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SATURDAY MARCH 27, 1915.
TWO SIEGES.
it was 462 years ago next month
that the last great siege of Constan
tinople began. Mohammed II. moved
on the city in February, but the pon
derous character of his artillery made
it impossible to get his weapons in
place for three months longer; and
the real siege began in April, 1453.
It lasted fifty-three days, and Mo
hammed entered the city and extin
guished the last remains of the Ro
man empire on May 20.
Cannon were still in the experiment
al stage, and there was a belief that
the bigger the gun the more de
structive it would be; so Mohammed
had a cannon made the diameter of
whose mouth is said to have been
two feet and a half Stone balls
were still in use in those days. Mo
hammed had 70,000 men, while the
force of the Christians did not ex
ceed 9,000. The Turkish fleet consist
ed of 320 vessels. The Chrisitans
were inadequately supplied with gun
powder, ,and every repulse they in
flicted on the Turks brought nearer
the day of their own downfall.
Battering rams, cannon ana nquiu
lire were used constantly in the at
tack upon the half-ruined forts of
Constantinople, and at one time the
Turks sent forward a wooden turret
on rollers, which was destroyed by
the Greeks and their allies. A Chris
tian squadron of only five ships re
pulsed the Turks in a desperate na
val engagement, .though Mohammed
himself, sitting on horseback on the
beach, yelled reproaches at his sail
ors and even spurred his horse into
the sea.
Mohammed conceived the desperate
operation of carrying his ships over
land from the Bosporus into the high
er part of the harbor. In one night
the Turkish fleet climbed a hill and
was launched, and the upper har
bor was occupied. The Ottoman can
non demolished the Greek forts in
forty days, and the final assault be
gan in the morning cf May 29. The
Emperor Constantine fought to the
last and died like a hero; and a piti
less sack of the city began the mo
ment it fell, under the explicit per
mission and even order of Mohammed
himself.
An invasion of Serbia began with
in a few days, and the Turk was
placed firmly on his European throne,
the throne of which he has made so
little use that is of any benefit to
the human race. If the operations
now being conducted against Constan
tinople end in a victory for the Al
lies, retribution will have come at
last after four centuries and a half,
the Turk will give up the power he
has misused, and the Eastern empire,
under another name, will come to its
own again; Nicholas will take over
what Constantine Palaeologus fought
to save and died vainly to protect.—
New York Times.
SHOULD ENLIST
REST OF FAMILY
WINNIPEG, Man.—Lance Corporal
Michael O’Leary, First Batallion of
the Irish Guards, who has been award
ed the Victoria Cross, is a veteran
member of the Royal North Mounted
Police, enlisting as a reservist last
August. He is a big, strapping, good
natured Irishman, popular with both
officers and men. The exploit for
which he has just been distinguish
ed occurred February 1, when form
ing one of a storming party which
advanced against the enemy’s barri
cades, he rushed to the front and him
self killed five Germans who were
holding the first barricade, after which
he attacked the second barricade
about sixty yards farther on, which
he captured after killing three of the
enemy and making two more prison
ers. O’Leary thus practically cap
tured the enemy’s positions by him
self and prevented the rest of the
attacking party from being fired on.
NEW YORK IS SAFE
FROM BOMBARDMEN1
WASHINGTON.—Assertions tha
the long-distance bombardment of th<
Dardanelles forts has demonstrate*
that New York City could be bom
barded, with entire safety to them
selves, by battleships of the type o
the Queen Elizabeth and the Agin
court, whose guns outrange those it
the forts defending New York, ar<
based on misinformation and miscon
ception, according to experts here
They said that such assertions hav*
been made before, and have beer
shown to have been founded on er
roneous ideas.
"In the first place,” said a prom
inent officer, “the effective range oi
the guns of the Agincourt or Queer
Elizabeth is not 26,000 yards. Th*
best has ever been claimed is 23,
WOO yards, while 21,000 yards is muck
the safer figure. Now, on the otbei
hand, the effective range of our 12
inch guns is 13,000 yards, as they arc
now mounted and operated.
“The enemy attacking New York
would be afloat, and the advantages
in range finding would be with us.
In the next place, we have many
mortars in all those fortifications with
an effective range of 19,000 yards un
der ordinary circumstances, and for
which a range of 23,000 yards can
be safely claimed if put to the cru
cial test.
“Now if any one who is at all
exercised on the subject will take
the troub’e to get; a map of New
York and the harbor and with a com
pass strike off the radii showing the
effective range of our guns, they will
find tliatt he 12-inch guns of Fort
Hancock will reach to a point two
miles south of Coney Island and a
mile west of the western point of
Kockaway Beach. That is the spot
from which it is suggested vessels
of the Queen Elizabeth’s type would
turn loose on Wall street. From that
point to the Times building is about
26,000 yards, the exaggerated range
of the guns of the British dread
nought. As a matter of fact the 12
inch guns at Fort Hancock on Sany
Hook can reach effectively some dis
tance beyond the point where the
bombarding ship would have to take
position.
“And that is not all. There are 12
inch guns at Fort Tompkins and Fort
Wadsworth that could reach past the
point where the vessel of the Queen
Elizabeth class would begin her fire.”
Newspaper Waifs.
Milly—“If you kiss me, I’ll scream.”
Billy—“Well, so long as you don’t
scream first it’s all right.”
Trouble may come ter teach you
lessons, an’ it ain’t his fault ef you’s
too hardheaded ter l’arn.
“Do you feel certain the defend
ant was intoxicated?” “Well, I’ll tell
you. He carried home one of those
sidewalk coalhole tops with circular
corrugations, and tried to play it on
his phonograph.”
City Visitor—“Your son at college
is quite an athlete, I understand.
Great at throwing the hammer.’
Farmer Hawbuck—"Yes, gol durn it!
Last time he was daown I gave him
a hammer to fix the barn, an’ he
threw it so far I hain’t seen it sence.”
The Aide—-“General, I have the hon
or to report that we have taken the
enemies’ position.” The General—
“Fine! And how many prisoners'did
we capture?” “Three thousand.”
“Fine!” “And how many men did we
lose?” "Six thousand.” “Fine!”
"What are you going to tell your
constituents when you go home?”
“I’m not going to tell them anything,”
replied Senator Sorghum. "Out our
way the people used to expect a
statesman to give instructive dis
course. Now they require him to keep
quiet while they tell him a few
things.”
wrangei sentinel : ay a contract
let yesterday, F. Matheson will soon
be the owner of the finest runabout
speed cruiser in Southeastern Alaska.
The new boat will be 36 feet long and
will be powered with a 36 to 50 h. p.
Lowe-Victor six-cylinder high-speed
engine. She will have a speed ol
from 15 to 20 miles per hour, and
will be very complete in every de
tail, having electric lighting system
and the automobile control from the
pilot house The contract was award
ed to William Fletcher, and calls foi
delivery by the middle of April.
DONALDSON SCHEDULE.
Leaves Fort Liscum. Leaves Valdez
8:15 a. m. 3:45 a. m.
1:15 p. m. 4:00 p. m.
TUESDAYS
8:15 a. m. 9:45 a. m.
1:16 p. in. 2:00 p. m.
4:30 p. m. 6:00 p. m.
SATURDAYS
1:15 p. m. 4:00 p. m.
7:00 p. m. 10:30 p. m.
There will be no trips of the launch
on the aecoLd and fourth Fridays of
each month, these days being used
to dean boilers.
FOR SALE—Six good work dogs,
well broke and good workers: Cheap.
Apply T. E. Dougherty. tf
" MAULED BY A LION.
An Unexpected Attack and a Periloue
and Exciting Mixup.
Captain C. H. Stigaud was once
mauled by a lion, and lie recounts the
adv.enturei in his “Hunting the Ele
phant In Africa.” The captain had
i shot a lioness, and while watching the
body from a tree he saw two lions ap
proach. They stood over the lioness
and roared alternately for half an hour.
He succeeded in shooting them both,
but on approaching the body of his
second victim he found that it was not
quite so dead as it had seemed. “I ap
proached the edge, and immediately
the inert mass assumed life and, with
a roar, sprang on me with one bound.
The orderly, who was a few yards be
hind me, immediately retired precipi
tately. As the lion sprang I tired into
his chest, and he landed on me, ills
right paw over my left shoulder, and
he seized my left arm in his teeth. As
my left arm was advanced in the firing
position, it was the first thing he met.
“The weight of his spring knocked
me down, and I next found myself ly
ing on my back, my left arm being
worried and my rifle still in my left
hand underneath his body. I scram
bled around with my left arm still in
his mouth until I was kneeling along
side of him and started pommeling him
with my right fist on the back of the
neck. He gave me a final shake and
then quickly turned round and disap
peared in the grass a little nearer to
the station than I was.”
The author adds that he was drench
ed with blood, and upon examination
he found eight big holes in his arm
and three claw marks on his back, a
damage that partially disabled him for
two years. He remarks modestly that
since that adventure he has bagged
seven more lions.
THE OLD TIME “YE.”
It Was Simply an Abbreviation and
Was Always Pronounced “The.”
How does it happen that in copying
and reading ancient manuscripts we
call the character our ancestors meant
for “the" by the ridiculous “ye?”
They said “the" just as we do, and
the only apparent reason for mistaking
tile character is that two centuries ago
the letter "h" was usually written with
a tail below the line and with a razeed
top, which made it look like our “y.”
Then the word was so frequently used
that it was contracted, just as the
word “and” was then treated and con
tinues to he treated to this day by
many of us.
When I was a boy, more than eighty
years ago, the alphabets in our school
books always ended with the “short
and.” We called it “ampersand” and
considered it a fine snapper when we
rattled off the alphabet. Sometimes
when sufficiently cultured we gave it
the full title “and-per-se-and.”
Now, it is likely that our will
become obsolete, just as "ye” has be
come. Then our descendants of the
next century or two will be puzzled
perhaps, but I do not think they will
be so foolish as to say “ampersand”
when reading our manuscripts and
coming to the little quirk we meant
for “and.” Do let us drop saying “ye.”
-Dial.
Not an Octet.
Cyril Maude, the English comedian,
was talking about class distinctions.
“They are iess marked with you than
with us,” he suidk "Here you all talk
alike—the shopgirl's accent differs in
no wise from that of a Stuyvesant or
a Roosevelt, ltut with us the lower
classes talk a disgraceful jargon.
"The ‘IT especially. The lower class
es can ,uever master that ‘h.‘ In my
youth I once heard a stage manager
rehearsing ‘Faust.’ He had , sprung
from the people, - poor chap, and he
conducted the rehearsal like this:
“ ‘ ’Old your ’ands' on ‘your Tps, ’old
up your ’ends and look ’aughty. You’re
not on ’Atnpstead _’Eath, now—you’re,
in ’Ades. Now, ’asten off ’urrtedly,
with a look of ’ate.’
“ ‘But, sir,’ said I. ‘there’s only six
of us.’ Wasliingtou Star.
The Practical Side of Music.
He was a lover of music who had
just been to hear Puccini's “Madame
Butterfly,” and he was expatiating
upon its beauties to an unresponsive
friend whom he observed to yawn.
The music lover was hurt. "Look
here, John,” he protested, “don’t you
think that music is of some practical
benefit in life?"
“Oh, yes,” said the unresponsive one.
“Why, judging from the portraits 1
have seen of eminent musicians, es
pecially pianists, I should say that
music is great to keep the hair from
falling out”—Ladies’ Home Journal.
Not Guilty.
Lawyer—You understand what you
are to do in court now, don’t you?
Client—Yes, I guess so. Lawyer—
When the court nsks you whether you
nre guilty of manslaughter or not you
say “guilty.” Client—But I can’t do
that, my conscience wouldn’t allow it.
Lawyer —Why? Client — Because it
wasn’t a man I killed, it was a wom
an.—New York Globe.
Very Thrilling.
She—The life of a secret service man
must be very thrilling. He—Yes, that's
what I thought when I read of one of
the president’s guards falling asleep
standing up.—Buffalo Express.
Impatient.
"Do you tell your husband every
thing?" “Why, I can’t. He won’t lis
ten to me over two or three hours on a
stretch.”—Washington Herald.
Aim only at that which is within
reach and trust the big things hi time
and the spirit.—Towne.
Our Spring Shipments of Men's Wear
Are arriving on every steamer.
These shipments are intended to sup
plement and tone up our already
large and well balanced stock, and
you may fe.el sure that whether you
want heavy clothes, suitable for
the trail, or work in the mines, or an
up-to-date outfit for about town, you
will find it at our store.
Look in our show windows, or
better still, let us show you.
You will find us
RIGHT IN QUALITY,
RIGHT IN SELECTION,
RIGHT IN PRICE.
We stand back of everything we sell.
We have clothes to fit any man, tall or
short, slim or stout—Hats, Shirts, Shoes,
Rubber goods in plenty.
Assortment big. - All sizes.
S. BLUM & CO.
GOOD GOODS
• .1
Dr. H. COCKERILLE
Graduate of National University
Washington, D. C.
dentist
ill both companies Fourteen vear.s in
Office Rooms in VALDEZ
Whaling Building.
DR. GERMAN
Phone 19 THE DENTIST
Office rooms over Owl Drug store. Office hours
9 a. m.. to 6 p. m , 7 p, m..to9 p. m. Sundays
by appointment All work guaranteed
DONOHOE & DIMOND
ATTOUNEYS-AT-I-.AW
Office Opposite Court House
Phone 34 Valdez, Alaska
JOHN LYONS E. E. RITCHIE
LYONS & RITCHIE
Attorneys at Law
Offices in Whaling Building
Phone lOl Valdez. Alaska
Copper River
Draying Co
Freighting and Passengers
to all parts of the Interior.
GENERAL TRUCKING.
McKinley Street, Valdez
Ed. Wood, - • - Proprietor.
Valdez Hospital
Largest and Best Equipped Hospital
in Southweatern Alaska.
Graduate N arses—PriTateJRooiai for Patieots
For Terms end Particulars Apply to
E. C. DALTON, M, D., Physician in Charge.
Headquarters tor Traveling Men.
Copper Block
VALDEZ
“The House of Comfort,”
For Men Only
Steam Heat. Hot Baths
Copper River Lumber Co., Inc.
ALL KINDS OP
»
Native and ¥ ¥ TTV/|DI7D and Building
Puget Sound L* U 1V1£)JliI\ Material
CONSTANTLY ON HAND
Prices Right W. M. FINICAL, Mgr. Phone 18
Patronize a Home Industry
FULL
QUART
Y
"t ~ii i 11 i 111i)11 hj || in nomi . •>t I
Has Had no Peers for Fifty Years I
SOLD BY ALL DEALERS |
EXPERT
Cleaning & Pressing
By H. M. SALING, at
Silverman’s Tailor Shop
Goods called for and delivered.
Both Phones 198.
BEST PLAGE TOT EAT
MRS. ST. MARIE’S
*
Moved to Reed Building, on Wall
Street, next to Road Commi**ion
S7 a m to 9 a no
Lunch 1* m to 1 p m
e to 7 p m
BOARD A £OOM SSO per Mo.
WEATHEK tJUUi-ti i ■«.
Valdez, Alaska, March 27, 1915. :
• STATION \bove Below, Snow In. WEATHER CONDITIONS i
Donnelly . 20 Clear, calm, trail bare.
McCallum . 8 22 Clear, calm, trail fair.
Paxson’s . 15 22 Clear, calm, trail soft.
Hogan . 21 7 Clear, calm, trail soft.
Gulkana . 20 Clear, calm, trail no good.
Tonslna . 21 25 Clear, calm, trail soft.
Telkhell . 18 25 Clear, calm, trail soft.
Clear, windy trail blocked, elides
Beaver Dam. 31 37 south, fair north.