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WEDNESDAY, APRIL 5, 1010
HOPE.
A CRIMSON rift that streaks the gray,
A deathless scent that still will stray
Athwart the years, the living strain
Of music heard through depths of pain.
A star abreaBt a stormy sky,
A smile where tears are scarcely dry.
And eyes that grief has rendered blind.
Reflecting light unquenched and kind.
A word that lingers in the stii;.
The strength of never conquered will.
The Joy that In faith’s own heart lles
That life is sweet and nothing dies.
—Jane McLean
REPECTFULLY REFERRED.
Ob, you leap year maids, to the rescue
haste,
For a momentous question has risen 1
If a leap year maid asks a young man’s
hand
8hall Bhe go on her knee—cr his’n?
—Selected.
THE NEW COUNCIL.
The city election is over and a good
council has been elected. All the
members are men who will try to
give the town a straight business ad
ministration. It is up to the people
who belong in Valdez and have busi
ness and property here to work to
gether to promote the growth and
prosperity of the town. Politics may
well be laid on the shelf until two
weeks before next year’s election.
We believe every member of the new
council will give us a square deal—
and one certainly should not expect
more than this.
We ask our citizens to give the
new members your earnest co-opera
tion. You may differ from them in
many things, and they may err in
matters of judgment,—but anyone in
their difficult position would do the
same. What we want and expect is
harmony. Unity of action on every
thing concerning our city’s future.
We believe our citizens have, a re
liable, conscientious, business coun
cil, and we may expect better times
and a larger growth from this day on.
, Charles McCallum, the newly elect
ed member of the city council is a
young man of proven ability, and will
make a splendid member of our civic
body. Mr. McCallum is Secretary of
Valdez Miners Union No. 188, and is
very popular among his associates
and among his acquaintances. Mr. Me
Callum is a good business man and
we are pleased to congratulate him
on the splendid run he naade. He
has been a member of the city coun
cil before, and is acquainted with his
duties.
J. H. Patterson, who stands at the
head of the ticket, is an old resident
of the city, and has been engaged in
the blacksmithing business here for
many years. He is a good workman,
is cautious with his promises, and is
not tied up with any party. He will
make an excellent councilman. He
has also has previous service in our
municipal body.
Ernest Erickson is another old
timer here, and is well known to ev
ery voter in the city. He is in the
employ of the Light & Telephone Co.,
is a good workman, a shrewd busi
ness man and is not tied up to any
clique or faction. Mr. Erickson suc
ceeds himself on the council.
Anton Carlson, the third member
on the council, is a successful busi
DonU wait until next week. Come fee feur ikow now—tonight Of
ooune you will «ee a good ikow next week, but you will miss the one
we have now, and that would he a distinct lofe.__
| EMPRESS PROGRAM
jj PATHE NEWS—Always Interesting.
THE WRONG WOMAN—Robert Edeson. Drama from the Play
by Fawcett Lomax, and featuring Mabel Trunnelle and Gladys
Hnlette. A fine plot of intrigue and adventure in four acts.
CACTUS JIM’S SHOP GIRL—COMEDY—Featuring Tom Mix, the
Great Horseman. ,
INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC.
ness man in our city, and is well
known to every voter. He is for a
bigger, better Valdez, and no party
has any strings on him. He has al
ready served sevejal years on the
council.
Charles M. Day is probably one of
the best-known men on the ticket.
He has always been identified with
the big business of Valdez, and has
always been a consistent and tireless
worker for the city's advancement.
Mr. Day is pledged to no one and will
be found in the van for the interests
of his home town. He is a former
councilman of two years’ service.
Ed Wood is the popular and well
known transfer man and freighter.
Mr. Wood has held office in Valdez
times without number and has made
a capable officer. He will be found
working for the city’s good.
Charles CrawTord, the seventh
member of the council has been en
gaged in business in the city for a
number of years, and is a carpenter
and cabinet maker. Previous to the
big fire Mr. Crawford had the only
sawmill in the city, and at present
has plans under way to rebuild the
structure destroyed. Mr. Crawford is
successful in whatever he undertakes
and will make an excellent council
man.
The council as a whole is a re
markably efficient one, and we be
lieve they will be found always work
ing for what they relieve to be the
right.
FIFTH INVASION OF MEXICO.
A ■
Five times in history the United
States has invaded Mexico. The first
time was in 184 6, when our troops
landed at Vera Cruz at the com
mencement of what is known in his
tory as the Mexican was. In 1877,
because of Indian depredations, we
again crossed the international boun
dary. The third time was when Uni
ted States cavalry, at whose head was
Captain Lawton, pursued the Apaches
under the old Chief Geronimo in
1886. These cavalrymen captured
Geronimo in the Sierra Madre moun
tains, and their success is largely at
tributed to the use of heliographs,
which flashed signals from the moun
tain side for many miles up and down
the range and caused Geronimo to
come into camp and give himself up
because he had a superstition that
prevented him taking his needed rest,
owing to the fact, as he explained,
that the “Hib Eye'’ was constantly
upon him.
The fourth invasion was in 1913,
when most of the navy and a consid
erable number of troops were dis
patched by President Wilson to Vera
Cruz to compel the American troops
to destroy the prestige of Huerta and
permit Carranza, Villa and Zapata
to drive Huerta into exile. The sixth
invasion occurred on the fifteenth in
stant.
During the Mexican war the United
States troops occupied Mexican terri
tory for a little more than two years,
having been successful in a number
of sanguinary battles in which the
United States troops were greatly out
numbered. Peace was declared and
ratified under the treaty of Guada
lupe Hidalgo.
During the Indian uprisings Por
firio Diaz, then president of Mexico,
agreed that the troops of the two re
publics could reciprocally cross the
international boundary line in pur
suit of the savages. But although
this agreement was in force about
twelve months Diaz refused to re
new it.
GEORGE FITCH ON LOVE.
The poets have been trying to tell
us what love is for four thousand
years, but they have made such a
hash of it that even today people can
not tell the difference between love
and a business opportunity until
after they are married.
Love is a particularly squashy con
dition of the head produced by an !
appetite in the heart. It is a grand
thing for the heart, enlarging it to
many times its former capacity, but
what it does to the mind is mourn
ful to comtemplate. Under the influ
ence of love we see $9 a week clerks
buying $5 bunches of violets, strong
and fearless young athletes weeping
great pearly tears because the let
ter carrier didn’t bring a pink note,
and well educated young women re
garding Apollo, Shakespeare and
Daniel Webster as mere trash when
pompared with a magnificent young
football player or necktie salesman
who call at their home each evening.
Love blinds the eyes, warps the
judgment, spoils the taste, increases
the capacity for happiness, takes the
sting out of misfortune, softens the
disposition, makes hard work worth
while and fills the land with happy
and often crowded homes.
Love is an infernally, ridiculously
and painfully magnificent thing. It
is a 1,000.000 volt shock of personal
magnetism against which there is no
insulation. It preys upon the old and
the young alike. It attacks the sta
tuesque young society princess and
reduces her from an iceberg to an
armful of soft words in three weeks.
It steals from the bony frame of the
hardened old skin-flint, who has just
ejected 19 starving families from his
tenement houses and transforms him
into a slave of the barber, the mani
cure specialist and the florist in less
time than it would take a thousand
dollar bill to eahn two bits in interest.
Love can ke cured, but it isn't
worth while. It is too fascinating in
its terrible progress. The best treat
ment is to alloy it and mitigate it
by means of marriage. There is as
much love after marriage as before,
but it leaves the brain, where it has
been messing things up, and goes
down into the heart where it belongs.
Lcve has remodeled nations, re
vised history, overthrown kings and
champions and has made literature
worth reading. It is said that love
makes the world go 'round, but it
does more than that. It makes the
world go 'round and 'round and
'orund and 'round like other well
known intoxicants.
My, how that man Patterson did
run. It shows what a reputation for
business ability and workmanship
will do for a man.
The next year looms bright with
golden promises.
That Council suits us!
THANK YOU!
Weather Report
Valdez, April 4, 1916
Barometric pressure .29.945
Temperature at 7 p. m.29
Maximum temperature ..44
Minimum temperature . .29
Mean temperature .36.5
Partly cloudy air, wind N. E. 4
miles.
Interior Weather
Fairbanks, 35; clear calm.
Salcha, 35; clear calm, trail soft.
Richardson, 40; 12 inches of snow,
clear, trail soft.
McCarthy, 42; 26 inches of snow,
clear calm.
Donnelly 46; clear windy, trail
soft.
McCallum 38; 24 inches of snow,
cloudy calm, trail soft.
Paxson, 32; 26 inches of snow,
cloudy, calm, trail soft.
Hogan, 36; 17 inches of snow.
Gulkana, a/; 9 inches of snow,
cloudy calm, trail frozen.
Tonsina, 32; 9 inches of snow,
cloudy calm, trail soft.
Teikhel), 36; 28 inches of snow,
clear calm, trail soft.
Beaver Dam, 32; 34 iinches snow,
part cloudy, calm, trail soft.
A FURRED TONGUE.
It May Mean Wrecked Nerves and Not
a Disordered Stomach.
"1 suppose that there Is no more In
eradicable idea in the mind of the
doctor than that the furred tongue is
essentially an Indication of a deranged
stomach,” writes Sir James Goodbart,
consulting physician to Guy's hospital.
London, in the tendon Lancet. Yet,
according to Sir James, It is by no
means always so. And he goes on to
prove it by cases in his own extensive
practice.
One of these was of a man In a very
responsible position, a. leader pf men.
to Whom he had to give orders that
bad to he obeyed, and from whom he
bad to hear much grumbling; a very
bard worker and “the fastest taikdr 1
have ever struck,” full Pf energy and
playing every ounce of it He was in
splendid health, but suffered from a
furred tongue and a bad taste ih the
mouth. . In his case these were not
due to the stomach at all. but to a dis
ordered state of nerve control.
“Nervous fears and nervous tastes
are common enough, and they deserve
a special thought” says Sir James.
He believes that man is kept sweet
and wholesome largely by nervous
control, and when he loses this control
“the parts become fevered, the mu
cous membrane dry. the nerves irri
tated. and taste is perverted.” The
men so affected are those who are
nervous, anxious, hurd workers, tak
ing their work home with them to
think about and dream about in *>“d.
Quality Is Well Exemplifiea in
the Famously Known
Beech Nut Brand
Hams and Bacon.
s. BLUM & co.
Distributors.
The Best Place in Valdez to
Stop at is the
Arctic Hotel
Warn, Light Room*~The Hon** of Comfort
RATES REASONABLE
BATH ROOM Special Rat** By the Month
PHONE 133 MRS. STRING. Prop.
OWL DRUG CO.
PRESCRIPTIONS
OUR SPECIALTY
TRY US ^ Phone 40
Candy Kitchen
E. W. HUNT—b Owl Drag Store.
FOUNTAIN DRINKS
HOT-COLD;
F. W. Sheelor and wife, who left
here recently for Seward, en route
to the Mount McKinley country,
where they will take photographs of
the country, have reached Anchor
age, having made the trip from Sew
ard in four days with their dog team,
according to private dispatches re
ceived here last evening. Mr. and
Mrs. Sheelor will rest in Anchorage
a few days before continuing their
trip to the McKinley district. , They
report both the trail and the weather
excellent.
Free Matinee.
A free matinee will be given at the
Empress theatre on Saturday after
noon at 2:30, and Mr. and Mrs. Pal
mer Cook, who are giving the mati
nee to the young folks, invite all to
attend.
Walt Mason on “Homemade Goods.”
Why send afar, to Cork or Rome,
For Sunday hats or bales of hay?
Let’s buy the goods we make at home
And show we’re patriots that way!
The giant vessels sail the deep,
And bring us doodads made abroad.
Our money on our native sod.
Those ships take back our hard-earn
ed cash
To pay the freight for Europe’s
kings;
To pay for battle succotash
And stuff we,grow at home, by jings!
My wife‘s new lid was made in
France,
And ’tis a phony thing indeed;
The broadcloth in my Sunday pants
Was manufactured by Tweed.
The sauce the grocer sent today
Was brought from'London in a crate
It costs like blitzen—I must pay
The dpty added to the freight.
We sing our patriotic songs
And boost the flag and seldom cease,
But when vie want gargoyles or
gongs /
We ship them In from Southern
Greece,
And, as I write a hundred barks
Bring curiey’cues across the foam;
Oh, profit by these sage remarks
And learn to .buy your junk at home.'
LOUIE'S CAFE
Everything First class
Open Day and Night
ANDY MAROVICH, Prop.
Arcade Cafe
OPEN ALL NIGHT
Private Dining Room with Electric
Heater
Jack Callin - - Proprietor
VALDEZ LODGE
NO 108
Pm ud Accepted Muow
Regular Communications first Wed
nesday In each month in McKinley
Hall Visitors always welcome.
F. M. BROWN, W. M.
ED WOOD, Secretary.
A. M. DIERINGER
Valdez Transfer
Company
Office on Alaska Avenue, in
George C. Treat Building
Telephone No. 60
General Trucking and Freighting
to all Interior Points.
LIVERY and FEED STABLE.
STORAGE,
Teaming of All Kinds
Positively No Coal Delivered Un
less Paid for in Advance
a a. a's a. *l ■ ■ > ■ ■ v - - - - » ■ ■
m Shamrock
CAPT. TIM MARCUM
Sails tor Port Wells, Portage
* Bay, Granite Mine, Saturday
at 9:00 a. m., from tbe Val
des Dock Company’s Dock.
For Bllamar, Landlock Bay,
and Fidalgo, every Wednes
day, 9:00 a. m., from Val
dez Dock Company’s Dock.
Fdr Rates, Apply on Boat.
Copper River
Draying Co
Freighting and Passengers
to all parts of the Interior.
GENERAL TRUCKING
McKinley Street, Valde*
ED. WOOD, Proprietor
DR. H. COCKERILLE
Graduate Natioaal lialeeraltr,
Washington, D. C.
DENTIST
Fourteen Ysars in Valdea.
PHONE 110
Office Rooms in WbaliBg BniMbg
E. C. DALTON, M. D.
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON
Phone 42
Alaska Avenue Valdez, Alaska
DONOHOE & DIMOND
ATTORNEY S-A T- LA W
Office Opro*Ite Court Boose
Phone 34 VALDES. ALASKA
JOHN LYONS E E KITCHXB
LYONS & RITCHIE
ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW
Office* Id Whaling BvUdlng
Phone 101 VALDEZ. ALASKA
ASA C. BALDW^
CIVIL ENGINEER
U. S. Mineral Surveyor
McKinley Street opposite V. M. Store.
Valdez, Alaska.
Dougherty & Fergus*
GENERAL
Merchandise
The best groceries received
on every boat,
Fresh vegetables, fruits, and
nuts.
Somebody
With Money
always has been found to
“back” a good plan, a good
idea, a good business ven
ture or a good mining pfo®
pect; otherwise a good mas*
of today’s successful W*®
ness enterprises would still
be-mere dreams.
Advertising has brought
about a majority of the in
troductions of the man with
the idea, the man with a
prospect, or business to the
man with die dollar.
ADVERTISE IN THE
PROSPECTOR FOR RE
SULTS.