1 WHITE PUSS £
=wen HIE=
The Speed,
#aB0W
Route of f Msjjp i Service
| Comfort, Safety.
During the winter season of 1913-14 our regular train senrlc#
will be maintained North and South boutd betweea Skaguay
and V. iiite Horse, every Tuesday and Friday.
Winter Stage Service
between White Horse and Dawsos will be la regular operation
affording our patrons th® maximum of Comfort aad Safety.
The Vnite Pass & Yukoe Route will maentais an efficient
freight and passenger Btc^i »ervlee frwa White Horse, Yukon
Territory, via Lake Kluan* to th« ___
Chisana Gold Fields
This is the only safe and sane route to tee new diggings, and
we wiil gladly answer all inquiries. We will also oporate a
froi^i service up the White Hirer aad carry a full line *f
g-o^er't« and feed at moo th of Whits Rtver. Theee supplies
oan be obtained by prosp ector* at reasosable prices.
For full information ap ply to
IJ
H. Wheeler, J. B. Dewpsey,
Supt. Mall Service Dept., Traffic Manager,
White Horse. Y. T. 81S 8eeond Ave., Seattle. I
The White Pass &Yukon Route
TIME TABLE No. 82.
Tuesday and Friday.
.Vo. 1 N. Bound
1st cla&s
8:30 a. m.
11:00 "
11:40 "
l.:u5 p. m.
2:00 "
4:13 -
8KAGUAY
WHiTK PASS
LOO GABX>
BKXNKTT
CARIBOU
WHITKHORSB
F .ssrcgers must be at depot* tm time t« hare Baggage inspect^'
uad cae<.r ed. Inspection is stopped 30 minutes before learlng times of
trains i
150 .ounds of baggage will be checked free with each foil fare
ticket aid 76 pounds with each half fare ticket. :
Leaves
Arrives
Ho. a 8. Boupd
lJrt class
Arrives 8:20 p. m.
Leave* 1:43 "
" 12:47 "
" 12:15 ••
" 10:25 a. m.
Leaves 8:15 "
RA" . > , WHARFINGERS AND
mocre s W n<urr * warehousemen
Phones 11 or 123^
All Steamers Arrive and Depart From This Wharf
—Regulations June 1. 1913—
Warehouse open for delivery of merchandise from 8 A. M. to 5 P. M.
—Wharfage Tariff
General merchandise $1.00 per ton. Weight or measurement
I lorses. Mules and Catde 75 c per head.*JShe«p and Hogs*23c perjhead.
LumKer $1.00 per Thousand feet. Board Measure.
All checked Baggage 25c per pice.
No Wharfage Charge on Baggage Unchecked.
COAL CAN BE HAD THROUGH THE WHARF AS HERETOFORE
Pare Air . Pure ToodC PureJDij^i.,
arc essential to health £riWfiv
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For
Sale
In
Skagway
At All
First
Class
Bars
| B. M. BEHRENDS,Banker
Juneau, - Alaska
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+ 1
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| OLDEST BANK IN ALASKA
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+ Respectfully Solicit* The Accounts
+ of Skagway Firms And Individuals.
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\l By ESTHER VANDEVEER |
It was Chrlstm&s eve, and Jean Lor
ing stoo4 in the library looking ont be
tween the holly wreaths at the snow
drifting against the front steps with
every gust of bitter wind. The arc
light ou the corner turned the flying
flakes to black and yellow dots that
made her eyes ache. Jean turned
away and let the silken draperies cov
er the window.
She was very lonely in spite of many
friends. She bad no real home ties
now. ner black gown bespoke the
laying a way to rest of the last of her
loved ones, ber father, the one who
had objected to her marriage with
Denton Kin*;, the artist Well, she
had given him up. and Denton had
married Maud Ridley, her dearest
friend, and they bad disappeared from
New York.
"1 must go out: it Is stifling in here."
she muttered, and. hastening upstairs.
r
"JIAUD. KAOD I IS IT REALLY YOU 7"
she buttoned herself Into a warm fur
cloak and pinned a fur trimmed bat on
her brown hair.
"I am going out, Mary. You need
not sit up for me." she said to her
maid as she swept down the stairs.
Around the nearest corner, through
the brilliantly lighted avenue, among
the Christmas shoppers streaming up
town, evading the motorcars that
snorted through the snow that by
morning would be impassable, through
another cross street, and on end on
until all at once she found herself In a
different neighborhood, an avenue as
thickly populated as that other high
way of wealth and fashion, but the
shoppers here were of another class.
The women did not scorn to carry
home a basket of groceries among the
other Christmas purchases, and many
a man carried a turkey or a chicken,
duck or maybe a plain loin of pork for
the Christmas dinner. Many others
carried smaller bundles, the best that
their means might afford, and still oth
ers, and of these there was a pitifully
large number, carried nothing.
Men turned and looked at the richly
gowned woman standiug there on the
corner. She wore no Jewels, but there
wss a hint of wealth in the soft fnrs
and In the elegance of ber figure. She
did not bcioug here.
Jean fe't the rude scrutiny of strange
eyes, aaa she turned into a little bak
ery to tfciuu connectedly for a moment.
Her heart was swelling with desire to
do some personal service at this sea
son. She was about to speak to the
woman behind the counter of the
stuJfy litt'e shop wben something hap
pened that stilled the question on her
lips.
A llttW» boy came In, a poorly dressed
little lad of ten years, with reddened
fingers and thin, eager face, and blue
eyes that looked hungrily at tho loaves
of bread and the piles cf cookies and
cakes behind the glass cases.
"Please." he said timidly—"please
would you let me have a loaf of bread
If I paid you tomorrow':"
The woman shook her head impa
tiently.
"Run along, now: 'tain't right to
beg," she ~.atd sharply.
Tiio boy turned swny with a hopeless
took in ais lace that struck to Jean's
heart. She stepped forward and took
his hand in her warm gloved one.
"Come with me," she said softly.
"Let us go to another shop and buy
some bread and other things."
"Oh, If you only would!" he cried
happily. "I could pay you tomorrow.
I'm quite a big boy, and I could do
some errands for you, maybe, and pay
yon rhot way."
"That will be lovely," said Jean.
"Sow, teli me where you live and
what else yon want to buy."
"I ought to 4?U yon that we're
poor," he faitered. "We couldn't af
ford to pay back very much. But
mother would feel better if we had
some tea. und bread Is very nice ud
sweet, you know, even If there isn't
any butter on it. Cherry cries for but
tor, but she's only a girl. Eoys can
get along without It!"
Jean'3 eyes were thick with tears.
"Let us go Lii here and buy the
things you need and then you can pay
mo back If It takes all the year," she
said practically. "What Is your name?"
"Leon." he said.
"Here la a nice shop, Leon. See,
they have cooked things to eat as well
as bread and butter." Jean spoke to
the proprietor of the delicatessen
shop, and at her order the man pro
duced a large basket, which he pro
ceeded to fill with the things that Jean
ordered, while Leon watched the pro
ceeding with amazed eyes that grew
frightened when he saw a roasted
chicken added to the precious) con
tents.
"Please, ma'am, it's beautiful, but
it's more than I can pay for," he whis
pered at last.
"Oh, no, it isn't! You don't know
how well I pay my errand boys," was
Jean's encouraging answer.
After that the boy watched her with
delighted eyes as oranges and nuts
were added to the basket, and at last
Jean said there was plenty, and she
paid for it from a well filled purse.
"We must carry this together, Leon,"
she said. "Can you manage one side
of the basket?"
"I'm sure 1 can," he said eagerly.
"I'm glad you bought the doll for
Cherry. Santa Clans might forget to
come to our house."
They passed into the crowd on the
sidewalk, and Leon guided Jean Lor
ing up another block and around a
corner and up the stairs of a dingy
tenement house.
"This isn't a very nice place," he
whispered apologetically. "We lived
in nicer places before father went
away. But it's the best another can
do. 'cause she doesn't get much for
the 'broidery work, and grandfather
didn't leave her any money, after ail
Here we are—the door in the corner.
We're going to have a better place
some day." he added ns he opened the
shabby door that led Into a bare little
bedroom that smelled sweet and clean,
whatever it might lack in furniture
and other appointments.
A door ied into the next room, a
kitchen, where a woman sat .it a sew
ing machine stitching listlessly at
something that looked like a doll's
dress. A lovely little girl of two years
was curled up on a shabby sofa near
the fire. The room was warm, but
beyond the fire and the scrupulous
cleanliness of the place there did not
seem to be any other comforts. There
was no hint of the approaching Christ
mas day. Everything spoke of poverty.
"That you. Leon?" asked the wom
an without turning her head. "You
were gone a long time. dear. Did you
get the bread and the milk?"
Leon hastened to her siae.
"Mother, dear," he cried excitedly.
"I lost the dime, and"—
"Leon!" cried the mother sharply.
"It was the last cent I had In the
world," she added in a quavering
Toice.
Leon's arms went around her neck.
"Don't cry, dear," he whispered. "I
did lose the money, but I found a
Christmas angel, a Christmas friend, I
mean, and she's going to let me work
and pay her back for the good things.
See her!"
Slowly the mother turned a face,
stony with despair, the blood creeping
in shame to her cheek at the thought
of accepting charity. For an Instant
her eyes closed and then opened, dark
and tragically beautiful, to meet the
blue eyes of Jean Loring.
Jean spoke Brat, and there was a
trace of bitterness mingled with the
surprise and pity of her tone.
"Maud, Maud! Is it really you?"
And the beautiful society girl who
had won Denton King's heart away
from Jean Loring after all smiled wan
ly and promptly fainted away at Jean's
feet
The Christmas bells were ringing out
a midnight peal when Jean Loring in
a taxicab drove up to the door of her
home. Alarmed servants were hover
ing in the hall when she entered, and
they flew to do Jean's bidding when
she entered with a frail, shabbily
gowned woman, who was nevertheless
a lady, and two beautiful, sleepy chil
dren.
"Art the rooms ready?" asked Jean,
who had telephoned In advance of her
coming.
"Yes. Miss Loring. The nursery fire
Is burning, and the blue room is
ready."
aj id iuc tuiiuivu uiiu ucrii ^ui iv
bed in the nursery, which was sacred
to Jean's own childhood and had al
ways been preserved in its original
state, Maud King faced Jean in the
luxurious warmth of the blue room.
Her eyes were filled with tears, and
her thin hands trembled.
"Jean, dear, yon would not let me
say a word all this while," she said
firmly, "but now I must tell you of—
things. Denton was successful for
awhile, but be drank, and matters
went from bad to worse. He borrow
ed from father without my knowledge,
and—well, father In a fit of anger
changed his will and left everything to
Benjamin and then before he could re
pent of his injustice father was strick
en and died. I had nothing and you
know what my brother is—a spend
thrift. He gave me nothing, and be
has wasted his inheritance. Denton
drank more than ever after that and
It killed him. I've tried to support the
children, with the result yon have wit
nessed!" She threw out her band with
a despairing sob.
"Your home is here. Maud." whisper
ed Jean, taking her in her arms. "I
need a sister: I need little loving
hands: I need your love and the love
of yonr children. Will you stay and
be my Christmas gift?"
And Maud's lips on her own was
.lean's answer.
—
Start the
New Year
With A
"KODAK"
When you see a choice lot of
photographs which have been col
lected by some friend, does i£
not create a desire on your part to
do likewise?
You can take all the pictures you
want with a "kodak", and the "Ko
dak" way is the only way.
Whether it be school boy or
school girl or the most sedate of
"grown-ups'* there's always a fas
cination in picture taking and it's so
simple by the Kodak system that
anybody can take good pictures from
the start.
KODAKS, $6.00 and Up.
BROWNIE j M1?AAn,*e I $100 to
, CAMERAS j Factories "
j $12.00
Keller Bros. Skagway Agents
KING'S CAFE
WHITE HORSE x YUKON TERRITORY
I BEST MEALS IN THE NORTH
| Mrs. Orlctt King :: Proprietor
--IR,A-"W IPTTIR,S..
Ship|*al! your Raw Furs, Whalebone, Ivory, Ginseng.
Golden Seal Root, ecc. to the
Moose Bay Fur & Trading Co.
TACOMA, WASH.
And reiaive the highest prices paid. Special personal attention
is given to our sales and thorough satisfaction is guaranteed.
Write us for price list and any further information.
References Fidelity Trust Co, Bankers.
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I RAW FURS
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WE PAY
I HIGH - PRICES
t FOR FINE FURS
'!• WRITS FOE PRICE LIST
Percey's Fur House
Oshkoth, - Wisconsin
jj SHIP YOUR
I RAW FURS
;« TO THE
£ MINNEAPOLIS, - MINN.
J* W\ iie lor riiwninr |in
£ Alaska Furs a Specialty
Very Top Prices Paid,
jj Make - Trial - Shipment
THE SKAGWAY
Pioneer Dairy
H. P. SEEMAN, Prop.
THE SANITARY MILK RANCH"
The largest and best con
ducted dairy in Alaska.
Dally Blilpments of pure
milk and cream to all points
on "White Pass & Yukon
Route.
You make a mistake if
you do not stop at
THE
Pnllen House
Electric Lights
Rooms Single or en Suite
Saths 011 each floor
Famous for its Home Cooking,
Milk, Cream, Cottage Cheese and
Buttermilk from our own da"v
Fresh Eggs, etc
Rates $2.50 Per Day and Up
Well Lighted, Large Sample
Rooms for Traveling Men.
n. S. PULLEN, Prop.
Skagway. Alaska
\:mm steamsiw ko.
U. 8. MAIL STEAMER
Juneau-Sitka Route
Leaves Juneau for Hoonah, Gyp
sum, Tenakee, Killlsnoo and Sit
a Nov. 30, Dec. 6, 12, 18, 24, 30
Ian. 5, 11, 17, 23, 29. Feb. 4,
10, 16, 22, 28. Mar. 6, 12, IS,
4, 30.
Juneau-Skagway Route
Leaves Juueau for Pearl Harbor,
Eagle River, Yankee Cove, Comet,
Sertlnel Light Station, Eldred
Rc-.V; Light Station, Haines and
"krgway Nov. 28, Dec. 4, 1#, 16,
2, 28. Jan. 3, 9, 15, 21, 27. Feb.
8, 14, 20 26. March 4, 10, 1C,
*2, 28. I ■*' i*i
WILLIS E. NO WELL. Manager.