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The Cordova daily times. [volume] (Cordova, Alaska) 1914-1947, 1919-04-19
WARM SPRINGS UNDERLIE
RIVER TO WESTWARD

ANCHORAGE, April 10 Especial to
Daily Times). - Do warm springs
underlie a part of the Susitna river
The question is answered in the af-
firmative by government railroad en-
gineers who are making soundings for
a bridge across the stream 151 miles
north of Anchorage.
Near the site of the proposed
bridge, rift about 1000 feet long and
25 feet wide occurs in the ice of the
river early in the spring every year.
This open stretch of water after it
makes its appearance in the spring
does not close until the freezing
weather of the following winter.
The rift in the upper reaches of the
Susitna precedes by nearly two
months the movemnt of ice from the
lower stretches of the stream.
The Cordova daily times. [volume] (Cordova, Alaska) 1914-1947, 1919-04-19

Juneau natives are beginning to
flock from the city to the different
canneries in southeastern Alaska to
get ready for the cannery season, and
they will return in the fall with all
kinds of money. Formerly the money
earned by the natives was mostly
used for one grand debauch, but of
late years they spend their money for
clothing and useful articles. Educa-
tors who work among the natives
assert that they are making more
rapid strides toward a higher and
better civilization than any other race
of people, not even accepting the
whites themselves.
The Cordova daily times. [volume] (Cordova, Alaska) 1914-1947, 1919-04-19

Fraker and Nelson are opening up
on 7 above, Little Eldorado; Hersdale
and Mcdonald are getting ready on 3
above; Nelson and Keilas are tunnel
ing on 1 above; AL Andersen & Co..
have a plant on 4 below and are ready
for sluicing. Next below is Hans Hess
& Co. and farther down the creek
Carlson & White are getting ready to
hoist and sluice. Teddy REIN, who
employed a large crew last year will
work on a large scale the coming
season.
The Cordova daily times. [volume] (Cordova, Alaska) 1914-1947, 1919-04-19

Placer tin is proving an extremely
valuable by-prOduct in the Hot
Springs district. Up until recently the
mining men of that district have
always considered placer tin as an
annoyance in the cleanups as it is for
eign to the gold they have been look
ing for and it has been cast aside.
This is being turned into a source
of revenue by John Boulton, who is
making arrangements to go into the
recovery of this valuable mineral on
The Cordova daily times. [volume] (Cordova, Alaska) 1914-1947, 1919-04-19

News of rich strike of placer gold
in the Teslin Lake country, which is
about $50 miles from Whitehorse by
the winter trail, has reached that
place. 1t is claimed that the discover
ers PANIED IS cent pans from their
claim. A number of people are STAN
peding to the new diggings. The dis
coverers were flooded out before
reaching bedrock.
The Cordova daily times. [volume] (Cordova, Alaska) 1914-1947, 1919-04-19

Advices from Fort Yukon state that
the peace and dignity of the little
village has been broken by one David
Henry, native, who is accused of
learning the ways of his paleface
brother and friend to the extent OF
forging one check for the sum of SIS
upon a local concern. Henry was in
need of hiyu muck-a-muck and not
having the chickamin thought that
il was easy to raise it by presenting a
bit of wawa paper to the storekeeper.
He got ninety days for his accomplish
ments.
The Cordova daily times. [volume] (Cordova, Alaska) 1914-1947, 1919-04-19

See Will Clayson for Evenrude out
boards. 4-t1
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-03-23
"The Secret Channel"

CEVENTEEN perfectly conventional
- and not strikingly original British
tales are gathered together in Percy +.
Westeman's The Secret Channel and
Other Stories of the Great War. For the
most part these are tales of the British
navy in the war, but there is also one con-
eerned with the adventure of two midship-
men on a South Sea island Ia very indif-
ferent boys book kind of tale), another
of treasure trove in an Egyptian rum,
a tank story ashore on the western front
and very stupid "ghost" story. The cpl
sode from which the book takes its name
is concerned with a successful attempt OF
a motorboat yachtsman TO block a channel
leading out from the Belgian coast, yarn
that is not as exciting as the real story OF
the Vindictive at Zeebrugge, for example.
This is distinctively not one of the wars
rewards in creative art.
THE SECRET CHANNEL AND OTHEf
STORIES OF THE GREAT WAX. ~
PERCY F. WEsTERAAN. The Maemilias
Company. Sc.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-03-23

@F those American lawyers who may
" justly claim high standing as e1-
perts in international law, Mr.. james
Brown Scott Of the Carnegie Endowment
for Peace in Washington occupies posi-
ton in the first rank. Anything therefore
that he writes at this time concerning the
conditions of peace with Germany is sure
to be worthy of serious consideration,
whether it bears directly on the proposed
League of Nations or not At first
thought there seems little In common be-
tween the problems presented to the
American Federal Convention In 1887
and those to be solved by the Paris Peace
Conference in 1919; but Mr.. James
Brown Scott is firmly convinced that the
convention which formed the Constitution
of the United States was in fact as well
AS in form an international conference,
and hence he insists on the Importance Of
studying its proceedings "as showing the
steps by which the thirteen States OF the
Western world, claiming to be sovereign,
free and independent, were able to form
the one large successful and enduring
Union of States to be found in the annals
OF history"
Major William Jackson, a companion
in arms of Alexander Hamilton, was the
titular Secretary Of the convention and
his name as such was subscribed to the
Constitution when completed. If he kept
any record of the detailed proceedings or
debates, however, it has absolutely disap-
peared; so that the historian Is COM
PEELED TO rely upon such diaries or jour
mails or notes as happened TO be written
out or jotted down by some Of the more
industrious and patriotic delegates them
selves. First among these, in the value of
bis product, was James Madison, Jr., Of
Virginia. he was not only rising states
man who knew the history of his country
and had helped to make it, but he was to
help TO make it still further by serving
for eight years as the fourth President Of
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-03-23


the United States. Unlike sun broad
minded men usually, he possessed an apti-
tude for detail which insured the conven-
ton against the omission Of anything of
importance from his record; 30 that pos
terity is probably better informed as to
the doings of the convention than it
would have been if Major VIII am Jack
son had left US a record and JShes Madi-
son had made none at all. Even the for
NAL Journal of the Convention deposited
in the State Department by President
Washington terminated with an unfn-
ished sentence, nor was it brought down
to the last day. At the request of Presi-
dent Monroe Mr.. Madison furnished the
information necessary to complete the
Journal.
An elaborate edition of Mr. Madison's
Notes, prepared by Mr.. James Brown
Scott and Mr.. Galliard Hunt, is soon to
be published. The purpose of the pres
ent monograph is to sketch the difficult
ties which the convention had to over
come, the manner in which \ overcame
them, and how a Society of Nations may
profit by study of the labors Of the con-
vention which formed our Constitution as
disclosed in Mr.. Madison's record
1t seems hardly necessary TO argue the
point that each colony represented ut
Philadelphia in Nay, 1857, by the dele
gates whom Thomas jefferson denomi-
mated an assembly Of demigods, was an
independent, sovereign State, The Su-
preme Court Of the United States has
recognized this fact over and over again.
In this respect Mr.. James Brown SCOTS
analogy between the American colonies
then and the nations represented around
the peace table in Paris now is perfect.
But is there any further analogy between
the purposes which the American Con-
stitutional Convention had In view and
those contemplated by the Paris Peace
Conference in forming a League Of Ma
tionsi In ratifying the Constitution Of
the United States the several States
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-03-23
nutnam's
publications.
The Lady
Mar. Il
1918

Emily James Putnam
60. % full page illustrations.
SITS.
A most entertaining, brilliant
and altogether delightful an.
swer to that much-mooted
question, What Is a lady!'
will be found in Mrs. Putnam's
study of the woman of social
position from Greek days to
our own.
"Her play of paradox, cpl
gram, and delicate rsillery
shows how much these quail
ties can please and stimulate
from the pen of a woman,
where learning and intellec-
tual responsibility to facts are
patent at every point. "-The
Nation IN. ~
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-03-23
Madison on Framing the Federal Constitution

parted with important portions of their
sovereignty, Legislative, executive and
Judicial. 1t is true that these were Inn
tied and well defined and each retained all
the other attributes of sovereign State.
Furthermore, the sanctions of the Fed
eral Government established by the Con-
stitution were made operative upon the
individual citizens of the several States
rather than upon the States themselves.
We do not understand that any Of the
most advanced advocates Of League Of
Nations contemplates such knitting to-
gether of the rights and interests of its
constituent members and their people as
has been developed under our Federal
Governmental scheme in this country. If,
however, the purpose of the Peace Con-
ference be 10 form an International world
state which would 60 far toward obhter-
ating national boundaries and national
interests then, and only then, would the
lessons of the Federal Convention of 1857
be as useful and valuable as Mr.. James
Brown Scott deems them to be.
Whatever may be the views of the
reader as to the desirability or possibility
Of such an intimate League of Nations,
Jones Aodsso~'s Notes of Debates ~ the
Federal Cospe~tioa of 1857 presents an
interesting and instructive picture Of the
proceedings Of the enlightened body of
men who established our general Govern
ment; and no one with any pretensions to
an adequate knowledge Of American insti-
tutions can afford TO be ignorant Of the
information it contains.
JAMES MADIsON's NOTES OF DE-
BATES IN THE FEDERAL CONVEN
TION OF 1857 AND THEIR REI4A-
TION TO A MORE PERFECT so
CIETY OF NATIONS. BY JAMES Brown
ScorT. Oxford University Press. g.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-03-23
Fragments
From France-Pat |
Bruce RaiFnsfather
Bruce RaiFnsfather
"A illustrations.

The unprecedented popu-
larity Of Bruce Bairnsfather
has not abated. His pictures
have been both dramatized
and "mOvieized." At least
live "star" companies are on
the road now in The Better
ole. And the books continue
to sell in increasing quanti-
ties. These pictures previous
ly printed in Part l.-IV. have
been reprinted in larger size
and are now published in q
separate volume.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-03-23

John W. Lucas 4 Company Of Boston
will publish in April Lama Benamor, a
novel by Ibanez, author Of The Fosr
HOrsenen of the apocalypse.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-03-23
A Short
History of Rome
Gugiielmo FeYfero
and
C0frad0 Barbagauo

CofradO Bafbagaflo
12o. Tuo -rolumes, $1.90 each
A brief history of Rome by
the great italian historian,
Ferrero, author Of The Great
ness and Decline Of Rome,
which will appeal to the casual
reader as well as the student.
Pant l. covers the Monarchy
and the Republic to the death
OF Caesar; Part H., the En-
pire from a. B. G. to 476 A. D.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-03-23
The kntartan
Poetry Book

Poetry Book
Prose TRANSACTIONS from the
Irish
Lady Gregory
author Of Irish Folk-Hi&ory
Ploys," "Scoen Short Plays"
Our Irish Theatre" etc.
50. $1.25.
Surely Irish Literature has
found its greatest devotee in
Lady Gregory. No one has
done more to bring to light
the brave old I'isb legends
and heroic poems. From
childhood she has lived with
the people of the countryside
who carry IRON generation to
generation the sagas OF the
race.
Gilpin observer., 1919-12-25
IS Million to WageWar on Styles
Con'uner' Union. Compised Of Women. Battle Against
High Cost Of Living

The Consumers union, members strong will
action, according to Washington correspondent.
1t will call nationwide strikes One of the frs will be
styles Every the 35OOOOOO belonging the union will
pledge herself last years hats and last years gowns
Attorney General Palmer marshal of the army be mob
zed by the gigantic offensive high
living every willing last years hat if she knows
other doing I've already gone strike against high
have taken buy clothes until those
ing can be no longer clothes.
Everyone organizing America except the Until
the unite stand sod behind the
campaign against high might well sit with folded
and watch the profteer flourish.
he of this warfare
high prices with them organized and working
living back to normal levels
"ln every and village there be league of who
pledge themselves do without rather than excessive When
milk raised beyond like against the people of New
York. they will call milk strike and days of the week do
without milk until the law supply and demand forces the
"One of the for excessive that the American public
drunk with people have than before and they
spending it recklessly
One of the first things do cut ensees uxuries
another s increase production"
Miss Strauss pretty, energetic wholly confident young
department Ct justice.
Do that there their
living travelling through the telling people how unhappy they
should be and how they should and overthrow existing
condions?' she concluded
Gilpin observer., 1919-12-25
Experienced Woodsmen and
Others May Easily Become
Lost Among the Big Trees

"Sooner or later everybody who trav-
Is likely to get lost" writes George
GLADDEN. in Boys Life. "The ten
derfoot (scout or otherwise) does; the
experienced woodsman does-even the
Indian sometimes does. But an Indian
often won't admit II. at least to n white
man; from which trait probably orig
mated the classic story about the red
skin, who, when he was accused Of
being lost. replied Indignantly:
"Injun no lost; wigwam lost; Injun
herev
There Is difference between being
lost and being astray. For example,
you may suddenly realize that you are
travelling northwest instead Of north,
which you had supposed and desired to
be your course; and that discovery
may cnuse not little confusion In your
mind. AS long as that confusion lasts.
you are astray; actually you are no
longer really astrny as soon as you
realize your error, and begin to travel
north.
Again. II you confidently expect to
see certain landmark-say big
ledge on n mOuntalnside-from trail
or road from which you believe 1t to
be visible. and it isn't there. you are
certainly astray. and perhaps lost, as
far as that ledge Is concerned. Where
fore 1t behoOves you to find out prompt
ly just why you have missed seeing
that ledge. Otherwise you are likely
to get still farther of your course. For,
depend upon 1t, the ledge hasn't moved
that is, the wigwam isn't lost. The
mistake that many nm inexperienced
person makes lies In laundering along.
and trusting to luck. with the result
that presently he is lost. for fair"
Gilpin observer., 1919-12-25
PIGS CAUSED
WORLD WAR
Quana Beswsea Austria and Sesbia
Traced to Di@cul,y Over Swine

Pigs-just pigs-brought OH the
war, according to statement accred-
tied to Count Carl Seilern, formerly
confidential adviser to the erstwhile
Emperor Charles at Vienna. Frederick
II. Mead of Troy, N. Y, member of
the Red Cross convoy taking food sup
plies to Budapest, reports the count
as saying:
Fifteen years before the war Ser
via was shipping great numbers of
pigs into Hungary, successfully COM
peting with the Hungarian farmers.
The Hungarlans protested but the bor-
der was left open. Finally the AustrO-
Hungarian government on the pretext
that all Servian pigs were diseased
placed an embargo on them.
up to that time the two govern
ments had more or less of friendly
understanding. Political leaders In
Servia seized upon the pig incident.
AustrO-Hungarian diplomats took up
the question. Misunderstandings arose
over it. When 1t grew too old for po-
litical propaganda, other questions
were built out OF 1t and thus the world
war wus brought on.
Yes, there is no doubt, pigs caused
the war;"
Gilpin observer., 1919-12-25
Ticket Stamper's Accident
Led to Discovery of Art
of Printing From Stone

An odd accident led to the discov-
cry OF lithographlng.
In 1706 ticket stamper, employed
at Munich theater. carelessly left his
salary check ON a table in the room
where he worked. A gust OF wind
suddenly blew the check Off the table
into basin of water on the floor.
He dried the check as best he could.
and. to stralghten the paper out. he
placed It underneath the milestone,
which had been resting on his print
ing stamp, and left 1t lying there
throughout the night.
The following morning, on taking
the stone Off the check, he was sur.
prised to see that the imprint from
the stone was transferred to the
check, and the thought struck him
that by means of II large stone he
could print" programs and songs. He
ruade experiments, and finally discov-
ered-through this accident-the art
Of printing from stone.
Thus was he the first photographer.
Gilpin observer., 1919-12-25
Parasite That Attacks
Both Cedar and Apple
Tree With Bad Results

ut may seem strange that a para
site shoud attack the stems and leaves
of the cedar and produce these tumor-
like growths, but this is only one-haIf
Of the story" says Frank d. Kern,
writing of the parasite known as
"Cedar Apples" In Boys Life. "The
other half is the climax of strange
ness. The parasite leads double
life. In its other stage 1t lives on the
apple tree, chiefly affecting the leaves,
but sometimes the fruit. Wild crab
apples and cultivated apples are both
affected. The apple grower speaks Of
is as orchard rust and on the apple
1t produces an entirely different effect.
From its appearance one would never
suspect its relation to the cedar ap-
ples.' Yellowish or reddish spots first
appear on the apple leaves. On the
upper side of these spots small dots
develop and later become blackish.
On the under side of the leaves deli
cate feathery projections develop. In
the fall, winter and spring, the para
site lives on the cedar 1t goes back
and forth by means of tiny germs
known us spores, which are carried
by the wind. This history of the para
site suggests that 1t would find con-
ditiOnS best where cedars and apples
grow close together, and such Is the
case. On the apple this rust is SER
iOus disease In some localities. The
best method of prevention is the de-
struction of the cedars In the vicinity.
1t is not likely that the wind will car
ry the spOre for more than few
miles. The state of West Virginia
has law regarding the destruction
of cedars near apple orchards. The
parasite does not spread from apple
to apple nor from cedar to cedar.
Some varieties of apples resist the
attacks better than others. have seen
Stayman Winesaps practically un-
touched when Grimes Golden in the
same orchard were badly affected"
Gilpin observer., 1919-12-25
Royalty Formerly Married
Outside Its Own Circles

Britain's kings did not always seek
their mates from the narrow circles
OF royalty. In the days Of the Plan
tngenets, Tudors and Stuarts alliances
of English and Scotch monarchs with
their subjects were not uncommon.
The royal mnrrlnge act was passed
In 11I2 prohibiting any descendant of
George ii. except those who were the
Issue OF princes or princesscs married
into foreign houses. from contracting
marriages before the age Of twenty
Ave without the assent OF the king
,slgnified under the great seal.
Gilpin observer., 1919-12-25
American Musicians Are
Returning to Old Haunts
After World War Strain

From the music of cannon and the
rhythm Of marching feet, back to the
quiet harmony Of studio and concert
hall.
Hundreds of musicians In America
threw down their bow and their baton
to enter the war. To some the idea
was just bit ludicrous-the emo
tional musician engaged In the brutal.
uncomfortable business of fighting.
To those who knew the patriotic fer
vor and adaptability of these inspired
music makers, there was more than
a little anxiety for the peace future
of warrior musicians. How would tie
delicate mechanism of their psycEol-
ogy be affected by an activity so pow
erful and so far from their normal
desires7
Some musicians like David Hoch-
stein, the young violinist who lost his
life in the Argonne, will never return.
But unassuming numbers of them
have taken their places again In the
ranks of players. One may hear them
In the theater orchestra. They are
playing in the cabaret jazz band, con
tent TO return to the humdrum of the
| life which was so enthralllng to them
| before the war Il may be II bit stalo
| to them now. But the reaction will
soon set in, has already come to many
who have lost the first restless crav-
ing for excitement that they felt on
their return from the front.
Percy Granger, Australian pianist,
has returned to his old job of compos-
Ing and concertising. Irving Berlin.
king OF popular music. has stopped in
spring the soldier and has set his
brilliant talents to inspiring the sol
dier in civilian life. Albert Spalding.
one of the greatest OF Americas viOlln-
lists, is on his way home from the
front. His old job Of fiddling and
making the world safe for culture is
waiting for him, and he will take 1t
gladly. Pianists, tenOrs, trOmbonists
are all slipping back into the old
paths-and are glad to be there.
Gilpin observer., 1919-12-25
Japanese Produce Dwarf
Trees Through Training
in Reverse to Nature

There is general impression that
is a secret that the Japanese have
never divulged; but the course to be
pursued is really simple. The whole
system of culture may be summed up
as the reverse of natures method. 1t
| really consists, not in the survival of
the fittest, but rather In the survival
| Of the unfittest. A poor, weak seed is
usually chosen and planted. AS soon
as 1t has attained some growth the
leading shoot is trimmed off. The lit
tie plant then grows two other shoots,
and these are carefully watched. When
one shoot exhibits strength and vi
tality greater than Its fellow 1t is at
once cut off and the weaker shoot Is
untouched In order to form the future
dwarf trees main stem or trunk This
system of trimming and cutting is fol-
lowed punctiliOusly. Water is seldom
used-only in very small quantities to
keep the little plant actually alive.
The tree is kept In n pot too small for
its full development, and the roots are
constantly pruIfed. The shoots are
carefully trained and bent to follow
the growth Of large tree. All this
requires great patience, but the Jap
anese never tire watching the growth
of the tree from day to day. week
to week and month to month. When
the tree has been growing for about
five years. it can then be practically
left to take care of itself. 1t has be-
come accustomed to its training, and
Its surroundings, and. like force of
habit, follows the course laid out for
1t. In this manner some very mag
nificent specimens OF dwarf trees are
produced which In their miniature
beauty and majesty compare favorably
with their big brothers In the unframed
forests.