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Evening star., 1923-06-03

take. Hon. Ball fell onto nice green
grass which might get spoiled. But
Hon. Bill were more sly with his
skill. Getting pretty powerful. by
golly. he stroked Hon. Ball on head
so that H. made Natl. League curva-
lures which would fool anybody while
it flop down amidst rocks where
nobody could catch II.
Congratulations" report Hon. Ike.
i have played with you six go years
yet did hot know you could do that"
II learn a new stroke every year."
renig Hon. Boss while he scromble
down TO Hon. Ball with Rocky Noun
tain expression.
Pretty soonly he wave his thumb
at me. e
20 cad," he narrate hoTsely. and
when ! approach up. he snarrel.
"Niblick"
'Sib,ick are n Jewish name for
something" I snuggest. But 1 do
not understand that religion"
What religion have you. II any?"
he ask 10 know.
81 am a member of the First
Heather Church." tell.
were a Christian so you could get
shocked from what I will now say.
Stand slightly to 1 side. I am going
to address the ball"
While pounding Hon. Ball with en-
larged Jewish club he adress 1t as
following.
Species of poisoned worm.
2-Tom cat from Poland
SIS this He'll?
There was quite lot more, etc. but
I was dishabled to keep score. At
lastly Hon. Ball got knocked sense
less and fell amidst sweet dandy cup
flowers and other poetickle vegetables
where it set there looking quite pale.
Hand me my mud-iron" he
growell.
do so. swipes by him. Several
Evening star., 1923-06-03
Law Offers Obstacles
To Rebuilding Verdun

| of foot chasseurs, a brigade with two
| regiments of hussars, two artillery
regiments, an engineer battalion and
another infantry regiment of the re-
serve. They were just enough to
hold out against the first overwhelm-
| ing attack until French army after
army came to set up their wall Of
human breasts in defense of their
| country.
TO-DAY Alsace and Lorraine ara
i again French, and Verdun is far
inland, far from any future frontier
of war and invasion. Its whole gar
rison and that Of what is left Of the
demolished forts is only a few in
| fantry squads and two, artillery bat
teries, more for the care taking of
military property and cleaning up
, than anything else. These few hun
dred soldiers have no wants that will
keep up again the commerce and in
dustry of city of 10000 inhabitants.
Then the bombardments year after
year have made much farming of the
surrounding hills all but impossible.
Earth has been blown and scraped
from the slopes, and what is left in
many spots is thickly sown with
rusting scrap iron of war that all but
prevents even hand cultivation. Still,
the farmers who have returned are
grain that are amazing under the
circumstances.
The present trouble is to find some
industry that will give work and
we'll being to the inhabitants of the
| town. They are willing to change all
| their pre-war habits. and they ask
only that they may be enabled to re-
! build In a way that may bring new
| industry into Verdun. Their city
| would naturally be the center of la
Dor and commerce for all the sur
rounding country. But to do this
| they should be able to use their re-
| construction money for new kinds
| of buildings fitted for the new in
| dustries, and not the same as the old
buildings for a garrison town. Now
the reparations law is, or threatens
to be: "You can have the necessary
money for rebuilding your houses
which were destroyed. but they must
| be the same kind Of houses"
So verdun has its own little corner
| of the reparations problem to solve.
It's citizens wished to use this money
| to which they have a right for re-
| building their houses on factory
! buildings that would employ 10000
workmen and restore business life in
| their community. And now they are
| told the law or treaty may not per-
STERLING HELLO.
Evening star., 1923-06-03
Golf Champings,' From One Days
Experience of Japanese Schoolboy

grasses & roots spill up In the air.
More swipes. Hon. Ball look carelus.
Togo" he yowell. 'if you do not
stop whistiing There Is Smile in
Every Sunstroke I shall take club and
smite your head"
Gould you hit it?" ask to know.
Hand me my masher!" he derange.
"This are a masher lie after ALL"
do SO. More swipes by him When
rextIy I got grass out OF my eye I
could observe Hon. Ball making a
high sore with landscape flying after
him. Pretty soonly 1t come down in
small dry lake where 1t look very
neat amidst sand.
THAT will be nice place to shoot
FROM" negotiate.
"others have been killed for saying
that" he dib.
a ND so onward. Hon. c. w. Quaok
"A mire were very hard to make
joyful. With every chop of club he
none & grone. Quite frequently he
ask to know why he had been born
yet could not think any good excuse.
When Hon. Ball jump over cliff or
croll up tree Hon. Boss say prayers
I got to sipposing that he were not
making pretty good score. Yet such
were truthless. BY time he reach 4th
hole he had 68 while Hon. Ike only
got Is.
And yet he were not satisfied.
who ever did invent this damned
up Gamer he require at 18th hole.
MARY Queen of Scotch" snuggest
TOO bad they did not use Niblick
in chopping her head" he report with
savagery.
Yet after all that Hon. Boss come
back to Club with very proud number
on his score card. 212. Could any
body be unhappy with SO much?
expected all members to shook his
hand. But Hon. Quackmire are very
modest gentleman who do not boost
himself. He remove pants & other
etc. while wash-up. In lock-away
room. While all his friends set
around. taking gayishly about bogies
stogies and other curios found on the
bunker hills. Hon. Boss merely
smoked.
In far away corner Of room could
observe one other gentleman saying
nothing pretty quietly. He look very
funeral while folks walk up and
shocked bis hand.
why everybody so sadly hand
shake that lonesome gentleman"
ask one caddish boy near to me.
He got H." aarrate this small cad
TOO sorry" grone. 'tYet he may
learn to get more IL he practice sif-
flciently.'
What you say is so true 1t gives
me a pain" report he.
Therefore go home with Hon.
Boss. who walk along with disjointed
expression peculiar to American man
who have had a good days sport and
are looking for some nice place to die
Hoping you are the same
Yours truly
HASHIMURA TOGO.
Copyright. 1928. United States and Grea,
Britain. by North American Newspaper AL
Iiance.)
Evening star., 1923-06-03

through him, same as a pane o. glass
Huh! De fust day he ever hit
Vicksburg I noticed him particular
at Christ Church picnic, showin' off
befront de ladies, an spoutin' heap
O. language. Here, ole man. he
hollers to me. serve Miss jamie some
Lemonade When fotch dat lemon
ade he takes out 70 bits and holds it
twixt his fingers so de ladies could
see 'twarnt no Boston half dollar"
What's a Boston half dollar?"
queried the ignorant Sandy Spriggs.
Dat signifies a nickel. 'cordin' to
desc sleepin' car porters. Dey say
Boston drummers gives 'em. Anyway.
dis feller held 1t up ontil de ladies
made sure 'twarnt nary nickel, den
flips 1t me same as a button, oratin'
right noisy, Keep de change. ole
man
"Huhi Desc po' white trash always
seeks to make a niger feel like a
niger. Now dere's Cap'n Pepper
Cunnel calls him 'Cap'n Hotstuff-
done spent his money, an lost It be-
sides: but when Cap'n Hotstuff do
sump'n for you. he do It complete.
Evening star., 1923-06-03

Babe Ruth, a child we love for
her winning ways.
NEAREST SIR:-Last Satdy pm.
- Hon c. w. Quackmire. to whose
wife am engaged washing dishes.
arrive to kitchen looking very es-
tranged. He was walking in 2 sacks
resembling Scottish oatmeal and he
had on some stockings. too, and his
vest looked quite scenario.
Togo" he require with financial
expression, would you like to be a
little cad and carry my bagg while
/ go to Golf?'
That will be a long way to CO." I
negotiate geographically. with all
my education l have only learned of
Colts in America. One are called
the Golf of Mexico and the other the
Golf of St. Lawrsnce."
Golf are not any sea annimle like
you mention" he dib. 1T are a game
which America stole from Scotland"
"If stolen from Scotland,",.I nego-
tiate, II am sure the Scotch must have
worn il out"
'Pussibly," he narrate. But in
Canada ii still remain Scotch because
that drink are not yet Illegal there.
I know because I remained in Mont
real one week of JOY, putting high
balls into 18th hole. After that got
such a feeling of sisterhood for Can
ada that nothing but a mortgage can
keep me from living there. Yes, in
deedly!! And when l left that sweet
Montreal 1 took one lifelong friend
home with me. His name was
Phillup."
"Phillup which," ask to know.
"Phillup the Flask" he say with
some sobs & tear-drops. But come.
let US go before my strong sorrow
throws me out. Folla me to Golf
Club. Togo. and will show you some
strokes that Hon. Spalding has not
yet learned how to do
Mr.. Editor. you should have come
along to see what l carried on my
weak back all way to st. Agony's Golf
Club. 1t were like leather stove
pipe filled with curio garden tools.
Some Of them look like they was made
to gather seeds from pineapple trees.
Yet others resemble the kind of stove
pokers which Aztecs use to fool
snakes with. I enjoy great confusion,
thinking how things gets into that
strange candition.
X r
DRETTY soonly one swollen gentle
i man incroach out from Club with
white swetter.
Hello Bill" he holla without any
curtsey.
Hello Ike" rejoint Hon. Boss.
"How's your gamer"
Il have notified the Board of
HEALTH" suggest Hon. Ike.
How very bull!" holla Hon.
Quackmire. Then we can be equal
playmates. Ny game Is only admired
by buzzards."
Speaking in this dead language both
playmates stroll down to ball grounds
where considerable other gentlemen
were batting with clubs. While
awaiting for them to finish knocking
Evening star., 1923-06-03

can't pay no man q higher recon-
mendation dan to take yo' eye off
him whilst he tilts yo' quart"
4 8 Zack administered this SOCK
n dolager he commanded Ell to:
Hush yo' mouf. Conversation
amt reached you yit. got some
mo- to say: When dat po' white
trash commenced beginnin' to git
rich, he buys Jedge Tremaine's house,
cause 1t was stylish. You all mem
bers Sis Bunny what nussed dem
TremaiQe chillun, an nussed the
Jedge to boot? Little bit o. CONAN
Well. Sis Bunny. hadn't been in
Vicksburg for more'n twenty years
at de time she rived back home to
see de family. an didn't know dey
done moved away. OATS how come
Sis Bunny got SO bumfoozled by dat
strange white CONAN which was set
tin on Jedge's front gallery, wearin'
q fine silk dress. HUH OATS de wife
o dis feller which you brags about.
AN when Sis Bunny 'quire for de
Jedge's chillun, dat CONAN ack kind
er uppity an tole Sis Bunny, .Dey
done busted an gone. Dis is my
house now.' which injuce Sis Bunny
to set down on de step and cry. She
done travelled so far to see dem chill
lun. After while she tried to talk
some bout de chillun, but 'twarnt no
use. Den she ak, nice an perlite,
Please. ma'am, can't you gimme
some ondercio'es? I'm most naked
What you reckon dat white CONAN
done? Traipsed herself into de house
an fotch out some rags, with a pair
% scizzors. Dar she sot an cut off
ev'y frazzlin' button befo' she give
dem clo'es to Sis Bunny. Did you
ever hear de beat o. dat for n po'
white trash trick?
Huh! Got autymobiles, is he?
Goes pufin' an 'snortin' roun' vicks-
burg like g. gasoline boat wild
breeches on. Two autymobiles.
Huh! He oughter be rollin' dirt on
de levee wild two wheelbarrows, one
In each hand. Huh! He puts me in
mind O. dat fieA-bit mule which I
used to plow on Sherwood plantation.
All durin' de week dat mule went
pokin' along mighty humble. Den
on SADLY nights when I turnt him
loose for Sunday, he'd kick up an
prance. 'tendin' to be a powerful i'm
portant pusson- I used to watch dat
fool an laugh. pears like you don't
member whar you come from, an
don plum forgot yo daddy warn't moth
in but a jackass.' OATS de way wild
desc po' white trash when dey gifts
de bighead."
Copyright. 1921
Evening star., 1923-06-03
BY HARRIS DICKSON.

~ DORIS of greasy cookery came
percolating through every
Y crack Of the Hot Cat Eating
House as Old Reliable
hustled to its door, digging both
cold day in vicksburg. His coat might
have wrapped twice around him and
buttoned in the back; 1t once had
fitted the bulkier Col. Spottiswoode.
Fluttering now upon Zack's skinny
figure, the garment seemed more of a
convulsion than a fit. Fits or con-
vulsions, however. mattered not when
his nose sensed the seductions of fry
ing catfish Turning the doorknob he
paused to sniff, to grin, to anticipate
and to enter.
First he eyed Aunt Fannie, who
f1oated amidst a heavenly cloud of
incense, bending over her skillet
while she flobped the thin pink slices.
And it tickled Zack upon his front
tooth to consider that he'd soon be
chomping such juicy morsels. With
a mouth hankering for catfish he
plotted no arguments and Matched no
debates. Disputation was not the JOY
he craved; yet no sooner had he
stepped within the eating house than
Unc Eli Mundy passed remark
which pestered him.
Corp. Eli Mundy- and Brother Sandy
Spriggs were Grand Army republi-
cans, drawing their pensions, draw
ing their breath, and argufying be-
side the Hot Cat stove, where Zack
~
porous white man and assert:
"I tell you he's wuth a million dol
lars"
"Shet up, Ell" Zack strode for
ward. II don't care eff dat feller's 8
wuth thousan' dollars. he amt
wuth nothin' to me. Po' white trash!
Po' white trash"
Don't he live in a fine house?"
Ell bristled up. "Ain't he got plenty
money? An two autymobiles"
''It don't signify what he got" Zack
maintained. I'm talkin' bout what he
is. Dat fellers so scrubby. eff he was a
hoss his fetlocks would drag de groun' g.
An ef he amt po' white trash den he
oughter take down his sign; cause de
good Lord don't put wrong marks on
His packages.
xk
n rOwHERE else would Old Reliable
~ have been so outspoken. But here.
in this sable sanctuary. blacks could
discuss the white problem as freely
as the paler race were forever jowling
over the negro problem. And Zack's s
internal barometer never lied to him
about white folks. BY instinct he sized
them up more accurately than they
Judged each others by their logic. Any
shrewd adventurer might come to vicks-
burg and deceive Col. Spottiswoode; yet
II that stranger lacked a certain grace
of life old Zack promptly got his hum
ber.
PAY 'tention to me, Unc ELL" Zack
insisted. "T kin pick quality folks in
de dark, wild bofe hands tied behind
me. Dis feller which you brags about,
he acks powerful nice befo' de big bugs,
cause dat's de side his bread is buttered
on. But he don't cornsider it's wuth
while to fool q nigger;- so I sees plum
Evening star., 1923-06-03

FL; : f.; &: = :::. IL: : :: :: =:
saw. After four years of peace
1t seems likely to remain for long
time, If not for ever, the most remark
able war ruin that the world can see.
1t may be impossible to rebuild it, al
though it's inhabitants have come back
and are doing their best.
Verdun before the war was the gate
of France on the side Of Alsace-Lor-
raine, where the German armies were
massed against 1t. 1t was defended by
a chain of forts and against these the
utmost strength of the invader rolled
up again and again for the whole four
wears of war. A few hundred Greeks
died to hold the Pass of Thermopylae-
and 400,0 French soldiers were killed
around Verdun to hold back the in
vaders. "They shall not pass" was the
war-cry. and they did not pass, even
over their dead bodies. into France.
Now the question is how many of the
21.701 inhabitants of Verdun when war
began will be able to live again in
homes that shall be rebuilt. And, it
may be added, how many of the 7S,493
inhabitants of the "arrondissement," or
county of Verdun, who depended on the
life of their city will be able to rebuild
their houses again and earn their liv-
ing?
An assistant pastor of Plymouth
Church who sat beside me at one of
our Paris press lunches gave me this
good advice: when you write for
American papers do not say 'repara-
tions. Say rebuilding expenses We
in America sometimes get the idea that
reparation means war expenses and not
mere necessary reconstruction
X X n X
20 will say that all the difficulty of
y getting the population of Verdun
| on their feet again is only a question of
getting reparations money for rebuild
ing the city, so that it's people may
earn their Lying by their industry. The
| inhabitants of the city and of what
| were prosperous farming villages be-
fore the ruin came on them have used
up the little means they had left. The
French government has borrowed from
| it's own people all that 1t dared in order
, to advance the needed money while
waiting for Germany to pay repara-
| tions. But great difficulty has arisen
Before the war the 21,701 inhabi-
tants of verdun proper--that is. the
city-lIved largely from the perma-
nent garrison of $4,000 soldiers
This place was the key to France, as
the war proved, and there was an
infantry division with q brigade and
J ave regiments; there was q battalion
Evening star., 1923-06-03
Waiting Room Baths.

esyHrASHFUL WAITING" Is the
motto in Berlin, where q bath
house has been installed in the citys
largest railway station. Travellers
may utilize their spare time with a
bath while awaiting their trains, and
ofioials report that many arrive If
teen or twenty minutes early that
they may take a plunge in the tub
before starting their Journeys.
Evening star., 1923-06-03

| Mott street. probably for q delivery
of the narcotic. The cab was to be
black and white.
The afternoon came. Willie was again
watching, standLaS beside the ugly
| doorway of . tea shop. hands buried
in pockets to conceal his excitement.
How could boy detective be other
wise than excited? At various points
along the narrow street thronged
with tall Mongols and droning Pekin-
ese loitered six agents, so stationed
that cab coming in any direction
could be perceived at some distance.
The agent first catching glimpse of
it was to signal by dropping a hand
kerchief, whereupon his fellow SEN
tries were to leap out and with drawn
revolvers trap cab, passengers and
cargo.
Ten minutes to 5. Willie moved
closer to the warehouse as he saw
Devanno come strolling along and
stop before the somber structure.
Five o'clock. A heavy truck, laden with
hemp, ratified past. Three minutes
after S. The auto wheeled~into sight.
No. Only the shining black coupe OF
a doctor taking a short cut on his
rounds.
hight minutes after 5. The
IL men are late. Well, Will
lie can wait all night IL necessary.
- A spluttering of a motor, and
cab whirls around the corner.
Quick! Why doesn't the
agent drop the handkerchief? Funny,
the other detectives, too, stand mo-
tionless. . Are they paralyzed?
Hum, The cab is yell
low. Not black and white.
hicle bumps onward. 1t pulls up to
the spot where Devanno is waiting,
now Joined by the chalky Chinaman
Willie saw two days ago. Devanno
leans over and whispers to one of the
riders. The detective nearest Willie,
now suspicious. but confused by fail
ure to- receive the signal, lurches for
ward and grips the Italians arm in
his powerful hand. Instantly the taxi
driver presses his foot upon the ac-
celerator. The already throbbing
engine roars, the wheels begin to re-
volve. But not too quickly for
Willie. His eye has caught some
thing lying in the bottom Of that
automobile-he has recognized the
faces of the two men inside as those
of the restaurant in Union square.
And they were getting away!
Look out" he shouts to the officer
struggling with the importer, loud
enough for all the agents to hear.
That's the taxi.' Hurting
the italian aside, the detective now
dashes .frantically after the yellow
car Just beginning to acquire speed.
In a second 1t would have darted
round the street turning and been lost
in the labyrinths circling Chatham
Square The officer leaps upon the
running board. He thrusts a revolver
above the opened window. The two
men offer no resistance. The fright
ened driver applies the brakes The
other agents climb on. They look
about On the floor Of the cab are
two large sugar sacks. filled with
opium. One hundred and two pounds.
Worth over 100000. More important,
the evidence needed to arrest the
plotters and check their further
machinations. For which we must
give much praise to While.
The detectives glance about for
their hero. He Is not to be found.
But blocks away light-haired boy.
putting. painting, possessing all the
fervor that comes with seventeen, is
pursuing q black-haired italian iw .
porter The Italians legs are long
his enduraAos greater; finally he
Evening star., 1923-06-03

hailing another wheeled knight of
the streets.
yep"
Follow It,"
The jaded driver smiled at the
''Whadyesay?"
You're wasting time. Keep that
cab in sight. please"
The chauffeur laughed. but obeyed.
The first car sped down Broadway,
wheeled onto the noisy Bowery. into
murky Chatham square. 1t came to a
halt before a STORY warehouse
tenement, adding its dinginess to the
forbidding gloom OF Mott street
Chinatown. The men entered. A
door closed after them. While
Willie. the vigilant. scrambled from
his taxicab. halted half a block away.
and took up his post in the shadow
Of curio shop nearby. where. SEEM
ingly staring at bronze Buddhas mi
nus arms and carved elephants minus
trunks, he waited. Waited until long
after darkness had fallen, when, cef-
tain that the men had either de-
parted by an exit of which he was
ignorant or would spend the night
within, he carefully noted the ad-
dress and hurried officeward to re-
port. A days work well done. He
had seen the money and the receipt
pass between the importer and the
Chinaman. That was enough. The
suspicious were confirmed.
The next day the hidden govern
ment emissaries. much older than
Willie, believed criminals and there
fore criminals confidants. aided by
the youths information, learned that
a cab was to be dispatched the fol-
lowing afternoon at o'clock from
one Of the conspirators' houses. 1t
was to meet the importer and a
Chinaman in front of the building on
Evening star., 1923-06-03

sent from Greece. but brick and stone
chopped from the foundation Of the
New York warehouse in which they
had rested The remainder OF the
opium was recovered; the smuggler5
ordered to jail a few days ago.
1t is the duty of a historian to be
just and impartial; he must not strive
to conceal a fault in the characters of
which he writes. All boy detectives
of fiction possess generous freckles;
the chronicler, as he chatted in the
customhouse with the boy detective
of fact, scrutinized scrupulously, and
could find not one.
Evening star., 1923-06-03
Boy Detective Smashes Opium Gang,
After Clever Pursuit of Criminals

binG
in
Evening star., 1923-06-03

when the youth arrives has disap-
cared. Other detectives catch him
next day. Federal authorities cable
the American consul at Havana,
where the twenty cases of opium
were consigned. to open the boxes on
arrival. The order is executed. The
cases are found to hold not the drug
Evening star., 1923-06-03
PARIS, May 16.

PARIS, May 16.
Y ERDUN during the war was one
! Of the most remarkable be-
sieged cities the world ever
saw. After four years of peace
Evening star., 1923-06-03
Old Reliable Draws the Line Between
Quality Folks and Poor White Trash

can't pay no man q higher recon-
mendation dan to take yo' eye off
him whilst he tilts yo' quart"
Evening star., 1923-06-03

THE most far-reaching opium
plot in American customs
service history" The
Evening star., 1923-06-03

~ DORIS of greasy cookery came
percolating through every
crack of the Hot Cat Eating
House as Old Reliable