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The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1916-04-29
WHAT THEY THINK OF US

When this war ends the United States will not have
a friend in the world. Not one. This will not be the feel
ing OF the great rulers so much as it will be of the peo-
pie. who will have to pay the taxes that this great war is
burdening them with" This is what DR.. Eugene 2. Hurd,
an American physician who has travelled extensively and
is now employed as a surgeon to the German prisoners OF
war iii Russia, writes to the New York Sun.
DR.. IIurd says he has talked with soldiers, rank and
file, OF all the beligerent countries. Their ignorance OF
the United States is profound. The average Russian Off
Ger has heard OF New York, Chicago, Washington and San
Francisco. He supposes that President Wilson is presi-
dent OF both North and South America. The Russian sol
whether it is in North or South America. The greater
amount of America is under control OF wild tribes of In
dians. Ninety per cent OF the civilized people OF America
are either Germans or AustrianS or their descendants.
Oh course New York and Pennsylvania were settled by
the Dutch, who are German sympathizers. Everyone
who goes to America sends lots of money home to his
family. Therefore 1t is a very rich country.
The Russian soldier IS fighting to keep the German
from his hearth and to save Serbia and Belgium from a
like fate. He is buying his rifles from America at SIS
apiece, which is more than 200 rubles, while the cost OF
making them at home is 20 II rubles. But he must have
mere rifles, and Americans are the only people that have
them to sell. The United States is the one first-class
nation that will allow its citizens to be murdered on the
high seas. When this war ends suddenly, as it will, all OF
Europe will have an immense army OF Well-trained and
service-hardened soldiers. They will all be armed with
the most modern implements OF warfare. All Europe will
be covered with ammunition factories. All the gold will
be in America and Europe will be bankrupt.
That, according to DR.. Hurd, IS what the Russian
soldier is thinking. The German soldier hates the Eng
lish but despises the Americans. The German sick and
wounded who think DR.. Hurd is an Englishman will
talk to him. When they discover that he is an American
they shut up like clans. And the British soldier is par
ticularly bitter toward us.
All OF which constitutes a powerful argument tor
preparedness.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1916-04-29
HOLLAND AND HER WORRIES

Little Holland is on the anxious seat, both abroad
and at home. She is an anomaly among the nations OF
the earth. No bigger than a minute, she is the ruler OF an
overseas empire that is twenty times her own area, and
more than that. These foreign possessions are the things
left over of a former age, when Holland was the undls-
puted master of the seas for a short period. AT that time
she controlled the East India islands, of which she still
retains a part, parts OF India, South Africa, New Zealand,
large areas in South America and what is now New York
City and portions of New York state. What disturbs
The Hague now is open talk in japanese papers about the
duty of Japan to seize the islands Of Java and Sumatra on
the theory that Holland is not strong enough to protect
them or to keep down internal wars. Japan pretendS to
be SO much disturbed about the peace of the Orient that
she intends to see that it is kept, even in China. One
japanese statesman said last year that for Japan this IS
an opportunity of a thousand years-she can take IN the
far east what she wants while the western nations are
knocking each other in the head.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1916-04-29
UP TO "BERNSTORFF

Ambassador Bernstorff is apparently taking a long
time to decide just which of the papers seized in Won
Papen's former office in New York, along with the arrest
of Herr Won Igel. are "official' In response to Bern
storffs demand for the surrender OF the papers without
any of them being copied or photographed, he received
Photographic copies of all, with the assurance that our
government would cheerfully turn over any that he might
designate as official. 1t is now strongly limited, ii not Of
ficially declared, that in addition to the papers relating to
the alleged conspiracy for the destruction of the Welland
canal and papers involving numerous American citizens
of prO-German synpathies, there are others relating to
the activities of German agents in Japan and in Mexico.
Our government is disposed to hand all these papers to
Count Won Bernstorff if he will declare that they are Of
fetal papers of the German government or the German en-
bassy, but in that event he. would probably receive his
passports with the other papers. The country is waiting
quite patiently and also quite serenely for Bernstorff to
decide which papers are official" 1t is entirely up to
Bernstorff.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1916-04-29

About the most consistent and almost the most W
ferrous advocate of the direct primary in recent yea
as been the indianapolis News. A good second was Nj
essing Rosenthal of the Chicago Municipal Voter
eague. 1t is therefore of especial interest to find in IL
columns of the News the following:
Mr.. Leasing Rosenthal, one of the influential
members of the Municipal Voters League of Chi
cago, has come to the conclusion that the direct
primary is a failure. Mr.. Rosenthal is not the only
man who has reached that conclusion. There is
much talk about the defects in certain laws, but as
the complaint is widespread, and as the laws OF the
various states differ greatly, men are beginning to
think that the defect is in the principle, and not in
the laws through which it is applied. This is the
opinion of Mr.. Rosenthal. He points out that there
is no more freedom of choice under the direct pr1-
mary than under the old system, and, OF course,
that is true. We have had a recent experience IN
Indiana, and no one will say that the material OF
fered to the voters this year is one whit better than
in years gone by, or that there was any greater
freedom of choice. Men "Offer themselves and the
confused and bedeviled voter has to make such a
choice as he can among candidates of whom, very
often, he knows nothing. Mr.. Rosenthal says:
"Who can assert that the voter had a free
choice Yesterday? Were not most of the names Sc
lected for him? This but shows the fallacy of the dl-
rect primary. Perhaps the people will learn after
a while that this republic IS, and was intended to
be, a representative government. Pure democracy
cannot succeed. Pure democracy would result III
the failure of the republic. The direct primary
will fall with the initiative, the compulsory refer
endum and recall, none of which is adapted to Our
system of po1itv-a system most carefully consider
ed bv the founders of the republic and worthy OF
preservation"
Whether the people have made up their MINDS
on this subject we do not pretend to say. 1t is
well that they should have had the experience, we'll
that the system should have had a test. II further
experience is necessary, those who are already PEI
suaded can only be patient till the denonstratlon
IS complete and convincing. Sooner or later 1t VIII.
we are sure, be proved that the trouble IS not with
any particular law, but with the principle underiN-
inc all the laws. There is no centering OF respon
sibiitv, nor is there any concentration OF e1fors
exceDt bv the bosses. AS for the presidential pref
orence urinary that has already proved itself ~
be a Joke. Mr.. Wilson would have been the demo
cratic candidate had there been no primary. And
everyone knows that the republican candidate VIII
be nominated BY the convention at Chicago.
The echoes from the primaries held last week are b
innino TO reverberate across the continent, both east al
and the further extension Of this fad OF the profe
iona1 reforner is without probability.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1916-04-29
SIZE OF THE ARMY

The army bill as passed by The senate provides for a
regular standing army in time of peace of 100000 men.
together with a federalized volunteer army force of 26o.
900, a national guard of about 100000 and a college and
school reserve of more than 100000, or a million men al
together, regular and reserves. The bill which passed
the house a few weeks ago provided for a regular arm>
of 10000 men, so that the senate has made the regular
force 10000 men larger than it was made by the house.
There will now probably be a conference between the SEN
ate and house committees with a view to harmonizine
the two bills.
Because of present serious conditions the senate bill
is likely to be preferred to that of the house, and it comes
closer to what the people feel that they should have at
this time. If a compromise is necessary the senate fig
ure of 100000 men may be cut down somewhat, possibly
to 100000 men, but hardly any lower than that figure.
Should war come, the army of course would be made
much larger than would be provided on a peace footing.
In fact there is no telling how large an army might have
to be enlisted in case we should become engaged in war.
A German writer, Mr.. Goldbeck, saws that the
Americans are rather a commonplace people, and that
their habitual talk is trivial. Next.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1916-04-29

In Spain also they have the German issue now, grow
ING out of the sinking of several ships. Sentiment in
Spain has been rather friendly to Germany, partly, it is
alleged. because Spain would like to get back Gibraltar
and sees that hope in the breaking down OF the British
empire. But the newspapers are now commenting severe
" on German methods. But Germany probably does not
care about the opinion Of Spain, so long as it is getting
at the vitals Of the British power.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1916-04-29

On the eve of the crisis the senate passed a bill per
hitting the army to be recruited to a million men, the
peace strength to be 100000. We take it the senate in
tended to scare the German kaiser into some sort of com
pliance. Let it be hoped that he will scare all right
enough, although a million men must appear as a mere
corporals guard to him.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1916-04-29

The chances are not bright for Americans to point
with pride to our second war with Mexico, or is it our
third, or fourth, or seventh?
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1916-03-10
Appeared at the Door Figure in
Black Silk.

with the best set And it means
twelve thousand year! Now! Are
you going to have that old woman at
our party tomorrow night %
Il am" said Horace. IF the Kerrs
/ are such intolcrable snobs that they
require my denying my own mother,
let them 60 to-blazes! And il we
have to Wen take Dorothy out of that
school and send her to public one. "
Then | wash my hands of the
whole affair" said Mildred, rising an
grily from the table. And you can
do what you choose"
He could not pacify his wife all day
He sent the telegram that his mother
had requested and waited in some
thing like CONSERVATION for her ar
rival
Horace Scott was genuinely fond of
his mother. She had been devoted to
him, and when he left the farm, fif-
teen years before, to seek his fortune
in the city, he had told her that some
day she was to make her home with
him. But he had married a worldly
woman, and somehow that dream had
little of the poor old woman during the
past few years. He realized that she
was, socially. a handicap. But he had
conscientiously determined that he
would never fail in his duty toward
her.
NnNNr 80 hs a., sl,a
She came next day, with an immense
carpetbag, from which she extracted a
couple of Jars of homemade pre-
serves, an enormous cake and some
homemade pickles.
There, my dear" she said to her
disguised daughter-in-law. Don't tell
me you amt pleased with them.
ben reading all about these here adul-
terations of foods which Doctor WI
ley's trying to stop folks from being
poisoned, and ! thought I'd give you
both a starter My! Amt you ele.
gantly fixedi Not but what prefer to
have the rooms up and down instead
of all a long line of 'em. And these
here flats amt what they're cracked
up to be. Now show me my room and
I'll put on my black silk in case you
expect them friends you spoke about"
shes impossible, Horace!" ex-
claimed his wife angrily, after the old
lady had retired. I'VE can't let the
Kerrs meet her-that all. We can't.
I'm going to see that she stays in
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1916-03-10
WHEN YOUR CHEST GURGLES
Sounds the Doctor Hears Through
Stethoscope Tell Him If Lungs Are
in Bad Condition.

A doctor hears some curious noises
when he places the stcthoscope
against your chest whether you are fit
for the army or not. When the lungs
are healthy, pleasant breezy sound,
soft in tone, Is heard as the breath Is
drawn in and expelled, the Toronto
Mail and Empire states. If the steth-
oscope conveys to his ear a gurgling
or bubbling sound the doctor knows
that you are in what is known as the
moist stage of bronchitis. In the dry
stage of the same complaint the sound
is whistling, whecZy one.
One of the signs of pneumonia is
the soft cracking note that comes
through the stcthoscope 1t is not
unlike the sound that can be heard
when your finger and thumb have
touched sticky substance, and you
first place them together and then
part them. holding them close to your
ear
Doctors occasionally hear a drip
ping sound, and that tells them that
the air and water have got into some
part of the chest where they have
no right
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1916-03-10
Habit of Savinu.

The United States Is thriftier than
it is commonly given credit for being,
because statistics most frequently
quoted do not give all savings depos-
its. and because a vast deal of savings
goes on outside of savings institutions.
Yet it does not live up to its oppor-
tunities by long way. One of the
countrys ablest business men said not
long ago that anyone could tell wheth-
er he was going to succeed or fail by
his ability to save. IL he could not
save he could not succeed. At any
rate, inability to save, for a man with
an income above the bread line and
no unusual i'll luck, implies a lack of
self-control that is not conducive to
success.
Like nearly everything else, it is a
matter of habit, and, with little de-
termination to begin with, the right
habit is as easily formed as the wrong
one. Try it this year.-Saturday Eve
ming Post.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1916-03-10
K0RACE'S MOTHER
BY FRANK FllSON.

What is it, dear?" asked Horace
Scott. looking up at his wife across
the breakfast table.
"a tragedy" she answered, flinging
down the letter she had been reading,
with angry tears. Your mother is
coming to pay US visit tomorrow.
Good Lord!" said Horace, picking
up the letter and reading it.
Tomorrow, of all times, when the
Kerrs are coming to dinner, and a
dozen other couples" continued Mil
dred. And Just when l had all my
plans fixed! What will they think of
US with that awful old woman?"
Il don't know that she's so bad,
dear" said Horace musingly. "Old
Kerr was brought up on a farm and
was a farmers boy for two or three
years."
But, Horace, you know very we'll
that people who are in society don t
acknowledge things like that. 1t
doesn't matter what one has been; it s
what one is. And after | have man
aged to get Dorothy into that exclu-
sive boarding school, and had laid all
my plans for bringing her out! We
are fixed, Horace, fixed with the very
set of people we want to get in with,
and now your mother is coming up
from the farm, with her ignorant
speech and her bad table manners"
I'm not ashamed of her-God bless
her!" said Horace fervently.
"Ah, well, if you don't care about
your daughters future. at least you
might care about our financial posi-
tion," persisted his wife. You know
very well that your chance of secur,
ing that position as lawyer for the
Kerr corporation depends on my ingra-
tiating myself with Lucy Kerr have
worked to that end for two years, know.
ing that old Williams wouldn't live
long, and that they would be looking
round for someone else to represent
them. 1t needs a man who is in touch
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1916-03-10

the gifts Providence sent me. didn It
quite expect this end. but why worry ?
My heart is clean and peaceful as that
of boy and I'm glad I've been "a
fool"
Mark Paxton was leaving the old
house, for it had been seized on a
mortgage. He was leaving town, be-
cause he had sadly learned that those
whom he had benefited in the past
had no gratitude in the present. He
had never been an idle man, even
If he had done more pottering about
the place than steady work He knew
he was handy and willing though, and
he doubted not that he would be able
to earn a living.
Not for moment did Mark Paxton
bewail his fate. He owed no man a
dollar and was content. He did not
regret his past benefactions to others.
1t warmed his heart still to recall the
weak and helpless, aided at least a
little along their hard road of life.
They had forgotten him? Well, that
was human nature-in the main good,
he decided.
"The stranger spoke of another fool,
Just like me-" ruminated Mark "a
woman after my own heart. I'm think
ing. Id like to know her."
He remembered the name Lesbis
Tresham. He knew that she lived
down Hamilton way" Hamilton was
fifty miles distant, far enough away
to serve as trial point for work
without intruding gossips dishing out
his erstwhile "foolishness."
an try Hamilton, anyway" decided
Mark and thitherward bent his way.
why, I'm getting looney, do be-
lieve," he added with a faint smile,
Il can't get this Miss Tresham out of
my mind You'd think | was some
love.lorn simpleton doting over a
sweetheart, the way | keep feeling
somehow, as if, being a friend to all
humanity, as they say she is, she
must be friend to me"
Mark was not analyst enough to
comprehend that the thought of Miss
Tresham stayed because he had no
settled plans in his mind, and one
definite point focused it and held il
steadfast.
At all events Mark reached Hamil-
ton. Then rather sheepishly, though
cautiously, he began to make inquiries
concerning Miss Tresham. 1t was
pleasing entertainment to have some
object in view. lie learned that she
had the life tenure of a house and
a little patch of ground on the edge
of the town. This Mark located. Its
owner he had heard a dozen times
had impoverished herself with her ill.,
advised generosity Mark noticed a
woman in a sunbonnet trimming some
rose bushes. He trembled, and he
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1916-03-10
Lisbon Time SIunaI

Correct time is announced every
hour in the port of Lisbon, Portugal
iron columns 100 feet high. The Ian.
terms each have three faces, measur.
ing 6.5 feet by feet At exactly five
minutes before the hour, a horizontal
line of light appears on each face, and
on the tick of the hour, this light is
extinguished. The signals may be seen
even in the daytime at a distance of
a mile and half At night the posi-
ton of the lanterns is indicated by
three red lights. The signals are
worked electrically under the control
of clock in the Obseryatorio Astro-
nomico de Lisboa.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1916-03-10
THE FRATERNAL HEART
BY VICTOR REDcLIFFE.

yes, all the fools in the world are
not dead yet"
And the man you were telling
about who lived in yonder house was
one of them?"
Exactly. Mark Paxton. He's out
of it now, they tell. No wonder. No
tramp ever went to his door unreward-
ed. If poor family in town couldn't
pay their rent, Paxton came to the
rescue. He simply gave away all that
he had"
And now"
About year ago he took in likely
young fellow in hard luck The in
crate got up in the night, robbed him
Of his last thousand dollars and
eloped"
well, we've pretty nigh got his
double down at Hamilton. where live.
Only it's woman She is Miss
Lesbis Tresham, a young old maid.
Thinks she was put in the world to
help everybody that came along. Pref
~ hedi ~ dS uiu Oil HOW DIS tulS Mar h
Paxton of yours
And then the two strollers discuss
ing the situation moved away, and
from behind a hedge where he had
been resting Mark Paxton sat up and
looked reflective.
That's the way look to the world,
eh?" he soliloquized, "a fool All
right. I'm glad I've had my run. Poor,
worse off than they think-not quite
the almshouse, though, for know how
to work. I've made some happier out
OF the crowd I've fed and housed and
given money to. | have distributed
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1916-03-10

her room. Don't you dare interfere
with me. Horacei"
Horace sighed. He knew that when
his wife made up her mind there was
little to be done. But his mother had
a mind of her own. too He braced
himself for domestic tempest. How
ever, presently Mildred came back
smiling
It's all right. dear" she said I've
persuaded her that she'll be too tired
for company tonight. She's going to
bed-early. I've put her in that end
room, so that she won't hear anything.
And she thinks it's just a mems bust
ness meeting"
The dinner party was a huge sue
cess. The kerrs were amiability it.
self. Half a dozen people whom Mil
dred had never succeeded in getting
into her home now appeared to have
taken her to their hearts. They ad-
journed to the drawing room. and Mil
dred had almost forgotten the old
woman sleeping in the end room. when
suddenly there appeared at the door
a figure clad in black silk Her heart
went into her mouth
Then 1t was that Horace showed
himself man. VS. arose and took
his mother by the arm and led her
forward.
Mrs. Kerr-my mother" he said.
My, Horace!" exclaimed the old
f,ia 10
brought their women folks with them
after all"
Delighted to meet your mother" "
said Mrs. Kerr, making place beside
her for the old lady.
Mildred looked on like spectator
at dreary drama. The guests had
all clustered about the old woman.
making fun of her uncouthness, and
she, seeing nothing, was telling them
all about the farm. the chickens, the
crops and the neighbors.
Her heart was bursting. She could
not bear it. All the deliberately built
plans that she had made were tum-
bling to the ground. 1t was too hor-
rible, after all that she had done!
Without an excuse, she rose and
walked into her room, and, flinging
herself upon the bed. gave way to
binding tears.
AT last she rose and dried her eyes
She would hold UP her head, at any
rate. 1t was Horace's mother, not
hers.
She went back proudly toward the
drawing room. A burst of laughter
met her. So thcy.were still having
fun with the wrctched old woman!
Horace met her at the door. Dear
est" he cried. where have you
/ been? was coming to look for you.
Don't trouble answered Mildred
caustically. Your mother has Ger
tainly been the sensation of the eve
ming It's as good as a play"
1T certainly is. ;" said Horace. What
do you think? Mr. Kerr knew mother
years ago, when he was a boy in Still
we'll, and they're having the time Of
their lives. Mrs. Kerr is positively
jealous"
Frank Kerr rose from the sofa and
claspcd Ilorace's hands enthusiast.
! cally.
My dear fellow, why didn't you let
me meet your mother before?" he de
manded. Say, Horace. that affair is
! fixed. You're going to take Williams
place. And Mrs. Kerr wants you and
your wife to bring your mother to see
us tomorrow and have dinner with us
tell you, when a man of sixty meets
his first sweetheart again something s
doing
Copyright. 1916. by w. G. Chapman
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1916-03-10
Painting a Dark Surface Llaht.

When proposing to paint dark sur
face white, more satisfactory results
will be obtained by first applying a
coat of compromise color, halfway be-
tween the ground and the new finish,
and then, over this. putting the white.
For instance, over dark green put
a coat of dark gray A final coat of
white to cover the gray makes more
pleasing finish than would two coats
of white over the green.