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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-11-05
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
BREST, November 4.-The last of
the war brides Of American soldiers
left here yesterday for the United
States on the steamship Northern Pa
chic. There were nine of them. One
hundred and seventy-three left Sun
day on the President Grant.
This virtually completes the war
brides work" of the Young Women's
Christian Association. Mrs. Seymour,
the Y. w. c.. A executive in charge
of foreign work, said: II am proud of
our American boys. So far as is known
only ono war bride Is coming back in
nearly $500 we sent to the United
States" ~
OF this total three-hfths Of the
number were French. one-ffth Eng
lish and the other fifth scattered
among twenty-one nationalities. The
brides ranged from fifteen to fifty
five years of age. Some of them
had three or four children by pre-
vious marriages.
The Y. w. c. A. took charge Of the
brides wherever they were and ar
ranged for their transportation to
various ports and war-brides camps.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-11-05
NATIONAL GUARD STRENGTH.

The enlisted strength of the entire
/, National Guard of the United States,
based on the appropriation by Con-
gress for the fiscal year 1920. is
stated by the War Department at
5000, being 20 per cent Of the author
lied enlisted strength of 126.10s.
Texas heads the list, with 11,796;
Minnesota next. with 4,2s4; Oklahoma
third. with 3.056: Kansas fourth. with
1866; New York fifth. with 1,40S, and
Missouri sixth, with 1928.
Che District of Columbia National
Guard has an enlisted strength of ass.
which is but 80 per cent of its author
lied strength of SOL, and stands thir-
teenth in the list on that basis. Min
nesota exceeded it's authorized quota
by 525 men and is given a percentage
of III
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-11-05
TWO IRISH PARLIAMENTs
FIND AN ENDORSEMENT
Cabinet Committee at London Ac-
cepts Proposals In the Interest
Of a United Ireland.

LONDON, November 5.-The cabi-
net committee on Ireland yesterday
accepted the proposals of its subcor-
mittee providing for the creation OF
two separate Irish parliaments-one
in the Protestant counties of Ulster
and the other for the remainder Of
Ireiand-with some form of supreme
authority representative of both to
embody the idea of a united Ireland,
says the Daily Mail today.
The function of the supreme coun-
ell has not yet been decided" the
newspaper adds. but it is proposed
that it shall be elected and that the
two parliaments shall have general
direction Of all Irish affairs.
THE committee also recommends
the immediate Introduction Of a bill
further suspending operation of the
home rule act, but they realize that
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-11-05
LAST OF THE WAR BRIDES OF
u. S. SOLDIERS SAIL FROM BREST

AT the camps the husbands we're detail
ed to do cooking and other housework
and the brides were taught English
and initiated into American customs
through demonstrations. motion pic
lures and lectures, and were taught
to handle babies, of which there were
nearly 100.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-11-05
Fortune in Franchise.

The total net revenue from the hat
checking in this string alone is esti-
mated at 100000 annually. That is s
per cent on a capitalization of $4,000
900. Consider the total value of the
Hat Check Company of New York II
the exclusive checking franchise could
be obtained in each Of the sixty bet
ter class places. Fifty million dollars
would be little enough.
Some men do not tip the hat-check
girls. They are the birds of passage.
the roamers, the butterflies who fit
Because there are ways Of bringing
the regular patron to heel. The New
York restaurateur figures that the
man who will not pay for his hat
check is not a desirable customer
anyhow. He belongs to that UNI
desirable under class which always
bowls when it feels the prong. The
true New Yorker submits to the har-
pooh with languid grace. He knows
he'll get it anyway.
I'VE got orders to lose the hats Of
them birds" said Lucille. the heaven
eyed beauty of few paragraphs
above. They gotta come across.
About the second time they get the
razz they get wise"
Smiling Is Her Business.
what difference does it make to
you whether they pay or not? You
do not get the money"
"'Whadda yuh think I'm smiling at
these fish for?" asked Lucille angrily.
DO yuh think I'd. waste a tender
glance on marty with face like
parlor lamp IL it wasn't for the job?
I'm here to get the dimes. If / don't
the doors will open outward for my
fairy feet"
There is just one redeeming feature
about the hat-check ho1d-up. 1t
proves the overwhelming superiority
of the American brain. Ten years
ago hat-checking was the exclusive
province of Ieather-covered foreign
put them in little pocketless pants
and then searched them carefully at
the end Of each day of toll lest the
guileless youth contrived to hide
dimes behind their tonsils.
How Times Have Changed.
In those days the American affected
check pirates He checked or he did
not check. just as he took his whisky
or let 1t alone. Once a small alien pur-
sued a native-born into a dining room.
bowling:
OLIVIA da hat. gotta havwa da
hat, Givva da dam hat queeck"
Whereupon the native-born slapped
him and was commended for it by the
Judge The court held that the slap
! was the proper punishment for an act
| compounded of insolence and graft.
But in those days you could carry
your hat to your table with you, II
you wished. There was a silly theory
| that the patron was to be more or
| less catered to. An effort was even
made to please him. Now the hat
chack barons wear some of our
| Oldest American names and hat check
| ing has been placed on business
| basis The slipshod methods of Eu-
rope are no longer tolerated. Business
| Is business.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-11-05

OF the quaint marriage customs still
surviving in old English and Scottish
families one concerns the Dukes Of
Atholl and their heirs. The duke al
ways carries his bride across the.
threshold of Blair Castle, 1t being
In accord with an ancient tradition
that 1t 10 unlucky for, bride to enter
in the customary way.
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HAT CHECK SYSTEM
BRINGS B|GPROF|T
Earnings of One New York
Organization Placed at
100000 Annually.
BY HERBERT COREY.

NEW YORK, November There Is
very pretty blond girl at the hat
rack in one of the big uptown dining
rooms. She has a lure-oh, she has
wicked lure-in her eyes of cerulean
blue. She smiles ever so sweetly.
The man who can regain his hat from
her without slipping her dime is
hard-hearted soulless, emotionless
wretch, who never knew what it is to
have his pulses stirred by the vision
of pure womanhood. Some of the men
who dine there often press a quarter
into her soft palm. The touch of her
tender little fingers fills them with
vague aspirations. For at least an
hour they feel the uplfft.
or course, the girl doesn't keep the
dime. She drops it into the slit in
the lid of box provided for that pur-
pose, it not being practicable to pro-
vide pocketless clothes for the hat
check girls. as in the old days of the
Greek slaves. Or else she steps into
the shadow of the rack and passes 1t
to dark gentleman lurking there.
System of Espionage.
The house detective watches the
dark man to see to it that no one
stops long enough in his vicinity to
make a dime transfer possible. Then
the spotter watches the house detec-
tive. Each is an item in New York
hat-check organization, which pro-
duces considerable more profit each
year than do the traction roads of New
York
That sounds high" I said to the
statistician who gave me these facts.
Hat checking in New York is pay
ing per cent on a capitalization OF
at least $50,00O.000, said he. THE
traction roads are not
There are at least sixty dining
rooms of the so-called better class in
New York city. They operate along
about the same lines. You may not
carry a hat into the dining room. 1t
will be taken from you if you COM
nit this social error. If you stand
on your rights as d citizen and refuse
to give up the hat you will not be
shown to a table. If you sit down
at a table. anyhow, you will not be
| served. II you sit too long at table
the head waiter suggests that your
room is to be preferred to your COM
pany.
Check your hat or get out" is the
order of the day
One company operates a string
| comprising seven hotels and restau-
rants Hatracks formerly existed in
these places for the convenience of
the tip had to divide that tip with
some one, but at least a part of 1t
stuck to the original palm. In these
| seven places there are now about
thirty stands where hats must be
checked 49,
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parliament will not agree to this I'M
less 1t 10 accompanied by . definite
proposal from the government. Free
Quent meetings Of the COMMITTEES will
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Yea, Verify.

From the Boston Transcript.
The parting that gives us pain. fro
quently occurs while we are seated In
the dentists chair.
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be held to expedite the work. and the
government may be able to make
statement in the house OF commons
next week
The Pulaskian., 1919-10-17

Blytheville. - The First Baptist church has elected the following of. ficers for the coming year Clerk, E. '. Phillips; treasurer, B. H. Wilhite; organist Mrs R. C. Farr; choir lead CT, T. J. Haynes. The Sunday school officers are: Superintendent, W M. Crow; assistant superintendent. MT. Powell; pianist Miss Lucille Haley, superintendent of primary depart rlent. Mrs o. Cook; B. Y. P. U. president, Miss Luna Wilhelm
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FIRST ORGANIZATION WILL BE AN INFANTRY REGiMENT-E.
 c. ROBERTSON, ORGANIZER.
GOVERNMENT MUST APPROVE
Companies Will Probably Be Station ed at Marlanna, Wynne, Forrest
 City, Helena, Pine Bluff and Other Eastern Towns.

Little Rock The organization of sn infantry regiment in Arkansas as n part of the new state guard forces las been authorized by Governor Trough, subject 90 the approval Of the War Department.
 Elgan c Robertson, assistant cash fer in the Lee County National Bank of Marianna and formerly a major in the 1i2nd Field Artillery. will have charge of the formation and organize ton of the regiment. Companies wlll be organized at Marianna, Wynne, Forrest City and probably at Helena. Augusta. Pine Bluff, Stutt- gart, McGehee, 9armott. DeValfs Fluff and Lake Village.
 Major Robertson was captain in the old Second Arkansas Infantry end was retained with the regiment when 1t was changed to the 162d Field Artillery. He served overseas for year and was promoted to the .ank of major last May and placed in command of the first battalion of the regiment. He accepted a posi- ton with the Lee County National Bank upon being discharged from the service recently.
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CHAPTER ViiI-Continued.


 Mind yourself, sar," he called cheer fly, and indeed it was problem to get down to him without precipitating the loose earth and rock that were ready to make a landslide down the hole, and perhaps bury him forever.
 But, looking about, I found another natural tunnel in the side of the hill. Into this was able to worm myself, and in the dim light found the old man and put my flask to his lips.
 Anything broken, do you think?"
 Tom didn't think so. He had evil dently been stunned by his fall, and another pull at my flask set him on his feet. But as I helped him up, and, striking light, we began to look around the hole he had tumbled into, he gave piercing shriek and fell on his knees, jabbering with fear.
 'The ghosts the ghosts !" he screamed.
 And the sight that met our eyes was certainly one to try the nerves. Two figures sat at table-one with his hat tilted slightly and one leaning side ways in his chair in a careless sort Of attitude. They seeemed to be playing cards, and they were strangely white for they were skeletons.
 I stood hushed, while Toms teeth rattled at my side. The fantastic awe of the thing was beyond telling. And then, not without a qualm or two, which I would be liar to deny, went and stood nearer to them. Nearly all
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he said, the best to the last n. as layman, it was not nearly lls' tractive as other things he had sha ,1o ae- me-little more to my eye than . g1n rosa CT commonplace though pretty sbou Ia,,'' but he explained that it was fa' or had so far been found. only in Au' spot in the islands, a lovely solae one visited cay several miles to the nort,, ,rt,,, east of Andros island. 'ls
 "What is it called?" I asked fo was part of our plan for Charlie to ~ ~ little duck shooting on Apdros b" aO fore we tackled the business. of naAs" and the treasure.
 Its called - Gay nowadav. :, he answered, ''but it used to he caI,as Short Shrift island" e
 "Short Shrift island" I cried !. spite of myself, Immediately annovaa at my lack of presence of mind "
 Certainly" he rejoined, loolino . little surprised but evidently without suspicion. He was too simple and too taken up with his she'll.
 IL IS SUCH dn Odu name," said trying to recover myself.
 ''Yes those old pirate chaps cAr. tainly did think up some of the rum. miest names"
 "One of the pirate haunts, was itqn queried with assumed indifference
 Supposed to be. But one bears that of every other cay in the Baba. mas. take no stock in such warns Ny shells are all the treasure I expect to find"
 What did you call that shenY I asked.
 He told me the name, but I forgot it immediately. Of course I had asked it only for the sake of learning more precisely about Short Shrift island. He tolC e:.e innocentIy enough just where it lay.
 Are you going afl1r tt7" he laughed
 "Oh! we'll" I replied, "f aSs going on duck-shooting trip to Andros hs
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their clothes had fallen away, hanging but in shreds here and there. That the hat had so jauntily kept its place was one of those grim touches Death, that terrible humorist, loves to add to his jests. The cards which had ap- parently just been dealt, had suffered scarcely from decay-only a little dirt had sifted down upon them, as it had into the rum glasses that stood, too, at each mans side. And as I looked at the skeleton jauntily facing me, noticed that a bullet hole had been made as clean as if by a drill in his forehead of bone-while, turning to examine more closely his silent part her, noticed a rusty sailors knife hanging from the ribs where the lungs had been. Then I looked on the floor and found the key to the whole story.
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Jonesboro. - Contractors for the Joneshoro-Nettleton Highway I'm. provement District are rushing the work on the road from Nettleton as fast as possible, in order to have the concrete and asphalt work completed before cold weather begins.
 Blytheville. The early fall rains have sounded the first call for the return of the millions of ducks which spend the winter in the lakes snd drainage ditches in this country. Al. ready large fiocks are alighting in these places
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"READlNo THE FUTURE"

Synopsis-The man who tells this story-call him the hero, for short is visiting his friend, John Saun- ders, British official in Nassau, Bahama Islands. Charles Webster, a local merchant, completes the trio of friends. Conversation turn Ing upon buried treasure, Saunders produces a written document pur- porting to be the death-bed state ment. of Henry P. Tobias, suc- cessful pirate, made by him in 1859. 1t gives two spots where two mil lions and @ half of treasure were buried by him and his companions. The conversation of the three friends is overheard by a pock- marked stranger. The document disappears. Saunders. however, has a copy. The hero, determined to seek the buried treasure, charters the auxiliary schooner Maggie Dar- ling. The pock marked man is taken on as a passenger for Span- ish Wells. Negro Tom catches and cures a sucking fish" as a mascot for the hero it has the virtue of keeping off the ghost of the pirate who always guards pirate treasure. On the voyage somebody emptieS the gasoline tank and the hero starts things He and the passen- ger clash. He lands the passenger, who leaves a manifesto bearing the signature, Henry P. Tobias, Jr !" With a new crew, the Maggie Dar- ling sails and is passed by another schooner, the Susan B. The hero lands on Dead Mems Shoes. The sucking fish" proves a mascot in- deed and carries the hero through a fight, which is followed by sev- eral funerals. He searches for buried treasure and Old Tom falls into a pirates cave.
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Book II
CHAPTER l..

Once More in John Saunders Snug
 gerry.
 Need I say that it was a great occa- sion when l was once more back safe i'll John Saunders snuggery, telling my story to my two friends, John and Charlie Webster, all just as if had never stirred from my easy chair, in- stead of having spent an exciting month or so among sharks, dead men, blood-lapping ghosts, eard-playing skeletons and such like?
 My friends listened to my yarn in characteristic fashion, John Saunders eyes like mice peeping out of cup board, and Charlie Webster's huge bulk poised almost threatening, as it were, with the keenness of his atten- tion. His deep-set kind brown eyes glowed like a boys as went on, but by their dangerous kindling at certain points of the story, those dealing with our pockmarked friend, Henry P. To- bias, Jr., l soon realized where, for him, the chief interest of the story lay.
 "The rebel w he roared out once or twice, using an adjective pc culiarly English.
 For him my story had but one moral the treason of Henry P. Tobias, Jr. The treasure might as well have had no existence, so far as he was con- cerned, aud the grim climax in the cave drew nothing from him but pre- occupied nod. And John Saunders was little more satisfactory. Both of them allowed me to end in silence. They both seemed to be thinking deeply.
 T must say you two are a great au- dience," said presently, perhaps rather childishly nettled.
 Its a very serious matter" said John Saunders, and realized that it was not my crony but the secretary to the treasury of his Britannic majes- tvs government at Nassau that was talking. AS he spoke he looked across at Charlie Webster almost as if for getting me. Something should be done about it, eh, Charlie?" he con tinued.
 - traitor !" roared Charlie, once more employing that British adjective. And then he turned to me-
 Look here, old pal, I'll make bar gain with you, if you like. I suppose you're keen for that other treasure now, chi"
 T am," said I, rather stiff1y.
 "Well, then, I'll go after it with you-on one condition. You can keep the treasure, if you'll give me Tobias It would do my heart good to get him, as you had the chance of doing that afternoon. Whatever were you doing to miss him?"
 q proposed to myself the satisfac- tion of making good that mistake" I said, lon our next meeting. I feel owe it to the poor old captain"
 Never mind; hand the captains rights over to me--and I'll help you all know with your treasure. Be- sides, Tobias is a job for an English man-eh, John? It's matter of king and country with me. With you it would be mere private vengeance. With me it will be an execution; with you it would be murder. Isn't that so, .John?"
 Exactly" John nodded.
 "Since you were away" Charlie be- gan again, i've bought the prettiest yawl you ever set eyes on--the Fla mingo-forty-five over all, and this time the very fastest boat in the har- bor. Yesl she's faster even than the Susan B. Now I've holiday due me in about fortnight. Say the word, and the Flamingo's yours for q couple of months, and her captain too. I make only that one condition"
 All right, Charlie" I agreed; "he's yours"
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For there, within few yards, stood a heavy sailors chest strongly bound around with iron. Its lid was thrown back and a few coins lay scattered at the bottom, while a few lay about on the floor. I picked them up.
 They were pieces of eight!
 Meanwhile Tom had stopped jabber- ing and had come nearer, looking on in awed silence. l showed him the pieces of eight.
 q guess these are all we'll see of one John F. Tobias treasure, Ton" " I said. And 1t looks as if these poor fellows saw as little of it as ourselves. Can't you imagine them with it there at their feet-perhaps playing to di- vide it on gamble, and meanwhile the other fellows stealing in through some of these rabbit runs-one with a knife, the other with a gun-and then l: off with the loot ana up with the sails. Poor devils! It strikes me as a very pretty tragedy-doesn't it you?"
 uddenly-perhaps with the vibra- ton of our voices-the hat toppled off the head of the fellow facing us in the most weird and comical fashion-and that was too much for Tom, and he screamed and made for the exit hole. But I waited minute to replace the hat on the rakish ones head. AS was likely often to think of him in the future I preferred to remember him at the moment of our first strange acquaintance.
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"You Don't Seem Afraid of Thieves"


 fore long, and I thought might drop around to your cay and pick few of them up for you"
 Tt would be mighty kind of you, but they're not easy to find. I'll tell you exactly" He went off, dear fellow, into the minutest description of the habits of -, while all the time was eager to rush off to Charlie Web ster and John Saunders and shout into their ears-as later I did at the first possible moment that evening"; i've found our missing cay Short Shrift island is ." q mentioned the name of a cay, which, as in the case of "Dead Mans Shoes" I am un' able to divulge.)
 'Maybe" said Charlie, ''maybei We can try it. But" he added, "did you find out anything about TobiasY
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Little Rock. - The Little Rock Aerial Company, which was organiz- ed here October 3, have filed articles of incorporation. The capital stock is S26,O00. of which 53,000 has been subscribed The corporators are J. E. Pearson, c. A Riley, Dr. L. M. Hill, Dr. I. A. Williams, w F. Smith and H. w. Trefey