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SATURDAY, DECEMBER 5, 1914.
SOUTH AFRICA’S LESSON.
After the conquest of South Africa
the British party which provoked and
carried through the war would have
been pleased to establish the van
quished republics as possessions of
the crown, without rights and with
the smallest measure of self-govern
ment. Fortunately for both British
and Boers, a more enlightened party
came into power, and, against the
bitter protests of the Boer-baiers, gave
South Africa independence as a self
governing member of the British em
pire.
The result has been a large d’min
ution of race antipathy. Britons and
Boers live amicably in the Boer gov
erned realm. And the Boer govern
ment, in Britain’s time of great need,
proves the. national gratitude by
standing loyal and putting down the
rebellion led by a few irreconcilables.
It is certatm almost neyono tue
shadow of a doubt that had the Boers
been treated as a conquered and an
inferior people they would now be
in arms against Great Britain. They
would have bided their time and
watched for their first opportunity for
revenge. They would now be able al
lies of the Germans, remembering
both the oppression of the British and
the undisguised sympathy of the Ger
man emperor at the time of the Boer
war.
The reward of national generosity
cannot be measured except in time
of national emergency. In the South
African instance it is not so much the
British nation as a dominant political
party which has merited the grati
tude of which the entire empire is
beneficiary.
HELPING THEMSELVES.
It is announced from London that
Belgians have contributed the sum
of $3,000,000 to aid in the work of
relieving Belgian distress. Consider
ing the condition of Belgium" at this
time such a contribution is not only
generous but even amazing. Where
is the Belgian wealth from which $3,
000,000 can be contributed.
Belgian industry is non-existent.
Belgian agriculture has been abandon
ed. The country has become one vast
battle ground, and battle grounds do
not produce wealth. Large fortunes
have been destroyed; families of com
fortable means have been plunged to
the depths of poverty, it would be
no reproach were Belgium now a na
tion of paupers. Belgium thrift and
energy are proverbial, but a people
which has had its land transformed
into a field of blood can be neither
thrifty nor energetic for the time be
ing,
No one doubts that the Belgians
will in time recover from the fright
ful calamity which has befallen them.
They are made of the right stuff. The
free gift of $3,000,000 by Belgians who
have managed to save something from
the nation’s wreck is an admirable
indication of the Belgian spirit.
Charges that the Belgians, having
aroused the sympathy of the neutral
world and notably of America, are
content to become recipients of char
ity cannot be borne out by facts.
Where this work is to be done the
Belgians will do it They will help
themselves to the best of their abil
ity, but that ability must for some
time be pitifully small. There can
be no question of the worthiness of
the afflicted people. They deserve all
the aid that the United States can
render them.—Ex.
OUR PROSPEROUS FOREIGN
TRADE.
There was an increase of imports
by $5,038,476 during October, and a
decrease of exports by $76,577,612.
The result is a decrease of our ex
cess of exports from $138,912,162 ltist
year to $57,305,074. The showing is,
nevertheless, encouraging, because the
comparison with last year is unfair.
The year 1913 stood in a class by
itself, owing to an unusual increase
in exports and decrease in imports.
There is no precedent for such an ex
cess of exports in October as last
year’s. This year’s excess of exports
Is much more nearly normal, and
means what It seems to mean. Last
year’s phenomenal figures were sub
ject to an offset in the movement of
capital which is lacking this year,
and will be lacking hereafter. It is
a real and nearly irreducible balance
in our favor, and it will puzzle our
foreign customers to keep their ac
count balanced unless we take their
notes in settlement.
Last year we were skimping our
importations because we did not feel
prosperous, and we were stimulating
our exports to pay our debts abroad.
This year that is exactly reversed. It
is our foreign friends who are skimp
ing their imports, and stimulating
their exports, at reductions in price
we may be sure, looking at the for
eign exchange market. In volume of
trade our foreign business is satisfac
tory, and it is steadily improving. Be
ginning with April there was an ex
cess of imports for four successive
months and we were exporting gold
in volume no other country could have
endured. In September there was an
excess of exports of merchandise of
$17,000,000, and in October we add
ed $40,000,000 to that figure.
Our foreign trade is quite as good
as our transatlantic customers can
afford to have it, or as we ought to
wish it. We ought to have some
mercy for their troubles. We ought
rather to wish to see our domestic
trade as near to the mark as our for
eign trade. Then we should have tru
ly good times, and little left to wish
for.—New York Times.
Large stock of cut glass and Paris
ian ivory at Valdez Drug Co. tf.
MEDICATED COTTDD
FDRJHE ALLIES
NEW YORK, Dec. 5.—Thirty tliou
sand pounds of medicated cotton was
sent in one shipment today from this
port for the use of the British and
French medical staff. Large orders
are being placed with wholesale drug
gists and manufacturing concerns for
medical supplies for the armies of the
allies.
local brevities.
Trail of the Lonesome Mine at the
Orpheum tonight.
FOR SALE—One double bedstead,
one box spring mattress. Enquire
Prospector office.
Latest popular copyrights and clas
sics at Valdez Drug Co. tf
Al. Dubeck is in town from the Val
dez mining property.
Prescriptions carefully compound
ed at Valdez Drug Co. tf
Yakima netted Gem spuds 3 cents
per lb. at Yakima Fruit Co. tf
Swell pictures and music at the
Orpheum tonight.
Prank McKenna left today with a
dog team for a trip out the trail.
Cooking apples $2 per box at the
Yakima Fruit Co. tf
Over a dozen varieties of apples to
pick from at the Yakima Fruit Co. tf
Frank Whitman is in town from the
Valdez Mining company’s property.
A nice line of art pictures just re
ceived from New York at Valdez
Drug Co. tf
Beautiful hand-painted vases just
received at Valdez Drug Co. tf
?—Men’s heavy wool hose 25c pair
at Emporium. tf
Nice cauliflower two heads for 35
cts. at Yakima Fruit Co. tf
THE “WHY” OF A “HOT BOX.”
k Railroad Official Saya the Causa Is
Simply Carelessness.
In answer to the question “What is
a hot box?” a Kansas City Southern of
ficial has the following to say:
“A hot box is a sign that the safety
first rule is not practiced by some car
department man.
“There is no excuse for a hot box
after a car is sent out if the train, is
eurefully looked over by the car men
at ench terminal. Primarily a hot box
is caused by poor waste and an in
sufficient ‘greasing’ at the time it
should have been done, and there is
no excuse for one. A hot box is lia
ble to cause a wreck, and a wreck on
most railroads costs money, much
more than the price of u sufficient
quantity of waste and oil and grease
to protect the journals of the car
wheels.
"The farmer who buys a new wag
on or a buggy has a pretty good idea
of what a hot box means and the
ways to prevent it. When he buys a
new wagon he sees to it that the spin
dle is well greased so it will not get
hot. He watches it closely and does
not take any chances on the wheels
running hot The farmer’s wheels on
his new wagon or buggy would stick,
and if he persisted in driving ahead
he would soon have a bad spindle and
a bad wheel.
"However, the results would not be
so disastrous as they would be in a
train of cars running at a speed of
fifteen or twenty miles an hour. It’s
no wonder that trainmen use lauguage
unfit for a Sunday school class when
they find a hot box in their train.
They know that some one has been
careless and shirking in his work and
that he is to blame.”—New York Post.
MENDEL’S LAW.
Shown In the Crossing of Pure Yellow
and Pure Green Peas.
The following beuutlfully clear sum
mary of the principles of mcndelism
is due to the Rev. YV. YYMlks. the fa
mous horticulturist, who developed the
Shirley poppy:
If you cross pure yellow and pure
green peas either way—it matters not
which is seed bearer and which pollen
bearer—you will get all yellow seeds.
If you sow these hybrid seeds, each
will, if it germinates, produce a plant
which will bear, say, forty seeds, thir
ty of which will on the average be yel
low and ten green. The green, if sown
and sown and sown for countless gen
erations, will always bear green seeds
true to the original green parents (bar
ring the always possible intervention
of insects!.
Not so the thirty yellow. These
when sown will on the average pro
duce ten plants bearing all pure yellow
seeds, which will be constant and true
to the original yellow parent for count
less generations. The remaining twen
ty plants will be impure yellow, each
plant producing, on the average, one
quarter of its seeds pure yellow, one
quarter pure green and one-half im
pure yellow, which last will repeat the
process and proportion practically for
ever
This is the law or inheritance which
is tin? basis of all the studies of the
euffenists and, in fact, of nil breeders
of animals and plants.—New York
World. _
Conditional.
Examiner—Now. William, if a man
can do one-fourth of a piece ot work
in two days how Iona will he take to
finish if; William- Is it a contrac' job
or is he workin' by the day7 —I,il'e.
Grasping Animal.
Man is never satisfied If he finds a
uickel which he didn t know he had in
some obscure pocket lie immediately
boffins to look for another - Tejeda
Blade
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Ask Us for
Christmas
Suggestions
ij|F you dont see what you
want in this store, ask for it;
we probably have it; if we
haven’t, we’ll get it for you.
We can’t give you a complete
list of Christmas things for men,
in the space we have here; but
we’ll send you one if you care
for it.
Hart Schaffner & Marx clothes
- Suits, Overcoats—head the list
- you couldn’t give a better gift
for $20 or $25 or $30 or $35.
Latest Styles of Neckwear
Bath Robes
Smoking Jackets
Lined and Unlined Gloves
Suit Cases and Bags
Shoes and Slippers
Stetson Hats
Gordon & Ferguson Fur Caps.
Initialed and Plain Handker’fs
Silk Handk’fs and Mufflers
for the Children
LOCAL BREVITIES.
The most exquisite hand-painted
china ever seen in Valdez at Valdez
Drug Co. tf
Bill Erickson arrived in town yes
terday from the property of the Val
dez Mining company.
Before purchasing Christmas pres
ents drop in and see the stock on dis
play at Valdez Drug Co. tf
The Rev. Edward II. Molony, pastor
of the Church of the Epiphany, will
speak tomorrow night upon the sub
ject of “The Bible and Its Critics.”
Special music will be provided. Miss
Ruth Spence will sing. All are cor
dially invited.
At the Orpheum Tonight.
For the Sins of Another, beautiful
drama.
The Eye of the God of Friendship,
interesting story with good photog
raphy.
The Trail of the Lonesome Mine,
exciting comedy drama.
Opening Dance Fort Liscum S. C.
Wednesday, Dec. 9th, at Fort Liscum
Lieut. C. V. Donaldson will leave Valdez at 8:15 p. m. Return
ing leave Fort Liscum 1:15 a. m.
Ladies and gentlemen of Valdez are cordially invited to attend.
ADMISSION BY INVITATION._
GOOD MUSIC GOOD TIME ASSURED.
RUINS OF HOSPITAL IN TERMONDE
• t*H *y American Press Association.
Copper River Lumber Co., Inc.
ALL KINDS OP
Native and | | TMOCD and Building
Puget Sound LiUIVIDIjIv Material
CONSTANTLY ON HAND
Prices Right W. M. FINICAL, Mgr. Phone 18
Patronize a Home Industry
An Apple a Day Keeps the Dr. Away
BUYS $1,000,000 WORTH OF NORTHWESTERN APPLES
Stienhardt & Kelly Exporting Co., of New York, have bought 650
car loads of Northwestern apples to go to Liverpool, Bristol and Glas
gow. This means a raise in the price of apples.
Better get that box for Christmas now. Come in and select from
a dozen different varieties Prices from $2.00 to $2.75 per box.
Delivery. Phones 55.
The Yakima Fruit Company
Pacific Alaska
/
Navigation Company
Alaska Pacific S. S. Co. Alaska Coast Co.
PUGET SOUND-ALASKA ROUTE
Steamers sail from Seattle
Nov. 15th, Dec. 5tH and 25th
via the Inside Passage for Ketchikan, Juneau, Yakutat, Ka
talla, Cordova, Valdez, Seward, Cook Inlet points and Kodiak.
PUGET SOUND-CALIFORNIA ROUTE
Seattle-San Francisco, connecting with steamers Yale and
Harvard for southern California ports.
Right reserved to change dates and steamers without notice
VALDEZ DOCK CO.
Local Agent
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 servioo for Ketchikan. Juneau, Sheep creek Treadwell, Douglas.
Cordova, Ellamar. Valdez and Latouche. Explosives. S S Seward. S S Seward. 5th"
S S Latouche. 15th: S S Cordova. 85th of each month-Right reserved to ohange this
•ohedule without notloe.
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