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The Alaska daily empire., 1915-05-14
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Can you imagine a more pathetic. a more touching scene, than the wreck ing of an innocent girls life by "the man who didn't care?
 The hearttouehing story or a girls struggle In the great city Of New York. It is a S-part story of great power. Remember. this a woman's feature with GENE GAUNTIER in the leading role Don't miss this big treat the gripping story of home. less girl adrift in New York Two other reels of interest completes the show
 Of course the Joker" comedy win please you all. eco
The Alaska daily empire., 1915-05-14

J. D. Helps, representing the Stand ard oil company at Juneau left this morning on the Dolphin for Seattle to be with Mrs Helps who is very sick at that place. Mrs. Helps went south on the last trip of the Watson, accom- panied by nurse,
The Alaska daily empire., 1915-05-14
COMPLIMENT FOR
 FAITHFUL SERVANT

At the council meeting Monday ey. ening Special Auditor A. A. Gabbs, of Juneau. who had been employed to so over the books of the city turned in his report Mir. Gabbs certified as to the correctness of the city's accounts, and especially commended the care and accuracy of the city clerk John Henson, and his system of bookkeep- ing. Mr. Gabbs says that every cent of the many thousands of dollars re. ceived and disbursed since the incor- porotion Of the town is carefully ac- counted for.
 With Mir Henson the work for the city has been pleasure and a pride In recognition of his faithful service to the town, and his deep and un. failing interest-a virtue beyond price the council by unanimous vote tendered its thanks to Mir. Henson Douglas News)
The Alaska daily empire., 1915-05-14

The Alameda is due from the south tomorrow
 The Princess aiaQuiuna is due to ar. rive from Vancouver at o'clock to- night.
 The Humboldt sails from Seattle tonight
 The Admiral Watson is due from the south on the 18th.
 The Admiral Evans should arrive from the Westward on the 18th.
 The Al-Ki sails from Seattle tonight. The Mariposa is expected south bound about the 18th
 The Spokane sails from Seattle Monday
 The Dolphin sailed south this morn ing.
 The Jefferson sails from Seattle Sat. urday
 The City Of Seattle arrived from the south at two o'clock this afternoon. The Georgia leaves for Skagway Saturday midnight
The Alaska daily empire., 1915-05-14
MUSIC uNExcELLgp

The Rink orchestra. led by Prof by. ST. of Portland. is furnishing music for the baseball carnival; excellent music Prof Dyer ranks high in his profession. 5.12?St.
The Alaska daily empire., 1915-05-14

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The Alaska daily empire., 1915-05-14
SCRAPS s

Telephones are coming into use in Tripoi.
 There are l5OOOO foreigners resi- dent in China.
 Canadian import duties have been increased
 More than 100000 pounds of cof. fee were imported into the United States In 1914 valued at S105,OOO,OOO
 In the maya! battle off Chile the Leipzig and Dresden fired more than 1000 shells and made only seven hits.
 The bulletin of the Pan-American union reports that there is a growth of interest in the English language throughout the countries Of Latin America
 The two modern department stores of Canton. China, made combined
The Alaska daily empire., 1915-05-14
STEAMER CITY OF SEATTLE
 ARRIVES THIS AFTERNOON

AHhIVEo THIS N- EHNOON
 The steamer City of Seattle arrived from the south at D. m. today and will sail for Skagway at tonight from which port she will proceed to Killisnoo to discharge 200 tons Of freight for the cannery there. Juneau arrivals were
 Mrs. Mary Turner, Fred Rhodes, Fred T. Lane. R. A. Dallugge. Mar. gaurite Dalluge. w. w Brown. Grace Brown. Alfred Palmer J E. Warren, T. D. Pratt. G. E. Berry M N. Hollo- way, Minnie Holloway and child, Mrs. George A. Bennett and two third cab In passengers.
The Alaska daily empire., 1915-05-14

SHOWS FOR JUNEAU
 Ben F. Hubbard, advance represen ,ative for the Hurd.Hibbard attrac tious. is in the Gostineau channel cit ios. dating their vaudeville attraction which will appear in Juneau next week From here he will go to tho Westward and thence down the Yukon river
 The Hurd-Hibbard vaudeville com pany has ten people and they cover a wide range of talent They will ap- pear at the Orpheum theatre next week Tho Hurd-Hibbard company also have control of what is repre- sented to be the only motion picture production of a circus. This will be at the Orpheum this evening and to- evening.
 Mr Hubbard is at the Alaskan.
The Alaska daily empire., 1915-05-14
ELKs' PICNIC.

Arrangements have been made for an Elks picnic at Sheep Creek mead ows. Sunday. May 15 Ladies will provide lunch baskets and all will meet at Elks' hall at 10 8. m Going by means of car or ferry. 5.l4-2t
 COMMITTEE
The Alaska daily empire., 1915-05-14

annual sales of ss,ooO,oOO Hongkong currency Ca Hongkong dollar is 394 cents) One Of the stores uses cleo tric signs for advertising.
The Alaska daily empire., 1915-05-14

Two months is the average life of horses at the front
The Alaska daily empire., 1915-05-14
COMMENTS ON BARNES Vs.
 ROOSEVELT

The evidence touching Col Roose- velt's relations with the bosses sim- ply brings out the fact that he did the best he could until he found a chance to do better-(chicago Her. ald)
 Rather a professorship than the Vice Presidency" Mir. Roosevelt is re. ported Co have said. Have to dissent. Do less harm as " P.-(New York Telegraph
 Prof Taft is being boomcd for the Presidency and if Col Roosevelt does not stop gritting his teeth that way he will have to SO to the dentist-Phil- adelphia Ledger)
The Alaska daily empire., 1915-05-14

An lad" in The Empire reaches ev- erybody
The Alaska daily empire., 1915-05-14

The two modern department stores of Canton. China. made combined
The Alaska daily empire., 1915-05-14

VAUDEVILLE AND CIRCUS
 SHOWS FOR JUNEAU
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Telephones are coming into use in Tripol
The Alaska daily empire., 1915-05-14
MARINE NOTES

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The Alaska daily empire., 1915-05-14

Canadian import duties have been
The Alaska daily empire., 1915-05-14

There are l5OOOO foreigners resi- dent in China
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-06-23
ABANDONED OSTRICH FARMS

From the Providence Journal
 How long ago was it that Dame Fash ion displayed marked fondness for os- trch feathers?
 Only the other day 1t seems Was it not about the time that she piled bundles Of hair on the heads of her devotees |? There was plenty of hair, for some 1O0, 900 Chinese were cutting off their Man chu cues. That historic barbering mark ing the downfall of an empire and the rise of great republic, was amazingly profit able, as it happened. The hair was sold for womans wear in Paris and Provi- dence.
 The Chinese hair merchants turned alertly to other pursuits. But the guileless ostrich going for threepence-6 cents-at ly supposed that feathers had become a necessity of life and living, instead of being only passing whim of fashion
 The American consul at Port Eliza beth, South Africa, nov reports bewilderment and distress among the ostrich farmers. A case is mentioned of a full-grown cock ostrich going forthreepence-6 cents-at public auction at one of the formerly f1ourishing markets. The poor birds are abandoned, to die of starvation and lack of care.
 Here is an economic disaster. indeed When the ostrich trade was booming. South Africa derived an annual revenue of S25,OV,OO0 from that source alone: which helped immensely to meet the annual bill for food imports amounting to s4o,oOo,OOo
 The blow has come suddenly to the farmers. 1t appears. They must have neglected to keep up with the fashion news One sympathetic consul suggests, in the way of compensation, that thou sands of valuable acres will now be turned over to the raising of food products. South Africa will recover from the collapse of the boom no doubt. and some years hence will be grateful for the painful experi- ence To be sure, when more of her set tiers become tilers of the soil, Dame Fashion may take it into her head to call for ostrich feathers again.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-06-23

does, Secretary McAdoo, John Bassett Moore, Judge E. H. Gary, Henry P. Davidson, David R. Francis and A. B. Hepburn.
 A special committee has been ap- pointed, with James A. Farrell chair man, to consider visit of business men from this country to Central and South America. It is safe to say that no citizen of the United States knows Latin-America from a trade point of view so thoroughly as Mr Farrell; and when he and his committee formu- late their plans everyone of the ex- cursion tickets, unless they be very limited, will be spoken for in advance.
 All in all, this Pan-American con- ference has been well worth while.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-06-23

oil fields, checking as she does, 100 wagon loads daily.
 The atmosphere of the oil camps may be rough and the "skinners" who work there may be rough characters, but they accord to Miss Poirer their respect and not one of them, it is said, but would defend her if occa- sion should require. However, with the chivalry which is found even in the so-called bad men" of the west, they accord her the respect which character and ability should command everywhere, whether it be possessed by man or woman.
 Business life is, or should be, inn personal, and there is room in it for the man and the woman who possess the ability to make good"
 The old-time sentiment that linen must work and women must weep" no longer applies in it's entirety in this land of peace-and hustle.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-06-23
Circumstanti., Evidence

nave followed the Frank case with Keen interest," said John B. Bethea, "and Tn discussing 1t with friends have been 'told by many that they would not convict on circumstantial evidence. In this I diff Ter with them. Circumstantial evidence sometimes can be even more damning than direct evidence.
 T remember a particularly interesting case Of this character which came up when was boy, back in South Caro- ina. man was assassinated, shot down rom behind In those days they used muskets which loaded from the muzzle, and as 1t happened a piece of waddng was found on the scene of the crime. Or dinar1ly powder will burn up the wad, but this time it failed to do so and left the tiny bit of paper as the only evidence against the assassin. It turned out that 1t was enough to hang him.
 Examination of the piece of paper showed that it was torn from the Charles ton News and Courier of certain date. Now in that neighborhood, there were only two men who subscribed to the Charleston News and Courier, and the authorities arrested both of them. In the house of one was found copy of the News and Courier of the date corresponds Ing to that used as wadding and a sheet was found into which this wadding fitted. On this evidence a jury convicted the man to be hanged and if I remember cor rectly he confessed before he died.'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-06-23
Bulgaria and Servia

The smouldering animosity of Bull garia and Servia is being famed into flames which may prove disastrous to the Balkan states. Reports of the atrocious treatment given Macedon- ians by the Servians as well as the Greeks are pouring into Sofia, where there are more than 10000 Macedon- ian refugees. The Bulgarian govern ment is trying to care for total of more than 100000 refugees, driven out of Macedonia by the alleged bar barities of the Serbs. Naturally the strained relations between Bulgaria and Servia have not been improved by this deplorable situation and a crisis seems imminent.
 Bulgaria has demanded an inter- national investigation of the condi- tions which are driving the Macedon-
  via has refused to agree to such an arrangement Its government and it's press continue to deny that the Mace donias are being persecuted. The mur- dering of old men and attacks on women are said to be common. It is claimed by the refugees that efforts
 z made to exterminate every thing Bulgalan in unhappy Mace donia. Schools and churches have been closed and the property of inhabitants has been plundereo, while thousands of refugees who lave succeeded in escaping torture and death have sought safety in flight across the bor- der, according to allegations made by Macedonian students of the Univer- sity of Sofia, who have issued an ap- peal to the world, calling the atten-
 of t powers to the situation.
 It is claimed that much of the vio- lence in Macedonia has been due to raids made by organized bands sent by the authorities themselves to "stifle the last vestige of national consciousness among the Bulgarians." :" The trouble with the Balkan states, as is the trouble to greater or lesser extent with all Europe, is racial an- tagonism.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-06-23
PASSING OF THE WAX WORKS

From the Baltimore News.
 | Among all the passing landmarks, mercilessly shunted aside by modern progress, in the shape of skyscrapers, | cabarets and movie" theatres, none will cause deeper regret in village and country than the passing of the Eden Musee
 l Such a fate for the wax works, first immortalized by the Mrs. farley shop of Dickens, and talked about by thou
 sands of ruralites who gravitated to them on their trips to gay and giddy Gotham was only to be expected. They depicted strange happenings and ludic- | rous comedy, but what chance had wax fairy tales in the face of the miracles of the Hippodrome. or the grotesaue plastic figures in competition with the stranger and wilder doings on roof
 gardens and midnight dansants Down in the Chamber of Horrors the ill., fated Marie Antoinette was shown on the gullotine. and the last throes of Caesar were faithfully depicted. In
 other days visitors came, and saw, aud gasped. But what Chamber of Horrors
 could compete with the deadly sand storms and the actual train wrecks and the plunges over Niagara Falls of the modern motion picture?
 To the strictly modern nervous sys. tenn the wax works would cause scarce 1y a quiver. To the shock absorbing mentality of the New Yorker they seemed hopelessly out of date, and even the occasional visitor long since has learned to prefer the syncopated enter tainment of the "eating" places and the
 wild gyrations of New York's giddlest tangoists and dipsters on roof tops and summer gardens.
 It only remains to be seen whether the Eden Musee is to be usurped by the more thrilling and relentless panorama Of horrors afforded by the movies or is to be replaced by tearoom where high school girls and boys, the youth of best families" and the Lefty Louies" and "Gyp the Bloods" of the metropolis can mingle in complete dem ocratic abandon and get each others viewpoint while doing the fantastic. If not light, steps of the ultra -ra gtime dances.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-06-23
Will Re In the Race

Dr. J. Thomas Miller of Huffman was in Birmingham yesterday and announced that he will be in the next race for board of revenue.
 T have been practicing medicine around here for 29 years, said Dr. Miller, and have spent practically my entire life in this section of the state. l used to come through what is now Birmingham in the eos for Elyton, Montevallo and Tusa- loosa were then our trading points.
 Do you know that the present north side of Birmingham about where the Wood Lumber company and Gulf Refining company are no wlocated used to be a desperate spot in those days? A road ran right along there through the widest thicket you can imagine. Before Bir- mingham was ever thought of there were many murders along that road and every one used to be afraid to travel it. If the soil could speak out in the vicinity of those two plants it could relate many a bloody story
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-06-23
WOman's Work

"Women are absolutely unfitted for business life"
 So spoke business man the other day, who obviously represents an old and well-nigh obsolete type of man. For, while such sentiments were not uncommon 50 years ago, women have so proven their worth in various pro- fessions and lines of business that it is rare indeed that their efficiency is questioned.
 This, of course, applies in general There is no doubt that women are making failures in business-but SO, also, are men making failures, and have been doing so for countless ages.
 Reports from Oilton, Okla, reveal an entirely new line of work has been successfully ur'- ''-- hv woman. Oilton has the only woman who checks material as it is unloaded from cars onto the wagons of the haulers. She is Miss Teressa Poirer and she came direct from a desirable job in a large New York office to the rough, devil-may-care atmosphere of the oil camps.
 All day long Miss Poirer works in the Santa Fe railroad yards, check ing material which arrives for use in the construction of big oil storage tanks. It takes seven cars to haul the material used in making one tank, each of which holds 55,000 gallons.
 The girl knows exactly the amount and kind of material required for a tank and according to her boss is the best checker that ever worked in the
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-06-23
Paul Wait in the Boston Post.

Paul Wait in the Boston Post
 nAR HARBoR, ME.-John Jacob As N tor, years old next August, worth A s3OOO. OO0 and whose personal ex- penses annually amount to approximately SS0 900, sat on the green velvet sweep or lawn of the famous George Vanderbilt es- tate at Paint d'Acadie, Bar Harbor, Me- one afternoon recently and howled his lit- tie golden head off.
 | John has a perfect right to he sitting on the Vanderbilt lawn and he likewise had a perfect right to howl his curly 1 head off inasmuch as his mother. Made l line Force Astor of New York, has leased the Vanderbilt place for the summer. | True to the makeupj of all human crea- lures, John. as he sat on the lawn under the great shade trees with luxury on every side wanted what he hadn't
 | 1T wanna go downtown he howled with the regularity of the incoming waves or the sea that curled and trickled with lit tie white puff on the beach in front of | the mansion.
 He wanted to go something fierce, be- cause his two little blue eyes, acting as miniature reservoirs, were watering a little Innocent fern that was pinned on the front of his nattly little white suit,
 Just to the right of him, lying on its side, was very much neglected terra cotta colored stuffed dog, while between his two white bestockinged stocky legs leaned a wkite woolly toy lamb.
 II wanna go downtown"
 The words of the child song of sorrow never changed and he sang them long,
 The servants in spick and span fveries fitting here and there, didn't interest him in the slightest. Neither did the swings or the silver sailed boats that slid out on the surface of the blue water.
 Once a very fine looking nurse in white, with a little white plume cap set jauntily on top of her brown hair, came out and tried to get John better acquainted with the terracotta colored dog, but as far as the dog was concerned John wasn't home 1T wanna go downtown"
 The song possessed him. Presently it ,possessed the nurse. Presently it possessed the mother somewhere off there in the massive mansion, and presently John, dry eyed and with the terracotta dog and wcolly lamb in his lap and a smile on his face tha' rivaled his golden hair. sat in rubber-tired rattan baby carriage and was wheeled serenely down the wood- land bath to the street by the white capped rursc He was going downtown.
 Now, occasionally during the year Yer bena Bros one-ring circus comes to the picturesque village of Bar Harbor. and likewise iron, time to time gay lilac and yellow handbills that announce the com
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-06-23
LUKE M'LUKE SAYS

From the Cincinnati Enquirer.
 When full page advertisement of a bargain sale is printed on the back of the sporting page mother doesn't get to read about the bargains until father has fin ished his breakfast.
 A married man imagines that his wife knocks him as much when he is away from the house as she does when he is at rcme.. But she spends most of her time boosting him when he isn't around to hear it.
 Father gets mad all over because the children gag and cry when they have ia take castor oil. But when father has to take 1t mother has to send the children out of the house and stun cotton in her ears.
 A princess can't understand why a girl can see anything in a man with fore head when she could get man with curly hair. 52
 We should reserve corner in Statuary hall for the man who minded his own business He hasn't been located so faf. but we have hopeA
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-06-23
Much BuiIdinr Work

Another good sign of improved cond- tions in Birmingham as compared with the past several months, stated Robert Jemison, Jr., yesterday, lis the large number of dwellings which are under course of construction or contemplated in the various residential sctions.
 ''I myself was surprised when I took a moment to think over the many different residences which are actually under way. Out along Cliff road Glenview road and in that section I know of several high class residences going up and in many other parts of the city about the same conditions seem to be in evidence.
 ITO be always boosting sometimes gets on the nerves of your friends but I'll tell you when there is as much building ac- tivity in both the downtown and the resi- dence sections as there is in Birmingham right now it's a mighty good basis for real optimism.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-06-23
Shame on Georgia


 A mobbish or lawless spirit in any community, no matter what the provo cation, is to be sternly deprecated, and when high officials charged with the administration of law are treated with indignity or threatened with personal injury by turbulent crowd all aw-abiding and right-minded citizens should feel it their solemn duty to rise en masse in protest.
 That was a shameful demonstration which rioters made against Governor Slaton of Georgia at his home near Atlanta Monday night, because in his executive capacity he had commuted the death sentence of Leo Frank to life Imprisonment. After thoroughly reviewing the testimony and after prayerful consideration Governor Sla- ton reached the conclusion that the condemned mans guilt had not been established. He issued statement in defense of his action which should have satisfied every reasonable man that he was at least in conscience bound to give Frank the benefit of the doubt, regardless of what views may have been entertained by individuals as to his guilt or innocence. Even had the governor issued no statement the public should have accepted his act of communication without antagonistic demonstration. When the people fail to uphold the majesty of the law and fail to show proper respect for those in authority then is anarchy near.
 The fact that Governor Slaton felt it necessary to order out the military to guard his home was a sad reproach indeed upon the fair name of Georgia; the worst reproach of all.
 Every southern state has felt the blight of lynch law. Fortunately, in many of these states lyncSings nave become so rare as to lead to the hope that no more will occur. But Georgia is still cursed with the riot spirit. It has not been many years since Atlantas street ran with blood as re- suit of terrible race riots The whole country was shocked But as de- plorable as the race riots were, this demonstration against Governor Slaton was immeasurably more serious be- cause of it's far reaching effects on the popular mind. If the chief executive of a proud, historic state must be pre- pared to protect himself by force of arms against bloodthirsty mob, what indeed, has become of that civilization which once stood for law and order? Surely the better element in Georgia will lose no time in condemning the heinous outrage of Monday night and insist upon the app enension and pun. ishment of those who took part in the riot