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The Daily Alaska empire., 1928-01-27

Note-Observations at Harbor Kodiak. Portland Francisco a. m and 4 p. m. Juneau time
 Western Alaska with it's lowest point in high Pacific States nd Columbia and the to the westward Light southern Berng Sea and moderate rain in Columbia have in Western nd Alaska.
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COURT HOUSE FLOORS
 ARE BEING RENOVATED

Advantage IS Deing taken of the lull in business at the Court House while Court is in session at Ketchikan, for renovation j Of parts of the interior The floors
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s-Less than 10 miles.
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A. J. FicKen, proprietor of the Sanitary Meat Market, is return ing to Juneau on the Alameda after short business trip to the States.
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Hoard of Diamonds
 And Gold Is Hunted

LONDON, Jan. 27.-A treasure of gold and diamonds believed buried in Bolivia Is the subject of prospects of a new company being fioated here with a capital of $125,000. The new company will finance an expsdition to re- trieve the hoard.
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The Daily Alaska empire., 1928-12-12
ABOUT HERRING.

Commenting on The Empires contention that it would be unwise to attempt by legislation to prescribe the to which herring may be put after being caught, the Petersburg Press advances arguments to show that the herring supply is being depleted. If its contention is correct then there ought to be restriction of the amount of herring that may be taken. The Empire has time after time urged that there ought to be an investigation that it might be determined whether or not there are too many herring taken in Alaska. If the supply is only adequate for local needs then there should be a curtailment of the amount shipped from the Territory. If neces- sary, the shipment of herring might be stopped entirely. Our contention is simply this if her ring are to be taken and shipped, then the market demand ought to determine the to which it might be put.
 However The Empire believes that the in- vestigation ought to be thorough. The herring industry in the Territory ought not to be de- troyed to satisfy a whm to make it easy to get bait cheaply If the herring plants must be scrapped it ought to be last resort.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1928-12-12
WESTERN CANADIAN RAILWAY DEVELOPMENT IN SIGHT.

Prince Rupert is al "het" up ever the rati- fcation of the agreements whereby the Canadian Pacific and Canadian National Railways will take over, share and share alike the Vancouver and Edmonton Railway and will join in the con struction of railway into the Peace River coun- try, giving that region an outlet via Prince Rupert well as Vancouver Various other rail developments will be carried on by the two lines jointly.
 It has not yet been intimated, far we know, that these agreements are likely to lead to a renewal of the negotiations for the union of the Canadian Pacific and Canadian National, for operation purposes at least, that were under way for sometime few years ago. However, the companies getting pretty close together for rivals
 There is wisdom in this cooperation in the development of new territory that would naturally contribute tonnage to both of the old systems. There is too much duplicated railroad mileage in both the United States and Canada, and it would be foolish to multiply mistakes of the past.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1928-12-12
Northwest Should Work for Lower Canal
 Tolls.
Seattle Post-Intelligencer.)

No city in the world has greater interest in the Panama Canal than Seattle. Hence, revision of canal tolls downward, now being advocated, is a special concern of this community and of the whole Puget Sound district
 The latest financial report the waterway shows that it will be paid for Last year the tolls were nearly $21,000,00 increase of more than $2,500,000 over the previous year.
 The business of Seattle and the Pacific North west a most important factor in that pros porous showing. Since the day when it began operations, heavy shipments to and from our ports through the canal have been doing big share in making the canal a paying utility
 The waterway was not built by the Govern ment with the primary idea of creating profit making enterprise. Yet it's earnings indicate much earlier amortization than was anticipated When it is paid for. these earnings based on present tolls would be turned into the public treasury profit This is sufficient ul- timately to bring revision downward.
 But there is another and better reason in the fact that existing charges restraining the full possibilities of trade interchange not only be- tween the two American coasts, but between our shore and Europe well.
 For example. lower tolls would place Pacific Northwest lumber in better position to compete with substitutes the Atlantic seaboard and for some distance inland. This is equally true of pulp and paper, in the production of which great strides have been made in this area and which in the East must meet competition with similar products from the Scandinavian countries
 Civic organizations of the Pacific Northwest have an opportunity in this issue to render our region. valuable service
The Daily Alaska empire., 1928-12-12
NICARAGUAN LIBERALS ENDORSE
 AMERICAN NICARAGUAN POLICY.

The Liberal Party in Nicaragua which fought the American Marines for many months and loudly protested their presence in that country, has requested that the United States leave them there and not to reduce their numbers below 1000 for years. The Liberal President Moncada has reinforced the request
 That completes the process of taking the wind out of the sails of the critics of President Coolidges Nicaraguan policy. They got se- bump when the election conducted under the direction of American officials was so fairly managed that the Government which receiv-
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That Hits Him in Pocketbook
More Or Less True


 Now and then we see a woman who makes Us think that if her husband ever does kiss her he must feel as enthusiastic about that job as he does about the job of taking down the screens on an afternoon he's planned to spend on the links.
 A man reads about how much love will stand and then marries to learn how much love doesn't in- tend to stand.
 Getting a new suit is almost as big an event with some men as getting a new President is with the country.
 Our guess is that if all men were blind heap more feminine legs would be in less danger of getting frosted this winter.
 When daughter gets married mother again is free to do all the bossing of father.
 A cornfed is one of those unfor- tunate sisters who has to put something besides too much money in the silk hosiery she buys.
 It used to be when daughter had learned to play the piano she all ways was being dragged out to show off before the company, but we don't hear of parents dragging their little daughter out now to show how cute she can inhale af- ter she has learned to smoke.
 There are lot of little girls growing up who wouldn't even know what you mean by hair rib bon.
 It is all right for a young man to let girl marry him for love if he doesn't mind spending the rest of his life listening to her con- plaints about the h hings they haven't got.
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ing American protection was overwhelming de- feated. Now the Liberals themselves want the same sort of protection that they complained about before the sediment down there. That completes the for single-mindedness behind American procedure. It too bad to double cross the American supporters Democrats and Republicans. of those Nicaraguans when they were eriteizing country but they chose their issue without being coereed.
 The situation also dsposes of one of the most persistent of the complaints against the United States among the Latin Americans every where
The Daily Alaska empire., 1928-12-12

When President Coolidge retires to Vermont to whittle away the time of his near neighbors will be Sinclair Lewis. When they get together it will not be difficult for them to inveigle from some near at hand town George F. Rabbit to help them pass the time, and from the funess of his experience the President may be able to coniure up recolections of Elmer Gantry to talk about now and then
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You Know The Kind

Blinks: Now that you have a car I suppose you go out more. :"
 links: No, we stay home more Every time we get ready to start out in it something goes wrong and by the tima I finally get it fixed it's time to go to bed"
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ALONG LIFE'S
 DETOUR
Inspires No Sinuinu
By SAM HILL.

Snow once meant glorious sleigh rides, On which all joined in singing Jingle Bells'- But now it means get out skid chains And that's word that doth end with two Us.
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Not So lnteres stinn

If girls will dress to look that way I cant say that l care; But it makes me feel melancholy
 when
 All the trees look so bare.
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Good Advice. All Riaht

Help Helpl I can't swim!" yelled the man in the water.
 Well, then, you darn fool, you'd better get out of there in a hurry" shouted back the man on the bank.
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Sure Is

The winters you say you wouldn't
 mind If they were not so cold, That's another dead-sure sign that You are really getting old.
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The One Exception

My wife is usually very careful to stick to facts"
 "Yes?"
 But she will insist that she has been out playing bridge wheg she's merely been to a gabfest."
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Dry agents are wanted. Dry is em

Does that that there are already enough wet agents in the dry organization to handle the appropriation for getting evidence? Or does il mean simply that agents wanted in the Prohibition enforcement outfit?
The Daily Alaska empire., 1928-12-12
Musings of Married Man

A husband always is lucky if he l has to hang around the office till midnight on the day the snobbish 1 neighbor has given a party to which his wife wasn't invited.
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Passing Observation

The only thing more tiresome than fishing all day without getting a nibble is sitting all evening with out getting a bidding hand.
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Hunting Note

The best companion to have on hunting trip is your wife. She learned long ago that you are no dear
The Daily Alaska empire., 1928-12-12
Justified

The murder of the doctor didn't Seem quite so awful shocking. When we learned he'd advised the
 postman that
 He oughta do more walking.
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As for those Democrats who are elamoring for the resignation of Chairman Raskob, let the patriot who squawks cast the first hundred thou sand into the campaign treasury to make up the million dollar deficit Seattle Times)
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William Beebe. eminent authority on fish, says shark won't bit if left alone We'll so far most of us concerned, there is no desire to intrude upon a sharks solitude or to it's meditations.- Seattle Times)
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Too Bid a Risk

Why are you afraid to drink his homebrew?"
 Well, he never tries any of the advice he h an d s out, and I'm
The Daily Alaska empire., 1928-12-12
Excess Baggage

There don't seem to be any use of putting up No Smoking Signs" these days now-except of course, round filling stations and in pow der mills.
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Telephone poles are to be painted to har- monize with the landscape That should be easy, considering that the landscape is composed of bllboards- Akron, Ohio, Beacon-J Journal
The Daily Alaska empire., 1928-12-12

Sycney Luurelc1 reproductions in Christmas cards, original, diff ferent, Alaskan. 25 cents each at the Nugget Shop. adv.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1928-12-12

Paris cafes becoming known as American bars It is one way of appealing to tourists from Vosteadia.-t Boston Transcript.)
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This is a free country, providing your beliefs accord with those of the Anti-Saloon League Buffalo Courier Express
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afraid he is the same way about the drinks he does"
 That Hits Him in Pocketbook He doesn't give a tinker's dam About what the wild waves are
 saying. For he's just learned you see,
 what for
 Her permanent ones, his wife's
 been paying.
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Useless Information

A nut isn't so bad if it hasn't tongue.
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Sex Grandad-

I kin remember when a Stag, was no place for women.
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View Of An Outraged Husband

A wife should be compelled To do the family wash, If she's so foolish shell
 Waste gas by cooking squash.
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Looked Suspicious

Does your daughter smoker"
 I've never seen her smoking, but if leave a pack of cigarettes around the house they're never there when l go to get them"
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The Other Side of That Question

Will your husband turn out to be just like his father?" asked Dorothy Dix.
 Don't know, but we'll bet after the first visit of his mother-in-law the question that begins to worry every groom is, Will my wife turn out to be just like her moth-. err"
Evening star., 1928-12-11
WINTERTIME
BIZ d. @. PEATTIE.

AS long ago as last September the lit
tie brown creeper arrived in the Dis
trict of Columbia in bands. to spend
the Winter with us. and II there Is a
livelier little bird he has not been
brought to my attention. For sheer
restless energy the wren surpasses him
but In industry the brown creeper has
no equal.
BEGINNING at the base of one tree he
climbs steadily and spirally up 1t, con-
stantly pecking in every creVlce OF the
bark for insects. He has not q long
or strong enough bill to perforate the
bark for subcortieal insects, as the
woodpeckers do, and he has to make
what shift he can with the forage on
the outside of the trees.
Once he has reached the top OF
tree he fiutters down to the base Of the
next, hardly distinguishahle from fall
ing oak leaf, and begins his rounds
again. Sometimes I think he spends
his life getting his dinner. But, then
we all have known humans who lived
to eat. He delays his work once a year
for a ceurtship.
At this season Of year he is a familiar
sight to sharp bird eyes, though not
every group Of trees will reveal one OF
these little fellows, even when an orni-
tholegist searches them. But to me he
IS the very spirit of our Winter woods
before the snow has come. Brown,
voiceless and fluttering, he Is like the
fall of the last leaves, the call of the
last lost pewee, the loneliness Of the
witch hazel blooming in the unvisited
thieket by the rill.
Evening star., 1928-12-11
A Good All-Night Baking.

New Orleans doctor reports an in
teresting little device he invented for
q patient of his. The patient, says the
doctor, Is sufferer from Buergers dis
ease. Which reminds me. must look
that up some time and see what the
Joke Is. 7 have only vague notion that
it may be some kind Of joint inflam-
ation-arthritis, If I may use the
Greek for it.
Whatever Buerger's disease may be-
the patients fingers have improved a
great deal under treatment, and the
greatest relief has been given by bak-
ing. In erder to get the prolonged in
fiuence of heat the patient was ac-
cuStomed to baking his hands at night
in the ordinary apparatus used for that
purpose. This had one great drawback
it was impossible for the patient to keep
his hands In the apparatus while asleep
There was the danger of being burned
Furthermore the patient was q travel
ing salesman, and didn't have baking
apparatus Of convenient style to carry
with him in his grip. So the doctor
The apparatus consists OF O glove
with the fingers removed, fastened to
a light board. At the far end of the
board is set a 15-watt frosted electric
bulb. inclesed on three sides gith
light fibrous material. The holder, In
which the patients hand goes, prevents
the hand from coming in contact with
the lamp. The patient connects his
lamp with the light socket, inserts his
hand In the holder, covers the entire
apparatus with q cloth Of extra heavy
canton flannel which can be fastened
with string around the wrist, and
turns on the electricity.
Then he goes to sleep and bakes the
hand all night. The apparatus Is light
enough to turn with the patient when
ever he happens to move in bed. The
lamp is the strepgth best suited to give
enough heat without giving too much
The cord connecting the apparatus with
lighting socket. should be long enough
to allow for liberty of movement. The
tips Of the fingers should reach not
closer than an inch from the bulb.
On second thought I have a haunt
ing fancy that this Buerger,s disease
may be something akin to Raynaud's
disease-dead fingers, II you have ever
noticed them. mention that for the
Evening star., 1928-12-11
A Sermon for Today
In q Strong Way.
BY REV. JOHN r. GUM.

Text: Whatsoever thy hand find
eth to do, do it with thy might.
Eco, iX,10.
An admirer of Thomas Carlyle met
him once in Hyde Park and broke In
upon his reverie with an earnest re-
quest for a motto. The old man stood
still for a moment and then said,
There is no better motto for young
man than the words of the old book:
Whatsoever they hand flndeth to do,
do 1t with thy might
The world has lite patience with
seeing things done in weak way. No
matter what you put your hands to,
the world wants the work done with
strength and power. Whatever your
calling, in this strenuous and driving
age you will not get very far If you
go at your job with slack hand. II
you wish to succeed, if you want the
world to sit up and take notice, you
must do what you set out to do with
all your might
Weak men who do things weakly
never capture any of the worlds major
prizes. Not the easy-geing man, but
the ardent, jealous, strenuous man is
the man who reaches the goal and wins
the worlds highest rewards. The fell
low who wishes to take life easy might
as well ''go way back and sit down"
And 1t does not matter much where he
sits down, for nobody will pay much
attention to him.
"He becometh poor that dealeth with
slack hand" says Solomon" "Quit
you like men, be strong" urges Paul.
Whether applying to practical or
spiritual achievements, the Bible prom
ises success, not to the indifferent and
indolent, but to the strong and manly.
Success In spiritual affairs, as well as
material affairs, requires doing things
In strong way.
Evening star., 1928-12-11
I'm Sick.

I'm Sick.
A child soon learns that sickness
brings the household to his feet. One
wall of pain and the whole family
stands to attention.
Now this attention and this service
Us delightful to the self love Of a child,
and he will be very unusual child,
indeed, if you do not find him trying to
prolong this period of royalty. It is a
very delicate bit of adjustment one has
to make when a convalescent child at
temptS to use his illness to bedeyil the
life out of the family and make himself
important. But that adjustment is to
be made II the child is to maintain
that healthy attitude of mind that
makes for health of body and mind to-
gether.
There is need of tact One must move
with gentleneSs Keep beforS the child
always the beauty of being strong and
well. Keep showing him that it is a
fine thing, wonderful thing, to be able
to help oneself. Say very firmly and
pleasantly that there are things to be
done and people to be served, and that
he must wait his turn. And stand by
that attitude. He Is not to be permitted
to prolong sickness a single minute
longer than need be.
Some children get habit Of illness
by initiating their elders Unfortunately
there are families who seem to enjoy
i'll health. Ask them how they are and
Immediately the light dies out of their
faces, they wait long enough before
answering to adjust their minds once
more to this pleasant and interesting
subject of their illness and then they
tell you how they suffer. And the bot
ties of medicine they devour. And the
hard time they have to bear up at all.
Children enjoy all this drama huge
Iy and at the first opportunity will cry
aloud. II can't, I'm sick"
Children do fall sick. Some Of them
{ suffer acutely. But when the illness
Is past let it pass. Encourage health
in the children. Encourage healthy
attitude of mind. Never speak of ILL.,
ness before them and never dramatize
its as something most interesting and
personally distinctive. Make no parade
of the medicine bottles and the doctors
visits The less said the better.
When a youngster decides he is Ill
tust before school time, send him tc
bed and see that he goes to bed ir
the bedtime style, no bathrobe anc
slippers and picture book. Night
clothes and quiet and shaded window.
and light, very light diet with lots oi
water to drink. A day in bed under
this treatment will cure school sick.
ness.
- Any vomiting at the thought of work
school, meals, is to be taken casually
however. startled you may be. It L
easy to turn out your stomach wher
you are but or so. If there is NJ
temperature ignore the demonstration
have the child help to clean up, ant
20 ON with whatever you intended II
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DEAUlY OHAl0 BY EDNA KENT FORBES

sugar as you can. Take only thin clear
soup, never thick. Avoid fried foods
always. Avoid ham or pork or bacon.
Avoid mayonnaise on salads, using in
stead dressing Of salt, lemon or vine
gar and the least bit of-not olive oil,
but taSteless mineral oil. Laxative, this.
not nourishing, but that won't hurt you.
It will help to clear your system Of i'm
purities and make you healthier.
Miss A. H.: With a height Of five
feet eight inches at 18 years Of age,
your weight of 143 pounds need not
concern you even though it Is about ten
pounds above normal. After few more
years of development you may even
weigh less than at present. Choose
colors that match eyes and hair, and
shades should be darker to strengthen
the natural coloring when eyes or hair
are very light. Brush 1ashes and brows
to help them grow.
Peggy: For an EPSON salts bath that
will cleanse skin take two heaping
handfuls of the salts to half Of bath
tub of hot water, and for reduction add
another handful of the salts.
Ann: You are eight pounds under
weight at Is years of age and height
five feet one inch, and If you build up
your weight your figure will improve.
Mary: Massage the heshly parts of
your face to reduce them and follow
this with an ice rub or cold water. The
reason for this is to help contract the
skin so there will be no tendency to
f1abbineSS after the reduction,
Evening star., 1928-12-11
An Easy Diet.


One of the easiest ways to diet Is to
eliminate the little and quite uiineces-
sary tidbits from the daily food ration.
You would save money and your figure
in the bargain If you would keep from
your table such things as olives, nuts,
little candies, delightful things to nibble
at between courses. Because:
An olive Is at least ten calories, and
those delicious ripe olives that come
dripping with oil, that taste so extra
good, are much more, probably 25, for
they are full Of oil. Olive oil itself is
100 calories dessert spoonful, you see,
and ripe olive holds a great deal. A
chocolate cream of not very large pro-
portions is also 100 calories. An almond
is 10 calories; fried in butter and salted
1t is much more. Peanuts are nearly
as bad and walnutS are 80 calories each
and more If salted and buttered.
Some people serve fruit after meals.
An average apple is so calories; small
banana, 100 calories; grapes weighing
five ounces (Which is not so much) 100
calories. You should have fruit, but
have 1t fresh or cooked instead Of q
dessert, and avoid grapes and bananas
in any case.
Should you eliminate tidbits, you'll
cut your daily ration down by quite
lot. IF you are really alarmingly over
weight you'll have to do more than this.
Cut out either potatoes or bread at
each meal, take your tea and coffee
without cream and as nearly without