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The daily Alaskan., 1909-08-19
REVISION DOWNWARD"

The Taftized- Aldrich bill results in revision upward to the extent ot 2.s3 Der cent These are the figures Of the bureau of statistics.
 Before the bNl was modified by the compromises secured by President Taft, the total amount of upward re vision, as figured cut by the govern ment's bureau of statistics was 5.6 Der cent The reduction Of duties on ore, cod and lumber, and the placing ol hides and oil on the free list reduc es this percentage to 3.3S.
 The value of imports affected by increases in duties is found to be SAG. 6.7SO.7SO.
 The value of the imports affected by decreases m duties Is found to be ElI5,76S,567.
 The tariff ac. in its final form leay. es unchanged 6l.69 per cent of the Dlngley schedules. It makes increas- es in 24.4G Der cent of these schedule these and decreases l6.9l per cent of these schedules.
 By weighted averages the increases as applied to imports, amount to 2+.IS Der cent; the decreases amount to s.26 per cent
 The total Is 3.3S per cent revision upward hy virtue merely of the fixed tariff schedules and regardless of the erfect of changes from ad yalorem to specific rates and the increased yalua ton resulting from new classnica- ton and the creation of 8 customs court. All these will have the effect Uf raising rates, decreasing imports Gnd causing prices to be higher Seattle Star.
The daily Alaskan., 1909-08-19
$1oo REWARD, s1oo.

The readers of thls paper will be pleased to learn that there is at least one dreaded disease that science has been able to cure In all It's stages, aud that is Catarrh. Halls CatarTh Cure is the only positive cure known to the medical fraternity. Catarrh being a constitutional disease, re- Quires constitutional treatment. Halls Catarrh Cure is taken intern ally, acting directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces of the system, thereby destroying the foundation of the disease, and giving the patient strength by building up the constitu- ton and assisting nature in doing its work. The proprietors offer One Hu dred Dollars for any case that 1t fails to cure. Send for list of testimonials Address: F. J. CHENEY & Co,
 Toledo, O.
 Sold by Druggists, 75c.
 Take Halls Family Pills for con stipation.
The daily Alaskan., 1909-08-19

Home rule for Alaska.
The daily Alaskan., 1909-08-19
TEXAN LIKES ALASKA

H. H. Bailey, an attorney from El Paso, Texas, accompanied by Mrs. Bailey, was visitor in skagway yes terday while the Dolphin was in port. Mir. and Mrs. Bailey have been spend ing about month in Ketchikan, visiting the diffreent points of inter- est and hunting and fishing, Last Saturday he secured big bear. MT. Bailey likes Alaska very much and expressed keen regret that he could not stop over in Skagway. He stated that he intends to come to this town next year for stay of several weeks.
The daily Alaskan., 1909-08-19

Barometer 30. 02 Cloudy and calm
The daily Alaskan., 1909-08-19

Francis Heney was defeated for the nomination of district attorney on the Democratic ticket Nothing daunted Ge will run as an independent candi- date this fall and expects to be el. ected. When Heney was tn Skagway he told the writer that he expected to be defeated at the primaries, but that he anticipated an overwhelming victory this fall.
The daily Alaskan., 1909-08-19

Weather statistics collected by Mir. and Mrs. H. D. Clark show very con clusively that, ,Skagway has a climate which will compare fayorabiy with that of any state in the Union. This year has been exceptionally bad from climatic standpoint in many res poets.
The daily Alaskan., 1909-08-19
BLONDES HAD
 BEST BEWARE

NEW YORK, August 9-A startling rote of warning to blue-eyed, light complexioned New Workers is uttered by Dr. Charles E. Woodruff, surgeon and Major in the United States Army. who has just completed a private tou of the prisons and asylums of the city and state. The jails and other institutions, he says, are full of blond es. who, unable to stand the struggle for existence, in q climate to which they are unfItted, have fallen into poverty, disease and crime.
 What is true of New York, he says, is true of the counry as q whole, and unless the blonde American finds or adopts some better means of survival than he has at present, he will be wiped out as a type in favor of the brunette.
 The great trouble is the sunshine There is too much of it in America for the blondes, says Dr. Woodruff. It breaks down their nervous systems renders them unstable, morally as well as physically, and makes them peculiarly liable to the ravages Of consumption as we'll as other deadly ailments
The daily Alaskan., 1909-08-19

Congressman Sulzer's suggestion that some day Alaska will be divided irto three separate states or territor- ies is one that will eventually be acted upon. Alaska Is too vast a country to be permanently under one government when once the country is settled thickly.
The daily Alaskan., 1909-08-19

The decision of the naval board of inquiry In the Sutton case looks sus- pIcIously like a white wash" At any event the testimony showed start ling conditions in the Annapolis Naval academy.
The daily Alaskan., 1909-08-19

property. It will be good thing for Alaska if they do. They have the capital to finish the road, which will cause a revival of business in Seward and do much to open up the country lying back of Seward.
The daily Alaskan., 1909-08-19

You can spend a pleasant half hour in . game of Pool or English Bill liards. The Board of Trade has the best tables in Skagway. Drop in,- we'll be glad to SC you.
The daily Alaskan., 1909-08-19

FOR SALE-BarDer Shop with two chairs and bath; good building; four living rooms and neat appearing shop; all well furnished; good bust. ness. Owner must leave country on account of health. Address Box 15, Raines, Alaska. If
The daily Alaskan., 1909-08-19

The Alaska Central railroad is to be sold and 1t Is highly probable that the Morgan syndicate will buy the
The daily Alaskan., 1909-08-19

The moment passed is no longer; the future may never be; the present |, all of which man is master.-J. J. Rousseau.
The daily Alaskan., 1909-08-19
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The result Of the observation taken at Moore wharf st midnight, Aug. IS. 1909, Is ss follows Temperature time observst'n 5l above Max. temp preceding 24 hours 65 above Min. [" [" {" 47 above Mean |" {" l" 56 above
 Barometer 3002 Cloudy and calm
The daily Alaskan., 1909-08-19

A merry heart dOeth good like med icine: but broken spir dryeth the bones.-Proverbs, Chapter 17-22.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1909-02-18
A New Cattle Plague,

Apthous, or foot -and-mouth disease,
as it is popularity known, has broken
out among live stock in New York and
Pennsylvania. Comparatively little is
known of the malady in this section,
but by reports from the infested dis
ritI'ts, it is even more to be dreaded
than tuberculosis, lumpy jaw, and the
other diseases which have in the past
cropped out in Western herds. 1t is
not restricted to neat cattle, sheep and
swine being subject to it; and even hui
man beings are not immune. 1t is said
that several children in Pennsylvania
are now afflicted with it. Virulently in
fictitious, it yields to no known specific
and the rate of mortality in the more
severe forms of the distemper is from
effectively only through disinfection
and quarantine. That is to say, while
the disease itself is. incurable, it's
spread may be prevented through the
ordinary precautions in such cases.
One of the most disquieting aspects
of the situation is the fact that milk
from COWS suffering from the disease
even slightly, is highly infectious. Of
ten in the early stages of the sickness
the animal shows no outward symptoms
visible to the unskilled eye, so infec-
tious milk may be sold even by hon
est dairymen.
The National and State Departments
Of Agriculture are doing their best to
prevent the spread of the disease.
Both states have been quarantined, and
steps have been taken to disinfect the
"centers" as fast as they manifest
themselves. No railroad car or boat
used i'll the transportation of live
stock within the affected area may be
moved until disinfected under govern
ment supervision. Time was when
such measures were not possible, and
for much of the good that is done to-
ward preventing the spread of this NAL
ady there is gratitude due the wise
minds that provided for the state and
national bureaus of agriculture and
animal industry.-St. Joseph News
Press
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1909-02-18

mist trust TO you for the legal work
ing of this affair: the racing part l can
manage We've got Sam Pearman in
regular hole. and. better still. he doesn't
know it. ! can make probably good
biz Of money out Of this. both for you and
myself. without any risk whatever. but
Interior events must decide that. Mr.
DeaiSon. at an events. must make a good
hit: but without hurting his interests. in
fact rather furthering them, you and l
might pick up some FIVE thousand pounds
apiece Do you understand"
Not in the least" replied Granville.
We'll. there's not much necessity you
should. Leave that to me; but you must
work the legal machinery as l direct.
Can you put it in motion by Wednesday
or Thursday?
Lets say Thursday, certain" rejoin-
ed Rose.
VERY good, that viii do; but don't
let's have any mistakes about it.
"All right" nodded the other. I'll
guarantee that, and 90 down myself"
Good You told me the stake you were
PLAYING for. to start with. and as you
are in real earnest about winning a wife,
l think one may trust you. | shall COM
mence opera tons at once. III see Plyart
the bookmaker tomorrow, and put the
first part of the program in his hands
We're going you and l. to lay about
couple of thousand each against Corr
ander; and I'm going to give hiEi free
license to do as much as he likes for him
self"
ITO be conunued.l
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1909-02-18
Dairy GIeauInpa

There is no reasonable excuse for
dairyman to use a scrub bull from year
to year when pure-bred bulls can be
bought for little more than beef prices.
Many good cows are ruined by being
fed too highly concentrated foods rich
in nitrogen. The city milk dairies are
great maelstroms which are continu-
ally drawing the best cows of the coun-
try to premature slaughter.
No COW can stand up under forced
feeding for long time without being
injured. II is more of the home grown
starch foods that cows need and less
gluten. brewers grams and cottonseed
meal.
We must provide the cows with am
pie exercise in the yards, even though
it is done at a sacrifice of production
at the pail.
Many dairymen have had these facts
forced home to them by such diseases
and lowered vitality as are common
in some of the highly pampered herds
Of pure-bred dairy cattle.
Water basins by the side of each
COW are fine thing. but when they
are used as an excuse for not turning
the cows out to exercise for at least
an hour each day, they are not to be
recommended to a dairyman.
The dairyman who proposes to make
that business his principal occupation
should make plans to breed and grow
his own COWS. By doing this he does
not take the risks of introducing tuber-
culosis and contagious abortion into his
herd.
1t is indeed unfortunate that so
many dairymen depend upon purchased
cows for use in their diaries. The
good, old-fashioned way where the cows
were bred and raistd on the farm was
not so bad after all.
No other form of animal life will
afford nutriment more cheaply or bet
ter adapted to the needs of the avera ge
individual than the COW.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1909-02-18
BIG BATTLESHIP LAUNCHED.
Delaware, Greatest Fighter in Amer
lean Navy, GIides in Water.

Delaware, Greatest Fighter in Amer
lean Navy, GIides in Water.
National and State officials, high naval
officers and prominent citizens of the
State were present Saturday to see the
battleship Delaware glide down the ways
to take her place as the most powerful
sea tighter in the American navy and in
the world. Perfect weather attended the
launching and christening at the yards of
the Newport News Shipbuildng and Dry
dock Company of this fighter. the first of
four of a new and most powerful class,
to strike the water. More than 5000 per-
sons damned around the vessel to be
named and crowded every point of van
tage to witness the imposing ceremony.
Compared with the battleShips completed
or under construction, of the navieS of
the world, the Delaware surpasses all.
She is one of the four sister ships au-
thorized by Congress which will form an
indomitable squadron. The other vessels
are the North Dakota. building at Quin-
cy. Mass: the Florida, which will be
built at the New York Navy Yard. and
the Utah, to be built at Camden, n. J.
The Delaware Is to carry as heavy ar
HOT anu dS powerful dTLudInenL dS any
known vessel of its class; will have a
speed of 81 knots. which is believed to be
the highest practicable for vessel of
this type, and will have the highest prac-
ticable radius of action The Delaware
is 80 feet in length on load water line.
So feet inches in breadth and her mean
draft to bottom of keel at trial displace-
ment about 81 feet. Her coal bunker ca
pacity is $500 tons. which is sufficient
to send her at 10-knot speed a distance
of 6720 knots, or twenty-eight days
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1909-02-18
HE DEFENDS DIVORCE.
Maine Judge Declares 1t Is Rem,
Ell

H
dy and Not Evil.
In the course of an address before
the Twentieth Century Club upon the
subject of divorce, Lucillius A. Emery.
chief judge of the Maine Supreme Jul
dicial Court, gave utterance to some
views that have created much COM
ment and discussion among the clergy
and Others Bangor Me dispatch to
the New York Herald says. Judge EN-
cry said in part:
Il have read Il great deal and heard
a great deal about the divorce evil.
Now. in my opinion, divorce is not an
evil. but rather remedy for evil. Like
other remedies for evil, it may and
does have attendant lesser evils, which
we must seriously consider and elimi
nate if possible. but in itself divorce
is not an evil-it is a remedy. The
evil precedes the divorce, but comes
after marriage. l shall not consider
the moral side of the question. | am
speaking from the legal standpoint
alone in considering this remedy for
many of the evils of society.
Marriage is civil institution, es-
tablished by statute for the benefit of
man. 1t is not a sacrament. There
is nothing divine about ii. but it is
purely human institution. Law has es-
tablished it. Its rights and abuses are
defined not by the church, but by law.
ITO be sure divorce may, IN a sense
have an i'll effect upon society. 1t
would be better. of course, if all mar
riages were ideal, but they are not
We find these terrible conditions. The
remedy may be a choice of two evils.
but i say that in choosing divorce So
ciety has chosen the lesser. l have
heard it said that divorce should not
be granted because of the children, but
1 maintain that it is better for them
not only better, but less hurtful And
1 say these things in the light of hon
est experience"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1909-02-18

paymates into two parties or armies
One of these was called French and
the other American. \ big boy named
William Bustle commanded the French,
while George always led the other,
and every day these two armies would
turn out and march and fight.
At school he learned surveying.
which he afterward put 10 very good
use laying out divisions Of the Mount
Vernon estate for his brother and sur
veying the plantations Of the neighbor-
hood.
Already, in his boyhood days. Wash
ington established a reputation for an
iron-like power of endurance and a
springy vigor of steel, an invincible
will and a knack of going straight
through difficulties.
The following is an entry found in
Georges diary:
went a-hunting with Jacky Curtis
and catched fox after three hours
chase: found it in the creek
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1909-02-18
Cement Posts Are Success.

Dry holding of fence posts is not
successful. The wet process requires
less cement and makes a more COM
pact post. The tamped Cor dry post
is more subject to the action of the
elements, and water, penetrating it,
readily makes it an excellent prey
for frost
The wet process post has glaze on
the surface that makes it nearly i'm
pervious. Furthermore, there can be no
accurate placing Of the reinforcing
wires with the tamped post, for. the
reason that the tamper will displace
the wire and the concrete will not
form around and unite with the wire
nor allow the wire to stretch as it
will when wet enough to pour
The concrete for the post should
have plenty Of gravel in it, thus using
less cement and securing a strong post.
1t can be made of five parts gravel
and sand to one of cement, and even
six to one, but it is preferable to make
1t four to one. The dry materials
should be carefully mixed and then
the slush should be turned many times.
The molds for the posts should be
made of wood with metal ends. These
molds should be in five parts; that is,
two sides, bottom and two ends, and
not fastened together.
The face of the post should be in
the bottom of the mold, and the places
60 hn chn no ctts11y in
the surface Of the bottom of the mold,
thus making all posts uniform as re-
CARDS the placing of the fasteners.
Iron molds are far too heavy and
expensive to be practical, while wood
en- molds are light and with care will
last a long time. and when used up
they are cheaply replaced. 1t is pref
cradle to have strips of molding in
the form tc make the posts without
a sharp edge, which is easily Clipped
off
The line post molds should be at
least large enough to make a post
with a 3x3-inch top, 4x4i1ch base
and 61a feet long. The corner should
be 5x5-inch top, 6x6-inch Tugs to place
the brace posts under. These brace
posts should be AKA inches and s feet
long, and next to the corner a heavy
intermediate post is advisable.
The posts being nodded and set are
ready for the curing, which should
be done in the manner of sther con-
crete products, keeping them well
sprinkled. The posts can be used in
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1909-02-18
Building I'm WOrn-Out Soils.

Probably the most rapid way to build
up a WORKOUT soil, when barnyard ma
nure is not plentiful, is to give it
course of treatment, such as described
then grow only forage crops, buy grain
to feed with them, and return all the
manure thus produced to the land.
Dairy farming permits such a system
to be followed, and no other type of
farming builds up land so quickly.
Prof. NJ. j. Spillman, agriculturist,
in charge of farm management investi-
cations, United States Bureau of Plant
Industries, says another type that
gives quick results is to grow
succession of pasture crops for hogs,
keep the hogs on these pastures, and
feed them a fourth to a half ration of
grain. In middle ATTITUDES the follow
ing system is adapted to this type Of
farming: Grow corn enough for the
pigs on part of the farm sowing either
COW peas or crimson clover or rye in
the corn yearly, to keep up fertility.
The two latter crops furnish winter
pasture f." the pigs. On the remainder
of the farm run the following three
year rotation: Sow oats in early
spring follow by rye early in August;
follow this by sorghum the following
spring; in September or October SOW
rye again, after the sorghum late the
next spring SOW either sorghum or COW
peas, and begin over again with oats
the succeeding spring.
This may be made a f0ur-year rota
ton by inserting artichokes or sweet
or Irish potatoes between the August
sown rye and the sorghum. If these
crops are all pastured down, the hogs
being fed little grain meanwhile, the
soil will improve.
With such a system, at least on clay
soils. the hogs must not be allowed on
the fields when the soil is wet, as they
will puddle it to such an extent as to
do serious injury. TO avoid this diff
Guilty there should be an additional field
of good sod for the hogs to run on in
wet weather. In sections where alfal-
ia thrives hogs may be pastured on
this crop in summer, and fed a little
corn. In winter such crops as rape
and kale may take the place of the al
falfa, and the grain feed may thus be
increased. Such q system takes moth
Ing from the land. but care must be
used not to puddle the soil by pasturing
in wet weather
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1909-02-18
The Boyhood of Washington.

George Washington was born at
time when Indians had scarcely left
the woods and the pirates the shore
near his home Georges grandfather
lived in the midst of these awful say
ages. and his father had helped to
chase the whoOping barbarians beyond
the mountains. Chotauk, where the
Washingtons lived when George was
a boy, was one of Virginia's wonder
fuI places. The ships came there 10
trade; there was the general store
house of crops; there the planters met
the outer world. George at an early
age became acquainted with those
trade centers. and he spent much time
on the great line of travel between
the North and South that ran across
the Potomac into Virginia.
While at school he used to divide his