Half They Have
to Abused „Pets
Brother and Sister in Kansas
City, Kan., Give Money and
Time in Humane Work.
DOGS, M T S AND PARROTS
All Are Tenderly Cared For In the
Little Bowered Cottage and Put
Out of Their Misery If Too
Sick to Recover.
Kansas City, Mo.—Wouid you be
willing to give more than half of your
modest Income to make life less rig
orous for suffering or neglected ani
mals?
Such Is the sacrifice being made by
Miss Sarah and U. 11. Jacobs of Kan
sas City, Kan., across the river from
here.
And It Is no mere passing
hobby, they have been doing this for
the last quarter century. The Jacobs
ure nationally known for their un
selfish work.
Living In a little cottage, surround
ed by rose bushes, bird houses, flower
beds und fruit trees, these two have
consecrated their lives to ameliorating
the hardships visited upon man’s often
neglected and ubused companions.
U. II. Jucobs provides the income
by working as a bookkeeper on the
Missouri side, while Miss Sarah looks
After the home and ,ts numerous pets.
And there are many dogs In the
Jacobs home—ten dogs, two score
cats, and two parrots. The core of
these pets, however, represents only a
minor part of the activities of the
two workers. Both are officers In the
Wyandotte County Humane society
and labor Incessantly to benefit ani
mal life through thut source. With
nil this the Jacobs nre not unmindful
of the needs of unfortunnte children,
and even adults of their city, as they
ure active In the Associated Charities.
Miss Sarah, who was found at home
busy with her charges, said thnt her
first Instruction In humane work
was when she was a little girl and
her father taught her thnt It was just
ns eusy to step around nn anthill us
to crush It with her heel.
Chloroform to Diseased.
While thoroughly orthodox In their
theology, the Jacobs believe flrtnly
thut most of the sin and suffering In
the world has followed man’s hnhlt
of killing and abusing animals.
There Is nothing muwkish about
tbelr views, however.
Miss Sarah,
as president of the llumnne society,
hay^. personally cjfiorofornied hun-
'ffreds of disease^ ’neformed and home
less animals.
“It sometimes Is expedient,” she
said, "to remove them to avert fur
ther suffering.
When It Is neces-
sury to put an animal to sleep, I nl-
ways utter a word of prayer, taking
full responsibility for the act.”
Most of the pets in the Jacobs home
have been brought there by persons
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Says Farmers Go Crazy
for Lack of Recreation
Washington. — One of the
reasons why you "can’t keep
’em down on the farm” was ex
plained here nt the seventy-
seventh annual convention of
the American Institute of llotne-
opntliy.
More farmers go crazy every
year In the United States than
any other class of citizenship.
Dr. J. M. Lee of Rochester, N.
Y., told the convention. Work,
worry and Inck of recreation ure
the causes.
Professional men—clergymen,
physicians and lawyers—nre less
likely to go crazy, Dr. Lee said.
However, Dr. l.ee warned,
don’t be too sure of yourself, for
Insanity Is slowly but steadily
increasing.
who have found them suffering In the
streets or were too poor to look after
them. Many carry a story of human
Interest, with sometimes a tragedy.
There Is Cinderella, who has been
brutally wounded. The Jacobs decided
to chloroform the animal to relieve its
Intense suffering. Finally It struggled
over to the open fireplace and curled
up In the warm ashes. Soon It showed
signs of rallying and they concluded It
should live. It did recover. The Inci
dent reminded them of the fairy story
of the little girl sitting in the ashes
and who later was able to wear the
glass slipper, and the spotted hound
became Cinderella.
Miss Jacobs told of a cat that saved
their lives. A leaky gas Jet had filled
the house with fumes while they slept.
Tlie cat mewed In vain and finally
leaped upon the bed and scratched
Miss Jacobs to a waking position and
a realization of their danger.
Cat’s Interesting Career.
Yarrow, a cut with an Interesting
career, wus named after Mary Cralge
Yarrow, a noted humane worker of
Philadelphia.
This cat once was a
companion to a little boy. The boy
died and on the night of his funeral
the animal was carried away and
locked In a freight car bound for Ar
kansas. A fortnight later the cat re
turned home nearly starved. The
boy’s mother took It to the Jacobs
home.
Some of the animals of other days,
especial favorites who had enrned
some ninrk of distinction, are buried In
the flower gurden.
There are no
markers, save a stone border around
the grave of Hermano (Mexican for
brother), long In the family. Hermano
had saved Miss Jacobs’ life in Texus
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howling and whining for his
master, who lay dead In a small
furnished room and no one went
near to find out what was the
trouble.
The man who had died there
and been forgotten was John J.
Moore, pardoned criminal. When
repair men. In going to fix a
leaky pipe, found It necessary
to get Into the room and break
down the door they came upon
Moore lying on the bed wrapped
In blankets. The dog had gone.
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when a big rattler was about to strike
her. The dog pounced upon the snake
and received the poisonous bite. He
becnme blind, but lived many years.
Asked about the cost of pursuing
their humane work. Miss Jacobs said
It amounted to $600 or $700 a year.
She Insisted, however, that this did
not constitute a sacrifice, that they de
rived pleasure from It and preferred
to spend their money In this wny, even
If it forced them to give up many
comforts.
Girl Must Return His Ring.
Asbury Park, N. J.—When a couple
In New Jersey agree to break an en
gagement the man Is entitled to the
ring he gave.
That delicate point was settled by
Judge Lawrence of the Court of Com
mon Pleas, In the case of a Trenton
man who resorted to the law to get
back the circlet he had given a girl
who then married another man.
In competition with boys representing 13 states, these three boys, G. W. Welting, Jack Turner and Alva Deb-
nam, won the first prize In Judging live stock at the southeastern fair, Atlanta, Ga., the prize consisting of a trip to
the English royal live stock show at Derby, England. They stopped off In Washington where they were guests of
the government for two days. The picture shows them examining the secretary of agriculture’s driving team, while
Secretary Wallace is an Interested spectator.
that the price of a dollar In coppers
runs from 130 to 140, Instead of the
seemingly logical 100.
“This state of things gives rise to
the ’Oh, by the way’ habit Foreign
stores will accept up to 50 cents in
’small money,* but more than that
amount must be paid In ’big money.’
A woman under such conditions de
get their pay and allowances at the velops a poor memory and yields to
Writer Tells Some of His Expe day’s
rate. In Peking, during the war, sudden Impulse. She buys something
riences With Exchange in 18
a consular clerk earning $2,000 a year, for 50 cents and thus completes the
But before she leaves
on which he was guaranteed a rate of transaction.
Foreign Countries.
the
counter,
she
says ‘OL, by the way’
$2.60, was receiving more money than
a lieutenant colonel, who was getting and purchases another 50 cents worth,
thus keeping a dime and two or three
$1.15 for his money.
coppers for herself.
The store gets
A Bureau of Standards In Money.
Its money back by returning seven
"In the office of the American mili
tary attache In Peking, there Is an dimes as change for a 30-cent pur
One U ttle Transaction in Exchange American flve-dollar gold piece, which chase and thus makes Its lucome look,
not like 30 cents, but like 44 to 50.
Nets Traveler 700 Per Cent at Har
has been priced more often than a
bin—Gold Coin at Peking, If
hold-over pair of 1912 shoes. The of Trip Cost $200 Less Than Nothing.
“In Tiflis, In the spring of 1918, the
ficers were being' paid the day's rate,
Sold, Would Upset the Fi
which was then about $1.10 Chinese rouble was selling at 15 to the dollar.
nancial System.
money for an American dollar. But I bought 6,000, for there was no tell
actual
gold was worth 50 per cent ing how long It would take to get out
Washington, D. C.—Variations In
When I
currency exchange rates have not only more. The officer rightly Insisted that of Russia at that time.
a broad economic significance but also his men were being paid in a debased reached Vladivostok, some weeks later,
an extremely personal pertinence to currency and insisted on receiving a the Japanese were preparing to send
an army Into Siberia and were buying
the traveler. Maynard Owen Williams, balance to bring the salaries up to
up roubles. The rate there was 6.33
who has Just returned from a trip the rate for actual gold. Hence this
through 18 countries to compile In solitary gold piece was taken around roubles for a dollar. I traveled from
formation and collect picture material to the exchange shops every month the Caucasus to the Pacific and took
for the National Geographic society, and Its value ascertained, but If It nearly two months to do It, and when
I changed my money at the end of
relates some of his experiences with had been sold It would have upset
the financial system, for the Chinese, the trip. It had cost me about $200 less
exchange as follows:
than nothing.
The professor with
"It Is only In times of extreme stress ready enough to offer a price for a
whom I had traveled for several
that the average American considers specific coin, refuse to quote prices
months In Russia and Turkestan had
the ‘cart wheel’ nnd the ’greenback’ on theoretical ones.
“It Is no wonder that there Is con converted all his gold Into roubles be
as commodities much like flour or ma
fore leaving America, and had been
dras shirting, but for most of the fusion In Chinese exchange with for
spending roubles that cost him 30
world foreign exchange Is a vital mat eign currency, for there Is a varying
cents each which bought no more than
ter every day In the year. When It exchange rate among the 18 provinces
those I had bought In Tiflis for 8.
takes 20 silver dollars to buy an ‘X’ themselves, and the Yuan Shlh Kai
"On my recent trip to India I ex
and a ’V’ In Budapest, It sounds like silver dollar Is the only currency on
pected to cross Persia on my way from
a fairy tale to the man who stops to which there Is no exchange when
Eastern Europe, and since American
think It Is Uncle Sara’s own currency crossing n provincial boundary. But
gold had been worth four times as
that
doesn't
mean
that
It
has
a
fixed
which Is treated In this manner. But
the Chinese keeper of an exchange value even then, for the value of a much as American paper In the Pers
dollar In small currency Is constantly ian bazaars In 1918, X carried a small
shop makes It as plain as day.
bag of gold with me. The trip across
changing.
A Chinaman Makes It All Clear.
Persia proved Impossible, and It was
“A
sliver
dollar
when
exchanged
"You walk up to his open counter
not till the eve of sailing for home
facing the sidewalk and ask him how at a foreign store, contains 100 cents.
that I sold some of the gold which I
much American dollars are selling for Thus If one makes a 20-cent purchase
at a Shanghai department store, he had carried for thousands of miles,
this morning.
and which had caused me endless ar
“ ‘This morning, price very bad. My gets 80 cents change, which seems
guments at nearly every boundary.
no want ’em. No man want to buy. fair enough until one discovers that at
Most of It I paid to the United States
No steamer leave today. Saturday an exchange shop one can get 11 dimes
customs on my arrival, after having
big steamer leave for ’Merlea, can give and 3 cents for each dollar. When he
carried It for ten months, and a hun
changes
one
of
the
dimes,
he
will
you more better price.’
dred thousand miles. There were
get,
not
ten
coppers,
but
11
or
12.
So
“During the attempt to reseat the
only two times on the trip when I
boy emperor on the Chinese throne In
could have sold I t for as much as I
the summer of 1017, a money changer
ABIGAIL ADAMS SHAFT could get for a letter of credit.
In Hankow sold me some Peking notes
Prefer Letters of Credit
for 20 per cent of their face value,
“I have never heard of anybody
asserting that I could get full value
making money on exchange by accept
In Peking, If I ever got there. I was
ing expert advice, and I would never
on my way to Petrograd and had to
want to offer It to anyone. But when
get my passport amended In Peking,
I leave American soil again, all my
so I took a chance on $25 worth of
money Is going to be Invested In a
Peking notes Issued by the Bnnk of
letter of credit and enough travelers’
Communications which cost $5 In Han
checks to help me out when I want
kow, the railway service between the
only a small sum. Boundaries reduce
Yangtze port and the capital being
currency In a way that alarms the
Interrupted nt the time.
traveler and an American letter of
Transaction Net« 700 Per Cent.
credit Is fixed at any point where there
“Most of the money I spent at face
is a bank. In the varying prices that
value In Peking for government tele
one can get when merchandising his
grams, but as I was leaving I Invested
American currency, the gold coin
a few dollars in Chinese postage
sometimes wins, the sliver coin sel
stamps. At Harbin, where the Chi- j
dom, and the greenback most often.
nese and Russian post offices com- j
But In the 18 countries I hove Just
peted, 1 trusted my letters to the Chi
visited, my letter of credit beat every
nese post beenuse of a censorship on
other one of the many ways I carried
Russian mall, and Instead of buying
my money.
Chinese stamps In Russian currency
“Once In a while fortune smiles on
at a high exchange rate, I affixed
the traveler. Last December, In Bom
stamps which I had bought In Peking
bay, I tried to cash a Colombo draft.
with Chinese currency that was d e-!
The bank could not quote a rate and
based In Hankow.
My profit on the
sent It to Its Colombo office, advancing
transaction ran over 700 j>er cent.
me such money as I needed In the
“Certain firms and mission boards!
meantime. A week later. In Karachi,
In China are In the habit of guarsn-1
I received the balance of the amount.
teeing their workers a rate of at least
I There had been bookkeeping and tele-
two Chinese dollars for every gold dol- j
I graph charges. But the rupee had de
tar In their salary. Otherwise a gold
creased In value during the time It
salary would be subject to a decide,!
took to complete the deal, and the re
variation since Chinese dollars In 1915
were worth only 4G American cents,
The Abigail Adams memorial at sult was that I received nearly two
and In 1918 they were worth nearly Quincy, Mass., which was erected by hundred more rupees than I would
a dollar. Under this arrangement em the Daughters of the Revolution In have had If the draft had been marked
ployees of one American corporation memory of Mrs. Abigail Smith Adams, Bombay Instead of Colombo."
were sending home more money each wife of John Adams, second President
W ear Big Colored Handkerchiefa
month than they received as salary. of the United States and mother of
Paris.— A voluminous handkerchief,
Two hundred dollars a month, con- ( the sixth. John Quincy Adams. Abi
verted at two to one would bring fonr I gail Adams was one of the moat In a yard square and of the same color
hundred Chinese dollars. For 220 of fluential women of her day and a writ and design as the blouse and veil, to
these the American could buy Ameri er of note. The memorial shaft la the latest Parts fad. The women tuck
can exchange for 8200, and he would erected on the spot from which Abi or pin the center of the handkerchief
gail Adams and John Quincy Adams, In a aide pocket, not a breast pocket,
have 190 Chinese dollars to live on.
"Consular officers get a guaranteed j then a boy. witnessed the battle of leaving the long ends of the handker
___________ chief hanging out six or eight Inches-
rata of exchange.
Military officers Buuker H1IL
Adventures With
American
Dollar
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Stupid Yankees CHINAMAN MAKES IT CLEAR
Lose in Baltic
Unbelievable Ignorance Is Costing
Them the Trade of the New
States Over There.
TAIL TO GET BIG ORDERS
British, German and Dutch Firms Are
Getting M illions of D ollars Because
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T h e a tr e Better Informed Thant
the American Business Men.
Riga, Lntvla.—Millions of dollurs In
rcudy cash are going to English, Ger
man and Dutch firms from the Baltic
states because of the almost unbe
lievable unfumillurlty of even the
largest American firms with foreign
trading conditions, und even geog
raphy, say Americans here.
Dozens of big orders for which cnsh
was actually in the bunks In New
York have been lost to America be
cause of what American representa
tives In Baltic states term absolute
stupidity.
"It Is said," said one of these Amer
icans In Riga, who has had to place
many orders In Germany and in Eng
land, when America could have had
them, "that tlie heads of Amerlcun
firms realize what the subordinates In
clinrge of their foreign trading de
partments are doing to them.
’’Most of them, brought up on so-
called American efficiency systems
that may work well at home but are
absolutely hopeless abroad, try to do
business In Europe according to ‘form
22’ or ‘form 24’ or whatever form they
would apply to similar deuls In Am
erica.
"To Illustrate, not long ago I hud
nn urgent cash order for 40,000 suits
of underclothing for a Baltic state. I
telegraphed to a big American firm.
•What your price 40,000 suits heavy
underwear cash against documents
New York?’
“Two or three days later, when some
From San Francisco to Venezuela
bright young credit man had tried to
digest this telegram, I received a cable
saying: ‘Wire your credit rating and
references.’
"Now, I suppose Ills ’form 22’ re
quired him to do that, but I wired
back, ‘My credit references are cash
In New York bank. What are your
prices?’
“Some days later I received a tele
gram saying: ‘Price dollar twenty,’ or
something like that
“More valuable time was lost In an
exchange of cablegrams asking what
they meant, per garment or per suit.
The result was that I wired an English
firm. My answer from It was complete,
Just what I wanted. The telegram gave
the price per suit, weight of shipment,
probable date of delivery nnd every
thing that I wanted to know. The
English firm got the order nnd took
the cash In the New York bank.
"When I write American firms for
catalogs, I get catalogs without prices.
I suppose they think It Is undignified
to print them. Then I write for price
lists nnd get price lists without cata
logs.
Print Complete Catalogs.
“German or British firms print com
plete catalogs, giving Just what one
wnnts to know. They save valuable
weeks of mall correspondence and get
the orders.”
Another American In trade In Rlgn
showed the correspondent a cablegram
from one of the biggest oil companies
In America, In reply to his telegrnm
which sa id : “Quote me price refined
coal oil delivered Riga.” The answer
rend: “Crude oil has gone up 20 cents
a barrel.”
“Now," said this American denier,
"I didn’t want to know about crude oil
and I haven’t time to figure out what
effect n rise In Its price would have on
coal oil thnt was badly wanted by my
buyer.
"In many of such ridiculous cases I
have telegrnphed directly to the heads
o f firms In America explaining the
situation. But I haven’t the time to
write all of them. So the Germans
nnd English get the orders.”
Incidentally, perhaps half of the let
ters sent by American firms to the
Baltic states bear only 2-cent postage
stnmps, causing Indignant prospective
buyers to dig down In their pockets to
pay postage due In rubles or marks or
whatever the unit happens to be.
Some of them hear fantastic ad
dresses, such as "Riga, Russia, via the
Pacific." Gne letter In reply to nquest
to ship for cnsh a big consignment of
goods from New York to Rlgn said the
firm waa sorry, "but had no shipping
facilities on the Pacific."
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Bone From Leg Grafted
Into Backbone of Boy
From continent to continent by airplane on a business trip was the pur
pose with which James Gtls and two others snored from the Marina flying field.
Han Francisco, anil headed out for Veneauela. Five thousand miles lie between
the three Intrepid men and their destination. Gtls Is making a trip to his plan
tation near Caracas, the Venezuelan capital. William Morris Is the pilot and
C. F. West the mechanician.
Anaconda. Mont. — With a
piece of bone six Inches long tnk-
en from his left leg nnd grafted
Into a bone of his back, Eugene
McHugh. aged 5 years, returned
from St. James’ hospital. Butte,
to his home In Anaconda. The
hoy suffered Injuries which de
veloped complications and de
manded the operation, which
was performed by Dr, E. F.
Maglnn with apparent success.