UT of to\vn visitors are cordially
invited to make this store your
Headquarters. You’ll find the
best of everything in Groceries, Hard
ware, Men’s Clothing, Furnishings and
Dry Goods.
Valdez Mercantile Co.
*local brevities.
Love-Whitley still sell ice. *
The Frame stage arrived this aft
ernoon.
The Stanton stage leaves for the
inferior on the 15th.
We have the shotgun shells. Fresh
loaded. At Rudolph’s. tf.
Frank Hayes has accepted a posi
tion driving for the Valdez Transfer
company.
Valdez Drug Company have a fine
line of School Stationery. tf
, Charles Kran|gjjthe Slate Creek
Ijnudhltor, is JHP1 in Valdez on
^fjdni’-sday. wK
For go* d uome-cooked meals try
Mrs. M. Oi. on. on Hohart Street. *
Mrs. Winter is having a new plate
glass front put in her store on Mc
Kinley street.
Mrs. Guy Banta and family, of El
lamar, spent a few hours in Valdez
this afternoon.
The "Woman's Auxiliary of the Pio
iC^rs of Alaska will give a dance on
Alaska Day.
Nemo Corsets at E. Winter’s, tf
Knute Nafsted, the Tonsina road
house keeper, came into Valdez yes
terday, with his Ford car.
Pictures developed at the Valdez
Drug Company. tf.
Judge Brown is expected back on
the Alameda, and court will open to
morrow morning.
Assistant Clerk of the Court Char
les Hand is returning from Seward
on the Alameda.
Just received, a large line of Lino
.eum, Rugs and Mattresses. S. Blum
& Co. *
^ack Irwin returned to town to
day from Hobo Bay, where he has
been developing his mining property.
Fancy Statioi»ry at the Valdez
■ Drug Store. ’ *
Captain Peabody returned from
Portage Passage, bringing with him
samples of antimony, which assay
very high
Pure Fresh Drugs at the Valdez
Drug Store. *
^Attorney J. L. Reed has completed
fine new office building and taken
Jbssession thereof. He has received
ifis office iixtures and once more re
■ sumed his legal practice.
Suits pressed for $1.00 at Silver
man’s, the tailor. Telephone 198. tf
James Hamilton, the well-known
mining man, returned to Valdez to
day on the launch Shamrock. He
has been developing hie property at
Hobo Bay.
Six barrels of beer has been seized
by the deputy marshal at Chitina and
brought to Valdez. The beer was
seized because it has been shipped
under false labels.
Kodak Supplies at the Valdez
Drug Company. tf
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The government steamer Donald
son, which underwent repairs at the
Valdez Iron Works last week, is on
the run again between Fort Liscum
and Valdez.
Cornelius Whaling, of the local
signal corps detachment, has receiv
ed orders to report to the signal corps
detachment, stationed on the Mexi
can border. Mr. Whaling’s transfer
’ will be regretted by his many friends
‘JnWaldez.
>•; We will give 10 pfer cent extra be
«**tis our fire sale discount on all
boys’ clothing until Saturday. Ss
Blum & Co. •
John Lindblat, under whose'direc
tion the Frye-Bruhn building was
I
erected and equipped leaves this eve
ning on the Alameda for Seattle, hav
ing been called south by the company
to superintend more important con
struction work in tho states.
Mrs. John Johnson, of Ellamar,
came up on the launch Takulou to
day, and will act as interpreter for
the natives during a case which will
come before the Federal court during
the term begining this week.
The last issue of Leslie’s Illustrat
ed Weekly contains a long story upon
Alaska, by John A. Sleicher, the edi
tor of the paper, who recently made
the trip through the Northland. The
article is illustrated with pictures, in
cluding one of Capt. M. Jensen, com
mander of the Admiral Farragut.
The launch Takulou arrived from
Ellamar today, bringing L. L. Mid
dlecamp, Mrs. Middlecamp, Mrs. C.
H. Phillips, Mrs. Guy Banta, Mrs.
Johnny Johnson and two children;
Miss Lot'ie Thorstensen, Miss Estes, I
and H. M. Gedney The launch will j
return to the coppei town this eve-'
ning.
A shipment of tresh Hass candies I
received at the Pinzon on the last
boat. None better: try them. *
COURT WILL OPEN
HERE TOMORROW
The district court will open for the
September term of court tomorrow
morning. A grand and petit jury
may be impaneled and many crimi
nal cases will be taken up. Many
jurors and witnesses are now in Val
dez and more are expected from the
Wastward on the Alameda. The
term will probably take a month.
Furnished rooms at Mrs. Osland’s.
Prices reasonable. _ _ *
Mean Man.
"1 wish I had enough money to get
married,” he said.
“W-w-what w-w-would y-y-you do?”
she asked.
“I’d spend It traveling around the
world.”—Chicago News.
Not Much Loft.
She—That quarrelsome Mrs. Smith
is crazy!
He—No wonder. She was always
giving somebody a piece of her mind.—
Wisconsin State Journal.
An ostrich often lives to he more
than 70 years old and yields market
able feathers from the time it is six
months old until It is more than 50.
Chemically pure Iron, produced in'
Germany by electrolysis when heated
compares in hardness with alumi
num, but can be toughened by cold
rolling.
NAPOLEON’S MAXIM.
It Can Ba Traced Back to Taoltua In
the Second Century.
Napoleon’s maxim was. It Is said,
that Providence Is on the side of the
big battalions, but by what right It ha*
become the property of the “little cor
poral" is not quite clear. Though he
may have acted upon It. he did not in
vent It, and It is his merely by right of
conquest.
In the first place, we can trace It
back to Tacitus, who In the fourth
book of his history, written somewhere
In the second century, says, “Deos for
tlorlbus adesse” ("The gods are on the
side of the stronger”). From Tacitus
we Jump to M. Bussy-Rabutin, a French
litterateur, who lived In the seventeenth
century. “God is generally on the side
of the large battalions against the lit
tle,” he wrote. From him or more prob
ably from her mother wit Mme. de Se
vlgne, his contemporary, wrote, “For
tune is always on the side of the lar
gest battalions."
Some' fifty years later came Voltaire,
who wrote in a letter to M. le Riche,
“It Is said that God is always on the
side of the heaviest battalions.” That
letter was written In 1770, when Napo
leon was but one year old. Thus we
come to him whose muxlm it Is said to
be, but here the reference books help
us but little and help Napoleon less.
“Providence is* always on the side of
the last reserve,” Is given as his ver
sion of the trite phrase, and even this
Is not credited to him freely, but only
“attributed to Napoleon I.”—Westmin
ster Gazette.
MEANING OF “JITNEY”
There Are Many Theories as to the
Origin of the Word.
The meaning of the word jitney is a
five cent piece. The origin of the word
rests wholly on supposition, nnd many
explanations are given. One interested
in the subject gathered the following
information: A correspondent from
Soda Creek. B. C.. said he knew the
term as slang in Glasgow. Scotlund,
over fifty years ago. It was used to
designate something small or insignifi
cant. The word was said to come from
the Scottish “jitty,” which means de
ception, and the French “nlsey,” cor
rectly “nials,” meaning a ninny or sim
pleton.
Another correspondent said it is a
foreign word which originated in Rus
sia as the name of a small Russian
coin. A Russian scholar, however, de
clares there Is no such coin nnd that
the word in Russian means “rye.”
A correspondent from Tacoma.
Wash., says the word “jit” meaning a
five’ cent piece, can be traced back u
hundred years and was the original
word used by slave traders for that
coin.
An Oakland, Cal., correspondent said
that jitney is a word coined by the
southern negroes. There the small boy
when told to run an errand says, “Do I
get a jitney, boss?"
A Los Angeles man says that the
term is Mexican vernacular for nickel.
—Philadelphia Press.
Clever Hen.
One of England’s sporting peers Is
the Earl of Norwich, and they tell a
story about an answer which his lord
ship once gave to some one who had
chaffed him about some of his hunting
yarns.
“Yes.” he replied, with a smile, “I ad
mit that some of them were rather.tall
yarns, 'l outdid the wandering hen.
A hen. you know, set out to see the
world and met a crow in a distant
wood.
“ ’But,’ said the crow, ’are you not
afraid, without good wings, of losing
your way in ull this tangle?'
“‘Afraid? Not I.’ replied the hen.
‘Every yard or two I lay an egg to
guide myself back by.’ ” — London
Globa _
He Stood.
It happened in a crowded Market
street car one evening recently. A gal
lant passenger shifted his bundles,
arose, pretended to take off his hat and
said to an equally if not more bur
dened female standee. “Won't you take
my seat, madam?"
“Oh. thank you so much!” cried the
lady. “I’ll take the sent with pleasure,
but I don’t want you to stand up."
"Gee. lady.” he grinned, blushing.
“I’d like to accommodate you in both
ways, but what would the people think
if you was to sit in my lap?” — San
Francisco Argonaut.
Russia’s Merchant Flag.
The Russian merchant flag is a hor
izontal tricolor of white, blue and red.
Originally It was the Dutch flag, and
Its appearance so pleased Peter the
Great that he took It with hinj from
Amsterdam and hoisted It upside down.
His plan to distinguish It from the
Dutch banner met with much criticism,
however, as the flag In an Inverted
position denoted a flag of distress, and
eventually the stripes had to be rear
ranged before Russia adopted it as a
national emblem.
Inconsiderate.
She—I think Mrs. Binks is one of the
most tactless and objectionable women
I ever met. He—Why do you say that?
She—Why. at the club this afternoon I
had just started to tell one of the smart
things our Willie had said, when she
told the same story and ascribed it to
■her horrid tittle Johnny.—Richmond
Times-Dlspatch.
Ungrateful.
"Women are an ungrateful lot"
"Anything special?”
"Yes. My wife urged me to go into
politics, and ever since 1 didn't get
nominated she has talked about what
a lot of new furniture she could have
bought with the money ! spent"
TOWER OF BABEL
It* Remnant* Are Believed to Stand
Near Babylon’* Ruin*.
It Is doubtful if there Is any place
In the world so rich In ancient remains
as the valley of the Euphrates, In
Mesopotamia. The result Is that to
archaeologists, and scholars the place
Is a veritable "Tom Tiddler’s ground,”
und new "tluds" are constantly being
reported.
When It Is remembered that tradi
tion places. the site of the Garden of
Eden here, while among Its many
ruins are those of ancient Babylon, the
promising nature of the valley to the
scientific excavator becomes apparent.
It Is near the ruins of Babylon that
we find what many scholars believe to
be the remains of the tower of Babel
—an immense cube of brickwork, called
by the natives Birs Nlmrud.
Recent exhaustive examination of
the strange pile and Its site has reveal
ed the fact that the tower that once
stood here consisted of seven stages of
brickwork on an earthen platform, each
being of a different color.
The tower boasted of a base meas
urement of nearly 000 square feet and
rose to an unknown height. Even to
day the ruins rise some ICO feet above
the level of the surrounding plain.—
Wide World Magazine.
WHEN YOUTH DIES.
Shock of the First Realization That
One Is Getting Old.
The moment when one first feels
acutely that he Is no longer young is
bound to make one pause In something
akin to consternation. For vividness it
is like a flash of lightning across a
black sky. Life no longer is all before
one; even, more dreadful thought, it
may be mostly behind.
After the first keen realization there
follows a bewildered state of mind due
to unwillingness—yes, to an actual puz
zled inability to accept the truth. With
all the agony of the startled call of a
child at night the heart cries out, “It
cannot be; it is not so."
Youth dies hard and fights and strug
gles in its dying like an imprisoned
bird. Others, even those near and dear,
are older, are even old; we can see that
But how can the stubborn facts be
true us to ourselves? Very gradually,
little by little, lighting its way inch by
inch, the truth prevails and gnaws at
the heart—though only Intermittently,
of course— unlil time numbs this emo
tion as it does every other one —Robert
L. Raymond in Atlantic Monthly.
Poetry and Noses.
I have read that no poem was ever
written to a nose. Can you, offhand,
recall a single rapturous or even admir-,
ing description of one? I search my
memory in vain, but produce instead
one instance that has always interested
me by neglect. You recall that little
poem of Browning’s. “A Face." the
brief and charming description of a
girl’s profile against a background of
gold. The "matchless mold" of softly
parted lips, the neck "three fingers
might surround" and the "fruit shaped
perfect chin" all receive their due of
praise; the nose, a seeming necessity
In any profile, is not even mentioned.
It may be as well; each reader supplies
In the lovely face the line that suits
him best. The poet may have feared
that by its mere mention he would pro
duce the effect too often given by the
nose in real life—a heaviness that mars
an otherwise charming face.—Atlantic.
Decomposing Water.
Water is decomposed or separated
into its constituent gases by [Kissing a
continuous current of electricity
through it. An ordinary zinc and cop
per voltaic Battery gives sufficient am
perage and also voltage to separate the
oxygen and hydrogen. Oxygen goes to
the pole connected with the copper
plate and hydrogen to the zinc pole or
plate. The volume of hydrogen is dou
ble that of the oxygen, and both are
chemically pure. Steam, if passed over
red hot iron, surrenders its oxygen to
the atoms of the metal, while hydrogen
is given off pure and free.—New York
American.
Bad Memory.
Flatbusb—You've got a piece of
thread about ,vour thumb.
Bensonhurst— Yes. wife put It there
to remind me to mail her letter.
“Did you mail it?’”
“Sure thing."
“Why don’t you remove the thread
then.
"Oh, I’m keeping that on to remind
me to tell her that I forgot to put a
stamp on it.”—Yonkers Statesman.
A Hasty Makeup.
An actor once was cast as a brigand
in “Ingomar.” and the .director told
him to get a rug, throw it about bis
shoulders and sit by a camp Are. He
did so, his face being toward the audi
ence. In a tense situation he stood up.
turned around and almost broke up the
show. Worked in the rug was one
word. “Welcome!”—St. Louis Post-Dls
patch.
Guessed It.
inspector, examining a class in gram
mar. wrote a sentence on the black
board and asked if any one noticed
anything peculiar In it.
After a short silence a small boy ex
claimed:
“Yes. sir: the bad writing.”—Ex
change.
Overcoming Difficulties.
I And nothing so singular in life aa
this, that everything opposing appears
to lose Us substance the moment one
actually grapples with it.—Hawthorne.
None but the ill bred ridicule the pe
culiarities of other*,
Arcade Cafe
OPEN UNTIL 9.P. M.
We Grow Our Own Vegetables
Private Tables
Jack Callin--_ Proprietor
BEST PLAGE TO EAT
MRS. ST. MARIE’S
Moved to Shephard Building,
next Donohoe .& Pimond office.
!7 a m to 9 a m
I.unch It m to 1 p m
8 to 7 p m
THE
LIBERTY THEATRE
CONTINUOUS SHOW
YOU CAN ALWAYS DEPEND
ON SEEING A GOOD SHOW AT
THE LIBERTY.
MORE FEATURES TO
FOLLOW.
WATCH ANNOUNCEMENTS
Admission 25c Children 10c
CITY EXPRESS
MEETS ALL BOATS AND NEVER MISSES \ TRAIN
Auto for Hire Day or Night.
Buy and Sell Anything.
Phone 82 A. SPENARD, Prop.
Mead’s Sheet Metal Works
. PLUMBING, STEAM AND HOT WATER HEATING,
Sheet Metal Work, Metallic Roofing, Mine Air Pipe, Pipe and Kit
tings, Valves, Etc. Motor Boat Supplies.
Located on Broadway VALDEZ, ALASKA
MERCHANT’S CAFE
FRESH BREAD AND PASTRY DAILY
Phone 63 Chas. Fischer, Propr.
VALDEZ REAL ESTATE AGENCY
Doing Business As Usual
UPPER TONSINA ROAD HOUSE
Best of Meals—Prices Reasonable
GENERAL STORE. - TRADING POST.
Telephone connect* with Chitina.
General Freighting. KNUTE NAFSTED. M*r.
V
Independent Laundry Co.
Satisfaction Guaranteed |
Telephone 66
I Foot Keystone Ave
I Roujrh Dry lCc lb
When in Chitina Stop at the
CHITINA HOTEL
Finest Hotel in the Interior—Well Heated, Clean Rooms.
Bar in Connection. Rates Reasonable
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 Valdei 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, Eilamar, Valdez and La
touche. Explosives, S. S. Seward, on the 5th; Latouche, on the 15th; S. S.
Cordova, 25th of each month—right reserved to change this schedule
without notice.
P. B. TRACY, Gen’1 Agent VALDEZ DOCK CO., Local Agent.
Pacific Alaska Navigation Co.
PUGET SOUND
California
Admiral
Lina
PUGET SOUND
Alaska
ALASKA
ii Steamers sail from Seattle at 9 P. M. on
5th, 15th, 35th—EVERY MONTH
Steamer Sailing 15th call* Illamaa and Kodiak—AH Sailing call at Knlk
and Anchorage.
CALIFORNIA
Seattle to San Francisco every Wednesday and Sunday, connecting with
Steamers Yale and Harvard for Southern California.
' i
Right reserved to change schedule without notice
RICHARD J. RINGWOOD. Mgr., SsatGeI VALOEI DOCK CO* Local Agt.