K HIE PASS 8
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The ^ Speed,
Route of ■ fispi) j Service
Comfort, Safety
Through Tickets to and from Dawson, Fairbanks, and all Interior
.Alaska and Yukon River points.
During season of navigation, our fleet of modern, up-to-date
steamers will operate regularly the entire length of Yukon
River and its tributaries, giving a service nevet before
equalled.
Daily tram service will be maintained between Skaguay and
Wniternrse, and our fully equipped parlor observation rars afford
every comfort and convenience.
Full infor.mtion cheerfully given upon applying to
A. F. ZIPF, Traffic Manager
Skagway, Alaska
and
612 Second Avenue, Seattle, Wash.
he White Pass &Yukon Route
flMK TABLE No. S5
Dally Except Sunday
9:30
11:5o
12:45
1:40
3:20
3:50
No. 1, N. Bound
1st Class
a. ni. Leaves
.1 hi* "
p. nv. "
p. m. "
p. m.
p. m. "
SKAGWAY
WHITE PASS
LOO CABIN
BENNET
JARIBOU
WH1TEHORSE
No. 2, S. Bound
1st Class
Arrives 4:40 p.
Leaves
3:10 p. ni
2:25 p. m
11:50 a. iu
10:25 a. m
9: SO a. in
Passengers must be at depot In time to have Baggage inspected
and check*l. Inspection is stop ped SO minutes before leaving time
of trains. I •- •
150 pounds of baggage will be checked free with each full fare
»*t and 75 pounds with each half fare ticket.
Tne Best The Most Popular
THE
NEW
CAIN
Juneau's Newest and Finp«t
Hotel
Room with detacher :h $1.50up
Room with private t.ii M up
Juneau. Alaska
Whitehorse
Kluane Stage
Line
The Royal Mail Stage
leaves Whitehorse the
fourth of every month
for Kluane and way
points and also on the
seventeenth of every
month for Champaigne
Passengers and Freight sol
icited, Rates Reasonable]
and the Service First Class.
H.CHAMBERS, Prop.
OFFICE
Regina Hotel s Whitehorte, f T
Pack Train Restaurant
The Delmonico of Alaska
CHARLEY "JOHN"
Karamax & Clecak
PROPRIETORS
Where Yoa Can Get what l'ou Desire Coosed as it Should Be
W, Maie a SP«cl*!ty of Ban qn eta &ad Prlrate Dlaaer Parties.
A reflaed aad comfortable place for a ■ upper after the show
or daace—gerrlce i* cozy prtrate boothj If desired.
His Fiancee
He Had Intended to
Be a Father to
to Her.
By ESTHER VANDERVEER.
"I may not see you again for years.
"Will you bo true to me ?"
"Bather ask yourself whether you
will be true to me. You are at an ago
when a man's fancy Is liable to great
changes."
"I shall not change in my feelings to
ward you."
"We shall see. Now, come and kiss
baby; then you must be off."
Hugh Edgerton, twenty years old,
had become enamored of a young wid
ow, Airs. Clara Pomeroy, two years his
senior, with a child, a girl in her third
year. He had been offered a position
in a banking house in Hongkong, Chi
na, and was about to proceed there.
Full of the hope of youth, he was in
tent upon making a fortune and return
ing to spend what remained to him of
life with Clara Tomeroy for his wife.
lie followed her iuto an adjoining
room where the child lay asleep iu ber
crib. Hemling down, he kissed her.
"Dear little thing!" he said. "When
I return I will be a father to her."
He took the child's hand in his, and
so soft, so dear was it that he could
hardly bear to release it, but the moth
er admonished him that his time was
limited, aud drew him away.
"Goodby," she said; "whatever is iu
store for you aud me in the future"—
"And baby."
"Yes, aud baby. I will sa.v this, you
are a fine fellow and deserving of a
good wife."
It seemed to Edgertou that the kiss
she gave him lacked the fervor of a i
woman deeply in love. But it had j
always been so between them. The
widow, though but a few years his se
nior, had a far wider range of ex
perience than he, and a woman of
twerty-two Is usually much more ma
ture than a man of twenty. When he
regretted this lack of fervor she al
ways said to him, "When ten or twen
ty years have passed it will be I who
will have cause to reproach you for in
difference."
>v nue oil nis vojuge u> \_itui.i c.usa
ton spent the most of his time writ
ing letters to his fiancee. If nn anal
ysls of bis feelings were possible it
might show more distaste for leaving
home and friends for a foreign land
than love, but no one has yet been
able to isolate love—as they say of
germs—and, after all, our affections are
largely a matter of association. Never
theless Edgerton pined for bis widow
and the time when he would be united
with her, and the dear child he had
seen sleeping so peaceful anil innocent
in her crib was ever present in his
mind.
Edgerton on arriving in Ilongkong
was given a position of some impor
tance, for he had had several years'
experience as n subordinate In busi
ness and was advanced rapidly. Hut
unfortunately when be reached a status
in which he might begin to accumulato
the house he was with made some Im
portant losses and wound up their
business. Edgerton joined forces with
others and formed an Independent
house. They made money for a time,
but one of the partners proved dis
honest, and after getting him out o* it
they had a considerable deficiency to
make up.
Meanwhile Edgerton wrote regularly
to his fiancee and received letters
from her. It was due to her encour
agement that he was able to stand by
what he had undertaken, for when ill
luck befell him he was sorely tempted
to give up and go home. He had with
him a likeness of his fiancee, and,
though the years were passing and
each year added to lier age, he con
tinued to think of her as she had ap
peared when he parted from her. lie
always referred to her little girl as
"the baby" and forgot that while her
mother had passed the climax of youth
and beauty the daughter was ap
proaching It.
Years passed before Ilugh Edgerton
came to a status wherein lie could close
out his business in China and return
to America with the fortuue he had
set out to win. Indeed, It was due to
a fortunate rise in an article in which
he had made an luvestmeut that at
last enabled liim to do so. It was a
happy day that ho announced to Mrs.
Pomeroy that he was Independent of
the world and in a few weeks would
return to claim her as his bri.Ie.
Sixteen years had passed since Ed
gerton had left his native land. He
had been so engrossed in business that
they did not seem to him more than
six. Nevertheless he realized that there
must be some change, especially in
"baby." He pictured her as a girl
playing with her doll, but nearing an
age when she would lay it aside. Her
mother doubtless would not have
changed so much. True, she would be
older, but not so very much older. As
to Edgerton himself he was now thir
ty-six, an age wherein a man is sup
posed to be in his prime. His associ
ations with women in China had been
thus far with those who had not yet
passed out of young ladyhood. Indeed
the mothers of some of his women
friends were but little older than he.
One young womnn of nineteen, an
English girl, was hoping to win him
when she was disappointed by tho an
nouncement that he was about to re
turn to America.
The return voyage seemed endless to |
Edgerton, so eaKer was he to meet his
fiancee and tho little girl to whom ho
was to be a father. Ho pictured him
self taking his ease In his own house,
surrounded by his family. The loneli
ness of a bachelor life in a foreign
country was now to be a thing of tho
past.
Edgerton was the first passenger to
step ashore at San Francisco, and
within an hour after landing he was
speeding eastward on a railway train.
The day and hour of his arrival was
known to Mrs. Pomeroy, and Edger
ton expected that she would meet him
at the station. Ills Impatience to see
her caused him to hope that she would,
but his aversion to the public witness
ing their meeting caused him to hope
that she would not
She uld not nppear. calling n con
veyance, he drove to her home. A
maid opened the door for him, and so
sure was he that his fiancee would do
so that he came near throwing his
arms around the maid. lie was ush
ered Into a drawing room somewhat
dimly lighted, but there was no one
there. In a few minutes, hearing a
light step on the staircase, he ap
proached the door and stood waiting.
A woman entered the room, and he
caught her in his arms.
She submitted to the embrace, but
did not return It.
"You are us you were when we part
ed," ho said lit a disappointed tone.
"You wero then without warmth, and
you are without it now. I wonder how
you could have been true to me all
these years."
Standing off from her, he was aston
ished to see one who looked not a day
older than when he had left her.
"Upon my word," he exclaimed Joy
fully, "you have not changed in the
least! It Is marvelous how you have
retained your youth. I feel almost too
old for you."
Now for the first time the lady ven
tured to speak, but she spoke not as
a widow of mature age; she was rath
er a coy young girl. She haltingly told
him that he said what he did in order
to flatter her, whereupon ho vowed
that he spoke the truth, and ho em
braced her again.
"And now," he said, releasing her,
"where is baby? I must seo her at
once."
"You forget that baby Is no longer
baby; she Is a schoolgirl."
"Where Is she?"
"Why, she Is at school."
"At school! Not here to welcome
her papa? But she will return pres
ently ?"
"She is at a boarding school some
distance from here." This was said
falteringly as a falsehood would be
spoken.
"Surely you iut> deceiving me. It
cannot be that"—
"Clara is well; nothing has happened
to her."
"Clara?"
"Of course. Iluve you forgotten that
her name and uilue are the same?"
"Oh! I have always been accustom
ed to think of her as 'baby.' For my
life I cannot understand how you can
have preserved your youth. Are you
sure that no rouge"—
"Not a particle."
"Surely by (his time you should
have a few faint lines around your
eyes. I see no trace of age whatso
ever. Your lips are as red as they
were when I last kissed them."
And he kissed them again.
"But why," he continued, "do you
welcome me in this dim light?"
"Perhaps when you seo me in a
brighter one you may see what ago
has done for me."
As she spoke lights were turned on
from another part of the house, and a
woman entered the drawing room
whom Edgerton did not remember to
have seen before.
"My mother," said Clara Pomeroy.
"Happy to meet you, madam," said
Edgerton, bowing. Then, turning to
Clara: "Your mother! Why, I suppos
ed your mother"—
"Hugh!" said the lady who had en
tered.
Edgerton started. lie looked again
at Clara's mother, and there came to
him a feeling that he had made a
grave mistake. lie turned from her to
the daughter. Under the brighter light
he saw that she could not be more
than twenty. Turning again to the
mother, he recognized his fiancee of
sixteen years ago turned into a woman
who, though not quite forty, looked at
least fifty. Her hair was white, he.1
skin was wrinkled, her neck under her
chin was shriveled.
"I am Clara," she said, "and that is
'Baby.' When you went away I did
not believe that on your return I "would
be a fit age for you. I look older than
I am, but no man of your age should
be tied to a woman of mine. Clara so
nearly resembled me as I was when
you lel't us that I was tempted to put
her forward as myself. The result has
been as I expected. In me you looked
for the youthful person yon left six
teen years ago. You have found an
old woman. You supposed that in Cla
ra you would find a little girl. You
have found her what I was when you
parted from me."
Edgerton listened to this speech with
a countenance which, despite his ef
forts, betrayed that it described the sit
uation. At its conclusion he began to
stammer objections, but the lady took
his hand, pressed it warmly and laid
it in that of her daughter.
"I have no wish to influence you
two except for your own good. Clara
is -what I was at her age, and, as I told
you years ago, you are a fine fellow.
I give you a good wife."
Edgerton married Clara Pomeroy,
but she was of a different generation
from the love of his extreme youth.
END OF WAR IS
A LO.\'<; WAY OFF
London, July 10—Lord Kitchen
er in an address appealing for
more recruits, delivered liist night,
declared that the military situation
is as serious now as it was ten
months ago, when the German ar
mies were driven toward Paris
through Belgium and Northern
France before the beginning of the
Battle of the Marne, He said that
the war will be greatly prolonged,
and predicted that the end appears
just 'as far distant now as it has
appeared at any time since the de
claration more than eleven months
ago.
Three London banks have sub
scribed $100,000,000 'each to the
British war loan. The subscription
stimulated buying.
Seward Gateway: To take out a
noun.l of gold, two Uuudrec' dollars
worth, in one week by the operation
of an arrastre is the extraordinary
res ur. of the work of J. B. Slater,
who arrived in the city with the
brick from Broad Pass, where his
property is located. Mr. Slater has
been working on his property, the
Independence group, for some time
w ith the aid of a horse to pack the
ore down the hill to the arrastre. To
secure tbe pound of gold he crushed
less than half a dozen tons of ore.
The ledge from which the ore was
'ikeo is a cross one about two and
half to three feet in width. The
main ledge is from three to twenty
feet in width. John Fitzpatrick,
who owns property on 'the same
l*3dfi:- has had the rock assayed by
tb° most eminent members of the
profusion and has now in his pos
cessioii returns which are over
seven hundred dollars to the ton
COMPETENT JUDGES.
Heaniy Doctor* Endorse Herplclde.
Women who make a business of beau
tifying other women come pretty nea'
knowing what will bring about the best
results. Here are letters from two, con
cerning Herplclde:
"I can recommend Newbro's "Herpl
clde," is it stopped my hair from falling
out: and. as a dressing it has no super
ior.
"(Signed.) Bertha A. Trulllnger,
"Complexion Specialist,
"314 Morrison St., Portland, Ore."
"After using one bottle of "Herplclde*
my hair has stopped falling out. and mj
scalp la entirely free from dandruff.
"(Signed.) Grace Dodge.
"Beauty Doctor.
"195 Sixth St.. Portland. Ore."
Sold by leading druggists. Send inc. lr
stamps for sample to The Herplclde Co.
Detroit. Mich.
At all flrug etor<*.
Oho tfotlar j>oCUi* gmnranfeed
DIRE DISTRESS
It is Near at Hand t<> Huiulr«ls of
Alaskan Keadej's
Dou't neglect an aching back.
Backache is often the kidneys'
cry lor help.
Neglect hurrying to the kidneys'
Means that urinary troubles may
follow.
Ov danger of worse kidney
trouble.
Here's convincing proof.
William M. Burcher, 1126 E.
Tenth St., Olympia, Wash., says:
'About three years ago I was hav
ing a pood deal of trouble with my
back. It ached all the .time and
sometimes the ache changed to se
ver?, shooting pains. My back
was weak and lame and I didn't
sleep well. On getting up in the
morp'ng:, I felt tired and worn out.
The secretions from my kidneys
were irregular in passage and
obliged Kif» to get up several times
at nisht . The first box ol Doan's
Kiduey P!lls gave mo such great
r-'ief that I got a second, and
this cured mc."
Prioe 50c, at all dealers. Don't
simply 'ask for a kidney remedy—
get Doan's Kidney Pills—the same
that Mr Burcher had. Foster-Mil
burn Co., Props., Buffalo, N. Y.
$100 Reward, $100
The readers of this paper will be
pleased to learn that there is at least one
dreaded disease that science has bee~
able to cure in all its stages, and that is
Catarrh. Hall's Catarrh Cure is the only
positive euro now known to the medical
fraternity. Catarrh being a constitutional
disease, requires a constitutional treat
ment. Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken in
ternally, acting directly upon the blood
and mucous surfaces of the system, there
by destroying: the foundation of the dis
ease, and giving the patient strength by
building up the constitution and assisting
nature in doing Its work. The proprietors
have so much faith in its curative pow
ers that they offer One Hundred Dollars
for any case that It fails to cure. Sena
for list of testimonials.
Address: F. J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo. O.
Sold by all DrugrgUtn. 75c.
Take Hall's Family Pills for constipation.
UrilSMRY
DISCHARGES
RELIEVED IN
24 HOURS
Each Cap
sulc bears (MIDV1
the nanicl®*
Beware of counterfeits
11. some instances. He has his
l '"ge uncovered for nine hundred
•W*t and has long stretches of
tunnels, all of which work has
■served to confirm the opinions hold
of tli<- great value of the rock.
THE REAL WONDER
"Edison says we sleep too much."
"He's the man who invented these
pesky graphopones that our neighbors
operate. Its a wonder that we sleep at
al|."
MEANT HIS AUTO.
Mr. Jinks ( meaning gossiping )—I
never run down people behind their
backs.
Mr. Winks—No; your auto is such
a rattle-trap that nobody ever need be
unaware of your coming.
PATRIOTISM.
Rather unexpected was the reply of
a Mrs. Tommy Atkins to a gentleman
who inquired if her husband was at the
front:
"Yus" she said, "and I hope he'll
serve the Germans as he served me."
DTyaPb?ePtf
will relieve your indigestion. Many
people in this town have used them
and we have yet to hear of a case where
they have failed. We know the for
mula. Sold only by us—25c a box.
Wm. Eritt.
J. IKUTA
manufacturing
JEWELER
WATCHES
AND CLOCKS
Curios, Ivory Carvings
Indian Baskets
China and Cut Glass
Official Watck Inspector for the
W. P. & V. Route
Mail Orders given prompt care
RAW FURS
WE PAY
HIGH - PRICES
FOR FINE FURS
WRITE FOE PRICE LIST
Percey's Fur House
Oshkoib, • Wlkcomin
rSL® BKAGWAV
Pioneer Dairy
HL f. BKKMAN, Prop.
THE SANITARY BLR RANCH
The largest and best co»
ducted di*iry 1b Ateaka.
Dally shipment* of purs
milk aid cream to all polata
oa White Paw & Yukoa
Route.
jmufiti Steamship Co.
U. 9. HAIL STEAMER
Georgia
Elocric Lighted. St«*M Heated.
schedule of sailings
Sailing Date® a*d Steamer Sub
ject to Change Without Notice
J line ay-Sitka Route
Learea Juneau for Douglas, Pub
Hoonah, Gyjfcum, Tenakee,
tdllisHDO, Chatham ud Sitka
EVERY WEDNESDAY AT 12:0»
a. m.
JiliUJU'Vl/ ^ ) lt2
Lean* Skagway tor Haines, El
dred Rock, Comet, Jualla, Sentlm
Jl Island, Eagle Rlrer, Dougla*
ind Juneau,
EVERY SU11DAY AT 12:01 a. •
WILLIS E. .JOWELL, Manager.
To Cure a Cold in One Day
Take LAXATIVE BROMO QUININE
tablets. Stop the Cough and Headache
and work off the Cold. Druggists refund
money if it fails to cure. E. W. Grove's