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The Alaska prospector., 1907-02-14
Notice Of Forfeiture.
To Cus Snnnhnrr,

To Gus SpOn berg:
 lOu are hereby notified that tn Q under gned have expended s2OO in labor and i'm. provements on the claims known as the ,eYicW, Cats Paw, Ruby No, and Ruby No. 2. Iiua ed on Knights Island, Alaska. in order Q hold said mining claims under the pro .lsl0nS oi sec, 2@2l of the Revised Statu'es Cf ne United states, being the required amount 20 and 1906. And if within ninety (9O) days iIom the service of this notice, or the com pie c application thcretOf, you iuil or refuse to con rlbute your preparation of said expendi- Ire aS co-oWner, yOnr one fourth interest in ald claims Wll! become the property of the .ndrrslEned uUGcr and pursuent of said Sec ion 2@24 of the Revised Statutes of the United 1tuteS.
 Dated Ut Valdez this l7th day of Jan l"ry, lO97.
 CHAs. SPOEBERG,
 CHAS. SaNDBERG,
 JAS SIMPSON. ate of first publication January 2i, 1907 ate o1 last publication April 2j, 1907.
The Alaska prospector., 1907-02-14
Juries Drawn.

Following are the juries drawn Saturday evening:
 GRAND JURY
 Jas. Kibbles, J Nichols, John Ryerman, Vim. Webb, J. G. Me Cracken, 0. A. Borgen, w. w.. Aver, Chas. Seeley, w. H. Bren- nen, Geo. Mead, k. Y. Taylor, Gus Dgarf, and Oscar E. Olson, of Val dez.
 Henry Bra ndt. G. J. Fiester. LA. Terry, J. M. KimbaIl, Fred Wag- t,er, and J. k. Van Clevs of Sew
The Alaska prospector., 1907-02-14
DETAILS OF ACCIDENT Companion of Doherty Tells Story Of
 Drowning

w. I. Massauers who was on the Buttinsky at the time of the drown ing of Tom Doherty, gives the fol- lowing account of the accident:
 eve left Valdez Friday morning and all the way to the narrows had trouble with the engine. the ex, haust being frozen. When beyond the mouth of Jacks bay the engine became overloaded and stopped. and Iom decided to put mp tn, sails so we could be making head way. He left me to cool off the engine. while he started to put ul the main sail, which was a slow job, as the sea was very rough and q gale blowing. l heard him on the upper deck for some time, anu then heard him jump to the for ward deck to put up the Ub After that 1 heard nothing more until his cry for help came from astern
 "l knew nothing about handling a boa but realized that the sal must be taken down before 1 could turn around, and this took n e so ne time, owing to the terrible pitching of the boat After I hac the sail fixed l saw the Pennsly- va"ia going along the other side oI the Sound and tried to signal her. but without avail, SO 1 went to th, engine and to my surprise sh, started up without any trouble then took the wheel and started around when the steering rop, broke. and l lost five minutes re pairing chat, but finally turncc around and got back to where Ton had fallen overheard but nothinA could be seen of him. It mus have been 15 minutes from the time of the accident until 1 got ihe boat back, and the cold and ex- posture was too much for Doherty. He had no coat on and was wear ing light leather sho. $, so he could have kept on top but fer the cold.
 "After looking for Tom for some time l worked the boat into Galena bay, where it now is. I saw nv first salt water four months ago when 1 came here and this experi- ence with it will do me for all time"
The Alaska prospector., 1907-02-14

ard.
 C. F. Sinclair, G. N. Duval, s. E. Doverspike of Catella.
 Guy Banta, of Latouehe.
 PRTIT JURY
 Bernard Erickson. w. Seiffert, J. M. Peterson, c. c. Rudolph, Clarence Brown, $. $. Lynch, c. schultz, w. E Barry, of Valdez. w. A. McNeiley, Thos. Irvine, C Tecklenburg, w. P. Henry, DC. Brownell, w. M. Sauers. c. Pager son, E. F. Richie, of Seward. ChAs. Wallace and D. $. Smal~ ey, of Ellamar.
 G, w, Winker NJ. N Vaughn, of Catella.
 John BroWnlow, of Sunrise. C. C. Roberts, of Camp Comfort G;s Anderson, of CoIdova
 Geo. Rorer, of Dry Creek.
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Tho Tailor Bird.

Sewing seems so ingenious an art
that it must be reserved for the hu-
man species alone. Yet the tailor
bird, the Orthotomus longicauda,
and other species possess the ele-
ments of it. They place their nests
in a large leaf, which they prepare
to this end. With their beaks they
pierce two rows of holes along the
two edges of the leaf. They then
pass stout thread from one side to
the other alternately. With this
leaf, at first fiat, they form a horn,
in which they weave their nest with
cotton or hair. These labors Of
weaving and sewing are preceded by
the spinning of the thread. The
bird makes it itself by twisting in
its beak spiders webs, bits of cot
ton and the little ends of wool.
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One of Byron's Eeeentrieitiss.

With reference to the story Of
Byron's first invitation to dinner at
the house of the poet Rogers, in St.
James place, which we quoted the
other day, a correspondent reminds
US that it had sequel. Byron, it
will be remembered, refused every
dish, saying he took nothing but
biscuits and soda water and made
his meal of mashed potatoes drench-
ed with vinegar. Rogers completes
the story. in his table talk. "Some
days after, meeting Hobhouse, l
said to him, 'fIow long will Byron
persevere in his present diet? He
replied, Just so long as you con-
tinue to notice it, l did not then
know what now know to be a fact
that Byron, after leaving my
house, had gone to a club in St.
James street and eaten a hearty
meat supper London Globe.
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Where Rain Never Falls.

Peru has hundreds of square
miles along its coast of rainless
country. In this tract rain is never
known to fall from one century's
end to another. Yet the region is
not entirely barren of vegetation.
Some parts of it indeed are COM
paratively fertile. This is due to
the extraordinary fogs known as
'tgaruas. They prevail every night
from May to October after sum-
mer that is sultry and extend up to
a level of 1900 feet above the sea.
Above 1900 feet rain falls.
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We are glad to note that the

We are glad to note that the
Board of Health is taking steps
to put our town IN Il bette. san
irary condition. The report cir
culated by citizen of neigh
boring town few days ago,
that Kingstree was building
twelve brick stores, while the
town was grown up in weeds as
high as ones head, was some
what exaggerated, nevertheless there
are signs of serious neglect and care
lessness that we caunot longer
afford to allow TO exist.
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Call at our store, please, for free
sample package of DR.: Shops '.Health
Coffee If real coffee disturbs your
stomach, your heart or your kidneys,
then try this Clever Coffee imitation.
While DR.. Shoop has very closely
matched Old Java and Mocha coffee
iu flavor and taste, yet he has not
even a single grain OF real coffee in it.
DR. Shops Health Coffee Imitation is
made from pure toasted grains or ce-
reals, with Malts, Nuts, etc. You will
surely like Health Coffee. Sold by
Peoples Mercantile Company.
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Opportunity for Young Man.

The Normal scholarships of
the University of South Carolina
have been raised in value. Each
scholarship is worth $100 in money,
besides remission of $40 tuition
and SIS matricuiation or "term"
fee. The money is paid at the
rate of $3.50 a month for
eight months, to assist IN meet
ing the necessary living eXpens-
es. There is one scholarship for
each county.
The current Hieh-School
movement will greatly increase the
demand for well-equipped men
teachers and the salaries that they
will receive.
Examination will be held Fri
day, July 5th, before the coun-
ty Board of Education. Appli-
cants should be at least 10 years
of age, and preferably teachers.
Write President Benjamin Sloan,
University of South Carolina, COL
umbia, S c., for blanks on which
to apply before July 9Th.
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A Judoe of Music,

A concert was given at a Ger
man court in honor of some foreign
prince. At its close the illustrious
guest asked for a repetition of the
first item on the programme. The
first piece was accordingly played
over again, but the visitor failed to
recognize it as the one he had liked
best. Suddenly the musicians fell
to tuning their instruments, during
which process all the company stop.
ped their ears with the exception OF
the foreign monarch, who exclaim-
ed in a rapture of delight, That is
my favorite piece" - Flegende
Blatter.
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from the standpoint of the origi-
nators of this movement, its OBJ
ject is to array labor against cap
ital and make the path of prog
ress thorav in the South as 1t Is
in the North, which We conceive
to be even worse thar the Col
umbia States idea of raising the
people "above the level of manu-
al labor"
But our main objection to COM
pulsory education law lies in the
fact that the State has no right
to enact law without making
provision for carrying itout. 1t
is observed already that some
who seem to be sincerely in ia
vor of compulsory law are advo-
eating larger appropriations to
swell the funds for the poor,
needy children of the State. A
special appropriation for clothing,
board and books would have to
be made for some, and what would
be the result? What is the re-
suit with regard to the large ap-
preparations already made for "the
poor farmers boys" in the school
established by Ben Tillman ''for
the poor farmers boys?" Those
who need it worst get nothing,
and those who do not need it
get it all. Some conscientious
poor people are not willing to
swear three lies for $50 twice a
year, while some apparently we'll
to-do people 90 down to the coun-
ty seat, hold up their hands be-
fore the three respective county
officers, take the oaths, sign the
papers and send their boys off to
be educated on the money that
some poor fellow had to pay as
tax on his cotton seed meal.
Where is the man who is able
to spare his boy from home, that
cannot raise $40? Larger appro-
priations! Oh yes! But what goes
with it? 1t is to stuff the NAV of
the CRATER and pat the paltry
perjurer on the back.
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in connection with his fight for
the Nicaraguan canal, in which
although he lost, ne made a ma,
tional reputation by the earnest
and forceful presentation of his
views. He maintained his oppo.
sition to the Panama canal route
to the last, and the present slow
rate of progress in digging the
cana! seems to justify Senator
Morgan's opinion that the way he
favored was the preferable route.
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"To Die In the Last Ditch"

The earliest use Of the expression
"To die in the last ditch" was made
by William of Orange, the stadt-
holder of the Dutch republic. While
he was carrying on his apparently
hopeless struggle against Louis
XIV, Buckingham, who was urging
him to yield, asked him whether he
did not see the utter ruin of his
country that was impending.
"There is one certain means" re-
piled William, ''by which I can be
sure never to see my country's ruin
Il will die in the last ditchp
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niver.ity of South Carolina
Scholarship Examination

THE UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH
CAROLINA offers Scholarships in
q the Department of Education to
one young man from each County.
Each Scholarship is worth 800 in
money snd SlS matriculation or term"
fee.
Examination will be held at County
seat FRIDAY, JULY 5th. Examina-
tion for admission to the University
will be held at the same time.
Write for information to
6ENJAMIN SLOAN, President,
G-13-4t Columbia, S. C.
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Truly Feminine.

q am awfully lonely without
you," the woman wrote to the CIR
who had gone to the country, "but
there's one good thing. When
put my>things away now, they stay
where l put them, and l know
where to find them again"
And the girl wrote back:
dts the same with me."-NeW
York Piess.
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THURSDAY, JUNE 13. 1907
Hung 1t on the Wrong Peg.

Our readers this week will per-
haps wonder what has become of
the defender of the "Voice from
Connecticut the expounder of
the illuminated object lesson cf
what compulsory education has
done for that State. We can on
ly surmise that perhaps the Col
umbia State has at last discover
ed that it made the serious mis-
take of undertaking to hang its
compulsory school satchel on the
wrong peg. If this Office had Brant-
ley Smith and the rest of The States
magnificent mec hauical out
fit for inst a few minutes, we
could show our readers better than
We have the space to tell, the ex-
act situation. But, to make the
story short, according to the Unit
ed States census as presented In
our last issue, the Connecticut
peg was rotten and down went
The. States compulsory education
satchel, documents and all-and
now that the big gun is silenced,
we will turn our rifle in another
direction.
Some writers have recently inti-
mated that this cry fer compul-
sorry education comes from educa-
tional associations, school teachers,
etc., to which the Columbia
State in its editorial of May 80
very appropriately replies: "First,
the advocates of compulsion are
by no means confined to members
of educational associations the
school teachers are by no means
a majority of such advocates.
No, indeed! And perhaps very few
of them are such advocates.
But why does not the State go
on and tell it's readers first, where
this cry for compulsory education
did originate? Second, who the "ma-
jority(?)" is that is clamoring for
1t today? And, third, why do they
clamor for it:
Today We will undertake TO
give our readers glimpse at the
history, agency and motive Of
this imported innovation, and if
The State or any other newspaper
or correspondent can successfully
confute our statements, VT will
not hide the facts from our "taC-
crs. If W. are shown that We
are mistaken we have the mat
hood to admit it.
The beginning of this agitation
in behalf of of the "poor, Hitter
ate, white children of the South"
dates back to about 1897, when
the New England cotton mill IN
dustry began to feel seriously the
competition of Southern cotton
mills, when competent New Eng
land observers recognized the con-
tentment and happiness of South
ern operatives-their realization of
the mutual interests of themselves
and their employers, and their
disinclination to labor unlouism;
and seeing that Northern capital
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Well Posted.

Mrs. ,Hayfork (in country postof-
fce)-Anything for me?
Postmaster-I don't see nothin'.
Mrs. Hayfork-I was expectin' a
letter or post card from Aunt
Spriggs tellin' what day she was
comm.
Postmaster calling to his wife =
Did ye see post card from Mrs.
Hayfork's Aunt Sally tellin' what
dav she was comm?
His Wife-Yes. She's comm on
Thursday.-London Tit-Bits.
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Senator John Tyler Morgan. wh(

for thirty years represented Ala
bama in tie upper house of con-
gress, died Tuesday night at the
ripe old age of eighty-three.
Senator Morgan is best known
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was steadily moving into the tex
tile industry of the South and
feeling the embarrassment of nat
ural disadvantages-it was then
that some of the Massachusetts
manufacturers threatened their oper-
atlves with reduction IN wages,
alleging that competition with the
cheaper labor of the South was
the cause of their embarrassed
condition.
Under the spur of this discus
sion agitators from New England
and elsewhere soon appeared in
the South preaching the doctrine
of discomfort, endeavoring to array
labor against capital, organizing
labor unions and threatening with
strikes-and finally failing to
accomplish their purpose by this
method, and with the lapse OF a
little time to obscure the original
motive, the tactics were changed
and the appeal made to a public
sentiment (Which frequently acts
without thinking on both sides
of question: to obtain legisla-
ton against "child labor Thus
it was that under the guise of
humanitarianism, New England
unionism laid It's hand upon the
Congress of the United States.
and some, even IN the South
have allowed themselves to become
the unwilling sponsors for an
agitation originating elsewhere and
based upon absolute material self
ishness.
The design of a compulsory
education law among its origina-
tors, is to obscure the real de.
sign of the 'schild labor" law,
and the design of the "child
labor law among its originators
is to remove children from the
cotton mills, because with the ma
chinery there furnished they can
do the work of adults-can some
times do more and do it better
aud can do 1t for smaller wages.
The object is to get them out of
the way and thus be able to de-
mand higher wages. Of course,
these agitators have no idea that
a compulsory education law would
ever be enforced. They know it
has never been done-not even in
Conuecticut!-but with that ma
chinery they will see to it that
their purpose is accomplished and
all the other mischief will follow.
The following bit of history is
gathered from the Manufacturers
Record:
The Massachusetts, Bureau of
statistics of labor reported in the
spring of 1898 that long hours and
low wages were the principal advan-
tages of the South over Massachu-
setts, and in the fall of that year
said that Southern mills reduce the
price of goods in Massachusetts by
overproduclion. Later when phil
anthropy began to cover the move
ment, the suggestion was made from
another source that Northern mill
owners could well afford to spend
100000 III "raising the condition
of the Southern labor" as "our
great hope lies in the labor agitator,
who is now slowly closing i'll upon
the Southern mill aud compelling
an increase of wage"
"ln September, 1901, the eXecu-
tive council of the American FEEDER
alton of Labor, at its meeting IN
Washington, directed President Sam
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Rates to jamestown Exposition.

The following to the jamestown exposition which opens
Friday April 26 have been furnished the agent here
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opening of the exposition and will be sale Tuesdays Of each
week thereafter They limited to days The other
tickets will be sold the day prior the opening of theexpo
son and will sale daily during the period of the expos
ton.
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Weekly Jeffersonian., 1907-01-24
THE WEEKLY JEFFERSONIAN.

higher than the victor of Blenheim, higher
than the victor of Agincourt and Poictiers.
But it was not only as a soldier that Lee
was the flower of the Anglo-Saxon race. Like
Washington, he was an all-round man. Like
Washington, he was great in almost any as
pect of his character, and like Washington,
his mere manhood dominated all Of his mental
qualities. Like Washington, Lee was per-
feet specimen of physical manhood, perfect
type of manly beauty, with nothing effemi-
nate, nothing affected nothing abnormal,
nothing lacking to make up that superb bal
ance of qualities which was the strongest
thing about George Washington But in Lee
there was more approachableness than there
was in Washington. In the Father of his
Country, there was slight touch of "The
Grand Seigneur." There is something of att
sterity, a loftiness of port which held the av-
erage man at arms length There was some
thing lacking in ease, sociability unreserve,
and frank meeting of mind to mind, the cordial
casping of hand to hand About Washington
there was always something of frigid formal
ity, something of the drawing of invisible
lines around himself, separating himself from
others. In eXacting scrupulous respect, he
came dangerously near to chilling affection.
1t is much easier to imagine that all those who
moved about Washington, serving with him
and serving for him, held him in profound
respect rather than in love. So much of a
sticller for form and ceremony was George
Washington, and so deliberately planned
were all of his words and actions, that he
sometimes makes one think him huge piece
of irresistible machinery, rather than man
with whom one could sit down and fold ones
legs and have quiet heart to heart talk.
With General Lee it was very different.
During the whole course of his life, it is
doubtful if anyone ever treated him with dis
respect; and yet he was perfectly approacha-
ble There were no icy barriers built up be-
tween himself and his fellow man. He moved
among them like a superior being, and yet
there was not one of the thousands who NOV
ed around him and who felt that he was a su-
perior being who would have hesitated to
have lifted his cap and spoken to General
Lee as man to man, with absolute confidence
that he would be treated with courtesy. Con
sequently, the feeling inspired by General
Lee was not at all like that inspired by MARI
borough, Wellington and Washington. Marl-
borough's troops followed him on the battle
field with supreme confidence that they would
win a victory, but in their hearts they despised
him as man, because they knew he was to-
tally lacking in honesty, and that he was
amassing a filthy fortune by robbing his own
soldiers in the cOmmissariat Wellington S