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enlisted early in the war in the card
engineers and was promoted and
transferred to the New York unit
in France.
The Citation
A copy of Major General O'Ryan's
citation which was given to the Off
GERS of the gallant 107th, follows:
l. l write to express my admi-
ration and respect for the valor and
endurance of the officers and men
OF the 10Th Infantry, so continu-
ously demonstrated during the past
thirty days.
%. Since the great battle for the
breaking of the Hindenburg line.
our advance has given opportunity
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TO HOLD MEMORIAL

Nom OrinI ~or'''c { = '0ror nf
Lieutenant Alexander Rodgers. Jr..
who died in Franco October - frc,n
nneumoni" and exhaurt'or oa''soa nv
three wc4kS of constant fighting in
st. Johns Church. WASHINGTON. Lieu
tenant Rodgers is a grandson of the
late ex-senator James d. Cameron.
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BERLIN FREE LANCE EXHORTS
ENEMIES OF KAISER TO ARM
FOR OVERTHROW OF CABINET
MOB TEARS HUSSARS FROM HORSES;
MAKES THEM MARCH WITH RED FLAG

AMSTERDAM, 9-Thc independent republic sclIcwis
OF Bremen This also stated that nguary encounters
Brunswick December
II members the Soldiers
and Workmens Council welcome his men the com
crowd
His obeScd and the Red Guards replied the fire The mob
disarmcd them forced them
march behind the red flag Into tho city.
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BOARDS TO SEAL
ALL RECORDS
Great Task Loyalty Complcl-
cd Without Hitch TO
Mar the Work
1000 SENT TO THE ARMY
City and County Districts TO
Be Closed by War De-
pariment Order

Local draft boards will complete
their work and seal their records to-
morrow by order of the State Draft
Headquarters. II is the end of the
/ local draft history, to all appear
ances. After tomorrow the records
of thousands of Harrisburg and Dau-
phin county boys who registered to
answer their country's call will be
sealed and held for future refer
ence by historians, war risk nsur-
ance and pension investigators.
In the last few weeks preceding
the closing of draft board offices, Of
iicials and clerks of the boards have
been collecting and transmitting to
the state headquarters all the data
contained in the usual annual report
have completed the, examination of
the ~ TO SO, and is classes, and ac-
complished the classification of these
men,
All papers received by the draft
boards after tomorrow will be en-
dorsed and stamped with the date of
their receipt and flied separately un-
til further orders from the state or
national HEADQUARTERS.
5000 Inductcd
After more than year and half,
uufinS WnlCn more tnan 5000 were
sent into the Army by the city and
county. the six local draft boards re-
linquished their duties. Their serV-
ices not only as agents of the ma
tional draft machinery. but also as
mediators and advisers for the thou
sands of draft registrants under their
jurisdiction, were responsible for the
smooth working of the draft here.
There was little or no friction be-
tween the registrants and draft
boards, and none between the local
boards and their superiors in author
ity.
Among those who helped materi-
ally in making local draft work so
successful were five limited service
men who were inducted into the
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FRENCH PRISONERS SHOT

Paris, Dec. 9.-Nine French pris4
oners were shot by the Germans
and fifteen others prisoners serious
ly wounded at the prison camp in
Langensalza, Prussian SaXony, the
Spanish ambassador at Berlin re-
ports. The behavior of the prison
ers did not in the least justify the
severity of this act of repression, il
was declared.
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THE WEATHER

For Harrisburg and VIeinltyi Rain
tonight md Tuesday; not much
change In temperature.
For Eastern Pennsylvania: Rain
Tonight and Tuesdays warmer
Tuesday in north portion; mod
ernte northwest TO north winds,
becoming variable.
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General Conditions

1 disturbance of grent magnitude
covers the central md western
portions of the United States.
except the extreme Southwest,
with it's center over the North
ern Rocky Mountains; IL has
caused precipitation In the last
twenty-fOuF hours over most of
the territory west OF the Rocky
Mountain aud In the Middle and
Lower Missouri, Middle and I'm
per NissIssippi valleys, IncIud-
Ing Illinois. Another disturb
Rnee that has passed of the
North Atlantic coaEt. caused
caused snow In Northern MichI-
gan and the Upper 81. Lawrence
Valley.
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River

The Susquehannn river and all its
branches will fall slowly or re-
main nearly stationary tonight.
a general rain, indicated for the
watershed, may cnuse some
streams to rise Tuesday. A
Etnge, slightly below four feet,
is indicated for Harrisburg
Tuesday morning.
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FAMOUS

From the Philadelphia North American.
Some day when o are mending
that great, three -cOrnsred tent in your
little .Johpnie's trousers, and discover
tucked away in u the pockets a
tiny garter snake, u Yin tobacco box
containing a. disaeinDtfer watch aud
A-haridfti .ot CHEEKY stones. and a .afge
ball Of putty. DON cal! him to yoa and
read him a lecture On untidiness.
He is satisfying his normal taste for
collecting. He 10 looking about to find
his hobby. History shows us many n
man hat would have gotten his start
in the world much Boomer had his
relative taken pains To find u what
OF was that interested I'm most.
Look at poor Oliver Goldsmith. Who
knows how many more beautiful
poems he might have left to us had he
been allowed TO follow his natural bent
from the beginning, instead Of taking
a try at all the professions. n after
another, an making a fizzle OF them
all. No one thought OF encouraging
him to write for his living
An uncle advised hir, to study for
the ministry first and ne did for two
years, but when he made his applica-
ton at the bishops hs appeared so
gayly attired and seemed so flippant IL
was refused. Then he became a tutor
in a private family. but he didn't stay
there iong, for he auarreied with his
employer over q game OF cards.
The same uncle came forward again
and sent him to Dublin with 5000 to
study law. He gambied away that
money before he had even entered the
law school. Then once again the long
suffering UnclS came to the rescue.
tSls time insisting that ka taxa a
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OF MINING
DAYS IN TOMBSTONES
Wild Life Led BY Pioneers Is
Recalled BY Decaying
Old Buildings.

Tombstone, Ariz.-The Bird Cage
opera house, the Can-Can restaurant,
the Red Light saloon and the Tucson
stage office remain as relics of Tomb
stones time glory as a mining
camp. These old buildings we're once
inc scenes OF the pioneer Arizona min
Ing camp. but are now occupied by
bats and are slowly falling into decay.
The Bird Cage opera house was the
most famous in the territory. II is a
rambling. two-story structure with the
glass I'm the rough board front broken by
the elements. A long bar occupies one
end or the building, while the piano play
eTs raised platform faces It at the oppo-
site end. II was or this platform that
thu famous sign hung which read: 'Do
not shoot the piano player. He is doing
the best he can" A gallery extends
around three sides OF the opera house ana
the stage occupies the fourth side. On
this stage the most famous variety per-
formers from San Francisco appeared in
the old days. Autographs announcing
their coming still hang on the walls Of
h opera house, the ink still bright up
on them. A dumb waiter tho
bar with the gallery above where drinks
were served at tables placed In each OF
the little rooms which open onto the big
dancing floor. Many Killings have oe.
Cured in the Bird Cage and 1t has been
the scene Of a number of western stories
V ltoHlicE NV
AT the Can-Can restaurant steaks
once sold for IS each and men waited
in line To be served at the height 81
the Tombstone gold boom. The Red
Light saloon was a gambling house
and the discarded roulette and faro
layouts may be seen stacked in the rear
Of the big building with Its broken bar
and mahogany fixtures. The stage Of
flee is an adobe building with a corral
thanking it and 1t was there that the
stage from Tucson pulled in each day
and the early settlers received theiS
mail from the outside world. Another
relic of old Tombstone is the monu-
ment erected to Ed Schefflein. the
founder OF Tombstone and the man who
gave it his name. The IL
built of boulders from Schefflein's first
mine.
A cowboy in the Panhandle told
Schefflein that he would not find gold
but a tombstone in his quest of a gold
mine in the Huachuca mountains
Schefflein found gold and named the
town Tombstone, remembering his
friends prediction. When he died Dis
body was returned here and the tomb
stone erected at the spot where he
made the gold strike that caused p
great rush to this camp. r
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DESCRIBES PLIGHT OF
STARVING kUSTRIANS
Party of Rumanians Travelling
Through Vienna Appealed
to For Food.

Paris. (by maiD.-Hundreds Of starv-
ing Austrians in the ca pital city of
vienna recently surrounded a train on
which a party OF Rumanians vas
travelling to France and begged pit
eously for bread. according to he Ru-
manians VINO have now arrived here.
The party asking for food gathered
about the train I'm the Hitting quarter
Qf Vienna where some Of the most
well-to-do people 1--we, said Captain
r. Rosetti, Of the Rumanian army.
They told the Rumaniane that turnips,
Deets and potatoes constitute almost
h only food Of a large part Of the
population of Austria.
There We're more than 800 men, wo-
men and children in the party that
surrounded the train, said Colonel Ros-
setti, n almost veryon expressed
horror at the continuance of the war
and bitterly ~reproached Germany for
the desperate plight In which they
found them selves.
Their faces were pinched and pale
and showed Enthusiastically that they
had borne Intense %privations and suf-
fering. Several among the number de-
clared there must o o be a widespread
revolution In Austria II steps were nCt
taken to feed the population.
Colonel Rossettt offered one OF those
who sought help 10 crowns The
money was declined on the ground that
no food could be bought for it. The
Austrian, who in peace times was Z
prosperous storekeeper, pleaded FOR
bread for his children. whom he saia
had nothing to eat for three weeks ex-
cept turnips and beets.
The German colonel in charge OF the
train was so annoyed at the cries Of
the hungry crowd that he gave orders
TO have the train mo we'd forward at
once to another pa t OF the city.
All passengers on the train had TO
submit to a rigid search by the Aus
trian authorities and no n was per-
mitted to carry a single scrap OF paper.
Madame Titelescu and several other
women passengers were temporarily
deprived Of. all thelr clothing and a
minute Examination made OF thelrr Ser
sons for the purpose of detecting
SECRET Information they might be car.
rylns from Rumania to France
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AIRPLANE OBSERVERS
MUST BE WELL TRAINED

Behind British Lines In France-(by
maiD--Every British and American
airman nowadays undergoes a special
course Of training in Counter mou-
flage." He is told all the tricks of the
German camoufiage artist to deceive
the entente airmen, and his eye is care
fully trained to penetrate all the de-
vices OF the enemy.
1t is diamond cut diamond all the
time in the contest between the Ger
man camoufIagc ---sert ard IT," allied
observers. Troops MAJ bs moved on
roads canopied by caulJufsged can
vas, but there il camoufiage also ever
I'm the business OF moving troops in
the open. where the German practices
a simple little deception BY varying
the space between one rank and the
next, 40 that in a long column the OBJ
servers estimate Of the amber on the
move is hOpelessly inaccurate.
The airplane observer or today has
10 combine the wits Of a first rate de-
cective with the eyes Of a n eagle. He
has first TO see, hen to deduce, n
has to be certain that he Is not making
deductions from falslfied evidence.
A heavy howltzer is sometimes con-
verted into a O nd growth and q
grove Of bushwood erected about it..
But suppose a gun Is seen nakedly
plain. with well worn tracks leading
to It, and as an airplsne appears above,
flashes coming from h gun? The
obvious deduction liz that here Is a
dummy gun, with dummy flashes, in
tended to draw the bombs OF the air.
plane and the fire OF the British bat
teries. But 1t may be the real gun
after all, exposed for purposes OF de-
ception.
Troops hiding In woods are well con-
cealed from an airpiane observer. 90
long rs they are moticnless. But let
one man move. and detection Of tho
whole party may follow.
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TEXAS WOMAN SHERIFF.

rEVtH tue warrington me
Coleman. Tex.-Mrs. JOhR r. Han
mister is the new sheriff OF Coleman
County. All who know her say that
when she buckles on her six shooter
and goes out to make an arrest the Of
fender had better make peaceful sur
render II he knows what Is good for
him. 1t is not meant by this that Mrs.
Bannister Is a woman OF the rough
type. On the contrary. she is unas-
Stunning, quiet, n prepossessing. She
belongs to a stock of westerners that
does not know fear when it comes to
doing official duty.
Mrs. Bannister's husband, Captain
Bannister, who died recently, was
sheriff of Coleman County for many
years. His wife assisted him in his
work I'm many ways, and is thoroughly
familiar with the details of the office.
1t was but natural that she should be
elevated to h vacant position. her
friends say. q,
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course at the medical school.

course at the medical school.
He did, but as a doctor he was q
dire failure. He succeeded in getting
an appointment as q phypician to the
East India company, but it was re-
yoked before he was able to do any
damage. Even when he presented him
self as mate In a naval hospital he
failed to pass the examination. But
we would never call Oliver Goldsmith
q failure.
A great many other men became
doctors early in life, but gave up
the profession for something more
congenfal when they discovered that
their genius lay In other directions.
When the parents Of Henrik Ibsen,
he great Norwegian dramatist. lost
their money they apprenticed him to
an apothecary for seven years. His
mark on him forever.
He was considered q chronic Crouch
He walked o the town like q mys
terry sealed with seven seals, n frien,
said Of him. Later he decided that n.
! could do better in the realm Of litera-
ture than III that OF medicine and he
did.
Schiller, the author of William
Tell was another unsuccessful physi-
clan before he found himself. He was
a medical officer in the Prussian
Guard was expelled from his regiment.
arter serving less than three years,
for incompetency.
Sir Arthur Conan DoyIs was not in
competent as a physician. He followed
his profession at South Sea in the sos,
and for his services as commandment
Of a field Hospital in the Boer war he
received the thanks OF the govern
ment. But after he became known as
the creator of the famous Sherlock
Holmes" he abandoned his profession
and devoted his entire tisns to writing.
Robert Calling. the inventor of the
famous gun that bears Ms name, got
interested In medicine when he had
smallpox and entered the university
and got his degree. But 1t failed to
keep his interest long. When the Civil
war broke out he went lack to his IR-
ventions and perfected the Calling
gun. AS one has said. ii has probably
destroyed more lives than he had evel.
hoped to save through his profession.
DIR. Roberts Bridges. the poet Iaure-
ate Of England, had a furnishing prac-
tice In Midlands about 20 years ago.
But he gave it all up while he was
still a young man IN order to devote
himself to the writing of plays, poems
and essays, and those charming verses
that have won him such a high place
in literature.
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RUDYARD KIPLING TALKS
TO AMERICAN TROOPS
From the London Times.

Rudyard Kipling, whs was accom-
panied by Mrs. and Miss kipling, paio
a visit recently t the American Rest
camp TT Winnali Down near Winches-
ter. 1ie was received by Col. s. q.
Jones commanding the American Rest
camps in the Winchestee area), and az
dressed a large body Sf troops. MT.
Kipling said:
There Is no need for any English
man to make o wetaome to English
soil. None Of you can have como sven
from the ports Of decentralization. none
OF you can have been IN England even
a day, withiut discovering for YOUR
selves how most heartily welcome you
all are. And you are here TO take
your share in the bigg9st piece or work
that the world has ever set its hand 10
since 1t was created. 1t is not going
to be an easy Job, and not q short 1oc.
but, be the Job long Or be 1t short, II
will be most thoroughly and complete
ly finished. (Cheers.) Nobody wants
the world to be troubled again, on any
pretext whatever, with q similar incon-
venience. (Laughter.) You have heard
a great deal and you are beginning 10
realize a little what is meant by the
cost and sacrifice OF war. But even
this war is not without its compensa-
lions. In spite Of all the loss In the
past, in spite Of all the loss to come.
there is something gained. And, as l
see II. the gain, the immense n out
standing gain, that has come to us out
Of all this furnace Of affection In which
We have walked Is thSt this very war
has welded, by common endurance, by
common knowledge, and by pain shared
/ together. the decent minded, kindly. and
clean thinking peoples Of the earth.
Cheers.
"For in this work we are all to-
gether; and before mAny weeks have
passed over you will realize this. In
a few weeks IL may be the lot OF some
or you here to W your life to a
F~renchman, your rattons to an Ital-
ian. shelter from the VET to a Belgian,
and your hospital for the night to an
Englishman, just In the same way as
these races would owe and borrow
from you without thinking Of 1t twice.
And when individuals come TO know
and to understand esch other through
the daily tests of lifb and death. sure
W to God 1t will not be- long before the
nations themselves-the Christian and
kindly nations of the earth-wili be
united. IN spite OF the little differences
| that in old days we used to hin vital.
This is not an occasion when wo
al say very much, perhaps because
we feel so deeply. Will you just al
low me to wish you God speed In your
work. and o bring you home again.
cloud cheers.)
Three cheers and q tiger" were CIV
en- for Mr.. Kipling, on the call OF
Colonel Jones. 1t Was a tremendous
| salutafiOn.
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lhetpinu the Hun.

You help the Hun II o are prone
to dodge foou regulations, II you put
mp IA dismal groan whene'er YOU view
the rations. The loyal fellow does not
swerve from rules laid down by
Hoover. he blithely follows every
curve and bylaw and maneuver. You
help the Hun when you repeat dire
stories OF disaster: you pick up ru-
mors OF defeat, and make them travel
raster. II Is the kaiser's standard trick,
to keen such rumors brewin', to make
our hearts and spirits sick through
tales OF death and ruin. You would
0 wilfully assist this would be
Alexander. hut thoughtlessly you help,
| wist, to 81 -ead his propaganda. You
heip the N when you complain OF
what the ar lis costing; the patriot
who's SAT- and sane will find no load
xhaa ,,s. What IL demands on you
are pig? What IL you're always bust
ed! while you've a penny still TO dig.
YOU h2eidn't be Disguised. You're
buying freedom with the cash you
shell ior bonds and taxes. and kultur's
dome you help to smash. AS though
witn pattle axes. It's easy work. to
lelp lhe Hun, by snarling and repin-
ing' oy being stingy with your mon.
ny peeiing and by whining. And le-
siol.s do 1t every day whose anger
~oulo ne royal. il we should point with
scorn n say they are not truly loyal.
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EXPECT LANDING FIELD.

From the OIlaha NUrIU-Tt IiIu.
Speaking of the word from Washing
ton that building OF a chain of land
ing fields for aviators across the
United States is going on and that
Nebraska is one state to get them,
Clarke q. Powell, officer of the Aero
Club of Omaha, says hat Omaha will
doubtless have one of these stations
and tha others wiiIake located west
ward along the tr~ansContinental
route. Omaha has mechanics capable
OF airplane work and ample up
niles for planes. he adds. An officer
OF the Aero Club OF America on his
last visit looked over the field and
toll Mr.. Powell beyond question OMa-
IN ia a logical place FOR landing.
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THE SPEED OF DOGS.

Tow fast IAN a dog, run,H FvtSN
Id stream" which is a. authoriey On
out Of doors matters. says:
Eskimo dogs can travel 45 HsilsS IN
five hours, according. TO- an authority
who relates that he once drove hiA
dog team seven miles in half an hour.
Ordinary domestic dogs. at fuu speed.
run at the rate OF from 80 to - feet
a second; Hetters and pointers. about
1871 to FL 7-1a miles an hour. and
they can maintain this speed for two.
or even three hours, Eoxhounds are
very fat, and In a recent trial one of
them beat 3 thoroughbred horse. COW
p.ing four miles IN six and 4 half min
otes. O~reyhoHc.ds can run al the rata
of g 10 rs feet a second. Horses caa-
NOT exoseI IS feet Z sscoad.
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According to the continental press.
the Germans have taken advantage Of
the war to develop the Polish market
for their goods. TwD ears & sew
eral chambers of In east
Germany, together with the Berlin
chamber, combined to establish a
Joint bureau in Poland. This bureau
now represents 81 trade bodies and
has opened show rooms in Warsaw,
LODI. Kalisz. Chenstochow, Sosnowice
and elsewhere. Mt negotiates the pur-
chase nud sale OF articles not subject
to government control and finds uutt.
abba agen.S for German firms
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JUNkED.

From the Des Moines Capital.
Since the national army is 10 more
and all Of Uncle Sans troops will be
called the United States army, several
pes Moine dealers in soldier CLOTH
ing and insignia nave found a lot OF
wortl..ess II. 5. ". A. buttons n col
lar decorations on their hands. There
is no recourse but to sell them fol
Junk
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HE BACKED HIM.

Ever back a horse In your life ,"
"Once only"
win anything
NO; you see l backed this horse
through a shop window and had to
pay $50 damages"
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COMMISSIONERS PROCEEDINGS
TyndalI, S. b., Sept. 8. 1918.

Tyhda11, S. d., Sept. 3. 1918.
Board met pursuant to the statute.
Present.: Chas. Dirlks. Frank Daub,
Jos. V. Wagner. w. A. Cobb and STAN
ley klamar. county auditor. Absent:
j.. Patterson.
Chas. Dirks was elected chairman.
pro tenn.
ON motion the following bills were
allowed:
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wires are said to extract yearly from
tne sou only about three fourths Of the
auaht,ty or potash and phosphoric
acid that cereals take up.
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The Belgians are looked upon as the
greatest potato eaters in the world,
and the Irish come second. !.