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SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1914.
PARTISANSHIP DWINDLING.
One of the significant political de
velopments in this country during
the past ten years has been the steady
subordination of partisanship to pa
triotism by men of every shade of
political belief. The Lowell, Mass.,
Courier-Citizen comments as follows,
with pith upon one feature of the
change:
JJU IIOL, WC UCSCCUU JUU, ltn* unu
the notion that this great country de
pends for its future absolutely upon
party politics That is a crazy idea
held by superficial reasoners alone.
It never had any basis of fact, but the
ease with which people could be got
to believe it has been traded upon
by both our great pol'tical parties on
occasion, and will be relied upon yet
again. Without doubt there will be
reactions from time to time against
-parties in power—and often the re
action will, w'ithin limits, have a ba
sis of justice. Remember, always,
that it is a surface condition and that
whatsoever happens in political cir
cles, this country is vast, is full of
resourceful men, has untold wealth
locked up in its bosom, and will go
on just as surely as goes on the solar
system. Have a little broad faith in
your times, and in your country, and
in the immutable laws of nature; and
have a little less abject reverence for
the powyer of a fewT politicians to turn
back the sun in heaven.”
AVe need go no farther than the
non-partisan votes by which the re
cently enacted tariff and currency
reform bills were enacted to see in
concrete form the desire of the Amer
ican people that where big issues are
concerned their representatives ig
nore the arbitrary dividing line of
parties. Roth measures picked up
votes in each house from all three!
parties, as has been tlte truth with
important legislation during a part of
the Roosevelt regime, much of Taft’s i
administration and so on into the day
of AVilson. Of course, where great
crises face the nation, as in the rase
of war or panic, party lines automat
ically dissolve. But it has remained ]
for legislation and presidential con- j
tests in peace times to develop the;
death knell of the more bitter species
of partisanship.
Parties there are and always will be
as long as we have government by
the people, and as long as men har- ■
bor honest difference in conviction.!
But it begins to look as though we i
nave ieany uiuueu a imai uucnpn
to the time when men will vote sim- j
ply because of the label of a party,
or when intelligent congressmen will j
support or oppose measures bearing |
on the universal welfaree simply be- ,
cause they originate in the opposite
camp.
At the last analysis the intelligent;
American has awakened to the true j
function of parties. And this is their j
business to afford him a medium to!
express his convictions and desires ir
respective of the title they hear. That
development is itself notable pro
gress, since when men keep the end i
and the means to the end in proper
perspective, much has been aceom- ]
plished.—Atlanta Constitution.
Episcopal Church.
Services at the Church of the Epi
phany Sunday are:
Holy Communion 11:00.
fjinday School at Everyman’s
Clubhouse 12:00 M.
Evening Prayer and Public Discus
sion 7:30 p. m. Main subject,
"Church History.”
Catholic Church.
Sunday services:
Confession and holy communion.
8:3# a. m„
Mass and sermon, 10:30 a. m.
Sunday school, 2:00 p. m.
Rosary, instruction and benediction,
7:30 p. m.
FATHER VAN der POL, S. J„
Pentecostal Mission.
Regular meetings:. Sunday, 3 p. m.
and 7:30 p. m„ also Monday, Tues
day, Thursday and Friday at 7:30.
Bible study each Monday evening.
LAYING A BRITISH GHOST.
East India Natives Used an English
Formula, So They Thought.
Ix>rd Crewe, secretary of state for
Indin, told a story of the jungle when
bidding goodby to a number of officers
newly appointed to government serv
ice in India at an informal reception
at the India office.
“I remember bearing years ago in
India a story of a young subaltern who
went alone on a shooting expedition
away into the wild country of the
Malabar coast. The poor fellow was
attacked by fever in the jungle, died
and was buried, and the people where
he died felt themselves in no little dif
ficulty as to how his spirit might be
pacified and not haunt them.
“It was necessary, therefore, to
place upon his grave something dis
tinctively British, which would keep
the spirit quiet. They were a hundred
miles from any cantonment, but I was
told that a small party of these simple
folk went down to tills cantonment
and purchased a bottle of whisky, two
bottles of soda water and a paper of
cheroots, which they placed on the
grave, and 1 was told that, in spite of
difficulties, every year a party of them
trotted down for the same purpose.
"It seems a matter for regret that a
concrete expression of England’s na
tional genius could not have found
outlet in a different formula.”—rail
Mall Gazette.
IN A FAMOUS CATHEDRAL
Views From the Upper Regions of St.
Paul’s, In London.
The famous whispering gallery of
St. Paul’s cathedral, London, Is reach
ed by a flight of twenty steps from the
library. This gallery, which is about
210 feet above the cathedral floor. Is
noted for a curious echo and is so
named because a whisper uttered near
the wall on oue side of it is distinctly
audible to a person standing on the
other side, a distance of 108 feet in a
straight line.
From this point a good view is ob
tained of the church interior, the tea
sedated pavement of which looks like
a minute chessboard, but it is liable
to cause giddiness to any one not used
to heights. It also commands the
best view of Thornhill’s paintings and
of the cathedral generally.
From the whispering gallery 118
steps lead up to the stone gallery, an
outer gallery with a stone parapet
running round the base of the dome.
Here In the clear sky of early morning
may often he obtained a wonderful
view of London, n view which is still
more extensive from the golden gal
lery above the dome.
From this point the lantern may be
ascended by a spiral staircase to the
golden hall, where six persons may
stand at once.-Argonaut.
One's Own Company.
One of (lie (ests of character is the
ability of a man to find satisfaction—
without egotism—in his own society.
One who cannot be alone without a
miserable restlessness must lie the vic
tim of a structural defect in his per
sonality. The well stored mind |.ro
vides company enough for an occasion
al interval of solitude. He who has
rend well and thought much and care
fully observed has introduced himself
to a society which will afford him en- |
tertainment when none, in the flesh,
is present. If a man is afraid to lie
alone it must he because he is afraid
of his own thoughts or because his
thoughts are few and scattered and
cannot fill the vacuity. Some of us
cannot afford to think, when, as the
poet puts it. "but to think is to he
full of sorrow." At such a time we
catch eagerly at any diversion that
puts to rout the shadows.—Philadel
phia Ledger.
How He Learned English.
Wing See some years ago came to
Now York from San Francisco to see
the big city before returning to bis na
tive land, where he hoped to live on
the money which be had saved. He
wanted to learn a little English and
reuted a room on the east side over a
store. He was a quiet man of good
habits and soon made himself useful
in the store, where be gave his time in
exchange for the language experience.
After six months he was ready to go
to China, and after all arrangements
for his trip had been made he went to
Chinatown to show his English, lie
was surprised to find that his English
speaking countrymen did not under
stand him and finally learned to his
horror that he had lived in u German
district and had learned German by
mistake.—New York Tribune.
Not Dead.
The big red touring car struck a
pedestrian, rolling him in the mud
and maltreating him In general. The
owner ran back, greatly excited, aftei
stopping his ear.
"Is he dead?” he asked anxiously ol
tlie medical man who was attending
the victim.
"Oh. no!” replied the doctor cheer
fully. “He’s not dead He’s merely
run down.”—Chicago News.
Too Much of It.
Greene—How does It happen that you
don’t trade at Cleaver’s any more'
You used to brag about the nice cute
.of meat he always sent you. Is It be
cause be wouldn’t give you credit?
Gray—On.the contrary; It Is because be
did.—Boston Transcript.
Placing Homor- . •
"Who was Homer?"
“The great sporting writer wh.Q
wrote up the Greek-Trojan serlee."
I.oulsvllle Courier-Journal.
Carpet is purchased by tbe yard »n<
worn by the foot
YOUR MISTAKES.
Study Them, Then Profit From Them,
and Go Ahead.
Study your mistakes.
There are two kinds of mistakes.
Those that happen from ordinary hu
man misthinking and those that come
from carelessness and petty unthiuk
ii *
Study your mistakes.
No one ever gets too big to make
mistakes. The secret is that the big
man is greater than his mistakes, be
cause lie rises right out of them and
passes beyond them.
After one of Henry Ward Beecher’s
sermons in Plymouth church, Brook
lyn, a young man came up to him and
said, “Mr. Beecher, did you know that
you made a grammatical error in your
sermon this morning?”
“A grammatical error!" answered
Beecher. “I’ll bet my hat that I made
forty of them!”
Half of the power of the forceful
man springs out of his mistakes of one
sort or another. They help to keep
him human.
.Study your mistakes.
I?ut the mistakes that tear away the
power of a man, weaken him and
make him flabby are the stupid, the
reckless mistakes. The clerk who for
gets. the stenographer that doesn't
care, the worker who neglects—these
are the ones whose life blood and vi
tality are sapped and sucked away
into failure.
Study your mistakes.
One of the great tilings of each day
for you is to do your best, unmindful
of mistakes. But after your work is
done and you realize your blunders,
don't shirk, don’t whine, don't de
spond, but—
Study your mistakes.
Then protit from them, and go
ahead!—From “You Can,” by George
Matthew Adams.
CRITICS AND GENIUS.
Carlyle Denounced Spencer, and Rus
kin Ridiculed Whistler.
The good critic must in some way
begin by accepting literature as it is,
just as the good lyric poet must begin
by accepting life as it is. He may be
as full of revolutionary and reforming
theories as he likes, but he must not
allow any of these to come like a
cloud between him and the sun, moon,
and stars of literature. The man who
disparages the beauty of flowers and
birds and love and laughter and cour
age will never be counted among the
lyric poets, and the man who questions
tiie beauty of the inhabited world the
Imaginative writers have made—a
.^Jorhl as unreasonable in its loveliness
as tlie world of nature—is not in the
way of becoming a critic of literature.
Another argument which tells in fa
vor of the theory that the best crit
tcisui is praise is the fact that almost
all the memorable examples of critical
folly have been denunciations. One
remembers that Oarl.vle dismissed
Herbert Spencer as a "never ending
ass." One remembers that Byron j
thought nothing of Keats-Jack Ketch,
as lie called him. One remembers that
Hie critics damned Wagner's operas as
a new form of sin One remembers
that Buskin denounced one of Wills
tier’s nocturnes as a pot of paint flung
in the face of the British public. In
tile world of science we have a thou
sand similar examples of new genius
being hailed by the critics as folly and
charlatanry.—Robert T.yml in British
Review.
Thought He Was In India.
When Rodyard Kipling reached Lon
don from India in his search for fame
and fortune he lodged in some-small
rooms on Villiers street. One morn
ing a friend called, and when lie found
himself in Kipling’s sitting room he was
surprised to see a handsome mirror
which stood over the fireplace “smash
ed to smithereens.”
“Snakes." said Kipling, noticing the
look of astonishment on ids friend’s
face. “I was dozing In my chair yes
terday evening, and my foot slipped
out of my shoe, which for comfort I
had unlaced. Half waking. I felt with
my foot for the shoe and began slip
ping it in when my toes touched the
leather tongue. ’Snake!’ flashed across
my sleepy brain. I gave oue desperate
kick, and when the shoe struck that'
mirror I realized that I was in Lon
don and not in India."
Splendid, but Ladylike Golf.
I know now when :i young Indy be
gins to piny “really splendid" golf,
says a writer in tile Glasgow News
Two young ladies entered oar com
partment at Wliitecraigs. and. having
placed a bag of shining clubs on the
rack, one of them said to her corn pin
ion. "t>o yon know, you played really
splendid golf today." “Oh. how could
you say that?" exclaimed lire other in
pleased ton^s. “You know I haven't
long started.” "Oh. that's nothing,"
explained ihe critic in tones that clear
ly left no doubt in the mind of the
criticised one. “Didn’t you only miss
the ball three times'in eighteen holes?”
Musical Teat.
Mrs. Newrich (who has advertised
for a pianist)—So yon are the music
teacher tbnt answered my advertise
merit? Pianist—Yes. ma’am. Mrs.
Newrich — Well, sit down and play
a^ couple of duets, so that I can see
what you can do.—Yonkers Statesman.
Modest.
Muggins—Do you ever lie .« yo.ii
wife?
Huggins—Only when-1 tell her I am
not worthy of her.-,Philadelphia tti. -
ord.
A man whose only motive for action
to wages does a bad piece of work.
Cbariee Wegner.
Spring
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Fine Clothes.
_ 1914
NOTICE OF ELECTION.
Notice is hereby given that; pur
suant to an order made by the dis
trict court of the Territory of Alaska,
Third division, in the matter of the
annexation of certain territory to the
incorporated Town of Valdez, the
common council of the Totvn of Val
dez has called -n election to be held
in said town and in the territory pro
posed to be ann xed to said town, on
Saturday, March 21, 1914, to determ
ine whether said territory shall be
so annexed as prayed for in the peti
tion therefor, liled in said district
court as provided by law'. The de
scription of said territory as set up
in said petition, is as follows, to-wit:
Beginning at Meander Corner No.
1 of the Valdez townsite survey and
running thence south. 24 degrees, 19
minutes, 14 seconds east. 240.628
feel; thence south 53 degrees, 32
minutes east, 1228.26 feet; thence
south, .74 degrees, 52 minutes east,
568.26 feet; thence south, 45 degrees,
43 minutes east, 136.62 feet; thence
south, 30 degrees. 27 minutes west,
131.24 feet; thence south, 29 degrees,
12 minutes west, 123.42 feet; thence
south, 14 degrees, 45 minutes west,
51.95 feet; thence north, 61 degrees,
27 minutes east, 5000 feet; thence
north, 28 degrees, 48 minutes wrest,
2050 feel; thence south 61 degrees,
30 minutes west, 5700 feet, to place
of beginning.
Al such election qualified electors
are invited to vote upon said prop
osition to annex said described ter
ritory to the Town of Valdez by plac
ing upon their ballots the words “For
annexation to the Town of Valdez,”
or “Against annexation to the Town
of Valdez,” or words equivalent there
to.
The polling place for such election
in th" Town of Valdez shall be in
the hall of the common council on
Broadway avenue. The polling place
in the territory proposed to be an
nexed shall be in the ground flooi
room of the Fish building on McKin
ley street, adjoining the Tillikum
('lib. The polls shall be open from
9 a. in. to 6 p. m. of March 21, 1914
The election board designated foi
the Town of Valdez is composed of the
following persons: Judges—11. IV
Sullivan, Louis Rosenthal, Thoma-s
Hunt; clerks—J. J. Cavana, Dan Wil
cey.
The election board designated for
Jhe territory proposed to be annexed
is composed of the following persons:
Judges—Adam Swan, Oliva Maroise.
J. H. Bell; clerks—Frank Millard,
Robert Weber.
The qualifications of an elector en
titled to vote at such election, pre
scribed by law, are as follows: He or
she shall be a male or female per
son of the age of twenty-one years
or more and shall be the owner of
substantial property interests in land,
building or improvements on land or
tide land withia the said corporation
•r the territory proposed to be an
nexed to er incorporated within sueh
corporation.
TOWN OF VALDEZ.
By E. B. RITCHIE, Mayor.
RANDALL E. ASHBY,
Town Clerk.
First publication Feb. 29, 1914.
Last publication March 29, 1914.
Hospital of the Qood Samaritan.
For *9.09 wo will give you a ticket
entitling you to hospital service and'
care for any eight weeks out of the
year from data of your ticket, when
incapacitated by Injury er slckndss.
See W. H. Ziegler.
CAMP VALDEZ No. 10 |
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Mcei every* Tuesday evening at a o'ciock in
I Ea^le Hall. All members are reqjested to
attend. T. (1. QUINN. Arctic Chief
S. MONIECK. Secretary
Local Valdez
SOCIALIST PARTY
Meets Thursdays at
8 o’clock at
the local quarters back of
Ingram & Bush’s Cigar Store !
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Summons for Publication.
Theo. Emel, plaintiff, vs. W. Fred
Swanson and F. A. Hancock, defend
ants.—No. 653. Summons for Publica
tion.
To the above-named defendant,
W. Fred Swanson:
You are hereby required to appear
in the district court for the Territory
of Alaska, Third Division, within
thirty days after the completion of
publication of this summons against
you, iu-wh, wiuim imriy aays alter
the 28th of March, 1914; and answer
the complaint of plaintiff filed here
in, and unless you so appear and an
swer the plaintiff will apply to the
court for the relief demanded in the
complaint, decreeing her to be the
owner of the launch Anita, and that
neither you nor your co-defendant has
any interest in or title to the same.
Witness the Hon. Fred M. Brown,
judge of said court, this 13th day of
February, 1914. ARTHUR LANG,
Clerk of the District Court, for the
Territory of Alaska, Third Division.
By T. I>. GERAGHTY, Deputy Clerk.
First publication Feb. 14, 1914.
Last publication March 21, 1914.
Notice to Creditors.
In the United States Commissioner's
Court, ex officio Judge in Probate,
Valdez Precinct, Third Judicial Di
vision, Territory of Alaska.
In the matter of the estate of Peter
Steinmetz, deceased. W. A. Rysirom,
administrator.—Notice to Creditors.
Notice is hereby given hr the un
dersigned, administrator of the estate
of Peter Steinmetz, deceased, to the
creditors of, and all persons having
claims against the said estate, to ex
hibit them, with the necessary vouch
ers, within six (6) months after the
first publication of this notice, te the
said administrator at the office of C.
E. Bunnell, at Valdez, Alaska, the
same being the place for the trans
action of the business of said estate.
Dated at Valdez. Alaska, this lfith
day of February, J#14.
W. A. RYSTROM.
Administrator of the estate of Peter
Steinmetz, deceased.
First publication Feb. 11, 1914.
Last publication Marob 1C, 1914.
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Dr. H. COCKER1LLE
Graduate of National University
■Washington,'D. C.
DENTIST,
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Mineral Surveyor
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