Valdez Daily Prospector
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SATI RDAY, MARCH H. 1013. 1 I
THE PRICE OF A MAIM.
The price ill' a man in the
Tlliteci stales is S'-kdon.
This is according I" the figures :
gi\c'n by Prof. Irv ing Kislier, of j
Yale, in his report to the Nation
al Couservat ion Commission. A,
nevv-horn baby is worth «‘>n. ]
Don't ask how we know. Ask <
Prof. Fisher.
There being ninety million pen- ;
pie in the country, the whole tin- |
man herd would he priced at j
around two hundred and fifty hit- j
lion dollars.
Karl Mayo, in the <)ullook,
gives the estimated wealth of the
nation (exclusive nt human live
stock at a hundred and ten bil
lion. "This,” he says, "is the
computed value of all the land
and all the buildings, all the
mines and mills ami taelories, all
the railways and other transpor
tation facilities, all the domestic
animals and farm products; in
fact, everything in the country
That possesses a monetary value
except the people themselves.”
Contrast $250.000';000,000 with
$100,000,000,(1(10 and see how t
much more people are worth
than stufl'.
Furthermore, reflect that all ol j
the $110,000,000,000 would be j
worth just $0, if there were no :
people; that is, it is the human i
being that makes all values of j
whatever kind.
Walk along Wall Street, New
York, or LaSalle street, Chicago, j
and observe the crowds; then look
at the hanks and tall buildings: j
then think that it. is the human
stream that lends ail wealth to
the high nioneyclid's it runs in;,
that without Ihr human bees the
hives would he worthless and the
honey of no more value than
dust.
Thu wealth of a nation ties en
tirely in its people, therefore.
Isn't it about time for us to re
alize this, ami to art upon it?
We talk about the rights of prop
erty as opposed to the rights of
man; there are no rights of the
first except what are borrowed
from the rights of the second.
And does it not, follow that the
surest way to increase the wealth
of the nation is to increase the
vigor of its human components?
If the money now spent by gov
ernment in "rivers and harbors”
and in building postofl'iees and
dreadnoughts were spent in send
ing every youth under 21 to
school, it would be how much
more efficacious in making us
“(.he richest nation on earth.”—
Seattle Sun.
THE LAW MAKES ORPHANS.
More than 70,000 children in
the United States were orphaned
through process of law during
the year 1012. These are the
figures presented by a statistician
before the New York Marriage
and Divorce commission. The
majority of tlidso orphans were
under ten, and lost their parents,
one of Ihcir parents, through the
operation of the willing divorce
laws.
A hundred thousand divorces,
or something more than that,
were granted during tliaL one
year. The one cheerful feature
about it, from the child point of
view, is that there was not an
average of one child to a divorce.
From the point of view of public
morality, the figures are not so
satisfactory. II is possible to
believe that if there had been an
average of two or three children
to each divorce, the divorcees
would not have been so happy.
II cost (lie government $73,000
for the inauguration of President
Wilson. That’s nothing, it cost
more than that for the last term
of court at Valdez.
BETTER TIMES NOW.
John Milton's greatest, noblest ;
pome was sold for fifty bucks; ]
he sadly took the money home, j
and t»i his wife said: “Shucks, j
This thing of singing deathless)
strains is vain, so help me John;
there’s less reward for poet's
brains Ilian there’s for teamster's
brawn. You should have wed a
plutocrat, dear housewife, iu the
past; you'H have' to do without
a hat in the spring, as you did
Iasi. The girls must wear their
old print gnwns—I trust they'll
dance ami sing--and I must wear
the hand-me-downs 1 bought j
when James was king." The mod- j
ern pool gambols home, that j
home with laughter tills, lie says:
‘T sold I lull mislit pome about i
Do I'll nny’s pills. I have an order !
for a rhyme concerning Jim j
Crow’s salve; and now. my deal', j
a bully time we surely ought loj
have, (io blow you rsel f for
gaudy rags, and give I lie kids a
treat, for .joyously the old world |
wags, and I'm on Kasy slreel.."!
WAI.T MASON.
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Nothing.
A stale of absolute not liing is i
a stale of absolute 'eoul radirl ion. I
Absolute nothing' is the aggrc-|
gale of all the absurd contra-I
dictions in the world, a stale j
wherein lliere is neither body nor
spirit nor space,, neither empty I
space nor full spare, neither lil-|
tie nor great, narrow nor broad,
neither infinitely great spare nor
finite spare nor a mathematical
point, neither up nor down, no
such thing as here or there, this
way or that way or only one way.
When we go aboul to form an
idea of perfect nothing we must
shut out all these things. We
must shut out of our minds both
space that has something in il
and spare that has nothing in it.
We must riot allow ourselves to
think of the least bit of space,
nor must we suffer our thoughts
to lake sanctuary in a mathemat
ical point. When we go to expel
body out of our thoughts we must
reaso| not to leave empty space
in the room of il, and when we
go to expel emptiness from our
thoughts we must not think to
squeeze it out by anything else,
hard and solid, but we must think
of the same thing as the sleep
ing rocks dream of. Not till then
shall we get a complete ideki of
nothing.—Jonathan Edwards.
Silence.
When you have nothin? to say.
say nothing.—Colton.
There are times when silence, if
the preacher did but. know.
Shall preach to better purpose
than a sermon stale and flat.
—Dr. Walter Smith.
The temple of our truest
thoughts is silenc-eU-Mrs. Hale.
flood its is discourse, silence is
better and shames it.—Emerson.
It is a great misfortune not to
have enough of ability to speak
well nor sense enough to hold
one's longue.—La Hruyere.
New Definition.
"Pa. what is a pillory?” “A
what?” “A pillory. Teacher ask
ed me yesterday and T didn’t
know.” ‘ Why. that’s a facetious
term sometimes applied to a drug
store. What won't these1 schools
put into your head next?”
BOOKS.
(By Bourne Filch.
Books arc a sort of cold stor
age for knowledge. Because of
hooks the world is now as wise
as it was 100 years ago plus what
il has learned since.
A book is an improved and
perfected memory. The wise man
isn't content with preaching his
ideas. lie sticks them into a
hook as fast as they are turned
out. ami four centuries later,
when solin' ambitious agitator is
misipioling him for revenue on
ly some stern critic will ,rise
from the audience and smite him
with the wise man’s own words
in i i-ipmrlo volumes, s_> cash
and the balance $2 a month un
lit death do us part.
Hunks were mice primed liy
hand ami won* very dill'icull In
produce. This is no .lunger so.
Nowadays hunks aren'i even writ
Ion liy haml. A good. easy run
ning nimlerii nullinr ran keep
strliiographers ami nine prinling
presses hnsy, and can cnngesl a
small library all by himseir.
A gnnd hunk willi illiiminal
ed ^ipil.iaJs cusl a small furl line
live’coni uries ago. Hut Inday a
lies! seller willi a enver in fmir
cidurs and a red-lnd phd can lie
hniighl fur * 1.08 net. Hunks willi
wisdom in I hem mine consider
ably higher. This is a great mis
take. The hooks on science, phil
osophy and religion should lie pul
in 50-cenl editions, and Hie books
in which I lie hero discovered I he
heroine mil swimming four miles
from shore and proposed lo her
under water between sweel and
clammy kisses, ought lo lie sold
for 85 apiece at drug stores.
II is |Ik* ambition of almost ev
ery man and woman to write a
hook and, I hanks lo the cheap
ness of paper and ink Ibis desire
is being generally realized. There
are now over i.boo.ouO hooks in
the world, and a strong man lie
ginning in his youth and read-(
ing 2 1 hours a day, could mil
catch up in less than a thousand!
years. \Ve are told on good nil- '
ihnrily, however, Ihal if a man
will read live lineal feel of hooks
and choose I hem carefully he will
become wise and content. Any one
of a large number of books will
vastly improve the mental equip
ment of the reader. On the oth
er hand, by reading a few hun
dred over-heated love stories, as
they drop from the presses, a
wise man could addle his brain j
beyond remedy.
Stern critics declare llint no
hook should he read until it is at
least ten years old. The world
has gone farther than Ibis, how
ever. II has refused to read most,
great writers until their books
were over 100 years old and the
writers themselves had died of
insufficient nourishment.
NUTS TO CRACK.
With the people who can't for
get, the past is always present.
It is often difficult to swallow
a hard luck story without cough
ing up.
The woma.ii investor is always
ready to liny stocks cheap that
have been damaged hy water.
Lots of men have been spoil
ed hy success, hut we have yol to
hear of a weather forecaster in
that class.
There wouldn’t he much excite
ment in the world if men were
as perfect as their wives expect
ed them to he.
I’RKSH FISH just in from down
the sound--ldark hass. herring,
red snapper, trout and halibut at
the Valdez Cafe.
Independent Laundry Co.
Satisfaction Guaranteed | I Foot Keystone Ave
Telephone 66 I I Roufrh Dry 10c lb.
VALDEZ DOCK CO.
JOBBER IN
COAL, HAY AND GRAIN
PHONE NO. 1.
Agent for
ALASKA STEAMSHIP CO. ALASKA COAST COMPANY.
FOR SALE
2 1-2 H. P. Stationary Gasoline
Engine
A BARGAIN
Keystone Dock Valdez Iron Works
Give Us the Opportunity
STHN-BLOCHI
SMART CLOTHES
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to dress'you better for the same or less
money with
Stein-Bloch, H. M. S. Soneborn
or Hamberger Clothes
These well known clothes cost no more
than ordinary clothes, and
We Guarantee a Perfect Fit
Daily Prospector and Weekly
Miner $1.25 the me. delivered
Economical
Ironing
To iron economically
you must not waste
heat.
Ironingwith ordinary
flat irons is very waste
ful of heat; most of the
heat goes up the kitchen
chimney; a lot of it is
wasted in charring the
ironing pad and in
scorching the clothes.
Ironing with a
G-E Electric
Flat Iron
is quite different —all the
heat is in the iron, ready to
go into the pieces ironed in
stead of going into the Boom
or up the kitchen chimney.
None of it is wasted.
To uie only the amount of
heat actually needed for
ironing, be it either heavy
damp pieces or laces,
embroidery or other light
goods is reel economy.
That’s why G-E Irons are
used in thousands of homes
throughout the country.
We keep allstyles and sizes
—-Let us send you one on trial.
Alaska Water, Light
& Telephone Co.
H-51
Steam Heat Electric Light*
THE COPPER BLOCK
Finely Furnished Rooms All Modern Convenience*
Good Tijr DiirrrT G °0 d
Goods I nt DUrrCl Goods
Copper River Lumber Co., Inc.
ALL KINDS OP
.Native and f | HV/IDITD and Building
Puget Sound LUlYlDLilV Material
CONSTANTLY ON HAND
Prices Right W. M. FINICAL, Mgr. Phone 18
Patronize a Home Industry
VALDEZ DRUG CO.
Drugs and Druggist Sundries
PRESCRIPTION SPECIALISTS
Telephone Orders Solicited Free Delivery
Arguments May Be Disputed, But
“Facts Are Facts.”
It i a fact that Valdez beer ig a food and not a tonic.
Ask any doctor you know. Valdez beer aids digestion. Use
it a few times with your meals and you’ll find we’re right.
If you drink beer you should use Valdez beer in preference to
others. First, because of its unquestionable high quality.
Second because it is a home pr duct; brewed in your home
town and all who are interested in the growth and prosper
ity of Valdez should patroniz home products.
VALDEZ BREWING AND BOTTLING CO.
We do a
general
Banking
Business
Bank in
rear of
mercantile
department
a
We Pay 4 Per Cent Interest on Time Certificates o1 Deposit.