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The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-06-18
Automobiling In Wilds of Canadian Yukon

yes, I venture, the same as when old Cheops built his first pyramid on the banks of the Nile. With the exception of several roadhouses-log huts that have been put up to give meals to travelers-we saw no signs of human habitation, and excepting the roads, old and new, not one mark of human effort or work. We were in no danger of meeting other machines or farm wagons, although we might have run down covey of birds instead of the usual chicken, or a fox or bear in place of a dog. At one time a lynx bounded in front of our machine from one side of the road to the other, and at another a great flock of grouse passed with whirr over our heads. l am told that hunters sometimes bag good lot of birds by shooting at them from the automobile.
 We saw all sorts of tracks as we rode over the trail. The woods are full of wild game. There are bears, brown and black; caribou in great numbers and and lynx and millions of rabbits. We passed groves of small trees every one of which had been killed by the rab- bits. They had eaten the bark off dur ing the winter wheh the snow was two or three feet in depth They would bite it away inch by inch as the snow melted, and a strip of white a yard long could be seen girdling each tree. The bark above and below was dark green or brown, and the white strips shone out like ivory against the green leaves of the bushes.
 The country along the trail Is cut by streams which are the homes of bea- vers and muskrats. We saw different kinds of squirrels, including the go- phers which, molelike, burroW under the roadway. We crossed many such burrows, ou: motor car going down with a bump that shot our heads up to the roof.
 Upon starting out from White Horse we were told of a narrow escape that one of the clerks of the railroad had from bear only last night. The man had gone out to a lake in the woods k about five miles away and had caught g good bag of fish. He was riding home on his bicycle when a grea, black bear came out of the forest with two cubs at her heels She rushed fer him, throwing him off the bicycle He fell near dead root and grabbed thls upon the snout and before she had time to recover had mounted his bicycle and was speeding away. The bear got the fish.
 Our first stop was at p miles from White Horse. It was at the Tahkeena roadhouse. on the Tahkeena river
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into the bargain. Three floors were used, ana each had no vacant space left after the booths, etc, were all established
 On West One Hundred and Fourth street there is a Japanese Methodist church, and is the scene of some very fervent meetings Moving pictures are frequently shown there, and lessons are taught by this means.
 Grace church is one of the "advertising- est churches on upper Manhattan It dis plays great sign boards all along Broad. way, and other streets, and recently k had fife and drum corps out in front of the building drumming up-er-would one say-soulS?
 Hello New York" is now in it's sixth week at the Columbia. and is said to be the best burlesque show that has ever displayed its near-nudity along the c. w. W.
 Curiosity is strong here, and the most ordinary things sometimes attract large gatherings: A man wearing false beard and silk hat and carrying bullet shaped grip on which was printed, ssDr. --'s Bullets for Torpid Livers,'' was followed by at least 35 or 40 people m Broadway yesterday. I suppose it was curiosity. though it may have been liver complaint.
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kon, and that the road was so rough that the machines could never maln their way over it. This discussion ocs cured in the midst of the winter, and while 1t was going on the Hon. George Black, who was then commissioner, ot governor of Yukon territory, decided ts was possible. He thereupon made au arrangement with c. A. Thomas, the resident manager of the Yukon Gold com. pany at Dawson to take his 4o-horse- power automobile over the trail.
 The two started out, with George Por. ter as chauffeur They left Dawson when the road was covered with snow and the thermometer was far below zero. The long winter nights were at hand and the sun shone only for an hour or so every day. The darkness was con quered, In part, by locomotive headlight on the front of the car and by the side lamps
 They made the trip to White Horse and return within 56 hours. of which 36 hours was continual running This covered distance of 720 miles, and wal an average speed of 20 miles an hour for the running time of the round trip During the journey the thermometer felI to 56 degrees below zero. but the air was dead still, and. wrapped up as they werl in furs. they did not realize the cold until they came to a roadhouse and found that they had been riding through ( temperature of that nature
 They had to keep that machine goina for few minutes rest would freeze th( engine and congeal the oil At one timl they had to stop because their gasolin} had given out, within 20 miles of a roadd house which they had expected to reach They had to get dog team and send on to the roadhouse While they waited the engine froze and the oil got stiff and they had to build fire under th( car with wood from the forest before they could start off again.
 When they had completed the trip and got back to Dawson the bill for the road appropriation was just about coming to action The news of their trip was tele- graphed to Ottawa and the bill givina $5o,0O0 for improving the road was passed
 FRANK G. CARPENTER
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-06-18

enny old kind of power, long we can escape scrap.
 In addition to saving the country frum all theess dire calammtes that air about to ovvertake it theere air number of uther importent things to be saved Theere air sacred nstitusions at all costs sacred nstitusions must be saved. Menny of ouI peepu don't know just what sacred nstitusions are, having newer them but they reeaize tha importense of saving them. We could not survive enny time if sacred insttusions not all k, and could tell you to his life just who is about to rise up and do sacred institusons job but it's noledge that they air rite now in grate dangur and must be saved.
 Wake up, peepul, the nasionel electsion is hand and you should be alive to the dangurs frum without and within that threaten If you air not alive to them you will not be left in the dark to the trew situason for enny length of tme Now is the time to rise up, plain peepu and perform the stunt you have regularly performed evvery four yeers with grate promptness and dispatch-save the country rum the poytisians Yours trooy,
 BILL VINES Washington, D. C.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-06-18

V3eS3&y going to raise rents. ADsurd
 is the first thought; robbery Is the second; war is the third, and then comes grudging hesitating, Well, maybe they will. at that
 The landlords themselves. however, deny that it is absurd, refute the charge of robbery, claim that war has something to do with it-is there anything it hasn't ali influence upon these days?-but. smil- ingly conclude that rents are to be raised principally for this: People must pay for the privilege of living in New York city,
 Your inclination is to smile at that, feeling how blest you are in having a home in your own growing and thriving southern city. Some of you may even take the position that New York would have to pay you to get you to make it your place of residence. But, just the same, and in spite of all such opinions the landlords know they can get away with the raised rents, and they know, too. that there is something worth considering in the reason they give for raising them
 True. the wars influence upon the pres ent situation is very material one It is casting foreigners upon our shges in great numbers, and it has also brought prosperity-e though it be but tram sient-which has enabled people who never before paid more than $50 month rental to occupy handsome apartments at a monthly figure more than doubling that at least. The owners of apartment buid- ings can rent their rooms and lease their apartments very easily. If Tom doesn't want them. Dick and Harry are only too glad to get the chance at them. and they will not haggie long over the amount they art to pay. aitaer.
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I attempted to count them in an open place where we stopped to put on a new tire. I had picked 19 varieties be- fore the job was completed. Among them were wild roses of bright red, butter- cups al yellow as gold. and white flow CTS with petals like those of forget me-not. There were also blue flowers the names of which I do not know, and daisies with petals of pink and cen- ters as yellow as the golden bricks of the Klondike.
 The mosses were especially. wonderful. There was one that looked like old ivory. It grows close to the ground in great patches, and reminds one of the exquisite coral of the Fiji and Samoan Islands. It is, a tough. moss, and can be kicked up with the foot. am told it ist the fa- porite food of the reindeer and that the caribou paw their way down through the snow to get to it.
 Another curiosity was the air plants. have always thought of orchids as con- fined to the tropics. There are polar or chids in this part of the world, great punches of green that hang high up in the trees. They are of a hue different from that of the branches
 The character of the country varied as we went onward. Now our way was across a rolling plain, now the road climbed the hills, and again it cut it's way through the mountains. At one break in the hills we could see the Ibex range with it's peaks capped with per petual snow and glaciers marking the slopes. In other places the mountains were as green as the hills of the Ale ghenies, and they had the same royal mantle of purple. Just beyond the Tah- keena river we rode through a valley walled with mountains from which the earth had been torn by cloudburst a few years ago. The face of the hills was spotted with clay-colored blotches, rising out of the green. It looked as though it had been blasted by leprosy or some mighty plague.
 We crossed one little glacial river after another, and rode through val leys which are covered with ice in the winter, and becomes a souplike slough in the spring. A great part of the way was over what is known as glacial clay, a kind of earth that will have much to do with the railroad Uncle Sam is now building. This clay is solid when dry, but when moist it assumes the consistency of shoemakers' wax and, like a quicksand, sucks in anything that goes over it. If railroad track is built age, it may disappear during a long rainy season or where the water of a creek or river has seeped it's way through
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such is the case as soon as possible? To be "thrown upon his own hook in New York city, will prove a boon to the ma jority of young men. and that one who fails, in such a case to prove his in- dependence and his ability to maintain it, does not belong in the ranks of men Of responsibility. either in Manhattan CT Swamptown.
 of the metropolis is a splendid lesson in the value of time. Here it is almost a virtual impossibility even to walk slow ly upon the street. One hurries almost in spite of one's self, and the hurry habit soon grows and grips one. 90 much that IS generally said to be nerve wrecking is, in reality, only energy inspiring-puts pep" into fellow.
 Science tells us that there are brain cells in many individuals which never develop because they are never called up. great possibilities lying dormant in the brain of a small town youth, which a different environment might bring into activity. The man who lives the quiet country life, does not develop as many brain cells as he who lives in large city, and therefore they really think diff ferently, and the city man thinks more rapidly in every case.
 New orke keeps a man keyed up to concert pitch" always. It has reen sa i'd count of the fact that lots of others are that one has to work so hard here on ac- lslng in wait for his job" the moment he slips cog. That argument Is in favor of Gotham, rather than against it.
 One would not care to do his best work at all times. would not be wanted by any employer if the employer knew that he held such an attitude.
 This working at concert pitch, on the O. her hand. has been. said to wear a man cut Use does not wear us out, as a rule
 we decay more often from lack of it. The muscle of an athlete grows better as he uses it.; when he ceases to use 1t, it goes back" The same is true of the
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 White Horse, Yukon Territory H00 NE hundred miles through the O wids of the Yukon in high h0Nf{H powered motor car!
 08aD Dashing through the virgin
 forest in $5OO0 automobile! Climbing the mountain sides, and fly ing around the curves at 30 miles an hour!
 Skidding round the cliffs with your heart in your throat your soul full of thrills and your backbone chilled to the marrowi
 These are some of the experiences I nave just had with MT. Herbert Wheeler, the general manager of the White Pass and Yukon route on the over- land trail from White Horse to Dawson The car was Locomobile. The chauf- feur was Caterpillar Ike and the time was yesterday afternoon from midday to midnight.
 The overland trail begins at White Horse and it runs through the wilderness for a distance of $50 miles to the mouth of the klondike. It is the short cut across country from here to the gold mines, and is more than 100 miles less than the way there by river. The road is used to carry mails, passengers and freight during the cold winter months when everything in this region is locked tight by Jack Frost, and the thermome- ter at times falls to 70 degrees below zero
 The road has been cut right through the forest. It climbs over ranges of mountains, it winds it's way through the valleys and it crosses swamps, bogs and sloughs of glacial mud. Here it is bedded on the rock, there it half floats on the quicksand, upheld by corduroy logs In the spring of the year the six-horse teams of the mail stage are often mired to their bellies, and have to be lifted from the waxy clay by block and tackle attached to the trees. n
 In my ride oyer the road we went to the crest of the range beyond Little river and then returned to White Horse to go down the Yukon by steamer. Our road wound about like corkscrew in many parts of it's course As MT. Wheeler said it was as though the surveyors had laid their lines along the trail of rabbit and the rabbit was drunk.
 The whole trip was moving picture of the wonders of nature. Outside the roadway the country is the same as it was when Columbus discovered Ameri- ca; the same as when the Danes drift ed down our coast about 1000 A. D.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-06-18
Free Choice

From Tit-Bits
 At dinner party big meat pie and a small roast duck were brought on to- gether The duck was intended for the father principally. The boys were death on duck, their mother we'll knew, but It would not make mouthful apiece for them, so, addressing the boy who sat nearest her, she said:
 Which will you have, Bobbie-duck or pie?'
 NO, Robbie" answered his mother.j cheerfully you can't have duck, deort Take your choice, my son. take yo1a,i choice. but you can't have duckv.
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An Opportune Time
From an Exchange.

From an Exchange.
 Robbie, for his misdeeds was about to get a thrashing. He left his mothers room and went to his own. Kneelins down beside his bed, and with his hands clasped. he offered up the following prayer:
 Please God, if you are as good to little children IS they say you are, nows your chance"
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u
 S struggle along to it's life for enny given 023O period exceeding four yeers without letting
 out wild whoop, so to speek for sum- boddy to cum quick and save it. Each polycal party --or wurst st each polytcal cannydate for offise- has his own dedto-rites plan of salvasion worked out in detail how the country be saved and unless sed plan is adopted forthwith on the spot heere is necessarily hope, the beans air spilled The awful and sad part of the whole thing is that the country aftur getting itself all involved so that it must be saved, with reckless and aband uned indifference rushes merriy to it's doom-a foohardy and unappresiatve country which refrains frum rushing into the menny havens of refuge of fered it perhaps does not desurve to be saved and ought to be permitted to continue it's totterng rite on down to the jumping off plase wherever that is
 Iheere have been in the past menny good and valid reasuns why the country just must be saved all of which blew up in the ninth inning Back in the good old days of 96 for instints the country had to be
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-06-18

ISTUR EDDITUR: Now the country savers
 will get busy. The poor old country cannot struggle along to save it's life for enny given
 period exceeding four yeers without letting
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-06-18
UP AND DOWN BROADWAY--By Allen Griffin Johnson

IW YORK, June 17.-(Special.) )
 We have just been told that all
 New York city landlords are going to raise rents. Absurd"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-06-18
By FRANK G. CARPENTER

ht, IyI6, by Frank G. Carpenter.) White Horse, Yukon Territory. NE hundred miles through the wilds of the Yukon in a high powered motor car!
 Dashing through the virgin forest in a $5OOO automobile,
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1916-11-24
TO CANNING CLUB MEMBERS

1t will soon be time for the annual
contest of our club work. Friday, Dec.
1st, is set aside as Children's Day at
the Marion County Fair, and on that
day you are to be the special guests
of the fair association, being admitted
in recognition of your uniform. You
are requested to meet at my Office in
the court house just as near 9 a. m.
as possible, to be ready to form in
line to go out to the fair grounds.
after which there will be a short pro-
gram in front of the grandstand ana
the awarding of prizes takes place,
Immediately after which you will be
served dinner, having as your guests
the corn club boys and several promi-
Inent guests.
This we hope will be the very best
of all the contest days ever held in
Marion county, the success of which
depends on each and every one of you
to make it so.
Our best men and women through
out the county have every faith in you
girls. They are proud of you, and of
the good work you are doing. Meet
me at time and place named on Dec.
1st. Caroline Moorhead,
Home Demonstration Agent.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1916-11-24
A. C. L. SCHEDULE

Trains of the Atlantic Coast Line
will arrive and depart in Ocala at the
following times:
No. 81, Jacksonville to st. Peters
burg, 2:18-2:25 a. m.
No. SO, st. Petersburg to Jackson
vile, 2:25 a. m.
No. 10, Leesburg to Jacksonville,
$40 a. m.
No. Isl, ocala to Wilcox, Monday,
Wednesday and Friday, 6:10 a. m.
No. 35, ocala to Lakeland Sunny
Jim), Tuesday, Thursday and Satur-
day, GAO a. m.
No. 141, Wilcox, Gainesville and
Palatka to Ocala, 11:15 a. m.
No. 40, st. Petersburg to Jackson
vile, 12:54-1:14 p. m.
No. 4s, Homosassa to ocala, Los
p. m.
No. 40, ocala to Homosassa, 2:2s
.p. m.
No. 80, Jacksonville to st. Peters
burg, 2:36-2:40 p. m.
No. lao, Ocala to Palatka, Gaines
vile and Wilcox, 4:10 p. m.
No. 0, Jacksonville to Leesburg
9:05 p. m.
No. $50, Wilcox to 0cala, Monday
Wednesday and Friday, 5:45 p. m.
No. 80, Lakeland to 0cala (Sunny.
Jim), Tuesday, Thursday and Satur'
day, $50 p. m.
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COUNTY OFFICIALS

Circuit Judge-W. s. Bullock,
Ocala.
State Attorney-Geo. w. Scofeld,
Inverness.
Clerk Circuit Court-P. H. Nugent,
Ocala.
Sheriff-John P. Galloway, Ocala.
Tax Assesor-Alfred Aver, Ocala.
Tax Collector-W. L. Colbert,
Ocala.
County Judge-W. E. Smith, ocala.
Superintendent of Schools. r.
Brinson.
Surveyor-Alex. Moorehead, Ocala
Commissioners-W. D. earn, Wal
ter FL. huffman, N. A. Fort, S. R
Pyles and J. T. Hutchins.
Members School Board-G. S. Scott
Ocala; B. r. Bitch, B1itchton; J. S
Grantham, Fort Mccoy.
Sub-School Trustees-Jack Camp
j. e. Chace, w. T. Gary.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1916-11-24
NOW LOOKOUT

When a cold hangs on as often hap
pens, or when you have hardly gotten
over one cold before you contract an
other, lookout for you are liable to
contract some very serious disease.
This succession of colds weakens the
system and lowers the vitality so that
you are much more liable to contract
chronic catarrh, pneumonia or con-
sumption. Cure your cold while you
can. Chamberlain's Cough Remedy
has a great reputation. It is relied
upon by thousands Of people and
never disappoints them. Try it. II
only costs a uarter. Obtainable ev-
erywhere. Adv.
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MARION COUNTY SCHOOL
DIRECTORY OF 1s16-1917
Continued from Second Page,

Romeo
Teacher: Miss Grace Pritchard.
Shady
Teacher: Miss Louise Albertson;
trustee, ]. T. E. Gaskins.
Churchill-No SCHOOL, trustee. D. E.
McRae.
Lake Bryant
Teacher: Miss Margaret jack
son; trustee, C. II. Rogers.
Pats Island
Teacher: John Il. Hitchcock;
trustee, R. NJ. Long.
Ebenezer
Teacher: Miss Hattie Atkins; trus-
tee, Il. E. Golding.
Central
Teacher: Mrs. C. r. Curry; trus-
tee, C. R. Curry.
GoOlsby
Teacher: Elmer Riker; trustee,
George Goolsby.
Mill Creek
Teacher: Miss Pearl McGehee;
trustee, J. D. Proctor.
Dallas
Teacher: Marcus D. Peterson; trus-
tee, J. d. Proctor.
Lombay-No school; trustee, c. N
Atkinson.
Paisley
Teacher: Mrs. J. w. Plat; trustee
R. L. Childress.
Turner Farm
Teacher: Miss Lille Mercer; trus-
tee, ]. D. Simmons.
Keystone
Teacher: Miss Miriam Stephens
trustee, John Balliett.
Derby-No school; trustee, S. D
Stewart.
Silver Springs-No school; trustee
H. A. Caruthers.
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THANKSGIVING BOX

Anyone wishing to help the Ken
drick ladies in sending a box as q
Thanksgiving offering to the Chill
dren's Receiving Home of Jackson
vile, will please take or send their
offering to Mrs. Bradford C. Webb
Saturday afternoon Clothing, mon
ey or edibles acceptable.
Mrs. Bradford G. Webb.
Kendrick, Florida.
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Good Bye
There is a word, of grief the sounding
token;
There is a word bejeweled with
bright tears,
The saddest word fond lips have ever
spoken;
A little word that breaks the chain
of years;
Its utterance must ever bring emo
ton,
The memories it crystals cannot die,
'Tis known IN every land, on every
ocean
It's called Goodbye"
All Foo Lin, a Chinese Student.
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AUTOMOBILE FOR TRADE

A 1912 Overland touring car, in
fair condition. throughout. Will trade
for good piece of land or part land
and part farm produce. apply at Star
office or to Frank Hall, at SOB North
Pine street, 0cala. left dly
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Stomach Ills

permanently disappear after drinking the
celebrated Shivar Mineral Water Positively
guaranteed by money-back offer Tastes
Inc: costs a tTifle. Delivered anywhere by
our Ocala d strihnorz, Court Pharmacy
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Mrs. Peek Hostess

Mrs. Eugene Peek very charmingly
entertained two tables of duplicate
auction this morning at her home on
Oklawaha avenue.
A dainty crepe de chine handker-
chief was awarded for top score.
At noon Mrs. Peek served dainty
luncheon, consisting of chicken salad,
sandwiches, olives, waters and coffee.
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Prescriptions left here are COR
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