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'ITESDAY. APRIL I. 1913.
A POOR RICH BOY.
Much has been writ Ion. ami
properly, nimul the sufferings of
the lilllc children of I lie poor,
hut we imagine I li a I few of these
are entitled to any more sympa
thy than mm of the lillle chil
dren of the rich who. according
to telegraph accounts, is mewed
up in a mansion in New Jersey'
while his mol tier, the widow of i
a deceased railroad and tin-plate {
magnate, is making a splurge in
society in Paris and Berlin.
This child is six years old and
heir to $50.(1(10,00(1. He is kept
under guard in a s3.oou.000 man
sion. He cannot walk out on the
grounds without (In* attendance
of a maid and governess and
when he goes outside me grounds
he must (ravel in a guilded auto
mobile and be altended by a
coachman and footman and his
constant feminine suite. All his
food is sterilized and fed to him
according to a menu prescribed
by the family physician.
It is nothing short of criminal
to deprive suet) a lad of the joys
of boyhood. II is an offense
against hoy nature to cheat him
-of first-hand knowledge about
swimming holes and ebilblains
and stone bruises and baseball
and playing marbles for “keeps”
and coasting belly busier and hop
•scotch and “shinny on your own
side” and crack the whip and the
foraging into orchards and mol-j
on patches and I lit; wrest ling with j
self-manufactured misery result
ant from eating impossible things
at impossible times. What is
that boy ever going In amount In
if he lives In nmnlmnd without
ever having carried it snake or j
toad in his pocket nr svvr.ppen I
jack knives "sight-unseen
This pampered pel of iris !
guided millionaire guardians is
file poorest liny we eve- lieaid
about and wo e sorry f• >t him.
If his munlum-l is to be tis barren
as his youth, lie will be the urns!
miserable being in the world.
THE WORDS WE USE.
Leonard Porter Ayers, statis
tician for I lie Hussell Sage l*'oun
dafion. has heen making an in
vesUgatiou Which indicates that
(he American people have almost
limited vocabulary, lie has had
access to more l.han Mb.<'<•<> let
ters on all subjects from ' mail
orders to honest love, and finds
that a scanty list of “.oni words
cover the entire use.
This is about one-sixth of the
number of words taught in the
spelling classes of the public
schools. And worse yet, over a
third of these -’.(Mil were used hut
once, while l.'l were used so much
that of all the words tabulated
they made up a round half. Tur
moil of the day, lack of leisure
for clear and distinct ideas, lack
of choice in swift dictation or of
zest for the picl uresipie phrase
and tailor-made term, something,
whatever it be. has robbed otir
letters of their former charm and
has given us lame druggets for
the oldlime tapestries.
In the actual list of these over
worked words there are many
<|ueslions for the musing mind.
“You,” for instance, is credited
with <>.'15 appearances; hut “I”
runs up a score of 1080. "Miss”
appears more than eight limes as
often as “Mrs.” fly a pleasant
coincidence, “ring” appears pre
cisely as often as “girl.” "Moth
er” is found almost twice as often
as “father.”
Teachers and students of the
language may lind an inleresling
study in an analysis of Mr. Ay
ers’ report. It is surprising what
scant use is made >>f a language
so rich in words and their shades
of meaning.
Vincent Astor announces that
he will run a model farm. He is
one of the few who can afford it. ■
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GREAT PROGRESS.
11 is less Ilian a year since I he
constitutional amendment' pro
viding for the direct, elect ion of
United Stales .senators by the
people was submitted by congress
to ihi! states, and already the leg
islatures of 21 of them—Mass
achusetts, California, Oregon,
Washington, Idaho, Nevada. Col
orado, Arizona, New Mexico, Tex
as. .Minnesota, Ohio, Iowa, Mich
igan. West Virginia, North Caro
lina, New York, New Hampshire,
Maine, Vermont and South l>a
kol.a—have ratified it.
'Here we have more than one
half of the necessary stales lined
up in favor of the seventh
amendment. It is remarkably
rapid work as such things go,
and this swiftness gives perfect
proof of tin* demand of public
sentiment for the reform. Yon do
not liml legislatures acting with
any such speed, or acting at all,
if they arc not sure that popular
opinion has the whip-hand over
l hem.
--
One nf I lie candidates I ni' Hie
baseball leant of the Chicago uni
versily hears the name of Kelli
aaininihonua. Can you imagine
the college coach shouting. “Slide
Keliikanpunihnnua, slide."
The school board in Minneap
olis has decided that a woman
cannot lie married and conlinue lo
leach. The board probably con
siders that keeping track of a Mill
City husband is enough lo expect
of any woman.
A Chicago attorney who declar
ed (hat he was the "hope of the
while, race and worth 820.n00,_
000" was committed lo an in
sane asylum. Just as well. Had
he escaped the asylum he might
have spent weeks as a witness be
fore some of those congressional
investigating committees.
SEARCHING FOR PPI-Q |N
CHAMPAGNE 0OTTI.ES
Extensive search is being made
in Trinity county, Cab, for cham
pagne bottles of the vintage of
1852. Excellent as would be the
beverage if the bottles were tilled
with champagne, there is some
thing far more valuable in them.
The story runs that 884,000
worth of gold dust was hidden
away in those old bottles by An
drew Johnson and James Martin,
a negro, who murdered Arnold
Smith, a tavern keeper who had
accumulated the gold dust, which
at that lime was a current me
dium of exchange. Johnson af
terward killed the negro and bur
ied I be dust in I he champagne
bottles. He died a few years ago
in SaTl Lake City, confessing his
crime) and leaving a map indicat
ing the location of the missing
treasure. It is this map that is
lending courage and inspiration
lo the seekers after the hidden
weal I h.
Notice of First Meetings of Di
rectors and Stockholders of
Mineral King Mining Company.
Notice is hereby given by the
undersigned, a majority of the
persons named, in the articles of
incorporation of the Mineral King
Mining Company, a corporation
formed undor the laws of the Ter
iritory of Alaska and the articles
I of incorporation whereof were
filed on March 17, 11)13. in the of
! lice of the clerk of the district
court of the Third division of said
Territory at Valdez, Alaska, as the
first hoard of directors of said
corporation, to George IF. Her
mann, A. A. Evermann and Albert
H. Willmore, who are all the per
sons named in said articles as
composing said first board of di
rectors, that a regular meeting of
said hoard of directors, being the
first meeting of said hoard,
will he convened and held
for l lie purposes of com
oleling the organization of said
corporation, offering its capital
slock for subscription, and trans
acting any other business of said
corporation that may properly lie
brought before said board, on the
lentl. rlhy of April. 1913, at 3
o'clock p. in., at the bunkhouse of
I he Mineral King Mine on liellles
Hay. Port Wells, Alaska.
And liolice is also hereby giv
en by the undersigned to all whom
it may concern that a regular
meeting, being (he first meeting,
of the stockholders of said cor
poration. including all subscrib
ers for said capital thereof, will
he convened and held, for the pur
noses of making and adopting by
laws for its government and
transacting any other business of
said corporation that may prop
erly he brought before said stock
holders. on said lenlh day of Ap
ril. 1913. nl four o'clock p. m.,
at said bunkhouse of Ihe Mineral
King Mine on Ret lies Bay, Port
Wells, Alaska.
Dated at Valdez, Alaska, t.his!
!7th day of March. 1913. !
GEORGE H. HERMANN.
A. A. EVERMANN.
Directors.
First pub. March 17, 1913.
Last pub. April 8, 1913.
NOTICE OF HEARING OF FINAL
ACCOUNT.
n 11)3 United Slates Commission
er's Court, ex Officio Judge in
Probate, Valdez Precinct. ^Ter
ritory of Alaska, Third Judic
ial Division.
In the matter of the estate of
.puis Camicia, deceased, James
Fish and W. II. Caswell, adminis
trators.--Notice of Hearing of Fi
nal Account.
Notjce is hereby given that
James Fish and \V. II. Caswell,
administrators of the estate of
Louis Camicia, deceased, have
rendered, tiled and presented for
settlement their final account and
report of their administration of
tjie said estate, and that the 21st
day of Apfil, 1913, at the hour of
2 o’clock p. m. of said day, at. the
office of Thomas R. Shepard, ex
officio judge in probate of the
Valdez precinct, at Valdez, Alaska,
has been duly appointed hv the
said court at the time and place
of settlement of said final account
and report, at which time and
place any person interested in
said estate may appear and fill*
his objections and exceptions to
said final account and report.
Dated at Valdez, Alaska, this
19th day of February. 1913.
JAMES FISH.
W. II. CASWELL.
Administrators of the Estate of
Louis Camicia, deceased.
Date of first pub. Fell. 19, 1913.
Dale of last pub. April 21, 1913
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Every Boat
brings something new to this store.
The S. S. Sampson brought us some
Carter & Holmes Easter Neck Wear
for men;
Robert Johnson & Rand Shoes
for men, women and children. Come in and
see them, they show real class.
MILK-MILK-MILK J
Fietb Milk and Cr^tm <
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THE SALESMAN
makes more sales and
makes them with greater
facility if his work is re
enforced by Electric Light.
It shows his goods to the
best advantage,and colors
may be readily matched
under its rays.
A brilliant electrically
lighted store stamps a
merchant as a hustler.
And trade follows light.
I A. W. L. & T. Co.
Stfwn Hest Eledfip Lifht*
THE COPPER BLOCK
Finely Furnished Rooms All Modern Conveniences
Good Tiir DIICrCT G ° °d
Goods I IlL DUrrtl Goods
Copper River Lumber Co., Inc.
ALL KINDS OF
Native and 1 1 TIHDCD and Building
Puget Sound LiviVIDlli|\ Material
CONSTANTLY ON HAND
Prices Right W. M. FINICAL, Mgr. Phone 18
Patronize a Home Industry
VALDEZ DRUG CO.
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Drugs and Druggist Sundries
PRESCRIPTION SPECIALISTS
Telephone Orders Solicited Free Delivery
Arguments May Be Disputed, But
“Facts Are facts”
It i a fact that Valdez beer ig a food and not a tonic.
Ask any doctor you know. Valdez beer aids digestion. Use
it a few times with your meals and you’ll find we’re right.
If you drink beer you should use Valdez beer in prefer nice to
others. First, because of its unquestionable high quality.
Second, because it is a home pr duct; brewed in your home
(own and all who are interested in the growth and prosper
ity of Valdez should patroniz Inune products.
VALDEZ BREWING AND BOTTLING CO.
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