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The Alaska daily empire., 1917-02-06
P. r. A. WILL
 CELEBRATE FOUNDERS DAY

TREADWELL, Feb. 6.-Founder's Day. of the Mothers Congress and P. T. A. in America will be celebrat- ed at the Treadwell school house one day early Feb. 16, according to a decision reached at the meeting of the Association yesterday afternoon. The Douglas P. T. A. was also eX- tended an invitation to participate
The Alaska daily empire., 1917-02-06

WHY use dirty sand and gravel
 " when you can get good, clean sand and gravel at the Juneau Sand and Gravel Bunkers. Gravel and bar sand $1.75 per yard. At Tread well. $1.5O.
The Alaska daily empire., 1917-02-06
MAN IN JAIL AS
 BOND FOR WIFE Couldn't Raise S1,OO0 Bail So He Offers His Body
 as Security.

ABERDEEN, Wash, Feb. 6.-Because he could not se- cure bail in the amount of $l,OOO for his wife, R. L. Shroder, with the consent of the court, now occupies a cell in the county jail at Montesano, as a living bond for the appearance of Mrs. Shroder, who was allowed her freedom. Mrs. Shroder was arrested on a charge of con tributing to the delinquency of her daughters. She is i'll and was allowed her free dom with her husbands body as surety.
The Alaska daily empire., 1917-02-06
DOUGLAS NOTES

DOUGLAS, Feb G,-Dick Stoinfelt returned last right from a two weeks vacation at Tenakee
 M. s. Hudson expects to leave for the States on the next south bound boat
The Alaska daily empire., 1917-02-06
W. c. T. U. MEETS TOMORROW

DOUGLAS, Feb. G.-The local Wo- mans Christian Temperance Union will meet at the home of Mrs. J. D. Miller, Treadwell tomorrow afternoon at 2:3O. Members are urged to be present.
The Alaska daily empire., 1917-02-06
NoRWEGIANS TO MEET

DOUGLAS, Feb G.-Daughters and Sons of Norway will hold a aating in the Eagles Hall at o'clock to. morrow evening. All members are urged to be present
The Alaska daily empire., 1917-02-06
HELP MORE FOREIGNERS.

CHICAGO, Feb. 6.-Of the 1O,629 families helped by the United Char ities in Chicago, S,59O were for eigners.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-11-16
PLAIN TALK

Buy now, for, without any exaggeration,
the same quality Overcoats next season
will cost at least So to $40 more. Come
in and see the most unusual variety of
Take our advice-come in and buy.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-11-16

talk thas has gone the rounds about
q Central Europe after the model Of
Professor Naumann and others will
be out Of the question.
Contrary to the belief that seems
to be almost universal outside of
Germany, 7 really believe that Pan
Germanism is on the decrease rather
than the increase among the masses
Of the people, and this despite the in
creased noise about it everywhere in
Germany and the intensive way in
which it is being encouraged. The
reason for this is that more and smore
German people are coming to realize
what catastrophe 1t will be for them
after the war is over If they are hated
in all the world. Pan-Germanism,
they arc coming to feel, is likely to
Intensity the feeling against them,
and thereby make their economic
struggle in the future more difficult
He then touched briefly on Austro-
German relations and cautioned
against any hope that Austria will
fall away from her big ally, for, he
explained, she is too dependent finan-
cially and mflitarily, to be able to
shake loose, much as she might like
to do so. The German military au-
thorities see to it that German sol
diers are intermingled with Austrian
troops not only to spur them on in
lighting but also to prevent their
quitting
Regarding the naval and military
situation he told of mutinies aboard
battleships as limited at by Won Ca
pelle. The men had, he said, dis
mounted guns and thrown them over
board, had assaulted officers and re-
fused to obey orders, in the hope OF
Ecrippling the German navy and bring
ing about a peace of desperation, In
that way. The mutinous forces,
however, had not been large or
strong enough to accomplish much,
and had been put down. Most OF
them were shot, others, in exception
al cases had been put back into ser
vice on their promise to be good.
This spirit, he continued, extended
to the army also, famed to a flame
occasionally by sectional jealousy
and dislike. Thus he said he knew
that miniature battles had been
fought between Bavarian and Prus-
sian troops, and that certain troops
on the east front had on one occa-
sion mutinied and declared in favor
of marching on Berlin rather than
Petrograd. Naturally all news about
| these and similar clashes had been
carefully suppressed and leaked out
| only when the soldiers returned or
wrote home, in the same way that
sailors in Hamburg and Kiel spread
! the first reports of the mutinies
aboard the ships.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-11-16

Cash buying and cash selling, together
with our phenomenally successful bust
ness, and our low operating expenses for
three Give" stores in this city enables us
to hold this "Overcoat Fair" at prices the
| same as usual.
The Holbrook news., 1917-07-06
HOW MUCH ONE SHOULD HAVE
1t is Difficult for Anyone to Say What Amount of Money 1t Would Be
 Best for Him to Possess.

It is convenient to have money. We all see many ways in which we would like to use it. But when we have money we are all apt to wish it just q little more. remarks the Milwaukee Journal. Who is to say what is the exact amount it is right that we should possess? Wishes, tastes, desires dis fer. We ourselves do not know what our limit should be. With too much money one is likely to become cOnceited, to lose sympathy and be hard-hearted. and more than likely regardless of the means he takes to add to his store. If he has too little, he may be enviOus of others, embittered toward society, tempted to dishonesty. Or there may be real suffering for need of what money can buy.
 No one, not even the man in prison cell, can live in any degree of comfort without money. It is. necessary to life. Yet there are many things of greater value than money, things that money cannot buy, that are necessary to our welfare. Undue love of money is a poison in the soul eating out what is of most worth. We may pay too high a price for it's acquisition. We should judge our desire for money by our pur- pose, our motive in wanting it. Money is a power for good or evil, as we choose to use it.
The Holbrook news., 1917-07-06
Debt and Proaress.

I have just read in this mornings paper the sad account of an attempt at suicide, says q writer in Farm and Preside. The doctor says the man may live, and hope so, for he is an acquaintance of mine and he has wife and four children who need him. Poor fellow, he is just in his prime only fOrty-twO-wEena man can do so much with his life.
 The reason for the act was financial trouble, with poor health as a con tributihg cause, and that is why want to say few words on the subject of debt, which so often brings worry and finally i'll health and despOndency. The ordinary debt contracted for useful or needful purpose is looked upon in the business world as an important in- strument of progress. And yet know that even when the fundamentals of credit are explained to some people they can see only their personal side of the matter, which is a dread of get ting into debt if they are out of it, and an eagerness to get out if they are in 1t. Sensitive people, inexperienced in money matters, lie awake nights wOr- rying over small and legitimate debts to which their creditors give scarcely a thought.
The Holbrook news., 1917-07-06
THE TEMPERlNG OF BRONZE
Knowledge of How to Do 1t Perished With Hiram Abif, Man of Tyre, According to Tradition.

When King Solomon had reached a certain stage in the building of the temple of Jerusalem he wanted the help of metal workers, for his people knew little of that art Therefore he sent to his neighbor, Hiram, king of Tyre, traditional descendant of Tubal Cain, the pioneer of workers in brass and iron. Brass in those days was not brass, as it is understood now, but properly bronze. observes the New York Sun. So King Hiram sent his master of craft, Hiram Abif.
 The Bible relates that ''he was a widows son of the tribe of Naphtali and his father was q man of Tyre, worker in brass, and he was filled with wisdom and understanding and cum ming to work all works in brass"
 Masonry holds Hiram Abif as it's founder and Masonic tradition has it that this master metal worker was murdered by jealous artisans in Solo mons service.
 It seems that Solomon wanted Hi ram Abif to teach one of his men how to fashion and to mix that wonderful bronze so that he, too, should have q master of the craft in his own king dom. News of this came to the ears of a lesser artisan, who also had as piratiOns. Therefore when the temple was finished and the night before the man of Tyre was to return to his na tive city he was waylaid and mur- dered after refusing to divulge the secret of his cunning.
 From that day, on, the tradition is, no more of that wonderful material was made, but existing bronze imple- ments were melted up and worked over from time to time that weapons might be fashioned for the fighting men.
The Holbrook news., 1917-07-06
HIS FATHER AT BUNKER HILL
Washington Man, Now 1o2 Years Old Was Past Age Limit at Opening
 of the Civil War.

Austin COrbit WinslOw whose father fought in the battle of Bunker Hill and himself being too old to enlist at the outbreak of the Civil war, is one hundred and two years old. Despite his remarkable age, he is still able tC sit up and take an active interest in current events, says the Washington Post. He attributes his age to the fact that he has taken the best possible care of himself. He says he never smoked, but was a chewer of tobacco.
 To look at AIr. WinslOw, one would never suspect him as having passed the century mark. His complexion i> ruddy, and his eye alert, but he has cultivated a flowing white beard. An other remarkable fact is that his hand writing is still legible.
 Coming from a stock of hardy an cestOrs, he was born in Barnard, Vt, the son of Hezekiah and Mary Samp son WinslOw. His father and several brothers were all past eighty when death called them. His mother, how ever, died in her sixties. When asked how many more years he expected to live, he replied: "The way I feel at the present time, I will live as long as Methusaleh."
The Holbrook news., 1917-07-06
BoBBS' WITS WERE NIMBLE
to Do Some Quick Thinking to Get Out of a Bad Fix.

Bobbs was a quick-witted chap. Only one other possession of his was as nimble as that wit of his. and that was his money. He was always broke, and always reckless withal. He took cab once, being q bit unsteady, to convey him from the club to his dwell ing, the latter some distance. The cool night air blowing through the open windows sObered him enough to per init of his realizing that he had not money to pay the cabman's fare. says London Tit-Bits.
 Just at that moment the driver made that very usual inquiry:
 What address did you say, sirT''
 And BObbs said, promptly. Doctor So-and-SO," such a street and number, the same being round the corner from his own abode. The house reached, Bobbs dashed up the steps. rang the bell furiously, implored the doctor to go at once with his instruments to such and such house, the lady being in a dying condition from an accident.
 A cab was at the door. and would the doctor take the cab? The doctor would. BObbs huddled him in. gave the driver an address, and then started off to telegraph to the lady's brother. Of course Bobbs went home round the corner and of course the cabman searched in vain for the number. and of course the dOctOr-well, what could he do?
The Holbrook news., 1917-07-06
PREJUDICE LEADS TO WRONG
Warps Our Judgment and Breeds In- justice, Unkindness and Even
 Cruelty, Says Writer.

Prejudice is an insidious thing. It creeps into the soul unaware. It leads us to say and do wrong things; it warps our judgment and leads to in justice. unkindness and even cruelty, says a writer in the Milwaukee Jour- nal. It paves the way for hatred and malice. In proportion as we learn to clear our minds of prejudice we be- come better men and women; we win friends and dissolve enmities; we are more worthy of respect and confidence. No one wants to be judged by false standards that prejudice sets up. Be ware of judging others in such light Prejudice cramps the mind and the heart; it stands in the way of right full growth of character.
 It is wise to search your heart, and if you find prejudice there to set about to root it out wholly. Do not be sure you of all men are unprejudiced. That is the danger; for prejudice is guarded by vanity. Seek to be just in all things, small as well as great. In all the re- lations of life be sure you are not judg- ing another, not for his error but from your prejudice For the worst thing about this weakness is that it breeds injustice and unkindRess and malice. It hurts innocent folk and makes no one happier.
The Holbrook news., 1917-07-06
Cool.

There had just been a railway colli- sion in France-a terrible wreck. It was nighttime, but there was light enough to see something of the havoc and the tragedy. The prefect of the department, summoned in haste, was already on the spot organizing the work of rescue. Suddenly from one of the first-class carriages which had stayed on the rails and somehow es- capped being telescoped emerged stout man still about half-asleep. He had as yet only very misty notion of what had happened. He had, in fact, been so deeply immersed in slum- Der that he had felt hardly more than q slight shock. The first thing that he saw clearly was the prefect wear ing his sash of office and busy attend ing to the wounded. He gave an eX- clamation of mild surprise. For the man half-asleep was also q prefect. Almost as if he were passing the time of day with a colleague encountered by chance on the bOulevards of Paris, he spoke.
 ''Well, well" he said, "what are you doing here?'
The Holbrook news., 1917-07-06
THRIFTY YANKEE FOUND WAY
When His Creditors Paid Him With Cheap Money He Bought Cheap
 Land and Became Rich Man.

An interesting tale of the profitable use to which ragged confederate money was once put by a Connecticut Yankee was related to me a few days ago by Gen. Edward s. Godfrey.
 In the Ku-Klux days General God frey was sent to South Carolina and was quartered in the home of the Yan- kee, who had gone South two decades before the war. The New Englander was q Democrat and had married Southern woman, but South Caro- ltnians didn't fully rely upon his heart.
 When the Civil war came customers all over the state owed him money for carriages and wagons he had sold to them. As confederate money became extremely cheap, these old debts were paid off.
 What did he do with the money? Put it all in land, which was then also dirt cheap, and when General Godfrey met him he owned about half the county and was a rich man.
 In reality his heart was with the South. This Connecticut wagon build CT had armed and equipped an entire company for Lees army.-Girard, in Philadelphia Ledger.
The Holbrook news., 1917-07-06
Lookinn for Rfnaer Game.

Bobby and his sister, Ruth, were vis- iting-in the country. One morning, ac- companied by their nurse, they went for a walk in the fields. Ruth was much afraid of snakes, and Bobby, much to her horror and disapproval, boasted that he wasn't scared of snakes" and if he saw one he'd kill it. The words were scarcely out of the little fellows mouth when a small gar ter snake glided down the path before him. Bobby, as fast as his small feet would carry him, ran in the opposite direction. Ruth and the nurse called after him, reminding him of his boasts. Bobby, without stopping, called back, "Oh, I'm not afraid of that snake, I'm just a-Ioolin' for q bigger one"
The Holbrook news., 1917-07-06
New Use for Cleaner.

"A New York show elephant that thoroughly enjoys the sensation of be ing cleaned has that part of her toilet attended to in a novel manner" says Popular Mechanics Magazine. Con trary to the popular notion, Lena, as she is named, does not care for rolling in dirt, but walls and annoys her keep CTS unless she is kept clean. An ordi- nary scrubbing fails to satisfy her, but when her vacuum cleaner appears she plainly manifests her delight and sinks to her knees that the work may be done conveniently. She is ready for the process at any time, and her de pertinent is especially good on days when the cleaner is regularly used.''
The Holbrook news., 1917-07-06
SLOW WITHOUT ADVERTISING
Merchant May Eventually Establish Reputation Among Small Circle,
 but 1t Takes Years and Years.

Without advertising, a merchant can eventually build a reputation for his store among those who chance to come into it, and among their friends, so that they will have confidence in him and in his clerks or salespeople, so that they will buy goods more read fly, having greater confidence. But that takes years and years.
 Through advertising, salespeOple sell more goods in a given number of hours because, through advertising, the merchant has made the public know that it is safe to buy from him, and the salespeOple do not have to ar que the merits of the goods. All wool is all wool and fast colors are fast.
 The simple result is that each salespersOn sells more goods in a given number of hours and his or her salary is distributed over a greater number of sales, so that the cost of selling the goods is actually reduced Exchange.
The Holbrook news., 1917-07-06
TRAVELLED OVER APPIAN WAY
Paul and His Companions Evidently Used Famous Highway on AdVen-
 turous Journey to Rome.

"All roads lead to Rome" said Latin proverb. When Paul and his companions, after the adventurous journey in which they suffered ship wreck on the island of Malta, landed in Italy they found brethren in Puteoli, now called POzZuoli, near Naples, and "Were desired to tarry with them seven days;" and then the narrator of the journey says, i've swent toward Rome"
 Luke does not tell us by what road they travelled, but we can be sure that it was by the great Appian way, all ready three hundred years old which was built by Appius Claudius, a Roman censor, from Rome to Capua, a point not very far from the port where the prisoners landed.
 From Capua to Rome was a dis tance of 125 miles. Paul and his com panions probably walked the whole dis tance, but were met at the Three Taverns, r miles from Rome. and at Appii Forum. or the market of Appius, ten miles from Rome, by dele gations from the infant church in Rome.
 This great highway was built of hewn stones laid in cement, and aver aged about 20 feet wide. Parts of the road are still in excellent preserva- ton.
 The Three Taverns is identified by some ruins, which are pointed out to the modern tourists as the remains of the station at which Paul was met by his loving brethren from Rome, who had received news of his coming probably by the system of posts which penetrated to all parts of the empire and reSembled the modern post office, and through the Acta Diurna, or pub lie bulletins which were a prototype of the modern wspaper.-Christian Herald.
The Holbrook news., 1917-07-06
Air RevoIves With Earth.

"A balloon is sent up at New York city on an absolutely calm day, re mains in the air for one hour, drifting in the moderate currents of the upper air, and descending a few miles from the place from which it was sent up- How is it that the place of descent is not some spot adjacent to Chicago, if the theory of the earth's revolution is correct?" This problem was propOunded in a letter to the Scientific American, and received this answer: The simple answer to your inquiry is that the air is part of the earth and rOtates with it just as the water does. If it did not there would be a tremendous wind from the east of nearly 1000 miles an hour at the equator, and about $50 miles in our latitude. This is apparent if you recall the wind which is felt when gO- ing swiftly through still air on a car. The air is held upon the earth by gray ity and constitutes a part of the re- volving globe in a very real sense.
The Holbrook news., 1917-07-06
Gun Fired by Gasoline.

A new kind of gun using gasoline as the explosive has a reservoir beneath the barrel, with a carburetcr behind. and battery in the stock. A plunger at the rear of the breech serves to compress the mixture of gas and air admitted to the chamber by a valve from the carburetor, and pressing the trigger closes the electric circuit, ex- ploding the charge and dischargfng the bullet. As the gas is compressed by the plunger before the firing, the pro jectile is held ip place in the barrel by springs, which are capable of resisting several times the plunger pressure, though quickly yielding to the force of the explosion.
The Holbrook news., 1917-07-06
SURVIVAL OF THE FLEETEST
Ability of Hog to outrun DarEcy Gets Razorback Blue Ribbon in South
 ern Swine Exhibit.

An ex-governor of Georgia, and ex ofiiciO an expert on hogs, was invited to judge the swine at an Indiana cOun- ty fair. He looked over the pens, and the choice narrowed down to two hogs, one a magnificent animal of the IndI- ana cOrn-fed variety, of tremendous weight, and the other a lean and rangy specimen, whose pedigree must have embraced a large number of razor backs. The governor, after an apprO- priate judicial interval, pinned the blue ribbon on the rangy one. A friend nudged his elbow.
 Governor" he said, there's been some mistake. Look at the weight of that other hog"
 "Son," returned the governor, down in Georgia we've got different ideas about judgin' a hog. The ability of the hog to outrun a darky counts just six points. The razorback keeps that ribbon, suh.'
The Holbrook news., 1917-07-06
Couldn't Blame Him,

There is a Cleveland park boy who has been trying to get a good mark in geography, inasmuch as the teacher at the John Eaton school has been giving him only flair" in that particular branch of his scholastic work. So the lad has been going over and over the book, learning the lessons by heart. In this particular text book the author seems to haze had the word "accessi- ble" on the brain, for in every lesson something is found to be accessible. Either the farms or the rivers or the bays or the mines seem to be accessi- ble to something or other. In the lat est lesson the forests are accessible"
 The boys father, also going over the lessons, asked his son if he knew what 1t meant to say that forests were ac- cessible, and the boy didn't waver an instant. He came back strong:
 "Why, certainly. Anything that can be easily cut by axes is accessible.'- Washington Star.
The Holbrook news., 1917-07-06
VaIUaDIe LT,lILIz@

The author of Children of the Dead End, Mr. Patrick MacGill, who is now serving at the front, received a stril1- ing reminder that "a prophet is not without honor save in his own cOun- try" when he took advantage of a weeks leave to visit his native village in the west of Ireland.
 The villagers, with all of whom he had been acquainted from boyhood, now looked at him askance. He had written a bad book, he was told, and it followed, therefore, that he must be bad man.
 'Then you don't like my boOk?" Mir. MacGill asked one of them.
 Like it?" was the indignant reply, according to the Tatler. T wouldn't read it for a hundred pounds, money down !"-Youth's Companion.
The Holbrook news., 1917-07-06
Jacketed ShrapneI.

The much discussed steel trench hel- nets used by the allied troops as q protection against shrapnel may. be rendered useless through the invention of a Canadian. The use of helmets and breastplates to resist shrapnel has been possible on account of the comparatively low velocity of these leaden balls which are sprayed out when the shell bursts over the trenches; the soft lead of the bullets flattens against the steel with little eff feet. The Canadian inventor, as told in the Scientific American, has de- vised jackets for shrapneI bullets. ei- ther of steel or copper nickel, which give them greater penetrating power.