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UOW TO GKT K1CH
l'cpfui.o, the accumuaticn of in
dependent meaiis, as a mere mat
i i i * lirif* and time, according to
I4-- revise 0* Janus Forgan, who
is perhaps tiie greutesn figure
ut b-iuie:s oi tLtj Middle
V'-vt.
1 \ a recent issue of Leslie's
Weekly .Mr. Forgau said:
"Ks: ra\ agance is America's na
tiuuul 4;l. Most young people
la.iiwo 1.0 effort to save; few even
o1 uU.i-r years save systematically.
.Mv mcthtd was to stau the new
year by fixing the sum 1 would save
during the year. if 1 decided to
buy a hond I vould pay
perhaps jivy ia cash, borrow the
talaato frciu 'he ba s and repay
$7 5 every mouth, 'that $75 was
tae frs\ thing 1 paid on receiving
lav salary. The remainder had to
i'tM *iiti whole mouth. December
fou. d me sole owuer of the bond. 1
nevt r speculated-—I can> read the
e'ocu exchange tape? iutelligeutly
eVCu UOW."
T''p>f who elect to pursue for
t.iao ia this laud, and these would
iu.-lu^e almost everybody, often
*ii-d it impossible to regulate in
couie, and can. only strive to make
i* .-o lari;e as possible, but it is
entire!;.- within, their power to
m-asurably eontiol the expense ac
count. Mr. Forgan's recipe,
and that of many others who have
ac* ved fortunes' assures regular
savings by setting aside a specified
amoun- and contiiviug to get along
w!th whatever portion of income re
ir.aius, but performance of this
task is very much more difficult
than theorizing. It requires re
nunciation of many pleasuresi and a
care1' ! prudent, economical course
of living that is far from attractive
to the average young man.
-Anv young man with health and
vor. ge intuit al tfjacity m; y acqul.e
a fortune if he so wills it,
requires a will power and a mental
at'itude that few are ahle to pre
serve. Many men of wealth have
achieved success by conquering self,
and for those who are willing to
ma^e tho sacrifices the way is still
open—wide open.
ATTRACTIVE (.AMI"
This, newspaper business ia a
great game. Just in the midst of
u-u obituary of a dear friend and
when ho' tears threaten to flow
Uowu and blot cut the words you
wri" there breaks through, the of
fice door the radiant face of the
daddv of a new boy! Tears and
joy mingle in the same brea*h, and
the giving and taking away of lif?
are r3corded on the same page.
Before you have finished the
obituarv the breezy advance nian
for a comedy showi pors in and
;>sks vou to write a scream, for his
:ort>; fat, frolicsome fairies and
how joyous the^ a-re. Before you
liav(» done with the kind words
abouf your departed friend, the
joy over the new baby and finished
the showman's ad, a fellow sneaks
in t& ask vou to suppress the story
"f t^e fight that he was mixed up
in. Then, after putting all the
lace and trimmings on the bride's
wed ling gown, dressing theg room
ia the conventional black and start
ing tnem off withi congratulations
and best wishes, you tu-rn again to
the tear side cf lifo a:i<d write:
"£ut the stately sMtf moves on.
HONOR FOR MACCABEES BENEFACTOR
I . L. . ' ' - ^ XJ- / ■!
Little did Supreme Commander Blna
M. West realise twenty-three years
ago, when she organized the Woman's
Benefit association of the Maccabees,
that she would one day be "first citl
ren" of Port Huron, Mich. That time
has come, and Oct. 22 was the day Bet
aside by the city as a holiday to honor
her while she laid the cornerstone of
the new $200,000 homo of the Macca
bees. The photograph shows her break
ing ground for tin building.
to the haven, under the hill, and
u j ! for the touch, of a vanish*-!
hand, and the sound of a voice that
is still."
Then comes a lull and the old
typewriter is content to record the
commonplace, facfs, Icnowing that
jus*. around thg corner, and eactt
lwa'ting his turn, stand Joy, Grief,
.Sorrow, Mrth, Sarcasm, Wit and
Laughter
OUR VARIED MONEY
No Two Classes Have Exactly the
Same Quality or Value.
A GOLD AND SILVER COMEDY
Tribulation* of a More or L«a* Honest
Citizen Wlio Waj Stuck With Six
Trade Dollars and Who Wanted to
Exchange Them For a Gold Coin.
When a now treasurer of the United
States takes office his predecessor
hands over to Lim assets to the value
of billions. But It Is a varied lot of
securities that come Into his possession
—bonds, securities of all kinds, gold
bars and silver coin, base metals, gold
notes, silver notes, gold In the reserve
fund, governmental lege! tender notes,
national bank notes, fractional cur
rency and subsidiary coin.
No two classes have the same quali
ties, no two exactly the same value. In
trinsic or otherwise. Yet people are so
eager to get anything with the st:imp
of Uncle Sam that they accept It any
where at Its face value unless It is re
quired for some purpose which calls
for the peculiar quality of a certain
kind of money.
It Is a mark of confidence in Uncle
Sam that his beautiful silver certifi
cates are taken at their face value,
when in reality they bear about the
same relation to gold dollars as adul
terated food does to pure food—only,
like the adulterated foods, a certain
artificial value must be given to them.
When the food adulterater turns
out his product the government. In
Just horror, says it is wrong to tain
per with food, and the person who
does It must go to JalL When Uncle
Sam sends out a sliver disk stamped
with his mark he has made a very
good business stroke, for be has
placed In circulation as a dollar G6
cents' worth of silver and put 44
cents' worth of bullion Into his treas
urer's charge and, like the adulterated
food dealer, has made a good trans
action.
a poor wrecs or numamty who a
grateful streak la his heart not long
since found himself In possession of
six trade dollars. His first indica
tion after the shock was to buy a
whole lot of bait and go away ofT on
a fishing trip, but remembrance of his
mother came over him. and, like a good
fellow, he resolved to send her a flv*
dollar gold piece.
His first surprise came when he
found that his trade dollars, which con
tained more silver than do the silver
dollars, were valued only as bullion
and his whole $8 was worth only
$3.30. He had overlooked the fact
that whan those dollars were Issued,
back in 1873, Uncle Sam had omitted
to Indorse them or to give them any
monetary value other than their silver
content
So he did with his $3 what his Uncle
Samuel had done—he went through
a little transaction in high finance
which makes one blush for him. He
mixed his dollars up with some "stand
ard" silver dollars and persuaded a
small storekeeper to give him bills for
them. It happened that these bills
were silver certificates.
He tried to induce the treasury de
partment to take them in exchange for
the gold piece intended for his mother,
but the treasury department politely
told him that, while the law provided
that the secretary of the treasury
.maintain gold and sllv°rj?p a
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parity, tfle section Had been construed
to mean that silver certificates c-ouKl
not produce gold coin.
Thereupon wild thoughts of the bait
and the fishing trip rushed upon him
again, but his blood was now up, and
he determined somehow to secure that
gold piece for the mother, who was be
coming momentarily dearer, lie suc
ceeded after a time in exchanging his
sliver certificates for a leg;:! tender note
for $3, and, although such notes are
protected by a gold reserve equal to
only about a third of the issue, the de
partmeiit without hesitation gave him
the gold coin.
The narrator of the tale could not re
member whether the gold piece ever
reached the mother or was spent to
celebrate the modern method of the
transmutat'ou of metals.-Washington
Post.
Testing Idess.
I say wisdom is gathered ou foot,
along country roads. Collect your
Ideas where you can. alley, bou'evard.
office, lecture hall, theater. dinner
table, library, wharf, picture gallery,
street car, opera house. curbstone or
courtroom, but test them on the road
Confronted with the realities of soil
find salt vy,ater and the character
shaped by these they will look vastly
less momentous or vastly mure so.—
Atlantic Monthly.
A Cood Excuso.
"Well, what made you late tonight?"
demanded his life partner, glancing at
the clock.
"Er-er- why, I took S! ahhurst home
from the dub. and ids wife made me
take him back again!" replied he of the
Ingenious mind -St I.ouis Post Dls
patch.
Revenge.
"I've been calling this number for
nearly five minutes," said the irate sub
scrlber.
"What number?"
"I'm so Irritated I'm almost tempted
not to satisfy your feminine curiosity."
—Washington Star.
The next best thing to getting rid of
our burdens is to make light of them.—
Philadelphia Record.
Evelyn and the Simplon Pass.
The Simplon pass was a famous high
way of travel long before Napoleon'eon.
structed the highroad. Milton came
home that way from his grand tour,
and so did John Evelyn. The latter
traveler went In fear of his life, not
only expecting avalanches to fall on
him, but being apprehensive lest bears
and wolves should assail him. The
only actual harm which happened,
however, was that his companion's
dog killed a goat belonging to one
of the peasants and that heavy com
pensation had to be paid—"a pistole,"
says the diary, "for the goat and ten
more for attempting to ride away."
Just Three Things.
In the American Magazine a Chicago
business man tells how he regained his
health after a nervous breakdown
when he was forty-eight He says:
"Just three things are absolute neces
sities for the smooth running and lon
gevity of these human machines of
ours. They are pure air. pure water
and plain food. Food alone has a price.
Both air and water are God's free
gifts. And yet not one person la ten
thousand breathes enough ptire air. not
one in a thousand drinks enough pure
water, and nearly all of us eat too
much."
Long Journeys Made by Whales.
The whales that swim about the is
lands which lie off the coast of Nor
way and Finland In March and April
travel Immense distances. In May they
turn np at the Azores or even at the
Bermudas and sometimes pay a visit
to the Antilles. They swim fast, for In
June they are back again off Norway.
Some of these whales have been known
to bring back evidences of where they
have been, for harpoons of the peculiar
kind used off the coast of South Ameri
ca have been found stuck In them.—St.
James' Gazette.
Subscribe for tho Daily; Alaskan.
❖ FKATEKNAL OllDEKS * \
Ai"ctio Brotherhood. —
Camp Skagway No. 1,
A. B. m®^t9 every sec
ond and. fourth! Tues
day evening at 8:30 p.
m. snarp. Visiting brothers cordial
ly wt'v-cone. w. L. Stevenson, Arc
tic Chief. W. E. Burford, Arctic j
Ueccrder.
©
Fraternal Oitl -r
lSOglCfi
Skagway Aerlq
No. 25, Frater
nal Order of
li^gles m«<ets the| first and third
WedflefcXlay night of each. month «,t
tnejr ha]] on, Fifth Avejiue. Visit
ing brothers cotrdiplly iuvitejil to
attend. L. E. Hudson, AY\ P.,
J. M. Greisbacb, Secretary.
P. & A. M.
WhitQ Pass Lodge
F. & A. M. No. 113
meets 2d and 4th
Fri. Kv'gs. of each
niontc. Visiting brothers are wel
come.
Elmer L. Wheeler, W. M.
Addresg all communications to
the Secretary,
B. P. O. ELKS
Skagway Lodge
NO. 431, B. P. O.
E. m-etts every
Thuiadayi night
' »t 8:30 o'clock.
Visitingi brothers
cordially welcome.
HENRY FRIEDENTHAL, E. R.
F. J. VAWDEWALL, Secretary
Pioneer of Alaska Igloo, No. 12,
meetfc lii A. B. Hall first Monday In
every month at 8:30 p. m.
Visiting Brothers cordially wel
come.
W. L. STEVENSON, Pres.
V. T. DORTERO. Rec. Soc.
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(Formerly of Seattle)
Sp-vinliit in the tnoa|tmcjit of
disease and deformities of thq
eye, ear, nose (uul throat.
Offiee: Goldstein Building, Ju
neau. Alaska.
W. B. STOUT
Attorney At Law
Prmtleq in all courts
In Territory of .Alaska
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Alaska Junk Co.
of Juneau Alaska,
Dealers lm
RUBBER, COPPER, BRASS
LEAD, ZIXO, BACKS, RAGS
ROPE, SCRAP IRON
R«*r ot Splckett'i PoatofXIce
store.
J. 1KUTA
MANUFACTURING
JEWF I F R
WATCHES&CLOCKS
Curios, Ivo: y Carvi' gs
Indian Baskets
China aiid Cut Glass
Official Watcl Inspector for the
W. P. & Y. Route
Mail Order? iven prompt care
RAW FURS
—.WE PAY
HIGH - PRICES
FOR FINE FURS
WRITE FOR 1'RIOF f/fST
Percey's Fur House
Oshkoih, - Wisconsin
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Seattle, Tacoma, Victoria
Leave Skag&uay
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S.S.SPOKANE October 6 18 30
S. S. City of Seattle October 13 25
Connects at Sejattle with through passenger steamers.
CONGRESS, GOVERNOR, 1'RESIDENT AND QUEEN
Sailing Monday 11 p. 111. and Friday at 11 a. m.
FOR BAN FRANCISCO, LOS ANGELES, SAN DIEGO.
Through tickets sold and baggege chocked to all pointa in
United States and Canada. 1 folders and full particulars,
address H. G. WEIR, Agent.
H. RRANDT, G. A. P. D. I'll one CO. 8KAGWAY.
C08 Second Ave., Seattle, Wash,
ALASKA STEAMSHIP CO.
SAILINGS FROn SKAGWAY
SOUTHBOUND
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Oct. 13-26 Nov. 8-20 Dec. 2-14-27
S.S. MARIPOSA S.S. ALAMEDA
Oct. 12 Nov. 2 Oct. 23
To ANCHORAGE and WESTWARD PORTS
Alameda Oct 14 Mariposo Oct. 24
Navigation to Anchorage closes sailing S.S. Mariposa Oct. 24
TELEPHONE ISO. 00.
E. .» SHAW, Agent, SKAGWAY.
Steamships TWO BERTH
PRINCLSS ROOMS
ALICE mrnum WITH
%PACIrlt/
PRINCESS , Vi hailwavV^ DOUBLE
SOPHIA \/ LOWERS
Skagway To Ail Sound Points
- Every Thursday at 7 P. AV - •
September 28, October 5-12-19-26
REDUCED THROUGH PARES TO HAS'ERN POINTS
Clcs; Connections with Daily Throvgb Trains To
Chicago-T oronto-M on t real
WE WILL TICKET YOU TO ANY" DESTINATION
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COLLECTION'S
CONVEYANCING
GENERAL AGENT
Established
1897
524 Fourth Avenue
SKaGWAY, ALASKA
You make a mistake if
vou dr not stoo at
THE
Fallen House
Electric Light?
Rooms Single or en Suite
Baths on each floor
Famous for its Home Cooking,
Milk, Cream, Cottage Cheese and
Buttermilk from oiir own da»-v.
Fresh Egga, etc
Rates $3.00 Per Day and Up
Well Lighted, Large Sample
Rooms for Traveling Men.
H. S. Pi JLLEN. P,op.
Skagway. Alaska
GOING OUT fili SAVE TIME
THIS FALL? |||gff|l AND MONEY
" VIA GRAND TRUNK PACIFIC " .
H TWIN SC-3EVV STEAMSHIPS
PRINCE RUPERT » PRINCE GEORGE
LEAVE SKAGWAY
EVERY SATURDAY P. rt.
For
Prince Rupert, Victoria, Vancouver and Seattle
All Two Berth Outside Boosts Through Service - • No Change
Hot and ( old Running a'er in'Every Room
TRAVEL via
"THE SHORTEST UOUTE TO THE EAST"
On The Finest, Surest, Swiftest Steiim>hi|j- 011 the Ncrth Pacific Coast
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Trav. Fr, * Pass A*.
T„nno„ alneiro Skasrway, Alaska