Prospectors
Now is the Tim? to have
YOUR FOOTWEAR
Put in good condition for the
,, season. Work gu?r teed.
I BEST WORK
LOWEST PRICES ?
OHM SKY
Croadw.iy SKAGWAY
Boot and Shoe Maker
bottled and draught beer
"-tnior Beer Is the peer of all J
brews. At the Mascot, phone 67 and !
have a case sent to your home.
BEER
I here's Vigor and
Strength
in every drop
COMPANY
Seattle W&.?h
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GENTLEMEN^
There is a Spe
cial Sale on PIPES
only for this Month.
Now BOYS there is
a show for you to
come and get
your pipe
10ME IN ANO SEE THE OLD MAN
Tonv Dortero's
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Established 1897
Phil Abrahams
Real Estate
BROKER
Collections
NOTARY PUBLIC
S2 KVJUKTH AVE., SKAGWAV
DON'T FROG
Unless You've Got 50 CENTS
W W. BOUGHTON
DKALKR IN
Cigars, Tobacco,
Smokers' Articles,
Stationery and Fish
ing Tackle
LARGF. CIRCULATING UBRARY
INCLUDING LATEST COPY
RIGHTED BOOKS
MAGAZINES, NEWSPAPERS AND
OTHER PERIODICALS
? HD to
I HAROLD
$ FRANK
$ BEN
? HERB
M. F. fAYLOR. Mo*.
IK 1
CUSTOM BROKERS AND BONDED
CARRIERS 8
^ Baggage, Freight. Safe and ||
Piano Moving ||
1 COAL and WOODI
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? Hack and Bumrr Nlebt or ^
? Cay service Jjj
B Good Work Guaranteed and Prices Js
I Reasonable 9
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Office R. R. Depot j?
# mm 'is na ?a >28 -hs ^
Only One "BROMO QUININE," that i
Laxative firomo Quinin
Core* a Cold in One Day, Crip in j Oav
Raw Furs,...
WB PAY
tligh Prices for fine furs
Write For Price List
Percy's Fur House
Oahkoth. Wisconsin
Subscribers aro requested to notify
The Alaskan when papers are not
promptly delivered by the carriers.
RELIABLE ALL THE TIME.
The Pack Train Restaurant will
serve wiuo with dinner orders, free
in place ot tea or coHeo. Come on
boys.
If you have something you don't
need, why not advertise it for sale
or exchange in The Alaskan?
The Caribou Hotel, Carcross, Y. T..
is the headquarters for the Atliu and
Conrad stage lines.
SO SAY THEY ALL.
It is a pleasant surprise what a
splendid old, rich and mellow goods
they sell at the Pack Train Bar. So
say they all, me to Her Man.
FOR SALE ? A 2S-horse power,
cycle, marine gasoline engine. Is in
good order aud capable of constant
and hard service. Apply to Captain
Pete Madsen, Skagwav.
Why not bo cheerful? Poor Lit
tle Herman has Just received a con
signment of that famous Cream Rye.
A smile guaranteed with every drink.
There is more Catarrh in this sec j
tiou of the country than all other dis
eases put together, and until the
last few years was supposed to be in
curable. For a great many years doc
tors pronounced it a local disease an
prescribed local remedies, and by con
stantly failing to cure with local treat
ment, pronounced it incurable. Scienc
has proven catarrh to be a constitu
tional disease and therefore requires
constitutional treatment. Hall's Ca
tarrh Cure, manufactured by P. J.
Cheney & Co., Toledo. Ohio, is the
only constitutional cure on the mar
ket. It is taken internally in dose s
from 10 drops to a teaspoouful. It ;
acts directly on the blood and mucous
surfaces of the system. They offer ?
one hundred dollars for any case it
fails to cure. Send for circulars aud
testimonials.
Address: K. .1. CIIKN'KY & CO., To
ledo, Ohio.
Sold by Druggists. 75c.
Take Hall's Family Pills for consti
pation.
HIDDEN DANGERS.
Nature Gives -Jimcly Warnings That
No Alaska Citizen Can Afford
to Ignore.
DANGER SIGNAL NO. 1 comes!
fron the kidney secretions. They will
warn you when the kidneys are sick.
Well kidneys excrete a clear, amber
fluid. Sick kidneys send out a thin,
pale and foamy, or a thick, red, ill
smelling urine, full of sediment and
irregular of passage.
DANGER SIGNAL NO. 2 comes
from the back, liack pains, dull and
heavy, or sharp and acute, tell you -of i
sick kidneys and warn you of the ap
proach of dropsy, diabetes and
Bright's disease. Doan's Kidney Pills
cure sick kidneys and cure them per
manently.
Theodore Josephson, 515 Seventh
St., Astoria. Oregon, says: "Abort j
five years ago I used Doan's Kidney
Pills and derived gri>at benefit. . At
that time I was suffering from se- 1
vert pains across my back and loins, j
at times so severe that I was unable
to stoop or straighten. My kidneys j
also bothered me a great deal, the se
cretions generally being too frequent j
in passage. At last Doan's Kidney
Pills were brought to my attention
and I procured a box. 1 used them J
and as a result my health is now ex
cellent. I take a few doses of Doan's
Kidney Pills now and then, when j
feeling any sign of backache and they
never fail to banish the trouble."
For sale by all dealers. Price 50
cents." Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo.
. New Yorli sole agents for the United
: States.
Remember the name ? Doan's? and j
I take no other.
200 TONS WELLINGTON
LIMP COAL
! from Shaft No. 6, Oyster Ray Mines
at Ladysmith, the highest grade
household coal of all the B. C. fields
58.28 FIXED CARBON
| I'ertect Combustion Uniform Heat
Light Ash
Oq and after January 1, 1903 we shall
offer this coal, selected and graded as
follows:?
Selected Lumps (in bulk oaly) $11. ton
Double Screened and sacked 12, "
Run of Mine " 11. " j
Screenings " "
Screenings (bulk) 6. "
Above p'ices ate ox wharf. Dkliv
$1.00 per ton extra.
E.J. SHAW & Co
Phones 11 or 109 Skagway, Alaska
on evtry
box. 25c
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ciation.]
I had received my medical diploma
and before going Lome called on one of
the lecturers, the famous surgeon, Dr.
Coleman Coyle, to sa.v goudby. I had
been ijulte a favorite with the doctor,
and he bad occasionally been a help to
me. ltesides, he was nn Intimate friend
of my father.
"Illlly," he said lo me, "1 hope you'll
succeed in the profession, but you
won't unless you have luck."
"Why, doctor, I'm surprised. Every
body knows that you have worked
yourself up to your present high posi
tion by your own unaided efforts."
"Everybody knows Just nothing
about It. Sit down there, and I'll jell
you a story. You're a man now, aud
it won t injure you. On the contrary,
it may teach you not to be too self
reliant ami have due respect for luck.
Aud who knows how far luck means
providence. And providence often
works through channels that are sur
prising to us mortals.
"\\ lieu 1 was where you are now I
was obliged to start in a small town.
\\ hile 1 was studying 1 was ambitious
for what 1 have now. but as soon as I
struck that town my heart sank with
in me. And 1 hadn't been there a
month before I was glad lo attend a
horse with the blind staggers to get a
few dollars. I managed to eke out
enough to pay for a room in a garret
and one or two cheap meals a day.
Surgery! Why, there never was but
one surgical ease in the town.
"One day my old friend George Phil
lips came through the town and looked
me up. We had been at the medical
school together and had a lot to talk
over. George invited me to do the
talking in a restaurant, and we spent
a whole evening there eating and
drinking ? after 10 o'clock mostly
drinking. I was an abstemious young
niau and couldn't stand the liquor I
took lu on that one occasion. (Icorge,
who was more used to It, took me to
my room and left me while he ran to
catch a midnight train.
"I tried to get off my clothes, but
couldn't. 1 remember taking off my
coat and trying lo hang it on a bed
post when it came round to me, for
everything in the room was circling.
While I was vainly trying to find the
shoestring of my boot I heard a vio
lent ring at the doorbell below, and
presently my landlady came up in a
wrapper and said something which
startled though It didn't sober me.
John Overaker. the only rich man in
the town, had been taken violently ill
and I was wanted immediately.
"ITere was a terrible situation. My
first chance had conic and I was hope
lessly drunk. I caught at my coat
when li came round, managed to get it
on. accidentally Jammed my hand
against my hat. got it <>n and stag-'
Rcred downstairs. | succeeded in get
ting to the overaker*. rang the bell
and was admitted by the only member
of his family, his daughter Ethel.
"'Oh. doctor,' she said wildly. I
didn't hear what she said. I learned
It afterward. "I fear li Is apoplexy.
Mother died of apoplexy, and I know
it by Hie snoring. Father was brought
home by two friends, who put him in
his room and left him. I sent for our
regular physician, but lie Is out of
town, so I sent for you."
?'While she wsts giving me tills In
formation I held on to the wall with
one hand arnl looked at her without
speaking. When she had finished she
led me upstairs. I knew enough to
set her out of the room, and to do so
looked at her and put my hand on the
door. She understood and left me.
Overnker was snoring heavily. I sat
down in a ehalr to try to steady my
self. and? fell. asleep. When 1 awoke
the pntleut was still snoring. I re
member leaving the room and by a
careful hanging on to the banister get
ting downstairs. 1 was met by Miss
Overnker.
"'Oh, doctor, is tliore any hope?'
"1 nodded my head affirmatively and
pressed her hand without speaking.
She un lerstood by this how deeply I
felt ant', my sympathy for her.
" 'Yob will call very early in the
morning?'
"Again I nodded affirmatively and
went out Into the street.
"The next morning 1 was in bed
groaning over a bad headache, a worse
conscience and the knowledge that I
had ruined my career at the start. I
wondered If Overaker was dead. There
was one comfort? nothing can be done
in a case of apoplexy. I had prom
ised to call early, so 1 got up and by
a great effort dressed myself. I was
going downstairs when I saw in the
hall below, tnlrnbiie dietu, my patient,
lie saw me coming and smiled at me.
When 1 reached him he grasped my
hand warmly.
" Thanks, my boy,' he said. 'You
didn't say a word, did you? My daugh
ter Is as innocent as n baby. If she
knew her father was drunk last night
she would die of mortification. Give
me a man who can keep his tongue in
his head. My own doctor would have
botched the whole business. Here's a
check for your fee.'
"Now, if I had been sober I should
certainly have mined my career by
telling the truth. As it was, I became
John Overaker's physician, married his
daughter and. backed by my fathcr-ln
law, came here to go Into surgery.
Don't think, my boy. that this story is
to excuse my having been drunk; It Is
simply to show the power of luck.
Indeed, so impressed was I with the
fact that on another occasion drink
would ruin me that I never have
touched alcohol from that day to this."
UAHOLD OTIS.
DAMES AND DAUGHTERS.
Mrs. William K. Vnuderbilt Iiiih taken
up horseback riding as a diversion, and
New York society Is following her lead.
Mrs. Fred Wilmerdlug, once a leader
of fashion in Paris, has opened a curi
osity shop In Florence, hoping thereby
to retrieve her fortune.
Mrs. W. J. Beggs of Seattle, Wash.,
Is said to have produced the lirst rose
absolutely without thorns. Mrs. Beggs
has studied Mr. Burbank's methods.
Miss Clara Rlghter of Philadelphia
was the first woman missionary of the
Baptist faith to try to convert the fol
lowers of Confucius nnd Buddha, hav
ing started In 188JS.
! Mrs. William L. Howard has been
appointed second probation ollicer for
women In Rochester, to serve without
remuneration. She Is a prominent
philanthropic worker and Is president
1 of the Rochester City federation. ,
Miss Icy Palmer, the last of the Tus
caroras, a tribe of Indians which for
merly occupied the present site of
Manchester, Vt., has been placed in a
retreat in Brattleboro. She was al
ways a great rover and could be seen
tramping about in all sorts of weather.
Among the best known Parisienims
j Is Mile. Polaire, the actress, whoso
waist is supposed to be the smallest In
| the world and whose love for cos
metics is such that e\en her gums and
tongue ure colored, while her face Is
I made to look as white as possible,
which, together with her dark hair and
eyes, makes a combination as curious
as? In her case? It is fascinating.
Church and Clergy.
! Rev. George W. Hurke of Wilming
ton, Del., has read the Bible through
forty times and Is uow reading the
j New Testament through the one hun
dred and fourth time.
At Easter Rev. W. B. Selble will suc
ceed I>r. Fairbalrn as principal of
Mansfield college, Oxford. He Is a
graduate of the university. Is now for
; ty-slx years old and was one of Prln
| clpal Fairbalrn's first pupils In the
j ology.
When Rev. Dr. Corky of London
derry, Ireland, arises on Sunday to ex
pound the gospel he does so with the
proud consciousness that on the same
day in eight other Presbyterian pul
pits his eight sons are performing a
similar service.
St. John's church, in which Wash
ington worshiped when In New York,
is not to be torn down at present. If at
all. in spite of many reports to the con
trary. The Trinity parish corporation,
to which It belongs, has announced
that it will be kept open.
The Writers.
Goldsmith got Sou guineas for his
"Animated Nature." ,
Dr. S. Weir Mitchell, physician and
author, is seventy-nine years of age.
In spite of Ids advanced age Dr. Mitch
ell is healthy and vigorous and linds
time for both literary work and pro
fessional practice.
Professor Goldwiu Smith, now in his
eighty-sixth year, Is still a frequent
contributor to the newspapers and
magazines. lie was eminent as a
scholar and a writer when he first
went to Canada, forty years ago. At
the age of thirty-four he was reglus
professor of modern history at Oxford
university.
Train and Track.
In 1WS one person was killed for
; every 70,000,000 who traveled on Eiik- !
Ilsb railways. One In every 2,300,000
was Injured.
| Nine-tenths of the steel ties laid by I
the Mexican railway In 1881 are still
in pood condition, as a recent examl- :
nation showed. They were laid In j
gravel, coarse sand or tine stone.
While tires of a steam locomotive
will wear down after belli}; run 8.000
I miles. It Is said that those of an elec- j
I trie locomotive will not require re
newal until it has been run 30,000
miles.
English Etchings.
Hospitals In England spend ?1,250,
000 yearly.
It Is estimated tliyt 100,000 children
go to school without breakfast every
morning in London.
Excluding warships, the shipbuilding
output of the United Kingdom last
' year was only 1)20,009 tons against
1,007.8510 tons In 1907.
Even as late as the earlier years of
(he eighteenth century mince pie as an
adjunct of the Christmas feast was
forbidden to the English clergyman.
Science Sittings.
In each 223 lunar months there are
twenty-nine eclipses of the moon and
forty-one of the sun.
Nine-tenths of human energy ex
pended In muscular movement goes
out as heat, but one-tenth being util
ized mechanically as work done.
According to two scientists of the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
each human emotion creates In a deli
cate machine which they have Invent
ed a distinct electric force which it Is
possible to classify.
Proverbs.
Actions are the raiment of the man.
?Greek Proverb.
Associate with the lame and you will
learn to lltnp.? Latin Proverb.
The same lire purities gold and con
sumes straw.? German Proverb.
The devil tempts all other men, but
Idle men tempt the devil. ? Turkish
Proverb.
COME IN AND GET OUR PKICES ON
Choice, Dainty Pieces of Carved Ivory
such tts.Cribbage boards, Paper weights and Knives and Napkin rings
Alaska Silver and Copper Novelties
Suvenir sjoons, Brncslcts, Envelope openers and Paper knives
Cut Glass, Hand Painted .Japauete China and Nugget
Jewelry
Alaska Cedar Pacques, Leather Wall, Banners, and
Sofa Pillow with Burnt ^Designs
1 Ibnta iweler and
J* I HII Id optician
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RAW PUR
TRAPPERS AND COLLECTORS
are requested to correspond with us about this sea
son's catch of FURS. We want the early catch as
well as the i.atk catch. We will pay full market
value at all tiniej. Price list and tags can be had for
the asking at any time.
Herman Schmerl & Co.
28 West Thirty-First Street
MEW YORK CITY
MOORE'S WHHRF CO.
Tormluup W. P. & Y. Route
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*: 411 South Bound Steamers Arrive and Deoart From Thla Dock
REGULATIONS 1909
:: Warehouse open for delivery of merchandise from 8 a. in. to 5 p.m.
?j Perishables ONLY delivered on Sunday or at night.
S All freight ?< lipments destined southbound must be accompanied by a
Shipper's Manifest (papers can bo obtained at the U. 8. customs
office) ani must be delivered liefor? 6 p. m. No freight will be re
ceived on wharf after this nour.
j: BAGGAGE? rolls win oe collected on Checked Baggage Onlt. No
charge for baps and grips when unchecked.
The wharf gate will be cloe jd to the public when steamer is nearing
dock and will be ope'i;donly when passengers have disembarked,
k Wharfage Tariff can be nad on application at office on dock.
J\0. Box 175. K. J. SB AW RESIDENT, MANAGER
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Our Service is Always Ihe Best
Our Rates as tow as the towest
C4LL ON IS fOR PRICES
V. I. HAHN, Supt.
^Railway Building Skaguay
MANUFACTURER OK
NUGGET JEWELRY
ALASKA SOUVENIRS AND
CURIOS OF ALL KINDS
P. E. KERN,? N
SILVER & COPPER HAND BEATEN NOVELTIES
Spoons, Bracelets, Paper Cutters, Napkiu Kings
Paper Weights,
Native Carved Ivory Handled Carving Sets
Beautifully Carved Walrus Teeth Novelties
Watches and Diamonds, Silverware, Cut
Glass and Hand Painted China
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