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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 Dav
id H. Sleem. deceased; A. J. Wendler,
administrator.—Notice to creditors.
Notice is hereby given by the un
dersigned, administrator of the estate
of David H. Sleem, deceased, to the
creditors of, and all persons having
claims against the said estate, to ex
hibit them, with the necessary
vouchers, within six (6) months af
ter the first publication of this no
tice, to the said administrator, at tbe
office of C. E. Bunnell, at Valdez,
Alasita. the same being the place for
tbe transaction of the business of
eold OfltfitA
Dated at Valdez, Alaska, this 24th
day of November, 1913.
A. J. WENDLER,
Administrator of the estate of David
H. Sleem.
Date of first pub. November 25, ’13.
Date of last pub. December 26, '13.
For 8ate.
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EARLY NEW YORK.
Ita Name In the Year 1664 Was the
Towne of Mannados.
While many persons are aware of
the fact that New York has not al
ways been so called, having for a
time at loast been known us New
Amsterdam, probably not one in
10,000 is aware of the fact that in
early days it possessed still another
and now forgotten name — the
Towne of Mannados. That this
was the case, however, is shown be
yond the shadow of a doubt by a
map which hangs in the armory of
the Old Guard of the city of New
Y'ork among its collection of early
Americana, the authenticity of
which is certified to by the manu
script department of the British
museum, in whose possession is the
original from which the copy in the
possession of the Old Guard was
made.
As a (plaint representation of
early geographical ideas of what is
now Greater New York the map in
question is interesting. It is one of
the very few on which the name of
Towne of Mannados is given pri
ority over that of New Amsterdam.
The facsimile which hangs in the
Old Guard armory, certified as be
ing a correct copy in every par
ticular, is entitled “A Description
of the Towne of Mannados, or New
Amsterdam, as It Was In Septem
ber, 1GG4.” If, however, the
“towne” at that time existed in the
shape indicated by the plan, ex
tremely violent earthquakes must
have occurred since. The map, a
curious illustration of early ideas of
geography, shows New York, or,
rather, the Towne of Mannados, as
a peninsula, jutting into an inclosed
bay formed by “Hudson river” on
one side and an unnamed stream on
the other, probably regarded as its
continuation. To the west lies an
unexplored territory designated as
the “mainc land” and to the east
“Longe Islcland.”
\\ mil is prouamy ■aiuiun isiauu
is depicted as lying due west of
what is today Wall street, and the
only outlet from the inclosed bay
into which the Towne of Mannados
juts is a single extremely narrow
pass between the “maine land” and
“Longe lsleland,” which almost
meet at a point in the vicinity of
what is now Sandy Hook. On either
side of this passage is the descrip
tive title “Heads.”
That, in brief, was the idea of
the Towne of Mannados in 1664.
The plan also shows a spot marked
“Water .Mill” at the mouth of a
stream which is probably the Har
lem river, while “Ye Governour's
House” is located at the extreme
southeastern part of the island.
The territory, which was even
vaguely mapped, hardly extends
above what is now Twenty-third
street. Beyond that on the “plan”
there lies a vague territory much
used by early geographers.
Senate and Lords.
The British house of lords is a
survival of the ancient aristocracy
of the kingdom, which for a long
time was supreme in all national
matters. When the democratic
sentiment won a place for itself in
the shape of the house of commons
the natural and apparently inde
structible conservatism of the Brit
ish people held on to the house of
lords as a check upon the commons
and a perpetual reminder of the an
cient institution. The senate of the
United States was the result of the
compromise struck between the Na
tionalists and State Rights parties
in the convention that formed the
constitution; Some were for merg
ing the representatives in a single
body, while others insisted upon the
second chamber (the senate) as a
recognition of the political equality
of the states.
Powerful Combination.
Tim was a protege of Mr. Blank,
a well known Boston lawyer. He
was often in trouble, but by per
sonal influence with the courts Mr.
Blank managed to have him let
down easy, so it became a matter of
talk, the Green Bag says, that he
did not suffer greatly in being ar
rested.
“Howr is it, Tim,” some one asked
one day, “that you are arrested
very often, but never go to jail or
pay any fines?”
“It's just this way,” Tim replied.
“I have Mr. Blank for me lawyer,
and what he doesn't know about the
law I tells hiiu.”
Battorod Victory.
Two. costers were in the British
museum, looking at the statue of a
Homan gladiator. One of its arms
was broken off, his left leg ended at
the knee, his helmet was battered
and there were several chips from
the face of the warrior. Under
neath the statue was an inscription,
“Victory.”
“Lor’ lnmrae, Bill,” said the gen
tleman in pearlies, “if that there
Moke won the victory what must
a’ been the state of the bloke what
lost’”
MARRIAGE BROKERS.
They Play a Queer Sort of Game In
English 8ociety.
There exist in British social life
certain individuals known as “mar
riage brokers.” They move in the
highest ranks and gain, often un
known to their friends, enormous
commissions for making a desired
“match” possible. In some cases,
says London Tit Bits, a match is
made as an ordinary business ar
rangement—that is to say, each
party to the contract, the prospec
tive bride and bridegroom, are
aware bow their meeting- has been
btought about, and each is prepared
to pay a handsome commission for
the introduction; but these cases
are few and far between.
What causes the business of the
society marriage broker to be great
ly looked down on is the fact that
most usually society matrimonial
agents work in secret. They are
received at the best houses, and
their hostesses, all unsuspectingly,
are made catspaws to obtain intro
ductions. Needless to say in a case
like this there is always one vic
tim, for either the man or the girl
is drawn into the match unsuspect
ingly, little thinking that the per
son who brought about the intro
duction may derive a lifelong in
come as the result. Sums of £20,
000 and more have been known to
change hands as commission in this
wav.
Very often the society marriage
broker sets his bait by an adver
tisement in one of the most ex
clusive society papers. Advertise
ments of this kind are usually
shrewdly disguised, taking the form
in most cases of tempting offers of
employment for impecunious gen
tlemen of high birth. In this way
an interview is arranged, and in the
most artful manner possible the
proposal is put forward to provide
the applicant with a wealthy bride
in return for a heavy commission
when the wedding is duly solemniz
ed. In many cases the impecunious
gentleman falls in with the scheme.
Should lie not do so, however, a
promise of strict secrecy is usually
extorted, and the marriage broker
sets about attracting some more wil
ling fish to his net. Too often the
society marriage broker is a member
of the fair sex. In this case few
manage to escape from her schem
ing- _
Then He Went to Sleep.
Mrs. Popkins was constantly re
minding her husband that she own
ed the silver, that she owned the
furniture, and the piano was her
own private property, and so on un
til poor Popkins began to wonder
what slic'd claim next.
The other night Mrs. P. woke in
alarm. Strange sounds were beard
in the lower parts of the house,
and quickly rousing her husband
she cried:
“John! John! Get up! There
are burglars in the house!”
“Kh?” inquired Mr. Popkins, rub
bing his eyes.
“Burglars downstairs!” repeated
Mrs. P.
“Burglars?” said Popkins, as he
turned over. “Well, 'you do the
worrying. I don't own anything.”
A True Friend.
An elderly man in a large city
died in extremely poor circum
stances. A prominent business man,
well known for his mercenary char
acter, attended the funeral and was
visibly affected as he looked for the
last time on his old friend and as
sociate.
“You thought a great deal of the
old gentleman ?” he was asked after
the services were over.
“Thought a great deal of him?”
echoed the merchant. “Well, 1
should say 1 did. There was a true
friend. He never asked me to lend
him a cent, though I knew that he
was practically starving to death.”
—Harper’s Magazine.
Great Indian Acrobats. '
The traveling acrobats who wan
der from village to village in India
arc often surprisingly clever. In a
remarkably short time they will
erect their primitive apparatus, con
sisting of a few bamboo poles and
ropes and will then go through a
most wonderful performance, the
daring and skill of which would
greatly astonish people used to
western aerobatic feats. The poles
and ropes are fixed up in the most
haphazard fashion, and the per
formers risk their lives over and
over again, well satisfied if, at the
end, the audience rewards them
with a few annas.—Wide World.
RcoCflBltion.
Brown—Have yon heard of the
adventure of old Jehones. the law
yer?
Chown—No—what was that?
Brown—Why, lie went out to
bathe one day and encountered a
huge shark. Their eye* met for an
hutant. then the shark blushed and
■warn awav.—London Answers.
I GREAT BEACON LIGHTS.
i __
Makaluu Point’* Winking Eye and th*
Marvel at Navesink.
The largest lens of the Dnitcd!
j States lighthouse service is located!
i in the Makaluu point light, Ha
j waiian Islands, and is eight and
1 three-fourths feet in diameter. The
I light is what is known as the oc
i culting light and is eclipsed for one
! and one-half seconds every nine see
onds, giving that winking eflect.
j The most powerful light in this
country is situated at Navesink on
the highlands of New Jersey, just
I outside of New York harbor, and
shows each five seconds a (lash of
! light of one-tenth second duration,
j Although on account of the curva
! ture of the earth’s surface this light
cannot be seen further than a dis
tance of twenty-two miles, its beam
; has been reported by ships to have
I been observed in the sky as far
i away as seventy nautical miles.
! ■ In Alaska there are many lights
! supplied by acetylene gas tanks of
sufficient size to maintain a (lashing
j light for as long a time as live
! months without refilling or any at
tention, giving in that time nearly
.5,000,000 flashes. Alaska has all
| together ninety-five lighthouses,
and most of them are in localities
where it would be almost impossible
to keep an attendant or ask a hu
man being to stay, so that the estab
1 lishment of these lights would have
been impossible if it were not for
these gas supplied beacons.
At Point Ketreat, Alaska, is a
j powerful beacon which flashes a
strong light every three seconds for
five whole months, but probably the
i record for continuous service on one
j charging and without attention is
: the gas beacon placed on Itichard
! son’s rock, a wave swept rock off
the Santa Barbara islands, Cal.,
where it would have been pretty ex
pensive to have established a light
house with quarters for the keep
| ers. This beacon flashes its warn
! ings every three seconds for seven
' continuous months or nearly 0,000,
! 000 times without a recharge.—Dr.
! C. O. Percival in Health.
Hooded Snakes.
! The hoods of snakes were un
j questionably intended by nature to
j act as weapons of intimidation, for
! when suddenly opened, as they are
! during the excitement of a contest,
; these give their owners an apparent
- and formidable enlargement.- But
the hoods which have been so use
ful at some period in snake history
i have now become so enlarged as to
i tend toward the extinction of their
| owners, just as the overdevelopment
in the tusks of prehistoric animals
led straight to their destruction.
During a fight the hooded snake in
* the act of striking his foe suffers
l from the outstretched and weighty
hood, lie overbalances himself and
topples forward. IT is assailant (the
| mongoose and some birds especially)
seizes him when prostrate and, rip
- ping up the back of the neck, speed
ily dispatches him.
Her Hidden Ambition.
A brilliant young violiniste, a na
tive of Holland, played one day for
I Edward VII. when he was the
I’rince of Wales.
“Is there anything you care more
. for than your Stradivarius ?” asked
• the prince, expecting, of course, a
; negative reply.
j The young Netherlander colored
a little. “The violin is not an ab
I sorbing passion with me, your high
I ness,” she replied.
“Ah! Perhaps you have a leaning
to another branch of art?” suggest
ed the prince.
“Indeed. I have not!” the violin
iste said in a burst of confidence.
“But, your highness, 1 just love to
| cook! 1 really believe 1 should
j make an excellent chef if 1 had the
| opportunity to practice.”
Good Advice.
The revivalist Sam Jones was
once taking women to task for
spending more time in prinking
than in praying. “If there’s a wom
an here,” he screamed finally, “who
prays more than she prinks, let her
stand up.” One poor old, faded
specimen of femininity, in the sorri
est, shabbiest of clothes, arose. “You
spend more time praying than
pranking?” asked the preacher, tak
ing her all in. The poor old crea
ture said she did—prayed all the
time, prinked not at all. “You go
straight home,” admonished Jones,
“snd put a little time on your prink
ing.”
Several Official*.
He was approached by an old
friend whofri he had not seen for a
very long time. After a mutual
exchange of asking for the folks at
home the younger man said:
“You are rector here now, I un
derstand.”
“Yes." answered the reverend
gentleman. “1 am rector of the
church, my mother-in-law ia di
rector. and my wife is cor-rector.**<—
Detroit Free Press.