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SATURDAY, JULY 12, 1013.
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LITTLE AND LARGE LONGINGS.
Jt is useless and idle, perhaps
to quarrel with Ihe common hu
man craving for big things, Jjiu'
fortunes, big positions in Hie
public service, big places in so
ciety, and all the pomp and glo
ry of circumstance and power;
hut just the samo the little long
ings we sometimes have are just
as close to us, and mean as much,
as the larger longings, which loo
often we permit to make slaves
and cowards of us.
The habit of dreaming large
dreams is not to be despised or
discouraged, for it is a good and
us.eful habit. But we should
spend at least pari of our lime
within the zone of easy possibil
ities.
The old Cardinal who warned
Cromwell W> (ling away ambition
undertook to Mach a useful les
son.
There is good iu ambition.
Bui ambition is a real evil
when it assumes the form of ob
session.
The lillle longings are the
longings that should master and
direct us. But too often in our
hasty and hot pursuit of impos
sibilities, we overlook and ne
glect utterly the pleasure and in
herent good cheer of the little
things |hat arc \Vit.hin easy reach
of the av'eiage man. We waul
to spin along the roadways in
high power machines or shoot
through the air in aeroplanes,
when a good, bracing walk
"through tin* woods would teach
and help us infinitely more than
fast going in a mechanical dev
ice; or we will dream and toil
for years for a palatial launch
aide Iu weal her the deep waters,
when a lillle canoe, light enough
to he varied under the arm,
would satisfy all the longings of
ancient mariners and pirates that
linger in our natures
And we can take the walk, or
wet can gel Hie canoes, for these
pleasures are inexpensive.
Probably that is why so many
men and women do not care for
pleasures of this kind. There is
a popular notion that the (inest
■-■and best things are the things
that cost. most. It is a false no
tion.
\\9haf we need to learn is that
the satisfaction of a little long
ing is as pleasurable as is the
satisfaction of a big longing.
Life is made up of little and
large dreams. Our little dreams
are many, and our big dreams
are few; our little dreams easily
Tipejit into realities; too often our
big dreams are doomed to fail
ure, and we should Idarn, there
fore, to reap these little jewels
of pleasure which lie within the
zone of easy possibilities.—Ex.
Meredith Nicholson has refus
ed a diplomatic appointment and
the President is determined to
select some other literary man
for the place. If this keeps up, i
none will feel safe from the dan
gelr of being drafted into the
service.
The c-able reports the Duke of
|V]es trains ter taking a hopeful
view of the future of polo in En
gland. The refcord shows that
the American players did not
leave anything except a hopeful
view for the English.
A Chicago writer has discov
ered twenty-eight wrong ways to
use a broom. Possibly the young
girls of the day refuse to use a
broom because they fear the>; will
make the mistake of using it the
wrong way.
John Barrett has written a
magazine article in which he
tells the world that the future of
the United States is assure*!.
■Nothing else was needed to make
xis a nation of optimists. J
A NIGHT ALARM.
K Promised Some Excitement, but the
Climax Was Tame.
It happened during the Boer war.
A small detachment of English in
fantry was stationed in a block
house some considerable distance
outside the English lines. In order
to insure themselves against a night
attack the members of the little
garrison had surrounded the block
house with a barbed wire fence
at a distance of about 150 yards
from the blockhouse itself. To
make doubly sure that they would
not be surprised the men had tied
tin cans to the fence in such a posi
tion that the minute anything came,
in contact with the wire the cans
would rattle.
It so happened that a certain
nervous young private was on guard
one fine moonlight night. Iiis duty
consisted in making the rounds of
the blockhouse at frequent intervals.
It was well along past midnight,
and the garrison, with the exception
of the lone Tommy Atkins on guard,
was fast asleep. Fitful breezes blew,
and fleecy white clouds scurrying
across the sky obscured the moon
from time to time. As the guard
turned a corner of the blockhouse
he heard a faint tinkle. He came
to a halt. There was another tinkle,
this time somewhat louder than be
fore, and the moon suddenly came
out from behind the clouds. Down
along the farthest corner of the
fence something grayish white mov
ed. The guard brought his gun up
to his shoulder and blazed away at
the disturber.
In a moment the whole garrison
was astir. One after the other the
men piled out to assist their com
rade. Again the tinkle of cans, and
once more the moon shone brightly
for a second, and again the grayish
white figure darted along the fence.
This time a dozen rifles disturbed
the still night air. Then all was
quiet. The moon shone brightly
once more, but there was no sign
of life along the fence.
The guard was doubled, and tne
garrison turned in again. In the
morning while the men were at
mess everybody still wanted to know
what everybody had been shoot
ing at.
“It was my shirt,” snapped a ser
geant who had seen service in In
dia—“my shirt what I washed and
hung out to dry. And you didn’t
only shoot at it, but you put three
holes in it,” he continued. “Things
’ave come to a pretty pass when a
man has to get up out of bed to
shoot his own shirt off a barbed
wire fence.”—New York Post.
The Deacon Was Right.
A minister one Sabbath announc
ed to his flock that he would have
to leave them, as he was called to
another field.
“How much more salary do you
expect to get there than here ?” ask
ed one of the deacons.
“Three hundred dollars,” remark
ed the minister with some hesita
tion.
“I don’t blame you for goin’,”
remarked the deacon, who had been
a worldly man in his time, “but you
should be more exact in your lan
guage. That isn’t a ‘call;’ it’s a
‘raise.’ ”—Philadelphia Ledger.
The Word “Fudge."
The expression “Fudge!” which
is heard so often nowadays, is not
a new one. On the contrary, its
origin dates back to the reign of
Charles II., when there was a sea
captain who was named Fudge. No
matter how unsatisfactory his voy
age, this nautical man always re
turned with an endless string of
preposterous tales of great deeds
and success. His propensity for
falsifying became so well known
that whenever any one was heard
telling a questionable exploit it be
came the custom to cry, “Oh, you
Fudge it!”
Dr. Johnson and Fasting.
Fasting was no hardship to Dr.
Johnson. He enjoyed his food when
he had it and was content when he
hadn’t. “I never feel any differ
ence upon myself from eating one
thing rather than another,” he said.
“There are people, 1 believe, who
feel a difference, but 1 am not one
of them, and, as to regular meals, I
have fasted from the Sunday’s din
ner to the Tuesday’s dinner without
any inconvenience. I believe it best
to eat just as one is hungry, but a
man who is in business or a man
who has a family must have stated
meals.”
Getting Square.
“I walked into a restaurant,” said
the man with the grouch, “and the
waiter gave me a cracked plate, a
knife that was chipped, a fork that
was bent, and the glass with the wa
ter in it was unwashed.”
“Of course you complained to the
proprietor,” said some one.
“No," replied the man with the
grouch, “but when I left 1 tipped
that waiter with a plugged nickel.”
—Puck.
Go to the
ARCADE
for quick, clean service.
RAKERY ^CONNECTION
U EVERYTHING GOOD
JACK CAL.LIN & CO.
Launches and Lighters
For Sale, Rent or Charter
Weekly service to Ellamar
Landlock and Fidalgo
► Cnpt. D. E. MORRIS, City Dock
BARGAINS
ADLER will sell
A Bailey piano in first class
shape at a bargain.
A Five-room house with ten
foot shed for less than lumber
cost.
LAUNCH VIKING
Leaves from Valdez dock for
SHOUP BAY
and way points at 10 a. m. Daily
W. J. CALLAGHAN.
When In Seward Stop at the
COLEMAN HOUSE
GEORGE SEXTON, PROP.
SlRICTLY FIRST CLASS
Fourth Ave Seward, Alaska
Schedule for the Donaldson.
The following schedule for the
launch Lieut. C. V. Donaldson,
will take effect today (June 19;.
All orders to the contrary are re
voked :
Daily, Saturday and Sunday ex
cepted.
Leave Fort Liscum at 8:15 a.
m. and 1:15 p. in.
Leave Valdez at 10 a. m. and
5:30 p. in.
SPECIAL TRIPS.
Tuesday, leave Fort, Liscum 5
jo m., leave Valdez 2:30 p. in.
Saturday, leave Fort Liscum
1:15 p. m. and 7 p. m.; leave Val
dez i p. in. and 10:30 p. m.
Sundays, such trips as may he
ordered.
There will he no trips for the
launch on the second and fourth
!■ relays each month, these days
being used to clean boilers.
Special trips or cancelling of
abov1 will be made without no
tice only to meet the exigencies
of the service.
By order of Lieut. Col. O’Neil.
L. A. KUNZIG,
First Lieut. 30th Infantry, Quar
termaster.
Cable Office Hours.
Week days 9 a. m. to 9 p. m.
Sundays and holidays 9 to 10
.. m. and 5 to 6 p. m.
The Order of Alaskan Moose
Postoffice Hours.
Week days 9 a. m. to 6 p. m.
Sundays and holidays 12 noon
FORFEITURE NOTICE.
Valdez, Alaska, April 23, 1913.
To H. Muir, your heirs and ad
ministrators, and to all whom
it may concern:
You are hereby notified and
will take notice that 1, the sub
scriber, T. E. Dougherty, have
expended during the year A. D.,
1912, one hundred dollars ($100)
in labor and improvements upon
the ‘ Minnie" lode mining claim.
Said claim is situated and lies in
the Valdez Recording Precinct,
Territory of Alaska, about six
miles from Shoup bay. The no
tice of location thereof is of rec
ord in Book 8 of Records, at page
370, in the office of the United
States Commissioner for the Val
dez Recording Precinct at Val
dez, Alaska, to which book and
page reference is hereby made for
a more particular description of
said claim. Said expenditure was
made, for the purpose of holding
possessory right and title to said
mining claim under the provis
ions of Section twenty-three hun
dred and twenty-four of the Re
vised Statutes of the United
States and the amendments there
to, providing for the annual la
bor upon mining claims, said
amount being the suip required
to hold said mining claim during
the period ending the thirty-first
day of December, 1912.
If you fail or refuse within
ninety days from the personal
service of this notice, if person
al service be had, or within ninety
days after the publication of this
notice to contribute your propor
tion of such expenditure as a co
owner, your proportion, being in
the.sum of eighteen dollars and
seventy-five cents ($18.75), your
interest in said claim will become
the property of the subscriber,
who is vour co-owner, and who
has made the expenditure and
improvements as above mention
ed pursuant to the provisions of
the said statute.
Dated Valdez, Alaska, April 23,
1913.
T. E. DOUGHERTY.
Date first pub. April 24, 1913.
Date last Phb. July 20, 1913.
HEADQUARTERS
•FOR'
Miners and Prospectors
Supplies
Copper River
Draying Co
Freight ing and passengers to all peris
of the interior. General Trucking
bid. Wood, - Proprietor
McKiniej St, Valdez
Chas. R. Crawford
Wall Street Phone 159
Plate glass, window glass, roofing and
building papers, roofing pitch, lime, ce
ment, plaster lath,^ shingles, builders*
hardware. Shop and job work of all kinds
Windows, Doors, Moulding, Finish
ing Lumber
Agents for Fairbanks, Morse & Co.
Valdez Sheet Metal Works
Manufacturers of
YAKSHAW STOVES
Plumbing, Steam and Hot
Water Heating, Pumps and
Well Points.)
Sheet Metal Work of Every
Description, Hose Valves,
Ires °ipe, Fittings.
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ALASKA WATER, LIGHT & TEL EPHONE COMPANY.
Steam Heat Electric Lightal
THE COPPER BLOCK
Finely Furnished Rooms All Modern Conveniences
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Copper River Lumber Co., Inc.
ALL KINDS OP
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CONSTANTLY ON HAND
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