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Evening star., 1926-12-12

- ANITA CLAUS, standing on the
porch of his house in Morris
Brothers toy department, jim
~ gled his string of sleigh bells
and smiled
Around him shoppers were making
f1nal, harried purchases. Jadedeclerks'
Depleted counters. Lights in profu-
sion, turned on 10 combat the early
dusk of Winter. a last-minute feellng
hanging over everything.
One of the salesgirls waved her hand
at him across he table.
"Well, Sanity, you are out of job
after tonight
Out of a job.
He grinned back at her. as if it were
joke. He knew better than to step
out of his part
An actor for nearly 40 years! And
now, even though he had fallen to the
professional ignominy OF department
store Santa Claus, the instincts or MS
calling were strong upon him. II he
must masquerade in a red coat and
white beard, at least let him do 1t We'll.
No cheap, street-corner impersonation
If he could help it.
Only necessity, in the form of a long
unpaid bill at Mrs. Hollins' theatrical
boarding house in West Fifty-first
street, had brought him to Norris
Brothers.
Gould you, maybe. let me have $40
Mr.. Dunstane? On account, you
know? " Mrs. Hollins had asked this
in an undertone of apology, meeting
him on the stairs, one day back in No
vember. 1 wouldn't mention 1t, but
there's the rent and the coal bill"
"Oh, that's all right. That's all
right. I-er-- / have something in
view, and before long III be able to
straighten things out. You don't mind
waiting till a week from Saturday? l
can fix it up then, I'm sure"
We'll, l guess I'll have to manage
somehow"
That was how such conversations
generally ended on Mrs. Hollins' part.
Small and kind and hard-working she
was, and so thin that the skin across
her temples appeared to be stretched
over knobs. She did all the cooking,
and never made money, because she
sympathized with her boarders.
II sure am glad you've got an en-
gagement, Pop"
Pop Dunstane was what some of the
boarders called him.
She smiled, and this drew fine lines
in the flesh covering her cheek bones.
Seems like sometimes a long lane
don't have no turning at all. But 1t
does What management you go
ing withH'
He hedged. "The matters not quite
settled"
He went on down the stairs, not
daring to look back at her. For If he
did he would know himself for what
he was--a poverty-stri old man,
lying to evade his laffdlady.
And yet. was it really lie? He
always had something dimly in view.
Was it his fault If it failed to mate
rialize? Except in moments >of de-
preston, he lived on this vague, ex-
hilarating hope of some event just
around the corner. A fat" part in
a phenomenally successful play! 1t
might happen to him, even at "a.
X X X
MOT that he hadn't had good sea-
sons, now and then. And good
parts, too. The remembrance of them
filled him with a sort of glow, and
enabled him to make the rounds of
Evening star., 1926-12-12

smoothly away from the curb, turned
into cross street and headed uptown.
Hes years DID," said the father
of the little boy, Just as If he had been
speaking to him all along. His
names Hughie. He has pneumonia.
The day before he was taken i'll he
went to Morris Brothers and saw
Santa Claus"
The father smiled. He talked us
deaf. dumb and blind about it when
he came home! ! don't suppose you d
remember him, though, out of so many
children. Well, he's been counting up
the days till Christmas, as lively about
it as though he weren't sick at ALL
Until yesterday. But then he began
TO get worse"
Pop Dunstane caught the tone of
those words. Dull. Inflectionless, al
most. That was the way people
spoke when something they dreaded
hung over them.
"Children get better fast" he sug-
gested because he couldn't think of
anything else.
THE specialist says there's a
chance" Again that steady - un
naturally steady-voice. THE Santa
Claus notion came to me this after
noon. It's foolish Of me, most likely
but / wanted to do something. And
there's nothing else" Another silence.
The streets were dark. The car was
In Park Avenue, now.
He's a sharp child when he's we'll.
You won't slip up and let him see
you're taking, will you?-It might be
bad for him if he discovered you
weren't really Santa Claus"
The pride of his craft rose in Dun
stane.
You can depend on me. I'm a pro-
fessional"
No response from the man in the
gray overcoat. Perhaps he didn't un-
derstand.
II mean I'm an actor" That de-
lightful sense of Importance, as the
statement rolled from his lips! Per
haps you've seen me play. John Dun
stane. 1 was the eccentric uncle in
Journeys End 1t ran in New York
eight or nine years ago."
oh" said Hughes father unim-
pressed.
And people usually quivered all
over when they found themselves in
the presence of a f1esh-and-blood actor.
Much obliged to you for coming
with me, Mr.. er - Dunstane,"
Hughes father resumed, as though
the remark about Journeys End"
had been a mere parenthesis in the
midst of his anxiety. Maybe didn't
thank you I've been so worried
Well. here we are. Oh. forgot to say
my names Thorcroft. Martin Thor
croft.-And I'll be glad to pay you.
Whatever you think is right"
But he did not pause for an answer.
His hand was tugging at the door
latch of the car.
1t was stopping before a house in a
street off Park avenue. The neigh
borhood didn't look in the least like
F1fty-first street, beyond Eighth ave-
nue., where Pop Dunstane lived in
dingy old house.
He knew 1t was butler who opened
the front door for them, because he
had seen buffers in plays.
X
A FRAGILE, pretty woman who
n seemed terribly tired, came down
the stairs. The sound of the door must
have brought her. Why, she was
scarcely more than a girl.
"Oh. Mart! The doctors here
Evening star., 1926-12-12
French People Are Worried by Echoes
Of Old Prophecies Partially Fulfilled

Nostradamus nevertheless foretold
the Kings death, 'by the head, in
iron and gold" 1t happened when
Montgomery's spear pierced his gold
jOusting helmet.
So the celebrated "Quatrains' of
Nostradamus, foretelling the future of
France from the year 1540, have been
remarkably verified. They qualify
1913 as the year of perils," foretell
the great war and announce the burn
ing of Paris. More and more people
ask: Gould the prophets be right in
all but just one thing or two? Or are
those things yet to Gomez"
Woe to thee. proud city, runs the
great verse of the prophecy of Orval
in Belgium. 1t had such political ef-
feet in 1914 when it was transcribed
in the Belgian Monastery and certified
by the highest authorities) that 1t was
used by the partisans of Louis XVIII.
But, as a fact, the time was too early
for its verification.
Catherine Emmerich, the German
girl whose visions and works have
been almost household words in Ger
many. and are even known in Amer
lea, saw devils undermining Paris,
This is extraordinary, because, around
1910, when Catherine wrote It, nobody
dreamed of such thing as the Metro
politan subway.
Unhappy day of fire and destruc.
ton" the verses run. When the
great Babylon shall be undermined
the chastisement is at hand"
None of the prophets predict the
ruin of Paris. but only the punish
ment of the proud city" after which
is to be set up, according to a number
of them, new era of faith and
brotherly love.
Paris has heard so muchl Yet it
did not come with the war, as most
people thought it threatened to do.
Now Paris asks: WAS it a failure?
Or is it to come soon?"
These things pile up. Susannah
Welt, the Antwerp bankers wife, is
in it from the year 1920. In 1920,
being perfectly normal" she fell into
frances so notable that her husband
and the municipality published book
on them SuSannah's consciousness
was projected 100 years into the fu.
ture," so that she saw the war. the
''desolation of Belgium" and the pun
ishment of Paris
And, finally, they quote again the
celebrated prophecy of Mayence.
which had such effect both In France
and Germany in 1914.
The prophecy of Mayence dates
verses came true up to the triumph
of the German Empire, just before
the war. Then came the terrific part,
verses IA to IS, which (they are now
saying) have not been entirely full
filled.
These things. indeed. pile up when
people are worried as they are in
France. All the prophecy Of Mayence
came true, they say, except this last
They would like it to be a failure.
But may it not yet finish the ter
rife mixup which 1t threatens" they
ask.
IA. In that day seven kinds Of SOL
diers shall fight against three kinds in
the Quarter des Bouleaux from Ham
to Padeborn.
''15. Woe to you of the north! The
seventh generation shall pay the price
Of your ambition! Woe to you Of the
east! Never were such armies seen
in the world!
''16. Three times the sun shall pass
over the heads of the combatants
without being seen through the clouds
of smoke and gas.
III. AT last tAe chief shall pro-
claim victory. ~
Evening star., 1926-12-12
BY STERLING HEILIG


" UROPE is awake again to
l. prophecies of great changes
that stirred the peoples just
- before the war, like the one
probably best known and re-
peated for centuries, when the peo-
pies were stirred up:
when men shall fly, twelve kings
will go to war;
The women will do the harvesting;
the men will finish the vintage.
Truly, men had just begun to fly
flying had come, at last. Also,
twelve countries could be added up.
It was so wonderful that people ac-
tually hoped from it that the war
would be short-ending with late
autumn of 1914 ("the men will finish
the vintage')! But the war contin-
ued, and the grand old anonymous
prophecy seemed in default.
Great minds took strong account of
the fever for prophecies, citing Renan
the illustrious Earnest Renan, who
could not be accused of superstition.
Concerning the prophecies which had
inundated France and Germany just
before the War of 1870, Renan said
categorically:
For centuries past, on the eve of
great events, vague rumors and rep
etitions of predictions, sometimes pre-
else, and almost always realized, have
warned the common people of dangers
which threatened them. We can only
recognize this mysterious instinct.
without being able explain it."
Thus, early in February, 1914, when
all Europe was tranquil, rumors of a
general war disquieted the towns of
abba. Franconia and provinces
around Berlin. They repeated the
famous prophecy of the Monk of
Hehnin, which, 800 years previously,
had predicted the establishment of
the Hohenzollern Empire and "the
lamentable end of the third EN-
peror of that family, in a great war"
1t had considerably troubled the
Kaiser; and when he had to flee to
Holland. it was quoted everywhere as
Evening star., 1926-12-12
Hair DRYER.

DETROIT school girls now dry their
hair after swimming by sitting on
a bench and letting draft of air from
behind. heated to 130 degrees Fahren-
heit, be blown upon them. The draft
comes out through a large pipe. and
II the girls want exceptionally quick
drying they can turn a switch which
speeds UP the velocity so that the
heated air comes out at the rate of
1000 cubic feet per minute.
Evening star., 1926-11-30
TWO WILL GET MOOSE
FOR ATTACKING WOMAN
Men Of 23 and "a to Pay Death
Penalty for Crime on 80
Year-Old Person.

BY the Associated Press.
GRAY, Ca, November 30.-Sen-
tences of death in the hangman's
moose were pronounced on Jarrett
Benford, "a. and Wade johnson, %, Of
Baldwin County, in Superior. Court
here yesterday for a criminal attack
upon an S0-year-old woman more than
two years ago.
Both received their sentence with
out show of emotion, although Ben
ford, in a quiet statement to the court,
reiterated his denial of the crime.
They were returned Immediately to
the county Jail at Macon to await eXe-
cution December 81.
Members of their families attended
the youths in the courtroom. Benford
and Johnson were convicted here two
years ago and carried their case to
the State Supreme Court and the
United States Supreme Court in an
effort to obtain a new trial. The for
mer denied a new trial. and the latter
held that it had no jurisdiction, where
Evening star., 1926-11-30

such an Incompatible grandeur to
your city, so unique, so fantastically
big, and in contrast those rows and
rows Of neat little bungalows l saw
on the edges of all your towns. They
were set up in tempting rows as II
to be chosen one beside the other
without either hedge or paling to
separate them from each other. and
that neatly clipped grass making
them look as if they had been stood
on a carpet for minute Inspection by
some very particular housekeeper
who would allow no disorder in her
mansion.
And those many motors. That is
one of the things I will have to tell
Europe about Those millions OF
motors. no more a rich mans luxury,
but an everyday convenience, be-
longing to every mans house. And
your cities growing and growing,
each vieing with the other, each try
ing to outdo its sister in splendor and
prosperity. The mighty streets, the
mighty houses, everything super
lative. No wonder you use large
adjectives when you talk. l must use
them also when talking of you.
Evening star., 1926-11-30
My Impressions Of America
By Her Majesty the Queen Of Rumania
Written Exclusively The Other Members Of the North
American Newspaper Alliance

mammal You know, we were to sit
on different sides-Ileana on the
Army side and I on the Navy, and
each of us was to be surrounded by
our special friends. And down in the
Southern climes we were to hear the
darkies sing and eat a real Southern
breakfast. And do you know that
shall miss those policemen hooting
along beside us on their motor cycles.
Each was like a personal friend.
Everything will feel very fiat, very
small and very empty after colossal
America and the colossal way it has
of being kind and hospitable.
Mamma, do say we will go back. "
So in their hearts is the same great
desire to come back, although we
have been gone only such a short
time. Can there be a better proof
that we were happy than the burning
desire to return to be amongst you,
once more to be your guests?
Expects Home Criticism.
know that there will be adverse
criticism. There will be many who
would like to .tarnish the remem-
brance of our visit; who will try to
impress upon Europe'S mind that my
going to you was a mistake; that
America desires not visits from for.
eign royalty; that Europeans had best
remain at home. All that, I know,
but in my heart I have a part guar
antee that no ill will can destroy, no
jealousy pull to pieces-that pleasure
that was given me over there on your
sacred soil.
Our cabins are full of flowers, fruits,
books, packets, parcels, hampers-it
might be Christmas. Every friend
brought something, sent something,
left something. American generosity!
Yes, after America all will seem
small. We shall have to tune our
selves down and get accustomed again
to another perspective. another meas
ure.
Big-hearted young America, love
you as one loves a breathlessly eager
child who takes you by the hand and
makes you rush along in the sunshine
to see many things in a tremendous
Evening star., 1926-11-30
Deaths Reported.

Augusta. Glo;zhaoh, 50, 1890 l 81. ne.
5rld-et kelIy. 81 III st, ne
Home Hospital
James n norton 70 1880 Jackson st. e.
MarSaret J. Weschler 75 1885 Newton
Medad c Martin. -. Walter Reed Hos
,itsi
William D. Kerper, -. st. Ehzabeth's 8
iospltal
Nann.c r Richerson. Il. 1893 Wis. ave.
Aqna Montgomery, 65; 1900 K ST.
Lulu II Amos. SO. 1906 Mass ave Sc
John G. Bernhard 5s, Providence Hos
oltal
LOUIS A johnson 5o 200 sth st. s.w.
Joseph A. Rhodes, %. Providence Hos
Mary E. oConnor, IS Providence Hos
,it8l.
Charlcs j Ogden, So. GEORGETOWN Univer-
rn5ma Gfeen -. Gsllinger Hospital
AleNauder Hutton Il. 61f 55th St ne.
sarah r. Brown 73 ll3I Bird st.
George MUllln. 40 Columbia terrace
Evening star., 1926-11-30
HOmeward BOund-Part I.

l am already nearly two days at
sea. tore myself away from your
shores, from all the friends made
there. with more pain and regret than
you will ever know. The last day
was one rush, with the cruel feeling
that much had been left undone, that
many invitations had, by force of cir
cumstances. to be left unanswered,
that many plans had to be left unful-
filled. l had to curtail my visit three
precious weeks in which much was
still to be undertaken and many dear
friends were still to be seen.
With every hour the great boat is
bearing us farther and farther away
from the New World back to the
Old. The great rush is suddenly over.
The intense quiet after all the excite
ment feels strange. 1t Is restful, per-
haps. but with all my heart 1 long to
be back amongst you and cling to a
prediction made to me that l would
surely once again at least return to
Your land Of prodigious hospitality.
Shall I? That eventuality lies in
the hand of God. For the moment
am full of the dear memories 1 have
carried away with me and which
shall cherish as long as I live. My
two children and 1 gather at the
round table of our cabin together and
talk 1t all over and discuss each event,
each acquaintance. Such dear friends
we had to part with all too soon.
Recollections Are Happy.
Everything seems beautiful to us.
even those small unavoidable mo-
ments Of difficulties dwindling to
nothing when looked back upon, as
the rain is forgotten to remember
only the days of sunshine. We laugh
and rejoice and remember and con-
fess to each other how much we en-
joyed it all, and how sick with dis
appointment we are that we have to
hurry off so much sooner than plan
ned. and each one of us in our own
way mourns for a special joy still un-
lived.
"Oh. and the great foot ball match,
Evening star., 1926-11-30

hurry. because the world is so sbeauti.
full, SO interesting, like the morning
so new and all things possible, SO
gloriously possible.
New Measure Of Things.
You open so many doors. such large
roads lie spread out before you, such
vistas, such prospects. Yes, for a time
everything will feel small and slow
and just a little laborious. Your or
ganization of things is so perfected,
sometimes it seemed tyranically per-
fected, but it was so easy, so imme-
diately at hand. There is glossiness
about all you do in America, lavish
ness Of means, a generosity in all
things which makes everything COM
ing after seem a little stingy, little
cramped.
The truth Is we are all longing to
come back, Nicky, Ileana and l. The
life you made us lead may have been
fatiguing, but there was something
glorious about it, something stimulat-
ing like a large storyboOk full Of
exciting events. We miss you, dear
America, and all our newly made
friends.
Now 1 have time to think with a
vengeance. You left us little time to
think whilst you kept us on the rush.
The curious part of it is am not at
all tired. 1 never once during those
overfilled weeks had a headache or
any bodily WEAKNESS. l was only
very sleepy sometimes at the end of
the day, because 1 had seen SO much,
talked so much, made SO many
acquaintances, heard so many diff
ferent sounds and had had so little
time to sleep.
Grew to Like Skyscrapers.
Now every picture comes back to
me hauntingly. The huge New York
streets with their mighty vistas, and
those famed skyscrapers which had
thought I would hate but which give
Evening star., 1926-11-30
WILL USE RARE W0LINS.
String Quartet to Be Equipped
With Stradivari Instruments.

NEW YORK.. November 30 R.
A string quartet organized by
wealthy patrons of music is to play
two violins, viola and a cello
worth $175.OOO. made by Antonio
Stradivari in the early days OF the
eighteenth century.
OF the thousands of instruments
cherished by their owners as the pro-
duct Of the famous Italian instru-
ment player only about 900 are
genuine, experts say. All these are
now In museums or in collections OF
wealthy men. and changes Of owner
ship are easily traced.
The instruments to be used by the
quartet are owned by Felix NJ.
Warburg
Evening star., 1926-11-30
CHURCH OFFICIALS QUIT.
Sang in Theater and Neglected Du-
ties, Pastor Declares.

HOUSTON, Tex, November 80 @.-
Three officers Of the Central Baptist
Church resigned yesterday on request
because they sang at a Houston thea
ter last week.
J. B. Moncrief. Sunday school super
intendent; j. d. Moncrief. superintend-
ent of the young peoples department,
and J. w. Boyd, member Of the choir.
sang as members Of quartet at a. per
Torrance Of 1.-THE Old Homestead"
Rev. w. D. I,ierle. pastor. said the
three had been asked to resign their
official positions because they had neg
lected their church duties to fill a
vaudeville engagement. They are still
members of the church.
Evening star., 1926-11-30
Births Reported.

The following births have been reported
to the Health Department in the last "a
hours:
Melvin L. and Julia E. Kendrick.. boy.
Ionic A. and Alma L. Coffman. boy.
Arthur and Aura G; Chichester, boy.
Arthur and Rachel Arlington. girl:
Theodore and Ruby Simmons. girl.
William and Millie Smith. boy.
Evening star., 1926-11-30

upon the case was remanded here for
resentencing.
The two will be the last to pay the
death penalty in this State by hang
ing. Since they were convicted the
electric chair has been substituted for
executions.
Evening star., 1926-11-30
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Evening star., 1926-11-30

Contracts for the underground tele-
phone cable between Alexandria and
Cairo call for a total expenditure of
S1.235.7O0.
Nogales international., 1926-11-21
FIRST CARLOAD OF
TOMATOES SUNDAY

The first carload of tomatoes
of the season from the west coast
of Mexico will arrive here to-
night, shipped by Kerson &
Alexander of Culiacan and con-
signed to eastern markets where
they will undoubtedly sell at the
highest prices ever paid for west
coast of Mexico tomatoes mas
much as the carload is about 40
days ahead of the usual first ship
ment of tomatoes Of the season.
Alex Joffroy & Company, GUS
toms brokers, are handling the
carload, as well as the entire Ker-
son & Alexander crop, and that Of
about half dozen more big grow
ers. Joffroy & Company expect
to attend to the crossing here Of
approximately 1900 cars Of tom
atoes during the season now be-
ginning.
Nogales international., 1926-11-21
80 CARLOADS FROM so ACRES
LETTUCE OUTPUT THIS COUNTY

For the first time in history,
lettuce has been grown on rather
extensive scale in Santa Cruz
County this year, largely as an
experiment, and has proven a big
success.
Sixty acres. of first class let
tuce grown in the county is now
being marketed by the well known
Mexico-Arizona Trading Company.
This acreage will yield approxi-
mately 10000 crates, which, ac-
cording to A. E. Sanders of the
Piggly Wiggly Store, is far sup
erior to any lettuce he has ever
been able to buy from either
Casa Grande, the Salt River Val
ley, or California. Mr.. Sanders
has contracted to buy all of his
supply from the Santa Cruz crop.
The Mexico-Arizona Trading
Company has erected a loading
platform at Otero, railroad sid
ing about sixteen miles north Of
Nogales from which they expect
to ship from 25 to 80 carloads of
lettuce to all parts of the middle
west.
The lettuce now on sale at the
Piggly Wiggly Store is very large
Nogales international., 1926-11-21
Becomes Citizen
OF u. S. After
az Years

Forty-two years after he was
deputy postmaster Of the town of
Nogales, Olaf J. Olsen, aged 81, a
Dane by birth, was admitted to
citizenship Friday by Superior
Court Judge w. A. O'Connor.
Olsen, in talking with Judge
O'Connor gave out some early
data on the Nogales of almost a
half century ago.
"I came to Nogales in the early
spring of 1884," declared Olsen.
'T lived here about four years and
part of that time was deputy post
master. Charles Altschul, the
village store-keeper' was post
master at that time, but / handled
al the postoffice business as de-
putty. The postoffice was in an
adobe building where the La Vile
de Paris building now stands and
it extended clear up to the Inter
national line. The north end of
the Montezuma Hotel lot was then
out in the country.
Continued on page four) .