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THURSDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1015
COSTS LITTLE TO BE CHEERFUL.
What is there in human nature
that makes us grumble at little clouds
instead of rejoicing in the sunlight?
All are inclined to report incivili
ties. to ignore courtesies. When a
policeman leaves hi6 post to direct
us, do we thank him? Rarely. “That
is what he is paid for,” we say.
That is not what he is paid for.
He has gone out of his line of duty
to be of assistance, and the least he
should receive would be a cheerful
“Thank you!”
Put yourself in the policeman's
place, or in the street car conduc
tor’s, or in the elevator man’s, or the
letter carrier's—any one of the many
with whom he have daily contact.
Consider the thousand annoying
things that happen, think of the un
pleasant duties many are called upon
to perform.
And consider how little it costs to
be cheerful, to smile, to give a little
nod of appreciation, or to call out
a pleasant “Thank you.” Try it and
see the result. See the tired mouth
relax into a smile, the weary eyes
brighten. Notice how the man—or
the woman—watches for you next
lay, how pitifully eager he or she is
tor the unaccustomed greeting.
Try it just for a week, and every |
nan, woman and child with whom
-rou come into daily association will
>e your devoted friend. You will be
lappy too, for happiness and cheer
ulness are contagious.
Forget to be a grouch for a week,
jnd you will wonder how you could
ver have been disagreeable.—Ex.
’RYING TO START SOMETHING.
Under the caption, “Are They
sleep at the Swith?” the Ketchikap
liner-Progressive is trying to start
discussion of the question of di
orcing the First Division from the
thers. It says:
"As a general rule, both daily pa
3rs of Juneau the Empire and Dis
atch, are quite free in expressing
leir opinion of certain things. In
3ed, they are so free in some direc
ons that the popular impression is
■owing that they have opinions to
lrn. Unfortunately, they seme
mes fall short of expectations Anil
me questions come up for which
ey have no stomach. In the mat
r of divorcing the First Division
Din the others for instance.
“If we are to do anything at all'
out this matter the time is oppor
ne. Congress will meet soon and
petition setting forth our reasons
- separation would lead to debates
it must necessarily precede final i
action. Aside from that there is the
fact that all public matters should be
discussed thoroughly, even at the ex
pense of a reduction of the butter
on our bread. In this progressive
age to look at the present only is not
enough; we should look ahead more,
besides to sleep at the switch at bad
policy.”
BRITISH COLUMBIA WILL
VOTE ON PROHIBITION.
VANCOUVER, B. C., Dec. 2.—The
British Columbia government has an
nounced that a prohibition plebescite
will be taken at the next provincial
election to determine the wishes of
the people on the prohibition ques
tion.
The prohibitionists have been very
active in their campaign in British
Columbia since the provinces in the
Northwest have abolished liquor,
when the voters of Alberta favored
prohibition by two to one. The gov
ernor of Saskatchewan, acting under
an old law which had been on the
statute books but had lain dormant
for nearly a century, issued an order
closing the saloons and was sustain
ed by the people.
It is believed that the pending
election on prohibition will serve to
check the brewery interests of the
state of Washington transferring
their plants across the line, as there
is every probability that the voters of
British Columbia will favor prohibi
tion.
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SHORTAGE OK DOGTEAMS
REPORTED IN INTERIOR
It is reported from Nome and in
terior Alaskan camps that dogs will
be in big demand this winter owing
to the number of new camps which
are receiving attention from stampe
ders. The hundred or so animals
taken from Nome by Lieut. Haas, for
the French army, has left Nome shy
of good dogs, and the discovery of
new beach digging in the Solomon
district combined with the rush of
prospectors to Dime creek, has caus
ed a real shortage of dogs.
Present indications are that a
heavy travel between Anchorage and
Seward and Portage Bay will result
from the failure of the steamers to
land their cargoes and will require
dog teams for making fast trips over
the divides.
REPORTED PIONEER CO.
HAS SOLD INTERESTS.
NOME: It is reported here that
the Pioneer Mining company, the
largest placer operators in this dis
trict, have disposed of their inter
ests to a syndicate of New York and
English capitalists. A report which
reached here rrom the States earlier
in the season, stated that negotia
tions were pending whereby the prop
erty would be transferred at a price
of $5,000,000.
If you were sick would you go to
a blacksmith for repairs? Mfhy then
do you go to a lung mechanic for in
formation about machinery when you
have mechanics in your home, town
that stay there the year around, and
depend on their knowledge and abil
ity to do your work satisfactorily for
their existence as mechanics. Try the
Valdez Iron Works; we are here to
stay with your assistance. th-tf.
TO-NIGHT TO-NIGHT
AT THE
EMPRESS
3wing to length only one show—at 8 sharp
ESSE L. LASKY presents
“The Squaw Man”
j Six act drama with 264 interesting scenes featuring
DUSTIN FARNUM
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: On Thursday, Friday and Saturday.
^mission 25c. All Children 10c.
ary Pickford in “Tess of The Storm Country," next week.
FURNISHING A ROOM.
Try to Convoy the Impression of Re
pose end Homines*. •
The furniture which we select should
he designed for its livable qualities. It
Is not a question of whether the room
is furnished consistently with Louis
XVi. furniture or with empire or with
something else, but whether the furni
ture combines with the walls and floor*
and ceiling to complete a room With a
single impression—homlness, restful
! ness, repose.
Now, repose and restfulness depend
very largely upon color harmonies, and
it Is therefore well that our furniture
harmonize in this respect A room
which contains a chair or two In wal
nut. others in mahogany and fumed
oak and a sofa in golden oak cannot
help being bad. Such a room Is bound
to affect the nerves of every sensitive
person who comes Into the room.
For this reason a room should be
very predominantly mahogany in color,
very predominantly fumed oak or very
predominantly something else, but it
should not be a mixture. With a pan
eled Interior of gray, mahogany will go
very beautifully, whether It be Chip
pendale. Sheraton or colonial or all
three mixed. — Lionel Robertson and
T. C. O’Donnell in Good Health.
GOOD BOOKS.
When Personally Owned They Gather
a Wealth of Association.
Cultivated wen and women have al
ways good books among tbeir most
valued possessions, and one cannot be
lieve that this taste cun be sacrificed
without definite loss to our civilization.
The spoken word can never supplant
the written word, and in fact the pres
ent tendency is all toward substituting
print for speech Nor can reading in
public places take the place of reading
one's own books in the quiet of one's
home. Books that are owned wait pa
tiently on the reader’s leisure, aud to
have Just the book one wants when
one wants it must remain one of the
supreme luxuries of a cultivated life.
Books, too. when personally owned,
writes Enrl Barnes in the Atlantic,
guther around themselves a wealth of
personal associations. The very bind
ing, paper and title page recall the con
ditions under which the book came into
our possession. As we open Its pages
we remember the last time we rcud It.
the place and circumstances and the
people with whom we discussed It
Books have personality, aud they must
always remain the warm friends of
tbeir possessors.
Donizetti and Coffee.
Donizetti, composer of "Lucia dl
Lummermoor,” sought inspiration In
the coffeepot It would be Interest
ing to know accurately «tlie -total
amount of coffee this erratic genius
managed to consume during his short
career. It was bis habit to shut him
self up in his room with writing ma
terials aud three or four coffeepots
full of steaming coffee. When these
were emptied he ordered in three or
four more and, these disposed of in
their turn, another three or four. His
biographer says that the amount of
coffee be drnuk was "fabulous." and
one can well believe it. The effect ori
his once line constitution was deplor
able. His face shriveled and turned
yellow, his lips became black, and with
the inevitable breakdown of his uerv
ous system his genius fell rupidly into
premature decay.
Jaggery Sugar. ’
Though a Tmnll poem enumerates j
800 ways in which the Pnlinya palm
may lie used, one of its most Interest
ing uses is the production of a sugar
called jaggery. This is the result of
boiliug dowu tbe fresh juice and is
one of the chief sugars of South India.
Four or five quarts per tree per day
is ihe yield for four or live mouths
Once in every three years the sap
drawing process is omitted, as other
wise the tree would die. The tree be
gins to yield at iifteeu years and con
tinues for about fifty years The fe
male free yields about twice as much
sup as the male. Three quarts of this
sap make one pound of sugar or jag
gery. which is the chief sugar used by
the poor classes of India.-Argonaut
Wisdom.
An old Scotchwoman sent her little
boy to the corner grocer’s after a quar
ter’s worth of com sirup. She gave
him the money and two jugs, either of
which would have bee* ample to carry
the sirup.
“Why did you give him two jugs?”
asked a visiting neighbor.
"Weet. ye see. it’s this way. If t
gie him twn jugs to carry he kinna dip
his wee Angers in the sirup en route
home.Pittsburgh Press.
A Short Christmas.
“Christmas day Is only three hours
long in the Finnish town of Tornea."
said a traveler. “I spent last Christ
mas there. At sunrise I got up to see
my presents and to read my Christmas
mall, and night had fallen before l got
through breakfast.”
8nars For the Unwary.
He-Why does old Miss Tlttletattle
use an ear trumpet? Is she deaf?
She—Not a bit. She employs that In
strument as a bluff and to Induce peo
ple to talk freely In her presence. -
Richmond Times-Dispatch.
Corrected.
Suitor—I cannot live without your
daughter. Old Ulchleigb-Ob. yea you
can. Work never killed anybody yet
Boston Transcript
Hplf of success Is In seeing the sig
nificance of little things.—Henyy T.
Cope.
E have just bought a
carload of fancy Yaki
ma potatoes direct from the
farm.
The finest Potatoes
ever brought to town
Get a Sack!
Good Cooking Eggs 35c a dozen $
S. BLUM & CO., Inc.
GOOD GOODS.
HOW DAWSON SECURES
FRESH MEAT FOR WINTER.
DAWSON: Hunters who went out
on the Glacier trail a day or two ago
have been returning today and report
good luck. Fifteen or twenty were
out and it is is reported by those re
turning that 100 will be there to
night. Many started today.
Harry Jones was among the lucky
boys, and bagged four fine caribou,
one with beautiful antlers. Rev. Hib
bert, who was with Mr. Jones, had
the toughest luck reported. Mr. Hib
bert was in the midst of a herd with
scores of the big fellows around him,
when the first cartridge jammed in
his rifle and he could not fire a shot.
After Harry got through he turned
his rifle over to Mr. Hibbert, but it
will require some tall sprinting for
the parson nimrod to catch fhe
quarry.
McLaren was out with his rig and
brought back game shot by a num
ber of hunters. It made a wagon
load.
The caribou were about fifteen
miles out yesterday and had started
back the other way after ha’ving
found the Yukon river could not be
crossed.—Dawson News, Nov. 3.
INEXPLODED SHELLS A
MENACE TO FARMERS
An odd problem wjjich will be en
countered all through the fighting
territory after the war is that of
guarding against the explodiug of
shells which buried themselves In
the ground without having exploded.
In the section of France along the
Marne where the fighting was sharp
early in the war and from whicli ihe
Germans retreated, the peasant for
mers have already found this danger
to be real. A plowman at anv mo
ment may strike a shell that will ex
plode with sufficient force to kill him
and his team.
Various solutions have been su"
gested, but the most promising is one
worked out by a French scientist and
considered by the Academy of Sci
ence. The plan is to go all over the
farms with an electrical instrument
that will give warning when a mass
of metal is near. Such an instru
ment is an old American Invent! n
frequently used in laboratory work.
Some modifications of It were adopt
ed by the French scientist to flit It
To; field use. and his apparatus re
quires the services of two men
In practical tests on the old bailie
fields he found that It la possihlo for
two men to explore an acre thorough
ly in about an hour, and locate every
burled shell near enough to the sur
face to do any harm.—Saturday
Evening Post.
Yes, Holiday Goods and articles of
every-day needs coming on every
boat for the Emporium. tf
FOR SALE—A11 my stock. Am
cleaning out everything below coat.
I M Poiitm. “ ' * -
DR. H. COCKERILLE
Graduate National University.
Washington, D. C.
DENTIST
Fourteen Years in Valdez.
PHONE 110
Office Rooms in Whaling Building
DR. GERMAN
phone is 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 43
Alaska Avenue Valdez, Alaska
DONOHOE & D1M0ND
ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW
OtHce Opposite Court floutse
Phone 31 VALDEZ. ALASKA
JOHN LYONS K. E. RITCHIE
LYONS & RITCHIE
ATTOIl N BYS-AT-LA \V
Otlii-ea In Whaling Bnlldlng
Rhone 101 VALDBZ. ALASKA
VALDEZ LODGE
no 108
t v.r ' Free and Accepted Masons.
Regular Communications first Wed
nesday In each month In McKinley
Hall. Visitors always welcome.
A. E. GRIGSBY, W. M.
ED. WOOD, Secretary.
Red Cross Hospital
KeyitoBP and Hobart Sts.
OPEN TO ALL PHYSICIANS.
Private Rooms for Patients.
‘ Phone 144 MRS. C. H WILCOX, Matron
Somebody
With Money
always has been found to
“back” a good plan, a good
idea, a good business ven
ture or a good mining pros
pect; otherwise a good many*
of today’s successful busi
ness enterprises would still
be mere dreams. }
. Advertising has brought
about a majority of the in
troductions or the man with
the idea, the man with a
prospect, or business to the
man with the dollar.
ADVERTISE IN THE1
PROSPECTOR FOR RB-J
SULTS.
j! aa Shamrock}
:; CA IT. TIM MARCUM £
11 Sails for Port Wells, Portage T
■ i Bay, Granite Mine, Saturday X
■' at 9:00 a. m., from tbe Vai- J
I [ dez Dock Company’s Doek. J
] j For EHamar, Land lock Bay. ±
. i and Fidalgo, every Wednea- $
day, 9:00 a. m., from Vai- £
II dez Dock Company’s Dock, x
‘ | For Kates, Apply on Boat. £
The Beat Place in Valdez to
Stop at is the
Arctic Hotel
Warm, Light Roomi—The Hour? of CsaiMt
RATES REASONABLE ^ _
BATH ItOOM Special Rato By the K«tl
PHONE 133 MRS SYRING, Po*.
Valdez Miners Union No. 188
Western Federation of Miners
ROBERT SHAFFER, President.
Granite Mine*
CHAS. McCALI.UM, Secretary, !
_Valdes. Alesha.
Dougherty & Ferguson
GENERAL |
Merchandise
The best groceries received
on every boat.
Fresh vegetables, fruits, and
nuts.
A. M. DIERINGER
Valdez Transfer
Company
Office on Alaaka Avenue, am
Ceorge C Treat Building
Telephone No. 60
General Trucking and Freighting
to all Interior Points.
LIVERY and FEED STABLJfc.
, STORAGE,
Teaming of’All Kinds.
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