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FRIDAY, JANUARY 29, 1915.
OUTDOORS.
Maybe we have been exaggerating
the hardships of the soldiers on the
firing line in one respect, at least.
French physicians say that the worst
.suffering of wounded men occurs the
first night after they reach the hos
pital, and that it is caused chiefly
by the intolerable confinement of
sleeping indoors after weeks or
months spent altogether in the open
air.
It is the common experience or ex
plorers that when they return to the
"comforts” of civilized life they feel
cramped and suffocated by four walls,
and even walking through city streets
seems to hinder their free breath.
The cold and rain of the battle
zones are disagreeable; but if the
cold is not too intense and the wet
ness is not too prolonged, men seem
to thrive under them. Working or
fighting in the free, open air and
sleeping under the stars is a whole
some business, as long as a man
avoids getting shot. And no doubt
the enforced fresh-air life is large
ly responsible for the amazingly rap
id recovery of most of the wounded.
It is observed, too, that the poten
tial curative effect of fresh-air life
increases with the length of time
spent outdoors. “Hardened veter
ans” get over their injuries .quicker
than recruits. Scottish Highlanders
and French soldiers from the Alpine
districts are discharged from the hos
pital long before soldiers from cities
or mines are cured.
This is obviously a powerful argu
ment for open windows, sleeping
porches, ventilated cars and outdoor
exercise, but doubtless most of us will
continue our customary opposition to
fresh air.—Ex.
CHIVALRY IN WARFARE.
Japan still has much to learn about
civilized warfare. That benighted
country, in its conflict with Ger
many, has shown little conception of
the military methods of enlightened
nations. The belligerent Jap betrays
a most absurd respect for alien life
and property. He can't seem to get
it through his head that morals and
courtesy have no place in modem
war.
When the Mikado’s government po
litely “advised” Germany to give up
her Chinese stronghold of Tsingtau,
it permitted the German merchant
vessels in Japanese ports to get away
safely instead of seizing them as
prizes. When Tsingtau was captur
ed, and lantern processions were held
in every big city in the empire to
celebrate the victory, the authorities
saw to it that no demonstrations
were made in front of German shops
and houses. The paraders in some
cases avoided whole streets in order
to avoid humiliating the German res
idents.
Throughout the war the Germans
in Japan have been as free as ever
to transact business and ' go where
they pleased. German teachers and
professors in the schools and colleges
have continued their work without
hindrance, and the ministry of educa
tion has ordered the students to be
particularly careful to show them no
lack of respect. There are no pris
on camps for the enemy. There ,s
no discrimination whatever against
Germans.
Japan should know better than this,
after half a century of contact with
Christian civilization. Certainly In
the present war she has had no lack
of excelelnt examples of how bellig
erent nations should treat each oth
-r. Does she see any such chivalrlc
behavior In Great Britain, Germany,
Russia and the rest? These Chris
tian peoples know how war should be
waged. They destroy each other’s
commerce, they kill non-combatants,
they pen up In concentration camps
alien civilians who happen to be with
in their borders, they refuse to pay
debts due innocent individuals of a
hostile nation, they discriminate
against all of the enemy's blood, ev
en among their own citizens, to the
second and third generations. They
hate, and they preach hatred. They
reinforce their guns with broadsides
of slander and calumny. They scorn
the niceties of human intercourse.
These very Japanese themselves, so
scrupulous of courtesy to a brave foe,
are caricatured in Germany as mon
keys and nick-named ‘‘yellow-bellies.”
But we shouldn’t be too severe on
the Japanese. Just give them time.
If they associate long enough with
the Christian nations of the Occi
dent, they may outgrow this heredi
tary taint of chivalry.—Ex.
GERMANS CLAIM
GREAT GUNS
(Continued from page X.)
the operations now progressing
against the invaders, who cannot pass
through the mountains excepting at
certain passes wlr'ch have all been
recovered and are now in the hands
of the Austro-German troops.
Turks Burn.ng Villages.
PETROGRAD, Jan. 29—The reports
reaching here from Asia Minor are
to the effect that the Turkish troops
are slaughtering men, women and
children in the villages in southern
Caucasus. Villages are being burned
and the privation of the inhabitants
has been frightful.
ueny ue-man Heport.
The Russian general staff denies
the report from Berlin to the effect
that the Russian offensive in East
Prussia and central Poland have been
dropped to meet the enemy’s Galician
operations. The staff insist that the
Russians continue to pound away at
the German line in Poland and Prus
sia and are meeting with success.
Valdez Bank & Trust Co. Have Free
War Maps.
The Valdez Bank & Trust Co. have
a number of war maps of Europe
which they will be glad to give to
any who may care to have them.
They are the Rand, McNally maps
recently issued by the bank as a sup
plement to the Valdez Miner.
LOCAL BREVITIES.
Emil Davis is in town from Port
Wells.
Nels Ulander left for Port Wells
this morning.
G. E. Lacy arrived last evening
from Ellamar.
Send your kids to the matinee to
morrow afternoon.
The launch B. F. M. left this morn
ing for Port Wells.
Supt. Hay Millard left this morn
ing for the Granite mine.
Charley McCallum has returned to
town after a trip to Ellamar.
Animated Weekly and other line
pictures at the Orpheum tonight.
Ed. Dickey left this morning for
Wortman’s with a load of supplies.
The reports of a marriage between
a handsome young man and a charm
ing young widow are denied.
Swell program tonight at the Or
pheum.
• Mrs. William J. Morton leaves on
the steamer Mariposa for Seattle to
undergo an operation for appendicitis.
Master Electrician Faust, of the
cable office, has leased the Bunnell
residence and will move into the
building next week.
Mrs. Albert Sullivan left this morn
ing with Mr. and Mrs. Fred Kraemer
to be their guest in camp near the
summit for several weeks.
Mrs. Mary Anderson and Bill Jacob
son were married last night at the
home of the bride on Eighth avenue.
Rev. Charles S. Price performed the
ceremony.
If yon want all tho news all the
time read the Daily Prospector.
Attorney T. J. Dononoe and family
are on the Mariposa, due here to
morrow morning. M. Donohoe has
spent the past few months In Cali
fornia and is returning greatly im
proved in health.
Charles Cowell, in charge of the
stock of the Valdez Creek Mining
Company, will leave Valdez on Mon
day next for Chitlna with twenty
head of stock and will start work
freighting in the summer's supplies.
Orpheum Tonight.
Animated Weekly, latest news of
the world in motion pictures.
"The Bond That Binds," interest
ing story.
"Mother’s Love,” IMP. melo-dranm,
and a good one.
BURSTING SHELLS.
Th»y 8hattar the Nervea of 8oldiar«
They Do Not Even 8eratch.
It baa been proved tbat tbe compara
tively harmless bombarding, so far as
wounds are concerned, of 'a besieged
town Is terribly demoralizing to tbe
bravest men.
When a shell bursts near a group of
twenty men It may kill one and wound
two. while tbe remaining seventeen es
cape without a scratch. It will be
found, however, tbat many of these
are never tbe same men again. No
matter how Iron nerved they were be
fore, they are now Irresolute and
timid and all their faculties are weak
ened. Very often they are Jeered at by
their comrades because of this change.
But this Is utterly unjust—in fact
their brains and spinal cords have been
Injured by being violently shaken
against tbe walls of their bony cavities.
The same thing occurs In railway
collisions, t’eople who were robust be
come quite feeble and nervous, though
they may not huve received a scratch.
This curious state in the case of sol
diers is well recognized by doctors un
der the name of tbe mental injuries of
explosives. The Injuries are really
quite as physical as a shattered leg.
for they consist of a kind of bruising
of tbe very delicate tissue of the spinal
cord and brain. —London Standard.
HORSESHOE CURRENCY.
Curious Shaped Money In Use on the
West Coast of Africa.
Among the strangest coins In the
world are those used tn certain out of
the way towns and villages in south
west Nigeria, on the west const of Af
rica. and called “manillas.’'
In shape they resemble a borsesboe
with the two extremities flattened out
like a camel’s foot Being made of
solid copper, three-eighths of an Inch
thick, they weigh over eight ounces
each, in "face value" seven of these
queer coins are equivalent to one quar
ter, so that a dollur’s worth would be
an uncomfortably heavy load.
Not only are these "manillas” used
among the natives, but white traders
accept them us legal tender for goods
sold at the various stores. At one time
this strangely shaped money had quite
a circulation in certain parts of the
coast, but its use Is now restricted to
a few bush towns aud one or two of
the smaller seaboard places, including
Bonny, Brass and Akassa.
“Manillas" are now very difficult to
obtain, and curio collectors value them
not solely by reason of their scnrclty.
but because of the novel serviette rings
they make when silver plated.—Wide
World Magnzine.
Young’s Impromptu.
To most persons Edward Young is
tbe author of “Night Thoughts" aud
nothing more, but he was also a man
of the world and a shrewd and caustic
wit as well as the rector of St. Mary’s
church at Welwyn.
It was there in the garden of the rec
tory that he composed some of the best
impromptu verses known. He was
walking with two ladies when some
one summoned him to the house. His
companions were agreeable, and he
was in no haste to leave them. Turn
ing as he reached the gate, he said:
Thus Adam looked when from the garden
driven
And thus disputed orders sent trom
heaven
Like him, 1 go and yet to go am loath.
Like him, 1 go, for angels drove us both
Hard was his fate, but mine still more
unkind;
His Eve went with nlm. but mine stays
behind
—London Express
Linguistic Barriers.
it is generally accepted that the ado[>
tion of a universal language, purely
spoken, is handicapped by the fact that
it Is confronted with physical tmpossi
bilitles. In tbe first place, tbe vocal or
gans are so entirely dissimilar in differ
ent races that a language will change
too much for tbe various people using
It to understand each other, if the
Italian language could be given to the
Chinese or tbe Busslans It would
change so that in a few years no one
would recognize it ns tbe same. -This
disability may be accounted for by the
fact that the people in the chilly north
speak with the lips nearly closed and
those living in a mild climate give free
articulation by opening the mouth.
Peanuts as They Grow.
The peanut plant somewhat resem
bles clover in its foliage aud has small,
yellow single tiowere. After blossom
Ing tbe little pods bend down and
thrust themselves into the soil. wbeD
they grow into tbe well known thick
shelled fruits, in cultivating the pods
are covered with earth, thus insuring a
large crop Peanuts are natives of
tropical America, but are now grown in
many warm countries. In tbe southern
United States they constitute an im
portant crop.
Mild Reproof.
“1 say, young fellow.” said the nerv
ous man to tbe taxi chauffeur, who
was speeding.
“Well?" snapped tbe chauffeur.
“What is It about me that gave you
the Impression that I am In a burry?"
—Detroit Free Press.
Hidden Meanings.
He kissed her
“Why. stop!" she cried.
And when he failed to repeat she
said. “Why stop?' Philadelphia l-edg
er.
Happiness
Half the world is on the wrong scent
in the pursuit napplness They
think It consist* in navtng and getting
and In being served by others. It con
slats In giving and in serving others.
Carpets, Rugs
and Art Squares
We have a Complete Assortment
in stock at popular prices.
Linoleum and Floor Oilcloth
The best grades known. A large variety of patterns.
We will cut these to fit any room.
Stair Runners and Matting. Paper Lined Burlap and Art Burlap.
Look\Over Our Stock Before Making Your Spring Purchases.
Indisputable Evidence.
Mrs. Potts—How do you know I was
spying in your house through my opera
glasses?
Mrs. Kettles—I saw you through my
own opera glasses.—New York Globe.
Continual Performance.
Mother—Is your appetite appeased?
Willie—My first appetite Is, but I’U
have another in a minute.—Chicago
News.
Enough For Two.
He—She has brains enough for two.
She—She’s Just the girl for you.—Cli*
dnnati Commercial-Tribune.
A Lost Sale.
“Wouldn’t you like one of these lux
uriant umbrella plants?"
"No; some one would borrow it for a
rainy day.”—Chicago News.
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WEATHER BULLETIN.
Valdez, Alaska, Jan. 29, 1915. g
STATION C Above Below, Snow In. WEATHER CONDITIONS
Donnelly... 8 3 Cloudy, calm, trail fair.
Paison’s . 10 12 Snowing, windy, trail drifted.
jjogan . 8 15 Snowing, calm, trail heavy.
Gulkaua . 8 14 Cloudy, calm, trail good.
Copper Center .... 12 10 Cloudy, calm, trail good.
Tonslna . 10 24 Cloudy, calm, trail heavy.
Telkhell . 10 25 Cloudy, calm, trail fair.
Beaver Dam . 13 33 Cloudy,, calm, trail good.
Summit . 20 40 Cloudy, calm, trail good.
Wortman’s . 22 40 Cloudy, calm, trail good.