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WEDNESDAY, MARCH 29, 1910
THE END OF THE PLAY.
AND in the world, as in the school.
I’d say how fate may change and
shift.
The prize be sometimes with the fool.
The race not always to the swift;
The strong may yield, the good may fall.
The great may be a vulgar clown.
The knave be lifted over all.
Hie kind cast pitilessly down.
COWS wealth or want,, come good or 111.
C Let young and old accept their part
And bow before the awful will
And bear it with an honest .heart.
Who misses or who wins the prizp
Go, lose or conquer as you can.
Bat if you fail, or if you rise.
Be each, pray God. a gentleman.
—W. M. Thackeray.
HELP US HELP YOU.
Have you ever considered what
Valdez would be without a paper’
In case the ^Prospector and Miner
suspended publication and moved to
greener pastures and fairer fields,
can you imagine how much you would
miss the little bit of outside news
that comes daily to your door?
Not that there is ihe remotest pos
sibility of such calamity ever occur
ring,—but in case it did what effect
would it have on the town?
We are getting out a good paper.
We know that and you know it. with
out further argument.
Have you ever stopped to consider
that Valdez is the only town in Alas
ka that maintains a seven-day paper?
No? Well it is! Valdez citizens get
the news fresh from the outside three
hundred and sixty-five days per year,
barring holidays, and they are not
many. No other town in Alaska en
joys this privilege, and but very few
in tbe States.
People outside set up and take no
tice of these things, and we repeated
ly receive letters commenting upon
the fact that the Miner is the best,
paper in Alaska, bar none, and covers
the Territorial news more fully.
Our plant is electrified throughout
‘with individual motors, and our ma
chinery is new and up to the min
ute.
mese inings neip me mwu.
incidentally help ub.
But—
While nine out of ten business men
in Valdez patronize us liberally we
want the other tenth. We have got
to have them.
Whatever patronage we receive Is
..^/ued immediately back into our
plant, in an endeavor to make a bet
ter paper. More readable, more tele
graph, better illustrated and better
printed.
Why should one-tenth of our citi
zens lay hack and allow the other
nine-tenths to shoulder the biydet.
The paper is plugging night and
day for a bigger town, a better town,
and for more people and industries.
It is working incessantly, as we have
stated before, to boost Valdez.
Give us your patronage and we will
turn it back to you in a better paper.
We have plenty of space left for
more advertising, and when the space
wo now have gets cramped, we will
enlarge our paper to a seven-column,
or an eight-page daily, with full As
sociated Press report.
• Wouldn’t that be better for you
and for us and for the town?
A town Is judged outside entirely
by its advertising columns. If a man
looks at our paper and sees that we
are lacking in many industries (be
cause they are not advertised in the
paper) he considers our town a dead
one and drops us. We lose money;
you lose money.
Our money is all turned back into
Valdez; nearly $800 per month; and
it is spread out like a porous plaster
among the merchants and industries
of our city.
We get your money and you get
ours it is a fair exchange could we
but convince you.
We are not in the real estate busi
ness, insurance business or in poli
tics, but are trying to run a news
paper. '
It is a good paper, but— >
Can’t you help make it a better
one?
We thank you!
GRASS
Lying in the sunshine among the
buttercups and dandelions of May.
scarcely higher in intelligence than
the minute tenants of that mimic
wilderness, our .earliest recollections
are of grass; and when the fitful
fever is ended, and the foolish
wrangle of the market and forum is
closed, grass heals over the scar
which our descent into the bosom of
the earth has made, and the carpet
of the infant becomes the blanket of
the dead. Grass is the forgiveness of
nature—her constant benediction.
Fields trampled with battle, saturat
ed with blood, torn with the ruts of
cannou, grow green again with grass,
anu carnage is forgotten. Streets
abandoned by trfeffic become grass
grown like rur... lanes, and are ob
literated. Forests decay, harvests per
ish, flowers vanish, but grass is im
mortal.—John W. Ingalls.
We publish in another column a
communication from the “Sourdough
Kid" on a question which is agitating
the public mind. It is a virile, vigor
ous piece of rhetoric, and wo publish
it for the reason that the sentiment
is good,—in fact, much better than
the orthography. Vhe “Kid” hits the
nail square on the head in a number
of plMes, and his article is well
worth reading.
A Galveston widow says that she
knows one or two places where she
can get a husband, but what $he has
always wanted is a white satin opera
cloak.
Prof. Robert Morse Lovet, of the
University of Chicago, says that wom
en will rule after the present war.
This sort of predicting is easy, for
there will probably be little change
from present conditions.
SEEDS FOR DISTRIBUTION
AT PROSPECTOR OFFICE.
The Prospector office has about 100
packages of free seeds for distribu
tion from the Hon. James Wicker
sham, Alaska’s Delegate to Congress.
Parties desiring same should call at
once as the supply is limited, and
those calling first will receive same.
Dwarf Bean, Peas, Tall Nasturtium,
Calendula, Chinese Pinks, Kale, Car
rots, Itadish, Onion, Parsley, Tur
nips, Brussels Sprouts. Kohl Rabi.
Beet, Parsnips, Lettuce, Endive, Nas
turtiums (dwarf), Cosmos, Califor
nia Poppy. Coreopsis, . Delphinium,
Single and Double Poppies, Snapdrag
on, Virginia Stock, Mignonette, Can
dytuft. Morninglory, Sweet Peas,
Chrysanthemum, Petunias and Gyp
sophlia. These come packet in small
| bags, and comprise all the well known
varieties.
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Subscribe for the prospector.
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Out theater is YOUR theater. Without you we could not continue in
bnsinesB. So please oonsider yourself at liberty any time to make sug
gestions, either personally or by mail. Tell us what you like and what
yon dislike, so we can ran the theater to please yon.
| EMPRESS PROGRAM
| BUNNY IN BUNNYLAND—Animated Comical Cartoon fnU of
Mirth.
itf NFAITHFUL TO HIS TRUST—Drama with Alice Joyce and
Guy C. Coombs and assisted by J. B. Ross, J. Austin, Henry
Hallam and J. E. Muckum.
PATHK NEWS—All the Latest Topics of the Day Filmed for Us.
INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC— _
WAULS OF JEK1CO—Edmund Breese. Thursday.
TiNF HHOW AT H: 10 811 AIU* ADMISSION 25 CENfS
Henry Miller left on the Alaska
last night ' en route to Anchorage,
where he has accepted a position with
the Alaska Engineering commission.
Knute Nafstad, proprietor of the
Tonsina roadhouse, was a passenger
on the Alaska from the States to
Cordova, en route to his home.
Valdez Drug company nave a tine
line of Schcol Stationery. tr
Are You Interested?
The five-reel regular program and
Enoch Arden, four reels, making a
total of nine reels for 26 cents at the
Liberty tonight. *
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The Walls of Jericho.
The Empress Circuit presents to
morrow, Friday and Saturday, Ed
mund Breese with all star cast in
cluding Claire W'hitney, Stuart Holm
es and Edward Jose in “The Walls
of Jericho.”
This virile story of English social
life is a message—a warning to civ
ilization against the decadence of its
very foundations. It is a clarion
blast against gambling, dissipation
and tendencies just as injurious to
our social being. The story revolves
about a self-made millionaire who
marries a lady of royal birth, whose
associates in the smart set almost
lead her to destruction.
Five acts directed by Lloyd B.
Carlelon, the distinguished producer.
The play ran for two years at the
Garrick Theatre, London, and one
year at the Hackett Theatre, New
York.
Introductory Picture, Pathe News. (
One show at 8:10 sharp. i
Admission 25 cents. i
Another special production next;
week. |
Itontroversy on Piece.
(15y the “Sourdough Kid.)
Peace is a thing It must lie a good
tiling. An the eddicated , people I
liearn taikin is strong for it. Them
yeliow-iegs' ■■ book miners that hang
around the Buffet Bar and handles
them longhandled words ekaiy '.veil
well as they do them Scotch High
balls is ranting a heap on this hear
thing peace.
Now I’m quite well eddicated and
fur traveii.-. But I has to admit ihat
a of their diskusaion goes clean
over my dome. And as readin be
ing quite distasteful to me, not ever
havln got used to it, I has to sap all
my nolledge with my ears, which is
some large and capable. Well from
what'I socks in from them two or^j
gans peace is this. Now suppose me
and Hauser was to get into an argy
ment over a claim as. is ekaiy ours.
Well Jennings bryan happens along
and buts in to find out what all the
rackets about. Wen 1 gives him my
end and Hauser gives him his. This
said Bryan crosses his paws • on his
paunch and sits all attention like
a chipmunk listens to us spiel our
kicks and then pats us on the back
and says. Boys, Boys please be friends
Let us have peace. So we agreed to
let him patch the deal up. Which he
done some pronto. He says, If you
boys always have a half each youd
have a jog of trouble getting along
iso well split it into three parts fnd
then well all have a peace. Such is
what my organs gather to constitute
peace.
Andrew Carnegie is another great
gink who is trying to carral the peace
market, and from what I gather from
my humble Associate Schmidty the
Bartender, This same Andy always;
gethers in the biggest piec of all. And
Hennery Ford, who pays tho floor
swabbers in his cannery five bones a
day is one of these here peace assay
ers to and he collects of them neuter
gender female persons and some
plain mail men puts them on his spe
cial boat, labels it well and feeds em
well on shampain, frogs legs and
setch, so’s they’ll be up and goin’
when they meet the big bugs on the
other side of the drink to make the
big pow wow but things seems to
have slipped up some how or .other.
And Hennery got peeved and tied the
can on them. But they all got a piece
out of Hennerys so it didnt come so
low for an averedge after all, and if
hennery had a held his whip for a
while .they might a done better yet.
This peace is a pretty old proposi
non.
They took a piece out of Adam to
build eve with and she’s been a taken
on every since. I wonder what part
they used to make Carry Nation. Rv
ery so often she ups with her axe and
breaks some gin mill winder and
then she goes up for a piece.
And in the early days the Indians
used to smoke it in their pipes. A
habit which some of the long hairs
at Washington must have contracted.
Yes, its funny dope alright. Japan
wants a piece of China England
wants a piece of Germany, Russia
wants a piece of turkey and so forth
an no one in this world couldnt get
along without peace but how we
gone to settle this here argyment I
think these big peace achrokates I
hears tell so much about are like
what Tom Beasley says about these
here mininging engineers book min
ers up here in this country. (They
savvys a lot, a wholo hell of a lot,
The S. S. Evans Just Brought Us a
Large Shipment of
Fresh Vegetables
INCLUDING
Asparagus, Rhubarb, Celery,
Lettuce, Tomatoes, Artichokes,
Green Peppers, Radishes,
Parsley, Green Peas, Cabbages.
ALSO—All Kinds of Seasonable Fruits.
Telephone orders promptly attended to.
S. BLUM & CO., FS
GOOD GOODS
hut they dont know nothin’.) 1 goes
a heap on what old tow says him and
this bird solomon is first cousin Tom
coinin' first. I hear Charley Ganty
and a lot of other law sharks and
head saloonkeepers argy this point
pro and con. Bu. they cant seem to
get no peace and when them kind of
folks cant seem to make the shuffle
1 for one says pass the buck and let
’em go to .. until there alnt no pieces
left, and then we’ll have peace. The
only real geniwine public character
& curiosity what seems strongly op
posed to this argument is Theedoor
Roseavelt and what in hell makes
him so rambunctious I cant savvy.
That particular galoot is always try
in’ to raise hell and' prop it up with
a chip. BWt he cant do no- hurt
against the over whelmen public sen
timents. Not in this here town.
Yours truly,-.
REAR ADMIRAL BADGER.
Says Battle Cruisars to Ba Built
Should Hava Tan 14-inch Guns.
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nesday in each month in McKinlej
Halt Visitors always welcome.
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Copper River
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Freighting and Passengers
to all parts of the Interior
GENERAL TRUCKING
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Sails tor Port Wells, Portago
Bay, Granite Mine, Saturday
at 9:90 a. m., from the Val
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and Fldalgo, every Wednes
day, 9:00 a. m., from Val
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Company
Office on Alaska Avenue, in
George C. Treat Building
Telephone No. 60
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to all Interior Points.
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STORAGE,
Teaming of All Kinds
Positively No Coal Delivered Un
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Washington. D. C,
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Fourteen Ysars in Valdea.
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Merchandise
The best groceries received
on every boat.
Fresh vegetables, fruits, and
nuts.
Somebody
With Money
| always has been found to'
“back” a good plan, a good
idea, a good business vco>
! ture or a good mining prosr
; pect; otherwise a good many
• of today’s successful bust
| ness enterprises would still
be mere dreams.
Advertising has brought
\ about a majority of the in
troductions of the man with
the idea, the man with a
| prospect, or business to the
> man with the dollar.
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