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WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 3, 1913.
THE CHILDREN OF THE NATION.
The United States children’s bu
reau, says the Houston Chronicle, un
der the direction oi Julia C. Lathrop,
has issued its first volume of statis
tics dealing with the nation’s child life.
Could the cold, unsentimental ta
bles be resolved into a picture of the
prattling, laughing myriads they rep
resent, this nation would be astonish
ed at what its child life really is, not
only as an element of future growth
and development, but as a giant factor
in the liv’ng, vibrating present.
Of the 90,000,000 people in this
country, more than 40,000,000 are un
der 21 years of age, while nearly 30,
000,000 are under 15. Think of it!
More than 45 per cent of the entire
population has not arrived at fhat
stage where it can be described as
consisting of men and women, while
nearly one-third of the entire popula
tion either wears short trousers or
goes with its hair in braids.
One-third of the nation is yet brim
ming over with the joys and irrespon
sible optimism of childhood’s happy
days, but slowly rising from the
misty dawn of somewhere to put on
the garments of toil and worry and
take the future into its-young, strong
hands.
The prattling myriads of today will
presently resolve themselves into the
workers, the achievers and the mold
ers of tomorrow. Two decades more
and the present romping throngs will
have become the grave, hard-featured
parents of another and a greater gen- !
era t ion.
And what about these 30,000,0001
children who will shortly take com
mand of the nation's destiny? Are
they verile, strong and healthy, and
are they growing up as true disciples
of Americanism? Are they products I
of other races and other climes, as1
some would have us think, or are they
the sons and daughters of this great
republic in tlie truest and strictest
sense of the word? Will they bring,
into our declining years the garble |
of strange tongues and the advocacy
of still stranger fancies, or will they ,
still cling to the standards of the old
American ideals.
Of the 30,000,000 under 15 years of;
age, 3,500,000 are of negro descent, j
700,000 are foreign born and more |
than 7,000,000 are born of foreign I
parentage. In other words, of every '
100 children in this country under 15 ;
years of age, 13 are negroes, three j
are foreign born, 25 are of foreign
parentage, while 59 are sprung from
native white stock.
It is doubtful if at any time in its
whole history the United States could i
show a more promising group of chil
dren so far as nativity is concerned, i
or one which will grow up with a
stronger love of the nation and its
ideals. It must be1 remembered that
this country was conceived and born
in foreign lands; that it has been
built up from the best that Europe;
could contribute; that it was first :
founded as a refuge for tile oppressed ;
and the downtrodden, and that it has
grown great by absorbing the ele- j
ments that came into it from abroad, j
Sometimes we are inclined to shud- i
der as we think of the countless
hordes pouring in from certain for
eign shores, and are inclined to adopt
stricter regulations with reference to
immigration; but when it is remem
bered that our ancestors came the
same way and for the same purpose,
and when we glance at the 30,000,000
of our children who are growing up
strong in the maxims and ideals of
the past, we shall perhaps be a lit
tle more optimistic as to the future
and a little more charitable as to
the present.
It is estimated that $5,000,000 worth
of property is destroyed by fire every
year in Chicago. In Berlin, a city of
about the same size, the annual fire
loss is only $175,000, or a difference
of $4,825,000. Chicago spends about
$3,000,000 a year on its fire depart
meent; Berlin pays only $30(^000.
This is a striking illustration of the
difference between care and careless
ness.
The government of New Zealand has
decided not to build a new navy, but
will let England do it, paying the
usual tribute in the form of subsidy.
The New Zealanders thought the mat
ter over and concluded that as Eng
land would have the navy anyway, it
might be just as well to let the moth
er country have the trouble of build
ing it.
Chauncey M. Depew says that the
typical American girl of today is not
so beautiful as the typical American
girl of fifty years ago. The former
senator does not- often give himself
so completely away as he does in
this utterance.
King George is satisfied with the
biographies of his father and w'ants
to have an authorized version. The
trouble with an authorized biography
of King Edward would be that the
most readable parts would have to be
left out.
European nations are to understand
that they must keep hands off in Mex
ico if they want to hold the favor of
Uncle Sam. It ought to be unneces
sary, however, to warn them not to
seize the hot end of a poker.
The General Education Board
founded by John D. Rockefeller has
appropriated $1,400,000 for the Johns
Hopkins Medical school. Oil contin
ues to lubricate the vast machinery
of institutional philanthropy.
A Kansas City wife-beater has been
sentenced to one hundred days on the
rock pile. If a man must pound some
thing, let him hammer at things that
are of more use broken than whole.
Agitation, according to Judge Gary,
of the Steel Trust, is a bad thing for
business. And it will have to be ad
mitted that it is—as it ought to be —
a bad thing for some business.
Everybody has always known how
the Tammany dough bag was emptied
on "dougb day.” The process of fill
ing it and the percentage of “slop
over” are equally interesting.
Without any thought, of course, of
the approach of Christmas and the
serviceability of the parcel post, ex
press companies announced a cut in
rates to take effect Dec. 1.
“The Progressive party is here to
stay,” remarks Hiram Johnson, in
passing. That is, of course, here ex
cept for an occasional trip to South
America or elsewhere.
Champagne bottles left by the
French are still found along the Pan
ama canal route. Is that tine of the
reasons the job had to be finished
by Americans?
The government has refused to lei
one of its life-savers off to play foot
ball because it holds that life-saving
is more important than football. Why,
the very idea!
The name of Professor Droppers
was widely circulated as the probable
nominee for minister to Greece. Why
was Droppers dropped?
The “V” is to go from the $5 piece.
Along with the $5 from most of us.
Exploring in Ecuador.
Field work in Ecuador under Mr.
Richardson has proved successful dur
ing the last season, and a shipment
of 1,400 birds and mammals has just
been received from him by the Amer
ican Museum in New York. These
specimens were collected, in part, on
the coast from the northern exten
sion of the arid coastal zone of Peru.
Mr. Richardson also collected speci
mens in the forests of the sub-tropi
cal zone at an altitude of 6,000 feet,
in the temperate zone about Quito
and the base of Pinchincha, and in
the parano, or alpine, zone of Pin
chincha and Chimborazo, working on
the latter mountain up to an altitude
of 16,000 feet. Here Mr. Richardson
got specimens and accessories for a
habitat group to represent the bird
life of the upper life zone of this fa
mous volcano.
Pioneers Meet Tonight.
Igloo No. 7 of the Pioneers of Alas
ka will meet tonight and all mem
bers are requested to be present.
Nomination of officers for the com
ing year. E. G. AMES, Secretary.
The uttered part of a man’s life,
let us always repeat, bears to the un
uttered, unconscious part a small un
known proportion. He himself never
knows it: much less do others.—Carl
yle.
Her Favorite Son, a K. B. two-reel
sensational picture at the Orpbeum
tonight.
A very complete line of Xmas Art
Leather Goods is -shown at the Val
dez Drug Store.
| BRITISH NAVAL MYSTERY.
Traditions Regarding the Death of
Sir Cloudeeley Shovel.
Of the almost complete wreck of
a squadron under Sir Cloudeslcy
J Shovel on the rocks of the Scilly
I isles, together with the death of its
gallant commander, the greatest
.Mian of the age, a number of
i lions traditions are associated
both with the events leading up to
i lie catastrophe and the fate of the
celebrated admiral.
The outstanding feature of the
catastrophe is the mystery of Shov
el’s death, which will probably never
be solved, and the latter turns upon
the admiral’s emerald ring. One
story goes that the body was picked
up on the shore by a soldier and his
wife and buried by them on Porth
ITelliek sands. A spot is still shown
at Porth ITelliek as being the burial
place of the admiral, and, accord
ing to tradition, grass has never
grown upon it. Subsequently the
identity of the corpse was discover
ed. The remains were exhumed
and conveyed to London via Plym
outh, where they were embalmed.
Lady Shovel rewarded the soldier
with a pension for life and received*
from him the ring found on her
husband’s linger.
Another story is that l’axton, tlie
purser of the Arundel, discovered
two St. Mary men quarreling over
the possession of a ring, lie at
once recognized it as Shovel's ring
and inquired from which body it
had been taken, and when that was
found he knew and claimed the
body. Lastly, there is the startling
narrative of foul play—viz, that
many years after the wreck an aged
woman confessed to the parish min
ister on her deathbed that, exhaust
ed with fatigue, one man who had
been washed ashore on a hatch
reached her hut and that she had
murdered him to secure the valu
able property oil his person. She
then produced a splendid emerald
ring taken from the linger of her
victim and identified as the gift ot
Lord Berkeley to Shovel.
The responsibility for this story
rests upon the admiral's grandson,
the Earl of Komney. Modern re
search imports rather in favor of
the murder theory. The ring was
eventually recovered, and altered
into the form of a locket and set
with diamonds it is a precious relic
of the Berkeley family.
The theory as 1o how it passed
into the possession of the family of
the original donor is that Lady
Shovel received it from the mnr- |
deress, as stated, and bequeathed it
at her death to Lord Berkeley. Sev
eral old works of reference contain
the baseless story that Lady Shovel
was aboard ctl(,e Association and was
drowned along with her husband.
Bv the way, her ladyship’s ghost is
supposed to walk at midnight in the
avenue of Mav place, Hartford.
Kent. 011‘ce the home of the Shov
els.—London (llobe.
Burned It Into Memory.
One of the most characteristically j
eccentric things ever done by Gclett
Burgess (and one of the few true
stories of him) was to spend three
or four days in constructing of
can I bo .d.-mica and green velvet a
little model of an old New England
house, complete as to windows, cur
tains, lawn, garden, tr.ees and even
including a hammock with a tiny
hat and summer novel and washing
stretched out on a clothesline on
the back stoop. This was for a din
ner given to several literary friends
in New York, and when the coffee
was served lie deliberately set lire
to the whole farm. His explanation
was that had it been spared his
guests might have forgotten the af
fair, hut they would always remem
ber the destruction of the house.
Garantized Oils.
The following advertisement of
olive oil is the work of a Rio .Janei
ro lh;m:
“Ours olives oils have garanti:;ed
of lifts quality. Diligently fabri
cated add filtrated, the consumer
will find with them, the good taste
and perfect preservation For to
escape to any eonterfeit, is neees
sarv to requicre on any botles this
eontremare deposed conformably to
the law. The corks and the boxes
hai;e all marked with the fire.”—
Case and Comment.
Hi* Line Not An*w*r*d.
A sporting gentleman, meeting
an old angler, who was a persever
ing but unsuccessful hand, asked:
"How are the fish in these
parts ?”
“Well,” replied the old man grim
ly, “I really don’t know. 1 dropped
them a line every day last week,
but I’ve got no reply yet.”
Just Debt*.
“What were the provisions of
your uncle’s will?”
“I was to have all his cash after
the payment of his just debts.”
“How generous! What did he
leave ?”
“Just debts.”
Copyright Hart Schaffhcr & Mane
....OUR LINE OF....
Holiday Goods
Is the largest ever
shown in town.
There is'no^better Xmas Present
for’a Man than
Hart, Schaffner & Marx
M Fine SuitJorJOvercoat
We are showing all the latast
Styles and Colors.
WE ARE SOLE AGENTS
TO-NIGHT
Catholic
Entertainment!
at the
ORPHEUM
THEATRE
..HUE ran.
Light and Power
Since the organization of the
Valdez
Electric
Company
' Valdez consumers are getting
electric current at a reduction of
forty per cent in rates.
Support the new company and
keep rates down to bedrock.
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Don’t neglect your health on the trail.
The VALDEZ DRUG CO.
is prepared to fill your medicine kit
with the purest and best of drugs,
medicines, and surgical bandages.
TAZLINA HILL ROAD HOUSE
is open for freight and accommodations for the new
strike at Nelchina—Horses on hand at all times.
JAMES L. SIMPSON.
PROFESSIONAL
Dr. H. COCKER1LLE
Graduate of National University
Washington, D. C.
DENTIST
Phone 92 IFeurteen years'in
Office in Whaling building VALDEZ
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F. BUTTERWORTH
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U. S. Deputy Land and
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