A Sweeping Clearance of the
Entire Stock Children's Shoes
-i HIS Fall entire new lines are to be added in the
T Children’s Shoe Section. This means that all pres
_ ent stock must go, and it is to be cleaned up spic
and span, if price counts for anything. Entire stock is
divided into four groups.
GROUP ONE: About seventy - five
pair of children’s shoes and Oxfords in
velvets, kids and patent, come in black
and tan. Regular prices $1.50
to $1.75, choice a pair.I
GROUP TWO: Over fifty pair chil
dren’s shoes and Oxfords, come in ox
blood, tan and black. Regular values
from $2.25 to $3.00. Saturday Aj TQ
your choice, a pair . . l(lliUU
GROUP THREE: About forty pair
of boys’ and misses’ shoes and Oxfords,
all well made and will give excellent
service. Regular prices to $3.50^ An f||l
Saturday, your choice a pair ... IjJbiUU
GROUP FOUR: Just twenty-seven
pair in this lot, including Billy Buster
and other well known makes—all sizes,
though not in every style. Reg- An rn
ular values to $3.50. Saturday, choice*
The shoes have all been arranged in lots so that selections can be easily made
It’s the sale you have been waiting for. You’ll not be disappointed.
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Grocery Sales For Saturday
Shrimps—Dunbars Ba
rataria shrimps, 8 1-4
oz. can, regular 35c,
sale
price.
Armour’s Fluid Ex
tract of Beef in two
dram vials—one dozen
vials to box—fine for
soups or hot drinks,
regular 75c box, Cfln
sale price .uUu
Pure Olive Oil, Vit
tucci Brand Olive Oil,
better known as map of
Italy, regular GHp
pi.00, sale price... OUu
Whole wheat flour, 10
pound sacks, regular
50c, sale Qflp
price.. OUL
Lobsters — Picnic
lunch Lobsters, first
quality, regular 50c,
sale
price.
Hominy Grits, 10 lb.
sacks, regular Q(lp
50c, sale price. • • ■ OUU
Valdez Mercantile Co., Inc.
The People’s Store.
On the basis ot Security and Service
we solicit your account.
WE DO A BANKING BUSINESS EXCLUSIVELY.
VALDEZ BANK & TRUST CO.
UPPER TONSINA ROAD HOUSE
Beat of Meals—Prices Reasonable
GENERAL STORE. - TRADING POST.
Telephone connects with Chitina.
General Freighting. KNUTE NAFSTED. Mgr.
Copper River Lumber Co., Inc.
ALL KINDS OP
Native and f f TMOCD and Budding
Puget Sound LUlVlDLlV Material
CONSTANTLY ON HAND
Prices Right W. M. FINICAL Mgr. Phone 18
Patronize a Home Industry
Headquarters tor Traveling Men.
Copper Block
VALDEZ
«s
“The House of Comfort,”
For Men Only
Steam Heat. Hot Bathe
List Your House* with the
VALDEZ REAL ESTATE AGENCY
Houses for Rent or Sale. Collections Made.
C. B. SMITH, Proprietor. Office on Weil Street, j
BEST PLAGE TO EAT
MRS. ST. MARIE’S
Moved to Reed Building, on Wall
Street, ne*t to Road Commiuion
57 a m to 9 a m
Lunch 12 m to 1 p m
6 to 7 p m
BOARD dk ROOM SSO per Mo.
Arcade Cafe
Open untill 0 P. M.
Try Our Specials After 4 P. M.
Private Tables
Jack Callin - ■ Proprietor
LAUNCH
BRIGHTON
FOR
Port Wells and Way Ports
Leaves Valdes every Saturday Morning carry
ing Mail, Passengers and Freight. Calls at
Ellamar, Wells Bay, Golden, Hobo Bay, Port
age Bay, Esther Island. Special trips by ar
rangement.
8EE CAPT. STAMEY.
Valdez Hospital
Largeat and Beat Equipped Hoapital
in Southweatern Aiaalu.
Cradaatt Naraaa—PrWata Raoaa far Patkata
For Tomas'aad Particular Apply to
E. c. DALTON, M, D., Pkytkiaaia Ckarga,
WORDS IN THE MAKING.
Our Language Grows by Terms Created
to Fit the Occasion.
Language can be made in the li
brary, no doubt, and in tiie laboratory
also, but it is most often and most
effectively created in the workshop
Mud in the market place, where the
imaginative energy of our race ex
presses Itself spontaneously in swift
creating the lacking term in response
to the unexpected demand. Nothlug
could be belter, each in its own day,
than picturesque vocables like scare
head and loan shark, windjammer and
hen minded, all'of them American con
tributions to the English language and
all of them examples of the purest
English, lien minded is an adjective
devised by Mr. Howells to describe
those women who are so common in
all walks of life and who are made
up of only one aim at a time and of
manifold anxieties at all times. Scare
head and loan shark are the products
of the newspaper office, while wind
jammer was put together by some
down east sailor man, inheritor of the
word forming gift of his island an
cestors who helped to harry the ar
mada. “Windjammer,” remarked Pro
fessor Glldersleeve, trained by his
intimate knowledge of Greek to ap
preciate verbal vigor as well as verbal
delicacy—“windjammer is a flue word,
I grant, and so is every Anglo-Saxon
compound that grows and is not
made.”
But all now words are not of neces
sity good words. Ben Jonsou, who
was himself n frequent maker of new
words, displayed his shrewdness when
ho declared that “custom is the most
certain mistress of language as the
publlcke stampe makes the current
money,” adding os a caution, “But wee
must not be too frequent with the
mint, every day coynlng.” — Brander
Matthews In Harper’s Magazine.
RUSSIA’S MIGHTY RIVER.
The Sluggish Volga Is Three Times as
Long as the Rhine.
In Russia the rivers are large and
sluggish, owing to their grent length
and slight fall. The Volga is the long
est river In Europe. It is 2,300 miles
in length—that is, three times as long
as the Rhine—yet its total fall is only
a little over 800 feet
The peat bogs in the Valdai hills,
where it takes its rise, are only 750
feet above sea level, while Astrakhan,
at the mouth, is sixty-live feet below
the level of the sea.
The Russian fondly speaks and sings
of it as "Matushka Volga,” or "Little
Mother Volga,” in gratitude, no doubt,
for the bounteous supply of fish, caviar
and game, as well as comforts and
pleasures afforded by this historic
stream, which plays so important a
part in the economic life of the nation.
The products of Asia and Europe
are carried on its waters; the two thou
sand odd river steamers are always
busy, and the huge rafts, consisting of
ten of thousands of logs, being floated
or pulled down the stream, represent
a small portion of the riches of Rus
sia’s inexhaustible forest lands.—New
York Telegram.
Whore Women Swim Best.
“The Korean women are the best
swimmers in the world,” said a life
guard. “The Korean pearl diving is in
their hands. They swim—they don’t
boat—they swim out to the pearl fish
eries of Quelpart, lugging baskets with
them. After this swim of half an hour
they dive down fifty feet and fetch up
queer one shelled pearl oysters as big
as babies. They dive till their baskets
are full—the baskets are corked to
keep them afloat—and after three or
four hours’ work they swim back
home with their catch. The big one
shelled oysters are valuable as pearl
mines and as food too. A half dozen
Koreans will sit down to an oyster as
gayly as you or I sit down to a broiled
lobster.”
Looked Bad For Papa.
William’s uncle was a very tall, fine
looking man, while his father was very
small. William admired his uncle and
wished to grow up like him. One day
he said to bis mother;
“Mama, how did uflcle grow so big
and tell 7’
His mother said, “Well, when uncle
was a small boy he was always a very
good boy and tried to do what was
light at all times, so God let him grow
up big and tall.”
William thought this over seriously
for a few minutes, then said, “Mama,
what kind of a boy was papa 7’—Pitts
burgh Post
There’* Room at tho Top.
He entered the barber shop, sat him
self down, resigned to his fate.
The barber shaved him.
“Shampoo, sir?” asked the tensorial
lst
“No," replied the man, gazing at his
bald dome In the reflective mirror;
“shine.”—Philadelphia Ledger.
Ev*r Experience It?
Hokus—I feel like the oldest person
In the world. Pokus—Whnt are you
talking about? You’re not a day over
thirty-five. Hokus—Yes, but I’ve Just
been listening to a slxteen-year-old boy
tell about the things he used to do
when he was a kid.—Life.
8trik*a a Snag.
"Do you subscribe to the old theory
that the criminal always returns to
the scene of the crime?”
“Not always,” replied the sure enough
detective, “Sometimes the extradition
papers won’t hold.”—Kansas City Jour
nal. _
Revenge Is the abject pleasure of an
abject mind.—Juvenal.
COLOR AND MOISTURE.
There Is a Good Reason Why Vegeta
tion Is Mostly Green.
Doubtless many have wondered why
the vegetation ot the earth Is mostly
green. That Is. not? what makes it
green, blit why it is that color instead
of blue or red-or purple.
Moisture, it lias been found, will be
collected by the green foliage in proper
quantities while foliage of other colors
will not he properly nourished by the
dews and moisture from earth and at
mosphere.
A rather curious experiment proves
this.
Paint a piece of glass yellow, another
green and one red and one black and
place all these painted pieces of glass
out hi the open air over night during a
summer or autumn night.
When examined early the following
morning it will he found that the yel
low piece will bo very wet and the
green piece only fairly moist, while the
red and black pieces will be dry.
This is proof that yellow foliage
would collect too much dampness, and
the red and black would gather none.
Green, which collects the medium
amount of moisture, seems to he the
color best adapted to the conditions ex
isting throughout the earth.
Yellow foliage has been known to
damp off and decay under the same
conditions that makes green foliage
thrive.
A few yellow leaved plants are
grown under considerable difficulty un
der ordinary weather conditions—New
York American.
A RECORD PRESCRIPTION.
After It Was Bought and Paid For It
Lost Its Charm.
The largest amount ever officially
recorded as the purchase price of a
prescription is £5,000 ($25,000), paid by
the British parliament to a Mrs. Ste
vens to reveal the ingredients of her
cure for ‘‘gravel and stone in the blad
der and kidneys.” Parliament voted
this amount to satisfy the demands
of the British public; also because Mrs. 1
Stevens would not take a penny less
for her secret.
The ingredients as revealed by Mrs.
Stevens were as follows; “Eggshells,
snails (shells and all), hips and haws,
ash keys, swine cress and various oth
er vegetables all burned to a cinder,
and the ash mixed with camomile
flowers and fennel and other vege
tables.”
Curiously enough, when this high
priced prescription was made public it
immediately lost its potency—and its
popularity. New cases failed to re
spond to its magic, and cases which
had been cured while its mysteries I
were still unrevealed promptly de- i
veloped new symptoms. At the end
of a year it was practically forgotten.
But its price record still stands; also
the record of one instance in which a
British parliament fniled to get its
money’s worth.—Los Angeles Times.
Snuff Spoons.
All the world is familiar with snuff
boxes. but snuff spoons are pretty little
relineinents of which this generation
has hardly heard. Very probably they
came into use about two years after
Sir George Itooke’s expedition to Vigo
bay in 1702. when he captured half a
ton of tobacco and snuff from the
Spanish galleons, and snuff thus be
came a common article in England.
One of the characters in a comedy
published at Oxford in 1704, entitled
“An Act at Oxford,” by Thomas Ba
ker. says, “But I carry sweet snuff for
the ladies,” to which Arabella replies:
“A spoon too. That's very gallant, for
to see some people run their fat fingers
into a box is as nauseous as eating
without a fork.” In the forties and
fifties of the last century snuff spoons
were still in use on the Scottish bor
der. They were of bone and of a size
to go into the snuffbox. People fed
their noses, it was said, as naturally
ns they carried soup to their mouths.—
London Mail.
What Could He Do?
“I hate to be contradicted,” she said.
“Then X won’t contradict you,” he re
turned.
“You don’t love me,” she asserted.
“I don’t," he admitted.
“You are a hateful thing!” she cried.
“1 am,” he replied.
“I believe you are trying to tease
me,” she said.
“I am.” he conceded.
“And you do not love me.”
“I don’t”
For a moment she was silent
“Well,” she said at last “I do hate a
man who’s weak enough to be led by ;
a woman.”—Houston Post
Optimist and Pessimist.
In a contest In the Woman’s Home
Companion the first prize for the defi
nition of pessimist went to Miss D. Mc
Kelvey of Colorado, who wrote: “A
pessimist Is a man who knows the
price of everything and the value of
nothing.” The first prize for the defini
tion of optimist went to Mrs. L. K.
Carter of Pennsylvania. Her defini
tion follows: “An optimist is one who
thinks the high cost of living Is worth
the price.”
Discussion 8uspsndsd.
“What became of that good roads
movement that seemed to be going so
strong out this way?”
“It sort o’ died out The mud got so
deep that we couldn’t do the traveling
necessary to attend the meetings."—
Washington Star.
The Only Way.
"Jones has figured out a scheme to
•void paying rani estate tax."
“LeTa hare It*
"Sell the property.”—Brooklyn Eagle.
Dougherty & Ferguson
GENERAL
MERCHANDISE
The best groceries rece-n ed
on every boat,
Fresh vegetables, fruits
and nuts.
Chas. Perry
r—M w MANAGER—
jEATTLE
J\ Complete Services
flN THE HEART OF THE CITY „
1135Room5 with bath-50SampleBooms
PROFESSIONAL
Dr. H. COCKERILLE
Graduate of National University
Washington, D. C.
—DENTIST,
in both companies Fourteen vears in'
Office Rooms in VALDEZ
Whaling Building.
DR. GERMAN
hoDe 19 the dentist
Office rooms over Owl Drug store. Office houra
i a. m.. to 6 p. m., 7 i>. m..to9 p. m. Sundays
by appointment All work guaranteed
DONOHOE & DIMOND
ATTORNEYS- AT-LAW
Office Opposite Court House
Phone 34 Valdez, Alaska
JOHN LYONS E. E. RITCHIE
LYONS & RITCHIE
■ Attorneys at Law
Offices in Whaling Building
Phone lOl Valdez. Alaska
Somebody
With Money
always has been found to
“baclT” a good plan, a
good idea, a good busi
ness venture or a good
mining prospect-other
wise a good many of to
day’s successful business
enterprises would still be
mere dreams.
Advertising has brought
about a majority of the
introductions of the man
with the idea, the man
with a prospect or busi
ness to the man with the
dollar.
ADVERTISE IN THE
PROSPECTOR FOR RE
SULTS.
The Prospector office for job work.
DONALDSON SCHEDULE.
Leaves Fort Liscum. Leaves Valdez
8:15 a. m. 9:45 a. m.
1:15 p. m. 4:00 p. m.
TUESDAYS
8; 15 a. m. 9:45 a. m.
1:10 p. m. 2:00 p. m.
4:30 p. m. 5:00 p. m.
SATURDAYS
1:15 p. m. 4:00 p. m.
7:00 p. m. 10:30 p. m.
There will be no trips of the launch
on the secoLd and fourth Fridays of
each month, these days being used
to clean boil 'rs.
TIDE TABLES PORT OF VALDEZ.
Compiled from the official tide ta
bles issued by the Coast and Geodet
ic Survey. The time for high and
low water is for the Port of Valdez
and is Valdez time. Immediately fol
lowing the t'me of high and low wa
ter is given the height of the tide
in feet and tenths:
Friday, May 14.
High tide 12.57 p. m., 10.2.
Low tide 6:31 a. m., -0.9; 6:03 p.
m„ 2.8.
Saturday, May 15.
High tide 12:07 a. m., 12.5; 1:32 p.
m„ 10.7.
Low tide 7:02 a. m., -0.9; 6:44 p.
m.. 2.9.