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TUESDAY, DECEMBER 9, 1913.
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CHANGE IN CAMPAIGN METHODS.
Robert Adamson, who was the very
efficient private secretary of Mayor
Gaynor of New York city, and who
managed the recent fusion campaign
which struck the Tammany tiger
dumb, says if he ev r manages an
other campaign he wTl do what he
can to abandon entirely buttons, ban
ners, red fire and like attractions and
will spend the campaign fund in a
more intelligent and effective man
ner. Not much was spent for such
things in the recent New York city
campaign, and this led Mr. Adamson
to believe that it doesn’t pay any
more to resort to banners, etc.
The printed word is doubtlessly
the most effective way to influence
the minds of voters. The public
speech has its value, of course, but
there are relatively few persons any
more who will go out to hear cam
paign orators, unless the orators have
a reputation for wit, eloquence or
some other special quality.
Before newspapers were so num
erous, so complete in their reports,
and so widely read, the stump speak
er, the banner and the marching club
filled a large place in the public eye.
Nowadays it would be very difficult
if not altogether impossible to get
into marching line enough voters to
make up atorclilight parade such as
marked campaigns of the past.
There is more quiet, private delib
eration and less public, demonstra
tion than in the olden days, and the
change is to be welcomed as an evi
dence of more thinking and less feel
ing. Of course, we are still subject
to emotional appeals, but they are
made nowadays in a different way.
The hurrah and hullabaloo do not
count for much any more.
The people are learning, also,
though all too slowly, that the most
eloquent promiser is not usually the
most efficient performer. We are be
ginning to consider standards of effi
ciency and to find that for most of
fices there is no need of special abil
ity in public speaking.
But the banner and the torchlight
and the red fire did a needed service
in their time. They roused electors
and caused them to think about pub
lic questions, though the thinking was
not always as profound as it should
have been.
THE SCHOOLBOY AND HIS TRADE.
Should school help to teach a boy
his tradq? The theyisand delegates
who belong to the National Society
for the Promotion of Industrial Edu
cation think it should. They have
been in session at Grand Rapids,
Mich., to discuss this point. Dr. Leon
ard P. Ayres in his speech summed
up the matter briefly. He said that
Americans have 9,000 way3 of earn
ing a living. Only twenty-one ol
these may be called a steady trade
He also said that half the childrer
who leave the schools do not past
beyond the sixth grade.
The plea, therefore, is for more
schooling, for schools that will put
a finish on what has been gained
in the elementary classes, and above
all, for training that shall fit gradu
ates for the trade or calling they wist
to follow. Be it carpenter, black
smith, machinist, chemist or sales
man—the thing wanted is a school
such as shall make him master of hit
work. &uch schools have been trlee
in Germany with much success
Training schools are needed because
of the changed times in which we
live. Education today is for the
masses, not the few. Science todaj
is applied ' to all sorts of trades anc
manufactures. Schooling is in conse
quence no longer a question of books
It is a question of tools and skill
Six pupils out of every ten must take
up some business or trade, and the
training In school days or in "con
tinuation" school must keep this ene
In view
The vocation school is not Intend
ed to elbow the regular school ou
of the way. It simply means a rt
turn to the common sense notion tha
•education Is just the art of fitting
man for the special thing he has to
do.—Philadelphia Press.
j MRS. NINA VAN ZANDT-SPIES
MALATO-SALAMO.
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Again in tne limelight, Nina Van
! Zandt’s suH for divorce against her
third husband, Gregory Salamo, a
Chicago cafe owner, recalls the fact
that just 26 years ago today August
Spies and three other anarchists were
hanged for participation in the*Hay
market riots. -Nina Van Zandt won
much notoriety by becoming the wife
of Spies in the closing hours of that
great tragedy.
The life of Nina Van Zandt, or
i Mrs. Van Zandt-Spies,Malato-Salamo,
j as she was in the habit of calling
j herself, was replete with sensation
al incidents. She was the daughter
: of one of the wealthiest and most
! exclusive families or Pittsburgh, Pa.
j She was handsome and talented, ev
en brilliant,* and her parents idolized
her and spoiled her by fulfilling ev
i ery one of her whims. She gradu
I ated from Vassar and was considered
j a brilliant scholar and accomplished
1 linguist.
She was on a visit in Chicago when
! Spies and the other anarchists were
! tried, and while attending the trial
as a spectator she fell in love with
Spies. In her impulsive way she
made no secret of her feelings. She
showered Spies with flowers and can
dy, hooks and delicacies, and fre
quently she visited him in prison. It
was Nina who proposed to Spies, but
at first he dechned to link her fate
to his while his life was at stake.
But Nina insisted and finally Spies,
who took a more matter-of-fact view
of the situation, consented. As Sher
iff Maston would not permit the cere
mony to take place in the jail, a
proxy marriage was arranged in
which Louis Spies, a brother of Aug
ust Spies, repr sented the bride
groom. Nov. 11, 1887, Spies was ex
ecuted and Nina donned a widow’s
garb, which was becoming to her
style of beauty. For several years
little was seen or heard of her. She
traveled in Europe and seemed to en
joy life in spite of her bereavement.
In 1895 she was married to Stephen
Malato, now assistant state’s attor
ney, then youthful and unsophisticat
ed. The marriage attracted scarce
ly any interest at the time, but in
1906 Mrs. Malato onee more came in
to the limelight by filing a suit fo
divorce, accusing her husband of in
fidelity and other misdeeds, including
| corruption in buying Italian voters.
I She was granted h r divorce in 1907
I and a year or so later she married
| Gregory Salamo. From the declara
tion in her divorce suit it appears
i that her third marriage was even
i less happy than her former marriages,
j She alleges that Salamo treated her
] with- cruelty and forced her to leave
I him to earn her own living.—Ex.
i _
Kentucky has made a record for a
| short and satisfactory feud. Two men
fought a duel over a woman and kill
ed each other.
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Huerta would rather be president
than right, and that’s why he would
not be a good risk for a life insur
ar> .oiiipu'.iv
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Sometimes it looks like the small
j er the automobile a man drives, the
! bigger the gauntlets he wears on his
I hands.
The fellow with money to burn
doesn’t have to go begging for a light.
Never use flattery with its full
strength. Dilute it with a little tact.
Subscribe for the Prospector.
Schedule of the Donaldson.
The following schedule for the
launch “Lieut. C. V. Donaldson” will
take effect today. All orders to the
contrary are revoked.
Daily, Saturday and Sunday except
ed:
Leave Fort L.scurn, Alaska, 8:15 a.
m. and 1:15 p. m.
Leave Valdez, Alaska, 9:45 a. m., 2
p. m. and 5:30 p. m.
Tuesdays:
Leave Fort Llscum, Alaska, 8:15 a.
m., 1:15 p. m. and 5 p. m.
Leave Valdez, Alaska, 9:45 a. m.,
: 2 p. m. and 5:30 p. m.
i Saturdays:
Leave Fort Liscum, Alaska, 1:15 p.
m. and 7 p.m.
Leave Valdez, Alaska, 4:00 p. m.
and 10:30 p. m.
There will be no trips for the
. launch on the 2nd and 4th Fridays
s of each month, these days being us
i ed to clean boilers.
Special tripB or cancelling of the
I above will be made without notice
only to meet exigencies of the ser
- vice.
t By order of Lieut. Col. O’Neil.
R. O. SHBRRARD,
t Second Lieut. 30th Infantry, Qnar
i termaster.
SLIPPED PAST DEATH.
Curious Cases of People Who Misted
It by a Hair’s Breadth.
At Geneva recently a professional
acrobat who perforins on a trapeze
attached to a balloon fell into the
lake of Zurich, a distance of 1,500
feet. lie swam unhurt to the
shore, just missing death by a few
yards, for had he not sprung from
his seat when within fifty feet of
the lake he would have been dash
ed to pieces on the rocks.
Several instances of people fall
ing from great heights and surviv
ing to tell the tale can be quoted.
At Brighton an actor known as
Lieutenant Daring, who was play
ing the part of a naval officer who
is attacked by brigands in a cine
matograph play and who was sup
posed to slip over the cliff—in re
ality, however, to stand on a plank
which had been placed below the
edge to make the illusion complete
—missed his footing and fell ninety
feet below into the sea, escaping
with a sprained wrist.
An even more miraculous escape
after a fall over a cliff was that of
a seven-year-old child who had been
gathering flowers on Culver cliff,
near Sundown, Isle of Wight, who
slipped and fell 200 feet. She was
only slightly injured, a bottle which
she carried being unbroken.
Often the merest accident pre
vents death. A Cardiff laborer some
time ago fell from a scaffolding
about fifty foot high, but as he fell
his foot caught in the scaffolding,
and lie hung head downward until
rescued. Similarly a woman who
fell out of a window backward at
TIolborn lately was saved from in
stant death by her clothing having
caught in the window catch.
John Hazleton, the son of- Rev.
John Hazleton of St. NooCs, Hun
tingdonshire, when cycling between
Huntingdon and St. Noot’s at night,
was suddenly lifted off his bicycle
by a passing motor and was carried
on the bonnet for a considerable
distance before* being gently de
posited on the road as the car pull
ed up. His cycle was smashed to
atoms.—London Tit-Bits.
First American Duel.
In the year 1630 occurred the
first duel known to have taken place
on American soil. The principals,
Edward Doty and Edward Leister,
were servants of a Mr. Hopkins,
one of the New England colonists.
The men had quarreled over some
trifling matter and resorted to the
field for its settlement. The affair
was stopped by the authorities, but
not before one had been wounded
in the thigh and the other in the
hand. There was no law* covering
such matters, but the governor of
the province decided that the men
should be punished nevertheless.
At his orders they were sent to
have their heads and feet tied to
gether and lie in that condition
twenty-four hours without food or
drink. They suffered so much,
however, that they were released
at the end of an hour.
The Story of Zero.
The word “zero” is from the
Spanish and means “empty,” hence
nothing. . It was first used for a
thermometer in 1795 by a Prussian
named Fahrenheit. By experiment
ing with snow and salt Fahrenheit
found that he could produce a de
gree of cold equal to that of the
coldest winter day. It happened
that the day on which he made his
final experiment was the coldest
anybody , could remember, and,
struck with the coincidence of his
scientific discovery, he hastily con
cluded that he had found the low
est dc*grec of temperature, cither
natural or artificial. He called the
degree “zero” and constructed a
thermometer graduating up from
zero to boiling point, which he num
bered 212 and the freezing point 32.
One Right Left.
A city chap in an effort to cross
a busy street dodged an electric
truck/ leaped over a sixty horse
power roadster, squirmed out of the
way of a trolley car, escaped a taxi
cab by the skin of his teeth and
was just setting his foot on the op
posite sidewalk with a sigh of re
lief when a descending monoplane
bore down on him.
“Has a pedestrian no rights these
days?” cried the poor fellow, dodg
ing this way and that.
“Sure he bus—funeral riteB,” an
swered the aviator, as he volplaned
heavily down on the man’s head.—
Washington Post.
Oescriotiva.
The admiration entertained by a
Trenton bov for his uncle includes
all the hitter’s attributes and even
possessions which the uncle himself
ib nol wont to deem desirable.
“TTnele.” said the lad one day
after he had been studying bis uncle
in laughing conversation with hia
fntlier. “1 don’t care rnneb for plain
teeth like mine. I viab I b*d some
copper toed ones like yonrs.”—Ktw
York (Wohe.
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Holiday Goods
Is the largest ever
t shown in town.
There is'nojbetter Xmas Present
for a Man than
Hart, Schaffner & Marx
Fine Suit or'Overcoat
We are fshowing all the latast
Styles and^Colors.
WE ARE SOLE AGENTS
Custom of “Sin Eating."
IVrhaps the most extraordinary
use to which a loaf of bread was
ever put was in the custom of “sin
eating.” The ceremony is describ
ed by Aubrey in his “Romains of
Gentilisrne and Judaismc” (1G8G):
“In the county of Hereford is an
old custom at funerals to have poor
people who take upon them all the
sinnes of the party deceased. One
of them, l remember, lived in a cot
tage on Itosse Highway. He was a
long, lean, ugly, lamentable poor
rask.al. When the corpse was
brought out of the house and layd
on tiic Bierc a Loafe of bread was
brought out and delivered to the
Sinne eater over the corpse, as also
a mazerbowl of Maple, full of beer,
and sixpence, in consideration of
which he tooke upon him (ipso fac
to) all the sinnes of the defunct,
and 'freed him from walking after
he was dead.”—London Chronicle.
Origin of Steeplechasing.
The grand national, though the
chief event of the steeplechasing
world, was not established until
183!), because the steeplechase is a
late development of horse racing
introduced about a century ago
from Ireland. It was originally, as
tiie name implies, a cross country
contest between hunting men, who
made some distant church steeple
their winning post. The earliest
recorded match of the kind was run
in 1752, from Buttevant church to
the spire of St. I.eger church, in
county Cork. But what is consider
ed “the first regular steeplechase”
followed the festivity of an Irish
hunt dinner in 1803.—Westminste*
Gazette.
CITY EXPRESS STORE
II/P Buy Anything
W L Sell Everything.
LYNCH & SPENARD
Light and Power
S!r>co—the organ'zation of the
Valdez
Electric
Company
Valdez consumers are getting
electric current at a reduction^ :of
forty per cent in rates. “ '
Support the new company. :M»d
keep rates down to bedrock;. u
Offic* in Coppar Block" iv>*
Phone 57
Prospectors,
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. COCKERILLE
Graduate of National University
Washington, D. C.
DENTIST
Phone 92 CFeurtcen yearaCin
Office in Whaling building VALDEZ
Next to cable office
DR. GERMAN
morn ■« THE dentist
office rooms over Owl Drug store. Office hours
P a. rn.. to 0 p. m.. 7 t». in., to 9 p. ui. Sundays
by appointment All work guaranteed
F. BUTTERWORTH
’Civil Engineer and
U. S. Deputy Land and
Mineral Surveyor
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Meet e**ery Tuesday evening at 8 or Jot k Id
Eagle Hall All members are requested to
attend. S. McNJECK. Arctic Chief
Valdez Lodge
No 168.
Free and Accepted Masons
Regular Communications first Wednesday in
each month in McKinley Hall Visitors always
welcome.
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| C. C Reynolds. Sec*
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Meets every Monday at s p. m. in
ODD PELLOWS'HAtil.
Visitinit Brothers especially invited
Wm. Thomas, n. o. P. S Hny -.' p. <. Sac
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Fresh Milk and Cream < >
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Telephone orders to Phone 187 . [
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Contractor and Builder
Day.Work if Desired
Estimates Furnished
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