Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, May 31, 1922, Page 4

er because of his deliberate violation of baseball . rules concerning mmbers of the - team, m.v“w:;m%w&ww“‘“‘“‘“ ma,— v ORWICH BULLETIN |3 ot s, o oot e crowa| 0 2 000S 0, ey “aminan, = . Ruth has become becauss of his batting | umber of bauks and fnancial instity and Courier ability, but that certainly dosswt fus- | tlons throughout the country weee mads s o |tity him i expecting that the umpire is . 126 YEARS OLD of crooks headed by Walter Eastman going to make exceptions in his @ase|gherigan, the man whom Pinkerton in price 13 & week; G0 1 month; .00 world champlonship and call him sate on second when belhis memoirs declires was the cleverest was out. and it doesn’t justify him in|criminal he ever tracked. grabbing o handful of dirt and throw-| The operations of the Sheridan organ- ing it at the umpire because he was|ization were marked by a stmplicity unable to stretch a one-base hit into a| Which was almost startling. Their favor- two-bagger. President Johnson seems to| {te trick was to plant oms of thelr mem. a e Postofics ¢t Norwieh, Conm, o matier. Towtene Cafle have been none to0 seve "”'”.""'5:"”;,},‘,“‘.,‘:,:‘3"?.2?‘“":';";’“;1 it “Rtoat Moo 153 terred to the act as the “tossing” of the| o1y pefore the closing hour. The man dirt and emphasized the fact that it only| g, planted would take up a position be- hit the umpire's clothes and not his face.| hind someone Who held in hia hands a His intentions were good and it ls likely tu-‘. Toll of bills, and would await until that it fell short only for the reason|the depoistor had almost reached the win- that the some -of his drives do not go|dow. Then he woul® tap him on the over the fence. shoulder, call his attentda to & bill That affair was bad enough but when | Which “he had dropped on the floor,” and gross display of bad judgment the limit; over * The oriminal would then snatch was reached, and when as the league|the money and make off. president declares, “Ruth plainly did| WhiHe the hauis secured in this man- not possess the mental strength and sta-| ner were, of course, of varying sizes, bility to brave the sudden reversal of | Sheridan and his men picked up $75,000 ey | Dbile adoration,” it is possible that he| 28 the result of less than five minutes’ will be brought to his senses by the ac- "";‘r‘ at a Baltimore bamk. ‘ter several other coups of a stmilar CIRCULATION tion“taken: agamst. bim, nature, Sheridan tried the same game at It is further evidence to the effect|yins st National bamk of Springfield, EEE ENDING MAY 27, 1922 | that high salaried baseball 11,599 EPUBLICAN CITY TICKET. players|yjl, but was arrested. He promptly to hurt it. he assisted at the robbery of a Cleveland | bank which netted the gang some $40,000. TILL ABOVE STANDAED. This was followed by a raid upon the 4 alirond | Mechanics' bank of Scramton, Pa., Where When the recent reduction in raflroad | sy oraen and ome of his men got away freight rates was ordered for the Mrst| vith'$30,000 worth of negotiable bonds. of July it was declared that It would| His next exploft—one which took more mean something like & half billion doi-| than four months of careful planning— lar reduction in the revenue of the rall-| was the ooting of the Falls Crty Tobacco | roads. Some and perhaps a large part|bank in Louisville, Ky., when upwards of g e $300,000 was secured. y be made up by the increase in business that is expected to follow the| AS a result of these operations, to- i 5% e : % of oblemat. | Eether With the shrewd menmer in which ESRRASN, AUt I8 9T coueee prouly heé had invested his money, Sheridan was | fcal though the improvement in indus-igorth fully $250,000. trial conditions and the continued bet- Feeling certain that his past exploits terment are being strongly relied upon.| had left no olue to his connection with The rallroads have indicated that they| the robberies. and having obtained | Big wo: quittal of e only large on Wi U} O e e e O ic|ad been arrested, Sheridan joimed in & ove for the good results $0 s anti v serles of the most gigantic frauds ever s el sty known in America—the issuance of | By the decislon of the rallway lsbor | honds purporting to.be worth more than | board in cutting the wages of certain| $5000,000. These forgeries were so clev- For Water Commissioner. rajl employes, some benefit will accrue| erly executed es to deceive even the of- CHARLES A. HAGBERG. to the roads from the $48,000,000 which | ficers of the companies invoived, and th e | ¢, estimated will be lopped off there- ADDED POWER ¥OR MAYOR, |bY from the rafiroad wage payments. The mayor ia the head of a oty gov-| ThAt {8 of course but about one-tenth I - ep X ernment. When a mayor ia elected It is|Of What the revenue cut amounts to, but|| Great Men’s Love Letters - e e e |it will help in that effort to keep reve- e e e T e "ana a1, Tus and expenditures somewhere near together, il 3 1) ch Tect the affairs of the municipality. He uke of Marlborough to His Duchess. ts chosen by the people to administer| This reduction is made The great army of readers who have For Mayor, CHARLES H. RICKETTS. For Aldermen, JOSEPH C. WOR' EDMUND W. PERKINS. For Councilmen, N. EUGENE SMITH, EDGAR B. WORTHINGTON, ELIZABETH P. LATHROP, WEBSTER D. COPP. For Councllman to Fill Vacaney, E. LARUE BLIVEN. For City Treasurer, STEPHEN H. REEVES. For Clty Sheriffs, CHARLES H. RAYNES, EARLE C. CHRISTMAN. iIn keeping Shortly after Alian Pinkerton founded | dlscovery of the On the eve buble burst, his assets, “Stewart” had been leading an apparent- 1 the man would naturally stoop to pick it [iy upright and honest life, and beyond he jumped into the "’"‘"““? ‘;“‘";": up, in nine cases out of ten placing his | his arrival'n Denver shortly after Sheri- some fan had given him a call for money on the teliers Shelf as he bent|dan had left Brussels there was nothing to connect him with the bank robber and bond forger. Realizing that identMication under the ciroumstances wonld be extremely diffi- Pinkerton cult, guilty, in the plamming of & new crime, Accordingly, Pinkerton sent two of his haven't yet got full eontrol of the na-|skipped his bail, however, and the next | best men to Colorado with instructions to tional game, though they can do much| that Pinkerton heard of him was when make the acquaintance of the bank pres- 1dent at Rosita, and finally to lay before him the details of a huge swindle which they were supposed te be plamning. bility, may be enjoyed. “If Stewart is really honest,” argued the detective, “he will not listen to such a proposal. ticipate in the fraud.” The plan worked out precisely as Pin- kerton had figured. “Stewart” gt only | agreed to handle some of the g re diffi- cult detalls of the proposed bond forging suggested improvements identical ! with those which had previously proved | He balked on coming east, but successtul. but his “associates” finally persuaded him to do so, with the result that he was a rested the moment he stepped off the ferry at New York. In spite of the fact that the grand fury returned no less than eighty-two indict- escaped with a flve-year sentence in Sing Sing, ed. but he died before the expiration of his k ments against him, Sheridan term. Belfast shipbullding firm of Harland and ‘Wolff, ‘and when only seven-and-twenty was made a partner. In due course he became chief owner of the firm, as as a director in great steamship lines, rallways, banks, and other big enter- prises. Lord Pirrie has served as lord tiat offics and the success of his admin-| With @ reduction In the cost of 1IVIng|read, and nany of them enthusiastical-|mayor of Belfast and has had many oth- which was the basls for the demands|iy devoured, Dumas' exclting story of A ol R S 04| for increased wages when granted. By|Monte Cristo, have never, until recent- £ying ' 1s| the board's Teport it is shown that liv-|ly for & moment supposed that it was e ey obosed clty ShATLer M8ling costs increased 17.2 between 1917 anything more than a fanciful tale of a respon: s are increased. He, a8|,.4 1931, the hourly rate of pay for the|M8n of rare attainments in such work. well as the city clerk, city treasurer, Most people are aware that there is an classes of employes affected will be 69.4 city collector, sheriffy and water com- per cent. above 1917, and the purchas- island D!' Monte Cristo, and that it is missioners will be elected as at present, || e ot e mow wabes 145 abaes|ihe favorite reteat of King Victor Em- while each district will elect its repre-| i P°7° polbiagin: oo In|Tanuel of Italy, but further than the sentativs in the board of aldermen. Now | oS P Auee NS RRoy D0 Do oR Ehat fhene viss ba virtually names the heads of the de- > anything but fiction in the story. partments, gubject of oourse 1o fitm- It is likewise migmificant that the But that Monte Cristo was merely the es|brilliant _imagination of Dumas ation, but under the new charter he win|P0aTd points out that the new wages e S [ e will be higher than those obtained by|the truth. The archives of the French ther | émbassy in London, of the ;’::;:fl:: '“;;;‘:; ;:;‘:l‘;’;"";o:: Oihet|Charies X, of France, and of George zens hold! no other office for members e & 2 IV, of England, contain many proofs to of the various .department committees, | DY &re entitled to this better wage, In|inl contrary. made up of members of both parties,|CCMPerison with labor in other Indus-| The true story of Monte Cristo came e "| tries, because of the hazard and the re-|about in this way. One evening in a and they in turn will appoint the depart- t that|Pari = ment haads, This means the bringing|dUirements, but it asee tn:?n T cson;::::a J:vers.]h friends e seated Into the guidance of municipal affalrs they have been given the ben: of con- m, when one of them an- representative citizens, especlally quali- fled for their particular committes work and to which they will give their entire public efforts. The authority thus placed upon the appoint the controller and the corpera- tion gounsel, although he will name citi- Isewhere, | Wealthy girl named Theresa. His name lent for labor of like quality elsewhere. was Plcaud, One of his companions, THE SENATE'S DIFFICULTY. BEven though there has been a waste|take place upon the day appointed. er honors bestowed upon him. LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Apropes Proposed Charter. Mr. Editor: Whatever advance in gov- ernment has been made in the last one hundred or more years has been along the lines of more popular government. “Government of the people, by the peo- Dle, for the people.” The past has suf- from autocratic government of the people by the few for the few. This time of| proposed charter is a reversion to re- stricted autoeratia government. It is an evil tendency of the times presaging dire consequences for the future, that We are gotting away from the ideals of the great minds of the founders of the country, who favored popular democratic government, to idea t sideration of the wage standard preva-|Rounced that he was going to marry a the hat & few are beter fitted to govern than the many to govern. The experiences of the past do Loupian by name, made a wager with| oot e sufticlent to teach some peo- the others that the marriage would not | Doy e this mears future trouble; or advantage counts to them £ ‘ot tu- mayor is increased but no more than it|of much time in the senate in the dls-|They asked him how he would prevent em for more than the welfare ‘of fu. position of business, it is because it con-|it: and he replied: “Oh, by means of tinues and there is the inclination to in-|"CMe Dractical joke or other. crease the delay and obstruction that there has been & demand for the estab- lishment of a cloture rule. ought to be in view of the office and the responsibilities that should go with it. Certainly if he is going to direct a successful admimistration, and that is what a mayor is elected for, he should have this added authority. It is tha opinion of those who have held the office of mayor, elected at different times by both parties, that any man worthy of the office would make the best possible use of his authority and that he should have it to mccomplish real public ser- vice as the representative of the people. Wa have traveled along under the hit or miss methods of administering city affairs long enough. Perhaps every difficulty may not be properly solved but the way opemed for & better city gov- ernment 1s so much better by the pro- posed city charter that it cannot be imagined that the people of Norwich will fall to make the most of the, chance to get something vastly better, clearly more efficient and far and away more economlcal. and considerable fortune. -The i It is @ move which is not popular in|died@ in prison, and as Picaud had cared the senat reasonable sttitude taken regarding the|he left him his fortune. matters before it and a disposition to fore business. Such doesn't prove to be the case. It is not to be expected that there|assassination of Napoleon. Thereupon, would be a pushing through of all leg-|the chief of police arrested and sent to bate. that is encouraged by such a general|8eon. 22 wuc.. ot wh'u. m’;“ may be harm|NOt unusual at that time, and he was in the failure to accord proper attemtion|pt. to legislative matters there s Ikewlse| After Nupoleon was overthrown in quits as much that can be done by the|1814. Picaud was set at refusal to permit a proper advance of|started at once for Milan, where,' after measures and thus stall action on ap-|some difficulty, he obtained the execu- propriation and other important bills, | tion of his friend’s will and received pos- That is what was responsible for the{Session of his property. The legal rec- effort to dbtain a_cloture rule. It haswt|orde of this part of the story are to b as yet succeeded but conditions may get|our ro ot on 5 so that the senate will be forced to tie|nat o Iargs cities of Huraps and pally reached Paris in 1815, up the obstructors instead of permitting| His first object was to look up his for- them to tle up the senate. Every time|mer flancee, whom he found had mar- such a situation arises it {mpresses one|ried Loupian after she had walted two with the need of some permanent rule|Years, unable to account for his disa that will deal with it. ———e EDITORIAL NOTES. The man on the corner says: Were you among those who falled to salute as the flag went by? RED TAIL LIGHTS. When the suggestion was made that yellow lights should be substituted for red as a designation of danger it didn't get much approval, and there seems to be no prabability that there will be any early substitution, or at least not untfl It ean be shown that it would be much more effective and get more respect. Un- der present conditions it seems fair to assume that it would not. The effort in behalf of the change has been sponsored by those who are en- Seavoring to get grea atety in the highway. That in itself is a most laud- | studied and discussed the greater is the wble affort but when it is claimed that it | realization that it is just what the city ls impossible to distinguish a tall light|needs, m an automobile from a red light that tas been placed in the highway to de- lots an obstruction or danger without rurtailing speed it is a claim that can bardly get very serious consideration.|heat of May. Certainly it doesn't warrant upsetting a well established' system for such a pur- pose, After giving consideration to the|¥hy Lioyd George should stay matter the experts called before the|from The Hague. American engineering standards com- mittes were unfavorable. It is recog- nized that red as a danger sign is wall sstablished. To attempt to make the tafl lights of autos yellow instead of red would result in no end of confusion. It Is hardly advisable to undertake to des- Ignate the kind of dangers by the colors s lights. When red stands for danger is it has for many years it is but prop- o that it should be respected and that there should be the necessary ourtafl- ment of speed to determine whether it Is & hole in the road, a road roller or the rear of an automobile that should be cléed. Headlights even under present restrictions are not such that it is im- possble to show a considerablo distance thead what is being encountered. Thero = as good reason for respecting danger of one kind as another. Red is the light that hag indfcated it and there will be far less confusion In the future 1f it s dhered to. X saken her. From that time forth Pi- caud set to work, without letting any- one know his identity, first to ruin and then to cause the death of, either by sui- clde or murder, not only Locplan but the latter's children, the faithless The- Tesa, and the men Who lud taken part in the wager as well s thetr families. charter 18| “rnus began the famous vendetta Monte Cristo. Not one of the victims dreamed of the fate that was pursuing them, or was able to penetrate the mys- The more the proposed Even those who keep the icemen busy|and unable to reveal the secret. know that it isn't necessary to go to{ The revenge of Picaud and Monte Switserland to sse ice melt under the|CTisto are almost identical in story. Louplan was the last to perish. He was stabbed in the gardens of the Tulieriesx, From the vote of confidence he re-|2Nd by his side was a piece of paper beart celved thers seems to be no good reason | one :‘,‘mm:d SEREEs Lot g0, T.h; it AWay | object of the vendetta, and the 30 thal place in 1825. Leave it to Germany to regard the Dboy taking bitter medicine. known jest how o ———— knowledge of the story, but that -gould Now that there are those Who think|po s Venus is inhabited, their next effort|es or wone. Jader: ishould be to find out the designation of |years latér, in 1844, and the two stor- its best broadcasting station. a3 In most of their detalls, to admit of 1 Turks are said to be coming here to|mere coincidence, at least this is the deny the atrocities attributed to them. :Dlnhnm«;t such ;fl:«hn ‘who lnv;u glven Unless the reports of the slaughter are|® carcful study e subject, but Du- terrbly exaggerated they have some|lal aTWays affirmed that task shead of them. e Former President Wilson has endorsed Pon of North Carolina for congress. That is of course anotheér excuse for making Senator Reed tear his hair and wonder that he isn't so fortunate. out in his own mind. IN THE PUBLIC EYE The {dea of admitting to the coun- try, regardless of the three per cent|luck. This is the Ffavorite maxim of e restrictive law, immigrants who are|Lord Pirrie, the richest man RUTH'S PUNISHMENT, qualified to and will engage in farmingland, who celebrates his seventy-fifth There ism't llkely to be very much|ssems to be aimed at & baok ta the farm | birthday today. sympathy wasted upon the former cap-|movement. min of the New York Amerlcans be- An ounce of pluck is worth a ton of shipyard apprentice, he now controls sl R 40,000 men and is regarded as the lead- ing shipbullder in the world. He was m idea of the conditions in Russia Dok i Qisthe: the sne ot Fetknana islation without due consideration or de-lan island prison in the south of France | tically all officers appointees of one m It is only half-baked legislation|Where he was incarcerated in a dun-|King Dubb. These men would have final He was given no trial, as was |52y as to how much mone; forgotten by the authorities at|No payers. From there he made a|pot work. tery thereof until in the thross of death| ™' De & loss and not a gain, I, for one, His nov- | clent government administered for the € of Monte 0 it d sixteen | DOSt Interests of the pecple by represen- Beginning life as a {D. Rockefeller, born in Tioga ture generations. We have become an empire coercing Picaud was & very likely fellow, and | OtReTS to our imperial will, or the will While in prison made the mequaimtanes|Of OUF' financial lords; as in Panama, of an Itallan priest of great learnmg|rionduras, Gautamala, priest | Pomingo, Mexico, ete. Haytl, San Congress has long ceased to respond There is supposed to be a|for him so tenderly during his illness,| !0 the touch of the people and has turn- ed all power over to commissions out of He carried out his design by notifying | 81l Teach of the popular will, and even _|the chief of police of Paris that Picaud [ Proposes to leave the amount of tariff refrain from the puting of W“!l:l!'bes was a secret agent of the Chouan con-|t0 de assessed to the will of one man, AYS | spiracy, and that he was plotting tor | the president. We are fast following in the overthrow of the empire and for the|the steps of the early Roman republic as outlined by Wells. This new charter would make prac- ‘would be expended. necessity to have sanction of tax- ‘What difference does it make whether you are taxed without sanction raised and for what purpose liberty, and|by a few men thousands of miles away or by such men at home? “Taxation with- out representation is tyranny.” For a few years so-called good men may seem to curtail expenses, but past experfence in history shows that it will Your heads of departments have ask- ed for appropriations for certain th'ngs and had them turned down the next time they have asked for such general apropriations sufficient to include thess Dearance other tham that he' had fobe and have thus defeated the will of the people. These same peopjs, or more ltke them, will, under this new charter, have unrestricted final say. The cure for the evils of democracy But if he is the man I think he is, he will not be able to resist the bait, and will come to New York to par- done me, It is when it call taken evi Vegetable Com; bottles” 1 keep Denver, Colo. Today’s Anniversaries 1786—Governor James Bowdoin of Massachusetts attempted to start a movement to revise the Articles of Confederation. 1872—Senator Sumner of Massachusetts assailed President Grant In a bit- ter speech. 1889—NMore than 2,000 lives lost in the Johnstown flood, resulting from the breaking of the Conemaugh reservoir. 1892—The price of corn on the Chicago board of trade dropped from $1.00 a bushel to 49 cents. 1893—The remains of Jefferson Davis, from New Orleans, in- terred in Hollywood cemetery at Richmond. 1916—British and German fleets, off Jutland, engaged In the greatest naval battle of modern times. 1917—Every male citizen of draft age was prohibited from leaving the United Stated 1918—In the federal court at Kansas City, Mrs, Rose Pastor Stokes was sentenced to 10 years in prison for violation of the espionage act. IN THE DAY’S NEWS TACNA-ARICA. Just what is the “Tacna and Arica Controversy,” which is holding the cen- ter of the diplamatic stage in Wa: ington while speclal envoys froin Chile and Peru try to solve it? The Nation- a1 Geographic Soclety, from its head- is more democracy, better means and | QuUarters there, answers this question in efforts made to honestly Inform the peo- ple of the real faots and their judg- the following bulletin: “The Tacna and Arica question per- ment will then usually be just and falr | haps best be understood,” says the bulle- and if not they can bear the result of | tin, “if it is taken as a rough American their own folly. Belleving that the new charter, though the proposed ward system is desirable, propose to vote aganst it. ALBERT BOARDMAN. Norwich, May 30, 1923. (In the above letter claim is made that “Your heads of departments have asked for appropriations for certain thinga and had thém turned down. The next time they have asked for such general apprd- priations sufficlent to include these and he was the thirtleth victim. This took|nave thus defeated the will of the meor le.” This it is to be noted is what has Picaud made a death-bed confession |}, ot P suggestion of the international bankers|3nd also mgmed & statement contaling | wmernes you Tenper ol bt ynarters in much the same manner as the small|his Story ard had it placed jn the hands| [RtREE You f Jree e of the French suthoritfes. It is not L J6 Tawnt Inraer Fou.fa one/res: son for abandoning such a charter and getting one that provides for an effi- tative citizens instead of being guided les are too similar in every respect, and | DY the Whims of a packed meeting, which may or may not understand conditions or respect the financial situation.—Bd.) Today’s Birthdays Duke of Devonshire, former governor- general of Canada, born in England, 54 years ago today. Lord Pirris, the great Irish shipbuild- er and capitalist, born in Quebec, 75 years ago today. Hon. Hewitt Bostook, minister of nub- lid works in the Dominfon cabinet, bern in Ire-|in England, 58 years ago today. ‘Willlam Rockefeller, brother of John N. Y., 61 years ago today. o Senor Rafael E. Hlizalds minister from Ecuador to the United States, born at Guayaquil, or, 49 years ago to- 7. equivalent of Alsace-Lorraine, I‘alia Ir- | redenta, and the Dansig corridor, all jumbled together. On the surface the Tacna-Arnica matter may appear to be merely a question of whether a plebis- cite shall be held and how, but thers is a great deal more behind it. As a mat- ter of fact it is Intimately concerned with questions that involve Bolivia as well as Peru and Chile, though the first named country has no claim: to tne Tac- na-Arica area itself and is not represent. ed at the Washington meeting. Wars treaties that are nome too clear, indem- nittes, flfbustering expeditions, vilnabl mineral deposits, strong military posi- tions, national sensiilities and politics— these are some of the many cross-cur- rents that affect both the two-sided and three-sided aspects of the nproblem. ‘“Phases of the question can b traced back to the days when Peru and Bolivia ‘were connected under the vice royalty of Peru, but it became a full-fledged prob- lem during the last quarts” of the past century. Then Chile stopped mcr» than 500 miles short of its present northern boundary, Peru extended some 300 Mlies farther south, and Bolivia—now the land- locked Switserland of South America— had g coastlixe of nearly 200 miles. This 500-mfle strip is largely a rogion of desert plateaus and rocky mountains, and 6§ years ago it was considered very worthless. Chile had not cven adequate- ly explored her northern frontier prov- inces, and RBoltvia and Peru were far from being Intimately acquainted with thelr territories. Then came the discov- ery of rich nitrate deposits in the Bohv- fan coastal reglon. There was s rush of miners and prospectors from varlous countries, among them many Chileans When frictlon arose detween ths Rollv- lan government and a Chilear mining company over the payment of taxes, Chfle sent soldlers and later declarcd war against Bolivia. Peru was drawn Bolivia, and from this the Tacna-Arnica and THE critical stage of a woman’s life usually comes between the years of 452nd 55,and is often beset with annnoying symptoms such as nervousness irrita- melancholia, heat flashes which producehead- ache and dizziness, and a sense of suffocation. Guard your health carefully, for if this saFefiOd be passed over safely,many years of perfect health enver, Colo.~*1 have taken Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound and I can not tell you the good g and old and I always keep a bottle of it in the ! house, for 1 am at that time of life forit. My husband saw flur in the papers and said, “You have u—ytmng you can think of, now I want you to take Lydia E. Pinkham’s md!” So I let him get it, and I soon felt better. ‘I took about six house and do all my own work and work out by the day and feel fine now. I tell everyore about the Vegetable Compound, for so many of my friends thought I would not Mrs. R. J. LINTON, 1850 West 33rd Ave,, coastal region with its From Peru the victbrious country took its southernmost province, Tarapaca, also rich in nitrate the north lay the Peruvian province of Tacna with the port of Arica. This re- glon Chile took for a ten year period after which thers was to be plebiscite to determine to which country—Peru or Chile—the area should afterward belong. The detalls of the holding of this pleb- iscite were not clearly set out, and the two countries have never been able to agree as to the procedure. “In the had lost her road to the sea continued to harbor the feeling that she had been misused and that some sort of ‘corridor should be provided for her. Bolivia only accepted a truce with Chile, unwilling to agree to the total loss of her sea provinces. agreed to sell the landlocked country a port and a roadway through the former Peruvian province of Tarapaca, but Pe- run strenuously objected and the deal fell through. money indemnity. “The treaty provision calling for a plebiscite for Tacna also provides that the. country losing the land shall receive five million dollars from the winner. One solution of the matter which has been suggested by Bolivia is that she in dire peed of an outlet to a port be ceded the disputed region, and that she pay five million dollars to each of the other two countries.” Stories That Recall Others ° Little Tommy and his younger sister were going to bed together without a lght. They had just reached the bottom Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound is especially adapted to help women through this crisis. f fluence, tones and strengthens the system, and assists nature in the long weeks and months covering this period. It is prepared from medicinal roots and herbs, and contains no ha or narcotics. Its value is proven by many such letters as these: M i Vegabie Gompound and it is all it claims to be and has I had been sick for eight months with a trouble which confined me to my bed and was only able to be up part of the time, when benefited me wonderfully. well.”— Letters like the above do influence women to try Lydia E. 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