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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-01-28
Common Sense and Efficiency

The faddist and the quack we have ever
with us. No sooner do the advance Of
science and the vigilance Of the police sue
coed in scattering the parasites who prey
on the credulity of the unwary than these
same hoodwinkers come back and polly
anna the unsuspecting, selling the same
old wares, relabelled with the latest scien-
tifc jargon and the catchwords of up-to-
date business methods. The clairvoyant,
patent medicine man, painless dentist,
phrenologist and astrologer were put out OF
business only to make way for that modern
miracle monger, the quack efficiency ex-
pert.
Every one believes in efficiency and
coyets its fruits. No one will deny that
the application to business of certain prin-
ciples Of psychology, properly understood,
is a great advance. Here is new field
for experimental science, also a rich har-
vest for self-advertising humbugs.
Many business men and ambitious young
peoplc. unable to discriminate, become the
easv victims of this new class of fake
vendors of industrial nostrums, purveyors
of the success secrets Of great men, COM
mercial faith healers and chiropractics of
salesmanship. All that is required to en-
able one to open up a mail order efficiency
expert business is a good stock of cant
phrases borrowed from "A Message to
Garcia" a smattering of scientific termi-
nology, American bluff and a shrewder
knowledge of human gullibility than OF
sound business principles.
Books and courses of lessons containing
wonderful moral calisthenic exercises
are sold, guaranteed TO develop twill
power" and put more money in the pay
envelope. Those who wish to become con-
vincing speakers take correspondence
courses in oratory. A sale is transac-
ton between minds; hence wonderful
,svchologic secrets and tricks for hypno-
thing the prospective customer are sold
TO those who think they are thus gaining
q practical knowledge of psychology. False
homes Of easy promotion arc held out; I'M
realizable ambitions are stimulated; con-
ceited and childish notions Of the force Of
ones personality are inculcated; artificial
judgments of human worth are encour-
aged.
Aspiring young business men are in
duced to send their photographs for long
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-01-28

Back still farther:
No company now; no firm;
Just lone young individual,
OF parentage blent and non-distinguished, let
us say,
With young helpmate Of his own kind;
Roth struggling together for foothold,
Roth putting forth their strained endeavors
To feed and clothe a little flock,
And TO "get on"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-01-28

ily. It spread overnight from Castle Gar
den TO the Pacific Coast. In which con-
nection it may be worth observing that the
Dutch. who, too, shrewdly thought IN
terms of trade and profit, impressed upon.
New York, and that but family and
briefly, only the name of their smallest
coin. the "doit." New York could not
think in "doits." It probably never will
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-01-28
TOWARD CHILDHOOD

(Prom Poeirvj

(Prom Poetry,
Backward. O Time, ana for a single hour
Make small child Of him who stands be
fore us
Al the advanced age Of seventy-fivc-
Leander NJ Coggswell, multi-millionaire'
In days when gross wealth drugs the very
atmosphere
IL would be vain to guard these present lines
from it's insidious approach.
Shall seem to overdo
If give Mr. &. one hundred millions?
Very we'll; they're his.
lie lives to-day in semi-retirement,
And has forgotten partly how the money
came;
Completely so, If asked officially.
Others have now bent their backs to the great
burden;
He no longer keeps tab, he tells us, on the
workings of the vast machine.
lie buys now and then picture, a coronet,
castle;
He smiles impartialy on the great and on
the small,
On the needless and on the inquisitivc
Reads detective stories,
And plays croquet
Now let us make him little younger
We strip him first of his bland leisure
And of his more puerilc interests.
Five years ago-yes, even less
He was afame to found to furnish, to fill
His great museum,
He the modern Medici-Cosimo and Lorenzo
in one.
Books, manuscripts, madonnas, choked his
days;
Art and learning walked captive at his heels.
But Cesar never grew so great, you say,
Upon such meat as that?
OF course not. There was previous PERIOD
A phantssmagoric tumble of varied interests
Filled the public air; all was kept aloft
BY superhuman skill, and all was juggled
Just bit too swiftly for the questioning eye
TO follow
Even for the interested orb
OF the Uncle of us all:
Banks, foundries, railways. tanks, stock mar
ket, state legislatures, what you will;
Everything brought about with suave and
Mephstophelean mien
By the great thaumaturge,
While deft assistants at the lesser tables
Passed on the properties and dressed the
scene.
Peelng away still further from our friend
His years. dexterity and grandeur,
We find him on lower, stage,
Before poorer audience,
Doing less skilfully and on smaller scale
The tricks that made the msn-himself.
1t seems, viewed restrospectively, mere re-
hearsal
OF his immense Performance.
Here, industrious, thrifty and alert
ITO give his qualities their better names,
He practised. in semi-privacy and with no
possibility of praise,
The qualities he lauded, later,
In pamphlets and addresses aimed at the ma
TONS youth.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-01-28

iriStd at the Postoace a. New York IS Second C's
Mall Matter
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-01-28

Lastly, newborn babe
Rugged close within home
On some elm-shaded street,
Or in some slattern village farther west,
Or in some stony cabin far beyond on
bounds.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-01-28

You can purchase merchandise advertised in
THE TRIBUNE with absolute safety-for II
dissatisfaction results in any case THE
TRIBUNE guarantees TO pay your money back
upon request. No red tape. No quibbling. We
make good promptly II the advertiser does not.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-01-28
Back still farther:

Back still farther:
No company now; no firm
Just lone young individual,
OF parentage blent and non-distingushed, let
us say,
With young helpmate of his own kind;
Roth struggling together for a foothold,
Roth putting forth their strained endeavors
To feed and clothe a little flock,
And to "get on
Next 20 his wife and children
We have left now only young clerk or
handy man,
OF lingo semi-rustic. semi-foreign, semi4citi-
fed, quite as you like;
Melting away beneath the surface,
Yet coming up, at intervals,
To sec the Main Chance shining in the sky;
Holding his own, and more, against all youth
full rivals,
And shaping vigorously the grand ideals
Which, later, were to fire his heart-and ours
Next we deprive him of his Office STOOL
Or Of his chance to labor hardly out in the
sheds.
He's but boy at school
Quick, quick, with slate and pencil;
Sharp, sharp, among the Fairgrounds crowd
Next knee trousers go.
We have child of four in laughable habili-
ments
Preserved by some uncouth disciple of Da-
guerre,
And later shown, in half-tones.
For the dersve alteration of the world;
But with look, sly and determined, in the
eyes,
Which promises much
Now but an infant-in-alms.
Borne in long convoluted skirts.
"Oh, what forehead" cries a visiting aunt,
Pushing the frilled cap back
And, kissing such brows, mothers have often
said with awe,
Gle may be President"
Lastly, a newborn babe,
Rugged close within a home
On some elm-shaded street.
Or in some slattern village farther west,
Or in some stony cabin far beyond our
bounds
Can we go on?
Yes, with Wordsworth, who has limitations
Ana who may have bestowed on him
Long streamers of supernal-or Internal
glory;
And with Kant, who has Innate Ideas.
And who may we'll have packed the baby full
OF pre-accumulated notions and experiences;
Or with Cation, who cracks up Heredity,
And who may have presented complete
outfit
OF traits passed on from linked forefathers;
Or with Taine, who comes out strongly for
Environment,
And who perhaps decreed our babe should be
Entirely what Surroundings made him.
Modern opinion and current fashion
May favor this last notion still.
Thus our newborn hero came at once
Within range of influences and waiting OPP
portunities
Which caused his Life to follow
As easily and inevitably
As a corollary upon theorem proved
AS naturally some prepotent cloud,
Careering through the Uttered heavens,
Helps weave strange, disconcerting patterns
on earth's fields.
HIM. Are we not ali clouds together?-
Minor eirri, dumpy cumuli,
Multitudinous shreds of yapor,
Rosy or gray,
That float or drive about in tiny tatters;
And some fixed fault within the national sky
Prevents proper tanning of our thunder
heads.
We wait, and no high Cloud Compeller comes
To help US master our Preponderates
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-10-01
FROM OUR EXCHANGES

The United States marshal's Of
fee at Juneau has been notified that
a man was shot one night recently on
the Salmon creek road. According to
the story told the marshal's Office the
young man was coming to town when
he heard a nosie behind him, and
turned Just in time to be nearly
knocked down by bullet from re-
volver held within 20 feet of him,
and which inflicted a scalp wound. He
continued to advance toward his as
sailant, who fired a second shot and
fed.
Word was received in Juneau re-
Gently of the finding of high grade
tungsten ore near Petersburg. The
find is said to have been made by
Conrad Dahl and Myre Hofstadt on
Kupreanoff Island, about IA miles
from Petersburg at point called
Cape of the Straits.
The Customs House authorities at
Juneau have received a report of the
wrecking of the launch Aurum, a boat
of 16 tons, on the beach at Golovin.
The vessel was owned by K. ID. Hun
ter, of Nome.
DR.. G. G. Haule, a dentist of Doug
las, who was held at Juneau recent
ly pending an investigation as to his
sanity has been declared sane. but
is now undergoing treatment at the
general hospital for severe nervous
breakdown.
Aboard the Princess Alice recently.
bound for Atlin, was Lieutenant Tay-
Tor, of the Canadian forces on visit
to his parents. Taylor is % years of
age and four months ago possessed
coal black hair. Now his head is as
white as snow, the result of his eX
perences with the Canadian forces
at the attack on Vimy ridge in France.
Taylor was wounded and is on leave
of absence.
The body of William Ginty, a resi-
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-10-01
The Cat and the Chickens.

An authentic story tells of male cat
and female cat in France that lived OH
terms of perfect amity with all the AMI
mails on the place-dogs. chickens AMI
what not 1t so happened that hen
which had a brood OF seven chickens
was killed accidentally. The cat. which,
some two weeks before had been de
privad Of her kittens. appeared to Oh
serve the predicament Of the seven lit
tie chickens. She craNyled into then
nest, and the chickens. looking ro
warmth, nestled into her warm fur
peeping gratefully. The chickens. fe'l
by their owner, thrOve perfectly. ami
every day the strange sight was pre-
sented Of their following the mother cat
about the premises as If expecting her
to find them food after the manner OF
4 hen.
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-10-01
GREATEST OF ALL SUNS.
Giant canepus, the Blue Beauty 81 ths
Southern Hsmisphsrs.

Giant canepus, the Blue esauty Of ths
Southern Hsmisphsrs.
Star gasers of northern lands often
overlook the fact that some Of the
most brilliant and beautiful stars and
finest nebulae and star clusters In the
heavens belong to the southern hem
isphers and are not visible In our lati-
tudes.
Magnificent blue Campus. the second
brightest star In the heavens. lies just
below our southern horizon In the
large and important southern constslla-
t1on Argo Navis. named for the famous
ship Of the Argonauts. Il u usually
divided into three constsllations-Pup-
pis. Carina and vela. Campus was
the chief pilot Of the Argonauts. but
the star was known and worshiped
on tho banks Of the Nile long before
Il received its name from the Greeks
and has been called the Star Of Egypt
It has also been q guide to many tribes
In Africa. South America and Austria
liza In their journeys through painless
wilds.
Although Sirius appears nearly twice
a. brilliant as Campus. this IL due
only to the fact that Sirius IL compare
lively near to us. not quito nine light
years distant, while Campus has been
estimated to be at a distance of 488
Hight years. 1t 10. as far as we know,
the greatest Of all the giant suns,
equal In light giving power to $1,000
suns such as our own. Sirius. with q
brilliancy estimated at fOrty-eight
times that of the sun. shrinks into
pygmy when contrasted with Campus.
New York Sun.
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-10-01

dent of Juneau, was found recently
in the water under the Pacific Coast
dock at that place. The body was
hanging to a piling by a nail which
had caught in the clothing, and was
in bad state of decomposition. Ginty
had been engaged in longshoring and
had been missing about two weeks.
William Harrington committed sui
eide recently by hanging himself to
one of the trestles on the tram of the
Mt. Andrew mine near Ketchikan.
Harrington had been at the place
only four days and no cause for the
deed is known.
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-10-01
Few Roads In China.

That Industrial development must
stagnate 30 long as transport facilities
are inadequate needs no emphasis. and
when it Is borne in mind that there Is
not a road worthy Of the name. so much
as 100 miles long throughout China, 1t
becomes evident that the country Is
very severely handicapped. Certainly
there are the rivers and canals, which
intersect the land in every direction.
but locomotion on them is naturally
slow and uncertain. Railways are few
and far between and serve only to con.
meet a few Of the larger centers.-Com-
merce Report.
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-10-01

William Schmidt successfully COM
pleted his mail contract to Willow
creek this morning. and was released
from his bonds. Mr.. Schmidt took the
contract in June to carry the United
States mail to Willow creek, and in
teriOr points, twice a month. and has
given good service. Notwithstanding
the excessive rains. The mail has been
delivered on time and he never miss
ed a trip.
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-10-01

The dance given by the Moose
Band boys Saturday night was high
ly successful affair, a neat sum being
realized. About fifty couples were
present and enjoyed the fine music
hugely.
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-10-01
CARVED JADE.
u Takes Chinese Patience 20 Work
This Hard Oriental Stone,

This Hard Oriental Stone.
When you go into an oriental shop
in any big city you are almost sure to
see rings or necklaces or bracelets
which are a pretty. clear green In col
or and are made out Of Jade. II you
ask the shOpman to tell you something
about jade he will answer that the
true Jade IL seldom found outside of
Asia and Oceanica. but that In these
parts of the world 1t Is to be had IN
considerable quantities.
You. OF course. know that q dia
mond is so hard that It will scratch
glass. but perhaps you have not heard
that Jade Is also extremely tough and
will cut glass and quartz. Because of
its great hardness the man who carves
1t must possess vast patience. and the
Chinese are almost the only people
who have sufficient patience and per
sistence to carve designs in Jade.
The Chinese make numberless arti
cles out Of jade-paper weights. han
dies for swords. belts. bangles. rings.
vases. cups. plates. pendants. and so OH.
Jade is far from cheap to buy. Now
adays fine pieces Of jade are just a.
much valued among collectors as are
ine paintings for their great beauty
and artistic value. So. then. II some
one gives you a little pendant Of cary
ed Jade. you will understand that you
have a present which not only would
be valued highly today. but one which
many peoples in nll times would have
treasured Christian Science Monitor
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-10-01

The Prince William Sound Light,
Power and Telephone Company is err
Getting a handsome building opposite
the Crawford shop to be used as a
,torcroom and pumping station, for
lire protection.
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-10-01
Constellation Of Orion.

The constellation known as Orion Is
referred to in Job *. 8 and xxxviii. 81.
Orion is the giant" Of oriental as
tronomy, and the giant was Nimrod,
the mighty hunter, tabled to have been
bound in the sky for impiety. The two
dogs and the hare in nearby constella.
lions made his train complete.
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-10-01

The crew from the Hemple Copper
property at handbook bay returned
yesterday, the mines having closed
down for the season. S. A. Hemple.
the owner, will leave within a few
days for Seattle, where he and Mrs.
temple will spend the winter.
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-10-01
Strange Happening.

II saw a man with crowd around
him 60 up to another man and delib-
erately knife him without q single one
interfering"
"Was he q Black Hander"
"No; he was q Surgeon."-Baltimore
American.
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-10-01

True.
81 don't see anything remarkable
about that baby"
"Oh. but you would If it was yours"
Detroit Free Press.
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-10-01

Olsen's road commission crew left
Parsons this morning, on their way
in to town after a summers work on
the trail.
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-10-01

Many prospectors and miners are
arriving in town. the camps having
shut down in many places for the
winter.
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-10-01

A new lot Of manufacturers SAM
pies Of mems and women's wearing
apparel just received at the Empor-
ium. Il
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-10-01

WANTED-Five cents per pound
will be paid for clean, cotton rags at
the Prospector ONCE. Il
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-10-01

A number of duck hunters were
cruising the bay yesterday, with poor
luck, as the birds have not arrived
yet from the northern tundras.
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-10-01

Mark Gleason, foreman at the
IIemple copper property, returned to
Town for the winter yesterday.
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-10-01

For drst-class meals and good serv.
ice at reasonable prices try the Mer,
chants Cafe. Il
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-10-01

The construction camp crew of the
telegraph repair outfit left Beaver
Dam for Valdez last evening.
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-10-01

Old papers in buncnes of 100 .,
this Office, only 10 cents. II
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-10-01

The mercury registered 16 abov
at McCallum last night.
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-10-01

Do your bit, Sent. 26c to DR.. J. A..
silverman for the purpose Of furnish
ing the boys at the front with smokes.
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-10-01
STEAMER sAILINGs

Steamship Admiral Watson-Sailed
west from Valdez, Monday, Oct 1,
for Kodiak. She will return Oct.
z.
Steamship Alameda-Passed Juneau
Westbound Saturday. She will ar
rive Wednesday.
Steamship Admiral Evans Sailed
south from Valdez, Saturday, Sept.
%.
Steamship Alaska-Sailed south
from Valdez, Friday, Sept. FL.
Steamship Mariposa-Sailed south
from Valdez, Saturday. September
%.
Steamship Admiral Farragut-Sail-
ed south from Valdez to Seattle.
Sept. %.
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-10-01

Genuine Sweet apple Cider at
Hunts Candy Kitchen. II
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-10-01

Just received all the latest popu
lar songs at G. o. Reinke's. t
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-10-01

Corporal ROwbottOm, who left here
Sunday morning for the interior. ar
rived at Beaver Dam yesterday.
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-10-01

Ice cream every day. specials on
Sunday at Hunts Candy Kitchen. II
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-10-01

Odds and ends Of wallpaper 8 & 4
rolls to the bundle, cheap at Ru-
dolph's. tt
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-10-01
MAKING Homo Happy.

Bess-And is she q good housewifel
Jane-A pippin! Why, the poor chap
has no comfort whateverl-Life.
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-10-01

Contentment Ia natural wealth. Lux.
ury 10 artificial povsrty.-Socrates.
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-10-01

FOR SALE-5OOO shares or less OF
Sweepstake Stock. Enquire Prospec-
tor k O5.
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-10-01

Five inches of snow is reported to
have fallen at McCallum's last night
and yesterday.
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-10-01

FOR SALE-8OO shares of Sweep
stake stock for 10 cents per share.
Inquire Prospector office. If
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-10-01
Notice to Public

A new line of one-piscs, dresses
just received At r. wiatsrG tt
Use Rexall Hair Tonne and you will
use no other. valdes N1g Store. Il
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-10-01

Judge William A. Munley took thu
Judge William A. Munly took thu
Attorney this morning. vice w. N
Spence. Judge F.. M. Brown admin
istered the oath.
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-10-01

A nice line of Earthern Teapots
at Rudolph's. tt
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-10-01

The steamship Alameda passed Ju-
neau at IL O'Clock Sunday, and will
probably reach Valdez some time to-
morrow or Wednesday.
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-10-01

A pretty line OF colored crOcpel
cotton and stamped pillow slips a;
the Needlecraft Shop. II
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-10-01

At Mrs. Caprts' you will find knit
ted or crocheted caps made to or
der. tt
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-10-01

George Kirk is making good pro
gress on his mineral creek road con
tract.
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-10-01

FOR RENT-The stanton house,
3 rooms, furnished, SIS. Apply C. B.
Smith. II
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-10-01

The launch Della will leave for Ell
lamar. handbook and Fidalgo Wednes
day on her regular trip.
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-10-01

FOR RENG-One 3-room furnish
ed house. Also l two-room furnished
cabin. See Rudolph. tt
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1917-02-14
Only Once.

Through this toiisome world, alas!
Once, and only once, pass.
Ii kindness | may show,
Or gooa deed | may do
To my suffering fellow man,
Let me do it while can;
Nor delay it; for tis plain
| shall not pass this way again.
Father in heaven, who lowest all,
O help Thy children when they call;
That they build from age to age
An undefled heritage.
Teach us to rule ourselves alway,
Controlled and cleanly night and day;
That we may bring, if need arise,
No MANNED or worthless sacrifice.
Teach US to look, in all our ends,
On Thee for Judge, and not our
friends;
That we, with Thee, may walk un-
By fear or Or favor of the crowd.
Teach US the strength that cannot
seek,
By deed or thought to hurt the weak;
That, under Thee, we may possess
Mans strength to comfort mans dis
tress.
Teach US delight in simple things,
And mirth that has no bitter springs,
Forgiveness free of evil done,
And love to all men meath the sun!
-Rudyard Kippling.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1917-02-14

the responsibility of safeguarding the
interests and honor of 100, 900, 900, peo=
pie, such responsibility as President
Wilson is now bearing. makes him feel
bit more comfortable than ne other
wise would?
Call it buncombe if you will, this ut
terance of the Colonel, but it means
something when a man is willing to
immediate his four sons upon his coun-
try's altar, to say nothing of his prof.
fer of personal service.
For time, at least, The Advert
ser forgets the past and again says
Hu...: for Colonel Roosevelt. Were
more men in high places to express g
willingness to bare their breasts to the
enemy's bullets, there would be more
general response from the masses.