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The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-04-13
ONE GENT A WORDIONE CENT 4 WORD

R ATES--On~ cent word a dRyI ad.
 taken for Icss thnu 2Sc for first inser- tlOn. Cash must accnmns1v order.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-04-13
NAMED

RATEs-One cent a word R dnys uo na.
 taken for Iess than 25c for first inner- ton. Cash must accom, nMry ordeS.
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-03-05
INFERIOR TEMPERATURE
 TAKES A DECIDED DROP

Colder weather prevails throughout the entire interior country between Valdez and Fairbanks, according t. this mornings report, drop of fro.c 6 to 31 degrees having occurred with in the past 24 hours. Teikhell and Copper Center report 10 below zero. Thompson Pass 6 below. Beaver Dam
 3 below. and Paxson and Gulkana zero. All other stations report from 3 to 26 above, the latter temperature being at Donnelly. Fairbanks reports 10 above. The local weather is also colder, reaching a minimum of ! above last night. The barometer is slowly rising. indicating fair weather,
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-03-05

of medicine for the layman, confesses that floating kidney" is about as dangerous as being kissed by a maid en aunt when you are a boy. Dr. Cabot calls attention to the fact that the only harm from floating kidney" is mental. The person who learns that he has one is frightened and made nervous. Floating kidney" the doctor says, "is a perfectly harm less peculiarity or privilege, not dis ease, and sensible doctors, when they find it, keep it dark"
 That is right. If you have a kid ney, fixed or floating, please shut up about it. Nature has hidden it care fully out of sight and has not men toned it.
 And that reminds me that one ot these old natural-footpaths, some- where out in Oregon or Washington, has discovered that apricots, unspray- ed, if eaten with sugar, will cure "kid- ney trouble" don't know what kid ney trouble is, but if you have it, eat a box of aprieots and keep still abou: it. You will get well. ll.-Minneapolis Journal.
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-03-05
DANGEROUS GROUND.

THE German crisis cannot and should not distract public attention from the fact that Great Britain, in its latest decrees affecting neutral shipping, is pursuing policies identi- cal with those that were responsible for the clash between that country and the young American republic in 1912, says the Seattle SurGay Times of February 25.
 The new order in council covers three points, all of which are inter esting and two of which are particu- lariy important:
 First-A vessel encountered at sea proceeding to or from a neutral coun- try affording means of access to ene- my territory without calling at port in British or Allied territory shall un- less the contrary be established, be deemed to be carrying goods with en- emy destination or of enemy origin.
 Second-Any vessel carrying goods rllu clCuy uCollAdlIOu pl Ot CACIuy origin shall be liable to capture and condemnation.
 Third-Goods on such vessel of enemy origin CT destination shall be liable to capture and condemnation.
 In other words, failure of a ship plying for instance between New YCrk and Holland, to call at British port is deemed prima facie evidence that it is carrying contraband,. The bur den of proof to the contrary rests wholly upon the carrier.
 A presumtive case against the ship having thus been established, the yes sal becomes liable to capture and condemnation.
 Obviously. therefore, every carrier tc Holland and Scandinavian cOun- tries must put into a British port Or by it's failure to do so, it will be deem- cd carrier of contraband. and will be liable to capture and condemnation as d prize of war.
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-03-05
TWO SYRIANS PLAN
 BOMB OUTRAGE

YOUNGSTOWN O., Mar. 5.-Police today arrested two Syrians, Albert and F. Solomon who are being held pending investigation of information that they intended to blow up the Youngstown Sheet and Tube Con- pany plant here. The men firt were arrested on a highway robbery charge. Both were loaded with dynamite and subsequent investigations, police say, elicited the information they intended the blast the steel plant. The Youngs- town Sheet and Tube company's plant is the largest in the Hahoning Valley, employing 10000 men.
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-03-05
CAUSE FOR DISSENSION.

A whole volume might be written on the causes of the dissensions that occasionally show up in the ranks of the Democratic organization in Alas ka; silvertongued orators might sport for hours, but neither of these could hare the cause more clearly to public view than does the following from the Iditarod Pioneer:
 During the past week a petition has been circulated by Deputy United States Marshal Percy Charles asking the reappointment of L. T. Erwin as marshal for this division. The peti- tion does not appear to have been pre- sented in the name of the Democrats of this section, but seems to have been an appeal to all citizens, and espe- cially the business men, and it has re- ceived the signatures of men of all parties. and some, indeed, who were not citizens. In fact, an appeal to the Democratic voters alone by MT. Char les would have been ill-advised, in view of the fact that he is the Repub- lican committeeman from this pre- cinct"
 And when added to the above we have J. F. A. Strong and Charles Div idson the case is complete.
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-03-05
KEYS OF PITTSBURG
 POSTOFF1CE STOLEN

PITTSBURGH, March 5.-Guards were stationed about the corridors of the Federal building here today fol- lowing discovery that key ring with keys to all of the important offices including tl.o Department of Justice had been stolen. The post office is located on the lower floor of the building and the keys would admit the holders to offices in which big stocks of stamps and money orders are kept.
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-03-05
U. s Can Seize Ships

WASHINGTON, D. C., March 5.-- Full power to take ships on docks ii. the United States under construction for foreigners is given the President in time of war or national emer gency" by the terms of the amend ments to the shipping bill introduced in the House late yesterday.
 The amendments which give the president drastic powers in time of emergency, such as the present, were formulated by the House committee in merchant marine in conference with members of the shipping board.
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-03-05

POTATOES are now selling at from s75 to $85 per ton in New York. Sev. enteen years ago this month we paid $25O for two pounds of potatoes in Dawson, which was at the rate of $250O per ton, but we only bought two pounds In those days one small potato and a half pound of meat were good for forty gallons of stew. u, principal ingredient of which was wa ter from the Yukon river But ever at that We sympathize with the New Workers with potatoes selling at only S1O0 per ton in Douglas.-DOugla Island News.
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-03-05
sOO,OOO Die of Carelessness

WASHINGTON, D. C.. Mar. D. Lack of proper care in the home costs the nation 3O0.O00 young lives each year. This was tre estimate to- day of Alexander P. Claxton, director of the bureau of education.
 "This fact is hardly recognized. ' Claxton told the Congress of Mothers and the Parent-Teacher Association in joint session. And yet, if Ger mans or Japanese were to invade the country and kill 3O0,000, he continu- ed, millions would be spent in fore ing a retreat"
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-03-05

SENATOR w. l.. Jones of Wash ington states that out of seven hun dred postal communications from his constituents in this state only enc man,-a resident of North Yak ma-wants war. This poll seems to indicate that about the only war sen- timent in the United States is in the extreme New England states. No where is there enthusiasm for war, as there was in 1898.
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-03-05
$5, 900 ROLL IS STOLEN
 FROM SLEEPER ON TRAIN

TACOMA, Mar. 2.-B. Weinston Portland clothing broker, was robbed of s5,OOO while asleep on the night Northern Pacific Portland-Seattle train, according to a report to the po- lice early this morning.
 Weinston slept in a parlor chair, he said he carried the roll in hip pocket. When near Centralia Vein ston discovered that a slit in his pocket had been made with a sharp instrument and the roll removed.
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-03-05
FLOATING KIDNEY.

knew a person once whose life was rendered miserable by floating kidney" It didn't seem to do him any harm, but the doctor, his friend, had told him that he had it. He had
 diagnosed the case. AS I say, this floating kidney, whatever it may be, never harmed him any, but he had it.
 And now Dr. Richard c. Cabot, who has come out with a handbook
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-03-05

A RARE and almost extinct speci- men of the genus homo was discov- cred in an Arkansas county in the northwest corner of the State last week: a man who had never heard of the war-he was deaf; and who had never expressed an opinion on either side, and was therefore abso. lutely neutral; but alas! he was also dumb
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-03-05
DIES RATHER THAN
 KILL HIS BROTHERS

HALSTEAD, Kas., Mar. 5.--Her- man Ditman, wealthy German far mer living near here, took two kinds of poison today from the effects of which. he died, rather than go into the United States army and fight two brothers in the German army. as he believed he would have to do. He left a large family.
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-03-05
PAYS FOR HIS BEER
 WITH ONE POTATO

MONROE, Wis.,, Mar. 5.-"Glass of Dark" said a Wisconsin farmer to a Monroe bartender today, and hay. ing quaffed his beer he laid potato on the bar.
 There, I guess that's worth a beer" he said, and started to leave.
 Wait minute" shouted the bar keep. You've got. another beer con- ing"
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-03-05
.Armored Submarines Latest

GALVESTON, Tex, Mar. 5.-Ger- many has put into service a fleet of armored submarines against which the guns of merchant ships are power less. according to a British sea cap- tain who arrived here today. He says a submarine of this type has been captured by one of the allied patrol boats.
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-03-05

ALASKANS have quit registering delight at the succulent orange or rich banana. They are too cheap! Nowadays when we want to get on a real burst of extravaganza we set our incisors into 8 potato. At 6 cents a pound they have every other luxury backed off the map for extravagance.
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-03-05
Rig Fire In Belgium.

AMSTERDAM, March 5.-Several buildings of the famous Cockerill Works at Seraing, five miles south west of Liege. Belgium, have been de stroyed through an incendiary fire. The loss to the plant, which comprises iron works and machine shops. mak- ing it one of the largest in Europe, will be s5O0.0O0, it is estimated.
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-03-05
MONDAY, MARCH 5, 1917
THE MocKING BIRD.

THE MockING BIRD. Y TIE didn't know much music
 When first he came along,
 An all the birds were wondertl x ! Why he didn't sing a song. They primped their feathers in the sun An sung their sweetest notes, An music jest come on the run From all their purty throats But still that bird was silent In summer time an fall He jest set still an listened An he wouldn't sing at all. But one night when them songsters Was tired out an still, An the wind sighed down the valley An went creepin up the hill; When the stars was all a-tremble In the dreamin' fields O blue, An the daisy in the darkness Felt the fallin' O. the dew There comes a sound O melody No mortal ever heard, An all the birds seemed singin' From the throat O one sweet bird. Then the other birds went Mayin In land too fur to call, Fer there warn't no use in stayin' When one bird could sing fer all!
 Frank L. Stanton.
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-03-05
BONE DRY MEASURE
 PASSES IN KANSAS

TOPEKA, Kas., Mar. 5.-The Kan sas bone dry bill passed the Senate in final roll call this afternoon. It now only requires the signature of the governor and publication in the official state paper to make prohibi- tion really prohibitory in Kansas.
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-03-05
SDuds are Burned Up

HOULTON, Me-, Mar. 2.-Two thousand barrels of potatoes were burned today in potato house at Ashland, owned by Allen & Co. They were valued at $7 per barrel.
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-03-05

IF YOU are Hive one" you will imagine that your trade will be miss ed at the place where you did all the spending. But you won't. Statistics show there is one born every minute to take your place.
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-03-05

AFTER some men get outside of the 18th beer they imagine they are the only real orators and that every body else is deaf.
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-03-05

T. w. Hawkins. of the we'll known firm of Brown & Hawkins of Seward anG Anchorage, was through pas. senger on the Admiral Watson, after an extended visit to the States.
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-03-05

NEWS dispatches state that the German press has been muzzled. Lucky, lucky Germany!
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-03-05

MARRIAGE is good thing but the man who used to wear a shirt month generally gets wife who makes him change four times a week.
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-03-05

WHY is it that the guy who is SD strong for preparedness always for gets to take an umbrella along with him when it rains.
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-03-05

SOME men refuse to pay cash for things because they know they won't get credit for 1t.
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-03-05

AS long as people insist on trying to get something for nothing the Bunco man will continue to flourish
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-03-05

THE man who prates of honest toi spends all his life trying to pay of the interest on the mortgage.
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-03-05

A REFORMER is generally a mal. who thinks everybody else is crook.
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-03-05

Furnished rooms at Mrs osland's Prices reasonable.
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-03-05

0R3Y EMPRESS, Phone 98: ready to transfe. tat baggage for you. If
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-03-05

Location notices, Dorn quartz ant placer, at the Miner ofite.
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-03-05

A new stock of Al Fruit Tablets, Candy Kitchen. If
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-03-05

Just Received the latest Popular Songs and Music Valdez Drug Co. If
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-03-05
LOCAL BREVTTIES

1 A new stock of Al Fruit Tablets
 Candy Kitchen. f Location notices, Dorn quartz and placer, at the Miner offlte.
 Fresh candy at the Emporium. If Pure Fresh Drugs av the valdez
 Drug Store. f For fine Candies see our stock. Valdez Drug Co. If
 Candy Kitchen. tf Complete line of Bulk Chocolates. Anything in nugget and ivory jew
 elry at Valdez Drug Co.
 The best of everything in box Chocolates at the Candy Kitchen If Why not a vICTROLA? We have them from $15 up. Valdez Drug Co. If Just Received the latest Popular
 Songs and Music, Valdez Drug Co. If
 0RFY EXPRESS, Phone S8: ready
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-03-05

Fresh candy at the Emporium. :1
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-03-05

Pure Fresh Drugs a. the valdez Drug Store. tf
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-03-05

For fine Candies see our stock Valdez Drug Co. If
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-03-05

The best of everything in box Chocolates at the Candy Kitchen If
The Monticellonian., 1917-09-06
Throwing Heat Away.

On all sea-going steamers the steam
is condensed by sea water pumped
through the surface condensers. This
circulating water is then discharged
overheard. In the process of eondensa-
ton the cooling water taken in at tenn
peratures varying from 30 degrees to
IS degrees Farenheit. according to eli
matte and other conditions, is raised
TO temperatures varying from so to
40 degrees and then discharged. This
great loss of heat is practically I'M
avoidable, says the Popular Science
Monthly. Even on comparatively
small steamers hundreds of tons of
heated water are pumped overheard
daily. This constitutes one of the
greatest heat losses in the operation of
steam machinery. although sometimes
a portion of the warm water is used
for scrubbing decks and for bath wa
ter on passenger ships.
The Monticellonian., 1917-09-06

pa. Before they reach the end. how
ever, and as the hills defect the air
in different directions, dunes occasion
ally advance over or threaten the rail
way line. The method of avoiding the
threatened obstruction is simple but
effective. A couple of men go out with
long handled spades and a wheelbar-
row and collect loose pebbles and grit
from the surface of the Pampa. This
they proceed to scatter in a thin layer
over the back of the unfortunate dune
The pebbles arrest the action of the
ripples and so interfere with the even
circulation of the sand particles, which
is apparently as essential to the prog
ress of the dune as the circulation of
blood TO human being. Very short
~ the dune assumes lopsided shape,
sagging where the debris has been cast
upon it, and offering, instead of we'll
rounded back, breach TO the action
of the wind. The progress of disinte-
grafton Is fairly rapid. and at the
end nothing Is left on the Pampa ex-
cept the original wheelbarrow loads of
grit and pebbles which suffice to ex-
ercise the monster.
The dunes advance over pebbles and
stones without disturbing their posi-
ton. I noticed Immediately behind
several large dunes scattered stones
that obviously had not shifted from
their bed, just as pebbles may lie Sc
cure on the seashore in the swell of
the breakers. Generally speaking, the
smoother the surface OF the Pampa
and the higher the wind, the larger
and more perfect becomes the dune.
The Monticellonian., 1917-09-06

of the dunes. The general direction
of this wind is from the northwest,
being caused by radiation from the
desert surface and the consequent in
rush of cooler air from the Pacific.
1t blows at about 20 miles an hour on
the hard, fiat surface between the
ridges.
The conglomerate bed of this desert
Pampa is chiefly formed of the follow
ing constituents. in order of their i'm
portance: Quartzite, tufa, gypsum, di-
orite with iron and pyroxin crystals),
and quartz. The whole is packed and
blended by the gypsum which has run
into and filled fractures made perpen-
dicularly, thus facilitating weathering
The tufa Is found in beds also in the
neighborhood of AreQuipa, and Is cut
into blocks for building purposes.
They ring when struck like well-burnt
bricks. The quartzite forms the main
mass of the hills surrounding the des-
ert. II weathers into briek-red oxide
on the surface, which gives the desert
its tone, making the slatywhite sand
dunes noticeable by contrast. The
quartz is infrequent. Diorite is in
terspersed In the conglomerate. but in
angular form, showing no signs of wa
ter wearing; ii must therefore be at
tributed to volcanic ejecta. The ge-
nests of the sand dunes is best seen
on the Pacific or western fringe of the
desert. where the winds are eating
away the conglomerate ridges (possi-
bly, the remains of an ancient higher
leveD. which run out from the quartz
lite hills in direction at right angles
The Monticellonian., 1917-09-06
Find a Use for Pats.

The city authorities of Stockholm
have begun campaign against ats
by Offering reward of az cents fo.
every dead cue. While il IS hoped thus
to reduce the rat plasae considerably.
the chief end Is to ger an important
addition TO the stocks OF fats available
for the making OF soaps and lubri-
cants. The rats are treated in a
corpse utilization establishment"
where rfter the fat has been boiled
out. vshas remains is converted into
a poultry food South Sweden has
for sore time been utilizing eadavers
Of animals. Considerable fat is also
obtained by Swimming large contain
ers placed in the sewers leading from
hotels, restaurants and other places
where there is an unavoidable waste of
fat.
The Monticellonian., 1917-09-06
RUSS|A'S BIG PORT
TAKEN BY GERMANS
RUSSIANS ORDERED TO EVACU-
ATE THEIR TRENCHES WHEN
ATTACKED BY GERMANS.
RETREATlNG TO THE EAST
Where Russians Will Draw Their New
Line in North To Connect With That
Below Point of Penetration Re-
mains To Be Seen.

New YoFk.-Riga, Russia's big
port on the Gulf of Riga. is in the
hands of the Germans, and its garri-
son and the civilian population are in
retreat eastward.
Following up the advantage gain
ed in driving the Russians across
the Divina river on both sides of
Ukskull, the Germans threw bridges
across this stream and soon were on
the heels of the former defenders,
who gave the invaders little trouble
in their march up the eastern bank
of the Dvina toward Riga, Is miles
distant.
Seeing the disaffection and the in
ability to stem the tide of the adj
vance, the Russian commander order
ed an evacuation.
With the falling back of the Rus
slams from the city proper and the
advance of the Germans northward
along both sides of the stream, the
Russians, still defending the western
bank around Dahlen, seemingly are
in danger of being caught between
the two fast moving bodies of the
enemy and made prisoner
Behind them the Russians in their
waste, burning villages and farms.
Whether the city itself remains in
tact has not yet been made known,
but doubtless the guns in the fortress
and the ammunition stores either
were moved or destroyed to prevent
them falling into the hands of the
Germans.
Aside from the strategic value of
controlling the Gulf of Riga, and of
a base nearer the mouth of the Gulf
Of Finland, at the head of which
Petrograd is situated, for the moment
it is impossible to see the Importance
of the German gain, especially with
the near approach of winter. when
military operations in this northern
region are almost impossible.
Where the Russians will draw their
new line in the north to connect with
that below the point of penetration
by the Germans also remains to be
seen.
Riga. capital of the government of
Livonia, had population of more
than 100000 before the war, and
aside from Petrograd. was the most
important Russian commercial and in
dustrial town having access to the
Baltic 1t is situated at the southern
extremity of the Gulf of Riga,
stretch of water 100 miles long and
so miles wide Riga lies where the
Dvina empties into the gulf. The port
is iee-bound during practically one
third of the year It had very large
German population before the war. II
was founded in 115S by German mer-
chants as a storehouse. The city pass
ed through the control of various
northern nationalities during the GEN.
turtles until finally In 1921 it was in
corporated with the Russian empire.
1t was the third seaport of Russia,
only Petrograd and Odessa exceed
ing it.
The Monticellonian., 1917-09-06
Rather.

Two Massachusetts towns were
building a bridge Jointly, and joint
town meeting WAS being held TO ar
range the distribution of the financial
burden. Naturally, every man from
Blakely was bound to look keenly
after the interests of his own town
and nobody from Peru could permit
Blakely TO put anything over. Words
were exchanged between the watch
dogs of the treasury on either side.
Motives were questioned. In short,
there was language. One of those pres
ent. speaking with asperity and EN-
phasis, said: "I'd rather be the mean
est man in Blakely than the leading
citizen of Peru" Whereupon a select
man of Peru replied: well, you've
got your rather. New York Evening
Post
The Monticellonian., 1917-09-06

the sharks in their
into air
blood flowed the captain that
the
of
off of the water
in
ia Sound
reported the beaches Loo&outs are
warning
invariably show their fms above water until
ready a