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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-05-28
On Second Reading by . for to
Eight Against.
PROVISIONS OF THE COVENANT
Free Passage of Warships and
Troops Is Granted.
Uncle Sam to Hand Over
$4,000, 900 in Gold.

Bogota, Colombia, May 2s.-The
Colombian senate, by 23 votes
against 8, has approved the second
reading OF the treaty between Colom-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-05-28
And Truth Was Badly Strained
at Times by
BOYS Of The infant INFANTRY
Officer '@MOnty" Returns After
Twenty Years.
Well Known Copper of Old
Days q Visitor.

The Great White Lie.
To lie may be wrong, but there are
lies that will be forgiven at the judg-
ment. OF such were the many lies
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-05-28

endum by which the American dele
gates are acting, and are now under
stood to have reached a reasonably
complete form on essentials of tho
proposed agreement. There has been
no effort, SO far, to weld the essen
tials into a protocol, but the various
propositions stand out distinctly and
will readily admit of an amalgamation
into a complete protocol when it il
found necessary to do SO.
The understanding here is that these
elementary propositions have been
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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-05-28

Weather Forecast for Kansas.
Cloudy tonight and Friday: cooler
Friday.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-05-28
Peace Conferees Find No Trou.
ble in Reaching Agreement.
They Drop From Consideration
All Points in Dispute.
WAR MUNITIONS FOR HuERTA
Consignment From Japan Is
Due ON West Coast.
United States Is POwerless to
Stop the Shipment.

Washington, May 2s.-The main
stages Of the negotiations at tho Ma
CARA conference. have been reported
to President Wilson under the refer
Evening star., 1914-09-27
BY FRANCIS e. LEUPP

of fresh paper on testained walls or repaintng part
of the woodwork in ancient room. Fortunately the
tale had reached point where the plot longer
elaborate: the charm of the denouement would lie in
the ingenuity of its central idea and the way
presented.
Agatha the heroine, was married at very immature
age to of her fathers generation whose love of
travel and exploration amounted to obsession, who
insisted that his young wife accompany him wherever
he went regardless of her preference for domestic quiet
and literary career. Their wanderings mostly off
beaten tracks, eliminated in adventure in the hill
country of North Africa where they captured by
brigands and held for ransom, literally with drawn
sword suspended over their heads
At this uncture entered the hero in the person of
young American newspaper correspondent whose edi-
tor had sent him to hunt up the captives and effect
their rescue Executive" for his journal To this
end he let himself be taken prisoner also and in him
Agatha recognized friend of her childhood, whom she
had not since their schooldays He concocted
scheme for the escape of the trio which succeeded,
thanks to his courage and her implicit obedience to
orders; but her husband whose wfulness at mop
perfume moment exposed them to pursuit. shot in
the running fight that followed and died fortnight later
Returning to her country with her hatred of
restless life intensified into horror by her tragic expert
ence, Agatha felt free to carry out the dreams of her
Evening star., 1914-09-27

featuring town. 1t misunderstanding, however,
that l now rejoice in; for, amusement park not,
sideshow or main ring, found it enjoyable and
educating experience.
l approached it in fear and trembling especially
when 1 noticed 1 awaiting my &turn' the
vast quantities of chewing gum that were being sold
to my audience by the inevitable boy with the basket
There is always something disconcertng to public
speaker in the constant simultaneous, and automatic
movement of other jaws than his own and in the face
of collective jaw, made up of sixteen hundred lowers
that chewed one feared that mine. singy and alone,
would find the odds against it overpowerng Strange
to say, however my real fear this occasion not
the of my audience, but whether should be
Evening star., 1914-09-27
1.-THE GREAT IDEA"

to ask you will finish it for her. There still three
instalments due. Two,' tapping his package II have
here in proof for you to take home and read before at
tempting the composition of the third and last May
I count your"
@Are to work in colaboration?' inquired Berke-
ley, who the first to from his surprise
@Bless you, in competition answered Calvin.
@Thats all the fun of it. Each of you is to turn in
anonymously the conclusion he thinks most fitting,
accompanying it with his in a sealed envelop
@Who's to judge between us,-you?" demanded Dex-
ter, who had had one two unfortunate experiences
with manuscripts submitted.
@Not your life! l shouldn't dare. No, we shall
take the Immediately to higher court. I'm going
to publish all the endings and then ask readers to
say which they like best. For years subscription
paid in advance voting coupon will be sent attached to
the receipt Back numbers containing the earlier chap
tiers will be sold at wholesale rates to subscribers
"Three birds with stone" commented, laugh
ing. 3You1l arouse fresh interest in the magazine,
get for your old copies ten times what the junkman
would pay, and"
you've caught on, my boy' Calvin took the words
out of my mouth @We shall send our subscription
list soaring at the rate of three dollars per- and give
grand advance advertisement to the book"
@What book?" asked Harding.
II just coming to that The novel is such a
Evening star., 1914-09-27

dozen negroes in my audience. A dozen women had
their babies with them, and many small kidde, too
young to chew gum without exposure to the peril of
swallowing it. nibbed and absorbed ginger cookies
/ watched them. The question became not were they
good enough for me, but could convince them that
good enough for them. 1t not question of
getting down to their level" but of my ability
to climb up to the level of my opportunity. For the
time being whatever superiority there alto
gether their side, and the point how could
prove myself the real thing, and not the artificial; how
1 could find the common denominator which would
able us to get on 3like house afre' together.
AS I was speaking the solution came-and mighty
Continued page II
Evening star., 1914-09-27

able to acqut myself credtably before them. have
fondly hoped that my little talk contained message,
and observed these seekers after pleasure slowly
gathering and taking their places tiers of pine benches
under the kindly shade of of noble pines it
Cured that if there any fruitful soil for my
message anywhere in the hearts of just such peo
pie sat before me,-oilers, the humber folk the
men and women whose lives had been too busy with
breadandbutter problems for the requirement of cu
ture, and whose sole opportunity for amusement up
lifting otherwise came these very Sunday after
noons
There men and boys there who under other con-
ditions might have been idling street I
counted three Chinese, several Japanese and half
Evening star., 1914-09-27

Calvin, the editor and proprietor, was journalist
who had taken his turn at nearly every branch of his
craft though he too much of the world to
bear about with him any of it's insignia. With his
brisk air and faultless attire, his TALL spare figure his
bronzed but unseamed face and his prematurey gray
hair and cropped mustache he might have passed for
lieutenant in the Life Guard, amateur yachtsman,
an absentee planter, prosperous stockbroker off
for holiday. 1t impossible to guess how old he
was; though from accidental droppngs in his conversa
ton put him down but little past middle life.
One reason why we knew that the Great Idea had
not yet arrived that it trie slow in paying
for contributions. When l say l refer to myself
and my three special cronies the Scribblers Club
Dexter, who wrote detective stories; Berkeley who
to the sentimental; and Harding whose leading
characters multimonaires and the unfortunates
from whom they had amassed their wealth.
The slight embarrassments of the magazine seemed
to be due to no lack of recognized excellence but SIM
ply to its not having tap the capital needed to tide
Evening star., 1914-09-27

tnuance Of her annuity she 3for the endow
ment of such institution would, in her then 1pened
judgment, most wisely advance the of world
exploration and perpetuate the memory of the said
testator." The bequest ended with proviso that,
should she remary she thenceforward
to enjoy any interest whatever in either the principal
the income of the estate.
Agatha contented herself with the annuity pre-
scrbed the price of her freedom to live home and
write. She succeeded too, her novels having a phe-
nomenal popularity. But her thirty-ffth birth
day at hand, with its demand that she select
institution for endowment with the wealth that
hers to bestow but not to hold. It serious prob
lem that confronted her.
Her? Yes, and we'll; for not to solve it
for her? And was the Great Idea expecting of
Evening star., 1914-09-27

youth in a settled home.
Her horizon was clouded
somewhat, however, by
the terms of her husbands
will. He left five million
dollars in the hands of a
trust compaay, which was
to pay her the entire in
come as long as she re-
manned unmarried and
continued to travel. If she
insisted on spending her
widowhood in quiet, it was
to pay her ten thousand
dollars a year for her sup
port, and distribute the re-
mainder of the income
among certain specified ex-
ploration funds, till she
attained the age of thirty
five years. On that date
she was to become sole
trustee of the estate, the
principal of which, after
setting aside an amount
in bonds of approved sta
bility, to assure the con-
Evening star., 1914-09-27

he about to declare his enterprise wreck and for
terms with minor creditors? Our msgivings
dispeled when. drawing mysterious package from his
pocket he proceeded at to business by saying:
Gentlemen have called you together to invite your
cooperation in plan for common profit. Are you
all reading 'Agatha's Problem'?"
We assured him that
@The author" he went on, 4has suddenly announced
to me that she cannot finish it,
@.Shei" came in an astonished chorus from side.
EYES, she. You thought it was the work of MANI
Oh I've laid editorial touch here and there; but
it is actualy-between ourselves, you understand
the masterpiece of experienced woman novelist,
who happens be circustanced that she does not
feel equal to writing its conclusion, and deputed
Evening star., 1914-09-27

erous expenditure and
meager returns. 1t was
the only periodical of its
class in the field in which
it was published; it had
departments not to be
found elsewhere, but OBJ
viously liked by the public;
and it was printing a serial
novel that was the talk
of the literary world.
@Agatha's Problem was
by an anonymous author
whose identity was just
now the subject of spirited
speculation among readers
andreviewers, and this had
recently given a great inn
petus to the sales, already
large because of the in
herent appeal of the story.
When Calvin summoned
our quartet one evening to
a confidential powwow in
an empty cardroom at the
club, and turned the key
Evening star., 1914-09-27
HEN began my career as writer Of fic-
Drawings by Frank Snapp

ZEN began my career as a Wr1ter OF nc
ton my best customer was the Great
Idea, which advertised itself everywhere
as 3the coming magazine" A favorite
jest in our little circle was to wonder
how soon it would come. One day it did;
and the manner of its coming is what l
have set out here to tell.
Evening star., 1914-09-27

have set out here to tell.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-10-21
------------------
 AMERICAN YACHTS

The first American pleasure yacht
 to attract international attention was
 the Cleopatra's Barge, which was
 launched at Salem, Mass, ninety
 eight years ago today. Oct. 21, 1916.
 She was built by Retire Beckett. one of the most famous of Salem ship wTfghts, for Capt. George Crownin-
 shield of Salem, a wealthy ship owner and merchant who had accumulated
 a fortune out of the Oriental trade C1eopatrass Barge was of less than 200
 tons and eighty three feet in length.
 She was 1uxur1ous1y fitted and was declared by European yachtskpen to
 be the finest pleasure craft afloat. On
 her maiden voyage she crossed the Atlantic to FsayalI going thence to
 Madeira, Gibraltar. Tangier, Malaga, Carthagena. Barcelona, MarseiIles, ISToulon, Genoa. Leghorn and Rome. In all of those ports the craft aroused much interest and the travellers were received as if they had been 3isitin 8 princes. Capt. Crowninshield visited
 the mother oG Napoleon and received
 much friendly attention from all the IBonapartes. He died soon after his return to America, and the yacht was sold to the King of the Sandwich Is lands, who gave for it $9O.000 worth of sanda1wood. Tn 1924 she was wrecked in Hawaiian waters.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-10-21
FREE ELECTRICAL
 INFORMATION

The leading scientists, engineers and business men in the electrical indus try about two years ago formed. a. CO., ciety for Electrical Development, In corporated. It's membership at the present time includes more than 1, 400 firms in the electrical field whose voluntary subscri ptions place at it's disposal a. large fund with which to educate the public in the economy, efficiency and safety Of electric ser vice.
 The society maintains a bureau of information where authoritative but popular answers to electical questions may be obtained free of charge by any one. The society has nothing to sell, but will be glad to answer by mail, without expense, any proper question on electrical matters submit ted by a householder, manufacturer or office executive in any part of the United States or Canada In all it's work the society co-operates with the public in securing the present and future advantages to be derived from electric service in the homes office and factory
 The headquarters of the society are in the United Engineering Societies Building g West 39th street. New York City, which was a gift from MT. Andrew Carnegie to the several en- gineering and technical institutes and associations located in New York.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-10-21
FOOD SOURINC IN STOMACH CAUSES lNDICEST STI0N, GAS
pape's Dfapepsin'' ends all stomach distress in five
 minutes.

wonder what upset your stomach which portion of the food did the damage=do you We'll, don't both er If your stomach is in a revolt: if sour, gassy and upset. and what you Just ate has fermented into stubborn lumps head dizzy and aches; beleh gases and acids and eructate undigest- ed food; breath foul. tongue coated just take a little Pape's DIapepsin and in five minutes you wonder what became of the indigestion and dis tress.
 Millions of men and women today know that if is needless to have a bad stomach. A little Diapepsin occa- sfonaIIy keeps this delicate organ reg usated and they eat their favorite foods without fear
 If your stomach doesn't take care Of your liberal limit without rebellion !; if your food is a. damage instead of a help. remember the quickest, surest, most harmless relief is Pape's Diapep- sin which costs only fifty cents for a large case at drug stores- It's truly wonderful--It digests food and sets things straight, so gently and easily that 1t is really astonishing. Pleas for your own sake don't go on and on with a weak. diaordered stomach; Etsa Ho unnecessary, ,Adv-
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-10-21
REILLY 1Ak
 FOR CONG. MARIAN


 New London. Oct 21.---T1re official announcement received in this city last night from New Haven that Con gressman Thomas 1- Reilly would stump the district in, the interest sof Congressman Bryan F Nahan's re- election to Congress has begun to cause the friends of Richard Freeman
 Republican nominee for congress in
 this district, to have a little uneasi- ness. The impression prevailed that Mr. lAIahan still retained a little or the soreness which a defeated candi-
 date for senatorial honors could nat
 uraIly expected of having but the in trusion of such 8 strong Baldwin ad- herenf as Tom Reilly, into the field in the interests of a man who so insls- tently fought Baldwin for the noni- notion for senator, dispels every sus- picion that MT. Ma:han will not sup port the party anu work strenuously for it from the highest candidate on the ticket to the justice Of the peace. Also that his disposition to forget hds disappointment is accepted with
 the same magnanimity by the Bald win men. who will do everything to help his candidacy The news has been received with delight by all Dem
 ocrafs in the state who appreciate that the oratory of Reilly is a for
 naidabIe weapon against any Repub- l Iican candidate His determination to speak for Bryan F. Mahan indicates
 that the Democrats in the eastern part Of the state are united handsomely
 to win the coming election
 Incidentally this is the first time in state that one congressman, who is I running for office, has undertaken to
 help a fellow candidate for the same office
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-10-21
PROGRAM OF TESTS
 IN SCHOOLS CHANGED

An order abo1shing the six test per semester system in the public schools of the city was issued to teachers yes terday. Tn the future, tests will be given by the teachers whenever. they deem it necessary. It is thought by the school board that the work of pupils will be more efficient.
 It is declared by those in favor of the new system that worry incidental to such tests, to both pupils and teachers, will be done away. A series of tests less stringent than those now used are to be prepared by Superin- tendent of Schools Charles w. Deane and Miss Fannie. A. Hurley, assistant superintendent.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-10-21
VOTERS ATTENTION.

The voting lists for 1914 are ready and have been distributed by the registrars. The latter officials ask that every voter in the city at once consult the lists and make certain that his name appears properly regis tered in the district he desires to vote from. In their canvas this year the registrars of vot- CTS were unable to locate more than 200 voters who had been electors in Bridgeport for years. Consequently their names have
 been left off the preliminary lists and will not be placed on the final lists unless the voters apply at once to the registrars and make known their present place of reesfdnce. Only those who apply before 5 o'clock on the afternoon of Friday, Octo- ber 23rd will have their names restored to the lists. The forms for the final list close at that time on that date.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-10-21
DEMOCRATIC NOMINEES
 TO CONNECTICUT HOUs1

Below is printed a list of the Dem Dcratic candidates for representatives In western Connecticut:
 Fairfield County. Bethe1-Jacob s. Mayhew. Bridgeport Robert G. DeForest. Patrick F. Brady
 BrookheId B. ThornhiIL Danbury Martin German, Howard w Taylor.
 Darien-Abei Dance Easton-F,rank S. Clark. Fairheld-AlIington H Brothwell. William F. Bulk1ey-
 ezreenwic Nelson B. Mead. Ar thur H. Dorland-
 ington4Thomas F.. O'Conne11, George w. Belcher.
 Monroe erome Nichols. New Canaan George N. McKendry. Nesv Farfeld-Philtp Seelig. Nertown-Jesse X James, William Egan-
 Rsddina Charles Sanford. Thomas M Stocking.
 Ridgafeld-D- Frank Bed1ent, Erederick s. Bates.
 Charles Frost sfamfprd Charles D. Lockwood. F'ioyd B. BaruaIn-
 stratfou7d- Thomas Mcoullan. Trunb rzIs-Jo ohm WI TreadweIl Weston-VVilbur Sturges Westport-Robert w. Post. wilton Floyd B Bouton.
 Idtchhe1d County. Bark4arnsted Harold F. Bardenl Miner B. Frazier
 Beth1ehem-John H. Wiltshire Rrfdgewater-A1 yron B. Disbrow. Canaan-Hrancfs S. Skin. ColebFook-Char E. Leonard CornwaI II-A1vah w. Bradley, Ed ward ". Bennett
 Goshen Aired H. Wright, Karmi A HarWinton-vv waiter M. Perry. Lew r VVrlliars Ei Page. z If4chdeId-J aEnes 2. Sedgwlck John W. Razenscroft
 Morrs-Henry c. Goslee- New HartfordC. Montague Max field. Charles A. Mason.
 New Milford-Afo ontville +. Mallet Norfolk Charles F caul, Lynar North Canaan--John IL Graves. Plymouth Bennett, VII liam Gone
 RoxBury grederick H Leaven' worth.
 Salisbury Andrew. J. whaIen, Hen sharon Edward Al Peqmgney. El bert R. Chapman
 Thomaston-G A. Potter. Torring gton-Fred 6. AIldis. EliJal Curtiss.
 Warren George Marsh.
 ton-John S. Hartwell George H. Couch
 Watertowr ohn D. BotellA. Winchester Raaph E. Afford. Fred erick VVarhter.
 yVoodbury gvalfacs B. Ward, Ar thur E. Knox
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-10-21
Germans Seize Food.

Rotterdam, Oct 21-A Dutch ambu- lance worker who arrived here today frornh Brussels tells narrowing story of the safferings of the poor in the surrounding country. There is no white flour and no salt. The Germans tour the city in motor cars and seize any food which they can find and send 1t to Germany.
 A potatoes merchant told me that the Germans were offering extraordi- nary prices to Dutch dealers in pota- toes and onions, which are very scarce in Berlin.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-10-21
SUNDAY SCHOOLS OF
 COUNTY TO GATHER

The third annual convection of Fadr- field County Sunday School Assoeia- tion w1u be held in the First Congre- gauonal church, South Norwalk. to- morrow All Sunday schools in Fair he1d county are 2 part of this asso- ciatfon and will have delegation present. Some of the speakers will be Mrs. Lucy Stocke Chain of Hart ford, well known in Sunday school work, who will speak on the work of the elem entary department Rev. John R Brown Of Bridgeport, Wallace I. Wocdin of Hartford Miss Bertha iI4inckley Of Stfatford will speak on the Chicago convention held in June.
 Tarfm increases have been inaugu- rated at all Mexican ports
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-10-21
Cost War Levy.
Caruso Sings For Italian Idle.

Rome, via Havre, Oct. 21-There was a gala performance at the Cos tanzi Theatre last night for the relief of the unemployed. Caruso, Lucrezia Bori, De Luca. and Battistini sang se- lectons from "Il Pagliacci." the sec ond act of Madam Butterfly and the third act of "Ernani.'' Toscanini and Mancinellf directed the orchestra. & The theatre was crowded and about $5,000 was realized byl the. perform anee.
 Caruso and Toscaninf sailed from Naples for New York today on the steamship Canopic.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-10-21
Iron Crosses to. Austrians.

Copenhagen, Oct. 21-The Berlin Lokalanziger reports that the Kaiser had an opportunity of seeing the Aus trian heavy mortar batteries which had been in action at Namur, Givet, Maubeuge and Antwerp while passing g an unnamed battlefield. The Kaiser highly compIimented Austrian Field Marshal Stuerghk upon the excellent support which he had given the Ger man artillery and distributed fifty Iron Crosses among the officers and men.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-10-21
Human Notes
 FROM FOREIGN
 Battlefields
Can Repair Cathedral.

Paris Oct. 21-M. Marcel Sembat, Minister of Public Works. after a. visit to Rheims said it was possible to con serve the cathedral by repairs. Operation Cost War Levy.
 Bordeaux, Oct. 21-The Matin tells a story of how a doctor named yeron saved the ITS, ,O00. francs ($35.009) war tax levied on Epernay.
 A German Prince was left behind among the wounded. pr. Veron was the only surgeon who could be ob- tained to perform a necessary opera ton. The Germans offered him any fee he might ask and the. doctor de- manded 175s0OO francs, the amount of Epernay's war levy.
 He also demanded that this amount be paid Immediately to the Mayor This was done. but the payment was made in German instead of the origi- nal FrenchNgo1d which had been paid for the levy.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-10-21
Churchill in An Airship.

London, Oct 21=w. L. Rees. son of the rector of eL1andrynmaire, Mont gomeryshire, a young officer who was attached to the headquarters staff of marines at Antwerp, has written home saying that Winston Churchill, First Lord of the Admiralty, went up in an aeroplane and flew over the city.
 He afterward motored out to the of1cers and told them the positions.