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FINAL CONVENTION OF SUFFRAGE ASSOCIATION
View nt the opening of the final convention of the Nntional American Suffrage association In Chicago. It was
decided that the association should go out of existence, being superseded by the League of Women Voters.
Doughboy Tells
of Brigands’ Rout
Chicago Soldier Gives Thrilling
Picture of Skirmishes in
Near East.
IfANK DRIVERS NOT MOLESTED
Trucks Driven by Natives and Guard
ed by Turk Gendarmes Are Held
Up and Looted—No Luxury
in Near East.
New York. —A tale of exciting skir
mishes with marauding bands of Turks
and Kurds In Armenia Is told by a
Chicago soldier, W. A. Brown.
Brown’s adventures In the near East
were experienced while he was a Ited
Cross worker in company witli Ameri
can boys from Philadelphia and Louis
ville, with whom he volunteered for
nenr East relief service after the ar
mistice. The job of these young men
was to get the supplies to the starv
ing villages in the mountainous Inte
rior and they found truck driving In
that stricken land filled with excite
ment.
“Brigands are numerous, ’’ said
Brown, “but uniforms commanded re
spect. although we always went un
armed. Trucks driven by native
drivers, however, were held up and
looted. They were supposed to be
guarded by Turk gendarmes, but the
gendurmes themselves did their bit nt
stealing. Our convoys with American
drivers were never molested, although
we could see the armed brigands on
the hills watching us.
“One time Mr. and Mrs. Hugh S.
Miller wanted to go to Hnrpoot with
one of our convoys,” continued Brown,
“We had 11 trucks and started off In
fine shape. After a few miles we saw
some trucks with native drivers that
had started some time before us,' com
ing back. ‘Brigands’ yelled the native
drivers ns we drew alongside. ‘Thir
ty brigands ahead.’
“We went ahead. A few miles far
Boy Only Six Years Old
Robbed by Playmates
Detrolt. —Something in the
way of holdup records wns es
tablished In Windsor. The vic
tim was Lawrence Fralej, 118
Fifth street, West, who is just
turned six years. Some of his
playmates lured him to nn old
ice house, threw sand In his
eyes, and took nil his clothes
nml 13 cents—his entire fortune.
Then they locked him Inside,
where, after half an hour, his
wads attracted Edward Neal,
who rescued him. got him some
clothes, and took him home, und
notified the police. Lawrence
was rather cold from his adven
ture. hut otherwise showed no
111 effects.
Poland Is Sea Nation
Comes Back to Its Own After
148 Years.
Troopo Dip Colors From Own Soil In
Tidewaters of the Bat
tle Sea.
Warsaw.—Polish troopn, standing on
ihelr own soil, dipped the national
colors In the tidewaters of the Baltic
lifter the absence of Poland us a sea
nation for 148 years.
Throughout the new republic hells
tolled und a holiday spirit prevailed
in commemoration of the historic
event. At Putzlg. on the Baltic, Gen
eral Haller, commander In chief of tlie
Polish nrnrles, reclaimed In the name
of the republic the sou coaat which
fell from Poland to Prussia ufter the
first dismemberment of Poland In
J 772.
Simultaneously with Poland's reach
tlier along we came upon the bodies
of four brigands propped up against
the side of the road. They had been
shot by the gendarmes und the bodies
left as a warning to others. For miles
along the route we could see some of
the others watching us, but our train
wns too strong for them to risk an
attack.
“The returning Kurds are a prob
lem. There were thousands of them
who tied to European Turkey during
the war and now they are streaming
hack. Hungry and ragged, they steal
at every opportunity and relief sup
plies, If left unguarded for a moment
or In charge of native drivers, are not
safe.
“Horses und inules are especially
sought, for the Kurd likes to ride.
More thnn once they attempted to
requisition mules or donkeys used
in our work, hut they never kept them
longer tlmn It took us to get to them.
Prices Advance
223 Per Cent
Purchasing Power of Dollar Now
as Compared With 1913
Is Shown.
EXPANSION OF CREDIT CAUSE
Man With Income of $2,000 Is Actual
ly Drawing SB7O Upon Baals of
Dollar Value In 1913—Gold
Mines Closing.
Washington.—The man with nn in
come of $2,000 Is now actually draw
ing SB7O, upon the hnsls of dollar val
ue In 1013. according to a statement
to congress by Ilarohl N. Lawrle,
economist for the American mining
congress. The purchasing value of
the ounce of gold, which under stat
ute cannot bring more than $20.07,
lias, Mr. I.nwrle claims, shrunken
through Inflation of currency until It
Is no longer possible for gold to he
profitably produced.
Lowers Purchasing Power.
The expansion of the national credit
has lowered the purchasing power of
a dollnr through Increasing all com
modity prices. Based upon the pre
war prices of 1013, these prices grad
ually advanced from 100 per cent In
1013 to 223 In October, 1010. Each In
crease In credits Ims been absorbed
by a corresponding Increase In com
modity prices and has resulted In
placing the nntlon upon nn nrtlflchil
plane of living. The gold producer
finds the purchasing power of his
ounce of gold Is now $0 Instead of
$20.07.
Gold mines of the United States
lag out to the Baltic the diet cele
brated Its first birthday. The most
striking speech was made by Speaker
Thomsozynskl, who proclaimed that
Justice had at last triumphed, giving
Poland across to the sea.
“Poland will defend this historical
strip of land with Its very Inst drop
of blood," he declared.
The diet decided oti the construction
of port facilities In the region of Put
zlg. giving Poland her own gateway to
the sen.
Remodel Old Mexican Prison.
Mexico City.—Hclctn prison, one of
the oldest edifices In this city, Is be
ing renovated nnd remodeled prepara
tory to Its reopening ns n general
prison nfter seven years of disuse. It
wns hullt In 1838, und wns used ns n
prison nfter 1808.
During Its years of use It Is said
the prison never harbored lees th*»
6.000 criminals.
VHB GILPIN OBSERVER.
The Turks aided them In taking what
ever property belonging to non-Mos
lems that they could.
There is no luxury In the near East
relief work. We roughed It and made
the best of things. When we made
our stations we got our meals. Other
wise we cnmped out or went to the
alleged hotels they call khans. An
other good name would be stables, for
the guests slept in straw-lined bunks
nlong the walls while cows and horses,
donkeys and mules had the center of
the floor.
“For food there wns the common
bowl of yort, a mixture of maize or
wheat and some kind of sour milk.
Sometimes there is meat, but not
often.”
All three youths agreed that but for
the work of the nenr East relief hun
dreds of thousands more of the vic
tims of the Turks would have perish
ed. The one hope now of the help
less people is continued help from the
American people.
Vienna Has 40,000 "Flu" Cases.
Vienna. —Forty tliousnnd eases of
Influenzn are reported in this clty„
and the death rate Is very high.
Among the recent victims of this
disease was Dr. Ernest Wertheim, a
world-famous specialist and surgeon.
are being closed down nt an alnnnlng
rate. Many of these can never be re
opened owing to the prohibitive costs
of retlmberlng and unwnterlng. *
Cripple Creek, the greatest Ameri
can gold camp, is taking on the ap
pearance of a city of dend hopes.
Whole cities are being deserted nnd
thousands of skilled miners nrc being
forced to seek new enmps beenuse
gold—the basic monetary metal of th.
United States—cannot longer he pro
duced at a profit.
Jewelers Make Millions.
The manufacturers of the United
States used $21,848,800 more gold Inst
year than was produced In the United
Stutes. The gold producer lost mil
lions during the yenr. The manufac
turing Jeweler made millions because,
while his goods mounted In values, he
secured the gold nt coinnge price of
$20.07 per ounce, less thnn the cost
of production. Seventy-five years ago
the world produced hut $30,000,000 In
gold per year. In 1915 the world pro
duced $400,000,000.
The gold stock of the United States
suffered a loss in 1910 of $292,700,(XX)
by the excess gold exports over Im
ports. The government has allowed
vast shipments of gold for export.
Meanwhile the production of the Amer
ican mines hns fallen from $101,000,-
000 In 1915 to $58,500,000 In 1010, a
loss of 42 per cent.
At the beginning of the war, Eng
land arranged protection for tdl of
the gold produced by British mines.
This protection Is stlll maintained nnd
the gold reserves of England are be
ing Increased by Imports from the
j United States, and their own heavy
I production of new gold.
HORSE HAS A CLOVEN FOOT
Thought That Its Two Toes Show i
Reversion to Prehistoric
Ancestors.
London.—A bay horse with u cloven
toot Is exciting much Interest nt the
World's fair here.
The burse Is the offspring of a shire
stallion and n Welsh mare, and lt 1s
suggested that Ills two toes lndlcnte
a reversion to his prehistoric ances
tors.
Prehistoric horses had three or more
toes on each foot. One of the earliest
members of the horse family, Phe
nncodus, Is said to have hnd five toei
on ench foot.
“Buro, I Proposed to Him,”
Manitowoc, Wls. —“Sure, I proposed
to him," snld Mrs. Annie I’rueger, ns
she applied for the license to murry.
The bridegroom In the ense was Aligns!
Krevls, sixty-seven, nnd this Is his
second marriage. The bride Is fifty
eight years old, and Is plunging Into
niatrlmnnv for the third time.
HIS DARK PAST
By MARY MORISON
(©• 1920, by McClure Newspaper Syndicate.)
“And so,” said Mrs. Trent, ”we want
your advice.”
“Yes, Cousin Anne, we were sure
you would know just how to handle It,”
chimed In Daisy.
Cousin Anne looked at them with a
rather humorous expression In her
beautiful gray eyes. “Let me see if
I have It straight,” she sold, show
ing her concentration on the subject
in hand by a most alluring frown.
“There are two men—one named
Tommy and one named James—both
standing on their toes to marry
Daisy here.”
“Well, really, Cousin Anne,” Inter
rupted Daisy conscientiously, “.Tames
has never said anything as definite
ns that. It is just that he keeps com
ing here day after day and sends me
all sorts of lovely things—”
Mrs. Trent broke in rather breath
lessly: “Among them some French
poems, which, of course, I wouldn’t let
her read!”
“Dear, dear, how dreadful of him!”
asserted Anne Dunsany, n sternly re
pressed twinkle showing In her eyes.
“What else does he do, Daisy?”
“It’s more the way he looks at me
than anything else,” said Daisy. “His
eyes are so, well. Intent —they make
me fairly squirm. And then the next
minute I think he’s laughing at me.
Tommy says he knows there’s some
thing very queer about James, drop
ping down there In Glenbrook from
nowhere that we know anything
about and keeping a dead silence about
his life before he came. It does look
queer, doesn’t It?”
“I can see how It would look queer
to Glenbrook,” replied Anne equivo
cally. “These silent, mysterious, fas
cinating men with Intent looks In their
eyes generally bear Investigation.”
“That’s what Tommy says,” smiled
Daisy.
Anne looked at her young cousin
In silence for a moment. Then she
rose, picked up her very chic hat and
placed It on her golden head with a
most becoming tilt all her own.
“I’ll he back before long,” she said.
“I’m going to have a look at the mys
terious James house. An observant
woman can learn almost anything
about a man from his front door mat”
—and waving her hand In farewell she
disappeared down the garden path
and out the big gates onto the road.
In spite of the difference of ten years
in their ages and the difference of a
world In their experiences of life, Anne
Dunsany was very fond of her little
cousin. By some freak of couslnshfp
they looked almost enough alike to be
sisters and Anne took a very deep and
personal Interest In everything that
touched her.
“I could easily murder that James
man In cold blood if he Is playing
with her,” she mused as she ap
proached a comfortable house set back
from the street. She was just In time
to see a motorcar dash through the
gates and disappear In a cloud of dust
up the road.
“That’s ’James,’ ” mused Anne.
“Now for his house!”
It wns a nice house from the out
side, Anne had to admit. The white
pillars of its broad veranda gleamed
In stately purity at all suspicious
passersby ns if denying their owner’s
possible blackness of reputation. The
wicker chnlrs and tables, the maga
zines and books strewn around In
pleasant disarray looked attractive.
“I wish I could see the Inside,” sud
denly thought Anne. “He’s out and I
don’t see any servants around—l’m go
ing to explore!” and before she had
time to reconsider she had hurried up
the front walk, mounted the steps and
entered the house.
She walked Into a long, low room.
The late afternoon sun came through
the open windows and touched the
rows of old hooks that reached up to
the celling with a golden light. It
wns a most satisfactory room, and
Anne snnk down on a deep sofa to take
It In. She picked up n little red hound
volume from beside her—open, where
Its late reader had thrown It only a
short while ago—and caught her
breath. “Monsieur Beauealre!” she
murmured.
What memories the title brought
hack to her! It reminded her of a
wonderful summer years ago, of long
days spent In n small white sailboat on
a bright, blue ocean and of evenings
when a man with quizzical grny eyes
had recited bits of “Monsieur Beau
cnlre” In the moonlight.
“It was one thousand years ago,”
said Anne Dunsany.
So absorbed was she In the sudden
rush of memories that surged over
her that she did not hear a motor
drive up or a heavy footstep enter the
room.
A man stood In the doorway, quite
still as he caught sight of Anne. His
face whitened a little and hla mouth
twisted Into a quizzical little half
smile, but hla voice wns quite steady
ns he said:
“Hello, Anne.”
“Monsieur Beauealre” dropped
from Anne’s grasp and lay unnoticed
on the floor as Bhe sprang from her
seat. “Jimmy 1” she exclaimed, “how
on earth did you get here? Am L
dreaming?” and then In a sudden real
ization: “Oh, you are James!”
“James to Daisy,” answered the
man, still looking at her from hla
place In the doorway, “but Jimmy to
you, Anne—always and forever more.”
There was utter silence in the big
room for a minute, and then the man
went on:
“Do you remember the first time you
called me Jimmy?” he asked. “It was
at the Van Norden’s. We sat out six
dances In succession and started all
the old gossips talking. That was the
first time I told you I loved you, too—
and I—”
“Don’t. Jimmy,” said Anne. “Our
love didn’t treat us very well, you
know, and we burled It. Let It rest in
pence.”
“You do not mean that, Anne
Dunsany,” snid Jimmy, advancing to
ward her, and before she knew It he
had her in his arms and had kissed
her. She could feel his heart beat
ing heavily. His voice at was
unsteady, like an old forgotten melody.
“You haven’t burled It any more than
I have,” he said.
“Why not?” whispered Anne, trying
to make her voice sound firm. “You
made my life pretty miserable, you
know. Your jealousy would have
driven many a woman mad, and I
wouldn’t go through it all again for
anything in the world.”
“I*ve learned a lot since then, my
dear,” said the man. “You won’t let
love go just because It hurt you once,”
and he kissed her again.
With a sudden remembrance of her
real mission In the house Anne tore
herself free.
“How can you?” she cried. "What
about Daisy?”
“Oh, Daisy!” said Jimmy, his eyes
sparkling gently, “Daisy looked so like
you, Anne, that I just couldn’t keep
away from her. Then I knew, too, that
sooner or later she would bring you
to Glenbrook. But I didn’t dream of
finding you here today.”
With her face against his shoulder
Anne explained. “They told me the
past of a man named James must be
looked into before he could pay fur
ther attentions to my young cousin.
You know In Glenbrook it Is a serious
thing to pay attentions.”
The man’s grny eyes twinkled with
understanding, and Anne continued:
“So I decided the best way 1 6 un
earth the creature’s secrets wns to in
spect his house, he being absent. I
had just found ‘Monsieur Beauealre’
when you spoke. I thought I was
dreaming.”
“And do you really think you are
not going to marry me, my dear?”
asked Jimmy, his lips brushing her
hair.
“Poor little Daisy!” said Cousin
Anne.
Jimmy laughed In away Glen
brook had never heard him laugh be
fore.
"Look!” he said, pointing to the
window. Coming down the street
hand in hand, oblivious of neighbors,
of the beauties of the sunset sky or
of anything but themselves, came Daisy
Trent and—Tommy.
“Daisy likes certainties better than
mysteries, dearest,” said James.
GIVEN NAME BY FRANKLIN
Suggestion of Famous Philosopher Re*
suited in Current’s Becoming
Known as Gulf Stream.
The Gulf strouin. which was discov
ered b.v Ponce de Leon while on his
famous search for the fountain of
youth, received its name through a
suggestion of Benjamin Franklin, be
cause it issued from the Gulf of Mex
ico. While It Is only a part of the
grand scheme of ocean circulation, and
the Gulf of Mexico Is In reality only
a stopping place, this name is general
ly applied to the current now as it
was given by Franklin.
Franklin’s theory of the cause of
ocean currents, the Detroit News re
marks, was that the winds produce the
current by air moving over the surface
of the water, and thus Illustrated his
theory: “It is known that a large
piece of water, ton miles broad and
generally only three feet deep, has by
a strong wind hnd its water driven
to one side and sustained so ns to be
come six feet deep, while the wind
ward side was laid dry.”
It hns been found, however, that
the water entering the Caribbean as
a result of the trade winds Is not mora
thnn one-half the amount which flows
through the Straits of Florida from
the Gulf of Mexico, and the other half
Is supplied from a source which does
not come under the head of a meas
urable current. The waves caused by
the wind Is the other source, every
ripple enrrying u certain amount of
water In the direction toward which
It Is flowing. Irrespective of the cur
rent caused by Its friction. When the
waves become large, tons of water are
hurled from the crest Into the trough
every time the waves break.
Potential Upllftcr.
“The young womun who Is reading
a paper on hygiene seems to take her
self seriously."
“Yes,” replied Mr. Cobbles. “That’s
Sally Toodle, daughter of th’ richest
man In town. She thinks this old
man's money sorter makes her respon
sible for other people’s goln’s on, one
way an’ nnother. I’m afraid that un
less some feller comes along an' mar
ries Sally, an’ maybe mistreats her a
little an' leaves her at home with th’
baby an’ th’ servants while he’s sky
larkin’ around, she’s goln' to meddle
with other folks' business all her life.
There's nothin* like a matrimonial jolt
or two to teach a woman common
sense.” —Birmingham Age-Herald.
Principal Signification.
“What Is the meaning of the free
dom of the seas, pa?”
“It means you are free to take a
drink when you get beyond the three
mile limit.”
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case. He told her to
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she did. I had only taken it a shortltixne
when I began to improve and it was not
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I have since taken ’Favorite. Prescription’
during expectancy and found it a wonderful
help, keeping me well and strong the entire
time.”—MßS. BELLE GAMMON. 2919
Roosevelt Ave.
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