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same basket and the same tale.
Doubtless expecting a second quarter
Another evening an oldish man
showed up with kitchen towels made
by his wife, q quarter each.
The woman has more towels than
she quite knows what to do with.
being Il collector along that line. but
when you think of an old couple sew
ing and selling between them. you
know. of course. that the woman took
one. She noticed later that the
towels were bought ready-made at
the and 10, but this is a hard world
for old age to fight, brethren, so we
can't be too critical of little trade fibs.
Especially as we fig, ourselves. All of
US.
The oldish man came again with
more towels and of course, the woman
responded, but, to come right down to
it, when you buy thing for dime
and get $50 per cent for it. with no
other outlay than the mere passing
over to a customer, isn't that what
we classics call a skin game? Or,
maybe. it is only a case of higher
mathematics. Either way. he will
doubtless keep calling and the woman
will keep buying, because it might be
it might be-helping out with a sup
per-and that makes the transaction
worth while.
The woman, who is taking course
in door bells, was talking it over with
a visitor, who went her one better
like this:
when my husband had his stroke.
OF course, we could get along, but l
decided it would help out a bit if /
rented one Of the rooms. which we
really don't need now that Julia is
married and gone. SO 1 put an ad in
the paper and the bell began to ring
'The first applicant was sure she
would love the room, it was so fresh
and sunshiny and the view was so per-
fectly sweet, but meantime she would
like to show me the latest method of
waxing floors, taking the contraption
from what I had supposed was a suit
case and showing how it could be at
tached to a mop handle Of any sort.
after she left. a really nice. digni-
fed gentleman looked the place over,
and it did my heart good, after that
first experience, to hear him ask about
the heat and to see his real admiration
of the snowy bath, especially the
shower, as he had to have one every
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which lady didn't. And that ended
that.
II don't think you ought to be sit
ting out here when there is nobody
around to buy. You ought to have a
cup Of hot coffee"
''Yes'm, l cert'n'y ought; hot cawfee
is about the best thing 1 knows, but
I gotta sell a little somethin' fore !
gifts the money for it. An me. in my
young days, uster live on the fat of
the LAM"
"But suppose you catch the influ-
enza: then what? Here, you take this
quarter and go inside the market to
that stand down by the door-and it
won't be so hard waiting-I don't sup
pose any one will rob the stand"
AS the woman laid the coin on the
box, the old body beamed and chuckled
with open. child-like delight. Then
her voice deepened into mystic melody
as she chanted out blessing-or was
it merely the wheedling jolly that
was her weapon of defense in days
gone by?
"Gawdinheben bless you. lady, an
| bring you a fine husb'n anna whole
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FRS. JOHN r. ROBERTS, ma.
UH tional chairman of the dlvl-
VA sion Of literature of the Cen
4 eral Federation Of Womens S
Clubs, has announced that
the federation. in cooperation with
the National Association of Book PUP
fishers, is Offering prizes for reports
of the most constructive observance OF
Book week, November 13 to ~. held
under the auspices of woman $ CiuD'
The first prize is $50: second, $2o.
Clubs are to send the story of their
Book week activities to Mrs. Roberts,
1916 Pine street, Philadelphia, to reach
her by December 10.
Announcements of prize awards VIII
he made at the next biennial conVen'
tion of the federation.
Book week is an effort to stimulate
the love of good reading among boys
and girls and older people, too. More
than 5000 communities observed it
last year. Women'S clubs throughout
the country are taking an active part
in Book week plans, arranging dis
cussions of young peoples reading for
club meetings and assisting librarians
and teachers in their efforts to make
reading play a vital part in the lives
of American children.
X X X
ID UTH ELDER will be the guest of
~ honor at a dinner given by the
New York City branch of the National
Woman'S Party at the Ambassador
Hotel. New York City. this evening.
Among the members of the committee
in charge of the dinner are: Mrs.
James j. Walker. wife of Mayor
Walker; Mrs. John Winters Brannan.
Miss Elsie Ferguson, Mrs. stephen
Pell, Mrs. William X. Vanderbilt Mrs.
John Jay White and Mrs. Jane Nor
man Smith. The speakers at the din
ner will be Ruth Elder, Eva LIE Gal
lienne and Doris Stevens.
Miss Margaret Lambie, Miss Maud
Younger congressional chairman, and
Miss Mabel Vernon, national execu-
tive secretary. will go from Washing
ton to Philadelphia next Thursday to
attend the meeting of the national
council of the Womans Party to be
held there. The council will be enter
tanned at luncheon by Mrs. John c.
Martin at the Ledger Club. Other
members of the council attending the
Philadelphia meeting will be Mrs.
Florence Bayard Hilles of Delaware,
Mrs. Edith Houghton Hooker and Mrs.
Isaac H. Dixon of Baltimore, Mrs.
John Winters Brannan, Mrs Stephen
Pell and Mrs. Jane Norman Smith of
New York.
A tea will be given at national head
quarters of the Woman's Party, on
Capitol Hill, this afternoon in honor
of Miss Sheldon Jackson and Miss
Sara Grogan, officers of the Woman's
Party, who have recently returned
from unusually interesting trips
abroad.
Miss Jackson spent last year in the
Orient and Miss Grogan in Europe,
where she had conferences with many
distinguished feminists who are mem.
bers Of the International Advisory
Council of the Woman's Party. Mrs.
Emil Berliner, chairman of the Dis
trict branch, will preside at the meet
ing. Mrs. Richard Wainwright, Mrs.
Harvey w. Wiley, Mrs. Nina E. Allen
der. Mrs. Wymond Bradbury, Mrs.
Legare Obear. Miss Laura NJ. Ber-
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rien, Miss Mabel Law, Mrs. Lucy
Cooper Shaw, Mrs. Andrew Stewart
and other officers of the District
branch will be the hOstosses. Miss
Maxine Townsend. Misses Elizabeth
and Florence Hooper and number OF
the Younger members of the District
branch will assist at the tea.
Two State chairmen of the Woman $
Party have been guests at the natlohal
headuIiarterS during the past Week.
Mrs. Rcna Maverick Green of san An
tonic, chairman of the Texas hranch'
visited headquarters on her way to
Texas from several months spent in
F,urope. Mostly at Geneva. She was
accompanied by her daughter, Row
ena Maverick Green, who is student
ut Antioch COllece. \ tea in honor OIL
Mrs. Green and Miss Green was given
at headquarters last Sunday. Mrs
Ellen b. p Crump of Nitta Yuma,
chairman Of the Mississippi branch OF
the Woman's Party. is now in Nash-
ington interviewing MISSISSIPPI Con-
gressmen in behalf Of the equal
rights amendment which is to be re-
introduced by the NVoman's Party In
the coming session OF Congress.
A X
THREE important contests that are
being conducted under the aus
nices of the National League OF Amer.
lean Pen Women for the members OF
the organization will close Tuesday
These are the poetry contest. the
book contest and the drama contest.
Only published work in these three
classes is available for consideration
by the various Judges. all of whom
will be chosen from outside the ranks
of the league.
Mrs. F. r. Hoisington, Kirby Lane,
Rye. N. Y. is chairman of the poetry
contest; Mrs. Irving r. Prentiss, 4607
Spruce street, Philadelphia, Pa, of the
book contest; Mrs. William H. Moses,
Presidential Apartments, Washington,
D. c., of the drama contest.
All entries must have been publish
ed or. in the case of drama, produced
or sold for production between March
Is, 1926, and November Is. 1927.
Names Of the authors must be oblit-
Grated from the published work and
sent with the material entered in the
contest in a sealed envelope, accord
ing to announcement from national
headquarters. The judges for the
poetry contest will be chosen from
among the members of the Poetry So
ciety of America.
The winners in the various classes
will be adjudged, respectively, the
best book of the year by a league
member. the best poem of the year
and the best play Of the year, and
money awards will be made to the au-
thors. There will also be honorable
mentions.
These contests are being conducted
to stimulate the efforts of league mem
bers to an increasingly higher stand.
ard of production and as a means of
recognition of work of unusual merit
produced during the past year or
more.
The November board meeting of the
national league was held Monday
morning at the Willard, which is now
the national headquarters of the or
ganiZation. Mrs. Grace Thompson Sc.
ton, national president, presided and
business of Importance was transacted.
X X X X
INDIANA has a candidate for the
next president of the General Fed
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AROUND THE CITY
BY MAMIE LANCASTER.

morning. And while he was appar-
emily considering whether to make
deposit and bring his wife to look 1t
| over, or lease 1t at once by the year,
| he took q card from his coat pocket
| and presented it to me with the state
| ment that his garage was so near that
| he hoped to have my custom-and
| then went away to let me know l was
| fooled again.
| Another woman was in such
| gust of hurry to get to business that
she barely glimpscd my room before
! whipping out an adjustable corset of
pink rayon, with no stays to it-and
an hour later was followed by a mani
cure who would either call or--and 50
! on for three days-and nights.
/ "By that time l began to sense that
I was being initiated into new line
of graft, but I can't say 1 blame these
agents, seeing that our apartment
house prohibits peddling and they
| have to walk up to escape the eleVa-
tor boys. l guess they are ringing
that bell this minute. but don't care.
a tenant across the hall took it last
night for her mother, who is coming
! to spend the Winter. and by that time.
II John is able, we are going to lit
tie place we own in the country"
And in the middle of a cup of tea
they were having, there came n ring
from little girl with stove handle
pads that mamma had made. And
both women bought one. A nuisance?
Yes, of course, but don't you know,
honeys, we have all got to live, and
| besides
| 1t gives you primer course In
every day human nature.
X X X X
| "A WOMAN was blowing around the
back of the "Mash" Market that
| last chilly day. Country carts had
rumb,ed back to wherever they had
come from and the entire squatter
colony had done the Arab act and
quietly stolen away. The one excep-
ton was an ancient woman as brown
as the ribs of Time (quotation). who
sat in q crumpled heap under the mar
ket house caves. On the box stand in
! front OF her were a couple of heads
OF cabbage that had gone rusty around
the edges, few switches of dried-up
roots, twist of tobacco, bunch of
| near-Wllted chrysanthemums and five
| eggs. The owner of the layout was
| swathed in what had been a blanket
shawl before it aged into the thinness
of sheet, with wooly something
over her head that had faded from
pink to washy-looking gray.
Nice cabbages, lady"
| They were abominable cabbages, but
| the too generous boost sounded some
| how pathetic. So the woman stopped
blowing around long enough to say:
Don't you know it is too chilly for
you to be sitting out here? Why don't
you go home. honey?'
Honey was affably communicative
| "Yes'm, it's tollable cold, but / got nv
legs kivered an my shawl's right COM
Portable warm. I'm a waitin' for my
gran'son, who had little job to tend
to before he could bring the wagon
aroun' to take me out Bladensburg
road. where I lives. Some nice t'bac'
twisses. lady?"
No genteel maiden lady has any use
for tobacco twisses, SO that ended that
deal Then she was asked if she
didn't want some mouty hepful verbs
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na ssler little Children -

passler little children"
But the woman. who never in this
world will own husband or children
and wouldn't know what to do with
them, if she did. blew off toward
Seventh street, and that was all there
was TO that, except that
If YOU think the quarter was a char
ity gift. you never were more mistaken
in your life. There are many ways
of doing business in this world and
one of the ways is to pay for a warn
that can be tabled down-lke this
Especially when you get a whole lot
more for it. And then some.
X X * X
TO overhear private conversation
for the deliberate purpose of max.
ing money out of it may not be a ton.
loftiCal occupation, but one must pa y
ones chauffeur. SO be lanient. We who
live on the heights of honor, and listen
tn THIS:
eyes, sir, science will eventually end
poverty and it's attendant ills. Ami.
mails hibernate throughout cold
weather, and If our pauper classes
could he put to sleep all Winter by
Evening star., 1927-11-13
Tough Lamb.

From Answers. London.
isn't it hard" said the sentimental
landlady, "to think this poor little
lamb was cut down in its youth to
satisfy our appetites?"
Yes" said the sour-faced boarder,
struggling with his portion, lit is
tough
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~ " ~
with tin. Would
the lady buy it,
as he had to sell
it that night?
Lady had no
use, whatever, for
the straw flower
basket lined with
tin, but as 1t
seemed ritiful for
a youngster to be
working at that
lhour-there was a
snappy chill to the
she gave
him Il quarter for
himself"
A few dusks af.
terward he came
hack with the
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some chemical process and then
thawed out in the SPRING"
The gentleman at cafe table with
another man said it with the con-
ftdence of one who has already patent
ed the process.
The other Clipped In with the argu.
ment that high wages are already
doing away with poverty on more
comfortable basis, but
1t sounded tame in COMPARISON.
"A WOMAN. old and plain and poor
the three-ply tragedy of life-died
the other day, and a youngish man
came from New York to attend her
funeral. After it was over he went
to the station and took the first train
back. And as he is still in the small
income class, the trip must have
meant tax on his money and time.
1t also stood for gratitude toward
one who had held out Il helping hand
70 foreign boy who wasted to know
more of the God she worshiped, and
of the tongue she spoke. She taught
him both.
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Many Mexicans and Indians of the
Southwest believe that by painting the
woodwork of their doors and windows
Madonna" blue evil is kept out and
good retained inside.
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average householder must be SO ac-
customed as to take as matter of
course. This discovery, therefore,
cannot be considered an important
event. Still. on the age-old dictum
that "every little counts" here goes:
A gentle, blue-eyed boy in a neat
suit came to the door with a straw
INo ,1ynf M
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WOMAN who is having her
n first experiences with door
N bell of her own has come
a across a new angle Of everyday
Evening star., 1927-11-13

KRs. JOHN r. ROBERTS, ma
NH tional chairman of the divi-
V sion of literature of the Gen
4 eral Federation Of Women's
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1927-04-14
SANTIAGO SHAKEN By EARTHQUAKE
OREGON COMM NIFTY KEEPS GOLD
AND PLATINUM DISCOVERY SECRET
FOR DAYS: ALL CROl ND IS STAkED

KLAMATH FALLS, Ore. April
1i.-Fhe Spragae River numbering
community, 10 miles west of here
is in fever OF excitement as the
result Of the discovery of deposits
! of gold and platinum.
Forty claims have been staked
since sunday
The entire community Joined in
"A secrecy pact which was adhered
to until the entire area WAS staked
out.
The town is reached only by the
infrequently travelled Oregon. Cali
fornia and Eastern Railroad and
not one whisper of the gold excite
ment seeped oGt until yesterday
Placer deposits assay So and $25
a ton in gold aud S1o TO $31 in
platinum.
{. w. Eber.s. ljm3er company
employee and former mining man.
made The discovery. Mining opera
tion' will u" conducted hy dredging
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1927-04-14
LEGISL LATINE CROSS CURRENTS

Part of the lmelight in the LegiS
lature is again focused on the Con
troller Bill. or perhaps it might be
more nearly correct to say "a Con
trollar Bill. The Committee Substi
tuta which was introduced in tn
House yesterday and adopted over
the protest of seven members is thl
third or fourth OF the series circu
lated during the current term of the
Legislature.
There was the original measure
sponsored by Senator Steel Another
differing in some minor respects was
later introduced in the House by Rep
resentativc Paul. The third was the
perfected product which was offered
to the Senate last week and lost
on a tie vote. The fourth was that
marked Committee Substitute
which came into the House yester-
day and on which another storm was
due to center today.
Claims of Sponsors
The author of the original House
measure, answering statement
made on the floor of the House
Wednesday by Mr. Fisher, who is q
member of the Elections Committee.
which presented the substitute, said
the new bill was materially different
from his own bill. This difference
he contended and not without justit,
cation insofar as his own measure
was concerned. was mate erial and
lay in this: In his bill the Attorney
General was made part and parcel
of the system of executive admins
tration proposed. In fact. he was one
of the main cogs in the machine.
In the Committee Substitute he has
been cast into the discard of Use
less impedimenta. And on the Board
of Control as its chairman, the Gov
ernor OF Alaska has BEEN inserted
The Attorney General is, however.
given IA sort Of Il consolation prize.
1t IL provided that he be kept in
formed about all the details Of the
operai ions of the Treasury depart
ment, in that respect being put on
par with the Governor and Coh-
troler. And. really, that could be an
oversight which an amendment, il
the new bill gets that far could
very easily correct. or the power and
authority the Attorney General would
have welded under the Steel bill
as it was introduced. and as il was
presented to the Senate for final
vote, nothing remains. All entire A.
ticle that was devoted to his office
in Senate Bill No. !. is omitted from
the latest document on the subject
whereby there was, anyway. saw
ing of some eight or nine pages
of mimeograph paper and cor
responding amount of labor to the
operator of the mimeograph.
Subject Has Been Considered
Without going further than the
original PAUL measure. without know
edge of the proceedings had in the
Senate on the Steel bill the state
ment of the author of the House
bill might seem convincing that the
Committee Substitute does differ
materially from the Controller Bill
upon which the Senate took decisive
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1927-04-14
FOUR MEASURES
ARE PASSED BY
SENATE TODAY
Airplane Landing Field Bill
as Amended Is Approx
ed, Goes to House.

Four measures were passed toda :
by the Senate and a House resolu-
ton authorizing the printing of i .n0n
copies of the report of the Board
of Trustees of the Alaska College,
was beaten. President Howard who
voted against the resolution, gave
notice he would move FOR recon
sideration of the vote tomorrow.
The House bill giving general au-
thoritv 10 the Territorial Board 0i
Road commissioners to use road
unds. not in excess of 90 per cent
If the total Of each divi iiunal allOt-
nent. for constructing and maintain
ing airplane landing fields passed
he Senate unanimously The House
had passed the bill without placing
any limitation on the sum that might
be so expended.
Senate Bill No 80. approprating
$4,000 to pay deficit in the fund
for paying tuition to municipalities
for nonresident school pupils; Bill!
No. 4j. appropriating 81 800 for tho
completion of the Unga school, House
and Senate Memorial No. 6. asking
for the establishment of wireless
station in Bristol Bay. were also
passed by a unanimous vote
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1927-04-14
Brief of Errors Is Filed
In Bob Gaines Murder Case

OLYMPIA. Wash. April l4.-At-
torneys for Wallace C. lBob) Gaines.
found guilty of the murder OF his
daughter Sylvia Gaines. have filed
an appeal for reversal. The date
of the hea ring is to be set April 20
and will probably be heard late in
the May term. Errors assigned in
the 12S-page brief include denial
of the defendants motion for an
order permitting counsel to inter-
view Louis Stern, prosecution wit
ness who gave testimony which is
interpreted as confession OF
Gaines guilt Admission OF evil
dence tending to prove commission
of col raj crimes is also assigned
as reve! sible error.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1927-04-14
Public to See Gifts
OF Swedish Royalty

STOCKHOLM April 1.-THE gen
erosity of two continents to the
Swedish crown prince and crown
princess during their recent tour
around the world will be demon
strated to the Swedish people in d
special exhibit of gifts and souve
Mrs.
1t will be held in the castle OF
Ulriksdal, just outside of Stockholm
where the royal couple have theif
country home.
The American gifts include the
automobile from Henry Ford. The
Japanese gifts alone filled go large
packing cases. They included art oh
jects, books, screens, paintings,
dresses. archaeological finds and pho
tographs From China where the
crown prince bought number OF
rare curios more than Is cases have
come.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1927-04-14
Water Breaks Into Mine;
Il Men Escape Death

HENRIETTA. okla, April H.
TW enty seven miners escaped death
when they gathered on a level above
the high water mark this forenoon
after flood waters from Mcdonnell
Creek broke into the Cato mine.
Water was 20 feet deep in the
shaft and numerous eave-ins oe-
Cured. Finally the water reached
IA depth of AZ feet and all hopes
of the miners escaping alive were
abandoned until communication was
established with them and announce
ment made that they were on high
level. 1t is expected they will be
brought out late this afternoon.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1927-04-14
DESCRIBES HOW
TOWN LEvELLED,
TEXAS TORNADO

ROCK SPRINGS. Texas. April IA.
FRANZ Rahmstorf OF San Antonio,
eye witness to the tornado which
practically destroyed this town Tues
day night. said: Il was driving here
from Junction Miles away | saw a
sinister funnel-shaped cloud racing
ahead ef NJ There was a greenish
yellow ainge to the main cloud. set
in T. background of inky black
ness. When | got near here, the
cloud was hanging abover the town.
Not breath of air was stirring
AT 1870 O'Clock Tuesday night, the
cloud broke. Ther" was Just a
sretfsz il'gn, " gsytss %ts ale .hs voc nd
pandemonium. Tie cloud dipped and
seemed to grasp the town for six
minutes. 1t ragad and roared Hum
ans and buildings were hurled about
like so much chaff. Sidewalks liter
ally ran with blood"
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z j. s, A|RMEN
BREAK RECORDS

MINEOLA, y. y. April II Bert
Acosta and Clarence u. Chamberlin
civilian pilots, landed at 12:42
O'Clock this afternoon setting new
endurance record of J. hosrs and
II minutes. The French formerly
held the record of A hoars. II min
utes and - seconds.
The two ainmcn also broke the
American endurance record at 9:35
O'Clock last night which was &c
hours and four minutes.
Thousands watched the plane this
forenoon and the air Was literally
alive with other planes trying to
get good view Of the endurance
tiers.
Acosta and Chamberlin climbed
on the wind and then glided down
with it to save gas.
The two birdmen We're in the air
we'll over two days. The landing
swas perfect The gas tank Wss cry