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$25,00 to $50.00
ARRIVED ON THE ALAMEDA LAST NIGHT
A Big Shipment of Fresh Fruits and Vegetables Arrived
on the Alameda Last Night. Make Your Selections Early.
Valdez Mercantile Co.
SMOftv*. „ , . I EN TONIGHT
FOR CAPT. EDGERTON.
The members of the Tillikum club
will give a smoker tonight in honor
of Captain Glenn Edgerton, the engi
neer-officer of the Alaska Road com
mission, who leaves on the Ala meda
for Texas, after spending five years
in Alaska building roads and bridges.
LOCAL BREVITIES.
Nemo Corsets at E. Winter’s, tf
H. M. Conrad left for Latouche on
the Alameda.
W. E. Dunkle left for Latouche on
the Alameda.
Pictures developed at the Valdez
Drug Company. tf.
Returns from the Gibbons-McFar
land fight will be given by rounds at
the Pinzon tomorrow night. *
Fancy Stationery at the Valdez
Drug Store. *
Ed Perie was taken suddenly sick
last night and was taken to the Red
Cross Hospital for treatment.
For good home-cooked meals try
Mrs. M. Olson, on Hobart Street. •
Returns from the Gibbons-McFar
land fight will be delivered by
rounds at The Pinzon tomorrow
night.
A shipment of fresh Hass candies
received at the Pinzon on the last
boat. None better; try them. *
Captain and Mrs. Edgerton leave
on the Alameda for Texas on her
return trip south, going via San
Francikco, to take in the fair.
Suits pressed ’’or $1 "«• at Silver
man’s, the tailoi. Telephone 198. tf
Paul Buckley, deputy U. S. mar
shal for Unalaska left for his sta
tion on the Alameda, going to Sew
ard and thence transferring to the
steamship Dora.
We know how to do blacksmith
ing, machine work and autogenous
welding and do it right. Valdez Iron
Works. fr*
Sixty-four people left Valdez yes
terday on the Elvira and Three-M
for Swanport, where they spent the
day picking blueberries, which can
be found in abundance across the bay.
Found—Gold pin at club rooms;
owner can have same by paying for
this ad and inquiring of Mrs. Whit
ley. *
GILBERT MAKES HIS ESCAPE.
French Airman, Interned by Swiss,
Gets Back to Paris.
PARIS, Sept. 10.—Eugene Gil
beif, the French aviator, who was
obliged to land in Switzerland on
June 27 through an accident to his
motor, after bombarding the Zeppe
lin sheds at Freidrichshafen, and was
interned near St. Gothard, has es
caped.
M.,Gilbert arrived in Paris last
night and reported‘for service at the
French Ministry af War today.
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A perforated rubber fly swatter has
been invented, having the advantage
that it will not scratch furniture.
NEWEST NOTES OF SCIENCE.
Rolling a camera film between the
hands to tighten it after exposure
sometimes generates enough electric
ity to spoil it.
Rope horseshoes for use in cities
where there is much pavement that
becomes slippery when wet have
been invented in Germany.
Following extensive research a
French physician has decided that
the use of tobacco is harmful only
under certain conditions and that it
is a valuable tonic and germicide
when properly used._
Subscribe for he Pri'sceetor.
The Encumbrance.
A. 3
City Chap—Own this place clear?
Suburbanite—There’s a $2,000 auto
mobile on It.—Boston Journal.
Squelched.
“I’m afraid your mother doesn’1
like me.”
"Probably not. Mamma and I have
very similar tastes.”—St Louis Post
Dispatch.
The Outlook.
The Prospective Bridegroom—Ethel
prefers Si quiet home wedding.
The Prospective Father-in-law—Don’t
let that worry you. She’ll make up foi
the quietness after you’re married.—
Exchange.
An electric light that is switched
on to Illuminate an automobile step
ented by an English inventor.
WHEN THE SUN DIES.
Deadly Havoo tha Change Will Enact
Upon Our Poor Planet.
“If the sun should go out how long
would It bu before darkness would ap
pear on the earth?" asks a reader.
Eight minutes, eighteen seconds and
five hundred and sixty-six one-thou
saudtbs of a second 1
At the end of that brief Interval of
time the blue curtain of day would dis
appear as If an almighty band had
snatched It oft, and the dome of night,
spangled with stars, would instanta
neously arch the earth. We would be
plunged Into darkness so quickly that
for a moment nothing would be visible.
Then the piercing rays of the stars
would begin to affect our eyes, and aft
er that, gradually, our immediate sur
roundings would dimly emerge from
the gloom. There would be starlight,
but no moonlight, for the moon shines
only with reflected sunlight.
At first the disappearance of the light
would be the thing most troublesome
to us, but as time went on a chili
would begin to creep over the sunless
earth, and out of the dark and frozen
air, all around the globe, a pallid snow
would descend, as the atmospheric
moisture condensed. When days and
weeks had elapsed the awful cold of
outer space would chill the atmosphere
down to the earth’s surface and animal
and vegetable life would alike perish
In the endless winter of universal
night!—Garrett P. Servlss in New York
Journal.
ACTION OF PEROXIDE.
It Cleanse* a Wound, but Doe* Not Aid
In the Healing Process.
“It would be well for people to un
derstand what peroxide of hydrogen
will do arid what it will not do," re
marked a dentist Just after extracting
two old roots on which a large abscess
had formed. "It is one of the best,
if not the very best, antiseptics we
have, but it has no healing qualities.
Many people lmuglne that it will heal
a sore place In the mouth, yet that Is
Just what it will not do.
“I have Just injected peroxide and
water into the cavities in the gums
from which I extracted those roots. I
did that to destroy the pus that had
been left behind by the abscess, for
that Is the use of peroxide. It unites
chemically with the pus and kills the
germs thut make it. But this is all
that it does. And if you continue to
use it you will retard the healing in
stead of hastening it. Peroxide, im
properly used, has injured almost as
many mouths as it has benefited. The
sore place in your mouth is clean now,
and all it needs is something to keep
It cleun while nature heals it. Perox
oxide will not do that—in fact, it will
retard it.”
The dentist then prescribed a heal
ing wash. There are many such on
the market, but any one having a
tooth pulled is foolish to select his
own.—New York World.
The First Canal Builder.
General Goetbals Is the latest canal
builder to achieve fame, but he has
had many predecessors, and the earliest
so far as Is known was one Naram
Sln, who nearly 5,000 years ago open
ed a canal from Nippur to the Eu
phrates. This was discovered by Dr.
George A. Barton In deciphering some
of the ancient Sumerian tablets’ at the
museum of the University of Pennsyl
vania. He found a tablet dated “the
year when the divine Naram-Sln opened
the mouth of the canal Erin at Nip
pur." This was not an Irish canal, so
far as Is known, but It was a great
event in the history of Nippur, which
gave It transportation facilities with
the rest of the world. Naram-Sln was
a king of Babylonia, and he Is respon
sible only for financing the canal, and
slaves probably did the work.—Balti
more American.
The “Land of Cattle.”
Italy may fairly claim to be senior
among the nations of Europe, so far
as Its name Is concerned. The penin
sula has been “Italia" almost as far
back as even legend reaches. Accord
ing to Mommsen, the "Itall” proper
were the Inhabitants of the southern
part of the country. As to the origin
of the name, there is the normal leg-,
end of a King Italus, but his name
must have been pronounced Vltalus
and Vitulus, which means a bull calf,
and It is easy to recognize In It an al
lusion to Italy as the land of cattlei—
Spectator.
Pink Pearls.
One of the most Important Industries
of the Bahama islands Is the gather
lng of pink pearls. It is the only place
in the world where these pearls are
found. They are not taken from the
oyster shell, but from a shell resem
bling a large snail shell, called a
“conch." These pearls when perfect
bring very high prices.
Getting In Trim.
“You’re going to the gymnasium
pretty regular now, aren’t you?"
“Yea Bill Hawkins called me a
liar three months ago, and In about
three months more I’ll be ready to tell
him he’s another.”—SL Louis Post-Dis
patch.
Bull Fight Whistles.
Nearly every spectator at a Spanish
bullfight carries a whistle, which be
blows If be considers a toreador to
have broken any of the rules of the
“game.” __'*_■
Enforced Truthfulness.
Blobhe—Wigwag Is the most truth
ful man I know. Slobbs—Yes. Wig
wag has snch a bad memory he baa to
atlck to the truth.—Philadelphia Rec
ord.
IODIDE OF NITROGEN.
An Explosive So Deadly That to Make
It Is Suicide.
Explosives are solids which under
certain conditions suddenly change
Into heated gas occupying many times
the original space of the solids.
Ordinary gunpowder when fired turns
into gas, of which the volume Is 4,000
times as great us that of the powder.
No wonder the bullet in front of it
leaves the muzzle of the rifle in a
hurry.
Today there are scores, even hun
dreds, of different sorts of explosives
known to science. Some, such as lyd
dite, require a very considerable shock
to explode them. Others, such as ni
troglycerin, are fearfully dangerous to
handle, for a few extra degrees of
warmth or a very slight Jar is suffi
cient to turn them instantly into gas.
Of the latter type there is nothing
quite so unstable as iodide of nitrogen.
It has to be made in alcohol. When
avowed to dry it appears a» a brown
pqswder, and so unstable is this pow
der that s touch with a feather will
net it off.' The experiment has been
tired of leaving a few grains upon a
table mixed with a few grains of
sugar. The first bluebottle that flew
on the table and began to crawl among
the grains caused an explosion.
The mere Jarring of the air by a loud
shout or a heavy footstep is sufficient
ttf" detonate iodide of nitrogen, and it
need hardly be added that no one in
his senses would attempt to make
this terrible stuff. To do so in any
quantity would be equivalent to com
mitting suicide.—Pearson’s Weekly.
BRINGING UP CHILDREN.
There Are 8ome Curious 6uetome In
This Queer World.
There has been much discussion over
the proper bringing up of children, but
Ideas continue to differ. And the far
ther you get away from home the
stranger the ideas seem.
The Filipino futher cries out with
proud delight as his three-year-old girl
baby takes her puff at her first cigar.
Among the Seri Indians of the gulf
of California the father is the last one
expected to have any influence on the
children. The mother rules the young
er members of the family, and when
she must enforce her authority by
physical force she calls, not on the fa
ther, but on one of her brothers or
some other male adult of her family.
The father must never chastise his chil
dren.
A Navajo father administers punish
ment to his children very much as any
other father does, but the Navajo boy
has a means of protection denied to
white boys. He has only to catch a
rat by his own unaided efforts. From
the moment he has accomplished this
feat, no matter how young he may* be.
his father may not lay hands on him.
The children of the Point Barrow
Eskimos have special training in po
liteness to foreigners. In conversing
with strangers who mnke mistakes in
the native dalect children must care
fully note those mistakes nnd repeat
them, even to imitating the wrong pro
nunciation of words. To speak correct
ly in such a case is likely to bring pun
ishment from the parent of the child.—
New York Sun.
Retold For Choir Singer*.
One of the wealthy members of a
fashionable church in Boston approach
ed her pastor with the complaint that
she was greatly disturbed by one of her
neighbors.
“It’s positively unbearable,” said she.
“That man in the pew in front of us
destroys all my devotional and pious
feelings when he attempts to sing.
Couldn’t you ask him to change his
pew ?”
The good pastor was sorely perplexed.
After a few moments' reflection he
said:
"Well, I naturally would feel a little
delicacy on that score, more especially
as I would have to give u reason. But
I will tell you what I might do.” Here
the pastor's face became illuminated
with a happy thought. “I might ask
him to Join the choir.”—Harper’s Mag
azine.
Hard Luck.
“People can talk of their troubles,”
sold Mrs. Wagleigb, "but I think Mrs.
Jones has the hardest luck of any one.
She Is absolutely deprived by nature of
enjoying a woman’s greatest pleasure.
She’s a deaf mute and can’t talk. She
can only use her bauds. Now, if that
Isn’t awful tell me what Is?”
Mr. Wagleigh looked up from his eve
ning paper. “1 met her husband this
afternoon,” he said, “and he was tick
led to pieces. His wife cut her fin
gers with the bread knife yesterday,
and now she can’t talk at alb”—iCew
; York Telegram.
Sign For a Dog.
“I’ve bought a bulldog,” said Par
sniff to his friend Lessup, “and I want
a motto to put over his kennel. Can
you think of one?”
“Why not use a dentist’s sign,
‘Teeth Inserted Here?* ” suggested
Lessup.—Kansas City Star.
Unforeseen. '
"Really, doctor, the medicine you pre
scribed for me Is splendid. I think I
shall be all right In a few days.”
“Well, well! Who would have thought
It!”—Pliegende Blatter.
Switzerland’* Cupola Fort.
The Swiss reckon that their cupola
fort on the SL Gothard, manned by
200 artillerymen, could easily hold the
pass against an army of 50,000.
If a man wishes to be treated with
courtesy he should show courtesy to
others.
Arcade Cafe
OPEN UNTIL 9IP. M.
We Growl, Our Own Vegetables
Private Tables
Jack Callin - - Proprietor
BEST PLAGE TO EAT
MRS. ST. MARIE S
Moved to Shephard Building,
next Donohce •& Dimond otlice.
!7 a m to 9 a m
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General Freighting. KNUTE NAFSTED. M*r.
| Pacific Alaska Navigation Co.
PUGET SOUND PUGET SOUND
i California Alaska
ALASKA
Steamers sail from Seattle at 9 P. M. on
5th, 15th, 25th—EVERY MONTH
Steamer Sailing 15th call* Ulamna and Kodiak—All Sailing call at Knik
and Anchorage.
• CALIFORNIA
Seattle to San Francl.co every Wedneaday and Sunday, connecting with
Steamer. Yale and Harvard for Southern California.
; Right reserved to change schedule without notice
| RICHARD J. RIJiGWOOIl, Mgr., Seattle; VALDEZ DOCK CO., Local Agt.
I
ALASKA
STEAMSHIP CO.
* I
; S. S. Mariposa, S. S. Alameda and S. S. Northwestern ;
sail from Seattle the 6th, 12th, 18th, 24th and 30th
EVERY MONTH j
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J From Valdes south-*7th, 13th, 19th, 25th and 31th for Cor- ^
! dova, Skagway, Juneau, Wrangall, Ketchikan and Seattle. |
! Regular freight service for Ketchikan. Wrangell. Juneau. Sheep i
■ r>ruit Treadwell. Douglas, Skagway, Cordova, Ellamar, Valdes and La- «
! touche. Explosives” 8 l>. Sewarf. on>e 5th; Latouche, on the 15th; S. S.
i Cordova, S5th of each month—right reserved to change this schedule *
i without notice. j
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