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VALDEZ, ALASKA
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July 23, 1912, at the postofflce of Valdes,
Alaska, under act or March 3, 1879.
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MONDAY, JANUARY 22, DH7
MIGHTY QUALITY OF "TAUT,”
Most of us have heard of the Irish
man who was selected by his com
rades to break the news “gently” to
the wife of a workmate just killed
by an accident. He took the job with
diffidence, but on the way to the home
of the deceased, a bright idea got
possession of him. He confidently
knocked at the door and the Udv i.c -
self answered. “Does the Widder Ma
loney live here?’ asked Fat “I am
Mrs. Maloney, but sure it’s no widow
I am,” was the reply. "Begorra, yez
a liar then,” Pat retorted, “for the
corpse is cornin’ up the strate on a
barrer this blessed minit.” Whether
I’at was congratulated for his tact
the story does not say.
Unlike method, tact is greatly a |
gift. It is a natural accomplishment
akin to the gift of an ear for music.
Its evidence really proceeds from a
iiesire for melody in everything. Ex
perience tends to cultivate and ex
pand this natural gift. But unques
tionably the germ n ust he first avail
able. Otherwise the only effect is
that an individual learns not to open
his mouth without “putting his foot
m it.” He will have one rule alone
for self-guidance—to keep his mouth :
closed. Tact like this is of a very neg
ative nature—very harmful.
The possessor of the gift of tact
is enabled to accomplish much. He
can approach and obtain a hearing
from peralities many dare not go j
near. He can quickly and naturally I
determine the passable approaches to j
the mind he wishes to impress. This j
mind does not realize that it is being j
approached. Everything is so natu- I
cal. There is no sting in what the
tactful man says. He carefully, al
most without knowing it. eliminates
every word capable of being inten
tionally or unintentionally miscon
strued. The listener has a subtle,
elusive feeling that he is receiving
a favor, yet, search as he will he can
not trace such a suggestion. Noth
ing is labored nor forced into notice.
This is the magnetism of tact—an
impression from one mind to the
ether.
'’’lie man who tries unsuccessfully
to show that he is possessed cf t ict,
is unnatural, a bore—a fit subject for
ridicule. The man who does possess
it uses it naturally. It is a part of
hiiuself, of his personality.
He is naturally e student of human j
nature. This enables him to “place”,
the individual, or lather the nature
of that individual, early. He there
fore takes—or makes--his opportu
nity without delay; confident that the
exercise of tact will yet again help
him.
Tact is about the biggest personal
asset. Combined with a sunny nature
and initiative it is practically invin
cible.—Ford Times
Sweeping Out the Pieces.
Under the above title last Sunday's
Miner printed a compound of “pieces”
from the New York Tribune and the
Louisville Courier-Journal which sag
so widely from fact that it is well to
rope them back while they are still
within range.
The editor of the Tribune, Frank
H. Simonds, is a violent supporter of
the Entente Allies in the European
war. To him the war is the foremost
Issue in America as well as in Europe
;.nd any public man who does not tear
his hair in behalf of the Allies is re
miss in public duty.
Marse Henri Watterson was so
peeved all through the last campaign
because political habit and the adver
tising needs of the Courier-Journal
(ompelled him to support Wilson, for
whom he has no efTection or regard,
that he could only soothe his head
ache by misrepresenting Hughes. If
he had consulted his own tastes he
would doubtless have trained with his
friend George Harvey on the anti
Wilson side. He has never altered
his opinion of Wilson since he wrote
in 1912, after making a visit to him,
“I expected to meet a statesman and
1 found a schoolmaster."
I read more in newspapers and
magazines than most men, but I may
have missed something, and I would
like for somebody with a grouch like
the Tribune’s or Watterson’s to Indi
cate to me the speech in which
Hughes talked of nothing but “jobs,
patronage, post-offices and placehold
era," of in which he made more than
passing mention of any of those sub
jects.
I would like for Col. Watterson to
point out when and where on t)io is
sues upon which Hughes failed to de
clare himself “Mr. Wilson did dec are
himself boldly and freely.” I never
read any utterance by Mr. Wilson
that was bold and free except possi
bly his defense of the indefensible
Adamson law. That legislative and
economic deformity was his own braz
en bid for votes, and he had to stand
for it. His attitude on that issue
was denounced by nearly all his own
influential newspapers, including the
Courier-Journal and the New York
Times and World. He never declared
himself on the hyphenated American
issue except !n the same general terms
as did Mr. Hughes. Neither candi
date came out strongly as most cf
his supporters would have iiked to
see him do.
If Mr. Wilson is so bold and free
on the European war issue when is
he going to settle the Lusitania mat
ter on which his notp-writing cam
paign started twenty-one months
ago? And what is he going to do
about the almost daily violations of
the submarine agreement the kai
ser’s government made with him
year ago?
And what is the president going
to do next about Mexico? There is
v. chance for him to be “bold and
tree.” For four years he has asserted
that Mexico is none of our business
and for four years he has persistently
meddled in its affairs. He sent John
Lind to the Mexican capital to teM
Huerta that if he did not get out the
United States would put him out. For
a year a half he backed one bandit
after another to make good his boast.
He invaded Vera Cruz and demanded
a salute to the flag and then backed
out without getting the salute or an>
thing else except derision. When he
got rid of Huerta he fell out with
his former co-laborer Villa and sent
American troops to capture that gen
tleman “dead or alive.” Last week
after months of inaction he withdrew
the troops, while Villa is outriding
all over Northern Mexico. What
next?
The pusillanimous conduct of foc
eign affairs by the Wilson administra
tion makes the nerveless Buchanan
look like a fighting man. It tends
to make men who know that invec
tive is not argument feel disposed to
approve the declaration of Colonel
Roosevelt that Wilson has “left a
moral stain upon the country.” Cer
tain it* is that Wilson apologists are
defending foreign policies that would
have been regarded as national shame
and cowardice under any president
before Woodrow Wilson. And, not
withstanding his demand for “pitiless
publicity” in every human concern
except his own political manipula
tions every move in his foreign poli
cies has been kept secret except when
somebody leaked.
The future will reveal whether
peace and prosperity and the rule of
a schoolmaster have sapped the red
corpuscles from American olood.
Prosperity generated by a foreign
war has kept the schoolmaster in his
job. A curious world vifaits to see
what he will do if foreign war and
prosperity blink out together.
E. E. RITCHIE.
FIRST LEASE ISSUED
IN MATANUSKA FIELDS
The first coal lease to be granted
In Alaska under the new ruling was
received in Anchorage this mornin;.
Wm. Martin, of Seattle, cabled Hor
ace Emory that the lease on the Eska
Creek Coal Company had been al
lowed and the authority came direct
from the commissioner of the govern
ment land office at Washington. The
lease calls for 600 acres of valuable
coal land in the Matanuska coal fields
and is owned by a syndicate composed
principally of 'ocal capitalists.
The lease has been pending for
some time but the company has Deen
working the mines and developing the
1 roperty for severel weeks and have
chipped soft coal to Anchorage.
With the definite information that
company will start work on a per
manent development of an extensive
nature including substantial build
ings and bunkers. It is underst • il
that the government will build a spur
from the railroad track to the mines
and that an additional force of Min
ers will be put on and the property
-vill be worked to full capacity.
Ways of Justice.
Counsel for the Plaintiff- And so
in the twelfth of the month you call
ed on Mr. Wilkinson. Now. what
did Mr. Wilkinson say to you?
Counsel for the Defendant—I ob
ject to that question
The question was thereupon debat
ed for two hours and a half, and was
allowed by the judge.
“Now witness,” said the counsel for
the plaintiff triumphantly, “on the
twelfth of the month you called on
Mr. Wilkinson. What did he say ti
you?”
Witness—He wasn’t at home.
Have you tried our poker chip
r,andy and also our new line of chew
ing gam. Candy Kltehea tf
AN EARLY NAVAL TRIUMPH.
When the Enterprise Literally 8het the
Bexar te Piece*.
The Enterprise, an American twelve
gun schooner with a brilliant naval
career, was one of the steadily "lucky"
vessels Built In 1700 to deal with
the French privateers in the West In
dies, she bad an extraordinary cruise
in 1800. In a six months' run she took
eight privateers, some of them much
heavier than herself, and aggregated
forty-se<pn guns, besides recapturing
four American merchantmen.
Sent to the Mediterranean to operate
against the Barbary pirates, the En
terprise captured a fourteen gun Tri
politan after a desperate engagement
and later participated in the bombard
ment of Tripoli. Her finest battle was
with the English brig Boxer. Captain
Blythe commander, on Sept 5. 1813,
off the Maine const toward Monhegan
island. She then was under command
of Lieutenant William Burrows and
carried 6Utcen guns. The Boxer had
fourteen. The crew of each vessel
numbered about 100.
The fight began at 3:20 p. m. and
was ended forty minutes inter by the
Boxer striking her colors. She bad
been literally cut to pieces in hull,
masts, rigging and spars, several of
her guns were dismounted, and her
boats and quarters were shattered
The Enterprise was almost uninjured,
having but one shot In the hull and
one in the mainmast. Both command
ers were killed. The American loss
was two killed and ten wounded: the
British, four killed and seventeen
wounded.—Exchange.
MODERN RUSSIA IN WAR.
Her First Great Military Victory Was
at Poltava.
The first great military victory of
modern Russia waa gained on the
bloody field of Poltava, when the army
of Charles XII. of Sweden was com
pletely defeated by the forces led by
Peter the Great
The ambitious and powerful Swed
lsb monarch began his Russian In
vaslon of 1707 at the head of 43,000
well trained veterans, following al
most the same route as was chosen by
Napoleon more than a century later.
In the first clashes he was success
ful, but he pursued the Russians with
such haste and recklessness that his
army was soon hopelessly Involved in
swamps and marshes. Peter reorgan
ized his forces and made his stand at
Poltava, and the battle fought there
on July 8. 1700. ranks among thegrent
est In history.
The Russian bear, often whipped,
now fought ferociously. The Russians
overpowered the army of Charles XII.
by force of numbers. Charles XII
was wounded before the battle com
menced and directed the movements
of Ills ragged and half starved troops
from a litter, in which he was car
ried about the field.
The Russian artillery worked havoc
in the army of the Swedish king, but
Charles, with a few men, managed to
escape and made Ills way to Turkish
soil, where he found refuge from the
wrath of the czar.
Curiosities of Coffee.
Coffee, us experts are aware, has a
very extraordinary property. It is one
of the most absorbent matters in ex
istence. Coffee beans placed iu a
damp room swell and absorb moisture
till they nearly double their weight.
So absorbent is coffee, not only of
moisture, but of gases and flavors, that
shippers of Brazilian coffee always
stipulate that the sacks of fresh Itlo
b^ans shall never be carried on a
steamer which has raw hides as any
part of her cargo. These will taint
the coffee more surely than anything
else and render it unfit for use. The
useful side of this quality of coffee is
that in a sickroom a handful or two
of fresh roasted and ground beans act
as an excellent purifier and deodorizer.
Coronation Graft.
The practice of running the foun
tains and conduits with wine on coro
nation day was abandoned after the
reign of Queen Elizabeth, but another
old custom was observed up to the
coronation of George IV. After the
king and the company had departed
from the banquet in Westminster hall
the doors were thrown open, and the
people rushed in and cleared the ta
hies of everything—victuals, cloths,
plates, dishes, etc., all vanished In a
few minutes. And, as Sir Walter Scott
tells us, the nobility were not above
taking away the saltcellars and spoons
A Matter of Definition.
“What does citizen mean?” Eddie
asked his sister.
“It means a man that lives in a
city,” answered the little girl.
“Then what do you call the people
that live outside ;he city?" asked the
boy.
"Oh, they are countrymen! Don’t
you remember that piece about fellow
countrymen ?’’—Philadelphia Ledger.
Where the Paint Wat.
Regular Customer (who has just en
tered restaurant)—Strong smell of
paint here. William. Waiter (cough
lng apologetically and indicating young
women about to leave table)—Yesslr;
soon pass off. sir; they’re just going.—
London Punch.
Had Not Tried Hie Word.
“Is his word good?”
“I don’t know as to that I’ve never
taken his word for anything, but I've
got four of bis notes that weren’t any
good.”—Detroit Free Press.
There are two sciences every man
onght to learn—first the science of
speech and. second, the more difficult
me of silence —Socratea.
r Gpo4 Phone 12 Mokate
Goods ftrjces
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Just Received—New shipment of
HOLLY HURST EGGS
We guarantee these eggs to be strictly fresh and will pay 25 cents
for each egg found otherwise.
In Choice Fresh Vegetables We Offer:
RHUBARB, SPINACH, LETTUCE, BRUSSEL SPROUTS,
ARTICHOKES, CRANBERRIES, ETC.
We also received some fine No. / Mackerel.
FRESH BAKERY GOODS DAILY
S. Blum & Company, Inc.
Phone 12
LOCATED IN THE FORMER KING GROCERY BUILDING
VALDEZ CAFE
AND BAKERY
Fresh Breed end Pestry elweys on hend
OPEN DAY AND NIGHT
BERGSTROM & ROGSTAD. Props.
PHONE 17 - Three doers below Owl Dr.,
l-'runk Short Smashes Hand.
Frank Short, well known in Valdez,
who recently went to Latouclie to as
sist in the wireless station, sustained
a severe injury to his right hand,
crushing the member badly, but it is
now getting better. Mr. Short will
soon return to Valdez.
FOR RENT—Five room house on
Broadway, partially furnished, Mrs.
M. M. Hopkins. if
A broken friendship and a china
cup never amount to much after they
are repaired.
The Owl Drug Company wishes to
announce that after prolonged nego
tiations they have secured the agency
for the famous REXALL remedies.
These goods now set the standard of
excellence in their several lines
throughout the United States. The
iist comprises Drugs, Perfumes, Soap,
Toilet articles and other articles too
numerous to mention. Come in and
inspect them. tf
There are moments when a mar
ried man wonders why his wife puts
in so much of her time trying to be
disagreeable.
LOST—Bunch of keys, tied with
piece of red tape. Finder please re
turn to Prospector office. tf
Rexall Hair Tcr.ic, a scientific
compound nourishes and invigorates
hair growth. Owl Drug Store. tf
For first-class meals and good serv
ice at reasonable prices try the Mer
i chants’ Cafe.' tf
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! We have all outside rooms, well
lighted, and well ventilated at the
1st. Elias.
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There is a Just
; Price.
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CRESCENT
BARING
POWDER
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Is sold at a price that is a just
price. Just one price—One
Just price. It saves the house
wife money. It gives the
housewife perfect service.
AT ALL GROCERS
25c lb.
CRESCENT MFG. CO.,
Seattle, Wash.
Candy Kitchen
E. W. HUNT—b Owl Drag Store.
FOUNTAIN DRINKS
HOT-COLD
LOUIE’S CAFE
Everything First class
Open Day and Night
ANDY MAROVICH, Prop.
The Best Place in Valdez to
Stop at is the
Arctic Hotel
Wans, Light Rooms--The House of Comfort
RATES REASONABLE
BATH ROOM Special Rate* By the Moatfc
PHONE 133 MRS. STRING, Prop |
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ATLAS JUNK CO.
Wholesale and Retail Dealers in
ALL KINDS OF JUNK
Buyers of Metal, Rubber, Ma
nila Rope, Sacks, Machinery,
Pipe, Hides, Furs aud Bottles.
1043 Railroad Avenue, So.
SEATTLE, WASH.
TWO BOVS DROWN
IN RESCUING SISTER
BELLINGHAM. Jan. 22.—Two
boys were drowned last night in an
effort to rescue Constance Haight, 1 i.
who fell through the ice while skat
ing. One of the boys was Dexter
Haight, her brother, and the other J
Victor, a chum.
Jeffrey Haight, another brother, |
finally succeeded in rescuing his sis- ]
ter.
The four were members of a skat
ing party and the girl fell through.
Dexter Haight and Young Sieve at
tempted to wriggle out to her aid,
but broke through in such a manner
that they went under the ice. Jef
frey Haight tried to reach the girl
from another direction and was suc
cessful.
You can have your picture taken
day or night by Jenner the Photog
rapher. If
For the most efficient service and
satisfaction go to the St. Elias. ;'
Fresh candy at the Emporium, tf
A new assortment of silk waists ir
Crepe de Chine and TafTeta, just re
ceived at E. Winter’s. tf
We sell marshmailews in bulk at
the Candy Kltehen. M
Fresh Box candy at Hunt's Candv
Kitchen. A new line opened. tf
All kinds of oeefctntls. At the
Oa»dy Kltehen.' tf
PROFESSIONAL CARDS.
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DR. S. WICKES MERRITT
Offlpfn over Valdes Drag Co.
Phone ’15 McKinley Street
Contract Surgeon, U. S. Army
A. A. Surgeon, U S. Public Health Serv.
(Marine Hospital)
JOS. A. SILVERMAN, PH. 6.
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON
Over Owl Drug Co.
OFFICE HOCUS:
1 to 4 P. M. 7 to S P. M.
Sunday by Appointment.
Res. Phone 17(1 Office Phone It)
DR. H. COCKERILLE
Graduate National University
Washington, D. C.
DENTIST 1
Fourteen Years In Valdez.
PHONE 110
Office Rooms in Whaling Building
DONOHOE & DIMOND
ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW
Offlee Opposite Coart House
Phone 34 VALDEZ. ALASKA
JOHN LrONB it P KITCHIS
LYONS & RITCHIE
ATTORNEYS-A’l-LAW
Oillces In » fcsllng Building
Phone 101 VALDEZ. ALASKA
ASA C. BALDWIN
CIVIL ENGINEER
U. S. Mineral Surveyor
McKinley Street opposite V. M. Store.
Valdez, Alaska
VALDEZ LODGE
NO 168
Free and Accepted St anon*
Regular Communications first Wed
nesday In each month In McKinley
Hall. Visitors always welcome.
F. 14. BROWN, W. M.
ED WOOD, Secretary.
Valdez Miners Union No. 188 '
Western Federation of Miners
W. H. GARNER. President.
Granite Mine
CBAS. McCALLUM, Secretary.
Valdes Alaska.
When In Seward Stop at the
COLEMAN HOUSE
georoe’ ktXTON, Prop
SlRICTLV FIRST CLASS
Fourth Ave, Seward. Alaska r
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I Skookum Apples, Jonathans and
Spitzenberg at Keystone Produce Co.
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i Why not a VICTROLA? We have
them from $15 up. Valdez Drug
®s. tf