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SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1914.
MIRACLES OF FINANCE.
If one don’t take life too serious
ly, the spectacle afforded just now
by one John J. McDevitt in the city
of Washington is at least worth
glancing at over the shoulder as we
go by.
This is the same McDevitt, no doubt,
who, about a year ago, with a few
thousand dollars that he came by
through a lucky lottery ticket or some
such way, went to New York bent
upon spending it as rapidly as possi
ble, and, after a few bibulous hours
on the great white way and a per
fumed bath in an expensive hotel, re
turned to his home in Wilkesbarre
apparently satisfied with the result,
which included, of course, his picture
in the New York papers.
The story of how, on Wednesday,
he paraded up Pennsylvania avenue,
led by the Marine band and followed
by a statuue of himself which he pro
posed to have placed in the Hall of
Fame in the capitol building, labeled
as "The Millionaire For a Day,” does
not tell us whence came the new
purse-plethora that enabled him to
pay the bills for all this, but that
he did have the money, assuming it
to be true, is important.
Where does this brand of mounte
bank get the cold, hard, substantial
coins that to all others of us repre
sent toil, forethought, self-denial and
a long chain of reasonable virtues?
This McDevitt is evidently of that
class of financial miracles and mys
teries of which Death Valley Scotty
and Swiftwater Bill are distinguished
examples, who, without brains, meth -
od, system or purpose, run a blithe
some and aimless course through a
striving, toiling, earnest world, their
wallets replenished without effort of
theirs as rapidly as they dissipate
what is showered upon them.
Gaining without effort all the bene- j
fit of a system they know nothing
about, they represent an unconnect
ed and undirected thread in the gen
eral web of things, and as such afford
a curiously interesting phenomenon.- -
Tacoma News.
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Special Classes for Backward Pupils.
SANTA ROSA, Cal., Feb. 21.—Up
on the recommendation of Superin
tendent of Schools Brownscombe, the
Santa Rosa board of education today
formally decided to organize a special
class for backward boys and girls who
cannot keep up with the others in
the grades in which they are placed.
This will enable a teacher to give
them special attention. The result
of the experiment is awaited with
much interest throughout California.
Mariposa Leaves Seattle.
SEATTLE, Feb. 21—The steamer
Mariposa left here last night for Val
dez with a large shipment of freight
and a number of passengers. The Val
dez passengers are John Bloomquist,
Opal Stokes, Miss Berglund, Ant one
Dahlstrom, Jonathan Giving, William
Giving and four steerage.
Henry Miller made a trip to the
Valdez Ulacier this afternoon on his
skiis. He made the trip from town
to the first bench in one hour and
twenty minutes and coming down ihe
hill at the rate of one hundred miles
an bodr, sometimes on his skiis but
mostly on his head.
Miss Berglund, a daughter of P. 0.
Berglund who was killed on Tuesday
in the Keystone canyon slide, left
last night for Valdez on the Mariposa.
The matinee at the Orpheum this
afternoon was well attended and the
ehlldren greatly enjoyed the peanuts
supplied hy Judge Walker.
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The launch Brighton left here this
morning with a full passenger list and
plenty of freight for the Port Wells
operators.
George Baker arrived from down the
sound yesterday, where he has been
prospecting.
If you want all tie news all the
time, read the Prospector.
SUFFER IN SILENCE.
Animals Bear the Most Intents Pain
With Little Outory.
One of the most pathetic things Is
the manner in which the animal king
dom endures suffering. Take horses,
for instance, in battle. After the first i
shock of a wound they make no sound.
They bear the pain with a mute, won
dering endurance, and if at night you
bear a wild groan from the battlefield
it comes from their loneliness.
The dog will carry a broken leg for
days wistfully, but uncomplainingly.
The cat, stricken with stick or stone,
or caught in some trap from which it
knows its way to freedom, crawls to
some secret spot and bears in silence
pain which we could not endure.
Sheep and cattle meet the thrust of
the butcher’s knife without a sound,
and even common poultry endure in
tense agony without complaint.
The dove, shoi unto death, flies to
some faroff bough, and as it dies the
silence Is unbroken save for the patter
on the leaves of its own life blood-.
The wounded deer speeds to some
thick brake, and in pitiful submission
waits for death.
The eagle, struck in midair, fights
to the last against the fntal summons.
There is no moan or sound of pain, and
the defiant look never fades from Its
eyes until the lids finally close over
them.—St. Louis Globe-Democrat.
SONG OF THE CARROT.
Where Is the Poet Who Will Glorify
This Neglected Vegetable?
Why does no poet arise to sing the
song of the carrot, the hardest worked
vegetable In the kingdom? Much is
said in favor of the plethoric pumpkin,
the gathering of corn is a common
place theme, but the poor carrot has
been neglected—yea. even scorned.
For diversity of use the carrot has
pumpkin and corn backed over the
garden wall. Men feed carrots to cat
tle, increasing the dairy output; they
feed them to other stock sometimes,
improving its temper. A carrot arti
ficially hollowed with a knife makes an
elegant Japanese vase. Sufficiently
hardened by harsh contact with the
world, a carrot may be used for a
weapon, either operated like a mallet
with a handle or hurled like a Russian
bomb
Carrots are sometimes even used for
food by human beings. They are a
chief ingredient in vegetable soup.
Mixed with butter, they improve its
color. They make better pumpkin^ pie
than pumpkins themselves. Served as
bubbard squash, they make one wonder
why squashes were Invented.
The answer to the high cost of living
cry is carrots. Johnson had his Bos
well. Whom will the carrot have?—
Cleveland Plain Dealer.
Varieties of Carbon.
The diamond, the graphite of m.v
lead pencil, the plumbago with which
I polish the stove, the soot of m.v chim
ney and of my lamp are all chemically
the same. All are variations of car
bon. By analysis the diamond reduces
to pure carbon and a little iron. But.
given pure carbon and a little iron,
can the chemist, by synthesis, pro
duce the diamond? Science says that
lie can, though the diamonds made In
laboratories by the crystallization of
carbon are, as yet. minute in size and
commercially valueless. Nevertheless
they are true diamonds, and the proc
ess of their formation is in miniature
that of old Mother Earth when, with
volcanic basin as seething crucible
and toppling mountains as pressure
force, the magic mystery of crystalli
zation of carbon went on silently and
successfully in what are now the dia
mond beds of Borneo. Brazil, Colombia.
California and Kimberley.—Pittsburgh
Dispatch.
Wanted a Treat.
A man may be rough looking and yet
have a touch of sentiment about him.
A ragged, ill kept looking man ap
peared at the door of a woman’s home
and in a pleading tone asked:
“Have you a piece of cake, lady, to
give to a poor man who hasn’t had a
bite for two days?”
“Cake?" echoed the woman in sur
prise. “Isn’t bread good enough for
you?"
"Ordinarily, yes, ma’am. But this is
m.v birthday,” explained the tramp.—
New York Journal.
It Sometimes Pays.
A New York contractor said, apropos
of a poor man who. after taking tre
mendous risks, had improved his posi
tion a little:
“This fellow's case proves to us that
it is sometimes better to try the fire
than to stay always in the frying pan.”
—Exchange.
Vaccinated Cattle.
The natives of Senegambia vaccinate
their cattle against tuberculosis with a
serum drawn from the lung of a beast
In the Incipient stages of the disease.
They Inject this on the forehead, and
what looks almost like a third born
grows there.
Overtrained.
“Is Bllggins a shrewd business man?”
"He was until he got such a reputa
tion for being a shrewd btWiess man
that everybody was afraid to do busi
ness with him.”—Washington Star.
Another Male Failing.
Every married man believes that the
household expenses could be cut lu
two If be only had a chance to turn bis
business acumen loose on the Job.—Chi
cago News.
It Is another's fault If be be ungrate
ful. but It Is mine If I do not give.—
Senei-n
BOTH WERE STUBBORN.
kot« of Good Will Power Wee Watted
In Mere Obstinacy.
IIow much perfectly good, service
able will power people waste in mere
obstinacy! Martha Malone, after work
ing three years for Mrs. Bixby, ap
peared one morning at Mrs. Wilson’s
back door and applied for a place.
“Why,” said the surprised Mrs. Wil
son, “I thought you were working for
Mrs. Bixby!”
“I was, mum. But I’ve quit.”
“Is that so?” Mrs. Wilson could not
conceal her surprise. “I thought you
liked her.”
"Indeed I do, mum.”
“And I’m sure she liked you.”
“I believe she did, mum. Leastwise
she always seemed to.”
‘'Well”— Mrs. Wilson was still won
dering what the trouble had been.
“Well,” suid Martha, seeing that
some explanation was expected, “you
see, it was like1 this, mum. I always
put the blue china plates on the right
hand side of the cupboard, and this
morning the missus comes along and
moves ’em and says, ‘Martha, every
mornin’ for three years you’ve put the
plates on the wrong side and I’ve had
to come along and move them, and I
can't stand it any longer.’
“And,” said Martha, “I says to her,
‘Mrs. Bixby, every mornin’ for three
years I’ve put them plates in the right
place and you’ve come and moved
them, and then I had to come along
and move them back, and I can't stand
it any longer either.’
“And so I quit.” —Youth’s Compan
ion.
QUEER TRAP FOR LIONS.
Fly Paper Caught and Held the Mon
ster Man Eaters Helpless.
You know what a ferocious, power
ful beast tlie lion is. You can imagine
what strong chains it would take to
hold him fast. So can you even Im
agine a lion captured with fly paper?
Well, not so very long ago four huge
man eating lions were taken in that
manner at the village of Gwalior, in
India.
It happened that the headman of
the village was able to shut the four
lions up in a hut into which they had
ventured in search of prey. He kept
them thus barricaded for nearly two
weeks, no one being willing to attempt
to capture them. Finally he thought
of a scheme that proved as successful
as it was original.
He had thousands of sheets of fly
paper spread on the ground before the
entrance to the hut. Then suddenly
the barricades were lifted and the four
lions came bounding out—into the fly
paper. Of course it stuck to their
paws, and of course when they tried
to lick it off it stuck fast to their
faces and heads. The lions promptly
forgot all about human beings and in
their wild endeavors to get rid of the
fly paper rolled over and Over on the
ground, roaring and fighting for
breath.
Then the headman and his follow
ers rushed forward with long ropes,
lassoed the plunging lions and tied
them up—fly paper and all!—I-ondon
Tit-Bits.
Successful Disappearance.
One of the most successful disap
pearances on record was of William
Howe. Howe was a successful trades
man in Jenny 11 street, and one morn
ing in 170(1 lie left his wife, telling her
that he had business in the city. He
never came back, and after some years
an act of parliament was specially
passed to enable Mrs. Howe to admin
ister her husband’s estate. Then one
evening in 1723 the “widow” received
a letter requesting an interview. Mrs.
Howe duly kept the appointment—and
discovered her husband. He had been
living in disguise in the same neigh
borhood nil the time, he explained, and
keeping a close eye upon the move
ments of his wife. It is said that the
reunited couple lived happily ever aft
erward.—I.ondon Standard.
The Only Cure.
Mrs. Keepup made it her private and
particular business to have whatever
her neighbor had. whether it was a
question of chickens or diseases, so
when Mrs. Gottliere complained to her
one day of insomnia Mrs. Keepup was
ready for her. “I have it, too, very
badly at times.” “What do you do for
it. Mrs. Keepup?” “Why, I have nev
er found anything that did me any real
good except to go to bed and sleep it
off.” _
Very Strange.
Mr. Kuss (furiously) — It is mighty
strange you can’t look after tilings a
little better. Here I want to shave,
and there Isn’t a drop of hot water
here. Mrs. Fuss (icily)—It is strange.
Why, that’s the one thing I've never
been out of since I married you!—Ex
change.
Danger Not Imminent.
‘‘Better go home. Jimmy. Your moth
er is looking for you.”
“Has she got the hairbrush with
her?”
“No.”
"Then I guess I’ll play awhile long
er.”—Pittsburgh Post.
One Mind.
“Henry,” called Mrs. R. over the
partition In the voting booth, “how are
you going to vote on amendment No.
5? He—I am going to vote “yes.”
8he—No. you’re not; you’re going to
vote “no.” 1 have changed my mind.
—Life. ________
Human experience, like the stern
lights of a ship at sea. illumines only
the path which we have passed over.—
Coleridge.
Spring
BONNETS
First Showing of
For Men
n~be Home of
Hart Schaffner
& Marx
Clothes ^
GORDON
Hats
Spring
1914
Summons for Publication.
Theo. Emel, plaintiff, vs. W. Fred
Swanson and F. A. Hancock, defend
ants.—No. 653. Summons for Publica
tion.
To the above-named defendant,
W. Fred Swanson:
You are hereby required to appear
in the district court for the Territory
of Alaska, Third Division, within
thirty days after the completion of
publication of this summons against
you, to-wit, within thirty days after
the 28th of March, 1914; and answer
the complaint of plaintiff filed here
in, and unless you so appear and an
swer the plaintiff will apply to the
court for the relief demanded in the
complaint, decreeing her to be the
owner of the launch Anita, and that
neither you nor your co- defendant has
any interest in or title to the same.
Witness the Hon. Fred M. Drown,
judge of said court, this 13th day of
February, 1914. ARTHUR LANG,
Clerk of the District Court, for the
Territory of Alaska, Third Division.
By T. P. GERAGHTY, Deputy Clerk.
First publication Feb. 14, 1914.
Last publication March 28, 1914.
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 of the estate of Peter
Steinmetz, deceased. W. A. Rystrom,
administrator.—Notice to Creditors.
Notice is hereby given by the un
dersigned, administrator of the estate
of Peter Steinmetz, deceased, to the
creditors of, and all persons having
claims against 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.
E. Bunnell, at Valdez, Alaska, the
same being the place for the trans
action of the business of said estate.
Dated at Valdez, Alaska, this 10th
day of February, 1914.
W. A. RYSTROM,
Administrator of the estate of Peter
Steinmetz, deceased.
First publication Feb. 11. 1914.
Last publication March 16, 1914.
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Notice of Marshal’s Sale.
United States of America, Third Di
vision, Territory of Alaska, ss.
Public notice fs 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
ri'cia, deceased, Angus Chisholm,
Frank Gustafson, Max J. Schm'dt and
Jennie Raymond, I have, on this 9th
day of January, A. D. 1914, levied
upon the following described real es
laie, suuaiea in me iowu in v iuez,
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 Townsite, according to the
official plat • f said townsite on file
in the office of the recorder for said
precinct, and ihat I will, according
ly, offer said real estate for sale, at
public vendue to the h’ghest 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.
Dated at Valdez, Alaska, January
9, 1914.
F. R. BRENNEMAN,
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 $6.00 wo 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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