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MONDAY, JANUARY 3, 1910.
SLEEPING OUTDOORS.
Two of the lightweight army blan
kets are warmer than a single six
pound blanket. On a cold night the
camper sleeps in fresh underwear and
aocks, trousers, sweater, mackinaw,
German socks and moccasins. (It is
no hardship, then, to get up and re
plenish the fire.) With the half ax
a regular backlog fire can be built
and plenty of night .wood laid in.
Don’t use wood that snaps and :Shoots
out embers. If a- snowfalll is antic
ipated, cover the tent frame with
browse. This will also effectually
screen the tent from sparks. Then
build the fire as close to the tent as
safety permits. If you know how to
manage one, it- may be within four
feet.
TIME-HONORED ADVICE,
If a man whose integrity you do
not very well know makes you great
and extraordinary professions, do not
give much credit to him. Probably
you will find that he aims at some
thing beside kindness to you and that
when he has served his turn, or been
disappointed, bis regard for you will
eool.
Beware aiso oi oim won nailers
you and commends you to your' face,
or to one who, he thinks will tell you
of it; most probably he has either de
ceived and abused you, or means to
do so. Remember the fable of the
fox commending the singing of the
crow, who had something in her
mouth which the fox wanted.
Be careful that you do not com
mend yourself. It is a sign that your
reputation is small and sinking, if
your own tongue should praise you.
—Sir Matthew Hale.
MBIiBCTING A GIFT FOR RATH HR.
The chief business before the house
after every one else has been pro
vided for, is selecting a Christmas
gift for father. Many possibilities at
•nee suggest themselves. Father
could stand a new overcoat. Yes,
but who has the price to buy father
a new overcoat? Answer; Nobody,
not even father.
Father also needs a new pair of
rubbers, a new comb, another main
spring in his watch, ten tons of coal,
a toupee for the top of his head, six
or eight new pairs of shoe laces, a
gross of collar buttons. He also has
a' sneaking desire for half a dozen
celluloid collars that can’t be told
from the real thing, because his linen
ones always melt when he gets road at
the stenographer.
Let us, therefore, consider these
articles carefully: Rubbers—rubbers
cost too m^ch. Comb—a comb is
too cheap. Anyway, there are only
seven teeth missing from the comb
which father now has, and the miss
ing teeth just match father’s missing
hairs. New mainspring to watch—
this would necessitate asking father
for his watch, and then his Christ
mas gift wouldn’t be a surprise. Coal
—father always buys the coni! Why
should we rob him of his pleasure?
Toupee—too unromantic Shoe
laces—undignified. Collar buttons —
see shoe laces. Celluloid collars- a
repulsive and roughneck thought.
Let's get him a necktie. We always
have got him a neck tie.—Judge.
JOHN AND HENRY.
John Brown, with a handful of
men, started out to free the slaves
of the South. John Brown got hung
but his fate inspired a somewhat live
ly old song, and the line of action
started by John Brown grew into
a somewhat broadened measure, as
most any history of the civil war will
show. When John started out every
body said he was crazy and they rid
iculed him and sneered at him and
said he was a fool, and maybe he was
to spend his time and money and give
his life to a cause which did not ben
efit himself. But afterward they
made a song about him and a fine big
oil painting of John Brown from thQ
capitol hung in the Exposition build
ing at San Francisco all year.
Henry Ford, sailing on the Oscar
II. to try to make peace in Europe,
was leading a forlorn hope, but he
was bound in the right direction. It
may take more than Oscar II or III
or XIII to make peace in Europe,
but for Ford to try it does him hon
or. To sneer at him, to ridicule him,
to doubt his sincerity of purpose is
not only mean but contemptible, for
he is giving his millions and his time
for the good of humanity. We do not
agree with everything Ford says, nor
endorse everything he does anymore
man any oiner man on earcn, dui
there is a lot that is admirable' in
him. He has made us a tin gas cart
that is so homely and common and
sold it so cheap that it has become a
part of our national life. He has giv
en something of value to the people
for the money has has made which
is more than can be said of Morgan
or some other Americans who have
made millions from the people of this
country.—Anacortes Citizen.
WENATCHEE HELPS ALASKA.
While the cause of Alaska lacks no
friends in the State of Washington
generally, Wenatchee finds particu
lar reason for organizing an Alaska
development committee. Says the
Wenatchee World:
“The Wenatchee Commercial Club
Alaska development committee is
starting in work with a vim. While
all recognize that the object of the
committee in working for the open
ing up of Alaska to settlement thru
the buiidlng of railroads and reme
dial legislation is more or less a sel
fish one, because it means added out
let for Wenatchee products, yet it is
something which should have been
done years ago. Wenatchee has a con
siderable population of former Alas
kans, many of them having come out
TO-NIGHT TO-NIGHT
THE EMPRESS
2 Shows, at 8:00 and 9:20, sharp
DANIEL FROHMAN Presents
WILLIAM FARNUM ^
the celebrated American actor in
"THE REDEMPTION OF DAVID CORSON”
Produced by Famour Players Co.
Admission 2 Sc.__All Children 10c,
*Tke l!ooastcae',-*S Ads—for As lad thee Vrikedij aighT
of that country on account of the un
just laws. These men with Secre
tary Soderling initiated the move to
band the commercial bodies and the
trade organizations of the state into
an Alaska Development League with
the hope of creating a sentiment fav
orable to more just laws and also
for the purpose of inducing Alaska
immigration. When this is done.
Alaska can easily sustain an immense
population and afford a market for
a great portion of the products of th°
Wenatchee valley.”
THE EFFECTS OF LYING.
Lying is a great sin against God,
who gave us a tongue to speak the
truth and not falsehood. It is a great
offense against humanity itself; for,
! where there is no regard for truth,
there can be no safe society between
man and man. And it is an injury
to the speaker; for, besides the dis
grace which it brings upon him, it
occasions so much baseness of mind
that he can scarcely tell truth or
avoid lying, even when he has no col
or of necessity for it, and in time he
comes to such a pass that as other
people cannot believe he speaks the
truth, so he himself scarcely knows
when he tells a falsehood. As you
must be careful not to lie, so you
must avoid coming near it. You must
not equivocate, nor speak anything
positively for which you have no au
thority but report, or conjecture or
opinion.—Hale.
BONDAGE.
—
“And this is freedom,” cried the serf.
At last I tread the free soil, the free
air blows on me.”
And, wild to learn the sweets of lib
erty
With eager hope his bosom bounded
fast.
But not for naught had the long years
amassed
Habit of slavery; among the free
He still was servile, and dishearten
ed, he
Crept back to the old bondage of the
past.
Long did ■ I bear a hard and heavy
chain
Wreathed with amaranth and aspho
del,
But through the flower breaths stole
the weary pain
I cast it off and fled, but ’twas in
vain;
For when once more I passed by
where it fell,
I took u up and bound it on again.
—Lucy White Jennison.
THE MAN WHO LAUGHS.
No man who has once heartily and
wholly laughed can be altogether ir
reclaimably, bad. How much lies in
laughter, the cipher key, wherein we
decipher the whole man. Some men
wear an everlasting barren simper;
in the smile of others lies a cold
glitter of ice; the fervest are able to
laugh, what can be called laughing,
but only sniff and titter and snigger
from the throat outward, or at best,
produce some whiffing, husky cach
innation, as if they were laughing
through wool; of none such comes the
utmost good. The man who cannot
laugh is not only flt for treasons,
stratagems and spoils, but bis whole
life is already a treason and a strata
gem.—Carlyle.
Homes are beautiful' only when
there are equal rights; when the hus
band, wife and children respect and
admire each other; when there is con
fidence and trust; and this can never
be when the Wife and daughters are
reduced to the condition of. paupers
and beggars. If the evil exists in the
home there should be a readjustment
of affairs and each be allowed his or
her share of income.
Parents should be cautious about
giving their children permission to
stay out of school. Every day is a
day lost to the school work—they
cannot make it up and are a drag
upon the teachers and other chil
dren. They will soon be wo far be
hind they will want to stop school-—
and find fault with the teacher, when
all the time the parents are to blame.
An exchange says that many papers
are so anxious to discredit President
Wilson that they bemoan the one
cent war tax on gasoline, but forget
to cry over the two-cent raise in the
commodity by the Standard Oil com
pany.
After explaining at length that the
city council had not intended to ap
propriate $1000 for law suits in the
tax cases; our hydra-headed competi
tor says that it would have cost $1000
to repeal the suits, but they decided
to appeal one at a cost of $600. Same
old slack way of illogical reasoning.
Qy cpfflgjt^tor js all fussed up be
cause he says we are a phechaco edi
tor attempting to tell Alaskans how
to manage their affairs, while he yells
his head off if the chechaco district
attorney don’t tell Alaskans how to
live. Some gay boy with the gray
stuff, what!
1 Valdes Drug Company nave a fine
H>a (StHmatc._ t*
AMERICAN TELLS OF ,
EXPERIENCES IN I^AR
NEW YORK: Among the passen
gers who arrived recently from Eu
rope was Dr. Arthur H. Burling, of
San Mateo, Calif., who went over at
the beginning of the war as a sur
geon .and afterwards joined the For
eign Legion in France., He was
wounded three times in the legs and
once in the shoulder and was pro
moted to the rank of captain.
He said that his regiment was at
Missy on the River Aisne, when it
fell into a trap that cost several hun
dred lives*
"Early one morning,” he said, “we
came to the bank of the Aisne at
Missy and saw an empty trench on
the opposite side, close to a burning
barn. A pontoon bridge was built
across the river and our regiment was
sent to occupy the trench. Not a
sound was heard as wo marched ever
the bridge, until we got to the stream,
about sixteen yards from the river,
except the crackling of the blazing
timbers of the barn.
“No sooner were we ensconsed in
the trench than the Germans opened
a terrific fire, apparently from all di
rections. Shells burst in front and
rear, killing and maiming the men of
the Foreign Legion right and left. For
three days our regiment held the
trench hoping for reinforcements to
arrive, and the last thing I remember
was being dragged out of it by a
powerful Cameron Highlander. I col
lapsed again, and did not recover my
senses until I was in a hospital at
Havre. Afterward the, surgeon told
me that only sixty members of my
company had survived.”
Dr. Burling said that afterward he
was in the military hospital at Ply
mouth, England, where he met the
girl who became his wife. She was
then a nurse attending to the wound
ed. After a visit to see his family
at San Mateo the doctor will return
to the war zone in France.
Among other passengers on the
Cymric was P. H. Simms, of Selma,
Ala., who said that he was an aviator
and bad been serving with the British
Naval Flying Corps in Belgium, but
could not give out any details of his
experiences there, as talking was for
bidden.
LOCAL BREVITIES.
Pictures developed at the Valdei
Drug Company. tf.
Furnished rooms at Mrs. Osland’s.
Prices reasonable. •
George F. White, who is develop
ing a copper property at Drier Bay,
is in town for a few days.
Special Tonight.
A good show at the Liberty Thea
tre tonight.
Kodak Supplies at the Valdez
Drug Company. tf
Chas. Sponberg, who has been
working on Knight’s island for some
time, returned to town this forenoon
on the launch Three M.
A fine display of nugget jewelry at
Valdes Drug Co. tf
Anything in the jewelry line at the
Valdez Drug Co. tf
John Beaureman, who has been
employed as amalgamator at the
Granite mine, Hobo Bay, is in town
for a few days having come to Val
dez on the Admiral Evans late Sat
urday night.
Holiday goods, wearing apparel,
household utensils and articles of ev
eryday needs coming on every boat,
and sold at a bargain. There will be
no half or one-third oil after the Holi
days at the Emporium. The goods
are now marked at bottom prices;
you will find many articles on our
flve-cent counter you have been cus
tomarily paying lb and 25 cents for.
Mrs. Harry Moore, who has been
down at the Granite mine with her
husband for several months, is visit
ing with Valdez friends having come
up on the Admiral Evans Saturday
night.
Brooms 25o, 35c and 50c; for the
best at the Emporium. tf
Bargains at the Emporium; open
from 9 a. m. to 9 p. m. *
Far good home-cooked meals try
Mrs. M. Olson, on Hobart Street. *
Fancy Stationery at the Valdez
Drug Store. *
Pure Fresh Drugs at the Valdez
Drug Store. *
Hof all the good mechanics are in
jail. There is one good one at large.
Once in a while try the Valdes Iron
Works. We guarantee onr work is
as good as can be done anywhere, in
blacksmithing, machine work or au
togeneous welding. m-tf
Operated entirly by electricity,
a dry dock in Holland can lift ves
juda-nf « tong res eater.
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TN your pair of
* Crossetts you get a
through ticket to the
land of Comfort. And
you travel in style all
the way. The new
models are ready.
Style
2696
There’s a special Croseett
last for people with arch
troubles. Ask our agents
about it.
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GOOD SHOES
DR. H. COCKERILLE
Graduate National Unlveraltp.
Washington, D. C.
DENTIST
Fourteen Tears in Valdes.
PHONE 110
Office Booms in Whaling Building
DR. GERMAN
phone 1. THE dentist
Office rooms over Owl Drug Store. Of
fice hours 9 a. m. to 6 p. m., 7 to 9
p. m. Sunday by appointment.
All Work Guaranteed.
E. C. DALTON, M. D.
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON
Phone 42
Alaska Avene Valdez, Alaska
DONOHOE & DIMGND
ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW
Ofllee Opposite Court House
Phone 84 VALDEZ. ALASKA
JOHN LYONS E. E. RITCHIE
LYONS & RITCHIE
ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW
Offices In Whaling Building
Phone 101 VALDEZ. ALASKA
Red Cross Hospital
K«r»toM>nd Hobart Sta.
OPEN TO ALL PHYSICIANS.
Private Rooms for Patients.
Phone'144 MRS. C. H WILCOX. Matron
Valdez Miners Union Nn. 188
Western Federation of Ifiaera
ROBERT aHAFPEBJVaahl.jfr
CHAS. MaCALLUM^goar^t.
Dougherty & Ferguson
GENERAL
Merchandise
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The best groceries received
on every boat, \
Fresh vegetables, fruits, and
nuts.
A. M. DIERINGER
Valdez Transfer
Company
Office on Alaska Avenue, Id
Ceorge C. Treat Building
Telephone No. 60
General Trucking and Freighting
to all Interior Points.
LIVERY and FEED STABLE.
STORAGE,
Teaming of All Kinds
Positively No Coal Delivered Un
less Paid for in Advance
s Shamrock
CAW. TIM MARCUM ^
Sails tor Port Wells, Portage
Bay, Granite Mine, Saturday
at 9:00 a. m., from the Val
des Dook Company's Dook.
For Ellamar, Landloek Bay.
and Fidalgo, every Wednoe
day,^9^0 j^muj^ftpoiBCVJI^
For Rates, Apply oh IWS*.
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