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FRIDAY, DECEMBER 31, 1915
CONFRONTING LAW OF HER
OWN MAKING
In the controversy with Great Brit
ain over the rights of neutrals at sea
the United States is confronting the
Island Kingdom with a law of its own
snaking. As a nation whose very ex
istance depends on unimpeded traffic
on the seas, England has, by a per
fectly neutral process, found herself
ranged on the side of neutral rights
in most df the naval wars of the past.
Able, by reason of her immense war
'fleet, to maintain effective blockades
of the coast of her enemies, she has
had a strong interest in declaring
that a blockade must be effective to
be recognized. Having maritime trad
ing interests greater in magnitude
than those of any other two powers
'the right to trade with the immediate
neighbors has often been of great
importance to her, and she has se
dulously safeguarded it. The edifice
of international law behind which the
United States stands at the present
moment is the -insistance on the
rights of neutral commerce with
neutrals is largely of England’s own
'building. England has been a power
for good in her contentions with re
gard to the freedom of the seas, but
-this cannot obscure the fact that
she most effectivly served her own
interests by her contentions. Now
•she finds herself in a position where
the freedom of neutral trade with
neutral neighbors of her enemies be
comes an indirect menace to her in
terest is now on the other side of the
question invalidate positions she has
previously taken or^estroy the edifice
built up by international agreement
and • practice under the stimulus of
her .aid and example?—Juneau Em
pire;
The copper output for this section
of Alaska, including the Bonanza
mine at Kennecott, the Beetson mine
at Latouche, the Ellamar mine, as
well as a number of smaller shippers,
now approximates two million dollars
monthly and with a few more produ
cers added to the list Valdez will soon
before th% mining center of Alaska.
Ladies Aid to Present Play.
The Ladies’ Aid of the Congrega
tional church are planning the pre
sentation of a comedy play entitled
“The Old Maid’s Convention,” on Fri
day evening, January 28. The an
nouncement is made at this time in
order that other entertainments be
ing planned for the coming month
will' not encroach on the date.
TORPEDO TO RAZE CITY
HUNDRED MILES DISTANT.
LONDON, Dec. 28—A device which
may revolutionize modern warfare
has been invented and tested and will
be ready for the market in a short
time. It is an aerial torpedo and
the men who have wonted out the
Idea are Elmer A. Sperry, president
of tin Sperry Gyroscope company of
Brooklyn and his son, Lawrence !!.
8 perry.
Particulars of the newest and most
cc*s! motive engine of death and the
results of various tests were given hv
Lawrence B. Sperry.
If carried out on-a large stale, the
Sperry scheme would make possible
the destruction o* a whole town witii
a tingle torpedo and the bomba d
ment of cities ns far as U-:» <<>•<'
distant could be carried on without
the loss of a single life by the as
sails its.
What the plan rmounts to its this:
An aeroplane complete with the ex
ception of landing geari is construct
ed and fitted with gyroscopic com
pass and stabilizer. The torpedo
bearing anywhere from 500 pound'
to five tons of tri-nitro,toulumine, if
set in place. Prom a specially ar
ranged launching cradle the craft i:
sent into the air.
The direction to be taken by the
flying bomb can be determined bj
scientific calculations, and the gyro
scope will insure a true course.
The stabilizer can be so sot and
gauged that the plane will rise a'
any angle. At whatever height the
adjustment of the stabiliezer calls fo;
the machine will automatically as
sume a horizontal course, fly a pre
determined distance along that co irs-r
and then descend at the desired an
gle. The machine can be made tc
take a perpendicular drop over a
certain point. It can be launched
from a battleship as well as from the
land.
For example, if a torpedo were to
be discharged from a British vessel
50 miles from Kiel canal, the load
of high explosive could be sent un
erringly among the vessels of the
German fleet there, and the only pos
sibility of defense would be the ex
ploding of the bomb in the air by
gunfire. If the attack were made at
night, even that possibility would be
remote.
Enpress Circuit Presents
Eugene O’Brien and
Elaine Hanunerstein in
“THE MOONSTONE”
FROM the far east jour
ney three priests
whose mission'is the recov
ery of the wonderful Moon
stone stolen from the eye
of an Indian idol. Intrigue,
mystery and death follow
I in the wake of the diamond
f and tangled in the meshes
of the story is an absorb
ing love tale.
5 ACTS.
lUCUl O-OKIW
& U.MNC HMMttWIt*
the. wooNSToni;
THE EMPRESS
TO-N|GHT TO-NIGHT
Admission 25c. All Children 10c.
A CRUSH OF WORLDS.
How Our 8olar System May End and
a New One Be Born.
The whole of the present solar sys- I
teui Is ultimately to fall Into the sun.
causing an explosion that may resu.l
In a new solar system. Such Is the
theory put forward by Professor Philip
Fauth. a well known astronomer,
whore reputation has rested principally
upon Ids researches into the conditions
on the moon.
The uovel feature of Dr. Fautb’s the
ory Is that It Is based upon the suppo
sition that a greut part of the kuown
solar system, including especially the
planets Jupiter, Uranus and Saturn, are
not composed of mineral matter at all.
but are tremendous masses of Ice or
balls of ice surrounding a mluernl ker- j
nel. Furthermore, he declares, u part
of what is now known us the Milky
way is not mineral or gnseous. but "aj
ring of Ice dust." masses of particles
of ice suspended in space, the other
planets receiving a constant addition
to their ice mass from this source.
Professor Fauth declares that the
world already at some remote periods
has had a similar experience, resulting
in the death of nearly all animate na
ture, and that all species of life as we
know it have arisen since then. Even
tually the planets swinging through
their narrow orbits will fall Into the
sun. causing a new explosion and per
haps the birth of a new solar system,
but for thousands of years before that
time, all life, either on earth or else
where. will have disappeared.—Kansas
City Journal.
ACROSS THE PACIFIC.
Influence of the “Great Circle” on the
Journey to Manila.
If you wanted to go from the Pana
ma canal to Yokohama which of these
two would be the shorter route? First,
across the ocean to Hawaii and from
there to Yokohama, or. second, up
along the coast to San Francisco aud
then directly across the 1’acitic to Asia ?
Nearly everybody would answer in
favor of the Hawaiian route. But the
navigators tell us the Journey is 2t>t‘>
miles shorter by way of San Francisco.
The “great circle” does it. Its intiu
ence on distance sends ships from San
Francisco to Manila by way of the
Aleutian islands. Actually our vessels
would go much farther uorth than they
do but for the discouragement of the
United States hydrographic bureau at
Washington, which advises a central
route, more than 200 miles longer than
the great circle, in order to escape the
fogs and ice of the far north.
The Hawaiian Islands are frequently
described as “the crossroads of the Pa
cific." Their people are naturally look
ing forward to wonderful commercial
development. They will doubtless en
joy substantial progress as a commer
cial center because many conditions in
ocean currents and in prevailing winds
and In fuel costs favor Honolulu as a
way station route. But it is well to re
member that these islands were plant
ed a little too near the equator to be a
crossroads of the north Pacific.—Bos
ton Herald.
Wonderful Names.
The seventeenth century juryman
had one disadvantage to contend with
from which his successor is happily
free. He was frequently burdened
with an intolerable name. James
Broome in his "Travels Over England.
Scotland and Wales." a work publish
ed In. 1700, gives a copy of "a Jury
Return made at Rye. Sussex, in the
late Rebellious. Troublesome Times."
Here are the names: “Stand fast on
high Stringer of Crowhurst, Earth Ad
ams of Warbleton. Killsin Pimple of
Witham. Graceful Harding of Lewes.
Weep not Billing of the same. Be
Faithful Joiner of Britllng. Fly Debate
Roberts of the same. Fight the good
Fight of Faith White of Ernes. Return
Spelman of Watling. Meek Brewer of
Oakham, More Fruit Fowler of East
Hodley, Hope for Bending of the
same.”—London Chronicle.
He 8aved the Patent Office.
When in the war of 1812 the British,
who bad taken Washington, trained
their guns upon the patent office Dr.
Thornton, throwing himself directly be
fore the guns, cried:
“Are you Englishmen or Goths and
Vandals? This is the patent office—a
depository of the Ingenuity and inven
tions of the American nation in which
the whole civilized world is interested.
Would you destroy it? Then let the
charge pass through my body.”
And the building was spared. Twen
ty-four years afterward, however, it
was destroyed by fire, together with
everything in it
Couldn’t Forget it
"Saturday night some miscreant lug
ged off a whole cord of my wood, and
somehow I can’t forget fcbout it,” de
clared Silas.
“Have you tried to forget it?” in
quired bis friend.
“Yes. Sunday morning I went to
church, hoping I could get it off m.v
mind, and before I bad been there five
minutes the choir started in singing
•The Lost Chord,’ so 1 got out”—Judge
Explanation.
“Willie, did you tie that tin can to
the dog’s tail?”
“Yes, sir,” replied the small boy.
“I’m tiring to do a kind act every
day. That dog chases every rabbit he
sees. I tied the can to him so that
it will make a noise and warn the rab
bit”—^WasblngtonfStar.
Patent Offioe Documents.
If all the documents stored in the
patent office at Washington could be
placed end to end they would form a
atrip that would reach around the earth
three times.
HIGH EXPLOSIVES.
Making Them la a Very Delicate and
Complex, Process.
Almost all tbe high explosives have
cotton us their buse. It is true that
very good sporting powder cun in
{nude from wood pulp: but. as the ed
itor of Nuture remarks, "the artillerist
would be in great difficulty if he were
provided with such a propellant, be
cause In order to obtain any sort of
regularity the nitration of the wood
pulp bus.to be kept ut a low poiut. and
the ballistics, on which the artillerist
depends, would be quite thrown out.”
High explosives are cellulose highly
nitrated—that is. highly charged with
nitrogen. This process consists of Im
mersing cotton waste (that has been re
peatedly teasled. picked and driedi in
a mixture of nitric and sulphuric ac
ids, in the proportion of 71 per cent
sulphuric acid, 21 per cent nitric acid
uud 8 per cent water. After the acids
have acted for the required time they
are removed. The cotton is washed
repeatedly and boiled several times in
water. It is then pulped, partly dried
and pressed into molds.
The manufacturer does his best to
regulate bis output, so that it shall con
tain approximately eleven molecules of
nitrate to the quadruple molecule of
cellulose, as shown in the fo -mula. or
a content of nitrogen that ranges be
tween 12.03 and 13.05 per cent
The process is delicate and complex,
for the proportions of acids and water*
must be exact and all must be chem
ically pure. Besides this, the cellulose
must be of uniform grade, which is a
most difficult thing to obtain.
INDIA’S QUEER BELIEFS,
Buddhists Would Die Rather Than
Lose a Limb or Eat Meat.
India’s population Is 325.000.000. Prac
tically all the races and religious of the
world are represented. Ninety-eight
and six-tenths per cent of the people
cannot redd or write. Four per cent
of the Inhabitants eat regular meals
The remainder eat when they can and
where they can. The average native
in India lives on less food per diem
than any other human being in the
world. Religious prejudices are In
tense. Men willingly die rather than
submit to some dismembering surgical
operation, for did not Allah command
them to appear before him as they left
him to come Into the world?
The Buddnlsts will not eat meat or
take even a medicine derived from an
animal. They died by millions during
the bubonic plague rather than take a
prophylactic serum made from pepsin
and beef broth—because the pig from
which pepsin was obtained was un
clean to the Mohammedan and Hindu,
and the killing of this animal and the
bull from which the broth was made
was against the tenets of the Bud-:
dhistlc faltti. ’ I knew an editor In ;
Poona, India, to absolutely refuse a !
$3,000 yearly advertisement of a patent j
medicine because It contained pepsin.
Indians are fond of sweets and last
year Imported over $40,000,000 worth
of sugar. Clothing is made chiefly
from cotton, which is largely grown In
the country.—W. E. Aughinbaugh in
Leslie’s.
When You “See Stare."
The man who when struck violently
on tbe bead says be "saw stars" is not
far from telling the truth. The fact
Is that there is a phosphorescent pow
er in the eye which does not attract a
person's attention under ordinary con
ditions, but which is distributed and
reveals itself whenever the head gets
a sudden shock and sometimes even
in tbe act of sneezing. A blow on tbe
bead results in a pressure of the blood
vessels upon tbe retina, causing either
total darkness or a faint blue light
which floats before tbe eyes, and it is
in this faint blue light tbe imagination
discerns tbe thousands of fantastic
forms and figures that by general ac
ceptance -■are termed stars; hence,
while tbe astronomical display so fre
quently mentioned may be said to be
entirely a creature of the imagination,
there is at least some foundation for
tbe idea.
Tibetan Penal Code.
The Tibetan penal code is curious.
Murder is punished with a fine vary
ing according to the importance of the
slain, theft by a fine of seven to one
hundred times the value of the article
stolen. Here, again, the fine depends
on the social Importance of the person
from whom the theft has been commit
ted. The harborer of a thief is looked
upon as a worse criminal than the
thief himself. Ordeals by fire and by
boiling water are still used as proofs
of Innocence or guilt, exactly as was
the custom in Europe in the middle
ages. And if the lamas never inflict
death they are adepts at torture.
Literary.
“Oh, I simply adore Meredith and
Browning and Henry James," said the
gushing young person.
“So do I,” said Little Blnks. “They
are perfectly delightful. It’s like send
ing your mind to a gymnasium. Er—
do you read them In the original?”—
New York Times.
The Rip Van Winkle Kind.
Salesman—Why not try one of onr
Rip Van Winkle rugs, madam? Pros
pective Purchaser — What kind are
they? Salesman—They have an un
asually long nap.—Indianapolis Star.
The Outlet.
Physiology Teacher—Clarence, you
may explain bow we hear things. Clar
ence—Pa tells 'em to ma as a secret,
and ma gives ’em away at the bridge
club.—Cleveland Leader.
This world la to the sharpest, heaven
to the most worthy.—Cicero.
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Graduate National University.
Washington, D. C.
DENTIST
Fourteen Years in Valdez.
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Office Rooms in Whaling Building
DR. GERMAN
phone t« THE DENTIST
Office rooms over Owl Drug Store. Of
fice hours 9 a. m. to 6 p. m., 7 to 9
p. m. Sunday by appointment.
All Work Guaranteed.
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PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON
Phone 42
Alaska Avenue Valdez, Alaska
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AT-rOH.NEY8-AT-I.AW
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Phone 34 VALDEZ* ALASKA
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LYONS & RITCHIE
ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW
Office* In Whaling Building
Phone 101 VALDEZ. ALASKA
Copper River
Graying Co
Freighting and Passengers
to all parts of the Interior.
GENERAL TRUCKING
McKinley Street, Valdez
ED. WOOD, Proprietor
GENERAL
Somebody
With Money
always has been found to
“back” a good plan, a good
idea, a good business ven
ture or a good mining pros
pect; otherwise a good many
of today’s successful busi
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.'
ADVERTISE IN THE
PROSPECTOR FOR RE
SULTS
It’s the Truth.
An outgoing . Dawsonlte, when in
terviewed at Vancouver said: “Daw-|
son will have about fifteen hundred
people this winter.” That is not
many people and it is less than Daw
son ever had at ally one time in her
previous history. We can remem
ber when nearly fifteen hundred per
sons belonged to the Blackjack Boos
ters’ Union in Dawson and half of
them would look around when any
one yelled, “Hey, Kid!"—WhitehoYse
Star. __
Just received ,the finest line of
neckties ever shown in Valdes, at
Ben Silverman's. i
Red Cross Hospital
Keystoner«n<! Hobart Sts.
OPEN TO ALL PHYSICIANS.
Private Rooms for Patients.
Phone 144 MRS. C. H Wllilpx. Metro.
VALDEZ L#mT
NO 108
Free and Accepted Maaona.
Regular Communications first Wed
nesday In each month In McKinley
Hall. Visitors always welcome.
A. E. GRIGSBY, W. M.
ED. WOOD, Secretary.
When In Seward Stop at the
COLEMAN HOUSE
GEORGE SEXTON.PROP
SlRICTLY FIRST CLASS
Fourth Ave, Seward, Alaska j
The Best Place in Valdez to
Stop at is the
Arctic Hotel
Warm, light Rooms—The Hoax of Comfort j
RATES REASONABLE
BATH ROOM Special Rates By the Meath
PHONE 133 MRS. STRING,'Prep,
Valdez Miners Union No. 188
Western Federation of Miner*
ROBERT SHAFFER, Preeidaat.
Granite Mine.
CHAS. McCALLUM. Secretary.
Valdai, Alaska.
Dougherty & Ferguson
Merchandise
The best groceries received
on every boat,
Fresh vegetables, fruits, and
nuts.
A. M. DIERINGER
Valdez Transfer
Company
Office on Alaska Avenue, in
■ Ceorge C. Treat Building
Telephone No. 60
General Trucking and freighting
to all Interior Points.
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LIVERY and FEED STABLE,
STORAGE,
Teaming of All Kinds
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Positively No Coal Delivered Un»
less Paid for in Advance
m Shamrock
CAPT. TIM MARCUM
Sails for Port Wells, Portage
Bay, Granite Mine, Saturday
at 9:00 a. m., from the Val
dez Dock Company’s Book.
For EUamar, Landlock Bay,
and Fidalgo, every Wednes
day, 9:00 a. m., from Val
des Dock Company’s Dock.
For Rates, Apply on Boat.