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FRIDAY. MARCH 21. 110 If.
THE USE AND ABUSE OF WA
TER.
W'aler. like tile, is so interwov
en with legendary precept, and
has played such ;i big part in
shaping I lie beliefs and supersti
tions of primitive peoples. ,1 hat
man. in itis eiviiized state, has
found it difficult, and. in some
instances, impossible, to shake ofl
the trammels of ancient beliefs.
Mo sane man or woman would
deny the hygienic value of water.
Water is cleansing. It is invig
orating, too. A cold shower bids
-the blood move on. Hut the pop
ular notion that water has a cur
ative value, that it must possess
a hideous taste or smell in order
to tie worth while, or that, il must
come steaming hot out of the
earth, a notion which costs mil
lions of dollars every year in
America and Europe, is, in the
final analysis, a relic of the su
perstition which has persisted
from time immemorial.
Always men have feared and
worshipped what they could not
explain, (’.loud shadows, and ech
oes, and reflected images in
streams and lakes, and the pic
tures of dreams, were ghosts be
cause men could not reason from
cause to effect.
Primitive man emuii mu ex
plain why one spring was coni ami
another boiling hot; or why one
water was fresh ami pleasing lo
Tim palate, while another was
sally or biller and unpalatable,
and so lie resorted lo the usual
primitive method of interpreta
tion, and at I rilmled this difference
(o supernalnral agencies.
II was the beginning of I lie
common belief in I lie rural ive val
ue of certain waters: and I lie be
lief si ill burdens us.
It was the beginning, loo. of
our belief in I he efficacy of med
icines, for il was the medicine
mail, or the primitive priest, who
shaped ami lixcd tribal opinion
with respect to the heallh-giving
properties of hot or ill-smelling,
ill-tasting water.
Ifni slowly we are reducing I he
number of our basic medicines;
only about six now remain, and
there is respectable opinion that
soon we will have hut four.
Ami along with this change we
will come lo realize llial we are
benefited by the rest we get. by
pure air. beautiful scenery, more
regular eating and sleeping hab
its, and not l» the curative value
of waters which bubble out of the
earth at our favorite resorts.
Discussing the habit of "tak
ing the waters" from the stand
point, of a physician, Woods
Hutchinson gives interesting and
instructive impressions and opin
ions in I lie February number of
Everybody's Magazine. After a
close study of the properties of
waters at the most famous resorts
in America and Europe, he says,
“there is not one of them, from
the weakest to the strongest,
which could nol he manufactured
in the seclusion of your own bed
room oul of hydrant water, com
mon sail, a little plaster scraped
off the wall lo give the lime and
plaster of Paris, and live cents
wort It of any laxative sail. . . .
If you will warm I he mixture and
strike an ordiuarv old-fashioned
sulphur malrli while you drink II.
you will have any one of I lie
world-famous hot sulphur spring
waters in full perfeel ion.”
While conceding some meril lo
I he popular haliil of I aking I in
waters,” Mr. Hutchinson does not
hesitate to call led springs a
“humbug” so far as the rural ive
idea is concerned.
II is an inleresl iug liglil. I brown
unexpectedly on an old and cost
ly human habit, and, coming from
a physician, is not without a mor
al of sonic value. -Kx.
THE WAIL FROM NEW JERSEY.
Some of the managers of the
big corporations in New Jersey
are making a campaign for the
purpose of arousing public senti
ment against the “Seven Sisters"
laws recently enacted under tho
direction of President Wilson,
then governor, and are seeking to
arouse popular prejudice by
showing how much the stale will
lost* in the way of corporation
taxes.
New Jersey will lose, doubtless,
but she can afford the loss, for it
means a better and a cleaner and
a more' reputable commonwealth,
and the money will all come back
'with interest some day The price
of honor occasionally seems high,
hut it never really is.
President Wilson has made it
very plain that the purpose of his
administration, in its dealings
j with industrial enterprises, shall
the to restore, not destroy, honest
| business conditions. The man
lagers of the big corporations will
| have nothing In fear so long as
I they operate within tile Zone of
j law fulness.
UNFIT FOR HIS POSITION.
President Franklin, of I lit* Los
Angeles Hoard of Educalion. has
ordered lire proof waste baskets
for Ihe city schools. Al a meet
ing of ihe hoard he declared he
was eerlain that the time would
soon come when women teachers
would puff cigarettes while sit
ting at their desks and he want
ed the lire proof waste baskets as
a precaution against fires from
"snipes” that would he thrown
away by the school ma'ams.
Tlie man who would counten
ance such a habit as that for
which President Franklin is mak
ing provision and who would pub
licly announce his preparation for
such a condition in the public
schools has no right to he at the
head of a hoard of education in
I.ns Angeles or any other city.
A GROUNDLESS FEAR.
The New York Herald, which is
bitterly opposed to the federal in
come tax, is oppressed by the sad
fear that "as a number of the
states now collect a lax on in
comes, Ihe possibility of double
taxation presents nice problems
for solution.”
Hut there will lie no I rouble in
I hat direction. It surely cannot
he a very difficult thing for states
to relieve their inhabitants of
double taxation by appropriate
repealing enactments. They can
not control congress, lint they can
I heir own legislatures.
Another result to be attained
by the eminent New Yorkers who
have formed a walking club is
the differentiation of themselves
from the common herd who trav
el in automobiles.
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Notice of First Meetings of Di
rectors and Stockholders of
Mineral King Mining Company.
Notice is hereby given by the
undersigned, a majority of the
persons named, in the articles of
incorporation of the Mineral King
Mining Company, a corporation
formed under the laws of the Ter
ritory of Alaska and the articles
of incorporation whereof were
tiled on March 17, 1913, in the of
fice. of the clerk of the district
court of the Third division of said
Territory at Valdez, Alaska, as the
first board of directors of said
corporation, to George H. Her
mann, A. A. Evermann and Albert
H. NVillmore, who are all the per
sons named in said articles as
'composing said first board df di
Irectors, that a regular meeting of
'said board of directors, being the 1
[first meeting of said board,
[will be convened and held
for the purposes of com- I
lidding I lie organization of said
corporal ion, offering its capital
[slock for subscription, and trans
lading any oilier business of said
; corporal ion that may properly lie
'brought before said board, on the
'lentil day of April, 1913, at 3
io'clock p. in., at idle bunkhouse of j
I lie Mineral King Mine on Hot lies
Hay. Pori Wells, Alaska.
And nolice is also hereby giv
en by I lie undersigned to all whom
il may concern that, a regular
meeting, being the first meeting,
of llie stockholders of said cor
poration. including all subscrib
ers for said capital thereof, will
be convened and held, for the pur
poses of making and adopting hy
iaws for ils government and
transacting any other business of
said corporation that may prop
erly be brought before said stock
holders. on said lentil day of Ap- i
ril, 1913. at four o'clock p. m.. j
at said bunkhouse of I hr Mineral j
King Mine on Hetties Hay, Pori
Wells, Alaska. ,
Dated at Valdez, Alaska. Ibis
1711a day of March. 1913. 1
GEORGE If. HERMANN.
A. A. EVERMANN, i
Directors, i
l-'irst pub. March 17, 1913. j
East pub. April 8. 1913.
NOTICE OF HEARING OF FINAL I
ACCOUNT.
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n lh • United Slates Commission- j
er’s Court, ex Officio Judge in |
Probate, Valdez Precinct, Ter
ritory of Alaska, Third Judie- !
ial Division. !
In the matter of the estate of
Louis Gamicia, deceased, James
Fish and W. H. Caswell, adminis
trators.—Notice of Hearing of Fi- 1
nal Account.
Notice is hereby given that
Janies Fish and W. II. Caswell,
administrators of the estate of
Louis Gamicia, deceased, have
rendered, filed and presented lor
settlement their final account and
report of their administration of
the said estate, ami that the 21st.
day of April, 1913, at the hour of
2 o’clock p. m. of said day, at the :
office of Thomas R. Shepard, ex \
officio .judge in probate of the
Valdez precinct, at Valdez. Alaska,
has been duly appointed by the
said court at the time and place
of settlement of said final account
and report, at which time and
place any person interested in
said estate may appear ami file
his objections and exceptions to|
said final account and report.
Dated at Valdez, Alaska, this
19th dav of February, 1913.
JAMES FISH.
W. II. CASWELL.
Administrators of the Estate of
Louis Gamicia, deceased.
Date of first pub. Feb. 19, 1913.
Date of last pub. April 21, 1913,
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2 1-2 H. P. Stationary Gasoline
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Keystone Dock Valdez Iron Works ;
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Every Boat
brings something new to this store.
The S. S. Sampson brought us some
Carter & Holmes Easter Neck Wear
for men;
SIAR BRANDY
SHOES J
I ARE V
kBETTER'l
Robert Johnson & Rand Shoes
for men, women and children. Come in and
see them, they show real class.
Daily Prasiiactor and Weekly
Miner $1.25 the me. delivered
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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 1
G-E Electric
Plat Iron
is quite different — all the
heat is in the iron, ready to
go into the pieces ironed in
stead of going into the *00111
or up the kitchen chimney.
None of it is wasted.
To use only the amount of
boat actually needed for
ironing, be it either heavy
damp piece* or lace*,
embroidery or other light
goods i* real 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.
Hat
< ► Steam Heat Electric LiffeU
I THE COPPER BLOCK
] [ Finely Furnished Rooms All Modern Conveniences
ijcood Tiir DIICCCT Good
o Goods I nt DUrrtl Goods
Copper River Lumber Co., Inc.
ALL KINDS OF
•Native and | I TRyiDCD and Building
Puget Sound LiUiYlDLilX Material
CONSTANTLY ON HAND
Prices Right W. M. FINICAL, Mgr. Phone 18
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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 is a food and not a Ionic.
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 prefer nice 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 llm growth and prosper
ity of Valdez should patrouiz lmme products.
VALDEZ BREWING AND BOTTLING CO.
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