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MONDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 1914.
IMMIGRATION AT ITS SOURCE.
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Secretary of Labor Wilson proposes
to restrict immigration at its source,
instead of leaving the burden of ex
clusion on the federal authorities af
ter the aliens arrive in this country.
The plan contains much merit but
an obstacle in the way is pointed out
by Oscar Straus, former Secretary of
Commerce and Labor, who says that
other countries would feel obliged to
insist upon reciprocity. .
What foreign countries may be
willing to do in themselves sifting
their emigrants remains to be seen,
but if American inspectors were to
be established in fore'gn countries to
pass on emigrants bound for the Un
ited States, we should have to con
cede to foreign countries, says Mr.
Straus, the right to station their of
ficials in the United States to pass
on emigrants from this country to
other lands. This would be contrary,
he observes, to the basic principles
of our government, and in particu
lar to the federal law of 1868 which
declares that expatriation is a natur
al and inherent right. Such a system
would not at all events be tolerable,
and the opposition which a proposal
to that effect would meet gives some
measure of how foreign countries
would feel in the matter of Ameri
can inspectors. But if anything can
be done by foreign governments to
test em'grants and save them the dis
appointment of rejection at Ellis is
land, many pitiful tragedies will be
averted.
The Shoshone Indians in Nevada
are learning the tango. The debate
may be started now as to whether this
is an evidence of civilization or the
sign of a return to savagery.
The courts have decided that Wis
cons' i’s eugenic law prevents mar
riges is not eugenic and is not legal.
Aside from these defects it is con
sidered a perfectly good law.
Victor Murdock is running on the
Progressive ticket for i'nited States
senator from Kansas, while Senator
Bristow and former Senator Curtis are
lighting each other for the Republican
votes. The Democrats jare much
pleased with the situation.
Boston Globe: "Little question for
today: What is ihe meaning of ‘Lep
adotemachoselaohogaleokranioleipsan
odrimupotrimmaCosilphiopraomeltita —
keptegkephalokigklopeiolgagoosiraiio
baphetraganopterugon’?” Frankly, we
don’t know and are just now afraid
to ask the proof reader, who is sup
posed to know everything.
Father Kashavaroff In Valdez.
The Rev. A. Kashavaroff, who was
in charge of the missions of the Rus
sian church on Prince William Sound
from 1894 to 1898, has been spend
ing some weeks visiting these mis
sions in the absence of a permanent
priest. He came to Valdez Saturday,
heard confessions that night, and on
Sunday morning at 8:30 administered
the Holy Communion to a large con
gregation of his people in the Episco
pal church.
At the morning service at 11 o’clock,
he assisted Rev. W. H. Ziegler and
delivered an instructive sermon. In
the afternoon he administered the
sacrament of Chrism or Confirmation.
Father Kashavaroff is a man of
keen intelligence, has a good com
mand of English and is much loved
by his people.
He has agreed, Tuesday evening, to
deliver a lecture on early Russian
missions, the natives in early days,
and Valdez in 1894. Judge Walker
is to introduce him. The Pinkus Or
chestra will give some musical num
bers and there will be dancing to
close the evening. To cover the ex
penses, a charge of fifty cents will be
made at the door.
Several citizens of Valdez have
planned all this, and it was only at
their earnest request that Father Ka
shavaroff agreed to deliver the lec
ture, which we are assured will be in
teresting and instructive.
THE CULINARY ARTIST.
Ha First Brought Joy and Then Sor
row to His Employers.
Even subalterns sometimes seek in
the joys of the palate compensations
for deprivations on other fields. Thus
on one occasion the chef of a restau
rant car, finding himself, for some rea
son or other, stranded at an unlikely
spot in Indiu, offered hi) services to
the officers of an isolated troop of Eng
lish soldiers, who gladly seized the un
looked for chance. He asked high
wages, but by clubbing together they
managed to raise them. “Hang it all,
if we can’t have good theaters and
good shops, let us at least have good
food!" was the idea on which they
acted.
i<or a time ail went wen, since me
day contained at least one bright spot.
But soon inconveniences set in. Re
ports of the Lucullian meals to be en
joyed at- began to spread, and si
multaneously the number of inspec
tions to Increase alarmingly. High of
ficers of all grades became suddenly
seized with a burning zeal for the mili
tary progress of this particular troop
and spent hours trotting it out in the
morning and further hours administer
ing judicious criticism over an excel
lent and prolonged dinner. Soon in
their hearts the subalterns were curs
ing the day on which they had set eyes
on the restaurant car chef, uncomfort
ed by the magnificent tips which flow
ed not into their pockets but into that
of the culinary artist. Presently they
agreed that even good food can bo pur
chased too dearly and quietly got rid of
their paragon.—-Cornhill Magazine.
TIPPING THE WAITER.
Come to Think of It, It Does Win One
a Lot of Special Favors.
A New York hotel manager is report
ed as saying that “a tip is nothing else
than a reward for special considera
tion. The question will never be solved
as long as any man who asks for spe
cial service is in the habit of giving a
reward for it.”
An eminently sane proposition, says
the New York Evening Post. See, for
instance, what special service and spe
cial consideration the citizen of New
York obtains by tipping the waiter.
When the customer sits down the
waiter refrains from whisking the
chair out from under the customer and
letting him fall to the floor, as the
waiter might very easily do. When he
brings in the soup he brings it in a
plate instead of a bottle. \Yho would
grudge a small tip for being spared the
humiliation of pouring soup out of a
bottle? And in so many other ways,
which the reader can enumerate for
himself, the waiter puts himself out to
make the diner comfortable. He re
frains from sprinkling sugar over the
roast beef and putting olive oil into the
ice cream. Between courses he does
not sit down to his ow-n meal. If the
diner happens to be in the company of
a lady the waiter will abstain from
disparaging remarks about her com
plexion. As for the coatroom boy. what
is to prevent him from playing foot
ball with your hat. except the special
consideration due a distributer of tips?
Queer Prisoners.
In the seventies of the last century
life in Montenegro was not complex
A traveler relates: “At that time the
adult male population was away fight
ing. and at times there was no one to
spare to guard the inmates of the pris
on when out for exercise. One of them
would then be given the rifle and take
over the duty. Prisoners also were
sent with messages. One went down
to Cattaro. in Austrian territory, with
3.000 florins for the banker there, and
faithfully delivered the money and was
hack in prison at night Another Mon
tenegrin begged a Russian in Cattaro
to intercede for his release from pris
on. “But you are not in prison.” said
the Russian. "Oh. yes, I am. 1 have
only come here for a load of skins and
must go back.”
Writing Music.
There Is reason to regard the Hindus
and the Chinese as in possession of
some form of musical notation. The
Greeks had a system of writing music,
but its comprehension evades us. The
Latin notation was. like that of the
Greeks in this one particular, alpha
betic. A generally accepted tradition
credits St. Gregory with the reduction
of the scale to the octave and the nam
ing of the seven notes, a service which
has commonly won for him the credit
of the invention of the art of writing
music.—New Vork Sun.
Improving the Backbone.
Although the following soundimke
an Irish pun. it is credited to an Amer
ican clergyman:
"Patriotism Is the backbone of the
United States.” quoth the minister.
His congregation nodded a silent ap
proval.
“And what we have to do is to train
that backbone and bring it to the
front.”—Boston Herald.
Smart Dog,
“Which is the smarter, the dog or the
horse?”
"No comparison. The (log is the wise
one.”
"How do you make that out?"
"You know bow the horse works.
Did you ever see a dog working for a
living?”—Louisville Courier Journal.
The Proper Training.
A man may be nble to make money
with a common school education, but
his son must have a college educa
tion to know how to spend it—Wash
ington Herald.
Pluck to always trying to forget thnt
It was beaten yesterday.
A TRIP ON THE KONGO.
Care Free Voyaging on Small Wood
Burning Steamboats.
A trip by steamboat on the Kongo
river has its lazily amusing attrac
tions *s you descend from Stanley
ville to the railway at Leopoldville, a
voyage of twelve days. The boats
small, stern wheel affairs, carry from
twenty to tiiirty cabin passengers each.
On the lower (Jock are the black trav
elers. sometimes in a stifling crowd,
sprawling over the cargo. Most of the
captains are Swedes, Itussians or Ger
mans, and the engineers are picked up
in Sierra Leone. Two companies run
boats, and several of the mission sta
tions have steamboats of their own
besides.
Some of the boats have small dining
rooms; others set the tables on deck
protected from the sun by awnings.
The food is not luxurious, and very
little fresh meat is to be bad. The
fuel is wood, and every five or six
hours the boat must stop to replenish
the supply from a heap of cut sticks
on the bank. These piles of wood are
made by natives or by scattered trad
ers, often where no habitation is near,
and in such cases the captain pays foi
tlie wood by putting money in a box
that the trusting woodsman has pro
videil for the purpose.
Every boat carries a drum, and as it
approaches an inhabited district the
drum is beaten to tell the natives that
goats, fruit or vegetables are wanted.
Every night the steamer ties up against
the bank, and all the black passengers
go to sleep on shore. But they devote
most of the night to merrymaking and
keep those on the boat as wide awake
as themselves.—Youth’s Companion.
SAVED BY A CAMERA.
A Photographer’s Narrow Escape From
an Enraged Orang,
As u rule, orang outangs are caught
young and tamed before they are ship
ped to Europe. Mr. W. P. Daudo tells
in “Wild Animals and Cameras” of
such an animal that arrived in London
with the best of characters. He was
considered a docile, steady going old
thing, and Mr. Dando was engaged to
photograph him.
1 entered the orang's cage as I had
entered scores of others. I had not ex
posed many plates before I saw that
the animal was intent on mischief. He
was a very powerful beast, and 1
should have stood no chance at all if
he had attacked me.
My only chance was to use the cam
era as a weapon. Making a sign to the
keeper to keep silent, 1 pointed my
hand camera at the orang and with
slow and steady step approached him.
The keeper was outside the door, ready
to open it, but neither of us uttered a
sound. I was relieved to see the orang
retreat gradually and at the same time
slowly rise from the crouched and
menacing position he had taken. Once
he was on the move, I knew 1 had a
chance. I succeeded in working him
round to the corner farthest from the
door, which the keeper had silently
and slowly opened.
Still pointing my camera at the
orang. I very, very slowly backed out
of the cage, the door was slammed to,
and I was safe. Even when I was
partly through the door opening any
quick movement on my part would
have been a fatal mistake. The ani
mal could have reached me in an in
stunt.
An Estate In the Moon.
After the Franco-German war, in
which Camille Flammarion. the fa
mous astronomer, fought as a captain,
he settled down to his astronomical la
bors in Paris and later founded an ob
servatory at Juvisy specially to study
the planets. On the occasion of his
scientific jubilee he was presented with
a silver medal depicting him standing
on a cloud, flanked on one side by the
planet Mars and on the other by his
Juvisy observatory. A region on the
moon has been named after him. but
in whispering this fact to an inter
viewer M. Flammarion hoped it would
not be published. “The budget com
mission." he added humorously, “may
want to tax it as being landed prop
erty.”— West mi aster G azette.
His Golden Rules.
A Toronto banker hangs up these
golden rules of conduct:
“Have something to say.
“Say it.
“Stop talking."
These are line rules for special occa
sions and places, but net for general
application. They make no allowance
for the necessities of conversation nor
for tlie helpfulness of intercommunica
tion.
' They recall with their taciturn sug
gestion the golden rules that hung over
the desk of a western mine owner:
“State your business.
“Shut up!
“Get out!"—Cleveland Plain Dealer.
Wanted Them All.
Julia Ward Howe was once talking
with a dilapidated bachelor, who re
tained little but bis conceit. “It is
time now," he said pompously, ."for me
to settle down as a married man. but
1 want so much. I want youth, health,
wealth, of course; beauty, grace"—
“Yes," said Mrs. Howe sympatheti
cally. “you poor man. you do want them
all."
Married Man’s Progress.
The first year after marriage man
holds his wife fondly, the second year
he holds the baby awkwardly, and
every year after that lie holds his
tongue sensibly.—Dallas News.
Naturally.
“I presume you have a lot of sympa
thy for the under dog?"
“Yes. ma’am, especially If I happen
to own the dog.”—Detroit Free Press.
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In the District Court for the Terri
tory of Alaska, Third Division.
In the Matter of the Annexation of
Certain Territory to the Incorpor
ated Town of Valdez.—Order Set
ting Time for Hearing Petition and
Giving Notice.
A petition having been this day
presented to the court for the pur
pose of instituting the proceedings
required by law for the annexation
of territory to an incorporated town,
said petition praying for the annex
ation of certain described territory to
the incorporated town of Valdez, in
the Territory of Alaska. Third divis
ion ; and it appearing to the court
that said petition is signed by forty
eight qualified electors of said incor
porated town, the same being more
than one-fifth of the number of votes
cast at the last municipal election in
said town, and by five actual resi
dents and owners of substantial prop
erty interests in land in the territory
proposed to be annexed and verified
by two of the signers of said peti
tion; said petition setting forth the
boundaries of the territory so pro
posed to be annexed to said town, an
having attached thereto a plat based
upon an actual survey by a compe
tent surveyor, setting forth the lim
its and boundaries thereof by metes
and bounds, and stating the number
of inhabitants therein:
Therefore, 1 appearing to the court
that said petition is in the form re
quired by law; it is ordered that said
petition be heard and considered by
the court on the 18th day of Febru
ary, 1914, at 10 o'clock a. m. of said
day, at the court room of this court
in Valdez, Alaska, if said day be a day
of jurisdiction in said court, or if the
same be not a day of jurisdiction,
then said hearing shall be held on the
first day of jurisdiction thereafter. It
is further ordered that notice of such
hearing be given by posting printed
or typewritten copies of this order
in three conspicuoous places within
the limits of said incorporated town
of Valdez, and by posting such cop
ies in three conspicuous places with
in the limits of the territory so pro
posed to be annexed to and included
within the limits of said incorporated
town, and by publishing a copy of
this order once a week in the Valdez
Prospector, a newspaper of general
circulation published nearest to said
incorpoiated town.
Done in open court at Valdez,
Alaska, this 7th day of January, 1914.
FRED. M. BROWN, Judge.
First publication January 10, 1914.
Last publication February 14. 191;.
NOTICE TO CREDITORS.
In (he United States Commissioner’s
Court, ex-officio Judge in Probate,
Valdez precinct, Third Judicial Di
vision, Territory of Alaska.
In the matter of the estate of Rob
ert Martin, deceased. Notice to cred -
itors.
. Notice is hereby given by the un
dersigned, administrator of the estate
of Robert Martin, deceased, to the
creditors of, and all persons having
claims against the said estate, to ex
hibit them with the necessary vouch
ers, within six (6) months after the
first publication of this notice, to the
said administrator at the office of C.
E. Bunnell, at Valdez, Alaska, the
sartie being the place for the trans
tion of the business of said estate.
Dated at Valdez, Alaska, this 13th
day of January, 1914.
W. H. CASWELL,
Administrator of the estate of Robert
Martin, deceased.
1 Date of first publication Jan. 14.
Date of last publication Feb. 17.
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Notice of Marshal’s Sale.
United States of America, Third Di
vision, Territory of Alaska, ss.
Public notice js hereby given, that
by virtue of a writ of execution, dated
January 9th, A. D. 1914, issued out
of the District Court, for the Third
division, Territory of Alaska, on a
judgment rendered in said Cour,, on
the 5th day of January, A. D. 1914,
in favor of the United States of
America, and against James Fish, ad
ministrator of the estate of Louis Ca
m'cia, deceased, Angus Chisholm,
Frank Gustafson, Max J. Schnrdt and
Jennie Raymond, I have, on this 9th
day of January, A. D. 1914, levied
upon the following described real es
tate, situated in the town of V idez,
Territory of Alaska, to-wit:
Lot nine (9) in Block B; lot three
(3) in Block two (2); lot four (4)
in block twenty-four (24), of the
Valdez Townsite, according to the
official plat • f said townsite on file
in the office of the recorder for said
precinct, and that I will, according
ly, offer said real estate for sale, at
public vendue to the highest and best
bidder, for cash, on the third day of
March. A. D. 1914, at two o’clock p.
m., at the front door of the Court
House, Valdez, Alaska.
Dated at Valdez, Alaska, January
9. 1914.
F R. BRENNEMAN,
U. S. Marshal, Third Division, Ter
ritory of Alaska.
First publication January 10, 1914.
Last publication February 21, 1914.
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For $6.00 we will give you a ticket
entitling you to hospital service and
care for any eight weeks out of the
year from date of your ticket, when
incapacitated by Injury or sickness.
See W. H. Ziegler.
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