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=YUKON
PASS &
BDUIE=
The
Gate-way
Route of
Comfort
Service
Safety
To Yukon Territory, Atlin District
^Interior Alaska«
Daring 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 travel 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.
-OR
612 Second Ave.,
A. F. ZIPF
Traffic Manager
SEATTLE, Wash.
White Pass & Yukon Route
TIME TABLE No, 38.
Mordoy, Wednesday Friday
No. |, N. Bound
1st Claaa
8:30 a. m. Leave*
11:03 ». ni. "
11:43 a. m. **
12:40 p. m. "
2:20 p. m. "
4:50 p. ni.
\:1. blL I i
Arrives
Leareg
8KAGWAV
WHITE PASS
LOO CABIN
BENNETT
CARIBOU
WHIT2EHORSE
Passengers mast b# at depot la time to have Baggage ln
»pect*d and checked. Inspection is atopped SO ■Inntfg before
leaving time of train#. -
150 pounds of baggage will be checked free with each full
fare tlck«l and 75 pounds with each half fare ticket.
Arrives
No. 2, 8. Bound
1st Class
3:30 p. m.
2:20 p. m.
1:30 p. m.
12:50 p. m.
10:48 a. m.
8:00 a. m.
Relieves CATARRH of<
the
BLADDER:
and all
Discharges in
hours:
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Bcx<vr*of MIQtt
CotaU^rfeiis. V y
fW<l drofttett.
SYSTEM A-XD PIUNTTAQ
Dou't put It off, but order your
prlntltia now '-wjilchj you will need
when you out In your 'new system.
The Dally 'Alaskan Job department
Is be'ter equipped than "ever to do
youx work. Prices 'right and work
promptly executed. tf.
Make It a Smokeless, Dustless,
Gasless, Trip East This Year he
In addition to the cleaner conditions due to Electri
fication, you'll enjoy the comfortable accommoda
tions and you'll like the little courtesies incident
to "Milwaukee" service. -«*a»a0
E. J. Shaw,
H. G. Weir
Skagway
Agents
A. .E. Harris, T. P. A.
Juneau Alaska
Chicago, Milwaukee and M* raul Kailway
A NATURAL PUZZLE
One of the Great Mysteries That
Confound Science.
THE FORCE OF GRAVITATION.
Thla Wonderful Power That Keepe
Suna and Plartete In Their Coureee
May Be Waves In the Ether That
Push All Bodies Toward Eaoh Other.
The mystery of mysteries In science
Is the attraction of gravitation—that
very force of nature that is the most
familiar to us all. It seems strange
that the most familiar thing in the
world should be at the same time the
most inexplicable, but so it is.
In order to see clearly wherein the
mystery couslsU let us first consider
what gravitation appears to be. It is
gravitation that gives the property of
weight to all bodies. If there were no
gravitation we could float In the air.
It is gravitation that brings a cannon
ball eventually to the earth, no matter
how swiftly it may be projected. The
faster it starts the farther it will go,
but during every second of Its flight
It drops the same distance vertically
toward the earth, whether the speed
Imparted to it by the powder Is 500 or
8,000 feet per second. Gravitation
acts on a moving body exactly as well
as on one at rest
It Is gravitation that curbs the mo
tion of the moon and keeps it in an
orbit of which the earth Is the active
focus.
So, too, it U gravitation that gov
erns the earth In Its motion around
the sun, preventing It from flying away
Into boundless space Astronomy shows
that gravitation acts between all the
planets and all the stars and controls
their motions with respect to one an
other.
Now, this mysterious force appears
to be an attraction as If there were
elastic cords connecting all the bodies
in space and tending to draw them to
gether. But space, as far as our senses
can detect, is empty. How, then, can
there be an attraction? In order that
a body may be attracted or drawn
there must be something to draw it.
Gravitation does the trick, but com
pletely hides from us the mechanism
through which it acts. We can dis
cover uo mechanism at alL
When an unfortunate acroplanist
drops from his machine be begins at
once to fall toward the earth as if it
were pulling him. But how can it pull
If it has nothing to pull with? You
may think at first sight that It is the
air which acts as an intermediary, but
that is not so, because the earth and
the moon "pull" upon one another with
a force equal to the strength of a steel
cable BOO miles In diameter, but there
Is no air and no other tangible thing
in the open space, 240,000 miles across,
that gaps between the moon and the
earth.
Then gravitation exerts the same
force at every Instant No matter
how fast the falling aeronaut may bo
descending at any moment, gravitation
will keep on adding speed as If he
had Just started. Disregarding the
slight retardation produced by the re
sistance of the air, he will fall six
teen feet in the first second, forty
eight feet in the second second, eighty
feet in the third second, gaining thir
ty two feet In his velocity during ev
ery second after the first From a
height of 10,000 feet he frould fall In
about twenty-five seconds and would
strike with a velocity of 400 feet per
second.
The same kind or calculation can De
applied to the gravitation between the
earth and the moon. If the moon were
not In motion across the direction of
the earth's "pall" it would fall to the
earth in about 110 hours.
Now, to return to the mystery, how
Is this force exerted? Is It really a
pull, as It seems to be? The answer
to which science Is tending Is that, In
stead of being a pull, gravitation la a
push—In other words, that the falling
aeronaut is pushed toward the ground
and the moon Is pushed toward the
earth.
On the face of It one might think
that nothing was gained by this the
ory, because It seems as Impossible
that a push should be exerted with
out a tangible connection as a pull.
But the clew Is found in the supposed
properties of that Invisible, Intangible,
all pervading medium called the ether.
This, to be sure, Is explaining one
mystery by another, for we know noth
ing about the ether except that It con
veys the waves of light and electric
ity; but, at any rate. It affords a con
ceivable explanation of gravitation.—
Garrett P. Serviss In New York Jour
nal.
Japanese Festival#.
The Japanese festivals are easily re
membered: First of first month, the
new year; third of third month, fenst
of dolls, for girls; fifth of fifth month,
feast of flags, for boys; seventh of sev
enth month, the day for the god and
goddess of love, Tonabota; Dlnth of
ninth month, the "escape of the moun
tains," the feast of chrysanthemums.
The latter Is not now generally ob
served.
A Diplomatist.
"I am amazed, sir, that you should
propose to my daughter. You have nol
known her a week."
"True, madam, but I have known
you for some time, and everybody says
your daughter takes after you." He
got the girl.
A tactful man can pull a stinger
from a bee without getting stung.—G
H. Lorlmer.
Inspiration
Miscellany
Sure Road to Wealth
In the American Magazine a writer
In the family money department says;
"There la one sure road to wealth.
It la not a get-rlch-qulck scheme, no
wildcat mining venture, no specula
tion. It is simply a common sense
way of attaining a small fortune In a
strictly legitimate way.
"A dollar deposited In a savings
bank each week for twenty years
would amount to 91,012,
"Five dollars deposited each week
for the same length of time would be
como $8,000. The Interest on this $8,
000 would be $0 a week. Any one fol
lowing out this plan of weekly deposits
of $5 for twenty yea re could at the end
of that period draw out of the bank
$0 a week as long as he lived and still
leave to his wlfo and family at his
death not only all ho deposited, but
half as much more.
"The young man of twenty who will
save 2TV6 cents a day In a savings
bank paying 4 per cent compound In
terest and keep up these payments or
deposits till ho Is seventy years of age
would have a fortune of $29,000, which
would pay Interest of $22 each week.
This interest would bo about ten times
the amount saved each week."
TRIALS AND TROUBLES.
What Is the nso of being bine
and despondent? The world has
plenty of troublo and worry to
hand out even to the best of us
from time to time, and there
would be no need for men and
women—wo could all be babes—
If there were no great problems
to solve, no burdens to bear, no
sorrows to live down. These
are the balance wheels of life.
They strengthen and broaden
us to the opportunities and real
happiness that riches do not com
mand nor povarty bar.
Who Am I?
The following was originated by the
Southern Pacific company and la re
ceiving wide currency In safety first
campaigns:
"I am more powerful than the com
bined armies of the world.
"I have destroyed more men than all
the wars of the nations*
"I steal, In the United States alone,
over $000,000,000 each year.
"I spare no one, and I find my vic
tims among the rich and the poor
alike, the young and the old, the strong
and weak. Widows and orphans know
me.
"I loom up to such proportions that
I cast my shadow over every field of
labor, from the turning of the grind
stone to the moving of every railroad
train.
"I massacre thousands of wage earn
ers In a year.
"I lurk In unseen places and do most
of my work silently. You are warned
against me, but you heed not
"I am relentless.
"I am everywhere—In the home, on
the streets. In the factory, at railroad
crossings and on the sea.
"I bring sickness, degradation and
death, yet few seem to avoid me.
"I destroy, crush or malm; I give
nothing, but take all.
"I am your worst enemy.
"I am CARELESSNESS."
What Is Success?
What Is success? To gain a share of gold?
To have one's wealth In envious accents
told?
To seo one's picture flaunted In the press?
Ah, there be those who label this success!
What Is success? To win a little fame?
To hear a fickle world applaud your name?
To be accounted ns a genius? Yes,
And there be thoso who label this success!
But have we not another standard still
To Judge a man of character and will?
Are gold and fame the only measures
tried?
In all the world is there no test beside?
Ah, yes—the man who meets, with cour
age grim,
The dally duties that devolve on him.
The petty, mean, heartbreaking cares that
tire
The patient soul that never may aspiro.
Howe'er so cramped the field wherein he
works,
He has not failed—the man who never
shirks,
The man who toils for years without a
break
And treads the path of pain for others'
sake.
There Is a myriad of such men today,
Who. all unnoted, walk the weary way.
Upon their shoulders still the cross may
press,
But who will say they have not won suc
cess?
GOOD AND EVIL.
If we wish to overcome evil
we must overcome It by good.
There are doubtless many ways
of overcoming the evil In our
own hearts, but the simplest,
easiest, most universal, Is to
overcome It by active occupation
In some good word or work.—A.
P. Stanley.
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