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The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-06-29

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The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-06-29
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The daily Alaskan., 1916-02-17
EVENTS FROM ALL ALASKA
 IN SHORT PARAGRAPHS

Construction of a $65,OOO power schooner of BIO tons fOr Capt, Louis L. Lane, the Arctic explorer and trader is under way at the yards of D. W. Heath, seattle. Un- der the contract the vessel Is to be ready for service on May 15, when Lane will sail out of Seattle on his invasion of the Arctic wastes. The new vessel will have a length of 40 feet oyer all, a beam pf 85.2 feet and molded depth of thirteen feet.
 Burnett Inlet, near Wrangell' which is rarely covered with ice is reported to have a coating this year which is mere than three inches thick. Meu who are get ting out three hundred thousand feet of timber were forced to cut q passage through the ice for their launch in order that they could reach supply point. Two days of hard work were required to get the boat into open water.
 Ed. N. Clark of Ketchikan is re- ported to be in New Orleans and claims to have walked every foot of the way from Alaska to New Orleans. He is a special writer for magaziGec and says that he likes walking The eastern people were surprised when he did not attempt to make easy money by selling pie lures of himself or distribute ad- yertising literature. He says that Ee will walk around the world if he lives long enough.
 Editor Caskey of the Fairbanks Citizen and Postmaster Deal, Of Fairbanks entertained an enthusias- tic bunch of spectators one night recently when they engaged in Q one round go-as-you-please fist fight. Deal scored a kneckdown but Caskey clinchcd and in the breakaway landed an uppercut which would havc sent the post master to the mat had not bystand- CTS caught him. The Citizen had scored Deal in regard to letting the mail contract 10 serve the Tolo- vana camp. Ho1ors were even.
The daily Alaskan., 1916-02-17
SAL0NIEI SOON ID BE SCENE
 0F GREAT WORLD BATTLE

veterans carrying with them the heavy Krupp siege guns before which no fortlfications have yet been able to stand, form the cen ter and heart of the attacking ar my. A large Austrian force is not far away in Albania and may be brought up from the westward after the fighting has begun.
 The French and British have placed in position their new large callbre guns which are the su- pleme product of the combined ef- forts of their best military and mecranical engineers and are de- signed to answer the Krupp wea- pons shell for shell with longer range and greater accuracy. The guuuers are confident and anxious Iv awaiting the test,
The daily Alaskan., 1916-02-17

Saloniki, Feb. Hike the calm before a great storm is the tense situation here. Almost any moment may see the beginning Of one of the greatest battles of the ages, It is looked forward to as the su- prame test of the military prowess Of the great cOnteutdng powers and the men who are to be the actors in tue great drama are pacing gesIlessIy beside their guns.
 It is known from the reports of the aviation corps that more than two hundred thousand Bulgarians are concentrated around GieVgiIl and within fifty miles from here and are drawing nearer daily. A comparatively small force of prob ably 8O,OOO or 10000 German
The daily Alaskan., 1916-02-17
GRAND TRUNK Pn2IE.o CONFIRMS
 PLANS FUR a-.-I5O SERVICE
No Longer Any Doubt that New Line of Steamers will be Run to Skagway and Make Strong Bid for Tourist and Freight Traffic.

..ge.-scri0ed by the war conditions prevailing in Europe
 While tho service may be mau- guuWed by one Of the smaller steamers of the company it is proposed during the tourist sea- s-a to run the steamers Prince Rupert end Prince George through from Settle, Victoria ard van couver to Prince Rupert KetchAan, Wra2gcL, Juneau and Skagway. A triwsekly service will be maintained between Seattle and Prince Ru- pert ia connection with the trains Of the Grand Trunk Pacific rail way and g. weekly service from Prince Rupert to Skogway
 The excellent reeCrd which these two vessels made in thu operation cl .ha trt-weekly service between seatt,e and Prince Rupert last year proved conclusively their abili- tv to undertake heavier duties and cover larger territory.
The daily Alaskan., 1916-02-17

Seattle, Feb. I7-capt, v a~ Nicholson, manager Q. the urc--~ Trant Pacjltc's cost sC-~.as1.p service, announced las. W~,-ss1@. tha. the plans og bls company Tor entering the AIas224 trade the coming summer season had been approved.
 The arrival at this conclusion was aided by tho large number cl inquiries made from agents through out the United States and Canada, particularly in the East, for ser ylo and space to Alaskan points, The tourist traffic to Alaska this year Is expected to exceed that Of any previous yeArs.
 The American people as a whole are in Q very prosperous condition and their journeys for pleasure during tLe coming summar will be
The daily Alaskan., 1916-02-17
TURKS WANT
 FORE MONEY

dam, Feb. 17-Banking .-. -. here have been advised that -..- . j. seeking another loan f..- Germany, and have been asked l .ss Up a share of the loan.
The daily Alaskan., 1916-02-17

The United States commissioner of the Seward peninsula has re- ported that compared to last year the number of locations recorded during the year just ended, passed all records. The increase is said to be significant in both placer and quartz locations.
 One of the signal corps men on the interior side of the Delta di- vide, who was out on the trail looking after the telegraph line after the recent heavy fall of snow, reported that it took him three days to make 12 miles with a horse and double-ender. He says that in places he found that snow had fallen to a depth of twelYe-saetr
 The Copper River & Northwest ern railway has received a large QlauIity of ties, which will be used in replacing those on the Chitina branch. Part of the ship ment was on the barge Washington, which was wrecked last fall, and as the order had to be duplicated, the work of installing the new ties on the road will not com ...-..-- ,,-f;7 -,,rfrrr
 Billy Allan has completed a new type of sled brake for use on dog sledg that promises to fulfill all expectations in the matter of holdiIg down a heGdstrong dog team. The contriyance is of unusu- al strength and is 80 designed that the dogs will have to dig up about a foot of snow In order to go ahead. The brake vas designed especially for Henry Brugh.-Nome Nugget
 A wireless dispatch was recent Iv received at Nome from Max Gottschalk. who has been in trouble in Russian Siberia over the shoot ing 8. a CossacIl. GottschGIk asked hi. Eame friends to send him $500 80 d. could leave the czar's domains as everything had been straightened out satisfactorily The wireless dispatch was the first information Nome had had from him for seY- eral months.
The daily Alaskan., 1916-02-17
WANT ROOT
 F0R PRESIDENT

New York, Feb. 17-Senator Eli hu Root was given a great ovation yesterday at the republican state convention and was hailed as the next president of the United states. The convention voted to endorse his candidacy and instruct the New York delegation to the re- publican national convention in Chicago to work for his nomination.
The daily Alaskan., 1916-02-17
HAS
 4 CHAMPION

Washington. Feb. 17-G. W. And drews, district atcrney for Boston, is representing Brandies before the senate invstigatirg committee, and checking up all accusations made against Brandies, and Is preparing to introduce evidence to counter act them.
The daily Alaskan., 1916-02-17
SAM ELEVEN
 GERMAN RAIDERS

Mobile, Ala, Feb. 1T - That he saw eleven German steamers in Canary Island ports which had been secretly armed ana outfitted for commerce Taiding, was the report brought to this city today by Captain NLagune of an American schooner who has just returned from 0 trip to the islands, where ke went to deliver a cargo of coal.
The daily Alaskan., 1916-02-17
STRUGGLE
 IN ALBANIA

LOnd2n, Feb. 17-The final strug- gle for the mastery of Albania has begun. The Austrians and Bull gars have affected junction of their armies and are co-o0eratmg in the campaign against the Ser Lians and Italians.
The daily Alaskan., 1916-02-17
HOUSE
 COLLAPSES

Mexia, Texas, Feb. 17 - Ten persons were killed by the col lapse of an opera house followed by a gas explosion early this fore noon. 4 fire started by the gas is still burning and threatening the business section.
The daily Alaskan., 1916-02-17
RUSSIANS TAKE
 TURKISH CITY

Petrograd, Feb. 17-It was off, fiCially announced today that Erzer- um, the Turkish stronghold in the CauCaslan mountains, had been cap . urAt by the Russians. The au- nouncement caused great elation amonT the people in all the cities where the news waz published.
The daily Alaskan., 1916-02-17
EXAMPLE

Senator Cummins would, by stat ute, prohibit men from making money out of war. And once there was a king who tried to regulate the tides.--Wall St. Journal.
The daily Alaskan., 1916-02-17
PENSION BILL
 INCREASED

Washington, Feb. 17-The pen si-u appropriation bill passed the house r.day, adding two million doI lars annually oyer former op- proDriations for the widows of soldiers who fought in the Philip pines and the Indian wars.
The daily Alaskan., 1916-02-17
WAR EXPORTS
 REVOLUTIONARY

Washington, Feb. 17-Tbe de pArtment of labor and commerce today Issued a report showing th0a the present rate Of export of munL- tiOns from the United States to Europe ts over $2,OO0,OOO daily
The daily Alaskan., 1916-02-17
FUR FORMAL
 ADOPTION

Washington, Feb. IA resolu- tloa proposing the formal adop- tlon Of the Monroe dctrine by congress was introduced in the house this morning.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1916-05-19
ONLY One Athens Now,

There is and has been for many Gen.
turtles only one Athens. But antiquity
knew no fewer than nine cities or
towns of that name in various parts of
Greece, and even In the time Of Plau-
tus it was sometimes felt necessary to
distinguish the great one as Attic
Athens" 1t was natural that Greek
cities should take their name from
Athena, the goddess Of wisdom, war
like prowess and skill In the arts Of
life, who, according to some legends,
herself founded the City of the Violent
Crown. Others ascribed the naming
Of the city to Theseus or other myth
cal kings. The IS" of the termination
is a real plural, for the city was given
a plural name (AthenaD, as being made
up of several constituent parts.-Lon
don Chronicle.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1916-05-19
Mamma a Novel,

1.-THE thing to do" said the literary
man. us to call your novel after the
name of the leading character"
"Why" asked the youngest novel
list
Because the best and the most sue
cessful novels always have such
Names" the other replied. "Take the
great novelists. The greatest book of
each gets its title from the leading
characters name.
Instances are easy to give. What
is the best novel of Dickens? 1t is
David Copperf1eld.' What is the best
novel of Thackeray? 1t is Henry Es-
mond' What is the best novel of
Scott? 1t is Tvanhoe.' What is the
best novel of Thomas Hardy? Tess
of the D'Urbervilles.' OF George Mere
dith? The Ordeal of Richard Feverel.'
OF Rider Haggard? Allan Quater-
main OF Tolstoy? Anna Karenina.' "
New York Post
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1916-05-19
Courtinu In Spain,

In sunny Spain etiquette is SO very
restrictive In the matter Of courtship
that it is wonder that young people
ever manage to get married at all.
Even when, after many difficulties. the
engagement is accomplished, the par
ents have a deciding voice In fixing
the date, and, as they prefer long en-.
gagements. the wedding day is usually
fixed somewhere in the dim future.
The best man and maid of honor are
expected not only to fulfill the usual
duties, but to neutrality-suspicious.
very substantially-to the expenses Of
the wedding feast. Wedding cake is
unknown. but instead packets of sugar
ed almonds are distributed among the
guests and sent by post to those who
are unable to be present.-Kansas City
Star.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1916-05-19
How Prussia Was R.forested.

There vas no need of celebrating Ar
Dor day In Prussia In the days when
Friedrich Wilhelm l. was king, for that
monarch had a plan all his own by
which he replenished the forests and
kept the country well supplied with
fruit trees.
According to Das Buch fur ALE, the
king, having observed that there was
a great dearth of fruit and oak trees
in Prussia and not being willing to
undertake the tremendous expense Of
reforesting the country himself issued
an order to all clergymen that, after
June 81, 1720, they should refuse to
perform any marriage ceremony unless
the groom could produce evidence that
he had just planted six fruit trees and
an equal number of oaks. If it was in
winter or In the middle Of dry sum-
mer, when plants would not grow, the
groom had to produce and lay aside a
sum Of money sufficient to cover the
cost of the trees and promise to plant
the required number when fall or
spring came.
The edict worked wonders. The next
generation in Prussia had no lack of
fruit and oak trees.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1916-05-19
A liner Story.

There is story current at Kuloang,
central China, about tiger which gave
trouble in that quarter. A missionary
and his wife had been worried by the
tiger prowling nightly around their
home They determined to be rid Of
it and one night tied COW up in the
back yard and dog at the front of
the house. Then they armed them
selves with guns and kept watch. The
tiger appeared. The missionary fired
and killed the COW. The wife rushed
to see what had happened, and in her
absence the tiger ate the dog.-Ex-
change.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1916-05-19
FARMERS IDEA SAVES
HIM TIME AND MONEY
Uses Pipe 10 Send Wheat From
Plateau TO Market.

Wenatchee, wash.-Instead OF haul
ing his wheat eighteen miles over a
bad road, as he did formerly James
Keane of Rock Island is now letting
the grain slide into market through a
galvanized iron pipe. The FORMER
method cost from 10 to 20 cents a
bushel to market. By this latter way
the grain can be handled for cents
a bushel.
The new system has been In opera
ton for a couple of years and bids falr
to continue, at least until the natural
law of gravitation is abolished.
Keane owns land which lies on a
large plateau over 1000 feet above the
little town of Rock Island. 1t mas al
ways been expensive for the farmer
TO drive a long distance to get OH the
plateau and back into town, ana as
the road wound around the side OF the
bluffs it was very rocky and danger
Gus.
Two years ago the iron pipe ices
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1916-05-19
Tflay 10 1915

came ia Keane. He purchased and In
stalled $500 feet of two inch gaiyaniz-
ed iron piping, and the saving the first
year paid for 1t. The pipe runs from
Keane's west field down a steep hill to
within 400 feet of the warehouse In
the town.
When he wishes to take two or three
loads of wheat to market the grain Is
poured into a large sheet iron hopper
fitted over the top of the iron pipe line.
The grain runs along merrily through
the pipe to the town, where 1t Is receiv-
ed at the rate of about a sack a min
ute. which is as fast as 1t can be ham
died.
To save more time and money Keane
has attached an apparatus known as
the "sacker" from a thrashing machine
to the town end of the pipe line.
which automatically receives, sacks
and weighs the grain. A man does the
sewing.
Keane has a monopoly on the big
plateau, which embraces about 5000
acres of tillable land. Last year he
planted most of 1t and harvested near
" 100000 bushels of wheat.
The land lies exposed to the periodi-
cally hard winds that frequent this
part of the state during the summer.
and there have been years when part
Of the wheat crop would be piled In
high drifts of dirt. When the season
is favorable few farmers are more
handily located than Keane, with his
pipe line marketing method.
Get butter wrappers at Echo office.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1916-05-19
Lazy Idleness.

Beware of lazy idleness. 1t will have
its effect on your whole system. 1t
brings on degeneration of the muscles
and the internal organs, sometimes re-
sulting in an unhealthy accumulation
of fat and sometimes in internal adhe-
sion. In some constitutions it results
in shrinkage and premature old age.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1916-05-19
Within Reason.

Mistress-Jane. didn't you hear the
doorbell? New Servant-Yes, mum.
Mistress-Then why don't you go to
the door? New Servant-'Deed. mum.
| amt expectin' nobody to call on me.
It must be somebody to see yourself.
mum.-Passing Show.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1916-05-19
Evil Enough.

There is evil enough in man. God
knows, but it is not the mission of
every young man and woman to de-
tail and report 1t all. Keep the at
mosphere as pure as possible and fra
grant with gentleness and charity
DR.. John Hall
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1916-05-19
Different.

Larry-My wife went away yester-
day morning. Harry-Is that what
makes you look so glumf Larry-No;
she came back last night.-Exchange.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1916-05-19
Roaring Business.

HE does a roaring business"
whats his liner
"He blows the megaphone on a sight
seeing Club Fellow.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1916-05-19

Get butter wrappers at Echo Office.
Evening star., 1916-12-10

enough to get from man going out of
business-I paid SIG. The installation of
electric lights and telephone cost $3.50.
On the door had my name done in good
style, costing $l.50. This reminded me
that would need business cards, so had
some made showing only my name, busi-
ness, and address; but the printing and
the texture of the card were good.
To put my business before the public
was the first and hardest step. To do
this | not only had to solicit friends, but
to go among strangers. Any business is
hard to begin, but work is a powerful lever
in the face of obstacles and disappoint-
ments, and perseverance will triumph.
Starting in the building in which was
located, left one of my cards in each Office
At the end of the first year had
worked up pretty good stenographic
business. 1t has grown yearly, and, while
l have had to work hard to attain my
success,-and although many annoyances
and discouragements are interviewer in
the warp and woof of the everyday busi-
ness life,-I have never regretted opening
my public stenographic Office.
M. T. H., Birmingham, Ala.
Evening star., 1916-12-10
A Business You Can Start for 5000

THE demand for the trained business
woman is far in excess of the supply,
and no profession offers better and
more pleasant opening for the woman who
has the ambition, courage, and self
reliance to start business than the public
stenographic. But the successful business
woman who would compete in this popu-
lar vocation must bring to the undertaking
all her executive ability, tact and deter
mination to succeed, backed by some
capital, to obtain financial returns.
After many years experience as a
stenographer, during which had climbed
to positions of trust, drawing good salaries.
l realized that there was wanting the
further promotion and independence to
which l aspired-attainable only in
business of my own. When ambition
enters into ones calculation, failure is
weakened. l was ambitious enough to
want to branch out on my own account.
To the average would-be public ste
nOgrapher, an important consideration is
the amount of capital necessary to equip
an office. This does not require large
outlay, for better and more com
plete Office outfit can be added after the
Evening star., 1916-12-10
MAGAZINE SECTION for December 10, 1916

TlRANKLIN BARRETT of Phila-
\ delphia is probably the largest
and most successful gOldfisher in
the United States. He started rails
ing goldfish in a bowl in his bay
window, as side line to spinning
silk cord in a factory. Now he has
a huge glass extension going up at
the rear of his stone aquarium house,
and his annual output is worth
$4,000.
Goldfish raising, Mr.. Barrett
maintains, is an ideal fad for the
amateur. 1t calls for care, but it
has big rewards, both in money and
in pleasure. In the spring breeding
season the fish must be watched
most carefully and matchmaking
among the proper varieties attended
to. For instance, you start with
the ordinary carp Tor, at least, some
Chinaman did,. You catch all the
albinos and inbreed them till you
get the particular shade of red
scale that we insist on calling gold.
Then you notice whether any of
them have queer tails, and stomachs
a theatrical manager, or no back
and a head like pug dog, or just
eyes. If they have, then you've got
beginnings of a Ryukin or Fantail
Ranchu or Lion-Head, Demekin or Il
scope, instead of plain ornery gold
called Wakin.
When the eggs hatch, after attach
themselves to certain water plants v
which the aquariums must be provic
the first thing is to see that the father
Evening star., 1916-12-10

$3.50 I secured. secondhand, a $50 oak
desk which had been used very little.
then purchased brand-new typewriter
for $105, on terms, and several boxes Of
stationery, envelops, etc., which averaged
about 50. For two straight-back oak
chairs, small bookcase, desk-chair, and
an oak hat-rack was fortunate
Evening star., 1916-12-10

business has begun to grow and its success
is apparent
With small sum / had accumulated,
looked around for a suitable location, and
leased an office in one of the largest sky
scrapers in Birmingham, Alabama, paying
one months rent, $3.50, in advance. I
bought six-by-nine rug for SO. For
Evening star., 1916-12-10
The Rarest Goldfish Is Blue


IN one particular pool he is busy breed
= ing the rarest of colors into his goldfish
blue. The process, roughly, is to mate
the scaleless fish that he has produced
with scaled variety that has spotted or
calico markings. The sun does the rest.
This year is to see his greatest triumph
as breeder, the production of something
far more wonderful than his Human
Headed Ranchu,-the goldfish that is
worth thousand dollars.
Here it is says MIR. Barrett, as he
brings up gray blob of a wiggler from
the bottom of the pool. @This fish will
turn blue in six months At the end of
the third year it will grow hood like its
daddy. And then I'll have the first Scale
less Blue Lion-Head
That it will be "some goldfish you may
judge from glimpse of King Bul-bul as
he wabbles through the water of his hot