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The Alaska daily empire., 1919-10-17

That the dissemination of the ex. treme views held by some persons on the results of an unusual grouping of the planets with respect to each other and to the sun can serve no useful purpose, is the opinion of M B. Summers, in charge of the locai Weather Bureau office
 On the contrary, he says that the publication of such articles as the one that appeared in a recent issue of The Empire, giving forecast of dire happenings to Mother Earth from December F to 20, arouses un necessary apprehension, worry and fear in minds of the superstitious and of many of those who have no know edge of the operations of natura laws relating to weather conditions on the earth
 About HaIIey's Comet In every community, he said, there are those who seize upon sensational prophetic statements and work them slves into high state of nervous excitement in anticipation of the fulfillment of the prophecy
 Halley's comet, a few years ago furnished the basis for much specull tion as to the effect of it's tail strik ing the earth, and not a few saw visions of the asphyxiating of al animal life when the phenomen or would occur
 Every now and then some religious fanatic considers it his bounden duty to enlighten his fellow men that he has figured out from Biblical pro phecy and historical and current events that the world is due to com to an end on such and such a day Instances are on record of person disposing of their property and pa tiently waiting for the coming of the end, as result of such prophecies
 Planet Grouping Not Unusual If this unusual grouping of thC planets will cause such abnormalitie, n terrestrial weather, why, says MT Summers, has the world at largf been kept in ignorance of it un'i within few weeks of tho period iI' which the events arc 10 occur? Astronomy is one of the most ex,cf of the sciences, and the date of thn conjunction and opposition of thr planets in this instance, as in Othe-s has been known among astronome-s for generations, the same as the dates of eclipses and other events ir the life of our solar syster. II seems strange that under the T circumstances we should not have been warned until the cataciysm is almost upon us.
 About Sunspots.
 That the grayitational pull of sc many planets in conjunction will produce a giant sunspot may be true but 1t does not necessarily follow that the sunspot will produce the strenuous weather of which we have been so sensationally warned. Ter restrial magnetic disturbances and storms are common to sunspots, the auroras, or northern lights. being an example. But magnetic storms and wind and rain storms are entirely different phenomena.
 When we consider that the earth said MT. Summers. as viewed by an observer on the sun. would be SC small that it would be invisible to the unaided eye, it seems most un- reasonable to think that the sunspot influence on our weather, if it exists to any material extent. should be confined to any particular part of
The Alaska daily empire., 1919-10-17
"CLASH OF PLANETS" AND
 SPOTS ON THE SUN HAVE NO
 FEAR FOR WEATHER OBSERVER

this Gas seen from tho sum micro
 scopic surface, such ais California. or Alaska, or Brazil, or Central Europe.
 The simultaneous occurrence of vic
 lent wind or rain storms throughout the earth's surface, or even in all regions in the same latitude, would
 indeed be most extraordinary and a feat of nature that weather record 5 show has not occurred from past sun.
 spot manifestations of great inten5. ity.
 From a Scientist
 A recent issue of the Monthly Weather Review contains an article by Prof. c. F. Marvin, Chief of the Weather Bureau on "Terrestri2l Weather and Solar Activities" and MT. Summers submits the following quotation therefrom:
 "The atmosphere derives it's heat, not directly from the sun, except to a small extent, but chiefly from the surface of the earth itself The daily sequence of sunshine and darkness; the varied distribution of clear and clouded skies; diversitie- of surface cover added to contrasts of land and water areas, includin the phenomena of evaporation. con dcnsation and precipitation; the cycle of the seasons, and above all the fiuctuating but nevertheless perpetuai contrasts of surface temperature ranging all the way from the heal of the tropics to the intense cold 1f the polar zones, constitute con plex series of varied and changeahie influences seemingly abundantly ado quate to cause and explain every fea- lure of our weather conditions, how ever changeable we may find them. Seemingly with little regard fo' the considerations just mentione ! many have sought and still sec; t1 ascrbe terrestrial weather r-that to say. all the characteristic feiture of atmospheric variations-to min >f features of solar activity, as for eX ample, to the spots and facnlae O the sun or to it's magnetic manfa "a. 
 lions, or to the relatively small and irregular fluctuations in the intensi of it's thermal radations, or to some of these variously in combination etc.
 Even suppose thesc solar phe nomena directly influence terrestriai weather in some way yet to fe proved, is it not plainly most essen tial in detecting and analyzing cau1e ] and effect relations that we adequa ie ly segregate and make duo allowance for the complex phenomena which clearly must result if solar inso'a- tion were perfectly constant and fl the other manifestations of solar ac tivity were entirely absent?"
The Alaska daily empire., 1919-10-17
NEW ARRIVALS

Fifty Fall coats of the latest style and a large number of serge dresses arrived on the last boat. It will pay you to look these over while the selection is good. Prices very reasonable. Store open even ings. A. GREENBAUM- Adv.
The Alaska daily empire., 1919-10-17
DANCE POSTPONED

The dance which was to have been given by the Elks at their hall to. morrow night has been postponed on account of the Masonic reunion that is now going on.
The Alaska daily empire., 1919-10-17
NEW SUIT FILED

A new suit was filed with the Clerk of the Court this morning in which F. H. Sherman, the contractor. is plaintiff and the Occidental Hotel Company is defendant. The suit i for a judgment on account of work done by the plaintiff on the hotel building in the amount of $1,237.50 The work was done between the first of Marsh 1914. and Dece .nbcr 22. 1916.
The Alaska daily empire., 1919-10-17
GARN ES-LYTLE

Gertrude Lus Verne Garnes and George Roland Lytle were married by the Rev George C.. Bruce on Wed. nesday afternoon at the residence of MT Bruce. The witnesses to the cer emony were Alfred B. Wyman and Anna l.. Wyman.
The Alaska daily empire., 1919-10-17

Give us your next order for trans fer work or coal. Juneau Transfer
The Alaska daily empire., 1919-10-17

Electric Light Globes. C.. w. Young Co. adv.
The Alaska daily empire., 1919-10-17
OPEN EVENINGS

From to S. DTS. White and Stewart, Dentists. Seward Building. Phone 4G9. adv.
The Alaska daily empire., 1919-10-17

Fresh oysters in the shell at the Alaska Grill. adv.
, 1919-08-14

we have after two years when we
quit Roxbury and came here? We
had $40, didn't wei We've been here
four months, and how much have we
got7 We've got $3.50 of new money,
that's what we've got. And it's clean
money, Billy, honestly earned. I'd
rather have that than a million that
was grated. We're not getting along
so badly. Maybe somebody else is
getting a whole lot more that doesn't
deserve it half as much. But / guess
these things will be Strengthened out
If fellows like you don't go looney and
spoil everything. Anyhow, you never
had so much money ahead in your life,
Billy Noxon, and / know It.
Now, who's the head devil over
there at the yard in getting up all this
I. w. w. sentiment? Is 1t a black-muz-
zled fellow they call SaundersonT'
well, Saunderson's the smartest,
most independent man in the yard, If
that's what you mean, and not afraid
TO speak his mind. The fellows listen
TO him because he's there with the
goods"
II thought so. / sat behind him and
some other anarchists in a street car
yesterday, when he ought to have been
at work. and l know what he thinks.
l heard him tell the man with him
that it was about time the 'boorzhwa'
was kept from monopolizing every
thing, including the most beautiful
and desirable wives'-that's exactly
what he said, Billy Noxon"
WELL" responded Billy. rather
doubtfully, she meant that a working
man can't compete with a rich n
for II girl, when he can't send her
flowers and give her buzz-car rides and
such things"
BILLY, you're n simp. He meant
because he said so-that the women
ought to be n~ationalized. Understand
that? Made the property of the men
equally, like the food and the clothes
and the houses and automobiles! He
said 1t was too early to spring that
idea yet, but it would surely come"
Billy tried to say something, but the
little wife kept on. "Billy, l didn't tell
you before, but twice that black devil
has tried to pick me up on he street.
Yesterday when he got up to leave the
car he grinned at me and winked, and
he said out of the rne of his mouth
as he passed: Pretty peach! Billy
Noxon, do you want me nationalized-
for Saunderson? Are you for the boil
sheviks or for me?"
Billy Noxon found ~Saunderson in the
yard mex day, and hammered him o
five minutes. He told him that he'd
lick him every time he saw him
Wherefore, SaundersOn is now agitat-
ing elsewhere, and there hasn't been
any strike in the yard. Maybe every
thing is not exactly as 1t should be
as between labor and capital, but as
between Billy and Elsie, bolshevism
hasn't a look-in.
, 1919-08-14
NO PLACE FOR SCRUB BULLS
Poor Animals Have Done Much DAM
age to Dairy Interests and Are
Worse Than Worthless.

prepared by the United States Depart
ment of Agriculture.)
Bull associations, though few in
number, wage eternal warfare on the
scrub. The scrub bull has done much
damage in this country. He is worse
than worthless. He lowers the pro-
duction of all future generations of
the herd he heads. He cannot in
crease milk production even In a herd
of scrubs because, like them, he is a
scrub. In u herd of better breeding
the damage he may do is almost limit
less.
The grade bull is little better be-
cause, most of his ancestors being
scrubs, he is certain to transmit scrub
qualities to his offspring. The grade
bull may have the form and color
markings of a purebred, but he lacks
, 1919-08-14
FEED AND SALT REGULARLY
Cow Becomes Accustomed to Getting
Meals at Certain Time-Devi-
alton Causes Worry.

A cow is pretty much a creature of
habit. She becomes accustomed to
getting her feed at a certain time each
day and If that time arrives without
the feed she worries about II and this
affects her milk production. For this
reason regularity in feeding is very
important. Also watering and sailing
should be attended to punctually. And
the water should be good. 1t is a mis-
take to require cows to drink tainted
water. for 1t certainly impairs the
health If 1t does not affect the quality
of the milk. The man who provides
properly for the wants of his cows
has a right to expect that they will re-
pay him in a more abundant milk flow.
, 1919-08-14
Best to Build for Oneself.

The advice to the citizen to build
his OWL home, If possible, is good.
When a man builds for himself and his
family he knows precisely what he
gets, and he gets the kind Of home
he likes. 1t is better suited to the
needs of himself and his family than
is n that has been constructed for
some other family. The cost Of such
construction may seem high, but good
judges of values believe that an in
vestment of this kind. made carefully
and wisely, is the soundest and most
satisfactory in the long run.
, 1919-08-14
PARAVANE PROVED ITS WORTH
No Vessel Protected by That contri-
vance Is Known to Have Been
Sunk by Mines.

The oddly of the word "%paravane."
as it now reaches the general public,
shows how well an important secret
was kept during the historic years
1917-1S. During those years the in
vention, perfected at Portsmouth,
England, vas added to some 1000
British vessels, and nc case is known
in which n ship thus protected was
damaged by a sunken mine. Towed
under water on both sides of the bow.
the paravane, shaped like a kite. met
the mooring wire of the sunken mine.
DETECTED the hidden menace to a safe
distance from the ship, severed its
mooring, and left it free to come to
the surface where it could be exploded
by gun fire. Seamen naturally enough
soon came to speak of the paravanes
as ''otters," and they enabled many a
vessel to travel safely through mine
infested waters. Several hundred
American ships had been thus
equipped at the signing of the armi-
stice, and it is a pleasing thought that
the cessation of hostilities saved about
S1O,0O0,000 which the United States
meant tt spend in providing paravanes
for American shipping.
, 1919-08-14
Would Return the Favor.

Some years ago there was a Fourth
of July celebration at a town in north
ern New York, where my father vas
pastor of a church. During the day
several out of town couples came to
the parsonage to be married, and n
husky bridegroom as soon as the knot
was tied. asked: "What are the dam
ages?' Father replied that he made
no particular charge for marrying peo-
pie, but left the amount to the gener
osity of the groom. THANK YOU"
said the young man, "I1l do as much
for you sometime" and walked out,
leaving us all convulsed with laughter,
but when they reached the street the
bride would go nc farther until
hubby" came back and handed the
minister a 50 bil.-Exchange.
, 1919-08-14
LIVE
STOCK
BEST AGE FOR WEAVING PIGS
Good Plan to Let Porkers Nurse Until
Twelve or Fourteen Weeks OF
Age-keep Them Growing.

prepared by the United States Depart
ment of Agriculture.)
Too many farmers follow the prac-
tice of weaving pigs when too young,
many being weaned at six and seven
weeks of age. A good brood SOW prop
erly fed has a good flow of milk when
the pigs are of this age. There is no
better feed for growing pigs than their
mothers milk, consequently it should
be used to the greatest extent pos
sible. When the pigs are of sucking
age the SOW should be on full feed.
Unless there is some extraordinary
reason for earlier weaving the pigs
should not be weaned under the age
of ten weeks, and 1t is better to let
them nurse until they are twelve or
fourteen weeks old.
Often serious results follow weaving
at too early an age. An entire change
of feed following weaving may create
serious trouble. If, however, pigs have
access to corn, shorts, middlings or
tankage, or fish meal in a self-feeder
placed in the open where they can eat
at pleasure without being disturbed by
other hogs, they can be weaned at the
age of twelve or fourteen weeks, with
very little change in their feed, by al
lowing them to continue on the self
feeder.
TO obtain the best results pigs should
gain continuously until they are ready
for market. The best results will not
be obtained unless pigs have acces all
the time possible to good forage crops,
alfalfa and red clover preferred. If
these feeds cannot be procured rye,
oats, barley, cowpeas, rape or any
other grain OF grasses that will pro-
duce good forage in the locality should
be w The pigs should be watched
closely to e that they are on their
feed. If they are not the feed should
, 1919-08-14

the power to transmit with any de-
gree of certainty the qualities of any
high-producing ancestors he may have.
That herd is very poor indeed in which
a grade bull can make any marked
Improvement.
The registered scrub comes of low
producing registered ancestors. there
fore he transmits only inferior quail
ties to his calves. Registration is not
enough to guarantee production. Per-
manent dairy herd improvement can
never com from the scrub, the grade
or the registered scrub.
A constant fight against the cattle
fever tick has put large portions Of
the southern states into the tick-free
area. Why not inaugurate a similar
fight all over the United States
against scrub sires, against the scrub,
the grade, the registered scrub, against
scrub sires of every kind? Taking
each state, county by county, why not
eliminate the scrub and establish
scrub-free areas in every state?
, 1919-08-14
THAN WOODEN FENCE
Wall Constructed Of Loose Stones
Has Many Points of Superiority
-Harmonizes With Nature.

The New England stone wall, as a
feature in landscape scenery, is some
times spoken of as a deformity; yet
it mo be denied that the same lines
of wooden fence would mar the beauty
of our prospect in a greater degree.
On of the loose manner in
which the stones are laid one upon an
other, al well as the character Of the
materials, this wall harmOnizes with
the rude aspects of nature better than
any kind of masonry. 1t seems to me
less of a blemish than n trimmed hedge
or any other kind of fence, unless in
ornamental grounds. In wild pas
lures and lands devoted to rustic la
Dor, the stone wall is the most pictur-
esque boundary mark that has yet been
invented. A trimmed hedge in such
places would present to the eye an in
tolerable formality. One of the charms
of the loose stone wall is the manifest
ease with which 1t may be Overleaped.
1t menaces no infringement of our lib
critics. When we look abroad upon the
face of a country subdivided only by
long lines of loose stones, and over
grown with vines and %shrubbery, we
feel no sense of constraint. .. 4.
Fences are deformities of prospect
which we are obliged to use and toll
crate. But the loose stone wall only
is expressive of the freedom which
is grateful to the traveller and the
rambler.-Wilson Flagg.
, 1919-08-14
DAIRY NOTES

A good sllo requires also a good
enSilage cutter.
In the dairy business harvest con
tinues the year around.
You never saw a COW hat would
not do better work on good silage than
without 1t.
For q COW that refuses to let down
her milk. a feed of something waile
milking otter helps.
The biggest leak in the dairy bus-
ness m through keeping two cows
to do the work of one.
TO estimate the amount of feed left
in the si!age. figure 1 cubic foot Of
ealage as equal to 10 pounds
, 1919-08-14
Hometown
GATEWAY THAT COSTS LITTLE
Entrance Constructed of Plain Lumber
In Standard Dimension Always
Easy to Procure.

The gateway here shown was very
economically constructed by using lum-
Der supplied in standard dimensions,
reports Popular Mechanics Magazine.
The uprights are 4 by 4 inches; the
lower crOsspieces and fence rails, 2
by a inches, and the fence spindles and
upper c~rosspieces of the gate. 2 by 2
inches, as are also the short horizontal
strips which extend at right angles be-
tween the crosspieces, to support vines
over the archway. The arches are
made of Eastwood, which is easily bent
into shape after being soaked over
night in water. The structure was
, 1919-08-14
SELECT PIGS FOR BREEDING
Animals Should Not BE Pushed, but
Kept Growing Nicely to Develop
Bono and Muscle.

Pigs selected for breeding purposes
should be kept growing nicely, but they
must not be pushed, for the whole OBJ
ject of their feeding Is to make them
stretch out and develop bone and
muscle In place Of fat. They should
be continued on a growing ration. A
little skim milk and shorts make a
good ration. A small amount Of
ground oats and cracked corn win help
develop and insure normal growth. But
corr should be used sparingly as It 10
too fattening for pigs. Remember that
these pigs should also have an album
dance of green feeds.
, 1919-08-14
STINGY FEEDER CHEATS SELF
Dairy Cow Must Have Materials for
Maintenance al We'll as Milk
producing Foods.

prepared by the United States Depart
ment of Agriculture.)
The COW requires not only materials
for maintenance but must also have
protein, fat and carbohydrates to
make milk from. The milk contains
water, fat, protein ~(casein or curd),
sugar and ash, and these are all made
from the constituents of the food. If
insufficient protein, fat and carbohy-
drates are contained IN the food given
her the COW supplies this deficiency
for a time by drawing on her own
body, and gradually begins to shrink
in quantity or quality of milk, or both.
The stingy feeder cheats himself as
well as the cow.
, 1919-08-14

EASTERN LIVE STOCK.

ChicaEo.-Hogs-Top. s22.65; heavy
weight, s20.3 IS a 22.5O; medium weight
s20.5o@ 22.65; light weight s20.6o9
1850; light light. $3.50 021.2b; heavy
packing sows, smooth. s1s.25q22.5oi
packing sows. rough, $1,000 q 1900
pigs, $500 919.50.
Cattie-Beef steers. medium and
heavy weight, choice and prime, S17.4e
61e.25; medium and good. $4,000
weight. good and choice, s14.25 q 1925;
common and medium. se.6o@14.26
Butcher cattle. heifers. $7.4o@ 1900:
tiers. $1,000 7.25. Veal calves. light and
handy weight. $16.6oQ1s.50. Feeder
steers ss;oo@12:5o. stoeker steers
$4,000 1850; COWS and heifers, $3.50
1900.
s1S.76 q IL. 25; cuIls and common, $500
91S.25; yeariings. wethers. $s.75Q
1850; ewes. medium. good and choice.
S7.25 q 500: culls and common. s2.75@
h.l0
, 1919-08-14
Roadside Fruit Treeo.

The genius Of the roadside fruit or
nut tree is the hospitality which It
symbolizes, and the spirit of neighbour
ly cooperation. 1t is an established
institution in parts Of Europe. as in
France. Italy and Germany. 1t is a
practice worth thinking about. Both
esthetic and n~tilitarian purposes would
be served by general adoption of the
rule In communities sufficiently organ
lied to give necessary care to the trees
ono they have been planted.
, 1919-08-14
Size Of Ocean Waves.

The size Of the Atlantic ocean waves
has been carefully measured for the
photographic bureau. Washington. In
height the waves usually average about
80 feet, but in rough weather they
attain from 40 to As feet. During
storms they are often from 500 to 600
feet long and last ten to eleven sec
onds, while the longest one yet known
measured half a mile. and did not
spend itself for % seconds.
, 1919-08-14
Bio Production Of Fats.

The production Of animal fats. ex-
elusive of butterfat, equal to but 20
per cent Of the vegetable oil output of
the United States In 1912, rose In 1917
to nearly so per cent. Including but
ter, In 1912 the quantity of animal fats
was approximately twice as great ms
that of vegetable oils, while in 1917
the production of the two clnsses OF
fats and oils was nearly the same.
, 1919-08-14
ALFALFA BEST FORAGE CROP
Greatest single Crop That Can Ne
Drown and Pays Handsomely
-unexoelied for hoas.

prepared by the United statss pepa-A-
ment Of ~Agriouiture.)
Every farmer. whether or o he
raises hogs, should have some alfalfa
II no can possibly get It. II Is the
greatest single crop that can be grown
and pays handsomely where It Ia
grown. As y forage crop for hogs II
Ia u~nexcelled.
, 1919-08-14
Quest Of Novelty.

Henry, l must have a motorcar
that is unlike anybody ~else's."
81 don't see how we are going to Ar
range that, my dear. Most of the
available models seem to be in Use
However, we might persuade a manu-
facturer to build a car TO order shaped
like a bee hive. and you could buzz
around in Observation-Disclosures Age
Herald.
, 1919-08-14
BY Using Cheap Lumber, an orna-
mental Gateway Is Erected at the
Entrance to an Undeveloped Park
at Trifiing Cost.

painted white, with the exception of
the fence spindles, which were given
a brown tone; but the color scheme in
such a case depends on the surround
ings. AT very slight expense a gate
way of this kind greatly improves the
entrance to a farm, a small park, or
even a private residence. The example
show stands at the side entrance to a
large park, to serve until the develop
ment of the neighborhood will make
possible something of a more substan-
tial nature.
, 1919-08-14
ca.h Grain h chicago.

Chieaso.-cern-No, 2 mixed, $3.50
1.ss; No. 2 yellow. $500.
.oats--No. 2 white, 7s@75Nc; No. 2
white. TON @74hc.
Rye-No. 2. sI.50@1.5OM.
Barley-s1.3161.40.
Timothy-Se.00 611.50
Clover-Nominal.
Pork-Nominal.
Landslide.
Ribs-t25.50 q 1880.
, 1919-08-14
LIGHT HOGS ARE PREFERRED
Relative Marketablllty Of Various cuts
10 Deciding Factor In Selling
Animals.

A heavy hog Will bring the producer
more money thnn n 200-pound hog, but
pound for pound the latter is worth
moro. Tho relative marketability of
tho various cuts lie the deciding factor.
, 1919-08-14
Learn Wlsdom THROUGH FoIIy.

1t is n great pity that we must ex-
pertinent with n score OF folllcs. most
Of them honry with age. before, we
can arrive ut n point OF wlsdom.-sir
Richard Cooke.