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WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 17, 1913.
GOLD AND NOMENCLATURE.
Towns springing up along the Shu
shanna trail are a reminder of the
wealth of picturesque geographical
nomenclature which owes its creation
to gold discoveries. This goes back
to the early days of California and
continues down to the present.
California was long synonymous
with gold. Its nomenclature, while
Spanish, is picturesque and descrip
tive. So it is in Colorado and Ne
vada. In Oregon it began to merge
with the aboriginal, and the farther
north the gold belt was traced the
more pronounced the tendency to
search the native dialects for strik
ing names.
This tendency has developed into a
positive climax in the north. The
Klondike came first. No name ever
conveyed so much of the distinctively
picturesque to the imagination. Its
appeal was instant and positive. The
name of this city, coupled with that
of the Klondike, served to introduce
Seattle to millions who had never
heard of it.
Then came Nome—ii cape marked
on the maps as ‘‘No Name,” which
was contracted into Nome. This was
followed by the Tanana and the Koy
ukuk; then by the Innoko and the
Iditarod, and finally the Shushanna
and the Nelchina, and on the Shu
shanna trail are the Donjek and Snag
rivers and in the Shushanna country
are the Chathenda and Horsefelt
creeks.
Distinctive and pisturesque names
are easily remembered and fasten at
tention on the region. Alaska lends
itself to the picturesaue, a charac
teristic which is heightened by its
striking gold camp nomenclature.—
Seattle Post-Intelligencer.
COURTING DISASTER.
We hope it was not in vain that Mr.
Taft appealed to Woodrow Wilson’s
work on constitutional government for
confirmation of his hope and belief
that the administration will be guid
ed by the light of wisdom and ex
perience in its policy of providing a
government for the Philippine is
lands. Mr. Wilson wrote, in the pass
age quoted from his book by Mr.
Taft, that “self-government is not a
mere form of institutions to be had
when desired." but “it is a form of
character. It follows upon the long !
discipline which gives a people self
possession, self-mastery, a habit of
order and peace and common counsel,
and a reverence for law which will
not fail when they themselves become
the makers of law; the steadiness of
self-control and political maturity.”
For the sake of our national honor
and reputation it is, we say, fervently
to be hoped that respect for these
profound political truths will be the
safeguard of the administration
against a policy in the Philippines
that can lead only to disaster.
It is undisputed, it is beyond all
dispute, that these two men, from
their long and intimate experience,
.jave a profounder and a surer knowl
edge of the Filipino character and of
the needs of the people of the Phil
ippine islands than any other men in
the United States. To disregard the
warnings of these men and turn for
guidance to others who have no com
ptence whatever to express an opin
ion upon the Philippines, and who
speak with the self-given authority
of theories formed without any study
or any knowledge, theories which
Woodrow Wilson condemned in his
earlier writings, cited by Mr. Taft,
would be a course of incredible hardi
hood. To encourage the Filipinos in
the belief that independence and self
government are to be theirs within a
short time would be an act of un
speakable cruelty to them. But to
prepare for the application of such a
policy and actually to put it into ex
ecution in the islands would lead us
to endless difficulties and confusion,
to inevitable disaster. The adminis
tration has something more vital than
its own theories to consider. The
honor of the nation is involved in its
Philippine pol'cy.—New York TlmeB.
Football.
. (By George Fitch.)
Football, which becomes epidemic
in September of each year, is a per
petual contest between the rules com
mittee and the coroner, w'th the form
er at present several laps in the
lead.
Football is a concerted end avor
on the part of eleven impetuous
young men to tunnel through eleven
other stubborn and strong-minded
youths, with the obj ct of carry’ng a
$3.00 leather ball to a goal line not
far away. The ball could be sent by
parcels post or aeroplane in much less
time and at far less expense, but this
would not be sport. Sport consists of
doing an easy thing in the most dif
ficult manner possible—which is why
golfers play their game with the aid
of a caddy instead of a messenger
boy
When eleven husky young men try
to get through a place occupied by
eleven other husky young men some
thing has to give way. In the case
of football it is usually a collar bone,
though the tibia and fibula are also
great sufferers. When football had
progressed to a perfection which nec
essitated the delaying of the game af
ter each play in order to piece the
players together, the census authori
ties interefered and the rules com
mittee came to the rescue.
Football in its new denatured form
is played by a referee and umpire,
with the assistance of the revised
rules, neatly bound in 11 volumes,
at $1 per volume or $3 for full leath
er. The new game ;s as interesting
as parchesi. The player tak s the
ball and rams it through five men
for four yards. The officials then
bring it back ten yards on account
of rule 22, series II. Another player
then carries it forward 35 yards. The
officials take it back 40 yards and
give it to the opposition. The op
position then trips on its own feet,
falls down in a heap, loses the ball,
busts a garter and is awarded 25 yards
by rule 678, ring twice The opposi
tion then kicks goal, for which it
loses the ball and ten yards and re
ceives a warning.
This so heartens the other side
that it fumbles the ball ten yards
back of its own line and is given 20
yards by the referee on the ground
that the left guard ticked an oppo
nent while brushing past him. The
attacking side now makes ten yards !
more by sitting on the ball and yell- j
ing for help, and ten yards when the I
center passes the ball over the full- j
back’s head. Victory is now in sight, 1
but unfortunately the attacking half- j
back now makes a 70-yard run and (
touchdown. For this his side loses
the ball and seven points, the quar
ter-back is ejected from the field, the j
business manager is conditioned in
history II and the game is declared ,
a draw on points.
Football is still inspiring to watch
and is now a safe game, except as !
regards the officials, who must be |
men of great endurance and educa- ;
tion. Too much time is now taken j
out to allow the umpire to keep his I
books and recover his wind, and it j
has been suggested that the game can j
be speeded up by allowing the officials !
to play while the players, who are i
in better physical condition anyway, *
do their work.
WEATHER RECORD.
Taken at 8:00 a. m. Snow is given j
as depth on level, in inches.
Locations— Temp. Snow
Wednesday, December 17, 1913. J
Wortmans, clear, calm .... 50 i
Summit, part cloudy, calm . 78
Beaver Dam, cloudy, ca m .-10 38
Tonsina, clear, calm . • 18 15
Copper Center clear calm 8
Gulkana, cloudy, calm ... 22 18
Hogans, clear, calm . 18
Paxsons, cloudy, calm ... .-18 20
Tuesday, December 16, 1913.
Wortmans, clear, lignt wind 50
Summit, clr, storming hard, 78
Beaver Dam, clear, windy. 0 38
Tonsina, clear, calm.-10 15
Copper Center, calm. 8
Gulkana, clear, calm.-18 8
Hogans, clear, calm . 14
Paxsons, cloudy, windy ... -8 20
__ Holiday Novelties.
Harvey’s Toggery is showing atone
line of holiday novelties.
LOCAL BREVITIES.
Hubby, don’t forget to buy me one
Of the pretty Parisian Ivory Toilet i
Sets at the Valdez Drug Co.—Wifey.
Nothing more appropriate than a
box of Lowney’s dainty candies as a
> Christmas gift. Valdee Drug Store.
__
Buy one of the nifty combination
purse and card cases at the Val
dez Drug Store.
Pine watch and jewelry repairing
all work guaranteed. H. V. Hern
don, wita Owl Drug Co.
Get your wife or girl a set of furs
at Blum’s.
EASTER ISLAND.
A Deserted Land and Its Mysterious
Crude Stone Statues.
Huge and grotesque stone images
stand and lie over tbe fertile surface
of a deserted island far south in the
Pacific. It is n place that Poe might
have sung into existence or Bider Hag
gard created for the scene of some
fantastic romance. Even its name—
Easter island — seems more literary
than geographical. Easter island,
2,000 miles from South America and
1,400 miles east of Pitcairn island, has
on all the forty-five square miles of its
area less than 200 people. But it has
other inhabitants, great masses of
rock, 000 in number, each carved into
the semblance of a human figure, the
origin of which is a mystery. These
statues weigh on an average from ten
to twelve tons each, some of them
reaching a weight of forty tones. A
few of them stand on strong platforms
400 feet long, and many similar plat
forms stand untenanted.
At the quarry, which is a crater (for
Easter Island is of volcanic origin), a
number of these images lie half form
ed as the vanished sculptors left them.
There is another crater where the
crowns of the figures were made from
rock of n different sort. Here, too, are
found unfinished specimens.—Church
man.
THE NORTHERN LIGHTS.
It’s a Mistake, Says a Scientist, to Say
They Emit Sounds.
German scientists ure greatly Inter
ested in a discussion regarding new
phenomena revealed by the aurora
borealis, according to recent Norwe
gian .and German observers. People
living in the northern part of Norway
maintained that they often bear sounds
accompanying the northern lights.
These sounds are described by some
as similar to the crackling of flames.
Accordingly German and Norwegian
scientists started out to investigate
the phenomena, and one of them, Olav
Aabakken. lias spent a long time at
the Halide observatory in Finmarkeu.
Aabakken thinks that it is very un
likely that any sound is to be beard
from the northern lights. He main
tains that the human senses are not
to be relied on, especially regarding
tlie phenomena of sight.
Aabakken says that the idea of
sound connected with the northern
lights may result from the fact that
these lights look like flames, and as
people are accustomed to associate the
crackling sound with flames the rath
er uncritical observer of the blazing
movements of the aurora borealis is
apt to think that he really beaus the
sound of those flames.—New York
Press.
His Good Eye.
A man who had lost the sight of
both eyes trained his hearing until lie
could tell by the sound of his footsteps
on the sidewalks as lie made liis way
about town whether be was in the
middle of the walk or at one side,
whether he was walking past a brick
or a frame house or a fence or open
ground. He knew in what part of tlie
town lie was not only by his memory
or sense of general direction, but by
the difference -in the ‘•tones" of his
footsteps, and lie walked about freely,
seldom running into anything or any
body. Some one In his presence once
called in question his total blindness.
“Which eye do you think I can see
with?" he asked the skeptic.
"The left one, of course.” was the
reply. “I can see that the right one is
blind.”
In reply the blind man merely
opened his penknife and tapped the
left eye with the little blade.
It was a glass eye.
Freaks of Nature.
Monument park, near Colorado
Springs. Colo., contains some queer
freaks of nature. Among the most
singular is a group of light grayish
yellow sandstone pillars twenty or
more feet high capped with a thin
layer of dark colored rock which re- -
soluble the tops of giant mushrooms
which have shriveled and partially
dried up. The dark colored capping
being of a much harder (ironstone)
rock than the pillars has to some ex
tent protected the latter from disinte
gration. Especially at nightfall is the
traveled impressed with the weird ef
fect of these gigantic and grotesque
forms, which in the uncertain light
assume the attitudes of huge human
or auinml shapes.—Argonaut.
A Life Saver.
"No." said the timid man, "1 don’t
waut any flying machines today. I’m
afraid of them.”
“Why. sir.” said the persuasive
salesman, “a flying machine might
save your life.”
“How?”
“You might be out riding in one
when an earthquake takes place.”—
Washington Star.
All His Fault.
"Better lap up that spilt millc,” said
the first cat “If the missus sees that
mess you’ll catch fits.”
“Not me.” said the second feline.
"The woman i live with blames every
thing what happens on her husband.”
—Pittsburgh Post
Muoh Harder.
“it is hard for one to have to live in
the past,” announced the melancholy
man who bad retired from business.
“Yes, but often it is harder to Hye
down the past.”—Buffalo Express.
Jesters must he content- to taste
tbelr broth.—I.atJn Proverb.
Copyright Hart SchafJher & Mane
....OUR LINE OF....
Holiday Goods
.
Is the largest ever
shown in town.
■
There is no better Xmas Present
for a Man than
Hart, Schaffner & Marx
Fine Suit orJOvercoat
We are 'showing all [the latast
Styles and Colors.
WE ARE SOLE AGENTS
Light and Power
Since the organization of the
Valdez
Electric
Company
Valdez consumers are getting
electric current at a reduction of
forty per cent in rates.
Support the new company and
keep rates down to bedrock.
Office in Copper'Block
Phone 57
MILK-MILK-MILK
Fre»h'MiIk and Cream
VALDEZ DAIRY
Telephone order* to Phone 187
The prevailing fad is Parisian Ivory
Toilet Articles. A handsome line is
being shown at the Valdez Drug Co.’s
store.
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. in., 2
p. m. and 5:30 p. m.
Tuesdays:
Leave Fort Liscum, Alaska. 8:15 a.
in., 1:15 p. m. and 5 p. m.
Leave Valdez, Alaska, 9:45 a. m„
2 p. m. and 5:30 p. m.
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 ■,
of each month, theee days being us- I
ed to clean boilers.
Special trips or cancelling of the
above will be made without notice
only to meet exigencies of the ser
vice.
fly order of Lieut. Col. O’Neil.
R. O. SHERRARD,
Second Lieut. 30th Infantry, Quar
termaster.
Removal Sale.
Removal sale—City Express store
is removing to Adler's old stand. 'Will
sell at your own prices in order to
i move quickly. Come at once and pick
out the bargains. Lynch & Spenard.
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—Hone; on hand at all times.
JAMES L. SIMPSON.
PROFESSIONAL
Dr. H. COCKERILLE
Graduate of National University
Washington, D. C.
DENTIST
Phone 92 • Fourteen ycarsftn
Office in Whaling building VALDEZ
Next to cable office
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n,.m«.» THE DENTIST
Office rooms over »»vv l Drug store. Office hours
w a. m.. to 6 p. m.. 7 p. in., to 9 p. m. Sundays
by appointment All work guaranteed
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Regular Communications first Wednesday is
each month in MoKioley Hill Visitors always
welcome.
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Visiting Brothers especially inviteti
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