New Fancy Ribbons
The first shipment of new fancy Silk
Ribbons is now on display. Splendidly
suggestive for all the gift making now in
progress and being planned. The rib
bons run in widths from four to eight
inches and are unusually
beautiful. Priced, yard, from »0 OwC
Valdez Mercantile Co
GERMANS WOULD
ANNEX BELGIUM
Professors, Peasants, Landlords and
Manufacturers Demand Its
Retention.
(
PARIS, Sept. 8.—What purports
to be the text of a confidential memo
randum sent to the Imperial German
Chancellor, Dr. Von Bethmann-Holl
weg. on May 20 by representatives
of German manufacturing and agri
cultural associations, is published by
the Temps. The memorandum, ac
cording to the newspaper, covers fin
ancial, territorial and military con
cessions to be demanded of the En
tente Allies as Germany's terms for
peace and to insure the development
of a greater Germany.
The memorandum, after calling for
peace terms which shall insure the
development of greater Germany and
“guarantee an improvement of the
bases of the German empire." says:
“A peace which has not these results
will render new struggles inevitable
at an early date, but with chances
much less favorable for Germany.
A party of ladies will go berry
picking in the hills back of Fort Lis
cum tomorrow.
Valdez Drug Company have a fine
line of School Stationery. tf.
^ Suits pressed 'or $1 at Silver
man's, the tailor. Telephone 198. tf
Ice! Ice! Ice!
One cent a pound delivered to any
part of the city Phone Love-Whit
ley Company. tf
Notice of Sale.
No. 727.
In the District Court for Ihe Terri
tory of Alaska, Third Division.
J. M. Lathrop, Plaintiff, vs. Adam
Swan, Defendan*.
Under and by virtue of an order
of sale, and decree of foreclosure is
sued out of the District Court for the
Territory of Alaska, Th'rd Division,
on the 7th day of Septa uber, 1915,
in the above-entitled suit, wherein
J. M. Lathrop, the above named
plaintiff, obtained a judgment and
degree against Adam Swan defen
dant in said suit, cn the 7th day of
September, 1915, recorded in Judg
ment Docket No. 2. page 260, I am
commanded to sell those certain
pieces or parcels of land, lying and
being in the town of Valdez, Record
ing Precinct of Valdez, Alaska, and
described as follows, to-wit:
Beginning at the point of intersec
tion of Sherman Street and Alaska
Avenue, in U. S. Survey No. 336;
thence in a westerly direction along
said Sherman Street fifty (50) feet;
thence at right angles in a northerly
direction sixty (60) fee:; thence at
right angles in an easterly direction
fifty (50) feet; thence at right an
gles in a southerly direction sixty
(60) feet along said Alaska Avenue
to place of beginning Also Lot
Nine (9), Block Two (2); and
the easterly portion of Lot Thirty
six (36) Block .-Vventy-iIpht (78);
the said easterly portion of said Lot
36 being a tract of land fronting on
McKinley Street, TIUrty two (32)
feet in width, and One Hundred and
Fifty (150) feet in depth; subdivi
sions U. S. Survey No. -*39, survey
ed by J. Frank Warner and F. W.
Williamson.
Notice is hereby given that oa Sat
urday the 9th day of October, 1915,
,at the hour of two o’clock in the aft
ernoon of said day, in front of the
court house at Valdez, Alaska, I will
in obedience to said order of sale
and decree of foreclosure, sell the
above described property or so much
thereof as may bo necessary to sat
isfy plaintiff’s judgment with inter
?st thereon, together with attorney's
ees and costs to the highest and
.best bidder for cash, in lawful mon
ey of the United States.
Dated this 8th day of September,
1915.
F. ft. BPENNEMAN,
U. S. Marshal for the Third Division
of the Terrltoiy of Alaska.
Date of first publication, September
8, 1915.
Date of last publication, October 6.
1915. 8-15-22-29-6—5t.
ARABIAN HORSES.
Ancient Storict of Thoir Caro and
Training Ara Mara Fablaa.
So far as we know, the Arabian
breeders have no patented system of
training their horses different from
those prevailing among peoples of a
similar degree of civilization. Natur
rally the .lack,- t>f pasture results in
young Arabian horses being fed a con
siderable quantity of barley and. so the
story goes at least, a not inconsider
able quantity of the fruit of the date
palm, fresh and dried, by way of suc
culence.
The colts are broken, usually bare
backed. at two or three years old.
Their subsequent handling is much like
that of all other horses, with perhaps
the difference that as early in life as
possible the young animals are accus
tomed to doing without water for in
creasing periods of time in order to ac
custom them later on to the scarcity of
liquids in desert journeys.
The ancient stories about the Arab
steed being kissed and bawled over by
the sheik's whole family, kept in the
living tent and foaled on the best silk
rugs are picturesque fables containing
about the same measure of truth as the
one which dates the pedigrees of Ara
bian horses back to the mares owned In
Bibllcut times by King Solomon.—
Breeder's Gazette.
THEY SAW THE GHOST.
Easy to Recognize the Woman Who
Had Haunted the Place.
“A certain lady and her family,”
says Sir Mountstuart Grant-Duff in
his “Diary,’' "hired a place In Scotland
which was haunted by the ghost of a
woman, who was to be seen constantly
at night wandering through the rooms
and passages. When the family arriv
ed the lady was much struck with the
place and said. "I must have been here
before, for I know this place so well,
only there ought to be two rooms here,
and there Is only one.’
"The agent replied that within a few
weeks the owner had caused a parti
tion to be taken down nnd made the
two rooms into one. Still the lady was
puzzled nt her knowledge of the place
till she remembered that It was a
house she used to go to In her dreams.
“Well, some time passed, and the
agent was up at the house again, when
the lady complained that one part of
the contract had not been fulfilled
They had hired a house and a ghost
for the summer, nnd no ghost had she
seen.
"The agent replied: ’Of course not.
because you. madam, are the ghost.
We recognized you the moment we
saw you.’ ”
—
The Fate of the Oneida.
One of the most extraordinary ca*
tastrophles that have befallen vessels
of the United States destroyed the
sloop of war Oneida In 1809. She was
bound homeward with a Jolly ship's
company eager to see wives and sweet
hearts and native land once more,
when not far out of port she was
struck by the British steamer Bombay
coming In. The stem of the Bombay
cut off the stern of the Oneida. The
ship was sinking rapidly, and guns of
distress were Immediately fired, but
the Bombay steamed on her way and
left the vessel to her doom. She went
down, and all but one or two of her
crew were drowned. The captain of
the Bombay gave no other reason for
his conduct than that he had Lady
Eyre, the wife of a distinguished Brit
ish satrap, on board and did not wish
to disturb her nerves with scenes of
shipwreck. He was mobbed when he
reached Yokohama, dismissed from the
service, socially tabooed from that time
on and died In disgrace a year or two
later.
Tbs Obstacle* to Evil.
In the constitution of our nature a
limit has been fixed to the triumph of
evil. Falsity In theory is everywhere
confronted by the facts which present
themselves to every mun's observation.
A lie has no power to change the or
dinances of God. Every day discloses
Its utter worthlessness until It fades
away from our recollection and is num
bered among the things that were.
The Indissoluble connection which our
Creator has established between vice
and misery tends also continually to
arrest the progress of evil and to ren
der odious whatever would render evil
attractive.—Francis Wayland.
A LAUGH IS A TpNIC.
It Aids Digestion and Tends to Good
Health and Long Life.
There are people who take life too
seriously. They allow their souls to be
eftien up with cares and anxieties.
Many worries are useless and help
nothing. Bits of humor are lost on
these persons. They wonder how any
one can be so thoughtless about the
realities of life.
in all the animal creation laughter Is
given to man alone, given him, like
all other faculties, to make the best
of. Laughter. It Is true. Is not for all
times and occasions, but It has Its
place and Is necessary to our well be
ing. A laugh Is a cure for many Ills.
It aids digestion and so tends to good
health. It prolonges life. Laughter
often settles a disagreement and pre
vents real troubles. Hard working
business and professional men some
times forget to laugh. The strain of
work grips them hard, and they get
old before their time.
The ability to see the humorous side
of an accident, a mistake or a folly, Is
a great aid In making life more endur
able. Laughter overdone, like all vir
tues carried to excess, is a vice or a
folly. Cultivate your sense of humor.
Better to laugh too often than not to
laugh often enough.
Who laughs knows no defeat
—Milwaukee JournaL
BREAKING INTO PRINT.
On* Writer’s First Little Check and
the Way He Spent It.
Richard Harding Davis, says the
London Strand Magazine, la one of
those fortunate men whose short sto
ries can always command a thousand
dollars and over. How he "broke into
print" Is an Interesting little history.
“It was while at Lehigh university.”
he says, “that I earned my first sum
lor writing. It was a description of a
cane rush at the university, and I sent
it to a local puper. It was published,
and a few days later I received u check
for the large sum of $1.15. I have re
ceived larger checks since then, but
the biggest of them never gave me the
thrill that that one did.
"Just as soon as I cashed that check
I sallied out to buy ’something' with
it—I had no Idea what—and In my
search 1 found two very nice looking
candlesticks which, I think, were about
the price of the story I laid sold. 1
bought them. They were made of
brass ami seemed very solid and hand
some. One I sent to my mothei. and
the other I kept for myself They are
still in existence, I believe, a shining
witness to the first fracture I made in
my youthful endeavor to ‘breuk into
print.’ ”
Fright and White Hair.
The popular belief that the hair of
persons laboring under great mental
grief or terror changes color seems to
be unfounded. Under certain condi
tions of bodily health the coloring mat
ter of the hair ceases to be supplied,
and the hair may consequently become
gray or white in a very short time. In
these cases, however, it is only the grow
ing hnir that has no color, the hair as
It gradually rises from the root is gray,
while that which is outside the cuticle
remuins its original color. No well au
thenticated case of sudden change in
the color of the hair is mentioned In
the "Transactions of the Itoyal Soci
ety,” extending over 200 years, where
as if any such circumstance had oc
curred it is almost certain it would
have been recorded. The case of Marie
Antoinette, which Is most frequently
cited, does not rest upon evidence suf
ficiently strong to warrant belief.—
Philadelphia Press.
Leaning Tower In England.
The famous leaning tower of Tisa
has a rival in the Temple tower of
Bristol, in England, it is a square
tower of early Gothic architecture. All
its parts still preserve their normal
relative positions without cracks or fis
sures. The tower, which is about 115
feet high, is five feet out of perpendic
ular at the summit. There are no rec
ords to show whether the Inclination
was part of the architect’s design or
whether it is the result of an earth
quake or of slow changes in the incli
nation of the soil. For many years
there has been no change in the slope
of the tower.
Daly’s Impecunious Employee.
Augustin Daly had In Ills employ
ment a man who always addressed
him a note periodically asking for an
advance of money. This note was In
variably answered by a most abusive
letter in almost insulting terms and
threatening instant discharge if the
offense was ever repeated and Inclos
ing a check for the money.
At regular intervals of about three
months the man invariably made the
same request, with the same results,
always, however, getting u check in
closed. And thus it continued until
Mr. Daly’s death. ,
Reversed Conditions.
"You are careful to set an example
for your son ?”
“I used to try to set him an exam
ple.’’ replied the serious man, "but
now I study him attentively to ascer
tain what kind of clothes I ought to
wear and the style of conversation
that is considered smart.”—Washing
ton Star.
In 8ight Already.
Mother—He may hnve money, but
has he foresight? Daughter- Yes, |pom
mer! He says everything be has is
mine, to the last dollarl—New York
Globe.
.The uidn wbo never altera his opin
ion Is like standing water and breeds
reptiles of the mind.—William Blake.
WHERE THE DAY CHANGES.
The International Dato Lino In th#
Pacific Ocean,
A great many people cannot see why
when a man crosses the International
date tine In the Pacific ocean If he goes
toward the eust he loses o day and If
toward the west he gnins a day—that
Is, If It say, happens to be Tuesday
Just this side if he crosses to the west
it will be Monday. The distance he
may have actually gone need be only a
few feet, but it Is true nevertheless.
The actual time may be only a second's
difference.
To understand this remember that
we go from Monday to Tuesday at 12
o’clock at night—jump Immediately
from one lay to another. Consider
also that if a man could travel toward
the eust a* fast as the earth rotate*
and if he Btarted at midday, with the
sun directly overhead, he would go
completely round the earth in no solar
time at all, for the sun would always
be just over his bead and to him it
would be 12 o'clock all the time If he
measured time by the position of the
sun. He Wbuld not experience auy
night at all and so would have twenty
four hour* of sunlight But it has ac
tually taken him twenty-four hours to
get around, so the time when he
reached his starting place again would
be 12 o’clock noon all right, but would
be a day later than when he started.
So it can be readily seen that some
meridian on the earth’s surface must
be picked out as the starting point of
a new day, and the chosen one lies al
most entirely in the Pacific ocean.—
Every Week.
A DOCTOR’S HOBBY.
Thar* Wa* a Quaer Twi*t to th* End
of Paabl**’ Experiment*.
There was a British physician named
Robert Peebles who created a sensa
tion in London and Edinburgh several
years ago by his insistent coaxing of
athletes for the privilege of studying
their bodies after death.
Peebles hud been experimenting with
the muscles and hud arrived at what
his associates termed a fantastic no
tion that some sort of operation could
be performed on the leg of the human
runner so that his speed could be in
creased. I.eupers and high Jumpers
were his hobby, and in the course of
live years It was estimated that he hail
examined the leg muscles of nearly a
thousand men. making comparisons
with the running and leaping muscles
of the frog, the deer, the greyhound
and other animals.
Peebles was a man of means, and
after he had succeeded in inducing
half a dozen athletes of reputation to
“will him their legs” the attention of
surgeons was attracted. They took
the matter under consideration at one
of their quarterly meetings and warned
Peebles they would have him commit
ted to a sanitarium if he continued his
strange pursuit. Peebles defied them,
and they had a commission appointed.
While his sanity was being tested Pee
bles died. In his will he bequeathed
his bruin to the commission. — Ex
change.
Figure It Out.
A beggar boy asked an old gentle
man in tbe street for sixpence.
"What will you do with It if 1 give
you one?” asked the old gtffitleman.
"Turn It Into ninepeuce quick.” re
plied the boy.
“How?”
“Give me the sixpence and I'll soon
show you.”
The boy got the money, darted off
to a baker’s shop and bought a three
penny loaf, with which he returned
to tbe old gentleman und handed him
back 3 pennies.
“How's this? You said you would
make the sixpence into ninepenco."
“So I have. The baker’s got three
pence. you've got threepence, and I've
got a three penny loaf. That's nine
oenee.”—Penrsou's Weekly.
An Interesting Talk.
In the days of Henry Cluy, a Ken
tucky furmer Bent a servant to Lexing
ton with u note for the president of a
certain bank. When the uiun returned
be said to his master:
"I met Marse Henry Clay in the bank
and had a conversation with him.”
“Indeed: And on what topic did you
and Mr. Clay converse?” inquired the
master with Interest.
The darky removed his hat and
made u sweeping bow. * * * “Says
Mr. Clay to me.” * • * And another
very low bow. “And 1 the same to Mr.
Clay.”—Everybody’s.
Mr. Wise Guy.
Mr. Wise Guy sat beside the road
watching his chuuffeur doctor a punc
ture. Presently a farmer, leading a
youthful calf, passed.
“Where’d you get the calf. Rube?”
Mr. Wise Guy inquired impudently.
"Set a hen on a bottle o’ milk.” was
the reply.
And Mr. Wise Guy was mean enough
to threaten' to Are the chauffeur for
laughing.—Indianapolis News.
Where It Would Be Eliminated.
“Well. Aunt Dinah,” asked the cook’s
young mistress, “are you going to have
the word ’obey’ eliminated from the
marriage ceremony?”
“No. chile, I ain't” said Aunt Dinah,
“but 1 sho’ am gwlnter hab it done
’limited from de matrimony.”—Ladles’
Home Journal
Unusual Caae.
Mrs. Snapp—And why do you think
Mrs. De Punk queer? Mrs. Rapp
Well. she has everything on earth to
make her happy and still she’s happy.
—New York Globe.
'( ~
All la not lost If a man still has the
grit to smile. -Detroit Free Press.
Arcade Cafe
OPEN UNTIL 9.P.M.
We Grow Our Own Vegetables
Private Tables
Jock Collin•• Proprietor
BEST PLAGE TO EAT
MRS. ST. MARIE’S
Moved to Shephard Building,
next Donohoe & Dlmond office.
57 a m to 9 a m
Lunch It m to 1 p m
6 to 7 p m
THE
LIBERTY THEATRE
CONTINUOUS SHOW
YOU CAN ALWAYS DEPEND
ON SEEING A GOOD
SHOW.
Admission 25c
Children 1 Oc
CITY EXPRESS AUTO RATES
ROUND TRIP EACH PERSON
Comfort • • 91.801
Canyon - • 92.80 S-No Leu Tfcsi Four Prraona on Any One Trip.
Wortman’a - 93.00J ‘
To or from Residence, Hotels and Docks, SOc
Phone 82 T1KK! J. A. Spenard, Prop.
Mead’s Sheet Metal Works
PLUMBING, STEAM AND HOT WATER HEATING,
Sheet Metal Work, Metallic Roofing, Mine Air Pipe, Pipe and Fit
tings, Valves, Etc. Mofor Boat Supplies.
Located on Broadway VALDEZ, ALASKA
MERCHANT’S CArE
FRESH BREAD AND PASTRY DAILY
Phone 03 Clias. Fischer, Projir.
independent Laundry Do.
Satisfaction Guaranteed I I Foot Keystone Ave
Telephone 6fi ' I Rouirh Dry 10c ih
When in Chitina Stop at the
CHITINA HOTEL
Finest Hotel in the Interior—Well Heated, Clean Rooms.
Bar in Connection. Rates Reasonable
VALDEZ REAL ESTATE AGENCY
Doing Business As Usual
UPPER TONSINA ROAD HOUSE
Best of Meals—Prices Reasonable
GENERAL STORE. - TRADING POST.
Telephone connects with Chitina.
General Freighting. KNUTE NAFSTED. Mgr.
Pacific Alaska Navigation Co.
PUGET SOUND
California
Admiral
Lins
PUGET SOUND
Alaska
ALASKA
Steamers sail from Seattle at 9 P. M. on
5th, 15th, 25th—EVERY MONTH
Steamer Sailing 1.1th colls Iliamna and Kodiak—All Sailing call at Knlk
and Anchorage.
CALIFORNIA I
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Seattle to San Francisco every Wednesday and Sunday, connecting with
Steamers Vale and Harvard tor Southern California.
Right reserved to change schedule without notice
RICHARD J. RINGVVOOD, Mgr., Seattle! V VI.DK/, DOCK CO., Local Agt.
ALASKA
STEAMSHIP CO.
S. S. Mariposa, S. S. Alameda and S. S. Northwestern
sail from Seattle the 6th, 12th, 18th, 24th and 30th
EVERY MONTH
From Valdez south—7th, 13th, 19th, 25th and 31th for Cor
dova, Skagway, Juneau, Wrangall, Ketchikan and Seattle.
Regular freight service for Ketchikan, Wrangell. • Juneau, Sheep
Creek, Treadwell, Douglas, Skagway, Cordova, Ellamar, Valdes ana La
touche. Explosives, S. S. Seward, on the 6th; Latouche, on the 15th; S. S.
Cordova, 26th of each month—right reserved to change this schedule
without notice.
P, B. TRACY, Gen’l Agent VALDICZ DOCK CO„ Locul Agent.