Show IN ROOF is PRIZED I American l Officers Near Verdun r eld 11 11 Venerate Big BigI I Guns Guns Gun's Mark lalk I I nY DY Paris Sept 29 Edward 29 Edward Cluett the Troy manufacturer r who Is in Franco France with the tho Y M. M I. I C. C A A. was invited In during a n Journey to Verdun to dine with some somo French officers at their quarters close to the front The particular moss Is well known In the Verdun sector It Il in ha having held heM on to Its present home borne through thick and thin during great reat Verdun battles Besides this the mess Is remarkable for a 3 menagerie of at I birds bird and beasts it maintains on the premises During the dinner a wild I bear was perambulating around underfoot underfoot under under- foot Coot there were sere two hawks and an owl hopping about on the table a tamo tame crow roaRed croaked and mumbled on cit thu window Hill sill Halfway through the meal Mr lr Cluett happened to glanco s upwards when whan ho noticed several gaping holes In iii the tiia rig and wondering what species specie of or animal had made these he lie Inquired That wa wasn't mt made by an nn animal he lie was told It was ivus Just u u. shell that did it Then the lie officer confided that the mess was quite proud proui of oC that shell hole The rhe house was shelled frequently lent frequent I I ly but not for or v orld would tho lie mess have hava that holo hol 1 filled in In however tile they might michl repair other oIlier holes We were welo sitting at the lie table when hen I It arrived explained the officer and wo we all saw aw It U come conic Thero There wore icoro fourteen fourteen four four- teen of ot us us and amI besides knocking those thos liol holes 3 In In- Inthe the lie coiling colling it wrecked the tho table lable y It was a fact t The Th table was en entirely entirely on- on destroyed and thu thai curious part of or It was that not ono oiro of or th thu he four four- our our- Icon eon on as even ao no much as scratched However Howe remarkable ao ce this ma may have been Leen Mr lr Cluett was hardly l reassured As th this tho boche beebe wax was again shelling the neighborhood he lie SeH I I that lint during the tho r remainder of or the lie meal ho lie viewed the hole with ml interest I wondering whether r the next shell that th arrived b by way of ot the root roof I would be so considerate Nate |