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Valdez daily prospector., 1917-12-04
DAN ROSS NARROWLY !. ESCAPES sHIPwRECK

Dan Ross, the fur farmer on Olson Island, and a weil.knowh citizen of Valdez had a stormy and tempestu4 ouis trip recently when be- started from thA city to Olson Island, about two weeks ago. Mfr. Ross left in a dory with a small motor, and shortly after his departure gale set in last ing until a day or so ago. First en- zine trouble developed, the huge combers piling into the boat and causing the engine to miss. After a trip of several days, the most of which time was spent ins running for shc'-
 ter Mir. Ross arrived somewhere i1
 the vicinity of his island but became confused as to his bearings on ac- count of the deep snow and when his motor finally stopped was lost entire ly. The boat drifted onto an island
 beach, and Dan got out and started to investigate He had on board a fine silver fox which he was taking to his fur farm, and carried the crate con- taifling the animal up on shore. Re- turning to his boat he unloaded her and baled the water out. Returning
 to his fox he found it had escaped
 from its. pen. After trazupink about
 while Mfr. Ross found; that he had made lahdfall on his own island; and
 made his way to the cabin: where his partner. Buck Hoyt. was taking care I of the animals. The silver joined the
 other foxes. of which the two men
 have a large number, and all turned out we'll. but Dan was badly worried for an hour or so when he thought'he 1 had lost his valuable fox. r
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-12-04

Tsks . l3k as oar new hns of po.tc2Sdf asi1s titAuteA of the Canyon etc. valdss Drug StusS. If + Aa ~a "a. ..lAx-'2L' - . IF. 1t, isx't xds Dsssndan 1t isn't . iKoAss. VI carry q conplsts' lins ofss .nagesnaa KddSks and supplies. Val dss'Dsas seors. sf
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-12-04
A caddy Story.

The gentleman was learning to pia. golf and 1t had been too much for the AcomI,osure of his caddy. The caddy fad made valiant efforts at first. but a,y the third hol. he was helpless with nlirth. The gentleman fixed him with Il cold eye and said: ', What do. y"n think I'll give you "'' ,,y,.ur card If you are so silly and gig [xie all the time? Do you think yOuil get 'goOd'?"
 ~NO,' replied the chortling cad'iy ''<rN get a V. G."
 ". G.. suppose that stands for very good" snapped the infuriateti g-l'-
 tielaan.
 t> "NO, sir. V. G.. very giggly." said the abandoned little caddy, rolling on
 the ground.
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-12-04
e. Paul. oss1 Cree . Mark.

q .Paul's Geld. ccess . Mark.
 . There is a feeling growing in city circles that steps. Ghopl0 be taken to deaden the gleam of the cross and bell on St. Paul's cathedral, sayA the Lon sdoa Globe. It Ia pointed out that these .were Fesslded- -shsstl$ -befoes-the- WIT! xae- thst~ when .tlsp.- .-suu iE sat4
 {Isiih4ly~- they yaAotti' aN"mxgnfa3eat landmark for enemy airmen to indi- cate the whereahopta, of the very cent ter of the city of. kCsd66.' .''-~.' :;
 It b stated the& ,the ashining cfoss can be seen many lhiles away with the naked eye. .,>>'
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-12-04
Will Not visit Meat hovsss."

In Tokyo, says Good Health. ceT- tain class of Japanese are adopting the practice of eating meat. as they
 have acquired the habit of using to- abaace and drinking whisky. through their dealre tq initiate the westerners' a Som kte, an.idss that by aeah-eatr lng they may be able to increase their si5e and vlgor. uts ]. It is noticeable, however. that the k11Uaisee women refuse to eat meat SSjd ,,will not vlsit the restaurant@
 wher1 meat is ssrsed' wAtah are knowl as meat houss%" The Japsnesei wont =. rsgprds 1t improper to visit such 3HaceE.
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-12-04
,patr,e,rs pie Idss.

Patrick had called on his Betsy and .she gave him.a handeope helping q 'n4r special make of apple pie. Patrick
 Ras Loud dn ,its .pEaiee..: '.., l.: 'o:.f tiled a new way" said Betsy.
 hesw,ps.. .".ltput a. few sooseberries in
 tb flavor It." s:.y. .."Besprya cried PatHck. If . few loose berries give 70 good flavor to ,sa .aulsI Ipie what . darlint of an'apt 'pie pie 1t would be made O sooseser
 kies eutQirelyr ,.> 70 ! ~
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-12-04
:, er,tlsb Columbia shlpbuildlns.

rhs stesi' steaihSr War Dog. the
 first ship of its type 10 he built h LNfinsHa 0i8iI6es. .a was rsce9td launched at Vancouver. The War 1o4 .witb . length of 811 fee& is also t,e Fhrsat -atssE earsS; vetbelsto be buiif n That prpvipce, ThS /: contract VI |SI;tsSx eJab1s3 StNsmship cl, paay thro1gh an Hnslish arm. el
 ihey steaues waa AuneA4a n. -H l2x,SI rs.s E.
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-12-04

Hot-Poipl, Electric Heaters and .Cooking-Appiiancesxt ths Emporium. Christmas goods coming on the next hoat. ,..,.4 .,-, ts-i If
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-12-04
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Valdez daily prospector., 1917-12-04
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Valdez daily prospector., 1917-12-04

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The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1917-06-29
HATCH EGGS ON THEIR FEET
Penauins of the Antarctic Region Have
Some Strange Characteristics,
Says Zoology Professor.

"The emperor penguin of the Antarc-
tic, which has not even a nest, lays
single egg, that must not touch cola
ice and is hatched out on the parents
feet" writes DR.. Richard A. Muttkow-
ski. instructor in zoology, University
of Missouri, in an article on Maternal
Instincts" published in America. "Ihe
MOTHER" he continues, "has a bare
patch of skin on the under side, ringed
with long feathers to surround the egg
and later the chick; this affords both
the necessary warmth"
Other strange manifestations of ma
ternal instinct cited by Doctor Mutt
kowsh are certain Venezuelan frogs
which place their eggs upon their
backs, whence a little parapet of skin
prevents their falling.
The most astonishing manifestation
however, is that of the mother scor-
pion, who ''is literally devoured by her
children, and permits them to do so.
We, stand perpleXed at the cOmplexity.
of an instinct which causes the mother
to submit calmly to dismemberment,
without offer of resistance; yet this
same instinct causes her at the same
time to ward off any foreign intruder
who might interfere with the dismem-
berment and perhaps save her life.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1917-06-29

One end of tool invented by a
Frenchman for smoothing rough edges
of collars and cuffs serves as a button
hole opener.
An English inventors safety suit for
aviators is covered with parachute
like pockets and the entire garment
can be inflated to help break the force
of a wearer's fall.
An inventor in Nebraska has patent
ed wire netting covered frames to
cover open automobiles to catch hats,
wells, or other articles that otherwise
might be blown away.
A new microphOne to collect sounds
and convey them to the ears of partly
deaf persons by almost invisible wires
is so compact that it can be worn un-
der a mans necktie.
In California, a centrifugal blower,
driven by an electric motor, is being
used in the shelling of almonds. For
merly the nuts could be shelled by
hand only with the greatest difficulty.
A London oculist has advanced the
theory that if white clothing for ba-
bies could be abolished in a genera
ton there would be 20 per cent de-
crease in the number of persons with
defective vision,
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1917-06-29

Scientists who have been trying to
find a way of preventing the fogged
glass which often obscures the vision
of a chauffeur or motorman in rainy
weather and results in accidents, have
decided that glycerin, properly used, is
the best thing for preventing mist
forming on the glass. 1t has long been
used for this purpose by locomotive
engineers, and a thorough test of its
efficacy proved that it is deserving of
wider use.
To make glass fogless in any kind of
weather it should first be thoroughly
cleaned and then rubbed with cloth
wet with glycerin.
When the drops of water strike
glass coated in this way they coalesce,
forming a smooth, transparent film,
which is no obstruction to vision. The
uncoated glass becomes covered with
separate drops, which completely be-
fog it's surface.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1917-06-29
For the Stout Lady.

''If you have been made by nature
short and plump, don't spend your life
wishing you were tall and slim, but do
what you can to correct natures short
comings. Toward forty most women
run somewhat to Overplumpness. Sys-
tematic exercise is one of the best
remedies for this and about the only
safe one. There are reducing baths
that can be taken, and external and
internal cures, and diets galore. But
some are awfully expensive and the
diets are nuisance. 1t is easy enough
to give up sweets and fats if you are
inclined to be very stout, and a cup Of
hot water before breakfast is a help
IA reducing, as is plenty of cold water
between meals and no liquid with
them. ."-Mother's Magazine.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1917-06-29
Memory of Signers
Should Be Honored

The erection of a memorial in
| Washington to the signers of the
Declaration of Independence is
proposition worthy of promotion and
execution. The memory of these men
should be preserved and their names
should be so displayed that all Ameri-
cans may read them. The signers
were select body of patriots whose
service to the country and the world
was of most distinguished kind yet
few Americans of average education
know very much about them. 1t is gem
orally the soldiers on whom the SPOT
light of history shines.
Many of the signers, in fact a
great majority of them, were men
whose memory the average American
does not preserve. A man may know
that the Adamses, Charles Carroll.
Samuel Chase, Benjamin Franklin, FL
bridge Gerry, John Hancock, Benjamin
Harrison, Thomas Jefferson, Richard
Henry Lee, Francis Lightfoot Lee,
Philip Livingston, Robert Morris, VIII
liam Peca, Robert Treat Paine, Edward
Rutledge, Roger Sherman, John With
erspOon and Oliver Wolcott were sign
ers, but what of all the others? How
many men can recall the names and
service of such gallant Americans as
Bartlett BraXton, Clarke, Clymer,
Floyd, Gwinnett, Hall, Walton. Whip
pie, Williams, Wilson, Wythe, and ali
the others?
OF the fifty-six signers, eight-Gwin-
nett Hewes, Livingston, Lynch, Nor
ton, Ross, Stockton and Taylor
died before the independence of the
United States was won and acknowl-
edged by England. while two of
them, Thomas Jefferson and John
Adams, lived until 1926, both of
them passing away July 4, and Charles
Carroll lived until 1882. Adams died
at the age Of ninety-one, Jefferson at
the age of eighty-three, and Car
roll at the age of ninety-six. Thomas
Lynch of South Carolina, who, like
Edward Rutledge of the same state,
was only twenty-seven years old when
he signed the immortal document, died
at the age of thirty, in 1779, while But
ton Gwinnett of Georgia. and John
Morton of Pennsylvania died in 1777.
Only one other of the signers lived to
be as old as Charles Carroll, and he
was James Smith of Pennsylvania, one
of the three Irish-bOrn signers, who
died in 1906 at the age of ninety-six.
In that brave and patriotic body of
signers were lawyers, merchants, farm
ers, physicians, soldiers, minis
ter. surveyor. and printer, and
two who gave their occupations as a
and sailor, Roger Sher-
man of Connecticut being the shoe
and William Whipple of the
same state the sailor. The names of
the signers should be preserved in
stone and bronze. They should have
4 temple at the capital of their
country.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1917-06-29
SOME P0STSCRIPTS

BY means of a secret process a
French scientist converts flowers,
fruit and even animal tissues into
metal.
A Minneapolis inventors adjustable
road scraper has been designed to
serve equally well as snow pillow.
An entire notebook or single sheet
of paper is held equally well in a new
copyholder for typewriters in which
the copy is advanced as desired by
pressing a lever.
According to an Italian scientist who
has classified 1000 cases Of self-de-
struction more suicides occur between
the ages of fifteen and twenty-six than
at any other period in life.
Beautiful light effects have been
obtained in lamps by European cleo
trician who polishes both sides Of thin
sheets of marble and saturates them
with paraffin or shellac.
Almost whole gymnasium is con-
tained in a new chair in which a seat
ed person, by pulling straps over his
shoulders, manipulates levers and
Weighs that exercise most Of the mus
Giles
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1917-06-29
EpIstoIatory Mania.

SOuthey said "a letter is like
fresh billet of wood upon the fire,
which If 1t be not needed for imme-
diate warmth, is always agreeable for
its exhilarating effect" He also refers
to the epistolatory mania in very young
persons, saying that in his later years
his pleasure consisted in receiving let
ters not in Writing them. This mania
evidently had not attacked our young
son, who said he dreaded to get let
ter because he knew he would be re-
qulred to answer itl-LUs Angelo
Times
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1917-06-29
WIN the owl is a Nioht Bird.

Birds are often credited with bring
ing down fire from heaven; in Poly
nesia it was a red pigeon, in French
folk lore the wren. The tale runs
that all the other birds, except the
owl, contributed a single feather
apiece to replace the scorched plum
age of the wren, so as to keep it warm
in the coming winter. For it's ILL
nature the owl was condemned to
eternal seclusion during the warm
day, and to perpetual suffering from
cold during the night, and the other
birds maintain the punishment by pes
tering it if it appears in sunshine
Raymon Crawford, in the Lancet
(London).
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1917-06-29

Sonneck permitted recent caller to
CLEAN from these documental data re-
garding this country's national songs
and supplemented them with some ad-
ditional verbal information.
Almost everyone knows how the stir
ring words rushed from the heart and
hand of Francis Scott Key on the early
morning of September IA, 1914, when
the English were bombarding Fort Nc
Henry. Fewer, perhaps, know that
he jotted down the first rough draft of
the song on the back of a letter as he
sailed up the Patapsco on one of the
enemy's vessels that early morning,
when he saw through the daWns ear
~ light that our flag was still there"
He completed this draft upon the
American boat which brought him to
Baltimore that evening, and later that
night, in his hotel in Baltimore, he
made clean copy of those jOttings
and this first fair copy of the words
is still in existence and may yet be
seen at the Walters gallery in Balti-
more.
On the morning after his arrival in
Baltimore Key took his poem to his
friend and relative, Judge Joseph Hop
per Nicholson, for his critical opinion
upon it. This was evidently favorable,
for 1t was Immediately printed and its
first appearance in public was in the
form of a sheet, or broadside, which
was distributed through the streets on
the day after it was written. It's first
dated appearance was in the Balti-
more Patriot of September 20, 1914.
Next day 1t appeared in exactly the
same form in the Baltimore American,
and then, in single sheets and in news
papers, it spread from Baltimore to
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1917-06-29

| said that if he could get a patriotic song
| adapted to THE Presidents March" he
did not doubt of full house; that the
poets of the theatrical corps had been
trying to accomplish it, but had not sue
ceeded. I told him that would try what
I could do for him. He came the next
afternoon, and the song, such as It is,
was ready for him. Such is the history
of the song, which has endured infinitely
beyond the expectation of the author.
The song met with immediate sue
cess and was repeated again and again,
being named New Federal Song" and
no entertainment of the day was con-
sidered complete without it.
To run down the history of the mu-
sic Of Hail Columbia" written orig
inally as the presidents March," Mr..
Sonneck found a much more difficult
task than giving the plain narrative
of the applied words. Wading through
an immense amount of historical data
and some controversy upon the sub
ject he has brought out facts which
he would only put forth after the most
careful process of Sitting and deduc-
ton.
until recently" he said, "the musi-
cal origin of Hail Columbia was as
obscure as its literary history was
clear" But, weighing all the evidence
in the case, he carefully sets down
the fact that the Presidents March,"
which supplied the music for "Hail Co
lumbia," was composed by Philip Phile,
a resident Of Philadelphia, of perhaps
German or Swiss origin, and musician
and instructor Of note. (His name is
usually spelled incorrectly; the above
is the correct spelling.)
America" the national hymn, con-
tains no mysterious history. 1t was
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1917-06-29
STRANGE WEDDINGS IN INDIA
Guests at Native Ceremonies In Bonn
bay, Literally "Paint the
Town Red"

The rites and customs pertaining 70
the ceremony of marriages differ In
various parts of the world. Every
where the solemnlzatlon OF the con-
tract is attended with mirth and re-
jolclng.
At native wedding in Bombay In
dla, the wedding guests hteraiiy
"paiut the town red" by throwing on
one another a kind of red powder un-
iii they are crimson from head to FOOT
Their dlsordered white draperies' the
stains and splashes on their faces ana
hair and their unrestralned J0lllty
give them the appearance of victims
of a massacre, the Peoples Home
Journal states.
In India halls which may be Sc
cured for small rental are provided
for these ceremonies. But weddings
are also celebrated in the Hindu tenn
ples. with priests in attendance. In
n Hindu temple bride of twelve must
seat herself on a stone and be
drenched with water by her brides
maids. Behind her, her motier ~
subjected to a similar deluge and at
a short distance behind the brides
mother the grandmother undergoes
the same treatment, while in front OF
the dripping trio two priests slt De-
side a briskly-burning wood fire, num-
bling the prescribed words for the
ceremony. One casts few grains OF
rice into the fire and the other, with
a ludle, few drops Of oil.
During these performances the
bridegroom, seated in a carriage out
side the temple, receives the congrat-
ulations of his friends. In the far East
the bridegroom would seem to be the
member of the party most to be en-
vip1
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1917-06-29
Monuments TeII Of Glorious Deeds.

The story Of the Revolution, and
the great deeds of the founders. can
hardly die from our memory when
from the monuments on Its battlefelds
1t would be possible for schoolboy to
construct an accurate and fairly de-
tailed account Of the eight years
struggle, beginning with Lexington and
ending with the surrender of Corn
wallis at Yorktown.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1917-06-29
And there was Captain Washington,

piece. Though no longer Il national
song, it is still national air and sec.
ond only to Dixie in patriotic popu-
larity. For 80 years Yankee Doodle
has appealed to our people, and the
tune shows no sign of passing into
oblivion.
Many words have been spent in dis
cussing the origin OF the title of this
song, and at least sixteen separate
and distinct derivatiOns of the words
have been seriously set before the pub
lie. The earliest dated reference to
the tune appears in the first Ameri-
can ballad opera, "The Disappoint-
ment" Philadelphia, 1867. 1t was
played in America as early as 1868,
for in the Journal of Transactions in
Boston, September 2S 176S, we read:
"The fleet was brought to anchor near
Castle william; that evening there
was throwing of skyrockets, and those
passing in boats observed great re-
jOicing and that the Yankee Doodle
song was the capital piece in the band
of music"
The earliest appearance in print OF
"Yankee Doodle" in Europe has been
traced to James Ards "A Selection of
Scotch, English, Irish and Foreign
Airs" published in Glasgow about
1880, Mr. Sonneck asserts that Yam
kee Doodle" did not appear in print in
America until Benjamin Carr's Fed
eral Overture" a medley of patriotic
songs, including Yankee Doodle" and
composed in 1894, was published,
adapted for the pianOfOrte," by b.
Carr, New York, in January, 1875.
Since then some interesting and now
rare renderings of the piece have been
issued.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1917-06-29
Youth.

There is Gods gift of youth, mex
pressibIe, beautiful, glorious, divine. II
is for youth that the rest of us live;
it is on their motions that we hang;
it is for them that We labor, suffer,
and endure; it is for them that we
flout the ills of life; it is for them
that we are blind to death. YOUTH
wonderful youth,--so great a gift to
possess, so infinitely greater a gift to
perceive in boys and girls about you
H. d. Sedgwick, in the Atlantic
Magazine.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1917-06-29

A genius can no more help being
a genius than crazy man can help
being crazy. 1t just happens that
when a genius does what he considers
a smart thing, 1t is smart; but when
the poor crazy man does his best it
turns out to be foolish.-Ed Howe's
Monthly.