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THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1914.
THE SCOURGE OF WAR.
Inaugural address of Abraham Lin
coin at Washington March 4, 1885,
after his election for the second time
as president:
Fellow Countrymen: At this see
ond appearing to take the oath of the
presidential office, there is less occa
sion for an extended address than
there was at the lirst. Then a state
ment somewhat in detail of a course
to be pursued seemed very iitting and
proper. Now, at the expiration of four
years, during which public declara
tions have constantly been called
forth on every point and phase of the
great contest which still absorbs the
attention and engrosses the energies
of the nation, little that is new could
be presented.
The progress of our arms, upon
which all else chiefly depends, is as
well known to the public as to my
self: and it is, I trust, reasonably sat
isfactory and encouraging to all.
With high hope for the future, no
prediction in regard to it is ventured.
On the occasion corresponding to this,
four years ago, all thoughts were anx
iously directed to an impending civil
war. All dreaded it; all sought to
avoid it. While the inaugural ad
dress was being delivered from this
place, devoted altogether to saving
the Union without war, insurgent ag
ents were in the city, seeking to de- j
stroy it without war—seeking to dis- j
solve the Union and divide the <f
fects by negotiation.
Both parties deprecated war: but
one of them would make war r ther ;
than let the nation survive, and the
other would accept war rather than
let t perish; and the war came.
One-eighth of the whole population
were colored slaves- not distributed
generally over the Union, but located
in the southern part of it. These
slaves constituted a peculiar and pow
erful interest. All knew that this in
terest was somehow the cause of the ■
war. To strengthen, perpetuate, and ;
extend this interest was the object;
for which the insurgents would rend i
the Union by war, while the govern
ment claimed no right to do more;
than to restrict the territorial en
largement of it. Neither party ex-;
pected the magnitude pr . duration !
which it has already attained. Neither |
anticipated that the cause of the con ,
flict might cease, even before the con !
flict itself should cease. Each looked ;
for an easier triumph, and a result |
less fundamental and astounding.!
Both read the same Bible and pray j
to the same God, and each invokes ;
His aid against the other. It may j
seem strange that any man should j
dare to ask a just God’s assistance in ,
wringing his bread from the sweat of
other men’s faces. But let u- judge
not, that we be not judged. The I
prayer of both should not be answer- j
ed. That of neither has been answer
ed fully. The Almighty has His own j
purposes. "Woe unto the world be
cause of offences, for it must needs
be that offences come: but woe to
that man by whom tiie offence com
eth.” If we shall suppose that Amer
ican slavery is one of these offences,
which, in the providence of God, must
needs come, hut which, having con
tinued through His appointed time,
He now wills to remove, and that He
gives to both North and South this
terrible war as the woe due to those
by whom the offence came, shall we
discern therein any departure from
those divine attributes which the be
lievers in a living God always, ascribe
to Him?
Fondly do we hope, fervently do we
pray, that this mighty scourge of war
may speedily pass away. Yet, if God
wills that it continue until all the
wealth piled by the bondman’s two
hundred and fifty years of unrequited
toil shall be sunk, and Until every
drop of blood drawn with the lash
shall be paid by another drawn with
the sword, as was said three thou
sand years ago; so still it must be
said, that the judgments of the Lord
are true and righteous altogether.
With malice towards none, with
charity for all, with firmness in fhe
right, as God gives us to see the
right, let us strive on to finish the
work we are in; to bind up the na
tion’s wound; to care for him who
shall have borne the battle, and for
his widow and his orphans; to do all
which may achieve and cherish a just
and a lasting peace among ourselves,
and with all nations.
The Seismograph.
(By GEORGE FITCH.)
The seismograph is an ingenious
instrument by which an earthquake
is enabled to register like a traveling
man, whenever it is on the road.
This instrument is very complicat
ed, and is so intelligent that the
slightest shudder of the earth's sur
face is recorded. If a powder mill
has exploded or a heavy body has
fallen violently during the night, the
owner of a seismograph would know
it in the morning by looking at the
record. It is said that when ex
President Taft attempted to reduce
the tariff, seismographs recorded the
result all over the world.
Sometimes an earthquake will trav
el for thousands of miles without
disturbing the lightest sleepers. But
the seismograph is on the job and in
the morning, after the papers have
announced its findings, thousands of
citizens remember that during the
night the bric-a-brac on the mantel
tinkled loudly and the bed swayed
like a ship in a heavy sea.
The seismograph Is very valuable
to scientists, but it would be more
valuable to humanity if it could an
nounce the presence of an earth
quake before instead of after said
quake has performed. The seismo
graph gives a man warning after a
brick house has fallen on him and
when he doesn’t need it. It is as di
latory as an election result,. Many a
proud statesman would still be hold
ing the reins of government if he
could have taken a hint from ail
election result before said election
happened.
We must, as a people, leap eagerly
into the task of perfecting the seis
mograph. If it can be induced to act
as the press agent of an earthquake,
instead of its historian, a contented
people will be able to leave their
homes before it is too late and go
fishing while the earthquake per
forms.
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Siren of the Snows
There’s something that lives in the arctic
gloom,
Where the lonely snow fields sleep,
In a land of night, where frost flowers
bloom
And the noonday shadows creep.
It hides away in the untrodden miles
Where babes of the north g6d play,
Luring men on when the northern light
smiles
Like the blush of the dawning day.
The trail runs out in the breathless gloom,
And the dauntless voyager goes
Where a ghastly god has scooped a tomb i
In the stifling bed of th6 snows. j
!
She lures them out in the shifting dunes
On a trail that the north god knows,
Luring them on with her magic tunes,
The mad siren of the snows.
—Chart Pitt in New York Times, j
DELAVAN’S COMET SOON
VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE.
Sixth Sky Wanderer Discovered In
1913 Draws Nearer the Earth.
Six comets were discovered iu 1913.
The one that has attracted the most
attention was found by Nedjuin on
Sept. 3. This was a very small body
and showed only the slightest trace of
nebulosity, its appearance being rather
that of an asteroid.
Delavuu's comet, the latest stranger
in the sky to come within the range j
of the telescope of expert star gazers. |
may lie visible to the naked eye soon. J
The faintly illumined betailed object j
apparently is drawing nearer the '
earth.
1 ue comet was discovered by Paul i
T. Deluvau of the Argentine uaval ob- ■
servatory at La Plata and was first !
observed in this country by Professor
Asaph Ilall. U. S. N., at the naval ob- !
servatory on the night of Dec. 18. lte
ports have been received of observa
tions in Europe.
■‘According to a telegram from South
America,” Professor Hail said tbe oth
er day, “a large telescope was neces
sary for observations there, meaning
probably the seventeen inch reflector
of the La Plata observatory. When
the observation was taken in Wash
ington the comet was visible in the
five inch finder of the large telescope,
it has a bright nebulosity, and on the
night of "Dec. lit it showed a fairly
bright nucleus, surrounded by nebu
losity. and appeared to have a faint
tail following. It was not visible in
the two and one-half Inch finder. On
the night of Dee. 22 there was consid
erable haze, so "that no tail was to be
seen.”
Amateur astronomers' with small
glasses may seek the comet. Professor
Hall said, by using the star Zeta Erl
dani for a starting point.
‘‘The comet Is. approximately four
teen and one-hnlf minutes of time west
of this star,” he expfained, "and north
of it two and onedhird degrees. It lk
moving west about fifty-four seconds
of time per day. north about five and
one-quarter minutes, but there has not
been enough motion so far to compute
an orbit."
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! MOODS OF THE RHINO.
Emotions It Exhibits at the Sight and
Odor of Men.
Tlie recognized presence of mer.
rouses in the rhinoceros several emo
tions, which in the order of their in
tensity I should put as bewilderment,
fear, dull curiosity and truculence. If
the men are merely seen usually the
only emotions aroused are bewilder
ment and curiosity; if smelled fear Is
the usual result, but in a certain num
ber of cases even the sight or the smell
of men arouses senseless rage.
Some rhinos are always cross and
evil tempered, but many others which
are normally good natured now and
then have fits of berserker fury. Any
thing conspicuous which arouses their
interest may also arouse their hostility.
White has an evil attraction for them.
My friends the McMillans while trav
eling through a rhino country found
that the two white horses of their cav
alcade were so frequently charged that
they finally painted them khaki color.
I have never seen them charge other
game, and gazelles and hartebeests
feed in their immediate neighborhood
with indifference, yet I have been in
formed by trustworthy eyewitnesses
of one rhinoceros charging a herd of
zebra and another some buffalo.
The rhinoceros usually gets out of
the way of the elephant. It will un
questionably on occasions charge men
and domestic animals entirely unpro
voked. Twice I have known of one
charging an oxen wagon. In one case
an ox was killed, in the other the rhino
got entangled In the yokes and trek- j
tow. and tin? driver, an Africander, !
lashed it lustily with his great whip j
until it broke loose and ran off, leaving i
the ox span tumbled in wild confusion.
—Theodore Roosevelt In Scribner’s.
TINY MEN AND WOMEN.
Some Noted Liiiputians Who Were
Exhibited In England.
Of dwarfs exhibited in England the
most celebrated was the Pole, Borul
waski, who was born in 1739 and died
in 1X37. At six he measured seventeen
Inches and finally, in his thirtieth year,
reached thirty-nine inches. He had a
sister shorter than himself by head
and shoulders. Borulwaski traveled all
over Europe, and now lies buried at
Durham.
In the year of his death his succes
sor. Charles Stratton, known to fame
as “General Tom Thumb,” was born.
When tweuty-tive lie was thirty-one
inches high.
in 1814 lie appeared in England and
had an extraordinary success. After
extensive travel in both hemispheres
the "general” again visited England in
1857, but the dwarf man, in spite of
many personal and intellectual quali
ties, was less attractive than the dwarf
hoy. In tile year ist!3 lie married tin
very minute American I.avinla War
ren, and died in 1883.
Ollier well known dwarfs of the past
have been:
Three children of a Scottish shep
herd named McKinley, the shortest of
whom was forty-five inches. |
Don Francisco Hidalgo, a Spaniard. !
twenty-nine inches.
Jan Hamicina, a Dutchman, twenty I
eight inches.
Mary Jane Voungim.n. tin Austral
ian, who at the age of fifteen was fini
te live inches high.—Pali Mall Gazette.
What Killed the Adjutant.
Then* is a story of an Knglish ollicer.
Colonel FitzRoy. Unit dates hack to
1 Stitt, FitzRoy when ill India was pos
sessed of tin air gun. and one after
noon lie took a shot at an adjutant, a
bird which, being an excellent scaven
ger. is protected from injury by a fine
of It 10 rupees. Several people saw the
bird fall, lint heard no report. There
was, of course, a hubbub, and a court
of inquiry was ordered to investigate
the bird's death.
As luck would have il. Fit/Jloy was
appointed president of the court, the
finding of which was duly recorded as
follows: “The court, having carefully
investigated all the evidence brought
before it. lias come to the conclusion
that the bird died of sunstroke. (Signed)
Phil FitzRoy, Cafitaln and President.”
Lines by a Sick Poet.
Mr. William Watson, when ill in Lon
don and attempt ing.it’dinner for which
he had no appetite, scribbled these
lines oil a scrap of paper, which lie
threw to his attendant:
Strange sauce that's mingled with the
meat,
Strange meat that's mingled with the
sauce—in vain
I cat and. tvoml'ring what and why 1 eat.
Long for the porridge of my youth
again.
— London Chronicle.
All She Asked.
“M.v dear, some of these days I will
bring you a string of perfectly match
ed pearls."
"Forget those dreams, Harold."
yawned his wife. 'Must tiring me a
string of perfectly matched sausages
when you come home tonight.”—Chi
cago Journal.
Saved Himself. .
"If Flubdub hadn't displayed some
unexpected energy today I should have
tired him.”
“And what direction did his unex
pected energy take?"
“He went out and got himself mi
other job.”—Louisville Courier-Journal.,,
Nice For the Doctor.
.Utile George (to physician! -Say. I
don't thuds you look like a duck. Doc
tor—Who safd 1 did? Little George—
Nobody. But mamma told papa you
wrts an old quad:.—Chicago News. .
To wait for what never comes, to He
nbed and not sleep, to serve and not be
advanced, are three things to die of.—
Italian Proverb.
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GUARANTEE TO FITYOV.
In the District Court for the Terri
tory of Alaska, Third Division.
In the Matter of ihe Annexation of
Certain Territory to the Incorpor
ated Town of Valdez.—Order Set
ting Time for Hearing Petition and
Giving Notice.
A petition having been this day
presented to the court for the pur
pose of instituting the proceedings
required by law for the annexation
of territory to an incorporated town,
said petition praying for the annex
ation of certain described territory to
the incorporated town of Valdez, in
the Territory of Alaska. Third divis
ion; and it appearing to the court
that said petition is signed by forty
eight qualified electors of said incor
porated town, the same being more
than one-fifth of the number of votes
cast at the last municipal election in
said town, and by live actual resi
dents and owners of substantial prop
erty interests in land in the territory
proposed to he annexed and verified
by two of the signers of said peti
tion; said petition setting forth the
boundaries of the territory so pro
posed to be annexed to said town, an
having attached thereto a plat based
upon an actual survey by a compe
tent surveyor, setting forth the lim
its and boundaries thereof by metes
and bounds, and stating the number
of inhabitants therein:
Therefore, i appearing to the court
that said petition is in the form re
quired by law; it is ordered that said
petition he heard aud considered by
the court on the 18th day of Febru
ary, 1914. at 10 o'clock a. m. of said
day, at the court room of this court
in Valdez, Alaska, if said day be a day
of jurisdiction in said court, or if the
same be not a day of jurisdiction,
then said hearing shall be held on the
first day of jurisdiction thereafter. It
is further ordered that notice of such
hearing be given by posting printed
or typewritten copies of this order
in three conspicuoous places within
the' limitq of said incorporated town
of Valdez, and by posting such cop
ies iii three conspicuous places with
in the limits of the territory so pro
posed to be annexed to and included
within the limits of said incorporated
town, and by publishing a copy of
this order once a week in the Valdez
Prospector, u newspaper of general
circulation published nearest to said
incorporated town.
Done in open court at Valdez.
Alaska, this 7th day of January, 1914.
FRED. M. UROVVN, Judge.
First publication January 10, 1914.
Hast publication February 14, 191;
NOTICE TO CREDITORS.
In the United States Commissioner's
Court, ex-officio Judge in Probate,
Valdez precinct, Third Judicial Di
vision, Territory of Alaska.
In the matter of the estate of Rob
ert Martin, deceased. Notice to cred
itors.
Notice is hereby given by the tin
dersigned, administrator of the estate
of Robert Martin, deceased, to the
creditors of, and all persons having
claims against the said estate, to ex
hibit them with the necessary vouch
ers, within six (6) months after the
first publication of this notice, to the
said administrator at the office of C.
E. Bunnell, at Valdez. Alaska, the
same being the .place for the trans
tion of the business of said estate.
Dated at Valdez, Alaska, this 13th
day of January, 1914.
W. H. CASWELL.
Administrator of the estate of Robert
Martin, deceased.
Date of first publication Jan. 14.
Date of last publication Feb. 17.
CAMP VALDEZ No. 10
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Eaulc Hall. All members are req jested to
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S. M<-NJ ECU. Secretary
Local Valdez
SOCIALIST PARTY
Meets Thursdays at
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Ingram & Bush’s Cigar Store
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Notice of Marshal’s Sale.
United States of America, Third Di
vision, Territory of Alaska, ss.
Public notice 's hereby given, that
by virtue of a writ of execution, dated
January 9th, A. D. 1914, issued out
of the District Court, for the Third
division, Territory of Alaska, on a
judgment rendered in said Cour,, on
the 5th day of January, A. D. 1914,
ii\ favor of the United States of
America, and against James Fish, ad
ministrator of the estate of Louis Ca
nt'cia, deceased, Angus Chisholm,
Frank Gustafson, Max J. Schurdt and
Jennie Raymond, I have, on this 9th
day of January, A. D. 1914, levied
upon the following described real es
tate. situated in the town of V Idez,
Territory of Alaska, to-wit:
Lot nine (9) in Block B: lot three
(3) in Block two (2); lot four (4)
in block twenty-four (24), of the
Valdez Townsite, according to the
official plat • f said townsite on lilt?
in the office of the recorder for said
precinct, and ihat I will, according
ly, offer said real estate for sale, at
public vendue to the Irghest and best
bidder, for cash, on the third day of
March, A. D. 1914, at two o’clock p.
nr., at the front door of the Court
House, Valdez, Alaska.
Dated at Valdez, Alaska, January
9, 1914.
F. It. BRENNEMAN.
U. S. Marshal, Third Division, Ter
ritory of Alaska.
First publication January 10, 1914.
Last publication February 21, 1914.
Hospital of the Good Samaritan.
For $6.00 we will give you a ticket
entitling you to hospital service and
care for any eight weeks out of the
year front date of your ticket, when
incapacitated by injury or sickness,
■tee W. H. Ziegler.
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and 5 to 6 p. ni.
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we always be careful to keep our
homes clean and neat?
Little Girl: Because company may
walk in at any moment.
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