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Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1916-11-28
DOES NOT UNDERTAKE:
TO FORECAST PROBABILITIES

Continuing, the statement says:
The board docs not undertake to
forecast probabilities or TO specify cir
cumstances which may become i'm
portant factors in determining future
conditions. Its concern and RESPONSE
bilty Hes primarily with the banking
system. II. however. our banking in
stiiutions have TO intervene because
foreign securities are offered faster
than they can be absorbed by in
vestors-that is. their depositors--;n
element would be introduced into the
situation which. If not kept under con-
troll would tend to instability and
ultimate injury to the economic de-
veiopment of this country.
The form which the most recent
borrowing is taking. apart from refer
cnce to its intrinsic merits, makes it
appear particularly attractive as 4
banking investment The board un-
derstands that it is expected to place
it primarily with banks. In fact, It
would appear so attractive that. unless
a broadir and national point OF view
he adopted. individual banks might
easily he tempted to invest In it tG
such an extent that the banking re-
sources OF this country employed In this
manner might run into many hundreds
of millions of dollars
while tho loans may be short in
form and severally may he collected
at maturity. the object OF the borrower
must he to attempt to rcne W them col
lcciivcly. with the result that the
aggregate amount placed here viii re-
main until such time as it may be
advantagcously converted into a long
term obligation. II would. therefore,
seem as a consequence that liquid
funds Of our banks which should he
available for short-cred;t facilities to
our merchants. manufacturers and
farmers, would be exposed to tho
danger OF being absorbed for other
purposes to disproportionatc degree.
NOT IN INTEREST OF COUNTRY
TO INVEST IN SUCH HILLS
"The board deems IT, therefore. its
duty to caution the member banks
that IL does not regard ii in the in
icrest OF the country at this time that
they invest in foreign treasury bills of
this character.
THE board does not consider that
it Is called upon TO advise private in
vestors. but, as the United States is
fast becoming the banker of foreign
countries In all parts of the world, il
Continued on Third Page)
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1916-04-27

however, are not necessarily to reduce
flesh, but are just as essential to the
man or woman Of average weight.
Aside from President Taft, many 9TH
er prominent men in national life have
followed DR.. Barkers plan for health.
He stands in the forefront of teachers,
orators and exemplars Of the gospel of
health and happiness. He has lectured
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1916-04-27

plan of diet which should be followed
by business men in Offices and others
who are not performing hard manual
labor.
II was DR.. Barker who, by his sys-
tenn Of physical exercises and plan Of
diet, reduced President 'Taft's weight
some eighty-fve pounds. The exercises
which DR.. Barker VIII demonstrate,
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1916-04-27

widely under the auspices Of the phys
ical training department Of the nation
al committee of the Y. M. G. A., and
his work has been widely commented
upon both in the editorial and news
columns Of our largest city newspa-
pers. One Of the Springfield (Mass.)
papers during his recent weeks lecture
engagements in that city published
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1916-04-27

At the morning session on the third
day Or. Barker will give his lecture
entitled Health and Happiness" and
in the afternoon his subject viii be, as
stated above, How to Live 100 Years"
At this afternoon lecture DR.. Barker
win give demonstrations of physical
exercises which every one can prac-
tice at home. he win also outline
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1916-04-27

EvERY one is, OF course, Interested
- in learning how to i've 100 years.
Tie fact that lecture on this subject
by SO prominent an authority as Or.
Charles =. Barker, who was physical
adviser to President Taft during his
administration, is to he given Chau
tauqua week Is at once Of great i'm
portance.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1916-04-27

daily articles on health from DIR. Bar
ker's pen.
DR.. Barker win be glad to answer all
questions along the lines In which he
is specializing. 1t IS safe TO prophesy
that health day" at the Chautauqua
will leave excellent results IN every
Que Of the 10 cities in which DR.. Bar
ker Is to appear.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1916-08-24

last resignation was in 1909 when he
quit all his presidential chairs ex-
cept that of the bank.
Why He Resigned.
interviewed as TO his reasons for re-
tirement the baron said: "The child
Is grown and able to walk by himself"
meaning that japanese finance was
now so advanced that his influence Is
no longer needed. But even now II does
not seem quite clear that the veteran
intends really to cut himself adrift
from the world where his long life has
been spent, for he added that he would
still contribute to the. commercial and
industrial interests OF the nation be-
side taking an active part In work for
n better understanding between Japan
and other countries. When the Kohusai
News agency was founded three years
ago In order 10 disseminate the true
truth about Japan by cables and news,
the baron became president Of the COM
pany, post he still holds. This COM
pany owns the Japan Times and Japan
Daily Mail, two newspapers printed in
English In Toxic, and controls the Reu-
ter cable service, both inward and out
ward from Japan.
His retirement gives rise to the ques-
ton of who will be his successor as
leader Of the financial world of Japan.
There is no single man in sight who is
big enough to I'll his chair, The can
dldates with the best chance are
thought to be Mr.. X. Nakano. president
Of the Toxic chamber of commerce ;
Mr.. II. Fujuyama. vice president OF
the same body, and Mr.. S. Ohashl, who
was vice president until last year.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1916-08-24
EATING PAPER is NOT HARD
How Fanny Murray outdid Feat OF
Won der Goltz, the German

II Is with mitigated commiseratlon
that one reads the story Of how Van
der Goltz. the German spy, finding him
self recognized in Petrograd, spent
some hours eating two parcels OF In
eliminating papers which he dare not
burn in the CRATE"
As feat OF mastlcation, says the
London Observer, Won der Goltz by no
means holds the record. Paper is eas-
lily reduced TO a pulp and swallowed
tthe Ink acting rs m appetlzer), and
the only difficulty in this case was the
quantity. Leather Is another matter,
but apart from meals Of hard.pressed
explorers there are authenticated in
stances Of meals Of the kind.
What may be described as a paper
meal de luxe was that of the famous
Fanny Murray mentioned by Horace
Walpole: 81 liked her spirit in an in
stance | heard Of t'other night. She
was complaining Of want Of money.
Sir Richard Atkins Immediately gave
her f20 note. She said: D your
f20l What does II signifyT clapped II
between two pieces OF bread aud but
ter and ate IL"
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1916-08-24
WHERE YOUR TAXES co.

During the campaign of 1914 for
state prohibition in Washington n busi-
ness man in the city of Seattle was ap-
preached by n friend with the ques-
ton, "What do you think of the state.
wide prohibition movement Do you
think It will winI'
"Yes, it will win, because It ought to
win."
"Why, I thought you were an advo-
cate of the principles of individual re-
sponsibillty, personal liberty, etc"
$50 l am. SO am. That's just the
point. The liquor business is an in
fringement on my personal liberty and
I'll prove it TO you. Now, pay S9,-
900 a year taxes-fOr what? For the
past four years I've been following up
all the state, county and city appropri-
ations just TO see where my taxes 90
to. Here are the records and esti-
mates, right here in this book. | find
that the maintenance of almshOuses,
hospitals, orphan asylums, courts Of
law, mothers pensions, reform schools,
jails, insane asylums and peniten'
tlarles, costs me over 5000 year,
all because of the whisky business. l
don't drink myself, because can't af-
ford to drink, and it's not business to
drink; but am forced to support at
least FIVE drunks and pay the dam
ages. You call this a free country"
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1916-08-24
RAW BEEF AS ILLUMlRAAT
Scientist Proves II Is Possible to Read
by Light Given OF by
Meat.

There is electric light, gas light,
candle light. and there are other wen
known methods Of illumination, hut
the strangest Of all lights is that dis
covered by Professor Molisch, d we'll
known Austrian scientist.
He has recently demonstrated hat
it is possible To read newspaper By
the light of raw beef or pork sau-
sage? All unminced meat contains q
microbe which gives or light. and with
sausages, when the microbe is present,
the light is much stronger than that
given OF by whole joints. These par
tlcular microbes do not Indicate decay.
Indeed, in no case have they been
found In meat which was unfit for hu-
man consumption. So you can read by
your sausage first-and then cot II, ae-
cording to Professor Molsch.
The stumps Of old trees often give
or precisely similar light, which
scientists say is due TO microscopic
animals which die as soon as the wood
is saplesS. The phoSphorescent light
on the ocean comes from minute AMI
mails which live on seuweed.
II is said that the Cuban freely pro-
vides satisfactory light. The secret
of the light which this beetle gives Is
undiscovered. It's great pecularity Ii
that it appears and disappears spas
medically, so that the Cubans need
to keep about n dozen insects in
bottle at once, in order TO be sure OF
getting a light bright enough to read
by
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1916-08-24

they you'd provide the brains as well.
The suggestion was a sort of second
edition Of one which Count Okuma
made to England year before when
he threw out the idea that the Anglo
Japanese alliance should become an
economic as well as u military pact.
He made practically the same PROPOSE
tion-"Japan has the experience, Eng
land has the cash"-but the Britlshers
came TO the conclusion without any
special delay that they had enough
brains to exploit China with their own
money II they wanted.
Lived in Two Worlds.
Like every old man in Japan, Baron
Shibusawa has lived in two words
world Of feudnlism and two-sworded
samural and the present world of,
among other things, banks and limited
companies. He entered the govern
ment service under the old regime
while the emperor who died three years
ago was still virtually Il recluse In
Kyoto and the empire was ruled by the
Tokugawa Shoguns. Shibusawa's first
mission out of Japan was an education
al trip to Europe with one of the Sho-
guns sons who did not dream that his
famiiy's tenure of the sovereignty Of
Japan was over. This was In 1S67-6S
when Andrew Johnson was president
OF the United States In the interval
between Lincoln's assassination and
Grants election. He returned and went
into the government after the upset of
Shogunate and was an official until
1873 when he resigned over differ
ence with the finance minister of the
dny and never entered politics again.
Instead, he founded the First bank, so
called because II was the first bank In
Japan on modern lines. That was 43
years ago and in that long time Baron
Shibusawa moved on from one inan-
cial success to another until In 1909
he was president of 20 concerns. When
he started the First bank its capital
was million and quarter dollars
borrowed money-now II is ten and
three-quarter million dollars, or If re-
serve fund is counted in-fifteen mil
lion.
This Is not the first time that the
baron has thought of retiring. In 1901
he was III and not knowing whether
he would live, made will In which he
named as successor In the presidency
of the First bank, Mr.. Yunoshine Sa-
saki, the manager who now actually
succeeds his old chief. Then In 1905
he was again III and he resigned from
many of his positions. but picked them
all up again when he recuperated. Ills
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1916-08-24
Painted In seventy.Two Hours.

There Is a picture in this years show
at the Royal academy which has n
singular history. 1t was painted by
an artist who is now n captain on ac-
tive service, but the picture is not the
one which he showed TO his friends
at this years contribution. The original
was Of n sunset over plowed field, II
fine landscape In style which has dis
tingulshed the artist. Five months ago
the painter was home on leave, and he
spent II working over his picture. To-
day the canvas shows the plowed field
and the sunset; but II also shows six
soldiers fallen about n cannon, INTO
the breech Of which one survivor is
placing the last shell. II is fine pic
ture, and by no means n pot-boller.
The captain witnessed the incident he
depicts. The fortunate thing was that
the landscape was ready for the figures
for no academy picture could be
painted during II hours leave.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1916-08-24
RESULTS OF NO LICENSE.

Mayor Paul M. Collins of Peotone,
H., speaking before the Woman's
Voting league, turned the spotlight on
financial conditions since the town has
been dry. Two years ago the village
was $1,000 in debt. On January l,
1916, said the mayor, there was a sur
plus of $1,000 in the treasury and
credits amounting to S400. A $1,000
water bond, due in 1917, has been
paid also. This was accomplished
Notwithstanding the loss of $4,000 an.
nual liquor license revenue.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1916-08-24
Temperance
l@NOteS" l@
PROHIBITION AND THE FARMER.

PROHIBITION AND THE FARMER.
There nre in the United States
about 100000 farmers, and they
constitute ten per cent of the entire
population. The value of their an
nual products is approximately SlO,-
O00000,0O0, or $1,000 for each farm
er. The liquor interests claim that
should prohibition prevail the farm
ers will be deprived of their market
for this large amount of produce.
There is another side to this ques-
ton. Mr.. Charles Stelzle has made a
careful study of the situation. He
says:
"The liquor industry purchases
every year about S100,000,000 worth
Of produce from the farmer, and
therefore the liquor industry con-
sumes Just one per cent Of all that
the farmer produces, that is, $40 for
each farmer In the United States. The
question is, what will the poor farm
err do with his $40 worth Of produce
which the liquor industry cannot pur-
chase when 1t is put out Of business?
There are over 20,000,0O0 families in
the United States which would pur-
chase the stun now sold to the liquor
men. According to n study made by
the department Of labor Of the United
States, the average workingman's
family spends annually about $500 for
food. This would make total Of at
least $10.OO0000,000 per year for the
100000 families.
"If the 20,0OO,O00 families were each
to increase their purchasing power
one per cent, or So per year, It would
amount to exactly S100,000,000-the
sum OF the liquor mems purchases
from the farmer. bit let us assume
that tho retail figure at which the av.
erage family would be compelled to
buy Is twice as high as the liquor
men pay. This would increase the
amount necessary to be purchased to
$40 per year for each family, or about
twenty cents per week. There can be
40 doubt that, with the increasing
earning power and spending ability OF
the average workingman's family due
TO the abolition of the liquor traffic,
the average family will easily wish TO
spend at least twenty cents more per
week for cherries, peaches, apples, ber-
ries and the various forms Of grain, to
say nothing about flour and bread and
other materials which come primarily
from the farm"
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1916-08-24
JAPAN'S FOREMOST
BANKER RESIGNS
Baron Shibusawa win Devote Re.
mainder Of Life 10 Charity
Work.
HAD AN INTERESTING CAREER
Lived In Two Worlds, the World Of
Feudallsm and the Present World
Of Banks and Limited
Companies.

Toklo.-Baron Shibusawa. president
Of the First National bank Of Japan,
resigned his position at the annual
meeting of the bank and retired into
private life. He is seventy-slx years Of
age. He proposes to devote the re-
naming years OF his life to the pro-
motion OF charitable works and the
betterment OF international relations,
particularly between Japan and the
United States.
The baron is well known In America
TO which he made his last visit early
this year. When In New York he had
long consultations with leading Amcri-
can fnanclers, his object being to in
terest them In the propositions which
Japan Intends to exploit In China.
Japan has the brains, America has
the money" was In effect what he said
In trying to persuade Wall street
moneyed men to take an interest In the
business. The proposal was turned
down. New York business men thought
II they were going to find the money
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1916-08-24
FLIRTING WITH UNDERTAKEN.

Here is something that may give
the beer drlnker pause: In Professor
Reinitzer's prisms, displayed consplc-
uously in the anti.alcohol exhibitions
of Europe, one cube represents a pint
of pure alcohol-enough TO kill man
on the spot. Alongside Of this is n
prism standing for 146-10 pints of al
cohol, the amount a man who drinks
a pint Of beer daily takes into his sys-
TEN each year. II Is relatively SIM
pie problem TO estimate from these
comparisons just to what extent and
how fatuously beer drinker in pur-
suing his favorite avocatlon is flirting
with the undertaker.-Dr. Edwin f.
Bowers.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1916-08-24

The Baroness Won Hutten, former
ly Miss Betsy Riddle of Philadelphia,
who was arrested In London on the
charge that she was an enemy
alien"
In court the baroness declared that
she was not a German, but American
born. She explained that she had
been divorced from her German hus-
band eight years ago, had lived in
England since, and had believed she
would regain all her rights Of Ameri-
can citizenship when she returned to
America.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1916-08-24
Getting What He Deserves.

Nesting In a newspaper corney next
TO the Panama-hat ads we find this
stray sunbeam Of heart thrOb:
"The first face the baby sees in this
world Is full Of kindness, and the last
10 bend over him when he Is oh! snd
dying is full Of plying tenderness. IL
Is the faces he sees in between that
cause him all his troubles"
This Is dear sweet thought, but IL
strikes us that the "in between" faces
are looking nj him and very likely re-
fectlng back TO him just about what
they see. Quite often II Is not either
kindness or tenderness, for, taking Il
by and large. this is fairly just world.
Golfers.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1916-08-24
DON'T LOSE ANOTHER HAIR
Treat Your seslp With cutleura and
Prevent Hair Falling. Trial Free.

For dandruff, itching burning scalp,
the cause of dry, thin and falling hair,
Cuticura Soap and Ointment are most
effective. Touch spots Of dandruff and
itching with Cuticura Ointment. Then
shampoo with Cuticura Soap and hot
water No treatment more successful.
Free sample each by mail with Book.
Address postcard. Cuticura, Dept. L,
Boston, Sold everywhere.-Adv.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1916-08-24
Infantile Paralysis Germ.

In u lengthy report to physicians,
the Rockefeller institute announces
the discovery Of germ In the brain
and spinal cord of monkeys inoculated
with, infantile paralysis. The organ
ism Is said to he very minute, the
difficulties attending IFS artificial cul-
tivation and identification being so
great that the discovery is as yet Of
little value for the purpose of early
diagnosis of suspected cases. Mon
keys inoculated with the micro-organ-
ism, developed a disease correspond
ing to infantile paralysis in human be-
ings. From these experiments II was
determined that the mucous mem
branes of the nose and throat of per
sons not sick with the disease may
become contaminated with the virus
and that without falling III themselves
they may become carriers Of the dis
ease. 1t was found. in monkeys that
the virus could he discovered six
months after inoculation, and that dry
ing and mixing with dust did not de-
stroy it.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1916-08-24
paper Erom COTTON Stalks.

Berlln.--The royal material testing
Office at Gross-Lichterfelde a suburb
of Berlin. announces the interesting
discovery that paper can be manufac-
tured from cotton stalks. The discov-
cry is not considered of much irnpor-
tance for Germany, which produces no
cotton. but is pointed to us of vast
Importance to tie United States be-
cause of the shortage of paper reported
In that country. The stalks were cut
and ground, boiled and bleached, and
the paper-making then proceeded after
the usual methods.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1916-08-24

Kan, .,--she seemed the very picture Of
her first name-was embarrassed by
the acclaim and looked vainly about
for way off the platform. but the
leaders would not let her so.
The report of the Kansas delegation
of SO years of prohibition in its state,
the effectiveness of the law and the
overwhelming sentiment in favor Of
It becoming stronger all the time, nc
companied by the presentation Of Miss
Andre, turned the convention into a
cheering, enthusiastic crowd.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1916-08-24
Her First Saloon at 10.

Chicago.-The vision of a windblown
lass from the Kansas pralrIes, with
the roses of the countryside blooming
In her cheeks--a girl Of eighteen who
never had seen even the outside of a
saloon until she came TO Chicago to
attend the international quarter cen
tennlal convention of the Baptist
Young Peoples Union OF America
brought the thousands of the conven-
ton in session at the Coliseum to their
feet with cheers.
The girl, Violet Andre of Horton,
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1916-08-24
CONVERTED BY EVIDENCE.

Those who were honestly opposed,
as l was, to prohibition in Washing
ton and Oregon. have been converted
TO 1t, as | have been, by the actual
evidence that prohibition is fine
thing from business standpoint. No
city and no community can afford to
have saloons. They are too expen-
sive, morally and economically. In
a very few years there will not be a
licensed saloon in the whole country.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1916-08-24
sparrows Leave oiled Street.

Lancaster, Ga.--Maj James Burn
side says that oiling the streets is the
cause of the disappearance of the spar
rows. These birds get oil on their feet
and then on their eggs. These Will
not hatch then. He also says many
sparrows leave town for the country
ms soon as the oil is spread IN order
TO get their dust baths.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1916-08-24
COMES BACK AFTER So YEARS
Nidler Sees Spot on Site Of Seattle
Where Indians Once Chased
Him.

Spokane, Wash.-After lapse Of
~ years, Franz Nidler Of Portland,
Ore. arrived here to find the spot from
which he was chased by hostile Indians
on his former visit now occupied by
a thriving modern city Of 10000 peo-
pie. Mr.. Nidler, who Is elghty-one years
old. came to visit his daughters and to
register for the Colville land drawing.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1916-08-24
Precocity.

Mercy exclaimed Mrs. Digs.
The baby is chewing on your pocket
edition of Epictetus."
Indeed" replied Professor Diggs
with n proud and happy look. Let
the child alone. II is seldom that a
mere infant shows such pronounced
taste for the classics.