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MIDDLE-AGED SLACKERS
Not all the slackers are in the age
prescribed by the selective conscrip
tion act. Thousands of husky men be
tween the ages of 31 and 45 are
standing around vociferously berat
ing the young men who seek to evade
military service and overlooking the
fact that the government could use
them. There are many millions of
men in the country who are able to
help the government, but who are
waiting for a provost guard and a
bayonet to bring the fact home to
them that they are slackers. All they
need to do is to go to the recruiting
officer in their home city or a near
by post and enlist. The man who does
not do a thing until he is forced to
is as unpatriotic as the man who is
unwilling to go after he is chosen.
Men of military age in Valdez, Alas
ka or the States do not escape the
moral responsibility of helping the
government because they were born
prior to 1886 or after 1872. If they
are physically fit and if they can go
into the service without deserting
needy dependents they should be very
chary of shouting slacker and criticis
ing others. A great mistake was made
that the government did not set the
conscription age from 21 to 50, us
ing the physically fit between these
ages and compelling the rest to mo
bilize as home guards. The maximum
age is set too low. There are many
men under 50 who are as hale and
hardy as other young men of 25, and
it also must be remembered that there
will be as many slackers in the next
draft, and in every draft up to sen
ility as in the present one.
Therefore, do not criticise your
brother until you do something for
the government yourself. There is a
place for you in the army, and if you
are a man you will fill it without
forcing the government to the ex
pense of a draft.
SOMETHING FOR HIM TO READ
A great deal is being said jibout
seeing to it that our soldiers and
sailors get something to read.
That “something” has been partic
ularized to a certain extent. At any
rate it has been suggested that or
ganizations be formed as clearing
houses through which stories and
magazines be sent to the men in the
trenches and on the ships.
And the fact has been emphasized
that our boys do not want magazines
of the vintage of 1900, but real, live,
qp-to-date reading matter.
It is obvious that the most accept
able “something to read” for these
men who are “doing their bit” would
be their favorite newspaper.
The boys will long for news from
their own town.
Consequently, the most acceptable
present you can give to a departing
soldier boy or’ sailor laddie is a sub
scription to the newspaper that will
give him an account of the happen
ings in Blighty.
It will be sent to him first to the
training camp and later will follow
him regularly wherever he goes.
For a few cents a day your soldier
son, friend or lover may have a con
tinuous record of things back home.
And how it will hearten and en
tertain him when in trench, camp, or
Ion board ship!—Buffalo News.
STAY OK LITIGATION DIKING
WAR
A bill has been introduced in the
House by Representative Addison T.
Smith of Idaho which will be of in
terest to parties to civil suits now
pending in State of Federal courts
who have been called into the military
service of the country. Permission is>
given such litigants to make written
petition to the court for a temporary
stay of proceedings. The prayers of
the petition may be granted by the
court for a period not longer than
three months after the termination
of the petitioner’s military service,
but in no event longer than six
months after the concluson of the
war. Mr. Smith provides that no
statute of limitation shall run dur
ing the operation of the stay.
A YANKEE HABIT
Charwomen at the Y. M. C. A. hut
training camp in England went on
strike, but the Yankee tars, practic
ed in holystoning the decks, got busy
and scrubbed the place up just the
same. It is a Yankee habit, this clean
ing-up busness, as will be found when
we get into action over yonder.
DRINKS AND SMOKES MAY
BE LUXURIES FOR DANES
COPENHAGEN, Sept. 6.—Drink
ing and smoking will really be luxur
ies in Denmark under the new taxa
tion program just introduced in par
lament. This provides for a special tax
on wine equal to the retail price per
bottle, exactly doubling the cost to
the consumer and almost doubles the
tax on the making it, according to the
president of the Brewer's league, the
highest in the world.
The measure increases the tax on
cigars, cigarettes and tobacco to
from 20 to 33 per cent of the retail
price and is expected to return 16,
000,000 kroner additional taxes. It
fixes a special tax of 10 per cent on
all sales of jewelry and precious
stones. The tax on incomes of more
than 6,000 crowns is increased by 33
to 75 per cent. The property tax on
property of the value of 15,000
crowns and upwards is virtually dou
ble.
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PKTROGRAI) PREPARES
FOR EVENTUALITY
PLTROGRAD, Sept. 19.—Although
Petrograd, in the opinion of variious
military authorities, is in no immedi
ate danger on account of the fall of
Riga, preparations are being made
against the evenuality of an unexpect
ed descent by the Germans. The tem
porary government has appointed a
special civil commission with author
ity to preserve order. The cabinet has
decided that there is as yet no need
for the government to be transferred
elsewhere.
Although there are no signs of a
panic there are elementsjn the popu
lation, particularly members of the
wealthy class, who are leaving or at
tempting to leave in large numbers.
Many business firms are considering
transferring their headquarters to
Moscow, NIJni Novgorod or some oth
er provincial city.
According to the newspapers the
present Russian front represents the
arc of a circle from the mouth of the
river Aa southeastwards about forty
miles from Riga. Dvinsk, according
to reports, is still holding out.
Donnelly, McCarty and Telkhell re
port snow, with the rest of the trail
cloudy with the exception of Wort
man, where rain is reported.
Ice—Ice—Ice
Delivered to all parts of the town,
lc. per pound. Love-Whitley Co. tf
Rev. Fr. Van der Pol, S. J., arriv
ed on the steamer Mariposa last night
from Cordova, and will assume Sharge
of St. Xavier church and rectory, Rev.
Fr. Fletcher having departed for Sew
ard, where he will remain this win
ter.
STEAM HEAT NEWLY FURNISHED
SEATTLE HOTEL
MRS. E MILL, Propr.
VALDEZ / ALASKA
AVOID PREJUDICE.
K Is an Evil Thing That Warps Judg
ment and Breads Injustioe.
Prejudice la an Insidious thing. It
creeps Into the soul unaware. It leads
us to say and do wrong things; It
warps our judgment and leads to In
justice, unkindness and even cruelty.
It paves the way for hatred and mal
ice. In proportion as we learn to clear
our minds of prejudice we become bet
ter men and women; we win friend*
and dissolve enmities; we are more
worthy of respect and confidence.
No one wants to be judged by falsi'
standards that prejudice sets up. Be
ware of judging others in such a light.
Prejudice crnmi* the mind anil the
heart; It stands in the way of rightful
growth of character. It is wise to
search your heart and If you find prej- i
udice there to set about to root it out
wholly.
Do not be sure you of all men are
unprejudiced. That is the danger, for
prejudice is guarded by vanity. Seek
to be Just In all things, small as well
as great. In all the relations of life be
sure you are not Judging another, not
for his error, but from your prejudice.
For the worst thing about this weak
ness Is that it breeds Injustice and un
kindnesg and malice. It hurts Innocent
folk and makes no one happier.—Mil
waukce Sentinel.
SNOW CAPPED ARARAT.
It Overlooks the Lands of tha “Czar,
the Sultan and tha Shah.”
Great Ararat, which shoulders its
way some 17,<KK> feet up Into the Ar
menian sky and looks down on the
lands of the “czar, the sultan and the
shah," although so truly the rallying
point, as it were, for the Armenian
people, Is quite unknown to the native
Armenian hy this name.
The people who actually dwell with
in sight of its great snow capped’dome.
who look out toward it over the plain
from Erlvun, some thirty miles away
to the north, or from the frontier
mountain sloites away to the south call
it hy u variety of names. If they are
Armenians they call it “Massis;" il
Turks, “Aghrl Hugh." and if Persians,
“Koh-i-Xuh." or the “Mountain of
Noah."
There are really, of course, two
mountains, or, rather, there is one vast
mass out of which rise two peaks,
“their bases coudueut at a height of
8,8tMl feet, their summits about seven
miles apart."
Utile Ararat, U|s»n whose elopes it is
that the territories of the three king
doms actually meet, is some 4,000 feet
lower than its big brother, but none
the less, with its U.840 feet, it is “none
so little.”—Argonaut.
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New England’* Charms.
“I have summered the New England
ers and wintered them; they wear,"
says Itollln Lynde llurtt in the Cen
tury. “I ba'-e fought with them and
made it up. 1 have tried Montana
I’aris, too—and been w illing to return.
Nowhere am I freer. One can spend
little or much,, dress as he chooses,
know whom he will, devour beans or
spurn them, dig potatoes, clams or
Greek roots, and be ‘a man for a’ that'
among friends somewhat slow to take
bold, but iticapable of letting go. As
warm hearted as the Montanians. they
are as liberal; at moments I have come
near saying, ‘The further east you go
the further west you get.’ 1 love the
west. I love the south. Accident, not
choice, brought me to New England.
In her own quaint phrase, I like here.’’
The Great Tropical Belt.
Between the thirtieth parallel of
north latitude, which runs through
New Orleans, north Africa, northern
India and southern China, and the
thirtieth parallel of south latitude,
which cuts through southern Brazil,
the southern tip of Africa and the
southern part of Australia, is half the
land area of the world outside the
polar regions and one-half the world's
population. Yet the commerce of this
great tropical belt, with half the land
area and half the world population, is
but one-sixth that of the international
commerce of the world, and it has but
one-seventh of the world’s railways de
spite the fact that the temperate tones
are anxiously calling for its products
of food and manufacturing material.
Where We Aim.
William Dean Howells in one of his
talks about literature said: "Good lit
erature is always condemned on its
first appearance. Tbat is because, be
ing original, it is new and strange.
Sbelley’B work was bitterly condemn
ed at first. So was Coleridge’s. So
was Wordsworth’s. So was Stephen
Crane’s." Mr. Howells paused, then
added Impressively, "Stones are only
thrown at those trees which are heavy
with fruit.”
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Not Melodiously Gifted.
“DoiLt you love our song, ‘The Star
Spanj^d Banner?’ ”
“I do,” replied Senator Sorghum.
“Then why don’t you Join in the
chorus?”
"My friend, the way for me to show
real affectlou for a song is not to try
to sing it”—Washington Star.
A Scientific Question.
“Nothing is ever totally lost or de
stroyed,” said the professor of physics.
"In that case,” said the simple and
frank person, “how do you explain the
fact that everybody loses umbrellas
and you never meet anybody who has
found one?”
Quite Natural.
"The people in the flat oppoaite
bought their piano at auction.”
“I suspected an much; it’s ‘going, go
ing, going* all the time.”—Boston Tran
script
EXCLUSIVE
MERCHANDISE
At this store you will find many makes and
brands of high-class and reputation, such as:
HART SCHAFFNER & MARX fine
clothes for men.
STYLE PLUS CLOTHES, the price re
mains the same, $17.00.
DUTCHESS TROUSERS, pay you 10c
~ a button or $1.00 for every rip.
MALLORY, the weather-proof hat, cra
venetted, will not water-spot.
S. & W. Selected Fruits, vegetables, pre
serves, jellies.
COLE’S HOT BLAST HEATERS, real
economy in fuel.
S. Blum & Company
GOOD GOODS
LAUNCHIDELLA
Capt. H. L. Rider
Weekly trips from Valdes to
Ellamar, Landlock, Fidalgo and
nay ports. Passengers landed
at all points.
Carrying freight and passen
gers.
For rates apply x>n board.
CAPT. H. L. RIDER
A Through Ticket
Via
Chicago, Milwaukee
& St. PaulJRy.1 fc
Saves Money
Insures Comfort
By buying a through ticket
you save from $10 to $15 as
against buying to Seattle
and rebuying there.
By buying over the C. M. &
St. P. Ry., you are assured
of the comfort that comes
from riding behind an elec
tric locomotive—the most
powerful in all the world—
and that personal attention
which is a feature of “Mil
waukee” service.
For tickets, berth reservations
and other particulars consult
your nearest Steamship Agent.
A. P. CHAPMAN, JR.
Asst. Gen’l Passenger Agent
Seattle, Wash.
J. P. BAHL
City Ticket Agent
Second and Cherry
Seattle, Wash.
Furnished rooms st Mrs OsIsnd’B.
Prices reasonable. *
Use Rezall Hair Tonic and you will
use no other. Valdez Drug Store, tf
Just received all the latest popu
lar songs at Q. O. Reinke’s. tf
CITY EXPRESS, Phone 82; ready
to transfe. that baggage for you. tf
Complete line of Bulk Chocolates.
Candy Kitchen. tt
Bargains in souvenir spoons at Oeo.
O. Reinke’s. tf
Ice cream every day, specials on
Sunday at Hunt’s Candy Kitchen, tf
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Seward Alaska
Geo. Sexton, Proprietor.
The traveling public’s
home.
European Plan.
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Launch Patsy
for Charter Anwyhere on
VALDEZ BAY
At any Time Day or Night
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VALDEZ, ALASKA
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Special Rates by the Week or Month
Baths In Connection
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Freighting to all points
in the third division.
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Phone 166.
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