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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-09-26

western Europe was still atrem BILE
with recollections of the Hundred
Years War, the war that brought
Jean dare out of Lorraine, brought
her to the relief of besieged Orleans
in 1929, and led her to the stake at
Rouen in 1431.
Charles only virtue was his bold
ness, and even that went too far. In
his struggles, now crafty, now open.
always bloody, against Louis XII he
set as excellent an example of how
to wage one kind of war as even the
kaiser could wish to follow.
In 1475 he made peace with Louis
that he might seek game elsewhere.
He overwhelmed Lorraine, invaded
Switzerland. was driven out in utter
rout, lost two-thirds of his men in
another battle, and then decided to
retire to his castle. Two months
later, as he was brooding over his
plight, word came that the Young
Duke of Lorraine was besieging
Nancy.
Thither with the remnant of his
army, went Charles. He arrived
before Nancy to find that, three days
before, the city had capitulated to
his enemy A battle was fought
January 5, 1477, near Nancy, in
which Charles was killed and his
army dispersed.
Name Linked With AIsace
1t was during the days of Richie
lleu, the great churchman-s n-statesman,
that the name of Lorraine. becam q
first linked with that of Alsace. The
! cession of Alsace to France. Off
cially marked in 164S, six years after
Richelieu's death, by the treaty of
! Westphalia, ended the devastating
Thirty Years War and pushed the
| frontier of France eastward to its
natural boundary. the Rhine.
| Lorraine itself, however, did not
cease to be duchy and become part
of France until the death of Stanis.
, las Leczinski, in 1866. Just how
! anyone named >Stanislas Leczinsk
came to be mixed up in the histor,
of Lorraine or of France is more
easily explained than might appear
on the surface. Stanislas, I, father.
in-law of Louis XIV. aspired to the
Polish crown, was elected (for the
Polish monarchy was elective) ant
was then refused recognition BY
Russia and Prussia. The Russians
seized Warsaw and Stanislas flee
back to France, leaving his cause tc
collapse.
To compensate for the loss o,
Poland, he was granted the Duchy OF
Lorraine, and the then duke
Francis, was given Tuscany. II
Italy But it was provided that or
the death of Stanislas Lorraine
should be united in perpetuity tc
France.
That perpetuity lasted. as all the
world knows. until 1871. The Treaty
of Frankfort, which ended the
! Franco -Prussian War and thereby
marked down a date that belongs In
any chronological table of the wal
that began in 1914, ceded to Prussia
in addition to all of Alsace (the de.
). partments of Haut-Rhin and Bas-
! Rhin), the ACCOMPLISHMENTS 4 OF
Metz, Tnionville, Sarreguemines
| Chateau-Salins and Sarrebourg-
only a part of Lorraine, but a part
rich not only in coal and iron, but
in love for France.
President Poincare and General
Petain are both natives of French
Lorraine.
Lorraine has a language, rather a
patois, of its own. but that language
is not German.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-09-26
KNITTING

Oh, sit and 1 knit, as my grand
mother did.
In the days so long ago,
And my needles, like hers, make a
sturdy cloth
For one gone to fight the foe.
Oh, knit and 1 think, as my grand
mother did
In the days so long ago,
With my thoughts, like her thoughts
on a sweetheart dear,
So gallant to meet the foe.
Yes, 1 think and 1 love, as my
grandmother did
In the days so long ago,
And my love is as strong asher love
was then
For him who must meet the foe.
oh, my grandmother loved her own
back from that hell,
In the days so long ago;
Like an lrmo- of light her love kept
him safe
And strong against the foe.
So 1 knit and I love, as my grand
mother did,
Who loved we'll so long ago..
And my sweetheart will come pack
to me some day
When there is a conquered roe.
-GRACIA WOOD.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-09-26

Evening clothes" are delusion and
a snare. A man never is certain
that he has arrived until he stands
before the mirror all logged out IN
one of the denominations. feeling dig
nified and important. not to say dis
tinguished. He worries until he owns
suit and after the first few joyous
exhibitions of his somber plumage ne
worries every time he Is obliged 10
get into it. If this war brings back
the good old days when a man coulo
go about in flannel and homespun
and feel perfectly at ease anywhere
it will be worth all it has cost In
dollars. No real herman wears
dress suit from choice. No indeeo!
When he has his own way he sneaks
off somewhere, puts on the Oldest
things he can find, pokes his feet into
hunting boots and g. pipe into MS
mouth and blissfully murmurs 10
himself, "oh, boy. this is the lie.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-09-26
UPPER END HOSPITAL

T TNTERPRISING upper end men
are about to establish a public
hospital at Williamstown for
the use of the people of Williams
Valley, as far to the west as Eliza
bethville and Millersburg. This is
good move. Williamstown, Lykens,
Wiconisco and Tower City are in the
heart of a great mining center. In
jured miners have to be taken now
to Pottsville or brought to Harris
burg. These distances are too great.
The community owes the workmen
better treatment The Williamstown
hospital will give 1t to them.
But there are other reasons. too,
and one is that, while Harrisburg is
always happy to open its hospital
to unfortunate neighbors, the popu-
lation of both city and county Is
growing, whereas the capacity of
the hospital is not Eventually we
in this city will have to rebuild on
a much larger scale and in a Quieter
location, but until that time comes
room in the local institution will be
at a premium. The upper end has
displayed public spirit of no mean
order in its hospital movement and
no doubt it will be crowned by sue
cess.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-09-26
WELL KNOWN PEOPLE

DIR. Frederick L. VanSickle. the
new pdesident of the State Medical
Society, come from Lackawani1a
county.
DR.. Nathan C. Schaeffer, state
superintendent of public instruction
was speaker at the dedication of
Eancaster's new high school,
DR.. William Hallett Johnson, the
president of Lincoln University, has
been elected moderator of the pres
bytery of Chester
DR.. James R. Gormley, former
legislator from Beaver county, has
been appointed captain in the Med
ical Corps and gone on duty. He was
formerly coroner of Beaver county.
The Rev. John M. Cameron, a
Lawrence county minister. has taken
charge of a school to help out DUR
ing the shortage of teachers and is
carrying on the work of both lines.
DIR. L. P. Davis, head of the
Volunteer Medical Reserve Corps, is
planning a big drive to get the doc
tors interested.
DIR. H. H. Apple, president of
Franklin and Marshall has been
added to the district appeal board
for that section.
&C. Henry Stinson, of Norris
town, is in charge of the develop
ment of the volunteer police in his
section.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-09-26
BREAD FROM WOOD

A search for new materials to feed
the starving stomachs of Sweden has
brought about the discovery or
spruce wood as a flour substitute,
Sweden, located as II is IN lhe
precarious position between the TWO
fighting groups of nations, has round
il hard to obtain its necessltles from
anv of its fighting neighbors. In
tj,,9e of peace. Sweden depended lar
ge1v on imported wheat and other
foodstuffs both from the East and
West. but now the importation or
food is almost impossible.
Being a. we'll wooded country, Swe-
dish chemists naturally turned to
the forests in search of substitutes.
AS a result, the first successful one,
spruce flour, is on the market 1t
is made from spruce wood accord
ding to a method devised by a Swe-
d;sh chemist. Extensive expert
n,ents have been carried on to deter
mine the digestibility of this spruce
or cellulose -four. and all OF them
have proved that fully two-thirds
of the celiulose flour is absorbed
by the human being.
Not only is bread baked out OF
one-third spruce flour and two-thirds
wheat or other flour healthtul ana
digestible, but it also is pleasing IN
texture and flavor.
The manufacture of this product
Is under way in Sweden in sutficient
Quantities TO supply the needs OF
Stockholm, according to DR.. BOOK
man of the American Chemical So
ciety. It is being sold at the price
Of forty cents q pound, but the oulk
~ tbe spruce flour is about three
times that OF wheat.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-09-26
LIBERTY DAY
By BRIGGS

tF'rom Philadelphia Public LEDGER
1t was q happy inspiration of the
President to name the twelfth of
October as Liberty Day. AS the an
niversary of the discovery of Amer
lea it has been celebrated in recent
years, especially by our Italian citi-
zens; and the plan to link it with
the great principles for which we
are fighting" will give it new and
happy significance, The New World
which Columbus. found has in the
centuries developed ideals which are
conquering the Old World. Amer
leans should be glad to make fitting
public commemoration of the great
part which mighty conflict has call
ed upon them to play. They will
thus renew enthusiasm for the cause,
speed their efforts to advance it by
further sacrifices and by the meas
ure of their devotion show their ap-
probation of the men who are main
training their liberties and their
sacred honor on the battlefields of
France.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-09-26
LOthair'S Kingdom Now
"An1eriCa in France"
NF ORE than any other part of
From dc Stars and Stripes. France.

| n n ORE than any other part of
lV the land of the fleur-de -lys,
Lorraine is America in
| France 1t was in Lorraine that
American troops first entered the
| line to train; it was in Lorraine,
north of Toul, that American troops
first entered the line as fighting men,
| fit, trained and ready; and American
! troops have. since that October day
in 1917, held some part of the Lor-
raine line.
Most of us-now that we are IL
million strong, by far the larger
part of us were still in the States
then-can remember the thrill that
went from coast to coast when the
cables brought word that American
and German had met in their first
clash of arms. That clash, we now
know, occurred in Lorraine.
. The history of Lorraine as a ter
ritorial unit dates from S43, when
the Treaty of Verdun divided the
kingdom of Louis I, called the Pious,
also the Debonair, among his three
sons-who were also grandsons of
| Charlema agne-Lothair, Louis the
German and Charles the Bold.
There was considerable fighting
before the partition was effected.
Charles and Louis combined to do
battle against their brother, and
their alliance, made on their fathers
| death in $40, was renewed two years
later in the famous Strassburg oaths.
The fame of the Strassburg oaths
is that, since the Allied armies
spoke different tongues, the cove
nant was written in both languages
/ 1n Cr1ia f,.n, ,,l,
their different ways, have developed
French and German.
The treaty of Verdun gave Lothair
''the Middle Kingdom" an indefinite
wedge of territory stretching from
the North Sea to the Mediterranean
along the valleys of the Rhone and
i the lower Rhine. To Louis went
the region to the west, to Charles
that to the east.
I The treaty of Verdun, therefore
separated once and for all the three
\ groups-Italians, Germans anc
Gallo -Franks-who had constituted
the vast amalgam of lands and peo.
i pies of whose destinies the then tot.
i tering Carlovingian dynasty had beer
supreme arbiter.
Heritage of Wars and Woes
i Lothair's kingdom speedily begar
W reap ltS heritage or wars anC
woe. 1t passed to Lothairs second
son, Lothair II, and it was from this
second Lothair that it derived it.
name-Lothair's Kingdom, Lothian
Regnum, Lotharingia. Lorraine. Thi.
Lothair, instead of committing the
typical Carlovingian error of leavine
too many children, went his forbears
one better and left none.
Lorraine was divided between his
fathers brothers, the two kings who
had sworn to the Strassburg oaths
France and Germany were in pro.
cess of evolution.
1t is striking testimony to the
tumultuous character of the Europe
of that day that between 91O and
955, Lorraine was five times raw.
; aged by Hungarian incursions. In
the latter year the invaders were sc
badly defeated that they did moi
come again, and the country began
to rise from its ruins.
OF all the invasions that have
been visited upon Lorraine, before OF
since, perhaps none stands out in
history so wildly as that led BY
Charles the Bold in 1477, when
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-09-26
Yelled After the Service

After the great service at st.
Paul's that solemnized the entry of
America into the war, a number OF
wounded American volunteers, who
had been present in the cathedral,
were entertained at luncheon in a
Iondon restaurant The ambassa-
dor was asked to come along" He
came along" During the luncheon
one of the wounded said to him
across the table:
"Mr. Ambassador, there was just
one thing wrong with that service"
What was it?"
I'VE couldn't yell" 80.
"Then why don't you yell now?"
The man climbed on to a chair.
and. waving his napkin. shouted.
"Boys, the ambassador says we may
yell. Let's yell."-
80" said Mr.. Page in telling tae
story, "they yelled for five minutes,
and yelled with them. We all
felt better for it."-London Times.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-09-26
GOOD IDEA
"HE Washington Press Club sug-
gests that the dress suit" 9TH
= nr,rirA 1rr,o,rr, uflill .d..n=. .

T,HE Washington Press Club sug-
gests that the dress suit" 9TH
erwise known as full dress"
evening clothes" dinner togs" or
glad rags" be ruled out for the
period of the war Happy thought.
And with the open-faced suits, we
hope, the billed shirt" with Its ar
NOR plate front,
1t is not matter Of history as to
Just how the dress suit" came into
being, and perhaps it Is just as we'll.
1t would be an awful thing for any
man to look back to an ancestor re-
sponsible for such a crime, The
dress suit" inventor must have had
a spite at all mankind, combined
with a grim sense of humor, The
joke of evening clothes" is that
while they are designed to be a mark
of distinction and, indeed, are worn
as such by certain proud possessors,
in reality they give their wearers an
appearance not unlike that of .he
walters who serve them. This may
be very good for the promotion of
democracy, but it is very hard upon
the strange guest at the feast who is
trying to decide which is the head
walter and which his host, Indeed.
many of our most dignifed head
walters are SO markedly more surnp-
tuously clad than most of those over
whose dinner destinies they preside
that the humbled guest is prone to
PROSTATE himself before their afore-
said majesties and to be audlbIy
thankful for the obscure corner into
which he is unceremoniously pushed
by the august parsonage.
In these days of wartime abstt-
nence 1t is not so easy to differentiate
between walters and guests as it used
to be when, in the language of a we'll
known wit, one was always able to
tell the waiter from a fellow diner
by the fact that the waiter was
usually sober" Now the napkin over
the arm is about the only mark of
difference, and heaven only knows
how long that will continue, with a
linen famine dark prospect of the
near future.
But to get back to the Press
Clubs idea-why not? Who cares q
whoop for tho dress suit, anyway? !?
Certainly net the possessors thereof.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-09-26
CORN FOR SEED

[From the Indianapolis Star1
Seed corn should be selected on the
stock. Diseases are easily detected
at this time and ears from defective
stocks may be avoided, sometime
that is not possible when the seed
corn is sorted out in the crib. II
the best ears from the best stocks
in each farmers field are picked
now and are properly dried the seed
problem for next spring will be
solved to the satisfaction and great
est profit of farmers and of every
body in Indiana who is dependent
upon the agricultural prosperity Of
the state.
No farmer needs to be told now
that the crop he gathers is measured
by what he plants. The day when
anything was considered to be good
enough for seed has passed. The
best seed produces the best corn.
The farmer who puts in his time and
labor tilling @ field in which he has
planted anything except the best
seed he could get is cheating HIM
self and wasting the agricultural re-
sources of his country ct a time
when food is an important factor IN
the winning OF the war.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-09-26
Remarkable Remarks

Booth Tarkington-Loyal is a
feeling; it is not a spoken word.
R. L. Goldberg-The crown
princes brain is completely missing.
The kaiser-The United States
will never be truly great until it be-
comes monarchy.
Admiral Won Hintze-The entire
truth at certain times does not serve
but harms the public interest.
Charlie Chaplin-I like to go
among people and get intimately ac-
quainted with their loves and hates.
Ed Howe-I sometimes think I
may be supplying the new note in lit
erature 80 long prayed for by critics.
From the Independent (New York;
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-09-26
Lururies

Twenty-e eight gallons of whisky
consumed in five months-this is the
record of Ignatz Holtun, according
to his wife. Mrs. Julia Holtun filed
a bill for divorce in the circuit court
a few days ego. Mrs. Holtun also
asserts her husband told her "twen-
ty-five cents q day is enough for any
woman to live on.-Chicago Tribune.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-09-26
An hour of solitude, passed IN sin

An hour of solitude, passed In sin
cere and earnest prayer or conflict
toith, and conquest oVer, single
passion or subtle bosom sin, aoilL
teach US more of thought, tCiH more
eDectudlly dDaEen the faculty and
form the habit of reflection than q
years study in the schools t0ithout
them.-Coleridge
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-09-26
Brisbane and BreUerS

No doubt it was all right for Mr.
Brisbane to borrow money to buy "a
newspaper, and no doubt it was all
right to borrow it from brewers,
and no doubt it was all right for
the brewers to be named Pabst and
Liebmapn and such like, but taken
altogether it does look as though
Mr.. Brisbane might have better gone
without newspaper.-Kansas City
Times.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-09-26

Now that the accompanying beer
is nearing it's eclipse, a pretzel factory
at Columbia has turned to baking
hard-tack
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-09-26

Hundreds of women are working
as oxyacetylene welders in a large
munition factory located in Cali
fornia.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-09-26

General Won Wrisberg pays a high
compliment to American negro troops,
when he says they were one of the
factors forcing the German retreat in
France.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-09-26

The Indiana State Building Trades
Council will hold convention in
Gary, beginning September "a.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-09-26

Member of the Associated Press-The
Associated Press is exclusively en-
titled to the use for republication of
all news dispatches credited to 1t or
and also the local news published
herein.
ali rights of republication of special
dispatches herein are also reserved.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-09-26

"The Americans have promised to
win back Lorraine for France" says
the Kaiser. Yep, and mean to keep
their promise. too.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-09-26

Don't pray for a peace this fall;
such a peace would be German
peace.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-09-26

If. this keeps on Turkey. instead OF
being the sick man of Europe" will
be the dead man.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-09-26

1t isn't peace by understanding"
but peace by failure to understand
that Germany wants
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-09-26

The Bulgarians are beginning to
learn that the way of the transgressor
is hard.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-09-26

Springfield Qll.) smelter employees
have organized and afiliated with the
International Union of mill. mine and
smelter workers.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-09-26

A few hatrdressing shops in Dublin
which tried to do business on re-
cent Sunday morning were picketed
and soon closed up.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-09-26
LABOR NOTES

Spokane (Wash.) teamsters have
secured an eight-hour day.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-09-26
HISTORIC HARRISBURG

The first church services were
held in Third street near Cherrv
where the Reformed and LUTHERAN
denominations united in a builSine
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-09-26
DO YOU KNOW

That Dauphin county corn
meal is being used in army
camps?
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-09-26

How you o'er-
came t h g
handicap
OF germ = filled
milk a n d
stuff called
pap"
Aad thrived and
& r e w q
m q n o I
note,
We must con-
fess it gets
our goat.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-09-26

Paul Littlefield, secretary of the
State Chamber of Commerce, is one
of those who have been out on the
firing line in the new war revenue
legislation. He has been where ar
guments are thickest and where
divergent ideas clash. Mr.. Little
field has been urging people at
W. hington to consider the indus
trial importance of Pennsylvania in
regard to legislation needed to carry
on the war.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-09-26
OUR DAILY LAUGH

MEAN THING.
Mr. Dauber
said my face
was la s S | C.
What ds classic?
oh, most any
thing old.
Williston graphic., 1918-09-12

Here is a compact and comprehen.
sive kit, designed to carry all the
things needed by our boys in the navy,
to keep them and their belongings fit
and nifty. 1t is made of blue denim
and little red cotton flannel, stitched
with red thread and bound with a
strong braid. Short lengths of braid
sewed in it serve to hold comb,
brushes, pencils, etc.
This kit carries an unbelievable num-
ber of things-among them these {:
Soap In q soap box, talcum powder,
scrub brush, pencil with eraser, paper,
post cards, black and white thread,
needles, pins, safety pins, tooth brush,
tooth paste, bone buttons, bachelor but
tons, safety pins, corncob pipe, bag Of
tobacco and has room to spare for
other things. 1t rolls up and is tied
with the strong braid or tape used for
binding it. One Of these kits, fitted
out, is fine gift along with a gay lit
tie bag Of sweets, or something equally
foolish, for Christmas.
Williston graphic., 1918-09-12

Pretty ladies, made of painted wood
conceal our telephones and invite us
to tell secrets that will never be be
trayed. These are the "pingOcraft
girls and they make fascinating gifts
to either men or women friends
Each one stands at the front of small
board on which the telephone is tt
be placed. The mouthpiece is un
screwed and when replaced forms the
crown of q hat or springs from hlst
corsage bouquet or disappears alto
gether or is frankly in evidence, )us'
as you will.
The pingocraft novelties are made
Of wood cut out from thin boards
painted white. The figures are out
lined on them ready for painting anc
each is painted to suit the individual
taste. The little figure at the lett Is
holding her hat and, when she Is
placed, the mouthpiece Of the phone
becomes the crown Of 1t.