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oITTIH 0I .VHV07 WT"I INN' That barefoot dancer is the rage on Broadway"
 "A dame like her gets many Christ mas presents. no doubt?"
 No doubt. But what will she hang upT-CLouisville Courier-Journal)
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ODD FELLOWS ATTENTION.

All odd Fellows from Juneau and Douglas are invited by Silver Bow Lodge No. 2. to attend the installation of officers, at Odd Fellows Hall, Thursday. Jan. 1S. 1916. at 7:5O D. ID.
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Classified Advertisements
PHYsIcIANs bod sURoEoNs.

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car.l..n of Har.

Oh. say. who was here to sec you last night?
 "Only Myrtle. Father"
 "Well, tell Myrtle that she left her pipe on the p'ano."-(UnIversity of Nebraska Awgwan)
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Boys unpleasantly familiar with mothers adeptness with the needle may sympathize with the allies when they announce they will have nothing to do with any patched up peace."- Cleveland Plain Dealer)
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SHARPE BACK ON JOB.

Deputy Marshal W. B. Sharpe re- turned to Ketchikan Tuesday, after an official trip to Seattle. according to adv'ces received in the United States MarshaPs office.
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After the war we shall have everybodys money and be universally respected That will be time of peril While we are so much despised we are comparatively safe-lifel
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New York .s growing about paying half the income taxes. Well. doesn't It get more than half the income?- Pittsburgh Dlspatch.)
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speaker predicts a work day of four hours in 1920. Most of the speakers who make such predictions have already the supposed 1920 standard anywhere from one to four hours.-( Chicago Herald)
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There need be no surprise because Captain Boy-Ed got hold of confidential navy report That too, was part Of bis duty to bis conntry lPhadelpha Ledgerl
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Emperor Yuan wants constitution for China constitution seems be about the most useless thing Chna could have.-( (Pittsburs Dspatchl
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The Colonel's hat is in the ring, but to most of us It too much like hel- met.-(charleston News and courier)
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]. 4 < < q 4 4 4 q 2 < . . , . .
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Cincinnati EnQnIrer)
 Ida May Rust lives at Nashville. Tenn, Mora Bulla is Q resident of Richmond, Ind. U. B. Hay lives in North Bend. O.. Jack Cooling, Jake Cooling, Jake Warm and Dave Holt come from Cincinnati, and I. Nj. Full Hove gets his mail at owenton. Ky.
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By staying at home to prevent pre- paredness MT. Bryan will accomplish just as much as if he had sailed on the shin to stop the war.-(Prov.dence Journal.l
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wELLl WELL
Luke Nickel

Luke McLke) Dear Luke: They tell mo that the Ford Party on the Oscar was so strong for peace that they refused to eat naval oranges for breakfast (Bank. Dayton. Ohio.)
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paw Knowa EverythInn.

Paw Knows EVerythlng' WiIIIe-Paw. what is a Christian nation?
 Paw-0ne in which a prlzehghter makes more money than a preacher, my son.-(CincInnati Enquirer)
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NV CUSTOMERS

would very much appreciate lf you will kindly return cocktail and horse- radlsh bottles. Wlli pay ten cents a dozen for return of bottles by chill dren. CRAFT. f-6tf.
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where obeying military orders win bo duty and pleasure The Captain being by all reports gentleman and good fellow we suspect has not felt just that way about .t in this country
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Tho place to hear the latest sheet music. Edlson, Columbia, and Victor reeords Of today To tho JUNEAU MUSIC HOUSE. 1-t2-1t.
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Furs. Moccasins and Baskets of an kinds. at reduced market prices WILLS STORE. h
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Gen. Villa says he would rather die than come to tho United States Nevertheless. will welcome him If he comes. and Gen. carranza will attend to the other al ternatiye If he can.
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The president should be as philo- sophlcal as Prof. Huxley. who wrote to Lord Farrer in 1881: "of the few innocent pleasures left to men past middle life, jamming common sense down the throats of fools is perhaps the keenest"-(chicago Tribune.(
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Elihu Root has resumed the practice of law, which scarcely looks If he had unconquerabe hankerng for the Presldency.-l Chicago News.)
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CLEVER COMMENT.

The sea may or may not be free but 1t certainly looks as if some gov ment was taking a lot of liberties on it.-Tndianapolis News.)
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LOsT-Male fox terrier, brown on one side of head, and brown spot on back. Answers to name of Teddy
 Return to 910 Basin road for re- ward. 1l1.3t.
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Vim Hnl they say. is to help restore Belgium, anC we can't help thinking that the job Is big enough fol men as big as he.-(Chicago Post)
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Nebraska offers everybody place on her presidential ticket except her former favorte W. B. why this partalIty?- -(NIemphs Commercial Appeol)
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"we congratulate the President on h's novel vigor." sneers the London Chronicle. Perhaps In time we shall be able to congratulate the British government on some novel military vigor in the Balkans and at the Dar- danelles. -tNew York World.)
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Perhaps after the cruise of the good ship Oscar II prunes will be put on the contraband list.-tKansas City Star.l
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In lieu of the ccture in the Senate tho Democrats are at liberty adopt gas masks Pittsburgh Gazette Times)
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One thing is certain If the British had held the Oscar H. they could not sold her cargo or-enough to buy Q kit of mackerel.-(I louisville CourierJournall
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Republicans in the Senate attacked the proposed extension of the emergency law with argu- ments on the tar question They learn and they never forget.
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Frank Young of Juneau is in New York City, according to returning Ju- neauites. His health is better than for many years.
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ALLMErAL wEATHeRsrRlPs- ots 6 ellpatrlck, Contractors. f2-t4tf
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T. R. seems to be conscientously trying to undo what he did in 1912 he is seeking to defeat the Democrc candidate-(St Louis Globe DemocraD
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Capt von PaDsn Is now on his way to country l
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AUTO REPAlRs

U-AUTo REPAIR and vulcanize at the Juneau Garage. We do night and day work. Next door to Empire office, phone 262, c. D. Collins, Propr.
 9-10-6m.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-09-08

by foundries and steel makers, for de-
livefies ranging from immediate to over
the first six months of the coming year.
Taken in connection with the tonnage be-
ing booked for export. the sales being
made are summing up a very consider
abel total There seems to be no abate-
ment in the demand for export iron; in
fact it would appear that the demand
from that quarter is increasing and that
the end is far from in sight. BY reason
of this increased demand both at home
and abroad, there is a tendency toward
stiffening prices, especially in the south,
where some advances have already been
made, and it would probably not take
much more demand than there is at pres
ent to cause a further revision upward in
prices on both northern and southern
irons. .
There is no change OF note In The coke
market, prices maintaining recent levels.
In certain districts operators are hav-
ing trouble In getting just the equipment
wanted in which to load their output and
in other quarters there is a marked
scarcity of labor This situation is not
likely to improve during the fall and win
ter months and may have tendency to
increase coke values"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-09-08
LUKE M'LUKE SAYS

Copyright, 1916, by the Cincinnati En-
quirer.)
You may not realize 1t. But you fool
yourself oftener than you fool others.
Prayer is all right in it's place But the
man who gets UP and hustles receives
more than the man who remains on his
knees.
A girl can talk culture to us all day.
But that doesn't keep up from believing
that she shores In her sleep.
When you see a woman who is dressed
up like a Circus Horse and who is ac-
companied by shabby-looking man who
resembles a Door Mat. you know who
opens the Pay Envelope in that family.
A Souse is a queer animal. He either
wants to hug you and kiss you or else
he wants to knock your block off
You may convince a Princess that her
hair will be gray some day. But you
can't convince her that some day that
dimple will be wrinkle.
A girl believes that she Is worth hel
weight in gold. But she wouldn't be fat
| for anything.
| You can learn more about girl BY
being married to her for ten minutes
than you can by being engaged to her fol-
ten years.
| Another reason why we are against
prohibition is because II the saloon.
were closed there would be no place tt
meet and run the Government and man
age the ball team.
7, Once Upon Time there was mar
who didn't expect too much from hi.
! friends. All Fairy Tales begin will
once-upon-a time.
| The men who have axes to grind neve
have any trouble finding suckers to turf
| the grindstone for them.
| There Is silver lining to every cloud
| deaf man can't hear his wife naggini
| him when she gets made at him.
| 1t makes a girl mad all over wheI
| Mother insists upon cooking onions 70
supper the night her fellow is going t
| call on her.
/ A suspicious wife never fails to flint
what she is looking for, even If 1t ism
there.
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From the Kansas City Star.

From the Kansas City Star.
H has begun From every weed
- patch and brambled jungle it
arises. loud and shrill, insstcnt
and continuous from dark to dawn.
Stand beside any vacant lot in the city,
or stop your motor car by any wild place
in the country and you will hear it. At
| midnight 1t is loudest. Then the shrilling
OF the insect song is piercing
There are many different insects m this
nightly chorus of the weed patches. The
loudest singers are the crickets of several
varieties. They sing without ceasing the
whole night through, and they sing in the
daytime, too. The. katydid sings only at
night. The popular belief is that these
night singers are locusts, but they are
not. The locust sings only by day; and
he is not the one we usually call locust
The large bug with blush wings that
clings to the limbs of trees and shrills
commonly known as 17-year locust. He
never sings at night. Grasshoppers ara
true locusts and they sing only in the
daytime
| But none of these really sings. The
| noises we hear do not come from their
| threats, but are made by the rapid vibro-
| ton of certain horny membranes. IT
| you catch a cicada and watch his abdo-
! men as he sings you may see these MEM
branes in rapid vibration. The crickets
| sing by using their legs as fiddle bows
+I,< ii, fI,a
| fiddle, and they scrape, scrape, scrape and
shrill, shrill, shrill.
This insect psalm is a love song. This
| is the love making time of those insects,
and it is only the male that sings to at
| tract a mate.
| All around the world this insect chorus
arises at this time When you hear it in
| some pasture or fence corner here you
may know that exactly the same chorus
In Japan they organize parties of MEN
and women who go out at night to listen
| to the singing of the insects, and they
catch them and keep them in cages in
| their houses as we keep canary birds, and
a good singing tree cricket has a market
value. Lafcadio Hearn has written. a
great deal about these singing crickets OF
Japan, which are called Semi He do
| scribes one of the semi beginning Wheel
| lily, slowly swelling into crescendo, shrll
as the blowing of steam, and dying away
| in another wheeze. He attempts 20 put
| the song into letters this way:
| "j-i-i-i-i-i-i-i." He listened to green
semi singing on a weed stalk, making q
singularly clear sound, like the rapid ring
| ing of small bell, this way: Kama
kana-kana -kana-kana."
Japanese poets have celebrated the
charm of the crickets' song. Hearn trans
| lates several of them for us:
Furosato nj
Fubo ari-mushi no
Koe-goe!
| In my native place the old folks are
Clamor Of insect voices.
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WHY MEN LEAVE HOME

From the Memphis Commercial-AppeaL
Young wives read this over. Think
about it Take it to heart and act accord
ngly.
Mrs Orrin Arnold declares that the
homes of the American people are headed
toward perdition over the soggy bread
route. Now, Mrs. Arnold should know.
Her national associations with the Sun
shine society and with the National Con-
sumers' league made her at one time a
conspicuous character. She has Won
standing of mans makeup when shs
announces that the best way to reach him
and to hold him is through his stomach.
More than this, according to her the
cries, the same evil that drives men from
home is the occasion for more than one
domestic tragedy.
The advice of Mrs. Arnold is recalled In
a divorce case heard in Brooklyn last
week. In his petition the husband COM
planned that his wife naturally could not
cook. His strong point was that he had
to go to the restaurant on the corner to
get something to eat. This is just grounds
for divorce. When a man marries he
wants to marry cook, not a baby doll.
He wants something besides beauty. He
wants someone who will consider the vi
tai functions that make the wheels OF his
life go round.
The real cause of most of the domestic
trouble In this world grows out of the
kitchen, according to Mrs. Arnold. Bad
;s civ, hot +
men can never forget or forgive. Here
you have it, gentle lady in nutshell. It
is an old, time-honored saying that If
you ever wish to do anything with man
first fill his stomach. Man, after all, is
but an animal. With a satisfactorily
filled stomach he will listen to almost
anything, but without it he is not as conf
panonable as he might be.
Mrs. Arnold knows. She ought to know.
She has had experience. Too many homes
serve improperly cooked meals and it Is
but natural that men should go elsewhre
to find something that appeals to their
palates.
1t must also be remembered that women
have stomachs as well as men, and what
destroys the digestion in one will GER
tainly do so in the other.
At the recent convention of the Ma
tonal Association of Master Bakers this
point was thoroughly argued. The value
of weH-made bread was emphasized.
1t is entirely reasonable. Bad food
causes indigestion. Indigestion will sour
the sweetest temper, and when temper
is ruined in nine cases out of ten love will
fly out of the window.
| The well-fed man Is as playful as a kit
ten. Sit him down to good meal and
you can, with the least effort, make him
think black is white and that the moon Is
made of Swiss cheese.
If it is the object of the wife to pre-
serve perfect felicity in the home circle,
and insure perpetual peace. let her look
to the kitchen and see that the stomach
of her liege lord is well and comfortably
| filled.
| This is the way to hold him. If all
wives would do this there would be no
need for the divorce court.
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Business conditions in New York
were never better said 1. J. Osbun.
local manager of the Aetna Explosives
company. who recently attended con-
ference of the managers of the Aetna
company at New York. Factories are
running at full time. the hotels, cafes.
stores and other businesses are doing
capacity business and no one thinks
of speaking of such a thing as hard
times.
The best part about the talk of
prosperity in New York Is that some of
the most astute fnanciers of the coun-
try are unanimous in their belief that
times will be equally as good at the
conclusion of the war. The people of
New York are fond of the south and
| they realize that this is one of the
sections of the United States that still
presents opportunities which are great
err than any other section of the coun-
| try A great influx of people from the
east and middle west may be expected
| in the south this winter. Many of them
will come for pleasure and our balmy
sunshine, but most of them will be here
to prospect"
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ADRIFT WITH THE TIMES
NO HARD FEELINGS.

Now that you have donated 100000 to
your alma mater for the erection of a new
building, why do you insist that 1t must
be located on a particular part of the
campus?"
Because replied the eminent philan.
thropist, when I was a freshman 1 re-
ceiyed on this spot the worst nights haz-
ing 1 ever experienced and want to put
up building there just to show that
bear no i'll will to the college for what
happened to me-
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stu Running at Capacity

While the contemplated strike OF rail-
time on the part of the pig iron market
there Is feeling of relief that is out of
the way for the time being at least" says
Rogers, Brown & Co.'S weekly market
report.
1.-THE vacation season drawing to a close
permits both buyers and sellers to settle
down to contemplation of actual reali-
ties. and we seem to be going into the fall
and winter months with nothing in sight
to indicate other than a continuance
through those months Of the activity
which has prevailed over the earlier
months Of the year.
"All reports are to the effect that the
melt OF foundries, both those engaged in
jobbing work and those whose output Ia
along special lines, is at about the maxi
mum of their capacity. There seems to
be no change in the situation SO far as
the makers Of steel are concerned, and
they continue producing about their limit
of tonnage With the prospect Of in
creased purchases by railroads, agricui-
tural implement manufacturers and ship
yards. the end of the third quarter will
doubtless show further increase in un-
filled orders in the hands of the steel in
terests.
THE market in pig iron has broadened
and very considerable tonnage for do
mestic consumption is being placed. both
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WR n ASIuNGTON. September T.
MW (Special)-H m a n n a d

WV tspecial>-H m nnsta t.
against which the new enemy
Of the central powers. tho Rumanians.
inaugurated campaign simultaneously
with their declaration of hostilities is the
subject Of todays war geography bulletin
issued by the National Geography So
ciety:
The former capital Of Transylvanla
like the present capital, Kronstadt' mas
four -Hermannstadt (German)'
Nagyszeben (Hungarian). Sibiiu CRU
manian) and Cibinoum (Roman). Its as
tinction as the seat of government OF the
adjacent mountainous province havins
been taken from it, it is now the admins
trative center of the county OF Hermann
stadt Familiarity known as Saxon lana De-
cause it is supposed to have been colo
nized by Germans under the leadership
Of Hermann, a citizen OF Nuremberg who
arrived in this attractive locality some
time during the twelfth century.
..The city, which boasts a population of
more than 80, 900, three-fifths Of whom are
saxons and fourth are Rumanians,
clines to a hillside in the valley of the
river Chin. tributary of the Alt (Aluta)
which in turn is one of the important
affluents of the Danube. far to the south.
I'm medieval days the last of the native
Magyar monarch accorded the city many
special privileges and it's commerce with
the east flourished. despite the fact that
during the 18th and 18th centuries 1t was
on several occasions besieged by Turkish
forces on their way through Hungary to
threaten Vienna. In those days it boas ted
strong Notifications of which there re-
main today only few fragments Of walls
] and one or two towers standing near the
municipal theatre building. The center
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SONG OF THE INSECTS

The poet is a country lad In unfamiliar
fields he listens to the great autumn
chorus of insects; and the sound evives
for him the memory of his far-off homo
and of his parents.
Another kind of musical cricket in ia
pan is known as the "Matsumushi," and
a poet sings of It,
Faded the clover now-sere and withered
the grasses:
What dreams the matsumushi in the des- j,
olate autumn fields?
Another Japanese poet contemplating
the cast off shell of a semi, sings:
Only the pitiful husk! poor
singer Of summer,
Wherefore thus consume all thy Jody In
song?
Another poet writes in a time Of grief:
Only a." 1.-THE cry of the FOOLISH
semi!
Anyone knows that the world is void as
it's cast-off shell.
Leigh Hunt and John Keats, English
poets, were walking together in the fields,
listening to the singing insects, and they
agreed to each write sonnet that would
sing the praises of the grasshopper OF
the fields and the cricket of the hearth.
Keats wrote as follows:
The poetry of earth is never dead;
When all the birds are faint with the
hot sun u H1 3a y e tHGF@
, And hide in cooling trees. voice will rum
From hedge to hedge about the new.
mown mead.
That is the grasshopper' takes tho
lead
In summer luxury-he has never done
with fun,
He rests at ease beneath some pleasant
weed
The poetry of earth is ceasing never:
On lone winter evening, when the frost
Has wrought a silence from the stove
there shrils
The crickets' song. in warmth increasing,
ever,
And seems, to one in drowsiness half lost.
The Grasshoppers among some grassy
hills.
Hunts sonnet was:
Catching your heart up at the feel Of
June
Sole voice that's heard amidst the lazy
When ever the bees lag at the summoning
BRASS
And you, warm little housekeeper. who
class
With those who think the candles come
too son,
Loving the fire, and with your tricksome
tune
Nick the glad silent moments as they
pass;
sweet and tiny cousins, that belong,
One to the fields, the other to the hearth.
Both have your sunshine: both, though
small, are strong
At your clear hearts; and both seem givon
to earth
To ring in thoughtful ears this natural
song
Indoors and out. summer and winter,
Mirth
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Opposition Not Strong

Everything is satisfactory from a
democratic standpoint up in the Sew
enth district" said J. c. liner. a prom
inent Gadsden lawyer, who was in Bir-
mingham yesterday. "Of course the re-
publicans, assisted by a part of the
|progressives, nominated candidate to
oppose Congressman Burnett, but they
have done that in the past when Wins
ton county, the republican stronghold,
was in the district. With the redistrict-
ing of the state, the Seventh district
was relieved of some of the stronger
republican opposition and now there
is no danger. Besides.m many Of the lead
ing progressives are lining up for the
straight democratic ticket"
Mr.. liner, who was elected as dele
gate to the democratic national con-
vention, was in the city to attend a
meeting of members of the Wilson
finance committee of the state. of which
he is a member. IF there was ever any
doubt about the reelection OF tho
President. 1t is my opinion that his
settlement of the railroad strike re-
moved that doubt" said Mr.. Inzer.
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MEANS NOTHING TO HIM.

THAT man with whom you were dis
cussing the elght-hour law didn't seem
much impressed"
mo. I discovered the reason later"
What was it?"
Hes a grocery clerk who works from
Z o'clock in the morning until o'clock at
night and then hurries home to help his
wife look after the baby"