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j EDITORIAL. |i
THOMAS MARTINDALB
The Quaker City today mourns
the loss ot one p* its foremost citi
zens. In Thomas Martindalg they
have Itng recognized a business
genius, peace loving and progres
sive citizen?, -who did his utmost to
fulfill the Station n lfe to which
destiny jwd directed him. During
his business career he has blazed
the way for numerous commercial
concerns to lead the field in his
home city. As a writer he has
carved cut fame for himself. His
latest boo*. "Hunting In the Up
ped Yukon," has been read by
thousands of persona who have or
will make the trip to the mighty
Yukon sections. It is sad indeed,
that the noble work of such men
must cease, but the ruling hand has
ordered that his work on earth
must cease. How romantic it is
that he should come clear across
the continent, wend his way into
the wilds of th® Upper Yukon and
spend his last days In the land
which he loved so well
CONTRIBUTE TO COMMUNITY
DEVELOPMENT BY BUYING AT
HOME — Juneau Empire: There
is far more money made through
communltr development thai* thru
individual earnings. More me®
become well-to-do because the
town in which they live and the
surrounding country grows larger
than In any otheT way. One of
bes* wsys in 'he world to aid your
your tovu to grow larger and richer
is rc paarronJze bome institutions.
The larger the volume of local busi
ness becomes the greater the lo
cal payroll will become. The man
who buys at home, threeifore, Is
contributing to the growth of the
town.
The man therefore who takes an
Interest in his town, the progress,
the grow'h and improvement of its
public institutions, and Its stores
factories, it newspapers and all its
necesltip arad conveniences is a good
ci'izen, and he is aiding himself.
JUNEAU PROGRESS
The an iouncement that the First
National Ra n if, one of the strong in
stitutions of which Juneauites are
Jus'ly proud, will next year erect a
new banking house, with choice of
fice to"ios above the banik, marks
another important completed pro
gram for 1917 progress. It is a
very satisfactory, program, and one
that ivill encourage others.
The First National Bank build
ing protram will fit finely into 'he
general program that Is developing
fast Wi'h a new school house un
d<-ir way, a new capitol build ta. go
ing up (perhafps), a bridge budld
iug across Gastlneau Channel (al
so perhaps), several , apartment
houses and other buildings plamned,
the addition of a new bank building
j-romist-3 to make building c*pera
•ions at Juneau lively next year.
The burning of the steamer Con
gress will be a great losw to the
Pacific Ccagt S. S. Company. With
ths scarci'y of bottoms on the
Pacific ocean shipping at best was
cramped by tack of boats. Every
boat destroyed jneans a severe >oes
to the ownerst
* W" feel oroud of our dozens who
boost Skagway and its activities.
5V. R- Hillery is a booster and I
should receive the glad band of the
city when hq returns from his
Wraugell trim .
Returus indicate that the» drys
have carried thp province o£ Brit
ish Columbia, It should, act as
tucouragement to thei dry forces
which will stumoj Alaska. tuis faU.
C. C. liodem. will he an, outgoing
ptsseugor tonight on the Rupert. 1
Father Buiioz returned on last |
eight's"tValh) from the interior amd J
will leave for Prince Ruipert to-(
bight en the Ruipert. t
PKarmacists and Physi
cians Should Use
Metric System
By JOSEPH W. ENGLAND, Secre
tary of the Philadelphia
Drug Exchange
IT is our endeavor to have the re
f tail pharmacists of the country
put the metric 'system to gen
eral use, but assistance must come
from the physicians who arc em
ploying the old. The metric system
has come to stay in the United
States, and it is only a question of
time before it will be the only one
used. Congress legalized it in lSiiG.
Two standards cannot exist.
The OSe of relative terms is not
only cumbersome, but prevents the
practical use of the metric system.
It has led to errors by those who
have assumed that the equivalents
given were proportional and inter
changeable with the metric units
when they are not.
THE PROPER WAY TO USE THE
METRIC TERMS AND TO ENCOUR
AGE THEIR GENERAL USE IS TO
THINK IN TERMS OF THE METRIC
SYSTEM.
Pharmacists should use metric
weights dnd measures for the mak- |
ing of pharmaceutical preparations 1
regardless of whether physicians
employ them in writing prescrip- j
tions or not. THE RESPONSl- |
BILITY OF TIIE Fl'TUHE l"SE
OR NONUSE OF THE METRIC
SYSTEM IX PRESCRIPTION
WRIT IXC RESTS SOLELY
WITH THE PHYSICIANS.
Indian* and Tims.
Certain of the reservation Indian®
•till cling to the calendar of their an
cestors. The ludian method was to
compute time l>.v sleeps and moons
A sleep Is twenty-four hours, aud !>
moon Is a month There is also n J
mldmoon, where the sun is at 1
o'clock meridian. This hour is itidi
cated by pdintlng overhead.
When an Indian pointed quarter wa;,
up the sky he meant 1) o'clock; when i
he pointed quarter way down he meant I
3 o'clock. Sunrise was the eastern '
horizon aud suiiset#the western.
When there was n moon the time
was indicated in the same way as by
the sun. Were an Indian asked the
distance to a certain place or how lat
he had come he would say so many
sleeps, or days' travel A sleep, a
describing distance, was about thirty
five miles when walking deliberately
or from fifty to seventy-live miles it
going In hastp with a message.—I'hil
adelphla Inquirer
The First Atlas.
The first modern atlas was (hp work
of Abraham Ortelius. a Dutch geogra
pher, who died 518 years ago. Ills
monumental treatise, entitled "The
utrum Orbls Terrarum," was first pub
Ushed at Antwerp In 1370 and was re
vised and reissued five times during
the author's lifetime. It was a folio
volume containing nearly a hundred
maj representing the different eouu
trie* "ml continents as they were then
known. Although this atlas was a
momentous achievement, yet a bright
schoolboy today could draw maps from
memory with a better approximation
to correctness. Even England and
Scotland appear In this pioneer volume
with amazing distortions of coast line
and relative area, and many other
maps In the volume bear only a slight
resemblance to those of today.—New
York World.
An Ant That Spins.
The spinning ant is found in India,
in Ceylon, In the Islands of Malacca
and in Australia. This ant weaves its
nest between (wo leaves of a tree,
preferably the mango. It begins to j
build or to weave by drawing two!
leaves together. To do this it runs a
line of Its working material—material
similar to the spider's thread—the
length of the leaf aud around it. While
at' work It clings to the leaf with its
nails and at the same time draws on
the leaf nearest to it with Its mandi
bles. Sometimes the two leaves suit- |
able for nest building are too far apart:
then the builder calls In its fellow
ants, and they help to form a chain
Each ant clings to the waist of Its
neighbor by Its mandibles. Thus en
chained, they work to build the nest
of their comrarin.
Inquisitive Girls.
Bessie—I almost hate Carrie Dyer!
She aska such impudent questions, you
blow. I was telling her If Frank
Barnes had asked me to marry him
jnce he had asked me twenty times,
ind she had the impertinence to ask
me If he had asked once. Minnie—The
Idea! But has be, Bessie?— Exchnnuo
Their Engagement
Was Not Broken
By F. .V MITCHEX
Dora Atterhttry was an especially
feminine young lady. Nevertheless she
wax very bright She distinguished
herself nt college and after being
graduated engaged herself to Professor
Ernest Balllnper. a young man equally
brilliant and whose specialty was bi
ology. They had been en raped some
time when the professor received a
note from his fiancee asking to be re
leased from her engagement for the
reason that she had decided to study
a profession 9»d she considered a
profession for a woman Incompatible
with married life. Professor Ballinger
called upon her.
"I think It best," he said, 'that I
should release you."
There was a slight contraction of
Dora's brows at this. She had asked
to l>e released, but preferred that she
should be required to struggle for her
freedom.
"You agree with me. 1 presume, that
a professional woman haa no business
to be married?"
"My reason lies deeper than that."
replied the professor, unconsciously
falling Into a tone used In lecturing to
his classes. "You are aware, I pre
sume. that there are cases of effem
inaey in men. Some psychologists bold
that this occurs from environment. I
do not admit this. 1 consider It the
result of birth accident Such men are
born effeminate—that K they partake
mentally of the nature of the opposite
sex."
"1 cannot see." interrupted Dora,
"what that has to do with the matter
between us."
• Re patient, and you will see The
corresponding accident to this In wo
men. vlraginlty, renders a woman as
much of a freak of nature as a man
who is born effeminate. Viraglnts take
up men's occupations naturally"—
"Do you morn to assert that all wo
men who enter the field of law. medi
cine. business, are viraglnts?"
"No. but 1 men 11 that viraglnts natn
rally turn to men's occupations."
The views promulgated by her fiance
were evidently not acceptable to Mis*
Atterbury. In her features was ex i
pressed opposition to ills theory, mln
gled with pain at foreseeing that he j
was about to apply it to herself.
"I do not ogree with you tn refen-lng
these things to birth accident." she
said. "I know a young man whose ;
only co' • ha as a child was his sis
ter. II ry effeminate.
"In tl. -e |>osslbly his effeminacy |
came from environment, but I doubt
it. In the case of women who possess
traits of men we h:ive analogous cases
in certain birds. After a certain ace
the female us<utnes the plumage of the
male and will destroy the eggs of her
species. This cannot result from en
vironment. because environment could
not alter her plumage."
Miss Atterbury did not at all like
this result of her announcement of the
breaking of her engagement and the
reason she had given for breaking It
She began to look troubled
"The upshot of all this." she said. "I
presume. Is that I aiu a freak of na
ture."
"That does not necessarily follow."
replied the professor Imperturbably.
"Noi ■essarily, but it Is evident
frori : you have said that you con
sider u.e sucll."
"My views are not the views of all
psychologists, aid not all women who
adopt men's pursuits are viragoes,
though 1 bedeve that most of them
are."
"You tinre not answered my ques
tlon."
"What questiou?"
"WlTerker or not yon regard me as s
freak."
"You diil not ask such a question
You said that you |-resumed the up
shot of my theory was that you were fl
freak of nature."
-Do you or do you not so regard
me?''
"My opinion can have no effect on
the truth. If your Intention to take up
a profession is_ the result of birth acci
dent, so be It." Mv dictum would not
prove or disprove the Tact."
There was silence for moments
during which the young lady was ab
sorbed in thought.
"Could you love such a womaD
freak?" she askcJ presently.
"Men love the!r opposites. No man
can feel toward another umn as to
ward a woman."
"It seems Impossible." replied Dora,
with quivering lip. "to pin yon down
to anything. If I am one of these hor
rid freaks yon s; eak of. how is it that
you could have loved me thus far?"
"You forge: thai heretofore I have
not so considered you."
"But vou do now?"
"Not nt all. Your desire to take up
a man's profession causes me to sus
pect. Your taking up the profession
would be additional evidence. Your
practicing the profession would—In
my opinion, mind you—be as good
proof as it is possible to attain In your
Individual oa«e."
"You suspect"— on the verge of tears.
The professor took her In his arms.
Science pave way to tenderness, and
the debate ended In a multitude of
kisses.
Miss Atterbury preferred to do away
with all suspicion that she was a
freak by taking a husband instead of
a profession lie afterward confessed
that he had orrlved at no definite con- I
elusion npon the subject they had been
Slscussing and only promulgated his j
theory to avoid losing her. Whether j
ir not he was correct, they lived hap- 4
?ily together ever afterward. t
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m. >bArr Visaing then . • ~ *
ly welcome. W. L. SteTeueo®, Aro- |
Uc Chial, W. K. Burford, Arctic 1
Recorder.
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