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The
Gate-way
Route of
Comfort
Service
Safety
To Yukon Territory, Atlin District
Interior Alaska
During the winter season of 1916-17 our regular train service will
be maintained North and South Bound between Skaguay
anc^Whiiehorse, 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
F or full information apply to
A. F. Z1PF
_OR— Traffic Manager
612 Second Ave., SEATTLE, Wash.
C. W. CASH
Supt. Mail Service Dept.
WHITEHORSE. Y. T.
Whita Pass & Yukon Route
TIME TABLE No. 38.
" Moi'day, "Wednesday and Friday
No. 1, X. Bound i t I t >< ^o- 2, 8. Bound
1st CIim 1st Claw
8:30 a. ni. Leave* 8KAOWAV Arrives 8:50 p. m.
11:05 ». m. ** WHITE PASS Leaves 2:20 p. m.
11:45 a. m. " LOO CABIN " I 1:30 p. m.
12:40 p. m. " BENNETT " 13:50 p. m.
2:20 p. m. " CARIBOU " 10:48 a. m.
4:50 p. ni. Arrives \\HJTXUOKSE " 8:00 a. m.
Passenger* most be at depot la dm* to have Baggage In
spected ud checked, Inspection ia stopped 8© »tnutea before
leering time of trains. ^ 1
150 pounde of baggage will be checked free with each full
fare tlckea and 75 pounde with each half fare ticket.
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Rooms Single or en Suite
Baths on each floor
Famous for its Home Cooking,
MHk, Cream, Cottage Cheese and
Buttermilk from our own da"v
Fresh Eggs, etc
Rates $3.00 Per Day and Up
Well Lighted, Large Sample
Rooms for Traveling Men.
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Skagway. Alaska
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LICENSED AGENT AT SKAGWAY,
THE STRAIT OF MESSINA, j
And the Ancisnt Legends of Scylla and .
Chary bdis.
The Slclliamand Italian banks which
border the strait of Messina for nearly
twenty-five miles to tie east and west
are among the most luxuriant to be
found in a cruise of the Mediterranean.
Magnificent golden groves of lemon
and orange and orchards of pomegran
ate, with their brilliant red fruit, con
trast wonderfully with the flowers of
the almond trees which perfume the
whole region.
The strait is entered from the Tyrrhe
nian sea, on the north, at the narrow
est point, the distance between Punta
del Faro, on the Sicilian shore, and the
mainland lighthouse on Punta Pezzo
being not more than two miles. The
whole of the Calabrian coast is thickly
sown with villages, some clinging to
the beach, while others clamber up the
sides of well wooded hills which cul
minate in the towering Montalto, ris
ing to an elevation of more than a mile
above the sea. Beyond the strait to
the southwest looms ever threatening
Etna, the highest volcano In Europe.
The most Important city situated on
the strait is the once magnificent sea
port of Messina, which boasted a popu
lation of 150,000 Inhabitants before
"the world's most cruel earthquake" of
Dec. 28, 1908, tossed nearly 100,000
lives away.
The harbor of Messina is the largest
and safest In the kingdom of Italy,
with a depth of more than thirty fath
oms. Before the great calamity It was
visited annually by more than 5,000
vessels, which brought cargoes of
wheat, cotton, wool and hardware and
took away in exchange lemons, or
anges, almonds, wines, olive oil and
silks. Much of its commerce was and
still is carried on with the mainland of
the kingdom by means of a ferry line
to Villa San Giovanni, only four and a
half miles away, while Regglo, the
chief seaport on the Italian side of tho
strait and also the chief earthquake
sufferer next to Messina, is ten miles
to the southeast. Ferryboats ply be
tween these points too. Scilla, Fare,
Catona, Fallaro, Scallita and Galati are
minor towns on the shores of the strait.
Homer did not accord a definite habi
tation for his terrible sea creatures,
Scylla and Charybdis, but mariners fa
miliar with the perils of the rocks on
the Italian side of the strait and with
the strong eddies near the harbor of
Messina saw in the mythical monsters
an explanation of such dangers. Scylla
was supposed to be a horrible creature
with six heads and a dozen feet, who
barked like a dog. She dwelt in a
lofty cave, from which she rushed
whenever a ship tried to pass beneath,
and she would snatch the unlucky sea
men from the rigging or as they stood
at the helm endeavoring to guide their
vessels through the perilous passage.
Charybdis dwelt under a rock only a
bowshot away, on the opposite shore.
The second creature sucked in and
blew out sea water three times a day,
and woe to the ship caught in the
maelstrom of its mouth!
Poets who came after the great
Greek bard embroidered the legend to
suit their fancy. Ovid, for example,
described Scylla as the beautiful
daughter of a sea god who incurred
the jealousy of one of the immortals
and who was changed into a sea mon
ster. A second transformation made
her a rock perilous to navigators. Some
poets described Charybdis as an old
woman who seized and devoured the
cattle of Hercules, and in punishment
for this act the demigod's father, all
powerful Zeus, cast her into the sea,
where her appetite persisted, but her
tastes changed from cattle to ships and
seamen.—Natioual Geographic Society
Bulletin.
After an Electric Shock.
An effective means of resuscitation
after an ^lectric shock is said to be a
sharp blow on the soles of the feet
without removing the shoes. In all
cases, however, it is necessary to pull
the tongue from the throat, as the ac
tion of the current is to cause a con
traction of the muscles, and the tongue
is drawn back into the throat, com
pletely sealing the air passage. Part
of many first aid equipments consist
of a device which will grasp the tongue
and hold it In a distended position so
that the throat is open to permit of
artificial respiration.
Rhode Island and Textiles.
The first cotton mill in the United
States was built in Pawtucket in Wash
ington's first administration. The mak
ing of textiles has become Rhode Is
land's first industry. Some 00,000 per
sons work in it, and its output is ab#ut
CO per cent of the manufactured prod
ucts ofthe state, which, little as it is,
is fourth in the making of cotton goods
and third in the making of woolens
and worsteds.
Ready to Believe '*
A person who had got some little
smattering of zoological lore said one
day to a novice that crocodiles were
often seen in tears.
"Oh, that's nothing!" rejoined the
novice. "I've often myself seen whales'
blubber!"—Stray Stories.
Patronizing.
"Flubdub has such a patronizing
manner."
"Yes, he can't pass a globe represent
ing the world without patting it"—
Louisville Courier-Journal.
A Defiant Idiom.
"It's me," is an idiom, says a Har
vard professor, and is allowable. It is
allowable largely for the reason that
we haven't standing army enough to
suppress it—Houston Post
A glad heart seldom sighs, but a sor
rowful mouth often laughs.—Danish
' Proverb.
MYSTERY OF THE PLANETS.
Science Cannot Penetrate the Hazy
Veils That Mask Them.
It is not known definitely whether
the planet Venus rotates. If it does it
may possibly have a life and a vegeta
tion like our own, though we suspect
that it is clothed in eternal cloud. Of
Saturn's rings we cannot say whether
they consist of millions of tiny moons
like brickbats or whether they may be
even smaller still—a veil of shining
dust.
Of Jupiter we can only say that it is
covered with clouds, though of their
substance we know nothing, and that
according to Trofessor Lowell and Sir
William Huggins some of the bands
we see on it may be rifts In the clouds
revealing the body of the planet Lit
tle lines crisscross these bands. Photo
graphs of Jupiter taken at Flagstaff
observatory, Arizona, seem to indicate
that these lines, too, are the upper
clouds of Jupiter.
But whenever we see a planet we see
it badly. Even Mars, the most clearly
revealed of them all, Is constantly ob
scured by a refracting haze, so that
even the famous "canals," though
nearly 000 in number, are only per
ceptible a few at a time, and an un
skilled observer would probably not
make them out at all.
Sandstorms, sometimes snowstorms,
sweep the surface of the planet, and
because tUe winds of Mara are very
gentle and slow moving these occur
rences take a long time to pass by. A
snowstorm on Mars—If Indeed it was a
snowstorm and not merely a fog—once
lasted three weeks.
HYGIENE IN THE BEEHIVE.
The Way Intruders Are Sealed Up In
a Tomb of Wax.
It bas been observed that bees have
a most Ingenious and sanitary way of
disposing of a living creature that may
by accident or design chance to find its
way into their hive. When the intruder
is killed, as killed be must be, whether
he be large or small, the problem arises
how to deal with the body.
If the bees find that it is impossible
to expel or dismember the creature
they will proceed cleverly to Inclose It
in a veritable sepulcher of wax. In
one of his hives a beekeeper discov
ered three such tombs side„by side,
erected with party walls like the cells
of the comb, In order that no wax
might be wasted. These tombs the
prudent bees had raised over the re
mains of three snails that had strayed
Into the hive.
As a rule the bees will, when deal
ing with snails, be content to seal up
with wax the opening of the shell. In
this case, however, the snails' shells
were more or less cracked or broken.
The bees had therefore considered It
simpler to bury the snails entire, and
the bees had further contrived, In or
der that traffic might not be Impeded
in the entrance hall of the hive, a num
ber of galleries exactly proportionate
not to their own girth, but to that of
the male bees, which are almost twice
as large as the workers—Exchange.
Historic Pawnee~Bock.
A short distance north of Pawnee
Rock station, Kansas, ia a high south
ward facing cliff of sandstone known
as Pawnee rock, projecting as a rocky
promontory from the broad ridge that
forms the north side of the valley.
The elements and the hand of man,
says a report of the geological survey,
have made great changes in its size
and appearance since the days when
the Santa Fe trail passed along its
base. Here there were many encoun
ters between the savages and the
whites and also between hostile bands
of Indians, for the place is noted not
only in pioneer history, but in Indian
traditions as well. Names and initials
of many travelers, from the early trap
pers and the "forty-niners" to the later
army detachments, have been scratch
ed on the smooth faces of the ledges.
Birds That Sing During Flight.
In reference to a recent paragraph
about birds that slug while flying a
correspondent writes:
'The cuckoo is a fine bird that sings
as it flies, especially when pursued by
angry little birds whose nest It has
attempted to invade, as I have Beveral
times seen and heard. Then the tree
pipit and whitethroat generally rise
from their perch and flutter In the air
while singing, besides swallows, if you
count their twittering as a song. I
have also seen and heard missel thrush
and blackbird sing while flying, but
only very rarely."—London Mail.
Its Value to Him.
"Has your college education been of
any practical value to you ?"
"You bet it has! If it wasn't for my
experience in track athletics I'd have
to leave my house five minutes earlier
every morning in order to catch the
7:58," replied the commuter.—Michigan
Awgwan.
A Roast Resented.
"I always try to attend to my own
business," said the self approving man.
"That's Jes' what folks are talkta'
about," replied Farmer Corntossel.
"Tendin' to your own business ain't
what we 'lected you to the legislature
fur."—Washington Star.
Unkind.
"A fool and his money are soon
parted."
"Yep. "Who got yours away from
you?"—Detroit Free Press.
Venice.
Venice became a maritime power In
1158. In the thirteenth and fourteenth
centuries she was mistress of the seat.
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Many business enterprises that should be
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