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The Alaska daily empire., 1918-02-19
The Alaska Grill, One of the Pioneer Restaurants,
 Is Being Much
 Improved.
HAS FAITH IN JUNEAU
MT. Radonich Always Has Been a PubIic-Spirited Citizen in Helping
 the Town.

Thos. Radonich, the popular, well known restaurant man, who daily meets his friendc across the coun. ters at the Alaska Grill is making alterations in the grill that will make it one of the best in Alaska.
 A arrangement of the scheme Of the boxes has now placed at the dis 1osal of guests, six boxes and two private dining rooms each of which is newly painted and vanished. One )f the private dining rooms Will seat ten persons and the other one will accommodate twenty. A new lighting system has also been installed where by the old lights have been replaced by 300 watt incandescent hanging lamps
 A new street is being opened be ween the Alaska Grill and the Ju leau Hardware store, which, when completed, will place the Grill on ? ,orner instead of the center block location that it now has. For further improvements in connection with the new street opening MT. Radonich plans to take the big 50-foot ma aogany lunch counter and turn il lround so it will front the street md behind the counter will be placed 27 feet of French mirrors giving a background of solid glass
 All the heat for the dining rooms aI hu ala ri a nd m electric range will adorn the litchen. The wall on the east side If the grill fronting the new street will be torn away and new fronts in tailed A large new plate glass window will be put in the corner md a doorway will be placed at the ower end of the building.
 The improvements will be hurried IS soon as the weather will permit he remoodeling of the walls, and when finished all the appearances oi l brand new up-to-date grill will be presented.
 MT. Radonich is one of the pion ger restaurant men of Gastineal Channel. Also he is known as pup lic-spirited citizens who has donated liberally to all public enterprises and vas largely responsible for introduc ng baseball on Gastineau Channel.
 Juneau is the only home that snow of said MT. Radonich today and I have never lost faith in the future of this place. All of us have felt the pinch somewhat of neces sary readjustments, but the future for Juneau and Southeastern Alas ka was never brighter. Juneau is all right and the people are all right I am spending money to be read, for better times we all are going te enjoy"
The Alaska daily empire., 1918-02-19
AN ALASKAN BATTLES WITH
 HUGE PYTHON
Former Forest Ranger Writes of His Experi- ence in Philippine
 Islands.

Roy Barto, who for several years was forest ranger at ketchikan, and who Is not stranger to Ju- neau, had a narrow escape from death in the Philippines according to letter received by w. II. Babbitt, local forest ranger.
 Barto's experience consisted of a battle with a python in which he was warded the decision. His ac- count says:
 II was going along sizing up a bunch of extra fine mahogany tim Der when I suddenly found myself in the embrace of a huge snake, which began drawing me swiftly In 10 a large cavity under the roots of I tree. Without stopping to con slider which end l was slicine )n, got busy with my bolo and sliced off what proved to be about five feet of the tail end
 "Dut my troubles were not over; the snake changed ends, and thought it was all off But by that time one of the native boys came up and handed me my B automatic which he had been carrying for me through the brush. On putting the two ends together we found the snake to be 90 feet long in the clear
The Alaska daily empire., 1918-02-19
SACCHARINE IS USED WITH SUGAR BY THE
 ITALIAN CONSUMERS

ROME, Feb. 19.-Italy's supply of sugar mixed with saccharine has if nally been consumed, not because anybody liked the mixture but be- cause Food Controller Crespi forced the demand by withdrawing ordin- ary white or granulated sugar from the market. Under directions of the controller large quantity of sugar was mixed with saccharine in order to effect sugar saving.
 Notices were issued explaining this fact and also that saccharine was not harmful, as had been sup posed. After trial the public pro- nounced the new war sugar uneat- able and refused to buy it. So it was kept in storage until after Christmas when Crespi withdrew all other sugar from the market. In desperation the public bought sac charine sugar. But it is not expect ed that the saccharine bitter-sweet sugar experiment will be repeated
The Alaska daily empire., 1918-02-19
OUS BOYS NOW HAVE BATS TO
 PLAY GAMES
The American Forces in Italy Finally Allowed to
 Indulge in Yankee Game.

AMERICAN AVIATION CAMP Southern Italy. Feb. l. (Corres pondence of the Associated Press)- The two chief events of the New Year at the camp have been the ar rival of some baseballs and bats and the opening of the Young Mems Christian Association room by Dr Walter Miller. Time had begun to lag heavily on the hands of the young men being trained for officers particularly at nights and during wet or windy weather, or on days chimes 10 keep all busy. In the lat ter case the students for whom there were no machines had to gt through infantry drill or do other du ties ofan unexciting kind. It was a good deal the same for the forty or more men who had passed theiI examinations and been declared al ready to receive their commissions
 Although the piece" as is called the big flat body of land used foI lTdlnlHB, 10 6tutidliy pretty Wtil crowded, room has been found for the baseball players and life for them has once more become inter. e5ting The Young Mems Christian Association room provides a place to write letters home and above all to read books and magazines.
 For months there was hardly a fresh American periodical or news. paper in camp and all the old ones were falling apart from thumbing Added to the oldfashioned diseases of lonliness and homesickness to which youths hardly over twenty are subjected. was added also the dis comforts of the cold. raw weather without any heat. and this lack the Young Mems Christian Association also filled by providing a good hot fire.
The Alaska daily empire., 1918-02-19
TOBACCO FUND FOR THE BOYS
 STILL GROWING Contributions Continue to Reach The Empire
 for the Smokes
 in France" NOW NEARLY IS $500 Men in the Cold Trenches Need Their Smokes
 as Much as Their Meals.
NOW NEARLY IS $500

Contributions to smokes for our Boys in France" continue to come into the Empire office Since the report made of Jan. 31st, the addi- tional sums have been received:
The Alaska daily empire., 1918-02-19
I WILL WEAVE ME A CLOAK

(New York Tribunc.) will weave me a cloak to meet
 the wind, To meet the wind of sorrow. I will not falter and fall behind, I will not beg nor borrow. I will not shiver beside the fire, I will not shirk nor hide, But high on the wings of my desire I will ride. vii weave me a cloak against the
 wind,
 And wrap my soul within it. A wild white ram rf the skies I'll
 find
 And card his wool and spin it. will weave into a wool of dress. Embroidered with stars and snow, And over the wide worlds roads
 and streams I will go! will weave me a cloak to meet
 the wind Like wolf the wind comes
 sneaking,
 him blind. He'll pass me without speaking will not fear what I may meet, Nor what the hour may bring, But every day in the dusty street will sing.
The Alaska daily empire., 1918-02-19
CONN MIG A T E }

HAYNES, Feb. 1.-The Alaska Daily Empire, Dear Sir: In your issue of Feb. 11th, under the cap tion, Manager Gross Buys a Place on the Island" you make state ment as follows: MT. Gross now has houses in Juneau, Douglas. Haines," etc. This gives the i'm pression that MT. Gross owns the Rialto theatre at Haines. l wish to say that this is not the case. MT. Gross, as manager of the Alaska Film Exchange, furnishes the Rial to theatre with film. Beyond this he has absolutely no interest in the theatre. I have noticed this mis- leading statement in The Empire number of times and wish you to correct it. Very truly,
 A. F. MCLEAN.
The Alaska daily empire., 1918-02-19

A clear conscience is luxury that every man can't afford.
The Alaska daily empire., 1918-02-19
WHAT WOMEN DO

Women in Great Britain are now making the heaviest shells being Ised in the present war.
 Drunkenness among women in Great Britain has decreased 73 per cent since the war begun.
 Many French girls are coming to the United States to enroll as stu detns in American colleges.
 Girls employed in the book bind cries of New York City are demand ing an increase in wages.
 The boxing commission of Ore gon has ruled against admitting women to boxing shows in that state.
 The Women's Trade Union League has placed the minimum age limit for women messengers at 25 years. Female steDographers in the em- ploy of the United States govern mept are now being paid as high as s1.200 year
 If the British Parliament agrees to allow women the right of fran chise over 6.0O0,000 women will be able to vote.
 Plans to raise an army of wo- men between Is and 65 years of age to work on the farms in New York State is now under way.
The Alaska daily empire., 1918-02-19

THE EMPIRES classInsds pay.
The Alaska daily empire., 1918-02-19
Total tax............s..4. ..4....... .tsli

Total tax.....................-.%3l ls,00
 What is your definition of@"nont- final capital?" esfss
 What would be the excess profits tax, if any, of an individual, with no other investment than $500.00 in office equipment. whose net in- come for 1917 was $5.000.
 Many of our citizens and taxpsy- CTS will be interested in a correct interpretation of this feature of the Excess Profits Tax"
The Alaska daily empire., 1918-02-19

Everybody reads THE EMPIRE.
The Alaska daily empire., 1918-02-19

Women in Great Britain are nov making the heaviest shells beint lsed in the present war
The Alaska daily empire., 1918-02-19

Drunkenness among women m Great Britain has decreased 73 peI cent since the war begun.
The Alaska daily empire., 1918-02-19

Many French girls are coming t. the United States to enroll as stu detns in American colleges.
The Alaska daily empire., 1918-02-19
Expert Bookkeeper Has Prepared a Statement Concerning Some of
 the Features.
SPECIAL AGENT COMING
Chas. C. Johns Will Arrive on the Spokane and Assist in Explaining
 the Law.

The appearance of Charles C. Johns of the internal revenue ser vice of the Treasury Department, who will arrive on the Spokane to explain the various kinks of the new income tax law, will be well comed by Gastineau channel resi- dents who have been getting grey hairs trying to figure out the sched ules to see how much they might have to pungle up to Uncle Sam. An expert bookkeeper who has pouring over the law has prepared the following, asking some ques- tions, which do not seem plain to him:
 Referring to the War Excess Profits TaX"-to what extent does the $6,OOO exemption apply to that part of the met income of an in- dividual citizen, or member of a partnership" in excess of the z 8, or 9 per cent. of the 'invest- ed capital as set forth in detail, in the Act? YSys Some authorities claim this ex- emption can be made to apply only upon such an amount as the per centage stated, plus $6.00o, is not in excess of 15 per cent. of. the invested capital,' or in other words, that the total untaxed net
 income can not in any case exceed
 l5 percent of the invested capf- tal" See practical guide on '1917. Federal Income and War Tax Laws," presented by the B. M.
 Behrends Bank. at paragraph 6 on- page 6S. t%s:..s
 Other authorities evidently hold
 that the total exemption can be de-
 ducted from net income equal to
 any part of the invested capital"
 We quote from a pamphlet issued
 by Smith, Robertson & Moorhouss,
 certified public accountants of Se-
 title, passed on by Farrell, Kane 6
 Stratton, attorneys-atlaw. as foi-
 lows: gs. Exemption; Partnerships and In dividuals: ets el as ..9siasfa
 Between 7es and ses on the in- rested capital( determined by spe- ,ial process) pluss $6,000." 2S
 "Tax Rate: fs6 tsi
 20cs of net income over exemption
 and under 15To of investment.
 25ee of net income over exemption
 and between 158e and 20T 6f il investment. Af% |, 35qt of net income over exemption and between 201o and 25s6 Of , dnvestment. ts P f5N of net income over exemption
 and between 251e and 3396 of f investment. s01o of net income over exemption ,I and over 33h of investment. b Example under question. Henry ( Brown. a married man. (whom will { be noted is not subject to any in- l come taxi conducts pool and btl- g Hard parlor. His invested capital , was s6,00O. His net income for | 1917 was S1,80O. He was not in E business during any part of the
 'pre-war period"
 It will be seen that under the last mentioned interpretation he D would have no excess profits tax to 3 pay.
 k Under the first above mentioned I interpretation his excess profits tax ( would be figured as follows: h Applicable deduction. STc of in- l. vested capital plus $6,000. | Total exemption, $6,480. t No income taxed at the 20ee rate e On income in excess of 15T oi ,, investment, or $900, he would pay ,. as follows:
 erhn
The Alaska daily empire., 1918-02-19

GranQ T0tal ...---..-...-.......-...-.. i0Z.SU As conclusive proof that the ship ments of tobacco, made possible by the generosity of those who are con- tributing to Our Boys in France To bacco Fund" are reaching the other side and are being distributed, the following letter has been received at 25 West 44th Street, New York City, the headquarters of the Fund. The communication, addressed to A. B. Dick, organizer and manager of Our Boys in France Tobacco Fund is from the New York office of the American Red Cross:
 My Dear Mir. Dick:
 "I have just received a letter from House, American Red Cross at Wash ington, sending me a copy of a ca blegram received from Paris on Jan uary 9th, which was sent after the receipt of the Washington letter to Major Murphy giving a detailed state. ment of the shipments forwarded, copy of which statement, was. be- lieve, sent you by MT. Arnestein, some time ago.
 "'1940 Your GAS. 125
 cases received Additional cas-
 es number unknown, now on
 the way from port to Paris.
 This report dated January 9th.
 All tobacco received has been
 distributed to American sol
 diers and all shipments to be
 received will be distributed as
 promptly as practicable.
 (Signed) PRESTON.
 This. trust. will relieve the anxiety of the contributors to your Fund, showing that the tobacco has arrived and is being distributed.
 "Very truly yours,
 ARTHUR H. HAHLO.
 For the American Red Cross"
The Alaska daily empire., 1918-02-19

SEELEY'S White Pine Tar with eucalyptus and menthol-foT coughs and colds-25c. Soc.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-10-13

The Pennsylvania Railroad
terminal at Sind to 33rd street
and 9TH avenue is used every
day by about 10000 people
going and coming. The West
Side subway station at Bird
street is close by. A local train
will carry passengers to 10Th
street and Broadway-just two
short blocks away from the
Belleclalre.
We can accommodate only
a very few Of these 10000
people-not more than 600
two in every room 1--WE have
only 800 rooms -but we
want the whole 10000 to
know about the Belleclaire.
hat S the reason we adver-
tlse.
We want them to know
what complete service we are
able to give them.
Big bedrooms, big windows.
big bathrooms, big portions Of
TODD, big portions Of courtesy.
big desire to please.
he only thing small
about the Belleclaire is the
prlce charged for the quality of
the service given.
Robert D. Blackman,
Proprietor.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-10-13

Designed for Aeropan Hospital french and transportation
Height wa diameter va Weight Il lbs. capacity 10 quarts.
The wall of the Heater made Of galvanized Th, holds
large eonaner OF TN INTO which TT four ALUMINIUM
4quart and three holding quarts each
est made with Soz of Theron 9 A NJ in large
rs four small US
large 200 the three 2quar, 1907
~ale II the 4-qua onta, 100.
he heroz which heats the food and keeps for
held securely by spring the bottom Of the Heater
The heo Food Heater ideal for hospitals where has
carried from ward ward and trench field where food
carried for distance
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-10-13
Theroz Blue Flame Stove

a wonderful convenience for bathroom
nursery and SICK room use 'cas shaving
water. the habys bottle and the ,nvahds
broth or tea \ necessity for travel and
hotel use heat, curling IRONS. and small sad
IRON withou, SCOT
Burns Ihcro- Fuel Cubes
Price Of Burner Stove l5c
Priec Of 7hero- Fuel GO ouhcM CSC.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-09-28

the hero to college and tho heroine
home after n short visit.
William Sylvanus Baxter Is tho
youth who may be called tho hero.
He isn't exactly that but he Is no
longer a boy and yet not quite
man, and his views of the big things
in life are most amazingly expressed.
Donald Foster portrayed tho part
with Thelma White as Lola Pratt,
the girl he falls in love with,
writes poems about and serenades,
Others who played no small part
in making the production such q sue
cess were Aldrich Bowker, Willie's
father: Florence Hart. his mother;
Leah Temple. as Jane, his younger
sister whose ability to learn all about
other peoples affairs created much
laughter: Robert Fiske, Colin
Clements and Howard Hill. some of
Willie Baxters friends; Judith Cook,
as May Parcher. popular young lady
in the neighborhood; William Bel
fort, as her father; Harry Blake
more, as Genesis, a kindly old col
ored man employed by the Baxters.
A feature of the evening were two
short talks to boost the Fourth Lib
erty Loan, one by a "four-minute
man" and the other by lieutenant
in the aviation service. The three
eviators who few over the city were
introduced to the audience and were
heartily applauded. Small posters
boosting the loan were thrown from
the balconies. ,
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-09-28
SEVENTEEN" IS
PLEASING PLAY
Audience at Orpheum Enjoys
Dramatization of Booth
Tarkington's Story

Dramatized. Booth Tarkington's
appealing story of youth. "Seven-
teen" "is decidedly one of the most
enjoyable plays on the stage now,
The audience at the Orpheum last
night found much that was pleasing
applauded all the scenes and had
plenty of amusement afforded them
in the presentation Of the Harrington
characters.
Produced by a capable cast the
story has los. none OF its sparkling
humor, so cleverly developed by
Harrington in the form of actions
and conversations of boys and girls
at the age of seventeen" Every few
minutes there would be a ripple of
laughter sometimes only in short
chuckes showing the appreciation of
the listeners and then again break
ing out in an uproarious gale of mirth
as one of the youthful Harrington
heroes would go into a lengthy dis
course on the Importance of having
a full dress suit on love or on a
mans marital duties.
Splendidly arranged, the action of
the play affords numerous oppor
tunities for the most humorous sit
uations and these were so naturally
brought out that one could not help
but enjoy the entire play. The story
ends contrary to the usual time-hon-
ored custom and instead of care
fully arranging to have them live
happily ever after the author sends
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-09-28
DEVASTATION OF
BELGIUM SHOWN
Big Picture at the Regent
Gives Graphic
Story

IN the superb spectacle produced by
Cecil B. DeMille. Till L Come Back to
You." showing ut the Regent Theater
the first three days OF next week, the
terrible atrocities of the Huns in their
invasion OF Belgium in the gruelling
days of 1914 is graphically shown.
That the Germans were preparing
for this fight long before the first ulti-
matum was sent out. Is shown in the
fact that the merchants of the various
countries. especially Belgium, VINO
were of German nationality were
rying out the German propaganda.
In this story Karl Won Kurtz is the
merchant that draws particular atten-
ton. He is in reality n German spy.
who had married q Belgian girl in
order to further his own plans. One
morning his wife finds n roughly
traced map of Belgium. which her
husband had left lying on table. She
the suspects the truth and shortly
afterwards. when the Germans invade
Belgium, Won KurtZ leaves with them.
King Albert. during the retreat OF
the Belgians. stops at this cottage.
where he finds the brother and wife
of this German spy playing the game
of beating the Hun. He tells this man
to be brave and to walt Till l come
back to you"
America enters the war. and Cap
tain jefferson Strong. an officer of
destroy tanks of liquid gas, which the
Germans proposed to use against the
Allies. Crossing the German lines, he
reaches the cottage of Won Kurtz. and
he Immediately starts in tunneling
towards this storage of liquid gas. Won
Kurtz returns about this time, finds
Strong telephontng, destroys the In
strument and a desperate battle en-
sues. Won KurtZ' wife. to escape the
brutality of her husband. takes n
number of Belgian orphans into the
tunnel that had been dug to this liquid
gas. Just at the hour for the explo-
sion to take place, Captain Strong,
learning that these children were in
the tunnel. cuts the wires that would
set off the tons of liquid fire. He Is
arrested by the military authorities for
disobedience and but for the inter-
ference of King Albert. OF Belgium,
would have been shot.
1t is a graphic story from start to
| finish. and just at this time. when the
! center of Americas activities is di-
/ rected towards the Belgium sufferers.
I il is picture that everyone should
ee.-Advertisement.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-09-28
First Farrar Picture
Modern and Thrilling

Geraldine Farrar made her first
local appearance in The Turn of the
Wheel" by Tex Charwate, at the Co
lonial yesterday. The international
celebrity has a role of her own
choosing. which means that THE
Turn of the Wheel is a play of to-
day, the star having announced that
she means TO appear only in modern
roles.
THE story of "The Turn of the
Wheel" is highly dramatic one, be-
ginning at Monte Carlo. where Rosa
lie Dean, an American girl, is So
journing with her aunt. At the Ca
sino she sees a stranger, also an
American, playing recklessly, and he
loses. Feeling a powerful attraction,
Rosalie follows him and stops Max
field Gray when he is on the verge of
suicide. Like all gamblers, he is sure
that he could win back everything IL
he had one more chance. Rosalie
insists that he take that chance with
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-09-28
MONSTER MASS MEETING

monster mass meeting was held al
the Arcade Theater last night in be-
half of the Fourth Liberty Loan
The place was packed to its ca
pacity with patriotic citizens. The
meeting was presided over by Wat
SON r. Dawson. and an address was
delivered by Private f. H. Jones, an
American soldier of the 18th Engi-
neering Corps, and who has seen
active service in France. He told OF
the conditions in France, and the
hardships of the war In which the
American boys are now suffering
Mark H. Lands rendered several
vocal selections, while before the
meeting opened the Wayne band
Dlayed