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The
Route of
Comfort,
Speed,
Service
Safety.
I'uriug the winter season o£ 1913-14 our regular train service
will be maintained North and South bowLd botween Skaguay ;
and White Horse, every T uosday and Friday.
Winter Stage Service
between White Horse ami Mnwsoti will be In regular operation j
i-ffordiiig our patrons '' maximum of Comfort and Safety.
The White Pass & YuK >n Koute- will ma intain an efficient
freight and passenger stag» service from White Horse, Yukon
Territory, via Lake Kluane to the
Chisana Gold Fields
This is the only safe and sane ioute to lie new diggings, and
we will gladly answer all inquiries. We will also operate a
;re5<vit service up the White Kiver and c:.rry a full line uf
groceries and feed at mou th of White River. These supplies
can be obtained by prospectors at reasonable prices.
For full information ap >ly to
ll. Wheeler, J. E. Deuipsey,
Sunt. Mail Service Dept., Traffic Manager,
White Horse, Y. T. 613 Second Ave., Seattle.
The White Pass &YuKon Route
TIME TABLE Xo. 3:1.
Tuesday anil Friday.
No. 1 S. Bound
Is: class
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11:40 "
12:3o p. ni.
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4:15 " Arrives
SKAGUAY
WHITE PASS
LOG CABIN
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WKITEHORSE
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Leaves 1:45 »
" 12:47 "
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" 10:25 a. m.
weaves 8:15 "
P\ssengers must be at depots In time t» bave Baggage inspected
ana checked. Inspection is stopped 30 mlnute3 before leaving time of
trains.
150 pounds of baggage will be checked free with each full fare
ticket Had 75 pounds with each ha.f fare tlcset.
il/J - 9 1X71_ .£ WHARFINGERS AND
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Phones 11 or 123
All Steamers Arrive and Depart From This Wharf
-Regulations June 1. 1913
VI arehouse open for delivery of merchandise from 8 A. M. to 5 P. M.
—Wharfage Tariff—
General merchandise $1.00 per ton, Weight or measurement.
Horsos, Mules and Cattle 75 c per head. Sheep and Hogs 25c per head.
Lumber $1.00 per Thousand feet. Board Measure.
All checked Baggage 25c per pice.
No Wharfage Cha-ge on Baggage Unchecked.
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THE
UNDERSTUDY
By LOUISE B. CUMM1NGS
A train of cars stopped at a station.
A young man came aboard and looked
about for an empty seat. There was
but oue vacant, and be sat down in it
beside a handsomely dressed, middle
aged lady, who moved aside to make
room for him, changing at the same
time the position of certain articles of
hand baggage.
"You are very kind," said the young
mail.
"Not at"all," replied the lady. "I am
simply not especially selfish."
"It is a case of selfishness that
causes me to make this journey," re
marked the young man.
"Indeed!" said the lady In a tone
that seemed to Invite further con
fidence.
"Yes. My sister is an actress. She
has been an understudy for the lead
ing lady at the theater with which
she Is eounected. My sister has a
natural talent for the kind of acting
required In the part and became un
derstudy for it, hoping that she mi£ht
get an opportunity to play it and make
a hit in it She bus already done so
In private theatricals. But the leading
lady has not been obliged to give over
the part to her understudy once dur
ing the whole time she has been the
understudy. I didn't wish Hess to go
on the stage, and now that she has be
come discouraged by her long wait 1
have persuaded her to give up trying
to be "an actress and couie home. If
the leading lady would but give her
one opportunity to show what she can
do it is quite possible that Bess might
get an engagement at a fine salary."
The lady listened to this with con
siderable interest and at the end said:
"You didn't say with what theater
your sister Is connected."
"No. I have no wish to openly ac-1
cuse her principal of selfishness."
"It doesn't matter. I am acquainted
with a number of theatrical persons
and know that Elizabeth Twining is
uiiderstudy for the leading lady at the
National, who plays under the stage
name Helen W'adsworth, but who is
really Miss Stanforth. I'm glad you
have told me of this case of your sis
ter. It puts the matter of an under
study in a different light from the way
theatrical persons see it. They con
sider an understudy some one who Is
prepared to take a part in case the
actor or actress must be temporarily
laid off. They are a selfish lot and
1 don't suppose it has occurred to this
Helen W'adsworth that by giving up
oue night's profit she might enable
your sister to make her fortune."
"It" you know lier l trust you win noi
mention what I have said."
"I do Unow ber aud, I thought, very
well, but from what you say I have
not known lier as well as I supposed.
1 shall suggest to her to give your sis
tor one night in which to play the lead
ing part She doubtless receives some
thing like $500 for each performance,
and. though the amount Is considera
ble, it would be only about a sixth of
her weekly Income. The only excuse
for her not having given way in favor
of your sister is that the purchasers of
tickets pay to see Helen Wadsworth
and not Elizabeth Twining."
"I never thought of that," suid the
young man.
"If it is an excuse it is a poor one."
Young Twining was very much
pleased with his rencounter aud what
it promised. The lady did not say that
she would secure tils sister the oppor
tunity she desired, but she intended
to try. Twining begged her to ap
proach the subject gingerly, to which
she readily agreed, assuring him that
on no account would she make any
trouble. However, she cautioned him
against raising any hopes in his sister
that might not be realized.
Twining arrived in the city in the
morning, ajid the same evening word
was sent to the manager that Helen
Wadsworth had taken a cold and ber
voice had become so husky that she
would not be able to play her part
that night. Miss Twining, who ex
pected at the end of the week to go
home with her brother, was hopeful
thut her going might not now be nec
essary.
Site hardly ilid berseir jnstice. Deing
agitated at assuming so Important a
role. But Helen Wadsworth sent word
that she would doubtless be confined
to her room for several days and per
haps longer, so the uuderstudy had
more opportunity. On the second
night she did her best, making a pro
nounced hit. which was maintained
in the other performances. Then Helen
Wadsworth returned to her work.
Ou the last night that Elizabeth
Twining played tlie principal part, aft
:;r being called before the curtain
again aud again, she found an Invita
tion in her dressing room to sup with
Helen Wadsworth and bring her broth
er, who, the hostess had heard, was
with her. The two wpre driven to the
hotel where the actress was stopping,
expecting to find her with ber throat
wrapped in flannels. But she advanc
ed to meet them with no signs of Ill
ness and with an extended band for
Mr. Twining.
She was the woman he bad met on
the train.
"Permit me to tbank you," she said,
"for showing me that selfishness in
myself that I have previously seen
only in others."
Elizabeth Twining soon after secur
ed an engagement for a leading part
and Helen Wadsworth took another un
derstudy.
A PLAN
FOILED
By ESTHER VANDEVEER
Martin Borland, a man of wealth,
having lost bis wife, married again.
The new connection was especially un
fortunate for him and his only child,
Mildred, who was sixteen years old at
the time of her father's second mar
riage. Mrs. Borland was no sooner
married than she laid a plan to secure
her husband's fortune. He was suffer
ing from an incurable disease when
she married him, and this enabled her
to work her plan more easily.
Iler first move was to make the
house so unpleasant for her stepdaugh
ter that she was forced to leave it and
go to live with an aunt. This enabled
her to have her husband to herself,
and as soon as liis daughter had gone
the stepmother began a 'systematic
nagging upon her husband to compel
him to make a will leaving his proper
ty to her.
ITad Mr. Borland been in good health
he might have withstood her prod
ding; but, affected as he was with a
nervous disease and made a virtual
prisoner by his wife, Jt was not long
before he broke down under the strain
and signed a will leaving all his pos
sessions to her, except some swamp
lauds that were nearly worthless.
Previous to his marriage Borland
had willed everything he owned to
Mildred. Mrs. Borland knew of this
will and would have forced It frpm
her husband that she might destroy it,
but it was in Mildred's keeping. The
only thing that Jezebel could do was
to torture her busbamh into making
another in her own favor. As Mr
Borland grew worse his wife kept ev
ery one froui Iiim except his physician
and an occasional friend, her brother
giving as a reason that the invalid
was uot in a condition to see any oue.
She realized that Mildred's friends
after her father's death might advise
her to try to break the will, but the
schemer relied upon her being able to
cut off any proof that any undue in
fluence had been brought to bear on
the testator. She changed the serv
ants frequently in order that they
might not get an inkling of what she
was doing. She once a week intro
duced into the sickroom friends of
her husband, but never permitted any
of them to remain alone with him a
moment.
Al IU»L DVIIOUU U1UU. 1110 nuv |/tw
duced the will lie had made in her fa
vor, and a lawyer to whom she had
paid a large retaining fee stood ready
to enforce it against any demands that
might be set up by poor Mildred, who
had not a cent In the world to prose
cute with and 110 one to take an in
terest in her case.
Soon after her father's death Mil
dred asked permission of her stepmoth
er to take away a few belongings she
had left there. She was permitted to
do so, was denied nothing she claim
ed and went away with a boxful of
odds and ends, .among them a few
books. On getting them to her home
she looked them over tearfully before
putting them away. Some of the books
she had loved when a child. One of
these she took up and was reading a
familiar passage when she noticed a
daub on a word. Turning the page,
she noticed another daub on another
word. A few pages farther was still
another. Turning over the leaves, she
found the book full of these daubs that
had evidently been made with differ
ent substances. Scrutinizing them
closely, she found that some of them
might have been made with a drop of
coffee, some with the juice of a berry,
and on one so much of the substance
had been left that she was able to
examine it closely and surmised it to
V? potato.
Mildred was puzzled. She tried to
remember froru wliut room she had
taken It, but could not do so. A sus
picion came to her that these daubs
might mean something. Two words
that were daubed "wife" and "Will"
directed this suspicion. She wrote the
words down in the order in which they
came, but they were a jumble. If they
had been daubed to tell something the
person who had done the work had not
h<K>n able to find consecutive words
for tk? purpose.
Then MMred cut out the words she
had written n.y\ began trying to ar
range them so tkjt they would mean
something. Several Jtnes she gave up
the puzzle, but always returned to it.
She made certain seuc«»i«fres, but found
nothing intelligible for the whole.
Finally she hit upon two wi>rds—"my"
and "wife" for a beginning—which,
after many transpositions, solved the
puzzle. The final reading was this:
My wife Is holding: me a prlSHiner. I
cannot communicate with any on® except
her and her brother. She has forced me
to make a will In her favor. It Is not my
last will and testament. That instrument
Is possess (ed) by my daughter, to whom
I give all my property.
There was no date or signature.
Mildred's theory was that her father
had managed to keep the book near
hkn and when his meals were brought
t^hlm had used bits of food In lieu of
a pencil. She carried the book to a
lawyer, who took up her case in the
courts and by skillful management
succeeded in getting the cipher mes
sage accepted as evidence. The case
dragged a long while, and in time Mrs.
Borland's lawyer offered to compro
mise. Hut Mildred's counsel advised
her to hang on for all or nothing.
Finally a judgment was obtained set
ting aside the will made under duress
and validating the one held by Mil
dred.
Patience.
Success Is not a thing to bo
Attained by Idlo wishing.
The largest fishes In the 8ea
Are caught by patient fishing.
The greatest books were only done
By years of patient writing.
The greatest battles ever won
Were won by patient fighting.
And so, whatever hill you'd climb
Or what Ideal you'ro hugging,
Remember you must wait your time
And patiently keep plugging.
—Detroit Free Press.
Conflicting Prospects.
"I specks I'll be roun' to church Sun
day after next," said Mr. Erastus Pink
ley.
"Why don't you all come nex' Sun
day?'' Inquired Miss Miami Brown.
"Well, I's got to trade off a mule an'
I kind o' promised de folks at home a
chicken dinner. I specks mebbe I bet
ter put off glttin" religion."—Washing
ton Star.
But, Oh, the Difference!
He took the maiden's hand in his
And kissed the dainty thing,
And when she met her friends next day
It made her happy to display
A splendid diamond ring.
That happened when the year was young.
When April's breezes blew.
They quarreled later In the spring,
But still she gladly wears.hls ring,
Which is as good as new.
—Chicago Record-Herald.
Medical.
"Oh, doctor," pleaded thg anxious
young thing, "tell me—Is It true that
eating cucumbers will remove warts?"
"It will." responded the man of medi
cine with a grimace of derisiou, "from
the cucumbers."—St Louis Post-Dis
patch.
The Old, Old Fashion.
Wo live In an age of graft and greed.
Greed of power and greed of gain.
Money begins and ends our creed.
Mammon Is king, aid his lords remain.
Wisdom no longer may hope to lead.
Culture .Is taking a holiday.
But women flatter and men proceed
To lose their heads in the good old way.
—Cincinnati Commercial Tribune.
Helpful. 1
"These magazines are so helpful."
"What's the latest?"
"Here in the 'home hints they tell
you how to make a lovely suffragette
bomb out of an old tomato can."—
Txnilsville Courier-Journal.
Fatal Mistake,
Some years ago In a mining town a
man was found dead In^Jiis hotel room
hanged to a bedpost by his suspend
ers. The jury of miners brought in the
following verdict at the coroner's in
quest: "Deceased came to his death by
coming home full and mistaking him
self for bis pants."—Argonaut -
The Fireside Diplbmat.
"I don't want to be nagging nt yon,"
Mrs. Marryat began, "but it's the littJe
things-that bother me most"—
"Ab!" interrupted her husband sweet
ly. "I suppose you're going to tell me
you haven't a decent pair of shoes."—
Philadelphia Press.
Flora of the Balkans.
The Ralkans. In some respects the
most repulsive region of Fnrope. Is
fiornlly one of the grandest In Itnl
garla especially it is possible to wnn
der literally through ml:"s "f rn«es
Credulous,
"Is .links credulous?"
"Yes He believes in himself." —
Buffalo Kxpress. x
Testing Him.
Statesinan-I trust the people.
One of Them—All right. T.end me
$5.—New York Run.
Giving.
Some people give according to their
means and some according to then
meanness - Chicago News.
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HAND LAUNDRY—The Jando
Hand Laundry on Third street next
to Golden North Hotel, does your
washing without shrinking the
clothes. Family work given care
ful attention. tf.
BUSINESS PROPERTY FOR
SALE.
The property formerly oc
cupied by Draper & Co., is of
fered for sale. This prop
erty is one of the best bus
iness locations on Broadway.
Now is the time to buy be
fore the spring rush takes
place. Call and see me.
PHIL ABRAHAMS.
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