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The Colorado statesman., 1915-04-24

Camp Nelson is the name of
colored town in the State of Ken
lucky. They recently installed an
electric power plant and organized
several other business enterprises.
The Colorado statesman., 1915-04-24
RACE NEWS
GATHERED FROM VARIOUS SOURCES

G. W. Brown, a colored lawyer
of Elizabeth City, North Carolina
recently passed the State Supreme
Court Examination.
The Colorado statesman., 1915-04-24
Notes On Racial Progress
FURNISHED BY THE Ma
TIONAL NEGRO BUSI-
NESS LEAGUE.

Barlow F. Powell, a farmer of
Baker County, Georgia, recently
sold 500 bales of cotton at s cents
a pound. The amount of the sale
was more than $4,000.
Valdez daily prospector., 1915-09-08
The Fate of the Oneida.

One of the most extraordinary ca: tastrophies that have befallen vessels of the United States destroyed the sloop of war Oneida in 1869. She was bound homeward with jolly ships company eager to see wives and sweet hearts and native land once more. when not far out of port she was struck by the British steamer Bombay coming in. The stem of the Bombay cut off the stern of the Oneida. The ship was sinking rapidly. and guns of distress were immediately fired. but the Bombay steamed on her way and left the vessel to her doom. She went down. and ali but one or two of her crew were drowned. The captain of the Bombay gave no other reason for his conduct than that he had Lady
 Eyre. the wife of distinguished Brit ish satrap. on board and did not wish to disturb her nerves with scenes of shipwreck. He was mobbed when he reached Yokohama. dismissed from the
 service. socially tabooed from that time on and died in disgrace a year or two
 later.
Valdez daily prospector., 1915-09-08
THEY SAW THE GHOST.
Easy to Recognize the Woman Who
 Had Haunted the Place.

Easy to Recognize the Woman Who
 Had Haunted the Place.
 "A certain lady and her family" says Sir Mountstuart Grant-Duff in his Diary" hired place in Scotland which was haunted by the ghost of Il woman, who was to be seen constantly at night wandering through the rooms and passages. When the family arriv- ed the lady was much struck with the place and said. I must have been here before. for know this place so well. only there ought to be two rooms here. and there is only one.'
 "The agent replied that within few weeks the owner had caused parti tion to be taken down and made the two rooms into one. Still the lady was puzzled at her knowledge of the place till she remembered that 1t was a house she used to go to in her dreams.
 Well. some time passed. and the agent was up at the house again. when the lady complained that one part of the contract had not been fulfilled They had hired a. house and ghost for the summer. and no ghost had she seen.
 "The agent replied: Of course not. because you. madam. are the ghost. We recognized you the moment we saw you.
Valdez daily prospector., 1915-09-08
GERMANS WOULD
 ANNEX BELGIUM Professors, Peasants, Landlords anu Manufacturers Demand lts ~sA Retention.

PARIS, Sept. S.-What purports to he the text of confidential memo randum sent to the Imperial Ger r-Aah Chancellor, Dr. Won Bethmann-Holl- veg, on May 20 by representatives of German manufacturing and agrl- cultural associations, is published py the Temps. The memorandum ac- cording to the newspaper, covers in ancial, territorial and military con- sessions to be demanded Of the En- tente Allies as Germany's terms TOT peace and to insure the development of a greater Germany.
 The memorandum, after calling TOT peace terms which shall insure the development of greater Germany and "guarantee an improvement or the bases of the German empire,' says: "A peace which has not these results will render new struggles inevitable at an early date, but with chances much less favorable for Germany.
Valdez daily prospector., 1915-09-08
Friqht and White Hair.

The popular belief that the hair of persons laboring under great mental grief or terror changes color seems to be unfounded. Under certain condi- tions of bodily health the coloring mat ter of the hair ceases to be supplied. and the hair may consequently become gray or white in very short time. In these cases, however. 1t is only the grow ing hair that has no color. the hair as 1t gradually rises from the root is gray. while that which is outside the cuticle remains its original color. No well au- thenticated case of sudden change in the color of the hair Is mentioned in the Transactions of the Royal Soci ety." extending over POO years. where. as if any such circumstance had oc cured it is almost certain 1t would have been recorded. The case of Marie Antoinette. which Is most frequently cited. does not rest upon evidence suf- fciently strong to warrant belief Philadelphia Press.
Valdez daily prospector., 1915-09-08
Eioure 1t Out,

A beggar boy asked an old gentle man ill the street for sixpence
 What will you do with 1t if l give you one?" asked the old gentleman.
 Turn it into ninepence quick" re- piled the boy.
 "HowY'
 "Give me the sixpence and I'll soon show you.''
 The boy got the money. darted of to a bakers shop and bought a three penny loaf. with which he returned to the old gentleman and handed him back pennies.
 Flows this? You said you would make the siXpence into ninepence."
 "So ! have. The bakers got three pence. you've got threepence, and I've got a three penny loaf. That's nine uence"-Pearson's Weekly.
Valdez daily prospector., 1915-09-08
A DOCTORS HOBBY.
Thsrs Was . Quser Twist to the End
 of PeebIss' Experiments.

or S00plOe ENP0TInoutSs
 There was British physician named Robert Peebles who created sensa- tion in London and Edinburgh several years ago by his insstent coaxing of athletes for the privilege of studying their bodies after deuth.
 Peebles had been experimenting with the muscles and had arrived nt what his associates termed a fantastic no ton that some sort of operation could be performed on the leg of the human runner so that his speed could be in creased. Leapers and high jumpers were his hobby. and in the course of five years 1t was estimated that he had examined the leg muscles of nearly thousand men. making comparisons with the running and lcaping muscles of the frog. the deer. the greyhound and other animals.
 Peebles was man of means. and after he had succeeded in inducing half a dozen athletes of reputation to twill him their legs" the attention of surgeons was attracted. They took the matter under consideration at one of their quarterly meetings and warned Peebles they would have him commit ted to sanitarium if he continued his strange pursuit. Peebles defied them and they had commission appointed While his sanity was being tested Pee bles died. In his will he bequeathed his brain to the commission. Ex- change.
Valdez daily prospector., 1915-09-08
BREAKING INTO PRINT.
One Writers First Little Check and
 the Way He Spent It.

One Writers First Little Check and
 the Way He Spent 1t.
 Richard Harding Davis. says the London Strand Magazine. is one of those fortunate men whose short sto- ries can always command thousand dollars and over. How he broke into print" is an interesting little history.
 Ut was while at Lehigh university" he says, that l earned my first sum for writing. It was description of a cane rush at the university, and l sent 1t to a local paper. It was published and a few days later received check for the large sum of $1.15. have re- ceiyed larger checks since then. but the biggest of them never gave me the thrill that that one did
 Just as soon as cashed that check 1 sallied out to buy something with it-I had no idea what-and in my search I found two very nice looking candlesticks which, l think. were about the price of the story had sold. l bought them. They were made of brass and seemed very solid and hand some. One l sent to my mother: and the other I kept for myself. They are still in existence. 1 believe. shining witness to the first fracture l made in my youthful endeavor to break into print"
Valdez daily prospector., 1915-09-08
The Obstacles to Evil.

In the constitution of our nature a limit has been fixed to the triumph of evil. Falsity in theory Is everywhere confronted by the facts which presen, themselves to every mans observation. A lie has no power to change the or. dinances of God. Every day discloses its utter worthlessness until it fades away from our recollection and is num- bered among the things that were. The indissoluble connection which our Creator has established between vice and misery tends also continually to arrest the progress of evil and to rem der odious whatever would render evil attractive.-Francis Wayland.
Valdez daily prospector., 1915-09-08
ARABIAN HORSES.
Ancient Stories of Their Care ant
 Training Are Mere Fablss.

Ancient Stories of Their cars and Training Are Mere Fables.
 So far as. we know. the Arabian breeders have no patented system of training their horses different from those prevailing among peoples of a similar degree of civilization. Natu- rally the ,lack. of pasture results in young Arabian horses being fed con- siderable quantity of barley and. so the story goes at least, a not inconsider- able quantity of the fruit of the date palm, fresh and dried. by way of suc- culence.
 The colts are broken. usually bare backed, at two or three years old. Their subsequent handling is much like that of all other horses. with perhaps the difference that as early in life as possible the young animals are accus- toned to doing without water for in creasing periods of time in order to ac- custom them later on to the scarcity of liquids in desert journeys.
 The ancient stories about the Ara b steed being kissed and bawled over by the sheik's whole family. kept in the living tent and foaled on the best silk rugs are picturesque fables containing about the same measure of truth as the one which dates the pedigrees of Ara bian horses back to the mares owned In Biblical times by King Solomon Breeders Gazette.
Valdez daily prospector., 1915-09-08
Notice of Sale.
No. 721

:. No. 72..
 In the District Court for the Terri
 tory of Alaska, Third Division. T. M. Lathrop, Plaintiff, vs. Adam
 Swan, Defendant.
 Under and by virtue Of an order of sale, and decree of foreclosure ls- sued out of the District Court for the Territory of Alaska, Third Division, on the 7th day of Septe nber, 1915, in the above-entitled suit, wherein J. M. Lathrop, tho alove named plaintiff, obtained judgment and decree against Adam Swan defen- dant in said suit, On the 7th day of September, 1915, recorded in Judg- ment Docket No. 2. page 260, am commanded to sell those certain pieces or parcels of land, lying and being in the town of Valdez, Record ing Precinct of Valdez, Alaska, and described as follows, to.w:t:
 Beginning at the point Of intersec- tion of Sherman Street and Alaska Avenue, in U. s. Survey No. 336; thence in a westerly direction along said Sherman Street fifty (50) feet; thence at right angles in a northerly right angles in sn easterly direction HlIy NoVJ AOoI, "toASS' "e iioA1 e'.A gles in a southerly direction sixty (6O) feet along said Alaska Avenue to place of beginning Also Lot Nine (9), BlOcl; Two CD; and the easterly portion of Lot Thirty six (36) Block seventy. ight (78); the. said easterly portion of said Lot 36 being tract of land fronting on Mckinley Street, Th'rtytwo (32) feet in width, and One Hundred and Fifty (150) feet in depth: subdivi- sions U. s. Survey No. 439, survey ed by J. Frank Warner and F. w. Williamson.
 Notice is hereby given that on Sat urday the 9th day of October, 1915, at the hour of two o'clock in the aft ernoon of said day. in front of the court house at Valdez, Alaska, will in obedience to said order of sale and decree of foreclosure. sell the above described property or so much thereof as may ho necessary to sat- isfy plaintiffs judgment with inter est thereon, together with attorneys fees and costs to the highest and best bidder for cash, in lawful mon ey of the United States.
 Dated this 8th day of September, 1915,
 F. R. BPENNEMAN, U. S. Marshal for the Third Division
 of the Territory of Alaska. Date of first publication, September
 8, 1915.
 Date of last publication, October 6.
 1915.i 8-15-22-29-6---5t.
Valdez daily prospector., 1915-09-08
Leaning Tower In EnaIa nd.

The famous leaning tower of Pisa has rival in the Temple tower of Bristol. in England. It is square tower of early Gothic architecture. All it's parts still preserve their normal relative positions without cracks or tis- sures. The tower, which is about 115 feet high. is five feet out of perpendic- ular at the summit. There are no rec Ords to show whether the inclination was part of the architects design or whether it is the result of an earth quake or of slow changes in the incli- nation of the soil. For many years there has been no change in the slope of the tower.
Valdez daily prospector., 1915-09-08
A LAUGH IS A TONIC.
1t Aids Digestion and Tends to Good
 Health and Long Life.

It A1CS OI0estion anu IonoS 70 SVoo
 Health and Long Life.
 There are people who take life too seriously. They allow their souls to be eaten up with cares and anxieties. Many worries are useless and help nothing. Bits of humor are lost on these persons. They wonder how any one can be so thoughtless about the realities of life.
 In all the animal creation laughter is given to man alone. given him. like all other faculties. to make the best of. Laughter. 1t is true. is not for all times and occasions. but 1t has its place and is necessary to our we'll be- ing. A laugh is a cure for many ills. It aids digestion and so tends to good health. It prolonges life. Laughter often settles disagreement and pre- vents real troubles. Hard working business and professional men some times forget to laugh. The strain of work grips them hard. and they get old before their time.
 The ability to see the humorous side of an accident, mistake or folly, Is a great aid in making life more endur- able. Laughter overdone, like all vir- tues carried to excess. Is vice or folly. Cultivate your sense of humor. Better to laugh too often than not to laugh often enough.
 Who laughs knows no defeat
 Milwaukee Journal
Valdez daily prospector., 1915-09-08
WHERE THE DAY CHANGES.
The international Date Line In the Pacific Ocean.

The International Date Line In the
 Pacific Ocean.
 A great many people cannot see why when man crosses the international date fine in the Pacific ocean if he goes toward the east he loses day and if toward the west he gains q day-that is. if it. say. happens to be Tuesday just this side if he crosses to the west 1t will be Monday. The distance he may have actually gone need be only a few feet, but 1t is true nevertheless. The actual time may be only a second 6 difference.
 To understand this remember that We go from Monday to Tuesday at 12 o'clock at night-jump immediately from one lay to another. Consider also that if . man could travel toward the east as fast as the earth rotates and if he started at midday, with the sun directly overhead. he would go completely round the earth in no solar time at all, for the sun would always be just over his head and to him 1t would be F o'clock all the time If he measured time by the position of the sun. He would not experience any night at all and 50 would have twenty four hours of sunlight But 1t has ac- tually taken him twenty-four hours to get around, 50 the time when he reached his starting place again would be F o'clock noon all right. but would be day later than when he started. So 1t can be readily seen that some meridian on the earth's surface must be picked out as the starting point of a new day, and the chosen one lies al- most entirely in the Pacific ocean, Every Week.
Valdez daily prospector., 1915-09-08
An lnterestinq Talk.

In the days of Henry Clay, Ken lucky farmer sent servant to Lexing- ton with note for the president of a certain bank. When the man returned he said to his master:
 Il met Marse Henry Clay in the bank and had a conversation with him.
 Indeed! And on what topic did you and Mir. Clay converse?" inquired the master with interest.
 The darky removed his hat and made sweeping bow. Says Mir. Clay to me-" . And another very low bow. And the same to MT. Clay."-EverybOdy's
Valdez daily prospector., 1915-09-08
paIy,s ,mpecuniou. Employee.

Augustin Daly had in his employ ment a man who always addressed him note periodically asking for an advance of money. This note was in- variably answered by most abusive letter in almost insulting terms and threatening instant discharge if the offense was ever repeated and inclos- ing a check for the money.
 At regular intervals of about three months the man invariably made the same request. with the same results. always. however. getting a check in closed. And thus it continued until Mir. Daly's death.
Valdez daily prospector., 1915-09-08
Mr. Wise Guy,

MT. Wise Guy sat beside the road watching his chauffeur doctor punc- ture. Presently farmer. leading a youthful calf, passed.
 "Where'd you get the calf. RubeT" Mir. Wise Guy inquired impudently.
 "Set a hen on a bottle O milk" was the reply.
 And Mir. Wise Guy was mean enough to threaten to fire the chauffeur for laughing.-Indianapo News.
Valdez daily prospector., 1915-09-08
Reversed Conditions.

"You are careful to set an example for your son?"
 T used to try to set him an exam. ple." replied the serious man. "but now study him attentively to ascer- tain what kind of clothes ought to wear and the style of conversation that is considered smart" ."-Washing. ton Star.
Valdez daily prospector., 1915-09-08
In siaht Already.

Mother-He may have money. but has he foresight? Daughter Yes. mom' mer! He says everything he has Is mine, to the last dollar!-New York Globe. '.&
Valdez daily prospector., 1915-09-08
wb.r. It Would 30 Eliminated.

"HOT0 TE WVUIO 00 6''Ns0Os
 "Well. Aunt Dinah," asked the cooks young mistress. ''are you going to have the word obey eliminated from the marriage ceremOnyT
 No. chile, 1 ain't." said Aunt Dinah. but I sho' am gwinter hab 1t done limited from de matrimony."-Ladies' Home Journal
Valdez daily prospector., 1915-09-08
Unusual Case.

Mrs. SnaLp-And why do you think Mrs. De Punk queer? Mrs. Rapp- We'll. she has everything on earth to make her happy and still she's happy. New York Globe.
Valdez daily prospector., 1915-09-08

The man who never alters his opin. ion is like standing water and breeds reptiles of the mind.-William Blake
Valdez daily prospector., 1915-09-08

A party of ladies will go berry picking in the hills back of Fort LIS cum tomorrow.
Valdez daily prospector., 1915-09-08

Suits pressed .or $1 "" at Silver mans, the tailor. Telephone 19S. tf
Valdez daily prospector., 1915-09-08
Ice! Ice! Ice!

One cent a pound delivered to any part of the city. Phone Love-W whit ley Company. U.
Valdez daily prospector., 1915-09-08

All is not lost If a man still has the grit to smile. .-Detroit Free Press.
Valdez daily prospector., 1915-09-08

Valdez Drug Company have a fine line of School Stationery. tr.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1915-04-10
TRENCHES AND '. '. '* '. 'f- FIELDS FILLED
 WITH THE DEAD
(Continued from Page D

iernment, is to overawe the rural pop ulation, which is beginning to threaten a revolt.
 Evidently the Germans cannot spare the troops from the western cam paign that are needle dto help the Austrians in the Carpathians.
 The Austrian army is falling back along both banks of the Ondawa river, an dthe forces which the Germans are able to bring to their support are not sufficient to bring their counter at tacks to the point of stemmlng the general Russian advance. The Austrians are destroying all the permanent bridges across the river flowing into the Hungarian valley, this action being characteristic of de- fensive campaign.
 Should the Hungarian crisis burst into civil war behind the armies now facing the Russians, it is certain that Marshal von Hindenberg, immediately l to the north, will bring the main Ger man army to western Poland, sending General MacKenzen's force south again to try to get below the Russian
 position in Hungary.
 It is learned here today that the
 Germans in the north have only one
 officer for about every 300 men.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1915-04-10
REEDY RIGHT, AT THAT.

Reedy vance. serving 2o-yeaf term for the murder of Chlnamah in Little Rock, has rcfused paloon tendered with the provision that he rsmajn outside of Pulaski county.
 eff I am not fit to stay ln Puiashi countv then l am not lit to oe turned out"
 Rsedy is right. If ha is too danger cus to remain in Pulaski. hes 'oo dangerous to be at large in JeIierson or any other county.
 This business of releasing criminal ar an opnoxlous charactei with the provision that he'll go eise- where is stunning responsibility. we ought to have the courage anu 'n- manhood to handle our own pad peo' nle and troubles. To ship them else' wbere is cowardly and unjust we have no right to saddle on o'he' neonle characters we are alraid '> have with us.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1915-04-10
TONGUE
 BECOMES COATED
 IF CONS1IPATED
When cross, feyerish and sick give
 "California Syrup of Figs.'

Children love this fruit laxative" and nothing else cleanses the tender stomach, liver and bowels so nicely
 A child simply will not stop play ing to empty the bowels, and the re- suit is, they become tightly clogged with waste, liver gets sluggish, stom- ach sours, then your little one be- comes cross, halfsick, feverish, don't eat, sleep or, act naturally, breath is bad, system full Of cold, has sore throat, stomach-ache or diarrhoea. Listen, Mother. See if tongue is coated, then give a tea spoonful of "California Syrup of Figs" and in a few hours all the con- stipated waste, sour bile and undi- gested food passes out of the system and you have a we'll, playful child again.
 Millions of mothers give "California Syrup of Figs" because it is perfect lv harmless; children love it, and it never fails to act on the stomach, liver and bowels.
 Ask your druggist for 5O-cent bottle of "California Syrup Of Figs which has full directions for babies, children of all ages and for grown ups plainly printed on the bottle. Beware of commercials sold here. Get the genuine made by "Californla Fig Syrup Company Refuse any other kind with contempt.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1915-04-10
T H F REVELATION Q N
ST. JOHN THE DIVINE.

CHAPTER 1.
 After this l looked, and, behold, a door was opened in heaven: and the first voice which l heard was as 1t were of trumpet talking with me; which said, Come up hither, and l will shew thee things which must be hereafter.
 ?. And imme diately I was in the spirit: and, behold, throne was set in heaven, and one sat on the throne.
 3. And he that sat was to look upon like jasper and sariine stone: and there was g rainbow round about the throne, in sight like unto an emerald.
 i. And round about the throne were four and twenty seats: and upon these seats 1 saw four and twenty elders sitting, clothed in white raiment; and they had on their heads crowns of gold.
 ). And out of the throne proceed ed lightnings and thunderings and voices: and there were seven lamps