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Connecticut western news., 1915-04-22
HOLLAND AT BREAKING POINT.
Country Highly Excited Over Sinking
 of Ship by Germans.

of Ship by Germans.
 With her army and powerful coast defenses and her small but efficient navy at the highest possible point of efficiency, Holland is fully prepared to defend herself in case she is threat ened from any side. The people as well as the Dutch statesmen are thoroughly aware that this necessity may arise at any moment with terrible suddenness.
 So fraught with possibilities of disas- ter is the situation that the excitement over the sinking of the Dutch steam ship Katwyk off the North Hinderland lightship in the North sea by a German submarine is being held we'll in check.
Connecticut western news., 1915-04-22

Floyd A. MacFarland. once champion bicycle rider. was fatally stabbed by David Lantenburg of Brooklyn at the Newark (N. .Tl velodrome. I.anten- burg. who has a confectionery stand at the velodrome. became enraced when Mcfarland. who was manager of the track. ordered him to take down some signs.
Connecticut western news., 1915-04-22
NOTES FROM FOREIGN LANDS
What Folks Are Doing on the Other
 Side of the Globe.

Lieutenant Roland Garros. one of the chief French aviators. was made a prisoner near Ingelmunster. in Bel gium. according to Il Berlin dispatch.
Connecticut western news., 1915-04-22

Lake navigation for the new season has started with the clearance from Buffalo of three freight steamers. They are bound for ports on the uppe" lakes.
Connecticut western news., 1915-04-22
FROM TIE SPORTING WORLD.
This and That In Amateur and Protes-
 sIonai Athletics.

Al Reich. the former amateur. who was looked upon as one or the most promising contenders for the heavy. weight title. was easily outpninted by Porky Flynn. the Boston veteran, n the Federal Athletic club in New York city.
Connecticut western news., 1915-04-22

W. c. c. Gladstone. grandson of the late William Ewart Gladstone and a member of parliament from Kilmar- mock. has been killed in action. 1t was announced in London.
Connecticut western news., 1915-04-22

The spotted fever is reported to have broken out among the members of the garrison and the civil population at SemIin. on the Austrian side of the river Save. opposite Belgrade.
Connecticut western news., 1915-04-22
In Awful Shape.

"why don't you go to workr'
 "I'm so dead tired of doing nothing that I'm too tired to dc anything."- Cleveland Leader.
Connecticut western news., 1915-04-22

John Muriella, nineteen-year-old Ital- ian. was arrested in New York city for trying to eXtort $500 from Vincent As tor. The police say he was armed when caught.
Connecticut western news., 1915-04-22

Mrs Creatore. wife of the well known Italian bandmaster and a sister in-law of Adelina Patti. died at her home in Sacramento, Cal, following a paralytic stroke.
Connecticut western news., 1915-04-22

resolution proposing to submit the question of state wide prohibition to the voters in 1916 has been passed by the lower house of the legislature in Florida and will now go to the senate
 Caught under their automobile when the machine turned turtle at the foot of steep hill, MT. and Mrs. Alfred T. Terhune of Passaic, N. l.. were in- stantly killed. Both of their necks were broken.
 Because Mrs. Mack Thomas. forty years old. refused to allow her son aged thirteen. to leave the house. he emptied a double barreled shotgun into her brain as she was going into the yard at her home in Pittsburgh. Ky.
 Mrs. John D. Rockefeller in her will dated March 5. 1913. disposed of an estate estimated at S2.OOOOO0. Chari- table and church institutions will share something over $1.O00.0O0, and the re- mainder is divided among relatives and friends.
 To the inexperience of a student mo- torman is charged the death of fifteen persons, eleven of them women. who were killed in a collision between a street car and a freight train on the tracks of the Detroit. Toledo and Iron ton railroad in the western end of De troit, Mich.
 While working at a depth of 200 feet outside the harbor of Honolulu, where attempts are being made to raise the submarine F-4. William F. Loughman. diver became tangled in the lines at tached to the submarine. but was re- leased after heroic efforts lasting near ly four hours.
 Frank Abarno and Carmine Carbone. anarchists, who made and set bomb in St. Patrick's cathedral March 2, when hundreds were worshiping with in the edifice, were sentenced in New York city to serve not less than six years nor more than twelve years in Sing Sing prison.
 Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt was taken to the Roosevelt hospital, in New York city. from her home at Oyster Bay, N. V bv Colonel Roosevelt and under went an operation. No information could be secured at the hospital as to the nature of her illness. She is said to ha on the road to recovery.
 Hone was expressed of an early set +Iament of the Chicago carpenters strike. John A. Metz, president of the carpenters district council, said his or ,,anization is willing to arbitrate and ,bide by the decision of an arbitrator who will step into the breach and save rhicago from a prolonged strike
 The police have been unable to find any clew to the Identification of the body of a woman found in the outlet of the Weewah lake by golf caddies. Police Captain Bush and his assistants are making inquiries among the resi- dents of Tuxedo Park, N. r., but no one has been found to be missing.
Connecticut western news., 1915-04-22

Three hundred persons are reported in Tokyo to have been drowned in the collapse Of undersea galleries in the Ube coal mine in the Shimonoseki dis trict
Connecticut western news., 1915-04-22

Baron Herbert de Reuter-, managing director of Reuters Telegraph com pany of London. committed suicide by shooting at Reigate. Surrey. England Grief over the death of his wife. who died last week. is believed to have been the reason.
Connecticut western news., 1915-04-22

No great deed is done by falterers .Io ask For certainty.-George Eliot.
Connecticut western news., 1915-04-22
DEATHS OF NOTED PEOPLE.
Men and Women Who Have Died in
 the Last Week.

Former United States Senator Nelson w. Aldrich died at his home in New York city of apoplexy. He was born in Foster, R. l.. on Nov. 6. 1S41.
Connecticut western news., 1915-04-22
GENERAL NEWS EVENTS.

Happenings of Interest In Various
 Parts of Our Country.
 W. S. Gummere of Newark was ap. pointed chief justice of the New Jersey supreme court by Governor Fielder.
Connecticut western news., 1915-04-22

William Rockhill Nelson, owner and editor of the Kansas City Star and a director of the Associated Press. died at his home in Kansas City. Mo. from the effects of uraemic poisoning.
Connecticut western news., 1915-04-22

Richard Lydekker, the naturalist. died in London. MT. Lydekker was born in 1s49. He had travelled exten- sively and written many volumes on animal life in various countries.
Connecticut western news., 1915-04-22

Edwin Bliss of St Louis. writer of short stories and many moving picture scenarios. among them What Hap pened to Mary" died suddenly of heart disease at a hotel in New York city.
Connecticut western news., 1915-04-22

A resolution proposing to submit the question of state wide prohibition to the voters in 1916 has been passed by the lower house of the legislature in Florida and will now go to the senate
Connecticut western news., 1915-04-22

The police have been unable to find any clew to the Identification of the body of a woman found in the outlet of the Weewah lake by golf caddies. Police Captain Bush and his assistants are making inquiries among the resi- dents of Tuxedo Park, N. r., but no one has been found to be missing.
Connecticut western news., 1915-04-22

Caught under their automobile when the machine turned turtle at the foot of a steep hill. MT. and Mrs. Alfred T. Terhune of Passaic, N. J.. were in- stantly killed. Both of their necks were broken.
Connecticut western news., 1915-04-22

Because Mrs. Mack Thomas. forty years old. refused to allow her son. aged thirteen, to leave the house. he emptied double barreled shotgun into her brain as she was going into the yard at her home in Pittsburgh. Ky.
Connecticut western news., 1915-04-22

Mrs. John D. Rockefeller in her will dated March 5. 1913. disposed of an estate estimated at S2.OOO.OOO Chari- table and church institutions will share over $1.O00.0O0, and the re- mainder is divided among relatives and friends.
Connecticut western news., 1915-04-22

To the inexperience of a student mo torman is charged the death of fifteen persons, eleven of them women, who were killed in a collision between a street car and a freight train on the tracks of the Detroit. Toledo and Iron ton railroad in the western end of De- troit, Mich.
The Washington times., 1915-08-13
LONDON EXCHANGE
LOWEST ON RECORD
British Pound Now Worth Only
&.73 3-16, According to
New York Quotations.

NEW YORK. Aug. 1S.-Acute demor-
alization marked the course Of yester-
days sterling exchange market. sight
drafts on London falling more than III
cents to $4.73 s-l6 on the English pound,
the lowest level ever. reported under the
present method of quoting. which was
adopted in 1873. French exchange made
a new low also. bills on Paris selling on
a basis Of 81 to 5.s2h francs. against a
rate Of 81 TO SIS francs in normal times.
or in other words 81 in Americn money
could purchase bills Of exchange worth
5.S2k francs. larger discount being
involved than ever before in the history
of international finance.
Rapidly multiplying European ohliga-
tions in this country FOR purchases Of
munitions Of war and general supplies.
against which there was no adequate
offset erWn imports Of merchandise or
from receipts of gold and sales Of Eu-
ropean-held American securities. ex-
planned the downward movement
Foreign trade figures yesterday for
the port Of New York alone showed an
excess Of exports of merchandise over
imports to the value Of almost $1,000
600 making since Sunday an excess OF
more than $17.000,0O0. or an amount
only slightly under the total OF gold
Just received from London.
The Washington times., 1915-08-13
A ROMANCE OF ART

Everyone suspected that "Mona
Lisa" had deep, dark secret behind
that inscrutable smile. For years
she has been a sort of hostess at
the Louvre, greeting streams Of pill
grims with her famous smile un-
clouded, and cheering but perplex-
ing them as they passed to the more
alluring if less puzzling ladies on
exhibition there.
All these years her reputation has
been, like Cesar's wife's ought to
have been, above reproach. Her con-
duct has been impeccable, her char
acter unassailed. Even when she so
mysteriously disappeared no one at
tributed her flight to vulgar elope-
ment, and even when she was found
in seclusion in Italy not a whisper
went around that she may have
made off with one of those irresisti-
BILE Italian counts.
Now her kidnaper, it is reported,
is trying to put her in the class
with Nine. de Stael, or the Empress
Josephine, or Nine. Pompadour. He
does not even tinge her story with
the glamour of romance. He would
have us believe that she stopped, ut
last, to the intrigues of European
politics. Long ago the pulling of the
European political levers by women
had been consigned to romance.
But, so this story goes, the "Mona
Lisa" allowed herself to be spirited
away by an Italian in league with a
German agent SO that trouble might
be created between France and
Italy.
These are the sad facts. Many
whose confidence in the virtue Of the
inscrutable lady has been unshaken
will not believe this of her now
Others who think the whole world
The Washington times., 1915-08-13
HAITI MUST MAKE GOOD

The election Of General Dartigue-
nave as President of the Haitian re-
public by the national assembly does
not mean that the country is re-
established among the society of ma
tions and has been purged of it's re-
cent crimes. The de facto govern
ment will not be recognized as de
jure until it shall have proven to
the satisfaction Of the United States
that it is capable of maintaining
satisfactorily its international rela-
tlons, of discharging properly a gov
ernment's functions and of fulfilling
it's obligations.
This is the rule that President
Wilson has laid down, in practice,
regarding Latin-American States. It
is an ancient American policy, in
fact, but has received notable en-
phasis in the instance of Mexico. It
is not based upon the principle Of
hegemony, but is justified under the
right, derived from common law, of
putting down a nuisance at the ma
tons doors. The real danger to the
interests of this country in anarch-
istic conditions in neighboring re-
publics is indirect rather than i'm
mediate, in that they carry within
them the possibility Of intervention
by other powers for the protection
Of their nationals if the United
States should refuse to act. But the
Intervention of the United States is
always in the spirit of friend, and
carries with it no thought other
than to help the stricken country.
The Washington times., 1915-08-13
TAKES IN STRANGER
AS HER HUSBAND
English Woman Fooled by Alleged
lmpostor, Representing Him
self as British Ser2e-nt.

LONDON. Aug. IA remarkable case
was heard in Manchester court. when
a man was arraigned on the charge of
falsely representing himself as Sergeant
Herbert Dandy. OF the Manchester rcgi-
ment.
Tbe testimony brought out that the
real sergeant had been reported miss
ing at the Dardanclles on July l5 and
that his wife had been 80 Informed.
Eleven days later the alleged impost or
appeared at Mrs. Dandy's house. wear
ing khaki When she asked who he
was he replied. IT'S Herbert" They
embraced. and he stayed at the house
week.
The neighbors began to express doubt
as to the mans identity until the wife
grew suspicious. Finally fve COM
rades Of Dandy saw him. but he failed
TO Identify any Of them correctly. Then
ne was arrested. but Mrs. Dandy's rela-
tives are still uncertain.
The court held him for further exam
ination,
The Washington times., 1915-08-13
Extra Cipher in Date
May Block Hanging

A legal technicality Is relied upon in
an appeal to the United States Supreme
Court to save the life of Wyoming
man. who was convicted of murder and
sentenced to be hanged.
1t appears from the record that the
information against Orange w. White
charged him with the murder OF An.
derson Coffee on August IL, 1908.
The supreme court Of Wyoming held
that the 1908" was merely a clerical
or typographical error. as II was evident
that an old blank form with the num-
erals 49," had been used and that the
rs" had been added.
Counsel for White, however, obtained
writ of supersedeas and carried tho
case to the court Of last resort
The Washington times., 1915-08-13
LIQUIDATION IN CHINA.

coin, and even 1t Is received by weight,
not BY count: It would be too easy 9TH
ulators to accumulate q stock Of coin.
sweat 1t for a comfortable profit. and
then unload II on Uncle Sam.
ton % IN whst ht foTm the .eGss pre.en. big ship
ment is coming: but there was an i'm
preston that a considerable share Of 1t
was-in American double eagles These
would not be REQUIRED to be melted But
eign mintages must 60 through the melt
Ing pot.
Part Payment Made.
1t was stated that the biggest single
consignment Of gold that ever went TO
tho assay office in a single day. in such
form that it required to be melted. was
about 100000. The task. then. OF
handling a single Job OF possibly 335.-
ooo.Ouo may be imagined. 1t would re-
auiro a long time. and II the owners OF
the gold were compelled to lose its
value for business purposes the interest
item would be considerable Gold on
the seas always loses its interest during
transit.
But Uncle Sam does all he can to
minimize the losses. When an importa-
ton Of bullion comes here, consigned
" pnhnHe ho"oo' ~ 10 HAuiou u'ouh"
to the subtreasury. and after examine
ton and inspection OF the guarantees.
a part payment Is made in check on
the Treasurer Of the United States. II
is the custom to pay as large a per-
centage Of the invoiced value as can be
advanced with entire safety; commonly
about rs per cent. Beyond that, the
payments are deferred until the assayers
have given the entire consignment an
official certificate Of character.
Account of Stock.
Authorities on gold are having a hard
time nowadays trying to keep track Of
the worlds stocks. Since the war be-
gan an immense amount Of gold has
been added to the money stocks Of the
world, especially in Germany. France.
and Italy. where people have from pat
riotic motives contributed art works,
jewelry, and the like 20 the national
supplies OF precious metal
On the other hand there has been
some boarding OF gold, and the result
ant of these various causes can only
be guessed from the statements Of the
various great banks, which have shown
big increases in the visible supply Of
believed that the efforts to bring gold
out of hiding have been sufficiently sue
cessful to overcome the tendency to-
ward Its sequestration. and to increase
very considerably the worlds banking
basis of the metal. II this increase is
sufficiently large. 1t may even have an
effect, by way OF initiating the money
stock OF the world, that will be felt Z
long time after the war.
The Washington times., 1915-08-13
SUPERSTITION CAUSE
OF GRAVEYARD SUIT
Objections to Homes on Old
Cemetery Site Lead to
$4,000 Foreclosure.

NEW YORK. Aug. B.-The Mutual
Life Insurance Company has filed suit in
the supreme court against the trustees
Of St. Patrick's Cathedral. Gustave c.
HERE, and others to foreclose a mort
gago for $4,000 on the old Catholic
cemetery property occupying the bulk
of the block bounded by Eleventh and
Twelfth streets, Avenue A and First
avenue. Counsel for the insurance com
pany said the trustees of the cathedral
are only nominal defendants. because
the church sold the entire plot In 1872
1t is understood that the necessity of
foreclosure arises from the failure up TO
the present time Of the plan for dispos-
ing of the plot for building lots for
tenement houses. The plan under con-
sideration when the property WAS
bought from the church was to build
houses to be occupied by Italians. but
the promoters soon learned that the
Italians had serious objection to living
on property that had once been a bury
ing ground, and that If II became gem
orally known that 5000 persons had at
one time been buried there the houses
would he hard to fill with tenants
1t was last used In 1851. and tho bod
les were moved to Calvary Cemetery il
1909
The Washington times., 1915-08-13
Parents Can't Identify
Son, Ask Grandmother

NEW YORK, Aug. 13.-Mr. and Mrs
Charles Glass. Of Jersey City. who left
few days ago for Norman. Okla. to
identify a boy as their son. James
Glass, who was stolen May u last. have
wired to relatives they are uncertain
as to his identity.
Now the child Is to be brought back
for Jimmy's grandmother to look at. If
it is Jimmy. she will know him, she
says, and the parents believe she 10
right.
It seems that Jimmy's grandmother
can settle the question II anybody N
the world can. She has had the care %
the child during the greater part of hi4
four years. and had grown as fond OF
hin, az he had of her The attention
the grandmother lavished on him was
result of the absence from home Of his
father, who Is travelling salesman.
Jimmy's mother travels. too. and so
his care devolved upon the granA"
mother.
The Washington times., 1915-08-13

is allied with "kultur" may think, if
they will, that the Joconde at last
has fallen victim Of modern "effi-
ciency." Even thing of beauty, she
may have realized, cannot be a joy
through numberless centuries. To
those who believe this another idol
has been shattered.
Just how the stealing of the
"Mona Lisa" by a single italian was
going to disrupt the relations Of the
Italian and French governments is
not clear, but why spoil a modern
romance by quibbling about COM
monplace facts?
The Washington times., 1915-08-13
HERO IS
KILLED At FRONT
Baron Won BIeicToeder Dies in
Action With Germans Dur.
Ina Warsaw Advance.

AMSTERDAM. Aug. 13.-Baron Won
Bleichroeder hero in a romantic love
affair Of high court circles that eclips-
ed fiction. has been killed In action
with the German army before Warsaw.
according to Berlin advices received
here last night.
Love for the young baron caused the
beautiful Princess Sophie of Sake
Weimar to shoot and kill herself in
hef fathers castle two years ago be-
cause barriers OF rank prevented their
marriage. The baron, son OF the fam
Gus German banker and heir to one
OF the greatest fortunes in Europe
dropped out of sight until his namo
was posted in the latest casualty lists.
FRESH from Berlin and Heidelberg
the handsome young baron fell vio-
iently In love with the princess Her
father. who once had been a riding
master and waiter in New York, but
had been elevated to nobility fater he
obtained wealth. Is said to have looked
on the match with favor, but the
Grand Duke Ernest, head Of the House
Of Saxe-Weimer, threatened to disin-
heSit the princess II she married be-
meath her rank.
For seven years the princess sought
| to move the grand duke. Finally her
baron-lover gave up in despair ana
| the swirl of Wall Street and for a
year tried to blot out the memory of
the princess by diligent work in an
international banking house.
In 1910 the old love called him back
| There were more meetings between
| the baron and princess and according
/ to Paris newspapers secret meetings
and trips incognito through France.
Then the princess made one nnal ap-
peal to her father and the grand duke.
There was a violent scene in Heidel-
burg castle. The princess retired to
her apartment. A shot rang out and
/ servants rushed in to find her dead
The Washington times., 1915-08-13
THE FUNCTIONS OF A LIBRARY

The modern library is much more
than a collection of books. Among
other things the Washington Public
Library is an art collection.
The sort of art is not that which
sells for fabulous prices, and re-
1uires the bequests of millionaires
20 buy; in fact the entire collection
at the library here is said to have
cost about $500. Much of it was
gained by the use of intelligence
and pair of shears.
BY making use of the magazines
and newspapers, and by taking ad-
Tantage Of chances to buy prints of
he old masters, and the new ones,
90, the library has acquired COL
!ection Of thousands of pictures
which are of high educational value.
These are not arranged about the
place for decorative purposes. They
conform to the function of things
which find a place in a circulating
lbrary. Ihey circulate. More than
100000 loans, Librarian Bowerman
estimates, were made of them last
year.
The ways in which such a collec.
tion can be used are numerous. The
nature study collection is employed
N the primary classes of the schools
The art reproductions are used in
the drawing classes in the schools
md in art study clubs. They are
being borrowed constantly. The lit,
Hrary collection mainly comprise:
pictures of places and persons made
'amous in literary works and is useo
m schools and in literary study
"lssses as we'll as by individual stu
The Washington times., 1915-08-13
THE JITNEY As A "PIRsT AID"

Agsin the humble jitney comes to
the rescue. Out in Chicago it won
attention for effective service during
the street car strike. In Washington
It rushes as a first aid" to the
travel along Sixteenth street which
otherwise might have been incon-
venienced by the stoppage Of the
herdics.
The operation of the jitneys along
Sixteenth street furnishes q hint of
use to which the jitney might be
put in many cities with the least
interference to regular street car
lines. Street cars probably will
never be permitted on Sixteenth
street any more than they would be
allowed on Fifth avenue or River
side Drive in New York.
On Sixteenth street the jitneys
might we'll be made to serve about
the same purpose that the more un-
wieldy buses now do on the New
York thoroughfares mentioned.
Many visitors to Washington wish
to ride out Sixteenth street, on
which are some Of the Capitals most
beautiful homes, and a number of
the embassies and legations Of for
eign powers. There is likewise 4
goodly amount Of local traffic to be
had on the street for any convey
ances that would render regular and
comfortable service.
For these reasons the jitney, un-
like a prophet, bids fair to be not
without honor in its own country.