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Valdez daily prospector., 1912-02-08
ADOPTION OF
 LEASEHOLD SYSTEM

The remedy for the existing ev- il of idle mining property must be sought either in the adoption of leasehold, under which the government can enforce opera ton, system which fully attains the desired end of promoting mining development in Australia and New Zealand, according to the report made in 1907 by Geol- ogist A. c. Veatch, of the Geolog- ical Survey, to the president, or in the thorough revision of the existing system. Radical amend ment to the present law would be necessary in order to secure something more nearly approach ing equality of opportunity. Some limitation should be put on the number of claims which an in dividual can locate in each min- ing district, and the prevention of monopolization would be fur thered by the rigid enforcement of assessment development. The record of claims kept by a local official elected by the miners should be reported 10 the nearest land office in order to furnish the federal government with a notice of the intention of the claimant, and thus to initiate the opera tion of effective inspection, the purpose of which would be to en- force the use and development of mineral land as contemplated in the law. (From Report of Direct or. U. <. Geological Survcy).
Valdez daily prospector., 1912-02-08
Weather Report,

Maximum temperature. ..37 Minimum temperature. ..27 Mean temperature. ......32 Temperature at 6 D. m.. ..34 Cloudy, calm.
 '. E. M. BLADE, Observer.
Valdez daily prospector., 1912-02-08
NAT GOODWIN.

He's writing books about the lives of all his plain and fancy wives. \ few of them he may forget, but all the rest are in a sweat, for Nat, his heart devoid of ruth, declares he'll tell the gh0Stly truth. since girls are hound to marry Nal, they'll have to stand for things like that. To wed that sassy GOOdwin lad has got t0 br a sort of fad, which shows q low. degraded laSI.'. for other games are far more chaSlr. The women of this modern day consider life a giddy play; io find amusement as they go is all the yearning that they know. When ] was young the sober danes bent OCT their lruSty quilting frames and made straw bonncts day by day, tn send iO hcathen in Gaihay; 1; they brcwed yarb tea and put up jam, and cured the large and lus- rious ham. Alas, unlike the old time danes, the modern girls have lrifling aims; tO drink cham pagnc at gildcd bars, to ride around in motor cars, to send to Paris for hat, iO smoke cher oois and marry NaL--this is the circle of their lives, such is the limclighI brand of wives. Walt Mason.
Valdez daily prospector., 1912-02-08
Haa to Run Gauntlet.

San Francisco, Feb. 8.--G. B. Morgan, nephew of J. p. Morgan, was distinctly annoyed when he and his wife, an attractive Japan csc woman, arriving here on the Nippon liner Tcnyo Maru, were compelled to run the gauntlet of curious hundreds when they left the pier.
Valdez daily prospector., 1912-02-08
MUTcHLER BROS. ARE
 iM lDTTAROD CAMP

Mulchler Bros, the freighters, who formerly came to Valdez ev- cry winter, arc now in Iditarod. They have a contract for sup plying 2,5O0 cords of wood to sup ply otter creek operators.
Valdez daily prospector., 1912-02-08
Many a 8IIp.

We are just as confident of Democratic victory next year as Norman Mack is, but we arc not forgetting that heretofore it was in the moment of certainty that the enemy came up from behind and sandbaggcd us.--HOuston Post.
Valdez daily prospector., 1912-02-08
QattIna Tired of Outalda.

George Butler, an old-time sa- loon man of Dawson and Fair banks, but now in business in Se- attle, is getting tired of the out side and will return to Alaska.
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will choose new furniture for the palace
Or. rather. madame, plain madame. not
her excellency." the French president
himself being only monsieur
On the other hand. the wife of the
new French president has an extraordi-
nary shopping opportunity. Mere riches
could not find il. Where is money sure
to buy a bureau. that belonged TO the
Dubarry. a dressing table made for Nine
de Pompadour. tapestries that hung in
the bedroom Of MaZarin, clocks from
Louis XVIs own collection. a dressing
mirror made for Marie Antonette. or
Louis XIV armchairs that Josephine
thought too old-fashioned to he sent to
Malmaison?
The new French president and his wife.
when they move into the ElXsee Feb
ruary Is. will find the historic palace
furnished as the Fallieres left it-as the
Fallieres found the furniture left by the
Loubets. Each president has his taste
be IL only the taste of his wife. Each
president has the right to throw out the
furniture used by his predecessor and
establish an utterly new order And in
80 doing the extraordinary shopping op-
portunity is discovered.
1t is shopping opportunity that does
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not have to do with shops 1t costs no
one-not even the French governmental
dollar. And it is unique, above all, in
the mass of treasures among which it
gives the right to pick and choose.
In a word it is shopping In vast
decorative arts museum, the French Ma
tional Garde Meuble, one time the king g,
and now the republics furniture store
overflow Of precious objects formerly be-
longing to kings, princes and great fam
lilies.
Some presidential families reveled
more than others in the use, for seven
years or less, of these delightful objects.
and one president, at least, shocked the
director of the Garde Meuble and the
inspector of national palaces who hap
pened to be responsible for all the furn-
ture. carpets. curtains and hangings In
the presidential palace. 1t was Felix
Faure. and his historic generosity had
consequences that are going to curtail
the queer prerogative little more each
year as time goes on.
1t was on the occasion of the car
first visit. The czar1na expressed
special admiration for a certain ancient
Gobelin tapestry upon a wall.
Permit me to send it to your mai
esty,' exclaimed the gallant president
When the order came to pack the Gobe-
lin off to Russia the inspector Of ma
tional palaces was greatly troubled. He
desired not to affront the president: yet
he was bound to make it clear to Felix
Eau that while all these historic things
were his to use and even to abuse. their
rightfu owner was the French state.
Felix Faure was highly incensed. 1t Is
alleged that he even cited the case Of
Francis l exchanging presents with the
late Henry VIII of England. in which
certain tapestries figured prominently.
But when ii was suggested to him that
the present governmental Gobelins man.
ufactory could make a copy quite as
good as the original he showed relief.
The inspector naturally meant that he
should send the copy to st. Petersburg
Felix Faure, it seems, misunderstood
him. In any case, it is a question now
if the cZarina has the copy or the ORR
ginal.
Waiting TO move into the palace of the
Elysee, each new presidents wife passes
days and weeks visiting the Garde
Meuble.
In the old days, as l have said, it was
the kings furniture storehousA, affected
10 the equipment Of his kingly residences
and those Of raft Of princes. It was
a high kind of show-place, the more SO
because the king had his own nanufac-
tories Of furniture, picture frames. tapes
try. carpets, cut glass and porcelain.
Louis XIV built the beautiful palace for
IL on the Place de la Concorde. now occu-
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that Miss Lucie Faure had requisitioned
for her own use an historic writing desk
that had belonged to Marie Antoinette
and particularly precious set Of Louis
XVI furniture in woodwork Of white.
sage and gold. which had escaped pillaSe
in the little apartment" at Versailles,
but did not escape Miss Lucie. Such his
toric things. with many an ancient vase
of Chinese. Dresden or Sevres ware. with
many a Bull cabinet and table. many a
screen and panel painted by Fragonard
or Lancret. would be safer placed for
public education and the history OF
styles in a museum not subject to requi-
stions from the president and, in a less
degree his family and his cabinet.
Such very special objects, worth verit-
ably millions in these days of rising art
auction bids, ought no longer to be used.
1t therefore came about that the
museum Of the Louvre was allowed to
take to itself a quantity Of fragile and
historic things that made the glory Of
the museum of the Garde Meuble-which
exists no longer. And each year. as 1t
shifts its collections the Louvre filches
another roomful from the old Garde
Meuble itself.
In this way the shopping opportunity
of Nine. X. becomes the more unique.
The Fallieres viii welcome her to make
her studies of the palace that is so soon
to be her home.
The ground floor of the presidential pal
ace. is given up to state apartments.
twelve in number. scarcely sufficient for
their purpose. The Elysee has never been
large enough. Naponeon III moved out
of 1t as soon he became emperor.
President MacMahon, whose official resi-
dence was Versailles, used it only for
fetes. Nine Grevy. who made her own
preserves in the Elysee kitchens. and
Grevy himself, who cared only for the
billiard Soom. scarcely received" The
more swell and hospitable Carnot felt 1t
necessary to enlarge the palace: and Sadi
drew up the plans himself. 1t Is. there
fore, to Carnot that the Elysee owes its
right wing. a sheet iron shed in the style
of the Polytechnic Schools best teach
ing, but scarcely up to the standard of
the Comte d'ENereux, who built the
E,lysee in IT'S.
The rest of the ground floor has an i'm
pressive effect. 1t is due chiefly to the
inspector of palaces, M. de Gourlet. a man
of taste. whose advice with regard to
furnishing and decorations is worthy of
attention. For these great showrooms u
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The Scrap Heap?

WILLIAM DRAPER LEWIS at din
w ner during a convention in Chicago.
said OF a squabble between two factions:
If they knew European history. they
would not find these proposals so un-
precedented But they are ignorant They
are as ignorant of European history as
Cornelius Husk was ignorant Of European
art.
Husk entered the National Gallery IN
Trafalgar Square one day. He watched
young student copying the faded
Rokeby Venus: then he watched anotner
young student copying cracked Holbein,
then he watched third student copying
dim Raphael.
Finally he bent over the easel OF the
last young man and asked:
- Say. mister, what do you do with the
old pictures when the new ones are nm
iShed2 -
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Almost Credible.

EGRETARY WILSON of the Depart
- ment OF Agriculture was talking on
the Mauretania about The record crops OF
1872
almost enough to make you believe the
crosscut saw story.
"A farmer, you know. sent his hired
man to neighbours with a note, saying.
Friend Smith-Will you please lend
me your crosscut saw, as l wish to cut A
watermelon up, so as TO get ii into my
dray.
THE neighbor wrote back:
Friend Jones-I would be glad to lend
you my saw. but same has just got stuck
in a cantaloupe.'
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The London Barber.

N ISTRICT ATTORNEY WHITMAN,
= apropos of the Rosenthal case, COM
pared a bungling detectives methods TO a
London barber.
You know the London barber SAID
the district attorney. I'm lathering your
face he makes no effort to steer clear OF
your mouth. He slaps on the iatner
without any idea of keeping your lips
clean You must compress them tight
against that white storm, and even then /.
Il once saw an American in Bond
street barber shop dig a pint OF solid
white lather out of his mouth with a
towel hen he said in a strangled
voice:
".You needn't bother to clean my teeth
for me, old man.
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COnce1hinU
Well-knOWn peODlp

meath consideration. or else the insult Is
due to some MISUNDERSTANDING"
The speaker was Albert ]. Beveridge.
himself one-time reporter He con-
tnued:
II know a reporter who went to A
house the day after a wedding and said
to the servant who answe cred his ring:
Can you let me have some details.
please, of yesterdays ceremony
The servant frowned.
No. / can't she said They ate
every crumb. And / think you ought to
be ashamed. an able bodied young man
like you. going around begging for cold
detailsr' =
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A Good Idea.

MRS. r. II. BARLOW, the eastern
Iva champion, said, at the Cape May
Golf Club nodding toward a fat man:
"Yes, he is very poor player. Even
his caddy, for all his liberal tips. scorns
him.
"One afternoon he made wretched
foozle, and tore up a. sod. Lifting this
sod i'm his band-it was about a foot
sauare-he said TO his caddy, ruefully:
What on earth am / to do with this.
John?
eff / was YOU the boy answered.
I'd take il up 10 the hotel TO practice
on, SIR
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palace. although a councillor general of
the drome.
1t was only when he came to the first
of the two bedrooms affected to the presi-
dent that NJ. Fallieres is known to have
spoken up decidedly on art in furniture
He is a slow-moving. ease-loving. heavy.
wheeling. utterly kindly and good-na-
tured elderly statesman. very practical
Now. the presidential bedroom is a great
south room that looks upon the spacious
garden, almost park, with its oaks two
centuries old
In its big bay-window the fair Pompa-
dour. whose brother built this palace
took her sun baths. And here's the spot
they say, where their lunch table used
to rise from the floor and descend again
to be set for each course when the king
took pot luck with her. The lines Of the
trap door are still visible below the mar
quetry flooring.
NJ. Fallieres did not object to the de-
liciously beautiful Louis XIV wood cary
ing OF the cornces and pillars, doors and
panels, but he said he could not under
stand how NJ. Loubet could be easy
among adj those gimcrack lacquered
tables. carved and gilded chairs and the
art bed which was the regents own
Scant-draped shepherdesses smiled ma
Hciously on him from head and foot
boards, and from a big screen that is sup.
posed to be worth $65O,OOO Why not
paintings are by Fragonard.
NJ. Loubet laughed.
oh. l got used to it." he said. 1T
was all here when l moved in hastily
after the death of Felix Faure. The stun
was here, and 1 just kept it,
So did NJ. Fallieres. Who would not
1t is life of dignity, luxury, ease and
riches; but there is no big stick.
The salary is $4,000 per year, with an
extra $4,000 for expenses" Of which
the president gives no account.
There are the summer palaces Of Ram
bouillet and Fontainebleau should the
new President X choose Fontaine-
bleau, vast palace Of the old kings. all
magnifcently furnished
Servants, funkies and ordonnances
(sOldierS are all gratis. So are the
automobiles. carriages. horses, drivers
and ''piqueurs'' in livery.
Our President is glad to slip out at
night and tree 'possum. The French
president is paid for shooting pheasants
in company with kings and princes.
The French president visits and receives
magnificent gifts to make to queens and
princesSes.
The French president is paid to honoz
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pied by the Automobile and Rue Royale
clubs and the Hotel Crillon.
In the time even of Napoleon III the
Garde Meuble was a great show place.
Since the fall of Napoleon III it has been
in the position of a kings storehouse
without a king The central authority
that felt the joy and responsibility of
ownership is lacking. and for thirty
years and more the Garde Meuble has
been settled in an immense building on
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HE French house
of representatives
and senate will
soon elect a new
president of the
republic for seven
years.
President + a | :
Heres goes out
next February.
President X.
always an un-
known quantity,
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arguments were then brought out why
the Louvre should be allowed to hlch a
quantity of the more delicate and his
torically precious objects from the Garde
Meuble museum:
First, the Garde Meuble museum had
no visitors. Few people knew its where
abouts and still fewer took the trouble
to look it up.
Second, the generosity of Felix Faure.
1t was common knowledge, for eXami
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the Quai d'Orsay, practically forbidden
to the public. but having an administra
tor, three heads of departments and four
expert workshops for the repairing OF
carpets, cabinet making, fine joiner work
and the fitting and repairing OF locks
and chandeliers.
Up to the late Paris exhibition 1t had
a museum of its own, full of extraordi-
narily precious objects. At the exhibitors
end the Louvre museum began to set up
it's own halls of decorative art. Two
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A Misunderstanding.

HTHE reporters life is happy one,
When he suffers an indignity, the
source of that indignity " usually be-
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DIR EMIT FALL
1 ERES' Term Will End
in February - New Presi-
dents Wife Will Do Won
derful Shopping-The Palace
of the Elysee = How the
French white House" Is
Furnished - Each President
Can Select His Furniture to
Suit Himself-The French
Collection of Antiques.
Special Correspondence Of The Star.
PARIS August Ii 1912
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horse races with his presence-the four
great Paris prizes of each year.
The French president has his box
gratis at the Grand Opera. Opera Co
mique and Theater Francois.
The French president is the paternal
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The Little Brothers of Destruction.

Little habits destroy great Big mistakes seldom wreck
Great cliffs do the mariner but hidden reefs and
rocks send many good ship the bottom The red
climbs the Skies brushing the clouds with his century
branches contenpuou of hurricane and earthquake and
of mpregnabe force except the
qna.u of .uorn and the bore Of beetle.
The Tans that their and fling tidal
poten against the masters OF the
grove.
But the little brothers Of destruction, born die within
puny hour reenessy and doggedy persng in their mission
unreckng of without the task that
abated until lord the Forest the totters and
crashes under his weght.
stronger than his petty weaknesses No is
inpulnerabLe
Careesness recessnes and self complacency the
heel every Achilles The Of mythology and
just big Bluffs they brought peril to humantythey ad
uertsed prominently The enemy marching with
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bare Of and beat of stands so1u because he
s the anbuscaded regiment
the trenches that plays havoc.
All the dragons and saan,aners in legend weren't h
terrible the germs and microbes and baci ong through
the rotten blood of infected gypsy solitary laden with
the couriers Of plague ron ar upon Civilization than
thousand herds Of rampageous blatant believing dinosaurs
We can deal with anything that n,an-handLe
Glaring foies only temporarily distressing. The tn
slant they become sufficiently prominent attention,
they inDte timely criticism.
It's the little things that you hide, the mean tricky, selh
.oubns heart-eatne draining habits
which you alone know and which but you deal oh
that drag you down in your prime and your pride.
Secontrol the key the Anybody withstand
colossal temptation True mastery lies the battle with rdic-
uous and inntesma ndulgencesnone important by ITSELF
but like coral insects pitey unaggngy combining their harm
full mites until they reef within upon which
opportunity and hope founder and are forever lost.
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arbiter. the official uncle Of the lovely
ballet of the opera
But he mas no big stick.
He has no veto power.
He cannot boss his cabinet
STERLING HEILlI.
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Special Correspondence Of The Star.
PARIS. August Is, 1912.
Evening journal., 1912-11-01

FOR COMMITTEE
Council Presents Watch FObS
to Old Home Week Fub-
liCity Boomers

Members of the publicity commit
tee appointed by City Council for the
"Old Home Week" celebration were
the surprised recipients last night OF
a small token from Council in return
for tae services given free to the city
by the committee during the home
week celebration. The gifts we're silk
watch fobs with silver medals con-
tanning the coat Of arms OF Whining
ton and the name of the recipient
engraved on the back. together with
the information that the donor was
City Council The gifts were entirely
unexpected Councilman Stover made
the presentation, and he said that
while the tokens were not expensive,
they would be something by which
the members of the publicity commit
tee would remember the home week
celebration. Each member Of the
committee, A. o. H. Grier. William j.
MeVey and Ernest j. Otteni. made
appropriate remarks in reply to Mr.
Stovor
The suggestion was made last night
that the members of Council and the
] publicity committee gather on some
evening and celebrate the success OF
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GARMENrs OF RELIABILITY.

It's the wear garments give that proves the
superior workmanship Of every one We SELL The
most careful hand tailoring in every garment in our
stock is a guarantee of service and. satisfaction
Frocks in good serge. charmeuse crepe meteor
chiffon velvets and corduroys
smart frock in serge. a very simple yet elegant
model, having lines that are superb New Girondo
Robespierre collar Of old rose messaline small
vestee finished with glass buttons opens in 'front.'
having large orocheted ornaments The very latest
set in sleeves. Coors navy or black Exceptional
value .......... ........................ $40 90
charmeuse frock made in a fine quality The
waist has vest Of the finest tucked net with a
standing collar Of material and trimmed in
small buttons The latest mosquetaire lay down
collar Of coral charmeuse which contrasts beautifully
with taupe beautiful skirt with panel front fin
ished down entire side OF panel with covered mods
Excellent value .........,................. $3.50
velvet frock in beautiful shade of golden brown
low collar OF Plauen lace waist cut In the new side
effect opening in front and finished In large brown
crystal buttons. The very set in sleeve with
lace frill at cuff Remarkable value at m $500
party or evening frock. made OF dependable
quality. in all delicate shades of chiffon over Ian
Silk The ingenuity OF clever designing is displaved
IN this beautiful gown The waist is made with a
hchu effect Of shadow lace finished with small
crocheted ornaments. dandy value at $50 90
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.SEAFORD MAY
GET NEW STATION

Special to THE EVENING JOURNAL.
SEAFORD, Del, Nov. 1-Plans are
being considered by the officials Of
the Pennsylvania Railroad Company,
for the building of new station here
and the double-tracking Of that por-
tion of the railroad which runs
through the deep cut here.
The company's surveyors at work
here are mapping out the best plans
for the contemplated Improvement.
Despite the howl caused by the
high cost of, living. the Sussex county
farmer has something to rejoice
about. CornNin this section is selling
at seventy-five cents a bushel, white
potatoes are bringing fifty cents a
basket, apples are selling at forty
cents per basket, butter is forty scents
a pound and eggs are three cents
apiece.
Frank A. Shipley, a Seaford drug
gist, has on exhibition at his store a
sweet potato which weighs six pounds
is eighteen inches long and sixteen in
ches in circumference. It was grown
by Horace Harmon, a farmer, and is
supposed to be the largest potato ever
grown in this county.
The local Council has passed an
ordinance requiring all automobile
drivers to blow the horn twice before
passing over a crossing within the
town limits.