Of course there are and always
have been extremists. But—well, I,
don't think I will be troubled with
these,' for I can tell a grout deal
about character bv tho clothes one
■wears. Yes, even the standardized
clothes of men."
Miss Mathews enters on her new
job of keeping the country's deeds,
mortgages and leases with but one
preconceived idea—that there shall
be no prejudice either for or against
any of her 150 employes becausel
they happen to be women.
NO MONEY IX ROIlBIXtt MA 11.
Kansas City, Mo.—Robbing the
government trains is a' dangerous
and unremunerative occupation, ac
cording to Joe P. Johnston, post
office inspector here in charge of
the Kansas City district. Mr. John
ston admits that tl>s registered mail
robberies have been in vogue re
cently, but he instats that they d«
not really offer the opportunity to
get rich quick that those who at
tempt them believe exists.
Itather. says Mr. Johnston, they
offer a remarkable opportunity to
get killed or sent to prison quick
Then he recites the fates that cave
overtaken many mat) bandits.
"They all get killed or sent to
prison in the long tun," he remarks,
"and usually it is not such a very
long run, either."
Robbing tlie liii.lls. the veteran
post office inspector says, probabl
will be less attractive than ever
since the government has stationed
marine guards on trains carryinc
valuable mails, and provided escort
of "devil doits" (or mail trucks and
guards for rooms where mail is
handled. The insttuction given the
marines are very explicit. It is a
guard's duty to know who is author
ized to handle mail, and to allow
no one else to handle it. It is his
duty to know who is permitted in
the room or car wbare mail Is hand
led and to permit no one else then'
It is his duty, in case anyone at
tempts to roh the mails, to iak»
that person. de;id or alive, or to I
able to show a satisfactory reasoi
why. And the reason must be a
good one.
"t'nder Secroiary Penby's order? "
says Mr. Johnston, "about the only
reason that is considered valid is
that the bandit has killed the marine
tirst.
"There has been an epidemic of
mail robberies recently." Mr. J.iliii
ston continued. "1 believe the i >ti
is that a lot of young fellows be
lieve there is easy money in large
amounts to be had That is a mis
take. Ordinarily 'lie loot n1 : ..ned
from registered sacks is not easily
negotiable, and the bandit. r>von it
he gets away with it. gets a small
proportion of the v^lue of the loot. '
A dollar a month will bring the
Alaskan to your door.
It is easy to identify
Vidrola Instruments
You can toll them the moment you raise the lid and
see the trademark "Vidrola." You will aiso see other
Victor trademarks, as the picture and the phrase "His
Master's Voice.-'
Be sure to get a VIctrola instrument of the great
est artists and specially made to play their Victor rec
ords.
The Victor trademarks besides being your means
of identification are also your guarantees of quality. Vic
trola instruments are built to give a lifetime of service.
Look under the lid for the Victor trademarks—"Vic
trola," the picture and the phrase "His Master's Voice"
—and you can be certain of lasting satisfaction.
Victroia instruments S—"> to $1300.
Victrola
Reg. V. 9. Pat. Off.
You can have one of these in
struments sent to your home at
once, for you can buy ;h?m on '
easy terms, a small amount down
and the balance In monthly in
stallments.
Keller Bros.
AXATOLE FRANCE AND THE
NOBLE PRIZE
It is fitting that the Nobel prize
for literature for 1921 should so to
the veteran romancer, Anatole
Trance. Alfred Nobel, the Swedish
manufacturer of high explosives
who founded it. was Interested In
literature but even more interested
in the promotion uf peace, and in
our time there has been no strdier
pacifist than the author of the much
discussed' life of "Joan of Arc." On
a level with him in this respect may
be put Romain Holland, who In 1915
belatedly received t*)e priie for his
masterpiece "Jean Christophe,"
written In the vala hope of recon
ciling France and Germany by pro
moting a mutual understanding. But
the prizes for literature are award
ed on strictly literary grounds, and
the one for 1907 fell to Rudyard
Kipling, who is by no means a paci
fist. Nor is international celebrity
considered, aud no little surprise
was caused last year by the award
of the prize to the Norwegian nov
elist. Knut Hamsun, who had hardly
been heard of in this country, tho
lie long lived here.
Anatole hrance, on me contrary,
has long been one of the most cele
l>rati'd of living authors with a cos
mopolitan reputation, especially
among the cultivated. The widest
popularity has not been his. largely
because the average reader is made
uneasy by the skeptical Irony of his
brilliant romances. In which a pro
fround criticism ol life and of so
riety is often veiled by an extrava
gant fable. Thus there is a certain
parallel with Heitit. who came of
the same rare and had a like gift for
brilliant mocking raillery in which
wisdom lurked, but otherwise the
careers and the personalities of the
two men were as different as their
hooks. Intellectually an even clos
er parallel might be drawn between
the author who called himself "Vol
taire" and the author who calls him
self "Anatole France," but the paral
lel, though close, does not go far.
Voltaire might almost be called the
founder of modern skeptical irony;
\natole France is only one of its
wittiest and most brilliant modern
practitioners. His miniature classic
in the Voltairean f.eld is the little
story about the later years of Pon
tius Pilate, to whom somebody re
calls the riots In Judea and asks
about the central figure Jesus. The
proconsul searches his memory.
"No. I do not remember the name."
Before the war Anatole France
might not unreasonably have been
regarded as merely an embodiment
of the spirit that denies, but such
a judgement would have been un
fair then, and its incorrectness has
been strikingly shown since, by the
passionate devotion with which he
urged the cause of peace at a time
when it needed mu'.h courage. Some
of the things he has said would
hardly have been tolerated in Paris
except from an old favorite whose
idiosyncrasies had to be viewed len
iently. About most things In the
universe Anatole Fiance Is smiling
ly or bitlngly skeptical, but at least
he retains faith in mankind and its
destiny, and beneath its mockery
his writing has always been deeply
humanitarian. He Is worthy of ihe
honor which has fallen to bim in
his eld age.—Springfield Republic
an.
Breathing Under Water.
If a swimmer Is three minutes upder
witter lit- Is looked u[H>n lis a prodigy,
Iiui M. Thooris, a French doctor, de
clurcs that u man could remain half
an hour if he only knew how to handle
the carbonic acid in his system.
A man proved recently to a b»«ly of
medical experts and scientists that
it was possible to remain under water
and laugh at the audience surrounding
a 12-foot deep aquarium, eat cherries,
take out ;he stones, pull a wry face
when the cherry proves sour, and smile
when a pretty woman touched the
glass with a cignrette.
The secret of all this lies in using
a special method of natural breathing
as soon as you are under water, to ex
hale the carbonic acid gas. This
requires some practice. When this
is done you stop the nostrils, thereby
keeping off all inhalation.
Hid of the carbonic acid In the blood,
a man Is able to remain much longer
under water.
End-of-the-WwId Prophecy.
The morning of December 17, 1919,
the planets Mercury, Venus, Mars, Ju
piter. Saturn and Neptune came Into
alignment in the heavens; that is, all
the planets, with the exception of the
earth, lay in an approximate line with
the sun and all of them, except Uran
us. were on the\ame side of the sun.
They were strung along in the same
plane and approximately the same
line, like so many points on one spoke
of a wheel. Meanwhile Cranus we*
on the same line but on the other side
of the sun, Uke the point o{ the spoke
directly opposite. The arrangement
had been foretold by astronomers and
certain prognosticators predicted the
end of the world. However, the sua
rose as usual on that day and tha
weather was normal.
MYSTERY OF LOST ATLANTIS
Believed by Minjr to Be Merely Leg
end, but Idea Can Net Be
Entirely Uprooted.
Will the mystery of "lost Atlantis"
ever be solved to general satisfaction?
The story has been told for centu
ries. and Is still accepted as true by
numbers of people on both sides of
the Atlantic.
The original Idea was that an is
land of Immense sise and great beau
ty existed beyond Africa, with many
large cities, and nations bavins
strange laws and eustoms. Some
writers have even gone so far as to
describe the kind of clothing the peo
ple wore and the money they used.
Then the story P®™ that the Inhabi
tants of this great Island of Atlantis
grew bold and warlike, and that they
Invaded Europe and Africa. But fate
was unkind to them—because of their
wickedness. It Is said; terrible earth
quakes and floods occurred, and in a
single day and night Atlantis was
swallowed up and sank Into the
depths of the Atlantic ocean.
In the attempt to find some ground
for the persistent belief. ODe famous
scientist fell back upon the time,
thousands of years ago, when great
tracts of the eorth were covered with
a sheet of Ice of vast thickness.
In this Ice were Imprisoned such
enormous quantities of water that the
level of the oceans sank Quite low,
with the result that large areas of
land were left uncovered. One of
these uncovered portions, he sug
gested. was the island or continent of
Atlantis, which, on the melting of the
Ice, was covered again by water to a
great depth.
The western mountains 01 n-urupr
and the pastern mountains of North
America are supposed to be fragments
of the h!(fh mountain ranees of this
mysterious "lost Atlantis."
Pig Clubs Flourish.
Wall Street has many cluh and fra
ternity men, but probably no mem
bers of the rig dub. Indeed, such s
club could not flourish In lower New
Tork. Yet, It Is one of the prea'est
clubs In the conntry. The promoters
are usually country banks. Member
ship Is obtained by borrowing money
from the hank to buy a pi* of dlstln
rulshed ancestry. Little frvckJe faced
farm boys make up the membership.
The notes are always paid In full and
the embryo farmer becomes a pro
ilucer of thoroughbred live stock. One
little member In Oklahoma who
started with a ptf and a debt at the
bank recently walked out of the fair
ground with a blc cash prl7e in his
pocket, and now he owns a herd of
i purebred Poland China's and a bank
account. The Middle West Is swarm
Ing with such members and still new
clubs are fortnlnp. Wall Street Is In
terested because In one year the pack
ers alone paid the fanners SL.758.flft*
OOO for hops, and these little club
members are addlnj Immensely to ih«
value of the future production.—Wall
I Street Journal.
DunsJny * F»»t Writer.
Lord Lmnsany, who, despite the
slump in theaterland, has hail a new
play produced Id London rwvnt y. up
|H-urs to be w-ell nigh as fscilc a |>la\
wright as Lope de Vega, remarks the
Manchester (Juardian. Fr>»i. he pref
ace to "Plays of Blrls ami Mi-n" «e
learn that the longest nf iliese. a
three-act tragedy, took him 01 thru
days to write; a two-act play t.«>;,
two days; a one-act. pla> •tie 't»v
The time allowance of an act a diij
was exct-eded only In the c»s« of "Tin
Queen's Enemies," the single act of
which took six days, and most read
ers of the volume will agret- that it is
the least effective play of J lie four.
Mr. Pond, the lecture agent under
whose auspices Lord Punsany t>>ure>i
the Stales two years ago. says: 'To
see I/ord Punsany at work—a thing
which he seldom permits—is to w-e a
ceremonial. He uses large, square
cut enameled paper, and he write
with a quill pen. On one sld«* he has
a great stack of fresh blotters, and
when he finishes a page he blots It and
throws the blotter away."
Oyster*' Liver Comprint.
Two professors in physics at Lon
don university. England, are conduct
ing exhaustive tests on behalf "f the
; Daily Mall, with a view to timing a
possible difference between ordinary
and Japanese pearls. A Japanese pearl
Is produced by Inserting a seed pearl
or mother of pearl Into the liver of
the oyster.
Mr. Alfred E. Calvert a fellow of
the chemical society, stated recently
that the several specimens of Japan
ese pearls he possesses are Identical
in weight, color and luster with or
dinary pearls, and they are produced
by the oyster from the same material
and by the same process as the other
variety
PROFESSIONAL C.lttffS
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Attorney »l I"**
Practice la all court*
In Territory of ilwkt
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Office Hour*: 0-12 a. m.—1-<J p. »u.
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fonrth Tar*(l."iy rrrniDft
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Arctic Recorder, Arctic Oiief.
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way I/odce, No. 4.11, H.
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F. * A. M.
white r«s» i»<ic» r. * .v.
A. SL No. 11S, tnppi.« inu
and 4th Saturday •vrniniu
of each month at 8 oYlork.
Visiting Brethren «tr *»»•
fOIMl.
JOHX X. HANSEN. M,
T. J. Standinb, Secretary
Fraternal Order of
Eagle*
Slapvaj Acrlf. No.
iraifruil Ortlrr ut
Katies meet the firfl
and uilnl (Mnc-julay nigni 01 *a«n
month at tlieir hall on Fifth iir
qua, VtMlinc brother* cordially in*
vited to attend.
C. 11. ROT.KKS, V. 1\
1. M. (iriwbach, Soc'y.
I*ii»np«*r* of Alaska, ljtloo Xo. 12,
mivt in A. It. Hall first Monday in
mi > month ai K:30 p. m.
Vi.-iting brotlwrs cordially «•<•!•
comr. J. C. rinxrs. Scc'y.
Naomi Chapter No. ft
O. E. S., meets In Ma
Iconic hall, first and
third Friday, of Mfb
month, at 8 o'clock- Vi*
I itinu iiwmhprs wclcnmfv.
("Ii»rrlf Marie (Spark*.
Worthy Matron.
Vir'-Jn H SuffprooL Secretary.
NOTICE
When you want anything mov<>d
Trunks. Baggage or anything else.
Call up the John Williams. C. S.
Transfer Co. Also wood. 16 Inch,
delivered. $4.50, and coal, per ton.
delivered. $1S.
$100 Reward. $100
TTie readers of ' * w!H b*
pleased to learn c at least
one dreAded dlsev tbat s<-ienc® has
been able to cure in n :ts Places and
that la catarrh Catarrh h'Jn*: irreatly
Influenced by con* * i®l condlttbns
requires cowtttlitkw treatms®L Hairs
Catarrh Medicine is taken - tern ally and
aA* thru the Wood or. " • Mucous Pur
faces of the S ' • -n ' * V d'etrcyinc
the foundation r< • «=< ase. tfvtnc tha
patir^t strength \ * b- ~*r up the con
stitution and asstr* nj? r.r.* in doing Its
sr >rk. The proprietor? h " - so much
faith In th* curative p-rn of Hall's
Catarrh Medicine th;' offer One
Hundred Dollars for ny i.«e that It falls
to rurr Send for ?*«t f *»«'t menials. i
Addreea P. J. CHFNFT A- CO.. Toledo,
Ohio. Sold by all Drustfst, T&c.
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TIME TABLE NO. 48.
Tuesdays and Fridays
No. 1, N. Bound.
1st Class.
S:30 a. m. Leaves
10:45 a. m. "
12:30 p. m.
2:00 p. m. **
4:25 p.m. Arrives
No. 2, S. Bourn
1st Clas*.
Arrives 3:35 p. ai
leaves 2:05 p. m
12:45 p. it
10:55 a. m.
" 8:30 a. m.
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leaving time of trains.
150 pounds of Baggage will be checked free wit; cach full fare
ticket, and T5 pounds with each half fare ticket.