Stye 9ailn ^lajskaix
OFFICIAL CITY PAPER.
Admitted as second class mail matter
July S, 1S9S, at the Postofflee
at Skagway, Alaska.
L. S. K?IIsp, Publisher.
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CHARLES DARWm
February 12 is honored anions Am i
oricans because it was the birthday j
01' Abrah: in Lincoln: but as the years!
roll by the day will perhaps become j
honored by the peoples of the world :
because it was also the birthday of a
man. wao was as great in his own
particular sphere as was Lincoln
That luau was Charles Darwin. th<' i
great English biologist, who was the
first man to openly espouse and ex
plain the *heory of evolution.
Today evolution is accepted by nine
of every ten people who deserve the
title of thinkers. So strong and con
elusive is the evidence adduced in
support of Darwin's theory of evolu
tion thar there Is ? there can not be
any reasonable argument about it;,
truth. Evolution, more than any other
thing, has been responsible for what
we may term the "mental eiuancipa
tion" of the masses.
No longer do people believe the '
silly and degrading theory that men
were created in the form of angels i
and that our present ? comparative ?
skate of degradation i.- attrlbutabU
to sin. Kather do we believe that
our origin was among the lower
forms of life and that ever since we
have been struggling upward; fori
there, anil there alon?\ is shown man
kind an incentive to struggle against
the conditions that surround us in
the hope that some day we may ap
proximate a manhood more nearly
Ideal.
"I would rather believe that 1 hail
ASCENDED from apes than 1 had
DESC'KXDKI) from angels." said a
rreat English divine some years ago
This statement epitomiz.es the helpful
optimism of evolution: the optimism
that has made tl*' hide bound theol
ogy of the middle ages conform to
its newer and saner principals.
Evolution is too great a subject to
be fittingly discussed here. All that
we can do is to mention its cardinal
principals and to pay a tribute to
their chief expounder. All honor to
Charles Darwin. He was a great air:
original thinker, a man of fearless in
tellectual courage. To him belongs
the honor of blazing the pathway;
that are now followed by all broad
minded and honest theologians?
which are the very avenues traversed ;
by science.
THE PARCELS POST.
The express companies of the
I'nited States offer the most nearly
perfect example of high finance well
managed. The receipts of the com
panies last year amounted to mort
than $128,000,000. So affluent have
the companies become, so prosperous
their business, that today one-hal
their assets are bonds in railway com
panies and stock in competing com
panies. This latter device is absolute
insurance against financial disaster,
for should the business of one com
pany be destroyed by some disaster,
it will prosper through the increase
of the competing companies. There
is no more striking argument for the
establishment of a parcels post und? r
the care of the federal government. ?
Exchange.
PROSPECTS LOOK GOOD.
The prospects look good for a
prosperous season for Skagway. The
steamboat companies report that the
travel this year will be heavier than
for years. The A.-Y.-P. exposition
will bring many tourists within our
gates. There will be * big Increase
In the tonnage of freight shipped
through hero to the Interior. The
country Is recovering from the flnan
dp? panic of U'07-8. Taken nil in
all it appears that the merchants and
business men of Skagway will make
money this summer. Certainly there
is no cause for pessimism in the out
look. Get together and work for a
bigger, better and busier Skagwa.v.
Results will follow.
A Deadwood Gulch (Col.), poet
chocked to death while eating. e
have often heard of poets starving to
death but this is the first case on
record of a poet dying of too much
food. Prosperity certainly must be
with us again.
Now that congress has decided to
maintain half the fighting strength of
our navy in Pacific waters, California
will undoubtedly wax belligerent over
the '?Yellow Peril."
Summer, Spring and Autumn have
been eulogized by poets. Xo one has
yet written an ode to Winter. We
arc tempted to remedy the deficit.
New York has its Harry Thaw and
Skagway lias its steamer thawer.
One luxury is about as expensive as
the other.
E. J. Shaw, Skagwa.v's "minister of
finance." has returned. Now to de
vice means to raise the "root of
evil."
The newspapers will grieve to see
Roosevelt retire. lie lias certainly
been a prolific source of news.
Our secretary of state that is to be
finds the paths of statesmanship
puvi'd with many hard Knox
Optimism leads to success ? pess
imism to failure. Moral: lb' an op
tiinist.
Alcohol may be food; but in Un
ions run it's more expensive thai
| bread.
Alaska's greatest need is home
i rule.
Get together and boost for Skagwnj
TRUST ! N PROVIDENCE.
VI..I. as Cod will, who wisely heed*
To Rive or to withhold
Anil know ' tli ? iore of all my need*
Than nil my prayers have told
IjsjcorGll ths? blessings undeserved
J Have marked my erring track
That wberesoe'er my feet havo swerved
HI* rhaxtenlni: turned me buck;
rpHAT more and more a providence
Of lovo Is unde- "tood.
Maklr-: l!i<- springs of tlmo and sense
Sweet with eternal Kood;
n^HAT d'. fli > ? *ms but a covered way
-? Willi-: open* Into llk-ht.
Wherein no blinded .1 'Id r.in stray
Beyond the Fathers slKht.
?Author t'nknown.
Uncle Sam's Kami Manager.
Secretary Wilson's twelve years at
the bead of the department uf agricul
ture have covered a period of won
derful progress in farming in the Uult
ed States. It was long the fashion to
treat wiib levity the work of Uncle
Sam's farm bureau. A wasteful dis
tribution of seeds was popularly be
lieved to be its chief business. But
the present secretary has assumed for
his province the teaching of the great
body of producers how to get results
from their labors.
Granted that prosperity would have
come to the farmers anyway and that
the Increase in crop production and
crop values was inevitable, the de
partment officials and their staff have
uut imitated the lucky lord of the soil
who sits on the fence aud whittles
while things grow. There has been
uo letup in tiie work of trying to Im
prove upon what almost seemed good
euough to be let alone. Secretary Wil
son has demonstrated the practical
ntilit.v of scientific investigation and
Instruction on h mammoth scale? In
other words, paternalism? In this Im
portant branch of national Industry.
And his work will show to greater ad
vantage when the struggle of man
with nature becomes keener.
The true story of the economic strug
gles of that man Harvey, who saved
$13,000 out of an enlisted soldier's
pay, should strike the crowd as an
other "Poor Richard's Almanac," yet
it Is doubtful if a volume containing
his reminiscences would hare a frac
tion of the popularity gained by books
telling how a Carnegie or a Rocke
feller "got it."
The way scientists keep telling us
all about what microbes are up to one
can infer that these gentlemen created
the pesky things and trained them for
experts at the job they are on.
The result of the observation takei;
at Moore wharf at midnight, Feb. 17
19C i?, Is as follows:
Temperature time observat'n. 38 above
Max. temp. preceding 24 hour* 40 above
Min. " " " " 21 above
Mean " " " 30t abovi>
Barometer 29.24.
Cloudy, and calm.
INTERIOR WEATHER
Whitehoise, 14 above
Tagish ? below
Atlin, .... 15 above
Hootalinqua * 8 "
Big Sa'mon ? G below
Yukon Crossing ? - . 12 "
Selkirk - 10 "
Coffee Creek, ... 28 "
Stewart, - - - - 20 "
Ogilvie .... 2ti "
Dawson, - - - ? 12 "
FRESH GOODS.
The next Jefferson will bring us
another fresh consignment of Fresh
Premium Butter, Ranch Eggs, choico
Poultry and Oysters. Our line of
fresh Salt Meats are the best to be
had In any market
FRYE-BRUHN CO.
Why not be cheerful? Poor Lit
tle Herman has just recevied a con
signment of that famous Cream Rye.
A smile guaranteed with every drink.
The Caribou Hotel, Carcross, Y. T.,
is the headquarters for the Atlln and
Conrad stage lines.
NOTICE.
The tax on the Heal property will
become delinquent on the last day of
February at t! o'clock p. in., when a
penalty of L'O per cent, will be added.
MIIS. M. McLELLAN,
Town Treasurer.
Wily, Wiry Castro.
Castro abroad appears to be of as
much Importance as Castro in Venezu
ela. dleiatlnguiul Mulling. While ho was
at home, stirring up one jniwer after
another, curiosity as to the luanuer of
man lie was became subordinate to In
dignation that he should be allowed
to play fast aiul loose with treaty ob
ligations and make a football of dip
lomatic dignity, lie was a power in
Venezuela and a maker of trouble for
nations having dealings with that
country. This was all the world cared
to know.
(.'astro was not easily eliminated
from Venezuelan affairs even though
out of bis country. Even In Caracas
he bad been a man of mystery. A
couple of years ago be resigned bis
Otllce, but when It suited him to take
the helm again he simply returned to
the capital and Itegan Issuing orders.
Those who knew Castro best believe
that Ills trip to Europe is simply an
other net In the drama lie plays with
consummate cleverness and almost
Napoleonic audacity. Courage he un
doubtedly has. for all the attempts of
the powers of the world do not seem
to scare him any more than one of
the petty revolutions at home. A
nuisance Cnstro certainly Is. and he
may be a mere poser at l>est. but so
far he has proved himself something
more than a freak.
At last the Brooklyn pastors have
bestirred themselves in the "red light"
crusade. But Brooklyn's one time pul
pit luminary, Henry Ward Beecher.
used to say that more souls get to
heaven from rod light houses than
from some Christian churches he could
name neighboring old Plymouth.
Not at all strange that the citizens
of certain states which never pass a
year without big tlo<Kls should flood
congress with petitions not to skimp
the appropriation for irrigating arid
sections this winter.
Late in the day for the port of Bos
ton to expect to thrill the country by
putting a hired examiner of tea on
the job that was done gratis, and done
to the king's linish. over a century
aim!
APPEARING OLD
Aei* n* n liar to I'rofltnMr Kmploy
ramt.
You cannot afford to prow old.
In those dnys of strenuous competition
It is necessary to maintain, as long as
possible ones youthful appearance.
It Is Impossible to ilo this without re
taining a luxurious growth of hair.
The presence of Dandruff indicates tho
presence of a burrowing germ which
lives and thrives on the roots of tho
hair until it causes total baldness.
NewHr .'s Homicide Is the only known
(te?trover of th!s p~st. nnd tt Is a* effec
tlve ns It Is delightful to use
ire-p!cl.lo makes an elegant hair dress
ing an well ns Pon-lrtiff cure.
Accept vi rub?t|tnte? there !s none.
SoM by leading druggists. Send 10\ In
?'amp* f. r ramplo to The Herplcldo Co .
Dotroit. Mleh.
Two sites ? 50 cents and Jl.00.
Wm. Britt, Special auont, Skacway
? 4
HI Hill
?
To enable you to withstand I
the bad weather of winter,
your health must be in good
vigorous condition
CELERY NERVE UNO BLOOD TONIC
is an extremely valua ap
petite ? arousing, strength ?
building, nerve and brain
nourishing, system invigorat
ing tonic for putting you in
splendid condition to defy
the winter. This preparation
is also a delightful Cordial,
pleasant to the taste and ac
ceptable to even the weakest
stomach.
75c per hot lie
WM. BRUT
The Druggist
BRING YOUR OWN JUG.
Mount Vernon Rye and Belmont
Bourbon direct from bond at whole
sale price by the gallon. The M is
cot, phone C7. Delivery free.
Yes, we have the proper sizes of
calling cards in the crash finish bris
tol. The proper type, too. The
Dally Alaskan Job Dept.
All whiskies and wlin s k? n >! at
t'ie Pack Train Bar is purchased bj
Mr. Grim direct from the o.stilb r
and win. les. tf
JUNEAU JS. rf. OCTS.
h'.LECTUIC LICHIKO STK.V.M
UEATED STEAM XU
Carrying; U. S. Mull
For Haines, lierners Bay, Juoenu,
Hoona, Tenaker, Sitka and \Va>}*>rtt
S-MLS
January 5, 12. 10, 2C.
February 2, 9, 16, 23.
WILLIS NOWELL, Mjr . Juneau
W. W. BOGOUTON, Agent
Broadway and Fifth Ave. l'hone 9(
U. S Mail Steamer
Hegg
Carrying Passengers and Mail *111
leave Skagway for Haines
Every Tuesday, Thursday and Satur
day at 9 A. M.
Returning leaves Haines for Skag
way at 2 P. M. same day.
Fare one way $1-50
Round tri-o $2.50
Pacific loast^. 5. to.
SPEED, SAFETY COMFORT,
Sea'tle, aod other 9 h:m1 i h i
cARRTIKO C. S. M All ,
Steamer* of Thlt Company Leare
tOTIAOC CUV ? MN. 30 Ff B.I! - 23
Connecting with t>>e Oompvjr'* Strum"!# at Rr ftle for ?*<? F**!*Ct?CO,
Southern California, Korkka (It mboldr Bay) a< d Mkxico
pgr A hove Schedule Subject to Chancre Without Notice.
FRANK H. STUART, Agent
Second *ixl Kroadway, Skacway
Srattle Tickkt Offick, 113 Jamf.s ST.
C. D. DUNANN, General Paeaonffcr Agrnt,
112 Markrt Hirer* San Hranclww Oal
Canadian Pacific
RAILWAY
B. C. COAST .SF.RV1CF. >
SCHKDUU OF SAILINGS FROM SKAGWAT
Su^ijrct 'O chancre without notice
princess may
t] January 16-30 February 13-27
b\?r Vancouver, Victoria. Seattle, via Prince Kii|>ert
Sjmcious Observation and Smoking Rooms
Tickctt- to any jinri of '.he world an?5 all Informatioo from
Phone 87 F. F. W LOWLE, Agent
mtwrmmxmmrnrBKijmmm
Alaska Steamship Co.
Carrylnp U. S. Mall and A Pacific R*pr?a?
Seit Sailing of the Faat PaaMorer Steamer*
Jefferson Jan. 11, 23
Feb. 4. 16, 28
Company reacrvoa riffhtto ehanire ?aiiinc date without notiee
Transfer* to Vlotorla and Vant-ouver Without AddlltooaJ < harje
Through Tlckeu to Sao Fraocleeo
R. A. CARROLL. A rent Ffcoee M
??BmaaaHHMHOBHHHMMaHB I
T he White Pass &Yukon Route
TIME T A. rMi>. 1H-'
(Daily Etoept Sunday.)
So. 1. N. iiouod Ni. f. S. Boon*"
l?t claw. l?trlaw
S30a.tr. L<a?e? SKAGUAY Arrive* 3 V p m
10 (0 p. m. " WHITE HASP " 1 ? "
11 00 " ?' LOG CABIN ?? 12 <2 "
11 30 " " BENNETT " 12 10 **
13J p.m. " CARIBOU " 10 25 a. o>
3 45 Arrire* W hits HORSt Lear** 8 15 "
Pasft'neer* raimt he at dr: ou In time to hare Barjare Inspected and
checked. Innpectlon 1? ?topp< J i0 minute* before leaving time of train.
'50 pounJa of ba?rare will be checked free with ?*eh fill fare tlek?w
?vnd 75 i>.iu&d? with each half fare tlokct
i
Through Line F rom
Skapwny to A' In. White Hor-c, n.^' Salmon. !??*? - si I -i- hIicc Y'lkon Rir#r ?"? r.ta.
Tne nc? plaoercaniptt in ?ho Aisck nnd Kiuane Mlninc D -trie* are re 1 b?*1 oolf r a White Hor??
Winter Route Stage
Service
Duriojr thr win'er season, when navigation is c!<^- ?!, .'ally tr-< n? ? if co* "t mi r nnine
Ska^wav and White HOfM> A thronch Mill, Pa*sf>nff<?r wd Freight JWrie# will h# mair.taireii
by a Fhcoughly Equipped Stage Line*1' ^ I t- at Paw*?.
lingular .stages, carrying mail, exprw* and pas?engcr?, It ar# While Hohk for Paw-?oc, ar '
intermediate point*.
For Oourad City . located in the heart of the newly discovered and fahti o -aly rich qua? t* eairsp
of the Windv Arm Pistrict. take our dail* train* toC?rlhou.
Fo* information relative to pa??enget, freight and telwraphie r*te?. ar.p y
to anv agent of the Company, or