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The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1917-06-02
the Claiming secret defense fund

the Channing secret defense fund.
lou do not know what that last
means. 1t is to enlightcn you-lcst l
perish with my secret neutrality-suspicious.
am writing tonight have to inform
you concernin" that sacred trust. that
Oequest of your patriotic foretathers.
one hundred years ago. almost to
day, the first John Claiming died. He
was a Nfginian, a friend of Washing
tons, soldier, a, patriot, a gentleman
or fortune, character, intelligence and
II almost prophetic foresight. He had
'2rved through the War of Indcpend-
'nce. When the War Of 1912 broke out.
ho resigned his ease and took the field
a. colonel of militia.
In his military capacity John Chan
llnG the First was an intimate observer
OF the lack of organization. military
spirit, training, ability to fight. that
characterized the American forces
What he had experienced made a
profound impression upon him. He
never ceased TO plan to protect his
country against its greatest weakness
ana its greatest enemy-itSelf. In the
fatuOUS blindness of n people who then
as today believed sacred and just
{ cause the equivalent of reSiStleSS
weapon of defense, who thought they
had no need tO train themselves for
war so long as they warred only for
the right, the first John Claiming fore
saw an intrinsic. inbred weakness of
the people, prolific of perils which he
conceived it to be his duty to combat.
Some time prior to his death, there
fore, he consulted with the first Peter
! Ripley, my forebear and the founder
! of that line of legal advisers to the
! Claiming family which must perish
| when / perish. Between them, the
| two Schemed out q scheme for a fund
| for national defenSein time of danger
through what we have lately learned To
/ term ''unpreparedneSS." one half of
| the, even then, very considerable Chan
ming fortune was set aside to be the
nucleus of the Claiming secret defense
fund. to be drawn upon or expended
wholly only in gravest national emer.
gency.
The secret and the custody of the
fund was handed down from father tC
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1917-06-02
FREE REIN IS GIVEN
COCKTAILS ON SHIPS
DIFFERENCES ON WOODEN YES
Sci PROGRAMME CLEARED
AWAY-TO PUSH WORK.
CONTRACTS FOR THIRTY LET
Twenty-Four Mere Wooden Ships and
Six Steel earges Ordered-Propos-
ais For Turning Out Three Million
Tons Of Steel Shipping Accepted.

Observation-Disclosures between
Chairman Denman of the shipping
board and Mai. Gen. GOethals, mana
ger OF the boards emergency fleet
corporation, over the boards wooden
shipbuilding campaign have been
cleared away, ii was stated. and the
corporation will proceed with con-
struction of both steel and wooden
ships.
Gen. Goethals, back from New
York, where in a speech he character.
lied the plan TO build 1000 wooden
ships as hopeless, announced that the
fleet corporation had let contracts for
81 more wooden ships and for six
steel barges.
It was said authOritatively thar
Gen. Cocktails will be given a free
rein in the shipbuilding programme
and that there will be no interfer-
ence from the board. Shipbuilding
will be put entirely in his hands and
the board will exercise its other func-
tons as prescribed in the law Great
ing it. Operation Of the fleet, there
fore. will be in the hands of the
board.
Gen. Goethals has accepted propo-
sails by the United States Stees Cor
poration and the Lackawanna Steel
& Iron Company to turn out by fabri-
cation processes 100000 tons OF
steel shipping in IS months, and will
let contracts for wooden vessels AZ
fast as wooden builders come forward
with facilities for building them.
The House sent to conference an
amendment to the s750,0O0,O00 ship
construction appropriation section of
the urgent deficiency bill eliminating
a Senate provision to authorize the
president to direct the fleet corpora
tons general manager to carry out
provisions of the measure.
Secretary McAdoo, announcing
that 100000 had just been placed
to the credit of the shipping board,
said the board and Gen. Goethals had
not been held up for second for want
of money and would not be.
Referring to a statement attributed
to Gen. Goethals in his recent New
/ York speech that no attempt had been
made to sell the S50,000,000 of Pana-
ma Canal bonds through which Con-
/ gress authorized the raising of funds
/ for the board, Mr.. McAdoo said It
was not necessary to sell the bonds
/ Immediately and that the board had
been notified long ago that all the
money required was available on re-
quest. Before this allotment The
board had asked for and received 81,
100000.
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1917-06-02

After q time he crept noiSelcSSly
down the stairs.
There are Japancse-sever"l Of
them-in the house. Martin must hay"
seen them coming and locked us i'll To
prevent their discovering US.
But Martin? What VIII they do I"
him?"
II don't know. Let's not
think about that. Let's hope
for the best. It's all we can do. !
can't bulge that door up there. and
even if | could, I've got no weapons of
any sort.
Five minutes passed. Throughout,
the two could hear faint sounds Of
hurried footsteps overhead-for all the
world like the scampering of rats in
wainScoting. Then We're heavier, du,lcr
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1917-06-02

Accordingly she set herself TO work
making separate collars for her hus-
bands shirts and then made enough
10 sell outside the home. This innova-
ton attracted the attention of Rev.
Ebenezer Brown. retired Methodist
minister, and he. with the aid of the
women of his family. went about SELL
ing collars. This was in lS29.
All the work on these early collars
was done by hand. for the sewing ina
chine had. not yet been invented. In
those days not more than a dozen col
lars u day were sold. Their name
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1917-06-02

false, which the historian gives US.
Tragedy should be he
role statue in which nothing Of the
weakness or Quivering Of the flesh Is
seen.
Dante is to me the greatest genius
of modern times. l am en-
vious for my dear France that she
has never produced rival to Dante
that this colossus has not had his
equal among US. No. there is no rep
utation which can be compared with
his.
The Arcs de Triomphe would be
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1917-06-02
Thaw AGAIN To Asylum.

Philadelphia. - Presiding Judge
Martin, in Common Pleas Court, sign
ed q decree authorizing the removal
of Harry K. Thaw to the Pennsyl-
yania Hospital for the Insane in this
city, from a hospital where he has
been confined since an attempt at sui
eide several months ago, following an
indictment in New York charging him
with assaulting a schoolboy of Kan
sas City.
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1917-06-02

over something soft and yielding that
INSTRUCTED the floor. In stumbling he
threw out a hand which encountered
an electric light bracket. Steadying
himself by this he felt for and turned
the switch; the brilliance of a single
bulb dazzlingly exercised darkness.
He stood in a small. airleSS, window
less chamber, furnished simply with n
square mahogany table and four chairs
on a rug. Otherwise it was featureless
but for huge safe-doOr built into the
wall close by the foot of the staircase.
This door stood ajar. A black void
was beyond it. At PARIS feet lay the
obstacle which had so nearly proved
his downfall: the body of little Japa-
neSe clad in the uniform of tele-
graph mcssenger-in his dead hand an
automatic pistol.
Turning. Parr called to Martin to
come down To him.
The Negroes answers to his questions
enabled him rapidly To reconstruct the
prelude to Il brutal crime.
1t seemed that, shortly before Pat
ria'S guardian had dismissed him for
the night. Martin had answered the
dnor-bcll to admit telegraph messen-
ger boy with Il telegram for Peter HIP
icy. Signing for the message, Martin
had told the boy to wait for possible
answer. and had taken the envelope to
his employer in the library. But when
Mr.. Ripley had opened it, he had found
nothing within the envelope; and
when he and Martin had gone back to
| the hall to interrOgate the messenger,
this last had vanished.
BY thiS ruse Parr reckOned) obtain
! ing admittance to the house when Mar
| tins back was turned, the pscudo-meS-
Scnger had secreted himself and waited
till, finishing his letter TO Patria, Rip
! ley had found reason 10 descend to the
treasure vault. Then, following, the
! messenger had tried to shoot Ripley
down. but had met death himself in
thc attempt. Meantime n confedei ate
had entered the hOuse-gaining admit
lance through the front door, left I'M
locked, as Parr and Patria had found
it. by the first japanese. And when
Ripley, emerging from the secret pas
sage-nO doubt even then fatally
wounded-had called Patria in New
port by long distance-the second
japanese had shot to kill and had sue
ceeded if at cost of his own life. %. .
Asking Patria to turn aside while he
with Martins aid carried up the dead
Japanese and placed him with the 9th
ers in the drawing-roOm, Parr left Mar
tin on guard, and conducted the girl be-
low to the treasure vault.
If any traces of incredulity had thus
far cOlOred his thoughts, they were
promptly disSipated.
The vault was not large-perhaps
twice the size of its northumberland
was so well-filled with boxes, bales and
bundles that it afforded scant space in
which to move about. Aside from The
entrance, three walls We're hidden by
packing-caSeS. The fourth, the Earth
est from the entrance, boosted rack,
of pigeonholes in which were filed ant
dOcketed packet upon packet of paper '
and in addition richly framed oil por
trait of gentleman in continental uni
form, Boosting u brass plate with thi;
legend:
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1917-06-02
EPISODE TWO
Treasure"

I ,suus was the June morning that,
cross-town streets already
z with sunlight well nigh as
n not &c warm as that of noon
v;de areas Of shadow fingered
IN fifth avenues silent reaches
an broad banners Of translucent
thoroughfare was as lifeless rs
street In any village at church
IA Sunday; a few policemen
n Indifference at the taxicab fly
suthward at such lawless speed.
few blocks south of Fourteenth
the vehicle driven with a reck-
ss arguing the prospect of n sub
id tip as reward for haste) took
nq on two wheels and came to
snpt pause before q residence of
hntage caste.
moment II stopped, out of the
igped a brisk young man and, on
hels, an anxious young woman
M impatiently up the steps to
y ffont door while her companion
~ at the curb TO settle with the
kSsur.
y the time he was free to join the
b woman on the doorstep, she was
kng the bell with a sort of semi
|6e persistence.
ant understand why no one an
~ she faltered with n little shivel
Igrelx nsion. "I've rung and rung
(. J eNp't really think anything
k5 ~Sped-do you. Captain
hope not, Miss Channing-but
] to find out pretty pronto."
X stepped hack. and Parr planted
n thumb on the bell-push. From
Interior of the house came a re
! buzzing-nothlng more. At >;
ne the young man released the
70 and laid hold OF the door-knOb
he surprise and somewhat to tn,
of both-it yielGed read
Z moment neither moved; onl!
eyes Of each sought the others
w eloquent with apprehensive in
y Then with q quick gesture
D might have been interpreted a.
Ing the girl to wait outside, thu
g man crossed the threshold.
uietly. the girl followed-to b
led by her name, spoken in accents
'cnder. "Miss Patty-fo' the LAM
'r
aged negro servant clothed simpl.
&1amas stood transfiXed in recog
y halfway down the fight o
= to the upper stories.
hat you, Martin? Where is MI
eyr
iistuh Ripley? All reckon he mus
MO his bed, Miss Patty; he gin'rl,
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1917-06-02

"string collars"-was specially appro-
pirate. for they were tied around the
neck with a string of tape attached to
each end of the collar. Except the
bands. the first separate collars were
generally all linen and of two thick
nesses, although some were faced with
cotton cloth. They were slightly stiff
fened and had high points extending
above the chin on either side.-Popu-
lar Science Monthly.
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1917-06-02
Food Bill Laid Aside.

Washington.-Food legislation was
temporarily laid aside by the Senate.
After several hours debate the first
bill, providing for food survey, IL
censing of dealers-and steps to pre-
vent boarding. was sent back to the
Agriculture Committee for redrafting,
10 include several amendments.
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1917-06-02
THE CAST.
SYNOPSIS.

a, inheriting sole control OF
y "I rc Americas largest arms
- .,,,on industry, Patria Chanting
s%slv summoned from Newport
..s b XIV Peter Ripley. trustee for
Raron Huroki, chief of the
|pe go, service, busies himself to
=, rssponse TO this summons but
FM,,dss his opposition with the
~. nonald Parr. United states
Az who suspects Japan of in
2, sss,hroil the Unite States with
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1917-06-02
PETER RIPLEY.
GOLD!

When Parr had finished reading the
last page of Peter Rip!ey'S letter he
Looked down to encounter Patria'S di-
rect, uncompromiSinG gaze. To her un-
uttered inquiry he nodded slightly.
HE was sane" said Parr. "Ele
feared Janan-and Japanese aSsaS-
sinated him. That much confirmation
of what he wrote we possess, hcyond
rcfutation. There remains only 10 be
determined the actual existence Of tins
defense fund In Il secret
vault beneath this room to which the
password is your namc| What do you
make of that?"
ratria shook her head.
Its all too strange. l never
had any suspicion of anything of the
sort. I'm afraid l don't quite
grasp it yet"
1t was Patria who stumbled upon the
solution hapha2ard-or, as woman
would claim. intuitively.
THE password my name-Patria
That sounds as though there must be
n safe door somewhere with letter
combination or else "
"Or else" Parr prompted as she
hcsitated.
Look there"
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1917-06-02
JOHN CLAIMING, Esq.
(B. IBID. 1850
Patriot, Statesman, Soldier.

Patriot, Statesman, Soldier.
Founder of the Claiming Secret De-
Tense Fund.
ignoring all else in the vault, the girl
,Patria fingered for many minutes be-
fore this portrait of the ancestor whose
clear foresight and love of country had
created that trust whose burden had
now fallen upon her slender, pretty
shoulders.
Rapt beyond utterance. she .sighifed
her wish to confirm her deceased guar
dams report as to tie treasure.
Parr selected one from the nearest
stack of wooden boxes, and eSSayeG TO
transfer il 10 tie table. But il proved
heavier than he had anticipated, and
slipped through fingers unprepared for
its weight. There was Il crash; the
box lay shattered at their feet, its CON
tents spilled-!stack upon stack of gold
en- double-eagles scattered upon the
floor.
There was Il pause.
Patria sank into chair and rested
fOrcarms upon the table. In Eer hands
she held Peter Riplcy's letter.
After Il little, shutting the sheets,
she brought that one upperuost which
showed the words
"Wisely employed, this treasure may
prove the salvation of your country in
this its hour of direct need"
God make NE WISE" she said-and
faltered-"God make me wise 20 adj
minister this sacred trust"
Without wholly appreciating what he
did, transported beyond himself, Parr
closed his fingers over hers.
amen to that !" said he.
On the echo of his words a dull graf.
ing noise sounded above their heads.
HOLOCAUST.
In the tvinl.l.ng OF an eyelash boil
appreciated what had happened; III,
door TO the secret passage had Swun.
shut; for whatever reason. Martin pre-
sumably had seen fit to close it.
Without hesitation Parr swun.
about. out of the vault and W the con
| stricted stairway.
At the top he found only the smOotl
Surface Of The closed door. Ills fingers
sroped yainly over it ana round it:
edges; if any means there were o
opening it from the inside, it was to,
I cunninCly concealed for his ingenuity
! But if closed, the door was not alto
gethcr tight. Lights from the ibrar,
cleaned round three of its edges. Par
could not contrive, to get an eye 10 ;
crack, hut he could not avoid hearing
What he heard was. however, Difficult
TO interpret. Several voices wcr'
audible froIa beyond the barrier, al
chatterirg rapidly; and though Par
had a fair working knowledge Of tn
Japanese tongue he lacked as yet tn
ability to translate. the vernacu.a
when quickly spoken.
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1917-06-02
Munitions Are Seized.

Des Moines, IA large quantity OF
rifle cartridges and rifles was seized
by federal authorities here at shack
where Sergeant Herbert d. Cordell OF
Company b, Waterloo, Qowa) Nation
al Guard, shot and killed Loe Leras-
co in a running fight when guards
men were detailed to raid an ambush
of Shippers"
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1917-06-02
To Extend Potash Production.

The bureat of soils l. cooperating
with cement mills. blast furnaces, and
wool-scourers with the object of en-
aiding them TO recover potash as by
product wherever .this proves to be
commercially feasible.
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1917-06-02
NAFOLEONS IDEALS AND AIMS
Great Soldier and Statesman a Lover
of High Tragedy-Purpcse Of the
Arcs de Triomphe.

I love high tragedy. the sublime,
like that of Corneille. In tragedy
great men are more truly great than
in history. We see them only in the
crises which unfold them. in the mo-
ments Of supreme decision; and we
are not burdened with all the pre-
paratory details and bonjectures, often
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1917-06-02

Her Outflung hand indicated the mas
sive marble chimney-piece. Parr knit
ted his brows, staring. The thing was
interesting if only as relic of ths
curious artistic taste of bygone day:
none but a mid Victorian intelligence
could have tolerated the thought of
such mOnstrOus monument to home
illness. And ye' the carving was eX-
quisitely done. He crossed TO it. with
Patria by his side, for a closer inspec-
ton.
In whatever brain the design had
originated, it, was a patriots: the
American eagle screamed in Sculptured
stone, the flag Haunted blatantly its
moveless folds, the arms of Virginia
flanked the drms of the United States.
Immediately above the fireplace the
Charming arms were enblazOned upon
II shield. beneath This scroll bore the
motto OF the house
"PRO PATRIA NoBlS.D
"To which the password is my
name"
Patria put forth fingers which
touched lightly the initial of the word
Patria on the scroll. She Withdrew
her hand with an exclamation; the let
ter she had touched had fallen in flush
with the surface of the scroll. Parr
nodded excitedly. "Try the next let
teri
10 her pressure the letter 4 became
as the letter L; the remaining letters
of the word followed suit as readily.
And when the last had been depressed
they heard cjsiOus grating noise be
neath the man,el and, locking down,
saw the apparently solid stone backing
Of the fireplace proper swing nassively
inward and disclose the mouth of q
narrow passageway.
LET me go first,"
PARIS tone vas Imperative. Won
Gcring little 1T tie distinctive doc.lity
with which she oaCyeG him, Pa;gia
stood aside. lie ducl2G beneath the
mantci a:.G Disappeared. -.
The Iassa""Nay proved short, upon
/ that level. P,rr advanced three PAGES
in utter {: r'-..'Ss. Then It turned
aside ct n right au-ic. At tie foot OF
some twelve Steps ne found another
level. advanced gingerly pace into the
denSer Imaginable murk, and stumbled
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1917-06-02
jap Navy Is Aidinu.

London.-The arrival of a consider
able number of light Japanese naval
craft in the Mediterranean TO co-ope-
rate with the naval force of the al
lies was announced in the House OF
Commons by Lord Robert Cecil, min
lister of blockade.
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1917-06-02
c. p. Taft II To Army.

New Haven, Conn.-Charles p. Taft
H., son of former President Taft and
a junior in Yale College, was enlist
ed for the artillery branch of the reg
ular army.
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1917-06-02
BIRTH OF The LINEN COLLAR
According to History, BIaeksmith's
Wife Invented Modern Mans
Greatest AffIietion.

! The wife of Troy IN. ~ black
nth Is said to have been the first
rson 10 have made separate collars
n mems shirts. This happened in
Il and men have been suffering
u since. Outside of inventing the
} jrate collar. this woman did the
4 Dis washing.
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1917-06-02
Mexicans Flee Draft.

Austin, Textile exodus Of Mext
cans from Texas TO Mexico on account
of the fear of conscription is serious.
according to Col. F. A. Chapa, San
Antonio, a member Of the governors
staff.
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1917-06-02
France Regulates Coal.

Paris.-President Poincare will is
sue a decree requiring all persons who
posses more than one ton of coal 20
report before June 20 on the amounts
they have. All stocks NOT reported
will be subject to requisition.
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1917-06-02

futile work, serving no purpose, and
would not have built them If l had
not thought them a means of encOur-
aging architecture. l hoped with the
Arcs de Triomphe TO nourish the archi-
lecture of France for 20 years.
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1917-06-02
No "Dry" Referendum.

Madison, Wis.-Governor Philip
vetoed the Eyjue bill, which would
have provided statewide referendum
on the prohibition question ne1t
April. Wt
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1917-06-02
Canada Ace Limit 20.

Ottawa, OMIT was officially an
nounced that the minimum age at
which compulsion is TO be applied in
Canada is 90 years.
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1917-06-02

- purity late when he done work
-0 the night befo'-"
pid he work late last night, Mar
ne sho' did, Miss Patty-leastways
zone say he gwine tub when he send
PHI to bed bout leven O'clock"
Is that the library?" Parr asked.
with a nod indicating q door toward
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1917-06-02

In Peru the woman who has to earn
her living Is looked down upon.
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1917-06-02

him; but for you I do fear, when you
shall have set your hand to the task
which mine must yield. l know your
breed well enough to know you will
not falter in the discharge Of this
sacred trust, know Japan well enough
to know she will stop ut nothing to dis
courage you.
l charge you above all things to be-
ware the man who calls himself
Baron Hurol;i-who poses as a cosmo-
polite of japanese birth-who is in
reality secret chief of the Japanese
secret service in this country.
More than this hope To tell you in
detail-if l live to see You again. 9th
crwise-I shall die content in the
knowledge that l have, at least, done
my best To warn you against the chief
est dangers you must apprehend as
CNccutrix of the Claiming secret de-
Tense fund.
Your affcctionate guardian,