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y American who prepared him
~ self by reading up everything
~ he could find about the Latin
\ Quarter has descended, as the
French say. on Paris. He set out the
next day to find the places and people
he had been reading about.
81 will CO." he said. "to the Cafe
Vachette, where the poor student can
sit at little table and for a drink
that costs him cents can read the
Revue des Deux Mondes, whose price
Is rs cents"
The Revue is the heaviest French
periodical; it still appears twice a
month-and the poor student, like
Daniel Webster. still lives. But when
our American reached the place on
the students particular boulevard
where the Cafe Vachette ought to be,
he found brand-new-bank. Here
Troy was" Like Hans Breitmann's s
party. it had vanished in the golden
sunshine, and like that partys beer, it
had left no address.
Tavern Pascal" he said to himself
and found his way to the corner of
the street of the school of medicine
where it ought to be. Up the cross
street he could see the prism shaped
tower which was part of a college
built in the year 1252-and during all
these hundreds of years students had
sowed wild oats with much talk and
singing at this corner. Where now
is the tavern where they could wash
down their noise cheaply?
The corner was there for them long
before coffee and cafes were heard of.
Noise was still there, and the door
from the street still opened on what
had been the great smoky hall, where
students fingered over single cheap
drink and intoxicated themselves
with the sound of their voices.
Our American rubbed his eyes.
slant-eyed, natty youths in clothes of
Paris cut were sitting about. but the
little marble topped tables from which
thin beer in small glasses called
..bocks,"- or coffee whitened with hot
milk in large glasses. were drunk
exist no longer. He raised his eyes to
what should have been the smoke
iarkened oeiling-and behold, it shone
with pipes-but they were painted on
II in red and gold. And all round the
walls strokes of blackest ink made
strange signs to him.
"Chop suey today" insinuated voice
at his elbow, and a consumer, as the
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, 1 what he should do with the
week he had stolen from business.
for he had not yet encountered a
person he knew. He had been abroad
for three years and realized that a
new multitude of persons able to
spend money lavishly at such places
came into view each season.
His search for familiar faces con-
tinued. AS he strolled out upon a
i far-reaching piazza he caught sight
of woman whose aspect stirred his
memory. Did he know her? She had
settled herself lazily In chair de-
signed for an indolent mood and was
; reading book.
Ellington walked toward her de-
/ termined to renew or scrape ac-
I quaintance. She looked up with
quick recognition, shut her book and
skillfully covered its title, and re-
laxed to a charming smile.
why, Egbert Mr.. Ellington.
Positively you are the last person ]
expected to see!''
"Bessie"' His delight was appar-
ent. An elderly woman nearby va
take. What a pleasure! You are
the only person I've seen here could
claim as an acquaintance. I assume
may still call you Bessie"
Didn't call you Egbert?"
why not?" He brought his chair
to familiar nearness and looked
at her in frank admiration. "You
are handsomer than over, Bessie"
And you are as bold as ever In
compliment"
II pay compliments only where
they are due. I'm always honest
with your dear sex. How love to
pronounce your name, Bessiew
But there's nothing musical or
romantic in my Manner
"Ah. But think there is. II
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gradually increasing body of Dobu-
Gura followed on our track. At one
point. as we entered the forest. |
sent man up a tree TO look back,
and he reported large numbers of
men creeping after US in the grass.
| halted my men and faced about,
thinking that perhaps they had at
last made up their minds to come to-
conclusions with me; the men in the
grass halted. too. and after waiting
some time for an attack to develop,
and none coming. / sent out a flank
ing party to try TO get round them.
But their ever-watching scouts de-
tected my maneuvers apd the Dobu-
cura. retreated.
We reached the Notu village again
that night. when the old people
thanked me for fighting the Dobu-
tuIa. and proffered gifts of neck
laces made from dogs teeth and
shells. That night we slept like
stone-police, Kali Kali and all our
party-while the Notp people kept
watch. The following day took the
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brings such memories! And. your
beauty emphasizes them
Il like the way you qualify my
, sex. My dear sex. you say. How
many pretty women have you
sugared DER since saw you last?"
Not one-I swear iti''
Emotional oaths do not keep.
They are as ephemeral as twilight;
or morning dew. Do you remember
when we met at SaratogaT'
What a question! Didn't I recog-
nize you at once?"
"Oh, you would have recognized any
other woman friend in the same
way"
Friend! What commonplace
word"
! We'll, We were friends, weren't
we? But you probably know many
women you would recognize at
sight"
Not with the thrill you inspire,
Bessiew Do you forget that in
Saratoga we were"
Summer lovers? No. But that
was more than three years ago. How
time flies!"
But you remember. All! I never
shall forget,
Nor I, .Egbertr
~ y
lITE drew his chair. little closer.
/ i How could either of us for
get?"
And you remember that we went
so far that we actually became en-
gaged?"
"A dear climax to our sweet COM
panionship. And on my part-this
swear, Bessie.--it was not one of
those occasional affairs that so often
happen. You meant to me all that
a woman-the only woman-can
mean to a man. And weren't we
happy? can the feel the thrill of
it now as you look at me! Why
can't We"
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whaleboat, and with half a dozen
police, Acland and Walker sailed for
the Kumusi river, from which point
could send message overland to
Elliott, assistant resident magistrate
at Tamata. asking him for more po-
lice. The Kali Kali and the re-
mainder of the constabulary 1 left
encamped at Notu.
We nearly got swamped crossing the
bar Of the Kumusi river, a beastly
shark and alligator infested spot.
Lord love a duckr' said Acland,
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variety. I shall call the speaker a
liar. if he's small enough"
We waited a week at the mouth of
the Kumusi for the return of my
messenger to Elliott. We spent our
time catching big sharks and groper
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yesterday you nearly got us eaten
by cannibals! Today you offer us a
choice between drowning, sharks or
crocodiles! II 1 ever hear any one
saying that your guests are not pro-
vided with plenty of excitement and
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This is the sixth and last Of a series
OF unusual articles, giving some OF she
remarkable experiences OF Capt. Monk- :
ton as senior OFFICER of tn. armed con.
stabulary, resident magistrate and IN
other posts which he held under the
British government Of New Guinea.
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Of
Be
ofthe Accden Deatho
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ELLINGTON idled about the
crowded Palm Beach hotel.
He was at a loss as to
what he should do with the
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PARIS, September Is.

TAftIS, SepltIllUtr 10.
y American who prepared HIM
~ self by reading up everything
~ he could find about the Latin
d Quarter has descended. as the
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A. T last we came to a big village
"A Of 200 houses, where two men
were shot in a skirmish, and a
man and a woman captured by
the scouting police. The man was
sullen and would not answer ques-
tions: the woman talkative, when
once she found that she was not
going to be killed, She told me that
most Of the men were away fighting
the Sangara, but that swift mes
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Wv YoRD came to me that a pre-
vailing drought had badly
" ~ affected the country of the
Dobudura tribe, and many
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T WAS extremely puzzled. but de-
/ cided that perhaps they would yet
come; so the men stood as they were,
in the light Of the burning houses,
until in the morning, when rain
fell upon u.s.. The Notu said we were
now all right, as nothing would in
duce the Dobudura to fight in the
rain.
In the morning there were the
ever-present encircling Dobudura
scouts, silent and watchful. Damn
those peoplew I said, they have got
upon my nerves. I am going to run
away and get more police; my men
can't march and hunt them all day
and keep watch all night"
Back for the coast we marched. the
Notu scouting in advance, while the
rear guard was composed of constab-
ulary. AS we passed through and
vacated each village 1t was at once
reoccupied by many people, and a
The Connecticut labor news., 1923-02-09
READ FEM AND WEEP!
THE DEFLATION CRIME

Mir President, I want to close with this thought in the minds of Senators. 1 assert again that the Federal Re serve Board did not direct that the progressive interest rate be applied, did not permit 1t to be applied, any where except in the agricultural sec tions of the South and West.
 1 charge again that by the applica- ton of 1t there and by the refusal to make loans on cotton and grain and cattle there they slaughtered property values by the billion; they caused men to lose their homes; they caused their farms to be swept away under mortgage foreclosures; they drove women into the mad-houses and their husbands to death with bull lets through their brains That is the crime 1 lay at the door of dehation- ists and those who defend them.
 1 am no respecter of persons when 1t comes to that, Mr. President. The United States must know, from center to circumference, that this crime was inspired, that conspiracy was back of 1t; must know how 1t operated; must know who brought it about; must know exactly how it was done, so that public opinion, rising out of every nook and corner in this Re- public, will come so strong that this national crime will never be commit ted again.-Senator Heflin, in Con gressional Record.
The Connecticut labor news., 1923-02-09
Industry and Education in Russia
 the New Yo Evening Postl
(From the New Yo

There is a saying in Russian an archist and Social Revolutionary cir cles," remarks MT. Savel Zimand in Mondays Tribune, "that the Com munlsts set out to abolish classes and succeeded in destroying the working class. Of course, there is~bitterness against the Bolsheviks in anarchist and Social Revolutionist ranks But the remark contains grain of truth" !"
 The grain of truth is a very large grain. Figures by the Soviet Su- preme Council of Public Economy last August, quoted by Mr. Zimand, give the number of workers in the mills and plants as 853,556. In the year 1913 the number of workers in inspected factories according to the International Encyclopedia was D. I5I,IoI. This includes Poland, which is now outside of Russia But if we make for Poland the extremely gem erous allowance of one-fourth of the total mass of industrial workers it would leave more than one and half million wage earners in 1913 on the So that today the working class has been cut down to nearly one-half. Of the other half, many are presum- ably idle in the cities, many have gone into the Red Army, but most have drifted back to the villages in search of food.
 The factories are not the only pop ular institutions that have suffered. There are the schools In the Even ing Post of last Saturday, MT. Louis Fischer, writing from Moscow quotes the figures submitted to the All-Rus- sian Congress of Soviets a few weeks ago by Commissar of Education Lun- achaEsky. In 1921, the Congress was told there were 82,3o7 elementary schools with an enrolment of G. 8oo,ooo pupils In April, 1922, the number of schools had fallen to 68,- 900 with 5,3oo,ooo pupils. In Octo- Der there was a further reduction to 55,ooo schools with 4,75o,ooo children. But Lunacharsky found some com fort in the thought that in 1911 there were only 100000 children in the elementary schools of Czarist Russia. MT. Fischer, conflning himself to his duties as reporter, did not ques- ton Lunacharsky's figures for the year IoII. These figures are not true. In 1912 the attendance in all Russian schools, elementary, .secon- dary, and collegiate, was 8,o3oyooo. ondary schools with perhaps 5000 students, and Poland and non-Euro- pean Russia with total schools pop ulation of perhaps three-quarters of million, we have left more than 7,- 100000 elementary school pupils for European Russia in 1912. To this should be added the great amount of tutorial instruction in the home which has now disappeared.
 Half as many factory workers and half as many school children as under the Czar-that is the record of two phases of Soviet rule.
The Connecticut labor news., 1923-02-09
Building Workers to Fight Wage
 Cut Drive

London, England, Feb. o.-Building industry employers have opened their fight for wage reductions and a long CT. work day.
 They demand wage cut of 28 per cent, amounting to from 5 to 4 pence per hour, and an increase in the work ing week from A hours to G hours for eight months, A for two months and 4IH for the other two.
 The matter. is being considered by wages and conditions council for the building industry, composed of~repre- sentatives of both workers and em- ployers.
 The workers representatives unani- mously rejected the employers de- mands, and a deadlock followed
 The secretary of the Building Workers Federation declares that the employers proposed cut would mean that building industry laborers would receive less than agricultural work CTS.
The Connecticut labor news., 1923-02-09
Labor Press
 Necessary, Says
 London Circular

London, England, Feb. 2.-The i'm perative necessity for a strong. and well-supported labor press in labor,s offensive and defensive struggle against organized anti-union employ. CTS is stressed by a writer in the Typographical Circular, the official organ of the organized printers.
 "Confederated attacks against the wqrkman's standard of living, and de structive of the whole status of his so- cial existence" 1t is stated, ''havel been planned in secret and actively carried on in the public press, and shameless 1y pursued to an extravagant degree by the employers.
 The writer declares that a well-sup- ported labor press in Great Britain during the last two years would have enabled the workers to largely coun- teract. the influence of the employ ers' poison press and prevent many wage reductions.
The Connecticut labor news., 1923-02-09
"WIITEWASH COMES OFF"
 SENATOR WARNS DAUGHERTY

Washington D. C.. Feb. o-Another such victory won't do Attorney General Daugherty good Another2 Lord bless you my dear the fight has begun. For inorma on read the opening and closing paragraphs of Senator Caraay speech the Senate printed the Congressional Record of January %:
 "Mr CARAWAY. MT in body The headlines Washington
 "DAUGHERTY CLEARED BY HOUSE, TO IT. Permit again difference words ccizing the House, but it could clear Mr. Daugherty things House It hitewash MT Daughey and did it. It surprise Everybody knew it to be done'
 
 "In conclusion Mr. President have desire criticize closed incident however because have lying right desk reports and copies valy of office of Attorney General have photosc copies of letters which have heitated publish them in the order which desire publish them and let the
  cleared whtewashed,"
The Connecticut labor news., 1923-02-09
IN THE WooDPILE

I do not care whether it is an inn peachable act or not; but member of the household of the Attorney General, in the presence of two other witnesses, speaking about the ques- ton of examining the mail of Repre- sentatives and Senators, said to me that he knew the Attorney General had the mail of Representative John son of South Dakota and Representa- tive Woodruff of Michigan examined, and that among those who examined it was the negro chauffeur of the Attorney General, who seems to have been converted into very great de tsctive He is almost the head of the Secret Service so far as examining into the mail of Congressmen is con cerned Caraway, in Con- gressiona1 Record
The Connecticut labor news., 1923-02-09
ANGRY-cULTURIsTs' BLOC

Wherever the responsibility, we find that we have passed legislation de- sired by nearly every other industry of the country, reducing the taxes of the rich, providing tariff for the manufacturers, and giving relief to the railroads, but we do not know if making the point that whoever is re- sponsible, 1t is poor strategy that we should be compelled at the eleventh hour to beg for this farm relief legis- lation.-Senator Lenroot, in Congress sional Record
The Connecticut labor news., 1923-02-09
GRANGE OPPOSES SUBSIDY.

Wichita, Kan, Feb. I.-Oppositiop to subsidy legislation was registered by the national grange at its annual session in this city. The resolution declares:
 If, upon investigation, it is found that the American merchant marine Is handicapped in it's operation by pres ent conditions and wars, then the grange favors a revision of the navi- gation laws rather than government aid through a ship subsidy"
The Connecticut labor news., 1923-02-09
EVEN THE POST SAYS TT

The vast frozen empire which not even Napoleon could conquer is be- coming more and more important, at home and abroad Petroleum may yet grease the road to United States recognition of Russia. State Depart ment still confronted by obstacles, but where there's well there's way Washington Post, administration sup porter.
Evening star., 1923-09-27
TEMPLARS TO ATTEND
PHILADELPHIA EVENT
Special Train to Garry $50 Knights
to Quaker City Tomorrow
Afternoon

The local commandery of knights
Templar will so to Philadelphia to-
morrow afternoon, where they will
be the guests of the St. Johns Com
mandery, No. 4, at the twenty-third
annual field day of Division No. J.,
knights Templar, of Pennsylvania.
A special train will convey about
$50 knights to and from the Quaker
city. The Washington delegation will
leave tomorrow at 12:45 pm. and will
be met at. Philadelphia by the st.
Johns Commandery and their band.
They will be escorted to the Adelphia
Hotel. where they will stay during
their visit.
In the evening the women will be
entertained at a theater party, and
the visiting knights will attend the
conclave of the ST. Johns Command
cry. Saturday morning the party
will visit Valley Forge. and later at
tend the field day at Belmont Park
They will leave Philadelphia Satur-
day night. DR.. F. E. Gibson is chair
man of the general committee for the
local commsndery. of which Harry
Stacey is commander.
Evening star., 1923-09-27
SUBURBAN CITIZENS
I.OPPOSE APARTMENTS
2oning Commission Takes Under
Amusement Arguments Sub
Is mitted Today.

!. The proposal ahat the Zoning Com
!nafssion forbid erection of apartment
houses in five suburban sections of
the city was argued by owners and
residents of those sections at a pub
lie hearing in the District. building
today.
p The commission will render its de-
cision later.
The five areas are bounded as fol-
lows:
North. Tilden street; south Wood
ley road and Catfedr avenue: ca st.
Rock Creek Park, and west, 34th
street.
The area on both sides of Albemarle
street and Audubon terrace.
+. .sSNorth, Edmunds street; south. Canal
road and New CIIt road east, 4Sth
street. and west, Nebras ska avenue.
: North. Calvert street; south. Massa
chusetts avenue; east, Gath street.
and west. 2Sth street.
{. North. District line: west. Rock
Creek Park. and south and east,
Alaska avenue.
Evening star., 1923-09-27
OKLAHOMA KLANSMEN
GIVEN 3 CHEERS HERE
Demonstration d Marks Initiation
Ceremony of D. C.. Klan in
Bethesda District

Oklahoma klansmen were given
three cheers last night by members
of the Ku klux Klan of the District
of Columbia. who staged an initiation
ceremony on a small plot of ground
in the Bethesda district, just across
the District line in Maryland. Thir-
teen candidates Joined the order.
Many passersby stopped their ma
chimes to watch the weird rites that
were Illuminated by fiery cross and
flashlights that the Klan leaders
flashed. Gov. Walton of Oklahoma,
who is waging his spectacular fight
on the klan in that state, was likened
to a czar. and when three cheers for
the Oklahoma klansmen were called
for they were given with will.
No disorders marked the ceremonies
and when all was over the klansmen
took off their robes. and hoods, en-
tered their machines and quietly rode
back to the city.
Evening star., 1923-09-27
RITES FOR w. Y. HANDY.
Native of Mississippi Was Connect
:. ed With Bureau of Mines.

William Yandell Handy, 1401 Co
lumbi road northwest. died Tuesday
at Garfield Hospital. The funeral was
held this afternoon from Vermont
Avenue Christian Church. the Rev. DR..
Earl Wilfiey officiating.
Mr. Handy was a native of Canton.
Miss, and was born in 1870. His
grandfather was Judge Alexander
Hamilton Handy. chief justice of the
supreme court of Mississippi.
He came to Washington in 1896 with
the Southern railway in the general
administration offices. Two years
later he went to the Philippines to
accept a position as chief accountant
of the War Department. He re-
mained there throughout the Spanish
American war, and, returning to this
city at the close of that war. he en-
tered the bureau of mines. where he
mained up to the time of his death.
He is survived by his wife, Mrs.
Winfield Handy; two children "a
daughter, Jean, and son, Alexander
Hamilton Handy and sister, Mrs.
Ira H. Bradford of this city
Evening star., 1923-09-27
COOLIDGE INVITED
TO TEMPLAR EVENT
Grand Comman6ery to Have
Exercises on EIlipse.
! Facts About Dam.

President Coolidge was invited by a
committee representing the Grand
Commandery of the Knights Templar
of the District of Columbia today to
attend the field day exercises of the
commandery on the ellipse south of
the White House on October 10. Ma
tional Grand Commander Leonidas p.
Newby of Indiana will be here on
that occasion.
The committee which saw the Presi-
dent today consisted of w. X. Reeve,
grand commander. District of Column
bia Grand Commandery; NJ. F. Finley.
senior grand warden. and grand mas
ter of Masons in the District. and
Oliver a. Phelps. assistant inspector
general of the District of Columbia
has taken the invitation under ad-
visement.
Hears Facts About Dam.
The President heard a delegation
representing California and Arizona
in regard to the Colorado river prof.
eCt, which contemplates the conStruc-
tion of an impounding dam to hold
the flood waters of the river. prevent
ing waste and destruction and at the
riga tion of the land. In the delega-
tion were Representative Swing of
California, George B. Hortman and T.
A. Painter of California. and Col. Ben
Franklin Fry Of Yuma. Ariz.
Senator Borah of Idaho took up
with the President the question OF
granting a further extension of time
to farmers on reclamation projects in
the west in paying the assessments to
cover the cost of the projects to the
government. Senator Borah pointed
out that the farmers are today in n
difficult position anyway, and that to
compel them to make these payments
in twenty-year installments as now
provided by law makes it still more
difficult for them.
Wants Period Extended.
Senator Borah desires to have the
period extended to forty years. He
introduced a bill for this purpose in
the last Congress and will reintro
duce the measure when Congress
opens in December.
Others who called upon the Presi
dent today included Capt Garland
Powell. DR.. John Wesley Hill and w.
Ii. .Mapother. president of the Louis
VILE and Nashville railway.
= This afternoon the circuit judges
iof the United States will be presented
to the President by Chief Justice
fTaft. Secretary DENLY also is to see
the President.