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The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-02-22
FINANCIAL REVIEW
OF THE PAST WEEK
New Phase Of the War Pro-
vides Restraining Fac
tors Here.
SEASON OF UNCERTAINTY

During most OF the winter il was a
European war evoked no response from
our financial and business markets. This
was added to the long catalogue OF
reasons Offering for the adoption of con-
~structive positions in the field OF values
Lately there has been a change which
suggests hat and finance are
less affected by the impulses OF the first
rebound from last autumn's acute panic
depression and more sensitive to the inn
pressions derived from impending events
abroad. At any ate recent happenings
have gone to show that the banking
business community has entered upon a
season of uncertainty not a little charged
with anxiety.
Constructive forces have not changed.
but they are slow working in their
nature and temporarily there is n large
possibility of counteracting influences
which are making for an extremely
cautious conduct of business affairs.
Viewed from the domestic side business
recovery has not gone far enough 20
complete the basis for forward enter
prise laid In the great financial better
ments since the end of last summer. The
structure OF new hopes cannot be safely
raised on inadequate foundations when
lowering war clouds may generate an
economic cyclone.
Our leaders OF enterprise are duly
mindful OF all the announcements to
confidence in the future of American
trade and industry. but the. are at this
particular moment no less mindful of the
warning signals which the European
conflict is displaying. The general bust
ness situation would need to he more
securely established to permit much
chance TO he taken. even If the portents
OF the war were not disauieting.
Railroad earnings measure very little
all around trade and industrial i'm
provement. Idle freiGh cars AT the he
ginning of February showed an increase
OF more tban 100. 900 above the total OF
sidetracked equipment on November /.
despite the activity OF man special lines
OF business in the interval. Nor il
there much profit in a good deal OF bust
ness which Is being taken 10 provide
employment for plants and %organiza-
lions. The conclusion from many diff
ferent considerations is that mon Of
affairs are likely to be content for a
while to hold such ground az has been
gained without taking fresh risks just
as the European war Is developing into
a new phase. more desperate in charaC-
ter than anything which has been wit
to be the last stage OF the war.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-02-22
TRANSACTIONS FOR THE WEEK


The following table gives. in addition the sai.s for the past week r, ,.
Of stocks m the New YORK Stock Exchange. then dividend vie de 4. ,o .,.
dates calculated o the closing sale or bid prices o Friday night:
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-02-22
Significance Of the Fail In Foreign
Exchange.

A financial feature OF he past week
was the sharp break in foreign cN-
change led by sterling bills. which fcll
to 81 ~ 10 the pound. more than seven
cents below norma par and a price
without precedent in m,mory or record
on the one hand TIE decline testified to
the tremendous financial advantage
which the war offers 70 the United
States, II was the most emphatic token
yet given OF our international financial
a~scendancy, and all tokens OF The sort
spell for our business an ultimate era
90 great expansion. The AFRO a,n;s ~
the day when We shall have changed
from a dubtor to a creditor nation,
ana they point to vistas of new and
profitable endeavor for American ab.li-
ties and ambition,
on tho other hand tho further fall
Of the foreign exchanges or their fur
cher urn in our favor was distinct no
tee Of the irlculties which the war IL
making abroad. In breaking to new
low l'vels tho foreign exchange mar
ket became almost TOO chaotic and &C.
centric for dealings and it's unscttle-
mcnt and doubt about tho contrivance
OF adjustments 10 procure stability tend
TO check tie %Country's external com
merce. Very clearly tcmporary ar
rsngernent can DO made. and II all goes
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-02-22
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The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-02-22
THE CURB MARKET.

Transactions in detail in the market
last week were H. follows
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-02-22

Last week, 81 2.Sp2.OOO.
Previous week. sq.bO3,O 900.
Jan ! TO date, sSS,O27.OOO.
Same period, 1914. 5 5000
'Seller 70 days fat.
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1915-06-14

HE STREET RAILWAY SlRlAE
By N. D. Cochran
Chicago nOlO has opportunity to try neD methods
of handling street car strike.
The oLd-fasoned uOay to resort to force, to
lot of thugs and gunner UUth guns, clubs and deputy
police badges and them and the regular police force
slug the strikers into submission to the companyS
terms
In other words, all the forces of LaW brought into
play the side of employers to help them lick the
strikers.
Permitting hired suggers and gunner strikebredk
and making them officers of the LarD invariably leads
Uioence If it permitted Chicago there is grave
danger of loss of e say nothing of the destruction of
property.
Mayor Thon1psons duty protect life and property
and peace and order His first duty to the
people of Chicago Uho neither street railway
nor employees -'
is his duty trotO the full force of the IauU
either side of this
Chicago is not helpless cities haOe been in the
past There other methods of transportation than
street railways and methods ose uDW lead
UiOLence
Mayor Thompson uDM the city government to
organize auto SERVICE and in addition that secure
the best possible cooperation of the steam railroads. the
transportation problem be temporarily soLUed vit
out the city making the fight for the street rUay
pdrieS.
While the companies doing their LeUel best to make
liz hoIo 81 a.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-07-31
THE GAS CASE.

There seems to be good reason for
the contention of the public utilities
commission, in connection with its re-
lations TO the gas case, that it has as
much Jurisdiction over receiver-man-
aged quasi-public corporations as it
has over the normal variety. However,
this isn't suggesting that the commits
sion handled the rate-raise question to
the best interests of all concerned.
The aisc allowed does not seem large
enough for the needs or purposes of
the gas company. And most of the
consumers would probably prefer to
pay a little more for their gas and be
assured of reasonably adequate sup
ply than to pay less and run the
chance of having practically no gas,
not even enough for cooking when
they need it most
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-07-31

terday, he began, rather uncertainty
Then he added audaciously: 81 have
called to repair the omission
Did you regard it as necessary ?''
she asked, with a dignity which he
fancied was tempered with Just a sus-
picion of interest
well, yes, Miss Odell," he declared.
his courage reviving, "the fact is II
should like to make your acquaint-
ance."
At this she did not seem able who'll
ly to repreSS sort of Quizzical smile,
which added perceptibly to her attrac-
lions. Only for a brief instant, how
ever.
81 am not in the habit of making
acquaintance in the unconventional
manner you seem to prefer" she said
preston on her face that made his
heart shiver.
81 should at least like the privilege
of asking you to forgive me for my
turned, humility in his voice and ador-
alton in his eyes.
81 will forgive you if you will prom
Use to reform at once she said gem
explain to my father how this-this
intrusion occurred during his absence.
Now permit me to bid you good day,
sir.''
With that she left him. He gazed
after her mute and lost to all other
earthly impressions, until Thomas ap-
peared at the door and politely re-
minded him that he was at Mr.. Rich
mond'S service.
When few days later he called to
make the required explanation to Miss
Angela's father, he found to his in
finite delight that Mr.. Odell was dis
posed to take a far more lenient view
of his culpability than his daughter
had done. In fact, his reception at
the Odell home was so free from any
attempt on the part of the old gentle
man to reduce him to sackcloth and
ashes that his audaciousness reaSSert-
ed itself speedily, with the result that
before the close of the veal he pre-
vailed upon Miss Angela to become his
good angel in fact as we'll as in fancy.
-(Copyright, 1915, by the Mcclure
Newspaper Syndicate
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-07-31

For several days after Old Man
Owl frightened poor Tommy Title
mouse so, he was afraid to go out of
his house. But at last he got so hun
CRY that he was willing to brave any
danger, and he ventured out
To his surprise, the garden looked
just the same as ever. The sun was
shining. Mr.. Snail was creeping across
the flower-bed, and Billy Robin called
a glad good morning." "They are
not afraid" Tommy cried happily,
land 1 won't be eitheri" He ran back
for his little mate and they had the
best breakfast they ever ate. How
good the sunshine did feel
But there came a day when Mrs
Tommy was too busy to go out doors
and feast with Tommy, because she
care for and feed. Busy days those
were for Tommy, too, but he didn't
mind, not he! He was so proud of
his babies, he was glad to work for
them.
How those babies did grow, 1t
seemed no time at all till Mrs. Tom
my could leave them covered snugly
with soft wool and hunt her own food.
Then, for the first time Tommy was
free to tell his friends about his ba-
bies and brag to his hearts content.
He told Mr.. Garden Toad, the Spider
and his old friend Snail, and he was
come by, when he heard call from
across the alley: Come see my new
babieSi" an excited voice said, and
away went Tommy to see who was
talking.
ST think that must be Mrs. Hen"
he said as he scurried down the path,
that nice Mrs. Hen who told me
might come to her if l got in trouble
If it is, 1 can tell her about my babies
when I see hers"
Yes, it was Mrs. Hen. She was
walking up and down the chicken
yard, her head held proudly erect and
every feather glistening and glowing.
Nobody has chicks like mine." she
seemed to say.
Tommy's heart thrilled with pride
when he saw her for the brood of
chicks which followed at her heels
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-07-31

He could no longer pay rent, and his
children went to exist with a grand
mother, while the father bent himself
to the almost hopeless task of paying
his debts. Far from being excep-
tional, these cases are typical Not
long ago the school of philanthropy,
in New York, made an extensive
study of burial costs. The investiga-
ton covered funerals both among the
poor and those in comfortable finan-
cial circumstances. In twenty-seven
cases, the family income varied from
Sc to $19 a week, with an average of
$3.50. This is only a little less than
the average wage of American work
ing people. The funeral bills aver
aged $11S.57. In twenty-three other
cases the incomes ranged from $50
to $40 week, from S1,O4O to
S2,0S0 a year. The average was
$25.36 a week, which is much above
the average income. Here the funeral
charges averaged $130.94.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-07-31
QUAKER NEGOTIATIONS.

[From the Philadelphia NewsJ
a fact in the hand is worth two theories
in the bush.
Call churchman a backslider and he is
apt to take affront.
Most of out for the long green,
but some of us color blind.
Don't look a gift horse in the mouth
unless you want to be bitten.
Nobody loves fat man. Even the Pull
man porter gives him a wide berth.
The druggist may not be quick at repair
tee, but he always has a ready retort.
Where the evidence in a law suit is con-
cerned it's a case of up, and some
down.
1t is just we'll not to let your left leg
know that your right leg is being pulled.
Nell-'.Miss Antique is rather up to date,
isn't she?'' BELIEVES, in everything ex-
cept birthdays
The wasp hasn't as many legs as the
centipede, but it gets there with both feet,
just the same.
Cillicus-"Do you think love is dis
ease?" Cynicus-"Sure; and the victims
ought to be quarantined.'
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-07-31
Globe Sights
BY THE ATCHISoN GLOBE.

No man can practice all he breaches.
A crook thinks that honest people are
merely towards.
Some men should take their vacation
cleaning their desks.
People, with more than one clock seldom
know what time it is.
1t often happens that man takes a
vacation who really needs work
It's too bad that the necessity arose for
the invention of the cuspidor.
There is something wrong with the
young squirt who calls his father "Old
Gent
A week before and a week after week s
vacation a man isn't of much value TO the
firm.
The small boy is. of course elated over
the thought that the vacation lasts only
one month longer.
Some women probably want to be angels
because they don't want to wear hardly
any clothes at all, at all
Young hopefuls should remember that
the boy bandit seldom grows up, the good
not being the only ones who die young.
You amount to about as much" one
brakeman said to another this morning,
las new shine on pair of old tan
Shoes
Sizing up some men, is it any wonder
some women love dogs2 What, by the way,
has become of the old-fashioned poodle
dog:
I don't care much about my husband,
said Mrs. Short jerks today. Il merely
married him because 1 wanted to attend a
wedding
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-07-31

JUSTICE.
o Justicei Art thou but a name,
To cover up vile deeds of shame;
To nourish graft and greed of men,
While canting hypocrites affirm
Thy mercy?
Men seek to know thee as thou art
In quiet fields and busy mart;
But find thee not and set up in thy
place
false goddess who but does thy
name disgrace:
Injustice!
Blind though she is the mothers cry
should tear the bandage from her eye;
The boy for whom she prayed each
Lies bruised and crushed beneath mems
What mercyi
Some day, the rottenness her mantle
covers Ger,
VIII be exposed, and all shall see the sore
But now the afflicted on both land and
sea,
Lift up their hands and cry alone to thee,
For mercy.
Come thou with speed then, and claim
thine own,
Root out the seeds the imposter has sown:
Or art thou, o Justice, merely a name
Used by 1l1-doers to cover their shame?
Have mercy.
Herald.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-07-31
DID BECKER GET JUSTICE.

Becker may have deserved the fate
that was meted out 10 him in the
electric chair at Sing Sing Friday, but
society in general probably feels that
he would have had squarer deal
had someone besides Charles S. Whit
man, as governor of New York, had
the final decision on his plea of execu-
tive clemency. Whitman obtained his
place in the limelight through the
prosecution and conviction of Becker
when he was district attorney of New
York and no matter how honest and
open minded he tried to be in the
premises, it seems reasona BILE to urge
that he could not help but have been
prejudiced against Becker. 1t would
be contrary to the kinks of human ma
ture that he should not be.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-07-31

usefulness of applied eugenics. me
doctrines of heredity on which the
new postulates are based must first be
subjected to critical investigation. The
limitations of the practical aspects
Of eugenics must be clearly formulated
and emphasized. 1t is well enough TO
maintain in a general way that vital
ity is partly inherited and partly &C
quired, and that "a sound physical
and mental inheritance is a greater
asset than the inheritance of extra
neous advantages like wealth" Many
individuals, however, have assumed
that the new science is primarily in
tended to foster a scheme of general
governmental interference with mar
riage. AS a matter of fact, the most
earnest students of the subject have
at best hoped to promote the gradual
establishment of standards in public
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-07-31
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
[From the Chicago News.I

From the chicago NeWe.J
Envy has torpedoed many a friendship.
Hope and advice never yet satisfied
mans hunger.
But a joke at the expense of real re-
ligion is a misfit.
People who are always looking for trou-
BILE miss lot of joy rides.
Beauty is only skin deep and lots of so
called wisdom is likewise.
A woman never forgives a man she has
insulted if he fails to apologize.
Do the best you You will probably
not break any valuable records anyway.
And a considerable percentage of our so
called friends will not stand the acid test.
Some people make bluff at hiding their
light under a bushel who never had a light
One-half the world imagines that the
other half couldn't possibly worry along
without it,
Yet millionaire can say more in ten
words than a penniless man can say in
10000.
Only a regular woman can get any salts
faction out of a daily paper that is more
than three days old
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-07-31
HIGH COST OF DYING.

AS an important factor in the high
cost IF living, we have all but over
looked the still higher cost of dying,
which in these days is welI-nigh pro-
hibitive, says the Pictorial Review for
August and it continues: In a small
country town there lived a school
teacher whose salary was s44S year.
He had a wife and one child BY the
most grinding sort OF economy he
actually put by a few dollars and after
half a dozen years he had SIS saved.
Then his little girl fell ill. Like her
father and mother. she had never
really had enough to cat. so that in
her poOrly-nourished condition not
even the best of care could save her
life. The child was buried simply and
decently. When the father reckoned
up the cost of this tragedy, he found
himself facing the appalling indebt-
edness OF Sass. The SIS of savings
exactly balanced the burial costs,
leaving the father penniless and bur-
dened with a debt of s1S3. Think of
the years that followed-of the hard,
pitiless struggle to save, penny by
penny, the money to satisfy this ter
rible debt A porter liz n New York
linen house who earned SIS a week
almost as much as the country
school teacher received-lost his wife.
the dead wife's insurance, all the hus-
bands ready money and all the money
he could borrow. went TO pay the debt.
He was left penniless, with his sal
airy mortgaged for months to come
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-07-31

And the Germans are also veritable
kenesaw Mountain Landises when it
comes to filming folk. They have
soaked Brussels another impost OF Il
small matter of a million dollars for
the destruction of a Zeppelin that
was quartered in its midst. The dis
patches indicate that this airship was
destroyed by bombs dropped from aero
planes of the Allies. The theory
under which the Germans holds the
city of Brussels to blame is not an
nounced. But. then. Germany doesn't
seem to need any sufficient reasons
for anything in particular that she
chooses to do these days.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-07-31
Eu ening Chat
The Schedule All Important.
BY RUTH CAMERON.

The schedule all important, the de-
tail dominant and the plan pre-con-
ceived-what lot of happiness these
three factors take out of many wom-
ems live,
A woman was invited by a friend to
bring her little boy and take an auto
mobile ride. 1t was a heavenly day,
the ride would have done them both
good as we'll as given pleasure.
What time shall you be back?" she
asked.
mot until six o'clock"
''I don't believe I'd better co.
The reason? She wanted to giv3
Wilfred his bath and if he didn't get
back until six he would be an hour
late in getting to bed. Couldn't the
bath go until the next night? No, she
had planned to give it that night.
The husband of another woman
came home one night full of enthu-
siasm. They had been planning to
take a prosaic vacation later in the
summer, but he had just been offered
the opportunity to take very inter-
esting trip if they could start in three
days.
His wife was annoyed instead of
why I didn't plan to go for a
month. I couldn't possibly get off
then
"Why?"
My clothes aren't ready
You'd need very few clothes and I
could let you have the money to buy
what you absolutely need tomorrow. p"
Besides, haven't the house ready
to leave. My cleaning isn't finished"
Leave it the way it is and have
Jane help you when you get back"
So the argument ragged. Did they
go eventually? No. of course they
didn't
The schedule all important, the de-
tail dominant and the plan precon-
ceived were respected and the oppor-
tunity gave way.
1t is such things-as that that pre-
vent men from making comrades OF
their wives
1.-The reason 1 like to get off with
other men, said a man whose wife
complains that he does not make a
comrade of her, sis that they aren't
always fussing over details. They take
things as they come and have good
time. Women are always fussing if
this or that isn't just the way they
expect it to be-
To dominate her plans and sched-
ules instead of permitting them to
dominate her. to refuse to permit petty
details to change from molehiIls into
mountains-thesea are the biggest hap
piness lessons that many a woman has
to learn.
Question: need advice. A very
amiable young man has confessed
earnestly that he cares for me. I ap-
preciate the honor of the proposal, bur
desire only his friendship. Can I safe
ly continue our friendship without in
the future being called coquette? L
abhor deceit. 1 am very young and
have ambitions which crowd out
thoughts of matrimonial Reader
Answer-If you are absolutely sure
you can never care for this man is it
fair to keep him in a position which
will prevent his getting over his love
for you and learning to care for some
one else? Friendship would be ideal
if it were not for that and if you could
make him know your decision was
final, and if he could be satisfied with
friendship, but these are very big if
as people who have tried the expert
ment can tell you.