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The handiest, most serviceable. j
coat now days is the mackinaw—the j
all-around coat; suitable for town or j
the trail. i
Our Kenyon or Summit coats are 1
made Norfolk or plain belted styles, |
with high shawl collar and the new- j
est in checks, plaids or plain colors. j
Price From $6.50 to $9.00 j;
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On the basis ot Security and Service
we solicit your account.
WE DO A BANKING BUSINESS EXCLUSIVELY.
VALDEZ BANK & TRUST CO.
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„ PROFESSIONAL
Dr. H. COCKERILLE
Graduate of National University
Washington, D. C.
M DENTIST
in both companies Fourteen vears in
Office Rooms in VALDEZ
Whaling Building.
DR. GERMAN
Phone |) THE DENTIST
Ofltoe rooms over Owl Druir store. Ofltce hours
9 a. m . to 6 p. in.. " P. m.. to9 p. in. Sundays
by appointment All worlt ituaranteed
DR. M. O. ADAMS
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Office Over Valdez Drug Store.
New Company’s Phone No. 69
HOURS—9 to 12 a. m.; 1 to 6 and7 to9p. m.
3 I JOHN LYONS E. E. RITCHIE < i
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IDONOHOE &DIMOND 33
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F. BUTTERWORTH
jCivil Engineer and[
U. S. Deputy Land and
Mineral Surveyor
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Blue Printing Valdez, Alaska.
Copper River
Draying Co
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Freighting and Passengers
to all parts of the Interior..
GENERAL TRUCKING.
McKinley Street, Valdez.
Ed. Wood, - - - Proprietor.
LOCAL VALDEZ
Socialist Patty of Alaska
Meets every Saturday at 8 p. m.
Next door to Senate Saloon.
Everybody Welcome.
Notice of Settlement of Account.
In the Commissioner’s Court for the
Territory of Alaska, Third Division.
In Probate.
In the matter of the estate of I.
D. Flynn, deceased.—Notice of settle
ment of account.
Notice is hereby given that W. T.
Scott, the administrator of the estate
of I. D. Flynn, deceased, has rendered
and presented for settlement, and fil
ed in the above entitled court, his
final account of the administration
of said estate, and that Wednesday,
the 24th day of February, 1914, at the
hour of two o’clock in the afternoon
of said day, at the court room of said
court, in the Town of Valdez, Alaska,
has been duly appointed by me, tho
undersigned, as the Judge of said
court, as the time and place for the
settlement of said account, at which
time and place any and all persons
interested In said estate, may appear,
file exceptions in writing to the said
account or otherwise contest the al
lowance of the same.
Dated at Valdez, Alaska, this 23rd
day of December, 1914.
(Seal.) GEO. J. LOVE,
U. S. Commissioner and Ex Officio
Probate Judge, for the Recording
Precinct of Valdez, Alaska.
Date of first publication December
24, 1914.
Date of last publication January
21, 1915.
This is a good time to return that
book you’ve read to the library at
Everyman’s Club. Library hours:
1 to 2 p. m. every day, Monday, Wed
nesday, Saturday 3 to 5 p. m., Tues
days and Fridays 7:30 to 9:30 p. m.
MIND AND BODY.
Human Emotions Have a Potent Effect
Upon the Physical Being.
A man Is handed a telegram. He is
eating and enjoying his dinner. He
reads the contents of the message. Al
most immediately afterward his body
is a-tremble. his face either reddens
or grows "ashy white,” his appetite is
gone; such is the etfect of the mind
upon file stomach that it literally re
fuses the food; if forced upon it it
may reject it entirely.
A message is delivered to a lady.
She is in a genial, happy mood, Hrir
face whitens, she trembles and her
body falls to the ground in a faint,
temporarily helpless, apparently life
less. Such are the intimate relations
between the mind and the body.
Great stress or anxiety or fear may
in two weeks’ or even in two days’
time so work its ravages that the per
son looks ten years or even twenty
years older. A person has been long
given to worry or perhaps to worry in
extreme form, though not so long; a
well defined case of indigestion and
general stomach trouble, with a gen
erally lowered and sluggish vitality
has become pronounced and fixed.
Any type of thought that prevails in
our mental lives will in time produce
its correspondence in our physical
lives. Ab we understand better these
laws of correspondences we will be
more careful as to the types of thoughts
and emotions we consciously or un
wittingly entertain and live with. The
great bulk of all diseases are gener
ated in the body through certain states
and conditions of mind.—Ralph Waldo
Trine in Woman's Home Companion.
Hard to Explain.
Cummings and Weisner were busi
ness rivals. One day at the club they
fell to talking.
“Do you carry any life Insurance?”
queried Cummings.
“Yes.” was the answer. “I have
*10.000.”
“Made payable to your wife?” asked
Cummings.
“Yes,” said Weisner.
“Well,” asked Cummings, “what kind
of an excuse do you give to your wife
for living?”—New York Press.
Tight 8crew».
If screws, gas fittings, the sides of
bedsteads or anything else of the kind
become tightly fixed and cannot be
moved the following method will gen
erally be found to loosen them: Pour a
little oil on the tight parts and then
bold a lighted candle underneath nntil
It la warm. You will then find that It
la easy to separate or unscrew the
fixed parts.
AN OLD DUTCH LEGEND.
How Jantje the Bellringer Saved Sluie
From the Spaniard*.
An old statue In the steeple near the
bells at Sluls, In Holland, which wus
originally erected in honor of Jantje
van Sluls, Is worked by mechanical
means, which cause It to strike the bell
at every hour and a half with a ham
mer.
Jantje was a bellringer and watch
man during the eighty years’ war with
Spain. On the night of June 12, 1606,
Du Terrail, a Spanish captain, resolved
to recover Sluls, the principal fortress
of Zeeland, from Prince Maurice of
Orange, who had conquered It two
years previously.
When the clock struck nine it was
arranged that the Spanish soldiers
should sound a false alarm at one gate
in order to draw the Dutch soldiers
away from another, thus leaving a
means of Ingress for the enemy.
Providentially Jantje forgot to wind
up the clock till late In the evening,
and, being terribly afraid of ghosts, he
did it so hastily that he damaged the
works. Another story avers that he
was intoxicated, the result of Sluis I
fair, which had been held on that after
noon.
Be that as It. may, Terrail waited In
vain to hear the familiar striking of
the old clock, and thus the attack was
put off till midnight In the meantime
the garrison had suspected something
amiss and were on the alert. Conse
quently the Spaniards were repulsed
with great loss.
Jantje had accidentally saved his
town, and to honor him his fellow cit
izens erected the bell ringing statue to
his perpetual memory.—London Tatler.
FREDERICK THE GREAT.
Carlyle’s Pen Picture of the Famous
Old Prussian Ruler.
On the 17th of August, 1780, died one
of the most remarkable sovereigns Eu
rope ever produced, Frederick II. of
Prussia, called Frederick the Great.
Thomas Carlyle thus describes him:
“The man Is not of godlike physiog
nomy any more than of imposing stat
ure or costume. Close shut mouth, with
thin lips, prominent jaws and nose,
receding brow by no means of Olympi
an height: head, however, is of long
form and has superlative gray eyes in
it. Not what is called a beautiful man.
nor yet. by all appearances, what Is
called a happy.
“On the contrary, the face bears evi
dence of many sorrows, as they are
termed; of much hard labor done in
this world and seems to anticipate but
more still coming. Quiet stoicism, ca
pable enough of what joy there were,
but not expecting any worth mention;
great unconscious and some conscious
pride tempered with a cheery mock
ery of humor—are written in that old
face, which carries its chin well for
ward in spite of the slight stoop about
the neck; snuffy nose rather flung into
the air under its old cocked hat—like
an old snuffy lion on the watch; and
such a pair of eyes as no man or lion
or lynx of that century bore elsewhere,
according to all the testimony we have.
"This is the man who. among the
common people who much loved and
esteemed him. was Vater Fritz—Fa
ther Fred—a name of familiarity which
had not bred contempt in that in
stance.”
Born to Fighting.
Mons began fighting. Caesar found
ed it as a camp and a short time lat
er Cicero's brother sustained a siege
by Ambiorix. Its most famous siege
! was in 1572, delivered by Frederic of
Toledo, one of the distinguished gen
erals of Alba. The siege lasted from
the end of June to the middle of Sep
tember; sorties and relief were vain;
the town capitulated under the most
honorable conditions. In 1091 the
Marechal de Luxembourg nttacked the
town, inflicted great damage and forc
ed surrender. In 1709 Marlborough
and Prince Eugene attacked and car
ried the town after a siege of 120 days.
In 1740 the Prince de Conti laid suc
cessful siege. In 1792 Mons was the
first fruit of the republican victory at
Jemappes. and in 1794 the Austrians
were subjected to a crushing defeat.—
New York Sun.
The Rose of Sharon.
In Asia tbe rose of Sbaron is consid
ered the emblem of resurrection.
Throughout Syria, Judea and Arabia it
Is regarded with the profoundest rever
ence. Tbe leaves that encircle the
blossoms dry and close together when
the season of blooming is over, and the
stalk, withering completely and drying
in the shape of a ball, is carried by the
breeze to great distances. In this way
it is borne over the sandy deserts until,
touching some moist place. It clings to
the soil, where It Immediately takes
fresh root and springs to life and
beauty again.—London Mall.
That Explained It.
"I say, I have just come from my
landlord’s, and—would you believe It?
—I bad the greatest difficulty In the
world to get him to accept a little)
money from me."
“Nonsense! And why, pray?”
“Well, because he wanted a loti”—
Liverpool Mercury.
Russian Tipple.
A popular drink among the peasants
of Russia Is called quass. It Is made
by pouring' warm water over rye or
barley meal It Is a fermented liquor
and 1b very sour, but has been used for
years by these poverty stricken people.
—Liverpool Mercury.
The man who doee things may make
mistakes, but he never makes the
greatest mistake of ail—doing nothin*
SUNS AND THE UNIVERSE.
And the Theory of One Great Central
Blazing) Orb.
Thnt very high. Imposing, mathe
matically proved science—celestial me
chanics—demonstrates that there is no
necessity for a colossal, dominating
central sun. The idea of a central son
controlling the entire sidereal universe
was advanced by what are called meta
physicians, totally opposite in nature
from mathematicians. For one guesses;
the other either proves or admits that
he cannot
If the universe is finite It has a pre
cise center. Photos of the entire
celestial vault reveal at least 100,000,
000 giant suns, our sun being one of
the smaller. And these or some of
them are known to be two quadrillion
miles apart Mechanics know that
the entire congeries of suns has a cen
ter of gravity. And It knows that this
center of gravitation, even If empty
and void, dominates all motions of all
the millions of suns around it
But all suns move as bees in a
swarm, and no such immense body has
been sensed in space. Kapteyn’s dis
covery of drifting of suns in opposite
directions may indeed be the beginning
of a discovery of rotation around a
center, but the rotation would as well
be maintained if the center is an abso
lute vacuum.
If the universe is infinite it has no
center, and the above line of argument
backed by rigid mathematics cannot
apply.—Edgar Lucien Larkin in New
York American.
BABIES IN ASHANTI.
They Go Through a Trying Ordeal In
Getting a Name.
When children are born in Ashanti
they are at once rubbed all over with
u mixture of oil and red ocher, this
being repeated every two days. Their
mouths are washed with a fiery con
coction in which red pepper is the
main ingredient, and a crier goes
through the town proclaiming the new
arrival and claiming for it a name uud
a place among the living.
Some one else is a distant part of the
village acknowledges the fact and
promises, on the part of the people,
that the newborn babe shall be re
ceived into the community. The towns
people then assemble in the streets,
and the baby is brought out and ex
posed to view.
Next a basin of water is provided,
and the head man, or chief of the
town, sprinkles water upon it, leaving
it a name and invoking a blessing
upon it. such as. for instance, that it
may have health, grow up to manhood
or womanhood, have a numerous prog
eny and possess riches.
Most of those present follow the ex
ample of the head man, and the poor
child is thoroughly drenched before
the ceremony is ended. Every one
who participates in the ceremony
pledges himself to be a friend to the
child.—London Standard.
Let Us Do It Ourselves.
Once the philanthropist set up a
drinking fountain. Now there is good
city water laid on everywhere. In old
en times kind hearted people provided
■‘ragged schools” for the waifs of the
alleys. Now there are public schools
for all. Once the benevolent created
funds to provide meals for indigent
prisoners in the jails, but John How
ard induced the state to feed its pris
oners. Time was when the defectives
were cared for by charitaole groups.
Now the state provides for these un
fortunates. There will always be op
portunity for private philanthropy to
render signal services, but a democrat
ic society with a proper spirit of inde
pendence will not allow itself to form
the bad habit of leaning upon the large
private donor, but will take as its max
im. “Let us do it ourselves."—Atlantic
Monthly.
Our Sugar.
The first bet't sugar factory in tbe
United States was erected in Philadel
phia in 1830. It did not prove a suc
cess and was dismantled. The first
successful beet sugar factory was
built in 1870 at Alvarado. Cal. This
factory was in operation until 1913.
when it closed down. It is estimated
that $100,000,000 Is now invested in
the sugar beet industry of this coun
try. The sugar supply of the Amer
ican people Is drawn from three main
sources. These are: Domestic beet sug
ar produced in seventeen states from
Ohio In the east to California in the
west; domestic cane sugar produced In
Louisiana, Hawaii. Porto Rico and the
Philippines; imported cane sugar pro
duced in Cuba.—Argonaut
Got Rusty All Right
“See here!” complained the man as
he walked up to the proprietor of tbe
clothing store. “I have only bad this
suit two weeks, and it looks rusty al
ready."
“Well,” said the proprietor, "did the
salesman guarantee tbe suit?’
“He did.” replied the man. “He said
It would, wear like Iron.”
“Well,” replied the man, “it did.
didn’t It?’—Cincinnati Enquirer.
Slicing Baoon.
To slice becan properly always place
It rind down and do not attempt to
cut through the rind. When you have
the desired number of slices slip the
knife under them and cut them free
from the rind, keeping as close to It as
possible.
Cauao of His Death.
Alkali Ike—And so Slippery Sam
died with lila boots on, eh? Broncho
Bill—No: be died with my boots on.
That’s how he aame to die.—Exchange.
In bad fortune hold out; in good bold
In.—German Proverb.
Dougherty & Ferguson
GENERAL
MERCHANDISE
The best groceries received
on every boat,
Fresh vegetables, fruits
and nuts.
117EfCalli You on Time for. the boat
** if We Handle Your Baggage.
We^luy and£Sellf Anything from
Dead^Crabs to Live Bears.
CITY EXPRESS
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MRS. ST. MARIE’S
Moved to Reed Building, on Wall
Street, next to Road Commission
c 7 a m to n a m
MEALS\ Lunch 12 in to 1 i> m
( 6 to 7 p in
BOARD & ROOM $50 per Mo.
ARCADE CAFE
“We Never Close.
Private Dining Room.
The Best of Everything. We Bake Our Own
Bread and Pastry. Bread for.Sale.
Jack Callin - - Proprietor
When
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Washer and Wringer J
Simply put in the clothes .-tnd I
start the motor;—in I 0 to I 5 J
minutes the clothes are washed I
white and clean ready to be 9
hung on the line without t!ie si
wear and tear of the wash- n
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Connect to any electric lamp |
socket.
Costs only 2 cents an hour to
run.
Let us send one to your home
for 15 days' free trial?
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