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Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1918-03-01
MONEY TO LOAN.

MONEY TO LOAN.
M $4,000 in sums
Of $500 and upward on real estate in
Montgomery county.
PRESTON B. RAY,
Washington Loan and Trust Building,
Jan lS-u Washington, D. c.
The Washington herald., 1918-10-03
sl2 TO Be HIGHEST =
RETAIL SHOE PRICE

4 maximum prios of 81 en- sisss
was set today by the War Industries
Board. following . series Of confer
ences with manufacturers and retail
deAlerk Manufacture of shoes 70 re-
tail in excsss Of So must CEASE on
October Is, and manufacturers are
given until January ] 10 all thsir
present contracts for shoes designed
10 sell N szoess Of that price Retail
ers have until June J. naxt to get rid
of their present stocks
Dealers violating the order will
have thsir supplies cut OF from the
Manufactures. and manufacturers who
fail TO live up TO IL Will have their
supply of raw materials cut OF by
the board
Under the new ruling all shoes will
be given ratings, and these ratinss
will Be stamped on the inside. % that
the purchaser may know Just what
srads Of footwear 10 being bought
The Washington herald., 1918-10-03

AssssSSesl frsa he Azst Dass Of
tAs wasAtAStss Tines u ws6-
sssAay. ostebSs 4 1e1S.
Evening star., 1918-11-24
Couch Couers

Wonderful assortment of Tapestry and
Moquette Couch Covers in verdure effects,
also Oriental Colorings. Full sizes. Prices
from 1925 to $21.50 each.
Evening star., 1918-11-24
Cretonnes

Cretonnes and Chintzes, also printed lin
ems, 81 and 36 inches wide; newest color
combinations. Yard, 45c up.
Evening star., 1918-11-24

Every color combination represented, in
Velour, Tapestry and Damask Portieres.
All Z # 6 in. long. Guaranteed well made
and perfect goods. Prices range from
$500 to $3.50 per pair.
Evening star., 1918-11-24

Blankets and Comforts at Very Special Prices
White Wool Blankets sizes 6os4 and 64s4 Priced at $780,
$3.50, $1575 pair.
Sizes ee.s4 and 1884 $14oo. $500. $500 pair
Soft Fluffy Plaid Blankets pink, blue and gray
platds Sxe 1884 Special SITS pair.
Stzs ees4. Special $3.50 pair
Wool Filled Comforts at that cannot be dupu
ss*sd anywhere; purchased at and
splendid values
Art Department
Afun nne of yarns and woods color and kind obtanaba
Odd eombnaons gowns stamped very special $10o
GneA.
o.y ewssesr Wool Special, Monday only, $1oo hank
odd Embsutdsy in white Special Zoe
De60n aksfA
Evening star., 1918-11-24
ForDmmg Room,

Fine Mahogany Buffet.
Regular Price, $1,000.
Special Price, $500.
Serving Table, to match.
Regular Price, $500.
Special Price, $4,000.
Solid Mahogany Buffet, Louis
XVI Design.
Regular Price, $500.
Special Price, $4,000.
China Case, to match.
Regular Price, 5000.
Special Price, $47.50.
Serving Table, to match.
Regular Price, $1,000.
Special Price, $500.
Fine Broad Inlay Sheraton Ma
hogany Buffet and Serving Table.
Regular Price, $4,000.
Special Price, $4,000.
Evening star., 1918-11-24

This William and Mary
Designed Living Room
Rocker or Armchair, Cane
Wing Back, upholstered
ses*. Special, $1,000.
New-York tribune., 1918-05-19
The Grand Manor de Lihoms

and had anybody in the town at that
time known how to distinguish it from
German one; but such natural move
ment might surely have been punishable
by something less than the most severe
penalties, death, for example. And it
was clear from that poster that any
glance skyward, even to see what
weather was promised, might be re-
warded by shot from a sentry. Yet
the chances against an aeroplane hostile
to our masters arriving over Saint Hi
laire were, at that time, enormous. How
ever. so it was. Picture us, then, moving
about in the prosecution of our 'abso-
lutely necessary purposes singly and
with our eyes on the ground, through
those silent, sunlit streets, afraid to
speak to one another, afraid to raise our
heads, our ears strained for the crack of
the rife which should shatter the silence
or give the signal for cataclysnn. All!
my good friend, if it was not CAV in
Saint Hilaire by night, it was not by day
either
New-York tribune., 1918-05-19

relieve our burdened hearts. To testify
by so much as cigarette, by so much
as cheering word or a smile, our graft
tude to those who had lost everything
but life for us; to exercise the Christian
duty of showing compassion to an enemy;
these things were denied to US. To have
given so much as a glass of water to
poor fevered devil friend or foe, might
have been to set our homes ablaze over
our heads. 1t is unnecessary to say that
anything that could be construed into
concealment of or assistance given to an
escaped prisoner was punishable with
instant execution. Already very early
in the war, they had gone through Saint
Hilaire with small tooth comb in their
search for wounded Belgian and French
and English soldiers who might have
been concealed. No soldiers had been
found; no disturbances had occurred; no
hostages had been shot. 1t had proved
very tame affair. Yet it was always
possible that prisoner of war might
escape and take refuge in Saint Hilaire
1t was necessary to remind us of the
danger of harboring such scoundrels
"Wel, well, the reign of terror was
established among us, as you see, and
pretty effectively Now, having got
everything in order and to their liking,
our good Germans settled down to the
business of making the very most of us.
1t was simple business after all. 1t re-
quired no more than the posting from
time to time of new assessment Bel
glum had had the effrontery to resist in
vasion, to reject the divine protection of
the Hohenzollerns. BY so doing she had
constituted herself their prey, had
stripped herself of all rights and aban-
doned every last claim to consideration
She was an orange to be squeezed fiat
and dry, and those who held her between
their hands felt as little pity or remorse
as would you or for veritable orange
that we should have occasion to deprive
OF its juice for our drinking. Belgium
my friend, is, in this particular. tvpa
OF the whole world should those people
hold it ever at their mercy between their
mailed. fists First they took her food
then her money, then her machinery and
her household furniture and everything
else that was portable and lootable and
then they took her people, But this was
not yet. Not then did they feel the
pressure which a reused world was to
exert upon them in their turn, that press
New-York tribune., 1918-05-19
Z ven the Church Bells
L. Were Silenced

"Then our church bells were silenced
lest ny this means communication with
the enemy Gas they called our friends)
be opened up. God, Who knows all
things, may perhaps understand how the
ringing of an Angelus could convey in
formation to an enemy that was beyond
sound of shot from the biggest how
itzer in the German army, or what In
formation it could carry save that we
still believed in Him; hut this mystery
was as far beyond our comprehension as
the enemy was beyond sound of our
bells. And so we lost yet another source
of consolation. For, believe me, nv
friend, there are conditions of existence
in which the voice of church bell can
carry message that is not without it's
value to those who hear It, even though
that value be not connected with mill
tary affairs.
1t was also forbidden to us to an
proach, on any pretext, the sick or
wounded, even the dead, belonging to the
German armies, or the prisoners of war
who were under the protection-save the
mark!-of the German armies. Not even
by an occasional act of kindness to a
suffering on miserable man might we
New-York tribune., 1918-05-19

ure which was to put them at their
wits end to find hands for the driving
of their munition factories. They had
still plenty of German labor available
and their armies were still we'll up to
strength. They could themselves still
both fight and make shells. And so they
contented themselves for the time with
stripping their captives. Who shall ever
say what quantities of goods of every
kind went eastward over our railways
to be swallowed up and lost forever
beyond the frontier? 1t was such a loot
as has never been seen, and, | pray
heaven, will never again be seen on this
earth. All the robberies of Rome were
bagatelle to it. For Rome had never land
like Belgium to strip, and Rome never pos
sessed the means of transport which Bel
gium could provide for her spoilers. Yes.
when Germany goes to war, she makes
no bones about it. She is thorough, thor
ough. Nothing is in her sight neeligi-
BILE. Machine bands by the mile, engines
and machinery of every sort by the
thousands of tons, she took; and while
she took these, she did not scorn to carry
off our pianos and carpets, our bicycles,
our pots and our pans, our tables and
chairs, the pictures off cur walls. the
bells out of our churches (the bells she
had first silenced), the leaden pipes and
roofs of our houses, the jewelry Of our
women iron money-her own-she gave
for this), and the rubber rings that our
babies cut their teeth on. Nothing
escaped her, if she thought that she
could find use for it. Only, it would
seem, was she prepared, as some one
said in history, to leave us our eyes to
weep with
New-York tribune., 1918-05-19
begging Food
- From Switzerland

One day we were privileged to read
a proclamation which informed us that
1t was to our interest to address pet-
ton for food to the Swiss government.
we were hidden to remember the help
which Switzerland SO generously gave
to the town of Strasburg in the war of
B70. We were told that large part
OF the provisions of the occupied dis
tricts had been carried off by the French
and English troops; that now requisi-
tons must continue to be made for the
benefit of the German army. ! We we're
assured that the German military au-
New-York tribune., 1918-05-19
Numbered, Ticketed and
1 Y Pigeon-Holed

"Of course we were all numbered and
ticketed and registered and pigeonholed
and docketed and vised and put on the
file till we hardly knew whether we were
human beings or abstract numerals or
pieces of paper. To carry papers Of
Identification is not to us what it would
be to you in England, for the Continental
peoples are accustomed to that sort of
thing; but now we had to go through
performance with the police or the mill
tary every time, almost, we crossed the
street! If any of us had occasion to
take the train Il speak of days subse
quent to the gay times when the sentries
were given carte blanche to slaughter
any one who should be seen leaving the
town. he had to obtain permission and
identify himself all over again and have
his name and age and address put on his
railway ticket. Our very dogs were
registered and shot if they were not
known to the authorities while the own
ers of such evil dogs were exorbitantly
fined To possess carrier pigeons was
an offence punishable by death. We
might not go near railway line except
at certain places. Farmers might not
go about in their fields and woods exceut
as the authorities judged it suitable for
them to do. To light fire out of doors.
to carry lighted lantern at night, to
approach an electric installation, to do
this, that and the other were alike for
New-York tribune., 1918-05-19

III YOU must not lnlnk
- that the town was not
gay at night. On the
contrary, we lived in
perpetual illumination.
For a new poster had gone up by which
we were instructed to keep light burn
ing in all rooms which looked onto the
street. Not only this, but all our front
doors were to be left constantly open, so
as to afford the military authorities ac-
cess to the houses. The town wore thus
an appearance both hospitable and fes-
tive, but can you conceive it, my dear
monsieur? A whole town lit from cellar
to garret, every house door standing
open and not q soul abroad save few
sinister figures in spiked helmets with
rifles on their shoulders. Can you
imagine the anxious care with which
these lights were maintained by the in
habitants? For the extinction of so
much as one of them might be the signal
for bullet through window, behind
which it might find beloved bosom to
pierce. And can you figure to yourself
the security in which those families slept
at night. with their front door open to
the first conner and that, maybe, a
drunken German? Yes, my friend, it
looked festive, but it was otherwise, | do
assure you.
"And remember that there was not one
of us who did not expect at any moment
general massacre to begin. Though
we had been spared that attention SO
far, we had no reason for anticipating
the continuance of such condition.
Why, door could not slam without our
hearts leaping out of our mouths;
child could not begin crying without our
believing that the end had come. Ner-
vousness? Well, perhaps it was ner-
vousness, but doubt if nervousness ever
had a better excuse. Our Germans were,
for Germans, apparently Of not alto
gether abominable kind; but it is thus
with those people, monsieur. One never
knows. daresay the poor souls who
died In many score of Belgian and
French villages imagined, up to within
few minutes of their death agony that
their Germans were not such bad ex-
amples of the breed, after ALL There is
to me something inconceivable about a
people that can crack a joke with YOU
one minute and blow out your brains the
next simply because an order has been
given. And mark, that while the Joke
is being cracked the order is being
awaited.
New-York tribune., 1918-05-19

Saint Hilaire, my friend, is a small
place, but it is not without its railway
station, its telegraph and it's telephone.
But it was not this reflection which was
uppermost with me whenever read that
enormity on the. walls. You have no
doubt seized upon the words which /
found of so much significance. Yes.
Whether they are guilty or not There
speaks the essential German. A tele-
phone or a telegraph wire is cut; rail
way bridge is blown up So! 1t is in
convenient for the German army, that.
Who did it? Belgian soldiers? Belgian
civilians? There is no time to consider
that. We make war not upon the army,
but upon the whole country. That is
our theory of war. That is the only true
theory of war. Is it not ours, donner-
aretter? And we have been put to in
convenience. Such acts hinder the march
OF Kultur. So Well, they must be
stopped. And since we cannot lay hands
on the Belgian soldiers who assuredly
did this thing, as it was their duty to do,
let us be satisfied with what we can Law
our hands upon. Civilians are plenty
and easy. Come, then, let us put few
villages to the sword and torch in this
neighborhood. That will perhaps teach
the Belgian army to let our communica-
tions alone. Let US shoot few hostages,
say twenty-or perhaps thirty, to be on
the. safe side. And let US not be afraid
10
cent people, if it should so fall out. Better
that thousand innocent Belgians should
die than one guilty German
New-York tribune., 1918-05-19
A Dubious Honor, Being
"A a Hostage

Il have told you that I was a~hostage
Yes, had that dubious honor We were
six in number; the Mayor, the cure, the
schoolmaster, the postmaster, the prin-
cipal shopkeeper and your servant in his
quality of landowner. Saint Hilaire is
little more than village, and the COM
munity is simple one. We have few
notables amongst u.s. and our visitors
had to put up with what they could find
IN the way Of important persons. 1t was,
as 1T happened, formality for us. We
had as much liberty as our neighbors,
only we were required to report our
selves each morning. at 10 o'clock. But,
again, one never knew
"On the Marie, on the church door.
outside the postoffice and in score Of
other places up and down our streets
great green papers announced our names
in full and in large, for all the world to
see. And as we went along between our
MONIES and the place where we were re-
quired to present ourselves, at every cor
ner each of us was mildly reminded that.
snould there be the least disorder. he
would be shot. That was the expression
the least disorder And will YOU tell
me- my good monsieur. what that might
precisely mean? 1t seemed, at any rate
TO as, the hostages, an expression of
ratner too much elasticity. You see one
mad knowledge of some examples of
such disorder At Aerschot a German
mt
french soldiers had fired at German SOL
uiers IN the ordinary way of war: at
AouVain German soldiers had fired on
une ahother.> 1t seemed only wanting
snat at Saint Hilaire a German soldier
should commit suicide for such dis
oloer 10 result in the execution Of MS
''S hostages and thereafter in the mas
sacre OF most of the population. There
WAS another notice for us 70 read as
we went along. This was the proclama-
tlon OF Won der Goltz, the Cermar crow
erai, dated from Brussels. | have 4
oy neart, for it is one Of their master
pieces, and read it again and ava;n
always with fresh amaxement Tb;s i
,ow it ram
I'm future the inhabitants of places
situated near railways and telegraph
lines which have been destroyed will be
punished without mercy whether they ara
guilty Of this destruction or not. For
this purpose hostages have been taken in
all places in the vicinity of railways in
danger OF similar attacks; and at the
first attempt to destroy any railway,
telegraph or telephone line they will be
shot immediately.
New-York tribune., 1918-05-19
Last, the Day
a of Escape

~ think you can see for yourself what
happened. Yes, when the Germans went
back | stayed behind. It was not diff
cult. They were so busy clearing out
themselves and leaving the country in
ruins behind them that they for once be-
came little careless about one old Bel
gian laborer. They blew up every house
they could, they cut down every tree,
they poisoned every we'll with horse dung
and other beastliness-you know what
they did as well as I, though I saw It
and you have only read. And the
method of it all! Every soldier had his
orders. Such and such trees to be cut
down, such and such houses to be de-
stroyed, such and such wells to be rem
dered useless. And they had q perfect
little timetable for each day of destruc-
ton. On such a day such wells to %
poisoned, next day SO many more, unt,i
on the day appointed for departure but
one we'll remained with pure water in T
This the last soldiers to leave were
ruin. Oh yes! it was methodical, ths.
business. But at last it was done ana
I, from my hole in the ground, saw then
go away eastward.
"Hell, no doubt, is something like tnas
little town of Bancourt by Bapaums
when the Germans left it; but am not
going to be descriptive. That ! canlease
with confidence to the journalists. It
enough that the British soldiers did ..
last come peering through the smoke ans
the stink, coughing and sneezing ana
cursing, because there were no Germans
for them.
"And so it was over, and / could onss
again go about my affairs without -
permission of the German military sv.
thorities. A satisfactory condition =
things for me, my good monsieur. u VIZ
not long promise you, before had ms
two little ones clinging about my nesA's
But let us avoid the sentimental as -
have avoided the sensational"
So saying, M Segotin rose, hanu.s
me a card with his address upon
pressed both my hands warmly, raasvs
his hat and sauntered away from e
down the brightly lit hall, hummink
brave little air. Il.
At the door he turned to wave n''.sas
to me and smile adieu.
And again / saw his eyes.
New-York tribune., 1918-05-19
MONSIEUR SEGOTIN'S STORY
By
William Caine

The second half of Mr. Gaines remarkable hannon
document published by Chatto Winds London. In the
opening secon printed last aoeek 1t deueoped that Mon
seur Segoti Belgian aohose home in the little tom
Of Saint Hoie aoas seized hostage, ond acith other
beavor of the Inhabitants The Germans did begin
by starting massacre but they promptly reQustioned
the food supply and levied cash contribution coVerSng all
the funds the own could muster Then they began a1ng
domn instructions right and lef One of the most str-
gent rules made 1t probitdoe for citizens to be abroad at
night The toacn to present most singular
tu1nol appearance.
New-York tribune., 1918-05-19

thorities recognized no obligation to feed
us, and all the less because Great Britain
was endeavoring to blockade Germany.
Should we succeed in getting food from
Switzerland, we were guaranteed that it
would be distributed among us exclu-
sively Those Of US who should decline
to approach Switzerland would get none
Of the victuals. Finally the German
government offered to act as mediator
between ourselves and Switzerland in
this delicate affair.
"Such things speak for themselves. 1t
is hard to say where in this war the
Germans have touched the height of
their impudence, but surely this is
sufficiently remarkable instance of it.
SO Switzerland was to be invited by us
to ally herself with Germany by feeding
US in her place
'The posters and notices and proc
lamations were daily multiplied.
New-York tribune., 1918-05-19
HUN FOOTSTEPS
Drawings by
MUIRHEAD BONE

1Hhed Covt
rden London
New-York tribune., 1918-05-19

Ut YOU must not think
~ that the town was not
gay at night. On the
contrary, we lived in
narpo%,,ol iIlurriu tiOn
New-York tribune., 1918-05-19
ssQ elieve Nothing" Became
~ Settled Policy

"I suppose it was with some idea Of
reconciling us to their domination, by
causing US to believe that it could never
be shaken off, that our masters quickly
began to set up bulletins of war news in
our streets. Not one but announced
German or an Austrian victory. Had we
believed, we must have lost heart; but
we believed nothing. 1t was a settled
policy with US. We saw through the
trick at once, and the report of Ger
man success had only to be posted up
for US to discredit it and to tell our
selves that things were going badly for
them. And of course the real news
leaked through somehow, for all their
precautions. News like that of the
Marne is carried by the wind, by the
birds, by the thoughts of men. 1t can
not be kept out. We knew, we knew
that they had been turned; turned, dear
God, almost before the ink was dry upon
their posters that announced the rout of
France and the partial investment of
Paris. But there is something, mon
Of people who can behave in such a way.
Think Of it. Their whole plan in ruins;
the quick victory on which they had alb
solutely counted for success lost; them
selves condemned to a stalemate at the
best and war of years to a certainty.
And yet they could announce to us that
their enemies were being chased before
them to the sea. With their own people
such conduct was ineligible. Their own
people, being convinced of the irresisti-
BILE might of Germany, would swallow
any tale. But to expect us, as, to be-
lieve! 1t was lunacy. Yet the posters
followed one another regularly, and al
ways the Germans we're winning and al
ways France and England and Russia
were fleeing in disorder. And we had
only to glance at their colonel's face to
read there what we wanted to know. AS
for the common soldiers, they were, /
suppose, the only people in Saint Hiaire
upon whom those notices produced any
impression at ALL
There was another curious placard.
1t seems that they credited us with a
desire to leave Saint Hilaire, and that
they feared lest their threats of shoot
ing might not prove a sufficient deter
rent. Already, no doubt, they foresaw
the moment when every able bodied Bel
glan would have value in their eyes
other than as mark for rifle practice;
l mean, the thought of the slavery to
come was even then in their minds. At
any rate, to discourage us from escaping
into France-though how we could have
done so l leave you to imagine, if you
please-they set up a notice which in
formed us that the cholera was raging
on the other side of the battle lines. Yet
there was no cholera there whatever. 1t
was just lie. But if it should serve
its purpose it was justified, one supposes,
in their sight Or would they think it
necessary to justify such small thing
as lie? For, after all, what are truth
and falsehood and such things to peo-
pie who have invented morality for
themselves; whose only touchstone is
whether any given thing does or does
not serve the immediate purposes of Ger
many?
Numbered, Ticketed and
" P;ooor-HoleJ