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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-08-23

The above rates express the cost OF
foreign money in terms of the Amer
lean dollar. You buy an English pound
sterling for s4.75A; the intrinsic
parity is S4s67S per pound. Thus, you
say either that pounds are at dis
count or that dollars are at a premium.
which is owing TO the fact that in Eng
land the demand for dollars with which
to settle accounts in this country is
greater than the demand in this coun'
try for pounds with which to settle
accounts in England.
II you calculate the cost Of the dol
lar in terms Of foreign money-that
is. as if you were buying dollars with
pounds, marks or francs-its Vaiue
Yesterday and year ago would De
"D"NN a" Cost Of one dollar.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-08-23

Below is given the current exchange
value of foreign money in dollars and
cents, together with the intrinsic gold
parity as calculated by the United
Stats Mint.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-08-23
Tuesday, august %, 1916.

The stock market experienced a
sudden access of strength and &C
tivity. Restraints had been some
what relaxed. There was also some
evidence Of skilful acceleration. The
sequence Of events in the last few
weeks has been very interesting. In
July there was a pause in war buy
ing. Whether it would be resumed
in its former magnitude was a mat
ter of wide discussion. Many
thought it would not be. Then sud
denly large orders began TO be
placed again. From this industry
in general derived a new impulse.
Next the stock market became
strong in feeling, though activity
was very moderate. Then came
news of the British loan, not abrupt
~, but little at a time, until the
terms were definitely known. The
expectation was created that the
placing of this loan would definitely
relieve the stock market, for a time
at least, of the foreign liquidation
that had been pressing on it. This
is in some measure realized. The
strongest stock had been United
States Steel common, and when the
list Of American securities pledged
under the British loan was pub
lished, the absence of Steel shares
was a notable and pleasant discOv-
cry.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-08-23
The Dollar in Foreign Exchange
Week

The market for foreign exchange was
very dull. Rates were nominally lit
tie lower. They closed as follows:
W. 'N" Wook
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-08-23

ANDREW J MCCORMACK Aur-ioosf.
REGULAR AUCTION SALE.
STOCKS AND BONDS
BY ADRIAN II. MULLER & son,
OFFICE. 80. S. WILLIAM ST,
WEDNESDAY. AUGUST %, 1915
az 10 80 O'Clock 40 Pc
EXCHANGE SIESROOM
Nos q AND lG NESEN STREE
For Account o. Whom u MAY Concern
300 shs Jefferson Bank " New YORK
100 shs Fisk Rubber co. common.
S4J 900 The Garland Corp o. y. j.. 8 p {. Bod,
due 1885. July. 1915 coupon
n shs. Crestlne Land Company
s.. 900 Acker. Neral a Coadlt Co.. 80 De-
BIDS. 1928
40 shs. Genera. Baking Co Common
80 shs. Key West Gas Co
sl2 900 Swiss Confederation 8 D. C. Cog,on Ao.s,
due Mar I. 1920
l sh Franklin Trust Co
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-08-23
Salisbury Steel & Iron Company

To Holders Of Certificates Of Dspcst Creditor rs
Other Security Holden.
The undersigned Committee hereby gives tc'i,
that It has approved ard adopted a plan AID iSs'.
ment OF reorganization ard has fled coples o. 'gea
plan and agreement with the Hudson rrlS Coz
pany. de3ositsry iili Broadway y. 7 city.
Copies Of the plan and Agreement nay b o.
tanned from the deposltay.
THEODORE J. GRAYS0s. chLrnm.
EUGENE A. OsaoNGT
HANS p. BENDER. courltts.
Dated. New York. August II. 1915.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-08-23
Federal Reserve Observation-Disclosures
Maturity in days.
Bank Exchanges.-The days clear


ings at New York and other cities:
Exchanges. Balances.
New York. Si53,297, l6s $Is,32S,25O
Boston .. 27.275,0i9 2,337,519
Chicago .... 70,l20,07S 3,532,367
Sub-Treasury. - New York banks
gained from the Sub-Treasury $4,000.
Silver. Bars in London, 81 Gle
pence Bars in New York, 66h cents.
Mexican dollars, 5ld55 cents.
Wagel, in his weekly bullion circular
says: There is lull in the British
Mint purchases, and the resumption Of
heavy shipments from New York has
also acted as a factor tending to lower
prices.
india has again bought from China
for coinage; about 100000 ounces OF
silver were shipped from Shanghai to
Bombay during the week.
"The China market is still bearish,
although it is patent that the more sill
yer is sent out of the country the worse
will be the position in the near future
"The stocks in Shanghai are practi-
cally unchanged, and there is very lit
tie change in exchange rates in Hong
Kong and Shanghai.
1.-THE Bank of France had an in
crease Of 10000 francs in its silver re-
serve during the week.
During the week about $4,000
worth of silver was shipped from New
York to London"
Gold Imports.-Gold TO the amount of
$4,000 900, received from Canada, has
been deposited at the Assay Office by
J. P. Morgan & Co. This makes total
of 1927, 100000 on the present move
ment since May II.
Foreign Comment. - The London
Statist" says: London in the past has
been chiefly called upon to finance ex-
ports BY providing the necessary funds
for their purchase. To-day We require
to finance imports OF unprecedented
volume, and 70 effect this the credit
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-08-23

Railroad issues for the first time
recently We're touched by general
enthusiasm for the bull side Of the
stock market. This was perhaps
less owing to developments in the
strike parley at Washington than
to a feeling of speculative abandon.
Besides, there had been growing up
of late a short interest in the rail-
road list, so that a good part of the
buying on rising prices must have
represented the necessities Of bear
ish traders. The fly in the ONT
ment was the decline in WHY'S
Overland shares, on news of a new
stock issue. There is much distrust
of the motor shares. They differ
greatly, of course, in merit and
probabilities, but extreme weakness
Of one affects all in some degree.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-08-23
Finance Economics

GARET GARRETT, Editor
STREET Telephone,
Building Broad Hanover oola'
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-08-23

Early in the proceedings the train
service brotherhoods, with the strike
vote in one of their pockets, tele-
graphed to the Senate Committee on
Commerce as follows: eve believe
the Interstate Commerce Commits
sion should be neutral, at least until
called upon by the National Con-
ference Committee of Railroad Man
ayers and the representatives of the
railroad brotherhoods, and we re-
spectfully suggest this course Of
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-08-23

Sub-Treasury. - New York banks
gained from the Sub-Treasury $4,000.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-08-23

Silver Bars in London, 1915
pence. Bars in New York, 66h cents.
Mexican dollars, 5ld55 cents.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-04-15

Chicago democrats are in great glee Iney
outvoted the republicans in the recent alder
manic elections by 10000 votes.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-04-15
sHERIFF's SALE.

State Of Iowa, Lee County-ss.
BY virtue of special execution tc
me directed, issued by the Clerk OF
the District Court Of said county in
favor of Howard L. Connable and
against S. r. Overall. /. John c.
Scott, Sheriff, will sell to the highest
bidder. at the front door of the Court
House in Keokuk, Lee County. Iowa
on the 9Th day of May, A. d. 1916
between the hours of 8 o'clock a. m
and o'clock p. m, commencing at
2 o'clock p. m. OF said day the fol
lowing property, to-wit:
Lots ten (10) and eleven CID in
block one hundred and sixty-one Q6D
in the City of Keokuk, Lee County
Iowa.
And to be sold by order of Court to
satisfy said writ of execution.
Keokuk, April Z. 1916.
JOHN C. SCOTT,
Sheriff of Lee County. Iowa.
BY W. S. Montgomery, Deputy.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-04-15

The Boone First National bank is just COM
pleting new S15O,OOO building. On top OF
the building had been placed a mammoth
searchIight of 100000 candlepower. On clear
night this searchlight can be seen forty miles.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-04-15
STATEHOOD FOR ALASKA.
Statehood for Alaska.


| Such is the dream Of the enthusiastic Alask-
ANS that seems to be in fair prospect OF realza-
ton.
And yet, just forty mine years ago, the unlteo
States entered into treaty with Russia where
by it agreed to pay $7,2O0,00O for this bleak
region, then sparsely settled and incompletely
explored For many years after this deal, II
was thought that the United States had made
bad bargain. But within the last quarter OF a
century the development Of Alaska has been
near phenomenal-one of the most romantic
rages in our history. 1t is turning out wealth,
in minerals and fisheries of tens of millions OF
dollars annually. It has passed through Its
rude. rough, pioneer experience and has bios
somed out into staid, settled, law-respectlng,
progressive community that aspires to state
hood Up there. under those northern skies,
stretches a great territory 59O,SS4 square miles
in extent the development Of whose natural re-
sources is but in its infancy. Its total popula-
ton today is but a handful compared with the
hundreds of thousands who will people it ere
long. Besides its mines, its fisheries and It's
forests, it has agricultural possibilities OF no
mean proportions.
Statehood is the logical ambition of Alaska,
Hawaii and Porto Rico. 1t is only question
of time. and it may not be distant when these
outlying territorial regions will fully qualify
for admission into the union
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-04-15
PITY THE DUMB CREATURES.

How many animals are used, how are they
treated, and is there much useless repetition OF
experiments, cruelty and abuse OF animals used
for research work in laboratories where serums
and vaccines are gatherede
These are questions to which an answer is
sought By bill introduced into the congress by
Senator Gallinger of New Hampshire and Rep
resentative Kahn of California and referred to
the committee on agriculture in both houses. 1t
instructs the secretary of agriculture to make
such an investigation and report the results.
According to the official report of the British
government. there were in 1914 about $4,000
animals used in Great Britain for experimental
purposes. Taking into consideration the larger
number of persons engaged in medical re-
search. the freedom from any regulative or re-
strictive laws. the many endowments for re
search purposes, and the enterprising spirit OF
our scientific men, the number Of animals used
yearly in this country must, in comparison
with the English figures, run into some hun
dreds Of thousands
Under existing conditions this large number
of our four-footed friends, those who cannot
speak for Themselves are absolutely under the
control of the individual. The professional
men and women engaged in research through
animal experimentation are about the only
class Oh persons 10 WlOHl society gives absolute
trust and confidence and permits their perfect
freedom from restraint.
Are we justified in this confidence? Are We
neglecting our responsibility in this direction
while we recognize it so fully in the care with
which we guard against and prevent cruelty tc
animals by the public generally as is evidenced
by the humane laws and the hundreds of so
cieties for the prevention Of cruelty to animals
which exist throughout the country. but which
have application or jurisdiction where AMI
mails are used for experimental purposes7
The answer to these questions will be mad
clearer if the Gallinger- Kahn bill becomes eff
fective. and The Gate City believes that
should have the support of all persons VIII
claim humanitarian feelings, whether profes
s;onal or layman.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-04-15
TODAYs BIT OF VERSE
THE MAN WITH A DREAM.

He may be right ne may be wrong,
He may be false or he may be true
The singer is often more than the song.
The idea than the man, perdue!
But right or wrong, there's glory In 1t
Full to the brim each glorious minute
When the man with the dream goes forth TO see
What the world and the and the dream may be!
And the ship may sink and the brave go down,
And the wrong may triumph and know no rest
But more may have won crown
For trying little to do his best!
And the dream won't hurt, and the seed may dow
In a fertile heart that will come in time
To help 1t sprout and help it grow
In the and rain Of k.ndlier cline!
1t is so with dreams, and with men that dream
None ever knows what there is in store
Till he follows the path of the Turing sieam,
Or whether it leads to pence or war
For without the dream there is never deed
That is worth the hour It costs to do
And the man with the vision is this days need
For man may be false but the dream is true!
Baltimore SUM-
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-04-15
Monument for Fitch,

Burlington Hawkeye: Knox college
students at Galesburg are trying to
raise a $4,000 endowment fund for the
institution, to be a memorial for the
gifted and lovable George Fitch, who
was a graduate of the institution. That
seems a most fitting manner OF hon
oring the memory Of man who was
summoned before his time, but who
lived long enough to do good work and
to win many friends. No one can
really and truthfully state that he
would have done much better work
and would have won an enduring place
in the literary world II he had lived.
But he harmed no one. and he made
thousands upon thousands smile and
laugh. And surely he was one to be
honored by those who knew him, and
those who followed him in his old COZ
lege. More than most of the writer's
OF his time did he keep his youth and
his work always recalled the happy
college boy at his very best
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-04-15
SCORE: KEoKUK 40, WARSAW 4e.

The tumult and shouting on the grand stands
and bleachers have started and baseball fans
are in their element. Only in Keokuk has en-
thusiasm waned for lack of possession OF club
to uphold the honor of the sport and with play
ers who would do their best to keep the organlza-
ton from dropping into the. cellar position But
away back in the sixties Keokuk had her root
ers. fanatics and baseball bugs who spent much
time in lavishing praise upon their favorite
players and roasting the manager and the UNI
pire every time the home club lost battle.
Here's an indication that this bald statement
is based on fact: At Sixteenth and High streets
on August IA, 1867, the Mutuals of Warsaw and
the Gate Citys of Keokuk played, the score be-
ing 40 to 46 In favor of Keokuk. The only rec
objection as to personalities is that John N. r.
win and Roy S. Worthen scored the game,
which lasted three hours and was witnessed by
a large crowd. The names of the players are
buried in oblivion. but God rest their ashes.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-04-15
Position Of the New York Tribune.

St. Louis Globe-Democrat: The
New York Tribune exaggerates, for
psychological reasons, the sense of
resentment at what occurred in 1912"
| it has put aside that it may support
| Colonel Roosevelt for president The
| Tribune put a good deal of its re-
sentiment aside early in 1914, when it
supported Mr.. Hinnlan. the colonefs
choice for the republican guberna-
torial nomination in New York and
bitterly opposed the nomination of
! Mr.. Whitman. 1t has never forgiven
| Whitman for winning both the nomi-
nation and the election. The activity
of the governor for Hughes, which
was an issue in the recent election Of
chairman of the republican state
central committee, may have had
something to do with the Tribune's
lukewarmness toward the justice. 1t
| is in keeping with Tribune traditions,
under the rule of the elder and the
younger Reid, that it should declare
| for the colonel imm ediately after the
republican state central committee
unanimously passed a resolution
against him. The Tribune never feels
that it is really republican unless it
is opposing the republican organiza-
ton of New York. Recently it has
l
sphere of influence outside New York.
In 1914 it made a vigorous fight for
the election of Clifford Pinchot as
United States senator from Pennsyl-
vania. 1t naturally suffered the han
dicap of its dis lance from the scene
of the fight Perhaps, but for its
valiant work, however, Mr.. Penrose
might have got more than the $780,
655 plurality he received.
The Tribune's latest pronouncement
is not exactly surprising. On Deem
Der IL, the Saturday before the re-
publican national committee met, the
Tribune published a thunderous edi-
torial declaring that Colonel Roose-
Welt was the only candidate who
could defeat President Wilson, al
though, judging from it's scathing ar
raignment of the presidents Euro
pean policy, 1t might have consistent
" argued that anybody could defeat
the president The contention that
the country would approve the presi-
dents "craven course" If anybody ex-
cept the colonel ran against him con-
tanned an implied reflection on the
country which il scarcely deserves.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-04-15

Dubuque Times-Journal: II Clifford
Thorne has been as big man for Iowa
as is claimed why send him down to
Washington where he may be lost in
the shuttle?
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-04-15
IOWA pREss COMMENT.

Dubuque Telegraph-Herald: That
little affair, the presidential primary,
is settled. Now we may have the spec
ftacle Of the fellows after state and
county offices rolling up their sleeves
and stepping to 1t. 1t is good, too, to
realize that there are but two more
political squabbles scheduled for this
year.
Dubuque Times-Journal: II Clifford
Thorne has been as big man for Iowa
as is claimed why send him down to
Washington where he may be lost In
the shuttle?
Burlington Hawk-Eye: The faction
AMI fight among Iowa democrats has
reached the stage where Ed. Dunn
calls Ed. Meredith a liar and so forth
and SO on. The material results OF
this civil war will be manifested in an
old time republican majority in Iowa
this fall.
| Des Moin@ Register and Leader:
| It is going to cost this country some
thing to have it's correspondence with
the kaiser published in book form.
Marshalltown Times-Republican
Iowa never has had president. And
now is as good time to start fur
nishing chief executives as she is like
~ to find See what Ohio did for
herself.
Waterloo Courier: A Yale professor
recently declared that the flag would
be less disgraced by being spit on than
by having blood split upon it. If the
~, L. Cnr-
timent of the American peopIe he
corner, publicly spit upon 1t and OBJ
serve what happens.
Davenport Democrat: Chicago We
men voted heavily for Roosevelt. The
ladies always did adore man who rat
tied his sword a lot
Waterloo Times-Tribune: Knowing
the facts, the public must support the
concern that furnishes gasoline at
fair price. That will bring monopoly
to it's knees The public can 'tbust"
any monopoly once it makes up its
mind to do it.
Council BLUFFS Nonpareil The milk
producers who furnish Chicago with
this fluid food have just won an in
crease in price over the protest of the
distributing trust. Now watch the dis
tributors pass this increase up to the
consumers, with trimmings!
Des Moines Tribune: A good many
of the folks who sneer at the news
appearing in a newspaper believe
every bit Of gossip circulating in the
neighborhood.
Burlington Hawk-Eye: a farm of
100 acres near Broadlands changed
owners recently, the price being
s256.50 per acre. The purchaser made
out check for Sal. 900 in payment.
1t seems but yesterday that there
was practically no money in circula-
ton among the farmers. And when
but a very small amount of cash
would have changed hands in connec-
ton with transaction of this kind.
In those days the price of that prop
erty would have been perhaps S4,-
500, and that would have been con-
sidered lot of money. No doubt
there is certin intimate relation
between land prices and the fact that
there is plenty Of money in the land.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-04-15

The only really novel thing about the
Tribune's latest editorial Is the dec
laration that the colonel stands for
the same things the Tribune does
VIII the colonel agree to adopt the
Tribune files as his platform?
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-04-15

~ am happy because easy for me to write sao
beginner great masters OF French prose.
afo home and orayp that 1t may come
hard" It is so of writing, Of thinking, OF ife The
easy thing is barely worth doing. The hard thing vs.
worth DOING though the end be failure goal, TO make
which fairly tugs life and yet misses is better thar
victory softly SO. often the man who SPEAKS easy
tells while the sparing words one from
Embedded in thought SHAKESPEARE
said that Gratiano talked than other man In
all Venice But he compared his speech 20 bushei OF
ehaff which lay hidden single grain OF Wheat-ano
worth the fndina.-Anon.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-04-15

Poetry has been to me its own exceeding
great reward; it has given me the habit OF
wishing to discover the good and beautiful
in all that meets and surrounds me-Col-
eridge.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-04-15
Anoth~r Disaooearance.

Another Disappearance.
Boston Transcript: What's become
of the old fashioned pastor who used
to preach religion instead of polit-
ical economy?
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-04-15

The first mosquito and the first fly OF the
season never get mention; all they get Is
swat.