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Announcement
We have secured the agency for the
Quality Tailoring Co. of N. Y, Inc.
(Connected with the Alfred Benjamin-Washington Co.)
Correct Clothes,
and we are now in a position to take
your measure for “Made to Order”
clothes; from Twenty-five dollars up.
Spring Samples now ready.
Valdez Mercantile Co., Inc.
TRUE VALUES
On the basis ot Security and Service
we solicit your account.
WE DO A BANKING BUSINESS EXCLUSIVELY.
VALDEZ BANK & TRUST CO.
PROFESSIONAL
Dr. H. COCKER1LLE
Graduate of National University
Washington, D. C.
n«.iu dentist
in both companies Fourteen vears in
Office.Rooms in VALDEZ
Whaling Building.
DR. GERMAN
IPhone ,9 THE DENTIST
Office rooms over Owl Drug store. Office hours
9 a. m., to 6 pji., 7 p, m..to9 p. m. Sundays
by appointment All work guaranteed
DR. M. O. ADAMS
DENTIST
Office Over Valdez Drug Store.
New Company’s Phone No. 59
HOURS—9 to 12 >.z.; 1 to 6 and 7 to 9p. m.
DONOHOE & D1MOND
ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW
Office Opposite Court House
Phone 34 Valdez, Alaska
JOHN LYONS E. E. RITCHIE
LYONS & RITCHIE
Attorney* at Law
Office* in Whaling Building
Phone lOI Valdes. Alaska
F. BUTTERWORTH
jCivil Engineer and'
U. S. Deputy Land and
Mineral Surveyor
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Blue Printing Valdez, Alaska.
Valdez Miners Union No. 188
Western Federation of Miner*
H. M. CARTER. 1
Copper River
Draying Co
Freighting and Passengers
to all parts of the Interior.
GENERAL TRUCKING.
McKinley Street, Valdez.
Ed. Wood, - Proprietor.
| Talking Shop.
Physician— now is your circumtion?
Newspaper Patient — Daily or Sun
day?—Chicago News.
G. O. Reinke, the waunmaker and
jeweler, is at the Valdez Drug Co
All work guaranteed.
THE READING TABLE
There Is no light that makes night
reading so easy as does Electricity. An
Electric portable is a source of pleasure
in every home—as well as a means of
health. The entire body suffers if the
eyes become affected. Reading in im
proper light is one of the worst things
for the eyes. Get an Electric Portable
and read In comfort and peace.
I Alaska Water, light Telephone & Company
ONE SORT OF MURDER. ~
It Doesn’t Take Human Life, but It
Shortens Its Usefulness.
Several well known financial men
were talking the other day when the
name of a man well known In the
street for his proclivity to take up val
uable time of friends with useless dis
cussions about nothing was mentioned.
One of the men In the party promi
nent in business nnd finance at once
burst out with: "That man! He’s a
murderer.”
“What’s that?" said another. "I nev
er heard that he had killed any one un
less be talked them to death.”
“I mean just what I say. He’s a
murderer on the installment plan,"
came the answer.
The speaker was begged to explain,
and be said: “1 have Just so many days
to live, and all of them are filled with
business of Importance. That man
comes In and steals my time, and I
claim that he has just as much mur
dered me as If some time In the future
be bad struck me down, for the time
be talks with his nonsense is that
much gone out of ray life and Is lost.
1 say that he Is a murderer on the In
stallment plan.”
And when the other members of tbe
party recalled the many times they
had been treated in the same way by
the man under discussion they agreed
with the first man in his verdict.—Wall
Street Journal.
LONDON’S UGLY CHURCH.
The First Sacred Edifice In the World
to Be Lighted by Gas.
Headers of "Our Mutual Friend" will
remember that Dickens gives a whim
sical description of St. John’s, West
minster, when referring to the home of
the doll’s dressmaker. Miss Jenny
Wren.
"lu tins region, ne writes, "are a
certain little street called Church street
and a certain little blind square called
Smith square, in the center of which
last retreat is a very hideous church,
with four towers at the four corners,
generally resembling some petrified
monster, frightful and gigantic, on its
back, with its legs in the air.”
Lord Chesterfield said St. John’s re
minded him of an elephant with its
legs in the air, and Charles Mathews
likened it to a dining table lu the same
position. '
St. John’s enjoys the distinction of
I being the first sacred edifice in the
’ world to be lit by gas. As may be im
agined. the introduction of the new
liluminant was deeply resented by
many conservative spirits, some of
whom went so far as to describe it os a
sacrilege.—Manchester (England) Cou
rier.
Varieties of Bridges.
Bridges ore seen hanging over rivers
and upon noses. They also span some
streets. They should not be confused
with the game called bridge, which
spans only time and money. Some
bridges, like poker, depend entirely
upon the draw. Bridges spend their
time In heaving up and down and lean
ing against their towers. The object of
I bridges is to give very one a chance to
get back from where he has been, or
to go whence he can get back. Some
times bridges are built over railroad
(racks and spend all their time in sav
ing people from being run over. A
bridge which is thus employed is very
I happy, because it leads an upright life;
also because the railroad company was
sad when obliged to put it there.
Bridges are also used over chasms.
Every chasm ought to have one. it
provides a place for children to fall
from: also it gives the chasm some
thing to look up to.—Life.
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Friendliness of London.
Them is no friendliness like the
friendliness of Loudon. Six or seven
venrs ago I went rather frequently to
a certain ten shop, which has every
afternoon a crowd of men taking their
tea and playing dominoes nud chess.
We used to talk occasionally, but none
of ns ever kuew the name of any of
the others. Then for dve years l did
nut go near the place until one day
when I dropped in almost by accident.
At once there was a greeting and a
welcome from at least half a dozen.
The other day I went In again after
another absence of six months, and
the greeting was the same. This will
do to tell those people who Insist that
London Is an unfriendly place.—Lon
don Citizen.
Nioely Explained.
A second hand picture denier was
trying to sell what he described as a
genuine Raphael.
"The signature does not look like
Raphael." remarked the prospective
customer after using his magnifying
glass, “it reads more like ‘Rachel!"’
"Ah." said the dealer, "1 will tell yon
the history of that. When Raphael
painted that picture he was henvily In
debt, so he pnt It In the wife's name
for safety."—Argonaut
No Chicken Herself.
Miss Sweetner—Isn’t it laughable to
see the youthful airs Fan Bllllwlnk
gives herself? She must be at least ten
years older than I am. Miss Capsicum
—Fully. And you wouldn’t tear under
the wing, you know, either.—Chicago
Record-Herald.
Insulted,
The young man leading a dog by a
string lounged up to the ticket office of
a railway station and inquired, "Must
l-aw -take a ticket for the puppy?"
"No; you can travel as an ordinary
passenger," was the reply.—London
Tit-Rita _
. It requires little exertion upon oar
part to bring misfortune upon our
selves.—Menander.
^OUR WORD "GARDEN”
In the Old Anglo-Saxon It Meant Pri
vate Inclosed Land.
.We speak so freely and often of a
"garden,” assuming thnt there Is some
well defined common use of thnt word
even among the authorities on garden
ing subjects. But the fact Is that it has
reached mighty elastic limits In their
writings and speech and can be taken
to mean anything from the enormous
private pnrks and estates to the tin can
glories of a back yard.
The word garden Is from the old
Anglo-Saxon root •gyrden,” meaning
an Inclosure. At that time, due to the
uncertain character of community life,
It was either Inclosed within fortifica
tions or left unprotected and exposed
without His private inclosed land
was the garden of that time. That is
the meaning of garden In the Song of
Solomon.
Gradually the sense of the word has
changed to cover those parts of the
land devoted to the cultivation or
plants either for pleasure or for use;
thus, we have the vegetable or fruit
garden, and on the other hand, the
wall, water or rose garden, etc.
Liberty Hyde Bailey defines a gar
den ns “the personal part of an estate,
that area which is most intimately as
sociated with the private life of the
home.”
Whatever the sense in which It Is
used, the word "garden" always suc
ceeds in carrying with it an ntrnos
phere of romance and beauty, which
countless ages of use cannot dim.—
Philadelphia Record.
HUMAN INSTINCT.
More Potent at Times Than Reason In
Directing Our Actions.
That even in man Instinct is some
times stronger than reason is illustrat
ed by these two eases:
There had been shipped on a Missis
sippi river steamboat a box with a
glass cover, containing a very active
rattlesnake. Whenever any one ap
proached the box the serpent would
strike the cover. The owner of the rep
tile challenged any one to hold his fin
ger on the glass and let the rattler
strike at it. There was no danger, and
It seemed an easy thing to do. First
one and then another tried it, but when
the snake gave its vicious spring the
finger was invariably drawn back with
a jerk. Instinct was stronger than rea
son and will combined.
A young man In Paris had lost his
lust sou at the {fumbling table. Not
only was he without means, but he had
lost a large sum belonging to his em
ployer. He started for the Seine with
the intention of drowning himself. On
the way there was a great commotion,
cnusi-d by the escape of a lion from a
strolling menagerie. The animal came
galloping down the street, and people
fled 1n every direction.
Instantly the man who was seeking
death climbed a lamp post and clung to
the top of it. trembling in every limb
When the animal was captured and the
danger was over he proceeded to the
river and plunged in.—Washington
Star. _
Spanish Nicknames.
Olio of the peculiar ways In which
Spanish differs from English Is in the
names the language gives to all people
with a certain infirmity or peculiarity
A blind man is referred to as e! ciego,
a mail with hut one eye Is a tuerto, a
pug nosed man is citato, one who is
cross eyed is a liisojo, a cojo is a lame
man, and a umneo has hut one arm.
If ho is humpbacked lie is a joroliiulo.
If haldheaded a culvo, and if his hair
Is very short he Is a pelon. The femi
nine titles for the same classes are the
same, with the exception that they end
In “a" where tile masculine terminate
with “o.” These short names are used
most commonly. In fact, they are up
plied as nicknames in many cases, and
especially among the lower classes per
sons are addressed or referred to only
by these names.
Europe’s Diamond Industry,
Years ago Amsterdam was at the
head of the diamond industry in h'.u
rope. Of late Antwerp has forged
ahead and taken lirst place. Amster
dam very largely specializes in small
stones, and its superiority over Ant
werp In cutting these diamonds is
unquestioned. Antwerp, on the other
hand, cuts large diamonds and small
ones, according to what happens to be
most In demand. It works on the
larger Transvaal stones furnished by
the London syndicate, and at the same
time it monopolizes the small south
west African business.
The Word “Lurid."
The word “lurid” Is misused by many
people as a synonym for "glaring" pr
"fiery.” One speaks in this sense of
"lurid" language, “lurid" flames, "lu
rid" dramas. It ta probable that not
one person In three knows the real
meaning of "lurid.” The dictionary de
fines It as "ghastly, pale, wan. gloomy.”
which In no way carries out the gen
eral and mistaken Idea of the word.
New York World.
Postage Stamp*.
There was stamped postal letter pa
per as early as 1818. but postage
stamps proper begin with those used
In Great Britain between 1833-1840. It
was not until 1839 or 1840 that the ad
hesive stamp was used on letters and
other mall matter.—New York Ameri
can.
Net Worrying.
"Ob. Luellat There’s a man Jnst
fallen off that next pier, and 1 think
lt*s your husband.”
"WaU, dear, don’t get excited; we’ll
■oon know. M ha doean’t come op It’s
probably Jfm-ba can’t swim, yon
know."—Ufa
Dougherty & Ferguson
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on every bbat,
Fresh vegetables, fruits
and nuts.
WE'Call You on Time for the boat
if We Handle Your Baggage
WeJBuy and Sell Anything from
Dead Crabs to Live Bears.
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Notice of Registration.
Notice is hereby given that the reg
istration books for the registration
of voters at the municipal election to
be held in and for the Town of Y.il
dez, Alaska, on the nth day of April,
1915, will be open at the office of
the Town Treasurer, in Copper
Block, in said Town, on the 1st day
of February, 1915, between the hours
of 2 and 4 o’clock in the afternoon
of said day, and will remain open for
such registration between like hours
on each and every day thereafter, ex
cept Sundays, until and including the
27th day of March, 1915; and on the
last two days on which such regis
tration may be made, viz:, the 26th
and 27th days of March, 1915, said
books will be open for such registra
tion between the hours of 1 and 6
o’clock in the afternoon of said days.
Town Treasurer E. G. Ames has
been named registrar, and will enter
in said registration books the names
of all persons, residents of the Town
of Valdez, who are qualified voters,
or who will be such voters at the
date of said election, upon their ap
plication in person at his said office
within the office hours and between
the dates mentioned; and no voter
who does not personally appear and
register at said office between said
dates will be permitted to vote at
said election.
RANDALL E. ASHBY,
Town Clerk.
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Notice of Settlement of Account.
In the Commissioner’s Court for the
Territory of Alaska, Third Division.
In Trobate.
In the matter of the estate of 1.
D. Flynn, deceased.—Notice of settle
ment of account.
Notice is hereby given that \V. T.
Scott, the administrator of the estate
of I. D. Flynn, deceased, has rendered
and presented for settlement, and til
ed in the above entitled court, his
final account of the administration
of said estate, and that Wednesday,
the 24th day of February, 1915, at the
hour of two o’clock in the afternoon
of said day, at the court room of said
court, in the Town of Valdez, Alaska,
has been duly appointed by me, the
undersigned, as the Judge of said
court, as the time and place for the
settlement of said account, at which
time and place any and all persons
interested in said estate, may appear,
file exceptions in writing to the said
account or otherwise contest the al
lowance of the same.
Dated at Valdez. Alaska, this 23rd
day of December, 1914.
(Seal.) GEO. J. LOVE,
U. S. Commissioner and Ex Officio
Probate Judge, for the Recordia?
Precinct of Valdez, Alaska.
Date of first publication December
24, 1914.
Date last publication February 24,
1915.
Somebody
With Money
always has been found to
“back” a good plan, a
good idea, a good busi
ness venture or a good
mining prospect-other
wise a good many of to
day’s successful business
enterprises would still be
mere dreams.
Advertising has brought
about a majority of the
introductions of the man
w,ith the idea, the man
with a prospect or busi
ness to the man with the
dollar.
ADVERTISE IN THE
PROSPECTOR FOR RE
SULTS.
It you want all the newa all the
Una read the Froapeetar.