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Notice of Settlement of Account.
In the Commissioner’s Court for the
Territory of Alaska, Third Division.
In Probate.
In the matter of the estate of 1.
D. Flynn, deceased.—Notice of settle
ment of account.
Notice is hereby given that W. T.
Scott, the administrator of the estate
of I. D. Flynn, deceased, has rendered
and presented for settlement, and fil
ed in the above entitled court, his
final account of the administration
of said estate, and that Wednesday,
the 24th day of February, 1914, at the
hour of two o’clock in the afternoon
of said day, at the court room of said
court, in the Town of Valdez, Alaska,
has been duly appointed by me, tno
undersigned, as the Judge of said
court, as the time and place for the
settlement of said account, at which
time and place any and all persons
Interested in said estate, may appear,
file exceptions in writing to the said
account or otherwise contest the al
lowance of the same.
Dated at Valdez, Alaska, this 23rd
day of December, 1914.
(Seal.) GEO. J. LOVE,
U. S. Commissioner and Ex Officio
Probate Judge, for the Recording
Precinct of Valdez, Alaska.
Date of first publication December
24, 1914.
Date of last publication January
21, 1915.
This is a good time to return that
book you’ve read to the library at
Everyman’s Club. Library hours:
1 to 2 p. m. every day, Monday, Wed
nesday, Saturday 3 to 5 p. m„ Tues
days and Fridays 7:30 to 9:30 p. m.
A HISTORIC TRIANGLE.
Famous Battlefields of the Plains of
Hesbaye, In Belgium.
Describing the road from Brussels
to Liege, which skirts the plains of
Hesbaye, Baedeker quotes the old pro
verb. "Qui passe dans le Hesbains est
combuttu lendemain"—"He who enters
the Hesbaye is defeated the next day.”
Such was the reputation of the Hes
baius for strength and bravery.
The ancient province of Hesbaye is
indicated on the maps as a triangle,
some fifty miles from its base to its
apex. Liege. The river Meuse, from
Namur to Liege, forms its southern
side; the railways from Liege through
Tirlemont and Louvain to Brussels its
northern side. A line from Namur
north to Brussels is its base.
This triangle contains many famous
battlefields. Besides Waterloo, there
is Neerwinden. where Marshal Luxem
burg defeated the allies under William
II. of England in 1093 and where a
century later the Austrians, under the
Prince of Coburg, uncle of the late
King Leopold of Belgium, defeated
the French, led by Dumouriez and
Louis Philippe.
Then there is Quatre Bras, where
Ney’s division fought part of the Brit
ish army and its German and Belgian
allies in 1815. There bad been a battle
the day before at Sombreffe, and on
that June night the Prussians accom
plished their unparalleled retreat from
Ligny. Fleurus, near by, won fame
in 1622 and 1690 and again in 1794.—
Newark News.
There With the Answer.
In a public school one afternoon the
teacher was instructing a class in
physiology, and finally. In order to teBt
the memory of the youngsters, she
closed the book and began to ask ques
tions.
“Willie," said she, addressing a
bright faced boy near the head of the
class, “can you give me a familiar ex
ample of the human body as It adapts
Itself to changed conditions?”
“Surer’ was the confident rejoinder.
"My uncle Jake gained fifty pounds In
less than one year, and his skin never
cracked.”—Philadelphia Telegraph.
The Buffalo’s Hump.
The hump of the buffalo la not a
mass of fat. as some people suppose,
but Is formed by neural spines In
length fully doublg those of domestic
cattle, and by the huge muscles which
lie alongside and fill up the angle be
tween these neural spines and the ribs.
Hair Dressing.
Little Julia’s mother had just re
turned from a visit to the hairdresser
with her hair all fluffy.
“Oh. mamma,” cried Julia, “who
fricasseed your hair?”—Chicago News.
~ HIS BLUFF WAS CALLED."
He Got What He Didn’t Expect and
Paid a Nice Price For It.
A young woman of smart wit and
striking beauty presided at one of the
stalls at a Paris charity bazaar.
Among the small crowd which pressed
round the fair vender was a young
man of much assurance, who gazed
upon the girl with freedom and affect
ed to admire the various fancy arti
cles exposed for sale, but bought noth
ing.
“What will you please to buy?" ask
ed mademoiselle, with an exquisite
smile.
“Oh," replied the young dandy, with
a languishing look, “what I most wish
to buy is unhappily not for sale.”
“Tell me what you wish,” she re
sponded.
“Oh, no; I dare not declare my
wishes.”
“Nevertheless let me know what you
wish to buy,” persisted the fair sales
woman.
“Well, then, since you demand it. I
should like a ringlet of your glossy
black hair."
She manifested no embarrassment nt
the bold request, but with a pair of
scissors immediately clipped off one of
her beautiful locks and handed it to
the astonished youth,- remarking that
the price was only 500 francs.
Her audacious admirer was thunder
struck with the demand, but dared not
demur, as by this time a group had
collected and were listening to the con
versation. So he took the hair, paid
over the money and left the hall.
ESKIMOS AS TRADERS.
Value Counts as Nothing if They See
Anything They Want,
Among the Eskimos of the Bering
sea region there is no fixed value for
whalebone, furs or anything they may
have to trade. If one of them has
anything of value he will keep It until
some white man appears with some
thing that appeals to his eye. And
the money value of what may take
him does not make any difference to
him. If he has a trinket that may be
worth a dollar and some one offers to
give him for it something that is worth
a thousand dollars, but of which he
has no need, he will refuse to trade.
But he will give anything he possess
es for what he really wants.
An Eskimo of St. Lawrence island,
in Bering sea, made a catch one sea
son of a big bowhead whale. The
head of baleen was worth between
$10,000 and $15,000. He knew the ap
proximate value of the head, but he
held on to it with no apparent desire
to trade. One day a trader appeared
with a small gasoline launch, valued
at perhaps $200 or $300. The sight of
that so took the native that he straight
way traded his head of bone for it.
Far out in the strait one day he
ran out of gasoline. He abandoned the
launch for the canoe he was towing
and paddled back to the Island. But
he did not regret his trade. He was
satisfied and ready to try for another
whale.—Youth's Companion.
Winning a Violin.
The way XI. Ysaye, the great violin
ist. became the owner of a Guarnerius
violin dated 1742 was thus quaintly
told by himself:
“The Guarnerius was bought in Par
is by a pupil of mine, a charming young
woman I envied tier the violin, and
fate gave it to me. 1 teach this pupil,
and by and by I meet tier sister, a most
lovely young woman, with whom J fall
in love straightway and marry. Soon 1
go to my sister-in-law, who was my
pupil, and say to her:
“ ‘it is time you stop fooling with
a violin. Y’ou will never learn how to
play it.' I take the liberty of a big
brother, but she do not like it for long
time. At last she succumb to my ex
perience and wisdom, and she stops
playing. Then I say grandiloquently:
“ ‘I will take the Guarnerius. 1742.’
I take it, and that is how the violin
came into the possession of Ysaye.”
Cracow.
Cracow stands even before Warsaw
in the minds of Polish patriots. Not
only was it once the capital of free Po
land. with a cathedral equivalent to
Westminster Abbey, wherein sleep the
generations of Polish kings and beroeB.
but it possesses the most striking pa
triotic memorial in the world. This
is the Kosciuskoberg. a mound 300
feet high, erected to the memory of
Kosciusko, and formed of enrth from
every battlefield of Poland. In the
construction of that memorial Polish
nobles, statesmen and peasants toiled
side by side.—London Spectator.
Enjoyment.
A certain rich woman, having ran
her eye over the latest report of the
bureau of statistics touching food
stuffs, grew very blithe all at once.
“Why shouldn’t I enjoy life when so
few can really afford it?" she exclaim
ed glowingly.—Puck.
Lawmaking.
I seldom make a law for me. It is
usually you I am forcing to do some
thing or preventing from doing some
thing else. And when I do make a
law for me I feel very free in violat
ing it if occasion seems to require.— '
Life.
A Brave Patient,
Dentist (to assistant)—I think I heard
a patient in the waiting room. Assist
ant— Yes. but I can’t bring him in.
He’s turned the key on the inside.—
Meggendorfer Blatter. .
If you don’t do your best it’s foolish *
to try to convince people that you
could have done better.—Detroit Free
Press. |
FIRE EATERS. “
Tho Trick of Breathing Flames and
Sparks From the Mouth.
The Brst known Are breuther was a
Syrian slave named Eunus, a leader In
the Servile war In Sicily, 130 B. C. He
pretended to have immediate commu
nication with the gods. When desirous
of inspiriug his followers with courage
he breathed Barnes aud sparks from
bis mouth.
In order to accomplish this feat Eu
dus pierced a nutshell at both ends,
and, having Ailed it with some burn
ing substance, he put it in his mouth
and breathed through it. The same
trick is performed today in a more ap
proved manner. The performer rolls
some Bax or hemp into a ball about
the size of a walnut, which he lets
burn until It is nearly consumed. Then
he rolls around it more Bax while It Is
still burning. By this means the Are
is retained in the ball for a long time,
lie slips this ball into his mouth unper
ceived and breathes through it. Ilis
breath revives the Are, and he sus
tains no injury so long as he inhales
only through his nostrils.
Various theories have been advanced
to account for other feats of this sort
performed by the ancients. An old
ordeal was the holding of a redhot iron
by tlie accused, who was not burned
if he were innocent. Probably some
protective paste was used on the hands
The peculiar property of mineral salts,
such ns alum, in protecting articles of
dress from fire has long been known.
An old Milanese devised a costume
consisting of a cloth covering for the
body which had been steeped in alum.
A metallic dress of wire gauze was
added to this, and thus protected a
man might walk on hot iron.
TRAINING FOR LONGEVITY.
The Mental Attitude Is as Important as
Bodily Vigor.
A few years ago a young man “died
of old age’ in a New York hospital.
After an autopsy the surgeons said that
while the youth was in reality only
twenty-three years old lie was internal
ly eighty.
It is the aged mind that frequently
makes the body old. “Keep growing
or die” is nature’s motto, a motto writ
ten nil over everything in the universe.
There must be a constant activity in
the mind that would not age. and the
body is but the expression of the mind
There is no doubt that as a race we
shorten our lives very materially
through our false thinking, our bad
living and our old age convictions. Dr.
Metcbnikoff of the Pasteur institute
in Paris says that men should live at
least 120 years. Yet it is only in rare
instance today that a man reaches even
the century mark.
Making a business of prolonging life
and still retaining as much as possible
of its vigor, freshness and buoyancy
ought to be a prime object, especially
after one has passed fifty. While prop
er care of the body is absolutely essen
tial for the attainment of this object,
the mental influence far transcends all
others. The attitude of the mind has
everything to do with hastening or re
tarding the degenerative processes inci
dent to one's declining years. It is an
established fact that the body follows
the thought, is shaped by the mental
convictions, emotions, moods.—Orison
Swott Marden in Nautilus.
Submarine Mines.
Wet guncotton in submarine mines is.
of course, a very potent explosive, lint
in many respects it is quite outclassed
by the compound used in German
mines and known as trinitrotoluene,
but abbreviated to “T. N. TV in Great
Britain and to "trotyl" in Germany.
!A shell, torpedo or mine loaded with
“T. N. T.“ (which requires to be deto
nated by means of mercury fulminatei
bursts with great violence into large
fragments, whereas if loaded with pic
ric acid the splinters are very small
and cannot therefore do as much dam
age. Although wet guncotton is more
powerful if exploded in close proxim
ity to the target, the effect of "T. N.
T.” is much greater whet the explo
sion takes place some distance away.—
London Telegraph.
The Steamer Duck.
Around the southern extremity of
South America is to be found u very
large duck, which bears the common
name of “steamer duck” or “race
horse.” owing to a peculiar habit it
has of rowing itself along the surface
of the water at great speed. This is
said to be due to the remarkable fact
that the bird loses its power of flight
when it reaches maturity. These ducks
ire very common.—Chicago Herald.
Artistic Excuse.
“There!” said Mr. Nagg after a com
plicated explanation of why he had
stayed out so late; “I hope this is sat
isfactory.”
“It is more than satisfactory.” Mrs.
Nagg told him. “It is simply beauti
ful."—St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
Her Stste of Mind.
Attorney—You can sue him for breach
>f promise, madam, but It seems to me
Jiat it’s preposterous to claim $250,000
la mages. Fair Client—I Vant to get
10 heavy a judgment against him that
ie’11 Just have to marry me—the scoun
Irel!—Chicago Tribune.
Simple Arithmetic.
“How do you account for the pass
ng of the after dinner speaker?”
“On business principles. A good
alker can get enough money for a lee
ure to buy his own dinner and then
lave some cash left over.”—Washing
on Star.
It is a mistake to set np our own
tandard of right and wrong and ex
wct everybody to conform to it
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