fltyr Daily Praayrrtor
PUBLISHED BY
PROSPECTOR PUBLISHING CO.
H. B. SELBY, Editor and Proprietor.
VALDEZ. ALASKA
Published Dally Except Sunday
Entered as Second-Clasa Mail Matter,
July 23. 1912. at the postofflce of Valdes.
Alaska, under act or March S. 1(79.
i.us'ness Offlce and 'Editorial Rooms.
TEL. 169
s.ivertlaliiii Rates on Application
WEDNESDAY. DECEMBER 12, 1917
DOWN IN A COAL Mlive..
1AM a jovial collier lad.
Aa blithe as blithe can be.
And let the tunes be good or bad
It'a all the same to me.
It's little of the world 1 know.
And care leas of its ways.
For where the dog star never glow*
1 while away my days.
CHORUS
Down in a coal mine, underneath the
ground.
Where a ray of sunshine never can be
found;
Digging dusky diamonds all the year
around,
Down in a coal mine, underneath the
ground.
At every shift, be It toon or late,
I haste my bivad to earn,
And anxiously my kindred watch
And wait for my return.
For death that levels all alike,
Whate’er their rank may be.
Amldet the tire and damp may strike
And fling its dans at me
How little do the great ones care.
Who Bit at home secure.
What hidden dangers colliers dare.
What hurdshlps they endure
The very fires their mansions boast
To cheer themselves mid wires.
Mayhap were kindled at tlie cost
Of Jovial colliers' lives
Bo cheer up. laris, and make >e much
Of every Joy ye cun,
But let your mirth be ulways such
As best becomes a man.
However fortune turns about
We'll still be jovial souls.
For what would the nation be without
The lads that look for coals?
—Unidentified.
TIME TOR ACTION
It is to be hoped that Congress
will find time to bring to an end the
unconstitutional and un-American
law whereby Postmaster General Bur
leson can put a'paper out of business
overnight, without trial, judge or
jury. The popular hysteria that any
legislation enacted in the name of war
legislation is wise legislation has been
exploded in this case. While It i^right
to stifle all seditious utterances or
articles calculated to hinder the suc
cessful operation of the war, it must
be remembered that the Postmaster
General is but human, and a party
appointee, and may be mistaken in
his ideas. It places too much power in
the hands of one man to allow him
to throttle his enemies without trial.
The papers have been far more loyal
to the government than the govern
ment has to the papers, in the way of
support, and if chastisement is need
ed let it be done by a Jury. An au
tocracy is not going to sit well with
the publishers, who desire to know
by what right their publications are
suppressed. Many papers in the coun
try have been arbtrarily denied the
use of the mails for real or fancied
criticism, and where the harm is done
is that they have no redress save the
opinion of the postmaster-general.
Now what would appear seditious to
one person may appear all right to
another. We have a man in Valdex
who has the stomach ache every time
he reads the news, if it is not doctor
ed up to suit his ideas, and every oth
er town is probably in the same flx as
regards these immature eritics.
Congress should enact a law hold
ing publishers responsible for their
acts and words, the same as every
one else but to close out a business
' because an official does not agree
with its policy is unwise and unlaw
ful. No grocery stores have been shut
up over night because its proprietor
spelled germea with a cap G, and pap
ers should have the right of trial by
jury as to the legality of their utter
ances.
DEVELOPING A CITY
EVERY true citizen of Valdez re
alizes at this time that it Is most Im
portant that our town grow and fur
nish employment for those living
here. Our city Is one of the best In
the territory—in fact, we may safe
ly say that it IS the beat, and not be
far wrong in our statenleMt.
But it could be made much better.
This money you are sending out
side could do a world of good at the
present time by being distributed
among our merchants and trades peo
ple.
You make your living here in Val
dez off the very people you are de
priving of your trade.
Is It fair to them to take the money
which should be rightfully kept at
home and send it outside? Where it
is lost forever so far as any benefit
to the town is concerned.
Outside houses do not pay any
.taxes for the upkeep of our schools,
our churches or our institutions.
Our merchants donate liberally to
these enterprises, and also extend you
credit when you are out of a job.
What would Hoars & Sawbucks say
if you braced them for credit on the
plea that you were not working and
needed provisions for your family?
You would get it where the fishbone
stuck.
We want progressive, enterprising
people to come among us and bring
their families.
The dollars that have been sent out
side of the city in the past two years
would form a never-ending chain of
good-cheer if they had been left In
Valdez.
They are lost to all intents and
purposes when they hit the toboggan
for the retail purchasers' morgue—
the big department stores.
If times are hard do not complain;
you have helped to make them so.
You have dissipated your coin in var
ious ways, but chiefly thru the mall
order habit.
That sense of common ownership,
common loyalty and common hard
sense among our citizens should de
velop the ‘‘pull together” spirit. The
spirit of strength and unity which
makes success out of failure.
When the outside world begins to
realize that our people are obsessed
with a spirit of solidarity; that we
are loyal to our Home Merchants:
that we trade only with local firms—
then we may expect to grow out of
the narrow rut of provincialism.
Consider it your pleasure and you
duty to help develop your home town.
And to do it TRADE AT HOME!
■ * ■
XO SNOBS NEED AIM'IA
s IK THE imperial authorities think
the Canadian people are pleased or
flattered by the elevation of so many
title hunters in Canada to the peer
age and the like they are much mis
taken. The whole thing has long been
an offensive stench in the nostrils of
sane citizens. If it doesn't stop mighty
soon there will be trouble for some
one. Canada desires no codfish aris
tocracy and the transplanting in a
new land of so vicious an offensive
as the snohocracy tree.—Winnipeg
Tribune.
WHEN you are sending outside for
small articles, send stamps. This will
help keep the receipts of the postofflce
up to standard and pi%vent the sal
ary of tlie postmaster being lowered
in case the receipts fall below a cer
tain point. With so many persons out
side for the winter our postofflce re
ceipts will show a deficit over last
year unless we all get in and help
make it up. Do not forget this; send
stamps for your small purchases.
MANY towns as well as Valdez are
having meatless days. Let’s go them
one better and have a Santa Claus
less Christmas. Limit your purchases
this year to useful gifts. Times are
going to be mighty hard and it is best
to save at the start-off.
IK YOU want to make the Pros
pector a nice Christmas present pay
that old subscription' that has been
running several months. We are do
ing our best, but have come to the
conclusion that we cannot at the pres
ent time assume the whole war debt
of the city.
DO NOT forget there is a negative
to every affirmative. When the teach
er wrote on the blackboard, "Don’t
light matches; remember the Chicago
Are,’’ little Willie came right back at
her with "Don’t spit; remember the
Johnston flood.”
THERE are twenty-five mountains
in Colorado higher than Pike's Peak,
i but no one has ever heard of them,
which shows that It pays to adver
tise.
f ■ m ,
A TELEGRAPHIC dispatch says
“Increased Revenues for Railroads
Necessary." Why should the rail
roads be thus favored when there are
so many of us in the same shape.
8TKAM HEAT NEWLY FURNISHED
SEATTLE HOTEL
MRS. E. MILL Propr.
VALDEZ ALASKA
'1m _ _,_
IS REAL AMERICAN WONDER
Newly Examined Olaeler In an Unex
plored Region May Be Btggeet
In the Rockies.
We had reached u point of vantage
whence we could overlook the whole
of the unexplored region of the
Hoeklea from Lanrier Pass on the
south to the Llnrd region on the
north. No great secret could l»e con
oenled from us.
Whitt did we see?
A glance shttwed uh that toere was
no Iteaveii-kiasltig peak “taller than
Mount Hobson,” writes Paul L. Ha
worth In Scribner’s Mngnzlne.
Hut there were several magnificent
mountains higher thnn any along the
Klnla.v. Much the finest of nil these
Iny far to the northeastward. II was
a vast affair with three great sum
mits. two of them peaks, the third and
tnllest an immense square block.
This mountain was big enough to
have aroused our enthusiasm, and yet
we gnvc comparatively scant heed to
l».
Par down the south slope of U. fil
ing a great valley miles and miles
wide, there flowed a perfectly Im
mense. glistening glacier.
’That Is what makes the Quadacha
white." .Toe conceded.
There could he no doubt about It.
For a long time I had realised that It
would require .a good-sired rock mill
to grind up enough silt to color such
a hlg stream as the Quadacha. hut
where was a mill hlg enough for the
)oh?
We were at least forty inlles from
It, for w* were not fully twenty inlles
went of the works, snd from the forks
to the glacier must he at least twenty
more. We were eight as one muat
travel In that region. Tet there that
great white mass loomed up far and
sway the most notable phenomenon In
that whole magnificent panorama. If
Is flic biggest thing In the whole Fin
lay coiintry. I venture to predict that
when the glacier has Iteen more cloael'
examined It will he found to he one of
the biggest. If not the very biggest,
in the whole Rocky Mountain system
BEAUTY IS NOT LOVELINESS
Women May Posses* Both Quallflca
tlons, but a Combination Is
Raroly to Be Found.
"Beauty." at least a* distinct from
"loveliness." Is a big word. write* Mar
jf.nret Steele Anderson In l^otllsvllb
Post. It has a eertaln splendor. It ha
i certain amplitude. You use It for
the great things of the world: for the
Parthenon and the lost chryselephan
tine five of .love and of Athene: fol
the eplca of Humor and Milton, as foi
Troy and the first host of Lucifer; fm
the music of Bach and Beethoven :
for the face of Helen and the body o'
Rrunhilda or of Siegfried.
But "loveliness" Is a very different
word—a smeller word and slighter. :i
word more delicate, more tender. It
applies to the more human things
Helen Is not lovely, she Is heautlful
but. with rare exceptions, the women
>f Shakespeare have a eertaln appeal
lug loveliness. Juliet Is lovely, for al*
her strength ami courage; the loveli
ness of Rosalind Is piquant and that
of Beatrix also; Miranda's Is a wild
‘ind timid loveliness, that of Hondo
miina Is most lender, that of Ophelia
most tragical and touching. Portia
rno. Is lovely and Olivia—though Iciest
two. we admit, do barely escape being
jieHUtles; Viola, like Celia, has u sort
>f dainty loveliness, while Cordelia.
Leur's daughter Cordelia, Is as lovelj
is Juliet herself.
White-Breasted Nuthatch.
Tiie fHinilinr winter bird, the white
breasted nut hatch, is the champion
"steeplejack" of the world, says an
exchange. It can travel headforemost
down any tree trunk In the forest and
cun perform other dlsay gymnastic
feats with astounding ease. The nut
hatch makes nothing of thrillers.
The winter hawks occasionally try
to catch asleep this weasel of a bird.
The nuthatch, however, cau scuttle
vround a tree trunk, thrice outpacing
the squirrel at the seine trick. The
»lrd braves the bitter cold, and If It
anew bow It probably would hearten
us In the winter days with something
more cheerful than "Quauk, quank."
(t dues not know how, however, and
so we must take It for Its beauty and
Its society and let the rest go. .
Sea-Lien Performers.
Any boy who has goue to a circus
knows what remarkable “atunts” sea
lions can perform—huiuau beings can't
do some of them. There Is, of course,
the trick of balancing a big ball ort
their snouts anti tossing It from one to
another iu that Way. The aea-tlon or
chestra Is Util particularly musical, but
the animals can create an awful din
by means of horns, drums and bells.
The more clever of them can walk up
a ladder and down, with a baton on
their snout; while others roll over or
.dive when there is u tank. Each train
er tries new tricks with his Uous, mak
ing sure at first that be can do all the
most common ones.
Historic Pennant Sold.
An Interesting relic was sold In
Glasgow the other day. It was the
old yellow silk pennant of the Baris
of Marchmont, on which are the St.
Andrew's cross, the lion rampant, and
other heraldic devices. The pennant
Is In a fragile condition and la thought
to date back to the fourteenth or fif
teenth century. It Is satisfactory to
know that this interesting relic of an
earlier day was purchased by a Scots
man. and therefore will remain In
Scotland.
Hart Schaffner
&
Marx Clothes.
0
The Famous
Styleplus Clothes
Make It a Sensible Gift
this Xmas and you will find
them at this store in great
• profusion. Gifts for any mem
ber of the family will be here.
Come in and look them over.
FLORSHEIM AND CROSSETT
SHOES -
LEATHER (JOODS—
Traveling Bags, Fitted Bags, Suit
Cases, Purses, Strops, Etc.
CHINA—
Hand painted china in very pretty
patterns in Plates, Cups & Saucers,
Salts & Peppers, Sugar and Cream
ers, Chocolate Pots, Painted Bowls,
and other pieces too numerous to
mention.
FURNISHINGS^
Suspenders, Shirts, Handkerchiefs,
Bath Robes, Gloves, Etc.
STETSON AND MALLORY
HATS
HOSIERY—
For Men, Women and Children in
Silk and Silk Lisle, Cashmere and
Cotton.
ELECTRICAL GOODS—
Chafing dishes, Grills, Percolators,
Warming Pads, Curling Iron Heat
ers, Electric Irons, Etc.
NECKWEAR—
In Xmas boxes. A very fine line to
choose from.
The store where you have a choice •
S. BLUM AND COMPANY
GOOD GOODS
PROFESSIONAL CARDS.
»
DR. S. WICK.ES MERRITT
Offices In Fish Building, adjoining
Tllllkum Club.
Phono 90. McKinley Street.
Contract Surgeon. D. 8. Army
A. > Burgeon, U S Public Health Berv
(Marine Hospital)
DR. H. COCKER1LLE
Sniuto national llibenlt)
Washington. D. C.
DENTIST
In Valdes Since 1898
PHOftR 110
Office Rooms In Whaling Bnlldln*
DONOHOE & DIMOND
ATTORXTK YS-AT-L.A W
Office Oppoolto Conn Honor
Phono a« YALDUS. ALASKA
John ltons » m nrrcHii
LYONS & RITCHIE
ATTORNSVI>*T<U«
OSw la aislltf »-«m-T
Phaaa 1S1 VALDBS ALAIKi
ROBERT SIMPSON Opt D.
JUNKAU, ALASKA
Gluaaea Kitted Leuaea Ground
VALDEZ HOSPITAL
Print* Rooms
Terms Reasonable
JOS. A. SILVEUAM.rb.&.B.D.Pn*.
Jos. A. Liberman PL G.M. D.
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON
Offict Ugi-1 to 4 p. m — 7 to • f. a.
Sunday by Appointment
Res. Tel. 17* Office Tel. It
Boyle Block Valdes
Announcement
Christmas sifts now on display at
the residence of Mrs. Graham. All
are Invited to call. Give yonr orders
early. Honrs 10 a. m. to 8 p. m.
Mrs. Graham and Mrs. Depne.
k-deo-SS
Freeh balk chocolate* and a new
ttae bf hex candles at Heat's. If
A complete line of nugget and ivory
jewelry, watches, diamonds, etc., at
the Valdez Drug Store.
Just received a new line of 1'yra
ln Ivory suitable for Christmas gifts
at the Valdez Drug Store. tf
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Candy Kitchen
L V. HUNT—b Owl Drat Start.
FOUNTAIN DRINKS
HOT- COLD
KAMA (HEN
Capt Otto Elfrtron
Weekly trips to Port Wells
and all Soond Points.
FOR CHARTER FOR PAR*
TIBS OR TOWING
'or rates and sailing dates see
CAPT. OTTO BLFSTROM,
On Boat, Valdes Dock
LAUNCH DELLA
% Capt. H. L. Rider
Weekly tripe from Valdes to
Ellamar, Landlock, Fldalgo and
way ports. Passengers landed
at all points.
Carrying freight and passes
For rates apply os board.
GAFT. H. L RIDER
Arctic Hotel
All Warm, Uutshle Rooms
Transient Trade Solicited
Special Rates by the Week or Month
Baths In Connection
PHONE 133 MRS. STRING. Pr«e
J. E. WILSON
Freighting to all points
in the third division.
Horses bought and sold.
Phone 166.
SAFETY FIRST
Travel On The
“SHAMROCK”
Prompt Service
D. D. STEWART Master
LOVE & MEALS
Insurance
Fire-Surety Bonds-Life
THE SOUTHERN
MRS. BLACKWELL, Prop.
Nice, Clean Rooms
Baths In Connection
PRICES REASONABLE
Phone 104
VALDES LODGE
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