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
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PROFESSIONAL
Dr. H. COCKERILLE
Graduate of National University
Washington, D. C.
„„,.11C DENTIST
in both companies Fourteen vears in
Office Rooms in VALDEZ
Whaling Building.
DR. GERMAN
Phone IS THE DENTIST
Office rooms over O'vl Drug store. Office hours
9 a.m.. to6p. m., 7 p, m.. to 9 p. m. Sundays
by appointment All work guaranteed
DR. M. O. ADAMS
DENTIST
Office Over Valdez Drug Store.
New Company’s Phone No. SB
HOURS—9 to 12a. m.; 1 to 6 and7 to9p. m.
C. E. BUNNELL
ATTORNEY-AT-LAW
Offices Wall Street
Phone ai VALDEZ
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DONOHOE & D1MOND
ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW
Office Opposite Court House
Phone 84 Valdez, Alaska
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JOHN LYONS E. E. RITCHIE
LYONS & RITCHIE
Attorneys at Law
Offices W» Whaling Building
Phone lOt Valdes. Alaska
F. BUTTERWORTH
)Civil Engineer and’
U. S. Deputy Lend end
Mineral Surveyor
Blue Naliif Valdes, Alaska.
Copper River
Draying Co
Freighting and Passengers
to all parts of the Interior.
GENERAL TRUCKING.
McKinley Street, Valdez.
Ed. Wood, - - - Proprietor.
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Wifey—I never pester you for money.
Hubby—People you buy things from
So.—Cincinnati Commercial-Tribune.
If you want all the news all the
time read the Daily Prospector.
THE READING TABLE
There is no iight that makes night
reading so easy a s does Electricity, /'n
Electric portable is a sourco of pleasure
in every home—as well as a means of
health. The entiro body suffers if tho
eyes become affected. Reading in im
proper light is one of the worst things
for the eyes. Get an Electric Portable
and read in comfort and peace.
Alaska Water, light Telephone & Company.
OYSTER SHELLS.
Onca Little Valued, They Are Now a
Boon to Oyater Growers.
Ten years ago any stranger could
spot the shore location of an oyster
fishery by means of the mammoth
piles of oyster shells. These were
heaped up on the shore in greut stacks
sometimes from thirty to forty feet in
height. These shells were considered
of little value. In many places they
were actually given away and they
were used to be crushed up and spread
over road beds and they were also
burned In order to get the lime from
them.
Today these piles have disappeared
and if you wanted a ton or so of them
you would have to pay a pretty good
price, simply because the owners want
to dump them back Into the sea.
There used to be a great deal of
difficulty In preparing oyster beds for
breeding purposes. Then it was dis
covered that the best possible breed
ing place for the embryo oysters was
on the smooth inside surface of the
adult oyster shells, and so every year
the shells from the shucknd oysters are
taken out and scattered over the beds.
The baby oysters attach themselves
to these surfaces and thrive mightily.
There are experts today who know
nothing of fishing for oysters or mar
keting them, but who devote all their
time to the preparation of artificial
oyster beds. This has become a rec
ognized part of the industry. After the
shells have been properly spread over
the bottom of the water the spawn
is liberated upon them and they are
left to fight their own battles with the
crabs, periwinkles, starfish and other
enemies—Boston Herald.
SOURCE OF SHELLAC.
Insects Producing It Are Victims of
Their Own Industry.
Scale insects of the group coccidae
nre responsible for one of India’s most
Interesting exports, lac, the export
value of which amounts to nearly $!>,
000.000 annually. I.ac is the resinous
exudation of the Insect. Tlio Insects
live upon the twigs of certain trees,
and soon become covered with a resi
nous secretion that increases in thick
ness, protecting the body and the eggs
When a colony, consisting of a few
adult females and one or two males,
find their way to a new branch, they
attach themselves to the bark, ami.
having pierced It with holes through
which they draw up the resinous juices
upon which they feed, they become
fixed or glued by the superfluous excre
tion. and after a time die, the females
forming by their dead bodies little
domes or tents over the myriads of
minute eggs which they have laid. In
a short time the eggs burst into life,
and the young, which are very minute,
swarm over the twig in such countless
numbers as to give It the appearance
of being covered with blood red dust:
Generation after generation dwells
upon the same twig until It is envel
oped in a coating of the resinous exu
dation often half an inch thick.
In the beginning the Insect was much
collected for the dye it contains. Later
when the use of the resin became
known the demand for the dye began
to diminish, until now It has been al
most completely displaced by coal tar
colors. After separating the resin from
the coloring matter the former consti
tutes the shellac of commerce.—Argo
naut.
Condors In Chile.
The majestic condor is, air men ex
cluded. the largest Hying creature in
the world. Swift and extraordinarily
strong of wing, it figures in the Chilean
national arms as a symbol of strength.
The following is one of the native de
vices for killing it:
The hunter, having covered himself
with the skin of a newly slain ox.
would lie on his back on the ground,
while his companion would hide him
self not far away. Down would swoop
the condor to feast upon the carcass,
but directly the claws touched the
body they were seized from within
the oxskin by strong gloved hands that
held the bird ’a prisoner. Then the
partner would break cover and slay
the captive with what Chaucer would
have called “a yerde smerck” from a
club.—“Chile—Its Land and People.”
The Sin of Trouser*.
Trousers were not introduced into
England without a struggle—a strug
gle In which the great Duke of Wel
lington suffered his only defeat, for it
is on record that in 1814 Wellington
was refused admission to Almack’s
“because he wore trousers Instead of
breeches and silk stockings.” Next
year trousers were admitted to Al
mack’s and Wellington won Waterloo.
—London Tatler.
Disapproval.
“Growcher doesn't look very cheer
ful. But you must give him credit for
one thing. He doesn’t quarrel.”
“Humph!” exclaimed the excitable
man. “He’s so ill natured that no one
wants to get well enough acquainted
even to quarrel with him.’’—Spokane
Spokesman-Review.
Japanese Gardeners.
Artist gardeners in Japan earn large
Salaries. They are required to twist
and direct young trees and vines until
they assume the shapes of various
animals.
Ambiguous.
Mrs. Exe—How does your cook take
It when you go into the kitchen and
tell her how to do things? Mrs. Wye—
Ob. she doesn’t mind.—Boston Tran
script
In law it is good policy never to
plead what yon need not lest yon
oblige yonrself to prove wbat yon can
not—Lincoln.
THE SUPPLY OF BABIES.
What a Procession of Those Born In
One Year Would Mean.
It has been computed that about
30,000,000 babies are born Into the
world cnch yenr. The rate of produc
tion is, therefore, about seventy per
minute, or more than one for every
bent of the clock.
With the one-a-second calculation
every reader is familiar, but it is not
every one who stops to calculate what
this means when it comes to a year’s
supply. It will, therefore, probably
startle a good many persons to And, on
the authority of a well known statis
tician, that, could the Infants of a year
be ranged in a line in cradles, the
cradles would extend around the globe.
The same writer looks at the matter
in a more picturesque light. He Im
agines the babies being carried past a
given point in their mothers’ arms,
one by one, and the procession being
kept up night and day until the last
hour in the twelfth month had passed
by. A sufficiently liberal rate is al
lowed, but even in going past at the
rate of twenty a minute, 1,200 an hour,
during the entire year, the reviewer at
his post would have seen only the
sixth part of the infantile host.
in other words, the babe that had to
be carried when the tramp began
would be able to walk when but a
mere fraction of its comrades had
reached the reviewer’s post, and when
the year’s supply of babies was draw
ing to a close there would be a rear
guard, not of infants, but of romping
six-year-old boys and girls.—London
Tit-Bits.
HANGING PICTURES.
The Old Rule and Origin of the Term
"On the Line.”
People still speak of pictures being
hung “on the line” at the Xtoyal Acade
my, but very few indeed, even among
the present members themselves, know
the origin of the term. The common
belief that it implies a place on the
walls on tlie level with a spectator’s
eye is more or less correct. Rut when
the exhibitions were held in Somerset
House and Trafalgar square the term
meant something far more definite, in
those days people not only spoke of
pictures being hung “on the line,” but
“above the line” and “below the liue.”
“The line” was then a regular nnd per
manent fixture. It was a horizontal
line exactly eight feet from the floor,
marked by a projecting ledge that left
the surface of the wall below it two
inches in advance of that which was
above It
A picture was said to be hung “on
the line” when the top of its frame
was level with this ledge. “Hung
thus,” says G. D. Leslie, It. A., in “The
Inner Lift of the Royal Academy,”
“the picture, unless a very small one
Indeed, was exactly at the height to
bo viewed comfortably by a specta
tor.”
The rule in old times was that all
very large pictures, as well as whole
length and half length portraits, had
to be placed above the line, the bot
toms of their frames resting on the
ledge which marked the line, but no
lower. The line was thus preserved
level, no pictures breaking through it
either from above or below.
Origin of “Navvy” Workers.
The seventeenth century canals or
navigations gave rise to the “navvy,”
a term very slowly evolved from “nav
igator.” There are many country pub
lic houses in England still existing that
testify to the navvy’s early ilesigna
! tion on their sign, “The Navigators'
Arms,” which depicts a brawny labor
er with a spade in one hand and a
foaming pot of beer in the other. Rut
you may search England through anil
through and you will not find a "Nav
vy’s Arms." Curiously enough, while
the navvy who makes our roads now
obtained his designation from digging
out canals, tlie canals were all legally
classified ns roads in a great body of
statutes—tlie “road acts.” But what
would have been his nickname if rail
ways had come before waterways?—
London Globe.
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The Judge’s Misgivings.
A serious case of highway robbery,
tried some years ago before Chief
Baron Green on the last day of the
Ennis assizes, resulted In an acquittal.
The chief baron, addressing the sheriff
said. “Mr. Sheriff, Is there any other
Indictment against this innocent man?”
“No, my lord,” was the reply.
“Then you’ll greatly oblige me If you
don’t let him out until I hare half an
hour’s start of him on my way to
Limerick!”—London Mall.
Your Height and Foot.
The height of the human figure is
six times the length of the human foot.
Whether the form Is slender or plump,
the rule holds good on the average:
any deviation from the rule is a de
parture from the beauty of proportion.
It Is claimed that the Greeks made nil
their statues according to this rule.
Contrary.
“My husband thinks I’m extrava
gant and gets wild every time he sees
me with new clothes.”
“Does he?”
“Yea. He never sees me dressing up
without giving me a dressing down.”—
London Telegraph.
An Invitation.
“How beautiful It la! How beauti
ful!’’
"Yes, It Is beautiful. It Is from this
point that no tourist has ever been
able to view the scenery without giv
ing me at least a dollar tip.”—Paris
Hire. _
A man’s task Is always light If bis
heart la light—Lew Wallace.
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UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, Ter
ritory of Alastta, ss.:
I, Charles E. Davidson, Secretaiy
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 the
hour of two o’clock in the afternoon
of said (Jay, 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 23 rd
day of December, 1914.
(Seal.) GEO. J. LOVE,
U. S. Commissioner and Ex Officio
Probate Judge, for the Recordin';
Precinct of Valdez, Alaska.
Date of first publication December
24, 1914.
Date last publication February 24,
1915.
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wise a good many of to
day’s successful business
enterprises would still be
mere dreams.
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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
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