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SATURDAY, APRIL 29, 1910
It is said that in some parts of Per
sia lunatics are revered as saints.
What a place for Teddy.
A celebrated English physician
says that to spend a day in bed one
day a week will prolong life. If this
be true some people are probably pre
paring to live forever.
A man doesn't care what his wife
thinks of him when he turns her
down whenyshe asks him for money,
hut he will hand a strange waiter a
dollar tip rather than be thought a
cheap guy.
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The longer we live the more we are
persuaded that the gifts of Provi
dence are more evenly distributed
than we are apt to think. Among the
poor so little is enjoyed so much, and ■
and among the rich so much is enjoy
ed so little.
Congressmen do not loaf on the
job all the time. Postal authorities
report handling 40,000,000 pieces of i
mail matter, going out under franks j
of different congressmen, the trails-!
portation of which cost the govern
ment $800,000.
Some expert in the State University j
has figured it out and given circula
tion to that old fake of a theory that
two can live as cheaply as one. It is
all right to be for higher education,
but such representations as that
should be forbidden by the blue sky
law.
A contemporary, speaking of the
advanced age of wooden ships yet do
ing service, overlooks the American
frigate Constellation, built in 1797,
■which for many years was the ship
on which the naval academy’s prac
tice cruises were taken, and which is
as sound as ever.
An expert in human foods has
found that the simple fare so strongly
praised by food faddists and “back to
nature” culturists is not so good for
the body as a liberal and varied diet.
This will be admitted by a large ma
jority of people, but the simple diet
is no longer a matter of choice with
most of us.
A movement is on foot by the
Board of School Directors to abolish
the summer vacation entirely and
hold school in the summer, and give
the children their vacation in the mid
winter months, when the weather is
bad. and attendance light. The Board
is trying to get the opinion of the
parents on the subject, and would be
glad to hear from all who are inter
ested. The columns of the Prospec
tor are open to the people to discuss
the question pro and con.
This is the time of the year when
everyone’s thoughts should turn to
cleaning up their premises. The rub
bish which accumulates during the
winter months should be removed to
a safe distance. Why not set apart a
certain time for this work and every
THE EMPRESS
Last - Time - To-Night
One Show at 8:10 p. m. Sharp
“THE CELEBRATED SCANDAL”
Betty Nansen Supported by Edward Jose
5 Acts 250 Superb Scenes
Betty Nansen the Celebrated Danish Trage
dienne and Europe’s Royal Actress is the Star
of the Royal Theatre Copenhagen.
Edward Jose was Former Leading Man for
Sarah Bernhardt.
Admission 25c Children 10c
body take a hand and rid the town of
everything that is calculated to im
pair the healthful condition of the
community. Many visitors will soon
arrive in Valdez on the steamers, and
if the town is untidy or dirty it vyill
receive many knocks through the
press of the States. Let’s clean up
or ‘,‘fess up” that we take no civic
pride in the town which is our home.
RUMOR SAYS CORWIN
MAY BECOME GUNBOAT
Rumor has it that the old steamer
Corwin, which held the record of be
ing the first steamer to reach Nome
with the spring ice breakup for many
years, may be converted intcf a Mexi
can gunboat. In previous years
whaling guns have roared-from the
some decks which may still resound
with the thunder and vibration of
I heavier armament,
j The Corwin was sold to Alfredo del
j Valle and has been renamed the Pino
! tipa, after the birthplace of her own
! er. She will fly the Mexican flag and
iwill sail from San Pedro, Cal., for
j Mexican ports tomorrow. In San Pe
:dro it is rumored that she may be" con
certed into a gunboat.
ALASKA INDIANS CANNOT
GKASI* CIVILIZATION
The Thlinket Indians of Southeast
ern Alaska, having abandoned the old
tribal way of living find themselves
(unable to grasp in a generation a
modern civilization thrust upon them,
explained Miss Carlotte Doren, for
seven years an educator among the
Northern natives in a lecture in Se
attle recently.
“Here is a woman without a place
in the world.” said Miss Doren, as she
flashed a picture on the screen. “She
is primitive and is unable to grasp
! all at once the civilization which it
I has requires centuries of evolutipn
ifor other races to accomplish."
(session before the inhabitants were
Miss Doren unfolded the quaint life
of the Thlinket Indians in the vil
lages of Alaska. The Colonizing Rus
Isians, she said, have had a not alto
gether desirable effect on the life of
the Indians. Many of the quaint In
dian customs, the erection of totem
poles, and the feasts of the potlatch,
have passed away with the invasion
of the white men, she related. She
blamed the early settlers from the
United States for some of the deplor
able practices formed among the na
tives.
“It is unfair to assume that be
cause the Indian cannot speak En
glish he is not intelligent,” she assert
ed, “or that because he seems poor
he will always remain so, or that be
cause his race seems to be dying that
it is dying.”
Congregational Cliurcli.
Rev. J. P. Dunstan, pastor.
Sunday services.
11:00, Devotional Service. Ser
mon, “The Peace of God.” Children’s
address, “The Lily.”
12:00, Sunday School.
7:30, Musical service by United
Choir.
8:00, Preaching service. Address,
‘The Honest Skeptic.”
Monday evening, Public Social
Wednesday at 8:00, Choir Practice.
Thursday afternoon, Ladies’ Aid
Thursday at 7:30, Prayer meeting.
Christian Science Society.
Pioneer Hall.
Subject, April 30, “Everlasting
Punishment.”
Sunday service, 11 a. m.
Wednesday Testimonial Meeting at
8 p. m.
Sunday School, 12:15.
Reading Room open to the public
Wednesdays 2 to 5 and 7 until 8
p. m.
The launch Pathfinder left this
morning for Cordova. _
A CavM of Vnrest.
Vndoubtedly for everything there Is
an ample cavse. Far be It from the
likes of me to knock on natvre’s laws.
Bvt why do modern architects assvme
that U is V and carve in, stone that
palpable and bold absvrdlty? The lan
gvage vsed to be so poor, so terribly
in debt, that it covld not afford a U
to grace the alphabet.
Bvt now that we possess the U with
soft and gracefvl cvrve, of vnexeelled
docility and willingness to serve, why
do they carve Vnited States and pvblie
school and svch and make the English
langvage look as fvnny as the Dvteb.
with restavrant and Pvllman car and
vniversity and other marks of edvea
tioual perversity?
That V impresses some of vs as
cheap and gavdy blvff. which parvenvs
may pvll in place of more svbstantial
stvff. bvt people who are fashioned ovt
of vnpretentiovs dvst view all svch af
fection with an vnnssvmed disgvst.
Svch exhibitions always make me
very glvrn and blve. Now. houest In
jvn. don't they have the same effect on
yov?—Printer's Ink.
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Hospitality In Greece.
Hospitality as understood in the
west is not characteristic of the
Greeks, who in their own country rare
ly invite friends to their tables. In
her "Greece of the Hellenes" Miss
I.uc.v Garnets relates how on one oc
casion she and a friend were invited
iuto the suburbs of Greece by a Gre
cian lady who was giving a birthday
tea to .her young son and his play
mates. “My share of the entertain
meat." says Miss Garnets, “consisted
in watching the little lions feed, for
neither a cup of tea nor a slice of the
birthday cake came my way or the
way of my companion, whose hospital
ity the hostess herself frequently en
Joyed.” This apparent niggardliness
is, of course, entirely due to the cus
tom' of the country. The writer adds
that the same hostess on coming to
England entertained like the average
Briton.—London Chronicle.
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The First Bomb.
The bom !> came into being during the
troublous times in France toward the
close of the eighteenth century. Us ;
inventor was a French faigilic named
Chevalier, who had conceived such an !
Intense hatred of Napoleon that he de- j
termined to kill him.
Being employed at a governmem |
small arms factory, he had gained some 1
knowledge of explosives, and with this i
knowledge he managed to construct a>;
bomb out of a barrel, which he filled '
with a mixture of powder, bullets, bit)
ken glass and white arsenic.
Chevalier's idea was for the bomb
to explode under Napoleon’s carriage ns
it passed through the streets of Paris
A miscalculation, however, caused it to
go off a few seconds too soon.
Had Chevalier succeeded In his ob
ject the whole history of Europe would
of course have been changed.—Pear
son’s Weekly.
Getting Into ■ Scrape.
Many years ago the wild deer that
roamed through the forests of England
used to dig holes in the earth with
their forefeet They pawed it out
sometimes to the depth of several
inches, sometimes a foot or more, i
These holes were called “scrapes,” and
travelers at dusk or night or those who
were careless about their footing often
tumbled into them. They were laugh
ed at for their heedlessness when they
came home covered with mud, and as
this frequently occurred after they bad
been imbibing a bit they were said to
have “got into a scrape.” Some Cam
bridge students took up this expres
sion. and thus It came to be applied to
people who had got into difficulties of
various sorts. v
The Sun In Winter.
In winter we are 3,000,000 miles near
er the sun than in summer. Some
may think that if this statement is
true we ought to have warmer weath
er in winter than in summer, but it
must be remembered that the heat we
receive from the sun depends very
much upon the direction of its rays.
In summer the sun’s rays are more
vertical than in winter; hence the days j
are warmer.
Seeing Around Cornora.
There are many insects which have
a very much larger field of vision than
we have. This is due to the greater
concavity of their eyes, enabling them
to see around the corner, so to speak,
behind and at the sides. This devel
opment in man would have its objec
tionable points, but also its good ones,
not the least of which might be the
detection of pickpockets.—Chambers'
Journal.
Freezing Water.
Water contracts until it is reduced to
40 degrees and then expands till it
freezes. Tbe expansion of frozen wa
ter is because the ice crystals fit less
closely than the particles of water did.
Nine cubic Inches of water will be
lome, when frozen, ten cubic inches
Of ice.
Learning Drilling.
Bill—Where’s your brother?
Jill—Ob. he’s downtown learning to
drill.
“Ah! Is he going to be a soldier?”
“No. a dentist’’—Yonkers Statesman.
Carrots Fed Cows to Color Milk.
Carrots are sometimes fed to color
tbe cow’s butter. Milk is not richer
when yellow, but only has more color
ing matter from the cow’s feed.—Farm
and Fireside.
Be of good cheer about, death and
know of a. certainty that no evil can
happen to a good man, either In life or
after death.—Plato.
Let Sharp Eyes Scrutinize
They Can But Admire Your Home After the Spring
House Renovating. If You Call on Us We
Will Gladly Assist You.
We Have a Large Assortment of
Floor Oilcloth and Linoleum
From 75c a Yard Up.
Just Received a New Line of
Rugs in Sizes From 6x9 to 9x12.
Prices From $6.50 Up.
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Also a Complete Stock of Window Shades - !
S. BLUM & CO.,I^
GOOD GOODS
Dougherty & Ferguson
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GENERAL j
Merchandise
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The best groceries received j
„ on every boat,
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Fresh vegetables, fruits, and !
nuts.
WORK BEGINS MONDAY
ON BLUM STORE BUILDING
Work on the new store building of
S. Blum & Co. will begin Monday,
when the construction of the founda
tion for the building will be started
by contractor Charles Crawford. The
new building will occupy the site of
the buildings damaged by fire last
summer, but will be considerably
larger, extending the full depth and
width of the lots, and will be of frame
construction. The interior arrange
ment of the building will also be a
great improvement over the old store,
being more commodious, with ample
display space, with a balcony around
the whole interior, forming a large
additional sales and display space,
with a balcony around the whole in
terior, forming a large additional
sales and display space. The exterior
decorations will be in keeping with
the interior and the new building will
be a decided ornament to the town.
"John Anderson, of Garden island,
fell from a load of hay one day last
week. He landed on a stump and was
seriously injured in the abdominal
regions. Two operations have been
performeu upon him by Dr. Cassels,
and he is stated to be recovering
mceiy.
Photo by Aiitfcricttii Press Aaaoeiatioa
Candy Kitchen \
f E. W. HUNT—In Owl Drug Stor*. f
FOUNTAIN DRINKS $
hot- -cold; i
j LOUIE’S CAFE j
| Everything First class f
Open Day and Night |
: ANDY MAROVICH, Prop. |
j OWL DRUG CO. j
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Arcade Cafe
OPEN AEL NIGHT
Private Dining Room with Electric
Heater!
Jack Callin - Proprietor
Copper River
Draying Co
Freighting and Passengers
to all parts of the Interior.
GENERAL TRUCKING
McKinley Street, Valdez
ED. WOOD. Proprietor
A. M. DIERINGER
Valdez Transfer
Company
Office on Alaska Avenue, in
Georfe 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
lees Paid for in Advance
DR. H. COCKERILLE
SESSSJZTff «r.
DENTIST
Fonrteen Ysars in Valdea.
PHONE llO
Office Rooms in Whaling Balhtlng
E. C. DALTON, M. D.
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON
Phone 42
Alaska Avenue Valdez, Abb
DONOHOE & DIMOND
ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW
Ofllce Opposite Court Hmw
Phoae 34 VALDEZ. ALASKA
JOHN LYONS E K RITCXUM
LYONS & RITCHIE
ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW
Office* In Whaling Bnlldlajg
Phone 101 VALDEZ. ALASKA
The Best Place in Valdez to
Stop at is the
Arctic Hotel
W*n, Lift! Rum—Tk, H.u.
RATES:, REASONABLE
BATH ROOM Special Rates By^ke Van*
PHONE 133 i MRS. STRING, Pty.
ASA C. BALDWIN
CIVIL ENGINEER
U. S. Mineral Surveyor
McKinley Street eppoaite V. M. Store.
Valdez, Alaafca
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Regular Communications first Wed
nesday In each month In McKinlay
Hall. Visitors always welcome.
F. M. BROWN, W. ML
ED WOOD, Secretary.
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