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THANKSGIVING
Tomorrow, Thursday, Nov. 26th,
hag by proclamatioa of President.
Wilsou been designated as a day of
uational prayer and thanksgiving fit
the many blessings wo, as
a nation, have enjoyed >»
the past twelve months, and
in view of the woeful and lament
able disaster that has overtaken til*
most populous and powerful of the
nations of Continental Europe, the
people of th0 British Isles, and
is daily threatening to spread to the
nations ia Europe that are now
neutral as well as to carry t'ne
crimson tide of battle into the Far
East, we, of America, -who are with
out the zone of belligerency 30
far as it affects us from military
or naval standpoints almost as ••
unit feel the pleasurable anticipa
tion, although in a subdued and
more or less melancholy spirit, that
this usually joyous and carefree
anniversary observance calls forth.
The width of an oceaa separates
ua. from the strife in Europe and
the Far East, but within the boun
daries of our own continent a prob
lem confronts us that may yet re
quire a sacrifice of the lives of the
rlower of the nation's young man
hood in its solution, and the
reasons are so obvious for an ex
pression of our gratefulness to a"
over-ruling Providence for thu3 far
having kept us almost entirely out
of the bloody arena of war that
the recalling of it to our readers,
minds is almost superfluous. Let
us pray tomorrow that the necessity
for active participation shall pass
us by entirely.
The day will be generally observ
ed In Skagway and the Cathoiic
and Methodist clergymen will hold
special services at their churches.
The Daily Alaskan, too, following
a time-houored custom, will not is
sue again until Friday evening,
thus permitting the employes of
the establishment to enjoy a
much needed rest, and to obseive
the day according to the dictates of
their own consciences.
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START OF A FORTUNE.
The Boy Who Began His Career by
Buying Soap at Auction.
A boy eleven years old stood at an
auctiou room door and gazed with in
terest at tbe crowd of men gathered
round the auctioneer, flis curiosity
led hiui to euter tlie room. His atten
tion was attracted to several boxes of
toilet soap, Mie kind, be noticed, that
bis mother used at home. He had
often been sent to the drug store to
buy it for her. "Ah," he said to him
self. "perhaps 1 can buy this soap
cheap. 1 will sell it and make some
money."
As fast as his feet would carry him
he rau to the drug store where his
mother traded and sought out the
proprietor. "How much would you give
me for a box of that soap such as my
mother buys?" he asked. The druggist,
ready to please the boy, named a cer
tain price. When the youngster asked
if he could use several boxes the
druggist thought it was a good joke
and replied that he could use all that
the lad would sell him.
The boy hastened home. He emptied
bis litt'e savings bank- and ran back
to the auctiou rooms with the money
carefully wrapped in a handkerchief.
The soap was still unsold, aud the boy
edged his way through the crowd to
the platform. When the soap came
under the auctioneer's hammer the
boy's little piping voice made the first
bid. The other buyers were so amused
at his youth and bis serious manner
that they let biin carry off his transac
tion without u contest, and the boy got
twenty-two boxes of toilet soap at a
small fraction of their value. When
the auctioneer asked his name he an
swered, "Charles Yerkes."
The lad took the boxes of soap to his
purchaser, the druggist, who, open
eyed with surprise, inquired where he
had got them. "1 bought them at the
auction." he said proudly.
"1 could have done that myself,"
complained the druggist, but as he had
promised to buy the soap he had to
keep his wont
That was the beginning of an un
usual business career. In later years
Charles Yerkes became famous In both
England and America as a financier
and a conductor of great business en
terprises.—Youth's Companion.
EDITORIAL PAGE
FANGS OF A RATTLER.
Long, CurveJ and Hollow Are Thes*
Oeac y Poison Syringes.
A rattlesnake docs not coil up like a
ship's cable, as It is so of leu pictured,
but In a uiore Irregular fashion, with
the rattle bearing tail free in the mid
dle ati'l the ueck bent back upon itself
so as to be quickly rtuii^ forward iu
strik'ug. A snake when alarmed or ir
ritated often ope us iu mouth and pro
trudes Its tongue. Many think that
the poison lurks here. As a matter of
fact, the tongue is a delicate sense or
gan. corresponding to our ears, and a
snake may be said to hear with its
tongue.
The teetb of an ordinary harmless
water snake are like little needles, and,
although sucb a snake may strike and
bite viciously, the wound amounts to
nothing. Ou the other hand, in a rat
tlesnake or other venomous serpent
there is a pair of long curved hollow
fangs in the fore part of the mouth
that are very different from the other
teeth. These connect with the poison
ducts, and when the snake strikes and
closes its jaws the apparatus works
like a hypodermic syringe, the pressure
of the closing jaws squeezing the ve
nom from the iioison sac through the
hollow fang Into the wound. Some
snakes have only grooved fangs Instead
of hollow ones, but the effect Is the
ga me.
Treatment for the bite of a rattle
snake should be prompt and drastic.
The time honored whisky treatment is I
useless. The poison works in the blood,
and the first move should be to tie a
ligature between the wound and the
heart, so as to keep it out of the cir
culation. The next step should be to
cot open the wound and by squeezing |
and sucking get rid of the venom as |
quickly as possible. The wound should (
be thoroughly washed out with a solu
tion of permanganate of potash and
kept moist with an antiseptic dressing.
Travelers who are apt to be exposed |
to bites of poisonous serpents should
carry a hypodermic syringe and as
soon as bitten inject a permanganate
solution liberally all about the wound.
This requires nerve, but people with
out nerve should avoid the vicinity of
rattlesnakes -St Louis Republic.
TORPEDO BOAT DESTROYERS.
Work They Are Supposed to Perform
In Time of War.
As the unme implies, torpedo boat
destroyers were originally built to
combat the smaller torpedo boat, which
bad become such a serious menace to
tlie battleships and the large cruisers
that searchlights and rapid fire guns
eould not be depended upon for pro
tection, says a writer in Scribner's
Magazine. Gradually, however, the
duties of the destroyer were extended
until they included all that was former
ly done by the torpedo boat and much
besides.
The mere fact that a modern de
stroyer is three or four times as large
as one of the earlier boats renders It
so much more seaworthy and capable
of carrying so much uiore fuel that
the radius of action of torpedo boat
craft has been enormously increased,
and they have become more and more
dangerous to an enemy's fleet.
The duties of a modern flotilla may
be tabulated In this way:
First.—Scouting. This comprises lo
cating and reporting the position of
the enemy and keeping in touch with
him as long as may be necessary.
Second.—Protection of one's own fleet
from night attacks of the enemy's de
stroyers. This inclades not only locat
ing and reporting the position of the
hostile torpedo craft, but. if necessary,
attacking them with your guns and
sinking or driving them away before
they can force home an attack against
battleships.
Third.—Attacking the battleships of
the enemy with your torpedoes. This
is, of course, the paramount duty of
every vessel In the flotilla.
Fourth.—In addition to the above
"regular" duties, destroyers are fre
quently used In what might be called
"gunboat work"—patrolling the ene
my s coast, running up his rivers where
the big ships cannot go, overtaking and
capturing his merchant vessels and
firing on troops and field batteries
ashore.
Oratory.
Speaking of Wendell Phillips' re
.•inrUnbie gifts un orator, Horace
tin Admiral Due
Southbound
S. S. Admiral Evans
Nov. 28
LEAVING SEATTLE ON THE 5th, 15th AN1> 25th OF
EVERY MONTH AND ARRIVING IN SKAGWAk ON THE Oth,
19th AND 20th., WESTBOUND.
RETURNING FROM THE WESTWARD, SHOULD LEAVE
SKAGWAY, SOUTHBOUND, APPROXIMATELY ON THE Oth,
10th., AND 20th, '
Seattle to San Francisco
S. S. ADMIRAL DEWEY S. 9. ADMIRAL FARRAGUT
S. 8. ADMIRAL SCHLEY
Leaving Seattle every Wednesday and Sunday tor San Franciaco
and Southern California porta. ConnedIons at San Francisco
PACIFIC NAVIGATION CO- 31'EAMBRs
S. S. YALE 8. 8. HARVARD
For Los Angeles, Saa Diego and South am California points.
PACIFIC ALASKA NAVIGATION CO. ,
HUGH P. GALLAGHER. Agent. Skagway, Alaska.
(Jreel*'" paid nun ilie oicotsi' compli
ment when he said that there wasn't
a hoy who heard I'hillfps speak but
thought he eoiilil speak as well—he
spoke so naturally, of the great actor
Garrick it ts related that he (lid not
please eouutry people or others unused
to the stage heeanse he was so natural
that he did nut seem to be acting at all.
Animal Scent.
A fox ea 11 scent a man half a mile
away if the wind he blowing In the
animal's directtou A mouse can smell
cheese tifty feet away. A deer may
be sound asleep, and yet he will catch
the scenl of n person passing 200 feet
off. The rabbit depends more upon
his ears than his nose.
Doesn't Like Water.
Mrs Orognn (chatting with neighbor)
— 1 bad this waist dry cleaned last
week an" now It's as good as new
Little Johnny Cmgan—Ma, kin they
clean faces that way?— I'uck.
All In Good Time.
.Mrs. Gnaggs-And just to think! Too
used to snv yon would die for me!
Mr. Cnaggs—Well, don't hnrry me. my
dear: don't hnrry me.—Judge
LIBRARY EXPERIENCES.
Queer Requests Made by Persons In
Search of Information.
Some notion of the queer requests
made at public libraries is afforded in
an article dealing with the library of
a western city. These Instances are
given:
Recently a uinn came in and asked
for some of the arguments against
woman's suffrage. The proper articles
were sought out. and the librarian
suggested that he might erf re to look at
those in favor of woman's suffrage as
well. "No matter." he replied warily;
"I get those from my wife."
The widespread belief that a library
can furnish a book on any subject no
matter how vague. Is illustrated by
this request:
$100 REWARD, $100
The readers o£ this paper will be
pleased to learn that there is at
least one dreaded disease that
science has been able to cure in
all its stages, and that is Catarrh.
Hall's Catarrh Cure 1s the only
positive cure now known to the
medical fraternity. Catarrh being a
constitutional disease, requires a
constitutional treatment. Hall's
Catarrh Cure is taken internally,
acting directly upon the blood and
mueous surfaces of the system,
thereby destroying th0 foundation
of the disease, and giving tk« pa
tient strength by building up the
constitution and assisting nature in
doing its work- The proprietors
have so much faith in its curative
power that they offer One Hundred
Dollars for any case that it falls to
cure, send for list of testimonials.
Address; F. J. CHENEY & CO.,
Toledo, O.
Sold by all Druggists, 75c.
Take Hall's Family Pills for cen
stipation.
HAND LAUNDRY— The Jandoe
Hand Laundry on Third srteet next
to Golden North Hotel, doee your
cashing without shrinking the
clothes. Family work given careful
aUentioa. tt.
"1 have been asked to write a com
position on what 1 saw on ray way to
school today. Can yon give me any
book on it?" Thus a boy in the eighth
grade. And then there are the high
school boys who. In a period of revolt
from poetry, return the "Idylls of the
King" and ask if they can't get "this
crazy stuff iu prose."
Children about to participate In a
debate cause some inconvenience. The
following subjects are not easy to give
references on: "Which Is Necessaries.
Water or I'lre?" "Which Is Mightier,
the Ten or the Sword?"
The Impression which some persons
have that a library can give informa
tion on any topic is not only odd. but
pleasing. It may be set off against^the
opposite notion, equally exaggerated,
that a library Is of no practical use
whatever. As a sample of the first
idea consider the woman who called
over the telephone the day before
Thanksgiving and asked how to pluck
a turkey. The librarian hunted it up
in a cookbook and read it to her
over the telephone too. And the one
who a;ked for a brief sketch of the
French revolution over the telephone.
Those who work in the reference
room seem to consider the reference
librarian as a bureau of supplies as
well as of information. Pencils, paper,
even spectacles, are asked for tem
porarily. "I left my glasses at home
today. <\in you lend'me yours?" As
though, us far as the librarian went
the ghi.-.-c.- were merely for ornamental
purposes New York Sun.
A Mortgage on Him.
"You must promise me one thing
before I will consent to marry you."
"Anything!"
"You must spend as many evenings
with nie after we are married as you
do now."—Houston Tost.
Tried It on the Postman.
A young business woman on her
way to the car. at closing time, stopped
at the box to mail a letter. Just as
she was about to drop the letter in
the box the collector arrived and,
reaching for it. said. "I'll take it."
The young woman looked at him a
mom;: t and handed him the letter,
with t ic remark. "Now. don't forget to
put that iu the pustoJIlce."
The collector looked at her iu dis
gust and said nothing.
"He never saw the joke," the young
woman said after she had told the
story of the incident. "I suppose he
has no women folk in his family who
know that the letters they intrust to
the men are carried around in their
pockets for days before they are mail
ed."—Columbus Dispatch. •
Many Alaska Headers Have H«ard
It and Profited Thereby.
'Good nowa travels fast," and
the bad baek sufferers In tkis
vicinity are glad to learn wfrere re
lief may be focnd. Many a lame, i
weak and aching back ]g bad n»
more, thanks to Doan's Kidney
Pills. Thousands upon thousands
of people are telling the good news
of their experience with this tasted
remedy. Here is an example worth
reading.
F. H. Wlejand, 1002 E. 41st St,
L03 Angeles, (jal., says: "For a
long time I Buffered from pain in
the small of my back and I could
scarcely get around. My kidneys
were disordered and the kidney ex
cretions wa*e highly colored and
irregular In passage. Do an'6 Kid
ney Pills relieved the lameness
and weakness and removd all troub
le with the kidneys. I have
had no Teturn of the complaint."
Price 60c, at all dealers. Don't
simply ask for a kidney remedy—
get Doan's Kidney Pills—the same
that Mr. Wieland had. Foster-Mll
burn Co., Props., Buffalo, N. T.
Piles Cured in 0 to 14 Days
Druggists refund money if PAZG
OINTMENT fails to cur9 Itching,
Blind, Bleeding or Protruding Piles.
First application gives relief. 50c.
Absurd Beliefs About Hedgehogs.
In olden days the hedcehog was 90
credited with the possession of many
wonderful powers. Pliny and after
lii:u Aelian ami others have related
how it would climb apple and fig trees,
s!.. !;e dovui. the fruit and after»*rd
fail upon and impale the fruit on its
si>hies and carry them off upon Its
baric. The belief that it was in the
habit of milking cows during the night
is likewise a very old one.
Oregon's First Settlement.
The first settlement in Oregon whs
m:ide at Fort Clatsop, near the mouth
of the Columbia river, on the 23d day
of March. 1811. The men comprising
the group were prospective fur traders
sent to the Pacific coast by John Jacob
Astor. They had sailed from New
York on board the ship Tonquln.
Didn't Have the Heart.
The young man had threatened sui
cide if she rejected him. And, al
though she did. be didn't
"Why didn't he?" was asked.
"Said he'd given his heart to her."
"WSsfO that got to do with It?"
"Oh, he didn't have the heart to kill
himself."—Barton Truth.
_ TO J
Seattle*. Tacoma, Victoria |
Vancouver, Prince Rupert |
Juneau, Petersburg, Wrangell, and Ketchikan |
Leave Skagmay
S.S* City of Seattle, Dec* 2, 12, 22
And every ten days following. Modern comfortable ships,
excellent service. Conneots at Seattle with through passen
ger steamers.
CONGRESS, GOVERNOR, PRESIDENT AND QUEEN.
Sailing Tuesday, 10 a. ni. and Friday, 5 p. m.
FOR SAN FRANCISCO, I.OS ANGELHS, SAN DIEGO.
Through tickets sold and baggage checked to all points in
United States and Canada. For folders and full particulars,
address V. A. PETERSON, Agent
H. BRANDT, G. A. 1'. D. Phone 50, SKAGWAY
608 Second Ave., Seattle, Wash.
ALASKA STEAMSHIP CO.
Jefferson November 14-24 December 5
TELEPHONE NO. 6«. E. J. SHAW, Agent, SKAGWAY.
Twin Screw S. S.
PRINCESS If
1914 Winter Sailings from Skagway 1915
Alternate Wednesdays
Nov. 4-18 Jan. 13-27
Dec. 2-16-30 | Feb. 10-24
(Subject to Change)
Prince Rupert, Vancouver, Victoria, Seattle, ect.
All Information " Rail or Sail," from
F. F.W. LOWLE, Gen'l Agt. Phone 87 and 141 SKAGWAY
Steamship Humboldt
THE ONLY INDEPENDENT STEAMSHIP OPERATING TO S. E. ALASKA
Sailings from Skagway to Seattle.
November 27 Dec. 5
$50 Round Trip to Seattle and Return
Sailing dates subject to change without notice.
THROUGH TICKETS HONORED
Seattle Ol'fioe: Robert Browning, 5<h & Broadway.
716 Second Arenue. Tickets and all Ii./oimation.
THE
'OLYMPIAN'
The Train of Ltuxury
TO
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AND ST. PAUL, MILWAUKEE, CHICAGO ^
AIL POINTS EAST, via the
"MILWAUKEE"
LEAVES SEATTLE DAILY AT 10:15 A. M.
~"A TOUR DE LUXE" is an expression supremely fitting in con
nection with a trip to the East on this palatial all-steel
transcontinental train. It combines the enjoyment of rare scenic
beauties with the pleasure of a journey in absolute ease and
comfort.
NO E\TRA FARE ON THIS TRAIN
For further information regarding farea, train service, res
ervations, etc, call on or address
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Agent, Aiasir- Discharges in
City Ticket Office, Chicago^
443 Hastings St. West, VAN
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