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SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1914.
“THE CONSTITUTION OF PEACE.”
President Wilson coined a liappy
and meaning phrase, in his brief ad
dress after signing the new currency
law, when he declared that (he ad
ministration was proceeding to “or
ganize our peace, to make our pros
perity not.only stable but free to have
an unimpeded momentum” and he
added, "business men of all sorts are
showing their willingness to come in
to this arrangement which I venture
to characterize as the constitution of
peace.”
The president has evidently felt the
changing spirit of the times, both
among the people and the represen
tatives of the large corporations.
These were at war for many years,
chiefly because the big interests per
sisted in fattening unduly at the ex
pense of the people. Corrupt in-<
dustry and corrupt fimnce joined
hands with corrupt politics in a com
mon conspiracy against the public
welfare. The people became aroused,
the public conscience was quicken
ed, the official conduct changed to
harmony with the popular pulse and
earnest effort is now being made to
undo much of the harm and to op
erate hereafter within the zone of
lawfulness.
The time of peace is arriving. On
the one hand, remedial proposals that
are made are more intelligent, and,
on the other hand, it is generally
recognized that the old go-as-you
please, devil-take-the-hindmost indi
•dividualism no longer suffices to give
that dividend to all which is the ob
ject of civilized society—a dividend
that automatically took care of itself
when there was a frontier and when
businesses were small.
The republic rests on a measurably
equal distribution of property. Form- j
erly this was secured through the op- ,
oration of what were called natural !
causes. Hut distribution was the ob- ’
jective. Profound wisdom is mani
fest m the popular instinct for a
change when it appeared that the old
rules making for the diffusion of j
wealth were not enough to secure |
diffusion. What is sought is not a j
new condition, hut essentially the j
restoration of old conditions. The!
progressive movement whose leader- j
ship has come to President Wilson is |
thus profoundly conservative and is
in the true interests of every class.
As such it is entitled to the support
of every man of property who real
izes, as most men of property da,
the hollowness of mere wealth pos
session and who in his heart be
lieves in the old American system
of a fairly-equal division of the ma
terialities of life.
Have you ever noticed that the av
erage man will turn out of the way
of a go-cart with a baby in it. and
lift his hat to the proud mamma who
wheels it, with never a murmur, and
then scowl at the crowd of “society”
women on their way home from a
club meeting, who crowd him off the
sidewalk?
Andrew Carnegie, after having
made many millions of dollars in the
manufacture of war material, now
wants all wars to cease. He re
minds us of several wholesale whis
key dealers who fought the business,
tooth and toenail, after they had
amassed large fortunes.
During the year just ended 6,380,
000,000 nickels were spent in this
country at the moving picture show's,
. or $315,000,000. This vast sum would
have purchased 390,000 homes for
people in ordinary circumstances, or
nearly 80,000 good-sized farms.
When a duck lays an egg she jutit
waddles off as if nothing had hap
pened. When a hen lays an egg
there’s a h—1 of a noise. The hen
advertises. Hence the demand for
hen’s eggs instead of duck eggs.
A Babylonian tablet, just unearth
ed, contains laws that existed 2300
years B. C. One refers to bank
ruptcy, but none of them say any
thing about riding wheels on the side
walks.
News Films of the
Passing Show
A dozen hens carried into an aban
doned mine near Piuevllle. Ky., by out
laws supplied fresh food and balked a
posse.
Coroner Peter X. Iloffmnn of Chica
go made a New Year’s resolution to
"save 1,000 lives in 191-4.” Through a
public safety campaign he expects to
lessen the number of Chicago acci
dents.
The mother-in-law is held up as a
maligned person by Chicago’s court of
domestic relations. Only 0 per cent of
the divorce and other marital cases
brought before the court in 1913 could
be blamed on her.
Two sons of A. J. Porter of Inter
national Falls, Minn., attend a school
eight miles away and ride that dis
tance each day. leaving home at ti
o’clock and getting back not much be
fore that hour at night.
FAMOUS ARMY AND NAVY
OFFICERS WILL RETIRE.
The New Year to Be Marked by Many
Important Changes.
Seventeen of the best known officers
of the army, the navy and the marine
corps will retire from active service,
under the age limit, in 1014.
Of the naval retirements the most
important are those of Rear Admirals
William II. Southerland, Charles E.
Vreeland, Vincendon L. Cottman, Regi
nald F. Nicholson and William N. Lit
tle, Pay Director William W. Galt and
Medical Director Frank Anderson. Ad
miral Nicholson is commander in chief
of the Asiatic fleet, but is soon to re
linquish that command to Rear Ad
miral Thomas B. Howard.
Admirals Southerland and Vreeland I
are both members of the naval general
board, of which board Admiral Dewey
is the president, while Admiral Cott
man is commandant of the Puget
sound navy yard. Admiral Little is on
duty as inspector of the government
ship construction work at the Fore
River (Mass.) yards. Medical director
Anderson is president of the naval ex
amining board in Washington, and
Pay Director Galt is at the head of the
pay department at the navy yard in
Norfolk, Va.
When Major General William P.
Biddle, the commandant of the ma
rine corps, leaves the service, the
president will have the naming of his
successor. In the army the best known
of the officers who will retire is Ma
jor General William W. Wotherspoon
The brigadiers who will retire will be
George Andrews, who is the adjutant
general, and Ramsay D. Potts, the
commanding officer at Vancouver bar
racks. The colonels who retire under
the age limit are John T. Van Orsdale.
Seventeenth infantry: Colonel Alfred
C. Sharpe, instructor of the Ohio na
tional guard: Colonel Frank West.
Second cavalry: Charles A. P. Hatfield.
Thirteenth cavalry, and Colonel Henry
P. Kingsbury of the inspector general's
department In Washington.
DIES TO HELP SCIENCE.
_
Will of Suicide Asks Surgeons to'Seek
Cause For Criminal Bent.
Bequeathing his body to surgery that
dissection might indicate why his life
had been directed toward crime, John
Kowiuski, better known, as Kelter, of
1053 Washington boulevard, Chicago,
leaped from the eighteenth floor of the
Masonic temple mid was crushed to
death on the -safety screen” nlfie-floors
below.
His object appears to have been
missed, for the body was so crushed
that, its use for dissection is undesir
able. surgeons state.
The man left what he termed a "life
confession.” which referred to twenty
six months in prison and an unwilling
ness to prolong life by robbery, which
Kelter termed liis profession, and a
will authorizing the American College
of Surgeons. Rush Medical college and
the Jenner Medical college to dissect
the body "in order that it may be dis
covered how such types were produced,
by heredity or environment or a com
bination of both, trying to aid in alle
viating others from their suffering.”
FARM RECORD FOR 1913.
The following figures are taken
from a bulletin made public by Sec
retary of Agriculture Houston:
Total value of all farm products,
$9,760,006,000, an Increase over lust
year of $600,000,000 and 11 per cent
above the average of the last five
rears. •
Total value of agricultural ex
ports, $1,123,021,409, largest in coun
try’s history.
Total production by quantity, 93
per cent of the average for last ten
years.
Total number of farms, approxi
mately 6,600,000.
Total farm Investments, $40,931,
419. .000, an average per farm of $6.-'
413.07.
Total net cash sales, $6,847,000,000.
Totnl net farm income, $4,074,027,
499.
Average cash Income per farm.
$900.
Value Of corn, greatest farm prod
uct. $1,692,000,000.
Average price of fourteen princi
pal crops. 20.2 per cent higher than
last year.
Average price to producers of
meat animals. $6.91 per hundred
pounds as compared with $6.46 a
year ago and $6.46 two year* ago.
READS TWO WAYS.
Punctuate This Letter and Get Widely
Different Meanings.
A letter, so constructed without
punctuation that it can be read in a
number of different ways, giving di
rectly opposite meanings, was printed
in an Indiana newspaper in 1855. Tbe
letter follows:
“He is an old experienced man in
vice and wickedness he is never found
opposing the works of Iniquity he takes
delight in the downfall of the neigh
borhood lie never rejoices in tbe pros
perity of any of Iris fellow creatures
he is always ready to assist in destroy
ing tlie peace of society he takes no
pleasure in serving the Lord he is un
commonly diligent in sowing discord
among his friends and acquaintances
he takes no pride in laboring to pro
mote the cause of Christanity he has
not been negligent in endeavoring to
stigmatize all public teachers he makes
no exertions to subdue his evil pas
sions lie tries hard to build up Satan’s
kingdom he lends no aid to the support
of the gospel among the heathen he
contributes largely to the evil adver
sary. he pays no attention to good ad- i
vice he gives great heed to the devil he i
will never go to heaven he must go
where he will receive his just recom
pense of reward."—Indianapolis News.
A LOFTY GYMNASIUM.
Fine Exercise In the Great Dome of
■the National Capitol.
It would not be suspected that the
great dome of the enpitol could be
made a gymnasium, but it is used by
not a few people In Washington, and
especially by some of the employees of
the capitol. for purposes of exercises
and the like.
Its chief apparatus in that line is the
many winding steps to the top of the
lantern—287 feet in the air. You go
round and round and round and climb
and climb. That sort of thing makes
for firm muscles and is said to be the
best anti-fat cure to he had anywhere,
and especially in Washington. You
can lose ton pounds In one trip.
The thing is done at record speed,
however. It is not a slow going up
and a slow going down, although with
other people this seems most ample la
bor, but doing the thing in five min
utes and less. It is a rush up and a
rpsh down.
People who climb the stairs for sight
seeing purposes are astonished to see
the Mercuries rush in ttie ascent or the
descent, but of course they do not
know what it is all done for.—New
York Sun.
Wanted a Haunted House.
The following curious letter was re
cently received by a house renting
agency in lxnidon:
“Have you a reputed haunted house
on your books? 1 am not afraid of
ghosts. I do not as a matter of course
believe in their existence, and I am
willing to live in a house for a long or
short term by arrangement, of course
rent free. Should there be no ghost,
then, if you wish it, I shall be willing
to testify on oath to the fact. But
should 1 see an apparition I will keep
the matter secret and only acquaint
you with the circumstances. 1 will
pledge myself not to pander to local
gossip. I have a small income on
which 1 can subsist. My sole object in
thus applying to you is to be allowed
to live in a place in which I do not
ueed to pay any rent.”
The inquirer was informed that the
firm had no haunted houses on its list,
hut would inform him when it had.
Quaint Old English Ceremony.
On the last day of each October the
city solicitor or London, with an as
sistant. attends upon the royal remem
brancer. when by proclamation "the
tenants and occupiers of a piece or
waste ground called the moors, in the
county of, Salop.”' are commanded to
"come forth and do'your service upod
pain and peril that shall fall thereon."
The solicitor 'chofts in' halves two fag
ots; one with a hatchet and the other
with u bill hook. Afterward comes the
summons to the . tenants, etc., of "a
certain tenement with a forge" in the
Strand and the payment of six horse
shoes. with sixty-one shoe nails, by the
solicitor. This forge lias long ceased
to lie. and the same shoes and nails
are used year after year, the shoes be
ing at least two centuries old.
Salty Savored Speech.
Tlio natives of the const town clown
east discuss every phase of life or
death in terms of the sea.
A fisherman had recently laid his
wife. Delia, to rest In the village cem
etery. tie visited the spot a few days
afterward with the undertaker, and
found another newly made grave di
rectly behind that of his wife. Regard
ing it curiously, he said to the under
taker:
"Wal. s'r Si. who's that buried thar
nstarn o’ Dele?”-Youth’s Companion
Cause For His Tears.
“It has been a long time since 1 have
read any contemporaneous poetry that
moved me to tears "
“Only the other day .1 read a poem
that moved me to tears."
"How did It move you so?"
“1 wept because I couldn't get at the
author"—Birmingham Age-Herald.
Mean Retort.
He—Those jellies you put up all taste
alike to me. dear She—But you can
tell the difference by tlle'lnbels He—
Oh. 1 never thought of tasting the la
bels. dear.—Yonkers Statesman.
To be always fortunate and to pass
through Ufe with a soul that has never
known sorrow Is to be ignorant of one
half of nature -Seneca.
We haveifput up a good many Nelchina
outfits the past week. We are
ready -to put up more.
The Best Goods
The Best Packing
is our motto.
* When‘1 ready for your outfit come
and see us.
In the District Couft for the Terri
tory of Alaska, Third Division.
In the Matter of the Annexation of
Certain Territory to the Incorpor
ated Town of Valdez.—Order Set
ting Time for Hearing Petition and
Giving Notice.
A peiition having been this day
presented to the court for the pur
pose of instituting the proceedings
required by law for the annexation
of territory to an incorporated town,
said petition praying for the annex
: at ion of certain described territory to
the incorporated town of Valdez, in
i the Territory of Alaska, Third divis
jion: <ind it appearing to the court
jthat said petition is signed by forty
j eight qualified electors of said incor
I pointed town, the same being more
1 than one-fiftli of the number of votes
least at the last municipal election in
jsaid town, and by live actual resi
jdents and owners of substantial prop
erty interests in land in the territory
i proposed to be annexed and verified
j by two of the signers of said peti
tion; said petition setting forth the
1 boundaries of the territory so pro
j posed to be annexed to said town, an
having attached thereto a plat based
j upon an actual survey by a compe
jtent surveyor, setting forth the lim
i its and boundaries thereof by metes
I and bounds, and stating the number
of inhabitants therein:
j Therefore, it appearing to the court
jthat said peiition is in the form re
jquired by law; it is ordered that said
I petition be heard and considered by
the court on the 18th day of Februy
ary, 1914, at 10 o’clock a. pi- of said
day, at the court room of this court
in Valdez, Alaska, if said day be a day
of jurisdiction in said court, or if the
same be npt a, day of jurisdiction,
then said hearing shall be held on the
first day of jurisdiction thereafter. It
is further ordered that notice of such
hearing be given by posting printed
or typewritten copies of this order
in three conspicuoous places within
the limits of said incorporated town
of Valdez, and by posting such cop
ies in three conspicuous places with
in the limits of the territory so pro
posed to be annexed to and included
! within the limits of said incorporated
; town, and by publishing a copy of
this order once a week in the Valdez
Prospector, a newspaper of general
circulation published nearest to said
incorporated town.
Done in open court at Valdez,
Alaska, this Vth day of January, 1914
FRED. M. BROWN, Judge.
First publication January 10, 1914.
East publication February 14. 191:
NOTICE TO CREDITORS.
In the United States Commissioner's
Court, ex-officio Judge in Probate.
Valdez precinct, Third Judicial Di
vision, Territory of Alaska.
In the matter bf the estate of Rob
ert Martin, deceased. Notice to-cred
itors. •
Notice is hereby given by the un
dersigned, administrator of the estate
of Robert Martin, deceased, to the
creditors of, and all persons having
claims agginst the said estate, to ex
hibit them with the necessary vouch
ers, within six (6) months after the
first publication of this notice, to the
said administrator at the office of C.
•B. Bunnell, at Valdez, Alaska, the
same being the place for the trans
tion of the business of said estate.
Dated at Valdez, Alaska, this l?.th
day of January, 1914.
W. H. CASWELL,
Administrator of the estate of Robert
Martin, deceased.
Date of first publication Jan. 14.
Date of last publication Feb. 17.
CAMP VALDEZ No. 10
Meet erery Tuesday evening at * o'oIoc kIl
Eagle Hall. All members are req Jested to
attend. T. G. QUINN. Arctic Chief
S. M<*NIE('E. Secretary
Local Valdez
SOCIALIST PARTY
Meets Thursdays at
8 o’clock at
the local quarters back of
Ingram & Bush’s Cigar Store
L. W. STORM. E. M.
Valdez, alasra
Reports on Mines
Patent Surveys
General Mining Engineering
Phone /Vo 103
TIDE TABLES
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Saturday, February 7.
High tide 9:12 a. m. and 11:16 p. m.
Low tide 2:52 a. m. and 4:45 p. m.
Notice of Marshal’s Sale.
United States of America, Third Di
vision, Territory of Alaska, ss.
Public notice >s hereby given, that
by virtue of a writ of execution, dated
January 9th, A. D. 1914, issued out
of the District Court, for the Third
division, Territory of Alaska, on a
judgment rendered in said Cour,, on
the 5th day of January, A. D. 1914,
in favor of the United States of
America, and against James Fish, ad
ministrator of the estate of Louis Ca
nt'cia, deceased, Angus Chisholm,
Frank Gustafson, Max J. Schm'dt and
Jennie Raymond, I have, on this Sib
day of January, A. D. 1914, levied
upon the following described real es
tate, situated in the town of Valdez,
Territory of Alaska, to-wit:
Lot nine (9) in Block B; lot three
(3) in Block two (2); lot four (4)
in block twenty-four (24), of the
Valdez Townslte, according to the
official plat f said townsite on tile
in the office of the recorder for said
precinct, and that 1 will, according
ly, offer said real estate for sale, at
public vendue to the highest and best
bidder, for cash, on the third day of
March, A. D. 1914, at two o’clock p.
m„ at the front door of the Court
House, Valdez, Alaska.
Daied at Valdez, Alaska, January
9, 1914.
F. It. BltENNEMAN.
U. S. Marshal, Third Division, Ter
ritory of Alaska.
First publication January 10. 1914.
Last publication February 21, 1914.
Hospital of the Good Samaritan.
For $6.UU we will give you a ticket
entitling you to hospital service and
care for any eight weeks out of the
year from date of your ticket, when
incapacitated by injury or sickness.
See W. H. Ziegler.
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