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WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1917;
HAND THAT RULES THE WORLD.
rEY say that man 1b mighty and
governs land and sea.
He wields a mighty fecepter o’er
lesser pow'rs that be;
But a power mightier, stronger,
man from his throne has hurled,
’Tls the hand that rocks thd cradle that
rules this mighty world.
In deep, mysterious conclave, 'mid philo
sophic minds,
Unraveling knotty problems, his native
forte man finds;
Yet all his pow'r and glory to heav'n's
four winds are hurled
By the unseen hand of woman, the pow’r I
of this great world.
CHORUS.
Yes, the tender, loving mother, who
nurses, nurtures, tends,
Into our life’s great battles many noble
soldiers Bends,
And, altho' she's in the background when
tlie banners are unfurled.
The hand that rocks the cradle is tlie hand
tiiat rules the world.
Behold the brave commander, on land or
on the sea,
Stanch 'mid the carnage standing, no fear
of death lias he!
The standard bearer, dying, with the col
ors in his hand,
Brave men they be, yet all are ruled by
woman's gentle hand.
Great statesmen govern nations, kings rule j
a people’s fate,
But the unseen hc.nd of velvet these gianls j
regulate;
The iron arm of fortune with woman's
arm entwined, '
For great men rule the nations, and worn- I
an rules the mind.
—Charles W. Berkley.
DON’T KNOCK.
Don't knock! And above all things
don’t use a hammer when you are
away from home. Nobody loves a
knocker. He is despised by home
town folks, and strangers look upon
him with suspicion. He is an unde
sirable, without ambition, without!
civic pride, without scruples. He is |
lacking in all those qualities which ]
every good citizen possesses
Be a booster, especially when talk- j
ing about your home enterprises and !
home prospects. Everybody loves a;
booster. He is a popular fellow at
home and welcome among strangers.
He is a desirable citizen, full cf en
tci prise, proud of his home town and
considerate of his neighbors. Tha
knocker never gets anywhere; the
booster always gets there, and he Is;
usually the first to arrive.—Nenana j
News.
TOO MANY FOOLS.
AN exchange says that “Any fool |
can make money,” and attempts to;
clinch his argument by citing liis own |
poverty after long years of residence
in the Territory. While it makes a:
catchy appeal to those of us who are
without worldly goods, and who still;
believe that we possess a modicum
of gray matter, the fact remains that
a fool never has made money, and |
:>ev('r will. About the only thin? that1
a fool has ever been a success at is ;
being a fool, and many are even fail-!
ures at their own game. If fools;
made money the world would be |
swamped with riches; money would
be the cheapest thing on earth, for the
crop of fools exceeds any other crop, i
and is never shortened by drought or j
stress of weather, fevery man now-1
adays is some kind of a fool. His bug |
is hidden from him but is painfully j
; pparent to his neighbors. He Imag i
ines that he conceals his foolishness;
irom public gaze but in reaiitv wears1
it as a lodge-pin upon the lapel of
his coat that all may see. The day j
of Patrick Henrys and Washingtons
and Franklins and Paynes and Web-1
sters has passed; and the probabili-1
bilities are, will never return. The j
fool reigns supreme. You can And
him in the halls of Congress; in the
seats of the legislators; in the public
fchools, the Mbraries, the public gath-;
erings and at the head of papers; he j
is at the height of his power and there j
is none to dispute his sway. The lit-'
erature of today; the music, the art.
the sentiment, the laws,—all pander
for the favor of the fool. A fool
might make money but he is so busy
playing the fool that he generally
overlooks the chance. Every man
nowadays has wheels spinning in His
head, and he is so busy winding them
up that he forgets that his neighbor
is doing the same thing.
THE MAN FOR GOVERNOR.
Taking an applicant for the govern
orship to task severely editorially the
j Ruby Citizen sizes up its choice for
governor in the following words:
“The Governor of Alaska has a de
terrent power in legislation equal to
ithat of one-sixth of the whole Alaska
Legislature, since he can veto sty
bill presented to him and it reqti'res
a two-thirds vote of the Legislature
to overcome that veto He has the
appointment of important officials,
especially the officials charged with
the enforcement of laws against ille
gal iiquor traffic. The man who, by
his veto, can exercise the same *orce
as four men in tne Alaska Legislature
toward blocking legislation, who, ny
his message and his position, can do
a great deal toward passing and or
iginating legislation, who has power
to call extra sessions of the Legisla
ture, who appoints some of tlm offi
cials that enforce the laws, who, in
short, is the chief executive and the
highest officer of our Territory should
bring to that task not only a mature
and unbiased judgment, uninfluenced
by any motives but those that con
sider the welfare and wishes of the
people of the Territory, but also a
sympathy with the people and th-ir
expressed desires, and should be such
a man as the people would wish to
elect. He should combine the quali
ties of a student and idealist with the
cold judgment of a business man. As
a mere money-getter, whose god is
the Almighty Dollar, is not the right
man for that honorable position
PAPERS SHOULD ORGANIZE.
NOW that the bankers, the miners,
and every other business in tin Ter
ritory have formed an organization,
what's the matter with the newspa
pers? If ever a business needed or
ganization as a body it is the papers
of the Territory. By buying together
they could clip a good many cents per
pound off the price of stock; they
could secure a live advertising agent
in Seattle and fill their papers with
Seattle advertising; advertising rater,
could be adjusted to suit outside ad
vertising, and a gathering once a year
at some point in the Territory would
advance the business beyond a hit
and miss experiment. In the State of
Washington the organization has
proven so successful that a publisher
would miss his membership sadly in
doing business. Seattle offers a lu
crative advertising field to the papers
of Alaska, but they must be organ
ized so that their agent can offer ad
vertising in ALL of them. Let’s or
ganize brothers, into the Alaska Press
Association, and reap the benefits of
association.
ANCHORAGE IS petitioning the
government to fortify Cook Inlet, and
Seward has fallen in line with the de
mand that Resurrection Bay be made
immune from the enemy's assaults.
As both places have more foreigners
for citizens than they have Americans
it might be cheaper for their citizens
to come over to Valdez for protection.
HARD on the news that the Ger
mans have discovered nettles to ba a
pood substitute for cotton, comes a
report that the canny Teutons arc
making a synthetic rubber from pitch.
What with wheatless bread and leath
crless shoes, if the war keeps ou
much longer all the standard com
modities will find themselves 3up
planted by upstart substitutes.
IT looks like old times to see the
long string of pack animals picking
their way over the glacier. In the old
days trains of hundreds of these ani
mals could be seen winding their
way among the crevasses. Wilson's
train of thirty animals makes a cig
showing when strung out to doubly
enders.
WHEN a man is tempted to do
wrong his first thought isn’t devoted
to the moral effect of yielding to the
temptation. It is devoted wholly to
the chances of getting caught if he
yields.
THE International Gas Association
is said to convene but once a year, but
I if you’ll stand around some of our
i resorts you will imagine it is in ses
sion all the time.
i DON’T waste time telling people
; how you love your enemies. The few
Ithat won’t know you are a liar will
!think you are a mollycoddle.
WHAT does it profit a man to fos
ter friendship with a girl? She only
wants to marry him and end the pleas
ant relations.
-—
A WOMAN’S reputation is like her
complexion; what she makes it.
OUR FEARFUL FIRE LOSSES.
Moat of Thom Are Cauoed by Untidi- :
naoo and Carelessness.
The fire loss in the United States is
about $250,000 a day. or an aggregate
of $750,000,000 a year. Careful obser
vation from detailed statistics compil
ed on the subject shows that most of
this loss would l>e prevented by the ob
servation of reasonable precautions,
particularly in the direction of more
tidiness. Sixty-five per cent of all fires
! take place In homes, and cases show
that 00 per cent of all fires are due to.
carelessness. Ignorance or both.
The 65 per cent occurring In homes, j
It Is readily shown, would never occur
If persons had taken reasonable care
In respect to tidiness. ilubblsh is the
chief cause, ami rubbish does not
1 necessarily mean the accumulation of
paper and things of that character in
and around buildings, blit the unneces
sary accumulation of old furniture, |
magazines, carpets, supplies of all
kinds in cellars and nttlcs which ac- !
cumulate dust aud lie there for years.
What applies to the home lb respect 1
to rubbish is true to a marked degree :
tn many business premises. Just a lit- j
tie thought nnd the expenditure of a
little time aloug these lines generally '
would greatly reduce the fire loss. The
absence of fire extinguishers in the i
average home or business premises Is
a serious omission. Careless handling
of matches, careless use of oil, the ac
cumulation of oliy rags and waste ma
terial and a host of small matters like
these are the causes of a great many |
fires aud a great deal of loss.—Lumber !
Trade Journal.
I
AERONAUTICS IN WARFARE.
—
Why Nap«l*«n Did Net Fever the Use j
ef Obaervatlon Balloon*.
It Is on record that the first employ
ment of aeronautics to observe the po
sitions of an enemy were made during
the Trench revolution. It was a- Dr.
Coutelle who produced hydrogen gas
from the decomposition of water. He
bnd been Interdicted the employment
of sulphuric acid in this preparation,
as there was a lack of sulphur for the
making of gunpowder.
Dr. Coutelle was ordered to put him
self at the disposal of General Jour
dan. who commanded the army of the
Sambrc and Meuse. On presenting
himself to Duquesnoy, a commissioner
of the convention, that dignitary rose
In wrath, exclaiming: "A balloon, a
balloon in the camp! You look to roe '
like a suspect. I am going to begin by '
having you shot!"
Coutelle returned to Paris, and bis I
balloons were afterward put to use ut ;
Bonn, at Coblenz and at Andernaoh.
At the last, named place General Ber- !
nadotte, the ancestor of the present j
reigning house of Sweden, was invited ,
to go up in a balloon. "No,” respond- j
ed that careful man, "I prefer the road |
of tho asses."
There was a school of aerostation at j
Meiulnn, which Bonaparte closed after
his return from Egypt. As nothing |
could prevent other nations from us- |
ing like air fliers, the balloons, he i
claimed, might become an embarrass- j
raent to all the armies, without any j
special advantage to the French army j
—Crl de Paris.
“Hobson’s Choice.”
“Hobson's choice” may best be '
translated, “that or nothing.” Tobias I
Hobson was a carrier and Innkeeper
at Cambridge, who erected the hand j
some conduit there and settled "seven !
lays” of pasturv ground toward its j
maintenance. But the story about
him, as told by the Spectator, is as
follows: “He kept a stable of forty
good cattle, always ready and fit for
traveling. But when a raau came for
a horse he was led into the stable,
where there was great choice, but was
obliged to take the horse that stood
nearest to the stable door, so that ev
ery customer was alike well served,
according to his chance, and every
horse ridden with the same Justice."
Milton wrote two quibbling epitaphs
upon this eccentric character.
Muddled Thinking.
It would be foolish to say that a dy
uamo and an electric light are the same
thing, that green apples is a term syu-^
ouymous with indigestion, that an ar'
chitect's plans are the same thing as a
completed building or that sex attrac
tion is but another name for the social
Institution called the family. In the
same way it is an evidence of muddled
thluking to maiutain that being good is
the same thing as being religious
Bernard I. Bell in Atlantic.
Why Ammonia Cleans Clothes.
Ammonia, the great spot remover oi
the American people, is really a gas
dissolved in water. It belongs to the
alkali family, and on account of its
mineral origin is the foe of all oils and
grease, which explains the easy way
it disposes of spots that soap and wa
ter cannot affect.
Recovered Too Soon.
“I thought she knew you?"
“I expect she does. I was engaged
to her at one time."
“But she snubbed you!"
“Yes: you see, she threw me over,
and then I didn't take to drlnk."
Pbiladelphia Inquirer.
Improved the Opportunity.
“I’m sorry 1 asked the girl to clean
the typewriter."
“Why?”
“She took fifteen minutes to clean
the type and two hours to manicure
her finger nails afterward.”—Louis
ville Courier-Journal. -
It requires very little trouble to find
fault. That is why there are so many
critics—Holmes.
Good Phone 12, Moderate
Good* Prices
S & W Canned Fruits & Vegetables
When you see S & W on the label you know that the contents
of the package are of unquestionable quality. We have re
plenished our stock of this brand of goods and ask you to
try some of the following
ROYAL ANNE CHERRIES STRING BEANS
BLACKBERRIES AH|, A R 4G|S
STRAWBERRIES ASPARAGUS TIPS
LOGAN BERRIES ASI ARAGIS TIPS
RASPBERRIES CABBAGE
SLICED PEACHES BEETS
YELLOW CLING PEACHES TOMATOES
APRICOTS PUMPKIN
GREEN GAGE PLUMS MIDGET SUGAR PEAS
PEARS ASSORTED JELLIES
SLICED PINEAPPLE ASSORTED PRESERVES
In our delicatessen department you will always find a selection
to tempt the jaded appetite
NUEKCHATELCHEESE OREGON CREAM CHEESE
IMPORTED SWISS CHEESE . CHIPPED BEEP
LLMBURGER CHEESE SLICED BACON
CHILE CHEESE
PIMENTO CHEESE SLICED RAW HAM
AMERICAN CHEESE BOILED HAM
In smoked and salted fish we offer
EASTERN COAST FINNEN HADDIE SALT HERRING
SALT MACKERAL SALMON HOLLIES
S. BLUM & CO., Inc.
GOOD GOODS
GROCERIES AND OFFICE LOCATED IN THE FORMER KING GROCERY' BUILDING
No IjOss of Life
PHILADELPHi V—The Penusyl- ]
\ania railroad in 1916 carried 196,-j
194, 246 passengers on its lines east
and west of Pittsburg without the
loss of a single life in a train aeci- j
dent. It was a record-breaking year :ii j
the handling of both passenger and |
freight traffic.
No passengers have been killed on
any lines of the Pennsylvania system
in a train accident, the statement
nays, for three years, during whicii
time 553, 890, 063 persons were
transported approximately 15,000,
000 miles. More than 9,000,000 pas
senger and freight trains were op
erated over the company’s 12,000
miles of railroad lines in the three
vear period.
.Millionaire is Robbed
CHICAGO. 111.. Feb. 6.— Adam
Schaff. millionaire piano manufac
urer, was held up by five bandits at
the door of his factory last nighi
and robbed of the pay roll of $3,
000. He was forced to stand help
less while the robbers rode away in
his automobile.
Dora 1 .eaves I'nalaska.
Advices received at the office of the
U. S. Marshal state that the steamer
Dora sailed from Unalaska for Sew
ard on February 5, and is expected
to arrive at the latter place about the
15th inst.
AN EMBROIDERED CEILING.
It Once Graced the Chineee Imperial
Palace at Peking.
One of the most beautiful and elab
orate pieces of embroidery ever exhib
ited In New York was the ceiling of
the council chamber of the imperial
palace at Peking. This ceiling was
formed of yellow silk of heavy quality
that much resembled faille in the
weave. The back was of a greenish
blue, woven in a small diamond pat
tern. The total measurements of It
all were twenty-one feet six Inches
long and nineteen feet six inches wide.
The design with which it was em
bellished was an imperial dragon in
the center and four others, one In each
corner. Encircling these a groundwork
was formed of cloud pattern, and dis
persed were small bats and other sym
bols. The cloud effect was worked out
In blue and purple and the bats in
pink. The dragons were largely gold
work, and a threefold line of gold sur
rounded each part of the design.
The story of this celling and how it
came to New York Includes a small
part of Chinese history and custom.
It was in the imperial council chamber
at Peking that the envoys of the va
rious nations met in 1002 to settle the
Boxer difficulties. At the close of the
session a representative of the emper
or courteously informed them that the
contents of the chamber were consid
ered profaned by the presence of for
elgners and that they were therefore
at liberty to divide among themselves
the chamber’s furnishings. In this
manner the ceillug fell to the share ol
the American envoy.—St Louis Post
Dispatch.
LOUIE’S CAFE
0|>en Day and Night McKinley Street, Below Table Office
Fresh Bread, Pies, Cakes,
All Kinds of Pastry for Sale.
EVERYTHING THE BEST ANDY MAROVITH, I*ro,»r.
Candy Kitchen
L W. HUNT—Ib Owl Drag Store.
FOUNTAIN DRINKS
HOT--COLD |
ATLAS JUNK CO.
Wholesale and Retail Dealers in
ALL KINDS OF JUNK
Buyers of Metal, Rubber, Ma
uila Rope, Sacks, Machinery,
Pipe, Hides, Furs aud Bottles.
1043 Railroad Avenue, So.
SEATTLE, WASH.
When In Seward Stop at the
COLEMAN HOUSE
SEORCt SEXTON. PROP
SiRICTLY FIRST CLASS
Fourth Atb. Seward. Alaska
The Best Place in Valdez to
Stop at is the
Arctic Hotel
Warn, Light Roaaa—The Howe of Comfort
RATES REASONABLE
BATH ROOM Special Rate* By the Month
PHONE 133 MRS. STRING. Prop
VALDEZ CAFE
AND BAKERY
Fresh Bread and Pastry always on hand
OPEN DAY AND NIGHT
BERGSTROM & ROGSTAD, Props.
PHONE 17 - Three dssss Ulsw Owl Drat
The launch Pathfinder, Captain i
Smith, will, leave tomorrow morning,
for Ellamar, Landlock and Fidalgo;
with several passengers and consid
erable freight.
For the most efficient service and
satietaction go to the St. Elias. i
Only a first-claBe drug store cai
secure an agency for Rexall products.
The Owl Drug Store, exclusive agents
for Valdez. «
' PROFESSIONAL CARDS.
DR. S. WICKES MERR1TV
OUcfn aver Valdes Drag Co.
Phone ’IS McKinley Street
Contract Surgeon, U. S. Army
A. A. Surgeon, V S. Public Health Serv
(Marine Hospital)
JOS. A. SILVERMAN, PH. 6. M/D.
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON
Over Owl Drug Co.
—OFFICE HOURS:
1 to 4 P. 11. 7 to 8 P. M
Sunday by Appointment.
Rea. Phone 178 Office Phone I*
ROBERT SIMPSON Opt. D.
JUNEAU, ALASKA
Glasses Fitted lenses Ground
DR. H. COCKERILLE
Cralmte Nitlmal CilTrrdt;
WuUa(tn, D. C.
DENTIST
Fourteen Tears In Valdes.
PHONE lie
Office Rooms la Whaling Building
DONOHOE & DIMOND
ATTOHNKYS-AT-LAtV
OSce Oppoolte Court Hoow
Phone M VALDEZ. ALASKA
JOHN CfONt s. r HiTCH :m
LYONS & RITCHIE
ATTORAKYS-A'I-LAW
llfflrn Is '• halUf Building
Phsue lM V ALDUS. ALASKA
VALDEZ LODGE
NO 108
Free u< Accepted Hunt
Regular Communications Brat Wed
uesday In each month In McKinley
HalL Visitors always welcome.
F. M. BROWN. W. M
ED WOOD. Secretary- >
Valdez Miners Union No. 188
Western Federation of Miner*
W. a GARNER. President,
Granite Mina
CBAS. McCALLUM, Secretary.
Velde* Alaska.