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Skaguay, Alaska
he White Pass dtYukon Route
TIME TABLE No. 3:5.
Uaily, except Sunday.
V<>. 1 JL Bound
1st class
a. m. I eaves
12:05 ji. in. "
12:45 ;>. ui.
1: 10 "
3:20 "
5:30 *' Arrives
SKAGUAY
WHITE PASS
LOG CAULS
BENNETT
CARIBOU
« HITEHORSf
Passengers must t>e at depot* 1h time (• nave Baggage inspected
»nd checkcd Inspection la stopped 30 minutes before leaving time cf
rains. --."2
160 pounds of baggage will be checked free with pach lull fat*
ticket aad 7R pounds with each half fare ticket.
No. 2 S. Boo ml
lbt class
Arrives i:50 p. m.
Leaves 3-20 "
2:30 "
1:50 "
" 11:48 a. nj.
Leaves 1) 00 "
Pur? Air . Pure Food. . Pure Drin *
arc essential to healthy jraVth
Pure Drink
beerJ
SEATTLE'S
Leading Pouular Priced Hotel
Hotel
Georgian
European Plan
All Outside Sunny
Kooms. Elegantly
Furnished
Sample ltooms.
Corr.merela & Fam
ily trade solicited
KATES
Slnele Eioms ?1 tip
Koomswlth bathSI 50
Two persons S.'.r>0 up
C. S. ST VFFOKD
M anacor.
Take East Late car rrom onior
Depot to Fourth. FOURTH AVE
between Union & PlJrw.
OLDEST BANK IN ALASKA
THE B. M. BEHRENDS BANK
Juneau, Alaska
Capital, $30,000.00. Surplus, $20,000.00
B. M. BEHRENDS, R1WILL1S, GUY^McNAUGHTON.
President Vice Pres. Cashier
A Question
of Value
It Involves the Subject
Love
By IDA SPEED
Copyright by Pmnk A. Munsey Co.
Given two men auil n woman you'll
most always have a romance; two wo
men and one man are apt to produce
a riot, but take two women and two
nu n. all in love, and every one of 'ein
bein' a misfit, as yoi might say, and
It's like a two ring; circus—you can't
possibly take in all the details.
When this here Miss Daphne Don
aldson first throws in with the west
it's «iih no notion except to forgit
past unpleasantnesses which, I learn
afterward, was caused by her bavin'
rui'uinu tasios :itid her husband hav
In' a day com h piickctbook.
Course, in order to win hor he puts
up a I igjior f• n:,t than his bank ac
count calls for :*iid when he can't live
up to the premises she pleads nonsup
[Hirt ami requests her maiden name.
So when we first see her she's got
both the div.>, and said maiden
name and lr - il v west to escape the
gossip and ! il . lisuin' from the
same.
It to a >'n ' :l • ip to freight her
trunks out i<> the raiieh. and she had
clothes thai : le the men set up and
'
greeti willi envy.
She shore !i is t'ie heart broke look,
iiihI .sl'i> . i; j I en I:, re u week before
I SI e p;.i i ... Duval is goin'
to be lu'ai :i i i ■ I'.e iiijni'ed.
V'»<» si \ H e biggest part of this
mi: i is e u1 : 1*\ a man back east
mu. 1 ." • who was her (ouflden
comc and nvike herself at home here
till sneii iim<- as she leels like facin'
the wurid again.
Now, M ,-y T : • rt. whose folks have
cha: • o this o Is one of them
quiet, praet: girls who only know
one way to !■ • --t^-'t's with a secret,
coiisuinin' passion.
Secret. C:is o:i!y ! > the object of it,
nntl eon -'in :'i" all Ivt lime In tliinkln'
about it. The <»! ■ t of M iry's devo
tion was Jojmiiv I' . :. .
That such is bud 11. -ugh.
Cut nltoi t tl :ve w i - after Miss
come out t" look . . ter some matters
as he drv» on-e h year, but is send
in* a substitute v !•<> w make a new
business for him.
i urive ni if n;.vi una uii.
name is S:::!t! - on. tiU 1 find a tall,
In t!ie bar!; of the nu rnzlne where It
says:
"If you want to foe! nt ease in any
society. wonr"—etc.. ml who can ask
more i|Ucstious ti: in a jickleg lawyer?
Vi'hen we reach the house Daphne
an;l Mary are on the east gallery. I
make 'em ae/jr ■intc-! with Mr. Smith
son.
Daphne Is siandin" foolin' with a
chain she alw .ys vvivrs around her
neck with some kind of a little hoodus
on the end of it.
her head, indlp. 'Tent. Then she turns
wiih a rattle of silk and walks in the
bouse.
"(Had to meet you." says Mary, hold
in' oct her hind. "Have you all had
your dinner?"
AVln n we say we haven't she gits up,
smoothiti' out her fresh <:iin:hnm dress,
and goes in to set dinner out
That whs the duTeretieo between'em.
la a week'* time Mr. Smithson looks
like he's forgot he was sent here for
any purpose but to make love to Mary,
who is real nice to him to keep from
showlu' how she hates to see Johnny
and Daphne together so much.
But. listen,'that's not the worst.
■\Vh it does the grass widow do but
begin to build a staek at this here
Smith^on. who don't seem to notice It,
he's t' at took up with Mary Talbert.
It was like siugln' "Three Blind
Mice." They all fell in with the same
words to the :tne tune, but only pro
duced : juiuble In the end.
1 \\ i: li 'cm pretty close and observe
more o It--* lr:am tmeher lu all of
'em.
I'n ; the very first I know why
Mary i« trentln' Smithson so nice, but
It ta < ii long time for me to glean
that ohnny is playin' the same game
wit! Daphne because he don't think
Ma: cares tor him.
I liggered that this Daphne didn't
t.vlu- io western wuas and folks, and it
wasn't so much S:n:thson as them back
east garments of his'11 that was hold
in" iter spellbound.
A .1 it^ook ttii.s bore Smithson just
n u;ontir to do what Stoner usually
attends to. gitUn' back by return mail.
I'.i fore he leaves we begin to work
the cattle, 'i'lic first daj>.we rounded
up the north Cross S. and course the
women wanted to go on the drive.
JvUnny Duval was on his fanciest
cutiin' horse, Don. and he was showln'
o!T the least mitt. as cowboys will do
with back east fi 'ks lookln' on.
Smithson was J ell in his ridin' togs,
witli little race urs. mid his mount
was a big. handsome bay, but he was
powerful in (lie way.
About the mifldle of the mornln'
Johnnv works hard for five minutes
tryin' o cut a big jar headed yenrlin'
out of the herd, and when at last the
steer tnkes to the bushes Smithson
spurs lip and turns him right back in
the herd, not kiiowin" enough toaee
where the brute should go.
"Let him go," yells Johnny, and rips
out four uncomplimentary words which
wouldn't have sounded no bad to
Smlthson If the flrst and fourth hadn't
been "you."
Daphne rides over to Smlthson at
ouce, her face plumb scarlet
"I think," she suys, dignified, "you'd
better take Mary and ine home."
So he takes the ladles to the ranch,
and that's the last 1 see of 'em till
that evenin', when us boys come up
from the brandln' pens and'the two,
women are on the gallery by their
sclves.
Johnny Duval marches right up and
apologizes for losln' his patience.
Daphne shrugs her shoulders and
says nothln'. But Mary looks at him
with sympathy.
"It's pretty hard work to have to do
twice on account of somebody's Ig
norance." she says.
Johnny looks at Mary, grateful.
Then Daphne bolls over.
"You western men can do just one
thing," she says, scornful. "You can
work cattle with all the rldln' and !
other things that appertain. But put I
one of you back In civilization and I
you'd have to drive a dray for a
llvluV
"Poor people have poor ways, but
ain't that a honest way to make a Mv
ln-?" says Johnuy and turns on his
heel, spurs jlnglin', and goes In the
house.
I could see Mary was pleased plumb
through.
The rest of us boys says nothln', and
directly Mary goes out to a mesquite
bush a few feet from the house and
picks ofT a leaf.
She comes back to the foot of the
gallery steps and says: "Somebody
name this. I'm goin' to tell Miss
Daphne's fortune."
Just then Smlthson saunters out, and
I says. "I've named It"
"Big house, little house, pigpen,
kitchen." says Mary, pluckln' off a
prong and throwiu' It away with each
"house."
"Big house, little house, pigpen,
kitchen."
"HIg bouse, lltWe bouse"—
"Mr. Suiitbson," I says.
"You're goiu' to marry Mr. Smlthson
anil live in n little bouse," says Mary,
lookln' nt Daphne ami laughln'.
"That leaf bad one too many prongs,
I'm afraid," says Smitbson. "How
about It, Miss Donaldsou?"
"Love," begins Dapbue, toyln' with
that chain of hers. "Love is like hap
piness and everything else—it has a
relative value. It depend* on who Is
in the 'little house.' " She gits up and
goes to the door; then she stops.
"The 'little houses', where love ex
ists," she says, looklB' straight at
Smlthson, "are more complete than
the 'big houses' that are only for show
and to keep pace with the bunch."
Then she walks in the bouse.
"I'd about as soon mine would come
out 'pigpen' if it couldn't be 'big
house.' I've lived iu little bouses and
kitchens all my days," Mary says, with
a sigh.
"You'll never know the relative val
ue till you've tried both," says Smith
son to Mary. When she has gone in
the bouse, too, be turns to me.
"Women, my friend, are alike the
world over." he says, sorter bitter.
"But Just the same we can't do with
out them."
"No, sir," I replies emphatic.
The next day that blamed little
piU'bin' "baby" horse of mine turns
over with me and breaks my ankle,
and breakln' that leg done for rae
what one of these here Japanese
screens they set In the corner of the
stage does for the show business.
They put me to bed iu the east room,
which has windows openin' oar the
front gallery, and because an invalid
is expected to go to sleep early 1
beard somethln' that night I never
should have got on to otherwise.
The pain bad got easy, and I was
dozin' a little when voices waked me.
It was not light enough to see the
faces, but a woman was speakin' when
1 commenced to listen.
"I suppose Elmer Stoner sent you
out here, too?" she says.
"Yes," says the man, "but I'll swear
to you I didn't know you were here
until I was within five miles of the
ranch."
"And then it was too late to turn
back," she says.
"Not If I bad known you were fllrtin'
with a cowpuncher who is far beneath
you every way. And so soon!" he adds
In a bard Toice.
rue ivn IJUUUU uun
bert person are wrapped up In each
other, so your flirtation won't do you
any good," she retorts.
"Oh. Harry," she goes on, "you only
wanted to be rid of me!" And I hear
her voice cateh.
"Daphne, it's so lite you, dear. lou
get n divorce from me, run away and
hide, amuse yourself with another man
and then lay the blame on me. Now,
I don't mind the blame," he says.
"God knows I've been lonely with
out It, but I wonder If we could patch
them up—our lives,yon know. The little
Talbert Is a poor substitute for you."
I propped myself «p on my elbow.
A big. round, red moon was Jnst
peepin' over the edge of the world, and
a man was leanln' against a post of the
gallery with his arms around a wom
an, whose head was down on his shoul
der.
"Anyhow," she says, dabbln* at ber
eyes with a little white speck of a
handkerchief, "there never was any
oiie else and there never will be."
"■We'll go home tomorrow," he says,
sooth In'.
The curtain ought to come down as
they kiss, but there wasn't none, and
that moon wns so bright I jnst com
promised by pullln' the sheet up OTer
my head. .. —r*.
GROSS ERBOR TO
ORDER BY MAIL
Gatalogus Hcusss Threaten
Very Life of Farmer.
PLAIN FACTS ABOUT TRADE, I
Only Interest of Octopus Is Farmer
Customer's Money—Growth Duo to
Susceptibility of Persons In $mall
Communities — Mail Order Houses
Consumed With Selfishness.
[Copyrighted. I5H. by Thomas J. Sullivan.]
Error iN not a fault of our knowl
edge, but a mistake of our judgment
It is almost as diliicult to make a man
unlearn Ills errors as tils knowledge.
Mallnformatloa Is more hopeless than
noninformatlon, for error la always
mere hopeless than Ignorance.
Ignorance Is a blank sheet on which
we may write, but error Is a scribbled
one from which we must first erase.
Ignorance is contented to stand still
with her back to the truth, hut error
Is more presumptuous and proceeds in
the wrong direction. Ignorance has no
light, but error has farther to go be
fore she can arrive at truth than has
Ignorance.
So that these mall order, traders may
not plead iguorance lu extenuation of
their offense we give below a cate
gorical list of things which the mail
order bouses do not do. We trust they
will prove eye openers to the unwise.
What Catalogue Houses Do Not Do.
The retail catalogue houses do not
buy the farmer's produce.
t * r.
They do not buy the farmer's stock
and hogs. '•
* «•.
They do not help to educate the
farmer's children.
* v.
They do not pay any taxes In your
community.
R K
They do not help support your
schools, churches and charitable Insti
tutions.
A V.
They do not encourage the farmer's
boy or young men In small cities to
engage In business.
»? K
They Don't Build Your Roads. I
They do cot help to build your reads I
or care for your streets.
s» *
They do not sell you as good a grade
of goods as you can buy In your own
home town.
H r.
They do not show yon goods before
yon pay for them.
* «
They do not deliver promptly goods
that you buy from them.
n «t
They do not advocate the building
up of country towns.
». •?
They do not oppose the centraliza
tion of business In the large cities.
* *
They do not. In return for the farro
er consumer's trade—the farmer who
buys their clothing, household goods,
farm Implements, etc.—buy the farm
er's butter, eggs, cheese, grain and
wood.
v. v.
They do not buy your grain, butter,
cheese nnd stock from pictures and
pay in advance the same as you do.
They do not buy anything from the
farmer or consumer from a picture.
* *
They do not spend a dollar of their
money with the farmer or consumer.
They never spend a dollar with your
local merchant
They do not furnish employment to
a single resident of your community.
They'll Not Give You Credit.
They do not extend to you credit, as
does the local merchant, when you are
hard up.
They do not syoipumize »nu j™
a time when you bare sickness In your
family.
They do not sympathize with you
when your wife or children are taken
from you.
They do not want to see your local
merchant prosper in business.
They do not do anything for any
body except themselves.
Does tbe small city, town or village
ever see a dollar of their money?
Like a Huge Octopus.
The above, it would seem,'shows a
good and sufficient number of reasons
why this mail order octopus should be
left severely aloue by both the farmer
and the residents of small cities and
towns who have thoughtlessly lent It
their patronage.
It is spreading out over tbe land,
dally gaining in strength and magni
tude and gradually but surely sapping
the lifebloocrof the small communities,
reducing property values, endangering
local investments and causing a con
dition of chaos and misery everywhere.
It is a monster of local destruction,
this retail catalogue bouse, and we re
gret to say that Its growth Is entirely
due to the susceptibility of the farm
ers and resident's of small towns who
patronize it extensively to their own
financial injury.
You make a mistake Jf
you do not stop a(
THE
Pullen House
Electric Lights
Rooms Single or en Suite
JBaths on each floor
Famous for its Home Cooking,
Milk, Cream, Cottage Cheese and
Buttermilk from our own dan-v.
Fresh Eggs, etc'
Rates $2.50 Per Day and Up
Well Lighted, Large Sample
Rooms for Traveling Men.
H. S. PULLEN, Prop.
Skagway, Alaska
J. IKUTA
MANHFACTDEINC.
JEWELER
WATCHES
AND CLOCKS
Curios, Ivory Carving*
Indian Baskets
China and Cut Glass
Official Watck Inspector for the
W. P. & Y. Route
Mail Orders given prompt, cat*
RAW FURS
WE PAY
HIGH - PRICES
FOR FINE FURS;
' ———~
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Percey's Fur House
Othkoth, - Wi*eon*tH
rajs bkaowat
Pioneer Dairy
H. F. SEEM AX, Prop.
i ihe simmy in men
The largest and bwt coa»
ducted dairy in Alaska.
Daily cklpmsnta of pat1*
milk and cream to &11 polata
on JVhlte Paaa & Yuko*
Route.
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Alaska Furs a Specialty
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JiiiKauSieamiMpgo.
U. S. MATT, steamer
Georgia
Schedule of Sailings From
JULY 1st, TO SEPTEMBER 80<b<
Sailing Date* and Steamer Sub
ject to Change Without Notio*
Juneau-Sitka Route
Leaves Juneau for Douglaa, Poa
Ur, Hoonah, Grimm, Teaakee,
Killisnoo, Chatham and Sitka
EVERY WEDNESDAY AS *»;«1
a. m.
J u n eau-Skagway Route
Leav'js Skagway tor Halnos, El
dred Kock, Comet, Joalin, flentin*
el Islaud, Eagle Hirer, Douglas
and Juneau.
EVERY SUNDAY AT 12:01 ft. »,
WILLIS E. NOWELL. Meaeger.
Only jOne "BROMO QUININE," that ft
fixative Rromo Quinine
^ares a Cold in One Day, Cr*Sn 3 Day*