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TUESDAY, . C.BRUARY 16, 1915.
WHY MOURN THE BLUNDERS?
Perhaps you are in mourning over
the mess of things you have made
thus far. Your life is at loose ends;
you feel, by your habits, your lack of
the winning cards of social tact, of
wit, of all that is assembled in the
vague name of “personality.” You
look on, half in wonder, half in envy,
at those who shine wherever they are
set down, hold their own when dia
mond cuts diamond and take the cur
tain-calls and the flowers at the cen
ter of the world’s stage. Y’ou look
back and you believe you can see
the place where you got off the track
that might have brought you to the
same imposing station. But why
waste time in post-mortem? The
minute is here, and clamorous; and
the future crowds upon you with its
importunities. What has been, has
been. Many a runner, looking over
his shoulder, has lost the race in the
sprint to the tape. It avails not to
spend one’s breath in long-drawn un
dulations, throwing dust upon the
head over the past, however displeas
ing. By those knocks and bruises,
by the times we were flung and rose
smarting, we have learned a few
things, though the knowledge came
to us in grievous ways.—Philadelphia
Public Ledger.
“JITNEY" BUS SERVICE.
The “Jitney” bus service which has
suddenly come into existence in cities
all over the Pacific coast, bids fair
to severely crpple traction companies
wherever the former are operated. At
Vancouver between two hundred and
three hundred “Jitneys” are in use,
the fares being the same as charg
ed by the street cars and the former
have the advantage in the fact that
they deliver their passengers at their
own doors.
Already the “Jitney” people in Van
couver have organized and cany
blanket insurance policies on their
patrons, anyone injured while patron
izing the service being paid to the
extent of $1,500. In Seattle the “Jit
ney” service has already cut into the
income of the street car company to
the extent of $1,1,00 per day and in
San Francisco and Los Angeles the
Ws to the trac'ion companies per
day is greater than in Seattle.
The average city resident will not
regret that street car companies are
“getting theirs” for the reason that
such companies, as a rule, are op
erated on a “get-the-money” basis
rather than for the accommodation
of the public, to which they must
look for support. There is an old say
ing to the effect that street car com
panies lose all interest in the public
welfare as soon as they obtain their
franchises. Another advantage in the
“Jitney” service is the speed with
which its busses are operated, caus
ing a great saving of time to its
patrons.
While the new service may work a
hardship on corporations which have
vast amounts of capital invested in
equipment, the fact remains that if
the same corporations would render
satisfactory service, the demand for
a change would not be so insistive
as it has evidently been in practical
ly all cities on the Pacific coast and
elsewhere.—Ex.
NO WORK, NO HOPE, NO USE.
The note read: "No work, no hope,
no use,” and was later found pinned
to the clothing of S. H. Eckhardt be
hind the locked bathhosue door. Be
side it lay the $6 in currency and
the watch that was ticking faithfully.
Not once after he left the shelter
of the bathhouse did the man turn
his head. He walked into the wa
ter, and the whiteness of his skin
did not indicate a hardened swimmer.
But he didn’t flinch. Above his knees
the water came, and then about his
'waist, and as it reached his shoul
ders, he bent over with his face to
sea, and took a breaker.
Farther out he came to surface
again, plowing for the open sea. The
men on the beach were pl&ying games
to keep warm. .
Some one noted the swimmer a lit
tle later. "Quite a ways out,” and that
was all that was said.
Not once did he trun his head. To
those on land who were getting ready
for their warm rubs he grew smaller
and smaller. And at last far out in
the distance, where the vagueness of
death itself is hinted in the tint where
sky meets sea, they saw the small
spot bobbing, and a straining eye
could see it bobbing again, and then
all that came back, as far as one
could see, was a sea gull that had
something important to tell its mates.
—Los Angeles Times.
CHEAP FISH.
The New York Globe has been mak
ing its contribution toward reducing
the cost of living in a thoroughly
practical way. It put a steam trawl
er to work, announcing that all fish
caught by It would be put on sale
at a fixed price of 5 cents a pound.
The experience had with the first
vessel was so satisfactory and so
great a demand developed for fish at
this price that another steam trawler
was chartered, and the Globe believ
es that before long it will have quite
a fleet in operation.
To bring the fish within easy reach
of the purchasers it opened "demon
stration stations” in different parts of
the city, and finds eager buyers for
all that it can supply. Moreover, it
appears to be conducting the experi
ment at a satisfactory commercial
profit.
There is always and everywhere
considerable machinery between the
producer—the fisherman—-and the
consumer. It is probable that none
of the intermediaries make any exor
bitant profit, but still the aggregate
of the various profits increases the
prices to the consumer to the extent
that fish is not used as an article of
diet to anything like the extent that
it would be if such prices as the
Globe has established could always be
made to the consumer.
The local situation in Seattle is
somewhat of an illustration. With a
far greater supply of food fish al
most at our doors than is available
off any Atlantic coast city, the actual
consumption of fish in this market
is very small and the prices range
relatively high. There would be heavy
increase in consumption if fish fresh
from the water could be had here
daily at the price which the Globe
has established in its experiment.—
Seattle Post-Intelligencer.
ADMIRAL [VANS IS
NORTHWARD BOUND
SEATTLE. Eeb. 16.—The steamer
Admiral Evans sailed yesterday for
Alaska with a fair crowd of passen
gers for Southeastern Alaska points
but few passengers for the westward.
One passenger for Valdez and John
Gale for Seward comprise the list
west of Cordova.
Railways in Great Britain kill in
accidents for which the passenger is
in no way responsible one passenger
for every 72,000,000 carried, while
those of the United States kill one
for every 4,900,000 passengers car
ried.
A dialogue according to the In
land Printer: "How’s your latest
gold mine panning out?” Fake Pro
moter: “Beyond expectations. Why,
old man, it’s assaying over a thou
sand suckers to the ton of literature.”
Notice To Creditors.
In the Commissioner’s Court for the
Territory of Alaska. Third Divis
ion. At Valdez. In Probate.
In the matter of tht estate of W.
H. Blackwell, deceased.—Notice to
Creditors.
Notice is hereby given that the un
dersigned has been regularly appoint
ed as the executrix of the estate of
W. H. Blackwell, deceased, and cred
itors and all other persons, having
claims against said estate, are here
by notified to exhibit the same to me,
together with the necessary proof
thereof, at my place of business at
Valdez, Alaska, within six months af
ter the first publication of this no
tice, the same being the place for the
transaction of all business in connec
tion with said estate. Dated at Val
dez, Alaska, this 13th day of Febru
ary, 1915.
MRS, W. H. BLACKWELL,
Executrix of the estate of W. H.
Blackwell, deceased.
Date of first publication Feb. 16, 1915.
Date of last publication March 16,
1915.
Big Show At Orpheum Tonight.
Fifty thousand feet of new picture
film arrived on the steamer Mariposa
for the Orpheum and 3,000 feet will
be shown tonight.
FOR SALE CHEAP—Two good
work dogs, harness and sled. Both
leaders. Apply Tony Carlson’s. k20
Prescriptions carerully compound
ed at Valdez Drug Co tf
Birds In Wintsr.
Though birds have a much higher
temperature than a man’s—man's Is 98,
while theirs Is 107—they suffer cruelly
from the winter cold. In a mutton
country It is not uncommon to find
sheep with dead birds fastened on
their backs. The little, cold creatures
snuggle in the sheep’s wool to get
warm, their feet become entangled In
the fleece, and they sturve to death.
The Very First One.
The visitors in the historical mu
seum gazed curiously at a small feath
er pillow which nestled in a glass cape.
”1 don't see anything unusual about
that pillow,” remarked one of the vls
‘tors, turning to the guide.
“It’s a very valuable pillow,” replied
the guide. “That is Washington’s orig
inal headquarters.”—Lippincott’s.
Lively Cheese.
“How did you find the Stilton I sent
you?”
“Find it? We didn’t find it! As
soon as ever my wife's back was
turned It jumped from the pantry
shelf, ran down the garden, out of the
gate and was last seen chasing a
frightened dog down the road.”—Lon
don Mail.
Lilliputian.
Lilliputian has become a word al
most entirely substituted for dwarf,
yet the term was only invented by
Jonathan Swift in 1727 when he wrote
his famous “Gulliver’s Travels.” In
this weird little fable Swift created the
Island of Lilliput, of which the inhabit
ants were no greater in size than a
man's linger. Swift was a queer char
acter, of an unhappy nature.
Bigamy Defined.
Rev. Dr. Stephen S. Wise, the noted
New York rabbi, is a man who uses
terse and apt phrases to describe men
and things. Receutly a young member
of his congregation, puzzled over a
charge laid against ills stepfather, ask
ed Dr. Wise what bigamy was. “Well,”
said the rabbi, “in some countries it is
a crime and in others a religion.”
One Way of Looking at It.
The perverted mind of Nero could
enjoy the spectacle of Rome burning.
Children and fools might naively de
light in a conflagration that would con
sume for spectacular purposes a mil
lion tons of coal a week. We let the
equivalent waste in water power go on
at Niagara and hear it called saving
beauty for the people.—Metallurgical
and Chemical Engineering.
Rubbing It In.
“Why does that lady grin so every
time she sees you?”
"She knows I’m only getting $10 a
week."
“But why the grin?”
“I was engaged to her ouee and
broke it off. and she afterward mar
ried a millionaire.”—Kansas City Jour
nal.
A Tip to Mamma.
Little Kollo had been reproved for
his table manners by papa and mam
i am. lie trained his baby stare on
! mamma to ask, “When you was a lit
j tie girl didn't y'ever dip your jelly roll
i in coffee?”
j “No, my dear," with a tinge of acer
bity.
! “Y’ot to try it. Gee, it's great!”—
1 Buffalo Express.
/ He Hit It Right.
“Now, Tommy,” said the teacher,
; “what Is a simile?"
I Tommy hesitated visibly. "I—I—I
! fergit now,” he finally answered.
"But if you said, ‘My hours at school
are bright as sunshine,’ what figure of
speech would that be?”
“Irony,” responded Tommy.—Ladies’
Home Journal.
Growing Old by Degrees.
Growing old has many stages. Yon
can remember the time when in read
ing your favorite author you were dis
gusted to find that he had made bis
hero forty years 6ld, and you wondered
how he could be guilty of imputing ro
mance to such an unconscionable age.
By and by. even though you found for
ty years to be the old age of youth, you
were solaced by the thought that it
was the youth of old age, and still
later you will wonder where youth
ends and old age begins.—Neal Brown
in National Magazine.
Worse Than the Anoient Mariner,
“You must have had a terrible ex
perience, with no food and mosquitoes
swarming around you,’' said a friend
to the shipwrecked mariner who had
been cast away upon n tropical is
land.
“You Just bet I hud a terrible expe
rience,” he acknowledged. “My expe
rience wns worse than that of the man
who wrote, ‘Water, water everywhere,
but not a drop to drink.' With me it
wns bites, bites everywhere, but not a
bite to eat.”—London Tit-Bits.
FAIR PLAY.
We are at liberty to play the
game of life with all the skill we
can mutter, but if we desire to be
come more skillful as the yean
pass we must be more and more
eager for fair and square playing on
our own part.
Household and Camp
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Cutlery; Tinware and Ironware.
Our assortment is too numerous to enumerate-If you need anything see us first
Enthusiastic Photographer.
Fair One’s Father — Why did yon
bring that camera with you? Poor Lov
er—That I might catch your expresslou
of astonishment when I asked you for
your daughter's hand.—Fliegende Blat
ter.
Obeying Papa.
Stern Father—Now, now, my boys,
quarreling again—and for a miserable
little halfpenny? One of the Boys—
Well, you said, father, the less we
quarreled about the better! — London
Tit-Bits. _
Not Consistent.
“What was I saying when I dodged
that automobile?”
“You were saying that life is not
worth living. But if you think so why
did you dodge?”—Louisville Courier
Journal.
The Very Ideal
“As a Boston manager, you ought to
like this. This is a comedy of life in
Boston.”
"Sir, you are presumptions. How can
there be any comedy about life In Bos
ton?”—Judge.
I -— --
I The Poor Poet.
“My husband never gets what he
should for his poetry." said the poet’s
wife, with a tinge of sadness.
“Oh, don't be too hard on him,” re
plied the girl absentmindedly.—Yonk
ers Statesman.
Keeping Their Word.
“I have your new book on the coun
ter.”
"My friends said they would all. go
buy it.”
"Well, they all go by it.”—Kansas
City Journal.
Her Bargain.
Wifle—Oh, this is awful! These cur
tains I got at the bargain sale don’t
match our furniture. Hubby—Return
’em. Wifle—I should say not-^heapas
I got them? We must have nlWTWlii
ture at once!—Cleveland Leader.
Killing Two Birds.
Griggs—Your wife no longer objects
to your staying out nights. How did
you manage it?
Briggs—I began smoking in the bouse
the cigars she bought to keep me at
borne.—Exchange.
A Fin* Golfer.
Alfred Plus—Your caddie Is missing.
George Minus—Where Is the little beg
gar? Alfred Plus—The other boys say
he’s gone fishing because In the morn
ing round yon dug him up such a fine
supply of worms.—London Opinion.
The Greater Need.
“And now they’ve started a company
to insure people against lack of em
ployment.”
"H’ra: W’hat we ueed is a company
to insure against having to work.”—
Lustige Blatter.
Sarcastic.
"I’d like to take this hat. but 85
marks”—
“It’s only 50 marks now. You see,
madam has been trying on for three
hours, and it is no longer so fashlon
able.”-Ulk.
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ALASKA
STEAMSHIP CO.
S. S. Mariposa and S. S. Alameda sail from Seattle
the 1st, 8th, 16th and 24th
EVERY MONTH
From Valdez south—7th, 15th, 23rd and 30th for Cordova,
Juneau, Ketchikan and Seattle.
Regular freight service for Ketchikan. Juneau. Sheep creek Treadwell, Douglas
Oo.-dova. Ellamar. Valdez and Lutouche. Explosives. S S Seward. S S Seward. 5th'
S S Latouohe. 15th; S S Cordova. 85th of eaoh month—Right reserved to change this
schedule without notice.
F B. Tracy, Gen'l Agt- Valdez Dock Co., Local Agt.
ALASKA MARINERS WANT
DELHI’S GRAVE MARKED
Masters of vessels plying in Alas
kan waters have called the attention
of officials of the United States light
house service. Department of Com
merce, to the dangerous reef extend
ing out from Straits island, Sumner
Strait, on which the steamer Delhi
was wrecked. They explain that the
Straits island light is deceptive and
the accident which happened to the
Delhi is likely to be the fate of any
vessel in the same waters in heavy
weather. It is being urged that a
lighted buoy be placed at the end
of the reef so that masters of ves
sels using this route may more eas
ily keep far enough out from the is
land shore to escape the treacherous
shoals.
There is a great collection of Rus
sian war trophies at Kieff. They
comprise captures from the Austria*
and German armies, and include 2#
heavy field guns. 33 quick-firers, 36,00#
rifles, and 12 aeroplanes.
Scientists have discovered that the
memory is stronger in summer than
in winter. Among the worst foes of
the memory are too much food, *o.»
much physical exercise, and, strange
ly enough, too much education.
Change of pictures tonight at the
Orpheum. Plenty of film arrived on
the Mariposa for the week.
WEATHER BULLETIN.
Valdez, Alaska, Feb. 16, 1915.
STATION Above Below, Snow In- WEATHKR CONDITIONS
Donnelly . 38 8 Cloudy, calm, trail fair.
McCallum . 22 26 Clear, windy, trail dr'fted.
Paxson's . 10 19 Clear, calm, trail fair.
Hogan . 13 17 Clear, calm, trail fair. ’
Gulkana . 35 14 Cloudy, calm, trail good.
Copper Center .... 35 10 Clear, calm, trail good.
Tonsina . 12 25 Cloudy, calm, trail good.
Telkhell . 10 26 Cloudy, calm, trail good.
Beaver Dam . 2 38 Cloudy. Windy, trail drifted.
Summit .. 2 50 Cloudy, windy, trail drifted.
Wortman’s . 17 36 Cloudy, calm, trail drifted.