Show i THE PASS try not the pass the old man said this poetic advice has always since it was written received considerable favor as poetry not otherwise As a matter of fact the human animal reads excelsior admiringly only that he may the more comprehensively hen and unblushingly disregard its injunction if we may jude by what goes on continually it looks as if the natural stubbornness of mankind had been appealed to by reason of its being made known to him that certain things must not be tried let alone accomplished and these things he will do to the exclusion of some gome others the efforts to discover a pass across the region surrounding the north pole have cost thousands of lives and millions of money nature had erected a barrier which so far has successfully cess fully withstood every assault upon it in characters which we ought to understand by this time she ims has written upon the outer wall thus thua 1 every year the attempts to penetrate 4 the frozen zone continue j then there is the Chil chilkott chilkoot koot pass which is more an object of interest inter eatto to j the world at large just now than any e other A good many have succeeded 3 in leaving it behind and very maxw many more have tailed failed and will continue to fail in attempting to do so those who are so near its summit now that getting back is difficult and going ahead j dangerous or a majority of them will assuredly wish they were elsewhere before long spurred on by dreams of wealth suddenly and easily acquired J when once the goal is reached they axe are ra buoyed up and borne onward until tt it becomes physically impossible to pro 4 aeed further then what sickness V hunger disaster and death yet with all this staring them in the face there them is not likely to be a complete ces cessation of the impetuous caravans onward t march until the word comes from tatt promised land that the means alth which to fulfill the promises or aay considerable part of them are exhaust ed or so nearly so that it is utterly C futile for any more to come with the aft hope of getting away as well off t they came then then there is the khyber keyber pass which is at present a source of the moi boata y profound interest to various portio aa ts of europe and asia it is about abet aj f impossible when manned by a h hostile J force as that of thermopylae or aa W a of the others named or unna unnamed adlas f 1 the agridis are hostile just now de j so as many a british soldie 12 r can bear ample witness to and massry more would if only the dead cotow 1 l speak life it would not be the correct thing 1 close this chapter and leave ana another air sg kind of pass unmentioned it te ip abw it t one by means of which a person ato atych SOP A 1 cures transportation from po point tri li point or admission to some sort ot 4 without going th t the customary transaction of 1 p in coin or paper of the realm kind of pass is much better anc than are the others and is the 00 coax resort of every tongue clime coi A tion and almost every age it to la efa cee popular always in demand 1 and if it did not enco encourage urage such V IW W ce edings by constantly yielding to S vances the discouragements discourage ments freiuda ly received might curtail its issue somewhat it is much the same in einab at places and all ages and of it y truthfully be said age cannot dt oai nor custom stale its infinite varie variety tr it is a very handy thing to have times but by reason of its a ity is not always treated with th thac 1 consideration to which it 1 is antl entitled it is too late in the day or rather i the century to discuss the ethl ethical features of the case it being one that has passed along from age to age aai awi e yi quiring additional recognition ceif r responding respectability and increase ing proportions as it progressed uke the country paper it has come ft C sta yand the best beat we can do to is to keep it shorn as much as may be of ablow and as distant as possible from tj the hands of the unworthy |