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The Alaska daily empire., 1919-02-25
Personal Mention

J. B. Jackson and family have re turned to Juneau after spending d three-months' vacation in Everett. MT. Jackson is engaged in the fish ing business.
 Mrs. Dudley G. Alien left on the Jefferson for Skagway where she will visit friends and relatives.
 J. s. Stickney of Sitka, arrived in Juneau yesterday and is at the Al askan Hotel.
 B. B. Roberts of Seattle is staying at the Alaskan Hotel.
 Miss Eva Campbell, manager of the dry goods department of B. M. Behrends Company, who has been in the South and East on a buying trip, western which left Seattle this morn ing. Miss Campbell is accompanied by her sister, Mrs. J. D. Godfrey, who will visit in Juneau.
 Lieut. H. Postle, who was com missioned in the Engineering Corps, will return to Thane on the North western which is due here Friday night.
 F. w. Williamson, of the General Land Office. will return to Juneau on the Northwestern.
 Horace Adams, Juneau draft man, who was released from the service short time ago, will return to Jul neau on the Northwestern.
 Martin o. Jorgenson is passenger for Juneau on the Northwestern which left Seattle this morning.
 John L. Museth and Mrs. Museth returned to Juneau on the Jefferson MT. Museth was released from the service at~Camp Grant several weeks ago and was joined in Seattle by Mrs. Museth shortly afterward Since then they have been visiting in the South.
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The Alaska daily empire., 1919-02-25
THERE IS A REASON"

The reason for the unusual good service from our Ingersol watches and alarm clocks is our careful sys- tenn of inspection when we get them.
 We run the watch one day each in three positions: Dial up, dial down, and hanging up; and if it doesn't average good is it returned and a new one demanded. This is the reason why we seldom get complaint from purchaser of one of these watches.
 Our alarm clocks are rigidly in spected also.
The Alaska daily empire., 1919-02-25
THE EMPIRE IS FOR SALE AT
 THE ALASKA GRILL

For the convenience of travellers, fishermen and other people arriving in the city after midnight sales agency for The Alaska Daily Elm pire has been placed at the Alaska Grill, which is open all night.
The Alaska daily empire., 1919-02-25
PROGRESS REPORTED AT LABOR UNION FOR
 HOME EMPLOYMENT

At the regular weekly meeting of Local No 4, Alaska Labor Union, last night, progress was reported by the committee appointed to take up with the business men and others the proposition of getting the can neries to employ home labor. A let ter was read from F.. J. White, Ter. ritorial publicity agent, in which he said he had taken the subject up with the canneries, and satisfaction was expressed over the fact.
 Already in the business places in dicated by the Union. number of Juneau people and Juneau families have registered for work in the can neriies this Summer.
The Alaska daily empire., 1919-02-25

An atom isn't the smallest thing in the world. We saw the smallest thing in the world the other day. He put a nickle into blind mans tin cup and then took two pencils out of the blind mans hat
The Alaska daily empire., 1919-02-25

Headquarters for Ladysmith coal Juneau Transf. Co.,. phone 48.
The Alaska daily empire., 1919-02-25

Headquarters for Ladysmith coal. Juneau Transfer Co.,. phone AS.
The Alaska daily empire., 1919-02-25
GOWIE SHEPARD GOES
 INTO BUSINESS WITH
 ANOTHER JUNEAU MAN

Gowie Shepard, son of MT. and Mrs. II. R. Shepard, and Walter Waite. formerly of Juneau, where he was employed by the Alaska Juneau Gold Mining Company. have gone in to business in Seattle as commis- sion and purchasing and forwarding and Waite. Their office is at Room 417, L. c. Smith Building.
 In writing to his father, MT. Shep- ard said that their firm was ready to handle all the Alaska business 1t could We will buy or sell anything from a peanut to stamp mill," he as. sured him.
The Alaska daily empire., 1919-02-25

Phone ii O The Empire. No. 374
Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1919-04-26
SAINT MARTINS.


Mss Ida Jarmoa Of Allentown, Pa.
r'aIr her parents Nj. and Mr.. VA
,hanirl Jarmon visit recently
M Evelyn M.oldoN and Mis-,
myrtle Adkins. Of Shovel. spent sat
uda, and SUNDAY With Miss Daisy
sock
Miss, Ida 'rimmon, and Nellie
Aydclo'tr spcn, SUNDAY with Nh and
Mn. Waite Adkins.
ilr ami Mr. Lester Holland and
On pen; sunday with her parents.
Mr.. and Mr. William X. Holland.
MI and Mr.. William X. Holland.
jr pen, SUNDAY with Mr.. and Mrs.
Edward Gauit. Of Berlin
~ Preston Aikin>. Of shovel,
spent SATURDAY and Sunday with Mr..
Carl Iio'louay.
W. .irnrio Griffin Of Showcl vas
q yock en- visitor % her sister, Mrs..
l.. y. Jamou
W.T. and Mr. Frrd Williams, Of
Iihc.t own, spent Saturday with hef
~, VI Calvin mock
w. and Mrs Caltin Nock visited
VIZ Hadaon. o. Lih"r'!. s.
oUn. sunday.
Miss Matte William and sister Of
brrgfoan. haze been visiting thr.I.
-'cr. Nh. Cal,.n Mock
Misses Ida ans Ruth Jamon. and
Hoard harmon and Ernest Dennis
,pon, Sunday afternoon with \Ii>-
MAJ y liam- o. pittssillc.
81 and M 1homa, Tmmon ani
-on- - Campb"il,own visited Nj ana
N-. " \. Holland Sundal.
Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1919-04-26
Notice OF
Citizens Meeting

A Citizens Meeting will be held in
the Firemen's Room. Municipal Build
ing. Snow Hill. on
Thursday. May /. 1919,
at eight o'clock p m. for the purpose
of nominating three persons IA Council
men to succeed those whosh terms are
about to expire.
WILLIAM :. PARSONS. Mayor.
Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1919-04-26
No Worms in a Healthy Child

Al children troubled with worms have an IN
healthy color which indicates poor blood. and a
rule there is more or less stomach disturbance
GROVES TASTELESS chill TONIC given regularly
for two or three weeks will enrich the blood. i'm
prove the digestion and act as n General Strength
enins Tonic TO the whole system. Nature will then
throw of or dspel the worms and the Child will b.
N perfect health Plcasan, 10 take Coz per bottle.
Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1919-04-26

have attained their unqucstioncd superiority
BY assisting nature to perfect expression.
Livery Gossard is hygcnically correct Prop
crly fitted 10 the figure for which it was
designed il will give scientific support to
abdominal and back muscles, with no chance
of undue pressure at the waistlinc; the organs
of nutrition will be free from pressure; the
erect posture which is induced will encourage
deep breathing and the diaPhragmatic mus
Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1919-04-26
MONDAY.
MAY 5th, 1919,

for the purpose of electing by ballc:
three persons to serve IA councilmen OF
Snow HILL. to succeed Charles 4 Clarke.
" lllam I. Hearne. and treorge W.
Vincent. whose terms will expire on
the frat Monday of May 1919 The
polls will be open in the Municipal build.
ing from until i o clock. D. m.
WILLIAM : PARSONS.
MavOr.
Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1919-04-26
GOSSARD CORSIETS
The Originally neqnaAtd Front Lacns Cor5cts

Giles become strong Wit, use A woman 50
corsctcd will have the undcni4h,c beauty Il
health and that grace 81 hoI., ..nd'u-,
sitting, or walking, which IS belt =. pressed
in the one word, style.
We unrescrvcdy recommend Co ~ Iorsc,s
as the complete expression Of modern cor. ctry,
Our highly specialized corset service Is main
tanned with full appreciation Of the cAact'ng
needs Of the modern, active woman.
Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1919-04-26
PLANTS

1000, 900 Cabbage. Caulitlower, and
Tomato Plants Ready April 18th to
June 5th 10 varieties. Good plants
for the man who plants for profit.
Grown from the finest strains Of seed.
Send for price list.
F. WINFIELD ROCHELLE.
On the Eastern Shore Parksley. Va.
Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1919-04-26

valids, am naturally determined to do every
thing in my power to educate the Arc-ican
woman in the proper fitting OF corse;s. Most
learned physicians now recognize tx modern
corset as a hypicnically hcalthfui r.acnt
and one that is often the best means of pro-
viding corrective support for many bodily
ailments"
Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1919-04-26

ALL women wish to be well; but all women
~ do not appreciate the vital Importance
i Aof correct corsctry as an essential to
good health The well-known medical
authority, Alice s. Cutler, Md, warns US:
''As a physician Who knows that il il were
not for ill-httng and the wrong kind OF
corsets we would have very few female in
Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1919-04-26
Municipal Election.

Notice is hereby given tina; an cleo
ton will be- held in the town Of SNOW
Hll Worcester County. Maryiand on
The Mount Holly news., 1919-06-17
WEEDS USEFUL IN MEDICINE
Grandmother Used to Concoct Some
Wonderful cureaIIs From All
Sorts of Growing Things.

With ne exception of some of the
daintier <pring blossoms, our wild
flowers are passed oy without COM
ment. Violets, hepsticas. bluebells,
trilliums are still sought after and
picked. the fall asters are gathered by
some and the goldenrod is admired,
bur passing i2tO disrepute on account
of its hay-fever aggravations. There
was time, however, when grand
mother was young, when most of our
common field and wayside flowers
were of prime Importance In the house
hold, In the shape Of family bitters,
physics and curealls.
Yarrow, pest to the farmer, and of
doubtful beauty even to the wild flower
lover, was at one time a most useful
herb, from which tea was made that
cured all sorts of ailments, from tooth
ache to typhoid fever. From the bone
set plant. so common along our
streams now, a tea was also made
which was prime favorite In curing
that common malady, "breakbone
fever"-do not laugh-probably what
we know today as grippe. Comobile,
we call it dog fennel, was brewed into
tea as well, and was used as tonic
and blood purifier.
Jlmson weed. corruption of James,
town weed, was valued by the settlers
of that early village as a narcotic, and
is still so used, for that matter. Self
heal the little, close-growing purple
flowered pest of our lawns, was used
to relieve sufferers with quinsy and
other throat Affections. This plant be-
longs to the mint family, and most of
the mints were of use incidentally.
Pennyroyal, spearmint, Oswego tea
bergamot, catnip and motherwort
were all Of value to the simpler folk
OF a century or more ago.
The Mount Holly news., 1919-06-17
WHAT MIRO READ AT SCHOOL
Youngsters Initiation Into Culture
Was Made almost a Re-
Elgious Mystery"

At school Miro was early impressed
with the vast dignity of the literary
works and names he was compelled to
learn. Shakespeare and Goethe and
Dante lifted their plaster heads frown-
fngly above the teachers as they perch
ed on shelves about the room. Much
was said Of the greatness Of literature.
But the art Of phonetics and the COM
plicatiOns Of grammar swamped Miro's
early school years. 1t was not until ne
reached the high school that literature
began really to assume that sacredness
which he had heretofore felt only for
holy Scripture, Randolph Bourne writes
In Yale Review. His initiation into
culture was made almost religious
mystery by the conscientious and
harassed teacher. AS the "Deadwood
Boys" and David Harum" slipped
away from Miro's soul in the presence
of Milton's "Comus," and Burke "On
Cancellation" cultural devoutness
was engendered In him that never
really died. At first 1t did not take
Miro beyond the stage where your
conscience is strong enough to make
you uncomfortable, but not strong
enough to make you do anything about
it. Mira did not actually become an
Omnivorous reader of great books. But
he was filed with rich grief that the
millions pursued cheap and vulgar flc-
ton instead Of the best that has been
thought and said In the world. Miro
Unfortunately bought cheap editions
of the English classics and read them
with a certain patient uncomprehend-
ingness.
The Mount Holly news., 1919-06-17
Chance Discoveries.

Some of the finest friendships have
grown out of the chance circumstances
that have thrown men together for the
moment. Some of the greatest discov-
cries have been due to the fortunate
disclosures of life's incidentals. Much
of self-discovery is the direct product
of the unlocked for. Science has been
made rich by the fortunate combina-
tions of accidentals whose meanings
have been caught by observant men.
And the great fact remains that most
of them have been paraded before men
through the ages, to be discovered only
now. And the ages to come will won
der at the lost opportunities of the
present age when they have harnessed
the powers we see not-the mysteries
we wonder at.
The Mount Holly news., 1919-06-17
ADDS TO WEALTH OF ITALY
New Variety Of Wheat, Known as
StrampeIIl, Has Proved Really
Wonderful Success.

A new wheat, specially adapted to
the conditions prevailing in the grain
raising districts of Italy, has just been
developed by many years of careful
selection by Prof Nazareno Strampelli,
director of the experiment station
at Rieti to whom the Academy of the
Lincei has awarded for it the prize of
the Sanford foundation, given only to
those who discover something of real
and great benefit to the human race.
The new grain has been named Car
lotta Strampelli, after the devoted
wife who helped materially in the
work of selection. Signora Strampelli
is a Roman patrician and a great
granddaughter of Lucien Bonaparte,
Napoleon's elder brother.
Last year Carlotta Strampelli
wheat was sown upon $4,000 acres Of
ground and yielded an average of 81
bushels to the acre-about ten bushels
more than such land had yielded hith-
erto.
On the plains of Lombardy, Molise
and Puglie are about 100000 acres
suitable for the new wheat. If the en-
tire product of last year were sown
this year, the wheat crop of Italy
would be increased by a quantity
about equivalent to that imported an
nually before the war; in other words,
1t would make Italy Independent of
the rest Of the world for wheat.
The Mount Holly news., 1919-06-17
FIRST EMBLEM OF BABYLONIA
Writer Points Out How Eagle Be-
came National Symbol Many
Thousands Of Years Aqo.

The useful schoolboy, whose knowl-
edge is casually referred to whenever
it is desired to imply general histori-
cal information, doubtless knows
about the eagles of Rome, and more
or less connects them with the her.
aldic eagle of the United States, but
Prof. James H. Breasted of Chicago
carried the lineage of the symbol
much farther back when he recently
pointed out that the American eagle
reasonably enough originated some
5000 years ago In Babylonia. Then first
appeared the eagle with outstretched
wingssymbolizingth gthestate. Rome came
later, and the succession of European
nations that have adopted the eagle
Russia, Austria, Prussia, France and
others. But this first eagle was bird
of autocracy, and nothing could have
been more opposite to the govern
mental idea of ancient Babylon than
the American Declaration of Inde-
pendPnce. Free and powerful. the
eagle stands logically for liberty and
strength, but when 1t first became a
national symbol, liberty, as the word
is now understood, did not exist.
The Mount Holly news., 1919-06-17
WILL NOT BE MADE RELIC
ciemenceau's Coat to Be Missing From
Collection of Mementoes of the
Worlds Famous.

Apparently M. Clemenceau's prac-
tical mind and hate of show are going
to deprive his admirers of the right
OF gazing at the famous perforated
coat and waistcoat in one of the Paris
museums, for this is not to be in
cluded among the relics of greatness
for future age, like Nelson's coat and
the Napoleon relics. There have been
some very curious souvenirs of the
kind, apart from the half-smoked
cigars Of royalties which are treasured
by some. Most curious of all undoubted-
ly was Lord Anglesey's "leg." Lord
Anglesey lost leg at Waterloo, and it
was buried in the garden of the villa
to which he was taken. In after years
he used to recall how parties of people
visited the spot ito view the grave"
A relic of another kind was George
IFS famous coat, and 1t was a pleas
ant trait in the fiery little king that he
squeezed himself at Dettingen into the
coat he had worn years before at
Oudenarde. Horace Walpole's ''re-
searches after Queen Mary's comb,
WOlsey's red hat, the pipe which Van
Tromp smoked during his last sea
fight, and the spur which King William
struck into the flank of Sorrel's" are
famous.-Westmins Guardian.
The Mount Holly news., 1919-06-17
WORK OF MONKS IN EXILE
Congregation Of Armenian Christians
Has Dlffused knowledge of Coun-
try's Language and Literature.

The Mechitarist monks are a small
congregation of Armenian Christians
who were exiled from their native Mnd
at the beginning of the eighteenth CEN
tury. The church in Armenia had long
been divided into bitterly hostile camps
over the question Of the nature Of
Christ, and when the Mechitarists en-
tered into communion with the Church
of Rome in 1712 the Armenian patri-
arch succeeded In driving them from
the country. They took up their resi-
dence In the Morea, but they had again
to flee before the advance Of the con-
Quering Turk, and In 1715 they estab-
lished themselves in Venice, on the
Island Of San Lazzaro. Here they set
up printing press and gathered to-
gether a large and valuable library Of
oriental works. Their name is de-
rived from Mechtar da Petro, who
founded religious society at Constan-
tinople about the year 100, and who
aimed at uplifting the intellectual and
spiritual conditions Of his countrymen,
and at diffusing q knowledge of the
old Armenian language and literature.
The colony Of exiles during their So
Journ in Venice has printed most of
the classic writings in Armenian lit
erature and translated the works of
Eusebius, Philo and other writer's.
The Mount Holly news., 1919-06-17
ADMITS HE WAS GUST LOST"
Joke on Veteran Hack Driver Was
Altogether Too Good One
to Be Kept.

For 10 years George l. King has
driven the Nashville-Helmsbur hack
line, and is known as the Abe Martin
driver by every person who has Wis
tied Nashville. He has met both
morning and afternoon trains a.:
Helmsburg almost every day, and has
every stone and bad place in the road
definitely In his mind.
Recently, so friends of Mr.. King
say, he and a hackful of passengers
were lost within a half mile of Nash
Vile, and he was two hours late when
he arrived in town. One of the pas
sengers told the story on the driver
after he had found out that Mr.. King
was not going to tell why he was late.
When near town he drove across
Owl creek to let one of the passengers
out, and instead of turning around he
turned the horses only half way, and
then drove into a 40-acre cornfield.
One of the women passengers, hearing
the cornstalks popping asked Mr..
King when they would get back on
the road. He did not answer, but
kept driving around and around in the
cornfield. After a few minutes she
asked him where they were. He
replied, "be d-n + know" The pas
sengers, all strangers, became alarmed
and, after calling for help, young
farmer appeared and showed the
driver how to get out of the cornfieId
and on the pike.
After the story had become known
Mr.. King said that he had two dash
lanterns on the hack and was just
ost.-Indianapolis News.
The Mount Holly news., 1919-06-17
lGfI0N BETTER THAN WORDS
Answered the Boche Demand
That He Surrender.

Lieut.. Col. Charles w. Whittlesey,
commander of the Lost Battalion"
and winner of the first congressional
medal of the war, has been dubbed
GO-to-Hell Whittlesey, because of his
reputed pithy answer to the German
demand to surrender. Now comes
Lieut.. Arthur McKeogh, adjutant Of
the battalion, with the complete story
which he tells in Everybody's. "As
a matter of fact" writes Lieutenant
McKeogh, 'the colonel sent back no
written answer whatever. To those
nearest him he did suggest that the
Boches could take the well-known easy
descent. But the most complete, prac-
tical and splendid answer that could
have been made to the German pro-
posal he made as he finished reading
the note.
"On the side of the hill our airplane
liaison agent had spread out his pane,
to indicate the battalion's position to
the divisional planes that had been try
ing to drop message cylinders and
even food within reach of the COM
mand. That panel was an equilateral
cloth triangle, more than six feet long.
Moreover, with the exception of a small
black patch, it was white. The
thought sprang into the colonel's mind
that, inclined as twas on comparatively
open ground, the big signal device was
probably visible in the Boche lines
And 1t was white. Messages and food
were essential enough, God knows, but
suppose the Germans mistook that
panel for surrenderl
whit ordered 1t taken in at once.
That was his answer.
What words could have been as
magnificent p
The Mount Holly news., 1919-06-17
Fun In Trees for Children.

What delight an old apple, cherry
or plum tree is to children, boys or
girls. Particularly a tree that has
been trained to low, open head, that
the youngsters can scramble up in
without much effort.
My heart stands still sometimes
when l see the children swinging in
the plum tree, like the simians some
scientists tell us we have descended
from, and it is the only resemblance
OF an ape / have observed in man.
kind. Surely there must be some re-
lation or there would be broken limbs
and broken heads among the focks Of
children that swarm in that glorious
old tree.
Frequent cautioning and pleadings
excite no fear, but if there are no
accidents the old plum is fulfilling a
splendid mission, though there are no
other plum trees sufficiently near for
the bees and insects to fertilize the
flowers, resulting In the tree produc-
ing only one kind of fruit, pleasure
for the children.
The Mount Holly news., 1919-06-17
He Wears a Necklace.

Did you ever hear of man wear
ing a necklace7 Well, that is what
the male Canadian warbler does, while
on the female Of this attractive bird
there Is only the slightest indication
of necklace, says the American For
estry association, Washington, which
is conducting the nationwide bird
house building contest among school
children. The warbler's necklace of
black spots shows up very strikingly
on his olive green and yellowish throat
and breast. On the back the bird is
of slate gray color with the tail more
of an olive brown Tone This is a very
lively bird. 1t is very seldom still
for more than few seconds before II
dashes out at some tempting bit to
eat. 1t Is partial to the wooded
banks Of streams. 1t usually keeps
in underbrush near the ground.
The Mount Holly news., 1919-06-17
SHoFAR IN HEBREW RITUAL
Wood Instrument Dates Back to the
Very Earliest Youth of the
World.

Hebrew historians, with a special
eye Cor ear) to the racial history, are
very proud of their shofar. They say
it is the oldest form of wood wind In
strument in the world, that 1t was
used in the original Mosaic ritual.
1t is the one musical instrument, says
DR.. Cyrus Adler, which has been pre-
served unbrokenly in that ritual.
There is even a theory, voiced by
Professor Steinthal, that the shofar
antedates the people of Israel. He
says 1t probably goes back to prehis-
toric times. And another investiga-
tor points out that 1t obviously came
first from folk solely dependent on
the growing of sheep.
This ancient rams horn instrument
was perhaps earliest used for the sig
nails of alarm which were so neces-
sarily common in primitive society.
The Israelites then adapted it to their
religious services, and with such fit
ting effect that it has persisted
uniquely since the beginning.
But the Talmud indicates that, even
among the Hebrews, the shofar was
also developed into horn for CIV
ing alarms. Fundamentally these
alarms would be incidental to war.
Afterward, though, the instrument was
blown In other seasons of danger or
distress. 1t warned of famine or of a
plague of locusts or of drought. And
it was employed in the public serv-
Ice of accommodation.
The children of Israel had other
horns which were used for musical
and ritualistic purposes, but this is
the only one which has survived.