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The Alaska daily empire., 1915-12-17

HeBlnnlng at Uorner N0 ! Whonco U. S. VI. M No. 9 bears ". 36' 11' 09' W. 14i5.03 feet distant. thence s. li' 32' 36" b. 76O.21 feet Go Cor. ner No. 2; thence s. l5' 19' b. 204.46 ieot Co Corner No. 8; thence N. 60' 60' b. 29948 feet Go Corner No. 4 thence N. 37' 3f ". 95017 feet to Corner No. 6; thence g. 6O' 50' w. SS0.Sf feet to Corner No. j., the place of beginning Containing on area Of 7.l53 ncrog.
The Alaska daily empire., 1915-12-17
BITS OF BY-PLAY
 CBy Luke McLuke)
lrlnclnnaii Fnnnlrarl

Opportunity is the only knocker who knocks but once.
The Alaska daily empire., 1915-12-17

It is Q wise couple that uses cash down when feathering the nest.
The Alaska daily empire., 1915-12-17

No. j, tho place of beginning. Con taining an area of 2.437 acre8
 C IoDE
The Alaska daily empire., 1915-12-17

UNITED STATES LAND OFFICE.
 JUNEAU. ALASKA.
The Alaska daily empire., 1915-12-17
SOLO LODE

Beginning at Corner No. 1, whence U. S. M. M Mo- bears W. 59' 09' 11" w. 1SS9.63 feet distant; thence s. 47' 47' D. 3S446 feet to Corner No. 9; thence S. 47' or E. 1149.91 feet to Corner No. 8; thence N. 40' 30' D. 366.19 feet to Corner No. {; thence N. 47' fS' W. 14S4.1O feet to Corner Mo- 8 thence S. 40' SO' W. 351.SS feet to Corner No. l. the place of beginning. Containing an area of 12167 acres
The Alaska daily empire., 1915-12-17
TIDE FLAT ADDITION.

Beginning at '. S. Location Monument No. 8. identical with Corner Mo- 11 hereof. on the boundary line of the present cor poration limits of the town Of Ju- neau. Thence S. 20O0 feet to point on the tide flats, Corner No 12 Thereof Thence S. 71' 05' 23r D. 6612.85 feet to Corner No. l. on shore back Of Alaska Juneau Wharf on the present boundary line of the City of Juenau Thence W. 56' 29' w. 75O3.45 feet on pres. ent city boundary line. to U. S. Location Monument No. 8.
The Alaska daily empire., 1915-12-17

Another newspaper commenting upon The EnQur ers search for the source Of newspaper jokes that most of the modern Jokes are warmed over productions of Artemus Ward. J. Armoy Knox Alex F. Sweet Charles D. Lewes and the ~Danbury News Man
The Alaska daily empire., 1915-12-17
THE GOLD eELT.sEATTER ADol-
 TfON

Beginning on the present bOun- diary line of the City of Juneau at Corner No. 82 of the Townsite Survey, identical with Corner No. z hereof. Thence N. 6S' S9' w. 1652.7S feet to Corner No. 8. iden- tical with the most norlherly cor ner Of tho Main addition to tho City of Juneau. Thence W. 63' 42' W. 18S6.54 feet to Corner No. 9. identical with tho W. D. cor ner of Sheldon IT. s. Tract. Sur vey No. 375. Thence south on the B. line of said U. S. Survey 375. 152S.56 feet to Corner No 10. Thence S. 56' 18 W. f22.65 feet to U. S. Location Monument No. 8 on the boundary line of the incorporation limits of Juneau Thence In a general easterly and northeasterly course on tho said line Of the present city lmits with its sinuosities to the place of be- 0inninr
The Alaska daily empire., 1915-12-17

Helen Winter lives at summervne.
The Alaska daily empire., 1915-12-17
ODD JOKES

The Cincinnati Enquirer has started competve contest for the oldest joke and the best old joke t has made the discovery-a discovery by the way. that Is made every little whne-that most of the good new jokes which appear in the lighter vein departments of newspapers are really old. and it is beginning search for che original sources of the jokes As preliminary Che Cincinnati paper says that the source of many of Che new" jokes Is Joe Miller. who died in i7SS. As a sample of the Joe Miller jokes 1t gives the following, born in 172s and recently sprung as an original by ney-spaper writer
The Alaska daily empire., 1915-12-17
p LODE

Beginning at Corner No 1, whence To- S. M M No. bears N. 53e 53' 32" ". 3355.81 feet distant; thence N 40' 30' D. 5998O feet to Corner No. 9; thence s. 45' 52' D. 14S6.55 feet to Corner No. 8; thence S. 40' S0' w. 600 feet to Corner No. 4; thence N. 45' 20' S0' w. 113747 feet to Cor. ner No. 8; thence N 47- 12' w. S49.50 feet to Corner Mo- ]. the place of beginning Containing an area of 20.215 acrea.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-02-02

II anything. Never. until now so far as can
be recalled. has all the food I'm Il great coun-
try like Germany been appropriated by the gov
crnment paid for ut tho price II chose to give
and then distributed as was deemed best In gov
ernmental discretion. The natural deduction
from tho adoption of this device on a scale so
colossal Is that. In the view of her ruling class
Germanys position Is that OF n city compelled
to make the most careful of the provisions
now In Its possession and this involves some
thing closely like an admission that Il rcplenish-
ment of supplies Is ut best remote. There seems
therefore. to have been element Of inaccuracv
In tho many previous reports that lack of food
lor me present or the future was not
of German anxiety. At least, ii has been n cnnso
OF German action. and of action at that of an
almost or quite unprecedented sort. The allies
reasonably. have found In this procedure
Justification for declaring food now uncondi-
tionally contraband. Since it is all to go to
the government, the old distinction in favor
OF mat intended for civilians passes away
New York Times.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-02-02
Heavy Fighting AT the Viniuc,s

N.Y. regret TO report that the sector OF
w Shockoe Creek, bounded by the First
Street viaduct the west and the Fifth
Street viaduct on the east. continues to be
the scene OF heavy fighting between the Ad-
ministrative Board and the Virginia Railway
and Power ComphAy l.
short hiletag66 it. was our painful duty
to chronicle the discharge by the company's
forces OF vollcy of bills, accounts rendered
and please RENTS. There were no casualties
$ FAR as our scouts were able 10 learn tho
erect OF the bombardment being very similar
10 me German aerial attack on England
However, 1t stirred The forces intrenched in
The City Hall 10 new activity and kecner re-
sentiment ReprisalS were TO have been ey-
pected-and they here
Inc armored acroplane Engineer has
shelied the company's positions with ultimate,
heavily charged with warnings. limitations
on their explosion, created an area OF high
pressure in the neighborhood Of Seventh and
FRANKLIN Streets but the enemy, even if
clustered, was moi dislodged
Inc situation as ii now exists points IN
the observance of the Flanders precedent and
siege warfare. There have been some yaruc
reports that a strong detachment of bill col
iectors, commanded by Over-Gcncral Won An
derson. and moving south and east from First
street. VIII invest the City Hall. but these
rumors are unverfed They are brouph, in
by a scouting party OF street cleaners and the
carpng and hypercritical profess TO doubt
that these adventurous souls ever pcuetrn,cd
So far
our readers may look 10 us however for
full and unbiased accounts of whatever
eVentuates We have always wanted TO re-
port war at first hanH aliG We certainly
nave no purpose 10 overlook this opportunity
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-02-02
RICHMOND T1MEs-DrspATcH. TUESDAY FEBRUARY q 1915.

increased far beyond the capacity OF the mu-
niclpal purse to stand the strain. Salaries
and fixed charges for bond interests and re-
demption represent considerably more than
half the citys income. Add to these neces-
sary expenditures for maintenance and re-
placement OF the plants used in the various
municipal services and for the purchase Of
cirrent supplies, and relatively little is left.
or course, 1t is always possible to increase
taxes. but we do not believe that would be
II very popular course, nor do we believe it
TO be necessary. The alternative plan is to
eliminate waste and extravaganza wherever
they may be found.
This is a day of investigations The ma
ton has investigated pretty much everything
II could get its hands starting with the
railroads and winding up-for the present
with the big philanthropic trusts. The State
has devoted good deal of time to taxa
ton, and turns now to the prices paid for
schoobooks. Why would it not be good
idea for Richmond to investigate its mu-
nicipal government or for the municipal gov
eminent to investigate itself?
AT any rate, let us face the issue sGuarely
and with some idea of where we are likely
TO come out.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-02-02
TUESDAY. FEBRUARY .. 1915.
The Invitation to Mr.. Sunday

IL over the proposal to invite Rev. Billy
Sunday TO visit Richmond, which is now un-
d consideration by the Ministerial Associa-
ton, il ought to be pointed out that Mr. Sun
day, even if he should accept the invitation,
will hardly BE able TO come within year, and
probably not for eighteen months.
Many cities camor for Mr.. sundays ser
vices and he usually has engagements long
in advance. There need be no hurry, there
fore, in extending the invitation, which GER
tainly should be the subject OF earnest con
sideration. Some quite good men, as men
go in this sad, bad world, disapprove of the
evangelist and his methods. If the Minis
terial Association wants him, il will he hoped
that il will get him, but look before n lea n
is never bad plan.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-02-02
Downing the Fake

I is more than surprising that at this late
date the Bavaran War Ministry has been
Obliged TO SHARPLY rebuke the MunA,-Augs-
burg Evening Gazette for publishing a SEN
sational story of atrocities, which. the min
istry asserted, had not the slightest founda-
ton In fact. Early in the war game before
generals and others had balanced their heads
atrocity stories threatened to draw the United
States into sympathetic declarations and
only straight-thinking men in Washington
prevented a lot Of muwkish procedure
There is enough horror in war, enough
terror in the thought Of the kind of war
science is furnishing to-day, To deter any re-
..onsble newspaper. American iournal Is
with few very sensational exceptions, have
discarded rumors and reports and are de-
handing confirmed news, and any yarn Of
atrocity would be looked upon with suspicion.
no matter how true, until proven. This in
face OF fears TO the contrary, is a policy that
has been justified by events
Why stretch imagination to picture hor-
rors, when war itself has so gloomed tho
earth and hathed its fields in tears?
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-02-02
Limiting Consumption of Food

a CCORDING to dispatch from Berlin
the authorities of the German capital
and of other Prussan cities have extended
their plans for the conservation of food sup
plies. In the view of many commentators
the sequestration of grain and flour by the
governments, with the purpose Of doing them
ont to the municipalities and eventually to
the people. already puts Germany in Il state
of siege.
But the regulations just announced are
even more drastic. AS the dispatch reports
them, they as follows:
First the daily per capita consump-
tion of all kinds Of bread nours
hined may not exceed two Kilograms
,four p"unds); second. only uniform
bread may lie baked twhcaten bread in
loavcs OF scvcnty-fivc grams. rye bread
of one and half kilograms and biscuit
to be sold only by wcghD third.
pastries may contain only 10 per cent of
their total weight of cereal nour Rcstau-
rants and other places of refrcshment
may receive only three fourths of the
amount formerly received by them.
Candid observers will see in these conser-
Vation measures the German purpose to hus-
band resources and so TO be able to oppose
the nations highest potential strength to the
onslaughts of the allies, but II is evident "A so
that only clear appreciation of the fact
that supplies are diminishing could have in
splred regulations so sweeping and drastic
In sense, they express German thorough
ness and the German spirit Of preparedness,
but there is apprehension as we'll in such
strict limitation Of individual consumption
operating impartially the whole people
and without regard to age, sex, station in
life or financial condition.
-4ierniany III the present has not only
given the world n supreme example OF mill
tary preparedness but of economic organiZa-
ton as well. The roar of the guns and the
flight or aeroplanes have perhaps somewhat
Unsecured this latter and greater achievement
The allies immensely outmatch Germany in
resources, yet the Germans manage both TO
iced and maintain their armies in the field
and their population at home.
| This triumph is due to two thngs-to the
power OF the government to command all the
resources OF the country and to the skill with
which the German economists handle them
Germany can, and does, command the whole
food supply and the services of the able
bodied population. The German government
has complete knowledge of pra ctically every
cltlZen capable Of bearing arms or doing
work; 1t can control the civilian population
as readily as the army. In fact there are
two armies-the in the field and the
army of workmen engaged in agriculture and
manufacturing.
What Germany has done is TO close the
factories engaged in turning out products not
actually necessary, and to concentrate the
workers on The farms and in factories pro-
ducing necessities. So thorough is the in
dustrinl organization that. in spite of the al
most total stoppagc OF ordinary business the
food supply still continues adequate How
long 1t Will so continue even with all this
efhciency at work, is anothcr question and a
grave one Tor the German people.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-02-02
Time for Richmond 10 Take stock

eNI II about time for Richmond 10 stop
1 and tahe stock?
In the budget, as drawn by the Council
Commlttee on Finance such drastic rcduc-
uohs nave been made in departmental esti-
mates that department heads are dcclarin
it will be impossible for them IA carry ~,
their work The Electrical Department, for
example, suffers IL 10 become known that No
provision is made for lighting streets in tho
annexed territory and none for necessary on
tensions OF the service. The CITY Engineers
department is similarly affected. 1t is OH
Vious that no new paving is contemplated.
ana yet the budget disposcs Of the whole
expected income of Richmond There i ,n
suggestion from any source that any donar,
ment Is allotted more than il can eynend
wisely and to the citys advantage What is
the trouble?
Many persons believe it lies in the fact thar
new positions have been created und salaries
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-02-02
A IITTJ.E WHILE.

a
a little while the tears and laughter
The myrtle and the
a little while. and what comes after
No man knows!
An hour to sing, to love and linger
Then lutanist and Lutte
Shall fall on silence, song and singer
Both be mute.
Our gods from desires we fashion
EXnlt bafficd lives.
And dream their vital bloom and passion
Still survives.
With willow and with rose
Shall Death take life into His Keeping?
No man knows!
What heart hath not, through twilight places
Sought for its dead again,
To GID with love their pallid faces
Sought In vain?
still mounts the Dream on shining pinion /.
Still hroOds the dull distrust
Which shall have ultimate dominion
Dream dust?
a little while with grief and laughter
And then the day Shall close;
The shadows gather what comes after
No man knows!
." t--Don, Marquis, in New York Evening Sun,
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-02-02
SONGS AND SAWS
Misplaced Admiration.

Misplaced Admiration.
Full oft the little busy bee
Is held up TO our praise
For its unresting constancy
In toiling all It's days.
We hear the bee n model Is
or insectlv'rous sense.
Because it always minds it's biz,
And says to joy, Get hcnce."
From crack of dawn till dowy eve
1t labors good and hard
1t does not carry, you'll believe,
Honey Union card.
But yet | think, WIENER | sup
On this bees product sweet,
IT shows small wit in piling up
What bears and mortals eat.
And If | were n busy bee
Which, Heaven knows! I'm not
Ia take the honey made by me
And eat it on the spot.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-02-02
COnSrat uIAtiOns.

The Desk officer We'll, madam,
what's the complaint?
The CONFERENCE.-The sir. I gave a
man named Blinks, Jim Blinks, rs cents
to go to the courthouse an get n mar
riage license for me an him--an' he
never came back.
The Desk Onicer-I congratulate you,
ma'am. Good day-Cleveland Plain
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-02-02
Queries and Answers
Ehe NcrNii.

Will you inform mc-rcfcrrinS TO matter in
the Query Column several days ago-how the
mention of the Nervii In obscure line Of
Shakespeare can be said keep the name
familiar ears? l.. y. C.
1t Is doubtful whether there is can obscure
line" in Shakespeare; obscure IN your sense of
little known" The line you mention Is IN
Mark Antonys Grafton. and this has been through
so many years great n fayortc OF schoolboy
disclaimers that it doubtless familiar TO
Motley's ears to ours.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-02-02
Films for the Turks,
(BrOolilNn Enrlnl

G'rooklyn Eagle) -
Kaiser Wilhclm's gift OF motion pic
ture lims of battles must delight the
sultan OF Turkey. incidentally, If the
Sultan's troops ever sulk AN exhibition
OF these films will have precisely the
same effect as gravel In the ear of Il
ball<y horse. They will forget their
balkincsS.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-02-02
Chats With Virginia Editors

win the following spike the Sandy valley
News nails it's flag TO the mast. Tho m,n ,.ho
can produce things that stand for sonnet hing in
inns world whether books or babies fine ser
nuns o' me corn. is the fellow who is worth
something 10 the world We are not r,nrin,, ,
SpelhnS ana grammar school, but are irving
10 teach good citizenship horse sense OF
All fooIs commend us to the grammar sharp who
SPENDS hours looking for n grammatical error
ana seconds looking for idea" ANYBODY who
taxes inc trouble to investigate will find ont
that the banner referred to is not n flag of
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-02-02

The Orange Observer supplies "A test for which
ardent SWANS probably have been pnns
through the centuries. Here ii is: Girls of n
Marrihgeablc do like to tell how old
they are, but you can find out by following tho
SupJoined Instructions the young lady doing the
hEuring. Tell her To put down the number
OF the month In which she was born; then to
multiply II by 2; then to add 5; then to multiply
1t by so; then to add her age; then to subtract
500; then to add ll5: and ask her to tell you the
amount she has left The two figures to the
right will denote her age, and the remainder
the month of her birth. For example the num-
Der is S22, she Is twenty-five years old, and
was born in the eighth month-AuGust Just
try II for Yourself" All that would seem to be
necessary would be the courage TO put these
questions and The mathematical talent To figure
out the correct result
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-02-02
ShOrtcncu Win co,,.

Mrs. Newedd--How do you like my
cake. dear? 1t is called marble cake
Newedd Crying to break piece)--
Boston Transcript,
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-02-02
Yet, WHAT'S In n Name,

So far as Is definitely known the
White House babys grandpa didn't
suggest that the cute little cuss he
called William Jcnnings.-Ohio state
journal.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-02-02
Entirely Obyio,Ir.

Erubhs--Do YOU understand this International
law doctrine Of ultimate destination?
Stubps-l'erfoctly. 1t means that if tho ma
,i"h mat seizes the ship is strong enough to
have It's way, the ultimate destination of IN.
cargo is one of that nations ports
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-02-02
tOwnrdirc,

why ar" YOU so opposed 70 having Billy
SUNDAY come to this town."
Because he might convert mc-and ,bcn think
OF all the pleasant things l would have to give
up " " So
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-02-02

The politician always loves
The people more than self.
lie knows how evil money is
That's why he takes their pelf
THE TATTLER
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-02-02
Statistical

What book will give the population Of
cities and towns and the names OF the business
people in each? J. r.
The Hill DIRECTORY Company, Mutual Build
ton.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-02-02
T'he Ruling Pa.sion

when the British attacked Washington in
1913 all the Congressman had leave the city
OF course they came back later"
did they collect mileage both ways" gerly
burgh Post
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-02-02
HOrAc md IInrsc.

Hc-You don't keep house
with half the efficiency that
my mother did.
She-And you don't make
money with half the rapid
ity that my father did.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-02-02

IF talking good times will cause n revival
in business, surely should soon have this
in full force says the blackstone Courier
since all the papers writing Of il in substan-
tiation But one cannot forget the old saw
about the old negro and his 'possum which had
been eaten by another while he was asleep, the
thief Ercnsing the old fellows lips with the
skin When the old diTky awakened he could
taste the 'possum, but complained of awful
emptiness where The 'possum should have been"
But isn't the Improvement in business condition
already II good deal than psychologicaI?
II certainly is here in Richmond.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-02-02

Published every day in tho yenr by The Times
Dispatch Publishing Company Inc. Address all
communications To THE TIMES DISPATCH,
Timcs-Dispatch building, 10 South Tenth Street,
Richmond, Va.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-02-02
Richmond Writer.

VIII you be good enough TO give the address
Of Mrs william G. Stanard the author of The
Dreamer? | have written her at Richmond
without reply. w. &. c.
zoos Floyd Avenue, Richmond, Va
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-02-02
SCRAP uf Paper" Not a. Novelty

- ,rRTIIEI l;,b, :. cto, H.,
+ Of The New Yorl, Tin,os on ~ aia.,'..
sion Of tho roru,a, I,,,, vi ''' "i''""
nhroso g.. c., 80 =, ~ "'e "i inc
Inc troo,v ouor.,, o,r, 49,, 49, nv ~
cirm In ,iou nf tI'a r,a,', Vi del
evnIoro,ior no, ,,,a ',,..,'' recent
treaty. rather than his own thoro is snooia1
aptness in what the contributor TO the limos
has to saw
He offers q translation or w
of articles on HOLLAND and Cnrmanr,, ,,,o9
appeared in the weekly ucwsn,nor No c,,,,a
boten. in 1902 Wbetbcr ,iese ar,io,a, n..,
they are illuminatiyc, nevertheless of the
thought and aspiration of one section of the
German ruling classes In ono onnoors tho
following:
poIiticalIy, IlolIard f.. ,,r,..,o.,
other nations. Irr guaranteed ncm
trality is more than a scrap Of pnnnr
IpI
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-02-02
The Bright Side of Life
AL StrnnxerE.

She was very much in love with him. and one
evening while they were alone she asked:
Frank. tell me truly; you have kissed other
girls haven't your"
YES" replied the young man, "but no one
YOU know"--New York Times.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-02-02

What's the use Of trying to encourage n
common affection for the good. the true and
the beautiful? Most folks actually prefer Lib
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-02-02

THE TIMES, Founded. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 1855
TIE DISPATCH. Founded. ............... 1850
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-02-02
Too Sever

Too Severe.
Producer-The comedians seemed nervous
What they needed life
Critic-Youre too severe. Twenty years
would be enough-Judge.