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Show j Spurns Sympathy Which Finds i Expression in Dole of Money; The Tragedy of a Woman's Life I By J. H. CLAYTON. (Chicago Tribune Cable, Copyright.) ON HOARD THE STKAMKR SYRIA. EN ROUTE TO FTUMIC, Aug. 14. (Delayed.) "She's only one of the "great unwashed," " a salcs- man remarked of one of our 500 refugees on the'.r way home from Turkey and Smyrna. All day long she s:ts with dry, starhig eyes, forgetful o: her two children two bright little girls with wide, so.'t brown e y ( s and b r o v.- n curly hair. The woman has sat that way for thirty-six thirty-six hours now, only moving to feed and care for the wants of her girl ha'nles except yesterday morning. when thy tossed a pitiful li ; t'.e bundle over Un stern. It wn. her niiin-rhlld, one whom she had looped wo-,;VJ live to revenue t'n murder of her husband. The first-cas r. re r w re not disturbed over thc.r i mi': -morning co!Tef i Fo;ne on: or thr unwashed said a fev j wor': another made a htrlc prayer, arid 'the biack-wrapped body s'id in;o the sa j with a snlasii. The white foam of the j-bip's walc c'.osod over jt. !ca'-'!rg noi a i t race, bit 1 ; d-riCtd the hra:". of fir 1 :rr-d mol.-.er v j ; b ir An hour 1-at r-r the pnkr game was disturbed dis-turbed by a man taking up a roll'-f-tion. We addr-d our live frumps cu rclc--s- ly He to id us the '-oli'-ci ion was complete com-plete and asked me to count it and Lhn ' go with him while he avc it to the , mother. ! I couldn't underhand what my r-oi- . Ivague said as he offered the money. f 1 spoke Greek. Ibjt I did not need to j understand the mother's tongue to know , what the meant when she p'fus-'d to ! touch It. Those duli. lifeie.ss eves bhized i fire. i Five hundred francs for her man-chi'd?! From first - ra bin pn singers who v.-rr. j not interested enough to cive bun a d-- j rent funer,"!? No. I have enough o: sor- j row. My col.ejirrur lid the money in 1 1 : "j;ipl on de"k and lurrird to wnlk away. ! She eranbtd i:. r--hed in trie rriii aiidj emptied it over. o;( rd b for" w i; rvnj rj ston her. With a bnrd tm.Ie she returned t;;e -"in to 1 he m;-! ii. j "They are i, n gi-.i ; e'u 1 tea:;.-, aren't I hey he asked s we : i j r n ' ci a u a;. . The woman fx t hi her niue. star.ns out j over the sen. And I wil. I in id e --( nod a 1't If i't '.he FrTfio" of :'. )t'-y' ' i a-to -z pco- I i P'e pur'n as ttief. |