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Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1917-12-21
X DAY"

A MERICANS go back to the grind"
N on the day after Christmas, smok-
ing the cigars that the wife chose
because Of the pretty bands" but
the Englishman observes boxing day
that day. The name would lead one
to suppose something In the nature Of
a fstic encounter. but the supposltion
Is wide Of the mark. The booking"
means simply boxes-the neat little
packages presented to the housemaid,
the cook. the postman, the policeman,
the railway conductor, the dustman.
The boxes are now generally quite
round, about the size Of a fifty cent
piece in the great number Of cases,
and are as much silver as the govern
ment thinks best to put into a two
shilling piece or a half crown.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1917-12-21
CHRISTMAS REUNIONS

TrOW many families whose mem
III bers have been dispersed and
scattered far and wide In the
restless struggles Of life are on this
day reunited and meet once again In
that happy state Of companionship and
mutual good will which Is Il source Of
such pure and unalloyed delight and
one so Incompatible with the cares and
sorrows Of the world that the religious
belief Of the most civilized nations
and the rude traditions Of the rough
est savages alike number 1t among the
first joys Of a future condition Of ex-
istence provided for the blest and
happy! How many old r%ecollections
and how many dormant %sympathles
does Christmas time awaken Charles
Dickens.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1917-12-21
The Mothers
Christmas GiH

Il never comes to Christmas but
think about the times
We used to save our pennies and
our nickels and our dimes,
we punched them all together.
even little baby brother
Putin something the present that
we always gave to mother.
W. began to talk about it very early
in December,
Twas a very serious matter to US
children, | remember,
And we used to whisper nightly our
suggestions to each other,
For by nothing cheap and tawdry
could we show our love for
mother.
Hers must be a gift Of beauty, fit to
symbolic her ways;
1t must represent the sweetness and
the love that marked her days.
1t must be the best our money, all
combined, had power to buy,
And be something that she longed
for nothing else would satisfy.
Then it mattered not the token, once
the purchase had been made.
1t was struggled home and hidden
and with other treasures laid,
And we placed our present proudly
in her lap on Christmas day,
And we smothered her with kisses
and we laughedhe tears away.
1t never comes to Christmas but |
think about the times
We used to save our pennies and
our nickels and our dimes,
And the only folks ! envy are the
sisters and the brothers
Who still have theprecious privilege
Of buying for their mothers.
American Boy.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1917-12-21
Passing Christmas
EUe

WE all slept under the stars, as
w usual, on Christmas eve. To
shut oneself up in a room from
the delicious South African night Is
simply to miss n of the joys Of llv-
Ing. "No one knows the stars who
has not slept, as the French happily
put, 1t, a la belle etoile. He may know
all their names and distances and mag
nitudes and yet be ignorant Of what
alone concerns mankind-their serene
and gladstone influence on the mind"
Stevenson surely would have loved
Rhodesia for its nights alone.
One great advantage Of the long
drought from which we had been suf-
fering-in Rhodesia n must needs be
an optimist or die-is that there we're
practically no mosquitoes and very few
flies, 80 that the STIFFNESS Of q mos
quito curtain was unnecessary.
The night was cool and silent, ex-
cept for the distant howl Of q jackal
and the occasional boot of an owl.
About five o'clock the life Of day began
to stir, and the u gradually turned
the mopani and mimosa trees to a
golden green and bathed US in the
scent Of mimosa blossom, the go away
bird called impertinently from a bush
close by, and two green parrakeets
few over our heads.
Then n little sleeper after another
rubbed his eyes and crept to the foot
Of the LED to fathom the treasures Of
the Christmas stocking. AS the sun
rose higher tongues were loosened, and
| soon crackers cracked, and trumpets,
six of them. we're heralding the morn,
If not exactly in the manner Of the an
gels.
The noise worried no one But when
we had had enough we dispersed to
seek baths, and some Of US were even
energetic enough to have a round Of
golf before breakfast.-'The Heart of
the Weld" by Madeline Aston.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1917-12-21
It's Christmas
Time Again

There's a FIRE in the crate and a
light in the hall,
For it's Christmas time again,
And the sleighbells ring and the
children call,
For it's Christmas time again.
It's time for a Christian land to raise
Her loudest paeans Of love and
praise
For the HolyBabeo Of the Bethlehem
days,
For it's Christmas time again.
There's a wreath Of green at the
windowpane,
For it's Christmas time again,
And the church bells echo the glad
refrain,
For it's Christmas time again.
Oh, it's time to turn with the golden
smile
To the friend we doubted and
scorned awhile,
To rid our hearts Of their greed and
guile!
For it's Christmas time again.
-Lalia Mitchell in
Ladies' Home Journal
The Nome daily nugget., 1917-05-18
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his line have gone up so high that he cannot himself believe that the people of Fairbanks, his friends. will be able or wiling to pay the price that groceries and provisions will have to be sold at in Fairbanks this year in order to allow the store to survive the year. Wheat closed at $2.12 a bushel on the outside Saturday night and it will be strange if it doesn't go higher. All necessities are climbing and all luxuries beating necessities to it. Before the end of the year we may reasonably expect to be up against the prices of the early Klon- dike days for everything we have to buy, while the easy producing of the <londike days is absent.
 Today you can buy anything you need to eat, drink and wear for less than you will be able to buy them here two months from now-the moral
 5uld seem to be shop early!" Also, it has been demonstrated a thousand times that a man can live on hun dred foot lot and raise thereon every thing he needs in the way of vegeta- bles and eggs during his idle hours the moral would seem to be start your garden early" As demand fixes the price of supply and as the de- mands of the day exceed the supplies of the day the higher prices are nat ural; it would occur to us that the first committee named by the Alaska Loyal League for war purposes should be the subsistence committee, com posed of local farmers, which will organize the farmers of this vicini- ty and get them to cultivate more ground this year and raise larger crops than ever before, for the ship ment of goods this year will not be northward, but in other directions. Northern shippers will not only be greeted with higher price but they must also face shortages in supplies and must more and more depend upon the local farmers for supplies. Home raised produce will be cheaper by fall than foreign grown produce-horse- men had best keep their eyes peeled for native hayfields this season, for hay and grain vii be so high next w
 ter that it will be an expensive lux ury to support horse in Fairbanks.
 Better do little thanking and a lot of planting-whether you think or not. il will pay you to SOW and plant News Miner, Fairbanks.
The Nome daily nugget., 1917-05-18

ment of mining and numbering plants, fisheries and the manufacture of wood pulp and electro-c chemical products is contingent on the water supply.
 Since 1906 the United States geolog- ical survey has made systematic studies of the water resources of AL erence to placer mining have been. made in Seward peninsula and the Yukon and Panama regions. and recon naissance surveys for water powers have been made about Prince William and in other parts of the outh-central and southeastern Alaska. During the plants have been installed near Ju- neau, and attention has been called to the feasibility of several large projects in this region. The geological survey, in CO., operation with the forest ser
 
 gations in order to obtain more pre- else data on the power sites of south- eastern Alaska. It is generally as- stunned that water power is abundant in this part of the territory, but ex- Hensive development should not be undertaken without complete data for careful study of the many conditions that determine the feasibility of power site.
 AS the quantity of water that will probably be available in any stream can be predicted only from records of its flow in the past, observations of the various conditions of flow to which stream is subject must be continued for several years.-Ex.
The Nome daily nugget., 1917-05-18
BACK TO THE SOIL" FOR YOU
 OLD TIMER!

Experience and necessity are the simon pure school teachers However, they are never popular with the scholars; that's why we all ran away from school and came here, beach eombing" for easy money and easy times and an easy life free from care. Comes time, however, when school IS out" everywhere and a whole world is temporarily demoralized, whereupon the schoolma' ms, necessity and exper- fence, conclude to take a tourist ticket and See America first. They arrived in Fairbanks this morning, and are here to stay for a year or more. Much as we may hate the formality, we must this evening introduce you to one of them. Gentlemen and ladies, allow us to introduce you to Miss Necessity!
 In the markets of Fairbanks meat advanced 5 cents pound this morn- ing to big users of meats, such as the restaurants. What the rise is to the general public we do not know, but it is probably the same. We cant blame the meat dealers for this: we are not sure that the meats they buy have not increased In price on the outside far more than cents a pound during the past year-we know that meats have advanced in price, and we have every reason to believe. that they will advance in price by leaps and bounds from this time on, until the close of the war. What they have done elsewhere during war times they will do in the United States, and meat day" when an entire popula- tion abstains from the use of meat for that day is an institution in some warning countries today, while meat eating is being cut out to a great extent throughout the warning world. Our old friend, Bob" Lavery. is said by returning Fairbanksons to be walking the streets of San Franicsco pulling his hair and worrying about the grocery and provision future in Fairbanks-prices on everything in
The Nome daily nugget., 1917-05-18
MAGAZiN

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The Nome daily nugget., 1917-05-18
RESOURCES OF ALASKA.

The streams of Alaska have been important factors in its industrial growth. The success of the work on the placer deposits in northern and cen tral Alaska has depended primarily on the water available for hyldaulicking and dredging, and water power has long been used by mines, canneries. sawmills and other industries in south eastern Alaska. The future develop
The Nome daily nugget., 1917-05-18
THE AMBASSADOR CAN BEAR IT..

On the whole, we think Ambassador Gerard can read the comments on his departure printed in the Lokal An zeiger without pain even though they may not have been intended to be en- tirely friendly.
 The Anzelger declares that he was no outspoken friend of Germany, and, in effect, says that he might have kept Germany in pleasanter state if he had had more sympathy with the German position. But the Anzeiger is equally clear that Mir. Gerard was no friend of Great Britain, either.
 Whether or not this German author ity thinks the ambassador was faith ful to his duty toward his own coun- try and protected its rights as loyal American should do we do not know, but at least he is not charged with any unfaithfulness in this, his most important relation.
 Therefore, the complaint boils down to th1s: that the ambassador kept his head, repressed whatever sympathy he may have had for any country but his own. and did not become Ger manophile at time when his country was vigorously asserting Its rights against Germany.
The Nome daily nugget., 1917-05-18

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SPRING TIME IS HERE
 FOR THE BEST
 LINE IN TAILORING

For the bes. work in tailoring see us. We make alterations.
 We do cleaning. pressing and re- pairing for ladies and gentlemen. We make suits to order. First class workmanship. modern method and prompt service. We appreciate your patronage.
 Yours to please.
 NOME TAILORING CO.,. Next door to Segerstrom & Hagen.
The Nome daily nugget., 1917-05-18

 TEMPERATURES

Following are the lowest recorded temperatures for this year and last on the days designated. The minus sign before a number means below zero.
The Nome daily nugget., 1917-05-18

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The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1917-03-22
ACTUAL WAR NEARER

According 10 Berlin advices, state
O war between that nation and the
United States may be an accomplished
fact within forty-eight hours. This
prognostication. and the further fact
that the President has called an extra
session OF Congress two weeks earlier
than the date was first fixed, add moth
ing to the gravity Of situation that
has been considered hopeless OF peace
since Germany flung definite defiance
II, the face Of this country when she
declared her intention TO institute
unrestricted submarine warfare on
February /.
There has practically been a state
of war since that date, so that the
actuaities that may occur at any
moment now have lost the terrors OF
Suddenness and will find the nation
sobered to the determination to accept
the gage without shadow Of turning
from the solemn responsibilities it
imposes. We preferred peace. 1t is
Germany that prefers war
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1917-03-22

Intellectual ruggedness ia among
the most precious Of all the intel
lectual virtues. II stands for the
solid, the substantial. the iundamen-
tai, the structural, elements OF the
human mind. II Is as remote from
stolidity as it is from frirolity: II
represents learning somewhat, vision
more. Judgment most. The man VINO
is endowed with it takes on the char-
acter Of an institution. He becomes
almost an impersonal personality lie
comes to be sort of force OF nature.
He embodles standards by when
things are measured. Great anu
happy is the community which pos
sesses men of this character. weak
and unhappy is the community Wnlch
lacks them. OF course with II 100
should 90 along the moral verliles.
But its place is single and UNIQUE.
X is TO be feared that the American
community is not engaged IN creatinS
and disciplining men OF lntellectudt
ruggednesS or solidltr. IN lacl TWO "i
three forces are aboundlnG when Iehu
to make men. OF just the opposite tSpe'
One force is the moving picture. IN"
moving picture at its best gives IN
tereSt, amusement. absorption, 10 NIL
lions Of people every day. Al us
worst it appeals to the $uperhcial part
of the human mind. 1t does not
awaken. reasoning. 1t does not stir
The wish TO investigate causes. IL
does not promote deep thinking. II
does promote Superhcial lnlaelnd'lon'
and superficial emotion.
The superficial reading o! news
papers dealing with superficial news
or dealing with the horrible or crim-
inal doines Of society is also Zoe 10
intellectual rugeedncSS. The pest
newspapers Of today are The best ever
issued. They arc the fullest in news
The wisest in comment. the most judi
cial in proportion. hut the worst pa
pers are the wors; that the world mas
ever known. Such base or SuperhclaI
reading disinteSralcS tho sol!d parts
OF The intellect:
The most effective method Of pro,
noting intellectual rugEedn"SS ana
solidity is the simple method OF, first,
thinking; second. thinking; third'
thinking. Let one choose great SUD,
iect, the greatest he can consider, anC
think his thoughts about II. Inc
thoughts may be small. Inadequate,
disconnected. But thinking hard ABOUT
one thing leads TO thoughts less small
and the less small thoughts bear one
to u5'' thoughts great, and the great T5
thoughts carry one to thoughts still
greater. Let one take complex sub
feet and analyze it. Let one take
man separate subjects and attempt
n mite them into a single principle:
Let one read the solid books and
devote constant thinking about what
Such processes continued through
wears are certain 10 give birth 10 and
10 nourish the deepest. strongest
most lasting qualities Of intellect.
The process is not easy, but the re-
suit is the most precious worth 10 the
community and 20 every man.
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1917-03-22
EVERY LITTLE BIT HELPS

MANY efforts will be- made this year
to increase the food supply Of the
country with the view TO eliminating
the prohibitive prices that prevail at
present for some Of the food staples.
Among the many schemes is that Of
The National Emergency Food Garden
Commission, which is affiliated with
the Conservation Department of the
American Forestry Association, and
which aims TO get a million boys. girls
and adults TO plant food gardens. It,
is a. nationwide movement that has
been started, and some substantial re-
suits In the way Of cutting down the
high cost of living are expected.
The aim Of the Commission is TO
assist In making food more plentiful
and cities, towns and villages and to
give practical aid to the many asso'
Citations and clubs interested in school
gardens, home gardens. back yard
gardens and vacant lot gardens. 1t IS
believed that this year all these clubs
and thousands Of individuals should
plant food gardens to greater extent
than ever, and that in many cases
flower gardens should make way Tor
vegetables.
The commission is undertaking 10
intensity this sort of planting by using
in a large way the machinery anu
already exists by giving greater pup
licitv and efficiency TO the movement
and BY co-ordinatlng the. work. II d
million Young people this year were 20
nlant food gardens who have not oonE
so before, two hundred and nifty MIL
lion dollars would be added to the
food value Of the seasons crop. II
Won are anxious to DO some'nine
ns,riotic and want to help your coua'
trv then plant food garden and 90
it now.
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1917-03-22
Ripping Rhymes.
BY WALT MASON.
THE HoLDUP.

Whene'er I blow myself for tsterS
curse the greedy spectators VINO We
made the prices high; retrenchment is
an empty byword when prices still are
shooting skyward, and no relief Is niEh.
II matters nothing II the richer are held
up and when they buy IL pitcher or
cream "r gasoline: tho rich folk need TO
10 no yAwpinE II they. when In the mar
ket shopping. AT" taxed an extra bean.
But am sorry for the toi!ers. true VIC
Tins of the hcartless spoilers who make
The prices soar; the honest men whose
kids are many. 10 whom the losing OF
penny is tragedy. anil more. II Is the
marvel Of the ages how they. upon their
lnraGrc wages. still seem 20 make their
way: the burden on their backs grows
broader, and Still they buy the house
hold fodder and liz" from day to day
They live. but on g.. scHnty diet. and now
we hear Of rrcnZied riot. led By indlE-
nant DANES; and still we're sthng when
buying tater3. and Still lhc sinful specu'
lators pursue thcir wicked games.
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1917-03-22
THE TAKING HIERARCHY

The Democratic revenue measure
which is TO impose an unequaliy dis
tr,bu,ed burden of taxes upon the peo-
nile was framed by fourteen Demo
Gratis, the majority members or the
Uays and Means Committee OF the
House. An Investigator OF an inquest
five turn of mind in analyzing 'ne
power delegated to these men mas
that in the fourteen Congressional dis
tricts from which they were elected
they received a total Of two hundred
and eighteen thousand votes or an
average of less than fifteen thousand
votes each. One Of these men was
elected hv the casting for him OF just
over two thousand votes. another IT,
caived four thousand, and a third re-
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1917-03-22
FALSE PRETENSIONS

The efforts of the Democratic press
OF this State to make political capital
out Of the failure of the House OF Rep
resentauves to pass the Chiffon suit
bill, by which it was. claimed West
Virginia could recover enough money
as an equity in Tirginias grant OF the
Northwest Territory, to settle the juds-
ment OF the Supreme Court in the
Virginia debt suit, is one OF the most
stupendous attempts to impose on the
credulty of the people that desperate
party managers have ever advanced.
The reflection on the Republican
members Of the House delegation from
West Virginia, that they lacked zeal
in contending for the passage Of the
bill is malicious perversion OF the
facts-just as silly. as the effort to
attribute brilliancy to the Democratic
members in forwarding the measure.
The intent of all this ba1derdash Is 70
make the people Of West Virginia be-
lieve that the Democrats alone were
Interested in this scheme to save them
from paying the Virginia debt judy
ment.
Even had this bill passed The Intel
lieencer does not concede that 1t
would have had any ameliorating ef-
feet to the extent claimed for 1t. AS
il pointed out the other day in making
some observations on the Democratic
effort to deceive the people as to the
cause OF the bills defeat, the measure
passed by the Senate was not the orig
inal bill relating to the Northwest Ter
ri;ory, but a substitute which provided
that any State might sue the national
government on am claim whatever.
That relieves West Virginia of the
snecial privilege contained in the orig
ical Chiffon bill and confers blanket
privilege embracing all the States
which changes the character OF the
proposed legislation, and If it had been
subjected 70 investigation and debate
BY the House would more than likely
failed OF passage. Such law would
omen the door to interminable liusa-
ton OF very questionable character.
So in reality the West Virginia Demo-
Gratis are making a fuss over a Dill
that was not what it pretended TO be.
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1917-03-22

l have broken my Soul 10 harness.
have taught It 10 toll for me.
! have driven il over the fairness
OF river and hill and sea;
! have taught 1t tale TO utter
For reCompenSe line by line
I have bnrtered for bread and butter
Tho things or my inmost shrine.
Yet, Soul, have not degraded
The Soul Of myself within
Yea. Soul, | have never traded
And given you Into sin:
l have made you no painted woman
Thesport Of an idle song
For the wants of the flesh arc human
But the wants OF the Soul are long.
/ have led you by rein md halter,
have peddled ny strength and youth
But nrver bride could alter
Tho thing that ! thought the truth
And. when | shall loose the tcthcr,
When we wait at the final place.
When VIC stand before God together,
may look nj you face 10 face.
Doug lHs Malluch. in the American
Zimmerman,