OFFICIAL CITY PAPER.
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at Sk&gway, Alaska.
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SOME RANDOM REMARKS CON
CERNING THE PLANET WE IN
HABIT.
Wheu severe and successive
earthquakes destroyed the cities of
Messina and Keggio in Sicily a few
days past, hundreds of the survivors
made no effort to save themselves;
hut fell to praying, firmly believing
the world was coming to an end.
We, among Alaska's rock bound hills,
pilied those people and probably smil
ed at their belief. But was it so far
fetched, after all?
We are prone to think the world
has gone on forever ? that it will go
oa forever; yet the merest knowledge
of science shows this to be false.
The relative thickness of the earth's
solid crust isno greater than the jjgel
of an orange as compared to the
orange. We are living on the thin
peel of the orange. Inside this peel
is a seething mass of molten material
surging and struggling to escape.
Now aud theu as it boils over, the
the elastic crust of the earth expands
aud earthquakes result. Occasionally
the firey mass escapes through some
volcauo and destroys all it touches.
Is it altogether beyond the realms
of fancy that some day the boiling
mass within may shatter the earth to
ait extent which will destroy hu
manity? Ever since history records
earthquakes aud volcanoes have de
stroyed life, upheaved islands, or in
nundated great stretches of territory.
In the past two weeks there has
been a renewal of earthquakes and
volcanic activity in different quarters
of the globe.
Nor is our only source of danger
from within. Thousands upon thou
sands ? nay. millions upon millions of
comets, worlds and planets are hur
ling through space, many of them at
a speed of 100,0t>0 miles a minute.
Some of these worlds are vastly lar
ger than ours. What would happen i
a collision should occur? We would
pass away in some form of vapor ?
that's all. Astronomers have esti
mated that our chances of collision
with another world are slight ? there's
comfort in that.
So far we have been dealing merely
with possibilities. The seething mass
within MAY rend the world to frag
ments ? we MAY collide with another
sphere. . But science teaches us that
it is only a question of time ? a few
million years more or less ? when the
world IS CERTAIN TO CEASE ITS
MOTION. When it does human life
will not be possible on this planet.
The whirling of the world is a
given motion ? just as a boy sets a
top spinning ? and eliminating the re
tarding action of friction, astronomers
have computed that the attraction of
the moon for the waters of the earth,
which results in their surging against
the western coasts of the world as
tides, while the world is spinning
from west to east, is acting as a
brake on the world and already has
slowed its motion to no inconsidera
ble extent. Ultimately this will stop
the world's motion entirely. This
theory was first worked out by Em
manuel Kant, the German philosopher
and astronomer, and all modern sclen
tists concur in its truth.
What's the moral? There is none
in particular. But this old world is
not as stable as we think, nor will it
endure to the utmost reaches of eterr*
Uy. In the light of modern science
the ending of the world is not alto
Kether a superstitious belief.
Wonder if Congressman Nicholas
Longworth ?wlll vote to strike out par
of Roosevelt's message? Nick may.
may not be a great statesman, but'
he is there when It comes to domes
tic diplomacy.
TRYING OUT A LOVER.
A weeping girl in Atchison, Kan.,
wishes she hadn't steeped herself In
Laura Jeau Llbby so completely, and
a relieved young man Is glad she did.
The man loXt Atchison on an im
portant business trip and on reaching
his destination 500 miles away re i
celved a telegram from his finance*
saying, "Something unexpected has
happened. 1 must see you without
delay." He took the next train back
to Atchison, where the girl met him
at the statiou. He had expected to
find her in tears, but she radiated
sunshine. Throwing her arms about
his neck she whispered: "Oh, honey!
that telegram was only to see if you
would do anything for your little girl.
Now I know, and we will be married
as soon as you "wish."
The young man, aside from the
business loss her action entailed, was
angry that she had to try out liis love
and his loyalty in this way. He told
her there would be no marriage and
Went his way, happy In finding out
before marriage the extreme folly of
the girl.
in the days of chivalry when
Courts of Love were held to try
knights for miuute infractions of the
code of Cupid, a test of this nature
would have been inild and inconse
quent. Men of station had nothing
to do, in those days, but fight and
make love. The peasants worked and
were pillaged for it.
Nowadays, a man shows his love
for a girl, his deeper affection for his
wife, by working for her, not by com
posing ballads to her eyebrows. He
fights, too ? harder, longer, oftener.
He has her photograph in the lid of
his watch iustead of her ribbon on
his helmet. He doesn't go jousting,
either, with a gallery of ladies watch
ing the tournameut. He fights real
fights, day after day, with his pen
for a spear, figuring out plans to
make a little more money to give her
greater luxuries and greater happi
ness. The pallid little clerk in his
shiny suit of clothes is often ten
times as heroic a figure as the
knight In his armor.
The modern man doesn't need to
be set tasks to prove his love. He
lives it every day. And all the day. ?
Cleveland Leader.
OVER ZEALOUS ADHERENTS.
Washington dispatches state that
Justice Wright, who wrote the decis
ion sentencing Gompers. Mitchell and
.Morrison, the labor leaders, to jail fcr
contempt of court, ha-^ received hun
dreds of letters threatening his life.
This sort of thing will not help the
cause of labor. There is no doubt
that the three men named were in
contempt of court. They way or may
not have had valid reasons for their
action. Trying to influence legisla
tion or court decisions by threats is
pure anarchy and will re-act against
labor. It has already suffered suffi
ciently by over zealous adherents.
By the way, has congress explained
why it objected to the widest use ot
secret service men in running down
criminals and ferreting out crime?
A Michigan man was sentenced to
thirty days in jail for defrauding the
government of a two cent stamp.
What will his thirty day's board cost
the government?
Andrew Carnegie says that "wealth
confers no fame." What's the dif
ference if you have the money?
Fame doesn't confer wealth either
uttless you are actor or a pugilist.
ONLY ONE BROMO QUININE'
That is L\XATfVE BROMO QUIN
I.vE. Lo >k for the s>. uature of K. W
GROVK. Used th? Wo Id over IoCum
cold in One Day. 25c F
BRING YOUR OWN JUG.
Mount Vernon Rye and Belmont
Bourbon direct from bond u.t whole
sale price by the gallon. The Mas
cot, phone 67. Delivery free.
If you want to buy anything adver
tise for it In The Alaskan.
Subscribe for The Alaskan.
The result of the observation taken
at Moore wharf at midnight, Jan. 7th
ItX is as follows:
Temperature time observat'n. 4 above
Ma*, tern p. preceding 24 hours 13 above
Min. " " " " 1 above
Mean " " " " ? 7 above
Barometer 30. ?8.
Clear, strojjj north wind
INTERIOR WEATHER
Whitehoise, 38 below
Tagish -
Atiin, .... 31 "
Hootalinqua ? ? - 43"
Bijj Salmon ? - - - 4- "
Vukou Crorsiitijr - - . 40 "
Selkirk .... 40 "
CotTee Creek, ... 34 "
Stowart, - - - 25 "
Ogilvie .... 35 "
Dawson, .... "
What a Scotsman Wear*.
A Scottish correspondent, signing
himself "Haggis." writes to us as fol
lows:
Dear Sir? Please state In your column
that a Scotsman wears n kilt, not kilt*.
Thus Harry Lauder went to amuse tho
king clad In a kilt, not in kilts.
\Yc regret ro say that we And our
selves unable to accede to our corre
spondent's request. Respect for truth
compels us to state that a Scotsman
almost invariably wears neither a kilt
nor kilts, but troWsers.? London News.
Quite of Her Opinion.
"Oil, 1 did so want to have a talk
with you! I'm simply mad to go on
the stasel" exclaimed a gushing young
lady to a popular actor.
"Yes, I should Ihlnk you would be,
my dear young lady!" remarked the
great histrl?n.
Consistent.
"Why do you wear a yachting cap,
dealfboy? It's your brother that owus
the yacht."
"Very true, old chap. This is me
brother's cap."? Cleveland Plain Dealer.
Reauty Is part of the finished lan
guage which goodness b peaks. ? Eliot.
STRICTLY FRESH EGGS.
We receive on every boSt fresh
consignment of local ranch eggs,
guaranteed strictly fresh.
^ FRYE-BRUHN CO.
Yes; we have thff proper sizes of
calling cards in the crash finish bris
tol. The proper type, too. The
Dally Alaskan Job Dept.
RELIABLE ALL THE TIME.
The Pack Train Restaurant will
serve wine with dinner orders, free
in place of tea or coffee. Come on
boys.
SUFFERED WITH
: ECZE1M$
Limb Peeled and Foot Was Like
Raw Flesh? Had to Use Crutches,
and Doctors Thought Amputation
Necessary ? Montreal Woman
Writes of Cure Seven Years Ago.
BELIEVES LIFE SAVED
BY CUTICURA REMEDIES
"I havo been treated by doctors for
twenty-five years for a bad case of
eczema on ray leg. They did their be*t,
but failed to cure it.
My doctor had ad
s' i vised me to have my
3 leg cut off. but I
\ y, said I would try the
Cuticura Remedies
He said. "Try
]?? them if you like, but
(V< I / *fj _] I do not think they
~i. will do any good.
~W*7 v At this time my
leg was peeled from the knee, my foot
was like a piece of raw flesh, and'I had
to walk on crutches. 1 bought a cake
of Cuticura Soap, a l>ox of Cuticura
Ointment, and a bottle of Cuticura
Pills. After the first two treatments
the swelling went down, and in two
months ray leg was cured and the new
skin came on. The doctor could not
believo his own eyes when he saw that
Cuticura had cured me and said that
be would use it for his own patients.
I used two cakes of Cuticura Soap,
three boxes of Ointment, and five bot
tles of Resolvent, and I have now been
cured over seven years, and but for
the Cuticura Remedies I might have
lost my life. I have lots of grand
children. and they aro frequent usere
of Cuticura, and I always recommend
it to the many people Whom my busi
ness brings to my house every day.
Mrs. Jean-Baptiste Renaud, clairvoy
ant, 277, Mentana St., Montreal, Que.,
Feb. 20, 1907 "
SLEEP FOR BABIES
Rest for Mothers.
Instant relief and refreshing sleep for
skin-tortured babies, and rest for tired,
fretted mothers, In warm baths with
Cuticura Soap and gentle anointings
?with Cuticura Ointment, the great skin
cure, and purest of emollients.
Cuticura Soap (2 St.). Cuticura Ointment (50c.).
and CMMM Resolvent (50c,). (In the torrn ot
Chocolate Coated Pills 2fic. per vial ot 00). Sold
throughout the world. Potter Dru* Jt Cbern. Corp.,
Bolo Props.. Itoston, Mass.
or Mailed Free, Cuticura Bvck on Skla Diseases.
IF YOU ONLY
mm
How much real satisfac
tion there is in a bottle of
Cucumber and A mond
Cream
You would never be without
it. It is not sticky, contains
no grease, never soiles the
most dainty fabric, and is
the most soothing, healing
balm for chaps, cracks and
wind roughened skin, wej
know of. Try a bottle of it.
We garantee satisfaction.
WM. BRITT
The Druggist]
BETTER PREPARED THAN EVER.
Having put in n steam boiler and
other machinery we are better pre
pared than ever to do first-class-work
on sliort notice.
SKAGWAY LAUNDRY.
All whiskies and wines served at
the Pack Train Bar is purchased by
Mr, Grlin direct from the Oistillers
and wln-rles. tf
If you have something you don't
need, why not advertise it for sale
or exchange in The Alaskan?
Why not put a tew crisp readers
in The Alaskan, advertising your
long stock, and get rid 'of it?
JUNEAU S. S. CO'S.
ELECTRIC LIGHTED STEAM
HEATED STEAMER
Georgia
Currylug U. S. Mail
For Haines, Berners Bay, Juneau,
Hoonn, Tenakce, Sitka and Wayports
SAILS
December 6, 12, 18, 24, 30.
WILLIS NOWELL, Mgr., Juneau
W. W. BOUGHTON, Afent
Broad war and Fifth Ave. phono 90
U. S- Mail Steamer
Carrying Passengers and Mail will
leave Skagway for Haines
Every Tuesday, Thursday and Satur
day at 9 A. M.
Returning icaves Haines for Skag
way at 2 P, M. same day.
Fare one way $1-50
Round trir> $2.50 -
i
Pacific Coast S. S. Co.
PIONEER ALASKA LINF.
SPEED, SAFETY COMFORT;
S tfcitie, and other Putfet Sound Porto
CARRYING U.B. MAIL.
Steamer# of 1'hia Company Loave
HUMBOLDT - - JANUARY 7
10TFAGE Ciiy ? - J AIMLARV 18 30
Cono< ct'ne with t o Comp? y'? -team rs at Se tie to *an Francisco.
Southern Calii'Oknia, Kdreka (H mbuldt i?ay) ?>. U MKZICO
teH- a novo actiuduk butfjt-ci to Cftan^e Without Nonce.
FRANK H. STUART, Agent
Si'coi d and Broadway, .skaffwn)
Seattle Ticket Offick, 113 James St.
C. D. DDNAN'N, General PassenKu. Agent,
112 M ><?*? v ?-??re h c- G
Canadian Pacific Railway
I B. C. COAST SERVICE )
SCHEDULE OF SAILINGS FROM BKAGWAY'
Subject >o change without notice
tstLnaS^ PRINCESS may
December 5=19 January 2=16=30
For Vancouver, Victoria, Seattle, via Prince Rupert
Spacious Observation and Smoking Rooms
Tickets to any part of '.be world a: d all information from
Phone 87 F. F. W LOWLE, Ag?nt
Alaska Steamship Co,
Carrying U. S. Mail and Alaska Pacific ExpreM
Next Sailing; of tbe Fast Passenger Steamers
Jefferson Jan. 11, 23
Feb. 4, 16, 28
Company reserves right to change sailing date without notice
Transfers to Victoria and Vancouver Without Addilioual Charge
Through Tickets to San Francisco
R. A. CARROLL, Agent. Phone tt?
The White Pass &Yukon Route
TIME TABLE No.
(Dally Rxnept Sunday.)
18.
No. 1. N. JBoui.d
class.
a 30 a. it.
10 CO p. m.
11 00 "
11 :i) '?
I 3) o, oi.
3 45
Leaves
^-rlves
SKAGUAY
WHITE PAS&
LOG CABIN
BEN MBIT
CARIBOO
Whitk -Horse
Arrives
Leaves
No. 2, S. Bourn
1st clais
3 2 ' p. m'
1 45 "
12 42 "
12 10 "
10 2i 6, W.
8 15 "
Passenger must be at depots in time to have Baggage inspected and
cheeked. Inspection is stopped 30 minutes before leaving time of train.
150 po-mds of baggage will b oheoked free with eaoh full fare tlckei
v>4 7?. pound* with each half furo tiok'it.
vv *?*< v
?1
Through Line From
Skftgway to Atlin, While Horse, Big Salmon,* Dawson and Intermedial Yukon River Po'nts
Tne new placcrcamps in the Aisek nnd Kluane Mining Districts are reached only via White Horse
Winter Route Stage Service
During the winter season, when navigation is closed, daily trains will continue running between
Ska^way and White Horse. A through Mail, Passenger and Freight Service will be maintained
by ? Thoroughly Equipped Stage Line between White Horse and Dawsou.
Regular stages, carrying mail, express and passengers, leave White Horse for Dawson and
intermediate points.
For Conrad City, located in the heart of the newly discovered and fabulously rich quart* camp
of the Windy Arm district, take our daily trains to Caribou.
For Information relnkive to passenger, freight and telegraphic rate*, apply
to any agent of the Company, or to
TRAFFIC DEPARTMENT
Viinoo'ivtir, P. r.
A- L. I3ERDOE, Gen. Mngr. F. B. WURZBACHER Gen. Agent
Vnn'-oiivnr, P. P. v* RWcury, A'rpka
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