The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1916-12-28
IS AN OLD ORDER
TRAPPISTS ONE OF THE MOST
ANCIENT ORGANIZATIONS.
Incident Of the Present War Has
Called General Attention to Their
Monastery at Haxebrouck-
Have Spread over World.

Many American tourists have
stopped over night in the Trappisl
monastery where, according TO re
port recently published In Paris
newspaper, the youthful Prince Maxi
milien died of wounds In the third
month OF the European war. After
nearly two years of mysterious silence
concerning the fate OF this member
Of the royal family Of Germany, II Is
now said that Hazebrouck is the place
OF burial of the kaiser's nephew. This
town IL only few miles south of the
Belgian border. and about eighteen
miles from Ypres, where the Germans
In their first onward drive toward the
sea were definitely checked by a food
Ing of the lowlands.
When peace Is eventually declared a
search win doubtless be made In the
humble little cemetery of Hazebrouck
TO recover the body OF the royal sub
lieutenant and carry II back to his
mother. the youngest sister Of the
kaiser.
The fighting to the east of Haze
brouck was exceptionally severe dur
ing the early months OF the war, for
this French town of 10000 Inhabitants
Is a place Of extraordinary strategic
value, owing to the fact that IT is the
junction point OF railroads leading to
the North sea port Of Dunkirk, % |
miles to the north; to Arrns. 10 miles |
TO the south; to Calais. 80 miles to the |
northwest, and TO Lille. 20 miles to
the southeast. The German advance
never reached as far as Hazebrouck.
The town of Godewaersvelde, where
Prince MaximilIen Is supposed to have
received his fatal wound. is the last
village before crossing the French bor-
der into Belgium on the Hazebrouck-
Ypres line. Above the little town
towers the Mont des Cats, on top of
which is situated the modern Trappist
monastery where the wounded officer
was nursed.
The tourists who frequented the
In the days before the war
were those who wished to take advan-
tage OF its hospitable walls for
nights lodging TO be able to get an
early start for delightful walking ex-
rursions over the wooded slopes of Mont
Noir and Mont de Lille on the Belgian
frontier.
The Trappists are a fourishing or
Ter OF Cistercian monks who derive
heir name from the monastery of La
5rande Trappe, at Soligny-la-Trappe
100 miles southwest OF Paris, where
armand Jean lie b. de Rance insti-
uted sweeping reforms In the middle {
4 the seventeenth century. The expul-
Ion OF the order during the French '
evolution only seemed to stimulate Q
Is growth In its city of refuge-yal G
'alnte. Switzerland. A quarter OF a
entury after their flight the Trappists a
eturned to their original home. and In s
he course OF the century which has q
itervened between that day and this. Il
ne order has spread to many parts of n
ne world, including a congregation of e
} Chinese monks. others In Japan, 81
sia Minor, Canada and the United
tates.
In Natal the missionary Trappists
re particularly active in trying to al
vilize and convert the Kafiirs. and to
nong their activities In this part of
Ie world is the printing of books in D,
Ie Zulu language. There are also O
rapplst nunneries, the first being that X,
Les Clairet, at Charities, which m
lopted de RANGES reforms during his tn
'etime. of
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