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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
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 tTavel by means of a
Thoroughly Equipped Stage and Automobile Line
For full information apply to
C. w. CASH
Supt. Mail Service Dept.
WHITEHORSE. Y. T.
A. F. ZIPF
OR Traffic Manager
612 Second Ave., SEATTLE, \&ash.
Whits Pass & Yukon Route
TIME TABLE Na 88.
I" . . " Morriay, Wednesday and Friday
No. 1, N. Bound i . i • ' No. 2, S. Bound
1st CUu lrt Clacs
8:30 a. m. Le»ve* SKAGWAT Arrives 3:30 p. m.
11:05 a. h*. » WHITS PASS Leave* 2:20 p. m.
11:45 a. ni. " LOG CABIN M 1:30 p. in.
12:40 p. m. w BENNETT * 13:50 p. m.
2:20 p. ru. " CARIBOU " 10:48 a. m.
4:50 p. m. Arrives WHITSBOIISE " . 8:00 a. m.
Paaaengera mum b« at depot It time to have Baggage In*
•petted and checked. Ia»pecUon la stopped 80 *rinntw before
leaving time of train*. ^ «■ -—
159 pounds of baggage will be checked free with each full
fore tick** and 75 pouada with each half fare ticket.
Relieves CATARRH Of1
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BLADDER;
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Discharges in
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Electric Lights
Rooms Single or en Suite
Baths on each floor
Famous for its Home Cooking,
Milk. Cream, Cottage Cheese and
Buttermilk from our own da"-v
Fresh Eggs, etc
Rates $3.00 Per D<=y and Up
Well Lighted, Large 3ample 1
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REGISTERED IN
3 ALASKA;
AND REPRESENTED BY
PHIL. ABRAHAMS
LICENSED AGENT AT SKAGWAY,
1 STORY OF RUBBER.
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The Romance of This Now Highly
Prized Material.
WAS OF LITTLE USE AT FIRST.
Not Until the Vulcanizing Prooeat Was
Invented Did Its Vaat Pouibilities
Bacorn* Apparent—How th»Amazon
Monopoly Waa Broken.
The average man believes that rub
ber Is rubber, just as silver is silver
and ivory is ivory; but, as a matter of
Act, the different kinds of rubber run
into the hundreds. If you were to take
up one of the commercial dailies which
devote their columns to the news of the
different industries you would find
prices quoted on thirty or forty differ
ent sorts of rubber. Some are called
after their geographical location, some
take their name from the method of
preparation, and others have names de
scriptive of their form.
Originally ail rubber came from the
valley of the Amazon. When it wus
first discovered no one knows. At any
rate, when the first white men, follow
ing along after Columbus, visited South
America tbey found the Indians play
ing with balls made from the exuda
tion of the bark of a certain tree,
and these balls differed from ahy the
Europeans had ever seen, for they
bounded and rebounded and were full
of life. But that was not the only use
the Indians put this milk of the tree to.
They smeared it on their blankets to
make them waterproof.
Still, 200 years and more went by,
and, while many wise men believed
this elastic, cohesive, impermeable sub
stance ought to be full of usefulness,
nobody found any way to use it to any
advantage—it was so brittle In cold
weather and so disposed to get soft in
hot weather. But in the fullness of
time a Connecticut Yankee started to
puzzle it out. It took him the better
part of tan years, but he did it, and in
1839 gave the world -his vulcanization
process, which is ln use today.
Up to that time rubber was so cheap
that ships from South America some
times used it as ballast, taking their
chances of selling It for what they
could get in some American port
■With the discovery of the vulcanizing
process rubber took on a new hue and
a new value, and the tropics were
searched for it everywhere. It was
found in the vines of Africa, and gutta
percha, a sort of first cousin to rubber,
was found in -Borneo, and some years
ago a large volume, of rubber was
found in the guayule shrubs of Mex
ico.
As rubber grew in value the chem
ists fell to work and devised ways of
recovering it from old-Bhoes and hose
and other articles Into which it en
tered, and thus "reclaimed rubber"
soon came to equal the new rubber In
volume, and all these varieties found
some legitimate use. Gutta percha
makes unapproachable insulation for
ocean cables. Balata, which comes
from the Gulanas, is famous for belt
ing, and even "reclaimed rubber," |
taken from Junk heaps, serves perfect
ly well for flooring and mats and other
articles where resiliency is not needed.
For many years the best rubber was
that which came from the banks of the
Amazon. The people of that country
enjoyed a practical monopoly and de
termined to keep It. Not a rubber seed
would they let get out of the country,
under heavy penalties. But from time
immemorial the fear of punishment
has given way before the lure of shin
ing gold, and in 1876, by means of gen
erous presents here and there, a ven
turesome Englishman sailed out of the
Amazon with 70,000 rubber seeds, and
that was the start of the great rubber
plantations of Ceylon and the Malay
peninsula.
The beginning was slow. It was
twenty-nine years after these seeds left
the Amazon before the first plantation
rubber was ready for the market, and
then the total was only 145 tons. That
was in 1905. But since then the pro
duction of plantation rubber has grown
enormously, until now It is about 100,
000 tons.
Various robbers can be used for vari
ous purposes. For some purposes a
lifeless rubber will answer well enough,
while for other purposes the only rub
ber that will adequately serve is the
one that has life and resilency and
toughness. There are numberless rub
ber articles of commerce where resili
ency and wear combined are necessary)
and where cheai>er grades or too la?ge
a proportion of "reclaimed robber" Is
the poorest sort of economy.—Hartford
Times.
Sugpiciou*.
"There's a man outside who wants
to see you," announced the office boy.N
"He says he's an old friend of yours."
"Find out whether he wants to bor
row money or sell life Insurance," di
rected his employer. "In either case
I'm not In."—New York World.
The New Age.
The London Office Girl—Could I have
nest Monday, sir, for my sister's wed
ding? Her Employer—Why, you had a
couple of days off for a sister's wed
ding last month. The Office Girl—Yes.
sir; we do get off quickly In our fam
ily.—London Sketch.
The Universal Gratitude.
"How thankful I am that I have a
home."
"Ah, yes, to shelter your dear ones.v
"No; to mortgage for an automobile."
—Baltimore American.
The power of concentration Is one of
the most valuable of intellectual attain
ments.
Ludington's j
Rough Diamond j
By DONALD CHAMBERLAIN .1
Edgar Ludington was born—not with
a silver, not with a go^ien, but with a
diamond spoon in liis"fuouth. No one
knew what his income was, bat all
knew that it was fabulous. But Lu
dington was a good deal of a man for
all that He had been graduated at
a college which prides itself on its de
mocracy and had resolutely refused to
be considered favorably on account of
his wealth. He had also made friends
of his classmates, irrespective of either
his social or financial standing. His
chum was the son of a backwoodsman.
When Ludington left college he spent
a year in New York associating with
persons of his own social position,
though he himself had descended £rom
ancestors prominent in colonial times,
while most of his set were of the newly
rich. Indeed, he was about the only
young man in New York who was both
very rich and of blue blood. He found
his time principally occupied in escap
ing girls who wanted to marry him,
and, tiring of this, he went west to
become a rancher.
At the end of a couple of years he
returned to New York to spend the
cold season. He was not forgotten by
his associates—rich men are never for
gotten—and since he was fond of bo
cial doings entered into the season's
pleasures. In January he opened one
of his country places and Invited a
pa"fty of young fellows and girls to
spend a couple of weeks with him
there. "When they were assembled ha
said to them:
"I've taken up in the west with a
rancher who is a rough diamond. He
may not have the ways of the rest of
us, and his clothes are certainly not
of the latest cut, but I assure you he
is a fine fellow whom I am proud to
know. I've invited him to be with us,
and I trust that you will all treat him
as my friend."
When Cuthbert Bradshaw appeared
he gave evidence of having roughed it
for the greater part of Ills life. It was
not that he was made of coarse clay,
for if properly dressed ho would have
at least looked like a gentleman. It
was that he had associated with rough
persons so continuously that he had
become rough himself. From his first
appearance it was evident that none
of the guests could stomach him. He
might be a rough diamond, but Lading
ton's friends had never been able to see
the spiritual beauties of his rough dia
mond friends, and they did not pro
pose to put up with Mr. Bradshaw.
The party had not been together
twenty-four hours when they began to
turn upon their host The men could
not use him, for they had all the money
they wanted; the women, any one of
whom would have been glad to add his
fortune to hers, would have borne with
him, but not with his friend, and tiiey
felt aggrieved that Ludington should
have spoiled an otherwise pleasant
house party by bringing Bradshaw into
it Besides, they felt that their skirts
were soiled by contact with his unpol
ished boots.
There would not have been open
warfare between Ludington and his
guests had he not given as much of
his time to Bradshaw as to any of
them. And to make matters worse,
in proportion to their giving Bradshaw
the cold shoulder, Ludington gave him
more of his time. At last Ludington
became so Incensed at the treatment
of his favorite that he ignored them a
good deal of the time to be himself
with Bradslmw.
If Ludington's guests had all the
money they wanted there was one
thing still to be desired—a foreign ti
tle. This was beyond the hope of the
men, but not the women, some Amer
ican girls having paid millions for
men from whom they were constrain
ed to secure speedy divorces. What
was the house party's surprise to see
one morning, under an announcement
from London of the death of the Earl
of Bablington, that, the earl dying
childless, the title would fall to his
nephew, "Cuthbert Bradshaw, now
ranching in New Mexico."
As soon as it was evident,that Mr.
Bradshaw was a noble lord of high
degree'all the women of the party
about faced and Bought an opportunity
to do him honor. But he went about
among them without taking any notice
•of tljem for the few hours he re
mained in the house and when he
went out of It simply raised his hat
politely to the group that stood on the
porte-cochere to see him off. When he
was gone the women vented their spite
on Ludington for having deceived them
as to Mr. Bradshaw's family connec
tions.
Some declared thqt it was a frameup
on them; that Bradshaw knew better
than to wear his ranch clothes among
them and make a boor of himself on
purpose. There may be some truth In
this, but he hjid certainly been turned
loose on the world when very young
and had seen some rough usage. Lu
dington would give his guests no satis
faction about the matter, simply an
swering that he had concealed nothing
and they were as bound to treat Brad
shaw, their-fellow guest as well while
he was Bradshaw as when he had be
come the Earl of Bablington.
Anyway, if the Britisher was rough
while In America he became suddenly
refined In England, and it goes without
saying that you can't make a person
refined in a hurry.
After his friend's departure Luding
ton went back to his ranch and has
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Pack Train Restaurant
The Delmotiico of Alaska
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We Make a Specialty .of Banquet* and Private Dinner Partial. 4
A R«jflned and Comfortable place for a Supper After the Show J
or dance—flerviee in Oozy Private Booths If Desired. j
Publicity
T HAS BEEN Demonstrated
that when a man has some
thing to sell worth selling his
success is assured by letting
the people know about it
Many business enterprises that should be
prosperous die of neglect because the
public attention and interest have not
been stimulated and attracted to the wares
No matter what it may be if it is reason
ably priced and good in quality your
success is""assured by intelligent adver
tising and plenty" of it
THINK IT OVER
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