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SATURDAY, DECEMBER 13, 1913.
THE MEASURE OF A MAN.
A limited train on the Santa Fe
road was running through the resi
dence district of Joliet, along a high
embankment, at the rale of 70 miles
an hour, when the engineer saw open
before him a switch that should have
been closed and which signals already
passed had told him were closed. The
open switch made almost inevitable
the plunging of the whole train over
the embankment and the maiming or
killing of the scores of people behind
him who were depending upon him
for their safety.
Trained minds think quickly in such
emergencies and trained muscles
promptly respond to orders from the
brain. There was no room to stop the
train before the switch would be
reached. The engineer risked his life
and took the only chance of prevent
ing an appalling wreck. He broke his
train in two, trusting the airbrakes
to hold the passenger cars. The
brakes held. The passengers were
saved.
Shouting to his fireman and air
brake man to jump, the engineer set
his airbrakes on the cars behind and
then pulled his throttle wide open.
The engine leaped forward, the brakes
held, the coupling just behind the first
baggage car broke, and the engine
with the engineer at his post, plung
ed over the embankment and made
a scrap heap in the street below. Un
conscious and bleeding the engineer
was dug out of the wreck and taken
to a hospital, where he is slowly re
covering from very serious injuries.
The engineer was John Duggan and
-he is greatly annoyed at the efforts
of the saved passengers to make a
hero out of him. He considers it a
part of his business to live up to the
fine traditions of his branch of the
railway service.
Perfect roadbeds, finest equipment,
signals and safety devices contribute
much to the safety of travel, but the
greater factor to this end. in emer
gencies, is the fact that in practi
cally every locomotive engine is a
trained, proved, disciplined and cour
ageous John Duggan.—Ex.
That Kansas City judge who let two
lawyers settle their dispute with their
fists may now be subject to recall by
the friends of the one who got licked.
President Wilson has had a town
named after him in Oklahoma. That’s
pretty fair—but he won’t be absolute
ly great until a cigar is named for
him.
The colonel must be having a bully
good time in South America. To date,
he has branded no one a liar by tele
graph nor given a moment’s notice
to the army’s evacuation of Armaged
don.
A ten-foot tailed whip fish has been
caught near New Orleans. The crack
er at the end of the whip could be
heard a mile away. When caught it
was laying the lash on a howling sea
urchin.
Apropos of those Eskimos who were
isolated on a frozen island for ten
years and thrived on it, there are
thoughts of how nice such isolation
would be. for Huerta, Murphy and
Pankhurst.
Senators Cummins, Borah and Nor
ris campaigned for the regular Re
publican nominees in Massachusetts
in the late campaign. Their pro
gresslveism is obviously for home con
sumption only.
It sounds a bit strange to read of
New York Democrats perpetuating
their organization to continue the
flght on Tammany. We should hate
to see the old party engage in a
Roosevelt-Taft death struggle.
Wall street is all upset over the
intricacies of' the new income tax
law. But the street is becoming in
ured to trouble of late, and there are,
perhaps, a few additional disappolnt
pointments in the cards yet to be
dealt.
A QUEER LAKE.
With Neither Inlet Nor Outlet It Has a
Mysterious Tide.
There is a curious Swiss lake, Lake
Marjelan, which at regular intervals
completely disappears aud does not be
gin to refill until the following winter
or spring. On these occasions it emp
ties itself so rapidly that the Rhone
rises several meters in a few hours
and overflows its banks.
But it is not necessary to go to
Switzerland in order to find a freak
ish lake. There is a pond in the center
of Long Island, at the present end of
the Motor parkway, called Lake Ron
konkoma. It has neither inlet nor out
| let and lies at the foot of the bills that
I form the backbone of Long Island.
I Round its shores are many pretty sum
I mer homes. The trees about it are
1 much larger and more beautiful than
! elsewhere on Long Island. The waters
! of the lake are very clear and cold. In
some places it seems bottomless.
The strange thing about Lake Ron
konkoma is that it has a tide; not a
tide like thp ocean that rises and falls
every twelve hours, but one that takes
; seven years to rise and seven more to
fall. The difference between high wa
ter and low water mark is between
thirty and forty feet. Many scientific
men have studied the curious phe
nomenon, but no one has found out
what causes this mysterious tide. Nei
ther long continued rains nor severe
| droughts affect the quantity of water
in the lake.
The Indians used to hold the lake in
great awe, and few dared to cross it
in a canoe. There is a legend of one
brave who, while fishing, was drown
ed in the lake. His body was found
six months afterward nearly ten miles
away in Long Island souud.—Youth’s
Companion.
HIS BACKING- WAS £00D.
And President Tyler Found a Place
For Old Jack Oade.
President T.vler had a curious office
seeking experience at the very begin
ning of his administration. Old -Tack
Dade, a character about Washington,
tvho had been the president’s class
mate at college, went to the White
House, and said he. “Jack. I want an
office.”
“You do?” said President Tyler.
“What office on earth do you think you
are tit for?”
“Why, one o’ these ‘sinecurees’ I hear
so much about—no work and good
pay.” Dade promptly replied.
"Well. Jack,” said Tyler deprecating
ly. "you know that I am president
now and must have some kind of war
rant for making an appointment. Can
you get an.' body to indorse you? Could
you bring me a letter of recommenda
tion?”
"Oh, yes.” said Dade. “Pm fixed for
that.” and he produced a letter of four
pages written by Tyler himself to
President Harrison, whom he had just
succeeded, urging the claims of his
dear friend and classmate. Colonel
John W. Dade, for a good, fat office
"Cast your eye over that!” he exclaim
ed in triumph.
T.vler read the letter attentively to
the end. folded it carefully and said:
“Jack, your backing is irresistible
Come up here tomorrow, and I’ll have
a place for you.”
The next day Colonel John W. Dade
was appointed keeper of the Federal
prison of the District of Columbia. ~
Louisville Courier-Journal.
Appropriate Excuse.
"Before the establishment of right
eous courts and trials by jury where
justice could be obtained,” explained
the teacher, “persons suspected of cer
tain crimes were tried by what was
known as the ‘ordeal.’ One of these
was the ’ordeal of fire.’ Hot plow
i shares were laid at short intervals
along the victim’s path, and the sus
pected person was blindfolded and
I compelled to walk over them. If be
! succeeded in doing it without stepping
1 on the hot irons he was deemed inno
jcent But if he received burns be was
! adjudged guilty. Who would submit
I to such an ordeal now? Johnny, would
! you?”
"No. ma’am," said Johnny.
■•And why not?”
| "I'd get cold feet."—Cleveland Plain
; Denier.
i
The Other Woman.
| "1 don't see how that woman can
: gad about the way she does and neg
. lect her little children.”
"How do you know that she gads
about?”
“We get the same girl to take care
of our babies when we're away from
borne, and she’s kept busy over there
fully half of the time it provokes me
so to have to be put off so often when
I want to get away.”—Chicago Record
Herald.
Where Ma Wee Strict.
Little Girl—My mamma is awful
strict. Is yours? Little Boy—Orful.
Little Girl—But she lets you go any
where you want to and— Little Boy—
Oh. she ain’t strict with me. Little
Girl—Then who Is she strict with?
Little Boy-Pa.
In This Rapid Ags.
“Mamma’s good little boy want a
slice of bread and”—
“Oh. mother, cut out that sort of
thing. I'm nearly four years old.’’
Cblcngo Tribune.
Sweet Salt.
The Professor—Life Itself Is but a
chemical combination of the constitu
ent atoms of chloride salts. Tbs Girl
Well. it’s sweet to me. anyway.—Puck.
Joy Is not essentially bad. but good,
while grief is essentially bad.—Spluosa.
THINGS HE DIDN’T KNOW.
They Were Many, but That Didn't
Keep Him From Giving an Opinion.
A well known architect was sum
moned us u witness in a Long Island
court in a suit over the cost of a build
ing. The lawyer whose duty it was to
cross examine started in to attack the
credibility of the witness.
"Do you know how much a hundred
these bricks cost?" •
"1 do uot."
"Do you know how much this ce
ment cost per bug?”
“No."
"Do you know how expensive sand
is down here?"
"I can't say that i do exactly."
The lawyer looked at the witness
with tine scorn.
“And yet you pretend to come here
and qualify as an expert. How can
you give any kind of an opinion on
how much this building ought to have
cost when you don’t know the prices
of the material it’s made of?”
The witness looked at the lawyer
with a flash in ills eye that boded ill.
“Well,” he said. “I don’t know the
price of needles nor the price of thread
nor how much cheap cotton material 1
costs, but 1 don't hesitate to express
a solemn opinion that that suit of
clothes you’re wearing cost about
$5.50."—New York Dost.
CROOKED BILLET INN.
London’s Oldest Public House and Its
Romantic Interior.
The Crooked Billet, an inn which
stands upon Tower hill, boasts itself,
says the London Graphic, as the oldest
public house in London. How far back
its history goes it would be impossible
to say. The’ records are wanting, but
there is every reason to believe that
the inn dates from the time of Henry
VIII. Certainly no London iDti is more
romantic in the matter of sliding pan
els and concealed doors, secret rooms
and underground passages—one of
these reputedly leads to the Tower
and thick walls richly carved.
in the principal reception room are
to be seen some magniticent oak pan
elings, a quaintly carved freize above
the door and a no less richly carved
mantelpiece. Thu ceiling is covered
with a number of strange devices, with
a female head—believed to represent
Queen Elizabeth—in the center. The
windows looking out upon the street
are fastened with shutters clnmped
with huge iron bars.
There is a tradition that Oliver Crom
well once lived (or lodged) at the
Crooked Billet. The place was known
in those days as "the old bouse at the
bottom of the Minories.”
Choate and Depew.
At an annual dinner of the St. Nich
olas society Ambassador Joseph H.
Choate was down for the toast “The
Navy." while Senator Depew was to
respond to “The Army."
Depew began by saying: “It’s well to
have a specialist. That’s why Choate
is here to speak about the navy. We
met at the wharf once, and I never
saw him again till we reached Liver
pool. When 1 asked how be felt he
said be thought he would have enjoy
ed the trip over if he bad had any
ocean air. Yes. you want to hear
Choate or the navy.”
*Choate responded: "I’ve heard De
pew hailed as the greatest after dinner
speaker. If after dinner speaking, as
I have heard It described and as I be
lieve it to be. is the art of saying noth
ing at all then Dr. Depew Is the most
marvelous speaker in the universe."
Returned the Compliment.
Shortly after the workmen had fin
ished the landlord took especial pains
to show to each tenant the bill for
doing over his Hat. The householders
regarded that attention in different
lights, according to the improvements
they had fought for aud got. Some
looked frightened, thinking it portend
ed a raise in rent, some apologetic, oth
ers defiant. The third floor right man
was noncommittal. Three days later
he called at the landlord’s office and
showed him a slip of paper. It was a
bill for sii shirts, some socks and ties,
a hut and a blue serge suit.
"What’s this got to do with me?" the
landlord asked.
"Oil. nothing," said the man. “Just
an Interchange of courtesies. Nothing
like being neighborly, you know.”
Few Russians Wear Hata.
The male population of Russia wear
ing bats is in the great minority as
compared with the vast number who
purchase the Russian cap. The sea
sons are practically winter and sum
mer. so that the transition from the
doth cap is to one of fur. the straw
hat coming In for slight attention dur
ing a brief period In midsummer.. The
student class, which aggregates many
thousands, and the official class, which
is still more numerous, with those In
the city who wear a uniform cap with
an official or semiofficial cockade, con
stitute a rust army of people who do
not wear hats.
Measuring Him.
Wife—Janies, do you know that yon
area very small iiihu? Husband-Bow
ridiculous: I am nearly six feet iu
height. Wife—That makes no differ
ence Whenever I ask you for money
to go shopping you are always short.—.
I.mulim Tit Bits.
Going Too Far.
Reader- lie tore his hair and rent
tlie air. Hearer—There you are! We
even have to rent the air now. It’s
lime we had a change of government
- rathfiiider.
Ho not flatter yourself that fitaafr
ship authorises you to ssy disagreeable
things to your intimates.
Copyright Han Schaffhcr Be Marx
....OUR LINE OF....
Holiday Goods
Is the largest ever
shown in town.
There is no better Xmas Present
for a Man than
Hart, Schaffner & Marx
Fine Suit orJOvercoat
We are showing all the latast
Styles and Colors.
WE ARE SOLE AGENTS
Light and Power
Since the organization of the
Valdez
Electric
Company
Valdez consumers are getting
electric current at a reduction of
forty per cent in rates.
Support the new company and
keep rates down to bedrock.
Office in Copper^ Block
Phone 57
MILK—MILK—MILK
Fre»h"Milk and Cream
VALDEZ DAIRY
Telephone order* to Phone 187
The prevailing fad is Parisian Ivory
Toilet Articles. A handsome line is
being shown at the Valdez Drug Co.’s
store.
Schedule of the Donaldson.
The following schedule for the
launch “Lieut. C. V. Donaldson” will
take effect today. All orders to the
contrary are revoked.
Daily, Saturday and Sunday except
ed:
Leave Fort L.scum, Alaska, 8:15 a.
m. and 1:15 p. m.
Leave Valdez, Alaska, 9:45 a. m„ 2
p. m. and 5:30 p. m.
Tuesdays:
Leave Fort Liscum, Alaska, 8:15 a.
m„ 1:15 p. m. and 5 p. m.
Leave Valdez, Alaska, 9:45 a. m..
2 p. m. and 5:30 p. m.
Saturdays:
Leave Fort Liscum, Alaska, 1:15 p.
ni. and 7 p. ra.
Leave Valdez, Alaska, 4:00 p. m.
end 10:30 n. m.
There will be no trips for the
launch on the 2nd and 4th Fridays
of each month, these days being us
ed to clean boilers.
Special trips or cancelling of the
above will be made without notice
only to meet exigencies of the ser
vice.
By ord^r of Lieut. Col. O’Neil.
R. G. SHERRARD,
Second L^ehtr SOth'Infantry, Quar
termaster.
Fancy Meerschaum Pipes specially
priced at the Valdes Drug Store.
WANTED—An experienced ironer,
apply Independent Laundry.
Prospectors,
Don’t neglect yourjhealth on the trail.
The VALDEZ DRUG CO.
is prepared to fill your medicine kit
with the purest and best of drugs,
medicines, and surgical bandages.
TAZLINA HILL ROAD HOUSE
is open for freight and accommodations for the new
strike at Nelchina—Hone} on hand at all times.
JAMES L. SIMPSON.
PROFESSIONAL
Dr. H. COCKER1LLE
Graduate of National University
Washington, D. C.
DENTIST
Phone 92 I Fourteen years£in
Office in Whaling building VALDEZ
Next to cable office
DR. GERMAN
phone ih THE DENTIST
Office rooms over Owl Drug store. Office hours
a a. ni.. to 6 p. in., 7 p. m.. to 9 p. m. Sundays
by appointment All work guaranteed
DR. C. H. VANCE
THE
OSTEOPATH
Graduate American School of
Osteopathy. Ktkrsville. Mo.
OFFICE HOURS-* to 1Z a.. 1 toS *. a., or bp
appoiataent.
Treat baiUiag, Wall Ttreet. PHONE 203
F. BUTTERWORTH
'Civil Engineer and
U. S. Deputy Land and
Mineral Surveyor
j Blue Printing Kes Phuoe. ixv
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Meet every Tuesday evening at x o'clock In
Eagle Hall. All members are requested ta
attend. T G. QUINN. ArcticChiof
S. MCNIECE. Secretary
Valdez Lodge
No 168.
Free and Accepted Masons
Regular Communications first Wednesday «a ^
each month in MoKinley H ill Visitors always ^
welcome.
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VALDEZ LODGE NO. 6, 1.0. 0. F
Meets every Monday at 8 p. m. m
ODD KBLIA)WS'HAI,I,
Visiting Brothers especially invited
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J-JUGO FELS
Contractor and Builder
Day Work if Dwiral
Estimates Furnished
WORK. GUARANTEED