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SATURDAY, JANUARY «, 1010
NEUTRALITY OF THOUGHT.
Sometimes it is difficult to form a
conclusion as to whether the aspira
tions of the the big eastern newspa
pers, particularly those in New York,
emanates from London or the Amer
ican metropolis. It may not appear
to be hidebound, ingrowing prejudice
to the newspapers themselves, but to
Westerners at least the atmosphere
with which some of those publica
tions surround themselves in their at
titude toward the European war, has
all the elements W Anglophile taint.
The habit of those papers in look
ing at the war through the eyes of
the Entente allies rather than thru
American eyes—»the eyes of neutral
ity—appears to have become so set
tled that it cannot be overcome, and
we do not believe that such partisan
ship for a cause which is not Ameri
ca’s is wholesome.
One of the favorite words of those
newspapers is “Prussian.” The word
Prussian stands for something, but it
is not the meaning of the word itself
but the connotation, that makes its
use offensive. Prussia is a part of
Germany—a very small part—but it
can hardly be construed as a synonym
of Germany. Prussian, as the Aatlan
tic seaboard papers—or some of themj
—use the word, is intended to con
vey the worst that is in Germany; it
is intended to arouse in the mind
such words|| as “militarism,” “bru
tality,” etc. It is for this reason that
the use of Prussian for German is
like toning down just a trifle the
thought conveyed by the word “Hun.’
Fortunately Americau newspapers
outside of Canada and English New
York manage to refrain from using
the word “Hun,” which is employed
in ally countries to imply contempt.
The allies like to think of the Ger
mans as the Huns of fifteen centuries
ago who, under Atilla, the "Scourge
of God,” overswept Europe. They re
ply to the German “Gott strafe En
gland by calling the Teutons Huns.
Surely it is not the business of the
American people to ape England’s
natural feeling of hatred toward an
enemy. At least we should be fair.
We can be neutral and yet condemn
acts of German wrongdoing—as this
country has done. But we need not
allow our minds to be warped to the
British or German molds. They
should at least be American minds.
CHARITY.
"But lie, willing to justify himself,
said unto Jesus, And what 4s my
neighbor?
“Arid Jesus, answering said, A cer
tain man went down from Jerusalem
to Jericho and fell among thieves,
which"stripped him of his raiment and
wounded him, leaving him half dead.
"And by chance there came down
a certain priest that way; and when
he saw him, he passed on the other
side.
"And likewise a Levite, when he
was at the place, came and looked on
him, and passed by on the other side.
"But a certain Samaritan, as he
journeyed, came where he was; and
when he saw him, he had compassion
on him.
“And went to him, and bound up
his wounds, pouring in oil and wine,
and set him on his own breast, and
brought him to an inn and took care
of him.
"And on the morrow, when he de
parted, he took out two pence, and
gave them to the host, and said unto
him, Take care of him; and whatso
ever thou spendest more, when 1
come again I will repay thee.
"Which now of these three think
est thou, was neighbor unto him that
fell among thieves?
"And he said, He that showed
mercy on him. Then said Jesus unto
him, Go thou and do likewise.”
HOPE OF PEACE GLOOMY.
Great Britain’s attitude toward the
German peace proposals, as express
ed by Premier Lloyd-George in the
House of Commons yesterday and by
Lord Crewe in the House of Lords,
supplemented by the position taken
by Russia and France, apparently
dashes whatever fragmentary hope of
peace may have been raised by the
German chancellor's appeal to the
belligerents.
•‘Without reparation peace is im
possible,” declares the premier, who
adds: "We entered the war to de
fend Europe from the aggressions of
Prussian militarism. We must in
sist that there be most complete guar
antees against this caste ever disturb
ing again the ,’peace /of Europe/
Meanwhile the government leader ia
the House of Lords, the Marquis of
Crewe, is saying: “We must carry
on the war to the last man, to tha
last shilling.”
The allies have clearly set their
faces against peace on any conditions
they think Germany will propose at
this time.
The hope of a peace conference is
further diminished by the fact that
Germany will not—according to Teu
tonic diplomats at Washington—
make known her terms of peace at
such a cort^erence. The entente will
not deign to listen to what it thinks
the central empires will propose, a..d
the Teutonic allies will not reveal
their cards until their enemies con
sent to give ear. Thus the diplomat
ic situation has reached an “Im
passe,” and seemingly nothing is left
to be done except for the men in the
trenches to break it.
From the standpoint of mediation,
so far as this country is concerned,
the situation is decidedly gloomy.
President Wilson, in no wise discour
aged is about to try again to call the
attention of the belligerents that
the neutrals are getting tired of finan
cing the war, and that it is time they
get together. While his peace skir
mish has accomplished nothing up to
the present time, it has caused the
nation to believe him sincere in his
stand for humanity.
THE intolerance of the average
man is amazing, when you consider
the chances he has to elevate and
broaden his mind. And the most pe
culiar thing in the whole business is
that the more ignorant a man is of
what he is talking about the more
vociferous he becomes trying to cover
up his ignorance with his noise. It
would be a sad day for the world if
it were not for the law and the church
—or to use the proper figure of
speech if it were not for the church
which is the foundation of the law.
For hundreds of centuries the world
was held a slave to intolerance. A
man was so bound by customs and
superstitions that he could not see
beyond the mist which obfuscated his
vision. With the birth of Christ came
'the first signs of tolerance. Man be
gan to realize that there was some
thing more than the physical side to
life, and with a greater spiritual up
lift came greater intelligence—and
intelligence is the running mate of
tolerance.
“O-o-o-o-o-oh! .... Bo-o-o-o-oo!”
As the childish wail rang through
the house the anxious mother sprang
to her feet. Rushing into the hall
she met her little daughter coming in
from the garden and carrying a brok
en doll by the leg.
“What’s the matter, darling?” she
asked tenderly.
“Willie’s broked my do-oll!” howl
ed the child.
“The naughty boy! How ever did
he do it?”
“I-I-I hit him on the hed wiv it"
was the response.
“MY DAUGHTER IS DEAD"
SAYS FRANCIS R. ARNOLD
NEW YORK, Jan. 6.—‘‘My daugh
ter is dead!”
With these words Francis A. Arn
old, wealthy importer, met inquiries
attracted to his home by the sixth an
niversary of the disappearance of
beautiful Dorthy Arnold.
The father of the famous lost girl
is now almost eighty years old. He
has spend $100,000 searching for
her. His representatives still inves
tigate thoroughly the clues which
keep coming to them.
But Mr. Arnold has lost hope of
ever finding her alive. He believes
she must have met with foul play, al
though there was little in the disap
pearance December 12, 1910, while
on a Fifth avenue shopping expedi
tion, to suggest such a solution to the
mystery.
Japan to Rule the Pacific.
TOKYO, Jan. 6.—A great program
of naval expansion, which by the end
of 1923 will give Japan overwhelm
ing superiority over all other fleets
in the Pacific Ocean, including that
of the United States, was officially
announced here today. By the time
mentioned Japan will have built sev
eral new battleships, two battle cruis
ers, nine scout cruisers, 28 destroy
ers, 18 submarines and other war
craft.
THE bill presented by Col. Rich
ardson asking for a half million for
Alaskan roads and trails will go far
toward populating the Territory. A
country cannot settle up with no
means of transportation. Good roads
do more for a country than all other
assets. Alaska’s rapid development
is taking lots of money, but it is
worth it. The grand old Territory
will return tenfold every dollar spent
in the way of development.
OLD TIME HARVESTS.
A Reminder of the Oaye When You
War* a Bey the Farm.
If you were a boy ou tbe farm you
will recall vividly'What harvest meant
t«> you, for you bad to carry water, aud
harvest baud* were u thirsty set, nor
did they seem to care how far it was to
the spring or how badly chapped your
feet.
When not earthing water you were
busy gathering sheaves, which was
about the hardest work in sight, or at
least you thought it was.
When dinner came you would ire so
hungry that there did uot seem to be
enough on the table to satisfy you. to
say uotbing of the hungry bunch. In
this you would be somewhat disap
pointed, for there was always enough
for all.
Then for an hour s rest, during which
tho men would sprit out in the shade
of a tree or on the ptjreh in the great
est comfort. And maybe you would
have found a good place to rest your
weary bones and about to settle Into it
when one of the cradlers would come
along with a leaky bucket In one nand
and a dull scythe In the other and or
der yon to come along and turn the
grindstone while y<JO were resting.
Didn’t It seem that they bad a spite
at a boy in harvest time on tbe farm ?—
Erasmus Wilson in Pittsburgh Oa
zette-Timee.
TWIN BORDER TOWNS.
Thoy 8it Right oh tho Lino That 8opa
rataa Us From Moxioo.
Along the lengthy frontier separating
this country from Mexico, which ex
tends from the Pacific ocean to the
gulf, there are seven or eight towns
which ait right upon the line.
Half of each of these towns is Amer
ican, the other half Mexican. Some
times the Bio Grande cuts them in the
two halves, sometimes only a shallow
arroyo and sometimes nothing at mil
but the imaginary mathematical line
These are what I call the twin towns.
El Paso has for its twin Juarez.
Douglas has Agua Prleta. Presidio is
sister to Ojinaga, Eagle Pass to Pie
dras Negras. Brownsville to Mata
moros, and Laredo. Naco and Nogales
United Stgtes. are one with Nuevo
Laredo, Naco and Nogales. Mexico.
Usually the American town Is larger
and of more Importance than the Mex
icau town. It is bigger, more hustling
cleaner, ever so much more enterpris
lug. But the little salamander sister
across the way. Indolent In the golden
dust and the sun. achieves in some
mysterious way and without effort a
beauty, a color and a grace foreign,
perhaps for always, to the big hustler
—James Hopper in Collier’s Weekly.
He Met the Note.
Once upon a time a landlady in
Washington called on President An
drew Jackson and told of a govern
ment clerk who owed her a big hill for
board. In those days it was easy to
have access to the White House
President Jackson listened to her
story and advised her to get a promts
sory note from the clerk and put it in |
bank. She replied:
"I’ve done that twice, general, and
he won't pay even then."
"Is that so?" said the president in
surprise. "Now. you go ang get his
note and bring it to me. I,,-simply
want to see it and I'm sure that the
clerk will pay that note. Go **nd
bring it to me."
. The landlady did so and soon return^
ed with the promissory uote. The\
president turned it over and wrote
across the back of It his own Indorse
ment. "A. Jackson. ’
The uote was paid at maturity.
Aptitude.
My observation in life leads me to
believe that nearly every human being
has an aptitude—that is. there is some
thing that he or she can do better than
all other things. One in a hundred,
again, has a remarkable aptitude, and
in one in a thousand this aptitude is
developed into something extraordi
nary. it then amounts to natural in
sight and constitutes genius. Now, a
perfect system of education, if it could
be devised, would be one which, while
developing to the fullest extent all the
faculties, would allow free play to the
special aptitude.—From ‘‘The Autobiog
rnph.v of Charles Francis Adams."
Music In Plants.
There is music In plants. The fern
leaf of the varieties common here rep
resents a bit of music. From the tip
of the fern to the center there Is a
crescendo, from there to the root there
Is a diminuendo, and as we reach the
lust we should have to mark a retard.
It is beautiful. Flowers grow rytb
mically.—Henry Turner Bailey.
Famous Fables.
“My auceEtors came over in the May
flower."
“This is our family coat of arms."
“Oh. I had plenty of chances to mar
ry. but 1 preferred to remain single!"
“My kid got off an awfully funny re
mark yesterday- Listen"—
—New York World.
More Effective.
“I see ye've Invested in a vacuum
cleaner," a neighbor said to Mrs. Jones
“Do ye like it better than the old fash
toned broom?”
“You bet yer life I do.” Mrs. Jones
answered. “1 kin knock Jones twlc<
as fur with It .’’-Exchange.
Something In His Favor.
“There's one thing I wUl say for that !
rellow whose mistakes cause so much
trouble."
“What to it?"
“He doesn’t claim that hto intentions
were good anyhow.” — Detroit Fr#e
Press
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We will pay twenty-five cents for any Hollyhurst egg
that is hot absolutely perfect.
Fresh On This Boat
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CARROTS
PARSLEY
SWEET SPUDS
RED CABBAGE
ONIONS
TURNIPS, ETC.
LETTUCE
TOMATOES
GREEN PEPPERS
FLA. GRAPE FRUIT
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Temperature Too High.
Sister Nancy was going the round
of the ward in the big hospital for
wounded soldiers, talking tempera
tures.
Reaching the side of one hero, in
whose mouth she had left the ther
mometer a few minutes before, she
was hofried to And on withdrawing it
that it registered 130, although only
an hour before the patient had been
normal. Swiftly she summoned the
house doctor. On arriving he was
seriously perplexed as the patient’s
temperature had dropped to 120. ,
“Look here,” he said to the sol
dier, “have you dropped this ther
mometer or been fooling with it?"
“No, sir. Only been stirring my
tea with it.”
.Steam in the Cat.
The cat settled herself luxuriously
in front of the kitchen range and be
gan to purr. Little Dolly, who was
strange to the ways of cats, regarded
her with horror.
“Oh, gran’ma, gran’ma!” she cried i
“Come here quick. The cat’s begun
to boil.”—Christian Register.
James Cusick left this morning for
Elr.lmar.
—
C. W. Cook, government agent at
iWtifleR," left this morning to return
to his home after spending several
days in town on business.
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FOR SALE—One brown and two
silver tip bear skins in prime con
dition. Inquire Mrs. H. R. Miller,
Front street. Phone 158. kll
Police Interfere
AMSTERDAM, Jan. 6.—Police
prohibited a great Socialist meeting
scheduled in favor of peace at Leip
sig, according to dispatches here to-1
day. !
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KAISER IN WINTER “HOOD.”
As ths German Ruler
Appears In Cold Weathsr.
PROFESSIONAL CARDS.
DR. S. WICKES MERRITT
Offices over Valdes Drag Co.
Phone ’15 McKinley Street
Contract Surgeon, U. S. Army
A. A. Surgeon, U S. Public Health Serv.
(Marine Hospital)
DR. H. COCKERILLE
Graduate National University I
Washington, D. C.
DENTIST
Fourteen Years in Valdez.
PHONE 110
Office Rooms in Whaling Building
J. L. REED
ATTORNEY-AT-LAW
Phone XM VALDEZ. ALASKA
EDMUND SMITH
LAWYER
Suite 1212 American Bank Building,
SEATTLE, WASH.
Special Attention Given to all Alaska
Business.
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ASA C. BALDWIN
CIVIL ENGINEER *
^ ^ U S. Mineral Surveyor
| McKioley Street opp elite V. M. Store.
Valdez, Alaska
NOTICE—Electrical heaters, cook
ers, percolators, vacuum-cleaners,
will be advanced in prices after New
years, by the manufacturers. Stock
on hand will be sold at prevailing
prices, at the Emporium.
New Year Resolution.
Your first New Year resolution
should be: “Resolved, That I will
take out both Life and Fire insur
ance and have the Alaska Inv. Con -
pany write my policies.” 2t
The best dinner at the Arcade
Cafe. tf
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Location notices, notn quartz and
placer, at the Miner office.
Received by steamer Alameda a
fine line of fruits and vegetables. Key
stone Produce Co. 3t
S. Blum, president of S. Blum &
Co., will leave Seattle Thursday for
Valdez. On his arrival plans for the
rebuilding of the Blum store will be
completed, and it is expected work on
the new structure will be commenc
ed just as soon as the weather con
ditions will permit.
The Eagle, Capt. Duncan Stewart,
will make a trip to Shoup Bay and
return by way of Mineral Creek to
morrow.
Installation and Smoker.
On Tuesday evening next the Val
dez Igloo of Pioneers of Alaska will
hold their annual installation of offi
cers to be followed by a smoker.
ATLAS JUNK CO#
Wholesale sad Retail Dealers in , A
Alii KINDS OP JUNK •
Buyers of^Metal, Rubber, Ma
nila Rope, Sacks, Machinery,
Pipe, Hides, Furs and Bottles.
1043 Railroad Avenue, So.
SEATTLE, WASH.
Candy Kitchen i
E. W. HUNT—In Owl Drag Store. j
FOUNTAIN DRINKS j
HOT-COLD i
LOUIE’S CAFE1
Everything First class
Open Day and Night
ANDY MAROVICH, Prop.
k
The Best Place in Valdez to
Stop at Is the
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Arctic Hotel
Wane, Lifll Raaaa—The Hoaie of Coefort i
RATES REASONABLE
BATHROOM Spodal Rate* Bjr the MostL
PHONE 133 MRS. STRING, Plop
Valdez Miners Union No. 188
Western 'Federation of Miners
W. H. GARNER. President.
Granite Min*
CHAS. McCALLUM. Secretary,
Valdes Alaska.
When In Seward Stop at the
COLEMAN HOUSE
GEORGE SEXTON. P»or^.
STRICTLY FIRST CLASS
Fourth Ave, Seward. Alaska
VALDEZ LODGE
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Regular Communications first Wed
nesday In each month in McKinley
HalL Visitors always welcome.
F. M. BROWN, W. M.
ED WOOD, Secretary.
Jnst received, a new line of Toilet
Waters and Perfumes. Owl Drug Co.
For fine Candies see our stock.
Valdes Drug Co. tf
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FOR SALE—A No. 16 I. 30 L.
heater in good condition. Inqujraof
Mrs. Arthur Lang. %'Jt
Skookum Apples, Jonathans and
Spitsenberg at Keystone Produce Co.
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Anything In nngget and ivery Jew%
•lry at Valdes Drug Co.
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