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Show Red Cross Hears Woesj Money Seekers A-plenty .Majority Are Grafters' J Pathos, humor and plain burlesque! , contlnuo to bo daily occurrences at tho Home Servico bureau of tho Red Cross, says Mrs. Ada Griawold, sccre- 1 tary of tho organization. j A weary Individual, claiming to be a veteran of the Spanish-Amorican war appeared this week, asking for a loan of ?25 so that he could get to .Montana. Questioned as to his homo and conditions, he stated that his relatives rela-tives lived In Billings, 'Til can't b"or-' row no money at all." My folks is I Independently weathy and would not wish for to hear of me being broke at all." So he left. JlCro is Another. Then there was a man who had experienced ex-perienced considerable difficulty in i maintaining a straight course for his matrimonial bark through the trou- I bled waters of tho war. He enlisted, I and his wife, he claimed was faithless. 1 He loved her, however, and his ono thought was to be given the custody of their child when an approaching 1 divorce is granted. Ho wanted $25 to ( send to his wife to support the child. J "All right, said the secortary, tho , money will be forwarded to the city In which your wife residos. Tho Rod 1 Cross bureau will receive it, and wlli sco that tho money is expended on tho f child." j But the man didp't want his wife lo ? accept charity ao openly and so re-1 fused thc proffered $25 aftor finding! that ho could not send it himself. i Recently, a young ox-soldier, whose! discharge papers showed that he had , been released from service a year ago , I last January, asked for transporta- j i tion to Omaha. "My wife started out j from the coast for Omaha on the j passenger train after I had started on , j thc bumpers" two days before. I've i got fivo dollars, and If I got a ticket, 1 j I could get to Omaha In Urn to find , f her a place to live, and. got myself j a Job." j t Tho sincerity of tho boy's talk rather j h won tho npproval of tho secrotary. j 1 But, he showed hor a letter, care- g fully taking the missive from an en- velope. Tho letter was to corrobor- S ate Ills story, he said. f Nearly ln tho same words that, tho boy(had employed ln telling his story, tho lotter duplicated his tale. Ho way t askod to Bubmit a sample of his hand- 1 writing before being granted the fundh F for a ticket to Omaha. "Oh, well, hi said, "If you can't take a fcilow' word without wanting a sample of his g handwriting, I guess I'll finish the trip f on the bumpers " And so he departed. ( p |