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The Washington herald., 1916-08-24
New York, Day by Day:
BY o. o. MCINTYRE.

Special Corrs-pondent Of The Washington E~r,ld.
New York, Aug. IA quarter past
eight on the morning OF Tuesday. August
Is, Percy i. Jerome sneezed. This an
houncement may not. at first blush. mean
anything in your young life. But IL was
Of great Importance 20 ZOO member, os
the United States Hay Fever Associs-
ton.
Mr.. Jerome. as founder Of the Master
Sneezers, thus started the official season.
The Jerome sneeze took place in New
York. and II was to take place in Beth
lehem, n. J., the convention city, this
year. The Jerome sneeze is something
IKE the famous shot which. fired at Lex
ington, was heard all around the world
Despite the medical experts who have
been searching for a cure for hay fever.
no remedy has been found. The nearest
thing to cure from a medical stand
point is the "skyscraper'' cure. That is.
those who live high in the air are able IN
measure TO defy the deadly ragweed
pollen.
On several OF the large New York hotels
reservations have been made for hay-
fever victims TO sleep during the sntrfle
shuttle period. The convention at Beth
lehem has lured a delegation OF $50 from
Gotham.
The Topeka state journal., 1916-12-30

time he would have if he died in the
attempt. The next day was a new
round of solitary pleasures, varying
little from the first, and the next was
almost like it.
Then one day as he was walking
along Fifth avenue two women came
out of a shop and were climbing into
a limousine when one of them cried,
why, there's Tommy Crawford.
Hello, Tom"
beaming on him delightedly and hold
ing out her hand. But was it Martha,
this exquisite creature in clothes
which quietly insisted expense.
Cousin Mary, I want you to meet
Tommy, Mr.. Crawford. Come and get
I'm dying for talk. I've been having
such a glorious time I'm crazy to tell
some one all about it
Tommy's lonely heart geve a few
longing thumps. How he wanted to
accept. But he remembered his eN-
cuse of urgent business. NO, thank
you," he drew out his watch. Its
getting late and I have an appoint
ment But I'll ring up and maybe you
can spare me minute again.
Cousin Mary mentioned a night for
dinner and after considerable reflec-
ton and deliberatton Tommy mur-
INJURED that she was very kind and
he'd certainly do his best to arrange
to go. 1t was almost a week ahead.
And in the meantime it seemed that
Tommy was due to collide with Mar
tha and her friends everywhere he
went. In dining rooms, theatres and
restaurants he found himself fading
into the scenery and making nasty
getaways before his solitude should
be discovered. But always he had
time to see how far and away supe-
rior Martha was to any girl he had so
far seen in New York. Others seemed
to think so too, ard Tommy's heart
had many a jealous pang when he
saw the number of men who PAID her
attention.
Then came the night of the dinner
Tommy found Cousin Walters Harlem
fiat to be a very pretentious house near
the park, and the affair a state cere-
mony large enough to leave his ab-
sence and Martha's afterward practi-
cally unnoticed. They had slipped into
the conservatory
you'll never guess how lonely I've
been. Martha" confessed Tommy with
a meaning he thought the girl little
guessed.
Poor Tommy" sympathized Mar
tina.
And l can't have all the fellows
monopolizing my girl this way" he
went on Il love you, Martha. Let's
get married here in New York before
we go home. Don't say you can't care
for me, dear" anXiously. I'm caring
about you
And if Martha still hesitated it was
because she had known how it was
from the beginr in". And, if she cared
to punish Tom.ls. now was the time.
But to show how really superior she
was to any other girl we know, she
smiled up at him adorably, albeit
trifIe mischievohsly. and said; yes,
I'll marry you, Tommy, if you're not
too busy -(Copyright. 1916, by the
Mcclure Newspaper syndicate.)
The Topeka state journal., 1916-12-30

principal countries was stated as Fol-'
lows: France $772.o0O. 600, Germany
s675, 100000, United States s672.o0O,-
900, United Kingdom S594.000,0 1000,
Russia s4s9, 1000. Austria-Hungary
$167. 100000. Australia s13o,0o0,oOO-
Italy $100,o0O,0O0- For 1915 the
stated distribution is, United States
$2,2S0, 900, 900, France S13S4,0Oo,000.
Russia s1,058. 100000, Germany STA
100000, United Kingdom $662,000,-
900. Italy $336,00O. 900, Austria Hun
gary 100000, Turkey s291,000,-
600, Australia s25O.O00,000, Argen-
tina 229,000,00O, Netherlands s173,-
100000, Canada S17O, 100000, Spain
$167, 100000 and Japan $143,0O0,OO0
The United States shows an increase
in the 1896-1916 period of 231-7 per
cent, Russia 116.6 per cent, France
1913 per cent, Germany SIS per cent,
and the United Kingdom 1873 per cent.
The worlds consumption of gold
and silver in manufactures and the
arts is large and rapidly increasing,
that of gold exceeding $100.000,000
per annum, and of silver over $50, ,000,-
900 annually. In the United States
alone the gold used in manufacturing
and the arts in 1915 was over $3S,000,
600, of which, however, about $S,000,-
600 was old jewelry, plate, etc, max
ing our net consumption for this pur-
pose about $3O.OOO,0O0 of gold, while
that of silver was about $12,0OO,0OO
in value.
The amount of gold imported into
the United States since the beginning
of the war is in round terms $1,10O,-
100000. and the exports in the same
period about $275, 900, 900, making the
net imports in that period over $780,
100000, while the product of our owl
mines in that same period has exceed
ed $200,000,000, thus making the ad-
ditions to our gold stock since the be-
ginning of the war approximately one
billion dollars.
OF the 16,500,O00, gold pro-
duced in the world since the discov-
cry of America, $3,S3O,000,OOO was
produced in the United States; of the
SIS, 500. 100000 of silver $1,8OO,00O,-
600 was produced in the United States.
The amount of gold in the United
States on December /, 1915, was So
741.669,000 against $1.S87,271,OOO at
the beginning of the war August 1
1914
The Topeka state journal., 1916-12-30
JAYHAW WMER JOTS

Walter Mills thinks that Job gets a
lot of credit for patience in view of
the fact that he never was told the
line was busy.
The Atchison Globe has taken to
numbering the automobile accidents
it hears about and the last two it
reported were Nos. 5,323,4S6 and
5,323,487.
The merchant who does not adver-
tise, explains the Galena Republican,
is like the man who winked at pref
ty girl in the dark. He knew what he
was doing, but no one else did.
Agricultural advice from the Galena
Republican: Allowing animals to har-
vest corn saves the labor of cutting,
husking, hauling to the feed lot, and
hauling the manure back on the land.
Everybody to his taste, of course,
but the Usage City Public Opinion
that recently "enjoyed'' some buffalo
meat with which friend presented it.
Told by the Atchison Champion:
An undertaken and a monument man
from Atchison went together to the
Doniphan cemetery, where both had
business. The undertaken, who fin
ished his business first, completely
forgot the man who was with him and
drove back to Atchison alone The
monument man says the undertaken
has been so used to hauling people to
the graveyards and leaving them that
the undertaken left him thru force of
habit.
The Topeka state journal., 1916-12-30
DINNER STORIES

why did you strike this man?
asked the judge. sternly.
He called me a liar. your honor,
replied the accused.
rs that true?'' asked the judge,
turning to the man with the mussed
up face. -,
Sure it's true said the acuser- Il
called him a liar because he is one,
and 1 can prove it.
What have you to say to that
asked the judge of the defendant
IT'S got nothing to do with the case,
vo,1r honor" was the unexpected
reply. Even if 1 am a liar I guess We
got right to be sensitive about H.
amt ~
.Did YOU hear about the deface-
ment of Mr. SINNERS tombstone 2?
asked Mr.. Brown a few days after
the funeral of that eminent captain
of industry.
NO: what was it?" inquired his
neighbor, curiously.
to the epitaph-"
What was the epita phi
He did his best! -
AS plea asant-faced woman passed
the corner Jones touched his hat to
her and remarked feelingly 10 his
companion:
'.Ah, my boy, owe a great deal to
that woman
your mother?" was the query
mo, my landlady-"
The Topeka state journal., 1916-12-30
POPULISM INDICATED.

How the PoPulists of a quarter of
century ago and their pretensions
were derided by the wiser" heads of
that period in the political arena!
"Bewhiskered idiots" was among the
milder and more polite of the terms
which were applied to them.
Efforts were made by the major po-
litical parties of those days, which
also happen to be the paramount
parties of today. to laugh all of the
proposals of Populism out of court
and these efforts were successful.
The career of the Populists, as a
political party. was as short as it was
lively and exciting.
But there was merit, apparently to
practically every political reform that
these Publicists originated, or went on
record as favoring.
The best evidence of this is to be
found in the fact that during the past
decade, or so, the proposals. of Popu-
lism, or most of them, have been en-
braced by the very parties and their
leaders who flouted them so severely
when they were first launched on the
political seas. Moreover they have
been enacted into laws, federal as well
as state
Perhaps no suggestion of the Popu-
lists came in for more criticism and
even ridicule than did the one known
more familiarly as the "sub-treasury"
plan. In principle, this contemplated
the loaning of the governments
funds directly to the people.
And yet, the rural credits legisIa-
ton of the last session of congress,
under which dozen federal farm loan
banks were authorized, and the loca-
tion of which has just been announced,
is really nothing more than the Sub
treasury" plan of the Populists under
another name and in a different dress.
Verify the Populists. and they grew
most vigorously in this western and
newer section of the country, were
political prophets of the first water.
! They were merely ahead of the
times, or the time was not ripe for
their propaganda, or, perhaps, the
people were not educated generally to
the plane where they could appreciate
its significance, necessity and reason
ableness.
In the light of the political events
| and activities which have gradually
succeeded it, the Populfst movement
takes its place among the other things
! for which the western section of the
country need not be ashamed.
The Topeka state journal., 1916-12-30
WORLDS GOLD AND SILVER.

The worlds gold production in the
last quarter of a century equals that
of the preceding four hundred years,
and the silver output since 1878 equals
that of the preceding four hundred
years. The gold money of the world
has doubled in the last twenty years
and the silver money of the world has
decreased one-half in the same period.
These facts are shown in a compila-
ton by the foreign trade department
of the National City Bank of New
York, suggested by the exceptionally
high price of silver, of which the
United States is now the worlds larg-
est producer, and the large inflow of
gold, of which we have imported over
$6CO.000,000 since the beginning of
the current year 1916.
The total world production of gold
from the discovery of America to the
present time is, according to this COM
pilation, SIG, 100000 in value. and
that of silver SIS, 10000 900 in COIN
ing value. The gold money of all
countries of the world for which sta
tlstlcs were available in 1895 agere-
gated $4,144 100000 and on January
1, 1916, $S,25S, 100000; silver monev
OF the same countries was in 1895
$4,237 1000, 600, and in 1915 s2,441,-
ooO,OO0 The uncovered paper"
money of the countries in question was
stated in 1896 at s2,55O. 100000, and
in 1916 at s9,593,O 900, all of these
above statements being made upon
the authority of the director of the
United States mint.
The production of over $4,000 600 =
600 worth of gold in the last quarter
OF a century as against another S.
OoO,OOO,c0O in the preceding 400 wears
has occurred chiefly within the last
| decade. Down to 1885 the worlds
gold output never reached as r,ucb
as $10O,00O,O0O annually; in 1895 if
| crossed the 100000, 600 line; in 1909
the $500. 100000 line, and in 1906 for
tho first time exceeded $4OO, 900. 900.
and has steadily advanced until il
reached s470,O 100000 in 1915. Silver
production first crossed the $1OO,OOO,-
600 line in 1880, and in 1893 exceeded
for the first time $200,00O.0OO. MAX
ing its highest record in 1911 1922
100000, and slowly declining to s232.-
! 100000 in 1915.
The chief gold-producing countries
of the world are South Africa. the
United States, Australia, Russia and
canada, and the chief si1ver-produc-
ing countries, United States Mexico,
Canada and Peru. In 1915 the gold
production of South Africa, including
Rhodesia. was 100000. 600. the United
States $101.OOO,OOO, Australia $50, oo0,-
600. Russia $29,OO0,000 and Canada
Sl9.000,000. OF silver the 1915 prod
uct was, United States $4,000, 600,
Mexico $21. 100000, Canada $4,000
| 600 and Peru $5,O0O,O OOO.
OF the s4.144. 100000 of gold money
recorded in 1895, the distribution by
The Topeka state journal., 1916-12-30
FROM THE VILLAGE CENTRAL"

FROM THE VILLAGE CENTRAL
A dumpy little body, with smooth gray
And bright black ewes that shone and
danced,
And such a big broad smile; knew that
smile.
A1+ho I'd never seen her: for 1 had heard
it often :.
In her voice and knew she thousnt LII
smiles.
The little Village central, in a cotton gown
Blue checked and buttoned down the front,
She stood, framed in a window 1ar above
the street,
And, as we passed and first saw Aer
there,
The easement upward flew and out she
poked her head.
Say! stop, you two. l don't know one
from t'other,
Miss Brown Mrs. Smith, but some one
calling you . -
think it's from the City" And as we
stopped the car
She turned and disappeared out OIL our
sight again.
But of our life she's come to be part,
As real a part any of the people Who"
see;
And day by day I've grown to feel her
kindly nature
Like a guardian spirit brood1ng Der our
path.
Eliza Morgan Swift in the Chrlsthas'
December, Scribner.
The Topeka state journal., 1916-12-30

When Foxy started out to get
something for Toppy Cottontail to eat,
he wasn't quite sure what that some
thing was going to be. Because he
wasn't quite sure what sort of thing
Toppy would like. OF course, Foxy
would rather take him nuts; nothing
in the world seemed quite SO tempt
ing as fat, juicy nut. But Foxy
knew that Toppy didn't care a rap
for nuts. Not because nuts were not
good, but because Toppy's teeth and
appetite were not used to nuts. He
also knew that Toppy did like cab
bage; he had heard Toppy talk more
about cabbage than about anything
else. And he knew where cabbage
was to be found, Toppy had often told
him.
But dearie me. Can a little squir-
rel cross a big cornfield go into a
strange garden and carry away a cab
bage? l should say not, Foxy had
sense enough to know that, And he
was wise enough not to attempt the
impossible.
All the same. he meant to take
som ething to Toppy. He meant to
keep his eyes open and find some
thing.
So he started down his tree keep
ing on the side away from the sound
of the last gunshot, of course) and
over toward the coTnNeld-
He hadn't gone half the distanc
before he spieo Tommy Jay and he at
once decided to ask Tommy's help. OF
course Tommy is a teaser and an aw-
full gossip and something of a rob-
Der too; but even folks as bad as that
have their good points, you know that
yourself And one of Tommy's good
points was a willingness to help when
he could and wanted to.
Hello there, Foxy" called Tommy,
for he spied Foxy as soon as Foxy
saw him; where you been all day?'
Hiding from the hunter" replied
Foxy. You must have been away
The Topeka state journal., 1916-12-30

Possibly it is a case of sour grapes
with Lawson of Boston This fren-
zied financier, or rather this gentle
man who undertook with a multitude
Of words To explain or expose the
methods of frenzied finance, is GER
tainly acting a good deal like one who
did not get in on the S6O.O0O.OOO
cleanup" that is alleged to have been
engineered by those who connected
with the leak incident to the dis
seminotion of the news that President
Wilson had taken out a stack of chips
in German movement to promote
peace in Europe. Incidentally, Just
what the color and value of this stack
OF chips are remains to- be seen. 1t
doesn's seem. at this time that they
could be cashed in for much.
The Topeka state journal., 1916-12-30
GLOBE SIGHTS
[From the Atchison GIobe I

GFrom the Atchison GIobe1
The advisory board is the largest
organization.
one believes him.
Have a reason, but don't always be
talking about your reasons
Some people are like a delayed train
which keeps getting later all the time
We. all have our weaknesses and
our blind sides which prevent our
seeing them.
And if a nan is a gentleman, that
is sign he won't get tight and in
sist he is.
Getting down early is of less i'm
portance than what you do after your
arrival.
1t isn't necessary to dissipate in or
der to enjoy a fair amount of per-
sonal liberty.
So many of the secrets aren't worth
Keeping is one reason why they won't
keep very we'll
Swimming is easy enough if one
knows how, in which it is like most
other lines of endeavor.
If viewing with alarm becomes a
habit with you, You may have diff
Guilty getting an audience.
If you go far enough back, your
ancestors were savages, and possibly
you aren't as civilized as you think
you are.
The average man is at a disadvan-
tage. He has to obey the city laws,
the state laws. the federal laws and
his wife's laws
The Topeka state journal., 1916-12-30

Possibly. evcr probably, the Do
herty interests have bitten off more
than they can chew in their proposal
to take over the Kansas Natural Gas
company and charge no more than
the cS-ceut rate. and it 1ay be that
this deal which seems to be 50 much
desired bv an concerned will fall
thru Eut one thing in connection
with the gas situation seems certain.
A. far as the Kansas public utilities
commission is concerned it is TO be
2S-ceut rate or bust, and this commits
sion has certainly succeeded. it would
appear ion busting the gas supply for
the consumers over "a period of two or
three wears now. and the prospects
seem CO. be that il Will make every eff
fort tu continue along the same line
unless its arbitrary rate decisions in
The gas premises are accepted. OF
late. tho. the efforts of the commits
sion have not even succeeded in hold
ms down the gas rate to the consum-
cr Aud IL does seem taat between
the 2S-cent rate mandate of the utili-
ties commission and the 50-cent rate
that Is now charged in Topeka there
should be a rate which the people
would gladly pay could they be as
sured Of reasonable gas supply at
all Times and one which would be suf-
ficfently remunerative to those oper-
ating the gas company. At any rate
the utilities commission seems to have
gummed the gas cards at every stage
OF the game.
The Topeka state journal., 1916-12-30
SIDE T AL X S
Quarreling in Public.
BY RUTH CAMERON.



The other evening, as we were
walking down the street to attend a
political meeting, a young couple
passed me.
He was scowling, she was talking
in a high-pitched voice. Just as they
came opposite to US we heard her say
sharply, "AIl right, then, why didn't
you go alone?"
There was nothing very bitter in
the words, but the tone was packed
with bitterness. One could feel all
manner of accusations and recrimina-
tions and irritabilities behind it.
We were in a holiday mood and
across it. like a dark cloud across the
sun. passed the shadow of their irrita-
bility.
1t is very unhappy, unlovely thing
for married people to be bitter with
each other.
1t is one shade more unlovely for
them to show bitterness in public.
To be sure, even happily married
people must sometimes disagree. There
would be something wrong with them,
some lack of individuality if they
thought alike on all subjects. But
they can think differently without
saying disagreeable things, or snap
ping each other up, or scolding or jaw
OF course many subjects on which
they disagree involve action, and in
these cases some kind of an agree
ment as a basis for action must be
reached.
And, of course, there are times when
either one feels strongly against some
line of action pursued by the other.
But such matters can be settled in
finitely more happily and just as eff
fectively without nagging or scolding.
(You may think this is just words, but
it isn't If you hold it as an ideal and
make some sacrifices for it, you will
find out how much it can accom-
plish.)
And surely such matters can be set
tied with much more decency and
dignity in private.
Nothing is more disagreeable than
to be with a couple who allow them
selves to quarrel in the presence of
others. A friend of mine told me that
she once went on house party where
altho every other detail about the
party was pleasant, these people
spoiled the flavor of it.
I'VE all felt constrained and uncom-
Portable and ashamed (tho they We're
the ones who ought to have been
ashamed1,'' she said. when they
quarreled. which was every little
while. And they kept appealing to
the rest of US to side with them, and
you know how pleasant that is
OF course it does take a great deal
of self-control not to show irritation
when one feels it, sometimes. But re-
member this, self-control is the prime
factor of real breeding Thou you
follow every rule of etiquette and lack
this control, you will surely be set
down as -(Copyright by
George Matthew Adanls)
The Topeka state journal., 1916-12-30

my where's Toppy?" he asked with
real kindliness; lis he safe?"
Il hope so,' answered Foxy. I'm
going to see him now. And l want
to take him something to eat; can
you tell me what to carry-I can't
get cabbage"
Il should say not" laughed Tommy
Jay fou take him some of the nice
Iresn twlgs that you II find right by
the cornneld fence Jack Frost hasn't
got around there yet and Toppy ulces
fresh, tender twlgsr
So Foxy ran. and get the twigs.
took them to Toppy and gave him the
good news that the hunter was gone
for that day. Don't you think Toppy
must have been glad to see him -
tCopyTight-CIara Ingram hudson
The Topeka state journal., 1916-12-30

drink has been greatly reduced. Sta
tistics recently presented in parlia-
ment show that the weekly average Of
convictions for drunkenness for Janu-
airy to September thruout the country
total S12 in 1916, compared with
1,497 in 1915.
The question is already being asked. .
What effect will the present policy OF
controlling drinking have after the war
ends2 And there is a pretty strong
feeling that the government, having
gotten grip on the traffic, will not
release it
The Topeka state journal., 1916-12-30
DRINK CONTROL IN WAR TIME

The rigid control of the liquor traf-
tie in Great Britain has been one of
the most important undertakings OF
the British government during the
present war. says the Iron Trade Re-
view The British workman is known
for jealously guarding what he con-
siders his rights in the matter of
drinking and the issuing of an edict
such as that of the Gar of Russia in
regard 10 vodka was not considered
advisable in King Georges realm, but
by restricting the hours of drinking
and by regulating the traffic in many
ways, the consumption of intoxicating
The Topeka state journal., 1916-12-30
JOURNAL ENTRIES

More people take too few vacations
rather than too many.
X X
AS a matter of fact, Opportunity is
most persistent knocker or caller
X X X
It's better to make a New Years
resolution and break it than not to
make one at { II.
Y X
Some people are unable to see much
in any game unless they can fix the
rules to suit themselves
X X x
Nor does there happen to be any
available key or set of answers indi-
eating the correct solution of lifes
problems.
The Topeka state journal., 1916-12-30

A poor excuse may be better than
none, but in what category falls the
suggestion that it might be dangerous
10 stamp cold storage eggs as such be-
cause of the inky flavor which thereby
might he given to coffee settled with
egg shells? Truly, the food specula-
tors are making every effort TO keep
open the shaft to their gold mine.