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QUEEN 'CARMEN SYLVA' SAYS HE IS 'CURIOUS' American Minister to Balkan States Is Amazing the Near East. Mr. Vopicka, a Chig-aco Brewer, Owes Appointment to Senator 0 Hamilton Lewis. 0 from the New York Sun. LONDON, March which lias ached the London office of the Sun frorp responsible sources would seem to ug crest that the Washington government tjiight be interested in the sayings and doings of 'Charles J.

Vopicka Of Chicago, the American minister to the Balkan states. Mr. Vopicka was sent to the Balkan states as the United States official representative handicapped not only by lack of previous diplomatic experience, but by a which wouldn't guarantee him circles in any of the hich he is accredited. The government, it has been way notified of this fact when 3rr. Voj.leka vv'as- suggested as successor tu istCr Jackson.

But what is a name of oppr 'biutn in the languages of the near, east is sufficient dignity in English. it seems, to be not at all out of place with th prefixed title "minister." viiensMve opeecu rragne. The instructions which Secretary of State- Hryan sent to Mr. Vopicka to proceed direct to his pest after he had delivered an offensive speech at Prague, Bohemia, apparently have had little or no effect, for the behavior of the minister since ho has taken over his post has staggered the diplomatists cf other nations. who ait constantly wondering "what Vopicka is going to do next." Vopicka.

who owes his appointment to Senator J. Ham was a brewer who was very popular with the Bohemians of Chicago. He attended a dinner at Prague, where he made a speech which showed appreciation of his position as a minister of the American diplomatic service. He talked and candidly and made some criticisms of Emperor Francis Joseph of Austria. The speech was such an extraordinary one that the American consul general at Prague sent a.

cable dispatch to the American State Department calling attention to it and intimating that it was calculated to offend a friendly foreign power. The story goes that Secretary of State Bryan dCately wired Mr. Vopicka to proceed ro h's post without further delay. Visits King in $12 Shirt. At Bucharest, where Mr.

Vopicka nakes his headquarters, the stories of his doings are reported to have caused diueen Elizabeth to remark, to one of her intimates: 'The American minister, I am toid, is a very curioua person." At Sofia Mr Vopicka drove up to the palace in a state carriage in ali the formality with which the arrival of a new minister is accompanied. He said to ftTi American acquaintance as he got soft shirt he wore: "That shirt cost me $12. I wore it when I saw King Charies and King Peter, ard I am wearing it to see Ferdinand." Mr. Vopicka was then carry ng his credentials wrappd un in a small silk American flag, in hich he presented them to King Ferdinand. The story of the rest of that audience is almost Incredible, but the correspondent of the Sun is assured that Mr.

Vopicka adopted a familiar, confidential tone, saying in effect to King Ferdinand: "I have met Kings Charley nd Peter and understand that there has been some difficulty in the Balkan sta'es If there is any more trouble come to me. I think I will be able to arrange matters." Queen ''Awaits'' His Pleasure. Ereh less pleasant is the story that Queen Eleanora of Bulgaria, who is soon to pay a visit to the United States, having suggested that she would take Mr. Vopicka on a visit to the hospitals, in which she. is very deeply interested sent an to ask the American minister to appoint a dav on which he would accor.

her. Mr. Vopicka replied that lie unable to name a day at the mo: bat that he wo Id telephone F1 and let her know. The pt vrfclt was naturally canceled, as it fa -torivcry: mi royalty to await the re of even r.iorrati- representative adnuration'of the. Bulgarians ai.

ka vas not heightened when that he saw the new year beer hail In etwoen Mr. Vopicka and his i ate -etaiy, Mr. Kendicks, tl rs i ave almost a matto: gossip. An Englishman story to the correspondent tl ri ti had the misfortune to be caHed In aa arbitrator between the two men. American Patriarch.

i. F- iror of The Star: The March IS and 11? have ire'f-rred Rev. Daniel Waldo, a revolusoldie at the age of apiain of the United States House of Representatives. It may be of nterest to many of the aders of Star to know that Rev. Waldo was born in in Scotland, within two miles of the birthplace of Samuel Huntington, a signer of the Declaration of Independence; was graduated at Yale College in 1788, and died in Syracuse, N.

at the age of 102 years. He was for a long time the oldest living graduate of Yale. The undersigned heard Rev. Waldo reach when.nearly a hundred years old his native Scotland. He was still prightly and of sound mind.

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The complete story of that famous mystery only new may be told with authority. Smiling the same inscrutable smile which the master genius, Leonardo da Vinci, imprisoned upon canvas 400 years ago to the vexation of generations of interpreters, Mona Lisa, mysterious restored to her admirers after strangely vanishing under the eyes of guards and eluding the frantic search of a nation of art lovers again looks down from her place in the Louvre, Paris, the interest of her subtle, mystic expression enhanced by reason of her peculiar adventure. Mona Lisa, or, as the Italians call her. La G.aconda on account of the haunting challenge which the artist divined in the face of his sitter and which he wove into the fabric of his colors, has enthralled and fascinated beholders from the beginning. Many explanatory pages have been written on the meaning of this famous painting, and.

provoked by its indefinable charm, its elusive suggestion, many an art student has brought the full power of his critical acumen to tne task of finding suitab.e words for the description or th3 picture's strange appeal. Each attempt has failed and ea.h writer has dwelt with peculiar emphas.s upon the qualities of the Mona Lisan smile. This masterpiece is one of the most treasured of the Louvre collection. It has been tentaPailltillg One of tively valued at more than a milMnst Treasured. it was begun by da Vinci about 1503, when the master stood at the zenith of his fame and power, and, accoiding to asari, it took four years of intermiton labor to complete.

The woman in hose likeness there was, or into which artist wrought an intangible something. cumpe ling, unres.ful, questionng, in the mind of each who stared ack at it, lived in Florence. She was Lisa di Antonio Maria di Noldo iherardini, a native of Naples, who was narried in 1495 to Francesco di Bardemeo di Zanobi del Giocondo, a rominent citizen of Florence. When she began her sittings for what has since become one of the most renowned of all the world's portraits she was vobably twenty-five or younger Da Vinci, painter, poet, engineer, philosopher and was fifty-one. Was it an unusual woman that the ripened master painted or was it a forceful symbol coined by his rich, discerning miml? Many times this quest-on has put to.

the lady of the superior smile, answered only by the tantalizing glance through the thick, protecting varnish. No wonder, when the loss of their treasure was discovered on the morning of August 21, 1911, a Monday, all Paris was wrbught to a frenzy. The news of the theft was received in all parts the civilized world with the same feelnes of dismay. The picture missing i'rom its place in the Sa'on Carre was the most beautiful from Leonardo's brush, and one of the most precious creations of western culture. Two years and four months passed by without a trace of the vanished work.

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whereabouts of the thief ended just tl without the Louvre gates. As the months spied by while the endeavors of the police proved vain and not even rumors came of a Mona Lisa in foreign lands, all hope that the picture would ever be recovered was given up. It was concluded that the work had been destroyed. The fate of Mona Lisa was put to the account of one of those unintelligible acts of vandalism which go to swell the records of hu- man pathology. Boundless was the enthusiasm, then, which greeted the sudden, unexpected re- appearance of the Gioconda Thursday, December 11, 1913, at Florence.

In Flor- g( ence the original Mona Lisa had sat for a portrait by one of the greatest painters of all times, and in a dingy inn at Florence the lost painting was found again. C( The Italian authorities obtained imme- diate possession of the picture, which was taken in triumphal procession through Italy, under police guard to Rome, to the French ambassador Bar- tl rere. and, then, to Milan, where the di- rector general of the Louvre, Henry Mar- eel, and the director of paintings, Jd. Leprieur. came to take charge if it.

The Mona Lisa was again safely housed in in Paris last New Year day, and was again hung in its accustomed place at the Louvre, which place had been filled dur- ee ing the time of its loss by Raphael's Castiglione. The theft of this irreplaceable work tr was an extraordinary one, in that the ol criminal had been able to penetrate one to of the best guarded treasure houses of Europe and make away with one of its te most prized and precious possessions, and tr i disappear with his loot without leaving ai cl ouigio iiauc ucuiiiu. i no unci nao ui unusual one, in that for two years and tt four months he kept his secret, the price- less Mona Lisa hidden away in his gar- ret bedroom in Paris, only in the end to tt fail into the hands of the criminal au- ai thorities through an act of childish care- th lessness, an almost Imbecile simplicity. ol d( te Immediately, after the discovery of the theft, It was thought in Paris that the ol thief had hidden el Print Of Thumb himself away in tj Only Cine Left. ga'lery Satur" day afternoon, re ti mained in the place all night, and es- caped with his spoil Monday morning.

The glass casing and the frame of the picture were found leaning against the 17 wall of a narrow stairway leading from the galiery des sept metres, where the le old Italian pictures are hung, to the a Court of the Sphinx. The door opening S) from the stairway part of glass protect- ed by iron work, was locked, and, at the investigation, Sauvet, one of the working- men in the Louvre, remembered having opened the door at the request of a per- il son upon whom he came sitting at the 51 bottom of the stairway. He failed to take further notice of this person, other than that he was wearing a blouse simi; to those worn by the regular guards. I As Monday is cleaning day, and visitors a are barred, no suspicion crossed his mind but that the man was what he seemed an official Here the trail ended. A print of a left thumb upon the abandoned glass frame was all that remained in the j7 I a pIuo tn tViu nolipe he Louvre.

The thief, of course, was 1 ot upon the list of those investigated. Vincerizo Peruggia, an Italian, the real espoiler, as established by his own confession and the Italian Clears Up exact agreement of Hie finger print Murky Mystery. found upon the lass case with that of his own thumb, hen taken into custody by the Italian olice cleared up the murky mystery, maintained that he entered the mirrn tmrothne I 1 londay made his way unob- srved to the Mona Lisa, removed it om its hanging, carried it to the stair- ay where the frames were found, cut le painting loose from its casing, con- jaled it in his blouse and persuaded a I assing workman to open the door for Im without so much as seeing a guard round. Once outside the Louvre, he to his lodging house, a nest for a 2 ilony of Italian workmen, where he hid le picture and went on with his regular a of a house painter and glazier, continued to ply his trade for more lan two years, a thing worth to him a emendous fortune concealed in the false 2 Dttom of his wooden trunk, before try- I ig to dispose of it. Only once was the suspicion of the po- ce directed upon him.

But how he leaped that once is another mystery, eruggia had been employed at the ouvre as a glazier and had been inusted with the work of framing some the most costly masterpieces. In Oc- 1911, Prof. Pierre Marcel of the cole des Beaux-Arts wrote an open let- a to the paper Figaro suggesting that ace of the criminal was to be sought a nong the Louvre glaziers. The director painting took the suggestion, obtained ie names of those so employed and for- erly so employed, upon which list ap- 3ared the name of Peruggia, who, with te rest, was subject to an examination id a house search. The mystery is that ie police did not take the finger prints 1 I these men for comparison, as had been i me at the first investigation.

1 Peruggia's downfall came with his to dispose of his spoil. He wrote ovember 28, 1913, to Alfred Geri, owner the Galleria d'Arte Moderna, at Florice, a dealer in art works, offering, un- er the name of Leonardi, to sell him ie Mona Lisa, which he explained, as a atriotic Ital.an, he felt ought to be relrned to Italy, the land of its producon. This plea, strengthened to one of atriotic bitterness that rich Pang should ot be decorated with the spoils of Italy, 3bbed during the times of Napoleon, he I lalntained after his arrest. Geri sought counsel from Prof. Giovan- i Poggi, director of the Florence galfries As a result of his conference he nswered the letter from Paris entering eartily into the writer's proposals and sn.iment, i.naily arranging a meeting in 1 taly, which took place at Flo.ence Deember 11, when the lost Mona Lisa was from her hiding place under the MONDAY FOl If 1 'P gSr N.

J. BRYAN'S BIRTHDAY CELEBRATED AT LINuULN Secretary of State and President Praised in Nearly Equal Measure at Banquet. LINCOLN, March for President Wilson and Secretary of State William Jennings Bryan in nearly equal neasure was the dominating note in adIresses last night at the annual banquet the occasion of the fifty-fourth anniversary of Mr. Bryan's birth. Detained it Washington by official business, Mr.

3ryan sent a letter of regrets. Last night's dinner was the seventh iuccessive celebration in Lincoln of the inniversary held under the auspices of he Lincoln Bryan Club. The progTam of iddresses was limited to four speeches, Gov. Morehead of Nebraska, Senator Robinson of Arkansas, Gov. Cox of Ohio ind Joseph W.

Folk, former Governor of Missouri. In his letter Mr. Bryan reviewed the ichievements of the administration and auded President Wilson's record. Gov. Moiehead, welcoming the said: "We who are citizens of this state latter ourselves that we have had much do with the change of conditions in his great country.

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W. C. A. Committees Still Hope to Raise Necessary Funds. At a meeting of the Young Women's Association committees which lave been soliciting $7,000 from the people of Washington for necessary exjenses, held yesterday afternoon, reports vere made showing that $492 additional lad been raised since the official close of he campaign, bringing the total up to This morning another contribution of $100 was received, making the at present $4,027.85.

It was decided at the meeting to conlinue the campaign quietly for another in an effort to raise the remaining -noney. The committees are to mee. igain Thursday afternoon at the Y. M. 2.

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