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WEDNESDAY, MARCH 23, 1»1«
CUPID AT THE DOOR.
rAKE, awake, O gracious heart.
There's some ODe knocking at
the door;
Tbe chilling breezes make aim
smart.
Hla little feet are tired and sore.
Artse and welcome him before
Adown his cheeks the big tears start.
Awake, awake, O gracious heart.
Hum 's some one knocking at the door)
"Os Cupid come with loving art
To honor, worship and Implore;
ind lest, unwelcomed, he depart
With all hla wise, mysterious lore.
Awake, awake, O gracious heart.
There’s some one knocking at the door!
-Prank Dempster 8heraian.
MILITARISM IN SCHOOLS
Four thousand superintendents
and educators, present at the annual
convention of the department of su
perintendence of the National Educa
tional association in Detroit last
Week, voted to ask Congress to ap
point a commission to> Investigate
the advisability of' introducing mili
tary training in the public schools.
Military training would be supple
mented by the courses of regular cal
isthenics now a feature of every
school that pretends to he up-to- date.
The result of this regular work, and
the learning of discipline, which the
home life of many American children
do not give them, would remain with
the pupil in ...,-imess life.
Whatever the "regular” soldier in
the United States army may lack, he
is a fairly graceful man, with pre
sentable carriage. In a short time
he is 100 per cent improved over
what he was at the time of enlist
ment.—Exchange.
AIiANKA OOAl,
The engineering reports to the fed
eral government, indicate that a large
area of coal lands in the Matanuska
district of Alaska will be open to pri
vate operation for commercial uses
after the government railroad shall
have been completed, which will be
during the coming fall. There are
77,000 acres In the Matanuska coal
area, and of this the government has
set aside 7,500 acres for use of the
navy. Therefore, there will be ap
proximately 70,000 acres open to
lease and operation by private in
terests.
It is entirely probable that Mat
auuska coal will ultimately come into
competition at Seattle and San Fran
cisco, and other coast points, with
Washington coal. The Alaska coal
is rated as a line grade of bituminous
comparing with the Pocahontas (Va)
coal as 96.3 to 100. It is estimated
that it can be laid down in Seattle at
$5 per ton, though delivery to consu
mers would increase this price $1.60
to $2 per ton.
The navy now uses 460,000 tons of
coal annually on the Pacific coast and
in Hawaii and Manila, costing $6.60
per ton delivered in San Francisco.
The domestic consumption of coal on
the Pacific coast is 1,600,000 ton - an
nually, and the Alaska markets take
about 100,000 tons annually. The
Matanuska fields will thus come into
competition on a market that con
sumes 2,000,000 tons annually.
Individuals and corporations are
limited to leasing of not more than
2,560 acres each for mining purposes,
and the awards are likely to be made
by competitive bidding.
The competition or Matanuska coal
in the Seattle market is likely to
lower the price of the lower grades
of Washington coal, though the set
ter grades should be able to hold
their own. In Alaska the Matan
uska supply, and the Nenana supply
as well, will greatly stimulate min
ing and the production of gold and
copper by making profitable the min
ing of low grade ores.
A ItKAIi “MENACE."
Citizens over the country generally
will rejoice that the editors and pub
lishers of The Menace, an anti-Catho
lic paper, have been arrested by the
postal authorities for sending copies
of their scurrilous papers through the
mails, in violation of postal laws. For
months citizens all over the country
have been receiving this organ de
voted to abuse of Catholics and the
Catholic church, and they were pow
erless to avoid the evil influences it
exerted in a community it once en
tered.
Just why a man or a body of men
should endeavor to engender bitter
ness toward so great an institution
for good is hard to understand. We
believe there are bad men in every
church, and also a great preponder
ance of good men ; but when a'paper
deliberately tries to foster hatred for
any institution, religious or secular,
it is time the ahthorties stepped in
and stopped it.
Such acts are Un-American, un
constitutional and result in great
harm to our country,
Every mao In this great country
has the undisputed right to worship
in any manner he sees tit, unmolest
ed by the acts of another, and when
a body Of men conspire to interfere
with his privileges they are upsetting
the foundation of the universe and
paving the way for anarchy and revo
lution. '
It is a pity that more of the organs
devoted to abuse of personal privi
lege cannot become entangled with
the law.
They are indeed a "Menace.''
THK Hl’OIIiKI) CHIIJ»
The cannons are bellowing and for
more than a year and a half Colonel
Roosevelt has tried to make himself
heard against that opposition. If the
war is going on, so is he. If Mr. Wil
• « • • •
THE EMPRESS
"i \
Tomorrow, Friday, Saturday
One Show—at 8 P. M., Sharp
Introductory Picture—
PATHE NEWS
WILLIAM FARNUM
In the Great Broadway Success,
“THE GILDED FOOL”
COMEDY DRAMA
As played by NAT GOODWIN—Assisted by Maude
Gilbert, Robert Hilliard, William Gillett, Chas.
Guthrie, Harry Spingler and MARGA
RET VALE, a niece of President
Wilson.
6 REELS
This feature is the same class as “A Fool There [Was.*
being the second production of the list of attractions
offered by the Empress Circuit, and are recognized
as the finest that money can buy.
son ia making 8pee«.nes, so is the
Colonel. Long the spoiled child of
popularity, it is wormwoou to him to
see anybody else enjoying it. Every
thing has gone wrong since March 4,
1909, that day of grief for decent cit
izens. What couk — expected of
defacto Presidents like Mr. Taft and
Mr. Wilson? The only able seaman
of the ship of state still insists on
giving the steering orders. He warns,
he denounces, he glares, he shrieks.
We are living in a time of molly
coddles. The only genuine regu
lator of domestic and foreign affairs
is T. R. Tho only policies of wis
dom and courage are My Policies.
And now this man Wilson has taken
up Preparedness. opecialty, My
Private Property, My own Lamb. He
storms, he rages. His passion is
magnificent, even if he insists in tear
ing it to tatters. ,
Of course any sort of preparedness
but My Preparedness is shameful aud
infamous. One doesn’t have to pay
from 50 cents to $2. to hear the Col
onel say that. He can be heard a
round the woi... There are base
and ignoble creatures capable of pay
ing more than that if on this oblate
spheroid there were an isle of safe
ty where the Colonel’s voice wouldn’t
reach.
Taft stole my delegates in 1912.
Wilson steals my issues in 1916.
Help! Stop, thief. But don’t for
get that Mr. Wilson's issues are only
paste; the genuine jewels are aud ev
er must be Mine.
No, frankly the Colonel, walling
over his lost issues, suggests a lit
tle boy yelling without mitigation
or remorse of voice because some
larger urchin has run off with his
go-cart and sand-pan.—Exchange.
How much better and more busi
nesslike it would have been for the
President to have chosen his Secre
tary of War from the ranks of the
many efficient military officers, who.
by their training could have handled
the military affairs of the nation in
a more economic and more satisfac
tory manner. The army aDd navy
have been hampered by inefficient
Cabinet officers since the nation was
first made a republic, and will con
tinue to bo hampered by civilians
as long as these important positions
are considered as political plums, and
part of the spoils of politics. It
would be just as practical to hire a
blacksmith to do the carpentering on
Ihe White House, as it is to hire men
who never received military training
or do not know the difference be
tween the “glory hole” and the main
truck to look after the affairs of the
army and navy.
One avenue of employment for
women flas been opened in England
which they refuse to follow in any
considerable numbers. To the ap
peals for 200,000 woinon farm labor
ers there have been but 44.000 an
swers.
One of the admirers of former sec
retary Garrison says he is a njan of
broad outlook. Especially now, when
he is taking a look from the outside.
A Yale professor announces that a
good healthy man is worth $4,000,
but if the professor will look around
a bit he will find there are many
chances for a bear market.
The stories from abroad of crip
pled soldiers, who were maimed in the
contending armies, who are begging
their bread in some of Europe’s cap
ital cities, tend to reconcile many
American readers to the extrava
gances of our own pension system.
The Solid South was never more
solid than in its sentiment for an ad
equate preparedness, turning its back
both on the molly-coddleism of the
Bryans and the dancing dervishism
of the Roosevelts.—Louisville Cour
ier-Journal.
Lloyd George states that less than
one-tenth of the shells used by the al
lies are of American manufacture.
Perhaps Germany will take that fact
into consideration when she levies
those indemnities upon us for pro
longing the war. We would not be
compelled to pay more than one
tenth of the German war bill on that
showing.
Pat had just stepped oft the boat
from Ireland and feeling very en
thusiastic yelled at the top of his
voice, “Hurrah for Ireland.,’
A negroo standing by said sar
castically, “Hurrah for Hell!’’
Pat, who had never seen a negro
before replied, “That’s right overy
man for his own country.”
Henry Miller, who for the past two
years has been at the local cable of
fice, has tendered his resignation to
take effect April 1. He has received
a wire from E. It. McFarlano, Super
intendent of Construction on the gov
ernment railroad at Anchorage, that
a position awaits him there, and ho
will leave on tlio Alaska to accept the
same.
I
| lien Dch/elle, the well known
■ knight of the grip arrived on the
| Watson from Cordova and Is busy as
usual with his order book.
The Library Committee of the
Everyman Club desire to express
their thanks for the donations of
new books recently received from
Mrs. McGilvray and Dr. German.
George Lacy and Wm. Trout are
arrivals in town from Fidalgo bay.
They came up on the Shamrock.
Barney Hettel and Mrs. Hettel
were through passengers on the Wat
son to their home in Seward, after
spending the winter in the states..
Ben Durfcee, the well known Ka
talla launch man was a returning pas
senger to that point from the States.
Fred Lilyman, who has been ap
pointed os Labor Agent for the Alas
ka Railroad Commission was a thru
passenger to Seward.
K. K. Davis, a brother of H. 0. Da
vis formerly of this city, was a thru
passenger to Seward. He was ac
companied by Mrs. Davis.
W. K. Dawson, is a recent arrival
in town and has accepted a position
as tonsorial "artist at the Crystal bar
ber shop.
Mr. and Mrs. Jack Callin moved
into town today and have taken
apartments in the Gene Ames' resi
dence on Keystone avenue.
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Furnished rooms at Mrs. osiand's.
Prices reasonable. •
Louis Johnson and Wm. Krickson
went across the bay this morning to
the power plant at Solomon Gulch.
The launch Mary Lee took them over, j
For good nome-cooked meals try
Mrs. M Olson on Hobart 8treet. •
A Seraam.
Editor—At last Dodson, the humor
ist, has written ns something that Is
genuinely funny.
Assistant—What to it?
Editor—lie wants to know why we
don’t take any of hie stuff.—Boston
Globe.
LILLY CAFE
We Are Here to Serve
You
Ell 1ST OOOIt ABOVE THE
BUFFET
TRY US
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 Dock.
For Ellamar, Landlock Bay,
and Kldalgo, every Wednes
day, 9:00 a. m., from Val
dez Dock Company’s Dock.
For Rates, Apply on Boat.
VAiiOEZ liOlKSK
NO 108
Free and Accepted Maaona.
Regular Communications first Wed
nesday in each month in McKinley
Hall. Visitors always welcome.
P. M. BROWN, W M.
ED WOOD, Secretary.
A. M. DIERINGER
Valdez Transfer
Company
Office on Alaska Avenue, in
George C. Treat Building
Telephone Nol 60
General Trucking and Freighting
to all Interior Points.
LIVERY and FEED STABLE.
STORAGE,
Teaming of All Kinds
Positively No Coal Delivered Un
less Paid for in Advance
Jin ifetunmtuuj |tour
Ifamg spring
IGet Is Ifelp fou.
A large assortment of
lags
3tost iSerehteii:
SIZES ARE FROM 6 X 9 TO 9'xi2
PRICES FROM $6.50 TO $27.50
Ifc Alsu (flami a (gomplrtr Uittg *if
IGinnlntma, HHattinga, UHtndum
^Ijaitea. flattrpHHW, (Emtt
furtwa ani» Slaukrta.
Will be pleased to have you call and inspect
our line even it you are not ready to purchase.
£>. Slum Sc (En.
GOOD GOODS
Dougherty & Ferguson
GENERAL
Merchandise
The best groceries received
on every boat.
Fresh vegetables, fruits, and
nuts. .
Arcade Cafe
OPEN ALL NTGIIT
Private Dining Room with Electric
Heater
Jock Collin_ Proprietor
When In Seward Stop at the
COLEMAN HOUSE
GEORGE &EXTON, ‘'He*
SlRJCTLV FIRST CLASS
Fourth Ave, Seward, Alaska
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.
DR. H. COCKERILLE
Graduate National
Washington. D. C.
DENTIST
Eourteen Years in Vaithu.
PHONE 110
Oiltcr Booms in Whaling Building
E. C. DALTON, M. D.
PHYSICIAN AND SURC
Phone 42
Alaska Avenue Valdes, Alaska
DONOHOE & DIMGND
ATTOttIVKIS.AT-UW
Dilw OpiNMltr Eonrt Houm.'
Phoar 34 VALDEZ. VUttA
JOHN LYONS K K RITCHLE
LYONS & RITCHIE
ATTORNEY S-AT- LAW
IIAcra In WhalhlK ttatMhK
Phone 101 VALDEZ. ALASKA
ASA C. BALDWIN
CIVIL ENGINEER
U. S. Mineral Surveyor
McKinley Street oppotile V. Me Store.
Valdes, Alaiib
Copper River
Draying (to
Freighting and Passenger*
to all parts of the Interior.
GENERAL TRUCKING
McKinley Street, Valdea
ED WOOD, Proprietor