Men’s Mackinaw Coats
The handiest, most serviceable
coat now days is the mackinaw—the
all-around coat; suitable for town or
the trail.
Our Kenyon or Summit coats are
made Norfolk or plain belted styles,
with high shawl collar and the new
est in checks, plaids or plain colors.
Price From $6.50 to $9.00
Valdez Mercantile Co., Inc.
TRUE VALUES
On the basis ot Security and Service
we solicit your account.
WE DO A BANKING BUSINESS EXCLUSIVELY.
VALDEZ BANK & TRUST CO.
PROFESSIONAL
Dr. H. COCKERILLE
Graduate of National University
Washington, D. C.
DENTIST
in both companies Fourteen tears in
Office Rooms in VALDEZ
Whaling Building.
DR. GERMAN
Phone 10 THE DENTIST
1
Oftioe rooms over Owl Druk store. Ofilce hours
9 a m., to 8 p. m.. 7 p. m..to9 p. in. Sundays
by appointment All work nuaranteed
DR. M. O. ADAMS
DENTIST
Office Over Valdez Drug Store.
New Company’s Phone No. SB
HOURS—9 to 12 a. m.; 1 to 6 and7 to9p. n.
DONOHOE & DIMOND
ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW
Office Opposite Court House
Phone 34 Valdes, Alaska
JOHN LYONS E. E. RITCHIE
LYONS & RITCHIE
i Attorneys at Law
Offices in Whaling Building
Phone lOl Valdes. Alaska
F. BUTTERWORTH
)Ci*il Engineer ud[
U. S. Deputy Land and
Mineral Surveyor
Blue Printing Valdez, Alaska.
LOCAL VALDEZ
Socialist Party of Alaska
Meet* every Saturday at 8 p. m.
Next door to Senate 8aloon.'
Everybody Welcome.
Copper River
Draying Co
Freighting and Passengers
to all parts of the Interior.
GENERAL TRUCKING.
McKinley Street, Valdez.
Ed. Wood, • - - Proprietor.
Valdez Miners Union No. 188
Western Federation of Miners
H. M. CARTER. President.
Granite Mine.
GHAS. McCALLUM, Secretary.
Valdes, Alaska.
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"Seen my engagement ring?”
“I don’t know, dear. Who’s the
man?’’—St Louis Globe Democrat
FOR SALE China closet, China din
ner set, library lamp, dresser, bed anl
other household furniture. Call at the
residence of Mrs. C. E. Bunnell, tf
' THE READING TABLE
There is no light that mr kes night
reading so easy as docs Electricity. An
Electric portable is a source of pleasure
in every home—as well as a means of
health. The entire body suffers if the
eyes become afft cted. Reading in im
proper light is one of tho worst things
for the eyes. Get an Electric Portable
and read in comfort and peace.
Alaska Water, light Telephone & Company.
SLANG IS HARDY.
Some Supposedly Modern Phrases Are
Really Centuries Old.
j Much of the current slang supposed
to be modern is not new. For in
stance, “kid” (child) goes buck as far
at least as Massinger's "Old Law”
(1599).
“I am old, you say. Yes; parlous
old, kids, und you mark mo well.”
Kidnap (to nab a kid) was certainly
aot a new word to L)e Foe or Bunynn.
“To skip out” is accounted slang, but
in Wyeliff’s translation of the Bible
we read, “Whanne barnabas and poul
berden this, the! skipten out.”
In “Ralph Roister Doister,” the first
English comedy, about the middle of
the sixteenth century, an actor says,
“Nay dame, I will fire thee out of my
house,” which certainly has a modern
ring.
Goldsmith in "The Good Natured
Man” (17081 says. "If the man comes
from the Cornish borough you must
do him.” and this will require no gloss
for the modern reader.
“Not in it” is found in Shakespeare’s
“Winter's Tale.” “They have a dance
which the wenches say is a gallimau
fry of gambols because they are not
in it”
“Cut it out” goes back ns fur at least
as Sheridan’s “Critic” (1779), “The per
formers have cut it out.”
The optimistic brakeman who had
both legs cut off by a train and who.
when a bystander tried to console him
by saying he ought to be thankful he
wasn't killed outright, replied, “I’m not
kicking," was only using a Biblical ex
pression. "Wherefore kick ye at my
sacrifice?”—Edward A. Allen in Fo
rum.
SAWING GRANITE ROCKS.
Steel Wires and Sand and Water Are
the Apparatus Used.
Stone is still sawed by band, even in
great cities, where the latest appliances
of the mechanical art are to be found
Yet the mechanical sawing of rock is
at least sixteen centuries old and in
recent years has reached a stage of
perfection.
The idea of using a metal cord and
a mixture of sand and water for saw
ing stone was patented by Eugene
Chevallier in France in 1854. His ap
paratus, with scarcely any change, was
used not long ago in cutting a trench
through the Pont Neuf, in Paris.
The principle upon which the me
chanical stone saw works is described
by Victor Raynouard in La Science et
la Vie as follows:
An endless rope composed of three
steel wires twisted together is set in
movement and draws with it a grind
ing granular substance, pressing this
hard upon the stone that is to be
sawed. The mordant substance is grit
mixed with water. The stream of wa
ter renders the movement easy and
prevents the beating of the cable. The
ends of the cable are joined by splic
ing.
The hardest rocks, such as porphyry,
ure now sawed more easily than the
softer, such as marble, but not so rap
idly. Marble is sawed at the rate of
nearly nine inches au hour, granite at
from six to seven inches an hour.
Can’t Be Cut Off With a Shilling.
French parents (or, at all events,
those with more than 2 shillings to
dispose of by will) are precluded from
the gratification of cutting a mutinous
child off with a shilling. A reserve is
established by law which no testator
can bequeath away from his offspring.
A Frenchman with one child can dis
pose of half his property according to
his pleasure: the other half must in
evitably pass to the child. Those with
two children can dispose of only one
third of their property, those with
three children of oi*e-fourth, and so on
according to the size of the family.
Stern parents occasionally seek to
evade the law by subterfuge, but the
disposal of property in France Is hedg
ed round with so many restrictions
that family black sheep are rarely
mulcted of their legal Inheritances.—
London Mall.
Victor Hugo.
Victor Hugo was born in Besancon,
France, in 1802. He was the son of a
colonel in the French army and receiv
ed a classical education. After the rev
olution of 1830 bis plays “Marion de
Lorme” and “The King Amuses Him
self" were performed at the Theatre
Francais. He was created by Louis
Philippe a peer of France, with the
title of viscount but be arose above
this honor in being the author of “Les
Mlserables.” He opposed Napoleon III.
and was banished from France, but re
turned on the fall of the empire. He
died in Paris In 1885 and was buried In
the Pantheon.
She Liked Whist.
The modern whist fiend seems color
less beside that enthusiastic exponent
of th<T game. Saruh Battle, whom
Charles Lamb describes in his "Essays
of Ella.’’ lie says she was "none of
your lukewarm gamesters, your half
and half players." To use her own
language, all she desired was “a clear
fire, a clean hearth and the rigor of
the game.”
A 8low 8teeper.
The servant girl In a suburban fami
ly was taken to task for oversleeping
herself.
“Well, ma’am," she said, “1 sleep
very slow, and so it takes me a long
while to get a good nigbt’s resf
Boston Transcript
A 8light Mistake.
"The patient who was so badly cut
on the head la mending.”
"I thought It was the doctor who
was mending. I -saw him sewing the
patient up.’’—Baltimore American.
MONTENEGRO AN ODD LAND.
8cratub a Native There and You Will
Find a "Superintendent.”
Montenegro Is one of the oddest ;
countries In the world. There the
women lire the producers, clothes make
the man, the king is greater than the
ministry, the chamber or the constitu
tion, and a man may be Imprisoned
for eating hedgehog. A man who is
struck may kill the striker provided
It be done at once. If he delays he is
punished ns a murderer.
A Montenegrin’s habit is as costly
as his purse can buy, and there the ap
parel proclaims the man. The baggy
blue trousers are the same for the king
or the peasant, as is the bright snsh
which holds the Invariable revolver.
But from the red jacket and the red
ingote one connotes whether the wear
er be a man of substance and conse
quence or not Among the women
there are slighter distinctions.
The women engnge in the produc
tive pursuits, and yet the man has
capacity and when taken from his
bellicose environment of ills mountain
home becomes one of the best of work
ers. His 500 years of freedom have
given the Montenegrin a fine sense of
order, and it is a current saying along
the Dalmatian coast that when a Mon
tenegrin applying for a job is asked
what he can do he invariably answers.
“Superintend.”
Respect for age Is enjoined by law,
and in the articles regulating public
conveyances it is provided that the
traveler may have the seat indicated
by his ticket, but it is added, “The
deference due by youth to age requires
that the former yield the better place
to their seniors.” Another article de
clares the equality of all before the
law and lays down the democratic
principle of the universal ownership of
land and the equal right of all to hold
office.
HOLDING THE BREATH.
Simple Heart Test Used In Administer
ing Anaesthetics.
Dr. W. A. Schtange describes in the
Roussky Vratch an easy test which he
has devised to determine whether a pa
tient who has been told that he must
undergo surgical treatment is in con
dition to survive the administration of
an anaesthetic. If the patient is unable
to hold his breath for twenty seconds
the indications are that his heart is
so weak that he could not be subjected
to the strain likely to be imposed by
the anaesthetic.
General anaesthesia is particularly
dangerous to persons suffering from
myocardial changes, a condition which
does not permit of ready recognition.
For this reason the simple test sug
gested by Dr. W. A. Schtange will be
welcome by the anaesthetist if extend
sd experience should verify the doctor’s
assertions.
The test is based on the fact that a
healthy person can suspend breathing
from thirty to forty seconds. This, the
author states, depends not on the lung
capacity, but on the vigor of the heart
muscle. In persons with weak hearts
the time is shortened to twenty or
even ten seconds. The patient, seated
in a chair, is told to take a moderately
deep inspiration and with the mouth
closed to hold his breath as long as he
can. The shorter the time the patient
can suspend breathing the greater the
danger of an anaesthetic, the latter be
ing contraindicated if the time is less
than twenty seconds.—New York Medi
cal Journal.
Vast Forests of Alaska.
We hear much concerning the rapid
disappearance of our forests. The vast
timbered area of the eastern and cen
tral portions of the United States is
fast being transformed into a woodless
country, becoming very thickly popu
lated, and doubtless will never grow
much timber again. In Alaska, which
Is one of our territories, the timber
area is estimated to be somewhere near
3C per cent of the entire land, and
there is considerably more than 100,
000,000 acres of good woodland, with
timber that is of such a value its real
worth cannot be estimated. It will
require years to even make any marked
impression on such a vast forest—Phil
adelphia North American.
Mamma’* Ki»a.
This pretty child story is from the
French:
A mother tells her little girl that be
cause she has been naughty she will
not kiss her for a week. Before two
days have gone by the child's llpq hun
ger so for her mother’s kiss that she
begs her not to punish her any more.
The mother says: “No, my dear. I
told you that I should not kiss you.
and I must keep my word.”
“But mamma, mamma,” says the lit
tle girl, “would it be breaking your
word if you should kiss me Just once
tonight when I’m asleep?”
Wedding Present*.
Wedding presents originated in a
feudal tribute from the vassals to their
lord. When feudalism ceased the pres
ents became voluntary. In the days of
Queen Elizabeth a pair of knives or
scissors was a common gift and sym
bolised the cutting of unfaithful love.
With a String.
“Mamma, can’t we have anything we
want?”
“Yes, my dear, but be careful and
jon’t want anything yon can’t have.”
St. Louis Globe-Democrat
Tie That Binds.
Wife - 1 am a bundle of nerves.
Sympathetic Husband—Well so long
as the string doesn’t break you will be
all right, my dear.—Judge.
Those who do nothing generally take
to shouting.—Old Saying.
Dougherty & Ferguson
GENERAL
MERCHANDISE
The best groceries received
on every boat,
Fresh vegetables, fruits
and nuts.
WE Call4You on Time for the boat
i? We Handle Your Baggage.
We|Buy and'Sell Anything from
Dead^Crabs to Live Bears.
CITY EXPRESS
Phone 82. J. A. Spenard, Prop
BEST PLACE TO F.AT
MRS. ST. MARIE’S
Moved to Reed Building, on Wall
Street, next to Road Commission
I 7 u in to 9 a ni
MEALS< Lunch 12 ni to 1 i» rn
t 6 to 7 p in
BOARD Sc ROOM $50 per Mo.
__ Chas. Perry
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I ' IN THE HEART OF THE CITY
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UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, Ter
ritory of Alaska, ss.:
I, Charles E. Davidson, Secretary
of the Territory of Alaska, do here
by certify that on this date there has
been filed in my office consent of
stockholders to dissolution of the
James E. Wilson Transportation
Company, a domestic corporation or
ganized under the laws of the Terri
tory of Alaska, and said corporation
is therefore dissolved.
In testimony whereof, I have here
unto set my hand and affixed the
Great Seal of the Territory of Alas
ka, at Juneau, this 21st day of De
cember, 1914. (Seal.)
CHARLES E. DAVIDSON,
Secretary of Alaska.
Publications Jan. 2, 9, 16, 23, 30.
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 I.
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, 1915, at tho
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, the
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 last publication February 24,
1915.
Somebody
With Money
always has been found to
“back" a good plan, a
good idea, a good busi
ness venture Or a good
mining prospect-other
wise a good many of to
day’s successful business
enterprises would still be
mere dreams.
Advertising has brought
about a majority of the
introductions of the man
with the idea, the man
with a prospect or busi
ness to the man with the
dollar.
ADVERTI8E IN THE
PROSPECTOR POR RE
SULTS.
It you want all tte newa all the
time, read the Proepeotor.