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Gate-way
Route oi
Comfort
Service
Safety
To Yukon Territory, Atlin District
35 Interior AIaska™3
During the winter season of 1916-17 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
A. F. Z1PF
_OR— Traffic Manager
612 Second Ave., SEATTLE, V/asH.
C. W. CASH
Supt. Mail Service Dept.
WHITEHORSE. Y. T.
White Pass & Yukon Route
TIME TABLE No. 38.
Mordny, Wednesday and Friday
r.
No. 1, N. Bound
1st Class
H:30 a. nj. Leaves
11:05 ». to. "
11:43 a. m. **
12:40 p. m. "
2.20 p. m. "
4:50 p. ni. Arrives
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Airlves
Leave*
No. 2, 8. Bound
1st Clam
3:50 p. m.
2: SO p. an.
| 1:30 p. tn.
13:50 p.
10:48
8:00 a.
m.
ru.
m.
8KAGWAY
WHITE PASS
LOO CABIN
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CARIBOU
WHTEXHORSE
Passenger* must be at depot i« time to have Baggage In
spected and checked. InspecUon is stopped 80 wlnmai before
leaving time of trains. jm - 1 --— |
150 pounds of baggage will be checked free with each full
tare ticket and 75 pounds with each half fare ticket.
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Make It a Smokeless, Dustless,
Gasless, Trip East This Year
In addition to the cleaner conditions due to Electri
fication, you'll enjoy the comfortable accommoda
tions and you'll like the little courtesies incident
to "Milwaukee" service.
E. J. Shaw, f Skagway I A. E. Harris, T. P. A.
H. G. Weir I Agents | Juneau Alaska
Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railway
1A NATURAL PUZZLE
One of the Great Mysteries That
Confound Science.
THE FORCE OF GRAVITATION.
Thl» Wonderful Power That Keep*
Sun* and Planet* In Their Courses
May Be Wave* In the Ether That
Push All Bodiee Toward Each Other.
The mystery of mysteries In Bdence
Is the attraction of gravitation—that
very force of nature that Is the most
familiar to us all. It seems strange
that the most familiar thing in the I
world should be the same time the
most Inexplicable, but so It Is.
In order to see clearly wherein the
mystery consists let us first consider
what gravitation appears to be. It is
gravitation that gives the property of
weight to all bodjes. If there were no
gravitation we could float in the air.
JLt Is gravitation that brings a cannon
ball eventually to the earth, no matter
how swiftly it may be projected. The
faster It starts the farther it will go,
but during every second of Its flight
It drops the same distance vertically
toward the earth, whether the speed
Imparted to it by the powder is BOO or
8,000 feet per second. Gravitation
acts on a moving body exactly as well
as on one at rest
It Is gravitation that curbs the mo
tion of the moon and keeps it in an
orbit of which the earth is the active
focus.
So, too, it is gravijtatlon that gov
erns the earth in its motion around
the sun, preventing it from flying away
into boundless space. Astronomy shows
that gravitation acts between all the
planets and all the stars and controls
their motions with respect to one an
other.
Now, this mysterious force appears
to be an attraction as if there were
elastic cords connecting all the bodies
in space and tending to draw them to
gether. But space, as far as our senses
can detect, is empty. How, then, can
there be an attraction? In order that
a body may be attracted or drawn
there must be something to draw it
Gravitation does the trick, bqt com
pletely hides from us the mechanism
through which it acts. We can dis
cover no mechanism at all.
When an unfortunate aeroplanlst
drops from his machine he begins at
once to fall toward the earth as if it
were pulling him. But how can it pull
if it has nothing to pull with? You
may think at first sight that it is the
air which acts as an intermediary, but
that is not so, because the earth and
the moon "pull" upon one another with
a force equal to the strength of a steel
cable BOO miles in diameter, but there
is no air and no other tangible thing
in the open space, 240,000 miles across,
that gaps between the moon and the
earth.
Then gravitation exerts the same
force at every Instant No matter
how fast the falling aeronaut may be
descending at any moment, gravitation
will keep on adding speed as If he
had just started. Disregarding the
slight retardation produced by the re
sistance of the air, be will fall six
teen feet iiv. the first second, forty
eight feet in the second second, eighty
feet In the third second, gaining thir
ty two feet in his velocity during ev
ery second after the first. From a
height of 10,000 feet he would fall In
about twenty-live seconds and would
strike with a velocity of 400 feet per
second.
The same kind of calculation can De
applied to the gravitation between the
earth and the moon. If the moon were
not In motion across the direction of
the earth's "pull" it would fall to the
earth In about 110 hours.
Now, to return to the mystery, how
Is this force exerted? Is it really a
pull, as it seems to be? .The answer
to which science is tending is that, in
stead of being a pull, gravitation is a
push—in other words, that the falling
aeronaut is pushed toward the ground
and the moon Is pushed toward the
earth.
On the face of it one might think
that nothing was gained by this the
ory, because it seems as impossible
that a push should be exerted with
out a tangible connection as a "pull.
But the clew Is found in the supposed
properties of that Invisible, intangible,
all pervading medium called the ether.
This, to be sure. Is explaining one
mystery by another, for we know noth
ing about the ether except that it con
veys the waves of light and electric
ity; but at any rate, it affords a con
ceivable explanation of gravitation.—
Garrett P. Serviss In New York Jour
nal
Japanese Festivals.
The Japanese festivals are easily re
membered: First of flrst month, the
new year; third of third month, {east
of dolls, for girls; fifth of fifth month,
feast of flags, for boys; seventh of sev
enth month, the day for the god i^fld
goddess of love, Tonabota; ninth pf
ninth month, the "escape of the moun
tains," the feast of chrysanthemums.
The latter is not now generally ob
served.
A Diplomatist
"I am amazed, sir, that you should
propose to my daughter. You have not
known her a week."
"True, madam, but- I have known
you for some time, and everybody says
your daughter takes after you." He
got the girl
I A tactful man can pull a stinger
from a bee without getting stung.—G.
|*H. Lorlmer.
LEGAL ROMANCES.
Court Cases Where the Unexpect
ed Came as a Climax.
FACTS THAT RIVAL FICTION.
Some Trlala In Which the Heavy Hand
of the Law VVaa Curiously Turned
Aalde From Inflicting Punishment
Upon an Innocent Person.
As a rule, law proceedings are dry
affairs, but there have been some
wherein the facta rivaled the most ro
mantic Action.
About the middle of.the eighteenth
century a vessel arrived one day at an
English port from India. The captain
reported that, while sailing through
the Indian ocean, one of his passen
gers, a man of wealth and rank, had
been murdered and then accused one
of his passengers, a young brother of
the murdered man, of the crime.
Though protesting his innocence, the
accused was brought to trial. When
put upon the stand the captain swore
that about midnight on the evening of> j
the murder, which was Christmas eve,
he had seen the accused leave his owu
cabin, creep stealthily along the deck
to the cabin of his brother and there
enter. Shortly after, the captain testi
fied, he heard the sounds of a struggle
and then saw the accused emerge and
return to his cabin. On going to the.
cabin of the elder brother he found
him dead from strangulation. Under
cross examination the captain said that
he, himself, was concealed from the
viow of the accused mun by the deep
shadow cast by the sail in the light of
a full moon, while the accused had
been compelled to creep in the light
for quite a distance, which rendered
him perfectly recognizable. The sec
ond mate, who testified that he was
with the captain, swore to the same
facts.
There was no other evidence except
the denial of the abused, who, it was
shown, would prout largely by his
brother's death. Just as the case was
about to be given to the Jury a man
In the courtroom asked permission to
put a single question to the captain.
"NOW," 8ftId tho stranger when the
captain had returned to the stand, "if
you recognized the prisoner in the light
of a full moon on last Christmas eve,
how do you, who know something of
astronomy, account for the fact that
on last Christmas eve there occurred a
tota^ eclipse of the sun?"
Trapped thus in his own circumstan
tial lies, the captain broke down and
confessed that ho and the mate had
been hired to commit the murder by
a third relative, who, upon the death
of the younger brother, would have
fallen heir to both their estates.
In a celebrated court martial case
which came up for trial in 1S71 a
young lieutenant was accused of hav
ing forged another man's name to a
promissory note and obtained money
on It The accusing fitness produced
the note in question, which was writ
ten upon a sheet of blue ruled foolscap
paper and bore a date of the year 18G7.
Everything h»d gone against the de- i
fendant and the case was about to go
to the Jury, when the sweetheart of the
lieutenant, who was sitting beside him
at the trial, happeued to pick up the [
note and hold it in such a way that a !
strong light from the window shone
through the paper. There, to her Joy, j
she read the watermark, "Swampscott i
Mills, 18GD." In other words, the note j
purported to have been written on the
paper two years before the paper had
been manufactured.
The year 1SG9 figures in another
strange lawsuit In the year 1SS0 cer
tain persons in New Mexico claimed a
huge tract of hundreds of thousands of :
acres as the heirs of one Bartolomo
Baca, to whom, they alleged, the Span
ish government had, In 1S17, made a
grant They exhibited the deed of
grunt and sued to obtain possession.
On the trial the deed of grant stood
every test of genuineness, and a de
cree was entered awarding the im
mense property tp the claimants.
Some months afterward as John
Waldron, the attorney for the Santa
Fe railroad, who had been the princi
pal losers, was reading a paper his eye
rested on this little paragraph, "Ani- ,
line ink was invented in 1SG9 in Ger
many." As he read the thought flashed
through his mipd, "What kind of ink j
was the Baca land grant written in?"
By permission of the court he had a
chemist make a quiet test of the ink
of the grant, and when he read the
chemist's report he cabled to a certain
German chemist in Europe. Six
months after, when the case was, by
permission of tfoe court, reopened on
accpunt of newly discovered evidence,
a white bearded stranger took the
stand and in ten minutes sent the case
of the Baca heirs out of court and the
heirs themselves into the penitentiary
by swearing that he was the inventor
of aniline Ink, that the invention was
made in 1869, and that the ink in
which the Bartolomo Baca grant dated
1817, was written, was aniline.—Case
and Comment. j
Too Big a Pill.
"What's that thing, doc?"
"That's the medicine ball I bought
you."
"Then I'm afraid there Is no hope
for me." v
"Why not?"
"I never can swallow that"—Youngs
town Telegram.
Fireworks.
Fireworks are said to have been first I
used in Europe In the city of Florence
In 1360.
More people succumb to worry than
to the things they worry about
Mr. Business Man
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Heads, Envelopes, Statements, etc.
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