Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-09-24

the poor man died in the hospital and
that the anonymous friend wishes tc
assist the poor children in rendering
final homage to the departed. ~
Armed with this document the pre-
tended orphans toddle about from dool
to door, each day in strange neigh
borhood. collecting confines and francs
| to buy the wreath.
Through such 1ugubrious invention
and subterfuge the family has lived
many weeks, until, one luckless day
some of those solicited for aims. wish
ing to exercise a greater charity, fol.
lowed the children home and found the
father not only living, but in better
health than any beggar should properly
be presumed to be. The circumstance
were Immediately reported to the 20
lice. who conducted Makaire and his
wife to the fifteenth tribunal, where
each was sentenced to three months ir
prison for Swif1dling and forgery. You
certainly will not object to the SEN
tence," said the judge, addressing
Makaire. since to your children you
are already dead, are you not?" And
despite the excellence of the plea put
up for the defendants by M. Stot-
lender, who cited the methods en-
ployed as the only recourse left to the
loving father, the couple were deprived
dren. Happily for these last. they will
henceforth be tenderly cared for now
that they have lost definitely their
father!
MOnteyideO Proud TO
Be Pan American Host.
Ell Pals, Montevideo.-In 1882 the
Pan-American Congress will be held in
s11-fYn hlta0ataC
every country in North and South
America. Uruguay being small ma
ton compared with most Of the other
peoples on this continent, and espe-
cia1ly in comparison with the rich and
powerful United States, it is all the
more complimentary that we should
be the hosts for this important gath
ering.
But more and more, as the years
pass on, the attitude of the stronger
nations toward the weaker ones
the desire OF the great nations to eX-
plot and intimidate the smaller ones,
but to help them TO become more pros
porous and progressive.
The nations not only Of America,
but Of the whole world, are beginning
to realize their interdepsndence and to
evolve ideals CT universal fraternity.
Customs Agent
First TO Greet Prof. Picard.
The Transvaal Leader, Johannes
burg shows commendable presence
of mind that when Prof Picard landed
on glacier in Austria, after reaching
an altitude of nearly 10 miles, one OF
the first persons TO reach him should
have been a customs official.
When a man descends from height
like that you never know what dutiable
articles he may have brought back with
him. You know how one is pcstered to
buy things when travelling, and for all
we can say he may have purchased a
couple CT live comets or piece of pre-
served rainbow inscribed "A Present
From Pluvius" and all the Central
European states impose hsavy duties on
astral phenomena, as any one who has
tried to smuggle in weather chart can
tell you.
There is also the point to be borne
in mind that a man suddenly coming
down out of the skyline like that might
easily have been landing from Mars or
Saturn or one of those other outlandish
resorts, in which case ne would have
been a prohibited immigrant and sub
ject to section 4, clause TX, subsection
lob of the noxious weeds act