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Our Positive
) Guarantee of Style
No need to ask if our shoes
are stylish. The Dorothy
Dodd trade-mark on the
shoe is a guarantee of style
exclusiveness.
The makers know shoe fashion
because they study expertly the
world’s styles.
If you want to be sure of wear
ing correct style—wear Dorothy
Dodds. There is no other shoe
like them.
Price $3.50 to $5.00.
Valdez Mercantile Co., Inc.
TRUE VALUES
On the basis of Security and Service
we solicit your account
WE DO A BANKING BUSINESS EXCLUSIVELY.
VALDEZ BANK & TRUST CO.
PROFESSIONAL
Dr. H. COCKER1LLE
Graduate of National University
Washington, D. C.
DENTIST
in both companies Fourteen years in
Office Rooms in VALDEZ
Whaling Building.
DR. GERMAN
Phone 19 THE DENTIST
Office rooms over Owl DruK store. Office hours
9 a. m., to6l>. m.. 7 t>, m.. to 9 p. m. Sundays
by appointment All work guaranteed
* DR. M. O. ADAMS
DENTIST
Office Over Valdez Drug Store.
New Company’s Phone No. 69
HOURS—9 to 12 a. m.; 1 ta 6 and 7 to 9 p. m.
DR. C. a VANCE
the osteopath
Graduate American School of
Osteopathy. Kikrsville. Mo.
OFFICE HOURS—> to 12 a., 1 toS p. a., or hj
oppoktaoot.
TREATM ENTIS 2.50
Office end Residence Court St. PHOME 203
JOHNILYONS E. E. RITCHIE
LYONS A RITCHIE
Attorneys at Law
Offices in Whaling Building
Phone 101 Valdes. Alaska
C. E. BUNNELL <
<
ATTORNEY-AT-LAW <
Offices Wall Street J
Phone Si VALDEZ j
F. BUTTERWORTH
JCiril Engineer end'
U. S. Deputy Lend and
Minaret Surrey or
Bine Printing • Valdea, Alaake.
DONOHOE & DIMOND
ATTORNfcYS-AT-LAW
Office Opposite Court House
Phone 34 Valdez, Alaska
Nubone Corsets.
Try Mrs. St. Marie’s for one of
those Nubone corsets. tf
Suits pressed for $1.00 at Silver
man’s the tailor. Telephone 198.
Cooking apples $2 per box at the
Yakima Fruit Co. tf
Summons for Publication.
In Justice’s Court for Valdez Precinct,
Territory of Alaska.
Frances Wilson, plaintiff, vs. Anna
Guenther, defendant.—Summons for
Publication.
To the defendant, Anna Guenther:
Take notice that you have been sued
in the above-named court by the
above-named plaintiff upon an ac
count for goods sold and delivered,
in the sum of $58.50; that personal
property belonging to you has been
attached to satisfy said claim; and
unless you appear and plead to plain
tiff’s complaint within thirty days af
ter completion of publication of this
summons, to-wit, within thirty days
after December 21, 1914, plaintiff will
take judgment for the sale of said
attached property to satisfy her claim
against you.
This publication is made pursuant
to an order of the court dated No
vember 9, 1914.
(Seal) GEO. J. LOVE,
Commissioner and Ex Officio Justice
of the Peace.
First publication November 9,1914.
Last publication December 14,1914.
Taxes Due.
Taxes for the Town of Valdez for
the year 1914 are now due and pay
able at my office. In the Valdez Elec
tric Company office, in the Copper
block. Taxes will be delinquent on
Monday, December 7, 1914, at 6 o’clock
p. m. and unless paid prior thereto,
a penalty of 10 per cent will be add
ed to the amount and interest at the
rate of 12 per cent, per annum.
No interest will be allowed on town
warrants in payment of taxes after
November 1, 1914.
Office hours: 10 a. m. to 12 m.
and 2 p. m. to 4 p. m„ except Sun
days. Dated this 4th day of Novem
ber, 1914.
E. O. AMES,
Town Treasurer.
Greatness.
Genuine greatness Is marked by sim
plicity. unostentatiousness, self forget
fulness, a hearty interest in others, a
feeling of brotherhood with the human
family.— Cbanniug.
No disguise can long conceal love
where it is uor feign it where it is not
—Rochefoucauld
Obvious Answer.
“What do yon think of those new
corkscrew gowns the women are im
porting from Paris?"
“Corking!” — New York Evening
World.
What the Rubber Was For.
“Second Story BUI is an ingenious
guy, isn’t he?”
“Yes; he wears rubber soles to erase
bis footmarks.”—New York World.
Imported Japanese baskets at Val
des Drug Co. tf
See Tod Winter ror your watch and
Jewelry repairing at E. Winter’s store.
▲11 work guaranteed. tf
LAW OF GRAVITY VIOLATED.
Conditions Under Which Wdter Ac
tually Flows Upward.
There are conditions under which
water actually flows upward and rises
above Its source, if a glass tube be
dipped Into water the column Inside
will be above the level of the sur
rounding surface. Moreover, If a tube
of half the diameter be substituted tbe
column doubles Its height The water
creeps along the inside of the tube,
owing to the adhesion, and forms a
cup shaped depression at the top.
An explanation is not difficult It
can be proved mathematically that If
tbe diameter of a circle be diminished
one-balf the circumference Is also re
duced to that extent, while the area Is
one-fourth of its former value. The
circumference of the column of water
being reduced one-half. Its contact
with the glass, and hence the adhesive
force. Is also diminished to that extent,
while the cross section, and hence the
weight, is decreased to a fourth of
what It was before. Therefore the sec
ond column cun be twice the height of
the first without exceeding the lifting
power.
Remarkable ns tbe underlying prin
ciples of this phenomenon undoubtedly
are. nature made use of them long be
fore man made their discovery. Every
tree and flower adds Its testimony.
The core of a tree or plant, instead of
being a single open channel, consists
of a spongelike substance containing
many miniature tunnels through which
the sap and moisture collected by the
roots flow upward in small rivulets,
rising higher and higher in sheer de
fiance of the great law of gravity.—St
Louis Republic.
SEA MINES IN WARFARE.
The Result When a Vessel Strikes One
of These Deadly Engines.
I To merchantmen, to the smaller and
older warships—to everything that
floats except the very highest and more
recent products of the shipbuilder’s art
—the mine presents the danger of com
plete and almost Instant annihilation.
The rigidity of the ship is in itself an
element of danger, for the water sur
rounding It is incompressible.
If the skin and frame could give way
without rupture and permit the enor
mously expanding gases (2.000 times
the volume of the solid explosive) to
transmit their energy in such a way as
simply to push the ship aside and thus
find a way to the surface, the damage
might be slight.
But this cannot be. There is no such
elasticity available. And the expansion
is so nearly instantaneous that push
ing the ship aside is physically impos
sible. Therefore the structure must
break, releasing the gases first into the
interior and then by lines of least re
sistance finally up Into the air.
This action is completely instantane
ous. It blows off hntch covers and deck
plates, twists massive steel members
into unrecognizable shapes, spreads
havoc broadcast It transmutes a proud
ship into a sinking mass of wreckage—
a happy passenger saloon into a sham
bles-carries mourning into a hundred
homes. Such Is the effect of mines.—
Sidney Graves Koon in Leslie’s.
Hard to Kill.
A distinguished entomologist writes:
“When I was still new to collecting, in
the south of France 1 discovered one
day, to my great joy. a large female of
Saturnia p.vri hidden away In some
bushes. The specimen was the first I
had ever caught, and i decided, on ac
count of its large body, to stuff it (a
quite unnecessary operation; I have
kept dozens since unstuffed!. The moth
was first apparently killed by being
forced into a cyanide bottle, where it
was left about un hour. The abdomen
was then emptied and the cavity filled
with cotton wool soaked In a saturated
solution of mercuric chloride. The in
sect. pinned and set. was discovered
nest day attempting to fly away from
the setting board.”
Her Alimony Explained.
Miss Curley kept a private school and
one morning was interviewing a new
pupil.
“What does your father do to earn
his living?” the teacher asked the little
girl.
“Please, ma’am.” was the prompt re
ply. “he doesn’t live with us. My
mother supports me."
“Well, then,” asked the teacher,
“how does your mother earn her liv
ing?”
"Why,” replied the little girl In an
artless manner, “she gets paid for stay
ing away from father.”—London Stand
ard.
Literary Note.
T must confess that I don’t under
stand Henry James. His style Is so In
volved.”
“I’ll tell you bow to go about reading
blm. First run over a lire Insurance
policy. After that Henry James will
seem lucid and clear.*’—Pittsburgh
Post
A Veteran.
The chef was interviewing the young
man who had applied for work.
“Have you had any experience In the
lunch business?" be asked.
“Why. 1 should say so.” replied the
energetic youth. “I’ve been lunching
for almost twenty years.”—Llpplncotfs.
Safety First.
Prospective Father-in-law — you've
got some nerve to ask me for an ad
vance payment of the dowry. 1 think
you are a fortune hunter. The Count
-Ob, no, monsieur; 1 am only what you
Americana call ae “safety first” crank.
—Puck. t
A good conscience la to tiki ihf
what health Is to the hody<—Addlsoa.
DUMDUM BULLETS.
They Get Their Name From the Town
Where They Originated.
Dumdum bullets have their name
from a little town in India, near Cal
cutta. where the ammunition factory
for the British government in India is
situated. For the benefit of Afghans,
possible Indian mutineers, negroes and
other barbarians the British had a bul
let manufactured here which is half
covered with steel, but with a soft
leaden nose. When discharged from a
modern rifle of high power this soft
nose expands, or “mushrooms,” turn
ing the bullet In the air into a horrible
bulging object, which tears through the
flesh of a man, surely bleeding him to
death.
The purpose of this bullet Is to kill
the man every time. The purpose of
the ordinary humane bullet of modern
warfare, which is wholly incased in
steel or nickel, is merely to put the
man out of the fight It makes a small,
clean wound. If It does not strike a
vital part the bullet may go entirely
through the man without wounding
him seriously. But it shuts him out
of the fight for the time being.
The British military authorities In
India considered that a humane bullet
like that would be of little use to fight
savages with, and therefore, at Dum
dum, they manufactured the soft nosed
expanding horror. But the interna
national conference at The Hague In
1899 decided ngalnst the use of this
bullet in war and adopted a rule for
bidding It—New York Mail.
ONE VIEW OF WAR.
And the Question of the Mother of the
Slain Soldier Boy.
When I hilt consider the word war 1
feel a shock, ns if one spoke to me of
witchcraft, inquisition, some dead and
distant thing, abominable, monstrous,
unnatural.
When we hear of cannibals we smile
with pride and proclaim our superior
ity over those savages.
What nre savages, real savages—
those who tight to eat the victims or
those who fight to kill, merely to kill?
Those youthful soldiers of the line
speeding along yonder are destined to
death, just as the flocks of sheep driven
along the roads by a butcher. They are
destined to fall on a plain, their heads
cleft by a stroke from a sword or their
breast pierced by a bullet And these
are young men who could work, pro
duce, be useful. Their fathers are old
and poor; their mothers, who during
twenty years have loved and worship
ed them, as mothers can worship, will
learn in six months or perhaps a year
that the son, the child, the big child,
brought up with sb much trouble, with
so much money, with so much love,
was thrown into a hole like a dead dog
after his body, riddled by a bullet had
been trampled and crushed Into pulp
by the charge of cavalry. Why have
they killed her boy, her noble boy, her
only hope, her pride, her life?
She cannot tell. Yes, why?—Guy de
Maupassant.
No Heart In It.
A Broad street employer of a tem
peramental stenographer Is a man of
practical sense and real kindness who
wants tile girl to succeed at her busi
ness. The other day he called her into
his private office and had a fatherly
talk with her. Later one of her col
leagues in the same building met her in
the elevator.
“Say. Gladys,” she said, “what’s this
ubout your boss having a heart to heart
talk with you this morning?”
“Heart nothing.” responded the tem
pern mental creature, tossing her blond
locks like an orillamme of war. “What
he handed to mu hadn’t no more heart
In it than there is in a slab of liver at
a ten cent beanery. See?”
Which is one reason why girl stenog
raphers can be hired at $0 a week.—
New York Sun.
Damascus.
It is estimated that at least 20,000
pilgrims pass through the city of Da
mascus each year. They are material
to the financial welfare of the ancient
city, spending in the neighborhood of
$900,000 for goods of every kind. Da
mascus is busy, and the people are in
dustrious. Nearly everything actually
needed by the native is made there,
and there is a surplus sufficient to sup
ply a large surrounding territory and
the pilgrims and visitors who pass that
way. In this respect Damascus has not
changed in hundreds of years. It has
always been a maker and distributer
of food and raiment.—Argonaut
The Doldrums.
"In the doldrums" is a phrase more
often employed than understood. It
refers to a belt of calms contiguous to
the equator and situate between the
course of the southeast and northeast
trade winds. Long periods with scarce
ly a stir in the air and a torrid sky
above, broken by sudden squalls and
violent storms of short duration, make
the doldrums a dreaded area for sailing
ships.
London’s Costly Tree.
Probably the most costly tree in the
world is a plane tree which grows in
Wood street. London. It occupies a
space that would bring a rental of
*1.250 a year, and this capitalized at
thirty years' purchase gives a value of
*37.600. _
Memory.
Says Jean Ingelow: “They are poor
who have lost nothing; they are poorer
far who. losing, have forgotten; they
most poor of all who loss and wish
they might forget"
Oar wealth la often a snare to our
selves and always a temptation to
others.—Cotton.
Dougherty & Ferguson
GENERAL
MERCHANDISE
The best groceries received
on every boat,
Fresh vegetables, fruits
and nuts.
WE Call You on Time for the boat
if We Handle Your Baggage.
We Buy and Sell Anything from
Dead Crabs to Live Bears.
CITY EXPRESS
Phone 82. J. A. Spenard, Prop
BEST PLAGE TO EAT
MRS. ST. MARIE’S
Moved to Reed Building, on Wall
Street, next to Road Commission
f 7 a ni to 0 a in
MEALSJ Lunch 12 in lo 1 p in
" fi to 7 p ni
BOARD & ROOM $50 per Mo.
ARCADE CAFE
“We Never Close.’*
Private Dining Room.
The Best of Everything. We Bake Our Own
Bread and Pastry. Bread for Sale.
Jack Callin - - Proprietor
_
Chas.Perry
'"f^EWTir
^4 Complete Services
' IN THE HEART OF THE CITY
1155Rooms with bath-50 SampleBooms
L
When
You
Use
a
Western Electric
Washer and Wringer
Simply put in the dollies .and
start the motor;—in 10 to 1'5
minutes the clothes are washed
white and dean ready io he
hung on the l.ne without the
wear and tear of the wash
board.
Connect to any electric lamp
socket.
Costs only 2 cents an hour to
run.
Let us send one to your home
for | 5 days’ free trial?
Alaska Water, Light
& Telephone Co. _
Somebody
With Money
always has been found to
“back” 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
PROSPEOTOR FOR RE
SULTS.