BOAT LEAVES LATE FOR SKAGWAY TOMORROW:
Departure of the Harbor Boat F^fmance for Skagway tomorrow
afternoon will be delayed until about 2:00 or 2:30 P.H., so that the
men of Company F, together with those scoreing and marking in the pits,
can attend the ball game and dance at Skagsyay tomorrow afternoon and
evening, l^ajor F.H,Maddox, commanding, announced yesterday evening.
A GOOD START FOR COIAPANY Fi
'Hie Chilkoot Post can’t refrain fron singing a little jubilation
over the jaw-bone scores made by Company F this morning, lust look at
Tanner, 333 with a drop to 33 at 500 yards rapid l YJhat wouldn't that
have been if things had gone right at that one range! . And there’s Me!
Me1 s not shot expert since the Spanish^American war, but he made the
grade this morning. Average score, 316#7f Y/hat do you know about that?
Of course this is only jaw-bone, but it look3 good for tomorrow# Company
F alwHys has shot well, and now, After being together three years on the
range, with the sane system in operation, the same methods of coaching,
the same dope, it looks as if they ’re going to set the world afire.
Tonight let’s all put up a bunch of .prayers or bum josses or whatever
the old pagans did Zo appease old ,Jup Pluvius, - so he’ll tie all the winds
up in a bag and give us a fair light# It was perfect weather this morn
ing, and with the same kind of. break tomorrow, oh .boy!
. A FEIV MORE ORIGINS OF TERMS AND CUSTOMS DUG FROM THE OLDEN TIMES:
The word musketry is derived from the. name of the old gun used
more than a century ago,, a heacyy smooth-bore closely related to the arque
bus* It was first used in Italy in 1530 and in France and England abo’t
1570, and with modifications, .down until the civil war in this country*
The names of animals were generally bestowed on ordnance, as the falcon and
its diminutive, the falconet, .etc* As the musket was the most important •
small am, the name of the smallest bird of prey was very appropriately
given to it* The musket is the male young of the sparrow-hawk*—Boutelle*
TAPS—Sounding ‘’taps11 over the grtave at the burial of a sol
dier originated with C aptain Tidball, On the retirement from the Pen
insula in August, 1862, Horse Battery A, 2nd Artillery, was serving with t
the rear guard, and on reaching York town one of the cannoneers died and was
buried there. Not wishing to stir up the enemy by firing three rounds
from the battery guns, as was customary, Captain Tidball substituted the
sounding of "taps" (lights-out) which impressive custom has been observed
at the conclusion of all military funerals since. ——N.Y* Sun,
Alice: Isn’t that a divine part Oswald has in his hair?
Mabel. Ihat s not a part* -Qiat* s were the marble cracked*
B.G. (Before Cooties)
"H0, squire,” cried Sir Lancelot* "Bring the can opener. There’s
a flea in ray knight-clothes." —From the Pelican.