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WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1913.
SHOWING UP THE EGG HOAX.
Members of the Housewives’ League
of Orange, N. J„ have tackled the
high-price-of-eggs problem in a prac
tical manner and are showing the
storekeepers of that town that they
intend no longer to be imposed up
on. Paying $12 a month rent for a
store, they are buying storage eggs
in New York City and selling them
for 33 cents a dozen. And they are
not only not losing any money in the
enterprise, but paying all expenses
and making a small profit besides.
The cold storage concerns in New’
York and elsewhere make their fancy
profits only when the housewives are
indifferent or not sufficiently aroused
to take action against extortion.
Prices are usually kept at about the
reasonable level when women do their
own marketing and make intelligent
investigation of suspicious prices, in
stead of telephoning their orders and
grumbling about the size of bills at
the end of the month.
THE NATION’S MURDER RECORD.
The yearly story of murders in
these United States is unpleasant in
the extreme, says an exchange. The
annual improvement is slight. The
1912 record of 8.1 deliberate homi
cides for each 100,000 of population
in 30 large cities is only a trifle bet
ter than that of 1907, which was 8.8.
Compared with Italy’s figures of 3.9,
or Prussia’s of 2.81, or London’s of
1.01, it is disgraceful.
The city of Memphis, Tenn., again j
has the worst record of any in the j
country. Last year there were 64.3 ;
murders for every 100,000 of popula- i
tion, or close to 168 in all. New !
York, generally considered as a ;
“wicked” city, shows only 5.6 for the
year. The South far outdoes in evil I
record the Eastern, Central and West- I
ern states.
Undoubtedly there are local con- j
ditions that account for the homicidal J
differences of cities and regions. But |
none the less do they make the total j
showing of this country very poor. ;
In a land of acknowledged liberty j
there is altogether too much license to |
kill.
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QUEER JUDICIAL REASONING.
The Supreme Court of New Jersey
has invalidated as unconstitutional
the sterilization of feebleminded epi
leptics, certain types of criminals, and
other defectives. The act is held to !
be contrary to the fourteenth amend- 1
ment to the constiution of the United ;
States, which guarantees equal pro- j
lection of the laws. The court argues :
that if a legislature may authorize j
the performance of a surgical oper
ation on the feeble-minded to prevent j
the birth of new broods of the feeble-1
minded, a legislature may by a ma- j
jority vote mark other classes or
types as undesirable and take meas
ures against their propagation. In a
few frightened words Justice Garri
son, who writes the opinion, sketches
the dark possibility of a ravening leg
islature decreeing practically the ex
tinction of the human race.
Courts everywhere agree that the
legislature may prescribe life impris
onment, and in sofne states the death
penalty, for certain crimes, but it
does not follow that such severe pen
alties shall be Imposed for minor of-;
fenses or that the legislature might
enact a law providing for hanging men
who wear side whiskers. Yet there is :
the same logical basis for an extreme
supposition with respect to the abuse
of the power of punishment for minor
offenses as there is in the Jersey
court's fear of abuse of the power
to prevent the reproduction of life.
If society has ther ight to remove a
criminal from the world, it bias the
right to ’take steps to protect itself
from them ultipllcaton of criminals.
The trouble appears to be that the
New Jersey court 'is following a too
common example of trying to make
laws instead of’attending to Its duty
of interpreting laws.—Ex.
WORK A CURE FOR WORRY.
Work not only is a cure for worry,
In most Instances, but, what is better
still, it is an efficient propylactic, for
when we trace the genesis of our wor
| ries, we run them back to the mo
ments of idleness.
There is more than a grain of
truth in the old saying that the devil
; makes a workshop of an idle mind.
Often . when we worry we make
mean resolves, say and do mean
things, hurt those who love us, and
in many ways add to the sum total
of human miseries. The thing to do
when we begin to fret and fume is
to get to the useful task; do some
thing, build a phrase or a chicken
coop, put a plan on paper, saw boards,
split wood, plant flowers, or do any
of a number of useful things we are
capable of doing.
The negro sings as he toils; the
! load may almost bend his shoulders
to his knees; but he sings just the
same. Work makes him happy. It
drives worry away and gives him a
new interest in life and its problems.
Men and women who are busy as
a rule smile as they pass from task
to task. They feel the sweet con
tentment of work and have no time
to quarrel over the inconsequentials
which pester idle minds; and these
are the men and women who have
pressed our civilization up to its pres
ent high state. We owe our progress
to cheerful workers and not to men
and women who worry their lives out
in idleness.
A MARVELOUS FENCE.
The Story of Australia's War Upon the
Rabbit Pest.
The havoc that rabbits have
wrought in Australia has cost the
country millions of dollars. Until a
few years ago, however, the western
part of the continent, protected by
i bulwark of seemingly impassable
desert, was free from the pest. Then
one day a solitary rider on the edge
of the arid land saw something scut
tle across his path. It was the ad
vance scout of a vast invading army
of rabbits. The government im
mediately determined to build a
1,200 mile fence to shut out the
devastating horde.
This fence, says the Wide World
Magazine, is the longest that lias
ever been constructed, it traverses
an inhospitable country where for
miles and miles there is no timber,
where the rain may fall once a year,
or perhaps not at all for three years.
It was necessary to carry materials
for the fence and supplies for the
workmen hundreds of miles in carts
and on camel back. The work had
to bo pushed with feverish haste,
for countless thousands of rabbits,
pressing westward steadily, were
eating the country as bare as a city
road.
When the workmen had nearly
finished the barrier, the news came
that the rabbits had rounded the
end. Wit bout hesitation they be
gan a second fence 100 miles to the
westward, and before the farming
region was safely inclosed the two
fences extended over 2,100 miles.
Ill appearance the harrier resem
bles the woven wire fences that are
seen in all parts of the world. The
netting is stretched between posts
sunk deeply into the ground and
treated with tar to make them less
likely to he destroyed by the white
ants. The lower edge of the netting
is sunk into the ground to prevent
the rabbits from burrowing under
it, and along the top runs a heavy
wire capable of withstanding the
shock of charging kangaroos and
emus.
Without constant attention and
patrolling, however, the fences
would be useless, for outside of
them the rabbits keep ceaseless
watch. A boundary rider patrols
each section of the fence twice a
week, and he carries enough ma
terial and tools to make ordinary re
pairs. In some parts the riders are
men on bicycles, in others they are
horsemen, and in the arid districts
the men use camels. There is a sort
of “flying squad” assigned to each
half dozen sections, and the bound
ary rider can call on them when
the fence is badiy broken or when
the incursions of rabbits are especi
ally threatening.
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Weather Report.
Dec. 9, 1913.
Barometric Pressure .28.854
Temperature at 7 p. m.20
Maximum Temperature .28
Minimum Temperature . 4
Mean Temepature .16
Precipitation.3
Partly cloudy,' freBh breeze, wind N.
E. twenty miles. Snowed at night.
L. JONES.
ST. EUA$ HOTEL
Kayaton* Am. Alaska
Warm, lifkt, astiUa nau. Haa^aartara
far aiaiaf aal travattai mb.
Traaiiaata aaicftaJ. laUa naaaaaUa.
THE MINUTE ELECTRON. ~
It Is Billions of Times Smaller Than
the Tiniest Atom.
We know that the big telescopes,
aided by the photographic plate,
reveal stars to the number of at
least 100,000,000 lying utterly be
yond the confines of unaided vision.
Now it appears that a pinch of-salt
which one could hold on the point
of a penknife is made up of atoms
numbering hundreds of mil
lions merely, but billions of billions.
The population of atoms in the
smallest particle of mqtter visible
under the microscope is greater by
far than the total human popula
tion of the globe since the race de
veloped. And a little instrument
composed of two fragments of gold
leaf makes it possible to perform
the miracle of counting these deni
zens of the realm of infinite little
ness.
Within the smallest atom there
is something almost 2,000 times
smaller than the atom itself—a
something that is detachable from
the atom and susceptible of being
measured as to its mass and tested
us to its eleetric charge with the
aid of apparatus actually in use in
the laboratory. This ultimate par
ticle of matter is called the electric'
corpuscle or electron. We owe our
knowledge of it chiefly to Sir Jo
seph Thomson. It is the smallest
thing in the world, and it is prob
ably the basal substance out of
which all matter of whatever char
acter is built.
As regards bulk, the electron is,
according to the French physicist
Jean Becquercl, billions of billions
of times smaller than the atom. To
make the comparison vivid Bee
quercl likens the electrons in an
atom to a swarm of gnats gravitat
ing about in the dome of a cathe
dral.
As we penetrate thus far and
farther into the realm of the in
finitely little, seeing in imagination
the smallest visible particle of mat
ter resolved into myriads of mole
cules, each molecule into sundry
atoms and each atom into its teem
ing swarms of electrons, the ques-.
tion naturally arises, What lies be
yond?—Dr. Henry Smith Williams
in Harper’s Magazine.
REGULARITY IN SLEEP.
It Is Far More Important Than Getting
to Bed Early.
When a man is in perfect health
he wakes up naturally when lie has
had enough sleep. What is enough
sleep is entirely a matter of habit
and of individuality. One man may
have bad enough when he has slept
four hours. It is not well for a man
who is in the habit of sleeping eight
or nine hours to cut down bis
night's rest suddenly to four or five.
Sleep is to the healthy man mere
ly a reviving process for brain and
body. It annihilates the poisons of
fatigue that have accumulated dur
ing the day, the poisons that make
him feel sleepy at night. And when
In; wakes up he jumps out of bed
vibrating with energy for the work
of another day.
It is not so much the amount of
sleep as its quality that counts. An
Edison can get as much sleep in
four hours as most of us get in
eight, which means merely that his
sleep is so intense, his rest so per
fect, that in four hours all the fa
tigue poisons are driven from his
system, while most men’s sleep is
so fitful or so light that it takes
eight or nine hours to do the same
work for them.
It does not matter what time you
go to boil so long as you have a reg
ular hour and stick to it. The old
saving that an hour of sleep before
midnight is worth two after it is
not true, hut it lias this much of
truth in it: That the early hours of
sleep are worth more than the later.
The man who remains healthy goes
to bed about the same hour every
night, and it makes little difference
whether this hour he 9 p. m. or 3
I a. m.—New York World.
The Account Settled In Full.
At a salon in Paris some years
| ago the Sieur d’Aimerie was one of
i a group to whom he was imparting
an account of his pedigree, which
j he claimed was derived from the
pharaohs of Egypt'. Just then the
late Baron de Rothschild approach*
ed the group, and one of its mem
bers called out: “Baron, come and
let me make you acquainted with the
Sieur d’Aimerie. FJe comes from
Pharaonic stock, and you ought
to know each other,’" “Yes,” said
the baron, bowing gravely and, ad*
dressing D’Aimerie, “1 believe our
families bad some transactions -in.
times past.” “Yes,” rejoined D‘Ai
inerie, “we Imve a record that your
Eeople when leaving the country
prrowed a considerable amount of
jewelry-from my people, for which
I should now like to be repaid, with
interest." “1 remember the trans
action,” said Rothschild, “but' th,e
account was settled at due datA,
Your fathers received a check
the Bank of the Bed Sea."
Copyright Hart Schaflhcr & Marx
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....OUR LINE OF....
Holiday Goods
Is the largest ever
shown in town.
There is’nojbetter Xmas Present
for a Man than
Hart, Schaffner & Marx
Fine Suit or’Overcoat
We are showing all the latast
Styles andiColors.
WE ARE SOLE AGENTS
Wear and Tear of Coinage.
Tlio wear and tear on silver and
gold currency the world over
amounts to more than a million dol*
lars yearly. Fngland lias to renew
her silver coins every year to the
average value of $150,8G1, which is
equivalent to a disappearance of
about six tons of sterling silver.
From wear alone the loss on 4,G45,
521 gold sovereigns is estimated at
about $28,201 yearly. A much lar
ger deficit due to’the destruction of
sterling coins and their use in the
arts must of course be reckoned
with. The loss in value from wear
and tear in gold coin is often so
great that it is not safe to accept
large sums in payment unless laid
down by weight. The banks will
not accept deposits of material
value unless weighed and shown to
be true to face estimate.—National
M agazine. I
Cementing Antique*.
■^^TjTld stone monuments, statues
and building fronts that are crum
bling from long exposure to the
weather can now be patched up
cheaply, the patches not being no
ticeable, by means of one oi‘ the
latest adaptations of concrete. With
proper selection of materials and
coloring, most building stone, it has
been discovered, can now be imitat
ed. The crumbling stone is chipped
away until sound stone is reached
and the original shape is restored
in concrete. By following the lines
of the original stone blocks the ef
fect is as good as if the entire blocks
had been replaced at heavy con
struction cost. The crumbling pil
lars of a German city ball and some
badlv broken statues on another
German public building have been
effectivolv restored in this wav.—
Kxchangc.
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CITY EXPRESS STORE
\irP Buy Anything
W Em Sell Everything.
LYNCH & SPENARD
Since the organization of the
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: Y«$$f&
El/actric
Company
Valdez consumers are getting
electric current at a reduction of
forty per cent in rates.
Support the new company and
'' keep rates down to. bedrock,
t' QW«e in'Copper Bloch:
Phone 57
Prospectors,
Don’t neglect your^health on the trail.
The VALDEZ DRUG CO.
is prepared to fill your medicine kit
with the purest and best of drugs,
medicines, and surgical bandages.
TAZLINA HILL ROAD HOUSE
is open for freight and accommodations for the new
strike at Nelchina—Horses on hand at all times.
JAMES L. SIMPSON.
PROFESSIONAL
Dr. H. COCKERILLE
Graduate of National University
Washington, D. C.
DENTIST
Phone 92 IFeurteen yearsTio
Office in Whaling buildimr VALDEZ
Next to cable office
DR. GERMAN
• •hone the dentist
Office rooms over Owl Drug store. Office hours
0 a. rn.. to 6 p. m.. 7 p. m.. to 9 p. in. Sundays
by appointment All work guaranteed
F. BUTTERWORTH
'Civil Engineer and
U. S. Deputy Land and
Mineral Surveyor
Blue Printing Ifes Phont-. in#
Geo. f. white .
The Assayer
Assaying and Ore Testing
CORRECT RESULTS
No More, No Less
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ATTORNEY-AT-LA W
Offices Well Street
Phone Si VALDEZ
If you want all tne new.* ail ine
tune, read the Prospector.
IE. E. RITCHIE
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CAMP VALDEZ No. 10
Meet every Tuesday evening at s o’o.oik In
Eairle Hall. All members are requested to
attend. S. McyfKCK. Arctic Chief
Valdes IyOdge
No 168.
Free and Accepted Masons
Regular Communications first Wednesday in
each month in McKinley Hall Visitors always
welcome.
James H Patterson..W. M
C. C• Reynolds. Sec*
VALDEZ LODGE NO. 6,1.0. 0. F
Meets every Monduj at«l>. m. in
ODD FELLOWS'HALL
Visiting Brothers especially inviteii
Wm. Thomas, n. u. F. S Hun- , p. i src
MILK -MILK-MILK
Fresh Milk end Cream
VALDEZ DAIRY
Telephone orders to Phone 187
HUGO FELS
Contractor aid. BuKdei
Day .Work if Daairad
EMbwIm FurnUbod
WORK GUARANTEED