Soft, Stylish,
Snug-fitting,
k Seamless.
Six Pairs
Cotton Hose
Guaranteed
to Wear
Six Months
or New
Hose FREE
Holeproof
SILK
HOSE
3 pairs |
guaran
teed
3 months
Valdez Mercantile Co., Inc.
TRUE VALUES
On the basis of Security and Service
we solicit your account.
WE DO A BANKING BUSINESS EXCLUSIVELY.
VALDEZ BANK & TRUST CO.
Job Printing
At The Prospector Office
BOSTON’S EARTHQUAKE.
The Five Minute Shock That Rocked
the City In 1755.
On Nov. 18, 1755, “a little after
4 on a sorcne and pleasant night,"
Boston was roused by an earthquake
which lasted nearly live minutes. A
writer of the. times gives an account
of the catastrophe, and llev. Henry
White quotes it in his “Early His
tory of New Englahd:”
One hundred chimneys were lev
eled to the roofs of the houses and
1,500 were shattered in part. The
streets were covered with bricks
which had fallen. The ends of brick
houses were thrown down.
It was first introduced with a
noise like several coaches rattling
over pavements, or rather like many
cart loads of paving stones thrown
down. The first motion was a strong
pulsation, which threw my house
upward. Immediately after a trem
or succeeded; then instantly a quick
vibration with sudden jerks fol
lowed.
The first view I had was of the
steeples of the churches, and I was
"glad to see them standing, but the
spindle and vane of Faneuil hall
market were thrown down.
Many persons ran into the streets,
shrieking with apprehension of its
being the last day or the judgment,
and some thought they heard the
last trumpet sounding and cried for
mercy. The beast creatures lowed,
the birds fluttered in surprise, and
all the animal creation waB filled
with terror. Every face looked
ghastly, and many knees smote to
gether. Never was such a scene of
disaster in New England before.
The Way of the Ant.
The tropical white ant builds
large cities formed of mounds of
hard earth from two to three meters
in height. In each one of these ant
cities there is only one female, the
queen, who is the mother of the en
tire family.
If an ant shows a disposition not
to work, or is unable, he is conveyed
to the “policeman,” and the jaw
bone of this official puts the incom
petent out of the world. Best ap
pears to be unknown in the ant hill.
The bodyguard installed at the top
of the house exercises ceaseless vigi
lance against the coming of enemies
or the entrance of undesirables.
There seems to be a sentinel system,
and the ants are relieved at inter
vals. In case of necessity they con
vey danger warnings. -These forces
on guard at the top of the ant hill
are changed with such regularity as
to make it probable that they have
something in their calculations
which answers to time.—Harper’s.
Half Crops of Hair.
Trade in human hair is a big in
dustry abroad, exports sometimes
reaching a total of $3,000,000 to
$4,000,000 a year. Italian mer
chants lead in the trade and obtain
a large part of their stock from the
peasant women of Italy, Switzer
land and Dalmatia. A peculiar
method is in vogue among the wo
men of these countries in order to
produce a supply of hair regularly
and yet not appear to have been
“shorn” at all. They cut off half of
the hair at the back of the head
and then twist the remaining half
over the exposed part and dress it
in such a manner that the agents
of the human hair merchants come
around for the semiannual crop of.,
hair thus raised.—Exchange.
Power of the Wave*.
The power of waves is the sum
of two efforts, one dynamic and due
to the orbital movement of the wa
ter particles, the other static and
dependent on the height of the cen
ter of gravity of the mass raised
above its normal position. Theory
and observation seem to show that
the total power of waves is divided
equally between these static and dy
namic effects. If a body of water
meets the wall of a structure there
is a shock, and this i6 most violent
at the water surface, diminishing
with the depth. At the moment of
meeting jets of water rise some
times to very great heights.
It Depends.
Dr. Johnson was once consulted
by an old lady on the degree of
wickedness to be attached to her
son’s robbing an orchard. “Madam,”
said Johnson, “it all depends upon
the weight of the boy. I remember
my schoolfellow, Davy Garrick, who
was always a little fellow, robbing a
dozen orchards with impunity, but
the very first time I climbed up an
apple tree—for I was always a heavy
boy—the bough broke with me, and
it was called a judgment.”
Naturally.
Two men met at the gate of the
cemetery, und each with excessive
politeness bowed to the other to
pass in before him. After a few
minutes of this, when neither would
give way, the younger of the two
smiled and said:
“You are the elder of the two, so
naturally you ought to go first.”—
Sourire.
STRENUOUS BASEBALL -~
When Providence Beat Boston For tho
Pennant In 1884.
Probably one of the grandest
series of baseball games played by
National league clubs was that be
tween the Bostons and tho Provi
dence Grays in 188-1. The Bostons
had won the championship of 18811,
and it was the ambition of Provi
dence cranks, who lived only forty
miles away from the Hub, to wrest
the laurels away from the Bean Eat
ers. Every game that was played
between the clubs was attended by
immense crowds, and the excite
ment was at white heat.
The first game of the series in
1881 was one of sixteen innings and
resulted in a tie, the score standing
1 to 1. The pitchers were Charley
Radbourne and Jim Whitney, and
10,000 persons saw the battle. The
next day Providence won by a score
of 2 to 1 in nine innings, and Char
ley Sweeney struck out nineteen
Boston batsmen.
Of the first eight games Boston
won five and Providence three.
When it came time to meet for the
four final struggles the Providence
team had won every series from the
other league clubs and wanted to
win the series from the Bostons too.
Radbourne accordingly was assign
ed to pitch in all four games on four
successive days. He was in such
magnificent form that in all of the
games the Bostons were beaten and
scored the sum total of one run.
One of the games lasted eleven in
nings. It was played in Boston and
was finally won by the Rhode Is
landers by a score of 1 to 0. Arthur
Irwin, who was the shortstop for
Providence, drove a long fly toward
the right field fence, and the ball
went through a hole between the
boards. It was a four bagger and
decided the game.
naunournes wonueriui pucnmg |
in those days will never be forgotten
by those who saw him perform. He
went into the box game after game
and pitched for nineteen consecu
tive contests. It was his remarkable
twirling that was instrumental in
helping Providence win the pennant
that year. Sweeney jumped the club
in the middle of the season, and Ead
went along single handed. One feat
that was the talk of the baseball
world in 1883 was his pitching in
an exhibition game at Trenton. The
home club would not allow Provi
dence to play with the regulation
league ball and insisted upon substi
tuting another of lighter weight.
Eadbourne, however, accepted the
latter ball and proceeded to strike
out every man who came to the bat
until one man had been retired in
the sixth inning. Then a player
fouled the ball, which had not been
done before. The pitching distance
then was forty-live feet from the
home plate.
Etymological Curiosities.
There was a time when it was no
more correct to speak of “carviDg”
this, that and the other meat than
iti would be now to speak of the “left
side” of a ship or a horse. Dr. Sal
mon in 1G9G gave a list of the prop
er expressions, any misapplication
of which would bring ridicule upon
the blunderer. It was correct to say
“Leach that brawn,” “Lift that
swan,” and “Eear that goose.” In
stead of carving, one was expected
to spoil a hen, fract a chicken, sauce
a capon, unbrace a mallard, unlace
a coney, dismember a heron, disfig
ure a peacock, display a crane, un
taeh a curlew, unjoin a bittern, allay
a pheasant, wing a quail or a part
ridge, mince a plover, thigh a pigeon
or a woodcock, border a basty and
break a hare.
His Imagination Too Vivid.
Tom, five years old, sat looking at
a plate of cold tongue.
“What’s that ?” he asked at last.
“Cold tongue,” was the answer.
“Are we going to eat it ?”
“Ceftainly.”
“Well, have we ever had any be
fore?”
“Yes.”
“Did I cat it?”
“Of course you did.”
“Well, what do you think of that ?
And after it had been in a cow’s
mouth!”—Indianapolis News.
Breaking It Gently.
Mrs. Bukkit—Gude inarnin’, Mrs.
Flintle. Feelin’ well today?
Mrs. Flintle —Yes, very well,
thanks.
Mrs. Bukkit—An’ strong?
Mrs. Flintle—Oh, yes, Mrs. Buk
kit, quite strong.
Mrs. Bukkit—Then p’raps you’d
be able to bring back the two wash
tubs you borrowed last week!—Lon
don Opinion.
Her Dad Knew Her.
Young Briggs — I asked your
daughter a very important question
last night, sir, and she referred me
to you.
Old Blunt—Want to marry her,
eh ? Well, you won’t! If she’s real
ly wanted you she wouldn’t hav^
bothered about me at all.—Boston
Transcript.
A. M. Dieringer
Valdez Transfer
Company
General Trucking and Freight
ing to all interior points
LIVERY ar d FEED STABLE
STORAGE
Teaming of all kinds
--V_
Positively no coal delivered
unless paid for in advance
CITY EXPRESS
MEETS ALL BOATS
When in a hurry callfon me.
“QUICK ACTION”
is my motto.
Phone 82. J. A. SPENARD, Prop.
PROFESSIONAL
Dr. H. COCKERILLE
Graduate~of National University
(Washington,ID. C."
DENTIST
PHone 92 Feurteen years in
Office in]Whaling building VALDEZ
Next to cable office
DR. GERMAN
Phone .9 THE DENTIST
Office rooms over Owl Druir 9iore. Office hours
9 a. m.. to 6 p. m., 7 p, m.,to9 p. m. Sundays
by appointment All work guaranteed
E. E. RITCHIE
LAWYER
PHONE 136 Valdez, Alaska
C. E. BUNNELL
ATTORNEY-AT-LAW
Offices Wall Street
Phone 31 VALDEZ
MINING ENGINEER
F. butterworth:
Civil Engineer and
U. S. Deputy Land and
Mineral Surveyor
Printing Res phone. r89
L. W. STORM. E. M.
Valdez. Alaska \
Reports oh Mines
Patent Surveys
General Mining Engineering
'Phone No. ios
Geo. f. white
The Assayer
Assaying and Ore Testing
CORRECT RESULTS
No More, No Less
VALDEZ, ALASKA
Valdes Lodge
No 168.
Free and Accepted Masons
Regular Communications first Wednesday in
eacn month in McKinley Hill Visitors always
welcome.
James H. Patterson,,W. M
C. C. Reynolds. Sec
FOE
VALDEZ AERIE Mo. 1971
Meet erery Friday, 8 p. m- Eairle Hal
CAMP VALDEZ No. 10
Meet eror.v Tuesday evening at 8 o’clock In
Eagle! Hall. All members are requested to,
ttend. S. McNIECE. Arctio Chief