Men’s Mackinaw Coats
} The handiest, most serviceable
coat now days is the mackinaw—the
all-around coat; suitable for town or
the trail.
Our Kenyon or Summit coats are
made Norfolk or plain belted styles,
with high shawl collar and the new
est in checks, plaids or plain colors.
Price From $6.50 to $9.00
Valdez Mercantile Co., Inc.
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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 DENTIST
in both companies Fourteen vears in
Office Rooms in V A L L) L.Z.
Whaling Building.
DR. GERMAN
Phone 19 THE DENTIST
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Office rooms over Oivl Drutt store. Office hour,
9 a m.. to 0 p. m.. 7 p. m., to 9 p. m. Sundays
by appointment All work auaranteed
DR. M. O. ADAMS
DENTIST
Office Over Valdez Drug Store.
New Company’a Phone No. BO
HOURS—9 to 12 ». m.; 1 to 6 «nd7 to9p. ■.
C. E. BUNNELL
attorney-at-law
Offices Well Street
Phones. VALDEZ
DONOHOE & D1MOND
ATTORNEY s-at-la w
Office Opposite Court House
Phone 84 Valdez, Alaska
JOHN LYONS E. E. RITCHIE
LYONS & RITCHIE
Attorney* at Law
Office* In Whaling Building
Phone lSl Valdes. Alaska
F. BUTTERWORTH
;Ciril Engineer and'
U. S. Deputy Land and
Mineral Surveyer
Bine Maihtg Valdes, Alaska.
Copper River
Draying Co
Freighting and Passengers
to all parts of the Interior.
GENERAL TRUCKING.
McKinley Street, Valdez.
Ed. Wood, - - - Proprietor.
Valdez Miners Union No. 188
Weitem Federation of Miner*
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H. M. CARTER. President. ,
Granite Mine.
CHAS. McCALLUM, Secretary.
Valdez. Alaska.
Lightening Father’s Load.
“Caroline Is married at last.”
“Who’s the happy man?”
“Her father, of course.”—St. Lonls
Globe-Democrat.
The Prospector office for job work.
THE READING TABLE
There Is no light that m: kes night
reading so easy as does Electricity. An
Electric portable is a source of plaasuro
in every home—as well as a means of
health. The entlro body suffers if tho
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.
Alaska Water, Light Telephone & Company.
DIET AND GOOD HEALTH.
Food 8hould Be Carefully Selected and
Properly Varied.
The eminent American physiologist
Lusk says that nature, through the de
vice of appetite, usually provides
against the use of improper food, but
that reason must play a part In food
selections. A glass of milk and a piece
of pie are poor materials for the brain
of an active business man whose seden
tary life requires 2,500 heat units or
calories to maintain Ids body machin
ery.
We need also water, salts, proteins
and certain newly discovered sub
stances called vitamines. All these
materials are to be found in milk,
beans, bread and other grent funda
mentals of nutrition. Solutions of cane
sugar or of glucose are not the exclu
sive mainstays of life, und yet glucose
taken alone yields 2,500 calories at a
cost of 4 1-6 cents, and 2,500 calories
in the form of cane sugar cost 8 1-3
cents.
Glucose is the cheapest food fuel
known, but, like cane sugar or butter
fat, is not a complete food in that it
does not contain everything necessary
for life. Commercial glucose is abso
lutely harmless. A man must have
sufficient calories in his diet if he is
to live properly and perforin labor sat
isfactorily.—New York World.
COROT, THE ARTIST.
His Whole Life Was a Song, and Melo
dy Permeated His Works.
Those painters who also have the
feeling and some of the proficiency of
a musician reveal It in their work.
They are usually colorists, with more
eye for the colors and tones of nature
than her shapes and forms.
Such a one was Corot He had a
good tenor voice and played on the
violin. He sang at his work and sang,
too, when he wns not painting, but
wandering through the forest of Fon
tainebleau or around the village of
Ville d’Avruy, absorbing the beauty of
the scene and storing up impressions
for future pictures. In fact, his whole
long life of seventy-nine years was to
Le Pere Corot as his friends loved to
call him, a song.
And one feels It in his pictures, at
least in his later ones, by which he Is
best known. Their coloring is subdued,
like a lullaby or waking song, for it
was the dawn or twilight that he pre
ferred to paint His works vibrate
with the hum of melody, and here and
there Is an accent of effect that trem
bles like the string of his violin.
Corot’s long life was a remarkable
■ Instance of a man being able to con
tinue to the end the springtime of his
youth.
Power of Falling Water.
Still water gives no power, no en
ergy. Falling water has only as much
power as is represented by its weight
A gallon of falling water will develop
as much power as a falling block of
iron weighing C2.5 pounds. Of course,
the greater the fall the greater the pow
er developed. Water falling one foot
will develop a pressure of .43 pounds
per square inch of pipe. The same
amount of water falling 100 feet will
develop n pressure of 43.31 pounds per
square inch of pipe. Falling 1,000 feet
it would produce a pressure of 433.00
pounds per square Inch of pipe. To
compute the power of falling water it
is necessary to multiply the volume of
flowing water in cubic feet per minute
by Its weight, 02.5 pounds, and this
product by the vertical height of the
fall in feet, and divide by 33.000, the
number of foot pounds representing
one horsepower for one minute.—New
| York World.
Military Files.
“Files on parade” means a body of
soldiers, a troop or company marching
in a file or line, not abreast, but one
after another. We speak of the “rank
and file,” meaning soldlera who are
formed so that they march abreast and
also in ranks following each other.
The term In general means the com
mon soldiers below the rank of non
commissioned officers. There are other
file terms in military tactics, such as
“file right" and “file left” As Kipling
uses the term It means the common
soldiers who have been called out for
the purpose described In the poem of
“Danny Deever.”—Philadelphia Press.
Pa’s Explanation.
“Pa, what do people mean when
they talk of laying up something for a
rainy day?”
“A rainy day means bard times, my
son."
“Why so, pa?”
“Because, I suppose, on a rainy day
there is no dust In sight!”—Spokane
Spokesman-Review.
British Coronation.
No other coronation rite In Europe
reaches back to so early a period as
that of Great Britain. From the An
glo-Saxon order of the coronation of
Egbert was derived the ancient form
of the coronations of the kings of
France.—Loudon Express.
Difference of Opinion.
"It takes two to start a quarrel.”
■aid Mrs. Gabb.
“Oh, no, it doesn’t,” replied Mr. Gabb.
“A man and his wife are one.”—Phila
delphia Ledger.
Two Ideas.
The optimist rejoiced In the glorious
change in temperature. The pessimist
aald, “Ain’t it a little too sudden?"—
Cleveland Plain Dealer.
Such as thy thoughts and ordinary
cogitations are, such will thy mind be
In time.—Marcus Aurelius.
FLINGING THE CHAKRL
One of the Dexterous Feats of the
Clever Hindus of Gwalior.
There is a curious custom In Gwalior,
India, the scat of Jain and eurly Hindu
antiquities. In front of the mausoleum
of a holy saint—Slohuinmed Gbous—a
fair is held annually cn the outskirts
of Gwalior town about the middle of
the rainy season. The most noticeable
feature of the fuir is the chakrl thn
A chakrl is a piece of iron something
like a spindle, over which a long piece
of string or thread is rolled. The play
er throws high into the air the Iron
chakrl (literally a roll), holding one end
of the string in his hand, and gives it
a swing and jerk in such a clever man
ner that the chakrl on coming down
rolls up the thread again on Itself and
Is caught in the bands of the thrower.
The art has been dexterously prac
ticed by a class of people for ages past,
and some members are so renowned
that they cut a good figure at the
scene. It is most interesting to watch
the thrower fling the chakrl up high,
catch it in his hands on return and con
tinue sending it up again and again
till the rope becomes ns high as seven
ty feet above the ground. There is
absolutely no spring or lever attach
ment in the chakrl. Nnbbo is the
champion thrower. — London Strand
Magazine.
TORTURE OF THE “PICKET ”
A Form of Military Punishment In
England In Bygone Days.
The “picket,” an Ingenious fora of
punishment in use in England in the
duys of old, was generally indicted on
cavalry and artillery men and was a
singularly brutal bit of torture.
A long post, nenr which stood a stool,
was driven into the ground. The de
linquent was ordered to mount the
stool, and his right hand was fastened
to a hook in the post by a noose, drawn
up as high as it could be stretched,
round his wrist. A stump the height of
the stool, with its end cut to a round
and blunt point, was also driven into
the earth close to the post.
Then the stool was tnken away, and
the sufferer had nothing to rest his
bare feet upon but the stump, “which,
though it did not usually break the
skin,” says Captain Grose, “put him in
great torture, his only means of relief
being by resting his weight on his
wrist, the pain of which soon became
Intolerable.”
One can very well believe him, espe
cially when he makes the addition that
a man was not infrequently left to
stand in this position for half an hour,
although the orthodox period of en
durance was fifteen minutes.—London
Graphic.
Sleeplessness.
A favorite dictum of tbe physiolo
gists, emphasized in their latest works,
relntes to the dangers of sleeplessness.
“Sleep is more important to life than
nutrition, and insomnia kills sooner
than starvation,’’ to quote the exact
words of one. This has been a kind
of tradition in medicine and is reiter
ated again and again in these books
without any real evidence, so far as I
know, to support it Tnught to every
medical man of older generations and
to every medical tiedgling of today, it
finds Its way to general public accept
ance, begetting in the lay mind ter
rors of insanity and death which
haunt every unfortunate victim of in
somnia. ' The fear of not sleeping is
one of the commonest causes of in
somnia. Yet 1 do not know of any
medical evidence anywhere of disas
trous results from insomnia and have
myself never seen any harm arise from
sleeplessness apart from the harm
done by the fears and worries asso
ciated with the condition.—Atlantic
Monthly.
Making a New Nose.
In a German medical journal Pro
fessor Max Joseph of Berlin describes
a method of making a new nose where
the original member has been destroy
ed by disease or accident. An arm is
fixed above the bead and encased In
plaster of purls so that it cannot be
moved. A piece of the skin oval in
outline Is then cot partially free from
the arm and sewn to one side of tbe
nose. After It has taken root tu this
new position the flap Is cut free from
the arm, which is now removed from
the plaster of parls encasement, and
sewn to tbe other side of the nose by
its remaining edge. This gives suffi
cient skin covering. The nose Is now
built up by strips of bone taken from
the shin and a straight profile Is ob
tained.
Took Her Breath Away.
A very talkative tittle girl, who had
been chattering away like a magpie all
morning, suddenly became silent when
a lady, dressed In the extreme of the
fashion, called on her mother. Wish
ing to be amiable, the visitor said to
the chatterbox:
“Have you lost your tongue, my
dear?”
“Oh, no, ma’am,” was the reply;
“only my breath.”—New York Tribune.
Goods In Bond.
A bonded warehouse Is one In which
Imported goods liable to customs duty
or manufactured products liable to In
ternal revenue duty are stored until
the duty or tax Is paid. Goods so
stored pending the payment of duty
are said to be In bond.
Decidedly 8mall.
A small pupil In the Juvenile gram
mar class thus compared the adjec
tive “little:” “Little, small, nothing at
all."—Chicago News.
Learning without thought is labor
lost; thought without learning ti
perilous.—Chines*
Dougherty & Ferguson
GENERAL
MERCHANDISE
The best groceries received
on every boat,
Fresh vegetables, fruits
and nuts.
llfE^PaH^You on Time for the boat
** if We Handle Your Baggage.
WejJRuy and^SelI Anything from* }
weao^Crabs to Live Bears.
CITY EXPRESS
Phone 82. A. Spenard, Prop
BEST PLACE TO EAT
MRS. ST. MARIE’S
Moved to Reed Building, on Wall
Street, next to Road Commission
57 a m to 9 a m
Lunch 12 m to 1 p m
6 to 7 p m
BOARD & ROOM $50 per Mo.
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Chas. Perry
"^•'SEATTLE
14 Complete Services
' IN THE HEART OF THE CITY
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UNITED STATES OP AMERICA, Ter
ritory of AlasKa, ss.:
I, Charles E. Davhlson, Secretaiy
of the Territory of Alaska, do here
by certify that on this date there has
been filed in my office consent of
stockholders to dissolution of the
James E. Wilson Transportation
Company, a domestic corporation or
ganized under the laws of the Terri
tory of Alaska, and said corporation
is therefore dissolved.
In testimony whereof, I have here
unto set my hand and affixed the
Great Seal of the Territory of Alas
ka, at Juneau, this 21st day of De
cember, 1914. (Seal.)
CHARLES E. DAVIDSON,
Secretary of Alaska.
Publications Jan. 2, 9, 16, 23, 30.
Notice of Settlement of Account.
In the Commissioner’s Court for the
Territory of Alaska, Third Division.
In Probate.
In the matter of the estate of I.
D. Flynn, deceased.—Notice of settle
ment of account.
Notice is hereby given that W. T.
Scott, the administrator of the estate
of I. D. Flynn, deceased, has rendered
and presented for settlement, and fil
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, tbo
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 Recording
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.
ADVERTI8E IN THE
PROSPECTOR FOR RE.
8ULT8.
U you want all f&e uowa all the
tUuo, read the Proepeetor.