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SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1914,
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NATIONAL CHILD LABOR BILL.
The child labor bill prepared by
the National Child Labor Committee
and introduced into congress by A.
Mitchel Palmer, of Pennsylvania, is
not spineless and apologetic, says an
exchange. It assumes that it is
wicked and abominable for children
under 14 years of age to be employ
ed in quarries, mines, or factories,
and that children between the years
of 14 and 1G should not work more
than eight hours a day, or before
the hour of 7 a. m. or after the hour
of 7 p. m.
Applying the principle on which the
drug and food act is based, the bill
forbids the interstate shipment of
goods not produced in accord with the
law. The nation, with our dual form
of government, may not directly for
bid the destruction and murder of the
young, but it may prevent recalci
trant state selling its tainted goods
to more humane neighbors.
The bill is constitutional, and it
•will be effective if enacted. It will
cut away the basis for the common
est argument against adequate state
child labor laws—namely, that indus
tries will go into the states permit
ting the greatest exploitation of chil
dren. Chance for further dodging is
thus ended. Those against the bill
must cease hiding against side is
sues and frankly come out as the ad
vocates and defenders of child labor.
The president and the members of
his family take a lively interest in
the child labor bill. It has been in
troduced into congress by one of the
president's closest political friends, j
The bill will have strong support
from the administration. It will be ;
hawked at by the surviving members !
of the dwindling group whose mem- 1
bers are jealous of the growth of;
national power. But it is clearly !
demonstrated that it is difficult, if
not impossible, to get almost half a j
hundred states to enact identical leg j
islation, and that the standard of the |
least humane tends to become the
standard of all. The nation must es
tablish the common rule or it will j
not be established Ht all.
THE SUNDAY LAW.
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A Nome paper rises to remark,
anent the recent closing of the sa
loons in that burg, that if it is wrong
to sell liquor on Sunday, it is wrong
to sell liquor on Monday. It admits
the legal status of the matter but
contends that the law is wrong in
principle and demands a change. The
present status of the Sunday law in
Alaska is a disgrace to an enlighten
ed community, for if it was strictly
enforced it would be a serious blow
to business men of all kinds. Alas
kans in the judiciary would not at
tempt to enforce these antediluvean
ordinances, and the trouble in Nome
may rightly be attributed to the plac
ing of men in office who are not
Alaskans and who are only here to
occupy a fat job for the sake of the
salary, it is to be regretted that
President Wilson saw fit to deviate
from his policy of Alaska for AJas
kans when he appointed Judge Tuck
er and District Attorney Saxton.
Some men are so straight-laced that
they bend backwards when they walk,
and they love their enemies so much
that they hate their friends. A little
common sense mixed in equal pro
portions with the .laws would gp a
long ways toward keeping peace and
order in the territory, and would in
crease the respect for the judiciary.
—Cordova Times.
During the year just past more
than five hundred million dollars were
spent by the American people for
candies and sweetmeats—enough to
build a hundred battleships or erect
half a million fine homes.
The job of uplifting the stage is the
biggest one the American public has
ever tackled. The only thing that has
been uplifted, so far as noticed, is the
feet and legs of the actresses, and
they can’t go much higher, try as
hard as they may.
HE DIDN’T LIKE DRIPPING.
And No Wonder, After He Had Read
About Ita Strength.
What is dripping?
Everybody knows that dripping Is
supposed to be the juices, the savory
essences, that fall from rousting meats
That is the supposition. But what
really is dripping—the dripping that
the poor of England buy by the pound
and smear upon their bread in lieu of
butter?
The question perhaps will never be
answered, but a partial solution is
given to it by the fact that a London
poorhouse recently bought at $7 a tou
thirty-two tons of dripping from—a
soap works.
Alfred Noyes used to tell a dripping
story.
“A little boy,” lie would begin, "com
plained bitterly about tlie- bread and
dripping that formed his daily break
fast.
“‘It’ll kill me,’ he whined at last. ‘1
know it’ll kill me.’
“ ‘Kill you? What do you mean?'
“ ‘Why, I’ve been feeling pretty bad
lately, and now I know it’s all this
dripping what's the cause of the trou
ble. I read it in a book.’
“ ‘Some pure food rubbish, 1 dare
say! And what, precisely, did you
read in this vile book, silly?’
“‘I read,’ whined the urchin, ‘that
constant dripping wears away a
stone.’ ’’—Exchange.
HUMOR OF A CANMIBAL.
Ho Enjoyed It Himself, but It Didn't
Tickle the Victim.
A number of natives came to greet
us when we landed at Bau, a Fiji is
land, among them a few whom the
consul seemed to know. They volun
teered to act as escorts for us and by
various expressions tried to convey the
idea that they were glad to see us.
A school forms one side of the
square. Across from this stands the
council chamber, built on the trench
where the bodies were roosted for
their former feasts. The old headstone
against which CacObau used to dash
the brains of his victims still stands,
and the anchor and rudder of a French
ship wrecked near Bau lie beside it.
Beneath a picture of Queen Victoria
I saw an old sword swinging. I exam
ined it and found it was a French
weapon, no doubt the arm of the unfor
tunate French vessel’s commander.
During the time this was going on
Jim, Ratu Kadavu's servant, who is a
particularly good type of a large, mus
cular race, approached me, ran his
hand around my waist and slowly
down my thigh and smacked his lips
with a wicked smile. I laughed at this
display of aboriginal humor, but not
very heartily, for the sword of the
French captain still swung before ray
eyes.—Christian Herald.
Time For the Actor to Stop.
On tlie subject of playing the same
part over an indefinite number of
times David Warfield says:
"There Is no such tiling as playing a
part too long. The mellowing process
should never cease, but if il does, if
spontaneity fails, if the actor feels that
he is becoming at all mechanical in
the part, he should abandon it at once
—for his own salvation.
“Tlie surest danger signal is half
hearted applause. From this the actor
knows that he has lost an essential
quality of the character, and the trag
edy of it is he cannot tell what that
quality is or how he lost it. An actor
may tell a Joke a thousand times and
provoke laughter, but suddenly it falls
of response. That's the time for him
to stop.”—American Magazine.
A Cure For Mosquitoes.
The people of London have learned
of an agreeable way to keep their
houses free from flies and mosquitoes.
They burn sandalwood, which has a
pleasing odor, but one that the sum
mer pests much dislike. Tlie idea
comes from the orient, where it has
long been practiced.
The sandalwood can be bought at al
most any Turkish or Japanese import
ing house. You prepare it for burning
by cutting it into pieces about half an
inch thick and three inches long and
then bake or dry it in a slow oven for
twenty-four hours. You light a piece
of the wood and put it in a metal urn
or saucer. After it has ignited well
blow out the flame and leave the red
ember to smolder until the wood is
wholly consumed.
Father’s Ultimatum.
The father of a large family of chil
dren was trying hard to read the even
lug paper.
‘ What’s that terrible racket In the
hall. Martha?”
“One of the children just fell down
stairs.”
“Well,” he replied, turning over an
other page of the paper, "you tell the
children if they can't fall downstairs
quietly they’ll have to stop it.”—I.lp
pincott's.
Showing Him How.
“You young scoundrel!” said the fa
ther, seizing his disobedient son by the
hand. “I’ll show you how to treat your
mother!”
And he gave him several bangs on
the ears and then shook him until his
hair began to fall out.
Her Little Slip,
Departing Guest—We’ve had a sim
ply delightful time! Hostess—I’m so
glad! At the same time f regret that
the storm kept all our- best people
away.—Brooklyn Life.
Ever Present Help.
“They say that a woman’s team
come to her aid at any moment.”
“Yes. Her tears are volunteers. So
to speak."—Boston Transcript.
LUCK AND LOVE.
First Hs Won the Father, and Then He
Captured the Heiress.
A dozen years ago, fresh from the
school of Versailles, came a young un
der lieutenant of artillery in Ills new
uniform, returning from Normandy,
where he had been to see his brother.
On the train the young officer found
himself seated beside an old man, who,
like himself, was going to Paris.
They entered into conversation. An
amiable intimacy was established be
tween the two travelers. At the west
station the old gentleman, taking leave
of the young officer, said, “I need a
son-in-law like you.”
Three months later the officer re
turned to Normandy. lie narrated
the incident of the journey to his
brother and questioned him about the
strange companion.
“I know this old fellow," responded
the brother. “I)o you know that he
offered you a very pretty partner? His
daughter possesses an income of 100.
(Mto francs.”
“Where is she? I'll go after her,
said tlie ollieer.
The brother made a sorrowful ges
ture. “Alas! you are a little late.”
“Eh, what! Is the young girl to be
married?”
"N'o: her father was buried eight
days ago.”
The lieutenant was silent for a mo
ment. “But I knew her father. A visit
of condolence is imposed upon me.”
Dressed iu his best uniform, he call
ed upon the lady. lie spoke in the
most tender terms of the old gentle
man. Without doubt the prestige of
the uniform was not without effect on
the young provincial, and the story as
in the pleasant dramas, ended with a
marriage. The lieutenant is now a
promineut member of the chamber of
deputies.—Cri de Paris.
TALES OF TWO DANCES.
London Society at First Rebelled
Against Waltz and Polka.
When the waltz first appeared in
London it raised a social rumpus. The
dance came from Poland to London
by way of Portsmouth, where its ad
vantages were at once apparent to
the women, though the men did not
much like seeing other men clasping
their wives, it was first danced at
Aluiack’s in London by Lady Jersey
and two or three of her friends, and
society was riven from top to bottom
into the waltzers and auti-waltzers. in
spite of Lady Jersey's powerful influ
ence, there seemed little chance of the
acceptance of the waltz. In 1810 the
allied sovereigns came to London and
visited Almack's. There they joined in
the waltz and removed it from the
realm of discussion. The waltz needed
but three sovereigns to make it re
spectable.
The polka excited almost as much
controversy as the waltz on its first in
trodintion into England. Lady Dor
othy Novi!I recalls a scene at a hall in
the late thirties when a deputation of
ladies begged tile hosless, Mrs. Silencer
Stanhope, to allow the polka lo be
danced by six ladies who understood
it. Permission being accorded, the six
stepped out with their partners, all of
them, curiously enough, dressed in
black, which caused people to say it
was a chimney sweep’s dance. Ex
traordinary excitement was created by
the innovation. Lady Jersey, the Duch
ess of Bedford and a number of other
women clambering up on the chairs
and benches to gain a better view.
History of the Saw.
The earliest tool that has been traced
in Egyptian history is the saw. It was
found first in ttie form of a notched
bronze knife in the third dynasty, or
about 5,000 years before the Christian
era. and was followed in the fourth
and fifth dynasties by larger toothed
saws, which were used by carpenters,
but there are no dated specimens until
the seventh century before the Chris
tian era. when the Assyrians used iron
saws. The first knives ou record were
made out of Hint and were, in fact,
saws with minute teeth. , They prob
ably were used for cutting up animals,
ns the teeth would break away even
on soft wood. Hasps, which are but
a form of saw. were first made of
sheets of bronze punched and coiled
round, but the Assyrians in the sev
enth century used the straight rasp
made of Iron similar to the modern
type.
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Figgefative.
“A schoolboy of eleven.” said Pro
fessor Thomas it. Lounsbury. Yale's
authority oii English, "once gave an
apt illustration of figurative usage. lie
gave it in a composition. writing:
" 'A liggerative saying is. "to keep
the wolf from the door." It does not
mean to keep a real live wolf front the
door. A good instance is when the
landlord comes for the rent. He knocks
at the door and you I cep awful quiet,
in the hope that he will think there is
nobody in and go away.’’’—Washing
ton Star. _
The Paragon.
“Have you any employee who
doesn’t talk baseball, horse racing and
prizefighting all the time, to the ex
clusion of business?”
“Yes:”
“Where did you get him ?”
"It isn’t a him: it’s a her.”—Pitts
burgh Post.
Wat It?
"I gave Walter a beautiful necktie
of my own make for a hirthday pres
ent,” said Mabel.
“Was he pleased?”
“Oh. yes; he said its beuuty shall be
for no other eyes than his own. Wasn’t
that lovely of him?”-Upplncott’s.
Friendship is love without his wings.
—Byron.
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In the District Court for the Terri
tory of Alaska, Third Division.
In the Matter of the Annexation of
Certain Territory to the Incorpor
ated Tq^wn of Valdez.—Order Set
ting Time for Hearing Petition and
Giving Notice.
A petition having been this day
presented to the court for the pur
pose of instituting the proceedings
required by law for the annexation
of territory to an incorporated town,
said petition praying for the annex
ation of certain described territory to
the incorporated town of Valdez, in
the Territory of Alaska, Third divis
ion : and it appearing to the court
that said petition is signed by forty
eight qualified electors of said incor
porated town, the same being more
than one-fifth of the number of votes
cast at the last municipal election in
said town, and by live actual resi
dents and owners of substantial prop
erty interests in land in the territory
proposed to be annexed and verified
by two of the signers of said peti
tion: said petition setting forth the
boundaries of the territory so pro
posed to be annexed to said town, an
having attached thereto a plat based
upon an actual survey by a compe
tent surveyor, setting forth the lim
its and boundaries thereof by metes
and bounds, and stating the number
of inhabitants therein:
Therefore, 1 appearing to the court
that said petition is in the form re
quired by law; it is ordered that said
petition be beard and considered by
the court on the 18th day of Febru
ary, 1914. at 10 o'clock a. ni. of said
day, at the court room of this court
in Valdez, Alaska, if said day be a day
of jurisdict ion in said court, or if the
same be not a day of jurisdiction,
then said hearing shall be held on the
first day of jurisdiction thereafter. It
is further ordered that notice of such
hearing be given by posting printed
or typewritten copies of this order
in three conspicuoous places within
the limits of said incorporated town
of Valdez, and by posting such cop
ies in three conspicuous places with
in the limits of the territory so pro
posed to be annexed to and included
within the limits of said incorporated
town, and by publishing a copy of
this order once a week in the Valdez
Prospector, a newspaper of general
circulation published nearest to said
incorporated town.
Done in open court at Valdez,
Alaska, this 7th day of January, 1914.
FRED. M. BROWN, Judge.
First publication January 10, 1914.
Last publication February 14, 191;
NOTICE TO CREDITORS.
In the United States Commissioner’s
Court, ex-officio Judge in Probate,
Valdez precinct, Third Judicial Di
vision, Territory of Alaska.
In the matter of the estate of Rob
ert Martin, deceased. Notice to cred
itors.
Notice is hereby given by the un
dersigned, administrator of the estate
of Robert Martin, deceased, to the
creditors of, and all persons having
claims against the said estate, to ex -
hibit them with the necessary vouch
ers, within six (6) months after the
first publication of this notice, to the
said administrator at the office of C.
E. Bunnell, at Valdez, Alaska, the
same being the place for the trans
tion of the business of said estate.
Dated at Valdez, Alaska, this 13th
day of January, 1914.
W. H. CASWELL,
Administrator of the estate of Robert
Martin, deceased.
Date of first publication Jan. 14.
Date of last publication Feb. 17.
CAMP VALDEZ No. 10
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Meet erery Tuesday evening at 8 o’clock II
Eagle Hali. All members are req jested to j
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S. M<’NJKCE. Secretary
Local Valdez
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Notice of Marshal’s Sale.
United States of America, Third Di
vision, Territory of Alaska, ss.
Public notice >s hereby given, that
by virtue of a writ of execution, dated
January 9th, A. D. 1914, issued out
of the District Court, for the Third
division, Territory of Alaska, on a
judgment rendered in said Coun, on
the 5th day of January, A. D. 1914,
in favor of the United States of
America, and against James Fish, ad
ministrator of the estate of Louis Ca
m'cia, deceased, Angus Chisholm,
Frank Gustafson, Max J. Schnrdt and
Jennie Raymond, I have, on this 9th
day of January, A. D. 1914, levied
upon the following described real es
tate, situated in the town of V idez,
Territory of Alaska, to-wit:
Lot nine (9) in Block B; lot three
(3) in Block two (2); lot four (4)
in block twenty-four (24), of the
Valdez Townsite, according to the
official plat • f said townsite on Ule
in the office of the recorder for said
precinct, and chat I will, according
ly, offer said real estate for sale, at
public vendue to the h’ghest and best
bidder, for cash, on the third day of
March, A. D. 1914, at two o’clock p.
m„ at the front door of the Court
House, Valdez, Alaska.
Dated at Valdez, Alaska, January
9, 1914.
F. R. BRENNEMAN,
U. S. Marshal, Third Division, Ter
ritory of Alaska.
First publication January 10, 1914.
Last publication February 21. 1914.
Hospital of the Good Samaritan.
For $6.00 we will give you a ticket
entitling you to hospital service and
care for any eight weeks out of the
year from date of your ticket, when
incapacitated by Injury or sickness.
See W. H. Ziegler.
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