Valdez Mercantile Co. be.
TRUE VALUES '
Will Come To Valdez
Santa Claus is due to arrive here on sched
ule time notwithstanding some reports to
the contrary. Many thought it would be
rather “hard going” for Old Santa this year
but after seeing our assortment of Toys and
asking the prices they have had a “change
of heart” and decided to help him along.
Here are a few suggestions for the
“Kiddie’s” Xmas
Dolls.75c to $2.25
Laundry Sets .$1.75
Doll Beds .50s to $2.25
Washing Machines .$1.75
Tea Sets .$1-75
Doll Furniture .3c to $1.25
building Blocks .25c to 75c
Books .15c up
Tool Chests .$2 00
Mysto Erector .$2.25 to $4.50
Drums .40c to $2.25
Mechanical Toys.25c and up
Sleds .$1-35 to $1.75
Air rifle .$2.00
Games .10c and up
CHRISTMAS CANDLES AND DECORATIONS
On the basis ot Security and Service
we solicit your account.
WE DO A BANKING BUSINESS EXCLUSIVELY.
VALDEZ BANK & TRUST CO.
PROFESSIONAL
Dr. H. COCKER1LLE
Graduate of National University
Washington, D. C.
„ 110 DENTIST
in both companies Fourteen vears in
Office Rooms in VALDEZ
Whaling Building.
DR. GERMAN
PhoDe 1# THE DENTIST
Office rooms over Owl Drug store. Office hours
9 a. m„ to«p. m.. 7 p, m., to 9 p. m. Sundays
by appointment All work guaranteed
DR. M. O. ADAMS
DENTIST
Office Over Valdez Drug Store.
New Company’s Phone No. 59
HOURS—9 to 12 a. m.; 1 to 6 aod7 to 9p. m.
JOHN LYONS E. E. RITCHIE
LYONS & RITCHIE
Attorneys at Law
Offices in Whaling Building
Phone lOl Valdes. Alaska
C. E. BUNNELL
ATTORNEY-AT-LAW
Offices Wall Street
Phone si VALDEZ
DONOHOE & DIMOND
ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW
Office Opposite Court House
Phone 34 Valdez, Alaska
F. BUTTERWORTH
jCiril Engineer and[
U. S. Deputy Lend and
Mineral Surrey or
rslntlng Valdes, Alaska.
Copper River
Draying Co
Freighting and Passengers
to all parts of the Interior.
GENERAL TRUCKING.
McKinley Street, Valdez.
Ed. Wood, - - - Proprietor.
Tho Outlook.
Mr. Iiatt—1 have engaged Detective
Catt to shadow my wife.
Mr. Hare—I guess you'll be a real
widower then, instead of a grass wid
ower.—SL Louis fJlohe-Democrat.
Imposing Facade of Machinery Hall, the
Largest Building at the Panama-Pa
cific International Exposition.
THIS atructure will be 887.8 feet, wide by 887.8 feet long and will be dec*
orated with more than a mile and a half of ornamental cornice*. The
architectural design of the building la baaed upon the Roman arch
motif, prototypee of which may be found In tha big Roman hatha of
it.*.*., and Caracal la. Tha interior arrangement opnaleta of three nare* 78
Coot In width and mare than 808 feet la length, rtatng to a height of IN foot
from tha floor.
IS IN TROUBLE
Charged With Sending Coal and Pro
vision* To German Warships
From Neutral Port.
SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 16.—It Is
charged that the German consul here
has been sending ships to sea with
coal and provisions for the kaiser's
ships of war and that he has also
aided in sending a number of ships
from this port which have later been
converted into destroyers.
The federal authorities have start
ed an investigation and it may re
sult in the demand that the consul
be recalled. The violation of Ameri
can neutrality by the German diplo
matic agent is distasteful to the ad
ministration and will certainly call
for an explanation if the investiga
tion proves the facts charged.
| LOCAL BREVITIES. |
Mr. and Mrs. S. A. Hemple left on
the Mariposa for a trip to Seattle.
Home cooked meals at Mrs. Matil
da Olson’s on Hobart street. Phone
219. Dinner served at 6 p. m. tf
See Tod Winter ror your watch and
jewelry repairing at E. Winter’s store.
All work guaranteed. tf
Art leather goods make appropri
ate Xmas presents. See Valdez Drug
Company. tf
Father Shepherd has gone to Cor
dova to hold services next Sunday.
He will return on the next boat for
Christmas.
A fine assortment of Christmas
cards at the Valdez Drug Co. Make
your selection early.
The most exquisite hand-painted
china ever seen in Valdez at Valdez
Drug Co. tf
G. O. Keinke, the watchmaker and
jeweler. Is at the Valdez Drug Co.
All work guaranteed.
?—Men’s heavy wool hose 25c pair
at Emporium. tf
Suits pressed for 51.00 at Silver
man’s the tailor. Teh phone 198.
Bargains in holiday goods, wearing
apparel and articles of every-day want
at the Emporium. tf
Some fool threw a handful of snow
in the letter mail box at the post
office. The postmaster would like to
talk to the idiot. A number of let
ters were “soaked” and Jeff would
like to “soak” the culprit.
Before purchasing Christmas pres
ents drop in and see the stock on dis
play at Valdez Drug Co. tf
Cooking apples 52 per box at the
Yakima Fruit Co. tf
Imported Japanese baskets at Val
dez Drug Co. tf
Yakima netted Gem spuds, 17 lbs.
for 50c at Yakima Fruit Co. tf
Before sending out to mail order
houses for your wants examine the
goods on the bargain counters at the
Emporium. Fresh mixed candies at
25c per pound. tf
The cable between Valdez and Cor
dova is out of commission. The
cable experts are making tests and
if the tsets indicate a break between
the two points the cableship Burnside
will be asked for to make the repairs.
Master Electrician Faust is making
the tests.
Mr. and Mrs. Fred Butter worth
left on the Mariposa en route for
Brooklyn, N. Y. Mrs. Butterworth’s
mother and Mr. Butterworth’s father,
both of whom live in Brooklyn, are
very ill. Mr. Butterworth will return
in a couple of months and Mrs. But
terworth may remain away for a year.
TIDE TABLES PORT OF VALDEZ.
Compiled from the official tide tc ■
bles issued by the Coast and GeodeL
ic Survey. The time for high and
low water Is for the Port of Valdez
and is Valdez time. Immediately fol
lowing the time of high and low wa
ter is given the height of the tide
in feet and tenths:
Wednesday, Dec. 16.
High tide 10:56 a .m., 11.3.
Low tide 4:41 a. m., 2.8; 6:04 p.
m., 2.1.
Thursday, Dec. 17.
High tide 12:26 a. m., 7.6; 11:43 a.
m., 11.4.
Low tide 6:33 a. m., 2.7; 6:61 p.
m., 2.2.
UNSOLVED MYSTERIES.
6uch a* Radium, the Human Brain and
the Electric Fluid.
Alexander Graham Bell was once
asked If he understood precisely how a
telephone conveyed the sound of a hu
man voice. His answer wus: “No. I
only know what Is done. I do not
know how It Is accomplished.”
One is reminded of Lord Kelvin’s re
mark to some of his professional col
leagues near the close of his brilliant
career. It will he recalled that Bell
gave to Kelvin the instruments used
in the first demonstration of telephony
at the Philadelphia Centennial In 187U.
It was many years later that Kelvin
said that he knew no more as to the
nature of electricity than he knew
when he first began to work with It.
From Franklin to Edison master
minds among us have done wonderful
things with cells and dynamos, gener
ators and transformers, directing the
interplay of dreadful elemental forces
as inscrutable as they are majestic.
And still we do not know what elec
tricity is.
A woman finds that tons and tons of
a certnin ore produce a fraction of a
gram of radium, and we go to work
with it nnd behold the portentous re
sults It achieves, hut we do not know
what It is.
A congregation of sapient alienists
at a trial gives expert testimony, but
no man among them knows wbat his
own brain is nor how It gives Instan
taneous directions to the foot and the
band. Mystery is at the very root of
life and rules it to the end. Whatever
way we turn we find the abyss un
plumbed, the unfathomed darkness.
How ridiculous is our presumption of
knowledge before so vast an igno
rance!—Philadelphia Ledger.
SHOES SPOIL OUR FEET.
That Is Why So Few Persons Have
Perfect Pedal Extremities.
A person with normal feet Is very
difficult to find. In fact, the doctors
inform us that foot trouble is endemic
in the United States, as well as in
every enlightened country on the globe.
The cause of this condition and the
vast suffering which it entails is the
unhygienic shoe.
A thousand Porto Ricans whose feet
hud never been shod were examined.
Not a single diseased or deformed foot
was found among them. A San Fran
cisco surgeon, in commenting on this
fact, declares that among a thousand
shoe wearing Americans there is hard
ly one with normal feet.
The trouble is that the vast majority
of our shoes are improperly construct
ed. The fashionable shoe seems built
to force the foot into shapes which,
however slightly, are nevertheless ab
normal. That worn by the masses is
equally Inimical to foot health, for the
reason that it is constructed with very
little reference to the lines of the foot
and without effort to adjust it to the
normal movements of that member.
The medical man presents the moc
casin as the most wholesome foot cov
ering yet devised, but very few are
sanguine enough to hope that fashion
will permit its general use. Next to
the moccasin, so we are told, is the
shoe that not only permits the foot to
perform its normal functions unimped
ed, but strengthens it when in use.
This is the shoe that, instead of pinch
ing the foot or forcing it into abnormal
shapes or positions, actually fits it—
Boston Herald.
How Canada Got Its Name.
The origin of the name Canada is
strange enough. The Spaniards visited
thnt country previous to the French
and made particular search for gold
and silver, and, finding none, they of
ten said among themselves, “Aca nada,”
meaning “There is nothing here.” The
Indians, who watched closely, learned
this sentence and its meaning. Later
on the French arrived, and the Indians,
who wanted none of their company and
supposed they had come on the same
errand ns the Spanish, were desirous
to inform them in the Spanish sen
tence “Aca nada.” The French, who
knew as little of the Spanish language
as they, supposed that the incessantly
recurring sound was the name of the
country and ultimately christened it
Canada, which it has borne ever since.
Compensation.
King Alfonso Is very English In
some of his expressions. For Instance,
he was discussing with a well known
British peer the difficulties and dan
gers of kingship.
“So you think, sir,” remarked the
peer, “that it is rather a thankless
task being a king?”
“It Is rather difficult work at times,”
replied his majesty with a grin, “but
It Is deuced well paid!” —London
Globe. _
Helping Him.
A section foreman on a southern
railway heard the following conversa
tion between two of bis dusky labor
ers:
“Jim, you bettuh come here an’ he’p
me. I’s talkin’ up fer you.”
“How’s dat?"
“W’y, dls here man say you ain’t lit
fer de dawgs, an’ Ah tole him yes you
is!”—Everybody’s Magazine.
Superfluous Adornment.
“I am now engaged on a beautiful
design for a new coin,” said the artist.
“I don’t see why we need it.” replied
Miss Cayenne. "You can’t make mon
ey so good looking as to render It any
more popular than It already Is.”—
Washington Star.
Excessive anger against human stu
pidity Is Itself one of the moot pro
voking of all forms of stupidity.—Von
Dougherty & Ferguson
GENERAL
MERCHANDISE
The best groceries received
on every boat,
Fresh vegetables, fruits
and nuts.
WE Call You'on Time for'the boat
if We Handle Your Baggage.
We Buy and*Sell Anything from
DeadJCrabs to Live Bears.
CITY EXPRESS
Phone 82. J. A. Spenard, Prop
BEST PLACE TO EAT
MRS. ST. MARIE’S
Moved to Reed Building, on Wall
Street, next to Road Commission
( Tam to 9am
MEALS< Lunch 12 m to 1 p m
' 6 to 7 p m
BOARD & ROOM 8SO per Mo.
ARCADE CAFE
“We Never Close.’*
Private Dining Room.
The Best of Everything:. We Bake'Our Own
Bread and Pastry.FBread'forJSale.
Jack Callin - - Proprietor
Chas. Perry
*A Complete Services^
• IN THE HEART OF THE C1TY
1155 Rooms wittibafh-50 Sample Rooms
When
You
Use
a
Western Electric
Washer and Wringer
Simply put in the clothes and
start the motor;—in I 0 to 15
minutes the clothes are washed
white and clean ready to be
hung on the line without the
wear and tear of the wash
board.
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?
Alaska Water, light
& Telephone Go.
Somebody
With Money
always has been found to
"back” a good plan, a
good idea, a good busi
ness venture or a good
mining prospect-other
wise a good many of to
day’s successful business
enterprises would still be
mere dreams.
Advertising has brought
about a majority of the
introductions of the man
with the idea, the man
with a prospect or busi
ness to the man with the
dollar.
ADVERTISE IN THE
PROSPECTOR FOR RE
SULTS.