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THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 1917 '
WHO BIDES HIS TIME.
By JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY.
(Copyright 1887, 1898, by James Whitcomb |
Riley.]
YA7HO bides his time and day by day
’’ Faces defeat lull patiently,
And lifts a mirthful roundelay.
However poor his fortunes be.
He will not fail in any qualm
Of poverty--the paltry dime
It will grow golden in his palm,
Who bides Ills time.
WIO bides his time—he tastes the sweet j
Of honey In the saltest tear;
And though he fares with slowest feet j
Joy runs to meet him, drawing near.
The birds are heralds of his cause,
And, like a never ending rime.
The roadsides bloom in his applause,
Who bides his time.
V17HO bides his time and fevers not
» » In the hot race that none achieves.
Shall wear cool wreathcn laurel wrought j
With crimson berries in the leaves;
And he shall reign a goodly king
And sway his hand o'er every clime
With peace writ on his signet ring,
Who bides his time.
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NO AUTHORITY ON “MORALITY.” |
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We have never considered Theo-'
dore Roosevelt as an authority on !
morality, so, when he pronounces
Wilson’s note to the belligerent na-1
lions “immoral,” we can only say we ■
should like better security tor his
premises.
“To judge from what I read in I
the papers, the net effect, and the j
only net effect, of this supposed ac-1
tion for peace was to ruin an im
mense number of small investors
who were not forewarned, and for
the benefit of a very few persons
who, if they did not know of these
events prior to their publication for
the information of the public, then
certainly showed that on this occa
sion they were inspired by proph
etic insight concerning the handling
of our foreign affairs.”
That is to say, people who possess
“prophetic insight,” and use it for
business purposes, are immoral.
There was a time, however, when
Theodore would have alluded to them
as “practical men” and included him
self among their number.
Now he calls them "conscienceless
gamblers.” Which Implies that the
"small orvestohf* thby skthiied rplen
ty are not gamblers at all. That -is
surely a delicate question for experts
on morality. The gambler Who loses
is not. a gambler; the gambler who
wins is a gambler, and a "conscience
less” one to boot. There are no mal
efactors of small wealth;” only 'he
(other kind, who eat 'em up
No. Everything cons'derel. we
j decline to accept Roosevelt as an au
|l!iority on morality. He hasn't prov
jen Wilson’s note immoral. The best
he could do was to assert thai some
persons, characterized by him as
“conscienceless gamblers"—for no
other reason that we can see than
(that they won out—made an immoral
I use of it. And that charge is i'uily as
Idoubtfui and unsubstantial as the|
other. I
We like Theodore best when he is
talking about killing people. His sin-1
cerity then is unquestioned, and wc
can readily believe him. Hut when
the Colonel descends to morality lie
falls considerably from his high es
tate.
TOO MUCH LAW.
The lieutenant governor of Penn
sylvania has been looking into the
legislative product of the various
states and of congress for the past
five years and finds that more than
60,000 laws have been enacted in
that period by their very bulk a men
ace to the business of the nation and
the welfare and peace of mind of its
people. The United States and the
various states are now so overbur
dened with law and much of it useless
law, that it amounts to a national
handicap.
Not only is the business of the
country bound with useless chains,
but it is semi-annually threatened
with a new stock of fetters, imposing
a constant sense of insecurity and
business incertitude.
Legislators now' attending to their
duties can render no greater service
to their constituencies than by hold
ing down new law to actual necessi
ties. Much revolutionary legislation j
was enacted in the various states !wi!
years ago. Some of the radical |
changes in policies have not yet been i
fully tried out. The past two years
ha've been years of readjustment and
of experiment with the conditions <•* ]
new legislation, and we are not far |
enough along in many of our experi
ments to determine as yet what fur
ther changes should be made.
in many states legisiuiuis me Al
ready hoppering in hundreds of bills
for new laws, designed to change, j
amend or repeal existing law that 1.1,
still in the experimental stage. Tilt
need for a little breathing time i
seems indicated with an opportunity
for the people to catch up with 1 g
islation and ascertain their needs;
more accurately. j
Legislators, and especially young
legislators, should rid themselves of
the impression that they must fasten 1
some new law upon the people to j
fully serve them. Very often the ill j
a legislator does in this respect lives j
long after him.
We suggest, without intention to!
disparage, that members of the legis
latures of the various states who use I
ordinary common sense in their work,
such intelligence as they may have to
study the state’s needs, and s"Ch:
judgment as may be utilized in voting j
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EAGLE HALL
The Empress-Temporary
TONIGHT 8 p. m. TONIGHT
Fine Triangle Program
FRANK KEENAN with CHARLES RAY in
“The Coward”
SIX Reel Civil War Intresting Drama Produced
by INCE with All Star Cast
HALE HAMILTON with LAULINE MORi-N
and CHAS. MURRAY in the 2 reel
Keystone Comedy
“Her Painted Lover,;
Regular Admission ... - 25c
SAT. - Special Show Before Dance - “Buckshot John”.
SUNDAY - “Old Heidelberg” - Triangle Program
Intelligently, will have earned the
public gratitude, even if they add
do new law to the huge bulk that now
retards the activities of the people of
the states.—Post-Intelligencer
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THE Seattle papers are "up a tree”
figuratively speaking. They dare not
come out and take a side either foi or
against Mayor Gill, who, according
to all indications, is about to be
scalped. They fear to take his sldo
and they likewise fear to take his
enemies’ side of the question: and
there you are. The principle Don't
hit a man when he is down," applies
here; for that reason they are feeling
their way; they are waiting because
they have not enough courage to ex
press their own opinion. But all we
have to do is to wait until they have
routed the “nigger" out of the wood
pile and then whatever side wins will
[have their support. The winning side
I in a controversy is always the favor
ite. This accounts for the popular
ity of the democrats in Ketcl.’kao i
today.—Ketchikan Miner.
THE proposition to establish rn \
electric pump on the dock for the pro
jection of this end of the city is a
good one and should meet with en
couragement. Too much precautions
cannot be taken against fire, and it
might also be a good plan to estab
lish some sort of fire station out near
Wickersham avenue and Sherman.
That section of the city has but lit
tle protection and the time taken to
run hose there would be vital in case
of a serious fire.
BARBERS and others who use al
cohol in tonics or lotions will be as
seriously affected by the Wickersham
bill as drug stores. As alcohol is the
basis of all medicines it is difficult
to see how it can be abolished. To
go through the red tape necessary to ,
secure alcohol for medical purposes
will be so much bother and vexation
that it will hardly pay druggists to
handle patent medicines. It looks as
if the Delegate had a method in his i
madness.
THOSE stock brokers must be a
credulous bunch when a statement by
Secretary Lansing can cause a flurry
in stock quotations. The stock mar
ket must be kept bobbing up and
down like a jumping jack if Secre
tary Lansing’s statements car. affect
it so easily.
NOW that a man has been sentenc
ed to jail in Tacoma for libeling
George Washington by saying that he
loved the cup that inebriates, we may
look for some notoriety loving judge
to sentence those who state that Noah
got intoxicated upon a certain mem
orable morning long ago.
IT is but fitting that Wickersham’s!
be the hand which smites the saloon
men and the wets of Alaska. They
were all for him to a man, and it but
rounds out the measure of his deal
ings with his friends.
THE first reported discovery of!
gold in the United States was in the |
State of Georgia in 1829, and Georgia j
still has a number of producing pla-,
cer and quartz mines.
THE Japanese current, which was
suspected at one time of approaching
the Alaskan coast, certainly is not
moving very rapidly in this direction
this winter.
Somehow or other nobody ever |
kids a big- broad-shouldered, athletic, j
brown-skinned, military looking guy|
because he wears a wrist watch.
If you could only get married wo
men to believe that being good na
tured improves the complexion a lot
of married men would be happier.
IN case of war with Germany the
Colonel will probably return from
the Pijis and apply for command of
a division—at $10,000 per. .
JAPAN is said to have eggs in stor
age over one hundred years old. We
know now where some of the eggs we
|get for breakfast come from.
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A girl gets just as mad when a!
strange man admires here as she |
| does if he fails to notice her.
You can easily patch up a quarrel,
ibut it is not so easy to keep the
patches from showing.
One thing we can all agree on is
that the other fellow ought to be sat
isfied with what he has.
THIS little flurry may be uncom
fortable, but “you should have seen
It in ’98."
A burned child dreads the fire. But!
a man will go and get married a sec '
ond time.
The one time a man’s credit is a1-1
ways good is when he sets out to bor-,
row trouble.
Even in the thirst for glory a man j
seldom stops to think of the nest
morning.
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Our Hardware Department
you will now find a complete stock—Our line
of Shelf Hardware, Granite Ware, Cuttlery,
Tools, etc., is the most complete in town.
Furnishing Goods, Clothing,
Shoes, Underwear, Caps, Bedding, etc., you
will find assortments priced right.
See the Khaki Covered Down Comforters
for trail use.
S. BLUM & CO., Inc.
GOOD GOODS
LOCATED IN THE FORMER INGRAM A BUSH BUILDING, McKINLBY STREET
VALDEZ CAFE!
AND BAKERY I
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Fresh Bread and Pastry always on hand Jj
OPEN DAY AND NIGHT •
BERGSTROM & ROGSTAD. Prone.
PHONE 17 - Three dears Wise Owl Drag *
.WWW s e e s. t..e. A A AA A A A A A.A.A. J
The Trade Winds.
The constancy of trade winds Is due
to tho permanence of the conditions
which rule them. As the heated air at
the equator ascends surface winds set
in from north and south and. uniting,
ascend in their turn and flow ofT in
opposite directions. As the veloy^y of
the earth's revolution from east to
west is much greater at the equator
than at the poles, wind blowing along
its surface to the equator is constantly
arriving at places which have a higher
velocity than itself; hence it is retard
ed and must lag behind, and under the
influence of two opposing forces it is
compelled to take an intermediate di
rection. so that what was originally a
north wind is deflected and flows
southwest, while what started as a
south wind becomes northwest. From
the great service they have rendered
to navigation these reliable winds are
called trade winds.
Willie’s Fervent Wish.
Papa was sitting by the table head
ing his evening paper. Generally,
when he came across an item of In
terest, he read It aloud to mamma.
Little William, a typical “little pltchet
with big ears,” as a rule was not In
the least concerned about the items
his father read aloud. But the other
evening he was mightily interested.
“1 see, ma." said papa, “that the
fishermen around Cape Cod have gone
out of the whaling business and”—
Bp spoke William promptly.
“Gee whiz, papa, I wish you was a
Cape Cod fisherman!”—Chicago Jour
nal.
In Hot Water.
Two citizens were toddling up the
street one day recently, earnestly en
gaged in exchanging their experiences
with dyspepsia.
“And did you ever try the hot water
cure?” asked the thin one.
“Did I?” repeated the melancholy
one, who had also something of the
saving grace of humor in his makeup,
as many melancholy men have, “I
should say I did. Why, man. I’ve been
married fifteen years."
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All For the Best.
“Why Jo the roses fade slowly
away?" she inquired poetically.
‘‘Well,’’ replied the baldheaded
young man, “when you think it over
it’s all for the best. It’s more com
fortable to have them fade slowly
away than to go off all of a sudden,
like a torpedo.”
A Method of Division.
L., who was full of pranks, was
taken ill. “We must be careful,” said
bis doctor. “I will send you a nurse of
not less than fifty years of age.”
“Rather,” replied L., “send me two
each twenty-five years old.”—Gaieties
de la Medecine.
Ambitious.
“Are your men ambitious?”
“Oh, very. Every man around the
place is willing to do anybody’s work
but his own.” — Louisville Courier
Journal.
Little things are little things, but to
do little things faithfully is a gnat
thing.
i Candy Kitcheni
E. W. HUNT—la Owl Dro* Store. |
I FOUNTAIN DRINKS !
HOT-COLD |
LOUIE’S CAFE j
Everything First class J,
Open Day and Night
ANDY MAROVICH, Prop, j
ATLAS JUNK CO.
Wholesale and Retail Dealer* in
ALL KINDS OF JUNK
Buyers of Metal, Rubber, Ma
nila Rope, Sacks, Machinery,
Pipe, Hides, Furs aud Bottles.
1043 Railroad Avenue, So.
SEATTLE, WASH.
When In Seward Stop at the
COLEMAN HOUSE
GEORGE SEXTON. P*OP
SiRICTLV FIRST CLASS
Fourth Ave, Seward. Alaska
LOST—Small gold beauty pin at
Odd Fellows or Moose hall. Finder
please leave at Prospector office or
call 214. 3t
Mot drinks are in full swing at (lie ;
Candy Kitchen tf
Why not a VICTROLA? We have
them from $16 up. Valdez Drug
Go. tf
Miner Ads. bring RESULTS.
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Have you tried our poker chip I
candy and also our new line of chew-:
lag gum, Candy Kitchen tf
Do You Complain
• of High Prices? j
CRESCENT ;
BAKING 1
POWDER
It is a constant reminder to J
the discerning housewife of a
staple food sold at a minimum
price. Crescent gives full ef
ficacy at half the cost of oth
ers. Countless families recog
nize tills.
AT ALL GROCERS
25c lb.
CRESCENT MEG. OO.,
Beattie, Wash.
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PROFESSIONAL CARDS.
DR. S. WICKES MERRITT
Offlrri over Valdes Drug Co.
Phone *15 McKinley Street
Contract Surgeon, U. S. Army
A. A. Surgeon, U S. Public Health Serv
(Marine Hospital)
JOS. A. SILVERMAN, PH. 6. M. 0.
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON
Over Owl Drug Co.
- OFFICE HOURS:
1 to 4 P. M 7 to S 1*. M
Sunday by Appointment.
Res. Phone 176 Olllce Phone lit
DR. H. COCKERILLE ;
Graduate National lslTer«Jk>
Washington, D. C. '
DENTIST
Fourteen Years In Valdez.
PHONE 110
Office Rooms In Whaling Building
DONOHOE & DIMOND
ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW
Office Opposite Coart House
Phone !U VALDEZ. ALASKA
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JOHN LYONS a JC KlTCHIS
LYONS & RITCHIE
ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW
Office# In “ Sating Bnlldlng
Phone 101 VALDEZ. ALASKA
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ASA C. BALDWIN
CIVIL ENGINEER
U. S. Mineral Surveyor
McKinley Street opposite V. M. Store.
Valdez, Alaska
VALDEZ LODGE
NO 108
Free and Accepted Maaoaa
Regular Communications nrst wea
uesday In each month in McKinley
Hall. Visitors always welcome.
F. M. BROWN, W. M.
ED WOOD, Secretary.
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Valdez Miners Union No. 188
Weatern Federation of Miner*
W. H. GARNER, President.
Granite Mine
5 OJAS. McCALLUM, Secretary.
Valdes Alaska.
The Best Place in Valdez to
Stop at is the
Arctic Hotel *
Warn, Light Raoai-The Home of Coea/ort
RATES REASONABLE /
BATH ROOM Special Ratea By the Mectb
PHONE 133 KRS. SYR1NG, Prop
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NOTICE—Electrical heaters, cook
ers, percolators, vacuum-cleaners, ^
will be advanced in prices after New
'years, by the manufacturers. Stock
on hand will be sold at prevailing;
| prices, at the Emporium.