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All Paris WAITING


party cutters up from the corner, yet
l cannot distinguish figure. Beyond.
a snatch of song. It's the Veal and
the Salad"
Murmurs. whispers. giggles. Behind
the sheet-iron shutters of each fiat
they peep and rumor. strip of white
light sweeps across the sky-search-
light from Mont Valerien.
Darkness, waiting. Brrr! A guar
dian aeroplane. thank goodness. No.
snore Dewey has fallen asleep in the
dining room. Peace, oblivion.
What's that? Fracas and laughter
refugees are coming up from the cell
lars Elegant women in gowns and
furs. in ulsters and motor caps, in
street skirts and lingerie blouses, their
jewel boxes under their arms. their
corsages bulging with bank notes,
mount the stairs in a flood of reckless
light, escorted by middle-aged hus-
bands. lieutenant on crutches and
the white-moustached old pirate of the
fourth.
They laugh in relief. The danger il
over. The police have just told the
janitor-the Zeppelins were chased
back at Chateau -Thierry.
why didn't you come down? Port
wine for gentlemen. and Nine. X.
poured tea! w mere Is that dOR!'
The Zeppelins send regrets-detained"
Ace. king. queen. ten "a table car
pet and nine chairs, mon cher" The
cellar bridge club. new appointments,
new attractions"
In the morning the janitor's wife en-
tertains the servants-and Louise
brings up the news. The German fam
lily in the back street signaled! That's
what we get for giving them residence
permits" Nonsense. the man is sixty
eight, his wife is French, and their
son is at the 'front.' AHA, as II that
m attered" The janitor's wife Is an ac-
complished type of idiot. They're also
French who signaLed. ailez. fiat in
the Rue de Charities was bright lit.
As ] tell you, madame. pardie. for their
selfish safety. 1t is well known that
the Zeppelins never drop bombs on a
guiding signal"
A Zeppelin (says Louise) went over
the adjoining suburb of Courbevoie
yesterday afternoon. Twenty persons
saw it. 1t dropped stream of white
powder.
Four bombs (says Angele) fell on
Mont -Valerien this morning. She knows
il from Nine. Aubrat, the dressmaker.
whose young brother met boy BIZ
cycling from Suresnes. OF course, it's
not in the papers. It's forbidden to
excite the people.
Servants talk? Wait.
My friend Algernon-Anglo-Sa Saxon of
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THOMAS JEFFERSON.

FNHE Department of State is re-
poSeful, formal and mysterious
Treaties with many countries.
q letters from many nations and
the great seal of the republic are
locked within its vaults.
Whatever else may be said of u.s."
the walls. desks and documents seem
to boast, in precise and baronial tone
of voice, I'VE are ancient, ceremonious.
mute, for most part, and enormously
dignified and reputable.
Although the State Department, be-
cause OF torpedoes, sunken ships and
diplomatic notes and conversations, to-
gether with Mr.. Bryan, recently has
been the source of many first-page
stories in the press. little is actually
known about it by the people whom it
represents and from whom are drawn
the funds for it's support. The Post
Office Department is the plebeian, while
the State Department is the patrician,
among the executive branches of the ma
tional government.
X x
Diplomacy, except in the United
States, being a black art, is often prac-
therefore. has become traditional. and.
though monarchical. has been copied by
republics Men glide about the corri-
doris and offices of the State Depart
ment as noiselessly as young surgeons
in hospital An ambassador, you I'M
derstand. might happen along without
warning and any indecorum would be
unbecoming.
Then all foreign offices strive to be
impressive. There is putting to
strangers, the world over. of the best
foot forward. Jefferson. in France ne
gotiating treaties of commerce. spent
$4,000 a year. which was his salary,
plantation, in fashionable living.
At home, however, and as President
he, on one occasion at least, gave
formal audience to distinguished man
mot merely in an undress. but actually
standing in slippers down at the heels
clothes Indicative of utter slovenliness
and indifference to appearances. Such
apparel, If worn in Paris, would have
hurt the new republic for which he
was bargaining.
The Secretary Of State receives 81. 900
was paid $500. The salary was
raised to $4,000 in 1919. to $4,000 in
1853 and to $1,000 a month in 1911.
Early in the revolutionary war COM
mittee on secret correspondence was
appointed by the Continental Congress.
The committee was the small seed
from which sprang the mighty De-
partment of State.
Thomas Paine, infidel and author of
Common Sense" the pamphlet which
helped to bring on the revolution, was
the secretary Of the committee His
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States Supreme Court. sat in one
room and his clerk in the other. The
office was kept open from o'clock in
the morning until s o'clock in the
evening.
Ranking just below the Secretary of
State. as the department is organized
today. comes the counselor. whose sal
airy is $500 year. Robert Lansing.
the present Secretary of State, was the
counselor under Mr.. Bryan. The assist
ant secretary of state receives $4,000
and the second and third assistants
$4,000 each. Twenty-seven other Off
Gals. including the solicitor. whose pay
is $4,000 a year. get salaries ranging
from that amount to $500.
The two translators, John S. Martin,
jr.. Philadelphia and a graduate of
the University of France, and Wilfred
Stevens. a graduate of the public
trade. are each paid $1,000 a year. Mr..
Stevens is one of the most remarkable
1inguists in the world, being able to
translate thirty Asiatic and European
languages.
Communications from this govern
ment to other governments are written
in English those from other govern
ments to this government are written
in the languages of the countries from
the translators of the State Department
must be capable of reading all the
tongues that are commonly and Off
cially spoken on earth.
The one clerk of John Jays time has
been succeeded by seventeen at $500
a year each, nineteen at 800, twenty
five at s1,40O, forty-three at $1,000,
eighteen at $1,000 and eighteen at 5000.
There are also messengers, packers,
telephone operators and laborers.. The
war with Spain made the United States
d world power" Likewise it very
nearly doubled the employees of the
State Department, not to mention the
increase of the sailors in the navy or
of the soldiers in the army.
Under the direction of the President
"a very significant phrase-the Secre-
tary of State carries on correspondence
with public ministers and consuls of
the United States and with the repre-
sentatives of the foreign powers sta
toned in this country and undertakes
negotiations of whatever character re-
United States"
So. also, he is the officer through
whom the President communicates with
the governors of the states comprising
the Union. He Is the custodian of the
great seal of the nation and countersigns
and afixes the seal to all executive proc
lamations. to various commissions and
to warrants for the extradition of
fugitives from justice. He keeps the
treaties made with foreign countries
and has the custody of the laws passed
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N the History of Our Department of State

Probably Concerning
Oer-Slence Mystery Dgns History
With Invisible Ink
Salary
Buchnan-Eary Foreign Trouble-Madron and His Debts
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of warning. Should any member of
my cabinet" he said. become a candi-
date for the presidency or vice presi-
dency of the United States. it will be
expected. on the happening of such an
event. that he will retire from the
ca binet.
Old John Adams first gave Pickering
am opportunity to resign. When Pick
dismissed him, which rigorous perform
ance recalls the case of Metternich, the
first minister of Austria. This is not
riot, the Austrians had cried in
mockery of Metternich. but a revolu-
ton" The people, he was told, at the
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here to take charge of the business of
the Office
But it is not midnight" Marshall
answered.
1T is by the Presidents watch" Lin
coin replied, showing Jefferson's own
watch. the hands of which had been
turned ahead for the occasion. The
Presidents watch Lincoln remarked
with energy. decides the matter
"Mr. Jefferson" Lincoln continued,
became President at 1901 o'clock.
March 4. 1t is now past that hour, and
am Secretary of State"
Marshall, by the account of Parton,
Immediately put on his hat and depart
ed. Allan B. Magruder. in his Life of
John Marshall" dismisses the story "as
unworthy of any credence whatever"
The British minister, Sir Augustus
Foster. wrote his government that
the Secretary of State. was a
better informed man than Jefferson,
the President. Moreover" said Sir
Augustus. Madison is social, jovial
and good humored companion, full Of
anecdote. sometimes rather of a loose
description, but oftener of political
and historical interest"
The house that Madison rented cost
him $500 the first year and $500 there
after He purchased fine porcelain, glass
and silverware and imported wines,
olives, olive oil and preserved fruits.
His secondhand coach was bought in
Philadelphia for $50, and his harness
was silver-plated. A race horse was
owned jointly by himself and friend.
Merchants complained that he was not
prompt in meeting his bills and his
rent was often overdue. He owned two
farms in Virginia and a number of
slaves. and had control of Montpelier.
to his father. But Dolly Madison, his
wife. was the leader of Washington So
ciety
The contest in 1924 for the presidency
between John Quincy Adams Henry
Clay, Andrew Jackson and William
H. Crawford. not having been decided
at the polls. was thrown into the
House of Representatives. Clay turn
ed his support over to Adams. Thus
Adams became President, and he, in
turn. appointed Clay Secretary Of State
Jackson. furious with disappointment,
called Clay the Judas of the West"
adding that he had closed his contract
and received thirty pieces Of silver
and acrimonious John Randolph. term
ed the bargain" between Adams and
Clay the coalition of Bilfl and Black
Georgia. combination unheard of till
now, of Puritan and blackleg."
doiph At he f }rss shot Of the duel that
followed both men missed. Clays
bullet, however, went through Ran
dolph's coat. Gays second bullet cut
another hole in Randolph's coat, but
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heterogeneous or dioxyde of sulphur gas.
IT is SO heavy that it seldom rises
above fifteen feet from the ground and
nows like water into trenches or cell
lars
I'D better be in my fiat" saws
madame.
Finally, the typhoid cholera bombs.
They'd catch me even in the coun-
tryside, says madame. fleeing in the
Twilight in Neuilly-Paris.
Nearer comes the musical humming.
Flap-flap,
1 point to the shining aeroplane from
Buc. Vim
Madame smiles dubiously-and strikes
up ''Tipperary"
STERLING HELLO
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PARIS, July 8, 1915.
R0 7E bought our masks today.
MAN. Six masks for three persons
\HV at SO per person. 50. 1t is
" " once only in lifetime; and
they will be relics. Also, they may
save US against death, blindness or
burnt lungs for life.
Relics of what a period,
We are not soldiers. We are lust an
American family living quietly in Paris.
We do not hear the fracas of war
Paris is nowhere near the fighting
zone. Why, we can automobile all
round the countryside. to Meaux, Chan
lilly. Fontainebleau. Paris is the same
old Paris-big shops. moving pictures,
cafe terraces, dressmakers, milliners.
art shows, matinees and promenades
all day
All day. yes: but at night
At night. the night birds-the Yep
pelins.
The other night, when the janitor
came warming, "Zeppelins, Lights
out" ] regretted having waited for
the best" masks. We refused a copy
makes one look really too much like
hog. Yet the tin snout holds an ex-
ira quantity of cotton soaked in hypo-
eulphite-very model taken from Ger
man squirters on the fighting line.
~
Quick. The old auto mask on the
hallway table-souvenir of the Alpine
pass trip which we were to take last
summer. 1t will preserve mother's
eyes. Hastily We hunt in trunks and
closets for no matter what neglected
goggles. Louise. the servant. whim-
pers. Il can hold wet cotton to my
mouth. but what about my sight" She
mourns. The poison gas-they say it
burns like fire.
Put out that light.'-"But I must
see. to find my shoes"'-"You don I
need shoes. We stay right in this
hat."-"fm going to the CELLAR
Shut the windows!'-"Open the win
dows' All the papers say to let the
air i'm
In the darkness of our fiat thin
thin streaks of white light SQUIRT.
Each has pocket electric lamp-x1. 40
apiece and extra batteries 81; total,
$3.50 Crash. Mother has upset the
dictionary stand
! look out into the night.
stop smoking at the window. You
will get accused of lighting signals
The street is as black as hat.
Laughter and scufiiing feet-a late
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and pile of big handkerchiefs. These,
at need. to be saturated.
Item-Solutions, in quart bottles, of
(a) hyposulphite and water, and (b)
bicarbonate Of soda and water. You
hold the wet pad to mouth and nose
while running out of the fiat, if a gas
bomb bursts In 1t.
Item-Basket Of the same, for use in
the cellar.
Item-Medicated folder masks, in
metallic cases. to keep them wet.
These for the pocket and the street
Thoughtfully. I soaked the indicated
folders. They were soaked already.
From the distant air came a musical
buzzing. 1t grew louder. nearer. We
know the sound of guarding aero
planes. In the midday rattle of Paris
it is a faint hum. Often we do not
hear it till we see crowds staring up
ward. Almost out of sight, the silvery
speck circles.
R-r-r-r! Like a giant humble bee, in
Neuilly twilight. the avion slides across
the sky to do its three-hour bit
Of guarding Paris. And another. And
another. And another.
Flap-fap! planes crackle, a noise like
Venetian blind stats. They fly quite
low. mounting as they penetrate the
suburb.
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at any hour and hear them. R-r-r-r!
tLoudero R-r-r-r-r-r! Looking out
the window you may see a tiny fan
shaped white light slip mysteriously
across the blackness.
All. be sure we listen, waking in night
watches. We know well the other
Tngggw Gond-distance. quick firer
and cannon of seventy-fve.) And then
b-m-m-m! b-m-m-m! (from Mont
Valerien). A Zeppelin has got through!
The searchlights sweep. All Paris at
the window or the cellar stairway.
planes compose the guard of Paris
proper. In addition, no one knows
how many-perhaps fifty-between
Paris and the front take turns to cut
or the approach.
Every night the Zeppelins try to
sneak through
So speaks Nine D., our neighbor
in the adjoining fiat, whose husband
tells her, which. perhaps. he oughtn't.
sometimes they are stopped at Nam
teuil. or st. Just, or Clermont, just as
happens. They try to slip in. around
by beauyais As soon as seen they
Some time they'll come by daylight.
with their cloud makers!"
Zeppelin cloud makers-new product
Of German science
Bombs they are. but exploding high
in the air, beside the Zeppelins. olsen
gaging thick black smoke in immense
quantity. A black cloud soon surrounds
the airship. Bang! Bang! The cloud
swells. extends The Zeppelin navi-
gates within it, hidden.
She breads air fighting over Paris.
She even breads their hitting the air
pirate. Every time a Zeppelin Is shot
down it smashes a lot of houses with
its falling explosives.
IL
She breads the contradictory nature
of the Zeppelin bombs.
Fire bombs contain plaques Of ther-
mite. used in industry for self-solder-
ing metals. 1t generates 5000 degrees
Of heat. Centigrade, melting its way
through iron girders and cement floors.
Water has no effect on 1t. 1t goes
right through a house from top to bot
tom.
I'D better be in the street." says
madame.
Trinitrotoluol bombs. explosive, eight
cen times worse than nitroglycerin.
They weigh $50 pounds each-thick
iron shells, heavier than an ordinary
man-and smash down through three
or four floors.
I'D better be in the cellar" says
madame.
Poison gas bombs! Whether the
liquified stuff be chlorine, bromine,
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Potomac river jefferson complained
later that he had been duped by Ham
ilton. The break between Hamilton
and Jefferson" John T. Morse, the
biographer and historian, says, was
never healed.
Foreign questions troubled Washing
ton more than they have troubled any
of his successors. John Jay. for ex-
ample, now Chief Justice. going to
Great Britain, where he negotiated the
celebrated treaty, which still bears his
name. and which brought about the
dawn of American commercial liber-
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So the hot afternoon passed, in Paris.
With my packages, I took the Neuil-
ly tram. The girl conductor had the
heavy blinds down. Girl conductors,
now, on all the lines. train other girls,
while middle-aged male experts shift
about to help them.)
Cooler with the blinds down." she
said, land they'll be down for the back
trip. into Paris" (The cars are electric
lighted, and the ordinance demands the
blinds by twilight.)
On the parlor mantelpiece I spread
my purchases.
Item-Three small. rubber-and- mica
house masks, for the eyes only. (Those
big contriyances almost choke one)
Item-Package Of hydrophtle cotton
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ing it to spray the front. even the ko-
daks limit each purchaser to half a
pound. The Paris police, they say, are
ready to spray the air. of the streets
In any quarter. Surely. it's practi-
above twelve feet. 1t stands like a
pale canary-colored fog. The police
Just squirt into 1t and it disappears.
Why, no. I've got no mask. What good
is mask against 180-pound trinitro-
toluol bomb. fourteen times as explo-
sive as dynamite? Me for a quiet sec
ond foor!"
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M-m-m-m! Far off. the returning
faction makes for Buc.
In the night stiffness one may wake
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bpecid CbffFspohdfnce OF Inc star.
PARIS, July 8, 1915.
00 0E bought our masks today
NAX Six masks for three persons.
WW at SO per person. 50. 1t is
" once only in lifetime; and
Albuquerque morning journal., 1915-04-01
STILL BELIEVE GERMAN
SEA RAIDER WILL INTERN

Washington. March 31.--While the
German commerce raider Prinz Eitel
Friedrich loaded coal NJ Newport
News and reports persisted that she
was preparing for a dash to sea where
British and French warships are
waiting, officials Of the Washington
government tonight awaited the expi-
ration of the time given the cruiser
to stay In port without comment or
apparent anxiety.
Naval officers freely predict that
the ship will intern for the war; but
department officials who are sup
posed TO know the intentions Of The
German commander are silent.
Late today, Commander Thierchens,
of the Eitcl. asked Rear Admiral
Beatty at the Norfolk navy yard to
station guard over the ship. The
request was referred to Washington
and after a conference between war
and navy officials the commandant
at Fort Monroe was authorized to
furnish a detachment of coast artil-
lerymen to patrol the dock at which
the cruiser is mobred.
Advices from Newport News to-
night however said Admiral Beatty
had sent a squadron of marines from
the navy yard TO do the guard duty
Albuquerque morning journal., 1915-04-01
PR|Mz EITEL IS
TAKING ON FULL
SUPPLY OF COAL
Sixteen Hundred Tons, Enough
for Voyage From Newport
News TO Bremen Is Being
Loaded by BargeS,
nv .o.sns ,ou.s.l s,se,.l ,s.ssO wrrsi

Newport News, Va. March Sl.--
Under supervision OF the United
states navy, the German converted
cruiser Prinz lftel Friedrich tonight
was filling her bunkers with coal,
900 tons Of which had been deliv-
cred alongside late in the days.
When the coal barges arrived NJ
the shlpyard where the Eitel Fried
rich is moored. orders We're immedi-
ately given TO bar all approaches.
AS the first sacks of coal were
hoIsted from the barges the ships
band struck up a German national air
and at frequent intervals until late
hour the sailors labored to the accom-
paniment of patriotic music It was
estimated the coal would be in the
vessels bunkers before morning.
Despite the coaling operations, the
future course of Commander THE
richens remains a mystery. The coal
he was permitted TO take aboard was
measured by American naval Officers
on the hasis that II would be sufficient
to take the Eltel to the nearest home
port Bremen was the port which rig
ured In the naval apportionment.
That the Eitel will not leave her
dock tonight is generally conceded
Albuquerque morning journal., 1915-04-01
UNCLE SAM ASSURED OF
GRATITUDE OF GHENT
nv so.s,as lou.a.. .,sel.l t,.s,o wr.s

Washington. March 81. ~ Rcsolu-
tions OF thanks TO the American peo-
Die adopted by the burgomaster and
COMMUNAL council of the city of
Ghent, Belgium, reached Secretary
Bryan today from Henry A. Johnson
American consul at Ghent They
were adopted on washington's BIRTH
day as a mark of particular honor.
The resolutions say;
To-day. the 22nd of February, 1915.
anniversary OF the birth Of George
Washington, the communal council OF
Ghent, officially assembled. offers to
the noble American nation the ex-
preston OF its deep appreciation Of
The timely aid given to Belgium in
view of the appalling conditions now
existing in our unhappy country
I'm providing a sufficient supply of
food for our people 30 severely strick-
en- by war. the United States have rem
dered them a service that VIII never
be forgotten.
This act Of international solidarity
on the part Of the American republic
viii remain craven in gold characters
in the history of our country, as II is
now. In the heart of every Belgian"
The box containing the address,
fashioned Hike an antique volume,
bears a drawing of the bronze dra-
goon of the belfry of Gbent. On the
address itself is a water color showing
the coats Of arms Of the United States,
Belgium, Flanders and Ghent inter-
laced.
Albuquerque morning journal., 1915-04-01
EXPERT DIVERS SENT
FROM NEW YORK NAVY YARD

Washington, March 31.--Expert di-
vers from the New York navy yard
were ordered to Honolulu tonight to
aid in raising the sunken submarine
F-4. They will leave at once for San
Francisco to board steamer for Ha-
waii.
A request for the navy's best divers
with The most modern and complete
equipment was cabled to Secretary
Daniels tonight by Rear Admiral
Moore, who has personally taken
charge Of the operations The ad-
miral indicated that he was virtually
helpless with the equipment available
at honolulu and that without addi-
tional assistance II might be impossi-
Bile ever to raise the F-f.
Secretary Daniels called the COM
mandant of the Brooklyn navy yard
on the telephone and later announced
that the divers would be sent. Those
selected the secretary said, would be
the most expert in the navy, one of
them record holder.
Because of the extreme danger of
undersea work naval officers at Hon
olulu are said to have feared further
loss of life would follow il they rished
the further employment Of such
equipment as they had in attempting
to bring the boat up from her resting
place 270 feet below the surface of
the water
The impossibility of Immediately
raising the submarine had been real
lied for several days. Admiral Moore
estimated that the task of salvhging
the vessel and rescuing the bodies of
the u officers and men entombed in
her waterlogged hull would occupy
two weeks time. Every effort to ex-
pedite the work will be made, pending
the arrival Of the divers from New
York. f.