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Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-08-20
Camp Dix Officer to Wed Here

A license was issued today to Lieu
tenant John X. Spafford, u. S, A, Camp
Dix. n. j., TO wed Katherine b. Delany,
Of Reading, Pa. sSpafford il the son OF
John and Emma Spafford, 'of Erie. Pa
Miss Delany's parents are George and
May Delany. Heading. Mr.. Delany As
secretary Of the Reading Coal and Iron
Compsny.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-08-20
Prominent Lutheran Churchmsn Dead
By the Associated Press

Milwaukee. Wis. Aug 20.-The Rev.
W. X. Frick. d. D., English secretary
of the General Council of the Lutheran
Church of America. died here today of
heart trouble. The Rev. DR. Prick was
best knowS throughout the country as
''the Bishop Of wisconsin"
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-08-20
MRS. PERSCH ASKS DIVORCE
Wife of Magistrate in Fifth Ward
Case Enters Suit

Magistrate George A. Persch. who hg-
ured in the Fifth Ward case, was l. naue
defendant in a divorce suit in the Court
Of Common Pleas No. today by Mrs.
Mary A. Persch.
The grounds for the suit were not
made public and the case will be referred
to a master for private hearing.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-08-20

Roma, 20 agosto.
II Ministero della Guerra. in base al
rapport giunti dal Quarter Generate
1taliano ha ieri pubblicato IL seguente
comunicato:
'Lungo tutto il fronto di battaglia 81
sono avut intensi duelli di artigieria
e considerable attivita' da parte del
riparti di rCogni2ione. Ad nriente del
Montello lie nostre pattuglie efficacemente
moles.arono lie linee avanZate nemiche.
I'm tentative di attacco da parte del
nemico, sud-ovest di Grave di Papado-
poll. sinfranse soto IL nostro fuoco."
Ira | tanti eroi rivelati dalla presenta
guerra degno della piu alta ammirazione
e un figlio della forte Sardegna, An
tonic Mango. il qualc ha ii corpo Coperto
da ben cento cicatrici per ferite riportate
durante / combattimenti n cui prese
parte. II bravo milite e. state decorate
della medaglla d'oro al valor militare.
dopo averne ricevuto tre dargento, fu
anche decorate per atti di valore COM
p;uti durante la guerra Libica per
ropera prestata durante IL terremoto di
Messina. II Mango e. anche insignito
della Croce di Cavalere della Corona
d'ltalia di decorazioni dalla Serbia.
Franciafi Belgio ed Inghilterra. Egli fu
IattO DTIRlOUleTO uusiI duStilaSl, MA uoDo
quattro mcsi passiti in un campo d
concentrations a Mauthausen riusci' a
scappare q raggiungere lie truppe ital-
lane al fronte Due fratelli del Mango
sono rimasti uscisi durante la presente
guerra.
L'AmmiraglIo Del Bono, Ministro della
Marina, ha ricevuto la Mssone Navale
Americana ed intrattenne i membri di
essa a colaZone.
Washington Dc. 10 agosto.
Notizie giunte da Roma indicano che
gil alti comandi austriaci stanno RI
organizzand ndo / preparativi al fronte, per
riprendere lie operazioni offensive contro
lItalia, lie quail possono essere attese
da un momento all'altro. La conferenza
recentemente tenutasi ira due I'm
peratori, la chtusura della frontiera
syizzera. la recente vista delllm-
peratore Carlo al fronte italiano, in
dicano yimminenza di movimenti often
sivi da parte della armate austro-
ungheresi.
La Regia Amasciata Italiana ha ri
cevuto IL seguente sommarlo di opera
zioni al fronte italiano:
"I'artiglieria nemica ha concentrate
II suo fuoco di molestia nella Vale del
Rrenta e sulle pendici occidental del
Nontello Contro risoletta occupata
dale nostre truppe sui Piave. sud di
Grave. II fuoco dellartiglieria ebbe un
carattere di preparaZione e fu seguito
immediatamente la attacchi di fanteria,
che s'infransero subito. e, contrattaccato.
il nemico fu costretto ritirarsi MOI
catturammo ventuno priglonieri, arml e
materiale. nostri cannoni di crosse
calibro aprirono un violento fuoco su!le
retroyie nemiche nella Vale Lagarina.
Incursioni 81 verificarono nella zona al
Col del Rosso c. sui Piave, ad occidente di
Falze. lie nostre aereonaVi bombar-
darono gil obiettivi militarl nella NalIe
Rendena, Val Sarca ira IL Tagl!amento
ed Il Piave. Ire aeroplani nemici iu-
rono abbattuti.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-08-20

BY the AsSoctdfed Press
London, Aug. 20.--The British are
continuing their drive in the Lys
salient in Flanders. The British lines
have been advanced In the neighbor-
hood of Vieux.Berquin and OUTER
steen. the War Office today announced
The British captured 1870 prisoners.
Between the Lave and Lys Rivers
British patrols have pressed east of
the Paradis- Melville road, making a
new advance of nearly a mile.
Four German attacks against Brit
ish positions at Chilly, about six miles
north Of Roye, were repulsed during
last night.
The salient north of the Lys Is
being rapidly fiattened out by the re.
treat Of the Germans from positions
which they won in their offensive In
April. The line now extends from
Merville, on the north, to LOGON, on
the south. The British have oc.
cupied large triangle of territory,
which the enemy has given up in the
st. venant sector.
Crushing Allied blows on wide fronts
have driven the enemy back from his
Forward positions ana threaten 10 1orce
the Germans to retreat over the entire
battle line from Ypres to Rheims. The
German line extending from the
Somme to Rheims is seriously threat.
ened by French advance on twen
ty-mile front east and west of the
Disc.
To the west of the Disc the German
bulwarks of Roye and Lassigny appear
to be doomed. The British have cap
tured the railroad station at Roye and
the French have reached the outlying
portions of Lassigny. If these centers
fall the enemy positions at Noyon will
probably be taken by the Allies.
The German line in the Lys salient
Is in grave danger as the result OF
British plunge on a six.mile front dur
ing which Merville. an important town,
was entered.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-08-20
May Make Voting Compulsory
~ Oh. 1s.ce;o,eJ pross

Boston, Aug. 20,-The constitutional
convention today reconsidered its re-
lection Of a resolution permitting the
LEGISLATION to make voting compulsory,
and voted las TO 90 to refer the Question
TO the people at the November election.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-08-20
GERMAN

Berlin. Aug. 10 (Delayed).
Enemy attacks west of Chaulnes
and north of Roye failed.
Throughout the day there has been
a vigorous battle between the Disc
and the Aisne. French attacks made
on a wide front broke down with
heavy losses Temporary artillery
activity occurred on the sectors where
fighting took place yesterday between
the Oise and the Aisne.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-08-20
BY the Associated Press

Amsterdam, Aug. 20.-Owing to the
multitude and complexty of questions
discussed and the short time allotted 10
the recent conference Of the Austrian and
German emperors, details could. not be
discussed, says the Fremdenblatt, of
Vienna. Fundamental lines only were
laid down, the newspaper says. to be
elaborated at future deliberations of the
two rulers.
This especially refers to the Polish
question:" the Fremdenblatt continues,
"ands public opinion in Vienna agrees
with the Government that the Polish
nation must cooperate in plans for the
creation of a new Polish State
The newspaper says Poland must cast
the decisive vote in the election of a
king, but It must be cast in accordance
with the vital interests of Austria Hun
gary and Germany"
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-08-20
Loom Fixers Declare Strike
BY the Associared Press

Pawtueket. II. l.. Aug. 2o.-Loom
fixers In eight textile mills have again
gone on strike because of alleged dis
Grim nation. according TO union officials.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-08-20
WARSAW SEETHES
WITH REVOLUTION
Teutons Use Iron Hand to
Block Revolt in Old Pol
ish Capital
PATROLS ARREST MANY
Germans, Search Houses and
Seize Alleged Leaders
of People
PATROLS ARREST MANY
BY the Associated Press

Washington. Aug. 90
Dispatches from Switzerland today
say deep unrest is manifest at War
saw. The streets of the old Polish cap
ital are full of German patrols, who are
making numbers of arrests
Houses are being searched and arrests
being made at Lomza and Plozk among
the supposed members OF the secret
association of the Polish army.
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Washington, Aug

washington, Aug. 20
North of Toul hostile raid was re.
pulsed Monday with losses to the
enemy
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en- outskirts Of Dreslincourt. and
vampires.
Today's War Office statement an.
Aeunces reciprocal artillery fire in the
segion Of Lassigny and Dreslincourt
4oring the night.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-08-20
DUELLI DI ARTIGLIERIA
AL FRONTE ITALIANO
Tn Attacco Austriaco Respinto
sulle Linee del
Piave

Published and Distributed Under
PERMIT No 341
Authorized by the act of October O.
1olI on file at the Postoffice Of Phi,s,
delphia. Pa.
Bv order of the President,
A. s. BURLESON
Postmaster General
The Monticellonian., 1918-10-18

ton. The answer? Is Nol We are en- to choose That is and must be a real power else we are victims of q ghast- ly jest. a hfdeouS delusion. If God has limited Himself by giving us this DOW CT we can, if we will, choose evil in- stead of good. Men have chosen evil and the world is suffering because of the choice. Once more you ask, why does not God withdraw from us our freedom of will. since 1t Is abused? Be cause the privilege is so great, so in eStimable so necessary. that it is bet ter even to suffer all the ills that fol- low upon its abuse, than that it should be withdrawn or abrogated. and we as cend to the position of automata. ir- responsible beings, moved about arbi- trarily by an omnipotent hand. We must work out our own salvation by the help of God We are not children of the bond woman but of the free and we must so continue.
 What Is Your Answer?
 How, then is Gods will to be done? How is the war to be won? In what way is a stop to be put to all these atrocities? When men, by whatever means and searching, do discover the will of God, and after the discovery develop sufficient conservation and de votion to do the will of God, then, and not until then, will it be done
 ''The Son of God goes forth to war Yes, always and at all times but He never comes back q victor un- less the Sons of Men go with Him.
 When we find out the will of God and do it, we shall end the war. and every other evil that results from the inability or unwillingness of men to see and do that will
 Are your hearts set upon righteous ness, upon doing the will of God, oh ye people of America? So the question is not of Gods duty but of your own.
 What answer are you making?
The Monticellonian., 1918-10-18
OLD PRESCRIPTION
 FOR WEAK KIDNEYS

Have you ever stopped to reason why it is that so many products that are ex- tensively advertised, all at once drop out of sight and are soon forgotten? The reason is plain-the article did not fulfil the promises of the manufacturer This applies more particularly to a medicine. A medicinal preparation that has real curative value almost sells itself, as like an c--aless chain system the remedy is recommended by those who have been benefited, to those who are in need of 1t.
 A prominent druggist says, Take for example Dr. Kilmer's Swamp Root, preparation l have sold for many years and never hesitate to recommend, for in almost every case 1t shows excellent re- suits, as many of my customers testify. No other kidney remedy that 1 know of has so large 6 sale
 According to sworn statements and verified testimony of thousands who have used the preparation, the success of Dr. Kilmers' Swamp Root is due to the fact that so many people claim, it fulflls all most every wish in overcoming kidney, hver and bladder ailments, corrects ur- mary troubles and neutralizes the uric acid which causes rheumatism.
 You may receive A sample bottle oi Swamp Root by Parcel Post Address Dr. Kilmer & Co, Bfnghamton, N. Y, and enclose ten cents; also mention this paper. Large and medium size bottles for sale at all drug stores Adv.
The Monticellonian., 1918-10-18

TWO eggs. one pint of chicken broth, with salt and pepper to taste. Peel four fresh mushrooms and simmer in the broth until tender Add the chick en sliced in thin slices and cook until hot; add the beaten yolks and as soon as the sauce is smooth and creamy add the salt and pepper and few drops of lemon juice.
 Serbian Chicken.-Put good-sized slice of salt pork into saucepan and fry. add some minced parsley root, car rot, onion and q clove of garlic Joint the fowl and place | in the pan; add suit and pepper. Cook in the oven one hour, then add three peeled tomatoes with tlfe seeds removed Continue to add to the pan enough water to haste the fowl frequently Cook until the fowl is tender and serve with rice and bacon or minced ham for flavor. Pour the gravy over the chicken.
 Baked Ham.-Soak the ham over night; ill the morning scrub it and trim away any rusty part, wipe dry and cover the ham with thick paste of bread dough, one-half inch thick. Lay in a dripping pan with little sweet cider, basting often and adding more cider as it is needed When q skeWer will pierce the thiekest part, remove the crust and outside skin, sprinkle with brown sugar and crumbs, stick with cloves and brown in the oven.
 Brown the cornmeal before making it into hush. using care that 1t does not scorch. It will have most tasty flavor of parehed corn.
 Crab Salad.-Take four cupfuls of crab meat, one cupful of well-seasoned boiled dressing. one-half eupful of cut pickles, salt and pepper, two table spoonfuls of chopped green peppers. Mix all together and serve on lettuce.
 Brown Bread.-Take one eupful each of graham, rye and corn meal, one cup full of sour milk, two cupfuls of sweet milk, tWo-thirds of cupful of molas- ses, one egg, one teaspoonful of soda and half-teaspoonful of salt. Steam three hours and set in the oven to dry off, after taking from the pan.
The Monticellonian., 1918-10-18
Kindred Spirits.

\ weil=knoWn society performer vol uHteered to entertain roomful of the Goluey Hatch funatic asylum and made up very successful little mono- ieeHe shewi entirely humorous. The audience in the main gave symptoms of being slightly bored. but one high ty intelligent maniac SaW the whole thing iii proper light and. clapping the talented actor on the shoulder, said:
 Glad you come. old fellow. Yoa and I will get along fine. The other dlppies here are 50 dashed digRiiied. What l say is if man is mad he needn't put on airs about itt'-Lon- don Opinion.
The Monticellonian., 1918-10-18
HIGH NECKS AND NO SLEEVES
New Evening Gown Is Revival of an Old Historical Fashion Ex-
 plotted Years Ago.

The long skirt has been accepted by America. France and Great Britain for the day as well as the evening, an authority states, regardless of the fact that wartime activities seem to de mand the shortest skirt We have ever worn.
 Another feature of apparel upon which there is such n general unifica- tion of spirit is the introduction in America of a type of gown that many Americans like It is for the evening and has high collar and absolutely no sleeves. This Is a revival of an old historical fashion which was exploited in this country over q quarter of n century ago The same model worn then is restored now from the family album It is q princess cut, with q train, high ruchc at the neck, after the Mediei or the EliZabethan manner, and merely tigh! ornamental arnholes. No gloves are tu be worn with this
The Monticellonian., 1918-10-18

right to join the kalser's army They were free-born American citizens. as much so as the boys who went out to fight with the Italian, the French and the Canadian forces, and it was their individual right ,o fight where soever and with whomsoeter they elected But when the United States went into the war. did the three re- malning sons offer their services to the country in which they were born, the country which had enriched their father. the country which hcnored them by calling them citizens? They did not. They were not Americans. They were Germans. The mother of the three young men openly declared that she would rather see them dead by her own hand than to have them take up arms against their kaiser!
 The Fortunes of War.
 But the fortunes of war produce strange conditions The fortunes of war demanded that three Americans should go forth and shoot two Ger lllUllS. lltlt Cdll ut Hp Solli@ iAliAlli the fact that the instant the United States entered the conflict these three boys automatically became the ene- mics of their brothers. Their brothers had gone out voluntarily to fight with the German armies. That was their right, their privilege They did so at the time when their native land was not lined up against the kaiser. They elected to face the bullets that were aimed at Germany, just as those other boys elected to face the shells fired at Italy But the two Germans went out to fight for Germany because they were Germans, because they were not allowed to be anything but Germans. Their mother sent them out to die for Germany. Was she willing to send the other three out to die for the United States? NO! She preferred to kill them with her own hands. The Hal- ian mother did not send her two re- maining boys to fight in Italy but in France. They went as American sol diers They would have gone with the American armies to fight against Italy if the call had been from that dfrec- ton. She would not have preferred to kill them with her own hands.
 In the great Civil war that threat ened the existence of the United States of America back in 1S6f65 brother fought against brother Thou sands of young men came up from the Southland and put on the uniform of blue Their brothers. their cousins, even their fathers, were wearing the gray. The instances in which North ern-born men went to fight with the Confederate armies are notably rare. These men who came north loved their Southland with d devotion that cannot be questioned, and yet they loved their country more. They did not fight with the North because they were Northerners but because they be- lieved in United States of America.
 Blood may be thicker than water, but it is neither blood nor water that counts in the making of an honest man. It is his heart that counts.
The Monticellonian., 1918-10-18
Two Kinds of
 Allies
By GEORGE BARR McCUTCHEON
 of The PiaiianteS

An Italian widow Ii ing in New York city had five sons. Four of them were born in the United States. the other in Italy. He was one year ole when his parents came to New York to live. When Italy entered the war against her domneering. exaeting ally three of these bOvs-all American sub jects-lost no time in doing what thousands of other American boys al- ready had done. Where the other thou sands had cast their lot with the Ca nadians, the French and the British, as free-born Americans had the right to do, these three young men set sail for the land of their father, and took up the arms of their forefathers against the foe. They entered the Italian army. They were volunteers, not conseripts. Two of them had never even seen the land from which came their father and mother.
 Then came the decision of the Unit ed States to engage in the conflict on the side of civilization and hu- manity. This old Italian mother gave her two remaining Americans to the army of the United States. They were her younsest-one of them barely eighteen-and they wore as eager to fight as their brothers had been They did not want to be drafted. They en- listed as common soldiers. and went away with the troops to France.
 The old mother did not give up her boys to the armies of Italy and France. She gave them to the armies that were fighting for the things dear to them as Americans. They went as Americans, not as Italians No mat ter what their father may have been when he was boy. these boys were Americans. They loved the land in which they were born, even as their father loved the land in which he was born. They believed in the land of their birth and in its ideals, as their father and mother had taught them to believe. They did not go forth as adventurers, but as soldiers with principle behind them.
 Difference in Mothers.
 A German mother in Il Connecticut city also had five sons of the fighting age when the war broke out They were all born in the United States and they were American citizens, as their father deliberately had made himself by the processes of naturalization per haps before any one of them came into the world Two of these sons sue ceeded in reaching Germany, and. like the sons of the Italian mother. took up the arms of their fathers native land. No one will gainsay them the
The Monticellonian., 1918-10-18
Cold Tn the Head"

Is an acute attack of Nasal Catarrh Per- sons who are subject to frequent "colds in the head" will find that the use of HALLS CATARRH MEDICINE will build up the System, cleanse the Blood and render them less liable to colds. Repeated attacks Of Acute Catarrh may lead to Chronic Catarrh.
 HALLS CATARRH MEDICINE Is talk en internally and acts through the Blood on the Mucous Surfaces Of the System.
 All Druggists 75c Testimonials free
 s10oO0 for any case of catarrh that HALLS CATARRH MEDICINE will not
 r, J. Cheney 6 CO. Toledo Ohio.
The Monticellonian., 1918-10-18

gown it is intended to show the arm at its best.
 France persists in the use of black and white checkerboard fabrics for trimming, and they appear in America, but are not greeted with much en- thusiasm. It is difficult design to handle unless the checkerboard comes down into such small dimensions that it evaporates into checks. Worth has insisted upon the broad form as an excellent ornamentation for top coats and capes, and the Americans have taken up the idea as lining for capes with considerable success.
 There is to be no end of capes, you know. They belong to the slip-on, slip-off-easily variety of clothes. which all women consider part of the effort toward economy in time.
The Monticellonian., 1918-10-18

salt and few dashes of paprika, add 8 half-eupful of mayonnaise and serve. A little chopped green pepper may be added for variety.
 Ham With Cider-Slices of cold ham are heated Tn elder which has been thiekened with cornstareh. Serve pour ed over the ham. A half glassfu of ap- pie or currant jelly with half cup ful of water and n tablespoonful of cornstarch makes Il good sauce.
 Cheese and Pepper Fondu-Use two tablespoonfuls each of chopped red and green peppers, two-thrds of cup fnl of corn cake crumbs, the same amount of scalded milk and cheese. one-half teaspoonful each of salt and paprila, a few grains of mustard and two weli-heaten eggs Grease baking dish and sprinkle with the finely chopped peppers. Add'the sealded milk to the grated cheese. seasonings, crumbs, and beaten egg yolks: mix well, then fold in the stifly beaten whites. Turn into the baking dish and bake in q slow oven twenty-five min utes.
 Chocolate Molasses cakee.-Take me-third of T eupful of mo'asees. one sixth of a cup of boiling water on ta- hlcSnoonful of shartenin~. ono-half elpfui of daur- anezfaHth eHpful of corn four one-third of teaspoonful of snda, the same of sa8 and einHa- mon. ane and T half squares of melted chocolate and half teaspeenfu of vanilla Reat thorauehlv after comhin- iHg as H@ual. and bake in small greased muffin naHs.-
 eoeonut Biscuit. -Sift two cupfuls If harley four with faur teaspoonfuls If baking powder. I half teaspoonful If salt two tablespoonful of sharten Ing and one euptul of fresh grated co- conut Add he eoeonHt milk for tha taHia and ralf aHt ehe.half inch th-ek. Brush the top uith milk and bake moderately twenty-five minutes.