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Show GRAFT FOR THE PANHANDLER War Has Developed a New Class, and He Is Making Charity Pay Him Well. A brand new kind of panhandler has been developed-by the European 'war. He sails the ocean blue. ;He clusters around the' quays., of. Rotterdam, and Southampton, with, bandages on his head and on his arms and legs. He shambles and shunts his way into the steerage of the big liners .going to America. And on the way over he tells pitiable stories of the frightful suffering the war has brought upon, him. He starts the telling of his harrowing harrow-ing tales in the steerage and tells them incessantly, so that finally they get to the ears of the steerage stewards, stew-ards, then to the ears of the.jsecond class, then to the first-class stewards and presently the affluent passengers, of the upper deck know the stories. And these may be depended .upon, with their sympathies thus quickened,, to look up the unfortunate and pour lavish charity into his bands. The feature of the. story of this brand of panhandler that always calls out 'the "biggest flow of gold is when they say they are coming to America to try to build new" homes and ' send for families left half starving in their wrecked native land, but that they are Without the -wherewithal the' J3U of cash necessary to permit them to be admitted to the new country. They usually get about five times $30 from the wealthy passengers. |